Archive for September, 2017
Monday, September 11th, 2017
By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana MP Udaya Gammanpila stated that Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has put the lives of over 300,000 soldiers in danger by stating that he will provide evidence against Military personnel who committed war crimes during the war. Speaking to the Media at a press briefing today, MP Gammanpila stated that the only way […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2017
By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited his former Presidential Secretariat Lalith Weeratunga and the former TRC Director General Anusha Palpitiya at the Welikada Prison Hospital earlier today (11). The Former President was accompanied by MP Prof.G.L.Peiris and MP Wimal Weerawansa. While speaking to the media, the former President stated that unfortunately, Lalith Weeratunga […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 10.9.2017 Wrong doers and who rob public money have to be punished. There is no second word about it. But should a public servant (who has ceased to be so in this country after 1987) be punished for carrying out an order given by his Minister. Of cause if such order violates […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති අපේ අධ්යාපනය හරහා අපිට රස්සා හොයාගන්න පොටක් පාදලාදීලා තියෙනවා. ඉතින් උසස් පෙළ හරි උපාධිය හරි පාස්වුනාට පස්සේ මොකක් හරි ජරමරයක් කරලා අපි රස්සාවක් හොයාගන්නවා. අපිට ඉගැන්නුවා නම් රස්සාවලුත් දීපල්ලා” කියලා අපි ආණ්ඩුවටත් කියනවා. ඡන්ද නැති කරගන්න බයේ ආණ්ඩුවත් ඔය මොනව මොනවා හරි රස්සා ටිකක් හදලා අපේ එවුන් ව ඒවාට බඳවාගන්නවා. ඒ රස්සාවලින් රටටවත් […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
A plane does not pass through steel & concrete like a ghost! At none of the the four impact sites were there ever ANY remnants of a Boeing 757 or 767. After seeing a plane wing after hitting a sea gull tell what they’re made of, it is impossible to believe the official story that […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
Dr Sarath Madduma Banda Obeysekera Quote from Wikepedia Ellāḷaṉ is traditionally presented as being a just king even by the Sinhalese.[10] The Mahavamsa states that he ruled ‘with even justice toward friend and foe, on occasions of disputes at law,[11] and elaborates how he even ordered the execution of his son on the basis of a heinous religious crime. […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක රජයේ සොලිසිටර් ජෙනරාල්වරයා වූ ඉයන් වික්රමනායක මහතා 1971 කැරැල්ල මැඩලීමේ ලා විශේෂ කාර්යය භාරයක් කළේය. 1977ට පෙර යුගයේ දී අති බලවත් රාජ්ය නිලධාරියෙකු වූ ඉයන් වික්රමනායක මහතා හමුවී මාගේ 71 කැරැල්ල පොතට ඔහුගෙන් සාකච්ඡාවක් ලබා ගැනීම අත්යවශ්ය බව මම තීරණය කලේමි. 20/12/2008 දින පෙරවරුවේ මම ඉයන් වික්රමනායක මහතා ඔහුගේ නෑනා වන […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
ඩී.කේ.තන්ත්රීගේ lanka C news රනිල්-මලික් දූෂිතයින්ට සිංගප්පූරු ක්රමයට දඩුවම් දිය යුතු බව කොළඹදී මාධ්ය හමුවක් පවත්වමින් හැට දෙලක්ෂයේ කොටස්කරුවෝ සංවිධානය කියා සිටියහ. එම මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට එක් වු එම සංවිධානයේ කැදවුම්කරුවන් වන බණ්ඩාර අතුකෝරාල සහ ඩිලංක වීරකොන් යන මහත්වරු මේ බව කියා සිටියහ. රටේ අපි දන්න දවසෙ ඉදලා කුඩු අල්ලනවා. ඒත් කුඩු ගෙන්වන ජාවාරම්කරුවෝ අල්ලන්නේ නෑ. […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
By Hemantha Warnakulasuriya Courtesy The Island September 10, 2017, 12:00 pm When bookie Mukthar was chained to the hospital bed, accused of violating foreign exchange regulations and being charged before the Criminal Justice Commission, J. R. Jayewardene made a promise to the people that he would abolish those heinous laws and create a dhamista samajayak (a […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
Northern Province Chief Minister C.W. Wigneswaran: Army holding about 85,000 acres in North By Cyril Wimalasurendre Courtesy The Island September 10, 2017, 10:53 pm KANDY – Alleging that the army continued to hold about 85,000 acres of land in the North, Northern Province Chief Minister and former Supreme Court judge C.W. Wigneswaran, on Saturday, sought the […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2017
මහාචාර්ය චූලා ගුණසේකර හිටපු පීඨාධිපති පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දේශපාලකයන්ට විවිධ අදහස් ඇත. ඒවා බොහෝ විට තම පටු පුද්ගලික අරමුණු ඉටුකර ගැනීමට උපකාරී වන ඒවාය. නමුත් රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ ආයතනයක් මෙවැනි පටු සිතුවිලිවලට ඉහළින් සිටිය යුතුය. නමුත් ඔබ කොතරම් දෛනික යුක්ති සාධනය කළත් ඔබ සංගමය දේශපාලනීකරණය වී ඇති බව දැන් පැහැදිලිය. එසේ කියන්නේ ඔබගේ ක්රියාදාමයන් […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak s. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Yahapalana or the unity government which blamed the Rajapaksa regime for spending excessively on building expressways, and even criticizing the cost of such constructions were equivalent to ‘paving the roads with gold,’ has come into heavy criticism due to a colossal loss of public money up to Rs […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
By Nalliah Thayabharan In 1600, the East India Company was granted the Charter to trade with India. It started sending bands of sea pirates in ships masked as merchants”. These sea pirates began landing on the shores of India and started setting up armed forts at various places such as Chennai. The Rothschild family had […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island September 9, 2017, 12:00 pm Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s open foray into politics took place last Wednesday in the form of ‘Eliya’ a new organization that was ceremonially launched at the Golden Rose hall in Boraleasgaluwa. Its launch was in the form of a seminar on the proposed new constitution. The panel of […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
Written by: Agnes Chambre The UK has turned down countries wishing to strike free trade deals after Brexit because the Government does not have the capacity to negotiate them, the International Trade Secretary has said. Liam Fox said that instead, the Government is preparing to duplicate deals which already exist until they can be updated […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
DR DASARATH JAYASURIYA, PRESIDENT, SOCIETY FOR PEACE, UNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ARI LANKA SPUR, AUSTRALIA Dear Election Commissioner, As reported in this news item ( please review the Rivera article for which a link is provided), the universal franchise of a large number of Sinhalese in the NE surrounding the Vavuniya Region have been compromised by […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
Part One: The Banking Houses of Morgan and Rockefeller The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today As for the ways by which rulers over others may become implicated in their crimes, there are two …tolerance and protection…we must hold that a person who knows of a crime and is able and bound to forbid it and does not do so, himself commits a crime … […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
lanka C news බෞද්ද උපාසක උපාසිකාවන් සදහා සිල් රෙදි බෙදා දෙන ලෙස හිටපු ජනාධිපති ලේකම් ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතාට උපදෙස් දුන්නේ නමන් විසින් බවත් එය එවකට පැවති රජයේ ප්රතිපත්තියක් මත සිදු කල දෙයක් බවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. එය ජනාධිපතිවරණය ඉලක්ක කරමින් සිදු කල දෙයක් නොවන බවත් 2014දී ගත් තීරණයක් මත සිදු කල දෙයක් […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
උදේශ සංජීව ගමගේ හොරු අල්ලන්නට පොරොන්දු වී බලයට පැමිණි ආණ්ඩුව අවුරුදු දෙකක් කෙකර ගා අමාරුවෙන් බිත්තරයක් දමා තිබේ. ඒ අනුව දූෂණ චෝදනා යටතේ පළමුවෙන්ම සිපිරි ගෙදරට යාමට සිදුවූයේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ලේකම් ලලිත් වීරතුංගටත්, විදුලි සංදේශ නියාමන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ හිටපු අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් අනුෂ පැල්පිටටත්ය. මේ කතාවේ අගමුල මේ වන විටත් රටේ වැඩි දෙනෙක් දන්නා බවට සැකයක් […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
Courtesy The Nation Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met with former President and incumbent MP Mahinda Rajapaksa for a unscheduled discussion this week to discuss Local Government elections, the postponement of which continues. The political discussion took place on the evening of September 7 at the Parliamentary complex premises with Joint Opposition (JO) MPs Dinesh Gunawardena […]
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
Buddhist monks held Bodhi Pooja for former Army Commander during war – MR හාමුදුරුවරු හිටපු හමුදාපතිට බෝම්බ වදිනකොට බෝධිපුජා පැවැත්වුවා
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Saturday, September 9th, 2017
Former President invokes blessings in Kandy (English)
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge While one wrong does not make another wrong right, only those who have not & does not sin can cast the first stone. That leaves not many with a moral right to hold any stone! Those taking files certainly have soiled hands which have not been investigated to determine their own guilt. […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
By Pepe Escobar Courtesy Information Clearing House“ Putin reveals ‘fair multipolar world’ concept in which oil contracts could bypass the US dollar and be traded with oil, yuan and gold September 07, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – The annual BRICS summit in Xiamen – where President Xi Jinping was once mayor – could not intervene in a more […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
– උපුටා ගැනීම – newsfirst.lk Special Report: මධ්යම අධිවේගී මාර්ගයේ ටෙන්ඩරයෙන් ඇත්තටම රටට මුදල් ඉතිරි වුණා ද? බැඳුම්කර වංචාව ගැන අප 2015 මාර්තු 08 වැනිදා අප මුල්වරට හෙළි කිරීමෙන් පසුව අගමැතිවරයා එය ආරක්ෂා කරමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කළ ප්රකාශය ඔබට මතක ද? අප පෙන්වා දුන්නේ සංවේදී අභ්යන්තර තොරතුරු ලබාගෙන බැඳුම්කර වෙන්දේසියේදී අක්රමිකතාවක් සිදුකර රජයට බිලියන ගණනක පාඩුවක් […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
lanka C news පිස්සු චීවරධාරියෙක් යයි ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා විසින් කරන ලද ප්රකාශය ගැන තමන් අතිශය කණගාටු වන බවත් මෙවන් තත්වයනට පිලිතුරු දීම සදහා තමන් ඊළග මැතිවරණයේදී ක්රියාකාරී දේශපාලනයට පැමිණෙන බවත් පූජ්ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියෝ පවසති.
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
N. A. DE S. AMARATUNGA Courtesy The Island Opposition is emerging to the new constitution. Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa speaking at the inauguration of a movement against the government’s constitution making process The idea that the country needs a new constitution is a construct of the Tamil separatists and opportunist politicians who need their […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island September 8, 2017, 10:09 pm Several yahapalana ministers lamented during a parliamentary debate on the draconian tax reforms on Thursday that the government revenue was falling rapidly and its expenditure rising steeply. Tax laws had to be amended to increase the government revenue, they argued. Ironically, they said so, one day after […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
By Ajith Alahakoon and Kushan Subasinghe Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday that both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank had informed the country that they would not provide any more grants after 2019. Making a special ministerial statement, the Prime Minister said since the two leading bodies had expressed […]
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