Archive for June, 2019
Sunday, June 16th, 2019
FRANK DE SILVA Narahenpita Courtesy The Island June 16, 2019, 8:23 pm This note is in reference to the evidence given by JJ Ratnasiri, Secretary, Public Administration (S/PA), before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), a few days ago. JJ Ratnasiri stood out there in a class by himself in the PSC proceedings. Ratnasiri’s clear answers […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Sudath Gunasekara 6.15.2019 JVP MP Sunil Handunnett quite correctly has said it was not sufficient only to indict officials but the political authorities behind the scam should also be brought to book He also has said the Presidential Commission into the bond scam and the COPE report had both clearly indicated that Prime Minister Ranil […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Dilrook Kannangara The parliamentary select committee (PSC) is an evil election gimmick by UNP and its partners to turn victims of the 21/4 terrorist attack into terrorists and turn Muslim terrorists who carried out the attack into victims. This is despicable at best and downright barbaric at worst. It is total disregard for the victims […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Dr. Chuls Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ In these, Sri Lanka needs to think carefully of what is best for Sri Lanka, it’s sovereignty, economy, it’s culture. US is still our biggest trading partner. Now it is courting a favour from us to enhance it’s global political ambitions ( as China did when we went to […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Former Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah has left the Terrorism Investigations Division (TID) after giving a statement for over 8 hours, Ada Derana reporter said. The Police Spokesman’s Office confirmed that he left the TID at around 5.45 p.m. after recording a statement. Hizbullah arrived at the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) this morning […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Public Administration and Disaster Management Ranjith Madduma Bandara says the Circular on the dress code for public servants was issued under his knowledge. He stated this addressing the media on the comments made at the Special Parliament Select Committee during Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration J.J. Rathnasiri’s testimony. The […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 15 (newsin.asia): In a unique experiment in bridge-building between the armed forces of India and Sri Lanka, a 159-member group of Indian military officers with their spouses arrived here on Saturday for a holiday even as a batch of 162 Sri Lankan military officer and their spouses left for India on […]
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
How come EU representatives did not make representations to the PM when 21/4 happened but are now meeting the PM claiming that Muslims are targeted? On what basis are they substantiating these comments? Is it following biased media and NGOs run by entities that the Western Govts fund? Is there a bigger motive to all […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Kamalika Pieris There is deep hostility between Wahhabi movements and the traditional (Sufi) groups, reported Faslan and Vanniasinkam. They fight over who is the better Muslim and who are the real followers of Prophet Mohamed. They each consider themselves as the only real Muslims, the rest are non- Muslims. Families, including children were also trained […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන සිංහල භාෂා පාඨයට ප්රමුඛස්ථානය කියා රවටමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් සිංහල ජනතාවට සිදුකරන අවමන් සහගත සැළකිල්ල/ වෙනස්කම පිළිබදව කතානායකට සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට එරෙහිව නඩු පවරන බවට නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන 2018 නොවැම්බර් මස 05වන දින ජනාධිපතිටත් එවකට අග්රාමාත්යයව සිටි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාටද, කථානායක කරූ ජයසූරිය මහතාටද ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා, සංහිඳියා සහ රාජ්ය භාෂා අමාත වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මහතාටද, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මහ ලේකම් වෙතද, ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ රෙජිස්ට්රාර් […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture Did Japan contribute to Sri Lanka and India gaining independence from British colonial rule?” by Senaka Weeraratna On Monday 24th June 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
රාජ්ය සේවා කළමනාකරණ සහකාර නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය ලේකම්, සෞඛ්ය පෝෂණ හා දේශීය වෛද්ය අමාත්යාංශය, පූජ්ය බද්දේගම විමලවංශ හිමි මාවත, කොළඹ 10. ලේකම්තුමියණි, රාජ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවාවේ නිළධාරීන් මුදාහැරීම සම්බන්ධව. රාජ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවාවෙන් විතැන්කොට සංවෘත සේවාවක් ලෙස,ජාතික සෞඛ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවාව ස්ථාපිත කරණු ලබුයේ මීට පෙර අධිකරණ තීන්දුවකින් ඒකාබද්ධ කළ සේවාවක් බව නොසලකමින් හා සියලූ වෘත්තීය […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island “Above all, it has to take action to ensure that the current administration and future governments will not be able to enter into agreements with foreigners at the expense of the national interest. New laws are needed to make it mandatory for vital agreements to be presented Parliament before being inked. […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Chiniquy Africans who voluntarily converted to Christianity before the colonial conquest such as Affonso I of the BaKongo in the 15th century probably did not discern the purpose of the brand of Christianity that was supplied to them. Which was probably why they fell easy prey to the missionaries and the white traders and […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya and Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two people, who had pledged to National Thowheed Jama’at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim to operate as suicide bombers, were arrested in a joint raid conducted by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) and the Army yesterday, Police said today. Zahran masterminded the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror A top US government official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka in the analysis of evidence and phone details in connection with the serial bombings on Easter Sunday. The official told a select group of journalists that the FBI, […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO • Five Sri Lankans suspected of having links to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people were brought home in police custody yesterday after being deported from Saudi Arabia, police said. Police declined to provide details of the arrests beyond saying the five were picked up in […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Five suspects including Mohamed Milhan, an ardent member of the terrorist group that carried out the carnage of Easter Sunday, have been arrested in Jeddah, the Police Media Spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekara said. A group of officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have escorted the suspects to Sri Lanka at around 4.00 a.m. […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana It is revealed that Zahran Hashim has attempted to bribe several lawyers for Rs 2 million, to solicit them to bail out the suspects arrested over vandalism of Buddhist statues in Mawanella and nearby areas. The National Thowheed Jama’ath leader has reportedly given the said amount of money to Maulvi Rashid Mohamed Ibrahim […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s security forces have arrested two individuals who believed to be close associates of terrorist leader Zahran Hashim, the ringleader of the Easter Sunday attackers. Police said that the suspects were arrested at Hingula in Mawanella during a secret operation jointly carried out by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) and the Sri […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana One of the five suspects, who were arrested in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for allegedly having strong links to the terrorist group that carried out the coordinated attacks on Easter Sunday, is also in connection with the murders of two police constables at Vavunativu, the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. He stated […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Seventy-seven suspects involved in the Easter Sunday attacks are currently held in the custody of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), says Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. He added that 25 others are being held in the custody of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID).
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
මව්බිම දැන් බොදුබල සේනාවට සම්බන්ධ ලිපි ලේඛන සහ පසුගිය දිනවල ලංකාවේ සිදුවුණු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම් පිළිබඳව ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා යොදාගත් බවට විශ්වාස කළ හැකි මුද්රණ කඩදාසි ළඟ තබාගෙන සිටියේ යැයි කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා ලැබ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන රඳවාගෙන සිටි මවුලවිතුමකු 13 දක්වා රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට මීගමුව ප්රධාන මහෙස්ත්රාත් රජින්ද්රා ජයසූරිය මහත්මිය පෙරේදා (12දා) නියෝග කළාය. […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
මව්බිම දැන් සමාජ ජාල ඔස්සේ නිරුවත් ඡායාරූප ප්රචාරය කරන බවට පවසමින් පෞද්ගලික අධ්යාපන ආයතනයක ඉගෙනුම ලබන සිංහල තරුණියන් බියගන්වා බෞද්ධ ආගමෙන් ඉස්ලාම් ආගමට හරවා ගන්නා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රමුඛතම පෞද්ගලික අධ්යාපන ආයතනයක දේශකයකු පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු වාර්තා වේ. ඔහු මේ වනවිටත් සිංහල තරුණියන් දෙදෙනකු බෞද්ධ ආගමෙන් ඉස්ලාම් ආගමට හරවාගෙන ඇති අතර මුස්ලිම් ආගමට හරවා ගැනීමෙන් පසු ඔවුන් […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
මව්බිම දැන් මහනායක හිමිවරුන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම මත සිය ධුරවලින් ඉල්ලා අස් වූ තමන් ඇතුළු සියලුම මුස්ලිම් ඇමතිවරු නැවත වරක් ඇමති ධුර භාර ගැනීමට සුදානම් බවට හිටපු අමාත්ය එම්.එච්. අබ්දුල් හලීම් පවසනවා. අප පුවත්පත සමග විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකට එකතු වෙමින් ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළා. ඒ අනුව අදාල තීරණය සම්බන්ධව අගමැතිවරයා සමගද සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වා තිබෙන බවට ඔහු සඳහන් […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
විශේෂාංගයකතුවැකිය උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම යුරෝපා සංගමයේ නියෝජිත මණ්ඩලය (ඡ්භ) ප්රංශ, ජර්මන්, ඉතාලි, නෙදර්ලන්ත හා රුමේනියා තානාපති කාර්යාලද, එක්සත් රාජධානි මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය, ස්විට්සර්ලන්ත සහ නෝර්වේ තානාපති කාර්යාලවල එකඟතාව මත පසුගිය බදාදා (12දා) ඒකාබද්ධ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කළේය. එහි පළමු ඡේදයේම මෙසේ සඳහන් වේ. සාමය හා සංහිඳියාව අනතුරේ හෙළමින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මුස්ලිම් ප්රජාව ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් ක්රියාත්මක වන දේශපාලනික […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ තීරණය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය රැස්වුවහොත් නීතිය අනුව අග්රාමාත්යවරයා ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කර නව අග්රාමාත්යවරයකු පත්කිරීමේ බලය ජනාධිපතිවරයාට තිබෙන බව හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සරත් එන්. සිල්වා මහතා ‘මව්බිම’ට ප්රකාශ කළේය. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 30 (1) වගන්තිය අනුව විධායකයේ ප්රධානියා, රජයේ ප්රධානියා, ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්රධානියා සහ සන්නද්ධ සේනාවල ප්රධානියා වන්නේ ජනාධිපතිවරයායි. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 43 (2) […]
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