Archive for August, 2022
Monday, August 15th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge The coterie of people chanting ‘democracy’ and in particular speaking about age limits and term limits of others ignore that the same has to apply to them. Take some of these NGOs and Media heads – they have been heading their organizations for over 25 years! What kind of ‘democracy’ is this? […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් එක්සත් රාජධානියේ විදුලිය හා ගෑස් බිල 2022 අන්තිම වන විට 83%ක ඉහළයාමක් අපේක්ෂිතය. මාස කීපයකට පෙර එම බිල වැඩිවූයේ 50% කින්ය. මේ අතරතුර කාලයේ දැවැන්තම Energy කොම්පැනිකාරයාගේ අර්ධ වාර්ෂික ලාභය විතරක් පහුගිය වසර හා සසදන විට පස් ගුණයකින් ඉහල ගොස්ය. ඒ ලාභය පාරිභෝගිකයාට හරවන ත්යාගශීලිකමක් පේන්නට නැත, ඒ ආණ්ඩුව ඉන්නේ ඇඹරි ඇඹරිය ඒ […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
Byline Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Senior Fellow, The Millennium Project asangaaa@gmail.com UN reform to make the international organization more future-oriented was assessed by 189 futurists and related international experts from 54 countries. They overwhelmingly endorsed and will support the five foresight elements of Our Common Agenda, as an integrated and interdependent system: the success of each one affects the […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන. බ්රිතාන්යයේ යටත් විජිතවල සේවය කිරීමට ඉංග්රීසි ඉගෙන ගැනීම අනිවාර්ය කරන අධ්යාපනයක් සහ නීති ක්රමයක් ලංකාවේ ඇත. ලෝකයේ ඇති එකම ජාත්යන්තර භාෂාව ඉංග්රීසි පමණක් බව ජනතාවට ඒත්තු ගන්නවා තිබුණද එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය ජාත්යන්තර භාෂා 6ක් පිළිගෙන ඇති බව දරුවන්ගෙන් සඟවයි. ප්රංශය, […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
Dr Sudath Gunasekara I give you the relevant news item below as it was rereported. Posted on August 14th, 2022 Ada derana Sri Lanka lifts ban on six Tamil diaspora organizations. The Government of Sri Lanka has lifted the ban imposed on six international Tamil organizations by the previous Government”. In my opinion this is […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
By Indrajit Samarajiva Courtesy The New York Times As a Sri Lankan, I find watching international news coverage of my country’s economic and political implosion is like showing up at your own funeral, with everybody speculating on how you died. The Western media accuses China of luring us into a debt trap. Tucker Carlson says environmental, social and corporate governance […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
By Zhang Hui Courtesy Global Times Yuan Wang 5 scientific research vessel Photo: VCG The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka will hold a welcoming ceremony for the arrival of the Chinese Yuan Wang 5 scientific research vessel at the port of Hambantota, a source close to the matter told the Global Times on Monday. “The […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror While de-listing six Tamil international organizations including the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and 317 individuals, the government has added 55 new individuals and three more organizations to the banned list as part of this year’s review, informed sources said. According to the gazette notification issued on July 28 this year signed […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 16,624 today after the Director General of Health Services confirmed 03 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 14). Two victims were aged 60 years and above, and the remaining one was aged between 30-59 years, according to the Govt. Information Department. […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ordered the public sector officials to strictly adhere to the circular issued by the Treasury earlier this year to limit government expenditures.
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
Coutesy Hiru News Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) ‘Taimur’ which arrived at the port of Colombo on an official visit on 12th August 2022, set sail from the island after successful conduct of a Passage Exercise with Sri Lanka Navy Ship (SLNS) “;Sindurala” today (15th August). Sri Lanka Navy bade customary farewell to the departing ship […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The alarm bells had been ringing for some time in Sri Lanka. The island nation is strategically located at the center of the Indian Ocean on the busiest trade and Undersea Data Cables routes in the world and hence perpetually in the cross-hairs of big power rivalry. For those who missed the signs […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Dr Sudath Gunasekara රෝමය ගිනි ගනිද්දී නීරෝ වීණා වාදනය කරයි” පැරණි කියමනක්” අරගලය ගැන වචනයක් ගෝඨභය ජනාධිපති වරයා ඔවුන්ගේ දුක් ගැනවිළිවලට සවන්දි සමනය නොකරන්නේ මන්දැයි වැඩිහිටි අපට මහත් ප්රහේළිකාවකි. එබැවින් තව තවත් ප්රමාද නොකොට දැන්වත් ඔවුන් ඔබ හමුවට කැඳවා ඒ නොදරුවන්ගේ ගැටළු ටික විසඳාලුව මැනවි. එසේ කිරිමට ඔබ අපොහොසත් වුවහොත් මුළු රටේම වියරු ජනතාව ඔබ […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
by Lalin Fernando This is a response to the media, the BASL and foreigners who never give up preaching on how ‘peaceful protesters’ were attacked ‘brutally’ by the Security Forces, especially at Galle Face Green on July. 22. With hundreds of thousands of protesters (Sunday Times Aug . 7) including non-nationals living on charity,, who […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga Impact of Corvid 19 on the Dollar crisis Diehard critics of the government ignore the impact of Corvid 19 on the foreign exchange earnings of the country. In 2020 worker remittances were 7.1 billion dollars and Tourism earnings in 2018 was 4.4 billion dollars. If we had this revenue even without an increase, […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Truthseeker This is a very important YouTube clip for circulation, to create awareness of underlying and background realities. This is not the usual You Tube made by people. It is backed up by carefully researched supporting information. Listening to it and analysing the facts presented gives a good understanding of this entire Aragalaya and where it […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
සුදත් ගුණසේකර ජාතික වශයෙන් ඉතා වැදගත් මෙම කරුන ගැන නැවත, නැවත ළිවීමේ අරමුණ වණුයේ මෙහි ඇති ජාතික හා සන්ස්කෘතික වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳ වසර ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ ලියා ඇතත් එහි ඇති ජාතික වැදගත්කම මේ රටේ තත් කාලීන ජනාධිපති වරයා ඇතුළු කිසිම දේශපාලකයෙකුට මෙන්ම අවෂේශ ආගමික ජන නායකයින්යයි කියන රට .ජාතිය, ආගම සහ සින්හල බෞද්ධ සන්ස්කෘතිය ආරක්ෂාකර ගැනීමේ වගකීම […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන වර්තමානයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඇත්තේ ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නයක්ද, දේශපාලන ප්රශ්නයක්ද, ජාත්යන්තර ප්රශ්නයක්ද, ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ ප්රශ්නයක්ද යන්නද ප්රශ්නයකි. ආහාර, විදුලිය, ඉන්ධන මිල ජනතාවට නොදැරිය හැකි මට්ටමෙන් ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත. එහි ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙස සමාජ අරගල නිර්මාණය විය. ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් තෝරාගත් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා නීතිය දෑතට […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Lanka Lead News ජාතික සංවිධාන සහ අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන අතර හමුවක් 2022 අගෝස්තු 10 වන දින අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැත්විණි. පූජ්ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමි, ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර,වෛද්යය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර, නීතීඥ කල්යානන්ද තිරාණගම, මහාචාර්ය ආර්. බී. හේරත්, ඉංජිනේරු කීර්ති වික්රමරත්න, විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය හැරිස් පතිරගේ, නීතීඥ මදුමාලි අල්විස්, ප්රිමාල් ප්රනාන්දු, යසස් ධර්මදාස, සේනාරත්න ද සිල්වා ඇතුළු ජාතික විද්වතුන් […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
BY RICHARD WIKE, LAURA SILVER, SHANNON SCHUMACHER AND AIDAN CONNAUGHTON Courtesy Pew Research Center Americans are especially likely to say politicians are corrupt How we did this As they continue to struggle with a public health crisis and ongoing economic challenges, many people in the United States and Western Europe are also frustrated with politics. A four-nation Pew Research Center […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
lanka C news ඊළාම් රාජ්යයක් සඳහා අරමුදල් රැස් කිරීම ඇතුළු මෙරට ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට හානිකර අන්දමින් කටයුතු කළ ගෝලීය දෙමළ සංසදය, ලෝක දෙමළ සම්බන්ධීකරණ කමිටුව, දෙමළ ඊළාම් ජනතා සම්මේලනය, ඕස්ට්රේලියානු දෙමළ කොංග්රසය, කැනේඩියානු දෙමළ කොංග්රසය, බ්රිතාන්ය දෙමළ සංසදය යන ජාත්යන්තර දෙමළ සංවිධානවලට මෙතෙක් පනවා තිබූ තහනම ඉවත් කිරීමට ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශය පියවර ගෙන ඇත්තේ කවර හේතු නිසාද […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a major revelation in a case pertaining to the seizure of a huge quantity of narcotic drugs along with five AK-47 rifles and 9mm ammunition numbering 1,000 from Sri Lankan fishing boats, the NIA has stated that an accused had been involved in activities of proscribed terrorist organisation LTTE within […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today requests President Ranil Wickremesinghe to investigate whether there was a political conspiracy behind the Easter Sunday terror attack. He expressed these views while participating in the second phase of the distribution of the financial donation given to the victims of the Easter Sunday attack by His […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka has lifted the ban imposed on six international Tamil organisations. This is through an Amendment to the List of Designated Persons under Regulation 4(7) of the United Nations Regulations No. 1 of 2012. According to the Defence Ministry, a total of 577 persons and 18 entities were Listed under United […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2022
global campaign, To: Sima Sami Bahous, UN Women Executive Director,Åsa Regnér, UN Women Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Programme, Civil Society and Intergovernmental Support; Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director for UN Coordination, Partnerships, Resources and Sustainability Subject: UN Women’s MoU with BlackRock Dear Ms Bahous, Ms Regnér, Ms Bhatia, We write to you on behalf […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2022
by Garvin Karunaratne Import Substitution does not ring a bell with the IMF, The talk today is to privatize. However what we need today in order to tackle the economic meltdown is import substitution. My mind travels to an older Paper of mine which offers the solution to provide the production that we need which […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2022
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 12 (Counterpoint): The geopolitical controversy over Sri Lanka’s granting permission to the Chinese survey and tracking vessel Yuan Wag 5 at the Hambantota port from August 11 to 17, has blown over with India and the US finally taking an accommodative stance. The vessel, which was in the vicinity of the Hambantota […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 16,619 today after the Director General of Health Services confirmed 09 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 12). According to the Govt. Information Department, all five victims were aged 60 years and above. Three were males and the remaining two were […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News On 12 August 2022 the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China had informed the Foreign Affairs via Diplomatic Note that the Vessel YUAN WANG 5 was scheduled to arrive in the port of Hambantota on 16 August, 2022 and applied for clearance for replenishment purposes for the new dates 16 to 22 August, 2022. […]
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Saturday, August 13th, 2022
CourtesyHiru News Justice and Prison Reforms Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe says that he will work with any group willing to support the formation of an all-party government. He stated that today (13) while speaking to the media in Kandy. The minister further said that if it is not possible to gather all the political parties representing the […]
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