Archive for November, 2016
Saturday, November 5th, 2016
Courtesy The Island Beetroot is a plant which comes from the same family as sugar beets which are the raw material for producing sugar. However, when compared to their cousin, the beet root is completely different in its nutritional composition as well as taste and colour. Beetroot is a vegetable that has a very dark red colour. More […]
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Saturday, November 5th, 2016
According to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Democracy Index one of the biggest threats to democracy is the anxious mood of our times Sri Lanka is placed 69th in the ranking of democracies falling within the category of Flawed Democracies like India at No. 35 and Japan at No. 23 According to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s […]
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Saturday, November 5th, 2016
By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the recent directive from the Union information & broadcasting ministry to take Hindi news channel ‘NDTV India’ off air for 24 hours with effect from 01 hours on 9 November till 01 hrs of 10 November 2016. The directive came after an inter-ministerial committee […]
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Saturday, November 5th, 2016
By Rohana R. Wasala Continued from Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 Samantha Power, the US Ambassador to the UN, Draper reminds the reader, praised President Sirisena for the government’s ‘extraordinary progress’ in working towards ‘a durable peace, an accountable democracy, a new relationship with the outside world, and expanded opportunities for all’. Actually, Power’s alleged observation […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
By Noor Nizam, Convener – The Muslim Voice”. November 4th., 2016. The late T.B. Jaya said that the Muslims should not put all their eggs in one basket”. Will the Muslims do this now?, Insha Allah. It was reported in the popular Tamil website for Muslims – the www.jaffnamuslims.com that, at a meeting held this week at […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The aims and objectives of All Ceylon Tamil Congress, ITAK in 1949, the TULF & the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976, formation of LTTE in the same year/month, demands of LTTE in Thimpu Principles/ISGA solution and India’s Indo-Lanka Accord and 13th amendment have strikingly similar demands. Taken together these highlight a very concerted […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 4, 2016, 9:56 pm Former President and Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the ruling UNP-SLFP coalition leaders including President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should take the responsibility for Central Bank bond scams. Rajapaksa says action should be taken against all those accused of […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
-කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මේ අතර ඊයේ (03දා) මැදපෙරදිගින් ප්රකාශයට ඇරෑබ් නිවුස් පුවත්පත පැවසුවේ යාපනයේ සිදුවූ ක්රියාදාමයන් නිසා හමුදා බුද්ධි ප්රධානියාව ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කර ඇති බවයි. උතුරේ අස්ථාවර තත්ත්වයක් ඇති කිරීමට මොහු ක්රියාකරන බවට සිවිල් සංවිධාන විසින් පැමිණිලිකර තිබූ බවද එම පුවත්පත වැඩිදුරටත් හෙළි කළේය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ යුද හමුදාවේ බුද්ධි සේවා ප්රධානියා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ඔක්තෝබර් මස 28 වනදා කෝප් කමිටු වාර්තාවත් එලි දුටුවේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පමනක් නොව මුලු රටම කඩිගුලක් සේ අැවිස්සින. බහුතරයකගේ අදහස වූයේ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා ඉල්ලා අස්විය යුතු බවය. කෝප් කමිටු වාර්තාව මගින් හෙලිදරව් වූ මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර වංචාවට හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් ඍජුවම සම්බන්ධ බවත්, ඔහුට බැඳුම්කර නිකුත් කිරීම සඳහා වෙන්දේසි ක්රමය යොදා ගැනීමට […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් ශ්රී ලංකා රජයට ක්ෂණිකව රුපියල් කෝටි 5585ක පාඩුවක් සිදු කරමින් මහදවල් සිදු කළ මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර හොරකමේ මහ මොලකරු අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ බව අද වන විට රට හමුවේ ඔප්පු වී අවසන් බවත් ඔහු ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස් නොවන්නේ නම් ඊට එරෙහිව ජනතාව සමඟ පාරට බැසීමට ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය සූදානම් බවත් […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA In this installment, I focus on Chapter VI of the constitution, Directive Principles of State Policy. I shall briefly explain what they are, and what in my view is wrong with them legally as well as practically. WHAT ARE DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES? Directive principles are principles intended to guide the State when making policy. […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
Shenali Waduge History is generally written by the victors therefore after over 500 years of colonial rule there is not much that gets said about the greatness of civilizations that existed before the Age of Discovery and the Papal Bulls that ordered Christian/Catholic explorers to invade, occupy and plunder nations and declare them Christian […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
The mortal remains of Pandit Amaradeva will lie at the Independence Square from 10 a.m tomorrow (Friday) till 3 p.m. on Saturday, for the public to pay their last respects. Final rites will be conducted with full state honours on Saturday. A week of mourning has also been declared for the veteran vocalist, violinist and […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island The Chinese Ambassador in Colombo, Yi Xianliang, addressing a group of journalists at his Embassy premises on Tuesday night said that he did not think the accusations were true, but if proved correct, his government would take stern action against the offenders November 3, 2016, 10:10 pm China says allegations […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Colebrooke: Moses of Ceylon? President Sirisena is on record as the first state leader (or politician) ever, to publicly point out the artificial and arbitrary nature of the division of the island of Sinhale (Ceylon) into nine provinces by the foreign white master. If the country had dedicated political leaders with wisdom […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
– ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත කෝප් වාර්තාවට එජාප මන්ත්රීවරුන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ අනෙකුත් පාද සටහන් වල ඇත්ත තත්ත්වයද අපි ඉදිරි ලිපි මගින් අනාවරණය කරමු. එම පාද සටහන් තුන බිඳවැටුණු පසු අනෙකුත් පාද සටහන් බොහොමයක්ම පදනමක් නැති බොල් තර්ක බවට පත්වේ. අදාළ කෝප් වාර්තාවේ 15 වන පිටුවේ, 2008.01.07 දිනැති මහ බැංකුවේ මුදල් මණ්ඩල පත්රිකාව මගින් 2008 වසරේදී සෘජු […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 3, 2016, 10:04 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday thanked China for publicly countering lies propagated by the UNP- led government as regards loans received by the Rajapaksa administration. Top JO spokesmen former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris and MP Bandula Gunawardena said that China had set […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Prof. Sirimevan Colombage Courtesy The Island November 3, 2016, 9:51 pm The forthcoming Budget 2017 is to be presented in the midst of many macroeconomic vulnerabilities manifested by persistent fiscal deficits. Revenue generation is constrained by the limitations in mobilizing direct taxes which have led to a continuous rise in the indirect tax burden making […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 3, 2016, 12:00 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday acknowledged that none of those who had faced serious accusations during the previous SLFP-led PA and UPFA administrations had given up portfolios and positions temporarily to facilitate investigations. Asked by The Island whether those in the Joint Opposition had practised what […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Ajith Nivard Cabraal Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka November 3, 2016, 9:57 pm In terms of Section 66 (1) of the Monetary Law Act, the Monetary Board is responsible for the management of the international reserves. In keeping with such authority and responsibility, the Monetary Board has approved Foreign Exchange Reserve Management […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
A killing in Paris: Why French Chinese are in uproar By Kevin PonniahBBC News, Paris Image copyrightAFP Image captionChinese communities in France say they are sick of being targeted with violence David Liu, a Chinese Frenchman, says he walks around Paris with “fear in his chest”. The 22-year-old student was assaulted and robbed by a […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
Media Secretary to the Minister of Primary Industries ගරු අමාත්යතුමන්ගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම්ගරු අමාත්යතුමන්ගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම් Minister of Primary Industries Daya Gamage said on Wednesday that direct trade between the two countries can be more beneficial for both nations. Minister Gamage made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad for Commercial […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
Talking Heads with Chandrika Kumaratunga (Aired November 2003) https://youtu.be/oy-bkhZVfQk
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් උපදේශක – දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ නොරච්චෝල විදුලි බලගාරය සදහා ගල් අඟුරු මිලදී ගැනීමට සදහා කැදවා තිබූ කුප්රකට ‘ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ හදවත කම්පනය‘ කළ ටෙන්ඩරය නැවත අදාළ සමාගම වෙතම ලබා දෙන ලෙස කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය තීරණය කොට ඇත. ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය විසින් විභාගයට ගැණුනු නඩු අංක SCFR394/2015 යටතේ අගවිනිසුරුවරයා ප්රමුඛ ත්රීපුද්ගල හ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිශ්චය මණ්ඩලය මෙම නඩුව මහජන මුදල් සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් මහ බැංකුවේ බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කෝප් කමිටුවට තමන් විසින් ඉදිරිප්ත කල විගණකාධිපති වාර්තාවේ ඇති කිසිදු කරුණක් වෙනස් කිරීමට සදහා තමන් කිසිසේත්ම එකග නොවූ බව විගණකාධිපති ගාමිණි විජේසිංහ මහතා දැඩිය අවධාරණය කර සිටී. කෝප් වාර්තාවේ පාද සටහන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන් දැරු මතයේ කිසිදු වෙනසක් නැතැයිද පවසන ඔහු කිසිදු පාද සටහනකට […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් ඒකාබද්ද විපක්ෂය විසින් කොළඹදී පැවැත්වූ මාධ්ය හමුවේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය ගැන පාච එදා කී කතාව සහ අද කියන කතාව පසුගිය සදුදා උදෑසන මාධ්ය හමුවක් පවත්වලා මෙම බැදුම්කර මගඩියේ වගකීම භාරගෙන අගමැතිතුමා ඉල්ලා අස්විය යුතුයි කියලා. මම ප්රකාශ කරාම එදා හවස […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
All Ceylon Railway Employees’ General Union ගරු ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන්සේවා අමාත්ය, නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මැතිතුමා, ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන්සේවා අමාත්යාංශය, සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. මරදාන දුම්රිය ඉඩම් පවරා ගැනීම වහා අත්හිටුවන ලෙස ඉල්ලීම – CGR – 2016.11.03 දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ කර්මාන්තශාලා කිහිපයක් හා ගොඩනැගිලි නඩත්තු අංශ පිහිටා ඇති මරදාන දුම්රිය භූමිය කිසිදු දුම්රිය බලධාරියකුගේ අවසරයකින් තොරව කොළඹ […]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
Shenali Waduge An accessory is a person who assists in the commission of a crime, but who does not actually participate in the crime. Guilt by association or you are known by the company you keep makes a person guilty by their association with known wrongdoers. Complicity is the act of helping or encouraging another […]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 2 November 1016 Rt. Hon. Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka President’s Secretariat Colombo 1, Sri Lanka. Attn: Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Dear Mr. President: Re: Providing Security Services on Outsourced Basis 2016 for […]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
Editorail Courtesy The Island November 2, 2016, 8:02 pm The UNP MPs who made a futile attempt to dilute the COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) report on the Treasury bond scams have sought to question the eligibility of the Auditor General’s Department to investigate the frauds at issue and put out a report thereon. They have […]
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