Archive for September, 2019
Saturday, September 14th, 2019
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island September 14, 2019, 8:28 pm Anura Kumara Major split in the yahapalana vote All ‘also rans’ floundering Second and third preference hopes unrealistic With the JVP fielding its own candidate, the yahapalana vote bank breaks up in a very significant way. At the presidential elections held in 2010 […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera It was first of May 1993 when tigers exploded a bomb to kill President Premadasa I was a chairman of a corporation hand-picked by Premadasa though I have never done any politics before that We were obliged to attend 1st of May parade with the UNP union on 1st in May […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2019
දඹුල්ල- කේ. කේ. ආරියදාස උපුටා ගැන්ම මව්බිම දැන් බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ ජීවමානව වැඩ සිටින සමයෙහි විශාඛා මහා උපාසිකාව හා අනේපිඬු මහා සිටාණන් විහාරස්ථානයට පැමිණෙන විට විහාරස්ථානයේ වැඩසිටින කුඩා සාමණේර හිමිවරුන්ට රසකැවිලි, පලතුරු ආදිය රැගෙන පැමිණි බව ඉතිහාස බණ පොත්වල සඳහන්ව තිබේ. එම නිසාම විශාඛා උපාසිකාව පැමිණෙන විට කුඩා සාමණේර හිමිවරුන් සිය අම්මා පැමිණි හා සමානව ඉදිරියට […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2019
Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said he would not contest the upcoming parliamentary election if there was no congenial political atmosphere in the country. I, as a civilian, will do some social service and will continue my profession,” he said. Mr. Rajapakshe said he would only support a presidential candidate after […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2019
Editorial Courtesy Ceylon Today Last week saw United National Party (UNP) members aligning themselves into two camps – one supporting its long-time leader, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the other backing Party’s Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa. Premadasa had been far from being subtle when it comes to his desire to contest the upcoming Presidential Election on […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News According to political sources, the meeting between UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa and leaders of the UNF will be held at Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s residence tonight. Political sources also revealed that the scheduled meeting tomorrow between Minister Sajith Premadasa and the TNA is likely to be postponed. Meanwhile, the UNP disciplinary committee […]
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Saturday, September 14th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ජාත්යන්තර බලවේග මේ වනවිට දැඩි ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ගෙල සිරකර ඇති බව පූජ්ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හිමියන් පවසනවා. අද ශ්රීමත් අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමන්ගේ 155 වන ඡන්ම දින සැමරුම් උත්සවයට එක්වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ මේ අදහස් පළ කළා. ශ්රිමත් අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමන්ගේ 155 වන ඡන්ම දින සැමරුම නිමිත්තෙන් සිරි ධම්පල් අභිනන්දන පුන්ය මහෝත්සවය අද පස්වරුවේ පැවැත්වුණේ කොළඹ […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Colombo, September 12: The Chairman of the Sri Lankan Election Commission, Mahinda Deshapriya, has reportedly decided to hold the Presidential election before December 7 and to call for nominations before September 30. What is noteworthy this time round is that there is no clarity as to which of the candidates (tentatively in […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් පසුගිය 10 වැනිදායින් පසු ජනාධිපතිවරණය ප්රකාශ කිරීමේ බලය තිබියදී මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව එම කාර්යය මෙතෙක් ඉටු නොකිරීම කුමන්ත්රණයක්දැයි සැක සහිත බවට නීතීඥ සංවිධාන ජාතික එකමුතුව චෝදනා කරනවා. එහි නියෝජිතයින් මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ අද ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් කැඳවමින්. මැතිවරණ කොමිසමට එල්ලවන එම චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් එහි සභාපති මහින්ද දේශප්රිය මහතා ද අදහස් පළ […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2019
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cost of printing school uniform vouchers could have been reduced by about 25% if photos of the President, Prime Minister, Education Minister and State Minister of Education at the back of the vouchers were removed, it was revealed at the Presidential Commission on last Thursday. General Manager of […]
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Friday, September 13th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana In a major boost for Sri Lankan students, the UK has this week launched a new ‘Graduate Immigration Route’ for international students choosing the UK for their higher education. This new scheme allows students pursuing their higher education in UK to stay and work, or to look for work, for two years following […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
To answer that question, it is essential to first know how successful Mrs. B was in her foreign diplomacy and a comparison of the periods and scenarios during her rule and that which Gotabaya is likely to inherit. Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first female prime minister and held power from 1960-65 and 1970-77. […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Unknown to most Sri Lanka is facing unprecedented interferences most of which when known will be too late to reverse. Every aspect of danger centres on the periphery of land, its ownership and its grabbing legally via statutes being drafted by non-Sri Lankans. These questions and answers from an attorney knowledgeable in electronic land laws […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Privatization of government owned banks has been an issue in Sri Lanka since early 1990s and many have no idea why the issue was emerged at that time, and it seems that now the issue has involved in politics rather than considering the facts related to the requirement of privatization or popularly […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
S. AKURUGODA As reported in the media, Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe is to hold crucial talks with his deputy Sajith Premadasa amid a deepening crisis over their party’s presidential candidacy. Although there were disputes among the hierarchy of the UNP back in 1988 on similar matters the issues were not taken out onto the streets […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
සුදත් ගුණසේකර 12.9. 2019. මරණ තුනක් දැක මිනිසෙක් පැණි කෑය” කියා පැරැණි කියමණක් ඇත. මට ඒ කතාව මතක් උනේ මේ දිනවල රනිල් ඉදිරියේ ඇති දේශපාලන මරණ තුනක් තිබියදීත් ඔහු ඒ කිසිවක් ගණන් නොගෙන අසන්වේදීව සිටින සැටි දුටු විටය. එනම් පළමුව ඔහු ජනාධිපති තරඟයට ඉදිරිපත්වීම, දෙවණුව සජිත්ට ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂ්කත්වය දීම හෝ තෙවණුව පක්ශය තුලින් හෝ ඊට […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
By Amila Wijesinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today With the UNP (at the time of writing) yet to decide on their choice of candidate for the upcoming Presidential Election, former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa, representing the SLPP seems to be leading the race for the presidency. The will of the people should never […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මවුකුස පිළිසිඳ ගැනීම යනු, විශ්වය හරහා පැයකට කිලෝ මීටර් 928,000ක් වේගයෙන් ගමන් කරමින් තිබෙන සෞරග්රහ මණ්ඩලය නම්වූ විශ්වීය පියාසර යාන්ත්රණයට ගොඩ වැදීමයි. මේ යාන්ත්රණයට ගොඩ වදින මිනිසා, උපරිම වශයෙන් වසර 100ක කාලයක් ජීවත්වීම සඳහා වරම් ලබන අතර, එය ස්වභාවය විසින් උරුම කරයි. ජීවත්වීමට අවැසි ධනය කාලය වන අතර, සියලුම මිනිසුන්ට එක සමානව […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග දීගොඩ කුමාර ගේ චිත්ර මෙන්ම ළමා කතා මා කියවා තිබේ. පාසල් කාලයේදී දීගොඩ කුමාර විසින් ලියන ලද මිහිර පත්තරේ පළවූ චිත්ර කවියක් මට තවම මතකය. පාසල වෙත මම යන විට කකුල කැඩුනි කළු ගලකට යන්ට බැරුව සිටින කලට ලැබුනා ඉබ්බෙකුගෙ පිහිට එදා කවි කතන්දර චිත්ර ඇන් ද දීගොඩ කුමාර විශ්ව ශක්තිය […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
By Noor Nizam – Convener “The Muslim Voice”, September 12th., 2019. The behaviour of the Bohara family/visitors shown in the video is “NOT” acceptable and should not be tolerated. The Bohra community visitors to Sri Lanka should leave Sri Lanka alone. They should “NOT” create unwanted problems to the Muslim community among the majority Sri […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Anjula Mahika Weeraratna and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today, as the UNP leader who had protected the party during trying times, he would contest the upcoming presidential elections if he could win and if otherwise, he would opt out. He said he held a myriad positions during his political career […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Court of Appeal today directed the Colombo Magistrate’ Court to acquit all accused including former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa from the Avant-Garde case filed by the Bribery Commission. The decision was announced by the judge bench comprising Justices Achala Wengappuli and Arjuna Obeysekara, after considering the appeal filed on behalf of the […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් මන්නාරම දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සිදුකර ඇති සංවර්ධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අමාත්ය රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීන් මහතාට ස්තුතිවන්ත විය යුතු බව අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පවසනවා. අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ අදහස් පළ කළේ අද මන්නාරම ප්රදේශයේ පැවති උත්සවයකට එක්වෙමින්. මන්නාරම ඉරුක්කලම්පිඩි මුස්ලිම් මහා විද්යාලයේ ඉදි කෙරුණු නව තාක්ෂණ ගොනැගිල්ල සහ ක්රීඩා ප්රේක්ෂකාගාරය අද විවෘත කෙරුණේ අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන්.
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් රාජ්ය සේවකයන්ගේ වැටුප් ගෙවීමට මුදල් නොමැතිවීම හේතුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුව මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරය හරහා විදුලි සංදේශ නියාමන කොමිසමෙන් රුපියල් බිලියන 10 ක ණයක් ඉල්ලා ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. මන්ත්රීවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ කොළඹ අද පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදීයි.
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 12 (newsin.asia): At the 42 nd. session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Wednesday, Sri Lanka staunchly defended its decision to appoint Lt.Gen.Shavendra Silva as Army Commander in the face of criticism from Western countries and the human rights lobby that he has been accused of war […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Colombo, September 12: It appears that United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is ready to support the candidature of Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa for the Sri Lankan Presidency, if the latter agrees to abolish the Executive Presidency and makes him the Prime Minister in a parliamentary form of government, in which […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dhaka, September 12 (The Daily Star): Bangladesh today hosts the biggest refugee camp in the world. It became so, suddenly and brutally. The flow of refugees was not a trickle but a monsoon flood. But unlike many countries of the world, we (Bangladeshis) rose to the occasion. It was with the warmest of […]
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Thursday, September 12th, 2019
Speech by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Viyathmaga Chairman At Viyathmaga Annual Convention 2019, September 12, 2019, 9:07 pm Foreign Direct Investments across Asia is creating hundreds of thousands of jobs annually in electronics, information technology, automation, real estate and business services, adding value across the economy. This has attracted the global private equity industry to Asia, which […]
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Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The biggest mistake done by the yahapalana regime was neglecting the economy and national security and these two vital areas have clearly understood by Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The current unofficial presidential campaign shows that except Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, all other buoyant presidential candidates are reluctant to talk about the national security and […]
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Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
ALI SUKHANVER According to an analysis, there are more than 1.8 Billion Muslims and more than 50 Muslim majority countries but among this huge crowd, it is something very unfortunate that there is only and only Pakistan to hold the hands of the helpless Kashmiris in their miseries and distress. This selfish rather cowardly attitude […]
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