Archive for August, 2020
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News With the inaugural session of the ninth parliament due to take place tomorrow (20), the focus is on 81 first-time MPs. Sixty five of them got elected at the 2020 general election, while 16 come from the national list as named by their parties so far. The SLPP has 12 and the […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa met protesting unemployed graduates in front of the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today (19). Returning from the inaugural cabinet meeting, he had a discussion about their problems.
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News A cabinet subcommittee has been tasked with the constitutional formulation. Its members are Prof. G.L. Peiris, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Ali Sabri, Dinesh Gunawardena and Udaya Gammanpila.
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM FRCP(UK)FRACP( Aust/NZ) Wellington New Zealand The about 10% Tamil minority in Sri Lanka were the privileged minority of one hundred and fifty years of the Divide and Rule” British Colonial administration, while the about 75% Sinhalese majority were the oppressed and disadvantaged majority, as they posed the greatest threat to the […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. උපාධිධාරී ජාතික මධ්යස්ථානය ගරු ජනාධිපති, ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරී අභ්යාසලාභීන් පිරිසක් පත්වීම් වලින් ඉවත් කිරීම හා සුදුසුකම් සපුරා ඇති රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන්ට පත්වීම් ලබා නොදීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 2020. 01. 01 දිනට පෙර රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන් රැකියාගත කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන යටතේ 2020 මාර්තු 02 සිට 10 දක්වා ලබා […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
අගමැති සතු බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්ය ධුූරය ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දැරිය යුතු බවට පෙත්සමක්”
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Home News Dr. Jay Gunawardana, a Sri lankan-born blood cancer researcher at the University of Queensland (Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia) has received the prestigious American Society of Haematology Global Research Award. This highly sought-after award is the result of a global search for competitive research proposals. It will enable Dr. Gunawardana to investigate […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
B.D. Witharana In a series of speeches made at the State Council, especially during 1933-34, Wimalasurendra identified the broad alliance that worked against the Hydroelectric Scheme. He used different names at times to identify this alliance: ‘Big Business’, ‘Oil and Coal Combine’, ‘Almighty Oil Interests’, ‘Big Business and Alien Combines’, ‘Imperialistic Element’, ‘Big Business Element’, […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
නියෝජ්ය අධ්යක්ෂ ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය දිස්ත්රික් කාර්යාලය – කොළඹ වැවිලි කර්මාන්ත අමාත්යාංශයේ රබර් ලේකම් කාර්යාලය හා ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ රබර් භාණ්ඩ සංවර්ධන හා සේවා මධ්යස්ථානය එක්ව රබර් ආශ්රිත නිෂ්පාදන පිළිබඳ දැනුවත් කිරීමේ එක් දින වැඩසටහනක් සංවිධානය කර ඇත. මෙම වැඩසටහන රබර් ආශ්රිත නිෂ්පාදන ක්ෂේත්රයේ නිරත ව්යවසායකයන් සහ රබර් නිෂ්පාදන ක්ෂේත්රයට අලුතින් එක්වීමට කැමති […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Courtesy TRT WORLD Early lockdown, fast tracking of Covid-19 suspects and financial intervention in key areas, are the most significant highlights of their success story. As the subcontinent struggles to flatten the coronavirus curve, with India alone recording 2.7 million cases and taking the third spot in the world, Sri Lanka offers a glimmer of […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror A sea change came about when the Rajapaksa regime recognized that the war against the Sea Tigers cannot be won if command over the sea is not established and the navy is not given its due and made pro-active, innovative and daring, says Adm (Rtd) Dr.Jayanath Colombage In his book Asymmetric Warfare […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The margin of the SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) victory, at the Aug 5, 2020 general election, stunned the ruling coalition. The best possible result the SLPP expected was around 130 seats, including National List slots. SLPP Chairman and its top National List nominee, Prof. G.L. Peiris, about aproximately […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI)probing incidents of political victimization has issued summons on former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and former ministers Mangala Samaraweera, Patali Champika Ranawaka, Sarath Fonseka, Malik Samarawickrama and Rauff Hakeem. They have accordingly been informed to appear before the PCoI on the 7th of September. Further, Jathika Jana Balawegaya […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Former Director of the State Intelligence Service Nilantha Jayawardena stated that the State Intelligence Service also knew before the Easter attack that Rifkan Bathiudeen, the brother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, had helped Saharan Hashim, who was evading court despite being issued a warrant, to flee to India by boat from Mannar. […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Sri Lanka has been confronting critical issues in constitutional reforms since independence, and many issues were underwater until 1970, in spite of receiving a dominion status in 1947 with a written constitution, constitutional reforms seemed to be a demand of academic and students. The constitutional reforms had been limited by the lack […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
Courtesy wayforwardnow I have a dream! That one day, ministers will be chosen for their character and not for their family. The scale and extent to which Sri Lanka has been captured by family-rule under the Rajapaksas is unprecedented. No country in the world sees such a depth and breadth of family members simultaneously occupying positions of power […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
RANJTH SOYSA Sri Lanka has reached an important threshold of her history with the conclusion of the General Elections and the undisputed victory of the nationalist forces led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, While we still remember the memorable victory of Mahinda Rajapaksa. over the Tamil Tiger terrorists in another epoch, we could not make use […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා නිව්ස් වෙබ් Published on: Aug 17, 2020 – බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්යධුරය ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දැරිය යුතු බවට ප්රකාශයක් කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට අද මුලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සමක් ගොනු කර තිබේ.මේ වනවිට ජනාධිපතිවරයා යටතේ පවතින ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ධූරයද වෙනත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයෙකු වෙත පැවරීමට සූදානමක් ඇති බව දැනගන්නට ඇති බවද ඔහු සදහන් කර තිබේ. […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
Courtesy MailOnline The entire nation of Sri Lanka was left without power Monday in a seven-hour outage following a failure at a key electricity facility, officials said. Minister of Power Dullas Alahapperuma said an unspecified “technical issue” at the Kerawalapitiya power complex just outside the capital Colombo was the cause of the blackout, which hit […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News North Western Province Governor A.J.M. Mr. Muzammil says that it is mostly their own groups that is inciting racism. He stated this while participating in a program held in Colombo yesterday afternoon.
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය සුමේධ වීරවර්ධන ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ අලි සබ්රි මහතාට ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ධුරයක් සහ අධිකරණ කැබිනට් ඇමති ධුරයක් පිරිනැමීම සමාජයේ යම් කැළඹීමකට හේතු වී ඇත. එහෙත් ජාතික කොන්ග්රසයේ නායක ALM අතාවුල්ලා මන්ත්රීතුමා වෙනම තරඟ කර ජයගත් අතර ඔහුගේ පක්ෂයට ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ධුරයක් හෝ ඔහුට අඩුම තරමින් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ධුරයක් හෝ ලබා නොදීම ගැන අඩු […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2020
ආචාර්ය නලින් ද සිල්වා අලුත් ඇමති මණ්ඩලය දිවුරුම් දුන්නා. අලි සබ්රි පත් කිරීම සහ තවත් ඇතැම් පත්කිරීම්/පත්නොකිරීම් ගැන මගේ එකඟත්වයක් නැහැ. අලි සබ්රි කියන්නෙ සියුම් මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදියෙක්. ඒ බුද්ධිමතකු වියතකු උගතකු නොවූ මට තේරෙණ විධිය. එක්තරා බුද්ධිමත් ජාතිකවාදියකු කියනවා අපට ඇත්තේ හුදෙක් සබ්රි විරෝධයක් කියලා. ඔහුට අනුව ගෝඨාභය අතින් වරදක් වෙන්නෙ නැහැ. ඒ නිසා සබ්රිට […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
S. Akurugoda I refer to the two articles of Kalyananda Tiranagama, Executive Director, Lawyers for Human Rights and Development, under the titles Is Sinhala the Official Language of Sri Lanka” and How Premadasa turned the Official Language Policy upside down” appeared in The Island dated 28th and 29th respectively. The articles quoting typical examples […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked for a strong Parliament to abrogate the 19th Amendment. At the recently-concluded General Election, he received an overwhelming mandate with a rare two-thirds majority. The Opposition, struggling to keep its nose above water was too distracted and embarrassed even to oppose it. It is the […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
Health Promotion Bureau To date, Sri Lanka is among the elite group of countries that have controlled this epidemic successfully. This is a result of all the hard work and commitment showcased by all Sri Lankans. We have won the first battle to control the epidemic. Still, the war with the virus will continue for […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
by Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka is the first country to defeat Regime Change”. The fact that this whole operation was reversed by the ballot makes this accomplishment irrefutable. It is after all in the guise of strengthening democracy that this Regime Change” Operation was launched. Critics have tried to downplay this turn […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice”, August 15th., 2020. The cut-off point in proportional representation has to change from 5% to 12.5% in the new constitution. POLITICAL PARTIES BASED ON COMMUNITY, RELIGION AND COMMUNAL BASIS HAS TO BE BANNED IN SRI LANKA […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Lional Bopage, who was the first General Secretary of the 1971 JVP, who was the first of the 21 leaders of JVP accused for launching a rebellion to topple the government and who was a close associate of Victor Ivan and who now enjoys a luxury life in Australia and […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ වසර ගණනාවක් රටේ එක පෙදෙසකට වැස්ස. වතුරට ගෙවල් යටවෙලා, මිනිසුන් අනාත කඳවුරු වල. කඳු කඩා වැටිලා මිනිසුන් ඒවාට යටවෙලා මැරෙනවා. ඒ රටේ එක පැත්තක. අනික් පැත්තේ නියගය. කෙළවරක් නැති නියගය.මිනිසුන් එකතුවෙලා දෙවියන්ට කන්නලව් කළා. අඛණ්ඩව වසර හතරක්ම කන්නලව් කළා. අවසානයේදී දෙවියෝ තීරණය කළා මේ කර්තව්ය සඳහා විෂම කාර්ම පුත්ර රාජයාව මනු ලොවට එවීමට.. […]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2020
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B., Ph.D. මාළු ඔතන්නවත් නොවටින හැන්සාර්ඩ් වාර්තා දැන් ඇමෙරිකාවේ ජීවත්වන සන්ඩේ ලීඩර් කතෘව සිටි, ෆෙඩ්රීකා ජෑන්ස් වරක් කියා සිටියේ ලංකාවේ පත්තර හොඳ, මාළු ඔතන්නටය කියාය. දියවන්නා හෝටලය නඩත්තුවට යන වියදම, මන්ත්රී ප්රාණ විසින් කරණ කුණුහරුප කතා හා විෂයට අදාල නැති කතාද ඇතුළු මුළු කතාවල වචන ගණනින් බෙදුවොත් එක වචනයකට යන වියදම කෙතරම් විය […]
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