Archive for December, 2018
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Courtesy commodityonline Indian Tea is likely to gain benefit from wage hike in Sri Lankan plantations and pesticide problems in Vietnam. India is the second largest producer of Tea in the world and contributes 26% to the global production. The expected wage hike in Sri Lankan plantations is estimated to help South Indian orthodox production also. […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
By Charles S.Perera There is a serious political and a social problem in Sri Lanka that hampers the democratic process , which lies in the question of democratic legitimacy of judicial reviews affecting the governance of the people. The US Constitution makes a point in stating that, it is the people that should decide how […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana A new Cabinet consisting of a total of 29 ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, a short while ago. New Cabinet: 1. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe: Minister of National Polices, Economic Affairs, Resettlement & Rehabilitation, Northern Province Development, Vocational Training & Skills Development & Youth Affairs 2. […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
ITAK is the main constituent party of the TNA & a key party promoting a new constitution & attempting to abolish the Executive Presidency. ITAK though formed in 1949 has a history of demands made for a separate state though shrouding its objectives by calling itself the Federal Party. ITAK has also openly endorsed either […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
By Tharindi Pabasara Courtesy Adaderana The audio clips recovered from Namal Kumara’s mobile phone have been submitted to the court by the CID team that returned from Hong Kong, the Police Spokesperson stated. A team consisting of two officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and one official from the Government Analyst’s Department that had left for […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana Director (Operations) of the Anti-Corruption Force Namal Kumara has revealed another voice clip to the media today (20). Convening a press conference in Mahawewa area, he pointed out that following the submission of resignation letter of Mahinda Rajapaksa from the premiership MP Nalin Bandara had alleged that the VIP assassination plot was feigned. […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Colombo, 20 December, Courtesy Asiantribune.com: Sri Lanka’s legitimate Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in on the morning of today 20 December-but with a twist! According to some MPs who were sworn in as Ministers this morning, their swearing in event was not what they expected. Usually the swearing in takes place when everyone who has […]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Courtesy RT The number of Russians who want to go back to the USSR has reached 66 percent in 2018, setting a 15-year record, a fresh poll revealed. It’s an 8 percent increase compared to last year when 58 percent of those surveyed said yes” to the question if they regretted the fall of the Soviet Union, […]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 19 (newsin.asia): Ironically, the reinstatement of Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka following the Supreme Court’s order negating a Presidential gazette dissolving parliament, has intensified and not mitigated the political conflict in the country. With Sirisena in alliance with the Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa, the conflict is […]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මාධ්ය සම්බන්ධීකාරක වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය යුනෙස්කෝ ලෝක උරුම තෙත් කලාපීය වැසි වනාන්තරයක් වන සිංහරාජ රක්ෂියේ කලවාන, කුඩව පිවිසුමේ සිට සංචාරය සඳහා පැමිණෙන සංචාරකයින් ගමන් කරනුයේ වන බිම හරහා වැටී ඇති අඩි පාරෙනි. මෙම ගමන් මාර්ගයේ ප්රවේශ පත්ර පරීක්ෂා කරන ස්ථානයක් ඇති අතර එම ස්ථානයෙන් ප්රවේශ පත්ර පරීක්ෂා කර ගමන් කල යුතුව ඇත. […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, the Prime Minister and the leader of UNP has expressed at the victory rally held in Galle Face ground that he will form a new political front, which predominantly focus on abolishing the executive presidency with a view to transforming the political system to a parliamentary democracy with a […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
KAMALIKA PIERIS Part 1. President Sirisena speaking to the Sri Lanka Foreign Correspondents’ Association (FCA) at his official residence in Colombo on 26.11.18 said that the political unrest that occurred in the country after October 26 is not something sudden. The removal of Wickremesinghe was a result of several incidents that stretched over a long […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Ape Kelam අපේ කේලම් #UNP ඉතිහාසයේ නියම ගේම් කාරයා ……රනිල්නෙ බන්……😟😟😟😟 Posted by Ape kelam _අපේ කේලම් on Sunnudagur, 16. desember 2018
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
ලිලානි සුරවීර (FB) ක්රි.ව. 1815 දී උඩරට රාජධානිය ඉංග්රීසීන්ට යටත් වීමට හේතු වූ ප්රධාන කාරණයක් වූයේ එවකට උඩරට සිටි ප්රධානීන් බලලෝභයෙන් භේදභින්න වී කටයුතු කිරීමය. ඔවුහු පසුව ඉංග්රීසීන් උඩරටට ගෙන්වා ගෙන ගිවිසුමක් ද අත්සන් කරමින් උඩරට පාලන බලය බ්රිතාන්ය අධිරාජ්යයට පැවරුවෝය. එතැන් පටන් ඉංග්රීසීන් විසින් ගෙන ගිය පාලනය උඩරට රදළයන් බලාපොරොත්තු නොවූ එසේම රදළයන්ට අවාසි […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
ALI SUKHANVER More war, more injuries, more casualties; what is the future of the war-torn country Afghanistan; certainly there must be an answer to this painful question. Decades have passed but the situation in Afghanistan is still the same. The people of Afghanistan are leading a life full of uncertainty, insecurity and anxiety. A school […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
පුන්සර අමරසිංහ Institute of Law and Politics Scuola Superiore Sant Anna Pisa, Italy සුපුරුදු ආකාරයටම නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි උත්සහ කර ඇත්තේ ගණනාථ ඔබේසේකර සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතිකචින්තනය විසංයෝජනයකල බව කියන මුසාව ඉස්මතු කිරීමටය. කොළඹ සරසවියේ සිසුවෙකු සිටි සමයේ සිට ඔහුගේ මේ කතාන්දරය අසා ඇති මට මෙහි පුදුමයක් නොපෙනේ. දෙසැම්බර 7ත් වෙනිදා නිර්මාල් රන්ජිත් දේවසිරි විසින් රාවය පුවත්පතට […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් දින පණහක කෙටි ආණ්ඩුවක් අවසන් කොට දැන් තවත් නව ආණ්ඩුවක් පත්ව තිබේ. මේ කාලය තුළ රටේ තිබූ අස්ථාවර බව කාහටත් ප්රශ්නයක් විය. නමුත් ආණ්ඩුවක අවිනිශ්චිත බව තිබුණද රාජ්යයක් තිබෙන බව ජනතාව අවබෝධ කරගත්හ. එනම් රජයේ නිළධාරීන් සිය රාජකාරි කටයුතු වල අඛණ්ඩව යෙදීමෙන් රටේ වියවුල් ඇති නොවීමට මග පාදනු ලැබීය.පාර්ලිමේන්තු සම්ප්රදාය මගින් රට කාබාසිනියා […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
චාල්ස්.එස් පෙරේරා විසින්. දැන් ජනතා වීමුක්ති පෙරමූන එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයටත් ත්රස්තවාදයටත් වඩා විනාෂකාරී පක්ෂයක්. මුන්ට දැන් ඉන්දියාවත් අධාරදෙනබව ආරන්චිවෙනවා. මුන් ලේ උනුවුන තරුණ දේශපාලඥගයෝ පිරිසක් ඔවූන්ට මුහුකුරාගිය දේශපාලන දැනුමක් නැ. ඔවුන් හය දෙනෙක් පාර්ලිමෙන්තුවෙ ඉදං කරන විනාශය අතිමහත්. මෙවිධියට ගියොත් ශ්රී ලංකාවක් හොයාගන්නවත් බැරිවෙයි. ලංකා සමසමාජ පක්ෂය වැනි පෙර තිබුනු මාර්ක්ස්වාදී පක්ෂ මේ විදියට අන්තොනොමතික […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The whole purpose of making it virtually impossible to dissolve Parliament until the lapse of a period of four and a half years was a knee-jerk reaction to the dissolution of Parliament in 2004 by Chandrika Kumaratunga, who sent the UNP into the political wilderness for over a decade. […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has not been stripped of his membership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) though he obtained Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) membership recently, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said yesterday. Addressing a press briefing, PHU leader Udaya Gammanpila said there was speculation that Mr. Rajapaksa […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriiwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the UNF parliamentary group that the Cabinet will have to be limited to 30 ministers and that some will have to voluntarily give up aspirations of holding posts. This was mentioned by MP Mano Ganesan on his twitter message. “Myself and […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) today countered the argument raised by the government and TNA that newly-appointed Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajappaksa and the others who had obtained SLPP membership, said Mr. Rajapaksa could hold the post because the group he belongs to is the second largest […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has said that if anyone goes beyond the decision of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), they will not be given any ministerial posts, according to MP Shantha Bandara. MP Bandara stated that the SLFP Central Committee also agreed with this. He stated this following the SLFP Central Committee meeting […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Current political crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that although Sinhala community is the majority citizens in Sri Lanka, minority groups are playing politics with them in the parliament. Although the Sinhala community is the majority of Population (Nearly 80%), they cannot discriminate the minority, who have equal human rights. The operation […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
ගීතාංජන ජනාධිපතිතුමා එජාප ප්රධානීන් අමතා කල කතාව නැරඹුවෙමි. එවැනි ත්රිලක් මට ලබන්නට හැකි වුයේ හුඟ කලෙකිනි. එම කතාව ඇසූ විට මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති තුමා කෙරෙහි මාතුල මෙතෙක් නොතිබූ ගරුත්වයක් ඇති විය. සැබවින්ම එය අතිශය ධෛර්යය සම්පන්න කතාවකි. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා දිව විකාගෙන ඉතා අපහසුවෙන් මෙන්, Mr. Bean ගේ මූණ දාගෙන එම සම්පුර්ණ කතාව අසා ගෙන […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
Shenali Waduge to Saving Sri Lanka Who are these jokers drafting a new constitution that is NOT FEDERAL BUT CONFEDERAL where the Centre is basically PERMANENTLY ceding powers to the provinces. What kind of sick arrangement is this … all to satisfy some murderers who killed for 30 years & now putting their political wing to finally […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත යහපාලන රජයේ බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය නිසා මේ වනවිට භාණ්ඩාගාර බිල්පත් සහ බැඳුම්කර පොලී අනුපාත විශාල ලෙස ඉහළ ගොස් ඇතැයි හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා zදිවයිනZ ට කීවේය. 2015 පෙබරවාරි මාසයේදී උද්ධමනය අඩුවෙමින් තිබුණත් මේ බැඳුම්කර මගඩිය නිසා පොලී අනුපාත ඉහළ ගිය බව ද ඔහු කීවේය. මේ අනුව රජයට දේශීය ණය […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
Courtesy BBC Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May, after she said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the week of 14 January. The PM had delayed the vote from last week, admitting she was set to lose. Labour leader Mr Corbyn said on Monday it was […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 17: The re-instated Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the man he replaced, Mahinda Rajapaksa, are set to clash over two major issues facing Sri Lanka, namely, the continuation of the Executive Presidency and devolution of power to the Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern provinces. Soon after being sworn-in as Prime […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 17 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that it will be very difficult to undertake a collective journey” with the United National Party (UNP) led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe because of the presence of corrupt MPs in parliament where Wickremesinghe has a majority. Speaking to MPs of Wickremesinghe’s […]
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