Archive for June, 2017
Saturday, June 24th, 2017
by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island June 24, 2017, 6:07 pm The impassioned, strongly worded statement just recently issued by the Asgiriya Chapter meant that the writing is on the wall. But there is more than one thing written on the wall, and there is also something written between the lines. What the writing on […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
Dr Sararth Obeysekera කිරිගොවීනට මුහුණ දීමට ඇති අර්බුදවලට නිසි විසැදුමක් සතියකින් ලැබුණොත් ගොම පිරවු ලොරි හා කරත්තවලින් කොළඹට එන බව සමස්ථ ලංකා ගොවි ජන සම්මේලනයේ ජාතික සංවිධායක නාමල් කරුණාරත්න මහතා දඹුල්ල යාපාගම දී අද (24) පෙරවරුවේ පැවැසීය. කිරිගොවීනට සහන ඉල්ලා හෙට (25) දඹුල්ලේ දී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත උද්ඝෝෂණයට කඩාකප්පල් කිරීමට පිරිසක් මාන බලන බව ඔහු චෝදනා කළේය […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න දඹුලු හා එවැනි අනෙකුත් සිධ්ධස්ඨාන වලට දිනකට එකතුවන ලක්ෂ ගණන් මුදල් යටිමඩි ගැසීම නවත් වා ඒ මුදල් විවිධ නිකායේ සංඝයා ගෙන් සමන්විත භාරකාර මණ්ඩලයකට පවරා ඉන් සැලකිය යුතු කොටසක් ඒ ආදායම් ලැබෙන ස්ථාන දියුණු කිරීමට යොදවා ඉතිරිය අනෙක් පන්සල් දියුණු කිරීමටද යෙදිය යුතුය […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
Dr Sarah Obeysekera Lawyer Lakshan Dias Flees Sri Lanka After Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Threatens to Take Action ; Source ….DBS Jeyaraj http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/53873#more-53873 I was quite surprised to read the article by DBSJ about Chistian Bashing ! I know many Christians and Muslims who live in Harmony in Sri Lanka. I also followed the reaction from […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
By A. Abdul Aziz Shariah is the law of the Qur’an and literally means A path to life giving water.” In fact, the word Yarrah (i.e. the root of the Hebrew word Torah) means precisely the same thing. Therefore, Shariah is actually ingrained in Abrahamic tradition. Shariah is comprised of five main branches: adab (behavior, morals and manners), ibadah (ritual worship), i’tiqadat (beliefs), mu’amalat (transactions […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera ECONOMYNEXT – A government doctor who was engaging in private practice charging fees during a strike organized by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) was caught on camera running away without shoes. The GMOA is trying to close down SAITM, a private medical college, in a bid to deny education freedoms of […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The news about the Duke of Edinburgh, who is married to one of the world’s famed women, the Queen Elizabeth II of England, after enjoying 70 years of marital bliss has gone viral on news and social media about his decision to throw in the towel from all […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
By Niranjala Ariyawansha Courtesy Ceylon Today The Auditor General’s Department is set to reject the 2016 Annual Report of the Ministry of Finance, reliable sources told Ceylon Today. They added that the 2016 annual report of the Ministry of Finance was a balance sheet which had nominal and false figures in terms of debit and credit. […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
By Niranjala Ariyawansha Courtesy Ceylon Today The World Bank (WB) has warned the government that the US$ 100 million loan facility in the pipeline for release in September will be suspended unless the Audit Bill is tabled without further delay in Parliament and approved by it. Well-informed sources told this paper that this had come up […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa left to Pakistan last Monday afternoon to participate, as the guest speaker, at an event held at the Pakistan National Defence University. Speaking at an event organized by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) and Global Village Space (GVS) Rajapaksa said terrorism is […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
ISLAMABAD: Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka said Pakistan and Sri Lanka’s mutual long relationship is sustained by cultural heritage, economies, and common stand on international issues. We are grateful for the unconditional and steadfast support we received from Pakistan. It is a matter of deep satisfaction that I was able to raise Sri […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Shenali D Waduge There are 50 Muslim majority countries in the world. Since 1980 Syria has become the 14th Muslim country US has illegally bombed & invaded. At the same time there are also 5 Muslim countries that support US airstrikes on Syria – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Jordan. However, we […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
By M D P DISSANAYAKE If you have travelled to Sri Lanka late 2013, you might have thought that after flushing out tamil terrorists, Prez Rajapakse and Dr Gotabaya Rajapakse converted a hell into a almost a heaven. Not as glorious as Singapore, but admittedly moving towards the flying path with an aggressive plan. If […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Sri Lanka News It is reported that the Public Interest Rights Activist, Nagananda Kodituwaku has demanded CIABOC to tender an unqualified apology to the Chief Justice for deceiving the Supreme Court by making a manifestly falsified submission to the Court that the CIABO has already commenced a credible investigation into the activist’s complaint made in […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
By Rohana R. Wasala Although we do not in any way approve of Bhikkhu Gnanasara’s agitated behavior and style of expressing his views, we do not dismiss his ideas. We strongly condemn the vilification of the whole Sangha community based on those incidents instead of investigating the truth or otherwise of the matters raised by […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behaviour (WHO) and it is one of the most complex and disabling diseases (Weinberger & Harrison, 2011). Processing of social and emotional information has been shown to be disturbed in Schizophrenia(McCormick et al., 2012). Schizophrenia has […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ශ්රී ලාංකීය සරසවි අරගල ඉතිහාසයේ ආණ්ඩුවක් විසින් සිදුකරනු ලැබූ මිලේච්ඡතම පහරදීම ලෙස ඊයේ සරසවි සිසුන්ට එල්ල කරනු ලැබූ ප්රහාරය ඉතිහාසයේ සටහන් වනවා නොඅනුමානය. පාකිස්ථානයේ සංචාරයක නිරත මා එම පහරදීම් අතුළත් සමහර දර්ශන නැරඹුවේ දැඩි කම්පනයෙනි. තිරස්චීන පහරදීම මුළුමනින්ම හෙළා දකිමි. නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය සුරැකීම සහ ඒ වෙනුවෙන් දළ දේශිත නිශ්පාදිතයෙන් 6%ක් […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE How many times have we heard that there’s no room for any third party in Sri Lankan politics? ‘Third party’ as in an entity other than the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United National Party or else coalitions led by one of both. True, parties with extremely modest strength have on […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island June 22, 2017, 9:40 pm This refers to the news item in the Island of 19th June titled ‘Ratana Thera vows move to defeat glyphosate ban’. I was full of admiration for Ven. Ratana for the active role he played in the Mavil Aru fiasco when the LTTE disrupted the […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte and Sarath Dharmasena Courtesy The Island June 22, 2017, 10:06 pm Additional Director of Supervisory Department of the Non Banking Financial Institutions of the Central Bank, Suresh Sedera, testifying before the Presidential Commission probing alleged bond scams yesterday revealed that three primary dealers had not paid taxes on profits from bond transactions […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් දෙසිය විසිපස් දෙනාගෙන් කී දෙනකු මෙරට සිංහල බෞද්ධ රටක් කියලා ප්රසිද්ධියේ කීමට සූදානම් ද? පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ මන්ත්රීවරුන් කී දෙනකු සිටිනවා ද කියා කීමට මා දන්නේ නැහැ. ජනගහන අනුපාතය අනුව නම් එකසිය හැටක් පමණ සිටිය යුතුයි. ඒ සිංහල බෞද්ධ මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගෙන් කී දෙනකු මෙරට සිංහල බෞද්ධ රටක් බව ප්රසිද්ධියේ කියාවි ද? […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා ජාතික ව්යාපාරයට සටන් කාමීන්, දේශපාලන විචාරකයන්, දාර්ශනිකයන් ආදී වශයෙන් දැන් තරුණ ජවය එකතු වී තිබෙනවා. ඔවුන් ජනමාධ්යයෙහි වීර වික්රම ප්රකාශ කරනවා. මා එවැනි කිසිවකුවත් නො වෙයි. එවැන්නන්ට අනුව මා වැඩකට ඇති දෙයක් කියන්නේ නැහැ. පසුගිය දා එක්තරා භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ නමක් ඊනියා රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධානවලින් මෙරටට වී ඇති හානිය පිළිබඳ මගෙන් තොරතුරු ඉල්ලුවා. […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් දඹුළු විහාරස්ථානයේ විහාරාධිපති හිමියන්ගේ ක්රියාපටිපාටිය කිසිසේතම අනුමත කල නොහැකි බව ඇමති අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා පවසයි. මෙම විහාරස්ථානයේ දිනක ආදායම ලක්ෂ 35-80 අතර වන බවද පවසන ඇමතිවරයා මොන තත්වය යටතේ වුවද කල යුතු දේ කරන බවද සදහන් කරයි.
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණේ උපදේශක ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වී තිබේ. එසේ ඉල්ලා අස්වීම ගැන තම ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේ තබා ඇති සටහන මෙසේය. 5,563 Viewers
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
Shenali D Waduge This is being written at the request of a Muslim Activist who wants the Sri Lankan public to be aware of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia. It is also known as “female circumcision”. It is not mandated in the Koran but it does […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera June 22 (EN) Doctors at Sri Lanka’s main hospital refused to treat four police officers who sustained injuries when hundreds of university students stormed the health ministry, official sources said. When the tamil tigers blew up and wounded thousands of soldiers and police, Tamil doctors never refused to treat Sinhalese ? This […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති මේ ලිපියේ මාතෘකාව දැකපු ගමන් ම අපේ අය කලබලවෙන්න පුළුවන්. මේ මොන විකාර කතාවක් ද කියලාත් අපේ අයට හිතෙන්න පුළුවන්. මේක අපේ සංස්කෘතිය විනාශකරන්න හදන අයකු ගේ උප්පරවැට්ටියක් කියලාත් කියන්න පුළුවන්. අපි කවුරුත් කැමැති වැවක්, කුඹුරු යායක්, පන්සලක් තියෙන ගමක් ගැන හිතන්න. ඒත් ඒ ගම දැන් නෑ. පන්සල නම් තාමත් තියෙන බව ඇත්ත. […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් බුද්ධ වර්ෂ තුන්වන සියවසේ සකස් කරන ලදැයි පැවසෙන ගල් ලෙන් සහිත බෞද්ධ පූජා භූමියක් වන රන්ගිරි දඹුලු රජ මහ විහාරය ලෝක උරුමයක් ලෙසට නම් කරන ලද්දේ 1991 වසරේදීය. මෙලෙස නම් කළ පසු එක්සත් ජාතීන් ගේ සංවිධානයේ යුනෙස්කෝ ප්රඥප්තීන් ට අනුව ලෝක උරුම ස්මාරක පවත්වා ගෙන යා යුතුය. ඔවුන් ගේ වාර්ෂික කමිටු රැස්වීම් වලදී […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeyskera Fast bowler Lasith Malinga made a scathing attack on Sports Minister after the Minister had questioned the fitness of Sri Lankan cricketers. After Sri Lanka’s disappointing Champions Trophy campaign last week, minister addressing the media had said that Sri Lanka’s players were the most unfit in the world. Yesterday Malinga responded making […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mrs. Siranji Siriyawathi Fernando. A resident of Chilaw, she migrated to Kuwait as a domestic helper in 2014. On 15 June, 2017 an official in the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau in Colombo informed Mrs. K […]
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