Archive for July, 2016
Monday, July 25th, 2016
දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ මුදල් අමාත්යාංශය මගින් නිකුත් කරනු ලැබූ ‘වසර මැද රාජ්ය මුල්ය තත්ව වාර්තාව – 2016‘ ට අනුව වසරේ මුල් මාස 4 තුල ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලය පසුගිය වසරට සාපේක්ෂව රුපියල් මිලියන 5,781 ක මෙහෙයුම් අළාභයක් ලබා ඇතැයි ‘දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණේ‘ උපදේශක කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා බවසයි. 2015 වසරේ දී කිලෝවෝට් පැය එකක විදුලි බලයක් උද්පාදනය […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Colombo, 24 August, (Asiantribune.com): Oddly enough Chandrika Kumaratunga told the media how good she was as president after meeting two Tamil MPs Mano Ganeshan and TNA MP Suresh Premachandran at her residence yesterday. (File Photo) After UNICEF kicked out the former President Chandrika Kumaratunga when accusations of her past political crimes were exposed by her […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
By F. William Engdahl Global Research, July 10, 2016The original source of this article is New Eastern Outlook Buried amid tens of thousands of pages of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s secret emails, now being made public by the US Government, is a devastating email exchange between Clinton and her confidential adviser, Sid Blumenthal. […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Sarath Obeysekera Photograph above shows three garbage bins kept in the car porch in front of a house in London .If the occupants place wet food left overs in blue or green bin other than in the gray bin,collectors will not touch it . People pay more than 2500 Rs per month for collection of […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Dr Lionel Bopage This is to introduce a song I recorded this month. It is based on a poem දහසක් බිළිඳුන්නේ ගිනි සාගිනි (Hunger and suffering of thousands of children) that I wrote in December 1983. Its genesis relates to the period when I was held in detention along with about 20 others, on the […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Dr Hector Perera London My energy saving cooking technique was not discovered yesterday. This was discovered when I was cooking in a single room accommodation in England. Back home in Sri Lanka as well I cooked some food with my friends who studied with me at Advanced level science at a private college. That time […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
by Senaka Weeraratna Courtesy vijayvaani.com The Indian general election scheduled for May 2014 would, if the forecasts are proved to be correct, result in a sea change in India’s relationship with the rest of the world as well as a revolutionary transformation of her economy, industry and education if the changes introduced in Gujarat by Chief Minister […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, The anti mosquito campaign is a failure is a foregone conclusion, proved not only by the ever increasing number of cases of Dengue in spite of millions being spent on this program by the government but also by the way the government officials go about taking action in fits and starts. Once in a blue […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
by Professor A.D.T.E. Perera A new light on ancient Middle East religio-politics through literary and archaeological evidence Launch of the Sinhala Translation of the Book ‘ Buddhism in Ancient Arabia and Israel’ on April 10, 2016 The Buddha Statue in Khurul Monastery in southern Russia. Professor A.D.T.E. Perera (Formerly, Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, Government […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 23, 2016, 9:50 am Many an eyebrow has been raised by a government decision to exempt the proposed Office of Missing Persons (OMP) from the provisions of the Right to Information Act (RIA). It can refuse to provide information even to the apex court, we are told. The UN is in […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Courtesy The Island July 23, 2016, 8:44 am When the truth comes out it is not shocking, but so simply crooked. What the Minister of Highways and Higher Education Lakshman Kiriella said in parliament about the appointment of Consultants to the Road Development Authority (RDA) was the simple, unblemished truth. It a was by no […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සැකකරු වෙනුවෙන් පෙනීසිටිමට අධිකරණයට පැමිණෙන ටීඑන්ඒ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි එම්. ඒ. සුමන්තිරන් මහතා මෙරට දෙමළ දේශපාලනය බෙදුම්වාදය අදහන තාක්කල් සහජීවනය සහ සංහිඳියාව යනු කවුරු කවුරුත් දකිනා දවල් හීන බවට පත්වීම වැළැක්විය නොහැකිය. සත්යය ඇත්තේ එතැනය. අතීතයේද එය එසේම සිදුවිය. මෑතකාලීන ඉතිහාසය විසින් එයට ඕනෑ තරම් උදාහරණ අපට සපයා දී ඇත. පැහැදිලිවම කිවහොත් […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
By Dharish Bastians Courtesy Daily FT This month Sri Lanka marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the darkest periods in the island’s history. Sparked by a LTTE ambush of soldiers in the North on 23 July 1983, anti-Tamil riots swept across the country, tacitly sponsored by the state; the legacy of a past steeped in discrimination, […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Nava Thakuria Guwahati: With an aim for initiating professional excellence, raising voices for social-financial security to scribes and finally developing a comprehensive platform for the working journalists of northeast India, a new organization named North East Union of Working Journalists (NEUWJ) has been mooted. A provisional committee was recently formed in a meeting held at […]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Articles 1 of the UN Charter of 1945 gives the purpose & principles of the UN – maintain international peace & security, take effective collective measures to prevent & remove threats to peace, suppress acts of aggression or other breaches of peace, bring about by peaceful means in conformity with principles of […]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2016
RANJITH SOYSA The Canadian Prime Minister issued a statement on Sri Lanka on 18th May 2016 and stated that he had met a number of victims of war in Sri Lanka and he understands the unfortunate and bleak situation they were facing. He said that the Canadian Tamils were an integral part of the Canadians. […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror …noting that Sri Lanka had made a commitment to include some international participation in the investigation.” – US Asst. Secretary Malinowski (Reuters, July 15) Sooner, rather than later, there will have to be a ‘Mexit’: Mangala Samaraweera’s exit from the Foreign Ministry. His abject West-fetishism instead of Realist multi-polarity […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge. With Black July, dawned the era of gun culture, disappearances, child soldiers, collapse of rule of law and erosion of democracy. Within the first ten years of UNP rule from 1977, the draconian Constitution was further strengthened with 16 further constitutional amendments – with the two notorious 4th and 6th.” Dew […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න යෝෂිත එනවිට උදය ගම්මන්පිල ඇතුලේය. විමල් වීරවංශට රිදවන්නට මුසම්මිල් තවමත් ඇතුලේය. දැන් නාමල් එනවිට බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ ඇතුළේය. බැසිල්ට තිබූ චෝදනාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු වංචාවක් සිදු නොවී ඇතැයි වර්තමාන සමෘද්ධි ඇමතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ප්රකාශ කල හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාවක්ද නීතිඥයින් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළේය. ඇපදීමට නොහැකි කිසිදු අවස්ථාවක් නොමැති බවද ඔවුහු අවධාරණය කළහ. එදා කඩුවෙලය. දැන් නඩුවෙලය. හොද දේවල් […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
www.mahinda.info [1]. 2017 වසරේ මුල් මාස තුනක කාලයක් දිවා කාලයේදී කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපල ප්රතිසංස්කරණ කටයුතු සඳහා වසා තැබීමට සිදුවන බව එහි පාලනාධිකාරිය පවසයි. ජනවාරි මස 06 වැනිදා සිට අපේ්රල් 07 වැනිදා දක්වා පෙරවරු 08.30 සිට පස්වරු 04.30 දක්වා ඒ අනුව ගුවන් තොටුපලේ ප්රධාන ධාවන පථය වසා තැබෙයි. එම කාලය තුල පැමිණෙන සියළු ගුවන් යානා මත්තල […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් සියම් මහ නිකායේ අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ විසිවන මහානායක ධූරය හෙබවූ අපවත්වී වදාල අතිපූජ්ය උඩුගම ශ්රී බුද්ධරක්ඛිත නා හිමියන් ඉදිරියේ මීට කලකට ඉහතදී දෙමළ පූජකවරුන් පිරිසක් නන්දි ගව රූපය ඇතුලත් කොඩියක් පෙන්වා සිටියහ.යාපන අර්ධද්වීපයේ දෙමළ උරුමය එහිදී පෙන්වා දෙනු ලැබූ ප්රධාන කාරණයයි.ඔවුන් කළ ප්රකාශය මහ නායක හිමියන් විශ්වාස කලාදැයි නොදනිමි. කෙසේ වෙතත් මෙම නන්දි රූපය දකුණු ඉන්දියාවේ මෙන්ම ලංකාවේ […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි යාපනය විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ සිසුන්ගේ හැසිරීම පිලිබඳව රජය දක්වන ආකල්පය ඉතාම විචිකිච්ඡා සහගතය. එම සිද්ධියේ උණුසුම මැකී යන්නටත් පෙර කිලිනොච්චියට ගිය ජනාධිපතිවරයා, තම සුපුරුදු සංහිඳියාව පිලිබඳ කතන්දරය පැවසූ අතර එහිදී කියැවුනු විශේෂ යමක් විය. ඒ ‘ජනතාව වෙතින් දෙවරක් ප්රතික්ෂේප වූ අය නව බලවේග හදන්නට යාම පිලිබඳවත්, ‘රට හැම තැනම කෑ ගහන අය උතුරට ඇවිත් […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
මතුගම සෙනවිරුවන් සකලයන් නැතිනම් කුරුල්ලන්ගෙන් කෙත්වතු ආරක්ෂා කරගන්නට පැරණි ගොවියන් තමන්ගේ කුඹුරේ පඹයෙක් සිටවූ බව අසා ඇත්තෙමු. කෙතේ ගොඩගසා ඇති පිදුරු වලින් පුරවන ලද මේ පඹයාට මුළුතැන් ගෙයින් ඉවත් කළ හැලියක් ඔළුවක් වෙයි. ඒ නිසා මේ පඹයාට හැලිකටා නමින් ද ව්යවහාරයක් වෙයි. පඹයා ගේ කාර්යය කෙත රැකීමයි. ගොවියා සැම විටම කෙතේ නොසිටින බැවින් මේ අජීවී […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna Desecration of Kelaniya Viharaya by the Portuguese: The destruction of the sacred temple Kelaniya Rajamaha Viharaya was iconic of the near annihilation of Buddhist temples and Buddhism during the time of the Portuguese invasion of Sinhale Wall Paintings at the Aluth Vihara Ge or the New Image House at the Kelaniya Raja Maha […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Next journalist Kamala Saikia memorial lecture will be delivered by Itanagar based acclaimed journalist Tongam Rina of Arunachal Times on 9 August in Jorhat. The annual lecture, on the occasion of the 25th death anniversary of Saikia-who was killed by Ulfa militants, has been organised by Journalist Kamala Saikia Memorial Trust […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
By Nayantha Wijesundara Courtesy Ceylon Today What the present political landscape shows is that at the moment, there is a Prime Minister and a UNP dominated fraction of the government who have become too unpopular too fast. Then there is former President Mahinda Rajapaksa with the backing of what is called the ‘joint opposition’, a group […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
RT US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Italy was disrupted by a cry of protest at his joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, when a woman in the The press conference was coming to an end, when the woman stood up from the public, her head covered up by a […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
By Skandha Gunasekara Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday informed Parliament that he was unaware of any institution named the Task Force for National Reconciliation. He made these remarks while responding to…… a question raised by National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa, who inquired as to whether an institution by the name of Task […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
lanka C news අද දින අපි කොළඹ ජාතික රෝහලට පැමිණියේ යාපන විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ සිදුවු ප්රහාරයෙන් තුවාල ලද සිසුවාගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලීමටත් අනෙක් දරුවන් සමග ඒ අයගේ ප්රශ්නය ගැන කතා කරන්නත්. ඊයේ ආණ්ඩුව බොහොම ආඩම්බරයෙන් කිව්වේ ඔවුන් මේ ප්රශ්නය විසදුව, ඒ වගේම විනය ක්රියාමාර්ග ගැනීමට විශ්වවිද්යාල බලධාරීන්ට පැවරූ බවයි. නමුත් ඒ විසදීම නම් හොරාගෙ අම්මගෙන් පේන […]
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