Archive for December, 2017
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Sudath Gunasekara 12 12 2017 Looking at the way things are taking shape in the present political Sunami and the bitter infighting in the SLFP as JO vs pseudo SLFP of the President unless the people take my advice outlined in the essay ‘The need for all true SLFP voters to stand with the Mahinda […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
By- Dr.Sripali Vaiamon.Vice President SRI LANKA VETERAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION. CONTRIBUTING AN ARTICLE TO THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY COPY OF BROADCASTING IN SRI LANKA BY THE LATE MR.H.M.GUNASEKARA,THE PRESIDENT OF The VETERAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION IN SRI LANKA,CATAGORICALLY SAID, BRITAIN INAUGRATED REGULAR BROADCASTING SERVICE IN NOVEMBER 1922,-ON THE SAME YEAR THE CEYLON WIRELESS CLUB WAS FORMED BY A […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
cancer research uk.org http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/cancer-controversies/plastic-bottles-and-cling-film What does the evidence show about plastic and cancer? People have claimed chemicals inside plastics leach into food or drink causing cancer. In particular there have been concerns about Bisphenol A (BPA) and dioxins in plastic bottles or plastic containers. But there is no convincing evidence to show using plastic bottles or plastic […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture Machines in early Sri Lanka: A survey based on Buddhist Commentaries” by Mr. Chandana Jayawardana On Monday 18th December 2017 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
lanka C news මේ වනවිට දිවයින පුරා මැතිවරණ උණුසුම ඉහළ යද්දි ආණ්ඩුවේ සියලු උපායමාර්ග වී ඇත්තේ කෙසේ හෝ මහින්දගේ ශ්රීලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ නාමයෝජනා ලැයිස්තු ප්රතිකේෂ්ප කිරිමට උපායමාර්ග සැලසුම් කිරිමයි. මේ බැව් හෙලිවෙන්නේ කන්ද උඩරට පලාතක ආණ්ඩුවේ සිටින අමාත්යවරයෙකුගේ ආධාරකරුවෙකුගෙනි. එබැවින් දිවයිනේ සෑම ඡන්දදායයකුගේම අනන්යතාවය තහවුරු කර ගැනීමට අවශ්ය සියලු දත්ත සිංහල,දෙමළ සහ ඉංග්රීසි භාෂා ත්රිත්වයන් […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Avant Guard – How it was destroyed by Yahapalanaya Must listen
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
වරෙවු වරෙවු විල්පත්තුව බේරා ගනිවු !! බේරගන්න විල්පත්තුව ලංකාවේ විල්පත්තුව වෙනුවෙන් පෙළ ගැහුනාවේ වරෙවු වරෙවු විල්පත්තුව බේරා ගනිවු !! බේරගන්න විල්පත්තුව ලංකාවේ විල්පත්තුව වෙනුවෙන් පෙළ ගැහුනාවේ අනුරපුරය, මන්නාරම, පුත්තලමත් යා කෙරේ උතුර, වයඹ, දකුණු වෙරලබඩ සීමා අනතුරේ මස් වැද්දා කුරුළු සතුන් මැරුවානේ සංරක්ෂිත විල්ලු වනය කැපුවානේ ලක්බිමේ, උරුමයේ, අපෙ.. තුන් හෙළේ, පින් බිමේ….. ඉරත් හඳත් […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 12, 2017, 8:25 pm Sri Lanka Navy celebrated its 67th anniversary last Friday (Dec 9) with Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe at the helm. Ranasinghe succeeded Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah last October amidst simmering controversy over Sri Lanka’s decision to acquire a frigate from Russia, nine years after the successful […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීම කල් දමා ගැනීම සඳහා ක්ෂේත්ර නිලධාරීන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු මගින් ප්රබල විපක්ෂ කණ්ඩායමක් මේ වනවිට උත්සහ දරමින් සිටියි. සමෘද්ධි නිලධාරීන් සහ ක්ෂේත්ර නිලධාරීන්ට සේවයේ නිරතව සිටින අතරතුරදීම ඡන්ද විමසීම සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් වීමට නොහැකි බව පවසමින් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති මෙම නඩු තුන පසුපස පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily News Richard Pieris & Company PLC plans to invest between Rs 15 to 20 billion in several unique projects in the next three years that will see electric cars, lithium batteries and Oud perfume manufactured in Sri Lanka. Dr. Sena Yaddehige, Chairman of Richard Pieris & Company PLC, said the group profit […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
සම ලේකම් නිදහස් වෙළඳ කලාප සහ පොදු සේවා සේවක සංගමය 2017 දෙසැම්බර් මස 11 වන දින පවත්වන ලද සංගමයේ විධායක කාරක සභාවේ සාකච්ඡා කොට නිකුත් කරන ලද පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ ප්රකාශය අවුරුදු 03 ට ආසන්න කාලයක් මේ ආණ්ඩුව විසින් ඔවුන්ගේ පක්ෂ අභ්යන්තරයේ දිග හැරුණු බල අරගල වෙනුවෙන් කල් තැබූ පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය ලබන වසරේ පෙබරවාරියේ […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
by SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island December 12, 2017, 11:06 pm The Island has to be congratulated on its ‘scoop’ of a statement by Lord Naseby in response to the summary dismissal by the British High Commission in Colombo of his views on the infamous UNHRC Resolution 30/1 of 2015 and the increasingly untenable […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
Courtesy The Island Former Navy Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday told The Island that a three-member UN delegation now on a visit here should visit military personnel, including Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake and Commander Sumith Ranasinghe remanded at the maximum security Welikada Prison over their alleged involvement in wartime abductions. Weerasekera […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 12, 2017, 11:22 pm Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe yesterday alleged that the failure on the part of successive governments to take tangible measures to tackle state sector waste, corruption and irregularities had contributed to US decision to propose a Colombo-based Resident Legal Advisor. Had those who had been at […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror People – blame themselves in back peddling a lost leadership back to power. Think before you act stupidly – realize the folly in creating a situation of having no foreseeable future for the country you truly love: to whatever denomination you may belong – desire a future for your […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today While there is much uncertainty now about what will happen to the country, certain certainties are assured. Chief amongst them is the headlong destruction of his reputation that Ranil has precipitated in the last three years. I do not refer only to his unashamed capers with regard to the […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Ceylon Today Ever since the end of the civil war in 2009, there has been a debate on the need for security sector reforms in Sri Lanka. With the defeat of the Rajapaksa administration and with the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) promising such reforms, the debate has rekindled. The […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that he will work only to fulfill the requirements of the Joint Opposition. He further stated that his brother and former Minister Basil Rajapaksa has not and will not make political decisions on behalf of him. The former President expressed these sentiments after visiting the Dalada Maligawa […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
Translated by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Given below is the translation of a speech made by the member of Parliament for Hambantota District Mr. Namal Rajapaksa at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Minuwangoda electorate of the Joint Opposition held at the Reggie Ranatunge Commemoration Hall in Udugampola. The meeting was convened by […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Venerable Gangodawila Soma Thera’s untimely death occurred 14 years ago, on December 12, 2003. He was 55 years of age. It was one of the greatest losses of the nation. The spontaneous outpouring of grief especially among our people was unprecedented in the living memory of our motherland. Millions of Sinhala […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 10:45 pm The SLFP’s crisis is a crisis of ideological identity. It is also an existential crisis. The SLFP is divided into two tendencies, a Minority (‘Menshevik’) faction with 44 seats in Parliament, led by President Sirisena, not all of them elected, and a Majority (‘Bolshevik’) […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE “දෙපැත්තෙන්ම කෑව ඇති. ජවිපෙට ගම දීල බලමු.” ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ මැතිවරණ පෝස්ටරය මෙයයි. මීට අවුරුදු විස්සකට විතර පෙර ඒ වගේම පෝස්ටරයක් ගැහුවා. ‘උනුත් එකයි, මුනුත් එකයි, මෙදා පාර අපි ජවිපෙට.’ ඊට පස්සේ ජවිපෙ විරෝධීන් මෙහම කිව්වා: ‘උනුත් එකයි, මුනුත් එකයි, තොපිත් එකයි.’ මැතිවරණ කාලේ ඔහොම තමයි. මැතිවරණයක් කියන්නේ ‘මමයි පොර’ කියල කියාගන්න […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා එම පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ යුද අපරාධ සිදු වුණු බවට එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ සමුළු ඉදිරියේ එන යෝජනාවට ලෝක ඉතිහාසය වෙනස් කරමින් අපේ රටේම විදේශ ඇමති සමඅනුග්රාහකයත්වය දැක්වූවා. එවැනි පසුබිමක ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සමීප මිතුරෙකු වන එක්සත් රාජධානියේ නේස්බි […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The UK Government was one of the initiators and a co-sponsor of the resolution. disappointing that the British High Commission fails to acknowledge the importance of the despatches of its own former Defence Attaché hugely misleading figure in the Darusman Report of 40,000 Tamil civilians killed whereas the truth is about […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 9:05 pm In the wake of the most recent challenge by Lord Naseby in the House of Lords to the oft touted claim of 40,000 civilian deaths, the former Secretary to the Consultative Task Force for Reconciliation Mechanisms, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has called for setting up a […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 10:37 pm Lord Naseby has expressed disappointment over the British High Commission, in Colombo, callously dismissing wartime dispatches from its own Defence Attache, Colonel Anton Gash. Apropos a response from the British High Commission in Colombo to a query raised by the The Island, in its Dec 5, 2017 […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 10:29 pm Deputy Leader of the breakaway JVP faction National Freedom Front (NFF) parliamentarian Weerakumara Dissanayake yesterday received SLFP membership from President and SLFP leader Maithripala Sirisena. Former MP and Chairman of NFF Piyasiri Wijenayake and North Central Province PC member P. B. Kumara, too, received SLFP […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
Shenali D Waduge The world is demanding to know how and who killed the LTTE. Based on this same logic shouldn’t we have the right to know who created, who funded, who armed, who financially supported, who provided logistics & material support, who promoted & campaigned on behalf of the LTTE? The beginning of the […]
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Sunday, December 10th, 2017
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Sunday, December 10th, 2017
ලසිත දුමින්ද මෙලෙස මුදල් දීම අවභාවිතාවක් නොවේද? බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමි අගමැති පිංකමක් කරන වෙලාවේදීත් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට මඩ ගහනවා – ගලගම ධම්මරංසි හිමි ජනතාවගේ කැමැත්තක් නොමැති ආණ්ඩුව අද විහාරස්ථාන මාර්ගයෙන් ජනතා කැමැත්ත දිනා ගැනීමේ අසාර්ථක උත්සාහයක නිරතව සිටින බව ජාතික හිමිකම් සංවිධානයේ සභාපති බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමියෝ පැවැසූහ. නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාමයේ ඊයේ (08 වැනිදා) පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී […]
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