Archive for February, 2020
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ප්රමුඛ නව සන්ධානයට ‘‘අලියා’’ ලකුණ ලබා නොදෙන්නේ නම්, ‘‘හදවත’’ ලකුණෙන් තරඟ කරන බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නලින් බණ්ඩාර පවසනවා. මන්ත්රීවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ විපක්ෂ නායක කාර්යාලයේ අද පස්වරුවේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින්. කෙසේ වෙතත්, සිරිකොත එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වූ එම පක්ෂයේ ජාතික සංවිධායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් තරගකාරී විභාග මූලික කරගත් අධ්යාපනික ක්රමය හේතුවෙන් මෙරට දරු පරපුරට දහම් අධ්යාපනය මෙන්ම නිදහස ද අහිමි වී ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසනවා. සමස්ත ලංකා ශාසනාරක්ෂක බල මණ්ඩලයේ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ සමඟ ඊයේ පැවැති හමුවකදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළා. ඉරුදින සහ පොහොය දින උපකාරක පන්ති පැවැත්වීම තුළින් දහම් පාසල්වලට දරුවන්ගේ පැමිණීමේ […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීමේදී ඒ සදහා සිංහල බෞද්ධයින් ඇතුළත් නොවන්නේ නම් තමන් එම ප්රතිසංස්කරණ පිළිනොගන්නා බවට අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ ලේඛකාධිකාරී පූජ්ය මැදගම ධම්මානන්ද හිමියන් පවසනවා. අද පස්වරුවේ කොළඹදී පැවති වැඩසටහනකදී උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළා. යුතුකම සංවිධානය විසින් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සිදුකළ යුතු ආකාරය පිළිබඳ සැකසුණු යෝජනාවලියක් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට පිරිනමනු […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
(A Paper Published by the Sri Lanka Geo- Political Study Circle) /contd from Part 1 Reading the draft MCC Agreement, America’s plan for Sri Lanka is clearly evident; their plan is to take-over Sri Lanka’s Land and subjugate the Island Nation to the US by replacing, Sri Lanka’s Parliament, Sri Lanka’s Administration and Sri Lanka’s […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
මාධ්ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය ඉදිරි මැතිවරණයකදී තැපැල් ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාව පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවකයින්ටත් ලබා දෙන්නැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානය ඉල්ලයි. මැතිවරණ කොමිසම වෙත ලිපියක් යොමු කරමින් එම සංවිධානය මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර තිබේ. ජනාධිපතිවරණයකට සාපේක්ෂව ගත් කළ මහ මැතිවරණ, පළාත් සභා , සහ ප්රාදේශිය සභා මැතිවරණ සඳහා ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කිරීමේ අඩු උනන්දුවක් ජනතාව තුළ පවතින බැවින් අගනුවර […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Media Unit CaFFE Organization Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) yesterday urged the Commission of Elections to expand postal voting to cover private-sector workers. Writing to the Commission, CaFFE Executive Director, Manas Makeen said that people’s interest in voting at general, provincial and local council elections is less, compared to Presidential Election. “Therefore people […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island A Simmering controversy over massive kickbacks received by former CEO of SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayaka to influence the acquisition of 10 airbuses and leasing of four other aircraft and the subsequent termination of the leasing agreements for three aircraft, A 350-900, has taken […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana India’s Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing and ratification of the protocol amending the agreement between India and Sri Lanka for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion in respect to taxes on income. The move entails the updation of preamble text and inclusion of Principal Purpose Test, […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Pushpakumara Mallawarachchi Courtesy The Daily Mirror A proposal to construct a playground in the Kadolkele mangrove of the Negombo lagoon had been withdrawn following the strong stand taken by the Gampaha District Forest Officer Devani Jayathilaka at meeting chaired by the Fisheries and Inland Fisheries Industry State Minister Sanath Nishantha Perera on Monday (10). A […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Prime Minister Mr. Mahinda Rajajapaksa has returned to the country after ending a very successful exultant 4 days official visit to India. He has boldly and candidly spoken on the envisaged Indo-Sri Lankan relationship and ties with other countries, measures to be taken to rescue the Tamils in the […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
By Janaka Perera In the wake of the hullabaloo over MP Ranjan Ramanayake’s phone call recordings, a retired senior police officer recalls how a politician attempted with a phone call to obstruct the path of justice. It was at the height of the JVP’s second insurgency (1987-90) when a number of so-called bhikkhus were involved […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
දහදිය සිත්තම වැඩකරන ජනතා කලා උළෙල. (ජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්යස්ථානය.) ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනය හා ආරාධනයයි දහදිය සිත්තම ‘‘ජයලත් මනෝරත්න උපහාර’’ කෙටි නාට්ය උළෙල අපේ රටේ රාජ්ය හා අර්ධ රාජ්ය, පෞද්ගලික හා වතු ක්ෂේත්රයන්හි සේවයේ නියුතු ජනතාවගේ නිර්මාණශීලී හැකියාවන් වර්ධනය කිරීම, වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම හා ජනගත කිරීමේ අරමුණු සහිතව මෙම කලා උළෙල වසර 12 ක් පුරාවට අඛණ්ඩව සිදුකරනු […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
RANJITH SOYSA Amnesty International continues with its tirade against Sri Lanka by going off their rocker again in their recent statement in 2020.( AI review of 2019 issued on 20th Jan 2020) For AI almost everything is rotten in Sri Lanka especially the policies and programs adopted by Sri Lanka for the protection of its […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Courtesy THE ISLAND (SRI LANKA)/ASIA NEWS NETWORK A now-retired SriLankan Airlines A340-300. Photo supplied Sri Lanka’s UNP MP Mujibur Rahman on Sunday said that yahapalana government had paid compensation to the Netherlands-based aircraft leasing company AerCap Holdings NV for the cancellation of the leasing agreement in respect of four Airbus A 350-900 ordered by the […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The Attorney General has expressed his displeasure to the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) over the response in dealing with the AG’s advice and directives on Justice Gihan Pilapitiya. On January 23, the Attorney General instructed the Director of the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) to obtain a warrant and arrest interdicted […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to obtain the Government Analyst’s report on the mobile phone of the Swiss Embassy staffer, Garnia Bannister Francis, and to submit a progress report on the investigations on March 31. The case was taken up before Colombo Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana China on Tuesday commended” Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s remarks that the island nation has received a lot of benefits” from Beijing’s ambitious multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI is an initiative launched by Chinese President Xi Jinping when he came to power in 2013. It aims to link […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia could build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Sri Lanka someday, considering the growing energy demand in the country, Russian Ambassador to Colombo Yury Materiy has said in an interview with Sputnik. Since the Sri Lankan government favours pollution-free energy and aims at gradually replacing coal and oil with gas and […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
Observations by the MCC Public Opinion Committee We refer to the well-researched article by Shenali Waduge ‘ What happens when state land is privatized and farmers are given title deeds’ 1]Why does the MCC require Sri Lanka to weaken the legal profession- The essence of the astonishing piece of legislation called the MCC is the conspicuous […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Central Bank bond scam has been in news media of Sri Lanka since 2015 and when I was watching TV programs on this matter I had a feeling that it has been used by many people in the country to mislead public who haven’t clear understanding about the dealing and some TV […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS TV programs conducted by TV companies and participants of the programs including Mr. Sunil Hadunneththi did not explain point by point to people and I have a reasonable question whether they wanted to mislead the public talking unknown and irrelevant matters rather than presenting the real picture of the central bank bond […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B,. Ph.D. (මෙම ලිපියේ මුල් පිටපත ලියන ලද්දේ 2017 මැයි මාසයේය. ගෝඨාභය මහතා ජනාධිපතිවීමත් සමඟ මෙය හුදෙක් ඓතිහාසික තොරතුරු රැසක් පමණක් ලෙස සිතෙන්නට පුළුවන. එහෙත් ඔහු ඉන්නේ හරියට මරණ තුනක් ඇති මිනිහෙක් පැණි කෑය යන ආකාරයේ දේශීය හා විදේශීය සතුරු බලවේග වලට මැදිවීය. මේ නිසා 13 සංශොධනය අහෝසි නොකරණතාක් රට කැබලිවී යාමේ අවදානම […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The UNP Central Working Committee approved the MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara as the General Secretary of its new political alliance this afternoon. This was confirmed by MP Sujeeva Senasinghe. Meanwhile, sources say that it is reported that there was no consensus on the symbol and name of the proposed UNP led alliance, […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The number of people infected by the coronavirus in the UK has doubled to eight – after four more patients in England tested positive for the virus It comes as the government announced new powers to keep people in quarantine to stop the spread of the virus. In order to do this, […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
Courtesy The Visual and Data Journalism TeamBBC News A fast-moving virus known as the “new coronavirus” has infected thousands of Chinese citizens and spread to more than 20 countries. The respiratory infection, which causes pneumonia-like symptoms, has claimed more than 900 lives so far – more than the 774 killed in the 2003 Sars epidemic. […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
The Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission Report of November 2011 declared 22,247 LTTE dead of which 11,812 had been identified by name. However, 10,435 LTTE dead had not been identified by the time LLRC report was released in November 2011. Has Sri Lanka’s MoD identified the remaining unidentified 10,435 LTTE dead with names is what […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Indo-Sri Lanka relations have never been what either country would have liked it to be. What both countries should realize is that small as Sri Lanka may be, India cannot afford to bully it or destabilize it as India would have liked. The terrain is now far different than when India could call the shots […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS Rev 7.3.20 Those interested in the issue, want to know, how a Tamil version arose. It was due to British rule. The British administration recognized Tamil as a vernacular language, together with Sinhala. Tamil words were shown on rupees and coins, (e.g. the 10 cent coin of 1928). There were Tamil vernacular schools. […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි 19 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පැටලෑවිල්ලේ හරි කථානායක කවුද වැරදි කතානායක කවුද? තවම නීතියක් නොවූ 19 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත ඊනියා නීතියක් ලෙස පවත්වා ගෙන යෑමේ වරද කොයි කථානායකගේද? දහනමවන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය අරභයා 2002 ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණයෙන් ජනාධිපතිට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසිරවිමේ බලය වසර 3කට වඩා සිමා කිරීම 3වන ව්යවස්ථාව උල්ලංගනය වීමක් බව පෙන්වා ඇත. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
විනීතා එම් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාදීප පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් 58 දෙනෙකුට අධිසුඛෝපභෝගී වාහන 58ක් පෞද්ගලික සමාගමක් මගින් කුලී පදනමට ලබා ගැනීමට ආණ්ඩුව ගත් උත්සාහයට විරුද්ධ වීමෙන් තමන්ට පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්රතිසංස්කරණ හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්යංශයේ ලේකම් ධූරය අහිමි කළ බව එම අමාත්යංශයේ හිටපු ලේකම් නිමල් බෝපගේ මහතා පවසයි. රුපියල් කෝටි 243 ක් වටිනා එම ගනුදෙනුව නීතිවිරෝධී බව පෙන්වා දෙමින් […]
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