Archive for October, 2021
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
by M. P. Dhanapala Former Director, Rice Research and Development Institute, Batalagoda Courtesy The Island History is important. It keeps you away from reinventing the wheel and repeating the mistakes already committed in the past. In history, there should not be hidden expressions to read between lines as the ten giants of King Dutugamunu were […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy The Island Duty too must be paid in hard currency The central bank is looking at a proposal to allow persons who can pay in foreign exchange to import vehicles and pay taxes in hard currency, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said last week. He said that this was a proposal made by certain […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The sudden decision by the government to stop importing chemical and organic fertilizers took place as a result of a conspiracy by parliamentarian Ven. Rathana Thera, Ape Janabala Pakshaya (AJP) National Organizer Dr. Susantha Kodithuwakku said. Addressing the media today, he said the central committee of the Ape Janabala Party had […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had told him that it was not possible to implement every recommendation that has been made by the Presidential Commission which probed the Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said. The Cardinal called for the support of international community to find out the […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has decided to bring forth a motion of no confidence against Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage. SJB National Organiser MP Tissa Attanayake stated that the parliamentary group of the party would meet in the coming week to decide on the matter. Speaking to media in Kandy, he said that […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has sought a USD 500 million credit line from India to pay for its crude oil purchases amid a severe foreign exchange crisis in the island nation, Indian media reported today. The move came few days after energy minister Udaya Gammanpila warned that the current availability of fuel in the island […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), as an organization that continues to raise awareness of the damaging effects of corruption, has once again drawn the attention of the general public to the serious concerns that were brought to light by the Pandora Papers and revealed to the public earlier this month. The Pandora Papers […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another twelve Covid-19 related deaths for October 16, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 13,484. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths confirmed today include 08 males and 04 females. Three of them, including […]
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 125 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new coronavirus cases to 578. Sri Lanka’s coronavirus caseload has climbed to 531,648 with this while over 25,500 infected patients are currently being treated across the island. Total recoveries stands at 492,621 while the […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala The cruelty of Sangkili (and his avatar Prabhakaran) increased with his power…..” Yalpana Vaipava Malai Jaffna has been the dark side of the Sri Lankan moon: its’ history has been consistently hidden from public scrutiny. Reason: It is politically disadvantageous to reveal the horrors of Jaffna Vellala rulers oppressing their own Tamil people […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Shenali D Waduge Every citizen is in unison that since 1948 Sri Lanka’s progress has been stalled and denied because of corrupt politicians and their encouragement of a corrupt system that has attracted corrupt public officials, corrupt businessmen, corrupt cronies & even corrupt citizens. As a result, Sri Lanka has never enjoyed national policies that […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Sri Lanka News President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Presidential Task Force for Green Agriculture, by virtue of the powers vested in him by Article 33 of the Constitution. This was announced in a Gazette Extraordinary published by the Secretary to the President, P.B. Jayasundera on Friday (October 15). The 14-member task force is chaired […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Pathik Hasan, Dhaka Bangladesh Bangladesh got its great independence from Pakistan in 1971 through a bloody hardcore struggle. Pakistan had been exploiting Bangladesh systematically. Pakistan’s economy was built on the money of Bangladesh. However, the country under the charismatic leadership of its great founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman got its ultimatum identity. Bangladesh inherited […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණු හා මධ්ය පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර කඩදාසි අච්චු ගැසීමේ යන්ත්රයක් බවට පත්ව ඇති ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව 2021 ඔක්. 15 (ඊයේ) දිනයේ තවත් රු. බිලියන 19.63 ක් හෙවත් රු. කෝටි 1963 ක් අච්චු ගසා ඇත. ආණ්ඩුවේ ආර්ථික විද්යා ඔස්තාර්වරුන් කුමක් පැවසුව ද, රටේ බඩු මිල රෝකට් ගත වීමට මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීම හේතුවී […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය.සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්යාංශය.ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂන හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය ආමාත්යාංශය. මිනිස්බල හා රැකී රක්ෂා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් මෙහෙය වූ ‘‘රටට ණය නැති වැඩ කරන පරපුරක්‘‘ වෘත්තීය මාර්ගෝපදේශ සතිය නිමිත්තෙන් පවත්වනු ලැබූ තරගාවලියේ ජාතික මට්ටමේ ජයග්රාහකයන් වෙත ත්යාග, කුසලාන හා සහතිකපත් ප්රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් මිනිස්බල හා රැකී රක්ෂා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ දී අද […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය.සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්යාංශය.ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂන හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය ආමාත්යාංශය. ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුදුසුකම් සඳහා වන NVQ – RPL සහතික ප්රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් හම්බන්තොට ශ්රැන්ගිලා හෝටලයේ දී ඊයේ (14) දින තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ අමාත්ය සහ ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ජාත්යන්තර සුදු සැරයටි දින සැමරුමට සමඟාමීව දෘශ්යාබාධිත පුද්ගලයන්ගේ නිර්මාණ ඇතුළත් කඩතුරාව” නිර්මාණ ග්රන්ථය එළිදැක්වීම අද (15) දින පෙරවරුවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. දෘශ්යාබාධිත පුනරුත්ථාපන භාර අරමුදලේ ප්රකාශනයක් ලෙස එළිදකින මෙම ග්රන්ථය ප්රාථමික සෞඛ්ය සේවා වසංගත රෝග හා කොවිඩ් රෝග පාලන කටයුතු රාජ්ය අමාත්ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සුදර්ශනී ප්රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 16: University of Vavuniya Vice-Chancellor Dr. T. Mangaleswaran was one of the speakers at the Trilingual Knowledge series organised by Sri Lankan originated entity Universal Heritage Inspire in introducing the inaugural sessions linked to its Lankan knowledge brand, ThriBhasha. ThriBhasha is a Sri Lankan literacy-focused entity promoting knowledge and arts in […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
By Surya Vishwa/DailyFT-Harmony Page Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, October 16: Fulfilling a long-awaited need in this pandemic backdrop, the Sinhala Weda Uruma Baraya, a collective of Sri Lankan professionals and traditional physicians promoting Deshiya Chikitsa (Sinhala Wedakama) as part of Sri Lankan Ayurveda, has commenced a pioneering residential ‘weda gedera’ for COVID-19. Engineer Harsha Kumar Suriyaarachchi […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government has ruled out talks with banned Tamil diaspora groups but will instead look at engaging with others. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had told UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during his recent visit to the UN that internal issues of Sri Lanka should be resolved through an internal mechanism of the […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කාබනික පොහොර යොදමින් ගොවිතැන් කිරීමෙන් හෙක්ටයාරයකට කිලෝ 2000-2500 පමණ අස්වැන්න පහල බැස ගිය බව ගොවීහු චෝදනා කරති. රසායනික පොහොර යොදා ගොවිතැන් කිරීමේදී හෙක්ටයාරයකට කිලෝ පන්දහසක් පමණ ලබා ගත හැකි වූ බවද රසායනික පොහොර ඉල්ලමිනි විරෝධතාවය යෙදෙන ගොවි ජනතාව කියා සිටියහ. මාදුරැඔය කලාපයේ ගොවිතැන් කටයුතු කරන්න පිරිස් විසින් මෙම විරෝධතාවයන් පවත්වන […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thero, member of Our Power of People Party (OPPP), has been expelled from the party. Election Commission Chairman, Nimal G. Punchihewa said he was informed of the matter in writing by OPPP’s General Secretary. Rathana Thero was appointed by the ‘Ape Jana Bala Pakshaya’, also known as Our Power of […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health says 649 more people were tested positive for the novel coronavirus so far today (October 16). This brings the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in the country to 531,070. Reportedly, more than 25,000 virus-infected patients are undergoing treatment at the moment at […]
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry says 161 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 649. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 531,070. As many as 492,305 recoveries and 13,472 deaths have […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
by Garvin Karunaratne Sky rocketing prices of vegetables and fruit has happened to be the order of the day. Once we did have a method to control inflation by ensuring that traders cannot keep a fat margin. That was the system built up by Sri Lankan administrators RH Basset and BLW Fernando Commissioners of the […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සංවර්ධන ව්යාපෘති සඳහා වෙන් කළ මුදල් ආපසු මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරයට යැවීම වෙනුවට වසර අවසන් වීමට පෙර අදාළ සංවර්ධන ව්යාපෘති අවසන් කරන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්යාංශයේ නිලධාරීන්ට අද (15) දින උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. නාගරික සංවර්ධන, අපද්රවය බැහැරලීම හා ප්රජා පවිත්රතා කටයුතු රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ තෙවැනි කාර්තුව සඳහා ප්රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීම අරලියගහ […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ජාත්යන්තර සුදු සැරයටි දින සැමරුමට සමඟාමීව දෘශ්යාබාධිත පුද්ගලයන්ගේ නිර්මාණ ඇතුළත් කඩතුරාව” නිර්මාණ ග්රන්ථය එළිදැක්වීම අද (15) දින පෙරවරුවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. දෘශ්යාබාධිත පුනරුත්ථාපන භාර අරමුදලේ ප්රකාශනයක් ලෙස එළිදකින මෙම ග්රන්ථය ප්රාථමික සෞඛ්ය සේවා වසංගත රෝග හා කොවිඩ් රෝග පාලන කටයුතු රාජ්ය අමාත්ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සුදර්ශනී ප්රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
Courtesy MailOnline Farmers in Sri Lanka have warned that a ban on chemical fertiliser could worsen food shortages Sri Lanka’s government breached its own ban on chemical fertilisers by importing potassium chloride this week, scientists said Friday, after outraged farmers warned the regulations could worsen food shortages. The government imposed the ban in May as […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The total number of people, who died of COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka, moved up as 20 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (October 14). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in the country to 13,449. The latest victims include […]
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