Archive for March, 2021
Sunday, March 21st, 2021
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ(ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර්) අලි සබ්රි ඇමති දෙවියන්ගේ නාමයෙන් දිවුරුම් දී ‘එක රටක් එක නීතියක්’ ශපථ කළ පළමුවෙනි අධිකරණ ඇමති ලෙස වාර්තාගත වෙයි. දේශපාලකයෙකු නොවූ ‘නම්බුකාර’ වෘත්තියක නියුතු කෙනෙකු වූ ඔහු ලොවට ම ඇසෙන සේ කළ ඒ ශපථය ඇසුන විට අධිකරණ ක්ෂේත්රයේ රටට ඵලදායී යම් ප්රගතියක් දැකිය හැකි වෙතැ’යි සිතුණි. එහෙත් ගතානුගතික දෙමළ සහ […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ලියන අලුත් ම ලිපිය අද 2021 මාර්තු 21 දා ඉරිදා අරුණ පුවත් පතින් බි්රතාන්ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙසිරි පී’ හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට තිස් තුන් හැවිරිදි සේරා එවරඞ් ( Sarah Everard )වාසය කළේ දකුණු ලංඩන් නුවර Brixton නැමැති උප නගරයේය’ ඇගේ මුල් ගම වුයේ York නැමති ඵෙතිහාසික නගරයයි’ ඇයගේ […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ බංග්ලාදේශ දෙදින රාජත්රාන්ත්රික සංචාරය පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා (20) නිමාවට පත්විය. දෙරට අතර ද්විපාර්ශවීය සබඳතා ශක්තිමත් කළ මෙම සංචාරය බංග්ලාදේශ අග්රාමාත්ය ෂෙයික් හසීනා මහත්මියගේ ආරාධනාවකට අනුව සිදුවිය. බංග්ලාදේශ නිදහස් ස්වර්ණ ජයන්තිය සහ බංග්ලාදේශ ජනරජයේ ජාතියේ පියා ලෙස සැළකෙන බංගබන්දු ෂෙයික් මුජිබර් රහ්මාන් මහතාගේ ජන්ම ශත සංවත්සර උළෙලට එක්වූ ගරු […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 21: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has warned media owner against misusing the freedom of the press and has set up a committee to advise him on how to protect Buddhist sites, and deal with those who tarnish the character of the Buddha and distort the Buddhist scriptures (the […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
By Shiran Illanperuma Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 21 (Xinhua): The Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana has defended China’s decision to improve the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) electoral system, saying that China’s legislative arrangements are purely its internal matter. The HKSAR is an integral part of China and Western countries […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Despite holding a heavy vehicle driving licence from ordinary driving schools, the Transport Ministry had decided not to allow those drivers to drive passenger transport vehicles, Transport State Minister Dilum Amunugama said. While addressing an event in Kalutara today, the State Minister said the decision was taken to introduce a new […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported another death from the coronavirus pandemic today (March 21), according to the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, the total number of deaths due to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka has moved to 546. The deceased is a 64-year-old female resident from Medirigiriya. She had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 165 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 21), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 342 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 90,200. Recoveries from […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The number of COVID-19 infections identified at the Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery has risen to 474, according to the Public Health Inspectors’ (PHI) Association. Its chairman, Upul Rohana, said that PCR tests had been carried out on all employees after encountering several COVID-19 infected people among the employees of the company. The identified patients […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A 47-year-old Hyderabad-based woman Shyamala Goli became the world’s second female to swim across the 30-mile long Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka on Friday. She swam for 13 hours and 43 minutes from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Arichalmunai near Dhanushkodi in India. Her swimming journey began a few years ago […]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A Sri Lankan male who had been deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) at the Mawanella area. The 44-year-old resident of Mawanella has been arrested over the propagation of extremism, Police Media Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana said. The arrested suspect had been deported […]
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Saturday, March 20th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that some people have been excited about the next President, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today no one should be excited about it and that it should be decided by the people. “Majority of people elected me to the presidency to develop the country. It is only 16 months out of […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
By Raj Gonsalkorale Following are some posts that are being circulated depicting what are labelled as Fake Posts and Original Posts. Looking at these, it does appear there is a deliberate campaign to discredit the government by interested parties who are resorting to unprofessional, unethical anti-national tactics. This needs to be investigated as a matter […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය වෘත්තීය පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථාන වල හා පාසැල් වල මෝටර් කාර්මික අංශයේ දියුණුවට පොලීස් සහය හිමිවේ. ශ්රි ලංකා පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව සතු භාවිතයට නොගෙන වෙන්දේසි කිරීමට නියමිත ගර්භිත රථ වාහන ගාස්තු අය කිරීමකින් තොරව වෘත්තීය පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථාන වෙත ලබා දීම අද දින නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Senaka Weeraratna (This is an edited version of a paper read out at a Public Seminar on the ‘ Kandyan Convention of 1815’ held at the University of Peradeniya, Arts Theatre, on March 09, 2019) The Kandyan Convention of 1815 (‘Ingrisy – Sinhale Givisuma’) must be examined in the context of British colonial policy seeking […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Russia Insight Russian President Vladimir Putin has wished good health to American president Joe Biden and noted that evaluating other countries and leaders is like looking in a mirror.”
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Prime Minister’s Media Unit March 19, 2021 Her Excellency Sheikh HasinaPrime Minister of BangladeshHonorable Ministers of the Bangladesh GovernmentExcellencies, Distinguished Invitees Ladies and Gentlemen, Ayubowan! I am delighted to be present here today in Dhaka to participate in an occasion of historic significance for the people of Bangladesh. Therefore, let me thank Her Excellency Prime […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Sudath Gunasekara Arjun Mahendran has left the country and now he is absconding. Now that he was not found in Singapore where is he? Is he hiding in UK, USA or in the moon as planned? Probably Ranil will know best. I believe he will never come back and he will escape the Sri Lankan […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සිවු වැනි වතාවට ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කළ වසර 183ක් පැරණි පුරාවිද්යාත්මක වටිනාකමකින් යුතු කොළඹ කොටුව යෝර්ක් වීදියේ පිහිටි ග්රෑන්ඩ් ඔරියන්ටල් හෝටලය (Grand Oriental Hotel) ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ 2021.03.18 රාත්රියේ විවෘත විය. යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව සමයේ දී ග්රෑන්ඩ් ඔරියන්ටල් හෝටලය විකිණීම සඳහා ලංසු නිකුත් කරන ලෙස රාජ්ය ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන අමාත්යංශයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කර […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය බංග්ලාදේශ මහජන සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ (People’s Republic of Bangladesh) අග්රාමාත්ය ෂෙයික් හසීනා (Sheikh Hasina) මහත්මියගේ ආරාධනාවකට අනුව එරට රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික සංචාරයක් සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.03.19 උදෑසන දිවයිනෙන් පිටත්ව ගියේය. UL 189 ශ්රීලන්කන් ගුවන් යානයෙන් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඇතුළු ශ්රී ලාංකේය දූත පිරිස බංග්ලාදේශය බලා පිටත්වූහ. මෙම දෙදින නිල සංචාරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය දෙදින නිල සංචාරයක් සඳහා අද 2021.03.19 දින පෙරවරුවේ බංග්ලාදේශ වෙත ගිය ශ්රී ලංකා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇතුලු දූත පිරිස එහිදී බංග්ලාදේශ සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ (People’s Republic of Bangladesh) අග්රාමාත්ය ෂීක් හසීනා (Sheikh Hasina) මහත්මිය විසින් මහත් හරසරින් පිළිගනු ලැබීය. ඩකා හි හස්රත් ෂාජලාල් ජාත්යන්තර ගුවන් තොටුපළේ (Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport) දී හමුදා උත්තමාචාර […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
High Commission of Sri Lanka London The appeal made to the UK High Court by Major Gen Priyanka Fernando, the former Minister Counsellor (Defence) of the Sri Lanka High Commission against the judgement of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on him was allowed today, 19 March 2021. In the judgement handed down by the High Court, […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Mainichi NAGOYA — A group supporting foreign workers and refugees petitioned the immigration bureau in this central Japan city on March 18 to reveal the truth behind the death of a Sri Lankan woman in her 30s detained at the facility. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210319/p2a/00m/0na/045000c Members of the group Start, which supported the woman, gathered to […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka today claimed that allegations raised against the country at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva are politically biased Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that the allegations raised by several countries including the UK, Canada and Germany, of human rights abuses in Sri Lank, is an action taken for […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News බුද්ධ චරිතය, ත්රිපිටකය සහ බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථාන පිළිබඳ වැරදි අර්ථකතන දෙමින් දුර්මත පතුරවන අය ගැන සොයා බලා ගත යුතු පියවර රජයට නිර්දේශ කිරීමට කමිටුවක් පත් කර තිබෙනවා. බෞද්ධ උපදේශක සභාව අද (19) පස්වරුවේ 09 වැනි වතාවට ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ දී රැස් වූ අවස්ථාවේ ත්රෛනිකායික මහා නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේ ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ වෙත කළ ලිඛිත ඉල්ලීමට […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services today confirmed six more COVID-19 related deaths, increasing the death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 544. 01. A 70-year-old male from Polgahawela who passed away at the Kandy General Hospital on march 18 due to Covid-19 pneumonia. 02. A 79-year-old woman from Suduhumpola […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says another 144 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus increasing the today’s tally of new cases to 298. Earlier today, it was reported that 154 close contacts of patients from the Peliyagoda cluster had tested positive for the virus. This brings the tally of […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana State Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay has lodged a complaint with the CID stating that MP Nalin Bandara has made baseless and false statements regarding him. The CID are investigating into the complaint which was submitted in writing yesterday (18), Police spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said, adding that the SIS […]
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (May 1851) In 1851, An American Journal (The United States Magazine and Democratic Review), at a time (1851) when they I.e. USA, did not have imperial ambitions that dovetailed with that of British imperialism, highlighted and exposed the genocidal crimes committed on the Sinhalese people in British occupied Ceylon, […]
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කලුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ 2021 වසරේ පළමු වසරට ඇතුළත් වූ දරුවන් සඳහා පාසල් උපකරණ කට්ටල බෙදා දීමේ සිසු දරු යාත්රා ව්යාපෘතිය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.03.18 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී ආරම්භ විය. මව්බිමේ අනාගත සිසු දරු දැරියන්ගේ නැණ පහන් අවදි කිරීමේ අරමුණ පෙරදැරි කරගනිමින් වරාය හා නාවික අමාත්ය රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ […]
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