Archive for September, 2023
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Dilrook Kannangara Representative democracy is all about government through elected representatives. This is the only form of democracy in the world. Sadly, the top two elected representatives have been removed from their positions (and many other top vote winners too). The president and the prime minister currently serving have no mandate to rule the country. […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
LANKA LEAD News මුලතිව් ඔට්ටිසුඩාන් වාවෙට්ටි කදුකර ප්රදේශයේ කැළෑවකින් පුරාණයේ මිනිසුන් විසින් වන්දනාමාන කරණ ලද නටබුන් සහිත ස්ථානයක් හමු වී ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.ඔට්ටිසුඩාන් තානේස්වරී ප්රදේශයේ හින්දු ජනයා විසින් කෝවිලක් ඉදිකරගෙන ඊට වන්දනාමාන කරන අතර එම ස්ථානයට කිලෝ මීටර් පහක් පමණ ඈතීන් වාවෙට්ටි කදුකර ප්රදේශයෙන් මෙම නටබුන් සහිත ස්ථනය හමු වී ඇත්තේ කෝවිලේ කිරිබත් පිසීමට […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the wake of Channel 4 Dispatches, State Minister of Rural Road Development Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, who faces allegations, responds to questions from Daily Mirror about his alleged involvement in atrocious acts. As one time Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, he also shares his views on the 13th Amendment. Excerpts: […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe will visit China on October 16, 17 and 17 and hold talks with Chinese leaders including President Xi Jinping, Daily Mirror learns. The visit comes at a time when Sri Lanka remains engaged with China on the restructuring of its bilateral debts. China is the largest bilateral creditor […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror On behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Defence has categorically refuted the allegations by the UK’s Chanel 4 over the Easter Sunday attacks and reiterates the government’s unwavering commitment to the truth, justice, and the well-being of the nation, said a statement by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
K.K.S.Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror While there’s no denying that the Rajapaksas gained politically from the atmosphere of fear following the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, it’s crucial to emphasize that benefiting from such circumstances doesn’t automatically implicate them in planning or executing those attacks The Channel 4 episode presents itself as an intricately created work […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Lanka Lead News බ්රිතාන්යයේ චැනල් 4 නාලිකාව මීට පෙරත් ලංකාව පිළිබඳව සාවද්ය වීඩියෝ පට නිකුත් කර ඇති බවත්, එම නාලිකාව පිළිබඳව විශ්වාසයක් තැබිය නොහැකි බවත් චැනල් 4 නාලිකාවේ පාස්කු ප්රහාරය පිළිබද වාර්තා වැඩසටහනේ සාක්ෂි ලබාදුන් පුද්ගලයන් පිළිබදව විශේෂ හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදුකරමින් යාපනය සිවිල් සංවිධාන කේන්ද්රයේ කැඳවුම්කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථ මහතා පවසයි. අවසාන යුද සටනේ දී LTTE ත්රස්තයන් […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lankan Parliament should decide on the nature of the probe into the allegations by the recent Channel 4 video on the Easter Sunday attacks, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said today. President Ranil Wickremesinghe proposed an international probe on the Easter Sunday attacks as soon as he was sworn […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella has reportedly given approval for the commencement of operations of three private medical universities. Speaking in this regard at a media briefing held in Kandy today (10 Sep.), Rambukwella stated that the relevant universities have already commenced operations. Commenting on the recent controversies surrounding the provision of medial degrees […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to appoint a committee, chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge, to investigate the allegations made by the UK’s Channel 4 regarding the Easter Sunday bombings. The President’s Media Division said that the government plans to establish a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the allegations made […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Courtesy AdaDerana The reports pertaining to the two investigations into the Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019 will be presented to the parliament before any final decisions are made, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said. Accordingly, upon completion of the two investigations into the series of bombings, the reports from the Parliamentary Select Committee and the Presidential […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge Easter Sunday murders took place on 21 April 2019. 269 innocent people died & over 500 were left injured. Immediately following the attacks at least 6 countries came forward to assist Sri Lanka in investigations. Their foreign intel agencies arrived to help carry out investigations. The FBI, Australian Federal Police, UK’s Scotland […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
Prof. Hudson McLean Over the recent months, many Sri Lanka students have arrived in Finland some with Full Scholarships. Finland has a need for 20,000 Nurses with or without RNs, with a monthly salary starting at Euro 2000-; Also, Care workers are needed. Most of the Nurses arrive from India and the Philippines. Ideal Age: […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lankan Parliament should decide on the nature of the probe into the allegations by the recent Channel 4 video on the Easter Sunday attacks, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said today. President Ranil Wickremesinghe proposed an international probe on the Easter Sunday attacks as soon as he was sworn […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සමුපකාරය ශක්තිමත් කිරීම ආර්ථික අර්බුදයට විසදුමක්… · ග්රාමීය නිෂ්පාදන නැංවීමට සමුපකාරයේ මැදිහත් වීම අවශ්යයි… · රට පුරා එකම සමුපකාර නිතියක් බලගන්වමු… – අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.09.08 දින කොල්ලුපිටිය මන්දිරයේ පැවැති, නීති නියෝජිත හා ලේකම් පරිචය පිළිබද ඩිප්ලෝමා ප්රධානෝත්සවය අමතමිනි. ශ්රී ලංකා ජාතික […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ එක්සත් රාජධානිය අතර ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා සහ සංවර්ධන සහයෝගීතාව පිළිබඳ අදහස් හුවමාරු කර ගැනීමට බ්රිතාන්ය මහ කොමසාරිස් ඇන්ඩෲ පැට්රික් මහතා 2023.09.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. එහිදී දෙරට අතර ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා සහ සංවර්ධන සහයෝගීතාව තවදුරටත් වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම සඳහා ඇති සිය දැඩි කැපවීම මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා සනාථ කළේය. පුද්ගලික […]
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ත්රිකුණාමලයේ කඩවත් සතර ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් බොරලු කන්ද රජමහ විහාරයට අනුමත වූ ඉඩම තහනම් කිරීමට වාචික උපදෙස් දුන් නැගෙනහිර ආණ්ඩුකාර සෙන්දිල් තොන්ඩමන් ට අභියෝග කල පූජ්ය පොල්හේන්ගොඩ උපරතන නාහිමියන් ඇතුළු බෞද්ධ බලවේගය නිහඬ කරවන්නට මේ වන විට බොහෝ කටයුතු කෙරෙමින් පවතී.ත්රිකුණාමලයේ බෝගස් හතර පුණ්ය භූමියේ පැවැත් වීමට නියමිතව තිබූ උපසම්පදා සැමරුම් […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge Not only is Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith the opening batsman in the C4 documentary, he has also decided to be the night watchman having prepared a 3 page letter in English and even going the mile to translate it into Sinhala. The letter is dated 6thSeptember. Channel 4 program was aired on 5th September […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Dr. Maha Hilal In a June 2012 piece headlined Praying at the Church of St. Drone,” I wrote, Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief.” At that time, President Barack Obama was overseeing what […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Middle East Eye French edition. More than 40 years after the mysterious shooting down of an Italian plane that carried 81 passengers, former two-time premier Giuliano Amato claims France was behind it A former Italian head of government has accused France and the United States of being responsible for the deaths of 81 aircraft passengers […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge Let us get to the bottom of this drama without engaging in any more sensational entertainment. The latest Channel 4 video opened with Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith talking about someone “above” Zaharan and Hamsa claiming to have met Maj. Gen. Suresh Salley in February 2018 & alleging discussing a plot to commit Easter […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර 7.9.2023 මේ ජාත්යන්තරය කියන්නේ කවුද.එක්සත් ජාතීන් කියන්නේ කව්ද. ලෝකබැන්කුව කියන්නේ.ජාත්යන්තර මුල්ය අරමුදල කියන්නෙ මොකක්ද. සරළම උත්තරය නම් 1505 සිට මුළු ලෝකයම අවිබලයෙන් කොල්ලකා, විනාශකොට, ලෝකයේම ධනයෙන් සහ දැණුමෙන් තම රටවල් සමුර්ධිමත් කරගත් හා උ හා ද අමෙරිකා මහාද්වීප, ඕස්ට්රලියාව නවසීලන්තය වැනි රටවල ස්වදේශිකයින් සමූල ඝාතනය කොට ඒ රටවල්ද අල්ලාගෙන දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසු එකතුවී […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay looks at Tamil colonization of Sinhala lands during British rule. (1815-1948).From the time they took control of the Udarata kingdom, the British wanted to bring the Sinhala population to heel, especially after the rebellions of 1818 and 1848. They decided to replace the Sinhalese with Tamils from South India. This was […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamils in Trincomalee District rose, from 30% of the population in 1871 to a peak of 60% in 1901. Trincomalee had become an urban center by 1879. Census reports indicate that from 1870 to 1900 Jaffna was the foremost source of migrants into Trincomalee town. The town itself was largely inhabited by […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Manusha Media Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said that a cultural centre will be provided to the Sri Lankans of African origin (Kaffirs) living in the Sirambiadi area of Puttalam.He said this will help this community to focus international attention on their culture.The Minister noted this after meeting the Kaffir community in Sirambiadi. […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මෙරට ධීවර ක්ෂේත්රයේ සිදුකළ හැකි ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා චීන කර්මාන්තකරුවන් පිරිසක් අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා 2023.09.06 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී හමුවිය. චීනයට පමණක් නොව යුරෝපය සහ උතුරු ඇමරිකාව ඇතුළු විදේශ වෙළෙඳපොළ වෙත ද මත්ස්ය සැකසුම් සහ අපනයන ආයෝජන සඳහා විශාල විභවයක් පවතින බව අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මෙහිදී පැවසීය. නියෝජිත පිරිසට නායකත්වය දුන් Fujian ප්රාන්තයේ ජලජ නිෂ්පාදන තොග […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව යටතේ පවතින විශ්වවිද්යාල 22 ක කථිකාචාර්යවරුන් 135 දෙනෙකු 2023 වසරේ දී සේවයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වී ඇත. තවත් 63 දෙනෙකු සේවය අතහැර (vacation of post – VOP) ගොස් ඇත. 2023 මුල් මාස 8 තුල විශ්වවිද්යාල සේවයෙන් ඉවත් වූ කථිකාර්යවරුන් සංඛ්යාව 198 ක් පමණි. විශ්වවිද්යාල ආචාර්ය සංගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති ශ්යාම් බන්නහැක මහතා පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar It seems rather high handed and irresponsible for Former SupremeCourt Judge and MP CV Wigneshwaran of no mean repute as a troublemaker relative to Sinhala Tamil matters to make what appears to be alatent threat to the Government of Sri Lanka based on the fullimplementation of the 13th Amendment and needs […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Vichara In December last year the Governor of the Central Bank appealed to exporters to repatriate export proceeds in full within the stipulated period. He does not want to bring in regulations to force them to do this on the argument that will deter foreign investment. A think tank of Peradeniya University has pointed out […]
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