Archive for October, 2017
Sunday, October 15th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island Monday 16th October, 2017 October 15, 2017, 8:58 pm It may be said, with apologies to the Bard, that politicians see more devils than vast hell can hold when they get into trouble and want to justify the vilification of their political enemies. This is the name of the game in politics […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
By Neville Ladduwahetty (Courtesy Himalayan Times) October 12, 2017, 12:00 pm The (Draft) Report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly cites a statement made by President Sirisena during the Resolution to set up the Constitutional Assembly regarding Article 1 and 2 of the present Constitution which states: “… that whilst people in the […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today On the 19 September 2017, the writer started on a journey from Colombo to Habarana, following a tragedy that was highlighted by Sirasa News First programme on a heartbreaking new flash about Kavishka Sandaruwan, a seven-day-old baby who died due to an “unprecedented dogguzzling.” She had been wrapped […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සෑදීම සම්බන්ධව මහජන අදහස් විමසීමේදී එයට සාක්ෂි ලබා දී තිබෙන්නේ හාරදහසකටත් අඩු සංඛ්යාවකි.එයිනුත් උතුරේ සහ නැගෙනහිර රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධාන වලින් ලබා ගත් නියෝජනය අති මහත්ය. ඔවුහු සංවිධානාත්මකව තමන් දරන ජාතිවාදී අදහස් එම කමිටුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. නමුත් මේ රටේ බහුතරයක් වන සිංහල ජනතාව නියෝජනය කරන සංවිධාන වලින් හෝ අස්ගිරි මල්වතු […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
– දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර 1999 චන්ද්රිකා-GL-තිරුචෙල්වම් පැකේජය ප්රවර්ධනය සඳහා මහනායක හිමිවරුන්ට අළුත්ම Mercedes-Benz රථ පූජාකළ බව වාර්තා වුනි. මහනායක හිමිවරුන් ඒවා පිළිකුලෙන් ප්රතික්ෂේප කල අතර එයින් විහිළුවට ලක්වූ GL, පැකේජය ගෙන ඒම වසරක් පමා කෙළේය. තිරුචෙල්වම් දෙමළ කොටි ත්රස්තවාදීන්ට පින් සිද්ධ වෙන්න අපාගත වීම රටේ උන්නතියටත් ජන සමාජයේ සාමයටත් හේතු වුයේ පැකේජය එතරම් බරපතළ නිසාය. කොටි […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Ceylon Today Sri Lanka’s bureaucratic approval processes, which impinge on the competitiveness of businesses, were highlighted by Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) Chief Economist Anushka Wijesinha, at a seminar in Colombo on Thursday. There are many complains from investors an exporters regarding same issue where Sri Lankan government Officers are a hindrance […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
lanka C news යම් යම් විරෝධතා කරලා උද්ඝෝෂණ කලොත් ශක්තිමත් වෙන්නේ යක්ෂයා බව අමතක නොකරන්නැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ අදහස් පල කලේ යාපනයේදී පැවති දෙමල භාෂා දින සැමරුම් උත්සවය අමතමිනි. ජනාධිපතිවරයාට විරෝධය පල කරමින් යාපනයේ ස්ථාන කිහිපයකම පැවති විරෝධතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා එම අදහස් පල කලේය. එක් විරෝධතාවයක් පැවති ස්ථානයට ජනාධිපතිවරයා වාහනයෙන් […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror Senior Dealer of PTL Kaushitha Rathnaveera yesterday told the PCoI that he had encashed cheques received by PTL from its related companies on several times amounting millions and left the money on PTL CEO Kasun Palisena’s chair but does not know what happened to the money thereafter. At the […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Zee Media Bureau Researchers claim a compound in the rainforest berry could kill head and neck tumours as well as melanomas within minutes. New Delhi: Scientists claimed to have discovered a berry which holds cancer-fighting ingredients. As per a study led by Dr Glen Boyle from the QIMR Berghofer medical research institute in Brisbane, a […]
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
By Amy Ziniak for Daily Mail Australia PUBLISHED: 06:16, 9 October 2014 | UPDATED: 22:25, 11 October 2014 Australian scientists on verge of cancer cure with cancer fighting berry QIMR have used an experimental drug from the seeds of the rainforest plant, Blushwood tree, which only grows in far north Queensland EBC-46 has found to lead to rapid breakdown of […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
By Charles.S.Perera The so called Yahapalanaya government which had been deceiving the people of this country ever since Maithripala Sirisena was elected President of Sri Lanka on the 8th January,2015, has no right what so ever to present a note, a paper or a draft to the Parliament as a preliminary to the writing of […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The historical conviction, followed by the rigid sentence of rigourous imprisonment for three years by the High Courts, on the former Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunge and Anusha Pelpita, under Section 386 of the Penal Code for ‘dishonestly misappropriating’ a sum of Rs. 600 million belonging to the TRC created a façade […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
By Rohana R. Wasala (This was first published on June 24, 2016 as part of a longer article under the title A glance at PRCR report in the context of drive for federalism”, which was featured in The Island on June 22 & 24, 2016. That article was posted on June 23, 2016 in toto […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
Upali Cooray A very thought provoking pragmatic debate ended today(11th Sept.) between Dr. Dayan Jayatillake(DJ) and Emeritus Professor Dr. G.H.Peiris (GP) in the Colombo Telegraph and in The Island newspaper, concerning the devolution of political power in Sri Lanka. There appears to be two contrasting views between the two who are known as backers of […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
lanka C news ශ්රීලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 26 ව්යවස්ථාවේ ශ්රීලංකාවේ පුරවැසියකු විම හා ඔහුගේ නිත්යානුකූල භාවය ඉතා පැහැදිලිව සඳහන් කොට ඇත. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 3 වෙනි ව්යවස්ථාව අනුව ශ්රීලංකා ජනරජයේ පරමාධිපත්යය ජනතාව කෙරෙහි පිහිටා ඇත. එනම් ජනතාව මෙරටේ නිත්යානුකූල පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් වනුය, ඒ අනුව ජනතාව පරමාධිපත්යය රටේ උත්තරිතර වනු ඇත. එමෙන්ම මෙරටේ විධායකය ව්යවස්තාදායකය හා අධිකරණය ජනතාවගේ […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
රාජේන්ද්ර අල්විස් (කැනඩාවේ බෞද්ධ කොන්ග්රසයේ හිටපු සභාපති) කැනඩාවේ, ඔටාවා අගනුවර හිල්ඩා ජයවර්ධනාරමධිපති සහ සිද්ධමුල්ල ශ්රී සංඝාරාම පුරාණ විහාරය, දීපංගොඩ වර්ධනාරාමය කුඩමාදුව සංඝිකාරාමය යන විහාරස්ථානයන්හි ද ආධිපත්යය හොබවන බ්රාහ්මණගම මුදිත ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ වෙත පසුගියදා කෝට්ටේ ශ්රී කල්යාණි සාමග්රී ධර්ම මහා සංඝ සභාව විසින් කැනඩාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක පදවිය මහත් හරසරින් පිරිනමනු ලැබිණි. ප්ර: පසුගියදා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
By A. Abdul Aziz Caliph and Archbishop speak of need for worldwide religious freedom According to our Press Department U.K., On 10 October 2017, the Most Reverend, the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace, Justin Welby visited London’s oldest Mosque, the Fazl Mosque where he met with the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island October 13, 2017, 10:09 pm From its outset, the Treasury Bond Scam was seen as a massive fraud carried on public funds or people’s assets managed by the Central Bank. As the probe on the Bond Scams that took place shortly after the election of the present government in […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island October 13, 2017, 10:08 pm We thought Parliament was the only place where rejects were accommodated. We thought wrong. True, quite a few candidates, mostly from the UPFA, rejected by people at the last general election (2015), were brought in as National List MPs. It was a slap on the Sri Lankan […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
Courtesy The Guardian (UK) Ministers to meditate with politicians from Israel, Sri Lanka and Sweden as part of event exploring benefits of mindfulness British and Sri Lankan government ministers and an MP for Israel’s Likud party are among politicians from 15 countries due to meditate together at the House of Commons next week in an […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
Courtesy Focus Taiwan News Channel Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Sri Lankan police have apprehended two of the five suspects allegedly involved in the hacking of US$60 million from Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank earlier this month, according to an update from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday. CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (邱紹洲) told […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
S. Akurugoda As stated in recent editorial of a printed media titled ‘Crooked and fleas’, our country today, has earned notoriety as a rogues’ paradise. The basic question we have is ‘who is responsible for creating this situation?’. The eradication of terrorism militarily under the Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) leadership was of ‘grave concern’ to some […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 12.10.2017. I remember reading Cabinet Government’ by Sir Ivor Jennings’ the classic account on Cabinet government in England as a student in college and also as an undergraduate at the University. We were made to believe that it was a sacrosanct mechanism in modern democratic systems of Government. A cabinet by way […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
The Editorial Courtesy The Island October 12, 2017, 9:49 pm Today is Friday the 13th. Not all of us are troubled by triskaidekaphobia, but its association with Satan reminds us of the proverbial man who sold his soul to the devil. The day is of significance to Sri Lankans owing to the conclusion of the proceedings […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Joint Opposition (JO) yesterday sought an explanation from the National Election Commission (NEC) regarding the registration of the New Democratic Front (NDF) as a political party in spite of its leader Shalila Moonasinge being a British national. National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP posed the question to […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් පත්කළ ජනාධිපති බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සාක්ෂි විභාගය හරහා එම ප්රශ්නගත බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවලට අදාළ මෙතෙක් හෙළිදරව් නොවූ අලුත් කරුණ රැසක් ද හෙළිදරව් විය. ඒ සියල්ල ජනමාධ්ය හරහා මහජනතාවටද සන්නිවේදනය වුයේය. ජනමාධ්ය නොවන්නට ඒ තොරතුරු, සමාජගත වී මෙතරම් අවධානයක් මේ බැඳුම්කර ජනාධිපති කොමිසම වෙත යොමු වන්නේ ද නැත. […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
lanka C news හංසයා ලකුණ පක්ෂයේ සභාපති ශලිල මුණසිංහ බ්රිතාන්යයේ පුරවැසියකු වන බවත් ඔහුගේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විසා තව නොබෝ දිනයකින් නිමවන බවත් ලෝකයේ බැංකු අතර වංචා සිදු කොට බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරිමට යාමේදි මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණයේදි හෙලිදරව් වි ඇත. රාජ්ය ආයතනයක් වන ලිට්ත්රො ගෑස් සමාගමේ සභාපති ලෙස බ්රිතාන්යයේ පුරවැසියකු පත් කලේ කෙසේද යන්නත් එසේ පත්කලේ කවුරුන් ද […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera October 12, 2017 at 8:02 am | lanka C news සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ මානසික සෞඛ්ය සදහා වෙනම ඒකකයක් ද ස්ථාපිත කර තිබෙනවා. එහි දැනට ඇති සංඛ්යා ලේඛණ වලට අනුව රජයේ සේවකයින් 05 දෙනෙකුගෙන් එක් අයෙකුට මානසික ආතතිය ඇති බව සොයාගෙන තිබෙනවා. රැකියා ස්ථානයේ ගැටලු, නිවසේ ගැටලු ඒ සදහා හේතු වී තිබෙනවා. All the […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAM Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial killing of Mr. Naiwala Appuhamilage Gamini Edwad (50) resident of Divulapitiya Police Division. On 2 October 2017, he was illegally arrested by Crime Branch Officers of the Police Station. Later, during his interrogation, […]
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