Archive for July, 2019
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
by Tang Lu Courtesy NewsIn.Asia COLOMBO, July 17 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan bride-to-be Aniya Perera was keenly enquiring about the glitzy exhibits at the Wedding Show-2019” held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo last weekend. My wedding is in February 2020, but I have been visiting a number of wedding exhibitions […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 18 (newsin.asia): A contract agreement for around US$ 91.26 million to upgrade the railway track from Maho to Omanthai under Indian concessional financing was signed by IRCON International Limited of India and the Government of Sri Lanka here on Thursday. The contract agreement was signed by Sunil Kumar Choudhury, Chairman & […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
JANAKI CHANDRARATNA Courtesy The Island July 18, 2019, 9:02 pm There is a considerable degree of anxiety and concern relating to the American ACSA (Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement), SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) and the MCC (Millennium Challenge Corporation) projects currently being considered or probably have already been signed off by the govt. in […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island Time was when this country was known as the Granary of the East. Today, it is apparently on its way to becoming what may be called the Dumpsite of the East. Consignments of foreign garbage are said to be imported. The Customs trade unions have said that as many as 122 […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
By Siri Hettige, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Colombo – Courtesy The Island There has been considerable public discussion in recent months about the need to find a meaningful and real alternative to the existing two mainstream political formations in Sri Lanka. But, the people in the country are yet to see a clear […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
OLD SOLDIER The JVP, who in 1989-90 attempted genocide of the Sinhalese, share similarities with the Nazi’s who actually committed genocide of six million Jews in Germany and occupied Europe in 5 years. In SL there were over 60,000 deaths in a year before the JVP was neutralized. Had they gone on it would have […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy The Island The United States Government will not buy, sell, or own any actual land under Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact, says the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Alaina B. Teplitz. Ambassador Teplitz conducted a Facebook live chat on Thursday to counter misinformation and disinformation that has been propagated about US-Sri Lanka cooperation. The […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National Police Commission (NPC) has called for a report from the Acting IGP over the possibility of removing the CID from investigating Dr. Mohammed Shafi’s case and hand it over to the Police Special Investigation Unit (SIU). Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said an attorney had lodged […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy Ceylon Today Power outages due to the adverse weather conditions have been reported from several areas in the island including Matara, Galle and Ratnapura today (18). Deputy Director of theDisaster Management Centre (DMC), Pradeep Kodippili advised the public not to proceed to the sea and to avoid travelling to the mountain areas due to […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
By Hansi Nanayakkara Courtesy Ceylon Today The Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) yesterday (18), informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratna that they were currently probing how a sum of over US$ 100 million had been sent from Saudi Arabia to the Batticaloa Campus Private Limited and the Bank accounts from which that sum had been […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
By Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today In spite of the ambiguities embedded in the Constitution over the next date of the Presidential Poll, there is no doubt that it should be held prior to May 2020, the latest. From the perspective of the people in the country, it is pertinent to rethink about the decision […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
කතු වැකිය ලංකාදීප යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ රාජ්ය අමාත්ය පදවියක් හොබවන රන්ජන් රාමනායක භික්ෂු සමාජය ගැන කරන ලදැයි කියන ප්රකාශයක් පිළිබඳව ලොකු කලබගෑනියක් හටගෙන තිබේ. ඔහු එම ප්රකාශය මගින් මෙරට භික්ෂු සමාජය දැඩි විවේචනයට ලක්කර ඇත. යූ ටියුබ්” මාධ්ය ඔස්සේ සාකච්ඡාවකට සහභාගී වෙමින් රන්ජන් රාමනායක විසින් කරන ලද ප්රකාශය වැරැදීමක් හෝ වැරදි අර්ථ දැක්වීමක් නොව ඔහු විසින් […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana It is apt to revise the indictments filed against former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa if they are in a state of being revised, the Supreme Court told the Attorney General. The Attorney General had filed indictments with the Permanent High Court-at-Bar against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, accusing him of misusing state funds when constructing the […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General today filed a revision application before the Colombo High Court against the Colombo chief magistrate’s order granting bail to IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando. The appeal requests the Colombo High Court to issue an interim order against the granting of bail by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Secretary of the National Police Commission Saman Dissanayake has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in connection with the Avant-Garde floating armoury case. The NPC Secretary was reportedly arrested while he was at the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital. The Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday rejected the anticipatory bail application filed by Dissanayake, requesting […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The World Bank will increase assistance to Sri Lanka under three of its new operations, the World Bank Vice President for South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer said today (18). The three World Bank operations include assisting the agriculture sector faced with climatic vagaries, irrigation, renewable energy, climate resilience operations and renovation of tanks […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ගෙන ඒමට යෝජිත ඉඩම් පනත් වලින් මෙරට ජනතාවට භූමියේ හිමිකම් ලැබෙන බව අගමැති වරයා පවසයි. මෙම අයිතිය වලක්වාලන්නට මෙරට සංවිධාන දෙකක් වැඩ කරන බවද ඒවාට නොරැවටී ජනතාවගේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය ලබා ගත යුතු බවද ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් ප්රකාශයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ.මෙතෙක් කල් බලපත්ර හිමිව සිටි ස්වර්ණ භූමි සහ ජයභූමි ඔප්පු හිමිව සිටි ලංකාවාසී ජනතාවට සින්නක්කරවම […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island It has been reported that the State Land (Special Provisions) Bill, tabled in Parliament on 28 June, sought approval for passing necessary provisions for awarding the sole right to state land held by citizens. The government is reported to have said that the Bill will benefit the people who […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ගුරු-විදුහල්පති වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානය නමින් සමාජ ජාලවල හා දිවයිනේ පාසල් කිහිපයක අත් පති්රකා බෙදාහරිමින් 2019 ජුලි 18/19 දෙදින ගුරු-විදුහල්පතිවරුන්ගේ අසනීප නිවාඩු වාර්තා කිරීමේ කි්රයාමාර්ගයක් පිළිබඳව ප්රචාරය කරමින් සිටී. එම වෘත්තීය කි්රයාමාර්ගයට පහත සඳහන් වෘත්තීය සමිති කිසිවක් සම්බන්ධ නොවන බව දැනුම් දෙමු. මාර්තු 13 දින අප සියලූ සංගම් එක්ව සාර්ථක එක්දින වැඩ වර්ජනයක් කි්රයාත්මක […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
බැසිල් ප්රනාන්දු the Asian Human Rights Commission මරණීය දණ්ඩනය අහෝසි කිරීම පිළිබඳව නීති කෙටුම්පතක් ගැසට් කරන බවට ඇති අනාවරණය සතුටට කරුණකි. එය ලෝකයේ බොහෝ රටවල් අශිෂ්ඨ යැයි පිළිගන්නා කරටි මවේදයක් ලංකාව තුළද පිළිගැනෙන බවට පරරී කාශයකි. ඒ නිසා මෙය ලංකාවේ නීති කරි් මය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීරණාත්මක වෙනසක් ඇති කළ හැකි අවස්ථාවකි. එහෙත් මෙම අවස්ථාවේදී සලකා බලා පිළියම් […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
lanka C news මුදල් ඇමති මංගල සමරවීර මහතා මෙරට මහ ජනතාවගේ දේපල සුවිශාල වශයෙන් ගසා කෑ දරුණුතම අපරාධකරුවෙක් බව ජාතික සමගියෙන් බලවේගය කැඳවුම්කරු පූජ්ය තීනියාවල පාලිත හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් උන් වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළහ. මංගල සමරවීර ඇමතිවරයා විසින් සිදුකරන ලද අයථා කොමිස් ගනුදෙනුවලින් පමණක් ලන්ඩනයේ නිවාස 06ක් මිලට ගෙන […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island The yahapalana government is a contradiction in terms in that it consists of politicians who have a history of practising the very antithesis of good governance. Some of the recent utterances of its leaders and their soul mates show how fraught it is with internal contradictions. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
Garvin Karunaratne Former Government Agent The vast colonization schemes of the Dry Zone, the peasantry, in thousands that enjoyed the land, earning bountiful crops were all due to the great achievement of our Leader, DS Senanayake, all achieved during his days as the Minister for Agriculture and Lands. It was his dream to uplift the […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය යුනෙස්කෝ ලෝක උරුම තෙත් කලාපීය වැසි වනාන්තරයක් වන සිංහරාජ රක්ෂියේ නැගෙනහිර රක්වාන කඳුවැටිය හා ඒ ආශ්රිතව පවතින්නා වූ වනාන්තර පද්ධතිය සූවිශේෂි ජෛව විවිධත්වයකින් යුක්ත වන අතර සිංහරාජයේ වෙසෙන අවසාන දැවන්තයන් දෙදෙනා වසරේ වැඩි කාලයක් සක්රීය වන ප්රදේශයකි. මානික්වත්ත, බෝටියතැන්න ප්රදේශය ආශ්රිත කලාපය සිංහාරජ අලි සංක්රමණ කලාපයක් ලෙසටද ලෙස නම් […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
Mahinda Gunasekera His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Your Excellency Maithripala Sirisena and Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Please see the annexed video discussion with two representatives of the GMOA with one Chapa Bandara relating to serious wrongdoings in procedure and harm done to the health of […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera මේ මාසය අවසන් වනවිට බැංකුණය පොලිය 12% සිට 10% දක්වා අඩු කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ත්රිකුණාමලයේ දී පැවසීය. පාස්කු ප්රහාරයෙන් කඩා වැටුණු සංචාරක ව්යාපාරය කෙටි කලක් ඇතුළත යථාතත්වයට පත්වනු ඇති බවද අග්රාමාත්යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කළේය. Need of the hour is not reducing existing interest rates ,but imposing rules on all […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
(නිර්මාණය – ඩබ්.කේ. එස්. ජයතිලක) සිංහල ඔබගෙ අයිතිය වෙයි මේකපාට බේද නොබලව් ඔබ කිසි දාකපෑන අතින් ගෙන නොබියව කිසි දාකතබනු තබනු එහි අත්සන සැබෑ දැක උගනිව් ඉගෙනගව් සැමගේ භාෂාවපෙරමුණ දියව් තමගේ මව් භාෂාවකෙළෙසන්නට එපා කිසිවිට මව් භාෂාවසමතැන නොවේ නිසි තැන තබව් මව් භාෂාව නීති පනත් ගෙනෙනා ඒ මිනිස්සූදුගී ජනයා තලනා ඒ මිනිස්සූනීති කඩන ඒ ගෙම්බර […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has mastered the art of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. The party successfully carried out the well-planned strategy to save the United National Party (UNP) from the embarrassment of a defeat at a No-Confidence Motion (NCM) against Rishad Bathiudeen, by […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
By Kamal Siddiqi Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Karachi, July 16 (The Express Tribune): This month a teenage Hindu girl, Payal Kumari, was abducted by her teacher from district Thatta. Police looked the other way as Payal went missing for several days before appearing to record her statement at a madrassa. Payal joins the thousands of Hindu girls […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express As troubled Afghanistan moves towards a partial withdrawal of American troops; an end to violence; and a political solution, the presence or influence of China, Russia and Pakistan in that country has increased perceptibly. Despite its accusation that Pakistan is not doing enough to contain terrorism on its soil and also in […]
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