Archive for November, 2022
Friday, November 18th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය හදිසි නීති රීති පනවා වගා කිරීම සඳහා ආණ්ඩුව ජනතාවට බලපෑම් නෙකරන බවත් අර්බුදයෙන් ගොඩඒම සඳහා සියලු දෙනා සාමූහිකව වගා කිරීමට එකතුවන ලෙස ඉල්ලන බවත් අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. ශ්රී ලංකා හදබිම අධිකාරිය විසින් සංවිධානය කළ ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාවය පෝෂණය හා තිරසාර කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය සඳහා ජනතා සවිබල ගැන්වීමේ වැඩසටහන 2022.11.18 දින කොට්ටාව මාකුඹුර ප්රදේශයේදී […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ලාභ ලබන රාජ්ය ආයතන විකිණීමට යෝජනා කරන,මෙවර අය – වැයට” විරුද්ධව ඡන්දය ප්රකාශ කිරීමට උත්තර ලංකා සභාගය නියෝජනය කරන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් තීරණය කර ඇතැයි එම සභාගයේ සභාපති, හිටපු අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ බොරැල්ලේ පිහිටි ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කොමිනියුස්ට් පක්ෂ ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Times The third round of Pakistan-Sri Lanka Armed Forces Defence Dialogue (AFDD) was held in Expo Centre Karachi from November 16-17 where both sides agreed to continue to support each other at all regional and international fora. The Pakistan delegation was led by Secretary Defence, Lt General (R) Hamood uz Zaman Khan, […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
Courtesy Energy Voice Sri Lanka’s offshore wind resource far exceeds the South Asian nation’s energy demand, and its development could help the country’s economic recovery by displacing costly fuel imports, according to the World Bank. Sri Lanka’s offshore wind resource far exceeds the South Asian nation’s energy demand, and its development could help the country’s […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
By Shirani Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today As forex became tight, leading to disruptions in the supply of essentials and other imports, people began to take to the streets. The queues became longer and so did the crescendo of the anti-government protests. In a bid to control the situation, the Gotabaya Administration did a sudden U-turn in […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is in talks for a debt-for-nature” swap deal of up to USD 1 billion in climate-focused finance, a kind of agreement discussed at the United Nations COP27 summit in Egypt, Reuters reported citing people familiar with the matter. According to the news report, such agreements are part of efforts to address an intractable quandary […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department has dug up more information about a large-scale human trafficking syndicate that ‘auctions’ Sri Lankan women who were taken to Oman on the promise of jobs in the Arabian country. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Sri Lanka had directed to the CID the complaints it had received about the […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Singapore-based renovation and interior design company, Kreate Design Pte. Ltd. today (Nov. 18) signed a USD 1 billion investment agreement with the Colombo Lotus Tower Management Company (Pvt) Ltd. This investment agreement will see the development of water sports and an entertainment zone at the Lotus Tower in Colombo within the next six […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Placing the focus only on policies and not on the results is the reason for the crisis that the country is facing at the moment, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this remark addressing the post-budget 2023 forum organized by the MBA Alumni of the University of Colombo.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Janaka Perera A UNICEF study in 2020 revealed that over 40 percent of reported cases of bullying in schools involved physical attacks and fights among peers. Alarmingly, they also found that risky behaviors and activities such as smoking, consuming alcohol, skipping classes, dropping out of school, and considering or attempting suicide, were significantly associated with […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Wigneswaran says that the Budget did not mention any development in the East and specifically north Only one proposal regarding blue economy-related industry was to consider development over three zones in the Western southern and eastern regions where nautical tourism is to be developed with water skiing etc A northern peninsula with a […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Anup Sinha The transit issue between India and Bangladesh has long been debated. An agreement was made in 2010 to carry products to India’s northeastern states through the Bangladesh route. Since then, several arguments and complaints have centered on the transit problem, which climax in 2016 when Bangladesh agreed to allow India to use its road in […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Manusha Media ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුරක්ෂිතතා හා සෞඛ්ය ආයතනය වරලත් ආයතනයක් බවට පත් කිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇතැයි කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. එය දකුණු ආසියාවේ විශිෂ්ටත ම සේවා මධ්යස්ථානය බවට පත්කිරීමටත් කටයුතු කළ යුතු බවත්, ඒ සදහා ආයතනයට හැකියාවන්, සම්පත් සහ නායකත්වය ඇති බවත් අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවැසීය. ඒ අද (17) […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
By Richard Tanter Asia-Pacific Research, November 17, 2022 The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15 November 2022 Abstract In recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with China. * In an arc of militarization across northern […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
e-Con e-News A ‘Chinese’ & an ‘African’ meet in ‘Europe’ ‘Chinese’: Xi Hong is my name. ‘African’: Delighted, my name is Emmanuel Noël de Souza. ‘Chinese’: So you’re not African but Franco-Brazilian? ‘African’: Yes, I am African ‘Chinese’: And your name is Emmanuel Noël De Souza? ‘African’: Yes, I owe my parents this pretty name. […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
e-Con e-News Cuba shot down a US U-2 spy plane flying over its airspace on 27 October 1962, at the peak of what the US media love to call ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis’ – 60 years ago. The US Navy also attacked a Soviet nuclear submarine B-59, which auspiciously, we are told, did not escalate the provocation […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ ආදීනව සම්බන්ධයෙන් දිගින් දිගටම අදහස් ප්රකාශ කළ මහ බැංකු අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ මහතා මේ වන විට හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතාගේ මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ වාර්තාව ද බිඳ දමා ඇතැයි පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
By Hansi Nanayakkara Courtesy Ceylon Today Colombo Additional Magistrate T. N. L. Mahawatta today (17) ordered Convener of the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige and IUSF member Ven. Galwewa Siridhamma Thera to be remanded until such time instructions are received from AG Sanjay Rajaratnam. The duo were detained by the Terrorist Investigation Division […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Budget 2023 has sought to deprive the farming community of their land rights by placing the Mahaweli lands under the purview of Divisional and District Secretaries, SLPP dissident MP Prof. Channa Jayasumana says. This proposal will take away the farmers’ rights to land. Farmers of Mahaweli lands in 15 […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A working team of the China Development Bank (CDB), an important supporter of Sri Lanka’s development, is currently on a visit to Sri Lanka. They have called on State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe and held discussions with the Finance Ministry with regard to the debt-related issues, according to diplomatic sources.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe stated that customers who have been inconvenienced due to the increase in the interest rates charged for the loans obtained under variable interest rates in the past are able to get relief by negotiating with the bank. The Governor stated […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Civil Appellate High Court of Mount Lavinia today (Nov. 17) ordered National Sports Council chairman Arjuna Ranatunga to pay a compensation of Rs. 25 million to former president of the national cricket board Thilanga Sumathipala. The order was issued with regard to a defamation case filed by the former Sri Lanka Cricket […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A discussion was held today (17) at the Ministry of Finance with World Bank representatives on Sri Lanka’s future development plans and policies, the President Media Division said. The discussion was held under the patronage of Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of Staff to the President Mr Sagala […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A school girl of Sri Lankan origin who passed an IQ test in England with flying colours is now officially smarter than Einstein”. Ariana Dambarawa Hewage, aged 10, took a Mensa IQ test and scored a whopping 162 which is thought to be genius” level. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, widely considered to […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Manusha Media මිනිස් ජාවාරම්වලට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින් සොයා දීප ව්යාප්ත වශයෙන් වැටලීම් සිදු කිරීමටත්, මිනිස් ජාවාරම් සහ මිනිස් වෙළදාමට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින්ට තරාතිරම නොබලා දඩුවම් කිරීමටත්, කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා, පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ, ශ්රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයේ, ආගමන විගමන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ඉහළ නිලධාරීන් සමග අද (16) පැවති […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
සමස්ත ලංකා ප්රවාහන සේවක සංගමය. අධ්යක්ෂක ජෙනරාල් තුමා,කළමණාකාර සේවා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව,මුදල් අමාත්යංශය,කොළඹ – 01. අධ්යක්ෂක ජෙනරාල් තුමනි, ශ්රී ලංගම සේවකයින් බලවත් ලෙස අසහනයට පත් නොකර 30/2006 සහ 2/2016 රාජ්ය කළමණාකාර සේවා චක්රලේඛණනයට අනුගතව වැටුප් සංශෝධනය විධිමත්ව සිදුකිරීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත් වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. 2018 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ දී ශ්රී ලංගම සේවකයින් සිදුකරන ලද දැඩි වෘත්තීය ක්රියාමාර්ගයක් නිසා […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Lanka Lead News ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා මුදල් අමාත්යවරයා ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කළ අයවැය යෝජනාවේ සදහන් 13 වැනි යෝජනාව මගින් රටේ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවයට හා ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට පමණක් නොව දේශපාලනික, සමාජීය හා සංස්කෘතික යන සියලු අංශයන්ට බරපතළ තර්ජනයක් එල්ලවන බව අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මහාචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා ප්රකාශ කරයි. අයවැය යෝජනාවේ 13වැනි යෝජනාව ලෙස දක්වා ඇති […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Courtesy New Indian Express MHA sources say no fixed time frame set for deportation, but will be in accordance with law. NEW DELHI: The four Sri Lankan nationals, convicted for their role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, but released by the Supreme Court recently, will be deported to their country of origin, […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Courtesy The Island A top Chinese envoy has said that Sri Lanka should introduce legal reforms to attract foreign investments. Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s Office quoted President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) Ambassador Lin Songtian as having told the Premier as Sri Lanka’s infrastructure facilities, human resources and other […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow initiated a banking cooperation between People’s Bank in Sri Lanka and National Investment Industrial Bank in Russia (NIIB) to devising a platform for Russian tourists to make payments in Sri Lanka seamlessly in Sri Lankan Rupees (LKR) with effect from November 22, 2022. According […]
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