Archive for September, 2021
Saturday, September 18th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News The new Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated that the country’s future economic plan will be announced on October 1. He stated in a Twitter message that the economic plan was targeted for the next six months.
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් තවත් කොරෝනා මරණ 84ක් වාර්තාවී තිබෙනවා. කොරෝනා වෛරසය ආසාදිත මරණ සියයට අඩුවෙන් වාර්තා වූයේ දිගු කාලයකට පසුව වීම විශේෂත්වයක්.සෞඛ්ය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයා ඊයේ (16) තහවුරු කළ මෙම මරණ 84ත් සමග මෙරට සමස්ත මරණ සංඛ්යාව දැක්වෙන්නේ 12,022ක් ලෙසටයි.මෙම මරණ 84 අතර වයස අවුරුදු 30ට අඩු වයස් කාණ්ඩයේ පිරිමි මරණ 2 ක් […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News අද දිනයේ මේ දක්වා තවත් කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන් 453 ක් වාර්තාවී තිබෙනවා. ඒ අනුව දැනට ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් වාර්තාවී ඇති මුලු කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන් සංඛ්යාව 502,755 ක්. අද දිනයේ හමු වූ මුළු ආසාදිතයන් ගණන 1983ක් වනවා.
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Sept 17 (DailyMirror) – People who haven’t received their vaccines as yet, are not only putting themselves in danger but the others as well. The younger population aged from 20 to 29 years show great reluctance in receiving the COVID jab in the Colombo City, CMC Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 17 (newsin.asia): The World Bank announced on Thursday that it has paused” or temporarily discontinued, its Doing Business Report” (DBR), following publication of internal audits and reviews into the report that revealed serious ethical concerns of data manipulation, shattering trust in the rankings. The DBR had been paused” after data irregularities […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE and DAVID CHURCHILL and JASON GROVES FOR THE DAILY MAIL Courtesy MailOnline Travel experts anticipate ‘large increase in bookings this weekend’ for foreign trips if changes take place Government is expected to tear up testing rules for the fully vaccinated in time for the half-term holidays Expedia says Mexico is most popular red list country […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy BBC In a car park in the Thai capital Bangkok, green shoots sprout from the roofs of colourful taxis. Thailand’s tough Covid-19 restrictions have left the city’s hectic streets quiet, putting taxi drivers out of work. As fares dried up, many drivers left the city for their home villages, leaving so-called taxi graveyards behind. […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
By Senaka Weeraratna In the modern history of Sri Lanka no one stands taller than Anagarika Dharmapala. In a country that had witnessed the overthrow of its last king in 1815, seen successive waves of Portuguese, Dutch and British invasions sweeping away much of the traditional Buddhist culture of the country, the unsolicited entry of […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජගත් කුමාර මහතා පාදුක්ක ප්රාදේශීය සංවර්ධන කමිටුවේ සභාපති ධූරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වී තිබේ. ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත ලිපියක් යවමින් ඔහු සඳහන් කරන්නේ තමන් එම ධුරයට පත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ස්තූතිවන්ත වන බවයි. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කොළඹ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඔහු කියා සිටියේ ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Several parties expressed their views today (17) regarding the revelation of Ven. Gnanasara Thera and the response of the Archbishop of Colombo. The National Organizer of the ‘Sinhale’ National Organization Pradeep Sanjeewa presented to the media an audio recording of a conversation that took place between former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island DEW alleges cover-up, warns of dire consequences One-time Prisons Minister Dew Gunasekera yesterday (16) called for an immediate police investigation into SLPP lawmaker Lohan Ratwatte’s recent wild behaviour inside the Anuradhapura prison, where he issued death threats to two LTTEers incarcerated there. Gunasekera pointed out that the minister had […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s central bank chief says that the government does not want to keep the import restrictions which are currently in place for too long and that he would like to see them being eased out after a certain period as the restrictions do have an impact on investor confidence. During a live […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has been removed from the United Kingdom’s Red List” – which requires hotel quarantine for all arrivals – effective from next Wednesday, according to the Sri Lankan High Commission in London. Sri Lanka has been removed from the UK’s Red List which will take effect from 4.00 a.m. of 22 September […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 121 coronavirus related deaths for September 16, increasing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 11,938. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the victims reported today includes 62 males and 59 females. One of the deceased is below […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 2,078 new coronavirus cases on Friday, taking the total above 500,000 cases since the start of the pandemic. According to the Govt. Information Department, another 800 persons have tested positive for the virus, increasing the daily total to 2,078. This includes 792 new cases associated with the ‘New Year […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has received a complaint against State Minister Lohan Ratwatte in connection with the incidents at the Welikada and Anuradhapura prisons. Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara has instructed IGP Chandana Wickramaratne immediately launch an investigation into that complaint. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday said that […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The quarantine curfew currently in effect across the island has been extended until 4.00 a.m. on October 01 (Friday), the President’s Spokesman said. In a twitter message, he said that the decision was taken during the meeting of the Special Committee on COVID-19 Control chaired by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning (17). This […]
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Friday, September 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Secretary of Defence says there is NO need for the public to panic over the ‘fake email’ received by country’s airport authorities regarding a security threat. Defence Secretary Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne Referring to the standard security measures adopted at the Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport, affirmed that there is no requirement […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
By Rohan Abeygunawardena Incidentally, our memory flows exactly Seventy [70] years back to the ‘ San Francisco Peace Treaty Conference ‘ in September 1951. D.S. Senanayake, the first Prime Minister of Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known) selected his young and able Finance Minister J. R. Jayewardene to lead the delegation from Ceylon to the […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Asoka (Weerasinghe) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G . Canada 16 September 2021 OPEN LETTER to M.A. Sumanthiran MPParliament of Sri Lanka(Sumanthiran_m@Parliament .lk) Dear Mr. Sumanthiran: This is my third OPEN letter to you. I wanted to know more about you other than just a Tamil MP who has adopted a surrogate Mother in Madam Michelle Bachelet , […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Senaka Weeraratna If Japan did not enter the second world war in 1941 the whole of Asia would have have come under Western colonial domination. There was not an iota of thought in any western country in 1939 to give freedom to people in European colonies. The possibility of what happened to the native Americans, […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala When I pen these words, average Sri Lankans are still sleeping. I am ahead of them and awake. That is because of the time zone difference between where I live and Sri Lanka, my country of birth. As usual, as the first thing I do in the morning, particularly these days, […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala It may look unfashionable or even indecent to write about Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) in these days of ‘reconciliation’ politics. But that is due to the deliberate distortion of facts by vested interests. So I beg my readers’ indulgence. The Anagarika has been consistently misrepresented by antinationalists as a Sinhala supremacist, a […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
උදුලා ජයසිංහ ගුරුවරුන් වශයෙන් අපි හඳුන්වනු ලබන්නේ දෙමවුපියන්ගෙන් පසු ළමයින්ට හා විශේෂයෙන් ළමා මනසට වැටහෙන පරිදි අවවාද අනුශාසනා දෙමින් තමා ලද අධ්යාපන සුදුසු කම් අනුව දැනුම,බුද්ධිය වර්ධනය කර දරුවන්ට නිසි මගට යොමුකොට සමාජයේ ගරුබුහුමන් ලබන පිරිසකි. දුසිරිත් වලින් තොර සහජ හැකියාවක් ඇති මානවයා සැකසීම කරන්නන්ද ගුරුවරුන් ලෙස හැඳින්වියහැක. පෙර රජදරුවන් කාලයේ පවා රජ දරුවන්ටද, ඔවුන්ගේ […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කැකිරාව සෞඛ්ය වෛද්ය නිලධාරී කාර්යාලයේ පරිපාලන මහජන සෞඛ්ය පරීක්ෂකවරයාට පහරදෙමින් කලහකාරී ලෙස හැසිරුණු බව කියන පල්ලබැද්දේ නන්දරතන හිමි අග්රාමාත්ය උපදේශක තනතුරක් දරණ බවට පළවන මාධ්ය වාර්තා සත්යයෙන් තොර වේ. උන්වහන්සේ වර්තමානයේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදේශක හෝ වෙනත් කිසිදු තනතුරක් දරන්නේ නැත. කැකිරාව පොලිසිය අදාළ සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මේ වනවිට පරීක්ෂණ පවත්වයි.
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර දැයක් නගන – සියක් නගර” ව්යාපෘතිය යටතේ තිරප්පනය අනුරාධපුර තිරප්පනය නගරයේ යෝජිත භූදර්ශන හා රථවාහන නැවතුම හා තිරප්පනය තුරු සෙවන” විවේක සහ විනෝද කටයුතු උද්යානය ඉදි කිරීම් කටයුතු රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් සමාරම්භ කෙරිණි. රට නගන සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම වත්මන් රජයේ ප්රථිපත්ති ප්රකාශනය අනුව නගර සීයක් සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ දැයක් නගන […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය ගරු අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය, දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ගරු අමාත්යතුමනි, අභ්යාසලාභීන්/ සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් ගුරු සේවයේ පුරප්පාඩු සඳහා බඳවා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡාවක් ලබා ගැනීම. ජාතික පාසල්, පළාත් පාසල්, අධ්යාපන ආයතන ඇතුළු ආයතනයන් වෙත අනුයුක්ත කර ඇති අභ්යාසලාභී උපාධිධාරීන්, සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් ගුරු සේවයේ පවතින පුරප්පාඩු සඳහා අන්තර්ග්රහණය කරගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප සංගමය […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් වසංගත තත්වය හමුවේ ඖෂධ වලට හිමිවන්නේ සුවිශේෂී ස්ථානයකි. මෙරටට ගෙන්වන ඖෂධ සම්බන්ධයෙන් වගකීමෙන් කටයුතු කරන ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරිය ගැන මෑතකාලයේදී දැඩි කතාබහක් ඇතිවුණේ එහි දත්ත මැකීයාම සම්බන්ධ පුවතත් සමගිනි. අති සංවේදී තොරතුරු සමගින් ගනුදෙනු කරන මෙම අධිකාරියේ දත්ත මකා දැමීම පිටුපස සිටින මහමොළකරු දේශපාලනයට සම්බන්ධ බවත් ඔහු විපක්ෂයේ අයෙකු බවත් […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Written by Varsha Sriram | Courtesy The Indian Exprewss A Sri Lankan song that is viral on Instagram has spawned covers in several regional languages in India. A look at what has made the Sinhala song so popular Since its release, this version of ‘Manike Mage Hithe’ has not only become one of the most popular […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Courtesy The Island The Central Bank will soon announce a policy package in the form of a short-term Roadmap to provide clarity with regard to the movement of Sri Lanka’s macro-economic fundamentals, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said after taking office yesterday. The Central Bank’s first and urgent priority under my watch, will be […]
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