tomdispatch.com/ Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a $95-billion bill to give many more Americans reasonable health care. No, it really doesn’t sound likely, does it? Okay, then, how about Congress teetering at the edge of passing just such a bill to further arm Ukraine, Israel, […]

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තිස්ස ගුණතිලක පසුගිය ලිපි දෙකෙන්ම උත්සාහකලේ ප්‍රස්තූත පැනයට පිලිතුර සාකච්චාකරන අතරම සමාජය තුලත් අප සියළු දෙනා තුලත් නිදන් ගතවී ඇති නිවන වසනා (මිත්‍යා) දෘෂ්ඨීන් හඳුනාගෙන ඒවා දුරුකිරීමය. 1. උදාහරනයක් ලෙස ස්වභාවධර්මය තුලවූ සියල්ලම අසංඛතය බවත් ඒ සියල්ලේම එකතුව නිවනේ ස්වභාවය නැතහොත් නිවනම බවත් පලමුව දත යුතුය. එනම් ස්වභාවධර්මය යනු නිවනයි. නිවන් දැකීම යනු ස්වභාවධර්මගත වීමයි, ස්වභාවධර්මයම […]

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By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 27 (Daily Mirror) – Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena is reported to have used his decisive vote as the chairman of the Constitutional Council (CC) to affirm the appointment of Mr. Deshabandu Tennakoon as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) permanently. The other eight members of the CC […]

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 By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 27 (Daily Mirror) – In the wake of reports that President Ranil Wickremesinghe ordering an immediate investigation into the circular asking overstaying Russian and Ukrainian tourists to leave within 14 days, the Russian Embassy in Colombo said it awaits the results of the probe directed by the […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb. 27 (Daily Mirror)- The legality of the no confidence motion which is being brought against Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene is questionable, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today. The opposition claims that the Speaker got the Online Safety Bill enacted violating the constitution. It is not the Speaker who […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Indian government is working on operationalizing Rupee investments in Sri Lanka in a move to boost Indian investments in its southern neighbour, two people aware of the matter told Mint. Rupee investments will ease the way for Indian firms to enter the Sri Lankan markets, the people mentioned above said, speaking under […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has given the go-ahead to a proposal seeking to upgrade the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake and the Colombo Port to be on par with the international practices, recommendations and standards under a grant provided by Japan. As Sri Lanka’s economy is mainly dependent on the income generated […]

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Courtesy Adaderana All political parties will be informed of the Regulation of Election Expenditure Act on Tuesday (27 Feb.) and 06 March, as per a decision made by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. Chairman of the Commission R. M. A. L. Ratnayake explained that the discussion will be held in light of the fact […]

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