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News Archive for Nov 2023
2024/25 දී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ජනාධිපති හෝ මහ මැතිවරණයකට නාම යෝජනා පත්‍ර දීමට පෙර සියළුම ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයින් සහ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ජනතාව සමඟ පොදු ප්‍රඥප්තියකට එකඟ විය යුතුය.එසේ නොකරණ සෑම ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයෙකුගේ මෙන්ම සෑම පක්ශයකම නාමයෝජනා පත්‍ර ප්‍රතික්ශේප කළයුතුය. 1948 සිට මේ වෙනතුරු කොට මහ මැතිවරණ 16 ක් පමණත් ජනාධිපති වරණ 6කුත් පවත්වා තිබෙනවා. ඒ කියන්නේ ආණ්ඩු 16ක්. ජනාධිපතිවරු 9 ක්. හැබැයි අපේ ආණ්ඩු සහ ජනාධිපතිවරු කොතරම් හොඳට රට පාලනය කරලා තියෙවාද කීවොත් 1948 වෙනකොට ආර්ථික වෂයෙන් ආසියාවේම දෙවැනි රට වෂයෙන් තිබුණ අපි අද මුලු ලෝකයේම අන්තිම හිඟන රටක් බවට පත්වෙලා. මේ වන විට ලන්කාව බන්ක්ලොත් රාජ්‍යක් හැටියට විළි ලැජ්ජානැතිව මුලු ලෝකෙටම ප්‍රකාෂ කරල හමාරයි. මේ රටේ 2,19,16,436 (දෙකෝටි දහනව ලක්ෂ දහසය දාස් හාරසිය තිස් හයෙන්) සෑම එක් පුහ්ගලයෙක්ම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
Heard In Parliament
When confronted with a difficult question from a member of the public it is the standard ploy of a bureaucrat to throw the book of rules at him. FRs and ARs are safe havens of the unwilling bureaucrat. Recently a similar situation was witnessed in Parliament. When the opposition asked for information on the 10 biggest defaulters on loans from the two State Banks the government response was that the Banks operate on the principle of confidentiality and there is a strict procedure in the Banks in revealing information on their customers. It was further... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
රජයේ 2024 රේ අයවැය යෝජනා දුටුවිට මට එක් වරම මතක් උනේ මහදැනමුත්තා සහ ගෝලයෝ 5 දෙනා, ගෙයකට රින්ගා මුට්ටියක ඔලුව හිරකරගත් එලුවාගේ ප්‍රස්නය විසඳපු හැටි.
හුදී ජන පහන් සන්වේගය සඳහා පමණි. මහ දැනමුත්තාගේ කතාව මම ඉගෙනගත්තේ මගේ ගමවූ මීමුරේ ගමේ පාසැලේ 2 වන වසරෙදී. ඒ 1946 දී. මහ දැනමුත්තා කියන්නේ එකෝමත් එක කාලෙක අපේ රටේ හිටපු ලොකුම ලොකු පඬි තුමා. ඔහුට හිටියා ඒවගේම උගත් ගෝලයෝ 5 දෙනෙක්. ඒ පස්දෙනාට නම් දීලා තිබුණේ මෙහෙමයි.රබ්බඩ අයියා,කෝටුකිටය්යා, පොල්බෑමූනා, ඉදිකටු පැන්චා සහ පුවක්බඩිල්ලා. මේ නම් ඔවුන්ට දීලාතිබුණේ මහදැනමුත්තාමයි. ඔවුන්ගේ ඇඟේ පතේ හැඩරුව අනුවයි, ඒ නම් දීලත් තිබ්බේ. එහෙම නැතිව ඔවුන්ගේ දැණුම මිණුම හෝ දක්ෂපක්ෂ කම් නිසා නොවෙයි. තම ගුරුතුමාට ගමනක් යනකොට පාරේ ඉස්සැරහින් ගල්, ලී වැනි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
Post Gaza Query: Israel In New World Order Minus The Hegemon?
When the dust settles on the Israel-Gaza war, Israel will be confronted with an existential question: should it redesign itself to harmonize with the region and beyond? Or continue in old, exceptional ways? The exclusive Israeli-style vengeance witnessed in the 51 days of bombardment, a jaw for a tooth, was possible only with the US hegemon standing four square behind all of Israel’s actions. The situation today is this: BRICS are standing firm while G7 are falling apart even the issue of the Israel-Gaza conflict. A target must quickly swim into their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
From Abraham to State of Israel: 3,750 Years of Jewish History
Embark on a historical journey through the heart of the Jewish experience—from the ancient call to Abraham to the establishment of modern-day Israel. This deep dive explores pivotal moments that have shaped the nation's destiny and the unyielding spirit of a people in pursuit of a place to call home. Witness the trials and triumphs, the conflicts and the resolutions, that mark the epic saga of the Jewish people. From their origins in the Fertile Crescent to the bustling streets of Jerusalem, discover how historical events have led to the current complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
රිකට් නීති පොත් වෙනස් කල නව සොයාගැනීම කලේ මමයි.ගෞරවය මට ලැබෙනවට කැමති නැහැ
https://youtu.be/NJDa6UnY1Gc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
Colombo’s consumer price inflation increases to 3.4% in Nov.
Sri Lanka’s overall rate of inflation as measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) on year-on-year (y-o-y) basis has increased to 3.4% in November, from 1.5% in October. The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS), in its latest report, said the year-on-year inflation of the food group increased to -3.6% in November from -5.2% in October. Meanwhile, the year-on-year inflation of the non-food group rose to 6.8% in November from 4.9% in October. For the month of November, the contribution to inflation by food commodities was -1.20%, while the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
Parliamentary Privilege Protects MPs - cannot be sued over statements made in parliament : Speaker
Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has declared that Members of Parliament (MPs) are protected by parliamentary privilege and cannot be sued for the statements they make within the House. The announcement came in response to a question raised by Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa during a parliamentary session. The clarification follows a recent case filed before the Court of Appeal against former Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe. The petition, filed by Attorney-at-Law Dimitri Shiraz Augustus Pietrangeli, alleges contempt of court over a statement made by the Sports Minister,in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/23)
Significance of Bangladesh’s IMO vice presidency
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) encourages governments to work together to regulate shipping involved in international trade and to adopt the highest standards that are practical in terms of maritime safety, navigation efficiency, and the prevention and control of marine pollution from ships. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency tasked with creating and approving policies to enhance maritime safety and security and to stop ship pollution, is crucial to achieving the objectives outlined in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 of the UN: Seas, oceans, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
PAKISTAN--RIGHTS OF ADMISSION RESERVED
From the US to UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, China and Saudia, no country allows any immigrant to stay there without official documentation. Recently when Pakistan announced a strict action plan against all illegal immigrants, a very strange and illogical wave of resentment simply ‘haunted’ the attention of some specific human rights organizations all over the world. It seems that Pakistan has done something illegal and unethical by planning against the illegal immigrants in the country. It is something very strange that none of these human rights organizations liked to raise a voice against the recent shocking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
The Treatments for PTSD
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same., Albert Einstein For treatment, procedures for PTSD in Sri Lanka medications and psychotherapy are widely used. Some prefer to use indigenous treatment measures. The victims of PTSD have psychological as well as physical (somatic) symptoms. Since there is no magic bullet for PTSD, the treatment measures generally take fairly a long time. Connecting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
Vitamin D For All:—
Part Five: Vitamin D safety and adverse effects—When should caution be advised? In hypovitaminosis D, maximum benefit occurs over a steep dose response. Beyond that, no matter the high doses, additional benefits won't exist. This principle is crucial for designing Clinical Studies and RCTs and Practice (DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11061542) https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/vitamin-d-safety-adverse-effects-caution-advised/ It provides original links to the previous Four Q&A articles. https://www.facebook.com/sunil.wimalawansa/posts/pfbid0eUKpKgZWmJ9XBdRpE8u47GMTgvhJtgGdKeds4K69sdcUUTfgtv7PJkgf5RbgRPL3l... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
අධිකරණය අවසර දුන්නොත් දිගටම ක්රිකට් අතුරු කමිටුව..- හරීන්..
රිකට් අතුරු කමිටුවක් පවත්වාගෙන යාමට අධිකරනයෙන් බාධාවක් නොවන්නේ නම් හිටපු ඇමති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා විසින් පත්කර ඇති අතුරු කමිටුව දිගටම පවත්වාගෙන යාමට තම අනුමැතිය ලබාදෙන බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති හරීන් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අධිකරණයේ තීරණයට ගරු කරමින් ක්රිකට් ගැටළුවට තමන් මැදිහත් වීම සිදු කරන බවද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. වත්මන් ක්රිකට් අර්බුදය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ විමසීමකදී ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් පරිපාලනයේ ඇති වත්මන් අර්බුද ඉතා ඉක්මනින් විසඳා ගැනීමට ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය සමග අද හෙටම සාකච්ඡා අරඹන බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. ඒ සඳහා ඉක්මන් පියවරක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
Child trafficking: Sri Lankan children victims of trafficking (and easy passports)
An organised crime cartel allegedly brought 13 children 'regularly' from Sri Lanka to Malaysia and from there, using false documents, they were trafficked to the rest of the world, including Europe. The chairman of the National Child Protection Authority, Udayakumara Amarasinghe: 'Parents are given a certain amount of money to take them abroad even though this is a criminal offence'. Colombo (AsiaNews) - Last week the Sri Lankan immigration and emigration control body filed a formal complaint with the human trafficking, smuggling and maritime crime investigation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
‘Insult to Easter attack victims’: Catholic Church deplores Tennakoon’s appointment as Acting IGP
The Sri Lankan Catholic Church has deplored the appointment of Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon as the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP). Addressing a media briefing today (Nov.29), Spokesperson of the Colombo Archdiocese Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini said the Catholic Church deems this appointment ‘an insult’ to the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. “The appointment made by the President [Ranil Wickremesinghe] is condemned by His Eminence the Cardinal [Malcolm Ranjith]. At the same time, we vehemently oppose it. We consider this appointment a disgrace to the victims of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
Sri Lanka says Official Creditor Committee agreed in principle to restructure $5.9bn of debt
The Sri Lankan government has announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with its Official Creditor Committee (OCC) on the financial terms of a debt treatment. Issuing a statement, the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policy stated that the agreement in principle covers approximately US$ 5.9bn of outstanding public debt and consists of a mix of long-term maturity extension and reduction in interest rates. The Sri Lankan government has commended the support and cooperation of OCC members in reaching this agreement, which demonstrates a mutual commitment to restoring... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 10G
A book titled “Kurundi Vihara Vamsaya” was published in 2023, by Sarasavi Prakashakayo. The idea of such a publication originated with Channa Jayasumana, who felt that an authoritative book on Kurundi was urgently needed. He has funded the publication as well. The book was edited by Chandima Bandara Ambanwela and Sumedha Weerawarne. Chandima is from the Department of Archaeology & Heritage Management, Rajarata University. Sumedha is from Department of Philosophy, University of Peradeniya. The essays were written by 15 or so contributors. Chandima and Sumedha have carried out their task as editors... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 10F.
Kurundi vihara supporters were quietly active, where Kurundi was concerned. They set up committees in Colombo to support Kurundi. Ven.Medagoda Abeyatissa of Sunetra Devi Pirivena, Pepiliyana, and Dr Wasantha Bandara had told Ven. Santhabodhi they would gather the national organizations together for the Kurundi cause. On September 25, 2022 the Jatika Sanvidana Ekamutuwa met at Sunetra Devi Pirivena for a two hour discussion on Kurundi. Ven. Medagoda Abeyatissa, Ven. Induragare Dhammaratana and a third bhikkhu whose name Santhabodhi cannot recall presided. Udaya Gammanpila, Jayantha Samaraweera, Sarath Weerasekera and Channa Jayasumana were there on invitation.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
අවුකන බුදු පිළිම වහන්සේ!
මිනිසුන්ගේ මොලයේ ඇති ප්‍රශ්නයක්, අවුකන බුදු පිළිමයට ආදේශ කරගෙන සමාජ ප්‍රශ්නයක් නිර්මාණය කරගෙන ඇත.ඇයි මිනිසුන් තුල මේ ආකාරයේ ප්‍රශ්න නිර්මාණය කිරීමට අදාළ සිතුවිලි පහල වෙන්නේ? යන්න සම්බන්ධව අපි කරුණු සෙවිය යුතුයබුදු දහමට අනුව කිසිවෙක් උපතින් උසස් වෙන්නේ වත් පහත් වෙන්නේ වත් නැත. උපතින් සමානව උපදින මිනිහා දෙකට බෙදී සුළුතරයක් උසස් තලයකටත්, බහුතරයක් පහත් තලයකටත් ගෙවැදී මේ අර්බුද නිර්මාණ කරණයේ යෙදෙයි. අයි එහෙම වෙන්නේ?නුතන විද්‍යාවට අනුව මිනිසා මිහිමත බිහිවී වසර මිලියන 7කට ආසන්නය. මිනිසෙක්ගේ පරමායුෂ අවුරුදු 100ක් ලෙස ගත කල මේ වන විට මිනිස් පරම්පරාවල් 70,000 ක් මිහි මත බිහිව තිබේ.ආරම්භක මිනිසා එලෙසම නොපවතින අතර ඔහු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Update on Appeal Hearing scheduled for 04.12.2023 to repeal Tamil Genocide Education Week Act, 2021
Why does this matter, you might ask? We have migrated from Sri Lanka to Canada seeking peace, far removed from the divisive politics of our homeland. My aspiration is to coexist and collaborate with my Tamil friends and families in harmony. It's imperative to acknowledge the suffering endured by all affected by governmental policies or acts of terrorism and to find a middle ground that fosters mutual respect, acknowledges our shared struggles, and promotes reconciliation. This legislation has fractured our community, and it is this division that necessitated a legal challenge. The legal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Labor Minister Disappointed with Delays in Housing Loan Scheme for Migrant Workers
Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara expressed his dissatisfaction today (27) with the delay in implementing a low-interest housing loan scheme for migrant workers, despite Cabinet approval. Minister Nanayakkara conveyed his displeasure during a scholarship awarding ceremony organized by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment. At the event, he presented scholarships to children of migrant workers who demonstrated outstanding academic performance. The Minister acknowledged the significant contribution of migrant workers to the country's economy, emphasizing the government's commitment to supporting and encouraging them through various initiatives. However, he lamented... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
විදේශගත ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට බැංකු ණය දෙන්න කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය දුන්නත් බැංකුවලට ඒක ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්න බැරි වෙලා
තීරු බදු සහන දෙන්න ජනාධිපතිතුමා ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කළත් රේගුවට තවම පියවරක් අරගෙන නෑ - අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාරගෙන් චෝදනාවක්විදේශගත ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට අඩු පොලී නිවාස ණය ලබාදීමට කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල අනුමැතිය ලබාදී ඇති නමුත් එය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට භාණ්ඩාගාරයට සහ බැංකුවලට තවමත් හැකියාව ලැබී නැති බවත්, විදේශගත ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට ලබාදෙන තීරු බදු සහනය ඉහළ දැමීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා ගැසට්නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබියදීත් එය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට රේගු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට හැකියාව ලැබී නැති බවත් ඇතැම් රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරනීගේ ක්‍රියාකාරකම් හේතුවෙන් විදේශගත ශ්‍රමකයින්ට ලබාදීම නියමිත සහන ලබාදීමට නොහැකි වී ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදෙශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසීය.රජයක් වශයෙන් ගෙනයන සාධණීය වැඩසටහන් සඳහා ඇතැම් රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
මුළු පාර්ලිමේන්තුවම විරුද්ද වෙද්දී ජනපති, සාගල එක්ව ශම්මි රැක්කා…
රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමේ ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ නිර්ලජ්ජිත ක්‍රියාව දැඩි පිළිකුලෙන් යුතුව හෙළා දකින බවත් රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා “ෂම්මි සිල්වා පමුඛ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් චෞර වළල්ලට” එරෙහිව ගත් ආදර්ශවත්, විශිෂ්ට ක්‍රියාමාර්ග දැඩි සේ අගය කරන බවත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ පවසයි. 28 පිටකෝට්ටේ පිහිටි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී එහි ජාතික සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා එසේ පැවසීය. තම අපකීර්තිමත් දේශපාලන ඉතිහාසය නිසා කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට තේරී පත්වීමට හෝ නොහැකි වූ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ජාතික ලැයිස්තුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ආ බවත් පසුව ඊනියා ගෝල්ෆේස් අරගලයේ පිහිටෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Sri Lanka to distribute shoe vouchers to 747,000 children in December
COLOMBO, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Ministry of Education will commence distribution of vouchers to buy shoes for 747,000 poor children from Dec. 4, a government official said on Monday. Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha told parliament that the distribution of vouchers would end by Dec. 24, which would allow children to buy shoes to wear to school in the new year. He also told parliament that the government is planning to provide sanitary napkins to female students free of charge starting next year. There are 1.6 million primary school... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Sri Lanka selects China’s Sinopec for $4.5bn refinery project
The refinery will be built at Hambantota port in the south of the country. The investment would represent a significant achievement in Sinopec’s long-term strategy to grow outside of China. Credit: testing/Shutterstock. Sri Lanka’s Government has approved China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation’s (Sinopec) proposal to build a $4.5bn (32bn yuan) refining facility, reports Reuters. With the approval, the Chinese Government-backed refiner will be able to complete project specifics and enter a contract with the government before commencing the construction of the refinery. The facility, which will focus on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Sri Lanka implements free tourist visas to nationals from India and six other countries
Aimed at boosting the tourism sector, Indian tourists – the largest inbound group – to Sri Lanka, would receive free tourist visas with immediate effect, the Department of Immigration and Emigration has announced here. The facility follows a Cabinet decision from October to issue free tourist visas to travellers from India, China, Russia, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand amidst efforts to rebuild the debt-trapped island nation's tourism sector that had slumped since the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. The pilot project to offer free visas for the first 30 days would... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Woman claims to be Tamil Eelam terrorist Prabhakaran's daughter, video goes viral
A woman claiming to be daughter of slain LTTE leader Prabhakaran, addressed Lankan Tamils and she assured that the Tamil Eelam's fight for freedom will continue. Identifying herself as Dwaraka, Prabhakaran's daughter, she expressed her willingness to reveal her identity to the world on an important day. A video of a woman, claiming to be the daughter of the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Prabhakaran, surfaced on social media on the occasion of "Maveerar Naal", a Remembrance Day observed by Sri Lankan Tamils worldwide to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Lessons from Sri Lanka on populist economic interventions
Protesters, many carrying Sri Lankan flags, gather outside the presidents office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July 9, 2022. [AP Photo] A recent Daily Mirror editorial on Sri Lanka mentions that since independence, the country had implemented a number of welfare measures such as, “subsidizing costs of food and fuel.” It adds that “these measures were intended to gain electoral popularity, but they also led to a weakening of the economy.” Last year, Sri Lanka reached the zenith of its economic and financial crises.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Sri Lanka needs $100 billion to become net zero emitter by 2040, president says
Sri Lanka needs $100 billion to become a net zero emitter by 2040, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday, as the island also attempts to build climate change resilience while navigating its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka will focus on green financing tools, including debt for nature swaps as it attempts to reach the net zero target, Wickremesinghe told Reuters in an interview. But he added it does not have immediate plans to utilise green bonds. “Some (funds) will come from investors who are interested, and I think we have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
President outlines plans to transform Colombo into an entertainment hub
In a landmark address at the 58th Annual General Meeting of the Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL), President Ranil Wickremesinghe outlined a comprehensive strategy to propel the country’s tourism sector to new heights, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. During the meeting which was held on Monday (27) at Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo, Wickremesinghe emphasized that focused on surpassing the target of 5 million tourists and redefining traditional approaches, his vision extends to achieving 7.5 million visitors in the coming years. The President emphasized the need for innovative thinking and collaboration within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
Downfall of current govt has begun – Wimal sounds warning
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Wimal Weerawansa has warned that the downfall of the current government has commenced. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday (28 Nov.), Weerawansa alleged that the President’s decision to remove Roshan Ranasinghe from his ministerial portfolios was a ‘testament’ to Ranil Wickremesinghe’s “true character”, and further accused the Head of State of “siding with thieves”. “The current President had the crown [Presidency] fall on to his head thanks to the ‘Aragalaya’, but yesterday, he showed his true character very clearly. He sacked the Minister who spoke against corruption,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
SLRC and SLBC to be converted into a public company – Bandula
It was disclosed at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Mass Media that the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) continue to incur losses. This was revealed when the relevant committee met in Parliament on Thursday (Nov. 23) under the Chairmanship of the Minister of Transport and Highways and Minister of Mass Media Dr.Bandula Gunawardana. Presenting statistics from 2015, the Chair pointed out how these two channels have made losses, the Parliamentary Communications Department said in a statement. Accordingly, the Chair pointed out that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
අනේ... දුකක් නෑ මේ ප්‍රශ්නය ජනාධිපතිවරණයකදී ඉවර කරනවා - රොෂාන් ඇමතිකමට සමුදෙයි
https://youtu.be/SghHDg0dXLI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
ජනපති ගැන කියන විමල්ගේ හූනු සාත්තරය (වීඩියෝ)
රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මීට පසු ජනාධිපතිවරණයකට කිසිසේත්ම නොඑන බව තමා හූණා කිව්වා සේ පවසන්නේ යැයි කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් මන්ත්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අද (28 ) ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදු කළා. "කවුරුහරි එහෙම හිතාගෙන ඉන්නවනම් අනේ පව් කියලා තමයි මට කියන්න වෙන්නේ" යැයි බවයි ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කළේ. https://youtu.be/zn14SeS_mfk ඔහු ජාත්‍යන්තර සංවිධානයක තනතුරක් ලබාගෙන ඉදිරි කාලය වැජඹීමට බලාවි යැයිද මන්ත්‍රීවරයා කියා සිටියා. ජනාධිපතිවරණ අපේක්ෂකයෝ දැන් ගොඩක් සිටින බවත් පඳුරකට ගැහුවොත් හැටක් විතර සිටින බවත් ඔහු පවසනවා. ජනාධිපති පුටුවට ගිය පසු ඔහුගේ සියලු කටයුතු අවසන් වන හෙයින් එතනින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/23)
මා මැරුවොත් ජනාධිපති හා සාගල වගකිව යුතුයි.. සාගල කියන්නෙ මොකෙක්ද…- රොෂාන් විශේෂ ප‍්‍රකාශයක
ඇති වී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය මත තම ජීවිතයට හානියක් සිදු වුවහොත් ඊට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හා සහ ජනාධිපති කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්‍රධානි සාගල රත්නායක මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිස වගකිව යුතු බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශයක් කරමින් තමන්ගේ ජීවිතය පිළිබඳව අද වන විට අවිනිශ්චිත තත්ත්වයක් ඇති වී තිබෙන බවද හෙතෙම එහිදී කියා සිටියේය. https://youtu.be/TFD3t0OQcVs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/23)
Roshan Ranasinghe removed from ministerial posts
Roshan Ranasinghe says he has been removed from his positions as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs and Minister of Irrigation. The SLPP parliamentarian said that he received a letter from President Ranil Wickremesinghe informing him that he has been removed from all his ministerial portfolios and positions with immediate effect. https://youtu.be/PoljiYzKMCY Delivering a special statement in Parliament this morning (27), Ranasinghe had claimed that his life at risk, and that in the event anything should happen to him, the President and his Chief of Presidential Staff... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/23)
Unilever & The New-Old Screws: Land & Labour Acts
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 19-25 November 2023 * ‘What are the problems of the farmers who currently own lease lands? The government has stopped subsidies. The government has stopped fertilizer. The government is not helping with water supply. The government is not buying their crops. The government is not supporting them to get loans from state banks, based on their income from production ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 10 A.
Revised 26.11.23. The Sarasavi publication “Kurundi vihara vamsaya” (2023) provides a systematic account of the difficulties faced by Kurundi in the present period. The account is often in the first person, from the experience of the chief priest of Kurundi, Ven. Galgamuwe Santhabodhi. In this book, Ven. Santhabodhi relates his experience in trying to revitalize Kurundi. When he was residing at Sapumalgastenne aramaya at Weli Oya, he had met a team from the Department of Archaeology who had come to report on the destruction of Buddhist ruins in the area. They had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/23)
ජාතිය ආගම මුලට දාගත්ත පක්ෂ තහනම් කළ යුතුයි - මනුෂගෙන් යෝජනාවක්
ජාතිවාදය වපුරමින් පටු දේශපාලන වාසි ලබාගන්නා, ජාතිය, ආගම මුලට දාගත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ තහනම් කළ යතු යැයි කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි.1956 දී සිංහල භාෂාව රාජ්‍ය භාෂාව බවට පත්කළ දිනයේ සිට දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සිය දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් ජාතිවාදය යොදා ගන්නා බවද, ලබන වසරේදී මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව තිබියදී ඇතැම් දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම් තම වාසිය වෙනුවෙන් ජාතිවාදය නැවත ඉස්මතු කිරීමට උත්සාහ ගනිමින් සිටින බවද අමාත්‍යවරයා චෝදනා කළේය.වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද පැවසුවේය.ජාතීන්ගේ නම් දාගෙන ඉන්න දේශපාලන පක්ෂ මේ රටේ දේශපාලනයෙන් ඉවත් කළ යුතුයි. අර ජාතික පක්ෂය, මේ ජාතික පක්ෂය කියලා ජාතීය හෝ ආගම කේන්ද්‍ර කරගෙන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/23)
බැඳුම්කර මගඩි හරිත ශෝධනය කිරීම සහ සොබාදහම මූල්‍යකරණයට ගොදුරු කිරීම: දේශගුණික විද්‍යා ප්‍රබන්ධවලට එරෙහිව දේශීය යථාර්ථයන්
පළමු කොටස අපි ජීවත්වන්නේ සදාකාලික හදිසි අවස්ථාවක් තුළය. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය, දේශගුණික ව්‍යසනය, දූෂිත ණය අර්බුදය, උද්ධමනය, දිළිඳුකම, අසමානතාව ආදි ආඛ්‍යානයන් නිර්මාණය කිරීම සහ ඒවා සම්බන්ධ ගෝලීයකරණවාදි ප්‍රතිපත්ති සැදීම සඳහා කටයුතු කළ එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ සංවිධානය සහ බ්‍රෙට්න්වුඩ් කවයන් තුළ මේ දිනවල ඉතා ජනප්‍රියව ඇති වදනක් වන්නේ “ බහුවිධ අර්බුද” යන්නයි. මේ අතර ජාතික සහ කලාපීය මට්ටමේ දැවැන්ත ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය වැරදිවලට නිරතුරුව හේතුවන පරිදි අතිශයෝක්තියට නගන ලද “ බහුවිධ අර්බුද” සහ යෝජීත “ගෝලීය විසඳුම්” විසින් ගෝලීය දකුණේ දේශිය, ජාතික සහ කලාපීය යථාර්ථයන් සහ සංවර්ධන ප්‍රමුඛතාවන් කොන්කර අතුරුදහන් කිරීම ශීඝ්‍රයෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/23)
බංකොළොත්භාවය අවසන්" - සහතිකය ලැබුණු බව ජනපති කියයි (වීඩියෝ)
රටේ බංකොලොත්භාවය අවසන් වී ඇති බවත්, රටවල් රැසකින් ඊට අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතිචාර ලබා දී ඇති බවත් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පවසනවා. ලබන වසර සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කළ අයවැය යෝජනාවක් වන “උරුමය” වැඩසටහන පිළිබඳව ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීමේ පළමු අදියර අද (26) අනුරාධපුර නොච්චියාගමදී ආරම්භ කෙරුණු අතර ඊට එක් වෙමිනුයි ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ. https://youtu.be/nhQFZhO-uxQ “උරුමය” වැඩසටහන යටතේ සින්නක්කර ඔප්පු ලබා දීම සඳහා මෙවර අයවැයෙන් රුපියල් බිලියන 2 ක මුදලක් වෙන් කර තිබෙනවා. අද දින එහි පළමු අදියර ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්‍රශ්න කර සිටියේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
Who is Politicising the Easter Sunday Attacks?
The call for an independent investigation of the Easter Sunday bombings grew in crescendo during the last months of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s tenure in Office. The Catholic Church actively galvanised the anti-government protesters to oust President Gotabaya. Their grievance was not so much than the economic crisis but that the culprits they identified as responsible for the attacks were not brought to book. The Church was especially upset that Senior DIG of Police Nilantha Jayawardena, who was the Head of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) at the time of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
Sports Minister reveals SLC corruption exposed by resigned secretary
Kandy, Nov 26 (Daily Mirror) - Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said the recently resigned Sri Lanka Cricket Board Secretary Mohan de Silva contacted him from Australia, exposing corruption within the SLC. "Mohan de Silva called me from Australia revealing his attempts to steer the SLC in the right direction. Witnessing a lack of proper action, he highlighted widespread theft under the guise of investments that took place within the SLC, leading to his resignation," he said during a visit to Kandy to meet the Maha Nayaka Theras of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
“Urumaya” Freehold Deed Program: A Tribute to Sri Lankan Farmers : President
In a historic move to empower the agricultural sector and strengthen the export economy, President Ranil Wickremesinghe unveiled the "Urumaya" Freehold Deed Program during the first phase of the public awareness campaign for the 2024 budget proposal. The President emphasized that this program is a tribute to the farmers who have been the backbone of the nation for generations. President Wickremesinghe outlined the key objectives of the initiative, stating that the export economy would be significantly fortified by transforming every village into an enterprise village. He also revealed plans to establish agriculture modernization... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
Presidential Election: EC looking at polls date from 16 Sep.-17 Oct.
The forthcoming Presidential Election is slated to take place on a day between 16 September and 17 October next year, as confirmed by Election Commission (EC) Chairman R.M.A.L. Rathnayake. He told The Sunday Morning that the specific date for the election would be decided and officially announced in July (as per the two-month advance notice prior to the commencement of the stipulated election period). Emphasising on adherence to constitutional and legal frameworks, Rathnayake highlighted that the selection of the election date would strictly follow the procedures outlined in both the Constitution and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
‘අපි වසර 15ක් හිරේ යයි..’ ක්රිකට් ලොක්කෝ කතා වෙති.. අස්වූ ලේකම් තොරතුරු දෙයි..
රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ ලේකම් ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස් වූ මොහාන් ද සිල්වා මහතා එම ආයතනය වංචා දූෂණ වංචා පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු රැසක් තමන්ට හෙළිදරව් කළ බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. දැනට ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සිටින හිටපු ලේකම්වරයා දුරකථන මාර්ගයෙන් තමන්ට මෙම තොරතුරු ලබා දුන් බවද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. https://youtu.be/ko8DR1LFgUg අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ මල්වතු මහනාහිමියන් බැහැදැකීමට මහනුවර මල්වතු විහාරයට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ මාධ්‍ය අමතමිනි. ක්රිකට් ආයතනයෙන් නෙරපනු ලැබූ වුවොත් වසර 15 ක සිර දඩුවම් විදීමට සිදුවනු ඇතැයි එම ආයතනය ප්‍රධානීන් සාකච්ඡා කර ඇති බවද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
වන අලි සුරක්ෂණය වන ජීවී දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පමණක් තනිව කල නොහැක - හමුදා සහාය ලබා දිය යුතුයි
අලි ඇතුන්ගේ වන ඉඩම් ආක්‍රමණය කර ඇත්තේ මිනිසුන් විසිනි. අලි ඇතුන් තවත් යා යුත්තේ කොතැනටද? දිනකට වල් අලියෙක් පමණ මැරෙණ තැනට අද රට පැමිණ ඇත. වල් අලින් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට වන ජීවී දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට තනිව කල නොහැකි බව ඔවුන් ක්‍රියාවෙන් ඔප්පු කර පෙන්වා අවසන්ය. සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක භටකාය විසිරුවා හැරීමට නියමිත නිසා මින් ඉදිරියට අලි වැටවල් බලා ගැනීමටද කෙනෙක් නොමැති වනු ඇත. වන ජීවී දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට යුධ හමුදාවේ ක්‍රියාකාරී සහාය ලබා දීම අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය වේ. අලි - මිනිස් ගැටුමේදී වන ජීවී දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව අලින්ගේ පැත්තට වඩා මිනිසුන්ගේ පැත්ත ගෙන කටයුතු කර තිබෙන බවට පරිසරවේදීන් චෝදනා කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
Global Economic Forum Summit at Asia's Biggest Convention Centre BMICH Colombo Sri Lanka
Global Economic Forum Summit at Asia's Biggest Convention Centre BMICH Colombo Sri LankaRead more At:https://www.aninews.in/news/business/business/global-economic-forum-summit-at-asias-biggest-convention-centre-bmich-colombo-sri-lanka20231125171429/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
Sri Lanka to OK Sinopec's $4.5 bln refinery proposal on Monday -minister
COLOMBO, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will likely approve on Monday a proposal from Chinese state refiner Sinopec to build a $4.5-billion-dollar refinery, the South Asian island nation's energy minister said on Saturday. "It's on the agenda for Monday. Once the cabinet gives approval, we will invite them to sign the agreement," Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera told Reuters. Sri Lanka, trying to recover from its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years, is hungry for new investment and local fuel supplies. Sinopec's investment of at least... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/23)
SJB belatedly defends 2017 Foreign Exchange Act, rejects Justice Minister’s claim of funds ‘parked’ overseas
Dr. Rajapakshe and Dr. de Silva Top SJB spokesman Dr. Harsha de Silva on Monday (20) dismissed Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe’s claim that well over USD 56.5 bn had been parked overseas by some exporters. Dr. de Silva also contradicted claims made by rebel SLPP MPs Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Wimal Weerawansa and Gevindu Cumaratunga on the matter. The Justice Minister and rebel SLPP MPs have declared that the enactment of Foreign Exchange Act No 12 of 2017 had led to the current situation.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Errant politicians, voodoo economists and the verdict of learned judges
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yahoo.ca The Supreme Court has ruled (with one dissenting against four assenting voices) on 14th November 2023 that three members of the Rajapaksa family, including two former Presidents and a coterie of their close officials were responsible for the country’s worst economic crisis that ended in bankruptcy. The petition by civil society activists and NGOs named the current President, Ranil Wickremesinghe as the 1st respondent, while the respondent no. 32A was Gotabhaya Rajapaksa of Pangiriwatte Rd, Mirihana. Ajith Cabraal, P. B. Jayasundara and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Gevindu raises questions about US-funded training for judges, others and funding for BASL
Rebel SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga yesterday (23) said that Sri Lanka should be concerned about external interventions in the judiciary.MP Cumaratunga told The Island that without any malicious intent, on behalf of the Nidahasa Janatha Sabhawa he raised the issue at hand in parliament on Wednesday. The leader of Yuthukama civil society group urged parliament to provide required funds for judges of the Supreme Court and other courts to receive overseas training. The MP warned against the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Sri Lanka losing US$ 200 million a year and pay higher insurance tariffs due to non availability of Electronic Navigation Charts – State Minister of Defence
State Minister for Defence, Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon, addressing a Press Briefing held under the theme ‘Collective Path to a Stable Country,’ at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC) today (24) said that Sri Lanka was losing around US$200 million annually as only 116 of the 122 Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) which map out Sri Lanka waters were not available. He added that providing ENC’s was a global responsibility of a coastal nation. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Saliya rejects President’s claims he had ambition to be PM
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Former Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) President Saliya Pieris PC today rejected the claims by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament that Pieris had ambitions to be Prime Minister prior to May 9, 2022. Sharing a post on Facebook, Pieris said that the President had mentioned his name in Parliament and falsely claimed that he had ambitions to be Prime Minister. Former BASL President said that President had made these false remarks under cover of Parliamentary immunity where he cannot be replied to. "I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Modara Fisheries Harbour case; Rajitha pleads not guilty of charges
Colombo Nov. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Former Minister of Fisheries Rajitha Senaratne and two others who were indicted before the Colombo High Court, for causing losses to the State when leasing out the Modara Fisheries Harbour to a private company in 2014, pleaded not guilty of the charges following the reading out of the charges against them by the interpreter mudliar of the court. https://youtu.be/hvUT6xsbGVg The case was called before Colombo High Court judge Navaratne Marasinghe and the indictments against the accused were read out before the open court... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Institution obtains Rs. 7 bn loans from two State banks using same security: Sajith
Parliament, Nov.24 (Daily Mirror) Revealing that a certain private institution had obtained a loan amounting to Rs. 7 billion from the Bank of Ceylon and People's Bank using the same security, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today urged the government to disclose the names of the first ten borrowers of the two State banks who had defaulted massive amounts of loans. Raising a question under Standing Order 27(2), he said people doubted whether the two State banks were not recovering the loans granted to individuals and institutions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Ranil criticizes India
Colombo, Nov.24 (Daily Mirror) - President Ranil Wickremesinghe has slammed the Indian government for criticizing Sri Lanka at the United Nations over the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils. “I don’t agree with Indian comments. I was surprised that India criticized our record,” Wickremesinghe said during an exclusive interview with First post. Admitting that Sri Lanka may become a battleground in the geopolitical power struggle between India and China, President Ranil Wickremesinghe assured that his country will not endanger the security of its South Asian neighbour. “It can happen... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Central Bank further relaxes its monetary policy stance
The Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to further reduce the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank by 100 basis points (bps) to 9.00% and 10.00%, respectively. At its meeting on Thursday (Nov.23), the Board arrived at this decision following a careful analysis of the current and expected developments in the domestic and global economy, with the aim of achieving and maintaining inflation at the targeted level of 5% over the medium term, while enabling the economy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Sri Lanka, EU sign €15mn agreement to promote circular economy in food sector
The Sri Lankan government and the European Union (EU) have signed a financing agreement to promote a circular economy and sustainable consumption and production in the food sector. The grant of EUR 15 million from the EU aims to increase food availability for vulnerable people through more efficient distribution channels/mechanisms of food, avoiding food waste and/or convert food waste into much needed farming inputs like organic fertilizer, animal feed, etc. “Sri Lanka face numerous challenges, from resource scarcity to effective protection of environmental and other resources. Within these challenges, however, lies an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Breach of public trust; throwing stones from glass houses
Economic mismanagement by successive regimes made Sri Lanka bankrupt. Rather than proposing a collective self-reflection, analysing mistakes made and looking to the future rather than dwelling on the past, some politicians are throwing stones from glass houses and pretending they are fully clothed Emperors. It is common knowledge that the Sri Lankan bankruptcy was the culmination of economic misjudgement and mismanagement by successive regimes. Some politicians however do not think so although they too were complicit in this mismanagement. While the Supreme Court in the country found that the leadership and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
SC judgment on MR, GR, BR, PB and Cabraal
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ගෝඨා කළ කැත වැඩ ගැන විජේදාස කෙළින්ම කියයි - දූෂණය නවත්තන්නේ කොහොමද ? PB සහ මිලින්දගේ මගඩි...
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අනුර බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතාව බෝතලයට ඇබ්බැහිකලේ කවුද? (Who made Anura B a drunkard?)
බෝතලයට ඇබ්බැහිවන අය කොටස් දෙකකි. මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා පොත් ලිව්වේ අඩියක් ගසාගෙනලු. චන්ද්‍රිකා මැතිණිය ඉඳහිටවත් විස්කි බිව්වේය. බෞද්ධ දර්ශණය පිලිඹද මහාචාර්යතුමෙක් බෝතලය නිසාම ලෙඩවී මියගියේය. අනුර බණ්ඩාරනායක අකාලයේ මියගියේ ඔහුගේ යාළුවන් ඔහුව ලොස් ඇන්ජලීස් ගෙන්වාගෙන හොඳට සප්පායම් කල නිසාය, මෙම කොටසට ලංකාවේ කියන්නේ බේබ්ද්දන් කියාය. මහගම සේකර, ප්‍රේමකීර්ති ද අල්විස් යන අය නිර්මාණකලේ පොඩි අඩියක් ගහගෙනද කියා මම නොදනිමි. එහෙත් මෙම සටහන ලිවීමට හේතුව මේ දිනවල සේපාල් මහතා විසින් වාරණ ආනන්ද මහතා සමඟ කරණ යූටියුබ් සාකච්චාවේදී කරණ ලද බලවත් චෝදනාවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මා දන්නා කරුණක් රටවැසියන්ට වාර්තා කිරීම පිණිසය. තමන්ට බොන්න පුරුදුකලේ මහින්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Explaining Supreme Court Decision: Mismanagement of Economy Leading to Breach of Public Trust
On November 14, 2023 Sri Lanka Supreme Court found Gotabaya, Mahinda, Basil and a few others have breached public trust owing to their mismanagement of the economy from 2019 to 2022. The general public has not been educated sufficiently on the facts of the case. News media were too lite in reporting the gravity of the case. In fact, the gravity of the decision is yet to sink in. The main thrust of the case is that the persons mentioned above were found to have violated the principle of equal rights (Article 12(1)). This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 10E.
The Mullaitivu judge T. Saravanaraja who heard the case relating to the Kurundi vihara, resigned from his position of District judge and Magistrate, on September 23rd 2023. He said there were threats to his life due to the orders he delivered in the Kurundi case. Saravanaraja submitted his resignation letter to the Judicial Service Commission on September 23 and went abroad on September 24. Saravanaraja resigned without formally informing the police or the Judicial Service Commission about the alleged death threats against him. His action is baffling, Justice Minister, Wijedasa Rajapaksa said. As a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Prez addresses SLPPer’s concerns over new Uni and permanent land deeds to farmers
SLPP MP Sarath Weerasekera yesterday (22) said that he voted for the 2024 Budget after having received an assurance from President Ranil Wickremesinghe that his concerns over the proposed move to allow Provincial Councils to establish Universities on their own and the issuance of permanent deeds to farmers would be addressed. The former Public Security Minister said so when The Island asked him what made him vote for the Budget after having had expressed serious concerns over the above mentioned issues. During the Budget debate, the former Navy Chief of Staff strongly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Aragalaya led to rise in underworld, drugs: Minister
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - The Aragalaya has increased underworld activities and drugs in the country, Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said today. He told Parliament that police had to fully focus on Aragalaya and related incidents for about a year, which prevented them from engaging in other activities. “Drugs and underworld activities had increased during this period. We are taking measures to gradually curb the underworld and drugs,” he said. The Minister said there were more than 20,000 vacancies in the Police Department and that steps were being... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
President Ranil says Sri Lanka does not allow ‘spy ships’ to dock
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says there was no evidence indicating that the Chinese research vessels that had docked in Sri Lanka were ‘spy ships’. “We asked for evidence, and there was none. These were civilian ships.” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=359472059822114 In an exclusive interview with the Indian news agency Firstpost, the Sri Lankan leader said the island nation would not allow ‘spy ships’ to make port calls here. Responding to a question on the arrival of two Chinese research vessels in Sri Lanka amidst the concerns raised by India and the United... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Thousands of Sri Lankan workers set to depart for Israel amid war with Hamas
Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara, has revealed that the Ministry has received over 10,000 applications to work on Israeli farms. Supermarket manager Laknath Dias says the economic crisis in his native Sri Lanka is too much for him to bear. He is getting ready to fly to Israel in December to work as a farmhand for nearly 10 times the pay, despite the war with Hamas. Dias is among 20,000 workers that Sri Lanka, desperate for dollars and remittances, plans to send to Israel starting early next month to work... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
President Ranil unveils plans to revive Sri Lanka’s agricultural exports; establish Agro–Technology University
In a significant and forward-looking speech at the 25th Presidential Awards of the Export Development Board (EDB), held today at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), President Ranil Wickremesinghe outlined a comprehensive plan to revitalize Sri Lanka’s agricultural sector for export, acknowledging past challenges and missed opportunities. The President also underscored the importance of modernizing agricultural practices and enhancing research capabilities. He revealed plans to restructure and modernize existing agricultural research institutes, culminating in the establishment of the Agro-Technology University of Sri Lanka. This institution aims to support extension services and further innovation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Thailand-Sri Lanka free trade talks set to start next week
Thailand and Sri Lanka plan to conclude negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) by the end of this year, with the pact scheduled for signature in early February 2024, says the chief of trade negotiations of Thailand. Chotima lemsawasdikul, director-general of the Thailand’s Trade Negotiations Department, said Thai and Sri Lankan officials are slated to meet Nov 27-29 this year for the eighth round of FTA talks, with Thailand hosting the discussions, the Bangkok Post reported. The negotiations aim to reach a substantial conclusion, with another round of talks in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/11/23)
Ada Derana First At 9.00 - English News 23.11.2023
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KANDYAN CHIETAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – FINAL PART (PART IX)
(Continued from 24, October, 2023) Some Land Claims of Kandyan Chieftains 1. SABARAGAMUWA AND UVA In 1875 a vast quantity of valuable forest land was claimed by Chiefs and Headmen what were known as “British Grants” - conferred upon them soon after the Kandyan War of Independence in 1817-1818 for the services rendered to the British Crown in quelling the uprising. In many cases the extent of field held by virtue of the deed was far in excess of what was specified. This was the observation made by A.R.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
Dissenting judgement on MR, GR, BR, PB & Cabraal
The manner in which Justice Priyantha Jayawardena’s dissenting judgement on the two fundamental rights cases numbered 195/2022 and 212/2022 was reported on by sections of the media would convey the impression that it was based entirely on the technical point that the petitioners had not come before the SC within the time frame specified by the Constitution. Justice Jayawardena’s dissenting judgement does state that: “I hold that the parties have not invoked the jurisdiction of this court within one month of the alleged infringements as required by Article 126(2) of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
ජනාධිපති කඩිමුඩියේ ගොවියන්ට රජයේ ඉඩම් වලට සින්නක්කර ඔප්පු දෙන්නේ ඇයි
පුද්ගලික ඉඩම් අයිතිය පිළිබඳ සංකල්පය බටහිර න්‍යායවාදීන් විසින් යටත් විජිතකරණයෙන් පසුව නිර්මාණය කරන ලදී. කිසිවකුට අයත් නොවූ භුමිය, හදිසියේම තෝරාගත් පුද්ගලයන් අතළොස්සකට ලබා දුන් අතර යටත් විජිත වකවානුවෙන් පසුව තේරී පත් වූ රජයන් භූමියේ භාරකරුවන් බවට පත් විය. පැහැදිලිව තේරුම් ගත යුත්තේ - භුමියේ අයිතිය පුද්ගලයින්ට හෝ ආණ්ඩුවකට හෝ ජනාධිපතිට අයත් නැති බවයි. ආණ්ඩුවක් පත් කරන්නේ මහා ජනතාවයි. ආණ්ඩුව තාවකාලික භාරකරුය. ජනාධිපතිද තාවකාලික භාරකරුය. රටක භුමිය හා එහි සම්පත් සියල්ල කාටවත් අයිති නැත. භුමිය හා සම්පත් තාවකාලිකව ආණ්ඩුවටත්, ජනාධිපතිට මහා ජනතාව තාවකාලික භාර දී ඇත. එක පරම්පරාවකට භුමියේ අයිතිය හෝ සම්පත් විනාශ කිරීමේ අයිතිය දී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
The deal behind giving land ownership certificate to Sri Lanka’s farmers
The Govt PR channels and clueless politicians are not surprisingly going to town about the magnanimous gesture about farmers getting deed ownership to lands that were given to them by the State as a lease. While a government has no constitutional ownership to the land of a nation, a Government, President or Politician has no moral or legal right to disburse of land with complete ownership. This is because the land of a nation must remain to be enjoyed not only by the present generation but by future generation. This much, everyone... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
Mahaveerar Naal (Great Heroes Day) / ‘Maaveerar Vaaram’ (Great Heroes Week)– Is it a LTTE event?
Mahaveerar Naal is a LTTE mourning event – it does not mourn Tamils & certainly not Tamils killed by LTTE. Mahaveerar Naal is an event annually organized by LTTE supporters to commemorate all LTTE who died for terrorist cause. Other Tamil militant groups are not allowed to commemorate their dead on this day – 27 November. It is only dedicated to LTTE dead. All those gathered for Mahaveerar Naal commemorations are LTTE only. The LTTE families mourning LTTE dead are known as Maaveerar Kudumbangal. Why 27th November becomes Maaveerar Naal Day? ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 10D
The Tamil Separatist Movement has tried to use the law courts to try and stop the revival work on Kurundi. They have used the Mullaitivu police and the Mullaitivu Magistrate court for the purpose. On 4. September 2018. Santhabodhi accompanied by Department of Archaeology officers from Vavuniya and Colombo set off for Kurundi, to make arrangements to set up a guard house at Kurundi. They were not allowed to proceed to Kurundi. The police stopped them halfway and told them that they did not have permission to erect any new structures. There... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
Secretary Defence graces 52nd Bangladesh Armed Forces Day Ceremony
Defence Secretary, General Kamal Gunaratne graced the 52nd Bangladesh Armed Forces Day ceremony as the Chief Guest at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo last evening (Nov. 21). The host, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka HE Tareq Md Ariful Islam received the Defence Secretary on his arrival at the venue. Addressing the distinguished gathering the Defence Secretary praised the existing bilateral ties between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and also stressed the importance of maintaining the longstanding relations. While mentioning the cooperation and camaraderie that have defined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
It is not Cricket
The controversy on the activities of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLBDC) has gone viral. It is one issue which has involved all three pillars of the government, the executive, legislature and the judiciary. It has brought the warring political parties on common cause of saving the game of cricket. However, one aspect of this issue which is the role of the ICC is not revealed. It entails essential principles national sovereignty and good governance. Although the ICC was London based the ICC memo And Articles were registered in the British Virgin Islands. Now... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
Colombo calling Beijing: ready for Phase 2 of the Belt and Road Initiative
Sri Lanka is increasingly tying its fragile economy to China. After the debt agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China, Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe said he was ready to expand the direct corridor with China bypassing India. Xi Jinping’s special envoy, State Counsellor Shen Yiqin, used her visit to the island to "lay out” China’s cards. Colombo (AsiaNews) - Sri Lanka is set to launch Phase 2 of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with China, starting with the existing China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), to include... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
SC ruling on economic crisis: Parliament also responsible, says Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday said that Parliament like other institutions should bear responsibility for the unprecedented economic crisis caused during President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s administration. Minister Sabry said so when The Island sought his response as regards the responsibility of Parliament for the developing situation against the backdrop of the country being bankrupted mainly due to overall mismanagement of the economy. At the time of the eruption of public protests in early 2022, Minister Sabry served as the Foreign Minister of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
Parliamentary caucus on cricket to be formed: Speaker
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- A special parliamentary Caucus will be appointed to revive cricket in Sri Lanka, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced today. He told Parliament that it will be appointed following a request by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
USD 55,000 given by Jay Shah, Siraj for ground staff yet to be paid: Sajith
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- A sum of USD 50,000 donated by Asian Cricket Council chief Jay Shah and USD 5,000 given by Indian cricket star Siraj for the ground staff of Pallekele and R. Premadasa stadiums have not been paid yet, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament today. https://youtu.be/aO18ZE-h5Z4 "The ground staff have not been paid to date. What has become of this money," he asked.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
President assures to look into three letters sent by SLC to ICC
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today that he will look into the three letters that were sent by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to the International Cricket Council (ICC). The President requested Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa to send him the three letters and assured to look into them. https://youtu.be/pURIzEHs3jg He said this in response to a statement by the Opposition Leader that the SLC had sent three letters dated November 6, 7 and 9 to the ICC requesting it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
Rekawa is a UNP stalwart; President questions why he was verbally attacked in Parliament
Claiming that he was saddened by the verbal attack on Ariya Rekawa and his son in Parliament, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said Rekawa was a UNP stalwart since 1970. He told Parliament that Ariya Rekawa and his son were good people and that he never think that Rekawa's son would be involved in any bad practices even though he was connected to the SLC. "Who is Rekawa? He has worked with us in the UNP since the 1970s. Ranasinghe Premadasa requested him to contest the election and he was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/23)
’I was forced to swollow screw nails in Saudi’ - abused Sri Lankan maid reveals
KATUNAYAKA (Daily Mirror) - Darshani, a Sri Lankan maid who returned from Saudi Arabia said she was forced to swallow screw nails with water by her employer which resulted in her being hospitalized. Making an emotional statement at the Katunayake airport upon her arrival, the housemaid said she was continuously abused and assaulted by her employer. The victim, a resident of Mathugama is a mother of three children. https://youtu.be/0WXDfaBLrCA Coming to her rescue, Marimuthu Nilantha Kumara, the husband of the victim, who earns a living as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
Tri-forces collect Rs. 8.6 million expressways toll revenue amid strike
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - More than Rs. 8.6 million in revenue has been earned as expressway toll by 3 p.m. today after the tri-forces were deployed for operations at ticket counters since the launch of a strike by the Expressway Worker's Union. The All-Island Expressway Workers’ Union initiated the strike today, citing various demands, including concerns about the privatization of the highway network. In response to the 24-hour token strike, tri-force personnel were deployed to manage ticket counters and provide security on the expressways. Accordingly, the Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
There are other offenders in addition to Rajapaksas: Ranil
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror) - Referring to the recent judgment given by the Supreme Court where former Presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Mahinda Rajapaksa former Minister Basil Rajapaksa and others were held responsible for the economic crisis, President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said one has to look into whether others are also responsible for the economic debacle and have engaged in a breach of public trust. “One must note that even the opposition has engaged in a breach of trust. It is the duty of the main opposition to take over the government once... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
Using too many antibiotics may cause death to everyone within about 50 years: Pediatrician
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Using antibiotics without a doctor's prescription could cause the death of necessary bacteria that are needed for the survival of the body, and the diseases caused by the creation of resistant bacteria in the body spreading throughout society could cause death for everyone within about 50 years, Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) Consultant Paediatrician Dr. Deepal Perera said. Commenting on the 'World Antibiotic Awareness Week' from November 18 to 24, he further said that the world's antimicrobial experts have discovered this through research. Dr.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
Presidential and parliamentary elections will not be postponed - President
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the Presidential Election and the Parliamentary Election will both be held next year and that neither of the elections will be postponed. He stated this while delivering a special statement in the Parliament today (22) regarding several matters including the existing cricket crisis. https://youtu.be/czwqFodhcd4 “We have established democracy in this country. So, now how can you say that we are afraid of an election? We will hold the elections. The Presidential Election and the Parliamentary Election will both be held next year. None... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
70% of this year’s budget earmarked for loan installments, interest payments – Ali Sabry
Minister of Foreign Affairs President’s Counsel Ali Sabry has emphasised the imperative need for a comprehensive, long-term targeted program as the primary solution to address the economic crisis facing the country. Minister Ali Sabry underscored the complexity of the economic challenges and stressed that short-term fixes would not suffice, highlighting the necessity for strategic planning and sustained efforts to achieve economic stability. The Minister also noted the imperative of trapping tax evaders in the tax net to ensure the country’s continued status as a welfare state. In this regard, a program is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
Bandula says expressway workers on strike removed ticketing machines
Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardena has slammed the token strike launched by the expressway employees this morning (Nov.22) as a deliberate attempt at incurring a loss to the government. “This is not a trade union action, but a subversive move,” the lawmaker said addressing the parliamentary session earlier today. https://youtu.be/6WEQ4wPYrEk The All-Island Expressway Workers’ Union resorted to a token strike at 7 a.m. today by calling in sick. The trade union action is based on 3 key issues: the alleged attempts by the Finance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/23)
Sri Lanka Could Have Won 1996, 2003, 2007 and 2011 Cricket WC Finals Without Murali and Arnold
Facts are stranger than fiction! Can Sri Lankans handle the truth? Team Sri Lanka won the ICC Cricket World Cup Final in 1996, were Finalists in 2007 and 2011 and Semi-Finalists in 2003. A careful look at the scorecards of all the above Final and one Semi-Final (2003) matches reveals that Murali and Arnold took just one wicket in total (that is Shane Warne who is not a dangerous batsman). Absolutely no catches and no runouts by them. Just 3 runs scored by them in total. Emphasis is only the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
Cricketers’ Attitude
There is much debate in the country about our cricket. There is no doubt that the Cricket Board and the Selection Committee should bear major responsibility for the debacle. But, what about the recent and current Cricketers? The writer states they too must bear responsibility. It is the players who play on the field, not the officials. The players have shown a very bad attitude in representing the country. They may be talented cricketers, but their lack of discipline has brought forth not only... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට (JVP) යාහැකි මඟ - part 1
(784) නීතීඥ වටගල හා ලාල්කාන්තගේ පුතාලා ගැන සමන් කියූ කතාව-සෞඛ්‍ය\ගුරු ප්‍රශ්න දකින විදිහ - YouTube හෘද ශාක්ෂිය හා අධ්‍යාත්මය අතර වෙනසක් තිබේද? අනුර කුමාර මහතා විසින් නොබෝදා කල <JVP එක විසින් ජාතික ජන බලවේගයට (NPP) <අධ්‍යාත්මය> සපයනවා [පිඹිනවා],> යන ගාම්භීර ප්‍රකාශය නිසා මෙම කෙටි සටහනට මා විසින් කලින් යොදාගන්නට සිතූ, <JVP නායකයින්ගේ හෘදය ශක්ෂිය > යන මාතෘකාව ඉවත් කිරීමට තීරණය කළෙමි. මෙම හෘද ශාක්ෂි කතාව රට තුල පුන පුනා කියන්නේ නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු මහතාය. මුන් 225 ම එපා, අවුරුදු 75 ක්ම මුන් රට කෑවා, යන පද වෙනුවට, <අනුර කුමාරලා, සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාසලා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
චීන ශ්රී ලංකා ආර්ථික, ආයෝජන සහ සංස්කෘතික සබඳතා වර්ධනයට පියවර..
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ චීන ජනාධිපති ෂී ජින් පිං මහතාගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිත, රාජ්‍ය මන්ත්‍රී ෂෙන් යිකින් (Shen Yiqin) මහත්මිය අතර හමුවක් අද (2023.11.20) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලංකාව වෙත චීනය ලබා දෙන අඛණ්ඩ සහයෝගය ඉතා ඉහළින් අගය කරන බවත්, චීනය සහ ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර ආර්ථික සහයෝගීතාව තවදුරටත් පුළුල් කර ගැනීමේ විශාල හැකියාවක් පවතින බවත් මෑත කාලීන ණය අර්බුදයෙන් පසු ආර්ථිකය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත්කිරීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබා දුන් සහයට ස්තූතිවන්ත වන බවත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පැවසීය. සෘජු පෞද්ගලික ආයෝජන මෙන්ම කෘෂිකාර්මික ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ආයෝජන සහ අපනයනය, පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය, තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ, අධ්‍යාපනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
Toilets in only 1 in 20 homes in Sri Lanka
On the occasion of the World Day celebrated by the UN on 19 November in Sri Lanka, the Public Health Inspectors Association released some data on the scarcity of these essential facilities for the protection of people's health and dignity. Colombo (AsiaNews) - Yesterday, 19 November, marked the "World Toilet Day" called for by the UN to focus on the issue of accessibility and availability of public toilets, an issue that is far from insignificant in Sri Lanka as pointed out by Public Health Inspectors Association member W. D.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
China, Sri Lanka vow to deepen bilateral ties
COLOMBO, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe met here on Monday with visiting Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin, with both sides pledging to deepen cooperation and friendship between the two countries. Wickremesinghe thanked China for its long-term valuable support and assistance to Sri Lanka, saying that Sri Lanka firmly supports the joint Belt and Road construction, and encourages Chinese enterprises to invest in the country to promote the construction of Port City Colombo and Hambantota International Port. Sri Lanka strictly adheres to the one-China policy and hopes to deepen... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
Another VAT fraud: coal imports under-invoiced, COPA orders probe
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - The Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) will initiate a probe into incidents in which stocks of coal imported for the Norochcholai thermal power plant have been under-invoiced for the evasion of due amount of Value Added Tax (VAT), an official said. COPA Chairman Lasantha Alagiyawanna told Daily Mirror that the COPA examined the audit reports of Sri Lanka Customs for 2019, 2020 and 2021. He said the COPA ordered a further probe into this matter. “Coal imports have been under-invoiced to avoid VAT payment,” he said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
China keen on extending China-Myanmar Economic Corridor to Sri Lanka
Special envoy of the Chinese President Shen Yiqin with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo on Monday. China is “prioritising” the extension of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) to Sri Lanka, the country’s Special Envoy told President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday, in an indication that China is looking to scale up the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project in South Asia. Also read: Adani ports gets ₹4,118.89 crore for Colombo terminal project Paying a courtesy call on the Sri Lankan President, Special envoy of the Chinese... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
Sajith demands removal of committee chairmen over conflict of interest
Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday called on Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to remove parliamentary committee chairmen who had conflicts of interest. Premadasa demanded to know from the Speaker what moral right a person had to chair a committee investigating Sri Lanka Cricket after providing consultancy services and getting paid for those services from the SLC. “I call upon the Speaker to conduct an investigation and inform the House who the proprietor of the Business Management School of Colombo is and the names of public institutions that obtained his services. Various public... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
Parliamentary Select Committee to probe irregularities in SLC
The Committee on Parliamentary Business has agreement to appoint a Special Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the irregularities in Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC), under a co-chairmanship of the ruling parties and the opposition. This was decided on during the meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Business this evening (20) chaired by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. The Secretary General of the Parliament, Kushani Rohanadeera, said that during the meeting attention had been focused on the appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the irregularities in Sri Lankan cricket. The General... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
ක්‍රීඩා ඇමති වෙනුවෙන් ප්‍රබලයින් එළියට එයි අර්ජුන වෙනුවෙන් සාලිය අධිකරණයට "කරුණු වසන් කරලා"
https://youtu.be/Mo0JMp5Wlrg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
මුළු රටක් ආදරය කරන ක්රිකට් පාවා දුන්න හැටි රොෂාන් රණසිංහ කියයි - Hiru News
https://youtu.be/fkRkwQk8bik... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
Sports Minister tables letters sent to ICC by SLC to Parliament
Colombo, November 20, 2023 - The ongoing crisis within Sri Lanka Cricket took center stage in Parliament today as Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tabled three letters sent by Cricket President Shammi Silva to the International Cricket Council (ICC). These letters, requesting the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket's membership, have sparked a public outcry and raised concerns about the future of cricket in the country. https://youtu.be/sbofz_M0_1I In a press conference held yesterday, Minister Ranasinghe unveiled the contents of the letters, shedding light on the internal turmoil within the Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 10C.
Revised 24.11.23 The Tamil Separatist Movement continued to obstruct and harass the Kurundi project. On 3rd October 2018 a group of MPs from Colombo visited Kurundi. A group of Tamils confronted them and there was an argument with Tamil MPs and residents. On February 4th 2022 Ven. Santhabodhi had planned to hold a pinkama at Kurundi with 40 monks reciting Seth pirit. But that morning a group led by MPs Sumanthiran and Rasamanickam came to Kurundi together with a media team and challenged them. They announced over the media that work on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
The Unilever Elephant in the Teacup Battles the Ghost in the Machine
Posted byee ink.November 18, 2023Posted inUncategorized ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 12-18 November 2023 * Guess what? Karl Marx turns out to be the ghost in the machines of the largest and most strategic technological corporation in the world today. But first… There’s a lot unsaid about the visit of England’s Trade Envoy to Sri Lanka, Mervyn Evan Davies. This ‘Lord’ is said to have come to ‘experience’ the wonders of Unilever’s Horana factory & Rupee... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
රටේ දියුණුව - ජාතික සමගිය අපේක්ෂා කරනවා නම් එකිනෙකාට චෝදනා කිරීම් නතර කරන්න - ඒක මගෙන්ම පටන් ගන්න
කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර කච්චිවත්ත ඉස්ලාම් දේවස්ථානය පෞරානික උරුමයක් ලෙස නම් කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් පවසයිශ්‍රී ලාංකික ජාතියක් විදියට, මනුස්සයින් විදියට අප සියලු දෙනාම එකට එක්විය යුතු කාලයක් පැමිණ තිබෙන බවත්, රටේ දියුණුව හා ජාතික සමගිය යම් අයෙක් බලාපොරොත්තුවන්නේ නම් එකිනෙකාට චෝදනා කරමින් නොසිට එය තමාගෙන්ම පටන් ගත යුතු බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය.ගාල්ල, මාගාල්ල පුරාණ හජ්ජිවත්ත ඉස්ලාම් දේවස්ථානය පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක වටිනාකමක් ඇති ස්ථානයක් ලෙස නම් කිරීමේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවයට අද (19) පෙරවරුවේ සහභාගීවෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සදහන් කළේය.ඓතිහාසික ඉස්ලාම් දේවස්ථානය පෞරාණික උරුමයක් ලෙස නම් කරමින් ඒ සදහා අවශ්‍ය පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
Mosque Inauguration and Convention.
The Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at was held on Sunday the 29 October 2023 at Baitul Basit Mosque Sri Lanka in Pasyala, chaired by Markaz Representative. Prior to the main program, flag hoisting was done by the Markaz Representative followed by silent prayer. The main event started at 9.30 a.m. with the recitation of Holy Qur’an followed by its translation in Urdu, Tamil and Sinhala. The National President S. Nizam Khan delivered the welcome address in which he highlighted the establishment of Ahmadiyya Community in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
American backing for War on Gaza reaches new heights
18 Nov 2023, 23:13 GMT+10 Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked for permission. We are being dragged, into a war that is decimating a people. Palestinians, on the basis of their legal right against being wiped out, have filed a major lawsuit against President Joe Biden's administration. Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked for permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating a people. We are being forced to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
Noam Chomsky Interview Used in Documentary "Manufacturing Consent", February 1, 1990
Parts of this video were used in the documentary, "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/manuf... Watch "Manufacturing Consent" on youtube: • Video The interview was edited into two (or was it 3?) segments and played on my public-access show, also called "Non-Corporate News", on Time-Warner Cable channel 3, which then included the communities of Lynn, Salem, and Swampscott Massachusetts. Thanks to: Noam Chomsky, Len Caplan, Dan Kline, Peter Sofronas, Mark Achbar, and "Manufacturing Consent" crew. https://youtu.be/Qv-zIE_HxLA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
Israel’s Ludicrous Propaganda Wins Over the Only Audience That Counts
On November 11, an Arabic-language Twitter account maintained by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a video purporting to be a selfie by a nurse in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, a major battlefield in the current conflict that was taken over by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a few days later. In the startling video, as bombs went off in the background, the tearful nurse warned Gazans to heed the call of the IDF to flee to the south. She also affirmed many IDF talking points, notably that Hamas had taken over the hospital and were stealing morphine and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
Indian fishermen held by SL Navy freed
The Sri Lankan government has released 22 fishermen hailing from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, who were detained on November 18 by the Navy personnel on charges of poaching. The two seized country boats belonging to the fishermen have also been released, Rayappan, president, the country boat fishermen association, told journalists in Rameswaram on November 19. According to him, a fishermen’s delegation had met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on November 18 evening and briefed her about the arrest. She spoke with the External Affairs Secretary in New... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
Sports Minister exposes three more letters from SLC to ICC
(Daily Mirror) - Three more leaked letters addressed to ICC Chairman Greg Barclay by SLC president Shammi Silva detailing Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe's interference in decision-making processes as Sport Minister have resurfaced as part of the latest saga in the Sri Lanka Cricket situation. During a media briefing today, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said that Sri Lanka Cricket forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket. Earlier, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa revealed in Parliament that SLC's letters to the ICC led to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/23)
Will not support political parties to bring people to their rallies: Gemunu
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - The Lanka Private Bus Owners' Association (LPBOA) has decided not to provide buses to any political party to bring people to their rallies and meetings in the future. LPBOA Chairman Gemunu Wijerathne told the Daily Mirror that providing buses to bring people to political rallies and meetings should be stopped at least now. "All political parties, including extremists, socialists and capitalists, used to gather people for their rallies and meetings using buses, and most of the politicians used to mislead innocent people, and this had been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
Minister accuses Shammi of issuing threats
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said that he had received threats from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) President Shammi Silva and National Sports Council Director Sudhath Chandrasekara in a new turn of events between the two parties. The Sports Minister made these observations during a special media conference held in Colombo today. Ranasinghe said that he has already complained to the CID about the threats made by Shammi and Sudhath due to the current crisis between the two parties regarding the cricket administration in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
SLC forced ICC to suspend Sri Lanka - Sports Minister
Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe claims that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket. https://youtu.be/GCJUOHJfIaM Ranasinghe made this accusation while quoting a letter allegedly sent by SLC to the ICC on 07 November 2023, during a media briefing which is currently being held in Colombo. “Facts have been confirmed that the SLC President and the Executive Board has misled the ICC”, the minister said. Meanwhile, the minister quoting a letter said to have been sent by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
Greenwashing Bond Scams and Financializing Mother Nature: Climate Science Fiction versus Local Realities -Part I
Sri Lankan President unveils ambitious national green vision paving the way for a sustainable future Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 07:43 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. We live in a state of permanent emergency. “Poly crisis’ is a fashionable term these days in United Nations (UN), and Bretton Woods circles that engage in crafting Covid-19 panicdemics, climate catastrophe, odious debt, inflation, poverty and inequality narratives and related globalist policy making. Meanwhile, local, national and regional realities and development priorities in countries in the Global South are increasingly marginalized and rendered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
Climate Justice needed: Not Financializing Mother Nature and Greenwashing Odious Debt-PART 2
Given the critique of Odious debt accumulated as a result of private capital market borrowing and corrupt and opaque bond trading attempts are ongoing to simultaneously greenwash the bond business and deepen debt traps in the name of environment conservation, Debt for Nature Swaps (DFNS), Green and Blue Bonds or Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) bondscams. What the President’s green policy speech did not mention was that the island is already in a Eurobond debt trap with the IMF compelling more borrowing from predatory bondtraders as part of its “bailout business” in Sri Lanka,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
"Deegawapiya Trust Fund’ receives a donation of 4 million rupees
A cash donation of 4 million rupees for the renovations of Deegawapiya Stupa was handed over on 17th Nov to Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne who is the ‘Author of the Deeghawapi Aruna Trust’ and ‘First Trustee’. Ms. Chandra Silva made the donation at the Ministry of Defence located at Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. Ms. Silva had donated 2 million rupees previously in March 2022 for the renovations of Deegawapiya Stupa. Mr. Janaka Silva and Ms. Manojika de Silva were also present at the occasion.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
UN faces collapse amidst World War: Ahmadiyya Khalifa warns of escalating tensions following oppression against Palestine
In last Friday Sermon (17th November 2023) delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad reiterate Ahmadis to Continue their prayers for Palestinians, His Holiness said: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Fifth Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) while urging for continuous prayers for Palestinians, said in today’s (17 November 2023) Friday Sermon: “As I have been mentioning in my recent sermons about praying for the Palestinians, I wish to reiterate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
AI-generated video to be launched suggesting Prabhakaran’s daughter alive: Intelligence Reports
Nov 18 (DailyMirror) – Foreign intelligence agencies have alerted Sri Lanka that a video clip is being prepared to be disseminated around the world on November 27, using artificial intelligence to indicate that Dwaraka Prabhakaran, the daughter of late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, is still alive, informed sources said. November 27 is the day the LTTE had declared Ma Veerar Naal or Great Heroes Day and it was customary for Prabhakaran to make a special speech on that day. It has also been revealed that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
Sri Lankan Navy arrests 22 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district, seizes 2 boats
The Sri Lankan Navy personnel had detained the fishermen under charges of poaching into their waters. The Tamil Nadu Fisheries Department said that the country boat fishermen were arrested for allegedly fishing at Parithithurai, which falls under Sri Lankan waters. In yet another fresh incident, the Sri Lankan Navy personnel arrested 22 fishermen from Pamban and Thangachimadam in Ramanathapuram district on charges of poaching and impounded two country boats, on Saturday. According to official sources in the Fisheries Department, the Sri Lankan Navy personnel had detained the fishermen under... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
Sajith tables SLC letter to ICC over undue interference
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today revealed that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Shammi Silva had sent a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) alleging that the Sports Ministry had made undue interferences in its activities and claimed that this had paved the way for the ICC ban on Sri Lanka Cricket. The Opposition Leader told Parliament that the communique which contained five serious allegations with an additional point had been sent to ICC Chairman Greg Barclay on August 28, 2023, and he tabled the letter in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/23)
ශම්මි ICCයට යැවූ ලිපිය සජිත් සභාගත කරයි... බරපතළ කරුණු 5ක් ගැන විශේෂ අවධානය යොමු කරලා...
https://youtu.be/s3wTEQxMKAs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
ක්රිකට් තහනමට පසුබිම හැදුවේ ශ්‍රීලංකා ක්රිකට් එකෙන්මයි -ශම්මි චෝදනා 6ක් ICCයට බාර දීලා
https://youtu.be/ZPqrh5XyiR0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
Majority of Constitutional Council members decline to approve IGP extension
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - The Constitutional Council (CC) appears to be divided, with the majority of members declining to approve the reappointment of Mr. C.D. Wickramaratne as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Daily Mirror learns. The government has failed to make a permanent appointment since March this year because of differences between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Public Security Minister Tiran Alles on the next police officer to be picked for the post. Mr. Alles is insistent on the appointment of senior DIG (Deputy Inspector General) Deshabandu Tennakoon whereas the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
Terms of China debt deal shared with official creditors’ committee: CB Governor
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka is expected to make further headway with regard to restructuring its foreign debt and securing the second tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, as the government has disclosed the terms of the US $ 4.2 billion debt deal with China Exim Bank to the country’s other creditors. Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe confirmed this key development to Bloomberg this week but refused to disclose the terms of the debt deal to the media. In an interview with Bloomberg, Dr. Weerasinghe said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
President outlines vision for a unified Sri Lankan-Maldivian tourist area
During the key note address at the ‘YPO Colombo Experience: Rediscover the Pearl’ conference held today (18) at the Shangri La hotel Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe revealed his vision for transforming the economic landscape of the region. The President, who held discussions with the new Maldivian President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, yesterday (17), expressed a desire for closer collaboration between Sri Lanka and the Maldives, envisioning a unified Tourist area. The president highlighted the economic shift towards Asia, emphasizing the need for South Asian nations to work together to harness the growing economic power in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
SJB eyes on no-confidence motion against COPE chairman
November 18, 2023 10:34 pm Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s (SJB) has drawn attention to bringing up a no-confidence motion against the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) Prof. Ranjith Bandara. SJB Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella stated that discussions pertaining to the matter are currently in progress. COPE chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara came under fire for his conduct at the latest committee meeting, for which the officials of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were summoned. This prompted Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to announce on Friday (17) the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
දකුණු ඉන්දියාවෙන් උතුරට එන මගී නැව්
දැන් දකුණු ඉන්දියාවේ රාමේශ්වරන් සිට උතුරේ කන්කසන්තුරේ දක්වා නාවික මගී ප්‍රවහාන සේවයක් ආරම්භ කර තිබේ. දැනට පවත්නා අයහපත් මෝසම් කාලගුණ තත්ත්වය නිසා එය නවත්වා ඇතත් ලබන ජනවාරි මස සිට එය නැවත ආරම්භ වන බව ඉන්දියාව පවසයි. මෙවැනි නාවික ප්‍රවාහන සේවයක් ඇරම්හීම ඉතාම හොඳ දෙයක් බව බොහෝ දෙනා පවසයි. ඉන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආර්ථික වාසි ලැබෙන බව නොරහසකි. මෙම ලිපියෙන් අදහස් කරන්නේ මෙකී නාවික ප්‍රවහාන සේවයක් නිසා ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට සහ රටේ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවයට ඇති විය හැකි විපත් ගැන සාකච්චා කිරීමයි. 20 වෙනි ශත වර්ෂය පුරාවටම - 1964 සිරිමා - ශාස්ත්‍රී ගිවුසුම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
Israel-Gaza war: The dangers of weaponising anti-Semitism | UpFront
https://youtu.be/MOMr1YDbv30?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTzfWkcbgIinA4WvsdiulZAj... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
Yanis Varoufakis on Israel-Gaza: 'We Europeans have created this' | UpFront
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Do Sri Lankan Political Leaders Have a Short Memory?
Why Does the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Send a Bucket Load of Military Officers as Diplomats? Do Sri Lankan Political Leaders Have a Short Memory? Read the following article to recap on history! The Powerful Rajapaksa Dynasty Bankrupted Sri Lanka in Just 30 Months - Bloomberg.27 Apr 2022 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-27/the-powerful-rajapaksa-dynasty-bankrupted-sri-lanka-in-just-30-months Do I need to say more? Express Your Opinion - Read What Others Say!The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.Please visit -: http://www.lankaweb.com/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
ක්රිකට් නීති පොත වෙනස් කළ සේනකගේ DRS සංකල්පය අයිසීසී ය හොරෙන් ඉස්සුවාද?
ඔහු නමින් සේනක වීරරත්නය. හෙතෙම ප්‍රවීණ නීතිඥයෙකි. ලේඛකයෙකි. චින්තනවාදියෙකි. ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් පිටියේ දැඩි අවධානයට ලක් වූ ලිපියක් වසර 1997 මාර්තු මාසයේ 25 වැනිදා ‘දි ඔස්ට්‍රේලියන්‘ පුවත්පතේ පළ විය. ‘third umpire should perform role of appeal judge‘ ශීර්ෂ පාඨය යටතේ පළ වූ එම ලිපියෙහි සඳහන් වූයේ ඒ වන විට ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් තරගවලදී පිටියේ විනිසුරුවරුන් අතින් සිදුවන වැරදි තීන්දු තීරණ සම්බන්ධවය. එවැනි වැරදි තීන්දු තීරණ පසුව රූපවාහිනී පුනරූපණ මඟින් තහවුරු වීම නිසා ක්‍රීඩාලෝලීන්ගේ නළල්තල රැලි ගැන්වීමට තරම් විමතිය දනවන්නක් ද විය. අදාළ වැරදි තීන්දුවකින් කඩුල්ල රැකගන්නා පිතිකරුවා පසුව බොහෝ විට දීර්ඝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
Just not cricket
In 1997 a Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna proposed the use of aThird Umpire in an appellate capacity with powers to entertain anddecide upon appeals from a player dissatisfied with the decision of anon-field umpire.Twelve years later after much debate and discussion in the cricketworld, the ICC accommodated Weeraratne's proposal in the UmpireDecision Review System (UDRS). The rule became applicable in TestCricket from October 1, 2009.Even though the key mechanism of the UDRS is Weeraratne's proposal theICC has still not recognized his authorship. Though Sri LankaCricket (SLC) has accepted his authorship... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM PT 10 A.
REVISED 18.11.23 The Sarasavi publication “Kurundi vihara vamsaya” (2023) provides a systematic account of the difficulties faced by Kurundi in the present period. The account is often in the first person, from the experience of the chief priest of Kurundi, Ven. Galgamuwe Santhabodhi. In this book, Ven. Santhabodhi relates his experience in trying to revitalize Kurundi. When he was residing at Sapumalgastenne aramaya at Weli Oya, he had met a team from the Department of Archaeology who had come to report on the destruction of Buddhist ruins in the area. They had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM PT 10B.
REV 21.11.23 Ven. Santhabodhi met with continuous opposition from the Tamil Separatist Movement in his attempt to conserve Kurundi. The Tamil Separatist Movement had been observing what was going on in Kurundi from the very start and moved in on important occasions. EVENT NO 1 On 4. September 2018. Santhabodhi accompanied by Department of Archaeology officers from Vavuniya and Colombo set off for Kurundi, to make arrangements to set up a guard house at Kurundi, They were not allowed to proceed to Kurundi. The police stopped them halfway... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
An Anti-People, Anti-National Budget to Revive UNP Political Party
Presenting the budget in parliament, President Wickramasinghe repeatedly mentioned that his budget is not an election budget. However, the substance of his budget is a complete election budget. It is aimed at reviving the UNP as a viable political party once again at the expense of rural masses and national interests. The budget proposes a small salary increase of 10,000 rupees for selected public sector employees. However, what is given is robbed via increases in consumption taxes (VAT). This worsens inflation, budget deficit and debt trap. The other plan is to show how expensive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
‘’අපිට ඉන්නෙ අපි විතරයි’’ තේමාව ඔස්සේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන සංහිදියාවේ මනුසත්කාරය ඇරැඹෙයි`
මනුෂ්‍යත්වය අන් සියල්ලට ඉහළින් අගය කරන ජනතාවක් ලෙස සියලු භේද පසෙකලා, සහෝදරත්වයෙන් සහ අන්‍යෝන්‍ය අවබෝධයෙන් යුතුව එකිනෙකා වෙනුවෙන් යුතුකම් ඉටුකරන ජනසමාජයක් ගොඩනැගීමට දායකත්වය සැපයීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව ‘’අපිට ඉන්නෙ අපි විතරයි’’ යන තේමාව ඔස්සේ සැලසුම් කරන ලද සංහිදියාවේ මනුසත්කාරය වැඩසටහන් පෙළේ ආරම්භක දැනුවත්කිරීම් සැසිය සර්ව ආගමික පූජකවරුන් සහ කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය ගරු මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මැතිතුමා ප්රමුඛ විශේෂ අමුත්තන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වය සහිතව 2023 නොවැම්බර් 16 වැනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා උදෑසන 10.30ට කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍යාංශ ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. උතුම් මනුසත්කම පෙරදැරි කරගත් මනුදම්, ගුණදම් සහ යහපත්කම් රැකගනිමින් ස්වාර්ථයට වඩා පරාර්ථය වෙනුවෙන් කටයුතු කරන සියලුදෙනාගේ දායකත්වය ලබාගනිමින් ඉදිරි කාලයේදී ක්‍රියාත්මක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Meeting at Madampe- Speech made by Hon. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike Sinhala
https://youtu.be/m0uAGDCzBCQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Wall Street Eyes 'Explosion Of Profits' From Gaza Destruction
https://youtu.be/7w-Zq2S-_ec... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
The Return of the Millennium Corporation Compact (MMC)
In his budget speech 2024 President RW waxed eloquent on his proposal to give legal ownership of land to 2 million families who are now owning them under a license system. He has tried to give the proposal an undeserving anti-colonial nationalist flavor by referring to this land as lands acquired by the British under the Waste Lands Ordinance of 1897. Professor G.H. Peris has pointed out that most of these lands went under plantations. These lands were not redistributed among farmers under the Land Development Ordinance of 1935. His statement is given in the Budget... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Meetings in Sydney to Promote Sri Lanka-Australia Links
Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Australia Chitrangani Wagiswara paid an official call on the Minister for Multiculturalism, Small Business, Lands and Property and Sport of New South Wales (NSW) Steve Kamper on 7 November 2023 at his office. The minister spoke of the large number of Sri Lankan expatriates who have made their mark in NSW and noted that most of the Sri Lankans are very well educated and well integrated into the Australian Society. The minister has been closely involved with most of the activities which are organized... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
COPE meetings suspended until further notice: Speaker
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror) - The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) will not be convened until issues pertaining to its chairman is resolved, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced today. The Speaker's announcement came after opposition MPs requested him to remove COPE Chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara from his post. "COPE members should resolve the issue pertaining to Professor Bandara as per the Standing Orders," the Speaker said. The COPE meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. today was also cancelled, the speaker announced. Earlier,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
President talks to Jay Shah over cricket crisis in Sri Lanka: Kanchana
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror)- President Ranil Wickremesinghe had a discussion with Asian Cricket Council president Jay Shah on Thursday to discuss the cricket crisis in Sri Lanka, Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said today. He told this in Parliament while responding to a claim by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa alleging that Jay Shah's father is the right-hand man of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "One must not politicise the cricket crisis using parliamentary privileges. Sri Lankan cricketers will not be able to play even division 1 cricket as a result of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Rohitha Bogollagama approved as Sri Lankan high commissioner to UK
The Committee on High Posts has approved the appointment of former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama as the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He had served as the Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 28 January 2007 until he was defeated in the General Elections held on 8 April 2010, losing his seat in parliament. Bogollagama also briefly served as the Governor of the Eastern Province from July 2017 to December 2018. Further, the High Posts Committee also approved the following... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Sri Lankan govt. expresses regret over comments targeting BCCI Secretary Jay Shah
The Sri Lankan government, expressing its regret, has condemned the statements targeting the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah, ICC officials and other ICC member countries. Taking into X (formerly Twitter), Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the government is committed to hosting and facilitating the 2024 Under-19 Cricket World Cup as previously planned and vowed to work with the ICC to resolve the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Furthermore, he highlighted that after the conclusion of discussions with the stakeholders, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Sri Lanka to seek investors for nuclear power plants
Sri Lanka will call for expressions of interest (EOI) in setting up nuclear power plants, its energy minister said on Friday, as it seeks cheap electricity to support its economic recovery. The primary source of energy in the island nation is from imported oil and coal, and hydropower. The government aims to produce 70% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and it sees nuclear power as a low-carbon option for its energy mix. It aims to be carbon neutral by 2050. “The government intends to include the safe use of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/23)
Strengthen the Budget with provisions for Poverty Alleviation- train the unemployed to get to production. An Idea for kind consideration.
Having read what the newspapers detail on the first day of the budget, I get the impression that Poverty Alleviation and Training and Empovering the unemployed to become productive, making what the economy needs has not been given a place . Opening new universities and selling off post offices is not what will create wealth. Thesale ofthepost offices will create wealth for Taj.not for us Unfortunately we have been sold with the ridiculous idea that printing money should be restricted. Before the IMF took over running our country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
French Ambassador and State Minister of Defence talk on strengthening bilateral ties
Ambassador of France to Sri Lanka H.E. Jean-François Pactet engaged in a friendly discussions with the State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon when he called on him at his office in Colombo today (Nov 15). Extending a warm reception to the French Ambassador, Minister Tennakoon sat down for a discussion that aimed at bolstering the longstanding ties between the two countries. The meeting exemplified the mutual commitment of France and Sri Lanka in enhancing strategic cooperation, particularly in the realms of defence, maritime security and High... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
විදේශගත ගෘහ සේවිකාවන් ගැන කෑ ගහන්න ඕනෑ තරම් අය හිටියාට දේශීය ගෘ සේවිකාවන් ගැන කවුරුවත් බලන්නේ නෑ
ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ට ගරුත්වයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනවා.-කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාරවිදේශ රැකියා වල නිතර ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ට කරදර සිදුවන බවට කෑ ගැසීමට රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ඕනෑ තරම් තිබෙන නමුත්, ඉතා සුළු වැටුපකට වහලුන් මෙන් සේවය ලබාගන්නා දේශීය ගෘහ සේවිකාවන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හඬක් නැගෙන්නේ නැති බවත්, මෙයට විසදුමක් ලබාදෙමින් ඔවුන්ට ගරුත්වයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසීය.රටක් ලෙස අනාගතවාදී වී අනාගතය වෙනුවෙන් වැඩකලයුත බවද අවිධිමත් අංශයේ ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට ගරුත්වයක් ලබාදීම සඳහා ක්‍රියාත්මක “ගරු සරු” වැඩසටහන යටතේ ගෘහ සේවිකාවන් සමඟ අද (15) පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී පැවසුවේය.අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සදහන් කළේ අවිධිමත් අංශයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena Appointment of Sri Lankan Envoys - Wrong People for Selling Sri Lanka!
The appointment of Representing Sri Lanka to Promote the Economy should be offered to Competent Sales Persons and should not be offered as Gifts to Boot-Lickers! I have seen the Sri Lankan diplomats in many countries, who are only drowned in the froth of their Diplomatic position but totally incapable of conducting the main object of the job or position. Take a lesson from the Singapore or British Diplomatic Missions. They have defined Financial Targets and Time Lines on investment or related services. Starting with the Air... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Why does the US support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Michael Hudson
A geopolitical analysis of why the United States so strongly supports Israel: Economist Michael Hudson discusses with journalist Ben Norton. https://youtu.be/9AeAfFfTqMk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate rabbit hole — Will the ethically-compromised International Agency for Cancer (IARC) lead Europe to embrace a scientifically-challenged Green Deal?
Credit: Global Justice Now (CC BY 2.0) What chemicals or environmental exposures are likely to cause cancer? That’s a complex question with a wide variance in views across the scientific community. First, one needs to determine whether a substance or situation is likely to ever cause cancer. For instance, we know that drinking hot coffee or tea or any drink can increase the chance of esophageal cancer. In other words, they present what scientists call a hazard. Whether a hot coffee drinker is likely to get cancer — what... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
68% of Americans want ceasefire in Gaza: Reuters poll
Destruction in Gaza Washington, November 16: US public support for Israel’s war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a conflict that has ballooned into a humanitarian crisis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that was completed on Tuesday. Some 68% of respondents said they agreed with a statement that “Israel should call a ceasefire and try to negotiate.” About three-quarters of Democrats and half of Republicans in the poll supported the idea of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
අරගලයේ ජනපති, අරගලයේ ගී රැජින ලගටම ගොස් ජනාධිපති සම්මාන පුදයි..
2020 වසරේ හොඳම පසුබිම් ගායිකාව ලෙස ආචාර්ය නන්දා මාලනි මහත්මිය ජනාධිපති සම්මානයෙන් පිදුම් ලැබූවාය. ඒ කොළඹ නෙළුම් පොකුණ රඟහලේ පැවැති 2023 ජනාධිපති සිනමා සම්මාන ප්‍රදානෝත්සවයේදී ය. ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වේදිකාවෙන් බැස ප්‍රේක්ෂකාගාරයේ සිටි නන්දා මාලනි මහත්මිය සිටි ස්ථානයටම ගොස් එම සම්මානය පිරිනැමීමට කටයුතු කළේය. පසුගිය වසරේ ගාලුමුවදොර ඇතිවූ අරගලයේ දීද නන්දා මාලනිය මහත්මිය එම ස්ථානයට ගොස් එයට ප්රමුඛ සහයෝගයක්ද ලබා දුන්නාය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
COPE Chairman bought over by SLC: Sajith alleges
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) Sri Lanka’s cricket crisis has taken a chaotic turn with some members of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and its chairman Ranjith Bandara accusing each other of mishandling the probe on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Some COPE members highlighted that Prof. Bandara should be removed from the chairmanship of the committee temporarily until the probe on SLC is completed. Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa said Prof. Bandara acted as if he had been bought over by the SLC. https://youtu.be/dsUam1zGa7w ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
REVELATION: COPE chairman inquiring into SLC is also a Consultant for SLC Kandy Project?
In a startling revelation, serious concerns have emerged about the potential conflict of interest involving the present COPE Chairman, Prof. Ranjith Bandara, who has reportedly been retained by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a consultant for the Kandy Cricket Campus project. According to circulated minutes, Prof. Ranjith Bandara has also agreed with the SLC president to convert the "Kandy Cricket Campus Project" to a project titled "Cricket extending to sports administration and facilities" without any reference to Kandy. These revelations have sparked criticisms and questions about a potential conflict of interest,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Congratulations Minister!
Roshan Ranasinghe It was so heart-warming to listen to the no-holds-barred speech of the Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe; a very rare occurrence nowadays! As commented in the editorial “Cheers for Maxwell and Roshan” (The Island, 9 November), it was a stellar performance indeed. Having sunk to the bottom with the declared bankruptcy, as things were improving, most of us felt that things could not get any worse but were proved wrong by the antics of our cricket board and cricketers. Fortunately, Roshan Ranasinghe’s firm stand brought a ray... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Sri Lanka’s ambitious budget agenda faces high implementation risks – Fitch
The targets laid out in Sri Lanka’s budget for 2024 will be challenging to meet, even with the economic recovery that we expect to continue next year, says Fitch Ratings. The fiscal deficit is set to be wider than our current forecast of 7.1% of GDP in 2024 in light of the new data, even after excluding bank recapitalisation costs, and the revenue/GDP ratio will be lower than we had assumed. The government is targeting a budget deficit of 9.1% of GDP in 2024, wider than a revised estimate of 8.5% in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Is our cricket going the same way as West Indies cricket?
Until 1977, when Kerry Packer set up the World Series Cricket (WSC) tournament, Australia and England took turns to hold the mantle of being the world’s top test-playing team; during this period, the West Indies did, on occasions, challenge the order of supremacy but were never able to be consistently good. The Indians and Pakistanis were competitive when playing at home but could not defeat the Australians in Australia. All that changed in 1979 when the Australian and English Boards and the ICC made peace with Kerry Packer. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
When a green cape turns red flag
Among all the things the environmentally-conscious superhero, Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority, was supposed to protect, his bank account was not one of them. He was caught red-handed in a dramatic arrest last week when he traded his green cape for what would have been some big bucks (and greener’ pastures) as he was accepting a bribe to the tune of Rs 10 million in return for illegally facilitating a permit for an individual. The Chairman, who was arrested along with two others, had promised to facilitate an environmental clearance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් විවෘත ලිපියක්.
ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමණි, ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමණි, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිවරුණි, , ස්වයංව නැගීසිටීමට වෙරදරණ, ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගේ ගැටළු වලට සාධාරණ පිලියමක් ලබාදෙන්න. . ජීවිතයේ අවසාන භාගයේ දිවි ගමන ගෙවන ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියා,වර්තමාන සමාජක්‍රමය තුල ඉතා අසීරු තත්වයකට ඇද වැටෙමින් සිටින බවත්, ඔවුන් සම්බන්ධව කිසිවෙකුගේ අවධානය යොමු නොවන බවත් ඔවුන්ගේ මතය වී ඇත. එදා දුර දර්ශිව සිතා බලා සිය සැන්දෑ දිවිය නිදහසේ ගෙවීමේ අරමුණින් මුදල් එකතු කොට රාජ්‍ය බැංකුවලත්, පෞද්ගලික බැංකුවලත් ස්ථාවර ගිණුම් ආරම්භකර ඉන් ලැබෙන පොලියෙන්, දෛනික කටයුතු සිදුකරගෙන ගිය ඒ ජේෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ට, එදා 18% පොලියක් ලබාදුන් අතර අද එය 9% ක පොලි අනුපාතයක් සේ ගෙවීම නිසා,ඔවුන්ගේ ආදායම හරි අඩකින් කප්පාදු කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Prime Minister urges new Sri Lankan envoys to take new initiatives to attract investments
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena asked the Sri Lankan envoys to focus mainly on economic diplomacy as the country needs the cooperation of other countries for rapid economic progress of the country.Addressing the 10 newly appointed Sri Lankan envoys at the Temple Trees today (Nov 13), he urged them to showcase Sri Lanka’s ability to interact with the rest of the world, take new initiatives to attract investments and joint ventures.Our focus is to increase trade and investments. While engaging with host governments and premier business houses, leading investors and chambers of commerce and industry,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Deegawapiya Sacred Relics exposition in Ruhuna
• The procession of the Sacred Omniscient Relics of Deegawapiya Stupa and the Crest-Gem to the ancient Buddhist shrines in Kirama, Mulkirigala, Kasagala, Kataragama, Tissamaharama and Lunugamwehera. The relics unearthed from the Deegawapiya site during the excavations and the Crest-Gem which are in exposition around the island to provide the devotees with an opportunity to pay their homage were brought to the ancient Buddhist shrines in the Ruhuna area. The public veneration of the Sacred Omniscient Relics of Deegawapiya Stupa and the Crest-Gem commenced from Kelaniya Raja... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
Newly appointed Indian DA meets Defence Secretary
Captain Anand Mukundan who joined the mission as Defence Adviser (DA) to the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka, called on the Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Ministry in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte today (Nov 14). Gen. Gunaratne warmly received the newly appointed DA on arrival and held a cordial discussion on matters that were mainly focused on a bilateral nature. On this occasion, the Defence Secretary extended his warm wishes to Capt. Mukundan on his recent appointment. Military Liaison Officer of the Defence Ministry,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/23)
SLC rebuked for its weak processes
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) rebuked Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for following weak processes in performing its activities. It was highlighted that these weak processes had led to the current crisis in cricket. COPE Chairman Ranjith Bandara made this observation after SLC was probed by the committee. MP Bandara made this declaration several times during the probe. It was revealed that SLC officials have visited Australia to view the T20 World Cup matches without proper approval by the Minister in charge... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Those not fit to be MPs can be removed according to latest Bill drafted: Wijeyadasa
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Those who are not fit to be MPs can be removed once the proposed Parliament Standards Bill is enacted, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said yesterday. The Minister came up with this remark after arguments flared up in the House after SJB MP Chaminda Wijesiri raised a privilege issue on an allegation against him by MP Samanpriya Herath on an earlier date. “We will present the Standard Bill to Parliament soon, but before that Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardene will speak to party leaders on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Storage facility of leading importer sealed for hoarding 270 MT of sugar - CAA
The Raids and Special Investigations Unit of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has sealed the storage facility owned by a leading sugar importer in Sri Lanka, for hoarding over 250 metric tonnes of sugar. The relevant storage facility was sealed during a series of raids carried out by the CAA in the Peliyagoda and Grandpass areas on Tuesday (14 Nov.), the CAA reported. https://youtu.be/DgPZWp79TO4 Another wholesale distributor was also sealed off by the CAA during these raids, on account of hoarding 5 metric tonnes of sugar, for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Gotabaya, Mahinda, Basil & others responsible for economic crisis - SC rules
The Supreme Court today (Nov.14) ruled that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and several others are responsible for the economic crisis that Sri Lanka is grappling with. https://youtu.be/nJOm0bBl_IM On that account, the country’s highest court’s judge bench determined that the three Rajapaksa brothers as well as former Central Bank governors Ajith Nivard Cabraal and Prof. W.D. Lakshman, former Finance Secretary S.R. Attygalle, former Presidential Secretary P.B. Jayasundara and the Monetary Board members of the Central Bank have violated the fundamental... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Conquest: Gaza is being conquered. A Colonial Conquest of Today. Nothing new: It is just a Conquest of the Colonial Days
War is War where lands are conquered. People are essentially a disposable quantity. That is what we are seeing in Gaza, intense bombing reducing homes to rubble where the occupants are buried. People being displaced. That is Today’s civilized order to clear out Gaza for occupation! We are also seeing the indomitable human spirit of people scraping the bombed rubble to unearth human beings carrying them, rushing them in ambulances to hospitals which are also being targeted. The people do this without fleeing for their safety. Long ago, in the Nineteen Fifties... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Cricket & Budget, Brandix & the Leaky Secrets of Victoria Dam
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists! e-Con e-News 05-11 November 2023 * An armed federal marshal was ordered to guard the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, where that Hamilton ‘debt’ charade is also being played out between a ‘vulture fund’ and the governments of the US, England & France – to hoodwink Sri Lanka. The guard is not there to protect Sri Lankan interests. The Manhattan Court was host to a hearing on November 9 – set for a Friday,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Mahela’s Correct: SL Did Play the Best Team Available and the Outcome Was Not Unexpected
Mahela is correct. It is the unpalatable truth. Team Sri Lanka did play the best available players. They performed at their actual capability level (albeit 11 runs short on their batting average) and crashed out of the tournament. Based on batting averages, the achievable total in 50 overs is 257 runs. However, within 50 overs they’d concede 274 runs to the opposition. That is how the team would perform at the optimum level on an average day’s play and the outcome would be a loss. Mahela is also correct that another 30 runs on average per... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Misguided action of the ICC
Even the United Nations is obliged to respect the sovereignty of member nations and refrains from intervening in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction. However, this principle is not respected by the ICC which has considered that action taken under the Sports Law of Sri Lanka is political interference. Suspension of the SLBDC is the suspension of the country from participating in international events conducted under the ICC umbrella. Although it is a blatant affront to the country and is alleged to have taken at the instigation of the truant SLBDC, it is necessary... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Matarbari deep sea port: Milestone in the country’s infrastructural development
On November 11, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially opened the Matarbari port channel and lay the foundation stone of the Matarbari deep sea port. There is a plan to build a deep-sea port on 1,031 acres of land in Matarbari, Maheshkhali upazila, Cox's Bazar, close to the Bay of Bengal coast. The Japan Development Cooperation Agency (JICA) is involved in the port's development. The entire cost comes to 8,956 crores. JICA is set to provide a loan worth Rs. 6,742 crores. The remaining funds will be used... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Ahmadiyya Khalifa speaks of ongoing injustices against Palestinians and warns of Allah’s punishment
During his last Friday Sermon (10th November 2023) delivered at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, United Kingdom, Supreme Head (Khalifa) of the world wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad speaks of ongoing injustices against Palestinians and warns of Allah’s punishment. He urges Ahmadis to continue prayers for Palestinians. He added superpowers seem not to care for Palestinian lives and warns of Allah’s punishment!. His Holiness said, “I want to ask for prayers for the persecuted Palestinians again. Some non-Muslims and politicians have at least... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
The on-going pursuit of knowledge and technological improvement is one of the main tenancies of our defence strategy - Defence Secretary
Our armed forces need to be outfitted with the newest tools and technologies possible in this dynamic and unpredictable age of conflict. Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne made these remarks while attending as the Chief Guest of the membership certificate and identity card awarding ceremony of the College of Military Engineering and Technology, Sri Lanka (CMETSL) at the Defence Ministry in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte today (Nov 13). The establishment of CMETSL is a brainchild of Gen. Gunaratne. It synergizes professional collaboration between tri forces by facilitating them to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Presidential and parliamentary polls next year – President
While delivering the Budget 2024 speech today President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that Presidential Election and the General Election would be held next year.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Sri Lanka launches 70 MW ground-mounted solar auction
Sri Lanka’s government-owned Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is inviting applications for the development of 1 MW to 5 MW ground-mounted solar projects – totaling 70 MW – with 20-year power purchase agreements (PPA). The Sri Lankan government’s CEB has kicked off a 70 MW ground-mounted solar tender in the South Asian country. According to recently published tender documents, the Sri Lankan-based projects will range from 1 MW to 5 MW and be developed on a 20-year build, own and operate (BOO) basis. The projects will be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Sri Lanka sets a fiscal deficit target of $8.73 billion in 2024
People walk along the Pettah Market in Colombo, Sri Lanka. ReuersSri Lanka’s government projected a lower-than-anticipated budget deficit for 2024 on Monday on the back of a significant jump in revenues which are crucial to keep its bailout programme from the International Monetary Fund afloat. The government set a fiscal deficit target of Rs2.85 trillion Sri Lankan ($8.73 billion) in 2024, or 9.1 per cent of GDP, higher than the revised 8.5 per cent of GDP in the current year. The original target for this year was 7.9 per cent.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Former captain Arjuna Ranatunga blames Jay Shah for ruining Sri Lanka Cricket
Ranatunga’s comment came days after the International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended SLC for excessive political interference. Former Sri Lanka World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has blamed BCCI secretary Jay Shah for running and ruining Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Ranatunga’s comment came days after the International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended SLC for excessive political interference. “Because of the connection between SLC officials and Jay Shah, they (the BCCI) are under the impression that they can trample and control SLC,” said Ranatunga during a recent interview. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
President proposes to increase borrowing limit by Rs. 3.45 trillion
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who delivered the 2024 Budget Speech in Parliament today (13), proposed to increase Sri Lanka’s borrowing limit by Rs. 3,450 billion. As such, the borrowing limit for the next fiscal year will be raised from Rs. 3,900 billion to Rs. 7,350 billion. Addressing the House, the Head of State explained that bank recapitalization and external debt restructuring will require the issuance of new debt instruments with longer maturities. Therefore, budget allocations are needed to settle the existing debt and the borrowing limit needs to be increased, he... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Rs. 3 trillion budgetary allocation to restructure foreign debt, settle int’l sovereign bonds
In the budgetary allocations for the fiscal year of 2024, the Sri Lankan government has earmarked Rs. 3 trillion for the implementation of foreign debt restructuring and settlement of international sovereign bonds. Delivering the 2024 Budget Speech in the parliament this afternoon, President Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke on the measures the island nation has taken to bounce back from the economic crisis. Due to the space created by the debt restructuring process, the government was able to find resources for relief measures, the Head of State added. https://youtu.be/mOLqKzdvMzI He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Sports Minister files motion seeking lifting of stay on SLC’s interim committee
Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe has filed a motion requesting the lifting of the stay order issued by the Court of Appeals preventing the operation of the seven-member Interim Committee appointed by him for the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the relevant gazette notification issued by him in this regard. The motion including the objections related to the relevant stay order, has been filed before the Appeals Court through Attorney-at-Law G.G. Arulpragasam. On November 07, the Court of Appeal issued 14-day stay orders preventing the operation of the seven-member Interim Committee appointed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
Sri Lanka Introduces Stringent Tax Measures in 2024 Budget Proposal
In a bid to enhance tax compliance and streamline the taxation process, Sri Lanka's proposed 2024 Budget includes several stringent measures targeting individuals and entities that fall short in fulfilling their tax obligations. The outlined provisions aim to strengthen the tax system, improve clarity, and ensure the timely submission of required documentation. Here are key highlights from the tax-related proposals: 1. Prosecution for Non-Submission of Tax Returns: A special penal provision is set to be introduced to prosecute individuals and entities failing to submit required tax returns and information as mandated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/11/23)
President Wickremesinghe presents 2024 Budget amid Economic challenges
In his capacity as the Minister of Finance, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to unveil the much-anticipated 2024 Budget to the Parliament today, marking the country's 78th Budget Speech. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the President stated today (13) that the Cost-of-Living Allowance of Rs. 7,800 government employees are currently receiving shall be increase to Rs. 17,800 by Rs. 10,000 from January, 2024 while presenting the budget speech. The President further stated that this allowance will be added to the monthly salary from the month of April and that steps will be taken to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/23)
FOR THE SHEER SHAME OF ALL CRICKET LOVING SRI LANKANS
Nov.11th 2023 It has finally happened and the axe has fallen on Sri Lanka Cricket confirming everyone's fears including the President's that the ICC will suspend Sri Lanka's membership. What an ignominious shame and what an insult to a country renowned for her cricketing prowess and flair that goes back decades and has a World Cup win in two formats and what a sad day it is for Sri Lanka Cricket regardless of the theoy that this was induced by some of the Cricket Administers on request which by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Appreciation -Gamini Weerakoon
Everything in this world must come to an end. This happened to Gamini Weerakoon, Journalist and former Chief Editor of “The Island,” Gamini Weerakoon, who passed away on 11 November 2023 peacefully after a brief illness. I saw it, the ‘Sunday Observer.’ With deep sadness, I announce the death of the Chief Editor, who passed on Tuesday, 11 November 2023. He is surviewed by his wife Rajitha, who is also a well-known journalist and one daughter. He was an old boy of St. Thomas College, Mount Lavinia. He began his journalistic career at the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Book Review - Asoka Bandarage, Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins – Ecological and Collective Alternatives. De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences. Vol 30. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2023
Asoka Bandarage is known for her unconventional approach in several of her publications on development which extensively draw case study material from Sri Lanka. Her examination of the current crisis in Sri Lanka also employs an innovative analytical approach, setting it apart from most existing studies on the subject. Her willingness to depart from convention in this exercise is commendable. Notably, emerging economies like Sri Lanka are increasingly finding themselves in turmoil during this era of neoliberalism. Bandarage's book, therefore, is a must-read for those seeking alternative methodological stances and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Lalith Athulathmudali | Terrorism & Ethnic Conflict - Reality and effects to Sri Lanka & India
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ශම්මි ඊයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවේ කියපු කතාව බොරුවක් බව ESPNcricinfo වෙබ් අඩවිය හෙළි කරයි (වීඩියෝ )
ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලයේ සභාපති ඉම්රාන් කවාජා ඇතුළු ප්‍රධානීන් පසුගිය වසරේ නොවැම්බර් මසදී මෙරටට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේදීත් ක්රිකට් සඳහා දේශපාලන මැදිහත්වීමක් පිළිබඳව සාක්ෂි සොයාගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ බව සුප්‍රකට ක්‍රික් ඉන්ෆෝ වෙබ් අඩවිය අනාවරණ කරනවා. එම අනාවරණය සිදුකර ඇත්තේ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවීමට ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය පසු ජූලි මාසයේදි සුදානම් වු අවස්ථාවේදි සිය මැදිහත්වීමෙන් එය නතර කරගත් බවට ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් සභාපති ශම්මි සිල්වා ඊයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශයට ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින්. ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවීමට ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය ගත් තීරණය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
ක්රිකට් තහනමෙන් සතුටු වී ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ තිරිසනුන් පාටියක් දාලා..
ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනම් කළේ ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ඉල්ලා සිටීම නිසා බව ක්‍රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එම තහනම ලැබීම ගැන පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ තිරිසනුන් සතුටුවෙමින් සාද පවත්වා ඇති බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. https://youtu.be/XwP6E7Ze_nE ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කරන්නේ අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ මුදලට යටවුණු අය ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය තුළ ද සිටින බවද පවසන ඔහු ජනාධිපතිට දැන් හොර සූදු ෂම්මිද, රොෂාන් රණසිංහ දැයි තෝරා ගැනීමට සිදුවන බවද කියා සිටී. ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Sri Lanka calls for revisiting FTA
Collaboration between private sectors, regular exchanges of trade delegations is essential for improved ties. KARACHI: Consul General of Sri Lanka Jagath Abeywarna mentioned that despite 75 years of good diplomatic relations and a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) since 2005, Sri Lanka-Pakistan trade volume remains ‘insignificant’ at US $440 million due to certain barriers preventing trade between both sides. “Pakistan’s exports to Sri Lanka stood at $360 million, and Sri Lankan exports remained at $80 million. To enhance this trade, the FTA has to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Sri Lanka to impose maximum penalties on smugglers amid revenue loss concerns
In response to escalating revenue losses, Sri Lanka Customs plans to enforce maximum penalties for individuals smuggling over 100 grams of gold and substantial quantities of restricted items including mobile phones, a spokesman said Sunday. A recent report from the Parliamentary Committee on Ways and Means highlighted a loss of 1.4 billion rupees in recent times, attributing it to discretionary powers granted to customs officers in determining fines for smuggling restricted goods into the country, said customs media spokesman Sivali Arukgoda. The committee also revealed a surge in the smuggling of gold, mobile... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Jay Shah responsible for ruining SLC - Arjuna
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has alleged that Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Jay Shah was responsible for the issues plaguing Sri Lankan cricket. In an interview posted on YouTube, Ranatunga alleged the close connection with officials of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had created a situation where submissive to the BCCI. "Because of the connection between SLC officials and Jay Shah they (the BCCI) are under the impression that they can trample and control SLC," Ranatunga... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
Arjuna calls for investigation into those responsible for ICC suspending Sri Lanka
World Cup-winning former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, expressing his views regarding the suspension imposed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has called for a comprehensive investigation into the matter. https://youtu.be/raYtCYQ1jis Ranathunga further highlighted that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has to stand by his commitments against corruption and launch a separate investigation into the matter, in his official capacity, with the intention of punishing those who are responsible for betraying Sri Lanka. “We should investigate how we ended up here, and expose everyone responsible... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/23)
අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි: තනිකර දමා ඇති මුරදෙවතාවෙක්!
(848) ආන්ඩුව මට ගැහුවා - Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero - YouTube (ඉරාජ්) https://youtu.be/xyRxxSa_M48 (854) ගිහි ජිවිතයේ දී මම Sunflower වේදිකාවේ ගීත ගායනා කරා/ Film එකකත් රගපෑවා-Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero] - YouTube (ලහිරු) https://youtu.be/6xNWqITXUds ලබ්බෙක් (සේපාල්) හා <පිස්සෙක්> (අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි) රටේ හාමුදුරුවරු අතලොස්සකගේ අඩුපාඩු/දුර්වලකම් හුවාදක්වමින්, යූටියුබ්-ෆේස්බුක් හරහා මුළු සංඝ සංස්ථා පදනමට පහර ගැසීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයක් සංවිධානාත්මක ලෙස මේ වනවිට ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බව පැහැදිලිය. යහපාලන කාලයේ රංජන් රාමානායකගෙන් ඇරඹුණ මෙම ක්‍රියාවලියේ බර දැන් කරට ගෙන සිටින්නේ සේපාල් අමරසිංහ, ප්‍රංශයට පැනගොස් සිටින බරත තෙන්නකෝන්, අමිල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
How irresponsible spending drains SLC coffers
Cricket fans who gathered near Sri Lanka Cricket a few days ago stage a protest demanding a shake-up in the sport’s administration following the disastrous performance of the national team at the ongoing cricket World Cup, being held in India. (Pic by Pradeep Dilrukshana) After the special audit draft report on SLC came to light in August, SLC immediately stated that the institution is not subjected to government audit SLC has further sent its responses claiming that it is a volunteer organization and is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
Roshan fears he may be poisoned at Presidential Secretariat
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - Reiterating an earlier claim that he had received threats to his life, Sports Minister said that he would not drink even a glass of water at the Presidential Secretariat because it could be poisoned. "I have faith in the President (Wickremesinghe), I go to see him. But I will never drink even a glass of water from the Presidential Secretariat because I can't be sure if it has been poisoned," the Minister alleged. “I am concerned about my life to that extent,” the Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
ක්‍රිකට්වලින් ලැබුණු ඩොලර් මිලියන හයක් විදෙස් බැංකු ගිණුම්වල - විපක්ෂ නායකගෙන් අනාවරණයක් (වීඩියෝ)
ක්‍රිකට්වලින් ලැබුණු ඩොලර් මිලියන හයක් විදෙස් ගිණුම්වල ගිණුම් ගත කර ඇති බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබෙනවා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ කොළඹ අද (11) පැවති වැඩසටහනකදීයි. දූෂිත ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලයට එරෙහිව සියලුදෙනා පෙළ ගැසිය යුතු බවයි විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා කියා සිටියේ. https://youtu.be/Zm3uSMprDMc ක්‍රිකට්වලින් ඉපයූ ඩොලර් මිලියන 6ක් මෙරටට ඇවිත් නැහැ"... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
දූෂණ ක්රිකට් ආයතන සියල්ලම විසුරුවා හරිනවා'' (වීඩියෝ)
ලංකාවේ ඇති දූෂණ ක්රිකට් ආයතන සියල්ලම විසුරුවා හරින බව ක්‍රිඩා අමාත්‍ය රොෂාන් රණසිංහ පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ පිළිබඳව සඳහන් කරන ලද්දේ අද (11) ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශයේදී කැඳවා තිබූ විශේෂ ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාව අතර තුරදීයි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු ප්‍රකාශ කරන ලද්දේ මෙවැනි අදහසක්. https://youtu.be/te3VBgZ4BGs '' මහනුවර කිව්වොත් ක්රිකට් හොර ගුහාවක්. මහනුවර ක්රිකට් හොරුන්ගේ පාරාදීසයක්. මේවා විසුරුවා හරින්න. ලංකාවෙම ක්රිකට් ආයතන සියල්ල මට තියෙන බලතල ප්‍රකාරව විසුරුවා හරිනවා. අවුරුදු හතරකට වඩා බලතල තියෙන කිසිම කෙනෙකුට ඉල්ලන්න බෑ, මෙතන තියෙන ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා අභියාචනා කමිටුව තව පුළුල් කරලා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
A Rajapaksa Plan for the total destruction of Hamas
HamasSri LankaWar Against TerrorA.J. Caschetta Sri LankaiStock There are many parallels between Sri Lanka's decades-long fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan (LTTE), more commonly known as the "Tamil Tigers," and Israel's decades-long fight against the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, more commonly known as Hamas. And while Hamas may be now stronger... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
Sri Lanka’s Coconut Export Revolution
In recent times, Sri Lanka has been rethinking its approach to exports in response to global economic changes. It’s moving away from its traditional exports like tea and rubber and exploring new avenues to make the most of its rich agricultural resources. Coconut: A Versatile Agricultural Resource Among the main agricultural exports, coconut is one such resource that has numerous opportunities. Coconuts, deeply ingrained in Sri Lanka’s agricultural heritage, are now at the forefront of this transformation. These versatile fruits... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/11/23)
Defence Secretary strengthens defence cooperation with South Africa
South African High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, His Excellency Sandile Edwin Schalk met Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Defence Headquarters Complex, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kotte today (Nov 10). Gen. Gunaratne warmly received the South African envoy and had a discussion on the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the defence cooperation between Sri Lanka and South Africa. The MOU will enhance the relationship between the two countries by fostering mutual trust promoting stability and strengthening strategic ties. Military Liaison Officer Major General Dhammika... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
හිටපු මුදල් ඇමති රවී කරුණානායක මහතාගෙන් සැර උත්තර ටිකක්....
ක්රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවේ පවතින දූෂණ අක්‍රමිකතා සොයා බලා සියලු පරිණත ක්‍රීඩකයින් එකතු කළ යුතුයි.. බංකොලොත් වී ඇති රටේ ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කිරිම සියලු දෙනාගේම සාමූහික වගකීමක්.. ලංකාවේ companies ලක්ෂ එකහමාරක් තියෙනවා බදු ගෙවන පයිල් තියෙන්නෙ 20 දාහයි.. සමස්ත රාජ්‍ය සේවයෙන් 15% 20% රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් මේ රට නොමඟ යවලා තියෙන්නේ... ලබන වසර මැතිවරණ වර්ෂයක්. මැතිවරණ කිහිපයක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතයි... රට පත්ව තිබුණු අඳුරු කාල පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් යම් මට්ටමක ඉදිරියට පැමිණෙන අවස්ථාවක අපි සියලු දෙනාගේම වගකීම එකට එක්ව කටයුතු කිරීම බවත්, ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ පවතින වංචා දූෂණ නැති කර පරිණත ක්‍රීඩකයින්ට අවස්ථාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
Israel Will Lose. Here's Why.
https://youtu.be/UZrPj-vdYqg Ever since February 2022, Western mainstream media has been telling us that Russia cannot possibly win its war in Ukraine. Zelensky, with his hundreds of billions of dollars’ backing from the West, would surely prevail. Russia has always been taking unbearably heavy losses. Putin is always about to keel over dead. A fresh shipment of US wonder-weapons will turn the tide. A crushing Ukrainian victory is always at hand. Because they could not imagine Ukraine losing, Western pundits could not see that it was losing. They missed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
The Future of Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism
During his recent visit to the United States, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the National People’s Power, addressed an interesting question from a Sri Lankan resident. The person highlighted the significant dominance of the white population[S2] in the US but also emphasized their peaceful coexistence with other migrant communities despite their majority status. In drawing a comparison to Sri Lanka, the person underscored the prevalent presence of the Sinhala people yet pointed out instances of discrimination[S3] [S4] faced by them, particularly in specific areas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
America’s War Economy and the Urgent Call for Peace in the Middle East
On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public intellectuals, including Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, and Palestinian-American Edward Said. Rare public opponents of the drive to war at the time, they wrote with level-headed clarity: “We foresee that a military response would not end the terror. Rather, it would spark a cycle... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
Politics of Vat
The recent increase of VAT from 12 to 18 percent has become the target of severe criticism by the opposition particularly by the political economists and of course the leader of the opposition. The main plank of the criticism is that it will increase inflation and the cost of living and will be an unbearable burden on small and medium scale industries. A non-economist would believe that the converse would be true in the lowering of the VAT rate resulting in reduced inflation an lower cost of living. But on Gotabaya regime's reduction of the VAT... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
ICC සාමාජිකත්වය ගැන දැඩි තීරණයක් ගන්න ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් (වීඩියෝ)
ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් අද (10) මෙරටට පැනවූ ක්රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය අත්හිටුවීමට අදාල ඉල්ලීම සිදුකර ඇත්තේ ශම්මි සිල්වා ප්රමුඛ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය බවට සුප්‍රසිද්ධ cricinfo වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරනවා. එමෙන්ම ICC මණ්ඩලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් නියෝජිතයින්ට නිරීක්ෂකයෙකු ලෙස සහභාගී වීමට අවසර දී ඇති බැවින් අහමදාබාද්හි පැවැත්වෙන ICC රැස්වීම් සඳහා ශම්මි සිල්වාද සහභාගී වීමට ඉඩ ඇති බවයි එම වෙබ් අඩවිය සඳහන් කරන්නේ. දැනට ඉන්දියාවේ සිටින සහ සිකුරාදා රැස්වීමට සහභාගී වූ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් සභාපති ශම්මි සිල්වා ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයෙන් තේරී පත් වූ නියෝජිතයා ලෙස ICC විසින් දිගටම පිළිගන්නා බවත් එම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
Sri Lanka Cricket suspended by ICC board
The decision was taken following a tumultuous week in the SLC after Sri Lanka's poor performance at the World Cup Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been suspended by the ICC with immediate effect because of extensive government interference in the board's administration. Though the ICC has termed the sanction a "suspension", in reality it is a warning as the ICC seeks to prevent further government interference in the running of SLC. As it stands, the suspension will not have any immediate serious impact on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනම් කලේ ශම්මි සිල්වාගේ ඉල්ලීමට..- Cric info
ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනමක් පනවා ඇත්තේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සලයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය කර ඇති ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව යයි ක්‍රික් ඉන්ෆෝ වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ සභාපති ශම්මිද සිල්වා විසින් මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර ඇති බවද එම අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් සිකුරාදා දින පැවති රැස්වීමටද ක්රිකට් සභාපති ලෙස ශම්මිද සිල්වා සහභාගී වී ඇතැයි ද වාර්තාව කියා සිටී.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
Sports minister-led emergency meeting to be held at 10 a.m. today
ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket over political meddling (Daily Mirror) - The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Sri Lanka's crisis-ridden cricket board yesterday, saying it had failed to ensure there was no government interference in its affairs. The game's world governing body said Sri Lanka Cricket was "in serious breach of its obligations as a member, in particular, the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and to ensure that there is no government interference." The suspension came a day after Sri Lanka's parliament asked the board to resign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
Arjuna will be tasked with rebuilding if SLC suspended by ICC: Minister
PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will be handed over to former captain Arjuna Ranatunga for a brief period for the task of rebuilding if SLC is suspended by the ICC, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said today. "We will hand over the task of rebuilding Sri Lanka Cricket to former captain Arjuna Ranatunga for six to eight months in the event Sri Lanka is suspended by the ICC. We will enact the Sports Act, go for an election and then we can go for other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership
ICC) - The International Cricket Council Board has suspended Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership of the ICC with immediate effect. In a statement released on Friday night, the ICC said that the SLC had breached its obligations as a member, in particular the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and without government interference. In its statement, the ICC said: "The conditions of the suspension will be decided by the ICC Board in due course." The ICC Board is set to meet on November 21, after which the future course... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/23)
US-European backed Israeli genocide in Gaza Exposed Arab dictators who betrayed Palestinians
Israeli genocide of Palestinian civilians and the destruction of Gaza, blindly backed by United States and Europe , exposed the political and military bankruptcy of secular Arab dictators. So far they refused to do anything substantial to stop genocide of Palestinians who were deprived of water,food,medicine, fuel and electricity for more than a month. Arab dictators even refused to withdraw their ambassadors from Tel Aviv and Israeli flag continue to fly in Jordan ,Egypt UAE,,Bahrain,Morocco and Sudan while Bolivia,followed by Chile and Columbia, withdraw its ambassador from Tel Aviv in protest against on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
ත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරෙක්ට අනතුරක් වුනොත් කවුද බලාගන්නේ? දෑතේ ශක්තිය නැති වුනාම, බැරිවුන කාලෙකදී ඒ අය බලාගන්නේ කවුද?
පුද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවකයාට අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල ලැබෙනවා. රාජ්‍ය සේවකයාට විශ්‍රාම වැටුප තියෙනවා. රක්ෂණ ලැබෙනවා. ත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන්ට මොනවාද ලැබෙන්නේ?මුළු රටේම සමස්ත වෘත්තිකයින්ට සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ වැඩපිළිවෙලක් හදන්න කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලට මට විශේෂ අනුමැතියක් ලබාදී තිබෙනවාවැරදි වැඩ කරලා අනතුරු සිදුවන්නේ ත්‍රිරෝද රථ විතරද? මේ අහිංසක මිනිස්සුන්ට චෝදනා කරලා හැමෝම නිදහස් වෙනවාත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන් කියන්නේ ඉගෙනගත්තේ නැති, සංයමයක් නැති ඉබාගාතේ යන කණ්ඩායමක් කියලා සමහරු කියනවා. ඒකට මම විරුද්ධයි. හැමෝම විශ්ව විද්‍යාලවලට ගිහිල්ලා නෙමෙයි රට දියුණු කරලා තියෙන්නේත්‍රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන් පසුගිය කාලයේදී ඉල්ලුවේ තෙල් ටික විතරයි. ඒ අය බදු ගෙවන මිනිස්සුන්ට බරක් වෙන්නේ නෑ. ඒ අයට ගරුත්වයක් හිමිවිය යුතුයිපුද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවකයින්ට අර්ථසාධකයත්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ පෘතුගාලය අතර වෙළෙඳ සහ සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමට අගමැතිගේ අවධානය
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ පෘතුගාල තානාපති Joao Manuel Mendes de Almeida මහතා අතර හමුවක් (2023.11.06) අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලංකාව හිතකර සංචාරක ගමනාන්තයක් ලෙස පෘතුගාල ජනතාව අතර ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා පුළුල් ප්‍රචාරණ වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා එහිදී යෝජනා කළේය. පෘතුගාල සංචාරකයින් ඉන්දියාවට ආකර්ශනය කර ගැනීමට ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ ‘ලිස්බන් සිට ගෝවා දක්වා 19 වැනි සියවසේ නැඟෙනහිර ගමන’ වැනි වැඩසටහනක් හඳුන්වා දෙමින් ශ්රී ලංකාව ද පෘතුගාලයේ හිතකර සංචාරක ගමනාන්තයක් ලෙස ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමේ හැකියාව ඇති හෙයින්, පෘතුගාලයේ ලිස්බන් සිට ගාල්ල දක්වා එවැනි වැඩසටහනක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
ක්රිකට් සම්බන්ධ අභියාචනාධිකරණ තීන්දුවේ විනිසුරුගේ සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම ගැන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් වෙයි.
ක්රිකට් සම්බන්ධ අභියාචනාධිකරණ තීන්දුවේ විනිසුරුගේ සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම ගැන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් වෙයි....අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා මෙන්න ඇත්ත.. මෙන්න යථාර්තය.. අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා ඉතිහාසයේ දැකපු සුපිරිම ක්‍රීඩා ඇමති රොෂාන්ද..? https://youtu.be/YTUVZDx0hUo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
The Way Forward: Price Stability and Prosperity Need Good Governance – Part I
Let me start by congratulating the Governor, Deputy Governors, members of the former Monetary Board and members of the current Monetary Policy Board. Since April 2022 they have taken bold decisions and led the demanding technical work to stabilise the economy after the deepest economic crisis that Sri Lanka has suffered since independence. It is easy perhaps to take for granted the progress so far. But let us not forget that barely 20 months ago, Sri Lanka’s inflation rate was unanchored, the exchange rate was depreciating uncontrollably, foreign reserves were depleted, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
The Way Forward: Price Stability and Prosperity Need Good Governance – Part II
As the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Law, gets established and the Bank’s practices evolve, a further strengthening of the legislation could be considered to safeguard the CBSL’s independence. In my view, three features of the law could be re-examined in that context, the last of which is the most important: (i) First, we need to reconsider the description of the powers, duties, and functions of the Central Bank. Article 7 (j) states the CBSL will [quote] “act as financial advisor and banker to the government” while Article 7 (k) states it will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
The Way Forward: Price Stability and Prosperity Need Good Governance – Part III
So how can we have better Governance around Taxation? Transparency and simplicity of the tax system are critical for ensuring good governance. Complex tax systems with multiple rates, exemptions, and scope for arbitrary decision-making open room for the abuse of power and mainly serve vested interests. By contrast, a tax system that is uniform, rules-based, and grounded in clear, simple principles promotes not only fairness but also fiscal sustainability through higher tax revenues because of limited leakages and increased compliance. Two aspects of the tax system—tax policy and tax administration—need... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
Continuous strike-blockade in Bangladesh: Why will people suffer!
The nation is experiencing to some extent an economic crisis. In between, political upheaval has begun. The blockade-strike has begun. The misery of regular people will intensify as a result. All items, especially consumer goods, have seen price increases in recent days. There's a fresh justification for the strike-blockade by traders. The political climate suggests that the issue will probably get more complex. The effects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have already caused havoc on the nation's economy. The dollar issue is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/23)
11th General Assembly of the United Nations - Speech made by Hon. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike
https://youtu.be/Ipy8NSGxhTQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
Western governments are at odds with their citizens on the Gaza war
Call for Gaza ceasefire in London streets Colombo, November 8: With the war in Gaza entering the second month, and the killings taking the shape of a genocide, Western governments are coming under mounting pressure from their people to revise their pro-Israel stand and enforce a ceasefire or at least a “humanitarian pause”. Last week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protests in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Washington demanding that their governments press Israel to declare a ceasefire. They castigated Israel for its grossly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
Ministry accelerates signing MOU with Adani Group for wind power plant in Mannar: Charitha Herath
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - According to reports, the Power and Energy Ministry is expediting the signing of documents for a Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with India's Adani Group to establish a new wind power plant in the Mannar basin with a capacity of 250 MW, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Prof. Charitha Herath said. Addressing the media, he said the Ministry is ready to complete the signing of all agreements before November 25. According to the 2009 Electricity Act, a bit of a process should... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
'Betting' Shammi or Roshan; President must decide: Roshan
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - President Ranil Wickremesinghe has to decide whether he wants me or 'Betting' Shammi, Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe told Parliament while dropping bomb shells on Sri Lanka Cricket ( SLC). "Some interested persons are out to mislead the President by giving him false information on cricket. Some in the President's Media Unit are also involved in this conspiracy. The president's security was breeched when he went to wach the LPL finals as some underworld figures who happened to be body guards of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
Sports Minister calls for forensic audit into 2018-2023 period of Sri Lanka Cricket
රොෂාන් රණසිංහගෙන් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්වක් "එළියට ගියානම් කරන්න වෙන්නේ නෑ" https://youtu.be/aANhS2R-UMc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
US DFC commits half billion dollars to port infrastructure in Colombo
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced it has committed more than half a billion dollars to support the development of a deepawater shipping container terminal in the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, that will provide critical infrastructure for the South Asian region. “The new terminal reflects DFC’s commitment to financing high-quality infrastructure that supports its partner’s development needs, invests in local communities, and is respectful of local financial conditions.” The investment further demonstrates the United States’ enduring commitment to Sri Lanka’s economic growth and its regional economic integration, including... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
Why doesn’t the government first get the public servants in this country to work a minimum of at least 1 hr. a day, before trying to increase the working hours from the present 8 hrs, a day to 12 hrs productively?
As it is not clear whether this 12 hrs decision is meant for both the public sector and the private sector, I limit this discussion only to the public sector. At present, keeping with universally accepted international labour laws in almost all countries the 8-hour working day rule has come to satay as the standard rule. It has been accepted both for public servants and factory workers. The same rule prevails in this country. At present it is said to be from 8.30 to 4.15 in government offices. Actually, it is only 7hrs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
A Reasonable Question to Ask: Are Sri Lankan Cricketers Spot-Fixing?
Dismal performance of Sri Lankan cricketers in Asia Cup 2023 and ICC CW 2023 can be attributed to many things. However, what is most intriguing is the bizarre circumstances they have put themselves in. Getting all out for 50 odd runs in both last encounters with India is a very strange fluke as the matches were played in two different countries. Getting out by most unusual circumstances is another. Dropping easy catches is yet another. It is reasonable to question if they are involved in spot-fixing. Other aggravating circumstances include continuous economic slide of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet
EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet, to realize their long term strategic and geopolitical goals in the Indo Pacific region. The idea of EELAM in this country is a Western colonial invention, although that word was never mentioned in their earlier correspondence. Destroying the Sinhala nation and dividing Sri Lanka between Sinhalese and Tamils was the most... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
How the International Monetary Fund Continues to Shrink the Poorer Nations:
From 9 to 15 October, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions met on African soil was in 1973, when the IMF-World Bank meeting was held in Nairobi (Kenya). Kenya’s then President Jomo Kenyatta (1897–1978) urged those gathered to find ‘an early cure to the monetary sickness of inflation and instability that has afflicted the world’. Kenyatta, who became Kenya’s first president in 1964, noted that, ‘[o]ver the last fifteen years, many developing countries have been losing, every... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
Hot Potato of Cricket,
Cricket has today become virtually the national game of Sri Lanka. It is played in different forms of hard ball to soft ball games in the urban playgrounds and in the village fields. It is watched and enjoyed by spectators of all ages and means. The brilliant performance of our women’s team has enhanced the popularity and the glamour of the game. Cricket has been a unifying influence in our fractured communities. The game has brought both fame and funds to the country. Our international performance in the game gave the populace a solace in these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
Beware when bathing in sea or walking barefoot along beach
COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) - There is a slight increase in the roaming of the highly poisonous fish species called 'Gonmaha-Stone Fish' in the sea areas these days with the changing of the monsoon, Parasitology Department Senior Lecturer Dr. Janaka Ruben said. He told the media that even though the fish species are highly poisonous, they do not attack people or any living being in the sea. This fish is a reef fish. However, it was reported that several people were admitted to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/23)
සීනි බදු වෙනස්වීම ගැන තොරතුරු ව්‍යාපාරිකයින් අතට පත් කළ අය ගැන පරීක්ෂණයක් අවශ්‍යයි - ඇමති මනූෂ සීනි බදු ගැන පරීක්ෂණයක් ඉල්ලයි
සීනි බද්ද වෙනස්වන බවට තොරතුරු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමටත් පෙරම ව්‍යාපාරිකයින් අතට පත්වූයේ කෙසේ දැයි ප්‍රශ්ණ කර සිටින බවත්, බදු සංශෝධනය පිළිබඳ දැන සිටියේ රේගු නිලධාරීන් බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසීය.සීනි බදු වැඩි කිරීම ගැන දැන සිටියේ කවුරුන්ද. කිසිවෙක් මේ පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු එළියට ලබා දුන්නේද යන්න පිළිබඳ අනිවාර්යෙන්ම පරීක්ෂණයක් පැවැත්විය යුතු බවද අමාත්‍යවරයා අවධාරණය කළේය.අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ මාධ්‍යවේදීන් නැගූ ප්‍රශ්න වලට පිළිතුරු ලබා දෙමින්ය.එහිදී අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද අදහස් දැක්වීය, “සීනි වංචාව ගැන අපි එදා හඬ නැගුවා වගේම අදත් වංචාවක් වෙනවා නම් හඬ නගන්න කටයුතු කරනවා. අපි වංචාවක්, වැරැද්දක් වෙන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Anula Ratnayaka, 49: Sri Lankan caregiver hid her elderly client
After working in Israel for a decade with families who considered her one of their own, she was murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 Anula Ratnayaka (Facebook) Anula Ratnayaka, 49, spent 10 years as a caregiver in Israel before she was murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 assault on Kibbutz Be’eri. The Sri Lanka Daily News reported that Anula was shot dead after managing to hide Ettie Morado, the Israeli woman she was taking care of. The report stated that “the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Decoding Nasrallah’s Speech And Blinken’s Frenetic Diplomacy
The speech last Friday by the Hezbollah Supremo, Hassan Nasrallah, arguably the most popular leader in the Arab street, has evoked mixed responses. The less familiar with the caverns of West Asian affairs expected the speech to be a precursor of greater fire power in support of Hamas to deter more Israeli barbarity being visited on the Palestinians in Gaza. This view obscures the reality that more firepower will only aggravate the suffering of Gaza without promise of any alteration in the direction of events. It is the new direction that Nasrallah is interested... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Nuwara Eliya Post Office
One of the most magnificent buildings in Sri Lanka is the Nuwara Eliya Post Office, built by the British in 1894. It is a Tudor Style, 2 storied building with a clock spire. It’s reddish walls and the roof, along with the immaculately maintained large lawn adds much colour to the already grandiose Nuwara Eliya town. This is considered the oldest functioning Post Office of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Postal Department has maintained it well thus far. The Nuwara Eliya Post Office is a big tourist attraction. It is one... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
My thoughts on the movie 800
I decided to patronize a cinema after several years to watch a movie. I am glad I did so because the film brought back happy memories of Muttiah Muralitharan, the spinning wizard and, in my opinion, the greatest cricketer Sri Lanka has produced. The movie 800 is about the life and cricketing career of Muarli. It is aptly titled 800 in recognition of the number of wickets Murali claimed in test matches during his illustrious career, which spanned from 1992 to 2010. His tally of wickets in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Cultural Perspectives on Psychological Trauma
Culture consists of traditions, values, customs, folklore, rituals, and artifacts that help to make meaning of the physical world and its transmitted primarily through language and everyday interactions. These cultural factors frequently play as trauma buffers and help the victims to come to terms with psychological suffering. The essential point about the concept of culture is that culture constructs our reality. It is the template that guides our perceptions (Marsella, 2010). Psychological trauma is a very complex and damaging... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
දින 28 පුහුණුව නිසා ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට වැඩි වැටුප් - වැඩි ආරක්ෂාව, මෙයට විරුද්ධ ජාවාරම්කරුවන් පුහුණුවෙන් රිංගා යන්න හදනවා-- අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර
ගෘහ පාලිකාවන් ලෙස විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්ව යන ශ්‍රමිකයින් සදහා දින 28ක පුහුණුව අනිවාර්ය කිරීම මගින් ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට ආරක්ෂාව මෙන්ම වැඩි වැටුප් ලබාදීමට හැකියාව ලැබී ඇති බවත්, මෙයට විරුද්ධ වන ඇතැම් ජාවාරම්කරුවන් මේවායින් රිංගා යාමට උත්සාහ ගන්නා බවත් පුහුණුවක් ලබාදෙන බව පැවසූ විට ඇතැම් විදේශ රැකියා නියෝජිත ආයතනත් කලබල වන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය.කොරියානු කෘෂි ක්ශේත්‍රයේ රැකියා ඉලක්ක කරගත් පුහුණුව සහ ගෘහ පාලිකා රැකියා සදහා වන පුහුණුව ලබාදෙන ස්ජොන්ග් වර්ල්ඩ් සමාගමේ පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානය සහ කාර්යාලය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට අද (06) එක්වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.එහිදී අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද පැවසීය.අපේ රටේ ජනගහනයෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Prime Minister calls for Iranian investments in energy sector
New Ambassador of Iran Alireza Delkhosh paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees today (November 6). The Ambassador referring to the friendship and close sociocultural ties between the two countries since ancient times, assured that he would work for further expansion of economic and cultural relationship between Iran and Sri Lanka during his diplomatic tenure. The Prime Minister said Iran has the opportunities now to invest in new sectors such as agriculture and industrial sectors in addition to energy sector. He also thanked Iran for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews becomes first player to be 'timed out' in international cricket
The seldom-used law means cricketers coming to the crease to bat must be ready to face their first ball within a set time. A Sri Lankan batter has become the first player in international cricket to be 'timed out' in a controversial moment in the World Cup. Angelo Mathews was given out by the on-field umpires during his side's clash with rivals Bangladesh in Delhi after he was not ready to face his first delivery within the required two minutes. The 35-year-old all-rounder was standing at the crease, but to the side of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/11/23)
Unholy alliance: AKD – America’s newest political “sweetheart” in Sri Lanka
The JVP-plugged NPP is not the JVP that Rohana Wijeweera created. The rank & file of those that survived insurrections in 1972 and 1980s will no doubt agree. Many of these today feel disillusioned, having sacrificed their lives & even members of their family for a cause that has cheated them of the best years of their lives. The JVP is sans any common ideology. The JVP-NPP is caught between maintaining its rural base or becoming a front of a new bourgeoisie west-influenced liberal class. What is certain is that the invisible... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/23)
Privatization: From One Thief’s Offshore Account to Another
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 29 October – 04 November 2023 * We don’t produce, there are no vibrant entrepreneurs. There is no risk-taking. What happens in privatization is that SoEs go from one set of corrupt hands to another. – Chandrasena Maliyadda (see ee Focus) * Now listen to the gnashing of teeth & caterwauling by US World-Bank-front-window mannequin Transparency International (TISL) Executive Director Nadi Perera, just returned from an opaque closed-door IMF-civil society... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/23)
Massacre in Gaza.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again called for a ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Hamas during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, October 24. He said that “It is important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” “But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”UNSG must be commended for that unequivocal statement on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/23)
දකුණු පළාත් ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්, පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන් සහ මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමති අතර හමුවක්.
දකුණු පළාත් ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්, පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන් සහ මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ගරු ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා අතර හමුවක් 2023.11.03 (සිකුරාදා) දින ගාල්ල උණවටුන අරලිය හෝටලයේදී පැවැත්විණි. දකුණු පළාතේ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් දිරිගැන්වීම, ඇගයීම සහ සංවිධානාත්මක අපරාධ ඇතුළු සියළුම ආකාරයේ අපරාධ මැඩලීම සහ පාලනය කිරීම පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම එහි අරමුණු වී තිබිණි. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ගරු ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා, මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් වියානි ගුණතිලක මහතා, බස්නාහිර පළාත් ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති දේශබන්ධු තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා, දකුණු පළාත් ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති සංජීව මැදවත්ත මහතා, විශේෂ කාර්ය බලකා අණ දෙන නිලධාරී ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති වරුණ ජයසුන්දර මහතා, දකුණු පළාත් රාජ්‍ය නිවේදිත නිලධාරීන් සහ දකුණු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/23)
Top UN official resigns over Israel's 'textbook genocide' in Gaza, says US holds UN hostage
Top United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber resigned in protest of Israel's "text-book case of genocide" in Gaza, warning that "key parts of the UN have surrendered to the power of the US". Our related video "US blocks peace in Gaza, supporting Israel's genocidal war on civilians": • US blocks peace in Gaza, supporting I... || Geopolitical Economy Report || https://youtu.be/dLXCYaayXqE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/23)
Why 226 Politicians Don’t Condemn Hamas for Brutally and Needlessly Killing Sri Lankans?
Hamas has killed at least 2 Sri Lankans so far. These were not collateral damage of war. Both these incidents involved Hamas deliberately targeting civilians and civilians only. They were in no way connected to the war and were not connected to warring parties either. Hamas must be condemned for their terrorism of killing innocent Sri Lankans. It is shameful that none of the MPs and the president has condemned Hamas for terrorism against Sri Lankans. It shows that no one cares for Sri Lankans killed by Hamas. However, some of them are shedding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/23)
cricket
We all love cricket which gave us a place in the sun in the world of cricket and also brought us fame and money. We are saddened at the shocking performance of our team and angry with the cricket administration. For a county which was once a world cup winner and runner up in a few others what happened in India was ignoble and unworthy. I recollect we missed the finals against Australia and India by just two missed catches. Cricket is a hard game where a batter gets only one chance. It calls... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/23)
Blinken without blinking says “Collateral damage” is to be expected in Israeli-Hamas staffoff – Sri Lanka says “Oh really”!
The Israeli-Hamas standoff strangely has many bedfellows suddenly entering the scene & we cannot but highlight the hypocrisies at play on how the UN/UNHRC & international community reacted to Sri Lanka’s efforts against terrorism and the reaction of these entities on the unfolding Gaza crisis. Though the standoff is between Israel & Hamas, the US is taking a prominent role. No, the Israeli’s are not American and the crisis has nothing to do with the US either. The statements by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken are poignant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/11/23)
EELAM Exposed. A Magnum opus on the Eelam myth
Review By Desamanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Secretary Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhla Bauddhdha Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya. 4.11.2023. EELAM Exposed by L.K.N. Perera is a Magnum opus on the Eelam myth, both in its content and analysis. In his own words “it is basically an exposure of the nakedness of Tamil politicians who mislead the Tamil community for their own political survival” But to me it is much more as a source book on rare and valuable source of historical information culled out from the horse’s mouths, foreigners... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/11/23)
සපුමල් කුමරු, කතරගම දෙවිඳුන් සහ ආදී දෙමළ බෞද්ධයන්
සපුමල් කුමරා බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ තර්කය වන්නේ පෘතුගීසින් එන විට යාපනයේ සිටියේ දෙමළ රජෙක් බවත් ඉංග්‍රීසින් යනවිට ඔවුන් විසින් උතුරේ දෙමළ පාලනයක් නැවත නොපිහිටුවීමත්, ඔවුනගේ දෙමළ රාජ්‍යයේ නොකැඩුනු පුරුක ගැලවීම සිදු කලේ යුරෝපා අධිරාජ්‍ය වාදීන් නිසා (1505 සිට 1948 දක්වා), එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ සංවිධානය විසින් උතුර (සහ නැගෙනහිර) දැන් නැවතත් දෙමළ ජනයාගේ පාලනයට ලබා දිය යුතු බවයි. නමුත් පැරණි ඉතිහාස ග්‍රන්ථ පවසන්නේ පෘතුගීසින් ඒමට පෙර කාලයේ උතුර සැමදා පාලනය කලේ සිංහල රජවරුන් බවයි - මහනුවර හෝ කෝට්ටේ රජවරු. යාපනයේ යම් දෙමළ පාලනයක් වී නම් (සංකිලි වැනි) ඔවුහු මෙම සිංහල රජවරුන්ගේ යුව රජුන් වූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/11/23)
Learn from Sri Lanka’s experience
Bangladesh needs to learn from Sri Lanka's experience about how to face an unprecedented economic crisis and recovery strategies to avoid similar circumstances and improve the well-being of citizens, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). Sri Lanka's economy was crushed last year under its worst financial crisis in more than seven decades, with inflation skyrocketing and foreign exchange reserves falling to record lows, severely stunting its ability to import essential commodities, according to a Reuters article. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/11/23)
A Tale of 3 Nations: Debt Restructuring in Ghana, Zambia, and Sri Lanka
What three different countries can tell us about the global debt problem – and China’s role in both debt distress and debt relief. The issue of global debt distress is a matter of great concern, not just for the affected developing nations but also for developed countries and international organizations. A recent United Nations Development Program report revealed that 54 developing economies are currently grappling with severe debt problems. Among these nations, Ghana, Zambia, and Sri Lanka have found themselves in dire financial straits. Sri Lanka’s government declared bankruptcy in April 2022,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/11/23)
Justice for SSP Keertiratna & 3 Constables falsely accused of Rambukkana shooting in April 2022
The Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security headed by Rear Admiral (Dr) Sarath Weerasekera has released an interesting report addressed to the State Defense Minister on the Rambukkana shooting that brings to question the HRCSL Commission of Expert report & the intrusive interference by the US envoy to Sri Lanka. The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka released their report on the 19 April 2022 Rambukkana incident after it appointed a Commission of Experts to inquire on 5 May 2022. The COE report does not harp too much on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
SRI LANKA CRICKET- GOING BACKWARDS
Many Sri Lankans have short memories. If they feel some sense of victory, they completely forget the past and look for new solutions and heroes. This is exactly what has happened to Sri Lanka Cricket at the World Cup. It was just two and half years ago, Sri :Lanka was demoted to the Associate Level as we fell short of qualifying for the top 8 teams. Sri Lanka had to find ways and means of qualifying for the Professional Level and compete with Emerging Nations such as Ireland, Netherlands, Nepal, Oman,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
Leaked: Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza
The plan advocates the forced transfer of the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be leveraged to assist the move Palestinians shelter at a temporary tent camp set up for those who were displaced from their homes by Israel's evacuation orders and airstrikes, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Bloomberg)) Israeli culture magazine Mekomit published on 28 October a leaked document issued by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence recommending the occupation of Gaza and total transfer of its 2.3 million inhabitants to Egypt’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
Global Nuclear War and Staged Pandemics: Michel Chossudovsky and Mike Adams
We are currently at the crossroads of the Most Serious Economic and Social Crisis in World History. It is an outright war against all humanity: the Planet’s 8 billion people. Starting with the corona crisis in late January 2020, the global crisis (2020-2023) –which is ongoing– has literally disrupted and destroyed people’s lives Worldwide in the course of the last three years. In turn, the dangers of a Third World War are routinely obfuscated by the media. A world of fantasy permeates the mainstream media which tacitly upholds the conduct of nuclear... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
India appreciates Premier Gunawardena’s unstinted efforts to promote Indo-Lanka friendship and cooperation – Nirmala Sitharaman
Indian Minister of Finance Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees on 2ndof November2023. The Prime Minister thanked India for the allocation of Indian Rs 824 million under the Memorandum of Understanding signed during the visit of the Finance Minister for solar electrification of religious places out of the Indian grant assistance of Indian Rs 1.0747 billion earmarked for the promotion of Buddhist ties.Indian Finance Minister said India highly appreciates Prime Minister Gunawardena’s unstinted efforts to promote Indo-Lanka friendship and cooperation. “Decades ago when we fighting for our... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
Plans to establish a Social Intelligence Unit through the NCC to protect students from drugs
• State Minister of Defence receives the salute of the annual ‘Hermann Loos’ Parade • Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne graced as a special dignitary The government initiated measures to establish a Social Intelligence Unit to ensure the protection and social security of the young generation through the creativity of the students and this would facilitate the students to rid themselves from the drug menace. Efforts are also being made to popularize and promote the activities of our talented children and National Cadet Corps (NCC) Cadets... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
The siege of Leningrad during World War II killed over 1.5 million. Here is why Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared that to what Israel is now doing in Gaza.
October 15, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned Israel on Friday (October 13) against besieging Gaza in the same way that Nazi Germany besieged Leningrad, Reuters reported. The siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg) was one of the most deadly sieges in history, killing an estimated 1.5 million, mostly civilians, between 1941 and 1944. Some 21st century scholars have used the term “genocide” to describe the siege, specifically referring to the systematic starvation and intentional destruction of the city’s civilian population. We take a look at the siege of Leningrad... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
SC asks Sirisena, three others to declare assets
Easter Sunday attacks case The Supreme Court on Thursday (02) ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena, former defence secretary, Hemasiri Fernando, former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former head of the SIS, SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena to pay before 30 June 2024, the full amount the court stipulated as compensation to the victims of Easter Sunday massacre. A seven member panel of judges comprising CJ Jayantha Jayasuriya, justices Buwaneka Aluvihare, Murdu Fernando, S. Thurairajah, AHMD Nawas, Kumuduni Wickramasinghe and Shiran Gunaratne also refused Sirisena’s request that he be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
Bangladesh seeks recognition of more of its medical colleges in SL
Colombo (Daily Mirror) - Bangladesh requested for recognition of more of its public medical colleges by the Sri Lankan health authorities, an official said. The request was made to Health Minister Dr.Ramesh Pathirana when met with Bangladeshi High Commissioner Tareq Md Ariful Islam on Thursday. They spoke about Sri Lankan students studying medicine in Bangladesh on scholarship and how to expand the scope of cooperation in this regard. The High Commissioner also sought for training of his country’s health professionals in dengue management. “We agreed to have regular... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
President questions discrepancy in global treatment of similar human rights challenges
Addressing the gathering at the opening of the Courts complex in Welimada today (Nov. 03), President Ranil Wickremesinghe has drawn attention to the contrasting approaches of the international community when it comes to addressing human rights concerns in Sri Lanka and Gaza. The Head of State highlighted that both regions are facing significant human rights challenges, but the responses from the West appear to differ significantly. Referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, President Wickremesinghe emphasized that every country must adhere to this crucial document. He pointed out that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
India offers USD 15 mn grant to strengthen Buddhist ties with Sri Lanka
In a significant event held in Colombo, the exchange of bilateral documents took centre stage, marking the initiation of projects supported by a generous USD 15 million grant from the Government of India. This grant is specifically allocated to bolster the longstanding Buddhist connections between India and Sri Lanka, underscoring the deep historical and cultural ties that bind these two nations together, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The signing of the bilateral agreements took place at the President’s House in Colombo yesterday (02). President Wickremesinghe and Hon Finance Minister of India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/23)
The Price of Glory is Death
A crisis of cataclysmic proportions brought about by natural disasters e.g. Great Fire of Lisbon (1755) and man made wars in Europe on ground of religious enmity (Wars of the Reformation and Counter - Reformation), gave rise to the Enlightenment philosophy in 18th-century Europe that placed a higher emphasis on reason and rationality over superstition and conjecture. The relatives of the 'unsaved ' who died in their thousands in these catastrophes despite seeking protection through unending prayers finally said ' Enough is Enough' and shed their belief in an external saviour. They lost faith in the power... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
“As long as Palestine is occupied, no country is free”
Across West Asia and North Africa, massive protests have been staged in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to protest the criminal Israeli attacks on Gaza Since October 7, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in demonstrations in cities across North Africa and West Asia in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s resistance to occupation, and in rejection of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza. One of the key slogans and demands by people across the region, in addition to Israel immediately ending its siege and blockade of Gaza, is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
Colombo Defence Services College student excels in swimming
Buddhima Samadhi Damsarani Senarathne of Defence Services College (DSC), Colombo set a new record clocking 2:45:69 minutes in the under-18 Girls’ 200-meter backstroke event at the recently held All Island National School Games Swimming Championships. She also won silver medals in both 50 m and 100 m (backstroke) event at the championship. Buddhima stole the spotlight with her exceptional performance winning silver medals in the 50 m and 200 m and a bronze in the 100 m selection trials (U-18) for the South Asian age group swimming championships conducted by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
The issue of the ownership of the land should be settled for the cultivation- Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister stated that the issues with regard to the ownership of the land should be settled for the cultivation at the Vavuniya District Food Security Program held today (2023.11.01) at the Vavuniya District Secretariat, in conjunction with the New Village - New Country National Programme.Speaking on this occasion the Prime Minister further said that-. One of the issues prevailing in the Vavuniya District is the land issue. The second problem is the issues that have arisen for a long time due to conflict with the Forest Conservation Department and forest conservation rules and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
From Blame-Shifting to Sensationalism: Israel Enters as the Newest Villain in the Easter Conspiracy Drama
Like a poorly scripted soap opera, the Easter Sunday Conspiracy introduces a new antagonist each episode – leaving the audience to wonder who is next in line to take the blame. A Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Member of Parliament now claims that the Easter Sunday attack was done by Israel and its intelligence agencies – the latest villain in the grand political theatre of the Easter Attack conspiracy. After having failed to successfully implicate the Sri Lankan security forces as masterminds of the Easter Attack,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
Bangladesh to send medical supplies worth Tk10 crore (US$ 904.698) to Sri Lanka
Dhaka, November 2 (Dhaka Tribune): Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen handed over a few boxes of medicine as a token to Ruwanthi Delpitiya, the acting high commissioner of Sri Lanka at an event held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. This donation has been made in a spirit of friendship and good neighborly relations as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the foreign ministry said. The event was also attended by Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, and high officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
President explains why VAT has to be increased to 18%
Colombo, Nov 2 (NewsWire) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe has acknowledged that the decision to increase Value-Added Tax (VAT) by 18% was a challenging one, driven by the need to maintain economic stability. “This step aligns us with the practices of countries like India and Pakistan. Such decisions are never easy for any government. However, failing to take these measures would cast a shadow on everyone’s future. Therefore, making the right choices becomes imperative. These decisions are necessary for the well-being of the country, even if they draw criticism from the public,” he said. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
USD 56.5 bn parked overseas: Govt. must deal with errant exporters firmly – Justice Minister
Wijeyadasa Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, PC, has said the Foreign Exchange Act No 12 of 2017, enacted during the Yahapalana administration was meant to facilitate the operations of those who exploited the system for their benefit. The new Act had repealed the Exchange Control Act of 1953, Dr. Rajapakshe said, adding that the Yahapalana move contributed to the deterioration of the economy. He explained how, as a member of the Yahapalana parliamentary group, he had to abide by the decision to vote for the new Foreign Exchange Act No 12... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
Vital documents at National Medicines Regulatory Authority destroyed
Several important documents at the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) have been reportedly destroyed, the Society of Government Pharmacists alleged. Its President Thushara Ranadeva told the Daily Mirror that NMRA Chief Executive Officer Dr. Vijith Gunasekera has intervened in the destruction of these documents. “The CEO has been disposing of certain files that belong to the NMRA. Last night (01), the CEO visited the NMRA premises and eliminated some files using a paper cutter. These files have been placed into bags,” Thushara Ranadeva claimed. Meanwhile, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
Excise Department suspends licenses of five liquor companies
The Excise Department said the licenses of five liquor manufacturing companies have been suspended due to their failure to pay tax arrears. Accordingly, the licenses of Synergy Distilleries (Pvt) Ltd, Finnland Distilleries Corporation (Pvt) Ltd, Wayamba Distilleries, W M Mendis & Co Ltd and the Randenigala Distilleries Lanka (Pvt) Ltd have been suspended. Excise Commissioner General Saman Jayasinghe said that the annual licenses for these companies, which had long-standing arrears, expired on October 31 and were not renewed. Accordingly, the production and distribution of their alcohol products have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
President vows to integrate hill country Tamils into society and move towards betterment of Sri Lanka
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking at the ‘Naam 200’ (We are 200) celebration, emphasised the goal of moving the country forward by uniting all its citizens. The Head of State highlighted that it is the current government’s policy to uphold the rights of all Sri Lankan citizens, regardless of their background, adding that the aim is to build a developed Sri Lanka by bringing everyone together. These remarks were made during the ‘Naam 200’ celebration at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo today (02 Nov.), marking the 200th anniversary of the arrival of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
ANURA KUMARA’S (AKD’S) TRYST IN AMERICA AND JULIE CHUNG’S APOLOGISTS
JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has started his “Presidential campaign” in America, months ahead of any Republican or Democratic candidate! He began his campaign in Los Angeles on October 28, 2023 addressing some Sri Lankans domiciled in the US, who do not have voting rights in Sri Lanka or cannot influence the Sri Lankan electorate by any means except throwing a fistful of dollars to JVP’s ever increasing largess. From Los Angeles he will tour Houston, Norfolk, Virginia, Washington DC and New York. It is difficult to comprehend why these cities were selected for his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නේවාසික සම්බන්ධීකාරකවරයා සහ මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමති අතර හමුවක්.
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නේවාසික සම්බන්ධීකාරක මාර්ක් අන්ඩ්‍රේ ෆ්‍රැන්චෙ මහතා සුහද හමුවක් සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ගරු ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා හමුවීමට අද දින (01) මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයට පැමිණියේය. ශ්රී ලංකාවට එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයේ සහයෝගය ලබා දිය හැකි ආකාර සහ මාර්ගගත ක්‍රමවල සුරක්ෂිතතාව පිළිබඳ පනත් කෙටුම්පත පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කෙරිණි. මෙම සාකච්ඡාවේදී මාර්ක් අන්ඩ්‍රේ මහතා විසින් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ගරු ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින් ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය සමග අදහස් හුවමාරු කරගනිමින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අභිලාශයන් ඉටු කරදීමට තමන් බලාපොරොත්තු වන බව ය. ඒ සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
අස්වැසුම ප්‍රතිපාදන ප්‍රමාණය ඉහල නංවනවා.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ "අලුත් ගමක්- අලුත් රටක්"ජාතික ඒකාබද්ධතා සහභාගිත්ව සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන පිළිබඳ අනුරාධපුර විශේෂ සම්බන්ධීකරණ කමිටු රැස්වීම 2023.10.31දින උතුරු මැද පළාත් ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ පැවති අවස්ථාවේදීය. එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා - අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය රටේ හදවත වැනි සුවිශේෂී ගෞරවයක් හිමිවෙන කේන්ද්‍රීය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයක්. වාරි කර්මාන්තයේ දී සුවිශේෂ ගෞරවයක් ලැබෙනවා. අතිරික්ත වී නිෂ්පාදනයක් කළ හැකි බව අදත් ඔප්පු කළේ අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ගොවි ජනතාවයි.ඔබ සියලු දෙනා එක්ව ඉදිරියටත් ඒ ආකාරයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීම අවශ්‍යයි. ග්‍රාම නිලධාරී කොට්ඨාස 14300 තිබෙනවා. වනාන්තර හැර මේ සෑම ග්‍රාම නිලධාරී කොට්ඨාසයකම සංවර්ධනය කළ හැකි ස්ථාන සංවර්ධනයට යොමු කරමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
පවුල් 22,000 කට ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණයෙන් පහසුකම් සලසන මධ්‍යම නුවරගම් පළාත ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ නව ගොඩනැගිල්ල ජනතා අයිතියට...
ලෝක නගර දින යෙදෙන අද (2023.10.31) දින මධ්‍යම නුවරගම් පළාත ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ නව ගොඩනැගිල්ල පොදුජන අයිතියට පත් කිරීම අනුරාධපුර පණ්ඩුලගමදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සිදු කෙරිණි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා - ජය ශ්රී මහා බෝධීන් වහන්සේගේ සෙවනැල්ල යටතේ තිබෙන ලෝකයේ පැරණිම නගරයක් හැටියටයි අනුරාධපුර නගරය ලෝක බෞද්ධ ජනතාව සලකන්නේ. ඒ නිසාම මෙම ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලය සුවිශේෂ නගරයක විශේෂ රාජ්‍ය කාර්යාලයක්. ජය ශ්රී මහා බෝධීන් වහන්සේ ඇතුළු අටමස්ථාන පුණ්‍ය භූමිය ඇති මේ ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශය විශේෂ කාර්යාලයක් ලෙස කටයුතු කරගෙන යාමේ ආදර්ශයට පත්විය යුතුයි. අවුරුදු ගණනාවක් පුරා මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
India, Sri Lanka resume talks for economic & technology cooperation pact
"The ETCA will be a pivotal move to further enhance bilateral trade between the two countries," it added India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks for an economic and technology cooperation agreement (ETCA), after a gap of nearly five years, an official statement said. The two countries had 11-rounds of talks from 2016 to 2018. Thereafter the negotiations were paused. "India and Sri Lanka held the twelfth round negotiations on the ETCA in Colombo from October 30 to November 1," the commerce ministry said in a statement. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
Sri Lanka to part-sell its national carrier
The Sri Lankan government this week invited bids from the global industry to run and manage the island’s national carrier, SriLankan Airlines, which has been suffering accumulated losses over the years. While the airline has reported an operating profit for the period April 2022 to end March 2023, its accumulated debt is US$1.2 billion. The government will retain 51 per cent control of the airline while selling off the remaining 49 per cent to investors The authorities are banking on enticing investors with the intention of creating Colombo,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/23)
UN Resident Coordinator offers support for Online Safety Bill in Sri Lanka
United Nations Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche informed Public Security Minister Tiran Alles that support will be provided for the exchange of ideas and proposals with international organizations concerning the Online Safety Bill. This revelation came during a meeting between the UN Resident Coordinator and the Minister at the Ministry of Public Security. The Ministry said that they discussed ways in which Sri Lanka can offer support to the United Nations and the Online Safety Bill during the meeting. Marc-André Franche conveyed to the Minister his intention to help... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/23)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim attacks on Israel, drawing their main sponsor Iran closer to Hamas war
Yemen’s Houthi rebels for the first time Tuesday claimed missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, drawing their main sponsor Iran closer into the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and further raising the risks of a regional conflict erupting. The Houthis had been suspected of an attack earlier this month targeting Israel by sending missiles and drones over the crucial shipping lane of the Red Sea, an assault that saw the U.S. Navy shoot down the projectiles. This time on Tuesday, however, Israel said its own fighter jets and its new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/23)
Private sector presents proposals to boost revenue and efficiency in public sector
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has met several private sector representatives today (Nov. 01) and discussed the reform programs aimed at moving from crisis to recovery and sustainable growth, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. During the discussions, the private sector representatives have presented proposals to increase revenue and improve efficiency in the public sector, according to the PMD.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/23)
Company owner arrested for importing substandard medicines remanded
The owner of the company, which allegedly used forged documents to import a batch of substandard human intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), has been remanded until November 15. The accused known as Aruna Deepthi, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), was produced before Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court earlier today. On Monday, the court imposed overseas travel bans on the owner of the company, which is accused of using forged documents to import a batch of vials of substandard immunoglobulin, and two other high-ranking government officials who were allegedly involved in this fraudulent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/23)
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