Archive for December, 2019
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Viraj Kithsiri The whole country is clamouring for immediate actions against the culprits of yahapalanaya. From bond scams to the outrageous press conferences there are so many issues to be dealt with and punished. Chief among the culprits are Mangala,Rajitha,Ravi, Champika,Rishad and Malik. However on the top of the list is Ranil too. However I […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Malinda Seneviratne The most asked question on Google in the year 2019, according to reports, is ‘Where is Sri Lanka?’ I am not sure who is looking for Sri Lanka or why. Maybe it has something to do with Sri Lanka being picked as the No 1 island to visit. Again, I am not sure […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
S A K Courtesy Island December 17, 2019, 9:30 pm Under normal circumstances, most Sri Lankans would have been happy if a Labour Government was elected in England, perhaps because we have a long tradition of being ruled by Left of Centre governments, and we have little faith in those representing the interests of big […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
By Hemantha Randunu Courtesy The Island The CID has uncovered that several other employees in the Swiss Embassy were involved in a plot hatched by Garnier Bannister Francis, a local staffer of the diplomatic mission in Colombo, arrested and remanded for falsely claiming that she had been abducted and threatened. These persons include several female […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana The law should be implemented against all those who were involved in the alleged abduction case of the Swiss Embassy employee, says United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Dilan Perera. Speaking at a press conference, the parliamentarian called the alleged incident a failed ‘drama’ created to sling mud at President Gotabaya Rajapaksa […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 13: Nationalist and left wing members of the Sri Lankan parliament are putting pressure on the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government to drastically modify the US-Lanka Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact, which had been approved by the cabinet of the preceding Ranil Wickremesinghe government but had not obtained parliamentary approval. […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Dec. 16 – Sri Lanka will ban foreign contractors from competing for state project and give a slew of benefits for domestic construction companies, a government policy for for the next five years said. Sri Lanka will all state construction work for the domestic construction firms” the policy document said, the EconomyNext […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 17 (Xinhua): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said the country will experiment with an imported genetically altered breed of mosquito designed to make female dengue mosquitos sterile in order to combat the rising dengue virus, local media reports said here Tuesday. Speaking to newspaper editors, President Rajapaksa said that a […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News MP Sajith Premadasa says he will not take up the candidacy for Premiership, without being made the UNP Leader
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News පක්ෂ නායකත්වය නොමැතිව කුමන ලෙසකින්වත් අගමැති අපේක්ෂකත්වය භාර නොගන්නා බව එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා පවසනවා ඔහු මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ කෝට්ටේ ප්රදේශයේ පැවති ජන හමුවකට එක්වෙමින්. ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාට සහය පළ කළ ජනතාවට ස්තූතිය පල කිරීම සඳහා දිවයින පුරා පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත රැස්වීම් මාලාවේ පළමුවැන්න අද කොලොන්නාව ප්රදේශයෙන් […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News උතුරු පළාත් හිටපු ප්රධාන අමාත්ය සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් මහතා පසුගියදා සිදුකළ ප්රකාශය පිළිකුල් සහගත බව මල්වතු පාර්ශ්වයේ අනුනායක පූජ්ය දිඹුල්කුඹුරේ ශ්රී විමලධම්ම හිමියන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ අදහස් පළ කළේ අද පෙරවරුවේ මහනුවර පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින්.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක හිටපු අමාත්යවරයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් අද පැවැති සිංහලයේ ජාතික සංවිධානයේ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවේදී ද තවත් අනාවරණයක් සිදුකළා.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News හිටපු අමාත්ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා සම්බන්ධ රිය අනතුර පිළිබදව සිදුවීමේ පරීක්ෂණ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත සිදුවන්නක් බවට තමන් කිසිසේත් විශ්වාස නොකරන බව පූජ්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියන් පවසනවා. කොළඹදී අද පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී උන්වහන්සේ මෙම අදහස් පලකළා.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News ජනාධිපතිවරණ සමයේ සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාට සහය පළ කරමින් මාලඹේ ප්රදේශයේ පැවැති මැතිවරණ රැස්වීමකදී පහරදීමකට ලක්වූ තරුණයාට පොලීසියෙන් සාධාරණයක් සිදුවී නොමැති බවට මව්බිම වෙනුවෙන් රණවිරුවෝ සංවිධානය චෝදනා කරනවා. ඒ, පහරකෑමට ලක්වූ අදාළ තරුණයා ද සමඟ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වමින්.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News ස්විස් තානාපති කාර්යාල නිලධාරිනිය පැහැර ගත් බවට අසත්ය පුවත් නිර්මාණය කළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිසට ද නීතිය ක්රියාත්මක කළ යුතු බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ඩිලාන් පෙරේරා මහතා අද පැවැති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී සඳහන් කළා. මෙම සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තවත් පාර්ශව රැසක් අද විවිධ ස්ථානවලදී අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Hiru News හිටපු අමාත්ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න සංවිධාන කළ සුදු වෑන් මාධ්ය හමුවට සම්බන්ධ වූ ඕනෑම පුද්ගලයෙකුට තරාතිරම නොබලා නීතිය ක්රියාත්මක කරන බව තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන තාක්ෂණ රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන ප්රකාශ කළා. ඒ, කොළඹ අද පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මාධ්යවේදියෙකු නැගූ ප්රශ්නයකට පිළිතුරු ලබාදෙමින්.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2019
Hiru News තමන් ඝාතනය කිරීමට තැත් කළ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ කැළණිය හිටපු සංවිධායක බෙවන් පෙරේරාට නීතිය ක්රියාත්මක කරන්නැයි මෝටර් රථ ධාවන ශූර ඩිලන්ත මාලගමුව අද රජයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කළා. තමන්ට එල්ල වී ඇති මරණ තර්ජන සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඩිලන්ත මාලගමුව 2018 වසරේ ජුලි මස 7 වනදා පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට පැමිණිලි කර තිබුණා. එ පාතාල කල්ලි සාමාජිකයෙකු තමන් ඝාතනය කිරීමට […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Part one of this article focused on a basic requirement a Horizontal Model for Education Distribution in the country for education reforms. The structure for the model for a million population irrespective of where the population has networked or distributed, whether in rural or urban area, the proposed model designed to apply […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Maha Sangha worked hard on behalf of Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential election of November 2019. Ven. Elle Gunawansa said that the Sangha, 20,000 of them, went village by village to canvass for him”. The Sangha were openly pleased when Gotabaya won. Elle Gunawansa said this is the first election after 1948 […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Malinda Seneviratne Labour gaining ground. One in ten still undecided. Jeremy Corbyn is much closer to becoming Prime Minister than voters think, according to a Conservative party memo. Hung parliament will see Boris Johnson removed from No 10 Downing Street. Labour minority government likely. Opinion polls tightening — Corbyn might just become Prime Minister. These […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Ven. Budugala Jinawansa Thera President Hela Budhu Saviya December 16, 2019 His Excellency U Win Myint The President of Myanmar Myanmar Your Excellency, We are deeply concerned with the allegations made against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, and the denigration of Myanmar world – wide by the International Media working hand in glove […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Press Release of the Embassy of China Ten Sri Lankan medical practitioners including three doctors and seven nurses from the Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) affected areas finished a 2-month training program at Peking University First Hospital (PUFH) in Beijing. The commencement ceremony of the Training Program was held on Dec. 12, 2019. […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana The two individuals, who were arrested over controversial statements made at a media briefing conducted by former Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne on the purported incidents regarding white vans”, have been remanded until the 27th of December. The Colombo Chief Magistrate issued the order when the two individuals were presented before the court […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the local staffer attached to the Swiss Embassy was not abducted and, it has now been revealed that the incident was solely a calculated target on him. Addressing the heads of media institutions this morning, he further said that CCTV footage, telephone conversations and other independent investigations […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News he Swiss Embassy officer Garnier Banister Francis who was arrested by the CID, has been remanded until the 30 This was after she was produced before Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne.
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් 2016 වසරේ රාජගිරියේදී තරුණයෙකු රිය අනතුරට ලක් කළ බව කියන සිද්ධියට අදාළව හිටපු අමාත්ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක නීතීඥයෙකු මාර්ගයෙන් අද අධිකරණය හමුවේ පෙනී සිටියා. හිරු අධිකරණ වාර්තාකරු සඳහන් කළේ ඒ අනුව ඔහු කොළඹ අතිරේක මහේස්ත්රාත් කාංචනා නෙරංජනා ද සිල්වා හමුවේ පෙනී සිටි බවයි. එහිදී හිටපු අමාත්යවරයා වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නීතීඥවරයා අධිකරණයට […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News Former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka appeared before the Colombo Additional Magistrate Kanchana Neranjana de Silva today in connection with an incident involving a youth in Rajagiriya in 2016. Former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and his driver were imposed an overseas travel ban in connection with the accident by the Colombo Additional Magistrate’s […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru United National Bhikkhu Front states that the UNP MPs should seek tuition on politics from Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa General Secretary of the organization, Thiniyawala Palitha Thera was addressing a media conference held at the UNP headquarters Sirikotha this morning. Meanwhile, a meeting between the UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the representatives of […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Published by the Land-Law Circle Is the MCC Compact the only document that endangers the security of the Nation? Should we not analyse our past experiences too to fathom our vulnerability to adopt foreign land statutes and systems when enticed with foreign aid? It is unfortunate that several intellectuals and advisers expect us to read […]
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Monday, December 16th, 2019
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 14,12.2019. The UNP can never come to power unless they change their name UNP, present leadership, policies and their dependence on the west and the Tamil and Muslim minorities and get armed with a new policy that is more patriotic and inward looking and more appealing to the masses than what the […]
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