Archive for March, 2022
Sunday, March 13th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is considering bringing forth a motion of no confidence against Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa. SJB National Organiser MP Tissa Attanayake said the party has initiated internal discussions on the matter. He added that the finance minister’s conduct is responsible for the downfall of the country’s economy, adding that […]
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Sunday, March 13th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 311 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 656,041. According to official figures, 618,886 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Chanaka Bandrage Since September last year the government kept the Rs/US Dollar rate static (Rs 203 = US$1). Sri Lanka being imports driven country, this artificial arrangement served the country well – it kept the inflation under watch. It was a very clever achievement by the government (solely due to the efforts of the Central […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් 1962 පොලිස් කුමන්ත්රණයට ආණ්ඩුව වැඩේ දුන්නේය පොලිස්කාරයාට වැරදුනේය ලංකාව පොලිස් රාජ්ජයක් වීම වැලකුනේය පොලිසියට ගියා නම් ආපසු ඒමක් නැත අපිට වැරදුනේ නැත රට අරාජික උනේ නැත. 71 JVP කාරයාට ලංකාව සුං කරන්නට ඕනා විය කිම් ඉල් සුං උනා නම් රට සුනේ සුං ය අපි කන්නේ කොරියන් ය ඒ වැඩෙන් දැන් අපිට වත් ඕවර් […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
බ්රිතාන්ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි කොළඹ ආනන්දය රටට බිහිකළේ ෆොන්සේකා, කරන්නාගොඩ, වීරසේකර, ගෝඨාභය වැනි රණවිරුවන් පමණක් නොවේ. ලොව ඉහළ පෙළේ ඉංජිනේරුවන් හා වෛද්යවරුන්ට අමතරව සාහිත්යය ලොව බැබළ වූ පත්තර කලාවේ පතාක යෝධයෝ දුසිම් ගණන්ද ආනන්දය රටට දායාද කළේය. ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න, සිසිර පරණතන්ත්රී, ජටිල වැල්ලබඩ මෑතකදී පුවත්පත් ක්ෂේත්රයේ ඉහළටම ගිය ආනන්දීයයන්ගෙන් […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR, Asia regional correspondent Courtesy Nikkei Asia IMF warns of worse to come as South Asian nation fights shy of 17th bailout. COLOMBO — Random flashes of public anger have erupted all across Sri Lanka, the South Asian nation in a deepening economic crisis exacerbated by the policy flip-flops of its ultranationalist government. In […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Courtesy Dawn An anti-terrorism court on Saturday indicted 89 individuals accused of lynching 49-year-old Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadanage in Sialkot over blasphemy allegations last year. Kumara was lynched by a mob comprising hundreds of protesters, including the employees of the factory he was the manager of, on December 3. The mob had tortured him […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
by Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island There are two cracks, not one: the crack in the Cabinet with the expulsion of the Weerawansa-Gammanpila duo, and the incipient crack in the ruling SLPP coalition manifested in the launch of a new program under the leadership of ex-president Maithripala Sirisena. The obvious parallel is superficial, i.e., […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign earnings from all exported goods and services have been made mandatory and to be remitted to Sri Lanka within 180 days from the date of shipment or provisioning of services, the Central Bank stated. Issuing an Extraordinary gazette notification, Repatriation of export Proceeds into Sri Lanka” the CBSL Governor stated […]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 347 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 655,730. According to official figures, 618,797 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
by Dr Garvin Karunaratne A depleted treasury- living on loans like a beggar on the streets, endless food queues-, is unfortunately Sri Lanka today. Today it is reported that the dollar has fetched over Rs 260 and unless one can imagine the cost of imports. A New Programme to make everything we import is mandatory […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
ප්ර සමරසිංග හැටනව ලක්ස ආරස්සාවයි!හිතවත් ගොටයියේ,මේ ලියමන කොහොම පටන් ගත්තොත් හොඳද කියා නිනව්වක් නැත. බොලාගේ සැප සනීප කොහොමද, මා නං සැප සනීපෙන්ය, කියා ආදි-කාලෙ ලියුං කරදහි පටන් ගත්තැහෙ පටන් ගන්නටද හැක. ඒත් නැත්නං, වැල්වටාරම් නැතුව කෙලින්ම කාරණාවට බහින්නටද ඇහැක. කොයි හැටි වෙතත්, හැටනව ලක්ස පිහිටෙන් ගොටය්ය සනිපෙන්ය. බොලා වාගේම බඩපිස්සෙක් වන මට නං එහෙම නැත. […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Dr Sudath Gunasekara, Mahanuwara, Shame! Shame! For the Greatness of India! when Sri Lanka in dire distress, asked for a distress loan, for emergency supplies of food, fuel and medicines, instead of helping its neighbor, opportunist India is trying to fish in troubled Sri Lankan waters. I earnestly request all my patriotic readers first, to […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS Selvarasa Pathmanathan a.k.a. Kumaran Pathmanathan a.k.a. “KP” (b. 1955) was an important figure in the Eelam war. Pathmanathan was a top LTTE official. He was the chief procurer of arms for the LTTE. KP functioned as the chief arms procurement agent for the LTTE throughout the Eelam war, starting from 1984. KP was […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS KP was solely responsible for purchase of new ships for the LTTE. Five or six small freighters were added to the fleet, working under several dummy companies with offices in Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. These were officially to carry timber and grain KP together with a UK based activists then […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වෙසෙන තෙළිඟු ජනතාවගේ සංස්කෘතික අනන්යතාව රැකෙන පරිදි ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවනෝපායට පවතින බාධාවන් ඉවත් කරමින් නිවාස, පානීය ජලය ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් අවශ්යතා ඉටුකරන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම්තුමා ඇතුළු ඒ ඒ විෂය භාර අමාත්යාංශ ලේකම්වරුන්ට සහ ආයතන ප්රධානීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. සමස්ත ලංකා තෙළිඟු ශිල්පීන්ගේ සංස්කෘතික සංගමය සමඟ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අද (11) […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga 1.CURRENT STATUS With impressive improvements in health and nutrition the latter half of the 20th century has resulted in a revolution in longevity, which in Sri Lanka today is 76.98 years (2019). With high fertility in the past and rising life expectancies in the future, the number of elderly is rapidly increasing and […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය තරුණ ලාංකේය ව්යවසායක මණ්ඩලයේ 23වන සංවත්සරික සැමරුම අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (10) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ ශ්රැංග්රිලා හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලාංකික ව්යාපාර 500කට වැඩි සංඛ්යාවක් ආවරණය වන තරුණ ලාංකේය ව්යවසාය මණ්ඩලය දේශීයත්වය ප්රමුඛ කොට ගත් ව්යවසායකයන්ගෙන් සැඳුම්ලත් මණ්ඩලයකි. මෙම මණ්ඩලයේ ආරම්භක හමුවීම සඳහා ද අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එක්ව තිබීම විශේෂත්වයකි. […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය ඔරුගොඩවත්ත මෝටර් රථ ඉංජිනේරු අභ්යාස ආයතනයේ (AETI) සහතික ප්රදානෝත්සවය ගරු රාජ්ය අමාත්ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ දින (10) පැවැත්විණ. මෙහි දී, · මෝටර් රථ යාන්ත්රික ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · මෝටර් රථ විදුලි ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · යන්ත්ර ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · ටිංකර්/ පෑස්සුම් ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Citizens of Sri Lanka should be mature enough to put politics & preference for political parties aside when it comes to issues concerning the Nation. In such scenarios, citizens must be able to separate their personal preferences & evaluate if anything or anyone is doing wrong by the nation. We do not […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 11 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka and India on Friday signed an agreement to develop a solar power plant in Sampur as a joint venture. The agreement was signed between NTPC Limited, India’s largest integrated energy company and the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the Indian High Commission tweeted. The High Commission in Sri […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The move to devalue the Sri Lankan rupee was aimed at improving macroeconomic stability as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in years, the country’s Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on Friday. The central bank earlier in the week introduced a flexible exchange rate framework, which saw the rupee […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) says it has approved the request of the Ceylon Electricity Board for emergency power purchase subject to the conditions given by the PUCSL. Considering the existing fuel shortage of the country and electrical energy capacity shortage of the CEB, coupled up with the long term […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal has denied media reports which stated that the meetings between Sri Lankan authorities and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials over the next few weeks are for the purpose of debt restructuring. Taking to his official Twitter account, Cabraal said Meetings of Sri Lankan authorities with @IMFNews […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal says that the economic plans of Sri Lanka had to be changed due to the Ukraine-Russia war crisis. He made this statement to the media regarding the current economic situation.<br /><br />The purchase price of one US dollar was 256.22 rupees today (11) and it is […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 467 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 655,383. According to official figures, 618,697 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Garvin Karunaratne, Professor Susirith Mendis’s A Short Essay” and Sena Thoradeniya’s Where are Soul and Spirit of Peradeniya” (The Island.lk:18/2) took me back to my days at Peradeniya in the Fifties. Truly Professor Ediriweera Sarathchandra walked tall at Peradeniya. I happened to be in his first batch of Sinhala Hons students. His greater contribution was […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් ස්පයිසි ෆූඩ් කටට සැරය උයද්දි හැමතැන විහිදෙන්නේ ප්රණීත රමණීය සුවඳය අනුභව කරද්දි රස නහර පිනා යන්නේය ඇහෙන් කඳුළු වැක්කෙරෙන්නේය නාහෙන් දියර ගලන්නේය සමහරුන්ට ඉහින් මුනින් දහඩිය ගලන්නේය තවත් සමහරුන්ගේ මුහුණු, කන් රතුපාට වෙන්නේය කෝකියන්ට හිනා යන්නේය රස විඳින්නා ඉතා සතුටින් රස ලබන්නේය. Wasabi ඉඟුරු තුනියට කැපූ අමු Salmon Tuna මාළු සමඟ ඉස්තරම්ය, කද්දි […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2022
BY MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ Courtesy The Real News Network Just like in the dark days after 9/11, corporate media have responded to the war in Ukraine with a craven ‘bloodlust’ that is making all of us less safe. From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine the entire corporate media apparatus in the US moved to 24-7 coverage, […]
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Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Courtesy Sputnik CC BY 2.0 / Tony Webster / BIOHAZARD The Russian Defence Ministry earlier announced that the United States had poured money into biological research facilities in Ukraine, alleging they may have been used in order to create biological weapons and conduct bat coronavirus-related experiments. Among the goals of the biological research laboratories in Ukraine suspected of having […]
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