Archive for July, 2018

China’s President Xi Jinping offers $295 million to Sri Lanka

Sunday, July 22nd, 2018

Courtesy wionews.com Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered Sri Lanka a fresh grant of 2 billion yuan ($295 million), as Beijing tries to expand its influence in the tiny island country off India’s southern tip. President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka, a partner in Beijing’s multi-country Belt and Road infrastructure push, made the announcement on […]

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Sri Lanka proposes to offset tea-oil deal with Iran against oil debts

Sunday, July 22nd, 2018

TEHRAN, Jul. 22 (MNA) – The Sri Lanka Tea Board has proposed that the payments due from Iran for tea purchases from Sri Lanka be offset against the $250 million that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) owes to Tehran for oil. According to Sunday Times, the proposal was made to the Central Bank in the […]

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Netanyahu: Trump & Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate White Helmets from Syria

Sunday, July 22nd, 2018

 Courtesy RT US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate the members of the controversial Western-backed White Helmets group from Syria, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed. “President Trump and also Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as others, requested us to help take out from Syria hundreds of […]

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“WAR CRIMES” IN EELAM WAR IV Part 8

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

KAMALIKA PIERIS The armed forces of Sri Lanka did not commit staggering war crimes in Eelam war IV. The LTTE did. LTTE committed many serious war crimes during the Eelam wars. They violated the International Humanitarian Law. . Here are some of the war crimes committed by the LTTE LTTE violated sacred norms of war. […]

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Sri Lanka India’s special, trusted partner: Modi

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

IANS | New Delhi | Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described Sri Lanka as India’s special and trusted friend in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region while assuring New Delhi’s continued development aid cooperation with the island nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described Sri Lanka as India’s special and trusted friend […]

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තිබුන දේ මදි වී ඉල්ලන් කාපු හැටි

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා  2005 දි නව ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බාරගත්තේ කෙබඳු රටක්ද යන්න අද බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට මතක නැත. එදා රට තිබුනේ බොහෝ අර්බූදකාරී තත්වයකය ලංකාවේ නිවාස වලින් 27% කට විදුලිය තිබුනේ නැත. විදුලිය නැති නිවාස දස ලක්ෂයක් පමන තිබුනි. මසකට දෙතුන්වරක් රට පුරා විදුලිය ඇනහිටීම් අරුමයක් නොවිනි. නිවාස දස ලක්ෂයකට පානීය ජලය තිබුනේ නැත. […]

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DEATH PENALTY WHY AND FOR WHOM

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today The debate about imposing the death penalty has bounced back.  It was triggered by President Maithripala Sirisena’s announcement that he would grant approval to hang prisoners with pending capital punishment and engaged in the drugs trade, while facing a prison term. Buddhist priests vehemently opposed imposing death penalty in […]

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Yahapalana law and the Judiciary: Hauling the Rajapaksas before a Special High Court

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

C.A.Chandraprema July 21, 2018, 12:00 pm In recent days, there has been much hype about the permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar that was instituted recently with the passage of amendments to the Judicature Act by the yahapalana government. The openly stated purpose of these amendments that were brought to the Judicature Act was to expedite cases […]

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Rathnapriya Bandu and Lord Naseby

Friday, July 20th, 2018

N.A.de S. Amaratunga What is common between the otherwise poles-apart Lord Naseby and Lieutenant Colonel Rathnapriya Bandu is that both had contributed immensely to the process of reconciliation among communities in this country and debunked the nasty accusation that our armed forces have committed atrocities against Tamil civilians. Both have been ignored by the government […]

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ඇමැති විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ කියන්නේ අපේ ශාසනයේ කපටි ආරක්ෂකයා

Friday, July 20th, 2018

දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම බුද්ධ ශාසනයට ව්‍යාජ ආලයක් පෙන්වමින් ජාතික කාර්යභාරයෙන් භික්‍ෂුන් ඉවත් කිරීමේ කූට උප්පරවැට්ටියක් අනුව යළිත් භික්‍ෂු කතිකාවත් ලියාපදිංචි කිරීමේ පනත ගෙන ඒමට ආණ්ඩුව කටයුතු කර ඇතැයි මහාචාර්ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමියෝ ප්‍රකාශ කළහ. උන්වහන්සේ එසේ ප්‍රකාශ කළේ ඊයේ (19දා) රාජගිරියේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට සහභාගි වෙමින්ය. එහිදී උන්වහන්සේ මෙසේද පැවැසූහ. රජය 2015 සැප්තැම්බර් 1 […]

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CEB makes contentious payment to private party

Friday, July 20th, 2018

NIRANJALA ARIYAWANSHA Courtesy Ceylon Today The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has gone ahead with the contentious payment of Rs850 million, to the privately-owned Ace Power Embilipitiya 100 MW diesel power plant, on instructions received from the relevant ministry, senior officials told Ceylon Today. Earlier this month the CEB interdicted Deputy General Manager (DGM) (Power Purchase) Eng. […]

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එල්ලා මරණ ලැයිස්‌තුවේ කුඩු කෙරුමෝ කිසිවෙක්‌ නැහැ

Friday, July 20th, 2018

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  බන්ධනාගාර දෙපාර්තමේන්=ව මගින් අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය වෙත යොමු කළ එල්ලා මැරීමට නියමිත බව කියන මත්කුඩු ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ ලැයිස්‌තුවේ රට වැනසූ මහා පරිමාණ කුඩු ජාවාරමුන් කිසිවකුත් නොමැති බව අනාවරණය වී තිබේ.    මහා පරිමාණයේ කුඩු ජාවාරමේ යෙදුණු ජාවාරම්කරුවන් විසිතුන්  දෙනකු මේ වන විට බන්ධනාගාරගතව ඇතත් ඉන් දහඅට දෙනකුට එරෙහිව දැනට නඩු විභාග වෙමින් තිබෙන […]

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කුඩුකාරයන් එල්ලන්නට සැරසෙන ආණ්ඩුවක සියදිවි නසාගැනීම

Friday, July 20th, 2018

 සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ජාත්‍යන්තර මත්කුඩු ජාලයේ කේනද්‍රස්‌ථානයක්‌ වෙමින් තිබෙන බව ශාපලත් යුද්ධය අවසන් වී මාස කිහිපයක්‌ ගතවෙද්දීම අපි රටට කීවෙමු. ඒ වන විට එය තිබුණේ ඉතාම ප්‍රාථමික අධියරේය.    ඉකුත් 20009 මැයි 19 වැනිදා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ත්‍රස්‌තවාදී ග්‍රහණයෙන් මුදා ගැනීමට අපේ හමුදාවෝ සමත් වූහ. ඒ සමගම ජාත්‍යන්තරය තුළ මේ රට පිළිබඳව පැවති […]

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If the country is to be saved…

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Prof. N.A. de S. Amaratunga This government is about the worse we had since independence. There is not a single area where the government has not failed. None of the promises made before the election in 2015  has been fulfilled. Leaving aside those promises what is worse is that the government had failed even to […]

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Good-for-nothings Rats & Rodents have started to Chew Again – Focus on Sri Lanka

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE Going back to pre-independence and post-independence, we all know that Tamils have been oppressing the lower caste Tamils and kept them under their arms to carry out mean & unkind work and obey them. Ponnambalam Ramanathan and Arunachalam advocated removing voting rights for the low caste […]

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BEHIND THE MEDIA

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

ALI SUKHANVER The role of media in shifting knowledge and spreading awareness from one end of the world to the other end is no doubt very important but at the same time media has an ability of concealing facts and figures too. Media has another ability too; the ability of deforming the facts and realities. […]

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නීති විරෝධි කේබල් නාලිකා වලට එරෙහිව ක්‍රියාමාර්ග නොගෙන නව කේබල් රූපවාහිනී සේවාවන් සදහා බලපත්‍ර නිකුත් කිරිම ගැන විරෝධය දැක්විම. 

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

චතුරංග ද අල්විස් සභාපති වෙබ් මාධ්‍යවේදීන් ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය 2018 ජුලි 19 වන දින පි.ආර්.එස්.පි ජයතිලක අධ්‍යක්ෂක ජනරාල් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා විදුලි සංදේශන හා නියාමන කොමිෂන් සභාව, 276, ඇල්විටිගල මාවත, කොළඹ 08. 07. 19 මහත්මයාණෙනි, නීති විරෝධි කේබල් නාලිකා වලට එරෙහිව ක්‍රියාමාර්ග නොගෙන නව කේබල් රූපවාහිනී සේවාවන් සදහා බලපත්‍ර නිකුත් කිරිම ගැන විරෝධය දැක්විම. ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට තර්ජනයක් […]

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The Treacherous New Constitution Which Is A Federal Constitution Or Eelam Should Be Stopped Immediately Before It Is Too Late and This Island Gets Divided Into Pieces. We Do Not Want  a New Constitution At All. The One We Have Is More Than Sufficient

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Sri Lanka Solidarity Movement It is with great pain that we say that we completely disagree with this treacherous government regarding their stance with regard to extremely important, grave and critical issues facing Sri Lanka, mostly this treacherous government trying to bring on a treacherous new constitution which is nothing but a federal constitution or […]

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ඇවන්ගාඩ් ව්‍යාපාරය බිහි කරන ලද මේජර් නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග අපගේ සමාජය සෑමකල්හිම ධනපතියන්ට වෛර කල සමාජයකි. මහන්සියෙන් ව්‍යාපාර කොට මුදල් උපයා තවත් සිය ගනනකට රැකියා ලබා දුන් පුද්ගලයා ලාංකික ප්‍රමිතීන්ට අනුව සූරාකන්නෙකි. අපගේ සමාජය සෑම විටම වන්දනා කලේ  ධනයක් උත්පාදනය නොකරන,  කර්මාන්ත කෙරෙහි අලස , ව්‍යාපාර කෙරෙහි අගතියෙන් බැලූ සමාජයට එලදායී දෙයක් ලබා නොදුන් එහෙත්  විවේචනයේ  දක්‍ෂ හිස් මිනිසුන්ටය​.     […]

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Dayasiri warns of constitutional coup to oust President

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Former Minister and UPFA MP Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday informed parliament that a plot was being hatched to remove the President through constitutional amendments. Jayasekera said so when heated arguments ensued in parliament over the discussion paper of the Constitutional Amendments prepared by the Expert Panel. Dayasiri Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said that he […]

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Power and corruption

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Editorial Courtesy The Island July 19, 2018, 10:34 pm President Maithripala Sirisena never misses an opportunity to wax eloquent on what he considers his government’s achievements. Speaking at the inauguration of the Open Government Partnership Global Summit 2018 in Georgia the other day, he declared that his administration had adopted some important measures to sever the […]

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British wartime dispatches not considered in preparation of UK human rights report Ex-SLN Chief of Staff flays govt inaction

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The British Government this week acknowledged that wartime dispatches from its diplomatic mission in Colombo hadn’t been considered in the preparation of its Annual Human Rights Report 2017. A British High Commission Spokesperson said that the Annual Human Rights Report published on 16 July covered incidents that took place between […]

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IGP: We’ll investigate Deputy CM’s alleged links to LTTE

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Courtesy The Star SUBANG JAYA: Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy’s alleged links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) will be investigated, says Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun. The Inspector-General of Police said the matter had turned into a case of interest”, especially after 53 police reports were lodged on the matter. […]

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Groggy Govt. & its fallout A Government as groggy as this will not be able to leave a future for the people

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Good Governance the joke of this generation Glyphosate issue is more of a Sinhala Nationalist demand than an actual environmental and health issue Govt. contradicts and exhibits its inability to reach consensus in making decisions Some smart guy who first stuck the label Good Governance” on this unpalatable coalition perhaps […]

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Row over death Capital Punishment

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

By M.S.M. Ayub Courtesy The Daily Mirror Human Rights organizations and some foreign countries, including the EU, are not in favour The general public in the country seems to be endorsing it Is the President admitting his Government’s failure in Prison Administration? How States resort to extra-judicial killings while keeping a moratorium on Death Penalty Why […]

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නිවුයෝක් ටයිම්ස් විවාදයේ විමල්ගේ කතාවෙන් රතු අලි පැටියාගේ යට ඇඳුම ගැලවෙයි..[Video]

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ lanka C news ඇමෙරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ලබාදුන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 585න් කොටසක් ලබාගෙන 2015 ජනවාරි 08 වැනිදා ඔවුන්ට අවශ්‍ය බල පෙරළිය සිදු කිරීමට කැප වූ අනුර දිසානායක වැන්නන් ‘අද මේ රටේ ස්වෛරීභාවයේ මිල කීයද?’ කියා ඇසීම විහිළුවක් බව ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා සදහන් කරයි. අද (19) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පැවැති ‘නිව්යෝර්ක් ටයිම්ස්’ පුවත පිළිබඳ […]

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හොර අත්සන් ගහයි.. අගමැති, කතානායක, විපක්‍ෂනායක එක් වී ජනාධිපති ධුරයෙන් පන්නන සැලැස්මක්..

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

 lanka C news නව ආණ්ඩුක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා කෙටුම්පතට අත්සන් තබා ඇත්තේ එය සකස් කල කමිටුවේ දස දෙනාගෙන් හය දෙනෙකු පමණක් යයි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී කියා සිටියේය. යෝජිත ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව පලමු වතාවට අගමැති, කථානායක හා විපක්ෂනායකට ජනාධිපතිවරයා ධුරයෙන් නෙරපා දැමීමට හැකි බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. අදාල කෙටුම්පතට අත්සන් කර ඇති එක් පුද්ගලයෙකු මාස 06 […]

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Expert panel’s proposed Constitutional Amendments come under fire

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

METHMALIE DISSANAYAKE Courtesy Ceylon Today Heated words were exchanged in the Parliament over the discussion paper of the Constitutional Amendments prepared by the Expert Panel. United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara noted that the expert panel had been divided on its report and that four out of its 10 members had not signed it. […]

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EU, Canada, Norway expresses concerns over possible implementation of death penalty in Sri Lanka

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 16 (newsin.asia) – The European Union, Canada and Norway, on Monday expressed concerns over the Sri Lankan government’s intention to resume implementing the death penalty after more than 40 years, a statement from the EU mission in Colombo said. The Delegation of the European Union, the missions of the EU Member […]

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Sri Lankan Tamil parties pull in different directions

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 18: Sri Lanka’s Tamil leaders are pulling in different directions on crucial issues of common concern to the Tamils of the island. The Chief Minister of the Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, is stubbornly adhering to his position that a political solution of the Tamil question should precede economic […]

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