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Monday, January 7th, 2019
Stanley Perera. Melbourne, Australia. Dear Sir, RE- XAVIOR OF SINHALA BUDDHISTS Mahinda, Maithree combination as I see is a rock solid combination for a landslide victory for the forthcoming General and Presidential elections. It is not a reason to be complacent. Please, bare in mind that it is absolutely essential that you work damn hard to […]
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Monday, January 7th, 2019
By SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Man tried to hypnotise an elephant in Kataragama in southern Sri Lanka Video shows the man walking up to the elephant as it grazes in a field He gets attention of the elephant, which charges at him and tramples him A Sri Lankan man has been trampled to death […]
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Sunday, January 6th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මාධ්ය සම්බන්ධීකාරක වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය ලෝක උරුම සිංහරාජය ආශ්රිතව වර්ථමාන වැඩිහිටි පරම්පරාව අනුව ඔවුන් කුඩා කායේදී අලින් 17 ක් පමණ සිංහරාජ වනාන්තරයේ ජීවත් වූ බවත් එතරම් අලි ප්රමාණයක් සිටියදීත් ඔවුන් මිනිසා සමඟ ගැටීම් වලින් තොරව මනා සහජීවනයකින් යුක්තව ජීවත් වී ඇත. එසේ සහජීවනයෙන් ජීවත් වූ අලි රංචුවේ සංඛ්යාව වර්ථාමනය වන විට තුන් […]
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Sunday, January 6th, 2019
ඕස්ට්රේලියාවේ, සිඩ්නි නුවර නයෝමි සමරතුංග ඉතාමත් සශ්රීකව පවතින ලක් දෙරණ ක්රම ක්රමයෙන් 2020 කාලය දක්වා අගාධය වෙත ඇදී යමින් එහි වෙසෙන ජනයා ගුණගරුක බවින් දුරස්ව පීඩිත තත්ත්වයකින් කල් ගෙවමින් සිටිනු ඇත. ආක්රමණිකයන්ගේ පාලනයට යටත්ව අනතුරුව එළඹෙන වසර 300ක කාලය එහි උච්චතම වකවානුව වේ. ගුණ ධර්ම මෙන්ම ධර්මයද පිරිහෙමින් මිනිසුන් නොමිසුන් වන වකවානුවකි ඒ කාලය. මිනිස්සු බලය […]
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Saturday, January 5th, 2019
Courtesy Dawn THE distance from Colombo to Jaffna cannot be measured just in kilometres (around 450), or time (about seven hours by road), but in terms of the difference in attitudes. While the Sri Lankan capital is a thriving city experiencing a construction boom, very few new buildings are going up in Jaffna which has none […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. It is absolute truth that kids eat free in Australia. Kids have pets and there are bank accounts for the pets and and pets hospitals and pets cemetries in Australia. It is also absolute truth that kids and their pets are Australian’s national treasure. Kids go to school and pets go […]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. Elon Musc the American Billioner was preparing a capsule to rescue the Thai boys from the cave. This pommy guy who was a cave rescuer said the American can stick his capsule where it hurts. In response to that tounge lashing American billioner Elon Musc said that pedo guy. As I did […]
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Monday, December 31st, 2018
Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. My dear Sri Lankan Buddhists, DON’T TRUST OR BELIEVE THE WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHES For nearly four years this man Ranil Wickremasinghe did not vist the Mahanayaka theros or any other buddhist temples. Let alone the church, mosques or Hindu Temples. For that the people friendly Mahinda Rajapakse never failed to […]
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Saturday, December 29th, 2018
Laksiri Warnakula All of them are about to retire and you could see the tell-tale signs of aging. Once bright and healthy colours have now faded to an unhealthy sallow and most of them are emaciated to paper-thin bodies, a far cry from what they were some moons ago. Some of them have been wounded […]
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Saturday, December 29th, 2018
Dr Sarath n Obeyskera Top industry professional Dr. Parakrama Dissanayake has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Southern Development by President Maithripala Sirisena. When I read above news article I noted that ruling class is getting senses into their brains .Whenever a minister is not an expert in the […]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Kumarikata, (Assam India), December 27 (AFP): Freshly-caught rat is at the top of the holiday menu for crowds flocking to a market in this northeastern state that specializes in rodents from local fields. Destined to be boiled, skinned and then cooked in a spicy gravy, rat is more popular than chicken and pork […]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2018
සමන් විජය බණ්ඩාර lanka C news මාවනැල්ලේ මහ රාත්රියේ ප්රසිද්ධ ස්ථාන වල බුදු පිළිම කඩමින් ගිය සැකකරුවන් දෙනෙකු කඩුගන්නාව මාවනැල්ල සිමාවේ ඇති දිදුරුවත්ත මං සන්දියක බුදු පිළිමයක් කඩද්දි ප්රදේශවාසි තරුණයන් විසින් ඉන් එක් සැකකාර තරුණයකු අල්ලා ගම්වාසින්ගේ සහායෙන් මාවනැල්ල පොලිසිය භාර දි ඇති අතර එහි සිටි තවත් අයෙක් පැන දිව ගොස් ඇති බව අද 26 […]
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Monday, December 24th, 2018
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ! සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය පසුගිය ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේදී බරපතල තර්ජනයක් ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා ජාතික රෝහල තුළ මතුව ආ සායනික අපද්රව්ය බැහැරලීමේ ක්රියාවලිය නැවතත් රෝගීන්ට, කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයට හා පරිසරයට බරපතල ගැටලූ ඇති කරවමින් තිබේ. මේ වනවිට ඉතා විශාල අපද්රව්ය ප්රමාණයක් ජාතික රෝහලේ අපස්මාර ගොඩනැගිල්ල පිටුපස ගොඩගසා තිබේ. මේවා මාස එකහමාරක පමණ කාලයක සිට එකතු වූ […]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2018
Laksiri Warnakula Journeying into the past, riding on a fading and fleeting memory is one of my favourite pastimes. And the ride I enjoy most is; ‘Letting myself lose in those reveries and then be at that starting line once again, waiting for the Mother Nature’s whistle for the ‘go’, the line being the boundary […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2018
Courtesy SBS News The Federal Court on Friday rejected an appeal from a Tamil family, who had settled in the small Queensland town of Biloela, to stay in Australia. A Tamil asylum seeker family who made their home in a small Queensland town will be deported to Sri Lanka, after the Federal Court on Friday […]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මාධ්ය සම්බන්ධීකාරක වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය යුනෙස්කෝ ලෝක උරුම තෙත් කලාපීය වැසි වනාන්තරයක් වන සිංහරාජ රක්ෂියේ කලවාන, කුඩව පිවිසුමේ සිට සංචාරය සඳහා පැමිණෙන සංචාරකයින් ගමන් කරනුයේ වන බිම හරහා වැටී ඇති අඩි පාරෙනි. මෙම ගමන් මාර්ගයේ ප්රවේශ පත්ර පරීක්ෂා කරන ස්ථානයක් ඇති අතර එම ස්ථානයෙන් ප්රවේශ පත්ර පරීක්ෂා කර ගමන් කල යුතුව ඇත. […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
පුන්සර අමරසිංහ Institute of Law and Politics Scuola Superiore Sant Anna Pisa, Italy සුපුරුදු ආකාරයටම නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි උත්සහ කර ඇත්තේ ගණනාථ ඔබේසේකර සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතිකචින්තනය විසංයෝජනයකල බව කියන මුසාව ඉස්මතු කිරීමටය. කොළඹ සරසවියේ සිසුවෙකු සිටි සමයේ සිට ඔහුගේ මේ කතාන්දරය අසා ඇති මට මෙහි පුදුමයක් නොපෙනේ. දෙසැම්බර 7ත් වෙනිදා නිර්මාල් රන්ජිත් දේවසිරි විසින් රාවය පුවත්පතට […]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2018
By Afshain Afzal Pakistan was once recognized as a unique nation spread over two strategically located Eastern and Western parts, separated by a distance of 1000 kilometers. The binding force that cemented unity and harmony between these two predominantly Muslim nations was ideology of Pakistan. The story of this love between Bengal as Eastern part […]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2018
තුසිත බාලසූරිය ප්රධාන ලේකම්, සමාජ ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී පක්ෂය කංසා ශාකය නීතිගත කරන ලෙසට අප විසින් රාජ්යයෙන් ඉතා පැහැදිලි ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇත. මුදල් අමාත්යාංශය විසින් කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව අයවැය යෝජනාවක් ලෙස අප එම යෝජනාවලිය ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. එහි අරමුණ කංසා ජාතික ධනය උපයන ශාකයක් බවට පත්කිරීමයි. රටේ ණය ගෙවා දැමීමට ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයෙක් යෝජනා කිරීම වෙනුවට රටට […]
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Friday, December 14th, 2018
METHMALIE DISSANAYAKE Courtesy Ceylon Today The Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) made it clear yesterday (12) that they would not function as a part of a United National Front (UNF) Government and that they would continue to be seated in the Opposition. However, the Party extended its support to the restoration of a Government led by […]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Punsara Amarasinghe Institute of Law and Politics Scuola Superiore Sant Anna Pisa, Italy A group of students studying abroad have recently published a statement claiming that they are really gutted about the political situation in Sri Lanka and their claim seems to indicate that this patriotic bunch of kids are extremely concerned about preserving the […]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Diannah Paramour Australia Ayubowan I feel a burning need to talk about Sharmini Sereasinghe. I guess she’s been sheltered her entire life from the hard facts surrounding Sri Lanka’s grandiose yet terrifying history. Those whose blood soaks the white sands are that of soldiers who gave their lives in service, in service to save everyone, […]
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
By Poet in the Wilderness The present by force occupant of Temple Trees Seems to have a mindset of the Nineteen Forties Foreign powers are his Masters dark Our lives are too precious for his Royalist lark Move over and let those who truly love Lanka fair Take Lanka to success and joy rather […]
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Sunday, December 9th, 2018
Press Release German Dharmaduta Society The 100th Birth anniversary of Asoka Weeraratna will be commemorated at the Mahaweli Centre, Colombo commencing at 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday December 12. 2018 Asoka Weeraratna, born on 12th December 1918 in Galle, played a pioneering role in the dissemination of Buddhism in Germany in the post war period through the […]
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Saturday, December 8th, 2018
Diannah Paramour Australia Ayubowan I feel a burning need to talk about Sharmini Seresinghe. I guess she’s been sheltered her entire life from the hard facts surrounding Sri Lanka’s grandiose yet terrifying history. Those whose blood soaks the white sands are that of soldiers who gave their lives in service, in service to save everyone, […]
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Friday, December 7th, 2018
Janaki Chandraratna Perth, Western Australia A codified constitution is a set of rules for the governance of a sovereign state. Constitutions need to have inbuilt limitations in each of the three sectors of the state (i.e. Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary) to prevent any use of excessive authority to the detriment of the rights and entitlements […]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Sarath Bulathsinghala 7 Dec 2018 THE CONSTITUTION IS A PIECE OF PAPER WRITTEN IN ESSENCE TO SAFEGUARD THE PEOPLE FROM THE RULERS AND THEIR SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTATIVES. IF IN THE END, THE VERY CONSTITUTION IS STANDING IN THE WAY OF GETTING RID OF A UTTERLY CORRUPT POLITICIAN, A CRIMINAL WHO IS IN NO SMALL […]
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
Senaka Weeraratna(Hony. Secretary, German Dharmaduta Society) The Funeral of Emeritus Professor Dr. Jayadeva Tilalaksiri was held at the Mount Lavinia Cemetery, in the afternoon of Saturday December 01, 2018. The remains of Professor Tilakasiri were cremated in the presence of several senior (retired) Professors, close relatives and friends. The Pansakula ceremony was earlier conducted at […]
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
Nirmala de Soyza It is very sad to read some of the comments people post and realize that there are still people out there who think they are patriots solely because they label themselves as ‘Sinhala Buddhists’. They insult and make ungrounded allegations against Sri Lankans of other religions and other communities as if they […]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Stanley Perera.Melbourne. When RW became the Prime Minister without a majority in the parliament in 2015, it was not illegal or unconstitutional. Today in 2018 when MR became the Prime Minister, RW is crying his eyes out calling it is illegal and unconstitutional and undemocratic also. RW you have already created a presidence. Therefore RW […]
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