Archive for September, 2017
Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
by Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island Alleging that proposed new Constitution would give separatists what they had failed to achieve through terrorism, wartime Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said, vowing to defeat the project. The proposed constitutional reforms were meant to appease the LTTE rump, pro-LTTE Diaspora and a section of foreign powers, Rajapaksa said, lambasting […]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත, සරත් ධර්මසේන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිනී රෝසි සේනානායක මහත්මියගේ පුත් කණිෂ්ක සේනානායක මහතා ගෙන් පර්පෙචුවල් ට්රෙෂරීස් සමාගමේ ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධාරි කසුන් පලිසේන මහතා 07 වන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කෝප් කමිටුවට දුන් ප්රකාශයේ සම්පූර්ණ පිටපතක් අර්ජුන් ඇලෝෂියස් මහතාට ලැබී තිබුණු බව ඊයේ (06 දා) බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේදී වාදනය කරන ලද දුරකථන සංවාදයකට […]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත, සරත් ධර්මසේන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ජනාධිපති බැඳුම්කර කොමිසම හමුවේ සාක්ෂි දෙමින් පර්පෙචුවල් ට්රෙෂරීස් සමාගමට සහ එහි නිලධාරීන්ට අදාළ තොරතුරු රැසක් හෙළි කළ එම සමාගමේ ප්රධාන ගනුදෙනුකරු නුවන් තිළිණ සල්ගාදු මහතාට සහ ඒ මහතාගේ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන්ට ආරක්ෂාව ලබාදෙන ලෙස බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සභාපති ශේ්රෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරු කේ. ටී. චිත්රසිරි මහතා ඊයේ (06 දා) නියෝග කළේය. තිළිණ […]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත, සරත් ධර්මසේන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින පර්පෙචුවල් ට්රෙෂරීස් සමාගමට පෙර නොවිරූ අසාමාන්ය අධික ලාභ උපයා ගැනීමට හැකි වූයේ එම සමාගමේ හිමිකරු වන අර්ජුන් ඇලෝෂියස් මහතාට ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවෙන් ලැබුණු අභ්යන්තර තොරතුරු (Inside Information) සහ මිල සංවේදී රහසිගත තොරතුරු (Price Sensitive Confidential Information) නිසා බව ඊයේ (06 දා) ජනාධිපති බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේදී පර්පෙචුවල් ට්රෙෂරීස් සමාගමේ […]
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
by Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte Courtesy The Island The Presidential Commission of Inquiry, probing alleged bond scams, resumed sittings yesterday, with Chief Dealer of Perpetual Treasuries (PTL), Nuwan Thilina Salgado, testifying. He said the company had been able to make unprecedentedly huge profits because of inside information and price sensitive confidential information PTL Chairman Arjun Aloysius had […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Sarath Wijesinghe Bribery is omnipresent with a long history starting from the time immemorial and spreading fast at all levels of the community. It is cancerous, and exists all with no borders and barriers. Efforts made by the State, religious leaders, and social workers to arrest or complete eradication of this menace has miserably failed […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග සෝමපාල ගරුසිංහ මහතා 71 අප්රේල් කැරැල්ලෙන් පසු පුරා වසර 6 කට ආසන්න කාලයක් නීති ඇසින් බේරී වනගතව සිටියේය. ඔහුගෙ නිවහන කැලෑව විය. ජීවිතය රැක ගැනීම සඳහා ඔහු ප්රාථමික මිනිසුන් ගත කල කැලෑ ජීවිතයට හුරු විය. වනගතව සිටි කාලය අවිනිශ්චිතතාව, ධෛර්ය හා පරිසරය පිළිබඳ කුතුහලය දනවන කතා පුවතකි. අපි ඔහුට සවන් දෙමු. […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලෙයේ විසිහත් වන සැසිවාර යේදී මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්වරයා විසින් සිදු කළ වාචික කරුණු දැක්වීමේදී ශ්රී ලංකාව යුධ අපරාධ කර ඇති බව උලුප්පා දක්වා ඇත.එම කරුණු දැක්වීම අනුව ශ්රී ලංකා රජය සහ ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය එක්ව ශ්රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව යෝජනාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කර සම්මත කළහ. එහිදී සංහිඳියාව සහ වගවීම ප්රවර්ධනයට කිරීමට එකඟ විය […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
By Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror After listening to several phone conversations taken place between Arjun Aloysius (PTL owner) and Kasun Palisena (PTL CEO), which were previously deleted and missing from PTL’s recording system, Attorney General’s Department officials late last night have uncovered the vital information about what took place during the controversial February […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ බොරුකාරයන්ගේ රෙදි ගලවයි: සම්පූර්ණ වීඩියෝව
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 5, 2017, 7:58 pm War-winning Army Commander and Regional Development Minister, Sarath Fonseka last Saturday (Sept 1, 2017) declared that wartime Security Forces Commander, Vavuniya, the then Maj. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya had committed crimes during his tenure as the senior officer based in Vavuniya. Sinha Regiment veteran Fonseka, who […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island September 5, 2017, 12:00 pm The recent public airing of political corruption by way of evidence emerging before the Presidential Commission points to a much bigger problem than individual acts of political corruption per se. These excuses shed a new light in to a proverbial ‘code of thieves’ that […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island Wednesday 6th September, 2017 September 5, 2017, 8:28 pm The present government has mastered the art of selling family silver. Having handed over the country’s only inland port to China for a song and undertaken to lease the second international airport to India, the yahapalana politicians are now eyeing poor wild animals […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island September 5, 2017, 8:28 pm Civilians, in conflict zones, have two choices. One is to leave the conflict zone and seek refuge in transit refugee camps, set up within the country, in which the conflict is taking place, or seek the safety of transit camps, in other countries, despite the […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Courtesy The Island Joint Opposition leader Dinesh Gunawardena will raise the LTTE backed Tamil Diaspora move against General Jagath Jayasuriya following Regional Development Minister Field Sarath Fonseka alleging that the wartime Security Forces Commander, Vanni had committed crimes and he continued violations of human rights after becoming the Commander of the Army in July 2009. […]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
ආචාර්ය චරිත හේරත් උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප –මේ දිනවල අපේ රටේ දේශපාලනයේ එක් ප්රධාන මාතෘකාවක් වන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කර හෝ එසේත් නැතිනම් පනත් සංශෝධනය කර හෝ මැතිවරණ කල් දන්නේ කේසේද කියා හොයන එකය. මේ සමහර ඒවා දැනටමත් කාලය නිමා වී ඇති පලාත් පාලන ආයතනය. සමහර ඒවා ඉදිරියේ විසිරෙන්නට තිබෙන පලාත් සභාය. මේ වැඬේ ට ගොස් ආණ්ඩුවම ඉන්නේ […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Sudath Gunasekera has used the up-coming 150th anniversary of Tea plantations to present a patriotic lament which we should resonate with. But we should remember that when Sri Wickrama R was captured in Kandy, the situation was qualitatively no different to what we have today., with a bunch of traitors […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec , Canada Dr. Carlo Fonseka, a leftist with the credentials needed to survive any regime has now stated that he will work to topple the government on the SAITM issue. Ostensibly, he is fighting to save free education”. Why did he not do anything to stop the granting of degrees in Chemistry, […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Contrary to what Ananth Karthikeyan has stated in his article published in the Lankaweb on September 03, 2017, titled The Imperial Cholas’ Conquest of Sri Lanka” mentioned, Sri Lanka was never captured and controlled completely by Dravidians at any time in its history. The following is an outline of Dravidian invasions and […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
Dr Hector Perera London I have some interest in cooking for a long time even while I was doing my GCSE ordinary level. With the scouts group, I went on camping for about a week when we had to cook. Honestly I didn’t know much cooking but I have observed some cooking at home done […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) A Special Public Lecture Combining Theory and Practice in Buddhist Meditation” by Keith Munnings PGCE MTH (Master of Theology), Buddhist Chaplain in UK on Thursday Sept 7th at 5.00 p.m. at the RASSL Council Room Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
by Senaka Weeraratna The White Man enslaved the Brown Man and the Black Man for centuries. The Yellow Man liberated them. This is the true outcome of the Second World War. The Brown Man enslaved for nearly 500 years is free today because the Yellow Man fought the White Man at Port Arthur in 1905 followed […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. Commenting on my article entitled The AluthParlimenthuwa” Debate on Glyphosate” that appeared in the Lankaweb ( https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/09/02/the-aluthparlimenthuwa-debate-on-glyphosate/), a writer who uses the fake name Cerberus” has gone shopping for free on the internet and comes back to tell us that glyhosate causes not only kidney disease, but also many other […]
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Monday, September 4th, 2017
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane All colonial powers associated with Sri Lanka in the past are guilty of serious crimes of acute proportions. The British were the worst of them all. The British occupation of Sri Lanka was not only gravely crime-prone, but one of sheer treachery, exploitation and devastation of our country and people. It is […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
By Kanthar Balanathan, Australia Sprinkled and Speckled Tamils History reveals that Tamils of various dimension have migrated out of Tamil Nadu and SriLanka, several centuries ago. Recent, legal and illegal migration over a 40-year bandwidth has been on a theoretical accusation/allegation podium of war and human rights violation, which is not the real truth. Some […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara 22.8.2017. There is much talk in the press these days about holding a series of Celebratory activities and events to commemorate 150 years of tea production in Sri Lanka. It is also reported that action is underway to organize several events by the Authorities to commemorate 150 years of tea production in […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
Dr Sudath Ggunasekara 3.9. 2017 This is for your serious attention please. From hills to VIP thrills, but the people paid the bills What came to the Foreign Ministry in a diplomatic bag from an Asian capital raised not only eye brows but also serious concerns. An upcountry Province Governor and a so-called official delegation […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති මීවැවට යන්න ඕන ගනේගොඩ හන්දියෙන් හැරිලා. ගනේගොඩ හන්දිය තියෙන්නේ නාරම්මල ඉඳලා කුරුණෑගලට යන පාරේ. නාරම්මල ඉඳලා වැඩි දුරක් නෑ. නගර සීමාව ඉවරවෙන්නේ ගනේගොඩින්. අනිවාර්යයෙන් ම, මීවැවේ වැවක් ඇති කියලා පාඨකයන්ට හිතෙන්න පුළුවන්. එහෙම නැතිනම් ඒ ගමට මීවැව කියලා නම දාන්න විදිහක් නැහැනේ. ඒත් දැන් මීවැවේ වැවක් නෑ. නාරම්මල නගරයෙන් වැඩි ඈතක නොවුනත් මීවැව […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
කම්කරු අරගල මධ්යස්ථානයේ සංවිධායක ලේකම් දුමින්ද නාගමුව සහෝදරයා, මේ පනත ශ්රම බලකායේ සැලකිය යුතු ව්යූහාත්මක වෙනස්කම් සිදු කරන පනතක්. ඒ වගේම මේ පනත නීති විරෝධී ලෙස, ප්රජාතන්ත්ර විරෝධී ලෙස සම්මත කරන්න යන පනතක්. මේ පනත ගැසට් කළේ පසුගිය මාර්තු මාසයේ. ආදායම් බදු ගැන විශේෂ අවධානයක් යොමු කර තිඛෙනවා. ලංකාවේ මෙතෙක් ක්රියාත්මක වුණේ බි්රතාන්ය ආකෘතිය මූලික […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
by M.L.Wickramasinghe Courtesy The Island September 2, 2017, 7:05 pm There is a continuing and interesting dialogue on the Constitution. The majority of Sri Lankans is strongly apprehensive of federalism and believes that maintaining the status quo with regard to the current limits on devolution of power to the provincial councils and maintaining a strong central […]
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