Archive for January 26th, 2018
Friday, January 26th, 2018
By Fr. Augustine Fernando Diocese of Badulla Courtesy The Island Justice and fairness, righteousness and truth do not easily surface in many human affairs. This is especially so in the political and public affairs of Sri Lanka due to the various types of persons who are corrupt and unable to measure up to responsibilities. These people slyly […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
By Charles.S.Perera Kumbhakarna the younger brother of Ravana slept for six months and woke up to eat everything within reach including human beings. In order to wake him thousand elephants were made to walk over him. He was finally killed by Rama. The modern Kumbakarna has woken up after three years. He cannot do anything […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW The People of Sri Lanka are thoroughly frustrated with the present Government and the way the country is being run. The Pohottowa is an option towards which they can turn in order to change what is happening. However, the Pohottuwa cannot take such support for granted and must make a compelling argument […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
Sarath Bulathsinghala There cannot be several versions of it. Those who know what comprises the Bondgate Report are the Commissioners who executed the Bondgate Commission. It is People’s money that was used to carry out the Commission of Inquiry and therefore the Commissioners headed by the Supreme Court Justice KT Chitrasiri has a right to […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
1.The Ordinary Thief steals your money, bag, watch, gold chain etc. But, The Political Thief steals your future, career, education, health & business ! 😭 2. The hilarious part is : The Ordinary Thief will choose whom to rob But, you yourself choose the Political Thief to rob you. 😭 3. The most ironic one […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala The Island editorial of Monday January 15th 2018 paid a glowing tribute to the incumbent Vaedda Chief Uruwarige Wannialaeththo, describing him as the one true leader we still have, and further suggesting that he is perhaps ‘the last of the Mohicans’. Both descriptions are, no doubt, exaggerations prompted by the editor’s […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
චමින්ද මුණසිංහ Courtesy Lankadveepa බැඳුම්කර වාර්තාව, එය සංස්කරණය කිරීමේ වුවමනාව කාටද? බැඳුම්කරයෙන් රටට වන බලපෑම, ආයෝජනවලට මෙමගින් බලපෑමක් වේ ද?, බැඳුම්කරය යටගහන්න ඒකාබද්ධය කටයුතු කරනවා ද? යනාදී කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් එජනිස පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස් සඳුදා හමුවෙන් මෙසේ එළි දක්වමු. ප්රශ්නය:- බැඳුම්කරය ගැන ඔබ නිතරම කතා කළා. දැන් එහි වාර්තාව නිකුත් වී තිබෙනවා. ඔබට […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
මහාචාර්ය සුමනසිරි ලියනගේ Courtesy Lankadveepa ආන්දෝලනාත්මක බැඳුම්කර ගනුදෙනුව නිසා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මහ බැංකුවට සහ අර්ථසාධක අරමුදලට රටට සිදු වූ පාඩුව කුමක්දැයි බොහෝ දෙනා කතා වෙති. ඇත්තවශයෙන්ම මේ ගැන නිශ්චිත ගණන් බැලීම් තවම කර නැත. විගණකාධිපතිවරයා පවා කියන්නේ අදාළ ගණන් බැලීම් පවතින තත්ත්වය යටතේ දක්වන ගණන් හිලව් වුවද මෙහි ප්රතිඵල තවත් අවුරුදු ගණනාවක් දක්වා ඈතට දිවෙන අතර […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
By Kelum Bandara Joint Opposition MP Ranjith Zoysa, who was stripped of his post as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) organizer for the Rakwana electorate in the Ratnapura district, speaks about the current political status of the country and mayhem in Parliament recently. The excerpts of the interview: You were stripped of your organizer post […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak became world famous for his controversial novel Doctor Zhivago which underscores the plight of the Russian upper middle class during the Bolshevik Revolution. Pasternak was a great composer of images. His grand novel is full of humanism and Pasternak presents the character formation in a poetic vision. He saw […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
මාධ්ය ඒකකය ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය බදුල්ල දෙමළ බාලිකා විද්යාලයේ විදුහල්පතිනි ආර්. බවානි මහත්මිය දණ ගැස්සවීම සහ ඇයට බලපෑම් සිදුකර ප්රකාශයක් ලබා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඊයේ පැය 10 කට ආසන්න කාලයක් තිස්සේ ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේදී විමර්ශනයක් පැවැත්වීය. මෙම විමර්ශනය සඳහා පැමිණිලිකාර පාර්ශවය වෙනුවෙන් ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් සහ ලංකා ගුරු […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Nowadays you open the daily newspaper every single page is filled with bad news. Someone got killed by drunken driver, someone snatched the chain from a woman, someone caught drug smuggling, some politician being questioned about the corruption/ fraud, doctors fighting etc. etc. It is as if this country with […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Much has been said and written about the shameful behavior of our politicians in the parliament. It was shocking that even the usually well behaved gentleman Prime minister too stooping to the degrading act of shouting slogans in the highest echelon of our nation. Such a shame! Is it a […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
lanka C news වසර 99ක කාලයක් සදහා හම්බන්තොට වරාය චීනයට ලබා දීමට එරෙහිව හිටපු අධිකරණ හා බුද්ධශාසන ඇමති විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ නඩු පවරා තිබේ. සිය පෙත්සම මගින් ඒ මහතා සදහන් කරන්නේ මෙම ගිවිසුම මගින් රජය මෙරට ආණ්ඩු ක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව මුළුමනින්ම උල්ලංගණය කර ඇති බවයි. මෙම පෙත්සම සම්බන්දයෙන් කරුණු දැක්වීමට නීතිපතිවරයා කාලය ඉල්ලා සිටි […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
lanka C news මෙරට දේශපාලන ඉතිහාසයේ දැවැන්තම පාවාදීම නම් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය සිරිකොතට පාවාදීම බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය සිරිකොතට පාවාදීම එම විශාලම පාවාදීම බවද ඒ මහතා සදහන් කරයි. එස්.ඩබ්.ආර්.ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා එජාපයෙන් ඉවත් වී ශ්රීලනිපය නිර්මාණය කලත් වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් පක්ෂය […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Ajith Nivard Cabraal and former Chairman Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) Dr. Nalaka Godahewa yesterday alleged that there were glaring omissions and gaping holes in the recommendations made by the presidential bond probe commission in its report. Asserting that the recommendations […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says that he has not yet decided whether he will contest at the next Presidential Elections. However, President Sirisena said that he will continue in politics throughout his life . President Sirisena made this statement today (26)at a meeting held with heads of media institutions and news editors at President’s […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Another January 25th is upon us. No big deal. Not the first, not the last. Follows a January 24th and will be followed by a January 26th. In a sense dates are meaningless things, relevant only in part and irrelevant in the larger order of things. We are, however, frail creatures who do not […]
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