Archive for February, 2019
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy eurasiareview.com Mahinda Rajapaksa, Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament and a former Sri Lankan President, has spelt out a list of do’s and dont’s for improving relations between Sri Lanka and India. While being basically well grounded, Indo-Lankan ties do tend to veer off the track due to […]
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
Vivek Trivedi | News18.com Govind, a staunch supporter of PM Modi, had liked one of his tweets which was later also liked by Hansini. Curious, Govind searched about her online and soon they became friends. Bhopal: There couldn’t have been a better Valentine’s Day week for Hansini Edheerisinghe, a Sri Lankan woman who got married […]
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
By Reuters and Chris Dyer For Mailonline Sri Lankan government advertising for hangmen after last executioner quit The stress of seeing the gallows for the first time led last hangman to leave President wants to resume the use of capital punishment for drug traffickers New hardline policy by Maithripala Sirisena to mimic Philippines death squads […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 13.3.19 The LSSP (Lanka Sama Samaja Party) took a firm stand against Sinhala Only the year before the MEP victory of 1956. LSSP officially declared that the LSSP stood for the administration of the country in Sinhala and Tamil. People must be governed in a language they understand.” They made this declaration […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
අද දින (11) මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වු නියෝජිතයින් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා පක්ෂයේ පරිපාලන ලේකම් ෙරේනුක් ෙපෙරේරා ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා ඉන්දියාවේ බැංගලෝර් නගරයේ වාර්ෂික සමුලුවක විශේෂ ආරාධිත අමුත්තා ලෙස හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහභාගි වුනා. ඉන්දියාවේ […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ නිර්මාතෘ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සාමාජිකයෙක් නොවන පුද්ගලයෙක් ජනාධිපතිධුරයට පත්කිරීම සදහා ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සාමාජිකයින් කිසිසේත් සූදානම් නැති බවත් ඒ සදහා බලපෑම් කිරීමට කිසිවෙකුට අයිතියක් නැතිබවත් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ නිර්මාතෘ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ අද (11) පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ පළාත් පාලන ආයතන නියොජිතයින්ගේ හමුවේදී […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. ගරු අමාත්යතුමා, කෘෂිකර්ම ග්රාමිය ආර්ථික කටයුතු, පශු සම්පත් සංවර්ධන, වාරිමාර්ග සහ ධීවර හා ජලජ සම්පත් සංවර්ධන අමාත්යාංශය, නව මහලේකම් කාර්යාලය, මාලිගාවත්ත, ලංකා ධීවර සංස්ථා ප්රාදේශිය විධායකයන්හි නොගෙවු හිඟ වැටුප්, අතිකාල, කොමිස් මුදල් සහ තේ වියදම් හා වෛද්ය දීමනා සම්බන්ධවයි උක්ත කරුණ සම්බන්ධව කලින් කලට පැවති පාලනාධීකාරීන් වෙත යොමු කල ලිපිවලට වැඩිමනත්වය, ලංකා ධීවර […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Government has revised the fuel prices and accordingly the fuel price has been increased from midnight today (11), stated the Ministry of Finance issuing a release. As a result, the prices of one liter of Petrol Octane 92 and the Auto Diesel have been increased by Rs 6 and Rs 4 respectively. […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව ලෙස ජනතාව විසින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව හඳුන්වන්නේ කිසිසේත්ම එහි නියම අර්ථයෙන් නොව එහි විරුද්ධ අර්ථයෙන් යැයි කිවහොත් බොහෝ දෙනකු ඒ සමඟ එකඟ වනු ඇත. නමුත් සංකල්පයක් වශයෙන් ‘යහපාලනය’ හෙවත් ඉංග්රීසියෙන් කිවහොත් ‘ට්ර්ණීර්ණීච් ට්ර්ණීඍඡ්අව්ඒව්ඛ්ඡ්’ නරක දෙයක් නොවේ. නමුත් වරද නම් ලංකාවේ දේශපාලනයට මේ වචනය හඳුන්වා දුන් අය එය නිවැරැදිව විග්රහ […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
මේඝනාද උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම 2018 ඔක්තෝබර් 26 දින ජනාධිපති මෛත්රි විසින් අගමැති රනිල් ධුරයෙන් පහකළේ ය. එයින් කැලඹුණු යූඑන්පීය, ජවිපෙ, දෙමළ සන්ධානය, මුස්ලිම් කොංග්රසය, එන්ජීඕ, සිවිල් සංවිධාන සියල්ල කැලඹුණේ ය. ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය ඉල්ලා පාරට බැස්සේ ය. 2018 නොවැම්බර් 9 වැනිදා ජනාධිපති මෛත්රි විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරියේ ය. එයින් කැලඹුණු යූඑන්පීය, ජවිපෙ, දෙමළ සන්ධානය, මුස්ලිම් කොංග්රසය, එන්ජීඕ, සිවිල් […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 10: Mahinda Rajapaksa, Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament and a former Sri Lankan President, has spelt out a list of do’s and dont’s for improving relations between Sri Lanka and India. While being basically well grounded, Indo-Lankan ties do tend to veer off the […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 9 (newsin.asia): Mahinda Rajapaksa, Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament and a former Sri Lankan President, has strongly urged the governments of India and Sri Lanka to revive the Troika” system which managed relations between the two countries during the crucial final phase of the war against the […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror I did not bring about the concept of white van abductions Lasantha, Keith, Prageeth were done by two individuals for purely personal reasons I have not done anything against the minorities I have had discussions with various sections of the Muslim community Lasantha and wife were once attacked […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා එම පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. මගේ ප්රශ්නයකට පිලිතුරු දෙමින් රාජ්ය පරිපාලන රාජ්ය ඇමතිතුමා විසින් පාරලිමේන්තුව නොමග යවන ප්රකාශයක් කළා. ඩුබායි වල දී අත්අඩංගුවට පත් වුණු රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික ගමන් බලපත්ර හිමියෙකු සිටිත් දැයි තමන් ආගමන විගමන පාලකගෙන් […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Media freedom considers as a significant attribute in a democratic society which respects the human rights including the right to express independent views on various matters and protecting people who expresses independent perspectives, from litigating and punishing at the court. Before political independence, although there were news papers in Sri Lanka, no […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert-Rel Eng(Monash), DipBus&Adm-Finance(Massey), CEng. MIEE This paper is written specifically for the Tamils all over the world to read and understand where they came from and why they left their motherland, and the conspiracy they are subjected to and the Root Cause for the conspiracy. India is a Tamils country and they […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 12.3.19 The 1950s saw the rise of a strong, vocal Sinhala lobby which was against the 1944 decision of the State Council, to make Sinhala and Tamil the official languages of Ceylon, giving Tamil equal status to Sinhala. They wanted the 1944 decision revoked. They wanted Sinhala Only. This lobby wished to […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
වසන්ත සමරසිංහ කැඳවුම්කරු දූෂණ විරෝධි හඬ ගරු ලේකම් ජනාධිපති විමර්ශන කොමිෂන් සභාව, කාමර අංක 210 බිලොක් අංක 2, දෙවන මහල, බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාව, කොළඹ 07. ගරු ලේකම්තුමනි, ශී්ර ජයවර්ධනපුර මහ රෝහලේ අධ්යක්ෂ තනතුර හා රාජ්ය මුදල් අවභාවිතාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැමිණිලි කිරීම 1983 අංක 54 දරණ ශී්ර ජයවර්ධනපුර මහා රෝග්යශාලා මණ්ඩල පනතේ 18 වන වගන්තියට අනුව […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
By Sugeeswara Senadhi Courtesy Ceylon Today The independent Constitutional Council (CC), which was hailed as one of the biggest achievements of the Yahapalana Government in 2015, today, faces vehement criticism from the highest authority in the country, none other than President Maithripala Sirisena, who went to great lengths to ensure the smooth sailing of the […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today On 17 January, it was reported from Germany that their authorities had arrested a person suspected to be directly involved in the murder of Lakshman Kadirgamar. The then Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Kadirgamar, was killed in his home in 2005. The assassins took advantage of Kadirgamar’s reluctance to […]
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka is negotiating with Russia the purchase of a new batch of Russian Mi-17 helicopters, which the country will use in UN peacekeeping missions, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia Dayan Jayatilleka told Sputnik on Sunday. “There is a commission that discusses the purchase of Mi-17 helicopters,” Jayatilleka said, specifying that […]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 12.3.19, 13.3.19 Before British rule, the island had just one native language, Sinhala. Sinhala had a script, a voluminous written literature and a long history of continuous use. Sinhala was used for administration, trade, science and technology. Sinhala was also the language of the royal court. Treaties with the Portuguese and Dutch […]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. It is gratifying that several writers have taken up the vital topic of pesticide use in agriculture (6th of February, Island). Dr. Ranil Sananayake (RS) has claimed to rebut” what I wrote. I stated that our soils are NOT laden with toxic agrochemicals, and that they support a thriving ecosystem full of […]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
Dr sarath obeysekera it is almost three years when SLLRDC mooted the idea to involve private sector to invest in launching a boat srvice in canals anf rivers in sri lanka We saw some navy boats oprating a little while but it did not continue Dutch funding was also provided to carry out a feasibility […]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
By Jonathon Manning The company is famous for building the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge Cleveland Bridge UK’s extensive production facility in Darlington (Image: Keith Taylor) Cleveland Bridge has won a major contract to build 250 bridges for rural communities in Sri Lanka, and has secured millions of pounds of in Government support for […]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
Courtesy DNA Sri Lanka’s opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday said here there was a “major breakdown” in bilateral relationship between India and his country after a new government was formed in New Delhi in 2014, but the opposition coalition he is heading now has a “good understanding” with India’s ruling party. He emphasised that the […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2019
There are striking resemblances in Kosovo & Sri Lanka and though many Sri Lankans may be clueless about the fate of Kosovo, it is something everyone in particular the Tamils & even the Tamil leadership need to quickly appraise themselves about. The US & NATO balkanized Yugoslavia into micro states creating mini new […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2019
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 8, 2019, 10:23 pm Authoritative sources said that of those arrested in two separate raids in Dubai early this week, 31 had been tested positive for cocaine. Sources said that United Arab Emirates mounted the operation following exhaustive investigations undertaken by Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities. Responding to […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Prime Minister Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe ( de facto Jayampathy Wickremaratne) cleverly twisted the arms of 212 legislators, with the exception of: – Mr Sarath Weerasekera ( of UPFA voting against); – Mr Ajith Kumara (of JVP abstained); -Messrs Basil Rajapaksa, Premalal Jayasekera, Janaka Priyantha Bandara, Dr. Jagath Balasuriya, Keheliya Rambukwella, […]
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