Archive for November, 2021
Sunday, November 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Rev. Father Cyril Gamini Fernando has been informed to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) tomorrow morning, the Police Spokesman said. SSP Nihal Thalduwa said that Father Cyril Gamini has been notified to appear at the CID at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow (22). He had previously appeared before the CID on two occasions […]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Trade Union representatives state that stocks of vegetables grown in Nuwara Eliya did not reach the Manning Market or the Dambulla Economic Centre. All Ceylon Dedicated Economic Centres’ Association Chairperson Aruna Shantha stated that the Nuwara Eliya Economic Centre was also closed considering the farmers’ refusal to supply vegetable stocks in protest […]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala The utter failure of our intellectuals to grasp the turbulent historical and political under currents that destroyed all possibilities of peaceful co-existence has been one of the main contributory factors that prolonged and sustained the 33-year-old war launched officially by the Tamil leadership on May 14th, 1976 at Vadukoddai. It ended […]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2021
Shenali D Waduge What is Maaveerar Naal? Who originated it, when & why are fundamental questions anyone commenting on the subject should know to answer. Maaveerar Naal translated means ‘Great Heroes Day’ but it is not a Tamil civilian, Hindu or traditional event. Commenced first on 27 November 1989 by LTTE, it is a LTTE […]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2021
By HELENA HORTON FOR THE DAILY MAIL The Government has recognised crabs, octopus and lobsters as sentient beings A report for ministers confirmed evidence of sentience in decapod crustaceans It recommended that they should be included in animal protection legislation A ban on boiling lobsters alive came closer yesterday after the Government recognised crabs, octopus and lobsters […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
by Senaka Weeraratna Build your wealth on right living and not through causing injury or destruction to the lives of innocent animals. Remember that kill and eat is not a Buddhist tenet. Snuffing out the life of a defenseless animal is not sporting conduct. It is contrary to all tests of fairness. The animal has […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
MD Pathik Hasan Sri Lanka and Bangladesh should set up a Free Trade Agreement as soon as possible for ensuring their own business interest. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as South Asian Countries share some common economic platforms. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were parties to the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA), South Asian Free Trade Area […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Hafizur Talukdar ‘Bangladeshis shot dead by BSF near Lalmonirhat border: Families still waiting for bodies’ This was the headline of Bangladesh’s leading daily ‘Daily Star’ on September 26, 2021. BSF shoots Bangladeshi youth dead along Satkhira border (July 12, 2021, Dhaka Tribune) A horrible picture was found in Dhaka’s leading daily ‘Dhaka Tribune’s article titled […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Lower Hutt NZ’ Minister Udaya Gammanpila has to be roundly congratulated and thanked for promptly accessing media to explain the truth to the world and demolish the well organised & well funded propagation of misrerepresentations, deliberate lies and myths when ever they arise. This is a desperate requirement in SL where […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය පාකිස්ථානයේ බෞද්ධ උරුමය අලළා නිර්මාණය කළ ගාන්ධාර” වාර්තා චිත්රපටය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පසුගිය දා (16) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී එළිදැක්විණි. පාකිස්ථාන අග්රාමාත්ය ඉම්රාන් ඛාන් මහතාගේ ශ්රී ලංකා සංචාරය අතරතුර අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ පැවති ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සාකච්ඡාවේ ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙස මෙම වාර්තා චිත්රපටය එළිදැක්විණි. ඒ සඳහා බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයේ […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී පවුල් 100ක් සඳහා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (19) දින පස්වරුවේ පානීය නල ජල පහසුකම් ලබාදුන්නේය. නල ජල පහසුකම් ලබාදීම සංකේතවත් කරමින් පවුල් 5ක් සඳහා එම අයිතිය ප්රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සවය අනුරාධපුර මිරිසවැටිය රජ මහ විහාරස්ථානයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පෙරේදා දිනට යෙදුණ සිය ජන්ම දිනයට සමඟාමීව අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී පවුල් සඳහා […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy The Island The 22nd of October 1902, was a busy day for Muhandiram Dionysius Sepala Panditha Dahanayake. The Dayaka Sabha of the Wijayananda Viharaya at Weliwatta, Galle, of which the Muhandiram was the Pesident, was holding a special pooja. Suddenly in the middle of the ceremonies, Muhandriam Dahanayaka got an urgent message from his […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy The Island The beginning of November is known for its Remembrance Events — All Souls, Poppy Days and in our political past the Suriyamal Day too. But as we move to mid-November it marks the highlights of Political Power. Who could forget the election of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka, by 69 […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The COPA disclosed that foreign direct financial aid has been spent on four projects without informing the External Resources Department of the General Treasury. The revelation came as officials of the Ministry of Environment were summoned to the Committee on Public Accounts to examine the Auditor General’s report for the financial years 2017, […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Necessary measures have been taken to import stocks of fertilizer required for tea cultivation, says Plantation Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana. Responding to a question raised in the parliament today (November 20), the minister stated that Sri Lanka is currently receiving the fertilizer shipments previously ordered by the government. We had given a very […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 725 today (November 20) as 229 more people were tested positive for the virus, the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 555,929. As many as 526,353 recoveries and 14,108 […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News With the policy decision taken by the government to expand the use of organic fertilizers by restricting the use of chemical fertilizers, a serious crisis situation has arisen regarding fertilizers in the country. Against such a backdrop, the Hiru CIA today (20) revealed about a new racket in the Kurunegala area that […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News A stock of high explosives smuggled from India has been seized by the Police Special Task Force (STF) following a intelligence information received by the Navy. The STF arrested a person with a stock of illegal high explosives during a search operation conducted in the Shanthipuram beach area in Mannar today (20). […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
By EDWARD THEOPHILUS It has been reported that a draft constitution has felicitously been completed by the constitutional committee, which was appointed by the president. The draft constitution was written by lawyers who were capable of legal drafting and critically looking at legal issues in the document. When drafting a constitution, the legal aspect is […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
By EDWARD THEOPHILUS The basis for ethnic problems in the world appears to be no other reason than minority ethnic communities feel they are discriminated against by ethnic or religious differences by the majority. The government doesn’t purposely discriminate against people providing education, employment, various economic benefits, and many things as they relate to different […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
By EDWARD THEOPHILUS When analyzing Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem, nobody can ignore that the problem is fuelled by outside elements, which might be identified as Western forces including America, Britain, and others, however, Indian and Chinese intelligence services may involve with it because they have an interest using Sri Lanka for political purposes, The Western […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වල ඉදිරි අය-වැය වලදී ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මන්ත්රීවරුන්ට ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කිරීම සම්බන්දයෙන් පක්ෂයෙන් කිසිදු බලපෑමක් සිදු නොකරන බවත්, ප්රාදේශීය සභාවකින් යම් ආකාරයකින් මන්ත්රීවරුන්ට සහයක් නොලැබෙන්නේ නම් ස්වාධීනව තීන්දුව ගන්නා ලෙසත් , ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පක්ෂය විනය ක්රියාමාර්ග නොගන්නා බවත්, අපේ කරමතින් ගිහින් ඒගොල්ලන්ට බඩ පිණුම් ගහන්න දෙන්න බෑනේ.ඒ අයිතිය […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
Dr. Chua Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ Please permit me some reflections on what has led to some of SL’s present challenges and the need of the hour to overcome them. At one stage Sri Lana’s trajectory was conditioned by confidence and self belief . This was epitomised by it’s then President famously telling the foreign […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් නැනෝ යූරියා දියර පොහොර ගෙන ඒම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අති විශාල වංචාවක් සිදුව ඇති බවට තමන් විසින් කරන ලද හෙළිදරව්ව සත්ය බවට දැන් සනාථ වී ඇති බව සමගි ජන බලවේගය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී, හිටපු අමාත්ය පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා පවසයි. අද (නොවැම්බර් 19) දින නැනෝ යූරියා වංචාව හා අදාල ඉන්දීය සමාගම ඒ පිළිබඳ […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඉන්දියාවෙන් මෙරටට ගෙන ලද නැනෝ නයිට්රජන් මිලිලීටර් 500 ක මිල ඉන්දීය රුපියල් 240කට බව ඉන්දීය සමාගමේ නියෝජතයකු කොළඹ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී කියා සිටියේය. ඉන්දියාවේ ඇති විශාල තරගය නිසා 10%ක මිල අඩු කිරීමක් යටතේ විකුණන බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. ලංකාවට එම දියර නයිට්රජන් ලබා දී ඇත්තේ රුපියල් අටසියයකට වැඩි මුදලකට බවට තොරතුරු […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඉන්දියාවේ ඩොලර් තුනට ඇති නැනෝ නයිට්රජන් පොහොර ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඩොලර් 12.5ට ගැනීමේදී යම් අකටයුත්තක් සිදුවී ඇති බව කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්යවරයා පිළිගෙන ඇතැයි සමගි ජන බලවේගය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීනී රෝහිණී කවිරත්න මහත්මිය පැවසීය. ඉන්දියාවෙන් හෝ චීනයෙන් පොහොර ගෙන්වීම සඳහා තමන්ගේ කිසිදු සම්බන්ධයක් නැතැයි ද මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා ප්රකාශ කර ඇති බව ද ඇය […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana As Covid-19 makes a comeback in Europe, one study offers a reminder that simple measures like mask-wearing and hand-washing help to ward off the disease. Donning a face mask more than halves the risk of getting Covid, according to a review of eight studies published in the British Medical Journal. So does hand-washing. […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A Fundamental Rights (FR) petition has been filed with the Supreme Court challenging the appointment of current Cabinet of Ministers. The petition was put forward by the Secretary of Professionals’ National Front, Kapila Renuka Perera who is an engineer by profession. A total of 82 respondents including the Attorney General on behalf of […]
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 745 today (November 19) as 236 more people were tested positive for the virus, the Epidemiology Unit said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 555,204. As many as 525,911 recoveries and 14,086 […]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2021
මහාචාර්ය ඕ.ඒ. ඉලේපෙරුම උපුටා ගැන්ම The Island (ගූගල් පරිවර්තනයක්) රසායනික පොහොර නොමැතිකම පිළිබඳ කනස්සල්ල පුළුල් ලෙස පවතී. කෘෂිකාර්මික ප්රජාවන් සහ ගොවීන් අමාත්යවරයා සහ රජය කෙරෙහි සිය කෝපය පිටකරමින් සිටිති. ගොවීන් තම මහ වී වගාව අත්හැර දමන බවට පවා තර්ජනය කර ඇති අතර, එවැනි ක්රියාවන් අපගේ ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාවයට විනාශකාරී බලපෑමක් ඇති කරනු ඇත. කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහල් […]
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