Archive for October, 2017
Sunday, October 29th, 2017
BY PANCHAMEE HEWAVISSENTI Courtesy Ceylon Today Governor of the Southern Province and Leader of the Mawbima Janatha Pakshaya, Hemakumara Nanayakkara, who severely criticizes the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Steering Committee for Constitutional Amendments, states that it may lead to separatism and may harm the sovereignty and the integrity of the country. He alleged that the […]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge When UN Secretary General arrived three days after the military victory over the LTTE ground force there was no allegation of any 40,000 dead. The timelines of those that quoted dead figure estimates is important and will help deducing the mischief at play. Leaving that aside, paramount to any allegation and a […]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA It has become very clear that the separatist Tamils who coud not manipulate the constitutions of Madam Sirivo Bandaranaike (1972) and J.R,Jayawaedene (1978) have got the best ever opportunity to manipulate the formulation of the proposed constitution through this Tamil […]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
By Charles.S.Perera This is for those in Yahapalanaya who champion SLFP remaining with UNP. Some where in the month of November, 2014, Maithripala Sirisena shared the last hopper” with his political leader and friend and broke away from the SLFP to the opposite camp led by UNP. It was exactly the opposite of what SWRD […]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
ගත වෙන්නේ රට බෙදන අවසන් පැය කිහිපයයි
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
ලසිත දුමින්ද උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින රටට ආදරයක් තිබේනම් යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට විරුද්ධව ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කරන ලෙසට ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බව ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. ‘ලංකාව ඔරුමිත්තනාඩුවක් නොකරනු – බෙදුම්වාදී ව්යවස්ථා එපා’ යන තේමාව යටතේ තුම්මුල්ල සම්බුද්ධත්ව ජයන්ති මන්දිරයේ ඊයේ (27 වැනිදා) සංවිධානය කර තිබූ මාධ්ය හමුවකදී උන්වහන්සේ එසේ ප්රකාශ කළහ. […]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජාත්යන්තර බෞද්ධ හා සංස්කෘතික සම්මේලනයක ප්රධාන ආරාධිත දේශනයකට සහභාගිවීමට අද (28 දා) ඉන්දියාවේ මහාරාෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තය බලා පිටත්ව ගියේය. ඉන්දියාවේ මහාරෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තයේ, අවුරංගබාත් නගරයේ බෞද්ධ හා සංස්කෘතිය පිළිබඳ ජාත්යන්තර බෞද්ධ සම්මේලනය මගින් මෙම ආරාධනය කර ඇත. අවුරංගබාත් නගරයද ඒ අවට මහාරාෂ්ඨ ප්රාන්තය ප්රදේශයද ඉන්දියාවේ බෞද්ධයින් වැඩි දෙනෙක් ජීවඉත්වන ප්රදෙශයකි. අවුරංගබාත් නගරයද […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Double tongued Tamil slavish Sirisena who denies in the South what he says in the North and says in the North whatever that pleases the Tamls and denies to the Maha Sangha and the people of the South of steps […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
Senaka Weeraratna An expanded version of the Opening Address of Welcome from Senaka Weeraratna, Chapter Leader, Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter delivered at the 2nd Asian Buddhist Animal Rights Conference held in Colombo on October 26, 2017. Most Venerable Aggamaha Pandita Kotugoda Dhammawasa Mahanayake Thera, and Venerable members of the Maha […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
Dr Hector Perera. London To understand high blood cholesterol, it helps to learn about cholesterol. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that’s found in all cells of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs. However, […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
Courtesy: Daily Mirror ( Editorial) October 27, 2017 Health aspects of vegetarianism or veganism and therefore a more healthy and more compassionate society, were the theme of the second Asian Buddhist animal rights conference held in Colombo yesterday, co-hosted by the Sri Lanka branch of the California based Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) and the […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
Mahinda Gunasekera A new Constitution has been drafted and is being presented in parliament on October 30, 2017 for three days of debate and adoption which would lead to the formation of a federal state, and even the ultimate break-up of the country as sought by the Tamil separatists at an early date in the […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
ජනිත සෙනෙවිරත්න උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව, සයිටම් අර්බුදය , මහා බැංකු බැඳුම්කර වංචාව, ජීවන වියදම, වැඩවර්ජන හා උද්ඝෝෂණ ආදී ප්රශ්න නිසා දිගින් දිගටම රට තුළ නොසන්සුන්තාව පැතිර යද්දි මේ ප්රශ්න එකිනෙක විසඳා ගන්නවා වෙනුවට ආණ්ඩුවේ ඇතැම් ඇමතිවරු දැඩි මුරණ්ඩු ස්ථාවරයක සිටීම ආණ්ඩුවේ පැවැත්මට අහිතකර ලෙස බලපාන බව පෙනේ. මේ මුරණ්ඩු ඇමතිවරුන් දෙතුන්දෙනකු නිසා […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island October 27, 2017, 9:48 pm “Ranil used the term asymmetrical federalism, which is federalism [but] with more powers given to the Tamil Northeast…” (Solheim, in To End a Civil War,Salter, p96) “…the only viable solution was…a federal constitution…” (Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, SJV Chelvanayakam memorial lecture, April 2015) “…Which makes […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island Rising cost of living would make it difficult to face elections – President Does the government really want to face elections? The record of the past two years would show the government is, in fact, running away from elections, than wanting to face and contest them. This is true of […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island October 27, 2017, 9:45 pm Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera, on Thursday, vehemently denied recent media reports that there had been political interference with the ongoing CID investigations into a complaint that a person, known to former Minister Ravi Karunanayake, threatened a key witness in the bond scam probe. He claimed the […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today On the basis of the evidence available to this Commission and the prevailing law, the suggestion that the crime of genocide was or may have been committed during the final phase of the war is without foundation.-Paranagama Commission At the ongoing 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
lanka C news මහින්ද ගේ ආණ්ඩුව පෙරලා දැමීම සඳහා සාකච්ඡාවක්, යුරෝපීය රටවල් දෙකක අනුග්රහයෙන්, 2013 වසරේදී සිංගප්පූරුවේදී සිදු වූ බව ටැමිල් නෙට් අඩවියේ වාර්තාවක සදහන්ය. මීට සහභාගි වී ඇත්තේ මංගල සමරවීර, සුමන්දිරන්, ජයම්පති වික්රමරත්න, තමිල්මාරන් (කොළඹ නීති පීඨයේ පීඨාධිපති ) ඇතුළු පිරිසකි. මහින්ද ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දැමීමට මෙහිදී මංගල සමරවීර ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර ඊට කොන්දේසි වශයෙන් […]
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By Srian De Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror Concerns have been expressed about the possibility that in consequence of the Government’s ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, Sri Lanka would appear to have submitted to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and is therefore legally bound by the Convention. Therefore it is vitally necessary […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Chanaka Bandarage Introduction The Sinhalese are continuously being denied from settling in the North by Tamil politicians. This has been a systematic, very successful campaign by them for more than 60 years. The irony is that the Southern politicians do not want to acknowledge and rectify this racist policy. The recent rhetoric of some TNA […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA In the state of Sirisena and Ranil not heeding the objections being raised by the Maha Sangha and the people against the proposed constitution we must appreciate the former Prime Ministers S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike and Dudley Senanayake for bowing down to people’s […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Ranjith Soysa Media Coordinator For Global Sri Lankan Forum Lord Michael M Baron Naseby House of Lords Your Lordship, We, the Global Sri Lankan Forum, GSLF write to convey our grateful thanks to you on behalf of the threatened Sri Lanka for you excellent presentation of facts at the recent All Party Group” debate on Sri […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විශේෂඥ ශල්ය වෛද්ය එස් එස් ජයරත්න මහතා සමග වැඩ කිරීමට ලැබීම භාග්යකි. එතුමා සමග මට වැඩ කිරීමට හැකි වූයේ කොලඹ යුද හමුදා රෝහලේදීය. විශේෂඥ ශල්ය වෛද්ය එස් එස් ජයරත්න මහතා මනෝ චිකිත්සනය සඳහා මවෙත බොහෝ රෝගීන් යොමු කොට තිබේ. මෙම රෝගීන් අතර අවිඥාණික මානසික ගැටුමක් නිසා උදර වේදනාවෙන් පෙළුණු රෝගියෙකු පිලිබඳව […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Somapala Senarath Quoting from The Island newspaper, Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara, addressing the weekly Cabinet Press Briefing, at the Information Department, said that finding solutions to the problems faced by the Tamils did not mean dismembering the country into pieces or combining the Northern and Eastern Provincial Councils into one, as demanded by some Tamil […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
lanka C news මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප්රිය ඇද සිටි ඇදුම් මෙතෙක් කාලයක් තිස්සේ එක් එක් අය විසින් ගලවාගෙන ගිය බව පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ඉතිරි වී තිබූ යටම ඇදුමද ඇමති මනෝ ගනේෂන් ගලවාගෙන යනවා තමන් දුටු බවද මන්ත්රීවරයා සදහන් කරයි. පළාත් පාලන මැතිවණය පවත්වන්නේ ජනවාරි මස 27 වැනිදායි […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
අරුණ බෝගහවත්ත උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට වඩා රටේ ඇතිවෙලා තිබෙන ප්රශ්න එකින් එක සොයා බලා ඒවාට විසඳුම් සෙවිය යුතු බවත් ජාතිවාදීන්ට උඩගෙඩි දෙන අනවශ්ය ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ගෙන ඒම රට නැවතත් ආපස්සට තල්ලු කිරීමක් බවත් ජාතික මහ සභාවේ සභාපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පූජ්ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. යහපාලනයක් ඇතිකිරීම සඳහා පැවැති රජය පරාජය කර නව රජය බලයට […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:00 pm Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka declared the other day that the first phase of the Chinese-funded Colombo Port City project was nearing completion. He was in seventh heaven! We thought he would weep or at least mewl in public when he made that announcement. Why […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA October 26, 2017, 9:44 pm We live in a time of dwarfs, against whom we have to defend the achievements of giants.We have SWRD Bandaranaike’s historic rupture with the UNP to found a moderate nationalist anti-UNP formation and inaugurate a two-party system, reversed by Chandrika Bandaranaike’s realignment/reintegration of the SLFP with […]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Courtesy The Island The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that war crimes allegations would be dealt through national independent judicial mechanisms. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mahishini Colonne said so when The Island asked her whether the government would request UK and Geneva to review the allegation that 40,000 civilians had been killed during the Vanni campaign, in […]
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