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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න අලුත් සන්ඝාදිකරන පනත ගෙන එන්නේ ඉංග්රීසින්ට ගැතිකම් කරපු හා කරන එජාපය විසින්ය . එහි නායකයා ඇන්ග්ලිකන් කාරයෙකි ,. මුළු රටම අ ප්රියකරන ප්රුතුගීසිකාරයාටත්මේ මිනිහා ප්රියකරය් . සේවනය බාලයන්මය මෙයා මොනවා තහනම් කලත් පන්සල් සුදුව නම් තහනම් කරන්නේ නැත . වාරියපොළ හිමි ඉංග්රීසි කොඩිය බිමා දමා පෑ ගුවේය ඒ එතුමනන් ගේ“”” සිංහල ලේ “”” […]
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, MIE(Aus) CPEng, (Retired) Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers 12th January 2016 Right Hon Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe MP Prime Minister of SriLanka No. 117, 5th Lane Colombo 03, SRILANKA Dear Prime Minister, It has become necessary to write to our PM to unravel […]
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Indian Foreign Secretary Dr S Jaishankar told the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R.Sampanthan here on Wednesday, that India would like Sri Lanka to build on what has already been achieved in the area of devolution of power when it drafts its new constitution. Jaishankar was alluding to […]
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island One-time Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, declared, in Colombo, on January 8, that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be remembered for eradicating the LTTE. Former President Rajapaksa brought the war to a successful conclusion on May 19, 2009. Having commended the former […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
අජිත් අලහකෝන් – කුෂාන් සුබසිංහ ෙත්රෙනිකායික භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාගේ හැසිරීම හා විනය කරුණු පිළිබඳ විධිවිධාන පනවමින් ථෙරවාදී භික්ෂු කතිකාවක් ලියාපදිංචි කිරීම සඳහා වන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්රතිසංස්කරණ හා ජනමාධ්ය ඇමැති, ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ ප්රධාන සංවිධායක ගයන්ත කරුණාතිලක මහතා විසින් ඊයේ (12දා) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. මෙම පනත් කෙටුම්පතට අනුව ගුප්ත විද්යා කටයුතු හෝ ඊට සමාන කටයුතුවල නියෑළීම […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න හොරුද තක්කඩි යන්අගමැති වූ වහාම භික්ෂුන් කොන්කළේය උඩරට ද වේවා සමලිංගිකයන් හෝ බෞද්ධ මන්ඩ ලේ ලොක්කන් වන කරු ජයසුරිය වැ න්නන් වේවා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Editorial The Island January 12, 2016 India is reported to have shot down a multi-million-dollar fighter jet deal between Sri Lanka and Pakistan/China. New Delhi has made known its opposition to the proposed transaction in no uncertain terms, through a non-paper diplomatic missive conveyed to the highest echelons of the Sri Lankan government, according to […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
By Surangani Seneviratne A year ago Sri Lanka elected a new president, Maithripala Sirisena to a chorus of ‘democracy’ and ‘just government’ cheering on from inside and outside the besieged island. Sirisena was the President Sri Lanka had to have in order not to have a President. The main stage the new President was placed […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Sri Lanka News Avant Garde private security firm has sent a letter of demand to Sri Lanka Navy demanding Rs. 2.5 billion. President’s Counsel Kuvera de Zoysa representing the company made this revelation before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Large Scale Corruption and Abuse of Power (PRECIFAC). The security firm has alleged that the […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
By Ankit Panda Courtesy The Diplomat Did India play a part in scuttling a JF-17 deal between Sri Lanka and Pakistan? As Benjamin Baker wrote last week in The Diplomat, the JF-17 Thunder, a low-cost multi-role fighter built collaboratively by China and Pakistan, has run into some problems on the global fighter market. Recently, every time […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Courtesy Jakarta Globe Colombo. Sri Lankan share index fell for a seventh straight session on Tuesday due to panic selling, led by margin calls after the market fell over 3.5 percent in the past six sessions, brokers said. Fears over investors shifting to risk-free assets such as government securities due to rising yields in government securities […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
By Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), CEng. MIEE, MIE (Aust), CPEng (Ret) It is most welcome that the SriLankan Government convened a conference on the economic development based around four key areas as follows: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Stability Structural Transformation and Competitiveness Urbanisation and Development Regional Development and Social Inclusion Views and opinion […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
By Paneetha Ameresekere Courtesy The Ceylon Today Nonetheless, Ricardo Hausmann, the current Director of the Centre for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, seemingly threw a dampener to Wickremesinghe’s vision, when he said that Sri Lanka will have to first […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
An article by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Government has announced another attempt at constitution making in Sri Lanka which, this time is to begin, with the hope to complete the process, by the end of this year. A resolution to this effect has already been introduced in the Parliament and a Drafting Committee […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
LNW SPY January 8, 2016 මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේනගේ ජඩ පොලිසියේ අරක්කු බොතලයක් නොදිම නිසා පහර දි ඉහල මාලයෙන් පහලට විසිකිරිමෙන් ඝාතනය කල සුමිත් ප්රසන්නගේ තරුණයාගේ මරණ පරික්ෂණය සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම ඔහු විසින්ම සියදිවි නසා ගැනිමක් ලෙස අර්ථකතනය කර ලබාදෙන ලෙස පොලිස්පති එන්.කේ. ඉලංගකෝන් මහතා රත්නපුර ප්රදේශය භාර ජේයෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති රොෂාන් ඩයස් මහතා හරහා අද එම තරුණයාගේ මරණ […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල lanka C news පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. UNP MP Hirunika Premachandra has created a world record by being the world’s first person to be bailed out within the shortest time ever after being arrested, UPFA MP Udaya Gammanpila said today. He said that if […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
මහාචාර්ය පුංචිනිලමේ මිගස්වත්තේ “අනාගතයේදී මුහුදු සේද මාවත පාලනය කරන්නන් විසින් මුලු ලෝකයම පාලනය කරනු ඇත” අන්තර්ජාතික භූදේශපාලනය පිලිබඳ තුලනාත්මක විවරණයක්. https://www.facebook.com/1911473452411740/videos/vb.1911473452411740/1911652605727158/?type=3&permPage=1
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
Ranjit Weerasinghe Toronto Courtesy The Island I read with interest, the series of articles written by former Consul-General of Toronto, Bandula Jayasekara, regarding the L.T.T.E. activity in Canada during the war in Sri Lanka. He, quite rightly commended the invaluable contribution made by SLUNA and a few Sri Lankans domiciled in Canada who provided leadership to […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note from U.S. Washington, D.C. 11 January (Asiantribune.com): President of Sri Lanka Maitripala Sirisena addressing the parliamentary on January 9 session that moved a resolution to transform the legislature into a constitutional assembly to draft a new constitution declared that there was no foreign influence in formulating the […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
Media Release Monday, 11 January 2016 Citizens Electoral Council of Australia The Saudi Arabian dictatorship that on 1 January executed 47 people, a number of them by beheading, is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council—thanks to the British government. Among those executed by the extreme Sunni Wahhabi regime were four Shiite Muslims, including the […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror An unidentified investor has promised to park $1 billion in dollar deposits in Sri Lanka to help the island nation defend its currency, the finance minister told Reuters, in an unusual move that highlights the country’s precarious finances Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake declined to reveal the identity of the investor. But […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
Jan 11 Sri Lankan shares fell for a sixth straight session, to mark their lowest close in 1-1/2 years, led by declines in diversified and banking stocks due to local and global concerns, brokers said. Fears over investors shifting to risk-free assets such as government securities due to rising yields in government securities dented sentiment. […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has urged President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickrem-esinghe to take punitive action against Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, whom the war veteran accuses of still serving the interests of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Appearing on live Sirasa political […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
Courtesy The Nation Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka W A Wijewardena last week warned that Sri Lanka’s situation of the external debt was ‘critical’ and the island is now heading for a foreign exchange crisis coupled by the deceleration of the economic growth. Addressing the Sri Lanka Economic Forum 2016, […]
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
BY CASSENDRA DOOLE AND RUWAN LAKNATH JAYAKODY Courtesy The Ceylon Today The last rites of the man, who died during a clash between villagers and police in Embilipitiya, was held at the Nawa Nagara cemetery, yesterday (10) afternoon. The youth, who was reportedly injured after jumping from an upper floor of a house during the incident, succumbed […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2016
චන්ද්ර අබේනායක කඩිමුඩියේ විසඳුම් දීමට තුඩුදෙන ජාතිවාදයක් අප අතරෙහි ඇත්ද? දශක තුනක් වැනි කාල වකවානුවක කොටින්ගේ කුරිරු මෙලෙච්චත්වය හරහා පෙන්නුම්කල විශේෂ උපක්ක්රමයක් වූයේ සිංහල ජනයා උසිගන්වා ප්රතිවිරෝධ ජාතිවාදී කැරැල්ලක් ඇතිකර ඔවුන්ගේ බෙදුම්වාදී අරමුන සාධාරණ කිරීම සඳහා රටතුල හා විශේෂයන් ජ්යාතියන්තර වශයෙන් ප්රචලිත කිරීමය. අනුරාධපුර ශ්රී මහාබොදිය වටා සිටි වන්දනාකරුවන් ඝාතනය කිරීම, අරන්තලාවෙහි භික්ෂූන් ඝාතනය කිරීම, […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2016
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නැවත පදිංචි කිරීම යන වාක්ය අපට මාධ්යයන් හරහා නිතර ඇසෙන්නකි. යුද්ධය නිසා ගම්බිම් හැර යන්නට සිදු වූයේ ද්රවිඩ මුස්ලිම් මිනිසුන්ට පමණක් නොවේ. සිංහල ජනයාද රාශියකට සිය ගම්බිම් හැර දමා යන්නට සිදු විය. දෙමළ වැසියන් ගම්බිම් හැරදා ගියේ කොටි සහ හමුදාව අතර යුද්ධයට මැදිව සිටිය හොත් මරු මුවට පත් වන්නට ඉඩ ඇතැයි ඔවුන් […]
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ලසන්ත වික්රමසිංහ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය බුද්ධාගමට හිමි ප්රමුඛස්ථානය පොතෙන් එළියට, ඊලඟට ව්යවස්ථාවෙන්? චන්ද්රිකා මහත්මිය සිටින්නේ පාසල් යන වයසක නොවේ. නමුත් ළඟදී චන්ද්රිකා මහත්මියට පාසල් පෙළ පොත් මතක් විය. අපටත් ඇතැම් විට කුඩා කළ බැලූ ඒ පොත පත කිසියම් අතීතාශ්වාදජක හැඟීමක් මුසුව මතකයට නැගෙන අවස්ථා ඇත. නමුත් චන්ද්රිකා මහත්මියට පාසල් පෙළ පොත් මතක් වූයේ එවැනි හැඟීමක් ඇතිව […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2016
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Sunday, January 10th, 2016
Courtesy Ceylon Today Last Saturday, it was said in Parliament that a special session of Parliament would be held tomorrow (12) where Parliament is expected to give its approval to transform itself into a Constitutional Assembly. This decision was made in light of several political parties submitting last minute amendments to the resolution to convert […]
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