Archive for January, 2016
Thursday, January 7th, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතාට තමා කලින් කියා ඇති දේ අමතක ය. ඔහු අසංගතව ඇතැම් කරුණු සඳහන් කරයි. ඔහු දැන් කතා කරන්නේ යුදෙවු ක්රිස්තියානි සංකල්පයක් වූ ජීවිතයේ ඊනියා අරුත ගැන ය. එය සිංහල බෞද්ධ චින්තනයට පටහැණි ය. කෙසේ වෙතත් ඔහු ප්රෝටීන නෑමුම ගැන කතාකිරීමට ජනප්රිය ඉංගිරිසි පොතපතින් […]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
All Ceylon Customs Service Union
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island ‘A poet’s work. To name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.’ Nonconformist satirical poet Baal, a character in The Satanic Verses The publication of Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel The Satanic Verses very nearly cost […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement and retired Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. 6 Jan. 2016. As usual the Yahpalanaya Government, buried to the neck in its power hungry, selfish and short sighted political agenda without being able to identify its public, socio-economic, cultural and religious priorities, always put the […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Tagged national compass, zigzags erratically in the hand of President Sirisena. Hold it southward, swivels northbound. President carries no magnetic power in his grasp but gasps to be the elected Prime Minister. Naturally, the mind goes back to a time before and his compass, computer-like adjusts accordingly. Thinking too far […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඔවුන් එදා වැළදුවේ ආප්ප නම් නොවේ. මේ භෝජන සංග්රහයට සහභාගී වූ ඔහුට ඒ ආහාර වේලේ ඇති සුපිරිසිදු රසවත් බාවය නම් විද ගැනීමට ඔහුගේ මනස ඉඩ ලබාදුන්නේ නැති බව නම් මුලු මහත් ලෝක ප්රජාවම දනී. රිදී තිහකට, මහා දාර්ශනිකයකු විනාශ කිරීමට පෙරමුණ ගත්තේ, ඒ ක්රියාව හේතුවෙන් සදාකාලික ජීවනය ලබා ගැනීමට නම් ඒ පාවාදීමේ […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Thom Hartmann thinks it’s impossible for unregulated capitalism and the Declaration of Independence to co-exist. If you liked this clip of The Thom Hartmann Program, please do us a big favor and share it with your friends… and hit that “like” button!
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy Daily Mirror I can see badder weather” Badder Weather” (Josephine Oniyama, with Mathew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra) 2016 is the 60th anniversary year of many significant historical landmarks, local and global, that studded the year 1956. Internationally this is the 60th anniversary year of Nikita Khrushchev’s ‘secret speech’ to the 20th […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
by Shenali D. Waduge ( published in 2012) The article titled Heritage Catholic Churches of the Kalpitiya peninsula” written by Wiruma based on Sagara Jayasinghe’s book Santhanadeepaya” may include a collection of historical and architectural heritage of Catholic Churches in the Kalpitiya peninsula, but it also attempts to promote the theory that if not for […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
යටියන ප්රදීප් කුමාර -යුතුකම සංවාද කවය ජනවාරි 9 මෙරට ඉතිහාසයේ අඳුරුතම දිනය වන බවට සැක නැත. නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ව්යවස්ථාදායක මණ්ඩලයක් බවට පත් කරන්නේ එදාටය. විධායක ජනාධිපතිධූර අහෝසිය නැමති ඇම දමා නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සැකසෙන්නේ දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදය පිනවීමට මිස වෙනකකට නොවන බව දැන් තවදුරටත් සැඟවිය හැකි නොවේ. ජනවාරි 8 මැතිවරණ ජයග්රහණයට සහය දුන් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදීනුත් මෙරට […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
උපුටාගැණීම lanka C news කොලඹදී පැවති එකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ මාධ්ය හමුවේ දී පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නියක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. ජේම්ස් පැකර් වෙනුවට ජෝජ් සොරොස් ආණ්ඩුව අඩම්බරයෙන් කියුවා අට වැනිදා පැවැත්වෙන ආර්ථික සමුළුවට කෝටිපති ව්යාපාරික ජෝජ සොරොස් ප්රධාන දේශනය පවත්වන්න මේන්න ලංකාවට ආවෝ කියලා. කෝටිපතියෙක් බව ඇත්ත. ලෝකයේ ගිය අවුරුද්ද වන […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වෛද්ය සන්දිරසේකරන් මට හමු වූයේ 2008 වසරේදීය. ඒ කාලයේ ඔහු කල්පිටිය රෝහලේ ඩී.එම්.ඕ ලෙස සේවය කලේය. මම පුත්තලම දිස්ත්රික් මානසික සෞඛ්ය සම්බන්ධිකරණ නිලධාරී (Focal Point Mental Health) ලෙස සේවය කලෙමි. වරක් මුස්ලිම් අනාතයන් ජීවත් වන ආලන්කුඩා ප්රදේශයේ මානසික සෞඛ්ය ප්රවර්ධන වැඩ සටහනක් කල යුත් බව බව පුත්තලම දිස්ත්රික් සෞඛ්ය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂක වෛද්ය […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Courtesy The Ceylon Today The Sri Lanka Economic Forum, the brainchild of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe opens today (7), and for two days the Prime Minister will discuss ways in which we can ‘Steer Sri Lanka Through Sustainable and Inclusive Development’. The Prime Minister has also managed to get a number of prominent economists, including George […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island One-time Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday alleged that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked about accountability issues in Sri Lanka, whereas the UK was yet to release its own war crimes investigation report that dealt with alleged atrocities committed by British forces during six-year deployment in Iraq. […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a bizarre turn of events, the newly appointed Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), Sunil S. Sirisena has decided to discontinue the National Broadband Initiative (NBI), which ensured high speed broadband internet access to citizens at affordable prices, Mirror Business learns. It is also learnt that the man […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island The JVP has started kicking the government it has been kissing for months. It is going to stage a protest on Jan. 08, when the first anniversary of defeat of the Rajapaksa government and President Maithripala Sirisena’s first year in office will be celebrated. What has prompted it to do so? The […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Ainsley de Silva, Kohuwala Courtesy The Island ‘Flog them, flay them,’ screamed the head of the yahapalanaya administration. Not to be outdone, the leader of the BBS joined the clamour. And, whose scalps were they all baying for? Those of the organizers of a music show featuring an iconic international singer! It is hardly the […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 6, 2016, 8:06 am Had the UN acted swiftly, and decisively, Sri Lanka wouldn’t have had to experience terrorism for nearly three decades. In actual fact, the UN, and its agencies, deprived successive Sri Lankan governments of much needed support during her battle against terrorism. Last week, The Island […]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Courtesy RT Just days before Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 47 people, the US announced the approval of more military contracts with the Gulf kingdom. The executions caused global outrage and increased tensions with Iran, due to the killing of revered Sheik and scholar Nimr al-Nimr. His death sparked protests across the region as Shiite […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
PATRIOT In 2015 David Cameron declared ‘Britain is still a Christian country‘, Christianity is the official religion of Britain. Germany’s Angel Merkel from the Christian Democratic Party says Germans must stand up for Christian values. There are only 58% Christians in Germany. The state religion in Norway is Protestant Christian (Evangelical-Lutheran). All Muslim majority nations […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government had omitted certain significant Articles of the 1978 Constitution, including those on upholding the Unitary State of the country and giving foremost place to Buddhism from the new Constitution, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) MP Dinesh Gunawardane charged today. Speaking at a media briefing MP Gunawardane said the people were […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
ආචාර්ය දයාන් ජයතිලක – Rivira 2016 වසරට පිවිසි අපට මෙම වසරේ මුහුණ දෙන්නට වන අභියෝග කවර ස්වරුපයක් ගනිද යන්න පිළිබඳ දළ චිත්රයක් මවා ගැනීම අසීරු නැත. මෙහිදී 2016 කි විට මගේ මනසට ක්ෂණිකව එන අදහස වන්නේ එය 1956 පෙරළියේ හැටවන සංවත්සර වර්ෂය බවයි. එනම් 1956 වසරේ ඇති වූ සදමාජ දේශපාලනික විදේශ ප්රතිපත්තිමය සහ සංස්කෘතික පෙරළිය […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
lanka C news ඉදිරි පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට පෙර නව පක්ෂයක් පිහිටුවීමේ සාකච්චා පෙරේදා දිනයේ කොළඹදී පවත්වා ඇතැයි ලංකාදීප පුවත්පත වාර්තා කරයි. මෙම සාකච්චාව සඳහා හිටපු ජනපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඇතුළු ගිය රජයේ ඇමතිවරුන්, හිටපු මහ ඇමැතිවරුද සහභාගී වූ බව එම වාර්තාවන්හි දැක්වෙයි. එසේ පිහිටුවන නව පක්ෂයේ ලකුණ වශයෙන් ජලයේ පිපෙන මලක නමක්ද යෝජනා වී ඇතැයිද එම […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana The current Parliament has no right to form a ‘Constitutional Council’ to formulate a new Constitution, President of the National Movement to Protect Soldiers Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (05). Some politicos, who had been rejected by the people at […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
Mahinda Weerasinghe 08.12.2015 By the author of: -Origin of species According to The BUDDHA & MISSION TO Oslo Since Mohamed proclaimed to the world his religion of peace”, it has been bumping off people left right and centre in the name of Allah (or God or whatever)! This, by invoking a simple formula, which he relayed […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
Rupam Barua, Jagadindra Raychoudhury, Nava Thakuria, Pramod Kalita, Girindra karji, Anup Sarma PPFA bats for early completion of Guwahati War Memorial By Our Correspondent Guwahati, 5 January 2015: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) in northeast India has urged the Assam government to complete the construction of proposed war memorial on the northern bank of Dighalipukhuri […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
By M D P DISSANAYAKE South Australian capital of Adelaide has no Opera House. Adelaide has no Harbour Bridge of Sydney. Adelaide has no skyscrapers like in Melbourne. Adelaide has no Gold Coast. And finally Adelaide City is not overlooking sea and Freemantle Doctor is not present unlike in Perth. Yet, Adelaide is Australia’s best […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, MIE(Aus) CPEng, (Retired) Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers 6th January 2016 Hon Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of SriLanka No.30, Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha Colombo 7 SRILANKA Dear Prime Minister, As a patriotic SriLankan (SL) Australian I am compelled to write this letter to […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය නුවරඑළියේ කානේෂන් මඩකලපුවේ සිටුවන පරිපාලන ක්රමයක් මේ වන විට මෙරට පළාත් පාලන ආයතන රැසක ස්ථාපිත වී ඇති බව කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි. අද (5) වන දින පෙරවරුවේ කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසීය. මහජනතාවගේ දෛනික ක්රියාවලියට අත්යවශ්ය වන පළාත් පාලන ආයතන රැසක කටයුතු මේ […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
by Suni Ranasinghe. සුනිල් රණසිංහ Asian Human Rights Commission Article Deleted
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