Archive for June, 2016
Friday, June 10th, 2016
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Combatants Affected by the Prolonged War The 30 year armed conflict in Sri Lanka has produced a new generation of veterans at risk for the chronic mental health problems that resulted following prolonged exposure to the war. Over 200,000 members of the Sri Lanka armed forces and police had been […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island June 10, 2016, 9:11 pm The government is cock-a-hoop about defeating Thursday’s no-faith motion against Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. It mustered 145 votes against the motion while the proponents thereof had to settle for only 51. Twenty eight MPs were absent including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The government’s jubilation is understandable. It […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Issued by Nava Thakuria, secretary, Guwahati Press Club Guwahati, 10 June: Journalist Nand Kishor Gupta, who died yesterday in Mumbai, was flown to the city today and paid last respect by the members of Guwahati Press Club before his creation. Gupta, 46, breathed his last at Mumbai airport around 3.10 pm on Thursday on his […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Ruwan Laknath Jayakody Courtesy The Nation The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has charged that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and its Governor, Arjuna Mahendran were refusing to provide information pertaining to all Treasury Bond issues from 2015, concerning which a special investigation is being conducted. Chairman of the COPE, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Courtesy The Nation The economic academia explained that the individual holding the post of the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) should not hold dual citizenship status and should not have conflicts of interest. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Art of the University of Colombo, Dr. […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Editorial By The Nation Supplementary estimates presented in parliament to buy expensive duty free vehicles for ministers and state ministers amidst hardships caused to people by floods and the explosion in the Army’s central armoury sparked a lot of public antipathy and generated much public discussion on the subject. Despite public criticism most parliamentarians, irrespective […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Courtesy The Island Professor Sarath Wijesuriya took over the mantle of Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera as the head of the Movement for a Just Society after the latter’s demise. In this interview, he speaks to C. A. Chandraprema about their campaign to have the corruption allegations against members of the previous government investigated. Q. You […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
වෛද්ය කේ.එම්. වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින 10/06/2016 මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා බලයෙන් පහ කිරීමට මුල් වූ ඉන්දියානු සහ ඇමෙරිකානු ඔත්තු සේවා ඒකාබද්ධව සකස් කළ ඉදිරි මාර්ග සිතියම ඔස්සේ වර්තමාන යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව කිසිදු ඇද කුදයකින් තොරව ඉදිරියට ගමන් කරමින් සිටින බව දැන් ඉතා පැහැදිලිව පෙනේ. එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී ශ්රී ලංකාව විසින් අත් ඔසවා පිළිගත් යෝජනාවට […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න කොළඹ සිට කිලෝමීටර් 46ක දුරින් කොස්ගම පිහිටා ඇත. එදා කොස්ගම ජනප්රිය වූයේ සිබිල් වෙත්තසිංහ නැන්දාගේ කුඩ හොරා කථාවේ කිරිමාමා චරිතය නිසාය. පසු කලෙක ආසියාවේ විශාලතම තුනී ලෑලි සංස්ථාව කොස්ගම සාලාවේදී පිහිටුවිය. සිංහරාජය වනයෙන් 1970 සිට 1975 දක්වා කපන ලද ගස් ඉරීම සඳහා ගෙන ආවේද සාලාවේ එම කම්හලටය. පරිසරවේදීන්ගේ දැවැන්ත විරෝධයෙන් සිංහරාජ ගස් කැපීම […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Some events cannot be taken as coincidental especially when it comes from party’s and individuals that previously sneered at the military. Coming into power are people who laughed at the military advances (going to Pamankade and not Alimankade), diminished victories (Thoppigala is just a jungle) and ridiculed the army commander as being […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air” When Thomas Grey penned the above mentioned four lines, perhaps he would never have imagined in his wildest […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති සමහර විට මේ ලිපි පෙළ කියවන අයට හිතෙනවා ඇති තමන් කියවන්නේ අගක් මුලක් නැති අදහස් සමුදායක් කියලා. මේ ගමන පටන්ගත්තේ ඉන්දියාව කියන්නේ අලුත් රටක් කියලා. ඇත්තෙන් ම ඒ කතාව කියන්න සිද්දවුනේ ඉන්දියාව කියන රටේ” අපේ නෑදෑයින් හොයන්න බැරිවීමේ අත්දැකීම බෙදාගන්න ගිහිල්ලා. ඊට පස්සේ ලිපි කිහිපයකින් ම පෙන්නලා දුන්නා ගස්නියේ මොහොමඩ්, දිල්ලි සුල්තාන්, මූගල් […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 2016 ලෝක සෞඛ්ය සංවිධානය විසින් නිකුත් කළ නවතම වාර්තාවක දැක්වෙන පරිදි ලොව සියදිවි නසා ගැනීම් වැඩිවශයෙන් සිදුවන රටවල් අතරින් ශ්රී ලංකාව සිව්වැනි ස්ථානයට පත්ව ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනගහනයෙන් ලක්ෂයකට 28.8 දෙනකු දිවි නසා ගනිති. දිවි තොර කර ගන්නාවූ බහුතරය, වයස 15-44 අතර පුද්ගලයන් ය.(ලංකාව නිදහස ලබා ගත් වසර වන 1948 දී […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
අනුර සෙනවිරත්න සොබා දහමේ විවිදත්වය අනුව ලොව රට ජාතීන් ලෙසට උත්පාදනයවී ඈත. හෑම ජාතියකට රටක් උරුමවී ඈත. මේ අනුව සින්හෙල ජාතියෙ රට ලන්කාව යන පටබෑදි නමින් හැදින්වේ. කාලාන්තරයක් තිස්සේ සින්හෙල ජාතික රටේ පදින්චිකාර ජන වරිගයන්ට ඔවුන්ගේ ජාතික රටවල පමනක් ඈති විජාතික ඈයිතීන් අප රටේද දීම නිසා අද රටතුල විජාතික ආක්රමනය පටන්ගෙන ඈත. රට ජාතිය සොබාවේ […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි සාලාවේ හමුදා කදවුර, දවා අළු කර හමාරය. ගිනි දළු බුර බුරා අහසට නැගෙන විට, කදවුර අවට ගම්වාසීන්ව එකාවන්ව සංවිධානය කර විනාශයෙන් එහාට මෙහෙයවන බලවේගයක් නිර්මාණය විය. ඒ බලවේගය, කදවුරු රැකවලුන් හැර කිසිදු ගම්වාසියෙක් බිල්ලට ගත්තේ නැත. මුළු ජීවිත කාලය පුරාම හරි හම්බකර ගොඩනගා ගත් සියළුම දේපල දැවී අළුවී ගොස් හෝ කැඩී බිදී […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Nava Thakuria Guwahati: The city based senior journalist Nand Kishor Gupta (46) breathed his last at Mumbai airport on 9 June 2016 afternoon on his return journey to Guwahati. Gupta left for Mumbai on 3 June for treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital. An active member of Guwahati Press Club, Gupta was suffering from gallbladder cancer […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Vajiragnana Mark my words your President will be proposed this year for this title! The MIRACLE he performed in this tiny island has flabbergasted all powerful World leaders to invite this humble Royalist from the village to the G7 meeting as a preamble to what is planned ahead so his tomfoolery countrymen to have their […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I read the article about the regulations stipulating the requirement of cabinet approval for every project, which necessarily means that government cannot invoke appropriation bill to nullify the cabinet approvals granted after following all the relevant procedure . And yet government can cancel the approvals granted . Subject minister gets the cabinet […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I wrote several articles with suggestions that Your Excellency should take the stick on to your hand and become a benevolent dictator ( or even pretend to be one as your character is not of such nature ) and impose law and order . Ministers are abusing the power, wasting public money, […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Source: AAP Around 65,000 people went missing during Sri Lanka’s civil war and a separate Marxist rebellion, Colombo has admitted for the first time Sri Lanka has acknowledged for the first time that some 65,000 people are missing from its 26-year-long war with Tamil Tiger rebels and a separate Marxist insurrection. President Maithripala Sirisena’s coalition […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera There were so many players that barred Sri Lanka’s rapid growth into a rich peaceful Nation. The Tamil Community of Sri Lanka except for occasional patriots who came out of that community, was the major obstruction on the way to unity and development of Sri Lanka. They remained a Community apart waiting to […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
KAMALIKA PIERIS The 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution owes its existence to the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. Under the Accord the government of Sri Lanka had, inter alia, to devolve political powers to the provinces. If the Accord was not signed India would intervene militarily. President J.R. Jayewardene was in no position to oppose. […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
The Island Editorial June 8, 2016, 7:42 pm No sooner had the exploding ordnance stopped raining on Kosgama and adjoining townships than the government chose to shower expensive gifts on its parliamentarians. People crying out for relief must have expected Parliament to get cracking to help them. Instead, a supplementary estimate to the tune of […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්ය ලේකම්, ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. සාම්පූර් නාවික හමුදා කඳවුරේ ප්රධාන නිලධාරියාට නැගෙනහිර මහ ඇමතිවරයා විසින් බැණ වදින අවස්ථාව වන විට නැගෙනහිර නාවික ආඥාපති ධුරය දැරුවේ රියර් අද්මිරාල් නීල් රොසයිරෝ. ඔහු බර්ගර් ජාතිකයකු වුවත් නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ සිංහල, දෙමළ […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Nihal Perera Toronto, Canada After reading the following article that appeared at Colombo Page, I was, (as many other fair-minded Sri Lankans would be..) furious the way how our politicians are milking the country and its tax payers money – or in this case perhaps burrowed money from IMF – to serve themselves, with some luxury vehicles worth […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Attached paper is a secret letter written by Anagarika Dharmapala regarding floods in October 1906 to the Chief Secretary under British rule ,who has put a note saying that the way I see it that these helpless villages have been enjoying the river floods !! (See the note below the article …) […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that several incidents since January last year have had the effect of seriously undermining the self esteem and morale of the armed forces to an extent unseen even during the years of the 2002 ceasefire. Any inquiry into the causes of the Kosgama disaster should also look into […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Paul Fernando Colombo 07 Courtesy The Island June 7, 2016, 7:45 pm Some days ago the Ministry of Finance (MoF) published advertisements in some English dailies trumpeting the achievements of the Yahapalanaya government relating to prices. Closer examination of these numbers shows that they need to be taken with a large pinch of salt. As students, we […]
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