Archive for July, 2021
Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 6 (newsin.asia): The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Major General (R) Muhammad Saad Khattak told an audience in Arugam Bay in South Eastern Sri Lanka on July 1, that Sri Lankan minority communities have to live peacefully with the majority community. The High Commissioner highlighted that programs which are […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 6 (newsin.asia): A 1,000 rupee commemorative coin issued to mark the 65th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Government of Sri Lanka and the People’s Republic of China, and the 100th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China was presented to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on July 6, the President’s Media Division […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
By Anusha Ondaatjie and Lilian Karunungan Courtesy bloomberg.com Nation has to service $1 billion of debt maturing in July Sri Lanka says arrangements made to settle July bond Sri Lanka’s risk premium for a default jumped, reflecting concern that the pandemic is damaging the nation’s ability to fill its foreign-exchange coffers ahead of at least $2.5 billion in […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island Pipi gena aa malak paravee, suwanda loketa nodee nesuna”: This line from a song my wife sang in the ’60s over Radio Ceylon, which translates as A flower about to bloom withered, dying without releasing its fragrance to the world”, keeps going round and round in my head […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
By Norman Palihawadane Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said the govenrent kept the door open for anyone to leave, if he or she did not agree with its policies. Commenting on recent statements by some ministers critical of the government, PM Rajapaksa tod The Island: We are not keeping anyone forcibly. It is usual […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror With the aim of promoting online based education system, the cabinet ministers had agreed to broadcast all school subjects as programs through 20 television channels, Cabinet co-spokesman Dr. Ramesh Pathirana said.While addressing the media at the weekly cabinet meeting, he said the decision was taken following lengthy discussions during the cabinet […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has proposed the name of Basil Rajapaksa to the Election Commission to fill the parliamentary seat vacated by MP Jayantha Ketagoda. Speaking to the media, SLPP General Secretary MP Sagara Kariyawasam said Basil Rajapaksa is expected to take oaths as a Member of Parliament on the 8th of […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 45 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 05). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 3,313. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says 269 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (July 06) as the daily count of positive cases reached 919. According to the Government Information Department, all new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster, which has recorded a total of 259,669 virus infections since […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B., Ph .D මැකෝලි සාමිගේ අධිමානය (superiority complex) හා කළුසුද්දන්ගේ හීනමානය (inferiority complex) යුරෝපයේ හොඳ පුස්තකාලයක තිබෙන එක පොත් රාක්කයක්, ඉන්දියාවේ හා අරාබියාවේ ඇති මුළු පොත් සාහිත්යය තොගයටම වඩා වටිනා බව ප්රතික්ෂේප කල හැකි කාටද?” – මැකෝලි සාමි (Who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The LTTE had a deep hatred of Buddhism and showed it in repeated attacks on temples, bhikkhus and worshippers. The three high profile attacks were the Dalada Maligawa, Sri Maha Bodhi and Arantalawa. LTTE wished to destroy Buddhist temples. The truck bomb attack on Dalada Maligawa in 1998 is well known. But the […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – ,MATARA The judicial tradition is for Judges to announce in open Court the reasons for the verdict when declaring a Court verdict. At the same time, they should sign the written notes. It is compulsory for reasons to be given in Lower Courts. In the Bharatha Lakshman murder case the High […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති මුදල් ඉපැයීම සඳහා යොදාගනු ලබන ඕනෑම වත්කමක් ප්රාග්ධනය නමින් (ප්රාග්ධන වත්කමක් නමින්) හැඳින්වෙයි. අදාළ ප්රාග්ධන වත්කම් ඉඩම් සහ ගොඩනැඟිලි, කර්මාන්ත ශාලා සහ යන්ත්රෝපකරණ වැනි ස්ථාවර, ස්පර්ශ කළ හැකි දෘඩ ඒවා ද; වාහන වැනි ජංගම ඒවා ද; කීර්තිනාමය, පේටන්ට් අයිතිය වැනි ස්පර්ශ කළ නොහැකි ඒවා ද විය හැකි ය. යම් අයකු හෝ ආයතනයක් […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ලෝක බාලදක්ෂ ඉතිහාසයේ ප්රථම වතාවට ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂ සංගමය සංවිධානය කරන ගෝලීය සංස්කෘතික බාලදක්ෂ ජම්බෝරිය” ජාත්යන්තරයට හඳුන්වාදීම ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (03) රාත්රියේ වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණයෙන් පැවැත්විණි. එකම බාලදක්ෂ ලෝකයක් ( Culturally One Scout World ) තේමාවෙන් පැවැත්වෙන මෙම ගෝලීය බාලදක්ෂ සංස්කෘතික ජම්බෝරිය ජුලි මස 16,17 හා 18 දිනවල දී […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA Courtesy The Island Perhaps, I should have titled this US Ambassador, please mind your business” as she seems to be the busybody, doing her utmost to interfere in the internal affairs of our country; much against the accepted international diplomatic norms. But she is not in isolation, as there seem to […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 235 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 816. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 266,499. As many as 234,942 recoveries and 3,268 deaths […]
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Monday, July 5th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 32 coronavirus related deaths in the country for July 04, increasing the death toll due to the virus to 3,268. The Covid-19 deaths reported today includes 14 males and 18 females while one of the males is below the age of 30. Ten victims […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
Shenali D Waduge Like it or not, India has to accept some ground realities. We do not doubt that India can be a great nation capable of more greatness. We do not doubt India is a nation rich in resources and human assets. But, India is lacking a key ingredient that demotes itself and its […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
චාර්ල්ස් පෙරේරා විසින් 2015 දියුණුවෙමින් තිබුන රටක් මාදොළුවාවේ සොබිත හාමුදුරුවෝ ඇවිල්ල යහපාලනයක් හදලා මේ රට විනාශය කළා. රට කුඩුකාරයන්ටයි පාතාලයටයි , ස්ත්රී දුෂකයින්ටයි, දරුවන් අපයෝජනය කරන්නන්ටයි,බැංකු හොරුන්ටයි , බාරදුන්න. අවුරුදු 30ක විනාශකාරී ත්රස්තවාදය තුරන්කරලා රට දියුණුව කරා ගෙන යමින් තිබු මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපති තුමන්ගේ පාලනය පරාජය කළා. අවසානයේ මදොලුවාවේ සොබිත ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේටත් උරුමවුයේ විදේශයකදී වූ අකල් […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The LTTE had a deep hatred of Buddhism and showed it by repeated attacks on temples, bhikkhus and worshippers. LTTE attacked sri Maha Bodhi and Dalada Maligawa .There was also an inhuman massacred of samanera at Arantalawa. LTTE ATTACK AT ARANTALAWA On June 2nd 1987 the samanera from a temple in Mahavapi in […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE was not just anti-Sinhala, it is also anti-Buddhist. This aspect of LTTE rule has not received the attention it deserves .The LTTE had a deep hatred of Buddhism and showed it by repeated attacks on temples, bhikkhus and worshippers. The LTTE leaders starting with Prabhakaran were Christian, some Roman Catholic , some […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
By M D P DISSANAYAKE 2021 cricket calendar is quite challenging for all teams. Sri Lanka has a busy schedule as well. SLC started cost cutting at the wrong time with the wrong people, the players. The cost cutting should have been undertaken without disturbing the morale of the professional players. There are far too […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
Aloysius Hettiarachchi. Lack of signals for internet It has been announced today that by August this year Elon Musk’s company will be providing internet coverage to the whole world except the polar regions. Why not the Ministry of Education or the Digital Technology Minister talk to the relevant company and arrange to provide this facility […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අභාවප්රාප්ත ශ්රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යංශයේ සභාපති කමල් රත්වත්තේ මහතාගේ දේහයට ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (04) දින අවසන් ගෞරව දැක්වූයේය. කොළඹ පිහිටි පෞද්ගලික අවමංගල්ය උත්සව ශාලාවක තැන්පත් කර තිබූ දේහයට අග්රාමාත්යතුමා සහ අග්රාමාත්ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය පැමිණ මෙලෙස අවසන් ගෞරව දැක්වූහ. හදිසි හෘදයාබාධයක් හේතුවෙන් කොළඹ පෞද්ගලික රෝහලක ප්රතිකාර […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මහනුවර ශ්රී දළදා මාළිගාවට පැමිණි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (04) දින පෙරවරුවේ දළදා සමිඳුන් වැඳ ආශිර්වාද ලබාගත්තේය. ශ්රී දළදා මාළිගාවට පැමිණි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ අග්රාමාත්ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය පළමුව දියවඩන නිළමේ තැන්පත් ප්රදීප් නිලංග දෑල මහතා හා මධ්යම පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ලලිත් යූ ගමගේ මහත්වරු විසින් පිළිගනු ලැබූහ. […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
BY DR JANAKA GOONETILLEKE INTRODUCTION The basic policy of the prevention of the spread of Covid 19 is social distancing and prevention of close association between strangers by barrier methods such as facial masks , gloves and washing of hands. We have returned to our traditional methods of greetings which is worshipping and moved away […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
ලංකාතිලක / Counterpoint.lk විසිනි අනුග්රහය NewsIn.Asia (Google Translation) කොළඹ, ජූනි 5: සති දෙකකට පෙර පොලොනරුවා දිස්ත්රික්කයේ මෙඩිරිගිරා නගරයේ ගොවීන් විරෝධතා දැක්වූහ. ඔවුන්ගේ ගොවිපල වගා කිරීම සඳහා ඔවුන්ගේ පොහොර ප්රමාණය ඔවුන්ගේ දේශීය කෘෂිකාර්මික කාර්යාලයෙන් ලබාගෙන නොතිබූ අතර එය ඔවුන්ගේ බෝග අස්වැන්න, ඔවුන්ගේ මූල්යය සහ රටේ ආහාර සැපයුමට බලපානු ඇත. මෙම ගොවීන්ට ආඩම්බර කෘෂිකාර්මික උරුමයක් ඇත. රටේ […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
By Lankathilaka/Counterpoint.lk Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 5: Two weeks ago farmers in the town of Medirigiraya, in the Polonaruwa district, were protesting. They had not got their quota of fertilizer to cultivate their fields from their local agriculture office and it was going to affect their crop yield, their finances and the country’s food supply. […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වැඩි වශයෙන් එන්නත්කරණය යුද සිදුකර ඇති චීනයේ සයිනොෆාම් එන්නත කොරෝනා ඩෙල්ටා ප්රභේදය ඇතුළු සියලු එන්නත් ප්රබේදවලට ඉහල ආරක්ෂාවක් ලබාදෙන බව හෙළිවී ඇතැයි ඖෂධ නිෂ්පාදන සැපයුම් හා නියාමන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මෙම ඉහළ ආරක්ෂාව ලැබෙන්නේ එම එන්නතේ දෙවැනි මාත්රාවද ලබා ගත් පසු යයිද අමාත්යවරයා පැවසීය. […]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොළඹ වරාය නගරය ඇමරිකානු පුරවැසියකු යටතේ පාලනය නොවිය යුතු බවට චීනය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා රජය වෙත දන්වා ඇතැයි ආරංචි මාර්ගවලින් වාර්තා වේ. චීනය සහ ඇමරිකාව අතර ඇති සබඳතාවයේ ස්වභාවය හා කොළඹ වරාය නගරයේ චීන ආයෝජනයන් වැඩි වශයෙන් ඇති පසුබිම මත එය ඇමරිකානුවෙකු විසින් පාලනය නොකල යුතුය යන පදනමින් මෙම දැනුම් […]
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