Archive for November, 2019
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Sri Lankan News A WELL PLANNED OPERATION THAT FAILED TO BEAR FRUIT THE BELLIGERENTs (1) NGO OPERATION BACKED BY CIA (2) BACKED BY LOCAL OPERATORS SIMILAR TO THE LATEST SWISS EMBASSY SCANDAL (3) THAJUDEENS SOCIALITES WHO LASED HIS FINAL SHOTS OF POL WITH MIND BENDING DRUGS (4) YAHAPALANA GOONS ON A PAID MISSION TO ELIMINATE […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් රගර් ක්රීඩක වසීම් තාජුඩීන්ගේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයින් සම්බන්ධ බවට සාවද්ය සාක්ෂි ලබාදෙන ලෙස අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ හිටපු අධ්යක්ෂ ශානි අබේසේකර ඇතුළු නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් තමන්ට සහ තම පවුලට දැඩි බලපෑම් එල්ලකළ බවට නාරාහේන්පිට පොලිසියේ අපරාධ අංශයේ හිටපු ස්ථානාධිපති සුමිත් පෙරේරා මහතා අද අනාවරණ කළා. ඒල සත්ය ගවේෂකයෝ […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් හිටපු අමාත්ය රිෂාඩ් බදීයුදීන් විසින් දිර්ඝ කාලීනව අවතැන් වූ පුද්ගලයින් නැවත පදිංචි කිරීමේ ව්යාපෘතියට වෙන් කල මුදල් ඡන්දදායකයින් ප්රවාහනය කිරීම සඳහා යොදා ගෙන ඇති බව කර්මාන්ත හා වාණිජ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය පවසනවා. ඔහු විසින් රුපියල් අනුපන් ලක්ෂ 29,060ක මුදලක් මෙලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා ගමනා ගමන මණ්ඩලයට ඒ වෙනුවෙන් ගෙවා ඇති බව සදහන්. පසුගිය […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් ස්විට්සර්ලන්ත තානාපති කාර්යාලයේ නිලධාරිනියක් රඳවාගෙන ප්රශ්න කළ බව කියන සිද්ධිය පිළිබඳව සම්පූර්ණ වාර්තාවක් ලබාදෙන ලෙස ආරක්ෂක අංශ වලට තමා උපදෙස් ලබාදුන් බව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ඔහු යටතේ පවතින නිවාස සංවර්ධන අමාත්යාංශයේදී අද වැඩ භාර ගැනීමෙන් අනතුරුව මාධ්ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්. කෙසේ වෙතත්, අද පස්වරුව දක්වා […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් පසුගිය රජය විසින් පාසැල් දරුවන් සඳහා ක්රියාත්මක කළ සුරක්ෂා රක්ෂණය කිසිසේත්ම නතර නොකරන බව අධ්යාපන, ක්රීඩා සහ තරුණ කටයුතු අමාත්ය ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම පවසනවා. අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ හිරු ප්රවෘත්ති අංශය ඔහුගෙන් මේ පිළිබඳව විමසු අවස්ථාවේදීයි එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්යවරයා කියා සිටියේ, හිටපු අධ්යාපන අමාත්යවරයා විසින් ආරම්භ කළ මෙම ව්යාපෘතිය […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News UNF coalition leaders met at Sirikotha today to discuss the crises over the opposition leader position and the UNP Leadership. A group of party members including UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam participated. However, MP Sajith Premadasa was conspicuously absent in the meeting today as well. UNP General […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News All forms of tax on information and communication technology have been waived. This was announced by joint cabinet spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardene this afternoon. He further stated that three segments of tax, 6%, 12 % and 18 %, have been reduced for income tax as well.
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Courtesy Hiru News On the advice of President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a six-member committee of professionals have been appointed by the Presidential Secretariat to recommend the appointment of competent and qualified professionals to government institutions. The committee is headed by Sumith Abeysinghe, a former Cabinet Secretary. The committee is comprised of Susantha Ratnayake, Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Harinda Vidanage Courtesy Strategic News International The new President elect of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is only a week into his administration, but he has already hit the turbo gear and is on full throttle. The president expects everyone in his governance mechanism, including his two elder siblings – irrespective of the fact that one […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Sri Lankans in Australia
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
UK is holding general elections. Anyone contesting should be trying to represent the interests of the people in the UK and not issues relevant to other countries which the government of those countries should solve. How representative of the British is the Labor Party? Some of the Party stalwarts have been regularly engaged in speaking […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
lanka C news November 27, 2019 at 10:32 pm | රාජ්ය ආයතවල සභාපතිවරුන් හා අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල සාමාජිකයක් බඳවා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ජනපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය පුරවැසියන්ගෙන් අභිලාෂ (කැමැත්ත) කැඳවීමට තීරණය කර තිබේ. ඒ අනුව රාජ්ය ආයාතන හා ව්යාපාර ලාභදායි ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට ඒවා ලාභදායි වභාපාර ලෙස පත්කිරීමට හැකි සුදුසුකම් ලත් වෘත්තීය වේදින්ගෙන් ජනපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අභිලාෂ කැඳවීමට […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු නිව්ස් විල්පත්තු වනාන්තර පද්ධතියේ කොටසක් එහි අනවසර පදිංචිකරුවන්ට ලබාදුන් බවට පැතිර යන කටකතා අසත්ය බව සුරකිමු ශ්රී ලංකා ජාතික ව්යාපාරය පවසනවා. එහි සභාපති පූජ්ය පාහියන්ගල ආනන්ද සාගර හිමියන් අද වනජීවි අමාත්යාංශයේ පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් සඳහන් කළේ හිටපු අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත විල්පත්තු නඩුව සමතයකට පත් කිරීමට නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යෝජනා […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
By H. L. D. Mahindapala Courtesy Ceylon Today The massive swing against the UNP indicates clearly that the nation was biding its time to cut the neck of Ranil’s regime with the sharp edge of their lengthy ballot papers. And they did it in right royal style, peacefully and decisively, leaving no doubt in anyone’s […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has pledged to enact a Bill to protect public servants who perform their duties. The Premier made these remarks as he assumed duties as the Minister of Water Supply Housing Facilities today (27). He also stated that the existing procedure that brings such public officers before the judiciary or […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana The Cabinet has given its approval to remove the Nation Building Tax (NBT), Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Tax and Withholding Tax on interests, the Co-Cabinet Spokesperson Bandula Gunawardena said today. He mentioned this during the first press briefing to announce the decisions of the new government’s Cabinet of Ministers, held at […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Courtesy Ada Derana The Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya says that he has recognized UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Leader of the Opposition, upholding Parliamentary traditions. In a twitter message, he said that recognition of the Leader of the UNFGG as the Leader of the Opposition was done upholding established Parliamentary traditions that should […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan shares ended higher on Wednesday, helped by gains in beverage and banking shares, while the rupee ended firmer on hopes of tax cuts by the new government. ** After the market closed, Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardana said the government has decided to reduce value-added tax to […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Courtesy Daily Mirror The government today said it was unaware of the incident where an employee of the Switzerland Embassy in Sri Lanka was detained forcefully and threatened. The Swiss Foreign Ministry said that an employee of the Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka has been forcefully detained and threatened. When questioned about these reports at the […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය සංජීව ධම්මික ලේකම් – විදුලිය පාවිච්චිකරන්නන්ගේ සංගමය 2015 වන විට විබ්මත්ව හා නීත්යානූකූලව අනුමත කොට තිබූ රටට ලාභදායිම ඛභඨ විදුලිබල ව්යාපෘතිය ඉදිකිරීම වංචනිකව හා දූෂිත ලෙස ප්රමාද කිරීමෙන් යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව රටට රු¡ බිලියන 3ල360 අහිමි කිරීමට එරෙහි අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ චෝදනා විමර්ශන කොමිෂන් සභාවට 2019-11-27 දින කල පැමිණිල්ල¡ 2012 අගෝස්තු අමාත්ය මණ්ඩල අනුමත […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
By Rohana R. Wasala I love my country. I am proud of my country. I have a vision concerning my country. I appeal to all Sri Lankans to join together in building a prosperous land for posterity” declared Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on being sworn in as the seventh executive president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Viraj Kithsiri While offering my heartfelt congratulations to Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his election as the President of our beloved country it is important to note his road to success was not an easy one. It is suffice to say the mood nationwide was reminiscent of the day in May 2009 when Tiger guerrillas were militarily […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 26, 2019, 10:21 pm UNP MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday revealed that he had personally brought the underhand activities of Chief Inspector Nishantha de Silva to the notice of the then President Maithripala Sirisena but the officer had been given a free hand. Former justice minister Rajapakse was […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
By Chandre Dharmawardana The Indian government, by acting with strategic alacrity managed a diplomatic advance in inviting the New President of Sri Lanka to Delhi, within the first breath of the new presidency. The new president, in accepting the invitation equally rapidly has shown his friendliness and openness for dialogue, at a time when Tamil […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
Who can explain how communities can be brought together when the leaders representing them continue to drum racism? Have we heard any national sentiment from the present day Tamil leaders? When will they cease to recirculate a handful of past examples that plug hate & revenge in the minds of their people? Why do they […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. Reports from the North state that the separatist elements in the North led by the racist terrorist rump TNA are making arrangements in all districts of the North to commemorate November 27th as the Mahavir Day. They are reported to be clearing many sites to hold these functions. This is […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
Ramanie de Zoysa There is an apt Sinhala saying balallun lava kos ata bawanawa”; the phrase literally means someone is using a cat’s paw to pull out (roated) Jak seeds (kos ata) from the fire. Jak seeds roasted in a woodfire is a tasty treat eaten by Sinhala villagers; once roasted, one needs a fireproof […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
Press Release Consulate General of Sri Lanka Sydney The Sri Lanka Food and Cultural Festival – 2019, a Sri Lankan Tourism Consumer Promotional Event which was jointly organised by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB), and Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Sydney, was held at Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour from 23rd to 24th […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B.,Ph.D. 2019 චන්දය ගැන කතාකරමින් පැෆරල් විධායක නිලධාරී රෝහණ හෙට්ටිාරච්චි වාර්තාකලේ සමහර පන්සල් (හාමුදුරුවරු) චන්ද නීතිය කඩකල බවය. මැකෝ දේශප්රිය විසින් ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපතිවීමේ නිල නිවේදන කතාවේදී ආගමික නායකයින් දේශපාලනයේ යෙදීම විවේචනය කලේය. මෙය එල්ලවන්නේ ගමේ පන්සලට මිස හොරෙන් එය කරණ ලෙබ්බේවරුන්ට හෝ ඇතැම් එකී නොකී ක්රිස්තියානි පූජකවරයින්ට හෝ නොවේ. මේ දෙන්නා මෙසේ කතාකරන්නේ […]
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
Courtesy NDTV Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is considered pro-China, said he wanted Sri Lanka to be a “neutral country” and work with all the countries. Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he wanted to work very closely with both India and China. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will work with India and it won’t do anything that will harm its interests, newly […]
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