Archive for June, 2020
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ මෙවර මහා මැතිවරණ සටන ආරම්භව ඇත. මෙරට කොටි ත්රස්තවාදය නිමකල ජනාධිපතිවරයාවූ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, 2015 ජනවාර් මස 8 වෙනිදා ලද පරාජයෙන් පසු, තවමත් ස්ථාවර රජයක් මේ භුමියේ පිහිටුවා ගැනීමේ වරම අහිමිව ඇත. මෙවර ඇත්තේ ඒ අහිමි කල ජනවරම යලි ස්ථාපනය කොට නැවත මේ රට සංවර්ධයේ දිසාවට ගමන් කරලීමේ කටයුත්ත ආරම්භ කිරීමේ සටනයි. දැන් […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, on Monday (22), said that on his intervention the then President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe thwarted a bid to arrest Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa appreciated both President Sirisena and Premier Wickremesinghe listened to his advice in spite of the […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Island Insaf Ibrahim, the suicide bomber who carried out the attack on Cinnamon Grand hotel, had spent around Rs. 45 million between January and April of 2019 on National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) operations, CI Ravindra Wimalasiri of CID informed the PCoI probing into Easter Attacks yesterday. Wimalasiri said that Insaf Ibrahim owned several […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Media should help preserve national identity and cultural values, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said Colombo, June 23 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday highlighted the need for the media to preserve the Sri Lankan identity and Sri Lankan cultural values and in that context, emphasized the necessity of establishing guidelines for selecting […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia In both Nepal and Sri Lanka the issue is safeguarding national sovereignty Just as the Sri Lankan government is having difficulty in taking a decision on the US Millennium Challenge Corporation’s 500 million dollar transport and land registration compact, the Nepalese government is on the horns of a dilemma in regard to […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The UNP says that it strongly condemns the statement made by the former Parliamentarian Harin Fernando and the Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith. In a statement, they said the Cardinal’s mediation with the government after the Easter Sunday Attack should not be forgotten. The UNP press release further states that former MP Harin […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Insaf Ahamed, the suicide bomber who blew himself up at the Cinnamon Grand hotel, had spent nearly Rs.45 million within the first four months of 2019 for National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) to conduct extremist activities in the country, CI Raveendra Wimalasiri of the CID informed the PCoI probing into the Easter […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
By Shehan Daniel Courtesy The Daily Mirror Allegations of match-fixing by former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has brought the 2011 Cricket World Cup final, which Sri Lanka lost to India, under scrutiny. But are these legitimate allegations or politically motivated statements? What is the allegation? Speaking to a private television channel last week, Aluthgamage alleged that Sri Lanka had sold” the […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Eleven more persons have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus as of 10.00 pm today (23), says the Ministry of Health. The Department of Government Information said these new infections were detected among the group of returnees from the United States. Thereby, the total count of novel coronavirus cases in the country has […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ස්වාධීන” ලේබලය අලවා ඇත්තේ ඔවුන්ට ස්වාධීන යයි සිතෙන ආකාරයෙන් ක්රියා කිරීමට නොවේ. මැතිවරණ කොමිසමට (මැ.කො.) ස්වාධීන” ලේබලය අලවා ඇත්තේ ඔවුන්ට ස්වාධීන යයි සිතෙන ආකාරයෙන් ක්රියා කිරීමට නොව, සමස්ත ඡන්ද දායකයන්ගේ සහ අපේක්ෂකයන්ගේ ස්වාධීනත්වයට ගැළපෙන ආකාරයෙන් ක්රියා කිරීමට යැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. මැතිවරණ […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When we were studying Demography at the university, a popular topic was Brain Drain, and we were not happy about the population policy planning at that time as the government policy did not direct and address required policy measures to control brain drain. The major reason to displease the government policy was […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
By M D P DISSANAYAKE 1. TEAM INSTABILITY AT THE TOP: So far in the game of Sri Lankan Cricket, there had been only one Leader who rose to the occasion and won the world cup final to Sri Lanka. That was none other than Arjuna Ranatunga. Since then, we had big names, Aravinda De […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ෆියෝඩර් මිහයිලොවිච් දොස්තයෙව්ස්කි විශ්වීය ගෞරවයට පාත්ර වූවකි. නවකතාකරුවෙකු, මාධ්යවේදියෙකු හා කෙටිකතා රචකයෙකු වන දොස්තොයෙව්ස්කිගේ කෘති රුසියානු ජාතිකයින් අතර පමණක් නොව, ලෝක සාහිත්යය තුළ ද ප්රචලිතය. දොස්තයෙව්ස්කි මනෝවිද්යාත්මක යථාර්ථවාදය කෙරෙහි උනන්දුවක් දැක්වීය. දොස්තයෙව්ස්කි යථාර්ථවාදී මනෝවිද්යාත්මක නවකතාවේ පුරෝගාමියාය. දොස්තයෙව්ස්කි ගේ නවකතා මානව මනෝ විද්යාව ගවේෂණය කරන අතර විවිධ දාර්ශනික හා ආගමික තේමාවන් සමඟ […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය කැෆේ සංවිධානය ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කිරීමේ කාලයදීර්ඝ කරන්නේ නම් එය උදෑසන සහ පස්වරුවේ විනාඩි 30 බැගින් වැඩිකළ යුතු බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය මැතිවරණ කොමිසමට යෝජනා කරයි. සාමාන්යයෙන් ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කිරීමේ වේලාව පෙරවරු 7 සිට පස්වරු 4 දක්වා වෙන් කර ඇති නමුත් මෙවර සෞඛ්ය උපදෙස් අනුව ඡන්ද විමසීම පැවැත්වීමේදී ඒම කාලසීමාව ප්රමාණවත් නොවිය හැකි හෙයින් කාලය […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Let’s just imagine a scenario where the 9 provinces of Sri Lanka were given substantial autonomy to make its own decisions but remain within the ambit of what is oft described as a united Sri Lanka”. Let’s also imagine the present crisis that has enveloped the world causing over 470,665 deaths and affected over 9million […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පසුගිය රජය විසින් කෙටුම්පත් කර තිබූ සමලිංගික විවාහ නීතිගත කිරීමට කටයුතු කර තිබුණේ නම් ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ හිටපු මන්ත්රී සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති සහ මංගල සමරවීර හිටපු ඇමතිවරයා විවාහ වනු ඇති ඇති බව ජනහමුවක් අමතමිනි ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තු අපේක්ෂක හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මොහොමඩ් මුසම්මිල් මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. අද ජනතා […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා වැනි යුදපිටියේ සිටිය යතු අය නොදන්නා දේශපාලනයකට පැමිණීම තමන් දේශපාලනයෙන් සමු ගැනීමට එක් හේතුවක් යයි හිටලු ඇමති මංගල සමරවීර මහතා පවසයි. මංගල සමරවීර මහතා මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයෙන් ඉවත් වීම සමගි ජන බලවේගයට විශාල වාසියක් යයි සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා විසින් කරන ලද ප්රකාශයක් ප්රතිචාර දක්වමින් ඔහු මේ බව සදහන් කර […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
by Malaka Rodrigo Courtesy Mongabay.com A new type of forest ecology has been discovered from the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa in north-central Sri Lanka, centered around the irrigation canals abandoned there more than 700 years ago. The unique new forest type closely resembles the riverine forests that are found alongside rivers and other bodies of water, […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has informed the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on political victimization that the process cannot be issued on his officers in terms of Section 16 of the Act.
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Nine students of the University of Kelaniya have been arrested by the Police today (22) over the incident of removing CCTV cameras at the university premises in February, 2020. On February 24, certain members of the Student Union of the University of Kelaniya had forcibly removed the CCTV cameras fixed at university premises […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Another person has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, marking the first new infection in 3 days. The latest case is a recent arrival from the Maldives, stated the Ministry of Health. Thereby the total of coronavirus cases in the country moved to 1,951 cases. Currently, there are 414 active coronavirus cases being […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News One (01) more person has tested positive for Covid-19 (new coronavirus) infection. The country total has increased to 1,951 according to the latest information by the Epidemiology unit of the Ministry of Health. Covid-19 Situation Report as at 2020-June-22 | compiled according to the Health promotion Bureau and the Epidemiology Unit data […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Opportunity is now open to commence productions in many sectors with the limiting of imports of several non-essential items, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. As pledged in “Saubhagyaye Dekma” policy statement the way has been paved for a people-centric production economy. The current challenge before the industrialists is to win the domestic and […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Police Inspector Neomal Rangajeewa of the Police Field Force Headquarters revealed at the Presidential Commission to Investigate Political Victimization that original evidence has disappeared regarding the Welikada Prison incident in 2012. He also presented two CDs containing the voice of a drug dealer, Velesuda.
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News It was revealed today at the Presidential Commission probing into the Easter Sunday Attacks, that two ministers had attended the wedding of Ibrahim Ilham, a suicide bomber on Easter Sunday. This was through a statement from Fatima Jeffery the mother in law of Ibrahim Ilham. She testified before the commission that her […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Catholic Church says it is deeply saddened and disturbed by the statement made by the former Parliamentarian Harin Fernando regarding the Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith. This was in response to allegations made by the National List Member of the Samagi Jana Balavegaya, Harin Fernando at a meeting held at Polonnaruwa – […]
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse states disrespecting a religion or a religious leader is a sign of decline and deterioration. The Prime Minister said this while participating at a meeting held in the Wanduragala area in Kurunegala today.
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Sunday, June 21st, 2020
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Former Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Bandaranayaka and President Sri Lanka Administrative Services Association (1991-1994) 1 Abolition of the Provincial Councils that have been a white elephant breading and benefitting only politicians at provincial levels and that has wasted billions or even trillions of public funds for the past 33 years with […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2020
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLPP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice” & former Press and Information Officer – Presidential Secretariat (2011-2015), 20th., June, 2020. The above words of WISHES” will be the pillars of STRENGTH”, REALITY” and FULFILLNESS” that will lead Sri Lanka, our Maathruboomiya” and Sri Lankans […]
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හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විසින් නිකුත් කළ පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය මැතිවරණ කොමිසන් සභාවේ තීරණයක් වැරදි බව දක්වමින් පළ වූ ෆෙස් බුක් සටහනකට ප්රතිචාර දැක්වූ (කමෙන්ට් දැමු) රාජ්ය නිලධාරියෙකු සම්බන්ධයෙන් විනය ක්රියාමාර්ග ගන්නා ලෙස මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව රාජ්ය පරිපාලන අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් වෙත දැනුම් දී තිබේ. පලාත් පලාත් පාලන කොමසාරිස්වරුන් වෙත මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව විසින් ලබාදුන් නීත්යානුකුල […]
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