Archive for April, 2019
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ වැඩබලන විධායක අධ්යක්ෂිකා සුරංගී ආරියවංශ පවතින විදුලි කප්පාදුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සම්පූර්ණ වගකීම රජය භාරගත යුතු බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය අවධාරණය කරයි. එහි අධ්යක්ෂිකා සුරංගී ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය පෙන්වා දුන්නේ විදුලි කප්පාදුව නිසා ජන ජීවිතය බරපතල අන්දමින් අඩාල වී ඇති බවයි. මහා පරිමාණ කර්මාන්ත කරුවන් සහ ඇතැම් ආයතන විදුලි ජනන යන්ත්ර […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Janaka Perera April 5, 2019 marks the 48th Anniversary of the JVP insurgency of 1971 the first ever armed uprising against the Sri Lankan State since the British departed our shores. It was one of two Southern insurgencies within a span of less than two decades. Both led two generations of youth and many others to […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) – After a White Australian of Christian background Brenton Tarrant gunned down 50 Muslims praying at a Christchurch mosque on a Friday, it took the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern more than a day to call it a terrorist” act, and when she did so, the mainstream media in […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
The proposal to establish provincial councils was, apart from JRJs debacle to stay in power with the help of Indians, primarily to solve the problem of people coming to Colombo to get work done which later translated to sharing POWER. Establishing a PC in Western province had no relevance on this basis. Further provinces close […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
උපාධිධාරී ජාතික මධ්යස්ථානය. National Center for Graduate සබරගමුව විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ සිසුන් භාෂා හා සමාජ විද්යා පීඨවලට සිසුන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ දී සිදුකරන කප්පාදුව නවත්වන ලෙස ආණ්ඩුවට බලකරමින් ඊයේ (03) දින සිදුකරනු ලැබූ සාමාකාමී හා නිරායුධ විරෝධතාවයට ශ්රී ලංකා පොලීසිය එල්ල කළ ම්ලේච්ඡ හා අමානුෂික ප්රහාරය දැඩි පිළිකුළෙන් යුතුව හෙලා දකිමු. මෙවැනි අමානුෂික හා සාහසික ප්රහාරයන් දියත් […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ මාධ්ය හමුව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතා මේ වන විට ලංකාවේ ඇති වෙලා තියෙන ජල විදුලි අර්බුදය හේතුවෙන් රටේ සමස්ත ජනතාවටම ප්රශ්න ඇති වෙලා. පහුගිය කාල සීමාවේ ජාතික විදුලි පද්ධතියට අලුතෙන් විදුලි ඒකක එකතු කිරීමේ ක්රමවේදයකට ආණ්ඩුව පිවිසියේ නැහැ.දැනට ජාතික අවශ්යතාවය ලෙස පවතින දෛනික මෙගා වොට් 2700ක පමණ අවශ්යතාවය ජල විදුලිය […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that people in rural areas had fallen prey to illegal loan schemes including micro-financing organisations, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today urged the government to take steps to ban such organisations and to waive off loans obtained by the people from such organisations. He told […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Tharindu Jayewardene and Bingun Menaka Gamage Courtesy The Daily Mirror As the first stage of the project to import of dairy cows, 500 and 1500 dairy cows had been imported in 2012 The estimated cost of this project was 73.95 million US dollars The talk of importing 20,000 dairy cows came to the surface again […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
RANMINI GUNASEKARA Courtesy Adaderana he Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday (1) told the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to take a stand at the final vote of the Budget this week, if they wished to form an alliance with the SLPP in the future. This was stated by SLPP Chairman, Professor G.L. Peiris at […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana SLFP-affiliated trade unions of SriLankan Airlines today claimed that the government is preparing to sell Sri Lanka’s national carrier to a company which is ‘operating with LTTE funds’. Representatives of the Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya – Sri Lankan Airlines, addressing a press conference today, vowed to resort to strict trade union action […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has declared that the environmental damage caused by the Uthuru Janani thermal power plant in Chunnakam, Jaffna, has violated the fundamental rights of the residents of the area. The Bench passing the verdict comprised of Justices Priyantha Jayawardena, Prasanna Jayawardena, and L. T. B. Dehideniya. Accordingly, the court ordered the […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 6.4.19 This essay deals with the continuing story of USA, its allies and Yahapalana. Activities are presented in inventory form. STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT Sunday Times stated in January 2019 that Sri Lankans are blissfully unaware that agreements have been signed with an important foreign government without proper consultation or studying the […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Book Review: By Maximus Jayantha Anandappa (Sydney, Australia) The recipient of the prestigious Swarna Pusthaka Award for the best novel in 2018, Saman Wickramaarachchi’s Appachchi Avith” (titled Name of the Father” in English) has been commended as an unqualified success in the Sinhala social and print media which had prompted me to pen my comments […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ඉන්ටෙල් ඉන්ටනැෂනල් සමාගම විසින් පවත්වන විද්යාව සහ ඉංජිනේරු භාවිතය පිළිබඳ ඉන්ටෙල් ජාත්යන්තර සමුළුව සඳහා නොයෙකුත් රටවල නව නිර්මාණ කරුවන් සාභාගි වෙති. 2008 වසරේ සිට ලංකාවේ නව නිපැයුම් හපනුන් ද මෙම තරඟයට එක්ව සිටිති. එහිදී වැදගත්ම කරුණ වූයේ එක් වර්ෂයක් ඇරුණු කොට සෑම වර්ෂයකම ලංකාවට ජයග්රහණයක් අත් කර දීමට හැකිවීමයි. 2019 වසරේ දී මෙම […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I am writing this snippet to elaborate how Sri Lankan Have failed to win the heart of customers making them Cool.” I have a generator which is being serviced by a Company with Cool Air . I called the company mobile number found in the website and the person who picked up […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva A study of the health effects of marine plastic pollution and micro-plastics is important for strengthening national and global initiatives to combat plastic pollution of our oceans”, stressed Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative in Geneva, addressing an interactive Panel Discussion held at the Graduate […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
by Lucy Patchett in Ethics, Supply chain, Sustainability Courtesy cips.org Sri Lankan tea plantations in the central highland district of Nuwara Eliya are being investigated by the Rainforest Alliance and the Fairtrade Foundation for abusing labour workers rights and breaching ethical label standards. Investigations are underway, confirmed The Rainforest Alliance and the Fairtrade Foundation, and said […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Exclusive by Lorna Knowles, ABC Investigations and Siobhan Heanue, South Asia correspondent Courtesy ABC News PHOTO: Cows on Lammermoor Estate in Sri Lanka were part of the Australian export program. (ABC News: Siobhan Heanue)RELATED STORY: Aus jerseys hand-picked for Sri Lanka Hundreds of Australian and New Zealand cattle have died in a Federal Government-backed export deal with Sri Lanka, which […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Courtesy Miami Herald COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Amnesty International urged Sri Lanka Wednesday to halt plans to resume executions after more than four decades, saying capital punishment will not end drug-related crimes. The statement by the rights group came two days after Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena announced that dates have been set for the country’s […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Courtesy China.org.cn The Sri Lanka Army on Wednesday said it would hold the largest ever military exercise in July to coincide with 10 years since the end of the island’s 30-year civil conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. In a statement, the army said the month-long military exercise will begin on July 1, […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
by Shashi Tharoor Courtesy RT Screenshot from film Gandhi (1982); Director Richard Attenborough; International Film Investors; National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC); Goldcrest Films International; Indo-British; Carolina Bank The centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is the right occasion for Britain to apologise for the evils of colonialism. Two years ago, on the UK […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
lanka C news ‘නිකන් පලයන් යකෝ යන්න පර බල්ලා’ යැයි කියමින් රාජ්ය ව්යවසාය, කන්ද උඩරට උරුමය සහ මහනුවර සංවර්ධන ඇමැති ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල මහතා විසින් භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ නමකට ඉතා පහත් ලෙස බැණ වැදීමක් සිදු කර තිබේ. මෙම බැනවැදීම් සිදුකරන ලද්දේ ගම්පොල නාවලපිටිය මාර්ගය අවහිර කරමින් සිදුකරන ලද උද්ඝෝෂණයකදී එහි සිටි භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේ නමක් ඇමතිවරයාට ගත් දුරකථන […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය මාවතගම පේමානන්ද හිමි, ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය ඊ. ඒ. වික්රමසිංහ ශ්රී ලංකා බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්යාලය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නිවන් අවබෝධ කර ගැනීමට උපකාරී වන එකම දහම බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ විසින් දේශනා කොට වදාළ ශ්රී සද්ධර්මය බව සැබැවි. එය වසර දෙදහස් හයසියයකටත් අධික කාලයක් ලොව පුරා පැවති සහ දැනටත් පවතින අනාගතයට ද වලංගු වන ඒකායන ධර්ම […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
H. L. D. Mahindapala Hate speech comes in various shades of lies. It is the curse that haunts current of global politics. It runs from white supremacists in America to the boot-end of New Zealand. On the way to New Zealand it links up with Tamil supremacists and their NGO agents in Sri Lanka. Some […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara. Posted on July 6th, 2010 This is an article published on 7.7.2010 in Lankaweb resubmitted for publication as it is more relevant and timely than ever before, in view of the ongoing and unending harassment deployed towards this country by the UNO and its other agencies like […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ගම සමග පිළිසදරක් වැඩසටහනේ තුන්වැනි අධියර අප්රියෙල් 02 වැනිදා සිට ජුනි මස 01 වැනිදා දක්වා පැවැත්වෙයි. ඒ අනුව දින 60කින් රට පුරා ගම සමග පිළීසදරක් මැයෙන් රැස්වීම් 25000ක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව ඇත. ඔබේම මව්බිම ඔබේම අදහස් ඇසුරින් ගොඩනගමු තේමාව යටතේ ගම සමග පිළිසදරක් වැඩසටහන අධීයර තුනක් යටතේ සංවිධානය කර ඇති අතර මේ […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Courtesy Proactive Investors Australia Results and details of analyses will be released in June 2019. The Mannar deposit is on a sand island in the dry northwest of Sri Lanka Titanium Sands Ltd (ASX:TSL) is preparing to upgrade resources at the Mannar Island Heavy Mineral Sands Project in northwest Sri Lanka incorporating results from resource infill and extension […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
By Nayanjot Lahiri Courtesy quasrtz I first set my eyes on the gopuram (entrance towers of temples built in the southern Indian style) of the Vallipuram Vishnu temple on a warm Sunday morning in early March. Named after the nearby village, the temple complex looks like a small oasis among the surrounding sand dunes, which are […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Millions of people are suffering and most are blaming the government for the current four-hour daily power cuts in most parts of the country. Difficult times or times of struggle are widely known to be the time when we should deeply ponder on what we have done or fail to do as responsible eco-friendly citizens […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Hambantota oil refinery project was not a genuine investment but is an attempt at money laundering to bring down money earned illegally through the Central Bank bond scam, UPFA MP Shehan Semasinghe said yesterday. He told parliament that Transparency International had also cast aspersions with […]
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