Archive for January, 2019
Friday, January 4th, 2019
පොදුජන පෙරමුණ මාධ්යායතනය අද (04/01/2019) දින මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡුාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර සනත් නිශාන්ත මහතා පස්වෙනි වරටත් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා අගමැති වෙලා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරපු පළවෙනි ප්රකාශයෙන් ඇ`ගිල්ල දිග් කලේ මාධ්යයට. අවුරුදු හතරක් තිස්සේ ආණ්ඩුව රට විනාශ කරමින් සදාචාරය සංස්කෘතිය විනාශ කරමින් කළ දේ මාධ්ය රටට හෙළි කළා. අගමැතිධූරය දරන […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
2019-01-03 දින කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාලයේ පැවති ‘වත්මන් අර්බුදය හමුවේ වැඩකරන ජනතා න්යාය පත්රය’ ජනගත කිරීම අවස්ථාවේ කම්කරු අරගල මධ්යස්ථානයේ සංවිධායක ලේකම් දුමින්ද නාගමුව දැක්වූ අදහස් අපි මේ මුහුණ දෙමින් ඉන්න දේශපාලන අර්බුදය ඉස්සරහ පිට වැඩකරන ජනතාවගේ න්යාය පත්රය කුමක්ද? එය කෙසේ විය යුතුද කියලා මේ රටේ වැඩකරන ජනතාවත් එක්ක ඒ සාකච්ඡුාව ගන්න ඕන. 1990 දශකය […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island Recent political developments have brought into sharp focus the need to revisit the 19th Amendment (19A) despite the unanimous approval it had received in Parliament in May 2015, with the notable exception of one brave Naval Officer Rear Admiral MP Sarath Weerasekara. The primary aim of the 19A was to […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
Courtesy DECCAN CHRONICLE. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan confirmed that a third woman” had indeed visited the sannidhanam. The woman identified as Sasikala, reached Sabarimala on Thursday night with her family. Plainclothed officers escorted her to the temple and she prayed in front of the sanctum sanctorum at 9.30 pm. Pampa: Amidst confusion over the visit of […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
By Azzam Ameen BBC Sinhala, Colombo Image copyrightVAVUNIYA POLICEImage captionThe man in this clip and his friend who filmed it have been released on bail Sri Lankan police have arrested two people who posted a Facebook video showing one of them pretending to give a bribe to a traffic police cutout. In the footage, a motorcyclist […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
Courtesy scroll.in The Financial Action Task Force said the Bahamas, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Serbia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and Yemen also need to do more. The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said inter-governmental body Financial Action Task Force has called on its members to take steps to protect the financial system from threats emanating from the Democratic […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, January 4 (Livemint): The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is waiting for the political atmosphere in Sri Lanka to clear before it gives the nod to the Airport Authority of India’s proposal to modernize the Palaly airport in North Sri Lanka, Livemint says quoting an un-named AAI official here. An AAI official, […]
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 4 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who is yet to reconcile with his Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, has issued a series of instructions tightening his control over the country’s administration. He told a meeting of Ministry Secretaries here on Friday that they must refer to a committee he has set […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Building the national integration in Sri Lanka has been a significant issue since independence in 1948 as the Donoughmore reforms initiated in 1928 and the State Council was established by the reforms disguisedly attempted to make communal divisions by British rulers. A similar strategy used in India encouraging communalism between Hindus and […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The Solebury Constitution, which developed the reforms for granting the independence also did not promote the national integration and tried to spread the communalism through the election system. The emergency of 1958 was the first communal struggle obviously echoed in the Sri Lankan society after the independence and the leader of the […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Bhante Y. Wimala Dear friends and students, The new year 2019 has arrived. It is that time again to take a few moments to relax, reflect and make some positive choices. Following are my affirmations for 2019. Please join me. 1. I will not allow the negativity of others to pollute my mind or disturb […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Prevention of women entering Temples by Orthodox Hindus in Kerala. This kind of discrimination against women and also lower castes happens all the time in Tamil Nadu and also especially in Northern Sri Lankan Kovils and Temples. But such things are hardly reported. Before the rise of the LTTE, there were protests in Mavattipuram and […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. It is absolute truth that kids eat free in Australia. Kids have pets and there are bank accounts for the pets and and pets hospitals and pets cemetries in Australia. It is also absolute truth that kids and their pets are Australian’s national treasure. Kids go to school and pets go […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. Elon Musc the American Billioner was preparing a capsule to rescue the Thai boys from the cave. This pommy guy who was a cave rescuer said the American can stick his capsule where it hurts. In response to that tounge lashing American billioner Elon Musc said that pedo guy. As I did […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
උපතිස්ස පෙරේරා උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම අප හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ට යුද ජයග්රහණයට ගරුත්වය ලබා දිය යුතුයි. ඉදිරියේදී එතුමන්ට එම ගරුත්වය ලබා දෙමින්, මගේ සුරතින් ඔහුගේ නමින් ගම්මානයක් ඉදිකරන්නට කටයුතු කරනවා යැයි, සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා පැවැසීය. එස්.ඩබ්ලිව්. ආර්.ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතාගේ සහ චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායකගේ නමින්ද ගම්මාන ඉදිකරන බවත්, දේශපාලන කුහකකම් හෝ වෛරය හදවතේ තියා ගනිමින් තමා කටයුතු නොකරන බවත් පැවැසීය. ජාති, […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror While assuming duties as Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Palitha Thewarapperuma said yesterday among the many mistakes done by President Maithirpala Sirisena, the biggest was to promote Sarath Fonseka to the rank of Field Marshal. He said Fonseka did not have qualifications to be promoted to that post and Sri […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Ajith Siriwardane Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said today he would not allow deputy minister Palitha Thewarapperuma to come to parliament alleging that he was engaged in corrupt activities such as sand mining. Mr. Fonseka told a news conference that he received fewer votes at the 2015 general election than […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror A government formed by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will launch a fresh probe on the Central Bank bond scam after formulating a separate court, MP Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said yesterday. When asked about his comment over Colombo Chief Magistrate granting bail on Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena, who […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
Geethanjana Kudaligamage Our system is rigged beyond repair. It is a fact. When a system is rigged beyond recognition by a bunch of charlatans and robber barons, the last thing we need is to see rewriting our supreme document of the law of the land by them. Therefore, we shall keep the Executive presidency as […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 1, 2019, 9:16 pm Speaker Karu Jayasuriya recently asserted that the relationship between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe turned sour in the run up to the last local government polls in Feb 2018. Jayasuriya said so addressing religious leaders at his official residence, on Dec 26, […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
චාර්ල්ස් එස් පෙරේරා විසින් සමහරක් ඇන් ජී ඕ කාරයොයි ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේ ගොයියෝයි එක අච්චුවේ වක්කරපු රුකඩ වගේ. උන් ඔක්කොම දැන් කතාකරනවා ඔක්තෝබර් 26වැනිදායින් ආරම්භ වී දෙසැම්බර් 16 වැනිදා දක්වා දින 51ක කාලය අඳුරේ විනාශයක් බවත් ඒ යුගයට වග කිව යුත්තන් සොයා ඒ අයට විරුද්ධව නීතිමය කටයුතුතු කලයුතුබව. ඇන් ජී ඕ කාරයොයි ජනතාවිමුක්ති පෙරමුනේවිනාශකාරී මාර්කස් වාදියෝයි […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
ලලිත් පියුම් පෙරේරා ලේකම් යුක්තියට හඬක් පසුගිය ඔක්තෝම්බර් 26 වැනිදා සිදුවු ආණ්ඩු පෙරළියත් සමගම රාජ්ය මාධ්ය ආයතනයන්හි පාලනාධිකාරීන් විසින් සිදුකළ දුෂණ, වංචා සහ අක්රමිකතා රැුසක් අනාවරණය විය. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නැවතත් බලයට පැමිණීමත්් සම`ගම එ.ජා.ප රජය සමයේ චෝදනාවන්ට ලක් වූ සභාපතිවරුන් ප්රමුඛ පාළනාධිකාරිය රජයේ මාධ්ය ආයතනවල වැඩ අරඹා තිබේ. මේ අතරතුර ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනී මාධ්ය ජාලයේ හිටපු […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර බන්ධුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ගලබොඩ ඥාණීස්සර හිමියන්ට සෙත් පැතීමේ බෝධීපූජා පින්කමට පක්ෂ පාට බේදයෙන් තොරව ජනාධිපති මෛතී්රපාල සිරිසේන මහතා, විපක්ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, සජිත් පේ්රමදාස මහතා, හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා වැනි පිරිස් සහභාගි වුනා. එහිදී මම මාධ්ය මර්ධනය සම්බන්ධව ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ අවධානය යොමුකළා. ආණ්ඩුව බලයටපත් වීමෙන් පස්සේ මාධ්ය මර්ධනයක් දියත් වෙනවා. මාධ්ය ආයතන බොහෝමයක් […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan Psychology of Tamil Diaspora Just to highlight the raucous, boisterous, character of Tamils, I would like to bypass the journal on Governance and Psychology and give readers an event that happened in Sydney in November 2015. Its title: Sydney Tamils boycott Sumanthiran’s meeting in Sydney”. This has some relationships with cultural psychology and […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
නලීන් කුමාර නිශ්ශංක මාධ්ය ලේකම් පොදුජන මාධ්ය පෙරමුණ සුපිරි මාධ්ය නිදහසක් ලබාදෙන බව පවසමින් බලයට පැමිණි එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ මාධ්ය නිදහසේ දිග පළල දැන් මැනවින් පසක් වී තිබේ. සම්මත බ`දවා ගැනීමේ පටිපාටියෙන් බැහැරව දේශපාලන හිතවත්කම්මත කරනු ලැබූ පත්වීම්වලට විරෝධය පලකළ ස්වාධීන රූපවාහිනියේ සේවකයින් 14 දෙනෙකුගේ සේවය අත්හිටුවා ඇත. ආයතනයේ සම්පත් විනාශ කරමින් අත්තනෝමතික ලෙස ගෙන […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS LTTE terrorist war was a serious problem to Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009 and the war was ended by Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. Generally, the end of civil war massively benefited to Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and others such as foreign and domestic tourists. If Prabhakaran and his movement survived on the advices […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Amendment) Bill was passed amidst chaos in Parliament on 9.8.2018, reported the media. The Bill was passed with 95 members voting for it and 31 against. There was one amendment which was passed with 97 members voting for and 24 against. The Joint Opposition including former President […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
Dr Sudath Gunasekara “Gazette on subject purview of ministers raises questions” A news item. Dec 31 (FT) Minister of Public Enterprise, Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development Lakshman Kiriella has four State institutions allocated to his ministry. These institutions include the Ceylon Ceramics Corporation, Kahagolla Engineering Service Company Ltd., BCC Lanka Ltd. and State Resources […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
ආචාරිය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 1.1.2019. කෑනඩාව, එන්ගලන්තය නෝවේ සහ සුවිස්ටර්ලන්තය ඔවුන්ගේ රටවල ද්විත්ව පුරවෙසි බව ඈත්තේ දෙමල මන්ත්රී වරුන්ගේ විස්තර නොදෙන බව ප්රකාශ කල බව පුවත්පත්වල පලවී තිබුණි. එය ශ්රී ලන්කාවේ ස්වාදීනත්වයට හා නිදහසට කර ඈත්තේ බලවත් තර්ජනයක් හා අව්මානයක් බව පෙන්වාදිය යුතුය.. එබෑවින් මේ රටවල්වල තානාපතිවරුන් වහාම ජනාදිපති කාර්යාලයට ගෙන්වා ඒතානාපති වරුන් සියලුදෙනාම කරුණු විමසා […]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan Before we examine the framework of Governance, let us study deep into each of the frames and the psychology of humans who go into the parliament to take over the function. https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2014/05/09/behaviour-change-as-psychological-governance-making-psy-citizens/ http://www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/trust-and-governance-5-insights-from-psychology http://nrnmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/mind-science-intelligence-perception.html Governance Quote (Google): The concept of “governance” is not new. … Governance refers to a process whereby elements in society wield power, […]
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