Archive for August, 2020
Friday, August 21st, 2020
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන ඔබ විසින් ලියා ඇති පහත ලිපියේ මාතෘකාවට අනුව අන්තර්ගතයේ මාතෘකාවේ කාරණා අන්තර්ගත නොවීමෙන් යම් අපැහැදිලිතාවක් පැනනැගේ. මන්දයත්, “අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීම” යන කාරණය මාතෘකාවේ දක්වා තිබුණත් ඒ පිළිබදව ලිපියේ පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් නොවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කරවමි. ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීම සහ එය පාලනය කිරීමට ඇති ව්යවස්ථා විධිවිධාන වන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 105.3 අනුව්යවස්ථාව වන […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
By Kelum Bandara/Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appears to have handpicked Adm.Prof. Jayanath Colombage for the Foreign Secretary’s post given his expertise in maritime security which is likely to be the centerpiece of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy in the coming years. Colombo, August 20: The foreign policy motto of the previous government was ‘friendship with […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia This is significant in the context of Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s statement that a new Sri Lankan constitution will be drafted Colombo, August 21 (newsin.asia): A delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) called on the Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay here on Friday. The High Commissioner congratulated the TNA for their performance […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu As Sri Lanka struggles with outstanding foreign debt, rural households across the country have been living off borrowings after exhausting their savings. Meera Srinivasan reports on how those already struggling with severe economic hardships are now grappling with a pandemic-induced crisis After doing seven jobs in the last three years in and around Colombo, Simran Enric is now […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island A smiling Sabry holds his mother after addressing the media at the Justice Ministry (pic by Shamindra Ferdinando) Justice Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (17) said that four state institutions––the Police, Prisons, Government Analyst’s Department and the Registrars of Courts––were so corrupt that the country faced a daunting challenge to […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Fourteen new cases of Covid-19 have been identified bringing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country thus far to 2,941. Twelve (12) arrivals from Untied Arab Emirates (UAE) and one each from Indonesia and Kuwait have tested positive for the virus. Twenty-three new cases of coronavirus have been detected so […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News At the request of Maha Sangha, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa decided to bring Sri Lanka Buddhist and Pali University and Buddhashravaka Bhiksu University under the purview of the Ministry of Education. President also paid attention to the possibility of placing these two Universities under the University Grants Commission. President instructed the officials to […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Dr. Bellanwila Dhammaratana Thero says that action should be taken to change the 19th Amendment to the Constitution as soon as possible. Meanwhile, other political representatives expressed their views on the 19th Amendment and the new Constitution
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhitha Thero, stated that he is requesting the Chairman of the Election Commission on behalf of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Maha Nikaya to immediately cancel the National List seat given to Apey Janabala Party. He was addressing a media briefing at the Sri Bodhirajarama Temple in Embilipitiya.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
India and Sri Lanka Relations between India & Sri Lanka has had their highs and lows since ancient times. The present resent & animosity by most in Sri Lanka against India has valid reasons. As two sovereign nations, there are certainly protocols to respect & follow and size should not matter. No country or its […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
by Garvin Karunaratne In view of the current power shortage, I enclose the Conclusion of my book; Wind Power for Sri Lanka’s Energy Requirements(Godages). The fact that Wind Power if harnessed in the manner that it has been harnessed in other countries like Spain, France and the USA, can provide the full requirements of power […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage RPEBC-PT, RPhT The government is the creation of patriotic deserving people of the country, the government will deliver the expectations of people in a well planned short and long term strategy, state service officials must avoid corruptions, bribing, conspiracies of all formats, if such occurs we will use our powerful pens against […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ උත්තරීතර නීතිය ලෙස සැළකෙන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඩොමීනියන් තත්ත්වය ප්රදානය කිරීමත් සමඟ ඊට අවශ්ය ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා පද්ධතියක් ද ‘පරිත්යාග කිරීමට’ බ්රිතාන්ය පාලකයෝ ත්යාගශීලී වූයේ ඇයිද? යන්න විසදීමට කාලයක් ගතවීම මෙරට ජනතාවට බ්රිතාන්යයන්ම ලබාදුන් අධ්යාපනයේ ස්වභාවය හේතුවන්නට ඇත. එහෙත් තම අසල්වැසියා (ඉන්දියාව) අනුව යමින් එම ඩොමීනියන් […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
උපාධිධාරී ජාතික මධ්යස්ථානය. National Center for Graduate. (NCG) ගරු ජනාධිපති, ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, අභ්යාසලාභී උපාධිධාරී පත්වීම් කප්පාදුව නතර කිරීමට ගත් තීරණය අගයමු. යළි කප්පාදුවක් නොකිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා මෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිමු. 2020 මාර්තු 02 සිට ලබා දුන් සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී අභ්යාසලාභී පත්වීම් 13 000කට ආසන්න ප්රමාණයක් 2020.08.16 දින අවලංගු කිරීමත් සමඟ […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි 1978 ව්යවස්ථාවේ 18 වන සංශෝධනය තෙක් වලංගු වූ තත්වයනට අනුව ජනාධිපතිට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසිරවිමේ බලය වසර තුනකට වඩා කාලයකට අහිමි කිරීමට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට බලය නැති බවත්, එවැනි අහිමි කිරීමක් කරන්නේ නම් ජනතාවගේ අනුමැතිය ජනමතවිචරනයකින් ලබා ගත යුතු බවත් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය 2002 වසරේදී තීරණය කරන ලදී. ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය එම තීරණය ලබා දුන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට සහ ජනාධිපතිට ඒ අනුව […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Lt Col. Anil Amarasekera (Retd.) K M B Kotakadeniya (Senior DIG Retd.) –Co-Presidents National Joint Committee The National Joint Committee (NJC) wishes to convey its best wishes to his Excellency the President, and his Government elected with an overwhelming majority, in Parliament. We have utmost confidence that the Government would fulfill its pledge to remove […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Sixteen individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 today (20), raising Sri Lanka’s infections tally to 2,918. The Department of Government Information said the latest cases are arrivals from Chennai, India. In the meantime, recoveries from COVID-19 escalated to 2,765 earlier today as five more patients returned to health. The Epidemiology Unit says only […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Bribery Commission has filed indictment against former minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne and two others for allegedly causing losses to the state when leasing out the Modara Fisheries Harbour in 2014. The other two defendants in the case include the former Chairman of the Ceylon Fisheries Harbour Corporation (CFHC) Upali Liyanage and its […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News After the presentation of the Government Policy Statement by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a traditional tea party was hosted. Members of the parliament participated in the event which was presided over by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. After the tea party the MPs expressed their views to the media.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News SLFP Central Committee decided to appoint a committee of experts to draft recommendations and suggestions for the proposed new constitution, headed by Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Sri Lanka News President assures a New Constitution with “One Country & One Law” and a change in the Electoral sytem Full text of the Policy Statement delivered by President Rajapaksa at the inaugural session of the Ninth Parliament: The election held on August 5th marked a turning point in the history of Parliamentary Elections […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
A Paper submitted by the ‘Stop MCC Stop USA Movement’ What Basil Rajapakse said On 13 August 2020 a person by the name of Basil Rajapakse, following up on his poor performance at a press briefing on 09 July 2020, did no better when he told the media, A new Constitution must be introduced for […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Dr. Anton Balasuriya Abstract This paper details the concept of economic development to jump start the rural economy and alleviate poverty beyond COVID 19. The strategy is to combine the presently available infrastructure and administrative facilities and bring a new dimension of human motivation factors, as well as, to adding new resources to strength the […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය කොවිඩ් 19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය හමුවේ අඩපන වූ පාවහන් සහ සම්භාණ්ඩ කර්මාන්ත ක්ෂේත්රයට නව පනක් ලබාදිමේ අරමුණින් සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශනය අනුව ගරු කර්මාන්ත අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ අමාත්යතුමාගේ දේශීය කර්මාන්ත නගාසිටුවීමේ සංකල්පය මත ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ සම්භාන්ඩ නිෂ්පාදන හා පාවහන් සංවර්ධන මධ්යස්ථානයේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් ‘Made in Sri Lanka’ දීපව්යාප්ත දේශීය සම්භානණ්ඩ නිෂ්පාදන […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන,පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය ලංකා ජර්මානු කාර්මික අභ්යාස ආයතනයේ සේවාවන් රටේ දුෂ්කර පළාත්වලටත් ව්යාප්ත කරන බවත්, ඒ සඳහා අවශ්ය වන ප්රතිපත්තිමය හා උපාය මාර්ගික කරුණු ඇතුලත් කඩිනම් වාර්තාවක් ලබාදෙන ලෙසත් නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය එම ආයතනයේ නිලධාරීන් හමුවේ ප්රකාශ […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ලියෝ ටෝල්ස්ටෝයි මුළු ලෝකයේම ජනප්රියම හා වඩාත්ම කියවන ලද කතුවරයෙකි. එසේම ඔහු විවිධාකාර චරිත ගැඹුරින් විශ්ලේෂණය කළ විශිෂ්ට ලේඛකයෙකි. ටෝල්ස්ටෝයි රුසියානු සාහිත්යයේ දැවැන්තයෙකු ලෙස සැලකේ; ඔහුගේ කෘති අතර යුද්ධය සහ සාමය සහ ඇනා කරෙනිනා නවකතා සහ හඩ්ජි මුරාඩ් සහ ද ඩෙත් ඔෆ් අයිවන් ඉලිච් වැනි නවකතා ඇතුළත් වේ. ඔහුගේ “යුද්ධය සහ සාමය” මෙතෙක් ලියන […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Courtesy Ship Technology Colombo Dockyard (CDPLC) is set to start the construction of six Eco Bulk Carriers for Norwegian company Misje Eco Bulk. The contract also includes four optional Eco Bulk Carriers. Initially signed in March, the contract is expected to become effective next month after receiving the owner’s final board approval. The 89.95m-long vessels […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Maithripala Sirisena was not informed about the foreign intelligence information with regard to possible terror attack by National Thowheed Jama’at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim and his associates, former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena today informed the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government had decided to provide motorcycles for Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) to encourage and appreciate their services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Accordingly, more than 800 motorcycles would be given away as the first phase of the programme before August 30 in Colombo. Director General Of […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cabinet had given its nod to a paper submitted by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa as his capacity of being the Minister of Finance to probe all alleged misdeeds of state banking network that had taken place during the past years. The paper also sought to further strengthen the state banking network. […]
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