Archive for August, 2018
Sunday, August 12th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) hadn’t dealt with UNSG Panel of Experts (PoE) allegations. “Allegations in the Secretary General’s PoE report, if at all, are for a local investigation process in Sri Lanka to examine,” Director General (Legal) of the Foreign Ministry C.A.H.M. Wijeratne said. Wijeratne said […]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2018
Courtesy India Today Twenty seven Indian fishermen have been taken into custody and their boats seized by the Sri Lankan Navy. On August 10, while Sri Lankan forces were patrolling near Neduntheevu, they noticed Indian fishermen from Rameswaram fishing along the Sri Lankan border. Indian fishermen taken into custody by Sri Lankan navy. Apart from […]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2018
Courtesy India Today Thousands of expiired medicines, bottles, polythene packages and syringes have found there way to the shores of Puttalam and neighbouring regions in Sri Lanka. What’s shocking is that all these expired medicines and bottles have seals and manufacturing stamps of India. The Puttalam fisheries officials suspect that the medical waste is coming […]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2018
DECCAN CHRONICLE. The Central Minister said this was part of the Centre’s housing project to build 14,000 houses in Jaffna. Chennai: Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan has asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to the welfare of the Indian origin living in other countries including the Tamils in Sri […]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප අලුත් ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්බන්ධ කතිකාව යළිත් කරළියට පැමිණ ඇති සෙයකි. විවිධ පාර්ශ්ව මෙන්ම ආණ්ඩුවද මේ පිළිබඳ යම් ආකාරයක අවධානය යොමු කර තිබේ. මේ දෙස බැලිය යුත්තේ මෙකී ක්රියාවලියේ මූලාරම්භක අවස්ථාව ද සමඟය. වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පැමිණි පසු කරගෙන යන ව්යවස්ථා සම්පාදන ක්රියාවලිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම විදේශ බලපෑම් මත ඇතිකර ගත්තකි. 2015 අගෝස්තු මැතිවරණය පවත්වා පිහිටුවාගත් ආණ්ඩුව […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Courtesy The Island COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he had offered to hold talks with Velupillai Prabhakaran to find a peaceful solution to the Tamil Question. But the founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) wouldn’t listen. This left no alternative to physically eliminating him to end […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018
By Camelia Nathaniel/Daily News The Sri Lanka Army Corps of Engineers’ research arm has launched a pilot project to study the possibility of utilizing the indigenous grey mongoose for the detection of explosives. This project was initially launched on a concept by former Commander of the Engineer brigade, Brigadier (Rtd.) Amith Seneviratne. The project was […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018
විමල් වීරවංශ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා වැනි තමාට වැඩ බැරි බව පිළිගනිමින් තමා යටතේ පවතින උපාය මාර්ගික වශයෙන් රටට ඉතා වැදගත් ආයතනයක් විකුණා දැමිය යුතු යැයි මහජනයාට කියන ඇමැතිවරයකු ගැන විශේෂයෙන් කතා කිරීමට දෙයක් නැත. නමුත් නීතිඥවරයකු වන ඔහු අදාළ පනත සංශෝධනය කොට මත්තල ගුවන් තොටුපොළ සමාගම පිහිටුවා එම සමාගමේ කොටස්වලින් […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018
ඩබ්ලිව්. කේ. ප්රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම සිංගප්පූරු – ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් වෙළෙඳ ගිවිසුමට අදාළව අංක 2069/2-2018 මැයි මස 1දා අඟහරුවාදා නිකුත් කළ අති විශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනය, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවටත් නොදන්වා කොළය වසා නිකුත් කර තිබෙන නීති විරෝධී ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් වන හෙයින් එය වහාම අවලංගු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා ශේ්රෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ පෙත්සමත් ගොනු කරන බව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය ප්රකාශ කරයි. මෙම ගැසට් […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018
චාමර අමරසූරිය උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ඒ 1992… හරියටම කිව්වොත් දිනය අගෝස්තු අටවැනිදායි…… ෆයිනල් කවුන්ට් ඩවුන් මෙහෙයුමට පැය 38ක් තිබියදී යාපනය කයිට්ස්හි අරාලි තුඩුවේදී පුපුරා ගිය පීඩන බෝම්බයත් සමඟ මෙරට යුද හමුදාව සලිත වී යන පුවතක් අසන්නට ලැබෙන්නේය. ඒ යුද හමුදාවේ සිටි විශිෂ්ට සෙන්පතියකු වූ ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ඩෙන්සිල් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මහතා ඇතුළු රණවිරුවන්ගේ මරණයයි. එම සිදුවීමෙන් යුද හමුදාව පමණක් […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018
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Friday, August 10th, 2018
Maithripala Sirisena left the Sri Lanka Freedom Party to contest under the SWAN symbol from the party National Democratic Front. His election manifesto was released at the Viharamahadevi Open Air Threatre in December 2014. His key promise was a ‘Compassionate Maithri Governance – a Stable country’. Over 62lakh people believed in this assurance & voted […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2018
Courtesy see.this.onblerd.com One of the most prominent of the human zoo operators was the Hamburg animal trader Carl Hagenbeck. He would go on expeditions in foreign countries and bring back both animals and people for European collections and display. The zoo in Hamburg still bears his name. In his memoirs, Carl Hagenbeck praised himself, writing, […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2018
Lisa Wade, PhD on October 15, 2012 Courtesy The Society Pages ***TRIGGER WARNING for racism and enslavement*** During a dark period of world history, intellectuals pondered where to draw the line between human and animal. They arrayed humans hierarchically, from the lightest to the darkest skin. Believing that Africans were ape-like, they weren’t sure whether to include […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2018
Anslem de Silva 1 & Ruchira Somaweera 2 Courtesy Journal of Threatened Taxa 1 Amphibian and Reptile Research Organisation of Sri Lanka, 15/1, DolosbageRoad, Gampola, Sri Lanka 2 Biologic Environmental Survey, 50B, Angove St, North Perth, WA 6006, Australia 1 kalds@sltnet.lk, 2 ruchira.somaweera@gmail.com (corresponding author) Abstract: Use of live animals as bait is not an uncommon practice in hunting worldwide. However, some curious accounts of the use of human babies as bait […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2018
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror MP Ravi Karunanayake yesterday found fault with the supervision unit of the Central Bank for its alleged failure to probe on lending of Rs.4 bn by the People’s Bank to a Minister. MP Karunanayake who made this allegation in Parliament last afternoon said the supervision unit of […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2018
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Sir Oliver Goonatillake, upon returning to London from his travels in India and meeting up with his children and grandchildren, became quite busy with his Lloyds Register Insurance work, which involved frequent travels to many parts of the world. Sir Oliver still shared the flat at 31 Carlisle […]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala Apropos Ranga Jayasuriya’s write-up under the evocative title THE DEADLY CONTRAST: MAHINDA Vs GOTA/Lankaweb/August 7, 2018). The five year presidential term ends in January 2020; not in January 2019 as the writer says . This inaccuracy may be overlooked as an accidental error. RJ’s conclusion that the poor performance of both […]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Dr Sarath obeysekara Should we have people’s Courts to judge politicians for contempt They have many broken promises and violated constitution in many instance. We take them for judgment every five years Government should establish a special cour like the one they installed for judging Corrupted ones . Any one who acts in contempt against […]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Government of Sri Lanka ( GoSL ) aims for a predictable trade promoting trade –led growth driven by export-oriented foreign direct investment .New National Trade Policy recommends the design of an export strategy consisting of policy Tools ,specific tools .specific projects ,sector-specific time –bound targets ,expected results and a monitoring mechanism. Under […]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මෑත යුගයේ අති ධාවනකාරී දුර දිග නොබලන අන් අයගේ මෑනවීම් මත කටයුතු කිරීමට ගොස් අමාරුවේ වැටුණු චීවරධාරීන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු සිටිති. ඔවුන් අතරින් සෝමාරාම , භද්දිය සහ ඥාණසාර ප්රධාන වෙයි. කැළනියේ බුද්ධරඛිත කියූ නිසා සෝමාරාම අගමැති බණ්ඩාරනායකට වෙඩි තැබුවේය. කැළනියේ බුද්ධරඛිත විසින් සති දෙකක් තුලදී තමාව බේරා ගන්නා බවට සෝමාරාම විශ්වාස කලේය. […]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Editorial Courtesy The Island Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Chief Ven. Galabodaatte Gnanasara Thera has been sentenced to jail for contempt of court. Opinion may be divided on the severity of the punishment—19 years RI to be served in six years—but the fact remains that he committed a very serious offence and nothing could be cited in […]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018
NEVILLE LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy The Island The Island Editorial of August 8, 2018 titled “Diyawanna slapstick” very correctly recommends that one of the options open to the Joint Opposition is to “challenge the legality of the unity government on the grounds that the pact between the UNP and the UPFA has expired”. The legality of the “unity […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Shenali D Waduge Western Province comprises 3 districts (Colombo, Gampaha & Kalutara) Gampaha comprises 13 electoral polling divisions. The analysis covers 3 main elections – Presidential, General & Provincial Councils. Keeping to the official census statistics of 2012 the island’s population stood at 20,359,439 (20m) 5,851,130 (5.8m) or 28.7% of the Islands 20m live in […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Dilrook Kannangara The last surviving link to Tamil nationalism is now dead and along with him dies Tamil nationalism. Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister died at a very old age. He follows the recent death of another former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and the killing of the Tamil Tiger leader a couple of years ago […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Courtesy RT A New Zealand general has confirmed that the US-led coalition fighting in Mosul has used munitions loaded with white phosphorus. It comes amid mounting criticism over the use of the multipurpose weapon, which can be extremely dangerous to civilians. Over the past few weeks an increasing number of claims have pointed to the […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Courtesy Common Dreams “How can the coalition avoid inflicting high civilian death tolls in the future without accounting for what went wrong in Raqqa? A destroyed car is seen in the western neighborhood of Jazrah on the outskirts of Raqqa, Syria on October 30, 2017. (Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Amnesty International on Monday […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග රැකියාවක් ඉල්ලා උපාවාස කරන පාරවල් වහන ශ්රී ලාංකික උපාධිධාරීන් රැකියාව සඳහා අවශ්ය කුසලතාවන් වර්ධනය කර ගැනීම පිලිබඳ සිතීම අවමය. ඔවුන් බොහෝ දෙනෙකු සිතන්නේ උසස් පෙළ සහතිකය සහ උපාධි සහතිකය ඉදිරිපත් කල පමනින් ඔවුන්ට රැකියාවක් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා අයිතිවාසිකමක් තිබන බවයි. එහෙත් දියුණු රට වල තත්වය බොහෝ සෙයින් වෙනස් ය. උපාධි සහතික […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Aug 07, 2018 19:10 PM GMT+0530 | 0 Comment(s) ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s primate population was responsible for destroying crops and contributed to a recent shortage of coconuts that resulted in dizzy prices, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday. About 35 (100) percent of Sri Lankan crops ( economy) were ( is) destroyed […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
සකස්කලේ දෙනගම ධම්මික රණවීර උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ඉංග්රීසි පාලන කාලයේදී දෙමළ ජනපද ඇති කළ බව දැන දැනම උතුරේ මහ ඇමැති විග්නේශ්වරන් යළිත් අසත්ය දෙමළ ඉතිහාසයක් ගැන කියන්නේ පටු දේශපාලන වාසි ගැනීමට බව ආචාර්ය සූරිය ගුණසේකර පැවැසීය. ඒ මහතා එසේ පැවැසුවේ දෙමළ ජනතාවට සිංහල ජනතාවට වඩා ඉතිහාසයක් මෙරට තුළ ඇති බවට උතුරු පළාත් මහ ඇමැති සී.වී. විග්නේශ්වරන් මහතා […]
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