Archive for August 10th, 2017
Thursday, August 10th, 2017
KAMALIKA PIERIS Yahapalana was planning to push China firmly out of Sri Lanka and hand Sri Lanka over to India and America. Yahapalana thought that it would be easy to shake off China because Yahapalana was under the secret protection of USA. But Sri Lanka owed China money and USA could not cough up the […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග කපිතාන් කුලරත්න යනු 71 කැරැල්ලෙන් බිහිවූ විශිෂ්ඨටම චරිතයයි. වික්ටර් අයිවන් කියන පරිදි 71 කැරැල්ලේ බොහෝ නොමඟ යාම් වැරදි තිබුනේය. ඒ නොමඟ යාම් වැරදි තුලින් ඉගෙන ගෙන විනාශ කිරීම වෙනුවට ගොඩනැගීම නිර්මාණය කිරීම සමාජයට දායාද කල කපිතාන් කුලරත්න සුපිරි චරිතයකි. ඔහු 71 කැරැල්ලට සම්බන්ධ වන්නේ තම සොහොයුරා හරහාය. ඒ නිසා සිර දඞුවම් […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
By Rohana R. Wasala Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fatal lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. -From ‘The Battle-hymn of the Republic’ by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
By Henry Scott Stokes, Categories: Greater East Asian Conference ,Greater East Asian War (Pacific War) ,World War II In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists’ status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Courtesy The Telegraph A baby ape discovered in Kenya could be an example of the earliest ancestors of all living humans, scientists believe. The little creature, whose skull is roughly the size of a lemon, lived around 13 million years ago and came from a family which may have eventually evolved into man and apes . It was […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි Samurdhi Development Officers Union සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාර සමීක්ෂණයෙන් අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී ජනතාව හට සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාර අහිමිවීමේ ගැටලූව සම්බන්ධව ආණ්ඩුව වහා විසඳුම් ලබාදිය යුතුයි. සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් දීප ව්යාප්තව සිදු කරන ලද 2015 අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී පවුල් හඳුනාගැනීමේ සමීක්ෂණයෙන් සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාර ලබන පවුල්වලට සිදුව ඇති අසාධාරණය සම්බන්ධව රට පුරා දුප්පත් ජනතාව විසින් සිදු කරන විරෝධතාවය සම්බන්ධව […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
එස්. පී. විතානගේ සම කැඳවුම්කරු ගරු ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්ය, නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මැතිතුමා, ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්යාංශය, 7 වන මහල, අදියර ෂෂ, සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. කුරුණෑගල දුම්රිය ඉඩම් අවිධිමත් පරිහරණය වහා නතර කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලීම කුරුණෑගල දුම්රිය ස්ථාන පරිශ්රයේ දුම්රිය රක්ෂිත ඉඩම, රථගාලක් පවත්වාගෙන යාම සඳහා ප්රවාහන නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිවරයාගේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් තමන්ගේ […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය 2017 අගෝස්තු 10 මා හිතවත් ජයම්පති වික්රමරත්න මන්ත්රීතුමාට, අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ගේ යෝජිත ‘ඡන්ද සිතියම අකුළන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන‘ ය හෙවත් ’20 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය‘ ගැසට් මගින් ප්රකාශයට පත් කොට ඇත. අදාළ කෙටුම්පත සදහා ප්රමුඛ සම්පත් දායකයෙකු ලෙස ඔබ කටයුතු කර ඇත. ‘සධාරණ සමාජයක් සදහා වූ ව්යාපාරය‘ ප්රමුඛ සමාජ […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
NEVILLE LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy The Island August 10, 2017, 9:44 pm The corruption associated with the Bond Scam is slowly but steadily unravelling itself. The first culprit has been identified. Only time will tell whether other culprits, such as those who aided and abetted, and others, who gave material support by way of planning and strategizing too […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island August 10, 2017, 9:36 pm Yahapalanaya reminds us of a tale from Greek mythology about a ruthless bandit, named Procrustes, who either lopped off the limbs of his captives or stretched them so as to fit them into an iron bed. The yahapalana leaders are doing to the country’s laws what Procrustes […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake resigned from his post after making a special statement in Parliament yesterday and left his front row seat to become a backbencher. “The media and some Opposition politicians demand that I be crucified over being probed by a presidential commission of inquiry. I decided to resign […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Science, Technology and Research Minister Susil Premajayantha yesterday said he was disappointed with certain activities of the government and that even SLFP leaders did not accept his ideas. Addressing the media at the SLFP Head Quarters, the minister said the United National Party did not accept the ideas of the Sri […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Soon after the agreement to lease the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company, the government yesterday sought Cabinet approval for a 40-year lease of the Mattala International Airport to an Indian company. The Cabinet paper was presented by Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. An Indian […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Prasanna Sanjeewa Thennakone Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister of Justice and Buddha Sasana Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said the sale of Hambantota Harbour – a public asset-to the Chinese was a wrong and assured the public that he would not rest until he regains its ownership on behalf of the people. In an interview with our sister paper […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
lanka C news යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ සිදු වු මහා බැංකු බැදුම්කරය හරහා රුපියල් බිලියන 1000 ක් එනම් ට්රිලියනයක හානියක් මේ වනවිට රටට සිදු වී ඇති බැව් ශ්රිලනිප මාධ්ය හමුවේදි ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා නියෝජනය කරන ආණ්ඩුවේ පාර්ශ්වයේ ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන නියෝජ්ය අමාත්ය ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ලක්ෂමන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතා පැවසිය. එහෙත් මෙතෙක් බැදුම්කර වංචාව සම්බන්ධව සොයා […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The joint opposition said today the losses incurred in the Central Bank (CB) bond sale scam colossal indicating the fact that more government bigwigs other than Minister Ravi Karunanayake were involved and benefited from the scam. MP Keheliya Rambukwella, quoting State Minister of Finance, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardane, said the losses […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror While urging all SLFP and UPFA MPs to oppose the proposed 20th Amendment on the provincial council (PC) elections, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said today they would take this matter up in the Supreme Court. In a statement, Mr. Rajapaksa said all members of the SLFP in the government were elected […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
Reconciliation seems to be further separating the country – Mahinda යුද්ධය අවසන් කිරීම සංහිදියාවට මුලපිරුවා..
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
President elaborates on Hambantota agreement (English)
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
By Ayshwarya Yapa Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the 20th Amendment to the Constitution impinged upon the people’s sovereignty and franchise. He issued a media release today (09) expressing his views on the 20th Amendment which has reportedly been gazette by the Government with a view of postponing elections to the provincial councils”. Accordingly, […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
By Ajith Alahakoon Courtesy The Island August 8, 2017, 10:30 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was directly involved in the Treasury bond scams and he cannot absolve himself of the responsibility for them by scapegoating Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake for the biggest ever fraud in the country’s history, a senior JVPer says. Addressing a press conference […]
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