Archive for September, 2017
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Retired Ministry Secretary and Ex- President Sri Lanka Administrative Service 21.9.2017 Part 11 (continued from 19.9.2017 Lankaweb) The golden gateway to this Kingdom and its political stability, peace and prosperity lays nowhere else but in the unity of the Sinhala nation sans party politics, under one National banner as a new political […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Executive Director/CaFFE Issuing a press release Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) stated that the provincial council elections amendment bill, which was passed in Parliament on Wednesday, is the most irregular amendment of a bill in Sri Lankan history. The bill which was passed, violating all accepted democratic norms, transparency and […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ මතය ඉවත දා, ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කරමින්, පාර්ලිමේන්තු කාර්ය පටිපාටිය හා සම්ප්රදායන් උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් ඡන්ද කල් දැමීම සදහා සිදු කළ පළාත් සභා ඡන්ද විමසීම් පනත සංශෝධනය කිරීම ‘ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තු ඉතිහාසයේ වඩාත් ක්රම විරෝධී පනත් සංශෝධනය‘ යි. ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී සමාජ ව්යවහාරයන්, විනිවිදභාවය, පාර්ලිමේන්තු සම්පාදනය හා නීතියේ ආධිපත්යයට ගරු […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Analogue is as follows. Either this bird was a reincarnation of an human who had done much sins and at the death bed last thought came into his mind may have been the reason why he was re born as a bird . http://wallythekat.tripod.com/A_Pages/AA-Videos-YOU-Tube/Crow-Einstein.html I am compelled to quote Dharmasoka Concern for […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island September 21, 2017, 9:55 pm It was reported a few moons ago that a swashbuckling village ruffian or chandiya, on seeing police come for him, had taken to his heels, got into a nearby house and hidden under a woman’s bed, only to be dragged out by his pursuers and bundled into […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
DR. JANAKA RATNASIRI Nawala September 21, 2017, 9:58 pm The recent correspondence on the above appearing in the Sunday Island of 17th and 10th of September prompted me to pen this piece. The recollection of the past emphasizing its negative aspects is fine, lest people forget this era of events which the younger generation is […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island September 21, 2017, 10:18 pm The Steering Committee, tasked with drafting a new constitution has raised the hackles of some of its members by proposing that the term, ‘unitary state’ be done away with. The Steering Committee interim report submitted by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the Constitutional Assembly yesterday […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
lanka C news පළාත් සභා ඡන්ද විමසීම් සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත ඊයේ දිනයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සම්මත කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දක්වමින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් මාධ්ය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර ඇත. එම නිවේදනය පහතින් දැක්වෙයි. පළාත් සභා ඡන්ද දින නියමයක් නොමැතිව කල් දැමීම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයත්, එජාපයට සහයෝගය දක්වන ශ්රීලනිප කණ්ඩායමත්, දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයත්, ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණත් […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today said the government has openly insulted the judiciary and flouted the Constitution by introducing changes to the Provincial Councils Election Bill through the backdoor. Issuing a statement, he said these changes have been made when the Supreme Court (SC) had given a clear ruling that the […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Ceylon Today Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged the people to unite and oppose the efforts rendered by the current government to destroy democratic institutions within Sri Lanka. In a media release that was circulated today, the former President condemned the concerted efforts of the ‘yahapalana conspirators’ who made several changes to the […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2017
BY Ranjith Kumara Samarakone Courtesy Veylon Today State Minister of International Trade, Sujeewa Senasinghe says, ‘We spoke strongly about things like good governance and the independence of the judiciary. What these reflect is that our party is on the correct track. Even if it is difficult the masses should accept that.’ ‘When our party is exemplary, […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge Everybody including Sri Lanka’s Parliament & the diplomatic community seem to be ignoring some ground realities. LTTE remains banned and TNA is a mouthpiece of the LTTE and often described as LTTE political proxy. If these are mere allegations, then the onus is on anyone in power to launch a Commission and […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේනගේ වැඩිමහලු දියණිය වන චතුරිකා සිරිසේන විසින් රචනා කරන ලද ‘ජනාධිපති තාත්තා’ නම් කෘතිය පසුගියදා දොරට වැඩියේය. මීට සමගාමීව කතුවරිය විසින් පවත්වන ලද විද්යුත් හා මුද්රිත මාධ්යවල සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවන් බොහෝ ගණනක්ද දක්නට ලැබිනි. නවකතාව (ඈ කියන පරිදි එය ‘චරිතප්රධානයක්’ නොව නවකතාවක ස්වරූපයෙන් ලියැවුනකි) දොරට වැඩීමට දින දෙක තුනකට පෙර, චතුරිකා සිරිසේනගේ […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 2006 වසරේදී විශේෂඥ මනෝ වෛද්ය නීල් ප්රනාන්දු මහතා යටතේ ජාතික රෝහලේ මනෝ වෛද්ය සායනයේ සේවය කරන විටදී මානසික ව්යාකූලතාවක් සමග ඉතා තරුණ කාන්තාවක් කිරි දරුවෙකු සමග ආවාය. මෙම තරුණ කාන්තාවගේ තනියට ඇයගේ මවද ගැබිණි නැගෙනියද ඇවිත් සිටි අතර සුපුරුදු ලෙසින් මම ඔවුන් ගේ විස්තර විචාලෙමි. ඔවුන් පැවසූ කරුණු අසා මම කම්පනයට […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
සභාපති – ලංකා තැපැල් සේවා සංගමය ගරු අමාත්ය අබ්දුල් හලීම් මැතිතුමා, තැපැල්, තැපැල් සේවා හා මුස්ලිම් ආගමික කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය, 6 සහ 7 වැනි මහල, තැපැල් මූලස්ථනාන ගොඩනැගිල්ල, 310, ඞී.ආර්. විජේවර්ධන මාවත, කොළඹ 10. ගරු අමාත්යතුමානි, කොළඹ ප්රධාන තැපැල් කාර්යාලය පවරා ගැනීමට විරෝධය පළකිරීම 09. 08 වන දින තැපැල් හා තැපැල් සේවා හා මුස්ලිම් ආගමික කටයුතු […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Dr Hector Perera London The magazine Health Which? Examined the nutritional content of typical meals from Chinese, Indian, Thai, Italian and Tex-Mex menus. Recommended daily guidelines (men/women) These are the daily recommended amounts for men and women Fat 95g/70g, Saturates 30g/20g, Calories 2,500/2,000, Sodium 2.5g/2g, Fibre 18g, Sugar 70g/50g. In particular they looked at levels […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that Mr. Mahinda Dammika Manawadu was illegally arrested and severely tortured by police officers attached to the Padukka Police Station. After Dammika got into a dispute with the owner of the garage where his three-wheeler was under repair, the […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
By M D P DISSANAYAKE It has been a nervous waiting for Sri Lankan cricketing fans to see the initial outcome of England v West Indies matches. As a result of West Indies seven-wicket defeat against England in the first ODI at Old Trafford, Sri Lanka squeezed into the top 8 teams, viz. Australia, Bangladesh, […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera http://www.economynext.com/Sri_Lanka_minister_takes_cover_after_close_shave-3-8756-10.html News Item quotes that the Hon Minister of Transport has gone to India to seek divine help to beat the railway strikers or Private bus owners or Three wheeler drivers.The news gossips about his shaving of the hair presumably to get rid of the ticks” ( Ticka’s -how we called railway […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
– අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල lanka C news පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල කූට ලේඛණ සෑදූ බවට චෝදනා කිරීමට ඔස්ට්රේලියාවෙන් ගෙන් වූ බ්රයන් ෂැඩික් පවසන්නේ බොරු බව ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ශවේන්ද්ර ප්රනාන්දු සාක්ෂි සහිතව පෙන්වා දීමෙන් පසු ඔහුගේ හරස් ප්රශ්න වලට දිගින් දිගටම පිලිතුරු සැපයුවේ ‘මං දන්නේ නෑ.. මට මතක නෑ’ යනුවෙනි. එවිට ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ශවේන්ද්ර ප්රනාන්දු අධිකරණය අමතමින්, ‘ස්වාමිනි, […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island September 20, 2017, 12:00 pm A claim made by former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran’s counsel ,before the presidential commission of inquiry probing bond scams, on Tuesday, has raised many an eyebrow. He said his client could not be compelled to give evidence as the latter was a Singaporean. The commission had […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
by C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island September 20, 2017, 10:46 pm It is not the policy of this newspaper to comment on articles published by other newspapers or websites. However given the importance of the ‘Bill to introduce into local law the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced isappearance’, […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
Sarath Dharmasena and Shyam Nuwan Ganewatta Courtesy The Island September 20, 2017, 10:55 pm Justice K. T. Chitrasiri yesterday said former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendra should abide by the law. Although the Counsel for Mahendran had said that Mahendran was a Singaporean, once appointed as Governor he was under Sri Lankan law, Justice Chitasiri said […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
By Sarath Dharmasena and Shyam Nuwan Ganewatta Courtesy The Island September 19, 2017, 12:00 pm Former Central Bank Governor Arjun Mahendran’s Counsel Romesh De Silva, PC, yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI), probing the alleged bond scams that his client couldn’t be compelled to give evidence before CoI as he (Mahendran) was a Singaporean. […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island September 19, 2017, 8:39 pm Some UNP MPs have taken exception to the admission of former President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga to the Welikada prison hospital after being sentenced to three years RI. They claim he has received preferential treatment. A senior prison doctor has been transferred by way of punishment for allegedly […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAM Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mrs. K A Nilanthi Karunarathna. A resident of Baddegama Police Division, she migrated to Saudi Arabia as a domestic helper on 19 January 2015. Within several months at her employer’s house she started to experience severe harassments and […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A few days ago the eastern Indian media took Prime Minister Narendra Modi to task for claiming that Sri Lanka’s national anthem was composed by Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore. On my international visits, I feel proud to say that Tagore composed national anthems of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India,” Prime Minister […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
තාක්ෂණික විද්යා ගුරු බොධි ධනපාල විසිනි. ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයට රිංගාගෙන ඉන්නා ගොවිතැන හෝ පරිසරය හෝ අප ජනයාගේ දුක හෝ නොදන්නා මැක්කන් ගේ රට වනසන වැරදි ප්රචාරය ගැන මීට ඉහත ලිපියකින් ( http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/09/14/දිවයින-ට-ආවේශ-වී-අති-සොලොම/) දක්වීමු. එහිදී “චින්තකයෙක්” ලෙස තමන් විසින් ම නාමාරූඪ කරගත්, SEMA හෙවත් “වසවිස නැති රටක් ජාතික වැඩසටහන උපායමාර්ගික ව්යසන කළමනාකරණ ආයතනය” යන ජාවාරමේ කටයුතු කරන […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සිංහලබෞද්ධ රටේ පාලකයාවූ සමයේ,,සම්බුද්ධ ජයන්තිය සැමරීම සඳහා උවසු උවෑ සි යන්ට සිල් රෙදි බෙදා දුනමැනවැය් ජාතියේ මුරදේවතාවන් වන මහා සංඝ රත්නය විසින් කරන ලද ඉල්ලීම,තම රටේ සංස්කෘතියට අනුව ගවුරවයෙන් පිළිගත් ඒ පාලකයාතම යුතුකම නොපිරිහෙලා ඉටුකළේය .බෝසත් රජවරු විසින් වසර 2600කට වැඩි කාලයක් තිස්සේ ජාතියේ මුරදේවතාවන් විසින් කරන ලද මග පෙන්වීම […]
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Posted in Forum & Letters | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Please see the video clip to see how Maldivian catch Tuna Our ignorant fishermen go out to sea for 21 days with few ice blocks and bags of salt and return with rotten fish .The fish we eat bought in Supermarkets and from fish mongers are rotten ,iced fro weeks .We are […]
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