Archive for February, 2020
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ දේශපාලන විද්යාව පිළිබඳ හිටපු මහාචාර්ය එම්.ඕ.ඒ. ද සොයිසා උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාදීප රජාතන්ත්රවාදී ආණ්ඩුකරණයේ එක් පදනම් මූලධර්මයක් වන්නේ ආණ්ඩුවේ බලතල හා කාර්යයන් ව්යවස්ථාදායක, විධායක සහ අධිකරණ වශයෙන් කොටස් තුනකට බෙදා අන්යොන්ය වශයෙන් එකිනෙකට සම්බන්ධතාවක් නොමැති ආයතන ත්රිත්වයක් විසින් ක්රියාවට නැංවීමය. මේ අනුව ව්යවස්ථාදායකයට පැවරී තිබෙන කාර්ය වන්නේ නීති පැනවීමය. විධායකයේ කාර්යය වන්නේ රාජ්ය සේවය […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Courtesy DNA India Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is on a three-day visit to India, will pay a visit to the Kashi Vishwanath in Varanasi, followed by the Buddhist shrine in Sarnath on Sunday (February 9). Security has been beefed up in the city ahead of his visit. After landing in the holy city, Rajapaksa […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Former Secretary to the Ministry of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media, Mr. Nimal Bopage has stated that towards the back end of 2016, then-Cabinet of Ministers had approved renting out of luxury vehicles for 58 parliamentarians of the government. In a special communique on the revelation made in the Parliament yesterday, he […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapakse has decided to increase the age limit to applying for jobs under unemployed graduates’ scheme from 35 to 45 years. The graduates must complete a degree with a first class accepted by the university grants commission or a diploma accepted by the UGC prior to December 31st 2019.
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse says it is the policy of the government not to sell any Sri Lankan resources to another country. The Premier stated this during an interview with the Hindu News paper. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa who is currently in Indian has said that it would be great if India […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2020
The Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission in their November 2011 report gave some important numbers sourced from the Ministry of Defense. Poignant is the numbers of dead, injured and missing following the military intervention ordered by the President of Sri Lanka following LTTE’s closure of the Mavil Aru anicut denying water to thousands in East […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
By Dr. Ivan Amarasinghe courtesy The Sunday Times On March 15, 2006, the United Nations set up the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to promote and protect human rights around the world. It seeks the assistance and cooperation of States and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to monitor, report, advice and contribute best practice to ensure […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
දෙශාඅභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙන්කඩගල සිංහ ද්වාරයේ සිට මේ අද සාර පොහොය දිනේදී මා කතා කිරීමට යන්නේ හොඳ ළමයා හා නරක ළමයි රෑනක් ගැනය. කථා පුවත සිතට ආයේ නරක මන්ත්රී ළමයි රෑනක් විසින් තමන්ලා ලොකු කියා පෙන්නවිමට හොඳ ළමයි ගැන හා ඒ ළමයින්ගේ ස්වරුපය මාධ්යය තුලින් විකට ස්වරුපයෙන් කියාපෑමට උත්සාහ ගැනීම නිසාය. […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
By Kanbawza Win Courtesy Asian Tribune In a landmark verdict, the United Nation’s highest court has ruled that it has the authority to consider a genocide case against Burma and ordered the country to prevent irreparable harm from being committed again, signalling that the sensational news has vanquished the conflict resolutions. But my research indicates […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම –මට කියලදෙන්න ප්රවෘති- රුහුණ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ මේ වන විට පවතින අර්බුදකාරී වාතාවරණය විසඳා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ඉදිරිපත් වූ සිසුන් පිරිසකට අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා මැදිහත් වී විසඳුම් ලබා දී ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ. කළමනාකරණ පීඨයේ සිසුන් නව දෙනෙකුට ජීවිතාන්තය දක්වා ලබාදී තිබූ පන්ති තහනම් ඉවත්කිරීම පිළිබඳව මෙම සාකච්ඡුා පැවති අතර ඒ අනුව එහිදී කරගන්නා ලද […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
By Craig Welch Courtesy National Geographic Scientists have found large natural stores of the toxin in the Arctic. It’s not clear how much will get into food webs as the planet warms. Scientists have uncovered another hidden threat buried in the icy frozen north—massive natural reserves of mercury, a toxic heavy metal that in some […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Sudhi Ranjan Sen Hindustan Times, New Delhi CDC, America’s front line public health agency, has partnered with Manipal Centre for Virus Research (MCVR) to carry out illness surveillance across India.Hindustan Times, New Delhi India has asked the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop funding research in India without government approval […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාසීනිවුස් පසුගිය යහපාලනය රජය විසින් මැතිඇමැතිවරුන් සඳහා පමණක් වාහන ගෙන්වීමට රුපියල් බිලියන 28 ක මුදලක් වැය කර ඇති බව ඊයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී හෙළි විය. ඇමැති ජොන්ස්ටන් ප්රනාන්දු මහතා විසින් සභාගත කරන ද පිළිතුරක මෙම තොරතුරු දීර්ඝ තොරතුරු දැක්වෙයි. එමගින් වැඩිම මුදලක් වෙන්කර ඇත්තේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා වෙනුවෙන් වාහන ගැනීමටයි. ඔහු […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකාසීනිවුස් යහපාලන රජය සමයේ මැති ඇමතිවරුන් සඳහා ගෙන්වන ලද වාහන ප්රමාණය ගැන හෙළි වීමෙන් පසුව එකල ආණ්ඩුවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ප්රතිසංස්කරණ හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් ලෙස කටයුතු කළ නිමල් බෝපගේ මහතා විසින් ශේෂ හෙළිදරව්වක් කර ඇත. නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් ඔහු සඳහන් කරන්නේ වාහන ලබා වාහන ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වූ යෝජනාවකට තමන් විරෝධය පළ කළ විට එකල […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia However, it is unlikely that either party will let the Tamil issue affect cooperation in other areas such as economic development and security. New Delhi, February 8 (newsin.asia): In his media statement after talks with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa here on Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he is […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, February 8 (The Hindu): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told The Hindu’s Suhasini Haider in New Delhi that the problem of debt repayment is worrying and that it would be helpful if lenders, led by India, could give a three-year moratorium on repayment. The visiting Lankan PM also said that […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy Ada Derana The economy of Sri Lanka is recovering from tragic terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday last year, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Gross Domestic Project (GDP) growth is projected to rebound to 3.7 percent in 2020, on the back of the recovery in tourism, and assuming that the Novel Coronavirus will […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Former secretary to the ministry of parliamentary reforms and media Nimal Bopage says that other than for the ministers efforts were made to provide vehicles to 58 MPs under contract basis during the yahapalana government. Issuing a release he noted that former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe forced him to sign the deal […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Retired DIG Palitha Siriwardena says that if not for the influence of former governor Asath Salley, they would have been able to succeed in the investigation into the attack on Buddha statues in Mawanella. He made this revelation while giving a statement before the presidential commission to inquire into easter Sunday attacks, […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News It has been decided to give access to the voice tapes tabled by Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake to Members of Parliament subsequent to removing content which are a threat to national security and false claims therein. This decision was made at the Party Leaders’ meeting in Parliament today under the leadership of Speaker […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The CID informed the court today that it is conducting further investigations into whether the weapon seized from the house of MP Ranjan Ramanayake has been used to commit a crime. The case was taken before the Nugegoda Magistrate today. Ramanayake is in remand until February 12th in connection with allegedly influencing […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
By BBC Monitoring Essential Media Insight The coronavirus outbreak in China has provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories and misinformation on the web everywhere, but in Russia they are being spread on primetime news programmes. Russian TV is also unique in having a consistent overall thrust: that shadowy Western elites and especially the US are […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The official Chinese death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose on Friday to 638, with the government saying total infections had climbed past 31 thousand 500. The National Health Commission said the toll was raised by 73 new deaths from the epidemic. As debates over the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus rage […]
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala Like ‘secularism’, ‘nationalism’ is a much abused term in the vocabulary of the opponents of the unitary status of the Sri Lankan state. A previous article of mine (‘Why secularism is good for Sri Lanka’/Lankaweb/posted January 23, 2020) explained my opinion that the principle of secularism in governance is a good […]
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි උපාධිධාරී ජාතික මධ්යස්ථානය. ගරු ජනාධිපති, ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන් හා ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන් බඳවාගැනීමේ අවුරුදු 35 උපරිම වයස් සීමාව අවුරුදු 45 දක්වා සුදුසුකම් සපුරා ඇති සියලූම රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන් බඳවා ගැනීමට පියවර ගන්නා මෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිමු. ‘‘රැකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන් රැකියාගත කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන 2020’’ යටතේ උපාධිධාරීන් […]
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයෙහි වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයට අයත් 787 – සී තොටහා ග්රාමසේවා වසම තුල පිහිටි තොටස් ඇල්ල සොබාදහම නිවා සනහාලන සුන්දර පරිසර පද්ධතියකි. ජෛව විවිධත්වයෙන් පොහොසත් නිවර්තන තෙත් සදාහරිත වනාන්තරයක් වන යගිරල වන රක්ෂිතය තුලින් ආරම්භ වී ගලා එන දොළ මාර්ගයෙන් ඇද හැලෙන තොටස් ඇල්ල සොබා සෞන්දර්යෙන් අනූන සංචාරකයන්ගේ ආකර්ෂණය දිනා ගෙන […]
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (2020.02.04) http://neethiyalk.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html ශ්රී ලංකා ජනරජයේ පරමාධිපතය ජනතාව කෙරෙහි පිහිටා ඇත්තේ ය. පරමාධිපත්යය අත්හළ නොහැක්කේ ය. පරමාධිපත්යයට පාලන බලතල, මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් සහ ඡන්ද බලය ද ඇතුළත් වන්නේ ය”. යනුවෙන් ජනමතවිචාරණයකින් මිස සංශෝධනය කළ හැකි ව්යවස්ථාවක් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 3වන ව්යවස්ථාව ලෙස ඇතුළත් කර ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකා ජනරජයේ පරමාධිපතය එනම් ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්ය ක්රියාත්මක වීම […]
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Friday, February 7th, 2020
ALI SUKHANVER Though the Christians have been granted leverage in the CAA but practically in their day-to-day life, they have to suffer from a lot of degradation and humiliation in India. The leverage provided to them in the CAA is nothing more than a ‘play-card’ just to please the Western countries like US and UK […]
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