Archive for July, 2021
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Courtesy Outlook The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has stated that strict laws are required to prevent child exploitation A young bonded child laborer rests his head in his handsAP Photo/ Kevin Frayer Days after the death of a 16-year-old girl who was employed as domestic help by a politician, Sri Lanka is set to […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The Daily Mirror By the 9th Century AD, the Sinhalese kings had beefed-up their defences and had also taken to diplomacy to ward off South Indian predators. While Pali was the vehicle of Theravada Buddhism practiced in Sri Lanka, Lankan Buddhist monks learnt Sanskrit, wrote works in it and communicated with Indian […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered to remand the wife of former minister Rishad Bathiudeen and three others until August 09 in connection with the suspicious death of a teenage domestic worker who had been employed at their home. The four defendants, including Bathiudeen’s father-in-law, brother-in-law and the broker who had brought the […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 635 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,653. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 298,181. As many as 269,007 recoveries have been confirmed […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News The CID has commenced an investigation into a complaint made regarding protests in public places violating quarantine laws and endangering public health. A statement issued by the Police Media Division stated that the investigations are being carried out into a complaint lodged with the CID by Damgalla Gamage Danushka Dilshan Gamage, Chairman […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News The four suspects, including Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife, who were arrested in connection with the death of 16-year-old Ishalini who was working as a servant at MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s house, were remanded until August 9. >That was when the relevant case was taken before the Hulftsdorp Magistrate’s Court. Deputy Solicitor General Dilipa Peiris […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The COVID-19 pandemic urged social distancing because experts on the epidemic believed that social integration through various methods will agent the spread of the virus, and it considers that the social distancing any method would be supported to control the virus. In addition, there are health and hygiene rules that are difficult […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
BBC හි පලවූ ලිපියක් ආශ්රයෙන් පරිවර්තනයකි මගේ වයස අවුරුදු 44 යි. මම හිතන හැටියට – මම මාස 16 කට පෙර මෙන් මම මාධ්යවේදියෙක්, මවක්, බිරිඳක්, පාපැදිකරුවෙක්, කඳු නගින්නෙක්, වල් පිහිනුම් ක්රීඩකයෙක් සහ ත්රාසජනක ක්රීඩකයෙක් නමුත් මගේ ශරීරයේ, මම මගේ වයසට වඩා දෙගුණයක් වැනි කෙනෙක් වගේ දැන්. බොහෝ දිනවල මම වේදනාවෙන් අවදි වී වේදනාවෙන් නින්දට යන්නෙමි. […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
By Lucy Adams BBC Panorama I am 44 years old and in my mind I’m a journalist, a mother, a wife, a cyclist, a mountain climber, a wild swimmer and an adventurer – just like I was 16 months ago. But in my body, I’m like someone twice my age. Most days I wake up […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
By Charlie Haynes and Flora CarmichaelBBC Trending A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them. “It started with an email” says Mirko Drotschmann, a German YouTuber and journalist. Mirko normally ignores offers […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පොහොර ගේන්න ඩොලර් මිලියන 250 ක් නැති ආණ්ඩුව කිරි පිටි ගේන්න ඩොලර්මි ලියන 333 ක් වැය කරනවා. සිලෝන් ටී‘ සන්නාමය විනාශයේ දොරකඩට පැමිණ ඇත. පොහොර නැති නිසා නිෂ්පාදන තත්වය බාලයි. උඩරට තේ විනාශයි අපනයන තේ මිල ජූලි තුන් වන සතියේ තවදුරටත් පහත වැටී ඇත. ‘සිලෝන් ටී‘ තත්වයෙන් බාලවීම මිල […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ විනය කඩ කල බවට චෝදනා ලක් වූ ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ පළාත් පාලන නියෝජිතයින්ගේ විනය පරීක්ෂණයක් අද (25) අනුරාධපුර වයිට් හවුස් හෝටල් පරිශ්රයේදී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ විනය කමිටුව විසින් අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ විනය කඩ කළ බවට බවට චෝදනාවන්ට ලක් ව ඇති පළාත් පාලන නියෝජිතයින් මෙම විනය කමිටුවට කැඳවා […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර අනුරාධපුර උතුර පානීය ජල ව්යාපෘතියට අවශ්යය ජල ප්රමාණය ස්ථිර ඇළ මාර්ගයක් හරහා මහ කනදරාව ජලාශයට ලබා දී, පානීය ජල ව්යාපෘතිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහකනදරාව ජලාශය යටතේ ගොවිතැන් කරන කිසිදු ගොවියකුගේ විරෝධයක් නැති බව මහ කනදරාව ඒ්කාබද්ධ ගොවි සංවිධානය පවසයි. රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ජල සම්පාදන හා වාරී මාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තු […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana All Sri Lankans over the age of 30 will be vaccinated by September, according to Minister Bandula Gunawardena. Minister of Trade stated that the country will be reopened after that vaccination milestone. He mentioned this speaking at the opening of the new Sathosa branch in Bulathsinhala today (July 25). By September, we will […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reports that another 1,190 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (July 25). All new cases are associated with the New Year Covid-19 cluster. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country thus far to 296,516. Presently 24,860 infected patients are being treated at hospitals […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 446 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,656. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 296,962. As many as 267,602 recoveries and 4,099 deaths […]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Farmers alleged that the paddy harvest has dropped significantly this Yala season. They complained that the problem has arisen due to the cultivation of seeds provided by the Agrarian Services Department. Farmers in areas such as Laggala and Wilgamuwa in the Matale District are currently harvesting paddy during the Yala season, and […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga DSc TNA leader R.Sampanthan has called for a re-merger of Northern and Eastern Provinces and he has said that the problems Tamils face cannot be solved without the two provinces coming together. Moreover he has raised the matter with the American Ambassador Ms. Teplitz. The Tamil leader may have fired a […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS (Continued from C11) UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE (2017) Sri Lanka ratified the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) Convention in January 1994 and incorporated the Convention into Sri Lankan law by enacting the ‘Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS (Continued from C10) OFFICE OF MISSING PERSONS (2016) The Office of Missing Persons Act was passed in Parliament on 12.8.16, during the rule of the Yahapalana puppet government. It was rushed through Parliament ignoring objections. It went through all three readings within 40 minutes. The Bill was not referred to Supreme Court. […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය. ‘‘හැඟීම් මගින් එක්සත්භාවයට‘‘ යනුවෙන් මෙවර තේමාව රැගත් ලෝක ක්රීඩාවේ විශිෂ්ටතම හා අසිරිමත්ම ක්රීඩා සැණකෙළිය වන ඔලිම්පික් ක්රීඩා උළෙල 32 වැනි වරට සකුරා මල් පිපෙන ජපානයේ ටෝකියෝ ජාතික ක්රීඩාංගණය කේන්ද්රකරගනිමින් අද (23) දින ශ්රී ලංකා වේලාවෙන් ප.ව.04.30ට (ජපානයේ වේලාවෙන් රාත්රී 08.00ට) විචිත්රවත් සමාරම්භක උත්සවයක් ද […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර පොල් පැළ ලක්ෂ 40 ක් දිවයින පුරා සිටුවීමේ ” දොරින් දොරට කප්රුක ” ජාතික වැඩසටහන යටතේ ඉපලෝගම ගොවිජන සේවා කාර්යාලයේදී පොල් පැළ බෙදා දීම රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් සිදු කෙරිණි. ” දොරින් දොරට කප්රුක ” ජාතික වැඩසටහන මගින් ගෙඩි මිලියන 2800 ක් පමණ වන වාර්ෂික පොල් අස්වැන්න ගෙඩි මිලියන […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් අතීත කථාව – රයිගම රාජධානි සමයේ දී වර්තමාන බණ්ඩාරගම අසල වැව් රාශියක් ඉඳි විය.රජුගේ මාළිගය පිහිටි භූමියේ පිහිටි පොකුණකට පිරිසිඳු ජලය ගෙන ඒමේ අවශ්යතාවයක් ඇති විය. මේ යුගයේ දී මාළිගයට නුදුරින් අසු නාවන පොකුණ නමින් තවත් තැනක් විය.ඒ අසල දාගැබක් ද විය. වරක් මේ දාගැබේ කොත අතුරුදහන් විය.පසුව අසුනාවන පොකුණේ තිබී මේ කොත […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
මාධ්ය අංශය, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන, (නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය තුළ තොරතුරු සැගවීම නවතමු…2021 ජූලි 06 හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාවේ ඇති ජනමත විචාරණයක් නියම කළ කොරෝනා පනතේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණය සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ලබාගෙන නිදහස් අධ්යාපනයට, රටේ ස්වාධීනත්වයට, ආගමික නිදහසට, ජනතා පරමාධිපත්යයට, ඩිජිටල් නෛතික නිදහසට වන බලපෑම කියවමු…) ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය ජනමත විචාරණයක් නියම කළ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි වගන්ති 7ක් […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
Excerpted from SDIG (Retd.) Edward Gunawardena’s memoirs Courtesy The Island The burning of the Jaffna public library in 1981 is not only a controversial subject, it is a sensitive one. Much has been written on it mainly for propaganda purposes and political advantage. It is significant that nobody who was a witness to the incident […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 23: For steady progress and economic development of a country the two most important requirements are peace and political stability. Any uncertainty on the duration of a government adversely affects its policy implementation process as Sri Lanka witnessed many times during its post-independence history of seven decades, […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 52 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (July 24). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 4,054. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed […]
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Saturday, July 24th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A total of 517 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (July 24), bringing the daily count of positive cases reached 1,737. According to the Government Information Department, 1,707 new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. Meanwhile, the remaining 30 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries. The […]
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