Archive for June, 2018
Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Courtesy wionews.com PTI Colombo, Sri Lanka Jun 10, 2018, 11.19 PM (IST) China has withheld the Hambantota Port deal’s final tranche of USD 585 million to Sri Lanka due to Colombo’s objection over its plan to use a man-made island for entertainment purposes, a media report said here today. In December last year, Sri Lanka handed over […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Editorial Courtesy The Island Monday 11th June, 2018 The UNP, during the last government, condemned the Hambantota Port as a white elephant and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe keeps calling it the world’s biggest swimming pool. Some UNP notables said the Rajapaksas were waiting on the Hambantota beach and waving at passing ships in a bid to […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Rathindra Kuruwita June 11, 2018, 12:51 pm The Secretary to the President and other officials who could release the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) report on the bond scams had sent the anti corruption activists on a wild goose chase in the hope that they would get tired and drop the issue, Campaign for […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte June 11, 2018, 12:47 pm It has been revealed that State Minister of International Trade, Sujeewa Senasinghe accepted three cheques to the tune of Rs. 3 million from W. M. Mendis & Company, belonging to Arjun Aloysius, after the 2015 general election. The last parliamentary election was held on August 17, […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island I was delighted to read Lalith Weeratunga’s revelatory article ‘The Troika’ (Counterpoint, Daily FT). I regard him as a friend and I respect him as one of the finest public servants we have had. President Mahinda Rajapaksa could not have had a better Secretary to the President at a […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today The exact number of people who received illegal funds either from Perpetual Treasuries Limited or its subsidiary W.M. Mendis & Company Limited is anybody’s guess. In addition to politicians, there could be high-ranking officials and others among those bribe-takers. However, all of them are capable of lying effortlessly with a […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Former United National Party General Secretary Kabir Hashim is on record that he had no need to accept money from Perpetual Treasuries. He claimed that he has enough personal wealth that he could even lend money to Perpetual Treasuries. He is clearly trying to disassociate himself from the 118 MPs […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
By Narada The Prime Minster has assured Parliament that he has no clue on the whereabouts of Arjuna Mahendran. On Thursday last week, this paper reported the story with an interesting profile of the Prime Minister that betrayed him experiencing his Pontius Pilate moment of truth. Just as the procurator of Rome failed in washing […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, June 10 (newsin.asia): Niroshika Sanjeewani Liyana Muhandiram, the only Sri Lankan national to have graduated from the New Delhi-based South Asian University (SAU) this year, has topped the Master of Laws programme in the university bagging a Gold Medal, a press release from SAU says.. Niroshika, who works for the Faculty […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Qingdao, June 10 (The Hindu): India was the only country in the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on June 10 which refused to endorse China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for which Beijing has signed pacts with nearly 80 countries and international organisations. A declaration issued at the end of the two-day […]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2018
lanka C news අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් විසින් දුන් මුදල් ඇතැම්විට ජනාධිපතිවරණයදට විදයම් වන්නට ඇතැයි ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා පවසයි. මැතිවරණ කාලවලදී විවිධ පුද්ගලයන් පැමිණ මුදල් දෙන බවත් එම පුද්ලගලයන් එලවා දැමීමට හැකියාවක් නැති බවත් ඇමතිවරයා කියයි. ඒ ආකාරයේ මුදල් ලබා ගත් අය අස් කරන්නේ නම් මුළු රටේම සිටින දේශපාලයන්ට ගෙදර යාමට සිදුවනු ඇතැයිද ඇමතිවරයා කියා සිටී. […]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2018
By Meera Sreenivasan/Courtesy The Hindu The arch above the school gate sits like a crown over the pillars that support it on either side. It bears the name ‘Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies’ College’, painted in a turquoise blue that must have been vibrant once but looks faded now. Beyond the arch, a couple of two-storied […]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2018
lanka C news දඹර අමිල හිමි, සමන් රත්නප්රිය, ගාමිණි වියන්ගොඩ, ධර්මසිිරි බණඩාරනායක, සමනලී ෆොන්සේකා යන අයගේ නම්ද බැදුම්කර කොමිෂන් වාර්තාවේ දැනට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදරිපත් කර නැති කොටස්වල සදහන්ව ඇතැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රංජිත් සොයිසා මහතා පවසයි. සාධාරණ සමාජයක් යයි කියමින් මෙම පිරිස් ඇලෝසියස් සමග ගණුදෙනු කර ඇති ආකාරය ඉන් පැහැදිලි බවත් වාර්තාවේ එම කොටස්ද ප්රසිද්ද කල විට […]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2018
හේමන්ත රන්දුණු උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින පර්පචුවෙල් ට්රෙෂරීස් සමාගමෙන් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ තිහක මුදලක් ලබාගත් බවට චෝදනා ලැබ සිටින රාජ්ය ඇමැති සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතාගේ නම ප්රසිද්ධියට පත් නොකරන ලෙස රජයේ ප්රබලම දේශපාලනඥයන් කීපදෙනකු නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහ අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ උසස් නිලධාරීන්ට දැඩි බලපෑම් එල්ල කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. බලපෑම් නොසලකමින් නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිලධාරීන් විසින් රාජ්ය ඇමැති […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතාගේ බටහිර ගැති ආර්ථික ප්රතිපත්තිය තුල ආසියානු නැඹුරුවකට වඩා ඇමරිකන් නැඹුරුවක් තිබූ බව කවුරුත් දනිති.නමුත් ලංකාවට නිදහස ලැබීමෙන් පසුව බලයට පත් ආණ්ඩුවල විශේෂයෙන්ම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවල සිටි පාලකයන් සෑම දෙනෙක්ම මෙලෙසම ඇමරිකන් ගැතිව සිටි බව හෙළි දරව් වීමට පටන් ගත්තේ ඉතා මෑතක සිටයි.2015 ජනධිපතිවරණයේදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැරැද්දවීමටත් […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් කියයි මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය බැදුම්කර වංචාවෙන් මුදල් සහ වෙනත් දීමනා ලබා ගත් මාධ්යවේදීන්ට එම තෑගි, අරමුදල් ලැබී ඇත්තේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකු අභ්යන්තර විගණන නිලධාරීන් එය දුෂිත/වංක/ නීතිවිරෝධී ක්රියාවක් ලෙස නම් කිරීමේන් ද පසුව එය වරදක් බව දැන දැනම බව කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ප්රකාශ කරයි. අද (8) රාජගිරියේදී පැවති මාධ්ය […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island General Secretary of the Communist Party (CP) and former Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Dew Gunasekera yesterday urged the parliament to take immediate remedial measures or face the consequences. In a brief interview with The Island, Gunasekera said it would be the responsibility of the parliament to […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
by Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Minister of Higher Education and Cultural Affairs Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa yesterday raised concern over former Vice Chancellor of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, who was under fire for allegedly misusing university funds, being sworn in as an MP. Seeni Mohamed Ismail was sworn in before Speaker Karu Jayasuriya […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
lanka C අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් මුදල් දුන්නේ තම මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයට යයි රාජ්ය ඇමති සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා විසින් කරන ලද ප්රකාශය සම්පූර්ණ අසත්ය බව හෙලිව ඇත. 2015 වසරේ මහ මැතිවරණය සදහා නාම යෝජනා බාරගත් අවසන් දිනය 2015.07.13 වන අතර මහ මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වූයේ 2015.08.17 දිනයි. කෙසේ වෙතත් නීතිපති දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව විසින් අධිකරණයට දන්වා ඇත්තේ අදාල චෙක්පත් තුන ලබා දී […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 18.7.18 Yahapalana government has gone out of its way to create a whole series of mechanisms by which the Sri Lanka armed forces could be tried for war crimes. These mechanisms are labeled ‘Enforced Disappearance’ ‘Torture’ and ’Missing Persons’ but they are all directed solely at the Sri Lanka armed forces. ‘Hybrid […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 7.6.2018 Why Provincial Councils at all, so why talk of elections, instead of abolishing this curse immediately? This is a crucial political decision long overdue some patriotic Statesman has to take in order to save this country from an imminent political, economic, social and cultural disaster in the offing. That will […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala Just as Andreas Johansson is mistaken about the cause of the recent communal unrest between some Sinhalese Buddhist and Muslim groups in the Kundasale Teldeniya area near Kandy, he is mistaken about the genesis of the more serious and the longer persisting separatist problem. What he so simplistically asserts is that […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
Senaka Weeraratna I am proud to be a Sinhalese I am proud to be Buddhist I am proud of my rata, jathiya and agama I am proud of my country’s national anthem I am proud of my country’s national song Devo vassatu kālena, ~ sabbasampatti hetu ca, May the sky-god rain down in due season, […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මට හමුවූ ශ්රී ලාංකික වෘත්තිකයන් (උගතුන් ) තුල තිබෙන අතිශයින්ම කුහක සහ ඊර්ෂ්යා ගති මාගේ අවධානයට ලක්වී තිබේ. අපේ උගතුන් කුහක සහ ඊර්ෂ්යා සහිත කුඩුකේඩු මනසකින් ක්රියා කරන්නේ මන්ද ? මම එය අධ්යනය කරමි. පහත දැක්වෙන්නේ එක් උදාහරණයකි. මෑතකදී ගංජා භාවිතය සහ සෞඛ්ය පිලිබඳව මනෝ වෛද්ය ආචාර්ය මන්ඩේ ඉග්වේ (නයිජීරියාව) , […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය බැඳුම්කර වාර්තාවේ ඇමුණුම් ලබා නොදී ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරයා සහ කථානායකවරයා විසින් තමන්ව පැය 3360 ක් රවටා ඇති බව කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි. මේ බව සඳහන් කරමින් ඒ මහතා විසින් අද (7) ගරු කථානායක වරයා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කළේය. එම ලිපිය පහත දැක්වෙයි. ඒ සඳහා පුළුල් ප්රචාරයක් ලබාදෙන මෙන් කාරුණිකව […]
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Posted in Corruption and bribery, යහපාලන දුෂණ | No Comments »
Friday, June 8th, 2018
Lester James Peries Remembering film icon Lester James Peries Sri Lanka’s world famous film director, story writer and producer Lester James Peries passed away at the age of 99 on April 29, 2018. To remember and pay tribute to him one of his films will be screened. Following that a discussion will take place. Date: […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
Dr Sarath Obeyskera We read many new paper articles, and watch TV ,download Twitter and Face book and note that there are many contenders who claim that they are suitable to become candidate for the next Presidential Election . I personally think that list of names are eligible to contest because so much publicity is […]
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
යුතුකම මාධ්ය හමුව
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Friday, June 8th, 2018
By A.J. Abeynayake Courtesy The Island State Minister for International Trade Sujeewa Senasinghe had received Rs. 3 mn from W. M. Mendis Company, a subsidiary of Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL), the Criminal Investigation department (CID) informed Fort Additional Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne, yesterday. The CID said that Rs. 3 mn had been received in three cheques between […]
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Posted in Corruption and bribery, යහපාලන දුෂණ | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 8th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 7 (newsin.asia): The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, had suggested to the government that the Lankan armed forces be divided into nine equal parts and evenly distributed over the nine provinces in the country. But the government had turned a deaf ear to that suggestion, the Chief […]
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