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News Archive for Jan 2023
Open Letter to JVP, Weerawansa and WeerasekaraPlease pass this on to the MPs with no ‘O’ level qualifications. An explanation is given in terms of the number of staff and expenses. I am writing this open letter to JVP, Weerawansa and Weerasekara as you two (Weerawansa & Weerasekara) have been noted as the most racial and fanatic (insane) politicians with no background education and intelligence. Weerasekara is a champion in killing and murders in the Navy and you are another racist in SL.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/23)
Statement of the National Joint Committee on the Decision Taken by the President and the Cabinet of Ministers to Fully Implement the 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment was enacted in 1987 consequent to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord between the Government of India and the Republic of Sri Lanka. The Accord was signed in Colombo by President J.R Jayawardena and Rajiv Gandhi while the country was under curfew. The Government of India violated Sri Lanka’s airspace and sovereignty by dropping food parcels from Indian air crafts on Sri Lankan territory. Gunboats were placed near Sri Lanka’s territorial waters. Subsequently, under the pressure exerted by the Government of India, the 13th Amendment was enacted by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
සිංහලයා මුළුමනින්ම ක්ෂය නොවෙනු ඇත
සිංහලයා ක්ෂය වෙන ජාතියක්? අද රටේ සිංහලයන් අතර කථිකාව ‘ශ්‍රී ලාංකික අනන්‍යතාවය’ තව තවත් ප්‍රවර්ධනය කල යුත්තේ කෙසේද යන්න මිස රටේ සිංහල ජනගහනය ක්ෂය වීම හෝ සිංහලයාට වන අසාධාරණකම් නොවේ. බෞද්ධ අයිතීන් ගැන නම් යම් කථිකාවක් ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දෙකඩ කිරීමේ ඊලාම් ඉල්ලීම අදද රටේ සහ ඉන් පිටත තදින්ම ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බව පිළිගැනීමට අප අකමැත්තක් දක්වමු. ඒ අපගේ මෝඩ කම විය හැකියි. උතුරේ සාමාන්‍ය දෙමළ ජනයා ඉඩම්, පොලිස් බලතල නොඉල්වයි. සම්බන්ධන්, සුමන්තිරන්, ශ්‍රී ධරන්, සිවාජිලිංගම්, රාසමානික්කම්, විග්නේස්වරන්, පොන්නම්බලම් වැනි මහතුන් වෙනම දෙමළ රාජ්‍යක් ගැන දිගු කලක සිට සිහින මවන්නෝයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
Paddy farming, organic versus agrochemical based methods.
The amount, 3.2 metric tonnes/ha claimed in a Sinhala article by Upali de Sarem (Jan 2023) using modern fertilizer is still very low compared to the usual yields in Sri Lanka (4-5 metric tonnes/ha). Furthermore, if optimal agronomy is used (as in Batalagoda or MahaIlluppallama research stations), 6-8 metric tonnesor more may be achieve with the right variety of seed, with less water and no-tilling or ploughing (but using benign herbicides) to remove weeds. Comparisons of organic paddy and modern fertilizer-based farming outputs, costs etc., were done about a decade ago in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
SOVEREIGN MONEY.
https://youtu.be/dwNJfaYqgsE?list=PLo3dqe4hSSt74bZWaJP066MYVCL75iY58&t=256 In a recent news item (link given above), I heard a politician saying that foreign countries are giving us loans out of their tax payers money and that we should understand that those countries have to take it back from their people out of their tax money. This is rubbish!. When countries or private banks give out loans they create brand new money - money that never existed. Perhaps the attached article would explain how money is created. Sovereign-Money,-An-Introduction-Dyson-Positive-Money-2016.pdf (insearchofsteadystate.org)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
Today’s Source of Money Creation - Prof. Richard Werner (GDI)
Prof. Richard Werner provides an overview of how money is created across the world and the impact it has on us. In 2014, Prof. Werner published the first empirical test on how banks create new money - he explores the response of central banks and unveils their ultimate game plan... The Monetary Institute's "Our Money, Our Banks, Our Country - Money Creation in the Modern Economy" conference was held in Zurich, Switzerland on February 5, 2018. https://youtu.be/tN5nabmmXlU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
කිසිම රාජ්‍ය ආයතනයක් වහල දාන්න තීරණ අරගෙන නැහැ.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
රටේ වත්මන් ආර්ථික, සමාජීය තත්වයන් පිළිබඳ වෘත්තීය සමිති නියෝජිතයින් සමග 2023.01.30 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා.. වෘත්තීය සමිති වල අදහස් ගැඹුරින් සාකච්ඡා කරලා ඉදිරියට ගෙන යා හැකි වැඩපිළිවෙලකට සියලු දෙනා එකඟතාවය පළ කළා. ඒ අනුව අද දින මේ සාකච්ඡාවට පිවිසීමට තාවකාලික අනුකමිටුවක් ඇති කළා. මේ වෙලාවේ අපි කටයුතු කලයුතු දළ එකඟතාවයන් කිහිපයක් තිබෙනවා. ත්‍රයිපාක්ෂික එකඟතාවයකට පිවිසීමේදී වෘත්තිය සමිති ඒවාගේම රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තු සහ පෞද්ගලික අංශයත් ඒ වගේම රාජ්‍යයත් නියෝජනය කිරීම ඉතාවැදගත්. මේ අනුව වර්තමාන ආර්ථික ගැටලු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කළ හැකි ප්‍රභලම ක්ෂේත්‍රය සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය යි.
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සංචාරක ගමනාන්තයක් ලෙස ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ගරු කොන්සල්වරුන් පත් කළ හැකියි.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා විදෙස් විනිමය ඉපැයීම තුළින් ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කළ හැකි ප්‍රභලතම ක්ෂේත්‍රය සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය බැවින් එහි අභිවෘද්ධිය වෙනුවෙන් නවමු පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ නියැලෙන සියළු පාර්ශ්වකරුවන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියි. ජෙට්වින්ග් හෝටල් සමූහයට අයත් මීගමුව Blue Oceanic Beach හෝටලයේ ස්වර්ණ ජයන්ති උත්සවය අමතමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය සහ හෝටල් අංශයේ පාර්ශවකරුවන් සමඟ එක්ව "Destination Sri Lanka" හෙවත් සංචාරක ආකර්ෂණය දිනාගත් රටක් ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා විදේශයන්හි ගරු කොන්සල්වරුන් සහ නියෝජිතයින්ගේ ජාලයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
Animal-abusive Human Birth Control Drug to Replace Dog Steriliations?
It is laudable that successive governements since 2008 had continued to-date with the intrinsically HUMANE National Dog Sterilization Programme for dog Population Management (DPM), recommended by world bodies such as the WHO, OIE (Office International des Epizooties - World Organization for Animal Health) and, GARC (Global Alliance for Rabies Control). Sterilization is the only successful DPM method providing sustainable results that benefit Dog Rabies Control (DRC) and eradication as it reduces dog populations permanently towards zero growth if consistently done, enabling achievement of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
Gandhi’s influence on Sri Lanka’s non-violent Independence struggle
Colombo, January 30 (Ceylon Today): Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace and non-violence, was shot dead exactly 75 years ago, on 30 January 1948, five days before Sri Lanka’s Independence and slightly short of six months after the success of the nonviolent movement for India’s Independence led by him. The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed at the funeral saying: “What is the use of my government, which could not protect our nation’s biggest treasure?” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s strategy was a combination of truth,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
NPP books highest number of buses for poll campaigns, from where do they get their funds? Gemunu
While commenting on spending money on private buses to transport people to political campaigns, the Lanka Private Bus Owners' Association (LPBOA) today said the highest number of buses were hired by the National People's Power (NPP) party, which intends to contest the upcoming election under the compass symbol. Addressing the media LPBOA Chairman Gemunu Wijerathne said nearly 150 private buses were provided for the meeting held at Nugegoda a few months ago. "We do not have limitations on providing any number of buses for any political party... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
Lanka’s bankrupt tag will be removed in a few months of this year
Sri Lanka will bounce back from its bankrupt status in the coming few months of this year, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said. Addressing a public gathering, he said that Sri Lanka is not a bankrupt nation, but a nation known for rising back up and will be able to rip off the label of bankrupt nation soon. We have started repaying loans. We are able to bring in new investments. Salaries will be increased. Taxes and bank interest rates will drop. Thereby, the country will commence its... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
President Ranil must tell ITAK – Annul Vaddukoddai Resolution before demanding 13A
The people of Sri Lanka should ask themselves some questions and seek answers given the connection of 1987, 13Amendment & the 1976 TULF Vaddukoddai Resolution which ITAK endorsed in 2008. Demands by Tamil militant groups/ LTTE / LTTE Diaspora /Tamil academia in Jaffna University/ Tamil political parties especially TNA & ITAK all echo what TULF originally demanded via Vaddukoddai Resolution on 14 May 1976. This document is what continues to keep alive the quest of separatism. This is why it must be annulled first. Here are the questions: ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
13A ඉල්ලීමට පෙර ITAK – වඩ්ඩුකෝඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාව අවලංගු කරන්නැයි ජනපති රනිල් කිව යුතුයි
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාව ප්‍රශ්න කිහිපයක් ඇසිය යුතුයි. 1987 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය සහ 1976 TULF වඩ්ඩුකොඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාව සමඟ ඇති සම්බන්ධය කුමක්ද සහ 2008 දී ITAK එය අනුමත කළේ ඇයි?1976 මැයි 14 දින වඩ්ඩුකොඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාව හරහා TULF මුලින් ඉල්ලා සිටි දෙය, දෙමළ සටන්කාමී කණ්ඩායම් / LTTE / LTTE ඩයස්පෝරාව / යාපනය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ දෙමළ විද්වතුන්/ දෙමළ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ විශේෂයෙන් TNA සහ ITAK විසින් ප්‍රතිරාවය කරයි.දිගටම සජීවීව පවත්වාගෙන යන්නේ වඩ්ඩුකෝඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාවයි.ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දෙකඩ වීම වැලැක්වීමට පළමුව වඩ්ඩුකෝඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාව අවලංගු කළ යුත්තේ මේ නිසාය. • ITAK යනු කවුද?– 1948 දී අර්ධ නිදහස ලබා මාස කිහිපයකට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/23)
Jaishankar’s visit reset bilateral relations, says Sri Lankan envoy
Milinda Moragoda said India and Sri Lanka have sort of overcome the fallout of a Chinese surveillance vessel’s visit to Hambantota port last year. India and Sri Lanka have been able to address the impact of a Chinese surveillance vessel’s visit to Hambantota port last year and Colombo is looking to New Delhi to help drive economic recovery through investments in key sectors such as energy, Sri Lankan envoy Milinda Moragoda said. “We have sort of been able to get over it, but we have to always be vigilant,” he added. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
Proposal to Fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
His Exellency, Mr. Ranil WickremasinghePresident of Sri LankaColombo, Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka " " Hon. Dr. Wijedasa Rajapashe, Minister of Justice, Sri LankaYour Excellency,Proposal to Fully Implement the 13th Amendment to the ConstitutionI would like to refer you to the inception of the need to incorporate the 13th Amendment creating nine Provincial Councils including the temporary merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces in the year 1987 granting a list of devolved powers plus a shared list together with power over land and policing within the Unitary State... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
Charge sheet ready to remove PUCSL Chairman: Minister
Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said that a charge sheet related to the removal of the chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Janaka Ratnayake is being prepared and will be presented to the Parliament soon. Speaking at a media briefing, the minister said legal action will also be taken against the PUCSL Chairman. "The necessary legal proceedings against the PUCSL chairman and the charge sheet for his removal have been prepared by now. All the members of the ruling party in the parliament have expressed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
Is recolonisation the final solution?- II
Continued from January 26, 2023 To assert, as Mr Sirimanne does, that “From ancient times the Northern region in the island was a kingdom occupied by Tamils due to its closeness to South India…….. during the reign of King Elara, a Tamil, there was a war between the Sinhalese and Tamil kingdoms…..” is completely wrong. It is a very irresponsible statement. The factual situation is that the young prince Dutugemunu of Magama in the south, after a long military campaign involving a series of hardwon battles, defeated usurper king Elara who had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
13th Amendment: LAND – Demanding State or Private Land
Over 80% of land belongs to the State while some 14% land are privately owned land. There are some facts that need to be made clear. State Land & State Land given to Provinces Appendix 1 of the 13th Amendment includes provision for State Land. It clearly states that State land is vested in the Republic but it also allowed Provinces to administer the State land that had been vested to it by the President using Article 33(d). No well-funded campaign claiming “land” has been confiscated by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
Uninterrupted power:CEB vs. PUCSL clash worsens
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) yesterday (28) reaffirmed that the existing power cuts would continue despite recommendations by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) to provide an uninterrupted power supply during the period of Advanced Level examinations, which are being held until 17 February. The CEB’s stance comes as the Ministry of Power and Energy and the utility regulator remain engaged in a war of words over electricity tariff hikes and power load shedding options. Meanwhile, students are preparing for the examination period amidst planned power outages. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
Debt restructuring:President to intervene to finalise Chinese deal?
Debt restructuring and IMF EFF delayed due to Chinese stanceGovt. informed by IMF that Chinese proposal not adequateChina asks Govt. to continue negotiations with Exim Bank President Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to open a line of communication with Chinese Government leaders in order to finalise the ongoing debt restructuring negotiations with Sri Lanka’s key bilateral creditors including China, The Sunday Morning learns. The delay in finalising Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring programme, especially with the key bilateral creditors – Japan, India, and China – has also resulted in the delay in moving ahead with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/23)
Breathe in! Traveller films heart-stopping video of her ascent up 'crazy narrow' spiral steps on the outside of a spectacular tower in Sri Lanka, with barely enough room for two to pass
The staircase at Ambuluwawa Tower is shielded only by a waist-high handrailFootage by blogger Janet Newenham shows the climb isn't for the faint-heartedShe said: 'The busier the tower, the more claustrophobic one can feel' The views from the top of Ambuluwawa Tower in Sri Lanka are heavenly, but some may find the climb up there pure hell, as a traveller's footage of her ascent shows. Ambuluwawa Tower looks innocent enough from a distance – but get up close and visitors will see that wrapped around the outside is an extremely narrow spiral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
President vows to take country’s economy to positive growth
President Ranil Wickremesinghe warns that the country will fall into a crisis again similar to the situation in May and June 2022, if the economic and agricultural program implemented by the government and the debt restructuring program being carried out with the countries as per the IMF program are disrupted in any way. He made this remark addressing an event at Sri Maha Bodhiya in Anuradhapura this evening (Jan 28), during which he presented ‘Akta Pathra’ (credentials) to the new Atamasthanadhipathi, Most Ven. Dr. Pallegama Hemarathana Nayaka Thero. The Head of State... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
What is the position of the SLPP with regard to 13A
The 13A was implemented in November 1987 after the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in July 1987. Both were forcibly pushed down Sri Lanka’s throat by India & constitutes an act of aggression. It is the dangers of its implementation that compelled every President not to use powers under Article 33(d) or implement Police Powers. The current President is only in office for the remainder of the term of the 2019 elected President who resigned. The current President cannot implement 13A as he does not have the mandate to do so. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
The 13th Amendment Land & Police – averting chaos
13th Amendment was signed on 14 Nov 1987. Sri Lanka had several choices over the years – it could have used 2/3 majority in Parliament to annul it altogether or it could have brought amendments that would have negated the clauses in the 13A. Successive governments did neither & simply passed the pillow. What needs to be clearly understood is that State Land as a RIGHT is not vested in the Provincial Councils but the 13A allows the President to vest State Land to the Provinces. There are reasons why Police & Land... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
මේ රටට කිසිම දිනක නොලැබුණු නිදහසක් සැමරීමට ඇස්තමේන්තුගත මුදල රු. කෝටි 57 යි?
ඩී. ඇස්. සේනානායක පිලිරුවට පැළැඳවීමට නියමිත මල් මාලයට පමණක් රු 97,000 මේ වසරේ නිදහස් සමරුවට නියමිත මුල් ඇස්තමේන්තු මුදල රු කෝටි 57ක් වූ බවද ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ මැදිහත් විමෙන් එය කෝටි 20 දක්වා අඩුකළ බවද, ඩී. ඇස්. සේනානායක පිලිරුවට පැළැඳවීමට නියමිත මල් මාලයට පමණක් රු 97,000 ඇස්තමේන්තුකොට තිඹුණු බවද 27 වන දින උදෑසන දෙරණ රූපවාහිනී ප්‍රවුර්ති වලින් කියවින රාජ්‍ය භාන්ඩාගාරය පතුලටම හිඳී තිබියදී රාජ්‍ය භාන්ඩාගාරය පතුලටම හිඳී ඇති මෙවැනි අවස්ථාවක ජාතික ධනය රු.කෝටි 20ක් නාස්තිකොට නූපන් ළමයෙකුවෙනුවෙන් පැවැත්වෙන උපන්දින සාදයක් වැනි කිසිදිනක අපට නොළැබුණ නිදහසක් සැමරීම සඳහා රු කෝටි 20... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
1948 ලැබුණායයි කියන නිදහසේ හැටි මෙන්න.
1948.පෙබ 4 දා.අපට ලැබුණේ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදි යදම්වළින් බැඳි තවමත් බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය මහරජ අපගේද මහරජ වශයෙන් පිළිගන්නා ඔවුන් විසින්ම සකස්කරණලද ආණ්ඩු ක්‍රමව්‍යවස්තාවක් යටතේ පාලනයවන බ්‍රතාන්‍ය පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලය තුල ඩොමිනියන් තත්වයක් හා මේ රටේ මිනිසුන්ගේ චන්දයෙන් පත්කරගත් කලුසුද්දන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් පාර්ලිමේන්ත්ව සහ උත්තර මන්ත්‍රී මණ්ඩලයක් සහිත සීමිත නිදහසක් පමණි. ඒ බව 1948 පෙබරවාරි 10 වනදා පැවති පළමු නිදහසේ නිළ උත්සවයේ ප්‍රධාන අමුත්තා වූ ග්ලොසෙටර්හි ආදිපාදවරයා විසින්ම එදින ඔහුගේ කතාව ' message From His Majesties king of Ceylon" යනුවෙන් ප්‍රකාශකිරීමෙන්ම තවදුරටත් සනාත වෙයි. එසේම සෝල්බරී ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 45 වන වගන්තිය අනුව1948න් පසුවද මේ රටේ විධායක බලය රැඳී තිබුණේ බ්‍රතාන්න්‍ය මහරජ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව - පළාත් සභා වලට ඉඩම් සහ පොලිස් බලතල ලබාදීම භයානකයි - එය සිදු නොවිය යුතුයි
Vanguard Postහි පළ වුනු ‘Sri Lanka - Giving Land and Police powers to the Provinces is dangerous – it should not happen’ නමැති ඉංග්‍රීසි ලිපියේ සිංහල අනුවාදය, එම මුල් ලේඛකයා විසින්ම. උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළාත් සභා වලට ඉඩම් සහ පොලිස් බලතල ලබාදීමේ ප්‍රවනතාවයක් පැන නැගී තිබෙන බව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙන් එන ප්‍රවෘති වලින් පෙනී යයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය TNA (දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානය) සහ අනෙකුත් දෙමළ දේශපාලනඥයන්ගේ පීඩනයකට ලක්ව සිටී; මේ නිසා, අවසාන දේශපාලන ‘විසඳුමේ’ මෙම බලතල දෙක සහ වෙනත් බලතල පළාත් සභා වලට ලබා දීම බොහෝ දුරට සිදුවිය හැක. උතුරේ සහ නැඟෙනහිර ප්‍රදේශවල හමුදා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ සනිටුහන් කළ දෙය | මේවා අරගල කරුවන්ට පේන්නේ නැහැ
යුධ ස්වෙච්චා හමුදාවේ හිටපු ලුතිනන් කර්නල් විජේසුන්දර මුදලිගේ අශෝක මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. නිවැරදි දේ අගය කරන්නත් වැරදි දේ හෙළිදරවු කර නිර්භයව එයට පහර දෙන්නත් හෘදය සා‍ක්ෂියක් මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකුට තියෙන්න ඕනෑ බව සිංහලේ දිනපොත විශ්වාසයයි ! පර්යේෂණාත්මක පුවත් පත් කලාව ! මෙහයවීම දේශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්… https://youtu.be/-w_uQdZfQCc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
‘’TARTAGETED SANCTIONS AND FOREIGN POLICY’’
Sanctions to countries and organizations Sanctions are imposed on individuals or countries under international law/diplomacy by a country organization or an individual as a punishment deterrent or a warning on a wrongdoing or a wrongdoer or difference of views or an opinions. Sanctions can be arbitrary or jointly by an organization or a group of countries or group of individuals as the case be. There is no court or a tribunal to impose or remove sanctions on another country or an organization. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
ලංකාවේ දෙවන නැවි තටාකාංගනය වසා දැමේ
2014 දි ඩොලර් මිලියන 12 ක ආයොජනයක් යොදා මෝදර ධීවර වරාය තුල සථාපිත කරත ලද walkers Colombo Shipyard වෝකර්ස් කොලඹ නැවි තටාකාංගනය මෙම වරාය අයිති ධීවර වරාය සංස්‍්ථාව මගින් බලයෙන් සේවකයන් ඉවත්තර පාලනය සියතට ගැනීමට උත්සහ කරන බව වාර්තා වෙනවා බදුවාරික ප්‍රමාද වීම නිසා මෙම කටයුතු කරන බවට සංස්ථාව සදහන් කරනවා මෙස තටාකාංගනය තුල අති නවීන නැවි ඔසවනය කොමර්ෂල් බැංකුව විසින් නය වාර පමාද වීම නිසා කපා පරන යකඩ සදහා විකුනා දැමීමට කොමර්ෂල් බැංකුව කටයුතු කරන බවටද වාර්තා වී තිබෙනවා ධීවර අමාත්යාංශයේ අනුදැකුම සහිතව කරන්‍ර ලබන මෙම ක්‍රියාවලිවයට රජය වහාම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
Sri lanka Scrambling for Dollars!
We are begging everyone for dollars today. Even the power cuts may be increased if we do not find dollars. We may even not have dollars to get our food supplies and medicines! It may surprise many to know how we are somehow not collecting the dollars we can legitimately collect without having to beg from outside sources. For some years now in my Papers and books I have been quoting how we do not collect the dollars we are entitled to. Let my quote from my book: How... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
Sri Lanka under Siege by US Cowboys & Indian Sahibs
What is the relationship between the 19th-century origins of the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) and the Oriental Bank Corporation (OBC). The BoC & OBC were first set up by the English to exploit Sri Lanka’s recently stolen lands and impose the coffee plantations,. Their HR (Human Resources, ahem) expertise was based on American (yes, this term includes the Caribbean) chattel slavery. The OBC in 1863 effected ‘the largest transfer of property ever in Ceylon’. The OBC later lent 500,000 silver dollars in 1868 to the Japanese government‘to finance its path of modernization’, to industrialization,as ee reported last week. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
England’s Standard Chartered Bank Blames Lanka for Pussyfooting on Selling National Assets
So why did a US Navy spy and expert in their ‘Integrated Undersea Surveillance System’ meet our frangible fungible finance minister? What fortunes fee-fi-fo-fum are being sniffed under the sea lanes? Is it coincidence that Sri Lanka this week announced it had finalized ‘oil exploration rules, earmarking 900 offshore blocks’ in the Mannar Basin in northwest Sri Lanka, which ‘may’ hold around $260billion worth of oil & gas resources? The US Navy Sopy appears just as the US is escalating war games in the region (see Random Notes, Japan). State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe apparently met ‘Rear Admiral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/23)
CEB officials, Ministry Secretary threatened by HRCSL officials: Kanchana
Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy and the officials that took part in the discussion with Human Rights Commission were pressurized over the matter with regard to proving continuous electricity supply during the A/L examination, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said. The Minister said in a twitter post that the Secretary and the officials have informed him that they had been pressurized by two members of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka to sign two documents that they did not agree. The Minister tweeted that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/23)
Cabinet agreeable to fully implement 13th Amendment, President tells all-party conference
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed the Cabinet’s willingness to the full implementation of the 13th Amendment. https://youtu.be/XMsotS7okd4 Speaking at the all-party conference held yesterday (26 Jan.), Wickremesinghe stated that the Cabinet was agreeable to fully implementing the 13th Amendment, unless it is decided by the Party Leaders as to whether or not the Amendment should be abolished. He noted that he is bound to implement the existing law, as per the Executive powers vested with the President. Accordingly, the Head of State stated that the 13th... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/23)
Legal action to be sought against HRCSL officials over coercion
The officials who took part in the recent discussion with the Human Rights Council of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) pertaining to the uninterrupted supply of electricity during the 2022 GCE Advanced Level Examination, intend on taking legal action against officials of HRCSL, following the incident where the group was coerced into signing certain documents. https://youtu.be/KTRG5sfyzGk Accordingly, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera stated that the officials who took part in the discussion have already sought legal opinions pertaining to the steps required to be taken against the HRCSL members in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/23)
HRCSL files defamation complaint against recent claims of coercion
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has decided to file a defamation complaint against recent claims made following the inquiry into the uninterrupted supply of electricity during the 2022 GCE Advanced Level Examination. The complaint was also filed on the grounds of neglect, a statement issued by the HRCSL read, as scheduled power cuts of two hours and 20 minutes continued, despite the agreement decided upon by all parties at the said inquiry - to refrain from imposing power cuts during the period in which the exam will be held. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/23)
Third session of the 9th Parliament to end tonight
The gazette notification on the prorogation of the 3rd session of the 9th Parliament has been issued by President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, and will be effective from midnight today (27 Jan.). Accordingly, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to ceremonially inaugurate the 4th session of the 9th Parliament at 10.00 am on 08 February. It is a tradition for the President to deliver his Government’s Policy Statement at the commencement of a new session of Parliament. Accordingly, the Policy Statement to be implemented in the country from the 75th Independence celebration... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/23)
13TH Amendment goes beyond the Indian Constitution.
India is using the carrot and the stick formula to insist on the pound of flesh of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution. Big brother turned good samaritan has again raised their persistent demand for the full Implementation of the 13th Amendment. It is noted that India does not now invoke the infamous Accord as they realize that it is now a dead letter. 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka was forced on the political leadership of the country as a consequence of the Indo- Sri Lanka Accord of 1987.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/23)
බුද්ද කාලයෙන් පසු ලංකාවේ ධර්ම යුද්දයක්.. සමනභද‍්‍ර හා ධම්මවිජය හිමිවරුන් මුහුණුට මුහුණ ගැටෙති..
මෑත කාලයේ සමාජ ජාල වල අවස්ථා කිහිපයකදී ම මත ගැටුම් ඇතිකරගත් පූජ්‍ය සිරි සමන්තභද්‍ර හිමියන් සහ කිරුලපන ධම්ම විජය හිමියන් අතර විවාදාත්මක සාකච්ඡාවක් අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක පැවැත්විය. සංගීත ශිල්පී ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න මහතා විසින් තම අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාව ඔස්සේ එයා සංවිධානය කර තිබින. https://youtu.be/tzxlLpf6R3w... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
රටේ කොඳු නාරටිය යළි ගොඩනගමින් ආහාරයෙන් ස්වයංපෝෂිත වන දේශයක් කරා ගමන් කිරීමට රට පුරා විසිරී සිටින සියළු නිළධාරීන් අද එකතු වී සිටිනවා. -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා.
මහරගම තළපත්පිටියේ ස්ථාපිත කළ කෘෂිකර්ම පර්යේෂණ නිලධාරීන්ගේ ජාතික සංගමයේ මූලස්ථාන ගොඩනැගිල්ල වීවෘත කිරීමට 2023.01.25 දින එක් වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා - මිනිස්සු ඉන්න රටක අප කාගේත් කෘතවේදිත්වය කෘෂිකර්ම පර්යේෂණ නිලධාරීන්ට පළකළ යුතු වෙනවා. අපේ රට ආහාරයෙන් ස්වයංපෝෂිත වීමට, සහලින් ස්වයංපෝෂිත වීමට කෘෂිකර්ම පර්යේෂණ නිලධාරීන් රටපුරා ගම් දනවු හරහා ගමන් කරමින් අපේ රටට ලබා දෙන ශක්තිය සහයෝගය අගය කරනවා. අළුත් දෑ එකතු කරන්න, අළුත් අත්දැකීම් හඳුනාගන්න, අළුතින් ඇතිවන ගැටලු හඳුනාගෙන ඒවාට ලබා දෙන විසඳුම් පිළිබඳව ගොවි ජනතාව සමග ක්‍රියා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කඩිනම් කිරීම කෙරෙහි වූ දේශපාලන අභිලාෂය අගය කළ යුතුයි. - ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ ආචාර්ය සුබ්‍රමනියන්.
ආර්ථිකය පුනර්ජීවනය කිරීම සඳහා සිදු කරන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කඩිනම් කිරීමට සහ දුෂ්කර අවස්ථාවන් හිදී සිදු කරන බදු වැඩිකිරීම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය නායකත්වය විසින් ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරන දේශපාලන අධිෂ්ඨානය ඉතා අගය කළ යුතු බව ජ්‍යාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ (IMF) විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ ආචාර්ය ක්‍රිෂ්ණමූර්ති සුබ්‍රමනියන් පවසයි. 2023.01.26 දින කොළඹ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ ආචාර්ය සුබ්‍රමනියන් මහතා පැවසුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සඳහා වන ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල් සහන පැකේජයට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විසින් සපුරාලිය යුතු අවශ්‍යතා සියල්ලම පාහේ සම්පූර්ණකර ඇති අතර ප්‍රධාන ණය දෙන රටවල අවසාන සහතික කිරීම් සිදු කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව අදාල ක්‍රියාවලිය අවසන් වනු ඇති බවයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
IMF Executive Director Dr. K.Subramanian sees political will to carry out reforms in Sri Lanka
Colombo, January 26 (Prime Minister’s office): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Director Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian has said that the political will displayed by the Sri Lankan leadership to speed up reforms and implement difficult tax increases in order to revive the economy deserves appreciation. Dr Subramanian, who called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Prime Minister’s Office in Colombo on Thursday said that almost all the requirements for the IMF relief package for Sri Lanka have been completed and the moment the final assurances from major lending countries is completed, the process... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
India’s Gautam Adani accused of pulling the ‘largest con in corporate history’
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani who has his businesses in several countries including investments in Sri Lanka's wind and renewable energy sector, has been accused of pulling off the 'largest con in corporate history' through the Indian-based Adani Group Corporation. US investor Hindenburg Research, which has begun short selling the conglomerate through bonds, conducted a two-year probe against head Gautam Adani, who is worth $125 billion. The firm alleges that Adani and his family controlled a web of offshore shell accounts that it used to carry out corruption, money laundering and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
President urges ministries to minimize Independence Day expenses
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed all relevant authorities to minimize expenses incurred within ministries when celebrating the 75th Independence Anniversary without burdening the Treasury. The Head of State said this while speaking at a pre-discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (26 Jan.), the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
Man arrested over social media posts against Independence Day celebrations
An individual is under arrest for uploading threatening posts on Facebook against the attendees of the 75th Independence Day celebration, Ada Derana correspondent says. The officers of the police cybercrimes division arrested the suspect following an investigation into a complaint received in this regard. During its investigations, the cybercrimes division uncovered that the man in question had uploaded multiple intimidating posts on his personal Facebook account pertaining to the upcoming Independence Day celebrations, inciting public disturbances. Accordingly, the 40-year-old was placed under arrest in the area of Maharagama. He will be produced... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
Introducing modern technology essential to transcend digital economy - President
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has pointed out that the industrial education and training opportunities in Sri Lanka should be improved by introducing modern technology required to surpass the new industrial technology and digital economy of the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions. The President made this observation on January 25, during a preliminary discussion on the “International Conference and Exhibition on the New Digital Economy” scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in the last quarter of this year. The discussion was held under the patronage of the President at the Presidential Secretariat. This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/23)
Why India refused Pfizer vaccines to Indians
An unknown virus initially dubbed Wuhan virus, later on became known as Covid-19. It caused the deaths of 6.7million (6,746,906) people the world over & affected 673,382,625 people globally. India lost 530,735 lives. India approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that was manufactured under license by Serum Institute of India (Covisheld) and Covaxin (a vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech). India did not approve Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson. The bottom line was that India chose indigenous vaccine over the high profile Big Pharma products. The reason behind this was that Pfizer & Moderna... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Is recolonisation the final solution?
First of all, let me express my sincere respects to Mr D.L. Sirimanne, the writer of the interesting article entitled ‘Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Independence’ (The Island/Opinion/January 18, 2023). He struck me as a venerable old man, who, at 103 years of age, still thinks about the welfare of his fellow Sri Lankans. It is rare for a person of that age to be so clear-headed and lucid in his writing. His generous spirit and his literary activity may be one reason for his healthy longevity, I think. His mention of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
How would an independent North Sri Lanka get blood for hospitals because Tamil caste compels Sinhala soldiers to donate blood?
The Tamil politicians and the LTTE Diaspora may blow hot & cold, spend lavishly on propaganda projecting Sinhalese as discriminating them, committing war crimes & stoop so low as to claim genocide, but the truth of the matter is that divisions and discriminations amongst Tamils is such that Tamils will not even donate blood because of their caste. Tamil caste system is such that Tamils do not donate blood lest their “high caste” blood gets mixed with “low caste” blood. Such is the psyche that prevails. If anyone is awestruck by this,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Austerity Measures to be Observed by Sri Lankans
There are two levels of conventional systems of governance in any small country. (i) Central government taking responsibility for foreign affairs, financial, defence and territorial protection, (ii) Local Government who takes control of the local area. A small country like Sri Lanka cannot have several split administrations due to economic constraints as a result of natural and produced exportable resources. With Provincial Councils, the governing will be split into (i) Central Government (ii) Provincial Council, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
IS THE SOLUTION FOR EGG/PAULTRY CRISIS IS ’MRP’ PRICE CONTROL OR ANY?
Egg Poultry Crisis is deep No doubt the Egg Crisis and Poultry industry is in deep crisis that has shattered the government already in trouble. Egg prises are skyrocketing with price increases that cannot be controlled and shortages of items in the market. The government and the CAA is working together to bring down or stabilize prices with no success aggravating the situation on indirect price control namely the maximum price mechanism found in the CAA when the Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
අර්බුදයෙන් නැගී සිටීම උදෙසා නව අත්හදා බැලීම් සමඟ නිලධාරීන් ජව සම්පන්නව නොබියව ඉදිරියට ගමන් කළ යුතුයි.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංවර්ධන පරිපාලන ආයතනය (SLIDA) අද (2023.01.25) බණ්ඩාරනායක සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ පැවැත්වූ රාජ්‍ය කළමණාකරණ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ප්‍රදානෝත්සවයේ ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිතයා වශයෙන් එක්වෙමිණි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අද දිනය ඔබේ වෘත්තීය සහ ශාස්ත්‍රීය ජීවිතයේ සන්ධිස්ථානයක් වන බවට සැක නැත. එබැවින් ඔබගේ සාර්ථකත්වය ජාතියේ ජයග්‍රහණයක් බවට පත්වන්නේ කෙසේදැයි සාකච්ඡා කිරීම යෝග්‍ය වේ. ජාතියක අනාගතය එහි පාලන තන්ත්‍රය මත රඳා පවතී. රාජ්‍ය කළමනාකරුවන්ගේ දැනුම, කුසලතා සහ ආකල්ප ජාතියක වර්ධනය, තිරසාර බව සහ අවදානම් අවස්ථාවන්ට ඔරොත්තු දීමේ හැකියාව සඳහා බෙහෙවින් ඉවහල් වේ. ආර්ථික අර්බුදයෙන් මිදීමට උත්සාහ කරන ජාතියකට එය විශේෂයෙන් වැදගත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
දීපව්‍යාප්ත පොලිස් ස්තානාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ සහ රාජ්‍ය නිවේදිත නිළධාරීන්ගේ සම්මන්ත්‍රණය.
දීපව්‍යාප්ත පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන්ගේ සම්මන්ත්‍රණය මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පසුගිය සඳුදා දින (23) සුහුරු පාය ප්‍රධාන ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්වීණි. මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණය සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් වියානි ගුණතිලක මහතා,පොලිස්පති සී.ඩී.වික්‍රමරත්න මහතා, රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධි සේවයේ ප්‍රධානී සුරේශ් සලේ මහතා සහ පොලිස් ස්තානාධිපතිවරුන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නිවේදිත නිළධාරීන් 509 දෙනෙක් සහාභාගී වූ අතර මාර්ගගත ක්‍රමය ඔස්සේ ස්ථාන 250 කදී පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන් හා රාජ්‍ය නිවේදිත නිළධාරීන් සම්බන්ධ විය. රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධි අංශ ප්‍රධානී සුරේශ් සලේ මහතා ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව පිළිබඳව දත්ත ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් අදහස් දැක්වුයේය. මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමැති ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා සම්මන්ත්‍රණය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Sri Lanka is making progress with debt restructuring, must repay $28 billion in foreign debt by 2027
India has extended $4.4 billion in official credit to Sri Lanka Debt-stricken Sri Lanka’s Central Bank chief said Wednesday that the country is making good progress in talks with its creditors to obtain financial assurances for debt restructuring, an important step toward finalizing an International Monetary Fund rescue plan. Sri Lanka is bankrupt and has suspended repayment of its $51 billion foreign debt, of which $28 billion must be repaid by 2027. It has reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF for a $2.9 billion rescue package over four years.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
මං වගේ කසඩ මහාරචාරියෙකුට මේ පඩිය ඉහටත් උඩින්.. බද්ද දෙගුණයක් කලත් කමක් නෑ..- නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි
රජය විසින් මෙම ජනවාරි මාසයේ සිට අය කිරීම ආරම්භ කර ඇති නව ආදායම් බද්ද සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ආචාර්යවරුන්ගේ සංගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි මහතා අදහස් පල කරයි. තම මාසික වැටුප් සටහනක්ද සහිතව ඔහු විසින් සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ තබා ඇති සටහන මෙසේය. බදු පිළිබද මගේ මතය!!!=============මේ තියෙන්නෙ ගිය මාසෙ මට ගෙදර ගෙනියන්න ලැබුණු වැටුප. මේක මටනං ඉහටත් උඩිං. ලබන මාසෙ මෙකෙන් 75000ක් විතර අඩු වෙයි. ඒත් මට ෂේප් වෙන්න පුළුවන්. බදු ප්‍රශ්නෙ ගැන මාත් එක්ක පැටලෙන්න එන Upali Kohomban එක පාරක් මගෙන් ඇහුව ණය ගන්නෙ නැතුව ජීවත් වෙන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Requesting for prompt approval for electricity tariff increase - PUCSL tells National Council
Members of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) stated before the National Council that they unanimously agreed to send documents to the Attorney General requesting for advice regarding the possibility of increasing the electricity charges retrospectively and requesting for prompt approval for the increase in the electricity charges. Accordingly, the members of the commission said that they hope to forward the relevant documents to the Attorney General today (25). The proposal to raise electricity charges were discussed accordingly when the National Council met in Parliament on January 24, under the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Constitutional Council to call for applications for Independent Commissions
The Constitutional Council met for the first time today (25 Jan.), and has decided to call for applications from those interested and qualified to be appointed as members of the Independent Commissions. Accordingly, a newspaper advertisement will be published in this regard, after which two weeks will be given from the date of advertisement to furnish all related applications, the Communication Department of the Sri Lanka Parliament confirmed, adding that more details about the application process will be notified through the newspaper advertisement. The advertisement is due to be published, calling for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Ouster of Presidents in Sri Lanka & now Peru – Will Sri Lanka ever learn lessons?
Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report reveals some interesting facts. The US-backed coup on 7 December 2022 against President Pedro Castillo (immediately after the ousting of Sri Lanka’s President via a well-funded protest) The Peruvian President has been imprisoned for 18 months without trial & due process. Massive protests are a hallmark in both Sri Lanka & Peru. The US-back coup regime went on to kill 50 protestors & the country has been in chaos since December 2022 but the US Govt is strongly supporting the coup. The ouster was primarily to prevent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Economic Situation, T-Bond, and Treasury Bill Sales in Sri Lanka
General Residents and diaspora should be aware of the economic situation and development in Sri Lanka. We cannot just sit and close our eyes (like the cock-eyed chicken) assuming that the Sri Lankan administration is doing well in the financial system management. The difference between the third world and the developed world is that the third world's economic deceleration is must faster than that of the developed world. As SL is our mother country, wherever we... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
HUMAN RIGHTS Part 6
Human Rights have taken root in Sri Lanka and are peddled by Human Rights devotees with great enthusiasm and little critical inquiry. When I suggested that a mentally retarded girl, who had been successfully integrated into the community, should be sterilized, I received the reply ‘but that is a Right. ’ Human Rights have been used for various purposes in Sri Lanka, some of which are totally unrelated to the well being of Sri Lanka .The media reported in 2014 that Human Rights activists have gone to the Supreme Court to stop the government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
The gift and yoke of bastardy
Towards the end of the last millennium with some countries worrying about glitches associated with Y2K or the year 2000, a magazine, maybe ‘Time’ or ‘Newsweek,’ asked world renowned people a simple question along the following lines: ‘what would make the world a better place in the next millennium?’ Maybe it was ‘next century,’ I can’t really remember. What I remember is the only response that struck me when reading through what scientists, artists, writers, statesmen and stateswomen, sports stars etc. had to say. ‘The only idea that could save us is for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Chera, Chola, Pandya: Using Archaeological Evidence to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms of Early Historic South India
For the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the most important documentary source for information on early South lndian culture is a body of prose poetry known as the Sangam anthology. These indigenous texts date to the first few centuries A.D. and comprise the earliest extant examples of Tamil literature. Not surprisingly, this is also the period to which can be traced the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
U.S. Government takes U-turn on Cholesterol
Some years ago, the writer interviewed Dr Mass R. Usuf, President of the National Association of Homoeopaths and Affiliates (NAHA). At the start of the interview, Dr Usuf said the word Cholrestrol could attribute to giant pharmaceutical companies engineering medical conspiracies and indoctrinating the medical fraternity, which trickles down to ignorant and gullible people. He stated that Cholesterol is a vital component and body-friendly soft waxy substance found among the lipids (fats) in the bloodstream. Cholesterol is crucial in supporting the human body and forming cell membranes. Certain... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/23)
Canada Human Rights Violations – Pot calling the Kettle Black!
Canada is following up on Ban ki-Moon's Darusman’s Report a clandestine report purportedly made for the eyes of the former UN Secretary of General of the UN - Moon only, but later surreptitiously leaked to the public and now used as a major document to castigate the Sri Lankan government and her past leaders for wartime human rights violations. Any war is a human rights violation. There are no two words about it. Then war becomes the final arbiter when diplomacy and talks fail! This is what happened in Sri Lanka. Then countries such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
පොලිස් බලතල නොදී ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට උතුරට යා නොහැකි නම් පොලිස් බලතල දුන් පසු කුමක් වේවිද? – අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථන් අසයි (වීඩියෝ)
ජනාධිපතිවරයා පසුගිය දා උතුරේ කළ සංචාරයේදී එක්තරා දෙමළ පිරිසක් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියේ නිලධාරීන් මඩ වතුරෙන් නහවමින් සිදු කළ අමානුෂික විරෝධතාව තමන් දැඩි ලෙස හෙළාදකින බව යාපනයේ සිවිල් සංවිධාන කැදවුම්කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථන් සදහන් කරයි. මෙම ක්‍රියාව සිදුකළේ සමස්ත උතුරේ ජනතාව නොවන බවත්, විවිධ දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම්වල නියෝජිතයන් හා අතුරුදන් වූවන්ගේ ඥාතීන් ලෙස පවසන දේශපාලකයන්ගේ අතකොළු බවට පත්වූ පිරිසක් මෙම ක්‍රියාව සිදු කළ බවත් ඔහු පවසයි. මෙය ඔවුන් විසින් සිදුකළේ ව්‍යාපාරික වුවමනාවකින් බවද, එයින් යැපෙන කණ්ඩායම් මේ සිදුවීම පිටුපස සිටින බවද ඔහු හෙළි කරයි. පොලිස් බලතල නොදී ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට උතුරට යාමට නොහැකි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
China Gives Immediate Relief To Debt-Ridden Sri Lanka – Analysis
China’s EXIM Bank says in a letter to Sri Lanka that the latter need not pay back the principal and interest due on EXIM bank’s US$ 2.8 billion loan that were due in 2022 and 2023. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the Export-Import Bank of China has told Sri Lanka, through a letter, that it is going to provide an extension on the debt service due in 2022 and 2023 as an “immediate contingency measure based on Sri Lanka’s request.” At the end of 2020, China’s EXIM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
CB assures interest rates can be relaxed after IMF bailout
The Central Bank has said that the interest rates can be relaxed once again with a cash infusion via the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) from International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Central Bank officials told this at the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) which met at the Parliament Complex chaired by Committee on Public Finance Chairman Dr. Harsha De Silva yesterday, the Communications Department of Parliament said. Commenting on the adverse effects of market contraction due to the stifling interest rates, the Central Bank said that those measures have been taken... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Sri Lanka hopes to complete debt restructuring in six months, says CBSL governor
Sri Lanka is committed to meeting all its debt repayments and is hoping to complete debt restructuring negotiations in the next six months, the country's central bank chief P. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Tuesday. "There has been good progress this month with India already pledging financing assurances. We expect assurances from China and Japan soon," Weerasinghe said at an event titled "Economic Outlook 2023". The island nation of 22 million people has grappled with challenges during the past year ranging from a shortage of foreign currency to runaway inflation and a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka PUCSL members call for probe
Two members of Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka ( PUCSL) including Deputy Chairman Udeni Wickremesinghe and Member of the Commission Professor Mohan Samaranayake had requested the Ministry of Finance and the defence authorities to probe the incident of alleged storming of civil activists into the PUCSL office on St. Anthony's Road, Kollupitiya last Sunday (22) The two members have lodged a complaint with the police. The duo had alleged that they were threatened by the group who claimed to be civil activists. The group had also questioned the recent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Major Ajith Prasanna gets 4 years RI for contempt of court
Retired Major Ajith Prasanna was today sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment by Supreme Court in connection with a contempt of court The Supreme Court further imposed a fine of Rs. 300,000 for the charges.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Even some ministers involved in conspiracy to evict GR: Sagara Kariyawasam
There was a conspiracy hatched to evict former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, where even some of the ministers at that time, got involved, SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam said today. He told a news conference that people have now realised it clearly and that they will take proper action against such individuals in the future. He said however, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was reluctant to admit that there was a conspiracy against him. "That is why he had to leave,” he said. "There was a conspiracy to evict Gotabaya Rajapaksa as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Egg imports: Pakistan rebuts Sri Lankan official’s statement on bird flu
The High Commission of Pakistan in Colombo has rebutted a statement made by the Director-General of the Animal Production & Health Department that no eggs can be imported from India or Pakistan due to the outbreak of bird flu. https://youtu.be/Z3-Dss5fy_c In a letter addressed to the Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Ministry, the high commission informed that the authorities in Pakistan, refuting the statement made by Hemali Kothalawala, have clarified that there has been no outbreak of bird flu and that Pakistan has been free from HPAI (H5N1) since 2008. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka summons Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka and Power & Energy Secretary
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has summoned the Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy, and the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) for an inquiry as to why they failed to prevent the implementation of power cuts during the ongoing 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination. https://youtu.be/fKZQt6ScMho Accordingly, the inquiry is scheduled to take place at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow (25 Jan.), at the HRCSL premises. Although the pair were notified of the relevant inquiry yesterday (23 Jan.), the HRCSL have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
China’s EXIM bank offers Sri Lanka debt extension - report
(Reuters) - The Export-Import Bank of China has offered Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on its debt and said it will support the country’s efforts to secure a $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters. India wrote to the IMF earlier this month, saying it would commit to supporting Sri Lanka with financing and debt relief, but the island nation also needs the backing of China in order to reach a final agreement with the global lender. Regional rivals China and India are the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
The Comilla Programme of Rural Development shows how we can develop our economy.
The Comilla Programme of Rural Development was implemented in Bangladesh from 1960 to 1969 by a tri cornered effort of the Government of Bangladesh, The Agency for International Development of the United States of America and the Ford Foundation. The Agency for International Development of the US Government handed over the task to Michigan State University and a few major professors of Michigan State University were resident in Comilla throughout this nine years. The Government of Bangladesh selected a senior civil servant, Dr Akhter Hameed Khan to be the Director of the Programme,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Light at the end of the tunnel
The year of the Rabbit has brought Sri Lanka the good news of the two-year moratorium proposed by China on debt repayment. This should be acceptable to all creditors and Sri Lanka. We cannot expect haircuts or of debt cancelation in the present global economic downturn. If SL can achieve the levels of foreign exchange earnings of 7.1 billion US$ from foreign employment in 2018 and Tourist income of 4.3 billion US$ in 2018 and maintain a trade balance deficit of less than US$ 6 to 8 billion US $, and with a modest FDI of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
An Appeal to the Tamil Politicians, Tamil Diaspora Organisations,And Tamils in Sri Lanka, in the name of Humanity.
This is a document of appeal to the Tamil Politicians, Tamil Diaspora Organisations, and Terrorist groups articulating that they are liberation groups, and Tamils who are domiciled in Sri Lanka to give up their demand for separation as the country has been facing economic recession and collapse due to the uprising and terrorist activities of the several Tamil groups. The country had a thirty-seven-year war to which SL had to spend millions of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Sri Lanka SHOULD NOT give Land & Police powers or implement the 13a
With Indian ferry service, Indian flights direct to Palaly & a history of illegal immigrants from India. In particular when India is the virtual defacto chief minister & governor of the North & controls essentials, even dictates the Sri Lankan govt to supply Jaffna unhindered supply of electricity and fuel. Well-funded campaigns that scare the govt into giving land to people who may not even be holding deeds to the lands they now occupy. These campaigns have ousted the Sri Lankan troops from the Jaffna High Security zone. If the political bigwigs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
HUMAN RIGHTS Part 5
The UN Human Rights declaration has evoked a range of attitudes from uncritical admiration to utter contempt. Admirers of Human Rights praise them extravagantly. Human Rights are the inalienable fundamental rights which a person is entitled to simply because he/she is a human being. They are universal in the sense of being applicable to everyone, everywhere. They are egalitarian as they apply equally to everyone and they are inalienable as they cannot be given away, said loyal Human Rights defenders. Human Rights are rights that apply to everyone because they are human, explained Human... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Sri Lanka’s Road to Independence
Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948 mainly on the back of Japan’s resounding military victories during the Second World War and the Indian independence struggle. The importance of the overthrow of Western colonial powers in Asia by freedom fighters supported by Japan should not be underestimated. If the intervention of Japan had not taken place beginning with the bombing of Pearl Harbour on December 07, 1941, then the occupation of almost the whole of Asia by Western powers would have continued for decades upon decades. In 1939 the end of Western Colonialism was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
What is Xenophobia ?
Xenophobia is a fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers. It can manifest as prejudice, discrimination, or hostility towards individuals or groups perceived to be foreign or different. Xenophobia can also manifest in the form of political policies or actions that discriminate against or exclude certain groups of people based on their perceived foreignness. Some signs of xenophobia may include: 1. Prejudice or discriminatory attitudes towards people from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds. 2. Hostility or aggression towards foreigners or... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/23)
Why can’t the Sinhalese demand separate provincial councils too?
The Indo-Lanka Accord signed under duress in July 1987 with even Prabakaran held virtual hostage in Delhi until Rajiv Gandhi returned from Colombo to New Delhi, does not mention a word about 13a or devolution. All that the Indo-Lanka Accord mentions is one election for the merged North East province to be held no later than December 1988. This means the Accord only created 1 merged North East Province for an interim period, which required a referendum to be held in 1988 in the East, asking if they wished to remain merged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/23)
‘’PANDOR’S BOX ON EGGS’’
Consumer his power and the unfortunate plight today Consumer is not aware of his strength and power within as in the other parts of the world where they are a powerful force as an organized group. Today egg issue has been the tip of the iceberg to open out the Pandora’s Box on eggs as an eye opener to the consumer of the way he is cheated/treated and misdirected by the regulator (CAA), the trader, and the industrialist in every way.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/23)
ආඬි හත්දෙනාගේ කැඳ හැලිය! – Seven Beggars’ gruel pot! Should Ukrainians die to keep NATO in business?
22 Jan 2023 In a by-gone era seven wandering beggars arrived at a wayside resting place- (අම්බලම) in an evening to rest their weary limbs and feed their hungry stomachs. After exchanging pleasantries, they all decided to have some gruel for dinner. All agreed to contribute a handful of rice to the common gruel that they were about to prepare. So, they went about preparing a fire and then set up a pot of water on a hastily constructed fireplace. Then they all ‘took a handful of rice’ from their shoulder bags and carefully... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/23)
Why are entities promoting “inclusive” Sri Lanka attempting to divide Sri Lanka via 13a?
The US, UK, EU, Canada are eternally parroting the need for an inclusive society, so too does UN & its associated organizations, the western-salaried NGOs/INGOs and civil society also preach need for inclusive, peace-loving, society & their slogans are “togetherness”, “assimilation” “unity” & what not. What is baffling us is, why all of these entities are pulling every string possible to implement 13th amendment that aspires to divide Sri Lanka along ethnic lines? Do they think people are stupid not to question their hypocrisy when openly they chant “peace, unity & inclusive society”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/23)
We challenge Canada & Ontario to produce evidence of “genocide” in Sri Lanka
We challenge anyone & any country accusing Sri Lanka of “genocide” to place their facts first. These facts should give a good background knowledge of what LTTE is & what LTTE did to not only Sinhalese, Muslims, foreigners but also Tamils. LTTE emerged not after the July 1983 riots but in 1972 as TNT and thereafter in 1976 as LTTE.LTTE only hijacked the separatist objective from separatist Tamil political leaders to justify their militancy & used 83riots as a smokescreen to create an “ethnic” label to a separatist quest.LTTE is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/23)
All Accidents Are Preventable.
Fatal and serious road accidents are very common reporting in the media in Sri Lanka these days. Some common reasons for road accidents include: Distracted driving, such as using a cell phone or eating while driving.Impaired driving, such as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.Speeding or reckless drivingFatigue or drowsy drivingFailing to obey traffic laws and signals.Poor weather conditionsMechanical failure or vehicle defectsPoor road design or maintenance. Several preventive steps can be taken to avoid road accidents, including: 1. Practice safe driving habits: Always... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/23)
Sri Lanka - Giving Land and Police powers to the Provinces is dangerous – it should not happen
Courtesy: Vanguard Post News emanating from Sri Lanka shows that there is the tendency to give land and Police powers to the Provincial Governments including the Northern and Eastern provincial governments. The Sri Lankan Government is under enormous pressure from the TNA (Tamil National Alliance) and other Tamil MPs; it is quite probable that the ultimate political package can contain giving these two and other powers to the Provinces. The Government is also under pressure to reduce the troop numbers in the North and the East, if this is recklessly carried out,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/23)
“The Die is Cast” for the U.S. …
This past week for an evening in North Carolina I had the pleasure of speaking briefly with Medea Benjamin and hearing her opine about Ukraine to an audience at a local church. A petite, elegant, straight talking Jewish lady, now 70, who for decades has been at the forefront of trying to explain to far more “average” and largely perplexed American multitudes and the world at large just what the U.S. government has been doing — criminally — across the globe but especially in the Middle East with its war machine over and over again,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/23)
Myanmar, Bangladesh ‘fish, salt and areca nut diplomacy’
In the cross-border commerce with Bangladesh, Myanmar has been exporting more than it has been importing, with 8,620.7 tonnes of exports to Bangladesh valued at US$10.733 million between April and October of the fiscal year 2022–2023. The two border checkpoints between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Sittway and Maungtaw, saw a 65 percent increase in the sale of fish from Myanmar and a 35 percent increase in the export of dried goods. Farm-raised rohu, hilsa, mackerel, dried anchovies, and dry fish powder are among the fishery products. Also exported are tamarind, onion, ginger, dried jujube powder,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
නීති විරෝධී ලෙස පුද්ගලයන් රැගෙන එන අයට එරෙහිව නීතිය තදින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනවා - එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ මානව සම්පත් අමාත්‍යවරයාගෙන් මනුෂ නානායක්කාර අමාත්‍යවරයාට සහතිකයක්
නීති විරෝධී ක්‍රම ඔස්සේ එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයට පුද්ගලයන් ගෙන්වන අයට එරෙහිව නීතිය තදින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන බවට එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ මානව සම්පත් අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය Abdulrahman Abdulmannan Al Awar මහතා කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතාට සහතික විය. රැකියා සඳහා සංචාරක වීසා මගින් එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයට පැමිණෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකික ශ්‍රමිකයන් මුහුණදෙන ගැටලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා කරුණු පැහැදිළි කළේය. සංචාරක වීසා හරහා එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ රැකියා සඳහා පැමිණෙන ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට නොයෙක් දුෂ්කරතාවයන්ට මුහුණදීමට සිදුව ඇති බවත්, සංචාරක වීසා මගින් එලෙස රැකියා සඳහා පැමිණීම වැළැක්වීමට ජනතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
පාසල් දරුවන්ට නොමිලේ කන්න දෙන්නට බැරි රජයට නව ඇමතිවරුන්ට පඩි ගෙවන්න සල්ලි කොයින්ද ?
බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩනයේ සිට ලියන අලුත්ම ලිපිය 2023 ජනවාරි 22 ඉරිදා සති අග අරුණේ 14වෙනි පිටුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික තත්ත්වය කොතරම් දරුණු වී ඇද්දැයි කියනවා නම් පාසැලට යවන්නේ තමන්ගේ මොන දුවදැයි හා ගෙදර නවතාගන්නේ මොන පුතාදැයි යන අවාසනාවන්ත තත්ත්වයට බොහෝ දෙමාපියන් පාත්‍රෙව්යයි ලෝකයේ ඉහළතම ජනමාධ්‍ය වු BBC ප්‍රවෘත්ති සේවය කියයි. එම වාර්තාවේ සාරාංශය මෙසේය. මේ පින්තූරයේ සිටින දහ හැවිරිදි මල්කි තම සහෝදර සහෝදරයින් හතර දෙනාට පැයකට පෙර උද්යෝගයෙන් ඇඳෙන් ් නැගිට්ටේ ඇයගේ නියපොතු ලස්සනට පාට කරගැනීමටය. අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Sri Lanka expects financing assurances from China for IMF deal within days
Jan 21 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka expects to get China’s backing for its debt restructuring plan within days to help unlock a $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, a government official said on Friday, as India pledged further support to its crisis-stricken southern neighbour. The island nation of 22 million people has grappled with challenges during the past year ranging from a shortage of foreign currency to runaway inflation and a steep recession – the worst such crisis since independence from Britain in 1948. Sri Lanka is racing to secure... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Rift in PUCSL likely to pave way for proposed electricity tariff increase
PUCSL Chairman alleges political authorities have influenced commission members to reverse earlier unanimous decision to reject interim and retrospective electricity tariff hikeSays commission members were called by president to Presidential Secretariat without informing himPoints out political interference into affairs of an independent commission such as PUCSL would set a bad precedentSays legal action will be filed against this “undemocratic” and “illegal” move in coming weekPublic Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Chairman Janaka Ratnayake yesterday alleged that the country’s political authorities have influenced three commission members to revise the earlier unanimous... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Keselwatta Police files B report against lawyers who organised a protest
The Keselwatta Police has filed a B report before Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court against a group of lawyers who organised a protes on 18th of January, condemning the Attorney General's alleged interference with the judiciary. According to the B report, Keselwatta police alleged that a group of lawyers including Senior Counsel Gunaratne Wanninayake, Nuwan Bopage and Senaka Perera had organised a protest by violating Election Laws and provisions of National Thoroughfares Act. The lawyers had organised this protest condemning Attorney General's alleged attempts to prevent Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatte... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Date for Local Government election announced
The upcoming Local Government (LG) election will be held on 09 March 2023. This was announced by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka today (21 Jan.). The accepting of nominations for the upcoming election commenced at 08:30 a.m. on 18 January, and closed at 12 noon today. The acceptance of cash deposits for the election also closed yesterday (20 Jan.), after it began on 18 Jan. Meanwhile, the Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was also passed in Parliament on Thursday (19 Jan.), with a majority of 61 votes. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Canada Genocide Day before Tamil Genocide Day
Why is Canada not commemorating Canada Genocide Day in memory of all the indigenous Natives it killed? The National Inquiry Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls found Canada guilty in 2019? Is it unbelievable that Canada preaching human rights to the world is found guilty of Genocide? Why is Canada shy to use the term “genocide” for its crime but allowing the use of term “genocide” to recognize May 18, 2022 as Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day without any evidence of genocide taking place in Sri Lanka? Given that Canada birthed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Endorsing public request to abolish Sri Lankan loans as appealed by 182 internationally recognized economists and development experts – January 2023
Care of his excellency the Ambassodor to the France in Colombo,BY ELECTRONIC MAIL2023 January 13The Chair,Mr. Emmanuel MoulinGeneral SecretariatParis Club,Générale du Trésor - 139,rue de Bercy - 75572 Paris Cedex 12,France.multifin1-club-de-paris
dgtresor.gouv.fr Dear Mr. Moulin,Endorsing public request to abolish Sri Lankan loans as appealedby 182 internationally recognized economists and development experts – January 2023We are certain, you are well aware by now a wide cross-section of academics and experts across the world totaling 182 signatories have on 08 January 2023 made a public appeal to all lenders – bilateral,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Highlighting Free Education with a Mission!-Hats Off to Dhammika Perera for this Great Initiative!
Two things info need to be addressed-; 1: Education should be targeted toward Employment Opportunities in Sri Lanka and Overseas 2: English should be given Top Priority! Get the Sri Lanka Diplomats to Research Employment Opportunities based on Sri Lankan talent available. Sri Lanka has sent out thousands of low-paid Domestic Workers and Hotel Restaurant Workers. The need for thousands of Medical Health Sector where the monthly salary of a Registered Nurse (RN) in the UK-USA-EU is around USD 3500-5000/month depending on the Special Qualification... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
The Economy During The Anuradhapura Epoch
Every part of the central city of Anuradhapura belonged to the King during the Anuradhapura epoch. There was a standard procedure for kings to follow, known (in Sinhala) as Dasaraja Dharmaya – meaning Charitability, Generosity, Straightforwardness, Humility, Innocence, Peacefulness, Anger, Calmness and Independence. The King was also known as the mahapathy. Once a king was crowned, the new King had to continue with the previous king’s (undertakings, such as repairs to industries and lakes, lochs etc.) It was a standard gesture for the King to maintain peace and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
“හැකි සෑම අයුරකින්ම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සහාය දීමට අපි සුදානම්“– ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍ය ජයශංකර් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට සහතික වෙයි.
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ ඉන්දීය විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය සුබ්‍රමනියම් ජයශංකර් මහතා අතර “ද්වීපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා, ඒකාබද්ධ ව්‍යාපෘති සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන ඉන්දියානු සහාය” පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡාවක් අද (2023.01.20) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සඳහා යෝජිත ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල් (IMF) පැකේජයට ඉන්දියාව පූර්ණ සහයෝගය ලබා දෙන බවට ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලට සහතික වීම පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ඉන්දියාවට සිය ස්තූතිය පළ කළේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 2.9 ක ණය මුදලක් ලබාදීම සඳහා ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල ණය හිමි රටවලින් එවැනි සහතිකයක් බලාපොරොත්තු විය. පසුගිය වසරේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදය ආරම්භ වූ අවස්ථාවේදී ණය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
මහ පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයෝ අධික ලාභයක් ලබන හැටි මෙන්න..
බිත්තරයක් රුපියල් 40ට අඩුවෙන් පාරිභෝගිකයාට ලබාදීමේ හැකියාව තිබියදී මහා පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන් අධික ලාභයක් ලබාගැනීමේ අරමුණෙන් මේ වනවිට කූඨ ව්‍යාපාරික කටයුත්තක නියැලී සිටින බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පවසා සිටියේ මේ වනවිට ඇතිව තිබෙන බිත්තර ප්‍රශ්නය පිළිබඳව විමසීම සඳහා පාරිභෝගික සේවා අධිකාරියේ නිලධාරීන් කෝප් කමිටුව හමුවට කැඳවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. එහිදී පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා සහ පාරිභෝගික සේවා අධිකාරියේ නිලධාරීන් අතර මෙම ඇතිව තිබෙන බිත්තර ගැටලුව හා මේ වනවිට බිත්තර වෙළෙන්දන් විසින් සිදුකරනු ලබන ක්‍රියාවේ සත්‍ය අසත්‍යතාවය පිළිබඳව සාකච්ජාවක් මෙසේ සිදුවිය. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/23)
Rift in PUCSL after three members agree to retrospective electricity tariff hike
The chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), Janaka Ratnayake says he would seek legal action to defend the independence of the commission. Addressing a media briefing in Colombo today (Jan. 20), Ratnayake explained that the PUCSL had initially decided to oppose the retrospective electricity tariff hike green-lighted by the Cabinet of Ministers. However, following a meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe, three members have gone back on the decision taken at the commission’s board meeting and have agreed to the Cabinet decision to implement a retrospective electricity tariff hike.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
හොර සීල් ගසා කරන මත්පැන් ජාවාරමක් හෙළිවෙයි.."බෝතල් ඇතුළේ තියෙන්නේ මොනවද?"
https://youtu.be/Y6m_Y8V47PM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
India, Sri Lanka sign bilateral agreement related to increasing the limit of the High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP)
A bilateral agreement pertaining to increasing the limit of the High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP) implemented in Sri Lanka with the support of the Indian government was signed today (Jan 20), the President’s Media Division (PMD) says. The Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Mahinda Siriwardana, signed the agreement on behalf of Sri Lanka while the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay signed on behalf of India. The agreement related to the community development project in Sri Lanka, first signed in May 2005, doubled the individual project limit from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and President Ranil virtually declare open Academy for Kandyan dancing
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar have virtually declared open the Academy for Kandyan dancing in close proximity to the Dalada Maligawa in Kandy today (Jan. 20). Indian PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the Academy for Kandyan dancing during his visit to Sri Lanka in 2017. The academy was built as a gift given to Sri Lanka by the Indian Government and its people, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. Further, the handing over of 300 completed houses in Galle, Kandy and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
President appoints three members for Constitutional Council
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed three representatives for the Constitutional Council for a period of three years, the President’s Media Division said. Accordingly, Dr. Prathap Ramanujam, Dr. (Mrs) Dilkushi Anula Wijesundere and Dr. (Mrs) Weligama Vidana Arachchige Dinesha Samararatne will serve as Constitutional Council members.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Positive Actions of Dhammika Perera needs Targeting!
"Education is a major contributor to develop human capital, increase GDP per capita and effectively face global challenges“ -Dhammika Perera Answer: Yes & No! *Educating for the sake of educating is a waste of Time & Space. *Educating to accommodate Revenue generating for the individual and Sri Lanka Employment should be the target.' *English language should be a Priority. Finland seeks over 20,000 Healthcare workers.- IT opportunities offer tremendous opportunities- Targeting Employment Opportunities should be the Goal of education.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
මේ අවස්ථාවේදී වඩා වැදගත් මිනිසුන්ගේ ජීවත්වීමේ මූළික ප්‍රශ්න විසඳීමද එසේත් නැත්නම් මේ රටේ සියවස් 26 ක් පැරණි ගම්සභා ක්‍රමය විනාශකළ ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමද?
පහත සඳන් හේතූන් නිසා ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා ඡන්දයක් මේ අවස්ථාවේදි කිසිසේහම නොපැවිත්විය යුතුය. රාජ්‍ය භාන්ඩාගාරය පතුලටම හිඳී ඇති මෙවැනි අවස්ථාවක ජාතික ධනය රු.කෝටි 1600ක් නාස්තිකොට ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා ඡන්දයක් මේ අවස්ථාවේදි කිසිසේහම නොපැවිත්විය යුතුය.එය කබලෙනුත් ලිපටම වැටීමක් බඳුය. මේ අපේක්ෂකයින් 8000 සන්දහා තරඟ වදින ලක්ෂයක් පමණ චන්ද අපේක්ෂකයින්ගේ චන්ද ව්‍යාපාරයට වැයවන මුදල් සහ වැඩිදෙනෙක් චන්ද වැඩවල යෙදීමෙන් රටේ නිෂ්පාදනයට සිදුවන පාඩුවද එකතුකළවිට ඡන්දය නිසා තවත් කෝටි 7-8 අටදාහක් රටට අහිමිවනු ඇතැයි උප කල්පනය කළ හැක. අද රටේ 60 ලක්ශ ගානක් හාමතේය. රෝහල්වල තබා පුද්ගලික ඔසු සැල් වලද ලෙඩට බෙහෙත් නැත.දේශපාලකයින්ට සහ සුපිරි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
වෛද්‍ය සිසුවිය ඝාතනය කල ඇගේ පෙම්වතා අරගලයේ ප‍්‍රබලයෙක්…
‘විශ්ව විද්‍යාල සිසුවිය ඝාතනය කළ ඝාතකයා වසන්ත කුමාර මුදලිගේ සමඟ අරගලයේ හිටපු කෙනෙක්. ඒ බව ෆේස්බුක් එකේ තියෙනවා’ ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන සංවිධායක, අමාත්‍ය ප්‍රසන්න රණතුංග මහතා අද (19) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පැවසීය. මැතිවරණ වියදම් නියාමනය කිරීමේ පනත පිළිබඳ පාර්ලිමේන්තු විවාදයට සහභාගී වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. අමාතත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද පැවසීය. ‘මැතිවරණ වියදම් නියාමනය කිරීමේ පනත පිළිබඳව අද රටේම අවධානය යොමුවෙලා තියෙනවා. 1977 ට කලින් මෙහෙම නියාමනය කිරීමේ ක්‍රමවේදයක් තිබුණා. නමුත් 1977න් පසුව සමානුපාතික ඡන්ද ක්‍රමය හඳුන්වාදීම නිසා ඒ තත්ත්වය නැති වුණා. 1977ට පෙර පැවති මැතිවරණවලදී අපේක්ෂක වියදම් අදාළ දිස්ත්‍රික්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
අමෙරිකානු තානාපතිනි ජූලි චුන්ග් මැතිණියගේ බොරු ප්‍රචාර වලට රැවටීමට තරම් චීන හෝ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ජනතාව මෝඩ නැහැ- චීන රුසියා සහයෝගිතාවය සඳහා වන ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්වත් සංසදයේ ලේකම් නීතිඥ රාජා ගුණරත්න
දිගින් දිගටම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අමෙරිකානු තානාපතිනි ජූලි චුන්ග් මහත්මිය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී ඇති ණය අර්බූදයට හේතුව චීන ණය බව අවධාරණය කරමින් කරණු ලබන අසත්‍යය ප්රකාශ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙබ් අඩවිය චීන රුසියා සහයෝගිතාවය සඳහා වන ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්වත් සංසදයේ ලේකම්, විවෘත විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය නීතිඥ රාජා ගුණරත්න මහතාගෙන් විමසන ලදී. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඒ මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස් දක්වමින්,” අමෙරිකාව ලෝකය මත සිය ආධිපත්‍ය පතුරුවා හැරීමට මිලිටරි බලයට අමතරව ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් බොරුව ජාත්‍යන්තර වශයෙන් සමාජගත කිරීම කරණු ලබනවා. ඔවුන් හිට්ලර්ගේ නාසි හමුදාවේ සිටි ගොබෙල්ස් හඳුන්වා දුන් න්‍යාය හිට්ලර්ටත් වඩා හොඳින් දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ ලෝකය පුරාභාවිතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Sri Lankan hoteliers commit to rebuilding tourism responsibly
Despite tourism challenges, two Sri Lankan hotel players have remained firm in their efforts to uplift local communities as they rebuild their business. Homegrown Teardrop Hotels, which has seven hotels across the country, maintains at least nine community projects, according to Manoj Devaraj, group head – sales and marketing. Teardrop Hotels and Shangri-La’s Hambantota Golf Resort & Spa are relying more on local food producers, one of their ways to ensure the local community benefits from tourism business Each hotel has an adopted charity organisation, while the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
World’s First Cardano-based Automotive Project to Launch in Sri Lanka
The project aims to address concerns surrounding the use of electric vehicles while concurrently promoting climate action. eTukTuk, the world’s first Cardano-based automotive project, has announced its plans to launch operations in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka. This development, announced at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, has the potential to transform the transportation industry for people around the globe. The company’s mission is to address the high cost and lack of charging stations for electric vehicles worldwide by creating a sustainable and dynamic multi-income model, according to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Prez needs fresh mandate to implement 13 A fully -Opp MPs
Rebel SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe should seek a fresh mandate if he intended to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. UNP leader Wickremesinghe couldn’t under any circumstances go ahead with his plans at the moment, the rebel SLPP National List lawmaker said. “The President shouldn’t forget that his responsibility is to complete the remainder of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s five-year term,” the MP said. The leader of Yuthukama civil society... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Wijeyadasa to inform JSC to launch probe over a judge
Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa has requested the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the action of Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatte who had offered food to a suspect. This was mentioned by the Minister in response to MP Premanath Dollawatte and others who wanted action against the magistrate. https://youtu.be/yKs6tBLAqUY “ It is the Judicial Service Commission which has the power to take disciplinary action against a judge. I am therefore prepared to request a probe against the magistrate if the MPs send me the complaints against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill passed in Parliament
The Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was passed in Parliament a short while ago, with a majority of 61 votes. https://youtu.be/MTAIgpwAnnU Accordingly, the Bill was passed in Parliament with 97 voted in favour, while 36 MPs voted against the Bill. The debate on the Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill was taken up in Parliament today (19 Jan.), despite the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms previously deciding to postpone the debate by one month. Several political parties in the opposition including the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Much-awaited Sri Lankan 3D animation movie “Gajaman” coming to theatres tomorrow
Sri Lanka’s first 3D animation movie using motion capture technology will be released in theatres tomorrow (Jan. 20), bringing a novel cinematic experience to Sri Lankans. Directed by Chanaka Perera and co-produced by John Fonseka and Chamika Jinadasa for Studio 101, the 3D animation movie “Gajaman” is a breakthrough in Sri Lankan cinema. This movie is based on the popular “Gajaman” cartoon by veteran Sri Lankan cartoonist Camillus Perera. The two lead characters are dubbed by sought-after dubbing artist duo Suneth Chithrananda and Gaminda Priyaviraj who came to prominence as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Ex-President to set up public fund to pay Rs. 100 million compensation
Former President Maithripala Sirisena today (19 Jan.) announced his plans to establish a public fund, in order to collect the Rs. 100 million he was ordered to pay as compensation in relation to the Easter Sunday Attacks of 2019. https://youtu.be/VqU2wwdVHy0 Speaking at a press conference today, Sirisena explained that he is unable to pay the ordered sum of Rs. 100 million and therefore decided to collect the sum of money from the public. “I don’t have the financial stability to pay Rs. 100 million. I don’t even own... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
Dalai Lama has no plans of visiting Sri Lanka for now: Tibetan official
Two days after China opposed a supposed visit by the Dalai Lama to Sri Lanka, an official for the Tibetan government-in-exile said the spiritual leader has no plans to visit the island nation although he has been invited. On Tuesday, China had said Sri Lanka, currently a bankrupt nation, must safeguard its bilateral relationship with Beijing. A top Chinese embassy official met the powerful Buddhist prelates in the central town of Kandy to express opposition to the visit, a PTI report had said quoting a statement from the Chinese embassy. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/23)
What Sri Lanka must tell India regarding Indo-Lanka Accord / 13a & Devolution
Prabakaran was not privy to the contents of the Indo-Lanka Accord drafted by India Prabakaran did not demand Indo-Lanka Accord (in fact he did not know its contents. Prabakaran was not shown the draft of the Indo-Lanka Accord to even agree or disagree. Which means Prabakaran never gave his consent to the Indo-Lanka Accord. He was flown to Delhi on 21July 1987 with his family in 6 Indian helicopters & kept at the Ashok Hotel. Prabakaran was kept by force in New Delhi until Indian PM signed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
ආරථික පරිහානියට වඩා සංස්කෘතික පරිහානිය හානිකරයි.... අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ 'සංකථන මණ්ඩපයේ 'දී විද්වත්හු පවසති
'සංකථන මණ්ඩපය' අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ සංකල්පයක් අනුව පෝෂිත සමාජයක් බිහි කිරීම උදෙසා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලය මෙහෙයවන නවමු වැඩසටහනක් පසුගියදා ආරම්භ විය. මෙවර තේමාව වූයේ 'ඩබ්ලිව්. ඒ. සිල්වා නිර්මාණ විමසුම යි' එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍ර ඔස්සේ අපේ ජාතියට පණපෙවූ පිරිස් අතර ඩබ්ලිව්.ඒ සිල්වා නිර්මාණ සාහිත්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයෙන් රටේ අනන්‍යතාවය ආරක්ෂා කළා. ඒ නිර්මාණ ඔස්සේ අපේ ජාතික අනන්‍යතාවය ගැන අදත් අභිමානයෙන් කතා කරනවා. ඒ අනන්‍යතාවය පෝෂණය කරන්නට යළි යළිත් අවබෝධ කරගන්නට, තොරතුරු සම්භාරයක් එක්රැස් කර ගැනීමේ හැකියාව අපට තිබෙනවා. මේ සඳහා විශ්වවිද්‍යාල මේ කිෂේත්‍ර ගැන උන්නදු විය යුතුයි. හෙල සාහිත්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Reducing the Army
Where would be without the Army? Have we forgotten what the Army did to rid the country of the LTTE terrorism. Perhaps the Army could be given the task of economic development, like in the USA where the US Army attends to many tasks like building hydro electricity schemes and even keeps the city of New Orleans alive saving it from the Atlantic Ocean waters as the city is below sea level. My paper on Laya Waves may be kindly considered by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Economic costs of Ukraine war
The war was begun in February 2014 with a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin and continues until now. Putin told the Russian people that he was conducting a “special military operation” to “denazify” Ukraine and prevent NATO from expanding to Russia’s borders. Many in the West see the war, which many consider it the most disruptive conflict in Europe since 1945, as a war of choice by Putin, but he says that NATO’s 2008 decision in favor of eventual Ukrainian membership brought an existential threat to Russia’s borders.This article, aim... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
IMF sets tough debt sustainability goals for Sri Lanka
Colombo, January 18: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set debt sustainability goals for Sri Lanka for the latter to receive the IMF’s Extended Funding Facility (EFF) and get its creditors to restructure their debts. On April 12, 2022, Sri Lanka declared that it was defaulting, when its overall loan external burden was US$ 50 billion. It is understood that the IMF’s expectations from Sri Lanka in regard to the restructuring of its debts are: (1) reduction of the ratio of public debt to GDP to below 95%... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Sinhala translation of Jairam Ramesh’s “The Light of Asia –the poem that defined the Buddha” launched
Share on WhatsApp New Delhi, January 18 (The Pathfinder Foundation): The Sinhala translation of renowned Indian author Jairam Ramesh’s book “The Light of Asia; the poem that defined the Buddha”, Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya, translated by award winning translator Niluka Kadurugamuwa was launched recently. Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya is a publication of the Pathfinder Foundation and could be contacted at pm
pathfinderfoundation.org . “The Light of Asia; the poem that defined the Buddha” is a work of deep scholarship based on extensive research... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Ashok Leyland bags contract to supply 500 buses to Sri Lanka Transport Board
The order is a part of a Line of Credit extended by Export-Import Bank of India, under the Economic Assistance Scheme of the Indian government. Over 5,000 Ashok Leyland buses are currently in operation with SLTB. (Representational Image) Commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland on Wednesday said it has bagged a contract for supplying 500 buses to the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), of which 75 buses have already been delivered to the Island nation. The order is a part of a Line of Credit extended by Export-Import Bank... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
India sends financial assurances to IMF ahead of Jaishankar’s visit
Days ahead of India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s visit to Sri Lanka, the neighbouring giant has sent financing assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), The Hindu reported. A top official source in Colombo has confirmed to The Hindu that “the written financing assurances from India were sent to the IMF Monday evening”. By taking the step that will help ease pressures on Sri Lanka, India becomes the first creditors to officially support the country’s debt restructuring programme. With the assurances extended by India, Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill only to rehabilitate drug addicts not Aragalaya members: Minister.
Refuting allegations that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill was brought in to suppress Aragalaya members, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe today said drafting of the Bill commenced in 2004 even before some of the Aragalaya people were born. He told Parliament that the Bill was initially drafted to rehabilitate drug addicts and ex-LTTE combatants. He said the Bill included provisions to rehabilitate ex-combatants and members of violent groups, as it was commenced drafting during the time of the war. The Minister said a huge uproar was created against this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
The wonder that is Lakegala in Sri Lanka
(This was an article I wrote to Asian Tribune in 2006.) The mountain "where Buddha laid his foot on" By Sudath Gunasekara (S.L.A.S), Asian Tribune, Oct 21, 2006 The wonder that is Lakegala from where Ravana ruled Lanka and Lord Buddha preached Lankavatara Sutra and laid his Foot Print Lakegala, Sri Lanka -- Wrapped in mystery and legend, on the northern end of this village, rising above the surroundings like a colossal giant is the world famous Lakegala, the highest bare rock outcrop in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්යාංශයේ ඉදිරි වැඩපිළිවෙලට ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ සහාය
සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ ක්‍රමවේදයක් හදුන්වාදීම, කම්කරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව සහ විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්‍රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කිරීම ඇතුළු කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍යාංශ විශය පථය තුළ මේ වසරේදී ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට අපේක්ෂිත වැඩසටහන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ ස්විස්ටර්ලන්ත තානාපති Dominik Furgler මහතා අතර අද උදෑසන පැවති අතර එම වැඩසටහන් සදහා ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ පූර්ණ සහාය ලබාදීමටද එකගතාවය පළවිය. යෝජිත ඩිජිටල්කරණ සහ සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ වැඩසටහන් සඳහා ස්විස්ටර්ලන්ත අත්දැකීම් ඇසුරෙන් සහාය දීමට හැකි බවත්, තානාපති ක්ෂේත්‍රය ද ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් විය යුතු නව ක්ෂේත්‍රයක් බවත්, මෙරට සිටින ස්විස්ටර්ලන්ත තානාපති Dominik Furgler මහතා මෙහිදී සදහන් කළේය. එහි දී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
SCOTT RITTER: 2023 Outlook for Ukraine
Given the duplicitous history of the Minsk Accords, it is unlikely Russia can be diplomatically dissuaded from its military offensive. As such, 2023 appears to be shaping up as a year of continued violent confrontation. After almost a year of dramatic action, where initial Russian advances were met with impressive Ukrainian counteroffensives, the frontlines in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict have stabilized, with both sides engaged in bloody positional warfare, grinding each other down in a brutal attritional contest while awaiting the next major initiative from either side. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Ukraine War Spills Over Into the Middle East
US and Israel will prevent the sale of Iranian drones to Russia In spite of an overwhelming flood of disinformation coming from the Western mainstream media and governments, there continue to be obviously widely divergent views on the current war between Ukraine and Russia. The official and media supported narrative is that Moscow attacked its neighbor in violation of “rule based” principles of international relations, whereby an attack on any nation by a neighbor with the intent to seize territory is always and unambiguously wrong. That line of thinking, summed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Delegation of Investors Led by UAE Royalty Visits Port City Colombo
Jan 17 (AdaDerana) – A delegation of investors from the United Arab Emirates, led by His Royal Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, visited Port City Colombo on the 14th of January 2023, during a special visit to Sri Lanka for the purpose. Discussions were held between the members of the delegation, representatives from the Colombo Port City Economic Commission (Commission) and Port City Colombo (PCC) with a view to attracting foreign direct investments to the project. The delegation was given a comprehensive overview of Port City Colombo’s development and plans... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Chinese embassy slams US envoy Chung’s remarks on SL debt issue
The Embassy of China in Colombo has slammed the Ambassador of the United States to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung over her remarks during a recent interview with a UK television program on Sri Lanka’s debt issue. In a press release, the Chinese embassy dismissed Chung’s comments as “baseless accusing and lecturing” and lambasted the US envoy for putting the blame on China for being the “spoiler” to Sri Lanka’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Chung recently told BBC Newsnight that the US is hopeful that China would not delay extending support for Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
Sri Lanka says board approval for IMF bailout likely in first quarter this year
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena has assured that positive responses have been received thus far with regards to the bailout due to be received by Sri Lanka from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). https://youtu.be/_wbeK2sMRpk Responding to a question at the Cabinet briefing this morning (17 Jan.), the minister noted that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry had assured that positive responses have been received pertaining to the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) which Sri Lanka is seeking from the IMF. Thus, he noted that agreements are currently being reached between... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/23)
President says talks with India and China on debt restructuring successful
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today invited the opposition to join hands through a new political system to provide relief to the people and free them from oppression. He made this request while speaking in parliament today (17). Despite the difficult economic background in the country, the President emphasized that the government is working to provide relief to the people, adding that he will take steps to allocate Rs. 30-40 billion for medicines this year. The President said that due to the prudent agricultural policies of the government, the country has seen... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
China says ready to work towards easing Sri Lanka’s debt burden
China has assured that it stands ready to work with the relevant countries and institutions with regard to aiding Sri Lanka in terms of its debt. Speaking at a press conference yesterday (16 Jan.), the Spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbin, noted that China has been closely following the ongoing difficulties faced by the island nation, and has provided all possible assistance for both, Sri Lanka’s social and economic development, to the best of their capabilities. In response to a question raised pertaining to Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
India formally notifies support to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt - report
India formally notified that it would support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring plan, clearing a major hurdle for the bankrupt nation to unlock a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund, Bloomberg reported citing a person with knowledge of the matter. India, one of Sri Lanka’s major bilateral creditors, gave its assurances late Monday, the person said, asking not to be identified as the details aren’t public. An announcement could be made as early as Tuesday, another person said. “With very positive developments taking place over the past 12 hours, Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
අතිරේක මහෙස්ත්‍රාත්වරියගේ ක්‍රියා කලාපය ගැන පැමිණිල්ලක්
ත්‍රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත යටතේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ශිෂ්‍ය බලමණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු වසන්ත මුදලිගේ ලබන 31 වැනිදා දක්වා තවදුරටත් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් ප්‍රසන්න අල්විස් මහතා නියෝග කළා. එදින සැකකරුගේ ඇප ඉල්ලීම පිළිබඳ නියෝගය ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරන බවයි විනිසුරුවරයා සඳහන් කළේ. එම ඇප ඉල්ලීමට අදාළ ලිඛිත දේශන තිබේනම් ඒවා ලබන 24 වැනිදාට පෙර ගොනුකරන ලෙසත් අදාළ නියෝගයේ සඳහන්. ත්‍රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත යටතේ අත්අඩංගුවටගත් අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ශිෂ්‍ය බලමණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු වසන්ත මුදලිගේගේ සම්බන්ධ පැමිණිල්ල අද පළමුව කැඳවනු ලැබුවේ කොළඹ අතිරේක මහේස්ත්‍රාත් තරංගා මහවත්ත මහත්මිය ඉදිරියේයි. එහිදී පැමිණිල්ල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
Pretending to Represent YOUTH – JVP & LTTE have killed & ruined the lives of Sri Lanka’s YOUTH
It is interesting how two groups terrorized 2 communities beyond measure. Both targeted youth and both are responsible for their deaths, their indoctrination, trauma to their families & ruining their youth & disabling their talents. Are there no legal framework to hold both these groups accountable for ruining the lives of youth from late 1960s to date? Youth of post-independence were enticed into one of these 2 movements & their entire lives went astray. The JVP was created on 14 May 1965 by Rohana Wijeweera. Not only did he meet... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
Why doesn’t IMF prune the unlimited perks of politicians before reducing Sri Lanka’s Military?
We have taken 16 loans from IMF since 1965, countless IMF officials have been landing & leaving advising every Government on how to manage the economy and yet we remain trapped into debt with no plan to come out. Instead of pruning the military, why doesn’t IMF insist on pruning the Govt starting off with reducing unlimited perks of politicians, the useless Provincial Council system along with unnecessary staff before trying to destabilize the national security apparatus of Sri Lanka? Contrary to IMF claims that it reduces poverty, studies reveal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
HUMAN RIGHTS PART 4
Sri Lanka Foundation held a seminar titled “Seminar on Religious and Cultural traditions of Human Rights in Sri Lanka”, probably in 1981. The Foundation had organized three live-in seminars, with participation of Buddhist, Hindu, Islam, Catholic and Christian groups. The final reports of these groups were published in “Religion and Culture in the development of human rights in Sri Lanka” (Sri Lanka Foundation, Colombo 1982). This essay is on the report made by the Buddhist panel. The Buddhist Panel started off by stating that this Seminar showed that the Sri Lanka Foundation had accepted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
Regularization of Private Hospitals and Health Care
Health is Wealth Health is wealth is the adage frequently used. The words of one of the richest in the world said at the death of his wealth and that it is of no use without proper health of an individual sick feeble and bedridden. Is it karma, destiny, or the wish of unknown are all unanswered issues. Human body is complicated uncertain and unpredictable to be careful managed with the knowledge and experience of the human body... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
එක්සත් මහජන පක්ෂයේ 2023 පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය පිලිබදව දැනුවත් කිරීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව
2023 පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරනයට එක්සත් මහජන පක්ෂය ලෙස අප පක්ෂයේ සහභාගීත්වය සහ ඉදිරි දේශපාලන වැඩපිලිවෙල පිලිබදව මාධ්‍ය දැනුවත් කිරීම සදහා වන මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව 2023.01.16 දින කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේදී පවත්වන ලදීඒ සදහා පක්ෂය නියෝජනය කරමින් චමින්ද ගුණසිංහ මහතා, අවිශ්ක විරාජ් කෝණාර මහතා, මාෂි සේනානායක මෙනවිය සහ චතුර රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහභාගී විය.එහිදි පහත කරුණු සම්බන්ධව අදහස් පල කරන ලදී.ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය දේශපාලනයේ වසර 74ක් පුරාවට වැරදි දේශපාලනික මැදිහත් වීම,නිළධාරීවාදය සහ අකාර්යක්ෂමතාවය හේතුවෙන් මේ වෙන විට රට පත්ව ඇති අසීරු තත්ත්වය වෙනස් කිරීමට නව නව දැක්මක් සහ වැඩ්පිලිවෙලක් පුරවැසියන් විසින් අපේක්ෂා කරන බවත් ඒ සදහා හුදු විවේචනය සහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
ආණ්ඩුකාර උතුරු මැද
උතුරු මැද පළාත් අාණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ සංකල්පයට අනුව රන් මාවත නමින් ආරම්භ කරන ලද වැඩසටහනේ ප්‍රගතිසමාලෝචන රැස්වීමක් කම්කරුව හා විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය ගරු මනූෂ නානයක්කාර හා උතුරුමැද පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් උතුරුමැද පළාත් සභා ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. උතුරුමැද පළාත් රැකියා විරහිත තරුණ තරුණියන් සඳහා ලංකාවේ පළමු වතාවට වැඩිහිටි ආරක්ෂණ හෙද සත්කාර හා පංචකර්ම සේවා සඳහා n v q level දක්වා රජයේ හා පුද්ගලික රැකියා විරහිත පිරිස් විධිමත් පුහුණුවකින් පසුව විදෙස් රටවල ඉල්ලීමට අනුව කාණ්ඩ වශයෙන් යොමු කිරීම හැකියාව මෙමගින් සිදුවේ. මෙම පුහුණුව මගින් still present සහතිකයක් හිමිවන අතර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
සමඟි ජන බලවේගය අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ සියලුම ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා සඳහා ඇප මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීම අද
සමඟි ජන බලවේගය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට තරඟ කිරීම සඳහා අනුරාධපුර මහ නගර සභාව ඇතුළු අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ සියලුම ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා සඳහා ඇප මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීම අද (16) සිදු කරනු ලැබීය. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේදී එම ඇප මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීම සිදු කළ අතර, ඒ සඳහා හිටපු අමාත්‍යයවරුන් වන පී.හැරිසන්, චන්ද්‍රාණී බංඩාර, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රෝහණ බංඩාර, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී චන්දිම ගමගේ මහින්දසෝම යන මහත්ම මහත්මීන් ඇතුළු ඇතුළු පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූහ. ඇප මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව මාධ්‍යය වෙත අදහස් දැක්වූ පී හැරිසන් මහතා, මේ මැතිවරණය සමඟි ජන බලවේගය විශීෂ්ඨ අන්දමින් ජයග්‍රහණය කරනවා.සන්ධාන ගත වෙන්න අපිට අවශ්‍යතාවක් න යැයි පැවසීය. අනතුරුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
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තමන්ගේ මවුබිමේ ඉතිහාසය සමග වෙන්කළ නොහැකි සේ බැඳී ඇති පුරාණ ශිෂ්ටාචාරය, සංස්කෘතිය සහ සංස්කෘතික සිහිවටන පිළිබඳ යම් පමණක හෝ දැනීමක් ලබාගැනීම සහ සංරක්‍ෂණය කිරීම මානව හිමිකමක් පමණක් නොව මානව වගකීමකි. තමන්ගේ මුතුන්මිත්තන් සැමරීමකි. (දෙවෙනි කොටසෙන්)ඉංගිරිසීන් 19 වෙනි සියවසේ සිට ක‍්‍රවුන් ලෑන්ඞ් (එන්ක්‍රෝච්මන්ට්* ඕඩිනන්ස් සහ සිලෝන් වේස්ට් ලෑන්ඞ් ඕඩිනන්ස් ආදී නීති ආඥා යෙදාගෙන සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් වසර දහස් ගණනක් භුක්ති විඳිමින් සිටි බිම්වලින් පළවාහැර සහ බෞද්ධ පුදබිම් පැවැත්ම සඳහා පුදා තිබූ සඟසතු ඉඩම් පැහැරගෙන ඉන්දියාවෙන් කූලීන් ලෙස ගෙනා ජනයා පදිංචි කරවා දෙමළ කොලනි පිහිටුවන ලද බව ඉතිහාසගත කරුණකි. නටබුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
International Center for Higher Education- ICHE Sri Lanka උසස් අධ්‍යාපනය සඳහා වූ ජාත්‍යන්තර මධ්‍යස්ථානය
අධ්‍යාපන, පුහුණු, තරුණ සහ ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධනය සඳහා යුරෝ මිලියන 26000 ක් - ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයින්ටත් අවස්ථා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපන, පුහුණු, තරුණ සහ ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධනය සඳහා යුරෝපා සංගමයේ (EU) ERASMUS Plus වැඩසටහන යටතේ අරමුදල්, ශිෂ්‍යත්ව හා පහසුකම් ලබා ගැනීම පිණිස අදාල පාර්ශවයන් පුහුණු කරනු ලබන නේවාසික නොවන තුන් දින පුහුණු වැඩසටහනක් 2023 පෙබරවාරි මස 16,17,18 දිනවල ජාත්‍යන්තර උපදේශකයින් විසින් කොළඹදී පවත්වනු ලැබේ. වසර 2021-27 කල සීමාව සඳහා යුරෝ මිලියන 26000 ක් යුරෝපා සංගමය විසින් මේ වෙනුවෙන් වෙන් කර ඇති අතර යුරෝපා සංගමයට අයත් රටවල් සමග සම්බන්ධවෙමින් සුදුසු ව්‍යාපෘති සිදු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
' Freedom Struggles of Sri Lanka - Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward' edited by Professor C.M. Madduma Bandara et al.
I would like to draw your kind attention to the latest study on this subject. The Book is titled ' Freedom Struggles of Sri Lanka - Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward' edited by Professor C.M. Madduma Bandara. I am attaching the Table of Contents of the Book together with the Foreword of Dr. Palitha Kohona. I have obtained these documents from Professor C.M. Madduma Bandara. This scholarly volume is available at S.Godage Bookshop, Maradana. It is priced at Rs. 6000. The contents and the theme of this Book... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
SL will be divided if 13A fully implemented as promised by RW: Wimal
The country would be divided within a short period of time once the pledge, which was given by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to the northern people that the government would fully implement the 13A, was made, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa said today. In a letter to the President, he said the President has given the pledge to deceive the northern people targeting the future Presidential election. He said it would only serve the purpose of the separatist politicians in the north but would not resolve the longstanding issues... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
PUCSL declines to revise electricity tariff
The Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has informed in writing to the Cabinet Secretary, declining to revise electricity tariffs as approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. PUCSL Chairman Janaka Ratnayake has informed the Cabinet of this decision in writing, citing reasons as per the Electricity Act of 2009. On January 09, Cabinet approval was granted to amend the general policy guidelines for the electricity industry and to implement a cost reflective electricity tariff to be implemented from January 2023. Accordingly, the revision was scheduled to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/23)
Cabinet nod to provide rice to 2 million low-income families
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to provide 10kg of rice per month to 02 million low-income families including Samurdhi beneficiaries for a period of two months. Accordingly, the government will purchase 61,600 metric tons of paddy to meet the requirement of 40,000 Metric Tons. This program is proposed to be implemented by District Secretaries and Divisional Secretaries with the assistance of small and medium-scale paddy mills, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. Under the District Secretaries and Divisional Secretaries, rice will be distributed among... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/23)
Chinese Communist Party delegation meets Mahinda
A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by International Department Vice Minister Chen Zhou called on Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Sunday (15). Former Minister Pavithra Vanniarachchi, MP Namal Rajapaksa, State Minister Tharaka Balasuriya, and SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam attended the meeting as well. A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by International Department Vice Minister Chen Zhou landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport, on Saturday (Jan. 14), the Chinese Embassy in Colombo tweeted. "Chen Zhou,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/23)
ඥානසාර හිමිගෙන් ජනපතිට උපදෙස් මාලාවක්..
බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන් විසින් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත යොමු කරන ලද ලිපියක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාජනාධිපතිතුමාජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයකොළඹ 1 හිතවත් ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, “ජන සභා” වැඩසටහන අර්ථවත්ව ක්‍රියාවට නැංවීමට යෝජනා හිටපු කතානායක කරු ජයසූරිය මහතාගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් “ජන සභා සංකල්පය” ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ඔබ විසින් ගන්නා ලද තීරණය, ලංකාවේ යහපත වෙනුවෙන් කැපවුණු, බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍ය පාලන ප්‍රතිපත්ති, එනම් සැමට එක හා සමානව සලකන, චතුරාර්ය සත්‍ය මත පදනම්ව හේතු ඵල ධර්මය පිළිගෙන කටයුතු කරනු ලබන සංවිධානයක් ලෙස “බොදු බල සේනා” ඔබතුමාට අපගේ කෘතඥතාවය පලකර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/23)
ඉන්දියානු ආපදා අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී මෙහෙයුමේ තවත් ඉදිරි පියවරක් – බලශක්ති සුරක්ෂිතතාව ඉන්දියාව අතට – ජයශංකර් ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීමට ලංකාවට එයි
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික ආපදාව යොදා ගනිමින් ඉන්දියාව විසින් දියත්කර ඇති අත්පත්කර ගැනීමේ මෙහෙයුමේ තවත් එක් පියවරක් ලෙස සැලකෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බලශක්ති සුරක්ෂිතතාව ඉන්දියාවේ අනුකම්පාවට යටත්කර ගැනීම සදහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හා ඉන්දියාව අතර ගිවිසුමක් අතසන් කිරීමට ඉන්දියානු බලපෑමක් සිදුවන බව වාර්තා වේ. ඒ අනුව ඊට අදාළ අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීම සදහා ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍ය ජයශංකර් මහතා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණෙන බව වාර්තා වේ. ඒ අනුව ඉන්දියාවේ විදුලි පද්ධතියට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පද්ධතිය සම්බන්ධ කෙරෙනු ඇත. එම ක්‍රියාවලියේ දිගුව ත්‍රිකුණාමලය ආශ්‍රිත ආයෝජන කලාපය ඉන්දියානු සමාගම් විසින් අත්පත් කර ගැනීමය. ඒ සදහා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/23)
විදුලි බල ජාලය ඉන්දියාවට ගැට ගැසීමට සහ ත්රිකුණාමල සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘතිය ආරම්භ කිරීමට අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීමට ඉන්දීය විදේශ ඇමති ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට
ඉන්දීය විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශය එස්. ජයශංකර් මහතා ලබන බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා(19) ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ණය ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගත කිරීමට අදාළ සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්වීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණිමට නියමිත බව වාර්තාවේ. ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍යවරයාගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචාරය තුළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය සමග අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම් දෙකකට අත්සන් කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර ඇති බවද වාර්තා වේ. ඉන්දියාව සමග ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයේ ජාල සම්බන්ධ කිරීමට අදාල ව්‍යාපෘතියක් සහ ත්රිකුණාමල සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘතියට අදාළ ගිවිසුම් මෙසේ අත්සන් කිරීමට නියමිත බවද රජයේ අභ්‍යන්තර වාර්තා පවසයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/23)
England’s Standard Chartered Bank Blames Lanka for Pussyfooting on Selling National Assets
Welcome to the 250th weekly issue of ee. Why announce this number? As a dubious index of a meagre weekly effort? Yet, scan the newspapers and you’ll find awards galore being handed out by the corporates to themselves and to each other, for all manner of even-more dubious efforts: So, why not give ourselves an award, a number, and look stupid too!: how much time wasted writing this out and you reading it! Award yourself! The English have turned us into a prize-giving nation! • Charade or dissimulation, it’s theatre with an edge, a sharp edge that cuts,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/23)
Ex-President reveals how he plans to pay Rs. 100 million compensation
Former President Maithripala Sirisena says that he will have to pay the compensation ordered by the Supreme Court in relation to the Easter Sunday attacks, by collecting funds with the help of his close friends. https://youtu.be/aVPiECusS6Y Joining an event held in the Nittambuwa areas today (Jan. 15), the former president expressed that he is not a person who is rich enough to pay an amount of Rs. 100 million in compensation. Spiking out for the first time with regard to the verdict of the Supreme Court, he said:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/23)
President says looking at full implementation of 13A within next few years
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the Social Justice Commission will be established in order to build a country where everyone can live in harmony, by solving the problems of the people belonging to all sections of the population and that the government expects to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The President said this during his address at the National Thai Pongal Festival held at the Jaffna Durga Hall this afternoon (Jan. 15), the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The President, who was escorted to the venue by a Tamil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/23)
Bala Thanha, Tanhaya jayati soko,tanhaya jayati bhayam
The worst form of tanha is bala thanha the craving for power. Today the deafening baying of the opposition in the name of democracy is nothing but the craving for power. The government is equally strident for the retention of power. This dogfight for power has disregarded the present plight of the nation facing an economic crisis coupled with a food and health crisis. The pithy expression to describe the sad situation is to say that the country is in deep shit. It is pleasing to see the Election Commission demonstrating their independence by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
An Outline of Plan for the Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Independence
Aims 1) To research and rewrite the narrative surrounding gaining of independence on 4th Feb 1948 2) To ensure that the narrative is factually correct 3) To explore the internal factors and the external factors that contributed to the gaining of freedom 4) To plan a celebration that gives due place to all those who fought against all three Euro – Christian powers that ruled Ceylon in an unjust way 5) To inquire into Colonial Crimes committed by the three Colonial Rulers including Genocidal crimes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
HUMAN RIGHTS Part 3
China has also joined in the discussion on human rights. The first ‘South-South Human Rights Forum’ was held in Beijing on the 7th and 8th of December 2017. The forum was jointly sponsored by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and was attended by more than 300 representatives from over 70 countries and international organizations in the world. The representatives actively participated in discussions on the development of human rights in the developing countries and the world.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
Sri Lanka LG Polls; Would 27.2 million US Dollars (Rs 10 Billion) address fundamental questions relating to democracy?
The following passage from the Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy) is a good commencement point to discuss the much debated Local Government poll in Sri Lanka. Conducting the election is said to cost around 10 Billion Rupees of State funds, assuming such funds are available to spend in the bankrupt Sri Lanka. Besides State money, individual candidate spending would be substantial. Two serious questions need to be asked. Firstly, whether the country could afford such an extravagance at this point. Secondly, the current political system being what it is, what benefit such an election would provide to a bankrupt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
What Every Hindu Should Know About Christianity | Kalavai Venkat
This talk leverages cutting-edge scholarly researches in textual criticism and cognitive sciences to arrive at a reasonable understanding of Christian beliefs. The findings will reveal a hitherto unknown face of Christianity to the rational Hindu. About the Speaker: Kalavai Venkat is a Silicon Valley-based writer, an atheist, a practicing orthodox Hindu, and author of the book "What Every Hindu should know about Christianity. https://youtu.be/zJpcdxxjDAo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
The Supply-side of Odious Debt: Disinformation on who caused Sri Lanka’s First Default
182 economists and development experts from around the world in a statement released last week in the Guardian on Sunday observed that extensive debt cancellation was needed to give the Sri Lankan economy a chance of recovery following the country’s first-ever Default on loan payments. Sri Lanka would be a test case of the willingness of the international community to tackle a looming global debt crisis they note as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), delays help as private creditors play hardball. http://www.cadtm.org/Statement-by-academics-on-dealing-with-Sri-Lankan-debt The statement also alludes to Geopolitics, and notes that “Instead of geopolitical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
ඇමරිකන් තානපතිනි චං නෝනා මේ එන්නේ මොකාටද?
.මේ දවස් වල පත්තරයක් දිග ඇරියොත් අපි දකින්නේ චං නෝනාය. උදේ පාන්දර ටී.වී එක දැම්මොත් ලංකාවේ කොහේ හරි නගරයක චං නෝනා මොකක් විවෘත කරන හෝ කවුරුන් හෝ හමුවන ප්‍රවෘත්ති කෑල්ලක් අපට දකින්නට ලැබෙනවා ෂුවර්ය. චං නෝනා කවුද ඇය එන්නෙ මොකටදැයි කියා කියන්නට සමත් කවුරුවත් අපි අතර නැත. එක දවසක් චං නෝනා යාපනයට ගොස් දෙමළ සංවිධාන හමුවී සිංහලයන්ගෙන් ඔවුන්ට සිදුවී ඇති ඊනියා අසාධාරණකම් ගැන ලියා ගනී. ඊළඟ දවසේ එතුමිය ගාලු වරාය අසල මුහුදේ ගිලුණු පරණ නැව් බලන්නට කෞතුකාගාරයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
Towards the fortification of nutritional sovereignty
When the then US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Teresita Currie Schaffer, insisted in the early 1990s that Sri Lanka’s food security lies in the wheat fields of North America, it was obviously a part of a general anti-rice rant with a view to propping the American wheat farmer. This is not surprising for Schaffer had served in the State Department as Director of the Office of the Office of International Trade in the early 1980s. It made sense as per certain dubious economic theories: you can grow or... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
What does Ranil Wickremasinghe have up his sleeve?
Whatever it is, equipped with his education, native intelligence and acquired political wisdom, he will be able to hold the country whole until it passes lawfully into the hands of the uncorrupt patriotic young generation that is waiting in the wings in patient silence (not into those of the ignorant noisy buffoons in the ‘aragalaya’). A number of sacrilegious attacks have been made in recent times on the Sri Dalada (the Sacred Tooth Relic) in Kandy, astonishingly by some Buddhists. The two most recent instances are: Sepala Amerasinghe, an elderly YouTuber, committing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
HUMAN RIGHTS Part 2
In my view firstly, the UN Declaration of Human Rights resembles Aesop's story of the father taking the donkey to market. Secondly, the statements lacked amplification. The Rights were left up in the air. Thirdly, the Declaration made sweeping statements on matters which sometimes humans cannot control, such as the right to life. But the biggest weakness in the Declaration was the creation of rights without obligations. The Declaration asserted rights but not obligations. Analysts observed that it is not possible to speak of human rights without also speaking of obligations. There are duties... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
Can Donald Lu’s Bangladesh visit restore his credibility in South Asia?
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in the diplomatic community against the backdrop of unease in Bangladesh-US relations. According to a diplomatic source, he will come to Bangladesh on January 14 to talk about a number of important topics, including trade, business, and collaboration in the areas of security and human rights. We already knew... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
Back to TRADITIONAL rice
['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is a new series. Scroll down for previous articles] Sometime in the year 2003, a bumper harvest saw rice prices plummeting in Sri Lanka severely affecting the paddy farmers of the country. The government of the time decided that a concerted communications campaign was necessary to increase the demand for rice. The advertising company Phoenix-Ogilvy was given this task.It coincided with one of my first conversations with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
DOMESTIC WORKERS IN SRI LANKA CONTINUED
New concerns raised on domestic workers After the publication of the above article there were numerous requests for us to find a solution for the issues raised therein. It is not possible to find solutions for the worldwide issues but we can try to help the issues in Sri Lanka within our capacity in the interest of the domestic workers in Sri Lanka which is a substantial amount. There was traditional rich who use to employ domestic workers for domestic help and to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
කුරුන්දවාසෝක විහාරය - දෙවෙනි කොටස
තමන්ගේ මවුබිමේ ඉතිහාසය සමග වෙන්කළ නොහැකි සේ බැඳී ඇති පුරාණ ශිෂ්ටාචාරය, සංස්කෘතිය සහ සංස්කෘතික සිහිවටන පිළිබඳ යම් පමණක හෝ දැනීමක් ලබාගැනීම සහ සංරක්‍ෂණය කිරීම මානව හිමිකමක් පමණක් නොව මානව වගකීමකි. තමන්ගේ මුතුන්මිත්තන් සැමරීමකි. (පළමුවෙනි කොටසෙන්)පොළොන්නරුවේ අංක 1 සහ 2 සිව කෝවිල් දෙක හැර ප්රදේශයේ වෙනත් සිව/හින්දු කෝවිල් නොවූ බව සහ ද්‍රවිඩය’යි විශේෂයෙන් සඳහන් කළ හැකි ගොඩනැගිලි කිසිවක් චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණ යට පෙර නොවූ බව සිංහලයේ ද්‍රවිඩ සිහිවටන පිළිබඳ විමසුමක නිරත වූු මහාචාර්ය නන්දසේන මුදියන්සේ ප්රකාශ කරයි. චෝල ආක‍්‍රමණිකයන් පළවාහැරීමෙන් පසු පළමුවෙනි විජයබාහු රජු කුරුන්දි විහාරය ඇතුළු කුරුන්දි, තිරියාය, පදීරට, යාපාපටුන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
තෛපොංගල් පණිවිඩය- தைப்பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துச் செய்தி
අස්වැන්නේ මංගල්‍යය වන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය සහ ස්වභාවධර්මය සමග බැඳී සාම්ප්‍රදායික ජීවන රටාව කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසයෙන් සහෝදර දමිළ ගොවී ජනතාව විසින් සරු අස්වැන්නක් ලබාගැනීම උදෙසා සූර්යයාට කෘතඥතාව දැක්වීමයි. ජාතික සංස්කෘතියේ අංගයක් බවට පත් තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය, සාමය, එකමුතුව, දයාව මූලික වූ සාරධර්මයන් මූර්තිමත් කිරීමට මෙන්ම, කෘෂිකාර්මික අර්ථ රටාවකට උරුමකම් කියන අප වත්මන් තත්ත්වයන් හමුවේ ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතා සහ ග්‍රාමීය පුනර්ජීවනය සඳහා වන සක්‍රීය සංකල්පයට උත්තේජනයක් වනු ඇතැයි විශ්වාස කරමි. හින්දු සංස්කෘතියේ විශිෂ්ඨත්වය විදහා දක්වන මෙම මංගල්‍යය, ස්වභාවධර්මයට අනුගතව ජීවත්වීමටත්, හින්දු සංස්කෘතිය අනුව අපේක්ෂාවන් ඉටු වන නව වසරක උදාව සනිටුහන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
පලාගිය ජනපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මහා පාවාදීම
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පලා යාමෙන් පසුව යුද්ධය අවසන් කළ රණවිරුවන්ගේ තතවය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙබ් අඩවිය කල විමසුමට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් , ගෝලීය ශ්‍රීලාංකික සංසදයේ විධායක කමිටු ලේකම්,යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා නිවේදනයක් එවා තිබේ. පහත පලවන්නේ එම නිවේදනයයි. පලාගිය ජනපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මහා පාවාදීම පලාගිය ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඔහුව ආරක්ෂක අංශයේ ඉහළ නිලතල හොබවන්නන් විසින් පාවා දුන්බවත් එබැවින් ඔහුට පළායාමට සිදුවුන බවත් හිටපු ප්‍රභලයෙකු සමග පැවසුව බව දැනගන්නට ඇත. එම ප්‍රකාශය සත්‍යනම් එවැනි පාවාදීමක් සිදුකිරීම පිළිබඳව එම පාවාදුන්නවුන් හට දොස් පැවරීමෙන් ඵලක් නොමැති බව පළාගිය ජනපතිට වැටහිය යුතුය. හේතුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/23)
Sri Lankan IMF deal blocked by debt problems, governor says
Sri Lanka will not receive an International Monetary Fund loan until it reaches debt agreements with China and India, its central bank governor said. The IMF reached staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka on a $2.9 billion package in September, but its executive board has not yet approved the loan. The country could receive the funds in January if the two creditor countries reached an agreement on Sri Lanka’s debt repayments, P Nandalal Weerasinghe told the BBC. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Lotus Tower defaced, several arrested
The management of the Lotus Tower urged the public to help preserve the iconic structure by treating it as a national treasure. The request was made after the observation deck was defaced by several individuals who were later arrested by Police. The management said that legal action will be taken against those who defaced the property at the tower. The Lotus Tower was opened to the public in September 2022. Last week, the tower had received half a million visitors since the tower opened to public.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Only a day’s govt. revenue needed for LG polls: AKD
Refuting claims made by the government that the Local Government elections could not be held due to the shortage of funds, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said it was totally unacceptable as only a day's government revenue was required for the election. He told a news conference that Local Government elections costs only Rs. 10 billion and that the government's estimated revenue for this year is Rs. 3.4 trillion which means over Rs. 8 billion per day. "Government's estimated revenue for January 2023 is Rs. 650 billion. If the government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Jaishankar to discuss debt crisis on visit to Sri Lanka next week
Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will travel to Sri Lanka next week, sources told The Hindu. This will be his first trip to the country since President Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn-in last July after street protests forced out the previous Rajapaksa regime. Officials said that while a full review of bilateral ties is on the agenda, the visit comes amidst efforts by the Sri Lankan government to get “written financial assurances” from their closest and biggest creditors — India and China — on restructuring their debt. This is needed to make... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Election Commission tells Supreme Court it has taken all steps to hold LG Election
The Election Commission today informed Supreme Court that it has taken all steps to hold the Local Government Election in accordance with the law. President's Counsel Saliya Pieris appearing for the Election Commission made these remarks when a writ petition filed by a retired army Colonel in respect of the Local Government Election was taken up before Supreme Court three-judge-bench headed by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.This petition fixed for support on January 18. In his petition, Colonel Wijesundera had sought an order quashing the decision of the Election Commission to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Fitch downgrades long-term ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks following the recent sovereign downgrade and recalibration of the agency’s Sri Lankan national rating scale. The recalibration is to reflect changes in the relative creditworthiness among Sri Lankan issuers following Fitch’s downgrade of Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Local Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘CC’ from ‘CCC’/Under Criteria Observation on 1 December 2022. The rating agency said it typically does not assign Outlooks or apply modifiers to sovereigns with a rating of ‘CCC+’ or below. National scale ratings... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Chinese Communist Party delegation to arrive in SL for five-day visit
A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by the Vice Chairman of its International Department, Chen Zhou, is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka tomorrow (14 Jan.). Accordingly, the visit, lasting from 14 – 18 January, will be the first official visit of the Chinese party to Sri Lanka for 2023. It is also the party’s first visit after the 20th CPC National Congress. The CPC delegation is expected to meet several Government leaders and political parties of Sri Lanka during their five-day visit to the island.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
SL Army cadre to be slashed to 100,000 by 2030
State Minister Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said that the approved cadre of the Sri Lanka Army, which now stands at 200,783 will be reduced to 135,000 by 2024. He said it has been projected to reduce the cadre to the right size, which is 100,000 by 2030. "The strength of the military and sustainable economic development are two sides of a coin, which stay together, but never talk to each other in open," he said. The overall aim of the strategic blueprint is to broach a technically and tactically sound... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS AND THE POLICY OF MR RANIL WICKRAMASINGHE
Economic backwardness in Sri Lanka had been a part of life of Sri Lankans since the era of homo sapiens and rulers in the country from time to time have been able to introduce new policies or to reform the existing policies with a view to generating productivity. In Britain there was a saying Churchill for war and Atley for peace. Rajapaksa regime did a good job for eliminating the ethnic based war but they failed in economic development and using good management policies for the economic controls as their family associates did many corrupt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
HUMAN RIGHTS Part 1
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ( UDHR)was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) In 1946, UN had wanted a declaration that would guarantee the rights of individuals, because the UN Charter only dealt with the rights of sovereign states. UN handed the matter over to the Commission on Human Rights, which consisted of 18 members from various political, cultural and religious backgrounds. In 1947, Commission on Human Rights authorized its members to formulate what it termed "a preliminary draft International Bill... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Gem Industry is Not Fulfilling National Economic Needs and Worse
If functioning well, the gem industry has the highest local value addition of all exports. Unlike garments, EPZs and tea, the gem industry does not have imported raw materials. There is no requirement for foreign investments as locals are capable of investing with required machinery and expertise. In other words, the net export value (exports minus related imports) of the gem industry is the highest among Sri Lankans exports and the return on investment of all export industries is highest in the gem industry. However, unfortunately, the industry is dominated by extremist and other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
WASTE OF FOOD - A CRIMINAL OFFENCE?
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Food in any form is difficult to make. Some are in fresh and original form – the rest is made by the man for consumption. 2.6 million tons of food is wasted today that will increase to 3.7 in 2030 which is not bearable to the mankind of the world when many countries are faced with shortages of food poverty famines and natural and manmade calamities’ that disturbs the life of the citizen anywhere.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Canada Human Rights Violations – Pot calling the Kettle Black!
12 Jan 2023 Canada is following up on Monkey Moon’s Darusman’s Report a clandestine report purportedly made for the eyes of the former UN Secretary of General of the UN - Moon only, but later surreptitiously leaked to the public and now used as a major document to castigate the Sri Lankan government and her past leaders for wartime human rights violations. Any war is a human rights violation. There are no two words about it. Then war becomes the final arbiter when diplomacy and talks fail! This is what happened in Sri Lanka.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Statement by academics on dealing with Sri Lankan debt, January 2023
Sri Lanka, along with many other low- and middle-income countries, has experienced a series offinancial shocks due to both external and internal factors. Global forces have caused food and energyimport costs to soar and interest rates to rise, even as the currency has devalued significantly. Theseshocks, along with a history of policy mismanagement—and specifically the deregulation andopenness that encouraged irresponsible borrowing, enabled illicit financial flows out of the countryand assisted political corruption—have intensified external debt and balance of payments crises.Over the last decade of liquidity expansion and low interest rates in the world economy, privatelenders provided loans... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Grandson of Charles de Gaulle, an Old CIA Nemesis, Condemns West’s Policy in Ukraine
Says the U.S. and NATO triggered the conflict and are making Europeans suffer Pierre de Gaulle, a grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. is making Europeans suffer by fueling the Ukraine conflict and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia. A corporate consultant and bank manager, Pierre told The Franco-Russian Dialogue Association on December 26: “I revolt and protest this intellectual dishonesty in the Ukraine crisis because the triggers of the war are the Americans and NATO. The United States unfortunately continues the military escalation,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
The Untold History of Palestine & Israel
Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants. Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it came to cover so much land since. From the early settlements, to the Nakba, to it’s conquest of the West Bank, Abby Martin reveals the brutally honest root of what is behind the so-called “Israel-Palestine conflict.” https://youtu.be/CUZaR3op1qw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
කුරුන්දවාසෝක විහාරය - පළමුවෙනි කොටස
යුරෝපා භූමියේ වසර දහස් ගණනක් පදිංචිව සිටි දසලක්‍ෂ සංඛ්‍යාත යුදෙව් ජන වර්ගය සමූල ඝාතනය කොට යුදෙව් ආගම, ශිෂ්ටාචාරය, සංස්කෘතිය මකා දැමීම ව්‍ය.ව. 20 වෙනි සියවසේ මුල් භාගයේ ජර්මනියේ නිල නාසි බලකාය නිරිමාණය කළ නාසිවාදී හිට්ලර්ගේ එක් අරමුණක් විය. නාසිවාදය වර්ගවාදයේම ම්ලේචඡු දිගුවකි. අන්තවාදී දෙමළ වර්ගවාදී කණ්ඩායමක් උතුරු සහ නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල මානව ශිෂ්ටාචාරයට සහ සංස්කෘතියට විරුද්ධව අවි අමෝරා සිටින බව පුරාණ කුරුන්දවාසෝක විහාර සංකීර්ණය පිළිසකර කිරීමට එරෙහි වීමෙන් තහවුරු වෙයි. මේ කණ්ඩායම ඉංගිරිසි කොලනිවාදී පාලනය යටතේ, ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාව තුළ දෙමළ වර්ගවාදය බෞතීස්ම කළ පොන්නම්බලම් අරුණාචලම්, ජී. ජී. පොන්නම්බලම් සහ චෙල්වනායගම්, නීතිඥ ‘ති‍්‍රමූර්තිය’, බිහිකළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
උතුරු මැද පළාතේ ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවෙි පළාත් ආයුර්වේද රෝහල, ග්‍රාමීය ආයුර්වේද රෝහල්, ආයුර්වේද මධ්‍යම බෙහෙත් ශාලා හා ආයුර්වේද නිෂ්පාදනාගාර ඇගයීමෙි උත්සවයක්
ජාතික ඵලදායිතා ලේකම් කාර්යාලය මගින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලැබූ 2020 ජාතික ඵලදායිතා තරගයේ සමිමාන ලැබූ උතුරු මැද පළාතේ ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවෙි පළාත් ආයුර්වේද රෝහල, ග්‍රාමීය ආයුර්වේද රෝහල්, ආයුර්වේද මධ්‍යම බෙහෙත් ශාලා හා ආයුර්වේද නිෂ්පාදනාගාර ඇගයීමෙි උත්සවයක් පළාත් අණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්විණි. මෙහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතා උතුරු මැද පළාතේ , ආයුර්වේද සේවාව මගින් ජනතාවට ඉමහත් ඉහල සේවාවක් කරන්නට හැකියාව ඇති බව මෙම ඵලදායිතා සම්මාන ලබා ගනිමින් ඔප්පු කර ඇති බව පෙන්නුම් කර තිබේන බවත් ආයුර්වේද රෝහල් හරහා ඉටු වන සේවාව නිසා බටහිර ප්‍රතිකාර සඳහා රෝහල් වලට යන රෝගීන්ගේ තදබදය අඩු කිරීමටත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
″පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡන්ද පැවැත්වීමෙන් අනතුරුව පරිසර හිතකාමී ජනතා හිතවාදී නව පරිසර රෙගුලාසි ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට පූර්ණ සහාය ″ -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා.
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.01.12 දින බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ පැවති වර්ල්ඩ් විෂන් අපද්‍රව්‍ය කළමනාකරණය පිළිබඳ සමුළුව සම්මන්ත්‍රණය අමතමිනි.මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා - පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡන්දය පැවැත් වීමෙන් අනතුරුව පළාත් පාලන ආයතන සඳහා පරිසරය මුල් කරගෙන පරිසර හිතකාමී ජනතා හිතවාදී නව රෙගුලාසි ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ඔබ සමග එක්ව කටයුතු කිරීමට සම්පූර්ණ සහාය දෙනවා.. හොඳ අනාගතයක් බලාපොරොත්තු වන පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වලට අවශ්‍ය අධ්‍යාපනය නව තාක්ෂණය උපයෝගී කරගෙන අලුත් ක්‍රමවේද අනුව කටයුතු කරන්නට ඉඩ සලසනවා. ඒ බවට රජය වෙනුවෙන් සහ පළාත් පාලන විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස සහතික වෙනවාඑහෙත් දැන් අපි මැතිවරණයකට නුදුරු අවස්ථාවක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
චීනය සමඟ සමග ඉතා සමීප සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ගෙන ගිය පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට ගරු කිරීමක් ලෙස එතුමාගේ සංවත්සර දිනයේ දී ප්රදේශයේ තරුණ පෙළට පරිගණක පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් ලබා දෙනවා.. - -ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති කාර්යාල උපදේශක Chen Xiangyuan පවසයි
චීනය සමඟ සමග ඉතා සමීප සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ගෙන ගිය පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට ගරු කිරීමක් ලෙස එතුමාගේ සංවත්සර දිනයේ දී ප්රදේශයේ තරුණ පෙළට පරිගණක පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් ලබා දෙනවා.. -ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති කාර්යාල උපදේශක Chen Xiangyuan පවසයි.ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට උදව් අවශ්‍ය සෑම මොහොතේම සැබෑ මිතුරෙකු ලෙස චීනය අප සමග එකට සිටියා. -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ අදහස් පළකලේ 2023.01.12 දින චීන රජයේ සහයෝගය මත කොස්ගම ,බොරළුගොඩ ඉදිකරන ලද චීන ශ්‍රී ලංකා මිත්‍රත්ව තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ කේන්ද්‍රය විවෘත කිරීමේ උත්සවයට සහභාගී වෙමිනි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා -අද දවසේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Sri Lanka's central bank urges China and India to reduce its debts
Sri Lanka's central bank has urged China and India to agree a write-down of their loans as soon as possible. The crisis-hit Indian Ocean state defaulted on its debt repayments and negotiated a $2.9bn (£2.4bn) bailout. But the International Monetary Fund will not release the cash until China and India first agree to reduce Sri Lanka's billions of dollars of debt. The governor of Sri Lanka's central bank told BBC Newsnight it was in the interest of all parties to act quickly. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
‘කටාර් චැරිටි‘ සංවිධානයේ තහනම ඉවතට – තහනමට හේතු වූ වැරදි නිවැරදි වූ බව නොකියයි
ට්විටර් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කරමින් විදේශ අමාත්‍ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ඩොලර් මිලියන 11.7ක සහනාධාර ලබාදීම පිළිබදව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයට ස්තුතිය පළ කරයි. ඊට අමතරව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා කාර්යාලය නැවත විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වූ නිලධාරින් දෙදෙනෙකු සමග අමාත්‍ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ගනුලැබූ පින්තූරයක් ද මාධ්‍යවල දක්නට ඇත. ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදයට සෘජුව සහ වක්‍රව සහාය දැක්වීමේ චෝදනාව යටතේ මීට පෙර කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානය තහනම් කරනු ලැබීය. එහෙත් තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමට අදාළව වැරදි නිවැරදි කිරීමක් සිදුවී ඇති බවට වාර්තාවක් හෝ ප්‍රකාශනයක් ඇමැතිවරයා විසින් නිකුත්කර නැත. කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානය මුස්ලිම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
මෛත්‍රීට පෞද්ගලිකව දඬුවම් විඳීමට සිදු වුවද පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට පාර කැපුවේ මංගල, රනිල් ප්‍රතිපත්තියයි – ජාතික සංවිධාන කියයි
පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට අදාළව වගකීම් පැහැර හැරීම පිළිබදව රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් 4 දෙනෙකු සහ ජනාධිපතිවරයකු පෞද්ගලිකව වගකිව යුතු බවට ලබාදී ඇති නඩු තීන්දුව පිළිබදව ලංකා ලීඩ් විසින් ජාතික සංවිධානවල මතය විමසන ලදී. මේ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ මතය ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්. “ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට අදාළව විධායකයේ වගකීම් පැහැර හැරීමේ වගකීමෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට පවා ගැලවිය නොහැකි බව මෙම නඩු තීන්දුව මගින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්වෙලා තියෙනවා. එය ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ වැදගත් නඩු තීන්දුවක් බවට විවාදයක් නැහැ. අනාගත පාලකයන්ට ඒ මගින් ඉතා බරපතළ පිණිවිඩයක් ලබාදී තිබෙනවා.ඒත් නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ ඔත්තු සේවා බිඳ වැටීම මගින් පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට මග පාදන්නේ මංගල –... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/23)
Judgement delivered...
The Supreme Court today ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena to pay a sum of Rs.100 million as damages to the victims of Easter Sunday attacks. Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former SIS director Nilantha Jayawardhane were ordered to pay Rs.75 million each as compensation. Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando was ordered to pay Rs. 50 million and former Chief National Intelligence Sisira Mendis was ordered to pay Rs.10 million. The Court held these respondents have violated the fundamental rights of petitions filed in connection with Easter Sunday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
Board approval for IMF bailout expected in 2023 Q2 - report
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board approval for Sri Lanka’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) is now expected in the second quarter of 2023, Standard Chartered’s Global Research report revealed. Accordingly, the prediction was made owing to delays in securing financial assurances from its bilateral creditors, the report read, adding that this could further delay negotiations with commercial creditors, which are also expected to be pushed back to the second half of 2023. “As a result, we expect a restructuring deal to be reached only by the end of 2023. Achieving the IMF’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
Adarsha Karandana granted bail for alleged sextortion charges
Adarsha Karandana arrested for allegedly blackmailing former Parliamentarian Prof. Ashu Marasinghe after threatening to post sexually-explicit videos on websites was ordered to be released on bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis ordered Adarsha Karandana to be released on two sureties of Rs.500,000 each. Adarsha Karandana was arrested by the Police Cyber Crimes Division over a complaint lodged by Prof. Ashu Marasinghe alleging that she threatened to upload sexually-explicit videos if he fails to pay up a sum of Rs 100 million. (LAKMAL SOORIYAGODA)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
Fitch downgrades 10 SL banks, CEB, SLT & Lakdhanavi
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLT) and Sri Lanka-based Lakdhanavi Limited. Accrdingly, Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks following the recent sovereign downgrade and recalibration of the agency's Sri Lankan national rating scale. The recalibration is to reflect changes in the relative creditworthiness among Sri Lankan issuers following Fitch's downgrade of Sri Lanka's Long-Term Local Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'CC' from 'CCC'/Under Criteria Observation on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
Easter Sunday attack: Supreme Court orders Maithripala Sirisena to pay Rs.100 mn as compensation
The Supreme Court today ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena to pay a sum of Rs.100 million as damages to the victims of Easter Sunday attacks. https://youtu.be/KohL_g8jPM0 Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former SIS director Nilantha Jayawardhane were ordered to pay Rs.75 million each as compensation. Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando was ordered to pay Rs. 50 million and former Chief National Intelligence Sisira Mendis was ordered to pay Rs.10 million. The Court held these respondents have violated the fundamental rights of petitions filed in connection with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
Make Party Manifestos Legally Binding on Political Parties/Individuals
Prior to elections, political parties prepare party manifestos laying out what they propose to do once in power. It is in presenting their proposals before the people, that they appeal for votes. The people who align with the proposals outlined give their votes. Therefore, the unwritten understanding is that people vote for a party to implement what they propose to do when canvassing for votes. However, the reality is the opposite. Political parties do spend time & money preparing manifestos but is it really sincere? Do they actually intend on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
The 10 Rules of Successful Nations by Ruchir Sharma
Ruchir Sharma is an investor, author, fund manager and columnist for the Financial Times. He is the Chairman of Rockefeller International, and was an emerging markets investor at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He is considered one of the best 10 global thinkers of the day. His recent book “The 10 Rules of Successful Nations was reviewed by Piyush Jain” This is an extract of the review. The 10 Rules of Successful Nations By Ruchir Sharma is a fact-filled book, analyzing the trends over the year and various dependent variables on how the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/23)
13-A plus: police powers in a Tamil homeland
<තැටිය රත්වුන වේලාවේ රොටිය පුච්චා ගන්න ඕන> හිත් වේදනාවෙන් අපවත්වූ මාදුළුවාවේ සෝභිත හිමියන් 2014 දී <මං ආයිත් සැරයක් 2022 දී කොළඹට ආවේ ලංකාවට උදව් කරන්න> - එරික් සොල්හයිම් <13-A + ආරම්භය පමණයි> - මනෝ ගනේෂන් <අපට ඕනෑ ආපහු ගන්නට බැරි විධියේ බලය බෙදීමක්> - ඒබ්‍රහිම් සුමන්තිරන් වර්ෂ 74 මාස 10 ක් තුලම සිංහල කළුසුද්දන් විසින් අච්චාරුවක් කරගත් දෙමළ නිජබිම් බෙදුම්වාදය, ඔවුන් විසින්ම 2023 පෙබරවාරි 4 දාට පෙර විසඳා ගන්නට යෑම සිහිපත් කරන්නේ සෝභිත හාමුදුරුවන් යහපාලන ප්‍රොජෙක්ට් කාරයින්ට අසුවී මුහුණපෑ අකරතැබ්බයය. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
POLITICS TURNED INTO AN INDUSTRY
The political disarray in Sri Lanka is akin to ‘Nero playing the fiddle while Rome was burning.’ The 225 representatives who are democratically elected by the people to serve the citizens of this country appear to be only interested in their affairs. MPs keep mum about the facilities and perks they get on a plate. Why aren’t politicians in this country hell-bent on grabbing more and more? Most Ministers appoint their kith and kin as their secretaries and officials. After being in Parliament for four to five years, MPs qualify... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
DIPLOMATIC BUNGLE OR A MISUNDERSTANDING? SRI LANKA CANADA ISSUE ON SANCTIONS
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Sanctions imposed by the Canadian government on four Sri Lankans including two Former Presidents ‘’Gotabays Rajapaksa’’, ‘’Mahinds Rajapaksa’’ and two others are unprecedented and controversial as a step taken by a friendly country on another friendly country is extremely rare and taken only in very exceptional circumstances. Both countries have many similarities. Both Canada and Sri Lanka are members of Commonwealth countries and maintained friendly relations over a long periods especially during the time when ‘’Trudo’’ was the Prime Minister who maintained very close relations with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
Wickramaarachchi Weda Mahaththaya – a Sex Trap Victim?
Kadawatha Weda Mahaththaya (KWM) states that because he received complaints that Wickramaarachchi Weda Mahaththaya (WWM) is promiscuous, he sent a woman to WWM in order to expose his alleged vulgarism nationally. KWM has achieved his objective. WWM seems to be in hiding. He is very badly castigated nationally as a dirty, perverted man. Is this fair? No. The allegation whether WWM is promiscuous is subjective; KWM has not proved it with clear-cut evidence. What he utters is mere hearsay. The woman he telephoned in the Maldives could be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
උග්‍ර පිළිකා නාශක ඖෂධ හිඟයට කඩිනම් විසඳුම් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම.
කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මැතිතුමාසෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය,සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය,385, සුවසිරිපායපූජ්‍ය බද්දේගම විමලවාංශ නාහිමි මාවතකොළඹ - 10.ඇමතිතුමනි,උග්‍ර පිළිකා නාශක ඖෂධ හිඟයට කඩිනම් විසඳුම් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම.මහරගම අපේක්ෂා රෝහල ඇතුළු වූ පිළිකා රෝගීන්ට ප්‍රතිකාර කරනු ලබන ප්‍රධාන පෙළේ රෝහල් 15 ක පමණ පිළිකා රෝගය සඳහා බහුලව භාවිතා කරනු ලබන අත්‍යවශ්‍ය පිළිකා නාශක ඖෂධ වර්ගවල උග්‍ර හිඟයක් ඇත. මේ වන විට වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යවේ දියුණු ප්‍රතිකාර ක්‍රම මගින් සුව කළ හැකි පිළිකා වර්ග ගණනාවක් ඇත. එසේ වුවත් එම ප්‍රතිකාර නියමිත් කාල සටහනට අනුව ලබා නොදීමෙන් අපේක්ෂිත සාර්ථකත්වය අත්පත් කරගත නෙහෙැක එහෙත් අද වන විට බොහෝ පිළිකා රෝගීන්ට නියමිත කාල සටහනට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ මෙන්ම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සහ ආරක්ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලය සහාය... CPA Asia Region කාර්යාලය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විවෘත කෙරේ...
පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ මෙන්ම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සහ ආරක්ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලය සහාය ලබා දෙන බව පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංගමයේ (CPA) මහලේකම්,( Stephen Twiggs ) ස්ටීවන් ට්විග්ස් පවසයි.ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ 2023.01.11 අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට එරෙහි මෑත කාලීන ප්‍රචණ්ඩ ක්‍රියා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔහු සිය දැඩි කනස්සල්ල පළ කළ අතර, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සාමාජිකයින්ගේ සහ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සහ ආරක්ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා CPA වෙතින් සහාය ලබා දෙන බව කීය.පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංගමය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු කාර්ය මණ්ඩල සාමාජිකයින් සඳහා ලබා දෙන පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් වලට පළාත් පාලන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
Points to ponder on debt restructuring and cancellation
Colombo, January 11: Given debt-ridden Sri Lanka’s difficulty in getting creditors to agree to haircuts and the problem it has in meeting the IMF’s onerous conditions, the subject of debt servicing has gained public attention across the world. Recently, a group of 182 international academics issued a statement on the question of Sri Lanka’s foreign debt restructuring. Among its key observations were (1) the unsatisfactory performance of international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank; (2) the opacity of debt negotiations; (3) profiteering by private creditors holding International Sovereign Bonds (ISB). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
‘නිදහස් ජනතා සන්ධානය’ ජනගත වෙයි!
උත්තර ලංකා සභාගය නියෝජනය කරන ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී වාමාංශික පෙරමුණ, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂය, ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය, විජයධරණී ජාතික සභාව හා යුතුකම ජාතික සංවිධානය ද ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, නිදහස ජනතා සභාව, ජන ජය පෙරමුණ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහජන පක්ෂය, නිදහස් ජනතා පෙරමුණ ද ‘නිදහස් ජනතා සන්ධානය’ නමින් අද කොළඹ දී සන්ධානගත විය. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=external&v=889121092217695 නිදහස් ජනතා සන්ධානය පිහිටුවීම සංකේතවත් කරමින් නිදහස් ජනතා සන්ධානයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම්, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී තිලංග සුමතිපාල, උත්තර ලංකා සභාගයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය ජී. වීරසිංහ, නිදහස ජනතා සභාවේ කැඳවුම්කරු, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී, මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
Sri Lanka registers strong protest against Canadian sanctions
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry summoned the Canadian Acting High Commissioner Daniel Bood today and expressed the deep regret of the Government on the announcement of unilateral sanctions brought against four individuals including two former Presidents of Sri Lanka by the Government of Canada based on unsubstantiated allegations, the ministry said. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry had called the move by the Canadian government as ‘harmful’ to the local reconciliation process.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
Sri Lanka’s output expected to contract again in 2023 - WB
Sri Lanka’s output is estimated to have fallen by 9.2 percent in 2022 as the government ran out of the foreign exchange needed to cover food and fuel imports while the rupee plummeted and imports contracted sharply, and to service external debt, the World Bank says. In its Global Economics Prospects in January 2023, the global financial institution raised concerns about the continuing shortages of food, energy and medical supplies facing Sri Lanka nation while the authorities are implementing a stabilization program. https://youtu.be/dt-lD2LaY9I Stating that the crisis and its repercussions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
CID arrests Adarsha Karadana over complaint filed by Ashu Marasinghe
Adarsha Karadana, who was recently in the spotlight after releasing a controversial video of her estranged partner former MP Ashu Marasinghe, has been arrested by the Police Computer Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Accordingly, Karadana was arrested over a complaint lodged by the former Presidential Advisor, pertaining to a video released by the former in which Marasinghe is allegedly seen sexually abusing her pet dog. On 24 December, Marasinghe had filed a complaint with the CID against Karadana, accusing her of doctoring the video in question, which was widely... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
New coalition “‘Freedom People’s Alliance”‘ launched
The ‘Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya’ (Freedom People’s Alliance), a new coalition with the combined participation of 10 different political parties, was launched a short while ago. https://youtu.be/ZpXBT48gXcA The novel party was ceremonially launched today (11 Jan.), at the Headquarters of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in Colombo 10. Accordingly, 10 political parties, including the SLFP, the ‘Uttara Lanka Sabhagaya’ (Supreme Lanka Coalition) and the Freedom People’s Congress, collated to form the ‘Freedom People’s Alliance’, with the aim of jointly contesting for the upcoming Local Government elections. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
10 parties to unite to form new political alliance
A new political alliance under the name ‘Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya’ (Freedom People’s Alliance) is scheduled to be announced, with the combined participation of 10 different political parties, including those representing the opposition. Accordingly, it is reported that nearly 35 MPs will join the alliance, including former President Maithripala Sirisena, MPs Dullas Alaheppruma and Wimal Weerawansa, with 10 political parties, including the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the ‘Uttara Lanka Sabhagaya’ (Supreme Lanka Coalition) and the Freedom People’s Congress also collating. The would-be members met for a discussion about the formation of the alliance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
WHITHER UNIVERSITY EDUCATION REFORMS IN SRI LANKA?
The complicated picture of university education in Sri Lanka sends a message that University Education Reforms are required to make radical changes in higher education and is a vital part of the higher education system in Sri Lanka since 1960s and no attempt of reforms have been successful as the misunderstanding of reforms has not been appropriately adjusted by the authority using relevant and required strategy. The most regrettable way of working was attempting to enforce reforms without clearly educating about reforms and without understanding the possible impact of reforms to the country. The major... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
Lord Sheh’s Love of Dragons: Galle Face and Dalada
Chairman Mao concluded his article titled, “Report on An Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan” (1927) quoting the parable of Lord Sheh who loved dragons. As told by Liu Hsiang (77-6 B.C.) Lord Sheh was fond of dragons that he adorned his whole palace with drawings and carvings of them. But when a real dragon who heard of his infatuation for dragons and paid him a visit, Sheh was frightened and ran for his life. Bible says: “For they have sown the wind and they shall... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
How living as a true Buddhist could avoid an environmental catastrophe
"In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over a few seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will all be killed," -Venerable Thích Nhất Hạnh Zen Master late Thich Nhat Hanh was a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist, renowned for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. A gentle, humble monk, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called him “an Apostle of peace and nonviolence” when nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Exiled from his native Vietnam for almost... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/23)
දරුවෝ තුන් ලක්ෂයකට අධික පිරිසක් මෙවර උසස් පෙළ විභාගයට පෙනී සිටිනවා. උසස්පෙළ විභාගය අවුල් කරන්න කිසිවෙකුට ඉඩ තියන්න එපා. ඒ අපරාධයට හවුල් වෙන්නත් එපා. -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
" අලුත් ගමක්, අලුත් රටක් ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා සහභාගිත්ව සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන සම්බන්ධයෙන් දිස්ත්‍රීක් ලේකම්වරුන් සමග 2023.01.10 දින ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා - නැවතී තිබුණු ආර්ථිකය දැන් මේ වෙනකොට වැඩ කරනවා. වෙනදාට වැඩිය ආර්ථික යන්ත්‍රය සහ සේවා යන්ත්‍රය වැඩ කරනකොට ඔබතුමාලට එන වගකීම ඔබතුමාලා මත පැවරෙන අලුත් අභියෝග ජයගැනීම සඳහා ඕනෑ කම වැඩියි . පාසල් දහ දහස් එක සියයක් ලංකාවෙ තියෙනවා. එයින් භාගයකට වැඩිය පාසල් වල අක්කරයකට වැඩි වගේම අක්කර 10ක් 12ක් තිබෙන භූමි භාගයන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
මසකට ලක්ෂ 14 ක මුදල් ඉපයීමේ අරමුණක් - සේපාල් අමරසිංහ තවත් සතියක් රිමාන්ඩ් (වීඩියෝ)
ශ්‍රී දළදා වහන්සේට අපහාස වන අයුරෙන් ප්රකාශ සිදුකිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් සේපාල් අමරසිංහ ලබන 17 වනදා දක්වා යළි රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කෙරුණා. ඒ කොළඹ ප්‍රධාන මහේස්ත්‍රාත් ප්‍රසන්න අල්විස් හමුවේ අද යළි නඩුව කැඳවූ අවස්ථාවේදීයි. <br /><br />විත්තියේ පාර්ශවයෙන් ඉල්ලා තිබූ ඇප ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන තීන්දුව එදිනට නිකුත් කරන බවද මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරයා එහිදී ප්රකාශ කළා. https://youtu.be/VF1EnuLZNKU සේපාල් අමරසිංහ විසින් දළදා වහන්සේට අපහාස වන අයුරින් ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදුකර ඇත්තේ, 172,000 ග්‍රාහකයන් පිරිසක් සිටින සිය සමාජ මාධ්‍ය පරිශීලකයන් හරහා එය බෙදාහරිමින් මුදල් උපයා ගැනීමේ අරමුණින් බවටයි පැමිණිල්ල වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
Controversial YouTuber Sepal Amarasinghe further remanded
The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today (10 Jan.) further remanded YouTuber Sepal Amarasinghe until 17 January. Amarasinghe was remanded until today on 06 January, on orders of Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatta, over the recent controversial statements he made about the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, commonly known as the ‘Sri Dalada Maligawa’. https://youtu.be/j6qP33Xcj7A He was arrested in Bellanwila by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on 05 January after the public complaints division of the CID commenced probes into the matter. Investigations into the matter commenced when the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
දළදා වහන්සේට අපහාස කිරීමේ සේපාල් අමරසිංහගේ අරමුණ එළියට – මාසෙකට ලක්ෂ 14ක් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය හරහා ගරලා
දළදා වහන්සේට අපහාස වන අයුරින් ප්රකාශ නිකුත් කළ සේපාල් අමරසිංහ අද දින(10) කොළඹ මහේස්ත්‍රාත් වෙත යොමුකිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව ලබන 17 දක්වා යළි රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරීමට නියෝග කෙරිණි. මෙහිදී විත්තියේ ඇප ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීන්දුව එදිනට නිකුත් කරන බවයි මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරයා පැවසුවේ. කෙසේ වෙතත් අද නඩුව කැදවූ අවස්ථාවේ පැමිණිල්ල වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නියෝජ්‍ය සොලිස්ටර් ජනරාල් දිලීප පීරිස් අධිකරණයට පෙන්වා දුන්නේ සේපාල් අමරසිංහ දළදා වහන්සේට අපහාස වන අයුරින් ප්රකාශ නිකුත්කර ඇත්තේ 172,000ක ග්‍රාහකයන් පිරිිසක් සිටින සිය සමාජ මාධ්‍ය පරිශීලකයන් හරහා ඒවා බෙදාහැරීමෙන් මුදල් උපයා ගැනීමේ අරමුණින් බවය. ඔහුගේ මෙම ගිනුම් මගින් මසකට රුපියල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
The correct method of costing electricity
At a time the entire society is confused about who does what in determining electricity costs and prices, it would be useful for the learned and intelligent Sri Lankans to examine the correct procedure. What is written here is practiced across the civilized world, in countries where electricity generation is not a monopoly but electricity supply is still a monopoly. That includes India. Five activities to get electricity to customer Electricity industry comprises five businesses: electricity production, transmission, bulk supply, distribution, and retail supply. Transmission and distribution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
CEB, Ministry or Cabinet Ministers do not have authority to increase electricity tariff: Champika
According to the electricity board act and the Public Utilities Commission act, either the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the Power and Energy Ministry, or the Cabinet Ministers do not have the authority to increase the electricity tariff, Former Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka today said. He told the media that the aforementioned parties lacked the authority to change the tariff in a way that affected the past. The full authority for announcing the electricity tariff is with the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL). The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
UNP joins hands with SLPP for LG election
The United National Party (UNP) has decided to join hands with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) to contest the upcoming Local Government (LG) Election. The general secretary of the party, Palitha Range Bandara stated this speaking to the media today. https://youtu.be/HnuwePhmi7o At a recent meeting with electoral organizers of both parties, the UNP and the SLPP have agreed to contest certain electoral areas under the ‘elephant’ symbol, some electoral areas under the ‘lotus bud’ symbol and the other electoral areas under a common symbol. Meanwhile,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
SL gemstone trading company funded an Al-Qaida support network
It has been revealed that a Sri Lankan gemstone company that was key to sanctioned terrorist facilitator Ahmed Luqman Talib's revenue generation in support of Al -Qaida continued doing business after Talib was sanctioned & arrested.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
Sanctions imposed by Canada on former Presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa
Canada has imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankan state officials, including former Presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa, over alleged human rights violations during the island nation’s civil conflict from 1983 to 2009. Minister of Foreign Affairs M'lanie Joly has announced sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Sri Lanka) Act targeting four Sri Lankan state officials that Ottawa says are responsible for gross and systematic violations of human rights” during armed conflict in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. The regulations impose on former Sri Lankan presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/23)
Govt. refutes claims that Sri Lanka’s forest cover has reduced to 16%
Conservator General of Forests K.M.A Bandara has refuted media reports implying that Sri Lanka’s forest cover has reduced to 16%. He said this in response to a query made regarding the media report on the instructions of President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The Presidential Secretariat had focused its attention on these reports published in the media, it added. The assessment of forest cover is carried out every five years and the census conducted in 2020 is scheduled to be completed in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Is importing eggs such a bad idea?
Balancing consumer demand for cheap protein against the low level risk of possibly introducing Avian influenza/bird flu and evading local egg production industry issues Sri Lanka is struggling to deal with what could be described as one of the most controversial food-related issues stemming from the economic crisis. The prevailing lack of availability and the high prices of eggs sent shockwaves through the country, due mainly to the fact that eggs are one of the cheapest and most popular sources of protein. At the same time, the egg shortage affected... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Our goal is $ 1 b forex per month: Manusha Nanayakkara
Focus on sending skilled workers for foreign jobsWorking to prevent human trafficking, smugglingExpects foreign remittances to increase this yearBenefits introduced to encourage remittancesUpskilling domestic aides as housekeepersNew foreign employment markets identifiedNow digitising foreign employment sector While Sri Lanka recorded the highest-ever number of people migrating for work last year, the focus this year is not on achieving large numbers of expatriate workers but sending skilled workers for foreign jobs and making 2023 the most beneficial year for expatriate workers, said Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara, in an interview... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක කියන්නේ නොම්බර එකේ දේශපාලන ජාවාරම්කාරයෙක්
ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක කියන්නේ නොම්බර එකේ දේශපාලන ජාවාරම්කාරයෙක් යැයි බුද්ධිමය අරගලය සිවිල් සංවිධානයේ නායක චන්දන ප්‍රේමසිංහ මහතා පැවසීය. අද (09) පෙරවරුවේ අනුරාධපුරයේදී මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් කැඳවමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ඒ මහතා, අපි සියලු දේශපාලන පක්ෂ වල දේශපාලන ජාවාරම් දුෂ්ඨිවාදීව, විමර්ශනශීලීව පෙන්වා දුන්නා, ඒ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සියල්ලම නිහඩයි, අපි කිව්වේ සම්පූර්ණ ඇත්ත, අපි ඉදිරියටත් ඒවා හෙළි කරනවා.දැන් අතිගරු ෆේස් බුක් ජනාධිපති අනුරකුමාර දිසානායකගේ ෆේස් බුක් කමෙන්ට් කල්ලිය බොහොම කළබල වෙලා පිස්සෝ වගේ හැසිරෙනවා.අපි ඇතත් පෙන්නා දුන්නාම ඇත්ත පිළි නොගෙන අපිට අභියෝග කරනවා අනුර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදලෙන් රටට ලැබෙන සහයෝගය ගැන දේශපාලන කෝණයෙන් නොබලා අපි එකතු වෙලා කටයුතු කළ යුතුයි
ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ සහාය ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 2.9කට සීමා කරන ප්රකාශ සිදු කරන්නේ IMF හි ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වය ගැන නොදන්නා කණ්ඩායම් විසින්...මුදල් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ෂෙහාන් සේමසිංහ ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 2.9කට සීමා කරන ප්රකාශ සිදු කරනු ලබන්නේ IMF හි ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වය ගැන නොදන්නා කණ්ඩායම් විසින් බව මුදල් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ශෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා ප්රකාශ කරයි. රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය වරයා මෙසේ ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේ අද දින (08) අනුරාධපුර ප්රදේශයේ පැවති රැස්වීමකින් අනතුරුව මාධ්‍යවේදීන් අමතමිනි. “ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල සහ එහි ගෝලීය මෙහෙයුම්, ඒ අනුග්‍රහය හරහා රටේ මුල්‍ය විනය සහ මුල්‍ය කළමනාකරණය, යළිත් ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
මහව – ඕමන්තේ රේල් පාරට ඉන්දියාවට හතර ගුණයක් ගෙවයි
දේශීය දැනුම, ශ්‍රමය හා අමුද්‍රව්‍ය යොදා ගනිමින් රේල් පීලි පමණක් ආනයනය කර මහව – ඕමන්තේ රේල් පාර ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීම සදහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් ඇස්තමේන්තු කළ මුදලට වඩා හතර ගුණයක වැඩි මුදලකට ඉන්දියාවට කොන්ත්‍රාත්තුව ලබාදීම පිළිබදව දුම්රිය ඉන්ජිනේරු අංශ විමතිය පළ කරති. ඒ පිළිබදව අදහස් දැක්වූ හිටපු දුම්රිය සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරීවරයකු සහ අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම්වරයකු වූ මහාචාර්ය ගුණරුවන් මහතා සදහන් කළේ එම ව්‍යාපෘතිය දේශීයව දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමෙන්තුව මගින් සිදුකළහොත් උපරිම වශයෙන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 20ක් පමණ වැය වුවත් දැන් ඉන්දියානු සමාගමකට එම කොන්ත්‍රාත්තුව ලබාදෙන්නේ ඩොලර් මිලියන 90කට බවය. මීට පෙර 2015 දී රංජිත් මද්දුම බණ්ඩාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Indian Bank to hold special Rupee Vostro accounts of 3 Sri Lanka banks
With the help of Vostro account in local currency, Sri Lanka will be able to seamlessly import from neighbouring India without worrying about its depleting dollar supply. New Delhi: Economic crisis-hit Sri Lanka has been keen to trade in the Indian rupee and to speed up the process, an Indian public sector bank – Indian Bank – has received a regulatory approval to hold special Vostro accounts of three banks from the South Asian island nation. Notably, Indian Bank, headquartered in southern India’s Chennai, has had a long presence in Sri Lanka.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Watch: Elephant crossing the road attacks van, passengers manage to escape
The incident took place in the temple town of Katharagama in Sri Lanka, where pilgrims were travelling in the van. https://youtu.be/MiwzJmASWP8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Sri Lanka out of intensive care, but still in the trauma ward
If you think your New Year hangover was bad, spare a thought for Sri Lanka. In 2022 what was once a dynamic economy on its way to high middle-income status became a cautionary tale of how rotten politics, and the bad policy it produces, can trump otherwise promising economic prospects. As Dushni Weerakoon writes in this week’s lead article, a continuation of our Year in Review series on the major developments of the year across the region, Sri Lanka has set out on a hard road... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
People who feed wild elephants will be arrested: Wildlife
Wildlife officials have been advised by their director general to arrest people who feed wild elephants and those cause harm to them, after increasing incidents have been reported. Director General of Wildlife Department, Chandana Suriyabandara said that incidents were reported not only on the Buttala-Kataragama road, but also in other places like Udawalawa, Habarana, etc. The attention of the ministry in this regard had been focused on the news published in the media as well as on social media, showing cases of accidents to vehicles due to attacks by wild... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Cabinet gives consent to implement cost effective electricity tariff from Jan.
Kanchana Wijesekera, Minister of Power and Energy stated that cabinet approval has been granted to amend the general policy guidelines for the electricity industry and to implement a cost-effective electricity tariff beginning from January 2023.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
PUCSL refuses to accept tariff hike, says CEB doesn’t incur huge loss
The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) today said that they cannot accept the proposed electricity tariff hike and said the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is not incurring a huge loss over the past few years. While accepting the public petition signed by 6.9 million electricity consumers at his office, PUCSL Chairman Janaka Rathnayaka said today that at least Rs. 35 billion goes out of the CEB indirectly and the CEB does not incur losses. The prime reason for the loss was due to the inability to accurately manage... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA A HERO OR VILLAIN?
Currently there is an ongoing tussle between the Power & Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera (KW) in one corner and Janaka Ratnayake (JR), the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), in the other. As a result, the Minister is on his own, whilst JR is supported by the CEB Engineers Union, CEB Trade Union Alliance, Electricity Consumers Association and pretty much the rest of the country! It is over the proposed electricity tariff increase effective January 2023. The Minister is on record that if the country is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
FIFA World Cup and One Love
Once the FIFA World Cup started in Qatar, some of my virtue-signaling white friends went on an overdrive. Captains of a few European football teams had insisted on wearing the 'One Love' armband, ostensibly to express solidarity with homosexuals, whom Qatari laws persecute. The Qataris knew how to deal with this neo-aggression. They ordered FIFA to issue a yellow card to anybody who wears the 'One Love' armband. The aggressors submitted meekly. The armband was aborted in full-term. The homophobic laws of Qatar didn't arise in a void. Those are directly derived from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Writing my Life Story
In my school carrier from Kindergarten (1945)-to University Entrance 1958) I had always been the first in all classes, except twice that is 1950 at Udispattuwa Junior School econd term, after my mother’s untimely death and 1955 first term after I change college to Galahitiyawa Central from Teldeniya Senior. But even in those two occasions I have bounced back to be the first in style in the next term. I also had been the class Monitor in all classes except at Glahiti[yava Central first term in 1955. Finally at Veyangoda Central College I had the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Watercolour paintings by Irish artist Andrew Nicoll presented to the Pathfinder Collection
Jennifer Smith, Justice of the Peace and retired London solicitor who has had a long association with Sri Lanka, presented a set of watercolours by the Irish artist, Andrew Nicoll (1804-86) to the Pathfinder Collection. The paintings were recently handed over to Milinda Moragoda, Founder of MMBL-Pathfinder.The Pathfinder Collection was established in 2018, and contains a range of Sri Lankan artefacts, including prints, maps, books, paintings, coins, stamps, seashells, and other items of historical value. About the artist and paintings: Andrew Nicoll spent a brief period in colonial Ceylon during which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/23)
Recent trend of US-Bangladesh relations
In recent times, the USA is very interested in further strengthening bilateral relations. Bangladesh also intends to deepen and enhance its ties with the US. Analysts say that the US wants a holistic relationship with Bangladesh beyond bilateral ties. US President Joe Biden expressed optimism about deepening relations with Bangladesh. Bangladesh's ambassador to the United States. The United States is one of Bangladesh's friendliest states and development partners. Political, economic, and trade relations between the two countries have strengthened, especially since the current government took power in 2009. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
ඒ.බී.සී හර්බල්ස් නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයේ 6 වැනි සංවත්සර සැමරුම පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන්
දිවයිනේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ දේශීය රූපලාවන්‍යය නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයක් වන ඒ.බී.සී හර්බල්ස් නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයේ 6 වැනි සංවත්සර සැමරුම හිටපු අමාත්‍යය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ ජාතික සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (07) පැවැත්විණි. අනුරාධපුර හෙරිටේජ් හෝටල් පරිශ්‍රයේදී මෙම සංවත්සර සැමරුම පැවැත්විණි. ඒ.බී.සී හර්බල්ස් යනු රූපලාවන්‍යය නිෂ්පාදන රැසක් වෙළඳපලට නිකුත් කරන ප්‍රසිද්ධ අනුරාධපුරයේ නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයකි.එම ආයතනය මීට වසර 06 කට පෙර ආරම්භ කර ඇති අතර,එහි 06 වැනි සංවත්සර සැමරුම උත්කර්ෂවත් ලෙස මෙලෙස සමරනු ලැබීය. ඒ.බී.සී හර්බල්ස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමේ අධිපති අනුරාධ මාරපන මහතා අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ව්‍යාපාරික මහතෙකු ලෙස වසර 06 ක් තුළ දිවයිනේ සුප්‍රසිද්ධ දේශීය රූපලාවන්‍යය නිෂ්පාදන රැසක් නිෂ්පාදනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Killing of a Bangladeshi youth proves the dire situation of extrajudicial killing in USA!
The United States of America (USA) is popularly known as the ‘Champion of Democracy and Human Rights’. But since the last two decades, in its journey towards a multicultural society, the USA is facing a lot of human rights issues domestically such as hate crimes, structural racism, and extrajudicial killings at the hands of law enforcement agencies. Several statistics show that gun-related violence including hate crimes and extrajudicial killings is taking place at an alarming rate and there exists systemic exploitation of human rights. Every day, US society is facing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
මෙරට පොදු ප්‍රවාහන ක්ෂේත්‍රය නඟාසිටුවීමට ඉන්දීය රජයෙන් ලැබෙන සහයෝගය ඉතාමත් ප්‍රශංසනීයයි
"නිදහසින් පසු අපේ රට මුහුණ දී ඇති දැවැන්තම අර්බුදකාරි තත්වය යටතේ දී වුවත්, මෙරට පොදු ප්‍රවාහන ක්ෂේත්‍රය නඟාසිටුවීමට ඉන්දීය රජයෙන් ලැබෙන සහයෝගය ඉතාමත් ප්‍රශංසනීයයි."යැයි ප්‍රවාහන මහාමාර්ග හා ජනමාධ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ උතුරු දුම්රිය මාර්ගයේ මහව සිට ඕමන්ත දක්වා කොටසේ ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ කටයුතු ආරම්භ කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් මැදවච්චිය දුම්රිය ස්ථාන පරිශ්‍රයේ පැවති සමාරම්භක උත්සවයට එක්වෙමිනි. මහව සිට ඕමන්ත දක්වා දුම්රිය මාර්ගයේ සිදු කරන මෙම ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඉන්දියානු ණය යෝජනා ක්‍රමය යටතේ, ඉන්දීය IRCON සමාගම මගින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිතයි. ඒ උදෙසා සිදුකෙරෙන ආයෝජනයෙහි වටිනාකම ඇ. ඩොලර්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
යුක්රේනයෙන් පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය මිලදී ගෙන කොටුවේ මහ බැංකු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සිදු කළ හැටි වසර 27කට පසු හෙළිවෙයි
කැනඩාවේ හිටපු ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියෝජ්‍ය මහකොමසාරිස් අශෝක වීරසිංහ මහතා හෙළිකරන්නේ 1997 ජනවාරි 31 දා සිදුවූ කොටුවේ මහ බැංකු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සඳහා ටී. එන්. ටී. පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 50 ක් සහ ආර් ඩී එක්ස් පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 10 ක් මිලයට ගෙන ඇත්තේ යුක්රේනයේ රුබේයෝන් රසායන කම්හලෙන් බව ය. කොටුව බෝම්බ පිපිරීමෙන් සියයකට අධික සංඛ්‍යාවක් මරුමුවට පත් වූ අතර, මෙම ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබද තොරතුරු මෙලෙස අනාවරණය වන්නේ වසර 27 කට පසුවය. බෝම්බ සෑදීම සදහා අධිබල පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය මිලයට ගෙන ඇත්තේ කැනඩාවේ වැන්කුවර්හි බැංකුවක ඩොලර් මිලියන 7 ක ගිණුමකින් වන අතර, ගිණුමේ හිමිකරු ද්‍රවිඩයකු බවද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
IMF Machinations to Demobilize Sri Lanka’s Army
Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace & prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? – George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 September 1796 Under no circumstances, from here to eternity, will we ever let any critical sphere of our country or our people’s lives depend on Western investment or technology. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, 4 June 2022 ‘Some people are threatening action against those who say we must go to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
India Provides 75 Buses To Sri Lanka To Bolster Public Transport System
As part of its 'Neighbourhood First' policy, India has extended multi-pronged assistance to Sri Lanka. Colombo: India has handed 75 passenger buses to Sri Lanka as part of its assistance towards strengthening public transport infrastructure in the cash-strapped country. As part of its 'Neighbourhood First' policy, India has extended multi-pronged assistance to Sri Lanka to help the country tide over its worst economic and humanitarian crisis since its independence from Great Britain in 1948. "Supporting mobility and accessibility in Sri Lanka, High Commissioner handed over 75 buses for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Sri Lanka's anti-government protests have gone silent - for now
Image caption,Thousands gathered at the former protest site to ring in the New Year Long gone are the throngs of protesters who occupied an area around the president's office for months during Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence. Instead a slew of carollers sang to the public from across the heavily-guarded fences of the Presidential Secretariat. Next to the building rose an 80 ft (24m) Christmas tree, the signature piece in a landscape dotted with décor, food stalls and musical shows. And as fireworks ushered in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Sri Lanka’s hard road to recovery from economic and political crisis
In 2022 Sri Lanka faced its deepest ever economic and political crisis. The country’s descent into chaos accelerated from March, sweeping away high-level bureaucrats and political leaders held culpable for implementing the misguided economic policies at the heart of the country’s problems. The political casualties failed to allay public disaffection with prolonged power outages, queues and shortages of essential commodities. The primary target of public unrest was Sri Lanka’s elected president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. His ouster in July was achieved amid outbreaks of violence and the occupation of key... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Sri Lanka’s Lenders Should Cancel Debt, Academics Say in Letter
(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s bondholders aren’t living up to their obligations and should cancel debt to allow the country to get out of its economic crisis, a group of international academics said in a letter. Private creditors own almost 40% of the country’s external debt, mostly in the form of International Sovereign Bonds, but higher interest rates mean they receive more than half of debt payments, the group said in the letter, which was signed by more than 180 professors from around the world. “Such lenders charged a premium to lend to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Strong institutions are foundation for long-term growth – CBSL Governor
Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says that strong, independent institutions are the foundation for sustainable, inclusive and steady growth for a long period. Speaking during a panel discussion on the topic ‘South Asia’s path to resilient growth’ organised by the International Monetary fund (IMF), Dr. Weerasinghe said that Sri Lanka has moved backwards in all its social indicators due to the lack of strong institutions in the country. https://youtu.be/wecDwLC5hC4 In response to a question raised by Krishna Srinivasan, the Director of IMF’s Asia & Pacific Department on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Sri Lanka to introduce new laws to regulate social media
Measures are underway to introduce a law similar to the Social Media Regulation Act of Singapore to regulate social media, such as YouTube and Facebook, in Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday (06). According to Hiru News, President Wickremesinghe pointed out that Sri Lanka has laws pertaining to newspaper and broadcasting media, but does not contain laws pertaining to social media. The President further said that thereby, he has received a copy of Singapore’s Social Media Regulation Act and will enforce a similar bill consisting of laws suitable... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/23)
Is the Global Elites ransacking world economy to make sure we own nothing?
The Global Research article titled “Historical analysis of the Global Elites: ransacking the world economy until you’ll own nothing” by Robert I Burrowes is not only worth reading but worth thinking about too. Robert Burrowes lays out the Great Reset outlined by the World Economic Forum in 2016. Their plan – to ensure we owned nothing by 2030 (just 7 years) & redistribute global wealth into global elite ownership. Their plan – initiated in Jan 2020 via depopulation agenda (Covid-20 vaccinations) ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
Evidence of tactful proselytizing activity goes through marriage life in Sri Lanka
Diocesan priests promise to be celibate, preach the truth, and obey the bishop Picture kohedaAleteia.org Evidence of tactful proselytizing activity goes through marriage life in Sri Lanka, where Buddhist secretly convert to become slaves of another religion. When we screen through actual incidents in our society, we can clearly find out that church propagandists plant early seeds in their community to convince another religious partner to convert to God-based religion. In general, Buddhists and Hindus never demand that a couple must belong to the same religion before a marriage can be solemnized, but many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
Rectifying history to vandalize it: Pujya K. Ariyamagga’s pain
A Youtube video (uploaded December 27, 2022) with the alarmist caption බුදුන් ඉපදුණු මේ ලංකාවට සිදු වු අපරාදෙ අපිත් දැන ගනිමුද (Let’s be aware of the enormity of the injustice perpetrated on Sri Lanka where the Buddha was born) captured my attention this morning (January 1, 2023), both because of the sensationalism of the title and its association with the popular youtuber Harindra Jayalal who presents its content as an important news bulletin from a so-called ‘We Rectify Our History’ organization (presumably based in the UK). Five days after uploading, the video... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
Domestic Workers Worldwide
Domestic Workers Domestic workers are those employed in households or personal level of private individuals or families, prevalent worldwide. Rules for domestic workers are not properly regularized in Sri Lanka or in many countries though attempts have been made to prepare international conventions and legal systems in some parts of the world. 100th sessions of ILO on 16th June 2011 agreed and ratified the domestic workers convention which is only on paper as it is only an international convention... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
District Councils are Worse Than Provincial Councils
Replacing provincial councils with District councils worsens the problems of separatism, corruption and waste. It must never be attempted. If provincial councils are bad, the system must be retracted. Replacing it with a worse system is unwise (Mahadenamutta could not have done it better in the case of palm sugar cubes). There are 9 provincial councils each with ministers for devolved subjects, a place to meet, staff for the same functions (repeated 9 times) and provincial tax is collected by 9 different groups. If district councils are to be established, there will be 25... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
Effects Of Chiromancy Or Palmistry
Chiromancy or palmistry is a skill of evaluating a person’s character or future by “reading” the palm of an individual’s hand. The heart line, head line, lifeline, etc., and the mounds immediately appearing under the base of each finger suggest elucidations by their relative sizes, qualities, and intersections. Some palm readers observe the characteristics of the fingers, fingernails, fingerprints, skin patterns, skin texture and colour, the palm’s shape and the hand’s flexibility. Basic palmistry is entrenched in Greek mythology, where every area... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
Tourists flock to disputed Jesus Tomb in Kashmir
Image: The disputed structure in SrinagarPhotographs: Umar Ganai Look at the picture carefully. This nondescript Muslim shrine in Kashmir has shot into the international limelight after many believers claimed it was where Jesus Christ was laid to rest. Inquisitive visitors-- mostly Westerners--have started flocking to the shrine, forcing the caretakers to close down the religious structure. Rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad travels to Khanyar in Srinagar, in search of some spiritual answers. Where did Jesus spend his last days? Had he been to India? Had he been buried in Kashmir? There are several versions on Jesus'... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
The Plan to Carve Up Russia
For decades, the idea of dismantling the Soviet Union and Russia has been constantly cultivated in Western countries. Unfortunately, at some point, the idea of using Ukraine to achieve this goal was conceived. In fact, to prevent such a development, we launched the special military operation (SMO). This is precisely what some western countries –led by the United States– strive for; to create an anti-Russian enclave and then threaten us from this direction. Preventing this from happening is our primary goal. Vladimir Putin Here’s your geopolitical quiz for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
It’s time Sri Lankan public servants pulled up their socks
Colombo, January 6 (Daily News): A few years ago, government employees in Sri Lanka became a laughing stock in the world when a trade union struck work in protest against the installation of fingerprint machines to mark attendance in their offices. Sri Lanka is among the top rankers in the list of countries with too many holidays. And in spite of enjoying all the holidays, half-day leave, short leave and other facilities to abstain from work, Sri Lankan trade unions have brazenly resisted all attempts by the authorities to at least... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/23)
Sri Lanka expecting IMF’s extended fund facility in first half of this year – President
President Ranil Wickramasinghe says that the government expects to receive India’s response regarding Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring at the end of this month. The President stated that the negotiations with China regarding debt restructuring have recommenced. The President revealed this during a discussion held today (06) with newspaper editors and electronic media news directors at the Presidential Secretariat. In the discussion held, the President further stated that the government expects the extended fund facility of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be received in the first half of this year.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
President to participate in India-hosted Voice of Global South Summit - report
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will be among 20 world leaders who will participate in the “Voice of the Global South Summit” (VGSS) next week hosted by India virtually, Indian media reported. The summit will take place on January 12 and January 13 and will be chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a report on WION. Other than leaders from the neighbourhood, leaders from five countries from Africa (Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal), three countries from the ASEAN grouping (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam) will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Sri Lanka’s LG election will create world record if held – Siyambalapitya
Speaking with regards to the upcoming Local Government (LG) elections that are due to be held, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has stated that in the event an LG election is held amidst Sri Lanka’s current situation, it will be a ‘world record’. https://youtu.be/PiHSI9eKE5Q Reasoning as to why he deemed the election as such, Siyambalapitiya explained that holding such an election would require for money to be printed, which is a rather difficult task amidst the ongoing economic crisis. “We can hold the election, and also create... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Sri Lanka to restart trade deal talks with India, China and Thailand - official
Sri Lanka will restart negotiations on trade pacts with India, China and Thailand after a four-hear hiatus, an official said on Thursday, as the crisis-hit country races to seal deals to help it rebuild its economy. The island of 22 million is in the midst of its worst financial crisis in over seven decades, triggered by a severe shortage of foreign exchange that has left the country struggling to pay for fuel, food and medicine. https://youtu.be/-IpwYa4OIn8 Officials from Thailand are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on Monday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Sepal Amarasinghe remanded
The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today (06 Jan.) ordered Sepal Amarasinghe, a social media activist arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department, to be remanded until the 10th. Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatta issued the relevant order after considering the facts presented by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). https://youtu.be/1o-Y3f2A6KQ Amarasinghe was arrested by the CID last evening (05 Jan.) after recently making several controversial statements about the much-venerated Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy. The YouTuber’s recent claims have led to chaotic uproar amongst Sri Lanka’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Sri Lanka to introduce new laws to regulate social media
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the government is working to introduce an Act similar to the Telecommunications and Social Media Act currently used in Singapore to regulate social media platforms including YouTube and Facebook. The President made this observation during a discussion held today (06) with newspaper editors and news directors of electronic media at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. Responding to a question about the programmes being followed by the government regarding the activities of certain social media activists, the President stated that although there are laws in Sri Lanka for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Who should lead our country?
The country is at a critical juncture not because of economic woes but because of the lack of a suitable leader for the majority, the Sinhala Buddhists. Elections did come and go in the past but there was then always the case of choosing a SLFP or an UNP government. SLPP has been sort of an extension of SLFP. Though no party had a long-term vision people were able to choose a leader of their preference. However, it is not the case at this juncture. Who can... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Making Insulting Statements About the Tooth Relic Must Be Punished
A social media activist has lost his bearings and ventured into the territory of hate speech. Calling politically active Buddhist monks by insulting names is fair game as they have entered the political fray. However, religious symbols are beyond political insults. Associating a religious symbol with a sexual object is an offence and the offender must be punished as per many laws in the country. According to existing laws, he could be punished with a jail term of up to 10 years if found guilty. However, turning the matter into a political windfall by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Did the British 'civilize' India? Fox News host vs Karolina Goswami [Can Indians Question You? E-8]
Did the British 'civilize' India? Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) talks about the British leaving behind ‘an entire civilization’ in India, and how according to him, Indians, till today, haven’t been able to build even a single building as beautiful as the Bombay train station. Karolina Goswami responds. https://youtu.be/fVZbC16zYm0 ============= Please consider supporting our work financially: https://www.paypal.me/indiaindetails | PayTm, GooglePay, and UPI: satya45
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Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | Lex Fridman Podcast #316
Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. https://youtu.be/7uHGlfeCBbE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
ධීවර හා අධ්‍යාපන ක්ෂේත්‍රවල ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු- ශ්‍රී ලංකා සහයෝගීතාව ඉහළ නැංවීමට පියවර .
ඉන්දියන් සාගර කලාපයේ සමුද්‍ර ආරක්ෂාව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන සහාය පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියාව වෙත ස්තූතිය පළ කළේය. ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් පෝල් ස්ටීවන්ස් මහතා 2023.01.04 දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී එතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. එහිදී, ධීවර ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයට අදාළ සන්නිවේදන ජාල ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ධීවර යාත්‍රාවලට ජී. පී. එස් (Global Positioning System) තාක්ෂණ පහසුකම ලබාදීමට අවශ්‍ය සහාය ලබාදෙන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. දේශීය සිසුන් පමණක් නොව ආසියාවේ, මැදපෙරදිග සහ අප්‍රිකාවේ වෙනත් රටවල සිසුන් ආකර්ෂණය කර ගැනීම සඳහා තවත් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු විශ්ව විද්‍යාලවලට අනුබද්ධ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksaconcludes holiday in Dubai and returns to SL
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife Ayoma Rajapaksa arrived at Bandaranaike International Airport from Dubai this morning, the Airport Duty manager and the spokesperson of the Airport Immigration Department confirmed. They had arrived on an Emirates flight EK-650 from Dubai. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Sepal Amarasinghe arrested for insulting Dalada Maligawa
Sepal Amarasinghe was arrested by a special CID team at Bellanwila for his statement on the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Police said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe had instructed the IGP to initiate immediate investigation into the fake Dalada Maligawa.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Fake Dalada Maligawa: President directs IGP to initiate immediate probe
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the IGP to initiate an immediate and comprehensive investigation regarding the construction of a fake Dalada Maligawa in Pothuhera, Kurunegala. The instruction was given after the Ven. Mahanayaka Theras had reported it to the President, Presidential Media Division said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Diana Gamage’s citizenship issue: CID ordered to obtain documents from British HC
The Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court today ordered the CID to expeditiously obtain relevant documents pertaining to State Minister Diana Gamage’s alleged citizenship issue from the British High Commission in order to carry out a comprehensive investigation. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis observed that it would not be appropriate to issue orders including an order of arrest, until court receives relevant documents from the British High Commission. The court had earlier imposed a travel ban against State Minister Diana Gamage in connection with a magisterial inquiry into a complaint that she had obtained a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/23)
Gazette issued restricting import of gold above 22 carats as jewellery
A Gazette Notification has been issued restricting the import of gold above 22 carats as jewellery, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. He said in a twitter post that the decision was taken to prevent gold smuggling.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/23)
Ulterior motives behind “Gender Equality Bill” – Another attempt to dislodge Sri Lanka’s Cultural heritage & Sinhala Buddhist identity
When anything is difficult to introduce, the tactic used is to camouflage the insidious objective & sugar coat it in a manner that can win over people’s approval. Thus, the name “Gender Equality” – it becomes something people cannot refuse & do not pay much attention to reading the hidden clauses attempted to be passed using this camouflage. It shows the architects of these names have mentally assessed how weak the majority of Sri Lanka’s populace are in believing anything sugar coated. Yep good one. Also dont forget “Women Empowerement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Canada linked to International war horrors
January 4, 2023 Letters EditorTHE OTTAWA CITIZEN You said that 'Canada linked to alleged war horrors... accused of killing innocents in Syria and Iraq. Let's not white-wash Canada's indirect involvement in the killings of innocent Sinhalese people in the border villages in North and East of Sri Lanka in the thousands during the Tamil Eelam War, by the most ruthless terrorists in the world, designated as such by the UN of the Tamil Tigers. It was Canada that let the Canadian Tamil Tigers collect two million dollars a month for 13... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
එප්පාවල 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවා පැහැරගත් සැකකරුට හා නවාතැන් දුන් සැකකරුවන් දෙදෙනාට ඇප
එප්පාවල 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවකු දෙමාපියන්ට නොදන්වා ගොස් රිකිල්ලගස්කඩ ජොන්ස්ලන්ඩ් වතුයායේ නිවසක සඟවාගෙන සිටි සැකකරුට හා නවාතැන් දුන් සැකකරුවන් දෙදෙනාට ඇප ලබා දෙන ලෙස තඹුත්තේගම මහසේත්‍රාත් බුද්ධික මල්වත්ත මහතා අද (04) නියෝග කලේය. මෙලෙස ඇප මත නිදහස් කෙරුණේ, නීත්‍යාණූකූල භාරකාරත්වයෙන් අපහරණය කිරීමේ චෝදනාව මත රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කර සිටි, 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවා පැහැර ගෙන යාමේ සිද්ධියට සම්බන්ධ ප්‍රධාන සැකකරුවන වන 22 කණුව, කැකිරාව පාර, තලාව ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි ඇස්වැද්දුමගේ අසේල ප්‍රියන්ත ප්‍රනාන්දු නම් විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පියා හා අපහරණයේ කිරීමේ චෝදනාවට ආධාර අනුබල ලබා දීමේ චෝදනාව මත දරුවා රැගෙන එප්පාවල ප්‍රදේශයෙන් පළා ගොස් සැඟවී සිටිමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
New Constitution should convert Provincial Councils to Multi-District Councils within a Centre strong Unitary Set-Up
Broadly speaking, most are fully in favour of retaining a Unitary Structure of governance as opposed to a Federal, Quasi-Federal based on the Indian model, or other multi-level structure where powers need to be devolved to the semi-autonomous units that are to be set-up for various regions within the tiny island of Sri Lanka, which is the common homeland of all her people.Federal or quasi-federal systems have been successful to some extent where countries such as Canada, the United States of America, and India with an extensive landmass, involving the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඓතිහාසික නවගමුව රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ විහාරාධිපති ශ්‍රී කල්‍යාණි සාමග්‍රී ධර්ම මහා සංඝ සභාවේ මහා නායක මල්වානෙ පඤ්ඤාසාර හිමිපාණන් බැහැ දකියි.
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා 2023.01.04 දින ඓතිහාසික නවගමුව රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ සහ පත්තිනි දේවාලයේ ආගමික වතාවත් වලට සහභාගී වූ අතර විහාරාධිපති ශ්‍රී කල්‍යාණි සාමග්‍රී ධර්ම මහා සංඝ සභාවේ මහා නායක මල්වානෙ පඤ්ඤාසාර හිමිපාණන් බැහැ දැක ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය.එහිදී අනුශාසනා කළ නවගමුව රජමහා විහාරාධිපති මල්වානෙ පඤ්ඤාසාර හිමියන් - අපේ නවගමුව පූජා භූමිය විහාරස්ථානය සහ පත්තිනි දේවාලය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමන්ට අමුතු තැනක් නෙමෙයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ සීයා බොරළුගොඩ රාළහාමි නව ගමුව පූජා භූමියේ භාරකාරීත්වය අරගෙන මේ ස්ථානයේ දියුණුවට කටයුතු කළා. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කුඩා කාලයේත් පත්තිනි දේවාලයට පැමිණ විවිධ අවස්තාවන් වලට සහභාගි වී මේ ස්ථානයේ දියුණුවට නොයෙක් වර විවිධ කටයුතු සිදුකළා. මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Govt. to seek AGs advice over LG Polls
Government has decided to seek the Attorney General’s advice with regard to holding the local government election, government sources said. Government has decided to seek the Attorney General’s advice as there is a division among the members of the election commission. It is said that the majority of members in the election commission is against the ideology held by its Chairman Nimal Punchihewa who holds that the local government elections should be held. The election monitors are of the opinion that there could be issues pertaining to holding the election... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
President not to be involved in UNP’s LG election campaign
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the United National Party (UNP) that he would not be involved in any activities related to the upcoming local government election. Communicating his decision to the UNP, President Wickremesinghe noted that he was given a mandate not to engage in elections, but to rebuild the country and ride out the crisis situation within two years. He stressed that he is not prepared to act in contravention of this mandate.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Sri Lanka Rupee depreciated by nearly 45% against USD in 2022 – CBSL
During the year 2022, the Sri Lankan Rupee depreciated against the US Dollar by nearly 45%, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) reported. Accordingly, the Rupee depreciated by 44.8% against the US Dollar in 2022, while also having depreciated against the Euro by 41.4%, the Indian Rupee by 38.6%, the Pound Sterling by 38.1% and the Japanese Yen by 36.4% within this period. These figures were released by CBSL in their latest edition of the Weekly Economic Indicators report... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Port & Aviation Levy on solar panel static converters/inverters lifted
Sri Lanka has lifted the Port and Aviation Levy (PAL) on solar panel static converters/inverters. Taking to Twitter, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said this comes into effect from January 01, 2023. https://youtu.be/CqCLKSJUhUw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Of Climate Anxiety, Bond Scams and Murder most foul: Cui Bono in a Post-Truth World? Part 1
“If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute’ runs a wry idiom in New England where the weather may change dramatically in minutes. However, these days blaming the weather for pretty much everything is fashionable-- be it global warming or cooling, no rain, or too much rain, drought, floods or a snow blizzard in winter. Recently the news was filled with stories of anthropogenic climate catastrophes; from ‘poisoned fog’ from land-locked, dust bowl New Delhi, directly targeting windblown coastal Colombo, to cattle dying due to Cold weather in the Eastern Province. Additionally,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
A Swansong for Lanka’s Lost Independence @ 75: The Media for a triple Whammy or Psy-Op? PART 2
At this time amid exaggerated climate crisis media narratives, Green and Blue Bonds are being marketed as an “opportunity” to kill two birds with one stone (pardon the poor pun), through so-called debt reduction and carbon sequestering in Sri Lanka. The local corporate media routinely and uncritically promotes Disaster Capitalism --from Covid-19 to climate crisis and debt with famine narratives, while advertising antidotes. Evidence from other countries that have entered into blu-green bondage or Debt for Nature Swaps (DFNS), however shows that such bonds would actually deepen poverty and debt in the strategic island... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
ERIC SOLDHEIM AND PEACE BUILDING IN SRI LANKA
Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka ascends many issues and the process of peacebuilding has been a giant process since before 1983 that required considering different influential factors related to the nature of ethnic and religious beliefs of people. When Sri Lanka faced the problem of loss of peace among ethnic communities there was an easy role to rebuild the peace, but the reality consisted of a giant manipulation and misunderstanding role and many neglected aspects associated with economic, social, and religious flow outs and the process involved with humans than any other factors. Does Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Sri Lanka is not a poor country
Sri Lanka is not a poor country but a poorly managed country. According to the list by Credit Suisse published in 2022 pertaining to Total Wealth of Countries and reported by Wikipedia the value of total assets of Sri Laka was 400 Billion US dollars and the country is placed 57 out of 158 countries reporting. Countries like Kenya, Argentina, Ghana, and Nepal are placed below SL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wealth. This is the proven wealth and not the full potential of the resources of the country. If the wealth of our marine resources of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
God Delusion in the West leads to search for Sati (Mindfulness)
The consequence of God Delusion in the West largely among the mainstream Christian populace is the increasing search for Sati ( Mindfulness) originally taught by the Buddha in India over 2,500 years ago. Sati Meditation is filling a huge void in the Western consciousness due to the collapse of Monotheistic belief systems. The Buddha was the first major figure in world history to openly advocate self-reliance over-reliance on an external savior. The Buddha said that right worship is neither killing innocent animals as offerings to an unknown God(s) or indulging in meaningless prayers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
US Sanctions Deprive Iranians of Breathing Fresh Air
Sanctions force people to prolong the use of older vehicles that burn fuel less efficiently, while making it impossible for Iran to obtain equipment and technology to reduce emissions. With the arrival of the cold season, the air pollution in Iran's capital Tehran has reached an alarming level and is hazardous for the health of local residents. Domestic and foreign experts pointed out that under the years-long U.S. sanctions, the forced use of old vehicles, which should have been scrapped long ago, is the cause of the terrible air quality in Tehran. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Sri Lankan govt expresses concerns over intelligence agencies after drug lord flees to India
Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran fled to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday (3) raised concerns over the country’s intelligence network after notorious underworld gangster and drug lord Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran fled to India after his release on bail. Imran, wanted by the Sri Lankan authorities for various offences, including murders and criminal intimidation, was arrested in Dubai in 2019 and deported to the island nation. He was in judicial custody till a local court on December 20 last year granted him... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
බෝනස් දුන් සභාපතිවරුන්ගෙන් ජනපති නිදහසට කරුණු විමසයි President calls for a report on bonus payments by two loss making SOEs
President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued orders to the Chairmen of Sri Lankan Airlines & Ceylon Petroleum Corporation calling for a report on the payment of bonuses at a time when both institutions were running at a loss. පාඩු ලබන සංස්ථා හා මණ්ඩල සේවකයන් හට ප්‍රසාද දීමනා නොගෙවන ලෙස මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය දැනුම් දී තිබූ පසුබිමක ලංකා ඛනිජ තෙල් නීතිගත සංස්ථාව හා ශ්‍රී ලන්කන් ගුවන් සමාගම ප්‍රසාද දීමනා (බෝනස්) ගෙවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ එම සභාපතිවරුන්ගෙන් නිදහසට කරුණු විමසා තිබේ. ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉහත ආයතන දෙකේ සභාපතිවරුන්ගෙන් මෙලෙස කරුණු විමසා ඇත්තේ රජයේ චක්‍රලේඛවලට පටහැනිව ප්‍රසාද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Minister announces proposed tariff structure by CEB
Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera today reiterated that the proposed tariff structure had been proposed by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). The minister has shared the proposed tariff structure for a cost-reflective electricity pricing formula on his official Twitter account as an official message. Accordingly, there are details relating to the tariff structure that was effective from 2014 to August 2022, the revised tariff structure in August 2022, and the proposed tariff structure for January 2023. The decision on electricity charges is as follows: (Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
Cabinet decides to reduce congestion in classrooms
The cabinet that met on Monday for the first time in 2023 has decided to strictly adhere to restrict the number of students to a maximum 40 for Grade 1 – 5 and 45 students for Grade 6-11 from this year, cabinet spokesman, Minister Bandula Gunawardana said today. He told the weekly cabinet news briefing that a new admission system will be introduced from 2023 for students from grade 2 to grade 11 - except grade 6 - in government schools by further streamlining the current circular provisions. The new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/23)
‘’EGG MAFIA IN SRI LANKA’’
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Egg Egg is an essential part of the Sri Lankan diet as it is affordable and freely available when the prices of meat and fish is exorbitant. Citizen is going through the most difficult era with 72% inflation ever rising currently the 7th position in the world. It is the requirement of the governance via the main regulatory instrument act no 9 of 2003 by the name Consumer Affairs Authority with 77 sections within with intentions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
වර්තමාන ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය සමාජය ඔබට කියා දෙන පාඩම හොදින් වටහා ගන්න.
වර්තමාන සමාජය ගැටළු වලින් බරිත බව ඔබ අප හැමදෙනාම එකාවන්ව පිළිගන්නා කරුණකි. ගැටළු ඇති කරන්නෙත් මිනිසුන් වෙන අතර, ඒ ගැටළු නිසා විදවමින් පිඩාවට පත්වෙන්නේද මිනිසුන්මය. ගැටළු ඇති කරන මිනිසුන්ට වගේම පිඩා විදින මිනිසුන්ටද මේ අර්බුදයෙන් මිදීමේ මගක් නොදකමින් එකිනෙකාට දොස් පවරමින්, සමාජය තව තවත් විනාශයේ දිසාවටම සමාජය මෙහෙය වමින් සිටි. මෙසේ සිදුවෙන්නේ ඇයි ? මේ අර්බුදයන්ට විසදුමක් ඇත්තෙම නැද්ද? මේ සම්බන්දව අපි මදක් කතා කරමු.මිනිසත් බවය ලබාගෙන සිටින අප ඒ තත්වයට පැමිණීම, ආරම්භ කරන්නේ, වානර පරම්පරාවට ප්‍රවිෂ්ඨ වීමත් සමගය. පෙර සිටි සත්ව භවයන්ගෙන් මිදී, සරලම, වානර භාවයට ප්‍රවිෂ්ඨ වූ අවස්තාවේ සිට වානර අවදීන් පහක් පසුකොට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Dangers of Pentagon’s ‘Decapitation Strike’ Against Russia
In recent decades, one of the political West’s favorite strategies have been the so-called “decapitation strikes” against various countries or non-state actors. One of the first examples of this happened in the 1990s in Europe, during the US aggression against Yugoslavia. At the time, NATO forces directly targeted the Serb/Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. In complete disregard for the safety of his family, NATO destroyed Milosevic’s mansions and residencies, causing casualties among civilians in the process. Although the attacks failed, the Serb/Yugoslav leader was still deposed and later imprisoned in the aftermath of a successful NATO-orchestrated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Poland can surely do better for Sri Lanka
https://www.ft.lk/business/Sri-Lanka-hc Embassy-in-Warsaw-secures-export-opportunities-for-diverse-products/34-743703 Quote Sri Lanka Mission observed from the numerous inquiries it received from members of the Polish public and Sri Lanka well-wishers, the high appreciation of and increasing demand for Ceylon tea, spices, handloom items (sarongs, beach wraps, and shawls and accessories, etc.), handicrafts, including traditional masks and woven reed/rattan baskets, handbags, etc., porcelain tableware and giftware, and Ceylon gem encrusted costume jewelry. Unquote When you read the news above start ordering whether Sri Lanka can do better than this to earn more foreign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
සියලු දෙනා එකම රටක හවුල් කරුවන්ව ජයග්‍රාහි අනාගතයක උරුමකරුවන් ලෙස වැඩ කරමු. - අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා..
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේය නව වසරේ කොළඹ,අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ රාජකාරී කටයුතු ආරම්භ කිරීමේදී දීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා.. "ජාතියේ අනාගතය සාර්ථක කිරීම සඳහා වූ ප්‍රතිඥාව ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කොට කැපවී කටයුතු කිරීමට අධිෂ්ඨාන කරන මොහොතයි මේ. නිදහසෙන් පසු සියක් වසරක ඉලක්කයට පැමිණීමේ ඉදිරි විසිපස් වසර සඳහා අධිෂ්ඨානයෙන් කැපවීමට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ප්‍රධාන රජය මුළු මහත් රට වැසියා වෙනුවෙන් එක්ව සිටිනවා. අද දිනයේ මේ ප්‍රතිඥාව දෙන අතරතුර රටේ ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය සහ අනිත් අමාත්‍යංශ මෙන්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තු, රට පුරා විහිදී තිබෙන රාජ්‍ය සේවා ආයතනය මෙන්ම රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින් ලක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Narcotics use by school kids worries Sri Lankans
Sri Lankan navy seizes narcotics Colombo, December 31: With renewed interest regarding narcotics abuse by the student community, many have questioned why Sri Lanka has been unable to stem the flow of illicit drugs to the island nation. As part two of a three-part series, The Sunday Morning will explore Sri Lanka’s contemporary drug abuse issues. According to the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB), the apex Government agency on the control of narcotics, abuse of narcotics by school children has been an ongoing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Sri Lanka's ex-president Gotabaya applies for US citizenship restoration: Report
Gotabaya Rajapaksa US Citizenship: Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.(Reuters Sri Lanka's ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa applied for restoration of his US citizenship, a report claimed. This comes as he failed to get asylum in any country, the report said. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had fled Sri Lanka in July last year. He then returned after nearly two months. Although, the US government is yet to consider the request, The Sunday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Sri Lanka's new austerity measure: No government jobs
Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe brought a decision to reduce the retirement age from 65 to 60. Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: A Sri Lankan flag is waved by a protester.(AP Sri Lanka began a fresh austerity drive under which there will be no government recruitment. In the island nations new taxes and higher electricity prices were started as the authorities aim to secure an IMF bailout, news agency AFP reported. As one of the preconditions to securing the $2.9 billion bailout from IMF is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Cabinet postpones considering proposal to hike electricity tariff
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara has submitted the Cabinet Paper on the proposed revision of electricity tariffs to the Cabinet of Ministers at today’s meeting. Meanwhile, it is reported that the Cabinet has postponed considering and reaching a decision on the cabinet paper to next week’s meeting. https://youtu.be/bWVpemHrtNs In addition, Minister Wijesekara has mentioned that he briefed the ministers on the requirements, proposed tariff structure, energy forecast and finances. In a Twitter message, he further pointed out that an additional one week was given... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Cabinet agrees to the proposal to import eggs
Trade Minister Nalin Fernando has submitted the proposal to the Cabinet of Ministers to import eggs. Accordingly, the Cabinet has directed him to take necessary steps to do so. https://youtu.be/I_pk5ijT8jM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
PRICE CONTROL, REGULATION OF TRADE, OR CONSUMER EDUCATION FOR A PROPER CONSUMER REGIME?
Cost of Living A proper consumer regime is a prerequisite for a smooth and successful management of economy which is directly interconnected to consumerism which controls and pushes the economy of a country. Consumer regime is the proper balance of the consumer trader and the governance that has a direct relevant on the economy. Consumer regime is governed by the legislature, government policy and competition on a democratic capitalist social mixed with socialism. In the circumstances the cost of living cannot be controlled as in a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
’’Regulation of the Regulatory Bodies on Regulatory Procedure in Sri Lanka’’
Regularization Procedure Regularization is a part of administration and government process in Sri Lanka and world over often used in governance and delegation of powers to subsidiary bodies and institutions, which is not a successful process in Sri Lanka. In the UK Europe and USA this process is successful such as Rail Regulator and regulatory body’s functions on gas, electricity water which is semi privatized in UK where the companies have set up subsidiary companies as agents on gas,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
MORALITY-NO MORE AN AXIS
Ethical values and moral traditions could vary from place to place as social norms and traditions change with the change of region. Things morally acceptable in US might not be socially acceptable in China or Russia. For example leering or staring a woman is a serious crime in US but in India such actions are treated as “routine matters” and in Afghanistan the culprits involved in such ‘routine matters’ have to face beheading. In the Western countries, we see that morality is considered the center of gravity and axis around which the whole system revolves; and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Expectations from new Chinese ambassador in Bangladesh
Newly appointed Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday evening (December 28). He will replace outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming as the 16th ambassador of China to Bangladesh. Chinese embassy in Dhaka said Yao expressed his great pleasure to come to Bangladesh, the Pearl of the Bay of Bengal, to serve as 16th Ambassador of China to Bangladesh. Yao thanked and paid a tribute to Bangladeshi friends from all walks of life for their kind help and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
"දහම් පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනයට බාධක රැසක් තියෙනවා. දහම් පාසල් ගුරු පරමාදර්ශී සිද්ධාන්තය තුළ ඒ බාධක ඉවත්කිරීමට හැකි වේවි." -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා.
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවේ නව වසර ආරම්භයේ (2023.01.01) ආගමික වතාවත් සඳහා සහභාගි වූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයේ දී ආගමික වතාවත් සිදුකළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා, කැලණි රජ මහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත හිමියන් බැහැ දුටුවේය. අනතුරුව, නාරාහෙන්පිට අභයාරාමාධිපති පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද හිමියන් බැහැදුටු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අභයාරාමයේ පැවති දහම් පාසල් ගුරු පුද උළෙලට සහභාගි විය. එහිදී කතා කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා... "අපේ රටේ බෞද්ධ ප්‍රබෝධයට නායකත්වය දුන් බෞද්ධ සංගම් හා ඒ නායක නායිකාවනට දහම් අධ්‍යාපනය විවිධ මඟ පෙන්වීම් කළා. බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ වදාල ධර්මය අප කාටත් අවබෝධ කරගැනීමට හැකි වන්නේ ඒ ශාසනික මෙහෙවර නිසයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
IMF Stalls for India to Destabilize & Divide
‘The growing Indian role in Sri Lanka is accelerated by the US-controlled IMF deliberately delaying much needed assistance’, observed National Freedom Front (NFF) MP Wimal Weerawansa in June 2022. The PM (then: Ranil Wickremasinghe) was also ‘delaying getting fuel from Russia’. Weerawansa suspected the Quad and the West would use their ‘Right to Protect’ policy to launch ‘international’ military operations against Sri Lanka, (ee 18 June 2022, IMF Delays Dollars to Fuel the Flames). • 6 months hence, it is the end of 2022, and IMF stalling continues. They keep beating about the tea bush. They are threatening... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Sri Lanka’s central bank chief says to reduce interest rates in 2023
Steps will be taken in 2023 to reduce key interest rates in Sri Lanka, said Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Nandalal Weerasinghe on Sunday. Weerasinghe told media that inflation is also expected to fall in 2023. He said that Sri Lanka’s inflation rate eased to 57.2 percent in December from 61 percent in November, noting that this reflected that the policies they have taken from April 2022 were successful. High interest rates have kept inflation down but the rates will be reduced as the economy stabilizes,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
2023 will be ‘critical year’, says Sri Lanka president in New Year’s message
Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Sri Lanka was hit by an unprecedented financial crisis in 2022 due to a severe paucity in foreign exchange reserves. Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe is seen.(Reuters) Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said 2023 will be a “critical year” for the cash-strapped country, as his regime desperately scrambles to inject much-needed impetus to galvanise the beleaguered economy. Read more: Taiwan's olive branch to China and a shared task for 2023: ‘We are willing to…’ Sri Lanka was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Lanka welcomes new Russian flights after tourism plea
(AFP)Sri Lanka on Thursday welcomed the first Russian travellers aboard a new flight service that was launched after the bankrupt nation urged Moscow to help revive its beleaguered economy by sending tourists. Russia was Sri Lanka’s biggest source of visitors at the start of the year but arrivals nearly ceased after the invasion of Ukraine and as the Indian Ocean island weathered its worst-ever economic crisis.A commercial dispute also saw direct flights between the two countries suspended for months, prompting then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ask his counterpart Vladimir Putin to resolve the impasse.Thursday’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/23)
Lanka expects India, Japan, New Fortress to join in LNG deal: Minister
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka is expecting companies from Japan, India, Japan, and New Fortress Energy of the US to jointly come up with a proposal to supply a liquified natural gas terminal, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.Sri Lanka is building two LNG-capable 300MW-sized combined cycle power plants but has no terminal to unload the fuel. Minister Wijesekera claimed that a combined cycle known as Yugadanavi was already capable of running on LNG. Another 300MW plant known as Sobadanavi would be available from November 2023. “But the problem is the CEB unions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
Fonseka makes a verbal blow at Sajith
One cannot become a leader either by driving buses or by setting fire to buses, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said. He told this to reporters after an event today. "Driving buses is not a qualification to become a leader. "He (Sajith) must be getting some satisfaction by donating a bus and driving it. One cannot become leaders by driving buses or setting fire to buses," he said. "Those things go with political culture of the country. My personal opinion is that this political culture should be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
We plan to turn around the economy in 2023: President
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said 2023 will be a critical year in which Sri Lanka was planning to turn around the economy. "We must boldly implement the proposed social, economic and political reforms to build a prosperous and productive Sri Lanka in the coming decade," he said in his New Year message. The full messege We are looking at the New Year 2023 after having undergone the bleakest of times, immense hardships, as well as the uncertainties and hopelessness of the last year. I understand the great... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
Gota back in the USA and a Chilling Killing: Welcome to 2023 and (Virtual) Realty in a Post-Truth World
While the press was distracted with the chilling killing of Mr. Dinesh Shaffter, scion of a respected and powerful business family; ultra-nationalist ex-President of Sri Lanka and erstwhile US citizen, Gotabaya Rajapakse, slunk back into the United States via Dubai on an Emirates Airlines Flight from Colombo in the third week of December 2022. Gotabaya Rajapakse had done his time and could now return home to the US: During the Aragalaya protests that hit global headlines earlier that year, President Gotabaya was an embarrassment and not welcome in his second homeland the US, or... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
Mercouris: "Something Big Is On the Way"
“The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that’s what’s coming.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor (9:35 minute) “Strictly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet.” Vladimir Putin The war in Ukraine is not going to end in a negotiated settlement. The Russians have already made it clear that they don’t trust the United States, so they’re not going to waste their time in a pointless gabfest. What the Russians are going to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
A wish-list for the New Year
Landmark days, like the 1st of January and, more importantly for us in Sri Lanka, the Aluth Avurudda in the month of Bak (that's April), are about renewal, discarding of hang-ups and errors, and a fresh page. We are now done with 2015. The year 2016 is ours to inhabit, revel in and decorate. It is ours to mess up too. Landmark days, like today, are made of kiribath, some decorations, greeting cards and everyone wishing everyone else makes for good cheer. That’s all nice but in the end is but thin cover that other imperatives dissolve... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
It is time to un-‘develop’ our minds
We are a few hours away from the year 2013. The world has not ended and the signs are it will not. Strangely, the end of the world sometime in late December was the most looked forward to event of the entire year, beating by a fair margin the Olympics, the US Presidential Election and the T-20 World Cup. Well, it looks like Doom’s Day prophets have called it a day. For now. A calendar year is ending and a new year beckons. It’s naturally a moment to look back and look ahead, to think about the what-have-we-done... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
Why a chain of limestone shoals between India and Sri Lanka has led to a political brawl
Aerial view of the Ram Setu situated between India and Sri Lanka. | National Aeronautics & Space Administration, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Union minister Jitendra Singh’s statement in Parliament on the Ram Setu kicked off a political storm, with the Congress’ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel saying last Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party “must apologise for misleading” the nation on the issue. Ram Setu or Adam’s Bridge is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/23)
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