Archive for September, 2022
Saturday, September 24th, 2022
By Shahid Mehmood Courtesy The Island HE resumption of the IMF package, that was badly needed to avert an external payments crisis, has reignited passions. As most countrymen wrestle with the question of whether or not the Fund is a tool of neocolonialism to keep countries like Pakistan sedated and subservient, what is lost in […]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2022
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Sugar tax scam: National Audit Office estimates Rs 16.7 bn revenue loss State Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilisation and National Policies Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has asked for a report from the Inland revenue Department on the income tax returns of sugar importers who have allegedly benefited from an unprecedented reduction […]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry on the sidelines of the general debate of the UNGA 77 in New York on September 23. Wang Yi said that China and Sri Lanka established the relations of strategic partnership of cooperation, […]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Aeroflot, Russia’s state-owned airline, has decided to resume flights from Moscow to Sri Lanka with effect from October 09, 2022. Starting from October, Aeroflot will resume regular flights to Colombo, Bangkok, and Goa. Flights will be operated on Airbus A330 aircraft,” the airlines said in a statement. From October 09, the airline will resume […]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka will be calling for an immediate tender on Tuesday (Sep. 27) to procure coal for the Lakvijaya power plant in Norochcholai after the coal tender that was awarded on August 25 was cancelled, says General Manager of Lanka Coal Company, Namal Hewage. On Sep. 23, Minister of Power & Energy Kanchana […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS Undergrads appeared on talk shows to protest against the ragging given to them. They describe the rag in detail and say how they felt .They show a deep sense of betrayal. This was not what they expected when they came eagerly to university. We did not come to university to experience this sort […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Colonial subjugation is no secret to many in the Indian subcontinent, and Sri Lanka is no different. Talking about how much they have presumably looted from us is of no use now, after seven decades of independence. There are many numbers circulating on many social media platforms suggesting the wealth taken […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Dilrook Kannangara The Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was introduced in 1979 for very good reasons. Acts of terrorism was on the rise including the bombing of the Air Ceylon passenger plane by Tamil terrorists in 1978, attacks on banks and killing of politicians and police officers in the north. As visible around the world, […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Lanka Lead News ඉඳුරාගාරේ හිමියෝ ජාතික එකඟතාවයකින් යුතුව විසඳුම් ඉදිරිපත් නොකර අර්බුදය උත්සන්න වීමට ඉඩ හැරීම මගින් ශ්රී ලංකාව ආපදා අධිරාජ්යවාදයේ ගොදුරක් බවට පත් කිරීමේ වරද පිළිබඳව පක්ෂනායකයන්ට ලිඛිතව කරුණු දැක්වීමට කටයුතු කර ඇති බව වාර්තාවේ. උන්වහන්සේ සියලුම පක්ෂ නායකයින් වෙත අදාල ලිපිය යවමින් ජාතික මහජන සභාව විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද හැට එක් වැදෑරුම් සමාජ […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ සූදුව වහාම නතහර කර කැබිනට් ඇමතිවරුන් 15 ක් පමණක් පත්කොට අදාල විෂයන් පිලිබඳ පූර්ණ වගකීම ඔවුන්ට පැවරියයුතුයි, එසේකොට සතියෙන් දෙකෙන් අසාර්ථක ඇමතිවරුන් ඉවත් කොට අලුතෙන් අය පත්කලයුතුය.රජයේ වැඩවලට මාධ්යයෙන් පිලිතුරු දියයුත්තේ කැබිනට් අමාත්යවරුන් පමණකි. ඊනියාරාජ්ය ඇමතිවරුන් වහාම ඉවත් කොට ඇමතිකමක් නොමැතිව ජනාතාවට සේවය කිරීමට බැරි අය වහාම ගෙදර යවා මේ […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sept 23 (Reuters) – Crisis-hit Sri Lanka will begin on Friday the tricky task of debt renegotiation with a raft of private and bilateral creditors, including China, India and Japan, to restructure and repay nearly $30 billion that it owes. WHY THE NEED TO RESTRUCTURE DEBT? Years of economic mismanagement and the fallout […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today The youngest Sri Lankan medallist in the history of the Commonwealth Games, Nethmi Hansika (18 years old) brought honour to her motherland, Sri Lanka. Nethmi managed in Birmingham, UK, at the 22nd Commonwealth Games in August 2022 to defeat her opponent, Australian Irene Symeonidis, to win […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප (යොහාන් භාසුර) විහාරස්ථානයක් මාසයකදී විදුලි ඒකක 8,500 ක් පාවිච්චි කිරීම නිසා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ පහමාරක විදුලි බිලක් ලැබී ඇති බවත් මෙවැනි ආකාරයට දැවැන්ත විදුලි පරිභෝජනයක් කරන ආගමික ස්ථාන පිළිබඳව රජය මැදිහත්විය යුතු බවත් මහජන උපයෝගිතා කොමිසමේ සභාපති ජනක රත්නායක මහතා පැවසීය. එම විහාරස්ථානයේ පසුගිය මස විදුලි බිල රුපියල් 80,000 ක් යැයි එම විහාරස්ථානයෙන් පැමිණිල්ලක් […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අගනුවර ආසන්න ප්රධාන පෙළේ විහාරස්ථානයක වායු සමීකරණ යන්ත්ර 10-15 අතර ප්රමාණයක් සවිකර ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි. මේ බව හෙළි වී ඇත්තේ මෑතකදී රජය විසින් ආගමික මධ්යස්ථාන සඳහා විදුලි බිල නැංවීමත් සමග එම පන්සලට සුර්ය බල පද්ධතියක් සවි කිරීම සඳහා ආයතනයක් ගිය අවස්ථාවේදීය. ස්ථාන පරීක්ෂාව සඳහා පැමිණි නිලධාරියා දැනුම් දී ඇත්තේ […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his gratitude to the Venerable Maha Sangha for their contribution to conserving electricity at religious shrines and the precedent it sets for society. The President said this in a special letter today (23) addressed to the Maha Nayaka Theras’ of the Malwathu, Asgiri, Amarapuraand Ramanya Chapters about the […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena today (Sep 23) announced to the parliament the list of MPs who have been nominated for the “National Council”, which was established as per the proposal of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. The National Council consists of members representing parliament from the respective political parties. The Speaker of Parliament […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News The statement made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe while participating in the vote of condolence on the demise of HM Queen Elizabeth II, moved in the Parliament today (23) Amongst all the letters of congratulations I received on becoming the president, the one that was sent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Gazette has been issued today declaring several areas as high security zones High Security Zones include Parliament, Supreme, High court & Magistrate Court- Colombo, AG Dept, Presidential Secretariat, President’s House, Navy, Air Force & Police HQs, Ministry of Defence, SL Army Hq- Akuregoda, PM Office, Temple Trees, Official Residencies of Defence Sec […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
By Sena Thoradeniya 1. DIDN’T GR HEAR THE GALLE FACE PROTESTERS SING”? When the protesters were occupying the Galle Face Green and protesting at some other sites what were our intelligence personnel and Defense Ministry panjandrums doing was anyone’s guess. Did not the deposed President hear the slogans chanted by the protesters, see placards, banners […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake As the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF), team boarded a return flight to Washington DC after a week in Colombo, the Paris Club (PC), stepped in though a revolving door at the strategic Indian Ocean island’s Bandaranaike International Airport in the first week of September. The signing of a ‘Staff Level Agreement’ with […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS It is important to understand exactly what the JVP is looking for among the freshers arriving in university .They are not looking for intelligence or knowledge or beauty. They are looking for young persons with a propensity to strong, unwavering physical violence and cruelty. JVP is a movement that believes in prachandathvaya. The […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර. 22,9,2022 1 තන්ත්රිමලේ පාසැල්වල ලමයින් රෑටත් උදේටත් කාලා නෑ 2 ගම්පහ පැත්තේ ළමයි දවාලට කන්නේ පොල්මඳ 3 ලන්කාවේ මුළු ජනගහනයෙන් 1/3 ආහාර අහේනියෙන් පෙලෙනවා (ලෝක සෞක්ය සන්විධානය) 5 ළමා මඳපෝෂනය ඉහලට 6 පාසැල්වල ලමයි බුදු කුටියේ බුද්ධ පූජාවත් කාලා. 7 රජයේ සේවකයින්ට වැටුප් ගෙවන්ටත් සල්ලි නෑ.අච්චුගහනටත් බෑ (ප්රවාහන ඇමැති බන්ඩුල ගුනවර්ධන) 8 […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Taking one’s own life and or assisting another person to end his or her life has never been endorsed by the Buddha.If that is the clear teaching, how can someone dressed in robes and claiming to be a monk openly threatens the authorities with immolation if the electricity tariff for places of […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
By Raj Moorthy Courtesy The Sunday times Audience. There are many debates these days as to why Sri Lanka must or must not reach out to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance in overcoming the current debilitating economic crisis. Looking at four things about today’s economic situation that is historically unprecedented for Sri Lanka […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Geethanjana Kudaligamage අපගේ රටට සිදුව ඇති නස්පැත්තිය වන්නේ අපගේ දිළිඳු කම නොව, අප ජීවත්වන වත්මන් ලෝකය පිළිබඳව අපට ඇති අනවබෝධයයි. එනම්, අද ලෝකයේ සිදුවන්නේ කුමක්ද, ජාත්යන්තර මුල්ය ආයතන වල කාර්ය භාරය කුමක්ද වැනි කරුණු පිළිබඳව අප සතු අනවබෝධයයි, නොදැනීමයි. මෙම හේතුව නිසා අප එකම වරද සිය දහස්වර කරන්නෙමු. අප විසින් ඇසිය යුතුම ප්රශ්නය කිසිදු දේශපාලකයෙක් […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Manusha Media මැලේසියානු රැකියා 10,000 ක් මෙරට ශ්රමිකයින්ට විවෘත කිරීම සදහා වන ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කිරීම සදහා මැලේසියානු මානව සම්පත් අමාත්ය Datuk Seri M. Saravanan මහතා, මැලේසියානු කම්කරු කටයුතු අධ්යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල් ප්රමුඛ රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික දූත පිරිස ඔක්තෝබර් මසදී ශ්රී ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට නියමිත අතර එහි දී රැකියා දහදහසට අදාළ වන ක්ෂේත්රයන්, ගිවිසුම් කාල සීමා, වැටුප් ඇතුළු සියලු […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Media Release Sri Lanka High Commission in India As part of the regular and ongoing dialogue between them, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the National Security Advisor of India Shri Ajit Kumar Doval, at the latter’s office in New Delhi today (22 September 2022) Their discussion centered on a comprehensive review of the status of the relations between India and Sri Lanka. Priority areas for future cooperation were also discussed. Deputy National Security […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Business Standard Amid the worst-ever economic crisis since the country gained independence in 1948, Sri Lanka’s inflation rate jumped to 70.2 per cent in August, official data revealed on Thursday.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to leave for Japan on September 26 to attend the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot dead on 8 July, aged 67, at a campaign rally for his political party. According to sources during the visit to Japan, […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the Speaker of Parliament that the Cabinet of Ministers & the Opposition would be briefed on the staff-level agreement reached International Monetary Fund (IMF) soon. Conveying the President’s clarification, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena stated, The President has informed me that even the Cabinet has not been briefed about […]
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