Archive for March, 2021
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 140 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 17), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 322 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 88,862. Recoveries from […]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 03 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 17). As per the Department of Government Information, one female patient and two male patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 537 in total. […]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE (07.47 pm): Former Minister Ravi Karunanayake and 07 others who were ordered to be remanded over the 2016 Bond Scam have been brought to the Welikada Prison a short while ago. The eight suspects have been directed to the quarantine center of the prison. Former Minister Ravi Karunanayake has been remanded over […]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Arrested former directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Pvt Ltd have been remanded until March 30. Earlier this evening (March 17), they were produced before the Fort Magistrate. The arrest was made on Tuesday (March 16) upon the directions of Attorney General Dappula de Livera. Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe Asanka Edirisinghe, and Nalaka Edirisinghe were […]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Arrested former directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Pvt Ltd have been produced before Fort Magistrate this evening (March 17), says the Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana. The arrest was made on Tuesday (March 16) upon the directions of Attorney General Dappula de Livera. Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe Asanka Edirisinghe & Nalaka Edirisinghe were accordingly […]
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has filed indictments against the suspects of the Central Bank bond scam, says the AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne. The indictments were lodged before the two Trial-at-Bars hearing the legal matters on Central Bank Treasury Bond auctions held between March 29 and March 31, 2016. The Chief Justice […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and the President Ambassador’s forum Friendship with Sri Lanka and Myanmar Friendship with Sri Lanka and Myanmar goes back to generations with friendly and cultural bonds on religion culture and long lasting friendships we had for generations. The cultural religious and political prelateship between Myanmar […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Gamini Seneviratne That is a term that historians of colonization are familiar with as a descriptive of the duplicity, treachery and the breach of treaties that marked England’s relations with the peoples it sought to colonize / loot particularly in the 19th century. What this note addresses are the manifestations of trickery and […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ප්රඥාබන්දු” ශිෂ්යත්ව අරමුදල ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.03.16 දින පස්වරුවේ දී බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්යන්තර අනුස්මරණ සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ දී ආරම්භ විය. සාමාන්ය පෙළ විභාගය විශිෂ්ට ලෙස සමත්වන අඩු ආදායම් ලාභී පවුල්වල දරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් අමාත්ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව උසස් පෙළ හැදෑරීමට ප්රඥාබන්දු” ශිෂ්යත්වය පිරිනැමෙයි. ප්රඥාබන්දු” ශිෂ්යත්ව භාරයට අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මේඩ් ඉන් ශ්රී ලංකා” (Made in Sri Lanka) ලොව ඉස්තරම්ම සන්නාමය ලෙස ලොවට ගෙන යෑමට රටක් හැටියට අපි අත්වැල් බැඳ ගමු යැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.03.15 රාත්රියේ ප්රකාශ කළේය. වාහන නිෂ්පාදනය, එකලස් කිරීම සහ වාහන උපාංග නිපදවීම සඳහා වූ සම්මත මෙහෙයුම් පටිපාටියක් (Standard Operating Procedures) එළිදැක්වීම කොළඹ ෂැන්ග්රිලා හෝටලයේ […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ආණ්ඩුව යන ගමන සුබවාදී නැතැයි ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී හිටපු අමාත්ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ආණ්ඩුවට ඉදිරියේදී වීමට නියමිත දේ තමන් දන්නා නමුත් එය වළක්වා ගත යුතු නැති නිසා හෙළි කරන්නේ නැති බවද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ පැවති සලකුණ වැඩසටහන සමග එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
By Hemantha Randunu Courtesy The Island The Terrorist Investigation Division has commenced an investigation into Rs. 980 million in an account maintained by an extremist group at a bank in Trincomalee. Preliminary investigations have revealed that several drug dealers in Sri Lanka too have made financial contributions to the extremist outfit. This was revealed when […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cabinet approval was granted to convert the stocks of paddy purchased from farmers by the Paddy Marketing Board into rice and distribute them continuously through Sathosa branch network. The decision was taken after the Cabinet meeting today.
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror New laws will be introduced to stop the felling of coconut trees without permission in the future, Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture Minister Ramesh Pathirana said. While addressing a coordinating meeting at Gampaha District recently, the Minister pointed out that there is a huge demand for local coconut harvest in the […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Former Governor of Western Province Azath Salley has been arrested this evening (March 16) by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The arrest was made on the advice of the Attorney General, his coordinating officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said. Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana noted that Salley will be detained and interrogated under […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 120 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (March 16) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 274. Department of Government Information says 250 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 24 were detected from the prison cluster. New […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services today (March 16) confirmed 02 more COVID-related fatalities in Sri Lanka. One of them is a 75-year-old woman from Kandy who died on March 15. She was transferred from Kandy National Hospital to Theldeniya Base Hospital after testing positive for the virus. The cause of death was recorded as […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the former directors of the Swarnamahal Jewellers Private Limited – Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe, Asanka Edirisinghe, and Nalaka Edirisinghe. The arrest has been made upon the directions of Attorney General Dappula de Livera. They have been arrested on the charges of money laundering, the Coordinating Officer […]
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. will work with Sri Lanka’s John Keells Holdings Plc to develop a port terminal in the island nation, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s first such standalone overseas project. India’s biggest private port operator got a letter of intent from Sri Lankan authorities to build and operate the […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
By Raj Gonsalkorale The UN deputy human rights chief and the independent expert on Myanmar have called for targeted sanctions against the leaders of what they both described as the coup that took place in the country last week, as the Human Rights Council met in special session on Friday to discuss the ongoing crisis […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara. While we categorically deplore and condemn Interference by the Indian Ambassador in Sri Lanka’s internal matters we call upon the Government to take stern action against all ambassadors who behave in this manner and deport them as soon as possible (as Premadasa once did to British Ambassador) and discontinue diplomatic relations […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ජනතාවගෙන් දුරස්ථ වූ පාලනය ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී ද? නියෝජිත ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයේ නාමයෙන් පාලනය ජනතාවගෙන් ඈතට ගෙන යෑම ජනතා පරමාධිපත්යය උල්ලංඝණය කිරීමකි. නිවෙසක පාලනය නිවැසියන් අතින් සිදුවන අයුරින් ම ගමක පාලනය ගැමියන් හට සිදු කළ හැකිය. (නාගරික බිම් මට්ටමේ පාලනය ද මෙයට අනුරූප වෙයි. පහසුව සඳහා ග්රාමීය පාලනය ගැන පමණක් මෙහි දී සාකච්ඡා කෙරෙයි). රටට ම […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය පාස්කු දින ප්රහාරය සහ කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් බැංකු ණය ගෙවා ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ ව්යවසායකයින්ගේ දේපළ අත්පත් කර ගැනීම වෙනුවට සහන කාලයක් ලබා දීම ගැන අවධානය යොමු කරන්නැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.03.15 දින බැංකු ප්රධානීන්ට දැනුම් දුන්නේය. බැංකු ණය ගෙවා ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ ව්යවසායකයින්ගේ දේපළ අත්පත් කර ගැනීම තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවීම […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සමෘද්ධිලාභින් ණය සහ ආධාර මත පමණක් ජීවත්වන පිරිසක් බවට පත්නොකර ව්යවසායකයින් ලෙස ස්වයංව නැගීසිටිමේ හැකියාව ඇති පිරිසක් බවට පත්කිරීමේ ක්රමවේදයක් අවශ්ය බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.03.15 දින පෙරවරුවේ දී පැවසීය. සමෘද්ධි,ගෘහ ආර්ථික, ක්ෂුද්ර මුල්ය ස්වයං රැකියා හා ව්යාපාර සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ ඉදිරි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන් පිළිබඳව මුදල් අමාත්යංශයේ රන්දොර ශ්රවණාගාරයේ […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy RT Video allegedly showing a rogue” SAS unit committing war crimes in Afghanistan has supposedly disappeared, as an investigation into the squad’s alleged massacres” has been plagued by missing evidence and silence from witnesses. Saifullah Yar was just 19 when his family were shot dead in an SAS raid on their Afghan village in […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය. අමාත්යතුමනි, අධ්යාපන විද්යාපීඨ විවෘත කිරීමට මෙතෙක් කිසිදු පියවරක් නොගැනීම සම්බන්ධව. ජදඩසා-19 වසංගතයේ පළමු අදියරෙන් පසු 2018/2020 අධ්යයන වර්ෂවලට අයත් සිසුන් 8000 කගේ අධ්යයන කටයුතු 2020 ජුලි 07 වැනි දින සිට දිවයින පුරා පිහිටි විද්යාපීඨ 19 දීි ආරම්භ කරන ලදි. නමුත් වසංගතයේ දෙවන අදියර ආරම්භ වීමත් සම`ග විද්යාපීඨ නිරෝධායන මධ්යස්ථාන බවට පත් […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 15 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that security will be beefed up in the Eastern Province to stem separatist terrorism and Islamic extremism. Tamils and Muslims together outnumber the Sinhalese in the Eastern Province. The province had been the base of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy mint An APSEZ release said the WCT will be developed on a Build, Operate and Transfer basis for a period of 35 years as a public-private partnership. (AFP) APSEZ will partner with John Keells Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka’s largest diversified conglomerate, and with the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) as a part of the consortium […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Abhishek G Bhaya Courtesy CGTN A Sri Lankan man buys a national flag at a small shop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 29, 2020. Photo for illustrative purpose only. /Xinhua The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka has asked concerned authorities in Beijing to “investigate” inappropriate advertising of Sri Lanka’s national flag on Amazon. The reaction […]
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