Archive for June, 2019
Sunday, June 23rd, 2019
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්රහාරය එල්ල කළේ සිරියාවට සහ ඉරාකයට ගොස් පැමිණි ශ්රී ලාංකික අයිසිස් ක්රියාකාරීන් බව හෙළි කළ රුසියාවේ නියෝජ්ය ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් යුරී කෝකෝව්සහරාන් හෂීම් ප්රමුඛ අයිසිස් ත්රස්ත ක්රියාකාරී කල්ලිය සිදු කළ බිහිසුණු ප්රහාරයේ දොaංකාරය තවමත් පහව ගොස් නැත. එහෙත් දැන් සිදුවන්නේ කුමක්ද? හිටපු කාත්තන්කුඩි පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරයා සහරාන් ගැන නොදන්නා අයකු […]
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Sunday, June 23rd, 2019
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මේ අතර පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්රහාර ගැන කල්තියා අනතුරු අඟවන ලද්දේ ඉන්දීය බුද්ධි සේවය බව ඉන්දීය අගමැති මෝදිගේ දිව්රුම්දීමේ උත්සවයට නවදිල්ලියට ගිය ජනාධිපති මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේනට හෙළි විය. “පාස්කු ප්රහාරයට දින 17 කට පෙර මේ ප්රහාරය ගැන ඉන්දීය බුද්ධි සේවාව ශ්රී ලංකා බුද්ධි සේවාවට අනතුරු අඟවා තිබුණි. අපේ්රල් 4 දා කළ මේ […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Sudath Gunasekara 22.6. 2019. This unpatriotic and rogue Government which has no concern for the people or the country should resign forthwith and go home without ruining our cherished motherland any more. The more they remain in power the more destruction they will do to the country as well while eroding their own vote base […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Mario Perera Kadawata Holding elections and ushering in another government under the same existing constitutional provisions, whoever be the winners, is like adding another floor to the same obsolete worthless structure that has long outlived its utility and is crumbling on all sides on its staggering foundation. Just look at the two most powerful persons […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Courtesy Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – A state of emergency was extended by Sri Lanka’s President on Saturday (June 22), going back on pledges to relax the tough laws introduced after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 258 people. President Maithripala Sirisena said in a decree he believed there was a “public emergency” in the […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island June 22, 2019, 12:00 pm With the presidential elections drawing ever closer, all political parties have started their search for candidates. The greatest uncertainty with regard to the possible candidate is within the ruling UNP with Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya being in the fray. This […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Minority leaders have well-articulated explanations for everything wrong pointed at them and they may well weave a response gullible to many, however this instance we like to present the cunning and deceit of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress taking their website as an example. Two screenshots reveal the deception On 19th May 2019 the SLMC […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
H. L. D. Mahindapala The shock of the Easter Sunday bomb blasts shattered within minutes the comforting beliefs of a nation that had settled down to recline smugly in peace for generations to come. Lulled by the sense of security that restored confidence in the dawn of a new era at the end of Tamil […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Rome, Reuters – The Head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the Government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a total lack of interest” in determining why intelligence reports were ignored. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith spoke of his frustrations just hours […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
Ruwan M Jayatunge MD Sunyata is a Sanskrit word that means emptiness. Emptiness is the true nature of reality. Emptiness is the true nature of things and events. It is the actual nature of all phenomena. It is the absence of any self apart from the mental and physical elements of existence. All phenomena in […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
By Rohana R. Wasala Buddhism aims at creating a society where the ruinous struggle for power is renounced; where calm and peace prevail away from conquest and defeat; where the persecution of the innocent is vehemently denounced; where one who conquers oneself is more respected than those who conquer millions by military and economic warfare; […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The unique national identity of Sri Lanka is founded on its historic, long-lasting Sinhala Buddhist cultural heritage. As an island nation Sri Lanka is founded on Buddhist norms and principles. The impact of Buddhism is reflected both directly and indirectly, in the tangible and intangible aspects of the nation’s culture. Fundamental Buddhist […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද (21) පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු මන්ත්රීවරුන් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු කාංචන විජේසේකර මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ඉන්දික අනුරුද්ධ මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතා විශේෂයෙන්ම සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යවරයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදු කෙරෙන වංචා දූෂණ හා වාහන අවභාවිතය ඇතුළු කරුණු පිළිබඳව මම කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
ශී්ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ශී්ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ප්රමුඛ ජනතා රජයක් යටතේ රට ගොඩනැගීම සදහා වන ජාතික ප්රතිපත්තියක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට පිළිගත් දේශපාලන ක්ෂ රැුසපක් මේ වන විට ශී්ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සමග සාකච්ඡුා අරඹා ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශී්ර ලංකා මහජන පක්ෂය, ලිබරල් පක්ෂය, ලංකා සමසමාජ පක්ෂය, ලංකා එක්සත් කම්කරු පක්ෂය, මහජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණ, දේශ විමුක්ති […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
අහ්මදියා මුස්ලිම් ප්රජාවේ කලීෆා නායක තුමා නෙදර්ලන්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තු ඝර්භයේ කළ ෙඓතිහාසික දේශනය ඔබ සියළු දෙනාටම ස්තූතියි.
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Written by Sneha Mary Koshy Courtesy NDTV According to the details of inter-police communication, Kerala police officers hinted at the possibility of such a development. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India and Sri Lanka are likely to be under threat with terror group ISIS turning its attention to the Indian Ocean Region in the wake of losses across Syria and […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 9.9.19 Analysts pointed out that turning Sri Lanka into a bilingual state would not be an easy task. It would take a long time. In 2008, Raja Collure pointed out that in Canada, the process of bilingualisation has already taken over forty years. And in Canada, unlike Sri Lanka, the two languages […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The Muslim community in Sri Lanka is a small non-indigenous minority settler community amounting at present, to about 10% of the total population of the country. They are the descendants of small groups of Arab traders, exclusively males, who came to the island at different times in the past. In the late […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
ALI SUKHANVER For the Muslims, for the Christians and for other minorities living in India things could be horrible, discouraging and disappointing but for the followers of the Hindutva philosophy, the present scenario after the elections in India is very much supportive and hopeful. The sweeping success of Mr. Modi has proved two things; first […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
වෛද්ය විජිත් ගුණසේකර එක්සත් රාජධානියේ වර්වික් විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ සෞඛ්ය ආර්ථික අංශයේ පර්යේෂක / ජාතික රුධිර පාරවිලයන සේවාවේ හිටපු අධ්යක්ෂ සහ සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යංශයේ රසායනාගාර සේවා හිටපු අධ්යක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සෞඛ්ය සේවා පහසුකම් සැපයීමේදී සෞඛ්ය ආරක්ෂණ තාක්ෂණය යොදා ගත හැකි බව වෛද්ය විජිත් ගුණසේකර මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. පසුගියදා එක්සත් රාජධානියේ සිට ZOOM තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ මාධ්ය ඇමතූ වෛද්ය […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අද (20) පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු මන්ත්රීවරුන් ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිනී පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීනී සුදර්ශනි ප්රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ මහත්මිය■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී තේණුක විදානගමගේ මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ඩි. වී. චානක මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය මේ ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ කන්න නැතුව දරුවො […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Dr D. Chandraratna Dear Mr Secretary of State. As a peace-loving citizen of Sri Lanka I would like to place before you the following facts as a precursor to the dialogue that you intend to conduct with the powers that be in my country. International cooperation loses its legitimacy if the transactions between states are […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
ලංකාව තුල මුස්ලිම් ජනගහනය වේගයෙන් වර්ධනය වෙනවා
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Courtesy Saudi Gazette COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is seeking a loan of nearly $1.0 billion from China for energy and highways as the island recovers from the devastating Easter Sunday bombings, the finance ministry said Thursday. Talks are underway with China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to raise the new loan in addition to the […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Philip Pullella Courtesy Reuters ROME (Reuters) – The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a total lack of interest” in determining why intelligence reports were ignored.FILE PHOTO: Security personnel stand guard in front […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Terrorists from the Daesh group are likely to conduct attacks in India and Sri Lanka, a report says, citing intelligence. New Delhi Television (NDTV), citing three intelligence letters sent to police chiefs in the southern Indian state of Kerala, said on Thursday Daesh was now urging its operatives” to carry out […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana he Attorney General (AG)has directed the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to carry out criminal investigations against several police officers lapses with regard to the Easter Sunday attacks, stated Attorney General’s Department. In the letter to the acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne, the Attorney General refers to the final report of the special […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 20 (Daily Express): The Sri Lankan tourism industry is on the hard road to recovery from the devastation caused by two very violent episodes in April and May and the political crisis which these triggered. The April 21 multiple suicide blasts, allegedly carried out by local affiliates of the Islamic State […]
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Thursday, June 20th, 2019
By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka faced and fought a terrorist threat for thirty years and prevailed, ten years ago. Just recently, on Easter Sunday, we were confronted by a new terrorist threat. So, Sri Lanka is not apologetic, when I say that we view all these problems through the prism of the existential […]
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