Archive for March, 2016
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
By Rohana R. Wasala Untouchable Woman’s Odyssey (‘2014, Nalanda Publishing Canada. ISBN 978-0-9867198-0-6.), a novel by Suwanda H.J. Sugunasiri, a Canadian of Sri Lankan origin, is a story set against the socio-political background of southern Sri Lanka. The novel was first published in 2010. It covers an eventful period in the island nation’s recent history from […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
RANJITH SOYSA I refer to the reply of Prof Carlo Fonseka on his view regarding the singing of the national anthem in Tamil. it is indeed interesting note that he has hardly hanged his position from peaceful, negotiated settlement he professed sometime ago with the LTTE even though he told me – trust he can […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he takes pride in the fact that he built the strongest SLFP government” in the party’s history during his tenure in power. That government was so strong that it could be defeated only by conspiratorially creating divisions in the party and a section of the SLFP joining the […]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Sri Lanka News The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA) says it had no intention of gaining political mileage by revealing a letter released by the Higher Education Minister of allegedly attempting to influence his way to get an individual appointed to the University of Kelaniya. The Federation of University Teachers’ Association further says that under […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Insight By Sunil Kumar March 1st, 2016 Considering the latst US move to coerce Sri Lanka into its Indo-Pacific Economic Corridor (IPEC) program it appears as though it may not be beneficial to Sri Lankla from many perspectives. Apparently there are sources in powerful places internationally with intentions to put pressure on Colombo to accept […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Malinda Seneviratne Six years ago, I wrote about Prageeth Ekneligoda in the state-owned ‘Daily News’. This around the time he was picked up as the poster-boy of NGO racketeers strutting around as champions of human rights. Ekneligoda, as someone recently observed, was no journalist. He drew some cartoons and they were nice, but there was […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
To all concerned with this country – By Dr Sudath Gunasekara a seriously concerned citizen of Sri Lanka I wants all those who are concerned with his country to read very carefully the following news item and find out the answer to as to who govern this country today whether it is USA,UK or India?. Shame with […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 29 February 2016 Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s Office No.58, Sir Ernest De Silva Mawatha Colombo 7, Sri Lanka. Honourable Gentlemen: I […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Leave if you want, MP Dullas Alahapperuma urges Chandrika Kumaratunga. ශ්රීලනිපයේ තීන්දු ගන්නේ චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනය නම් තමාට එහි සාමාජිකත්වය ගැන නැවත සිතන්නට සිදුවන බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතා පවසයි.
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Courtesy The Nation The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) informed that farmers island-wide rejected President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to set the maximum retail price of a 50 kilograms bag of fertilizer at Rs 2,500. JVP North Western Provincial Councilor and the National Organizer of the All Ceylon Peasants Federation, Namal Karunaratne said that this would mean […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග උසස් පෙළ ජීව විද්යා දහරට සුදුසුකම් ලබන සිසු සිසුවියන් සමහරක් උසස් පෙළදී ගෙම්බන් කැපීමට සිදුවන නිසා ජීව විද්යා දහර අත් හරිති. උසස් පෙළ ජීව විද්යා දහරට සුදුසුකම් ලැබූ මා හට එවැනි ගැටළුවක් නොවීය. අපගේ උසස් පෙළ සත්ව විද්යා ගුරුවරු වූ ගාමිනී කුලවංශ මයා සහ වික්රමනායක මහතා (මම වරක් සත්ව විද්යා පන්තියේදී […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today The Head of the State and his Foreign Minister seem to stand poles apart when it comes to getting foreign expertise in the process of investigating war crime allegations. This was evident when Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera clearly stated Sri Lanka is open to international actors in the war crimes probe […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා x ඇතැමුන් කියන්නේ උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල ඇති ප්රශ්නයට හේතුව දෙමළ ජනයාට සිදු වී තිබෙන අසාධාරණය බවයි. එය සැබෑවක් නොවේද ? මේ අසාධාරණකම් මොනවා දැ යි ඔබට කිව හැකි ද ? x සිංහල භාෂාව රාජ්ය භාෂාව කිරීම, ප්රමිතිකරණය, ජනපදකරණය ආදිය. මේ සියල්ල සිදු වූයේ 1950 ට පසුවයි. එහෙත් වවුනියාවේ හිටපු […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE They say that if you give some people enough rope they will hang themselves with it. On March 19, 2012, in Geneva, no one needed give any rope to several individuals who came to talk about ‘Rule of law and human rights violations in Sri Lanka’. They came with enough rope and […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති මේ ලිපි පෙළ නම් කරලා තියෙන්නේ පෙරදිගට ගමනක්” කියලා. හැබැයි මේ කියන්නේ මගේ පුද්ගලික අත්දැකීම් ගැන විතරක් නම් නෙවෙයි. මේ ගමනට මාව යොමුකරපු හේතු ගණනාවක් තියෙනවා. ඒවා මට විතරක් සීමාවෙච්ච පුද්ගලික හේතු කියලා මම හිතන්නේ නෑ. අපේ දැනුමෙන් සෑහෙන ප්රමාණයක් අපි උකහාගන්නේ, වඩාගන්නේ සමාජය ඇසුරෙන්. මේ ගමනට මම යොමුවුනේ මේ විදිහට සමාජයෙන් ලබාගත් […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති මේ ලිපි පෙළේ පළමු ලිපියෙන් කියපු විදිහට ඉන්දියාව කියන්නේ අලූත් රටක්. මේ රට හදන්න පදනම දැම්මේ මීට අවුරුදු 157 කට කලින් – ඒ කියන්නේ 1858 දී. ඒ, එංගලන්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ගවර්මන්ට් ඔෆ් ඉන්දියා ඇක්ට් – 1858” කියන පනත සම්මතකිරීමෙන්. ඊට පස්සේ මේ විදිහට එකලස්කරපු ඉන්දියාව” අවුරුදු 89 ක් පවත්වාගෙන ගියේ ”බි්රටිෂ් රාජ්” පාලනය යටතේ. […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
National Trade Union Center වර්තමාන අධ්යාපන ඇමති අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා විසින් තම දේශපාලන උවමනාවන් මත සිදු කරන ලද පත්වීම් ලබාදීමට එරෙහිව ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය මගින් දූෂණ මර්ධන ලේකම් කාර්යාලයට පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරිණි. දිවයින පුරා 2000 කට ආසන්න පිරිසක් මෙලෙස අධ්යාපන ඇමතිවරයා විසින් පත්වීම් ලබාදී ඇති බව මෙහිදී එම සංගමයේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් මහින්ද ජයසිංහ […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA A Constitution is not a wish-list of everyone’s favorite goodies. It is the Supreme Law of the Land, and the framework around which all other laws are to operate. So, the most important thing to consider when generating a new Constitution is the underlying principles that are to animate it. Unfortunately, there is […]
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