Archive for January, 2022

Operation Flycatcher: disrupting Sri Lanka’s terrorist networks

Tuesday, January 11th, 2022

Interpol Suspected terrorists and foreign fighters among arrests during INTERPOL-coordinated operation COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Boosting the ability of frontline border officers to detect travelers as potential terrorists was the focus of a counter- terrorism (CT) and border management operation led by INTERPOL across Sri Lanka. Codenamed Operation Flycatcher II, the five-day (8 – 12 […]

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Hand grenade found at Borella All Saints’ Church premises

Tuesday, January 11th, 2022

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A hand grenade was found at the Borella All Saints’ Church premises by the STF this evening. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. Steps were being taken to defuse the ordinance, police said.

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Chinese Embassy lifts blacklisting on People’s Bank

Tuesday, January 11th, 2022

Courtesy Adaderana The Economic and Commercial Office of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo has rolled back the move to blacklist the People’s Bank in Sri Lanka over the row concerning the payment for a consignment of organic fertilizer containing harmful bacteria shipped by a China-based company. The People’s Bank was blacklisted on October 29, 2021, […]

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Coronavirus: 623 new cases confirmed within the day and death toll rises with 15 new victims

Tuesday, January 11th, 2022

Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 623 today (January 11), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include four individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in […]

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Vellalar extremism turns into “Tamil nationalism”

Monday, January 10th, 2022

H. L. D. Mahindapala In three simple sentences Prof. S. Arasaratnam, the historian, has summed up the overarching force that governed Jaffna. He stated: The Vellahlas (sic) were thus the key caste in the Tamil social system. They dominated the villages and ran its affairs. The numerous other castes served the Vellahlas.” ( p. 110 […]

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SHOULD PEOPLE GIVE A CHANCE TO JVP FOR GOVERNING THE COUNTRY?

Monday, January 10th, 2022

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS I read in the media a specific cry that focused on giving a chance to JVP for governing the country. It is a highly responsible statement and why responsible statement published in the media? What is the logic behind this cry? People do not know speciously about this cry, but the cry […]

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බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය – 52 වැනි කොටස- ‍සංස්කෘතියෙන් නීතිය

Monday, January 10th, 2022

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන නීති ක්‍රමය ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් සැකැසී ඇත්තේ යටත්විජිත උරුමය ඇසුරිනි. 17 වැනි සහ 18 වැනි සියවස්වල නෙදර්ලන්තයේ (ඕලන්දයේ) ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ රෝමානු නීතිය ඇසුරින් අපගේ පොදු නීතිය සැකැසී තිබේ. එහෙත්, නෙදර්ලන්තය විසින් මෙම නීති ක්‍රමය බැහැර කර මේ වන විට වසර දෙසීයකට වැඩි කාලයක් ගත වී තිබේ. ඉංග්‍රීසි යටත්විජිත උරුමය මත […]

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The missionary position: When perpetrator pretends to be victim

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Utpal Kumar Courtesy First Post Nuns and others pray beside the tomb of Saint Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity at its headquarter in Kolkata. AP The New York Times recently came out with a scathing report on Narendra Modi’s India. In the article, ‘Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians’, […]

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වැටුප් විෂමතා දුරලන වැටුප් වැඩිවීම පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරුන් වෙත ලබා නොදීම.

Monday, January 10th, 2022

වකමුල්ලේ උදිත හිමි ගරු සභාපති,ලංකා පිරිවෙන් ගුරුසේවා සංගමය අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම්, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ලේකම්තුමනි, රාජ්‍ය සේවා,පළාත් පාලන හා පළාත් සභා අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් ජේ.ෙජ්. රත්නසිරි මහතාගේ චක්‍ර ලේඛන අංක 03/2016 (සඩ) යටතේ රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ වැටුප් සංශෝධනය – 2016 යටතේ ලබාදී ඇති වැටුප් වැඩිවීම පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරයාට ලබා නොදෙන තත්ත්වයක් උදාකර ඇත. ඉහත චක්‍ර ලේඛනය ප්‍රකාරව දැනට […]

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පන් කර්මාන්තකරුවන් නගා සිටුවීමට ආධාර උපකාර

Monday, January 10th, 2022

තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර  අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ පන් හා තල් කොළ ආශ්‍රයෙන් නිර්මාණයන් සිදු කරන කුණුරාගම ගම්මානයේ කර්මාන්තකරුවන් නගා සිටුවීම වෙනුවෙන්  රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් ආධාර උපකාර රැසක් ලබා දීම සිදු කෙරිණි. එහිදී අදාළ කර්මාන්තකරුවන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම මත  පන් හා තල් කොළ ආශ්‍රිත නිර්මාණ සිදු කිරීමට අවශ්‍යය වැඩ මඩුවක් සකස් කර ගැනීම […]

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චීනය අපේ කල්‍යාණ මිත්‍රයෙක්. ඉතිහාසයේ කොතැනකවත් අපි අතරේ සිත් පළුඳු වීම් වෙලා නැහැ – අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා

Monday, January 10th, 2022

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය චීනය අපේ කල්‍යාණ මිත්‍රයෙක්. ඉතිහාසයේ කොතැනකවත් අපි අතරේ සිත් පළුඳු වීම් වෙලා නෑ” යැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ චීනය අතර රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික සම්බන්ධතා වලට වසර 65ක් පිරීම සහ සුප්‍රකට රබර් සහල් ගිවිසුමට වසර 70ක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් චීන විදේශ අමාත්‍ය වැන්ග් යී මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් යුතුව කොළඹ වරාය නගරයේ පැවැති උත්සව අවස්ථාවට […]

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China to Work with Sri Lanka to Facilitate Return of Sri Lankan Medical Students Studying in China

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Prime Minister’s Media Unit Following a special request by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on behalf of Sri Lankan medical students awaiting to return to China to complete their studies, State Councillor and Foreign Minister WANG Yi immediately instructed the Ambassador of China in Sri Lanka to work closely with the Foreign Ministry to facilitate the […]

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China to help Sri Lanka build “Made in Sri Lanka” brand

Monday, January 10th, 2022

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 10 (newsin.asia): China proposes to help Sri Lanka become a manufacturing nation and to help build the Made in Sri Lanka” brand. This was revealed to the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa by the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to the island nation on […]

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Who Insults Our War Heroes the Most?

Monday, January 10th, 2022

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today A defence analyst, in his column of 5 January 2022, in a national newspaper, highlighted the ignominy Major General Udaya Perera underwent, recently, at the hands of US foreign policy and Sri Lanka’s insufferable silence over such conduct. Despite the enormous service rendered to the country, as observed by […]

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Prez scraps state ministry held by Susil

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has brought about changes in ministerial subjects in an extraordinary gazette notification. In this exercise , the subjects and the institutions held by sacked State Minister Susil Premajayantha  has been brought under the purview of Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardane. They are the National Education Commission and the National Institute of […]

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Four govt aid agreements including Rs 25.5 billion grant signed during Chinese FM’s visit

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Courtesy Adaderana The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says that four government aid agreements were signed during the visit of the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, to support the Sri Lankan people.   In a twitter message posted today, the embassy said that the agreements signed are for an RMB 800 Million (LKR 25.5 Billion) […]

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COVID: 461 fresh cases detected and 15 more coronavirus deaths reports in Sri Lanka

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry reported that another 461 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (10). This figure includes 05 persons who have arrived from overseas while the remainder are community cases within the country.  This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases in the country to 592,128 while presently a total of […]

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Maithripala says a new alliance ‘most likely’ as old ones have reached ‘expiry’

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the SLFP and former President Maithripala Sirisena said that they are against the postponing of elections and that they want elections to be held without delay.  Responding to questions from reporters today regarding reports that a gazette is to be issued postponing provincial council elections by a year, he said: We […]

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New day has dawned for traditional potters (Video)

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Courtesy – Hiru News It is no secret that a large number of people in this country have been severely inconvenienced due to gas-related explosions. However, there are reports of people benefiting from the crisis. The areas of Kurunegala, Ibbagamuwa and Tittawella have been famous for their traditional pottery industry for a long time. These […]

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Govt has created a hell for people in Sri Lanka” (Video)

Monday, January 10th, 2022

Courtesy Hiru News Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa says that the government has created another era of queues for the people of the country. The Leader of the Opposition expressed these views during his visit to the Northern Province in Jaffna.

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ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 25D2

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

KAMALIKA PIERIS Instead of keeping the UN as a skeleton organization servicing the needs of member states and acting as a meeting place for them, the western powers have piled more and more tasks on the UN system and then funded these activities, creating a great dependency on them to keep the system going. The […]

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Role of Bangladesh’s RAB In Maintaining Peace, Harmony, Law, and Counter-terrorism In Bangladesh

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

Jubeda Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh is a developing country. Its economy is booming day by day. The pattern of crime is changing. Technological advancement has also changed the tendency of crime. One of the major obstacles to Bangladesh’s progress is the volatile law and order situation. In such a situation when every member of […]

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Response to Anura Kumara’s Anti-Sinhala Rhetoric – Part II

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA.  Q   If we study the democratic political history of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna we don’t see a major change in the voter turnout for your party. The only time your party was successful was in 2004 with the Chandrika Bandaranaike government. There you proved that your party could work without corruption. […]

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හෙට පත්කෙරෙන අලුත් ඇමති මංඩලය.

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර, මහනුවර ආණ්ඩුකරම විවස්ථාවේ කුමක් සඳහන් උනත් අද රටේ පවතින ආර්තික අමාරුකම් නිසා ජනාධිපති වරයා වශයෙන් ඔබම වරෙක ජාතියට පොරුන්දුවූ පරිදි අමාත්යවරුන් 15 දෙනකුගේ ඇමති මන්ඩලයක් පත්කිරීමේ පොරුන්දුව ඉටුකිරීමට දැන් හොදම අවස්තාව උදාවී අත.හැබෙයි එම ඇමති මන්ඩලයට සින්හලයාගේ ප්‍රධාන ආහාරය බත බවවත් නොදන්නා අලුත්ගමගේ කෘශිකර්ම ඇමති වශයෙන් පත් නොකෙරීමටද එසේම සීන්හල බෞධ්දයෙකුපමණක්  අධිකරණ […]

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WR on Chinese Debt Warning

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

Dilrook Kannangara Complete bunkum! W R is a pro-Indian. He is distracting people from the Indian takeover of SL’s petroleum sector (IOC), Trinco oil tank farm and the land, Colombo Port East terminal, etc. None of these bring dollars but takes out SL’s dollars. There is no foreign loan on Hambantota port. Colombo south port […]

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ණය හා වැටුප් ගෙවන්නට ජාතික ආදායම මෙන් සියයට එකසිහැටක් වෙන් කරන්නට සිදුවී ඇති බවට පාත්ෆයින්ඩර් නිවේදනයක්

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

පාත්ෆයින්ඩර් රුපියල සහ ඩොලර් හි`ගය ගැන ආණ්ඩුව කතා කරන නමුත් මෙම ගැටළු වල බරපතලකම තේරුම් ගත යුතු අතර මෙරට ජාතික ආදායම අනුව සලකනවිට එයින් සියයට එකසිය හැට ගුණයකප්‍රමාණයක් ණය පොලිය හා රාජ්‍ය සේවක වැටුප් ස`දහා පමණක් ගෙවන්නට සිදුවී අති බව දැනට ප්‍රකාශ වී තිඛෙන විස්මිත දත්ත වලින් පිලිබිඹු කරන බව දේශීය බුද්ධි පර්යේෂණ ආයතයක් වන […]

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Lanka asks China to restructure debt repayment

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 9: The Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Sunday sought from the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, a restructuring of the repayment of Sri Lanka’s debts to China and also a concessional trade-credit scheme to enable the island nation to import goods from China to make industries here operate smoothly. […]

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Indian Origin Tamils and Muslims refused to ink Tamils’ joint letter to Indian PM

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 8 (newsin.asia): A long and determined effort by the political parties of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka to jointly write  to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his good offices to persuade Colombo to address the political grievances of the Tamils and the Muslims, has failed. The […]

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ඉන්දියාවෙන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 500ක ණයක්.. එම මුදලින් ජීප් 750ක්.. කුඩා බස් 500ක්..

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් වත්මන් රජය ගෙන යන දුර්වල ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තීන් හේතුවෙන් යම් හෙයකින් රට බංකොලොත් භාවයට පත් වුවහොත්රටේ ආයෝජනය කොට ඇති විදේශිකයන් ඔවුන්ගේ එම ආයෝජන රැගෙන වෙනත් රටවලට යාමේ අවදානමක් මතුව තිබෙන බවත් එසේ වුවහොත් රටේ ආර්ථිකයට එයත් මරු පහරක් වනු ඇති බව පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයන අංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ආනන්ද මහතා […]

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Lanza asks not to underestimate criticism from within Government

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

By Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning Pointing out that it is the voice of the people that emerges from all quarters, including those who represent the Government and criticise certain government policies, State Minister of Rural Roads and Other Infrastructure Nimal Lanza said that such criticisms should not be underestimated. Speaking to the media yesterday […]

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