Archive for July, 2017
Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Vavuniya High Court on July 26 sentenced K. Dasan, a former cadre of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for abducting and recruiting children to fight during the war, to life imprisonment, reports Colombo Page. In 2008, complaints have been lodged with the Police that the suspect had abducted children on several occasions. However, the Police […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Courtesy Ceylon Today The Special Task Force (STF) will, on a directive issued by President Maithripala Sirisena, provide security to Jaffna High Court Judge M. Ilancheliyan, informed sources said. An eight-member STF team, led by a Sub Inspector, will provide security to Judge Ilancheliyan’s residence and his convoy. On the directions of President Maithripala Sirisena, […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Xinhua | COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s participation in China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative will boost the country’s economy and help it attract more foreign direct investment (FDI), participants of the “Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2017” have said. Speaking at the gathering here on Wednesday, Jim McCabe, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered Bank, Sri Lanka […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Wade Shepard , CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy Forbes February 10, 2015, a Sri Lankan official looks at cars standing at the port facility at Hambantota. From a multi-million dollar airport ignored by airlines to a lavish cricket stadium rejected by players, Sri Lanka’s new government is mulling the future of a string of white elephants. LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images A […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Courtesy The Indian Express BRUSSELS: The European Union’s top court on Wednesday annulled a court ruling to remove the Hamas militant group from the EU terror blacklist. The court, however, removed Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from the 28-member bloc’s terror list, BBC reported. The Court of Justice of the European Union […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Courtesy The Deccan Chronicle Chennai: DMK Working President M K Stalin on Wednesday welcomed European Union lifting the ban on LTTE and asked the Sri Lankan Government to ensure meaningful share” of power to Eelam Tamils. In a statement, Mr Stalin said it is a moment of elation as EU’s highest court has removed LTTE from […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Courtesy The Asian Age Beijing has the potential to exploit the situation and steamroller its way in dealing with Colombo through a mix of carrot and stick. The Chinese-built southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota, strategically located on the world’s busiest sea lanes in the Indian Ocean, has woken up the somnambulists in India as […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
The Peninsula Qatar Airways has announced it will introduce a fourth daily non-stop service from Doha to Colombo from August 1, 2017. In addition two of the four daily flights will be serviced by the B777-300ER aircraft to accommodate the increased travel demand to and from Sri Lanka. The increased frequency will boost overall capacity […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Sugath Samarasinghe (I sent the attached article as a reply to an article on this subject by a Prof. Fernando, to the Island newspaper. But it was not published) This is an attempt to explain the question raised by Prof. Laksiri Fernando in his article titled Is there a Sangha State behind the state” that […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
(Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA) The convenor of the Joint Opposition and the Gampaha district Parliamentarian Mr. Prasanna Ranaatunga said that those who are looking out for a split in the joint opposition will face the same fate as the fox that went after the goat expecting THAT to fall down. Addressing a gathering […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් පාරම්පරික බීජ කටුගෙට දමා දෙමුහුන් නව බීජ සමග අත්වැල් බැඳගත් රාජ්ය කෘෂිකර්ම ප්රතිපත්තිය වෙළෙඳ පළ ආර්ථිකය වෙනුවෙන් යලි සකස් වන්නට ආරම්භ වූයේ අසූව දශකයෙන් අනතුරුවය. විවෘත ආර්ථිකය යටතේ රජයේ බිත්තර වී ගොවිපළ වල් පෞද්ගලික අංශයට විකුණා දැමූ පසු බහුජාතික සමාගම් විසින් බීජ ඒකාධිකාරය තමන් සතු කර ගත්හ.කෘෂිකර්ම ක්ෂේත්රයේ ප්රවීණයන් සහ දේශපාලනඥයන් වරින් […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Mahinda Rajapaksa Former President of Sri Lanka (Translated by A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA) The former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa said that under the Act for the establishment of the Office of the Missing Persons which was signed recently by the President foreign countries have been empowered to request to hand over anyone who is suspected of making […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් මෑතකදී අත්සන් තබන ලද අතුරුදහන් වූවන්ගේ කාර්යාල පනත යටතේ ඇති යෝජිත නීතිය යටතේ ලංකාව තුළ පුද්ගලයෙකු අතුරුදහන් කරවීමකට සම්බන්ධ යැයි සැක කරන ඕනෑම අයෙක් තමන්ට භාර දෙන මෙන් විදේශීය රටවලට ඉල්ලා සිටීමට බලය ඇති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා විසින් මේ බව සදහන් […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS Sri Lanka has a literate, educated, strong minded public. That is because of its ‘free health and education’. These two sectors therefore need to be weakened and the country’s spirit broken, if the West is to bring the island under control. In 2014 it was observed,’ If we have this same stability for […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
R Chandrasoma According to the wide-eyed prognostication of Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe, we in Sri Lanka are in a most fortunate position to secure that economic take-off that politicians of all stripes had dreamed of in Post-Independence Sri Lanka. His starting premise is that the ‘Centre of Gravity’ of global commerce and economic activity will shift […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Majority of Sinhalese in Sri Lanka in today’s society are quite funny. If you go through the Media, the impression is that Sri Lanka is almost finished. But lets look at the behaviour of Sinhalese. None of the topics that are being currently debated have grass root reaction. Sinhalese go […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
By Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today The new government came to power on the promise to introduce a new Constitution. However, the National Freedom Front (NFF), a constituent partner in the Joint Opposition, has been vehemently critical about this move. Here, in an interview with Ceylon Today, NFF Kurunegala Organizer Kelum Jayasumana discusses the NFF’s opposition […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
ඉල්ලීම් තුනක් මුල් කර ගනිමින් වර්ජනයේ නිතර වුණු ඛණිජ තෙල් සංස්ථාවේ නිරායුධ සේවකයින්ට පොලු මුගුරු සහිත මැරයින් කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් මහ පාරේ එලව එලවා පහර දුන් ආකාරය රූපවාහිනී නාලිකා විසින් විකාශණය කරනු ලැබීය.
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
lanka C news යාපනය නල්ලූර් කෝවිල ඉදිරිපිටදී පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකු වෙඩි වැදී මිය ගියේ තමන් ඉලක්ක කරගෙන තැබූ වෙඩිල්ලකට බව යාපනය මහාදිකරණ විනිසුරු ඉලංචේලියන් මහතා පවසයි. පොලිස් මාධ්ය ප්රකාශකවරයා වගකීම් සහගතව ප්රකාශ නිකුත් කල යුතු බවත් කිසිවෙකු මෙම සිදුවීමට අතපොවන්නේ නම් එය අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමක් බවත් ඔහු සදහන් කරයි.
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Joint Opposition yesterday alleged that President Maithripala Sirisena and the SLFP group in the UNP-led government couldn’t absolve themselves of the responsibility for unprecedented Central Bank bond scams in Feb 2015 and March 2016. Addressing the media at Punchi Borella, former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris and MP […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Courtesy newsin.asia Luxembourg, July 26 (Reuters/newsin.asia): The European Union’s top court kept Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on the EU terrorism blacklist on Wednesday and removed Sri Lankan separatist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. However, the EU said in a press release later that the ban on the Tamil Tigers stays as the judgment did not take into […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
By Anil Perera Thirty four years ago, some criminal elements among Sinhalese carried out indiscriminate attacks on Tamils after some Sinhalese soldiers were killed by the LTTE in Jaffna. Majority of Sinhalese condemned this dastardly act and protected their Tamil neighbours. There was never a recurrence of such madness in the last thirty four years, […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
lanka C news මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳ සෙවීමේ ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ හෙළිදරව් වූ මොනාක් නිවාස සංකීර්ණයේ නිවසක් අල්ලස් වශයෙන් ගැනීමේ සිදුවීමට සම්බන්ධ විදේශ අමාත්ය රවී කරුණානායක මහතා තුළ අංශූමාත්රයක හෝ ශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න බවක් තිබේ නම් ඔහු වහා ඉල්ලා අස් විය යුතු බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ පෙන්වා දෙයි. ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නියෝජ්ය නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී, […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 25, 2017, 8:32 pm President Maithripala Sirisena has extended the term of the presidential commission of inquiry probing bond scams. Investigations have taken a dramatic turn and several key witnesses have not testified yet. The commission, therefore, needs some more time to complete its work, but care has to be taken […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
By Namini Wijedasa Courtesy The Sunday Times Just three days after last year’s presidential election, someone predicted the Perpetual Treasuries Ltd (PTL) bond issue on an online website for stock market investors. The man wrote on Sri Lanka Equity Forum:Perpetual Treasuries owned by Free Lanka Capital Holdings owners will mostly get a large amount of business […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
Courtesy The Business Times Sri Lanka’s cabinet cleared a revised agreement for its Chinese-built southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, the government said, after terms of the first pact sparked widespread public anger in the island nation. The port, close to the world’s busiest shipping lanes, has been mired in controversy ever since state-run China […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා යාපනයේ සිසුවියකු වූ විද්යාගේ ඝාතනය පිළිබඳ නඩුව විභාග කරන මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරුගේ ආරක්ෂක නිලධාරියකු වෙඩි වැදී මිය ගිහින්. තවත් ආරක්ෂක නිලධාරියකු වෙඩි වැදී රෝහලේ. මේ පිළිබඳ විවිධ කතා ජනමාධ්යයේ කියැවෙනවා. පොලිසිය කියන දේ විශ්වාස කිරීම අපහසුයි. මාර්ගය අවහිරවීමක් නිසා ඇති වූ ආරවුලක් හේතුකොටගෙන පොලිස් ආරක්ෂක නිලධාරියා මියගිය බවයි පොලීසිය කියන්නේ. එහෙත් වාර්තා වී […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ට්රාන්සිල්වේනියා බ්ලොගය කියවූ ප්රමාණය මේ වන විට ලක්ෂ 6ක් ද ඉක්මවා තිබේ. 2014 වසරේ ඇරඹි මෙම ට්රාන්සිල්වේනියා බ්ලොගයේ මේ වන විට පෝස්ටු 870 කි. ට්රාන්සිල්වේනියා බ්ලොගය ඇරඹීමට අත හිත දුන් දිවංගත විචා තුමා (මේජර් ගුණරත්න ) මෙන්ම නන් අයුරින් දිරිමත් කල හිතවතුන්ටද මාගේ ස්තූතිය මේ අවස්ථාවේදී පිරිනමමි. ට්රාන්සිල්වේනියා බ්ලොගය සඳහා ලින්කුව […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
ALI SUKHANVER On 5th of December 2011 ,the Delhi police crime branch claimed to arrest two fresh recruits of the Pakistani spy agency, including a woman, from the New Delhi railway station. According to the claim they were arrested when they arrived at New Delhi railway station with a plan to kill the chief minister […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ’77 විප්ලවය‘ නැතිනම් සංවෘත්ත ආර්ථිකයික් ‘විවෘත ආර්ථිකයට‘ ලංකාව මාරුවී වසර 40 ක් ගතවී ඇත. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ගේ දේශපාලන ජීවිතයට ද වසර 40 කි. 77 විප්ලවයෙන් පසු වසර 40 න් මුල් වසර 17 ක් එජාපය බලයේ සිටියේ ය. ඉතිරි වසර 22 යි මාස 6 එජාපය සිටියේ විපක්ෂයේ ය. නැතිනම් අර්ථ විපක්ෂයේ ය. […]
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