Archive for June, 2018
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The joint opposition (JO) today accepted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s challenge to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to explain how he would reduce taxes by 20 per cent if he comes to power. JO MP Bandula Gunawardana said they would accept the challenge on behalf of Mr. Rajapaksa. Prime Minister Ranil […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Opinion Letters to Editor – SWARNA HANSA FOUNDATION 262, Denzil Kobbakaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla 2018-06-12 When Ravi Karunanayaka was found jabbering and telling blatant lies at the Bond Scam investigation commission, his parliamentary colleagues were trying to safe guard him by requesting him to resign. Opposing the move the Swarna Hansa Foundation by a leaflet distributed throughout Colombo, […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Keerthi Hewagoda Environmental Activist Introduction The Knuckles range or traditionally called the Dumbara Adaviya is a massif located in central hills in Sri Lanka. The term range” encompasses not only the knuckles forest reserve but whole the ecological unit that geographically belongs to the Knuckles massif. The area above 1500 meters (approx. 4900 feet) in […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
දුම්රිය වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානය. Railway Trade Unions Alliance. 06. 12 ගරු ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්ය, නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා මැතිතුමා, ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්යාංශය, සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. Hon. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla. ඛනිජ තෙල් සංස්ථාවෙන් දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය බැදුම්කර වාර්තාවට අදාල ඇමුණුම් තමා වෙත ලබා දෙන්නේද නැද්ද යන්න පිළිබඳව ස්ථිර වශයෙන් ලිඛිතව පිළිතුරක් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලා කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ හා ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විසින් ගරු කථානායක වරයා හා ජනාධිපති ලේකම් වරයා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කළේය. අදාල ලිපිය පහතින් දැක්වේ. 2018 ජූනි 12 ගරු කථානායකතුමා, […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය කාමලිකා අබේරත්න HIV ආසාදිත වන්නේ රුධිර පාරවිළනයකදී සිදුවූ අතපසුවීමක් නිසාය. HIV ආසදිත වීමෙන් පසු ඇයගේ වෘත්තීය සගයෝ ඇයව වසංගතයක් සේ බැහැර කරති. වෛද්යවරියක වූ කාමලිකා අබේරත්න මිය තම සහෝදර වෛද්යවරු වෛද්යවරියන් අතින් වෙනස්කම් කිරීමට ලක් වීම ඒඩ්ස් සම්බන්ධව සෞඛ්යය වෘත්තිකයන් තුල තිබෙන මුග්ධතාව මෙන්ම ප්රාග්විනිශ්චයන් පෙන්වන්නකි. මේ සාවද්ය ආකල්ප […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island June 13, 2018, 12:05 pm Outgoing US Ambassador Atul Keshap has told former President Mahinda Rajapaksa that his brother, Gotabhaya was very unpopular. Indian American Keshap has based his assessment on information received by him, a spokesperson for the former President’s Office told The Island yesterday.Career diplomat Keshap succeeded Michele […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ranil’s ambition now seems almost dead The current administration does not have anything to brag about Findings were extremely injurious to the Yahapalanaya concept It is a choice between existence and extinction Ignore the noise and follow your own choice.”~Anonymous When one looks back on the pros and cons of the decision taken […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror If anybody still needed proof that the representatives who claimed to be holding the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the people have turned their backs on them and have pursued a path of individual well-being, the developments during the past two weeks would have furnished enough evidence. All three wings […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the officials of the Attorney General’s Department first revealed that a member of Parliament had received one million rupees from a subsidiary company of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd. (PTL) headed by Arjun Aloysius- who has been remanded after being implicated in the Central Bank bond scandal- they also revealed that a […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa could relinquish the US citizenship without facing any barriers if he wishes to contest the upcoming Presidential Election, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila said yesterday. Addressing a news conference, he said Mr. Rajapaksa had requested him to explain the true legal […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Professor G.L. Peiris, says that they will not support the candidacy of President Maithripala Sirisena should he decide to seek a second term in office. I want to say on this occasion very explicitly, very emphatically that we will not directly or indirectly support […]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana The chief incumbent of the Kataragama Kiriwehera Rajamaha Viharaya Ven. Kobawaka Damminda Thera and another monk have been hospitalised after being shot at by an unidentified gunman, Police said. The shooting had reportedly occurred at around 11.00pm within the temple premises. The monks were rushed to the Kataragama Hospital with gunshot wounds […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. –B. Yeats/ ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ In this concluding section of my article, I am making an attempt to suggest how anti-Buddhist propaganda has polluted even the academia, and how, as a potent factor, such misinformation has […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
All Ceylon Railway Employees’ General Union ලේකම්, ජී.එස්.විතානගේ මැතිතුමා, ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්යාංශය, සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්රධාන යාන්ත්රික ඉංජිනේරු අංශයේ සේවකයින්ගේ, සේවයට පැමිණිමේ හා පිටවීමේ වේලාවන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මාස කිහිපයක සිට මතු වී ඇති ගැටළුවට නිසි විසඳුමක් ලබා නොදීම නිසා, එම අංශයේ නිශ්පාදන ඉලක්ක සපුරා ගැනීමට නොහැකි තත්වයක් උද්ගතව ඇත. මේ නිසා […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා එම පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. 19 වන සංශෝධනයෙන් පස්සේ ද්විත්ව පුරවැසියෙකුට ජනපතිවරණයට තරග කරන්න බෑ. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ඇමෙරිකානු පුරවැසි භාවය ඉවත් කිරීමේ අයදුම්පත ප්රතික්ෂේප වුණු බවට බරපතල බොරු ප්රචාරයක් සමාජ ජාලා වල පැතිරෙනවා. ඒ වගේම පුරවැසිභාවයෙන් ඉවත් වීම ඇමෙරිකාව […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
ඩබ්ලිව්.කේ. ප්රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ලෝකයේ දරුණුතම ත්රස්තවාදය පරාජය කරමින් රට වේගවත් සංවර්ධනයකට ගෙනගිය තමන්ට 20% කින් බදු බර අඩුකර ජනතාවට සහන ලබාදෙමින් රට ඉදිරියට ගෙනයෑම කිසිදු ගැටලුවක් නොවන බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අප කළ විමසීමකදී ප්රකාශ කළේය. සියයට 20කින් බදු බර අඩුකරන්නේ කෙසේදැයි කියා පෙන්වාදෙන ලෙසට අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාට කරන […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික වර්ධන වේගය පළමු වරට සෘණ අගයක් ගත්තේ 2001 වසරේ චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක ජනාධිපතිනිය යටතේය. 1996 වසරේදී වසර 19ක එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ පාලනය අවසන් කරමින් 62.28%ක අති විශාල ඡන්ද ප්රතිශයකින් ජයග්රහණය කළ චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක ජනාධිපතිනිය ගැන රටේ විශාල බලාපොරොත්තුවක් තිබුණද අවාසනාවකට මෙන් ඇය ඉතිහාසයට එක්වූයේ ආකාර්යක්ෂම නායිකාවක් ලෙසය. විශේෂයෙන්ම වෙලාවට වැඩ […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
තිළිණි කෞශල්යා විජේසිංහ උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ප්රගීත් එක්නැලිගොඩ අතුරුදන් කළේ රාජපක්ෂවරුන්ය කියා ප්රකාශ කරන මෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් හමුදා නිලධාරීන්ට විවිධ බලපෑම් එල්ල වෙන අතරේ ප්රගීත් එක්නැලිගොඩ අතුරුදන් කිරීමේ වගකීම පා.ච. රණවක ඇමැතිතුමා භාර ගැනීම සතුටට කාරණයක් බව පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි උදය ගම්මන්පිල පැවැසීය. මන්ත්රිවරයා මෙසේ පැවැසුවේ ඊයේ (11දා) පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුම ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Higher Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe today said the presenting of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution on abolishing the executive presidency at a time such as this could pose a major problem. After a visit to the Colombo Arts Gallery, he told the media that if the […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island June 12, 2018, 12:01 pm The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna/Joint Opposition yesterday ruled out the possibility of reunification of SLFP factions under any circumstances. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris emphasized that the SLFP proposal to field President Maithripala Sirisena as its candidate was not acceptable to the dissident group and […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy The Island June 12, 2018, 12:08 pm The same people who challenged him to end the war a decade ago were now daring him to reveal how he could reduce the taxes by 20%, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa told The Island yesterday. “I took up their challenge and enabled our military, police […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
Upali Ranaweera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Responding to a claim by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa that he would reduce taxes by 20 percent after regaining power, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe challenged him on Saturday to reveal the country how the latter is going to repay the huge amount of loans the country owes to the other […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
Editorial Tuesday 12th June, 2018 Courtesy The Island June 11, 2018, 10:39 pm A complaint has been lodged with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) against MP Dayasiri Jayasekera, who has owned up to receiving funds from Perpetual Treasuries Ltd. (PTL), as we reported yesterday. The CIABOC will decide whether it could […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
It was a farewell that has shocked & left plenty of critics speechless. It has put to rest & completely nullified the lies that have been spread against Sri Lanka’s Army. The culprits include foreign governments/envoys, INGOs/NGOs, UN & even the present government in particular the Tamil leadership & the LTTE diaspora who must be […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2018
Nothing happens in isolation. Everything has a connection & it is left to us to join the dots & make the distinctions. Where is the world going, what is the future for the global community can be seen in understanding the geopolitics & global dynamics at play. It is in understanding how industrialization, the capitalist […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 6.10.2018 I hope you have seen today’s newspaper headlines this morning, especially the Irida Divaina banner headline where Vignesvaran Chief Minister NPC has made two very serious statements 1 That you must break up the Sri Lanka Army in to 9 parts and relocate in the other 8 Provinces as the people […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada 10 June 2018 John Argue Amnesty International’s Coordinator for Sri Lanka Toronto Ontario. Dear John: I stumbled onto your interview with Sulochana Ramaiah Mohan which was headlined 40,000 death claim should be researched. Reading it, I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh at it or cry. […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCertRelEng(Monash), DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), CEng.MIEE SriLankan government since snatching power in 2015, have been in corrupt practice which has led the country to tiptoe towards bankruptcy. The term accountability” does not mean anything today, to the people of SriLanka or the members of parliament anyway. Parliamentarians think that they are the god which has freed […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
(වික්ටර් අයිවන් -රාවය පුවත්පත ) මෙම අශීලාචාර කාලයේදී සියලු මිනිසුන් ජීවත් වූයේ අඩු වැඩි වශයෙන් සැකයෙන් හා මරණ බියෙනි. ඔවුන්ට නිතර නිතර දකින්නට හෝ අසන්නට ලැබුණේ මනුෂ්ය ඝාතනයන් ගැනය. අතුරුදන්වූ පුද්ගලයන් හා වදහිංසාවන්ට ලක්වූ පුද්ගලයන් ගැනය. හිංසාව හිංසාවට ලක්වන්නන් කෙරෙහි පමණක් නොව හිංසා කරන්නන් කෙරෙහිද බලපායි. ඒ දෙපිරිසම මානසික රෝගීන් බවට පත් කරයි. යුද හමුදාවේ […]
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