Archive for March, 2022
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Defence today (March 29) clarified the media reports on the maritime security pacts signed with the Indian government for the receipt of Floating Dock Facility, Dornier Reconnaissance Aircraft, and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Colombo (MRCC). In a statement, the ministry noted that the recently signed maritime security pacts […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered price controls on farmgate prices of milk, following a visit to Milco, a state-run dairy firm.” The present Farm gate price is Rs 80-110. Dairy farmers demand that it should be Rs 130. Dairy industry is one which has immense potential but also one of the […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge This news is upsetting for several reasons as there are many Sri Lankans who selflessly defended the nation with their own funding in the halls of Geneva against the lying machine of the LTTE Diaspora inspite of successive governments offering only lukewarm assistance. For 3 decades India & West between each other […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් අපේ ඩොලර් අර්බුධය පැන නැගී ඇත්තේ පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු වල වැරදි වලට වඩා විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ වල කඩා කප්පල් කාරී ක්රියාවලියන් නිසාය. 56 සිටම රට අගාධයට දැම්මේ මේ කඩාකප්පලකාරීන්ය. මහජනතාව පත්කර එවන ආණ්ඩු වලට වැඩ කරන්න නොදුන්නේ විරුද්ද පක්ෂ ය. විරුද්ද පක්ෂවලට ජනතාවගේ ප්රශ්න වලට විසඳුම් නැත. ආණ්ඩු අභියෝගයන් අභිභවා යාමේ ශක්තිය ඵලදායී ලෙස භාවිතා […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS The LTTE was able to obtain the support of the Tamils living in the north through clever propaganda. Kumaran Pathmanathan, (KP) said he had got involved in politics in the 1970s at the early stages of the Tamil youth uprising in the Northern Province. At that time there was much unrest among the […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy Asianews.it The amount would be added to the 2.8 billion the Chinese have granted since the outbreak of the pandemic. New economic agreements also with India. Blackouts continue due to lack of fuel. Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lanka has made a new request to China for 2.5 billion dollars: a loan […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy DW Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst economic crises in recent decades, with skyrocketing inflation, weak government finances and COVID wreaking havoc on the economy. The economic pain has caused growing anxiety and frustration among Sri Lankans Sharine Silva, a hair and makeup artist in Colombo, has been struggling to make ends […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa who has not attended Parliament for the past three months will finally have to attend sittings and face questions from legislators when the IMF debate is taken up for discussion in the first week of April following a nod given by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday. The […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardene today hinted that there will be a national consensus soon where all the parties will get together to resolve the crisis which Sri Lanka has been plunged into and Ranil Wickremesinghe will play a major role in it. Abeywardedne told a press conference that the need of […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana SriLankan Airlines announced the suspension of operations between Sri Lanka and Moscow, Russia with effect from today (March 28), due to operational restrictions that are outside of the airline’s control. The restrictions are in the form of international financial and aircraft insurance limits which have been imposed on Russia due to the ongoing […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has sought an additional credit line of $1 billion from India to import essentials amid its worst economic crisis in decades, two sources said on Monday, as the Indian foreign minister began talks with the government of its neighbour. The island nation is struggling to pay for essential imports of food […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The recent US-SL Partnership Dialogue underlined our commitment to a democratic, prosperous, and sovereign Sri Lanka. I met with President @GotabayaR to discuss SL’s economic challenges and how we can work together to promote inclusive governance and protect #humanrights. pic.twitter.com/Ji1rqrNrLE— Ambassador Julie Chung (@USAmbSL) March 28, 2022 US Ambassador Julie Chung has said that the United States Agency […]
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for Sri Lanka Railways to revise train fares of several categories, according to Transport Minister Dilum Amunugama. He said that the effective date for the fare revision will be announced later. Accordingly, the rail fares are to be increased as follows:
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS By 2002, LTTE had an army (the ground forces), navy (the Sea Tigers), air force (the Air Tigers), and the LTTE intelligence wing (the Tiger Organization Security Intelligence Service, (TOSIS). The LTTE intelligence wing, known as the Tiger Organization Security intelligence Service (TOSIS) was formed in December 1983 and was originally based inChennai. […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge It was the first time India had sent its troops beyond the seas to Sri Lanka in July 1987 to engage the very militants India had trained, armed & funded. The Indian Army Chief Gen. Sundarji declared if the LTTE does not agree and wants to take on the Indian Army, we will […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Prof. Asoka N.I. Ekanayaka · Fundamentally racist · Indifferent to corruption · Inherently selfish · Basically foolish though imagining themselves to be wise, and · Afflicted with a malignant distorted religiosity Prof. Asoka N.I. Ekanayaka This article is not primarily about the woeful record of the present government. Nor is it about the abomination of […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE was a separatist movement poised to take over the north and east. By 1986, the LTTE had 25 military bases and many more sub-bases within the Northern Province, in the populated areas of Jaffna and in the thick jungles of Vavuniya, reported Joanne Richard (2014). By 1987, roads approaching these bases had […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Chanaka Bandarage The Tamil Diaspora (and their western allies) and the TNA exert immense pressure on Western Nations to set up an International Tribunal to investigate the bogus War Crimes allegations that have been made against Sri Lanka. The Western countries pay high deference to Tamils as the Tamil vote is crucial for any party […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් පසුගිය සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුවේදී කබ්රාල් පටන් ගත්තේ පහුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ වැරදි නිසා ආර්ථික දුෂ්කරතා පැන නැගී ඇතිබවය. කපටි සිනාවකින් රනිල් පිළිතුරු දුන්නේ විජේ රජු දක්වා යන බවයි. විජේ හොර ගෙඩියාය. තක්කඩි යාය. තාත්තා බැරිම තැන විජේව පිටුවහල් කළේය. නැවක දමා පාකර ඇරියේය. නැව ලංකාවට ආවේය කුවේණි බැන්දේය. ළමයි දෙන්නෙක් ජාතක කලේය. එලවා දැම්මේය. ලිහුවේය. […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය සංවිධානය කළ බංග්ලාදේශයේ 51වැනි නිදහස් හා ජාතික දින සැමරුම අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (26) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ, ගාලුමුවදොර හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් තාරික් මොහමඩ් අරිෆුල් ඉස්ලාම් මහතාගේ ආරාධනයෙන් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ අග්රාමාත්ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති වික්රමසිංහ රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය ද මෙම […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අපට අමාරු කාලයක් තියෙන්නෙ, ඒ අමාරු කාලය පිළිගන්න ඕන. හැබැයි ජනතාවගේ ප්රශ්න දිහා බලලා සහනයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩපිළිවෙලකට යනවා යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජගත් කුමාර මහතාගේ දේශපාලන දිවියට වසර 20 පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් බත්තරමුල්ලේ පැවති උපහාර පිදීමේ උත්සවයට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (26) පස්වරුවේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය යෝජිත පලාත් පාලන ඡන්ද ක්රමය ලොකු පක්ෂයක් ‘බත් කොස් දෙකම බෙදා ගන්නා අතර, සෙසු කුඩා පක්ෂවලට කැඳත් නැති කරයි. ලංකාවේ ඡන්ද ක්රමයට පදනම් වී ඇති ‘එක් ඡන්දයක් – එකම වටිනාකමක්‘ සංකල්පයට පිටින් ‘ලොකු අයට ලොකු කුට්ටිය‘ බෙදන ක්රමය නියෝජිත ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය විනාශ කරන බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Debt issues seen constraining growth, jeopardize economy Negotiations on possible IMF support to start in April Bloomberg – Sri Lanka faces solvency” issues because of risks stemming from unsustainable debt levels that jeopardize the nation’s economy, according to International Monetary Fund staff. Based on staff analysis, the fiscal consolidation necessary to bring debt down […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia March 27 (AdaDerana) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Sri Lanka needs to implement a credible and coherent strategy covering both the near- and medium-term to restore macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability. In its Staff Report for the 2021 Article IV Consultation with Sri Lanka, the IMF recommended a comprehensive set of […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රුසියාව සහ ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර ගුවන් ගමන් සියල්ල 26 රාත්රියේ සිට නවතා දැමීමට ශ්රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවය තීරණය කොට ඇති බවට තොරතුරු වාර්තා වෙයි. එහි නව ප්රධාන වාණිජ නිලධාරී ලෙස රිචඩ් නට්ල් විසින් විසින් මෙම තීන්දුව ගෙන ඇති බව දැනගන්නට ඇත. පසුගිය කාල සමය පුරාම ලංකාවට වැඩිම සංචාරකයන් පිරිසක් පැමිණියේ […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළින් ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දමන්නේ කෙසේදැයි 43 සේනාංක නායක, හිටපු අමාත්ය, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා ඊයේ හෙළිදරව් කළේය. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළ වත්මන් පොදුජන පෙරමුණු ආණ්ඩුවේ සරළ බහුතරය අහිමි වීම සඳහා තවත් ඇත්තේ මන්ත්රී ආසන 3 ක වෙනසක් පමණක් බවය. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Courtesy The Island Police and forces will back the people Blames a single family appropriating all credit for war victory Pressure building up among the masses over the current country situation imposing unbearable hardship on them is nearing exploding point. In the event of a public uprising it would be impossible to prevent the police […]
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Sunday, March 27th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to hold a debate on the IMF report when Parliament meets in the first week of April, says Chief Government Whip Minister Johnston Fernando. Former Prime Minister and Leader of the United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremesinghe, had called for an immediate debate in Parliament on the IMF report […]
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Dr Sudath Gunasekara, Mahanuwara, Summon the Parliament Immediately to have an emergency debate as to how all these agreements have singed without prior Cabinet approval? I am asking this question, as a citizen of this country on behalf of the whole country, as neither the Leader of the Opposition nor any other MP including even […]
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Chula Rajapakse MNZM/ Spokesperson USLA The year began with the communal strife stirring news that A Tamil Genocide/ Mullivaikal Remembrance day ,along the lines of those in Ontario Canada, was to be observed at meeting to be held on the 18th May’21 in Auckland, , the day before the Ranaviru commemoration in Wellington. Spurred on […]
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