Archive for January, 2018
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
මාධ්ය ඒකකය ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය 2018/ 01/ 10 අධ්යාපන ලේකම්තුමා අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය ඉසුරුපාය බත්තරමුල්ල ලේකම්තුමනි, බදුල්ල ප්රදේශයේ විදුහල්පතිනියක් දණගස්වා පාසැලට දරුවන් ඇතුළත් කිරීමට බලපෑම් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙනි ඌව පළාත් ප්රමුඛ දේශපාලනඥයෙකු විසින් ඌව පලාත් සභාව යටතේ පාලනය වන බදුල්ල දෙමළ බාලිකා විද්යාලයක විදුහල්පතිනියක් තම නිල නිවසට කැඳවා දණ ගස්වා සිසුවියක් ඇතුළත් කිරීමට බලැපෑම් කළ […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala (Courtesy The Island) (This is The Mask of Anarchy continued from January 6, 2018) ‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.’ (lines 151-155) Shelley composed ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
Dr Sarath Obeysekera SEE COMMENTS BELOW Fort bound Light Railway Service would be initiated from Kaduwela funded by the Japanese Government, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said.He said the feasibility study for the project was being conducted and the Ministry was acquiring lands in the area for the purpose.Participating in an event […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. A new book, ‘Stress in Security Forces’ edited by Anil Varma with Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge, Dr. Franklin D. Jones, Stephen A. Young and Gautam Navalakha has been published by the ICFAI University Press, India. Stress management is vital in the fields of defence and public safety. Positive stress management […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed life-threatening events such as natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist incidents, war, or violent personal assaults. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in an estimated 8% of men and 20% of […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Prof. G.L. Peiris, says that the public is unable to place their trust on punishment being carried out in an impartial manner against the wrongdoers identified by the report of the Bond Commission. He claimed that a paragraph in the special statement made by […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
By Faizer Shaheid Courtesy Ceylon Today There is nothing new in seeing dirty politics at play. The tactical ploys of those in power are somewhat a musical comedy to some and a rather frustrating melodrama to others, yet it continues. The latest saga once again concerns Mahinda Rajapaksa, the deposed President of Sri Lanka, who continues […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
Courtesy ITV “Scandal” was a series of five episodes broadcast weekly on ITV at 10:30pm in July & August 1989. The episodes were 1. Tasaday: The Lost Tribe. 2. Bhagwhan Shree Rajneesh: The Man Who Was God. 3. Delorean: The Fast Lane 4. Emil Savundra: The Prince of Con Men. 5. Hollywood Confidential. Here we […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Shenali D Waduge We can all agree that democracy has become a farce in practice. Political parties will go down on their knees and beg for people’s vote promising to deliver the sun & the moon but after elections voters will see only a convoy of cars, bodyguards, advisors & be greeted with ‘Minister is […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
By: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. Victor Ivan’s notorious Bandit Queen Chandrika in her dementia keeps on telling the blatant lie that it is she who completed ¾ of the 30 year’ of war. Although this claim is not even believed by her trusted friends and acolytes this article is to disprove her malicious claim with some […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
by Chitra Weerarathne Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena, who publicly proclaimed several times, that he had voluntarily agreed to get his term of office reduced from six years to five through the 19th Amendment passed in April 2015, making it a world record by a sitting leader, has now asked the Supreme Court whether he […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Courtesy adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has sought the Supreme Court’s opinion if he could be the president for six years, a request which contradicts the amendment he introduced to reduce the presidential term to five years. He spearheaded the 19th amendment (19A) to the Constitution in 2015 to prune the presidential term from six to […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a statement on the third anniversary of the yahapalana government, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said the Moragahakanda project was planned, funds allocated and construction work launched under his government in 2007 under the 2005 Mahinda Chintana programme. He said even the Rajagiriya flyover was planned and money allocated for its […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Central Bank’s former governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said yesterday he would gladly go before a presidential commission if such a commission was set up to probe alleged bond irregularities from 2008 to 2014. If there is commission that the Prime Minister wants to set up, please tell me I will go […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy Adaderana The joint opposition (JO) today requested President Maithripala Sirisena to remove Prime Minister Ranil Wikcremesinghe so as to ensure a free and fair trial on the Central Bank bond scam. Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman G.L. Peiris told a media conference that the President was unable to take any practical measures […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. Samurdhi Development Officers Union ඉසුරුමත් නිවහනක් නිවාස ආධාර මුදල අයකර ගැනීම වහා අත්හිටුවන බව ජනාධිපති විසින් ගත් තීරණය මැතිවරණ වාසි ගැනීම සදහා කරන ලද ජනතාව රවටන හුදු ප්රකාශයට අපගේ විරෝධය. 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ මැතිවරණ වාසි ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ඉසුරුමත් නිවහනක් යටතේ නිවාස අලූත් වැඩියා කර ගැනීම සදහා සෑම සමෘද්ධිලාභී […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
www.mahinda.info මොරගහකන්ද ජලාශයේ නිදන් වස්තු තැන්පත් කිරීමේ උත්සවයේදී විධායක ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පැවැත්වූ කථාව පහත දැක්වේ. එම කථාවේදී හිටපු විධායක ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් ගැනද සඳහන් කරමින් වත්මන් විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් බොරු ගණනාවක් ප්රකාශ කර තිබේ. එනිසා ජනතාව නොමග යැවීම වැළැක්වීමට ඒ ගැන අන්තර්ජාලය භාවිතා කරන ජනතාව වෙත මූලාශ්ර සහිතව පැහැදිළි කිරීමක් ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නෙමු. […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
www.mahinda.info [1]. රාජගිරිය ගුවන් පාලම හැදුවේ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවෙන් බවට ආණ්ඩුවේම දේශපාලඥයින් සහ ආණ්ඩුවට සහය දෙන ජනමාධ්ය වලින් නිතර පවසන්නකි. එහෙත් රජයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවි වලින් රාජගිරිය ගුවන් පාලම ආරම්භ කළේ සහ ඊට මුදල් වෙන් කළේ කුමන වකවානුවේදීදැයි නිශ්චිතව සොයා ගැනීමට මහින්ද ඉන්ෆො මාධ්ය අංශයට හැකි විය. සැයු: පහත දැක්වෙන රජයේ වෙබ් අඩවි කිසිදු දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
www.mahinda.info [1]. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ කාලයේ රට ණය වුණ බවත් එනිසා එජාපයට සිදුවුණේ ණය ගෙවීම බවත් ආණ්ඩුවෙන් නිතර පවසන දෙයකි. මෙහි ඇත්ත නැත්ත පිළිබඳව ආණ්ඩුවේම මූලාශ්ර වලින් එනම් ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකු වාර්තාව ඇසුරෙන් සහ එජාප අමාත්ය රුවන් විජයවර්ධන පවුලට අයත් Financial Times” වෙතින් බලමු. [මූලාශ්රය: Central Bank Annual Report – Special Statistical Appendix – 3.Fiscal […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Mahinda Rajapaksa Former President of Sri Lanka On 9 January 2018, the so-called yahapalana government completes three years in office. During this short period they have created numerous crises running through virtually every sector in Sri Lanka. The main subject of public discussion today is the bond scam and the attempts being made by the yahapalana leaders […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති 2018 ජනවාරි 9 වෙනිදා, ඊනියා යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත්වී අවුරුදු තුනක් සම්පූර්ණ වේ. මේ කෙටි කාලය තුළ මොවුන් ලංකාවේ සෑම ක්ෂේත්රයක් පුරාම දිවයන දැවැන්ත අර්බුද ගණනාවක්ම නිර්මාණය කර ඇත. මේ මොහොතේ සාකච්ඡා වෙන ප්රධානම මාතෘකාව වන්නේ මහ බැංකු මංකොල්ලය හා එය යට ගැසීමට ආණ්ඩුවේ නායකයන් ගන්නා උත්සාහයයි. බැඳුම්කර […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
By Dr. G. Usvatte-aratchi, Economist Courtesy The Island Now that the committee he appointed to report on the events identified as the bond scams has been given to President Maithripala Srisiena, and in the reasonable belief that it will suffer the same fate as the report on the egregious Welikade Jail Murders, I venture to comment […]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
www.thenews.com.pk COLOMBO: Sri Lanka aims to raise $500 million this month via development bonds and is in the process of divesting two state-owned hotels, the central bank and a ministry said on Monday, as the government faces unprecedented debt repayment this year. President Maithripala Sirisenea´s administration must repay an estimated 1.97 trillion rupees ($12.85 billion) […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය පසුගිය රජය සමයේ කුප්රකට ‘අරලියගහ දන්සල’ සිදු කළ ලෙසම, පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීම සමයේ ද, අගමැති නිල නිවස දේශපාලන කටයුතු සදහා යොදා ගැනීම ආරම්භ වී ඇත. 2018 ජනවාරි 4 දින (බ්රහස්පතින්දා) දින පාසල් සදහා ජංගම විද්යාගාර බෙදාදීම’ නම් උත්සවයක් සදහා යැයි කියමින් අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශයේ විද්යා අංශය විසින් දුරකතන ඇමතුම් ලබාදී දේශපාලන […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal yesterday denied the allegation that the auditing process as well as other safeguards in place at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) at the time of 2015 February treasury bond scam were extremely weak and there is a need for new ones. […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
By Neville Ladduwahetty President Maithripala Sirisena, while outlining the highpoints in the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into to the issue of Treasury Bonds of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, also referred to the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate and inquire into serious acts of […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
By N Sathiya Moorthy Courtesy The Island Chennai, 5 January 2018 Same-side goal, yes, considering he is heading a coalition government, but did President Maithripala Sirisena hit a ‘self-destructive’ goal with his early publication of the Central Bank bonds scam probe report? Going by media reports post-publication, the latter too seems truer. In possibly seeking to […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
Editorial Courtesy The Island January 8, 2018, 8:51 pm President Maithripala Sirisena did not make any revelations as such in his recent statement on the bond probe commission report. But, he has stirred up a real hornets’ nest. He should have respected the people’s right to information by releasing the whole report instead of selectively disclosing […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has borrowed over USD 14.6 billion in foreign currency loans alone during the short period of 36 months that this government has been in power, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. He said even though 14.6 billion USD would suffice to build five Norochcholai power plants, five Hambantota harbours […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2018
ඩබ්ලිව්. කේ. ප්රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුව ගැන සොයා බැලූ විශේෂ ජනාධිපති කොමිසමට ප්රසිද්ධියේ අපහාස කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු මුදල් ඇමැති…රවි කරුණානායක මහතාට එරෙහිව අපහාස නඩුවක් පවරන ලෙස ජනාධිපති කොමිසමෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කිරීමට ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ අමාත්යවරුන් පිරිසක් තීරණය කර තිබේ. පසුගිය 6 වැනිදා උතුරු කොළඹ ප්රදේශයේ පැවැති රැස්වීමකින් අනතුරුව මාධ්යවේදීන් ඇසූ […]
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