Archive for December, 2022
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර. මෙම ලිපිය ලිවීමට මා අදහස් කළේ පසුගිය දිනක මේ රජයද ලබන වසරේද උත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් නිදහස් දිනය පෙබ 4 දාම පැවැත්වීමට තිරණය කොට ඇතැයි ප්රවුර්තියක් පලවී තිබුණු නිසාය මේ රටේ නිදහස් දිනය පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ කවදාදැයි අපි තිරණය කළ යුත්තේ 1815 ආරම්භවූ ඉන්ග්රීසි අධිරාජ්යවාදී පාලනයෙන් ශ්රී ලන්කාවට සැබෑ සහ සම්පූර්ණ දේශපාලන නිදහස […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Lanka Lead News ප්රවීන රංගන ශිල්පී ගිහාන් ප්රනාන්දු මහතා කලාකරුවෙක් ලෙස ඊනියා අරගලය ගැන ඉදිරිපත් කරන මතය පිළිබදව ලංකා ලීඩ් ජාතික සංවිධානවල මතය විමසන ලදී. මේ වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ අදහස් ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්, ‘‘ගිහාන් සමග අපි සියයට සියයක්ම එකඟ වෙනවා. ජාතික සංවිධානවලට අරගලය ආරම්භයේදීම ඒ ගැන නිවැරැදි විග්රහයක් තිබුණා. ඒක වික්ටෝරියා නූලන්ඩ්ගේ පිටපතට අනුව රඟපාන නාට්යයක් […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Courtesy Global Times China-aided nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka China maintains good long-term cooperative relations with international financial institutions including the IMF and supports relevant financial institutions to properly negotiate and address debt issues with Sri Lanka, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday, in response to media reports about an IMF team’s […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Courtesy News18 On the issue of Palestine, Jaishankar said India stands for a two-state solution, with the two states living peacefully side-by-side (Image: YouTube/MEA) The voting was on the UN Human Rights Council draft resolution on promoting, reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday justified the government’s […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Courtesy Hindustan Times Travellers to Sri Lanka would be free of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions with the lifting of a circular issued in 2021, Asela Gunawardena, the Director General of Health Services said. Sri Lanka on Wednesday decided to discontinue the Covid-19 vaccination certificate for travellers entering the island nation, officials said. Travellers to Sri Lanka […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka incurred a loss of staggering Rs. 5,978 million after the previous government unilaterally decided to terminate the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project funded by Japan, a report compiled by the National Audit Office revealed. The project was initiated in 2016 with the aim of reducing the traffic congestion in the city of Colombo […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Earnings from merchandise exports declined in October 2022 – on a year-on-year basis – for the first time since March 2022 due to lower earnings from garments exports, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says. The decline in import expenditure continued in October 2022, (y-o-y), for the eighth consecutive month, despite recording […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Whilst highlighting that a Presidential election is the best option when it comes to seeking a mandate of the people, UNP stalwart Navin Dissanayake today said one could expect a presidential poll in August 2023. “The best option to hold a Presidential election, as people can elect a new president after […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge Land grabbing is taking place at national / regional & global scales. Large-scale land deals/transactions are taking place by transnational corporations or initiated by foreign governments. One of the major reasons for escalation of land grab is the global economic/political and dwindling resources tied to structural reforms promoted by IMF/WB & this […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර ප්රථමයෙන්ම 2022 මැයි මස ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ විසින් රනිල් වික්රමසින්හ වැඩබලන අගමැති වශයෙන් ප්ත්කෙරින.දෙවනුව ගෝඨාභය ඉල්ලා අස්වීමෙන් පුරප්පාඩුවු ජනාධි පති කමට 2022 ජූලි 13 දින ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්තාවේ 40 වන වගන්තිය යටතේ පාර්ලිමේතුවේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් විසින් ඔහු ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉල්ලා අස්විමෙන් ඉතිරිවූ කාලය සඳහා ජනාධිපති වෂයෙන් පත්කර ගණු ලැබිණ. මෙම අවස්ථා දෙකේදීම නව […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, Milinda Moragoda met with the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman today (06) at the latter’s office in North Block, New Delhi. This was the latest of a series of meetings High Commissioner Moragoda has […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Palitha Ariyarathna Volume 2 revised The statement that Sri Lanka can afford peace through ethical foreign policy was extremely provocative. It is true that if Migettuwatte Gunananda and Angaraika Dharamapala were alive today, they would have questioned and stood up for the protection of Buddhism and the welfare of Sinhala people. But now politics has […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
පාලිත ආරියරත්න බෝගම්බර අවට, ටොරින්ටන් උද්යානය අවට හා ශ්රී දළදා මාලිගාවට ඔබ්බෙන් හා මල්වතු විහාරය ආසන්නයේ වැව රවුමේ සිට ආගමික මරුවන් සිටින බව තැනින් තැන මහනුවර පුරා කසුකුසුවක් ආකාරයෙන් පැතිර යමින් තිබේ. අප දන්නා කරුණු අනුව අන්යාගමික කරණය හෝ ආගමික ප්රචාරය නීති විරෝධී හා තහනම් වන අතර බොරදියේ මාළු බාන අන්දමට ස්ත්රීන් සහා තරුණ බුද්ධියෙන් […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
DHANANATH FERNANDO , CEO, ADVOCATA INSTITUTE Courtesy Newsweek Hundreds of Sri Lankan protestors recently took to the streets, frustrated with the South Asian country’s worst economic crisis in seven decades. Sri Lanka’s crisis is no mere financial downturn, like Americans are experiencing now. Our economic system is literally collapsing, with millions of people in desperate need of humanitarian aid. […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy News18 President Ranil Wickremesinghe has acknowledged that there was no point in economic reforms in Sri Lanka because the cash-starved island nation didn’t have an economy, as he made a strong pitch for a new economic model. Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948, triggered by a […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror IPS Chief calls for meaningful reforms to upskill and reskill people Says Budget 2023 failed to adequately address factor endowment issues and labour market woes SL’s labour shortage compounded by mass exodus of people fleeing economic crisis It is high time that Sri Lanka started debating whether the tertiary education must […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka does not need economic reforms that offer no solutions to the ongoing crisis, but a strong new economic system that can face 2050, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. Outdated economic systems cannot help rebuild Sri Lanka’s economy, the Head of State said, inaugurating the 2022 Economic Summit organized by the Ceylon Chamber […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A consignment of essential medicines and medical supplies worth LKR 2 billion, donated by China, reached the Colombo Port today (Dec. 06). The shipment came in 24 containers (16,000 boxes) with a total of weight over 255 metric tonnes. It contained 8 million infusion sets, 1.2 million vials of omeprazole sodium for injection, […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The main broker, who was arrested this morning (06 Dec) over his involvement in the human organ trafficking racket at a private hospital in Borella, has been remanded till 13 December. The 41-year-old resident of Kajimawatte was remanded till 13 December on orders of the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, while travel bans were imposed […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News China hopes relevant countries & international financial institutions will work with China to play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka overcome the difficulties. Chinese FM Spokesperson said China attaches high importance to Sri Lanka’s challenges. China hopes relevant countries and international financial institutions will work with China to play a positive […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News The World Bank yesterday approved Sri Lanka’s request to access concessional financing from the International Development Association (IDA). This type of financing, which is offered at low-interest rates, will enable the country to implement its government-led reform program to stabilize the economy and protect the livelihood of millions of people facing poverty […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Courtesy Hiru News Following a lengthy round table discussion with WB, ADB, IMF, AIIB in Colombo this morning, it was agreed that a coordinated assistance program supported by the multilateral financial institutions is vital for Sri Lanka to recover from the present economic difficulties. World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
Shenali D Waduge It is estimated that 80,000 companies drive the 21st century economy. How far do they exert political & economic power over their own country-govts to influence foreign governments & how far does this impact the national security, national economy & welfare of citizens? Do MNCs abuse the poor in developing nations? MNCs employ […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
Chanaka Bandarage One good thing done by the present government is to grow grass at the Galle Face Green, especially during the Covid period – to fill the empty patches. Now most of the Green is a beautiful turf. True, the turf is damaged in the Aragalaya areas. Can the authorities be able to continually […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
C. Wijeyawickrema ලංකාවේ ඊළම් හීතල හොරුන් තුන් දෙනෙක් ගැන කලින් ලිපියේ සඳහන් කරණ ලදී. DBSJ, රාසමානික්කම් හා නිර්මලා යන තුන්දෙනා තුන් ආකාරයකට ඊළම් ඉණිමඟේ නඟිමින් සිටී. ඊළම් බට්ටන් විසින් වෙන් වෙන්ව ක්රියාත්මක කරන්නේ සංවිධානාත්මක සැලැස්මකි. මේ තුන්දෙනාගේ හැසිරීම මීට හොඳ උදාහරණයකි. මේ මාතෘකාව ගැන ලිවීම මට එපාවී ඇතත් එය සිංහල ජනයාට පෙන්වාදීම මගේ යුතුකම යයි […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකා නායකත්වයේ ශක්තිය සහ මුදල් ක්ෂේත්රවල ප්රතිසංස්කරණ හරහා කඩිනම් ආර්ථික ප්රබෝධයක් ළඟා කර ගැනීමට රජයේ කැපවීම පිළිබඳව ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය නියෝජිතායතන බෙහෙවින් පැහැදී ඇති බව ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ (ADB) උප සභාපති Shixen Chen මහතා පවසයි.ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ 2022.12.05 දින කොළඹ අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. ඉදිරි වසර […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
“නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” ෆීනික්ස් නීති සංග්රහය, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ නීතීඥ වෘත්තියට වසර 50ක් සම්පූරණ වීම වෙනුවෙන්කොළඹ ෂැන්ග්රිලා හෝටලයේදී දෙසැම්බර් 04 දාපවත්වන ලද උත්සවය අංශ කිහිපයකින් වැදගත් වේ. දේශපාලනික, නෛතික සහ ආර්ථික අංශ 3ම එහිදී සළකා බැලිය හැකිය. 1972 දී කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලයේ නවරගහලේදී ඩොමීනියන් සිට නිදහස දක්වා […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy PIME Asia News According to a recent study, China is Sri Lanka’s top international creditor with debt largely owed to two Chinese state-owned banks. Concerns remain over China’s geopolitical ambitions in the region. A US$ 2.9 billion IMF aid package to Sri Lanka is still pending. Colombo (AsiaNews) – China has […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana (Xinhua) — China hopes relevant countries and international financial institutions will work with China to play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka overcome the current difficulties. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks when asked to comment on media reports that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team will travel to […]
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