Archive for November, 2022
Sunday, November 13th, 2022
Courtesy DNA Nalini was pregnant at the time of the assassination. Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who were released on Saturday, said she wasn’t involved in the murder of the Prime Minister of India. In an interview on Sunday, she claimed her only fault was getting acquainted […]
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Sunday, November 13th, 2022
By Palanivel Rajan C Express News Service While calls for their release arise from various quarters, the four Sri Lankan nationals’ movement remains restricted until further orders. TIRUCHY: Even as the Supreme Court on Friday allowed the remaining six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to walk free, four of them—V Sriharan alias Murugan, Santhan, […]
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Sunday, November 13th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP is to take action against its local government member Sashi Hettiarachci who held a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo asking China to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt, Party General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara said. “UNP has nothing to do with this protest held by pradeshiya Sabha member […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga The edifice of a democratic government rests on three pillars the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. In Sri Lanka, there had been as many as 21 changes in the Constitution dealing with the powers of the executive and legislature. There were heated debates and profuse analyses on the issues involved in these […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The award is announced in London. A five-person panel of authors, librarians, literary agents, publishers, and […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Manusha Media රටක් විදියට අපේ බලාපොරොත්තුව විදෙස් රැකියා සදහා වෘත්තිකයන් යොමු කිරීම මිස තවදුරටත් ගෘහ සේවය ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීම නෙවෙයි බිංදුවට වැටුණු රටකත් පටු දේශපාලනය වෙනුවෙන් වැඩ කරනවා නම්, අපට කවදාවත් අපේ රට ගොඩගන්න වෙන්නේ නෑ. මේ තත්ත්වයට රට වැටීමේ වගකීම 100%ක් ම දේශපාලනඥයන් සහ රාජ්ය නිලධාරීන් භාර ගත යුතුයි. ඔබේ යුතුකමේ පිහිටෙන් දැන් රටේ මිනිස්සු […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Media Release Sri Lanka High Commission to India Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the National Security Advisor of India Shri Ajit Kumar Doval today (12) in New Delhi and reviewed the current status of the relations between Sri Lanka and India. The meeting took place as part of the regular and ongoing dialogue between the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka and the National Security […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහෙස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණයේ දැන් විභාග වන ඩයනා ගමගේ නඩුව ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ සුවිශේෂ නඩු කටයුත්තක් බවට පත්වෙමින් තිබෙනවා. මා මිත්ර නීතිඥ ගුණරත්ත වන්නිනායක ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ස්වෙච්ඡාවෙන් ඉදිරිපත් වී, ඩයනා ගමගේ මන්ත්රීවරියට විදේශ ගමන් තහනමක් ලබාගැනීමට කටයුතු කර තිබෙනවා. ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය දිනේවා!! ඩයනා සජබ මන්ත්රීවරියක්. ඇය ඉවත් කිරීමට දැන් සජබට ඇත්තටම ඒච්චර උනන්දුවක් තිබෙන බවක් පෙන්නේ […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ‘ලොව හොඳින්ම කලේ අපය’ යන මත ජනගත කිරීමක් පසුගිය කාලවල සිදු විය. ඒ හා සමාන දෙයක් රටේ ප්රසිද්ධ යයි කියා කිව හැකි පුරාවිද්යාඥයෙක් අපේ ඉතිහාසය ගැන දැන් කාලාන්තරයක් තිස්සේ ඉතා සාර්ථක ලෙස කරගෙන යයි. මොහු කියන අයුරින් මීට වසර දහස් ගණනකට පෙර ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අති සාර්ථක කෘෂිකාර්මික ජිවන ක්රමයක් පැවත ඇත. මෙය දැවැන්ත, […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය • උරුමය රැකගෙන ජීවිතවලට ශක්තියක් එකතු කිරීමට මහපොළොව සූදානම්…• නීති රීති වල තිබෙන වාද විවාද වලට කාලය ගත කරන්න තවදුරටත් ඉඩක් නැහැ..• රජයේ වගා සංග්රාමයේ ආයුර්වේදයට අවශ්ය වගාවන් අන්තර් ගත විය යුතුයි… -අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මහ පොළොවේ හරය, උරුමය රැකගෙන මනුෂ්ය ජීවිතවලට ශක්තියක් එකතු කිරීමට ශ්රී ලාංකීක ආයුර්වේදය ලොව පුරා ව්යාප්ත […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok At the Second handing over Ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai symbolically handed over cash donation of 14,000,000 Thai Baht (SLRS 135,398,986 ) from Royal Thai Government to Sri Lanka Ambassador and Permanent […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
උත්තර ලංකා සභාගයේ අනුරාධපුර සමුළුව ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ රජය විසින් සිදුකළ විශාල වරදක් වන රසායනික පොහොර තහනම් කිරීම සඳහා උපදෙස් ලබාදුන්නේ කවුරුන්දැයි යන්න අදටත් අභිරහසක් බව පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. මෙය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට පෙර තමන් සහ විමල් වීරවංශ මන්ත්රීවරයා මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැඩි ව විරෝධය පළ කළ බව ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Courtesy DNA Santhan, Robert Payas, and Jayakumar are Sri Lankans while Nalini and R P Ravichandran, belong to Tamil Nadu. Nalini (File) The six Indian and Sri Lankan nationals convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi are likely to be released from jail today. The jail authorities have reportedly received copies of […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
By Neville ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island I t is reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tasked the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKI) with reviewing Sri Lanka’s foreign policy and making recommendations on the structure of the island’s diplomatic apparatus” (The Sunday Morning, October 30, 2022). According to the Executive Director Dr. D. L. Mendis […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
by N.A.de S. Amaratunga Courtesy The Island The above topic is relevant to all countries experiencing economic crises for IMF and China, it appears are alternative and perhaps competing sources for economic aid and they are both accused of causing debt-traps for the recipient countries. IMF is accused by people like Joseph Stiglitz of manipulating […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Indian investments in some strategic locations in Sri Lanka could pose a serious national security threat, Education Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), Pubudu Jayagoda says.Jayagoda added that President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who does not have a mandate to be the President, had initiated a number of economic policy […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Central Bank Governor, Ajith Nivard Cabraal who has been one of the individuals criticized for Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis, has released a new book titled “Among Economic Killers” which is priced at Rs.2500. The book is written in Sinhalese. Cabraal was last week released on bail by Colombo Chief […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The National Council sub-committee on national policy which met on Nov. 10 has decided to appoint a sub-committee made up of representatives of all the relevant institutions to formulate policies related to ensuring food security in this country. This was decided at the meeting of National Council sub-committee on identifying short and medium-term […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against three LTTE supporters who were allegedly planning terrorist acts to revive the proscribed group in Tamil Nadu. The charge sheet was filed against the arrested accused from Tamil Nadu – Naveen alias Chakaravarthy M, Sanjay Prakash J and A Kabilar alias […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ජාත්යන්තර සහයෝගීතාව සඳහා වූ රුසියානු සංගමයේ අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල නියෝජ්ය සභාපති පොලොස්කොව් ව්ලැඩිමීර් (Polozkov Vladimir) මහතා හා අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අතර හමුවක් 2022.11.10 ශ්රි ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සිදුවිය. දෙරට අතර පවතින දීර්ඝ කාලීන මිත්රත්වය සහ රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික සබඳතා පිළිබඳව අදහස් දක්වමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා රුසියානු දූත පිරිස පිළිගත්තේය.ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිදුකළ හැකි මහා පරිමාණ ආයෝජන අවස්ථා […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Operations of the Port of Colombo with the help and investment of companies from China India and Mersk with Keels have shown remarkable progress and efficient functioning under POP basis enabling the country to generate more income. This is the best time to promote another investor like Japan or Korea to take […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Investigations into complaints filed over the incidents ragging will be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the police said today. According to a press release issued by the police media division, the decision was taken based on a directive given by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP). The IGP has informed all […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror For the first time from Sri Lanka, arrangements have been made to export the first consignment of sour banana to the Dubai Market on November 26, Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. He said 12,500kg of sour bananas in a 40′ container will be exported to Dubai market later this month. Sri […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Budget proposals for 2023 has been compiled within the framework of economic program recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), President Ranil Wickremesighe informed Parliament today. The President came out with this information in response to questions raised by the opposition MPs on the budget in the House. What we will […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The United States has imposed sanctions on an individual who was identified as the Sri Lanka based-business partner of a sanctioned al-Qa’ida financial facilitator and external operations plotter. According to a statement issued by the US Department of the Treasury, the individual named Mohamad Irshad Mohamd Haris Nizar had been al-Qa’ida financial facilitator, […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News President Ranil Wickremesinghe held discussions on debt management with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva, Finance Minister of Ghana Ken Ofori-Atta and Speaker of the People’s Majlis of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed on the sidelines of COP27. President Ranil Wickramasinghe says that they expect to reach an […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
by Garvin Karunaratne Sri Lanka being a Third World country will find the attempt of Michigan State University to find the best and quickest method of bringing about economic development in Bangladesh, very helpful. That was the The Comilla Programme of Rural Development which stands out as an instance of how an educational institute could […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
by Garvin Karunaratne, former Government Agent, Matara In nostalgia I remember my handling public address systems in Colombo. My father owned Radio Works, Bambalapitiya, that held a contact to supply public address systems for the LSSP for years. He employed three technicians who were busy at other venues and I was dropped off with equipment […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
චන්ද්ර අබේනායක සිංහළ භාශාව රාජ්ය භාශාව කිරීමෙන් එවකට රටෙහි මුළු ජනග්රහණයෙන් 6% වැනි කුඩා කොටසක් පරිහරණය කල ඉංගිරිසි බස අභිබවා, 94% ක් වැනි ජනකොටසකට තම බසින් රජයත් සමග ගනුදෙනු කිරීමේ ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී මහඟු අවකාශය තහවුරු විය. එමගින් දෙමළ ජනයාට විශේශිතව අබමල් රේනුවක අසාධාරනයක් වූවාදැයි අභියෝගාත්මකව ප්රශ්ණ කල හැක. නිදහසෙන් පසු ලංකාව පාලනය කිරීමේ ක්රියාදාමය කේදවාචකයක් […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
High Commission of Sri Lanka High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi celebrated this year’s Diwali festival, felicitating its long-serving Indian staff members and with a family get-together that included the family members of both home-based and local staffs numbering around 150. The felicitation ceremony and the family get-together were held instant in the […]
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