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Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-083-2016 ISSUES: illegal arrest; detention; impunity; rule of law; justice —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mrs. Maladeniyegedara Padma Irangani and her two sisters were all illegally arrested by the Katugastota police officers, in revenge for Padma complaining […]
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
– අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර තම සටන පාරිභෝගික ජනතාව මත නීතියට පටහැනිව ඇද හෙළන ලද අධික බදු බරෙන් ඔවුන් නිදහස්කර ගැනීමේ සටනක් පමණක් නොවූ බවත් එය පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සතු රාජ්ය මූල්ය පාලනය කිරිමේ බලය නොතකා හරිමින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව යාමට සූදානම් වූ ගමනට එරෙහිව කළ සටනක් ද වූ බවත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ක්රිස්තු වර්ෂ 1236 දී දඹදෙණියේ රජ වූ සිරි පැරකුම්බා (දෙවැනි පැරකුම්බා) රජ්ජුරුවන් ගේ එකොළොස්වැනි අවුරුද්දේ දී අපි ද බෞද්ධයෝ වම්හ” කියා මායා කොට” චන්ද්රභානු කියන ජාවක රජෙක් අපේ රට ආක්රමණය කළා කියලා මහාවංශය කියනවා. මේ ගැන කරුණු තව තවත් බොහෝ පොත්වල සඳහන්. මේ චන්ද්රභානු කියන්නේ කවුද? දකුණු තායිලන්තයේ සුරත් ථානි පළාතේ චයියා දිස්ත්රික්කයෙන් […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Sarath Obeysekera Minister who paved way for to establish SAITEM is conveniently keeping away from the problems faced by the students who are facing due to protests by the GMOA. GMOA and the students who may have had better qualifications in A level may not be happy to allow SIATEM qualified students to be given […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
By Afshain Afzal American dual nationality holder and renowned social worker, Mr. Abdus Sattar Edhi died in a local hospital on 8 July 2016, after a prolonged illness and a lot of pain and discomfort for years. His funeral prayers were attended by Chief Minister Sind, Chief Minister Punjab, general public, and a large number […]
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Monday, July 11th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 11, 2016, 8:53 pm The media informs us people are resentful that they can hardly make ends meet. Life for them is a process of paying bills, which continue to get bloated due to tax increases, the latest being the VAT hike. Traders have been taking to the streets against the […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
එම් අජිත් පෙරේරා පැරිස් එකසත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ පැරිස් සන්විදානය විසින් සිව් වන වරටත් පවත්වන සය සාමාජික සැහල්ලු පන්දු ක්රිකට් තරගාවලිය 2016 07 17 වන ඉරු දින දවස පුරා පැරිස් නගරයේ බගතලේ ක්රිඩාන්ගනයේදි පැවත්වේ. ජයග්රාහි කණ්ඩායම් වලට කුසලාන සමග මුදල් ත්යාග පිරිනමනු ලැබේ. පැරිසියට එලඹ ඇති වසන්ත කාලය අර්ථවත් කරමින් මෙම තරගාවලිය නරඹන් පිරිසට සන්ගිත ආස්වාදය […]
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Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I sit in the front seat in the car with my driver ,doing all sorts of manoeuvring to avoid collision with a Tuk Tuk ,Motor Bike or a Private Bus ,he puts on the radio to listen to Balumgala by Net FM and later switches on to TNL Radio to listen […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
අනුර සෙනෙවිරත්න ලංකාව යන වැරදිව නම්කල රට සින්හෙල ජාතික රට බව ඔප්පුකිරීමට ඕනැ නැත. පූර්ව ඉතිහාසයේ හෙලදිව නම දැරූ දූපත් රටේ අද ජාතික පැනයක් ගැන දොඩන්නේ වෙනත් ජාතීන් ඉන්නා බවක්ය. නමුත් එක රටක එක ජාතියක් යන යුක්ති සහගත දේසපාලන සම්ප්රදාය ලන්කා යන කෘතීම ජාතිය මගින් ලංකාවේ එකම සොබාවික සින්හෙල ජාතියේ ජාතික සෛරීත්වය උල්ලංගනය කර […]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Everyone is much hyped about making Galle –a tourist destination. There were plans to build an offshore breakwater connecting Rummassala Hill and the Old Dutch Fort. Unesco seems dead against building the breakwater but Government is insisting that by building the break water which will protect the Galle bay area will be […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සිංහලේ අතීත සව්භාග්යය ගැන විස්තර නොකලාට බොහෝදෙනා ඒ ගැන දනිති වසර ලක්ෂ ගණනක සිට කිසියම් ශිෂ්ටාචාරයක් පැ වතී වත්මන් ලංකාව නමැති රට සිංහල නම් ජාතියක් විසින් හදාවඩා වර්ධනය කර ගත පන්දුකාභයාගේ සමයයෙන් පසු නම් අපි ඊටත් වඩා දේ දනිමු කෙසේ හොවෙවා මෙසේ රට හදන්නට ජාතියක් ගොඩනගන්නට වසර 2600 ක් තරම් කාලයක සිට අවශ්ය […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
By Rudra Gamini de Zoysa. “I will be with you, whatever”. This is not a line from one of Frank Sinatra’s love songs. This is Blair’s pledge to his master George W Bush. The Chilcot Report is finally out and I do not want to vomit the facts stated in that 2.6-million-word commentary. The inquiry […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
by Engineer D. L. O. Mendis During high pressure activity in the early post World War 2 era in the field of space research, there was discussion on high level management decision making, in a book titled Engineering and the Mind’s eye” by Eugene S Ferguson. Taking the example of some failures in important engineering […]
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA Trump Praises Sadam and terms him A Terrorist Killer… Says “he was a bad guy but you know what .He did well He killed terrorists He did that so good ” Do we have an analogue in Sri Lanka?? Only difference in American way of handling him was that they did […]
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Thursday, July 7th, 2016
By Gandara John The Tamil and Sinhalese Feudalists, taking their cue from Esmond Wickramasinghe’s ‘Sinhala only’ slogan as their ultimate platform, manipulated the 1956 and 1958 racial riots, the assassination of SWRD in 1959, the staging of the botched up military Coup that attempted to topple the anti colonial government of Sirima Bandaranaike in 1962, the […]
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Thursday, July 7th, 2016
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Rt Hon John Key MP, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Dear Mr Key, The Chilcot report has been a severe and sad indictment of the execution of UK & US foreign policy. Iraq is not the only victim of it in recent times, these include Sri Lanka […]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Professor Nishan Wijesinha (Professor of Paramedics & LAW; and Divinity and Holistic Science) Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of Vanga (present-day Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to […]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඇමරිකාවේ පොලිස් නිල රථ වලද POLICE යන වචනයට පහලින් IN GOD WE TRUST යනුවෙන් ලියා තිබෙනු ඔබ දැක තිබේද . ඇමරිකාවේ සාමය රකින නීතිය ක්රියාත්මක කරන පොලිසිය වැඩ කරන්නේ රටේ ව්යවස්ථාපිත නීතිවලට අනුකුලවද එහෙම නැත්නම් කිසියම් නොපෙනෙන දෙවියකුගේ නීතිරීතිවලට අනුවදය් පැනයක් මතුවේ . රට ව්සියා විශ්වාසය තැබිය යුත්තේ කා වෙතද . මැවුම්කාර දෙවියන්වහන්සේ […]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
By Jeff J. Brown, for the Moscow-Beijing Express Crosslinked with China Rising here: http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/07/06/twilight-zones-on-planet-earth-china-rising-radio-sinoland-for-the-moscow-beijing-express-160706/ Crosslinked with SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/44-days/twilight-zones-on-planet-earth-china-rising-radio-sinoland-on-the-moscow-beijing-express-160706 Rod Serling was the creator, producer and main screenwriter for his celebrated 1940s-1960s radio and TV shows, including the Twilight Zone. A committed leftist, he suffered regular censorship and was a fierce activist against racism, McCarthyism, […]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera This is a very bold statement made by the ex minister .He also mentioned that all MP’s should at least pass GCE O level We also saw how another deputy minister behaving like a lunatic trying to prove that that KDK fan was strong enough to hold his heavy weight during his […]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Citizen S Courtesy The Island The Island Editor has been lenient in his Saturday’s editorial when he called another Thevarapperuma antic, infantile. He is the ‘Mervyn Silva’ of the present government; or, Andare in the old kings’ governments. No! That’s an insult on the great comedian of yore! Andare was not mentally unstable like these […]
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy CeylonToday Brexit had consumed local media, especially after Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. In Sri Lanka too, politicians, professionals and other pundits are as intensively divided into ‘doom’ and ‘boom’ camps as the British. Five days later, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein renewed its […]
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Do you know how three wheelers came to Sri Lanka and when ? My driver who is an ardent UNP supported who was working closely with Siri Kotha tells me that first Three Wheeler ( Tuk Tuk ) was brought to Sri Lank by UNP paid by Sri Kotha ( party office […]
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I have read the above statement made by new Governor of CB with dismay ,as he has not specified what reforms we need to initiate . As an economist he will speak about GDP ,Export Potential, High Labour cost and nothing about how to improve the productivity. He talks about attracting investors, […]
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
තමනට මහ රජාණෝ යන නම දැම්මේ වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ බලංගොඩ ප්රදේශයේ පැවති උත්සව සභාවක් අමතමිනි. එසේ අමතනු එපා යයි තමන් නිතරම කියූවද පලක් නොවූ බවද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය.
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
lanka C news 2015.05.28– biz.adaderana.lk ශ්රමයේ මිල අඩු රටවල් සමග හෝ ශ්රමයේ ඵලදායීතාවය වැඩි රටවල් සමග තරග කිරීමට නොහැකි ලෙස ලංකාව මේ වනවිට හිරවී තිබෙන බවත් මේ උගුලෙන් ගොඩඒම සඳහා ලංකාව වහ වහා ප්රතිසංස්සකරණ කළ යුතුව ඇති බවත් ආර්ථ ශාස්ත්රඥයෙකු අවධාරණය කරයි. ආචාර්ය ඉන්ද්රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ මෙරට ශ්රමයේ මිල වැඩි නිසා ශ්රමයේ මිල […]
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
Sri Lanka news President Maithripala Sirisena announced on Saturday that he will appoint Economist Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy as the Governor of Central Bank. Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy will receive his appointment as the Governor of Central Bank from President Maithripala Sirisena today (4). Dr. Coomaraswamy had met the President on Saturday (2) after his decision was announced on the next […]
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
මේ වන විට ජාත්යන්තර සංචිතයේ ලංකාව සතු අරමුදල 8.2 සිට 4.3 දක්වා පහළ බැස ඇති බව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය පෙන්වා දෙයි.
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
Pathfinder Foundation Research on Security & Strategic Issues and Exchanges to be the focus The recently established ‘Centre for Indo-Lanka Initiatives’ (CILI) of the Pathfinder Foundation (PF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The United Service Institution of India (USI) based in New Delhi, founded nearly one and half centuries ago in 1870. […]
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016
By Gandara John Ranil Wickramasinghe toting a dubious crown as the most unpopular Prime Minister ever in the history of the island nation – a view endorsed even by members of his own United National Party – is hailed by Sri Lankans as the Country’s First ever Unconstitutional Prime Minister and now as the Charlatan Pretender […]
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