Archive for December, 2021
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The writ application filed by former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe against the recommendations of the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Political Victimization has been fixed for consideration on January 28, 2022. The petition was taken up before the Appeals Court bench consisting of Judges Nishshanka Bandula Karunaratne, Devika Abeyratne and D.M. Samarakoon today (Dec. […]
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Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine will be administered to people aged above 30 years from tomorrow (December 09) within the city of Colombo. The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) said SMS alerts would be sent to all eligible vaccine recipients.
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Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 236 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 744. The new cases of Covid-19 reported today includes one returnee from overseas. Meanwhile the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country increase to 570,672 while approximately 12,294 […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Courtesy RT China’s medical regulator has approved Brii Biosciences’ antibody combination Covid-19 treatment for adults and adolescents, making it the first therapy of this kind given the green light in the country. The BRII-196/BRII-198 combination is intended to treat mild Covid-19 and common types” of the disease in patients with high risk of developing severe […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Courtesy BBC News Pfizer and BioNTech have said a booster jab of their coronavirus vaccine promises to be an effective defence against the new Omicron variant. Three doses provide a similar level of antibodies against Omicron to that of two doses against other variants, the companies said after a small study. The World Health Organization […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
MD Pathik Hasan It is Bangladesh that paved the way to build a peaceful North East India. As a regional state, Assam is benefitting from that. Bangladesh has played a vital role in curbing terrorism for the region. Bangladesh’s handing over Alpha militants to India has freed Assam from separatism and extremism. Bangladesh wants Peace […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Princeton University Social Anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeysekere has said that Theosophists led by Col. Henry Steel Olcott introduced a protestant” and purified” form of Buddhism in Ceylon when Buddhists in the island were demoralized” by the disestablishment” of their religion by the British rulers. But Obeysekere’s view is challenged by […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඉන්දීය රජය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඩොලර් බිලියන එක හමාරක ණය පහසුකමක් ලබාදීමට එකඟතාව පළකර තිබේ. පිරිපහදු කළ ඉන්ධන, ඖෂධ අත්යවශ්ය ආහාර මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා මෙම ණය පහසුකම් හිමි වන බව මුදල් අමාත්යාංශය සඳහන් කරයි. ඉන් ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 500 ක ණය පහසුකම ලබාදෙන්නේ පිරිපහදු කළ ඉන්ධන මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහාය. ඉතිරි […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Zahid Hussain Courtesy Dawn THE attackers were all young. Many of those who watched the gruesome spectacle were teenagers. No one showed any sense of shock at the bestiality that was taking place. Several were busy filming the ghastly scene rather approvingly. There was not even a feeble voice of protest when the attackers set […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Courtesy Pakistan Observer RAWALPINDI – Taking note of the heinous lynching of a Sri Lankan citizen at Sialkot, the Corps Commanders Conference unequivocally affirmed zero tolerance for such elements so as to eradicate extremism & terrorism from the country. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa chaired the meeting where global, regional and […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, a Pakistan-based journalist and a correspondent for The Diplomat. Courtesy foreignpolicy.com If Imran Khan cares about foreign investment and economic growth, he must abolish the country’s blasphemy law. A member of the Human Rights Council of Pakistan places an earthen oil lamp to pay tribute to late Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A ship loaded with 20,000 tons of fertilizer from Shandong-based producer Seawin Biotech meant for export to Sri Lanka is on its way back after failing to reach any constructive agreement with Sri Lanka, despite relentless efforts to solve the dispute, sources close to the matter told the Chinese Global Times […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 757 today (December 08) as 185 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 569,928. As many as 543,467 recoveries and 14,533 […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
By Rediff News Bureau n December 3, members of Pakistan’s hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan attacked a garment factory in Sialkot in Punjab and brutally lynched a Sri Lankan national — one report said all the bones in his body were broken — before burning his body. His alleged offence: Alleged blasphemy, a misdemeanour which Pakistani […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Courtesy Ceylon Today At a time when millions worldwide are consumed with anger and despair over the barbaric lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot, Federal Minister Pervez Khattak has uttered words which can only be interpreted as a pathetic justification for murder. Speaking to reporters, the defence minister, when asked to comment on […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana An Extraordinary Gazette notification has been issued allowing the imports of organic and inorganic compounds, and phosphorous derivatives of fertilizers. In addition, this communiqué has banned the import of Glyphosate.
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka moved to 748 today (December 07) as 222 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 569,171. As many as 543,111 recoveries and 14,505 […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Three ministers file objections in support of Yugadanavi petitions
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
By Katie Lockhart Courtesy BBC A complex masterpiece of irrigation engineering design, Sigiriya’s artfully designed water gardens required structural planning way ahead of its time. Orange sand particles twinkled in the sun as a lone motorbike kicked up dust in its wake. It was 09:30 on a bright Monday morning and the temperature was already […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
MD Pathik Hasan Bangladesh is a Southeast Asian country geographically but South Asian culturally. Myanmar-Bangladesh is a bordering country. On the other hand, Thailand and Myanmar are neighboring countries. There is close historical-geographical proximity among Myanmar, Thailand, and Bangladesh. Trilateral relations amongst these countries were good. The three states could benefit hugely from Myanmar-Bangladesh Ties. […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
Senaka Weeraratna I was very sad to hear of the passing of Douglas Wickremeratne in London on December 01, 2021. He was in touch with me regularly by forwarding posts until the last and I used to reciprocate. He has a huge claim for the gratitude of Sri Lanka and its patriotic people for the […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති දුකින් මිදීම අරභයා ආර්ය මාර්ගයෙහි පියමනින බෞද්ධයා විසින් කළයුත්තේ සිත සැකැසීම, සිත සංහිඳුවීම, සිත එකඟකිරීම සහ සිත අරමුණෙහි පිහිටුවීම යන කාර්යයන් ය. ලෝකෝත්තර විමුක්තිය වෙනුවෙන් නිර්දේශිත මේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ මිනිසුන්ගේ ලෞකික අවශ්යතා වෙනුවෙන් ද යොදාගත හැක්කේ ය. සිත සතියෙහි නොපිහිටුවා, අරමුණක් නැතිව කරනු ලබන කටයුතුවලින් සමාජය තුළ මහත් වූ ව්යාකූල තත්ත්වයන් නිර්මාණය කරනු […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සුළු හා මධ්ය පරිමාණ ව්යාපාරිකයන් සිය ව්යාපාර කටයුතු අඛණ්ඩව පවත්වාගෙන යාමේ දී දැනට මුහුණ පා ඇති ගැටලු හඳුනාගනිමින් ඔවුන්ට කඩිනම් විසඳුම් ලබා දෙන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අදාළ නිලධාරීන්ට අද (06) දින උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු සංකීර්ණයේ කමිටු කාමර අංක 07හි ව්යාපාරික නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව දැනුම් දුන්නේය. වසංගත […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා පාර්ලිමේන්තු පරිශ්ර පිවිසුමේ විරෝධතාවක නිරත වූ සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් හමුවට ගිය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (06) පෙරවරුවේ ඔවුන් සමඟ සුහඳ කතාබහක නිරත විය. විරෝධතාවයක් සංවිධානය කිරීමේ දී මීට වඩා වැඩි මන්ත්රීවරු පිරිසක් සහභාගී කර ගත යුතු යැයි අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මෙහිදී සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් හමුවේ පැවසීය […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය, වූෂු ක්රීඩාවෙන් ජාත්යන්තර ජයග්රහණ හිමිකරගැනීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව එම ක්රීඩාවේ නිරත ක්රීඩික ක්රීඩිකාවන්ගේ පුහුණු කටයුතු දිරිගන්වමින් ඔවුන්ගේ දක්ෂතා ඔප්නැංවීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකා වූෂු සම්මේලනය හා ගිවිසුම්ගතවෙමින් ඔවුන්ට මූල්යමය ප්රදානයක් ලබාදීම අද (06) දින තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ජාතික ක්රීඩා සභා ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී සිදුවිය. මීට සමගාමීව වූෂු ක්රීඩාවේ නිරත […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ග්රාමීය අඩු ආදායම්ලාභීන්ගේ නිවාස ගැටලුව විසඳීම සඳහා ඔබට ගෙයක්-රටට හෙටක්” නිවාස වැඩසටහන යටතේ 2024 වර්ෂය වනවිට නිවාස 71,110ක් ඉදිකිරීමට නියමිත බව නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්ය, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (06) දින පෙරවරුවේ පැවසීය. අය-වැය 2022 නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්යාංශයේ වැය ශීර්ෂ විවාදය ආරම්භ කරමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකා පශූ වෛද්ය සංගමයේ 73වන වාර්ෂික සම්මේලනය හා මහා සභා රැස්වීම අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (04) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ ශැංග්රිලා හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පශු වෛද්ය ක්ෂේත්රයේ උන්නතිය උදෙසා කටයුතු කළ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ පශු වෛද්යවරුන් දෙපළක් වන එච්.පී.ප්රේමසිරි සහ ආර්.එම්.පී.එච්. දසනායක මහත්වරුන්ට මෙහි දී අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ සුරතින් විශේෂ ඇගයීම් සම්මාන හා සිහිවටන තිලිණ ප්රදානය කෙරිණි. […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
By Rimal Farrukh Courtesy Vice .com Police arrested 126 people, identifying some culprits from the selfies.6.12.21 A PERSON PLACES AN EARTH OIL LAMP IN KARACHI ON DEC 5 TO PAY TRIBUTE TO PRIYANTHA DIYAWADANAGE, THE LATE SRI LANKAN FACTORY MANAGER WHO WAS BEATEN TO DEATH AND SET ABLAZE BY A MOB WHO ACCUSED HIM OF BLASPHEMY IN […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
Courtesy Gulf Today A girl along with others carries a sign, condemning the lynching of the Sri Lankan manager of a garment factory after an attack on the factory in Sialkot, during a protest in Lahore. ReutersThe lynching of Sri Lankan national, Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, a factory manager, by an enraged mob apparently provoked by […]
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Monday, December 6th, 2021
Courtesy Dawn WASHINGTON: The Sialkot tragedy will have a horrible impact on our efforts to promote Pakistan in the US Congress,” says Dr Rao Kamran Ali, who heads the Pakistani American Political Action Committee. Wajid Hassan of the Pakistani American Congress fears that this incident will have a long-lasting effect. Every time we go and talk about […]
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