Archive for March, 2017
Monday, March 13th, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමය පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී එම පක්ෂ ප්රධාන ලේකම් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. කැලයේ ආධිපත්ය පතා අලි දෙන්නෙක් විලක් මැද පොර බැදුවාලු. අලින්ගේ තඩි කකුල වලට පෑගි විලේ සිටි ගෙම්බො මැරෙන්න ගත්තාලු. එතකොට එක ගෙම්බෙක් කිව්වාලු අලි ගැටෙනවා – අපි මැරෙනවා කියලා. අද රටේ […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් රටේ වත්මන් දේශපාලන ක්රමවේදය දැඩි ලෙස විවේචනයට ලක් කරන මහාචාර්ය බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන හිමියන් අද වනවිට ශ්රී ලංකාව ලෝකයට විහිළු සපයන රටක් බවට පත්ව ඇති බව පැවසූහ. උන්වහන්සේ ඒ බව කියා සිටියේ ‘මාර්තු 12 ව්යාපාරය’ විසින් අද (මාර්තු 13) කොළඹ නිදහස් චතුරශ්රයේ සංවිධානය කරන ලද සුපිරිසිදු දේශපාලනයක් සඳහා පුරවැසි මෙහෙයුම වැඩසටහනේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
Rajiva Wijesinha The election was held on 17 August and four days later I learnt that I had not been put into Parliament. I had been on the UPFA National List, which I gathered had been with the approval of both factions of the SLFP. But it had become clear almost immediately that the polarization that […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The Island exclusively reported last week that the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) had, in a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena dated 23 February 2017, disowned the recommendation it made earlier that Ramanathan Kannan be appointed a High Court Judge. In that letter, the JSC stated that if the BASL […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By Binoy Suriyaarachchi Courtesy Adaderana March 13, 2017 09:17 pm Those who committed war crimes have now become the ‘champions’ who attempt to act as guardians of human rights, former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says. He also pointed out those who endorsed to the LTTE are now with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). These are the kind […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
V.Anandasangaree Secretary General –TULF It is not a question of digging into the past, for anyone to find fault with me. But I have a sacred duty cast on me to record correctly the past events in the TULF and of the disaster that fell on the TNA, in order of time and also about […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Extra-judicial killing; impunity; rule of law; justice Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about Mr. Sunanda Dias, a resident of No: 31, Niwandama, Ja-Ella, in the Gampaha District. He was extra-judicially killed on 04 November 2016, by officers attached to the Gampaha […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාවට අයත් ආයුර්වේද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය මාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාවට අයත් ආයුර්වේද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය කලක සිට මුහුණ දෙන පහත දැක්වෙන වෘත්තීය ගැටළු වන. අනියම් කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය ස්ථිර නො කිරීම. 06/2006 චක්රලේඛය විධිමත්ව ක්රියාත්මක නො කිරීම. 2016 අයවැයෙන් වැඩි කළ මුදල් මෙතෙක් නො ගෙවීම. ආහාර දීමනා හිඟ මුදල් නො ගෙවීම. විශේෂ දීමනා […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
BY Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Another March Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is coming to an end in few days and the wide expectation is Sri Lanka will get a reprieve for two years; despite the official rejection of the proposal for Hybrid Courts, with participation of foreign Judges, to inquire […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge US & Western Governments needs to wake up to the fact that terrorists are not only Islamic & Jihadists. LTTE remains banned by the US, UK, Canada & EU. If the US State Department declares LTTE international network is alive even 5 years after LTTE military defeat the Bill introduced to US […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි මේ දිනවල ජගත් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සලය රැස්වී ශ්රී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධවද කතා කරති. වත්මන් රජය මානව හිමිකම් සම්බන්ධව පෙන්නුම් කරන ප්රගතිය පිලිබඳව ඔවුන් සෑහීමකට පත්ව නැති බව පැවසේ. ශ්රී ලංකාවට තම ප්රගතිය පෙන්වීම සඳහා තවත් වසර 2 ක් ලබා දියයුතු බව බ්රිතාන්ය කියා සිටී. මේ සියල්ල අතර ශ්රී ලංකාව තුල මානව හිමිකම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීම […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2017
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today 2017-03-12 Rtd. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara will leave for Geneva tomorrow leading a three-man delegation to meet UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein to mount an offensive against the case, now argued before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes, […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS (Revised 25.4.17) When Mahinda Rajapakse became President of Sri Lanka in 2005, Ajit Samaranayake said the event ‘opens a new chapter in post independence history, where a leader unburdened by either dynastic trappings or the stigma of elitism find himself at the head of a popular movement. His tenure of rule is therefore […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS (Revised 25.4.17) The ‘Mahinda Chinthana’ of 2010, was a comprehensive economic plan prepared by the Department of National Planning of the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Economic development was to be along five hubs, maritime, aviation, commerce, energy, knowledge plus tourism. The policies and strategies were in line with the UN Millennium Development […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
Sarath Wijesinghe-(Solicitor/Attorney-at-law, former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel) World Consumer Day” World Consumer day (WCD) is an annual event on 15th March every year for celebrations, activism, and solidarity, among the consumer and consumer organizations worldwide. Consumerism has a historical significance until WCD was originated in 1983, and subsequently the […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
ධර්මසිරිසෙනෙවිරත්න කොටියෝ ස්රිමහ බෝධීන් වහන්සේට වෙඩිතබා විනාශ කරන්නට උත්සාහ කළහ දළදා මාලිගාවට බෝම්බ ගැසුහ උතුරේත් නැගෙනහිරත් ඇති සියලු බෞද්ධ පුරාවස්තුන් විනාශ කිරීමේ ව්යාපාරයක උන් නියලී ඇත මුස්ලිම් කාරයෝ දීඝ වාපිය බුල්ඩෝසර් කළහ කුරගල පල්ලි හදුහ සිරීපාද භූමියටත් රිංගාගෙන ඇත ..එහෙත් තවමත් රටේ බෞද්ධයන් 70%සිටින්නේලු .එහෙව් රටේ අගමැති අන්ග්ලිකන කිතුණුවෙක් වී ඇතවසර 2600ක් බෞධ්ධරාජ්යයක්ව පැවතෙමින් එන […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ජනමාධ්යවේදී සිරිමෙවන් කස්තුරිආරච්චි මහතා විසින් තමන් ගේ අසනීපයකට බෙහෙත් ගැනීමට වෛද්යවරයෙකු හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදී ලද අත්දැකීම ඔහුගේ මුහුණු පොතේ පළ කොට තිබේ. “අසනීපයට ප්රතිකාර ගන්න 05 වැනිදා නවලෝක පුද්ගලික රෝහලට ගොස් රුපියල් 1150ක් ගෙවා මෙරට සිටින ‘ගුණ වඩන’ විශේෂඥ වෛද්යවරයෙක් ලඟට ගියා.ඔහු වයසක කෙනෙක්.මුහුණේ සිනාවක්.ලේ කඳුලක් නැති අකාරුණික,මරුමුස් කෙනෙක් වුණත් කරගන්න […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff. Gene Simons The hard rock band Kiss was famous for their thought provoking music and extraordinary flamboyant stage outfits with face paint. The group had a dramatic affect on young people and KISS fans started to […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island March 12, 2017, 10:14 pm The government had further diluted the proposed National Audit Bill making it ineffective, Auditor General’s Department sources said yesterday. Officials told The Island that the latest amendment had made the proposed piece of legislation wholly useless and it wouldn’t yield the desired results. The Bill […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
රෝහාන් වැලිවිට මහතාගේ ‘මගේ කට උත්තරය’ කෘතිය එළිදැක්වීමේ අවස්ථාවේදී සිදුකළ දේශනයේ කොටසක්
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
මල් අද(22) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ නව න්යාය පත්රය හෙළිකරයි… අද මේ මොඩරේට් බෙදුම්වාදීන් හදන්නේ “ඒකීය වී ඇටේ ඇතුළේ ෆෙඩරල් හාල් ඇටේ හදාගන්නයි”
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව සහ ඒ ආණ්ඩුවේ නිලධාරීන් සිතාමතාම මේ රටේ විමුක්තිය උදෙසා ජීවිත පූජා කළ සහ රට වෙනුවෙන් සටනට ගොස් ආබාධිත වූ සහ අනෙකුත් සමස්ත රණවිරු ප්රජාවෙන්ම පලිගනිමින් සිටින්නේයෑයි යන්න දැන් පැහැදිලිවම පෙනෙන්නට තිබේ. අප එසේ කියන්නේ කට කසනවාට නම් නොවේ. වත්මන් යහපාලනය තුළ සිදු වෙමින් තිබෙන දේ හමුවේය. ජනාධිපතිවරයා රණවිරුවන් සුරකින්නේ […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
by Tisaranee Gunasekara March 11, 2017, 7:02 pm Close to one million – that is the number of drought-affected Lankans in immediate need of food assistance, according to an assessment carried out jointly by the government and the UN. Of these, 80,000 men, women and children are in need ‘urgent life-saving support’.ii The numbers of […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
by Malinda Seneviratne March 11, 2017, 7:05 pm Way back when Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was getting slammed left, right and centre by the ‘international (sic) community’, especially at the UNHRC, his detractors were thrilled. Little did they care that the accusers were tainted in ways that made Sri Lanka look pretty innocent in terms of […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge The business of terrorism has caused bloodshed and agony. It lasted 30 long years. While the innocent died, were maimed and continue to dress the wounds, the strategists, planners, fundraisers and propagandists continue to thrive plotting another debacle. Their endeavor is to continue to milk the LTTE cash cow kept alive by […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
by Senaka Weeraratna Of all the international Buddhist Conferences held in Sri Lanka the one that stands out clearly above the rest is the Conference held in 1950, particularly because it led to the formation of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB). There was a huge need then for unity of all Buddhist schools and Dr. […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI Courtesy The New York Times A bill that would regulate the traditional use of loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer passed its first legislative hurdle in Israel’s Parliament on Wednesday, provoking frustration and anger among some Arab lawmakers. One version of the bill would prohibit places of worship from using loudspeakers between […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
2016 April to 2017 March – Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM The year began with me being shown a picture of a car on a Wellington road , brazenly displaying a personalized plate bearing the letters , LTTE. Having come to NZ to escape from LTTE terror, I decided that very evening to seek the withdrawal […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak. S.Fernando During a visit to a local renowned supermarket last week I approached the ‘pharmacist’ to make enquires about an allopathic cardiac drug (RanCV500). A guy who did not appear to have any knowledge of the inquired medicine questioned me as to what the drug was prescribed for? Quite bemused by the […]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph Former Attorney General Yuvanjana Wijayatilake has been accused of abusing his office and for unethically granting favours to Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. In a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption (CIABOC) yesterday, Nagananda Kodituwakku, an Attorney-at-Law and Public Interest Litigation Activist claimed that Wijayatilake had abused his […]
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