Archive for 2016
Monday, April 4th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has told the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that he reserved the right to take legal action against its refusal to furnish a certified copy of Acting IGP S.M. Wickremesinghe’s directive that he be summoned to record a statement pertaining to the recent detection […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
By Raj Gonsalkorale Maithripala Sirisena is the President of Sri Lanka today because he was elected to this high office largely by UNP voters and not voters from his own party, the SLFP. The constitutionality of his position as the Chairman of the SLFP is also in question as he was not elected by a […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. මෙයට වසර 45 කට පෙර, ශ්රී ලංකා ජනසමාජය, අන්තර්ජාලය, කොම්පියුටරය, සෙල්ෆෝනය හා රූපවාහීනී වලින් තොරව පැවති නිහඩ නිශ්චලව, හෙමින් ගමනේ යෙදුන ජන සමාඦයක් විය. මේ නිසලව සෙමින් ඉදිරියට ඇදුන සමාජය තුල කුහුඹුවන්සේ කඩිමුඩියේ දිව යමින් කඩිසරව, කිසියම් කාර්යභාරයක යෙදුන තරුණ තරුණියන් කණ්ඩායමක්ද විය. ඔවුන් වයස 18 සිට අවුරුදු 35 අතර වයස් පරතරයක් […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
Ranil is an insult to Prime Minister post – GL
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න එජාප ආණ්ඩුව 1977 ජුලි පත්වීමෙන් පසුව බුද්ධිමතුන්ට, වැඩකරන ජනතාවට, සරසවි සිසුන්ට, සිවිල් සමාජයට සාමකාමීව ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදිව ස්වකීය අයිතීන් දිනා ගැනීමට සහ ඒවා ආරක්ෂාකර ගැනීමට සඳහා අරගල කිරීමට තිබූ අයිතීන් මර්ධනකාරීව පැහැරගනු ලැබීය. එජාප ආණ්ඩුව තම ක්රියාකාරිත්වයට එරෙහිව නැගුණු සෑම ජනතා අරගලයක්ම මර්ධනය කලා පමණක් නොව ස්වකීය බලය සදාකාලිකව පවත්වා ගැනීම සඳහා ක්රම සහ විධි […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana The authorities must not hide the truth” about facts surrounding the reports on ammunition and explosives that found from a house in Chawakatchcheri, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed. The observation was made during an event held in Bulnewa area in Anuradhapura. The former President went on to say the silence of the Government […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
By Arthur Wamanan Courtesy The Nation Terrorism experts last week warned that the dismantling of the security installations in the North and the East sans proper prior security assessment, at a time when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was still active internationally, could help dormant cells of the organization to re-emerge. In response to […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, launched Pawns of Peace: Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-2009 in Nov. 2011. The team comprised Gunnar Sorbo, Prof. Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Klem, Ada Elisabeth Nissen, Hilde Selbervik. The Norad-funded report asserted that India […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා සිංහලයන් ජාතියක් වීම ඇරඹුණේ පණ්ඩුකාභය රජු දවස ය. එතුමා මුළු ලංකාවේ ම රජකළ බවට සාක්ෂි නැත. කෙසේ වෙතත් අනුරාධපුරය අගනුවර කරගෙන එතුමා රාජධානියක් ගොඩනැගුවේ ය. එය එක් වංශයක හෝ ජනකොටසක හෝ රාජධානියක් නො වී ය. එහි නොයෙකුත් ආගමිකයන් විසූ බවට ද රජතුමා ඔවුන්ට තම ආගමික කටයුතු සිදුකිරීම සඳහා ආගමික මධ්යස්ථාන (සිද්ධස්ථාන) පිහිටුවූ […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
බලධාරිනි තොපිලගෙ ඇස් පොට්ටද රටක ජාතියක ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් සියල්ල කැපකර සටන් වැදුනු රණකාමින් වෙනුවෙන් මේ විරුවා හඩක් නගන්නේ තොපිලට නොහැගෙන දේ තොපිලට නොපෙනෙන දේ තොපිලගෙ පපු කැවුත්තට හේත්තු ගන්වන්න මිසක් වෙන අහවල් එකකටද, තොපිලට ජීවිත දානය දුන් දැයේ මුර දේවතාවන් ආරක්ෂා කරනු, බුද්ධි අංශ නිළධාරින් වහාම නිදහස් කරනු, මේ සාපයම උබලට ඇති නැවත මිනිස් ආත්මයක් […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
By J.B. Müller The Sri Lankan Diaspora overseas (mainly in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the USA) eagerly and indiscriminately absorbs everything appearing about their Motherland in the international print and electronic media. All what is done is done in the naïve belief that there isn’t a spin on the news and that it is […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Since grabbing power through unconstitutional methods, Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe government tried to find out corrupt deals between Chinese Government and the former government of President Mahinda Rajapakse. Headlines after headlines were given front page banner lines attacking Chinese Projects in Sri Lanka. Since coming into power Ranil and his government […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
By Charles S. Perera Every one who voted this disastrous government calling itself the Yahapalanaya into power may now be regretting, except of course the Tamils, Muslims the Civil Society Organisations bought over by the government and those who exist as ministers , administrators in some way connected in supporting this ambiguous Yahapalanaya Government. Its […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA A few years ago our beloved motherland was a country more dangerous to live in than the contemporary Syria or Iraq due to terrorist threats that loomed all over the country from Kebbitigollawa in the North Central to Moneragala in the Uva and Godapitiya in the South. Five leaders of this […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි චාවාකච්චේරි ප්රදේශයෙන් පසුගිය දා හමුවූ මරාගෙන මැරෙන ඇඳුම් කට්ටලය සහ පැති බෝම්බ ආදිය පිලිබඳව මේ දිනවල රට තුල පැතිර පවත්නේ මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකි. රජය පාර්ශ්වයෙන් මුලදී පැවසුවේ යම් බඩු මුට්ටු වගයක් හමුවූ බවත්, මෙය සාමාන්ය දෙයක් බවත්, මෙවැනි දේ පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම ඕනෑ තරම් හමුවී ඇති නිසා එමගින් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට කිසිදු බලපෑමක් සිදු නොවන […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
Courtesy Gradient Alliance Monthly Bulletin: March 2016 The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) is to issue sovereign bonds of about USD 3bn in the international capital markets, as the government attempts to bring a worsening fiscal situation under control. Sri Lanka is impacted by a widening fiscal deficit caused by spiraling public sector wages, discovery […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. Mark Salter is a person who has come forward to write a book entitled “To End a War”,dealing with the “failed Norwegian Peace process” and related matters. In his second comment (March 30, 2016) on Ferdinando’s column, Salter writes that : “First, Ferdinando asserts that the ‘Norwegians believed decision making process […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
BY: Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Dear President Sirisena, Written below are urgent concerns that Sri Lankans living overseas (as well as within Sri Lanka) would like you to implement with immediate effect for the greater benefit of Sri Lanka. A total rejection of the report of the OHCHR as presented by the UNHRC High Commissioner […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
ආචාර්ය ලීල් ගුණසේකර 71 කැරැල්ලේ පුනරුත්ථාපනය පිළිබඳ අතිරේක ලේකම් වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විසින් 71 කැරැල්ල පිළිබඳව අධ්යයනයක් කොට කැරළිකරුවන් සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවලට ලක් කරමින් ඉතිහාසයේ සැඟව පැවති සාධකයන් ඉස්මතු කරමින් ඉතා අගනා සමාජ විද්යාත්මක හා ඓතිහාසික වශයෙන් වටිනා කෘතියක් පාඨකයාට ලබා දීම ප්රශස්ත කරුණක් ලෙස මම දකිමි. වෛද්ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග මට මුලින්ම හමු […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
By Afshain Afzal Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was scheduled to attend Nuclear Security Summit at Washington but he has decided to send his representative instead. The foreign sponsored terrorist attack outside a recreation park on 27 March, killing 72 people, was the basic reason. Western players, in order to pressurize Pakistan to scrap its […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam [PPFA] welcomed the verdict of Gauhati High Court in clearing all hurdles to complete the proposed war [martyr’s] memorial on the north bank of historic Dighalipukhuri in the heart of the city. The Gauhati high court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation [PIL] to permanently halt […]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
Ben Silva Many ethnic groups around the world have been wiped out by technically superior groups as a result of lack of innovation and failure to adapt and progress and failure to recognise external threats. I have given below some food for thought, regarding arresting the decline. Understand the nature of the world and Understand […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Prabakaran was never employed. He formed his first militant group at the age of 18. His first killing was when he was 21 years. How can a man who has never had a job pay for sophisticated arms, ammunition and be able to fund a movement of terror unless he had assistance. […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel- Solicitor Attorney -at -Law-CEO Sri Lanka 2050- Development of Soft Skills is necessary for the development of a Nation in this competitive world becoming closer fast disintegrating physical borders due to developments on IT Language and skills. Human development is a main source of the development […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න රිවිර සිකුරාදා පුවත්පත සදහා ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න ලියන මුරගල තීරු ලිපිය – 146 අද අප්රේල් 1දාය. අනුන් රැවටීම සඳහා විවිධාකාරයෙන් විහිළු තහළු කරන මෝඩයින්ගේ දවසය. එම දිනයේ විනෝදවිම සඳහා උසස්ම ගණයේ විහිළු තහළු එක්රැස් කිරීම ලොව පුරා සිදුකෙරේ. එදින ලොව වැඩියෙන්ම විනෝදවන ජාතිය වනුයේ නෙදර්ලන්ත වාසීහුය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ‘යහපාලන’ ආණ්ඩුව මෙම දිනවල සපයන විහිළු […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
Swarna Hansa Reconstruction work of Dematagaha wewa in Nochiya, Galgamuwa began ceremonially under Swarna Hansa Wew programme last week. Picture shows Anton Perera, Governing council member of Swarna Hansa Foundation making an advance cheque payment for its dozer work.
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා අද ලෝකයේ හැම රටක ම පාහේ විවිධ සංස්කෘතිවල ජනතාව වෙසෙති. ඒ අර්ථයෙන් ගතහොත් බොහෝ විට ඕනෑම රටක බහුසංස්කෘතික රටක් ලෙස හැඳින්විය හැකි ය. එහෙත් මේ ඕනෑම රටක මෙන් විශේෂිත හෝ අධිපති හෝ සංස්කෘතියක් ඇත. සංස්කෘති සමාන නැත. පිටරටවල වාසය කරන සිංහලයෝ ඒ බව හොඳින් දනිති. එංගලන්තය, ඕස්ටේර්ලියාව වැනි බටහිර රටක සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් වාසය කරන […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement 31st March, 2016 Prince Said Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Palais Wilson, 52, rue des Pâquis, CH-1201, Geneva, Switzerland. Dear Sir, We Totally Reject The OHCHR Report And The US Sponsored Resolution Against Sri Lanka […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER Kul Bushan Yadev, the terrorist of the RAW is now-a-days very prominent in all newspapers and on all media screens; prominent as a person whom humanity must be ashamed of. His arrest is no doubt a wonderful achievement of the intelligence agencies of Pakistan but it must be kept in mind that history […]
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Friday, April 1st, 2016
Island Editorial Courtesy The Island March 31, 2016, 9:11 pm The chance detection of an explosive cache in the North and the arrest of a hardcore Tiger on Wednesday have caused quite a stir in defence and political circles. The government has, true to form, sought to put a bold face on it. No sooner had […]
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