Archive for July, 2022
Sunday, July 10th, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) නීතිමය නිදහස වෙනුවෙන් පෙළ ගැසෙන්න ජනතාව සූදානම්ද? අහිමි කළ අධිකරණ භාෂා අයිතිය නැවත ලබා ගත හැකි වෙයිද? අධිකරණ අමාත්යාංශයේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්යාපනය ලබාදීම තහනම් කළ 2020.12.30 අංක 2208/13 අතිවිශෙෂ ගැසට්ටුවේ එකී තහනම ඉවත් වෙයිද? ඉදිරියේ පත්වන ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉංග්රීසි ජාතිවාදීන්ගෙන් ජනතාව මුදවා ගනීවිද? ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2022
Matthew Campbell Courtesy Times (UK) Voters furious at corruption and economic meltdown set fire to the prime minister’s home and stormed the presidential residence Sunday July 10 2022, 4.30am, The Sunday Times Sri Lanka Sri Lanka sank into chaos last night when tens of thousands of protesters stormed the president’s official residence and then set […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2022
ජොනතන් මෑන්ස් විසින් සීඅයිඒ (එනම් NED) හි ඉතිහාසය පිරී ඇත්තේ ආන්ඩු පෙරලා දැමීම, යුද්ධ ආරම්භ කිරීම, කුමන්ත්රණ වේදිකාගත කිරීම සහ කුසගින්නෙන් පෙළෙන රටවල් යටත් කර ගැනීම සඳහා ව්යාජ ධජ මෙහෙයුම් වලින් පිරී ඇත. ව්යාජ-කොඩි මෙහෙයුමක් අර්ථ දක්වා ඇත්තේ, ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම වගකීමක් නැති පාර්ශවයක් විසින් එය සිදු කර ඇති බව පෙනෙන ආකාරයට සංවිධානය කරන ලද දේශපාලන […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Army said today that Army troops fired a few rounds to the air and the sidewalls of the main gate entrance to the President’s House on Saturday preventing the entry of the protesters into the compound, and did not intend on causing deliberate harm to the protesters. The […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily News The investigation into the incident of setting fire to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence in Colombo last night has been handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), police said. The Kollupitiya Police were investigating the incident and the probe will now be taken over by the CID. Earlier, the […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The European Union (EU) and the US on Sunday urged Sri Lanka’s political fraternity to cooperate, focus and work quickly’ to achieve a peaceful, democratic and orderly transition amid the island nation’s worst economic and political crisis in decades. On July 9, thousands of irate anti-government protesters stormed the official residence of embattled […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it is hoping for a resolution to Sri Lanka’s political turmoil that will allow a resumption of talks for a bailout package after a violent day of protests. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will resign on Wednesday after thousands of protesters stormed his official residence and secretariat […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
by Garvin Karunaratne With queues for fuel extending to miles at Petrol stations, with queues for cooking gas, essential industries like Sevanagala sugar closing down due to lack of fuel, scarcity of food and essential food getting beyond the reach of people due to the 80% devaluation of the rupee, Sri Lanka has a doomed […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Prof. Hudson McLean Sri Lanka’s energy crisis an artificial one?Shenali D Waduge Shenali Waduge touched on an important point. Today despite the Russian-Ukraine debacle, oil flows un the Middle East, Venezuela, Iran, and over 100 countries, as in https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/ Sri Lanka is a small fry in the Big Fish oil market game. The oil business […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඇමරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් නිර්මාණය කර මෙරට තුල ඇතිකරන ලද අරගලය, ඉතා කෙටිකාලයක් තුලදී ජයග්රාහි ඉලක්කය පසුකර යන්නට සමත්විය. දැන් රාජපක්ෂ පවුල රාජ්ය බලය හසුරවන කවය තුල නැත. අරගලයට පෙරදා මෙරට ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිවරිය මෙරට ජනතාව අමතා, අරගලය සාමකාමී අරගලයක් විය යුතු බව සැලකර සිටියද, ඇයගේ ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධව කිසිදු සැලකිල්ලක් නොදැක්වූ අරගලකරුවන් විසින්, […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The private residence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Cinnamon Gardens has been set on fire. A demonstration was staged outside the PM’s residence this evening. Later, a group of people had stormed into the premises. Meanwhile, several media persons were attacked by the Special Task Force officers, while on duty at the […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed that he would step down from the presidency on July 13 (Wednesday), Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says. The announcement came hours after people, calling for the resignation of the President and his government, stormed into the President’s House in Colombo Fort earlier today. They had pushed […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was decided in the Party Leader’s meeting that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should resign immediately. The party leaders meeting chaired by the Speaker is being held to discuss further decisions following the massive protests in the country. Earlier, President Rajapaksa informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will respect any decision […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the decisions taken at the party leaders will be conveyed to the public and appropriate action will be taken according to the decisions taken at this meeting. unconfirmed reports indicate that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that he will respect any decision taken in the party leaders’ […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he is ready to step down from his portfolio, making way for the establishment of an all-party government.
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Premalal Ferdinando Good move by the President to let the crowd <storm> the Presidential palace and open a safety valve. This is not his palace but of all Presidents of Sri Lanka. In Switzerland this type of visit to places that are not generally open to the public is called – Tag der oeffenen Tuer […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara Why The President should resign immediately 1Gota Go home protest was started on 9th April 2022 at Gall Face in front of the Presidential Secretariate. 2 The first Massive public protest at Jubilee post demanding him to resign was held on May 31. 2022 at Mirihana near the President’s house. Instead […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
By Jonathan Manz The history of the CIA (aka NED) is replete with False-Flag operations hatched to topple governments, initiate wars, stage Coups and starve countries into submission. A False-Flag operation has been defined as a political or military act orchestrated in such a way that it appears to have been carried out by a […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ I have no dispute with any body who says that mismanagement and corruption have been the main reasons for the current dollar shortage which is the reason for the oil and gas queues and the consequent misery. The COPA Committee sittings televised nearly daily shows that this corruption is not […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge We are in the midst of a political crisis emerging out of an economic crisis. People’s emotions are high as a result of the sufferings they have to undergo affecting their homes & livelihoods. While debt has been carried forward and made worse with every successive governments, no government is elected to […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
Prof. Hudson McLean PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is an experienced political survivor, “Jumping Jack Flash” or a Nidikumba (නිදිකුම්බා), Mimosa Pudica, Sleeping Grass Sensitive Plant or Touch-me-not Shame Plant. Sri Lanka needed someone to “Carry-the-Can” which nobody wanted. Ranil, who refused to leave Temple Trees at one point, took the job to re-enter the historic mansion. He has declared […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (සමායෝජක) වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන (ඉංග්රීසි ජාතිවාදීන් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ රටේ බහුතර ජනතාවගේ භාෂාවෙන් ලබා දීම වළක්වාගෙන ඇත. “නීතිය නොදැනීම සමාවට කරුණක් නොවේ” යන්න ඉන් බිඳවැටී ඇත. මේ කෙටි ලිපිය ඒ ගැන පැහැදිලි කිරීමට සහ එය නිවැරදි කර නීතියේ පාලනය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට සහ ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය ශක්තිමත් […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is calling for justice for Easter Sunday, we all want justice, but why didn’t he call for justice for the victims of LTTE crimes? He doesn’t do so because the Church was heavily involved in the LTTE-Eelam-separatist project as part of West’s geopolitical & conversion agenda in South Asia. […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
Lanka Lead News පසුගිය ජූනි 30 වනදා ජාතික මහජන සභාවේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් කතානායක මහින්ද යාපා අබේවර්ධන මැතිතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් එලි දැක්වුනු හැට එක් වැදෑරුම් සමාජ ගිවිසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඊයේ(07) බොරැල්ල එන් එම් පෙරේරා මධ්යයස්ථානයේ දී පැවැති මාධ්යය සාකච්ඡාවක් අමතමින් මහාචාර්ය පූජ්යය ඉඳුරාගාරේ ධම්මරතන හිමියන් අදහස් දැක්වූහ. එහිදී උන් වහන්සේ පවසා සිටියේ මේ වනතෙක් කිසිදු දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායමක් හෝ […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
ShenalI D Waduge The public are listening with interest & shock to the questions and answers emerging from the COPE sessions. COPE & COPA are regarded as the Parliamentary WatchDog. Members of Parliament sitting on both Committees grill Public Officials questioning their actions, calling for explanations, national policies and even directing the CID to investigate. […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Leaving aside the global crisis as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Sri Lanka’s Govt is doing a pretty good job adding to the crisis. Is there any truth in the allegation that the government has created the energy crisis for the kickbacks and commissions taken by politicians, public officials and their […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර විදේශගත ශ්රමිකයින් සදහා වන විශේෂිත විශ්රාම වැටුපක් හදුන්වා දෙන බවත්, ඉදිරි සති කිහිපය තුළ එම විශ්රම වැටුප් ක්රමය විදේශ ගත ශ්රමිකයින්ට හදුන්වා දෙන බවත් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. විදේශගත ශ්රමිකයින් සදහා වන විශ්රාම වැටුප් ක්රමයක් සකස් කිරීම පිළිබද වසර ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ සාකච්ඡාවෙමින් පැවති […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
සමස්ත ලංකා ප්රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. ලංකා ගමනාගමන මණ්ඩලය හා ඊට අයත් ඩිපෝවල සේවයේ නියුතු සේවකයින්ට සේවයට වාර්තා කිරීමේදී බලපා තිබූ ඉන්ධන හා ප්රවාහන පහසුකම් නොමැතිවීම මත සේවකයින්ට සේවයට වාර්තා කිරීමට නොහැකි වීමෙන් පොදු ප්රවාහන සේවය බිඳවැටීම වළක්වමින් අවශ්ය පහසුකම් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් 2022 ජූලි 08 දින ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිතව තිබූ වර්ජනය ක්රියාත්මක නොකිරීමට ශ්රී ලංගම […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition Inc Toronto July 7th – As you know, the Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition and Sri Lanka Canada Association of Brampton challenged the Tamil Genocide Education Week Act (TGEWA) on the basis that the Ontario government did not have the authority to make statements regarding a genocide that they claimed […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The programme of the opposition political groups to mislead the people at a time when successful solutions have been achieved to the existing problematic situation was very sad and unpleasant, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. The President’s Media Division (PMD) said in a statement that after a long and well-planned effort, the […]
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