Archive for September, 2018
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 17 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka, which is being wooed by both India and China, has adopted a balanced policy in granting road development contracts in the war-devastated Northern and Eastern provinces. While India is to be given road development projects in the North in place of the already chosen Chinese company for […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
The Sunday Observer Colombo, September 16 (The Sunday Observer): The proposed Counter-Terrorism legislation presented to the Cabinet of Ministers last week after several rounds of revisions to the text, is human rights compliant and meets international standards, and Sri Lanka’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), legal experts told *Sunday […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US, which co-sponsored the UN resolution on Sri Lanka with the intention of getting Sri Lankan armed forces personnel prosecuted on charges of war crimes, has vowed to protect its soldiers from being subjected to unjust prosecution from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Dr. Nalaka Godahewa said. Addressing a […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
by Zacki Jabbar Courtesy The Island September 16, 2018, 11:52 pm Close on the heels of President Maithripala Sirisena’s statement that military personnel should not be kept in police custody for prolonged periods, the government has queried if interrogating the Chief of Defence Staff Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, in connection with alleged protection granted to “Navy […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today The Government constantly increases prices of petrol and diesel every month. When the price of a barrel of crude oil is US$ 68, the Government increased the price of petrol to Rs 149 per litre. It claims that increases are based on the so-called fuel price formula. Mysteriously, nobody […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of being responsible for the perishing of civilians during the last phases of the war with no proof whatsoever to prove such bogus […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Kirthimala Gunasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror This article refers to the article published in the Daily Mirror titled ‘Govt. to introduce online property registration service’ published on April 11, 2018. (http://www.dailymirror.lk/148557/Govt-to-introduce-online-property-registration-service) According to this newspaper article, the government is introducing an online property registration service with the aim of moving up the Ease of Doing Business […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
කීර්ති රත්නායක මහින්දගේ ඉන්දියානු සංචාරය ඔහුගේ අනුගාමිකයන්ට ගෙන ආවේ ආනන්දයකි. නමුත් මහින්දට එසේ නොවිනි. අඩ සියවසක් භූදේශපාලනයේ තෙම්පරාදු වූ මහින්ද සංචාරයට අත ගැසුවේ එය අත්හල නොහැකි වගකීමක් නිසාවෙනි. ඉන්දියානු සංචාරයේ මුල මැද අග ගලපා ගැනීමට පලමුව සුබ්රමානියන් ස්වාමි පිලිබද විමසා බැලිය යුතුය. සුබ්රමානියන් ස්වාමි උපන්නේ දකුනු ඉන්දියාවේය. ඔහු දෙමළ ජාතිකයෙකි. 1985 වසරේ පිහිටවූ Tamil Eelam […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island September 15, 2018, 8:59 pm Last week, a special cabinet meeting was held to discuss among other things the move by the CID to arrest the highest ranking military officer in the land and 24 hours later, a political activist made public, recordings of a senior police officer plotting […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Courtesy The Island September 15, 2018, 12:00 pm NEW DELHI, September 15: Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s private visit to New Delhi last week has helped him establish a “personal rapport” with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his confidant Prof GL Peiris told the Sunday Island here. At a dinner at […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Courtesy The Island NEW DELHI, September 15: It was at then Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene’s specific and frantic request that Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had rushed Indian troops to the island’s troubled North East 31 years ago on the night of July 29, 1987. This was disclosed here on […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ලංකාවේ දේශපාලනය දෙබරයක් නම් ඊට ගල් ගැසුවාක් මෙන් ඊඩඥ ඩ්ඪදඤභ පුවත්පත පසුගියදා ඉන්දියාවට ගිය මහින්ද එහිදී කළ කතාවක් වාර්තා කරමින් රටම කැලඹීය. මහින්ද ඉන්දියාවේදී කීවේ ආවාට ගියාට කටට ආ පළියට කී කතාවක් නම් නොවේ. 19 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට අනුව මහින්දගේ ධුර කාලය අවසන් වී ඇති නිසා 2019 වසරේ ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණට […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
සජිත් රෝහිත ලියනගේ උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මාධ්යට කල්වේලා ඇතිව ප්රචාරය නොකොට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීරණාත්මක හමුවක් සඳහා ඉන්දියාවට ළඟාවීම ඉන්දීය මාධ්ය මෙන්ම මෙරට මාධ්ය කලබලයට පත් කරවන්නක් විය. කාගේත් දැඩි අවධානයට ලක්වෙමින් නවදිල්ලි නුවරදී ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්ර මෝඩි හමුවීම ඉන්දීය මාධ්ය වෙනදාටත් වඩා විශේෂයක් ලබාදෙමින් වාර්තා කර තිබුණේය. මෙරට දේශපාලන දෙබරයට ගල් ගැසුවාක් මෙන් ඉන්දියාවේදී මහින්ද […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ගිං නිල්වලා යෝජනාව ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම වර්තමාන ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ ප්රමාද වී තිබෙන්නේ ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන තිහක කොමිස් මුදලක් හරස් වී තිබීම නිසා බවට තොරතුරු අනාවරණය වෙමින් තිබේ. ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුව හා ලෝක බැංකුව සමඟ සමීප සබඳතා පවත්වාගෙන යන ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉහළම පුද්ගලයකුගේ උපදේශකයකුගේ හා ඇමැතිවරුන් දෙදෙනකුගේ නම් මේ කොමිස් මුදලට අෑඳී තිබෙන බවත් ඩොලර් මිලියන […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම දිනය 1993 මැයි 16දා මුහුදු සුළං නමින් ක්රියාන්විතයක් සැලසුම් කරන්නේ වාලච්චේන නාගවන්තිව් දූපතේ සිට සිදුවූ එල්ටීටීඊ ක්රියාකාරකම් අවසන් කරන්නටය. වාලච්චේන මෝය කටින් මුහුදු යන්නට පිටත් වන ධීවර බෝට්ටුවලින් කප්පම් ගැනීම් හා බලෙන් තෙල් බා ගැනීමේ සිද්ධීන් දිගින් දිගටම වාර්තා වීම මෙහෙයුමක් ඇරැඹීමට හේතුව විය. මේජර් ජෙනරාල් අල්ගම මෙම ප්රදේශය භාර සේනාංකයට නායකත්වය දුන්නේය. […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඝාතන චෝදනා එල්ල වී ඇති ත්රස්ත විමර්ශන අංශයේ ප්රධානී නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති නාලක ද සිල්වා සේවයෙන් පහකර විමර්ශනයක් පැවැත්විය යුතු යැයි එක්සත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක නීතිඥ මෛත්රී ගුණරත්න මහතා ප්රකාශ කළේය. ඔහු එසේ පැවැසුවේ පසුගියදා (14දා) එම පක්ෂය රාජගිරිය වැලිකඩවත්තේදී පැවැත්වූ මාධ්ය හමුවේදීය. මෛත්රී ගුණරත්න මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේද පැවැසීය. නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති නාලක […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
උදේනි සමන් කුමාර මහනුවර _ ගයා ශ්රී කාරියවසම්උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයා ඝාතනය කිරීමට නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පතිවරයකු කරන ලද කුමන්ත්රණයක් හෙළිවීම නිසා දේශපාලන අංශ තුළ මහත් ආන්දෝලනයක් පැනනැඟී තිබේ. මෙම ඝාතන ප්රයත්නයට අදාළ සියලු තොරතුරු මේ වන විට ජාතික පොලිස් කොමිසමට භාරදී තිබේ. එකී රහසිගත කරුණු හෙළි කරනු ලැබ තිබෙන්නේ දූෂණ විරෝධී බළකායේ මෙහෙයුම් අධ්යක්ෂ […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Courtesy Outlook (India) Earlier this week, Sirisena flew into a rage over nuts served aboard the island’s national carrier saying they were unfit “even for dogs.” Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena recalled his top envoy to Austria and five other embassy staff for failing to answer telephone calls, officials said Saturday. Ambassador Priyanee Wijesekera was […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Courtesy Kuwait Times COLOMBO: A Kuwaiti man and woman convicted of assaulting customs officers at Sri Lanka’s main international airport were handed a six-month jail sentence suspended for five years, an official said yesterday. A magistrate sentenced on Friday the 32-year-old woman and her 29-year-old male partner, who were also fined 138,000 rupees ($860). They […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said so far no investigations have been commenced on the DIG in charge of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID), Nalaka de Silva, regarding the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Immediate investigations should be conducted and the truth should be […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Chinese company, selected to carry out the Gin Nilwala Project, has complained to President Maithripala Sirisena that a leading politician and a top official have attempted to solicit bribe to grant approval to carry out the work. It is a multi-sector development project aimed at providing drinking water, address […]
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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
ARJUNA Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena told the Media yesterday (14), that he had summoned the IGP, Head of CID, the Attorney General and other senior officials earlier in the week and given them a dressing down about the way in which they were handling cases involving Armed Forces personnel. I told them not to […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
H. L. D. Mahindapala A reply to one of Justice Wigneswaran’s perceptions of historical facts” It is quite apparent that Justice C.V. Wigneswaran’s (JW) perceptions of historical facts”, adumbrated in his letter to Gallege Punyawardana, President of the Sinhale Secretariat, (See full text in attachment, dated: 8/6/2018), is to claim that history is on the side […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
Letter to the editor: Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela The most contentious issue about the MMDA is the demand to appoint female Qazis. Whether this demand comes from a feminist point of view, wanting to be equal in everything to men, (which indirectly indicates the notion that men are considered superior ) or because of […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
By Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka Courtesy The Island Several Western analysts have carried out a relentless media campaign in keeping with their own geopolitical agenda to suggest that China was luring Sri Lanka into a carefully engineered Debt Trap. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe too, has regularly claimed […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
The Editorial Courtesy The Island Saturday 15th September, 2018 September 14, 2018, 10:14 pm The police have made President Maithripala Sirisena see red. He has taken exception to the manner in which high ranking military officers are treated when allegations against them are probed and legal action instituted. There have been quite a few ‘show arrests’ […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
BY EDOUARD MORTON Courtesy The South China Morning Post Singapore’s anti-gay laws face challenge as India celebrates ruling A Singapore DJ has filed a court challenge against a colonial-era law that bans gay sex in the conservative city state following India’s scrapping of similar legislation. Johnson Ong Ming, 43, also known as DJ Big Kid, filed his […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, September 15: Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that he might make a bid for the country’s Presidency for the third time despite a constitutional bar against it. He told The Hindu: I will lead the SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna). There is a view that despite the Amendment I can […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapksa, who is in New Delhi, has said that the number of war casualties in Sri Lanka including the terrorist casualties may not have exceeded 8,000, the Hindu reported. Delivering a public speech on Wednesday, Mr. Rajapaksa said extravagant numbers reaching up to 40,000 have been recklessly bandied […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The amount of loans Sri Lanka obtained from China is only about 8 per cent from the total loan amount and the rest of the loans are from the Western and other countries, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is in India said. In an interview with News X, Mr.Rajapaksa said if […]
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