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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
කතුවැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් විදේශයන්හි සිට ක්රියාත්මක වන දෙමළ සංවිධාන හයකට හා පුද්ගලයන් තුන්සිය දහසය දෙනකුට මෙරට තුළ පනවා තිබූ තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමට ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන ඇති තීරණය සාමාන්ය ජනතාව අතර කෙසේ වෙතත් දේශපාලන ලෝකය තුළ උණුසුම් මාතෘකාවක් බවට පත්ව තිබේ. මෙම තහනම පැනවීමට පියවර ගෙන තිබුණේ එම සංවිධාන හා පුද්ගලයන් කොටි සංවිධානයට ආධාර හා […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
නයන තරංග ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් IMF වැඩසටහන සාර්ථක කරගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ඉදිරිපත්ව ඇති ප්රධානම කොන්දේසි දෙකක්ම ඉටුකිරීමේදී ශ්රී ලංකාව විශාල අවධානමක IMF විසින් පෙන්වාදෙන සියලුම ණයහිමි රටවල් විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාව කෙරෙහි මේ මොහොතේ ‘ලිහිල් දැක්මක්’ පවත්වාගත යුතුය. දැන් චීනය අල්ලා ඇත්තේ එම නිලයෙනි ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ ප්රතිපත්තියේ සැලකියයුතු චංචලභාවයක් පැවැති, ගෙවීගිය මාස 07ක කාලයේදී ඉන්දියාවෙන් […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටින ආර්ථික හා සමාජයීය දුෂ්කරතාවයන් පිළිබඳ ව චීනයට බලවත් හැඟීමක් පවතින බව චීන විදේශ අමාත්යාංශය සඳහන් කරයි. එහි මාධ්ය ප්රකාශක වැන්ග් වෙන් බින් මහතා චීනයේ බීජිං නුවර පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. ශ්රී ලංකාවට මෙම දුෂ්කරතාවලින් මිදීම සඳහා චීනය උපරිම සහාය ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කරන […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Courtesy News 18 China’s high-tech research vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is on a mission of peace and friendship” and its docking at a Sri Lankan port will deepen bilateral relations in the field of space, science and technology, according to the controversial ship’s captain. Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
T. Ramakrishnan Courtesy The Hindu The island is preparing new packages such as the Murugan-Shiva Shakthi trails Sri Lanka’s tourism officials, conscious of the dire need to shore up their country’s economy, plan to woo a greater number of Indian tourists, who constitute the single largest segment of foreign tourists, through new packages such as […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Geeta Mohan Courtesy India Today Reacting to the docking of the Chinese vessel in Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India is monitoring the developments in the island nation. Jaishankar says India is monitoring China’s spy vessel docked in Sri Lanka Chinese ship docked at Hambantota port after Sri Lankan authorities […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Public Security Minister, Rear Admiral (ret.) Sarath Weerasekera, has taken exception to the withdrawal of permission granted to Chinese research vessel Yuang Wang 5 to visit Hambantota port for refueling. Sri Lanka, in 2017, leased Hambantota harbour to China for 99 years. The ex-Navy Chief of Staff has […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs Dr.Harsha de Silva, Eran Wickramaratne and Kabir Hashim today said they no longer intend to criticize the government but will focus on making proposals to push the nation through the current economic crisis. The three MPs made this remark at a press conference last morning. […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana China on Tuesday said the activities of its high-tech research vessel will not affect the security of any country and should not be obstructed” by any third party,” as the ship berthed at Sri Lanka’s strategic southern port of Hambantota amid Indian and US concerns. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking of the reforms he plans to introduce for the revival of the economy, stated that the Sri Lankan government is looking at raising income taxes and widening the tax net by taxing capital and wealth in order to bring in some of the lost revenue. In an interview with The Economist […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 16,635 today after the Director General of Health Services confirmed 05 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 16). According to the Govt. Information Department, four victims were aged 60 years and above. The remaining one was aged between 30-59 years. Among […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe states that the emergency regulations will not be extended further as the situation of the country is getting back to normal and that it will lapse by the end of the week. But that is not enough. We have to have an attitudinal change and if we do that, then […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is faced with several challenges – all taken together the ultimate aim is simply to take control of Sri Lanka. Controlling the resources makes a nation compliant and meets the geopolitical objectives of parties using various modus operandi to realize their goals. This is what citizens of Sri Lanka need […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Sena Thoradeniya The previous version of this piece was written soon after the Mirihana Incident (31, March,2022) but I was unable to get it published due to some reasons which do not have any importance to the reader. Whilst accepting that during the past one month (in April) many developments had taken place beyond anybody’s […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
බන්දුල චන්ද්රසේකර පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු සමයේ හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් සහ එවකට ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයේ හිටපු සහාපති එම්. එම්. සී. ෆඩිනැන්ඩු මහතා විසින් අත්සන් කළ අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට අනුව, මෙරට සුළං බලශක්ති ව්යාපෘති දෙකක් ඉන්දියානු අදානි සමාගමට පැවරීමට කටයුතු සිදුකෙරිණි. මන්නාරමේ මෙගාවොට් 286 ක සහ පුනරීන් හි මෙගාවොට් 234 ක එම සුළං බල […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
I. de Silva Canada Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Party Leadership Candidate – 2022 Dear Mr. Poilievre Reference your “demand” for the arrest of Mr. Gothabaya Rajapakse, the former President of Sri Lanka, please explain what right you have to make any “demands” on politicians of Sri Lanka and the Government of Sri Lanka as well […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Dr Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy The Daily News Central Bank of Sri Lanka After seventy-four years of democratic Governments, within the framework of democracy, Sri Lanka has today declared bankruptcy, or on the verge of it, due to the lack of much-needed dollars to pay back debts to international organisations up to US 55 billion […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
by LankaPropertyWeb The recently released Q2 data of the House Price Index of LankaPropertyWeb revealed that the overall selling prices of apartments increased by 45.17% when compared to Q2 of 2021. According to developers and real estate agents that LankaPropertyWeb has been in contact with, these price increases are largely a cause of the demand […]
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