Archive for November 21st, 2020

Donald Trump – undertaker for 250,000 deaths

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

H. L. D. Mahindapala Donald Trump continues to keep America and the world guessing as to his next move which should be to concede victory to Joe Biden. But he has not done so formally, though he is sending signals indicating that he is willing to concede without, of course, taking any meaningful action to vacate […]

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Sri Lanka to Britain – You are no longer the British Empire. Atone for your Colonial Crimes before holding HR score cards!

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

UK that occupied & ruled Sri Lanka from 1803 to 1972 (169 years) and unabashedly committed scores of human rights abuses, crimes against humanity, nowhere near to what the FCO will even dare put to paper, is annually issuing reports on human rights! Politically correct UK is today the home of all things the British, […]

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REDUCTION OF BUDGET DEFICIT AND CREATING A PRODUCTION ECONOMY

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The main focus of the budget speech of the prime minister for 2021 has reported that the reduction of the budget deficit, and creating a production economy in the country.  The idea has been written in my articles during the past several years as I observed that macroeconomic issues have been less […]

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ආනන්ද බෝඩිමේ ගෝඨා අයියා

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පීී. හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි. මා ගාලූ මහින්දයෙන් අස් වී ආනන්දයට ආ දිනය මට කිසිවිටක අමතක නොවේ. මගේ පියා ඞීගසී. හේවාවිදාන මහතා පරිපාලක වශයෙන් සේවය කළ ඉමදුව වව්ලගලවත්තේ නිලනිවාසයේ සිට අපි උදේ පාන්දර 4ට කොළඹ කරා ගමන් ඇරඹුවෙමු. මහින්දයේ පරණ යාළුවන් අත්හැර දමු සිදුවීම ගැන දුකක් සාංකාවක් තිබුණද අලූත් පාසැලේ […]

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Gota’s no-frills first year, whines and whiners

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E It was obvious not a year that made for pomp and pageantry, even if that was the desire. All issues have been either framed or impacted by Covid19. In any case, he’s not, for example, a Mahinda Rajapaksa. Covid19 of course was so sobering that the contrast was lost.No-frills is good but presidents […]

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THE POHOTTUWA GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA Part 2 C5g

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Central Intelligence Agency of the USA, the CIA has several front organizations, said critics. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was one of them. NED is a grant-making foundation, distributing funds to private non-governmental organizations for promoting democracy abroad in around 90 countries, said Wikipedia.  NED played a role in supporting the Arab […]

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THE POHOTTUWA GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA Part 2 C5f

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

KAMALIKA PIERIS  Here are some activities of the US before and after the Yahapalana puppet government came to power. American Bar Association American Bar Association (ABA) made repeated attempts to register a Branch Association of the ABA in Sri Lanka. The first request was in January 2018.  The Bar Association of Sri Lanka strongly objected. […]

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THE POHOTTUWA GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA Part 2 C5e

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

KAMALIKA PIERIS EASTER SUNDAY BOMB BLASTS There is speculation that Western intelligence agencies had a hand in the well-coordinated, precision-timed Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka, said Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.  How otherwise could a little-known group, ‘National Thawheed Jamaath’    have orchestrated such a feat. The Easter bomb attacks in Sri Lanka  are a part of  a […]

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ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ මහා නායක අග්‍ගමහාපණ්ඩිත, අතිගෞරවාර්හ නාපාන පේමසිරි අභිධාන මහා ස්වාමීන්ද්‍රයන් වහන්සේ බෞද්ධ ශාසනයට කළ මෙහෙවර අනගිභවනීයයි – අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය මහනුවර, හුරීකඩුව ශ්‍රී  විද්‍යාසාගර මහා පිරිවෙනේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ හා විහාරාධිපති, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ මහානායක, අග්‍ගමහාපණ්ඩිත, අතිගෞරවාර්හ, නාපාන පේමසිරි අභිධාන මහා ස්වාමීන්ද්‍රයන් වහන්සේ ගේ ශෝක යෝජනාව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විසින් අද 2020.11.21 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. එම ශෝක යෝජනාව මෙසේය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ මහා නායක අග්‍ගමහාපණ්ඩිත, අතිගෞරවාර්හ […]

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Pros and cons of increasing the retirement age in Sri Lanka’s private sector

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

By Gitanjali Marcelline Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Undoubtedly, increasing the retirement age has its merits, but one also wonders if, under the present trying economic circumstances, the Sri Lankan private can manage to keep employees for five extra years. Colombo, November 21(newsin.asia) : When presenting the budget for 2021 a few days ago, the Sri Lankan government […]

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‘Travel sector may take years to return to pre-COVID-19 level’

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

Yuthika Bhargava Courtesy The Hindu Consolidation is inevitable, says Booking.com’s Mehrotra Even though some demand has started coming back, the travel industry may take years to get back to pre-pandemic business level, said Ritu Mehrotra, country manager — India, Sri Lanka, Maldives at Booking.com. Travel industry was one of the first industries to be hit […]

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IAF helps Sri Lankan women pilots break glass ceiling

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

Rahul Singh and Sunetra Choudhury courtesy Hindustan Times, New Delhi The two pilot officers were commissioned as military pilots in Sri Lanka earlier this week, a year after they completed a crucial part of their flying training at the Dundigal-based Air Force Academy near Hyderabad in 2018-19. Rangana Weerawardhana and Pavithra Gunaratne, the first women pilots […]

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Over 50,000 Tamils will get houses, damaged temples will be rejuvenated in Sri Lanka: Amit Shah

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

Courtesy ANI Chennai, Nov 21 (ANI): After inaugurating various development projects in Tamil Nadu, Home Minister Amit Shah said, When PM Modi visited Sri Lanka, he didn’t forget Jaffna. He visited Tamil colonies there & met with Tamil brothers & sisters. He laid foundation stone for providing them houses. Over 50,000 Tamils will get houses […]

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487 more COVID-19 cases reported today

Saturday, November 21st, 2020

Courtesy Adaderana Department of Government Information says that another 230 individuals have tested positive for novel coronavirus in the country. All new cases are close contacts of previously identified positive patients from the Peliyagoda cluster.  A total of 487 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified so far today (21). This brings the total number […]

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