Archive for July, 2021
Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Hours after the Moody’s Investors Service has placed Sri Lanka’s rating ‘under review for downgrade,” the government hit back at the Moody’s Investors Service, stating that unwarranted announcement by Moody’s reemphasizes the need for the Sri Lankan Government to revisit its relationship with rating agencies. Issuing a statement by the Finance […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Pakistan cricketer and commentator Ramiz Raja analysed the first ODI between Sri Lanka and India, calling it a game between a university and a school team – where the Indians looked strong like university players who made the hosts struggle like school team cricketers. India vs Sri Lanka seemed like […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The almanac case filed against two accused including Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa was today fixed for September 15 by Colombo High Court. The defence sought a calling date before the matter is fixed for trial. Accordingly, the case against two accused including former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa for allegedly misappropriating Rs.29.4 million […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health says that 20 to 30 percent of COVID-19 infections reported from the Colombo District can be of the Delta variant. Deputy Director-General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said that this is revealed through the testing of samples collected from reported infections. We find information on the variants only through […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Court has ordered service providers to produce telephone conversation records of Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife and three others in connection to the death of the 16-year-old domestic worker at the parliamentarian’s house. Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya ordered for the records to be handed over to the Borella Police when a motion filed by […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 484 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,464. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 286,419. As many as 261,848 recoveries and 3,827 deaths […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 48 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 18). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 3,827. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Fifty percent of the COVID-19 patients receiving treatment at Colombo National Hospital, reportedly, require oxygen therapy. This was revealed at a press conference held at the Health Promotion Bureau today (July 19). Speaking on the matter, specialist physician Dr. Upul Dissanayake said that nearly 200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 are currently receiving treatment […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Money printing has become a folk story of opposition politicians in Sri Lanka where the story has been popular political rhetoric since the 1970s, and many people and news media in the country use this discourse without a clear understanding of the process of money printing. Is it a process like political […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement says that the Tamil civilian population in the north is an innocent group, who have suffered during the Eelam war IV. The Tamil people were the victims of the last phase of the war, said Jehan Perera. They lost their loved ones, lost their lands, their livelihoods. The Tamils […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador’s Forum Jeff Goonawardena – former Counsel General -Managing director Tilanka Group of Hotels (International)-Joint Secretary Ambassador’s Forum. Sri Lanka a most popular tourist destination For centuries, Sri Lanka has been a popular place of attraction for foreign travellers, for various reasons. It […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය,ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය. මෙතෙක් එන්නත් නොකළ දෙමාපියන්, වැඩිහිටියන් සහ විශේෂ අවශ්යතා සහිත පුද්ගලයන් එන්නත්කරණ මධ්යස්ථානවලට රැගෙන ඒමට මෙරට යෞවන සමාජ ව්යාපාරය ප්රමුඛ තරුණ සංවිධාන නියෝජනය කරන තරුණ තරුණියන්ට ස්වෙච්ඡාවෙන් ඉදිරිපත්වන්නැයි තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉල්ලා සිටියි. සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යංශයේ මැදිහත්වීම මත සෞඛ්ය අංශ සමඟ සාකච්ඡාකොට එම […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය, ඩිජිටල් හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය බදුල්ල දිස්ත්රික්කයේ එකම ක්රීඩා පාසල වන වැලිමඩ මධ්ය විද්යාලයීය ක්රීඩා පාසලේ කඩිනමින් සිදුවෙන සංවර්ධන කටයුතුවල ප්රගතිය නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා ඊයේ (17) දින අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එක්විය. රට හදන සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම රජයේ ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශනය අනුව ක්රීඩාව තුළින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට කීර්තියක් හිමි කරදෙමින් ජාත්යන්තරය ජයගත හැකි නිරෝගී […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය ඇල්ල ප්රදේශයේ සංචාරක ක්ෂේත්රයේ නියුතු වූවන්ට කොවීඩ් 19 එන්නත ලබාදීමේ කටයුතු නිරීක්ෂණයෙන් අනතුරුව අද (17) මාධ්ය හමුවේ අදහස් දක්වමින් අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සඳහන් කළේ ලෝකයේ තිබෙන හොදම කොරෝනා එන්නත් වර්ග භාවිතා කරමින් ඉතා කඩිනමින් එන්නත්කරනය කරන රට බවට ශ්රී ලංකාව පරිවර්තනය වෙමින් තිබෙන […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන. මහජන යුතුකම ඉටු කිරීමෙන් බැහැර නොවන ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමයට මහජන පෙත්සමක්….! ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට අනනුකූල වගන්ති තිබූ 2019 කොරෝනා වෛරස් රෝගය තාවකාලික විධිවිධාන පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව ශ්රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමය විසින් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ කරුණු නොදැක්වීම සහ එම පනත් කෙටුම්පත අනුමත කිරීම සහ 2021 ජූලි 12 දින ස්වර්ණවාහිනී […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව විසින් ˝දේශපාලන පක්ෂ, සංවිධාන හා පුද්ගලයන් විසින් මාධ්ය හා සමාජ මාධ්ය මගින් කරනු ලැබූ ප්රකාශ පිළිබඳ ˝ නිවේදනයක් 2021 ජූලි 16 දින නිකුත් කර ඇත. කොමසාරිස් ජෙනරාල් සමන් ශ්රී රත්නායක පවසන්නේ ˝පරිපාලන කටයුතු සම්බන්ධව අසත්ය හා සාවද්ය තොරතුරු ˝ ඒවායේ පළ කර ඇති බවයි. මැතිවරණ කොමිසම […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංය ජාතික ආධුනීකත්ව කාර්මික පුහුණු කිරිමේ අධිකාරිය (NAITA) සහ Huawei Technology Lanka පුද්ගලික ආයතන එක්ව ආරම්භ කෙරෙන උසස් විදුලි සංදේශ තාක්ෂණ ශීල්පි පුහුණු පාඨමාලාව ආරම්භ කිරීම පසුගියදා ඔරුගොඩවත්ත ප්රතිනිර්මාණය කරන ලද පුහුණු මධස්ථානයේදී අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල් පීරීස් මහතාගේ හා නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන පර්යේෂණ […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
By M D P DISSANAYAKE The image of Sri Lanka as a leading cricket playing nation is now heavily bruised. The team cannot go down any further the cricket lovers no longer consider Sri Lankan team as competitive. The team in the past was not balanced. If the batters deliver goods, then bowlers fail and […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමනට රාජ්ය ඇමති ධූරයක් ලැබීමට නියමිත බව සමගි ජනබලවේගය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී අලි සබ්රි රහීම් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. 20 වැනි ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට සහාය දුන් අවස්ථාවේ ඇමතිධූර සහ ප්රාදේශීය සංවර්ධන කමිටු සභාපති ධුර ලබා දෙන බව පොරොන්දු වූ බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=234445195190565&t=4 කෙසේ වෙතත් බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මුදල් ඇමති ධූරයේ දිවුරුම් දුන්නේ […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Residents of the area yesterday staged a protest compelling the authorities to hold a formal investigation into the death of a 16 year old girl at former Minister Rishan Badiudeen’s residence who had died of serious burn injuries. The victim J.Ishalini was a resident of Diagama West in Agarapathana The protest […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 46 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 17). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 3,779. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A total of 380 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (July 18), raising the daily count of positive cases reached 1,402. According to the Government Information Department, the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster, which has recorded a total of 276,730 virus infections since mid-April this […]
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Sunday, July 18th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 18 (NewsWire) – Health authorities in Colombo City say that the Delta variant of the COVID-19 has been identified in Covid patients reported from several areas. Dr Ruwan Wijemuni, Chief Medical Officer of the Colombo Municipal Council said that 11 people infected with the highly infectious Delta variant have been identified […]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2021
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Anyone who is indulging in politics should have dignity and integrity and should not be shameless and a backboneless individual. Mangala Samaraweera lacks all these noble qualities and is an incorrigible shameless and jaundiced hypocrite we have never had in this country among our politicians. In the last series of […]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Supreme Court has awarded one million rupees against the five Police Officers attached to Peliyagoda Police Station as compensation for torture leading to the death of a father of two children, a seven-year-old son and a daughter of one month at the time of his death. Delivering the judgment, the […]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa in a letter addressed to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene today urged the latter to convene the Parliament Council to discuss about the sudden transfer and removal of officers attached to the Elections Commission. Premadasa in his letter informed the Speaker that Parliament Council which is ultimately responsible […]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was revealed that the girl working at the house of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen in Borella, who died of burn injuries, was brought to the house as a domestic helper when she was 15 years old. Police Spokesman SDIG Ajith Rohana said the police has decided to conduct further investigations […]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 31 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director General of Health Services on Saturday (July 17). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 3,733. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims […]
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Saturday, July 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 467 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,447. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 283,507. As many as 255,833 recoveries and 3,733 deaths […]
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