Monday, May 25, 2015

Mahinda Rajapaskes’s supporter behind the Jaffna Violence

SUNDAY, 24 MAY 2015

It has been revealed by CID that tense situation developed in Jaffna area and aftermath some people were behaved violently due to the release of main suspect of the murder of school girl (who abducted and gang-raped subsequently) on request of a high rank Police officer who works in the North area of the country as a result of loss of confidence towards the police.

According to the information sources, Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe had been used by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his regime to carry out several illegal activities in his area in the down south and with the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2015 presidential election he was transferred to North from South. It is revealed that tense situation in Jaffna was due to his bad conduct.

Media reported that, Some of police officers are complaining that any action has not been taken what so ever to carry out investigation against SDIG Lalith Jayasinghe, who is responsible for the creation of this situation but most of other senior Police officers who followed his orders are now been transferred from Jaffna without transferring the person who is responsible for creating the situation.

Police has arrested Mahalingam Sivakumar main suspect of the murder of teenage school girl at Wellawatte while he is about to leave the country heading for Switzerland as he was released and allowed to reach Colombo on the instruction given by SDIG even people have caught him and handed over to the police.

Mihin Lanka Snoozing Pilot Breaks His Earlier Promise

May 25, 2015

Mihin Lanka’s Capt. Wagh was reported once before for sleeping on a commercial flight en route from Dhaka to Colombo last year, employees of the Sri Lanka’s budget airline told Colombo Telegraph yesterday.

Capt Gajendra Wagh

Capt. Wagh was reported recently to have fallen asleep at the flight controls when his First Officer Subki Lafir had stepped out of the cockpit. First Officer Lafir’s requests to gain re-entry were not granted due to Capt. Wagh being fast asleep inside. Even Chennai flight controls and a passing Sri Lankan Airlines aircraft failed in their bid to attract the snoozing captain’s attention. Lafir had then used the emergency override access code to finally gain re-entry.

In an earlier reported and documented story Capt. Wagh, who commutes very often just in time to operate his scheduled flights from his home town Bombay, had once got delayed coming into Colombo to operate his scheduled turn around flight to Jakarta. His subsequent flight to Jakarta was then operated by the Captain who was a scheduled to operate the flight Dhaka instead.

“Mihin Lanka then went on to delay our commercial flight to Dhaka whilst we awaited Capt. Wagh’s arrival to Colombo” said an airline official who spoke in anonymity as he is barred from speaking to the press.

“The First Officer who operated the Colombo/Dhaka/Colombo turn around flight with him subsequently went on to a submit an Air Safety Report (ASR) on this flight citing that the fatigued Capt. Wagh had fallen asleep during the journey” continued the airline official. Read More

Maithri wants drug dealers et al ousted from Parliament

By Zacki Jabbar-May 25, 2015, 9:41 pm

President Maithripala Sirisena says he is committed to eliminating drug dealers and other social undesirables from Parliament and the proposed new electoral system will help achieve that goal.

Informed sources told The Island when some UPFA MPs asked the President during their group meeting held in Colombo last week if the next general election would be held under the current electoral system or the proposed First Past the Post System coupled with Limited PR (FPP&LP) he had replied, "Don’t ask me that question. But, remember, one of the main pledges that I was elected to office on, was to eliminate Kudukarayas (drug dealers) and Rasthiyadukarayas (undesirables) from the legislature. I am also committed to ending the scourge of the Manape (preferential vote) and expect you to back me to the hilt."

Announcing that he would present the 20th Amendment Bill to the Cabinet of Ministers this week, the President had said, "Despite objections by some parties you were able to get the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed on your own terms. Now, I expect you all to support the 20th Amendment Bill without any conditions."

Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardena told ‘The Sunday Island’ recently that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had requested President Srisena to dissolve Parliament by the end of this month and hold the next election in July.

However, UPFA General Secretary Susil Premajayanth said that they wanted the polls to be held in September under the proposed FPP & LPR System after the electoral boundaries were re-drawn. "It can be done within the next two to three months" he insisted.

Environmentalist raise public awareness about the Port City

Monday, 25 May 2015

Today 24th there was a campaign held to brief the people against the impact of the Port City project to the coastal region at Moratuwa. This campaign was organized by the Environment and Nature Education Centre

Environmentalist Raise Public Awareness About the Port City by Thavam Ratna

Three perons killed in Maradana building fire

May 25, 2015
Three persons were killed in a building fire in Maradana on Monday (25) afternoon.

According to the Maradana police, the fire started just after 12 pm at the building which is located close approximate to the Elphinstone Theatre.

The police Media Unit told Ada Derana that the fire was extinguished with the support of the Colombo Fire Brigade and the police, within few hours. The injured person has been admitted to the Colombo National hospital for treatments.

A team from the Government Analyst’s Department will visit the scene tomorrow (26). The fire is under investigation.

Malaysia finds 139 graves in abandoned trafficking camps

Malaysian authorities discover signs of torture and graves with multiple bodies in more than two dozen abandoned camps linked to human trafficking.

MONDAY 25 MAY 2015

Malaysian authorities announced that 139 graves have been discovered along the Thai-Malaysia border.
Some of the graves, located across more than two dozen suspected human trafficking camps, contain several bodies.

Malaysia Finds 139 Graves in Abandoned Trafficking Camps by Thavam Ratna

Rights groups slam Myanmar birth law as anti-Muslim

Rohingya women wait in line to receive donated Mukena, clothes to wear while praying, at a shelter in Kuala Langsa, in Indonesia's Aceh Province, May 18, 2015.-REUTERS/RONI BINTANG

YANGON | BY TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN AND HNIN YADANA ZAW-Mon May 25, 2015

A new law that forces some women in Myanmar to have children at least three years apart was on Monday criticised by rights groups who say it will be used to target the country's minority Muslim population.

Myanmar's President Thein Sein signed the population control healthcare bill into law last week, state-controlled media announced on Saturday.

The legislation is backed by the Buddhist ultra-nationalist group the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, known as Ma Ba Tha.

The group has stoked anti-Muslim sentiment by saying Muslim communities have high birth rates and will eventually overrun the predominately Buddhist country.

"This law targets one religion, one population, in one area," said Khin Lay, founder of the Yangon-based Triangle Women Support Group, which gives women professional and political training and lobbied against the law.

The government denies discriminating against Muslims. It says new the birth law is aimed at improving maternal health and child welfare.

It was unclear how the new law against giving birth in the three-year period would be enforced.

The United States has said the legislation, which falls under "Race and Religion Protection Laws", has the potential to exacerbate racial and religious divisions in the country.

Washington and the United Nations have called on Myanmar to address discrimination and violence against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. They say the government's policy toward the Rohingya minority is a root cause of mass migration that has led to the humanitarian crisis unfolding on Southeast Asia's seas.

Other groups have also expressed concerns that the law could further exacerbate tensions in Rakhine State where violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims broke out in 2012. Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions.

"In the case of Rakhine specifically, it will only create misunderstanding between the two communities," said Nwe Zin Win, head of Yangon-based women's rights group Pyi Gyi Khin.

(Editing by Simon Webb and Jeremy Laurence)

Aquino: Philippines to fly usual routes over disputed reefs

Philippines President Benigno Aquino III. Pic: AP

By AP News May 25, 2015

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says the country’s aircraft will continue to fly their usual routes over disputed reefs in the South China Sea, defying China’s challenges to its planes and those of the United States.

President Benigno Aquino III told reporters Monday that there is no declared air defense identification zone over the area and Philippine air patrols will still fly routes based on international law.

He said he could not reveal details about arrangements being made by Manila with its military ally, the U.S., to address the problem.

China said Thursday that it is entitled to keep watch over airspace and seas surrounding artificial islands it created in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, following an exchange in which its navy warned off a U.S. surveillance plane.

China warned over 'insane' plans for new nuclear power plants

He Zuoxiu, a leading Chinese scientist, says the country is not investing enough in safety controls after lifting of post-Fukushima disaster reactor ban

Construction works at the Changjiang nuclear power plant in Hainan province, China. Three Chinese provinces have chosen locations for new plants as part of the country’s nuclear expansion plans. Photograph: AP

Emma Graham-Harrison in Beijing-Monday 25 May 2015

China’s plans for a rapid expansion of nuclear power plants are “insane” because the country is not investing enough in safety controls, a leading Chinese scientist has warned.

China Warned Over 'Insane' Plans for New Nuclear Power Plants by Thavam Ratna

Turkey Elections: Gay, Transsexual Candidates Spotlight LGBT Rights

BY ALASTAIR JAMIESON AND AZIZ AKYAVAS-May 24th 2015,

Turkey appears poised to elect its first openly gay member of parliament in next month's elections, despite a rising tide of social conservativism in the Muslim-majority country.

The four LGBT activists running include 37-year-old Baris Sulu, who made history once already when he and his same-sex partner applied — unsuccessfully — for a marriage license in a test case that is still going through the courts.

Turkey Elections Gay Transsexual Candidates Spotlight LGBT Rights by Thavam Ratna

Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sentenced to 8 months in prison

An Israeli court sentenced former prime minister Ehud Olmert to eight months of jail time, in addition to the six-year prison term he is currently facing. Olmert was found guilty of accepting bribes last May. (Reuters)

By Ruth Eglash-May 25

JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison and a $25,000 fine for illegally accepting campaign contributions from an American supporter.

It is the second conviction and sentence for the former leader, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2009. He has yet to spend any time behind bars for the convictions.

Last year, he was handed a six-year prison sentence by a court in Tel Aviv for taking bribes from real estate developers when he served as mayor of Jerusalem more than a decade ago. That judgment was appealed by Olmert’s lawyers and he is currently awaiting a final ruling from the higher-level supreme court.

Monday’s case, which Israelis refer to as the “Talansky Affair,” will also be appealed by Olmert’s legal team. It involves Long Island businessman Morris Talansky, who testified in an Israeli court in 2008 to handing Olmert envelopes filled with cash, support, he said, for the Israeli politician’s election campaign. The prosecution argued, however, the money was in exchange for business favors and emphasized Olmert’s use of it for personal expenses.

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He was acquitted of the more serious charges, which included accepting some $600,000 from Talansky, in 2012 but found guilty last March of fraud, breach of trust and receiving illicit benefits after his former office manager became a witness for the state.

Speaking at the Jerusalem district court after the verdict on Monday, Uri Korb, who oversaw Olmert’s prosecution, said the court had sent a clear message that “a black flag of immorality and corruption flies over the actions of the accused.”

Olmert's lawyer, Eyal Rozovsky, said, however, the ruling was disappointing and vowed to appeal. The court granted Olmert a 45-day stay, meaning he will continue to avoid jail time for now.

Earlier this month, ahead of the sentencing, Olmert asked to the court to be lenient, saying that he had suffered enough over the past few years as this and the other case had gone through a lengthy legal process. He also presented a letter from former British prime minister Tony Blair testifying to his good character and talked about his long-standing public contributions.

Doron Navot, a lecturer in the school of political science at Haifa, said it was not surprising Olmert was fighting both convictions. He also said it was unsurprising the supreme court was taking its time to reach a final verdict in the first case.

“There is nothing regular about a former prime minister going to jail, it is a very difficult decision,” he said.

Navot also said there were many gray areas in both cases and as such no consensus among white-collar crime lawyers of Olmert’s guilt or punishment under the law.

In the first case, Navot said, “there is no clear-cut evidence that he took bribes, although there is evidence that he acted unethically and there was a breach of trust.”

“There is a difference here between public corruption and criminal law,” he said. “Corrupt behavior does not always fit perfectly into a criminal offense.”

Irit Baumhorn, a former state prosecutor, said the question of whether an ex-Israeli prime minister will eventually sit in prison depended heavily on the supreme court decision.

“The key will be what happens in the supreme court in the next few weeks,” she said, adding there is a chance Olmert could be acquitted or face a lesser sentence in both cases.

Ruth Eglash is a reporter for The Washington Post based in Jerusalem. She was formerly a reporter and senior editor at the Jerusalem Post and freelanced for international media.

North Korea’s Real Life Hunger Games

What it's like to fight for your life in North Korea.

BY JOSEPH KIM-MAY 25, 2015

My second day at the detention center, I was sent to weed the rice fields. The task was exhausting, slogging for hours through the flooded rows of dirt, pulling at the weeds and digging down with my fingers for the grub-white roots. Around noon, we marched under a hot sun back to the detention center for lunch. Not knowing the routine, I simply followed everyone else, trying not to stick out. After we ate our meager portions of corn noodle soup, the guard, a lean teenager with an angry face, yelled: “It is your break time.” I watched as the other boys lay down and fell asleep instantly. I could tell how precious this time was by how fast they dropped to the floor.

North Korea’s Real Life Hunger Games by Thavam Ratna

How To Purify Your Lungs In 72 Hours

January 8, 2015
There are many people that have never smoked a cigarette and still have lung problems, while others have been smoking for 40 years and their lungs are perfectly fine. It all depends from the person’s organism. In this article we are going to present you some advices on how to cleanse your lungs in 72hours.

The first thing you have to do is to get rid of all of the dairy products from your diet, In order for your body to get rid of the diary products’ toxins.

In the first day of purification, you need to drink a cup of herb tea before bedtime. It will release all of the toxins that cause constipation in the intestine. During the purification, you must not overload your lungsor any other part of the body with difficult work.
Before breakfast squeeze 2 lemons in 300 ml of water.
Consume 300 ml of grapefruit juice. If you do not like the taste, feel free to replace it with pineapple juice. Both of these juices contain natural antioxidants that improve the breathing systems.
Between breakfast and lunch you have to drink 300 ml of carrot juice. This juice will help you alkalize your blood during the 72 hour cleansing.
During lunch time drink 400 ml of juice rich in potassium. Potassium acts as a great cleansing tonic. Make 400 ml of cranberry juice before going to bed, which will help you in the fight against bacteria that can cause infections in the lungs.

Body care and exercises

You can lose many toxins through a daily 20-minute hot bath.
In a bowl of hot water put 5 to 10 drops of eucalyptus. Place your head over the bowl and cover yourself with a towel. Inhale the steam until the water cools off.

Toxins

Medical Encyclopedia

Toxins are substances created by plants and animals that are poisonous to humans. Toxins also include medications that are helpful in small doses, but poisonous when used in large amounts.

Most toxins that cause problems in humans are released by germs such as bacteria. For example,cholera is due to a bacterial toxin.

Other toxins that cause problems include metals, such as lead, and organic chemicals in the environment.

References

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McGuigan MA. Chronic poisoning, trace metals and others. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds.Cecil Medicine

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Update Date 4/21/2013

Updated by: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.

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