Archive for July, 2019
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana All Muslim parliamentarians who resigned from their ministerial portfolios have decided to accept their previous positions once again, MP Amir Ali said. At a press conference on June 03, all Muslim cabinet, non-cabinet, state, and deputy ministers announced that they would resign from their portfolios. The MPs said their resignations would allow investigators […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
නාලක සංජීව දහනායක උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප සතොස ආයතනයට රුපියල් මිලියන 5000ක පාඩුවක් සිදුකර ඇති බවට හිටපු ඇමති රිෂාඞ් බදියුදීන් මහතාට එල්ලවීඇති චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් විධිමත් පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වන මෙන් ඉල්ලමින් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් අද (11) අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ කොමිසන් සභාවට පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කළහ. යහපාලන රජයේ අමාත්යවරුන්ගේ වංචා හා දූෂණ හෙළි කිරීමට ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසින් ක්රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island The Prime Minister’s Office has taken the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce to task over the latter’s comments on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared, in Parliament, that the government will never enter into agreements that are detrimental to Sri Lanka’s interests. He has torn into […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Thanks largely to our erstwhile colonial master, who experimented with various forms of self-government before granting us natives full Independence we can claim to be Asia’s oldest democracy. It is a fact that we were the first country in Asia to enjoy universal adult franchise from 1931 onwards […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday alleged that the government had brought about a draft bill to amend the Finance Act to remove the Central Bank from the purview of the Finance Ministry. Addressing a press conference at the Parliamentary complex, the Opposition Leader said that the government was trying […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Courtesy Reuters.com KURUNEGALA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Sri Lankan prosecutors said on Thursday tests would be needed to establish whether a Muslim doctor had sterilized Buddhist patients, while there was no evidence to support other charges against him of links to terrorist groups or money laundering. The case of Shegu Shihabdeen Mohamed Shafi has become […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
According to Indian intelligence agencies, this drug business is a major source of income for ISI and they use this in terror funding. Two boats carrying banned drugs from Pakistani coast city Karachi to Sri Lanka were intercepted by Sri Lankan Coast guards on Wednesday. The operation was successfully executed based on the inputs by […]
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Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Courtesy The Government official news portal After a particularly hot and humid May this year, many Sri Lankans would have eagerly anticipated the south-western monsoon to ease their discomfort. Each year, what Sri Lankans don’t expect however, seems to be the ensuing outbreak of the deadly dengue virus. 2019 doesn’t seem to be any different […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
S. Akurugoda As per a news item appeared in The Island dated 9th July 2019, the newly appointed Chief Executive Director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC,) Sean Cairncross has written to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stating that he looks forward to Wickremesinghe’s continued leadership to advance their shared goals. It is interesting to find […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE During general elections for 4 Parliament on 19 March 1960, the leader of MEP Phillip Gunawardene said: ” If minorities or majorities of Sri Lanka unwilling to commit to our Constitution and Laws, they can leave Ceylon, we will meet the cost of air passage and chop their passports as […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island SLFP General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekera, MP, yesterday, requested the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage to investigate and find out the names of foreigners and local politicians who had stayed at Hotel Taj Samudra on April 21 as that would lead them to the persons behind […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island UPFA MP and SLFP General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekera finally chose to bite the bullet, yesterday; he appeared before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday attacks. He had previously ignored summons, claiming that the PSC proceedings undermined the judicial process and, therefore, he did not want to participate therein. […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්යතුමා සමෘද්ධි හිමිකම් නොලබන ජනතාවක් සිටින රටක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම රජයේ අරමුණ බව විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්ය සුජීව සේනසිංහ පැවසීය. අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ රජය ක්රියාත්මක කරන අඩු ආදායම් ලබන පවුල් සඳහා සමෘද්ධි සහනාධාර ලබා දීමේ වැඩසටහන යටතේ කඩුවෙල ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ තෝරාගත් පවුල් සඳහා සමෘද්ධි හිමිකම්පත් පිරිනැමීම වෙනුවෙන් අතුරුගිරිය, […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය නිදහස් වෙළඳ කලාප සහ පොදු සේවා සේවක සංගමය ‘‘ඒකීය රැුකියා නීතිය’’ මැයෙන් තවමත් ප්රසිද්ධකර නොමැති සහ පසුගිය අගහරුවාදා (ජුලි 09* ජාතික කම්කරු උපදේශන සභාවට ඉදිරිපත් කළමුත් සාකච්ඡුා නොවුනු ‘‘තනි කම්කරු නීති’’ කෙටුම්පත පිළිබඳව අපි කම්කරු සබඳතා ඇමත්ි ඇතුලූ අදාල පාර්ශව හමුවේ අපගේ කණස්සල්ල හා විරෝධය පසුගිය අවුරුද්ද පුරා සටහන් කර ඇත්තෙමු. ඒ අතර, […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Priorities of the rulers at this moment is to finds funds to provide free health and education, subsidised fuel, services to public such as police protection, crime busting , eradicating drug menace, maintaining law and order,disposing garbage,upholding judiciary etc . Once we find funds country , country should save part and also […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (සමායෝජක), ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ සහ අභියාචනාධිකරණ නඩු තීන්දු ලබා දිය යුතු භාෂාව සිංහල භාෂාව විය යුතුද? යන කාරණය ජනමතවිචාරණයකට යොමු කරන ලෙස ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් කරන ඉල්ලීමට නීතිඥවරුන් ඇතුලු බොහෝ පිරිස් අත්සන් කරමින් ඇත. ඉලක්කය අත්සන් 10,000 ක ප්රමාණයකි. මෙම ඉල්ලීමට ඔබගේ අනුමැතියත් අවශ්යයි. අත්සන් කිරීම සදහා විමසන්න නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (සමායෝජක), ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ සහ […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) said yesterday it had directed Sri Lanka Customs to re-export the illegally imported containers filled with industrial waste to the country of origin. The shipments were reportedly imported from Britain. The Director of the Chemicals and Hazardous Waste Management Unit of the Waste Management […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Courtesy The defense post COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) – Sri Lanka is negotiating a fresh military cooperation deal with the United States, its Prime Minister announced in parliament Wednesday, July 10, even as the country’s president vowed to veto any agreement. Ranil Wickremesinghe said the government was discussing a replacement for a 1995 Status of […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Parliamentarian Roshan Ranasinghe says he received death threats from President Maithripala Sirisena’s brother, Dudley Sirisena. The parliamentarian stated this joining Derana ‘Wada Pitiya’ political programme last night (09). The Criminal Investigation Department even refused to accept his complaint in this regard, MP Ranasinghe alleged. Commenting that a brother of a president has not […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana MP Dayasiri Jayasekara says that Sri Lanka’s authorities should investigate as to why one of the Easter Sunday attackers did not set off his bomb at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo despite visiting it and to also find out who was at that hotel on that fateful day. The SLFP General Secretary […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
lanka C news ඇක්සා ගිවිසුම වසර දෙකක් තිස්සේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර නැති බවත් අතිශය රහසිගතව මේ සියල්ල මංගල සමරවීර ඇමතිවරයා විසින් පිටුපස සිට සිදු කර ඇති බවත් පූජ්ය තීනියාවල පාලිත හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. මංගල සමරවීර ඇමතිවරයා යතු මේ ආන්ඩුවේ සිටින ඉතාම දූෂිත ඇමතිවරයෙක් බවද හිමියෝ පැවසූහ. හිටපු විදේශ ලේකම් ප්රසාද් කාරියවසම් හා හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
lanka C news පාස්කු ඉරිදා දිනයේ මෙරටට එල්ල වූ බෝම්බ ප්රහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශනය කරන පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාව හමුවේ අද දිනයේ කැඳවා තිබුණේ ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මහලේකම් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතායි. ඔහුට පළමු වතාවට කැඳවූ අවස්ථාවේ එය ප්රතික්ෂේප කර කැඳවීම වර්ජනය කළ අතර කළ නමුත් අද දිනයේ ඔහු කමිටුව හමුවේ පෙනී සිටියේය. තේරීම් […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
lanka C news ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ සහෝදරයා වන ඩඩ්ලි සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් විසින් තමන්ට මරණ තර්ජනය කළ බව එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්ධාන පොළොන්නරුව දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. තමනට මෙම මරනීය තර්ජනය කරන ලද්දේ පොලීසියෙන්ද ලග තබාගෙන බවත් මන්ත්රීවරයා කීය. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන් රහස් පොලිසියට පැමිණිල්ලක් කිරීමට උත්සාහ කළ අවස්ථාවේ එයට ද […]
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
lanka C news ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරනයට ඉදිරිපත් වන්නේ යයි කියන නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු මහතාට විරුද්දව සමාජ ක්රියාකාරිකයෙකු වන ඕෂල හේරත් මහතා විසින් මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවට පැමිණිලි කර ඇත. එම සම්පුර්ණ පැමිණිල්ල මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපති සහ සාමාජිකයින්,මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවමැතිවරණ මහ ලේකම් කාර්යාලය,තැ.පෙ. 02, සරණමාවත,රාජගිරිය, 10107,ශ්රී ලංකාව මහත්මයාණනි, නගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු මහතා ගැන පැමිණිල්ලක් 99, සුබද්රරාම පාර, […]
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Generally, all political parties in Sri Lanka have a common problem, which is they don’t train the next leader for the party to take responsibilities on account of the country. Next leader of a political party should be a dynamic characteristic, which has a good education, excellent attitudes, dynamic skills and broader […]
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
Sarath Obeysekera A daily paid labourer who was living in appalling condition along Dutch Canal in Alakanda near the CMC garbage dump was helped to build his house with my personal funds. He tells me that his wife is having chronic asthma. She had to attend regular clinic in Ragama Teaching. Hospital. He complained about […]
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
360 with Udaya Gammanpila (24 – 06 – 2019)
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said yesterday President Maithripala Sirisena had no judicial power to pick out four convicts to be executed when there were many others on death row. SLPP Chairman G.L. Peiris said there were more than a hundred people serving life imprisonment for drug trafficking and asked […]
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General will file revision application before the High Court over granting bail to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando, says the Attorney General’s Department. Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today (09) released the two defendants on bail imposing a surety bail of Rs […]
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
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