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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඉංග්රීසින්ගෙන් පූර්ණ නිදහසක් අපට අවශ්ය නැ තය් ද අර්ධ නිදහසක් ප්රමාණවත් යය ද කී ඩී එස් ප්රමුඛ සිංහලයන් 1956 දී නොපරදුනානම් මේ වන විට ලංකාවෙන් තුනෙන් දෙකක්ම දෙමලු අතේය . ඉංග්රීසින් සතුටු කිරීමත් උන් අනුව ජීවත් වීමත් ජීවිතයේ ”’අර්ථය ”’ වශයෙන් සලකු තමන්ට කියා විශේෂ වූ අරමුණක් නැති ඒ එජාපය ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් ගෙන […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island February 21, 2016, 7:41 pm The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has annoyed many a government leader by opposing the controversial Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) to be signed with India. Hardly a day passes without some self-important ruling party potentate venting his spleen on doctors. Minister Lakshman Kiriella has […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
by P. Krishnaswamy Courtesy: Sunday Observer Prevention of Animal Sacrifice in Hindu Shrines Bill being drafted: Minister Swaminathan to present Bill in Parliament: Significant milestone in promoting Hindu religious concepts: Animal sacrifice in all Hindu shrines in the island will be banned under a new law that is to be introduced soon, Resettlement, Reconstruction, Hindu […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
Janaka Wansapura Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einsteina century ago. A group of physicists (LIGO) based in the USA built a fine instrument to detect them and they recently found what they had believed to exist. A Canadian technical college teacher, Bodhi Dhanapala, enrolling the dead scientist’s involuntary aid, implies (Island 13/2/16) that […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් පසුගිය දා නිදහස් උත්සවයේදී ලංකාවේ ජාතික ගීය දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන්ද ගායනා කරන ලදී. මෙය අහඹු සිද්දියක් නොවේ. මනා ලෙස සැලසුම් සහගතව කරන ලද වැඩකි. ව්යවස්ථාවේ නැති දෙයක් කිරීමට එ් අනුව රජය පෙළඹී ඇත. මෙය එක් අතිකින් ප්රජාතන්තුවාදය ගැන නන් දොඩවන යහපාලන ගැන වැදි බණ දෙසන පාලකයන් නිරුවත් කරලීමකි. ව්යවස්ථාව ඉරාගෙන පැමිණි මේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
CourtesyThe Dialy Mirror (Sri Lanka) In the health sector, corruption could kill people. The Daily Mirror in its editorial on Wednesday highlighted a report by transparency International’s British branch. The report on corruption in the global healthcare and pharmaceutical sector showed the deadly extent to which corruption has spread like a cancer and was posing […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
By Dilanthi Jayamanne Courtesy The Island February 20, 2016, 8:35 am Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine, Dr Rajitha Senaratne was to be flown to Singapore for an emergency heart bypass surgery from Lanka Hospitals yesterday night after he was admitted to the hospital with chest pains. Medical sources revealed that Dr Senaratne had come […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
ආචාර්ය සූරිය ගුණසේකර Courtesy ඉරිදා දිවයින ඊළම පිළිබඳව උතුරේ සිහිනය සඳහා පදනම වැටෙන්නේ, උතුරු පළාත සහ නැඟෙනහිර පළාත සම්ප්රදායික දෙමළ නිජභූමි යන සංකල්පය දෙමළ නායකයන් විසින් ප්රකාශ කිරීමත් සමඟය. සිංහල ජනතාව විශ්වාස නොකරන සහ දෙමළ ජනතාව විශ්වාස කරන මෙම ප්රවාදය එයින් ලේ විලක් බවට රට පත්ව තිබිණි. සංහිඳියාවේ නාමයෙන් හෝ ත්රස්තවාදය විනාශ කළ පමණින් ඊළාම් සිහිනය […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2016
RAMESH THAKUR Courtesy The Hindu Western countries occupy almost all powerful and big-budget posts in the organisation, and sadly developing countries, despite their numbers, have allowed the bias to persist http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/is-the-united-nations-racist/article4928624.ece Ask it quietly, but ask it we must. Is the United Nations racist, either deliberately or unconsciously? Many years ago, the late Sergio Vieira […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2016
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island February 18, 2016, 9:03 pm The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Hussein has made insulting and degrading comments about Sri Lanka’s judiciary in particular, and other institutions of the sovereign State, perhaps in a bid to humiliate and badger Sri Lanka into accepting international participation in […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි දේශපාලනය යනු බොහෝ දෙනෙක් අකමැති නමුත් කිසිවෙකුට ගැලවීමක් නැති විෂයකි. දේශපාලනයෙන් තොරව අද ඉතාම සරල මිනිසුන් කොටසක් වන ආදිවාසීන්ටවත් ජීවත් වීමට නාෙහැකි තත්වයක් තිබෙන බව පැහැදිලිය. දේශපාලන පුවතක් ඇසෙන බොහෝ අවස්ථාවල ‘සංවර්ධනය’ යන වචනයද ඒ හා බැඳී පවතී. කතාවේදී කෙතරම් සංවර්ධනය ගැන කියැවුනත් ක්රියාව තුල ඒ වචනය අර්ථවත් නොවන්නේ ඇයි? එය එසේ වෙනවා […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2016
Himal Kotelawala Courtesy roar.lk The scientific community and the world at large was taken by storm last week when an international team of scientists managed to detect gravitational waves, finally confirming renowned physicist Albert Einstein’s century-old theory of General Relativity and opening up a brand new vista of the cosmos. This team, known as the the […]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2016
lanka C news සී.එස්.එන්. නාලිකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනපති පුත් යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිසක් රිමාන්ඞ් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පිවිතුරු හෙළ අරුමයේ මහ ලේකම් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා විසින් කොලඹදී පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී විශේෂ පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් කලේ මෙසේය. සීඑස්එන් නාලිකාව පිළිබඳ ආණ්ඩුවේ කතාව ඇත්ත ද? චෝදනාව ජනමාධ්යයන්හි සඳහන් වූ අයුරින් සීඑස්එන් නාලිකාවේ අධ්යක්ෂවරුන් සහ හිටපු ප්රධාන […]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2016
By A. Abdul Aziz. In Pakistan organisations like Khatme Nubuwwat have been allowed to grow and flourish and they now yield considerable power and influence over the government. Their religious ideology is now intrinsically woven into the political structure leading to extremism that has now spiralled out of control. …..it is now beyond the power […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කිශානි ඔපෙරා වේ සොප්රාණෝ ක්රමයට දන්නෝ බුදුන්ගේ ගීතය ගැයීම ගැන හරි අල කලන්චියකි . රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අවස්ථාවෙන් ප්රයෝජනය ගෙන දෙරණට තර්ජය කරය් . අප්පුඩි ගගහ ”බුධ්ධන් සරනං ‘ කියන රනිල් ට ඔනා බුදුදහමක් නැත කිශානි පැටලුනේ අනවශ්ය කරදරයකය ඇ ය තම දක්ෂතාවන් පෙන්නීමට නිදහස් උත්සවය තෝරා ගැනීමත් බෞද්ධ ගීතයක් යය හංවඩු ගැහුන ගීතයක් […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Hon John Key Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr. Key, The Sri Lankan community in Wellington and New Zealand are delighted to read that you would be making your second official visit to Sri Lanka from the 24th to 26th of February, We trust your […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Janaki Chandraratna It appears that the President and the Government have not been very candid with the electorate on UNHRC resolution from day one of their campaign to unseat the previous regime. It is no brainer to understand that to co-sponsor a resolution one needs to agree with its contents. The previous regime also could […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
By: Emma Rumney Courtesy publicfinanceinternational.org 16 Feb 16 Sri Lanka’s chronic” revenue shortfalls must be addressed and its economy must become more competitive and inclusive if poverty is to be reduced, the World Bank has said. Colombo, Sri Lanka The bank highlighted that Sri Lanka has one of the lowest tax-to-GDP rates in the world, […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Chandra Jayaratne Courtesy The Island February 15, 2016, 7:14 pm An Open Letter to the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank; To be duly noted by the President, the Prime Minister, the Government, Commercial and Financial Services Sectors and Professional Practitioners Dear Minister and Governor, You are accountable for your unwise […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ම හා ධර්මස් කණ්ද යම නොවෙය් අංශු මාත්රයක් හෝ දන්නවනම් මේවා මෙහෙ ම නොවේ විශාකා ආනන්ද නාලන්ද ඇතුළු සියලු පාසල් වල උගන්වන්නේ එකම දේය .නමින් බෞද්ධ වීම නිසා සිදුවන්නේ චන්ද්රිකා වැනිය වුන්ගේ අපහාසයට ලක් වීම පමණය . උපතින් බෞධ්ධලමය් වැඩියෙන් මේ පාසල් වල ඇතත් ඔවුන්ගෙන් බොහෝ දෙනෙක් බෞද්ධ වන්නේ නමටය කිශානි ජයසිංහ පොඩි […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
EDITORIAL The Daily Mirror three-day workshop began in Parliament yesterday to educate MPs on the full restoration of parliamentary democracy by making Parliament to be like a virtual government with all MPs playing a proactive role in making laws and implementing them. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his opening speech said one of the goals […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Chief Executive Officer of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Dilantha Withanage today urged the Government that it had come to know about the warning of the danger of the Islamic State terror group spreading its tentacles to South Asia, from a recent report by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Chief […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) today claimed that the CID had received several telephone calls from the Prime Minister’s Office pressuring the CID to speed up investigations against the GMOA. GMOA Spokesman Dr. Navin de Soysa said the doctor, on whose complaint the CID initiated investigations had previously been a […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy Daily Mirror The Attorney General has directed to arrest Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera and produced before the Court for illegally keeping a baby elephant at the Alan Mathiniyaramaya Temple, Polhengoda, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID has informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Nishantha Peiris. The CID had also informed that the AG had directed them to […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today those who are paid to shout against the agreement with India will learn a lesson when the people get to the streets soon. No one should waste time on unwanted things because the government will not stray from its journey towards developing Sri Lanka’s economy, […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Courtesy The Manila Times COLOMBO: Google’s balloon-powered high-speed Internet service known as Project Loon” began its first tests in Sri Lanka Monday (Tuesday in Manila) ahead of a planned joint venture with Colombo, the country’s top IT official said. One of three balloons that will be used in the trials entered Sri Lankan airspace, the […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
German Dharmaduta Society A Pinkama was held at the Berlin Buddhist Vihara (Das Buddhistische Haus) on Sunday February 14, 2016 to bestow merit and gratefully remember the altruistic and undying services rendered to the Buddha Sasana by Ven. Madulwawe Sobitha Thera, Dr. Paul Dahlke (founder of Das Buddhistische Haus), Asoka Weeraratna (later Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanisanthi […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
by Swarna Wickremeratne(Author) This book provides both an erudite and intimate look at how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka. While India is known as the birthplace of Buddhism, Sri Lanka is its other home; Buddhism extends back over twenty-five hundred years on the island and remains at the center of its spiritual traditions and […]
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
Rear Admiral Dr. Sarath Weerasekera VSV, RWP, USP Courtesy The Island February 14, 2016, 7:48 pm Professor Carlo Fonseka is an intellectual whom I treat with utmost respect. He has earned a reputation for his sharp-edged, often controversial but genuine criticism without fear or favour, towards even his closest friends. That is why it made […]
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Sunday, February 14th, 2016
Organizing committee. යෝජනා අංක 01 යහපාලන සටන් පාඨයට මුවා වී ජනතාව මුලා කොට බලයටපත් මෙම දෙමුහුන් ආණ්ඩුව කිසිදු සාධාරණ හෝ යුක්ති සහගත හේතුවකින් තොරව බහුතරයක් පලාත් පාලන ආයතන විසුරුවා හැරීම මගින් සකල විධ › ලංකාවාසී ජනතාවට පලාත් පාලන ආයතන මගින් සැපයෙන්නා වූ සේවා අයිතිය අත්තනෝමතික සහ ඒකාධිපති ආකාරයට අහෝසි කර තිබේග එම නිසා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට හා ජනසම්මුතිවාදී […]
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