Archive for March, 2021
Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Myanmar Prof. Nalin de Silva has decided to resign amid allegations that Sri Lankan fishermen stranded in Myanmar have not been assisted. However, the ambassador stated that he would remain in Myanmar until the end of the BIMSTEC Ministerial Conference to be held online and until the fisheries […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Government has instructed to implement the orders issued regarding Madrasa schools in the country, says Minister of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris. Speaking at the press conference held today (15), the Minister stated that there are 1,565 Madrasa schools in Sri Lanka. However, the ‘Yahapalana’ government did not make any attempt to […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says that the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attack is incomplete. The Archbishop expressed these views speaking to the media today (March 15). I have seen with my own eyes how my people’s bodies had been torn to […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 70 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 15), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 248 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 88,155. Recoveries from […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported 05 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (March 15). As per the Department of Government Information, two 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 532 in total. […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A 33-year-old Sri Lankan woman being detained by immigration authorities in Japan died of emaciation on March 6, after requesting provisional release and expressing a desperate desire for food in notes and letters. I truly want to eat now,” she wrote in hiragana in a note while under detention at a facility operated […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Citizens above the age of 60 years within the Colombo city limit can reserve an appointment to receive the COVID-19 vaccine via online services, the Municipal Commissioner of Colombo informed issuing a notice. Accordingly, eligible citizens may reserve a convenient timeslot through the following sites or apps: – www.colombo.mc.gov.lk (Official website of Colombo […]
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A suspect arrested several months earlier over drug offenses has been identified to have links with extremists organizations. The resident of the Keselwatta area in Panadura had been arrested by the Peliyagoda Police, Police Media Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana. Investigations into the suspect have revealed that large sums of money had been credited […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
By Garvin Karunaratne 500,000 jobs lost-Local Vehicle Industry(The Island 13/3/21) sends my mind to many instances in my experience that offer an immediate solution. Near my home on Old Kesbewa Road Gangodawila Nugegoda there is a man making oil filters. He has been making those since the Sixties and selling them some where. In […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර. අසාද් සාලිගේ දේශද්රෝහී, ජාතිද්රෝහි, විවස්ථා විරෝධී එම ආන්දෝලනාත්මක ප්රකාශය ගැන අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයාද වහාම ප්රකාශයක් දැන්වත් කළ යුතුය.එසේ කොට අසාද් සාලිට විරුද්ධව වහාම නීතිමය පියවර ගන්නාමෙන් නිසි බලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දිය යුතුය. තම වර්ගයාගේ කෙනෙක් නිසා එසේ කිරීමට නොහැකිනම් ඔහුද වහාම ඉල්ලා අස්විය යුත්තේ සින්හල මිනිසුන්ගේ චන්දයෙන් පිහිටුවාගත් මේ රජය මරණයෙන් බේරා ගතයුතු […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka’s stand against UNHRC’s intrusive resolution against the island nation on war crimes matters is commendable. The government of President HE Gotabaya Rajapaksa has so far taken a bold stand on the matter forcing the Core Group to revise their resolution again and again trying to appease Sri Lanka. Yet, Sri Lanka […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
by Martin Baumann See web link https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin-Baumann-7/publication/318673000_Creating_a_Focal_Point_for_Buddhism_in_the_West_The_German_Buddhist_Pioneer_Paul_Dahlke/links/59ae6d7e0f7e9bdd1162743c/Creating-a-Focal-Point-for-Buddhism-in-the-West-The-German-Buddhist-Pioneer-Paul-Dahlke.pdf Extracted from Buddhist Studies from India to America Essays in honour of Charles S. Prebish Edited by Damien Keown
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
බ්රිතාන්ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී.හේවාවිදාන – ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට කොවිඩ් එන්නත ජනතාවට දුන් මුල්ම රට වන්නේ මහා බ්රිතාන්යයි. මතු නොව ඊශ්රායලයට පසු කොවිඩ් එන්නත මනා ලෙස පාලනය කළ ලෝකයේ දෙවැනි රටද මහා බ්රිතාන්යයි. බ්රිතාන්යය ඔක්ස්ෆඩ් හා ෆයිසර් එන්නත් මිලියන 83 ක් ලබාගත්තේ පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් අග භාගයේදීයි. ඔවුන් ජනතාවට එන්නත්කරණය පටන් ගත්තේ පිළිගත් ක්රමවේදයකට අනුවයි. එන්නත […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය බෞද්ධයන් ලෙස අපි සතියකට දිනයක් හෝ අඩුම වශයෙන් පොහොයකට හෝ පන්සල් යෑම අනිවාර්ය කළ යුතු යැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.03.14 දින පෙරවරුවේ පැවසීය. පුත්තලම, මාදම්පේ ගල්මුරුව ශ්රී සුනන්දාරාම පිරිවෙන් විහාරස්ථානයේ රන්වැට සහිත අඩි 60ක් උසැති චෛත්යරාජයාණන් වහන්සේගේ කොත නිරාවරණය කිරීම සහ මකර තොරණ සහිත ඇතුළත ප්රාකාරය හා ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කරමින් […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The MEP government of 1956-1959 made many excellent, praiseworthy changes, some of which are well known and others which are not so well known. This essay and the one that follows it do not list all the improvements made by the 1956 Government. They contain only the most visible and best known changes. […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS SOCIAL LEGISLATION Bandaranaike‘s government made a lasting contribution to the social legislation of the country, specially Labour legislation. The MEP government set up Conciliation Boards , Labour tribunals, The Employees Provident Fund and passed the Prevention of Social Disabilities Act, No. 21 of 1957.These laws and bodies are now taken for granted. The […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay concludes the selective list of improvements made by the 1956 government. MEP government brought in the Suspension of the Capital Punishment Act No 20 of 1958, which suspended the death penalty from May 1958. Voting age at general election was brought down to 18 years from 21 years. Elections Amendment Act […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
‘SABUDDHI’ Organisation The ‘SABUDDHI’ Organisation, which works on fostering literature while encouraging connectivity between sports, art, and literature, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Global Academic Research Institute (GARI) on 11 March. The agreement is aimed at collaborating on future academic and research work, as well as providing media support to the GARI […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
සභාපති – සබුද්ධි. සබුද්ධි සහ ග්ලෝබල් ඇකඩමික් රිසර්ච් ඉන්ස්ටිටියුට් හෙවත් ගැරී (Global Academic Research Institute – GARI) ආයතනය අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට (03 වැනිදා) එළැඹෙයි. එසේ එක් වන්නේ ඉදිරි ශාස්ත්රීය සහ පර්යේෂණ කටයුතුවලදී සහයෝගයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීමට මෙන් ම ගැරි ආයතනයට සබුද්ධි කවයෙන් මාධ්ය සහයෝගිතාව ලබා දීම උදෙසාය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රමුඛතම අධ්යයන, සම්මන්ත්රණ සහ පර්යේෂණ ප්රකාශන මධ්යස්ථානයක් වන […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
ලංකා ගුරුසේවා සංගමය. ලේකම්, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ලේකම්තුමනි, 2018 වර්ෂයෙන් පසු ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාව පිළිබද උපාධිධාරීන් ශ්රී ලංකා ගුරු සේවයට බදවා නොගැනීම සම්බන්ධව. දිවයින පුරා ඉංග්රීසි විෂය ගුරු පුරප්පාඩු රැුසක් තිබියදී 2018,2019 හා 2020 වර්ෂවල දී ඉංග්රීසි සදහා උපාධිය හා භාෂාව දෙවන භාෂාවක් ලෙස ඉගැන්වීම් පිළිබද උපාධියක් ලබා ඇති උපාධිධාරීන් මෙතෙක් ගුරු සේවයට බ`දවා ගැනීමට […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය. ගරු අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය, ජී.එල්. පිරීස් මහතා,අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය,ඉසුරුපාය,බත්තරමුල්ල. 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 […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින 2021 පෙබරවාරි 28 ඉරිදා දිවයින සංග්රහයේ බුලිත ප්රදීප් කුමාර ලියා ඇති ”කුවේරගේ පරාජය හෙවත් වේදිකාවට ගෙන දෑත් බැ`ද ඇ`දිවත කඩා දැමීම” ලිපියට පිළිතුරක් 2021 පෙබරවාරි මස 24වන දින ශ්රී ලංකා නීතිඥ සංගමයේ සභාපතිවරයා තෝරා ගැනීමට පවත්වන ලද නිලවරණය අංශ කීපයකින් වැදගත් විය. එය වඩා වැදගත් වූයේ වර්තමාන ආණ්ඩුවට පෙර […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtesy the national news Public security minister cites threat to national security for proposed move Sri Lanka on Saturday announced plans to ban face coverings worn by some Muslim women, and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools, known as madrassas, citing national security. Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara said he signed […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtsy MailonLine Ruling told Home Secretary to consider taking Tamil Tigers off list of outlaws Group founded in Sri Lanka in 1976 and credited with devising the suicide vest UK banned group, formally known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in 2001 Priti Patel has been ordered by a secretive tribunal to review the ban on […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers have been appointed to inquire into the controversial statements made recently by Azath Salley. Police Media Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said that the five-member CID team will be led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). Accordingly, the investigations are currently underway, the DIG added. […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported another death from the coronavirus pandemic today (March 14), according to the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, the total number of deaths due to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka has moved to 527. The deceased is a 73-year-old male resident from Weligama. He had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 infection […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 140 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (March 14), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 282 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 87,907. Recoveries from […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana China said it will ease visa application requirements for foreigners seeking to enter the mainland from Hong Kong if they have been inoculated with Covid-19 vaccines made in China. The new rule will take effect on Monday to resume people-to-people exchanges between China and other countries in an orderly manner,” according to a […]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Forty-five bodies of COVID-19 victims held in various parts of the island have been buried as per guidelines, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said. Accordingly, the issue of COVID-19 burials has now been completely resolved, he added. There may be about one or two [bodies] remaining. They will be buried today or tomorrow […]
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Saturday, March 13th, 2021
Michael Roberts Courtesy thuppahi.wordpress.com In his wide-ranging autobiographical tale of his numerous engagements in Sri Lanka and for Sri Lanka Michael Lord Naseby has condemned the LTTE for its deployment of so many Tamil civilians as a human shield” and bargaining counter” during the last stages of Eelam War IV in 2008/09. Let me, here, […]
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