Archive for December, 2016
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island December 14, 2016, 7:50 pm A large number of Hambantota residents took to the streets yesterday against a government move to lease out a vast extent of land in the area to some Chinese companies. These protests and the Hambantota Port workers’ agitation are likely to snowball if the government resorts to […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
වංශපුර දේවගේ ජානක-යුතුකම සංවාද කවය එජාප රජයක් බලයට ආපු හැම අවස්ථාවකම රටේ සම්පත් විකුණුවා, ප්රාග්ධනය හොයන්ඩ. නමුත් එහෙම විකුනල හොයපු ප්රාග්ධනයෙන් වැඩක් ගන්ඩ සමත් කමක් එජාපෙට කවදාවත් තිබිල නැහැ. ආණ්ඩුවේ ධූර කාලය ඇතුලෙම ඔවුන් ඒ සල්ලි කබාසීනියා කරලා දැම්මා. ඒකට මූලික හේතුව නායකයින්ගේ අසමත්කම. සාමාන්යයෙන් එජාප ආණ්ඩුවක තීරණ ගැනීමේ බලය තියෙන දෙතුන් දෙනා කොළඹ නගරයේ […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I read above new item where UDA chairman exchanging MOU in the presence of the Megapolis Minister and the Sports Minister to establish Leisure Sports Island in the lake next to Waters Edge. Few week back during a presentation , Megapolis Minister clearly indicated that the starting point of the Canal […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Joseph Stalin was one of the main architects of creating a collective trauma in the Soviet Union. His actions and policies brought immense suffering to the people. The aftermath of Stalin’s repression still impacts the post Soviet Society. However despite all the negative consequences Stalin is still remembered in Russia as […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Former Defence Secretary in Japan
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Courtesy The Island December 11, 2016, 11:01 pm Peacetime heroics Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ravi Wijayagunaratne and his men manhandling The Island correspondent Roshan Gunasekera at the Hambantota Port. Pic by Dilip N Jayasekera Image from a video footage of Navy commander attacking journalist held by naval ratings As a Sathyagraha launched by the Hambantota port […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER Standing along the Line of Control looking across the border into the land belonging to India, we the Pakistanis wish that we were alone and companionless as the company of our closest neighbour India is simply like a pain in the neck. From the war imposed on us in 1965 to the tragic […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
By Hosoya Kiyoshi ” UNHRC Committee members have little motivation to do the right thing and, as I mentioned earlier, no one monitors them. Perhaps that is why they accept invitations to all-expense-paid junkets, and in return, side with anti-Japanese nations and issue recommendations designed to emasculate and demolish Japan. The UN Human Rights Committee should […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Sunil Thenabadu Brisbane Australia
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have nowhere to go >>>>>>>>>> Today I am about to leave home to Road Development Authority to meet the legal division which I counted (it may be the 10th time)( to expedite the eviction of some encroachers along the road reservation in Galle next to Maglle bridge .The reservation is to […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
PRESS RELEASE. A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary. AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA In the name of Allah, most Gracious and ever Merciful It is with devastating shock that we wish to bring to your attention the report that we have received regarding the police raid on Ahamadiyya Head Quarters campus Rabwah, Pakistan and their […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Dilrook Kannangara Shameful and cowardly conduct of the Sri Lanka Navy should be roundly condemned. No less than the Navy Commander used raw filth and violence against unarmed innocent Sinhala civilians in Hambantota. His words perfectly describe his own conduct and descent. What is surprising is the meekly surrender the same navy suffered in Silawathurai […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
News Review In a poor and distasteful attempt to justify the Shameful and cowardly attack on unarmed group of innocent journalists, the Sri Lanka Navy and the government are now in defensive mode and issuing conflicting reasons to justify the attack.. This is not Lichchavi approach, more looks like Kalinga Magha’s – Dullas නාවික හමුදාපතිවරයා […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ජාත්යන්තර වශයෙන් පිළිගත් මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නීති මානව හිමිකම් නිතී ආදිය ලංකාවේ රජය විසින් ක්රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන්නේ යම් යම් ජගත් සම්මුතීන් වලට අත්සන් තැබීම හේතු කොට ගෙනයි. මේ නීති 1978 ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව මගින් බලාත්මක විය.මානවයාගේ පැවත්ම සහතික කරන ප්රජාතන්ත්රීය මූලධර්ම වශයෙන් සළකණු ලබන මෙම නීති ලංකාවේ සමාජයට කෙතරම් දුරට සාධාරණ සහ ස්වීය වශයෙන් […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One understands individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole (American Psychological Association). Personality is the entire mental organization of a human being […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel This is the theme of the World Consumer Day celebrating every 15th of March since 1983, when President John F Kennedy made the famous statement that Consumer by definition includes us all. They are the largest economic group affecting and affected […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
උපුටා ගැන්ම ළක්බිම යාපනේ පුස්තකාලය ගිනි තැබිම ගැන පසුගියදා රනිල් ප්රසිද්ධියේ සමාව ඉල්ලුවේය. මේ බව සඳහන් ප්රවෘත්තිය පත්තරෙන් කියවමින් සිටියදී ‘ලක්බිම’ වාර්තාකරුවෙක් පැමිණ මා ළඟින් වාඩිවිය. ඕකට විතරක් නෙවෙයි සමාව ඉල්ලන්නෙ” ඔහු මට පහත් හඩින් කියා සිටියේය. තව වැරදි ලැයිස්තුවකටම සමාව ඉල්ලන්නයි ඉන්නෙ” ඔහු ඒ බව දන්නේ කෙසේදැයි මම විමසුවෙමි. මට හම්බුවුණා ලැයිස්තුවම” ඔහු ජයග්රාහී […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island December 13, 2016, 10:17 am There seems to be no end in sight to the government reneging on its pre-election pledges. One of its main campaign slogans was that the Rajapaksas were turning the country into a Chinese colony. It promised to regain Sri Lanka and cancel Chinese funded Port City project […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Before any person qualifies to sit behind a steering wheel in a movable vehicle and to be called a ‘driver,’ one needs to have the basic knowledge of the Highway Code, along with requisite experience and practical skills and a licence to drive motor vehicles. Multiple of articles […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
ග්රන්ථ එළි දැක්ම වසර 1986 සිට 1990 දක්වා පැවති 60,000ක් ඝාතනය වූ ධවල භීෂණ වකවානුව පිළිබඳව ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්යවේදී ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න විසින් රචිත ජවිපෙ 2වැනි කැරැල්ල ග්රන්ථය 2016 දෙසැම්බර් 20 අඟහරුවාදා පස්වරු 3ට කොළඹ 5 තුංමුල්ල මංසන්දිය අසළ පිහිටි ශ්රී සම්බුද්ධ ජයන්ති මන්දිර ශ්රවණාගාරයේදී එළි දැක්වේ. වසර 27කට පෙර පැවති ජවිපෙ 2වැනි කැරැල්ලේ සත්ය කතාව මෙම කෘතියට […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
උපුටා ගැන්ම ළක්බිම ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඡනවාර්ගික සමගිය සහජීවනය සහ සංහිදියාව ගොඩනැගිමත් එය ආරක්ෂා කිරිම උදෙසාත් වර්තමාන ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදන ක්රීයාවලිය තුළ දක්නට ලැබෙන ඡාතිවාදි ආගම්වාදි බෙදුම්වාදි සහ පටු දේශපාලන මතවාදි ප්රවනතාවයන් පරාඡය කිරිම සඳහාත් ඊයේ (11) මහනුවර ශ්රී දළදා මාලිගාව ඉදිරිපිට මහමළුවේදි මහාසංඝරත්නය සහ ගිහි පිරිසක් අධිෂ්ඨාන පූඡාවක් පැවැත්වුහ. මහනුවර ඡෝර්ජ ඊ ද සිල්වා උද්යානය අසළ සිට […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Technological advances in Sweden is ahead most of all the developed nations .We just contacted a Swedish Company ,which designs and assembles garbage baling units and installed all over the world. Pls see the attached video https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ifwmn8spk93icv6/AADC7101NdPEidWK_ZYL3Amha?dl=0&preview=aMSW+AirLaVille+CH+05_16.mov My proposal has been to obtain above baling technology and assemble the units in our […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
By PK Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Leaders of Tamil Nadu, across the political divide, privately but effectively supported the Indian government’s policy of opposing efforts by the US and Norway to rescue Velupillai Prabhakaran so that his Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lived to fight another day, says Shivshankar Menon, India’s […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Efforts to tweak Sri Lanka’s constitution is nothing new. Several mischievous attempts had been made to dilute the sovereignty of Sri Lanka by creating issues, hyping these to levels where solutions had been to dilute the sovereignty. Language issue was flogged to create the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact of 1957 followed by the Dudly-Chelvanayagam […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න උතුරේ හා දකුණේ අරාබි වරු එකිනෙකා කෙරෙහි බද්ධ වය්රයෙන් පසුවුහ . අදත් සමහරු මේ වය් රය ඇත හැර නැත . එකම ග්ත්රයේ විවිධ වංශිකයෝ පවා අන්තර් විවාහ ප්රතිෂේප කලේ ‘’’උන්ට කවුද ගෑනු දෙන්නේ ‘’ වැනි උද්ධච්ච හැගීම් නිසාය ‘’’උන් මොක්කුද ‘’’අපිනේ මිනිස්සු ‘’’ යන භේද කාරී අදහස් නැතිකර සමානාත්මතා අදහස් තම ආගමිකයන් අතර […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ, ශ්රී ලංකා සහයෝගිතා කණ්ඩායම srilankasupportgroup@bigpond.com යෝජිත නව ආණ්ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් අවසානයේදී බිහි වෙන්නේ ඊලාම් රාජ්යයකි: 1987, 13වෙනි සංශෝධනයෙන් පසුව වත් නොලැබුණු ඉඩම්, පොලිස්, මුදල් බලතල පළාත් සභාවලට දීමට යාම. රටේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය/පාලනය සහ කළමනාකරණය මුළුමනින්ම පළාත්සභා වලට. එනම්, උතුරේ මහා ඇමතිට ඕන නම් තමිල්නාඩුවේ අයට වුනත් ඉඩම්? සිංහලයන්ට උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර අළුතෙන් ඉඩම් අයිතිවාසිකම් අහිමි වේවි? […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Conciliation Fraud A TNA MP was so overwhelmed by joy he grabbed the Batticaloa senior DIG of police by his neck and planted a heavy kiss on his face. Why, because police stopped Sinhala Buddhists crowds entering Batticaloa to visit Mangalaraamaya of the monk Ampitiye Sumanaratana. It is amazing that a […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
By Noor Nizam. Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, December 12th., 2016. It is time up that a NEW POLITICAL FORCE that will be honest and sincere, to stand up and defend the Muslim Community politically and otherwise, especially from among the YOUTH, and safeguard the […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture India has been the largest exporter of beef in the world in 2016 followed by Brazil, Australia and the United States. Even in 2015, India was the world’s top beef exporter. The CNN said in a recent report that Buffalo meat exported from India is cheaper. […]
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna Chapter Leader Dharma Voices for Animals, Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter Christmas is meant to be the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united. Is Christmas truly the season of joy for all? Does gift – giving during Christmas cover all forms of life? These are valid questions, morally speaking. […]
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