Archive for December, 2016
Sunday, December 25th, 2016
Courtesy News.com.au SRI Lanka unveiled a towering Christmas tree, claiming to have surpassed the world record despite constructions delays and a shorter-than-planned finished product. The 73-meter (238-foot) artificial tree in capital Colombo is 18 meters (59 feet) taller than the current record holder, organisers said. The tree’s steel and wire frame is covered with a […]
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Sunday, December 25th, 2016
by Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. Engineer Harsa Kumara, a former Vice chairman of the NWSDB and General Manager of the water resources board has posted an article in the Lankaweb (Dec 14th, 2016) arguing his case in favour of Reverse Osmosis (RO) machines to provide clean water to the farmers in the dry zone who […]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2016
Eng Harsha Kumar Suriyaarachchi (Former Vice chairman of NWSDB, Former General Manager of Water Resources Board) I am sure the readership here is well aware of the severity of the CKDu epidemic in SriLanka. Some say tens of thousands of people in Rajarata have already perished due to CKDu and hundreds of thousands of people […]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2016
by Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. A few years ago a newspaper report (Sunday Times, 2013) stated that Sri lankan rice took second place in a twelve-country list of rice containing high amounts of the toxic metal known as cadmium. Many people even now claim that Sri Lankan rice has excess cadmium (Cd), and that this […]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2016
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 22 December 2016 Honourable Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Your Eminence, Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Re: End of the Year, the State of […]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2016
By Manekshaw Courtesy Ceylon Today Adele Anne, widow of the late LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham, has lambasted a pro-LTTE expatriate Tamil organization for claiming that it has the urn containing the ashes of the late theoretician and making arrangements to build a monument with it in memory of him in London. Anton Balasingham, following the death […]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2016
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය, සමන් ගමගේ සහ චමින්ද සිල්වා උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සැකසීම සඳහා වන ව්යවස්ථාදායක අනුකමිටුවේ නිර්දේශ පිළිනොගැනීමට ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා තීරණය කර ඇත. මේ බව ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ නියෝජිත පිරිසක් සමඟ 22 වැනිදා පැවැත්වූ සාකච්ඡාවකදී හෙතෙම ප්රකාශ කර තිබේ. මෙතෙක් ශ්රී ලංකාව ඒකීය රාජ්යයක් ලෙස හැඳින්වුවද ව්යවස්ථාදායක අනුකමිටුව මගින් එය එක්සත් […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
ෆෙඩරල් සංහිඳියා නිරුවත සම්මන්ත්රණය 2016-12-19 කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාල ශ්රවනාගාරය
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Shenali D Waduge On 17 December 2016, a bus-van collision led to the deaths of 11 Sinhalese travelling to Chavakachcheri, North Sri Lanka. The incident has become an excellent eyeopener ahead of the end of the year and before the beginning of a new year. It has showcased that the stereotype scenario media projects […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
By Garvin Karunaratne In my endless travels in countries in three continents, the only country where wind turbines have been continuously sited in the coastal areas happens to be Sri Lanka. In Lanzorette in theCanaries, firstly the authorities built two turbines on the coast, but later they realized their mistake and built up dozens of […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Lankaweb Books Dr. Ruwan Jayatunga, Janice L. Pond and all those who are interested in learning the phenomena of Near-Death Experience and the science of consciousness, Lankaweb recommend you to read the best research work carried out by a renowned Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel. His research work was elaborated in his book Consciousness […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
by: Janice L. Ponds; M.A., LADC, CBIS Ruwan M. Jayatunge, M.D. describes Near Death Experience (NDE) as a subjective experience with many NDEs depending on the individual’s education level, cultural factors, and religious beliefs. Although NDE is not defined as a universal experience, it does have common elements associated with it. These elements include characteristics […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ටමර් ලේන්— මුස්ලිම් නොවන්නන් සමා පමණක් නොව මුස්ලිම් වරු සමගද මොහු සටන් කළේය 1400 දී ටිෆ් ලිස් කොල්ලකෑ ඔහු නැවත 1403 දී ආක්රමණය කර ගම්මාන 700 ක් ඩ නගරද විනාශකර කිතුනු පල්ලි බිමට සමතලා කළේය සවභාවයෙන් ම කුරිරු මොන්ගෝලියන් වරුන්ට සුපුරුදු යුද්ධයට ටමර් ලේන් විසින් ආගමික රසයක් ද කවන ලදී . කොරානයට ඇති […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Courtesy Lankanews Thursday, December 22, 2016 ලංකාවේ මහා ගායක සංවිධාන තුළ රොක්වී සිටින ඔබගේ අවධානය සඳහායි…!!! ගීතයෙන් රටක් වසඟ කළ කෝකිලයන් දෙදෙනකු අද ගයන දුක්බර ගීතය දෑස පා සිනා කියන රහස තේරුණා පෙම් ලොවක් දෙපා මුලේ මවා දෙමී අද වගේ හෙටත් ඔබේ ළඟින් ඉමී… ඔහු ඇයට ලියා සපථ කර සිටියේ එසේය. එය මිහිරට ගයමින් එම ආදරය […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Govt developing country by selling parts of it – Namal යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව රට සංවර්ධනය කරන්නේ රට විකුණල
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
The Prime Minister did not show the same solicitude for the controversial treasury bond issue when compared to the manner in which he acted on the recent Seylan Bank foreign deal, former Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris says. පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ නිල ෆේස් බුක් පිටුව සයිබර් අවකාශයට ඉදිරියේදී හඳුන්වාදීමට නියමිත සුපිරි ඇමති භූමිකාව අසත්යයක් බවට රජය විසින් […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Will defeat new constitution if proposals ignored – Dinesh කරුණු 14 න් පිට පැන්නොත් අපි පණත පරාජය කරනවා.
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Posted in New Constitution, Politics | 3 Comments »
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana December 23, 2016 07:38 am The Development (Special Provisions) draft bill was defeated by the Uva Provincial Council with a majority of four votes. Thirteen provincial councillors had voted against the bill while only 9 voted in favour, Ada Derana reporter said. The bill was submitted by Uva Governor M. P. Jayasinghe for […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island December 22, 2016, 9:28 pm Time was when Sri Lankans thought they were blessed with more grey matter than their Chinese counterparts. Their superiority complex is evident in a popular local expression which they still habitually use on being told a tall tale: konde bendapu cheennunta kiyapan— ‘go tell it to the […]
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Posted in Business, Economy, Politics | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 22, 2016, 10:19 pm In the wake of a simmering controversy over China Merchant Port Holdings being given an 80 per cent stake in the Hambantota port, a fresh dispute is brewing at the Colombo Port regarding a move to involve India in the development of the East Container […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island December 22, 2016, 10:17 pm The Jathika Hela Urumaya yesterday called on the government to clarify if the agreement between the Sri Lanka Ports Authority and China Merchant Holdings prohibited any other ports being built along the belt stretching from Oluvil to Galle. Jathika Hela Urumaya Western Provincial Council member […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Malinda Seneviratne JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has made two statements regarding reconciliation via constitutional reform. Firstly, he has said that a referendum on a new constitution should not be approached the way the Presidential Election was fought. In that election, the Northern and Eastern Provinces overwhelmingly voted for President Sirisena, who was the default […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 21, 2016, 12:00 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday stressed that its participation in the ongoing constitutional making process would be subject to 14 non-negotiable conditions. The JO grouping comprises 51 members of parliament elected on the UPFA ticket at Aug 17, 2015 parliamentary polls. JO leader Dinesh Gunawardena and […]
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Posted in New Constitution | 10 Comments »
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
The Government has turned a blind eye to the 14 proposals of the Joint Opposition with respect of the proposed new Constitution, the JO asserted on Wednesday.
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Posted in Forum & Letters, New Constitution, Politics | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ලංකාවේ නැගෙනහිර දිග්භාගය අතීතයේදී හඳුන්වන ලද්දේ දිගාමඩුල්ල යනුවෙනි.අනුරාධපුරය ජය ගන්නට අවශ්ය ආහාර සපයන්නට සද්ධාතිස්ස කුමරු දිගා මඩුල්ලට එවූයේ දුර දක්නා නුවණැති කාවන්තිස්ස රජුය.මේ මහා කාර්යයේදී දීඝවාපී මහා චේතිය මුල් කර ගත් අවශේෂ ථූප සංස්කෘතියක් බිහි කරන්නට එතුමා සමත් විය. ඒ නිසාම දීඝවාපීය අවට පරිවාර චේතියන් මෙන්ම ගව්වෙන් ගව්ව විහාරස්ථාන ද සෑම කුඹුරු […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Nihal Perera Toronto This is how Tamil Diaspora and their supporters are helping anti-Sinhala Tamil politicians like C.V. Wigneswaren in Sri Lanka to gain international recognition for their future homeland – Eelam.. While our Sinhala politicians (of all parties..), are busy with their petty politics and in-fighting for power, perks, etc., Tamils and their supporters are working relentlessly to advance their […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada The government, some private sector groups, and NGOs have spend a large amount of money on reverse osmosis (RO) machines for the purification of water as it was advocated by a number of people who feared that there are metal toxins (Arsenic, Cd, etc) in the water. The claim that metal […]
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Posted in Chandre Dharmawardana | 7 Comments »
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
සටහන :යටියන ප්රදීප් කුමාර රණවිරුවන් දහස් ගණනක් තම දිවි පුදා, තවත් දස දහස් ගණනක් අත් ,පා ,ඇස් ,මස් දන්දී රැකගත් මාතෘභූමියේ ඒකීයභාවය බන්දේසියක තබා බෙදුම්වාදීන්ට පුදන යෝජිත ෆෙඩරල් ව්යවස්ථාව පරාජය කරන්නට සියළු වාද බේද අමතක කර එක් වීමට කාලය එළඹ ඇතැයි ධාර්මායතනාධිපති පූජ්ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ නාහිමියන් අවධාරණය කර සිටියි. යුතුකම සංවාද කවය විසින් සංවිධානය කරන […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Adaderana December 22, 2016 05:03 pm The Prime Minister did not show the same solicitude for the controversial treasury bond issue when compared to the manner in which he acted on the recent Seylan Bank foreign deal, former Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris says. He expressed this view while speaking at […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
චාමර මද්දුමකළුගේ, ප්රධාන ලේකම් Samurdhi Development Officers Union සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාරලාභීන්ගේ නිවාස අළුත්වැඩියා කර ගැනීම සදහා 2014 වසරේදී සහනාධාර පවුල් වෙත දිවයිනේ සෑම දිවිනැගුම ප්රජා මුල බැංකුවක් මගීන්ම ආධාර ලෙස ලබා දුන් රු.2500.00 මුදල නැවත බැංකු වෙත අයකර ගැනීමට ආණ්ඩුව පියවර ගැනීම වහා අවලංගු කල යුතු බව අප සංගමය මෙයින් අවධාරණය කර සිටින්නෙමු. දිවිනැගුම සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ […]
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