Archive for January 20th, 2020
Monday, January 20th, 2020
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara: President Senior Citizens movement Mahanuwara. In the present context of the debate on the language in which the national Anthem should be sung I am compelled to ask this question from all our politicians starting with former President Sirisena and all those who either want to sing it in both Sinhala and […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS PART 13 of this series is on the Sri Lanka armed forces. The Sri Lanka army was established under the Army Act No. 17 of 1949. Brigadier James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness was first Commander of the Army. The army started with an artillery regiment, an engineer squadron, an infantry battalion, a medical […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
ASANGA ABEYAGOONASEKERA The previous Government gave it [Hambanthota Port] on a 99-year lease, and even though China is a good friend of ours and we need their assistance for development, I am not afraid to say that was a mistake.” Gotabaya Rajapaksa[i] 2020 dawns with a US airstrike. The significance of this strike, killing the […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
ALI SUKHANVER The storm of protest against the CAA has severely affected the whole of India. This protest in not limited only to India, it is spreading like a wild fire all over the world. People are calling it one of the world’s darkest discriminatory laws based on religion. Even the Indian Constitution does not […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia What Ajit Doval told Gotabaya Rajapaksa Colombo, January 19 (Daily Express): India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, who was on short visit here on Saturday, has told the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that it is important that India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives review the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Jan 20 ((News 1st) – The Wildlife Department has been able to retrace the Sri Lankan Black Panther that was once considered to be long extinct. Out of the eight species of panthers living in the world, the sub-species, Sri Lankan Panther is extraordinary due to its very limited population. The Sri […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lankan Black Leopard which was believed to be extinct had been captured on a trap camera in October in the Central Hills, the Department of Wildlife Conservation said today. The footages were recorded in October 2019. However, the Department did not announce the existence of the species until they […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The Colombo Magistrate’s Court Parliamentarian Keheliya Rambukwella and the former Director-General of State Printing Corporation Jayampathi Bandara Heenkenda have been released from the case filed against them by the Bribery Commission. On December 20, 2019, the Colombo High Court closed the bribery case against the duo citing the relevant case was filed […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) has recorded a statement from High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya with regard to controversial phone recordings of MP Ranjan Ramanayake, on the instructions of the Attorney General. The Police Media Unit said that accordingly CCD officers had recorded a statement from the High Court Judge for nearly 5 hours […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Colombo Crimes Division recorded a statement from Former High Court Judge Padmini N Ranawaka for over two hours, regarding the telephone conversations recorded by MP Ranjan Ramanayake. Meanwhile, a statement was recorded from Ambilipitiya High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya for five hours yesterday, regarding the telephone conversations he allegedly had with MP Ranjan Ramanayake. […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says if any person has been condemned to death by manipulating judges; such persons who made the manipulation as well as the judges who interpreted the law to sentence the victims should be served with capital punishment. He was meeting with the heads of media institutions at Temple […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Attorney General informed the Supreme Court today that his department would not appear on behalf of the former president Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the petition against them for not preventing the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. Both Sirisena and Wickremesinghe are among the respondents named in the fundamental […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රන්ජන් රාමනායකගේ දුරකථන හඬ පට සංවාද සිද්ධියට අදාළව හිටපු මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරු පද්මිනී එන්. රණවකගෙන් කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශය අද පැය 2කට අධික කාලයක් ප්රකාශයක් ලබා ගත්තා. හිටපු මහාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරිය අද පස්වරු 3ට පමණ කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාශය වෙත පැමිණි අතර එහිදී ඇය පැය 2කට අධික කාලයක් ප්රකාශයක් ලබාදී පිටව ගොස් තිබෙනවා. […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් අධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන්ට බලපෑම් සිදුකොට යම් පුද්ගලයෙකු වෙත මරණ දඬුවම නියම කර ඇත්නම් එම බලපෑම් සිදුකළ පුද්ගලයාට මෙන්ම එම වරද සිදුකළ විනිසුරුවරයාට ද මරණ දඬුවම ලබා දිය යුතු බව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ප්රකාශ කළා. ඒ, අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී මාධ්ය ප්රධානීන් සමඟ අද පැවති විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවේදියි. එම සාකච්ඡාවට අමාත්ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන, රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරුන් වන […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පාස්කු ඉරිදා ත්රස්ත ප්රහාර වලක්වා නොගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගොනුකර ඇති මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සම් දොලහේ වගඋත්තකරුවන් ලෙස නම් කර සිටින හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන සහ අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ වෙනුවෙන් නීතිපතිවරයා පෙනී නොසිටින බව නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට අද දැනුම් දුන්නා. ඒ, එම පෙත්සම් සත් පුද්ගල පූර්ණ විනිසුරු මඩුල්ලක් හමුවේ කැදවූ අවස්ථාවේදීයි. මීට පෙර මෙම […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කර සිටින රංජන් රාමනායක මන්ත්රීවරයා විසින් පටිගත කර ඇති ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හඬ පටි සම්බන්ධයෙන් විවිධ පාර්ශ්ව අදත් අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් බී.බී.සී. මාධ්ය ජාලයේ හර පද්ධතිය විනාශ කරමින් කටයුතු කළ අසාන් අමීන් මාධ්යවේදියාව එම මාධ්ය ආයතනයෙන් වහාම ඉවත් කරන ලෙස එහි අධ්යක්ෂක මණ්ඩලයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බව ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය නීතිඥ රාජා ගුණරත්න මහතා පවසනවා. වියත් මඟ සංවිධානය අද කැඳවා තිබූ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළ අතර නීතිඥ මනෝජ් ගමගේ මහතා […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පසුගිය මැතිවරණ සමයේදී විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ මැතිවරණ වේදිකාව තුළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රංජන් රාමනායක වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩයක් ලෙස භාවිත කර ඇති බවට බලශක්ති රාජ්ය අමාත්ය රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසනවා. නෙළුම් මාවත පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ අද පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකදී ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පළ කළ අතර ඊට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ඩී.වී. චානක මහතාද එක්ව සිටියා. […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Dilrook Kannangara MCC agreement’s land issue is the very same matter that ITAK, India and USA have been demanding since 1955 since Ceylon ended the Anglo Ceylon Defence Partnership Agreement resulting in expelling USA and UK from Trincomalee. Since then India and their agents have been trying their best alienate land around Trincomalee port area […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
By Samantha Kumarasinghe Millennium Challenge Compact isan agreement between the United States of America, acting through The Millennium Challenge Corporation (‘MCC’), and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, acting through The Ministry of Finance (‘Government’) (It is important to note that what ‘MCC’ means in the said Millennium Challenge Compact document is The Millennium […]
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