Archive for June, 2018
Sunday, June 24th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror There would be a negative impact on the University Education in the long-run because of the Rs. 1 billion worth of funds of the University Grants Commission (UGC) that had been invested in the controversial bond transaction, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said. Executive Director of CaFFE and Centre […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 24 (Sunday Times) – India has raised concern at the highest levels of the Sri Lankan Government about the manner in which a contract to build 40,000 houses in the North and East was recently awarded without tender to a Chinese company that has no history of building houses in the […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 24 (newsin.asia): India and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have told the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that his government’s decision to award to a Chinese company a contract to build 40,000 houses for war-displaced people in the Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern Provinces is flawed, impractical and unsuited to the […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 24 (newsin.asia): A group of 160 Sri Lankan military personnel and their families took off for the Buddhist pilgrimage center of Bodh Gaya in north India on Sunday for a three-day visit, giving Indo-Lankan military diplomacy” a new, pleasant and spiritual dimension. In the first ever journey of this kind, unique […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2018
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya has informed Austin Fernando, Secretary to President Maithripala Sirisena, that certain annexures of the report submitted by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Treasury bond scams cannot be made available to the public as they might affect the ongoing investigations, according to sources. The Attorney […]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2018
Chandrasena Pandithage Sitting on the north pole Looking at iceberg Crying; saying; melting ongoing mountains’ ice Rising rivers flow to the sea Make the level high; high, high Tell with tearful eyes Teardrops make that higher Fulmar fly very high But why not cry He knew the warming can dry Not bring sea level higher
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are early signs of generating a scare campaign against Dr Gotabaya Rajapakse. Discarded politicians of UNP, SLFP, bankrupt JVP are forming together with a primary objective of tarnishing the image of the former Defence Secretary. These idiotic politicians are trying to develop a specific line of attack to test […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
Sudath Gunasaekara 23.6.2018 It is a well-known fact that we are a nation of lotus eaters, the main factor, why we lag behind other nations. This trend was set in motion by the colonial powers to keep us as eternal beggars. At least now let us rise from this deep slumber in to which colonial […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය සහ කැෆේ සංවිධානය පළමු බැදුම්කරයෙන් UPF අරමුදලට මිලියන 5 ක් පාඩුවන විට, විශ්වවිද්යාල අරමුදලට” (UGC FUND) රු. මිලියන 141 ක් පාඩුයි! බැදුම්කර වංචාව සදහා මුදල් සපයා ගැනීමට විශ්වවිද්යාල අර්ථ සාධක අරමුදලෙන් (UPF) පමණක් නොව ‘විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභා අරමුදලින් ද, මුදල් ලබාගෙන ඇති බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
Courtesy The Island Last week, Attorney at Law and political activist Major Ajith Prasanna addressing a media conference in Colombo made a startling revelation. He stated that since the yahapalana government came into power, many members of the armed forces have been arrested and remanded or held in detention but that Galagodatte Gananasara had not […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island June 23, 2018, 8:22 pm The monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara who was serving a six month sentence handed down by the Homagama Magistrate’s court for threatening and intimidating a witness in the court premises has now been released on bail pending his appeal. The reason why he is in this sorry situation […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
lanka C news ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයාගේ නිවසේදී පැවති දානමය පිංකමකදී තමන් වහන්සේ විසින් කරන ලද ප්රකාශය මගින් අදහස් කරන ලද්දේ රට පාලනය කිරීමේදී සෘජු ප්රතිපත්ති තිබිය යුතුය යන අදහස බව අස්ගිරි අනුනායක වෙඬරුවේ උපාලි හිමියෝ පවසති. විශේෂ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් හිමියන් පවසන්නේ හිට්ලර් ආකාරයෙන් මිනිසුන් මරා දමමින් ම්ලේච්ඡ ආකාරයෙන් රට පාලනය කරල යුතු […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana The Anunayaka Thero of the Asgiri Chapter, Venerable Wedaruwe Upali Thero, today issued statement to clarify the comments he had made during a religious ceremony held recently to invoke blessing on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his birthday. During the event, the Thero blessed Rajapaksa on his 69th birthday on Wednesday (20) […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
lanka C news පසුගියදා ගෝඨාබය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ නිවසේ පැවති දානමය කටයුත්තේදී අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක වෙඩරුවේ උපාලි හිමියන් විසින් සිදු කරන පද ප්රකාශයන් කිසිම ආකාරයෙන් නරක දෙයක් අදහස් කලේ යයි තමන් විශ්වාස නොකරන බව ඇමති සජිත් පේ්රමදාස මහතා පවසයි. උන් වහන්සේ විසින් කියු දෙයිහි අර්ථය ඊට වඩා දුරදක්නා නුවනින් බාර ගැනීමට තමන් කැමති බවද ඇමතිවරයා සදහන් […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මමහතා විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද නිවේදනයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. ධර්මද්වීපය දේශපාලන හාල්පාරුවන්ගේ දේශපාලන අසූචි වළක් බවට පත් කරලීමට ඉඩ දී බලා සිටිමු ද? තම සමස්ත දේශපාලන සර්වාංගයෙන්ම, දේශද්රෝහී බව ඕජස් ගලන මංගල පින්සිරි සමරවීර අමාත්යවරයා, හදිසියේම නිර්මල ථේරවාදී බෞද්ධ ධර්මයේ ආරක්ෂාව උදෙසා නැගී සිට තිබේ. හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil separatism” is not a post-Independence phenomenon, as we are made to believe. Tamil separatism had emerged long before ‘Sinhala only’ (1956) and ‘standardization’ (1970) took place. Tamil separatism started in the 1920s when Sri Lanka was still under the British. Tamil separatism was a dominant political force in south India at that […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2018
P.A.Samaraweera, Brisbane Minister Swaminathan has presented a cabinet memo to pay compensation to LTTE terrorists and the families of the dead terrorists. According to him there are about 12,000 rehabilitated LTTE terrorists and about 30,000 from LTTE Mahaveera families. In addition to this, there will be many Tamil terrorist sympathisers who migrated to foreign countries returning for the […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Dilrook Kannangara By 1930s Germany was in utter desperation somewhat like Sri Lanka today. However, instead of overcoming its problems the right way, voters increasingly empowered the Nazi Party lead by Adolf Hitler. Within six years the country was in total ruin. US and Soviet soldiers rampaged the country in every way imaginable. Thereafter they […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
වෙබ් මාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ ජාතික ව්යාපාරය ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට මුවාවී ආණ්ඩුව මාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ ජිව්ත අනතුරේ දැමිමට ගන්නා උත්සහය වහාම හකුලා ගන්නා ලෙස වෙබ් මාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ ජාතික ව්යාපාරය ලෙස අපි ජනපතිවරයාට,අගමැතිවරයාට මෙන්ම ආණ්ඩුවේ වගකිවයුතු පාර්ශවයන්ට දැඩි ලෙස අවධාරණය කර සිටිමු. මැයි මාසයේ උතුරේ හා දකුණේ පැවැති විරු සැමරුම් පිළිබඳව ආරක්ෂක අංශ ගන්න පියවර සම්බන්ධයෙන් තොරතුරු ඇතුලත්ව 2018 මැයි මස 25 දා […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island When I wrote ‘Raigamaya and Gampolaya’ just before the last local government elections (The Island, 5 February), I thought it was impossible for the state of affairs to get much worse. I am proved wrong; well, things have got worse and the comedy continues. Sorry, I should call it […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Joint Opposition MP Shehan Semasinghe yesterday said that President Maithripala Sirisena owed an explanation as to why he continued the partnership with the UNP after having accused that party of destroying the national economy. Semasinghe pointed out that President Sirisena had gone to the extent of claiming that only his […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ යුද හමුදාවේ බලඇණි 33ක් ඉවත් කිරීමට සහ නිලධාරි තනතුරු 938ක්, සෙසු නිලයන් 23,266ක් ඉවත් කිරීමට 2018 ජූලි මස අග වන විට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස යුද හමුදා රෙජිමේන්තු ප්රධානීන් හා අදාළ ඉහළ නිලධාරීන්ට නියෝග කරමින් එහි ප්රධාන මාණ්ඩලික, අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් ජී.ඩී.අයි. කරුණාරත්න නිකුත් කළ 2018 ජුනි […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara, appearing for the CID, told the Fort Magistrate’s Court yesterday that the prosecution was perusing some 10,000 cheques in expectation of uncovering the PTL’s money trading patterns, which was not an easy task by any means. She explained this in response to President’s […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government has issued an extraordinary gazette on Wednesday listing 14 individuals as designated persons who have connections with the LTTE in terms of terrorism-related activities and funding and financing of terrorism, to the List of Designated Persons. The Gazette which was issued by Defence Ministry Secretary Kapila Waidyaratne, adds amendments […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Kilinochchi Magistrate’s Court today ordered the police to examine video clips of the incident where a leopard was brutally killed in Kilinochchi on Thursday and arrest those involved in the killing.
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana The individuals responsible for the killing of a leopard at Ambalkulam area in Kilinochchi will be punished accordingly, says Deputy Minister of Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Regional Development Palitha Thewarapperuma. He made these comments to the media last night (21). The deputy minister added that the Minister of Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Regional […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organisation Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero has been granted bail by the Homagama Magistrate’s Court. He was ordered released on two personal bonds of Rs 500,000 each by the Homagama Magistrate Sudesh Ranatunga, who also barred Ven. Gnanasara Thero from leaving the country. The magistrate […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Police said the four suspects arrested so far following the exchange of gunfire between a gang of armed robbers and police officers during a jewellery shop robbery gone awry in broad daylight in Matara, are notorious criminals connected to a number of other crimes. Three police officers and two civilians […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana Two individuals in possession of LTTE military uniforms, flags of the terrorist organization and a stock of claymore explosives have been arrested this morning (22) on the Oddusuddan road in Mullaitivu. According to the police, the suspects were taken into custody in a sudden search carried out by the police, while the goods […]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2018
මුලතිව්- ශෂිකුමාර් උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මුලතිව් _ ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් ප්රදේශයේදී කොටි සංවිධානයට අයත් නිල ඇඳුමක්, කොටි සංවිධානයට අයත් කොඩියක් සහ බෝම්බ ඇතුළු යුද උපකරණ තොගයක් ත්රිරෝද රථයකින් ප්රවාහනය කරමින් සිටි පිරිසක් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් බවට ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් පොලිසිය කියයි. ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් පේරාරු මංසන්ධිය ප්රදේශයේදී මාන්කුලම් පොලිසියට අයත් රථවාහන පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් පසුගියදා (21දා) රාත්රියේ මුර සේවයේ යෙදී සිටියදී පැමිණි ත්රිරෝද රථයක් […]
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