Archive for January, 2017
Monday, January 23rd, 2017
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 22, 2017, 12:00 pm Former President and Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa has indicated that there couldn’t be a consensus between his grouping and the SLFP under the present circumstances. Former President Rajapaksa has declared that his grouping wouldn’t accept any arrangement at the expense of the party against […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Shenali D Waduge On 20th January 2015 the world witnessed an historic inaugural address. It was the shortest speech since 1977. President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. He did not follow standard rhetoric, it was full of emotion and patriotism and never forgot the people […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
By Charles.S.Perera The so called Yahapalanaya government which had been deceiving the people of this country ever since Maithripala Sirisena was elected President of Sri Lanka on the 8th January,2015, has no right what so ever to precipitate to write a Constitution for Sri Lanka. Today the people of Sri Lanka are divided as they […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Dr Hector Perera London Love is a strong feeling of affection. The parents love the babies for far too many reasons and some are the affection, fondness, warmth and attachment. Some people love the work they do, it could be sports like football, tennis, rowing, swimming or even running. Love is a great interest and […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
ආචාර්ය චන්දන ජයලත් සංවර්ධනය වූ කලි ආර්ථික හා සාමාජීය යන දෙඅංශයෙන්ම ලබන දියුණුවයි. කර්මාන්ත, මංමාවත් වගේම අධ්යාපන හා සෞඛ්ය වර්ධනයත් ඊට ඇතුලත්ය. ආර්ථිකයක් වශයෙන් උසස් ජීවන මට්ටමක් සේම විනය හා නීති ගරුක ජන සමාජයක් ද ඉන් අර්ථ නිරූපණය වෙයි. එනයින් මානුෂීය සංවර්ධනයක් බලාපොරොත්තු වෙයි. ඒ අනුව කතා කළ යුත්තේ රටේ ඉදිරි ආර්ථික හා සමාජයීය ගමන් […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග නවක වදය ඉතා බහුලවම සිදු වන්නේ ලංකාවේ සහ ඉන්දියාවේ සරසවිවලය. බටහිර රට වල විශ්ව විද්යාල තුල ලංකාවේ සහ ඉන්දියාවේ මෙන් බහුලව පැතිරී ගිය නවක වද නැත. යම් ලෙසකින් Bulling , Hazing වැනි තත්වයන් මතු වුවහොත් නීතිමය පියවර ගැනේ. උසස් අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශය පෙන්වා දෙන පරිදි මේ වන විට නවක වධය නිසා […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 1990 අගෝස්තු 9 දින බදාදා දිවයින අතිරේකයේ පලවූ මාවිසින් ලියන ලද ”’අඹ යහළුවෝ ‘ නම් කතාව( මේ කතාව ” විකුර්ති බුද්ධි ”’ පොතේද ඇතුලත්ය ) අනුසාරයෙනි මුළු කතාවම ලිවීමට අපහසු හෙයින් අදට අවශ්යම කරුණු පමණක් දක්වා ඇත […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Press Release University Teachers for Social Equality University Teachers for Social Equity (UTSE) emphasizes that there is a significant shortage in admission to some of the degree programs offered by the government universities when compared to the allocated number of students by the University Grants Commission (UGC). We would like to point out that there had […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
ප්රවෘත්ති නිවේදනයයි -සමාජ සමානාත්මතාව සඳහා වන විශ්වවිද්යාල ආචාර්යවරු පසුගිය වසර ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්ය විශ්වවිද්යාලවල සමහර පාඨමාලා සඳහා බඳවා ගැනීමට නියමිතව තිබූ ශිෂ්ය සංඛ්යාවට සාපේක්ෂව සැබැවින්ම බඳවා ගන්නා ලද සංඛ්යාවේ විශාල අඩුවක් දක්නට ලැබෙන බව සමාජ සමානාත්මතාව සඳහා වන විශ්වවිද්යාල ආචාර්යවරු : අවධාරණය කර සිටී. විශේෂයෙන් විද්යාපීඨ සහ කෘෂිවිද්යාපීඨවල පසුගිය වසර කිහිපයක් තිස්සේ පුරප්පාඩු අති […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Courtesy The Peninsular Qatar’s Daily Newspaper Colombo: Sri Lanka has failed to attract bids from international airlines to privatise its loss-making flag carrier, but will continue its efforts to salvage the company, a minister said yesterday. The government received nine offers but none were from a major international airline operator, State Enterprise Development Minister Kabir […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Star Sri Lanka has failed to attract bids from international airlines to privatise its loss-making flag carrier, but will continue its efforts to salvage the company, a minister said Friday. The government received nine offers for Sri Lankan but none were from a major international airline operator, State Enterprise Development Minister Kabir Hashim […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
STRATFOR ANALYSIS The Manila Times FORECAST This year will bring more political infighting in Sri Lanka as former President Mahinda Rajapaksa tries to stir discontent ahead of local elections and constitutional reform. The disarray will continue to cause headaches for China, which invested in strategic and lucrative development projects in the country at a more […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Wade Shepard , CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy Forbes.com Last Wednesday, January 18th, Sri Lanka’s minister for regional development, Sarath Fonseka, told journalists at a conference in New Delhi that terms were being discussed to give Sri Lanka’s northeastern Trincomalee port to India. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe reportedly vouched for the veracity of the remarks on the […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Adaderana January 22, 2017 10:06 pm Sri Lanka could not receive GSP+ concession back before because the former government had no intention to agree for the terms of the European Commission, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. He made the observation while speaking at the National Freedom Front convention which was held in Colombo on Sunday. While […]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරතුංගගේ සැමිය වන ජනකාන්ත නළු විජය කුමාරතුංග විසින් බිහි කරන ලද පක්ෂය වන ශ්රි ලංකා මහජන පක්ෂයේ 33 වන සංවත්සරය ඊයේ දිනයේ ගම්පහ නයිවලදී පැවැත්වින. එහි ප්රධාන ආරාධිතයා ලෙස සහභාගී වූයේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතායි. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරතුංග මහත්මිය ඊට සහභාගී කර නොගැනීම විශේෂත්වයකි.
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුනේ විශේෂ සමුළුවේ ප්රධාන ආරාධිතයා ලෙස සහභාගී වූ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් එම සමළුවේ ප්රධාන දේශණය සිදු කරනු ලැබීය. අදාල වීඩියෝව මෙතනින් https://youtu.be/xJq1BkQQroQ?t=10577 1,041 Viewers
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
මනෝඡ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට සක්රිය දේශපාලනයෙන් ඉවත්වන ලෙස ප්රබල රටක තානාපති කාර්යාලයක් සහ අසල්වැසි රටක බුද්ධි අංශයක් විසින් බලපෑම් එල්ලකර ඇතැයි “දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්රහයට” වාර්තා වේ. ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ ප්රධානියකු වෙන වෙනම හමුවී අදාළ අංශ දෙක මෙම දැනුම්දීම කර තිබේ. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ජනප්රියත්වය ශීඝ්රයෙන් පහළ බැස ඇති බැවින් ඔහුගේ ගෞරවය පිණිස […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey Those boycotting Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration come across as childish spoilsports who are going to exclude themselves from the fun. To date, Donald Trump has made a lot of sense, has shown himself to be a shrewd communicator and has called a spade, a spade. Let us analyze what he has said and […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඔව් සමහර විට . වරද්දා ගන්නත් පුළුවන් .අවුල් කර ගන්නත් පුළුවන් ඒ අතර හුගක් හරි දේවල් කරන්නත් පුළුවන් . මතකද අපේ සිරිමාවෝ රැජිනගෙන් රට ගලවා ගත්තා සිරීපාදේ ,කතරගම හින්දු බලයෙන් ගලවාගත්තා . කච්චදුව අයිති කරදුන්නා රටට එජාපයේ කෙනහිලි මද වතුකම්කරු කල්ලතොනින් යවන්න වැඩකලා ,,,,,,…….. මේ අතර අධ්ධ්යාපන ඇමති ලෙස බද්යුද්දීන් පත් කරලා ඉතිහාසය […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera ( Ex chairman SLLRDC) Sri Lankan have short memories like fish ! People who used to talk about evils of Mara Palanaya ot Gotapalanya is now talking about sins of Yahapalanaya and may even be of Champikapalnaya ? Few years back I was traveling by car along Thalawathugoda Road to Hokandara passing […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Royal Honour is an impressive and high status award to an individual. The British award three types of honours based on a person’s specific bravery, achievements or services to the United Kingdom and its former territories. Such awards are classified into three categories viz: Honours, Decorations and Medals. An OBE […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Needless to say people are not very happy about the yahapalanaya neither would they like the earlier regime. The main reason why yahapalanaya is no more yahapalanaya is because, the president, in spite of being a sincere, trustworthy, good intending person is struggling between two contradicting roles. While being the president […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
Rolf B. Gainer, PhD Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A I read Doctor Ruwan Jayantunge’s latest book, Psychological Aspects of Buddhist Jātaka Stories, with great interest. As a person with a longstanding interest in Buddhism and as a psychologist I found that the Jakata tales address the dynamics of the human mind and a broad range of psychological themes which encompass mental […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
Shenali D Waduge On the backdrop of the demands being made to re-award GSP plus by EU to Sri Lanka, the EU has through a press release claimed that Sri Lanka needs to ratify 27 international conventions to be awarded GSP plus. It is interesting to see how many international conventions/statutes and protocols these preaching […]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2017
RT Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. In his inaugural address, he has promised to give the government back to the people and put “only America first.” “Today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another ‒ but […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
කතු වැකිය -උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ, කොලොම්බියා දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වොෂින්ටන් නගරයේ, පෙනිසිල්වේනියා මාවතේ අංක 1600 දරන නිවසට අලුත් ගෘහමූලිකයා පැමිණෙන දිනය අදයි. මේ නිවස ලොවම ප්රකට ධවල මන්දිරයයි. පුරා වසර 8 ක් මේ නිවසේ ගත කළ 44 වැනි ඇමෙරිකානු ජනපති බැරක් හුසේන් ඔබාමා ඊයේ දිනයේදී මේ මන්දිරයට සමුදුන්නේය. ඩිමොක්රටික් පාක්ෂික ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමුගන්නා විට රිපබ්ලිකන් […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Source: Pravda.Ru Official spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia extended residence permit for US citizen Edward Snowden for “a couple of more years.” Zakharova’s statement came in response to a recent remark from former deputy head of the CIA Michael Morell. Earlier, Morrell said that the Russian president had “a great […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
R Chandrasoma This question is asked because the expositions and exegeses of learned Buddhists – chiefly the Bikkshus – are time-shifted in the illustrative paradigms employed to bring out a religious truth. Thus India at the time of a great spiritual efflorescence about two and a half thousand years ago is the favoured background for […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Stewart Bell | January 16, 2017 5:22 PM ET Courtesy National Post TORONTO — An alleged fundraiser for Tamil rebels who has been fighting deportation from Canada for more than two decades has lost a key court battle after a federal judge dismissed his appeal. The Federal Court upheld the deportation of Manickavasagam Suresh on the […]
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