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Friday, April 8th, 2016
By Tim Collard Courtesy China.org.cn Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe is paying a visit to China on April 6-9. He has met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and some other senior officials for talks on a variety of subjects including security matters, economic cooperation and the Maritime Silk Road project. It is Wickremasinghe’s first visit as […]
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Friday, April 8th, 2016
by JOHN PILGER A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party’s nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the women’s candidate” and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
lanka C news ලෝකය පුරා විවිධ පුද්ගලයින් විසින් සඟවා ඇති අයථා වත්කම් හෙලි කර ඇති පැනමා පත්ර මඟින් මෙරට විවිධ ක්ෂෙත්රයන් නියොජනය කරන පුද්ගලයින් 46 දෙනෙකුගේ නම් හෙළි දරවු කර ඇත. මෙහි දැක්වෙන්නේ පැනමා පත්ර මගින් හෙළි කර ඇති එම නාම ලේඛණයයි. (Link) https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search?country=CE&q&ppl=on&ent=on&adr=on මෙම නාම ලේකනයේ සිටින අවසාන පුද්ගලයා වන විද්යා දිල්රුක් අමරපාල ලංකා […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
CBSL issue bonds worth Rs 80 billion after calling bids for Rs 40 billion-Media Unit – ACF The Anti-Corruption Front (ACF) has written to the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) requesting an explanation regarding the issue of treasury bonds worth Rs 80 billion on March 29, 2016. It was the ACF […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
– රුපියල් බිලියන 40 බැඳුම්කර අලෙවි කරන බව පවසා බිලියන 80 බැඳුම්කර අලෙවි කරලා – මාධ්ය ඒකකය දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ 2016 මාර්තු 29 වන දින රුපියල් බිලියන 80 බැඳුම්කර අලෙවිකිරීමේ සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරුනු පැහැදිලි කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලා දුෂණ විරෝධි පෙරමුණ මහබැංකු අධිපතිවරයාට ලිපියක් යොමු කළේය. පසුගිය වසරේ භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර අලෙවි කිරීමේ සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මුල් වරට දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Book Published by THE BAUDDHA JATIKA BALAGEVAYA 1963 Chapter 10 Part 1 – IN POLITICS The very term Catholic Action” was not known even among the non-Catholic English educated intelligentsia of Ceylon until the publication of the report of the Buddhist Committee of Inquiry, or more popularly known as the Buddhist Commission Report, in February 1956. […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Ranjith Soysa Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (Victoria) As a collective of organisations representing Australians of Sri Lankan origin, we welcome the comments on Sri Lanka made by the former Australian Prime Minister Mr. Tony Abbot in a recent article to the Quadrant Magazine entitled ‘I Was Right on National Security’. […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න බෝධි ධනපාලගේ අසමජ්ජාති ලිපිවලට උත්තර දීම ත් වැඩකට නැති දෙයකය් පාඨකයන් කීප දෙනෙක් කියා ඇතත් මේ අවස්ථාවේ නිහඬව සිටීම ට මට නොහැක .නලින් ද සිල්වා වැනි විශිෂ්ට දේශප්රේමියෙකුට මද ගසමින් ඔහුගේ චරිතය ඝාතනය කිරීමට ධන පාල මහතා අර අ දින්නේ .නලින්ගේ අභියෝගයට මුහුණදෙන්නට බැරිව ඇතිවූ ලැජ්ජාව වසා ගැනීමටය . ගජයෙක් මෙන් මුලින් පැනගෙන […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Premiere Ranil Wickramasinghe has arrived in China for a three-day official visit last night. He was warmly welcomed by Young Chinese officials at Beijing Airport. Premiere Wickramasinghe was accompanied by his wife Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe and several other state ministers.
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
(Text of a speech delivered by former President MahindaRajapaksa on the Foreign debt crisis of the yahapalana government” at the Battaramulla office on Monday 14 March 2016.) Venerable members of the MahaSangha, clergymen of other faiths, Members of Parliament, and distinguished guests, In announcing increases in the VAT and income taxes, and the reintroduction of […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
What Maithripala Sirisena said before about Mahinda Rajapaksa https://youtu.be/xIoqholH508
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
lanka C news අඩෝ උඹ දන්නවද ඩෝ මම කවුද කියලා.. දැනගනින් පරයා..” යෑයි ගුගුරමින් සුඛෝපභෝගී ජීප් රථයක පැමිණි පුද්ගලයකු ඊයේ (5 වැනිදා) දහවල් දිවයින” මාධ්යවේදියකුට බැණවැදී ඔහු ගමන් කරමින් සිටි කාර්යාල රථයේ රියෑදුරාට කොළඹ බෞද්ධාලෝක මාවතේ විඡේරාම හන්දිය අසලදී පහර දෙනු ලැබීය. ඒ කුරුඳුවත්ත පොලිසියේ පොලිස් නිලධාරියකුගේ අවවාදද තුට්ටුවකට මායිම් නොකරමිනි. සිද්ධිය වන අවස්ථාවේ දිවයින” […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
-ශ්රී රෝහණ–යුතුකම සංවාද කවය අසව්!අසව් 25 පෙබරවාරී 2016 ඉරිදා ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පතට ප්රකාශයක් කරන කුප්රකට රුපියල් කෝටි 700 භාංඩාගාර බිල්පත් වංචාවට චෝදනා ලැබූ පළමු විජාතික මහබැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්රන් කියා සිටියේ ශ්රී ලංකා අගමැති රනිල් ක්රමසිංහ ලබන අප්රේල් මාසයේ චීනයේ නිළ සංචාරයක් කරන බවයි. තවද මලික් සමරක්රම හා සාගල දැනටම චීනයේ සිටින අතර කොළඹ වරාය නඟරය […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
The Editorial Courtesy The Island April 6, 2016, 8:35 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has complained that the army personnel attached to his security contingent are being withdrawn apace and his bullet proof vehicle has not been returned after repairs. The government is sure to trot out some lame excuses, as it has done previously, in […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
lanka C news චීන ජනාධිපති ෂී ජින් පින් හමුවීමට ගිය ශ්රි ලංකික ව්යාපාරිකයන් පිරිසකට චීන ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දැඩි උපසාහයෙන් යුක්තව අදහස් පල කර ඇතැයි වාර්තා වෙයි. ‘මහින්ද ගෙදර යැවුවේ අපිත් එක්ක තියෙන තරහටනෙ. දැන් ලෝකෙ පුරා යාළුවො ඉන්නව කියවනනෙ. දැන් ඉතින් කරගන්න අපෙන් උදවු ඕන නැහැනෙ’ යයි චින ජනාධිපතිවරයා පවසා ඇති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සනත් නිශාන්ත […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Divaina – 04/04/2016 ලොව කිසිම රටක දැකිය නොහැකි අමුතුම මාදිලියේ රෝගී මානසිකත්වයක් මේ යුගයේ ඇතැම් මැති ඇමැතිවරුන් තුළ ඉස්මතු වි ඇත. ඇතැම්හු ජාතික කොඩිය, ජාතික ගීතය, ජාතික පුෂ්පය, ජාතික වෘක්ෂය පමණක් නොව ජාතියේ ඉතිහාසයත් වෙනස් කරන්නට යෝජනා කරති. ආගම දහම ඇතුළත් පොත් පත් වෙනස් කීරීමෙන් සංහිඳියාව ඇති කිරීමටත් ඇතැමුන් සිතයි. මෙබඳු වෙනස්කම් ගැන සිතීම පාලකයන්ගේ […]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Hiran Halangode, in a commemorative essay written in June 2015 in memory of the security personnel killed by the LTTE in the East in June 1990 It is 25 years since the series of unfortunate events took place [see Halangode: Besieged; Confronting the LTTE Assaults in Batticaloa Province…,” https://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/besieged-confronting-the-ltte-assaults-in-mid-1990-in-batticaloa-province-an-infantry-officers-tale/ . As I pen these few […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
The fall of Singapore blasted myths of British invincibility Cocos Islands Mutiny The Cocos Islands Mutiny was a failed mutiny by Sri Lankan servicemen on the then-British Cocos (Keeling) Islands during the Second World War. The mutineers were to seize control of the islands, disable the British garrison and transfer the islands to the Empire […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
by Mallika Wanigasundara It was a scholarly odyssey into the past of Portuguese where destruction of non-Catholic places of worship was carried out by the Portuguese conquerors of Ceylon between 1505 and 1658 in the name of the service of God and the love of Christ. The year 2005 marks the 500th year after the […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
By KAMALIKA PIERIS April 5, 2016, 6:16 pm The British rulers gave special recognition to the three religions that believed in God, namely Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. Churches, mosques and kovils came up all over the island. Hindu temples were constructed on an unprecedented scale in the 19th century. The American missionaries in Jaffna had […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
Courtesy PressTV French troops and UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) are facing extremely troubling” allegations of abusing the local population. The United Nations said in a statement on Wednesday that a UN team has received accounts that French troops, known as the Sangaris, forced girls to engage in sexual acts with animals […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
බෝධි ධනපාල, කිබෙක්, කැනඩාව ගස්ලබු කොල බෙහෙතකින් ඩෙංගු රෝගය සුව කිරීමට හැකි යැයි “වෙද හාමිනේ කෙනෙක්’ සොයාගෙන ඇතිමුත් එයට දොස්තර වරු විරුද්ධ වන බවද, දොස්තරවරුන්ට ඕනෑ ඔහේ වැජඹෙමින් සීටීමට යැයි ද ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න නැමති ලේඛකයෙක් පවසා ඇත. ඔහුගේ මතය අනුව එක පැත්තකින් ලෙඩුන්ගේ සුවය සොයන දේශීය සංස්කෘතියේ වෙද වරු ඇත. අනිත් පැත්තට ඔහේ වැජඹෙන්නට පමනක් […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති මෙයට පෙර ලිපිය අවසානයේ සඳහන් කළ ආකාරයට අද අපේ සමාජය හඳුනාගත යුත්තේ කලවම් සංස්කෘතික පදනමක් මත. මෙය ඕනෑ ම සමාජයකට පොදු කාරණයක් කියා කෙනකුට කියන්න පුළුවන්. ඒක ඇත්ත. මේ කියන්නේ ඒ ඇත්ත අපේ සමාජයට අදාළ වෙලා තියෙන ආකාරය ගැන. එහෙම නැතිව මේ ඉස්මතු කරන්නේ නිර්මල” සිංහල – බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියක අවශ්යතාව පිළිබඳ කන්නලව්වක් නම් […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
The Editorial Courtesy The Island The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has reportedly unveiled an ambitious plan to double the buffer stock of electricity to ensure a reliable power supply. The feasibility of this project may be in doubt, but such action is urgently required if the economy is not to suffer a paralysing blow. The government […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
By Senaka Weeraratna After the guns fell silent in 1848 with the crushing of the Matale rebellion (a battle for independence on the part of the patriotic people of the country) it took another ninety four years for guns to be fired in a planned effort to end British occupation of Sri Lanka. This time the […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
Courtesy RT That the West can’t be trusted is the most important lesson Syria has learned during five years of civil war, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an exclusive interview with Sputnik. “The most important lesson we have learned, but I suppose we knew it all along, is that the West is not honest. […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
Sri Lankan News The late General Ranjan Wijeratne was a first amongst equals, a Political and Military colossus that strode aggressively and arrogantly in the corridors of Sri Lanka’s political sphere. Unlike the party that he sacrificed his life for, he was impeccably honest, diligently very protective towards our Motherland. The present day party is […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
Bandula Jayasekara Courtesy The Island There were many ‘Sri Lankans’ who bad mouthed the country at the time of the terrorist conflict in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka fought two fierce wars , one on the ground and the other a well oiled LTTE propaganda war worldwide. LTTE and its supporters managed to bait many from INGO/NGOs, […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has told the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that he reserved the right to take legal action against its refusal to furnish a certified copy of Acting IGP S.M. Wickremesinghe’s directive that he be summoned to record a statement pertaining to the recent detection […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
By Raj Gonsalkorale Maithripala Sirisena is the President of Sri Lanka today because he was elected to this high office largely by UNP voters and not voters from his own party, the SLFP. The constitutionality of his position as the Chairman of the SLFP is also in question as he was not elected by a […]
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