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News Archive for Dec 2024
CLEAN SRI LANKA PROGRAMME FROM FIRST JANUARY 2025 INITIATED BY PESIDENT AKD FOR A CLEAN SRI LANKATask force to set up President AKD has initiated a clean Sri Lanka program by setting up a task force consisting of 16 members head by the Secretary of the President possible for very valid reasons obviously in view of the tourism boom that requires a cleaner environment to attract more tourists when in the recent past Sri Lanka surpassed the 20,0000th tourist and aiming for more soon. One of the main needs and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
‘’FORCED CONVERSION OF RICE CULTURE TO BREAD CULTURE BY THE FOREIGN POWERS - LEGAL BASIS AND WAY OUT FOR A RESOLUTION TO EASE THE FARMER’’
(PART TWO) PART ONE PUBLISHED ON LANKAWEB AND FT First part of the article on rice culture to bread culture The first part dealt with the traditional rice culture and how it is embodied in the culture and agriculture in the society with interactions with the foreign powers powerful in various ways influencing the farmer and the society as a whole. Rice was introduced to Sri Lanka sometime in 800 BC and there has been a massive migration around 390 BC... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
Promised Messiah’s unparalleled love for the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): Ahmadiyya Khalifa addresses concluding session of Qadian Convention (Jalsa Salana Qadian) 2024
Ahmadiyya khalifa prayed that all Ahmadis are enabled to truly act upon the teachings of Islam, express genuine love for the Holy Prophet (PBUH), and fulfil the rights of their bai‘at (Oath of Allegiance) The three days 129th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Qadian, India, concluded last Sunday (29 December 2024) with an address by the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, on 29 December 2024 having full of quotations from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
"The significance of the mount of Arafat unseen to many"
The ritual at Mount Arafat, known as the hill of mercy, is considered the peak of the Hajj pilgrimage. It is often the most memorable for pilgrims, who stand together asking God for mercy, blessings, prosperity and good health. The hill is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Mecca. The Prophet said, “The best invocation on the day of Arafat, and the best of all the invocations I ever offered or other holy Prophets before me ever offered is: “There is no god but Allah: He is Unique ; He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
FCID හිටපු ලොක්කා රවී වෛද්යලංකාරගේ සුපිරි ගේමක් පත්තුවෙයි.. CIDය වැඩ අරඹයි
https://youtu.be/3HTbPbcbVAw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
පෞද්ගලික ආයතනයකින් කප්පන් ගන්න ගිය මාලිමාවේ මන්ත්රී වරු අමාත්යවරයා රවටා පාස්පෝට් හැදූ පුද්ගලයා
https://youtu.be/TM5pZ0zCuMI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
මෙන්න දවසේ කතාව පොහොට්ටු රජයෙන් ජනතාවට කිසිම ප්රශ්නයක් වෙලා නෑලු හිරේදාන්න පරක්කුයි ලු
https://youtu.be/Fqmj5F1uOP4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
අනුර තමා දාර ටොයියා ! සීයගේ ටොයිනායක ආශු මාරසිංහ බයි තක්සලාවට ! Milinda Rajapaksa | Iraj Weeraratne
https://youtu.be/0_YmzY6CjiM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
Creating Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka
In Bangladesh when the new Military Government of General Ershard took over the country in 1982, the Ministry of Youth Development was providing skills training to 40,000 youths annually but the vast majority of them failed to find employment and continued to be unemployed, scrapping the barrel, 33 for life. I happened to be the Commonwealth Fund Advisor to the Ministry on Youth Development and the new Hon. Minister for Labour and Manpower, Air Vice Marshall Aminul Islam at a Conference held to evaluate youth development programmes, ordered me,: “What can you contribute for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS)
The runway safety area (RSA) enhances the safety of aircraft that undershoot, overrun, or veer off the runway. The RSA provides a clear, graded area which provides additional space for pilots to bring their aircraft to a safe stop. Though RSAs vary in size by runway, they can be as large as 500 feet wide and often extend 1,000 feet beyond each end of the runway. Many airports were built before the current RSA dimensional standards were adopted in the 1980s. In some cases, it is not practicable to achieve... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
IT WAS MURDER Not A Plane Crash! Bosses KNEW That Wall Would KILL! Responsible Should Be Prosecuted!
https://youtu.be/XIyMwf79zJU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
ඉතිහාසයේ අවමඟුලකට කඳුළු ගෑස් ගහපු ප්රථම අවස්ථාව POWER HOUR
https://youtu.be/tC2cTwltHuw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
CHINA'S MONUMENTAL LEAP IN ADVANCED AIR DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY
Drones have become the ultimate disruptors in modern warfare reshaping how battles are fought but as their dominance grows so does the threat they pose especially in swarms where sheer numbers can overwhelm even the most advanced defenses.China's groundbreaking Hurricane 3000 - a high- power microwave weapon capable of neutralizing entire drone fleets in an instant unveiled at the 2024 Zhuhai Airshow. This revolutionary system is rewriting the rules of air defence. This cutting edge technology is a game changer for global security. The heart of the Hurricane 3000 is a technological breakthrough that blends... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
New Cold War In South Asia As The BRICS Rise – OpEd
There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government that got a massive people’s mandate for debt justice. The storm blowing from Washington DC across the Indian Ocean World—targeting China to the East, Iran to the West, and now, India at the centre—is growing and expanding. So too, the US led NATO sanctions regime is expanding and impacting many countries. These include Sri Lanka, which is caught in the crosshairs of hybrid economic war on the rise of BRICS and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/24)
Protesters confront National People's Power MPs in Bingiriya (Video)
A tense situation erupted when National People's Power Kurunegala District MP Wijesiri Basnayake and Puttalam District MP Ajith Gihan visited a factory in the Bingiriya-Wilattawa area. The incident occurred as factory employees protested against the MPs and their entourage over an alleged attempt to interfere with the factory's office transport service, which is managed by local residents. Protesters accused the MPs of trying to take control of the transport service and blocked their jeep as they attempted to leave the premises. Responding to inquiries, MP Wijesiri Basnayake stated that his visit... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
ලංකා බැංකුවටත් පොලු තියපු පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්රීවරු සෙට් එක
https://youtu.be/SRn0i_kE-g4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
තිරප්පනේ මාලිමා මන්ත්රීගේ කාර්යාලය වැටලීමත් සමග මහ පාරේ දරුණු තත්ත්වයක්
එන්න කියාපං ඇමතිතුමාට.. එන්න කියාපං.. තිරප්පනේ මාලිමා මන්ත්රීගේ කාර්යාලය වැටලීමත් සමග මහ පාරේ දරුණු තත්ත්වයක් ගමේ නියෝජිතයා කෝ.. ගහලා පන්නන්න ඕන.. https://youtu.be/iwNH0wYhMIA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
ඉතිහාසයේ කවදාවත් මෙහෙම වෙලා නෑ කරුණාකරලා මේක නවත්වන්න පාර්ලිමේන්තු සේවකයින් වෙනුවෙන් අජිත් පෙරට එයි
https://youtu.be/_OaRYbTyX5g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
ආණ්ඩුව ගැන මිනිස්සුන්ට හොඳටම තදවෙයි - අමතන ඇමතිල්ලට රෙදි නෑ
https://youtu.be/tZGaU_Tl3lc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
රනිල් කරපු දේමද අනුර කරන්නේ? - "ඔන්න ඕක තමයි ප්රශ්නෙ" | Dr.Harsha de Silva
https://youtu.be/Oo1Zsl97CNI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
අපි කරන්න හිටපු දේ එහෙමම වෙන්නේ නෑ වගේ දැනෙනවා
https://youtu.be/FGRZCa6sp8g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
මාලිමා මන්ත්රීව වටකරන් බිංගිරියේදී විරෝධයක් - වාහනයෙන් බහින්නත් බැරිවෙලා...
https://youtu.be/ErBBQbtAEn4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
අනුර කුමාර කන්නේ තණ කොළ ද ?
https://youtu.be/vZrE6v6ZFSg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
US & European Universities Block Asian & African Students from Advanced Technology
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 22-28 December 2024 * In 1770, William Pitt the Elder (then Earl of Chatham), ‘made uneasy by the first manufacturing attempts of the New Englanders, declared that the colonies should not be permitted to manufacture so much as a horseshoe nail’ – Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder * ‘Intelligence agencies have been pushing universities: The Swiss Federal Intelligence Agency’s Technopole Program... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
දේශපාලකයින්ගේ වතුර ටැංකිය හා පිරිමියෙක් මුත්රා කිරීමේ විධි දෙක (two ways of urinating in politics)
මේ දිනවල ජනාධිපති AKD ගේ ආණ්ඩුව දෛනිකව මුහුණ පානා ඇබ්බැද්දි දකිනවිට මට ඇමෙරිකාවේ ජනාධිපතිලා දෙන්නෙක් ඒවාට මුහුණ දුන් අන්දම මතකයට ආවේය. ඇමතිකෙනෙක් හෝ මන්ත්රී කෙනෙක්ගේ යම් අහිතකර කතාවක් හෝ ක්රියාවක් නිසා ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්රතිරූපයට ඩැමේජ් එකක්වූ විට, එයට අවංක ලෙස මුහුණදී කල වරද නිවැරදි කර ගන්නවා වෙනුවට එය සුදුහුණු ගා වැසිය හැකියයි සිතා ක්රියාකිරීමෙන් සිදුවන්නේ ඩැමේජ් එකට පිහාටුද ලැබී ඉගිලී යාමය. කතානායකගේ තොප්පිය, ඔහුගේ හා අන් අයගේ උපාධි අර්බුදය, නැති සුදුසුකම් කියා චන්ද්දායකයින් හා පක්ෂය රැවටීම, ජය මංගල ගාථා නතර කලත් ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ නත්තල් සැරසිලි, රිලා ප්රශ්ණය, පොල්, ලුණු හිඟය කොට්ටච්චිගේ මෝඩ කතා, මන්ත්රීලාගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justify his wading into German politics The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest. The commentary piece in German was launched online on Saturday before being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
REVISITING EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’ Part 6
Sarath Amunugama observed that one of the many items which made Maname special was its melodious music. [1]Sarachchandra was an accomplished musician. He had gone to Santiniketan in the 1940s to study music. However, in his Pin ati Sarasavi, he spoke of ‘veenawa ata pata gawa,’ so I thought he was a dilettante musician. His early childhood in a family of devout Christians had exposed him to the English language and western music. He is said to have played the organ in his village church. This double exposure stimulated his intellectual interests which always... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
Why Finland Needs Foreigners?
Why Finland Needs Foreigners? Force-Feeding Finnish Language to Foreigners is Counter Productive! Force-Feeding Finnish Language will Drive Most Educated & Intelligent Foreigners Out of Finland! Why is English now the Global Language? English is the foremost, and by some accounts The Only, World Language. English is widely used around the World in Internet Computers and all other Technological Equipment. For this reason, the English language is dominant in the world of science as well. Since science and technology play a huge role in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
Supporting the Increase in Withholding Tax: A Step Toward Strengthening Sri Lanka’s Tax System
The government’s decision to increase the withholding tax (WHT) rate to 10%, effective 1 April 2025, deserves commendation. Too often, political leaders have avoided necessary but unpopular decisions, opting to appease the electorate. This has led to various issues, from economic stagnation to the erosion of minority and religious rights. The proposed tax increase, however, marks a significant step in addressing a pressing concern: Sri Lanka’s persistent tax evasion problem. Tax evasion in Sri Lanka is alarmingly high. While some degree of evasion is common in many countries, effective tax... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
‘’END OF RICE CULTURE OF SRI LANKA BY FOREIGN DOMINATION’’
Rice is staple food in Sri Lanka Rice is the staple food in Sri Lanka culturally linked to the history as an agricultural nation in addition being a beautiful compact nation. She has been self-sufficient from rice and historically exported rice to other countries. Invasion of the western powers and de-tabulation of the agricultural economy ended the agriculture to nature of the economy and livelihood of the citizen to be dependent on external factors and assistance due to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
JAPAN CAN'T CHALLENGE CHINA !!
The Japanese economy was the biggest economic miracle in the 20th century after the United States,but a grim turning point occurred when the Plaza Accord was signed.Japan’s GDP was less than $0.5 trillion in 1960, yet just 3 decades later, the economy grew to a stunning amount of over $3.1 trillion by 1990 and a further growth was seen where the Japanese economy peaked at $5.5 trillion in 1995. The gap between the US and Japan was very small in 1995 where the U.S. economy stood at just $7.6 trillion.This was a pivotal moment that led many to believe Japan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
ගෝටාගේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේ පැන් සංග්රහයට 287,340යි.. අනුරගේ සංග්රහයට 339,628යි..
වර්තමාන රජයේ 10 වැනි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සැසිවාරයෙන් මංගල පසුව ලබාදුන් තේ පැන් සංග්රහය ඇතුළු වෙනත් සංග්රහ කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් වැය කර ඇති මුදල රුපියල් 339,628.55 දැන ගැනීමේ බව තොරතුරු අයිතිවාසිකම යටතේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහලේකම කාර්යාලය මගින් ලබාගත් තොරතුරු මගින් අනාවරණය වේ. එමෙන්ම 10 වැනි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මංගල සැසිවාරයේ උත්සව කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් තවත් රුපියල් 72,350,00 මුදලක් ද වැය කර තිබෙන බව එහිදී අනාවරණය විය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහ ලේකම කාර්යාලය ලබාදුන් තොරතුරු අනුව, පාර්ලිමේන්තු වැය ශීර්ෂය යටතේ චාරිත්රානුකූලව පවත්වන උත්සව කටයුතු සහ තේ පැන් සංග්රහ කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන්, ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂගේ 09වැනි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මංගල සැසියේදී රුපියල් 287,340.00... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
CBSL Circular on ‘Parate’ law suspension faces backlash from MSME Chamber
The MSME Chamber of Sri Lanka has called for the immediate removal of the circular issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), which states that any suspension of ‘Parate’ law execution will not take place beyond 31 March 2025. Speaking at a press briefing, Media Secretary of the MSME Chamber of Sri Lanka Susantha Liyanaarachchi emphasized the need for the CBSL to issue a new circular pertaining to the recent statement made by the Deputy Minister of Finance. Commenting further, Liyanaarachchi said: “The deputy minister of finance explained to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
ඇමති වසන්ත නා ගැනීමට නියමිතයි? | නාමල් හිරේ දාන්න එන මිනිහගේ වසන්තවත් නොදන්න කැරැට්ටුව මෙන්න
https://youtu.be/Ihb-pBwSv6w... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
ජෙරම් අත්අඩංගුවට! - සුව මෙහෙයට ආපු "සාධු" ගේ පැටිකිරිය මෙන්න | 05:05 | #07 Podcast
https://youtu.be/raR026ehM2s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
උත්තර දෙන්න රාජ්ය නිලධාරිණිය නැගිට්ටේ නැති නිසා නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිට තදවෙයි
https://youtu.be/0PPcaueXhqE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
දේශපාලන පිටියේ රසකතා - කොට්ටහච්චි ට ලැබුණු ප්රතිචාර
https://youtu.be/fqKQcrsMqfQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/12/24)
Shortages persist despite rice imports; salt imports planned
Amid a rice shortage in the market, the private sector has imported 75,000 metric tons of rice following the government's decision to address the scarcity. According to Sri Lanka Customs, the imports include 32,000 metric tons of raw rice and 43,000 metric tons of Nadu rice. However, consumers report a continued shortage of raw rice and allege that rice is being sold above the government-mandated prices. Instances of traders selling rice without displaying prices have also been reported. To address potential salt shortages, Lanka Salt Company Chairman Nandanatalika announced plans to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
Anura Kumara as JVP leader & Anura Kumara as President – Where will he take Sri Lanka?
Does Anura Kumara Disanayake have a vision for the Nation. Did those who voted, vote because they thought he had a vision for the Nation? Is JVP really the “Marxist” party it labels itself to be? These questions, can be answered in the actions and people are beginning to have their apprehensions. Anyone with a vision first needs to self-appraise the political playing field both at home & abroad in order to devise tactical & strategic actions, solutions to the challenges & threats to enforce that vision. It is well & fine... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
SNAP ELECTIONS IN THE US VASSAL STATE OF GERMANY
Germany's political landscape is undergoing a seismic shift as the Bundestag has been officially dissolved triggering snap elections that could reshape the nation's future. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the dramatic announcement on December 27, 2024 marking a critical moment in German Democratic history. The dissolution follows Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unexpected loss of a confidence vote on December 16, 2024 effectively ending his coalition government.The Free Democratic Party's withdrawal from the ruling coalition precipitated this unprecedented political crisis. The move has left Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party without a parliamentary majority forcing an immediate electoral intervention.Snap... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
මග හොඳට පෙනේ නම්..
රුහුණු විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ නවක වදය 99% කින්ම නවතා දැමීමට සහ මෙම ආයතනයේ ඇතැම් ගුරුවරුන්ගේ, ශිෂ්ය සංගම් නිලධාරීන්ගේ, අනධ්යන කාර්ය මණ්ඩල නිලධාරීන්ගේ රජයේ මුදල් අවභාවිතාව ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් දුෂණ වැළකීමට, මින් පෙර විසූ කිසිම උපකුලපතිවරයකු ක්රියා නොකල පරිදි නොපැකිලව නොබියව ඉමහත් පරිශ්රමයකින් කටයුතු කලේ ළමා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය- උපකුලපති සුජීව අමරසේනය. ඒ මහතාගේ දෙවෙන සේවා ධුර කාලය මාස 4 ක් පමණ ඉතිරිව තිබියදී, හොර බොරු වංචා, දූෂණ වලින් තොර සිරිලංකාවක් බිහිකිරීමට නව ආණ්ඩුවක් තේරී පත්විය. පහුගිය වසර 4-5ක කාලයක් එම විශ්ව විද්යාලයෙ මැඩ පැවැත්ව තිබු ගර්ජන, ‘අරගල’ නව ආණ්ඩුව සමඟින් පිබිදෙන්නට පටන් ගත් අයුරු පුදුම සහගතය. මහාචාර්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
An open letter to The High Commissioner of India, in Sri Lanka
Santhose Jah Esqr Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka,21 Dhrsana,Gemunu Mwatha Colombo. The Need to change the overall Kautilyan policy of Mathsya nyaaya and the Panikkar policies towards its neighbors, particularly Sri Lanka. Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Former Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranayake and the President of the Sri Lanka Administrative Services Association. (1991-1994) Dear Sir, At the very outset I would like to request India, our big brother, to change the overall Kautilyan perception of Mathsya nyaaya... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
‘’COST OF LIVING DURING THE FESTIVE SESON’’
Cost of Living Cost of living is the cost of living of an average family computed in various ways for the purpose of computation of the official cost of living giving guidance that increases every due to various factors beyond the control of the governance and the consumer who is always in the receiving end. It is the accepted norm that a consumer must have a sufficient earning to make ends meet always the governance is supposed to be responsible for,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
The Future of Russia and the World Order
https://youtu.be/_2AeQb39Tf4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
China's Mega Bridges Shocked American Engineers | You Won't Believe They Actually Exist
https://youtu.be/VM5lcfJy8k4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
Deshabandu Alec Robertson’s Twenty Second Death Anniversary
The Twenty second death anniversary of Deshabandu Alec Robertson falls on the 31st of December, 2024. His passing away was widely lamented by all Sri Lankans as well as his numerous foreign friends and acquaintances who had at some time or other benefitted from his guidance, friendship and exemplary life, and more than anything else from his deep understanding and propagation of the Buddha Dhamma. Sri Lanka has no shortage of Buddhist scholars, among both the Sangha and the lay persons but not many would claim to have all the other wonderful attributes that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/24)
සජිත් දේශපාලනයෙන් සමුගනියි? විපක්ෂය සර්වජන බලය (වීඩියෝ)
විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා දේශපාලනයෙන් සමුගැනීමේ සූදානමක් පවතින බව මව්බිම ජනතා පක්ෂයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දිලිත් ජයවීර මහතා පවසයි. අද (27) පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මාධ්යවේදියෙකු නැගූ ප්රශ්නයකට පිළිතුරු ලබාදෙමින් මන්ත්රීවරයා පැවසුවේ විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා සිය උප්පැන්න සහතිකයේ සිට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් පෙන්වා ඇති කාරණයෙන් ගම්ය වන්නේ ඔහු දේශපාලනයෙන් සමුගැනීමේ සූදානමක් ඇති බවයි. විපක්ෂය යනු සර්වජන බලය පක්ෂය බවත් එය ඒඩිතර විපක්ෂ බවත් විපක්ෂය යනුවෙන් නමින් හැදිනවූ පළියට එය විපක්ෂය නොවන බවද මන්ත්රී දිලිත් ජයවීර මහතා පැවසුවා විපක්ෂයේ ක්රියාදාමය විපක්ෂය කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය ඔවුන් ජනතාව සමග කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/24)
Public urged to avoid panic buying, hoarding salt amid shortage fears
The newly-appointed Chairman of Lanka Salt Company in Hambantota, T. Nandana Thilaka has urged the public to avoid panic-buying and hoarding salt amidst rumors of a shortage. Addressing the media after assuming office today (28), Mr. Thilaka clarified that the current salt supply is sufficient to meet household needs in the country. “Two 400-gram packets of salt powder and one kilogram of crystal salt are enough for an average household for a month,” he stated, emphasizing that unnecessary stockpiling is unwarranted. The chairman reassured the public that the Hambantota Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/24)
ජනාධිපති ඉදිරියේ මාරාන්තික උගුලක්
https://youtu.be/r_EPaRGZ9EU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/24)
මෛත්රීට, ගෝඨාභයට, රනිල්ට, අල්ලන්න බැරිවුණ මහේන්ද්රන්ව“අනුර” අල්ලන්නේ මෙහෙමයි
https://youtu.be/TE2lzrqxj9Q... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/24)
අමුතු දොස්තර සහ අමුතු ආණ්ඩුව
මේ දිනවල ජාතික රූපවාහිනියෙන් ප්රචාරය වන දැනට අතිශයින් ජනප්රිය වී තිබෙන අමුතු දොස්තර ටෙලි නාටකය පිළිබඳ සමාජයේ සිදු වන කතා බහ යොමුව තිබෙන්නේ ඉන් ලබන අමුතු රසාස්වාදනය සාකච්ඡා කරමින්. රසය තීව්ර කිරීම, ගැටුම් නිර්මණය මගින් කතාව උච්චස්ථානයකට පත් කර කුතුහලය ඇවිස්සීම ඒ මගින් නව රසයන් මතු කිරීම නාටකීය ස්වරූපයකි.අමුතු දොස්තර දේශපාලනමය තිර රචනයක් සහිත ටෙලිනාටකයක් බව පැවසිය යුතුය.මීට පෙරද බොහෝ අවස්ථාවල දේශපාලනය පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡා කරන ටෙලි නාටක බිහිව ඇති නමුදු මෙම නාටකය ඊට වඩා වෙනස් මගක ගමන් ගන්නා බව පෙනේ. කලපු ඉස්පිරිතාලය පසුබිම් කොට දිග හැරෙන රූප රාමු තුළ සමාජයෙන් වියුක්ත අමුතු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
Finland - The Happiest Country in the World in 2024, Made a Drastic Mistake!
Finland - The Happiest Country in the World in 2024, Made a Drastic Mistake! Offering Visa to Many Young Asian Immigrants with High Education, and with Families to Finland in 2024, Currently Unemployed, due to Lack of Finnish Language Skills Causing Severe Psychological Distress! Either Offer Language Training in their Home Country Prior to Departure, or Ensure Employment based on Their Skills when they Arrive! Furthermore Finland Authorities Did Not Offer Pre-induction Cross-Cultural Sensitivity Education! Apart from the Cultural Differences, Language Barrier, the Extreme Weather, Many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
CURRENT SITUATION IN SYRIA
The Israeli regime has failed in Gaza. It's been almost 15 months and they fail to take Gaza. Slaughtering thousands of children and women is not a victory. We see Israeli operations taking place daily in Gaza and a number of Israelis have been killed over the past few days. So Gaza is still not a victory for the Israeli regime. In fact that's a major defeat because the world has been exposed to the brutality of the Israeli regime. The world has been exposed to the brutality of the Israeli regime in Lebanon as well.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
Resist, My People, Resist: Palestine and Beyond
Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies’ profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and ignore the horrors unfolding across the world. Ferocious disregard for the pain of others has become a way to protect oneself from the inflation of suffering. What can one do with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
7 Surprising Facts about the Nuclear Bomb Tests at Bikini Atoll: Of Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Weather Warfare
Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. There is a long history of research experiments to generate earthquakes, tsunamis and climate disasters. As Partick J. Kiger wrote Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons on the tiny, remote ring of islands that make up Bikini Atoll. Marshal Islands. (History Com: https://www.history.com/news/nuclear-bomb-tests-bikini-atoll-facts ) https://www.history.com/news/nuclear-bomb-tests-bikini-atoll-facts This week, twenty years later the Indian Ocean World commemorate the massive 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Boxing Day or Christmas day disaster --- depending... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
A COMPACT BEAUTIFUL NATION IDEAL FOR TOURISM NOT PROPERLY UTILIZED
Tourism world’s fastest and most popular and productive industry Tourism is an industry which is one of the global and easily managed with available resources of a nation, a world industry that fetches 10% GDP and provides 10% employment to Sri Lanka’s economy. Sri Lanka is a compact nation ideally suited for tourism which is not properly utilized to the maximum capacity compared to extreme beauty and the geographical situation in the Indian Ocean along the famous and historical ‘silk route’. It is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
මාලිමා අනියම් පෙමෙන් දිලිත් බයවුණාලු - ටිපර් නොවී අහන්න දිලිත් කිව්ව දේ
https://youtu.be/72LmMZFTW7M... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
ජාතික ජනබලවේග රජයේ දිගු කාලීන සහ කෙටි කාලීන අරමුණු
{උපුටා ගැන්මලංකා සී නිව්ස් } මාෆියාකාරයන් ටිකක් තවදුරටත් සමහර තැන් වෙලාගෙන තිබෙන බවත් ඒවා ජනසතු කිරීමක් කර ගත යුතු බවත් ජනතාව සමග බද්ධ වුනු ව්යාපාර බවට පත් කළ යුතු බවත් ධීවර නියෝජ්ය ඇමති රත්න ගමගේ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි.මෙම ගැටළු තේරුම් ගෙන ඇති බවත් ජනාධිපතිතුමාද අදාල තීන්දුව අදාළ ලෙස අරගෙන ඇති බවත් ඔහු කියා සිටී.සහල් ගැටලුව නිසා පුංචි කාල සීමාවක් අපහසුතාවයට පත්ව සිටින බව තමන් දන්නා බවද පැවසූ ඔහු ඉදිරියේදී මේ මෙම ගැටලුව ස්ථිර විසඳුමක් ගෙන එන බවද පැවසුවේය.සාකච්චාවකින් අනතුරුව මාධ්ය වෙත අදහස් පළ කරමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
Govt committed to providing suitable environment for happy, quality life without discrimination - PM
Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya has affirmed the government’s commitment to creating a suitable environment for all individuals to live a happy and quality life, free from discrimination. Prime Minister Dr. Amarasuriya made this statement today (December 27), during a ceremony held in Batariwatta, Moratuwa, to inaugurate the first phase of a housing project funded by Chinese financial assistance amounting to Rs. 22 billion. This initiative aims to enhance the living standards of low-income families, the PM’s Media Division reported. The project envisions the construction of 1,996 houses under Chinese financial assistance.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/24)
Greenland and the Panama Canal aren't for sale. Why is Trump threatening to take them?
Greenland and the Panama Canal aren't for sale. Why is Trump threatening to take them? This is Typical Donald Trump BS CONFUSION Before He Gives Away Ukraine ProBono to Putin Russia on 21st January 2025! Greenland and the Panama Canal aren't for sale. Why is Trump threatening to take them? He is Planning to Give away Ukraine ProBono to Russia! One day he says one thing. The second day it is the opposite. Trump Cannot be trusted! This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/24)
REVISITING EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’ Part 5
In ‘Pin Eti Sarasavi Waramak Denne’, Sarachchandra described an incident he faced on the second or the third night at the Wendt. He was seated in the foyer while the play was in progress and all of a sudden a limousine came to a halt at the entrance and a well dressed woman walked in. She asked “What is being staged here today?” and being told that it was a Sinhala play wanted to know when it was going to be over. When Sarachchandra told her that it would be over in two hours she was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/24)
REVISITING EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’ Part 4
Revised 26.12.24 The theatre enthusiasts, who saw Maname in its maiden presentation in Colombo and before that at rehearsals in Peradeniya, saw its significance and artistic value. Many years later, this group wrote up their recollections for Sunday newspapers. They also provided contributions to publications issued to mark Maname anniversaries, such as the “Silver Jubilee of Maname” (1981). Sarath Amunugama wrote “Maname mathak vee” was for Sarachchandra’s 100th birth anniversary. These writings are informative and perceptive. They should be brought together. I have therefore added further essays to this series on Maname,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/24)
Malignant PTSD (C- PTSD) in Sri Lankan Combatants and Members of the LTTE
Prolonged armed conflict in Sri Lanka has created higher rates of mental ailments among the Army personal and members of the LTTE. A significant number of people have been diagnosed with complex forms of PTSD aka Malignant PTSD. These individuals with malignant forms of anxiety have a wider range of clinical symptomatology with severe psychosocial impairments. These people would fit into the diagnostic category of DESNOS (Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified) or Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) / Malignant PTSD that was described by Dr.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/24)
Ahmadiyya Muslims converge in Qadian for annual congregation
Ahmadiyya Muslims from over 50 countries including Sri Lanka are expected to participate in the 129th annual congregation of the community to be held from December 27-29 at Qadian in Punjab, India.In 1891, the founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, had initiated the spiritual event to promote inter-religious peace and harmony. The event will be marked by a ‘world religions’ session in which people from different faiths will suggest solutions to the problems faced by world,On the last day, a televised address will be given... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/24)
PRINS GUNASEKARA -08
https://youtu.be/Zavp-R7LVV4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/24)
System change and ushering in a value-based society
"You have the complete right to convince any truth as a lie and any lie as a truth. That is your democratic right. You have the right to see the negative side when the government is doing something good. And also, you have the right to praise when a leader, government, institution or an individual is doing something harmful to society,"- NPP Member of Parliament Nilanthi Kottahachchi Although the member of Parliament has perhaps not full well explained the context of her statement, what she and all others should take... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Remembering the Tsunami Disaster
The massive earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia on December 26, 2004, registered a magnitude of nine on the Richter scale. The effect of this earthquake made massive tidal waves that destroyed the coastal belt of northern and southern Sri Lanka. Perhaps this must have been the most catastrophic natural disaster ever experienced by Sri Lankans in their recent history. The damage was colossal. The tsunami had killed over 50,000 people in Sri Lanka. A number of villages have been wiped off and more than 100,000 houses were destroyed. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
TRUMP & TARIFFS - WELCOME TO HISTORIC RECURRENCE IN 2025
The United States has enacted strict export restrictions designed to limit China's access to vital Technologies especially within the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries. These actions which include placing major Chinese companies like HUAWEI and SMIC on the Blacklist, expanding the foreign direct product rule and controlling the export of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment aim to safeguard and preserve the United States' technological lead.In retaliation to US policies, Beijing has heightened trade tensions with Washington by enforcing a ban on exporting certain essential materials critical for High-Tech and defense purposes as a response to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Moody’s Joins Fitch in Upgrading Sri Lanka on Debt Restructuring
A worker pushes a cart in Colombo. Photographer: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg) (Bloomberg) -- Moody’s Ratings upgraded Sri Lanka’s credit rating, days after the nation concluded debt restructuring of its dollar bonds, which reduces the risk of default on future notes. The South Asian nation has been upgraded to Caa1 from Ca on Monday, according to a statement by the rating agency. While governments with that rating are still judged as very high risk by Moody’s, it is a notable step for the island nation and a second upgrade it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
අඛණ්ඩ භාරත් සිතියමේ අපේ රටත් තියෙනවා.. සර්දාර් පනික්කාර් සිහිනයට යන ඉන්දියාව - උවිදු විජේවීර (වීඩියෝ)
අඛණ්ඩ භාරත් නැමති සංකල්පය මගින් ඉන්දියාවේ අරමුණ වී ඇත්තේ ඉන්දියානු කලාපයේ ඇති සියලු රටවල් ඉන්දියා අර්ධ යටත් විජිත බවට පත්කර ගැනීම බව දෙවන පරපුරේ නායක උවිදු විජේවීර පවසනවා. එයට චීනය පවා අයත් බවයි ඔහු පවසන්නේ. එදා සර්දාර් පනික්කාර් දුටු සිහිනය යථාර්තයක් කර ගැනීම සදහා ඉන්දියාව කටයුතු සිදුකරමින් පවතින බවද ඔහු පවසනවා. කලාපයේ රටවල් බලහත්කාරී ගිවිසුම් වලට යටත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව තම ප්රාන්තයන් බවට පත්කර පාලනය කිරීමේ අරමුණින් ඉන්දියාව මේ වනවිට කටයුතු කරමින් පවතින් බවයි. ඔහු පවසන්නේ. කාලීන වැදගත්කමක් සහිත එම සහිත වීඩියෝව පහතින් බලන්න. https://youtu.be/rdqJfhNZK1k... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
ඇමති වූ ගුරු මහින්ද ඉෂ්ඨ කරන්නේ තැපැල් ඡන්දයෙන් මාළිමාව දිනවූ ටියුෂන් ගුරුන්ගේ අවශ්යතාවයද?
පසුගිය දා බස්නාහිර පළාතේ ගුරුවරුන්ට සිය පාසල තුළ දරුවන්ට ටියුෂන් පැවැත්වීම තහනම් කරන චක්රලේඛයක් අග්රාමාත්ය අධ්යාපන ඇමති හරිනි අමරසූරියගේ යටතේ පවතින බස්නාහිර පළාත් අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශයෙන් නිකුත් කරනු ලැබීය. කෙසේ වුවද වර්තමාන මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුවේ නියෝජ්ය ඇමති මහින්ද ජයසිංහ ඊයේ (24) මාධ්යයට අදහස් ප්රකාශ කරමින් පවසා සිටියේ ආණ්ඩුව අපහසුතාවයට පත් කිරීමට නිලධාරීන් විසින් හිතාමතා ගෙන ඇති පාසල තුළ දරුවන්ට ටියුෂන් පැවැත්වීම තහනම් කරන චක්රලේඛය ආපසු හැරවීමට තමා මැදිහත් වී කටයුතු කළ බවයි. දුප්පත් දෙමාපියන්ගේ දරුවන්ට අධ්යාපනය යනු ඉගිල්ලෙනට තිබෙන අත්තටු වලට සමාන බව පවසන ඇතැම් පිරිස් සුවහසක් දරුවන්ට අත් තටු ලැබීමට ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Government to regulate private hospitals: Dr. Jayatissa
Colombo, December 24 (Daily Mirror)- The government has taken steps to regulate private hospitals as people have faced serious issues when seeking treatment from private hospitals, Cabinet spokesman Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said today. He told the weekly briefing to announce Cabinet decisions that the government has initiated discussions with relevant parties such as owners of the private hospitals. Responding to a question, the Minister said some gazette notifications had been issued on regulation of private hospitals and that some of them had not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Police take action against over 8,700 traffic law violators in 24 hrs
Sri Lanka Police says legal action has been taken against a total of 8,747 motorists for violating traffic laws, including 251 individuals driving under the influence of liquor, during the last 24 hours. In accordance with instructions from the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), the special island-wide traffic operation aimed at reducing road accidents will continue throughout the festive season. Police Spokesman SSP Buddika Manathunga said that no fatal accidents have occurred in the island within the last 24 hours. Sri Lanka Police urges the public to drive safely,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
The boy who lived: ‘Baby 81’, a survivor of the devastating Sri Lanka tsunami in 2004
Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known as “Baby 81” is now a 20-year-old dreaming of higher education. Jayarasa Abilash’s story symbolised that of the families torn apart by one of the worst natural calamities in modern history, but it also offered hope. More than 35,000 people in Sri Lanka were killed, with others missing. The 2-month-old baby was washed away by the tsunami in eastern Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
VERY VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS !
The Balkans are steeped in history and very much in the middle of today’s geopolitical great game and are aware of the destabilizing Balkan wars of the late 20th century, and are surely aware of the spark that started World War I, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Serbia, leading the great powers to start World War I. The bombing of Serbian forces by NATO in the 1990s is still fresh in the memory of most of the Balkans and Russians.Today, the most obvious and underreported influence in the Western Balkans is Turkey, where... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Finance & Fuel & Fertilizer Mafias, Mafias Everywhere, Cries the Media Mafia – But What About the Importers’ Mafia Fund (IMF)?
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 15-21 December 2024 * Sri Lanka’s merchant media has taken to wailing over mafias – Finance Mafia, Fuel Mafia, Fertilizer Mafia, Pharma Mafia, CEB Mafia, Rice Mafia, Coconut Mafia, Egg Mafia, etc – you name it. This is their guttural euphemism for the gang of merchants & moneylenders who mislead the country – tagging them all mafia. They dare not name the ‘legal’ practitioners of a seedy mercantilism on behalf of imperialist industry, who have successfully... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Make Christmas a cruelty - free and blood shed - free day of joy for all beings.
Compassion for animals has to be rooted in Justice. It is simple logic. It is morally wrong to deprive a living being of its life - the most precious possession of any living being. You can enjoy your possessions only as long as you have life. If you respect the life of only humans and disregard the lives of non - humans and see animals as a gift from heaven for man's enjoyment you will be on the road to hell inviting terrible consequences. Reverence for life of all beings is the most important... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Presentation on the Buddhist Jataka Stories and the DSM - based Mental Disorders
The Buddhist Jataka Stories and the DSM - based Mental Disorders By Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. PhD Organized by Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka Youtube Link ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4B681Cf7A https://youtu.be/2O4B681Cf7A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
An open letter to President AKD
Dear President Anura Kumara,My heartiest and sincere congratulations and best wishes for your ambition of making our motherland a better country. You have a good vision and let us be a supportive force for you. We will help you to achieve that Great and Noble task of making Sri Lanka one of the top best countries in the globe again.It is a fact that our closest country is India. However, you shall remember that Buddhism is the only good thing that we got from them. Half of the calamities that Sri Lanka faces today are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Hiru TV Salakuna Live | Patali Champika Ranawaka
https://youtu.be/8-CEHWOoi0g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
The Prediction for the Forth Boxing Day Test Match between India and Australia to be played at the MCG tomorrow.
Cricket is a game of glories uncertainty, but if India is to win this Test Match their batsmen have to play much better than what they have done to date and there should be another bowler in their team who puts his hand up and be a good foil to Bumarah. Otherwise I cannot see India win this upcoming Test Match at the MCG even if they bat well in the upcoming Test Match in order to defeat Australia and take a two one lead in the current Test Match series as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
The Government’s Term Tests & Results: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16th December, 2024, Monday in New Delhi during his first official overseas visit since assuming office in September 2024 A newspaper editorial suggested that the NPP government is facing its December term test and that its weaknesses are showing. In fact, there have been quite a few term tests set up by different pundit examiners and they are producing a mixed bag of results. Overall and objectively, if I may say so, the government has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
An Absurd play in Parliament: Qualifications versus education
Sri Lankans love their educational qualifications. Qualifications permit envious comparisons of value, similar to the ownership of gold jewellery, an expensive watch or a branded pair of shoes, resulting in exactly the same questions of provenance, worth and authenticity, but from a much higher moral ground. For the past two weeks we, the people, have watched as allegations that the (now) ex-Speaker’s educational qualifications were faked, proliferated across the news and social media. We waited for him to prove otherwise, all the while observing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Christmas Carolat Presidential Secretariat until December 25
The annual special Christmas carol concert, collaboratively organized by the Presidential Secretariat, the Tri-Forces, and the Police, commenced on Sunday (22) under the patronage of the Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Prof. Anil Jayantha Fernando. The event was inaugurated with the illumination of the Presidential Secretariat premises and surrounding areas. The Christmas carols on the opening day were performed by the choir and band of the Sri Lanka Army while the choir and band of the Sri Lanka Air Force performed on Monday (23). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/24)
Right to tell lies - Wasantha Samarasingha wrongs Kottahachchi
Colombo, Dec 24 (Daily Mirror) - In response to remarks by NPP MP Nilanthi Kottahachchi, who claimed that people have the right to convince others that something true is false, or something false is true, as it is a democratic right, Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe said that it is wrong to encourage society to accept lies as truth. Samarasinghe said he believes that Kottahachchi may not have expressed herself as intended and likely meant to convey that the government would not obstruct people’s democratic rights. Last week Speaking at an event... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Underworld will be suppressed, assures Cabinet Spokesman
Cabinet Spokesman, Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa stated that necessary steps will be taken to curb the resurgence of underworld activities. Addressing the Cabinet press briefing held today (24), Dr. Jayatissa highlighted the commitment of security forces to address this issue effectively. “As a government, we are dedicated to suppress the underworld and combat drug trafficking. However, we do not intend to rely solely on short-term or two-week operations. The security forces are systematically intervening in this matter,” he said. Dr. Jayatissa further assured that relevant measures are already underway and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Sanjanani 2019 | සංජානනී ශිෂ්ය සාහිත්ය මහෝත්සවය Day 2 LIVE
https://youtu.be/wOXM5HgQukk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
ස්වාභාවික නොවන ස්වාභාවික විපත්: ගංවතුරට හේතුව කෘත්රිම වැසි ඇති කිරීම ද?
December 21, 2024 සංස්කාරක Comments Offon ස්වාභාවික නොවන ස්වාභාවික විපත්: ගංවතුරට හේතුව කෘත්රිම වැසි ඇති කිරීම ද? අජිත් සී හේරත් අජිත් සී හේරත් මෑත වසර කීපයක සිට ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පළාත් ගණනාවක් අධික වර්ෂාපතනය හේතුවෙන් ජලයට යටවීම් පිළිබඳ වාර්තා නිතරම අසන්නට ලැබේ. පසුගිය දිනවල ඇද හැලුන දැඩි වර්ෂාපතනය හේතුවෙන් කොළඹ ගම්පහ සහ ගාල්ල ආදි දිස්ත්රික්කවල බොහෝ ප්රදේශ ජලයෙන් යටවිය.මෙවැනි අනපේක්ෂිත ජලගැලීම්වලට තුඩු දෙන හදිසි වර්ෂාපතනයන් දැන් සාමාන්ය තත්ත්වයක් බවට පත්වීමට හේතුව කුමක්ද? මාධ්යයන් විසින් නිතර ප්රචාරය කරනු ලබන අධිපතිවාදි ආඛ්යානයට අනුව ඒවා සිදුවන්නේ වායුගෝලයේ කාබන් විමෝචනය ඉහළ යාම නිසා ඇතිවන දේශගුණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
විජිත හේරත් ඇමතිතුමා ගොන්ඩ්වානාලන්තය ගැන අහල තියෙනවාද?
December 18, 2024 at 10:02 pm | lanka C news ඉන්දියාව සමඟ රට පාවා දෙන කිසිදු ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් නොකළ බවත් විදේශ අමාත්ය විජිත හේරත් මහතා පවසයි. සමහර ආගමික විශ්වාස (ලබ්ධීන්) වලින් කියන අන්දමට ලෝකය මැව්වේ දෙවියන් වහන්සේ නම්, උන්වහන්සේ ඉන්දියාව ලංකාවට අතේ දුරෙන් තබන්නට තීරණයක් ගෙන ඇති බව ගොන්ඩ්වානාලන්ත නම් අතීත පෘතුවි ගෝල සිතියමෙන් පෙනේ. මේ නිසා ඉන්දියාවෙන් එන යම් හොඳ දෙයක් භාර ගැනීමටත්, ආක්රමණ වලින් ගැලවීමට හැකිවීමටත් ලංකා දිවයිනට හැකිවිය. මෙම ගනුදෙණුවේදී සිදුවූ මහින්දාගමණය පවා රනිල් වික්රමසිංහට අනුව ලංකාවට සිදුවූ ප්රථම ආක්රමණයය. හොඳ වෙලාවට ඔහු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Elon Musk - the Real President of USA!
Trump rejects taunts that Elon Musk is real power behind US president-elect! Trump rejects taunts that Elon Musk is real power behind US president-elect Text Box; rump rejects taunts that Elon Musk is real power behind US president-elect Al Jazeera Staff Statements come amid criticism of Musk’s involvement in budget negotiations, outsized role in Trump transition. This is a Fact! Musk is Far Too Intelligent, Successful, Clever! Why Deny? Express Your Opinion - Read What Others Say!The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Trump Hints at annexing Greenland to USA!
Trump hints at annexing Greenland to the United States! If that is ok, then China could annex Taiwan! Russia could annex Ukraine! India could annex Sri Lanka! What is Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander! (A USA Idiom) Express Your Opinion - Read What Others Say!The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.Please visit -: http://www.lankaweb.com/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
'' බලය වෙනුවෙන් මාලිමාව රට පාවා දෙන හැටි...''
https://youtu.be/VnVqvG8XH2c... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
අප්පමාදෝ අමතපදන්, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and an Amazing 2025!
විජේ මහප්පාගේ JVP පoචාර්ය සත්ය බන්කොලොත්ය. සන්නද්ද අරගලය විමුක්තිය නොවන බව කුමාරයා සහ ගෝල පිරිස තේරුම් ගෙන ක්රියාවෙන් පෙන්නදුන්නේය. ධනේශ්වර ක්රමය යටතේ කුමාරයා එක රැයිං 4.5 බිලියනෙයියාර්ය. ධනේෂ්වරය යටතේ ඕනම දෙයක් කල හැක. චන්දෙන් පැරදුනත් ජනාධිපති විය හැක. ජනාධිපති උනත් රූකඩයක් මෙන් නැටවිය හැක. රා මස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Is NGO Activist Insinuating that AKD is Suffering from Dementia?
With a protracted article by a NGO activist on dementia, the question is being widely asked whether a snide reference is being made to AKD, especially in the light of a power struggle with ‘late’ Harini who, like what Bush (Jnr) did to the US, shames Sri Lanka with her appalling knowledge of geography. The NGO activist was perhaps referring to AKD’s speech in 2014 on India which can be viewed on the following link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEOxLXE0X8Q https://youtu.be/hEOxLXE0X8Q... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
දිල්කාගේ සටහන දුටු විට මට හිතුන දේ!
මෝදි අනුරගේ කරට අත දැමීම බිය උපදනවා.. ‘Thats my boy’ කියනවා වගේ..- දිල්කා සිඩ්නි සිට December 22, 2024 at 10:02 pm | lanka C news මෝඩිගේ ගුහාවට ඇතුල්වන දොරටුවේ එක පැත්තක මුලට ඉන්දියන් කොඩියත් අනිත් පැත්තේ මුලට ලංකා කොඩියත් දැම්මේ නැත්තේ ඇයි? අනිත් අතට බොරු කියන එකත් අපේ අයිතියක් (human right) කියන අබුද්දස්ස කාලයක කොඩිය හිටවන විධිය කොහොම වුනත් මොකද? මෝඩ නැති මෝඩි සමඟ ගණුදෙනුවේදී අනුර කුමාරට නැතුවම බැරි වීරයෙක්! (Milinda Moragoda to the rescue!) Thursday, December 19th, 2024. Lanka Web... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Open letter to Milinda Moragoda
OPEN LETTER TO Mr. Milinda Moragoda Former Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to IndiaColomboSri Lanka 22 December 2024 A Response to his statement ‘Implement Indo-Lanka agreement as soon as possible’, which appeared on 2024/12/20 as an The Island Online E-Paper Cc, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Dear Milinda Moragoda: With all due respect to your inherent wisdom and clever smarts, I have lots of problems with that statement of Yours. If you haven’t read my OPEN... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
Your Heart is a Haunted Mansion
Your heart is a hunted mansion Appear menacing and imposingsurrounded by dead trees and plantsThe windows are dark and filled with shadowsWhen I opened the main door, I got a heavy feelingAm I walking towards my ill-fated destiny?I see flickering candles forming shadowsThe hallway is like a holograph of an eventGiving me optical illusionsThe house has cold spots With abrupt temperature changesI hear the fright fiddles and the horror hornsWith the occasional rattling of the chainsBut I see no oneThere are secret passagesleading to a final exitMirrors... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
From Damascus to Gaza: The fractured and volatile Muslim world
“Islam is embarking on a critical era, and Muslims must remain vigilant and open their eyes to the looming threats. At the very least, we must unite to ensure that the legacy of Prophet Muhammadsa remains untarnished, come what may.” (The Unity of Muslims, p. 44) These were the words of the Khalifa that were written and published several decades ago but their truth and their significance is so relevant and timely that one is left to wonder whether anything really changed or was any heed given by Muslims and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/24)
AN ENDORSEMENT OF A PRUDENTLY EXPRESSED MEDIA SENTIMENT.
It appears Somewhat compelling and perhaps belated that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged the SJB-led Opposition to act responsibly and help ensure the continuity of the IMF bailout program for which all Sri Lankans need to be totally indebted for at a time it was needed most when the country was headed for dire straits on the verge of collapse, which has enabled the economy to regain some stability. Something he was solely responsible for creating in a brilliantly composed mindset and a phase in the country's history which was unprecedented. Thanking the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/24)
Faking degrees is a thriving industry in South Asia
Colombo, December 17: The Anura Kumara Dissanayake government in Sri Lanka, which was sailing smoothly despite unsolved economic issues, suffered the first jolt since coming to power, when parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala resigned on Friday amidst accusations that his “Ph.D” was fake. Urban Development and Housing Minister Anura Karunatilake and Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara were also assailed for falsely claiming that they had doctoral degrees. Ranwala maintained that he had acquired a Ph.D, and said that he had no documentary proof of the doctorate. He said he would produce it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/24)
ඇමති හර්ෂණට ආචාර්ය කීවේ සභානායක ලේකම් ලිපිය මතයි..- පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් ජනපතිට වාර්තාවක්..
අධිකරණ ඇමැති හර්ෂණ නානායක්කාර මහතාගේ නම ඉදිරියෙන් ‘ආචාර්ය’ යනුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු වෙබ් අඩවියේ පළ කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සකස් කරන ලද වාර්තාවක් ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක මහතාට හා අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට බාර දී ඇත. සභානායක කාර්යාලයෙන් එවන ලද ලිපියක ‘ආචාර්ය’ ලෙස සඳහන් වීම මත පාර්ලිමේන්තු වෙබ් අඩවියට එම දත්ත ඇතුළත් කරන ලද බව එම වාර්තාවේ සඳහන්ව ඇතැයි පැවසෙයි. හර්ෂණ නානායක්කාර මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු කටයුතු පිළිබඳ කාරක සභාවේ සාමාජිකයකු ලෙස නම් කරමින් ඔහුගේ නම ඉදිරියෙන් ආචාර්ය ලෙස යනුවෙන් යොදා තිබූ බව එම වාර්තාව විසින් පෙන්වා දී ඇත. මේ අතර මෙම සිදුවීමට අදාළව අපරාධ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/24)
Adani exploring ways to sell Bangladesh-bound power to Sri Lanka
Adani Power is exploring ways to sell the Bangladesh-bound power, produced at the Godda plant in India’s Jharkhand state, to neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka. The Jharkhand plant with 2X800 MW capacity is a dedicated project of Adani Power to supply electricity to Bangladesh. The company has reduced the quantum of power supply from the plant to Bangladesh amid some issues due to political changes in Bangladesh. Although the Indian government recently allowed the sales of power in the domestic market to sustain the project, a fresh transmission network is necessary... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/24)
President leads discussion on Sri Lanka’s framework for combating money laundering and terrorism financing
A high-level discussion on the critical preparations for Sri Lanka’s upcoming Mutual Evaluation (ME) by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) was held today (23) at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Disanayake. The meeting focused on preventing money laundering and countering terrorism financing (AML/CFT) and included participation from cabinet ministers, ministry secretaries, officials from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The FIU highlighted the urgent implementation of cabinet-approved action plans involving 24 key institutions,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/24)
Moody’s raises Sri Lanka’s rating after debt overhaul approval
Credit ratings agency Moody’s on Monday raised Sri Lanka’s long-term foreign currency issuer rating to ‘Caa1’ from ‘Ca’ with a stable outlook, after the country’s creditors approved a $12.55 billion debt overhaul last week. Sri Lanka’s credit profile reflects the reduction in external vulnerability and government liquidity risk, and prospects for fiscal and debt sustainability, Moody’s said in a report. “Sri Lanka’s credit fundamentals have improved over the past two years... external vulnerability and government liquidity risk have both declined from elevated levels,” Moody’s said. The island nation had defaulted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/24)
Can India safeguard its national security by weakening Sri Lanka’s national security?
We often hear Indian leaders pressurizing Sri Lankan leaders that Sri Lanka’s foreign policy must ensure the security interests of India. At no point in time has Sri Lanka ever thought or even planned to threaten India in any way. In fact, it has been none other than India who has compromised its own security. It was India who decided to train Sri Lankan Tamil youth to become militants & fight Sri Lankan government passing pillow of likely self-determination quest commencing from Tamil Nadu. Eventually, this backfired to not only... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
RANDOM COMMENTS -DOCTORING WITH DOCTORATES
Flaunting with doctorates has become a passionate fashion leading to musrooming of bogus doctorates. Today one can buy a Doctorate on line. A report in the Indian media has shown that an original PhD thesis can be purchased in India for 50,000 Indian rupees (about £540), with payment in installments. https://thomaslancaster.co.uk/blog/can-you-really-buy-a-phd-online/ Even a genuine doctorate has a direct value only in Research, Academic and Professional fields. In Sri Lanka most doctorates in these fields are funded by the state. In that context the country expects a return in the form of an enhanced contribution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
ප්රේමදාසගේ කාබන් කොපිය තමයි මහින්ද - POWER HOUR | Gemunu Wanninayake With Nandana Weerarathna
https://youtu.be/vBbUd4qPnJI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
Jerome Fernando back to his game-මානසික රෝගියෙක්ට සිවුරු අන්දවා බුදුදහමට නිගා කෙරූ ජෙරම්ට නැවතත් වැඩ වරදී | Jeram fanandu
https://youtu.be/cXXbYtLM9To... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
US Double Standards: Only our enemies commit war crimes
A half-baked report highlights the double standard US officials use for IsraelMay 13, 2024 On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken struck back at claims that U.S. officials let Israel dodge American laws regarding weapons transfers. “We don’t have double standards,” Blinken said. “We treat Israel, one of our closest allies and partners, just as we would treat any other country, including in assessing something like international humanitarian law and its compliance with that law.” Luckily for observers, Blinken has left a substantial public record... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader
Dec 12, 2024 Corporate media is heralding the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as the new leader of Syria, despite his deep ties to both al-Qaeda and ISIS. “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from an article in Britain’s Daily Telegraph that suggests that Jolani will construct a new Syria, respectful of minority rights. The same newspaper also labeled him a “moderate Jihadist.” The Washington Post described him as a pragmatic and charismatic leader, while CNN portrayed him... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
President Dissanayake to visit China mid-January: Report
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will travel to the island’s largest bilateral lender China for talks in January, he said on Saturday, days after completing a long-delayed foreign debt restructure. China accounted for more than half of Sri Lanka’s bilateral debt at the time of the 2022 economic crash, when Colombo ran out of foreign exchange to pay for essential imports such as food, fuel and medicines. Its economy is recovering after receiving an International Monetary Fund rescue package and imposing austerity reforms aimed at repairing the government’s ruined finances. Leftist Dissanayake came to power in September on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
Fitch upgrades Sri Lanka to ‘CCC+’
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘CCC+’ from ‘RD’ (Restricted Default), citing the completion of the international sovereign bond restructuring and an improved outlook for macroeconomic indicators. Fitch typically does not assign an Outlook to sovereigns with a rating of ‘CCC+’ or below. Fitch has also upgraded the Local-Currency IDR to ‘CCC+’, from ‘CCC-’, to align with the Long-Term Foreign-Currency IDR, as the risk of another default on local-currency debt has been reduced by the completion of the international sovereign bond restructuring and an improved... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
People have complete right to lie: Kottahachchi
Colombo, December 21 (Daily Mirror)- People have the complete right to convince others that something true is false or something false is true, as it is a democratic right, NPP MP Nilanthi Kottahachchi said today. Speaking at an event in Kalutara, she said people also have the right to see the negative side of good things the government is doing and that the government will never block that democratic right. "You have the complete right to convince any truth as a lie and any lie as a truth.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
Govt. defends Ex-Ambassador Arunatilaka
While standing by former Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Canberra Himalee Arunatilaka, who faced a lawsuit over a salary issue of a domestic aide, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said Arunatilaka had not committed any financial fraud and that it was due to an issue with Sri Lankan salary scale. The Minister said as a standard practice, the diplomats are facilitated by the Foreign Ministry to take domestic assistants, and they are paid by the Foreign Ministry according to the Sri Lankan salary scale. He said in this incident,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
Government hoping to update FTA with India: Vijitha
The government is hoping to initiate discussions with India to update the Free Trade Agreement between India and Sri Lanka, which was signed several decades ago, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said. He told a news conference that the FTA with India needs to be updated and continue as the market has expanded now. The Minister said Sri Lanka brought to the notice of the Indian government the need to discuss the matter during President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's recent state visit to India. Referring to the Economic and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
Understanding Sri Lanka’s seasonal rice shortage: An analytical perspective
Sri Lanka’s recurring rice shortage during December and January has become a predictable yet pressing issue. This challenge is rooted in the country’s reliance on its two main paddy cultivation seasons, Maha and Yala, alongside structural inefficiencies in production, distribution, and storage systems. Understanding the statistical trends and underlying causes provides clarity on the situation and highlights actionable solutions. Sri Lanka’s Paddy Production: Yala vs. Maha Sri Lanka’s annual paddy production revolves around two seasons: 1. Maha Season (Major Crop): ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/24)
2024 Elections: Is It the Defeat of Elite Politics, Power Transferred to a Non-elite Group or The Beginning of a Rule of “Lumpen Elites”? “A Grotesque Mediocrity” Playing “A Hero’s Part”?
1. “Lumpen Elites” Another myth propagated by the capitalist press, NGO coterie and deplorably by some activists in the nationalistic movement who have not severed their umbilical cord with the old JVP womb yet, is that the voters have rejected elite politics and transferred power to a non-elite political camp at the 2024 General Election. Is this true or false? The latter group has descended into a lower level[U1] calling all former rulers as “Paadada Praboon” (my translation as “Lumpen Elites”), some propelled by themselves from time to time. “They have lived in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Planes Designed by Clowns and Supervised by Monkeys
Boeing currently maintains a 40% market share, while Airbus dominates the other 60% of the industry. Both of these firms hold incredible leverage over the entire airline industry, allowing them to maintain a somewhat relaxed relationship with oversight bodies like the FAA.The first ever Boeing 737 entered service 56 years ago in 1968.Ending the production of the 737 with the NG or Next Generation family - 737NG, Boeing 737 would have still been in production for over 50 to 52 years, making it a true aviation icon with more than 10,000 aircraft built.But instead, in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Killing of Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione in USA
Killing of Brian Thompson CEO of UnitedHealthCare Insurance by Luigi Mangione a young affluent highly educated American. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14213815/luigi-mangione-fans-executed-sparking-fears-martyr.html?openWebLoggedIn=true&logi I present this to the readers of LankaWeb due to the fact, Sri Lanka has had first hand experience of Assassination of Leaders, SWRD Bandaranike, Ranasinghe Premadasa, and many others. In your opinion. Do you consider the Assassination of Brian Thompson CEO of UnitedHealth Insurance by Luigi Mangione Justified or Not? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14213815/luigi-mangione-fans-executed-sparking-fears-martyr.html?openWebLoggedIn=true&login 9/11 terrorists didn't get death penalty for 2997 lives murdered but this 1... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
MMBL-Pathfinder partners with HCLTech to accelerate technology talent development in Sri Lanka
MMBL-Pathfinder Group has entered into a strategic partnership with HCLTech, a leading global technology company, to introduce innovative IT training programs in Sri Lanka. This collaboration is set to be a game-changer, with the newly established Pathfinder EdTech Institute at its core, aimed at creating a skilled workforce ready for the digital age. At the Launching ceremony held in Colombo Taj on Friday (19) evening Mr K Balasundaram CEO MMBL Pathfinder Group and Ms Srimathi Shivashankar, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of EdTech, exchanged the agreement of establishment of the Pathfinder HCLTech... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
මගේ මල්ලී ඝාතනය කිරීමට වගකිව යුත්තා රනිල් - SI රෝහිත ප්රියදර්ශනගේ අයියා කියයි
මගේ මල්ලී ඝාතනය කිරීමට වගකිව යුත්තා රනිල් - SI රෝහිත ප්රියදර්ශනගේ අයියා කියයි 1987 – 90 භීෂණ සමයේ දී රාජකාරියේ නිරත ව සිටිය දී අතුරුදන් වූ සපුගස්කන්ද පොලිසියේ අපරාධ විමර්ශන අංශයේ ස්ථානාධිපති උප පොලිස් පරීක්ෂක රෝහිත ප්රියදර්ශන අබිරහස් ලෙස ඝාතනයට ලක් විය. ඔහුගේ ඝාතනයත් ඉන් පසු ව පොලිසිය ක්රියාත්මක වූ ආකාරයත් ඝාතනයට වගක්ව යුත්තන් නීතිය ඉදිරියේ අනාවරණය වූ ආකාරයත් මේ වීඩියෝවෙන් විස්තර කෙරෙයි https://youtu.be/O6kq4OEZFGk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
රනිල්ගේ සිත රිදවූ SI රෝහිත ප්රියදර්ශන අමු අමුවේ ඝාතනය කළ හැටි
https://youtu.be/QKH-pF44Bmc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Reaffirming Continuity, the Anura Way
Shorn of the frills, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s India visit this week has demonstrated continuity in Sri Lanka’s foreign policy independent of the expectations and anticipation that followed twin elections in three months. Earlier, by accepting the IMF agreement, as negotiated by the predecessor Ranil Wickremesinghe regime, the current NPP dispensation had clearly indicated that it was not a ‘disruptor’ who would put the nation’s medium and long-term interests in jeopardy. In many ways, the Joint Statement issued at the end of President Dissanayake’s talks with Indian Prime Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
‘UN fudged Lankan casualty figures’ – Lord Naseby
The United Nations Human Rights Council at its 57th session adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Project on Sri Lanka Accountability by one year. Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International, has commented extensively on this resolution. International perversion The source of these allegations of human rights violations against Sri Lanka is the controversial report called the ‘Dharusman (UNPOE pr United Nations Panel of Experts.) report,’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Right to Reply: Implement Indo-Lanka agreement as soon as possible, says Moragoda
Sri Lanka’s former High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda is pushing for the full implementation of the Indo-Lanka Agreement, an agreement that was signed under virtual duress in 1987 after India secretly trained & armed Tamil militants & they began unleashing terror after hijacking the elite Tamil politician’s quest to create a separate Tamil state. It is no secret that the threat of Tamil Nadu seeking self-determination was what prompted India to transfer that quest to Sri Lanka, while the Agreement cleverly merged several districts into 2 provinces namely North & East as the much-eyed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
කුමාරයාගේ ඉන්දියන් සන්චාරය
කුමාරයා ආසනේ ඉඳ ගත්ත ගමන් හා හා පුරා ආරාධනාව ආවේ ඉන්දියාවෙන්ය මේ ඉන්දියානු ගමන විජේය මහප්පා අවුරුදු 60 කට පෙර දෙසූ පංචාර්ය සත්යයේ ඉන්දියානු ව්යප්තවාද සත්යයට ඉඳුරා පටහැණිය මහප්පාට තිබූ නුවණෙන් අරික්කාලක් කුමාරයා ආසනේ ඉඳ ගන්නට පෙර තිබුනා සේ පෙනුනේය දැන් ඒ කාලත් කොහේ ගියාද නැත කුමාරයා ට ආසනය වෙන් කර දෙන්නට ඉන්දියානු ව්යාප්තවාදය බලපෑවේ නැතැයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
මෝඩ නැති මෝඩි සමඟ ගණුදෙනුවේදී අනුර කුමාරට නැතුවම බැරි වීරයෙක්! (Milinda Moragoda to the rescue!)
පාත් ෆයින්ඩර් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ ට්රෝජන් අශ්වයෙක්ද?Lanka Web, April 19th, 2020 Implement Indo-Lanka agreement as soon as possible, says Moragoda Island Newspaper, 2024/12/19 Sri Lanka’s former High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda has emphasised the pivotal importance of Colombo and Delhi quickly moving to the implementation phase of the agreement on ‘fostering partnership for a shared future.’ The former Minister said that the implementation should begin as fast as possible. He said so in response to The Island queries regarding the Indo-Lanka relations in the wake of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Germany's fascination with Buddhism
Germany's fascination with Buddhism Buddhism has been growing in popularity in Germany for the past 50 years. Some reasons for this include: Tolerance: Buddhism is a tolerant religion that is open to anyone. Buddhism is the most animal friendly World Religion. " Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long held that all life forms are sacred and considers kindness and compassion the highest virtues. Moreover, Buddhism explicitly includes animals in its moral universe". Norm Phelps The Great Compassion:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Is this How the Richest Person on the Planet Should Behave in Public or even in Private?
Is this How the Richest Person on the Planet Should Behave in Public or even in Private? Please Read His Comments and You Decide! For context, Musk was responding to a post about a Der Spiegel article that compared him to a media mogul who helped Hitler climb to power. It was hardly Musk’s first, and certainly not his most offensive, statement involving the Third Reich or their White supremacist progeny. Just last month, Musk promoted Tucker Carlson’s widely condemned interview with a Nazi apologist who said the murder of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
"Puppet on a String!" - Elon Musk the Puppet Master, dangling Donald Trump!
"Puppet on a String!"https://lnkd.in/gGvzP2-8New York Rep. Dan Goldman “As the shadow Pres-Elect, Elon Musk is now calling the shots for House Rs on government funding while Trump hides in Mar-a-Lago behind his handlers,” Goldman wrote. “It increasingly seems like we’re in for 4 years of an unelected oligarch running the country by pulling on his puppet’s strings.” Express Your Opinion - Read What Others Say!The Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.Please visit -: http://www.lankaweb.com/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Addressing the Mental Health Issues of Post-War Sri Lanka
The 'Post-War Period' can be defined as the years following a major war, characterized by significant changes in the individuals as well as in the society. The Eelam War in Sri Lanka erupted in 1983 and ended in 2009. Following these years, Sri Lankan society experienced a collective trauma. The Sri Lankan conflict caused widespread human suffering and population displacement. Many individuals were physically and mentally traumatized, and war trauma still echoes in society. Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Sri Lanka, China to jointly advance high-quality development of Belt and Road
COLOMBO, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- China and Sri Lanka expressed willingness to jointly advance high-quality development of Belt and Road during meetings held here between Sri Lankan leaders and a senior Chinese political advisor. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya met with Qin Boyong, vice chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, executive vice chairperson of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, on Wednesday and Tuesday, respectively. Qin said China was willing to deepen the high-quality development of Belt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
More Symbolism and Less Substance in President’s Visit to India
Courtesy France 24 New Delhi laid out a red carpet welcome for President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who is on his first state visit outside the country. The President was ceremoniously welcomed by Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan, where he received a 21-gun salute and inspected a guard of honour presented by the Indian armed forces. During his visit, he also met, among others, Indian foreign finance ministers and health ministers. He also visited the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Preparations underway to welcome President during visit to China: Chinese envoy
Colombo, December 18 (Daily Mirror)- Preparations are underway to warmly welcome President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his future visit to China, Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Qin Boyong said. She said this during a meeting held with the President at the Parliamentary Complex today, the Presidential Media Division (PMD) said. The President expressed his gratitude to the Chinese government for its support during the debt restructuring as well as in the face of the economic crisis. He stated that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
The media is not to blame, Prime Minister!
-There was no word from the Prime Minister explaining why she turned up for the event late, keeping the Ambassador and the officials waiting for an hour Colombo, Dec 19 (Daily Mirror) - Last week, the government faced a diplomatic blunder when Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya accepted a consignment of school uniforms from China and ended up thanking the ‘Republic of China’ which Taiwan is officially known as instead of the ‘People’s Republic of China’, in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador and other officials. Taiwan has been China's arch... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
ඉන්දියාවට අවශ්ය ශ්රී ලංකාව සෑම අතින්ම ඔවුන් මත යැපෙන රාජ්යක් බවට පත් කිරීමටයි- හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ
විදුලි බලය අතිරික්තයක් දැනට තිබුණත් අනාගතයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඇතිවන විදුලි බල ඉල්ලුම හමුවේ සැපිරිය නොහැකි තත්වයට පත්වෙන බවත් එවිට ඉන්දියාවෙන් විදුලිය මිලදී ගැනීමට සිදුවන තත්වයට පත් වන බවත් හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ අදහස් පල කළේ ඊයේ (18) ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ මූලස්ථානයේදී ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතාගේ ඉන්දියානු සංචාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දැක්වීමට පැවැති මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමිනි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඒ මහතා පැවසුවේ ඉන්දියාවේ අදානි සමූහ ව්යාපාරයෙන් විදුලිය ලබාගත් බංගලාදේශය විදුලි බිල ගෙවා ගත නොහැකි තත්වයට පත් වී රටම කළුවරේ වැටෙන තත්වයට පත්වූ බවයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
ලක්ෂ 50 කට ආසන්න පිරිසකට රැඳවුම් බදු බර පැටවීම සහාසික ක්රියාවක්- මාතලේ දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීණී රෝහිණී කවිරත්න
මැතිවරණ සමයේ දී රට රවටමින් උපයන විට ගෙවීමේ බදු සීමාව රු. ලක්ෂ දෙකක් කරන බව පැවසූ අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මැතිතුමා ඊයේ(18) එය රු. 150,000 ක් කරන බව නිවේදනය කළ බව මාතලේ දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීණී රෝහිණී කවිරත්න මහත්මිය පවසයි. එලෙසම අදාළ බද්ද ගෙවන පුද්ගලයින් 121,000 කට එමගින් වාසියක් සැලසෙන බව ඇය අවධාරණය කරන්නීය. මාසිකව හෝ අර්ධ වාර්ෂිකව තැම්පත් පොලිය ආහාර, බෙහෙත් ඇතුළු දෛනික අවශ්යතාවයන් සඳහා ලබා ගන්නා ලක්ෂ 50 කට ආසන්න පිරිසකට රැඳවුම් බදු බර පැටවීම සහාසික ක්රියාවක් බව ඇය අවධාරණය කරන්නීය. ඇය එලෙස පවසන්නේ පුවත් පත් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමිනි. ඇය නිකුත් කළ පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය පහතින්...... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
ඇමති ලාල්කාන්තට, ආනන්ද විජේපාලට ළගම කෙනෙක්ගෙන් ලොකු පහරක්..
ලාල්කාන්ත හා විජේපාල ක්රමය වෙනුවට වන සතුන්, ගොවියා සහ වගා බිම් සුරකින ක්රමයක් අවශ්යය සජීව චාමිකරඉඩම් හා කෘෂිකර්ම ප්රතිසංස්කරණ ව්යාපාරය වගා හානි කරන වන සතුන්ට පෞද්ගලික වගා බිමක දී ඕනෑ ම ක්රියාමාර්ගයක් ගැනීමට කිසිදු නෛතික බාධාවක් නැති බවට කෘෂිකර්ම, පශු සම්පත්, ඉඩම් හා වාරිමාර්ග අමාත්ය කේ. ඩී. ලාල්කාන්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සිදු කළ නීති විරෝධී ප්රකාශයත් සමඟ සමාජය තුළ වගා හානි කරන වන සතුන් පිළිබඳ ව විශාල ආන්දෝලනයක් ඇති විය. ඒ අතරතුර මහජන ආරක්ෂක හා පාර්ලිමේන්තු කටයුතු අමාත්ය ආනන්ද විජේපාල සඳහන් කරන්නේ කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සිටින සියලූ ම අලි – ඇතුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Cabinet approves review of government-owned non-commercial institutions
The Cabinet has approved a proposal by the President to review government-owned non-commercial institutions, citing the need for modernization and the alignment of functions with current needs. Many of these institutions have outdated structures, insufficient powers, and overlapping functions, with some tasks being more efficiently performed by the private sector. Currently, the government manages 86 departments, 25 district secretariats, 339 divisional secretariats, 340 state-owned enterprises, and 115 non-commercial state statutory institutions. The national budget for 2024 allocates around 140 billion rupees for these institutions. A committee, led by the Secretary to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/24)
Is Sri Lanka ready to face a possible dementia epidemic? මම එංගලන්තේ අධි නීතිඥ.අධිකරණ ඇමති කිරිඇල්ලගේ දුවත් ඒක්ක පැටලෙයි.ඔයා මහාචාර්ය උනත් මට වැඩක් නෑ මෝදි කරට අත දැම්මම කැමති වෙලා.. වෙන කොහෙටහරි අත දැම්මනම් කොහොම තියෙයිද? - විමල්ගෙන් ප්රශ්න වැලක් ලෝභ-ද්වේෂ-මෝහයෙන් පිරි පංචස්කන්ධ හෙවත් මාලිමා පක්ෂය අල්ලාගත් කොටි වලිගයක්! Sri Lanka to give free visas to 39 countries - Foreign Minister. President expresses gratitude to China for debt restructuring support and economic assistance මගේ උපාධිය ගැන හැමෝම දන්නවා.පාඨලීගේ අධ්යාපනය ගැන කතාකරයි. ලාල්කාන්තගේ ජනකාන්ත කතා එපා Chamindranee Kiriella responds to allegations regarding her qualifications (Video) Sajith Premadasa presents educational qualifications in parliament Public Service - Snippets Prins Gunasekara 'අහිමි පරපුර' !!! Lost generation : මහින්දගේ හීනමානය නිසා විජේදාස ලියනාරච්චි මරුවා. WESTERN LEADERS ARE TAKING EMERGENCY EXITS Now Iran’s turn. Destroying Civilizations, the spectre of “1989” -Iran is now the key to the world Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Can Netanyahu Steal Syria? President renews Sri Lanka’s bid to join BRICS India using grant diplomacy to woo pro-China South Asian Presidents Faking degrees is a thriving industry in South Asia Sri Lanka can produce surplus energy, open to exporting to India: Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath BRI Likely To Be 'Renegotiated', China Our Friend Like India, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tells News18 After India trip, Dissanayake to visit China next month: Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Sri Lanka’s new president reassures Modi over Chinese ships Has ‘Compass’ lost direction? The Degree Circus ජනපති අනුරට ජනතාව බලය දී ඇත්තේ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරු 8 දෙනෙක් නොකළ දේ කිරීමට නොවෙයි - වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර (වීඩියෝ) Sri Lanka’s economy grows 5.5% in Q3 2024 ශ්රී ලංකා රජය දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ අභිලාෂ ඉටු කරනු ඇතැයි අපි බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා- මෝඩි ඉන්දීය ශ්රී ලංකා ඒකාබද්ධ හමුවේදී කියයි සජිත්ගේ සහතික හෙට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට.ඇමති නලින්ද ප්රසිද්ධියේ සජිත්ගේ අධ්යාපන සහතික ඉල්ලයි. හඩ පට දාලා සාලි අනුරව හම ගහයි. අපරාදේ අලුත් ආන්ඩුවක් මුණු විතරයි වෙනස්. අසාද් සාලි දෙනවා සැරටම අධිනීතිඥ ද ? නීතිඥ ද? මොනාද මේ කියන්නේ හර්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවට දාපු කින්ඩිය - Hiru News පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කෙස් වලු පටල ගනියි ආණ්ඩුවට කට උත්තර නැති වූ නලින් කළ සැර කතාව - Hiru News හසාරා ඇසූ අධිනීතිඥ ප්රශ්නයට චමින්ද්රාණි ගෙන් පිළිතුරු Wind Power that abounds in our hills පම්පෝරි සහ සහතික.. Discussion on Cannabis Pros, Cons; පක්ෂයෙන් සත පහක වැඩක් නෑ.. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පක්ෂයේ බූදලයක් නොවේ..- නිර්මාල්ගෙන් ජවිපෙට දරුණු ප්රහාරයක් ඉන්දියාව ලංකාව විදුලි කේබල්වලින්, තෙල් නලයකින් සම්බන්ධ කරනවා.. ‘එට්කා’ ඉක්මනින්…- ඉන්දීය අගමැති ජනපති අනුර ඉදිරියේ. India unveils measures to help Lankan economy recover India plans to supply LNG to Lanka, connect power grids Modi assures India’s continued economic support for Sri Lanka CHAPA in Open Dialogue with Wasitha! ජවිපෙට එරෙහි උපාධි ජංගි අරගලය! Dec 16, 2024 ලාල්කාන්ත හා සමන්තටත් ආචාර්ය පට්ටම් 159 ම ආචාර්යවරු කරන හැටි මෙන්න ! Milinda | Iraj මැති ඇමති තවත් 5කගේ ආචාර්ය මහාචාර්ය පට්ටම් ගැලවෙන හැඩ - Hiru News ඉන්දියාවෙන් ජනපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායකට කුඩම්මාගේ සැලකිලි. Sri lankan latest political news ‘’SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE SRI LANKA PRESIENT’S OFFICIAL VISIT TO INDIA AND CHINA TO ALL THREE FRIENDLY NATIONS’’
“Sri Lanka has become one of the fastest aging countries in the world. Its share of the population over 60 years of age, which was 12% in 2014, has exceeded the average of all countries in the South-East Asian region. According to population projections, this proportion will reach 28.5% by 2050. With ageing as the major non-modifiable risk factor for dementia, an epidemic of dementia is a certainty in Sri Lanka” - The National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/ PMC9469587/ (LankaWeb - 19/12/24)
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වෙස්වලාගත් භාග්යයක් (crisis & opportunity) කතානායකතුමාට (ව) ඇන්දවීමPosted on November 25th, 2024 https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2024/11/25/%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%ba%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%ad%e0%b7%94%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%a7-%e0%b7%80-%e0%b6%87%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%93%e0%b6%b8/ ඉහතින් සඳහන් කෙටි ලිපිය ලියා සති තුනක් යාමටත් පෙර මෙවැනි අළුත් මාතෘකාවකින් කථානායක රන්වලගේ ජවනිකාව ගැන ලියන්නට සිදුවේ යයි මා හීනෙන්වත් සිතුවේ නැත. ඔහු වංචාවක් කලාද නැද්දට වඩා වැදගත් වන කරුණු රාශියක් ඒ මඟින් මතුවිය. මෙහිදී මට මතක් වන්නේ චන්ද්රිකා තම උපාධි සහතිකය නිවසට ආ හිතවතාට පෙන්වන්නට එය ගේන්නට උඩ තට්ටුවට ගොස් ප්රමාදවන විට පහල සිටි ඇගේ සැමියා, නැති සහතික හොයන්නේ නැතිව පහලට එන්නැයි කිව්වා යයි යාළුවෙක් මට කී කතාවය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/24)
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vijitha Herath, has provided an update on the country’s strategic efforts to revitalize its tourism sector, which has faced unprecedented challenges in recent years due to the Easter Sunday attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic crisis. Speaking at the India Foundation Program, Herath stated, “We too had such a big tourism before the Easter Sunday attack, 2018. We got (the) highest amounts of tourists. And at that time, according to my memory, we earned four billion (dollars).” Herath pointed out the compounding challenges Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/24)
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has expressed his gratitude to the Chinese government for its support during debt restructuring as well as in the face of the economic crisis. He stated that his appreciation extends to China’s assistance in the debt restructuring program and its provision of loans to Sri Lanka during the economic challenges. President Dissanayake made these remarks during a meeting with Ms. Qin Boyong, Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), held today (18) at the Parliamentary Complex, the President’s Media Division (PMD)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/24)
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During yesterday's (17) parliamentary session, MP Chamindranee Kiriella addressed allegations about her educational qualifications, posting a statement on her Facebook page in response to questions raised in Parliament. Kiriella stated that recent social media allegations had made baseless and malicious claims about her qualifications, aiming to damage her reputation for narrow political reasons. She clarified her status as a barrister, explaining that she passed the bar exam at Lincoln's Inn, UK, in 2000, and underwent 12 months of training (pupillage) with leading barristers in the UK, which allowed her to practice in any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/24)
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa addressed parliament today (18) to present and clarify his educational qualifications in response to questions raised by Minister Nalinda Jayatissa. Premadasa detailed his educational journey, starting with pre-school at St. Bridget’s Convent, primary education at St. Thomas Primary School (Grades 1-5), and secondary education at Royal College (Grades 6-9), after which he moved abroad without sitting for the Ordinary Level examination in Sri Lanka. He explained that he completed his O-Level studies at Millhill College in England between 1983-1984, achieving 2 A passes, 2 B passes, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/24)
Sri Lanka Public Service (PS) is a massive organization with 1.3 million public servants in a ratio of 1to16 members of the population. It costs the government Around LKR 1 trillion annually on salaries and approximately LKR 300-400 billion annually on pensions. As a percentage of GDP Public sector expenditure represents about 10-15% of Sri Lanka’s GDP. The largest service within the PS is the clerical service (CS), with 28,000 members which plays an important role in the PS by maintaining records and facilitating decision making. As subject clerks, they are the keepers of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
1971 මෙන්ම 1987 -1990 අතර කාලය ශ්රී ලාංකාවාසින් නැවත මතක් කරන්නට අකමැති මුසල දේශපාලකයන් මෙන්ම අවස්ථාවාදී මිනිස් වෙස් ගත් වෘකයන් ජිවත් වූ යුගයකි. අනෙක් අතින් සිය යුගයේ මිනිසුන්ගේ සහ ගැහැණුන්ගේ ජිවිත වලට යහපත් දවසක් උදා කිරීමේ හුදු අරමුණින් යුතුව සමාජ ශෝධනයක් සහ නව සමාජයක් උදෙසා සිය දිවි පරදුවට තබා සටන් වැදී මානව හිතවාදී, දේශ හිතැති, සිය ජිවිත මෙන්ම ඒ හා බැඳුනු සියළු දෑ අහිමි කර ගත් තරුණ පරපුරකි. එහෙත් අවි ආයුධ සහිත සහ ආරක්ෂක බල ඇණි සිය පාලනය යටතේ තමනට රිසි පරිදි මෙහෙයවා ගත් බල ලෝභී, කුරිරු, අධම කපටි දේශපාලකයන් ඔවුන් සතු බලය යොදවා උක්ත තරුණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Canada’s deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, quit her job, just before she was set to deliver the latest budget, like calling in sick before an important meeting that you know you can't handle. The $62 billion deficit that was set to be announced – $22 billion more than finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s projected target – might have had something to do with it.Chrystia Freeland claimed that she was pushed out first, though, writing in her resignation letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, “On Friday, you told me you no longer want... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
In my previous article on Syria I argued that there is a “Damascus-Tehran (not forgetting Lebanon and Palestine) train that is now preparing to depart”. The ink on the article did not have time to ‘dry’, so to speak, since no ink is used anymore, and the train started to whistle for departure. The Prime Minister of Israel himself, after congratulating himself for the “triumph” in Syria, rushed to address a speech in English to the citizens of Iran, promising “regime change” much sooner than he thought, with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
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Dec 17 (NewsWire) – Sri Lanka has renewed its interest in joining BRICS, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake conveying the country’s aspirations during his three-day state visit to India. India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri during a special media briefing on President Dissanayake’s visit said that Sri Lanka’s request however will be considered only when BRICS deliberates new memberships in the future. “Currently, there are no new members being considered by BRICS in addition to the ones that were already on the list since last year. But as and when there is a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Colombo, December 17: In much the same way as it wooed the pro-China Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, New Delhi is now wooing Sri Lanka’s new pro-Chinese President Anura Kumara Dissanayake with generous and timely financial grants. Many grants and big ticket development initiatives were announced by India during the talks between Dissanayake and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held in New Delhi on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Both sides candidly stated their interests and concerns, but at the same time agreed to work around the ticklish ones to put... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Colombo, December 17: The Anura Kumara Dissanayake government in Sri Lanka, which was sailing smoothly despite unsolved economic issues, suffered the first jolt since coming to power, when parliament Speaker Ashoka Ranwala resigned on Friday amidst accusations that his “Ph.D” was fake. Urban Development and Housing Minister Anura Karunatilake and Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara were also assailed for falsely claiming that they had doctoral degrees. Ranwala maintained that he had acquired a Ph.D, and said that he had no documentary proof of the doctorate. He said he would produce it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Sri Lanka has the potential to produce surplus energy and could export it to India and other neighbouring nations if new energy projects are initiated, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said on Tuesday. Speaking at the India Foundation Programme, Herath invited Indian companies to participate in the development of Sri Lanka’s energy sector. He said that while some energy projects are already underway, discussions are ongoing for others. On India’s role in Sri Lanka’s energy security, Herath said, “We have surplus energy power, we have wind power... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Sri Lanka's new government is likely to discuss the projects under BRI with China and also talk about Beijing's other commitments, including central highways. Additionally, there will also be talks around the lease of Hambantota Port, a proposed refinery, and other projects The new government in Sri Lanka is likely to “re-negotiate" China’s strategicBelt Road Initiative (BRI)projects in the island nation and “recalibrate" its old commitments, foreign affairs minister Vijitha Herath told News 18 on Tuesday, signalling Colombo’s intent to maintain cordial diplomatic and financial ties... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Minister Vijitha Herath says rebuilding the economy is new government’s biggest priority as he calls for more tourism, visa concessions from India After his trip to India, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will visit China next month, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said, while adding that the newly elected government wants “win-win” ties with all countries. A day after Mr. Dissanayake’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where the President said that he would ensure that Sri Lankan territory is not “used in any manner inimical to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Anura Kumara Dissanayake pledges Colombo’s commitment to India’s security interests amid rising Chinese activity in the Indian Ocean Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has assured Narendra Modi that Colombo will not allow its territory to be used in any way detrimental to India’s security interests. The statement came during Mr Dissanayake’s first bilateral visit to New Delhi on Monday, amid growing concerns over China’s increasing influence in the Indian Ocean region. “I have given an assurance to the prime minister of India that we will not have our land... be used in a manner that is detrimental to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
Asoka Ranwala I continue to be amazed by the parallels in politics in the country of my birth and the country of my residence. But before going in to the latest developments in the field of politics, let me make a clarification regarding a response to my opinion piece “What is in a title?” (The Island, 13 December). My grateful thanks go to Philosophiae Doctor (Canterbrigensis) for the tutorial on degrees (A degree is not a title! The Island, 16 December) from which I learnt a lot,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
File photo of President AKD and Speaker Ranwala(Image courtesy Parliament of Sri Lanka) ‘To prove that degrees, per se, are worthless. Often, they are honorifics of true scientists or learned scholars or inspired teachers. Much more frequently they are false faces for overeducated jackasses.’ – Robert A. Heinlein It is the above quote that came to mind when witnessing the barrage of information coming out on the saga of the Sri Lankan parliamentary speaker Asoka Ranwala’s PhD qualification, or the lack of it. Of course,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා 2023 ජූලි 21 ඉන්දියාව සමග එකඟවූ එකඟතාවයේ දී එට්කා ගිවිසුම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්රියාත්මක කර අවසන් කරන බව ප්රකාශකර තිබූ බවත්, මෙවර එකඟතා ප්රකාශයේ ද ඒ පිළිබඳව සඳහන්කර ඇති බවත් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. එහෙත් අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඔහුගේ කතාවේ දී ඒ පිළිබඳව සඳහන් නොකළ බවද, 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කරන ලෙස ඉන්දියාවේ අගමැති නරේන්ද්ර මොදි ප්රකාශ කර තිබුනත් අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතාගේ කතාවේ දී ඒ සඳහා එකඟතාව පළවී නැති බවත් ඒ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මේ බලපෑම්වලට යටත් නොවී අනුර කුමාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
The year-on-year GDP growth rate for the third quarter of 2024 has been reported as 5.5 percent of positive growth rate, the Department of Census and Statistics indicated. Accordingly, the GDP for the third quarter of 2024 at constant price (2015) has increased up to Rs. 3,151,941 million from Rs. 2,987,544 million which recorded in the third quarter of 2023. The year-on-year GDP growth rate for the third quarter of year 2024 has been reported as 5.5 percent of positive growth rate, while the Agricultural, Industrial and Services activities expanded by 3.0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/24)
ඉන්දියාවේ සිට ශ්රී ලංකාව දක්වා තෙල් නළයක් ඉදිකිරීමටත් ඉන්දියාව හා ශ්රී ලංකාව විදුලි සම්ප්රේෂණ ජාලයන් මගින් සම්බන්ධ කිරීමටත්, දෙරට අතර වන එක්ටා ගිවිසුම ඉක්මනින් අවසන් කිරීමටත් ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා සමන්ග සාකච්ඡා කළ බව ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි මහතා පැවසූ බව ඉන්දීය මාධ්ය වාර්තා කර සිටී. දෙරටේ රාජ්ය නායකයින් දෙපළගේ හමුවීමෙන් පසුව නවදිල්ලියේ ‘හයිද්රාබාද් හවුස්’හි පැවති ඒකාබද්ධ මාධ්ය හමුව අමතමින් ඉන්දීය අගමැතිවරයා මෙසේ පවසා ඇතැයි ඉන්දීය මාධ්ය පවසයි. ‘අපිට සතුටුයි ඔබා ජනාධිපති වූ පසුව ඔබගේ පළමු විදේශ සංචාරය සඳහා ඉන්දියාව තෝරා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්. ඔබගේ මෙම සංචාරය අපගේ සබඳතාවලට නව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
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On many an occasion on my never ending irrigation inspections in Kandy and Nuwara Eliya long ago I had to cling onto trees and, creepers to avoid being blown off by the power of the wind. I enclose what I once wrote hoping that our new Government of Anura Kumara Dissanayake will somehow read through. Speaking from my sheer experience in handling development tasks- Building up Coop Crayon at Morawaka in 1971, done in three months, developing it to enable Minister Illangaratne to declare that all imports of crayons... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
ඝන ප්ලාස්ටික් ෆයිල් කවරයක් හමාරක් නොගන්න තරම් පරිසර සංවේදී නම්, අඩුගානේ ජනාධිපති තුමාගෙන්, අර තියෙනවා කීව කාඩ්බෝඩ් ෆයිල් වලින්, පරණ වුණාට කමක් නෑ ෆයිල් කවරයක් ඉල්ලගන්න. දැන් නම් එතුමා බොහෝ වෙලාවට ඒ ඔක්කොම වුනත් මදේ අහක් කරලා ඉල්ලන පරක්කුවට දෙන්නත් පුළුවන්. දැන් ඒක ඇතුලට ඔය ජීවිත කාලෙදි ලැබිච්චි සහතික කරදහි අනුපිළිවෙලට දා ගන්න. ඕ ලෙවල් වි බාගේ සමත් අසමත් සහතික කරදහිය, ඒ ලෙවල් වි බාගේ සමත් අසමත් සහතික කරදහිය, ලෝකේ පිළිගත් විස්ස විජ්ජාලයකට ගියා නං, ඒ පාඨමාලාව හරියට සම්පුර්ණ කරල අවසන් මහ වි බාගේ සමත් වුනා නං, ප්රථම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
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ඉල්ලා අස්වූ කතානායක අශෝක රන්වල මහතාගේ අධ්යාපන සුදුසුකම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මතභේදාත්මක තත්ත්වයක් ඇතිවීම මත ජාතික ජන බලවේගය හා ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්රබලයන් අතර යම් මතගැටුම්කාරී ස්වභාවයක් ඇති වී තිබේ. ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ ප්රබල ක්රියාකාරිකයකු වන ආචාර්ය නිර්මාල් රංජිත් දේව සිරි මහතා සහ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්රබලයකු වන ජානක අධිකාරිය මහතා අතර සමාජ ජාලයන්හි මෙවන් එක් සංවාදය ඇති වී තිබේ. ජානක අධිකාරි මහතා තම සමාජ ජාලයේ අශෝක රන්වල මහතාට පක්ෂපාතිව පළ කළ සටහනකට නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි මහතා සඳහන් කරන්නේ ජනතාවට පක්ෂයෙන් සත පහක වැඩක් නැති බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පක්ෂයේ බූදලයක් නොවන බවත්ය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
ඉන්දියාව හා ශ්රී ලංකාව විදුලි සම්ප්රේෂණ ජාලයන් සම්බන්ධ කිරීමටත්, ඉන්දියාවේ සිට ශ්රී ලංකාව දක්වා තෙල් නළයක් ඉදිකිරීමටත් දෙරට අතර වන එක්ටා ගිවිසුම ඉක්මනින් අවසන් කිරීමටත් ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා සහග සාකච්චා කල බව ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි මහතා පවසයි. නවදිල්ලියේ ‘හයිද්රාබාද් හවුස්’ දෙරටේ රාජ්ය නායකයින් දෙපළගේ හමුවීමෙන් පසුව පැවති ඒකාබද්ධ මාධ්ය හමුව අමතමින් ඔහු මෙසේ කියා සිටියේය. ‘අපිට සතුටුයි ජනාධිපති වූ පසුව ඔබගේ පළමු විදේශ සංචාරය සඳහා ඉන්දියාව තෝරා ගැනීම ගැන. මෙම සංචාරය අපගේ සබඳතාවලට නව ජවයක්. භෞතික ඩිජිටල් සහ බලශක්ති සම්බන්ධතාවය අපගේ හවුල්කාරීත්වයේ වැදගත් වැදගත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
New Delhi New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during a banquet hosted by her in his honour at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi, Monday. (PTI) India on Monday unveiled a slew of measures to boost development and physical and energy connectivity with Sri Lanka, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuring... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake inspects an honour guard during his ceremonial reception at India’s Presidential Palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India, yesterday. India plans to supply liquefied natural gas to Sri Lanka’s power plants and will work on connecting the power grids of the two countries as well as lay a petroleum pipeline between the neighbours, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.Modi was speaking at a joint press briefing with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in New Delhi.Dissanayake is on his first official visit to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has extended an invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka, during the joint media briefing held in New Delhi this afternoon (16). Meanwhile, he also stated that PM Modi had assured continued economic support for Sri Lanka. During the meeting, the Sri Lankan leader assured that the island nation would not allow the country to be used in “a manner that is detrimental to the interest of India”. “I have also given an assurance to the Prime Minister of India that we... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/24)
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Foreign Policy of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is a compact and beautiful Island in the powerful Indian Ocean, maintaining friendly relations with the world with the motto on the foreign policy Friendly with all and angry with none, which is a very useful and productive policy to be a recognized and reputed member of the world family consisting of all nations bonded by the United Nations formed for the unity, security, and maintain friendly relations in... -Full Story-
A Commemorative Talk on Asoka Weeraratna by Dr. Thilanka K. Dahanayake in "Shashthreeya Sangrahaya Program 2024 12 13" on YouTube
A Commemorative Talk on Asoka Weeraratna (founder of the German Dharmaduta Society, Berlin Vihara in Germany and the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya) later known as Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanisanthi Thero, on the occasion of his 106th Birth Anniversary (December 12, 1918) by Dr Thilanka K. Dahanayake ( grandson of former Prime Minister W. Dahanayake), currently lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Jayawardenapura. This Radio Program was moderated by Dr. Nalaka Jayasena https://youtu.be/oIYFSa39x68... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/24)
Why is the Indian Cricket team not performing to expectation in the Current Test Match series of Cricket against Australia.
India plays far too many twenty over cricket matches and does not focus on Test Match cricket as Australia for example does. I realize that twenty over cricket is more popular in India at present than Test Match cricket but the people to blame for this is the Board of Control for cricket in India. Test Match cricket is yet the pinnacle or the litmus test for cricket when it comes to technique, application, concentration and physical fitness or stamina in regard to the game... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/24)
රංවලගේ සහ මගේ සරසවි
මම Al කරල රිසල්ට් එන්නත් කලින් job එකට ගියේ kuoni එකේ, ජොබ් එක කරන ගමන් පක්ෂෙ වැඩ කලා , වයඹ චන්දෙට වැඩකරන්න නිමාඩුදාල පුත්තලම ගියා , පුත්තලමෙ ඒ කාලෙ ජවිපෙට නවාතැන් දෙන්නවත් මිනිස්සු හිටියෙ නෑ , තිබුන ගෙවල් දෙක තුනේ පිටින් ආපු කාන්තාවො වයසක උදවිය නවත්තල , පන්ඩුක (කැලුම් අමරසිංහ ) සහ මම බස්ටෑන්ඩ් එකේ නිදාගත්ත දවස් තිබුන , පාර ජාතික සංචාරක සමාගමක වැඩ කරපු , තරු පන්තියෙ හෝටල් වල නැවතිලා හිටපු, මට ඒක මාර experience එකක් උනා , පස්සෙ මමයි පන්ඩුකයි, අමිලයි තොඩුවාව බීච් එකේ මාලු වාඩියක නැවතුනා ,ඒක චන්දයක් නෙමේ යුද්ධයක් ,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/24)
මිනිස්සුන්ට ආචාර්ය උපාධියකින් මොනවාද ලැබෙන්නේ?
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හරිනි නෝන්ඩි වෙන්න එපා...!
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මර්වින්ට තිබ්බ ආචාර්ය පට්ටමවත් මේ කතානායකට තිබ්බේ නැහැ. මේ ඉන්න සෙට් එකම හොර උපාධිකාරයෝද.
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Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA
With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms with the American regime and opened his dungeons to the CIA for the torture and interrogation of unfortunate people, such as Maher Arar, who were mercilessly swept up in the War on Terror. These grim services to the empire earned the Assad regime no lasting favors from the US and the enduring animosity of many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
Culling Elephants, Monkeys, Giant Squirrels and Peacocks to Sustainable Numbers Essential to Overcome Hunger and Economic Crisis
The island cannot sustain the entire human and animal population it currently has. It is an undeniable fact. The only solution is to cull the most damaging animals to its food security and economic activity. There isn’t enough food to go around for all. Unless humans are protected from hunger, malnutrition, under development and resultant health and economic calamities, Sri Lanka has no future in any human pursuit. Prolonged droughts and other natural disasters are only going to be more frequent and more devastating as global temperatures rise. An immediate cull of elephants, monkeys, giant squirrels... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
USA Takes More Steps to Destabilize Sri Lanka & India
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 08-14 December 2024 * BJP National Spokesperson & MP Sambit Patra directly accused the US State Department of trying to ‘destabilise India’ & claimed that the US ‘Deep State’ is working to ‘target Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘. – MK Bhadrakumar (see ee Sovereignty, Beware the US Deep State) * ‘Lisa Curtis, a Senior Fellow & Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
ගෑනුන්ටයි හාමුදුරුවන්ටයි වැඩියෙන් බනින්නේ ඇයි දන්නවද | kagama sirinanda himi bana and advising
https://youtu.be/mFsqEm40s6g... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
අවංක රාජ්ය සේවයක් නැතිව ජනාධිපති කොච්චර හොද උනත් රට හදන්නෙ කොහොමද පුතා | kagama sirinanda himi bana
https://youtu.be/tUwVKhb7e-E... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
Trillions of Microscopic Sea Plankton Recruited to Solve the Carbon Problem
First authors Diksha Sharma, left, and Vignesh Menon lead experiments on seawater collected from the Gulf of Maine – Credit: Annie Kandel, released American scientists have proposed a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures and their insatiable appetites for the fight against climate change. The technique harnesses the animals’ daily habits to essentially accelerate the ocean’s natural cycle for removing carbon from the atmosphere, which is known as the biological pump, according to the paper in Nature Scientific Reports. The study, published by researchers at Dartmouth College, reported... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
හොර මහාචාරියන්ට අබසරණයි.. විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රතිපාදන කොමිසමෙන් චක්රලේඛයක්..
ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය, මහාචාර්ය සහ සහකාර මහාචාර්ය යන තනතුරු භාවිත කළ හැක්කේ ඔවුන් එම අධ්යාපන ආයතනයේ හෝ උසස් අධ්යාපන ආයතනයේ සේවය කරන කාලය තුළ පමණක් බව සඳහන් කරමින් විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ හිටපු සභාපති ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය සම්පත් අමරතුංග විසින් පසුගිය ජූලි මාසයේ චක්රලේඛයක් මගින් සියලු විශ්වවිද්යාල උපකුලපතිවරුන්, සරසවි මණ්ඩප ප්රධානීන් හා උසස් අධ්යාපන ආයතන අධ්යක්ෂවරුන් වෙත දන්වා තිබේ. කෝප් කමිටුව මගින් ලබා දී ඇති නිර්දේශ අනුව 2024-07-03 වැනි දින විශ්වවිද්යාල ප්රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ පැවැති 1120 වැනි හමුවේදී මෙම තීරණයට එළඹ ඇතැයි එහි සඳහන්ය. මහාචාර්යවරුන් තනතුරෙන් විශ්රාම ගැනීමෙන් පසු කිසියම් විශ්වවිද්යාලයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
Indian travellers lead Srl Lankan tourism surge
Listen Colombo: Sri Lanka’s tourism sector is on a promising trajectory, with the country inching closer to its ambitious target of 2.3 million tourist arrivals for 2024. The latest data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) reveals that 1,804,873 tourists have visited the island so far this year, with November alone accounting for 184,158 arrivals. Indian travellers are at the forefront of this surge, with 41,120 tourists from India arriving in November, making them the largest contributor to Sri Lanka’s tourism boom. Russia follows as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
The Silence of the Speaker and other matters
Asoka Ranwala It is more than two weeks since the matter of the Speaker, Asoka Ranwala’s doctorate, or lack of it, was raised in public. If he does have one, it is sufficient time for him to have produced the necessary evidence and laid to rest the ongoing speculation. When my daughter acquired a doctorate from a university in England, she was ceremoniously presented with an ornately inscribed scroll, on thick, parchment paper , along with a foolish hat. To me, a non-academic, it seemed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
Explanations called from parliamentary employees
The process of re-checking and updating the information of all MPs on the parliamentary website is underway following the discovery that some titles were fake, an informed source said. The parliamentary authorities have also decided to call for explanations from those in charge of updating information on the web. Meanwhile, the Communication Department of Parliament said that the title of ‘’Dr.’’ was mentioned before the name of the Minister of Justice and National Integration Harshana Nanayakkara, in the directory of Members of Parliament on the parliamentary website. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
හරිනිගේ පට්ටමත් ගැලවෙයිද...? Harini Amarasuriya | Anura Dissanayake | Sisira C. Withanage
https://youtu.be/R2-jNSkyuh0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/24)
Global Reset: What is Sri Lanka’s future vis a vis India-West geopolitical games?
Undoubtedly a global reset is taking place. The sudden changes we are witnessing in 2024 will accelerate in 2025. India must be viewing the fall of Syria with concern, coming months after the fall of Bangladesh, the sudden Marshall Law declared in South Korea and everyone now wonder which nation is next. Apart from the usual diplomatic mumbo jumbo of working in harmony, behind doors planning is probably afoot to ensure the safety of over 9million Indians working in the Middle East. Syria and India have had close... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
Monkey and elephant damage- Short Term Solution
Some time back on a private members motion in the Parliament there was a debate on the damage done to the agricultural crops done by monkeys (Toque macaque}. There was unanimity across the party divide that crop damage by monkeys has increased very rapidly and now is in a crisis proportion. It was mentioned that monkey population has multiplied to around 3.8 million. The damage caused by animals mainly monkeys is estimated as close to Rs 8 billion. While the government is urging the farmers to produce more food are destroying around 40% of the crop... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
The Presidents forth coming visit to meet Indian Leaders
We welcome his choosing India for the first foreign visit as a good gesture, since it is our closest neighbor and it is also the country with whom we had the closest and the longest international relations in history. But I would advise him to be very careful with the present-day Indian sharks both political and bureaucratic, before he is taken for a ride along a blind alley as they did to Ranil and Basil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
ලාල්කාන්තගේ වඳුරු කුණුහරුප සහ රිලා නැටුම් ගෝලීය ජෛව-තාක්ෂණික ආක්රමණයකට දොරටු විවරකිරීමක්ද?
අජිත් සී හේරත් ලාල්කාන්තගේ පළමු රාජකාරිය: රිලවුන්ට සහ වඳුරන්ට එරෙහි යුද ප්රකාශ කිරීම පසුගිය නොවැම්බරයේ පැවැති මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් පසු බලයට පත් ජාතික ජන බලවේගය ආණ්ඩුවේ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය දිවුරුම් දීම සිදුවූයේ නොවැම්බර් 18 වැනිදාය. එම කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයේ කෘෂිකර්ම, පශු සම්පත්, ඉඩම් සහ වාරිමාර්ග ඇමැතිවරයා ලෙස දිවුරුම් දුන්නේ කේ.ඩී ලාල්කාන්තය. නොවැම්බර් මස 18 වැනි දින අමාත්යාංශය භාරගත් කෘෂිකර්ම පශු සම්පත්, ඉඩම් සහ වාරිමාර්ග ඇමැති ලාල්කාන්ත නොවැම්බර් මස 20 වැනි දින මෙරට ආහාර බෝග වගාවන්ට විශාල අනතුරක් සිදුකරන රිලවුන්ට සහ වඳුරන්ට එරෙහිව අමාත්යාංශයේ පැවැති විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකදී යුද ප්රකාශ කළේය. එම සාකච්ඡාවට අදාළ අමාත්යාංශවල දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුවල නියෝජිතයන්ට අමතරව ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
Federal Court awards domestic worker another $117,000 after she was paid 65c per hour by Sri Lankan diplomat
21 hours ago Former Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner Himalee Arunatilaka has been ordered to pay another $117,000, on top of $543,000. (Flickr: UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré under Creative Commons)
Sri Lanka's former Deputy High Commissioner to Australia has been ordered to pay a further $117,000 to a domestic worker she paid less than 65 cents an hour for three years in Canberra. Priyanka Danaratna was paid $11,212.70 for roughly three years of work, and has already been awarded $543,000 from the former... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාව, භික්ෂුන් හත් නමක් යොදාගෙන සිදුකිරීමට නියමිත බෙදුම්වාදී උගුලට හසුවන්න එපා - ජාතික සංවිධාන ජනපති අනුරට අනතුරු අඟවයි (වීඩියෝ)
දෙසැම්බර් මාසයේ 19 සහ 20 වැනිදා පැවැත්වෙන වැඩමුළුවක් මගින් දෙමළ ඩයස්පොරාව විසින් සකස්කළ හිමාලයා ප්රකාශනය නැතහොත් බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම් ප්රමාණයක් රැගත් ලියැවිල්ල භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා හත් නමක් යොදා ගනිමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයාට භාරදීමේ සූදානමක් ඇති බව දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව මගින් පැවැත්වූ මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඒ මහතා පවසන්නේ මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී සහ මහ මැතිවරණයේ දී මෙන්ම ඊට පෙර පැවති මැතිවරණ වලදී උතුරේ දිස්ත්රික්ක 5ක සහ නුවරඑළිය, බදුල්ල යන දිස්ත්රික්කවල ඡන්ද බෙදී යාම පිළිබඳව සැලකීමේ දී පරස්පර විරෝධී තත්වයක් පවතින බව ය. ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී ඩයස්පෝරාවේත්, ඉන්දියාවේත් තේරීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
Ranwala’s Title Outweighs Rice and Coconuts
Hoodwinking people who trust you, though you did not mean it,is dishonorable The NPP for decades has rightly been attributing all socio economic ills of this country to the moral degradation of politicians and vowed to change the political culture. Ranwala’s issue gains significance and validity in that context The moral high ground occupied by National People’s Power (NPP) government has been threatened by the issues surrounding the title Dr. used by Speaker Asoka Sapumal Ranwala after many people started questioning and challenging the authenticity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
Latvia blocked fertiliser shipment to SL for over two years, claims Russian Ambassador
Colombo, Dec 13 (Daily Mirror) - Russian Ambassador Levan S. Dzhagaryan alleged yesterday that Latvia, a European Union country, blocked a shipment of free fertiliser to Sri Lanka for over two years. The ship carrying 55,000 MT of Potassium Chloride fertiliser arrived at the Colombo harbour last morning. The consignment, granted by Russia under the World Food Programme, will be distributed to Sri Lankan farmers, with over 30,000 MT allocated to paddy farmers and the remainder to coconut cultivators. Ambassador Dzhagaryan stated that the fertiliser,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
Proposal to appoint select committee to verify NPP MPs’ educational qualifications
The United National Party (UNP) and the New Democratic Front (NDF) have decided to submit a proposal recommending to establish a Select Committee to verify the educational qualifications of the Ministers and MPs representing the National People’s Power (NPP). The relevant proposal will be presented to the parliament by MP Jeevan Thondaman, according to political sources.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
Asoka Ranwala resigns as Speaker of Parliament
The Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament Asoka Ranwala has resigned from his position, in the wake of the controversy surrounding his educational qualifications. The NPP Parliamentarian confirmed this decision issuing a special statement today (13). In his statement, the parliamentarian noted that an issue concerning his educational qualifications had surfaced over the past couple of days. Ranwala assured that he has never made a false statement regarding his educational qualifications at any point. However, the MP stated that at this moment he is not in possession of certain documents required... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/24)
එහෙනම් කොල්ලෝ අපි ගියා මීට හිටපු ආචාර්ය හිටපු කතානායක
https://youtu.be/IRPTsx0FeSk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/24)
එකින් එක ගැලවෙන ආචාර්ය පට්ටම්... "මම මොරටුවෙන් ගත්තේ උපාධියක් නොවේ... කථානායක BBCයට කියයි."
https://youtu.be/GrhUA8CILLo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/24)
රනිල් කංචනට දුන්න ගේම - රන්වල නාඩගම බයිට් එකට ගත් මෛත්රී - Hiru News
https://youtu.be/-Xp0RT7j6H4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/24)
CHAPA on Geopolitics! JVP - NPP, Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala, මාළිමා රංවල කෙළිය!Dec 14, 2024, Episode 164
https://youtu.be/P7n27c8_qMo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/24)
Scott Ritter : How Syria Fell.
https://youtu.be/TnJmBFLOtQg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
“COST OF LIVING - THE MAIN CHALLENGE TO THE CITIZEN”
Cost of living Cost of living is the cost incurred to an average family to make ends meet comfortably computed by the governments, trade and consumer organizations in various ways as index of the cost of living, and guides to the Cost of living by the governments, international organizations, international organization socializing on consumerism which is steady rising world over but sky rocketing in Sri Lanka. Whilst steadily increasing the cost of in other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
පාර්ලිමේන්තු වෙබ් අඩවියෙන් ඇමති හර්ෂණගේ ආචාර්ය පට්ටමත් ගලවයි..
පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වෙබ් අඩවියේ අධිකරණ අමාත්ය නීතිඥ හර්ෂණ නානායක්කාර මහතාගේ නම ඉදිරියෙන්ද ආචාර්ය උපාධියක් සඳහන්ව තිබී ඉවත් කරනු ලැබ ඇත. සභානායක කාර්යාලය ඒවා තිබූ ලිපියක තොරතුරු අනුව පාර්ලිමේන්තු වෙබ් අඩවියේ නානායක්කාර මහතාගේ නම ඉදිරියේ එලෙස ආචාර්ය උපාධිය සඳහන් කර තිබිණැයි කියති. කෙසේ වෙතත් හර්ෂන නානායක්කාර මහතා පෞද්ගලිකව ආචාර උපාධියක් ගැන සඳහන් කර ලිපියක් භාරදී නොතිබූ බව ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. මේ අතර පාර්ලිමේන්තු වෙබ් අඩවියේ මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගේ විස්තර නිවැරදිව සටහන්ව තිබේදැයි පූර්ණ සොයාබැලීමක් කරන ලෙස පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්රධානීන් එම වෙබ් අඩවිය බාර නිලධාරීන්ට දැනුම් දී ඇත. මේ අනුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
Gautam Adani indictment proving costly for the US? Adani Group says no to US loan to develop Sri Lanka port
Adani Ports opts out of DFC loan from the US, cutting American involvement in the development of the Colombo West International Terminal in Sri Lanka to counter Chinese influence In a new development to the growing strain between the US and Indian industrialist Gautam Adani following his DOJ and SEC indictments last month, Adani Group announced that it would not seek American funding for its ongoing port project, the Colombo West International Terminal (CWIT), in Sri Lanka. The port unit of the conglomerate led by Gautam Adani in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
BRICS and De-Dollarization: Implications for India and Global Power Dynamics
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS Summit in Russia (Source: ING Website) BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) has proposed ambitious financial reforms, including the creation of a common currency. The BRICS New Development Bank and regional development banks are seen as key players in promoting mutual trade and reducing reliance on the dollar. Proponents argue that a common BRICS currency, potentially backed by gold or other resource assets, could transform the global monetary system... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
මාලිමා ආණ්ඩුවේ හොර උපාධිකාරයින්ගේ අලුත්ම ලැයිස්තුව මෙන්න. Sri lankan latest political news
https://youtu.be/_5T1Vv1lzbo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
Plants 'scream' while they're being harvested, new study finds
Vegetarians, we're afraid we've got some news that you're probably not going to like… Plants emit sounds, akin to ‘screams’, when they’re distressed, according to a new study. They allegedly produce clicking noises that humans can’t hear without the use of scientific equipment, research has found. The research, which was published in Cell back in 2023, showed that plants produce these noises in times of acute distress. Lilach Hadany is an evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University. Hadany said: "Even in a quiet field, there are actually... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
<ජාති වාදය> හා <ආගමික අන්තවාදය> - part -I
< මින් ඉදිරියට ජාතිවාදයට හා ආගමික අන්තවාදයට ඉඩ දෙන්නේ නෑ> යනුවෙන් ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපති AKD විසින් කල <රාජාසන කතාව> පිළිඹඳව විමර්ශනයක් ඔහුගේ පක්ෂයේ මන්ත්රීන් 159 දෙනාට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම මෙම රචනා මාලාවේ අරමුණය. අර්ථ නිරූපණ: ජාතිවාදය තම ජනවර්ගය යම් මැවුම්කරුවෙකුගෙන් ආශිර්වාද ලැබුණු ලෝකයේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨම මිනිස් කොට්ඨාශය යයි විශ්වාස කරමින්, සෙසු ජන කොටස් පහත් යයි හෙලාදකිමින්, ඔවුන් තම වසඟයට, ආධිපත්යය යටතට ගෙන මර්ධනය කිරීමට උපක්රමශීලී ලෙස ක්රියාකිරීම (හිට්ලර්වාදය; චීන පිරිමින්ට ගොදුරුවන ටිබැට් ස්ත්රීන්). ජාතිකවාදය යම් නිශ්චිත භූමි ප්රදේශයක තමන්ටම ආවේනිකවූ ජීවනක්රමයක් (සභ්යත්වයක්, civilization) ගොඩනඟා ගත් ජන වර්ගයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
එක්සත් ජාතික පාක්ෂිකයන් සහ ‘කොලොම්බියානුවන්’ සහ බටහිර උගත් දෙමළ ජනයා AKD සඳහා මුල් බැස ගන්නේ ඇයි? - (2 කොටස)
2024 නොවැම්බර් 10 වැනි දින පළ කරන ලදී ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලේ න්යාය පත්රය සම්පූර්ණ කිරීම සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ AKD පාලනය ලබා දෙන ප්රතිඵලයක් වේදිකාගත කිරීමට යාන්ක් ඩොලර් මිලියන ගණන් විසි කරන බව ප්රසිද්ධ රහසකි. පසුගියදා නිමාවට පත් වූ ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ කුතුහලය දනවන සංසිද්ධියක් - එළැඹෙන මහ මැතිවරණයට සම්බන්ධ සිදුවීම් වලදී අද ද පවතින සංසිද්ධියක් - එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය විසින් ඉටු කරන ලද සෙවනැලි භූමිකාවයි. දිගින් දිගටම මහජන ඇසේ රැඳී සිටින අතරම, පක්ෂය හුදු ප්රේක්ෂකයෙකු මෙන් සිදුවෙමින් පවතින දේශපාලන ක්රියාකාරකම්වල මායිම් මත හිතාමතාම ක්රියාත්මක වන බව පෙනේ. AKD ගේ ප්රචාරක පෝස්ටර් ‘විජය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
The theory and Practice of Corruption in Sri Lanka
The S.R. Kottegoda Oration. Rohan Pethiyagoda reviews the many forms of corruption in Sri Lanka and puts this terrible practice in context. https://youtu.be/5OWIRKfOqWY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
මෝල් හිමියන් කියන ගාන හාල් මිල වැඩි කරන්න නම් මොකක්ද ජනාධිපති ධූරයේ තත්ත්වය..
හාල් සහ පොල් මිල ඉහළ යාම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුව ජනතාවට ජනකාන්තවාදී බොරු ප්රකාශ කරන බවට එක්සත් ජනරජ පෙරමුණේ නායක, හිටපු අමාත්ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා චෝදනා කරයි. සහල්, පොල් ඇතුළු අත්යවශ්ය ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාව පිළිබඳ එක්සත් ජනරජ පෙරමුණ පැවැත්වූ මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඒ මහතා පෙන්වා දුන්නේ ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත්වීමට පෙර හාල් මෝල් හිමියන්ට එරෙහිව දැඩි ප්රකාශ කළ නමුත්, බලයට පත්වීමෙන් පසු ඔවුන් සමඟ එකඟතාවකට පැමිණ හාල් මිල ඉහළ දැමීමට කටයුතු කළ බවයි. “ජනාධිපතිතුමා මේසෙට තට්ටු කරලා තමන්ට හිතු ගානකින් හාල් මෝල් හිමියන්ට එකඟ වෙන ගානකින් හාල් මිල වැඩි කරන්න නම් මොකක්ද ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
CEB සභාපති තිලක් සියඹළාපිටිය, බිරිදගේ පුද්ගලික විදුලි බලාගාරයෙන් වැඩි මිලට විදුලිය ගනී.
දූෂනයට එරෙහි ව පසුගිය කාලේ කෑගසපු මහත්තයෙක් නේද මේ සියඹලාපිටිය.අපේ රටට අබ සරනයි https://youtu.be/DoXWZoJzsIc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
අනුරගේ නීතිපති අනුරටම ගේම ගහලා
https://youtu.be/Ot0jZcLh_FI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
Jerome not a Catholic Bishop, don’t get deceived: Catholic Church
The Catholic Bishops Conference in Sri Lanka today clarified that Pastor Jerome Fernando was not a Bishop of the Catholic Church, and therefore the members of its church should not be deceived. “Jerome Fernando, who has no official apostolic succession in the Catholic church, is not a Catholic Bishop, hence we request our Catholic faithful not to be deceived by such information,” a statement signed by Bishops Conference Secretary General Rev J. D. Anthony Jayakody said. “Catholic Bishop is a continuation of the successors of Jesus’s apostles. Every Catholic Bishop... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
ACCOMPLISHMENT OF PLEDGES GIVEN AT THE ELECTIONS:IS IT FEASIBLE ?
Pic - BBC Out of multiple strategies implemented by JVP/NPP leadership in order to secure victory at the last Presidential and General elections, hatred politics and gamut of crucial pledges given to the people have played a predominant role to change the mindset of the mass scale of people in favour of JVP/NPP. In a nutshell, hatred politics means rousing of antipathy and antagonistic feelings among the masses by one fraction of politicians against another faction of politicians or traditionally by Opposition in Parliament... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/24)
ඉසුරුපාය ළඟ විරෝධයේදී පොලීසියේ තුනක් කැපුවේ හමුදා බුද්ධි නිලධාරියෙක්..- පොලිසිය උසාවියට දන්වයි…
ගුරු පත්වීම් ඉල්ලා පාසල් සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් පසුගිය 2 වැනිදා බත්තරමුල්ල ඉසුරුපාය අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශය ඉදිරිපිට පැවැත්වූ විරෝධතාවේදී තියුණු ආයුධයකින් කපා පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් තිදෙනකුට තුවාල සිදුකළැයි කියන පුද්ගලයා යුද හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරියකු බවට මෙතෙක් සිදුකළ විමර්ශනවලදී අනාවරණය වී ඇතැයි තලංගම පොලිසිය කඩුවෙල මහෙස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණයට ඊයේ (10දා) දැනුම් දුන්නේය. එම පුද්ගලයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් වහාම විධිමත් පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වා විමර්ශනවල ප්රගතිය තම අධිකරණයට වාර්තා කරන ලෙසට පොලිසියට නියෝග කළ කඩුවෙල මහෙස්ත්රාත් චාගිමා විජේබණ්ඩාර මහත්මිය පොලිස් රාජකාරියට බාධා කිරීම ඇතුළු චෝදනා යටතේ රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කර සිටි පාසල් සංවර්ධන නිලධාරින් සිවු දෙනා රුපියල් ලක්ෂය බැගින් වූ ශරීර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
මම ඇමති කාලෙ අශෝක රන්වල කාර්මික නිලධාරියෙක්.. ආධුනිකත්ව මණ්ඩලයෙන් ආපු කෙනෙක්.. චාමර සම්පත්ගෙ අවංකකම ඔහුට නෑ..
පාරලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී චාමර සම්පත්ට තියෙන අවංක කම කතානායක අශෝක රන්වලට නැතැයි හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී චම්පික රණවක මහතා පවසයි. කොළඹ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඒ මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. “පළපුරුදු කියන එකේ ඉන්න හැම මිනිහම හොරු කියලනේ කිව්වේ. හැම මිනිහම බොරුකාරයෝ කියලනේ කිව්වේ. හැම මිනිහම අශිෂ්ටයි කියලනේ කිව්වේ. එහෙම කියලනේ මේ බලයට ආවේ ශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න රජයක් ආණ්ඩුවක් හදනවා කියලා. අද කතානායකගේ ප්රශ්නෙන් මොකක්ද පෙන්නලා තියෙන්නේ? මොකක්ද කිව්වේ? කතානායකතුමා කිව්වේ ඔහුට ආචාර්ය උපාධියක් තියෙනවා කියලා වසේඩා කියලා විශ්ව විද්යාලයක ජපානයේ. දැන් පෙන්නලා තියෙනවා එහෙම උපාධියක් තියා ඔහු කවදාක්වත් ඒකෙ ශිෂ්යයෙක්වත් වෙලා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
කථානායකගේ ආචාර්ය උපාධිය බොරු - තලතා අතුකෝරල ආණ්ඩුව නැත්තට නැති කරයි
https://youtu.be/WVPPgsOobEM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
චම්පික කුපිත වෙයි - අනුරට හොදටම දෙසනවා
https://youtu.be/G_1P1OLPYdA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
කථානායකගේ පටි රෝල් උපාධියක් ගත්තා නම් ෆොටෝ එකක්වත් එළියට දන්න
https://youtu.be/eOFR4g7d3qk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
කථානායකගේ ආචාර්ය පට්ටම වෙබ් අඩවියෙන් ඉවතට - ජපන් සරසවියේ ඉගෙනගෙන නෑ - Hiru News
https://youtu.be/B2bU4oYfmrA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Open Letter to Sri Lanka President
12 December 2024 OPEN LETTER Rt. Hon. Anura Kumara Dissanayake Leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) President of Sri Lanka .President’s Secretariat Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Dear President Dissanayake: It’s with utmost honesty that I say “Congratulations” that Sri Lankans of all colours voted you in to take over the reins and govern Sri Lanka for all its peoples, ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Open letter to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake -Regarding the Debt Restructure Agreements with the IMF,Official Creditor Committee and Ad Hoc Groups of Bondholders
The Hon’ble President of Sri Lanka Anura Kumara Dissanayake presidential Secretariat, Galle Face, Colombo 01, Sri Lanka Open letter to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake -Regarding the Debt Restructure Agreements with the IMF,Official Creditor Committee and Ad Hoc Groups of Bondholders Dear Mr President, This is written out of deep concern regarding the debt restructure agreements with the IMF, Official Creditor Committee (OCC) and ad hoc groups of bondholders which should NOT be signed without full review and DUE DILIGENCE by the new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
What Led To The Fall Of Assad's Syrian Army Against America-Backed Rebels? GD Bakshi Explains
CIA & Turkey bribed the Syrian Generals to give it away. https://youtu.be/WkOe3IUwg3c... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
LankaPropertyWeb Celebrates Exceptional Service and Dedication of Sri Lankan Realtors
LankaPropertyWeb, Sri Lanka's premier real estate portal, proudly announces the recognition of our top Platinum agents for their exceptional service, dedication, and outstanding service, which have uplifted the industry. This initiative honors distinguished agents who have consistently demonstrated dedication, exceptional standards, and excellence, playing a pivotal role in making LankaPropertyWeb the leading real estate portal in the country. These agents have been advertising with us for over 6 years and possess extensive experience in the market. They are among the most respected and knowledgeable professionals, dedicated to serving their customers while upholding the values and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Pathfinder Foundation welcomes a delegation from the Academy of Military Sciences, China.
Pathfinder Foundation hosted a delegation of researchers from the Academy of Military Sciences (AMS) representing the Institute of Military Legal System Studies (IMLSS), Beijing, at the Riverpoint, headquarters of the Pathfinder Foundation at Peliyagoda and engaged in a constructive discussion on opportunities for collaboration between China and Sri Lanka. AMS is the highest level research institute of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The Chinese delegation included Research Fellows Sr. Col. YANG Zhen, Sr. Col. WANG Yongqiang, Sr. Col. MA Hongwei and Researchers Ms. LI Boyang and Dr. WANG Zheng. Prior to the current visit, Major General LIU Renxian, Political... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Black Flag Over Damascus
The black flag of Salafist Islam has been raised over Damascus. ISIS/Al Qaeda has won…. The same terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. Whom we waged war against in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Losing thousands of our servicemen and women. Costing trillions of dollars. They won. And we helped them. America stands for nothing. … Scott Ritter
RealScottRitter General Mike Flynn, the former head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), warned his colleagues in the Obama administration, that supporting terrorist groups to prosecute proxy wars on Washington’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Adani Group Opts Out Of US Funding For Its Colombo Port Project
Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd said the project "is on track for commissioning by early next year" and added that the company will fund the ongoing project through "internal accruals". New Delhi: Billionaire Gautam Adani-led conglomerate on Tuesday said it will use its own resources to fund a Sri Lankan port project and not seek US funding. In an exchange filing late on Tuesday, Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd said the project "is on track for commissioning by early next year" and added that the company will fund the ongoing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
S.M. Krishna played key role in shaping India’s response to post-LTTE Sri Lankan crisis
When S.M. Krishna visited Sri Lanka in November 2010, he made a stop at Jaffna, the northern city at the centre of the civil war, becoming the first Indian Cabinet Minister to land there in three decades. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The late S.M. Krishna’s tenure... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Why Sri Lanka’s Minorities Voted for a Sinhalese Party
In the recent general election, residents of the Tamil-dominated north signaled they are tired of ethnic politics and want development and better job opportunities. The National People’s Power’s (NPP) victory in the November 14 general elections — it secured 61 percent of the vote and 159 of 225 seats in parliament — is a remarkable performance in Sri Lanka’s history of electoral politics. In Jaffna in the island’s Northern Province, the NPP’s performance was particularly significant as it managed to secure the highest number of votes as a single party.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/24)
Speaker vows to respond to doctorate controversy at right time
A controversy has emerged regarding the doctorate allegedly held by the Speaker of Parliament Asoka Ranwala, with opposition parties demanding clarification on whether he genuinely holds a PhD. They have called on the government to clarify and dispel growing public suspicion surrounding the matter. The Speaker reportedly used the title “Dr.” in his introductions prior to contesting the general elections. Following his election as Speaker, his name was listed as Dr. Asoka Ranwala on the official website of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. However, the issue gained attention when university... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Title 'Doctor' removed from Speaker's name on parliament website
The title "Doctor" previously displayed before the name of the Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker, Asoka Sapumal Rangwala, has been removed from the parliament's website, sparking public debate about the legitimacy of the Speaker's academic qualifications. The removal follows questions raised about whether the Speaker holds a doctorate degree. During a media briefing held to announce cabinet decisions, journalists inquired about the issue. Cabinet Media Spokesperson Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa responded, stating that the Speaker would provide a clear explanation regarding the matter in the future.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
CHAPA on Geopolitics! Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala හොර ආචාර්ය ද? Dec 10, 2024, Episode 161
https://youtu.be/r4tHBo9IZAc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
The Rajarata Irrigation Tanks are neglected.
I recall my days in Anuradhapura in the early 1960s, tackling minor irrigation as an Assistant Commissioner of Agrarian Services in charge of the subject. The subject of irrigation works, both the major tanks- over 200 acres done by the Irrigation Department and the minor tanks under nobody at the moment, required immediate attention. All of them were in a neglected state. The maintenance of minor tanks under minor irrigation were attended to by the Vel Vidanes appointed by the Government Agent, and after minor irrigation administration was taken over by the Agrarian Services, the task was handled... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල සහ ස්වෛරී බැඳුම්කර ගිවිසුම් විමසුමකින් තොරව අත්සන් කිරීමෙන් වළකින්න: ජනාධිපතිවරයාට විවෘත ලිපියක්
ගරු ජනාධිපතිඅනුරකුමාර දිසානායකජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයකොළඹ ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි. මෙම ලිපිය ලියනු ලබන්නේ, ණය යුක්තිය සහ ආර්ථික ස්වාධිපත්යය පිහිටුවීම සඳහා මෙරට ජනතාව විසින් දෙන ලද ජනවරමක් අනුව පිහිටුවන ලද ඔබගේ ජාතික ජනබලවේග ආණ්ඩුව විසින් ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල, ණය දෙන්නන්ගේ නිල කමිටුව සහ බැඳුම්කර හිමියන්ගේ විශේෂ උපදේශක කණ්ඩායම් සමග, ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණ ගිවිසුම කිසිදු ආකාරයේ පූර්ණ සමාලෝචනයකින් තොරව සහ විධිමත් ඇගැයීමේ පරිපාටියකින් (DUE DILIGENCE) තොරව අත්සන් තැබීම මගින් ඇතිවිය හැකි ප්රතිවිපාකයන් පිළිබඳ බරපතල අවධානයකින් යුතුවය. දූෂිත ණය උගුලේ ශ්රී ලංකාව පැටැලවීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Who actually was ‘the first Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in 105 years to join Oxford University’? Dr Labuduwe Siridhamma Thero: A forgotten nationalist and patriot
Reading the detailed news article under the title ‘First Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in 105 years joins Oxford for MPhil in Buddhist Studies’ (The Island/December 6, 2024) was a refreshing experience for me, as it should’ve been for others among the readers who feel concerned about the future of the young bhikkhu community of the country. No one else but the young bhikkhus themselves can play the leading role that has been historically assigned to the Maha Sanga over the millennia in safeguarding our invaluable but currently threatened Buddhist cultural heritage in these rapidly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Seeds of Wisdom: Life Lessons from Ven. Soma Thera
When Ven. Soma Thera asked his pupils to go home and tell their fathers to stop drinking, my sister and I naively followed his advice, without any real expectation of success. To our surprise, it worked. From that day forward, our father never touched another drop of alcohol. Looking back, I realise how fortunate I was to be a student of Ven. Soma Thera. At just eight years old, I began attending Daham Pasala (Sunday School) in Springvale, later moving to Noble Park. The Sri Lankan community in Victoria was small back then, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
UNPers සහ ‘Colombians’ සහ බටහිර අධ්යාපනය ලබන දෙමළ ජාතිකයන් AKD සඳහා මුල් බැස ගන්නේ ඇයි? – (1 කොටස)
2024 නොවැම්බර් 10 වැනි දින පළ කරන ලදී සැප්තැම්බර් 24 දා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලනය, යැංකිඑමිඑම්එෆ් පාලනයට යටත් වීම ප්රතික්ෂේප කලේ ය, ඇගේ ඉතිහාසයේ ප්රථම වතාවට – මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස් විසින් අනුමත කරන ලද ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයින්ගේ සම්පූර්ණ ලැයිස්තුව – ප්රතික්ෂේප කිරීමෙනි; යැංකි පිටුබලය ලත් අපේක්ෂකයින් 38 දෙනාගෙන් එක් අයෙකුටවත් –බහුතර ඡන්ද‘ලබා ගැනීමට නොහැකි විය. එනම් ප්රකාශිත ඡන්දවලින් සියයට 50කට වඩා වැඩි ප්රමාණයක්. මෙහි ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙස ව්යවස්ථාපිතව නමුත් මතභේදාත්මක ලෙස ක්රියාත්මක කරන ලද දෙවන ඡන්ද ගණන් කිරීම මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයාගේ සහ ඔහුගේ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ අඛණ්ඩතාව බරපතල ලෙස ප්රශ්න කිරීමට හේතු විය. AKD ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Issues Sri Lanka should take up with New Delhi
President Dissanayake’s forthcoming visit to India: It has been reported that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is due to visit India during the latter part of December. He and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to have talks on grant assistance projects from India, debt restructuring, people centric digitisation (identity cards, for instance), finality of the Economic and Technological Co-operation Agreement (ECTA), housing projects from India, solar electrification of religious places, agricultural development, defence cooperation, infrastructure development in the North and collaboration in human resource development. President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Blame Game
The scarcities and prices of Rice and coconut, plus bad weather, hammer helpless consumers. An impending shortage of salt and another depression in the Bay of Bengal loom large. The opposition is making capital of this distressing situation to blame the government for the plight of the consumers, disregarding that the government assumed parliamentary power only on the 21st of last month and the roots of these problems are traceable to previous regimes. The problem in Rice can be traced back directly to the policy of the UNP to dispose of the Paddy stores... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
SriLanka will never recover by obeying IMF
Germany was hopelessly broke when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 . The Treaty of Versailles (le Traité de Versailles) had imposed crushing reparations on the German people, demanding that Germans repay every nation’s costs of the war. These costs totaled three times the value of all the property in Germany.Private currency speculators caused the German currency to plummet, precipitating one of the worst runaway inflations in modern times. A wheelbarrow full of 100 billion-mark banknotes could not buy a loaf of bread. The national treasury was empty. Countless homes and farms were lost... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Cannabis; Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments .
Cannabis; Pros, Cons, Debate, Arguments ...Zoom Discussion13th of December (Friday) at 8.30 pm SL TimeDiscussion panelDr . Wasantha Sena WeliangeDr. Upali PerisDr. Manoj FernandoDr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Link ; https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81288753119?pwd=6a4ujcxOH6MrUDD1bTY3s45zURiTxq.1 https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81288753119?pwd=6a4ujcxOH6MrUDD1bTY3s45zURiTxq.1... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
SYRIAN CRISIS
The role of Turkey to have al-Qaeda rule over Syria is pretty interesting. Of course, Erdogan has a long history in the Syrian Dirty War where he had openly backed the fundamentalist forces. Erdogan has now created a multinational terrorist organization and was able to organize them under one command to have al-Qaeda rule over Syria.It's interesting though that Erdogan had very good relations before with the Syrian president. In fact, he and his wife would go on vacation with the president of Syria and his wife. Their relations were closer than Iranian-Syrian relations.Then... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
බාර් පර්මිට් ගැන රනිල්ගෙන් නිවේදනයක්.. අහෝසි කර රජයේ ආදායම නැති කර ගන්නැයි කියයි.
පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නිකුත් කරන ලද මත්පැන් අලෙසැල් බලපත්ර සම්බන්ධයෙන් එල්ල වන චෝදනාවන්ට හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා ප්රතිචාර දක්වයි. ඒ පිලිබදව දීර්ඝ පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් කරමින් ඔහු විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති නිවේදනය මෙසේය. නිදහසින් පසු 2022 වසර වනතුරුම සුරාබදු බලපත්ර නිකුත් කිරීමේදී රජය මුදල් අය කිරීමක් කර නොතිබිණ. ඒ වනවිට රටේ සෘජු බදු විශාල ලෙස අහිමිවීමේ ප්රවනතාවයක් පෙන්නුම් කෙරිණි. රට පත්ව තිබූ දැඩි ආර්ථික බංකොලොත් භාවයෙන් ගොඩ ඒම සඳහා සුදුසු පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස පාර්ලිමේන්තු ක්රම සහ විධි කාරක සභාව ද ඒ අවස්ථාවේදී රජයට දැනුම් දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව, සෘජු බදු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
ඉන්දියාවෙන් සහල් ආනයනයෙන් ලැබෙන කොමිස් කුට්ටිය කෝටි හයසිය හැත්තෑවක්!- ආනන්ද පාලිත කියයි
ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තිය සමිති සන්ධානය පවසන්නේ ඉන්දියාවෙන් සහල් ආනයනය කිරීම සඳහා කටයුතු කිරීමෙන් අයුතු ලාභයක් උපයා ගැනීමට කටයුතු කර තිබෙන බවයි. කොළඹ දී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තිය සමිති සන්ධානයේ කැඳවුම්කරු ආනන්ද පාලිත මහතා මහතා මෙලෙස පවසා සිටියේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් කරුනු දක්වමින් ආනන්ද පාලිත මහතා අවධාරණය කරන්නේ ඉන්දියාවෙන් ආනයනය කිරීමට නියමිත ස්වර්ණ නාඩු කිලෝවක් කොළඹ වරායට ගොඩ බාන්නේ කිලෝවක් රුපියල් 110 ට බවත් එම මිලට කොළඹ වරායෙන් ගොඩ බාන සහල් කිලෝවක් රුපියල් 220ක මිලට සිල්ලර වෙළෙඳ පොළේ විකිනීමට හේතුව රජය ජනතාවට පැහැදිලි කළ යුතු බවයි. මෙට්රික් ටොන් හැත්තෑ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
President vows to fully utilize his powers to tackle corruption in Sri Lanka
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake reaffirmed his commitment to fully exercising his authority to combat fraud and corruption, stressing that laws are meaningless if those in power fail to fulfill their responsibilities effectively. Speaking at the National Commemoration of the International Anti-Corruption Day held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) today (12), the President outlined his vision for a transparent and accountable governance framework. Under the theme “Let us be exemplary pioneers of a proud nation,” the event brought together stakeholders to address the pressing issue of corruption. Addressing the event,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
Bar permits not given free - it generated significant revenue for the state - former President Ranil
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has clarified that liquor licenses were not issued for profit but as a means to generate significant revenue for the state. In a statement, he expressed regret over the misuse of the excise license issuance process, which he emphasized was part of a long-term strategy to rebuild the countrys bankrupt economy, now being politicized for narrow agendas. Wickremesinghe also noted that all amendments related to the process had received the approval of the Public Finance Committee in Parliament... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/24)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 6D
K.W Devanayagam held a second press conference on 16th September, 1983 and announced that the situation was worsening. He said the Tamils of the Batticaloa district were getting agitated and a confrontational situation was developing. [1] He told the press that a massive attempt was on by Sinhala farmers, led by the Dimbulagala priest, to encroach on the portion of land reserved for the Tamil people under the Maduru Oya Scheme. He added that the land in question was within the traditional areas inhabited by the Tamils. If the Sinhalese insist on invading this territory,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/24)
Paddy Cultivation in the doldrums. For now it is the import of 700.000 tons of rice . Imports of rice will be the order if there is no major change.
The Background Sri Lanka is facing a severe recession . During the reign when Ranil Wickremasinghe ruled as the President from mid 2022 to November 2024, with the majority in Parliament supporting him the foreign debt ballooned from $ 56 billion in 2022 to as much as $ 100 billion when the NPP took over. In this period of two years and four months, following the dictates of the IMF experts, the foreign debt has almost doubled. Yet we follow the same path. Where will it all end. If... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/24)
EELAM - A HISTORICAL REVIEW
Eelam is mentioned in the very oldest Babylonian inscriptions. Southern Elam was known as Anshan from the earliest times to the days of the Persian empire. Long before the rise of the city of Babylon the old city-states of Accad and Lagash held for a time part of the Eelamitic territory, and border warfare was very frequent. In the 23rd century BC, Eelamites conquered the city of Ellasar (Larsa) and the whole of Babylonia. Eelam offered prolonged resistance to the Assyrians in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Assurbanipal crushed and annexed Babylonia, put an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/24)
Poor Economics Knowledge of Gotabaya and Anura Leading to Economic Disaster
Economics was known as the dark science until the 19th century. When the demand and supply curve was presented to non-economics academics and others, they asked what happens to people who cannot meet the price demanded by suppliers? They simply cannot afford it came the answer which horrified them. What if suppliers were forced to lower the price so that more people can afford it? Then suppliers go out of business and both consumers and suppliers (and the wider economy) suffer. These were not acceptable to the masses. However, western nations stubbornly stuck to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/24)
පරිසරවේදීන් සහ ආණ්ඩුව කොටවන කුමන්ත්රණයක් ?
පරිසරවේදීන් සහ ආණ්ඩුව කොටවන උපාය සහ දේශපාලන උපක්රම ? ලංකාවේ බහුතරය පරිසරයට ආදරය කරයි. මීට ගොවීන්ද ඇතුලත්ය. මාද ඈත පිටිසර ගමක ගොවි පවුලකින් එන්නෙකි. මාගේ බිරිඳද එසේය. මාගේ පවුල බෝංචි වගාව මුලික කරගත් එළවලු වගා කළ අතර, බිරිඳගේ පැත්තේ කුඹුරු සහ පොල් වගාව ඇත. අලින්ගෙන් වගාවට සිදුවන හානිවල පරිනාමය සහ එය ඔඩුදුවපු ආකාරය බිරිඳගේ ගමේ පැරන්නන්ගෙන් අසා දැක (වර්තමානයේ) අප හොඳින් දනී. අලියෙකු ජීවිතයට නොදුටු පලාතක් වන මගේ ගම්පලාතේ අලි ගැටලුව අප දැන් වසර 10ක පමණ සිට දිනපතා අත්විඳින්නෙමු. අපේ මහගෙදරද අලින් කැඩීය. මා පරිසර ලෝලියෙකි. සමහරුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
ලෝකය මවිත කළ චීනයේ රැඩිකල් බෙහෙත් ප්රතිපත්තිය සහ ලංකාවේ රැඩිකල් පඬියෝ
👉👉 මෙය ලංකාවට තරමක් ආගන්තුක හා පුදුම හිතෙන කතාවකි. 👉 එහෙත් ලංකාව පාඩම් උගත යුතු කතාවකි. 👉 සාමාන්යයෙන් ලංකාවේ දේශීය වෛද්ය ක්රමය සහ බටහිර වෛද්ය ක්රමය අතර ඇත්තේ විශාල ආරවුලකි. ප්රතිවිරෝධයකි. 👉 එහෙත් නූතන විද්යාවේ දියුණුව අතින් ලංකාවට හිතන්නටවත් බැරි තැනක සිටිනා චීනය යනු මේ දෙකම ඒකාබද්ධ කොට ඒ දෙකෙන්ම ප්රයෝජන ගන්නා පුදුමාකාර රටකි. 👉 දැන් මේ කියන්නට යන්නේ චීනය සිය දේශීය වෛද්ය ක්රමයත්, බටහිර වෛද්ය ක්රමයත් ඒකාබද්ධ කොට ඒ දෙකෙන්ම ප්රයෝජන ගැනීමෙන් නොනැවතී, තම පැරණි දැනුම ජාත්යන්තරයට පවා ගෙන යාමට කටයුතු කර ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
WORLD WAR 1 AND CREATION OF COUNTRIES IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Southwest Asia is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. It now includes fifteen countries: Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, as well as four occupied areas: East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and West Bank.The creation of countries in Southwest Asia resulted from several historical events, including the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and the withdrawal of European colonial powers after World War II.During the First World War, the Ottoman Empire... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
Mohammad Marandi: Syrian Civil War, Erdogan, Netanyahu, Turkey, Israel, Russia, US, Iran, Palestine.
https://youtu.be/g1f1T3jyeg8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
සිංහල, දෙමළ ඉංග්රීසි භාෂා ත්රිත්වයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ඇමතූ විදේශ කටයුතු නි. අමාත්ය අරුන් හේමචන්ද්ර
https://youtu.be/bJADdF5xYFU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
US Grabs for Sri Lanka’s Graphite as Cabinet Liquidates State Construction Corporation
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 01-07 December 2024 What’s the latest Scam, Uncle IMF Sam? Why, why, why is the USA rushing so many US Democratic-Party-allied functionaries, one after another, into Sri Lanka – their pivot within their ‘pivot to Asia’? Can it be the imminent advent of the US Republican-Party’s Trump, who may try grab a percentage of their loot from Sri Lanka? Just after China’s envoy Qi Zhenzhong suggests that Sri Lanka’s independence is in peril, the Sunday Times concludes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
ආණ්ඩුවේ තරම පෙන්වූ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පළමු දින 3!
ආධුනික ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු කණ්ඩායම සිය පළමු දින තුන ඉහටත් උඩින් ගොඩ දා ගත්තේය. රටේ ආහාර මිල, ආහාර හිඟය, තෙල් මිල, බලශක්ති ප්රතිපත්ති අවුල, උද්ඝෝෂණ (සංවර්ධන නිලධාරි/කොරියා රැකියා) මර්ධනය, ත්රස්තවාදය වැලැක්වීමේ පනත, පොහොර සහනාධාරය නොගෙවීම, සැප්තෑම්බර් විශ්රාම වැටුප් රු. 3000 නොගෙවීම, කතානායක අධ්යාපන සහතික, විදුලි - ඉන්ධන මිල, ගංවතුර සහන ඇතුළු රටේ මිනිස්සුන්ට දැනෙන ගැටළු 21 ක් නිර්මාණය වී තිබූ පරිසරයක ඒ කිසිවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ප්රමුඛ විවාදය නොවන තැනට ආණ්ඩුවේ ආධුනිකයෝ මෙහෙයවා ගත්තෝය. . සියළු අවාසි තමන්ගේ පැත්තේ තිබිය දී ආණ්ඩුව, නවක මන්ත්රීවරුන් 149 ක් සමඟ දින තුනක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තම ආධිපත්ය පැතිරවීම, මාධ්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 6C
Ven. Kitalagama Sri Seelalankara, chief priest of Dimbulagala Raja Maha vihara (Dimbulagala Hamuduruvo, hereafter Dimbulagala) was a political monk. He had a continuing battle with Tamil officials and politicians of Batticaloa on illegal settlements in Maduru oya. He himself had tried to settle Sinhala farmers at Wadamunai, (Koralai Pattu west, Batticaloa district) in 1974 without success. The administration and the police had chased them away. Dimbulagala came to Mahaweli Centre to meet the Director General in August 1983. He was very agitated. You are the DG of Mahaweli. What you are doing while Mahaweli... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
මන්ත්රී වැටුප, විශ්රාම දීමනාව සත්ය කුමක්ද? බොරුව කොච්චර ලොකුද?
මන්ත්රී වැටුප, විශ්රාම දීමනාව සත්ය කුමක්ද? බොරුව කොච්චර ලොකුද? අද දේශපාලනයේ ආකර්ශණීයම මාතෘකා හතර මන්ත්රී වැටුප, විශ්රාම වැටුප, නිල නිවාස හා වාහනයයි. අවසනාවකට ප්රබන්ධ හා මිත්යාව තුලින් ආලේප ගන්වා, මන්ත්රීවරුන්ට එරෙහිව වෛරය, විරෝධයක මතු කරන්නට එය භාවිතා කර ඇත. බලයට පත්වී මාසයක් ගත වන්නටත් පෙර, මේ ගැන ඇති මිත්යාව සාකච්ඡාවට බදුන් කළ යුතුය. රාජ්යය යනු, ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන්, ජනතා නියෝජිතයින් විසින් පවත්වාගෙන යනු පාලන යන්ත්රයකි. එහි නීති සම්පාදන ක්රියාවලිය සිදු කරන්නේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් විසිනි. ආණ්ඩුව හා විපක්ෂය යන මේ දෙපිරිසටම රජයේ ඒකාබද්ධ අරමුදලෙන් වැටුප්, දීමනා, පහසුකම්, කාර්යාල සහ විශ්රාම වැටුප් ලබා දෙන්නේය. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
Sergey Lavrov’s Explosive Interview with Tucker Carlson: US Relations, Ukraine, & Hypersonic Missile
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sits down with Tucker Carlson in an explosive interview, discussing U.S.-Russia relations, the ongoing Ukraine conflict, and the rising nuclear tensions between the two powers. Lavrov dives deep into the concept of "hybrid war," Russia's red lines, and the use of hypersonic weapons as a message to the West. He addresses controversial topics like U.S. involvement in Ukraine, NATO's strategy, and the broader implications for global security. Don't miss this unfiltered conversation about the state of world affairs and the potential paths forward. https://youtu.be/mL1iVvMnrNE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/24)
Is the Bar Association silent on the mistakes made in the 19th Amendment to the Constitution?
1. The Bill of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was introduced to the Parliament on 19 September 2002, which sought to amend Article 70 of the Constitution. However, the amendment was not implemented in 2002 because 7 Supreme Court judges delivered their Supreme Court determination SC/SD/11/2002, which ruled that the amendment should be made law through a referendum.2. A Bill of the19th Amendment to the Constitution was presented to the Parliament again on 24 March 2015, seeking to amend Article 70 and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
Now is the time to rethink trade
ranil - sajith - anura During the presidential election campaign, the importance of trade, particularly exports, to Sri Lanka’s was emphasised by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and the other two main contenders in the fray, namely Sajith Premadasa (SP) and Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) in their manifestos. These three candidates together polled more than 90 percent of the votes at the presidential elections. During the parliamentary elections the political parties which based their campaign on these manifestos – Jathika Jana Balawegaya (NPP), Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
මම ජාතිවාදියෙක් නොවෙමි....
උතුරු නැගෙනහිර මෙන්ම විදේශයන්හිද මෙම වසරේ කොටි සැමරුම ඉතාමත් උත්කර්ෂවත් ලෙස සිදුවිය. අප රටේ රණවිරුවන්ට අභූත චෝදනා නගමින්, රණවිරුවන්ගේ කීර්ති නාමයට, මානුෂීය ගුණයන්ට, කැපවීමට අපහාස කරමින් අප මාතෘ භූමියේ ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනිව යමින් රටේ ස්වෛරීභාවයට සහ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවයට එරෙහිව සටන් වැදුණු ත්රස්ත සංවිධානයකට බෙදුම් වාදී දෘෂ්ටිවාදය නිදහසේ ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීමට ඉඩ හැරීම උපන් බිමට සාමය උදාකර දීමට තම ජීවිත කැප කරමින් අනාගත පරපුරට රටක් ඉතිරි කිරීමට ත්රස්තවාදියා හමුවේ ජීවිත දන් දුන් රණවිරුවන්ට කරන අපහාසයකි. රටේ නිල හමුදාවන් සමඟ යුද වැදුණු තහනම් ත්රස්ත සංවිධානයක කොඩිය හෝ එය සංකේතවත් කරන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
ඇමති වසන්තට රත්න සහල් අධිපති දුන් සැර පිළිතුර
පවතින සහල් හිඟයට අදාළව වෙළෙඳ අමාත්ය වසන්ත සමරසිංහ විසින් තමාට එල්ල කළ චෝදනා ප්රතික්ෂේප කරන බව රත්න සහල් හිමිකරු, මිත්රපාල ලංකේෂ්වර පවසනවා. අමාත්ය වසන්ත සමරසිංහගේ චෝදනාව වූයේ රාජ්ය බැංකුවලින් රුපියල් බිලියන ගණනින් ණය ලබාගත්තත් රත්න සහල් හිමිකරු වෙළෙඳපොළට සහල් නිකුත් නොකරන බවටයි. ඇතැම් මහා පරිමාණ සහල් මෝල් හිමියන් රාජ්ය බැංකුවලින් බිලියන ගණනින් ණය ලබාගෙන තිබුණද වෙළෙඳපොළට අවශ්ය පරිදි සහල් නිකුත් කර නොමැති බවට වෙළෙඳ, වානිජ, ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතා සහ සමූපකාර සංවර්ධන අමාත්ය වසන්ත සමරසිංහ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඊයේ චෝදනාවක් කළා. කෙසේ වෙතත්, එම චෝදනාට ප්රතිචාර දක්වමින් සහල් ව්යාපාරික මිත්රපාල ලංකේෂ්වර සඳහන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
‘New Rathna’ Rice Mill owner responds to Trade Minister’s claims
The owner of ‘New Rathna’ Rice Mill, Lankeshwara Mithrapala, has invited Trade Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe to personally inspect the company’s rice production facilities in the wake of the minister’s statement in Parliament yesterday (6) accusing large-scale rice millers of stockpiling. Responding to the allegations, Mithrapala stated, “I urge the Trade Minister to inspect my company at any time. I can prove the quantity of rice I released, my production capacity, and the stocks I have.” He explained that his operations involve maintaining rice stocks to ensure consistent market supply until the next... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
President sets maximum retail and wholesale prices for rice
Following a discussion with rice traders, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has directed new maximum retail and wholesale price limits for various rice types, according to the President’s Media Division (PMD). President Dissanayake has directed rice traders to sell Nadu rice to consumers at a wholesale price of Rs. 225 per kilo and a retail price of Rs. 230 per kilo. The President also instructed the officials Consumer Affairs Authority to closely monitor the situation over the next ten days and strictly enforce the law against rice mill owners who fail to comply... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
Archaeology Department clarifies excavations (Video)
The Department of Archaeology has refuted claims that its excavations in the Wandurawa area of Veyangoda are related to treasure hunting. Director General Thusitha Mendis emphasized that no objects of significant financial value have been unearthed in these investigations. Legal Officer Attorney-at-Law Rohana Kariyawasam highlighted that the site has been frequently targeted by treasure hunters, resulting in damage of Rs. 2.6 million to the highway over three months. Following the Magistrate's request, the department submitted a report confirming no archaeological significance at the site or its vicinity. Additionally, a scan conducted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
US Pledges Unwavering Support for Sri Lanka’s Anti-Corruption Drive
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Mr. Donald Lu expressed the United States government's commitment to supporting Sri Lanka's on-going anti-corruption initiatives as needed during a meeting with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat today (07). Mr. Lu stated that the US is prepared to provide financial and technical assistance to strengthen Sri Lanka's security and economy. He also emphasized the US government’s willingness to offer technical expertise to help recover funds that were illegally taken out of the country, as part of Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
පුස්වැල්ලේ තරුණයෙක් ආණ්ඩුවේ ජාතිය අමතයි
https://youtu.be/auKORrQMMYE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
CHAPA on Geopolitics! JVP - NPP, Lalkantha ගෙ රිළා ත්රස්තවාදය? Dec 7, 2024, Episode 158
https://youtu.be/ADVgV6aaPzM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/24)
US Sanctions affect Sri Lankan Projects: A New Cold War in South Asia as the BRICS rise
There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government in Colombo. The storm blowing from Washington across the Indian Ocean World--targeting China to the East, Iran to the West, and now it seems, India in the Middle is growing. Development projects that promised much needed foreign investment in Sri Lanka have been thrown into disarray by expanding United States sanctions on Russian firms, as well as, court action against the Indian conglomerate, Adani. Two months ago India's Shaurya Aeronautics Pvt Ltd and Russia's Airports of Regions Management... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Can foreigners settled under “Settler Colonial Colonization” claim an exclusive separate “homeland” in Sri Lanka?
The Age of Discovery was committed during times when there were no international laws. Those who eventually wrote the international laws were the perpetrators & violators of territories & committed insidious crimes that under their own terminologies constituted crimes against humanity, war crimes & genocide. None of these crimes that took place across the world have been taken up in any Court of law. Many of the conflicts that prevail find their roots to the policies of colonial rule. One such policy is the “Colonial Settler colonization” policy applied in Sri Lanka that brought... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 6B
When the Accelerated Mahaweli project started, Gamini Dissanayake, Minister for Mahaweli had asked Ven. Ellawela Medhananda to do a history of the Mahaweli region. While engaged on this, Medhananda had met Ven. Kitalagama Seelalankara of Dimbulagala. Dimbulagala and Medhananda decided that the best way to prevent Tamilisation of the east was to settle Sinhalese in the Maduru Oya area. ‘We settled the excess population from Hingurakgoda and Minneriya, numbering 40,000 in Toppigala, Kunchanamalai, Nelugala, Atubandigala, Vesibandigala and Piyangala. We informed President JR Jayewardene that we were going to settle Sinhalese there. JR was against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
ගතානුගතිත්වය/සම්ප්රදාය, සිරිත්/විරිත් සහ නියපොත්තෙන් කැඩිය දේ නොකැඩීම
ගතානුගතිකත්වය, සම්ප්රදාය තමන්වහන්සේ විසින් පන්සලේදී ගැට ගැසූ පිරිත් නූල එක් දේශපාලනඥයෙක් පන්සල් භූමියේදීම ගලවා දමා ඉවත්කර පන්සලෙන් නික්ම ගිය බව රජරට එයිතීහාසික විහාරස්ථානයක විහාරාධිපති හිමි නමක් මෑතකදී පැවසුහ. එකී දේශපාලනඥයා එවැනි සිද්ධියක් සිදු නොවූ බව තරයේ කියා සිටියේය. මෙහිදී කවුරුන් සත්යය පවසන්නේදැයි අප නොදනිමු. එය මේ ලිපියට අදාළ නොවේ. නමුත්, එවන් සිද්ධියක් ඇත්තට සිදුවී නම්, එම දේශපාලනඥයා සිදු කර ඇත්තේ ගතානුගතිකත්වය, සම්ප්රදාය ප්රතික්ෂේප කිරීමක්ද? අප ගතානුගතිකත්වය, සම්ප්රදාය ප්රතික්ෂේප කිරීම හොඳ දෙයක්ද? ඇතැමෙක්, විශේෂයෙන්ම නුතන තරුණයන්, එය හොඳ දෙයක් යයි පවසත්. මෙම ලියුම්කරු පවසන්නේ එය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Excessive CEB bills, Alternative Energy Projects and Galle Harbour EIA
As a senior citizen concerned with the statement made by the chairmen of the CEB and the request for comments on the EIA of the Galle Harbour extension project, I thought of giving my two cents worth in this forum. I have viewed the credentials of the current chairman who has had many years of experience in this field including in the CEB. It is the CEB engineers themselves who prevented the implementation of alterative energy projects for selfish reasons and we all suffered as a result. Now it seems they want to implement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Cultural programs by sanitation children for paying homage to Ambedkar
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma will grace a spectacular cultural event, organised by Valmiki Sangeet Vidyalaya, on Sunday (8 December 2024) in the city. Titled Samatar Chandere Jivanar Joigaan (Joy of Living with Rhythm of Equality), the program will begin at 4 pm in Barsapara’s Assam Cricket Association stadium. The Vidyalaya, run by Dr Hedgewar Memorial Trust, has been organizing this annual event for the last few years with an aim to honour the revered architect of Indian Constitution Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891-6 December 1956) on his death anniversary. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
France Must Go from Africa Is the Slogan of the Hour:
A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from their territories. From the western border of Sudan to the Atlantic Ocean, French armed forces, which have been in the area since 1659, will no longer have a base. The statement by the foreign minister of Chad, Abderaman Koulamallah, is exemplary: ‘France… must now also consider that Chad has grown up, matured, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
කථානායකගේ උපාධිය බොරුවක් නම් ඉල්ලා අස්විය යුතුයි.. නැතොත් නෙරපිය යුතුයි..- නිර්මාල්
කථානායක අශෝක රන්වල මහතා තම අධ්යාපන සුදුසුකම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සත්ය තොරතුරු ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත්නම් ඔහුට ඉල්ලා අස්වැන්නැයි බල කළ යුතු යැයි ආචාර්ය නිර්මාල් රංජිත් දේවසිරි මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එසේ නොවෙනම් ඔහු ඉවත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කළ යුතු බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. පසුගිය මහ මැතිවරණවලදී ජාතික ජන බලවේගය වෙන මිනිස් සෘජුව පෙනී සිටි සිටි දේවසිරි මහතා තම සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ මේ බව සඳහන් කරමින් මෙම සටහන තබා තිබේ. රන්වල පරීක්ෂාව!!!==========ආණ්ඩුව තමන් ජනතාව දුන් පොරොන්දුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් බැරෑරුම්ව සිතන්නේ නම් කතානායක අසෝක රන්වල ගේ උපාධි පිළිබද තත්වය තමන්ම සොයා බලා ඔහු ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
ණය ප්රතිව්යුහකරණ උපදේශකයන්ට ගෙවන්න බිලියන තුනක් ඉල්ලලා... ආණ්ඩුව වැල් පාලමේ යන්නේ රෙදි නැතිව - කබීර් හෂීම් (වීඩියෝ)
ණය ප්රතිව්යුගතකරණයට ක්රියාවලියට අදාළ මුල්ය හා නීති උපදේශකවරුන් සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව සිදු කරන ලද ගෙවීම් ප්රතිපූර්ණය කිරීමට රුපියල් මිලියන 3213 ක් මෙවර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද පරිපූරක ඇස්තමේන්තුවෙන් අනුමැතිය ඉල්ලා ඇති බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී කබීර් හෂීම් මහතා පවසයි. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා සහ ඔහුගේ රජය රට හදන්න වැල් පාර්ලිමේ ගියේ රෙදි ඇඳගෙන වුවත් අද ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක මහතා හා වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව වැල් පාර්ලිමේ යන්නේ රෙදි නැතුව යයිද ඔහු කියා සිටී. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පරිපූරක ඇස්තමේන්තුව සම්බන්ධ විවාදය අමතමින් ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල කරන ලදී. ජාත්යන්තර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Crackdown on video sharers is akin to shooting messenger - Additional Magistrate
The Colombo Additional Magistrate questioned how the arrest and request to remand individuals who shared videos related to recent Maaveerar Naal commemorations can be justified without first investigating those who created and uploaded the videos. The Magistrate observed that this approach is akin to "shooting the messenger." Colombo Additional Magistrate Manjula Ratnayake made these remarks while granting bail to Renuka Perera, the Administrative Secretary of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, who was arrested by the CID for allegedly spreading false information regarding the Maaveerar Naal commemorations. The suspect... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Specialists in Matale district asked to take early retirement
The medical fraternity has raised serious concerns over a letter issued by the Regional Director of Health Services in Matale, instructing specialists over the age of 60 to retire by December 31. The letter, which the Daily Mirror has exclusively obtained, directs heads of relevant institutions in the district to advise medical professionals above 60 to vacate their positions. This directive has caused uncertainty among medical specialists in the area. Furthermore, the letter stipulates that the heads of institutions will be held accountable for any misconduct committed by professionals over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Concerns raised over shortage of several drugs in hospitals
The Health Ministry is grappling with a shortage of multiple drugs, including several essential drugs, a senior official said. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Medical Supplies Deputy Director General Dr. G. Wijesuriya said while the shortage has affected several hospitals, the situation is under control as measures are being implemented to address the issue. “There are about 130 drugs currently in shortage at the Medical Supplies Division, while about 85 drugs are in short supply in hospitals,” he pointed out. “The ministry has recommended the use of substitutes for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
President assures media freedom will not be compromised or restricted in any way
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasized that he regards the media not as outsiders but as an integral part of the effort to build a better state and improve the lives of all citizens. He made these remarks during a meeting held today (05) with the heads of electronic media organizations at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The President highlighted that the people expect a good political culture and elected the current government to fulfill that expectation. He invited all media organizations to collaborate in fostering the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
Sri Lanka to ink debt deals by year’s end - Minister
Sri Lanka vowed Thursday to complete its long-delayed foreign debt restructure within the month before a 2025 budget adhering to strict revenue targets set by the International Monetary Fund. The island nation defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in April 2022 after running out of foreign exchange to finance even the most essential imports such as food and fuel. Its economy has recovered after getting an IMF rescue package and imposing austerity reforms aimed at repairing the government’s ruined finances. Economic development deputy minister Anil Jayantha Fernando said debt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/24)
සෞඛ්ය ඇමති නලින්දට උන් හිටි තැන් නැතිවෙන්නම සැර ප්රකාශයක්
https://youtu.be/Q9yRbcvCRpo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
හාල් 5යි පොල් 3යි ගන්න ආපු මිනිස්සු... "මේන් මෙච්චරයි...හිරමනේට දාන්න බැහැ" පොලුත් නැහැ හාලුත් නැහැ
https://youtu.be/YBh11GSM1VI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
අගමැති තුමිය මෙහෙමනම් හිතා ගන්නකො ආණ්ඩුවේ කෙරුවාව
https://youtu.be/2BsUCskPh8Q... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
Abolishment of the Executive Presidency – why it is important
The debate on abolishing the Executive Presidency has come to light again. This is good. True we have a new President, elected by the majority vote. But this does not negate the long felt need of abolishing the Executive Presidency. Since 1978, incompetent, fraudulent, sometimes violent, visionless Presidents have come and gone. They used the excessive power available to them to the maximum and destroyed this country. This could be repeated. We must leave a good, safe country for our future generations. For that the Executive Presidency must go. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
Hats Off to MP Mr. Tilvin Silva
I write in support of MP Mr Tilvin Silva's, idea that Provincial Councils should be abolished(FTLK:4/12) I enclose my opinion as an administrator why the Provincial Councils imposed on us by an outsider, Rajiv Gandhi, should be abolished.
Posted on March 4th, 2021 By Garvin Karunaratne . I have in several of my Papers detailed as to Why the 13 th Amendment should be abolished. I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
If NPP Government Cannot Fix Sri Lanka, No One Can
NPP government received the largest percentage of votes in any parliamentary election in South Asia. What is more important is its mandate came from all ethnic and religious groups. It won all except one district. With 159 seats in parliament, it is the only party ever to rule Sri Lanka without a coalition. In addition, unlike some leaders in the past, NPP leaders have no foreign travel restrictions, war crimes or serious human rights violation allegations against them. They have no corruption or other criminal cases in courts of law against them. Compared to all previous... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
Importance of green energy transition
The average weather pattern in a place over the years is called climate. The change in that familiar weather pattern is called climate change. However, in the current world, climate change has become a global problem. As a result of climate change, the world is getting warmer, the weather is becoming more extreme, and the sea level is rising. Almost every country in the world is suffering from change-related problems in one way or another. According to the latest data from the international research organization German Watch, Bangladesh is ranked seventh among the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
Deflationary Disaster and the Undemocratic Rule of IMF Experts
Sri Lanka has achieved another Staff-Level Agreement for the Third Review of the IMF program. The IMF delegation during its recent visit to Colombo praised the state of the economy and the success of their programme in Sri Lanka. The reality is far from its applause, where real output and incomes for people is much lower than where it was prior to the onslaught of the crisis. Worse, the IMF prescriptions of inflation targeting have drastically gone wrong, and the economy is caught in a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
Will NPP government probe the “unofficial execution” of Rohana Wijeweera?
Colombo, November 29: November 13 is a date of great significance as far as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP) – known as the Makkal Viduthalai Munnani in Tamil and People’s Liberation Front in English-is concerned. It was on 13 November 1989 that the JVP’s charismatic founder-leader Rohana Wijeweera. Since 1994 the JVP has been annually conducting an event to commemorate Wijeweera and the lives of thousands of JVP cadres killede in the two insurgencies of 1971 and 1987-89. The commemoration of heroes event called “Il Maha Viru Samaruwa” is a blend of speeches and songs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
Sri Lanka makes waves as a prime film destination in heart of Bollywood
Dec 3 (AdaDerana) – Sri Lanka’s tourism sector is taking a bold step into the limelight as a leading destination for Indian film productions, with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) taking centre stage at the 10th edition of the India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC) in Mumbai, held from October 23 to 25, 2024. The event, renowned as the largest film tourism platform in India, provided an exceptional opportunity for Sri Lanka to showcase its diverse landscapes and cultural richness to the Indian film industry, positioning... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
The concept of democracy is at the very root of Buddhism
Prof.Kurt F.Leidecker Colombo, Decembr 1: Buddhism and democracy are two sides of the same coin, if they are seen in the correct way, says the father of India’s democratic constitution and the modern-day apostle of Buddhism in India, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. He saw Buddhism as a democratic religion and he converted to it with lakhs of his socially oppressed followers called Dalits, in 1956. In a radio broadcast on October3, 1954, Dr. Ambedkar said that his social and political philosophy was enshrined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/24)
රජයට එරෙහිව ගොවි විරෝධතා කැදවයි..- අනුරාධපුර ප්රධාන ගොවි සංවිධානය මාධ්ය හමුවේ..
අයහපත් කාලගුණය හේතුවෙන් පූර්ණ හානි වූ වගා බිම් අක්කරයකට රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක වන්දි මුදලක් අවශ්ය බව අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික් මහා වාරිමාර්ග ඒකාබද්ධ ගොවි සංවිධානය සඳහන් කරයි. එහි සභාපති පුංචිරාළ රත්නායක මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ අක්කරයක් වගා කිරීම සඳහා ඊට වඩා මුදල් ප්රමාණයක් වැය වී ඇති බවයි. නව රජය කළ යුතුව ඇත්තේ පරණ චක්රලේඛ අහෝසිකර ගොවියාට රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක් ලබා දෙන වැඩපිළිවෙළ සකස් කිරීම බවයි. නියෝජ්ය අමාත්ය නාමල් කරැනාරත්න මහතා අරගල කළේද වගාහානි වන්දි වැඩිකර ගැනීමට පවසන ඔහු දැන් නාමල් කරුණාරත්න මහතාට ලක්ෂයක් ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කළ හැකි බවද කියා සිටියේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
Emergency Assistance to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Response to the flood and landslide
Today, December 4th, upon the request of the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency relief goods (tents, plastic sheets, sleeping pads) through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to Sri Lanka in response to the damages caused by the flood and landslide. In light of the humanitarian perspective and the friendly relations between Japan and Sri Lanka, Japan has decided to provide emergency assistance to Sri Lanka to support the people affected by the flood and landslide.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
‘Transitional Justice’ in Sri Lanka: Is it of any use?
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the UNHRC in 2015.(Picture courtesy Sunanda Deshapriya) Ever since the victory of the Sri Lankan armed forces against the LTTE in May 2009, the international community has been calling on successive governments in this country to ensure ‘transitional justice.’ These governments, in turn, have spent tens of millions of rupees on such efforts. Unfortunately, there has been little or no critical analysis in local newspapers or academic journals over whether the concept of ‘transitional justice’ is applicable to Sri Lanka. It is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
NPP Govt. should probe killings of Wijeweera, Vijaya - MP
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana The NPP government should probe the killings of its founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga in keeping with the pledges made by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his policy statement, opposition MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake told Parliament yesterday “The President in his address to Parliament said cases which are buried will be taken out again. Therefore, we request that a probe be conducted on JVP founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga,” MP Dassanayake said. https://youtu.be/ym0sQfTW1mk “Find out... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
LTTE නායකයාගේ ඡායාරූපය facebook දැමූ සිද්ධිය... යාපනයේ තරුණයා ට වුණු දේ...කැලුම් ජයසුමනට ඇප
https://youtu.be/M3S_jw3zzoM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
නිධානයක් ඇති බව කියූ වේයන්ගොඩ මුල් ස්කෑන් වාර්තා අතුරුදන්, පරීක්ෂණය කළ ස්කෑනර්වරයාගේ හෙළිදරවුව මෙන්න
https://youtu.be/_aNALGYL5Bc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
වේයන්ගොඩ බඩු තියනවා, මෙයාලා හරියට ස්කෑන් කරේ නෑ - මම කරපු ස්කෑන් ඒකේ කුහරේ පේනවා
https://youtu.be/ff1yJ5MVrT4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
බුද්ධ ශාසනය වැළඳ බදාගත් මහාචාර්ය හිනිදුම සුනිල් සෙනෙවිගේ හෘදය ශාක්ෂිය
Venerable Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera at Panadura (26 – 28 August 1873) vs Wesleyan Missionary Fathers හැඳින්වීම මෙම ලිපිය ඊමේල් මඟින් හිනිදුම සුනිල් සෙනෙවි ඇමතිවරයාට යවන්නට මට සිතුනේ ඔහු ගැන මට අසන්නට හා දැනගන්නට ලැබුණු කතා නිසාය, ගින්නක් නැතිව දුමක් නගින්නේ නෑ යන කියමන නිසාය. ඒ මක්නිසාදයත්, ඒ කතාවල අබමල් රේණුවක තරම් හෝ සත්යයක් තිබේ නම්, මෙම තනතුර ඔහුට දීම හා ඔහු එය භාරගැනීම යන දෙකම නරියාට කුකුල් කොටුව භාරදීමට සමාන ක්රියාවක් වන නිසාය. හරියට මහාචාර්ය සරච්චන්ද්ර ඇල්බට් පෙරේරාට අමරදේව කියා නම දැම්මා වගේ තමන්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
19වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයේදී සිදුකර ඇති වැරදි ගැන නීතීඥ සංගමය නිහඬද?
1. 19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත 2002 සැප්තැම්බර් 19 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ අතර එමගින් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීමට උත්සාහ කළ අතර, එයට අදාලව ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන් 7ක් විසින් SC/SD/11/2002 ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණය ලබා දී එම සංශෝධනය ජනමතවිචාරණයක් මගින් නීතියක් විය යුතු බවට තීරණය වීමෙන් එකී සංශෝධනය 2002 දී ක්රියාත්මක නොවීය.2. නැවත 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් 2015 මාර්තු 24 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ අතර අතර ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීම ඇතුලු තවත් ව්යවස්ථා කිහිපයක් සංශෝධනය කිරීමට එමගින් අපේක්ෂා කළ අතර, එයට අදාලව ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන් 3ක් විසින් SC/SD/04/2015 ලබාදුන් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
‘’SRI LANKA NEEDS A UNIQUE FOREIGN POLICY’’
Attention and priority to foreign policy Nations give attention and priority to foreign policy due to the importance of the subject for the successful existence in the family of nations they live in. USA gives top priority to the formulation and application of foreign policy based on main four criteria towards and beneficial towards USA friendly foreign policy that entangles with the economy, international relations, aiming at prosperity and development of USA followed by major powers as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
MISSION TO BE THE BEST ON THE GLOBE IN TOURISM WITH A CLEAR AND DETERMINED VISION
Tourism is a Competitive trade Tourism is competitive as it is the fastest and easiest to thrive with available resources the country is bestowed with naturally not everybody is lucky to possess. World is different and complex with different climatic, geographical, and difficult condition with some counties prune to natural disasters often and difficult weather conditions. Yet in the modern world all the countries and the world over is contributing a substantial amounts to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
SL will soon need to cut down number of state sector employees: Senior presidential advisor
Sri Lanka will not be able to afford a large public sector in the near future and will soon need to start reducing the number of state employees, a senior advisor to the president said yesterday. Projecting that the Treasury would be unable to sustain the current expenditure levels in the coming years, Senior Presidential Advisor Duminda Hulangamuwa said that the country would have to downsize its public sector workforce from its current 1.3 million employee base to 750,000 employees. “I can tell you that as we move forward, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
ඉක්මනින්ම රාජ්ය සේවයන් ලක්ෂ පහමාරක් ඉවත් කල යුතුයි.. නැතොත් අමාරුවේ..- ජනාධිපති උපදේශක හුලංගමුව
ශ්රී ලංකාවට විශාල රාජ්ය අංශයක් දැරීමට තව දුරටත් නොහැකි වනු ඇති බවත් නුදුරේදී රාජ්ය සේවක සංඛ්යාව අඩු කිරීම ආරම්භ කළ යුතු බවත් ජනාධිපති ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ උපදේශක දුමින්ද හුළංගමුව මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. භාණ්ඩාගාරය දැනට සිදුකරන වියදම් ඉදිරියේදී පවත්වා ගැනීමට නොහැකි වනු ඇති බවද පැවසූ ඔහු දැනට රට තුළ සිටින ලක්ෂ දහතුනක් පමණ වන රාජ්ය සේවකයන් ඉදිරියේදී ලක්ෂ හත හමාරක් දක්වා අඩු කිරීමට සිදුවනු ඇති බවද කියා සිටියේය. ඒ මහතා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ කොළඹ පැවති උත්සව අවස්ථාවක් අමතමිනි. “අපි ඉදිරියට යන විට, භාණ්ඩාගාරයේ තිබෙන අරමුදල් ඉදිරි වසරවලදී ප්රමාණවත් නොවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පළමු දිනයේ රස කතා එක පෙළට...
https://youtu.be/dVVG_y7YELI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
මාලිමා මන්ත්රීලා උදේටත්, දවල්ටත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් කාලා රැටත් ඔතනවා..- දයාසිරි පාර්ලිමේන්තු නිමවී යන ගමන්..
ජාතික ජන බලවේග ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වරප්රසාද අඩු වෙනු ඇතැයි බලාපොරොත්තු වූ බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා පවසයි. තමන් පසුගිය සමයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු භෝජනාගාරයෙන් ඇතැම් දිනවල පමණක් දිවා ආහාර ගත් බවත් උදේ ආහාරය කිසිදා නොගත් බවත් හෙතෙම කියයි. මාලිමාවේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් දැන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් උදේට, දවල්ට ද කා හැකි නම් රෑට බත් මුලක් ඔතාගෙන යන්න තත්ත්වයට පත්ව ඇතැයි ද මන්ත්රීවරයා පැවසුවේය. මීට පෙරද ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණෙන් මන්ත්රීවරුන් 39ක් පත් වූ අවස්ථාවේ ද මෙම තත්වය ඇති වූ බවත් හෙතෙම වැඩි දුරටත් පැවසුවේය. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තු සැසිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/24)
ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලට එරෙහිව අනුර කුමාර දිසානායකගේ ජනවරම: ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණය ආර්ථික ඝාතකයන්ගේ උගුලක්ද?
ආචාර්ය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණයේ සාර්ථකත්වය පිළිබඳ ශ්රී ලංකාව හොඳ උදාහරණයක්[i] බව ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලේ ප්රධානියාවන ක්රිස්ටිනා ජෝර්ජියේවා පසුගිය මාසයේ වොෂින්ටනයේ පැවැති වාර්ෂික රැස්වීමේදී පවසා තිබේ. නමුත් ඇය විසින් නොපවසන ලද දෙය නම් මෙම උපායමාර්ගික වශයෙන් වැදගත් දිවයින “බංකොළොත්” යැයි ප්රකාශයට පත්කරන විට තිබූ ණය ප්රමාණය වන ඩොලර් බිලියන 26 ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලේ විස්තීර්ණ අරමුදල් පහසුකම (Extended Fund Facility-EFF) යටතේ සිදු කරන ලද “සාර්ථක ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණයේ” දෙවසරකින් පසුව ඩොලර් බිලියන 100 දක්වා වැඩි වී ඇති බවය.[ii] මාසයකට පසුව දිවයිනේ අලුතෙන් තේරී පත්වූ ඇමැති මණ්ඩලයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
JVP in the Open Prison: Peaceable Coercions & Forever Wars in the Age of Trump
Posted byee ink.November 30, 2024Posted inUncategorizedTags:asia, China, politics, sri-lanka, travel blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 24-30 November 2024 * ‘I also ask him to examine the Central Bank, another institution that has been exercising influence over the economy of the country. The body of John Exter has been removed from the territory of Ceylon, but his soul is still marching on in the Central Bank of Ceylon, & the sooner that soul is also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
A Move in the right direction
A Statement by Advisor Duminda Hulangamuva tells that our President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has decided to delay the implementation of the IMF's decision that Imputed Taxes should be taxed. (EN: 2/12/24) Our President has to be congratulated for this decision. This is a minor decision but it is important to note that it is a decision by the IMF that has been varied in the interests of our Motherland. I must mention that it is the decision of the IMF to impose the Structural Adjustment Programme provisions on our... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
මන්ත්රී ඇඳුම් පුරාණය
නවක මන්ත්රීවරුන් 168 ක් සහින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක් තේරී පත් වී ඇත. ආයතනයක් නවකයින්ගෙන් පිරෙන විට ‘සාම්ප්රදායට’ අගයක් ලැබීම අනිවාර්ය ප්රතිඑලයකි. මන්ත්රී ඇඳුම ගැන කතාව වැදගත්වන්නේ ඒ නිසාය. ‘පිරිපුන් අංගසම්පූර්ණ ඇඳුම’ සංකල්පය අහසින් කඩා පාත්වූවක් හෝ එංගලන්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් ගෙඩිය පිටින් ආනයනය කළ හෝ දෙයක් නොවේ. ඡන්දය දුන් මහජනතාවට ගෞරවයක් ලැබෙන ලෙස, නියෝජිතයින් සභාවට ගෙන්වා ගැනීම සඳහා සැකසුණු රීතියකි. සමගි පෙරමුණු ආණ්ඩුවේ දකුණු කොළඹ මන්ත්රී බර්නාඩ් සොයියා ටයි පටිය නොමැතිව, ෂර්ට් - කලිසම සහ කබාය ඇදගෙන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභාවට පැමිණි විට කතානායකවරයා ඔහුට සභාවෙන් ඉවත් වෙන ලෙස දැන්වීය. මෙයින් ටික කලකට පසුව, දෙවන වරටත් වෙනත් මන්ත්රීවරයෙකුත් එවැනිම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි කිරීමේ කටයුතු ආරම්භ කෙරේ
විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය අහෝසි කිරීමේ කටයුතු ආරම්භ කෙරේ (2024. නොවැ. 24 ඉරිදා සිලෝන් ටුඩේ පුවත්පත) The National People’s Power (NPP) has called on the highest echelons of the Government to abolish the placed Party sources revealed. Executive Presidency as promised and the discussions in this regard have already been initiated, highly- The NPP has always criticized the current Executive Presidency, introduced by the 1978 Constitution, which consolidates significant power in the hands of the President, often bypassing legislative checks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
Hiru TV Salakuna Live | Dudley Sirisena | Episode 460 | 2024-12-02 | Hiru News
"සලකුණ" අරලිය සමූහ ව්යාපාරයේ සභාපති, ඩඩ්ලි සිරිසේන සමඟ, https://youtu.be/6_ISPnnurw8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
How Safe & Secure are the Security Operational Functions & Details of Global Political & Commercial Leaders?
How Safe & Secure are the Security Operational Functions & Details of Global Political & Commercial Leaders? When a bullet transmitted by a highly visible weapon, reached the “Ear of an ex-President of USA”, despite a highly professional Team of Secret Service Security personnel, the Safety Operational Control of Security is a Question Mark! Events proved from the time of Jesus Christ, the closest Disciple, Confidant like Judas Iscariot, gave the Kiss of Death for a few Pieces of Silver! Julius Caesar was stabbed on his back by Brutus!... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
January 20, 2025. The Inauguration day. Cease Fire? The Trump Kiss Worked?
January 20, 2025. The Inauguration day. The Proof of the Pudding on 21st January 2025! Cease Fire? The Trump Kiss Worked? Ukraine is Redundant! NATO Does Not Need Ukraine Anymore. NATO has now Finland & Sweden as Members. Russia Keeps 20%++ of Ukraine Territory. With a 1000 Km Demilitarized Zone under UK-Geermany-France-Italy (NATO)! Trump & the KISS! Carrot & the Stick! Cease Fire! If Ukraine Does Not Cease Fire No More USA Support... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
CHAPA on Geopolitics! JVP - NPP, Speaker Ashoka Ranwala & the Cardinal, Nov 27, 2024, Episode 156
https://youtu.be/ejG5PGgi3J4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
CHAPA on Geopolitics! Omalpe Thero ඕමල්පේ රණවක ත්රස්ත හිමිගෙ කළු දේශපාලනය! Dec 2, 2024
July 9, 2022 ඕමල්පේ හිමිගෙ බෞද්ධ විරෝධී ත්රස්ත ප්රකාශය! https://youtu.be/e2hKWreaGtU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
ජයමංගල ගාථා නොකිවු නිසා රටට සාපයක් වැදිලා..
නව පාර්ලිමේන්තු සැසිය ආරම්භයේදී ජය මංගල ගාථා නොකියූ නිසා රටට සාපයක් වැදී ඇත්දැයි සිතන බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නලින් බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. අද පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. “ගංවතුර තත්ත්වය හේතුවෙන් රටේ අක්කර තුන් ලක්ෂ අසූදහසකට ආසන්න ප්රමාණයක් ජලයෙන් යටවෙලා තිබෙනවා. ගං වතුරෙන් හානියට පත් මෙම ඉඩම් සඳහා වන්දි ලබාදෙන්න රජය රුපියල් බිලියනයක් වෙන්කරලා තිබෙනවා. කෙසේ නමුත් මේ අනුව එක අක්කරයකට ලැබෙන්නේ රුපියල් 2600 ක් වගේ සුලු මුදලක්. ඒ අනුව හානියට පත් ඉඩම් වෙනුවෙන් රුපියල් බිලියනයක් ප්රමාණවත් වෙන්නේ නෑ. අවම රුපියල් බිලියන 20... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
Heroes’ Day: Tamils free to remember and pay homage to their war dead
In northern and eastern Sri Lanka, people held a peaceful day of remembrance on 27 November for their civil war dead. Despite bad weather, they laid flowers, candles, and fruit in Maaveerar Thuyilam Illam, heroes’ final homes. No restrictions were imposed under the new government. Muthukumara, a businessman from Colombo told AsiaNews, that “everyone is a human being,” urging the government “to go ahead with peace.” Colombo (AsiaNews) – Flowers, lamps, candles, coconuts and other fruit are, according to Tamil tradition, offered on 27 November to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
Harini going to supermarket, Prez walking to work: time to stop grandstanding: opposition MP
Colombo, December 2 (Daily Mirror) - Referring to the recent actions of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya which has gained much publicity, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Nalin Bandara Jayamaha today said both should stop grandstanding The MP was referring to the report that said Prime Minister Amarasuriya had visited a supermarket on her own and the report that President Dissanayake had walked from the Presidential Secretariat to the Finance Ministry. “The Prime Minister's grandstanding comes at a time when the country is hit by a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
Bureaucratic delay puts over 200 specialists at risk of retirement
Colombo, December 2 (Daily Mirror) - A delay in issuing a crucial circular/Gazette has put over 200 specialist doctors in Sri Lanka at risk of premature retirement, threatening the country’s public health service, Daily Mirror learns Despite a Court of Appeal ruling that extended the retirement age for specialist doctors in state hospitals to 63 years, and cabinet approving the same on 19th June 2024, the Ministry of Public Administration has yet to implement the decision through an official circular/Gazette. The controversy arose after a general circular and Gazette from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/24)
Sri Lanka in Danger: Roadmap to Tamil Eelam
With every government, the separatists have managed to continue their roadmap successfully. Inspite of this, the election results of the North saw a significant rejection of parties that had been mooting separatism & ethnic tensions though essentially the Tamil populace have had little or no opportunity to raise their voice accept to take orders either from LTTE, Tamil politicians peddling separatism, India, NGO circles, Western-linked clergy & from LTTE Diaspora as they all hold carrots of promises over the people. The incremental successes are now converging towards an ultimate goal, whether it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
YouTube Presentation: King Seethawaka Rajasinghe -The Monarch who suffered from PTSD By Professor Raj Somadeva and Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge
According to the Western chronological records, the first patients who showed PTSD-like symptomatology were recorded in 1666. These records were based on Samuel Pepy’s diary, which described the bizarre behavior pattern of the survivors of the Great Fire of London. Samuel Pepy vividly portrayed the nightmares, intrusions and flashbacks experienced by these survivors. Although the Western World recorded PTSD-like symptoms in 1666, King Seethawaka Rajasinghe – the 16th Century monarch of Sri Lanka, is believed to have suffered from combat-related PTSD, and his disturbed behavior... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
The Trump Team The Wealthy Billionaire Team has Quality Expertise. “Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width!”
The Trump Team The Wealthy Billionaire Team has Quality Expertise. “Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width!” Starting with Russia, Trump kept the door open with President VladimirPutin, with a Love-Hate Relationship! Elon Musk, the South African born American citizen with Brains, now acting as Mentor to Trump, lodged at Mar- a-Lago, may get his own suite at the White House. Musk has direct links to President Xi of China and to Shri Narendra Modi, the Prime... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
‘’WHY SRI LANKA? WHY NOT ANY OTER DESTINATION TO TRAVEL FOR LEISURE, PLEASURE, OR ANY OTHER’’
Tourist is one who travels away from the residence for a period over 24 hours for pleasure, leisure rest,holiday in addition to any other reason. But human by nature is to travel at any available opportunities are ready to travel and explore as has been done for generations. Human travelled to explore and better green pasters with better resources facialists and environments.With modern facilities to travel human adopted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency!
Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency!https://lnkd.in/eR2WzvnH currency-tariff/index.htmlBRICS group accounts for 45% of world population, 35% of its economy: Vladimir Putin Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency! https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/trump-brics-currency-tariff/index.html Leader of Democracy at its Highest & on How to Cripple Competition by the C-i-C -elect of USA! BRICS group accounts for 45% of world population, 35% of its economy: Vladimir Putin How will BRICS Brazil - Russia - India - China _ South Africa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
‘What is the backbone of the economy of a Nation’ - IS IT THE INDUSTRY OR ECONOMY ?
Economy of a Nation is the Cradle on which all others are based on and the cradle of the economy is SME’s worldover Transforming the outlook of the economic developments onto an upper level. This has become a disputed area in AI and Digital era when everything is transforming and changing so fast in a different era and area with industry as development of the SMEs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
‘ආණ්ඩුව පරිණත නෑ.. කරන වැඩ නිසා අපටත් ඉන්න විදහක් නෑ..’ මාලිමාවේ නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි..
මහවිරු සැමරුම් ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීමේ යයි සමාජ ජාල ක්රියාකාරීන් තිදෙනෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම මගින් සමාජ මාධ්ය පාලය කිරීමේ ආණ්ඩුවේ දේශපාලන සුජාතභාවය විනාශ කර ගැනීම ආරම්භය කර ඇති බව මහාචාර්ය නිර්මාල් රංජිත් දේවසිරි මහතා පවසයි. ආණ්ඩුව අභියෝග සඳහා මුහුණ දීමේ දී කිසිදු පරිණතභාවයක් පිළිබිඹු නොකරන බවත් මෙවැනි ක්රියාවල ප්රතිඵලය ආණ්ඩුවට පමණක් නොව ආණ්ඩුව පත්කිරීම සඳහා පෙනී සිටි අයට ද භුක්ති විඳීමට සිදුවන බවත් ඒ මහතා කියා සිටී. කිසිවෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන අසත්ය ප්රචාර පාලනය කිරීමට හැකි යැයි සිතීම මෙන් ම අසත්ය ප්රචාරය සඳහා ජනයා රැවටේ යැයි සිතීම ද වැරදි බව පවසන ඒ මහතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
A Missed Opportunity Dr. Harsha could have been the ideal Opposition Leader
Throughout his tenure in Parliament, Dr. Harsha has consistently been a voice of reason, advocating for economic stability, fiscal responsibility, and transparent governance. His contributions to major legislative reforms demonstrate a commitment to policies that prioritise national welfare over partisan gain The new political shift in Sri Lanka positions the leftist alliance to implement widespread policy changes, potentially offering the stability that many Sri Lankans have long been yearning forWhile Sajith Premadasa remains a prominent figure, securing more votes in the most recent elections than Dr. Harsha de Silva—voter dynamics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/24)
මහජනයා නොසන්සුන් කරමින් ෆේස්බුක් දැමූ මහවිරු සැමරුම්..."දෙයියා කියන එකට කොහෙද විමර්ශනයක් වෙන්නේ?"
https://youtu.be/fN-WaDDF-ZQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
New govt. not rushing decisions on state-owned enterprises(SOE) restructuring – President’s Economic Advisor
Senior Economic Advisor to the President Duminda Hulangamuwa claims that the new government is encouraging the private sector to be at the forefront of economic development in the country. However, he noted that the government will retain control over strategic sectors of public interest. Joining Ada Derana’s current affairs program, ‘
HydePark’, Hulangamuwa highlighted that the government is pursuing a liberal market strategy to encourage private sector investment. Commenting on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, Hulangamuwa explained that the government is not rushing the process but is carefully analysing which state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are a burden on the treasury. Responding to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
Have the Tamil Voters in the North and East (and in the Plantation Regions) Rejected Separatism, Racism and Politicians that Advocated Separatism, Racism? Or Is it the Final Triumph of Julie Chung?
(1) Economic Crisis: Then and Now Founding father of JVP, Patabandige Don Nandasiri Wijeweera (later baptized as Rohana, to signify his Southern roots and victorious armies of ancient Rohana Rata), began his famous “panthi paha” (five classes or lessons) in 1965, with “Economic Crisis of Lanka”, an imaginary crisis he has invented to attract youth to his fledgling political movement. It is a historical mockery that after 59 years a loyalist of old JVP Anura Kumara, was thrust upon to grapple with a real economic crisis of Himalayan magnitude, the worst economic crisis... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
President’s Policy Statement
At the opening of the 10th Parliament, President AKD made a policy statement covering a wide range of issues. It was a professional presentation. This note is in elaboration on a few topics in his speech that are related to economic development. (In this note the President’s statements are in Italics.) 1. “if national wealth becomes concentrated among a few, it will not stabilize the economy or society. Our policy, therefore, is that the benefits of the economy must be fairly distributed among the people” While appreciating the sentiments expressed so... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
“SETTLER COLONIALISM” AND TAMIL EELAM Part 6A
After the colonization schemes of the 1950s and 1960s, the government started doing Development Schemes. Tamil Separatist Movement viewed these development schemes with great alarm, because they brought Sinhalese settlers into the area they had reserved for Eelam. State-sponsored colonization would lead to a change in the demography of the Northern and Eastern Province. The Accelerated Mahaweli Scheme was the largest development scheme in Sri Lanka .it started operations in October 1977. It was a multi-purpose development scheme involving the construction of reservoirs, hydroelectricity plants and irrigation systems. The Mahaweli Scheme was designed to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
President-elect Donald Trump - Master stroke!
President-elect Donald Trump Appointment of General Keith Kellogg with High Credibility, to Stop the Russian- Ukraine Conflict, is Positive! A Master-Stroke! Trump Offers the Russian Bear a Honeycomb! Offering President Putin of Russia a 20% land area which was Ukraine and a 1000 km Buffer De-Militarised Zone is a Practical Solution to please Putin. This is the only practical solution suggested by any leader, when all other leaders were “Provoking-the-Bear” and pouring gasoline into a burning fire. 80% is Better Than Losing More Men!... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
තෙල් ටැංකි 99 ඉන්දියාවට නොදෙයි………News
Politicians in this country instigate people to carry on strikeS irrespective of the nature of the problem ,and without studying the proposal –may be… From the government- side there should be many public forums explaining the circumstances under which Indians have been entrusted the peacekeeping functions in the North and how Rajeev Gandhi blackmailed Sri Lankans to sign in to the Indian Pease agreement .Then Indians shrewdly included Trinco tank farm in to the agreement as a strategic move .That was the ulterior intention ,and JR had to givein ,JVP is also responsible... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
How and Why Prabhakaran Lost
In a way, there isn’t much new in the book, The Rout of Prabhakaran by M.R. Narayan Swamy, who had authored an ‘unauthorised’ biography of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, Inside an Elusive Mind, way back in 2003, and two other books, one earlier and another latter, on the world’s most dreaded guerrilla force and its unpredictable leader, who had the uncanny knack of turning defeat into victory – and victory, or whatever remained, into sure defeat. In other ways, The Rout is an after-thought of an unemotional and impartial analysis of Narayan Swamy’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/24)
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