Archive for February, 2016
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
H. L. D. Mahindapala The Tamils have a great culture. One of the best. But that is not found in Jaffna – the so-called heartland of the indigenous Tamils. Though they crow about their culture loudly and interminably, there is no significant evidence of great cultural achievements in Jaffna because they have been, at all […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Shenali D. Waduge The time has come to raise the bar on accountability. Reconciliation cannot occur to knee-jerks nor can it close the eyes to over 450 years of persecution and discrimination meted out mostly to the Sinhala Buddhists of Sri Lanka. Crimes against humanity and destruction of deep seated Buddhist civilizations cannot be subject […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කිශානි ඔපෙරා වේ සොප්රාණෝ ක්රමයට දන්නෝ බුදුන්ගේ ගීතය ගැයීම ගැන හරි අල කලන්චියකි . රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අවස්ථාවෙන් ප්රයෝජනය ගෙන දෙරණට තර්ජය කරය් . අප්පුඩි ගගහ ”බුධ්ධන් සරනං ‘ කියන රනිල් ට ඔනා බුදුදහමක් නැත කිශානි පැටලුනේ අනවශ්ය කරදරයකය ඇ ය තම දක්ෂතාවන් පෙන්නීමට නිදහස් උත්සවය තෝරා ගැනීමත් බෞද්ධ ගීතයක් යය හංවඩු ගැහුන ගීතයක් […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග දොස්තරලා හෙදියෝ වර්ජනය කිරීමට නම් දැරුවෝ වෙති. වෛද්යවරයෙකු ලෙස 1994 – 2009 කාල පරාසය තුල මමද වර්ජන කිහිපයකට සහභාගි වූ බව හෙළි කරමි. ඉන්ටර්න්වරයෙකු ලෙස මාතලේ මූලික රෝහලේ සේවය කල 1994-1995 අතර කාලයේ වර්ජන කරන්නට අපට ඉඩක් නොවීය. නමුත් මේ කාලයේ දිවයින පුරා පැතිරී ගිය හෙදියන් ගේ වර්ජනයක් මතු විය. හෙදියෝ […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා සංඛ අමර්ජිත්ගේ වැඩ තහනම් කිරීමට දෙරණ ආයතනය තීරණය කර ඇත්තේ කිෂානි ජයසිංහගේ දන්නෝ බුදුන් ගීතය ගැයීම ගැන කරන ලද අදහස් දැක්වීමක් සම්බන්ධයෙනි. එය බලපෑමක් යටතේ සිදුවිණි ද නැද්ද යන්න ගැන මම නො දනිමි. එහෙත් එය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ බදුල්ලේ දී කරන ලද තවත් විශේෂ ප්රකාශයකට පසුව සිදු වී ඇත. දෙරණ මාධ්යවේදීන්ගෙන් මා තරමක් […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි එස් ඩබ් ආර් ඩී බන්ඩාරනායකයන් 1951 දී එජාපයෙන් ඉවත්ව ශ්රීලනිපය පිහිටවූයේ රටේ අති මහත් පීඩිත ජනයාගේ දැවෙන ප්රශ්න වලට එජාපයෙන් පිටිවහලක් නොලැබෙන බව ඉඳුරා අවබෝධ කරගත් බැවිනි. 1948 දී නිදහස ලබා එජාපය රටේ පාලනය ලබා ගත්තත් අධිරාජ්යවාදයේ අඳුරු සෙවනැලි වලින් ගැලවීමට නම් තවත් බොහෝ යායුතු යැයි තීරනය කල එතුමා එදා නිර්භය ලෙස ගත් […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Hon John Key Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr. Key, The Sri Lankan community in Wellington and New Zealand are delighted to read that you would be making your second official visit to Sri Lanka from the 24th to 26th of February, We trust your […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Courtesy Lanka-e-News As LeN revealed so it is proved.! Kumarasinghe Sirisena’s G.M. nabbed over ‘Call Termination’ racket – Many millions of rupees gobbled up per day.! (Lanka-e-News- 16.Feb.2016, 8.25PM) Lanka e news on the 3 rd of February reported that a sum of Rs. 2-3 million revenue due to the Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) /Mobitel […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The word reconciliation has become quite effective of late. Use the word with any statement and it gets the nod of international approval. However, before people get carried away there is need to make some matters clear. Reconciliation must bring people together and not be used as a bogey to create a […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Janaki Chandraratna It appears that the President and the Government have not been very candid with the electorate on UNHRC resolution from day one of their campaign to unseat the previous regime. It is no brainer to understand that to co-sponsor a resolution one needs to agree with its contents. The previous regime also could […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
By: Emma Rumney Courtesy publicfinanceinternational.org 16 Feb 16 Sri Lanka’s chronic” revenue shortfalls must be addressed and its economy must become more competitive and inclusive if poverty is to be reduced, the World Bank has said. Colombo, Sri Lanka The bank highlighted that Sri Lanka has one of the lowest tax-to-GDP rates in the world, […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Dr.Tilak S. Fernando When Henry Ward Beecher scribbled the following two sentences: Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable“, I wonder whether he did ever envision his writing would become […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Chandra Jayaratne Courtesy The Island February 15, 2016, 7:14 pm An Open Letter to the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank; To be duly noted by the President, the Prime Minister, the Government, Commercial and Financial Services Sectors and Professional Practitioners Dear Minister and Governor, You are accountable for your unwise […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ම හා ධර්මස් කණ්ද යම නොවෙය් අංශු මාත්රයක් හෝ දන්නවනම් මේවා මෙහෙ ම නොවේ විශාකා ආනන්ද නාලන්ද ඇතුළු සියලු පාසල් වල උගන්වන්නේ එකම දේය .නමින් බෞද්ධ වීම නිසා සිදුවන්නේ චන්ද්රිකා වැනිය වුන්ගේ අපහාසයට ලක් වීම පමණය . උපතින් බෞධ්ධලමය් වැඩියෙන් මේ පාසල් වල ඇතත් ඔවුන්ගෙන් බොහෝ දෙනෙක් බෞද්ධ වන්නේ නමටය කිශානි ජයසිංහ පොඩි […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
EDITORIAL The Daily Mirror three-day workshop began in Parliament yesterday to educate MPs on the full restoration of parliamentary democracy by making Parliament to be like a virtual government with all MPs playing a proactive role in making laws and implementing them. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his opening speech said one of the goals […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Chief Executive Officer of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Dilantha Withanage today urged the Government that it had come to know about the warning of the danger of the Islamic State terror group spreading its tentacles to South Asia, from a recent report by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Chief […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) today claimed that the CID had received several telephone calls from the Prime Minister’s Office pressuring the CID to speed up investigations against the GMOA. GMOA Spokesman Dr. Navin de Soysa said the doctor, on whose complaint the CID initiated investigations had previously been a […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy Daily Mirror The Attorney General has directed to arrest Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera and produced before the Court for illegally keeping a baby elephant at the Alan Mathiniyaramaya Temple, Polhengoda, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID has informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Nishantha Peiris. The CID had also informed that the AG had directed them to […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today those who are paid to shout against the agreement with India will learn a lesson when the people get to the streets soon. No one should waste time on unwanted things because the government will not stray from its journey towards developing Sri Lanka’s economy, […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Manila Times COLOMBO: Google’s balloon-powered high-speed Internet service known as Project Loon” began its first tests in Sri Lanka Monday (Tuesday in Manila) ahead of a planned joint venture with Colombo, the country’s top IT official said. One of three balloons that will be used in the trials entered Sri Lankan airspace, the […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge There is much ado about Sinhalese denying the status for Tamil post-independence. The better question is, did Tamil language have any official status from 1832 to 1948 to warrant a grievance? Was Tamil used at all in an official capacity during British rule? No. If Tamils were never officially enjoying the use […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න ශ්රී ලංකීය වමේ ව්යාපාරයේ ඉතිහාසය ඇරඹෙන්නේ 1930 දශකයේ ආරම්භයත් සමගය. මාක්ස්වාදී අදහස් දැරූ විදේශ අධ්යාපනයක් ලබා සිටි මැද පාන්තික තරුණ කොටස් සමාජවාදය වැළඳගෙන ලංකාවට පැමිණි පසු තරුණ සංගම් තුළත්, සූරියමල් ව්යාපරය තුළත්, නාගරික කම්කරු පන්ති ව්යාපාරය තුළත් ක්රියාත්මක වෙමින් ස්වකීය දේශපාලනය ආරම්භකල ස්ථානයන් දක්වා වමේ ව්යාපාරයේ ඉතිහාසය දිවයයි. ලංකාවේ මාක්ස්වාදයේ පියා ලෙස සැලකෙන […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග සහකාර වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන් ලියාපදිංචි සහකාර වෛද්ය” AMP හෙවත් AMO හෝ අතීතයේ ඇපොතිකරි මහතුන් ලෙස හඳුන්වනු ලැබූ සෞඛ්ය අංශයේ වැදගත් භූමිකාවක් ඉටු කරන ලද වෘත්තිකයන් පිරිසකි. 1995 වසර ආසන්න තෙක් ලංකාවේ ග්රාමීය රෝහල් වල ස්ථාන භාර වෛද්යවරු ලෙසද දිස්පැන්සරි වලද සහකාර වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන් තම සේවා ලබා දුන්හ. ඔවුන් පුරා ශතවර්ශයකටත් අධික කාලයක් […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
German Dharmaduta Society A Pinkama was held at the Berlin Buddhist Vihara (Das Buddhistische Haus) on Sunday February 14, 2016 to bestow merit and gratefully remember the altruistic and undying services rendered to the Buddha Sasana by Ven. Madulwawe Sobitha Thera, Dr. Paul Dahlke (founder of Das Buddhistische Haus), Asoka Weeraratna (later Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanisanthi […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
by Swarna Wickremeratne(Author) This book provides both an erudite and intimate look at how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka. While India is known as the birthplace of Buddhism, Sri Lanka is its other home; Buddhism extends back over twenty-five hundred years on the island and remains at the center of its spiritual traditions and […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
Island Editorial Courtesy The Island February 14, 2016, 7:51 pm The manner in which the new Attorney General (AG) was appointed has left a bad taste in many a mouth. What is at issue is not the suitability or otherwise of the new AG but why the acting AG was so blatantly overlooked. Initially, President […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා මට පුවත්පත්වලට ලිපි සැපයීම ගැන නැවත සිතීමට සිදු වී ඇත. අවුරුදු තිහක පමණ කාලයක් මා ලියූ ලිපිවලින් ප්රතිඵලයක් ලැබී නැති බව පැහැදිලි ය. ඒ ගඟට ඉණි කැපීමක් විය. මේ ලිපි කියවන්නන් පිරිස ඉතා අල්ප ය. ලිපි නොකියවීමට හේතුව මා කිසිම දෙයක් අළුතෙන් නොකීම යැයි පැවසෙයි. ඔවුන්ට අනුව මා සැමදාමත් කියන්නේ එකම කරුණ […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
Rear Admiral Dr. Sarath Weerasekera VSV, RWP, USP Courtesy The Island February 14, 2016, 7:48 pm Professor Carlo Fonseka is an intellectual whom I treat with utmost respect. He has earned a reputation for his sharp-edged, often controversial but genuine criticism without fear or favour, towards even his closest friends. That is why it made […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Expressing shocks over the recent developments erupted from the New Delhi based Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus with a section of students indulging in anti-national activities, a forum of patriotic people urged the authority to take stringent actions against the anti-India elements. Regretting that a prestigious institute like JNU has virtually […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER Some words are sweet and some are bitter and some are sugar coated. Every word has its own taste and own flavour; If you feel any difficulty in understanding what are the ‘Sugar Coated’ words, just go through the following few lines. I have copied these lines from Face Book page of the […]
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