Archive for October, 2021
Sunday, October 24th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reports that another 122 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 555. This moves the country’s total registered Covid-19 caseload to 536,084. Over 19,000 infected patients are being treated across the island while total recoveries has climbed to 503,388 Meanwhile […]
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Sunday, October 24th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Economic centers say that vegetable prices have increased significantly since the fertilizer shortage for vegetable cultivation. Meanwhile, farmers in many parts of the country engaged in protests today regarding the fertilizer issue. Polonnaruwa – Representatives of 41 farmers’ organizations in the Bakamuna area went on a hunger strike in Bakamuna today and […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala All Sri Lankans are descendants of migrants. We are a nation of migrants. Even the Jaffnaites who claim to be descendants of Tamils who arrived in pre-historic times filled the northern strip of land, which they called their sacred homeland, with S. Indian migrants only in the 12th and 13th centuries. There […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණු හා මධ්යම පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර පලිබෝධ නාශක ආනයන කිරීමේ නියෝජ්ය පාලකවරුන් ලෙස සංචාරක හා වැවිලි අමාත්යාංශ ලේකම්වරුන් පත් කර ඇත. ‘වගාවන් සඳහා පොහොර, කෘමිනාශක සහ වල් නාශක ආනයනය කිරීම සඳහා බලපත්ර ලබාදීමේ දී දැනට සිදු කරනු ලබන ක්රමවේදය සරල කරමින් ප්රමාදයකින් තොරව එකී ද්රව්ය වගාකරුවන් වෙත ලබාදීමේ අවශ්යතාව මත‘ පලිබෝධ නාශක […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Sri Lankan Exporters of food items will soon have the opportunity of accessing the gigantic Chinese food market with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) hosting the second China On-Line Import Fair and matchmaking of Food and Agro products (CIFFA) from November […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මේජර් කමල් ශ්රී මනතුංග උතුරු යුද පෙරමුණු වල සොල්දාදුවන් විසින් ලියන ලද කුරුටු ගී එකතු කොට ඒවා අනාගත පරපුර සඳහා සංරක්ෂණය කල නිලධාරියෙකි. ඔහු මට කොලඹ යුද හමුදා රෝහලේදී 2004 වැනි කාලයක හමු විය. යුද ආතතියට ලක් වෙමින් සතුරු වෙඩි ප්රහාර මධ්යයේ සේවය කල සොල්දාදුවන් තම දුක , තනිකම සහ හිතේ […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island A report in The Sunday Times of 17 October, 2021 states: US $243 million (around Rs. 48,600 million) has been earmarked for a 27-km tunnel, considered the longest in the country under the Upper Elahera Canal Project of the Mahaweli …. Under the overall project, a 98-km network of canals and […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
By Uditha Devapriya/The Island Colombo, October 22: In 851 AD, an Arab merchant called Soleyman wrote an account of his travels to the island of Serendib. Impressionistic but insightful, it records the earliest known engagement of a Muslim with Sri Pada, also known as Samantukuta. Soleyman does not refer to Sri Pada as aadam malayi”, […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තම අදහස්වලට ඇහුම්කන් නොදීම හේතුවෙන් ආණ්ඩුවේ හවුල්කාර පක්ෂ ගණනාවක් ම දැඩි කලකිරීමට පත්ව සිටින බව වාර්තා වෙයි. විසිවන සංශෝධනය පටන් යුගදනවි බලාගාර ප්රශ්නය දක්වාම ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්රධාන පක්ෂය කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳව සෙසු පක්ෂ දැඩි කලකිරීමට පත්ව සිටින බව දේශපාලන ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. මෙම තත්ත්වය මත ඉදිරියේදී ඔවුන් දේශපාලන වශයෙන් […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Ceylon Fertiliser Company Limited has obtained an enjoining order from the Commercial High Court on Friday (October 22) against the China-based Qingdao Seawin Biotech, its local agent and the People’s Bank, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). The enjoining order has prevented the People’s Bank from making any payment under a Letter […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-positive cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 554 today (October 23), says the Epidemiology Unit. One returnee from overseas is also among the newly-confirmed cases. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 535,529. As many as 503,090 recoveries and 13,593 […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health says 437 more people were tested positive for the novel coronavirus so far today (October 23). This brings the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in the country to 535,412. Reportedly, more than 18,700 virus-infected patients are undergoing treatment at the moment at […]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A special meeting between the Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong and the Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa took place on Friday (October 22) at Office of the Leader of the Opposition in Colombo. During the discussion, the Opposition Leader has emphasized the importance of mutual cooperation between the two countries and […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් අර්තාපල් ලංකාවට හදුන්වා දී ස්ථාපනය කිරීමෙන් පසුව ගෙවුණු අවුරුදු 50 ක කාලය තුල වැලිමඩ – ඌව පරණගම ඉතිහාසයේ අඩුම අර්තාපල් අස්වැන්න මේ කන්නයේ කුඹුරුවලින් මේ දිනවල වාර්තා වේ. බොහෝ කුඹුරු (අල) වගාවේ ගෙඩි 6 කට වඩා නැත. ඇත්තේ කුඩා අල ගෙඩිය. මේ ඡායාරූපවලින් දැක්වෙන්නේ වැලිමඩ රත්කරව්ව – බොරලන්ද ලංකාවේ හොඳම අල හැදෙන […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Oct 22 (News1st) – The Ministry of Health says there is a significant rise in the rate of Dengue patients reported from 10 districts including Kandy, Galle, Matara, Kurunegala, Badulla, Ratnapura, and Kegalle. Community Physician at the National Dengue Control Unit, Specialist, Dr. Shilanthi Seneviratne urged the general public to remain vigilant […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Eurasia Review One of the temple murals by Solis Mendis; Sri Lankan gift to Kushinagar International Airport. (The Hindu) An inaugural flight between Colombo and India’s newest international airport Kushinagar landed on October 20 to mark the official opening of the airport by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The flight carried […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Xinhua COLOMBO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — A Sri Lankan scientist said China’s Yunnan Province is one of the world’s 35 biodiversity hotspots and the best place on earth to study mushrooms. In an exclusive interview with Xinhua, Samantha Chandranath Karunarathna, a mycologist at the Kunming Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
By Marina Leiva Courtesy Investment Monitor Sri Lanka attracted record levels of FDI in 2019, but was then hit by terrorist attacks and the pandemic. Will a foreign investment-friendly government get the country back on track? Tea continues to play a significant role in Sri Lanka’s exports, as the country looks to attract more FDI to […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Author: Dushni Weerakoon, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Courtesy East Asia Forum Sri Lanka recently passed emergency regulations to deal with food shortages and price increases. Such powers are typically invoked to address public security concerns. But in this instance, they are being used to give the government extra powers to seize stocks of essential […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror National People’s Power (NPP) MP Vijitha Herath today said there had been a misappropriation in payment made to the Indian Company to purchase nano liquid fertilizer and urged the Government to clarify on the matter. He told Parliament that People’s bank had transferred US$ 1.257 million to an account of the […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The primary sections of all schools across the island will reopen from Monday (October 25), says the Secretary to the Education Ministry. Prof. Kapila Perera mentioned this in a communiqué directed to all provincial chief secretaries, provincial secretaries of education, provincial and zonal directors of education, principals and other relevant officials. Permission to […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people, who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka, moved up as 12 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (October 21). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,574. The latest victims include […]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka today (October 22) moved to 552 as 104 more people were tested positive for the virus, says the Epidemiology Unit. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 534,975. As many as 502,740 recoveries and 13,574 […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
මාධ්ය ප්රකාශය ශ්රී ලංකා රජය විසින් මෑතක දී ඉන්දියාවේ Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO) නම් සමාගමෙන් දියරමය නැනෝ නයිට්රජන් පොහොර ලීටර මිලියන 3.1 ක් මෙරටට ආනයනය කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර ඇත. ඉන් පළමු තොගය වූ මිලි ලීටර් 500 නැනෝ නයිට්රජන් බෝතල් 90,000 ( ලීටර් 45,000) ක්, ගුවන් මඟින් 2021 ඔක්තෝබර් 19 දා දිවයිනට ලඟා විය. […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Rohan Laksiri General SecretaryFederation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA). The government of Sri Lanka recently imported liquid Nano-Nitrogen fertilizer from Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO). From an initial order of 3.1 million liters, 45,000 liters (90,000 bottles, each carrying 500 ml) have been airlifted on 19th October 2021 to Sri Lanka. We have learned […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඇමරිකානු සමාගමට ලංකාවට LNG සැපයීමේ ඒකාධිකාරිය හිමි වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් තම බලවත් අප්රසාදය පළ කරමින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ආණ්ඩුවේ සෙසු පක්ෂ 11 නායකයින් අත්සන් කර ලිපියක් යොමු කළ බව අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එහි ඇති භයානක කම පැහැදිළි කරමින් තවදුරටත් සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ අවස්ථාවක් ඉල්ලුවද එම අවස්ථාව නොලැබුණු […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් එල් එන් ජී බලාගාරය ඇමරිකානු සමාගමකට බදු දීමට එරෙහි රිට් ආඥාවක් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් අද අභියාචනාධිකරණයට පෙත්සමක් ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැබීය. ඒ සදහා පූජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමි, ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර, වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර, නීතිඥ නුවන් බැල්ලන්තුඩාව යන මහත්වරු එක්ව සිටියහ. එහිදි අදහස් දැක්වූ පූජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමි […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Refuting claims that the potassium chloride fertilizer imported from Lithuania was chemical-based, Agricultural Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage reiterated today that it was not chemical but a type of an organic fertilizer. He told Parliament that this potassium chloride was a mineral obtained from the earth and that it becomes chemical only after […]
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Charaka Eranda Gamage මුහුණ පොතෙන් Nano Nitrogen පොහොර දිවයිනට ලැබීමත් සමගම එය යෙදිය යුතු ආකාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිවැරදි පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් අමාත්යාංශය සහ කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් සිදු කල යුතුව ඇත. අන්තර්ජාලයේ සිදු කල සොයා බැලීම් වලින් පවා වෙනත් කිසිදු Nitrogen ප්රභවයකින් තොරව Nano nitrogen පමණක් භාවිතයෙන් සිදු කල වාණිජ වගාවන් පිළිබද වන පර්යේෂණ දත්ත සොයා ගැනීමට නොහැකි […]
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