Archive for March, 2016
Friday, March 4th, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA The resolution converting Parliament to a Constitutional Assembly states that one of the reasons for a new Constitution is the need for a ‘Constitutional resolution of the National Issue.’[1] To my knowledge no one has defined the ‘National Issue’. But, there seems to be general agreement that it is the claim by certain […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge It did not happen that far back, exactly 131 years ago an entire continent was cut and divided between greedy Western nations without so much as asking the African tribes if they minded. This was their notion of making the black people ‘civilized’. We look back on how Africa’s nations & borders […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න බිංකුන්ඩෝ බොල තෝත් නටාපිය, මාත් නටන්නම් කීවේ එදාය. බිංකුන්ඩෝ ඉන්න වලකට පොඩි ඉරටුවක් දාලා කරකවලා බිංකුන්ඩා එළියට ගෙන ඌව නැටවීම අතීතයේ ඇතැම් ළමුන්ගේ සෙල්ලමකි. බිංකුණ්ඩා අල්ලා ගැනීම ලෙහෙසි වන්නට කූහුඹියෙක් දමන අවස්ථාද විය. වර්තමානයේ වැසිකිලි වලවල් සුද්ධ කරගැනීමට අවශ්යනම්, බතල හෝ මංඤොක්කා සිටුවා ගැනීමට බිම හාරාගැනීමට අවශ්යනම්, පොල් වත්තක පොල් පැල ඉන්දීමට වලවල් […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Dramatic turn of events were exposed in Ceylon Today (3 March) by two young men after giving chase to a black SUV jeep that attempted to escape and run, after hitting two motorcyclists in Welikada, Borella, last Sunday (28), under the headline Eyewitness Reveals Champika in Hit-and Run Drama. The news […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto, Canada International Crisis Group Brussels Attn. Mr. Gareth Evans, President Emeritus, ICG Dear Mr. Gareth Evans, We remember you visiting Sri Lanka to deliver the keynote address at a symposium organized by the Centre for Policy Alternatives, where you threatened Sri Lanka with RTP action when the Sri Lankan Government responded to a […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
BY Cassendra Doole Courtesy Ceylon Today The two eye witnesses who gave chase to Minister Champika Ranawaka following his hit and run case yesterday, filed an affidavit at the Police Headquarters today (4) regarding the accident. Speaking to the media shortly after, one witnesses said that the Minister had fled the scene after hitting the two […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Joint Opposition yesterday said that it wanted the National Police Commission (NPC) to inquire into serious accusations directed against the police in respect of the cover-up of a recent accident in which Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka was allegedly involved in. A senior Joint Opposition spokesperson […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග අප පාසල් ගිය හැත්තෑව දශකයේ බිග් මැච් උමතුව තදින්ම තිබුනේය. වර්ණපුර විසින් වාර්තා බිඳ හෙලමින් ආනන්ද නාලන්ද සුලෝහිත සංග්රාමයේදී ක්රීඩා කල නිසා බොහෝ දෙනෙකු ක්රීඩා තරඟ නැරඹීමට ආහ. මාගේ සොහොයුරන් තිදෙනෙකු ආනන්දයේද එක් අයෙකු රාජකීය විද්යාලයේද ඉගෙනුම ලැබූහ. මේ නිසා බිග් මැච් කාලයට නිවස වලි වලින් පිරී තිබුනේය. බිග් මැච් එකට […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Expressing serious concern over a brutal attack on a Manipuri film-maker by separatist militants, the Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) urged the authority to take serious note of the situation where the banned armed militant outfits continue targeting civilians for not entertaining their extortion notices. According to Imphal based media outlets, […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Keith Bennett Courtesy Thuppai’s Blog Several centuries ago, only footpaths connected Sri Lanka’s villages, so there was a need for wayside shelters where wayfarers could rest on long journeys. The solution was a classic example of indigenous architecture: the ambalama. The last Rest-house [ambalama] on the way to Adam’s Peak” by Prince Waldemar from Early Prints […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Arun Dias Bandaranaike Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog Kishani Jayasinghe is an achiever among achievers. This has reference to the stature she has been able to seek and establish in what is clearly a punishing environment. She demonstrated her talent as singer and actress on stage while yet at Visakha Vidyalaya, a leading school in Colombo. She was […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Arun Dias Bandaranaike … an original essay Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog One month ago, a bit of musical whimsy staged a century ago was extracted and extrapolated upon a set of circumstances, which, in turn, fostered an outpouring of comment and diatribes. This should be a cause for surprise and it certainly was worrying in that this […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
අයේෂ් රණවක ගරු අමාත්යතුමාගේ උපදේශක / මාධ්ය ලේකම් තිස් වසරක් තිස්සේ නොවිසිඳි දිනෙන් දින උග්ර වෙමින් පවතින ඉන්දු ලංකා ධීවර ගැටළුවට විසඳුම් ලබා දීමේදී නව මංපෙත් මෙන්ම ආකල්පමය වෙනසක් ඇති කිරීම සඳහා පියවර ගතයුතු කාලය උදාවී ඇතැයි ධීවර හා ජලජ සම්පත් සංවර්ධන ගරු රාජ්ය අමාත්ය දිලිප් වෙදආරච්චි මැතිතුමා සඳහන් කළේය. අමාත්යතුමා පෙන්වා දුන්නේ විවිධ රජයන්සේම එම […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera Law does not differentiate a Prime Minister or a common man. If any one commits a verbal or physical act which is against the law then he could be arrested and brought, before the law. In law there should be sufficient legally acceptable evidence a probable cause for reasonable suspicion to arrest a […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Dr Ruwan M. Jayatunge I first met Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr. D. V. J Harischandra, in 1998, when he came to deliver a presentation on Euthanasia at the Brown’s Beach Hotel in Negombo that was organized by the Clinical Society of the Negombo Hospital. On that day he gave an outstanding presentation on Euthanasia and Medical Ethics and captured everyone’s attention […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Whenever a majority in any social context flexes muscles minority entities become wary. This is a verifiable fact. Whether or not the muscle-flexing entity is justified in doing so (for example, as response-flex, let’s say) is a different matter. The bottom line is that anxiety levels rise. And it doesn’t have to be […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ඉන්දියාව කියන අලූත් රට” හැදීම නිසා බොහෝ ජාතීන්ට තමන් ගේ රටවල් අහිමි වූ ආකාරය අපි පසුගිය ලිපි දෙකෙන් විමසා බැලූවා. ඒත් දුර ඉඳලා මේ රට” දිහා බලන කෙනෙකුට හිතෙන්න පුළුවන් මේ විදිහට විවිධ ජාතීන් එකලස් කරලා තියෙන්නේ පොදු සංස්කෘතික පදනමක් උඩ නේ ද කියලා. අවුරුදු දහස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ ඉදිරියට වර්ධනය වෙමින් ගලාගෙන ආ […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
By A Special Correspondent Courtesy The Island The Fitch Rating Agency has downgraded Sri Lanka’s international sovereign rating from BB- to B+ and outlook negative. The rating agency concluded that refinancing risks for the maturing debt is on the rise in the wake of weaker government budget and falling foreign exchange reserves .The rating agency also […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Alleged police cover-up of hit-and-run accident: By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Joint Opposition yesterday said that it wanted the National Police Commission (NPC) to inquire into serious accusations directed against the police in respect of the cover-up of a recent accident in which Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka was allegedly involved […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa today said that the present rulers of the country may also be in hot water in future, as it happened to them. The observation was made while responding to the media personnel after arriving at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) this afternoon. I’m not disappointed. It is the nature […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island March 3, 2016, 9:21 pm Lacille de Silva, the ardent campaigner for good governance, did not know what really hit him. On Tuesday he was unceremoniously removed as the secretary to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Kanthar Balanathan, Australia The sovereignty, democracy, national security, reconciliation process are growing to be under threat as a result of significant number of unnecessary, churlish, rash actions by India, the West and the UN. This is not a contention, but looking on a lateral view: political analysts, learned people will agree that foreign sinusoidal seagull […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Shenali D Waduge We should celebrate independence only if we function as an independent nation. There is little point throwing tamashas to celebrate independence if we are taking orders from foreign nations or running to them before making decisions or have to get their nod of approval to run the affairs of the country. We need to […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා පඹගාලක පැටලී සිටියි. එහෙත් ඒ මහතාට තමා එසේ පැටලී සිටින බවවත් අවබෝධ කරගැනීමේ හැකියාවක් නැත. ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතාගේ ඉතා ලිහිල් අදහසක් වූ ජාතික චින්තනය යන්නෙන් ඔබ්බට ගොස් නැති අමරතුංග මහතාට චින්තනය යන සංකල්පය ගැන තබා තෝමස් කූන්ගේ සුසමාදර්ශය (paradigm) ගැනවත් කිසිදු අවබෝධයක් […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Buddhi Meegasdeniya M.Sc. Eng. ( Moscow ) Toronto, Canada. History of Earth The Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago, as a part of the birth of the Solar System. The early Earth was very different from the world known today. There was no water and no oxygen in the atmosphere. Various materials left over from […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
ජේ.සි.අහංගම රනිල් ක්රිකට් ගහන්න තරම් පිළිකන්නේ දැන් ඉඩ මදියි කියනවා. ඇයි, දැන් කුරුඳුවත්තේ ගෙවල් දෙබිච්චි මැදින් යා යුතු කුකුල් කූඩු වගේ නිසායි. කොහේද ධනපති ක්රිකට්, රගර් ගහන්නේ කියලා මෙගා-පොලිස් එක දාපු දාට බලාගන්න පුළුවන්. කොළඹ නගරය හා තදාසන්නය අලි බබා සහ හොරු හතලිහේ ගුහාව වගේ වෙයි. කොළඹ කාක්කන් ඒක වෙනකම් නලියනවා ඇති. ලොකු පලියට පොහොසත් […]
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Neth FM Balumgala video 2016-02-29 galagoda aththe ganasara himi මහ රෝහලින් පිරිත් හඬ ඇසේ – දෙමටගොඩ චමින්දට ඥානසාර හිමිගෙන් සෙත් පිරිත්. වෙඩි වැදී රෝහල් ගත කර සිටින දෙමටගොඩ චමින්ද බැලීමට බොදු බල සේනාවේ ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් කොළඹ ජාතික රෝහලට වැඩම කර තිබෙනවා. බන්ධනාගාර නිලධාරීන්ගේ බාධාකිරීම් හමුවේ උන් වහන්සේ පිරිත් කියමින් පිරිත් නූලක් චමින්දගේ අතේ ගැට […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE “කැකිරිලන්තයේ මීළඟ පුවත්” ශීර්ෂය යටතේ මූණු පොතේ විටින් විට පළ කරන ලද ‘ප්රවෘති’ එකතුවකි මෙලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ “කිරිඇල්ල ගේ දේශපාලන විද්යාව” කෘතිය විශ්ව විද්යාල සඳහා නිර්දේශ වේ උසස් අධ්යාපන ඇමති ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල කැළණි විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ දේශපාලන අංශ ප්රධානියා ට ලියා ඇත්තේ එම අංශයේ ‘තාවකාලික කථිකාචාර්ය’ තනතුරක් ඔහුගේ හිතවතෙකුට ලබා දෙන ලෙසයි. මේ වනාහී […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When you watch the TV or read daily papers, one can note that there is plenty of mu slinging at each other by both government members and joint opposition . Many ministers keep talking about money stashed in Dubai .and the recipients of the barrage react by boasting that government has not […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
ලසන්ත වික්රමසිංහ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය සිංහලේ අවාසනාවන්තම දිනට අදට වසර 201. ක්රි. ව. 1796 දී ඉංග්රීසීහු ලංකාවේ මුහුදුබඩ ප්රදේශවල බලය ලන්දේසීන් වෙතින් ඩැහැ ගත්හ. ඉන් වසර දෙකකට පසුව එවක උඩරට රජු වූ රාජාධි රාජසිංහ රජු මිය ගියේය. ශ්රී වික්රම නරේන්ද්රසිංහ රජු විසින් ආරම්භ කර පැවති සම්ප්රදාය වූයේ සිය ඇවෑමෙන් පසුව බිසවගේ සහෝදරයාට කිරීටය හිමිවිය යුතුය යන්නයි. […]
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