Archive for February, 2020
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Island Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday that those who had received houses in villages built by the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) between 2015 and 2019 were yet to receive deeds confirming ownership. The Premier said so in response to a query posed by UPFA MP Anuradha Jayaratne. Premier […]
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Senior economic advisor to Prime Minister, Ajith Nivard Cabraal said he would make a request to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to initiate an independent Police inquiry on the Central Bank bond scam in early 2015 and dealings in the bond market between 2010 – 2014 period as the so-called forensic inquiry, COPE […]
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, General of the Army, Oleg Salyukov paid a courtesy call on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat his afternoon (5). General Salyukov is currently in Sri Lanka on a goodwill tour at the invitation of his Sri Lankan counterpart Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, acting Chief […]
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa affirmed in parliament today (05) that the daily wage of Rs. 1000 for estate workers of the plantation sector will come into effect from the 1st of March 2020. Given the opportunity for parliamentarians to ask oral questions from the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister made this statement […]
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන වෝහාරික විගණන වාර්තාව පසුගිය රජයට පක්ෂපාතීව සකස් කර ඇති බවට හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අග්රාමාත්යවරයාගේ ජ්යෙෂ්ට ආර්ථික කටයුතු උපදේශක අජිත් නිවාඩු කබ්රාල් මහතා චෝදනා කරනවා. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවට එක්වෙමින්.
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
People belong to the Land. Land doesn’t belong to the People. Land belongs to the State of Sri Lanka & no one else. Who owns Sri Lanka’s land? No one else but Sri Lanka. Two fundamental principles bind the State in its usage of Land. Firstly, the State is ONLY TRUSTEE” of the land given […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Nepal & Sri Lanka share similarities. Both countries have appointed teams to study MCC. MCC was signed by Nepal in 2017 – the state of MCC Sri Lanka has been kept a secret from public. MCC has yet to be passed by Nepal’s Parliament while in Sri Lanka the public are questioning why MCC which […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Shenali Waduge What do we think we are celebrating on 4th February every year? Our independence from colonial rule. But did we really get independence on 4th February 1948? We didn’t because we became by choice a dominion of the British Empire. It was only on 22 May 1972 that Sri Lanka shred all ties with the […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
By Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana Mr. G. A. D Sirimal (GADS) has lobbied consistently for a continuation of the traditional and well-tested energy plans of earlier decades in his writings to the Island newspaper, and calling for the further expansion of coal-burning power plants, even though the Norochchollai power plant is limping between shut downs and […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
By Shridhar Prabhu – Advocate, Bengaluru, India Courtesy – Asian Tribune – Speech delivered by Indian lawyer Mr. Shridhar Prabhu entitled ‘ Challenges confronting Buddhists in Asia, with special reference to South Asia and South-East Asia ‘ at the Ariyapala Hall, All – Ceylon Buddhist Congress on December 29, 2017. Venerable Dhamma Teachers, Respected Dr. […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Elizabeth Roche Courtesy Livemint.com Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will be in India from 7 to 11 February Follow-up discussions on Indian assistance to enhance training opportunities for Sri Lanka are expected in the fields of vocational training and training of the public services NEW DELHI : India and Sri Lanka will work out the […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in his first Independence Day address today, said he was committed to fulfilling the needs of the people and that he did not envisage public officials, lawmakers or the Judiciary to impede him in implementing this commitment. Clad in his simple attire but adorned with badges awarded during […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will send a letter of solidarity to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this week outlining Sri Lanka’s firm support to China as it battles to contain coronavirus and will also discuss sending aid into the country, particularly for the people of Wuhan, informed government sources told Daily Mirror […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana Any extremist or terrorist organizations will not be allowed to be active in Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said addressing the 72nd Independence Day ceremony. The celebrations kicked off at the Independence Square in Colombo this morning (04) following the arrival of the President and hoisting of the national flag. President stated […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana SriLankan Airlines crew who flew to Wuhan, the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak, to repatriate the Sri Lankan students, has declined the flight allowances paid for their said duty period. They have instead made a request to the airline to utilise those monies for procuring necessary masks and gloves for the ground […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජීවත්වන චීන ජාතිකයන් හට කරුණාවෙන් සලකන ලෙසත් අවශ්ය අවස්ථාවන්හි උපකාර කරන ලෙසත් ඉල්ලා සිටිමින් අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහනායක අතිපූජ්ය වරකාගොඩ ශ්රී ඥානරතන නා හිමියන් සමස්ථ ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කරමින් විශේෂ නිවේදනයක් නිකුත්කර තිබෙනවා. අදාළ නිවේදනය පහතින්.
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පුරවැසිභාවය පිළිබඳ නඩුව මෙන්ම ස්විස් තානාපති කාර්යාල නිලධාරිනියගේ සිද්ධිය ද ලේක් හවුස් ආයතනය තුළ සැලසුම් කළ ඒවා බව මාධ්යවේදී චන්දන බණ්ඩාර මහතා චෝදනා කරනවා ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පැමිණිල්ලක් සිදු කිරීමට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේදී ඔහු මේ කරුණු අනාවරණය කළා.
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් අභිමානවත් දේශයක අභිමානවත් ජනතාව අද 72 වැනි නිදහස් දිනය උත්කර්ශවත් ලෙස සැමරුවා. රටේ අභිමානය ලොවට කියාපාන තවත් විස්මිත නිර්මාණයක නිමැවුම්කරුවන් වෙන්නට අපේ තරුණ පිරිසක් සමත්වුණා. ඒ ලංකාවේ විශාලතම ලෙළදෙන ජාතික කොඩියේ හිමිකරුවන් වෙමින්. ලංකාවේ විශාලතම ලෙළදෙන ජාතික කොඩිය නිර්මාණය කිරීමට මූලිකත්වය ගෙන කටයුතු කර තිබෙන්නේ අවිස්සාවේල්ල මානියංගම රජමහා විහාරයේ තරුණ බෞද්ධ […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane For a nation, to be politically ‘independent’ means, not to be subjugated, not to be under control, not to be living in fear, not to be harassed, plundered and exploited. However, political independence becomes less forceful and less meaningful in the absence of other important forms of independence, including economic independence, cultural […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
By Garvin Karunaratne I bequeath to my readers the Conclusion of my book: Wind Power for Sri Lanka’s Power Requirements. It in unfortunate that our authorities in establishing wind turbines in Sri Lanka have so far ignored the mountainous areas where there is ample wind power. My mind travels to a book by John Perkins, […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala Singing or not singing Sri Lanka Matha/ apa Sri Lanka…..” in Tamil is not a problem for ordinary Tamils. Neither is it an issue for ordinary Sinhalese or other Tamil speaking Sri Lankan citizens. But, apparently, it is a crucial subject for some foreign NGOs, separatists among expatriate Tamils in the […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Stanley Gunaratne. The quote below is widely circulated in at least two, or three Sri Lankan mainstream newspapers. The government minister, a member of the President’s cabinet is making a statement on the singing of our national anthem at the 2020 Independence Day celebrations: “Speaking to media at the Information Department, Public Administration and Home […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B,. Ph.D. වඳුරන්ට දැළි පිහි දීම (නොහොත් සර්ව ජන චන්ද බලය) ආදී සිංහළුන් පිට දීප දේශ ජයගත්තා….// තම රට දේවල් පිටරට පටවා පිට කාසිය මෙහි ඇද්දා පිට දීප දේශ ජයගත්තා ආදී සිංහළුන්…. පිටරට සිරිතට දිව දික්කරනා අඳ සිංහල කළු සුද්දා…// කන්ට අඳින්ටා පිටරටින් එනතුරු මුහුදට දත නියවන්නා…// පිට දීප දේශ ජයගත්තා ආදී සිංහළුන්… […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන ජනාධිපතිතුමනි….! ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ උල්ලංඝණය නොකරන්න…..19 නීතියක් බවට පත් වීමට පැවැත්විය යුතු ජනමතවිචාරණය පවත්වන්න….! 19 ව්යවස්ථා කුමන්ත්රණය කළ අයට දඩුවම් කරන්න…. ! 2002 දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙන එන ලද 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ 5වන වගන්තිය අනුව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්යවස්ථාවට ඉක්බිතිව 70 (අ) ලෙස ව්යවස්ථාවක් ගෙන එමින් වසරකට පසු ජනාධිපතිවරයාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
කේ. ඩී. ලාල්කාන්ත සභාපති ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්යස්ථානය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය, මුදල් අමාත්ය, මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, මුදල් අමාත්යාංශය, කොළඹ 2020 වර්ෂයේදී විශ්රාමිකයන්ට ලබාදිය යුතු විශ්රාම වැටුපෙන් කොටසක් කපා හැරීම 2006 වර්ෂයේ සිට වෘත්තීය සමිති ව්යාපාරය විසින් සටන් කර දිනා ගන්නා ලද දීමනා සියල්ල මූලික වැටුපට එකතු කරන ලෙස අරගල කරන ලද අතර ඒ පිළිබඳව යම් අවබෝධයක් […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
ALI SUKHANVER An Indian Muslim boy has no right to fall in love with a Pakistani girl. Mohammad Rashid simply violated this rule; so he is being treated like a criminal. It was somewhere in 2017 when Mohammad Rashid, a resident of Banaras, India went to Karachi (Pakistan) to attend a family marriage function. There […]
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 3, 2020, 10:28 pm The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday said that UNP lawmaker Dr. Harsha de Silva couldn’t absolve himself of the responsibility for the Treasury Bond scams, perpetrated between Feb 2015 and March 2016. Colombo District MP de Silva had been involved in the UNP […]
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