Archive for January, 2023
Monday, January 30th, 2023
Werner Economics Prof. Richard Werner provides an overview of how money is created across the world and the impact it has on us. In 2014, Prof. Werner published the first empirical test on how banks create new money – he explores the response of central banks and unveils their ultimate game plan… The Monetary Institute’s […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය රටේ වත්මන් ආර්ථික, සමාජීය තත්වයන් පිළිබඳ වෘත්තීය සමිති නියෝජිතයින් සමග 2023.01.30 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා.. වෘත්තීය සමිති වල අදහස් ගැඹුරින් සාකච්ඡා කරලා ඉදිරියට ගෙන යා හැකි වැඩපිළිවෙලකට සියලු දෙනා එකඟතාවය පළ කළා. ඒ අනුව අද දින මේ […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාව සංචාරක ගමනාන්තයක් ලෙස ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ගරු කොන්සල්වරුන් පත් කළ හැකියි.-අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා විදෙස් විනිමය ඉපැයීම තුළින් ශ්රී ලාංකීය ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කළ හැකි ප්රභලතම ක්ෂේත්රය සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය බැවින් එහි අභිවෘද්ධිය වෙනුවෙන් නවමු පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ නියැලෙන සියළු පාර්ශ්වකරුවන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියි. ජෙට්වින්ග් හෝටල් සමූහයට අයත් මීගමුව Blue […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
Champa Fernando Secretary – KACPAW (Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare) It is laudable that successive governements since 2008 had continued to-date with the intrinsically HUMANE National Dog Sterilization Programme for dog Population Management (DPM), recommended by world bodies such as the WHO, OIE (Office International des Epizooties – World Organization for Animal […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Ceylon Today Colombo, January 30 (Ceylon Today): Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace and non-violence, was shot dead exactly 75 years ago, on 30 January 1948, five days before Sri Lanka’s Independence and slightly short of six months after the success of the nonviolent movement for India’s Independence led by him. The […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror While commenting on spending money on private buses to transport people to political campaigns, the Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association (LPBOA) today said the highest number of buses were hired by the National People’s Power (NPP) party, which intends to contest the upcoming election under the compass symbol. […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News Sri Lanka will bounce back from its bankrupt status in the coming few months of this year, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said. Addressing a public gathering, he said that Sri Lanka is not a bankrupt nation, but a nation known for rising back up and will be able […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge The people of Sri Lanka should ask themselves some questions and seek answers given the connection of 1987, 13Amendment & the 1976 TULF Vaddukoddai Resolution which ITAK endorsed in 2008. Demands by Tamil militant groups/ LTTE / LTTE Diaspora /Tamil academia in Jaffna University/ Tamil political parties especially TNA & ITAK all […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
ෂෙනාලි ඩී වඩුගේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාව ප්රශ්න කිහිපයක් ඇසිය යුතුයි. 1987 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය සහ 1976 TULF වඩ්ඩුකොඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාව සමඟ ඇති සම්බන්ධය කුමක්ද සහ 2008 දී ITAK එය අනුමත කළේ ඇයි?1976 මැයි 14 දින වඩ්ඩුකොඩ්ඩෙයි යෝජනාව හරහා TULF මුලින් ඉල්ලා සිටි දෙය, දෙමළ සටන්කාමී කණ්ඩායම් / LTTE / LTTE ඩයස්පෝරාව / යාපනය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ දෙමළ විද්වතුන්/ […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Courtesy The Hindustan Times Milinda Moragoda said India and Sri Lanka have sort of overcome the fallout of a Chinese surveillance vessel’s visit to Hambantota port last year. India and Sri Lanka have been able to address the impact of a Chinese surveillance vessel’s visit to Hambantota port last year and Colombo is looking to […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Mahinda Gunasekera His Exellency, Mr. Ranil WickremasinghePresident of Sri LankaColombo, Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ” ” Hon. Dr. Wijedasa Rajapashe, Minister of Justice, Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Proposal to Fully Implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution I would like to refer you to the inception […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said that a charge sheet related to the removal of the chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Janaka Ratnayake is being prepared and will be presented to the Parliament soon. Speaking at a media briefing, the minister said legal action will […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2023
By Rohana R. Wasala Continued from January 26, 2023 To assert, as Mr Sirimanne does, that From ancient times the Northern region in the island was a kingdom occupied by Tamils due to its closeness to South India…….. during the reign of King Elara, a Tamil, there was a war between the Sinhalese and Tamil […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge Over 80% of land belongs to the State while some 14% land are privately owned land. There are some facts that need to be made clear. State Land & State Land given to Provinces Appendix 1 of the 13th Amendment includes provision for State Land. It clearly states that State land is vested […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2023
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Morning The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) yesterday (28) reaffirmed that the existing power cuts would continue despite recommendations by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) to provide an uninterrupted power supply during the period of Advanced Level examinations, which are being held until 17 February. The CEB’s stance […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Courtesy The Morning Debt restructuring and IMF EFF delayed due to Chinese stance Govt. informed by IMF that Chinese proposal not adequate China asks Govt. to continue negotiations with Exim Bank President Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to open a line of communication with Chinese Government leaders in order to finalise the ongoing debt restructuring negotiations […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Courtesy Daily Mail The staircase at Ambuluwawa Tower is shielded only by a waist-high handrail Footage by blogger Janet Newenham shows the climb isn’t for the faint-hearted She said: ‘The busier the tower, the more claustrophobic one can feel’ The views from the top of Ambuluwawa Tower in Sri Lanka are heavenly, but some may find […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe warns that the country will fall into a crisis again similar to the situation in May and June 2022, if the economic and agricultural program implemented by the government and the debt restructuring program being carried out with the countries as per the IMF program are disrupted in any way. […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge The 13A was implemented in November 1987 after the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in July 1987. Both were forcibly pushed down Sri Lanka’s throat by India & constitutes an act of aggression. It is the dangers of its implementation that compelled every President not to use powers under Article 33(d) or […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge 13th Amendment was signed on 14 Nov 1987. Sri Lanka had several choices over the years – it could have used 2/3 majority in Parliament to annul it altogether or it could have brought amendments that would have negated the clauses in the 13A. Successive governments did neither & simply passed the pillow. […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර ඩී. ඇස්. සේනානායක පිලිරුවට පැළැඳවීමට නියමිත මල් මාලයට පමණක් රු 97,000 මේ වසරේ නිදහස් සමරුවට නියමිත මුල් ඇස්තමේන්තු මුදල රු කෝටි 57ක් වූ බවද ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ මැදිහත් විමෙන් එය කෝටි 20 දක්වා අඩුකළ බවද, ඩී. ඇස්. සේනානායක පිලිරුවට පැළැඳවීමට නියමිත මල් මාලයට පමණක් රු 97,000 ඇස්තමේන්තුකොට තිඹුණු බවද 27 වන දින උදෑසන […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර.මහනුවර 1948.පෙබ 4 දා.අපට ලැබුණේ අධිරාජ්යවාදි යදම්වළින් බැඳි තවමත් බ්රිතාන්ය මහරජ අපගේද මහරජ වශයෙන් පිළිගන්නා ඔවුන් විසින්ම සකස්කරණලද ආණ්ඩු ක්රමව්යවස්තාවක් යටතේ පාලනයවන බ්රතාන්ය පොදුරාජ්ය මණ්ඩලය තුල ඩොමිනියන් තත්වයක් හා මේ රටේ මිනිසුන්ගේ චන්දයෙන් පත්කරගත් කලුසුද්දන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් පාර්ලිමේන්ත්ව සහ උත්තර මන්ත්රී මණ්ඩලයක් සහිත සීමිත නිදහසක් පමණි. ඒ බව 1948 පෙබරවාරි 10 වනදා පැවති පළමු […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ Vanguard Postහි පළ වුනු ‘Sri Lanka – Giving Land and Police powers to the Provinces is dangerous – it should not happen’ නමැති ඉංග්රීසි ලිපියේ සිංහල අනුවාදය, එම මුල් ලේඛකයා විසින්ම. උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළාත් සභා වලට ඉඩම් සහ පොලිස් බලතල ලබාදීමේ ප්රවනතාවයක් පැන නැගී තිබෙන බව ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් එන ප්රවෘති වලින් පෙනී යයි. […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
Ceylon Diary – SBPC Official Channel යුධ ස්වෙච්චා හමුදාවේ හිටපු ලුතිනන් කර්නල් විජේසුන්දර මුදලිගේ අශෝක මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. නිවැරදි දේ අගය කරන්නත් වැරදි දේ හෙළිදරවු කර නිර්භයව එයට පහර දෙන්නත් හෘදය සාක්ෂියක් මාධ්යවේදියෙකුට තියෙන්න ඕනෑ බව සිංහලේ දිනපොත විශ්වාසයයි ! පර්යේෂණාත්මක පුවත් පත් කලාව ! මෙහයවීම […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
Sarath Wijesinghe (President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum) Sanctions to countries and organizations Sanctions are imposed on individuals or countries under international law/diplomacy by a country organization or an individual as a punishment deterrent or a warning on a wrongdoing or a wrongdoer or difference of views or an opinions. […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
සේවකයන් පිරිස 2014 දි ඩොලර් මිලියන 12 ක ආයොජනයක් යොදා මෝදර ධීවර වරාය තුල සථාපිත කරත ලද walkers Colombo Shipyard වෝකර්ස් කොලඹ නැවි තටාකාංගනය මෙම වරාය අයිති ධීවර වරාය සංස්්ථාව මගින් බලයෙන් සේවකයන් ඉවත්තර පාලනය සියතට ගැනීමට උත්සහ කරන බව වාර්තා වෙනවා බදුවාරික ප්රමාද වීම නිසා මෙම කටයුතු කරන බවට සංස්ථාව සදහන් කරනවා මෙස තටාකාංගනය […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
By Garvin Karunaratne We are begging everyone for dollars today. Even the power cuts may be increased if we do not find dollars. We may even not have dollars to get our food supplies and medicines! It may surprise many to know how we are somehow not collecting the dollars we can legitimately collect without […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
e-Con e-News What is the relationship between the 19th-century origins of the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) and the Oriental Bank Corporation (OBC). The BoC & OBC were first set up by the English to exploit Sri Lanka’s recently stolen lands and impose the coffee plantations,. Their HR (Human Resources, ahem) expertise was based on American (yes, this term includes […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
e-Con e-News So why did a US Navy spy and expert in their ‘Integrated Undersea Surveillance System’ meet our frangible fungible finance minister? What fortunes fee-fi-fo-fum are being sniffed under the sea lanes? Is it coincidence that Sri Lanka this week announced it had finalized ‘oil exploration rules, earmarking 900 offshore blocks’ in the Mannar Basin in northwest Sri Lanka, […]
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Friday, January 27th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy and the officials that took part in the discussion with Human Rights Commission were pressurized over the matter with regard to proving continuous electricity supply during the A/L examination, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said. The Minister said in a twitter post […]
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