Archive for July, 2021
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය,ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. ශ්රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් 2020 ගිම්හාන ඔලිම්පික් උළෙලට සහභාගී වීමට නියමිත ශ්රී ලංකා ඔලිම්පික් කණ්ඩායම දිරිමත් කිරීම ජාතික වගකීමක් ලෙස සලකා ඔවුන්ට සහ අනුබද්ධ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය වෙනුවෙන් සුඛෝපභෝගි පහසුකම් සමගින් නවාතැන් සපයන බව අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (12) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවති හමුවකදී අනාවරණය […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
shalendra111 Jeff Bezos describes how while he was at Princeton the smartest guy in the batch was a Sri Lankan. He goes on to say how ‘Yoshantha” helped him come to a major self realization.
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
By Associated Press Courtesy NewYork Post Sri Lankan children sits on tree branches as they access their online lessons from a forest reserve in their village in Bibila, Sri Lanka, July 2, 2021.AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena BOHITIYAWA, Sri Lanka — Getting online school lessons for residents of a remote Sri Lankan village requires a trek through […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
GAMINI PEIRIS Courtesy The Island Most writers have referred to compost as organic fertiliser, which is technically incorrect. Incorporation of compost into agricultural lands is not new. It is an age-old practice. The nutrient content of compost is about 2%, which is negligible compared to what inorganic fertilisers yield, e. g. to get the same […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Dr CHANNA RATNATUNGA Courtesy The Island The media, both print and electronic, are agog with news re the sudden ban on importation of chemical fertilisers including agro-chemicals to this country for the Maha kanna, with its alleged unavailability for this Yala. Attributed to hoarding by businessmen, a not unexpected result of being in a hurry. […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankan politics has been a good deal of family business. It was not even the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the progenitor of the SLPP that started it; D.S. Senanayake, the first prime minister flouted an implicit understanding of the succession and undercut two party seniors, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and Sir John […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 522 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,404. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 277,519. As many as 247,569 recoveries and 3,574 deaths […]
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 41 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 12). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 3,574.
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka yesterday (July 12) recorded the highest number of COVID-19 vaccines administered within a single day, according to the Epidemiology Department of the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, a total of 232,526 vaccine doses have been administered yesterday. State Minister of Production, Supply, and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Prof. Channa Jayasumana stated that 173,988 […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
By Raj Gonsalkorale Children’s education is among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the world. Prolonged school closure and limited access to distant learning has deprived children of their universal right to education, particularly in poorer countries” -UNICEF The COVID pandemic has accentuated a disparity that already exists between facilities that are available […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Dilrook Kannangara There are usual protests and disruption by the disruptive cabal against the progressive Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) Bill. These are the elements that always disrupt Sri Lanka’s progress and hinder equal rights to citizens. They rely on twisted logic that free education” equals only government provided education and no other education”. Free education […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති අමතර ආදායමක්, තමන් සතු අතිරික්ත මූල්ය වත්කමක් ආයෝජනය කිරීමට අදාළ දැනුමක් ගම්වල වාසය කරන බොහෝ දෙනකු තුළ නොමැත. තව ද සැලසුම් සහගත අයුරින් එය කිරීමට අවස්ථා ද නොපවතී. එහෙයින් තමන් අතට අමතර මුදලක් ලැබුණු විගසින් කුඩා වෙළෙඳසලක් ඇරැඹීමට හෝ සක්විති, දඩයම් ආකාරයේ පොන්සි ආයෝජන ක්රමවල පිහිටපැතීමට ගැමියෝ යොමුවෙති. අවශ්ය ව්යවසාය හැකියාව නොමැතිව […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි උදය ගම්මන්පිල ඇමතිවරයාට එරෙහිව විශ්වාස භංග යෝජනාවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මේ විශ්වාස භංග යෝජනාවට පදනම සකස් කිරීමට පදනම නිර්මාණය කර දුන්නේ, පොහොට්ටුවේ පත්කළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිවරයෙකුවූ සාගර කාරියවසම් මහතා විසිනි. සාගර කාරියවසම් මහතා බබෙක් නොවේ. ඔහු තෙල් මිල වැඩිකිරීම වරදක් සේ දැක ඒ වරද සිදුකලේ උදය ගම්මන්පිල ඇමතිවරයා විසින් බව ප්රසිද්ධියේම ප්රකාශ […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය කොවිඩ් – 19 වෛරස ව්යාප්තියට එරෙහිව රජය විසින් සෞඛ්ය අංශ සමග එක්ව සිදුකරන එන්නත්කරණ ක්රියාවලිය වඩාත් කාර්යක්ෂම හා ක්රමවත්ව සිදු කිරීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් කොවිඩ් එන්නත් ලබාගැනීම සඳහා මාර්ගගතව (Online) ලියාපදිංචි වීමේ අවස්ථාව ජනතාවට ලබාදීම අද (12) දින සිදුවිය. ඒ […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Ven. Attaragama Pagnalankara Thera visited the CID today to lodge a complaint regarding an incident that was being shared on social media in connection to the exploitation of a 15-year-old-girl. Ven. Attaragama Pagnalankara Thero expressed views addressing the media.
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හිරුනිකා ප්රේමචන්ද්ර මහත්මිය විසින් තමන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදුකළ අපහාසාත්මක ප්රකාශ මත තමන් විසින් පැවරු නඩුවෙන් රුපියල් මිලියන 500ක් වන්දි වශයෙන් ගෙවීමට කොළඹ දිසා අධිකරණය ඇයට නියම කළ බවත් කොළඹ සිවිල් මහාධිකරණය දිසා අධිකරණයේ තීන්දුව තහවුරු කර ඇති බවත් පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක බලශක්ති අමාත්ය නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා ප්රකාශකර සිටියේය. ඒ […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Dwaipayan Barua Courtesy The Daily Star The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) yesterday took some decisions, including prioritising berthing for Colombo-bound feeder vessels, aiming at clearing out exports piling up at private inland container depots (ICD). It will also give priority berthing to feeder vessels carrying export-laden containers. It also decided to permit two feeder operators […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Ahilan Kadirgamar courtesy The Hindu Sri Lanka’s great liberal democratic experiment has now been overcome by authoritarian populism. THE 2019 presidential election will be a watershed in Sri Lankan history. The Rajapaksa regime was decisively defeated in both the 2015 presidential and parliamentary elections. Since then, remnants of the regime have persevered to rebuild. Rejected […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Courtesy Capital Global Asia Sri Lanka’s dollar bonds bounced back at the end of last week, following news that the country’s central bank is ready to repay debt set to mature this month.
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 31 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 12). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 3,533. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include […]
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Monday, July 12th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 568 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,488. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 276,026. As many as 246,241 recoveries and 3,533 deaths […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala The cue for writing this piece came from The Island editorial of (Saturday) June 26, 2021 entitled Presidency should be straitjacketed”, which is about the current controversy over the presidential pardon given to former SLFP MP Duminda Silva who had been convicted and sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
Shenali D Waduge The EU/US & UK believe themselves to be & demands us to believe, they are paragons of virtue & models of human rights. This supremacy-mindset created Hitler who told the Jews how to behave & annihilated those that refused to do so. Germans and Germany were held collectively accountable for the crimes […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Eelam war is not the noble war it is made out to be. It is treason. Treason is considered to be “the highest of all crimes”. Treason” means criminal disloyalty to the state. When war is waged against the state, it is known as High Treason. War is considered the most serious […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B., Ph .D (රක්ෂා නැතිව හා දුකෙන්, අසහනයෙන් හා අශීලාචාර ලෙස කාලය මරණ ලංකා ජනතාවට ඇති ගැලවීමේ මඟ යළි ඉන්ගිරිසිය රජකරවීම යයි දෙසන කළුසුද්ද්න්ගේ නියම යටි අරමුණ රට කැබලිකිරීමය යන බව පැහැදිලි කිරීම මෙම ලිපි මාලාවේ උත්සාහයය.) හිනායන සිංහල (English with a Smile) *1. “…එක බිලියන…දෙක බිලියන…හත මිලියන” -රෝසි සේනානායක සිංහලෙන් කල කොළඹ […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Reuters reported that Samaraweera pledged that the new Government would welcome Chinese investors. President Maithripala Sirisena has unnerved China with his re-examination of certain projects that China has invested in, including a $1.5 billion ‘Port City project in Colombo. Reuters said that India, which lost out to China in infrastructure […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන. 1) නීතිඥ සංගමයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු අධිකරණ ඇමති සමග ඇති පෞද්ගලික සම්බන්ධතාවය නිසා වගන්ති 7ක්ම ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි අධිකරණ ඇමතිගේ කොරෝනා පනත් කෙටුම්පත නොදැක්කා වාගේ හිටියාද? 2) නීතිඥ සංගමයේ සභාපති වීමට සහාය දුන් නිසා අධිකරණ ඇමතිගේ ව්යවස්ථා විරෝධී කොරෝනා පනත් කෙටුම්පත නීතිඥ සංගමයේ අවධානයට යොමු කළේ නැද්ද? 3) […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP/SLPP Stalwart, Convener “The Muslim Voice” and Member “Viyathmaga”, July 11th., 2021. The Muslim community, especially the younger generation should not miss this great opportunity to intergrate with the government in power, Insha Allah. The Advent of Basil to parliament begins a “New Era” of Politics. […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. “අපි ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ගැන ලොකු බලාපොරොත්තුවක් තබාගෙන එතුමාව මෙරට ජනාධිපති බවට පත්කලා, දැන් මොකද මේ රජයට වෙලා තියෙන්නේ?” අපිට මුණ ගැසෙන අපේම මිනිස්සු අපෙන් අහන ප්රශ්නයක් මේක. මේ ප්රශ්නය අපෙන් අසන මිනිස්සු ඉතා පැහැදිලි පිළිතුරක් අප තුලින් බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. අපි අපේ දේශපාලන දැනුම උපයෝගීකරගෙන ප්රශ්නයට උත්තර දීමට බැදී සිටිනවා. පළමුව කිව […]
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Sunday, July 11th, 2021
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador’s Forum Bamboo Bamboo is found and known in Sri Lanka as a tree belongs to the grass family, mainly grown in the forest and in private, which is used in housing industry and craftsmanship in some parts of the country. It has not […]
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