Archive for March, 2022
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනයට ඉන්දියානු රජය කරනු ලබන සහයෝගයන් පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉන්දියානු අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි මහතා වෙත සිය ස්තූතිය පළ කර ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම පසුගියදා ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබාදුන් ණය ආධාර පිළිබඳව ස්තුතිය පළ කළ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, ඉදිරියේදීත් ඉන්දියානු රජය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කටයුතු පිළිබඳව සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සංවර්ධනය පිළිබඳව […]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 22 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lanka Rupee has further depreciated against the US Dollar as per the official exchange rates for foreign currency issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) today. For similar articles, join our Whatsapp group for the latest updates. – click here The exchange rates are as follows: READ: 4 things […]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Outlook Sri Lanka is facing an acute economic and energy crisis triggered due to a shortage of foreign exchange. A sudden rise in prices of key commodities and fuel shortage forced tens of thousands of people to queue for hours outside petrol pumps. Two elderly men reportedly fainted on Sunday in Sri Lanka while […]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Wire As the foreign exchange crisis goes from bad to worse in India’s southern neighbour, an exodus of refugees into India seems more and more likely in the coming weeks. New Delhi: Six members from two ethnic Tamil families in Sri Lanka, including a four-month-old child, were found to have snuck into India in the […]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Press Release: UN Treaty Bodies GENEVA (23 March 2022) – Sri Lanka violated the rights of a lesbian and leading LGBTI activist who was subjected to discrimination, threats and abuses due to the country’s Penal Code that criminalises same-sex sexual activity, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has found. In its decision published today, CEDAW […]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Star Inflation in Bangladesh is at a better level than that in nearby countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka alongside Southeast Asian countries, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday. “You can compare with nearby countries, as well as more Southeast Asian countries, and see what our inflation is and what […]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Seema Guha Courtesy Outlook The Russia-Ukraine war which has led to a steep hike in oil prices has further amplified Sri Lanka’s economic problems. The crisis resulting from Sri Lanka running out of foreign reserves has led to shortages of almost everything. Is this the end of the road for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
By ‘The Socialist Vanguard Party for the Restoration of a Sovereign Unitary State of Sri Lanka’ Having inked the SOFA document permitting the American military to intervene in Sri Lanka with impunity, is an invasion by India, a US military ally (QUAD) in the region, imminent? Could this be one reason why India did not […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Senaka Weeraratna Shashi Tharoor, the celebrated Indian writer, and author, recently expressed his views on the impact that the Decision Review System (DRS) has had on the modern game, and he stated unequivocally that it has been one of cricket’s best innovations. Tharoor further said that international cricket should never be without DRS in the […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz On February 13th, 1835, in the small Indian village of Qadian, Punjab, India, a man named Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadwas born. He belonged to a well-known and noble family. All religions contain prophecies that foretell the advent of a special individual, who will come as a reformer in the latter days. In […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් ඉන්දියාවේ ජනගහනය 1.5 බිලියන් ය. ලඟදි අපට බිලියන් 1 ක් දුන්නේය. ඩොලර් ය. අපේ හිතවතාය friend in need ය. friend indeed ය. ඉන්දියාව ලොකු රටකි අපි සිතිය යුත්තේ ඉන්දියාව අපේ කියාය. මනෝ පුබ්බන් ගමාය අපේ අසල්වාසියා අපේය. අසල්වැසියාගේ ඉඩම් ධනය අපේය. අපේ යටත් විජිතයක් කියා හිතීම හොඳ නැත. ලෝක ගෝලය දකුණු-උතුරු කලාම ඉන්දියාව […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
-ප්රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය- ජාත්යන්තර කාන්තා දිනයට සමගාමීව ප්රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය සහ ‘හා(ර්)ට් සංවිධානය එක්ව සංවිධානය කරන ලද කාන්තා දින සැමරුම් වැඩසටහනක් සහ පාගමනක් පසුගිය දා (20 දා) හැටන් අප්කට් ප්රදේශයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පාගමන අප්කට්, බාග්රෝ ඇසෙම්බ්ලි ඔෆ් ගෝඩ් දේවස්ථානය අසලින් ආරම්භ වූ අතර එය හැටන් මස්කෙලිය මාර්ගය ඔස්සේ දිනේෂ් උත්සව ශාලාව වෙත පැමිණියේය. පාගමන සඳහා හාරසියයක පමණ […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කෙන්ද්රය ලංකාවේ වැඩිම ආර්ථික විශේඥයින් හා මුල්ය විශේෂඥයින්ට බාහිරව ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව හා මුදල් අමාත්යාංශයට පිටින් උපදේශකයින් හා නීති උපදේශකයින් පත් කිරීමට ‘ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ යෝජනාව‘, කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිලධාරීන්ගේ නිර්දේශ පසෙකලා අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි, වෛද්ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනියගෙන් ‘කාබනික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තයට උපදෙස් ලබා ගැනීම‘ වැනි විනාශකාරී […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Prime Minister’s Media Unit The four storied multipurpose building of the Mahara Pradeshiya Sabha was declared open by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning (21). This multi-purpose building constructed at a cost of Rs. 108 million consists of the Pradeshiya Sabha Head Office, Library, Ayurvedic Center and other Pradeshiya Sabha administrative units. Mahara Neligama Sri […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Prime Minister’s Media Unit Nirmali Williams, Assistant Chief Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement adorned Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse the first flag at Temple Trees today (21) to mark the 105th anniversary of Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement. A book on the history of the Girl Scout Movement was also presented to the […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
By Ruth Pollard Bloomberg Opinion The Rajapaksa clan may have defeated the Tamil rebellion, but they’ve lost control of Sri Lanka’s economy after two years of worsening crisis. Ruth Pollard is a columnist and editor with Bloomberg Opinion. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia Government team leader at Bloomberg News. She has reported from India and across […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia March 22 – Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is similar to that it faced in the 1970s, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka W.A. Wijewardena has pointed out. Wijewardena said Sri Lanka is facing shortages and queues similar to that what was reported in the 1970s. Subscribe to our Telegram channel […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
by Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island The Maha harvesting of rice is now nearing completion and the strong indications are that this season’s crop decline would be 40% to 50% due to lack of fertilizer. Concurrently, the yields of other crops too are dropping and the tea yields of 2022 could be the worst […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Editorial Courtesy The Daily Mirror Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year and the war is entering its 26th day. Whilst one may sympathize with Russia’s anger at Ukraine and the Western countries led by the US for their attempts to expand NATO to Russia’s doorstep, and despite assurances that this would not take […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Last week President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressed a nation in crisis. Instead of calming the masses, a good part of whose life is now spent in everyday queues, he managed to further enrage them. What could probably be the operating para of his speech was ‘this crisis was not created by me’. Our […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Married too young, many girls get married by 18 despite societies’ advancements and that will cost the developing world trillions of dollars Mama, why am I going with this strange man?For your safety, my dear But Mama, he scares me, he’s hurt me, everywhere, I don’t feel safe Oh honey, it’s […]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Samagi Jana Balavegaya MP Harin Fernando said today that proposed Indian funded Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) is to be set up inside the Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters will threaten Sri Lanka’s security. He said at a media briefing that a sub-unit will be set up in Hambantota and seven other […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
Economic News ASK YOURSELVES HOW DID WE GET THERE? *Forwarded as received*………. Coomaraswamy is highly qualified & educated gentlemen but what happened to our economy during his time as The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and with his IMF compatriots. Very interesting to check the numbers i have quoted below better you […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS Since LTTE was not a lawful army, the weapons had to be smuggled in by sea. LTTE smuggled in weapons, including heavy items, and other equipment such as power generators, by carrying out mid sea transfers, 200 nautical miles off Sri Lanka. They used special semi submersible submarines, capable of carrying 10 tons […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS In the Eelam war, Sri Lanka faced a brutal, well funded terrorist organizations with a vast range of sophisticated weapons . These powerful weapons gave the LTTE the appearance of great military strength. A sophisticated, extremely secretive, weapons procurement system had been set up abroad and the LTTE had a continuous supply of […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්යාපාරයට වසර 105ක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් ආරම්භ කළ කොඩි දිනයේ පළමු කොඩිය ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්යාපාරයේ සහකාර ප්රධාන කොමසාරිස් නිර්මලී විලියම් මහත්මිය අද (21) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට පැළඳවූවාය. බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්යාපාරයේ ඉතිහාසය පිළිබඳ ලියැවුණු ග්රන්ථයක් ද ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්යාපාරයේ සන්නිවේදන කොමසාරිස් රුක්ෂානි අසීස් මෙනවිය විසින් […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් ප්රේමෙ උදේම breakfast යන්නෙත් ජිනිවාය. දවල්ට යන්නෙත් Genewa ය. රෑට යන්නෙත් Genewa ය. සිහිනෙන් යන්නෙත් Genewa ය. රංජං ගලවා ගන්නටය. ගලවා ගත් රංජං කෙනෙක් නැත. පහුගියදා ලොකු රැස්වීමක් තබා ජනාධිපති කම ඉල්ලුවේය. පක්ෂයේ ආර්ථික විශේෂ්ගචයෝ ඉල්ලන්නේත් ආණ්ඩුවය. අවුරුදු 2-3 ට කලින් රට කලේ මේ ගොල්ලය. අපට ඕන කරන්නේ ඊයේ කළයුතුව තිබුන දේ නොවේය […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
netionaldastak Amid a barrage of western sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine, India is in the process of setting up an alternative payments system by identifying a potential bank to keep its trade relations with Russia intact. A top interministerial committee examining the issue has said the government should prioritize edible oil and fertilizer imports from Russia, […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය යාපනය මඩ්ඩුවිල්හි ඉදිකළ “යාපනය විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්යස්ථානය” අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද (20) පෙරවරුවේ විවෘත විය. ගොවි ජනතාවට සිය නිෂ්පාදන සඳහා සාධාරණ මිලක් ලබා ගැනීම හා පාරිභෝගික ජනතාවට සහන මිලට එළවළු,පළතුරු මිලදී ගැනීමේ පහසුකම් සැලසීම සඳහා මෙම විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්යස්ථානය ඉදිකර තිබේ. රජය ඒ සඳහා වැය කර ඇති මුදල රුපියල් මිලියන 200කි. […]
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Monday, March 21st, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS In 2007 Janes Intelligence Review issued a report on the LTTE, saying that the LTTE had created one of the most sophisticate insurgencies in the world, largely due to a complex global network of financial resources and weapons. It has a financial and procurement structure well organized and strategically positioned around the globe […]
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