Archive for February, 2021

කෲඩියා සිලනිකා ගන්නේ දරට

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ගම්පහ හෙනරත්ගොඩ ඇතුළු දිවයිනේ ස්ථාන කිහිපයකම කෲඩියා සිලනිකා ශාඛය සංරක්ෂණය කර ඇතැයි ජාතික උද්භිද උද්‍යාන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව පවසයි. එම ශාඛය රනිල කුලයේ ශාඛයක් වන අතර නයිට්‍රජන් එකතු කිරීමේ ඇති හැකියාව හැරුණු විට විශේෂත්වයක් නැතැයි ද ගම්වල එය භාවිතා කර ඇත්තේ දරට පමණක් යැයි ද එහි අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් එස් ඩී ක්‍රිෂ්ණරාජා මහත්මිය පැවැසුවාය. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් මෙම […]

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Health Ministry silent over PM’S claims of allowing burials in Sri Lanka

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 11 (Daily Mirror) – Despite Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday claiming in Parliament that burial of COVID-19 victims would be permitted, senior Health and government officials were unaware till late last evening of any such decision which would change an existing gazette notification, which made cremation mandatory for all Coronavirus victims. Prime […]

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Return the estates to the Gov. if you cant pay Rs. 1000 – Nimal Siripala

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Courtesy Ceylon Today In a statement made during today’s Parliamentary session, Labour Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva stated that the current government would continue to fight for the rights of estate workers, even if it calls for the introduction of new laws and/or regulations. Speaking in relation to the recent increase of the daily wage […]

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Cardinal to seek international probe if law not enforced over Easter attacks

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith says he is ready to seek International Criminal Court (ICC) probe if the law is not properly enforced against those who are responsible for the Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019 which claimed the lives of more than 260 persons. He made this remark in […]

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Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 death tally rises to 379

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 04 more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 11). As per the Department of Government Information, one male patient and three female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 379 in […]

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939 coronavirus cases reported today

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another uptick today (February 11) as 404 more persons were tested positive for the virus. The country has registered 939 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the day.  Following today’s development, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country have soared to 73,116. Reports revealed that 66,211 […]

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AG seeks Trial-at-Bar to try Bond Scam suspects

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera today (February 11) requested the Chief Justice to appoint a trial-at-bar to try former Minister Ravi Karunanayake, former CBSL governor Arjuna Mahendran, Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius and 8 others over the Bond Scam involving Treasury Bond Auction of March 2016. The request came after the Criminal […]

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රටේ භුමි පුත්‍රයන්ගේ භාෂාව වන සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙන ගැනීමත් , නඩු ඇසීමත්, නඩු තීන්දු දීමත් සිද්ධ විය යුතුයි – දේශප්‍රේමී ජාතික පෙරමුණ

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

දේශප්‍රේමී ජාතික පෙරමුණ රටේ නීති අධ්‍යාපනය ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් පමණක් ලබා දීම තුලින් තවත් වසර කිහිපයකින් ඉහල අධිකරණයේ පමණක් නොව පහල අධිකරනයේත් නඩු ඇසීම සහ නඩු කීම ඉංග්‍රීසි මාධ්‍යය බවට පත් වන බවත් අන්තිමේදී ලෙනාර්ඩ් වූල්ෆ් ගේ “The Village in the Jungle” කෘතියේ සිලිඳුට සිද්ධ වූ දෙය ඉදිරියේදී සිංහලයින්ට සිදුවන බවත් දේශප්‍රේමී ජාතික පෙරමුණේ මධ්‍යම කාරක සභික […]

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The Sri Lankan public demand to know WHO PLANNED Easter Sunday Mass Murder

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Shenali D Waduge On 21stApril 2019 – 10 years of peace without a single bombing incident since defeat of LTTE was shattered. The multiple attacks that took place on Easter Sunday has put even LTTE to shame. LTTE at no time in its 30 years of terror was able to carry out multiple attacks with […]

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Why has the Lankan government changed its policy on the disposal of COVID dead?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia Colombo, February 10: The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told parliament on Wednesday, that government would allow the burial of those who had died of COVID, thus ending a 10-month long controversy over the disposal of the bodies of those who had died of COVID-19. Responding to a question posed by opposition […]

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රසායනාගාරවල අතිරික්ත PCR පරීක්ෂණ දහදාහක් පමණ හිර වෙලා

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

වෛද්‍ය රසායනාගාර විද්‍යාඥ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ විද්වත් සංගමය පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතික්‍රීයක ලබාදෙන්නට කියලා ඉල්ලීම් කලත්, අමාත්‍යාංශය ඒ පිළිබඳව ඇහුම්කන් දීමක් කළේ නැහැ. රසායනාගාරයක් පවත්වාගෙන යාම සදහා  අවශ්‍ය සැපයුම් පද්ධතිය නිසි පරිදි යථාවත් විය යුතුයි.  රසායනාගාර වල අවශ්‍යතා සාකච්ඡා කරන්නට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය ඊට අදාළ වෘත්තිකයන්ට ඉඩක් ලබාදීලා නෑ.   මේ වනවිට රසායනාගාර කළමනාකරණය වෙමින් තියෙන්නේ, ඒ පිළිබඳව […]

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අභයාරාම බල කේන්ද‍්‍රය පොහොට්ටුව අතහරී… මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ හිමි විමල් වෙනුවෙන් පෙරට.. මහ ලේකම්ට ‘පිං මන්ත‍්‍රී කට වහගනු’ කියා දෙසති..

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මහලේකම් සාගර කාරියවසම් මහතා පිං මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු බවත් ඔහුට ඇමති විමල් වීරවංශ මහතාට අත දමන්න එපා යයි යෝජනා කල නොහැකි බවත් පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=431600658044482&t=8 පසුව විවිද නම් දා ගත්තද මහින්ද සුලද නම් දරුවා ඉපදුනේ කලකට පෙර අභයාරාමයේදී මූලාරම්භයක් ලබා ගනිමින් බවත් උන්වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. […]

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Presidents appoints 12 new High Court Judges

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa today handed over letters of appointment to 12 new High Court Judges at the Presidential Secretariat. The new High Court Judges received letters of appointment were; 01- N.K.D.K.I. Nanayakkara – District Judge 02- R.L. Godawela – District Judge 03- V. Ramakamalan – District Judge 04- U.R.V.B Ranatunga – […]

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More surviving ‘crudia zeylenica’ plant species exist, says CEA

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was revealed that a mature plant, endangered crudia zeylanica could also be found at the Henarathgoda botanical gardens and another small plant on the border of the 14th km point on the central expressway, the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) said today. The CEA said it came to light […]

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Permission will be given for burial of COVID-19 victims – PM

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that permission will be granted for the burial of COVID-19 victims. The Premier mentioned this in response to a question raised by Parliamentarian S.M. Marikkar during the parliamentary session today (February 10). Quoting State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID Disease Control Sudarshini Fernandopulle, the parliamentarian […]

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Five more COVID-19 deaths in Sri Lanka

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Five more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka today (February 10), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. Following the new development, total lives claimed by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country have climbed to 375. According to the Department of Government Information, a 73-year-old woman who was residing in […]

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Coronavirus: 963 positive cases in total confirmed today

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 424 new positive cases of COVID-19 today (February 10), as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 963. Department of Government Information says 940 of the new infections are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. Meanwhile, 15 have been reported from the prison cluster. […]

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FROM TWO MEASURES OF RICE TO CHEAP DHAL, SUGAR, AND OTHERS

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Mr.Bandula Gunawardane, a minister of the government expressed in a recent press conference that the government has decided to reduce the prices of dhal (lentil), sugar, rice, and other several consumer items. He again stated in the parliament that the gazette notice has been canceled as no retailer sells goods for a […]

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The West vs Global South: “You Have the Numbers. We Have the Money”

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Thalif Deen Courtesy The Daily News Sri Lanka’s envoy in China Dr Palitha Kohona-Journalist Chakravarthi Raghavan When the 134-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing countries, was trying to strike a hard bargain in its negotiations with Western nations years ago, one of its envoys famously declared: You have the numbers. We […]

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Point of view on the proposed Indian expedition to Ram Setu/Adam’s Bridge

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara As it is revealed (Jan 31 (Island) Indian scientists will soon undertake a possibly first scientific expedition to date the chain of corals and sediments forming the Ram Setu, also known as Adam’s Bridge. This 48-km long bridge-like structure between India and SL finds mention in the great Hindu epic Ramayana, […]

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THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1956 Part 6

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

KAMALIKA PIERIS Peduru Hewage William de Silva (1908-1988) was the only son of a wealthy professional family of Batapola, near Ambalangoda. William studied at the Buddhist Mixed School in Batapola, then at St. John’s, Panadura, later at Richmond College, Galle, and finally at Ananda College from which he entered Ceylon University College.  He had joined […]

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The sorry fate of our 2500 year linguistic heritage

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

S. Akurugoda I remember the days before 1956, when the official language of the country was English.  Most of the Sinhala schools in villages had classes up to 8th standard and those who wanted to do higher studies in English had to go to collages in the main cities.   All most all the government officials […]

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ජනතාව බලාපොරොත්තු වූ සංවර්ධනය කඩිනම් කරන්න – ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ජනතා බලාපොරොත්තු ඉටුවන පරිදි රජයේ සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති නියමිත පරිදි කඩිනමින් අවසන් කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.09 දින පැවැසීය. නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්‍යංශයේ පැවැති ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීමට එක්වෙමින් විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. කාලය සමඟ සටනක නිරතවෙමින් වසර පහක කාලයක් […]

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Was the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Trial) to try Japanese leaders for alleged war crimes in the second world war, a Kangaroo Court?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Senaka Weeraratna Britain was colonizing, enslaving Asian people before WW2. The British Empire ruled South Asia for 180 years. Though Japan lost WW2, however it was the consequence of Japan’s entry to war in December 1941 with its attack on Pearl Harbour that all S E Asian countries and  South Asian countries achieved their long hoped for […]

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ජාතික උරුම, ප්‍රාසංග කලා හා ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පී ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතා යාපනය සිවිල් සංවිධාන කේන්ද්‍රයේ කැඳවුම්කරු සම`ග පැවති සාකච්චාව මාධ්‍ය දැනුවත්කිරීමේ නිවේදනය

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

ජාතික උරුම,ප්‍රාසාංග කලා හා ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පි ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය. පුරාවිද්‍යාව සහ පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක ස්ථාන පිළිබඳව යාපනයේ ජීවත්වන ජනයා තුළ වැරදි මතයක් ගෙන යාමට සමහර ද්‍රවිඩ දේශපාලඥයින් කටයුතු කරනවා යැයි යාපනය සිවිල් සංවිධාන කේන්ද්‍රයේ කැඳවුම්කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ත් මහතා පවසයි. පුරාවිද්‍යාවට මුවා වී රජයේ හමුදාවන් දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ ඉඩම් බලහත්කාරයෙන් අත්පත් කර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කරන බවටද අසත්‍ය […]

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ISIL-K’s new leader heads India operations had affiliation with Haqqani network, states UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres:

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Daily Excelsior, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan’s (ISIL-K) new leader Shihab al-Muhajir heads its operations in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and is said to have had an earlier affiliation with the dreaded Haqqani Network. The 12th report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL […]

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Covid: WHO says ‘extremely unlikely’ virus leaked from lab in China

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Courtesy BBC International experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have all but dismissed a theory that the virus came from a laboratory in China. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) mission, said it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus leaked from a lab in the city of Wuhan. He said […]

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Covid-19: Travellers face £1,750 cost for England quarantine hotels

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Courtesy BBC Travellers having to stay in quarantine hotels in England will be charged £1,750 for their stay, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. The measures, which come into force on Monday, apply to UK and Irish residents returning from 33 red list countries. Those who fail to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel for 10 days […]

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Exclusive : විමල්ගේ කතාවට පොහොට්ටු නායක මහින්ද ප‍්‍රතිචාර දක්වයි..

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සහ අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා අතර ඇතිවී තිබෙන මතභේදාත්මක තත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ නායක අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අදහස් පළ කරයි. ඔහු සඳහන් කරන්නේ තමන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ නායකත්වයෙන් ඉවත් කළ යුතු බවක් විමල් වීවරංශ මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කල බවක් තමන් නොදන්නා බවයි. අගමැතිවරයා […]

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Coronavirus: Sri Lanka reports five more deaths

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (February 09). As per the Department of Government Information, three male patients and two female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 370 in […]

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