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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
By Sena Thoradeniya This is a sequel to my previous article titled Booker Prize, Chattel Slavery, Sugar, its Politics and Sri Lanka” posted on October 30 th 2022. In the last part of my article, First Moon of Maali Almeida” I had quoted certain passages from the Booker Award winning novel Seven Moons of Maali […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ රටේ අවාසනාවකට, මෙම මහාචාර්යවරයා ශ්රේණි 6, 7 සහ 10 ඉතිහාසය පෙළ පොත සංස්කරණ කණ්ඩායමේ ප්රධාන සාමාජිකයෙකි. ඔහු සම්බන්ධ පාසැල් පෙළපොත් වල පහත සඳහන් වැරදි ඇත: ඔහු සම්බන්ධ නැති ශ්රේණි 8 සහ 9 පෙළ පොත්වල කිසිදු වරදක් නැත. (කලින් (1වෙනි සහ 2 වෙනි) ලිපිවල මෙන් ඇල අකුරු වලින් (italics) දක්වා ඇති සටහන් මෙම ලියුම්කරුගේ […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Due to the current situation in the country, most hotels are trying to bring in local guests with attractive family weekend packages that include the use of the pool without additional cost. Recently, I attended a wedding at one of these hotels, and their pool was full of young and small […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
By Ishara Gamage Courtesy Ceylon Today The newly appointed Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), Dr. Sarath Obeysekera has called for immediate liberalisation of the shipping and logistics sectors in Sri Lanka. In a letter to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, he stated that there is a general consensus among the majority of stakeholders in […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Dilrook Kannangara This year’s Olcott Speech at Ananda College by Thilan Wijesinghe was a refreshing presentation of what went wrong with the Sri Lankan economy. It was an apt topic given the fact that the school had produced many winners who decorated the nation with prestige and who saved the nation when under threat. The […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Hiru News “සලකුණ” ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී, විමල් වීරවංශ සමඟින්,
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
BY DIMITRI LASCARIS Courtesy The Real News Reports of Ukrainian triumph and imminent Russian defeat have flooded the West since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February. Yet how much merit is there to this narrative? Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector William Scott Ritter Jr. speaks with Dimitri Lascaris in a […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
worldbeyondwar.org The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
තිස්ස ගුණතිලක ධර්මයේ හමුවන භාහිර ලෝකය හා තුන් ලෝකය Q: තතාගත දේශනාව තුලද භාහිර ලෝකයක පැවැත්මක් නැතිබවත් ඵය අසත්යයක් බවත් දැක්වේ. A: සූත්ර පිටකයේ බොහෝ තැන්හි මේ සම්බන්ධව කියැවේ. ඵ්වා විග්රහ වන්නේ ඵක් ඵක් අයගේ දෘෂ්ඨිවලට අනුකූලවයි. ප්රථමනිබ්බාන සූත්ර දේශනාවේ අත්ථි, භික්ඛවෙ, තදායතනං, යත්ථ නෙව පථවී, න ආපො, න තෙජො, න වායො,……., නායං ලොකො, න පරලොකො, […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රීපාද වන්දනා සමයට අවශ්ය යටිතල පහසුකම් පිළිබඳව රජය මැදිහත් වෙනවා… Ø මහනුවර රාජධානිය බිඳවැටීමෙන් පසු අපේ ජනතාව වගාකළ ඉඩම් බොහෝමයක් සුදු අධිරාජ්යවාදින් අල්ලගත්තා… Ø ඒ ඉඩම් නැවත ජනතාවට ලබාදී වගා සංග්රාමයට එක් කරනවා… – අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ශ්රී පාදස්ථානාධිපති පූජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ ධම්මදින්න නායක හිමියන් බැහැදැකීමට පසුගියදා අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැල්මඩුල්ල […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy Venezuelanalysis Caracas stated that it would continue “to defend the truth” and move forward with legal proceedings in cases of possible human rights violations. Caracas, November 7, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government rejected the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s announcement to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses committed […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
By Mohammad Shojaeian Courtesy Teheran Times It was attended by about 60 managing directors and senior editors of news agencies from 35 countries that are members to OANA. OANA was founded in 1961 at the initiative of UNESCO. Its purpose is to secure direct and free exchange of news between news agencies from countries that […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය. අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්,සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව,4 වන මහළ,සෙත්සිරිපාය,බත්තරමුල්ල. අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් තුමනි, ප්රාදේශීය විගණන ඒකකවලට අනුයුක්ත විගණන සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් විගණන ඒකකවලින් ඉවත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යටතේ දිස්ත්රික් 25 ආවරණය වන පරිදි ක්රියාත්මක ප්රාදේශීය විගණන ඒකක වලට අනුයුක්ත කර සිටින විගණන සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් විගණන ඒකකවලින් ඉවත් කිරීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය බරපතල ගැටළු සහගත […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Tourism Industry 18. Promotion of Marine Tourism 18.1. New programs have been introduced in many countries in various ways to attract tourists. However, there are lack of approaches to develop the maritime tourism considering advantages of the location of Sri Lanka. Therefore, three maritime zones in the Eastern, Southern and Western provinces will be […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Ceylon Today Colombo, November 14 (Ceylon Today): China concluded an important International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security in Beijing last weekend, where the focus was on China’s hybrid rice varieties that could revolutionize global food production and ensure food security. Virtually addressing the Forum Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy The Hindustan Times Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber while at a poll rally. Nalini Sriharan – one of six convicted of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and whom the Supreme Court released from a prison in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy The New Humanitarian ‘One thing that worries me is that this could be the precursor to the Rwanda deportation plan.’ BANGKOK Three Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT, are expected to be transported to Rwanda for medical treatment, the British foreign […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy The News Colombo: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka said Monday it would take responsibility for $1.7 billion owed to China by state enterprises as it seeks to sell them off and restructure its foreign debt to secure an IMF bailout.The government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe is in talks with the Washington-based lender as it seeks funding […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් පසුගිය ජූනි 9 වනදා අරගලකරුවන් කොටුව ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයට ඇතුළු වූ අවස්ථාවේ දී හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඝාතනය කිරීමේ සැලසුමක් තිබූ බවට උත්තර ලංකා සභාගයේ සභාපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ පවසනවා. ඔහු මෙම අනාවරණය සිදු කළේ, හිරු ටී.වී ඔස්සේ ඊයේ විකාශ වූ සලකුණ දේශපාල සංවාදාත්මක වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින්. මෙම සැලැස්මට පෙර අමරිකනු තානාපතිනි […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
laksara හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා කළු සල්ලි ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ ගොදුරක් බවට පත් වී තමන් මෙන්ම , රටත්, රටේ ආර්ථිකයත් බිිහිසුණු ව්යසනයකට පත්කළ ආකාරය අධිකරණ ඇමති විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී හෙළිදරව් කළේය. තමන්ගේ මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයට කළු සල්ලි ආයෝජනය කළ ජවාරම් කාරයින් කීප දෙනෙකුගේ පෙළඹවීම මත රටේ බදු ප්රතිපත්තිය වෙනස් කිරීමෙන් සිදුකළ විනාශය අද ජාතියක් වන්දි ගෙවන බව ද ඔහු […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Island US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu visited Sri Lanka last Wednesday, October 19. He is reported to have arrived early morning. Having briefed US Embassy staff, he then presided over a civil society roundtable, after which he paid a visit to President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Affairs Minister […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy The Island About 50% of factories had been closed and the others were operating at sub optimal levels, Dhammika Samarawickrama, head of the Micro Electric International (Pvt) Ltd said during a TV interview on Wednesday night. This is a big problem. A lot of factories have been closed, and the others are working only […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror While commenting on the start of distributing textbooks for Islamic schools that contain extremist teachings, the education minister said several amendments have been made to remove certain words and sentences from textbooks through a committee appointed by the ministry. Education Minister Susil Premajayantha told the media today after a program at […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The government has unpaid bills of about Rs. 200 billion, mainly to the construction and various other institutions, says the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Mahinda Siriwardana. He stated that the government has come up with revenue and tax policies because the government is unable to pay those bills. The Treasury Secretary […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL ), Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says Sri Lanka was able to avoid a crash landing of its economy and turn it into a soft landing but on a lower point. If we have not taken those macroeconomic measures the situation would have been much […]
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