Archive for May 12th, 2020
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma Background It was clearly observed how the existing digital infrastructure was over-stretched and overwhelmed during this difficult time, which led to computer system and website overloads or crashes. Also, long queues for securing necessary food provisions, medicines, etc. were observed. All public and private educational institutions were closed which disrupted most of […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is widely accepted that the invention of personal computers, mobile phones, and other information technology-related devices, which had been used to acquaint information bolstered the initiation of social media. The freedom of expression and the right to express independent views are affirmed by social media. It is a good development and […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
By M D P DISSANAYAKE The worst political liars are in Sri Lanka. From time to time, they are on both sides. The most recent fiasco relating to the then Presidential Candidate relating to his citizenship status was hilarious. Let’s recapitulate: Harin Fernando took the front line fight to charge that Gota is still a […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
S .Akurugoda As per media reports, several Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions were filed at the Supreme Court, challenging the decision of the President to dissolve Parliament, on March 2, and the decision by the Elections Commission to reschedule elections, on June 20, amidst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Executive Director of the Centre […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Shelton Mahadivulweva Below is the Island Editorial today. As all of you know, Island is owned by Upali Newspapers of which the current owner is the brother of former SLFP MP Kumara Welgama (who has now joined with Sajith Premadasa) and yesterday’s paper gave prominence to a statement made by him. The Island which used to […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Aloysius Hettiarachchi Today is International Nurses Day. We are deeply indebted to them for the services they provide. They are the frontline soldiers in the battle against Covid-19 in our country right at this moment. Perhaps one of them saved my life too, on a day in 1975 at the general hospital, Colombo. I got […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් හිටපු දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර අමාත්යාංශ ලේකම් තනතුරු සදහා ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු විසින් පුද්ගලයින් පත් කරනු ලබන්නේ රජයේ ප්රතිපත්ති ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම සදහා ය. ශ්රීි ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවයෙන් පිට ලේකම්වරුන් ගණනාවක් කාලයෙන් කාලයට අමාත්යාංශ ලේකම් තනතුරු සදහා පත්ව ඇත. මේ රටේ සුවිශේෂ කාර්ය භාරයක් ඉටු කළ පරිපාලන සේවයේ නොවන ලේකම්වරුන් ගැන සිහි කිරීමකි. ශ්රී ලංකා පරිපාලන […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති චීන වෙදකම ගැන සෑහෙන දෙනෙක් කතා කරනවා. ඒත් ඇත්තටම චීනයේ තියෙන්නේ එකම එක වෙදකමක් නම් නෙවෙයි. වෙදකම් මහ විශාල ප්රමාණයක් චීනයේ තියෙනවා. චීන වෙදකම කියලා ප්රසිද්ධ වෙලා තියෙන්නේ චීනයේ ප්රධාන ජනවර්ගය වන හන් මිනිස්සුන්ගේ වෙදකම. චීන ජනගහනයෙන් සියයට 92 ක් ම ඉන්නේ හන් මිනිස්සු. හන් මිනිස්සුන්ට අමතරව තවත් ජනවර්ග 55 ක් චීනයේ […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
(වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විසින් ලියන ලද The Human Mind ලිපියේ පරිවර්තනයකි ) මිනිසුන් වශයෙන් අප ජීවත් වන්නේ අපගේ මනසෙහිය. මනස විවිධාකාරයෙන් අර්ථ දක්වා ඇත්තේ කෙනෙකුගේ සිතුවිලි හා හැඟීම් වලට වගකිව යුතු දේ, තර්කානුකූල බුද්ධිය හා සවිඥාණිකත්වයේ (consciousness) අංගය, සියලු අවිඥාණික සංජානන ඇතුළුව සිතුවිලි, සංජානනය, මතකය, චිත්තවේගයන්, කැමැත්ත සහ පරිකල්පනය යන සංකලනයන් ලෙස අර්ථ […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Popular international video blogger and social media influencer Nuseir Yassin, whom host Nas Daily has posted a video, praising Sri Lankans for looking after tourists who are currently stranded in Sri Lanka due to the Covid-19.
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
සමස්ත ලංකා සුවසේවා සංගමය. ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. 2020.05.11 පළාත් සෞඛ්ය ලේකම්තුමිය, දකුණු පළාත් සභාව, අංක 15 ඒ, ඩික්සන් පාර, ගාල්ල. මහත්මියණි, බද්දේගම රෝහලේ සුව සේවා සංගමයේ ශාඛා ලේකම් කසුන් කළුපහන මහතාගෙන් පුද්ගලීක පලිගැනීම් වහා නතර කරන ලෙස කරනු ලබන ඉල්ලීම #කෝවිඩ්-19 #Covid- 19 වසංගතය මැඩලීම සදහා සෞඛ්ය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්තුමා විසින් 2020.03.23 වන දින සියළුම රෝහල් […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
By Garvin Karunaratne former Government Agent, Matara
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
By A. Abdul Aziz. Its an undeniable fact that all the religions on this earth claim to be from GOD. Hazrat Muhammad(PBUH), Moses, Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Baba Nanak and every religious leader taught people to believe and worship GOD. Although all religions have slight differences in the attributes they ascribe to God, but all the […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ලෝකයම මර බියට පත්කළ රුදුරු කොරෝනා වසංගතයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාව ගලවා ගත් ජාතියේ මුර දේවතාවා ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බව පූජ්ය දොඩම්පහල රාහුල හිමියන් සදහන් කරති. රණ විරුවන් සුව විරුවන්ද මෙම සටනේ යෙදුනද ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ සුවිශේෂී මෙහෙයුම කිසිදිනක අමතක නොකරන්න තමන් ලක්වාසි ජනතාවගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බවද උන් වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. අද ජනාධිපතිතුමා එම […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරසය පාලනය අතින් ශ්රී ලංකාව දකුණු ආසියාවේ ඉදිරියෙන්ම සිටින බව ජාත්යන්තර පුවත් වෙබ් අඩවි වාර්තා කර ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාව කොරෝනා වෛරසය ආරම්භයේ සිටම හමා යමින් ඊට ක්ෂණික ප්රතිචාර දක්වමින් රෝගය කළමනාකරණය කර ඇති බව MSN වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්රී ලංකාව සතු විධිමත් සහ ශක්තිමත් සෞඛ්ය කලාපයේ සෙසු රටවල් […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
By A.J.A. Abeynayake Courtesy The Island The Supreme Court, yesterday, fixed Sept 2, 3, and 4 for argument as regards the 12 petitions filed against former President Maithripala Sirisena, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former IGP Pujith Jayasundera and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando for their failure to take action to prevent the Easter Sunday […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Five more patients have tested positive for Covid-19 in Sri Lanka increasing the total confirmed cases to 889. This brings the total number of active cases of Covid-19 under medical care to 514. The number of recoveries thus far is reported as 366. The death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena has conveyed his deep appreciation to the Cuban Government for the support extended through the dispatch of a Cuban medical team to the Republic of Haiti to attend to the medical needs of Sri Lankans employed in Haiti. The Foreign Minister conveyed these sentiments during a meeting […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News It is reported that no decision was taken during the meeting by the Election Commission held today whether to postpone the General Election. A senior commission officials stated that June 20thwould remain as the day for the General election. Meanwhile, the election commission has decided not to allocate preferential numbers to the […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News. The Coast Conservation Department today took action against the forcible acquisition of lands in the coastal belt surrounding the ‘Muhudu Maha Viharaya’ following the revelations through the Hiru CIA program. Accordingly, the unlawful barbed wire fences were removed. Muhudu Maha Viharaya which is situated in Pottuvil, in the Eastern Province, is a […]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya, Udaya Gammanpila states that the Opposition is calling for the reconvening of the Parliament with the intention of uniting the UNP. He also expressed his views regarding the statement made by former Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday.
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News A petition has been filed requesting the Supreme Court to issue a Writ by annulling the nominations of Samagi Jana Balavegaya for the General election. The petition has been filed by a UNP candidate who expects to contest from the Colombo District. The petitioner states that Samagi Jana Balavegaya is formed based on […]
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