Archive for June, 2019
Monday, June 10th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Riyadh, June 10 (Reuters): Women in Saudi Arabia need not wear headcover or the black abaya — the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of Islamic piety — as long as their attire is decent and respectful”, the kingdom’s reform-minded crown prince said. With the ascent to power of young Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, the […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
H. L. D. Mahindapala In its long history the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has come under massive attacks by other religionists on three critical occasions. The first attack was the most horrendous. Sankilli, the illegitimate son of King Pararajasegaram and one of the most cruel rulers of Jaffna, marched down to Mannar on the […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The local NGOs active in Sri Lanka politics are implanted organizations, not home grown. They are financed by western countries and managed by paid local agents. The term ‘civil society’ was used to bring these NGOs into political life of Sri Lanka. In 2012, there were approximately 1300 NGOs in Sri Lanka. The […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I have been in association with Libyans .Iraqis Syreans .Egyprians ,Azerbijanies .Kazaks .Maldivians,Thadjiks and also Indian Muslims during by carrier .I have never noticed any of them blindly advocating what Saharan was preaching. Even though Rohana Wijeweera was advocating violence ,and being a Buddhist he should not have done what he did. […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Here is a perspective by Dr Peter Hammond. Dr Hammond’s doctorate is in Theology. He was born in Cape-town in 1960, grew up in Rhodesia and converted to Christianity in 1977. Adapted from Dr Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat: Islam is not a religion, nor […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
වාගිස ප්රනාන්දු රිෂාඩ් බද්යුදීන් ඇමතිවරයාට එරෙහිව විශ්වාසභංගයක් විපක්ෂය විසින් කතානායකට භාරදී තිබුනු අතර ඉන්පසුව ජවිපේ විසින් රජයට එරෙහි විශ්වාසභංගයක්ද කතානායකවරයාට භාරදී තිබුනි. මේ අතර රතන හිමියන් විසින් රිෂාඩ්, අසාද් සාලි සහ හිස්බුල්ලා යන අය තමන් දරන ධුරවලින් ඉවත්වීම සදහා දින කීපයක් කල් දුන් අතර එම කාලසීමාව ඉක්මගිය පසු තමන් දැඩි තීන්දුවකට එළඹෙන බව ප්රසිද්ධීයේ පැවසීය. […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
lanka C news දළදා මාලිගාවට ප්රහාරයක් එල්ල වේ යැයි අවිනිශ්චිතතාවයක් ඇති බව මල්වතු පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක පූජ්ය නියංගොඩ විජිතසිරි හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. දළදා පෙරහරේ දී යමක් සිදු වේයැයි අවිනිශ්චිතතාවයක් පැහැදිලිව තිබෙන බවද උන්වහන්සේ පවසති. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීමට මුහුණ දිය යුතු ආයතන ඇති බව ද මහජනතාවගේ සෝදිසි කණ්ඩායම් අත්යාවශ්ය බව ද අනුනාහිමියන් කීහ. ඒ ගැන කිසිදු […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Written by Shubhajit Roy |New Delhi Courtesy The Indian Express Modi’s visit is part of his first foreign trip after re-election and is focused on the government’s Neighbourhood First policy. MORE THAN a month after the Easter Sunday terror attack rocked Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday arrived in Colombo — the first foreign leader to […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Courtesy The Indian Express A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team was in Sri Lanka last week in connection with the agency’s probe into two IS modules in India that are suspected to have had connections in Sri Lanka. In the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings which killed more than 250 people, India has shared […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රවෘති ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි අද උදෑසන කටුනායක ජාත්යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපලින් මෙරටට පැමිණියා. ඒ අනුව අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ විසින් ගුවතොටුපල පරිශ්රයේදී එතුමන් පිළිගනු ලැබූයේ හිරු කදාවක් (Sun Glass) පැලඳගෙන අතර ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි මහතා සමාන්ය උපැස් යුගලකින් සැරසී සිටිම විශෙෂත්වයක් විය. පිළිගැනීමේ නිල උත්සවය අද දහවල් ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ දී පැවැත්වින.
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප කුරුණෑගල ශික්ෂණ රෝහලේ ප්රසව හා නාරිවේද වෛද්ය අංශයේ සේවය කරන ෂාෆි ෂියාබ්දීන් වෛද්යවරයාට එරෙහිව අද (09) පස්වරුව වනවිට කුරුණෑගල ශික්ෂණ රෝහලට පමණක් ලැබී ඇති සම්පුර්ණ පැමිණිලි සංඛ්යාව 723 ක්වූ බව රෝහල පාලනාධිකාරිය ප්රකාශ කළේය . පසුගිය සිකුරාදාට (07) පැමිණිලි 24 ක්ද , ඊයේ (08) දිනයේ ( 08) පැමිණිලි 26 ක්ද , අද දිනයේ […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Courtesy The Island The Sri Lankan security forces had turned from being hunters to fishermen during the last few years and the spirit of the security forces had been crushed since 2015, expert on terrorism Rohan Gunaratna told a meeting organised by the Mahinda Rajapaksa Centre yesterday in Colombo. Gunaratna said that the Easter Sunday […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
ජේ.කේ.එල්.චාමින්ද උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප දුෂණය නැති තැනක් ලංකාවේ කිසිම තැනක නොමැති බවත්, මෙරට පොඩිම පුද්ගලයාගේ සිට ලොකුම පුද්ගලයා දක්වා සියලුම දෙනා නීතිරීති උල්ලංඝණය කිරීමට පුරුදු වී තිබෙන බවත් අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණෝ අද (09) අක්මීමණදී පැවසූහ. අක්මීමන තල්ගස්යාය ශ්රි අශ්වත්ථාරාම විහාරස්ථ සිරිපවරකිත්ති දහම්පාසලේ 45 වැනි සංවත්සරය හා ත්යාග හා සහතිකපත් ප්රදානය කිරිමේ උත්සවයට එක්වෙමින් හිමිපාණෝ මේ […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today It is a possibility that Athureliye Rathana Thera delivered a doosra when he launched a fast-unto-death to force the Government to remove Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M Hizbullah and Western Province Governor Azath Salley. Having had supported the Yahapalana Government that failed spectacularly, Rathana Thera was in […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
UPATISSA PERERA Courtesy Ceylon Today Parliamentarian S.B. Dissanayake told a Media briefing yesterday (6) that 10 complaints against former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen will be handed over to the three-member committee at Police Headquarters today (7). Dissanayake said there were complaints related to Bathiudeen’s alleged links with extremists, scams carried out by him, information about two […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The President should use his executive powers to bring the whole country under one law, states UNP MP Athuraliye Rathana Thero. The Thero mentioned this speaking to the media personnel in Kandy, today (09). According to him, there are many steps that the government should take regarding the Muslim extremism that is prevailing […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 8 (newsin.asia): The Leader of the Opposition and former Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, on Saturday called upon the island’s Muslim community to stop the Arabization of their culture and return to the traditional Sri Lankan Muslim culture. Rajapaksa said this at a meeting with the nine Muslim leaders who had quit […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando says that the Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) had sent him a message on WhatsApp the day before the Easter attacks took place. Testifying before the Special Parliament Select Committee appointed to look into the Easter attack yesterday (06), the former defence secretary stated that […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, June 8th., 2019. Rauf Hakeem and the 9 Muslims Mp’s who enjoyed the office of Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and Stateministers because of the “VOTE BANK TRADING” of the Muslims votes hoodwinked and “CHEATED” the Muslim community and […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
lanka C news මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව බියට පත්වී නිවාස ඇතුලත වී සිටි කාලය හොඳටම ඇති යයි නැගෙනහිර පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර එම් එල් ඒ එම් හිස්බුල්ලා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව හිස එසවා සිටිය යුතු බවත් කී ඔහු ශ්රී ලංකාව තුල මුස්ලිම් සුළු ජාතියක් වුවද ලෝකයේ මහා ජාතියක් බවත් ඔහු අවධාරණය කරයි. මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව ලෙහෙසියෙන් බිය කර […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
Courtesy The National Threats by Sirisena to derail probe risk placing personal pride before thepublic good The wounds of Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings, which left 250 people dead on a single bloody day in April, have yet to heal. Reminded of the very worst atrocities of the country’s decades-long civil war, the Sri Lankan people […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
Courtesy AL JAZEERA President Sirisena fires chief of national intelligence for suggesting he had been forewarned about Easter bombings. Sirisena’s move could escalate political tensions over the ongoing parliamentary probe [File: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters] Sri Lanka‘s President Maithripala Sirisena has fired the country’s chief of national intelligence after he suggested that the president was forewarned about […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
By Ruchira Dilan Madusanka Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena, at a hurriedly summoned special Cabinet meeting last night, has warned the Government to immediately stop the Parliamentary Select Committee proceedings on the Easter Sunday attacks. President Sirisena has also threatened that he will not hold Cabinet meetings if the Government is determined to continue […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
සංවාදය – අනුරාධා හේරත් උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම මේ වන විට අමාත්යාංශ ගණනාවක් හිස්ව තිබෙනවා. ඔබට නව ඇමැති ධුරයක් ගැන බලාපොරොත්තුවක් තිබෙනවද? ඇත්තටම මේ අවස්ථාවේ ඇමැතිවරු ඉල්ලා අස්වුණේ සුවිශේෂී හේතුවක් නිසා. මං හිතන්නේ මේ වෙලාවේ ඒ හේතුව පදනම් කරගෙන අපි ඇමැතිකම් බලාපොරොත්තු වීම නොවෙයි කළ යුත්තේ. මම හිතන්නේ දැනට ඉන්න කැබිනට් ඇමැතිවරු කිහිප දෙනෙක්ට මේ ඉල්ලා අස්වූ […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම හිටපු අමාත්ය රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීන්, බස්නාහිර පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර අසාද් සාලි, නැඟෙනහිර හිටපු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර එම්.එල්.ඒ.එම්. හිස්බුල්ලා, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි මුජිබර් රහුමාන් යන මහත්වරුන්ට එල්ල වී තිබෙන බරපතළ චෝදනා ස්වාධීන පරීක්ෂණයකින් ඔප්පු වුවහොත් එම සිවුදෙනාගේ ප්රජා අයිතිය අහෝසි කිරීමට ක්රියාකරන ලෙසට ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට දැනුම් දීමට ජාතික විද්වත් භික්ෂු […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis has resigned from his post with immediate effect. Mendis, Director of Sri Lanka’s Centre for National Intelligence under the Ministry of Defense, had served as DIG of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and was also head of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) from 2008 to 2009. […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
Ada Derana Former minister Rauff Hakeem says that the Muslim MPs who quit their government posts will use the leverage they have in order to see that their grievances will be addressed in the proper way, without affecting the national unity and cohesion among communities. He made these comments while speaking to journalists after meeting […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Parliamentary Select Committee is hunting down the President in an unprecedented manner. If the witnesses are telling the truth, then any ordinary citizen could form an independent opinion. The President systematically dismantled the Security Council. He changed Prime Minister with a most trusted man, Mahinda Rajapakse. But even when […]
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Friday, June 7th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The term Non-governmental organization” (NGO) came into existence in 1945 when the United Nations was set up. The UN granted ‘observer status’ to approved ‘International non-state agencies’ (INGOs) and permitted them to attend UN assemblies and meetings. In July 2018, there were 5,081 NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC. These consisted of 134 […]
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