Archive for March, 2016
Sunday, March 13th, 2016
Guwahati: The 45th National Safety Week, observed at Nagaon Paper Mill (NPM), Kagajnagar on 4-11 March witnessed a series of activities including administering of safety pledges, wearing of safety badges by the employees, safety essay writing competitions, display of safety banner & posters with discussions over various industrial safety related issues. The celebration kicked off […]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2016
By Dr. Chandana Jayalath Professionalism, like so many other leader traits, is one that we can easily learn by being aware of our actions and how they make impacts and influences others. What differentiates a true professional from the rest of the pack? Professionals help us learn how to improve for our customers, how to […]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න අසූව දශකයේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ(ජවිපෙ) වර්ධනය වූයේ පවතින සමාජ ක්රමය විසින් බිහිකරන සහ උත්සන්න කරන ලද සමාජ අසාධාරණයට එරෙහිව වේගවත් ප්රකාශනයක් ලෙස එය මතුවූ නිසාය. සාම්ප්රදායික වම අභාවයට යද්දී සහ ජවිපෙ ශක්තිමත් වෙමින් ජාතික ගැටළුව පිළිබඳව පක්ෂය තුළවූ අපැහැදිලි මතවාදයන් අහෝසි කරමින් මතවාදී හා න්යායික ඒකමතියක් ස්ථාපිත කරමින් සිටියදී ජනතා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයක් සඳහා වන […]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න උසස් අධ්යාපන සහ මහාමාර්ග ඇමති ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල මාර්තු 3වැනිදා කියා සිටියේ සරසවියේ කථිකාචාර්ය තනතුරක් එජාපයට වැඩකල අයෙක් වෙනුවෙන් ලබාදෙන ලෙසට කරන ලද ඉල්ලීම ‘යහපාලනය’ කඩාකප්පල් කිරීමක් නොවන බවය. අධ්යාපන ඇමති අකිල කාරියවසම් මාර්තු 5වැනිදා කියා සිටියේ මවට ඒඩ්ස් වෛරසය ශරීර ගතවී ඇත්නම් දරුවා නිදාගන්නේ මවගේ ඇකයේ නිසා දරුවා පරිවාසයට ගතයුතු බවය. විදේශ කටයුතු […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
-තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි- පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයෙකු ලෙස පත්වීම් ලැබූ සරත් ෆොන්සේකා 2016 මාර්තු 10 වන දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිය මංගල කතාව පැවැත්වීය. එහිදී කියැවුනු ප්රධාන කරුණු අතරට, ජාත්යන්තර විනිශ්චයකරුවන් සහිත මානව හිමිකම් කඩවීම් පිලිබඳ විමර්ශනයක් කිරීමට තමා සහය දෙන බවද, 2005 දී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරණය දිනා ගන්නට රු. මිලියන 200 ක් ප්රභාකරන්ට දුන් බවද, ඒ ගැන බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
Dr Sudath Gunasekara SCRAP THE 13TH AMENDMENT and the ProvinciAL COUNCILS AT LEAST NOW AND ARREST VIGNESVARAN AND COMMITTEE FOR VIOLATING THE PROVISIONS OF THE 6TH AMENDMENT AND CHARGE THEM FOR TREASON I REQUEST A;LL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY TO READ THE ARTICLE BY Dr. S. I. Keethaponcala attached. I THANKS Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan profusely for […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Chinese are casino –addicts . Port city to have an area to be given to Chinese for 99 year lease will be a famous haven for Chinese to build what they want ,I am quite sure they will be build mega entertainment centres at their will as it is their land , […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
by Senaka Weeraratna The moral stature of Sri Lanka’s Constitution would be greatly enhanced if it recognizes the claims of other living beings for compassion and appropriate consideration from human beings, and the protection of their legal rights. The philosophy underlying the Constitution must encompass the view that legal rights are not the exclusive preserve of human […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER A few days back someone posted a picture of Lahore on Face-book which showed a very horrible traffic-jam at some road but at the same time almost at the height of 40 feet or more a metro bus was preceding to its destination very peacefully. The caption under the picture was very interesting; […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island Nobody would have been surprised that the Colombo Port City project, on hold for the past several months, is now on the verge of resuming. Trade and Strategic Development Minister Malik Samarawickrema had a strategy for trickling out the information that it was taking off in the short term. Before his recent […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
A source at the White House claims they were ‘f****ed over’ on Libya and Syria Courtesy The Independent David Cameron’s actions over Libya have been condemned by a former Tory chairman as doing an Iraq” while his decisions on both Syria and Libya left the White House feeling f****ed over”, according to revelations made in […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
The US president says the PM’s attention was not held by the conflict for long Courtesy The Independent Barack Obama has accused David Cameron of being distracted” in the aftermath of the invasion of Libya – contributing to the current deadly mess” in the north African country. In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlantic magazine […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
President – Kadanndiah Neelakan www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oy9p3E8svk බොදු බල සේනා, රාවණ බලය වැනි සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංවිධාන තහනම් නොකළොත් මෙරට යළිත් යුද්ධයක් ඇතිවිය හැකි බැවින් වහාම එම සංවිධාන තහනම් කළ යුතු බවට යාපනය කතෝලික පූජකවරුන්ගේ සංගමය” පසුගියදා කළ ප්රකාශය සමස්ථ ලංකා හින්දු සම්මේලනය හෙළා දැක තිබෙනවා. Colombotoday සමග අදහස් දක්වමින් හින්දු සම්මේලනයේ සභාපති එන් අරුන්කාන්තන් මහතා සදහන් කළේ […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
By Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy Sinhalanet According to recent news reports, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka addressing the workshop on ‘non-tariff measures increasing awareness on Indian standards and regulations under Indo – Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement ISFTA’, has criticized the Joint Opposition for their opposition to the proposed ETCA. He has also stated former […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
Is Singapore so successful……………… Is Modi such a down-to-earth leader…………….. A no nonsense meritocracy with absence of flatulent pomposity! Greatness of Singapore – Instead of a huge wastage in a State Dinner, S’Pore PM hosts PM Modi in Komala Vilas, a popular eatery in S’pore – a couple of ulundu vadays and chutney served on […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I see these type of statements issued by both JVP and Opposition, Government also keep talking about loans taken by the state and inability to pay back 29 Billion Us Dollars by 2019 Who are we to believe? Can the state organize a Interparty conference like the Sangha Conference proposed by the […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Robert Jackson, Chief US prosecutor & former US Attorney General said that the Nuremberg Trials were a continuation of the war effort of the Allied nations” how true is the same when the effort to separate Sri Lanka seems very much the goal now taking place through a new constitution for Sri […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Prior to January 2015 the propaganda was directed at ‘white van kidnappings’ but names of the kidnapped kept conveniently omitted. Fear psychosis propaganda sufficed. Lack of a police commission became the reason for all ills. Now even after the establishment of a police commission the citizens of Sri Lanka are awestruck by […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
By Senaka Weeraratna In calling for accountability for alleged war crimes on the part of Sri Lankan military personnel in the closing phase of operations against LTTE terrorism which were combined with humanitarian rescue of thousands of civilians trapped in LTTE controlled areas, India has opened a Pandora’ s Box. It is unlikely that any […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
රත්තනදෙණියේ මේධානන්ද හිමි යුතුකම සංවාද කවය සරත් ෆොන්සේකා පිලිබඳ මා තුල අද වෙනතෙක් කිසියම් ගෞරවයක් තිබුණි. යුධ හමුදාපතිව සිට තීරණාත්මක කාර්යභාරයක් කළ ඔහු කවර තත්වයක් යටතේ වුවද සිරගත කිරීම පවා මා අනුමත කලේ නැත. එය පැහැදිලිවම දේශපාලන පලිගැනීමක් බව මා තුළ පැවති විශ්වාසයයි. එහෙත් ඔහු අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කළ කතාව ඇසූ විට මේ ෆොන්සේකා ගැන ඇති වුයේ […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් එක්දහස් නවසිය අසූහත වර්ෂයේ ජූලි 29 දිනය ලංකාවට අඳුරු දිනයක් විය. ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අතර ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කලේ එදිනය. ගිවිසුමේ වගන්ති ප්රකාරව ලංකාවේ හමුදා බැරැක්කවලට සීමා කෙරිණ. පොලිසියේ සිවිල් රාජකාරි පවා ඉන්දියානු සාම සාධක හමුදා අතට පත් විය.සුප්රකට වඩමාරච්ච මෙහෙයුමේදී පහසුවෙන් එල්.ටී.ටීඊ. සංවිධානය පරාජය කල හැකිව තිබියදී ඉන්දිය රජය මැදිහත් වීමෙන් ගුවනින් ආහාර […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna In this remarkable series of photos captured with a high tech camera by Dr. Schwarz – Homburg accompanied by his wife (both from Germany) the serene scene within and the natural landscape that surrounded the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya in 1980 is vividly seen. Dr. Schwarz – Homburg and his wife visited Mitirigala Nissarana […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මුල් පත්වීම ගෙන ස්ථාන භාර වෛද්ය නිලධාරී ලෙස කොලොන්ගොඩ ග්රාමීය රෝහලට පැමිණි මා හට විශාල දුෂ්කරතා වලට මුහුණ දීමට සිදු විය. කොලොන්ගොඩ යනු මිනිපේ දිස්ත්රික්කයේ තිබූ නොදියුණු ගමකි. රෝහල ගරා වැටී තිබේ. දුරකථන පහසුකම් නැත. පිරිසිදු වතුර නැත. බෙහෙත් හිඟය. හරි හමන් කඩයක් හෝටලයක් නැත. පාරවල් චන්ද්රයාගේ ආවාට වැනිය. මගේ […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. The President unveiled a three-year program put forward by the agriculture minister, promising a toxin free nation” based on ”wholesome agriculture”. The minsters as well as Ven. Ratana are acting with what they believe are the best interests of the people. That modern agriculture” is responsible for an alleged deterioration […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera Ranil Wickramasinghe miserably failed as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka under President Chandrika Kumaratunga during 2002-2004, handing over parts of the North to terrorists under a CFA which he had himself not understood. He showed his characteristic penchant to act if Sri Lanka is his heritage, and that he takes orders from […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
By Afshain Afzal New Delhi behaved courteously by merely confining to refusal of Indian visa to the members of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). In the same regard, Indian Foreign Office has played diplomatically and did not offend Washington for its misdeed as New Delhi could have announced sending reciprocal fact-finding team […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera By Ishara Gamage Ceylon Finance Today: Sri Lanka will move forward with Chinese funded projects without any hassle, Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama said yesterday (9th). Amidst fear generated after the speech by the Prime Minister to tighten our belts as they intent to increase VAT, impose capital gain […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeyseketa ETCA is generating fear psychosis among Sri Lankans, elite unions like GMOA ,FUTA etc. (Only FARMERS UNION is not complaining of Indians coming to Sri Lanka to take over their 2G” sting uniformed trade ) .We will not be surprised that someone will raise the fear that farming trade may also be […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Whether one likes or not, personal experiences of many people with the spirits account for its existence. Buddhists believe that once a person dies, the creature’s jiva (‘living essence’ or the ‘soul’) wanders about for three months in a limbo situation before it enters into another life in the process […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් මහතා හට ද්විත්ව පුරවැසි භාවය සදහා අයදුම් කිරීමට ඇති අවස්ථාව හිමිකර දීමට රජය වහා කටයුතු කළ යුතු බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ නායකයෙකු වන කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් මහතා මේ වන විට දින 100 කට වැඩි […]
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