Archive for April, 2017
Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Chandre Dharmawardana. All of us, even those living in remote parts of Sri Lanka or India have been eating Genetically Modified (GM) foods for decades. Most US or Canadian flour is from GM wheat. The bread, buns, etc., consumed by everyone is made of GM flour. Similarly, most Soya products are from GM soya. Many […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Lanka-India finalise MOU for mega development projects Joint investments to develop Trinco port, set up oil refinery, LNG plant and piped-gas projects Hambantota deal to be signed soon; AG’s Dept. says Ranatunga’s objections not valid Massive SLFP youth convention today as Sirisena prepares to give mid-term report at May Day rally Cabinet […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Right to Reply ……. The LTTE, ISIS and the GMOA Posted on April 1st, 2017 by by Dr A.C.Visvalingam Courtesy The Island I whole heartedly agree with Dr Visva who is an eminent structural engineer who never abandoned his motherland to join diaspora to discredit our country . Doctors under GMOA is behaving […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Courtesy heretication.info The principle of the Inquisition was murderous … The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition for salvation. Lord Acton (1834-1902) http://www.heretication.info/_inquisition.html The name Inquisition is somewhat misleading in that over the centuries there have been […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe COURTESY : THE ISLAND March 28, 2017, 7:34 pm The 34th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have just ended, and another resolution on Sri Lanka adopted Resolution A/HRC/34/L.1 requests the Commissioner and his special procedure mandate holders to strengthen their technical assistance to Sri Lanka on the promotion […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
ඉංජිනේරු ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය කාර්මික නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය ජල සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයේ පාලනාධිකාරීගේ අත්තනෝමතික ක්රියා සහ නීති විරෝධීව ඉංජිනේරුවන් බඳවා ගැනීමට යෑම සම්බන්ධව ජල සම්පාදන මණ්ඩලයේ ඉංජිනේරු ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයත්, කාර්මික නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයත් පසුගිය පෙබරවාරි 9 වනදා සිට ආරම්භ කළ වෘත්තීය ක්රියා මාර්ගය අඛණ්ඩව ඉදිරියට යයි. දැන් මාස දෙකකට ආසන්න වෙමින් තිබේ. සිදුවන ජල නාස්තිය අනුව මේ වන විට රුපියල් […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් උපදේශක/දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ ජනතා බදු මුදල් රු. බිලියන 7 ක් වැය කරමින් ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලය කෙරවලපිටියේ සංයුක්ත චක්ර විදුලි බලාගාරයක් ඉදිකිරීම සදහා වන යෝජනාව දුෂිත විදුලි මාෆියාවේ මංකොල්ලකාරී වැඩපිළිවළේ තවත් පියවරක් බව දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණයේ උපදේශක කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. කිලෝ වෝට් 30 ඩීසල් විදුලි බලගාරයක් ලෙස ඉදිකිරීම් ආරම්භ කොට […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් යතුරුපැදිකරුවෙකුට දොඩංඩගොඩ පොලීසියේ රථ වාමන ආශයේ නිලධාරීන් දෙනෙකු විසින් මහ මග බිම පෙරලාගෙන පහර දෙන අයුරු වීඩියෝවක් සිරස රූපවාහිනිය විකාශණය කරනු ලැබීය. පොලීසිය පවසන්නේ අණ තොතකා ධාවනය වූ යතුරු පැදිය පොලීසිය විසින් ලූහු බැන්ද බවත් යතුරු පැදි කරුට රියදුරු බලපත්රයක්ද නොතිබූ බවයි. පොලිස් පහර දීම හේතුවෙන් යතුරුපැදිකරු රෝහල්ගත කර තිබේ.
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
උපුටා ගැන්ම මව්බිම මෛත්රිට හේත්තු වී යහපාලනයට උදවු කරන්න කටයුතු කරමින් ඉන්න ශ්රී ලනිප මන්ත්රිවරුන්ට හිතේ හැටියට කටයුතු කරන්න ඉඩක් නැති බව රටම දක්නා කරුණක්ය. මේ බැරිකම මෛත්රි ළඟට ගියත් විසඳගන්නට බැරි තරමට නරක අතටය. මෛත්රි වැනෙන උත්තර දෙද්දී අන්ද මන්ද වන ශ්රී ලනිප මන්ත්රිවරුන්ට කර කියා ගන්නට දෙයක් නැති ගාණට වැටිලාය. ඒ බැරියාවට වැට බැඳ […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithipala Sirisena clearly states that he, as the Head of the State, does not want foreign judges or would not allow the setting up of a Hybrid Court in the accountability process where Sri Lanka is under international scrutiny for alleged war crimes committed by government’s very own military […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
By Ravi Ladduwahetty – Courtesy Ceylon Today Veteran Sri Lankan diplomat, Sri Lanka’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs Dr. Palitha Kohona said the UN Human Rights Resolution which Sri Lanka cosponsored in March 2017, was a folly compounded. “The onerous nature of Resolution 30/1 and […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy The Island April 2, 2017, 10:48 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered conditional support to a mega Chinese investment project in the Hambantota District. Former President Rajapaksa yesterday told The Island that his support would depend on the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government and China agreeing to adopt the original investment plan finalised during […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Courtesy The Island April 2, 2017, 10:47 pm Four gazettes reportedly impacting the Northern Muslim resettlement process in Wilpattu proximity are to be rescinded. “I informed the officials that I will present a Cabinet Paper to do way with the gazettes affecting resettlement of Northern Muslim IDPs.” said Minister of Industry and Commerce and Vanni […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Over USD 3,700 mn worth foreign investment on hold while costly diesel plants in operation April 2, 2017, 10:41 pm By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Accusing the Power and Renewable Energy Ministry of favoring costly diesel power generation, the Anti Corruption Front (ACF) has urged the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government to immediately review a series of investment […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
By Charles.S.Perera Now its two years since the greatest Bank Robbery in Sri Lanka –the Bond Scam was committed. Two COPE reports were out confirming the theft and showing where the smell had taken them to. The thief every one in Sri Lanka is quite aware of is still unharmed living a comfortable respectable life […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Why did the Sri Lanka Army recently invite somebody who sold the entire country down the drain as the Chef Guest at the Kotelawala Defence University’s Graduate Studies Department’s Inauguration of Masters Programs for the year 2017? This invitee, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu also delivered the keynote address. Probable answers: 1. They want to make […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
by Suresh Perera Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 7:41 pm The proposed new Inland Revenue Act has run into stiff opposition from key industry players, who described the controversial move to replace the existing law, as a “retrograde step that’s bound to create confusion and impinge on the overall revenue collection mechanism”. Asserting that the […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
සී. ඒ. චන්ද්රප්රේම උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අජිත් ඩොවාල් යනු ලංකාවේ ජනතාවට කොහෙත්ම හුරු නමක් නොවේ. නමුත් 2014 ඉන්දියාවේ නරේන්ද්ර මෝඩි බලයට පත්වූදා සිට ඉන්දීය විදේශ ප්රතිපත්තියේ, විශේෂයෙන්ම ඉන්දියාවේ අසල්වාසි රටවල් සම්බන්ධ ප්රතිපත්තියේ ප්රධානම තීරකයා වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ විදේශ ඇමතිනී සුශ්මා ස්වරාඡ් නොව ජාතික ආරක්ෂක උපදේශකවරයා වන අජිත් ඩොවාල්ය. එසේ තිබියදී අජිත් ඩොවාල් නමැති පුද්ගලයකු ගැන බොහෝ ලාංකිකයන් […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
ඔස්මන් චන්ද්රවංශ හිටපු විනිමය පාලක සහ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ අර්ථශාස්ත්රඥ යහපාලන රජය විසින් සිදු කර ඇති වංචා, පාඩු සහ වන්දි ගෙවීම් මෑතක සිට, අගමැතිවරයා සහ මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා ඇතුළු මැති ඇමැතිවරු කීප දෙනකුම පසුගිය රජයේ – හෙජින් ගනුදෙනුව ඔස්සේ ශ්රී ලංකාවට සිදුවූ පාඩුව රුපියල් බිලියන 500 ක් පමණ වී යයි පවසා ඇත. ඒ නිසා ජනතාවට වර්තමානයේදී අලෙවි කරන […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
By A. Abdul Aziz Rather than erecting walls that keep us apart, we should build bridges that bring us closer together” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad According to our international Press Desk, U.K., on 25 March 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Charles Dickens scribed on something completely different from his prose in May 1850, when he portrayed the Nigerian 419 scam where 419 wealthy people were approached seeking financial assistance for orphaned children, emergency surgery and quoting numerous examples of begging letters he had received over the years from various individuals […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected allegations that the decision to sell the Hambantota Port was first made during his government in 2014 and asserted that while he was in power they only took back what was already sold. We never decided to sell anything during our time. I took back […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
by Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 6:44 pm Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has recently made a strongly worded statement related to Sri Lanka’s ‘national question’ in response to questions raised by a member of the Communist Party of India. Reiterating India’s commitment to the protection of the rights of the Tamils […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
by Dr A.C.Visvalingam Courtesy The Island April 1, 2017, 6:42 pm Towards the end of its war to establish an independent state, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not allow civilians to move out of those areas from which it was attacking the Sri Lanka Army. It has been accused of deploying these hapless […]
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Courtesy The Island The controversy over appointing Ramanathan Kannan, a member of the private bar from Batticlaoa, as a High Court judge over the heads of many senior District Court judges and officials of the Attorney General’s Department, is now coming to a head with an emergency general meeting […]
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