Archive for September, 2015
Monday, September 7th, 2015
by S.R. Ramaswamy Courtesy: Indiafacts This is a translation of the original essay by S.R. Ramaswamy that appeared in the September 2015 issue of the Kannada monthly, Utthana. Translated by Sandeep Balakrishna. Nalanda University was established as an university of eminence in Bihar during the period when both Sanatana Dharma and Buddhism were at their peak. […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana The Magisterial inquiry with respect to the floating armory of the Avant Garde Maritime Services (Pvt) Ltd has been terminated after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) apprised the Court that it would not proceed with the case under AG’s advice. The Galle Magistrate last week also lifted the foreign travel ban imposed on […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2015
Abdul Qadir, Courtesy: Times of India GAYA: At least 40 Mahadalit families on Thursday converted to Christianity at a special baptism ceremony at Atia village near Bihar’s Bodh Gaya. Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who is a Mahadalit as well, was busy in foundation laying and inauguration ceremonies at his village Mahkar in Gaya district […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2015
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Eminent educationist Professor Srinath Baruah on 5 September 2015 urged the media outlets of Assam to use accurate Assamese words and correct sentences in various items, which are made available to the reader-audience-viewers. Interacting with the scribes at Guwahati Press Club, Prof Baruah also emphasized on maintaining the beauty of Assamese […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2015
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. (පැරණි ලිපියක් යලි ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ, ඒ අවශඅයතාවය තදින්ම දැනෙන බැවණි) Posted on January 22nd, 2011 අපි කාලාන්තරයක් මුළුල්ලේ විශාල අරගලයක් නිරතවූවෝ වෙමු. ඒ අරගලය ජයග්රහහීව නිමව, මේ වනවිට අවුරුද්දකුත් මාස හයක කාලයක් ගතවී ඇත. මේ වනවිට ජයග්රහණය උදෙසා යුද්ධය මෙහෙය වූ නායකයා රටේ පාලන බලය මෙහෙයවමින් සිටියි. නමුත් ස්වභාවයේ ධර්මතාවන්ට අනුකූලව, සෑම […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
Chanaka Bandarage No one would disagree that Hong Kong rode to its prosperity on the back of China (after the Chinese Revolution, Hong Kong underwent a rapid and successful process of industrialization, from the late 1940s, and became a rich nation). After the liberalisation of China’s trade (Chairman Deng’s Open Door Policy’ in the late […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
Sri Lankan Mirror Swearing in of ministers yesterday for provinces and the proposed district councils for development headed by the MP who won the most votes in the district is a clear sign the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government has started dismantling provincial councils, says senior journalist cum political analyst Kusal Perera. These ministers appointed to oversee provincial […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
By Shelton A. Gunaratne 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 wish to show my thumbs up” approval to the selection of the Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothian […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
By Kishani Samaraweera Courtesy The Nation President Maithripala Sirisena announced on August 29 that strict laws will be enforced with regard to asbestos, and by 2018 the production and importation of asbestos will be banned completely. The President mentioned although plans were made to ban the production of asbestos when he was the Health Minister; it […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
By The Nation The Colombo Telegraph has reported that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the abduction of Prageeth Ekneligoda, believes that the reason for the abduction was something other than the fact of his being a journalist. The CID also believes that Ekneligoda’s practice of mailing human ash to Mahinda Rajapaksa was […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
by Kusal Perera Balendran Jeyakumari was arrested with her then 12 year old daughter in March 2014 on charges she possessed two stolen mine detectors. Lugged in remand prison for almost a year, she was allowed conditional bail in March, 2015. She had to report to the nearest police station every last Sunday of the […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2015
දර්ශන් වීරසේකර ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ත්රස්තවාදී යුද්ධයේ අන්තිම පියවරයන් ගත් සමයේ දී සිදුවූවා යැයි කියන යුධ අපරාධ සම්බන්ධව අභ්යන්තර පරීක්ෂණයක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත බව ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දේශීය ජාතික පුවත්පත් කීපයකම මෑතක දී වාර්තා කරනු ලැබීය. ඉහත සඳහන් අභ්යන්තර පරීක්ෂණ සාධාරණීයකරණය කිරීම වස්, නව විදෙස් ඇමති වන ගරු මංගල සමරවීර මහතා ඉදිරිපත් කර තබූ අදහස් කීපයක් පසු ගිය […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean Will Sri Lanka become the 30th Federal State of India within the Indian Federal Union of States currently comprising of twenty-nine (29) States? As opinions published in various patriotic media led by LankaWeb, the Gang of Three led by President Maithripala Sirisena (My3), Ranil Wickremasingha (RW) and Chandrika Bandaranaike-Kumaratunga (CBK) are well […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Nation Power struggles are rarely if at all about the people. Rhetoric is scripted in, yes, but for the most it remains a necessity as a means to an end. Outcomes which get preferred by parties never privilege the voter. This we know. As such elections have more to do with […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge I know for sure that I have an instinct for colour, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.” – Vincent Van Gogh Vincent William van Gough a famous Dutch artist whose work often associated with Post-Impressionism and later transformed […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana The swearing in ceremony of the new Cabinet of the National Government commenced at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, a short while ago. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was the first to take oaths as the Minister of National Policy and Economic Affairs before President Maithripala Sirisena. In total 42 Cabinet Ministers including Wijedasa […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s rupee currency fell over 3 percent to trade at a record low of 139.00 per dollar on Friday after the central bank effectively floated the currency by ceasing to quote its own reference rate. The slide comes amid weakness in emerging markets triggered by a devaluation of the Chinese yuan. It […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම ධර්මසිරි බණ්ඩාරනායක (පුරවැසි බලය) ලංකාව දැන් එක රටක් කියා සම්බන්ධන්ට විපක්ෂ නායකකම දිය යුතුයයි කෑගසද්දි, ඊට කලින් ටී එන් ඒ එකේ ඒබ්රහම් සුමන්තිරන් කෙඳිරිගෑවේ ඔවුන්ට ඕනෑ බලය පැවරීමක් මිස බලය බෙදීමක් නොවන බවය. ඔහුට අනුව බලය පැවරීමක් කියන්නේ එය දුන් පුද්ගලයාට ආපසු ගත නොහැකිවන ආකාරයේ ඩිවොලූෂන් වෙට්ටුවකටය. උදාහරණයක් වශයෙන් කියතොත් යම් තරුණියක් ඇගේ […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
වංශපුර දේවගේ ජානක– යුතුකම සංවාද කවය ඉතිහාසයේ දූෂිතම මැතිවරණයෙන් බලයට පැමිනි මෛත්රී-චන්ද්රිකා-රනිල් හවුල් ආණ්ඩුව නිවට රජයක් වනු ඇත. එමෙන්ම එය ජනමතය නොඉවසන රජයක් වෙනු ඇත. ඊටත් වඩා එය අස්ථාවර රජයක් වනු ඇත. මේ සියලු කාරණා සැපිරුණු රජයක් 1948 න් පසු මෙරට පිහිටුවා නැත. මේ රජයට නියමිත කාර්යභාරය වනුයේ සිංහලුන්ගේ ස්වාධිපත්යය අහිමි කිරීමය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මංගල සැසිවාරයේ […]
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
Lankacnews ජාතික ආන්ඩුවක් සඳහා ඇමති මණ්ඩලය වැඩි කිරීමට ඊයේ දිනයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පැවති ඡන්ද විමසීමේදී එම යෝජනාවට පක්ෂව ඡන්දය දුන් සන්ධාන මන්ත්රීවරුන් 35 මෙසේය. මහින්ද යාපා, සරත් අමුණුගම, ලසන්ත අලගියවන්න, ටි.බී. ඒකනායක, මොහාන් ලාල් ගේ්රරු, ගීතා කුමාරසිංහ, මලිත් ජයතිලක, ප්රියංකර ජයරත්න, දයාසිරි ජයසේකර, පේ්රමලාල් ජයසේකර, ජනක බණ්ඩාර තෙන්නකෝන්, නිමල් සිරිපාල සිල්වා, දුමින්ද දිසානායක, එස්.බි. දිසානායක, ඩග්ලස් […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
By Charles.S.Perera When you have wept your grief, and smothered the last drop of tears you are completely exhausted, lifeless, and nothing seems to matter. What is left is only the smitten body of once a proud nation in a bier, four terrorists in their fatigues stand silently on guard at the four corners with […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Shenali D Waduge “Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” For 3 decades Sri Lanka endured terrorism. The present calls for accountability and other nomenclatures were not to be seen throughout the past. After playing no part to end terror, after Sri Lanka’s military solution, the UN is […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
දිනන්න උදව්කළ අයට දොළ පිදේනි දෙනවා-විමල් වීරවංශ ‘‘27000ක් ජීවිත පුදලා බේරාගත්තු රට මේ විදිහට පාවලා දෙන්න අපි ඉඩ තියන්නේ නැහැ… සන්ධාන ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශනයේ ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් ගැන එක වචනයක්වත් නැහැ. සන්ධානයට ජනතාව ඡන්දය දුන්නේ සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් හදන්න. එහෙම නැතිනම් විපක්ෂයේ ඉදිමින් ඡන්දය දුන් ඒ ජනතාවගේ අභිලාෂයන් ඉටු කරන්න. දැන් ඒ ජනවරම ඔළුවෙන් හිටවන්න හදනවා… රටේ […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Gomin Dayasri Devin Jinadasa is the first Sri Lankan writer to have a trilogy of fantasy stories published by a British publisher. He is 16 years of age and attends Asian International School. It’s a book by a child for children. The Title of the book is SILVER MOON: THE WAR BEGINS. The publisher is […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Dr Hector Perera London When we cook, sometimes we cook water based foods directly on the fire and sometimes we fry. We fry fish or stakes or even papadams, sprats and red chilies. I know fried red dry chilies are too hot to eat but a taste of it is very appetising. One cannot help […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා මා අසනීප ව සිටි කාලයෙහි වැදගත් ලිපියක් දෙකක් ලියා ඇත. ඒ ඊනියා යථාර්ථය සම්බන්ධයෙනි. මේ සාකච්ඡාවේ තේමාව වනුයේ ම ඊනියා යථාර්ථයක් නැතැයි යන්න ය. එබැවින් අමරතුංග මහතා යථාර්ථයක් ඇතැයි පෙන්වීම සඳහා ඉදිරිපත්වීම වැඩදායක ය. එහෙත් ඒ මහතා තවමත් සිටින්නේ ථෙරවාදයෙන් සකස්කරන […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy Island It is reported that the US Assistant Secretary of State, Nisha Biswal, is so ‘upbeat’ about the mechanism adopted by the Government for a Domestic Inquiry Mechanism into accountability and reconciliation issues relating to the final phases of the conflict, that the US would sponsor a resolution supporting the Domestic […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Ramanie de Zoysa War hero Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Ratnayaka is on death row at the age of just 38 for the crime of protecting his country from bloodshed and ruin. Very little is known of Sunil by the public at large even though the so-called mirusuvil massacre” he is accused of participating in, is an […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
By Gandara John On 18 Aug 15 democracy in Sri Lanka was snuffed out when with the stroke of a pen five million voters were robbed of their Basic Human Rights to influence governmental decision making. As observed by UMHRC, ‘One of the most critical ways that individuals can influence governmental decision making is through voting.’ […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
උපුටාගැණීම www.mahinda.info BackUp ගුවන්තොටුපොළක් වශයෙන් මත්තල යොදා ගනිද්දී , පාඩුව සිදුවන්නේ එම කර්තව්යය සිදු කරන ඉන්දියාවේ චෙන්නායි ගුවන් තොටුපොළට බව ගුවන්තොටුපොළ නිලධාරියෙක් විස්තර කරයි. රුපියල් කෝටි 20ක් පමණ වටිනා එක්ස්රේ ස්කෑනින් යන්ත්ර, අධි තාක්ෂණික ගිනි සංවේදිත උපකරණ, කෝටි 5 කට වඩා වටිනා වායු සමීකරණ යන්ත්ර, අධි ශීතකරණ කාමර සහිත රුපියල් කෝටි 200 කට අධික ගොඩනැගිල්ල වී […]
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