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News Archive for Jul 2020
WIMAL WEERAWANSA’S JATHIKA NIDAHAS PERAMUNA TO PLAY A MAJOR ROLE-SLFP TO BECOME A MINOR PARTY-BASIL RAJAPAKSE’s ELEVATION DISTINCT POSSIBILITY!The current trends in Sri Lanka politics are expected to change the status of established political parties relegated to distinct defeat whilst some of the minor parties emerging to be a fighting force. The oldest political party of Sri Lanka, UNP will lose its status as a major party. Newly formed SJB will emerge as the second largest political force in Sri Lanka, well short of gaining power in the House, but able to secure the role of the Opposition Leader , a position previously held by the UNP. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
රට අවුරුදු හතරකින් අගාදියට ඇද දැමු එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සමගි ජනබලවේගයේ හා ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ යමපල්ලන්ටද නැවතත් රටේ පාලන බලය දිය යුත්තේ ?
විලිලජ්ජා නැති ප්‍රතිපත්යක් නැති මිනිස්සු දැන් එනවා රට කරන හැටි කියා දෙන්න. දැන් ඉන්න සමහරක් උන් මැරිලා ඉපදිලා. 2005 ඉඳලා අපේ ලංකාව දුටු දෑවැන්ත සංවර්ධන උන් දුටුවේ නැතුවා වාගෙයි. තාමත් කතාකරන්නේ රාජපක්ෂ පවුල් බලය ගැන . උන් අහනවා රාජපක්ෂලා කොටි ගණන මුදල් නාස්තිකරලා ඇයි අවුරුදු දෙකකට කලින් චන්දයකට ගියේ කියල. උන්ට තියෙන දේශපාලන බල තන්හාව නිසා හෝ උන්ට තියෙන යමක්තෙරුම් ගැනීමේ අපහසුතාවය නිසා උන්ට තේරෙන්නේ නෑ . මහින්ද රාජපක්ස ජනාධිපති තුමා බලලෝභයෙන් ජනාධිපති කම ලබාගත් කෙනෙක් නොවේ. ඔහුට රට ගැන අවංක ආදරයක් තිබුනා . ඔහුට දුර දිග දක්නා නුවණක් තිබුනා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
An Open Letter to Hon. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Dear President Gotabaya, Thankfully to the smart and peace-loving Sri Lankan citizen’s decision that brought you to the great victory in the Presidential election in last November, today whole peace-loving Sri Lankans enjoy a sigh of relief and confidence for the future of Sri Lanka. The brave and bold decisions you have executed so far courageously as the executive president of the country have already started showing positive results to the progress of the island. As a leader who took the oath as the president of Sri Lanka in front... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Election Manifestos must carry commitment to protect Animals and take the cue from the objects of the ‘Justice for Animals and Nature’ organization
All major political parties must now recognize that animal welfare is a key issue for a growing number of voters in Sri Lanka and so it’s essential that they adopt sound, evidence-based policies in their Election manifestos. In a country which takes pride in proclaiming that it has the longest uninterrupted history of Buddhism in the world and accepts fostering of Buddhism within and overseas as a fundamental duty of the State (Article 9 of the Constitution), it is sad to note that despite such national commitment to propagation and protection of Buddhism,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
THE POWER OF 2/3 OF LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IS THE POWER OF DESERVING PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY.
People want our communities to be safe. People want our security ( our borders are safe) to be intact. People want our environment and forest reserves to be protected. People want our historical sites to be respected and protected. People want our children protection from abuse. People want our roads to be safe with adequate safety features. People want our people to follow law and order and discipline. People want law-abiding, disciplined, society & nobody to challenge court orders and respect the law & order. People want to see Tamils, Muslims, Sinhalese live in harmony.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
ඉන්ද්‍රජාලික යථාර්ථවාදයේ ප්‍රමුඛයා ; ගේබ්‍රියෙල් ගාර්ෂියා මාකේස්
ගේබ්‍රියෙල් ගාර්ෂියා මාකේස් 20 වන සියවසේ වඩාත්ම වැදගත් කතුවරුන්ගෙන් කෙනෙකු ලෙස සැලකේ. ඔහු ඉන්ද්‍රජාලික යථාර්ථවාදයේ ප්‍රමුඛ ලේඛකයෙකි. සර්වන්ටෙස්ගෙන් පසු ස්පාඤ්ඤ ලෝකයේ වඩාත්ම ජනප්‍රිය ලේඛකයා ගේබ්‍රියෙල් ගාර්ෂියා මාකේස් ලෙස සැලකේ. ඔහුගේ කීර්තිය දකුණු ඇමරිකාවෙන් හා පුළුල් හිස්පැනික් ලෝකයෙන් ඔබ්බට ගියේය. 1982 දී සාහිත්‍ය සඳහා නොබෙල් ත්‍යාගය ප්‍රදානය කිරීමත් සමඟ ඔහුගේ කීර්ති නාමය තහවුරු විය. ගේබ්‍රියෙල් ජොසේ ඩි කොන්කෝඩියා ගාර්ෂියා මාකේස් 1927 මාර්තු 6 වන දින කොලොම්බියාවේ උපත ලැබීය. ඔහුගේ ජීවිතයේ මුල් අවුරුදු අට ගත කළේ ඔහුගේ ආච්චී සහ සීයා සමගය. ඔවුන් ඔහුගේ මුල් කාලීන වර්ධනයට දැඩි ලෙස බලපෑම් කළහ. ඔහුගේ සීයා නිකොලස් මාකේස් මෙජියා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
මැතිවරණ රාජකාරිවල නිරත නිලධාරීන්ගේ සෞඛ්‍ය ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කිරීම සම්බන්ධව IS IT FREEDOM OF PRESS???? Providing assistance to school meal programmes Japan donates 388 tonnes of canned fish to Sri Lanka, WFP United Nations World Food Programme. Out-of-the-box thinking is the need of the moment - Ajith Nivard Cabraal UNP expels 37 more Local Govt. members Attorney General files indictments against Rajitha and ex-SPC chairman Two ex-deputy ministers supported terrorist & extremist groups, PCoI hears Nearly 23kg of heroin seized from house in Wellampitiya Elect to Parliament, only those who can work- PM (Video) President’s vision for Monaragala: An agro-based modern economy Former Director of the CID, Shani Abeysekera remanded until August 7 Sri Lanka’s Choice: Deed E-Land Register or MCC/Bim Saviya E-Land Register? CID should summon Ranil වත්ත බද්දට දී ඇස්සට දත නියවන්නට සිදුවූ සිංහලයා!! GENERAL ELECTION OF SRI LANKA – FORECAST FOR AUGUST 2020-SLPP TO SECURE 2/3 MAJORITY ජාතික උප්පැන්න සහතිකයේ ජාතිය ඉවත් කිරීම සහ ජාතිකත්වය ඇතුළත් කිරීමට පුද්ගලයන් ලියාපදිංචි කිරීමේ කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල්වරයා ක්‍රියාකිරීම , දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්‍රහයේ 289 සහ 490 වගන්ති අනුව වරදක්….! China donates 50,000 face masks to Lankan Three-Wheeler Driver’s Union Wayamba Governor lambastes EC for double standards ... questions HRCSL silence over CC member’s controversial stand Will make mandatory to present to parliament before signing: PM Top SJB members to be expelled in second round: UNP Full list of ousted UNP members Three including foreigner test positive as Covid-19 tally hits 2,814 President pledges to develop Kelaniya while preserving historical heritage SJB to seek legal action against UNP once again There are no Sinhala parties in the Samagi Jana Balawegaya - Ranil 3,000 million relief for electricity consumers An object lesson in archaeological conservation My prediction on the August 5th General Election -Landslide victory for the SLPP and a white wash for the UNP and nemesis for all other political parties and Independent candidates Why can’t the Government invoke the 6th Amendment to the Constitution of 8th August 1983 and Take action against this Party and its members at least now and put an end to this nuisance without dragging on this issue as all governments have done since 1983, creating continuous political instability in this country? Robotics: Background, Influence on Everyday Life and Future RI LANKA MUSLIM VOTE BANK MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO FACE THE TRUTH. Forthcoming general election and its aftermath Role of Viyathmaga No big call for renewable energy in today’s political manifestos India-Sri Lanka to enhance cooperation in alternative medicine The Ramayana provides rallying points for opposing nationalisms President to develop Colombo under systematic plan Will make mandatory to present to parliament before signing: PM New schedules for schools to reopen from Aug 10 Corruption and malpractices in public sector will be eliminated - President Repatriation of Sri Lankans to resume from Friday PM appoints an archaeological advisory committee Former Intelligence chief reveals the ‘theoretician’ of NTJ Excise officer arrested with ethanol remanded till August 05 (Video) Legal action will be taken against the working committee decisions (Video) BUDDHIST CIVILIZATION IN THE NORTH AND EAST OF ANCIENT SRI LANKA Part 1 BUDDHIST CIVILIZATION IN THE NORTH AND EAST OF ANCIENT SRI LANKA Part 2 PUBLIC NEED TO SELECT PEOPLE OF GOOD CHARACTERS & EDUCATION TO LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY HOW SINHALA CAME INTO EXISTANCE Welcome Speech From Mr. Navindra Herat , President United Sri Lanka Association At the Inaugural Sri Lanka Parliamentary Day At The Grand Hall, New Zealand Parliament 23rd July තැපැල් දෙපාර්තමේත්තුවේ ගොඩ ගැසී ඇති ඡන්ද ලිපි සම්බන්ධයෙන් තැපැල්පති/මැතිවරණ කොමිසම වෙත යොමු කළ ලිපි Final Decision Coronavirus COVID-19 'superspreaders' are emerging as the lepers of the 21st century Rs 11 bn. misappropriated at CCF under Yahapalana Govt., investigation reveals Rs 400 mn went missing during presidential election සජිත් ගස්.. ඇමතිකම දරද්දී මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ බිලියන 11ක් මිසින්.. වාර්තාව බාර දෙයි…. Rs.11Bn financial misappropriation at CCF from 2016 to 2019: Report Rs. 11 bn misused at Central Cultural Fund – committee report Main suspect of hurling contraband to Welikada Prison arrested Security Council was kept informed of Zahran Hashim, Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) tells PCoI Ranil defends UNP’s decision to oust 115 party members Malaysia’s ex-PM gets 12-year jail term in corruption trial PM said law should take its due course (video) Riyaz Bathiudeen brought to the Presidential Commission to make a statement Two (02) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,809 Underworld must be suppressed first to save the youth from the menace of drugs (Video) General Elections Sri Lanka: What is India now up to with the Tamils? වයඹ පළාත සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ පස් අවුරුදු සැලැස්ම Sri Lankan Collective of intellectuals supporting the Minister of Industires The Vegan Muslim Initiative-Don’t Kill An Animal This Eid We must grieve for the impending victims of mass slaughter on Hadj Festival Day අගමැතිගෙන් එ.ජා.ප. යට චෝදනාවක්... A quiet acceptance: Sri Lanka might substantially prune 19 th. Amendment with multi-party support As Sri Lanka researches ‘Ravan’s aviation routes’, India’s seculars keep mocking Ram In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus President orders speedy construction of Central Expressway Covid-19 tally jumps to 2,804 with 22 fresh cases One (01) more person confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,805 The underworld that was suppressed by my government was reactivated during the period of good governance - PM (Video) Commission begins questioning former director of state intelligence who first received the warning of the Easter attacks (video). The previous government increased taxes and stole people's money (Video) Sri Lanka has already prepared the E-Land Register – We do not need MCC $67m Land Project ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණට හෝ ජාතික ජනබල වේගයට ඔවුන්ගේම රජයක් කවරදාකවත් පිහිටුවාගත නොහැකියි. Deaths due to competing private buses in Sri Lanka විදුලි බලය නිදහස්ව ලබමු. " හොට්ස්පොට් " ගැන කැෆේ සංවිධානය පොලිසියට ලියයි. Notes to the People: Your Vote is Critical on 5 August Yahapalana Govt Excelled in Mismanagement: Pandering to Sri Lanka’s Detriment Consciousness of the public Repatriation of Sri Lankans to resume within next week – Army Chief Close associates of ‘Kanjipani Imran’ and ‘Makandure Madush’ arrested An island wide survey of police information books Five (05) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,782 හිනා නොවී බලමු මෙන්න වැඩ කාරයෝ කිව්වොත් කෙරුවා . ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C1 The country requires a strong Executive Presidency to navigate the Post-Covid world says Milinda Moragoda EU unites, Trump relents on virus fight ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C2 IPKF withdrawal and India-Sri Lanka relations එමා බොවාරි විනිවිද දැකීම බුවනෙක රාජ සභාවේ ඇත්ත හෙලිවේ.. ප්රධාන අධිකරණ සංඝ නායක හිමි හෙලි කරයි.. “Changing to a Presidential system is the best way of ensuring a democracy that works,” says Indian MP Shashi Tharoor SJB manifesto sidesteps constitutional reform Will make Colombo free of shanties: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Top Former SIS Officer had links with Islamic Org.: Witness Sri Lanka, UK discuss stepping up bilateral trade and investment COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka hit 2,769 Pre-schools to be brought under govt. ministry PHIs to control Covid-19 during elections contrary to law - Attorney General GoSL must not make the same mistake with MCC as done with Indo-Lanka Accord & 13a Where – O where! – is the Left, the Right, and the North + East? ගිනිගත් නගරයේ පිස්තෝල දෙක. GENERAL ELECTION OF SRI LANKA – FORECAST FOR AUGUST 2020-SLPP TO SECURE 2/3 MAJORITY Patriots - Unite behind Pohottuwa to make our Motherland a peaceful and prosperous nation! India agrees for $400 million currency swap with Sri Lanka Brutalised and forgotten Sri Lankan cinnamon peelers recognised in new research Will Not Leave Room for Those Who Sell the Country – Basil Rajapaksa Arrival from UK tests positive for COVID-19 President to appoint experts’ committee to study Sri Lanka’s Antiquities Ordinance Why did Covid-19 patient flee from IDH? Defense Secretary gives red light to underworld (Video) One (01) more person confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,764 Colombo will be converted into a city without shanty dwellings - PM (Video) The route of the infected person who escaped from the IDH hospital revealed (Video) CBSL denies rumors of pledging USD 4.5 billion worth of US Treasury Securities President to appoint an experts committee to study how to amend the Archaeological Act Colombo East Terminal – why Sri Lanka can never trust India People may elect Sajith Premadasa to Parliament, it is President who names Prime Minister. Sinhala Buddhists are not racists finally , we are lucky having a Rajapaksa family. Public Need to be Wise and Intentional in this Election The Central Bank holds our President Gotabhaya responsible How Canada, the US, and OAS allied to overthrow Morales Notice of Intervention in Court in the Black Leopard Death case 2019 අගෝස්තු 01 අභ්‍යාසලාභී පුහුණුවට බඳවාගත් සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් 2020 අගෝස්තු 01 දිනට ප‍්‍රමාදයකින් තොරව ස්ථීර කිරීමට පියවර ගැනීම සම්බන්ධවයි. War Trauma in the military, their families and Communities Lanka to facilitate, protect and promote liberal ecosystem for Indian investors, says Foreign Secretary Aryasinha Placing ‘Gunaruwan Report’ on MCC in context with work of international scholars S. Korea's 3rd largest conglomerate keen on $600 mn. LNG project in SL Decide if you will destroy UNP or not: RW to traditional UNPers Australian minister slams SL asylum seeker family for ’wasting $10m of taxpayer money’ President urges public to help counter drug menace One (01) more person confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,753 Easter attack update -Plans to attack the dalada pererhera PM says villages and towns will be developed to a plan (Video) Toddy tapping from Kithul trees not an offence to file a court case - Acting IGP More information on ETI deals revealed (video) New Birth Certificate: A Betrayal of the Sinhala Buddhists Five Slaves and Four Slaveholding Presidents in the Early United States of America Four arrested over destruction of 1,700 year-old Buddha statue in Pakistan The political culture in Sri Lanka is misogynist සෞඛ්‍ය නියෝග ක්රියාවට නංවන ලෙස ඉල්ලා වැඩබලන පොලිස්පතිතුමන්ට යොමුකල ලිපිය දියවන්නාව, පරිසරය, කැළණි ගඟ සහ මුහුද අපවිත්‍ර කල හැකිද? ගිනිගත් නගරය PRE-HISTORIC LANKA TO UNITED SRI LANKA-Sociological revelation Indian High Commission to accept applications for courses under self-financing scheme till July 31 Sri Lanka to do away with race, religion and marital status of parents in birth certificates 2019 Easter Blasts: Wife of a suicide bomber escaped to India, says Sri Lanka police Eyeing China, India plans solar power park in Sri Lanka Interim report proposes action against offenders Committee probing demolishing of 13th-century building hands over interim report President assures to free the country of drug menace Fourteen arrivals from Saudi Arabia spike COVID-19 case tally AG to file limited objections against FR petition on Aranthalawa Massacre Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases tally hits 2,731 Attorney General calls for comprehensive probes into demolition of historic building The damage caused by Sajith cannot be repaired - PM (Video) Cabinet decides to provide Agrahara health insurance benefits to over 600,000 retired public servants Commission pays attention to transfer of police officers investigating Saindamarudu blast XXX Landslide for the SLPP and a whitewash for the UNP. පිටරට ඉදලා ජනාදිපතිවරණ යට ජන්දේ දන්න ආපු රටවිරුවෝ කෝ දැන්? Advent and decline of a martial race: The Malays of Ceylon Friends of virus St Sebastian church suicide bomber’s wife believed to have fled to India SLPP faults EC for interfering with CID on behalf of Rishad Pulasthini Mahendran not among the dead in Sainthamaruthu attack, PCoI told Rishad ordered to appear before CID Appeals Court rejects petition seeking Karuna Amman’s arrest Samagi Jana Balawegaya and TNA have similar policies - PM Owner of the Buwaneka hotel calls the HIRU news team Former Minister of Cultural Affairs pressurized the Head of Archaeology (Video) Mayor should be given the maximum punishment if he has commited any offense - Gammanpila Comments made by politicians in the political stage -Video Deficits and Implied Taxation කොරෝනාව හා දේශපාලනය. Voter fraud allegations dog east Toronto riding | CBC News Death of Dhanasiri Weerasinghe - Funeral oration by Dr. Ranjith Hettiarachi China poised for diplomatic windfall in Sri Lanka elections Ranil is worse for SL than COVID-19 Warning letter should have been given priority at intelligence reviews: fmr IGP Illangakoon Summons on Prof. Hoole, three others for contempt of court CID investigates threats made by underworld criminals HC issues summons on Patali, ex-Welikada OIC Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 cases total climbs to 2,730 Kosgoda Tharaka threatens prison officials saying my network is still active EC informs CID not to summon Rishad over Easter attacks until Aug 10 President sets target for officials to increase fallen pepper price Legal action will be taken against all those who destroyed the ancient ruins of Kurunegala irrespective of their rank - PM (Video) All those who destroyed the Kurunegala Raja Sabha Mandapa should be removed from their posts immediately - Ven. Mugunuwatawana Siddatta thero (Video) Rishad did not come to CID despite 3 written notifications (Video) ACSA, SOFA, MCC Once concluded there is no walking away from treaties Your Excellency David McKinnon: your Canada Day (July 1) Message to Sri Lanka ලප අනුර ඇතුලු ජවිපේ සමාජ රෝගීන් ගැන මා ඇසූ හොදම නිර්වචනය ඒකීය ශිරි ලංකා මොන බම්බුවටද? කෝමාරිකා (Aloe Vera) වගාව පරිසරය සහ ඉඩම් ගැටළුව Police eagerly await expert committee findings on destruction of historical building Case takes surprising turn as minister claims credit for exposing racket PNB drug dealing: COVID-19: More returnees from Saudi Arabia test positive Plans afoot to promote pepper cultivation as an export crop - President New CID unit to probe assets earned through criminal activity How the JVP ruined rural Sri Lanka කුරුනෑගල රාජ සභාව NMRA issues cancellation notices to five pharmaceutical companies School holiday extended Entry of pilgrims into Kataragama sacred city limited Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 infections rise to 2,703 Committee report on the Kurunegala Royal Assembly Hall to be handed over in two days The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 E ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 D Ensure 2/3 majority to reinstate the past Glory and Grandeur – Part II JUSTICE TRAMPLED Remembering heroes of Operation Eagle Committee to probe demolition of ancient building in Kurunegala Extraordinary Gazette on health guidelines for election published Eight (08) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,697 Rishad Bathiutheen files FR petition against arrest over Easter Sunday attacks PM shares about the objective of Samagi Jana Balawegaya in this election (Video) ACSA – SOFA – MCC Agreements TAX EXEMPTIONS questions who is the actual beneficiary! Should India be given Colombo Port? If Gota Does Not Open his Mouth Now and say NO to MCC SOFA and ACSA Ranil Wickremasinghe's crimes against Sri Lanka and its people for forty years Ensure a 2/3 majority to reinstate the past glory and grandeur අප්‍රි¬කාවේ මහා ලේඛ¬කයා - චිනුවා අචෙබේ කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්‍රික් තරුණ මුස්ලිම් සම්මේලනය MMBL-Pathfinder launches ‘Pathfinder Vimana’ drone technology initiative The number of coronavirus infections in Sri Lanka has risen to 2687 Sajith talks about a group that will sell their seats in Parliament (Video) Easter attack update -DIG Nalaka de Silva admits his mistake From LTTE to USA – Does Sri Lanka need a new war? ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 B ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාව නොහොත් සිල් රෙදි පොරවා ගන්නට තැතනූ යහපාලන හොරු මැතිවරණ දිනය ගැසට් කිරීමේ බලය තිබු ස්වාධින මැතිවරණ කොමිසමට; මැතිවරණයට පෙර, සෞඛ්‍ය මාර්ගෝපදේස ගැසට් කිරීමේ බලයක් උරුමව නැද්ද? Realizing the Economic Value of Human Brains is Timely Bureau Veritas' Sri Lanka lab gets accredited for masks We’ve financed apparel manufacturer Brandix for Personal Protective Equipment production Man blamed for nearly half Sri Lanka virus cases speaks out Covid-19 pandemic - No intention to hide actual scenario: DGHS No third contact patient reported from Kandakadu cluster: DIG Another prolonged lockdown will kill our economy: Ranil Extremely difficult to hold election without legalizing health guidelines - EC Coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka at 2,671 No reason for island-wide curfew yet – Anil Jasinghe Do you know contents of the US SOFA Agreement with Sri Lanka is? KOGGALA: Fascination we encounter in Martin Wickramasinghe’s books still lingers Kandakadu fears baseless – Health DG ISI using pro-Khalistan elements in Canada for terror acts in India, reveals a report: මෙවර කාන්තා නියෝජනය වැඩි කිරීම කාන්තාවන්ගේ වගකීමක් - කැෆේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය කියයි. Sri Lanka holds first wedding exhibition since COVID-19 outbreak Indian Buddhist city Kushinagar now has an international airport Prez assures people protection from COVID-19 pandemic. Heads of workplaces accountable for adherence to health guidelines – President Coronavirus: Total number of positive cases at 2,665 Pavithra answers Ranil's question (Video) Compete on the ground and get results - Ajith P. Perera challenges Ranil (Video) Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Maj. Gen. (Retd) Dharshana Hettiarachchi: No danger to society from Kandakadu President immune to judicial process - AG Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance In Transition? – OpEd Sri Lanka suspends international airport’s reopening INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION, INDUSTRY AUTHORITY, AND INDUSTRY POLICY DEVELOPMENT LSSP STRONGLY OPPOSES THE MCC, ACSA AND SOFA AGREEMENTS නොබෙල් සාහිත්‍ය ත්‍යාගය දිනූ ප්‍රථම ජපන් ජාතික ලේඛකයා - යසුනාරි කවබත මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේනගේ චන්ද ලක්ෂ 14ට මොකද වුනේ? යක්ෂයෙකු පෝෂණය කර ඌටම ගොදුරු වූ දෙමළ දේශපාලකයින්ගේ ඛෙදවාචකය -නිවැසියන්ගේ සංග්‍රහ විඳ එහි සිටියවුන් මරා දමති The hidden racism and naming of roads in Sri Lanka-Remembering George Floyd and “I can’t breathe” Some use COVID-19 as scapegoat to get polls postponed: GL Kandakadu cluster: Not a wide-spread scenario- Dr. Jasinghe Details of 506 reported cases of covid -19 from Kandakadu Two (02) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,644. Range Bandara reveals about 23 audio recordings of Sajith faction (video) Covid & MCC Sri Lanka: Health risk in flooding Sri Lanka with US/Foreign Personnel? An Open Letter to Ms. Alaina Teplitz of the US Embassy ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 A සිංහලයා ශ්‍රී ලාංකික කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපාරය, හා ගර්‌භාශ යුද්‌ධය ප්‍රමාද නොකර සෞඛ්‍ය නිර්දේශ ගැසට් කරන්න - කැෆේ ඉල්ලයි Coronavirus count in Sri Lanka climbs to 2,612 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's advice to farmers Three (03) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,615 සටන් කොහෙද අප හට ජය ගන්න බැරි. A narrative of deep commitment to two beloved countries-Lord Naseby’s SRI LANKA- Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Poll nears, campaigners play up India rhetoric in Sri Lanka Another looming constitutional crisis I’ll make country safe from drugs and underworld: PM Russia selects Sri Lanka & 12 countries for resuming international flights සජිත් එ.ජා.ප.යට කළ දේ අගමැති කියයි... Cases soar to 2,511 as 43 more test positive for COVID-19 Previous government have not used the loans for any development work - PM MCC Agreement Sri Lanka: Translate & Publish in Sinhala & Tamil Mattala Airport is not for sale Bid to observe Black Tigers’ Day signals attempt to revive LTTE in Sri Lanka Welikada accident: Indictments filed against Champika PNB Officers guilty of drug related charges deserve death penalty : Ajith Rohana A complaint against Rangajeewa who threatened a journalist Highest number of Covid-19 patients in a day - 296 persons positive for Coronavirus today Immediate steps will be taken to eradicate the underworld and drug trafficking - PM People are fed up with all parliamentarians - Ranil Law will be strictly enforced against false propaganda on social media regarding Covid infected patients. Narcotics Joke – Joke is on the people!-Let the people see the narcotics destroyed – Follow the money to see who is involved! Dear High Commissioner David McKinnon: Re: Your Canada Day Message to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka likely to ban some foreign organizations and individuals for LTTE links Export revenue exceeds imports for the first time in SL 56 from Kandakadu rehab center and female counselor test positive for COVID-19 Several vehicles belonging to two PNB officers under detention seized Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurvedic lnstitute to become a fully-fledged University The Prime Minister explains the purpose of the 19th Amendment (Video) Priority was safety of life, not employment profile; President addresses ILO Global Summit ඒබ්‍රහම් ලින්කන් හා හිටපු මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් The Unlocking: Secret lives of my neighbours Sri Lankan Sinhala language film gets commendation award at IndieFest Film Festival in California Maldives, Sri Lanka eliminate measles and rubella, ahead of 2023 target Former PM did not care intelligence information: Former CNI Prime Minister outlines the aim of the Samagi Jana Balavegaya The previous government took revenge from his family but did not serve the country - Prime Minister (Video) Let candidates display their preferential numbers freely as before Few Comments on the back ground images of TV news broadcasts The coming economic crash will be like NOTHING in history INDIA SATP - SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW වර්ජිල් - අමරණීය රෝමානු කවියා Wijeyadasa’s revelation: How a Bill to ‘abolish and repeal’ H’tota port agreement stymied AG returns 38 more ‘incomplete’ investigation files on Easter attack suspects ‘Special Interest Scheme for Senior Citizens’ program not amended - Bandula PNB inspector involved in drug dealing detained for questioning One more tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 2081 Working without a budget: Can this be done? West getting dose of karma: UK’s first female suicide bomb plotter inspired by Sri Lanka’s terrorists HOW MANY MORE LIVES NEED TO LOSE TO ENSURE ROAD SAFETY මහ ඡන්දයෙන් දිගාමඩුල්ල උණුසුම් වන ලකුණු - කැෆේ කියයි සමහර සිංහල කළු සුද්දන්ට එම්.සී.සී. කමිටු වාර්තාවේ ඉංගිරිසි පිටපත් වුවමනා වෙලා!…. මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් 84 හැවිරිදි කත පන්දාහේ කොල මිටියක් ජනපති අතට දෙයි.. ඉල්ලීමක් කරයි.. Is the principle “One Country Two Systems” tenable? Group of SJB members will join UNP after polls: Akila Will restructure laws to address pressing issues: SLPP Coronavirus case count in Sri Lanka at 2,077 Message from ‘Stop MCC Save Sri Lanka Movement’ Sri Lanka Depends on you Why have our Universities failed? WHAT ARE CREDIT IRREGULARITIES AND HOW THEY ARE DETERMINED? යාපනේ ගිය සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස හා 13 වන සංශොධනය OPEN LETTER TO SAJITH PREMADASA බොහෝ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ මීටරය තබා සෙන්ටිමීටරයේ වත් පරතරය ගැන සැලකිලිමත් නෑ. - කැෆේ කියයි Open air art shows are back in Colombo after lifting of lockdown SJB a cat’s paw of communal political parties- Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Farmers urge President not to allow artificial rice shortages Easter attack update - Information of the planned bomber at Taj Samudra and the London bomber Two (02) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,076 57 suspects arrested in 24 hours for defrauding over 108 million Future cannot be built on the failed past of minorities Our Failing Agriculture Who says MCC is not linked to Bim Saviya (Title Registration) රෝහණ විජේවීරයන් සමග මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව Indian PM Modi says Buddhism can give lasting solutions to the world’s problems Will introduce laws to prohibit sale of country’s resources – Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Five arrivals bring COVID-19 cases count to 2,074 MCC E-Land Registry with Bim Saviya REPEALS PERSONAL LAWS – END OF Thesawalamai, Muslim law & Kandyan Law AUGUST 5: D-DAY FOR SAVING SRI LANKA Landslide for the SLPP and a whitewash for the UNP. FIGHTING IN POLLS FOR A FIGHTING CHANCE අ.පො.ස උ/පෙල විභාගයට දින නියම නොකොට ජනාධිපති සාකච්ඡා හා සමීක්ෂණ කරමින් කල් මැරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. THANK YOU, THE NATIONALIST MINDED TRADE UNIONS, විරැකියාවට සහ සමාජ රැකවරණය සඳහා ස්ථාවර විසඳුම් ඉල්ලා සිටීමේ යෝජනා AG’s Dept. says will raise preliminary objections President says agriculture will be country’s priority How a retired bank employee helped drug traffickers transfer millions. CID team records 4-hour long statement from Ranil on bond scam Two (02) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,069 Police committed a mistake by stopping investigations on match fixing - Mahindananda Aluthgamage We never said MCC has given money - Prof. Lalithsiri Gunaruwan, Chairman of the MCC Agreement Review Committee (Video) Rajitha Senaratne responds to Wijedasa Rajapakse - Video Easter attack update - how the copper reached the suicide bombers factory Prime Minister says a group of people are making plans to topple the government Public trust in the institution has been tarnished - AG tells the Police Made In Sri Lanka Is Real, But Need More Work අනුර කුමාරගේ ඇවන්ට් ගාර්ඩ් වලිප්පුව. Last Stages of the Separatist War: Does Karuna Balance The Scale of LTTE Crimes? Notes to the People: NO to the MCC Need two thirds majority to amend Constitution: MR Cabinet given a week to submit views on MCC review report Colombo Port workers call off strike Five Kuwait arrivals add to coronavirus count in Sri Lanka සජිත් තමාටම අපහාස කරගත් බව කරුණා කියයි (වීඩියෝ) උණුසුම් වන දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනඥයින් පළකළ අදහස් (වීඩියෝ) Sampanthan and The Five Ishwarams of Lord Siva MCC Sri Lanka: ONLY ENGLISH (no Sinhala/Tamil) in E-Land Registrar violation of LANGUAGE provision in Constitution අපට මඟක් ඇත (නොහොත් ලංකාවට මරුකටෙන් ගැලවිය හැකිය): අංක 1 - B Today July 02, 2020 - 21st Death Anniversary of Asoka Weeraratna ( Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanissanti Thera) පාස්කු බෝම්බකරුට බදියුදීන් වට්ටම් දීලා..- සාක්ෂි ලැබෙයි.. The Problem of ‘Colonial Science’ General Election – Motherland Saving Series - Part 1: Facts voters must keep in mind before voting AG asks IGP to expedite probe Dappula to address drug busters on Friday ’’IBD supplied Brass, Copper to suicide bomber’s company’’ Five sentenced to 67-years in prison for selling land with fake deeds AG approves health guidelines for general election No final decision on giving Colombo Port’s East Terminal to India - Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Four (04) more person confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,054 D V Chanaka's reason why the MCC agreement cannot be canceled මිලේනියම් චැලේන්ජ් ගිවිසුම හා බැඳි ඉඩම් පරිහරණ සැලැස්ම - Not signing MCC but continuing E-Land Register by US company threatens Sri Lanka’s Intellectual Property Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact: One size will not fit all
සභාපති මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව, රාජගිරිය. සභාපතිතුමනි, මැතිවරණ රාජකාරිවල නිරත නිලධාරීන්ගේ සෞඛ්‍ය ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කිරීම සම්බන්ධව අගෝස්තු 05 වැනි දින පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයෙහි රාජකාරි ටයුතු සඳහා කැඳවා ඇති රජයේ නිලධාරීන්ගේ සාතිශය බහුතරයක් ගුරුවරුන් හා විදුහල්පතිවරුන් වන අතර මේ වන විට ඔවුන් රාජකාරි සඳහා වාර්තා කිරීමේ සැලකිය යුතු පසුබෑමක් නිර්මාණය වෙමින් ඇති බව අප සංගමය වෙත වාර්තා වෙන බැවින් ඒ සම්බන්ධ්‍ව ඔබේ කඩිනම් අවධානය යොමු කිරීමට කැමැත්තෙමු. 02. මෙ වන විට රට තුළ (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Immature eagerness rather urgency makes things horrible particularly when matters are directly linked with the credibility of a nation and security of a country. A few days back when a renowned Pakistani journalist was allegedly kidnapped from a very busy road of Pakistan’s federal capital Islamabad, some media-men from national and international media groups started pointing their fingers towards the security agencies of Pakistan without any proof and without any investigation. Whosoever was behind this heinous act must be taken to task but after thorough investigation. Blaming abruptly simply mars the facts; moreover such type of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary of the Ministry of Education, N.H.M. Chitrananda; and Additional Secretary of School Activities at the Ministry of Education, L.M.W. Darmasena. The Government of Japan has donated a large shipment of canned fish, weighing 388 metric tonnes and worth ¥300 million (Rs.519 million), to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
I think what is most important is proper debt management. If we get that right, we don’t need to think of debt restructuring The Daily Mirror discussed the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the national economy and how Sri Lanka could emerge from this unprecedented challenge with the least possible damage, with former Central Bank Governor, senior advisor to Prime Minister on economic affairs and SLPP National List candidate, Ajith Nivard Cabraal. Excerpts:Q What exactly is the nature of damage done to the economy by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Another 37 Local Government members of the United National Party (UNP) have been temporarily expelled from the party. The party membership of these members was suspended for the time being as they had endorsed other political parties, the Legal Secretary of the UNP stated. This move comes days after the UNP’s Working Committee ousted 54 members, who had submitted nominations from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), along with another 61 Local Government members. Several top figures of the party including Ajith P. Perera, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, Sujeewa Senasinghe and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
The Attorney General has filed indictments in the Colombo High Court against former minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne and former Chairman of State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) Mohamed Rumi, in connection with the controversial press conference on ‘white van abductions’. https://youtu.be/G7CeOwrQZN4 AG Dappula De Livera has also filed Discharge Orders with the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on the other two suspects in the press conference, listing them as witnesses in the case. In the days leading up to the Presidential Election last year, Senaratne had called two persons named Anthony Douglas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena revealed that former deputy ministers Ameer Ali and M.L.AM. Hizbullah had supported terrorist and extremist groups in the country. He made this revelation on Thursday (30), testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks, for the fourth consecutive day. During the evidence hearing, the focus of the Presidential Commission fell on the intelligence report issued by the SIS with regard to a lecture delivered by Zahran Hashim at the office of the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) on the 20th of November 2016. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
A stash of narcotics has been seized from a house in the area of Brandiyawatta, Wellampitiya. According to reports, the haul contained nearly 23kg of heroin. In the meantime, a suspect has also been taken into custody from the house where the heroin cache was discovered. The raid was jointly carried out by Army personnel and the officers of the Police Special Task Force, acting on a tip-off received by the Army intelligence officials.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
https://youtu.be/Ty-f-x_tus4 Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa requested the people to send to Parliament at the next general election, only those who are able to work.<br /><br />He said this while participating in a public meeting held in Kahawatta, Ratnapura today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa revealing his development vision for the district of Monaragala says that he will establish an agriculture-based modern economy thereby attracting youth to farming instead of leaving it. President states that his policy is to develop agricultural economy with the potential to produce a high standard harvest using minimum land and state of the art technology at low cost. President Rajapaksa made these remarks while on an election campaign tour in Monaragala district in support of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna(SLPP) candidates today(July 31). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Update: Former Director of the CID, Shani Abeysekera who was arrested this morning, remanded until August 7 by Gampaha Magistrates Court... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
The main argument to support the MCC Land Project is that technology will put an end to land problems & Sri Lanka will be on par with countries using advanced technologies. These countries are where they are as a result of a lot of research. Sri Lanka has had no such research except foreign research, foreign recommendations and foreign aid to implement foreign recommendations. This was how a foreign law was passed hurried and in secret without public consultations in 1998. In a country where the population is yet to be technologically on par with the West, totally automating the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/20)
Why doesn’t the government ask the CID summon Ranil on the the following revelation and question him as to why he is not doing his duty by the country by producing Mahendra as he had promised in the Cabinet and later in Parliament as well that he takes personal responsibility for all what Mahendran does as the Governor of CB UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe recently admitted receiving a telephone call from fugitive former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran. Responding to Chamuditha Samarawickrema on ‘Salakuna’ on ‘Hiru’, the former Prime Minister said that he had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
ඉල්ලන් කෑම ඉහතින් ඇත්තේ, සිංහලයාට, විශේෂයෙන් සිංහල බෞද්‌ධයාට, සිංහල දේශපාලකයින් විසින් 1923/24 කාලයේ සිටම කල හානිය කෙටියෙන් හැඳින්‌විය හැකි කිට්ටුම ප්‍රස්ථාව පිරුළ යයි මට සිතේ. ඉල්ලන් කෑම යයි දැන් කාලයේ කියන්නේද මේ අදහසටමය. සිංහල බෞද්‌ධයාට තඩිබෑම 1551 දොන් ජුවන් ධ‌ර්‍මපාල කෝට්ටේ ක්‍රිස්තියානි රජු වීමේ සිට 1948 ද‌ක්‌වාම සිදුවිය. සුද්දා කල හානිය අවම කර ගැනීම පන්සලේ කාරිය විය. බුද්‌ධාගම දශක දෙක තුනකින් ලංකාවෙන් නැතිවී යනවායයි ජේම්ස් ද අල්විස් 1840 දශකයේදී ප්‍රකාශ කලේය! මීට විරුද්‌ධව පහත රට පන්සල් කල සටන 1873 පානදුරා මහා වාදයෙන් කෙළවර විය. ඉන් පසුව පවා සිංහල කළු සුද්දන් බෞද්‌ධයින්ට ද්‍රෝහී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
The election to be held on 5 August 2020 on all counts appear to be a lack lustre event. The Sri Lankans are generally used to massive media campaigns, bill boards, cut-outs and public rallies accommodating hundreds of thousands of supporters. These campaigns have energised the political parties and its leaders whilst providing much needed euphoria as a solid return on investment on cost of media blitz. These propaganda activities also provided stiff competition, encouraging larger voter turnout on the election day. The covid 19 has virtually killed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය, ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ උල්ලංඝනය කරමින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කළද ) 12.2 සහ 12.3 ව්‍යවස්ථාවල ඉංග්‍රීසි පරිවර්තනයේ race යන්න දක්වා ඇති අතර වර්තමානයේ නිකුත් කරන උප්පැන්න සහතිකයේ ‘ජාතිය’ / ‘race’ ලෙස දක්වා ඇත. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ දැක්වෙන විධිවිධාන අනුව ‘ජාතිය’ / ‘race’ යන්න පිළිගත් තත්ත්වයක් වන අතර එසේ වුවත් ජාතිය / race අනුව කිසිම තැනැත්තෙක් වෙනස්කමකට හෝ විශේෂයකට භාජනය නොවිය යුතු බව දක්වා තිබුණද ජාතීය/ race තිබීම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව මගින්ද පිළිගෙන තිබියදී ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා විධිවිධාන වලට පටහැනිව යෝජිත ජාතික උප්පැන්න සහතික ආකෘතියෙන් ජාතිය / race යන්න ඉවත් කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
“Given the popularity of three-wheelers as a mode of transportation, and the close proximity between drivers and passengers, the masks will prevent COVID infection”, Director General Health, Dr.Anil Jasinghe said. COLOMBO, July 30 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka on Wednesday donated a large number of face masks and posters raising the awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic to a leading union of local three-wheel drivers. In an event held at the Chinese Embassy in Colombo, Charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy Hu Wei handed over 50,000 face... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
North Western Province Governor A. J. M. Muzammil yesterday (30) alleged that the Election Commission (EC) seemed to be brazenly selective in the implementation of relevant laws pertaining to the conducting of parliamentary polls scheduled for Aug 5. Muzammil said that the EC owed the public an explanation as to how the EC allowed Constitutional Council member attorney-at-law Javid Yusuf to appear on the political stage whereas Governors were strongly advised against participating in the ongoing polls campaign. In spite of the dissolution of parliament... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said a new government will introduce laws making it mandatory to present agreements with regard to state properties in parliament before signing them. Speaking at a forum of professionals in Colombo, Mr. Rajapaksa said the members of the previous Yahapalana Government has signed contracts to handover the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo Port to India since it already leased out the Hambantota Port to China. “Had the Yahapalana Government remained in power for another term, nothing would have been left in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
The United National Party will expel top members of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) including its leader Sajith Premadasa in the second round, and it will be announced in a few days time, party General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today. Mr. Kariyawasam told the Daily Mirror that Mr. Premadasa could be among those who will be expelled in the second round. “I cannot exactly say whether Mr. Premadasa will be included in the next expulsion list but it is likely that he will be included. The expulsion process will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
The Working Committee of the United National Party (UNP) on Tuesday (28) approved the suspension of party memberships of 115 members. Accordingly, 54 members who had submitted nominations from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and another 61 Local Government members were expelled from the party. Several top figures of the party including Ajith P. Perera, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, Sujeewa Senasinghe and Ranjan Ramanayake are also among the ousted members. However, the decision on the suspending the UNP membership of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya leader Sajith Premadasa is to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
Three more persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country to 2,814. The three new cases include a foreigner who had arrived from Turkey, a Sri Lankan who had returned from United Arab Emirates (UAE) and another Sri Lankan returnee from Qatar. Four new cases have been reported so far today (30). Earlier today, a resident of Lankapura had tested positive for Covid-19. Accordingly 470 patients infected with the virus are undergoing treatment at hospitals while the total number of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated that the city of Kelaniya will be developed curbing the drug menace and underworld while preserving the city’s historical heritage and pride. President made these remarks touring Gampaha district for the second time today (30) in support of the candidates of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna contesting next week’s Parliamentary Election. https://youtu.be/Y_GMwSZdVy4 The meeting was organized by candidate Sisira Jayakody. The “Ten Fold Kelani Declaration” aimed at the development of the area was presented to the President. While paying attention to the issues... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) General Secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara says that they will initiate legal action against the suspension of the United National Party (UNP) membership of 60 local councilors who supported the SJB. Speaking during a press briefing today (30), he said that local council members elected by the people cannot be removed without a disciplinary inquiry. https://youtu.be/_bkHdJUohWQ He added that they safeguard all the local council members ousted from the UNP and that they have already made the necessary arraignments to take the matter to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe alleges that there is no Sinhala party in the Samagi Janabalavegaya. He made this allegation while participating in a public meeting held in the Torrington area in Colombo yesterday. He also stated that the members of the party were elected from the UNP.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
The Ceylon Electricity Board states that it has decided to provide a concession of Rs. 3 billion to all electricity consumers for the months of March, April and May. 6.7 million customers are entitled to this concession and only the fee mentioned in the February bill has to be paid for the relevant 3 months. The CEB stated that if the bill in the three months is less than the February bill then the lower bill has to be settled. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/20)
Buvaneka Hotel? I wanted to renovate the place when I was Secretary to the Urban Development Authority, but the owner refused to give it up for renovation. An amused President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to some young men who asked him, during his campaign tour of the Kurunegala district on July 27, why he kept silent when ‘our kingdom’ was bulldozed. (The prime minister has appointed an archaeological advisory committee consisting of twenty experts - monks and laymen, archaeologist Ven. Ellawela Medhananda among them - as a first step towards protecting the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Before I present my updated write up on the above topic I give here my prediction made on the last Presidential Election on 14 Oct 2019 in an email I sent to Mr Gothabhaya Rajapaksa. “Your victory as well as that of the country is a foregone conclusion. I am repeating, you will be definitely starting with at least 65 lakhs the minimum that is what the SLPP, UPF and SLFP got at the 2018 Local Government Elections. Looking at the present trend no one should be surprised even if it exceeds... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
-TNA’s call for self-determination -TNA began singing its old theme-song calling for the merger of the North and East provinces into one provincial council; self-determination and made references to a ‘Tamil Homeland’ – with a proviso that it will be within an “undivided Sri Lanka”.The alliance also calls for the merger of the North and East provinces, a pipe-dream when it couldn’t even run the Northern Provincial Council without in-fighting.It is nothing but pathetic that the TNA is continuing with its communal politics to chase behind votes at the upcoming elections. They may... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
The terms Robotics is often mentioned these days. There were many local inventions that were presented in mass media recently highlighting the possible use of Robotics in health care industry to meet the challenges faced under the COVID -19. The local innovators need to be congratulated and supported to ensure their prototypes are developed and converted in to fully commercially viable ventures. Background The word “Robot” in Czech language, meaning forced labour, has served as the root for the word Robotics. Per ISO 8373:2012, industrial robot is defined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
SRI LANKA MUSLIM VOTE BANK MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO FACE THE TRUTH. EACH MUSLIM VOTER SHOULD DECIDE TO VOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.They should let go clining to the SLMC, ACMC, NC & UNP/NDF. IT IS BETTER FOR THE SRI LANKA MUSLIMS TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT OF HE. PRESIDENT GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA AND PM. MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA FROM THE BEGINNING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SLPP SLPP GETS A 2/3 MAJORITY AT THE AUGUST 5th., 2020 GENERAL... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Sri Lankans would be going to the polls on August fifth to elect a new parliament. However, what is to follow depends on which party secures the majority to form a stable government. The prevailing prediction is that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is most likely to secure at least a sufficient majority to form a government. Such an outcome would mean that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the Executive and a legislature headed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa would be jointly responsible for the governance of Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
There was a news item about the role of Viyathmaga started under the patronage of the President Few members expected to get appointed to posts of heads of corporations after presidential Election. No one was appointed and the military top brass with the responsibility to uphold law and order were appointed to many places. At least members of Viyathmaga could have been appointed as deputy head or head of operations to help the military head to effectively and scientifically managed. Today we can see that some members were given nominations... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
All the political parties have now issued their manifestos. A large part of the government’s foreign exchange budget goes for purchasing fossil fuels for generating electric power, and for feeding the fleet of vehicles, tractors, trains and other internal combustion engines used in Sri Lanka. These total some 8-10 million engines. All this costs some 5 to 6 Billion US dollars, approximating half the total export earnings. The burnt fuels are a major cause of sub-micron particulate dust, heavy-metal deposition and gaseous environmental pollution, leading to increased respiratory diseases, allergies, cancers, etc. So, any scheme... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Institutional collaboration for online training of health professionals was among the subjects discussed Colombo, July 29 (newsin.asia): Dr. Sushil Kumar, First Secretary (Technical Cooperation) in the Indian High Commission met Mrs.H.W.M.Pushpalatha Manike, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medicine Services of Sri Lanka on July 27th, 2020 and discussed cooperation in the area of alternative medicine systems. Both sides also discussed institutional collaboration for online training of health professionals, health care delivery and research & development of Homeopathic medicines. Earlier last month, the High Commission of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
The Hindu epic provides rallying points for Hindutva in India as well as Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka The Hindu epic Ramayana has had the unusual function of providing rallying points for two contradictory and clashing nationalisms, namely, Hindu-Indian nationalism in India, and Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. While the Hindutvic forces in India have been assiduously turning the Ramayana and its protagonist, Rama, into a rallying point against Indian Muslims seen as an “outside force,” Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalism has been fostering the epic’s antagonist, Ravana, as a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated that the Colombo city will be developed according to a systematic plan, after identifying the major problems faced by the people living in the Colombo district. The President's Media Division stated that this program aims to address issues such as lack of housing facilities, difficulties related to garbage disposal and flooding. The President made this statement at a public meeting held in Colombo.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said a new government will introduce laws making it mandatory to present agreements with regard to state properties in parliament before signing them. Speaking at a forum of professionals in Colombo, Mr. Rajapaksa said the members of the previous Yahapalana Government has signed contracts to handover the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo Port to India since it already leased out the Hambantota Port to China. “Had the Yahapalana Government remained in power for another term, nothing would have been left in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
The Ministry of Education has decided to resume academic activities at all government schools from August 10, following government imposed holidays due to the COVID-19 outbreak. https://youtu.be/x9dAEmlQhA0 However, only Grades 5, 10, 11, 12, and 13 will be allowed attend school on all five weekdays. Grades 1, 2, and 3 will have school for only one day per week. It has also been decided to reopen schools according to the number of students in the school. Schools with less than 200 students may reopen... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assures that all the corruption, malpractices and irregularities in the government will be eliminated and establish an efficient public service in the country. President Rajapaksa emphasized that bribery, corruption and irregularities in the government sector will cease to exist and a government dedicated to serve the citizens in a satisfactory manner would be established. https://youtu.be/wCJtL1Z7IG0 President made these remarks during the election tour in Kalutara today (July 29) in support of the candidates representing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at the forthcoming general election. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
The repatriation of Sri Lankans stranded abroad due to COVID-19 pandemic will resume from the 31st of July, according to Admiral Jayanath Colombage, Additional Secretary to the President for Foreign Relations. With the identification of COVID-19 patients from the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center, steps were taken to restrict the repatriation of Sri Lankans abroad from the June 15 due to the increase in the number of cases of coronavirus infections in the country. However, Admiral Colombage stated that the government has decided to resume the repatriation process considering the current... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed an Archaeological Advisory Committee to assist with the safeguarding of the country’s archeological sites. The relevant letters of appointment were handed over to the committee members at Temple Trees on Wednesday (29). The 20-member advisory committee is tasked with advising the subject minister on matters concerning archaeology in the country, providing advice for special projects, policy making, archaeological site observation and assisting with promoting development activities. The committee is comprised of the following members: 1.Anunayake of the Asgiri Chapter Ven. Wedaruwe Dharmakeerthi... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Former Director of State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena revealed at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that Mawlawi Naufer, who is currently under arrest, had served as the theoretician of the banned-terror group National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ). https://youtu.be/INdXf0wjM-c Giving evidence at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry yesterday (28), Jayawardena said that Mawlawi Naufer, who had lived in Qatar for 19 years, had played a role at NTJ similar to the role played by Anton Balasingham in the LTTE. According to the former SIS... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Police have arrested an excise controller and another person with liquor and ethanol spirits in the Pamunuwa, Uswetakeiyawa area. https://youtu.be/AuCacULlDJI The suspects were produced before the Welisara Magistrate's Court today and remanded till August 05.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Here are some of the comments made regarding the expulsion of the candidates of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya from the UNP and the current political situation. Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka stated that whatever decision is taken by the Working Committee, legal action will be taken against those decisions. https://youtu.be/Tv4ZFX0C9y4 Speaking on the election platform Rohitha Abeygunawardena spoke about the fate that befell the remaining members of the local government bodies of the UNP. MP Kanaka Herath stated that Ranil Wickremesinghe's name... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
This essay is on the findings of Ven Ellawala Medhananda.Ven. Ellawala Medhananda paid special attention to the Buddhist archaeological remains in the North and east. He explored as much as he could in these two provinces, using his own resources He found that the north and east had many Buddhist ruins and many explorations were needed, before they could be fully examined and recorded. If one travels north along the sea coast road, starting from Trincomalee town, one can see many Buddhist ruins, even at present, he observed. Many ruins can be seen... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
Medhananda also went on exploration to the Northern Province and wrote his findings in his book Pacina passsa, uttara passa, nagenahira palata ha uturu palate Sinhala Bauddha Urumaya”. Ven. Ellawala Medhananda was not able to explore the North as much as he would have liked, due to LTTE control. The Northern Province consists of Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya districts. Medhananda gave the historical background to the Buddhist civilization of the North. He stated that Jaffna, Elephant Pass and the islands around it was known originally as Nagadipa. Ptolemy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
“My family beginning to feel safe & confident in the country more than ever before, and feel the value of peace you have been creating in the country” -Tamil Civilian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjVh16vrfo https://youtu.be/jpjVh16vrfo People don’t want constitutional mockery & fights in Legislative Assembly I have been trying my best to educate the public in terms of using their mandate to a cause which is predominantly to a future perfect decision by no mistake. In this cause of decision making; the public needs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/20)
On the 25th of July(2020) President had held a meeting with MAHA SANGA and also with the new Director General of the Department of Archaeology. According to news papers very important matters have been discussed. Results could be expected without much delay. In view of this other responsible officers will furnish more detailed matters required. It is paramount to look into the religious misconceptions involved in Buddhism due to unbelievable historical misadventures procreated by authors without paying any heed to evidence and facts. Even with regard to the origination of the Sinhala community is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
Ayubowan, Wannakkam, Asalam Malaikum, Kiora, Good Evening “PAMINA sitina OBA sama DENAMA, eksath SRI LANKA SANGAMAYA VENUWEN, ethamath SADARAYEN saha GAURAVAYEN piliganimu” Honorable Ministers, Members of Parliament, Honorary consul of Sri Lanka, ladies and gentlemen. on behalf of the United Sri Lanka Association, we welcome you, to this inaugural Sri Lankan Parliament Day. First, I wish to pass my gratitude, to Mr. Greg O’Conner and Mr. Brett Hudson, inviting Sri Lankan Community, to New Zealand Parliament building, to host Sri Lankan Parliament day. I also wanted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
2020 ජූලි 28 1. මහින්ද දේශප්‍රිය මහතා, සභාපති. මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව. 2. රංජිත් ආරියරත්න මහතා, තැපැල්පති. මහත්වරුණි, නිදහස් තැපැල් මගින් ලිපි බෙදානොහැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ අද පැවැති රැස්වීම හා බැදේ හෝමාගම තැපැල් කාර්යාලය වෙත බාර චක්‍ර ලේඛන ප්‍රකාරව බාර දෙනු ලැබූ (ලැයිස්තුව අමුණා ඇත) මෙම ලිපි බෙදා නැත. දැන් එම ලිපි ඇත්තේ මධ්‍යම තැපැල් හුවමාරුවේ ය. ඒ අනුව, අද පෙරවරුවේ තැපැල් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිලධාරීන් ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත්තේ සත්‍ය නොවන කරුණුය. මේ වන විට මධ්‍යම තැපැල් හුවමාරුවේ ලිපි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
There are many a reason why someone should vote for a particular party at this election. As usual we will be in a quandary to choose the right one if not yet decided. But what should really be the reason to make your final decision? The yahapalana regime may not have shown the worst of the President and Prime Minister dual because both embarked from the same party and with an agreed plan at the outset. What would happen if they are from different parties with different agendas?... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
Sri Lankan auto rickshaw driver Prasad Dinesh was linked by officials to nearly half the country's more than 2,600 coronavirus cases.(AP: Eranga Jayawardena) With governments around the world actively pursuing contact tracing of COVID-19 cases, it's becoming more common to see a certain term emerge around specific clusters. The people at the centre of these outbreaks are being called superspreaders — which has been loosely interpreted to mean an individual responsible for infecting a high number of others with a virus. While science suggests some people are more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
A three-member committee appointed to probe the alleged financial malpractice at the Central Cultural Fund has found that over Rs. 11 billion was misappropriated during the three-year period from 2016 to 2019. The committee handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (28). The report has revealed an unauthorised removal of Rs. 400 million from the Fund during the presidential election in 2019. As per the committee report a loss of Rs 2,608 million has resulted from an unauthorised withdrawal of fixed deposits... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
2016 – 2019 යන කාල සීමාව තුළ මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ රුපියල් බිලියන11ක මුල්‍ය වංචාවක් සිදුව තිබෙන බව මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ කාර්යයන් විමර්ශනය කිරීමට පත්කළ කමිටුවේ වාර්තාව මගින් පෙන්වා දී ඇත. 2016-2019 දක්වා කාලය තුළ මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ සිදුවූ අක්‍රමිකතා සහ අවභාවිතාවන් සොයා බැලීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බුද්ධශාසන හා සංස්කෘතික ආගමික කටයුතු ඇමතිවරයා ලෙස කමිටුවක් පත්කළ අතර පිටු 142කින් සමන්විත එම කමිටු වාර්තාව අද අගමැතිවරයා භාර දෙනු ලැබීය. එම කමිටු වාර්තාව අනුව. ඒ අනුව, නියමිත අනුමැතියකින් තොරව තැන්පත් ආපසු ගැනීමේ හා තැන්පත් පොළීය ආදායම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
A financial misappropriation amounting to Rs.11 billion had taken place at the Central Cultural Fund (CCF) during 2016 to 2019, a committee appointed to probe financial irregularities at the CCF said in its report yesterday. The three-member committee appointed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Buddha Sasana and Cultural Affairs Minister, handed over its report to the Prime Minister yesterday. The committee comprising retired High Court Judge Gamini Sarath Edirisinghe, former cabinet ministry Secretary Gotabaya Jayaratne and Attorney-at-Law Harigupta Rohanadeera was appointed to probe financial irregularities and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
The committee appointed to probe the financial misuse of at the Central Cultural Fund has handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (28). https://youtu.be/fzpEYFtEXSQ The report states that Rs. 11 billion was misappropriated during the three-year period from 2016 to 2019, the Office of the Prime Minister said. It further reveals an unauthorized removal of Rs. 400 million from the Fund during the Presidential Election in 2019.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
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Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Nilantha Jayawardena has told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing Easter attacks that the National Security Council was kept informed of all threats posed by Zahran Hashim but no action was taken to arrest the ringleader of the carnage. Senior DIG Jayawardena was the first person to receive foreign intelligence warnings of impending attacks by Islamic extremists in the country. When the testimony hearing commenced, due to the objections raised by the witness’s legal counsels, citing national security risks, the members of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
The high court has ruled at the conduct of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is an attempt to harm the United National Party (UNP, says the party leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He made this remark defending the decision taken by the UNP’s Working Committee on Tuesday (28) while addressing a public meeting held in Rambukkana. https://youtu.be/Q8-BhDKcwQQ The UNP’s Working Committee on Tuesday (28) approved the removal of party memberships of 115 members. It is reported that 54 members who submitted nomination from the Samagi... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
A Malaysian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 12 years in jail after finding him guilty on all seven counts in the first of several multi-million dollar corruption trials, the BBC reports. Najib had pleaded not guilty to the charges of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power. The 1MDB scandal around a state-owned wealth fund in Malaysia has uncovered a global web of fraud and corruption. Najib, in office from 2009 to 2018, is expected to remain out of prison until... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed that the law should take its due course, when he answered a phone call pertaining to the demolition of an archaeological site in Kuruengala town, says minister Wimal Weerawansa. https://youtu.be/6OlwDkKu9wk The minister referred to this when he attended the ‘Salakuna’ programme of Hiru TV last night... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
Riyaz Bathiudeen, the brother of former MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is in the custody of the CID, was brought to the Police Investigation Unit of the Presidential Commission appointed to Investigate the Easter Attacks at around 9 am today to record a statement. Our correspondent stated that he was taken back at around 3 pm after recording his statements for nearly 5 hours. Rev. Madille Pannaloka Thero also visited the Police Investigation Unit of the Presidential Commission appointed to Investigate the Easter Attack today to make statements.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
The total number of coronavirus infections in the country has increased to 2809 with the reporting of two more cases.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that in order to save the youth from the menace of drugs, the underworld must be suppressed first. https://youtu.be/LOveU6zOnr0 The Prime Minister stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Kurunegala. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday participated in several public meetings organized in the Kurunegala District for the victory of the candidates contesting the forthcoming general elections from the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
“Opportunity for Sri Lankan Tamils to revisit their priorities”by N S Venkataraman certainly raises the question, if India is rolling out a new modus operandi, towards Tamils & Sri Lanka. If that is so, it necessitates all Sri Lankans to be alert. Ignorance and belief that India would not play any role in Tamil militancy was proved wrong when India provided ground, training, arms & safe haven to LTTE. That nightmare lasted virtually 30 years. In a terrain of no-LTTE militancy, what is India’s next move? https://www.wionews.com/opinions-blogs/opportunity-for-sri-lankan-tamils-to-revisit-their-priorities-315413?fbclid=IwAR3Pkycb6gGEN9AmQ404wtV9wfB3lG6QwJq7a77xeASn8RTuNPHkuoNQc6c The author notes that Tamil parties have reduced &... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/20)
වයඹ පළාත සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ පස් අවුරුදු සැලැස්ම වයඹ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ඒ.ජේ.එම්. මුසම්මිල් සහ වයඹ පළාතේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් පී.බී.එම්.සිරිසේන මහත්වරු එක්ව ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත පිළිගැන්වූ අවස්ථාව ... ජාතික කොවිඩ් මර්ධන අරමුදල වෙනුවෙන් පළාත් සභාවේ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ එක් දිනක වැටුප වශයෙන් එක්රැස්වූ රුපියල් මිලියන 22.6 ක මුදලක්ද මෙහිදී ආණ්ඩුකාර මුස්ම්මිල් මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපතිතුමා වෙත බාර දුන්නේය. මෙම අවස්ථාවට වයඹ පළාත් අධ්‍යාපන අධ්යක්ෂ කේ.එස් කේ ජයලත්, වයඹ නියෝජ්‍ය ප්රධාන ලේකම් (සැලසුම්) කේ.ඒ නන්දසේන, නියෝජ්‍ය සැලසුම් අධ්යක්ෂ සිසිර ධර්මසේන යන මහත්වරුන්ද එක්ව සිටියහ... வடமேல் மாகாணத்தை... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
There are certain opinions among the people today that intellectuals should go to parliament and run the country. The Collective recently formed and held the first inaugural meeting with the participation of the minister of industries has a different opinion. Interlevuals should allow the politicians to go to parliament and support constitution but the intellectuals should form committees and advise politicians to walk along the right path It is like the minister taking action to make manufacture local Mammoties and agricultural tools using local recyclable raw materials and start production lines But the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
https://veganmuslims.com/dont-kill-an-animal-this-eid No, I am not going to sacrifice an animal this Eid-ul-Adha nor am I going to pay someone to do it for me. Instead, my sacrifice is going to be of a non animal nature and yes, it is religiously sanctioned and justified. I saw animals being slaughtered when I was a boy and it hurt me deeply. I couldn’t understand why such beautiful creatures had to die. Still don’t. Remember, killing is not something humans are innately... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
We grieve for dead Leopards, dead elephants while remaining mum and in total silence over the impending mass slaughter of innocent animals during Hadj festival beginning tomorrow i.e. July 28. Millions of animals are killed all over the world in the name of religion with none so poor to say in public that it is a crime and contrary to our humanity. Life must be revered and not destroyed to claim reward from an unknown God. The true test of a religion lies in saving and preserving life, and not destroying it. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
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The ruling SLPP will highlight the need for a strong Executive Presidency with a system of checks and balances sans contradictions and dysfunctional aspects. Colombo, July 27: In the run up to the August 5 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, only the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has been openly saying that it wants to amend or wholly jettison the 19 th. Amendment (19A) of the constitution. And it is not shy about declaring that it wants two thirds majority precisely for that. The other parties are maintaining an ominous... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
Indians are supposed to accept without compelling scientific proof the existence of Jesus or Mohammed, but a Ram or a Krishna cannot break the glass ceiling of mythology Irony had a hearty laugh last week, skipping across the chain of shoals that links India with Sri Lanka. Embracing Ramayan, the epic that binds the two nations, the Civil Aviation Authority of Lanka issued an advertisement inviting documents and literature for a research on ‘King Ravana and the ancient domination of aerial routes now lost’. It is believed that Ravan travelled widely in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
COLOMBO — With its blends of soft red, pink and yellow, the fragrant cannonball flower (Couroupita guianensis) is a favorite of Sri Lanka’s Buddhists when making floral offerings during religious activities. They call it sal, with religious tales linking the tree to the birth and death of Gautama Buddha, the founder of the faith. Hindus in the region call it nagalingam, a flower offered to Lord Shiva, the most powerful of gods in the Hindu pantheon. The problem, however, is that the cannonball tree isn’t the sacred plant that countless devotees believe it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed the Minister-in-Charge to accelerate the construction works of the Central Expressway project, the President’s Media Division said. It said construction of the section from Colombo to Kurunegala has been disrupted due to issues relating to the compensation payment process. The President instructed Minister Johnston Fernando to complete the construction of the expressway while providing a quick solution to the prevailing problems. President Rajapaksa gave these directives during a public gathering held in Mawathagama Public Fair premises, Kurunegala, during his tour of the district... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
Twenty-two new cases of novel coronavirus have been detected increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country to 2,804. https://youtu.be/E9zhtjMLbiQ The new cases include 17 inmates of the Senapura Rehabilitation Center and 05 returnees from Qatar, who are under quarantine. Accordingly 672 patients infected with Covid-19 are presently being treated at hospitals while the total number of recoveries has increased to 2,121.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
With the report of another coronavirus infection, the total number of infected people in the country has increased to 2805... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that although his government suppressed terrorism and the underworld, those activities were reactivated during the subsequent period of good governance. The Prime Minister stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Dodamgaslanda - Rideegama area https://youtu.be/1hAujizvWCg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
https://youtu.be/JtGDlQClxHw The Presidential Commission appointed to inquire the Easter Attacks today commenced questioning the then Director of the State Intelligence, Nilantha Jayawardena, who was the first to receive prior information and warning on the series of terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday. At the request of Nilantha Jayawardena and the Attorney General's Department, which supports the Commission, the hearing was held without being opened to the media. However, the majority of the Commissioners of the Presidential Commission were of the opinion that at least part of this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
Here are some of the views expressed by various politicians. Former parliamentarian Daya Gamage stated that although they presented Sajith thinking that he could win, in the end the UNP was defeated. https://youtu.be/SxQc0uVLp-U Former UNP MP Hesha Vithanage stated that there were thieves in his government as well. Addressing a public meeting Prasanna Ranaweera stated that Sajith Ranil's factions are again demanding power without shame. The candidate of the Jathika Jana Balawegaya, Samantha Vidyaratne stated that the real... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
Sri Lanka has almost completed the E-Land Register.Do we need MCC funds with demands that require constitutional changes?This supposed ‘gift’ comes with a set of conditions & pre-conditions that even warrants the MCC Compact to be passed by Parliament & made into domestic law. The MCC demands include ownership of Sri Lanka’s intellectual property rights, immunity from our law for US citizens, exemption & privileges to even former staff of MCC, exemptions of taxes & duties. The MCC even demands to pass all Sri Lankan governmental duties vis a vis MCC Compact to a private company – MCA-Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ නායක අනුර දිසානයක ස්වර්ණවාහිනී නාලිකාව ඉදිරිපත් කල Sri Lanka Next වැඩසටහනේ පෙනීසිට ඉදිරිපත්කල ඔහුගේ තර්ක ජනතා විමුක්තිපෙරමුනේ තවත් දේශපාලන අසරණ බවක් පෙන්නුම්කරන ලංකාවේ දෙසපාලනයට ඇතුලත් වීමට තාමත් අපහසු නොමේරු ගැටවර බවක් පෙන්නුම්කලා. ඔහු කියනවා ජනතාවට දේශපාලනය තිත්තවෙලාලු . ඔහු කියන ආකාරයට ලංකාවේ කාටද දේශපාලනය තිත්තවෙලා තියෙන්නේ ? ලංකාවේ මිනිස්සුන්ට දේශපාලනය නොවේ තිත්තවෙලා තියෙන්නේ, නමුත් දේශපාලකයයි කියාගන්න සමහරක් ඊනියා දේශපාලකයොයි තිත්තවෙලා තියෙන්න. ඒ ගනයට ජනතාවිමුක්තිපෙරමුනේ දේශපාලකයොත් වැටී තියෙනබව ඔවුන්ට නොපෙනෙන එක කනගාටුදායකයි. එකට හේතුව ඕනාවට වැඩිය ඔවුන්ගේ ඔළුගෙඩි ඉදිමුවාගෙන තියෙන එකයි. 2004 එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
Most of us have seen news of another fatal accident in which a Sri Lankan army soldier has died on the Nugegoda fly-over recently when the army vehicle he was driving was hit by one private bus which tried to take over another. I strongly believe that the issue is with the way that bus service was privatised by the late JRJ government which came to power in 1977. All private buses need to compete with buses of other private owners as well as those of government (SLTB) in order to secure... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
කඩා බිඳ දමා ඇති මේ රට ලෝකයේ ධනවත් හා බලවත් රාජ්‍යක් බවට නැගී සිටීමට අවශ්‍ය වන්නේ බලයයි. මේ රටේ සියලුම ජන කොටස් වලට අවශ්‍ය තරම් බලය ලබාදෙන්නේ කෙසේද? ඒ සඳහා සැලසුම් කල යුත්තේ කුමන ආකාරයටද යන්න අපි සාකච්චා කරමු. මේ රටේ මිනිසුන්ට විදුලි බලය නොමිලේ ලැබෙන්නේ නම් කුමක් වේවිද? එය එසේ කල හැකිද? රට සංවර්ධනයට අනිවාර්යෙන්ම විදුලිබලය තව තවත් නිෂ්පාදනය කල යුතුය. විදුලිබල ව්‍යාපෘතියකට රජයට දරන්න යන පිරිවැය ඇති විශාල බැවින් ඒ කටයුත්ත ජනතාවම සිදු කරගන්නවා නම් එය රජයට ඉතා පහසු කටයුත්තකි. දැන් අපි කතා කරන්නේ, මිනිසුන්ට නොමිලයේ විදුලිය ලැබෙන, රජයට සතයක්වත් වියදම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/20)
සාමකාමී මැතිවරණයක් උදෙසා ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයේදී විශේෂ අවධානය යොමු විය යුතු ප්‍රදේශ රැසක් පිළිබද කැෆේ සංවිධානය පොලිසියට දන්වයි. පූර්ව මැතිවරණ සමය තුල සහ පශ්චාත් මැතිවරන සමය තුල ගැටුම්කාරී තත්වය වර්ධනය විය හැකි ප්‍රදේශ හඳුනා ගනිමින්ඒවායෙහි සාමකාමී මැතිවරනයක් පැවැත්වීමට අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සම්පාදනය කිරීම සඳහා මෙම ඉල්ලීම කළබව කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ මනාස් මකීන් මහතා පවසයි. මෙම ප්‍රදේශ "හොට්ස්පොට්ස්" ලෙස කැෆේ සංවිධානය විසින් හදුන්වා ඇති බවත් පැවැති පූර්ව මැතිවරණ සමය තුළ එම ප්‍රදේශ වල මැතිවරණ හැසිරීම් නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීමෙන් පසු මෙම අනුමාන කිරීම සිදුකල බවත් ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසීය. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka states that the sovereignty rests in the people of the country and the legislative power of the People shall be exercised by Parliament through their elected representatives and directly by the people at a referendum. On 5 August, we vote to elect representatives to the country’s primary legislature, the Parliament. As one newspaper has recently reported the Parliamentary Election would cost Rs100 billion. Nearly Rs 50 million to elect one representative. As the newspaper aptly asked: Is it worth? Spending... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
The Yahapalana Government flunked in their management of international affairs. Mangala Samaraweera simply made Sri Lanka a co-signatory instead of challenging the UNHRC Resolution 30/1. By doing this, the Yahapalana Government overcame the confrontation that was brewing between the U.S. and Sri Lanka. However, Sri Lanka becoming a co-signatory did not make the Resolution any less hostile! Negotiations gone awry Likewise, they blotched the free trade agreement signed with Singapore. Initially they kicked the Chinese out of the Port City Project; afterwards they begged them to return and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
The fickle consciousness of the public is legendary and we realize that politicians depend greatly on yet another fact – namely, the very poor memory of voters. The sheer effrontery of leaders of the LAST Government who make criticisms on the economic policies of the PRESENT Government makes our adrenalin levels rise dangerously. The last Government BEGAN with the economic disaster of the Bond Scam. No one took the blame. No one was punished. Yet past Ministers and leaders have the NERVE to still talk, talk, talk ad nauseum of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva says that the repatriation of Sri Lankans abroad will be resumed within the next week. He stated this speaking to the media following a religious program held in Kaduwela. https://youtu.be/zKM-a4MfNeE Responding to a question raised by a journalist regarding the escape of a COVID-19 patient from the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), the Army Chief said that the police have taken necessary action regarding the security situation at the hospital. The Army Commander further stated that the drug addicts who are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
Two associates of notorious crime figures in the country have been arrested today (26), according to Police Media Division. The arrests have been made in Colombo this evening. One suspect has been identified to be a close associate of underworld gang leader and drug dealer ‘Kanjipani Imran’. The other is reported to be a close associate of gangster and drug kingpin ‘Makandure Madush’. Both ‘Kanjipani Imran’ and ‘Makandure Madush’ are currently under the custody of authorities.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
Police Media Spokesman SSP Jaliya Senaratne stated that a survey has been launched on information books in police stations island wide.<br /><br />He stated at a media briefing held in Colombo today that the survey is being conducted on the instructions of the Acting IGP. Recently it was revealed that some officials of the Narcotics Bureau were involved in drug trafficking with drug traffickers. It is with this in mind that the Acting IGP has decided to conduct a survey to find out whether documents of such corruption or misrepresentations... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
Five more inmates at the Senapura Rehabilitation Centre tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total in Sri Lanka to 2,782.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
https://www.facebook.com/ranvalikothalk/videos/2791616671062569... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna was created by Rohana Wijeweera, whose real name was Patabandige Don Nandasiri Wijeweera. He was a member of Sri Lanka’s Communist Party (Moscow wing) led by S.A. Wickremasinghe and in 1962 was awarded a scholarship to Lumumba University in Moscow, to study medicine. In Moscow, Wijeweera had apparently changed his loyalties from Moscow to China. When he came on a visit to Sri Lanka in 1964, Russia did not permit him to return. According to Wijeweera, the reason given was his new attachment to Communist China. Unable to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
Milinda Moragoda, former Cabinet Minister and Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation spoke about the need for Sri Lanka to be fast and agile in order to face the economic, social and international challenges of the Post-Covid environment. He stated that: ‘there is no disputing the fact that the country benefited from having strong executive decision-making during the early stages of the pandemic. And as a result, many lives were saved. Disappointingly, no major political party has yet put forward a coherent governance and governing structure for the nation in their policy platforms. Each has been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/20)
While the spread of the Covid 19 virus continues globally, and the United States remains having the highest infections close to reaching 4 million, a significant political change has taken place in Europe arising from the Covid crisis, President Donald Trump has shifted his position on the pandemic, and the search for a vaccine against Covid 19 gets closer. The European Union agreed on a historic 750-billion-euro ($858-billion) deal in the early hours of Tuesday after intense negotiations through four days that saw threats of walkouts,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
OBSERVATIONS OF SENATOR S. NADESAN Senator S. Nadesan (1904-1986) made a speech in the Ceylon Senate on 14 and 15 of May 1971 regarding the JVP insurrection of April 1971. This speech was published as a booklet in 1988, by the Nadesan Centre for Human Rights. Suriya Wickremasinghe in her introducitn to the Nadesan Centre booklet said Nadesan’s speech on the 1971 insurrection in the Ceylon Senate, was the first forthright objective assessment made in public on the matter. There was a curfew and people could not easily meet and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
Signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in Colombo The new Government formed on April 1, 1989 under the premiership of Vishwanath Pratap Singh inherited a tense Indo-Sri Lankan relations paradigm. The interventionist approach adopted by the previous Government of Rajiv Gandhi resulted in the Indo-Lanka Agreement of July 1987 that paved the way for interference of the Indian Peace-keeping Force (IPKF) in the country and had created a very complicated situation, bristling with dangerous possibilities and unpredictable consequences. With the change of Government Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
ගුස්ටාව් ෆ්ලෝබර්ට් විසින් 1856 දී ප්රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද මදාම් බෝවරි නවකතාව දහනව වන ශතවර්ෂයේ වඩාත්ම බලගතු ප්‍රංශ නවකතාව විය. මදාම් බෝවරි ලිවීමට ඔහුට වසර හයක් ගත විය. නවකතාව පිටවූ පසු එහි කාමමිථ්‍යාචාරය නිරූපණය කිරීම මගින් ආගමික සංවේදීතාවන්ට හානියක් සිදු වූ බව පවසමින් ෆ්ලෝබර්ට්ට නඩු පවරන ලදි. ෆ්ලෝබර්ට් නඩුව ජයගත් අතර අද දිනයේ මදාම් බෝවරි විශිෂ්ඨ ගනයේ යථාර්ථවාදී නවකතාවක් ලෙස පිලිගැනේ. මදාම් බෝවරි යනු ෆ්ලෝබර්ට්ගේ මිනිස් බැඳීම් පිළිබඳ කතාවයි. නවකතාව 19 වන සියවසේ මැද භාගයේ ප්‍රංශයේ ධනේශ්වර ජීවිතය පිළිබඳ වේදනාකාරී විස්තරයකි. ෆ්ලෝබර්ට් සිය නවකතාවේ සංකේතවාදය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
ආන්දෝලනයකට ලක්ව ඇති කුරුණෑගල නගරය මධ්‍යයේදී ගොඩනැගිල්ල බුවනෙකබා රාජ සභාවක් නොවන බව වයඹ පලාත් ප්රධාන අධිකරණ සංඝ නායක පූජ්‍ය රැකව ජිනරතන හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. උන්වහන්සේ පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ මෙම සිදුවීම පාදක කරගෙන දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපාරයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බවයි. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=737466746987371&t=4 කුරුණෑගල ඇති සියළුම ගොඩනැගිලි පාහේ ඉංග්‍රීසි ආණ්ඩු කළේ නිර්මාණය වූ ඒවා බවත් මෙම ගොඩනැගිල්ලද එවන් එකක් බවත් උන්වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. අදාළ ගොඩනැගිල්ල පසු කාලීන බදු දීමෙන් පසු යම් යම් ව්‍යාපාර කටයුතු සඳහා යොදා ගත් බව ද උන්වහන්සේ සඳහන් කළහ. එහිමියන් මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ ජනාධිපති ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
The disgraceful political shenanigans the nation has witnessed, most recently in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and the horse-trading of MLAs to switch allegiances for power and pelf, are not merely an occasion for breast-beating about morality in politics or the opportunism of the cash-rich ruling party. We never seem to look beyond the headlines to the basic problem: The system that makes this shameful conduct possible. The parliamentary system we borrowed from the British has not worked in Indian conditions. It is time... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
The chapter on constitutional reform in Sajith Premadasa’s presidential election manifesto should have got even more attention than it did, but at the time it was released about two weeks before the presidential poll, rival candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s citizenship issue and Ven. Ududumbara Kashyapa Thera’s fast unto death over the MCC affair had pushed everything else into the background and it was unlikely that an esoteric subject like constitutional reform would come to the people’s attention in a major way. This time, Sajith’s parliamentary election manifesto has ducked the issue of constitutional... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday a future Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government would make Colombo free of shanties. At a forum held at the Foundation Institute in Colombo, he said the yahapalana government showed no interest in going ahead with the project to resettle low-income dwellers at proper housing schemes. “The programme to remove shanties and resettle these families at housing complexes was begun when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the then Secretary of Defence and Urban Development. A future government of ours will resume this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
A senior officer attached to the State Intelligence Service (SIS), after his retirement, had connections with an Islamic organisation that wanted to establish an Islamic state, a senior SIS official investigating Islamic extremism on Thursday night informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. The witness made the above statement in response to a question raised by the Commissioners whether current or retired government officials had joined organisations or movements which promote ISIS ideology. The SIS officer also said that there were cases where family members of senior Muslim... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and the Minister for International Trade of the UK Ranil Jayawardena have discussed stepping up bilateral trade and investment and expanding the areas of cooperation during a recent teleconference. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this was the first official interaction between the two Ministers. Both Ministers welcomed further consolidating the longstanding bilateral engagement through increased trade, security, research and training, in science and technology, including people-to-people contacts. In particular, Ministers Gunawardena and Jayawardena agreed on the need for close cooperation to address the challenges facing bilateral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka reached 2,769 as another person tested positive for the virus today (25). The Department of Government Information said the latest positive case is an arrival from Belarus. Thereby, a total of 05 fresh cases have been confirmed so far within the day. The other 04 cases are arrivals from Chennai, India. As per the Epidemiology Unit’s statistics, a total of 655 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care at hospitals. In the meantime, the number of recoveries... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says pre-schools will be brought under a government ministry to resolve their problems. He remarked so in response to the representations that were made to him during recent public meetings with regard to issues of pre-school teachers, says the President’s Media Division. At one meeting at the beach park in Matara, the president said a monthly allowance would be paid to these teachers.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
The Attorney General has informed the Health Ministry Secretary that the draft circular instructions for Public Health Inspectors to control the Covid-19 during elections are contrary to the law, says the AG’s coordinating officer. According to the AG, powers of the PHIs to enter premises of meetings, polling stations, to detain and to prosecute have been removed and made subject to the directions of Medical Officers of Health.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
On 29 July 1987 India forced Sri Lanka to sign what became known as the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord that led to the deployment of Indian Peace Keepers. Part of that Accord also required Sri Lanka to tweak its constitution and create an artificial demarcation of land dividing Sri Lanka into 9 provinces under the 13thamendment. IPKF went on to kill Sri Lankans while the 13a has become a burden on the taxpayer and a stepping stone to demanding separatism. That it was enforced by the powerful neighbor ensures political pressure prevails not to repeal it inspite of public protests to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
Social scientists and the commentariat have either failed, or deliberately ignored, to take note of the changes in the surface and subterranean foundations of the political landscape in the post-Nandikadal period. Our pundits are still cackling as if we are in the post-1956 period in which the mono-causal theme of blaming the Sinhala-Buddhists was touted cockily as a sign of being intellectually superior in public, media and academic discourses. To be anti-Sinhala-Buddhist was – and still is -- the fashion of the day. Digging up every adverse comment from the dustbin of history was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
https://youtu.be/ZXhm1LNdKOA දොස්තර රුවන් ජයතුංග විසින් ලංකාවෙබ් අඩවියට සිංහලෙන් ලියන ලිපි මා අගය කරන්නේ, සමහර විට, එම අඩවියට මුලින්ම සිංහලෙන් ලිපි ලිවීම ආරම්භකලේ මාද කියා මට සිතෙන නිසාය. ඔහු විසින් ජේවීපී කාරයින් සම්බන්ධව වරින් වර ලියන ලිපි මා කියවන්නේ, 1971 දෙසැම්බර් කාලයේදී, ඒවන විට අත්‌අඩංගුවට ගෙන සිටි ජේවීපී කැරළිකරුවන්ගේ ප්‍රකාශණ සටහන් කර ගැනීම පිණිස රජයෙන් පත්කල සිවිල් නිලධාරීන් 200 දෙනාගෙන් කෙනෙක් වශයෙන්, සමහර විට, දැනට ජීව‌ත්‌‌ව සිටින එකම පුද්ගලයා මාද කියා මට සිතෙන නිසාය. එහෙත් ඔහු විසින් ගිනිගත් නගරය යනුවෙන් ජූලි 23 දා ලංකා වෙබ් අඩවියේ පලවූ ලිපියේ සඳහන්‌වූ පහතින් දක්වන කියමණ මා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/20)
The election to be held on 5 August 2020 on all counts appear to be a lack lustre event. The Sri Lankans are generally used to massive media campaigns, bill boards, cut-outs and public rallies accommodating hundreds of thousands of supporters. These campaigns have energised the political parties and its leaders whilst providing much needed euphoria as a solid return on investment on cost of media blitz. These propaganda activities also provided stiff competition, encouraging larger voter turnout on the election day. The covid 19 has virtually killed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
The 2020 General Election is upon us. It is time the success at the Presidential Election in Nov 2019 is carried to its logical conclusion. We thank the patriotic forces of Sri Lanka for electing Gotabhaya Rajapakse the 7th President of Sri Lanka with a handsome majority. This victory has cast into disarray the dark forces that conspired to make Sri Lanka our Motherland a Failed State at the behest of Western Christian Powers. Today the very fires of hatred that were directed to destroy our Motherland are destroying the unpatriotic political entity the UNP... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
The development comes as a relief to Sri Lanka amidst COVID-19 and will help in its post-pandemic economic recovery. A currency swap is a transaction in which two parties exchange principal and interest in different currencies. India and Sri Lanka on Friday agreed for US $400 million currency swap agreement. The agreement signed by Reserve Bank of India extends the swap facility for Sri Lanka till November 2022. The development comes as a relief to Sri Lanka amidst COVID-19 and will help in its post-pandemic economic recovery. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Dilhani Dissanayake wants everyone to know a cinnamon peeler is actually a person and not a tool.
Cinnamon comes from the inner bark of a tree and is a spice native to Sri LankaThe spice was discovered by the Portuguese in the 16th century and later commercialised by the DutchCinnamon peelers have performed the labour-intensive task of skilfully peeling the spice, historically under brutal slave-like conditions She has been so passionate about her own cultural history she completed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Are you still the National Organiser of the SLPP? A: I have never held the position of National Organiser. But, you are referred to as such? A: No, I have only conducted the creative work of the party. Mahinda Rajapaksa has functioned as the leader of our party. Haven’t issues pertaining to election laws and regulations come to the fore? A: I am not the main representative. In the past, I was entrusted with the job of looking into the needs of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Another person has tested positive for COVID-19 this evening (24), taking the confirmed positive cases tally to 2,764, the Ministry of Health said. According to the Department of Government Information, this latest coronavirus case is an arrival from the United Kingdom. As per the Epidemiology Unit’s statistics, a total of 659 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care at hospitals. In the meantime, the number of recoveries reported from the disease in the country moved up to 2,094 earlier today. Sri Lanka has thus far... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has paid his attention to amend the Antiquities Ordinance in order to strengthen the preservation of antiquities and historical national heritage. President accordinglyl decided to appoint a committee comprising Maha Sangha and experts in the field to study how the amendments should take place. The proposed amendment seeks to stop the destructions caused to antiquities that has been going on for a long time and to pass on the country’s heritage to the future generation while resolving practical issues, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. This decision... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
https://youtu.be/k_LmjbFGJQg UPDATE (11:23AM): The COVID-19 patient, who was apprehended after making his escape this morning, has been brought back to the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH). In the meantime, the driver of the three-wheeler in which the escapee travelled in, has been directed to the quarantine centre in Kandakadu. https://youtu.be/TcEX13kBv20 The COVID-19 patient, who escaped from the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), has been apprehended by the Sri Lanka Army a short while ago. Army Chief Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Retired Defense Secretary Major General Kamal Gunaratne says that the reason for the creation of underworld activities is the lack of proper implementation of the law. Commenting to the media after a ceremony held at Rajarata University today, he noted that if the country continued as it has in the past few years, a woman would not even be able to move freely on a road. He said that despite the threats to his life, he would not give up the fight against the underworld. https://youtu.be/hf7r1O3Ipfc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
One (01) more person confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,764 Friday, 24 July 2020 - 18:33... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that Colombo will be converted into a city without shanty dwellings. The Prime Minister said this while he was addressing a function at the Colombo Foundation Institute today. https://youtu.be/QRuZzIi58Oc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
IDH The police and the health sector are conducting further investigations to find out how the coronavirus infected person who escaped while receiving treatment at the hospital arrived in Pettah this morning. This is due to the contradictory statements he has made so far. The suspect first jumped out of a window of the hospital building where he was staying and then escaped from the hospital wall around 2.00 am this morning. He had later told the police that he had come to Angoda Junction and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Rumor being spread that Central Bank is pledging USD 4.5 billion worth of US Treasury Securities to obtain credit facility of USD 1 billion is completely false. CBSL has issued the following notice in this regard The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has recently entered into an agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank, New York (FED) as a temporary source of US dollar liquidity to be used when required. The facility, in technical jargon, is an overnight Repurchase (Repo) facility available for “Foreign and International Monetary Authorities” (FIMA). Many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
President to appoint an experts committee to study how to amend the Archaeological Act. The decision was taken by the President during the fourth session of the Presidential Buddhist Advisory Council held at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon (24). The President has stated that no one will be allowed to damage the historical heritage or archeological value of any sacred place and that all such places will be considered and protected as a national heritage. President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa also stated that steps will be taken... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
There is much controversy over East Terminal of Colombo Port with India & Japan claiming that a Memorandum of Cooperation signed in May 2019 with the previous Government, binds the present government from giving both joint venture stakes in the terminal. In this course of debate there is reference to honoring commitments made and also warrants requoting of a phrase used in the MOC signed with the previous government. Is it because of ‘long-standing goodwill’ that India helped train, arm, financial support & provided logistics services to Tamil armed terrorists from 1970s? Is it because of ‘long-standing goodwill’ that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/20)
Nearly 7 million people have elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka on the 16 November,2019 approving his Presidential election manifesto Saubhaagye Dakma or the Ten Principles of Inclusive Governance. According to democracy we claim to practice in Sri Lanka, all the people of Sri Lanka belonging to different political parties whether they voted or not for Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka have to accept the verdict of the majority of the people, and accept Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President of Sri Lanka and his political manifesto as the political plan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
We want to establish a people centered government, which fulfills people safety,security, diversity, equality, inclusion, experience , and happy.-President H.E. Gotabhaya Rajapakse. Death penalty needed to be introduced ASAP for drug traffickers, vandalizes of ancient historical heritage sites, deforesting of rain forests preserves. I have been inviting for individuals to use their platform to educate public of upcoming election and requesting to stand for the country’s peace and security. We have to have a choice and mobilize that choice of selection and promote it. My personal opinion say the media is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
A few weeks ago our President – true to his military form, dared to haul the Central Bank over the coals. The Mandarins in the Central Bank have now hit back: “Sri Lanka’s Central Bank had complied with government directions as permitted by available monetary law”, Central Bank officials said, in the wake of a controversy caused by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa slamming the Central Bank after summoning the Governor to his office. Sri Lanka’s Central Bank was ordered to engage in a series of ‘quasi-fiscal’ activities which should have been performed by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
On Nov. 29, 2017, Indigenous socialist president Evo Morales won a legal challenge to modify the Bolivian constitution, to allow Morales to run for a fourth term as the Bolivian president. Two years later, on Oct. 25, 2019, the winner of Bolivia’s presidential election was announced. Evo Morales won 47 per cent of the vote, while the main US-backed candidate, Carlos Mesa, won 36 per cent of the vote. Morales narrowly cleared the 10-point margin of victory required to avoid a second-round runoff election, and it seemed as if Morales was set to serve his fourth term... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Sri Lanka has now become the killing fields of rare and exotic animals. It is heartrending to see the pride of Sri Lanka’s fauna, namely, wild elephants and leopards being trapped and killed. Last year (2019) alone 384 elephants died mostly at the hands of humans and sometimes under cruel circumstances by use of 'Hakka Patas'. This is an improvised small explosive device which contains black gun powder, lead and iron made to a ball of a firecracker shape and used illegally to keep... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
ලේකම්, රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන හා ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය, නිදහස් චතුරස‍්‍රය, කොළඹ 07. ලේකම් තුමනි, 2019 අගෝස්තු 01 අභ්‍යාසලාභී පුහුණුවට බඳවාගත් සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් 2020 අගෝස්තු 01 දිනට ප‍්‍රමාදයකින් තොරව ස්ථීර කිරීමට පියවර ගැනීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 2019 අගෝස්තු 01 අභ්‍යාසලාභී පුහුණුව සඳහා ඇතුළත් කරගෙන ඇති සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන්ගේ වසරක පුහුණු කාලය 2020 අගෝස්තු 01 දිනට අවසන් වන අතර එම පිරිස නියමිත දිනට ස්ථීර කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගන්නා මෙන් අපි පළමුව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු. මේ පිළිබඳ පූර්ව අවධානයක් යොමු කිරීමට සිදුවූයේ 2018.09.01 පුහුණුවට ඇතුළත් වූ අභ්‍යාසලාභී උපාධිධාරීන් සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී තනතුරේ ස්ථීර කිරීමට නියමිත දිනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Combatants Affected by the Prolonged War The 30 year armed conflict in Sri Lanka has produced a new generation of veterans at risk for the chronic mental health problems that resulted following prolonged exposure to the war. Over 200,000 members of the Sri Lanka armed forces and police had been directly or indirectly exposed to combat situations during these years. There had been nearly 20 major military operations conducted by the Armed Forces from 1987 to 2009. A large number of combatants from the Sri Lanka armed forces... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
He was speaking at the webinar on ‘Deepening Economic Collaboration between India and Sri Lanka’, organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies on 21 July 2020. Colombo, July 23 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha said that the investment environment in Sri Lanka for Indian investors is conducive not only because of its stable leadership but also due to the strong bilateral relationship between Sri Lanka and India. This was consolidated on following the early... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
The report of the special Presidential Commission headed by Dr. Laksiri Gunaruwan to assess the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact was released to the public on 23rd June 2020. It paints a grim picture of what would happen if the Compact is signed and recommends that the Government reject it. To the best of my knowledge, there has been little discussion of the report in the print media as well as academic and professional journals. This is surprising, because, it is unreasonable to suppose that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
SK E&S Co. Ltd., or SK Group, South Korea's third largest conglomerate (Chaebol) is currently in talks with the Sri Lankan authorities on the establishment of a number of investment ventures in Sri Lanka, including a $600 million LNG project. The proposed project would be able to supply LNG to 930 MW power plants in Sri Lanka and would be run on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) basis, a press release issued by the Sri Lankan embassy in South Korea said. The release adds - ‘The ambassador of Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Those who traditionally voted for the UNP should decide whether they are going to destroy the party or not at this election, UNP Leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday. Speaking during an election rally, Mr. Wickremesinghe said Tuesday's Appeal Court decision to reject the petition filed by Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) against the UNP decision to suspend those members who joined SJB to contest the general election, was an indication that those contesting under the elephant symbol were the real UNPers.. “The Appeal Court decision had made it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has told a Sri Lankan family fighting deportation from Australia to give up and go home. The minister said the family-of-four, who are detained on Christmas Island, has cost the taxpayer $10million which could have been spent on Australians. Priya and Nades Murugappan came to Australia by boat separately in 2012 and 2013, alleging they were escaping the Sri Lankan civil war. They settled in Biloela, Queensland and had two daughters, Kopika, four, and Tharunicaa, two. They have applied for asylum but the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today participated in another campaign tour in support of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidates in Galle. The President commenced his campaign tour from Hiniduma and participated in a public gathering at Neluwa Public Playground organized by the SLPP candidate Sampath Athukorala. President Rajapaksa visited the Neluwa National College and inquired about the state of facilities and requirements of the school. “Farmers engaged in small scale export crops assured the President that they are capable of achieving in President’s targets if they are given access to cultivate abandoned lands.”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Another arrival from Saudi Arabia, tested positive for Covid-19, increasing total in Sri Lanka to 2,753... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
It has now been revealed that the extremists had a plan to launch a second attack targeting the Sri Dalada Perahera in Kandy after the Easter Sunday attack. A State Intelligence official working in the Eastern Province testified for the second day yesterday in connection with the Inquiry of the Presidential Commission into the series of explosions that took place in a Syndamardu house after the Easter attack. https://youtu.be/xgCWqKpt6z8 He said that Shibli Farooq, a former Eastern Provincial Councilor representing the Muslim... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that steps will be taken to develop villages and cities with a plan. The Prime Minister said this while participating in a public meeting held in Thalawathugoda yesterday. https://youtu.be/OPyfhTVUDy8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Acting IGP informs all police stations that Toddy tapping from Kithul trees, will no longer be an offence to file a court case.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
https://youtu.be/To30gqvj5fw It was revealed today that if the property owned by ETI had been sold through a public auction, it would have been able to pay the depositors. This was during the hearing of the Special Presidential Commission to Investigate Alleged irregularities in ETI. The first to testify today was a person who has been working as an Assistant General Manager of Finance and Administration at ETI since January 1, 2009. He said that at one point a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
The media has announced changes to Sri Lanka’s birth certificate. All births were to be registered as Sri Lankan sans mention of ethnicity or religion. Who took this decision? Have policy makers stopped to think of the outcome in decades to come when every citizen will just be known as Sri Lankan – a name coined in 1972 with a history of just 48years? How can a piece of paper wipe out 2600 written history? How can a nation stand proud of its history when the history has been erased? Is this not part of the secular & multicultural project... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Stop the Runaway. Fifty Dollars Reward…… A Mulatto Man Slave, about thirty years old, six feet and an inch high, stout made and active, talks sensible, stoops in his walk, and has a remarkable large foot…..will pass for a free man…..The above reward will be given any person that will take him…...and ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred. ANDREW JACKSON, ADVERTISING FOR THE RETURN OF A RUNAWAY SLAVE IN THE TENNESSEE GAZETTE AND METRO DISTRICT ADVERTISER, SEPTEMBER... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
Idol was uncovered in building works near historic religious site Police in Pakistan have arrested four people in connection with the destruction of a third-century life-sized Buddha statue. Four people were detained on Saturday under antiquities law for allegedly destroying the centuries-old statue, police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the northwestern province of Pakistan, told The Independent. The rare idol was discovered during construction work in a village near Takht-i-Bahi, known around the world for being the main cradle of the Buddhist civilisation. According to initial reports, the contractor and his three labourers destroyed the statue... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
We must acknowledge torture is a problem Laws alone cannot achieve social change Media should not sexualize and infantilize women Nationalism has the power to empower as well as to enslave The normalization of violence in Sri Lanka is a deep seated social problem, says Ambika Satkunanathan, who is a lawyer and human rights advocate on the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) National List for the upcoming parliamentary polls. A former member of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) and chairperson of the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust, Satkunanathan has campaigned for gender equality, social justice and peace.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
2020 ජූලි 22 වැඩබලන පොලිස්පතිතුමා, පොලිස් මූලස්ථානය, කොළඹ-01. වැඩබලන පොලිස්පතිතුමනි, 2020 අංක 1 දරණ 2019 කොරෝනා වෛරස් රෝගය (කොවිඞ්-19) (ඡන්ද විමසීම්) නියෝග ක්රියාවට නැගීම පිළිබඳවයි කොවිඞ්-19 රෝගය පාලනය කිරීම සදහා ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා පොලිසිය නීතිමය අඩුපාඩුකම් සපුරාගනිමින් සෞඛ්‍යය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා සමග සම්බන්ධවී පසුගිය මාස තුනකට අධික කාලයක් සොෟඛ්‍යය විධිවිධාන ක්රියාවට නැංවීම සඳහා පොලිස් නිධාරීන් විසින් ගන්නා ලද වෙහෙස සහ කැපවීම අප බෙහෙවින් අගය කරමු. මේ වන විට සෞඛ්‍යය අමාත්‍යවරිය විසින් 2020 අංක 1 දරණ 2019 කොරෝනා රෝගය(කොවිඞ්-19)(ඡන්ද විමසීම් නියෝග) ගැසට් පත‍්‍රය මගින් ප්රකාශයට පත් කර ඇත. මෙකී නියෝග ගැසට්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/20)
පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් 225 දෙනාම දියවන්නා වැවට විසිකල යුතුයයි සමහරුන් පවසනන බවත්, එසේ කළහොත්, පරිසරය පමනක් නොව කැළණි ගඟද දූෂණය වියහැකි බැව් එක්සත් ජාතික පකෂයේ නායක, හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිoහ පසුගිය දිනෙක බියගම පැවති රැස්වීමක සිනාසෙමින් පැවසූ බැව් වාර්තාවේ. වරක් තොප්පිගල, කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයටත් වඩා විශාල කැලයක් බවත්, එය අත්පත් කර ගැනීම නිෂ්එල ක්‍රියාවක් බවත්, 2007 තොප්පිගල යුධ ජයග්‍රහණය ලැබූ අවස්ථාවේදී ගාල්ලේ රැස්වීමක් අමතා සිනාසෙමින් ඔහු පවසාතිබූ ආකාරය අපගේ මතකයේ තවමත් රැඳීතිබේ. යුධ ජයග්‍රහණ පමණක් නොව වෙනත් බොහෝ වැදගත් දෑ ඔහු විසින් බොහෝ අවස්ථාවලදී හෑල්ලු කර තිබුනද, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් පිළිබඳ ප්‍රකාෂය කුමණ අරමුණකින් සිනාසෙමින් ඔහු පැවසුවත්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
ග්‍රාමසේවක එන විට හේමපාල හිටියේ බුලත් කොරටුවේ ය. උදයම බුලත් වැල්වලට සාත්තු කිරීම දිනචරියාවේ අංගයක් කරගෙන සිටි හේමපාල ග්‍රාමසේවකගේ හදිසි පැමිණීම අපේක්ෂා නොකළේය. ග්‍රාමසේවකගේ මුහුණේ ඇති බැරෑරුම්කම දුටු ඔහුගේ සිතට අසුබ සිතිවිලි ගලා ආවේය. "ග්‍රාමසේවක මහත්තයා, මොකද උදේ පාන්දරම? "හේමපාල මුහුණින් වැගිරෙන දහඩිය ඇඟිලි දෙකෙන් සූරා දමමින් මේස් බැනියමේ පිස දමමින් ඇසීය. "හේමපාලට කියන්න හදිසි පණිවිඩයක් තියෙනවා. කලබල වෙන්න එපා. "ග්‍රාමසේවක උපැස් යුගල අතට ගත්තේය. " මට පොලීසියේ රාළහාමි කෙනෙක් පණිවිඩය ගෙනාවේ. " ඔහු මොහොතක් නිහඬතාව රැක්කේය. "පොලිසියේ රාළහාමි කෙනෙක් " හේමපාල ග්‍රාමසේවකගේ වචන ප්‍රතිරාවය කළේ පොලීසිය සමඟ තමාට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
Hon. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a very religious conscious kind personality.I saw recently He has gone to UDAMALUWA OF SRI MAHA BODHIYA, ANURADHAPURA and keeping askance of his face on the Bo brach with leaning his head on it in most sentimental devotion. I fully realized he is ideally matching the great Indian King Dhrmasoka who offered us the BUDDHISM to Sri Lanka, through his son, MAHINDA and daughter SANGAMMITTHA and treated every other religion as of his own by propagating through Edicts. It reminds me I have published so many extracts relevant to his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The applications should be for undergraduate courses in MBBS, BDS, BE, B.Tech, B.Pharm & B.Arch for the year 2020-21 Colombo, July 22 (newsin.asia): The High Commission of India in Sri Lanka has announced the extension of the last date to receive applications from eligible Sri Lankan students (excluding PIO, OCI Card holders & NRIs) seeking admission to Undergraduate Courses in MBBS, BDS, BE, B.Tech, B.Pharm & B.Arch under the Self Financing Scheme for the academic year 2020-21. The last date now is July 31. The candidates who wish to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
Many children are reportedly facing issues due to details of the marriage of parents, especially when enrolling a child in school. Colombo, July 22 (newsfirst/newswire): Sri Lanka’s Registrar General’s Department says all new Birth Certificates will be issued as “Sri Lankan” and will not refer to any race or religion, Newsfirst reported Registrar General N. C. Vithanage further said details pertaining to Marriage and Ethnic Group will also be removed from the Application Form for the registration of a birth in Sri Lanka. Many children in the country are reportedly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
Probed by the Colombo Crime Division, Criminal Investigation Department and the Terrorism Investigation Department, the probe into the Easter Sunday blasts has result in the arrest of around 200 suspects, and the investigation is in its final stages. The blasts targeted St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church in the western coastal town of Negombo, and a church in the eastern town of Batticaloa when the Easter Sunday mass was in progress. (Reuters) The wife of one of the suicide bombers who struck churches... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
By leveraging the country’ solar expertise, India’s largest power generation utility NTPC Ltd plans to set up this project in the island nation under the aegis of International Solar Alliance New Delhi: India plans to set up a solar power park in Sri Lanka as part of a concerted strategy to project its presence in the Indian Ocean region, even as China aims to co-opt countries into its ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, said two people aware of the development. By leveraging the country’ solar expertise, India’s largest power... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The interim report compiled by the committee appointed to probe over destruction of a building with archaeological value in Kurunegala, has proposed to take legal action against those responsible. The interim report was handed over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today by the head of the committee, Director General of Archaeology, Prof. Senarath Dissanayake. The following recommendations have also been proposed through the interim report; The building should be conserved as soon as possibleThe building should be taken under the purview of the Department of Archaeology To propose... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The committee of experts appointed to investigate the demolishing of a building of archaeological value in Kurunegala, has handed over its interim report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Office of the Premier said the report was submitted this morning (22) at the Temple Trees. https://youtu.be/FYG-ZabxmoQ In conclusion of their findings, the committee members have proposed the following: 1. Only a part of the roof and the windows on the frontside of the building have been damaged during the demolition, hence it is possible to preserve... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assured to bequeath the future generation a country free from the drug menace. While several measures are already in place to prevent drug infiltration and distribution, President emphasized the country will be freed from drugs similar to that of terrorism, stated President’s Media Division. President made these comments at a public gathering organized near Kiribathgoda Shopping complex today (22) ,to support candidates of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) contesting at the General Election. President heeded to the requests by the public to construct a housing scheme for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
Fourteen arrivals from Saudi Arabia have tested positive for COVID-19 virus, stated the Department of Government Information. With the new cases, 15 patients of coronavirus have been identified within today (22). The count of total coronavirus cases reported in the country is now at 2,745. As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 670 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals. The recovery tally from the disease was pushed to 2,064 cases today as 16 patients regained their health and were discharged from the hospital.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The Attorney General has informed the Supreme Court that limited objections will be filed against the fundamental rights petition seeking immediate investigations against terrorists responsible for the 1987 Aranthalawa Massacre. The petition was called before the Supreme Court Judge Bench consisting of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, Murdu Fernando, and S. Thurairajah today (22). Speaking on behalf of the Attorney General (AG), Senior State Counsel Avanthi Perera stated that the AG will submit limited objections requesting the court to reject the relevant petition. She stated that she received instruction on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka escalated to 2,731 this evening (22) as one more person tested positive for the virus. The latest case is a close contact of a novel coronavirus patient linked to the Kandakadu cluster, the Department of Government Information said. https://youtu.be/QpfEl4hhADY According to the Epidemiology Unit’s statistics, a total of 656 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care at hospitals. In the meantime, the number of recoveries reported from the disease in the country moved up to 2,064 earlier... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
Attorney General Dappula de Livera has advised the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to carry out further comprehensive investigations into the demolition of the 13-century building in Kurunegala. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said this instruction was given after consultation with the Police and the Director General of Archaeology. In the meantime, earlier today (22), the committee of experts appointed to investigate the demolishing of a building of archaeological value in Kurunegala, handed over its interim report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The Prime Minister made this statement while participating in a public meeting held in the Poojapitiya area in Kandy yesterday. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that Sajith Premadasa is pursuing a double standard, expressing conflicting views to the people of the North and the South. https://youtu.be/WW-ICvgdkX8 The Prime Minister expressed these views while participating in a public meeting held in Homagama today. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon participated in a public meeting held in Homagama to confirm the victory of the Colombo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The Cabinet decides to provide benefits of 'Agrahara' medical insurance for over 600,000, all retired government employees... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
The Presidential Commission to Investigate the Easter Attack has drawn attention to the sudden transfers of two police officers who were initially investigating the Ampara Saindamarudu blast. https://youtu.be/msAx81gbuv4 The Commission commenced to hear evidence yesterday regarding the explosion that took place in a house in Saindamardu, Ampara on April 26 last year. SSP Samantha Wijesekera, who was in charge of the Ampara Police Division at the time of the blast, was the first to give evidence.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/20)
My prediction on the August 5th General Election Landslide victory for the SLPP and a white wash for the UNP and nemesis for all communal political parties and Independent candidates What the people of this country should do at the upcoming election to ensure this reality Before I present my write up on the above topic I give here my prediction made on the last Presidential Election on 14 Oct 2019 in an email I sent to Mr Gothabhaya Rajapaksa. “Your victory as well as that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
පසුගිය ජනාදිපතිවරණ යට ජන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට වීශාල විදේශ ගත ශ්‍රී ලංකිකයන් පිරිසක් දිවඉනට පැමිනියා . අප, "විදේශගත ශ්‍රී ලාන්කිකයනිගේ සන්සදය", පුරා දශක 20 ක් පුරාවට ඒකීය ශ්‍රී ලන්කාවක් උදෙසා කටයුතු කල, දේශප්‍රේමී විදේශගත ශ්‍රී ලාන්කිකයන්ගේ කණ්ඩායමකි. අපගේ අරමුණ වන්නේ දේශප්‍රේමී නායකයන් පිරිසක් මෙවර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පත් කරගැනීමයි. රටෙහි දියුණුව විශ්වාස කල හැකි රට ජාතිය වෙනුවෙන් සැමවිටම පෙරට එන අපේක්ෂකයන් දසදෙනෙකු සමග අප අත්වැල් බැදගෙන සිටින්නෙමු. අනෙකුත් ජාතීන්ගෙන් අප රටට විවිධ තර්ජන පැමිණි අවස්ථාවලදී ඔවුන් අප රට ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට කටයුතු කලහ. උදාහරණයක් ලෙස, ජිනීවා තුලදී අප රටට එල්ල කල යුධ අපරාධ චෝදනා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Absence of war and expansion of civil, especially, police administration from 1833 onward, led to the Malays giving up soldiering as their dominant occupation Sri Lanka’s tiny community of Malays (40,189 as per the 2012 census) had an overwhelmingly dominant position in the island’s military and police in the colonial period, thanks to the trust the Dutch and the British had in this immigrant group in the context of hostility from the indigenous Sinhalese. But come independence in 1948, political and State patronage shifted wholesale to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
A decision by the British government to make it mandatory for everyone to wear facemasks in shops has sparked protests in London. Some protesters staged a march at Hyde Park, the other day, condemning the government move, which they called a severe blow to their human rights. These anti-mask campaigners are not alone in opposing the mandatory use of face coverings. There are many others of their ilk across the pond, and they include US President Donald Trump, himself, who, however, seems to be buckling under pressure. These dyed-in-the-wool liberals insist that governments have no... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Pulasthini Rajendran alias Sarah, the wife of Achchi Mohammdu Mohammadu Hasthun, suicide bomber, who blew himself up at St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, most likely had fled to India by sea in September 2019 and a person who helped her escape had been arrested, Chief Inspector Arjuna Maheenkanda, yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday attacks. Maheenkanda is currently attached to the Investigation Unit of the PCoI. The witness said that in October 2019, he had been detailed by the PCoI to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday (21) alleged that the Election Commission (EC)was playing politics with the electoral process by interfering in a high level CID investigation into the alleged involvement of ACMC (All Ceylon Makkal Congress) leader and Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) Vanni district candidate Rishad Bathiudeen with those involved in the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. The EC consists of Mahinda Deshapriya (Chairman), Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole and Nalin Abeysekere, PC. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris questioned the basis the EC, in a letter signed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on Easter Sunday terror attacks heard that there are doubts as to whether Pulasthini Mahendran alias ‘Sara Jasmine’, a converted Islamic extremist and part of Zahran Hashim’s terror group, was among the 16 dead at the Sainthamaruthu safe house raided on the 26th of April last year. SSP Samantha Wijeseskara, who was in charge of Ampara Police during the Easter Sunday terror attacks last year, told the PCoI on Tuesday (21) that according to new information, none of the DNA samples from the 16 bodies matched the sample... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Fort Magistrate has ordered former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at 9.00 am on the 27th of July. The All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader will be recording a statement on Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019. According to reports, he had been issued notices on two previous occasions to record a statement with the CID pertaining to its probes on the coordinated bombings, however, the former minister had failed to make an appearance. Notices were issued to Bathiudeen, ordering him to provide a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
The Court of Appeal today rejected the petition filed seeking the arrest of former deputy minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, over his recent controversial statement on the killing of Sri Lankan army soldiers. The decision was delivered by a judge bench comprising President of Court of Appeal Justice A.H.M.D Nawaz and Sobitha Rajakaruna. The President of the Appeals Court pointed out that it had been reported by the media recently that the Elections Commission had informed the Acting IGP not to summon candidates contesting the upcoming general election for investigations. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the policies of the Samagi Janabalavegaya and the Tamil National Alliance are similar. He was participating in a public meeting held in the Teldeniya area today. https://youtu.be/xoS75ZvZvek... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
The Owner of Buwaneka Hotel, WW Chandrasena said today that it was stated in the agreement he signed with the Kurunegala Urban Council, the particular building his hotel was housed in, is an archaeological monument. Speaking to our news team, he said that he maintained the building with extra care due to its historical value. However, the Mayor of Kurunegala, who is accused of demolishing the King’s Council building told the media yesterday that the particular building has not been gazetted as a historical monument. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Director General of Archeology Senarath Dissanayake stated that he was subjected to various pressures from the Minister of Cultural Affairs during the previous government. He was speaking at a media briefing today regarding the demolition of a building allegedly belonging to King Bhuvanekabahu's royal palace in Kurunegala. He further stated that the Department of Archeology was not politicized. https://youtu.be/IqaTyGlyfI4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Minister Johnston Fernando stated that no one will be allowed to touch the Mayor of Kurunegala as long as he is the District Leader. Meanwhile, speaking at a media briefing held today, a former Member of Parliament stated that Minister Johnston does not know the name Buwaneka. https://youtu.be/pioiiV5sHM8 Former Member of Parliament Mayantha Dissanayake has condemned the demolition of a part of the Kurunegala Royal Palace, condemning the practice of two laws in the country. Former Member of Parliament Sisira Jayakody stated that many people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
Comments made by politicians in the political stage. Minister Wimal Weerawansa stated at a media briefing held today that the 19th amendment is a ploy to set the President against the Prime Minister. Leader of the JVP Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that the time has come to clean up the parliament due to the crippled opposition. https://youtu.be/6qwK1USqorw Dullas Alahapperuma stated that there is a strong protest among the people against the Members of Parliament. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
I am not saying it is a life and death matter when you print money. During my period it isn’t that we didn’t have excess printing but every time the treasury secretary asked me if we could accommodate the government with an excess of treasury bills I always got a date by which it was settled. We made sure that was settled. It is like a good bank manager. – Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivaard Cabraal[i] To take on a loan one of the most important questions a bank will ask... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
කොරෝනා වෛරසය සිදුකරමින් සිටින්නේ, දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවලියකි. මේ වෛරසය කුමන පදනමකින් හෝ මේ ලෝකය මත බිහිව ලොව පුරා පැතිරී යාමට ස්වභාව මනාව උපකාරිව ඇත. ඒ හේතුවෙන් අද ලොව පුරා සියලුම රටවල සිටින රාජ්‍ය නායකයින්ට මේ වෛරසය සමග පොරබදමින්, තම තමන්ගේ බලය පෙන්වීමට අවස්තාවක් ලැබී ඇත.එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයේදී තම මුදල් බලය හා ආයුධ බලය පා ලෝකයේ මහා බලවතුන් ලෙස පෙනී සිටි ලෝක චන්ඩින් අද කොරෝනාව ඉදිරියේ ,උන්ඩිවි, නොන්ඩි ගසමින් සිටින තත්වයක් හමුවේ, ශ්‍රී ලාංකික අපි විරෝධාර ජාතියක් බවට පත්ව සිටිමු. මේ ගෞරවය රටක් ජාතියක් වශයෙන් ලද ගෞරවයකි.. ලෝකයේ කොරෝනා වෛරසය නිසා, දිනපතා සියගණන් මියයන වර්තමානයක, අපි ජීවත්වෙමු.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
To Marlene Gallyot, Cons Party Dear Marlene, Trust you are keeping well and happy with your new surroundings in Niagara Falls. The voter fraud that came to light when you contested the federal election nearly 10 years back continues to prevail on a much larger scale in the ridings of Scarborough where most Sri Lankan Tamils reside, and they have members of their community seeking elected office. I am aware that you lodged a complaint with Elections Canada but they have not carried out a proper investigation,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/07/20)
WEERASINGHE. — Dhanasiri H.A. Son of Hector and Vivien Weerasinghe. Passed away peacefully on the 7th of July 2020 at home in Melbourne surrounded by family. He was best known in Sri Lanka for his cricketing prowess as an all-rounder. He attended Ananda College, Colombo, captaining the Ananda cricket team in 1955 and eventually being selected for the Ceylon Cricket Team. He captained the All Ceylon Cricket team in 1969. At the age of 20, he joined the Colombo police force and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
Beijing backs politicians and influential Buddhist leaders, expert says Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured here next to Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president of Sri Lanka, appears to have outplayed India and the U.S. in a strategically located island nation that votes for its parliament in a little more than two weeks. © Reuters BANGKOK -- China is cultivating a wide swathe of political allies in Sri Lanka ahead of the nation's general elections on Aug. 5, marking a break from throwing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The general opinion in the country, including among many UNPers, is that the present SLFPA Government, with the leadership provided by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, has effectively controlled the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, and that this would not have been the outcome under a UNP Government, specially if it was headed by Ranil Wickremesinghe. (The occurrence of two or more waves of increased cases is due to people not observing the health rule when the restrictions are relaxed. The magnitude of the wave depends primarily... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
After receiving the warning letter on April 9, 2019, about the possible terror attack, that particular letter should be the priority of all intelligence reviews and Security Council meetings during that time, former IGP N. K. Illangakoon on Friday informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday Attacks. N. K. Illangakoon was a former IGP who served from July 16, 2011 to April 11, 2016. He also served as an advisor to the Ministry of Defence. The official representing the Attorney General’s (AG) Department showed the intelligence letters informing about... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The Colombo High Court issued summons on Elections Commission member Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole and three others for contempt of Court for allegedly publishing a distorted version of a court interim order. Senior Counsel N.R.Sivendran appearing with Danushan Ganeshayogan, Anusha Raman and Achini Ranasinghe instructed by K. Ganeshayogan for seven respondents, said the court had only restrained the petitioners in this application from giving effect to the board meeting and preventing them from obstructing the official functions of the Principal of Bauldeus Theological College Trincomalee. However, he said the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has initiated an inquiry into the threats said to have made by prominent underworld criminals currently under detention in the Boossa Prison to three senior prison officers, that they have the capacity to kill anyone they want, even the president or the defence secretary. “We have weapons, we have our men out, and you can do nothing keeping us in a cell. We will kill all of you - the head of the prison, defence secretary, even the president. His position is nothing to us... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The Colombo High Court today issued summons on former minister Patali Champika Ranawaka, ex-Welikada OIC Sudath Asmadala and the then minister Ranawaka’s driver Dilum Thusitha Kumara to appear in court on August 20 over the Rajagiriya accident case. Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga issued summons over the accident which took place at Rajagiriya in 2016. The summons were issued after considering the case filed against the defendants by the Attorney General. Earlier, the Attorney General filed indictments in the Colombo High Court against Mr. Ranawaka for causing grievous... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the country so far has increased to 2,730 following the detection of two more cases of Covid-19. Two persons who had returned from Saudi Arabia and were in quarantine had tested positive for the virus. Accordingly 678 patients infected with Covid-19 are currently being treated at hospitals while the toal number of recoveries stands at 2,041. Covid-19 tally rises to 2,728 with four more cases Four new cases of novel coronavirus have been detected bringing the total number of confirmed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The CID has commenced an investigation into the death threats made by Kosgoda Tharaka, a drug dealer detained at the Boossa Prison, to three senior officers of the Prisons Department. A senior spokesman of the prison headquarters stated that a team of officers had recorded statements from the relevant prison officials today. Several inmates of the Boossa Prison, including Kosgoda Tharaka, went on a hunger strike recently demanding an extension of their stay outside the cell. Later the Commissioner General of Prisons - Administration Chandana Ekanayake, Commissioner of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The Elections Commission has instructed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to postpone the summoning of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen until August 10 to make statements regarding the 2019 Easter Sunday attack. Leader of All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) Party Bathiudeen is the Wanni District group leader of Samagi Jana Balawegaya and is set to contest the forthcoming General Election. The Elections Commission in a letter to Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne, stated that the members of the Commission had taken this decision unanimously. The Commission further... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
Before 2015 price of pepper per kilo gram stood between Rs. 1,500-1,300. However, it had now come down to Rs. 450-500. The price of raw pepper per kilo is between Rs.150-175. During recent visits by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to several districts, farmers requested him to safeguard the cultivators by taking measures to increase the pepper price. A discussion was held at the Presidential Secretariat today (20) to review actions that need to be taken to find a long-term solution pertaining to the pepper price. Sri Lanka is among... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The Prime Minister stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Badalkumbura area in Moneragala. https://youtu.be/LZjC67mfLhM A public meeting to confirm the victory of the Sri Lanka Podua Jana Peramuna in the forthcoming general election was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Badalkumbura in Moneragala yesterday afternoon.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The sangha nayaka of the North Western Province, Chief Incumbent of the Tissawa Rajamaha Viharaya Ven. Mugunuwatawana Siddatta thero says that all those involved in the demolition of the royal palace of King Bhuvanekabahu II, which is of archaeological value, should be removed from their positions immediately. He made this statement convening a press conference in Kurunegala today. https://youtu.be/mSd1h9937SM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) says that former Member of Parliament Rishad Bathiudeen is aware of the circumstances surrounding the Cinnamon Grand bomb blast during the Easter Sunday series of terrorist attacks. https://youtu.be/Ogf-g6Gb9PY A statement has to be made in this regard, but Rishad Bathiudeen, who did not appear on three occasions, had been infromed in writing to appear before the CID but he did not appear today. Meanwhile, the Election Commission has sent a letter to the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) asking him... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
We have been hearing lengthy and, at times learned, discussions on Treaties in the last few months, especially in the lead up to the Presidential election. This rich discourse, occasionally not well informed, has not ceased. The Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) was the main focus of many and generated a highly charged range of views, including a fast unto death, (thankfully, it was called off at the last moment), and the Free Trade Agreement with Singapore also featured prominently in the discussions, especially in professional circles. Earlier it was the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
Your Excellency David McKinnon: Kindly read my response to your Canada Day message to Sri Lankans 19 July 2020Your Excellency David McKinnonHigh Commissioner for Canada in Sri Lanka33A, 5th LaneColpettyColombo 3Sri Lanka Dear High Commissioner David McKinnon:Re your Canada Day (July 1) Message to Sri Lanka “We must stand together and embrace our diversity as strength”. Canada would continue to support the reconciliation process through their long-standing collaboration on national languages and by assisting with demining work.” Wow”, what Charity, what Compassion, specially your saying... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/20)
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හැඳින්‌වීම උඩරට සිංහල, පහතරට සිංහල, මලබාර් (දෙමළ), මුස්ලිම් යනුවෙන් සුද්දන් විසින් ජන ව‌ර්‌ග කොටස් සිටි රටක, ඉදිරිපෙල නායකයින් වුයේ කල්තියාම ඉංග්‍රීසි අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබූ හා බෙදා පාලන රීතියෙන් පල නෙලාගත් දමිළයින් පිරිසය. පොන්නම්බලම් දෙබෑයෝ එහි මුදුන් පෙත්තේම සිටියේය. එහෙත්, චන්ද බලය ව්‍යාප්තවීම ඇරඹීමත් සමඟ මේ නායකකම වැඩිකල් තබාගත නොහැකි බව ඔවුන්ට වැටහුනේය. මේ නිසා 1923-24 කාලයේ, අරුණාචලම් පොන්නම්බලම් හා සිංහල ක්‍රිස්තියානි නායකයින් අතර ඇතිවූ විරසකයෙන් පසු, දෙමළකම (ටැමිලක්කම්) නමැති දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී ව්‍යාපාරය මතුවිය. මෙය නොයෙක් කරණම් ගසා, 2009 මැයි 19 දා ප්‍රභාකරණන්ගේ මිණිය සොයාගැනීමත් සමඟ යුදමය වශයෙන් අවසාන විය. 1976... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
කුමරි නැතිනම් කෝමාරිකා යන නාමයෙන් හඳුන්වන පලෑටිය දේශීය ඛෙහෙත් හේත් වලට යොදා ගැනෙන බලගතු ඖෂධයකි.පිලිස්සුම් තුවාල සඳහා සම මතු පිට ගෑම ට මෙන්ම තෙල් ඛෙහෙත් සිඳ ගැනීමටද යොදා ගන්නා කෝමාරිකා ඌව පළාතේ ජනප්‍රිය ඖසධීය ආහාරයකි.සිංහල ජනතාව මෙම අගනා ඔෂධ පැලෑටිය සිය ගෙවතු වල වගා කොට රැක බලාගන්නේ ඉතාමත් ආදරයෙනි.මෑත කාලයේ දී කෝමාරිකා පැලෑටිය විවිධ රූඵලාවන්‍ය අලේප වලට යොදා ගැනීමට කරන ලද පර්යේෂණ නිසා ලෝකයේ ජනප්‍රියතම ආර්ථීක භෝගයක් බවට පත් වී තිබේ.කෝමාරිකා වගාවට අවශ්‍ය පස දේශගුණය ආදිය තීරණයකරනු ලබන්නේ ද ස්වභාව ධර්මය විසිනි.එයට හේතුව ඖෂධයක් වශයෙන් එහි පවතින ගුණ ඉස්මතු වීමට මේ පරිසර සාධක උපයෝගී වන බැවිනි.ඖෂධයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
The Kurunegala police were awaiting the report of the expert committee appointed to investigate allegations that an archaeological building in Kurunegala was bulldozed, to take necessary action, a senior police officer said. On July 14, Kurunegala Urban Council demolished a building that is said to contain historical artifacts. The Government Information Department says part of the building was constructed in the 13th century. "We are also investigating the matter and as soon as the report is out, we can take action," the police officer said. Prime... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
July 19, 2020, 9:51 pm Ongoing investigation into some officers and men of the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) dealing in heroin, has taken an unexpected turn with SLPP Gampaha District heavyweight Prasanna Ranatunga claiming that the Minuwangoda police made the initial breakthrough on information provided by him. In a letter to Acting IGP C.D. Wickramaratne, Industrial Exports and Investment Promotion, Tourism and Aviation Minister Ranatunga has reminded the Acting Police Chief that he passed vital information regarding the Minuwangoda underworld and the PNB link,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
Nine individuals who arrived from overseas have been confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19, stated the Department of Government Information. The new cases have been detected amongst individuals who recently arrived from Saudi Arabia. So far, a total of 20 COVID-19 cases have been detected within today (19). Thereby, the count of coronavirus cases reported in the country has moved to 2,725 cases. As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry, 678 active cases among them are under medical care at selected hospitals. Meanwhile, with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stated that plans are afoot to promote pepper cultivation as a major export crop. “India is the major buyer of pepper from Sri Lanka and other countries. India purchases pepper on a quota basis. Increasing the quota given to Sri Lanka is one of the key elements of the strategy. In addition, steps will be taken to identify new markets for local pepper. Farmers are encouraged to export pepper as a finished product.” The President pointed out that more revenue could be earned by exporting pepper in packets... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
A new division is to be established under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), stated Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon. The unit will be titled ‘Illegal Assets Investigations Division’, said the Senior DIG addresssing a press conference held at the Police Headquarters this morning (19). https://youtu.be/UCItK4grdH0 The new unit will be in charge of probing assets of those who are involved in criminal activity. Further, it is the responsibility of this division to deal with the full time confiscation of immovable and movable property and money earned through... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/20)
Touring Northern California and Oregan now and touring from Baltimore to Key West in Florida, through Louisiana via Texas and Arizona to San Diego last Summer, I am passing through villages one after the other—each vibrant with life. There are Malls that have closed down due to the recession, but through it all, village life, centering on the village parish priest and the church appears dominant. The homes of the rich- the traders, farmers and public officials are well painted, the gardens spic and span, a delight to behold and well attended. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
බුවනෙකබා මහා රජතුමා ඉදිකළ කුරුනෑගල රාජ සැබෑ මන්දිරය පොලොවට සමතලා කර ඇත. මෙය මේ දිනවල දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ රඟ දෙන අලුත්ම නාටකයයි. මේ නාටකයේ ප්රධාන නළුවා බවට පැහැදිලිවම දකින්නේ, කුරුනෑගල නගරාධිපතිවරයායි.මේ නගරාධිපතිවරයා, මේ මහා මැතිවරණ සමයේ, අගමැති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා තරඟ කරන කුරුනෑගල ආසනයේ, ඉතා පුරානයයි සලකෙන බුවනෙකබා රාජ සමයට අයත් රාජ සභා ගොඩනැගිල්ල හදිසියේම බිමට පතිත කර ඇත. මේ ක්‍රියාව සිදුකල කාලය හා දේශය අපට කියාපාන්නේ, කුරුනෑගල නගරාධිපතිතුමා මෙය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පරාජය අරමුණු කරගෙන සිදුකල ක්‍රියාවක් බවයි. මේ ක්‍රියාව අපට මතක් කර දෙන්නේ, 2015 මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පරාජය අරමුණු කරගෙන මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
The NMRA yesterday issued notices of cancellation of registrations and import licenses to five pharmaceutical companies including Hemas Pharmaceuticals and A. Baur (Pvt) Ltd for arbitrarily and unilaterally increasing the retail prices of 10 medicines. Notices of cancellation have been issued to the following companies under Section 65 of the NMRA Act No 5 of 2015 for violating pricing regulations: NMRA Legal Officer Pushpamala Hettiarachchi told Daily Mirror these companies had increased prices of medicines during the past few months in violation of the conditions of registration issued... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
The ongoing interim school holiday has been extended by another week and the schools will be reopened for Grade 11, 12 and 13 students on July 27, the Education Ministry said today The week long school holiday declared during a sudden spike of Covid-19 transmissions earlier this month. The Director General of Health meanwhile reiterates that at present there is no possibility for the social transmission of Covid-19 within the community. However, as three students have tested positive for the coronavirus, while a further 200 students and teachers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
Entry of pilgrims into the sacred city of Kataragama will be limited two weeks starting from July 21 to August 04, in view of the Annural Esala Perahera of Kataragama Devalaya. Accordingly, the public will not be allowed to take part in religious activities or to watch the procession during the entire period of the Perahera festival. The 2248th Annual Esala Festival of the Kataragama Devalaya, one of the most revered and nationally important cultural festivals of the Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim people, will commence on July 21 and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
Another fresh case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Sri Lanka, increasing the total number of patients to 2,703. This patient, who is from Lankapura area, has been identified as a close associate of the virus-infected person linked to the Kandakadu COVID-19 cluster. https://youtu.be/rEiR4mhQuoY Further, four close contacts of a coronavirus patient linked to the same cluster and an arrival from the Philippines also tested positive earlier today (11). Thereby, 06 positive cases of COVID-19 have been detected so far within the day. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
An archaeological committee appointed to probe the damage caused to the Royal Assembly Hall of the Kurunegala Kingdom dating back to the 13th Century visited the site today. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed a special 5-member committee to probe the damages to the building. Chairman of the committee, Director General of Archaeology, Professor Senarath Dissanayake said a report on the matter will be handed over on Monday.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
The SLPP has called off its scheduled propaganda rallies for the time being in view of the rising threat of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its national organizer Basil Rajapaksa has instructed all party organizers to abide by this decision. This must have been a difficult decision to take in a context where the strategically scattered yahapalanites are trying to hoodwink the electorate to elect them back to parliament (I say ‘strategically scattered’ because they are probably planning to gather into one camp once again after the election). At... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/20)
The Central Intelligence Agency of the USA, CIA was popularly seen as a bungling agency, responsible for the many failures of US policy abroad. But it also has many successes to its credit. CIA was powerful abroad. CIA is responsible for planning, carrying out and providing cover-ups for USA assassinations. CIA can legally act only overseas. CIA hacking of Americans in USA can only be done with permission, observed analysts. The CIA and Germany’s BND Federal Intelligence Service had for decades used a Swiss encryption company Crypto AG, for spying. Crypto supplied devices... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
USA was ready to take over as the centre of the capitalist world, at the end of World War II. The US President was spoken of as ‘Leader of the free world’. But the USA never had the easy run into a global power that Britain had. The USA was never able to acquire its own empire. Apart from the fact that times were different and sovereign rights of a country had been enunciated, the US simply did not have the military power to conquer the whole world. In order to rule the world,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
Upon returning to Sri Lanka he started an intensive media campaign on this subject. I reproduce below excerpts from this traitor’s writings and appropriate counter comments Veteran journalist Malinda Seneviratne who was the Chief Editor of “The Nation” wrote on 5th July, 2009 that Dayan Jayatillake, with respect to the implementation of the 13th Amendment, points to two documents (a joint statement issued at the conclusion of discussions with a high-level Indian delegation and another by the UN Secretary-General. In both, there is mention of the Government’s commitment to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
More than 50 people had been killed and more than 250 seriously injured by the Hindu extremist groups in the last four years; says a recent report of the Human Rights Watch, most of the attacks on religious minorities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir are led by BJP supporters. Pathetically the only allegation against all the targeted ones had been the same; they all were blamed of trading or slaughtering the cows. The Human Rights Watch says that before killing the alleged ones, the BJP extremists force them to chant Hindu slogans. The role of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
(Intake 3 KDU) On July 3rd, 1990, 30 years ago "Operation Eagle" was launched to evacuate a team of critically wounded soldiers of 6th Singha Regiment (6SR) and policemen from the Jaffna Fort, where they had been trapped for more than three weeks and to deliver urgently needed weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to the besieged soldiers. The situation in Jaffna 30 years ago was a far cry from what it is today. The Tiger terrorists had the upper hand; they had taken advantage of a phony... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
A committee comprising experts has been appointed to investigate allegations of a archaeological building in Kurunegala was bulldozed on July 14, the Government Information Department said today. It said the Committee was appointed by the Buddhasasana, Cultural and Religious Affairs Ministry Secretary on a directive of subject minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The committee comprises Director General of Archaeology, Prof. Senarath Dissanayake, Kurunegala District Secretary R.M.R. Ratnayake, archaeologist T.G Kulatunga, Director General of the Ministry of Buddhasasana, Cultural and Religious Affairs archaeologist Prasad Ranasinghe and Central Cultural Fund Director... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
The Extraordinary Gazette Notification on health guidelines for the General Election 2020 has been published, says the Government Printer. COVID-19 (Elections) Regulations was prepared by the Minister of Health and Indigenous Medical Services under section 2 and 3 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance (Chapter 222). The gazette contains guidelines that should be adhered to by the political parties, their supporters, election candidates and voters during the election period. Extraordinary Gazette on CO... by Ada Derana on Scribd... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
Eight (08) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,697. Eight (08) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. Six (06) are inmates from Kandakadu & Senapura Rehabilitation Centres and the other two (02) are their contacts who have tested positive for Covid-19. The country total has increased to 2,697 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health.Covid-19 Situation Report as at 2020-July-17| compiled according to the Health promotion Bureau and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
Former Minister Rishad Bathiutheen has filed a Fundamental Rights petition before the Supreme Court asking to issue an order preventing his arrest by the CID over the Easter Sunday attacks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya is contesting this election not to gain power in the government or the opposition but to gain power in Sirikotha. The Prime Minister expressed these views while participating in a public meeting held in Kotte this afternoon. https://youtu.be/Alm7hAcCN2o... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
While ACSA was signed in August 2017, the contents of that agreement has not been made public and no one in Government appears to know either. There is a leaked SOFA agreement while MCC agreement was also published after much outcry. ACSA allows US military the use of Sri Lanka’s entry points – Airports & Ports as well as logistics and other services whenever requested, while MCC is the US Govt’s new financial cum development arm. We are told the MCC is a gift but there are a host of clauses that the GoSL is bound to make payment for.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
Colombo East Terminal is generating much controversy these days for reasons that should clearly showcase the need for a sovereign government to take a hold of the situation & uphold its sovereign status. No country puts its strategic assets and resources to the auction table. An island nation must realize that its strength comes in its ports in particular as Sri Lanka is placed at the centre of international trade lanes that ply west to east & vice versa. Advisors and policy makers peddling short-term economic dividends only and omitting to take stock of the geopolitical and national security elements... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/07/20)
The Sri Lanka Study Circle thanks the efforts of some patriotic people for the images reproduced below If Gota does not open HIS mouth now and categorically and unambiguously say NO to MCC, SOFA and ACSA, the images below may well serve to be a prediction of the fate of Sri Lanka in 2050 and support the map of Sri Lanka provided in 2018 by MCC team leader Steve Dobrilovic. Teplitz, whose ancestry goes back to the Romany region in Bohemia, appears to be under the impression that Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
Recently Ranil has been going around the country doing Pooja's and celebrating his 40 years in politics. As far as I can see he was a miserable failure as a politician. It was like 40 years of mayhem. He failed to win elections 29 times, tried to win in 2010 with Sarath Fonseka in front and failed. Then in 2014 he and CBK started a campaign of lies via social media against incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa with funding from foreign NGOs. He promised cars for all, WiFi for the youth and free cell phones. Our... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
While the fractured opposition UNP/SJB is in a perennial bout to defeat each other and capture/retain power in the Sirikotha the foreign servile JVP, NGO vultures and the TNA as well as the racist constituents of the SJB seem to be making all efforts to thwart the imminent possibility of the SLPP getting a comfortable two thirds majority in the August 5th Parliamentary elections. The SLPP’s main collective slogan in the Agust 5th election has become “accord us two thirds majority to get rid of the abhorrent 19th amendment and make appropriate changes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
චිනුවා අචෙබේ අප්‍රිකාවේ බලගතු ලේඛකයෙකි. ඔහු අප්‍රිකානු සාහිත්‍යයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය තහවුරු කිරීමට වෙහෙස ගත්තේය. නූතන අප්‍රිකානු සාහිත්‍යය නිර්වචනය කිරීමේදී ඔහුගේ බලපෑම ප්‍රබලය. අචෙබේ ගේ නිර්මාණ ලෝක සාහිත්‍යයට ස්ථාවර හා කේන්ද්‍රීය දායකත්වයක් සපයයි. හාවඩ් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ දාර්ශනික කේ. ඇන්තනි අප්පියා පවසන පරිදි චිනුවා අචෙබේ "අප්‍රිකානු සාහිත්‍යයේ ආරම්භක පියාය. චිනුවා අචෙබේ 1930 නොවැම්බර් 16 වැනිදා නයිජීරියාවේදී උපත ලැබුවේය. අචෙබේ හැදී වැඩුණේ නයිජීරියාවේ ඔගිඩි හි ඉග්බෝ ( ඉබෝ ) නගරයේ ය. ඔහු ඉබාදාන් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල විද්‍යාලයෙන් උපාධිය ලැබීය. උපාධිය ලැබීමෙන් පසු ඔහු නයිජීරියානු ගුවන් විදුලි සේවයේ සේවය කලේය. චිනුවා අචෙබේ 1950 ගණන්වල සිට නයිජීරියාවේ ක්‍රියාකාරී මහජන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
දේශපාලනික වශයෙන් අස්ථාවර නායකයෝ දේශපාලනයට ගෙනැවිත් තමන්ට අවශ්‍ය විදියට මේ රට පාලනය කරන්න පුළුවන් කියලා සමහර රටවල නායකයෝ විශ්වාස කරනවා යැයි හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්‍රික් තරුණ මුස්ලිම් සම්මේලනයට ප්රධාන ආරාධිතයා ලෙස සහභාගි වෙමින් නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. කුරුණෑගල බ්‍රයිට් බ්‍රාවෝ හෝටලයේදී පැවති මෙම සම්මේලනය කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්‍රික් මුස්ලිම් තරුණ සම්මේලනය විසින් සංවිධානය කර තිබුණි. මෙම සම්මේලනයට කුරුණෑගල නගරාධිපති තුෂාර සංජීව, ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා මන්ත්‍රී රිෆාල්, 'කාන්තා සවිය' සංවිධානයේ සභාපතිනි ෆෙරෝසා මුසම්මිල්, සබීර් මන්සූර්, වයඹ පළාත් රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන් සංගමයේ නියෝජිතයින්, තරුණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
As part of its post-COVID investment strategy, Pathfinder Capital of MMBL-Pathfinder Group has launched the ‘Pathfinder Vimana’ initiative aimed at developing advanced civilian drone technology solutions for Sri Lanka. The project will entail Pathfinder Capital creating a network of alliances and partnerships, with advanced drone technology providers across the globe. In the first phase, Pathfinder Capital will be establishing a series of relationships with leading drone technology companies in the United States and Israel that specialise in sophisticated delivery, inspection/surveillance and agricultural solutions. Once the first phase has been consolidated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
The number of coronavirus infections reported in the country has increased to 2687. This was with the identification of another infected person today. The infected person was from the United Arab Emirates and was being quarantined.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
The leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya Sajith Premadasa stated that some groups are contesting the general election this time to sell their seats to Pohottuwa after the victory. He was participating in a public meeting held in Kotmale yesterday. https://youtu.be/j8YUM73NOVw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
The DIG in charge of the Anti-Terrorism and Investigation Division Nalaka de Silva who has been interdicted, admitted that it was wrong to not inform the rest of the police regarding the open warrant obtained from the Colombo Magistrate's Court to arrest Saharan Hashim before the Easter attack. https://youtu.be/bnSR7iwSGck This was when he was giving evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter attack . DIG Nalaka de Silva, who is currently interdicted, testified before the Commission for the second day... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
In May 2009 Sri Lanka sighed with relief as its armed forces defeated the internationally proscribed terrorist-LTTE bringing to an end 30 years of terror. It took the 5thPresident to order his troops to defeat the LTTE while the defense secretary at the time has now become Sri Lanka’s 7thPresident and most of the ground commanders are now holding top posts in the present government. With LTTE’s defeat Sri Lanka began a new chapter. The people were all in agreement that they did not wish to have any future war & they never wanted to live in fear.That feeling was short... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/20)
REVISED 16.7.20 The first US intervention in the 1970s, though not recognized as such, was the JVP insurgency of 1971. This was USA’s first attempt at destabilizing the state. It was premature and it failed. It had jumped the gun .N.M.Perera straightaway said this was a CIA activity. Apart from this, US found it difficult to get a foothold in Sri Lanka while Sirimavo Bandaranaike was in power. But things changed when JR Jayawardene became Prime Minister in 1977. JR Jayewardene, abandoned the earlier Non-Aligned policy, and attached himself like a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
හැඳින්‌වීම රනිල්ගේ ලිච්චවි කාටූනය ක්‍රිස්තු පූර්ව 5 වන ශතවර්ෂයේ බෞද්ධ ඉන්‌දියාවේ පැවති ලිච්චවි පාලන ක්‍රමයට, දශරාජ ධ‌ර්‌මවලට, සමාන කලහැකි, යහපාලන සංකල්පයක් (ගුඩ් ගවර්‌නන්ස්-බෑඩ් ගවර්‌නන්ස්) ගැන යුරෝපයෙන් ඇසෙන්නේ, 14 වන ශතවර්‌ෂයේදී, ඉතාලියේ එක් බලවත් පුර සමූහාණ්ඩුවක්‌වූ සියෙනා පුරයේ පුර සභා (සිටි කවුන්සිල්) රැස්වීම් ශාලාවේ බිත්ති තුනක, අම්බ්‍රොගියෝ ලොරෙන්සෙටි නම් සිත්තරා ලවා, එයට චන්දයෙන් පත්‌වන මැජිස්ට්‍රේට්ලා නවදෙනා විසින් 1338 දී අන්ඳවන ලද බිතු සිතුවම් වලින්‌ය. ඉන් එකකින් යහපාලනයේ ප්‍රතිඵලත්, තව එකකින් අවපාලනයේ ප්‍රතිඵලත් දැක්වේ. වරක් තේරී පත්‌වූ පසු මේ නව දෙනා ඊළඟ චන්දය එනතුරු සිටි බිල්ඩිමේම ජීවත්‌වන්නේ තමන් ගන්නා විධායක හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
අපට ඇත්තේ යහපාලනය විසින් බලගැන්වූ මැතිවරණ කොමිසමකි. මේ කොමිසමට කිසිවෙක් නොසිතන ආකාරයේ බලතල රාශියක් පවරා ඇත. එබැවින් මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් තුමා බොහෝවිට කටයුතු කරන්නේ විධායක බලතල ඇති මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයෙකු ලෙසය. එය සැබෑ ස්වාධින මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයෙකුට නම් ඉතා හොඳ තත්වයකි. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම ඔහු, ඔහුට අවැසි ආකාරයට සියල්ලම සිදුකරමින් සිටි. එසේ කිරීමට ඔහුට බලතල ඇත. තවද රජය ඔහුගේ කිසිදු කටයුත්තකට බලපෑම් නොකරමින් නිහඬව බලා සිටි. රජයට ඊට එහා දෙයක් කිරීමට 19 වෙනි ව්‍යාවස්ථා සංශෝධනයෙන් ඉඩක් ලබාදී නොමැත. රටේ ජනතාවට මැතිවරණයක් ලබාදීම දැන් රජයට කල නොහැක. එය සිදුකල හැක්කේ මැතිවරණ කොමිසමට පමණි. මිට පෙර වතාවකදීද මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අගමැතිව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Finishing the unfinished effort of Millennium Development Goals is of national significance. Effectively, the MDGs are global benchmarks. Concurrent with that effort, it is important to have a focus on what Sri Lanka’s development agenda should look like beyond 2020. While completing the ‘unfinished business’, I believe, this question begs rather more fundamental question of multilateralism when applied to development initiatives. The experience with the MDGs suggests that global priority setting, backed by action, does generate results. For example, the global poverty reduction target set in the MDGs has been met,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Katubedda, Sri Lanka laboratory of Bureau Veritas, a leading testing, inspection and certification provider for consumer goods and healthcare industry, has got ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for testing medical/surgical face masks. This will help face mask buyers and suppliers worldwide to test medical masks, including full EU market entry scope, in this lab. With market estimates putting face mask annual growth over 20 per cent every year, the need for additional trusted full service laboratories continues to grow. With this latest development, Sri Lanka is the first full service medical mask... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Colombo – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Standard Chartered Sri Lanka announced today that Brandix is the latest company to complete a drawdown from the Bank’s global USD1 billion COVID-19 financing commitment, underscoring its ongoing efforts to support local businesses in the pandemic response. Standard Chartered’s extension of USD12 million funding will assist the production switch to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) across Brandix’s plants in Sri Lanka and India at a time when there is a drastic impact on apparel demand globally. The Bank also supported Brandix with a factor-based receivable financing solution to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - For months he´s been anonymous, but now Prasad Dinesh, linked by Sri Lankan authorities to nearly half of the country's more than 2,600 coronavirus cases, is trying to clear his name, and shed some of the stigma of a heroin addiction at the root of his ordeal. Under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former army lieutenant colonel credited with helping end Sri Lanka's long civil war in 2009 with a brutal military campaign against separatists, the Indian Ocean island nation has used the armed forces to combat the virus. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Director General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr. Anil Jasinghe said there were only 19 Covid-19 cases reported yesterday and that they had no intention of hiding the actual situation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. https://youtu.be/g5JH42SWOYE Dr. Jasinghe said the health authorities were taking measures to reveal the actual number of cases being reported daily and warned people to be aware of the false information being circulated on social media with regard to COVID-19 numbers and only rely on the information provided by the health authorities.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Health authorities or Intelligence Services had not received any information that a third contact of the COVID-19 infected patients of the Kandakadu cluster had contracted the virus, DIG Ajith Rohana said today. He told a news conference that all the first and second contacts of the patients at the Kandakadu cluster had been identified and that there was no need to have unnecessary fear or panic over a second wave. He said only 20 patients had been identified outside the Kandakadu Drug Rehabilitation centre and that 16 of them were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Whist stating that another prolonged lockdown will kill Sri Lanka’s economy, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe proposed that political parties, health experts and other bodies discuss the Public Health Emergency Bill proposed by some opposition parties and enact as soon as new Parliament meet. Mr. Wickremesinghe came up with is proposal while addressing an election rally in Biyagama yesterday. “Some former MPs and I met during the last lock down period and drafted the Public Health Emergency Bill. I suggest that parties, health experts and other bodies initiate a dialogue... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Election Commission on Wednesday (15) said it would be “extremely difficult” to hold the parliamentary elections on August 5 as scheduled without the government legalising the health guidelines, including social distancing, amidst a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the country. The national poll panel also mentioned the political leaders were not adhering to the health guidelines while campaigning, jeopardising the lives of the people attending the campaign. “It will be extremely difficult to conduct the election unless the legal effect is given to the health guidelines,” Mahinda Deshapriya, the Chairman of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Another individual at the Kundasale quarantine center is confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19, stated the Health Ministry. The patient has been identified as a close contact of a coronavirus-positive at the Kandakadu rehabilitation center. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Sri Lanka to 2,671 cases. More foreign arrivals push COVID-19 case tally to 2,670 Two more foreign arrivals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, as per the Department of Government Information. They have been detected among recent returnees from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
Director-General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe says that there currently is no reason to enforce another lockdown in the country, as the current cluster remains limited in its reach. With the upturn in the number of COVID-19 infections in the country, measures have been taken to place the area in Rajanganaya in Anuradhapura under lockdown, banning both entry and exit. Rajanganaya which is home to about 12,000 people has reported over 15 cases of COVID-19 so far. Meanwhile, with an Army Intelligence Officer attached to the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center residing in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
The Sunday Times released the full text of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Noteworthy is that the discussions have been with the US Embassy Colombo & the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry with no inputs sought from the Ministry of Defense and completely disregarding the threats to Sri Lanka’s National Sovereignty & Security. Whoever approved this deserves to be tried for treason. https://www.pressreader.com/sri-lanka/sunday-times-sri-lanka/20190630/281771335735923 15 clauses were highlighted in the Sunday Times leaked version of the Draft Agreement of 28 August 2018 following last discussions in May 2018 between Yahapalana Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/20)
The Koggala township where reputed writer Martin Wickramasinghe was born, received its name due to an engraved picture of a crane on a rock. Hundreds of books, including the novels Gamperaliya and Madolduwa, written by Wickramasinghe were based on Koggala where his ancestral home is situated. Martin Wickramasinghe was born on May 29, 1890, at village headman’s house which was then known as Ginpathaliye Opisara Gedara. Opisara is the Sinhala word for officer, a man respected by the villagers, who was appointed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
No danger of Second Wave:Contact tracing successful:Faster control than Navy cluster: Rumours being spread that Covid-19 infected persons of the Kandakadu cluster have been reported from various parts of the island are baseless, Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe said yesterday. He said that if an infected person is actually reported from anywhere in the country, it will be announced by the authorities without any delay. Dr. Jasinghe was speaking to the media at the National Operation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
According to a report by the Canadian outlet Global News, a case relating to two Canadian Sikhs being placed on a no-fly list in the country has now been linked to an alleged Pakistan-based plot to use pro-Khalistan elements to conduct terrorist acts in India. The details emerged as two men - Bhagat Singh Brar and his business partner Parvkar Singh Dulai - challenged being blocked from travelling by air. As per supporting case documents filed by Canadian security agencies, including Public Safety Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
දේශපාලනයේ කාන්තා නියෝජනය තහවුරු කිරීම සෑම කාන්තාවකගේම වගකීමක් බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි. එහි අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ මැතිවරණ ක්‍රියාවලියේ දී කාන්තාව සතු වගකීම පිළිබඳ පැවති පුහුණු වැඩමුලුවකදීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය පෙන්වා දුන්නේ මෙවර අපේක්ෂක ලැයිස්තු සැකසීමේදී සියලුම දේශපාලන පක්ෂ කාන්තා නියෝජනය සඳහා සැලකිය යුතු අවස්තාවක් වෙන්කර නැති බවයි. මේ නිසා මෙවර මැතිවරණය සඳහා තරඟ අපේක්ෂකයින් 7458 දෙනෙකු අතරින් කාන්තා නියෝජිතයින් සිටින්නේ 819 දෙනෙකු පමණක් බව ඇය ප්‍රකාශ කළා ය . මේ අනුව සියලු දේශපාලන පක්ෂ නායකයින් කාන්තාව පිළිබද දක්වා ඇති සැලකිල්ල මැනවින් පැහැදිලි වන බව ඇය පෙන්වා දුන්නාය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
The "Wedding Boutique 2020" exhibition held in Colombo last weekend had many eye-catching and dazzling wedding products on display The picture shows a famous hairstylist Ramzi Rahaman and a mannequin in a bridal dress wearing an attractive face mask at “Wedding Boutique 2020”. Photo: Tang Lu/Xinhua) COLOMBO, July 12 (Xinhua) — Early Saturday, young Ranjani Gunatilake, who is planning her wedding in December, traveled to the Waters Edge resort in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to attend “Wedding Boutique 2020,” the first wedding exhibition held... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
Considered one of the four main sacred places associated with Lord Buddha, Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh is believed to be the site where the Buddha attained ‘parinirvana’. Colombo, July 14 (newsin.asia): The Indian cabinet of India, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has granted approval to declare Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport. Considered one of the four main sacred places associated with Lord Buddha, Kushinagar is believed to be the site where the Buddha attained ‘parinirvana’. A colossal reclining statue of Lord Buddha... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today assured that the people would be protected from the COVID-19 pandemic by mitigating the risk of the virus spreading in the country, until the pandemic is finally wiped out. He said the government took successful measures in the wake of the virus outbreak long before many other governments. According to the President's Media Division, the President said this when the Task Force on COVID-19 met at the Presidential Secretariat to discuss the current COVID-19 situation in the wake of the positive cases found at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that the heads of both government and private entities are accountable for adhering to health guidelines in their organizations in the wake of the current spike in COVID 19 cases. “The COVID-19 virus is prone to spread among groups until adequate and satisfactory containment. Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center is an unfortunate example.” Hence, the President emphasized the necessity of continuing easily accessible tests related to clusters of people immediately. https://youtu.be/XnDFCikufx0 The President made these remarks during a discussion with the Presidential Task Force to established... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
COVID-19 infections patients confirmed thus far in Sri Lanka increased to 2,665 today (14) following the detection of four more positive cases, the Ministry of Health said. The latest cases include 01 contact of a patient detected from the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre in Kandakadu, 01 arrival from Oman and 02 arrivals from the United Arab Emirates, according to the Department of Government Information. Earlier today, 08 close contacts of patients linked to Kandakadu COVID-19 cluster tested positive for the virus. In addition, 04 inmates at the Rehabilitation Centre in Senapura were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi today answered a question raised by UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe regarding the use of foreign financial assistance received to curb the Covid 19 epidemic. Meanwhile, Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi responded to the allegations made by UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on several occasions regarding the money received by the Ministry of Health from foreign countries for the Covid 19 pandemic. https://youtu.be/OIQtJPsi_o8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
Samagi Jana Balawegaya's candidate Ajith P. Perera has stated that the competition is not with the United National Party but with the Podujana Peramuna. He stated this at a press conference today and said that he would challenge the UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to contest and get results. https://youtu.be/u_I__hpQvVk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
Sri Lanka managed to control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country very successfully from the start, in comparison to many countries in the world. Since March 30 there have not been any community cases reported in the country and the cases that were reported were all from quarantine centres and mainly those arriving in the country from overseas. However, by last week, a new cluster that sprung from Kandakadu has so far identified a total of 519 new coronavirus cases, following the detection of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva appearing for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed Court of Appeal that summons issued by Jaffna Magistrate’s Court requiring President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appear before Jaffna Magistrate’s Court as a witness in connection with the Habeas Corpus inquiry into the disappearance of two human rights activists Lalith and Kugan, cannot be maintained since he holds the post of President in the country. Senior State Counsel Wasantha Perera appearing for the Attorney General informed that the President was immune to the judicial process in terms... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was formed in 2001. At its inception, it was an umbrella organization consisting of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), and the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). The organization was a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) creation. Since it was an LTTE creation, the party supported the LTTE and took orders from the LTTE.
In the recent past, there has been an attempt to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
The reopening of Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Airport has been delayed indefinitely, after repatriation flights were suspended due to a spike in Covid-19 infections last week. This marks the second postponement of the reopening of the country’s main international airport, after authorities announced last month that its initial August 1 reopening would be pushed to mid-August to focus on the repatriation of the tens of thousands of Sri Lankans stranded abroad. Reopening of Colombo International Airport runs into second delay, as the country battles Covid-19 Over 300 Covid-19 cases... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/20)
In the 1980s, I attempted to develop industry averages in Sri Lanka, and the purpose of my effort was to support credit policy development, which needed to successful credit management in a government bank, where I had been working. When I was talking about industry averages, bank executives, and the government authority had no clear understanding of it, and the unpleasant environment of the country at that time, and in the bank where I was working, I left the country. Recently, I read a statement issued by the governor of Central Bank, which was an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
President Gotabhaya Rajapakse had requested the Cabinet of Ministers to submit their opinions on the Prof.Lalithasiri Gunaruwan Report on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) agreement with the USA. This has now been extended for a further two weeks. Though not a Cabinet Minister, but as the leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), which is a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Podujana Alliance (SLFPA), I wish to express the opinion of the LSSP on this controversial proposal. The LSSP views the MCC agreement, and the two other related agreements (ACSA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
ජපන් නවකතාකරුවෙකු හා කෙටිකතා රචකයෙකු වන යසුනාරි කවබත නොබෙල් සාහිත්‍ය ත්‍යාගය දිනූ ප්‍රථම ජපන් ජාතික ලේඛකයා විය. ඔහු 20 වන සියවසේ ජපානයේ සාහිත්‍ය-නූතනවාදී ව්‍යාපාරයේ නායකයෙකි. ඔහුගේ කෘති පැරණි ජපානයේ සුන්දරත්වය නූතනවාදී ප්‍රවණතා සමඟ ඒකාබද්ධ වූ අතර ඔහුගේ ගද්‍ය යථාර්ථවාදී දර්ශන සමඟ මුසු විය. ඔහු සිය ලේඛන ක්‍රමය ජපානයේ සාම්ප්‍රදායික කාව්‍යයන් වන හයිකු සමඟ සමාන්තරගත කළේය. ඔහුගේ කෘති පුළුල් ජාත්‍යන්තර ආකර්ෂණයක් ලබා ඇත. ජපානයේ ඔසාකාහි 1899 දී උපත ලැබූ යසුනාරිට වයස අවුරුදු 3 දී ඔහුගේ පියා මිය ගියේය. ඊළඟ අවුරුද්දේ ඔහුගේ මව මිය ගිය අතර පසුව ඔහුව හදා වඩා ගන්නා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
මෙරට චන්ද බලය උරුමව ඇත්තේ මෙරට ජනතාවටය. එය පුද්ගලයින් සතු ප්‍රබල ධන නිධානයකි. නමුත් මෙරට දේශපාලකයින් සිතාගෙන ඉන්නේ, ඒ ඒ චන්ද තමන්ට උරුම චන්ද ලෙසයි. මේ මිත්‍යාව මත පිහිටා බොහෝ නායකයින් ඒ චන්ද පදනම පෙන්වා තමන්ට උරුම නැති වරදාන ලබා ගැනීම සෑම විටකදීම සිදුකරන පහත් දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාදාමයකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයද මෙවර පොහොට්ටුවට රිංගා ගත්තේ ඒ පහත් ක්‍රියාදාමය උපයෝගි කරගෙනය..ඔවුන් සැබෑ ලෙසම භුමියේ ඔවුනට නැති බලයක් පෙන්වා, ප්‍රබල දේශපාලන නායකයින් මුලා කොට පොහොට්ටුවට රිංගා ගත් පිරිසකි. මේ ක්‍රියාවලිය කොතරම් ප්‍රබලද යත්, වසර ගණනාවක් පුරා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ රජයේ, ප්‍රබල ඇමතිවරයෙක්ව සිට ජාත්‍යන්තර කුමන්ත්‍රණකරුවෙක් බවට පත්ව,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් හිටපු විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ නායකයකු මෙන්ම දෙමළ එක්සත් පෙරමුණේ නායක සහ ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු වූ අප්පාපිල්ලේ අමිර්තලිංගම් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ඝාතනය කර ජුලි 13 දාට තිස් එක් වසරක් සපිරුනි. සිංහල පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකුගේ වීරත්වය ලොවට පෙන්වූ එම සිද්ධියේ ඉතාමත්ම සවිස්තර වාර්තාව පළමු වරට සැපයුවේ ප්‍රවීන ඉංග්‍රීසි මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකු වන ඩී. බී. එස්. ජෙයරාජ්ය. (ඉන්දියන් සාම හමුදාව සහ කොටි සංවිධානය අතර සටන් පැවති සමයේදී ආරක්ෂාව පතා පිටරට ගිය ජෙයරාජ්ට කැනඩාවේදී කොටි ක්‍රියාකාරිකයන් පහරදී බරපතල තුවාල සිදු කලහ. ඒ ඔහු එරටදී පලකල මධ්‍යස්ත දෙමළ පුවත්පතක් නිසාවෙනි). මේ ඝාතනවල සම්පූර්ණ විස්තරය සහ පසුබිම මීට වඩා බොහෝ දීර්ඝ නමුත් මෙය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
A single incident in the US which was captured on a mobile phone by a teenager has triggered waves of protests against racism, globally. This has included bringing down of monuments that represented racists or slave owners in the UK and USA. Well-known names of such racists who were being implicitly honoured include the statue of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford University and the Policy School named after Woodrow Wilson in Princeton USA, both of which are likely to be removed by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Professor G.L. Peiris yesterday said those who are afraid of facing the elections use the COVID-19 situation as a scapegoat to get the General Elections postponed. Speaking at the weekly SLPP news briefing, Professor Peiris said a proper plan was in place to mitigate the COVID-19 situation and the health authorities are taking all necessary action accordingly. He said it was not practical to prevent risks 100 per cent and therefore, the people should not take the situation lightly. “All steps and guidelines necessary must be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
While claiming that 428 Covid 19 Positive cases had been reported from Kandakadu and Senapura Rehabilitation Centres, Director General of Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe today said the spreading of the virus in the respective areas was not a wide-spread scenario. “The spreading of the virus is only confined to the isolated areas,” Dr Jasinghe said. https://youtu.be/hwFk3YsfXL8 He said surveillance by intelligence services had been beefed-up round the country to detect Covid-19 positive cases and added there were no signs to suggest that the viral infection... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
The Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva stated that 429 of the 506 infected persons found at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Center are rehabilitated prisoners. Meanwhile 47 are staff members and 30 are close contacts.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
Two (02) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection from Rajanganaya. The country total has increased to 2,644 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health. Covid-19 Situation Report as at 2020-July-13| compiled according to the Health promotion Bureau and the Epidemiology Unit data Total confirmed cases –2,644 Recovered and discharged 1,981Active cases – 652New Cases for the day – 27Total Deaths – 11... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
Former Member of Parliament Palitha Range Bandara stated that 56 persons who were with Sajith Premadasa had discussed with him to re-join the UNP . He further stated that he has recorded the telephone conversations of 23 of them and he has the recordings. https://youtu.be/4oxU9ul0byc Former parliamentarian Ranjith Maddumabandara stated that although Palitha Range Bandara is the trade union leader, all trade union leaders are now with the Sajith faction. Former Minister Ranjith Maddumabandara is not contesting the election... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
US tops the world list on coronavirus cases and deaths with 3.2million cases and 137,000 deaths in a world with over 12million cases and over 560,000 deaths. Sri Lanka has had 11 deaths with over 2000 confirmed cases and close to 2000 recoveries. Sri Lanka has done remarkably well in not only containing but quickly identifying the cluster groups in an effort steered by a Presidential Task Force & the dedicated services of the health sector, the armed forces, police, intelligence & public service. The discipline of the citizens in conforming to the measures and instructions given by authorities has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
We, the members of the Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, a founding member of the Non Aligned Movement - the largest organised grouping of Nations after the UN - that initiated a UN General Assembly Resolution in 1971 which was unanimously adopted by the entire World to make forever the Indian Ocean a zone of peace within which area no Nuclear weapons whatsoever would be permitted, are perturbed by your insensitive and hypocritical attitude in not providing the Sri Lankan people official Sinhala and Tamil translations... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
Sri Lanka is now in approaching its fourth round of western rule, this time under the United States of America. When the British left Ceylon in 1948, USA was ready to take over, but in the euphoria of independence, this went unnoticed. Britain had anticipated that its empire would end some day. It was too huge, too expensive to run and the colonies were starting to kick. Britain had therefore made all the necessary arrangements to help its successor take over the island of Sri Lanka. The importance of Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
හැඳින්‌වීම සිතියමක් වචන දාහකට වඩා වටී මෙහි පෙන්වන සිතියම දැනට වර්ෂ ගණනාවකට පෙර ලංකාවේ මුස්ලිම් සංවිධානයක වෙබ් අඩවියකින් කොපිකර ගත් එකකි. එය පිළියෙල කර තිබෙන්නේ සමස්ත ලංකා මුස්ලිම් ලේඛනාගාර මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක, එම්. එල්, එම්. මොහිදීන් නම් මිනින්දෝරු තැන විසිනි. පිළියෙල කල වර්‌ෂය සඳහන් කර නැත. පාට යොදාගැනීමේදී කොල-කහ යන <ඉස්ලාම් පාටවල්> යොදා ගැනීම නිසා, තද හා ලා කහපාට දෙක අතර වෙනස පැහැදිලි නැත. කිසිම මුස්ලිම් වෙබ් අඩවියක මේ සිතියම දැන් දක්නට නැත. ලංකාවේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලවල භූගෝල විද්‍යා ගුරුවරු වැනි අය 2020 ට ආසන්න සංඛ්‍යා ලබාගෙන මෙවැනි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
මහ මැතිවරණයට අදාල සෞඛ්‍ය නිර්දේශ ගැසට් කිරීම ප්‍රමාද කිරීම මඟින් බරපතල තත්වයක් ඇතිවිය හැකි බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි. එම සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ අහමඩ් මනාස් මකීන් මහතා අවධාරනය කලේ පවතින අවධානම්කාරී සෞඛ්‍ය වාතාවරණය මත මහමැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීම සදහා වන සෞඛ්‍ය නිර්දේශ වහා ගැසට් කළ යුතු බවයි. එසේ නොකළ හොත් එක් අතකින් යළි රට තුළ බරපතල සෞඛ්‍ය අවධානමක් ඇතිවන බවත්, ඊට අමතරව මහමැතිවරණ‌යේ ඡන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමේ ප්‍රතිශතයට පවා බලපෑම් කල හැකි බව ඒ මහතාගේ අදහසයි. අදාල සෞඛ්‍ය නිර්දේශ නිකුත් කිරීම පමණක් ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවන අතර ඒවා බලාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා එම නිර්දේශ වහා ගැසට් කිරීම අනිවාර්ය බව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/20)
Five arrivals from Belarus have tested positive for COVID-19 raising the total number of cases reported in the country. Thereby the tally of virus-positive cases in Sri Lanka is now at 2,612, stated the Department of Government Information. https://youtu.be/vSPoDR_lltU A total of 620 patients infected with the virus are currently under medical care, as per a tally of the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry. Meanwhile, the total figure of recoveries in Sri Lanka has risen to 1,981. The country has confirmed 11 deaths... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called upon the farming community to increase the supply of finished agricultural products for export, so that they can earn higher profits. The re-export of pepper has been completely stopped. Therefore, the President advised the farmers to export the pepper in the form of seeds, powder or any other finished product. President Rajapaksa further pointed out that more foreign exchange earnings could be made by adopting the value added methodology. The President made these remarks joining public gatherings at Hasalaka, today (12) organized in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/20)
Three (03)more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. The country total has increased to 2,615 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health. Covid-19 Situation Report as at 2020-July-11| compiled according to the Health Promotion Bureau and the Epidemiology Unit data Total confirmed cases – 2,615 Recovered and discharged – 1,981 Five (05) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,612 Five (05) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/20)
මැතිවරණ උණුසුමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා භූමි තලය , උණුසුම්ව ඇත. වර්ෂ 1815 න් අවුරුදු 200 කට පසුව,එනම් 2015දීද සතුරා යලිත් මේ බිම ජයගත්හ. එදා උන් ලද ජයග්රහණයද, වර්ෂ 1815 යටත්විමට සමානවූ ක්‍රියාවලියකි.ඔවුන් ජයපැන් බොමින් මුළු රටම අගාධයකට තල්ලු කර දැමුහ. ඒ යුගයට අපි "යහපාලනය".යයි කියමු. යහපාලනය ගොඩනැංවීමට දායකවූ සියල්ලන්ම ජාතික සතුරන්ය, අපි එදා සිට මෙදා දක්වා අඛණ්ඩව මෙරට ජනතාව සමග හිදිමින් ඔවුන්ව දැනුවත් කරමින් මේ පරගැති සතුරු බලකායට එරෙහිව සටන් කළහ. ඒ,මෙරට ජීවත්වෙන සියලුම දේශප්‍රේමී බලමුළු සමග අතිනත ගනිමින් කල සටනකි. ජාතික බලවේගය නම්වූ ජීවමාන මහා සත්වයාගේ ශරීරයේ කුඩා ශෙෙල වන අපට කලහැකි කාර්යභාරය අල්ප... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
The title of this book comes from a line in an epic poem by John Milton on England’s Civil War. Although the book is a narrative of the many contributions by the Author to further the interests of Sri Lanka, it is more about the armed conflict and its aftermath that attempted to alter the political future of Sri Lanka. Therefore, it is fitting that the Author chose a line from a poem that deals with a Civil War that defined the political future in his own country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
With the campaign for Sri Lanka’s August general election heating up, India and its role in resolving the lingering national question have begun figuring prominently in the election discourse, especially in the Tamil-majority north and east. Addressing a recent public meeting, the Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) former parliamentarian S. Shritharan said: “India is watching us closely, pointing to inadequacies in our campaign, they tell us you should be a formidable force, and work with hill-country Tamil leaders, only then we [India] will be able to pressure Sri Lanka.” To be such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
Yahapalana domination of CC may continue till October 2021-CC member Javed Yusuf openly engages in politics-SLPP on a roll as opposition flounders Last Thursday’s headline story in The Island should set the alarm bells ringing within the SLPP government. This report said that one of the three persons from outside Parliament appointed to the Constitutional Council, lawyer Javed Yusuf, had joined the group of NGOs that had come together last week to oppose the SLPP’s bid for a two thirds majority in Parliament and to revitalize the floundering yahapalana election campaign.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
I will take action to put an end to underworld activities and the drug menace which had intensified during the tenure of the previous government, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Leader, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said today. https://youtu.be/_qUMKNdJxCs He told a SLPP rally held in Horana that the people in this country and especially the young generation face grave difficulties because of underworld activities and and drugs that a spreading across the country. “Drug smuggling has increased to such an extent that the institutions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
The Russian authorities have made up a list of 13 countries including Sri Lanka that Russia can resume flights to at the first stage of the resumption of international flights. The list of countries that meet epidemiological safety requirements include the UK, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Finland, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Sri Lanka. On Thursday, Russian consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor sent the list to the Transport Ministry of and the Federal Air Transport Agency. This is according to the watchdog’s letter that is available to TASS.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
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Sri Lanka has confirmed 43 more fresh cases of COVID-19 as at 11.50 pm on Saturday (11), increasing the total number of patients to 2,511. Thirteen patients have been detected from the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre – East in Kandakadu and the rest of the 30 cases are close associates of the former, the Department of Government Information said. Further, four returnees from the United Arab Emirates and one from Kuwait, who are under quarantine, tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Saturday (11). In addition, 02 patients from Welikanda,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa alleges that although his government took loans and carried out development activities, none of the loans obtained by the previous government have been used for development work. The Prime Minister was addressing a rally in Nupe, Matara today in connection with a series of public meetings to confirm the victory of the candidates of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna contesting the forthcoming general election from the Matara District. https://youtu.be/1xm43jIHddw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
When the Cabinet spokesmen continuously makes controversial statements and does not apologize for the mistake, it is natural for citizens to be anxious given that most Governments have not only fooled the public, but have made enough and more decisions that have proven detrimental to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka and has burdened the tax payer as a result of shady deals ventured into in secret. The MCC Agreement was first made public after much public outcry by the previous government who even omitted 2 vital pages that was later inserted and found in the website of the Finance Ministry.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/20)
By Garvin Karunaratne Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has made the difficult decision not to sell the Mattala Airport to India. It is the right decision and he deserves to be congradulated. I wrote about how the Mattala Airport and the Port of Hambantota have to be activated back in 2014. That Paper is annexed because every detail of what I then wrote will hold good for today. Nothing happened in 2014 and we lost the Port during the regime of the UNP. Let me hope that the contents of this Paper will reach... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
Sri Lanka will be in danger unless the masterminds located in Europe, UK. Canada and Australia are neutralized by governments there, says Camelia Nathaniel the LTTE flag being hosted at the Black Tigers’ Day commemoration at Sydney on July 5, 2020 Colombo, July 9: The LTTE network overseas has been planning a series of attacks in Sri Lanka since the war ended in May 2009. The latest attempt to disrupt peace and stability in Sri Lanka was on July 4, 2020. A former member of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
The Attorney General has filed indictments in the Colombo High Court against former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka for causing grievous Injury to a person by Rash and Negligent Acts and other charges, AG’s Coordinating Secretary Nishara Jayaratne said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
While condemning the actions of the 18 officers alleged involved in a chain of drug related charges, Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Ajith Rohana today said the guilty parties should be served the capital punishment. Speaking to media, he said even though the death penalty hasn’t been implemented in the country for a long time these officers if proven guilty should be served the capital punishment as such these officers should be completely removed from the society. He said the 18 police officials attached to the Police Narcotics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
Police Narcotics Bureau Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa has threatened and intimidated a journalist at the Colombo High Court premises this morning. The victim was a photojournalist who had come to cover a court case. The photographer had taken a photo of Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa at the Colombo High Court. Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa dragged the journalist by his shirt and taken to the police post at the court premises The aggrieved journalist has lodged a complaint with the police post at the Hulftsdorp court complex... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
A total of 87 people at the Kandakadu Drug Rehabilitation Center have been diagnosed with coronavirus. It was revealed yesterday that 57 people were infected with the virus and by this morning another 196 people have been identified as positive for Covid -19 infection. In addition, 13 people who arrived in the country from overseas were diagnosed with coronavirus infection.</p>rn<p>Accordingly, the highest number of coronavirus infections reported in a day in the country was seen today with 296 patients. The Kandakadu Quarantine Center which has been established... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that immediate steps will be taken to eradicate the underworld and drug trafficking from the country. The Prime Minister said this while participating at a public meeting held in Horana. A series of rallies were held today in the Kalutara District under the patronage of Prime Minister .... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the people are disgusted with all politicians since they are not working with the best intreste of the voters. He was speaking at a function in Colombo today. Former Sports Minister V.A. Sugathadasa's 47th Commemoration Ceremony was held under the patronage of UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at his statue near the Sugathadasa International Stadium in Colombo.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
The Police Media Spokesman stated that the law will be strictly enforced against those who make false propaganda on social media that coronavirus infected people have been found in various parts of the island. Accordingly, the police urge the public to trust only the official announcements made by the Corona Prevention Task Force or the Director General of Government Information regarding corona virus infected patients.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/20)
9 Jul 2020 Apprehending large hauls of narcotics in vogue now! Though this is nothing new the pace has accelerated since the election of President Gotabhaya. This has been happening over the years now more often than ever in the history of narcotics in Sri Lanka. Throughout what has been a mystery to the public is what happens to the apprehended narcotics? Although occasionally we have seen hauls of marijuana or ganja being burnt we have not seen what happens to the stuff like – heroin, ice, and other methamphetamines – how the stuff is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
7 July 2020Your Excellency David McKinnonHigh Commissioner for Canada in Sri Lanka33A, 5th LaneColpettyColombo 3Sri Lanka Dear High Commissioner David McKinnon: Re: Your Canada Day Message to Sri Lanka. “We must stand together and embrace our diversity as strength.” And you continued and said, “Canada would continue to support the reconciliation process through their long-standing collaboration on national languages and by assisting with demining work,” High Commissioner, did you not hear a chorus of Sinhlese voices responding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
A blast in a house in Iyakachchi in North Lanka in which an ex-LTTE cadre died, is the immediate provocation for the proposed ban New South Wales MP, Hugh McDermott at the Black Tigers Day event in Sydney: Photo: Tamil Guardian Colombo, July 8: Sri Lanka is likely to re-list some foreign organizations and individuals as “terrorist” under UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution No: 1373 following intelligence reports that a group of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres, including some rehabilitated ones, could be planning to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has briefed the cabinet on Wednesday on the success of the economic fundamentals adopted to face the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and said Sri Lanka’s exports revenue had overtaken the imports revenue for the first time since the open economy was introduced in 1977, Cabinet spokesman and Minister Bandula Gunawardana said yesterday. In June, Sri Lanka’s exports revenue has topped US$ 1,020 million while US$ 961 million has been spent on imports, saving US$ 59 million after four decades, Minister Gunawardana told the media at the weekly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
Fifty-six persons from the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre and a female counselor employed at the center have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Prior to being transferred to the Welikada Prison, the recently COVID-19 infected inmate had been detained at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre for 03 months. https://youtu.be/gZ-ZX-TZEMw Accordingly, 450 inmates and staff at the Rehabilitation Center had been subjected to PCR tests. So far, 56 among them have been confirmed to have contracted the virus, stated the Department of Government Information. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
Four lorries, two vans and a luxury car belonging to two police officers attached to the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) have been taken into custody from Pallewela, Gampaha this evening (09). These PNB officers in question are currently under detention over the alleged links they had with drug dealers. https://youtu.be/HGlSk69f25Y The raid was carried out by the officers of the crimes investigation unit of Gampaha Police, under the supervision of Senior Superintendent of Police of the said police division, on a tip-off received by the Senior DIG in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted its approval to upgrade Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurvedic Institute as a fully-fledged university. The relevant proposal was tabled by the Minister of Higher Education, Technology and Innovations during the recent meeting of Cabinet ministers. Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurvedic Institute, which is currently affiliated to the University of Kelaniya under the University Grants Commission (UGC), offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Ayurveda and allied sciences. “Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour” the policy framework of the country had identified the institution to be upgraded as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that attacking the Rajapaksa’s was the main objective of bringing the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The Prime Minister expressed these views while participating at a meeting held in Mawanella today. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse states the Muslims should join the present government irrespective of party affiliation The Prime Minister made this observation while addressing the Muslim community in Kurunegala. Kurunegala District Muslim Conference was held under the patronage of Prime Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/07/20)
Despite the repatriation of Sri Lankan workers from abroad in the wake of COVID-19 spread made a considerable change to our overall employment profile, Sri Lanka’s aim was to secure the lives of our workforce, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. https://youtu.be/SDpoHhNbZvE “Sri Lanka has a considerable workforce that is employed outside the country. Even during the period when restrictions for air travel were in force, we have repatriated nearly 15,000 Sri Lankans from destinations abroad so far” President said addressing ILO Global Summit on ‘COVID-19 and the World of Work –... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
හැඳින්‌වීම 1861 දී ජනාධිපති චන්දය කාලයේ ලින්කන් සිටියේ වහල් ක්‍රමයට පක්‍ෂවය. එහෙත් කාලයත් සමඟ ඔහු ඊට විරුද්ධ පරිණාමය වූයේය. ඒ වන විට වහල් ක්‍රමය රැකගැනීමට සටන් කල දකුණේ වහල් හිමියන්ද, ඔවුන්ගේ උදව්වට එන මෙන් තම වහළුන් ගෙන් ඉල්ලන තරමට හෙම්බත්‌වී සිටියේය. සිවිල් යුද්‌ධයේ ආරම්භයේදී ලින්කන්ට තිබූ බලවත්ම ප්‍රශ්ණයවූයේ හරිහමන් යුද හමුදාපතියෙක් හොයා ගැනීමය. දෙපැත්තෙන්ම ලක්ෂ ගණනක් මියගිය පසු, යුද් ධය දිණූ පසු ලින්කන් අණකලේ සතුරාට සිය තුවක්කුවද සමඟ ආපසු තම ගංබිම් බලා යන ලෙසටය. වහළුන්ට නිදහස ලබාදීමේ ප්‍රඥප්තියේ තීන්ත වේලිමටත් පෙර, 1865 දී ලින්කන්ව ඝාතනය කරණ ලද්දේ වහල් ක්‍රමය නැතිකිරීම නිසා උරණවූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
Lockdown in Chennai? Well, not quite in my building. In the past three months of lockdown, a lot of un-locking has happened — unknown talents, unspoken dreams, unexpected actions. Don’t tell anyone, but I am going to reveal a few things about my neighbours I believed I knew for years — without really knowing them at all — till a virus made them break out. Aunty, your bra is showing… I really never thought I’d see Mrs Ambujam of 5B walking around my neighbourhood in her bra. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
The film is the story of two men from rural Sri Lanka wading their way into the city to request a correction be printed on a newspaper which falsely accuses one of them to be a terrorist and the turbulent passage they endure along the way. Colombo, July 8 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan Sinhala language feature film, “The News Paper” has received a Commendation award at the IndieFEST Film festival, California, US. The certificate of the award was presented to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
Colombo, July 8 (newsin.asia) – Maldives and Sri Lanka were today verified for having eliminated rubella, making them the first two countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve measles and rubella elimination ahead of the 2023 target. “Protecting all children against these killer and debilitating diseases is an important step in our endeavor to achieve healthier population and health for all,” said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, congratulating Maldives and Sri Lanka on their achievement. The announcement was made after the fifth meeting of the South-East... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
Convincing the importance of intelligence information to former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was totally absurd, said former Chief of National Intelligence (CNI) Kapila Hendawitharana while testifying before the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks today. Hendawitharana informed the Commission when Ranil Wickremesinghe was serving as the Prime Minister between 2001 and 2004, he did not care about intelligence information provided by military intelligence. Hendawitharana said that although the army was restricted in many ways during his time as Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), army intelligence continued to work hard... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that the aim of the United National Party and the Samagi Jana Balavegaya is to gain power at Sirikotha. The Prime Minister made this statement participating at a public rally held at Katupotha, Kurunegala yesterday. Meanwhile, the new Consular General for Australia, Sydney, New South Wales and Queensland, Lakshman Hulugalle met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The National Archaeology Conference was held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute this morning under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.<... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the previous government acted to take revenge from his family and not to serve the country. The Prime Minister said this while participating at a meeting held in Pannala yesterday. https://youtu.be/NjDZrPUms6c... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/20)
Shylock:Ay, his breast:So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.………………………………………………………………..Portia: Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death. In Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, the vengeful usurer Shylock’s wicked attempt to settle an old score with honest Antonio who stood surety for a loan given to his friend and fellow merchant Bassanio is thwarted by Portia; Shylock demands a pound of flesh cut off from nearest the guarantor’s heart, as required in terms of a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
I find the Hiru News broadcasts alternatively display the following pictures 1 Galle Fort2 Nelum pokuma Theatre3 Ramboda Fall4 Sigiiriya back side picture I presume the idea of displaying pictures on the TV back ground screen at such time is to inspire viewers on things like, Natural scenic beauty, unique Cultural identity of a country, (like religious and architectural) or engineering marvels etc among such other Out of the above 4 items only the waterfall comes closer to this objective. Even then I would prefer St Clears, Devon,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
Professor of Economics Richard Wolff explains the dire direction our economy is headed towards as unemployment continues to skyrocket. https://youtu.be/5vCc20i2aco... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
Government designates nine persons as terrorists for trying to revive militancy in Punjab: Government declared nine persons including Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, the US-based legal adviser of the banned pro-Khalistan organisation, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), as terrorists under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for their involvement in acts of terror and pushing Khalistan movement on July 1. The other individuals include - Wadhawa Singh Babbar, Lakhbir Singh, Ranjeet Singh, Paramjit Singh, Bhupinder Singh Bhinda, Gurmeet Singh Bagga, Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Paramjit Singh. The SFJ is the brain behind the "Khalistan 2020 referendum" and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
පබ්ලියස් වර්ජිලියස් මාරෝ නොහොත් වර්ජිල් ඔගස්ටාන් යුගයේ පුරාණ රෝම කවියෙකි. ඔහු උපත ලැබුවේ ක්‍රි.පූ. 70 දී උතුරු ඉතාලියේ බව කියවේ. වර්ජිල්ව තමන් ගේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම කවියා ලෙස රෝමවරුන් විසින් සලකනු ලැබීය. රෝම සාහිත්‍යය ආරම්භ වූයේ ක්‍රි.පූ. 3 වන සියවසේ අග භාගයේදී ප්ලූටස්, ටෙරන්ස් සහ එන්නියස් වැනි විකට නාට්‍ය රචකයන් බිහි වීමත් සමඟ ය. රෝම කාව්‍යයන්ගේ ස්වර්ණමය යුගය (ක්‍රි.පූ. 70 - ක්‍රි.ව. 14) වර්ජිල්, හෝරස්, කැටලස්, ප්‍රොපෝර්ටියස්, ටිබුලස් සහ ඕවිඩ් වැනි ලේඛකයින් බිහි කළේය. වර්ජිල් තම පාඨකයන්ට රෝමය පිළිබඳ වඩාත් ආදර හැඟීමක් ඇති කළේය. වර්ජිල්ගේ තේමාවන් බොහෝමයක් පෙන්නුම් කරන්නේ ග්‍රාමීය ජීවිතයට ඔහු දක්වන ආදරයයි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
SLPP Colombo District candidate Wijeyadasa Rajapakse leaving Presidential Commission on ‘Political Victimization’ at the BMICH recently (pic by Sujatha Jayartne) One-time Justice Minister, Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, recently questioned serious shortcomings in the parliamentary as well as political party system to address contentious issues which may have major security implications. Against the backdrop of recent trouble, at the Colombo port, over the handing over of the East Container Terminal (ECT) to India, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Colombo district candidate Wijeyadasa Rajapakse discussed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
The Attorney General Dappula De Livera has returned another 38 ‘incomplete’ investigation files on suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks, to the Acting IGP C. D. Wickramaratne. https://youtu.be/ZQxErR4itZI On June 26, the Attorney General had returned 40 incomplete investigations files, pertaining to the suspects arrested in relation to the Easter attacks. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General said the Acting IGP was also instructed by the AG to conclude the investigations properly.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
No amendment has been made to the ‘Special Interest Scheme for Senior Citizens’ program, says Minister Bandula Gunawardena. The Minister of Higher Education, Technology, Innovations, and Information & Mass Media mentioned this offering an explanation into a newspaper article published yesterday (06) under the caption ‘Senior Citizens Deposit Interest is falling to 8%’. https://youtu.be/bfvSuUtuPRM Gunawardena pointed out that the program “Special Interest Scheme for Senior Citizens” has been implemented since 2014 with the aim of safeguarding the income status of senior citizens who have dedicated their youth to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
Inspector of Police (IP) Saman Wasantha Kumara, who is involved in passing drugs in the custody of the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) to drug dealers, has been detained for interrogation. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) will accordingly detain the suspect for 7 hours under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Police Media Spokesperson said. https://youtu.be/z-v2HNHEa3w Earlier today, it was reported that Sri Lanka Police was seeking public assistance into apprehending the 49-year-old police officer named Weherawatta Kankanamlage Saman Kumara Wasantha. IP Saman Wasantha Kumara, who was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
One more tested positive for COVID- 19, an arrival from Saudi Arabia, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 2081. Covid-19 positives go up to 2,080 With the finding of two more Covid-19 positive persons, the total infected in Sri Lanka have gone up to 2,080.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
Our President Gotabhaya has cleared finance for banks by ordering the Central Bank to relax. This has been done. Can the availability of finance by banks in itself bring about development- create production, create employment and achieve the goal of poverty alleviation. Import controls that have been imposed to save foreign exchange, will inevitably cause a shortage of goods. The responsibility of immediately approving small industrial units to spring up to create the lost production within our country falls on our new Government. This is a situation that has to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
UK banned LTTE in 2001 but continues to turn a blind eye to LTTE fronts openly campaigning for LTTE and separatism. No amount of diplomacy or goodwill can change that. UK has also been sympathetic to Islamic extremism. There is little point in appealing to the UK Govt or authorities to realize the dangers. The best response was to simply wait until UK eventually learnt its lesson. Unfortunately, innocents have died as a result. UK and all other governments treating terrorists as pet poodles must wake up to the reality that these killers eventually bites the hand that rocked its... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
Driving is not a right, it is only a privilege when the driving privilege has been abused that is about the violation of road discipline compromising of people safety, that needs to be dealt with heavy penalties by suspending the driving license. We loose huge human capital daily due to road accidents and road safety issues in Sri Lanka. Statistics have publicly revealed 12,000 deaths occur each year in the country. It is indeed a national crisis to find solutions immediately. For many institutions, police, and road & highways a death of a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයේදී දිගාමඩුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කය ආශ්‍රිතව උණුසුම්කාරී මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වනු ඇතැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානය අනුමාන කරයි. එම සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ධ අහම්ඩ් මනාස් මකීන් මහතා සඳහන් කලේ දිගාමඩුල්ලේ ස්ථාන තුනක් " හොට්ස්පොට්ස්" ලෙස හඳුනා ගෙන ඇති බවයි. ඒ අනුව පොතුවිල් සයින්දමරුදු සහ අක්කරපත්තුව යන ප්‍රදේශ මෙම ස්ථාන තුන වන අතර මේ වනවිට එම ප්‍රදේශ ආශ්‍රිතව වෛරී ප්‍රකාශවල ඉහළ යාමක් සහ සුළු ප්‍රචණ්ඩකාරී තත්වයක් වාර්තා වන බව අහමඩ් මනාස් මකීන් මහතා පවසයි. අක්කරපත්තුව ප්‍රදේශයෙන් මෙවර මැතිවරණයේ ප්‍රථම දේපළ හානි කිරීම වාර්තා වු බව පෙන්වා දෙන මනාස් මකීන් මහතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
සමහර සිංහල අයට එම්.සී.සී. කමිටු වාර්තාවේ ඉංගිරිසි පිටපත් වුවමනා වී ඇති බව මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් මහතා පවසයි. කමිටුව සිය වාර්තාව දුන්නෙ රජයට – රටේ ප‍්‍රමුඛතම රාජ්‍ය භාෂාවෙන්. මෙතෙක් භාරදී ඇති වෙනත් බොහෝ වාර්තා තිබුණෙ ඉංගිරිසියෙන් පමණයි. කවුරුවත් තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනතින් ඒවායේ පිටපත් සිංහලෙන් ඉල්ලූ බවක් මා නම් දැන සිටියේ නැහැ. ඉංගිරිසියට වහල් වුණු දීන මානසිකත්වයක් ඇති කළු සුද්දන් රැළක් බවට සිංහලයන් පත්වී ඇති බවට මෙය අපූරු නිරූපණයක් ! ජාත්‍යන්තරයට අවශ්‍ය සන්නිවේදනයක් උදෙසා ඉංගිරිසි පරිවර්තනයක් කර ගැනීම එක් දෙයක්. ඒත්, රට තුළ ඉන්න හමින් – නමින් සිංහල වුව ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
පුත්තලම, කාක්කා පල්ලිය, මනක්කුලම පදිංචි 84 හැවිරිදි එම්.ඒ.එච්.පී මාරසිංහ විශ්‍රාමික ගුරු මව රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 02 ක මුදලක් කොවිඩ් අරමුදලට පරිත්‍යාග පිණිස ජනාධිපතිතුමාට පිළිගන්වයි. පොදුජන පෙරමුණෙන් මෙවර මහ මැතිවරණයට තරගවදින අපේක්ෂකයන්ගේ ජයග්‍රහනය තහවුරු කරනු පිණිස (06) පුත්තලම දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ චාරිකාවේ නිරතවෙමින් මාදප්පේ තනිවැල්ලේ ප්‍රදේශයේ පැවති ජන හමුවට සහභාගී වූ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා වෙත මේ පරිත්‍යාගය භාර දෙනු ලැබීය. ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, “ නීතිය, යුක්තිය, ධර්මය රකින රජයක් – ස්වංයපෝෂිත රටක් අපට දෙන්න” ඇය රුපියල් පන්දහසේ නෝට්ටුවලින් සමන්විත රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 02ක මුදල ඔතා දුන් කොළයේ සටහන් කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
China's centralized authoritarianism and Hong Kong's European traditions do not match and there are also geopolitical factors which force China to tighten its hold over Hong Kong Hong Kong protesters waving American flags in the last agitation against the Extradition Law When the British returned Hong Kong to China in 1997, at the end of a 99 year lease, China agreed to implement the concept of “One Country, Two Systems” under which Hong Kong would continue to enjoy, for 50 years, its Western-oriented economic, political and judicial systems... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
’We will select and accept only those who would be useful to the country’ A group of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) candidates will join the UNP after the conclusion of the general elections, UNP General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today. Mr. Kariyawasam who was responding to journalists at a media conference said a selected few from SJB will join the UNP after the elections. “We will select and accept only those who would be useful to the country,” Mr. Kariyawasam said. “More than 15 who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today said, under a government established by the SLPP, it will restructure laws to address pressing issues including underworld activities, drug smuggling and undeclared funds flowing in from foreign countries. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris said a new SLPP government, backed by a two-thirds majority obtained at the general elections, would not hesitate to immediately attend to key identified issues. He said all foreign funds flowing in should go through the External Resources Department at the Central Bank in order to ascertain... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/20)
Another COVID-19 case has been detected among recent foreign arrivals hiking the number of cases in the country to 2,077. The latest case is a person who had arrived from the Maldives, as per the Department of Government Information. Currently, 149 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the country. Meanwhile, with 14 more patients regaining health and being discharged from the hospital today (06), the tally of recoveries in the country has spiked to 1,917. Sri Lanka has witnessed 11 deaths from the virus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/20)
DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THE RECOGNISED POLITICAL PARTIES Democracy is the unfettered exercise of universal suffrage by the people of a Sovereign State. Democracy in Sri Lanka has suffered; it has been hijacked by the political Parties in the country. It has been our experience that a Party after being elected to power by the will of the people, tosses out the will of the people and substitutes instead the will of the Party leadership. There is no democracy in the country, only the simulacrum of democracy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
I would like our authorities to give deep thought to the salient points I have raised in an earlier paper of mine. Our country is deeply in debt today by blindingly following the IMF It is sad that our dons in econ, the real people that matter on this subject are silent. I would kindly request our professors of economics to rethink strategies and consider a move to commence studies on the Structural Adjustment Programme of the IMF, following which our country became indebted. This is not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
A recent statement of the Prime Minister, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa after meeting with executives of Ceylon Bank Employee’s Union regarding the investigation on the irregular credits of government banks during the Yahapalana Regime, expressed that the government is willing to appoint an investigation commission to consider the irregularities incurred in credit approval of government banks. It is a vital action, however, many former bankers in state banks have a question why this investigation limits to the period of the Yahapalana Regime, and why couldn’t extend further covering from 1978 to 2019. The investigation of credit... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
කට කැඩිච්ච කතා සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා විසින් චන්ද රැස්වීම් වල කරණ ප්‍රකාශ යූටියුබ් වලින් බලන විට මට සිතෙන්නේ ඔහු මෙච්චරටම මෝඩ කුමක් නිසාද යන්නය. යමෙක් එකම වරද නැවත නැවත කරන්නේ ඇයි? මේ දවස් වල දේශපාලකයින් විසින් කරණ කතා අතුරින් රටට ඉතාම වැදගත් කාරණා දෙකක් ලෙස මා සළකන ජරමර දෙකක් නම් 13-ඒ මර උඟුල හා මිලෙනියම් ට්‍රෝජන් අශ්වයාදය. මෙහිදි සජිත් විසින් ලඟදී යාපනයට ගොස් කල 13-ඒ සම්බන්ධ ප්‍රකාශය මට සිහිකරන්නේ 1955 දී යාපනයට ගොස් සර් ජෝන් කලාය කියන <කට කැඩිච්ච- (බෑඩ් මවුතින්?) ප්‍රකාශයය. රට ජාතිය ගැන කිසි තැකීමක් නැතිව 2020 දී සජිත් කරන්නේ තමන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
My dear Sajith, Re-Why you are an unsuitable person to rule Sri Lanka The writer 78 years old expatriate Sri Lankan domiciled in Melbourne Sri Lanka in the past 43 years who never lost contact with his country of birth with worldly knowledge and abundance of experience in Medical science wishes to give you a piece of advice in your political campaign at the present time. First and foremost is that one must have a limit in whatever ambitions he or she aims at. Secondly, one must understand the feelings of the masses and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
බොහෝ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සිය මැතිවරණ රැස්වීම් වලදී මීටරයේ දුර නොව සෙන්ටිමීටරයේ දුරක් වත් තබා නොගන්නා බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි. කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය සඳහන් කළේ පවතින සෞඛ්‍යමය තත්වය හේතුකොටගෙන ආරක්ෂිත ලෙස මුහුන ආවරණ පැළඳ මීටරයක දුරින් ජනතාව රැස්කර මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාර කළ යුතු බවට සඳහන් වුව ද බොහෝ අපේක්ෂකයින් මෙම නිර්දේශ මායිම් නොකර පුරුදු පරිදි සිය මැතිවරණ කටයුතු පවත්වාගෙන යමින් සිටින බවයි. කොරෝනා රෝග ව්‍යාප්තිය යම් මට්ටමින් පාලනය වුවද ජනතාවගේ නොසැලකිල්ල මත යළි දරුණු වසංගත තත්වයක් ඇතිවීමේ දැඩි අවධානමක් පවතින බවත්, එම තත්වයෙන් රට මුදා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
As part of the democratization of art sales, the Colombo Municipality allows artists to sell their works in the street outside the Viharamahadevi Park Colombo, July 5 (Xinhua/newsin.asia/www.theculturetrip.com): Open-air art shows at Green Path in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, had disappeared temporarily due to a nationwide curfew imposed by Sri Lankan government to prevent the spread of COVID-19 since March 20. But after the curfew was lifted on June 28, artists gradually returned here to display their artworks, Xinhua reported. The Chief of Bureau, Xinhua News Agency in Sri Lanka and the Maldives,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today requested all voters to give them an overwhelming mandate exceeding even that of the presidential election of 2019, in order to put an end to narrow minded communalism in the politics of this country. Issuing a statement the Prime Minister said;The leader of the newly formed Samagi Jana Balawegaya was the UNP presidential candidate in 2019. The manifesto that Sajith Premadasa issued for the presidential election titled in Sinhala ‘Sri Lankawe idirigamanata seemawak netha, ekwa gamana yamu’ had a chapter titled ‘Janathawage Vyawasthawa’ on pages 15-16 which contained the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
The farmers in Polonnaruwa made a strong plea to the President not to allow the intermediaries to create an artificial rice shortage. They pointed out that there was a bumper harvest in the previous seasons. ‘Hence, should not allow the attempts to create a rice shortage to succeed”, the farmers said. The farmers made this request to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa when he joined a public gathering held at the Siripura Provincial Council Ground in Polonnaruwa on Sunday (July 5) in support of Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna (SLPP) candidates contesting the upcoming... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
It has been revealed that the extremist preacher who influenced Safia Shaikh, the female who was planning a suicide bombing in London, had links with Abdul Latif Mohammed Jamil who came to blast Taj Samudra Hotel and the mastermind behind the Easter attack in the country, Saharan Hashim. Foreign media reported that the Taj Samudra bomber had met the extremist preacher in Britain in 2006 and 2007. https://youtu.be/2YkYHXy0LlU The 36-year-old British woman, Safia Shaikh, has been sentenced to life in prison for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
Two (02) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. The country total has increased to 2,076 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
In a special operation conducted by the Senior DIG in charge of the Western Province Deshabandu Tennakoon, 57 suspects have been arrested today (05) by the police. Among them were nine women and 48 men, who were involved in 70 crimes including money laundering, forgery and polygamy. The police stated that the total financial value of the crimes solved by the arrest of these suspects was over 108 million (LKR 108, 470,356) In addition to these suspects, 13 suspects who were evading... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/20)
Managing a democracy in normal times is bad enough. Managing it in times of crises can be a horripilating nightmare. Choices have to be made between confronting imperatives demanding urgent and unpalatable decisions and the popular will that will invariably opt for the comfortable and the least painful way out. The choices available for the drivers steering the wheel of state are risky either way. To begin with, no one likes the changing of gears which disturbs the settled position in the seat at a time when you are cruising smoothly on the surface... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
It is sad that though we have the ideal climate to produce what we need, an intelligent people and verdant land resources we yet are in short supply. Let us take coffee. Once we produced coffee for export. Today we import coffee. We have ideal land for coffee. In Kitulgala we have perhaps the best climate for coffee. I have seen coffee bushes full of fruit on my irrigation inspections up in the hills of Kitulgala. Today we not only import coffee but we see... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
There is a notion that MCC has nothing to do with Title Registration because it was a project started well before MCC Compact was introduced. The answer is only half correct. Yes, Title Registration Act 21, was passed in 1998 but it was not implemented. It was introduced as a World Bank project and passed as an Act in 1998. First stage was launched in 2007. World Bank funded the project probably sniffing that the terrorist conflict was drawing to a close and the international players needed to alternate ways to keep... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
ප්‍රශ්නය: : මහත්මයාණෙනි, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මහා මැතිවරණයට ඇත්තේ ඉතාමත් කෙටි කාලයක්, මේ මැතිවරණය හා බැදුන ගැටලු රාශියක් රට පුරා පැන නැගී තියෙනවා, මේ ගැටලු වලට පැහැදිලිව පිලිතුරු දිය හැකි අයෙකු ඔබ විසින් ගොඩනැංවූ දේශපාලන පක්ෂයෙන් සොයා ගැනීම අසීරු කරුණක්, දැන් ඉන්නා නියෝජිතයින් එකම ප්‍රශ්නයට විවිධ පිලිතුරු සපයනවා, මෙය මාධ්‍යවේදීන් වන අපට මහත් අපහසුවක්, ඒ නිසයි අප ඔබ හමුවට පැමිණියේ.මේ වනවිට ඔබ ආරම්භ කල එම පක්ෂය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කරනවා. ඔබ මේ තීරණය සම්බන්ධව දරන ආකල්පය කුමක්ද? පිලිතුර: පලමුව මම සදහන් කරන්නට කැමතියි එම පක්ෂය මා ආරම්භ කල පක්ෂයක් ලෙස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
The Indian Cultural Center in Colombo conducted a webinar on Buddhism in India-Sri Lanka relations to mark Esala Poya Day Colombo, July 4 (newsin.asia): Buddhism forms one of the most important civilisational links between India and Sri Lanka. Addressing the Dharma Chakra Day celebrations in New Delhi on Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the world fights extra-ordinary challenges. To these challenges, lasting solutions can come from the ideals of Lord Buddha. They were relevant in the past, are relevant in the present and will remain relevant in the future. Prime Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
Laws will be brought forward to prohibit the sale of the country’s resources, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. “As the former President of the country, I initiated and carried out the development of the whole country. We constructed a port, an airport, an international cricket ground and an expressway in Hambantota,” the Premier said addressing a public meeting in Beliatta on Friday (03). He said the UNP-led government sold the port built during his administration. “They stored paddy at the airport we built. They influenced the Cricket Board to withhold permission for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
The Ministry of Health says five more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka as of 7.30 pm today (04). The latest coronavirus infections have moved the tally to 2,074. The Department of Government Information said these patients are arrivals from the United States (01), Madagascar (01), Qatar (02) and Bangladesh (01). Meanwhile, the total number of COVID-19 recoveries confirmed in Sri Lanka increased to 1,885 earlier today as 22 patients were discharged from hospitals as they have returned to health. According to the Epidemiology Unit’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
Will personal laws have a place in Sri Lanka with the MCC e-land registry & Bim Saviya? Deeds which had described the various rights and description of property under these laws have been repealed. The land contracts are reduced to about 17 published in a gazette and the e-register will operate only with the forms as they call them. The forms after they are notatrised is not given to the owners. In fact, they are destroyed after entering the ownership in the e-register. All of your deeds passed down through generations will cease to be valid. Please refer section 53 destruction of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/20)
Today, at the end of seventy two years of so-called independence, Sri Lanka finds itself pushed to the edge of a precipice, despite the many sacrifices made by patriots in blood, sweat and tears for its unity and stability as a flourishing sovereign state during that period (and before, for that matter, over two millennia). Sri Lankans are teetering on the brink of the dark abyss of an uncertain, unsettled and chaotic future through no fault of theirs (or rather, paradoxically, through their very innocence and decency). They have been entrapped in this position... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
What people of this country should do at the upcoming election to save the Sinhala Nation, the Buddha Sasana, and the country and to take it to new heights? 3.7.2020. My prediction on the August 5th General Election Landslide victory for the SLPP and a white wash for the UNP and nemesis for all communal political parties and Independent candidates What the people of this country should do at the upcoming election to ensure this reality Before I present my write up... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
Today, at the end of seventy two years of so-called independence, Sri Lanka finds itself pushed to the edge of a precipice, despite the many sacrifices made by patriots in blood, sweat and tears for its unity and stability as a flourishing sovereign state during that period (and before, for that matter, over two millennia). Sri Lankans are teetering on the brink of the dark abyss of an uncertain, unsettled and chaotic future through no fault of theirs (or rather, paradoxically, through their very innocence and decency). They have been entrapped... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
2020. 07. 03 ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ඇමතිතුමනි, අ.පො.ස උ/පෙල විභාගයට දින නියම නොකොට ජනාධිපති සාකච්ඡා හා සමීක්ෂණ කරමින් කල් මැරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. මෙවර අ.පො.ස උ/පෙල විභාගයට අගෝස්තු මස පෙනි සිටීමට නියමිතව සිටි සිසු දරුවන්ට කොරෝනා වසංගතය හා පසුගිය වසරේ සිදු වු පාස්කු ප‍්‍රහාරය නිසා අහිමි වු මාස 05ක පමණ අධ්‍යයන කාලසීමාව නැවත සැලසුම් කර ගැනීම සඳහා වන සාධාරණ කාලයක් ලබා දී විභාගයට දින නියම කරන ලෙස අවස්ථා ගණනාවකදී අප සංගමය ඉල්ලීම් කර ඇතත් ඒ සම්බන්ධව සාකච්ඡාවකට නොකැඳවීම හෝ කිසිදු ප‍්‍රතිචාරයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
We have reached an unenviable situation as regards the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo harbour that we are unable to move ahead, We are told that that it is due to the agreement entered into with India by the previous government and also it is reported that the pressure is exerted by a powerful local company and a ,multi-national conglomerate, Whatever is the reason, we request Sri Lankan government led by the exemplary leadership of the President not to blink but to convince all the pressure groups that Sri Lanka is no longer for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
2020 ජූලි 02 වන දින ප්රධාන ධාරාවේ සියලූ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ වෙත නායකතුමා, ප්රධාන ලේකම් තුමා, විරැකියාවට සහ සමාජ රැකවරණය සඳහා ස්ථාවර විසඳුම් ඉල්ලා සිටීමේ යෝජනා ඔබ අප කවුරුත් පසුගිය මාස 03 ට වැඩි කලක් බිඳ වැටුණු ආර්ථීක කි්‍රයාවලියක, සුපුරුදු දෛනික ජීවිතය සඳහා අවකාශයක් නොලැබුණු කෝවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය පැතිරීම වළක්වා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් නිවෙස් තුල කොටු වූ කාලයක් ගත කළෙමු. කෝවිඩ්-19 පැතිරීම පාලනය කිරීමේදී එය සැළකිය යුතු ආකාරයකින් සාර්ථක වූ බැව් පිළිගත යුත්තෙමු. එසේ වූවත් මේ රට කෝවිඩ්-19 හේතුවෙන් බරපතල ආර්ථීක අර්බූදයකට තල්ලූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
The Attorney General's Department yesterday informed Supreme Court that it would raise preliminary objections against the Fundamental Rights petition filed seeking an order to immediately arrest Former LTTE commander and armed group leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias 'Karuna Amman’ over a controversial statement he made recently. Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara appearing for the Attorney General told court that she is expecting to raise preliminary objections against the petition since it had not been filed within the time period stipulated in the Constitution. However, counsel Yalith Wijesurendra appearing for the petitioner... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that agriculture will be country’s priority after resolving number of persisting issues and shortcomings affecting it. Issues such as shortage of water supply and fertilizer for agriculture are being addressed by the government, he said. Failure to make payments due to suppliers on time has resulted in delay in the importation of fertilizers. The absence of a proper market and a price for their produce has rendered the farmers helpless. The President stresses that he will address these issues and will take steps to protect the farming community.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
The suspect arrested by Dehiwala Police with more than 1 kg of heroin and Rs 235,000 in cash has been identified as one the agents of the large-scale drug racket run by imprisoned drug trafficker ‘Mervyn Jana’. Senior DIG, the Western Province Deshabandu Tennakoon stated that the police investigated their bank accounts it was discovered that large sums of money had been deposited to a bank account, which was under the name of a 65-year-old man living in the home of the drug trafficker. https://youtu.be/fk1MCOtUZUE He stated that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
The team of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers has left the residence of former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe after recording a statement. Ada Derana reporter said that the CID team left the ex-Premier’s residence after recording a statement for around 4 hours, regarding the Central Bank treasury bond scam. https://youtu.be/fZpL5H6WdrY The CID team had arrived at Wickremesinghe’s residence at around 4.00 p.m. today in order to record a statement. On June 18, the Attorney General had instructed the Acting IGP to record statements from former President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
Two (02) more persons have tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. The country total has increased to 2,069 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health. One (01) more person confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 2,067... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
Former Minister of sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage says that the police committed a mistake by stopping investigations on match fixing allegations & request the President to carry out a thorough investigation. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
According to Prof. Lalithsiri Gunaruwan, Chairman of the MCC Agreement Review Committee although two agreements had been signed in preparation for the MCC agreement, the committee had never stated that the money had been received. He said this participating at a press conference held at the Government Information Department today. https://youtu.be/YRXN2s-5YJQ Meanwhile, another suggestion was expressed at a press conference convened by the National Front of Professionals,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
Rajitha Senaratne responded to former minister Wijedasa Rajapakse who said at a press conference that former MP Rajitha Senaratne had obtained money from Avant Garde. https://youtu.be/tBtYJPbYd_Q... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
The Presidential Commission to Investigate the Easter Attack revealed today that a public relations director of former President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the Industrial Development Board to supply 500 tons of copper to the Cinnamon grand hotel Bomber's copper factory. That was when the Secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce gave evidence before the Commission. https://youtu.be/sh2L8CjwjnI Former Secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce K.D Ranjith Asoka, who is presently serving as the Additional Secretary to the Ministry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
https://youtu.be/85tiCkgOLaU Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that a group has been making plans to topple the government since Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa became president. Addressing a public rally held in Beliatta today, the Prime Minister said that everyone should support to take the President's program forward.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
Attorney General Dappula de Livera says that due to the incidents of the Police Narcotics Bureau, public trust in the institution has been tarnished. He made this remark while delivering a special lecture to the Police Narcotics Bureau officials today. The lecture was held at the DIG's office in Colombo and the acting IGP had left the place without staying on. Addressing the officials of the Narcotics Bureau, the Attorney General also expressed his views regarding the matter. Although the Attorney General had previously asked the media... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/20)
“Police officers should be held responsible if crimes including theft, murder or drug trafficking, were taking place in the areas coming under them’. GeneraL Kamal Gunaratna Defense Secretary Four and half years of “yahapalanaya”; rule had been a failure in many way to our country. Under the banner of “Yahapalanaya” Our Central Bank was robbed, Our Christian people were murdered by decreasing the national security of the country via draining and jeopardizing the national intelligence, Hambantota Port was Sold, Indo lanka trade agreement was about to sign without any mandate of people, as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ දේශපාලන පක්ෂයකි. මේ දේශපාලන පක්ෂය මෙරට සිටි උගත්, ඇති දක්ෂ තරුණයින් විසින් සිය ශක්තිය වැයකර ඉතා අසීරුවෙන් ගොඩනගන ලද එකම දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපාරයයි. මේ ව්‍යාපාරයට අප සම්බන්ධවුයේ, වර්ෂ 1967දිය. මෙය ගොඩනැංවීමට හේතුව මෙරට උගත් බුද්ධිමත් මිනිසුන් අතට රාජ්‍ය බලය ලබා ගැනීමයි. ඒ වන විට පැරණි වාමාංශික ව්‍යාපාරයට වසර 30ක කාලයක් ගතව තිබුණි. එතරම් දිගුකාලයක් ගතව තිබුනද රාජ්‍ය බලය ගැනීමට තරම් ඔවුන් ප්‍රබල ස්ථානයක නොසිටියහ. එබැවින් නව වාමාංශික ව්‍යාපාරයක් ගොඩනැංවීමට එම තරුණයින් උත්සුක වුහ. ඇත්තටම ඒ වනවිට මෙරට ජන හදවත්වල වාමාංශික ව්‍යාපාරය පැල පදියම් වී නොතිබුණි. ඒ එවකට සිටි වාමන්ශිකයින් බෞද්ධ විරෝධී පදනමක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
“During the last stages of the war, many in the Diaspora remained silent in the face of numerous LTTE violations, including holding tens of thousands of Tamils hostage in the Vanni, using violence to prevent their escape and forcibly recruiting children into their ranks. At the end, parts of the Diaspora appeared more concerned about preserving the political State of ‘Tamil Eelam’ than about the suffering of the civilian population trapped between two fighting forces.” – (Para 418 - UNSG Panel of Experts Report) UNHRC Statement The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
The two seemingly unrelated events became quite important in understanding the emerging trends in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The first was the simmering tension that has been prevailing in the border between India and China turned into face-to-face fighting between two sides broke out in the Galwan Valley on 15 June. The Line of Actual Control (LAC) between China and India runs from east to west for some 4,057 kilometres. As BBC reported, at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces in a disputed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
A two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed at the forthcoming the General Elections to amend the Constitution in order to sort out issues in the country, Prime Minister and SLPP Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. Speaking at an SLPP representatives' meeting at Baddegama last morning, Mr. Rajapaksa said a good team was needed to execute the proposals made by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during the presidential election campaign. “The country's development, which was growing rapidly, collapsed during the previous government’s tenure. This was due to the fact that the President and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed all cabinet ministers to submit their views on the Lalithasiri Gunaruwan Review Report on the Millennium Challenges Corporation (MCC) agreement within a week. Co-Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena mentioned this speaking at the press conference held to inform the Cabinet decisions taken yesterday (01). https://youtu.be/Zr4Jbo8X5es Responding to a query by a journalist, Minister Gunawardena said that the Sri Lanka Government’s final decision regarding any deal is that Sri Lanka will not enter into any agreement that harms the constitution, law, or the national... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
Employees at the Colombo Port have temporarily called off their indefinite strike over the Easter Terminal issue. The strike, which started off this afternoon (02), was brought to a temporary halt after Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa promised them a discussion on the matter. https://youtu.be/uF2favKVtZY Earlier today, President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Workers’ Union of the Ports Authority Prasanna Kalutarage stated that all trade unions of the Colombo Port had reached a joint decision to resort to strike action. It was reported that the strike was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
Five more foreign arrivals have tested positive for the coronavirus infections, states the Department of Government Information. The latest patients had recently returned from Kuwait, according to the Director-General of the Department. With the new cases, a total of 12 new cases have been detected in the country within the day so far. Thereby the total number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka stands at 2,066. Currently, 227 active cases are under medical care at selected hospitals across the country. Meanwhile, with 79 more patients regaining... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
තමන් පසුගියදා සිදුකළ කතාවක් සංස්කරණය කර ප්‍රසිද්ධ කිරීමෙන් සමගි ජනබලවේගයේ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස ඔහුටම අපහාස කර ගත් බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විනයාගමූර්ති මුරලිදරන් හෙවත් කරුණා අම්මාන් පවසනවා. >ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ කලවංචිකුඩි ප්‍රදේශයේදී ඊයේ පැවති ජන හමුවකට එක්වෙමින්. https://youtu.be/oxm1ODy9pqA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හම්බන්තොට වරාය විකුණන්න යනකොට මිලදී ගන්න යන සමාගමට මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අනතුරු අඟවපු බව ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ අපේක්ෂක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක පවසනවා. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ අපේක්ෂක නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්ලවා ජන හමුවකදී පැවසුවේ පසුගිය රජය කාලයේ සිදුකළ දේවල් සමාලෝචනය කර නීතිමය කටයුතු කරන බවයි. https://youtu.be/KnVhGe6ppOU තමන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ නිදාගෙන නොසිටි බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ අපේක්ෂක තේනුක විදානගමගේ පවසනවා. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ අපේක්ෂක මහින්ද අමරවීර පවසන්නේ මනාප වලට කුළල් කා ගතහොත් තුනෙන් දෙකක ආණ්ඩුවක් හදන්න නොහැකි බවයි. >පොහොට්ටුවේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
TNA leader S.Sampanthan in his letter to the President regarding the Presidential Task Force for Archaeological Heritage Management in the Eastern Province makes reference to a statement made by Paul E Peiris about the five Ishwarams of Lord Siva which are to be found in the coastal regions of Jaffna, Trincomalee, Mannar, Chilaw and Devinuvara (The Island, 18.06.2020). Peiris' statement is as follows; “Long before the arrival of Vijaya there were in Lanka five recognized Ishwarams which claimed and received the adoration of all India”. Peiris made this statement in a treatise... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
That MCC has undergone various stages of approval or observation prior to finalizing the document certainly questions how far our own are interested to view a bilateral document and appraise it considering the advantages and disadvantages to the Country & the People. While MCC has chosen to plug itself to foreign programs already commenced with foreign funding, MCC has also started ventures before signing the Compact. One such is the e-registrar, electronic scanning of deeds and cadastral mapping all being done by US firms or private parties selected by the US embassy. How... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
හැඳින්‌වීම <…චෙල්වනායගම් ලෝකයේ ඉන්නා භයානකම ගනයේ මිනිසෙකි… ඔහුට යමක යථාර්‌ථය කුමක්ද යන්න ගැනවත්, එහි ප්‍රායෝගිකත්‌වය ගැනවත් අබමල් රේණුවක තරමේවත් දැණුමක් නැත. අති භයානක මෙවැනි පුද්ගලයින්ට තමන්‌ව සම්පූර්‍ණයෙන්ම ඔල්මාද (ඩිලූඩ්) කරවා ගැනීමටත්, අනිත් අයව ඔල්මාද (ඩිලූෂන්) කරවීමටත් හැකියාවක් ඇත.. > -අගමැති බණ්ඩාරණායක (හැන්සාර්ඩ්, 31 වෙළුම (1958 ජූනි 3) කොලම් 244-5) පුරාවිද්‍යා නීතියට ආගමක්/ජාතියක් නැත පුරාවිද්‍යා නීතිය අනුව අවසර නැතිව පුරාවිද්‍යා ඉඩමක පන්සලක ඉන්නා හාමුදුරුවරු වැසිකිලියක් සඳහා වළක් හෑරුවත් එය හිරේට යන වරදකි. එහෙත් උතුර-නැඟෙනහිර පුරාවිද්‍යා ඉඩම් අල්ලාගෙන ඒවා කුඹුරු වලට හරවන්නට, ඒවායේ ගෙවල් හදන්නට, දෙමළ හා මුස්ලිම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
Asoka Weeraratna’s contribution to the spread of Buddhism in Germany (A Foreword to a Booklet published in year 2000 entitled ‘ The Necessity for Promoting Buddhism in Europe’ by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi being the Keynote Address delivered at a Public Seminar held on July 2, 2000 at the Mahaweli Centre Auditorium in Colombo to commemorate the first death anniversary of Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanissanti Thero ( formerly known as Asoka Weeraratna)) Asoka Weeraratna on his visits to Europe nearly half a century ago discovered a void and deep disillusionment among... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/20)
පාස්කු ඉරු දින සිනමන් ග්‍රෑන්ඩ් හෝටලයේදී මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බයක් පුපුරවා ගත් මොහොමඩ් ඉන්ෂාෆ් අහමඩ් නැමැත්තාට අයත් වූ තඹ නිෂ්පාදනය කරන කොලෝසස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමට අධික ලාභයක් ලැබෙන ලෙස, හිටපු කර්මාන්ත සහ වාණිජ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යවරයකු වූ රිෂාද් බදියුදීන් මහතා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය හරහා වට්ටම් ලබා දී ඇති බව කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ අලෙවි අධ්යක්ෂ සරත් උදයසිරි මහතා පාස්කු ඉරු දින බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාර මාලාව පිළිබඳ විමර්ශන සිදුකරන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ සාක්ෂි ලබාදෙමින් (01) ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ ඇස්තමේන්තුගත ලේඛනවලට අනුව කොලෝසස් පුද්ගලික සමාගමට වාසි සහගත ලෙස තඹ අමුද්‍රව්‍ය විකිණීම නිසා එම මණ්ඩලයට රුපියල් මිලියන ගණනක පාඩුවක් සිදු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
Conservation projects in the developing world should invest in local scientific talent and infrastructure Credit: Getty Images As a Sri Lankan marine biologist, I have often found myself challenging stereotypes. At the beginning, some of my fellow Sri Lankans questioned my choice of career path. Despite coming from a tropical island with jurisdiction over eight times more ocean area than land area most people had never heard of, let alone met, a marine biologist. Historically countries like mine used the ocean as a space of extraction and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
What the general public expects from governance is peace and prosperity as the minimum. A period, more than seven decades have lapsed and what the majority of the rulers have failed to give to the motherland is much more than that what they could give. The people are fed up of this ceaseless political deception. ‘Enough’ is the word which reverberates the totality of everyone's soul. The Initial understanding for the voter must be: (1)The mental state and emotions of humans must be seeded in the energy of oneness.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
The Office of Attorney General Dappula de Livera PC, yesterday (1), confirmed an unprecedented meeting between the AG and Acting IGP C. D. Wickremaratne at the former’s Office following a revelation that some Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) officers were dealing in heroin. State Counsel and Coordinating Officer to the AG Nishara Jayaratne said that having inquired into the issue at hand, instructions had been issued to expedite investigations. The State Counsel was responding to The Island query whether the AG raised the matter with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
Industrial Development Board (IDB) supplied Brass and Copper to 'Colossus', a company owned by Easter Sunday suicide bomber Insaf Ahmad Ibrahim during the period between 2017 and 2019, although the company had failed to operate within the given criteria, Sarath Udayasiri, Marketing Director of IDB informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks today. Testifying before the Commission, Udayasiri said that the IDB had supplied Brass and Copper to ‘Colossus’ at concessionary rates. He told the Commission that 'Colossus' procured a considerable amount of scrap brass between 2017 and 2019, and this had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
Colombo High Court sentenced five suspects, who were found guilty of selling a piece of land in Kollupitiya, to 67 years in prison. Further, the five convicts have imposed a fine of Rs 130,000 and were ordered to pay an amount of Rs 14 million as compensation to the owner of the land. The first defendant of the case, Christy Vivian Rodrigo, was sentenced to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 20,000, and Rs 2 million in compensation. Dhammika Rodrigo, Jeyaraj Amarasinghe, and Chintha Rajapaksa,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
The Attorney General has approved the health guidelines for the upcoming 2020 General Election forwarded by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health had prepared the set of guidelines last month and they were sent to the Attorney General for approval. The gazette notification on the health guidelines pertaining to the general election will now be published as the AG’s approval has been obtained. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that a final decision has not been taken to give the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to India. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had last week given the go ahead to Shipping Minister Johnston Fernando to start talks on changing the agreement signed by the previous administration on building a container terminal in Colombo port. Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) had signed agreements with India and Japan to run the partially built East Terminal after dropping plans for a standard build-operate-transfer deal amid opposition from then President Maithripala... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
Four (04) more person has tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection . 02 positive cases among arrivals from Bangladesh, a returnee from India and another from Dubai. Seven new cases of Covid-19 were reported so far today (July 01). The country total has increased to 2,054 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
https://youtu.be/ysu6ZimU5LM The Sri Lanka Nidhas Podujana Sandhanaya says that it is not possible to cancel the MCC agreement once it has been signed twice and the previous government has obtained Rs. 1,800 million. Former Parliamentarian D V Chanaka made this statement at a media briefing.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
පූර්විකාව - ලංකාවේ අතීත ඉඩම් භාවිතය සැමවිටම රජු හා සම්බන්ධ විය. රටේ භාරකරු වශයෙන් සහ පාලකයා වශයෙන් භූපති ලෙසට ඔහු හැඳින් වූ අතර රටේ සංවර්ධනය උදෙසා ඉඩම් යොදා ගැනීම සඳහා ගම් වසම හා බැඳි වැඩ පිළිවෙලක් විය. අනුරාධපුර යුගයේ පණ්ඩුකාභය රජ්‍ය සමය වන විට මෙරට ගම් සීමා කොට විධිමත් ක්‍රමයකට රජ්‍ය පාලනය පරිවර්තනය වූ ආකාරය ඉතිහාසයේ දැක්වෙයි. නමුත් මහාවංශයේ සඳහන් ලිඛිත ඉතිහාස යුගයට ප්‍රථම පැවති ආදී ජනාවාස ගැන සැළකිල්ල දැක්වීමේ දී ගිරිජනපද සංකල්පය මත ඉඩකඩම් පරිහරණය සිදුව තිබෙන බව දැක්විය හැකිය. කෙසේ වෙතත් දසගම් පරිපාලන ඒකකයක් මගින් පාලනය හැසිරවීම නිසා රජු ගේ සංවර්ධන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
MCC is a US Govt foreign aid agency which is funded by US Govt and the top US representatives’ sit’s on its Board. When $480m MCC Compact was announced immediately after the jihadi terror attacks on Easter Sunday, it was presented as a ‘gift horse’. That everything was done in secret reconfirms our doubts. The then Govt even denied MCC was operating an office inside the PM’s office. It is important to understand that this American compact is part of an overall Indo-US Pacific Strategy and complimented by 3D’s (Development, Defense, Diplomacy). The MCC placed a set of preconditions prior... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
Questions of sovereignty and notions of strings attached will have to be addressed for the smooth passage of the grant The picture at the top shows the MCC Managing Director for Europe, Asia, Pacific, and Latin America Caroline Nguyen and the Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary signing an agreement to provide an additional US$ 2.6 million USD grant to finalize compact development in June 2018 By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror With the American Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact (MCC), getting into hot water in Sri Lanka, Nepal and some countries in Africa,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/20)
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