Archive for January, 2017
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
BY Kavindya Chris Thomas Courtesy Ceylon Today The Finance Ministry claims that the country will face a dire food, water and electricity crisis should the islandwide drought continue until the April monsoon rains arrive. State Minister of Finance Lakshaman Yapa Abeygunawardene, speaking to the media yesterday, said the government is expecting USD 1.5 billion to implement […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 16.Jan 2017. 1. Strong Government at the centre headed by a patriotic Sinhala Buddhist leader elected by all the people of the country and a council of 15 Ministers with a Rajya Mantarana Sabbha of not more than 150 members elected on an electoral basis, with recalling powers vested with the people, […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
By Gandara John While the world was riveted to the newscasts of bombings and carnage perpetrated by Obama’s USIS terrorists, going almost unreported was the rash of major earthquakes, wobbling our Planet, which followed the New Zealand earthquake. On 13 Nov 2016 a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale hit New Zealand, virtually […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge What is the better human rights that EU boasts of that is not prevalent in other parts of the world? Does the EU member states not suffer crimes and violations of any kind? Is it honky dory in EU 28 nations that they can dictate trade deals with other nations? Is EU […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island January 16, 2017, 7:58 pm The government has been ecstatic at being granted GSP+ again by the European Commission. It hasn’t however revealed the conditions it has agreed to in order to get this trade concession. In this context, two documents are of interest to us. The first of […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
I. de Silva Canada The Editor, The Diplomat 701 Ebisu MF Bldg. 4-6-1 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013 Japan. Dear Sir: Reference this article by Taylor Dibbert, I am writing to bring to the attention of your readers the many assumptions, inaccuracies and uncalled for “advice” to the Sri Lankan government and mostly to the Sri […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
සෝමපාල සෙනරත් ඉන්දියාවට උවමනාවට ජේ ආර් 13සංශෝධනය ගෙනාවේ කැමැත්තෙන් නොවේ. ඉන්දියාවට ඕනෑකර තිබුනේ ඊලම සහ නොඊලම ලෙස රජයන් 2ක් හැදීමයි. එහෙත් ජේ ආර් කීවේ එහෙම උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පමණක් කළ නොහැකි බවත් බල විමධ්යගත කිරීමක මුවාවෙන් පලාත් නවයටම ආණ් ඩු දිය යුතු බවය. ඔහු වික්රමසිංහ තරම්ම අලජ්ජියෙකු නොවින. බැරි වෙන කොට ගෙදර ගියේ ය. පසු කලෙක […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් දහතුන් වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය යටතේ තිබෙන බලතල ඉක්මවා යන ආකාරයට බලය බෙදන්නට එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහලේකම් වරයාට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පොරොන්දුව සිටි බව වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා පවසයි. එසේම දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ පාරම්පරික ඉඩම් ඔවුන්ට ලබාදීම පිණිස හමුදා කඳවුරු ඉවත් කරන බවද ඔහුගේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්රකාශයේ විය. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එදා එලෙස පොරොන්දු වුවද රටේ ජනතාවගේ පැත්තෙන් […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B.,Ph.D. පිරිත්නූල් කඹ 1931 දී ඩොනමෝර් ක්රමය යටතේ සර්ව ජන චන්ද බලය ලැබුණායින් පසු සිලෝන් (සිංහලේ යන නම ඉංග්රීසි කාරයාට ඇහුණ හැටි) කොලනියේ ඉතිහාසය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හාමුදුරුවන් විසින් වෙන් කර පෙන්වූ, මරණ බියක් ඇතිවූ විට ඔ මයි ගෝඩ් හෝ බුදු අම්මෝ හෝ කියා කෑගසන සිංහලයින් දෙකොටස අතරේ සිදුවූ, සිදුවන ගැටුම නොවේද? මේ ගැටුමේදී […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය දිනවීම සහ ආණ්ඩුව වෙනස් කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් මහින්ද සහ මෛත්රී සාකච්චා අරඹයි. පලමු ප්රතිඵලය ඇමති සංශෝධනයක්. දෙවන ප්රතිඵලය අගමැතිකම ශ්රීලනිපයට’ යනුවෙන් සදහන් පෝස්ටරයක් රට පුරා බොහෝ ප්රදේශවල අලවා තිබේ. ඇත්ත සංවිධානය නම් සංවිධානයක් විසින් අලවා ඇති මෙම පෝස්ටරයේ සදහන් කාරනා පිලිබදව ඒකාබද්ද විපක්ෂ මන්ත්රීවරයෙකුගෙන් අප කල විමසීමකදී ඔහු කියා සිටියේ එවන් […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
Sarath Wijesinghe former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Consumer Affairs Authority CAA act 9 of 2003 is the main regulator body in Sri Lanka, for the consumer which includes the professional and the service sector among the other statutory bodies such as *Trade Marks Ordinance, *Prisons and dangerous drugs ordinance, […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has criticised the lawyers appearing for the Ports Authority in the case filed in the High Court against the Hambantota lease agreement, MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage said today. He told a media briefing organised by the joint opposition that Prime Minister had done so at a discussion held […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa had an opportunity of regaining the GSP+ facility during his tenure if he had agreed to the conditions laid down by the European Union (EU) at the risk of compromising the country’s sovereignty, SLPP Chairman G.L.Peiris claimed today. He told a news briefing that Prime Minister Ranil […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
Senaka Weeraratna Secularism has become the Buzz word for all those who wish to marginalize Buddhism from public life, both overtly and covertly. When we refer to secularism we must be in a position to distinguish it from Pseudo secularism. What is practiced in a large majority of countries in the name of secularism is […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
Dr Hector Perera London Most people are unaware of the adverse effects of high temperature cooking. We cannot blame our good old kussi amma” because they were totally unaware of those matters but now the present generation with more modern cooking facilities must be aware of the good and bad side of high temperature cooking. […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
සමස්ත ලංකා ප්රවාහන සේවක සංගමය ගරු ජනාධිපති, මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, ශ්රී ලංගමය ශක්තිමත් කර විධිමත් මගී ප්රවාහන සේවයක් ජනතාවට ලබාදීමට සියලූම පෞද්ගලික බස්රථ කිසිදු වන්දියක් ලබානොදී රජයට පවරාගන්නා ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. මගී ජනතාවට විධිමත් ප්රවාහන සේවයක් සපයන, පාසල් ළමුන් සඳහා 90% ක මාසික ප්රවේශපත්ර සඳහා සහනයක් ලබාදී අගනා […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග දරු උපත් වලදී ෆෝර්සෙප්ස් හෙවත් ඩැහි අඬු සමහරක් විට භාවිතා කරති. මෙලෙස ඩැහි අඬු භාවිතා කරන්නේ දරුවාගේ හිස උපත් මාර්ගයේ සිරවී ඇති අවස්ථා වලදීය. සමහර විට දරුවාගේ තට්ටම් ද උපත් මාර්ගයේ සිරවී ඇති අවස්ථා තිබේ. එවැනි අවස්ථා වලදී ද ඩැහි අඬු භාවිතා කරති. ෆෝර්සෙප්ස් හෙවත් ඩැහි අඬු භාවිතය සියවස් තුන හතරක් […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
By Harischandra Gunaratna Courtesy The Island National list MP and Head of Pivithuru Hetak Organisation Ven. Athulraliye Ratana Thera yesterday admitted that the government had not fulfilled its pre-election promises and what the masses should do was not to topple the government, but to make it fulfil its pledges. “Today, I am an independent MP striving […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2017
by Dr. Prasanna Coorey Courtesy The Island January 15, 2017, 9:28 pm Close on the heels a move to hand over 15,000 acre land to the Chinese in Medilla in the Ambalantota Divisional Secretary Division in Hambantota District, come the news of a land grab comes from another corner of the same district––in the Suriyawewa Divisional […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Top Joint Opposition Spokesman Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday said that recent government declaration Sri Lankans should get accustomed to living on croton, jak leaves (kos kola) as well as yam was in accordance with the foolish agricultural policy of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration. Those who had been boasting of the […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
Editorial The Island January 15, 2017, 9:23 pm The SLFP (Maithri faction), which is toying with the idea of fielding President Maithripala Sirisena at the next presidential election, has been testing the water for the last few days. Some of its prominent members have, at media briefings, said the party wants him to contest again. […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් මෑතකදී සිය ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වුනු හිටපු රාජ්ය ඇමති ප්රියංකර ජයරත්න මහතා ආනමඩුව ප්රදේශයේදී පැවති ජනහමුවකදී අදහස් පල කලේය. වීඩියෝව මෙතනින් https://youtu.be/mHHY4Rlsg-M
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
By Siva Sekaran, Jan 12, 2017 Courtesy The Muslim Times CHENNAI: Holding that Qazis had no power to certify the marriages of Muslims invalid after the utterance of the husbands ‘talaq’ thrice, the first bench of the Madras High Court has restrained them from issuing any such certificates, until further orders. The bench of Chief Justice SK […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
By Prof. Hector Perera Sydney Australia Courtesy The Daily Mirror It is now time that we discuss some key factors relating to democracy, given that the name of our country is the ‘Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.’ But, unfortunately, ours is still far from being a true democratic state. Democracy, which refers to the idea […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
By Gamini Akmeemana Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena has a penchant for getting worked up over things most of us take for granted. This time, it was a tie. Having spotted a Divisional Secretary wearing a tie at a Pirith ceremony in Polonnaruwa, he was moved to ask if a tie was necessary for […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාදීප ට්රාන්ස්පේරන්සි ඉන්ටනැෂනල් ශ්රී ලංකා ආයතනයට යුරෝපා සංගමයෙන් ලැබෙන මූල්යාධාර අයථා ලෙස භාවිත කර ඇතැයි එම ආයතනය රැකගැනීමේ කමිටු සාමාජික පිරිස එහි සභාපති නීතිඥ ලක්ෂාන් ඩයස් මහතාට ලිපියක් යොමුකරමින් කියා සිටී. අල්ලස් හා දූෂණ විරෝධී රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධානයක් ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කටයුතු කරන ට්රාන්ස්පේරන්සි ආයතනයේ උසස් නිලධාරිනියක සහ තවත් උසස්ම නිලධාරියකුගේද සහාය ඇතිව රුපියල් […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
Courtesy Adaderana Veteran Sri Lankan dramatist and theater director, Parakrama Niriella, will inaugurate Bahuroopi international theatre festival which will start on January 13 in Mysore, India. Earlier, veteran Indian actor Om Puri was to inaugurate the six-day festival. His demise prompted Rangayana authorities to make the change. K A Dayananda, Kannada and culture department director and […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Yahapalana government has no meaningful foreign policy, said one critic. Instead there is a clear tilt to the US. Mangala Samaraweera said, ‘Obama would come up to President Sirisena to say ‘Hello’ at whichever international forum they used to meet. This shows how far American relations have improved during the recent times.’ […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
සෝමපාල සෙනරත් පිටරටවල ඉන්නා අයට පෙනෙන්නේ ලංකවේ මහා කලබලයක් පවතින බවය. ඒත් ඕනෑම විසිටර් කෙනෙකුට පෙනෙන්නේ “බිස්නස් ඈස් යූශුවල්” ලෙසයි. කෙසේ වෙතත් වෙබ් අඩවිවල කියන කතන්දර අනුවත්, වික්රමසිංහගේ ඉතිහාසය අනුවත් ඊලාම් දීමට සූදානමක් ඇතිබව පෙනේ. එසේනම් එය නවැත්විය යුතුය. මෙය කරන්නේ කෙසේද ? අලුතෙන් දෙන්න දෙයක් නැති තරමට ෆෙඩරල් දැනටමත් දී හමාර බව පැහැදිලිය. හොඳම […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Shipyard Operator SLPA has been ignored when Hambantota was entrusted (to Chinese)…………. No wonder………. Sri Lanka Ports Authority have always been of Non Progressive thinking .In the past Serendib Flower Mill, Mahaweli Cement Bagging Factory, and later Tokyo Cement , Prima Flower Storage SGT container Terminal, CICT ,Colombo Dockyard are all private […]
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