Archive for June, 2016
Monday, June 20th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna Dharma Voices for Animals If a lawyer is unable to extend justice to animals who are eternally seeking freedom and liberty from the inhumanity and injustice of humans then the legal training of such a lawyer in a holistic sense is not worth a tuppence. If we cannot see the injustice committed on animals […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Nature’s Beckon and Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) have expressed utter dismay at the poaching of another one-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in a fortnight, and demanded stringent actions against the culprits. Both the organizations opined that the killing of seventh rhino till date this year at the most protected forest […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
සාකච්ඡා කළේ ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න ඉරිදා දිවයින * දෙමළ අය ඉල්ලපු විස`දුම දීලා ඉවරයි * මෛත්රී ඉන්න ඕනෑ තමන්ට ගැලපෙන අය එක්ක * දැන් ප්රශ්න ඇතිකරන්නේ බෞද්ධයන්ට… රට දියුණු කරන්නට නම් රටේ ජනතාව ආරක්ෂා කරන්නට නම් ආර්ථික හා සමාජීය ප්රශ්නවලින් මෙන්ම විවිධාකාරවූ ජාත්යන්තර බලපෑම්වලින් රට බේරා ගන්නට නම් මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා වහාම […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
www.lankanewsweb.today මලයාසියාවේ සිට ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට ෆේස්බුක් සමාජ ජාල වෙබ් අඩවියෙන් මරණ තර්ජනය කළ සුමල් ලක්මන නම් තරුණයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිවැරදි තොරතුරු මේ දක්වා අනාවරණය නොවු අතර සුමල් ලක්මන මානව හිමිකමි කොමිසම හමුවට පැමිණිමෙන් පසුව සත්ය අනාවරණය වි තිබේ.ඒ අනුව මෛත්රීට,රනිල්ට කඩේ යන රහස් පොලීසිය කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණයේදී ගිහාන් පිලපිටිය ඉදිරිපිට නිරැවත් වි තිබේ. […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Almost 18 months since the new regime came to power ,and both UNLP’ers .SLFP ,JVP and JOC all in similar frequency Vis a vis failures of development drive and the management of the proposed development gaols and plans .None of them are talking good about the progress and yet expect something to […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනගහණයෙන් තුනෙන් එකක් පමණ වාර්ෂිකව ලොතරැයි සමඟ ගණුදෙණු කරති. දෛනිකව අළෙවිවන ලොතැරැයි සංඛ්යාව ලක්ෂ 25කට ආසන්නය. රටේ විවිධ ප්රදේශවල ලොතරැයි අළෙවිකරුවන් රැසක් සෑම ගම් දනව්වක පවා නෙත ගැටේ. ඉපැරණි ලොතරැයි පත් දෙකක්ද මෙහි දැක්වෙන අතර 1967 ලොතරැයි පතක මිල ශත 50කි. 1968 ජාතික සම්පත ලොතරැයියක මිල රුපියල් 2කි. වර්තමානයේ සාමාන්ය ලොතරැයියක […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
KAMALIKA PIERIS The ‘American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ originated in 1810 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Several different churches such as the Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed Church participated in it. The Board was in touch with the British missionary societies too. By the 1830s is had developed into a huge organization with many branches […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Dr Sarth Obeysekera Let us start with power failures lasted for few days inconveniencing not only the public but all manufacturing processes which are the life line of an economy . Chairman CEB made a bold statement that he shall resign and qualified his promise by adding that he will do so after restoration of […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
lanka C news විරවංශ මහතාගේ අත්සනින් යුතුව නිකුත් කර ඇති සම්පුර්ණ නිවේදනය මෙසේය. අසත්ය චෝදනා ඉදිරිපත් කොට උදය ගම්මන්පිල සිරගත කිරීම තරයේ හෙළා දකිනවා… පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා අසත්ය පැමිණිල්ලක් පදනම්කොට ගෙන අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන සිරගත කිරීම, ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ තරයේ හෙළා දකින්නෙමු. එක් අතකින් රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව බිඳ වට්ටවා […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Dr U.Pethiyagoda.Courtesy The Island June 19, 2016, 9:21 pm Friends have wondered about my uncharacteristic interest in the claim made as far back as February 10, 2009 (yes, seven and more long years ago) that waste plastics, principally low gauge shopping bags (sili sili bags) could be economically converted to a diesel-type product. It is […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Anti-Corruption Front (ACF) කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා විසින් අද දහවල් කොළඹ අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ දී මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් එම ධුරයේ කටයුතු කිරීම වලක්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා රිට් ආඥාවක් සදහා වන පෙත්සමක් ගොනු කරනු ලැබීය. Anti-Corruption Front (ACF) and CaFFE filed a petition to prevent Arjuna Mahendran from holding post of governor of Central […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Dilrook Kannangara Current regime has turned Sri Lanka into a complete dictatorship. Only those who agree with it can survive doing politics. All others are hunted down, imprisoned, harassed and even threatened. Even the formal Opposition is handpicked by it. TNA and JVP that make up the formal opposition supported Sirisena at the presidential election. […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Sudath Gunasekara 19. 6. 2016. Stop playing same old tunes, Ranil tells media assist in achieving reconciliation, peace, development Ranil Wickramasingha) Island June 18, 2016, 8:23 pm http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=147171 Isn’t this a fatal threat and an open intimidation to the media by the de facto Head of the State to the media? This threat also has to be […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Courtesy The Island Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday said that the government found itself in the current predicament owing to its irresponsible action. Prof. Peiris said: “They have solemnly committed themselves to binding agreements at the Human Rights Council in Geneva without giving any thought to the consequences. The sequence of […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ඇමතිවරුන්ගේ සැප වාහන කතාව තවමත් අවසන්ව ඇති බවක් නොපෙනේ. තමාගේ මැතිවරණ බල ප්රදේශය ඉතා දුර බැහැර නිසා තමාට හොඳ වාහනයක් අවශ්ය බව ඇමති විජිත් විජිතමුනි සොයිසා පවසයි. මේ පිලිබඳව හුවමාරු වන විවිධ අදහස් අතර ඇමති රාජිත සේනාරත්න දක්වන අදහස්වලට හිනා වෙන්නද, අඬන්නද කියා ජනතාවට සිතා ගනු නොහැකි බව සිකුරුය. ‘ සමහරු යුරෝපයේ ඇමතිවරු […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Sign this petition Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan GMOA https://www.change.org/p/his-excellency-the-president-maithripala-sirisena-democratic-socialist-republic-of-sri-lanka-develop-a-national-policy-for-international-trade-agreements-prior-to-signing-any-international-trade-agreement/u/16970546
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න චරිත ස්වභාවය අනුව මගේ දරුවන් වර්ග කරනවිට මම මොලින්ම හඳුන්වා දුන්නේ තද හිත් ඇති,එතරම් නම්යශීලී නැති එහෙත් ලෞකික ශිල්ප ශාස්ත්රවලට දක්ෂ මට බෙහෙවින් ආදරේ කල ” යක්ෂයින්”’ වැනි කොටසය .අනෙක් අ යට වඩා බුදු දහමට අනුගත වීමට මොවුන්ට බොහෝ කල් ගතවුවත් එසේ බෞද්ධ වූ අ ය අතර ඉතා විශිෂ්ට ලෙස මනස දියුණු කරගත් […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Justice is not only be done it must seem to be done Citizen is expected to be given their cherished Nation to the hands of honest leaders of integrity on trust for a limited period to administer the Nation on trust as Temporary Trustees”. Some trustees […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
KAMALIKA PIERIS From very early on, the word ‘Sihala’ was used to describe the island, its people and its language. Historian G.C .Mendis suggested in 1948 that ‘Simhala’ was the name applied to the island by the people of India and it was the island which gave its name to the people and the language. […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER Who was Major Ali Jawad Changaizi the officer of Pakistan Army who sacrificed his life at Pak-Afghan Torkham border a few days back; a very few people know. He was the son of Brigadier Khadim Hussain Changaizi, the first Commissioner for Afghan Refugees in 90s in Balochistan. Before becoming president, Hamid Karzai also […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
ACF press release A number of senior officials are attempting to repeal a tender given by Litro Gas Lanka Limited to import LP gas to Sri Lanka, Anti Corruption Front (ACF) states. ACF Adviser Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon says that the Chairman and a few members of the Director Board of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation, that […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
lanka C news ඊයේ පස්වරු අගමැතිවරයා සහ පුරවැසියබලය ඇතුළු සිවිල් සංවිධාන සමඟ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී මෙසේ සඳහන් කල බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. ඉහල දමන ලද වැට් බදු සංශෝධනය, දුෂිතයින්ට දඬුවම් දීම වැනි කරුණු ගැනත් එහිදී සාකච්චා වූ බවද ඔහු සඳහන් කලේය. මේ අතර මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා මෙම තිරණය විරෝධය පල කරමින් සිංගප්පුරුව බලා පිටත්ව යාමට සූදානම් […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island June 18, 2016, 8:08 pm The name in the title notwithstanding, this article is not so much about an individual as it is about the politics and propriety of public institutions and the promise of good governance. The controversy over re-appointing the current governor of the Central Bank to a […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Courtesy adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa attributes his defeat at the 2015 election to resentment against him from Muslims, Sri Lankan and Indian Tamils, and to the Sinhalese harboring unrealistic expectations who took what he delivered for granted. The Kurunegala District MP also says that he will cut his own throat if evidence is found […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
By The Nation It is perfectly normal for ordinary people to defend their friends irrespective of whether they are right or wrong. But can the leaders of a country afford to do so? This is the question that often comes to one’s mind whenever top ministers of the government show that they are ready to […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had agreed not to re-appoint Arjuna Mahendran as the Governor of the Central Bank until the investigation launched by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) against him concluded. The Convener of Puravasi Balaya, Saman Ratnapriya said the decision was made during the meeting held yesterday between the […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Understanding the endless difficulties and financial limitations faced by the media persons, voices have been raised for a group life & health insurance coverage for the media employees including working & freelance journalists engaged with various media outlets of the city. The members of Guwahati Press Club emphasize on a participatory […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය එල් පී ගෑස් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආනයනය කිරිම සදහා ලිට්රෝ ගෑස් සමාගම විසින් ලබාදුන් ටෙන්ඩරය අහෝසි කිරීම සදහා ‘ශ්රී ලංකා රක්ෂණ සංස්ථාවේ‘ සභාපති සහ අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු සැලසුම් සහගත කුමන්ත්රණයක නිරතව ඇතැයි දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණු එහි උපදේශක කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ගේ අත්සනින් නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනයකින් දැක්වේ. 2016 මැයි 27 වන […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island June 16, 2016, 9:28 pm The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform headed by its Chairman Lal Wijenayake has recommended retaining the Province as the unit of Devolution. The Commission proposes 6 “alternate formulations” based on the Province as the peripheral unit. These formulations vary from retaining the existing 9 […]
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Saturday, June 18th, 2016
Ramanie de Zoysa The so-called ‘yahapalanaya’ government appointed a Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform (PRCCR”) in January this year with the mandate of researching public opinion in Sri Lanka on constitutional reform and to prepare a report and recommendations that can be pushed through the parliament and the constitution changed. The move was entirely […]
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