Archive for September, 2020
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කොකා කෝලා සමාගම හා ශ්රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය එක්ව පී.සී.ආර්. (PCR) පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල 16800 ක් හා VTM 17000 ක් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා වෙත පරිත්යාග කිරීම 2020.09.02 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. කොවිඩ් 19 රෝගීන්ට ප්රතිකාර කරන රෝහල් 06ක් සඳහා මෙම වෛද්ය උපකරණ කට්ටල යොමු කිරීමට නියමිතය. එම උපකරණවල වටිනාකම රුපියල් මිලියන 50 කි. […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
LAYANANDA ALLES, Eng.Montreal, Canada courtesy The Island This is in relation to the article by Dr. Chandre Dharmawardana, Sri Lanka’s power supply, blackouts, and how to prevent them” published in the Island Newspaper. I am an electrical engineer, who has spent the last 30 years in research and development in telecommunication systems and system reliability, […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
BY Indrawansa de Silva, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, USA Courtesy The Island Universal suffrage is a democratic right that we must all respect and uphold. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Sri Lankan voters who exercised their voting right in this election. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the inaugural session of 9th […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General has assigned Additional Prosecutors to the Homagama, Kalutara, Matara and Negombo High Courts having considered the large number of cases pending in each High Court, AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said. She said over 600 cases are pending in these courts.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Sandun A Jayaekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet has decided to appoint an Expert Committee headed by Romesh de Silva PC to prepare the preliminary drafts for a new Constitution, co-cabinet spokesman and Minister Udaya Gammanpila said today. The committee comprises of Romesh De Silva PC (Chairman), Gamini Marapana PC, Manohara De Silva PC, […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror The draft of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution which was gazetted today has proposed key amendments such as replacing the Constitutional Council (CC) with the Parliamentary Council, enabling the President to hold Cabinet portfolios and enabling the President to appoint Cabinet of Ministers. According to the draft gazetted, […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ජාත්යන්තර රතු නිවේදන නිකුත් කර ඇති , එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානයට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින් 338 දෙනෙකුගේ නම් අසාදු ලේඛනයෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට හිටපු අමාත්ය මංගල සමරවීර මහතා ඍජුවම කටයුතු කර ඇතැයි බුද්ධි අංශ මාණ්ඩලික නිලධාරි කර්නල් ෂම්මි කුමාරරත්න මහතා අද ප්රකාශ කළා . ඒ දේශපාලන පලිගැනීම් පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති පරීක්ෂණ කොමිෂන් සභාව හමුවේ සාක්ෂි […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Five arrivals from Qatar have tested postive for Covid -19 increasing the total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,111.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The gazette notification pertaining to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution which has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers has been issued by now.The gazette notification (English) is given below. http://www.documents.gov.lk/files/bill/2020/9/22-2020_E.pdf Click Here for Sinhala Version http://documents.gov.lk/files/bill/2020/9/22-2020_S.pdf
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Supreme Court today rejected a request to summon copies of evidence and documents summoned before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter attack. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka and Attorney-at-Law Moditha Ekanayake yesterday requested that the relevant transcripts be summoned to the Supreme Court for use in the case. […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
The last government made several attempts to privatize State land. This would have left Sri Lanka with no state land. What good is a government without land? How can a government tax when it has no land to tax? Land is the underlying foundation of a country’s sovereignty. As an Asian Dharmic civilization, our perception […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Dilrook Kannangara USA has announced economic sanctions on a number of Chinese companies and other companies that deal with them. Among them are Chinese companies involved in the Port City, Hambantota Port and Mattala Airport. This is obviously a US attack on China’s one belt one road” initiative. The impact on Sri Lanka will be […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ඉන්දියාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ප්රනාබ් මුකර්ජි මැතිතුමාගේ අභාවය පිළිබඳ ශෝකය පළ කිරීම සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.02 දින ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඉන්දියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් නිල නිවස වෙත ගියේය. ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අතර පවතින දිගු කාලීන මිත්රත්වයේ එක් සංකේතයක් ලෙස ජනාධිපති මුකර්ජි මැතිතුමා කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳව සිහිපත් කළ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජපාන තානාපති අකිරා සුගියාමා මහතා අද 2020.09.02 දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමුවිය. පසුගිය මැතිවරණයෙන් ලද ජයග්රහණය සහ අගමැති ධූරයට නැවත පත්වීම පිළිබඳව ඔබට සුබ පතනවා,” යැයි තානාපති සුගියාමා මහතා අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට පැවසීය. ජපාන අග්රාමාත්ය සිං ෂෝ අබේ සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සාමය ගොඩනැංවීම, පුනරුත්ථාපනය හා ප්රතිසංස්කරණය පිළිබඳ […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නැගෙනහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර අනුරාධා යහම්පත් මහත්මිය හා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක් අද 2020.09.02 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ ඉදිරි සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුකාරතුමිය විසින් මෙහිදී අග්රාමාත්යතුමා දැනුම්වත් කළ අතර නැගෙනහිර සංවර්ධන කටයුතු කඩිනම් කිරීමට අවශ්ය ඉදිරි පියවරයන් පිළිබඳව ද මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා විය. ස්වාභාව සෞන්දර්ය අතින් අනූන වූ නැගෙනහිර […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Prime Minister’s Media Office The Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka Akira Sugiyama called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning. I congratulate you on the victory at the recent election and reappointment as Prime Minister,” Ambassador Sugiyama said. He also handed over two congratulatory letters, from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය වේදනා මර්දනයට විශේෂිතව හඳුන්වා දෙන කොළඹ 07, හෝටන් පෙදෙසේ, අංක 31 ස්ථානයේ, ස්ථාපිත ලන්ඩන් වේදනා මර්දන කළමනාකරණ මධ්යස්ථානය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2020.09.02 දින විවෘත විය. මෙතෙක් දියුණු රටවලට පමණක් විශේෂිත වූ නිධන් ගත වේදනා කළමනාකරණ ප්රතිකාර මෙම මධ්යස්ථානය ඔස්සේ සිදු කෙරේ. ඊට අදාළ නව වෙබ් අඩවිය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය දේශපාලන පළි ගැනීම්වලට ලක්වූවන් (2015-2019) පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන කමිටුවේ මූලික වාර්තාව අද 2020.09.02 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට භාර දෙන ලදී. 2015-2019 කාලය තුළ රාජ්ය හා අර්ධ රාජ්ය සේවයේ පරිපාලනමය වශයෙන් දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම්වලට ලක් වූ පුද්ගලයින් 6952 දෙදෙනෙක් මේ වන විට මෙම කමිටුවට අභියාචනා ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. ඒ අතුරින් 1152 […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia It was the first Perahera” with public participation in Sri Lanka after the lifting of the country-wide COVID-19 lockdown Colombo, September 1 (newsin.asia): On August 29th, as the sun was setting, a historic Buddhist temple, the Kotte Rajamaha Viharaya located in the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, held its annual Perahera” or […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
By Tom McKay Courtesy NewsIn.Asia As per the Washington Post, the U.S. isn’t participating in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, a joint coronavirus vaccine effort run by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and vaccine alliance Gavi that has received statements of interest from 170 countries. Washington. September 2 (gizmodo.com): The U.S. won’t […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Livemint China is seeking to set up more robust logistics facilities in about a dozen countries, including three in India’s neighbourhood, to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power at greater distances, according to a Pentagon report . WASHINGTON : China is seeking to set up more robust logistics facilities in about a […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror An irresponsible decision taken by former President Maithripala Sirisena after the coordinated terror attack had allowed the Islamic extremist organizations to operate even better than the period before Easter Sunday attacks, a Moulavi who wish to stay anonymous yesterday informed PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. A Moulavi who requested […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island The Minister of Power, four days after assuming duties, had to face an island-wide power blackout which commenced around 12.30 pm on the 17th August and lasted up to 7-8 hours. The following day, he appointed a committee, comprising Ministry officials and power experts, to investigate the matter […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Ranjith Rajapaksha Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two Colonels of the Sri Lanka Army including Maj. Gen. Priyankara Perera and the Urban Development Authority have been summoned to appear in the Hatton Magistrate’s Court on September 15 on charges of forcibly establishing a quarantine centre at a private land. President’s Counsel Maithree Gunaratne said the order […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Four new cases of COVID-19 have been detected today (02) as the total number of positive cases in the country to 3,101. Accordingly, 02 recent arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 01 each from India and Qatar have tested positive for the virus, the Department of Government Information confirmed. The Epidemiology […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks has informed MP Rauff Hakeem to appear before its police unit. Accordingly, the parliamentarian will be recording a statement with the police unit of the PCoI on Friday (September 04).
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The preliminary report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged incidents of political victimization was handed over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (02 sep 2020).
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has advised the Secretary to the Ministry of Justice that the draft bill of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution does not attract the holding of a referendum, in terms of Article No. 83 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. The Attorney General has therefore informed the Justice Secretary that […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Puttalam Forest Officer W. N. C. K Wasala said that legal action will be taken against those involved in the destruction of the Kalpitiya Pallivasalthurai Mangroves which was exposed by Hiru CIA. Following the revelation, forest officials and the police inspected the area today, where the mangroves were destroyed. Meanwhile, the Chairman […]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Geological Survey and Mining Bureau says that they have observed that the epicenter of the tremor that occurred in the Pallekele area in Kandy this morning, and the previous tremors that occurred were located in the same place. Geologist Nalin de Silva, head of the team investigating the case, said the […]
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