Archive for July, 2015
Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා සියළු විජාතික බලවේගවලට අවශ්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පැරදවීම ය. මහින්ද නැති ශ්රි ල නි පක්ෂයක් නැති බව දහස් වරක් පෙනී ගොස් ඇත. අද ඇත්තේ ශ්රී ල නි ප හෝ එ ජ නි ස හෝ මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයක් නොව මහින්ද මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයකි. බටහිරයන්ට අවශ්ය ඊනියා මහින්ද රෙජිමය පැරදවීම ය. ඒ ඔවුන්ගේ ලංකා වසන්තය ය. ඔවුන්ට […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර lanka C news සැක කටයුතු පුද්ගලයන් සිවු දෙනෙකු මේජර් ජනරාල් ප්රසන්න සිල්වා මහතාගේ පිස්තෝලයද රැගෙන ව්යාජ අංක තහඩු සහිත වාහනයකින් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමන් සහ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්තුමන් වෙසෙන මිරිහාන ප්රදේශයේ සැරිසරමින් සිදු කිරීමට උත්සාහ කළේ කුමක්ද? යන්න පිළිබඳව සිදු කෙරෙන විමර්ශන වෙනතකට හැරවීමට කටයුතු නොකරන්නැයි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, හිටපු අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Tissa Gunatilaka from Sydney In democracy elections are considered as the cornerstone activity. Nations destiny can be changed with the choice of people via elections. Leaders will be replaced, new leaders will be appointed, new policies will be implemented through elections, therefore elections are considered as the point where people take the control of the […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Adaderana The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) claims that the recent arrest of three army personnel in a white-coloured van in Mirihana, can be considered as a threat to the security of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Former Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris stated that Mirihana Police last night arrested […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Former UPFA MP Rajiva Wijesinha said today that the obtaining of an enjoining order, preventing the publication or circulation of the COPE sub committee draft report on the sale of Central Bank bonds, was a huge blow to the freedom of information. https://youtu.be/VLfBrlkSFUE
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
By The Nation Courtesy The Nation You could go anywhere on earth these days and get yourself a compass. It is not difficult to buy one with a grand design, the embossed sort that looks may be like a Rolex, and shows you the way too. But there is one type of compass that cannot be […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Malin Abeyatunge All patriotic Sri Lankans should be grateful to Mr. K.Godage a former ambassador, for having brought to focus the next biggest danger Sri Lanka would be facing in the near future by his article titled Ä bridge to destroy Sri Lanka ”appeared in Sunday Island 12 July. His fear AS WELL AS […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Courtesy The Nation Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal addressing the media yesterday in Colombo stressed that controversial Central Bank Treasury bond issue on February 27 has affected badly for the country and the wrong-doers cannot be set-free for any reason. The former Governor challenged Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for a debate on transactions […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Courtesy The Nation The newly formed National University Teachers Association (NUTA) today declared its support to all efforts undertaken to install former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the next Prime Minister of the country at the upcoming General Election. According to the Secretary of the organization Dr. Channa Jayasumana of the University of Rajarata the main […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
CaFFE Report # 16 – Tamil National Alliance (TNA) National List nominee Prof S Sitampalam held a meeting at the Jaffna Technical College on July 20 at 12.30. He was invited by the Director of the College, N Yogarajan and Sitampalam toured the College for over one hour carrying out propaganda activities. Things took a […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Courtesy News of Colombo මේ වනවිට මුළු මහත් රටම කැළඹීමට හේතුවු මුලූ මහත් ආර්ථිකයම චංචල කරමින් රජය කෙරෙහිද මහ බැංකුව කෙරෙහිද පැවති විශ්වසනීයත්වය පළුදුකිරීමට හේතුවු මහා බැංකු මුල්ය බැඳුම්කර වංචාව පිටුපස ඇති මහා මොළකරු” කවුරුන්ද යන්න පිළිබඳව පැහැදිලිව නිරූපණය කල හැකිවන පරිදි ඇතිවු භාණ්ඩාගාර බැදුම්කර වංචාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් පහත දෑ රටේ මුළු මහත් ජනතාවම දැනගත යුතු […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Sri Lanka news Tamil Nadu police on Monday night arrested a suspected LTTE operative who is believed to have served as one of secretaries of slain Tiger leader V. Prabakaran, in Ramanathapuram during a vehicle check along with two local residents. The LTTE man was identified as Krishankumar, 39. He along with Rajendran and Saikumar […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Adaderana Report The police on Monday (20) have arrested three armed army soldiers in civvies who were travelling in a white-coloured van with fake number plates, the police Spokesperson said. The suspects were arrested by a patrolling team attached to the Mirihana police last evening at around 7.30 p.m. police Spokesperson ASP Ruwan Gunasekara told […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
by Melanie Standish Courtesy Gallup WASHINGTON, D.C. — Majorities in more than half of the 21 Asian countries and regions Gallup surveyed in 2011 approved of their chief executives, with leaders in Southeast and South Asia earning some of the highest marks in the region. Laotians, Cambodians, and Sri Lankans were the most likely to express […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
By Charles.S.Perera Tamils came to Sri Lanka as plunderers, treasure hunters, and land grabbers. There were no Tamils in Sri Lanka when Venerable Arahat Mahinda came to Sri Lanka. To love a country and hold it as one’s motherland one has to be born and bred with a great love and affection to the […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
The writer is the Dean, Faculty of Management and Finance, SANASA Campus Courtesy Island Taking part in the Budget debate in the late 1960s, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, Pieter Keuneman, said that budget and the policies of the UNP government had demonstrated clearly its ‘economic sterility, political impotency and administrative […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. Ex-diplomat K. Godage has recently written to the Island pointing out the strategic dangers of building a land bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka. KG has emphasized the threat to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka from such a bridge. The wars in Afghanistan feeding Pakistan with Jihadists, Muslim-Hindu and Sikh […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
H. L. D. Mahindapala President Maithripala Sirisena’s speech, covering several key aspects of his six-month rule, was timed to be a critical political intervention on the eve of election. The broad overview of his stewardship was angled to undermine his bete noir, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Though it was also meant to give a shine to his […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D. Michigan State University. This time it is Greece, a country that is unable to service its Foreign Debt. Just now the Hellenic Parliament is approving the austerity package approved by the Troica- the IMF with the EU and the ECB together. It is an austerity package that would cause more poverty among the […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
Bhante Wimala Title: Meditation for Beginners Date: August 21, 2015 – August 23, 2015 Location: Omega, Rhinebeck, NY Meditation for Beginners provides a survey of meditation techniques to start the beginner and refresh the experienced meditator. Spiritual traditions throughout the ages have recommended meditation as a core practice and a path toward peace of mind. […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
Shenali D Waduge The Buddha stands out as the foremost religious leader in history to first speak up for the rights of animals and place a moral obligation on each and every human being to refrain from taking the life of another living being; and call on everyone to radiate compassion and loving kindness […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
By : Dr. D P Atukorale Courtesy Infocoolmix Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) is the biggest killer in Sri Lankan and more and more young Sri Lankans (those below 40 years) are getting heart attacks because they do not live with nature, eat bad food and eat at the wrong time in the night. It is not […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මෙතෙක් කල් ශ්රිලනිප නායකයා ලෙස සිංහ හමක් පොරවාගෙන සිටියද පසුගියදා එජාප සටන් පාඨ කීමත් සමඟ සිංහ හම ගැලවී ගොස් ඇත්ත නරි රූපය මතු වූ බව කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික් සන්ධාන අපේක්ෂක උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මෙසේ කියා සිටියේ පසුගිය 17 වන දා අනුරාධපුරයේ පැවති සන්ධානයේ මංගල ජන රැළිය අමතමිනි. ඔහු එහිදී මෙසේද කියා […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
සත්යයේ හඬ සත්යයේ හඬ නමින් මාධ්ය හමුවක් කැඳවා තිබූ පසුගිය රජයේ උසස් නිලධාරීන් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගේ යහපාලන රජයට අභියෝග කළේ කඩාවැටෙමින් පවතින ආර්ථිකය පිළිබඳ විවාදයකට එළඹෙන ලෙසයි. මෙම මාධ්ය හමුවට හිටපු අගමැති ලේකම් එස් අමරසේකර මහතා සහ මහබැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා සහභාගී වී සිටියේය.
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඇතැමුනට අනුව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට අගමැති වීමට බාධාවක් වෙයි. 19 වැනි ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයෙන් පසු මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට තුන්වැනි වරට ජනාධිපති විය නො හැකි ය. අනෙක් අතට යම්කිසි ආකාරයකින් මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේනගේ සේවා කාලය අවසන් වීමට පෙර ජනාධිපති තනතුරේ පුරප්පාඩුවක් ඇති වුවහොත් මසක් ඇතුළත පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් එහි මන්ත්රීවරයකු ජනාධිපති ලෙස තෝරා පත් කර ගනු ලැබිය යුතු […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා විජාතික බලවේගවල මෙහෙයවීමෙන් පසුගිය ජනවාරි 8 වැනි දා මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන විසින් ශ්රී ල නි ප ඝාතනය කෙරිණි. ජූලි 17 වැනි දා ශ්රී ල නි ප අනුරාධපුරයේ දී යළි උපත ලබා ඇත. අගෝස්තු 17 වැනි දා මැතිවරණ ජයග්රහණයෙන් පසු ශ්රී ල නි පක්ෂය ප්රමුඛ සංධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් මෛත්රිපාල පල පල කියමින් ඔහු ඉදිරියේ දී […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා අද දෙරණ වෙබ් අඩවියට අනුව මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන ලබන අගෝස්තු 17 වැනි දිනට පසු ගෙදර හරින බවට මා කළ ප්රකාශය අශිලාචාර එකක් යැයි කබීර් හෂීම් පවසා ඇත. මා කිසි දිනෙක ගේට්ටු කඩාගෙන විත් මෛත්රිපාල ගෙදර හරින බවක් කියා නැත. මා පැහැදිලිව කියා ඇත්තේ ව්යවස්ථානුකූලව දෝෂාභියෝගයක් මගින් මෛත්රිපාල ගෙදර හරින බව ය. ඒ අශීලාචාර […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
Press Release -Sri Lanka Tea Board Rising demand in India for tea from Sri Lanka spurs Sri Lanka Tea Board to set up anexclusive Pavilion at India’s only trade show dedicated to the Tea & Coffee sectors With Indian consumption of Sri Lankan tea rising rapidly, the Sri Lanka Tea Board has reserved a special […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2015
Ajit Randeniya The protagonists of the Yahapalana deception appear like a bunch of bungling comedy actors except for the danger they pose to the future of Sri Lanka. If the breathtakingly doltish display of the care-taker education minister (Wilbewa toiya”) Akila Viraj Kariyawasam to bring Napoleon Bonaparte – who had been dead for nearly 100 […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2015
By Concerned Diaspora THEN – We supported the country, and promoted a positive image We rushed home after the Tsunami and donated funds We spent sleepless nights during the last days of the war We prayed for peace We heaved a sigh of relief when the terrorists were defeated We supported rehabilitation of our soldiers, […]
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