Archive for February, 2021
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Army Commander General Shavendra Silva stated that another 404 have tested postive for coronavirus infection. The total for the day has exceeded 900 with this report. Today 975 cases have been reported so far. This is the first time that the daily count has increased beyond 900.
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has informed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) that the Criminal Investigations and the material submitted in the respect of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks are incomplete. Attorney General Dappula de Livera has directed IGP C. D. Wickramaratne to conduct further investigations on the matter. He has further instructed the […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are several high profile cases involving current and former politicians scheduled to be heard beginning this month. In addition, there are also several Presidential/Prime Ministerial Commissions findings where public looking forward for punishment for wrongdoers and relief for aggrieved parties. In the past, the recommendations of the Commissions appointed […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති බහුතරයකට පිළිගත හැකි පොදු සංස්කෘතික අරමුණක් හඳුනා නො ගත් කල ජාතියක ශක්තිය රාජ්යයේ බලය වෙනුවෙන් ගොනු කළ නො හැකි ය. බෙලහීන වූ රාජ්යයකට කිසිදු සමාජ – ආර්ථික ඉලක්කයක් සාක්ෂාත් කරගත හැකි නොවේ. ශ්රී ලංකා රාජ්යයේ බලය ගොඩ නැගුණේ බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ චිරස්ථිතිය” නම් පොදු සංස්කෘතික අරමුණ මුල් කරගෙන ය. මේ උදෙසා සිංහලයන් විසින් […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය ගරු අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය, ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතා, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්යතුමනි, ආණ්ඩුව, Corvid-19 වසංගතයට මුවා වී අ.පො.ස. සා/පෙළ සෞන්දර්යය ප්රායෝගික පරීක්ෂණ අතහැර දැමීමට ගත් තීරණය සම්බන්ධවයි. කදඩසා-19 වාතාවරණය හමුවේ අ.පො.ස. සා/පෙළ 2020 විභාගයේ සෞන්දර්යය විෂයන් ස`දහා වන ප්රායෝගික පරික්ෂණ නොපවත්වා පාසල් පාදක තක්සේරුකරණ ලකුණු ප්රමිතිකරණය කොට ප්රායෝගික පරීක්ෂණ ලකුණු වශයෙන් යොදා […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka The Annual Activity Plan 2021 of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), the electricity sector regulator was unveiled today. A total of 111 projects based on service quality and consumer rights protection in the power industry, water service industry and petroleum industry are to be implemented […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka ශ්රී ලංකා මහජන උපයෝගිතා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ 2021 වාර්ෂික ව්යාපෘති සැළැස්ම අද එළිදැක්වුණා. විදුලිබල කර්මාන්තය, ජල සේවා කර්මාන්තය හා ඛණිජ තෙල් කර්මාන්තය යන ක්ෂේත්රවල සේවා ගුණාත්මක තත්වය හා පාරිභෝගික අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂාව පදනම් කරගත් ව්යාපෘති 111ක් මේ වසර කුලදි ක්රියාවට නැගීමට නියමිතයි. විදුලිබල කර්මාන්තයේ ඵලදායිතාවය ඉහල නැංවීම, පාරිභෝගිකයාට […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
by Senaka Weeraratna Time to re – write our history books August 15 is the day Japan commemorates the war’s end. Soon it will be 70 years after that day in 1945 when two Atomic Bombs dropped from American planes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender. Japan lost to foes enjoying overwhelming superiority in both numbers […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය වතුකම්කරුවන්ගේ රුපියල් දහසක දෛනික වැටුප අද 2021.02.08 දින පැවති වැටුප් මණ්ඩලයේ දී අනුමත වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසයේ මැති ඇමතිවරු පැමිණ ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ප්රණාමය පුද කළහ. ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසයේ සභාපති රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ජීවන් තොණ්ඩමන්, උප සභාපති සෙන්තිල් තොණ්ඩමන්, භාණ්ඩාගාරික පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මරුතාපන්දි රාමේෂ්වරන් මහත්වරු විජේරාම පිහිටි නිල නිවසට පැමිණ […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කිරි ගොවින් සඳහා අය-වැයෙන් යෝජනා කළ රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 5ක ණය මුදල රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 10ක් දක්වා වැඩිකරන්නැයි මුදල් අමාත්යවරයා වශයෙන් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.08 දින උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. අය-වැය යෝජනා අනුව ක්රියාත්මක ව්යාපෘති හා ජනතා සහන පිළිබඳ අවධානය යොමු කරමින් මුදල් අමාත්යංශයේ පැවැති ප්රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීමේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
By Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire/www.atlantic.com Colombo, February 8 (www.theatlantic.com): China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Ceylon Today Colombo, Colombo, February 8: The oft-repeated advice given by foreign policy wizards to smaller countries who are victims of power rivalry is that they should understand the reality of geopolitics. Sri Lanka, a country that burnt its fingers once for ignoring geopolitics, is well aware of the bitter realities and is […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
by Shamindra Fedinando Courtesy The Island ‘Political Victimisation’ PCoI report: An Opposition political grouping has accused the SLPP government of planning to deprive civic rights of several members of parliament and ex-MPs. Opposition activists former Deputy Minister Karu Paranavithana, Attorney-at-Law Crishmal Warnasuriya, Attorney-at-Law Shiral Lakthilaka and Ananda Lanarolle alleged the government targeted former Prime Miniter […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Legislation will be introduced to Parliament in the near future to give legal provisions to provide military training to the youth, Minister of Public Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera said yesterday. Rear Admiral who was speaking during the Colombo District Public Security Committees Convention at Youth Centre Maharagama said the training will […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana It is expected to vaccinate the workforce between the ages 30 and 60 years against the COVID-19 pandemic from March this year, says State Minister Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle. The State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics, and COVID Disease Control said that 4,000 centers have been planned to be utilized for this task. […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed nine more Covid-19 related deaths, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 365. The victims reported today includes three females and six males: 01. The deceased is a 95-year-old male from Colombo 15. He died on 05.02.2021 at his residence […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health says that another 364 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, as the tally of confirmed cases in the country crossed the 70,000 mark. Nineteen of them are from the prisons cluster while the remaining are close contacts of infected patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. A total […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Wages Board has approved a daily wage of Rs 900 for plantation workers, the Ministry of Labor stated. In addition, a budget allowance of Rs 100 per day has also been allocated.
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
On 11 February 2013 the UNHRC Head Navi Pillay presented A/HRC/22/38 report to the UNHRC. The idea of summarizing these reports is to showcase how Geneva hijacked what claimed to be questioning what happened inside a war zone to include a plethora of non-conflict related issues and scare the GoSL into accepting the lists of […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
C. Wijeyawickrema LL.B.,Ph.D One commentator pointed out that Medicine and Engineering are now gone English as if blood and cement have a language. Unlike medicine and engineering, the law is social engineering and social medicine. This is why Hakeem got an unusual number of law applicants admitted to that one particular year. This is also the […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
Palitha Mapatuna In the selection of teams to represent Sri Lanka in international cricket, one comes across allegations of bias in favour of a particular religion and/or cult. Circumstantial evidence may suggest substance in these allegations (see ‘Episode 273 Salakuna of Hiru News’). In the light of these allegations, and to maintain public confidence, action seems necessary […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Without any difference of the government and opposition policies, all prefer foreign direct investments (FDI) as they positively impact Sri Lanka’s economy. Especially foreign direct investments play a massive role to improve macroeconomic variables such as foreign reserves, employment, GDP growth, international trade, and terms of trade, and many others. Foreign direct […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
By Garvin Karunaratne former G.A.Matara President Gotabhaya deserves a bouquet for his new programme Waari Saubhagya which commenced today(6/2), with the restoration of Mahameegasweva in the Palugasweva area of the Anuradhapura District. The restoration of the tanks in NuwaraKalaviya is an urgent need and it is a great feat to restore the tanks, the life […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මිහිඳු නිවහන” ව්යාපෘතිය භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාගේ දෙමව්පිය හිසට පමණක් නොව ශාසනයටත් සෙවණ දෙන වැඩපිළිවෙළක් යැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.07 දින පැවසීය. සියඹලාණ්ඩුව බුද්ධම පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ දී මිහිඳු නිවහන” ව්යාපෘතියේ සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමත්යවරයා වශයෙන් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardene (1901-1972) was born at Boralugoda, Avissawella, in Hevagam korale. Hewagam Korale, as its name indicates, had produced many brave hewayo. Philip’s father, Don Jakolis Rupasinghe Gunawardene was known as ‘Boralugoda Ralahamy’. Boralugoda Ralahamy was a vidane arachchi. The Boralugoda clan was known for their generosity and religious patronage, said […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
DW Documentary The “New Silk Road” is an enormous Chinese international development project. It’s a trade network that involves Asia, Africa, and Europe — and more than 70 countries are already involved. It may turn the old world order upside down. China is investing in bridges, port facilities, railroads, and roads around the world. Beijing […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
ජානක පෙරේරා පසුගිය ගිය බදාදා (පෙබරවාරි 4) අපි වසර එකසිය තිස්තුනක බ්රිතාන්ය පාලනයෙන් ලංකාව නිදහස් වීමේ 73 වන සංවත්සරය සැමරුවෙමු. ඒ ලැබූ නිදහස ගැන නොයෙකුත් අය විවිධ අර්ථකතන දෙති. ලංකාවේ අවසාන අධිරාජ්ය විරෝධී සන්නද්ධ සටන වූ මාතලේ සන්නද්ධ නැගී සිටීම මර්දනය කරන ලද්දේ මෙරට බ්රිතාන්යයන්ගෙන් නිදහස ලැබීමට වසර සියයකට පෙර, එනම් 1848 දීය. ඉන්පසු යටත් […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington, DC Ambassador Aryasinha announces launching of ‘Pan-US Overseas Sri Lankans Network’ The 73rd Anniversary of Independence of Sri Lanka was celebrated on 4 February at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington D.C., with the participation of religious dignitaries, representatives from the US State Department and the Embassy Staff, with the […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
කාන්තා පර්යේෂණ මධ්යාස්ථානය (CENWOR) ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකයට කාන්තාවන් විසින් දක්වනු ලබන දායකත්වය ඉතා ඉහළ මට්ටමක තිබුනද විවිධ හේතු නිසා ඔවුන්ව නිසි ඇගයීමකට ලක් නොවීම දැකිය හැක. ජාතික තොරතුරු පිලිබඳ දත්ත පදනමක් ක්රමවත්ව නොමැතිකම මෙන්ම විශ්වාසදායක තොරතුරු අඩුකම නිසා මේ කරුණු පිළිබඳව ප්රමාණාත්මක තොරතුරු හිඟයක් පවතී. කෘෂිකර්ම හා ආහාර නිෂ්පාදන ක්ෂේත්රයේ හා විශේෂයෙන්ම එහි අවිධිමත් අංශවල […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 7 (newsin.asia): Indian sources acknowledged on Sunday that India has expressed its strong” concern about the location of three Chinese renewal energy projects in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province barely 48 km from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. The sources said that the projects were security a threat to India which […]
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