Archive for May, 2019
Thursday, May 30th, 2019
Courtesy Ceylon Today The transfers given to Muslim teachers to Tamil schools by the Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah have been cancelled by the Provincial Education Department according to the instructions of President Maithripala Sirisena.
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
SUNIL S. PALLENDENIYA (KURUNEGALA), WIJESINGHA WELIKANDA AND CHAMARA AMARASURIYA Courtesy Ceylon Today Fifty two Sinhala Buddhist mothers have lodged complaints with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital charging that Dr. Shafi Shiha Abdeen had performed non-consensual sterilisation. At the same time, 45 women, who had allegedly been sterilised by the doctor, […]
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General’s Department today informed the Colombo Magistrate’s Court that charges will be filed against Minister Ravi Karunanayake for providing false information to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the Central Bank treasury bond scam. The complaint pertaining to the investigations being carried out by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) […]
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has denied media reports claiming that he was informed of a possible terror plot during a meeting with senior police officers on April 08. Media reports have publish the statements made by the Head of the National Intelligence Service,, while testifying before the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to look into […]
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 30 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka targets at least 2.5 million tourists this year after several countries eased their travel advisories which were issued after deadly terror attacks killed over 250 people on the island last month, a minister said. Sri Lanka’s Minister of Tourism Development, Wildlife and Christian Religious Affairs John […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Dilrook Kannangara The following article by Prof. Ekanayaka contained many irrelevancies and faulty logic. Allow me to point them out. He has not touched sufficiently about the ‘Sinhala’ part and focused mostly on the Buddhist part. He is mostly wrong on both counts. http://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=204747 Arguments before main arguments There are no Sinhala Buddhist rivers, forests, […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Wimal Senanayake What is the need of the hour? That is what the Sinhalese should think clearly without being biased by politics and race. Ven Ratna said on the other day what has happened is equal to loss of about forty to fifty thousand Sinhalese children. Well that count may be a miniscule as more and more complaints […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have seen three radical persons in Sri Lanka who are from three sects of our society .All three killed majority Sinhalese .All of them are from lower cast in the society though one of sects do not have officially declared casts. One of the Sinhalese radical was Rohana Wijeweera From Matara […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Prof. Hudson McLean Two of the LankaWeb contributors are “harping” on Sinhala Buddhists, which is confusing and creating a Tone of Discrimination within the Sinhala community. My question is, “Are there Sinhala Muslims?” in the Sinhala community? The Easter Sunday Massacre which murdered over 250 persons were largely Sinhala Catholic victims, and then a number […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Shridhar Prabhu Advocate, Bengaluru, India (Speech delivered by Mr. Shridhar Prabhu, Advocate, at the Ariyapala Hall, All Ceylon Buddhist Congress on December 29, 2017) Venerable Dhamma Teachers, Respected Dr. (Mrs.) Anula and Dr. Ajita Wijesundere and all other Office bearers of the National Joint Committee, Respected Mr. Jagath Sumathipala, Hon’ble Vice President of World Fellowship […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
DR. NIMAL SAMARASINGHE Courtesy The Island MP Ven. Aturaliye Ratana Thera listening to mothers at the Kurunegala Teaching Hoispital who complained that they had not conceived since undergoing caesarean surgery by Dr. Seigu Shiyabdeen Mohammed Safi. Pic by Nishan S. Priyantha The police have urged the public to inform the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) if […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
මහින්ද නිල්වැල්ල කර්තෘට ලියුම් උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ‘‘අන්තවාදීන් සන්නද්ධ වීම ගැන 2016 දී බුද්ධි අංශ මා ඉදිරිපිටදී ජනපතිට වාර්තාවක් දුන්නා’’ යයි සඳහන් කරමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී්ර පූජ්ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියන් පසුගියදා කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේදී ආන්දෝලනාත්මක ප්රකාශයක් සිදු කළහ. රතන හිමියන්ගේ එම ප්රකාශය රාජ්ය බුද්ධි අංශ කි්රයාකාරීත්වය හා රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳ බපතරළ සැක සංකා මතු කරන […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The complaints received by the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital regarding the conceiving complications which appeared following the caesarean sections performed by Dr. Mohamed Shafi have risen to 120. On May 26th, the Police urged the public to come forward with any complaints of Dr. Seigu Siyabdeen Mohamed Shafi having carried out illegal sterilization. 69 […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Despite the forewarnings given to former Defence Secretary and the Inspector General of Police on possible terrorist attacks at several places in the country, the National Security Council was not convened until after Easter attacks took place, says Chief of State Intelligence Service of Sisira Mendis. Prior to the attacks, the Security Council […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Work & Act together for the Sake of the Nation අන්තවාදයෙන් තොර සාමකාමී රටක් අවශ්යනම් පහත ක්රියා සාර්ථකව ක්රියාවට නැගිය යුතුමය 1. සියලු ෂරියා හා අන්තවාදී නීති(වයස 18න් අඩු විවාහවීම හා එක බිරිදකට වඩා විවාහවීම ඇතුළුව) තහනම් කිරීම. 2. සියලු ෂරියා, මද්රසා ඇතුළු අනිකුත් අන්තවාදී අද්යාපනික ආයතන තහනම් කිරීම. 3. සියලු ෂරියා බැංකු හා මුල්ය […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Ada Derana All benefits from this govt. go to UNP supporters – Wimalaweera
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
තක්ෂක හේමචන්ද්ර ගරු විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්යතුමාගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම් විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්ය, සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා විසින් 2019 මැයි මසදී ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ ජිනීවාහි සිදුකළ සංචාරය අතරතුර දී, යුරෝපා න්යෂ්ටික පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ (CERN) නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක් වූ අතර, අමාත්යවරයා එහි දී, ශ්රී ලංකාව CERN ආයතනය සමග දැනට ක්රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන සහයෝගීතා වැඩසටහන් පුළුල් කිරීම පිළිබඳ […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
විනිදු දයානන්ද මහතා, මාධ්ය ඒකකය, බදුල්ල මධ්ය මහා විද්යාලය – මෙවර අ.පො.ස සා.පෙළ විභාගයේ (2018) ඌව පළාතේ විශිෂ්ටතම ප්රතිඵල බදුල්ල මධ්ය මහා විද්යාලය හිමිකරගනී.
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය. Samurdhi Development Officers’ Union. නව පවුල් ලක්ෂ 06 වෙත අලූතින් සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාරය ලබා දීමේ උත්සව සදහා වැය කිරීම නියමිත රු.මි 300 ආසන්න මුදල නව සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාර පවුල් ලක්ෂ 06 හි සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාරයෙන් අය කර ගැනීමට 28 ඊයේ දින ගත් තීරණය කිරීම අප සංගමය තරයේ හෙලා දකිමු. ප්රතිපුරණය කිරීමේ පදනම මත සමෘද්ධි […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
RAJEEWA JAYAWEERA Courtesy The Island May 28, 2019, 8:22 pm It would appear, Rishad Bathiudeen MP, Minister for Industry and Commerce, Resettlement of Protracted Displaced Persons, Co-operative Development, Vocational Training and Skills Development and leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), a constituent party of the UNF government is more powerful than even some […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
By Ajith Alahakoon Courtesy The Island Chief of National Intelligence (CNI) DIG Sisira Mendis yesterday told the Special Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), probing the Easter Sunday carnage, that though he briefed the then Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando on the impending terrorist attack, the National Security Council (NSC) had not met till the coordinated suicide bombings […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ‘‘සංහිඳියාව’’ යන වචනය සිංහල ශබ්ද කෝෂවල අර්ථ දක්වා ඇත්තේ සන්සුන් බව, සැනසී විසීම සහ රාජ්යයන් දෙකක් අතර පැවැති විරුද්ධවාදීකම් ලිහිල් කිරීමේ රාජ්ය තාන්ති්රක උපාය වශයෙනි. රාජ්යයන් දෙකක් අතර ගැටුමක් ශී්ර ලංකාවේ නොමැති නිසා අපට මෙහිදී වැදගත් වන්නේ ”සැනසී” විසීම යන අර්ථ නිරූපණයයි. නමුත් ‘‘සංහිඳියාව’’ යන වචනය දේශපාලන ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශවල පින්තාරු […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
බණ්ඩාරගම ආර්.ඒ.එස්. පේ්රමතිලකඋපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින බණ්ඩාරගම අටුළුගම ප්රදේශයේ ඊයේ (28 වැනිදා* සිදු කළ සෝදිසි මෙහෙයුමකින් අල්ගෆ්සාලි මුස්ලිම් ප්රාථමික විදුහලේ විදුහල්පතිවරයා ඇතුළු සැකකරුවන් තිදෙනකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් බව බණ්ඩාරගම පොලිසිය කියයි. විදුහල් භූමියේ තිබූ කඩු 03ක්, සිවුරු 11ක්, ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා භාවිත කරන ගමන් මලූ 03ක් සහ කුඩයක් ද පොලිස් භාරයට ගෙන ඇත. නිවසක මඩුවක ස`ගවා තිබූ බයිබලයක් […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මරාගෙන මැරෙන ත්රස්තවාදීන් ඇතුළු ඉස්ලාමීය ත්රස්තයන් නිර්මාණ කරන සහ ත්රස්ත සල්ලි සුදු කරන මහ මොළකරු යහපාලනය සඳහා වූ ජාතික පෙරමුණ පිහිටුවීමට මූලික වූ ආචාර්යවරයෙක් බව බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියෝ අනාවරණය කළහ. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව අනාවරණය කළේ නාවල රාජගිරියේ පිහිටි ශ්රී සද්ධර්මරාජික විහාරස්ථානයේ ඊයේ (28 වැනිදා* විශේෂ […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Claiming that the police failed to implement the law against those responsible for the Easter Sunday terror attacks, MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe had requested President Maithripala Sirisena to hand over investigations into the incident to an independent team comprising honest and trustworthy officials of the police department. In a letter […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Thilini de Silva and Ranjan Katugapola Courtesy The Daily Mirror Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara in a Fundamental Rights Petition filed before the Supreme Court today pleaded for an interim order preventing the President from dismissing him from office. The Petition said that the order by the President to send Jayasundara on compulsory leave […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage today said some vested parties; both local and international wanted to get the state of emergency lifted when the security situation has not yet been fully restored. Addressing a news briefing held at the Opposition Leader’s office, the MP said the government had been pressurized […]
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