Archive for December 23rd, 2020
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga DSc Government, it is reported, is thinking of holding PC elections in April next year. It is improbable that either the Covid or the economy would be in a satisfactory situation by April next year to allow elections for an institution that is largely non-essential. Our economy has recorded negative growth […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
කෝවිඩ් -19 විශේෂාංගය COVID-19 රෝගය අළුත් වෛරසයක් නිසා ඇතිවන රොගයක් නිසා මේ රොගයපිලිබඳ දැනීම ඉතා ස්වල්පයකි දැනට සොයාගත් පහත සඳහන් දිගු කාලීන සෞඛ්ය ගැටළු ගැන ඈවදානය යොමු කරන්න රෝගියෙක් ස්පර්ශ කිරීමෙන් හෝ අශ්රය කිරීමෙන් හැම කෙනෙකුටම රෝගය වැලදෙන්නේ නැත. අශ්රයකරන තැනැත්තාගේ ඇති ප්රතිදේහ ශක්තිය අනුව වෛරසය ඇඟ ඇතුලේ ක්රියා කාරී වේ. එන්නතින් කරන්නේ කෘත්රිම ප්රතිදේහයක් […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS Analysts observe that in addition to China, Sri Lanka has close relation with Iran and Russia. Russia has always stood by Sri Lanka, they said. Russia supported Sri Lanka at UNHRC in Geneva and gave military assistance during the war. Iran gave interest free loans as well as military items. Iran also supplied […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS One solution to the problem of a future Indian Ocean war is for Sri Lanka to return to the policy of Non Alignment. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) started at Bandung Conference of 1955, during the time of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike. It became a formal organization in 1961. Under the Chairpersonship of Prime […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Thailand ශ්රී ලංකාව හා තායිලන්තය අතර රාජතාන්ත්රික සබඳතා ස්ථාපනය කර 65 වැනි සංවත්සරය නිමිත්තෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තානාපති කාර්යාලය හා බැංකොක්හි, චූලාලොංකෝන් විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ ආසියානු අධ්යයන ආයතනය එක්ව කුඩා චිත්ර ප්රදර්ශනයක් සංවිධානය කරන ලදී. තායිලන්තයේ විශ්රාමික තානාපති පොල්ඩෙජ් වොරාචාට් විසින් ‘යුකූර් ’ කලාවෙන් චිත්රයට නැගූ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ම්නරම් සුවිශේෂී සංස්කෘතිකාංග මෙහිදී ප්රදර්ශනය […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අපේ රටේ අනාගතය ගැන බලාපොරොත්තු තබා ගැනීමට නම් හැම අංශකින්ම රට ස්වයං පෝෂිත කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ක්රියාත්මක කළ යුතු යැයි ගරු අග්රමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.12.23 දින පැවසීය. රත්මලානේ පිහිටි රාජ්ය ඹෟෂධ නිෂ්පාදන සංස්ථාවේ නව හෝමෝන පෙති හා කරල් නිෂ්පාදානාගාරය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. අලුත් රටට […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Travelmole Jet2 and TUI have cancelled a further raft of holidays as countries across Europe and the world close their borders to British holidaymakers. Sri Lanka became the latest country to announce a ban on UK flights this morning due to fears of a new strain of coronavirus spreading across Britain. TUI has extended […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
– ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නීතිඥ විශ්රාමික මේජර් චරිත සිරිවර්ධන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඒ. ජේ. ඒ. අබේනායක ලෝක සෞඛ්ය සංවිධානය විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද මාර්ගෝපදේශ අනුව කොවිඞ් ආසාදිත මළ සිරුරු තුළ අනිවාර්යෙන්ම කොවිඞ් වෛරසය අඩංගු බැවින් ඒවා අකී්රය වන දිනයක් හෝ කාලවකවානුවක් සඳහන් කර නොමැති බව ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නීතිඥ විශ්රාමික මේජර් චරිත සිරිවර්ධන මහතා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. එම මළ […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror After evaluating all technical reports relating to the ANTI-COVID-19 syrup introduced by Ayurvedic practitioner Dhammika Bandara from Kegalle, the Pharmacological Unit of the Sri Lanka Ayurveda Department had approved the syrup as a local medicine, Indigenous Medicine Promotion, Rural & Ayurveda Hospital Development & Community Health Secretary Ms A.K.W.W.M.N.K. Weerasekara said. […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Four passengers were found COVID-19 positive when Rapid Antigen tests performed on them while travelling in passenger buses at Danovita on the Colombo-Kandy Road yesterday, Mirigama Public Health Inspector (PHI) Nishantha Somaratne said today. He said 250 passengers were tested on Tuesday, and four of them were found COVID-19 positive. They […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror As the third school term ends today for this year, the Education Ministry said all students should be promoted to the next class for the first term of 2021. They said all textbooks relevant to the promoted classes should be provided. The Education Ministry has informed all Provincial Chief […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Department of Government Information says that another 231 individuals have tested positive for novel coronavirus in the country. Reportedly, all new cases are identified from the Peliyagoda cluster. Accordingly, a total of 579 cases have been reported within the day so far. As per Epidemiology Unit data, the total number of Covid-19 infections […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Another individual has fallen victim to the novel coronavirus adding to the COVID-19 death tally of the country. The deceased is a 71-year-old male residing in Kalutara South, the Department of Government Information confirmed. He had passed away on December 21 at his residence. The cause of his death has been determined as […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The total count of Covid-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 38,407 as more persons were tested positive for the virus. The Department of Government Information said 348 fresh cases have been detected within the day. All of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster, reports confirmed. With […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy UruduPoint SHARJAH, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 03rd Apr, 2020) H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, directed the Department of Islamic Affairs in Sharjah not to bury any of the victims of the new coronavirus disease, COVID- 19, in Al Saja’a area in Sharjah, and to confirm that […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
By David Walsh Courtesy Euronews Denmark will dig up millions of mink culled over fears of a coronavirus mutation to avoid a future environmental disaster, the Danish government confirmed. Some four million mink will be exhumed from mass graves and incinerated to prevent potentially hazardous pollution. The Social Democrat minority government reached an agreement with other […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Health experts point out that burying the bodies of patients who die of COVID-19 infection creates a risk of the virus entering groundwater sources. Meanwhile, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya staged a protest in Colombo today against the cremation of Muslims who died of COVID infection. However, several other parties stated that the […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The forensic doctors at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle stated that if the body of the patient who died due to COVID that is being kept at the morgue is not cremated, they will withdraw from their duties. Forwarding a letter to the Police Inspector at the Galle Headquarters, Health Services […]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Director of Operations of the Airport and Aviation Services of Sri Lanka, Shehan Sumanasekara stated that the national carrier of Maldives will commence scheduled flights to Sri Lanka from today (23). Accordingly, scheduled flights operated by Air Maldives will fly into Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA). According to Sumanasekara, the project is part […]
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