Archive for July, 2016
Monday, July 11th, 2016
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe A bad president is bad, as opposed to the system per se being bad, states Presidential Counsel Manohara de Silva. The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government came to power on the pledge of abolishing the Executive Presidency. Yet, since securing power, there is a marked reluctance to fulfil the pledge. However, they are not the […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Yohan Perera and Kelum Bandara Courtesy Adaderana The joint opposition today urged President Maithripala Sirisena to take action against Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera whom it accused of violating the collective responsibility of the Cabinet. Joint opposition MP Dinesh Gunawardane told a media briefing held at parliamentary complex that Mr Samaraweera had challenged the President through […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
By Dushni Weerakoon July 10, 2016, 9:32 pm The often repeated pun on the IMF’s acronym satirically suggests that it prescribes a tighter fiscal policy, whatever an economy’s problem might be. Indeed, lower budget deficits and higher government revenues are central to Sri Lanka’s latest US$ 1.5 billion loan from the IMF. But, the economy’s […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
The Editorial Courtesy The Island July 10, 2016, 9:36 pm British Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hugo Swire, in his address to Parliament on Sri Lanka’s Human Rights situation on Thursday, reiterated there had to be an international element in the domestic mechanism for accountability. That was necessary, he said, to […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
By Chandani Jayatilleke Courtesy The Sunday Observer Deputy Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe PICTURE: SHAN RUPPASARA Brexit has already had some negative impact on the global financial markets and the global economy. But its full impact is yet to be felt with the policy changes and geopolitical decisions to be taken by the European Union and the […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 11, 2016, 8:53 pm The media informs us people are resentful that they can hardly make ends meet. Life for them is a process of paying bills, which continue to get bloated due to tax increases, the latest being the VAT hike. Traders have been taking to the streets against the […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Observer Courtesy The Island July 11, 2016, 8:06 pm Newspapers report “PM flays Rajapaksas for leaving country bankrupt” and PM says “we took over a nation with a pillaged economy in its wake”. If the Yahapalanaya Government was so convinced, common sense surely required it when taking office to call for a period of austerity and […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Chandra Jayaratne Courtesy The Island July 11, 2016, 8:04 pm Please note that the memories of all the young professionals, the youth, the intelligent voters and civil society activists, who so actively canvassed for the 8th January 2015 regime change and in the General Elections that followed, are not short, nor fading. They presume that your […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Adaderana July 11, 2016 02:11 pm The Supreme Court on Monday (11) issued an interim order to suspend the Value Added Tax (VAT) increase. The Supreme Court issued the order after considering a petition filed seeking an order to revoke the decision to increase VAT. The petition was filed by an attorney representing three persons including […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
By Rohana R. Wasala It goes without saying that the lives (meaning the future) of the students of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) at Malabe and of the students agitating against the private institution are infinitely more important than the government’s policy decisions on education or its own survival. If necessary, policy […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
President Maithripala Sirisena today vowed that he would not allow any foreign court, judge or organization to interfere with the internal administration and judiciary in the country. Though various views are being expressed in various places regarding the bringing of foreign judges and establishing of foreign military courts to take action against the so called […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි වැට් බද්දට එරෙහිව සංවිධානය වන හර්තාල්ය. ආපදා වන්දි ඉල්ලමින් හඬ නඟන වින්දිත ජනතාවය. විවිධ හේතූන් මත කෙරෙන ශිෂ්ය අරගලය. ජීවන වියදමට සරිලන වැටුපක් ඉල්ලා සේවයෙන් ඉවත් වූ දුම්රිය හරස් ගේට්ටු මුරකරුවන්ය. ගාස්තු වැඩි කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් වර්ජනයකට අරඅඳින පුද්ගලික බස් හිමියන්ය. තවත් විවිධාකාර ප්රශ්ණවලට පිලිතුරු ඉල්ලා දිනපතාම මාර්ග අවහිර කරමින් විරෝධතා දක්වන ජනතාවගෙන් අඩුවක් […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
ශ්රි ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවේදී සිදුව ඇති බව කියන මුල්ය අක්රමිකතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිරස රූපවාහිනිය සිය ප්රවෘත්ති විකාශණය අතරතුර වාර්තාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කලේය.
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the wake of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe calling for the Speaker to overrule a Supreme Court ruling, former UPFA MP G.L. Peiris said it looked like an attempt to make way for the appointment of foreign judges to try war crimes against the armed forces. In the Singarasa case the […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
lanka C news ඵලකය කඩා දමන අවස්ථාවේ සුමනරතන හිමියන් විසින් දැඩි ආවේගශීලීව පංච නින්දාවෙන් බැණ වදින අයුරුද දක්නට ලැබින. උන් වහන්සේ පවසන්නේ රටේ නායකයාට මඩකලපුව නගරයේ ඇති එකම බෞද්ධ විහාරස්ථානයට පැමිණීමට නොහැකි සමරු එලක පන්සලේ ගසාගෙන පලක් නැති බවයි. ඊයේ දිනයේ මඩකලපුවේ සංචාරයක නිරත වූ ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා මඩකලපුව මංගලාරාම විහාරස්ථායේ නව විහාර මන්දිරය […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
එම් අජිත් පෙරේරා පැරිස් එකසත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ පැරිස් සන්විදානය විසින් සිව් වන වරටත් පවත්වන සය සාමාජික සැහල්ලු පන්දු ක්රිකට් තරගාවලිය 2016 07 17 වන ඉරු දින දවස පුරා පැරිස් නගරයේ බගතලේ ක්රිඩාන්ගනයේදි පැවත්වේ. ජයග්රාහි කණ්ඩායම් වලට කුසලාන සමග මුදල් ත්යාග පිරිනමනු ලැබේ. පැරිසියට එලඹ ඇති වසන්ත කාලය අර්ථවත් කරමින් මෙම තරගාවලිය නරඹන් පිරිසට සන්ගිත ආස්වාදය […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I sit in the front seat in the car with my driver ,doing all sorts of manoeuvring to avoid collision with a Tuk Tuk ,Motor Bike or a Private Bus ,he puts on the radio to listen to Balumgala by Net FM and later switches on to TNL Radio to listen […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
REGGIE PONNAMPALAM Courtesy The Island July 9, 2016, 6:07 pm And played on the most sophisticated Home Theater system on a Screen as wide as your imagination lets you stretch. We now have a Right To Information Act, but putting the infrastructure together to ‘act’ on it, according to latest reports, “will take time’. Meanwhile, is […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Mano Alles Retired Banker Courtesy The Island The dignity and the position of a Governor of a Central Bank has been brought to its lowest level as the Legislators have been embroiled in arguments on certain ethical issues relating to the previous holder of the position of the Governor of the Central Bank. Some political parties and […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
News Line TV1 05th July 2016
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe- A Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority-A former Ambassador Essential Consumer Items It is learnt that the Cabinet will be deciding next Tuesday that Vat will not be added to essential consumer items, and further items will be declared essential so that the Consumer Affairs Authority will be directing traders a maximum price for […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
lanka C news අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් මහතා ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපතිව සිටියදී පෞද්ගලික අංශයට බැදුම්කර යොමු කරනු ලැබුවේ අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ විසින් ලබා දුන් උපදෙස් මත යයි මහේන්ද්රන් මහතා ප්රකාශ කයේ යයි කෝප් කමිටුව හමුවේ ඊයේ දිනයේ මහ බැංකු නිලධාරීන් ප්රකාශ කර ඇත. රාජ්ය ණය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවද මේ ගනුදෙනුව ගැන අනතුරු අගවා තිබියදී මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph, Top officials of the Central Bank accused ex-Governor Arjuna Mahendran of giving scant regard to any regulation at the bank, breaking all laws, during his tenure as Governor. Mahendran During an inquiry conducted by COPE on Thursday, even Deputy Governor P. Samarasiri, who sided with Mahendran while he was in office, had claimed […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
අනුර සෙනෙවිරත්න ලංකාව යන වැරදිව නම්කල රට සින්හෙල ජාතික රට බව ඔප්පුකිරීමට ඕනැ නැත. පූර්ව ඉතිහාසයේ හෙලදිව නම දැරූ දූපත් රටේ අද ජාතික පැනයක් ගැන දොඩන්නේ වෙනත් ජාතීන් ඉන්නා බවක්ය. නමුත් එක රටක එක ජාතියක් යන යුක්ති සහගත දේසපාලන සම්ප්රදාය ලන්කා යන කෘතීම ජාතිය මගින් ලංකාවේ එකම සොබාවික සින්හෙල ජාතියේ ජාතික සෛරීත්වය උල්ලංගනය කර […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Everyone is much hyped about making Galle –a tourist destination. There were plans to build an offshore breakwater connecting Rummassala Hill and the Old Dutch Fort. Unesco seems dead against building the breakwater but Government is insisting that by building the break water which will protect the Galle bay area will be […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today 2016-07-09 The style of writing has to be candid, factual and forthright, but it should not be regarded as threatening or hostile. As with most public assignments, it is best to choose the type of words by getting a clear idea on the following aspects: (i) what is […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විසින් ලියන ලද Children Affected by the Eelam War ලිපිය ඇසුරෙනි. පරිවර්තනය A S වික්රමසිංහ “යුද්ධය හා ඊට ආනුශංගිකව සිදු වූ අවතැන් වීම් නිසා ළමුන්ගේ මානසික සෞඛ්යය ඛෙහෙවින් අසමබර තත්ත්වයකට පත්ව ඇත. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ විවිධ සම්මුතීන්ට අනුකූලව ළමුන්ගේ මානසික සෞඛ්යයට යුදධයෙන් සිදුවන බලපෑම් අඩු කිරීම සඳහා පියවර ගැනීම සියළු ජාතින්ගේ යුතුකම […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Many tend to believe and accept that violence is a complex issue influenced by many factors such as racism, poverty, drug abuse, domestic issues, thuggary, guns, mental disorder and terrorism, which can ultimately lead to aggressive behaviour and violence. Current news bulletins are generally classified into two main […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ(ජවිපෙ) සමඟ විවිධ හේතුන් මත හෝ පුද්ගල ගැටුම් නිසා වෙන්වුණු සහ ඉවත්කල ඇතැම් පුද්ගලයින් සහ කණ්ඩායම් ජවිපෙ 2වැනි කැරැල්ලේදී සිය පැවැත්ම සඳහාද, පරණ වෛරයන් සහ කෝන්තරයන් පිරිමහා ගැනීම ඇතුළු හේතු කිහිපයක් මුල්කරගෙනද ජවිපෙට එරෙහිව ආණ්ඩුවේ ආරක්ෂක හමුදාවන් සහ පොලිසිය සමඟ 1987 සිට 1990 අවසානය දක්වාම ප්රධාන භූමිකාවක් රඟපෑහ. ජවිපෙ හිතවතුන් සහ […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
The Editorial Courtesy The Island July 8, 2016, 7:35 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in Parliament on Thursday, while expressing his views on the ratification of the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, alleged that there had been a judicial coup against Parliament. His consternation is understandable. As much as […]
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