Archive for October, 2022
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says that in present circumstances, there is no alternative other than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to get assistance for reviving the country’s economy. He also said that tax revisions and other reforms combined with debt restructuring are parts of […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that immediate measures are being taken to create an investment-friendly environment in Sri Lanka and create economic stability. The President said this addressing the gathering at the Mireka Tower opening ceremony at Havelock City in Wellawatte today (20), where he was the Chief Guest. The President also said that […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has determined that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill as a whole is inconsistent with the Constitution, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene informed the parliament today (Oct. 20). Delivering the Supreme Court’s determination, the Speaker stated that the relevant bill can be enacted only by a special majority in the parliament and […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ඉන්දුනීසියාවේ බෞද්ධ සංගම්වලින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඖෂධ සහ වෛද්ය උපකරණ තොගයක් පරිත්යාග කර තිබෙනවා. ඉන්දුනීසියානු බෞද්ධ නියෝජිත සංගමය (WALUBI), ඉන්දුනීසියානු ථෙරවාද බෞද්ධ කවුන්සිලය (MAGABUDHI), කාන්තා ථෙරවාද බෞද්ධ සමූහය (WANDANI) සහ ථෙරවාද තරුණ බෞද්ධ සංගමය (PATRIA) යනාදී ඉන්දුනීසියානු බෞද්ධ සංගම් විසින් ජූනි සහ අගෝස්තු යන මාසවල ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාවට ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 19,296.11ක සමස්ත […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS Eventually, there was public outrage, worldwide, over the slaughter caused by the US army in Vietnam. Innocent civilians are dying every day in South Vietnam, observers reported.Pentagon set up a secret task force in 1970, the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, using staff in the army Head office. For the next few years, […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS In the 1950s, USA decided to be the protector of the Free World versus the Communist world. In this self appointed capacity, US invaded and fought wars in countries that have done nothing to USA or against USA. By doing so, US caused much misery to the populations in those countries. USA has […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka is in a NATO debt trap. Over 50% of Sri Lanka’s external debt was raised in the US and European NATO nations. Another 12% is held by another key US military ally in Asia. Altogether they hold over 62% of Sri Lanka’s external debt. Having trapped Sri Lanka into a perpetual […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
By Dr Tilak S. Fernando World Tourism Day falls on September 27. Tourism is a big business that benefits many globally. It does not only help hoteliers, but it aids those who are associated with the tourism industry culturally and religiously, with many natural attractions on offer. Tourism provided the oxygen required for the country […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya At a time when all seems lost and gloom is engulfing the Sri Lankans financially, politically, and sportingly, a person of Sri Lankan descent winning the Booker prize recently is something worth celebrating. However, the euphoria was short-lived when a pirated version of the book started doing the rounds on many […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Yoga Science ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාව යනු බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ පැවිදිවූ ස්වාධීන පැවිද්දයි. මෙය ලෝකයේ සදාකාලිකව ඇති පැවිද්දකි. බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ මෙන් නිදහසේ ශ්රමණ ධර්මය පිරීමට ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාව හොඳම තැනකි.ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාවෙන් පැවිදිවීමට කැමති අයට ඒ සඳහා මාර්ගය පෙන්වන පොතක් නිකුත්වී ඇත. මේ පොත අන්තර්ජාලයෙන් නොමිලේ download කරගත හැක. මෙගා බයිට් එකක PDF විද්යුත් පොතකි. මේ පොතේ නම: “ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාවෙන් […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Senaka Weeraratna The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) the premier international Buddhist organization must establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on the infringement of Human Rights of the Buddhist communities during the Western Colonial Rule of countries of Buddhist Asia. It is anticipated that there will be recommendations demanding an Apology and Reparations. The […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Lanka Lead News මෙරට යුද විරුවන්ට ජාත්යන්තරය විසින් එල්ල කර තිබෙන යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා නිසා වෙනත් රටකදී නඩු පැවරීමට ඇති තර්ජනය පහව යන්නේ රුසියානු, යුක්රේන නේටෝ සටනින් රුසියාව ජයගතහොත් පමණක් බව ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදයේ විධායක කමිටු ලේකම් යසස් ධර්මදාස මහතා පවසයි. පසුගිය කාලයේ සිදුවූ ඊනියා අරගලයේ දී හමුදා නායකත්වය විධායකයේ අණ ක්රියාත්මක නොකර හිටියේ […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy inews.co.uk The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida author talks about struggling to get published in the UK, Salman Rushdie and why his victory is a win for Sri Lanka. On Monday night, after he was presented with the Booker Prize by the Queen Consort Camilla Parker Bowles at London’s Roundhouse, a stunned Shehan Karunatilaka thanked his family, his […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණය සාර්ථක කරගෙන නිවැරදි ආර්ථික කළමනාකරණයක් ඇති කිරීමට රජය සූදානම් බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අවධාරණය කරයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයාමේ බව සඳහන් කළේ, බදු ප්රතිපත්තිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අද (ඔක්. 19) විශේෂ ප්රකාශයක් සිදු කරමිනි. රටේ ආදායම වැඩි නොකර ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට හැකියාවක් නොමැති බව පෙන්වා දුන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා රට ගොඩගැනීමට නම් අකමැත්තෙන් වුව ද අසීරු තීන්දු තීරණවලට […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government is to commence operations at the chemical factory in Paranthan immediately, Plantation Industries and Industries Minister Ramesh Pathirana said. While paying an inspection visit to the factory area, he said the factory initiated its chemical manufacturing process in 1954 with the use of liquid chlorine, hydrochloric acid, zinc chloride, […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror *The case under investigation has so far seen a scam of Rs.3Bn being unravelled *So far 11 complaints had been received against Thilini *Investigators are also probing if there were Parliamentarians on her list Colombo has seen many controversies. Especially among the rich and elite who at times enjoy their evening’s […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow announced that a productive discussion was held with the Russian Government on the possibility of obtaining a long term credit line in order to procure fuel to Sri Lanka. The Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation, Prof. Janitha A. Liyanage attended this discussion on […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The government is ready to implement prudent economic management after successful debt restructuring, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this observation today (Oct. 19), delivering a special statement on the tax policy, restructuring Sri Lanka’s debt and the progress of the discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Speaking on the country’s debt […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has reportedly informed the President during a discussion held today (Oct 19) that It cannot support the proposed 22nd Constitutional Amendment Bill which is scheduled to be debated in parliament tomorrow (Oct 20). However, the president has requested to vote in favor of the 22nd amendment in the […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association has proposed that the Committee on Public Finance and the Committee on Public Enterprises be given the powers to recover the money lost to the government from the officials who misused the public funds and the politicians who decided to misuse the government funds and also to […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Study Circle Legal team points out that ‘Bim Saviya’ is an economic burden to the GoSL The Government, and the Central Bank of Sri lanka (CBSL) must rethink before investing foreign funds on a programme that has failed, and will require over 50 years to complete. The article ‘Bim Saviya’ Title Registration […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz In Historic City Of Zion The Fifth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated first Mosque in the city where a grand sign of the truth of Islam and of the Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be upon him) came to pass over a century […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම Lanka Lead News දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරය විසින් නිකුත් කළ පත්රිකාවක් මගින් විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂලා ව්යවස්ථා මගෝඩියකින් 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය බලාත්මක කරනු ඇති බවට ඔවුන් විසින් එල්ල කරනු ලබන චෝදනාවලට හේතු දක්වා ඇත. තම සංවිධානය එසේ සැක කරන්නේ කුමක් නිසාදැයි ඔවුන් හේතු 14ක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. මහා සංඝනායක හිමිවරුන් ප්රමුඛ මහා සංඝරත්නයට ඊනියා අරගලකරුවන් විසින් […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Second Reading of Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Amendment Bill was passed in the parliament today (Oct. 18) by a majority of 60 votes. During the division, a total of 77 pa The Second Reading of Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Amendment Bill was passed in the parliament today (Oct. 18) by a majority […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
By Raj Gonsalkorale Another global recession is imminent. The US, UK, EU are all expected have lower growth rates and China’s growth has slowed down. India stands alone as a country that my bets weather the storm. There has been no discussion about its possible effect on Sri Lanka and what mitigating steps should be […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය දරුවන් සහ ගැබිණි මාතාවන්ගේ ජීවිත සුරක්ෂිත කරලීම සඳහා කඩිනම් පියවර ගන්නවා. -අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන දේශපාලන න්යායන්ගෙන් තොරව ගමේ බලය රටේ ආර්ථික පරිපාලනය බවට පත්කරගත යුතු බව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. කළුතර දිස්ත්රික් ජාතික ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතා ප්රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීම සහ දිස්ත්රීක් සම්බන්ධීකරණ කමිටු රැස්වීම 2022.10.17 දින කළුතර දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලීය ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
නීතියේ සිංහල නුග මුල “ෆීනික්ස් නීති සඟරාව” නීතීඥවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමේ පෙත්සමක් (COC/0011/22) එස්. පී. ජයතුංග මහතා විසින් අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇත. එස්. පී. ජයතුංග මහතා වෘත්තීයෙන් නීතිඥවරයෙක්ද වෙයි. එම නඩුවට පදනම් වී ඇත්තේ අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇති රිට් ආඥා නඩුවක පෙනී සිටීමේ ලේඛනයේ පෙනී සිටින නීතිඥවරුන්ගේ නම් සටහන් කර එම නඩුව කැදවූ අවස්ථාවේ […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
Sufian Siddique Bangladesh has bagged a historic win in the election for the membership of the UNHRC for the term 2023-25, by securing 160 votes among 189 casted votes in the United Nations General Assembly. This prestigious win is indeed significant as this was the most competitive international election of all candidatures Bangladesh floated since […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
By Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire Courtesy The Atlantic.com China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As states around the world […]
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