Archive for June, 2019
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Nadeeka Daya Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith who visited MP Ven. Athuraliye Ratana Thera during his fast unto death said the problem would not have blown out of proportion today if President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had acted against those who discreetly aided and abetted the terrorist attacks. People […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
By Charles.S.Perera Pulasthini Rajasinghe or Sara was one of the Jihadists who blew herself in a Sri Lanka Church on Easter Sunday. There is no valid reason for her to have exploded that bomb and herself along with it. One does not know whether she wanted to be a suicide bomber It may be she […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The number of complaints lodged against Dr. Mohamed Shafi from Kurunegala Teaching Hospital has, reportedly, exceeded 630. Sixty-six mothers who had undergone a Caesarian surgery under Dr. Shafi had filed their complaints at Kurunegala Hospital today (03). Accordingly, the total number of complaints received by the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital itself is 544. Additionally, […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana CCTV footage of the Easter Province Governor M. L. A. M. Hizbullah meeting several persons who could be identified as Saudi Arabian nationals at a hotel in Pasikudah has been uncovered. The CCTV footage shows Governor Hizbullah arriving at the particular hotel on the 22nd April 2019, a day after the Easter Sunday […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Senaka Weeraratna Ven. Athureliye Rathana Thera Thank you for turning the country around. At a time when leading Sinhalese politicians were not prepared to identify themselves as Sinhala Buddhists, when the Sinhalese were divided on party lines, when leaders were behaving like Ostriches with their heads buried in the sands, promoting multi – culturalism and […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island Never a dull moment in Sri Lankan politics! Someone or something keeps it really exciting. The unfolding political situation is like an edge-of-your-seat thriller. The yahapalana government is afflicted with a serious autoimmune disease, so to speak. It has become its own enemy. President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
වියත්මග මාධ්ය ඒකකය මතුගමදී පැවති ‘වියත්මග’ සම්මන්ත්රණය අමතමින් ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. අද ගොඩක් දෙනෙක් කතා කරන්නේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව ගැනයි. ඒ වගේම බොහෝ දෙනෙක්ට අද අමතක වෙලා රටේ ආර්ථිකය ගැන. ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව ගැන කතා කරන කවුරුත් ආපස්සට ගිය ආර්ථිකය ගැන කතා කරන්නේ නැහැ. අද මෙරට ඉතිහාසයේ නොවූ විරූ ආකාරයේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයකට […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ඇමරිකාව සමග ඇතිකරගෙන තිබූ පවරා ගැනීමේ සහ දෙපාර්ශවය අතර සේවා සපයාගැනීමේ ගිවිසුම අලුත් කිරීම සදහා එය රටේ ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යවරයා ලෙස කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කළේ ජනපති සිරිසේන මහතාය. අමාත්යවරුන්ගේ අවධානය සදහා 2017 ජූනි මස 30 වැනිදා ජනපතිවරයා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද එම ගිවිසුමට 2017 අගෝස්තු මාසයේ දී කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය හිමිවිය. මෙම ගිවිසුම වසර 10 […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ප්රමුඛ එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණු රජයට ඇමරිකාව සමඟ ආරක්ෂාව හෝ ආරක්ෂක කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන කිසිදු ගිවිසීමකට එළැඹීම ජනපති මෛතී්රපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පසුගිය සතියේ තහනම් කළේය. එවැනි ඕනෑම ගිවිසුමකට එළැඹීමට පෙර ඒ සදහා රටේ ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යවරයා වන තමාගේ අනුමැතිය ලබාගත යුතුම වන බව ද ඔහු පවසා ඇත. චීනයේ සංචාරයක නියැළී පසුගිය බ්රහස්පතින්දා […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero has concluded his protest fast upon learning that Governors Azath Salley and M.L.A.M. Hizbullah had resigned from their respective posts. Athuraliye Rathana Thero launched a protest fast in front of Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy on 31st May demanding the removal of Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero, who commenced a protest fast on Friday, has been informed that Governors Azath Salley and M.L.A.M. Hizbullah have tendered their resignations. The Central Province Governor Maithri Gunaratne arrived at Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, where Rathana Thero had been leading the protest fast, to inform him in this […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Dr Sudath Gunasekara තවත් ප්රමාදනොකර වහාම හිස්බුල්ලා. අසාද් සාලි සහ බදුර්දීන් තනතුරුවලින් අස්කරලා රතන හිමිගේ ජීවිතය බේරාගන්ට කිය්ලා මම මුලු ජාතියම වෙනුවෙන් ඔබගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. එසේ නොකලොත් ඔබේ දේසපාලනයත් ඉන් අවසාන බව සහතික බව කියන්නම්.රට ජාතිය හා සාසනය කෙසේවෙතත් අඩුගානේ ඒ ගෑනවත් හිතලා මේ තීරනය වහාම ගන්ට කියලා මම කියනවා.ඔබට වඩා වටින්නේ ඔය තක්කඩි වහබ්වාදි […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Laksiri Warnakula Attempts to conquer heights, be it a mountain or any other carry their own perils and risks. Generally, glory and peril walk side by side in such endeavors, until the former or the latter wins, in the end”. Already eleven or twelve climbers have perished on the slopes of the Mount Everest, in […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
ඡන්ද හිමි නාම ලේඛන ආකෘති පත්ර හැකි ඉක්මනින් පුරවා භාර දෙන්නැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානය ඉල්ලීමක් කරයි. එම සංවිධානයේ වැඩබලන විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ අහමඩ් මනාස් මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ රටේ පවතින ආරක්ෂක වාතාවරණය අනුව මේ වන විට ඡන්ද හිමි නාම ලේඛන ආකෘති පත්ර පුරවා භාරදීම පිලිබදව ජනතාව වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කර ඇති බවක් නොපෙනෙන බවයි. මේ වසර අවසානයේ දී […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව අද (03) දින මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් ■ ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සුසිල් ප්රේමජයන්ත මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජි. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා කිසි දවසක නොදුටු විදියට රටේ හැම ක්ෂේත්රයක්ම මේ […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya Courtesy The Island After Narendra Modi took oaths on Thursday for a second time as India’s Prime Minister, having steered the BJP-led coalition to a landslide election victory, there was a string of announcements relating to diplomatic engagements involving Sri Lanka, India, China and the United States. Modi will visit Sri Lanka […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The wartime Rajapaksa administration, having created the post of Chief of National Intelligence (CNI) to run an efficient network involving all three services, the police and the State Intelligence Service (SIS), placed Maj. Gen. Kapila Hendavithana, in charge of the powerful Office in January, 2007. The CNI tasks included […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island There is uncertainty as to the current status of the Compact between the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and Sri Lanka as to whether it has been signed by the President, as the Chairman of the National Physical Planning Council, and whether it has been Gazetted or not. On […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
By Theodore Dalrymple Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) We should not tolerate the niqab in our public institutions, since it demeans both women and men You don’t have to be a militant feminist to understand the inherent unfairness of the niqab. No man covers himself up in this way Photo: ALAMY THERE IS always a conflict over the […]
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Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera In Colombo we have catholic/Christian schools such as St Bridget’s, Mehodist .Ladies .Bishops etc. which are almost private schools Then we have all male schools such as St Josephs .St Peters .St Thomas .St Benedicts, Carey etc. .Most of the Buddhist schools except Museus are state schools like Ananda Nalanda .Thurstan,Isipapathana ,Mahanama […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the petition submitted to court last week and seen by AFP Sunday, Jayasundara said the country’s premier spy agency, the State Intelligence Service (SIS), ordered him last year to stop ongoing police investigations into Islamic militants. The head of the SIS, Nilantha Jayawardena, did not take seriously the intelligence shared […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
Courtesy Mail Online Suspended Sri Lanka police chief Pujith Jayasundara has blamed President Maithripala Sirisena for failing to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people Sri Lanka’s suspended police chief has petitioned the Supreme Court, accusing President Maithripala Sirisena of failing to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people. In a 20-page complaint, […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 1 June 2019 Mayor Patrick Brown, MPP Office of the MayorCity of Brampton2 Wellington Street WestBramptonOntario L6Y 4R2 Your Worship Mayor Patrick Brown: Oops! Did someone shatter your and your City Councillors Moral Code of We are Holier than Thou” when you […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata. Ramayana is a part of the Hindu mythology of India and is an important part of the Hindu canon. It is believed that the Hindu sage Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. Analysts say that Valmiki’s Ramayana is a literary epic […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
The Indian Law courts are careful where the Ramayana gods are concerned. Indian Supreme Court summons the two Hindu gods, Ram and Hanuman to appear in court in order to settle a land dispute in eastern state of Jharkhand. The temple priest said the land belonged to him, given to his ancestors by the king, […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE The motives of the fasting unto death started by Rathana Thero are confusing. Has he got the backing of Catholic Church? He is a Buddhist Monk. Muslim terrorists attacked Catholic Churches. Cardinal Malcolm Cooray appropriately provided an effective leadership at that critical moment preventing escalation of revenge attacks. Malwatte and […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera In my work place and in our are we live, poor people and some middle class people keep buying lottery tickets with fervent hopes that they will win one day .This legalized gambling promoted by the State are conning people .We have seen how ministers were so greedy to grab the lotteries […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
Courtesy The Sunday Times Calls the Sunday Times Political Editor and former Defence Secretary to clarify matters amidst protests by even religious leaders PSC hearings and live telecast stir row; Sirisena calls Ranil, as relationship hits new low SLFP wants early talks with SLPP on common alliance; Sirisena still hopeful about him being common candidate […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
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