Archive for January, 2019
Thursday, January 10th, 2019
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie (Emperor of Ethiopia 1930-74) The admirable feature article ‘Who can save Sri […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
By ; A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. Tamils who are champions to mislead the world with bogus ancestry, history and origins do not hesitate to conveniently claim anyone as people belonging to their community and work against the same people after getting their sinister aims achieved. The claim being made by these Tamil cists about Muslims of […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
ශී්ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද වන විට ශී්ර ලංකාව කුඩු ඛෙÞ හැරීමේ මධ්යස්ථානයක් බවට පත්ව ඇති බවත් මත්ද්රව්ය ජාවාරම්කරුවන් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට දේශපාලන මැදිහත්වීම මෙම ශෝචනීය තත්ත්වය තවතවත් වැඩිවීමට හේතුවන බවත් පෙන්වා දෙන මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා රජය දෙස බලා නොසිට රටේ සමස්ත දරුපරපුර මත් උවඳුරින් බේරා ගැනීම සඳහා දෙමව්පියන් පෙරට පැමිනිය යුතු කාලය එළැඹ ඇතැයිද අවධාරණය […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
Dr Hector Perera London I THINK most discoveries are made by sheer accident and my scientific energy saving cooking is another discovery made similar way. Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity when he was sitting under an apple tree when an apple feel on his head then he discovered gravity. That is a sheer accident. “Eureka!” […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
by Jason Hickel Courtesy Al Jazeera 19 Dec 2018 Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, and his wife, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, ride in the state carriage towards the Viceregal lodge in New Delhi, on March 22, 1947 [File: AP] There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
Laksiri Warnakula The other day a minister was heard saying ‘Begging is going to be made illegal’! I beg leave to add a few comments on the above. Let’s begin by defining ‘begging’ and I chose the Oxford Dictionaries for the purpose. Now even though there are quite a few different usages of the word […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
සාකච්ඡා කලේ වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග එරාජ් කොහොමද ? හොඳින් ඉන්නවා මාව මතකද ? මම නාලන්දේ රුවන් මොකද මතක නැත්තේ මොනවද මං ගැන මතක ? අපේ කෙඩෙටිං ප්ලැටූන් එකේ හිටියනේ. ප්ලැටූන් එකේ කතා කරලා නිතරම සාජන් නානායක්කාර ගෙන් ආර් එස් එම් රුවන් කුලතුංග ගෙන් පනිෂ්මන්ට් කාපු එක්කෙනානේ. මට මතකයි ඔයාව. හරි හරි අපි එහෙනම් පස්සේ ඒවා […]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
Mr. Namal Udara Piyasiri ගොවි පුතුන්ට ඇයි සලකන්නේ නැත්තේ…
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 26th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. YANGON, Myanmar (IDN) – When I checked into a hotel at 10.00 pm in Central Yangon near the iconic Sule Pagoda, seeing a lot of South Asian Muslims around […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Many judgments of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, which were believed to be the accurate interpretation of the constitution and bills presented to the parliament. The Supreme Court is the authority to interpret the constitution, ruled in many instances that the legitimation of various bills requires the two-thirds majority of the […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan Performance of SriLankan politicians since 1948. Formation of the Federal Party created the ethnic division. It could be concluded that it was instigated by the west for SJVC to form this party to enable to drive a wedge between the two ethnic groups. (divide & rule), since Ceylon was then under the British […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan LTTE Er While LTTE was engaged in killing Sinhala civilians and destroying nations assets worth billions of dollars, India turned a blind eye and was helping the LTTE with arms and ammunition and allowed them to be domiciled and train themselves in Coimbatore and other places in the North. RAW was helping LTTE […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් නව ආණ්ඩු ක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් තවමත් සකස් කර නොමැති බව ජනාධිපති තුමා ප්රකාශ කර තිබුණි. ආණ්ඩුව පැත්තෙන් ද ලැබෙන්නේ ද එම උත්තරයයි.චම්පික ඇමතිවරයා පවසන්නේ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සෑදීමට මන්ත්රී වරු 225 දෙනාම එකඟ වූ අතර පක්ෂ කීපයකින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද ව්යවස්ථා යෝජනා නවයක් අතුරු කමිටු වාර්තා හරහා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති බවයි.ඒවා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ විවාද කොට අවසාන […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
අද (09) දින මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් • පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්රනී පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය • පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතා • දකුණු පළාත් සභා මන්තී්ර සමපත් අතුකෝරාල • ආණ්ඩුව සිටින්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ ස්වභාවික මරණය අබියසයි. • සජිත් ප්රේමදාසගේ හිතවතුන්ට ඇමැතිකමක්වත් නොදෙන්න රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ප්රවේශම් වුනා. • මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට විපක්ෂ නායකධූරය හිමිවිම රට ලැබූ ජයක් • […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Chandre Dharmawardana. The following BBC news item on how Indian Science is being influenced by quacks touting Hinduthvaya-Science is extremely noteworthy, especially for south-Asian nations. In Sri Lanka we have influential intellectuals like Dr. Nalin de Silva, one time Dean of’ the Kelaniya University who seems to have been a mentor to Venerable Ratana and […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විපක්ෂ නායක 2019 ජනවාරි 9 2015 ජනවාරි 9 වනදා ආණ්ඩු වෙනසින් පසු අවුරුදු හතරක් ගතවෙන මේ මොහොතේ ශ්රී ලංකාව රටක් හැටියට තුන් බියකට ගොදුරු වී සිටී. ඉන් පළමුවැන්න ආර්ථිකය කුමණ මොහොතක හෝ දරුණු බිඳවැටීමකට ලක් වීමේ අවදානමයි. මේ රට නිදහස ලැබූ 1948 පෙබරවාරි මස සිට 2014 දෙසැම්බර් මස අවසානය දක්වා ගතවුණු අවුරුදු 60 […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader of the Opposition Sri Lanka faces three major dangers as we complete four years since the change of government on 9 January 2015. The first among them is the danger of the economy collapsing at any moment. In the past four years, the UNP led government has borrowed the equivalent of 50% […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
By Nicholas Muller Courtesy The Diplomat January 09, 2019 A look at developments in the stronghold of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s southern region of Hambantota In January 2015, when Maithripala Sirisena surprisingly defeated Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the country was seemingly turning over a new chapter in its bloody recent history. In October 2018, President Sirisena’s […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
By Irfan Husain/Dawn The distance from Colombo to Jaffna cannot be measured just in kilometers (around 450), or time (about seven hours by road), but in terms of the difference in attitudes. While the Sri Lankan capital is a thriving city experiencing a construction boom, very few new buildings are going up in Jaffna which […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January. 8 (Xinhua/newsin.asia): Sri Lanka is in talks with China to import hybrid buses to upgrade the island’s public transport sector, local media reported Tuesday. In a recent government survey, it is estimated that by 2030, more than 60 percent of the island’s population will depend on public transport to travel to […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Jan 9 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s banking sector, on Wednesday announced that Chinese tourists visiting the island country could pay for their goods and services through the ‘WeChat Pay’ facility in order to attract more Chinese tourism. Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, one of Sri Lanka’s leading private banks said the ‘WeChat […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 9, (newsin.asia): The High Commission of India, Colombo on Wednesday announced the offer for the following Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic sessions: Nehru Memorial Scholarship Scheme: under this scheme covers allUndergraduate courses(except Medical/Paramedical& Fashion Design course) including Engineering, Science, Business, Economics, Commerce, Humanities and Arts. […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
හර්ෂනී අර්සකුලරත්න උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම බෙදුම්වාදයට අවශ්ය ෆෙඩරල් ව්යවස්ථාව සම්මත වුවහොත් රටේ ඓතිහාසික ගමන එතැනින් එහාට ලියැවෙනුයේ අපේ පෑනෙන් නොව බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ සහ විදේශ බලවේගවල පෑනෙන්, ඔවුන්ගේ අභිමතාර්ථයන්ට අනුව බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි විමල් වීරවංශ පවසයි. එම ව්යවස්ථා පෙරළිය නතර කර දැමීමට නම් මන්ත්රිවරු 113ක් වත් නොමැතිව මන්ත්රිවරු හිඟා කකා ඇවිදින ආණ්ඩුවට 2/3ක බලය අහිමි […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
ක්රිෂාන් පතිරත් ජයසූරිය උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම සුමන්තිරන් මන්ත්රිවරයා යෝජනා කරන ෆෙඩරල් ව්යවස්ථාව සම්මත කර ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් එක් මන්ත්රිවරයකුට රුපියල් මිලියන 400ක් පමණ ලබාදීමේ සූදානමක් පිළිබ¼දව කතාවක් පැතිරෙනවා යැයි පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක උදය ගම්මන්පිල පවසයි. ෆෙඩරල් ව්යවස්ථාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සම්මත කරගැනීමට තුනෙන් දෙකක මන්ත්රි බහුතරයක් ආණ්ඩුවට නොමැති නිසා මෙසේ මන්ත්රිවරුන් මුදලට බිලී බා ගැනීමේ සූදානමක් ඇතැයි ගම්මන්පිල මහතා […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island The Constitutional Assembly will meet, at 10.30 am tomorrow with Deputy Speaker Ananda Kumarasiri presiding. The expert panel report, which contains draft constitutional proposals, will be tabled by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during the sitting. The views of political parties are also given in the report and the report will […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena will soon request Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, in writing, to take tangible measures to enact the Presidential Inquiry Commission Amendment Act to enable the speedy prosecution of those responsible for treasury bond scams perpetrated in 2015 and 2016. President Sirisena will take the issue up with the party […]
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Courtesy RT Good news for future astronauts and budding space tourists alike: spacebound microbes aren’t mutating into the humanity-threatening, antibiotic-resistant superbug form as many had previously feared. A new study by researchers at Northwestern University found that microbes on board the ISS mutated different genes than their Earthbound counterparts, either as part of natural selection […]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Removing Rajapakse corruption & restoring democracy was the campaign slogan that brought Yahapalana to power in January 2015. There is little to debate that what the voters got was nowhere near good governance and the plethora of piling corruptions against yahapalana keeps getting worse. In 4 years the damage done has been far worse than […]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Proposed constitution – What you should know
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න සභාපති සමනල යෞවන සමාජය කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් මීගහතැන්න නගරය වළල්ලාවිට, පැලවත්ත සහ මතුගම දක්වා විහිදෙන ප්රධාන මාර්ගයන් තුනක් එකිනෙක සම්බන්ධ වන අධික ජනාකීර්ණ නගරයකි. මීගහතැන්න මධ්ය මහා විද්යාලය, පොලිස් ස්ථානය, මහජන පොළ, පිරිවෙන, රෝහල, බැංකු ඇතුළු රාජ්ය සහ පෞද්ගලික ආයතන රැසක් මීගහතැන්න නගරය ආශ්රිතව පවතින අතර මේ නිසා අවට […]
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