Archive for 2016
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.” – Albert Schweitzer Reincarnation is a popular belief among many people, and it is a fundamental basis for many religions. The general idea of reincarnation is the belief […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Press Statement by Anti-corruption Front Anti-Corruption Front (ACF) calls for an independent presidential commission to investigate the two controversial treasury bond scams following reports that there is a possibility of two separate reports by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE). AS there is an information on two separate reports (or two separate recommendations in a […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් උපදේශක/දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ කෝප් කමිටුව බැඳුම්කර වංචාව පිළිබද සකස් කළ වාර්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ලෙස බෙදීමක් මතුව ඇති බැවින්, කරුණු විමර්ශනය සදහා විශේෂ ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් සභාවක් පත් කරන ලෙස දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ අද ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් විවෘත ඉල්ලීමක් කළේය. කෝප් කමිටුව විසින් එකිනෙකට පරස්පර නිර්දේශ සහිත වාර්තා දෙකක් හෝ එකම වාර්තාවක් දෙ ආකාර නිර්දේශ සහිතව ඉදිරිපත් […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් රටම මහින්දට යන තේමාව යටතේ කඩුවෙල පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය සංවිධායක ශිරන්ත ජයලත් මහතා විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද ජන හමුවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් වන නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල, ප්රසන්න රණතුංග සහ ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ මාධ්ය ප්රකාශක මොහොමඩ් මුසාමිල් යන මහත්වරුන්ගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් රාජගිරිය කලපළුවාවේදී පැවැත්විනි. මේ අවස්ථාව සඳහා පලාත් සභා මන්ත්රීවරුන් වන ජගත් පුෂ්පකුමාර, මේජර් ප්රදීප් […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් පසුගියදා යාපනය චුන්නාකම්හිදී පොලිස් බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනෙකු කපා කොටා තුවාල කලේ තම සංවිධානය විසින් යයි උතුරේ ක්රියාත්මක වන ‘ආවා ගෲප්’ කණ්ඩායම විසින් යාපනය සහ ආසන්න නගරවල අත්පත්රිකා බෙදා ඇත. පොළිසිය විසින් යාපනය සරසවි සිසුන් දෙදෙනෙකු ඝාතනය කිරීම නිසා මෙය සිදු කල බවද අදාල අත් පත්රිකාවන්හි දැක්වෙයි. මෙම අත් පති්රිකා උතුරේ යාපනය, […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island October 20, 2016, 9:14 pm Decades prior to May 2009, when the ‘armed conflict’ in Sri Lanka ended, the conflict had been branded as an ‘ethnic’ one. Subsequently, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission in their report categorized it as a conflict between a state and a non-state actor. The […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror By Joint Opposition’s Parliamentary Group Leader Dinesh Gunawardane, in an interview with Daily Mirror, says President Maithripala Sirisena has finally realised the veracity of allegations against the FCID, CID and the Bribery Commission. He says the government is in a serious crisis. Excerpts: Not excited by emotional outbursts The […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph The 13-member Special Parliamentary Investigation Committee that probed the alleged insider trading and favoritism in the recent treasury bond issue has established Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran’s direct intervention on behalf of his son-in-law Arjun Aloysius owned Perpetual Treasuries.We publish below the interim report prepared by the committee, the sudden decision to […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
By PK Balachandran / ENS | Express News Service | Published: 24th October 2016 04:05 PM | COLOMBO: The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, refused to hoist the LTTE’s flag at a function organized by the pro-LTTE organization Tamil Coordination Committee (TCC) at Harrow in London on Sunday. When the Chief Minister came to […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) today held former Central Bank (CB) Governor Arjuna Mahendran’s son-in-law Arjun Aloysius and other directors of Perpetual Treasuries responsible for the controversial CB Bond Scam, UNP member of COPE and Deputy Minister Ajith P. Perera said. The COPE recommended to arrest Aloysius […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් 1994 වසරේදී දිඹුලාගල නාහිමියන්ගේ ආදාහනෝත්සවයට පැමිණි තමන් සභාව අමතන්නට සැරසෙනවාත් සමගම එක දිගටම හූ තැබූ බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. එදා සංවිධානාත්මකය හූ තැබූ අය පසුව නිසි කාරණා තේරුම් ගත් පසු පසු තැවෙන්න ඇතැයිද ජනාධිපතිවරයා කියා සිටියේ ඊයේ දිනයේ පැවති දිඹුලාගල සිරි සීලාලංකාරගම ජනතා අයිතියට පත් කිරීමේ උත්සවයට එක්වෙමිනි. 2019 වසරේදී […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
IMRC Iriyagolle (A traumatised Sinhalese Buddhist) Hon.James Barry MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. Dear Sir, Ayubowan I am writing this letter on behalf of the beleaguered, maligned, persecuted, betrayed and more importantly the murdered, tortured Sinhalese victims of the Tamil traitors of Sri Lanka. Our demands in brief are as followers: The Tamils […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
By Karen Allen Southern Africa correspondent, BBC News The threatened departure of one of the founding fathers of the world’s first permanent war crimes court feels like Africa’s Brexit moment. South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), notifying the UN of its decision. The government concluded that membership […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 1931 වසරේ ලංකාවේ කෘෂි කාර්ම අධ්යක්ෂකව සිටි ඩබ්ලිව් යන්ග් මන් ගේ පරිපාලන වාර්තාවේ උදෘතයක් ——‘’’ලංකාවේ ගොවිතැන් ක්රම වියදම් අධිකය .පිටරටින් හාල් ගෙනවිත් දීම වඩා ලාභ දායකය .එහෙත් ගොවියාගේ ශ්රමය යෙදවීමට වෙනත් විකල්පයක් නැති නිසා සහල් නිෂ්පාදනය නතර කිරීමට මගක් නැත .’’’’ ඉංග්රීසින්ට අවශ්ය වුයේ ‘’’ බයින් ඇන්ඩ් සෙලින් ‘’’ ආර්ථිකයක් මිස රටේ ජනතාවගේ […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The Sri Lankan government by a extraordinary gazette in November 2015 delisted 8 organizations that had been listed in 2014 as LTTE fronts supplying material support to the LTTE under UNSC Resolution 1373. The reason for the delisting was given as in the spirit of reconciliation. The Foreign Minister’s response was that […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
By Rohana R. Wasala (Following is the entertaining story of Kandula, the battle elephant of king Dutugemunu, pieced together from incidental details found in the classic historical epic poem The Mahavamsa of the 5th CE, which I consider a rich source humour, humanity and wisdom. This article recently appeared in the Sri Lankan daily The […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy: Ceylon Today The visiting Independent Expert on Minority Issues of the Human Rights Council Rita Izsak-Ndiaye noted that despite there being a semblance of peaceful coexistence between different religious groups, there are challenges in relation to minority religious groups who face difficulties in constructing certain new places of worship and […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Paul Craig Roberts Do Americans have a memory? I sometimes wonder. It is an obvious fact that the oligarchic One Percent have anointed Hillary, despite her myriad problems to be President of the US. There are reports that her staff are already moving into their White House offices. This much confidence before the vote does […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
RT Under threat of war crimes charges, the UNHRC resolution on Aleppo is attempting to make the humanitarian pause in the city permanent and ensure the offensive against terrorists there is not resumed, says former GOP senate foreign policy adviser Jim Jatras. TrendsSyria unrest The UN Human Rights Council has voted to launch a […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
By James Petras Information Clearing House October 13, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office through a well-organized, carefully planned operation among the corrupt Brazilian political elite, closely linked to the stock-market, financial institutions and foreign energy companies. This ‘legislative coup d’état ’eliminated the democratically-elected ‘political intermediaries’ and installed […]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Editorial Island October 23, 2016, 8:01 pm Parliamentary standards continue to fall and space for political dissent is rapidly shrinking in spite of last year’s regime change, whose architects promised a radical departure from the past. Members of the ruling coalition are already intoxicated with power; they think they are omniscient, and always lord it […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
Shenali D Waduge We challenge the UN Rapporteur Izsak Ndiaye to give a list of rights that legally & constitutionally are denied to the minorities in Sri Lanka which are legally & constitutionally given only to the Sinhalese majority. Name any instance where a law or judgement has been changed simply because the offender was […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
එජාප වෙබ් අඩවි හතර අතේ වනයි.. සම කැබිනට් ප්රකාශක ඇමති රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහා පරිමාන වංචා කරුවෙකු බවත්, එසේ මහා පරිමාණ වංචාවකින් ඉපැයූ මුදල් පසුගිය වසරේ පැවති මහ මැතිවරණයේදී තම පුත් චතුර සේනාරත්නගේ මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයේදී විශාල වශයෙන් වියදම් කර ඇතැයිද එජාප හිතවාදී ලංකා ඊ නිවුස් වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තාවක් පල කර ඇත. සම්පූර්ණ පුවත මෙතනින් (ලංකා ඊ […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
by Saman Indrajith Island ‘Good Governance’ MPs in last ditch-battle to defend their man UNP to present alternative report disputing damning report The Island draws fire for reporting committee proceedings October 21, 2016, 9:41 pm Parliamentary watchdog committee, COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises), yesterday approved its Chairman’s report holding former Central Bank governor Arjuna Mahendran […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
Susantha Wijesingh MR. PRESIDENT ! No malice intended, but what is sensational in the GLIRICIDIA PLANT ? What I know of the Gliricidia Plant, is that it is planted for Fences, and its leaves are given to the GOATS, as their food. Do we have so many GOATS to feed ? The leaves could be […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ‘ශාක්ය සිංහල’ පොතෙන් උපුටා ගත් කොටසකි. සිංහල සංක්රමණය ඉන්දියාව ඔස්සේ සිදු වී ඇති නිසා සිංහලයන් ඉන්දියාවේ සිට පැමිණි බව උගතුන් අපට උගන්වා ඇත. එසේම පොතපතෙහි ලියා ඇත. මේ නිසා සිංහලයෝ ඉන්දියානු ජන කොටසක් වෙති‘යි යන අදහස අපගේ සිත් තුළට කාවැදී ඇත. සිංහල සහ අසිංහල උගතුන් සියලූ දෙනාම වාගේ ඒ අදහස තව තවත් […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් උපදේශක/දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ ‘යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ‘ පළමු මාස 21 ගෙවී ගියේ ‘ජිමික් පොලිටික්ස්‘ (මයාකාරී දේශපාලනයෙන්) මිස මහපොළොවේ යථාර්ථයන් හා හැපෙමින් නොවේ. ජනවාරි 8 ට නායකත්වය දුන් පිරිස පමණක් නොව මේ ආණ්ඩුවට ඡන්දය දුන් ලක්ෂ 62 ක් බලාගෙන සිටියේ ආණ්ඩුව දුන් පොරොන්දු ඉටු කරන තෙක් මිස ‘පමාවට හේතු‘ කියන්නට නොවේ. අන්ධ භක්තියෙන් පක්ෂ බදාගෙන […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
RANJITH SOYSA The President’s outburst against the politically motivated maneuverings of the CID, FCID and the Bribery Commission etc has opened a Pandora’s box providing a constructive opportunity for the public to re-evaluate the operations of the said agencies and to re- establish the rule of law to avoid the process of political hunting of […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Barren Land in 1948 converted and transformed into an oasis and a world power Pakistani observer expressed concerns over the Israel Presence in Sri Lanka while they maintain cordial relationships on trade, agriculture, and technology, despite the Middle East controversy now gradually easing out with the […]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The component of depression was evident to Dr. Mendez Da Costa who introduced the term Irritable heart during the US Civil War and Lt Col (Dr) Fredric Mott who coined the term Shell Shock during the World War one. Sometimes depression is obvious among the servicemen who were exposed to traumatic […]
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