Archive for September, 2020
Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has taken steps to appoint a committee comprising of parliamentary representatives to study the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. The committee comprising of Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers, and Members of Parliament will be chaired by Ministers of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris. Cabinet Ministers Udaya Gammanpila, Ali Sabry, Nimal […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Sambit Saha | Calcutta Courtesy The Telegraph (India) Multiple cases being fought over the fate of the $300-million Altair project declared as a ‘flagship foreign investment project’ in the island nation wo strands of a bruising court battle are looming on either side of the Palk Strait as a clutch of top builders from Calcutta mount legal […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Courtesy The Hindustan Times With climate uncertainty, humanitarian emergencies in the region are poised to grow. India must invest in regional frameworks for disaster management and take the lead in setting up a road map for greater cooperation On September 3, a fire broke out in a large crude carrier MT New Diamond off the eastern coast […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
By Noor Nizam, September 12th., 2020. The Sunday Morning says that Sri Lanka stands to lose the opportunity of claiming one-fourth the value of the MT New Diamond and one-fourth the crude oil on board (67,500 metric tonnes) due to an oversight by Sri Lanka’s maritime authorities. The Undersigned had published this article/content and had forwarded […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර 13.9.2020 1 අමාත්යය මන්ඩලයේ 30 සීමාව ඉවත් කිරීම 2 ජනාධිපති කමට තරග කිරීමේ වයස සීමාව අවුරුදු 30 දක්වා අඩුකිරීම 3 ද්විත්ව පුරවැසියන්ට මැතිවරණ වලට තරන්ග කිර්රිමට අවසර දීම සහ රජය යටතේ දෙස් විදෙස්වල (තානාපතිකම් වැනී තනතුරු දැරීමට අවසර දීම 4 ආණ්ඩුක්රම විවස්ථාවේ 53 විවස්ථාවේ විධිවිධාන වෙනස් කිරීම. කෙසේ වුවද එය වෙනස්කළයුතුම නම් […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Twelve more new cases of coronavirus infection have jumped the total number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka to 3,231. Six among the latest cases are recent arrivals from Kuwait while remaining 06 are from the United Arab Emirates. Accordingly, 36 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been reported within the day so […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Three (03) more persons have been confirmed for Covid -19 in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka Country total has increased to 3,234.
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Former senior DIG of the Eastern province Edson Gunatillake says that muslim radicals have been taking arms since 2008 and 2009 under the pretense of fighting the LTTE, and spread their radicalistic ideas. He expressed this view last evening while giving his statement before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks. […]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Highways Minister Johnston Fernando has instructed officials to expedite the green project of planting one million saplings on both sides of the road. Participating in the 100,000 km road development progress review meeting currently underway, he said that in line with the new Government policy statement, the project of planting one million […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
H. L. D. Mahindapala Once upon a colonial time, when the Vellalas dominated the casteist fiefdom of Jaffna, a husband of a low-caste Tamil decided to bury his wife accompanied by the ritual of beating the tom-tom. But beating the tom-tom was an exclusive privilege accorded only to the Vellalas, the highest caste. The ritual […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ලොව පුරා විසිරී සිටින බෞද්ධ ජනතාවට මෙන්ම බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය පිළිබඳ උනන්දුවක් දක්වන අන්යාගමිකයින්ටත් දැනුම ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය අද පටන් හේතුවක් වනු ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.12 දින පැවසීය. කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය www.kelaniyatemple.lk අන්තර්ජාලයට මුදා හැරීමේ කල්යාණෝදා” උත්සවය අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මාලඹේ, ශ්රී විමලාරාම විහාරස්ථ පුදබිමේ ඉදි කළ දහඅට රියන් අවුකන බුද්ධ ප්රතිමා වහන්සේගේ අනුරුව සහිත ප්රතිමා වහන්සේ නිරාවරණය කිරීමේ උත්සවය හා බුද්ධ මන්දිරය හා සංඝාවාසයට මංගල ශිලා ප්රතිෂ්ඨාපනය කිරීමේ උත්සවයට අද 2020.09.12 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එක්විය. ධර්මායථනාධිපති පූජ්ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ නාහිමියෝ දහඅට රියන් අවුකන බුද්ධ ප්රතිමා වහන්සේගේ අනුරුව සහිත […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily News Sri Lanka’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been swift, decisive and coordinated using whole-of-society approach under the strong leadership of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa with technical guidance from the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO), a monthly selection of case studies released by the WHO said. The monthly selection […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan navy said on Saturday it had sealed an inlet on the fire-stricken New Diamond oil supertanker that was leaking fuel oil and sparking fears of an environmental disaster. A team of divers that inspected the rear of the tanker, which caught fire last week, found a sea […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Twenty- three (23) more persons have been confirmed for Covid -19. They are returnees from Qatar, Kuwait, India and UAE.< The Sri Lanka country total has increased to 3,195.
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has taken legal action against the daughter of MP Lakshman Kiriella for clearing an eco-sensitive area in the Hanthana Reserve. Meanwhile, it was reported to us that another group had cleared another 30 acres of land that did not belong to the Hanthana ecological area. Hanthana has […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Chief Secretary of the Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagari Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha Ven. Prof. Kotapitiye Rahula Thero stated that constitutional amendments are essential for decisions to be taken by one leader. This was during a discussion with Minister Prof. GL Peiris on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and a new […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The hunger strike launched by a group of inmates in the special section of the Boossa Prison continues. Thirty people, including organized criminals Podi Lasi, Wele Suda and Kosgoda Tharaka, are still on hunger strike which commenced based on several demands. However, Defense Secretary Retired Major General Kamal Gunaratne said the demands […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
The August 2020 Parliamentary victory showed for the 2ndtime the power that ensues when the majority is united. The victors of 2015 openly declared their debt to the minorities which got translated into marginalizing the majority. Was this what the minorities really wanted? If that was not so, there was no visible voice objecting to […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ආයුබෝවන්අපි ඔබතුමාට පලමුව ස්තුථිවන්තවෙනවා අපට මේ අවස්ථාව ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධව. මේ වනවිට ඔබ නවක තරුණ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයකු බවට පත්වී හමාරයි. මේ ජයග්රහණය ඔබ දකින්නේ මොනවිදියකටද? ඕනෑම මනුෂ්යයකු තරගයකදී බලාපොරොත්තු වන්නේ ජයග්රහණයයි. මේ වනවිට මම ඒ ජයග්රහණය ලබාගෙන සිටිනවා; මේ ජයග්රහණය මගේ ජීවිතයේ එක්තරා කඩඉමක් පමණයි. තව දිනා ගැනීමට කරුණු කාරනා රාශියක් තියෙනවා. ඔබ […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
By Palitha Senanayake A read through the scholarly work of Dr. Asoka Bandarage, or more appropriately the study of that voluminous material, posit the question whether such extensive dialectics is necessary, at this stage, on the evolution of an economy of a small country that has suffered under colonialism for over three centuries. The relevance […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය රටේ නිදහස් සෞඛ්ය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට නව රජය කැපවන බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.11 දින පැවසීය. කොවිඩ්-19 පාලනය කර ගනිමින් රටක් ලෙස යම් ජයග්රහණයක් ලැබුවේ නම් ඒ අපේ රටේ පවතින විශිෂ්ට සෞඛ්ය සේවය නිසා යැයි ආඩම්බරයෙන් කියන බව ද අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අවධාරණය කළේය. කොළඹ හෙද විදුහලේ හෙද සිසුන් […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
මාධ්ය ඒකකය නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයකින් රටකට ලබාදෙන ආර්ථික හා සමාජමය සේවය මිල කල නොහැකි බව නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය ඇමති විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය පැවසුවාය. අද දින (11) නැනෝ තාක්ෂණ විශිෂ්ටත්වයේ කේන්ද්රය, ශ්රී ලංකා නැනෝ තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේ (ස්ලින්ටෙක් ආයතනයේ) නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක් වෙමින් අමාත්යවරිය මේ බව […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
By Rohana R. Wasala The feature article: ‘False historical perspectives of Wigneswaran’ jointly written by Rienzie and Kusum Wijetilleke (The Island/September 4, 2020) provided the cue for the following positive response. The Wijetillekes’ article makes interesting reading, though Wigneswaran’s tribal perspectives are hardly worth talking about except for the danger of their acquiring a false […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ඇමරිකානු ලේඛකයෙකු, කවියෙකු, සංස්කාරකයෙකු සහ සාහිත්ය විචාරකයෙකු වන එඩ්ගර් ඇලන් පෝ ඇමරිකානු සාහිත්යයේ රොමෑන්ටිකවාදයේ කේන්ද්රීය චරිතයක් ලෙස සැලකේ. ඔහුගේ පරිකල්පනීය කතන්දර හා අභිරහස හා භීෂණය පිළිබඳ කතා නූතන රහස් පරීක්ෂක කතාවට උපත ලබා දුන්නේය. ඔහු සාහිත්ය කෘතියක ශෛලිය හා ව්යුහයේ බලපෑම කෙරෙහි මූලික වශයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කළ පළමු විචාරකයින්ගෙන් කෙනෙකි. ඔහු ඇමරිකාවේ පළමු […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මහවැලි කලාප ආශ්රිත ඇළවේලි හා ජනාවාස පොදු යටිතල පහසුකම් සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය සිරිපාල ගම්ලත් මැතිතුමා ගේ ආදරණීය මෑණියන් වූ අභාවප්රාප්ත පනාගොඩගේ දොන් දයාවතී මැතිනියට අවසන් ගෞරව දැක්වීම සඳහා අග්රමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.11 දින එක්විය. පොලොන්නරුව, පලුගස්දමන, මොණරතැන්න නිවසට ගිය අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඇයට අවසන් ගෞරව දක්වමින් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය සිරිපාල ගම්ලත් මහතා ඇතුළු […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
Courtesy Aljazeera Salvage operations continue to stop fuel leak from fire-sticken New Diamond oil supertanker off Sri Lanka’s east coast. A salvage team is still trying to plug a fuel leak from the fire-stricken New Diamond oil supertanker, Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Indika de Silva said on Friday. The tanker, which is carrying the about […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
Courtesy https://www.manufacturing.net/ The MT New Diamond, which is carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil, was damaged by two fires in a little over a week. This photo released by Sri Lankan Air Force shows ships fighting fire on the MT New Diamond, about 30 nautical miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, Tuesday, […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
By Vimukthi Adithya/www.cmnnow.com Courtesy NewsIn Asia To promote a healthy lifestyle, Namal Rajapaksa had his first ‘walkntalk’ meeting with the State Minister of Self-employment Shehan Senasinghe on Friday. Colombo, September 11 : A walking meeting is simply a meeting that takes place during a walk instead of in an office, boardroom or coffee shop where […]
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Friday, September 11th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia General Tedros on Twitter posted his message saying, I congratulate Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella & mother to child transmission of HIV & congenital syphilis”… Colombo, September 11 (newsin.asia) – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella and mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital […]
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