Archive for January, 2021
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 08 more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (January 30). As per the Department of Government Information, five male patients and three female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 313 in […]
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Saturday, January 30th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A total of 32,539 frontline health workers have been vaccinated with the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine today (30), stated the Health Ministry. According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry, the vaccine has been administered to a total of 37,825 individuals since yesterday (29).
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Saturday, January 30th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka reported 442 more infections of the novel coronavirus today (30), Army Commander General Shavendra Silva confirmed. Accordingly, a total of 848 cases have been reported within the day. This brings the total count of Covid-19 cases reported in the country to 63,293. According to the Health Ministry’s data, 56,277 of the confirmed […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
By Professor Sunil J. Wimalawansa, MD, Ph.D., MBA, DSc. Prof. Sunil J. Wimalawansa The official reports on the prevalence and the number of deaths related to COVID-19 in tropical countries including Sri Lanka (excluding India) have been surprisingly low compared to most temperate countries. Let us explore some of the critical reasons for this significant discrepancy. Why was […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Dr.David Grimes Scene 1: A small meeting room in 10 Downing Street, London Early January 2021 Four sitting around a table. Boris Johnson, Prime minister of the UK Good morning to you all and thanks for coming in at short notice. This is an extremely important meeting. http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Myanmar Health Informal intervention trial in Myanmar 1200 Buddhist monks and nuns in COVID-19 quarantine center were given 2 doses of water containing 200,000IU of vitamin D 25 mg of zinc 1000mg of vitamin C 30 billion Probiotics. Mortality rate is only 0.07%The overall mortality rate in the country is steady at 2.1% The doctors in the […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Prime Minister’s Media Unit Outgoing Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand, H. E. Mrs. Chulamanee Chartsuwan and Mr. Tayatat Kanjanapipathkul, Councilor of the Embassy met the Prime Minister at his residence in Wijerama this morning. The Ambassador thanked the Prime Minister and the Government for the support she received throughout her tenure. She said she […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ධූර කාලය නිමවා මෙරටින් පිටව යන තායිලන්ත තානාපති චුලාමනී චාර්ට්සුවන් මහත්මිය (H. E. Mrs. Chulamanee Chartsuwan) සහ තානාපති කාර්යාලයේ කොන්සුලර් තයතත් කන්ජනපිපත්කුල් මහතා (Mr. Tayatat Kanjanapipathkul), අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විජේරාම නිවසේදී අද (29-01-2020) පෙරවරුවේ හමුවිය. ඇයගේ ධුර කාලය පුරාවටම ඇයට ලැබුණු සහයෝගයට තානාපතිවරිය අගමැතිවරයාට සහ රජයට ස්තූතිය පුද කළාය. කෙටි කලකින් […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ආශිර්වාද කිරීමේ තෙසැත්තෑ ඥාණ පූජාව නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේදී ඊයේ 2021.01.28 දින රාත්රියේ පැවැත්විණි. බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමි මෙම තෙසැත්තෑ ඥාණ පූජාව පැවැත්වූහ. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇතුළු මහජන නියෝජිතයන් හා බැතිමතුන් පිරිසක් මෙම ආශිර්වාදාත්මක වැඩසටහන හා එක්වූහ. නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේ […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Angoda National Institute of Infectious Diseases. The Minister was admitted to IDH Hospital yesterday for further treatment. The Minister who was under quarantine at a hotel in Hikkaduwa was transferred to the IDH Hospital after being admitted […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News ‘Ape Janabala Party’ Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera states that every Muslim should have the right to appear before a court. He stated this while participating in a press conference held in Colombo today. >A woman who converted to Islam before marriage also spoke at a press conference organized by the ‘Ape […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Minister Wimal Weerawansa has invited six parties to take a tough decision if a cabinet paper is submitted regarding the sale of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port. Minister Wimal Weerawansa has telephoned the leaders of six member parties of the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna to hold a discussion on […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් දියුණුවීමට නම් මුළු ලංකාවම විකුණා දැමිය යුතු බව ශ්රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය සභාපති දයා රත්නායක මහතා සඳහන් කළ බව රාවය පුවත්පත වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සංවර්ධනයක් සිදු වීමට නම් වරාය නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය පමණක් නොව මුළු ලංකාවම විකුණා දැමිය යුතු බව ඔහු පැවසූ බව එම වාර්තාවේ දැක්වෙයි. රත්නායක මහතා මෙලෙස අදහස් […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Modern Sri Lanka enjoys well-deserved respect in the world as a sovereign, democratic, and socially oriented state, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She expressed these views during her briefing in Moscow yesterday (28). Citizens of Sri Lanka are rightfully proud not only of their ancient history but also of […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A total of 5,286 frontline healthcare workers have received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on the first day of coronavirus vaccination drive which kicked off in Sri Lanka today (29). Approximately 1,886 persons were administered the vaccine at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, 803 persons at Colombo North Teaching Hospital, 781 at Colombo South […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services confirms 08 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country increasing the death toll due to the virus to 305. One of the victims is a 65-year-old male from Kolonnawa who was transferred from Colombo National Hospital to Iranawila Treatment Center after being identified as Covid-19 positive. He […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Government Information Department says that another 465 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today’s tally of confirmed cases to 859. Seven of the new cases are from the prisons cluster while the remainder (458) are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of coronavirus […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
Sri Lanka News The following report is a summary of mining giant Adani’s track record, based on research into hundreds of court documents by Environmental Justice Australia and Earthjustice and other publicly available evidence. In 2011, a ship carrying Adani coal sank off the coast of Mumbai, devastating beaches, tourism and marine life. Adani did […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Sudath Gunasekra Do they think that we are a Colony or a protectorate of theirs? In a way it is no surprise as our own so-called leaders except Sir John and Mrs Bandaranayaka no other had understood that we are an independent and sovereign country. What a tragedy not to be blessed with at least […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The United State of America is getting ready for war in the Bay of Bengal and plans to drag Sri Lanka into that war to fight on behalf of USA. Sri Lanka does not welcome this. We are caught up in this power game between India, China and the US because of our […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නව වසරේ පළමු පොහොය දිනයේ කැලණිය රජ මහා විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.28 දින විහාරාධිපති මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියන්ගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. දුරුතු පුර පසලොස්වක පොහොය දිනය බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ පළමු ලංකාගමනය සිහිපත් කරවන බව සදහන් කළ මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියෝ, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා නව […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව සෑම පුන් පොහෝ දිනකම පවත්වන අමාදම් සිසිලස” ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාවේ 206 වැන්න අද 2021.01.28 දින විජේරාමේ පිහිටි අග්රාමාත්ය නිල නිවසේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ප්රථමයෙන් ආගමික වතාවත්වල නියැළුණු අග්රාමාත්යතුමා, ධර්ම දේශනය සඳහා වැඩම කළ කොළඹ, මාලිගාකන්ද විද්යෝදය පිරිවෙනේ ආචාර්ය, ගෞරවාර්හ කෙහෙල්වල නන්ද ස්වාමීන්ද්රයන් වහන්සේට දැහැත් වට්ටියක් පූජා කරමින් […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. දැන් 73 වෙනි නිදහස් සැමරුම ඉතාම ආසන්න දිනකදී සමරනවා. ඔබ අප ලබා ගත්තාවූ නිදහස සම්බන්ධව මොනවාද හිතන්නේ? විශේෂයක් දැනෙන්නේ නැහැ. ඒ උනාට හොඳයි. ඒ මොන කෝළම් කතාවක්ද? තමන්ට දැනෙන්නේත් නැති හැඟෙන්නේත් නැති දෙයකට හොඳයි කියන එක? සමහර දේවල් තියෙනවා අපට හැඟෙන්නෙ නැති හොඳ දේවල්. ඒ වගේම තියෙනවා තමන්ට කිසිවක් දැනෙන්නේ නැති හොඳ […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
පාලිත ආරියරත්න වික්ටර් රත්නායක මහතා සහ ඔහුගේ බිරිඳ යාච්ඤා මෙහයට සහභාගී වී ඇති අයුරු දක්වෙන පින්තුර කැබැල්ල අද වනවිට අන්යාගමික මාරයා නැවත හිස ඔසවමින් සිටි, අන්යාගමික කරණය දැන් දැන් අයෙත් නාඩගමක් බවට පත්වී තිබේ. ටයි කොට් ඇඳගත් පාස්ටර් වරු මේ නීති විරෝධී අන්යාගමික කරණයේ යේදී සිටි. ලංකාවේ සිටින ප්රසිද්ධ මින්සුන් මෙන්නම අප්රසිද්ධ පුද්ගලයන් සොයා ගොස් […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Palitha Mapatuna Among certain individuals, confusion seems to be evident with regard to disposal of dead bodies of Covid 19 victims and what they call ‘human rights’. However, the issue here seems to be not a question of ‘human rights’, but the most prudent form of disposal of these dead bodies, given the uncertainties regarding the survival […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Cricket players who may have been above board should not get involved in politics Celebrated captain who lifted the World Cup should have stayed as a senior cricketer like Sanga or Mahela and serve the nation .Trying to emulate Imran Khan has not shown much results .Previous government have him a lucrative […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
By Hiran H.Senewiratne Courtesy The Island The government will continue 289 infrastructure projects worth more than rupees five trillion despite current economic challenges, State Minister for Money and Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal said. ” Sri Lanka was able to pull through a very difficult period due to the Covid 19 […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The COVID-19 situation in most of the areas in the country has gone out of hands due to the negligence and poor sense of responsibility from the part of general public, the Public Health Inspectors’ Union claimed. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Union Secretary M. Balasuriya said people have […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi who was infected with the coronavirus has been admitted to the IDH Hospital for further treatment. The Minister who was under quarantine at a hotel in Hikkaduwa was transferred to the IDH Hospital after initially being admitted to the Kothalawala Defense Hospital. However, the Ministry of Health stated […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Seven more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have succumbed to the virus, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. According to the Department of Government Information, total lives claimed by the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand at 297. One of the victims was identified as an 86-year-old from Colombo 06. He […]
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