Archive for April, 2017
Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Shenali Waduge Here we discuss the African origin of the Dravidian speaking people.Find out more about Blacks in Asia by purchasing the book: The Ancient Black Civilizations of Asia, By Dr. Clyde Winters at Ancient Civilizations of Asia (Kindle), http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNXRFBE; Hardcopy Createspace e-Store https://www.createspace.com/4261215 Dravidians and Africans One People In this video we discuss the […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
By Gandara John It was in 1998 that the World Bank under the cover of digitalizing Sri Lanka’s Land records did, with the complicity of Kumaranatunge, insidiously introduce a Land Law relating to ‘Land Ownership’; this ‘Law’ was the bedrock for the Neocolonialists to re-colonize the country by encouraging the sale of our lands to foreigners. […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
By Gomin Dayasri (reproduced from the 125th edition of Ananda College centenary magazine released two weeks ago) When I entered Ananda in 1952 it had earned a reputation of producing a list of students (then published in the Daily News) entering the different faculties of the Ceylon University that needed a foot ruler to measure. […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Malinda Seneviratne There’s saber-rattling in Washington. There’s saber-rattling in Moscow. Tit-for-tat talk. Rattle-for-rattle. Neither the USA nor Russia is under attack. Neither country can claim that there is a threat to its security. It’s all about a country that is located almost 11,000km from the USA and about 5,500km from Russia. Syria. It all followed a chemical attack […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Kanthar.P.Balanathan 16th April 2017 His Worship Mayor John Tory Office of the Mayor City Hall, 2nd Floor 100 Queen St. W Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Dear Mr Mayor Tory, Wish you a happy Sinhala and Tamil New Year. I took the opportunity to read your narrative commentary in Toronto Star on your short trip to […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada Easter Sunday, 2017 Hon. Dr. Harsha de Silva Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colombo Sri Lanka. Dear Dr. Harsha de Silva: Just read your announcement, Deputy Minister Harsha de Silva says that the Government will bear all funeral […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Mahinda Gunasekera By Email Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9 Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Dear Prime Minister, Your Greeting and Good Wishes Extended to Tamils for the 2017 New Year I refer to the annexed message issued by you on April 12, 2017 to Tamils in Canada and around the world […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි සුප්රකට බොලිවුඩ් නලුවෙකු වූ රිතික් රෝෂන් විසින් පසුගිය දා යෙදුනු තම උපන්දිනය වෙනුවෙන් තමාටම රොල්ස් රොයිස් මෝටර් රථයක් තෑගි කරගත් බව වරක් පුවත් පතක සඳහන් විය. එමෙන්ම බොලිවුඩ් නිලි කන්ගනා රනායුත් ද තම උපන්දින තෑග්ග ලෙස තට්ටු තුනක සුපිරි නිවහනක් තමාටම තෑගි කරගත් බව එලෙසින්ම සඳහන් වේ. මේ අලුත්ම නැඹුරුව විය යුතුය. […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39607943 Sri Lanka rubbish dump deaths: ‘Still they dump’ BBC …………….. 15 April 2017 Last updated at 09:46 BST Five children are among 19 people killed after a huge rubbish dump collapsed on to their homes in Sri Lanka. The 300ft-high (91m) pile had shifted after floods and a fire, and subsequently collapsed […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා මීතොටමුල්ල කුණු කන්දට යට වී ජනතාව මිය යෑම ගැන කණගාටුයි. ඒත් ඒ කණගාටුවෙන් ඒ ජනතාවට වැඩක් නැහැ. ඒ ජීවිත ලබා දෙන්න කිසිවකුට බැහැ. ඒ ජීවිත හානියට වග කිව යුත්තේ කවු ද? දේශපාලනඥයන්, නිලධාරීන් ආදීන් මෙන් ම ජනතාවත් එයට වග කිව යුතුයි. අප සියලු දෙනාම වග කිව යුතුයි. මේ තමයි ඊනියා දියුණුව. ශිල්ප […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ‘අවුරුද්ද කොහොමද? හොඳද? කියලා ජනතාවගෙන් ඇහුවොත් ඒකට උත්තරයක් නොදී මුහුණ බෙරි කරගෙන යනවා සිකුරුය. ඒ නිශ්ශබ්දතාවය හරිම හැඟුම්බරය. එය වේදනාවත්, පසුතැවිල්ලත්, කෝපයත් අතර දෝලනය වන්නකි. ‘ඇයි යහපාලනයෙන් සෙතක් වුණේ නැද්ද? රට පුරා කම්හල් ඉදිවුණේ නැද්ද? ලක්ෂ ගණන් රස්සා ඇති වුණේ නැද්ද? පුංචි පවුලකට පුංචි කාර් එකක් ගන්න ලැබුණේ නැද්ද?’ කවුරු හරි අවුරුද්ද ගැන […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් විශාල ජීවිත ගණනක් අහිම් කරමින් සිය ගණනකට උන්හිටි තැන් නැති කරමින් කඩා වැටුනු මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද සම්බන්ධයෙන් පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යංශයේ හිටපු ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ක්රියාත්මක කරවීමට සියල්ල සූදානම් කර තිබූ සැලැස්ම සම්බන්ධයෙන් විනිමය හා සුරැකුම්පත් කොමිසමේ හිටපු සභාපති ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා විසින් සිය ෆේස්බුක් පිටුවේ […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Editorial The Island April 16, 2017, 9:07 pm The Meethotamulla garbage mountain collapsed on the New Year day, burying many people alive. About 26 bodies had been recovered at the time of going to press. According to initial reports the garbage-slide has destroyed around 200 houses. How civilized a nation is can be judged by […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka April 16, 2017, 8:46 pm Is the cat out of the bag or is there an elephant in the (Opposition) room? Mahinda Pathirana is a young academic and activist known to be one of a handful of academics close to Mr. Basil Rajapaksa. His reply (‘Who is the Real Enemy?’ April […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 15.4.2017 I would like you to draw your attention to this news item and then read my observations below. The National Education Commission appointed to make policy proposals on education has proposed that the school education be truncated at Grade 12 and admit children to school at the age of 4+ as […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Kumar Moses Security forces personnel were warned by the hierarchy well in advance not to engage in any sexual activity including consensual sexual activity with Tamil women in Jaffna, Batticaloa and especially Vanni. This is because of feared very high prevalence of AIDS and other STIs among them. AIDS scare hit Sri Lanka in the […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 14 April 2017 Mayor John Tory City Hall, 2nd Floor 100 Queen Street W Toronto, On. M5H 2N2 Dear Mayor John Tory: I wish you a Happy Sinhala & Tamil New Year. Your personal observation piece on Sri Lanka in the Toronto Star, ‘The quest […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Dr Upatissa Pethiyagoda. You may call it foresight, development, modernization, progress or whatever self-satisfying term that you like. I call it reckless profligacy, and I shall attempt to tell you why. But first, we are broke and possibly soon join the ranks of defaulters”, our exports (Tea Rubber and Coconuts) are as habitual, in the […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Dear Sirs I have written about the garbage problem and a tangible solution many times and I predicted that this will happen I am writing again with a solution ……….. There is no solution unless we dump garbage into the Sea !!!!!! Quote GARBAGE DISPOSAL EMERGENCY SITUATION AND ACTION PLAN GARBAGE […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා එක්සත් රාජ්ය ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානයේ යම් ප්රදේශයකට මහා විශාල බෝම්බයක් අත් හැරලා. ඒක න්යෂ්ටික නොවන වඩාත් ම භයානක බෝම්බය ලෙස හැඳින්වෙනවා. බෝම්බවල මාතාව නමින් ද එය හඳුන්වනවා. මාතාව කියන එක අපේ සංස්කෘතියෙ නම් උපරිම කැප කිරීම, සෙනෙහස ආදී ගුණාංග සමග බැඳුනක්. අප ඒ සංකල්පය බෝම්බ සමග යොදා ගන්නේ නැහැ. එහෙත් බටහිරයන්ට ඒ ප්රශ්නයක් නො […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A massive mound of garbage collapsed in Sri Lanka, killing 19 people, injuring 13 and forcing more than 600 others to flee their homes during festivities to mark the local new year, officials said Saturday. Soldiers on Saturday were searching the site in Meetotamulla, a town near the Sri Lankan […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Ram Madhvani Sadly the same story continues in many other parts of the world even today – in Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and many other smaller nations where locals are set up to kill each other so that the rich can make more riches and justifying those wars on the pretext of protecting democracy, human rights […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
Colombo Telegraph,News,STORIES | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH Chairman of Transparency International, Sri Lanka (TISL) Lakshan Dias and prominent TISL Board Member, J.C. Weliamuna have both stepped down from their positions in the organization in the wake of several Right to Information (RTI) petitions being filed by trade unionists under the RTI Act asking for reports relating to alleged corruption […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2017
Mahinda Gunasekera By Email 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, ON M1W 3L9 Tel. (416) 498-0783 April 14, 2017 The Editor Toronto Star Toronto, Ontario Copy to: His Worship the Mayor of Toronto Dear Editor, Mayor John Tory’s Opinion Column published on April 4, 2017 on ‘The quest for healing and Justice in Sri Lanka’ I find […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2017
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඉතිහාසයේ කළු අකුරින් සටහන් වෙන දුෂිතම රජය බිහිව ගලායමින් පවතී. මේ රජය බිහි කිරීමට හා පවත්වා ගෙන යාමට අවැසි විවිධ ආකාරයේ ව්යාපෘතීන් රාශියක්, පරගැති දේශපාලන ප්රජාවගේ මුලිකත්වයෙන් නිර්මාණය කර පවත්වාගෙනයාම අප නිතරම දකින සිදුවීම් අතර ඇත. මේ ව්යාපෘතීන් ඉතාමත් සුක්ෂම ලෙස නිර්මාණය කරන ලද බැවින්, මෙරට ජනතාවට එකවර මේවායේ ඇති සැබෑ ස්වරුපය […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2017
Courtesy breakingnews.ie At least six people were killed and 10 injured in Sri Lanka’s capital after a massive rubbish dump buried an estimated 40 homes. A 12-year-old boy and two teenage girls died at the Colombo National hospital where 10 others were being treated after they were rescued, a hospital spokeswoman said. Three other people […]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2017
R Chandrasoma In this prodigious (and Buddhist) country the Minister of Health is in an unhealthy state of un-supressed agitation when lambasting those he sees as enemies of the anointed government of which he is part – a government that (supposedly) ushered in the Age of Decency and Righteous Governance. It is known to science […]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා රාජිත සේනාරත්න කියලා තිබුණා යුද්ධය තාවකාලික විසඳුමක් පමණයි කියලා. ස්ථිර විසඳුම් ලෝකෙ තියෙනව ද කියලා රාජිතගෙන් අහන්න මට ඕන කමක් නැහැ. ඒත් මට දැනගන්න ඕන මේ යුද්ධය මොකක් ද තාවකාලික ව විසඳුපු ප්රශ්නය මොකක් ද කියලා. රාජිත දත් දොස්තර කෙනෙක්. මේ දිනවල ඔහු සයිටම් ගැන රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරි සංගමය එක්ක වචන හුවමාරුවක […]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2017
By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are reports reaching Colombo that the current top man at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Rome is playing games with his countrymen. For the past several years, Sinhala Classes have been conducted for the Sinhala children living in Italy. A representative of the HELADIVA THAKSALAWA” has gone to the […]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2017
Markandey katju Former Judge, Supreme Court of India The article was originally published on The Huffington Post. India is inevitably heading for a revolution. Why do I say so ? Let me explain India is potentially a highly developed country, but actually a poor and backward country. It is potentially a highly developed country because it has […]
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