Archive for September, 2015
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Senaka Weeraratna Sport builds strength and character in a person and instills values. A sports personality has a responsibility towards society to do good by setting an example. Sports is about two rivals battling it out to see who is better. It is not about a person of strength attacking a defenseless being. That’s not […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Shenali D Waduge 3 decades of terrorism in Sri Lanka ended in May 2009 following a military defeat of the LTTE. The Human Rights Council announced on 22 May 2009 that it would hold a special session to address the human rights situation in Sri Lanka on 26 May 2009. It was being convened at […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Diannah Paramour Sent from my iPadThat’s a lot to digest isn’t it? Firstly, this is what the international community and the filthy UN want: For Sri Lanka to act like savages in the jungle. Publicly hang MR and just to make the show look good, hang a bunch of low crimes criminals from your prison, […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
මනෝඡ් අබයදීර දිවයින සර්, සජිත්ටයි එවන්ස්ටයි පොඩ්ඩකට කාමරයෙන් එළියට යන්න කියමුද? එම සාකච්ඡාව අපි දෙදෙනා අතර පමණයි පැවතිය යුත්තේ.” “හොඳයි” ජනාධිපතිතුමා කීයේය. මේ වේලාවේ එතුමාගේ මුහුණේ පෙර පැවති සුහදතාවය නොතිබුණි. ඇස් දෙක රතුය. බැල්මත් භයානකය. ඇතුලත්මුදලි ඇමැතිතුමාත් පැමිණ ඇත්තේ බැගෑවීමට නොවේ. දෙකෙන් එකක් බේරුම් කර ගන්නටය. ආරංචිකරු කී හැටියට ඔහු පැමිණ ඇත්තේ ඉල්ලා අස්වීම තීන්දු කරගෙනය. […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
යටියන ප්රදීප් කුමාර යුතුකම සංවාද කවය මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ ආරාධනයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ 64 වන සම්මේලනයේ ප්රධාන දේශනය පැවැත්වූයේ මහාචාර්ය සරත් විජේසූරිය මහතාය. සාමාන්යයෙන් නම් පක්ෂ සම්මේලනයක පක්ෂය පිළිබඳ දේශනයක් පවත්වන්නේ ඒ පක්ෂයට අව්යාජව හිතැති විද්වතෙකු විසිනි. එසේත් නැත්නම් ආධානාග්රාහී නොවන සාපේක්ෂව හෝ ස්වාධීන බුද්ධිමතෙකු විසිනි. ශ්රීලනිපය ඉතාමත් අසීරු අවධියක පසු වූ 80 දශකයේ […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Courtesy The Nation In a startling turn of events in the investigation into Prageeth Eknaligoda’s alleged disappearance, it has surfaced that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is to question his alleged mistress and the Media Secretary to MP Douglas Devananda, Nelson Edirisinghe. The CID has allegedly found evidence that Eknaligoda lived with this mistress in […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana A large number of Sri Lankan products exported to India receive duty-free access under the IndiaSri Lanka Free Trade Agreement(ISFTA). However, these benefits are undermined by the existence of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs). One significant NTB facedby Sri Lankan exporters (especially food exporters)is the additional costs and delaysat the Indian port of entry resulting […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Top Spin By Suni Sept.3rd 2015 Seems like they are at it again! They virtually destroyed the careers of Saeed Ajmal, Sunil Naraine and others, almost destroyed those of Sachitra Senanayake and Mutiah Muralitharan, the latter mercifully cleared by medical science while there are blatant signs of wrist jerking by the likes of Mitchells, Johnson […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග තිරිඟු කුඹුරට ඉහලින් පියඹා ගිය කවුඩනි නොදුටුවේද රන් පැහැති තිරිඟු සුළඟට වැනෙනා අයුරු තෙලි තුඩින් නිම වූ ගෙඩි පිරුණු ප්ලම් ගස දුඹුරු පැහැති අතු විහිදා බලා සිටියි ඔබ එනතුරා කහ පැහැයෙන් පිරිපුන් සුරියකාන්ත මල් කිනිති මවයි දසුනක් සිත් වසඟකරවනා රාත්රිය එළඹී ඇත විහිදේ චන්ද්ර කාන්තිය අහසේ දිලෙයි තරුකැට මවමින් විසිතුරු රටා […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Pathfinder Economic Flash MEMO to HE and Prime Minister Pathfinder Economic Flash To: H.E. the President From: Pathfinder Foundation Hon. Prime Minister The Pathfinder Foundation (PF) at the outset wishes to emphasise the need for the government (the President, the Prime […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
By: Dr. Ajith C. S. Perera It was most encouraging to read the message to the nation by the re-elected Prime Minister Wickremasinghe, after a lengthy dialogue with President Sirisena. We commend your vision to build a new Sri Lanka in the coming sixty months, founded on the values of good governance and democracy, social […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
By Shelton A. Gunaratne (Week 1 of September 2015) Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM, and lead author of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (New York: Routledge, 2015) MOORHEAD, MN–As a mindful journalism practitioner and educator, I show my thumbs up” approval by awarding Prairie Roses and my thumbs […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Time will say nothing but I told you so Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. W.H. Auden If I could tell you” At long last, Sri Lankans may be arriving at the moment of truth in the […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon, Executive Director – CaFFE Campaign for Free and fair Election (CaFFE) believes that Sri Lanka can’t become a nation with a rule of law until the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) is abolished as it has the same suppressive powers of Emergency Laws which were lifted in 2011. The PTA effectively makes all […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ – කැෆේ ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත අහෝසි කරනතුරු ශ්රී ලංකාව පුද්ගල නිදහසට ගරු කරන ශිෂ්ඨ රාජ්යයක් බවට පත් නොවන බව නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා වු ජනතා ව්යාපාරය හෙවත් කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි. සිවිල් හා දේශපාලන අයිතිවාසිකම් පිළිබඳ අන්තර් ජාතික සම්මුතිය මගින් තහවුරු කොට ඇති මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පිළිබද […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Shenali D Waduge Garth Pritchard, a Canadian filmmaker who accompanied the forensic team to Kosovo said this was a massacre that never happened….I was standing there when the forensic teams were telling Louise Arbor there were no 200,000 bodies and she didn’t want to know”. Louis Arbor was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
– Kumar Moses South Asia’s strategic security situation is changing very fast. It is driven by Indian hegemonic interests. Since its creation in 1947, India has always been an invasive force. The long list of Indian invasions and grabbing others’ territory proves this point beyond all doubt. However, things have taken a turn for the […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Sudath Gunasekara My Dear Mr Lalith Weeratunga, Having failed to contact you or to get your private TP No or E-mail ever since I wrote you this note, I am copying you here with the note I sent to you by E-mail on 1st Dec, 2014 as a prior warning about the last Presidential election. […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම සිංහල බෞද්ධ නායකයින් හා හාමුදුරුවරුන්ගේ එකමුතුවක් නැතිකම නිසා ඉන් ප්රයෝජන ගන්නා හබන් කුකුළන් අතර කලාකාරයින් සෙට් එකක් දැන් ලංකාවේ බිහිවී සිටී. මීට මාස ගණනකට පෙර “බෞද්ධයින් ඇයි මෙතරම් ප්රචණ්ඩත්වයට ලොල්” යනුවෙන් ධර්මසිරි බණ්ඩාරනායක නම් චිත්රපටිකාරයෙක් කල ප්රකාශය “ලංකාවේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ පදනම විනාශ කලයුතුය” යන රට බෙදීමටද රුකුල් දෙන ඇන්ටි මහාවංශ ව්යාපාරයේම වලිග කොටසකි. […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
By A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. According to media reports, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Mississauga Friday afternoon (28 August) to address tens of thousands in attendance at Canada’s largest annual Islamic convention. Speaking during the opening day of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at (Community) Canada’s Jalsa Salana (annual convention), the Conservative […]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
Prof Siri Hettige Courtesy The Daily Mirror Addressing a major national public policy forum in Colombo prior to the parliamentary elections, President Maithripala Sirisena emphasized the need for formulating and implementing rational, evidence-based national policies in all sectors in order to address critical issues in the country. He went even further and requested the experts, […]
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