Archive for July, 2019
Monday, July 8th, 2019
The white man landed in Africa and set up his own systems to rule and divide Africa to plunder. Ironically the same countries are now fine tuning the very laws they set into motion to facilitate a new wave of plunder. However, in most of Africa customary land laws prevail and is probably one saving […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
By Gandara John Caught with his pants down, literally selling off Sri Lanka to the Americans, a desperate Wickramasinghe has reportedly called on his thugs to get onto the Streets to prevent and intimidate law abiding citizens seeking Justice from Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court of Justice. Wickramasinghe has reportedly exhorted his goondas to enforce the […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුනගෙන් ජනතාවට ඉල්ලීමක්…. ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ සහ අභියාචනාධිකරණ නඩු තීන්දු රටේ බහුතර ජනතාවට කියවිය හැකි පරිදි සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් වන වැඩසටහන අංක 09, කොළඹ පාර, හදපාන්ගොඩ.(10524)දුරකථන 0342256066, 0342256067, 0712063394. ගරු මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමාශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපති,ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය,කොළඹ 01. ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ සහ අභියාචනාධිකරණ නඩු තීන්දු ලබා දිය යුතු භාෂාව සිංහල භාෂාව විය […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island The Ranil Wickremesinghe administration was attempting to create a cheap labour force needed to facilitate the implementation of neoliberal economic policies, by amending` land laws, Chinthaka Rajapakshe, Convener of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) said commenting on the scheme to grant outright ownership of land to […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Former Corporal of the Army Intelligence Unit Lalith Rajapaksa has been arrested over the assault on the former newspaper editor, Upali Tennakoon. The arrest has been carried out arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Hanwella last night (07), stated the Police Media Spokesperson. On 23rd September 2009, the former editor of […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana No Sinhalese person would receive the rights to land in Sri Lanka in the future through the Land Grants (Special Provisions) Act, stated UNP MP Wijeydasa Rajapakshe. Rajapakshe expressed these views addressing an event held in Colombo. He says that if Founder of United National Party (UNP) and late Prime Minister D. S. […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department is set to launch probes into the revelations made by Venerable Medagoda Abayatissa Thero over 20 persons being allegedly killed under the Sharia law, says Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. Reportedly, Abeytissa Thero has made the revelations on the 4th of July.
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A fuller Bench comprising seven judges of the Supreme Court has been appointed to hear the petitions filed against Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara and former Defense Secretary claiming that they had violated fundamental rights by failing to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks. The Judge Bench headed by Chief Justice Jayantha […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 8 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority together with the Prime Minister’s office, the Ministry of Tourism and the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka tabled a cabinet paper on Monday and received the approval for the reduction of ground handling charges, aviation fuel, and the embarkation levy for […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
BY PHILIP YIANNOPOULOS Courtesy Foreign Policy.com As large colonial-era tea plantations crumble, family-owned plots are trying to take their place and save the industry. For nearly a year now, Priyantha Gamage, the son of a Tamil tea plucker, has been documenting the scars and scabs of the tea plantation workers on the Deniyaya Estate in the […]
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
Courtesy The New Indian Express Over the last few years, a number of sporting events have been hijacked to propagate political messages. As India went about clinically demolishing Sri Lanka in the final group game of the cricket World Cup on Sunday, some headlines were stolen by an airplane dragging a couple of banners across […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
By Mario Perera, Kadawata I do not know whether Mangala Samaraweera is the adherent of a religion. I only know, from a photo published in the newspapers some time back, that he has no respect for the Lord Buddha. The photo showed him holding a Buddha statue by the neck and behind his person. I […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Despite the various arguments against the executive presidency in Sri Lanka, when impartially consider on the role played by the position, it is acceptable that the executive presidency has performed a significant role in the country in relation to a various area. There may have been weaknesses in it as human discharges […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Cruelty and Atrocities by Catholics For a period that exceeded 150 years, from 1505 to1658, a greater part of Sri Lanka’s coastal region was under the control of Portuguese Catholics. This was a period marked by extreme forms of violence and atrocities by the Portuguese, against local inhabitants especially the Sinhala Buddhists, […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane From the year 1505 until 1658, for about 153 years, a good part of the coastal region of Sri Lanka was under the control of the Portuguese. This was a period marked by extreme forms of violence and atrocities against the Sinhala community, especially the Sinhala Buddhists. It was a period marked […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Mahinda Gunasekera Ms. Salma Zahid, MP Member for Scarborough Centre Dear Ms. Salma Zahid, We refer to the motion proposed by the NDP to investigate Sri Lanka’s action to defeat Tamil Tiger Terrorism in the years 2006 to 2009 as an act of Genocide against Tamils, which was passed in the House with the consent […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
By Jessica Brown Courtesy BBC The microbiome inside our bodies dictates many aspects of our health – and is as individual as we are. Inside your gastrointestinal (GI) tract are trillions of micro-organisms, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. You have roughly the same number of micro-organisms in there, mostly in the large intestine, as you do human […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
By David Robson Courtesy BBC Emerging evidence suggests a 10:1 ratio of carbohydrates to proteins may protect the body from the ravages of ageing The search for the elixir of youth” has spanned centuries and continents – but recently, the hunt has centred on the Okinawa Islands, which stretch across the East China Sea. Not […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ⋆ නඩුගොනුවට බොරු නම් ඇතුළත් කරලා ⋆ ත්රස්ත මර්දන ඒකකයේ හිටපු ප්රධානියකුට සහ රහස් පොලිසියේ ඉහළම විමර්ශකයාට එල්ල වූ චෝදනා රජයේ මාධ්ය සහරාන්ල වසන් කරයි ⋆ නඩු වාර්තාවට කුණුහරුපත් ඇතුලත් කරලා “ඇමරිකානු සී අයි ඒ සංවිධානය ත්රස්තවාදී සැකකරුවන්ට එරෙහිව වධහිංසා පැමිණවීම් ඇතුළු සිදුකළ අපරාධ ගැන යුක්තිය ඉටුකළ යුතුයි” – ජාත්යන්තර ක්ෂමා සංවිධානයේ ඇමරිකානු විධායක […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
සමන්තී වීරසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ”මහා නාහිමි අධිකරණය හමුවට ගෙන යනතුරු මේ රටේ නායකයෝ නිදිද…?” ”අස්ගිරි මහ නාහිමියෝ රැක ගැනුමට පෙළ ගැසෙමු” ”බෞද්ධකම නොදත් මහපුටු හොබවන්නෝ එළවා දමමු” මෙවන් වැකි රැසක් මහනුවර නගරය සහ සෙසු ආසන්න ප්රදේශ පුරා ප්රදර්ශනය වෙමින් පවතින්නේය. ශ්යාමෝපාලි මහා නිකායේ අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ මහානායක අතිපූජ්ය වරකාගොඩ ක්දාණරතන ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ, මුස්ලිම් ජනතාවට එරෙහිව ප්රකාශයක් කළේ […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
වෛද්ය කේ. එම්. වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඇමෙරිකානු තානාපතිනිය වන ඇලයිනා ටෙප්ලිට්ස් මහත්මිය තම ට්විටර් ගිණුම උපයෝගි කර ගනිමින් විශේෂ ප්රකාශයක් සිදුකොට ඇත. ඇය සඳහන් කරන්නේ ඇමෙරිකානු හමුදා කඳවුරක් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පිහිටුවීමට තමා අදහස් නොකරන බවය. මෙම ලිපියේ අරමුණ ඇය විසින් සිදු කරන්නේ සත්යයක්ද නොවන අසත්යයක්ද නොවන ප්රකාශයක් බව පෙන්වා දීමය. එනම් […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
මනෝජ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සහරාන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක්, අහිංසක ජීවිත හාරසිය ගණනක් බිළිගෙන, කන්යාවන් හැත්තෑ දෙකක් සමග ස්වර්ගයේදී යහන්ගත්වීම සඳහා ගිය ගමනේදී, ෂාෆි සේහාබ්දීන් ඇතුළු වර්ගවාදයෙන් ඔළුව කුරුවල් කරගනිමින් සිංහල ජාතියට එරෙහිව ගේම් ගැසූ විශාල පිරිසකගේ කුමන්ත්රණ හෙළිදරව් වන්නට විය. දිවයින නියෝජ්ය කර්තෘ හේමන්ත රන්දුනු විසින් මාධ්ය ආචාර ධර්ම මත, නොපිරිහෙලා සකසන ලද, ෂාෆිගේ සිංහල […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
තරංග රත්නවීර සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සිංහලයෙක් කසාද බැන්ද වරදට ශරියා නීතියේ ගොදුරක් වූ හයිෆාගේ කතාව අහන්න… * අපේ ගමේ සිංහල පිරිමි කසාද බැඳපු තවත් මුස්ලිම් කාන්තාවො ඉන්නවා, ඒ සිංහල පිරිමි මුස්ලිම් ආගමට ඇවිත් ඉන්නෙ…* මගේ මහත්තයා තමයි අටුළුගම ගමෙන් කසාදයක් කරගෙන මුස්ලිම් ආගම වැළඳ නොගෙන ඉන්න එකම සිංහලයා… මේ හෙළිදරව් වන්නේ සමාජයේ නිරුවත […]
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Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Martin Brech Courtesy The INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW In October 1944, at age eighteen, I was drafted into the U.S. army. Largely because of the “Battle of the Bulge,” my training was cut short, my furlough was halved, and I was sent overseas immediately. Upon arrival in Le Havre, France, we were quickly loaded into […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday announced he will not allow his government to conclude a proposed military deal that would allow US troops free access to the island’s ports. The President said he was opposed to the draft Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that the two countries are negotiating to further strengthen […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
දේශපාලන වාර්තාකරු උපුටා ගැන්ම දේශය තීරණාත්මක දේශපාලන ප්රශ්න ගණනාවක් ගැන ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ මත විමසුමක් සිදු කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීන්දු කර ඇතැයි ඉහළ පෙළේ විශ්වාස කටයුතු ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. මේ සඳහා වන සුබ දිනයක් පවා පසුගිය සතියේ මෙරට ප්රධාන පෙළේ දෛවඥයන් ගණනාවකගෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා විමසා තිබිණි. දේශයට වාර්තා වන ආකාරයට ජනාධිපතිවරයා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ මතය විමසීමට සැරසෙන්නේ 19 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Tissa Jananayake [1] කලලයට විඥ්ඥාණය බැස ගන්නේ කෙසේද? [2] දරුවන්ට දෙමව්පියන්ගේ ගතිගුණ නොපිහටන්නේ ඇයි? [3] සර්වසම නිවුන් දරුවන්ගේ දෛවය දෙයාකාර වන්නේ ඇයි?
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Courtesy Scroll.in For some Sinhala-Buddhists, the mythological king is a symbol who challenges Indian cultural hegemony. On June 19, Sri Lanka successfully put its first satellite into orbit. This was a landmark moment for the small island country that spent nearly four decades focused on a civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 6, 2019, 8:12 pm The country is where it is thanks to partisan party politics which takes precedence over everything else. The economy is struggling to remain afloat and the tourism sector is still lying supine following the Easter Sunday carnage. Another National Thowheed Jamaath cadre wanted in connection with […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island July 6, 2019, 8:14 pm Last week, the debate on the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Sri Lanka and the US took centre stage. The proposed SOFA is not something specific to this country but a generic agreement signed by the US with many other states. Many of […]
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