Archive for June, 2017
Sunday, June 11th, 2017
ලංකා සී නිවුස් ලංකාවට ජී.එස්.පී. ප්ලස් බදු සහනය නැවත ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිය මතය ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති නිවේදනයක් පහත දැක්වෙයි. ලංකාවට ජී.එස්.පී ප්ලස් බදු සහනය නැවත ලබාදීම යුරෝපා සංගමය 2017 මැයි 19 වන දා සිට, ජී.එස්.පී ප්ලස් බදු සහනය නැවත ලංකාවට ලබා දී ඇත. යුරෝපා සංගමය විසින් ජී.එස්.පී […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Courtesy Express News Service | Published: 10th June 2017 04:36 AM | Last Updated: 10th June 2017 01:57 PM CHENNAI: MDMK general secretary Vaiko, a vociferous Tamil rights campaigner, who just got released on bail in a 2009 seditious speech case, was denied entry into Malaysia on Friday morning, charging him of being a member of […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Courtesy ANI Updated: Jun 10, 2017 09:05 IST Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 10 (ANI): MDMK chief and ex-lawmaker Vaiko, who arrived here after not being allowed to enter Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to attend a marriage, claimed on Saturday that he was deported because he was considered “a security threat” by the Malaysian authorities […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Courtesy The Sunday Times The Government is planning to introduce a scheme somewhat akin to the ‘Malaysia My Second Home’ via introduction of a new law in Sri Lanka. For this purpose a Bill dated May 29, 2017 has been specifically published and is yet to be enacted in to Law. The preamble reads an […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
by Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front is a powerful movie that was based on the World War one veteran Erich Maria Remarque’s personal experiences. Directed by Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front recounts the realistic and horrific nature of the trench war. […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The component of depression was evident to Dr. Mendez Da Costa who introduced the term Irritable heart during the US Civil War and Lt Col (Dr) Fredric Mott who coined the term Shell Shock during the World War one. Sometimes depression is obvious among the servicemen who were exposed to traumatic […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today With back to back terror attacks rocking London and Manchester, British Prime Minister Theresa May called that time has come to say ‘enough is enough’.Britain came under three terrorist attacks in the last three months. Premier May said that as terrorism breeds terrorism and perpetrators are inspired to attack, not only […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island June 11, 2017, 8:30 pm Cats seem to have got the tongues of the otherwise vociferous yahapalana apologists including the local NGO activists who never miss an opportunity to wax eloquent on the virtues of good governance. Their silence on the present regime’s despicable practices which are antithetical to good governance is […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island June 11, 2017, 12:00 pm Having lambasted the Rajapaksa administration for giving plum diplomatic posts to political appointees at the expense of career diplomats, the present government is catapulting its backers to the top notches of the foreign service, according to sources. Close on the heels of Finance Minister Ravi […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
බී. අයි. ආබ්ඞීන් සභාපති Sada Haritha ගරු මුදල් හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්ය, මංගල සමරවීර මැතිතුමා, මුදල් හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්යාංශය කොළඹ. ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි. සංචාරක අමාත්ය ජෝන් අමරතුංග මහතා විසින් ප්රාදේශීය මාධ්යවේදී බෙනට් ෆර්ඩිනැන්ඩස් මහතාට තර්ජනය කිරීම – පහර දීමට උත්සහ කිරීම සම්බන්ධව ඊයේ, එනම් ජූනි 08 වන දින මුතුරාජවෙලට, කොළඹ කසළ බැහැර කිරීම සම්බන්ධව නාගොඩ ප්රදේශවාසීන් සමග සංචාරක […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ නායක අනුර දිසානායකගේ පුත්රයා වන කසුන් දිසානායක මාළඹේ පුද්ගලික සරසවියෙන් උගත් අයෙක් බව ඔහුගේම ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේ සදහන් කර ඇත. මෙන්ම ඔහු රැකියාව කර ඇත්තේ ජවිපෙ නායකයින් උදේ හවා බැණ වැදුනු මිහින් ලංකා ආයතනයේ වන අතර දැන් ශ්රී ලන්කන් එයාර් ආයතනයේ බවත් පැවසෙයි. 29,314 Viewers
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
H. L. D. Mahindapala The flow of migrants to Sri Lanka never ceased throughout its history. Each migratory wave came with its own characteristics. Each found its own niche in the over-arching Sinhala-Buddhist society. Historical records do not indicate that the new migrants encountered any difficulties in settling down with the numerically preponderant Sinhala-Buddhists. Take […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
Malin Abeyatunge Since 1983 to May 2009, Sri Lankans suffered brutal terrorism from barbaric LTTE aka Tamil Tigers until the terrorist outfit was completely crushed. Thousands of killing innocent civilians with bullets, swords & machetes, with planted bombs, suicide bombs, bombing public properties like Central Bank, Katunayake airport, Religious places like Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island The time has come to be proud of what we are.-Alvaro Garcia Linera, Vice President of Bolivia In trying to silence Wimal Weerawansa for a time his enemies have succeeded in provoking him to talk louder than usual by means of two books he has written during his eighty-seven […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
LANKAWEB WEEKLY EDITORIAL True to form as an apparent sympathiser for many wrong entities for the sake of mistaken personal popularity perhaps, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appears to have capitulated to Opposition leader and Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan’s demand that the Sinhala term for ‘Ekeeya’ (unitary) should be incorporated into the English version […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S Fernando Is it because of the ‘poisonous’ and junk food people consume on a daily basis today that their attitudes keep on changing values go down in the drain and become nasty to each other at the drop of a hat? Why do some medical professionals have to go against their […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
Written by: Anusha Ravi Updated: Saturday, June 10, 2017 Courtesy: OneIndia News An order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana said that ‘cow was a sacred national wealth’. Justice B Siva Sankara Rao in his March 1 order had even held that slaughter of cows for Bakrid was […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින වර්ගවාදය හෝ වර්ගෝත්තමවාදය අවභාවිතාවෙන් සිදුවන්නේ සමස්තයක් වශයෙන් රට හා ජාතිය ආපස්සට යාමකි. ඉන් පැවසෙන්නේ වර්ගෝත්තමවාදයේ සුභාවිතාවක්ද තිබිය හැකි බවය. අප කැමති වුවද අකමැති වුවද වර්ග හා වර්ගාන්තර ගැටුම් ලෝක ස්වභාවයක් මිස අනෙකක් නොවේ. දූරදර්ශී ප්රාඥයකුට වර්ග හා වර්ගාන්තර ගැටුම් කළමනාකරණය කිරීමේ හැකියාව තිබිය යුතුය. විශේෂයෙන්ම ජනවර්ග හා ජනවර්ගාන්තර ගැටුම් කලමනාකරණය කිරීම දේශපාලනයෙහි […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
by C.A.Chandraprema June 10, 2017, 7:26 pm Even though police teams are supposedly scouring the country for him, the monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara has not been arrested as this goes to press. He is supposed to appear in courts tomorrow but it seems unlikely that he will. He has evaded two court appearances already and if […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Sudath Gunasekara 9.6.2017. 1 Going for Presidential elections in 2015 while he could have gone on till end of 2017 2 Not sacking My3 immediately after he left to contest as the Common Candidate 3 Handing over the SLFP chairmanship to Maitripala Sirisen who has ceased to be a member of the SLFP with his […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Sri Lanka news The European Union through their representatives have expressed solidarity with Muslims in Sri Lanka by visiting a Mosque in Colombo recently. They wanted hate speech to be curbed and perpetrators of hate speech to be brought to Justice in Sri Lanka. That is fine talk. However surfing the Internet shows that it […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Sudath Gunasekara 7.6.2017 Please go through the following two articles Who is this Visvamitra. Apart from the content look at the language he uses to refer to Buddhist monks in this country. Is he a Tamil or a Muslim or a NGO conspirator paid by the west writing under a pseudo name Do you note […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Sri Lankan News එන්නෙ පා පැදියකින්. නවත්වලා, බැහැල, හෙමිහිට කඩෙි ලඟට පයින් ඇවිදලා යමි දෙයක් කඩෙිට විසිකරල ඔහු යනව. කඩෙි ගිනි ගන්නව. බැලූ බැල්මට කඩෙිට ඉන්ධන වත් කරල සූදානමි කරල තිබුන බවක් තමයි පේන්නෙ . CCTV කැමරාවෙි හඬට අනුව දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් කවුරැ හරි කතා කරනව ඇහෙනව. ඒ තරැණයාව ( සිංහල ) අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබඳ නීතිවේදී සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ නීතිඥ කල්යානන්ද තිරාණගම පසුගිය මාර්තු 07 දා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ බලහත්කාරයෙන් අතුරුදන් කිරීම්වලින් සියලූ දෙනා ආරක්ෂා කරගැනීමේ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මුතිය සඳහා වන පනත අපේ රටට අහිතකර පනතක් ලෙස සමහරු හඳුන්වන්නේ ඇයි? ආණ්ඩුව මේ පනත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළේ එම පනතට එරෙහිව අධිකරණය හමුවට යැමට පවා අවස්ථාවක් නොලැබෙන පරිදි රජයේ නිවාඩු […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
lankanewsalert.com බොරු කියා පච හලලා වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව බිළි දෙන බවත් හමුදාව දිවි පුදා බේරා දුන් මව්බිමද බිලි දෙමින් පවතින මොහොතක නිහඩව සිටිය නොහැකි බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි විමල් වීරවංශ පවසයි.පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් දක්වමින් මන්ත්රිවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියා. අද ආණ්ඩු බලයට පත් වී සිටින පිරිස එදත් අදත් ත්රිවිධ හමුදාවට නිගරු කල බව පෙන්වා දුන් […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති දැන් අපේ රට ආණ්ඩු කරන්නේ විධායකයයි ව්යවස්ථාදායකයයි අධිකරණයයි කියන දැති රෝද තුනෙන් සැකසුණු යාන්ත්රණයකින් කියලා කියනවා. ඒ විදිහට ගත්තම මේ තියෙන්නේ රෝද තුනේ ආණ්ඩුවක් කියලා කියන්න පුළුවන්. මේ රෝද තුන කැරැකෙන්න ඕන විදිහ ගැන ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් කියනවා. කොහොම හරි කැරැකෙන විදිහේ අවුලක් තියෙනවා කියලා දැනෙන හින්දා යලට වගේ ම මහටත් මේ ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කරනවා. […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.- John Foster Dulles Commonly violence is defined as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual against oneself, another person or against a group or community that either results in […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Beating India is great, that is our ultimate opponent. They underestimated SL prior to the match. The problem of fitness still persists. Angelow, Asela, Kusal must be back in action in the quarter final against Pakistan on Monday. SL has a remarkable record of coming from behind. India has a […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Australia, Sri Lanka, NZ and West Indies have won all 3 preliminary matches in the first round, scoring maximum 6 points each. On the net run rate, SL has come first with 3.493, followed by Australia 3.433, NZ 2.138 and WI 0.764. The two “super-powers” in the Indian sub-continent provided […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Courtesy BBC The outgoing governor of Jakarta has been jailed for two years for blasphemy after judges handed down a sentence that was harsher than expected. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, was accused of insulting Islam by referring to a verse in the Koran in a campaign speech last year. Mr Purnama, a […]
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