Archive for September 15th, 2020
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Charles S.Perera It is strange to see the present ragtags-the remnants of the former Yahapalanaya who ridiculed democracy, and devastated the country politically,economically, and socially for four and half years, now thundering in the parliament and out side about a disappearing democracy they in fact seem to know nothing about. Among the remnants of […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala It seems to me that the former NPC CM and present Jaffna District MP octagenarian C.V. Wigneswaran has taken to dispensing racist hatred in order to wipe out the Sinhalese race as a pest. It is funny, but regrettable that he indulges himself in this sort of thing. But since the […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 15.9.2020 1 පරාජිත මන්ත්රීවරුන් නිල නිවාසවලින් ඉවත්ව නොයාම 2 අපරාධකරුවන්ට මැතිසභයට එන්ට අවසර දීම 3 මන්ත්රීවරුන් ඇතුළු කිසිම කෙනෙකුට තීරුබදු රහිත වාහන ලබා දීමට අවසර නොදීම 1 පරාජිත මන්ත්රීවරුන් නිල නිවාසවලින් ඉවත්ව නොයාම මෙම ප්රශ්නය ඉතා දිගුකලක් තිස්සේ ඇදෙන කරුණකි. මේ මිනිසු නේද රටේ නීති හදන්ට චන්දදායකයින් විසින් උත්තරීතරයයි කියන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට යවල […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM FRCP/FRACP Specialist Rheumatologist, Wellington , New Zealand. Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Wellington New Zealand . Dear Members of Ontario Parliament, I write to you as a contributor to a webinar on 16/8/20 organised by the ” Ontario Centre for Policy Research” on the alleged Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka and […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Garvin Karunaratne The Power fiasco is not over yet. Listening to the utterances by State Ministers over the Television it is clear that they have been outsmarted. Perhaps an old Paper of mine published sometime back will provide details for the State Ministers to arm themselves for the next bout..
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The security threat to India is a quite complicated archetype and many people confuse with the term the security threat to India. The major reason people get confused about the nature of the threat is specifically delineated and people have a feeling it like a groping in the dark. Since Indian independence […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Sanchita Bhattacharya Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management Courtesy SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW On September 8, 2020, a Sessions Court in Lahore, Punjab, sentenced a Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, to death, after convicting him of sending text messages containing blasphemous content”. The court order issued by Additional Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmad Qureshi said Pervaiz would first […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS The two JVP insurgencies of 1971 and 1987 have not been looked at deeply or analytically. Commentators have concentrated on describing what the JVP did, not why they did it. Commentators treat the JVP with great indulgence, calling the JVP an idealistic, romantic youth movement. Dharman Wickremaratne said that, as a working journalist, […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මත්ද්රව්ය ජාවාරම් ඇතුළු නීති විරෝධීව එක් රැස් කර ගත් මුදල් සම්බන්ධව ඉදිරි කටයුතු කිරීම පිළිබඳව නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ශ්රී ලංකා පොලීසිය සහ අනෙකුත් අදාළ රාජ්ය ආයතනවල උසස් නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා සමඟ 2020.09.14 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වූහ. නීති විරෝධී ලෙස උපයා ගත් මුදල්, රථ වාහන, ඉඩම්, නිවාස, ගොඩනැගිලි, […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය 20 වෙනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය අධ්යයනය කිරීමට පත් කළ කමිටුව විසින් අදාළ වාර්තාව අද 2020.09.15 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට භාර දෙන ලදී. කැබිනට් අමාත්යවරුන්, රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරුන් හා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් අදාළ කමිටුවේ සභාපතිත්වය දරනු ලැබුවේ කැබිනට් අමාත්ය මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතාය. විසි වෙනි සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ අධ්යයනයේදී හඳුනාගත් අලුතින් […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සිරකරු සුභසාධක දිනය වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන සමරු කොඩිය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට පැළඳවීම අද 2020.09.15 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. ජනාධිපති විශේෂ ව්යාපෘති අධ්යක්ෂ සිරකරු සුභ සාධක සංගමයේ හිටපු උප සභාපති, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ආර්.ඒ.ඩී. සිරිසේන මහතා, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට සමරු කොඩිය පැළඳුවේය. කොඩි අලෙවි කිරීමෙන් ලැබෙන මුදල් සෘජුවම සිරකරු සුභ […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනය 14 වැනි වරටත් සංවිධානය කළ බෞද්ධ සාහිත්ය උත්සවය සඳහා අද 2020.09.15 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එක්විය. බුද්ධ ශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්යංශය හා එක්ව සංවිධානය කළ, මෙම බෞද්ධ සාහිත්ය උත්සවය කොළඹ 07, බෞද්ධ සම්මේලන ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පරිවර්තන, පර්යේෂණ, නව ප්රබන්ධ, ගී කාව්ය නිර්මාණ, […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By P. K. Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Among the main reasons is opposition within the ruling party and alliance Colombo, September 14: The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) decision to revisit the draft 20thAmendment (20A) to the Constitution follows multiple dissensions over it both within the party and its alliance. Although the draft 20A […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia China never forces Sri Lanka to choose sides and is happy with the latter’s friendship with its neighbors, Hu Wei told Kelum Bandara of Daily Mirror. By Kelum Bandara/Daily Mirror Colombo, September 14: The Acting Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Hu Wei, spoke to Daily Mirror about the present status of bilateral relations between China […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A major overhaul of Sri Lanka’s diplomatic service is well overdue. The new Government aims to re-organise and make significant changes in overseas diplomatic missions abroad. According to news Media in the Sunday newspapers, the reorganisation will come into effect within a month. Those diplomats who had […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Dr. C. G. Ilangakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today It’s high time we made use of the power of intelligence, gifted by God and discard fake concepts of political deception and obfuscations of scriptural texts, rooted, consecutively, in communal violence and religious racism. The Tamil voters, in the void of destructive racist politics and power-greedy opportunism, […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana September, 15, 2020 According to the latest external trade data released by the Central Bank, country’s trade deficit narrowed in July 2020, with a more than expected rebound in merchandise exports and notable reduction in merchandise imports. Sri Lanka’s external sector recovered further in July 2020 supported by an increase in merchandise exports and increased […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka can use its unique locational advantage to become one of the world’s leading maritime hubs, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today (15). He pointed out that development goals could be achieved speedily by developing the ports in the country while emulating the world’s most advanced ports as examples. The President emphasized the […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country reached 3,271 as six more arrivals tested positive for the virus today (15). In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 3,016 as 11 persons infected with the virus were discharged from hospitals upon […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday Attacks, heard evidence on Monday (14) from two former intelligence service chiefs – Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena and Retired DIG Sisira Mendis – who exposed a lack of responsibility and leadership in the country’s national security establishment. During their individual testimonies, the subject […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The committee appointed to study and review the draft bill of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees today (15). The nine-member committee comprised of Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers and MPs is chaired by Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris. The committee […]
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