Archive for September, 2020
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News One arrival from Qatar, one from UAE & one from Madagascar tested positive for Covid-19 raising the total in Sri Lanka to 3,274.
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
N.A.de S. Amaratunga The 19th A is being replaced by the 20th A and a new constitution is being planned. A Committee has been appointed for the drafting of a new constitution comprising some of the leading intellectuals in the country. That would be the fourth new constitution for the country since independence. And there […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS Why did the two JVP uprisings happen precisely in 1971 and 1987, asked Nira Wickremasinghe. The answer is that they were both linked to the Eelam war. Rohan Gunaratna observed that JVP insurgency and the Eelam Wars both started around the same time. The first JVP insurgency started in the south in 1971 […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග විද්යාව ඉගැන්වූ දක්ෂ ගුරුවරු තිදෙනෙක් මුණ ගැසීමට සහ ඔවුන් ගෙන් ඉගෙනුම ලැබීමට මට භාග්ය ලැබුණි. පිළිවෙලින් ජී .ගෞතමදාස , පී.ඩී.ඩබ් ජයවර්ධන සහ කේ ආරියසිංහ යන මහතුන් මෙසේ නම් කල හැකිය. කේ. ආරියසිංහ මහතා අපට විද්යාව ඉගැන්වූයේ ප්රගති විද්යායතනයේය. එතුමාගෙන් ඉගෙනුම ලැබූ දහසක් වූ වෛද්යවරු ඉන්ජිනේරුවරු සහ විවිධ විශේසඥයෝ අද ලෝකය පුරා […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය දේශීය හස්ත කර්මාන්තය වඩාත් ප්රචලිත කිරීමට නම් එම නිෂ්පාදන අලෙවි කිරීම මෙන්ම, රටක් ලෙස ඒවා පරිහරණය කළ යුතුව ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.16 දින පැවැසීය. වේවැල්, පිත්තල, මැටි, ලී බඩු සහ ග්රාමීය කර්මාන්ත ප්රවර්ධන අමාත්යංශය, ජාතික ශිල්ප සභාව, එක්ව ශ්රී ලංකා ඉඩම් සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ සංස්ථාවේ සහයෝගයෙන් සංවිධානය කළ SHILPA THURSDAY […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ පවතින ගැටලු හා සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙතෝදිස්ත සභාවේ පූජක පියතුමන්ලා හා රජයේ නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක්අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ අද (2020.09.16) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වූහ. නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ තිරුක්කෝවිල්, කල්මුණේ, අම්පාර යනාදී ප්රදේශයන් හි පාසල්, නිවාස, රෝහල්, ගමනාගමනය, අධ්යාපන යන ක්ෂේත්රයන් හි පවතින ගැටළු සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කෙරිණි. අම්පාර නගර […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
State Minister of Skills Development, Vocational Education, Research and Innovation Dr. (Mrs.) Seetha Arambepola , State Minister of Skill Development, Vocational Education, Research and Innovations stated that scientific research should be carried out identifying the issues encountered by the general public and aimed at resolving such issues The Hon. Minister expressed these views recently during […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය අංශය ජනතාවට බලපාන ගැටළු හඳුනාගනිමින් ඒවාට විසඳුම් සෙවීමට විද්යාත්මක පර්යේෂණ සිදුකළ යුතු බව නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය ඇමතිනී සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය පැවසුවා ය. අමාත්යවරිය මේ බව පැවසූවේ පසුගිය දින මාළඹේ කාර්මික තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක්වෙමිනි. මෙම නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවේ දී […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
සතුන් හා සොබාදහම සඳහා යුක්තිය සංවිධානය සියලූ වෘත්තීයමය හා සිවිල් සංවිධාන වෙත, පූජ්ය ස්වාමීන් වහන්ස, ගරු පූජකතුමනි, මහතාණෙනි, මහත්මියනි, ගව ඝාතනය නැවැත්වීමට රජයෙන් සම්මත කෙරුණු යෝජනාව බලගන්වමු. මේ මස 8 දින ආණ්ඩුපකෂ මන්තී්ර කණ්ඩායම විසින් මේ රටේ ගව ඝාතනය සපුරා නැවැත්වීම සඳහා ගන්නා ලද ඒකමතික තීරණය සදාචාර ගරුක හා යුක්තිධමය අගයන සියලූ දෙනාගේ ම අමන්දානන්දයට […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Training the trainers was a key aspect of the talks between the Indian envoy and the Lankan State Minister of Skills Development. Colombo, September 16 (Indian High Commission): The High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay on Tuesday met the State Minister of Skills Development Dr. Seetha Arambepola, to discuss ways to deepen partnership […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia He was commenting on former MP M.K. Shivajilingam’s commemorating the 33 rd anniversary of the fast-unto-death undertaken by Thileepan, a member of LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s inner circle Colombo, September 16 (newsin.asia): Dr.Rohan Gunaratna, an international expert on terrorism who is now Honorary Professor at the Sir John Kotelawala Defense University, Sri Lanka, has […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy Ceylon Today Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi has appointed a five-member committee to look into the activities of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC). The five-member committee comprises Specialist Dr. Hemantha Perera, former Dean of the Ragama Medical Faculty Professor Prishantha Wijesinghe, Specialist Dr. Anula Wijesundera, Specialist Dr. Maithree Chandraratne and Specialist Dr. Darshana […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy Ceylon Today The present Government took three immediate steps to restore the economy which had been destroyed by the previous Government, and took steps to stabilize the rupee, reduce all taxes and reduce interest rates on bank loans, the Minister of State for Finance, Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Restructuring, Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated. […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy MailonLiune Sri Lanka will file negligence and pollution charges against the Greek skipper of an oil tanker that leaked fuel off the island nation’s coast after a week-long fire, authorities said Wednesday. Some of the 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil aboard the New Diamond poured into the Indian Ocean, prompting a large effort […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy The Island The State Intelligence Service (SIS) had not been aware that National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) had direct links to the ISIS, by the time it received information from a foreign source warning of a possible terrorist attack on April 09, 2019, former SIS Director SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena yesterday told the PCoI probing Easter […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the officials to complete the national programme to develop 100,000 kilometres of roads by 2024, the President’s Media Division said. Speaking at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat to discuss the future plans of the State Ministry of Rural Roads and other Infrastructure Development, President […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Director of State Intelligence Service (SIS) SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena today rejected claims made by former President Maithripala Sirisena for not informing the National Security Council (NSC) that Zahran Hashim was a terrorist and a threat to the country’s security. SDIG Jayawardena made this remarks while responding to a question raised […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka says the comments of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on the proposed 20th Amendment are unwarranted and pre-judgmental, based on presumption. This was highlighted in the statement delivered by Sri Lanka’s Acting Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Dayani Mendis during the General Debate under Agenda […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has submitted an interim claim of Rs 340 million to the lawyers representing the owners of the ‘MT New Diamond’ oil tanker, for the costs incurred by the Sri Lankan government in the assistance rendered to the ship and other related matters. The AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම FB 1971 අප්රේල් කැරැල්ල ගැන සඳහන් කරන විට ප්රේමවතී මනම්පේරි නාමය ද නිතැතින්ම කියැවෙන්නේ, ඇය හමුදා ප්රධානියෙකුගේ අණ පරිදි නිරුවත්කොට, මහමග ඇවිද්දවා ඉතාමත් කෲර අන්දමින් වෙඩි තබා ඝාතනය කිරීම නිසාය. 1970 වර්ෂයේ කතරගම අවුරුදු කුමරිය වශයෙන් අභිෂේක ලබා සිටි ප්රේමවතී මනම්පේරි මෙනෙවිය ඝාතනය කර දැනට වසර 47 ක් ගතවී ඇතත් එම සිදුවීම අදත් […]
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
With much thought and strategy Sri Lanka has appointed Moragoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Delhi iced with cabinet ranking, the first such fringe benefit afforded to a high commissioner. No doubt, Sri Lanka is thinking the Moragoda magic will provide much relief to Sri Lanka, given the appointment is being made against tremendous […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Charles S.Perera It is strange to see the present ragtags-the remnants of the former Yahapalanaya who ridiculed democracy, and devastated the country politically,economically, and socially for four and half years, now thundering in the parliament and out side about a disappearing democracy they in fact seem to know nothing about. Among the remnants of […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala It seems to me that the former NPC CM and present Jaffna District MP octagenarian C.V. Wigneswaran has taken to dispensing racist hatred in order to wipe out the Sinhalese race as a pest. It is funny, but regrettable that he indulges himself in this sort of thing. But since the […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 15.9.2020 1 පරාජිත මන්ත්රීවරුන් නිල නිවාසවලින් ඉවත්ව නොයාම 2 අපරාධකරුවන්ට මැතිසභයට එන්ට අවසර දීම 3 මන්ත්රීවරුන් ඇතුළු කිසිම කෙනෙකුට තීරුබදු රහිත වාහන ලබා දීමට අවසර නොදීම 1 පරාජිත මන්ත්රීවරුන් නිල නිවාසවලින් ඉවත්ව නොයාම මෙම ප්රශ්නය ඉතා දිගුකලක් තිස්සේ ඇදෙන කරුණකි. මේ මිනිසු නේද රටේ නීති හදන්ට චන්දදායකයින් විසින් උත්තරීතරයයි කියන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට යවල […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM FRCP/FRACP Specialist Rheumatologist, Wellington , New Zealand. Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Wellington New Zealand . Dear Members of Ontario Parliament, I write to you as a contributor to a webinar on 16/8/20 organised by the ” Ontario Centre for Policy Research” on the alleged Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka and […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Garvin Karunaratne The Power fiasco is not over yet. Listening to the utterances by State Ministers over the Television it is clear that they have been outsmarted. Perhaps an old Paper of mine published sometime back will provide details for the State Ministers to arm themselves for the next bout..
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The security threat to India is a quite complicated archetype and many people confuse with the term the security threat to India. The major reason people get confused about the nature of the threat is specifically delineated and people have a feeling it like a groping in the dark. Since Indian independence […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Sanchita Bhattacharya Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management Courtesy SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW On September 8, 2020, a Sessions Court in Lahore, Punjab, sentenced a Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, to death, after convicting him of sending text messages containing blasphemous content”. The court order issued by Additional Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmad Qureshi said Pervaiz would first […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS The two JVP insurgencies of 1971 and 1987 have not been looked at deeply or analytically. Commentators have concentrated on describing what the JVP did, not why they did it. Commentators treat the JVP with great indulgence, calling the JVP an idealistic, romantic youth movement. Dharman Wickremaratne said that, as a working journalist, […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මත්ද්රව්ය ජාවාරම් ඇතුළු නීති විරෝධීව එක් රැස් කර ගත් මුදල් සම්බන්ධව ඉදිරි කටයුතු කිරීම පිළිබඳව නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ශ්රී ලංකා පොලීසිය සහ අනෙකුත් අදාළ රාජ්ය ආයතනවල උසස් නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා සමඟ 2020.09.14 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වූහ. නීති විරෝධී ලෙස උපයා ගත් මුදල්, රථ වාහන, ඉඩම්, නිවාස, ගොඩනැගිලි, […]
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