Archive for 2016
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
By Our Correspondent Guwahati: New Delhi based senior journalist Syed Nazakat has been elected to the board of directors of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), a Washington DC based international media body. Nazakat ran unopposed to become the representative for the Asia Pacific region and he would serve a two-year term in the forum. Besides […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
RANJITH SOYSA According to reports the Police is planning to evict 50 odd farmer families from Panama if they do not vacate the lands occupied before 30th June 2016 It is indeed an act of cruelty by the Police and the other authorities for not allowing the peasant families to continue their activities on their […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A drastic social and cultural revolution has taken place in Sri Lanka over the past few decades; with peoples’ attitudes, culture, the calibre of the rulers and politicians, school teachers, parents and students alike, have taken a three hundred and sixty degree turn towards the depreciation of the […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
M.L.WICKRAMASINGHE The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform in Sri Lanka has published its report. The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) adopted a resolution on constitutional changes. Although presented unconstitutionally NPC proposal should be studied. It is the responsibility of all Sri Lankan citizens belonging to all ethnic groups and political ideologies to begin discussions on […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
සුජීව දිසානායක උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ක්රි.ව. 5 සියවස පමණ වන විට ථෙරවාදි බුදුදහම ප්රබල අර්බුදයකට මුහුණදී තිබුණි. ඒ මහායාන ආගමික සංකල්පයන්ගෙන් ථෙරවාදය ගිලගැනීමයි. ක්රි.ව. 01 සියවසේ කණිෂ්ක දවස කාශ්මීරයේදී පවත්වන්නට යෙදුණු සිව්වන ධර්ම සංගායනාවත් සමග සංස්කෘත භාෂාව අන් කවරදාටත් වඩා බුදුදහම ආක්රමණය කරන්නට විය. මේ නිසා බුදුදහම ආශ්රිතව තිබූ පාලි භාෂාවට ප්රබල තර්ජනයක් මතු විය. මතු […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
රාත්මලාන ධර්ම පර්යේෂණාලයේ හෑගොඩ විපස්සී හිමි බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ දේශනා කළ ශ්රී සද්ධර්මය ත්රිපිටකයේ සඳහන් වෙනවා. අභිධර්මය ඇතුළු විවිධ සූත්ර ඇතුළත් මෙහි තුන්පිටකය සමඟ නිතැතින්ම කියෑවෙන ග්රන්ථාවලියක් තියෙනවා. එය අප හඳුන්වන්නේ අටුවාව ලෙසයි. මෙය පාලි භාෂාවෙන් හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ අට්ඨ කතා ලෙසයි. පාලි භාෂාවෙන් අට්ඨ කතා යන්න අටුවා” ලෙස ව්යවහාරයට පැමිණ තිබෙනවා. බුද්ධ දේශනාව ආශ්රයෙන්ම අටුවාව ගොඩනැගී තිබෙනවා. […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island Franchise is the linchpin of democracy as is common knowledge. It helps give expression to the popular will and install administrations people deem fit to govern them. Elections are to franchise what water is to fish. Deprived of the medium of electoral contest, franchise suffers disuse atrophy and anarchy sets in. We […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island One-time head of the Law Faculty, University of Colombo, Dr Nirmala Chandrahasan last Thursday (June 16) called for tangible action on the part of the Sri Lankan government to bring in Sri Lankan refugees, living in India, particularly in the state of Tamil Nadu. Dr Chandrahasan estimated the number of […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
By Tissa Vitarana Courtesy The Island June 21, 2016, 7:45 pm The UNP/SLFP Alliance government came together, ostensibly as a “National Unity” government, thereby escaping the restrictions placed on the number of Ministers by the 19th Amendment. It had as its main objectives (a) the establishment of good governance and (b) the changing of the Constitution […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island The title of this commentary is derived from the 16th century proverb “Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost”. There are at least two versions of the real meaning of the relatively obscure expression, the “hindmost” contained in the proverb: as per its usage in PHILASTER or […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
By : A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA Former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa has returned to the motherland after a ten days highly successful visit to Japan, his third overseas visit since losing the Presidency on 8th January 2015. During these 10 days Mr. Rajapaksa participated at several Buddhist and social events in several Japanese cities attended by […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The modern mass media undoubtedly blend with three things: economics, money and profit. For a start, any media organization needs to inject a huge amount of money as an investment to establish from its infrastructure up to the operation level, plus the wages and salaries to permanent staff and […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
KAMALIKA PIERIS The provinces of Sri Lanka, (Northern, Central, Eastern, Western, North Central, North Western, Uva, Sabaragamuwa and Southern) are not ‘historical’ provinces set out by the Sinhala kings. They are not ‘natural’ provinces formed through migration and settlement either. These provinces are ‘new’ provinces imposed on the island by the British rulers in the […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahathma Gandhi The Sri Lankan society experienced 30 year prolonged armed conflict and the 2004 Tsunami that changed the psychological landscape of the Islanders. A large number people underwent the detrimental repercussions of these manmade and […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය – දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ හදිසියේ ක්රියාත්මක වන පරිදි ලිට්රෝ ගෑස් සමාගමේ විධායක සභාපතිවරයා සමඟ අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු ඉවත් කිරීමේ සැලසුමක් ක්රියාත්මක වන බව දැනගන්නට ලැබී ඇත. මිලියන 1700 ක ලාභයක් ලැබූ ටෙන්ඩර් ප්රදානයකින් පසුව හදිසියේම මෙවැනි තත්වයක් ඇතිවීම බලවත් සැකයට තුඩු දෙන කරුණක් වන බැවින් මේ පිළිබඳව වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කිරීමට දූෂණ […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න බෙදුම්වාදී ත්රස්ත කොටි වසර තිස් ගණනක් තිස්සේ මේ රට විනාශ කරනකොට 2009 දී ජීවිත පරදුවට තබා සටන් කර රට බේරා ගත් තේ අපිය එනිසාම ජනතාව අපව හැ දින්නුවේ රණවිරුවෝ කියාය පොදු ජනතාව අපට ගරුකලේ ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිත බේරා දීමට අපි සටන් කල බව දන්නා නිසය් . ප්රභාකරන් සිටියදී අපි නොයෙක් නායකයන් යටතේ සටන් කළා […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 2000 වසරේදී අලිමංකඩට, එල්ටීටීඊය විසින් ප්රහාරයක් එල්ල කරන ලදි. අලිමංකඩ හමුදා කඳවුර මුළුමනින්ම බිඳ දැමීමට මුලින්ම එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ය අලිමංකඩ කඳවුරු භුමියේ ජල සැපයුම කපා දැමීය. මේ නිසා අලිමංකඩ කඳවුර අත් හැර දැමීමට ඉහල හමුදා නායකත්වය තීරණය කලහ. අසර්ථක නායකත්වය හා අකාර්යක්ෂම ක්රමෝපාය සැලැස්ම නිසා අලිමංකඩ පසුබැසිම හේතු කොට ගෙන ජිවිත රැුසක් විනාශ විය. […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Andreas Schlüter Courtesy WIPOKULI Wissenschaft, Politik, Kunst und Literatur The State of Global Affairs Division of the World by the US Military Everyone who is not totally blinded by the advertising mainstream media can see certain things clearly about US politics directed by the US Power Elite: Obvious are the Western imperial and colonial wars against Africa, […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
KAMALIKA PIERIS The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who started Christian missionary operations in Jaffna in 1816, encouraged Tamil studies with special emphasis on Tamil literature. They wished to know the main Tamil texts. They wanted also to upgrade the Tamil language used by the inhabitants of Jaffna. The American Mission in Boston […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Adaderana We will kill everyone against us,” Minister Patali Ranawaka has told a monk, according to the Leader of the Jathika Emamuthuwa Venerable Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (21). https://youtu.be/lB2slAoUf6I Nalaka Thero went on to say the monk had also quoted the […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera We all know that Sri Lanka has miserably failed in coordination of development work in the country . .J R installed provincial councils to satisfy India and also to show the world that he is quite genuine in decentralization of power .In the North Vartharajh Perumal thought that he is above the […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The Daily Mirror of 20 June 2016 in an article titled ‘Government to allow foreigners to buy land’ has informed the public that the present government will amend existing land laws in a bid to liberalize laws to enable foreigners to make outright purchase of Sri Lanka’s state lands. This raises the […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge What happens when minorities begin calculated demand campaigns which they have no legitimate right to and thereafter once enough public attention is gained they agree to settle for a compromise? They end up gaining what they have no right to gain and those compromising totally ignore this fact because world media, foreign […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
The Whenever Show explains bonds. Dodgy bonds. https://www.facebook.com/YAMUtelevision/videos/1021425711243787/
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE (Retired) Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers His Excellency Mr. Maithripala Sirisena Executive President of SriLanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Dear HE the President of the DSR of SriLanka As a patriotic SriLankan Diaspora I have multitude of multi-dimensional grievance to be […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Senaka Weeraratna Dharma Voices for Animals If a lawyer is unable to extend justice to animals who are eternally seeking freedom and liberty from the inhumanity and injustice of humans then the legal training of such a lawyer in a holistic sense is not worth a tuppence. If we cannot see the injustice committed on animals […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Nature’s Beckon and Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) have expressed utter dismay at the poaching of another one-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in a fortnight, and demanded stringent actions against the culprits. Both the organizations opined that the killing of seventh rhino till date this year at the most protected forest […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
සාකච්ඡා කළේ ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න ඉරිදා දිවයින * දෙමළ අය ඉල්ලපු විස`දුම දීලා ඉවරයි * මෛත්රී ඉන්න ඕනෑ තමන්ට ගැලපෙන අය එක්ක * දැන් ප්රශ්න ඇතිකරන්නේ බෞද්ධයන්ට… රට දියුණු කරන්නට නම් රටේ ජනතාව ආරක්ෂා කරන්නට නම් ආර්ථික හා සමාජීය ප්රශ්නවලින් මෙන්ම විවිධාකාරවූ ජාත්යන්තර බලපෑම්වලින් රට බේරා ගන්නට නම් මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා වහාම […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
www.lankanewsweb.today මලයාසියාවේ සිට ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට ෆේස්බුක් සමාජ ජාල වෙබ් අඩවියෙන් මරණ තර්ජනය කළ සුමල් ලක්මන නම් තරුණයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිවැරදි තොරතුරු මේ දක්වා අනාවරණය නොවු අතර සුමල් ලක්මන මානව හිමිකමි කොමිසම හමුවට පැමිණිමෙන් පසුව සත්ය අනාවරණය වි තිබේ.ඒ අනුව මෛත්රීට,රනිල්ට කඩේ යන රහස් පොලීසිය කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණයේදී ගිහාන් පිලපිටිය ඉදිරිපිට නිරැවත් වි තිබේ. […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Almost 18 months since the new regime came to power ,and both UNLP’ers .SLFP ,JVP and JOC all in similar frequency Vis a vis failures of development drive and the management of the proposed development gaols and plans .None of them are talking good about the progress and yet expect something to […]
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