Archive for April 29th, 2018
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Sudath Gunasekara 29th April 2018 12th Century Royal decree prohibiting killing King Kirthi Nissanka Malla of Polonnaruwa Ordering by the beat of the drum that no animals should be killed within a radius of seven gaus from the city, he gave security to animals. He also gave security to the fish in the twelve great […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent, Gloucester ; Ontario . Canada 29 April 2018 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Ottawa Dear Editor (Letters) The moment the heavy iron rod came down on the neck of the white sitting Buddha statue decapitating it on the front lawn of the Buddhist temple, Hilda Jayewardenaramaya, on Heron Road, […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
ALI SUKHANVER Carelessness and negligence are the basic ingredients of a road accident whereas fate and luck also play an important role in occurrence of it. In the first week of this April, a US embassy vehicle ran over a motorcycle at the intersection of Margalla Road and 7th Avenue in Islamabad, the Capital of […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් විජය ඇතුලු පිරිස සිය ප්රථම ජනාවාස ඇති කර ගන්නා ලද්දේ මල්වතු ඔය ආශ්රිතවයි. ඒ වන විටත් මෙම ප්ර දේශය දියුණු නගර වලින් සමන්විත ජනාකීර්ණ ව පිහිටියේය. විල්පත්තු අභය භූමියේ ඔච්චප්පුකල්ලු ස්ථානයේ හමුවන සෙල්ලිපියක් මංගණ නගරයක් ගැන සඳහන් වෙයි. එය මල් වතු ඔය මුහුදට වැටෙන ඉම ආසන්නයේ පිහිටියායි සැලකිය හැකිය. පී වීරසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
ජයතිලක ද සිල්වා උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප සිංහල සහ හින්දු අලුත් අවුරුද්ද නිම යි. කවුරුත් දන්නා පරිදි චාරිත්රානුකූල නොනගතය හෙවත් නැකැත් නැති කාලය ද නිම යි. එහෙත් වඩා පුළුල් හා සාමාන්ය අර්ථයකින් ගත් කල නොනගතය ලැබුවේ මෙම අලුත් අවුරුදු සමයෙහි නොවේ. එය උදා වූයේ පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ ප්රතිඵල සමඟය. එතැන් සිට සියලු දේශපාලනඥයන්ගේ සහ ඔවුන්ගේ හිතවතුන්ගේ එකම කතාව […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
පරිවර්තනය කළේ කෝවින්ද ගුණසේකර උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලන ක්ෂේත්රය පිළිබඳ අතිශය දැනුම්වත් පුද්ගලයන් පවා නොදැන සිටි කාරණයක් තිබිණ. එය නම් අගමැති සහ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නායක රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා එක්සත් ජාතික පෙරමුණේ සියලුම පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් වෙත නිකුත් කර තිබූ නියෝගයකි. අප්රේල් මස 9වැනි සදුදා නිකුත් කළ එම නියෝගයෙන් ඔහු උපදෙස් දී තිබුණේ තමන්ට එරෙහිව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
බී .ජී. චතුරංග උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ලංකාවේ දුෂ්කර ප්රදේශ වල පිහිටි පන්සල් වල වැඩ සිටින මහා සංඝරත්නය දහස් නමක් උදෙසා වෙසක් පොහොය යෙදුණු අද (29 ) චීන බෞද්ධ දූත පිරිසක් විසින් පූජා කිරීමට සුදානම් කරන ලද පිළිම වහනසේලාට රජය විසින් ලක්ෂ තිස් දෙකක (32,000,00 ක) බදු මුදලක් නියම කිරීම නිසා එම පිලිම බෙදා දිමට නොහැකි වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Windrush deportation row Courtesy BBC Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned, Downing Street has said, after claims she misled Parliament over targets for removing illegal migrants. Ms Rudd, who was due to make a Commons statement on Monday, was under pressure to resign over the Windrush scandal. She faced criticism over the existence of Home Office […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
By Meera Srinivasan/The Hindu Colombo, April 29: The Sri Lankan Cabinet’s decision to postpone May Day events to May 7, to avoid any overlap with the celebrations around the Buddhist festival of Vesak, has understandably provoked trade unions in the island, including the Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya (the Sri Lanka Independent Workers’ Union), affiliated […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Colombo, April 29 (The Island): Sri Lanka’s economy grew at the slowest pace in 16 years to record a worse than expected 3.1 percent GDP expansion last year, according to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). The bank had expected the economy to grow at about 5.0 percent in 2017, but a drought and […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
By Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia By Manjula Fernando/The Sunday Observer Colombo, April 29: In a wide ranging interview to The Sunday Observer, C.V.Wigneswaran Chief Minister of the Tamil-majority Northern Province of Sri Lanka, said that without a political settlement, giving infrastructural and economic benefits to the Tamils is akin to getting around a child with toys and dolls. […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
By Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 29 (newsin.asia): United National Party (UNP) leader and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has accused critics within his party of having worked to defeat it in the February 10 local bodies elections. The elections saw the UNP trailing far behind the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led by former President […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
By Editor Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 29 (newsin.asia): Pakistan has sent the most sacred relics of the Lord Buddha to Sri Lanka for exposition in connection with the annual Buddha Rashmi National Vesak Festival. Sri Lankan Minister for Buddha Sasana, Gamini Jayawickrema Perera along with Parliamentarians, the High Commissioner of Pakistan Dr. Shahid Ahmad Hashmat as well as […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
YUJI KURONUMA, Nikkei staff writer China-financed infrastructure projects put country in vicious cycle. NEW DELHI — Sri Lanka, which has loaded up on Chinese-funded infrastructure, is sinking deeper into a debt trap as its currency weakens and economic growth decelerates to its slowest pace in 16 years. The Sri Lankan rupee has depreciated 3% against the greenback […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Courtesy pt COLOMBO: In order to present the richest Buddhist historical legacy to the Sri Lankan people, Pakistan has sent the most sacred relics of the Lord Buddha to Sri Lanka on Sunday for exposition in connection with the Annual Buddha Rashmi National Vesak Festival. Sri Lankan Minister for Buddha Sasana, Gamini Jayawickrema Perera along with […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
Courtesy Xinhua COLOMBO, April 26 (Xinhua) — India will send the sacred Buddhist relics to Sri Lanka for public veneration during the annual Vesak festival, a statement from the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka said on Thursday. Vesak is celebrated on April 29 this year in Sri Lanka to mark the birth, the enlightenment and […]
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