Archive for September, 2019
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has written to the Acting Inspector General of Police Chandana Wickramaratne outlining a set of guidelines to prevent arbitrary and illegal arrests. The HRCSL has requested the Acting IGP to bring these guidelines to the attention of police personnel with strict […]
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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena said a person larger than Arjuna Mahendran will stand in the bond scam witness box in the coming days with the legal documents to bring back the prime suspect of the Central Bank bomb scam had been completed. He said a certain politician said in Kuliyapitiya that the […]
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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is the first respondent for preventing Provincial Council elections from being held. The President stated this addressing the convention held to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo today (3). Speaking at the […]
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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 3: Kevum or Konda Kavu is mentioned in ancient Sri Lankan texts including the Ummagga Jatakaya,Saddharma RatnawaliyaandPujawaliya as a delectable sweet. It is a festival sweet especially associated with the Sinhala New Year where it is part of an array of sweetmeats and savouries. TheDhathuwansaya, an ancient Sinhala text, mentions 18 kinds of […]
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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 3 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked members and supporters of his party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), to form an SLFP government in 2020 when parliamentary elections are held, and added that in the next government the President will be stripped off his powers and all power […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Indian Intelligence Agency sent an alert on April 8, 2019, warning of a terror attack. Sunday Times of 21 July 2019 published the text of this alert. The text said: Sri Lanka based Zahran Hashmi (sic) of National Towheed Jamaat and his associates are planning to carry out a suicide terror attack in […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Those who planned the Easter bomb explosions used two methods of attack, suicide, and truck. The suicide attacks are well known, but not the truck attack. The truck attack was planned for Kochchikade. The van was parked in the vicinity of the St. Anthony’s Gate 04 harbour entrance. The owner of the van was […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE A window of opportunity is open for the next generation of Nationalist Leaders to abrogate the Provincial Councils altogether in a New Constitution. The political tussle which existed with conflicting groups of legislators virtually made the functioning of Provincial Councils defunct. Sumanthiran’s TNA and Hakeem’s Muslim Parties have been twisting […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි.සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවයට අයත් ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය යටතේ සේවයේ යෙදෙන සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් 16000 කට ආසන්න පිරිසක් සැප්. 04 දින සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමයේ වගකීම යටතේ එක්දින වැඩ වර්ජනයකට අවතීර්ණය වීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. අදාල ඉල්ලීම් එදින ලබාදීමට ආණ්ඩුව අපොහොසත් වන්නේ නම් ගම්පෙරළිය වැඩසටහනෙන් හා ග්රාම ශක්ති වැඩසටහනෙන් මෙන්ම වැඩබැලීමේ රාජකාරීවලින් […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Laksiri Warnakula I make it a point to read the ‘The Island’ (on-line edition) every day. The times I get to do that depends on my daily work-schedule that involves shift work too. But suffice it to say that I never miss the ritual, which it has been for so many years now. I start […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
by Arihant Pawariya Courtesy Swarajya Women against love jihad hold placards to protest against the practice and conversion in Bhopal. (Mujeeb Faruqui/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Snapshot The Himachal government has brought in a new Freedom of Religion Act that attempts to put the brakes on large-scale conversion activities.However, a lot more can actually be done […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
lanka C news පහල නිලයක සිටි සුදුසුකම් සහික දක්ෂ සේවකයෙක් තමන් එක් දුරකතන ඇමතුමකින් ඉංජිනේරුවකු ලෙස පත් කල බව ඇමති සජිත් පේ්රමදාස මහතා සදහන් කලේය. උත්සව සභාවකදී ඇමතිවරයා මේ බව සදහන් කලේය.
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
lanka C news තමන් මධ්යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලින් මුදල් ගසා කෑ බවට චෝදනා එල්ල වන බව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නියෝජ්ය නායක ඇමැති සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා පවසයි. තමන් එම අරමුදල් ලබාගෙන රටපුරා වෙහෙර විහාරස්ථාන ගොඩනැගීමට කටයුතු කරන ලද බව ඔහු සඳහන් කළේ ය. එසේ නොකළේ නම් එම මුදල ස්ථිර තැන්පතුවේ තිබියදී රුපියල බාල්දු වීම සමග බාල්දු වී […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
GR midea ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ නීතීඥ සංගමයේ සම්මේලනය අමතමින් ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් සිදු කල දේශණය මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. පසුගිය අගොස්තු මස 11 දා පැවති පක්ෂයේ මහා සම්මේලනයේදී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පස්වන විධායක ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ප්රමුඛ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ගනනාවක මෙන්ම ස්වාධීන සංවිධාන හා කන්ඩායම් රැසක පොදු අරමුණ […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Editorial Courtesy The Island A government move to accelerate the Gamperaliya programme by granting more funds to the UNF MPs has irked the Joint Opposition (JO) beyond measure. That the UNF is desperate to boost its plummeting approval ratings with only a few more months to go for the presidential election is blindingly obvious. The […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The SLPP and the SLFP have reached a consensus on three crucial issues including the limit on the number of Cabinet ministers in keeping with the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The 19th Amendment, enacted in early 2015, has restricted the Cabinet to 30 unless Parliament ratifies the formation of a national […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka will request the extradition of an ex-central bank chief in relation to a US$74 million (S$103 million) insider trading scam, the attorney-general said Monday (Sept 2), months after Colombo accused Singapore of sheltering him. Arjuna Mahendran, a Singapore national of Sri Lankan origin, was accused in […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
W.K. Prasad Manju Courtesy Ceylon Today Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to strip certain Ministers of their portfolios, for openly backing the prospective candidature of UNP Deputy Leader and Minster Sajith Premadasa, while amending the portfolios of a few other Ministers, informed political sources said. The sources said Wickremesinghe had informed the President in […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has informed the President that the Provincial Council elections cannot be held under the previous election system or the Provincial Councils (Amendment) Act. Issuing a statement, Secretary to the President Udaya Seneviratne said the five-judge bench of the Supreme Court had unanimously agreed on the verdict. The Supreme Court has […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් කිසිදු අන්තවාදයකට හිස එසවීමට ඉඩ නොදී ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන බව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපති ධුර අපේක්ෂක, හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. කොළඹ ප්රදර්ශන හා සම්මේලන මධ්යස්ථානයේ අද පෙරවරුවේ පැවති ප්රගතිශීලි වෘත්තීය සමිති ජාතික මහා සම්මේලනය අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළා. එම අවස්ථාවට විපක්ෂ නායක මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ද […]
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් පක්ෂ 2ක අතර පැවති සාකච්ඡාවලින් පසු ශ්රී නිදහස් පක්ෂ මහ ලේකම් දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා පිටතට පැමිණ ප්රකාශ කරන්නේ වෙනත් කාරණා බවට ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ චෝදනා කරනවා. අද පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළා. ඊට මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්.පීරිස් මහතා ද සහභාගී වුණා.
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
C. Wijeyawickrema A news item that Tissa Vithrana (TV) has been appointed by SLPP as coordinator for Tamil affairs, took my mind back to the days of the majority and minority reports of the infamous APRC chaired by LSSP’s TV. His majority report was signed by members including a husband and wife team! TV even […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
එමීරයේ ජයන්ත එක්සත් එමීර් රාජ්යයේ ශ්රී ලංකා තානාපති පසුගිය සදුදා උදේ පාන්දරම නිල නිවසේ සිට අබුඩාබි උසාවියට පැමිණියේ තම ලොක්කන්ගේ උපදෙස් මතය. විදේශයක සිටින ශ්රී ලංකා රාජතාන්ත්රික දූත මණ්ඩලයක් විසින් එකී දූත මණ්ඩල කාර්යාලයෙහි දූත මණ්ඩල ප්රධානියාගේ නිවසෙහි සහ දූත මණ්ඩලයේ ප්රධානියාගේ නිල රථයේ ඉදිරියෙහි ජාතික ධජය ප්රදර්ශනය කරනු ලබන්නේ දූත මෙහෙය කරන රටෙහි පවත්නා […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාස සීමාවේ පිහිටි මද්දෙගම සිට ජම්බුගහහේන, නාවලකන්ද, තල්පැදිවල, බෝගොඩකන්ද හරහා මීගහතැන්න දක්වා මාර්ගය (නාවලකන්ද පාර) 849-D බෝගොඩකන්ද ග්රාම සේවා වසම තුල පිහිටි ජම්බුගහහේන, නාවලකන්ද, තල්පැදිවල, බෝගොඩකන්ද, අළුකැටිය, දිග්ගල්ලෙන, බලගල ආදී ගම්මාන වල ජනතාවට මීගහතැන්න නගරය හා අනෙකුත් මාර්ග වලට සම්බන්ධ වීමට ඇති එකම මාර්ගය වේ. කිලෝමීටර 4.7 […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today After 20 years, for the first time, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has decided to participate in the upcoming Presidential Election; on their own right. On the surface this is a positive development and all those who agree with a democratic system ought to applaud it. However, the concern that […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today The last possible step to safeguard the power already devolved to provinces was taken by President Maithripala Sirisena, by seeking the opinion of the Supreme Court, to ascertain if the Provincial Council Elections could be held on the old electoral system, as the Delimitation Report has been deadlocked in […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
By W.K.Prasad Manju Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and SLPP Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa will have a special discussion next week. It is reported that at this discussion certain decisive matters concerning the upcoming Presidential Election and the current political situation will be discussed. It is further reported that this […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Courtesy Ceylon Today Attorney- at- Law Premanath C. Dolawaththa filed a petition in the Supreme Court, Case Number SL/SD/12/2019, on 27 August 2019, complaining that the Sri Lanka Ruhunu Economic Development Corporation (SLREDC) Bill, which has been included in the Order Paper of Parliament, is not in accordance with the Constitution. He has filed the […]
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A proposal has been adopted to remove Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Chairman of the Dayaka Sabhawa of the Kelaniya Rajama Viharaya, stated Ada Derana reporter.
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, says that although free education is implemented in the country, the funds allocated for free education is insufficient. He said that if the children are not given the opportunity to advance in education, we cannot talk about a future economic plan. He […]
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