Archive for May, 2018
Monday, May 14th, 2018
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය ලංකාවේ සියලු වර්ගයේ දුෂණ ගැන කථා කරන දේශපාලනඥයින් හා සිවිල් සංවිධාන ‘විදුලි මාෆියාව ගැන නඩු විශේෂ අධිකරණයේ වත් අහන්න කියලා කියන්නේ නෑ. ජනාධිපතිතුමාට ගල් අගුරු මාෆියාව පේන්නේ නෑ. අගමැතිතුමාට ‘ඩීසල් විදුලි මාෆියාව‘ පේන්නේ නෑ. සිවිල් සමාජයට දැන් මේ දෙකම පේන්නේ නැති තරමට විදුලි මාෆියාව දැන් රහත් එල ලබා ඇතිදැයි […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island May 14, 2018, 9:25 pm At five o’clock in the afternoon on Sunday, long lines of vehicles two abreast were seen on both sides of Galle face, to enter the driveway to the Shangri- La hotel. Alighting from a taxi this writer walked to the hotel. That was quicker. […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island May 14, 2018, 12:00 pm (Continued from yesterday) Of the five separate determinations given by the nine judges of the Supreme Court, the lengthiest was Justice R. S. Wanasundera’s dissenting determination. This is also the determination most often referred to by nationalists who claim that the executive presidency is […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
By Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankan politics is becoming increasingly acrimonious, yet again. There is a deepening polarization among the UNP and President Maithripala Sirisena on the one hand and the Yahapalanaya Government as a whole and the emboldened Rajapaksa acolytes of the joint opposition on the other hand. The President is openly […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 14 (newsin.asia) – China, on Monday approved a loan of US 1 billion dollars to construct the phase one of the Central Expressway in Sri Lanka, the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement here. China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Cheng Xueyuan met Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe in capital Colombo and […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo May 14 (newsin.asia) – 8000 people were affected as heavy rains caused flash floods in Sri Lanka’s southern districts of Galle and Kalutara on Sunday, the Disaster Management Center said in a statement Monday. A Spokesperson for the Center, Pradeep Kodippilli said that several people had been evacuated from their homes due […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
හර්ෂනී අර්සකුලරත්න උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා 2020 ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වීම වැළැක්වීම සඳහා බොහෝ දෙනකු උත්සාහ දරන බව මවුබිම වෙනුවෙන් රණවිරුවෝ සංවිධානයේ කැඳවුම්කරු නීතිඥ මේජර් අජිත් ප්රසන්න මහතා පැවැසීය. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ඉකුත් 10දා සමාජය හා සාමයික කේන්ද්රයේ පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමිනි. එහිදී ඔහු මෙසේද කියා සිටියේය. ‘නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු නීතිඥවරයා හා සුගන්ධිකා ප්රනාන්දු නීතිඥවරිය […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
The Allies continue to celebrate Victory Day & end of World War 1 even enacting some of the famous battles & they are not bothered that Germany’s or Japan’s feelings are hurt. So what is this reconciliation nonsense that the present Sri Lankan government is promoting. Denying Victory Day celebrations & honoring the Army is […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
By Senaka Weeraratna IS THE MAHANUWARA DECLARATION MADE AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE UN VESAK DAY CONFERENCE IN SRI LANKA (2017) NOW BEING SEEN ONLY AS A WHITE ELEPHANT? Senkadagalapura of Kande Uda Rata later called Kandy by foreigners (Mahanuwara by locals) who failed to pronounce Sinhala words correctly is the hub of glittering Peraheras […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
P. S. MAHAWATTE Courtesy The Island May 13, 2018, 12:00 pm In The Island of 5th May Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne has confessed that “some of those within the government have forgotten that it was the Tamil and Muslim minorities who cast a block vote to elect the yahapalana government. The Eastern Province voted for the […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සභාපතීත්වයෙන් යුතු වියත්මග සංවිධානයේ වාර්ෂික සම්මේලනය කොළඹ ෂැංග්රිලා හෝටලයේදී පැවැත්වින. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැති මෙම සමුළුව සදහා දෙදහසකට ආසන්න පිරිසකට ආරාධනා කර තිබින. සරසවි ආචාර්ය මහාචාර්යවරුන්, ප්රධාන පෙලේ ව්යාපාරිකයන්, ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයන්, කලාකරුවන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් මේ සදහා සහභාගී වූහ. ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් සමුළුම අමතමින් සිදු කරන […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
BY Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island So the Northern Provincial Council and some civil society activists are reportedly gearing up to mourn May 18-19th and the week leading up to it as Genocide Week. May 18/19th marks the days the Long War ended, and Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims stopped dying in large numbers. It is […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island May 13, 2018, 10:11 pm Nationalistic groups in this country believe that the institution of the executive presidency is a sine qua non for the preservation of Sri Lanka’s unitary character in the face of the provincial councils system. This idea largely stems from what is believed to have […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය මාධ්ය ඒකකය ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය ලංකාවේ දුෂිතම ව්යාපාරික මාෆියාව බවට පත්ව ඇති ‘විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති කේෂ්ත්රය ‘2020 ජනාධිපතිවරණ ප්රචාරක ව්යාපාරයට සිතු පැතු සම්පත් දෙන ධන ආකාරයක් කර ගැනීමට මේ රටේ ප්රධාන දේශපාලන පක්ෂ දෙක උත්සහ කරන බව කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි. අද, (මැයි 13) රාජගිරියේ දී පැවැති ශ්රී […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
ශි්රයානි අජන්තා විතාන උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම අපරදිග රටවල බුදු දහම ප්රචාරය කිරීම උදෙසා විශිෂ්ට මෙහෙවරක් සිදු කළ අසෝක වීරරත්න මහතා පිළිබඳ වත්මන් පරපුර නොදන්නවා විය හැකිය. අසෝක වීරරත්නයන්ගේ මෙහෙවර අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමන්ට නොදෙවැනි වේ. අසෝක වීරරත්න 1918දී උපන්නේ දකුණේ ව්යාපාරික පවුලක දරුවකු වශයෙනි. ඔහුගේ පියාවූ පී.ජේ. වීරරත්නට එවකට ලංකාවේ ප්රමුඛ මැණික් හා ස්වර්ණාභරණ වෙළෙඳ ව්යාපාර හිමිව තිබිණි. පී.ජේ. […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
කැකිරාව සුදත් ඒකනායක උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සිංහල ජාතියේ හදවත පණ ගැසුණේ මෙතැනදීය. ජාතියේ වීර කාව්ය සඳහා උච්ඡ ස්ථානය වන්නේ මෙයය. ආක්රමණික එළාර පරදා දුටුගැමුණු මහ රජතුමා ජයගත් ජය භූමිය මෙයය. තෙමේ මාගේ මේ ව්යායාමය රජ සැප පිණිස නොවේය. ‘සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ චිරස්චිතිය සඳහාම වන්නේය’ යනුවෙන් ජාතියේ වීරයා, ද්වන්ද සටනක යෙදුණු ස්ථානය, ඩෝසර් දමා සුණු විසුණු කර […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා යුතුකම සංවාද කවය පසුගිය වසර 3 පුරාවට රජයට ජනතාවට දුන් සහනයක් ගැන කතා කරන්නට තිබුනානම් ඒ 2015 දී වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් තෙල් මිල පහත හෙලීමය. එසේ කරන්නට හැකි වූයේ ලෝක වෙළඳ පොලේ තෙල් මිල විශාල වශයෙන් අඩුවූ නිසාය. නමුත් අද සිට යලිත් ලංකාව තුල තෙල් මිල ඉහල ගොස් ඇත. රජය පවසන්නේ ලෝක වෙළඳ […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Government has got into a secret agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB ) and with a US company to prepare a white paper to expand investment of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) on the Colombo Stock Exchange and on corporate Bonds by the year 2025, Inter Company Employees Union […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 13 (www.news.lk): Investors form China have expressed interest in expanding investments in Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector, according to Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera. A special discussion headed by Minister Mahinda Amaraweera was held at the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday (10) with a delegation of the Agility Group in Guangdong province […]
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Sunday, May 13th, 2018
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය-සභාපති, ඇවන්ගාඩ් සමූහ ව්යාපාරය 2018 මැයි මස 13 වැනි දින “දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්රහය” ජාතික පුවත්පතේ මුල් පිටුවේ ප්රධාන සිරස්තලය ලෙස ” ඇවන්ගාඩ්ගෙන් ජරාව කෑ පොලිසියේ 300කගේ නම් එළියට” ශීර්ෂපාඨය යටතේ ලිපියක් පළකර ඇත. මෙම ලිපියෙහි පළවී ඇති සියලුම කරුණු ඇවන්ගාඩ් ආයතනය වෙනුවෙන් එහි සභාපති විශ්රාමික මේජර් නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති වන මා දැඩි පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුව තරයේ […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
By Chandre Dharmawardana Dr. Lal Jayasinghe (LJ) writing in the Island (11-05-2018) gives three reasons that he says are put out in opposing the ban. He is of course for the ban. The glyphosate debate in Sri Lanka is an intellectual and scientific scandal. Seemingly, Sri Lankan scientists are remaining silent about it? No, in […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA It is true that there is an upright increase in fuel prices due to a conflict situation between Iran and the United States and Israel’s indiscriminate barrage of rocket attscks on certain areas of Syria. The website CNBC.com which focuses on global commodity market situations reported on Thursday that crude […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham/Daily Express Sri Lanka’ Good Governance regime headed by President Maithripala Sirisena came in 2015 with a promise to end partisan politics and the abolish the Executive Presidency. But its record in the past three years shows that it is going the way previous regimes went, sacrificing ideals at the alter of political […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
By Udaya P. Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today We posed five questions to the campaigners for abolition of the Executive Presidency. Nobody came forward to reply those. We, ourselves, replied to the question, Why does anti-Executive Presidency campaign exist only in Sri Lanka?” It was pointed out with evidence that there was a misjudgement in Sri Lanka […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
By Narada Courtesy Ceylon Today There is a parable that has a message for President Sirisena and Premier Wickremesinghe. The two have an unenviable task – matching dismal performance with exaggerated promise. The parable offers a glimmer of light to the two leaders presently groping in the darkness of demonstrated failure. A grandfather tells his grandchild: […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Courtesy RT Many Russian companies are now registering products under the ‘Novichok’ trademark – the chemical the UK says poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. From sunflower oil to detergents, ‘Novichok’ is the new black. Read more ‘English tourists wanted a cocktail – we gave them one!’: Russian mixologist explains Novichok drink The […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
by arjuna ranawana Courtesy Ceylon Today The presidential and parliamentary elections are 18 months away, and one person has already declared himself a candidate for the presidency. President Maithripala Sirisena speaking at the SLFP May Day Rally in Batticaloa on Monday said that he will not retire in 2020 as ‘he has more work to do […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Courtesy The Island The head of the Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) Ravi Waidyalankara will leave the police department on Monday ending a controversy over the leadership of the premier white-collar crime busting arm of the police, official sources said. Waidyalankara will on Monday reach the age of 60, the mandatory retirement age, the sources […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Courtesy The Island AFP: The Sri Lankan army has formed a special unit to defend itself against allegations of grave human rights abuses at the end of the island’s decades-long ethnic war. Army chief Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake said the group would collate local and international reports, and establish the truth to clear the military’s […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2018
By M D P DISSANAYAKE It is now realized that most of us have created difficult situations to Dr Gotabaya. We loved him, but we did not protect him. We only thought of ourselves of what further we can extract from the Great. We did the same to Prez. MR and continue to do so. Consequently, we have made […]
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