Archive for August, 2019
Sunday, August 18th, 2019
සිතුම් රාජකරුණා ඒ ඒ විෂයන්හි වියත්, ස්වචින්තනයකින් යුත් ගුණවත් විෂය භාර ඇමතිලා සපිරි ගින්දර ආණ්ඩුවක දේශ-පාලනය නොකර, දේශ-මෙහෙකාරකමේ යෙදෙන එතෙර නාකි ඇලඩින්ලාගේ ශුද්ධ වූ බුමුතුරුණු කඳුලින් දෝවනය කරන අපේම තැලුණු පිච්ච මව්වරු යළි මෙහි වඩම්මවා ඒ අයට එකලාව සමෘද්ධ වීමට සමෘධිය නොව, අත, හිත වගේම නිදහසේ පිබිදීමට සැලසුම් සපයා දෙන රටේ හෙට දින පිපෙන්නට කල් බලමින් […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
By Chandre Dharmawardana Today, even if you wish to dig a canal to provide water to rural people who are suffering from kidney disease owing to having consumed brackish well water contaminated with fluoride, an environmental impact statement is needed. Any major undertaking needs environmental impact statements. One of the reasons given for the cancellation […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Lionel Rajapakse JVP has announced their candidate for the upcoming presidential election. Their choice is Anura Kumara Dissanyake. Obviously, it is going to be Sajith Premadasa from UNP. Do either Anura Kumara or Sajith qualify to lead a country? No way! Forget about the development. Forget about the economy. Forget about who is contesting from […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ගෙයක් හදනවා කියලා කියන්නේ හැම දෙයක් ම ලෑස්ති කරගෙන ඉවරවෙලා පටන් ගන්න කටයුත්තක් නෙවෙයි. ගෙදර හදන්න ඕන දේවල් ලෑස්ති කරගන්නවා කියලා කියන්නේ ම ගේ හදන්න පටන්ගත්තා කියන එකට. 1981 දී මැටියගනෙන් ඉඩමක් ඇරගෙන ඒකේ කාමර දෙකක පුංචි ගෙයක් හදාගෙන පදිංචියට ආපු එක තමයි අපේ ගේ හැදිල්ලේ ආරම්භය. කාලය ගත වෙද්දි මේ ගෙදරට […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera This is a true story which can be vouched and also an open letter to the minister of health About two weeks ago a patient who was my own uncle named K V Nihal Sumanadasa was admitted to ward 33 with severe internal bleeding and diarrhea, by his son who worked in […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ⋆ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ ජිනීවා යෝජනාව සඳහා සම අනුග්රහකත්වයෙන් ඉවත්වන ලෙස ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලංකා සංසදයේ විධායක සභාව ජනපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඇතුළු අනිකුත් අපේක්ෂකයන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලයි ⋆ ශ්රී ලංකා හමුදාවට යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා එල්ලවන ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ නිර්මාතෘ ඇලිස් වෙල්ස් මෙරටට පැමිණෙයි ⋆ ප්රභාකරන් කම්මුතුකරුවෙක් නොවේද? ⋆ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්ට චෝදනාකරන ද්රවිඩ සන්ධාන මන්ත්රී […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ශී්ර ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂක හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන සිරගත කිරීම සඳහා රජයේ ඉහළම නිල නිවසක් තුළදී අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ උසස් නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනකු සහ ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉහළම දේශපාලනඥයන් තිදෙනකු අතර රහස් සාකච්ඡුාවක් පවත්වා තිබේ. මෙහිදී මාධ්යවේදී ලසන්ත වික්රමතුංග ඝාතනය, වසීම් තාජුඞීන් ඝාතනය හෝ ප්රගීත් එක්නැලිගොඩ අතුරුදන්වීම සිද්ධිය […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Courtesy srilankamirror.com UNP deputy leader – Sajith Premadasa has been informed through close associates that Ranil Wickremesinghe will not give the party candidacy to him, reports say. A news report by the ‘Aruna’ newspaper states that if Mr. Premadasa wishs to contest the presidential election regardless as a separate candidate, he has the opportunity to […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
FB Please take note of the response in parliament by Gayantha Karunatilleke who was representing the Ministry of law and order to questions posed by Buddhika Pathirana on behalf of Udaya Gammampila on the number of Media personnel allegedly abducted in the period 2010.01.26 to 2015.01.08. The answer was None as the excerpt from the […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් >ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ප්රමුඛ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ සිය ඇමරිකානු පුරවැසිභාවය ඉවත් කර ගැනීම ස්ථිර ලෙසම මේ වන විට සිදුකර අවසන් බව ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා ප්රකාශ කළා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ජා – ඇල ප්රදේශයේ ඊයේ පැවති ජනහමුවකින් පසු මාධ්ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 18 (newsin.asia): In the first meeting of Indian Ocean Region Association (IORA) Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) Working Group chaired by Sri Lanka and held in Colombo on August 8 and 9, Sri Lanka reiterated its interest in setting up a Regional Maritime Information Fusion Centre to complement similar centers in […]
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Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Kochi, August 18 (The New Indian Express/newsin.asia): To attract more tourists from India, the Sri Lankan government has re-launched a Ramayana tourism circuit, which will link all temples and caves in the country associated with the Hindu epic. The initiative was presented by Sri Lanka Tourism Minister John Amaratunga at the Sri Lanka […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS DAIRY INDUSTRY. Ministry of Rural Economic Development had imported high- yielding pregnant milch cows from Wellard Rural Exports Pvt. Ltd., Australia. They had arrived in November 2017. These cows were imported as part of an initiative by the Ministry of Rural Economic Development. The Ministry had ignored the warnings given by the Department […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island Sajith Premadasa, with his black T-shirt and huge Indian-politico garland at Badulla, is certainly making a massive pitch to be the UNP’s next candidate for the Presidential poll. His spread of villages and towns in the country has passed its 250th, and is racing ahead to keep alive his paternal […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today “Sri Lanka enjoys a geographic position in the middle of very significant sea lanes and transit lanes that is an envy of many nations. The US acknowledges that, and we know we have a partner in Sri Lanka that shares our interests, making sure that those transit lanes […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A new book titled, Tamil Tigers Debt to America authored by Daya Gamage, has been published by the Library of Congress (under control No. 2016913508) ISBN: 1537053485 and 13:9781537053486 respectively. The author is an old Trinitian who read Economics and European Political history at Peradeniya; subsequently became […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
By W.K. Prasad Manju Courtesy Ceylon Today Trying to reach a consensus on the existing UNP presidential candidate conundrum, conditions have been laid down by Ranil Wickremesinghe’s faction, who have agreed to name Deputy UNP Leader, Sajith Premadasa as the Presidential candidate, internal sources said. However, the Premadasa faction has still to respond. It is […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 16 (Xinhua): The Sri Lanka China Buddhist Friendship Association together with the Chinese Embassy in Colombo, have donated a drinking water purification plant to the Moragollagama village, in Kurunegala, in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province. A statement from the Chinese Embassy on Thursday said that the water purification facility is the […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 16 (newsin.asia): The India – Sri Lanka Foundation (ISLF) invites research and other educational project proposals in the areas of Education, Art & Culture, Archaeological Studies, Agricultural Research, Science & Technology, Information Technology, Health, Development Studies, and Gender Studies. Under the above thrust areas, proposals could be submitted for research projects […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Aug. 15 – With the completion of a mega China-funded port city project in capital Colombo, property value here is expected to increase within six years, a leading property report said. The report, titled Lanka Property Web, 2019, Real Estate Trend, said that with the completion of the Colombo Port City, business […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 16 (newsin.asia): The Bangladesh High Commission in Sri Lanka commemorated the National Mourning Day’ marking the 44th anniversary of the brutal assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by serving cancer patients in Matara in the Southrn Sri Lanka and Anuradhapura in the North Central Province. In […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම – හිරු පුවත් මුතුරාජවෙල තෙත් බිම් කලාපයේ කඩොලාන විනාශයක් පිළිබඳව හිරු සී.අයි.ඒ. හරහා පසුගිය 14 වැනිදා අනාවරණයක් සිදුකළා. <br /><br />එම ප්රදේශයේ කළ හෙළි පෙහෙළි කිරීම් ගොවිජන සේවා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව හා පොලිසිය ලබාදුන් උපදෙස් මත සිදුකළ බවයි ඉඩමේ හිමිකම වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි කාන්තාව වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තු නිලධාරීන් හමුවේ ප්රකාශ කළේ. ශ්රී ලංකාව සතු වැදගත්ම […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
ජයකාන්ත ලියනගේ lanka C news වත්මන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට අදාල මහ මැතිවරණය පවත්වා හෙටට (17) වසර 04 ක් සපිරේ. මෙරට අර්බුද රැසක් නිර්මාණය වූ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ලෙසින් ඉතිහාසයට එක්වන මෙහි ජාතික ලැයිස්තුව පත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වූ සලකා බැලීමකි මේ. සමානුපාතික ඡන්ද ක්රමය යටතේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තුව සැකසෙන්නේ මහජන ඡන්දයෙන් ජයග්රහණය කල නොහැකි, ජාතික වටිනානමක් ඇති පුරවැසියන්ගේ සේවය රටට ලබා […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
වෘත්තීය සමිති සහ සිවිල් සංවිධාන කෙටුම්පතකි අතින් භාරදීම 2019 අගොස්තු මස වන දින. රවින්ද්ර සමරවීර, කම්කරු සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති අමාත්යතුමා කම්කරු සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති අමාත්යංශය, 02 වන මහල, කම්කරු මහ ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, නාරාහේන්පිට, කොළඹ 05. ගරු අමාත්යතුමනි, යෝජිත සේවා නියුක්ති පනත ඉල්ලා අස් කර ගන්නා ලෙස කරනු ලබන ඉල්ලීම ඔබ අමාත්යංශය විසින් 2019 ජුලි මස […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror India, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Afghanistan are among the countries where the Islamic State (IS) terror group has found a footing, as its influence has diminished drastically across its territory of origin in Iraq and Syria, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday quoting a leading conflict monitor. According to data released by Armed Conflict Location and […]
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Friday, August 16th, 2019
Courtesy DECCAN CHRONICLE The monitor showed that the increase in its activity outside West Asia — mostly across South Asia and Africa– is drastic. In recent times, IS has carried out more activities outside West Asia than inside and also restructured its group, under the directions of its leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: Representational /AFP) New […]
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Thursday, August 15th, 2019
C. Wijeyawickrema When the country is getting ready to get rid of the death-trap and the white elephant called the 13th Amendment, that Rajiv Gandhi forced JRJ to swallow, and the governors are running the show without PCs, Navin Dissanayaka (ND) must be crazy to talk about police and land powers to PCs. This is […]
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Thursday, August 15th, 2019
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Thursday, August 15th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island Some polls monitors have called for a ceiling on election campaign expenditure. This, we hear in the run-up to elections like koha’s mating call during the Avurudu season. But nothing happens thereafter and the issue is forgotten. Politicians and moneybags carry on regardless, and corruption thrives. The Election Commission (EC) takes […]
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Thursday, August 15th, 2019
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines Ajith Dias, yesterday, made a statement on the decision to store paddy at the Mattala Airport in 2015, to the Police Unit attached to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating corruption in the current administration. Last month Dias was asked to appear before the […]
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