Archive for October, 2020
Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy RT India’s vaccines regulator has given the green light for a clinical study of the Russia-developed Covid-19 vaccine. Similar trials of the formulation are underway in Russia itself and in some other nations. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), a department in India’s drug regulator that is responsible for licensing vaccines, has given […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy RT With most of the world facing a deep recession due to the coronavirus pandemic, China will be the only major economy to climb back from the depths of the historic crisis in 2020, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Despite the reopening of economies, global growth is projected to contract by 4.4 […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
N.A.de S. AMARATUNGA Courtesy The Island Epithets like Trojan Horse” and Greeks bearing gifts” have been used to refer to offers of assistance by foreign countries to Sri Lanka, when the country is battling a Covid second wave and an economic crisis (The Island 12.10.2020). Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” is an […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Ceylon Diary – Official Channel ඇහෙලේ පොළ කුමාරිහාමි මාවත දැන් කෝ | වීදි හා රටේ නොයෙකුත් ස්ථාන හා නම් වෙනස් කිරීමෙන් අයුක්තිය නිවැරදි කළ නොහැකිද ? ”වීදි නම් නගරයක භාෂාවේ හෝ අතීත සංස්කෘතියේ කොටසක් බවට පත්විය යුතුය. එවිට එය ජනතාවගේ මනෝභාවයේ කොටසක් බවට පත්වී දේශානුරාගය ද ඉන් වැඩිවේ” -පාලිත ආරියරත්න 1: Picture Courtesy: Sinhala epic […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
By Suryamithra Vishwa/DailyFT-Harmony Page Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lankan development specialists have not concentrated enough on the indigenous hydraulic civilization which had been the envy of the world. One of the problems of modernity could be that we have approached the concept of development totally forgetting or denouncing and being apathetic to our ancient wisdom, indigenous […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Another 42 from Minuwangoda Brandix cluster tested positive for Covid-19; Among them 22 are from quarantine centres & 20 are close contacts. Therefore, with 115 new cases being reported from the Brandix Corona cluster in Minuwangoda today, the number of cases reported from that cluster has crossed the 2000 mark. At present […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankan born Vanushi Walters of New Zealand’s Labour Party has won the race to be Upper Harbour MP in northwest Auckland, taking over from retiring National MP Paula Bennett, Stuff. CO. NZ reported today. She claimed a narrow victory over National candidate Jake Bezzant, a former tech company chief executive […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Covid-19 cases, reported at present are not random cases but in someway linked to the Minuwangoda factory cluster, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said yesterday. She said it was true that cases were reported from several areas in the country but each case had either direct or indirect links […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) looking into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks heard that the ringleader of the carnage Zahran Hashim had planned to launch the attack using 20 suicide bombers. This was revealed by a police officer attached to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID)’s team probing the Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana A special probe has been launched with the State Intelligence Service (SIS) officers to uncover the origin of the Covid-19 cluster linked to the Brandix apparel factory in Minuwangoda, says Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana. He commented that the all of the recently-identified novel coronavirus cases were traced to the Minuwangoda cluster, however, […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana It has been made mandatory for all air passengers to undergo a PCR test before departing from Sri Lanka, stated the Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd (AASL). The company states that passengers must undergo the test within 72 hours of their departure time. This decision will be in effect from 6.00 […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
H. L. D. Mahindapala The Indian Government has repeatedly intervened in the domestic affairs of Sri Lanka based on the assumption that the policies of Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) needs correction by the Big Brother, using the cane if necessary. This interventionist policy continues to prevail even though the overall Indian experience as a […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය විදේශගත ශ්රී ලාංකේයන්ට ඡන්ද අයිතිය ලබාදීම ඇතුළු මැතිවරණ නීති සංශෝධනයට අවශ්ය තේරීම් කාරක සභාවක් ඉදිරියේදී යෝජනා කරන බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.10.16 දින පැවැසීය. මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ උපාය මාර්ගික සැලසුම් පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡාවක් අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති අවස්ථාවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙම හමුවේදී කරුණු පැහැදිලි කළ මැතිවරණ […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්රාමාත්ය සංවර්ධනයට අනුව දරිද්රතා රේඛාවට පහළින් ජීවත් වන ජනතාවගේ ගැටලු කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කිරීමේ අරමුණින් දරිද්රතාව තුරන් කිරීම සඳහා වූ ජාත්යන්තර දිනය ඔක්තෝබර් 17 වන දින ලෝකය පුරා සමරනු ලබයි. 1987 ඔක්තෝබර් 17 දා දරිද්රතාවයට එරෙහි ලෝක කම්කරු දිනයක් පැරීසියේ සමරනු ලැබීය. එහිදී ලෝක ජනගහනයෙන් දිළිඳුබවක් දක්වන, දිළිඳුබවට […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙන්කඩගල සිංහ ද්වාරයේ සිට මගේ අවධාරනයට යොමුවූ දිවයින පත්රයේ උපුටා ගත් ලිපිය : ජාතීන් අනුව ඉඩම් මායිම් වෙන් කිරීම වත්මන් රජයේ මෙන්ම තමාගේ ද ප්රතිපත්තිය නොවන බව නැෙඟනහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර අනුරාධා යහම්පත් මහත්මිය ඊයේ (14 දා* දෙමළ සන්ධාන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් හමුවේ අවධාරණය කළාය. සිංහල දමිළ හෝ මුස්ලිම් යනුවෙන් […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය – නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය යටතේ පවතින ශ්රී ලංකා නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන්ගේ කොමිසමේ මග පෙන්වීම යටතේ කොවිඩ් -19 රෝගය පැතිරවීම අවම කිරීම සදහා සහ ඔවුන්ගේ ප්රතිකාර වෙනුවෙන් දේශිය නව නිර්මාණකරැවන් විසින් නිෂ්පාදනය කල නව නිර්මාණ රාශියක් අද දින […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
මාධ්ය ප්රකාශය: තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Courtesy SPEAR’S Sri Lanka has recovered before, from colonial rule and civil war. As the country’s vital tourism industry prepares to leap back into life, Andrew Harris recalls his pre-lockdown adventure in the land of serendipity Oblivious to the pandemic that was on the way, I had only a darting mongoose, a parading peacock and […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
by Stephanie Takyi London courtesy https://www.standard.co.uk/ Planning a long haul escape for when things (finally) open up again? Stephanie Takyi gets lost in the lush landscapes of this unique South Asian island Sri Lanka has long been a destination for travellers seeking escapism. This small beautiful island, situated south of India, is larger than life with idyllic beaches, sprawling […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) linked to the LTTE assisted the investigations conducted by former CID IP Nishantha Silva, who fled the country last year, former President Maithripala Sirisena informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying before the Commission on Wednesday, the former President said that several Buddhist monks, […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror India’s federal counter-terrorist force NSG has trained a select group of personnel who protect Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the chief of the commando force said on Friday. According to Economic Times, NSG director general (additional charge) S S Deswal said this in his address on the occasion of the force’s 36th […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Minuwangoda Covid-19 cluster has confirmed 49 more positive cases this evening (16), says the Commander of Sri Lanka Army, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva. Thirty-five of them have been identified as apparel factory workers and contacts who are in quarantine centers. The remaining 14 are contacts of Covid-19 positive patients from the cluster, […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Three days have passed since the Attorney General directed the Police to arrest MP Rishad Bathiudeen, however the investigation officers are yet to locate him. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) meanwhile recorded statements from Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and MP Rauff Hakeem with regard to the phone conversations they have had with the […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Notorious underworld figure Janith Madushanka, operating under the alias ‘Podi Lassie’, who was arrested and remanded for threatening the VIPs, has been granted bail. However, he will continue to be held by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on detention orders. The Galle Magistrate delivered the order when the suspect was produced before court […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2020
What is this ‘creative balance & equilibrium in Sri Lanka’s favor’ that the Moragoda Doctrine espouses to achieve? Exactly how many votes would the Moragoda Doctrine have delivered to Gotabaya Rajapakse or the SLPP had that been the basis of their election manifestos & election campaigns?While Moragoda is the head of Pathfinder, the very organization that […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2020
Backed by an overwhelming majority at the Presidential & General Elections, the Government in power rightly has decided to work towards a closure of the successive UNHRC Resolutions against Sri Lanka by initially withdrawing from the co-sponsorship of 30/1 & 34/1 Resolutions. UNHRC has every provision to take up human rights issues at the Universal […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2020
Ratanapala 15 Oct 20 The nation is being entertained by some circus artistes at the CID. Who are the directors and producer of this grand illusion? First it was Rajitha and Ravi K. Then it was Sampayo. These are people who were only a day earlier in the view of the public. When warrants are […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2020
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් යහපාලන මෛත්රීපාල රනිල් ජෝඩුව සහ එවකට ආණ්ඩුබලයේ සිටි මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ප්රමුඛ මන්ත්රී කණ්ඩායම විසින් සම්මත කරගත් 19 වන සංශෝධනය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්කරන ලද්දේ අධිකරණ ඇමතිව සිටි විජේදාස රජපක්ෂ මහතාය.රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ අවශ්යතාවය මත මෙම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කොටුම්පත සකස් කරන ලද්දක් බව බොහෝ දෙනා දනී.විශේෂයෙන්ම එවකට ප්රබලව සිටි රාජපක්ෂ කණ්ඩායම දුර්වල කිරීම පිණිස එල්ල […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නව රාත්රි පූජා උත්සවයට සමගාමීව තෝරාගත් හින්දු කෝවිල් හතළිහක් සඳහා රුපියල් 50000 බැඟින් මුදල් ආධාර ප්රදානය කිරීම ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2020.10.15 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් මුළු ලෝකයම විශාල තර්ජන හා අර්බුධවලට මුහුණ පා ඇති අවස්ථාවක වුවත්, රජයක් ලෙස හින්දු ආගමික සාරධර්ම ආරක්ෂා කිරීම අප සැමගේ […]
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Thursday, October 15th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නව මහා භාරකාරතුමා ලෙස පත්වීම් ලද අග්රාමාත්ය අතිරේක ලේකම් (නීති) ගනේෂ් ධර්මවර්ධන මහතා අද 2020.10.15 දින කොළඹ 07, බුලර්ස් පටුමගේ පිහිටි මහා භාරකාර දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේදී සිය ධූරයේ වැඩ ආරම්භ කළේය. ගනේෂ් ධර්මවර්ධන මහතා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ අතිරේක ලේකම් (නීති) වශයෙන් ද කටයුතු කරයි. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ප්රේමනාත් සී. දොලවත්ත, […]
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