Archive for June, 2020
Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By M D P DISSANAYAKE In Australian State of Victoria, Roving Testing Squads and government Health Door Knockers are making surprise checks in homes, similar to the campaign started long time ago in Sri Lanka. Many returning inter-state travellers are refusing to undergo Covid 19 Tests, as it is not mandatory, unlike in Sri Lanka […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Macquarie University http://www.mq.edu.au/ “Visions of an Island” is an autobiographical account of Sir Christopher Ondaatje’ romance with Sri Lanka drawing on several of his books. Sir Christopher is writer in residence from 28 March till 14 April 2011, he was born in Ceylon, educated in London and immigrated to Canada in 1956. He has worked […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
N SATHIYA MOORTHY Courtesy Observer Research Foundation The recent border clashes with China on the land frontier may have spiked the stakes for India on the sea-front, too, more than anticipated and acknowledged. While the multiple security agreements with the US and the rest over the past years may be an expression of the nation’s resolve to check Chinese […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
ASANGA ABEYAGOONASEKERA Courtesy Observer Research Foundation Sri Lanka will hold its Parliamentary election on 5 August. The efficient leadership of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was demonstrated in managing the recent Covid-19 pandemic crisis. It is a proven leadership which will be a significant factor to ensure a landslide victory in the upcoming election for the Rajapaksa […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Aswathi Pacha Courtesy The Hindu Formations like the El Niño of the Pacific Ocean could emerge About 19,000-21,000 years ago, ice-sheets covered North America and Eurasia, and sea-levels were much lower, with Adam’s Bridge exposed so that the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka were contiguous. This period, the peak of ice age conditions, is called […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම මව්බිම දැන් කොරෝනා (කොවිඩ් – 19) වසංගතය නිසා මුළු ලොවම කැලඹී ගියේ පෙර නොවූ විරූ ලෙසිනි. ලෝක යුද්ධ දෙකක අත්දැකීම් සපිරි මුළු ලොවම අනිසි මරණ බියකින් සසල වූ හැටි හරි පුදුම සහගතය. චීනයේ වූහාන් නගරයෙන් මුල්ම කොරෝනා රෝගියා හමු වූ තැන සිට වයිරසය ලොව පුරා පැතිර යමින් වයිරසය පුද්ගලයන් 9,393,862කට මේ වන විට […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Although representatives of the World Muslim League (WML) had announced a donation of USD 5 million to support victims of the Easter Sunday attacks in July 2019, the Catholic Church was not aware of further progress of this initiative, Director of Sethsarana, the charity wing of the catholic church, […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon said today that those who fail to wear face masks in public places would be arrested and sent for self quarantine from tomorrow. He said nearly 7,000 people have been warned in the Western Province for not wearing face masks. DIG Tennakoon said arrests would be made […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health has confirmed that 19 more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 as of 2.30 pm today (27). The latest coronavirus infections have moved the tally to 2,033. The Department of Government Information said all of these patients are arrivals from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the total number of COVID-19 recoveries […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana A commission will be appointed to look into the financial misconducts and irregularities in the loans provided by state banks during the government of Good Governance, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. This decision was reached during a meeting with the employees’ union of the Bank of Ceylon at the Temple Trees. The Premier […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Defence Secretary Major General (Retired) Kamal Gunaratne has reiterated that punitive actions would be initiated without delay against prison, law enforcement and other officials, who were found to have abused official powers through corrupt practices, abetting and collaborating with underworld criminals and drug traffickers. He said the law enforcement authorities have already taken […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ, ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට අභියෝගයක් කළා. ඒ කොළඹ ඊයේ පැවති උත්සවයකදීයි. එහිදී ඔහු කියා සිටියේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට සහ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට න්යාය පත්ර දෙකක් ඇති බවට කවුරුන් විසින් හෝ පවසන්නේ නම්, තමන් එය එසේ නොවන බවට තමන් අභියෝග කරන බවයි. රට පාවාදෙන සෑම ගිවිසුමකම ජනතා විමුක්ති […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් මැතිවරණ කොමිසම එජාපය ප්රමුඛ විපක්ෂයට පක්ෂග්රාහීව කටයුතු කරන බවට අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ අද යළි චෝදනා කළා. ඒ වව්නියාව – බෝගස්වැව ප්රදේශයේ දී මාධ්ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් MCC ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජයේ ස්ථාවරය පළමුව රටට හෙළිකළ යුතු බව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නායක රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පවනවා. මේ අතර ඵක්ක් ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ තවත් අදහස් පළ වුණා. රාජ්යතාන්ත්රිකයන් හමුවූ පමණින් හෝ සාකච්ඡා කළ පමණින් කබල නොවිය යුතු බවයි ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ අපේක්ෂක චන්දිම වීරක්කොඩි කියාසිටියේ. අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
H. L. D. Mahindapala Imagine for a moment Gunadasa Ameresekera, last of our novelist in the great tradition, writing a tirade against the Muslims, giving it the title F*** you, Mr. Rauf Hakeem”. Imagine if it is published in a leading Sinhala newspaper. Can you imagine the reaction? The entire phalanx of the NGO moralists […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLPP Stalwart and Convener “The Muslim Voice” – June 26th., 2020. This will ease the demand for University entrance/education in Sri Lanka. This is a great support Pakistan and Prime Minister Imran Khan is offering to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage People have voted me to build this country; we need to identify industries and entepreneurial businesses, and funded them during this time to bring back the economy”” -Hon: President Gotabhaya Rajapakse None of the Sri Lankan leaders couldn’t build a country people wanted to have; President Gotabhaya is the only hope.Following media […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය සහ ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර අත්සන් තැබීමට යෝජනා වී ඇති MCC ගිවිසුමට අදාළ කිසිදු මුදලක් ශ්රී ලංකා රජය වෙත ලබාදී නැති බව කොළඹ පිහිටි ඇමෙරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාලය සඳහන් කරයි. තම ට්විටර් ගිණුම ඔස්සේ ඔවුන් සඳහන් කරන්නේ ගිවිසුම ගැන අවසන් තීරණයක් ලැබෙන තෙක් ප්රධානයන් ලබා දීම දින නියමයක් නැතිව […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Editorial Courtesy The Island Former Cabinet Minister Milinda Moragoda has urged political parties to seriously consider the abolition of the monster Provincial Council system which has cost this country a great deal more than a pretty penny. Six of the existing nine PCs ended their terms in 2018 while the other three went out of […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Courtesy The Island Milinda Moragoda, Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation and former Cabinet Minister, called on political parties to clearly state their positions on the Provincial Council system in their policy platforms for the forthcoming general elections. He urges parties to consider repealing the 13th Amendment, thereby abolishing the Provincial Council system. Moragoda reiterated his earlier […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Courtesy Sri Lanka Express June 25, 2020 – The US Supreme Court in a landmark decision today voted in favor of the administration in its appeal against a lower court ruling that allowed a Sri Lankan the right to have a judge review the government’s handling of his asylum bid. The justices ruled in favor […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera has returned 40 incomplete investigations files, pertaining to the suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks, to the Acting Inspector General of Police. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General said the Acting IGP was also instructed to conclude the investigations properly.
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The US Embassy in Sri Lanka says that no MCC grant monies were ever transferred to or spent by the Government of Sri Lanka under the proposed $480 million grant. MCC-managed funding to support grant preparatory activities — nearly all of which have been canceled or indefinitely postponed pending the Government’s decision on […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් උසස් පෙළ විභාගය සමත්ව විශ්වවිද්යාල වරම් නොලැබූ සිසුන්ට පාකිස්ථානයේ විශ්වවිද්යාලවලට ඇතුළත්ව උපාධි ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා අවස්ථාව උදාවී ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ – පාකිස්ථාන මහකොමසාරිස් විශ්රාමික මේජර් ජනරාල් මුහමද් සාද් කාතත් සහ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ අතර, අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ අද පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකින් අනතුරුව අදහස් දක්වමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් මණ්ඩලයට තමා සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශනයක් සිදුකළ නොහැකි බව දෙමළ එක්සත් නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක විනයාගමූර්ති මුරලිදරන් හෙවත් කරුණා අම්මාන් ප්රකාශ කළා. ඒ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. නායකයෙකුු ලෙස සිටි සමයේ ඔහු විසින් සිදුකරන ලද යුද අපරාධ සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශනය කරන ලෙස මානව හිමිකම් මණ්ඩලය කළ ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්රතිචාර දක්වමින්.
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the Tamil United Freedom Front (TUFF) Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, whose startling comment on the killing of Army soldiers sparked controversy, has made yet another revelation. Joining ‘Mokada Wune’ programme on TV Derana, he said, late President Ranasinghe Premadasa, during his administration, had supplied weapons and funds to the LTTE […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Cortesy Ada Derana Four more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 as of 9.00 pm today (26), says the Ministry of Health. These fresh cases of novel coronavirus have moved the tally to 2,014. The Department of Government Information said these patients are arrivals from Pakistan, who are under quarantine at the facilities in Miyankulam […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
In 2018, Yasmin Sooka representing International Truth & Justice Project administered through the EU funded Foundation for Human Rights South Africa submitted to The Office on Missing Persons (OMP) Sri Lanka, set up by an Act of Parliament, a list of 351 names of persons her entity claims are ‘enforced disappearances’ during the final phase of […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
by citizen Perera NO MORE DEEDS Land is the wealth of the country, the wealth of the people. 480 Million Dollars when received, the lands will be privatized the government will be landless. This, they say, is the mantra to alleviate poverty . MCC has at the moment a crash program for e registration, with […]
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