Archive for August, 2021
Monday, August 16th, 2021
Courtesy RT Sri Lanka’s president has announced that the country’s health minister, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, has been sacked for pushing Covid misinformation and promoting false treatments amid surging case numbers. Announcing Wanniarachchi’s dismissal on Monday, the president’s office confirmed she would move to a position in the transport ministry, with media minister Keheliya Rambukwella taking her […]
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Monday, August 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal says that social gatherings such as parties that had taken place in the nighttime had led to the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in the country. The State Minister of Finance, Capital Markets, and State Enterprise Reforms explained the reasoning behind the nighttime curfew imposed […]
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Monday, August 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that her removal from the Health Ministry was unexpected. Earlier today (August 16), several Cabinet ministries were reshuffled and Minister Wanniarachci was removed from the Health Ministry and assigned to the Ministry of Transport. Speaking at a brief farewell function at the Ministry of Health, Wanniarachchi […]
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Monday, August 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,038 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3.466. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 362,074. As many as 312,057 recoveries have been confirmed […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS Norway wanted to see the country divided, and Eelam become a reality. Norway tried to create Eelam through the Ceasefire Agreement. The Ceasefire Agreement” (CFA) was signed on 22nd February 2002 by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka and by Velupillai Prabhakaran on behalf of the Liberation […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS Norway was the second country to enter Sri Lanka to deal with Eelam. Norway operated as a sole mediator in Sri Lanka. MichelsenInstitute, in its review ‘Pawns for Peace ‘said that Norway did not work in collaboration with any powerful state. However, Michelsen records that Norway felt it had to consult the US […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පසුගිය සතිය පුරාම බදුල්ල දිස්ත්රික්කයේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් ගේ සංඛ්යාව පිළිබඳ දත්ත හා සංඛ්යා ජාතික මට්ටමේ දී බහිරවයෙකු විසින් ගිලදමා ඇතැයි හිටපු ඌව ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. අගෝ. 11 දින රෝගීන් 412 ක් ද, අගෝ. 12 දින රෝගීන් 317 ක් ද, අගෝ. 13 දින රෝගීන් 313 ක් ද බදුල්ල සෞඛ්ය […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර රට හදන සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම බලගන්වමින් වාරී සෞභාග්යා ජාතික වැඩසටහන යටතේ ග්රාමීය වැව්/ අමුණු සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ව්යාපෘතියට සමගාමීව මිහින්තලය ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ කුණුරාගම ගම්මානයේ වැව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් සමාරම්භ කෙරිණි. ග්රාමීය කුඹුරු හා ආශ්රී ත වැව්, ජලාශ හා වාරී මාර්ග සංවර්ධන රාජ්යය අමාත්යංශයේ මූල්ය ප්රථිපාදන මගින් වාරී මාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් මෙම ව්යාපෘතිය […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය වයස අවුරුදු 12ට වැඩි ළමයින්ටත් පියවරෙන් පියවර කොවිඩ් ප්රතිශක්තීකරණ එන්නත් ලබා දීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙලක් රජය විසින් සැළසුම් කර ඇති බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (15) දින පැවසීය. හම්බන්තොට රෝහලේ ස්ථාපිත දකුණු පළාත් කොවිඩ්-19 ළමා ප්රතිකාර ඒකකය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට තංගල්ල කාල්ටන් නිවසේ සිට වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීතිඅධ්යයන වැඩසටහන ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාව HRCSL – ප්රධාන කාර්යාලය, අංක 14, ආර්. ඒ. ද මෙල් මාවත කොළඹ 4. sechrcsl@gmail.com ගරු ලේකම්, ප්රතිශක්තිය ආශ්රිත රෝග සඳහා දේශීය වෛද්ය ප්රතිකාර හෝ වැළැක්වීමේ මාර්ග ඇති බව වෛද්යවරුන් ප්රකාශ කරද්දී කෝවිඩ් එන්නත ලබා නොගන්නා අයට වෙනස්කම් කිරීමේ/ බලහත්කාරකම් කිරීමේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
මාධ්ය අංශය, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීතිඅධ්යයන වැඩසටහන, කොතලාවල පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද්දේ 2021.03.26 වන දිනය. කෝවිඩ් 19 පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද්දේ 2021.06.08 වන දිනය. මානව හිමිකම් සංවිධානය සංස්ථාගත කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත පෞද්ගකික මන්ත්රී පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් ලෙස පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද්දේ 2021.08.03 වන දිනය. කෝවිඩ් 19 පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මහතා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ කරුණු […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia August 15 (NewsWire) – Bollywood Actor Amitabh Bachchan shared a perfect audio-video mix of his song from Kalia, Jahan teri ye nazar hai” with the raging Sri Lankan track Manike Mage Hithe”. Amitabh Bachchan said that the video was edited by his granddaughter Navya Naveli and he loved it. Manike Mage Hithe” is a track […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy BBC A 15-year-old from Sri Lanka has spent his Covid lockdown building a solar-powered tuk-tuk. The best part is that Suntharalingam Piranawan used scraps for his homemade vehicle – and it works. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58192468 Video by BBC Sinhala’s Suneth Perera.
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul today, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter. The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in “from all sides” but gave no further details. A tweet from the Afghan Presidential palace account said […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror China and Sri Lanka are set to deepen their bilateral vaccine diplomacy” with a leading Chinese pharma company preparing to set up a manufacturing plant to make anti-Covid jabs in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home district, Hambantota The new plant will be set up under an agreement that will allow Colombo to […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A total of 582 persons who tried to enter the Western Province yesterday (August 14) violating provincial travel restrictions have been turned away, Sri Lanka Police said. Further, 108 persons have been arrested during the police operations carried out to monitor quarantine regulations yesterday. Police Media Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana stated that […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana All weddings functions, irrespective of the venue, will not be allowed to be held from Tuesday (August 17) midnight, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) stated. The decision has been taken as a measure to control the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country. Accordingly, weddings, whether held at home […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the government plans to provide COVID-19 immunization to children over 12 years of age step by step. The Prime Minister mentioned this speaking at the inauguration of the Southern Province COVID-19 Child Care Unit at the Hambantota Hospital, today (August 15). The Prime Minister joined the event […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Total lives claimed by the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand over 6,000 as a record high of 161 new victims were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 14). This marks the seventh consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-related deaths surpassed 100. The new development has […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A total of 859 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 15), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 3,435. According to the Government Information Department, all new cases reported today were associated with the New Year cluster. Following the new development, the country’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally now stands at […]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Army Commander General Shaveendra Silva stated that islandwide quarantine curfew will be imposed from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. every day from tomorrow (16) until further notice. However, he stated that this would not affect essential services
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana stated that the government is ready to go for an islandwide lockdown if a request is made from the health sector. The State Minister further stated that all decisions taken by the government are taken on the advice of doctors. Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, Director, Department of Allergy, […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
By Raj Gonsalkorale Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviour. Keep your behaviour positive because your behaviour becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” Mahatma Gandhi Felice […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Taliban has not wasted any time in trying to capitalize on the weak leadership of President Joe Biden. Kabul is now within striking distance The election of Joe Biden was a great relief for Taliban who could not challenge during the Presidency of Donald Trump. Prior to Islamic domination, Buddhism […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ‘සිංහල’, බෞද්ධ’ සංකල්පයන් ‘සිංහල’, බෞද්ධ’ යන සංකල්පයනට පසුගිය වසර 40 ක පමණ කාලයක සිට සිදුවී ඇති අවැඩ, අගතිය, හානිය අති මහත්ය. 1815දි බ්රිතාන්ය අධිරාජ්යවාදීහු පවා උඩරට ගිවුසුම මඟින් මේ රට හැඳින්වුයේ ‘සිංහලේ’ යන නමිනි. සිලෝන් හෝ ශ්රී ලංකා යන නම් ඔවුන් පාවිච්චි නොකළේ එකල ඒවා මේ රටේ නාමය ලෙසට සනිටුහන්ව නොතිබීමයි. 1995 […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ මහාවංශය බොරු බව ප්රභාකරන් සෑම විටම කීය. මහාවංශය සම්බන්ධව ඔහු තුල තිබුනේ තදබල තරහකි. LTTE න්යායාචාර්ය ඇන්ටන් බාලසිංහම් මහාවංශය බොරු බවට දැඩිව මත පල කළේය. ඔවුන් නික්ම ගිය පසු අද TNA වැනි සහ වෙනත් ඊලාම්වාදී ද්රවිඩ සංවිධාන මේ අදහස තවදුරටත් ප්රවර්ධනය කරත්. විජයට පෙර මේ රටේ රාවණ නමැති බලගතු රජකෙනක් සිටි බවත් රාවණ […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
Courtesy The Island Leader of the House and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday said that there were reports that a large number of persons believed to have gone missing during the war were living abroad under different names. They had left the country through unconventional channels during the last phase of the conflict and immediately […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
By Dr. Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island The government has, at last, yielded to the unceasing demand of farmers for chemical fertilisers over the last several months, by its recent gazette notification, although it claims that its policy on organic agriculture remains unchanged! The farmers should, however, be elated and this is reminiscent of what […]
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021
By Toby Antony Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express The NIA has found that the conspiracy to smuggle drugs and weapons from Pakistan using fishing vessels started in the second half of 2020. KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the seizure of five AK-47 rifles and `3,000-crore worth of heroin from a Sri Lanka boat […]
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