Archive for May, 2020
Sunday, May 24th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Six including the main suspect who assaulted the Ada Derana journalist Atulugama, Bandaragama have been placed under arrest, the police said. The assault took place this morning (24) when the journalist in question went to Atulugama area to make coverage on Muslim devotees celebrating the Ramazan festival while adhering to social distancing regulations. […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Two new COVID-19 positive cases have been detected as of 11.00 pm today (24), says the Ministry of Health. Sri Lanka’s total count of coronavirus infections thereby increased to 1,140. The two patients are confirmed to be arrivals from Kuwait, who are undergoing mandatory quarantine in Trincomalee. Accordingly, a total of 51 positive […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
H. L. D. Mahindapala May 14, 1976 is one of the most underreported, underestimated, underexamined dates in the political calendar of independent Sri Lanka. It was the date on which the Tamil leadership which had gathered in Vadukoddai passed a resolution declaring war against the democratically elected state demanding a separate state. Stitching bits and […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS After ordination, Ven. Medhananda continued to live at Sri Sumangalaramaya, Napawela, Getahatta. That remains his permanent address today. When Medhananda first went there, the temple was very new. It had an image house but no image. Loku Hamuduruwo, Ven. Soratha got a stone mason down from India and had a Buddha statue made. […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B.,Ph.D. දිසාපති හාමුදුරුවෝ මන්තිරීට සර් කීම පක්ෂ දේශපාලකයින් විසින් ලංකාව විනාශ කිරීමේ එක් සන්ධි ස්ථානයක් වූයේ රාජ්ය සේවය සඳහා අයැදුම් කිරීමේදී මන්ත්රීගෙන් ලියුමක් ඊට ඈඳන ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා-සමසමාජ සභාග ආණ්ඩුකාලයේදී (1962-64, 1970>) ගත් තීරණයය. මහ බැංකුවට බඳවා ගන්නා ආධුණික විධායක නිලධාරී තනතුරු වලදී, විශ්ව විද්යාල ආර්ථික විද්යා ගෞරව උපාධිධාරීන්ට පවා මෙසේ කරන්නට සිදුවිය. […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Dear Mayor Crombie, I regret very much that you have been badly mislead. There never was a Tamil genocide.The Tamil Tigers , labelled by the FBI US as the most brutal terrorist organisation,, that pioneered suicide bombing and the suicide west worn by all suicide bombers after them, waged a 30 […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
ඒ.ජේ.එම්. මුසම්මිල්, වයඹ පලාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර. මෙවර නව පරිසරයක් තුළ රාමළාන් නෝම්බි උපවාසයේ නියෙලන ශ්රී ලංකාවාසී ඉස්ලාමීය ජනතාවට ශුද්ධ ඊදුල් ෆිතර් උත්සවයකට සුභ පැතුම් එක්කිරීමට ලැබීම ගැන මම ආඩම්බර වෙමි. කොරෝනා වෛරසය හේතුවෙන් අපේ සහෝදර සිංහල සහ දෙමළ ජනතාව ඔවුන්ගේ ආගමික උත්සව සාමකාමීව තම නිවෙස්වල සිට සමරනු ලැබු ආකාරයටම මුස්ලිම් ජනතාවත් සෞඛ්ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ උපදෙස් පිළිපදිමින් සමාජ […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
elinoyes Michael Fishbach narrates his encounter with a humpback whale entangled in a fishing net. Gershon Cohen and he have founded The Great Whale Conservancy to protect whales. http://www.greatwhaleconservancy.org, is their website, or go to gwc’s facebook page, and join them in helping to save these magnificent beings.
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
By Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy Ceylon Today Eleven years ago, on 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka marked a significant day in its history by freeing itself from the clutches of terrorism. This saw Sri Lanka becoming the first nation to eradicate terrorism in the 21st century, securing a momentous place in military history. The military operations […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
මව්බිම දැන් අපේ රට කොවිඩ් 19 අවදානමින් කෙමෙන් දුරස් වෙමින් තිබෙන බවට මත පළවෙනවා. ඔබේ දැනුම හා අත්දැකීම් අනුව මෙහි සත්යතාවක් තිබෙනවාද? අවසාන වශයෙන් රෝගීන් වාර්තා වුණේ නාවික හමුදාවෙන් සහ නිරෝධායන මධ්යස්ථානවලින් පමණයි. පිටස්තරව රෝගීන් වාර්තා වුණේ නැහැ. අපි විශාල වශයෙන් බාහිර සමාජයේ පරීක්ෂණ කරනවා. අපි රෝහල්වල බාහිර රෝගී අංශවල සහ විවිධ ක්ෂේත්රවල අහඹු නියැදි […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
සාකච්ඡා කළේ චමින්ද මුණසිංහ උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප කොරෝනා වසංගතයත් සමඟ ලෝක ආර්ථිකය මෙන්ම ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකයත් බරපතළ අර්බුදවලට මුහුණ දෙමින් තිබේ. මෙවන් ප්රශ්න සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔබ පුවත්පත සමග මා කතා කර තිබෙන්නේ 2002 වසරේ පටන්ය. දැවෙන ආර්ථික ප්රශ්න නමින් තීරු ලිපියකින්ද අපි නොයෙක් විග්රහ කළෙමු. අඛණ්ඩව වසර 18 ක් මෙවන් විග්රහ හරහා ආර්ථිකයට නිවැරැදි මඟ පෙන්වීමට උත්සාහ කළෙමු. […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප පොළොන්නරුව දිස්ත්රික්කයේ ප්රධාන සහ මධ්ය පරිමාණ වී මොල් අටක් පාරිභෝගික කටයුතු පිළිබද අධිකාරියේ සභාපති විශාමික මේජර් ජෙනරාල් ශාන්ත දිසානායක මහතා ඇතුලූ නිලධාරින් 50 දෙනෙකුගෙන් යුත් කණ්ඩායමක් අද(23) සවස වැටලිමට ලක් කළහ. එහිදි දිස්ත්රික්කයේ ප්රධාන සහල් මෝල් වන අරලිය , නිපුන, නිව්රත්න, ලත් සහල් තවත් මධ්ය පරිමාණ වී මෝල් කිහිපයක් මෙහිදි පරික්ෂාවට ලක් කෙරුණි. […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය පවත් වන්නේ කවදාදැයි තීරණය කරනු ලබන්නේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය දැනටත් ගොනු කර ඇති පෙත්සම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීන්දුව ලබාදෙමින් ඉන්පසු බව මැතිවරණ කොමිසම සඳහන් කරයි. එහි අධ්යක්ෂ සමන් රත්නායක මහතා සඳහන් කරන්නේ අදාළ නඩු තීන්දුව ප්රකාශ කළ දිනයේ සිට දින 70 තුළ ඡන්දය පවත්වන බවයි. මැතිවරණ පවත්වන ආකාරය ගැන සෞඛ්ය බලධාරීන් සමඟ […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Security has been beefed across Sri Lanka as a 2 day nation wide curfew came into effect from 8pm on Saturday with nearly 1000 road blocks set up in all districts, the police said. The police said that strict checking will be carried out in all districts on all vehicles and […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The President’s Media Division (PMD) has issued an updated announcement on the ongoing curfew in all districts. Accordingly, the island-wide curfew, which is set to go into force from 8.00 pm tonight (23), will be lifted at 4.00 am on Tuesday (26). The entire country will be under curfew on the 24th and […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Four more COVID-19 positive patients reported increasing the total number of cases in the country, the Ministry of Health stated. Twenty-two positive coronavirus cases have been confirmed so far within the day. Accordingly, a total of 1,089 novel coronavirus patients have been identified from Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the number of recoveries in Sri […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks heard that Ringleader of the attacks Zahran Hashim and another bomber had engaged in a reconnaissance of the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo two days prior to the attacks. The Commission also heard that a room was booked by one of the bombers […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have engaged in a 20-minute telephone conversation this morning (23). The Indian Premier has commended President Rajapaksa for being a clear thinker and tough decision-maker”, in tackling the threat of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka. The two leaders have also discussed the pre-COVID situation […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Individuals are not selected for international positions to go on witch-hunts especially against sovereign countries and elected leaders. The international entity, appointing them are also responsible to see if those they appoint exceed their mandate. International entities cannot simply watch their appointees abuse their portfolio especially against a sovereign country & a UN member state. […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Navi Pillay has finally crawled out of the woodwork. On 20 May 2020 the former head of the United Nations Human Rights Council finally showed off her true colours reading out a script which proved beyond doubt her bias ‘remembrance of the Tamil victims of war in Sri Lanka that ended on 18 May 2009’. […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Re-modeling economic policies of the country may have been the prime accountability of all governments elected to the office since independence in 1948. Although the policymakers soon after the independence, did not publicly state to accomplish the accountability with balanced growth, the focus of policymaking implied to reduce the bias in the […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Since 1978 economic policies have been accomplished to satisfy the attitudes or thinking patterns of common people, however, the idea of enhancing the production, and the productivity went out of the minds of policymakers, because of the politics of the country reluctance to show or hear about the shortage of goods and […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Chandrasena Pandithage In Sri Lanka, the most powerful unit called “people of Sri Lanka”. Nobody has a right to stand above them. That is a law, Country’s decision-makers are them, not anyone else. Presidents, Prime ministers, Parliament, or Court’s duty is to work for them. Presidential elections. Parliament elections and referendums are very important to […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Elevated highway: Govt. accepts unsolicited proposal from Chinese company By Namini Wijedasa The Government has accepted an unsolicited proposal from China Harbour Engineering Company (Ltd) for the elevated expressway from Athurugiriya to New Kelani Bridge via Rajagiriya — a project for which bid documents had already been finalised to call an open […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1.) ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කරමින්, වසරකට පසු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට තිබූ බලය ඉවත් කිරීමට 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත මුල් වරට වර්ෂ 2002 දීපාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබූණි. 2) එකී 2002 ඉදිරිපත් කළ පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරු 7දෙනෙක් ඒකමතිකව “තීරණයක්” (Determination) ලබා දෙමින්, එකී සංශෝධනය එනම් […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Mahinda Gunasekera 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, Ontario M1W 3L9 Canada Mayor Bonnie Crombie Mayor of the City of Mississauga Dear Mayor Bonnie Crombie, Your statement delivered on the day referred to as Tamil Memorial Day<https://www.facebook.com/TamilEelamMay18/videos/201602127308030/> _ I received a video statement made by you at the City Council carried in the Facebook of an organization […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Courtesy The Guardian Sri Lanka has lifted a ban on wedding receptions as part of an easing of coronavirus restrictions, but grooms may not kiss the bride – at least not in public. Wealthy Sri Lankans usually hold wedding celebrations with thousands of guests, and the festivities often last for days with much eating, drinking, dancing […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Nine more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 as of 10.00 pm on Friday (22), says the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, a total of 13 new positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed so far within the day. Four naval personnel tested positive for the virus earlier today. Sri Lanka’s total count of […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services Dr. Anil Jasinghe has sent a letter to the President’s Secretary, stating that he sees no impediment to holding elections in the country, President’s Counsel Romesh De Silva told the Supreme Court on Friday (22). These developments came, when multiple Fundamental Rights petitions, filed challenging the President’s […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana A Task Force headed by the Defence Secretary will be appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to conduct a comprehensive survey of archaeological sites in the East and to take measures to preserve them, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). Several parties have voiced their concerns regarding the destruction done to historical monuments, the […]
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