Archive for March, 2020
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
James Robb, MD UC San Diego Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Statement by Sri Lanka Madam President, Sri Lanka takes note of the report of Mr. Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief following his visit to Sri Lanka from 15 to 26 August 2019, which has been presented to this Council today (A/HRC/43/48/Add.2). The advanced unedited report of the Special Rapporteur (SR) […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
මාධ්ය ඒකකය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන්, ශ්රී ලාංකීය දැව හා දැව ආශ්රිත කර්මාන්තය උසස් තාක්ෂණික ගෝලීය අපනයන වෙළෙඳපොළ දක්වා රැගෙන යාමත්, නවෝත්පාදනය හරහා දැව සහ දැව ආශ්රිත නිෂ්පාදන සඳහා විශිෂ්ඨත්ව මධ්යස්ථානයක් බවට මොරටු ප්රදේශය පත් කිරීමේ පළමු පියවර ලෙස මෙරටුව දැව කර්මාන්තයේ අනන්යතාව ප්රචලිත කිරීමේ අරමුණෙන් මොරටු ලී” […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Jamila Husain Courtesy The Daily Mirror Weeks after the Health Ministry ordered all passengers arriving from China and South Korea to undergo a 14-day quarantine period following the outbreak of COVID-19, passengers arriving from Italy will also undergo 14-day isolation, officials from the Health Ministry told Daily Mirror yesterday. Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera said […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday attacks has handed over its second interim report to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The report was handed over to the President at the Presidential Secretariat this evening (02). The first interim report of the Commission was presented to the President on 20th December 2019. The […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The gazette notification pertaining to the dissolution of the Parliament of Sri Lanka has been published. Accordingly, the 8th Parliament will be dissolved with effect from midnight today (02). The new parliament is set to convene on the 14th of May, 2020. Meanwhile, General Election 2020 has been declared to be held on […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ගජ මිතුරු සංගම් රටේ ජාතික න්යාය පත්රය තීන්දු කල කාලය, සමගි ජන බලවේගය මගින් අවසන් කරන බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණය සඳහා විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාසගේ නායකත්වයෙන් පිහිටුවන ලද සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ සමාරම්භක උළෙලට කොළඹ – නෙළුම් පොකුණ රඟහලේදී අද එක්වෙමින්. එක්සත් […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයට අලියා ලකුණින් තරග කිරීමට තීරණය වු බව එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ නායක රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පවසනවා. ඔහු සඳහන් කළේ ඊයේ රැස්වූ පක්ෂ කෘත්යාධිකාරී මණ්ඩලය මෙම තීරණයට එකඟත්වය පළ කළ බවයි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, තමන් ඊට එකඟ නොවූ බව සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ පාර්ශ්වය පවසනවා. ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වන ආකාරය සහ […]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය ප්රමුඛ සන්ධානය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මතුව ඇති අර්බුදය පිළිබඳව අදත් පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනඥයින් මෙලෙස අදහස් පළ කළා.
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරීමට අදාළ ගැසට් පත්රය නිකුත් කර තිබෙනවා. එම ගැසට් නිවේදනයට අනුව අද මධ්යම රාත්රී සිට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරෙනු ඇති. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයේ ඡන්ද විමසීම සඳහා දින නියම කර ඇත්තේ අප්රේල් 25 වනදාට බව රජයේ ආරංචි මාර්ග තහවුරු කළා. 2015 අගෝස්තු මස 17 වැනිදා මහ මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමෙන් අනතුරුව පිහිටවූ 8 වන […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE A year ago, UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet made the following observation in her report on Sri Lanka (tabled on March 8, 2019): ‘On 29 May 2018, human skeletal remains were discovered at a construction site in Mannar (Northern Province). Excavations, concluded with the support of the Office on Missing Persons, […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
H. L. D. MAHINDAPALA With incontrovertible evidence gleaned from unimpeachable international sources Daya Gamage, by far the most knowledgeable analyst of America’s role in Sri Lanka – he once worked in the American Embassy acquiring detailed insights into the operations of the mission – has revealed that the decision to place a travel ban on […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
BY H. L. D. MAHINDAPALA Of all the community leaders in Sri Lanka only the Tamil leadership has officially declared war against another community (i.e., the Sinhalese) and led their people to commit the crime against peace. On May 14, 1976 they collectively passed the Vadukoddai Resolution urging the Tamil youth to take up arms […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Dilrook Kannangara Quoting UK’s defence attache to Sri Lanka in 2009 Anton Gash, Lord Naseby presented a case to the British parliament on the absurdity of war crimes allegations against Sri Lanka. His reports were comprehensive and clearly annul allegations of war crimes leveled against Sri Lanka’s military. Their usefulness was harped by various patriotic […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS It is surprising to Sri Lankans living in the country and overseas that Mr. Dinesh Gunawardena handled the withdrawal from the Co-Sponsorship of UNHCR resolution. It seemed that many countries respected the views expressed by Minister Gunawardena who showed the nature of real Sri Lankan and educated personnel. There were different types […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Courtesy Hindustan Times Mathews claimed four wickets and denied West Indies 13 runs in the last over, restricting the tourists to 301 for nine in their chase of 308 in Pallekele. Angelo Mathews held his nerve with the ball to help Sri Lanka clinch a tense six-run win over West Indies in the third one-day […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Courtesy Mail online Gotabaya Rajapaksa won a landslide at November presidential polls and appointed his older brother and former president Mahinda as prime minister in a move that saw the family consolidate their hold on power Sri Lanka’s new president is set to dissolve parliament shortly and call snap a legislative election six months ahead […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The 22 university students arrested for protesting in front of the University Grants Commission (UGC) have been remanded until tomorrow (March 02). The order was issued by the Colombo Additional Magistrate when the group of students was produced before the court. Twenty-two university students including 2 monks have been arrested for protesting in […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana If the parliament of Sri Lanka is dissolved at midnight tomorrow (02) as planned, 64 parliamentarians will lose out on their pensions. A Member of Parliament must complete a five-year tenure to receive pension rights. Accordingly, the United National Party (UNP) parliamentarians will lose the most pension rights, with 36 MPs in total […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The majority of the United National Party (UNP) Working Committee has agreed to contest the upcoming general election under the election symbol ‘Elephant’. However, the Sajith Premadasa faction has not agreed to the decision, sources told Ada Derana. A special meeting of the UNP Working Committee was held at Sirikotha –UNP Headquarters, today […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Gazette Extraordinary pertaining to the dissolution of the parliament is set to be published at midnight tomorrow (02), government sources told Ada Derana. This is under the power vested in the President by the 19th Amendment to dissolve the parliament after four and a half years of the sitting of Parliament. The […]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ මතුව ඇති අර්බුදය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලනඥයින් අදත් විවිධ අදහස් පළ කලා.
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් සමඟි ජන බලවේගය, එජාපයේ අලියා ලකුණින් තරඟ කළ යුතු බවට, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ කෘත්යාධිකාරී මණ්ඩලය තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා. කෙසේ වෙතත් සජිත් පාර්ශවය ඊට එකඟ නොවී ඇති බවයි දේශපාලන ආරංචිමාර්ග ප්රකාශ කළේ
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
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