Archive for February, 2017
Saturday, February 11th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග කරුණාසේන ජයලත් යොවුන් පේ්රමයේ අමරණීය නවකතාකරු ලෙස කිරුළ දිනාගත් සාහිත්යධරයෙකි. ඔහු විසින් ලියන ලද ගොළු හදවත ,බඹා කෙටූ හැටි, ලස්සන ඇස් , ගැහැණු ළමයි , යහළු යෙහෙළි යන නවකතා පරම්පරා දෙකක යෞවනයන් විසින් ආශාවෙන් කියවන ලදි. යොවුන් නවකතාකරුවෙකු වූ කරුණාසේන ජයලත් මිනිස් හැඟීම් ඉතා ව්යක්ත ලෙස හඳුනාගෙන සිටි බව ඔහුගේ නවකතා සනාත […]
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Saturday, February 11th, 2017
by C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island February 11, 2017, 7:00 pm Last week Harsha Bandara Tilakasiri a former personal staff member and valet to minister Champika Ranawaka made a formal complaint to the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, Professor Carlo Fonseka, alleging that he had been given treatment against his will at the […]
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Saturday, February 11th, 2017
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, February 11: Months before then Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene signed a controversial agreement with then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in July 1987 in Colombo to disarm the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), he had ordered his own troops twice to take Jaffna […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
Dr Sudath Gunaekara 10.Feb.2017 Writing his forward to the booklet on the Proposals under the first 6 year Plan 1954/55-1959/60, this is how Mr A. Ratnayaka then Minister of Home Affairs scribed his great expectations on the outcome of the Kandyan Peasantry Commission Report of 1951. At last justice is being meted out to two […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
R Chandrasoma Professor Susan Engel is a development psychologist and School Director in the USA. Writing in the Huffington Post she has this to say about schooling in her country. Far too many children in this country spend their energy warding off the tedium, frustration and constriction of school. At worst, they end up dropping […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
By The Nation – The Court of Appeal’s verdict on the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) had ruffled quite a few feathers last week and evoked mixed responses from all quarters of the country. While the arguments continue to be thrown back and forth, it is important for the nation to look […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
Courtesy The Nation The controversy over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) continues. Last week the Court of Appeal decreed that its graduates should be registered with the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC). Now, that all powerful trade union and self-proclaimed guardian angels of the hapless Sri Lankan patient, the Government Medical […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana The Judicial Service Association of Sri Lanka claims that President Maithripala Sirisena has given an attorney a direct appointment as a High Court Judge, which it says is a violation of the constitution and judicial service tradition. In a letter to the President, the Secretary of the association Mount Lavinia […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
By Panduka Samarasekera Courtesy Ceylon Today The news that the Vice-President of Telecom Manpower Welfare Association Sujeewa Mangala was abducted on the night of 28 January, and that he was missing for a few days, spread across the country like wild fire. It was the first case of disappearance during the government of good governance. No […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
WINSTON DE VALLIERE Courtesy Ceylon Today Besides the opposition from the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA), we’ve been seeing the persistent resistance to the South Asia Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) that voices strong reservations about the standard of medical education imparted at SAITM. The GMOA and JVP found nothing […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge Having not made any breakthrough to appease the Gods to make Hillary Clinton the US President by dashing 1008 coconuts, the LTTE Diaspora are frantically trying to somehow wriggle their way into the Trump Team doing what they know best – using money and lying. That was how they managed to rope […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government yesterday said the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) has no option other than accepting SAITM as a fully qualified private medical college now that the Court of Appeal has given a clear ruling in favour of it. Higher Education and Highways Minister Laxaman Kiriella told the weekly […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
වෛද්ය සභාවට සහ වෛද්ය සංගමයට SB දිසානායක තර්ජනය කරයි ! වෛද්ය සභාව හා වෛද්ය සංගමය අනිවාර්යෙන් උසාවිය හමුවට කැඳවන බව යහපාලන ඇමති එස් බී දිසානායක සහ ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල පවසයි.
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Courtesy International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Sri Lanka aims to finalise a free trade agreement (FTA) with China later this year, said the country’s ambassador to Beijing last weekend. The two Asian economies have been negotiating a trade deal since 2014. Sri Lankan ambassador Karunasena Kodituwakku also confirmed to journalists in the Chinese […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Yasawardena Rodrigo Courtesy The Daily Mirror Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe is now at the centre of much controversy, with certain MPs and Ministers expressing their views of him and some even having gone to the extent of criticizing his findings on the Bond Scam, saying it is not independent. The most recent announcement by Minister […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
උපාලි රත්නායක සභාපති National Water Supply And Drainage Employees Union ජලසම්පාදන මණ්ඩලය ඉංජිනේරු ඩිප්ලෝමාරීන්ගේ සංගමය සහ කාර්මික නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය ඵක්ව අද සිට (පෙබ 9) වෘත්තීය ක්රියාමාර්ග ආරම්භ කොට ඇත. ඵ් අනුව පහත වෘත්තීය ක්රියා මාර්ග සිදුකරයි. අතිකාල ප්රතික්ෂේප කිරීම, රාත්රී නඩත්තු සේවා මුර වාර්තා නොකිරීම, සතිඅන්ත නඩත්තු සේවා මුර වාර්තා නොකිරීම, අදාල නොවන රාජකාරිවල නොයෙදීම, ජලසම්පාදන […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Bodhi Dhanapala Finally, an understanding of the aetiology of the mysterious disease that had been plaguing children in poor agricultural areas in Northern India (Bihar etc), Bangladesh, Vietnam etc., has been cracked, after 20 years of research. Young children used to develop fever, convulsions etc., usually during the season when harvests and fruits are gathered, […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Executive Director/CaFFE ඩීසල් මාෆියාව නැවතත්. රු. 10 ඒකකය රු. 40 ට ගන්න යයි. කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය ලැබෙන විට ජෙනරේටර් මහ මුහුදේ ලංකාවට පා වෙනවා!!! විදුලි පාරිභෝගිකයාත්, මේ රටේ ධනයත් විනාශ කරමින් දේශපාලනඥයින්-නිලධාරීන් පොහොසත්වීම ඩීසල් විදුලි මාෆියාවයි. විදුලි හිගයක් ඇතැයි පවසමින් සාමාන්ය මිල මෙන් සිව් ගුණයක මිලකට විදුලිය ගැනීමත් ලාභය ඉංජිනේරු මාෆියාව, ලේකම්වරුන් හා දේශපාලනඥයින් […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
Courtesy The Asian Age Goyal has said that the airport staff refused to help her and advised” not to carry bags if she cannot handle them. Mumbai: Nidhi Goyal (31), a visually-impaired activist from Mumbai, has alleged that she was humiliated by the ground staff at Colombo airport for not being able to carry her […]
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
By P K Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express For decades before and after Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948, India’s relations with the island nation were political and adversarial. But since the second half of the 1990s, there has been a gradual shift to trade, development assistance and investment, in that order. While India has been […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා සයිටම් ගැන අභියාචනාධිකරණය තීන්දුවක් දීලා. ජනමාධ්ය වාර්තාවලට අනුව සයිටම් වෛද්ය උපාධිය නීත්යානුකූල බවත්, ශ්රී ලංකා වෛද්ය සභාවට ඒ උපාධිය පිළිගැනීමට නීත්යානුකූල බාධාවක් නැති බවත් අධිකරණ තීන්දුවෙන් කියැවෙනවා. සයිටම් වෛද්ය උපාධිය පිළිගැනීම කළ හැක්කේ විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාවට පමණයි. ඉන්පසු උසස් අධ්යාපන ඇමතිවරයා එය පිළිගත් බවට ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරනවා. ඒ සියල්ල රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island February 8, 2017, 10:15 pm The government said yesterday that if the Medical Council refused to recognise MBBS graduates of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine in keeping with last week’s Appeal Court directive it would take legal measures to ensure implementation. Higher Education and Highways Minister Lakshman […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා රට ම ඇත්තේ අවුලක. භීෂණයක පෙර නිමිති පහළ වෙලා. සයිටම් ප්රශ්නයට පිළිතුරු තිබිය දී එය හැම දෙනා ම මෙන් දේශපාලන ප්රශ්නයක් කරගෙන. ජ වි පෙ හා පෙරටුගාමි පක්ෂය අතර ඇති තරගයත් සයිටම් මගින් විසඳා ගැනීමට උත්සාහ දරනවා. ඒ අතර පෙරටුගාමීන්ගේ අභ්යන්තර ප්රශ්නත් විසඳාගන්න හදන්නෙ සයිටම් මගින්. කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් ඕස්ත්රෙලියාවෙ රටවැසිකම ලබා ගනිද්දී […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා අප සිතූ පරිදි ම සයිටම් භීෂණය එනවා (පෙබරවාර හතර ලිපිය බලන්න). දැනටමත් සයිටම් නිලධාරියකු ගමන් කළ රථයකට වෙඩි තියලා. වෙඩි තිබ්බේ කවුරුන් දැයි දන්නේ නැහැ. කවුරුන් වෙඩි තිබ්බත් ඒ තමයි භීෂණයේ පළමු වෙඩි හඬ. එය අවසන් වන්නේ විසි තිස් දහසකට ජීවිත අහිමි වීමෙන් ද? මෙහි දී දේශපාලන වාසි ගැන නොසිතා කටයුතු කරනවා […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
Dr. Chandana Jayalath With the court’s decision assenting what the SAITM demands, I see a novel educational model that can kick start. I strongly believe it is high time we re-modeled the educational structures as a whole. This is possible, provided a holistic view is honored by all corners of the society, politicians, professionals and […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera New audit system to evaluate customer satisfaction soon – See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/New-audit-system-to-evaluate-customer-satisfaction-soon-123365.html#sthash.Ezpdv6Wr.dpuf………………………..new item Go to Passport Office in Suhuru ( So- horu) Paya !!-Centre Stage for Corruption I assume that whoever the minister and the Head of the Organization in charge of issuing passports and visas and AG who boast about […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
Royal Asiatic Society Special Lecture A lecture by Mr. H.L.D. Mahindapala, Former Editor, Sunday Observer on ‘The last king of Jaffna was a Sinhalese Buddhist’ will be held on Monday 13th March 2017 at 5.00 p.m. at the Mahaveli Centre, 96 Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. All are welcome.
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The question is not whether PTSD is real and serious. It’s a devastating mental illness. The question is how many veterans have PTSD, and clearly our goal should be to try to address the veterans’ needs and help them deal with their problems and move on in life.-Chet Edwards War is […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
මාධ්ය ඒකකය දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ රුපියල් මිලියන 5000 ක් වැය කරමින් ඩීසල් විදුලි උත්පාදන යන්ත්ර ගෙන්වමින් රු. 40 බැගින් විදුලි ඒකකයක් මිල දී ගැනීම සදහා විදුලිබල හා පුනර්ජයනීය බලශක්ති අමාත්යාංශය නැවත වරක් ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්රමුඛ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය ලැජ්ජා සහගත නොමග යැවීමකට ලක් කොට ඇති බව දූෂණ විරෝධි පෙරමුණ පවසයි. අද (8) කොළඹ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී අදහස් […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The King Seethawaka Rajasinghe (Tikiri Bandara ) the 16th century monarch of Sri Lanka was a great warrior who came to the battlefield at the age of 16. He fought against the Portuguese invaders and witnessed many deaths and destructions. He was a fearless fighter who used effectual war tactics and overpowered […]
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