Archive for August, 2018
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
සාකච්ඡා කලේ වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 1) සිනමාකරුවෙකුගේ සමාජ වගකීම කුමක්ද ? සිනමාව කියන්නේ රූපය මුලික කරගත් ප්රකාශන මාධ්යයක්. එය විවිධ අරමුණු වලට පාවිච්චි කරන්න පුළුවන්. ඒ අතුරින් වඩාත්ම ප්රථමික ආකාරය තමයි, විනෝදාස්වාදය සඳහා භාවිතා කිරීම. විනෝදයට අපි කවුරුත් කැමතියි. ඒ නිසාම විනෝදාස්වාදය සපයන සිනමාවට වැඩි ඉල්ලුමක් තියෙනවා. ආර්ථික අතින් විනොදස්වදන සිනමාව ලාභ දායකයි. ඒ නිසා අපට වැඩිපුර වෙළඳපොලේ […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By Hiran H.Senewiratne Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka will lose the chance of becoming a ship-building hub in the region due to the government’s regulations pertaining to the ship-building industry and the country’s tax structure. If the government supports this sector, the country could earn a large sum of foreign exchange, Executive Vice President, Walkers CML […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By Neville Ladduwahetty August 2, 2018, 10:16 pm Documents relating to a draft Constitution intended for “discussion only” are now out in the public domain. These documents are the work of a panel of 10 experts. The Resolution setting up a Constitutional Assembly intended them to synthesize the opinions contained in the reports of the […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By Saman Gamage Courtesy The Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, yesterday, alleged the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government did not care to do anything to bring back former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran wanted in connection with treasury bonds scams perpetrated in 2015 and 2016. Mahendran lived overseas without any trouble, Rajapaksa said.The government was trying to silence the […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that his intention was to provide houses for the low income people living in Colombo city in order to increase their quality of life. Speaking during an event in Wellawatta, he said that the objective of the programme carried out by him during his time as the […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana Joint Opposition MP Shehan Semasinghe says that there is absolutely no preparation to hold elections by the current government, which is attempting govern the country in a dictatorial fashion. He stated that the ‘small car dream’ has truly become just a dream presently and the government has disregarded all the promises it […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, the Vatican has said. The Catechism of the Church, which sums up the teachings, had previously stated that the death penalty could be used in some cases. It now says it is inadmissible because it is an […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම “බණ්ඩාරනායක-චෙල්වනායක් ගිවිසුම සිංහල ජාතිය පාවාදීමක්” බණ්ඩාරනායක-චෙල්වනායකම් ගිවිසුම ප්රකාශයට පත්කළේ 1957 ජූලි 26 දා ය. එදිනම රැස් වූ එජාප කෘත්යාධිකාරි සභාව ගිවිසුමට එරෙහිව පළමු වෙඩි මුරය පත්තු කළේ එහෙම ය. උතුර සහ නැඟෙනහිර පළාත් ආවරණය වන ලෙස ස්වාධීන දෙමළ රාජ්යයක් දිනා ගැනීම සඳහා තබනු ලබන ඉදිරි පියවරකි. පුරවැසි පනත් අවලංගු කිරීමත්, ලංකාවේ වෙසෙන දශලක්ෂයක් […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror For once Prof. G.L has said something worth discussing. He had told media last Monday, his party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) would file a petition in the Supreme Court requesting a Writ against the Elections Commission (EC) over its failure to hold elections for the dissolved Provincial […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
P MANOJ Courtesy The Hindu Business Line MUMBAI, AUGUST 2 Colombo port, which thrives on Indian cargo containers that passes through it, has cut transshipment rates by 9.5 per cent after India lifted cabotage restrictions in May, allowing foreign ships to operate on local routes to reduce the country’s dependence on the neighbouring hub to transport […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
AMRITA NAIR GHASWALLA Courtesy BusinessLine MUMBAI, AUGUST 2 As China rushes to invest in more ports in Sri Lanka, India views with concern the Asian neighbour’s bid to increase its footprint in the Indo-Pacific region. China also recently gifted a naval frigate to the island nation. Sri Lanka has started to emerge as the new battleground […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Courtesy Mail on line BERLIN (AP) – German authorities have arrested a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing captured government soldiers as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel group a decade ago. Federal prosecutors said a judge ordered Thursday the 36-year-old, identified only as Sivatheeban B. because of German privacy rules, […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Courtesy The Guardian Iron cannons installed by the Dutch to ward off colonial rivals still line Galle Face Green, a grassy, mile-long promenade along the Colombo seafront. Further out to sea, within range of the guns, a new world power is leaving its mark on Sri Lanka’s capital. Currently, Port City is just a flat […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It has been reported that Mattala airport would be privatized offering a larger stake (70% of initial capital) to Indian company and many people are of opinion that it would be led to a power play between China and India in Sri Lanka’s land. When there were negative conjecture of the government […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The major management strategy proposed in the Treasury Economic Paper in 1990 of Australia was setting targets for public enterprises and monitoring the performance by an effective measurement. This practice supports to identify the weakness of the management of public investments and rectifying the debility. Many public investments in Sri Lanka haven’t […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
Dr Sudath Gunasekara (continued from 30.July 2018 ) Election of Members to Jatika Rajya Sabha, Rata Sabhas, Disa Sabhas, Upa Disa Sabha, Grama Sabhas. (The present Palath Sabha and Pradesiya Sabha system will be scrapped with this reorganization) This will be done on an electoral basis as decided by the Election Commissioner General who will […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala KUDOS to Cassandra for her interesting and lightly entertaining feature article under the long title ‘People’s eternal grouses and profligacy of the past regime Cassandra Cry: A Woman’s Judgmental View of the Past Week’ (The Island/July 27, 2018). Her candid confirmation of a home truth (i.e., an unpleasant truth about herself) […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
ALI SUKHANVER God knows better what direction we all in Pakistan would be heading to, in the coming days but one thing is very clear if Imran Khan were not in the driving seat, certainly it would have been a very hazardous journey towards new democratic avenues in Pakistan. Before 25th July, people had no […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරි සංගමය 2018.08. 01 ගරු ජනාධිපති, මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, ඉලක්කම් හරඹ නවතා රැකියා විරහිත සියලූ උපාධිධාරීන්ට කඩිනමින් රැකියා ලබාදීමට පියවර ගන්න. මාස කිහිපයක් තිස්සේ රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන්ට රැකියා ලබාදීම ඉලක්කම් හරඹවලට සීමා වී පවතින බවත් එවැනි තත්වයක් ඇතිවීමට ඉඩ නොතබා සම්මුඛ පරීක්ෂණ වලදී මූලික සුදුසුකම් […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
ගාස්තු අයකිරීමක් නැත.
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
By Norman Palihawadana and Hemantha Randunu Courtesy The Island August 1, 2018, 11:52 pm Police commandos arrested a heroin dealer believed to be a close associate of Wildlife Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka during a raid carried out in the Minuwangoda police area in the early hours of yesterday. The STF recovered eight grammes of […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මෙම වසර අවසාන වීමට ප්රථම පළාත් සභා ඡන්දය අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම පැවැත්වීමට ආණ්ඩුවට සිදුවන බවත් කිසිදු අයුරකින් ඡන්දය නොපවත්වා සිටීමට ආණ්ඩුවට හැකියාවක් නැති බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර ප්රකාශ කරයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවැසුවේ පෙරේදා (30දා) කොළඹදී පැවැති සමාජවාදී ජනතා පෙරමුණේ මාධ්ය හමුවකදීය. නානායක්කාර මහතා මෙසේද පැවැසීය. මම පසුගිය 20 වැනිදා ලියූ ලිපියක සාරාංශය […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
උදයන්ති මුණසිංහ ඡායා – සස්සඳ ලියනආරච්චි උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම සිංගප්පූරු ගිවිසුම ගැන ෙදාස්තරලා මොනවාද දන්නේ” කියන ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල ඇමැතිවරයා, එම ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මංගල සමරවීර අමාත්යවරයා පසුගිය 19දා නිකුත් කර ඇති ගැසට් නිවේදනය පිළිබඳව දන්නේ දැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ප්රශ්න කරයි. මෙම ගිවිසුමෙන් භාණ්ඩ 182ක තීරු බදු නිදහස් කොට මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා විසින් ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කොට […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
දිගාමඬුල්ල – හෂිනි සචින්තා ඉදුවරි උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම 2006 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී මුළු රටම බලාගෙන හිටියේ මේ දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ඡන්ද ප්රතිඵලය එනකම්. දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ඡන්ද ප්රතිඵලයෙන් තමයි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපති ලෙස තේරුණේ. තමුන්නාන්සේලා එදා ගත්ත නිවැරැදි තීරණය නිසා අවුරුදු තිහක් ඇදි ඇදී ගිය යුද්ධය අවුරුදු 3කින් අවසන් කරන්නට එතුමාට හැකියාව ලැබුණා. ඊට පස්සේ අවුරුදු 5ක් වැනි සුළු කාලයකින් ත්රස්තවාදයෙන් විනාශ […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
By Ravi Nagahawatte Courtesy The Daily Mirror Did Ven. Athureliye Rathana Thera take a wise decision to vacate the post of presidential adviser? Monks have played pivotal roles in shaping the political face of Sri Lanka. From the times of the great kings to the many prime ministers and presidents who ruled this island, the opinion, […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror SL bound to face the worst debt-crisis in 2025 *The private sector even covers farmers, small and medium entrepreneurs, retailers, wholesale traders, importers and exporters They all had a bitter attitude towards the private sector. They vented their anger against the private sector in that manner Government has got everything confused. […]
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