Archive for June, 2022
Sunday, June 5th, 2022
ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව චීනය කල්තියාම තරහ කරගත් බවත් දැන් රුසියාව ද තරහ කර ගැනීමේ ඉම තෙක් රැගෙනවිත් තිබෙන බවත් පෙන්වා දුන් ජානිපෙ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා, අද මෙරට ව්යවස්ථාදායකයත් විධායකය මෙන්ම අධිකරණයත් පවතින ආර්ථික ආපදාව මහා මානව ආපදාවක් බවටත් පෙරළීමට සාමූහික වගකීමෙන් කටයුතු කරන බව ද පෙනෙන්නට ඇතැයි චෝදනා කර සිටී. […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට අග්රාමාත්ය ධූරය අහිමිකොට රටේ පාලන තන්ත්රය අවුල් කිරීම පිටුපස ඉන්දියානු රෝ ඔත්තු සේවයේ සහ ඇමරිකානු සීඅයිඒ ඔත්තු සේවයේ අවශ්යතාවයට අනුව බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිටින බව පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් මහතා පවසයි. ඒ අනුව රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාට අග්රාමාත්ය ධූරය ලබාදීම ඉන්දියානු රෝ ඔත්තු සේවයේ සහ […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත යොමු කරන ලද ලිපියක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා,ජනාධිපති මන්දිරය,කොළඹ. අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, ශ්රී ලංකාව බරපතල රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික ගැටලූවකට මුහුණ දෙන අයුරින් රුසියානු එරොෆ්ලොට් ගුවන් සේවයේ ගුවන් යානයක් රඳවා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරුණු දැක්වීම පිණිසය මේ වන විට ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රධාන ජනමාධ්ය සියල්ලම පාහේ වාර්තා […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රුසියානු ගුවන් සේවයේ ගුවන් යානාවක් මෙරට රදවා තබා ගැනීම මත ශ්රී ලංකාවට බරපතළ ආර්ථික අර්බුද රැසක් මතුවනු ඇතැයි දේශපාලන විචාරක දයාන් ජයතිලක මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. පළමු කොටම රුසියාවෙන් පැමිණි සංචාරක ආදායමක් අහිමි වන බවද පැවසූ ඔහු දෙවනුව ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබාදීමට සූදානමින් ලාභදායී බොරතෙල් නැතිවණු ඇතැයි සඳහන් කළේය. එමෙන්ම රුසියාව ශ්රී […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed Russia through the Foreign Ministry that the issue over the Aeroflot passenger aircraft is not between the two countries but is a private legal issue. The Premier further assures that Sri Lanka’s Minister of Justice has been informed to expedite the process of the court […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Doctors at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) for Children have made a startling discovery, with studies showing that 20% of children admitted to the hospital suffer from malnutrition. While the cause of malnutrition can be attributed to the ongoing economic crisis and food shortage, the situation could be averted if the children are […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
ian bremmer Courtesy Times Many middle-income and developing countries are now suffering from a combination of internal political dysfunction and external economic shocks generated mainly by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Sri Lanka provides a powerful example and a warning for countries in other regions that will face similar predicaments. Sri Lanka is not […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankan authorities today raised objections against the Enjoining Order issued by Colombo Commercial High Court preventing a Russian Aeroflot flight from taking off within the territorial jurisdiction of Sri Lanka. Additional Solicitor General Sumathi Dharmawardena PC appearing for the Airport and Aviation Services Ltd (second defendant) urged the Court to suspend the operation […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Aeroflot has suspended commercial flights to Colombo (Sri Lanka). The decision was prompted by “the unfavorable situation as regards guarantees of unobstructed flights of the airline’s aircraft to Sri Lanka,” Aeroflot said in a statement. The airline suspended the sale of tickets to Colombo as well. As reported earlier, an Aeroflot […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Russia’s flagship carrier announced that it is suspending commercial flights to Sri Lanka after the island nation’s authorities detained the airline’s Airbus A330 jet on June 02. Aeroflot is suspending commercial flights to Colombo (Sri Lanka) for the immediate period due to an unreliable situation in terms of the airline’s unobstructed flights to […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The worst is yet to come, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said, appealing to the general public to brace themselves for the looming tough times. Addressing a conference organized in Colombo on Friday, he assured that necessary measures are being taken to introduce a food security programme to deal with the impending food crisis […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
D. W. A. Hettiarachchi Our country’s food production was almost destroyed by a stroke of a pen perhaps due to wrong advice to the authorities. But was there a massive use of chemical fertilizer even in early 70s when Mahaveli was not in the horizon?. I do not think so. I was about 9 years […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka has come to a stage where everyone is questioning everyone and anything. This has merits as it affords an opportunity to rethink & restart where we went wrong, who has to be held accountable, where do we start to change, how do we change & who can start the change. […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Ravi Kumudesh මසකට ඩොලර් 240000 ක් ඉතිරි කර කොලෙස්ටරෝල් පෙත්ත නිපදවිය හැකි සමාගම රට තුල තිබියදී, ඒවා අධෛර්යට පත් කොට, ඉන්දීයාව වැනි රටකින් අතිශය වැඩි මුලදලකට ඖෂධ මිලදී ගැනීමට සිදු වන්නේනම්, ශ්රී ලාංකවේ සෞඛ්ය යාන්ත්රණ හසුරුවන සියලුම ආයතන, ඒවායේ ප්රධාන නියාමකයින් සහ දේශපාළණ හිතවත්කම් වලට ඔවුන්ව පත් කල පාළකයින් සෘජුවම ඊට වගකිව යුතු බව සෞඛ්ය […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) ජනාධිපතිවරයා ජනතාව විසින් ඡන්දයෙන් තෝරා ගත්තද ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්රශ්න කළ හැක්කේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩු වලින් පමණි. මෙය ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට, නීතියේ පාලනයට සහ ජනාධිපති සහ ජනතාව අතර ඇති සම්බන්ධතාවට හිතකර නැත. මේ දුර්වලතාවය හේතුවෙන් වතුර බොර කර බොර දියේ මාලු බෑමට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව සහ අන්තවාදීන් උත්සාහ කරන අතර, පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා පාලනය […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Reproduced by A. Abdul Aziz Critics of Islam repeatedly claim that Hazrat Aisha was not mature when the Holy Prophet of Islam married her. However, nothing can be further from the truth. There is a stark misunderstanding and abject misrepresentation of facts when it comes to the actual age of Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, June 3: The draft 21st Constitutional Amendment bill is due to be presented to the Cabinet on June 6. Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has been entrusted with the task of incorporating the valid suggestions made by party Leaders to ensure that it has smooth sailing in parliament. Although there […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Courtesy The Economic Times Both international and domestic buyers have rejected a series of tea consignments due to the presence of pesticides and chemicals beyond permissible limits, Indian Tea Exporters Association (ITEA) chairman Anshuman Kanoria said on Friday. Filling up the vacuum created by crisis-hit Sri Lanka in the global market, Tea Board is eyeing […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today We have two serious issues before us. One is the economic meltdown. The other is the breach in national security. Yet, the Parliament’s attention is focused entirely on another topic – how to wrestle power from the Executive President. The Precarious Fuel Situation On 28 May, it was reported […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The ‘Aragalaya’ or the protest by peaceful demonstrators in front of the Presidential Secretariat has exceeded fifty days and continues. The protesters claim the 6.9 million who voted for a change and for Gotabaya Rajapaksa failed to deliver what was promised on election platforms. Fuel prices have […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
By Rajiesh Seetharam Courtesy Ceylon Today The IMF programme, raising interest rates, measures to curb parallel foreign exchange market are steps in the right direction, which may bring stability to the economy and help in importing essential goods, however structural reforms are necessary to bring long term economic sustainability to Sri Lanka, stated former […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankan authorities today raised objections against the Enjoining Order issued by Colombo Commercial High Court preventing a Russian Aeroflot flight from taking off within the territorial jurisdiction of Sri Lanka. Additional Solicitor General Sumathi Dharmawardena PC appearing for the Airport and Aviation Services Ltd (second defendant) urged the Court to suspend the operation […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister Basil Rajapaksa and Thirukumar Nadesan, the husband of former Minister Nirupama Rajapaksa who was named in Pandora Papers, have been acquitted in the Malwana property case. The verdict was delivered by the Gampaha High Court today (June 03). The case was filed against Basil Rajapaksa and Thirukumar Nadesan under three charges […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Nine army intelligence officers accused in the case filed over the abduction and disappearance of journalist Pradeep Ekneligoda have been remanded until the 13th of June. The case was called before the Colombo Trial-at-Bar today (June 03). In November 2019, the nine accused had been served indictment over the abduction of Eknaligoda and […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The police have secured a court order against a protest march scheduled to be held tomorrow (June 04). As per the court order, the protesters are barred from entering York Street, Bank Street, or Chatham Street. The court order also says the protesters are not allowed to cause any inconvenience to the general […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka seeks to secure around $5 billion in funding this year to cover repayments for fuel imports and other items bought through credit lines, and another $1 billion to bolster its foreign reserves, the prime minister’s office said on Thursday. The island nation is grappling with its worst financial crisis in over […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2022
සමන්ත කුමාරසිංහ හිටපු මුදල් මණ්ඩල සාමාජික 2022 මැයි 30 පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මහාචාර්ය චරිත හේරත් මහතා ගරු සභාපති පොදු ව්යාපාර පිළිබඳ කාරක සභාව ශ්රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ගරු සභාපතිතුමනි 2022 මැයි මස 25 වන දින පැවති පොදු ව්යාපාර පිළිබඳ කාරක සභාව වෙත මහ බැංකුවේ මුදල් මණ්ඩලයට – අදාළ කටයුතු පිළිබඳව ඉදිරිපත් වූ සාවද්ය තොරතුරු නිවැරදි කිරීම උක්ත […]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
Shenali D Waduge JVP was formed on 14 May 1965 by Rohana Wijeweera. Not many in the JVP had even met him or knew what he looked like. The entity has been used for 2 main objectives – disillusion Sri Lanka’s youth (future of Sri Lanka) and cause chaos in the political arena as local […]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
Shenali Waduge The sole rights to a US company to monopolize Sri Lanka’s energy sector was promoted by the former US envoy Teplitz. The importance of this deal to the US was seen in the extent US was agreeable to settle dues to the US company for any payment failure by SL. What payment? The […]
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