Archive for October 27th, 2019
Sunday, October 27th, 2019
By Garvin Karunaratne, In the Seventies, the Government Agent’s Conference was accorded great prominence. The Government Agent was the Head of the District and presided over as the Head of the District Coordinating Commiittee that coordinated all development programmes in the District. He was also the Head of the District Agricultural Committee. All allocations of […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Sudath Gunasekara 27. 10. 2019 This is a very serious issue of immense Public interest. If the Government fails to do so it might leave room for many others of a similar mindset to follow suit and might lead to another national disaster. It reminds me of the April 21st tragic disaster resulting from the […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS It is now known that the US wanted to control Sri Lanka as early as 2010, once the Eelam war ended in defeat for the USA in 2009. ‘Sri Lanka is developing on all fronts, economic social and political’ observed analysts in 2010. ‘The data shows this beyond a doubt’ they said. In […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. මිනිසාට අධිකරණයක් අවශ්යද? ඔව් සාධාරණව විනිශ්චය දෙන අධිකරණයක් අවශ්යයි. සාධාරණව විනිශ්චය දෙන්නේ කොහොමද? සාධාරණව විනිශ්චය දෙන්නේ කවුද? ගැටලුව ඇත්තේ එතනයි. සමාජයේ විවිධ ස්ථාන වලට ගැට ගැසී ඒවායින් ජීවත්වෙමින්, ඒවා සමගම ජීවත්වෙන මිනිසුන් සාධාරණ විනිශ්චයක් දෙන්නේ කෙලෙසද? ඔවුනට නම් ඔය කියන සාධාරණත්වය කිසිදාක ලබාදීමට නම් නොහැක. නමුත් රටක, රජයක් ස්ථාපනය කරන විට, ඒ […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Sripali Vaiamon But it also tried to establish SINHALESE were descendants of a lion and a woman. How far we can believe that !Let that be there but let us address everyone living in Sri Lanka as SRILANKAN, besides their ethnic names. This could be implemented after the election of the new PRESIIDENT on the […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Utpal Bhaskar Courtesy livemint.com As part of India’s strategy of creating a new energy ecosystem for the neighbourhood, the Modi govt is exploring to set up an overhead electricity link with Sri Lanka The electricity link is part of India’s strategy to negate the growing influence of strategic rival China in the Indian Ocean region, […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Courtesy FMT News KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Aman’s counter-terrorism chief Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay today confirmed that the investigation papers on the 12 individuals detained for alleged links to the now-defunct Liberal Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist movement have been submitted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC). He said they will wait for a decision by […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Written by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Courtesy The Indian Express The mists of mythology, history and conspiracy theories render him elusive. Yet, in Sri Lanka, the search for Ravana remains a quest for validation. A few months ago, I was picking my way through an obscure 1870s translation of the great Ramayana, notebook in one hand and […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Days after the Pohottuwa Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised to simplify the draconian tax system that exists today, the UNP Presidential Candidate Sajith Premadasa too repeated the same pledge. Premadasa berated the current tax system as if he was from the Opposition. Ignoring the fact that he is very […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
By J.T. Silva Courtesy Ceylon Today Some documents, which were taken into custody and kept at the Election Commission, by the Commission officials, who investigated a complaint that the Samurdhi Director General was preparing to distribute cheques to the value of one million rupees to Samurdhi Managers, have been misplaced, sources said. Among the missing documents […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The incumbent government will never be able to ensure the security of the country, according to Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He pointed out that this is because the current government has a Cabinet of ministers who subjugated to influences of foreign nations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana National People’s Power (NPP) Presidential Candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayaka says that fellow presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa’s stage is full of extremists. Therefore, one can never defeat terrorism by voting for the National Democratic Front (NDF) candidate, stated Dissanayaka. He mentioned this addressing a public meeting held in Eravur, Batticaloa. Further speaking, he pointed […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Office of the President has categorically denied the allegations made by Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath that an amount of Rs 8 billion has been allocated for the personal use and future endeavors of the President. The Office of the President, issuing a statement with this regard, stated that the relevant allegations are completely […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ඉහළ ව්යාපාරිකයාගේ සිට හඳුන්කූරු නිෂ්පාදකයා දක්වා සියළු ව්යාපාර අද වන විට කඩා වැටී ඇති බව හිටපු මහබැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඞ් කබ්රාල් පවසනවා. ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජනාධිපති ධුර අපේක්ෂක ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුතු නව ආණ්ඩුවක් යටතේ ජනතාවගෙන් අය කෙරෙන බදු සියයට 20කින් අඩු කරන බවයි පොළොන්නරුව ප්රදේශයේ අද පැවති වියත්මඟ සම්මන්ත්රණයට […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ෂයිපුල්ලා නම් සටන් කලාවට මුවා වී කාත්තන්කුඩි ප්රදේශයේ සහරාන් වැනි ත්රස්ත කල්ලි බිහි කිරීමේ සූදානමක් පවතින බව නව මහජන සේවා සංවිධානයේ සභාපති රිෂාඩ් මාරූස් පවසනවා. කොළඹ අද පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියා. මේ අතර, මව්බිම වෙනුවෙන් රණවිරුවෝ සංවිධානයේ කැදවුම්කරු නීතිඥ විශ්රාමික මේජර් අජිත් ප්රසන්න අද පොලිස් මූලස්ථානය […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනඥයින් මෙලෙස අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ කාන්තා සංවිධාන නියෝජිතවරියන්ගේ සාකච්ඡාවක් අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද කොළඹදී පැවැත්වුණා. එහිදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා වෙත ප්රශ්න යොමු කිරීමටද අදාළ කාන්තාවන්ට අවස්ථාව උදාවුණා.
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