Archive for January, 2016
Sunday, January 17th, 2016
Prof. Sunil J Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc ශ්රී ලංකාවාසී ප්රබුද්ධ වෘත්තිකභවතුන් වෙතය, රජරට පවත්නා වකුගඩු රෝගය වලක්වාලීමේ සහ මුලිනුපුටා දැමීමේ ක්රියා මාර්ගය – ඉදිරි දැක්ම: විශේෂයෙන් උතුරුමැද පළාතේ වකුගඩු රෝගීන්ගේ සංඛාව සීග්රයෙන් වැඩිවන අතර එමගින් කෘෂි සමාජයේ ජන ජීවිතය විනාශ වීමේ ප්රවනතාවයක් උද්ගත වී ඇති බව ප්රකට කරැණකි. එම අන්තරාදායක තත්ත්වය සපුරාම අවසන් කිරීමට […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera Mithripala Sirisena has a subordinate mentality. He cannot rise above that mental handicap. He cannot even stand up against Ranil to say no to him. Ranil is evil, he knows how to disarm his superiors, and take their place. That he did with President Chandrika Kumaratunga, when Ranil became her Prime Minister. Ranil […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Certain quarters of the Tamil polity are worried. They need to worry. They should now be more worried for their own future in the event India does turn Sri Lanka into an Indian territory thus realizing a very long historically failed goal. The manner the Sirisena-Ranil-CBK Government is allowing Indians to walk […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 1988 දී මම ජර්මනියට යන විට ජර්මනිය නැගෙනහිර සහ බටහිර ලෙසට දෙකට බෙදී තිබුණි. ඒ කාලයේ නැගෙනෙහිර ජර්මනියේ තිබුනේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පාලනයකි. මිනිසුන් ස්ටාසි රහස් ඔත්තු සේවයට තිබූ බිය නිසා විදේශික අප සමග නිදහසේ සංවාදයට ආවේ නැත. එහෙත් ටැක්සිකරුවන් කිහිප දෙනෙක් අප වෙත පැමින ඩොලර් හෝ ඩොයිෂ් මාර්ක් තිබේද කියා අැසුවෝය. එක් […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
JVP, UNP, Sampanthan sleep on the same bed: Rohitha
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resource and Privileges (PRECIFAC) has been informed that Avant Garde Maritime Services (AGMS) paid Rs. 3.1 bn to the government of Sri Lanka during 2012-2014 period. The AGMS provided […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
Editorial -The Island January 16, 2016, 9:11 am Somebody has likened politicians to tortoises resting on fence posts. They cannot reach such heights without people’s help as is common knowledge. It is also people who have to bring them down. But, in this country, the creatures so elevated are deified! However, one may consider this […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
Gnanasara Thero – සිවුරට අත තියන්නේ බලාගනයි – 14/01/2016
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Sunday, January 17th, 2016
Sinale It is time to restore Sinhale,the historical name of our motherland. Some countires previously were under the colonial rule have already restored to their original names.Rhodesia into Zimbabwe and Burma now Myanmar.It seems our politicians are still unaware that 2500 years great civilization was built by Buddhist Sinhalese in Sinhale.
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක රජය නවසිය හැටේ සහ හැටපහ අතර කාලය තුළ ජනතාවට පිරිමහින ප්රගතිශීලී වැඩ කොටස් රාශියක් ඉටුකළහ. ඒ අතරින් සිංහල රාජ්ය භාෂාව බවට පත්වීමට අවශ්ය ප්රතිපත්තිමය ක්රියාමාර්ග දියත් කිරීම ප්රධාන වේ. මැතිණියගේ නායකත්වයෙන් විශාල වැඩ කොටසක් ඉටු කෙරුණද ඇතැම් අනවශ්ය තීන්දු තීරණ නිසා රජය අප්රසාදයට පත් විය. සීමාසහිත එක්සත් ප්රවෘත්ති පත්ර සමාගම රජයට […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 2001 වසරේ දෙසැම්බර් 25 දින මම හලාවත රෝහලේ නිර්වින්දන අංශයේ වැඩ ආවරණය කලෙමි. නත්තල් දිනය නිසා සැලසුම් කරන ලද ශල්යකර්ම සිදු නොවූ බැවින් මම රෝහලේ නිර්වින්දන වෛද්යවරුන්ට ලබා දී තිබුණු කාමරයේ පොතක් කියවමින් සිටියෙමි. සවස් වරුවේ මගේ වැඩ මුරය නිම කිරීමට පැය භාගයක් පමණ තිබියදී වාහන අනතුරකින් තුවාල ලැබූ ළදරුවෙකුට ස්වසනය […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
By Gandara John …All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. D evil monster finagles Sri Lanka on Human Rights, terrorism, reconcilliation, reintegration, ‘transitional’ justice, corruption and more in its attempt to force the country to believe that Federalism is the model for democratisation, the middle path between two extremes and the […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
By Gandara John …All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. With Africa aflame, the Evil Empire homes in on Asia, leaving a tell tale trail of destruction in its wake, a grim warning to the Asian Continent to anticipate unmitigated disaster and misery. With their infrastructures destroyed, borders erased and populations […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
By Gandara John …All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. RW and CBK take a page or two from Soros, a billionaire who admittedly betrayed fellow Jews to the Nazis during WW2 and profited by it. Soros who likes playing a controlled opposition was accused by Hungarian PM Viktor Orban of […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
Sandya Salgado Dear Mr President, It is one year since I woke up to an ‘aha!’ moment in my life… A long awaited sense of freedom, not just freedom from terror, but also freedom of speech, freedom of living a life devoid of constant fear of being ‘watched and listened to’, a violation of basic […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
by Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada The Minster for `Parliamentary reforms and Mass Media’ is said to have proposed a bill to curb a number of human rights enjoyed by one section of the Sri Lankan public who are eligible to vote – namely, the Buddhist monks. For instance, they are to be denied the right […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington , New Zealand Dear Editor, Relentlessly pursue with yet unsubstantiated allegations and litigation the liberators of SL from three decades of terror, release and pardon those alleged with the highest level of complicity with this terror, remove the state obligation to protect Thervada Buddhism in Sri Lanka something which even the British […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
සභාපති – චින්තන පර්ෂදය-මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව 2016 01 13
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න කැලණිය සරසවියේ අතීතය 1875 දක්වා දිවයයි. රත්මලානේ ශ්රී ධර්මාලෝක නාහිමියන් විසින් විද්යාලංකාර පිරිවෙන නමින් 1875දී පෑලියගොඩදී පිහිටවනු ලැබූ මෙම පිරිවෙන 1957 අංක 45 දරණ විද්යාදය විද්යාලංකාර විශ්ව විද්යාල පනත අනුව 1956 ජනවාරි 1 සිට ශ්රී ලංකා විද්යාලංකාර විශ්ව විද්යාලය ලෙස නම් කෙරිණි. පසුව 1972 අංක 1 දරණ ශ්රී ලංකා විශ්ව විද්යාල පනත මගින් […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 16, 2016, 8:30 am The Joint Opposition comprising about 50 UPFA members and the SLFP group in the government are in the process of finalising an agreement on government efforts to frame a new Constitution. Kandy District MP Keheliya Rambukwelle yesterday told The Island that they had been closely […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some former heads of local authorities which were administered by the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) are in the process of forming a new political party to contest the Local Government elections with the backing of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Former Gampaha Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Ranjith Gunawardane he and some others […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2016
By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Foreign Affairs Note Courtesy Asiantribune.com Washington, D.C. 14 January (Asiantribune.com): The British Foreign Office State Minister for Asia Hugo Swire arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka January 14 with 6.6 million Sterling Pounds (US$9.5 million or Rs. 1.36 billion), a Conflict Stability and Security Fund, as mentioned by Mr. Swire in an […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Buddhism came to Sri Lanka by royal invitation. Buddhism was followed by Sinhala Buddhists and respected by Tamil Hindus. 180 rulers of the Sinhale nation ruled following the Dasa–Raja–Dhamma: The ‘Ten Royal Virtues’. No politician (local or foreign), the UN, NGOs on payroll or heads of Abrahamic religions have any right to […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA To my knowledge, the Government has to date not commissioned an official assessment of the OHCHR report (also called the OISL report) or at any rate if it has, such report is not available to the public.[1] And yet, one reads in the newspapers that the Government is about to start ‘the consultation […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
RANJITH SOYSA As reported in Sunday Island of 10th instant former High Commissioner for India. Gopalkrishna Gandhi has subscribed to the view that a large scale killings (by the defence forces) have taken place during the last period of the war including the killing of Prabahkaran’s son. He has also advised Sri Lanka that war […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Recently in Kegalle, President Maithripala Sirisena his willingness to totally prohibit tobacco and alcohol sale if not for the fact that his government would be overthrown by the opposition political parties. He reconfirmed his ambition a few days ago by stating growing of tobacco will be completely stopped in Sri […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island January 15, 2016, 9:13 am An economic crisis is looming. Foreign reserves are dwindling and the rupee is tumbling. The educated youth are demanding jobs. Educational institutions, especially universities, are starved of funds. State-run hospitals are experiencing drug shortages. The cost of living has reached the stratosphere with people struggling to make […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න මූලික මිනිස් අයිතීන් සුරකිමට ආරම්භ කරන ලද ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසියට දැන් වසර 150 සපිරෙන්නේ ලබන සැප්තැම්බර් 5වැනිදාය. පොලිසිය යන ඉංග්රීසි නම හැදී ඇත්තේ ආචාරශීලි, යටහත්, පක්ෂපාතී, බුද්ධිමත්, ධෛර්යවන්ත සහ කාර්යශූර යන වචනවල ඉංග්රීසි මුල් අකුරු වලිනි. අතීතයේ කෝලම් නැටුම් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනප්රිය කලා අංගයකි. කෝලම් නැටුම්වල ප්රථමයෙන් කෝලමේ වේදිකාවේ නට නටා යයි. ඉන් […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරි සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා යුදෙවු ක්රිස්තියානි සංකල්පයක් වූ ජීවිතයේ අරමුණ ඇතැම් බටහිර විද්යාඥයන් කියා ඇති ආකාරයට විශ්වයේ යහපත සඳහා ජාන ප්රවර්ධනය බව කීමට විදුසර පුවත්පතෙහි පිටු නාස්ති කරයි. ඔහු දැන් ප්රෝටින නැමුම ගැන කතාකිරීමට තව තවත් අනවශ්ය තොරතුරු පාඨකයාට පටවයි. ඔහුට දැනට ඒ කරගෙන යෑමට ඉඩ […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2016
Top Spin By Suni January 17th 2016 The New Zealand Herald just yesterday has asked “Has an over-enthusiastic, flamboyant Sri Lankan sports minister under pressure to fix the national cricket team got the wrong end of the stick?” This seems a very valid question in view of the stories floating around about excessive partying and […]
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