Archive for November, 2020
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Department of Government Information says that another 92 individuals have tested positive for novel coronavirus in the country. All new cases are close contacts of previously identified positive patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. A total of 325 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified so far today (18). This brings the total number […]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that his government has curtailed the opportunity for any form of extremism to raise its head again in Sri Lanka. The President mentioned this during a special address to the nation to mark the first anniversary of his Presidency. He added that there is no room for the underworld […]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated that the best measure of his success is the opinion of the people and not the false propaganda spread by political opponents in an organized manner. Addressing the nation today (18), for the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, the President expressed these views.
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Attorney General has instructed the Acting Inspector General of Police to submit the progress report requested regarding the investigation into the Minuwangoda Brandix factory coronavirus cluster, today (18) itself. Attorney General’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne stated that the team conducting the investigation which includes the Criminal Investigation Department Director […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Stanley Gunaratne THE POLICY OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD NOT BE “INDIA FIRST”, NOR GIVING PRIORITY TO INDIA. THEIR CONCERNS ARE OF NO CONCERN TO US. IT IS THE HEIGHT OF FOOLISHNESS FOR GOVERNMENTS OF THIS NATION TO PANDER TO INDIA AND ISSUE SUCH RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS. In order to be a global hub and connect to […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
වාගිස ප්රනාන්දු විසිනි. හරක් ටික ගාල් කරමුයන මැයෙන් නොවැම්බර් 17 වනදා දිවයින තම පුවත්පතේ කතුවැකිය ලියා ඇත. අසත්ය ප්රකාශ ප්රචාරය කරන්නන් මෙසේ නීතිය ඉදිරියට ගෙන ඒම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොලිසීයේ කාර්යභාරය මෙන්ම මෙවන් තීරණාත්මක අවස්ථාවකදී අසත්ය ප්රචාරය මැඩ පැවැත්වීම සදහා මාධ්යයේ මෙන්ම රටවැසි සියළුම දෙනාගේ වගකීම හා යුතුකම එහි මනාව පැහැදිළි කර ඇත. මේ කෙටි ලිපිය ඊට […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය හැඳින්වීම ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, අතිගරු ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ රජයේ සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම” ප්රතිපත්ති රාමුව තුළ 2021 – 2023 මැදිකාලීන ආර්ථික පුනර්ජීවන හා දිළිදුකම පිටුදැකීමේ කඩිනම් වැඩසටහන ශක්තිමත් කරන 2021 අයවැය කතාව මේ උත්තරීතර සභාවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ ඉමහත් සතුටකින්. ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, අප රට කවර ආර්ථික මට්ටමක සිටියත්, කවර අභියෝගයන්ට මුහුණ දී තිබුණත් පිළිගත යුතු එක් […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
සමස්ත ලංකා ප්රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. ගරු ජනාධිපති, ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ජනපතිතුමනි, ශ්රී්රී ලංගමය තුළ #කොරෝනා පොකුරුරු නිර්මාණයවීමේ ක්රි්රියියාවලියිය වැළැක්වීවීමට උපරිම සෞඛ්ය පහසුකුකම් විධිමත්ව්ව අඛණ්ඩ්ඩව එම සේව්වකයන්හ්හට ලබාදීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත්ව්වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීිටීම සුව විරුවන්. රණවිරුවන් හා සමානවම ශ්රී ලංගම විරුවන් ද මේ මොහොතේ ඉටුකරනු ලබන්නේ මහඟු සේවාවකි. #කොරෝනා උවදුර […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
By Gandara John In a landmark case, a bench of Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal found a former Minister, suspected of having close links to Easter Bomb terrorist Zaharan, guilty of illegally settling people on State Land and raping the Wilpattu Forest. Bathiudeen, presently in remand jail for defrauding State funds, came into prominence […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Oman Observer Muscat: The Maritime Security Center (MSC) received a report stating that a wooden cargo ship flying the flag of the Republic of Sri Lanka ran aground and sank due to the failure of its engine off the coast of Al Athaiba in the Governorate of Muscat. The ship had a crew consisting of six […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News It was revealed today (17) that former Director of the CID Shani Abeysekara was aware of the contents of the verdict in the case against former MP Duminda Silva before it was announced. This was during the hearing of evidence at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing incidents of political victimisation. The […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News The Government Information Department stated that five more COVID deaths have been reported, increasing the death toll to 66.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva stated that another 241 persons have tested positive for COVID-19. All of them have been identified to close contacts of previous patients.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News In his capacity as the Finance Minister, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa presented the Budget report for the year 2021 in Parliament today (17). This is the 75th budget report of the country and the Prime Minister while presenting the budget report stated that the expected economic growth in 2021 is 5.5%. Below […]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lMO42oewnZzRT1SaMU2oWUOW5ieQUjrt/view PM making the budget speeach today said “It is with great pleasure that I present the budget speech 2021, which focuses on strengthening the 2021-2023 medium term programme of poverty alleviation and economic revival as envisaged within the “Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour”, the policy framework of the government of HE the President Gotabaya […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
RANJITH SOYSA Recently , the Minister Sarath Weersekera clarified the present Government’s position about the a rumour regarding the future of ECT which is being given prominence in social media criticising the President and the cabinet. The Minister should be thanked as his response was timely and it quashed the one -sided anti -Government propaganda […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
R.Dasanayake It is alleged the take over of a television station in Sri Lanka was done surreptitiously by a company with diaspora connections. Today we hear the SLC is looking to finalize the owners of the five franchises for their T20 league. As per the contracts the Dubai based IPG group has the responsibility to […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මහමදාගම්කාරයන් යනු මොහොමඩ් නබි තුමාගේ අනුගාමිකයන්ය.ඒ නිසාම නබිතුමා නිර්මාණය කල ආගමට මහමත් ආගම යයි ව්යවහාරයක් ඇත. මහමත් ආගම ඉතාමත් ආක්රමණශීලි ස්වභාවයෙන් ලෝකයේ නොයෙක් රටවල පැතිරීම නිසා ස්වදේශිකයන් ඝාතනයට ලක් වූහ.එසේම මහමත් ජනයා ගේ වානිජ ශූරත්වය නිසා ඉතා ඉක්මනින් විදෙස් රටවල වෙළෙඳ ආධිපත්යද ගැනීමට ද හැකි වී ඇත. ඉන්දියාවට පැමිණි මහමත් අක්රමණිකයන් විශාල […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාව සඳහා නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් වෙනුවෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරෙන විකල්ප යෝජනා ඇතුළත් ග්රන්ථය අද 2020.11.16 දින බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනයේ සභාපති ජගත් සුමතිපාල මහතා විසින් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා වෙත භාර දෙන ලදී. බුද්ධශාසන කාර්යසාධක මණ්ඩලය හා සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනය නියෝජනය කරමින් ගරුතර මහා සංඝරත්නය විසින් විජේරාමේ පිහිටි නිල නිවසේදී, […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
The Pathfinder Foundation The Pathfinder Foundation’s Indian Ocean Security Conference was successfully concluded after 3-days of deliberations. The virtual event focusing on Maritime Security and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean saw participation of over 36 countries and an average of one hundred participants from around the world. Indian Ocean littoral countries including those members […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today As early as January 2015 Teresita Schaffer predicted in her blog, ‘South Asia Hand’ Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s entrance to politics. This was an amazing forecast from one who was the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka from 1992-1995. It is especially so when according to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s close associates, he did […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
– Maithripala Sirisena FB හෙක්ටයාර 11000 ක සීමාවේ තිබූ සිංහරාජ වනාන්තරය හේකටයාර 36000 ඉක්මවූ සීමාවකට නීතිගත කර තිබේ. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් අත්සන් කරන ලද අති විශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් බලාත්මක වීමත් සමග මෙම තත්ත්වය උදාවී ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් තම ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේ සටහනක් තබා තිබේ. සමාජ ජාල පරිශීලකයන් […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා මෘත දේහ සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජයේ ස්ථාවරය කුමක්දැයි රටට සෘජුව ප්රකාශ කරන්නැයි මහනුවර ගැටඹේ රාජෝපවනාරාමාධිපති පුජ්ය කැප්පිටියාගොඩ සිරිවිමල නා හිමියන් ඉල්ලා සිටිති. තම අත්සනින් යුතුව නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව කියා සිටිති. ඉස්ලාමීය කොරෝනා මෘතදේහ ආදාහනයෙන් බැහැරව භූමිදානයට අවසර දී ඇතැයි යන ආරංචියක් හේතුවෙන් සහ ඒ සනාථ කරමින් කැබිනට් ඇමතිවරයෙකු […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The problem of e-waste looms large for Sri Lanka as unsafe disposal poses grave risks to the environment and human health Colombo, November 16: Last week a news item reminded Sri Lankans of a major problem they might face in the coming years – the accumulation of e-waste, a dangerous […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Apart from 12 police divisions in Colombo already declared as under isolation Maradana, Fort, Pettah, Slave Island and Dam Street have also been isolated Colombo, November 16 (newsin.asia) – President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will review the situation of isolated areas on a daily basis with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and will order […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News It was revealed before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing Easter Sunday terror attacks today (16) that former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen had visited the house of a suspect arrested in connection with the Easter attack on several occasions. It was previously revealed that the former Minister had made several requests to the […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Another suspect was arrested by the CID in connection with the incident where a fake news was published on social media stating that a person collapsed and died on the road due to Covid-19. Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said the suspect aged 28 was traced with the information provided by […]
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Court of Appeal today ordered MP Rishad Bathiudeen to reforest the Kallaru sanctuary in Wilpattu National Park on his own expenses ruling that clearing of the sanctuary was illegal. The court also ordered the MP to pay the cost of the petitioners. ()
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported another three coronavirus-related deaths hiking the tally to 61 deaths in total. The Department of Government Information confirmed that two men and a woman have succumbed to the virus in this manner. An 84-year-old woman had passed away at her home in Moratuwa from diabetes and COVID-19. A 70-year-old […]
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