Archive for August, 2019
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
Courtesy The Island August 7, 2019, 9:20 pm Avocados are rich in antioxidants which can help prevent fine lines and wrinkles. There are many great benefits of avocado – one is that it’s rich in good fats that moisturise your hair. It’s also well absorbed by the hair shafts and scalp. Bananas are another natural moisturiser. The […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, The 53rd Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 04 August 2019 with faith inspiring addresses of his five speeches. by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The Convention began on […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ලේකම්, ප්රාථමික කර්මාන්ත සහ සමාජ සවිබල ගැන්වීමේ අමාත්යාංශය. සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. බඳවා ගැනීමේ පටිපටිය උල්ලංඝණය කරමින්, ජාතික සේවක සංගමයට සාමාජිකයින් බදවා දුන් සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් හට පමණක් වැඩබැලීමේ සමෘද්ධි කළමණාකරු පත්වීම ලබා දීම වහා අත්හිටවන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙත රාජ්ය සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව විසින් අනුමත කර එවන […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්යස්ථානය ගරු අමාත්ය, රාජ්ය පරිපාලන හා කළමනාකරණ අමාත්යංශය, කොළඹ 7 ගරු අමාත්යතුමනි, වැන්දඹු අනත්දරු, වැන්දඹු පුරුෂ අනත්දරු දායක මුදල් වාර්තා ඉල්ලමින් විශ්රාමිකයින් පීඩාවට පත් කිරීම මේ වන විට විශ්රාම වැටුප් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විශ්රාම යන රාජ්ය සේවකයින්ගේ පත්වීම් දින සිට විශ්රාම යන දිනය තෙක් දායක මුදල් අය කළ බැව් සඳහන් වාර්තා ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලෙස […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
ප්රධාන ලේකම්, සමස්ත ලංකා ප්රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. ගරු ප්රධාන අමාත්ය අර්ජුන, ප්රවාහන හා සිවිල් ගුවන් සේවා අමාත්යාංශය, 07 වන මහල, සෙත්සිරිපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි, ශ්රී ලංගම සේවකයන්ට රුපියල් 2500/- ක දීමනාව නොගෙවීමටත් නිළධාරීන්ගේ වැටුප් සංශෝධනය නොකිරීමටත් එරෙහිව ගනු ලබන ක්රියාමාර්ගයන් දැනුම්දීම. 2019 අගෝස්තු මාසයේ වැටුපට ශ්රී ලංගම සේවකයන් හට රු 2500 යේ අන්තර් දීමනා මුදල […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය දුම්රිය වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානය දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්රාථමික ශිල්පීය නොවන සේවා ගණයේ දුම්රිය කාර්ය සහායක/නවාතැන්, බංගලා, සහායක/කාන්තා විශ්රාමශාලා සේවිකා II වන ශ්රේණියට බඳවාගැනීම සඳහා මේ වන විට සම්මුඛ පරීක්ෂණ පවත්වමින් ඇත. දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ මෙම තනතුරු පුරප්පාඩු පිරවීම සඳහා 2019.-07.19 දිනට පෙර අයදුම් පත් එවන ලෙස ප්රවාහන අමාත්යාංශයේ උපදෙස් පරිදි දුම්රිය සාමාන්යාධිකාරී විසින් 2019.07.06 දින […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
By Sonia Sarkar Courtesy Telegraph India has a more humanitarian approach towards drug offenders than its neighbours Bangladesh and Sri Lanka After a moratorium of 43 years, the gallows were getting ready in Sri Lanka. Two executioners with ‘excellent moral character’ and ‘mental strength’ were appointed. A list of four convicts — involved in drug offences […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) investigating the Easter Sunday terror attacks has reportedly decided to summon members of the Special Investigation Committee (SIC) appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena to testify on 20 August. The SIC comprises Supreme Court Judge, Justice Vijith K. Malalgoda, former IGP N.K. Ilangakoon and former Law […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A petition has been filed at the Supreme Court seeking a ruling that the Private Member’s Bill presented to the parliament by MP Bandulal Banadarigoda on the abolishment of the death penalty is not unconstitutional. The Attorney General has been named the respondent of this petition file by Prof. C. Gunaratne from Nugegoda. […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Thanks to the ongoing Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on Easter Sunday attacks, the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader and Vanni District lawmaker, Rishad Bathiudeen, is no longer under heavy fire over his alleged involvement with the now-proscribed National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ). The government proscribed the NTJ on May […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, MP, yesterday, revealed that he had recently been offered the post of the Deputy Minister of Defence and a Cabinet portfolio by the Minister of Defence. President Maithripala Sirisena is the Minister of Defence. The former army chief said that he had turned down the […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener The Muslim Voice”, August 6th., 2019. Muslim parliamentarians on behalf of the Muslims of Sri Lanka should denounce this political process in the Indian parliament (Lok Sabah). It is sad to see a Prime Minister of a Democratic country which […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera We keep watching TV about the daily demonstrations by young generations where male and female students with young monks with overgrown hair. What a waste of energy and valuable time. In Russia, I remember how the young generation of the same age group in the universities behaved. They are supposed to do […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Courtesy NDTV The Sri Lankan Prime Minister added that Ladakh’s creation as a Union Territory and its consequential restructuring is “India”s internal matter”. COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday welcomed the Central government’s move to confer Union Territory status on Ladakh, a region with a Buddhist majority. Taking to Twitter, Mr Wickremesinghe […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
By KRISHAN FRANCIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Courtesy abc News Sri Lanka’s prime minister on Tuesday told a parliamentary committee investigating the Islamic State-inspired Easter Sunday bomb attacks that the country should prepare itself for new types of terrorism. Existing policing, investigative agencies and laws had experience with ethnic Tamil separatists during Sri Lanka’s civil war, but […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu Sri Lankan PM tells inquiry panel that he was not informed about the terror threat despite prior intel I am yet to get a satisfactory response on why I was not briefed about the Easter Sunday terror threat,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said, suggesting that the Sri Lankan government […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) stance on the presidential election will be decided after the second round of discussions between President Maithripala Sirisena and SLPP and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, SLFP General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekara said today. The two leaders met on Monday night. I can’t disclose […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Rosie Spinks, Courtesy Skift n the wake of a tragedy, destinations are hugely beholden to the public perception of how safe it is to travel there, regardless of the reality on the ground. But the United States — which has experienced more mass shootings than there are days in 2019 — is unfairly exempt from […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Courtesy Inquirer.net The Island/Asia News Network COLOMBO — The first ever Sri Lankan nano satellite, RAAVANA-1 launched into an orbit 400 km away from earth on June 17, sent the first picture of earth. RAAVANA-1 is a research satellite built by two Sri Lankan engineers, Tharindu Dayaratne and Dulani Chamika, from the University of Peradeniya and […]
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today Turkey’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka Tunca Ozcuhadar alleged that the Easter Sunday suicide bomber Zahran Hashim and his group were mere ‘foot soldiers’ who carried out an attack planned by someone else. Ozcuhadar clarified that he is not a security expert but said the logic behind the systematic bombings […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara A people’s Manifesto for the next Presidential/General Election. ? Fifty Demands for all political Parties and aspirant leaders who intend contesting next Presidential/General Election Introduction It is a foregone conclusion that there is no Government in this country today, in spite of the fact that there is a President, a Prime Minister, […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති අම්මා තමයි අපේ ගෙදර බුදුන්. අපේ රටේ හැම ගෙදරක ම එහෙම තමයි කියලා අපි හැමෝ ම දන්නවා. ඉතින් අම්මා ගැන කියන්නේ නැතුව අපි ලොකු මහත් වෙච්ච විදිහ ගැන කියන්නේ කොහොම ද? අද මම කියන්නේ අපේ අම්මා ගැන. අම්මායි මමයි ඉපැදිලා තියෙන්නේ එක ම දවසේ. හැබැයි අපේ අම්මා මට වඩා අවුරුදු තිස් තුනක් […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Everyone talks about the garbage lying in the free trade zone . No one has any clue to get rid of it after courts prohibited moving them out I remember a solution I gave when I ran SLLRDC during the time of RP. As an Anandian I was invited as the chief […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
by Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage has decided to summon the members of the Special Investigation Committee (SIC) appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena for the same purpose. The PSC had informed the SIC members to be present to give evidence on Aug 8 at the […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
Courtesy The Canberra Times Ganeshamoorthy Thiyagarajah faces deportation to Sri Lanka after serving his sentence for murder. Recruited as a child soldier at age 12 and later tortured by his enemies before fleeing by boat to Australia, Sri Lankan Ganeshamoorthy Thiyagarajah is now facing years behind bars for a “brutal” killing in Adelaide. Thiyagarajah was […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
By C.Y.P. RAM, UNP COLOMBO DISTRICT ORGANISER AND FORMER MEMBER WESTERN PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Courtesy Ceylon Today Party leaders and Parliamentarians who represent the minority Tamil and Muslim communities have failed in their duty, which is to achieve the aspirations of the community they represent. Plans to form a Tamil and Muslim conference by them is […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Police have arrested three suspected members of the banned organisation, Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI), who had allegedly received training from terrorist leader Zahran Hashim in Nuwara Eliya and Hambantota. Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said that they were arrested by Ampara Police today and that one of the suspects is a student of […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Forty-seven people died and over 200,000 were infected by the dengue virus across Sri Lanka in the first seven months this year, government figures revealed on Monday. Till the end of July, a total of 234,078 dengue cases were reported, with the highest number of cases reported from the Colombo district followed by […]
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Monday, August 5th, 2019
අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය මූලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවේ දී එම පක්ෂ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. පාස්කු බෝම්බ ප්රහාරයේ සිදුවීම් සමග නම කියැවුණු එකම මන්ත්රිවරයා තමයි රිෂාඩ් බදියුඩීන් ඇමතිවරයා. එතුමා ගැන අපි පොලිසියට පැමිණිලි කළත් අඩුම ගණනේ පොලිසිය විසින් ප්රකාශයක් වත් සටහන් කර ගන්නේ නැතුව එතුමාව නිදහස් කළා. පොලිසියට අයිති […]
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අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ ‘සහරාන්ගේ කල්ලිය’ වැනි තවත් ත්රස්ත කල්ලියක් ලවා මරාගෙන මැරෙන ප්රහාරයන් එල්ල කරවා රට තුළ හදිසි තත්වයක් ඇතිකොට ඒ තත්ත්වය යටතේ ජනාධිපතිවරණය කල් දමා, රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් භාරකාර ආණ්ඩුවක් හැදීම ඇමරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදයේ අවසන් තුරුම්පුව වී ඇති බවත් ඒ නිසා ඉදිරි මාස කීපය ඉතාමත් තීරණාත්මක කාලයක් වනු ඇති […]
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