Archive for October, 2018
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that it is the responsibility of the government to give the proper place to Buddhism. He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Ambalangoda. Through the 20th Amendment to the Constitution the status and the protection of Buddhism is being removed, Rajapaksa said. Meanwhile […]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2018
By Jeremy Drake/www.escape.com.au Meandering the Sri Lankan coast by tuktuk is a 30-year throwback to the way Australians once traveled the empty beaches of Bali and Thailand. When rock band Cinderella’s power ballad, Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone), reached the top of the charts in 1988, Phuket and Kuta were palm-fringed beaches with cheap […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Garvin Karunaratne On 23 rd August 2018, a relation of mine who was unconscious was discharged from a leading Private Hospital in Colombo., because the son and daughter could no more pay hospital bills They had paid three million rupees to the Hospital for 17 days stay and had no more funds. Until then they […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
lanka C news නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති නාලක සිල්වා සමගින් දේශපාලනික වශයෙන් ලගම හිතවත්කමක් පවත්වන පුද්ගලයා ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා යයි තමන් අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට ලබා දුන් මුල් කට උත්තරයේ සදහන් කරන ලද බව දුෂණ විරෝධී බලකායේ අධ්යක්ෂ නාමල් කුමාර මහතා සදහන් කරයි. අද වන විට සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා කරන ප්රකාශයන්ගෙන් එම ප්රකාශයේ සත්යතාවය තහවුරු වෙමින් ඇතැයිද ඔහු […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa questions the whether it is justifiable to compensate LTTE terrorists. He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Colombo. The event was attended by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well. Former Defense Secretary points out that when compensating missing persons, the government will have […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Courtesy Mail Online Police said the victims, both from the Tamil minority group, were kidnapped by naval officers and later killed despite their families paying a ransom for their release Sri Lankan police arrested and charged a senior naval officer Wednesday for the abduction and murder of two Tamil businessmen during the final stages of […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy: The Daily Mirror The Mahavamsa or The Great Chronicle of Ceylon (to use the title of the English translation by Wilhelm Geiger of the ancient classic) is a book of history in the form of a poem in the Pali language composed by a Bhikkhu named Mahanama at Anuradhapura around the […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Kanthar Balanathan On independence, GG Ponnambalam became a minister in the Ceylon government. It is to be said that GGP earned his income through his excellent practice in criminal law. SJVC formed the Federal Party joined with several people. For SJVC funds flowed from Malaysia his mother country where he was born. Once they become […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය ආණ්ඩුකාරවරුන්ගේ පාලනයට යටතට පත් කොට ඇති ලංකාවේ පළාත් සභා 9 න් 6 ක හැකි ඉක්මනින් පළාත් සභා ඡන්දය පවත්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා යෝජනා සම්මත කොට ගන්නා ලෙස කැෆේ සංවිධානය අද සබරගමුව, උතුරු මැද, නැගෙනහිර, වයඹ, මධ්ය හා උතුරු පළාත් හි සියළුම පළාත් පාලන ආයතන නියෝජිතවරුන්ගෙන් විවෘත ඉල්ලීමක් සිදු කළේය. ආණ්ඩුකාර පාලනය යටතේ […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Editorial Courtesy The Island Thursday 25th October, 2018 The UNP-SLFP political marriage is on the rocks. They are bashing each other in public. What they are doing to each other may be likened to spousal battery, as it were. Internal problems of the yahapalana coalition have come to a head with the UNP and SLFP leaders […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island FM hides behind non-existing clause in the law Udayanga’s case coming up in Dubai on Oct. 29 The Foreign Ministry, on Tuesday (Oct. 23), declined to disclose information pertaining to ongoing efforts to extradite the former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Arjuna Mahendran and former Ambassador […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe chats with Indian premier Narendra Modi during a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi . Wickremesinghe was on a three-day official visit to the Indian capital. It ought to be quite evident from the most recent controversies in Sri Lanka’s relations with India that the former is […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Courtesy The Island Colombo, Sri Lanka | AFP | Tuesday: Sri Lanka on Tuesday called for a “coalition of the willing” to help stabilise free-falling emerging market currencies around the globe, as the beleaguered rupee slumped to fresh lows. The island’s currency bottomed out at a record-low 174.12 rupees to the dollar, resisting a slew […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Courtesy NDTV Marceli Thomas appeared in court before the Colombo Fort magistrate on Tuesday. An Indian national arrested for possible links to an alleged plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has told a court that he is innocent saying the police are trying to frame him in the case. Marceli Thomas appeared in […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
උදයන්ති මුණසිංහ ඡායාරූප – සරත් කුමාර උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය කෙරෙහි දැඩි විරසකයක් සහ විවේචනයක් පැවැතියද වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව දිගටම ගමන් කරන බවත් ඒ හේතුවෙන් වන්දි ගෙවීමට සිදුවන්නේ මේ රටේ ජනතාවට බවත් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් සඳහන් කළේය. පසුගියදා බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැති සේනානායක ගුණ සමරු […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
RT.com Body parts belonging to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found, according to Sky News sources, who added that he had been cut up” and his face disfigured.” With no photographic evidence to support the Sky News sources’ claim, gruesome and unverified images of body parts – supposedly Khashoggi’s – have been making the […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
Sunday Observer Colombo, October 21 (Sunday Observer): WHO’s regional champion for autism in South Asia Dr Saima Wazed Hossain says autism has reached alarming numbers worldwide, and that it may reach epidemic proportions in Sri Lanka. But the causes of autism are still unclear, she adds. Dr Saima Wazed Hossain, a Specialist in School Psychology […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 23, 2018, 11:47 pm Accountability issues Former External Affairs Minister and Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday urged the current dispensation to review its position as regards the accountability issue in the wake of UN admission that fresh evidence pertaining to Sri Lanka’s […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
Antonia Wilson Courtesy The Guardian Improved train services mean it’s easier than ever to explore Sri Lanka but campaigners warn a surge in tourism could ruin its natural beauty Passenger train crossing the nine arches viaduct near Ella, Sri Lanka. Photograph: Alamy Almost 10 years after the end of its civil war, Sri Lanka has been […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan police on Tuesday won permission from a court to ask Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei to help recover data from a phone used by a police informant who has alleged a plot to kill President Maithripala Sirisena. Informant Namal Kumara said at a news conference last month he had discussed […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
දිනසේන රතුගමගේ යාපනයේ ඩෙල්ෆ්ට් දූපත්ට ආසන්නයේ මුහුදේ නීති විරෝධී ලෙස මසුන් මරමින් සිටි ඉන්දීය ධීවරයින් පස් දෙනෙකු හා ඔවුන්ගේ ට්රෝලර් යාත්රාවක් නාවික හමුදාව විසින් 22 දා අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබේ ඉන්දීය ධීවරයින් සහ ට්රෝලර් යාත්රාව ශ්රී ලංකා නාවික නෞකා උත්තර ආයතනය වෙත රැගෙන ඒමට කටයුතු කළ අතර, එම ධීවරයින් පිරිස වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂණයකට භාජනය කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
දිනසේන රතුගමගේ උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ අවසන් සැසිවාරය 23 දා පෙරවරු දහයට උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ සභාපති සී.වී.කේ.ශිවඥාණම් මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ආරම්භ විණි. මෙම සභාවාරය සදහා උතුරු පළාත් ප්රධාන අමාත්යවරයා සභා ගර්භයට පැමිණෙන විට පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ සියළුම මන්ත්රීවරු විග්නේස්වරන් මහතා හමුවට ගොස් ඔහුගේ ජන්ම දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් සුබ පැතීය. තවත් සමහර මන්ත්රීවරුන් උපන් දිනය වෙණුවෙන් සුබ පතා යළිත් ඔබට […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
දිනසේන රතුගමගේ උතුරු පළාත් ප්රධාන අමාත්යවරයා විසින් නායකත්වය දරණ දෙමළ ජාතික සභාවේ රැස්වීමක් මේ මස 24 වෙනිදා පැවැත්වෙන බව දැණුම් දෙමින් බෙදා ඇති අත් පත්රිකාවක එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ.සංවිධානයේ ලාංඡන හා අදහස් ඇතුළත් කොට තිබීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් යාපනයේ ආරක්ෂක අංශ පරීක්ෂණයක් ආරම්භ කොට තිබේ. පසුගිය 21 දා සවස සිට යාපනයේ බොහෝ ස්ථාන වල මේ අත් පත්රිකාව බෙදා හැර තිබූ […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
දිනසේන රතුගමගේ උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ ආනන්දි සශිදරන් අමාත්යවරිය විසින් අළුතින් පිහිටුවා ගන්නා ලද දේශපාලන පක්ෂයට ඇති මානව හා භෞතික සම්පත් ඉතා දුර්වල මට්ටමක පවතින නිසා එහි අනාගතය එතරම් පැහැදිලි නැතැයි උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ හිටපු සෞඛ්ය අමාත්ය පී.සත්යලිංගම් වෛද්යවරයා පැවසීය. වවුනියාවේ පිහිටි ඉලංකෙයි තමිල් අරුසු කච්චි පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ නව […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
By EDWARD THEOPHILUS The most difficult and dogmatic issue in Sri Lanka at this moment is appeasement of relationship between India and China. The history gives clear evidence that different style of relationships was maintained between India and China by Sri Lanka for centuries, before Lanka went under the control of European rule. Sri Lankans […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
By Dr. Chandana Jayalath, Senior Lecturer, University of Vocational Technology The National Audit Act came into effect 3 months ago after 23 amendments. A long felt need is an Audit Act in an ‘expanded’ model to provide for the high-handed powers, duties and functions of the position of ‘Auditor General’. As envisaged by those who […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
lanka C news නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති කාලකද සිල්වා පසුපස සිටින්නේ පොලිස්පතිවරයා බවත් ඔවුන් දෙදෙනා මෑතකදී කැළනි විහාරයට පාන්දර ගොස් පුජාවක්ද පැවැත්වූ බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි එස්.බී දිසානායක මහතා පවසයි. පොලිස්පති පසුපස සිටින්නේ අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ සිටින බවත් පවසන මන්ත්රිවරයා මෙම කුමන්ත්රණය රාජ්ය මට්ටමේ කුමන්ත්රණයක් යයි සිතෙන බවද සදහන් කරයි. රෝ සංවිධානය විසින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඝාතනය කිරීමට කුමන්ත්රණය කලේ […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture ‘The Doctrine of Public Trust and its Application for the Protection of Natural Resources in Sri Lanka’ by Prof. Sarath Mathilal de Silva Attorney-at-Law On Monday 29th October 2018 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
By Noel Ranjith Gampaha. PROPHETIC INDICTMENTS – The failed Neoliberal Paradigms of Economics, Politics, Governance, Society and Science in Sri Lanka and Globally” The collected works of Dr. Mervyn D. De Silva [Published in 2018 by Tulana Jubilee Publications, Gonawala, Kelaniya, 414 pages] [ISBN 978-955-8459-15-7] Regular readers of The Island” newspaper over the twenty year period from […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
Fr Chryso Pieris SJ, Galle. All authentic prophets, modern or ancient, were voices in the wilderness yet never wavering from their stand, never compromising with power, prestige or pelf, always consistent, comprehensive and compassionate. Dr Mervyn D. De Silva is one such rare prophet from Sri Lanka in our times. I had, now and then, […]
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