Archive for November, 2022
Thursday, November 24th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Those who cause violence in the name of human rights cannot be protected ; President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that he will never allow violence and anarchy to prevail under the guise of human rights, adding that if any party engages in such an attempt, the security forces will be used to suppress […]
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Thursday, November 24th, 2022
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday announced in Parliament a moratorium on public protests and vowed to use the military to crush any future anti-government protests aimed at regime change. They can call me a dictator. They must obtain police permission to stage street protests and not cause traffic chaos. There […]
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Thursday, November 24th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A special commemoration lecture to mark the 55th death anniversary of late D.A. Rajapaksa was held this afternoon (24) under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Nawarangahala in Colombo. This ceremony was organised by the Rajapaksa Memorial Educational, Cultural and Social Services Foundation, and was presided over by the Venerable Anunayake […]
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Thursday, November 24th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Bangladesh has stressed on direct shipping connectivity with Sri Lanka and the resumption of negotiations for early conclusion of preferential trade agreement (PTA) between the two countries. Foreign Minister Dr A.K. Abdul Momen met his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry on Wednesday evening, on the eve of the 22nd Ministerial Meeting of Indian […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
Vichara In his budget speech the President asked the rhetorical question Where did we go wrong? How did we go wrong? The answer which is obvious seems to be still evading the President and present policy makers which has not identified the real the problem. In common parlance it is the dearth of dollars arising […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී සේවා සංගමය ලේකම්,රාජ්ය පරිපාලන ස්වදේශ කටයුතු පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්යංශය,නිදහස් චතුරස්රයකොළඹ – 07. ලේකම් තුමනි, සුභසාධක ප්රතිලාභ ගෙවීම් ලැබීම් පිණිස සුදුසු තැනැත්තන් හඳුනා හඳුනාගැනීමේ ක්ෂේත්ර සමීක්ෂණයේ ගැටළු විසඳන තෙක් තාවකාලිකව ඉවත් වීම. ඉහත සමීක්ෂණය සඳහා සමාජ සුබසාධක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාල වෙත අවශ්ය උපදෙස් දැනටමත් ලබා දී තිබේ. ඒ අනුව […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලීය චෙස් ශූරතා සම්මාන හා තිළිණ ප්රදානෝත්සවය අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් 2022.11.22 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි.එංගලන්ත, දකුණු අප්රිකා, ඉන්දියා, පකිස්තාන්, මාලදිවයින්, බංගලාදේශ, ශ්රී ලංකා ජයග්රාහකයින් ඒ අතර විය. පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලීය චෙස් ශූරතාවය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පැවැත්වීමට ලැබීම රටට භාග්යයක් බවත් මෙරට තරුණ පෙළ අතර විනය හික්මීම ඉවසීම මෙන්ම දැනුම […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය Ø මත්ස්ය වස්තුව විදේශ විනිමය උපයන ජාතික වස්තුවක් බවට පත්කර ගනිමු… Ø අලුත් පරපුර සමඟ නිර්මාණශීලීව ධීවර කර්මාන්තය ශක්තිමත් කරමු… Ø ධිවරයින්ට විශ්රාමවැටුපක් හා රක්ෂණයක්… Ø ධීවර පවුල්වල දරුවන්ට දියවර කැකුළු ළමා ගිණුමක්… –අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මෙරට විදේශ විනිමය ඉපැයීමේ අලුත්ම දොරටුව ධීවර කර්මාන්තය යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. බේරුවල […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
Foundation of Goodness An interesting interview with Rachel Dennis of the Uk who volunteeredher services as an ESL Teacher for a month at the Foundation of Goodness in Seenigama,Sri Lanka. Volunteering at FoG by Rachel Dennis – Foundation of Goodness (unconditionalcompassion.org
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
By: Pramod Thomas Courtesy Eastern Eye Sinhalese, mostly Buddhist, make up nearly 75 per cent of Sri Lanka’s 22 million population while Tamils are 15 per cent. Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (23) said he will convene an all-party meeting next month to resolve the long held demand for political autonomy for the […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
BY MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu They are ‘still active and driving protests’, the former Prime Minister tells Parliament Two-time President and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday blamed foreign forces” and the former government for Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, while admitting to some wrong decisions” taken by their ousted administration. Sri Lankan ministers sacked […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
Courtesy Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Sri Lankan dollar bonds advanced to a two-month high as the fiscal reforms announced in this month’s budget spurred hopes of securing an International Monetary Fund bailout. The 7.55% 2030 dollar bond was indicated up about 0.7 cents to 27.9 cents on the dollar on Wednesday, the highest since mid-September. The […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ශ්රී ලංකාව හිඟාකන රටක් බවට පත් කිරීමට තමන් කිසිලෙසක සූදානම් නොමැති බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ පවසනවා. බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ පැවති දිවංගත අමාත්ය ලලිත් ඇතුලත්මුදලි මහතාගේ 86 වැනි ජන්ම දින සැමරුම් උත්සවයට එක්වෙමින් ජනපතිවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවා. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්රකාශ කළේ රටේ මූල්ය ස්ථාවරය ඇති කිරීම සඳහා […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ආණ්ඩු ක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 17 වැනි ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය, 19 වැනි ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සහ 21 වැනි ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන ගෙන ආවේ තමන් බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අද (23) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පවසා සිටියා. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී අදහස් දක්වමින් අරගලය ක්රියාත්මක වූ ආකාරය සහ එහි යටි අරමුණු පිළිබඳව සිය මතය ගෙනහැර දැක් වූ ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙහිදී සදහන් කළේ […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Garvin Karunaratne, Former SLAS, G.A Matara The Small Industries Textile Manufacturing Programme This began with handloom training provided in village areas. Textile Handloom Programmes were commenced all over the island from the early Fifties and the Small Industries Department imported yarn and sold them to the entrepreneurs at cost. The Department of Small Industries employed […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Chanaka Bandarage The country is facing a severe foreign exchange crisis. Our real foreign reserves are extremely low now. It seems the government has again resorted to keeping the Rs/US Dollar rate static (Rs 368 or around = US$1). For the moment, the government has no other option. Sri Lanka being imports driven country, […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
සමායෝජක, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන. “මා රුසියාව මගේ මාතෘභූමිය ලෙස සළකන්නේ නම් එයින් අදහස් කරන්නේ මම රුසියානු ජාතිකයෙකු ලෙස රුසියාවට ආදරය කරන බවත්, මගේ සමස්ත චින්තනයෙන් මෙන්ම ගීත ගායනය, හැසිරීම පවා රුසියානු ජාතිකයෙකු ලෙස කටයුතු කිරීම බවත් ය. මම රුසියානු ජනතාවගේ අධ්යාත්මික ශක්තිය විශ්වාස කරමි. එහි ආත්මය මගේ ආත්මයයි. එහි ඉරණම […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Aloysius Hettiarachchi I write with respect to Dr. Obesekera’s article that appeared a couple of days ago in this forum. He, perhaps presented a novel concept for capturing free solar energy by the fisher folk. This seems to be practical. However storing sufficient energy is the problem as the technology to convert that energy by […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga The current topic of interest is the dress of a female teacher. I am reminded of Sunil Shantha’s lilting song mihikatha nalawala where he salutes the village school teacher the ‘Hela guru liya” with the words- Sudu hela sariya andala hada kota inga wata rali lelawa. He was probably referring to the Kandyan […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Kamal Uddin Mazumder Dhaka Bangladesh In early 2022, the general people of Bangladesh suddenly began to notice a political articulation of an armed political organization named Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF). Members of the organization maintain a Facebook page titled: Kuki-Chin National Front-KNF, through which they are seen making the photographs and military training videos of […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය වැය අඩු කරමු, අය වැඩි කරමු යන මැයෙන් සණස සංවර්ධන සමිති තුළින් ගම්මාන පන්සියයක් සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ජාතික වැඩසටහන අරඹමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා පසුගියදා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා –අපේ රටට අපේ සමාජයට දායාද වුණු උත්තුංග ගුණාංගයක් තමයි පරාර්ථකාමිත්වය. පරාර්ථකාමීත්වය තුළින් හැදුණු වැඩුණු හැම ගමක්ම අත්වැල් බැඳගෙන එකිනෙකාට උදව් වෙමින් […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
RAJAN MENON / TOMDISPATCH Courtesy Truthdig.com What Climate Change Should Have Taught Us Washington’s vaunted rules-based international order” has undergone a stress test following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and here’s the news so far: it hasn’t held up well. In fact, the disparate reactions to Vladimir Putin’s war have only highlighted stark global divisions, which reflect […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The Hindu BusinessLine Minister of Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva and Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera along with three other junior ministers in the government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe were sacked At least two front-line ministers in the Sri Lankan government have been suspended by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) for breach of […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy PIME Asia News Some 300 Sri Lankans are rescued off Vietnam after trying to sail on a fishing boat from Myanmar to Canada. A syndicate tries to smuggle Sri Lankan women into Oman and the United Arab Emirates; meanwhile, police smash a group demanding 1.5 million rupees for a job in […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Financial Express President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister, had presented the budget on November 14 featuring tax reforms to raise government revenue Sri Lanka‘s Parliament on Tuesday approved the 2023 budget, with 121 lawmakers voting for and 84 opposing it in the 225-member House. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that everyone should support the budget in accordance with the amendments. He mentioned this while making a special statement in Parliament today (22).<br /><br />Meanwhile, he said that he never left the people and ran away. “The President as the Minister of Finance indicated in the […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror An international force is behind Sri Lanka’s economy and this force is still active, Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament today. Speaking during the second reading debate in the House, the local agents of these forces are still active. It was them who sponsored protests that are taking place in […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The government of Myanmar donated a consignment of urgently required essential medicines and medical supplies worth over USD 1.48 Million to Sri Lanka, on Monday (Nov. 21). The consignment was officially handed over to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Myanmar, Janaka Bandara, by the Union Health Minister of Myanmar Dr. Thet Khaing Win, […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Acting Minister of Mass Media, Shantha Bandara says that steps will be taken to initiate disciplinary action against teachers who had attended schools dressed in casual attire. Responding to a question during the Cabinet press briefing today (Nov. 22), he emphasized that the Ministry of Education must take disciplinary action in this regard […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has green-lighted the Bill prepared by the legal draftsman to set expenditure limits on election candidates for their campaigns. In a statement, the Government Information Department stated that the relevant Bill has received the Attorney General’s clearance. The proposal tabled by the Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional […]
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