Archive for October, 2020
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Andrew Fidel Fernando Courtesy The Hindu Critics have cast Murali as a ‘generic’ Sri Lankan Tamil to inflame their biases, but his story is more deeply layered Occasionally, Muttiah Muralitharan has spoken of the anti-Tamil pogrom in 1977 when Sinhalese mobs ran a blade 12 inches across his father’s back, then burned down the family’s biscuit factory […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Hassan M Kamal Courtesy First Post All New Delhi can hope for is that next time the Chines comes to collect, Sri Lanka doesn’t give up another portion of its sovereign territory, further strengthening the Chinese in India’s backyard File image of Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Reuters India’s fears […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
By Savithri Sellapperumage Courtesy The Diplomat Can Sri Lanka live up to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s environmental commitments? The focus on Sri Lanka’s deforestation and the conservation of forests this year can be traced back to widespread discussions about deforestation in Wilpattu National Park back in 2019. Deforestation in Wanathawillu, Anawilundawa and Sinharaja has been the recent […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy RT Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, Beijing, China (FILE PHOTO) © REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins As the US demands Sri Lanka make a choice over its economic allegiances, the Chinese foreign ministry has warned that Washington’s attempt to bully nations into cutting their ties with Beijing won’t succeed. Speaking on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Aljazeera Beijing says Washington acting with ‘Cold War mentality’ after US official urges Sri Lanka to make ‘difficult but necessary choices’. China says the United States is bullying other countries to pick sides over their ties to Beijing after a senior Washington official called on Sri Lanka to make difficult but necessary choices” in […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
By Umesh Moramudali Courtesy The Diplomat Both the share and the type of loans from China are changing as Sri Lanka wrestles with persistent balance of payment issues. The recent visit of Yang Jiechi, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo member and previously China’s foreign minister, to Sri Lanka sparked interest among many. To begin with, Sri […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Diana Gamage yesterday said she would continue to support President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to build the nation. Speaking during an adjournment debate in the House, she said she decided to support President Gotabaya as she felt he is capable of building the nation. During his tenure as the […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka saw the highest daily record in Covid-19 cases today while the total number of confirmed infections surpassed the grim milestone of 7,000. As per the statistics of the Health Ministry, the confirmed cases count now stands at 7,153. The Department of Government Information said a total of 866 infections have been […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka recorded the highest daily count of Covid-19 cases today (23) as 256 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Reports revealed that 39 of these fresh cases are connected to the Peliyagoda Fish Market and the remaining 217 are contacts of Minuwangoda and Peliyagoda clusters. Thereby, positive cases reported from […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Calling on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening (23), Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Woonjin Jeong called Sri Lanka one of the safest countries,” and said he is actively encouraging Korean investors to explore opportunities in Sri Lanka. In a press release, the Prime Minister’s Office said Korea was […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana A group of parliamentarians of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) have called for the suspension of membership of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) members who voted in favour of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. In a letter directed to SJB’s General Secretary MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara today […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Acting IGP to record statement of the victim of the LTTE attacks on Buddhist monks in the 1987 Aranthalawa massacre. Attorney General Dappula de Livera has also instructed police to commence criminal investigations and submit a progress report within two weeks, the AG’s coordinating officer said. The […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
When the heroic armed forces of Sri Lanka eliminated the ground force of the LTTE including its top brass, they succeeded in ending 3 decades of terror and gave the 20mllion populace an elusive peace sans bombs, suicide missions and assassinations. The LTTE was vanquished in May 2009. That heroism did not come without sacrifice. […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Third Reading of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution has been passed with amendment with a two-thirds majority. A total of 156 voted in favour of the constitutional amendment while 65 MPs voted against. The Second Reading of the 20th Amendment was also passed in Parliament with a two-thirds majority, this evening. […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
විජය උඳුපිටිය මහජන නියෝජිතයින්, රාජ්ය නිලධාරීන් සහ රජය අතර පමණක් නොව සමාගමක අධ්යක්ෂ වරැන්, සේවකයින් සහ සමාගම් අතරත්, සංවිධානයක නිලධාරීන් සහ සංවිධානය අතරත් අභිලාශ ඝට්ටනයන් තිබිය හැක. සංක්ෂිප්තව පවසන්නේ නම් මහජනයාට සේවා සපයන ආයතන සහ එකී ආයතන මෙහෙයවන නිලධාරීන් අතර තම පෞද්ගලික අභිලාෂයන් සහ ආයතනීය අභිලාෂයන් අතර ගැටුම් වලට අභිලාශ ඝට්ටනය යැයි කිව හැක. දූෂණය […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
විජය උඳුපිටිය පාස්කු බොම්බයත් සමග ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදය පමණක් නොව ලිබරල් අන්තවාදය ගැනද සංවාද කලයුතුයැයි මම අදහස් කරමි. කිසියම් ජන කොට්ඨාසයක සංස්කෘතිය හෝ ඇඳුම් ආයිත්තම් වලට ප්රමාණය ඉක්මවා ඉවසා සිටීමද ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී අන්තවාදය නොහොත් ලිබරල් අන්තවාදය යැයි කිව යුතුය. ඒ ගැන කථා කරන්නාට “ජාති වාදියා” යැයි කීමට පෙර දෙවරක් සිතා බැලිය යුතුය. අපේ පාරවල්වල ප්රථම වරට හිකාබය […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Dr . IMRC Iriyagolle A Buddhist Sinhalese The Great Sinhala race in their wisdom embraced Buddhism, the path to salvation. Lord Sidhartha Gauthama Buddha (5C-4C) was and is the greatest reformer and revolutionary known to mankind. The Great Buddhist Kings and Leaders of Sri Lanka protected and preserved not only the Buddhist civilization but also […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
නිදහස් වෙළඳ කලාප සහ පොදු සේවා සේවක සංගමය අතින් භාරදීම. 2020 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 22 වන දින. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය, අරලියගහ මන්දිරය, කොළඹ 03. ගරු අග්රාමාත්යතුමනි, වර්තමානයේ කොවිඞ්-19 වසංගතය කටුනායක ආයෝජන ප්රවර්ධන කලාපය ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් ප්රදේශවල පැතිරීම නිසා පැන නැගී ඇති සේවක ගැටළු පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡුා කිරීමට අවස්ථාවක් ලබා දෙන ලෙස කරනු ලබන ඉල්ලීම 2020 […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි.සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය. ගරු රාජ්ය සේවා ,පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්ය, ජනක බණ්ඩාර තෙන්නකෝන් මැතිතුමා, රාජ්ය සේවා ,පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්යංශය, නිදහස් චතුරස්රය, කොළඹ – 07. ලේකම්, ජේ.ජේ.රත්නසිරි මහත්මා, රාජ්ය සේවා ,පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්යංශය, ගරු අමාත්යතුමනි/ලේකම්තුමනි, #කෝව්ඩ්- 19 #Covid – 19 වසංගත තත්වය උග්ර වෙමින් තිබියදී රාජ්ය […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි.සමස්ත ලංකා දුම්රිය සේවකයින්ගේ පොදු සේවක සංගමය. දුම්රිය සාමාන්යධිකාරී, කොරෝනා පැතිරීමේ නීතිරීති හා දුම්රිය සේවකයින් සඳහා සෞඛ්ය ආරක්ෂක වැඩපිළිවෙලක් අනුගමනය කිරීම. #කොරෝනා වෛරසය (#කෝවිඩ්-19 #Covid- 19) පැතිරීම නිසා ගම්පහ දිස්ත්රික්කය ඇතුළු ප්රදේශ ගණනාවක් වසා දමා ඇත. එසේ වුවද, වෛරසය පැතිරීම හා සමාජගත වීම වේගවත් වී ඇත. දුම්රිය මූලස්ථානය ඇතුළු දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සේවා ස්ථාන කිහිපයකින්ම […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
UNESCAP හි ශ්රී ලංකා නිත්ය දූත මණ්ඩලය හා තානාපති කාර්යාලය බැංකොක්, තායිලන්තය පවතින COVID-19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය සමාජ ආරක්ෂණය අන්කවරදාකටත් වඩා අවශ්ය බව ඔප්පු කර ඇතැයි බැංකොක්හි එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සම්මන්ත්රණ මධ්යස්ථානයේදී 2020 ඔක්තෝබර් 20 හා 21 දිනයන්හි පැවැති එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ආසියානු හා පැසිෆික් ආර්ථික හා සමාජ කොමිසමේ (UNESCAP) 6 වැනි සමාජ සංවර්ධන කමිටුවේ (CSD) සභාපතිත්වයට ඒකමතිකව […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
The Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Bangkok, Thailand and the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UNESCAP Upon been elected as the Chair by acclamation, and opening the sixth session of the Committee on Social Development (CSD) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම යටතේ මෙරට ප්රධාන සහසම්බන්ධිත නගර සංචාරකයින් සඳහා ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීමේ වැඩසටහනට සමගාමීව නුවරඑළිය දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සංවර්ධන කටයුතු පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡා කිරීමේ හමුවක් ඊයේ 2020.10.21 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පැවැත්විණි. මෙම හමුවේදී නුවරඑළිය නගරය හා ඒ අවට ප්රදේශය දේශීය හා විදේශීය සංචාරකයින්ට සුදුසු සංචාරක පුරවරයක් බවට පත් කිරීම පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ අවධානය යොමු විය. […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is urging Sri Lanka to make difficult but necessary choices” to secure its economic independence instead of choosing opaque practises, a senior State Department official said on Thursday, in an apparent reference at China deepening its influence over the South Asian country. U.S. Secretary of State Mike […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy The New Indian Express It has also impounded the fishing boat, the Coast Guard said, adding the crew were being brought to Karaikal harbour, near Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu. CHENNAI: Six Sri Lankan fishermen were detained by the Coast Guard while fishing in Indian territorial waters, the maritime agency said on Thursday. It has […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Anusha Ondaatjie and Asantha Sirimanne, Courtesy Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa succeeded in a bid to restore sweeping executive powers to his office after his government won a super majority vote to amend the constitution. After two days of debate in parliament, Rajapaksa’s supporters clinched 156 of 225 votes in the […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy PEOPLE’S WORLD Sri Lankan army soldiers at a check point during a curfew imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 1, 2020. In a town near the capital, soldiers from the army raided garment workers’ dorms in the middle of the night and forced them into quarantine centers […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Mailonline A Chinese laborer works in 2020 at a Chinese-funded project in Port City in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will warn of risks of ties with Beijing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will ask Sri Lanka to make “difficult” choices on its growing relationship with China amid criticism […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Another 259 patients have tested positive for Covid-19 with a majority of them connected to the Peliyagoda Fish Market. Army Commander Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva said that out of the new positive cases, 182 are from the Peliyagoda Fish market, 02 are from quarantine centers and the remaining 75 are close contacts. A […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News SJB National list MP Diana Gamage said that she voted in favour of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution NOT expecting any benefits from the Government. However, SJB General Secretary MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara states that disciplinary action will be taken against SJB National List MP Diana Gamage who voted in favour […]
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