Archive for 2016
Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Dr.SARATH OBEYSEKERA When I read the above Advertisement to day inserted by the Central Bank ,I wonder what Government Auditor who is the watch-dog for monitoring compliance with state rules and FR etc will say ? This is double standard AS all other government institutions are forced to request government valuer to issue valuations in […]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna The grant of a Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Philippines to Pandit W. D. Amaradeva (in 2001), inasmuch as it brought honour to Sri Lanka drew attention to a glaring deficiency in this country’s national scheme of distribution of awards i.e. the lack of a comparable International Prize in the name of an […]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Dr. Ivan Amarasinghe In Viet Nam alone there are over a million human beings suffering from horrific teratogenic deformities caused allegedly due to the spraying of over 77 million litres of Agent Orange supplied by Monsanto and Bayer, sprayed by the American air force over much of the fertile Mekong and Red River basin areas. Their immediate aim […]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2016
By Dharma Hewamadduma(Former Act Secretary Ministry of Health and Adl Secretary Ministry of Justice.) Courtesy The Island In memory of Anagarika Dharmapala, whose 152nd birth anniversary falls today When he was born on Sept. 17, 1864 the Sinhalese had been deprived of their energy, confidence and spirit due to the colonial rule of the Portuguese, the […]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Peta Bee Courtesy BODY & SOUL The Times (UK) Being aware of your circadian rhythms can boost your energy levels, focus and performance. Most of us pack as much into our days as we can. We cram in work, socialising, gym sessions and endless ferrying around of the kids without thinking twice about our body clock. […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA It has been suggested, and I think quite rightly, that the most valuable function of a public intellectual is to provide interesting and stimulating ideas for public discussion, which in turn can ground material changes, whether in politics, arts, science, or any other field, in order to benefit society as a whole. In […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
චාර්ල්ස්. එස් පෙරේරා විසිනි මේ මිනිහා අවුරුදු 70 වක් වෙනකම් ජීවත් උනේ, අධ්යාපනය ලැබුවේ , නඩුකාරයෙක් වශයෙන් රාජකාරි කලේ, පුත්තුදෙන්නට සිංහල ගෑනු අරන් දුන්නේ කොළඹ සිංහල මිනිස්සු ඉන්න පරිසරයක ජීවත්වෙලා ඉඳගෙන. උතුරේ පළාත් සභාවේ මහා ඇමති උනාට පස්සේ දැන් අවුරුදු හතරක විතර කාලයක් යාපනේ ජීවත්වෙලා දැන් යාපනේ දෙමළ මිනිස්සුන්ට පෙන්නන්න හදනවා මිනිහා යාපනේ දෙමලළ මිනුස්සන්ටත් […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න තැනින් තැන ගලායන දිය සීරාවන්ය. දසත ගස් කොලන්ය. පසෙකින් මාඔය ගලා බසී. ඉන් නැගෙන්නේ අපූරු සිසිලකි. මෙය දේශගුණිය ස්වභාවික තුලනයේ මනා සංකලනයකි. ඒ තුළින් මීගමුව වයික්කාලේ කරුණාකරල ආයුර්වේද ස්පා ඇන්ඩ් රිසෝට් ජීවක අසපුවේ සිරි අසිරිය මතුවේ. එය ශ්රී ලාංකීය ආයුර්වේද වෛද්ය සත්කාර ලෝකය පුරා සිටින සංචාරකයන්ට පමණක් නොව දැරියහැකි මිලකට වෙනස් විදියේ නිවාඩුවක් […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
අනුර සෙනෙවිරත්න ලොව හැම ජාතික රටක පදින්චිකාර ජනවරිගයන් එම රටේ එකම ජාතික පුරවැසියන් බවට පත්වන අතර සිංහෙල රටේ පමනක් අතහැර ආ ඔවුන්ගේ විජාතික රටේ විජාතික අයිතිවාසිකම් සිංහෙල රටේද දී ඇත. මෙය සිංහෙල ජාතික සෛරීත්වය මහ දවාලේ උල්ලංගනය කිරීමකි. සිංහෙල ජාතික සෛරීත්වය නම් සිංහෙල ජාතික මව්බිමේ සිංහෙලයාගේ මූලික මිනිස් අයිතිවාසිකම් උල්ලංඝනයකි! එහෙත් තවම […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Anniversary celebrations of the two main political parties were held in two consecutive weekends this September. Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in Kurunegala on Sunday 4, and the United National Party (UNP) in Colombo on Saturday 10. The UNP was formed in 1946 to take over from British […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Times (Pakistan) ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Friday called upon the government to revise Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed with various countries in order to improve exports and trade competitiveness of Pakistan. A statement, quoting ICCI President Atif Ikram Sheikh, said that as […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy Ceylon Today Recently, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said that Budget 2017 will be presented to Parliament on 10 November. This budget is crucial for the government as well as to the public due to multiple reasons. At the moment, the government is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. On one […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Embassy of Sri Lanka, Washington DC Participating at the Our Ocean Conference 2016, at the invitation of the US Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, on 15 September, outlined several commitments by Sri Lanka to protect oceans around Sri Lanka and beyond. The Minister said that Sri Lanka is perhaps one of […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is an important industry for Sri Lanka, where we get professional work from other countries to be serviced from here. It is an IT Enabled Service sector which is already adding much value to our economy, in terms of foreign revenue. The first ever book on this sector […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Courtesy Ceylon Today The Judiciary and the Police have of late once again come under the public scrutiny and comment. This is not merely because Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe himself fuelled it by claiming the Judiciary was on a collision course with the government but because keen observers who are not weak in the head […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
lanka C news නමුත් එය ඔප්පු කරන්නට කිසිදු කොල කැබිල්ලක් හෝ පිලිගත හැකි මූලාශ්රයක් වැඩසටහන පුරාම ඔවුන් ඉදිරිපත් නොකලේය. විපක්ෂය වෙනුවෙන් සහභාගී වූ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා දින වකවානු ස්ථාන පුද්ගලයින්ගේ නම් ගම්ද සහිතව පෙන්වා දුන්නේ අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අවස්ථා දෙකකදී කොටින් සමග ගිවිසුම් ගත වූ බවයි. එම තර්කය මුළු වැඩසටහන පුරාම බිද දමන්නට […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
lanka C news ඇය මේ අදහස් පල කලේ ජාතික සංහිඳියාව සඳහා ජාතික ලේකම් කාර්යාලය විසින් කොලඹදී පවත්වන ලද සම්මන්ත්රණයක් අමතමිනි. මෙරට ෆෙඩරල් ක්රමයක් හා අර්ධ අනාගමික ව්යවස්ථාවක් සකස් කිරීමට කටයුතු කල යුතු බවත් ඊට සියළ දෙනා සහයෝගය දිය යුතු බවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය පවසයි. https://youtu.be/wwFWIb_eXrU
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Wrong to prevent elephants taking part in Perahera – Mahinda පෙරහැරට අලි නොදෙන එක සම්පුර්ණ වැරදි..
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Bandula joins campaign raising funds to pay ex-army officer’s fine ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්රතිපත්තිය ගැන කණගාටුයි
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
in Featured, LNW SPY ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයට අභියෝගයක්ව සිටින මහින්ද පිළ නියෝජනය කරන ශ්රීලනීප මන්ත්රීවරුන් බිලි බා ගැනිමට අවසන් මෙහෙයුම ක්රියාත්මක කිරිමට සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඇතුලු ඔහුගේ බත් බැලයන් කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින බව අප දේශපාලන වාර්තාකරු අනාවරණය කළා.ඊට ප්රධානතම් හේතුව වි ඇත්තේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් නව පක්ෂයක් පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් විමට අවස්න් […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
By Anusha Ondaatjie Courtesy Bloomberg.com Island’s 2Q GDP expands 2.6% y/y versus 4.9% median forecast Central Bank raised benchmark interest rates in July Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Sri Lanka’s gross domestic product expanded less than estimated in the previous quarter, even as central bank Governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy raised key interest rates in his first review in July. […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror An official Ambassador is defined as a diplomat of the highest rank accredited to a foreign Government as the resident representative of his or her Motherland. The equivalent designation to an Ambassador among Commonwealth Nations is High Commissioner. Since an Ambassador or High Commissioner is the premier representative of his […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
By Dominic Ponsford Courtesy BBC world service A BBC World Service journalist who claims he was sacked for favouring coverage about the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils has won an appeal and successfully argued that he was unfairly dismissed. Chandana Bandara lost his job on 15 August 2014 after he declined to put a story out […]
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Friday, September 16th, 2016
Courtesy BBC From the section Asia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37358467 A poster outside a Sri Lankan boys’ school telling women what to wear is generating heated debate on social media. The BBC’s Ayeshea Perera explains why people in the capital Colombo are so outraged. At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking it was a page from a cheap […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that having postponed elections, the government has been engaged in an effort to show that they still have public support by transporting people to political meetings so as to claim that they too have crowds just like the Joint Opposition. This is the first time that I have […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge During the last few months before the end of the LTTE ground force there were 3 players inside the theatre of war – the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, the LTTE and Tamil civilians and the possibility of South Indians also fighting needs to be ascertained? We know that 6261 soldiers died between […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge “There is no fundamental difference between man and animal in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery”– Charles Darwin This is not about a religion but about the sorrow in the way animals have been slaughtered for an event of celebration and to question how anyone can celebrate denying […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor | Francis Elliott, Political Editor Courtesy The Times (UK) Damning inquiry into Libya points finger at former PM ● Failed intervention helped terror group grow in Africa An opportunistic” David Cameron led a botched intervention in Libya that caused the rise of Islamic State in north Africa, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded. The former prime minister was ultimately […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2016
By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent Courtesy Sky News MPs say the former prime minister’s intervention helped fuel instability and enabled increased terrorism across the Middle East. The 2011 campaign to overthrow the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has been described as “ill-conceived” and “founded on erroneous assumptions”. A highly critical report, published by the Foreign Affairs Select […]
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හෙට රට ෆේස්බුක් පිටුවෙනි විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි නොකල යුතු බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ආණ්ඩුව නියෝජනය කරන ශ්රීලනිප මැති ඇමතිවරුන් හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදී සදහන් කර ඇත එහිදී අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාටද දොස් පවරමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සදහන් කර ඇත්තේ විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි කලහොත් මේ මොහොතේ වාසිය යන්නේ හිටපු ජනපති මහින්දට බවයි. එජාපයේ මැති ඇමතිවරුන් විශාල […]
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