Archive for January, 2023
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 18: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set debt sustainability goals for Sri Lanka for the latter to receive the IMF’s Extended Funding Facility (EFF) and get its creditors to restructure their debts. On April 12, 2022, Sri Lanka declared that it was defaulting, when its overall loan […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Share on WhatsApp New Delhi, January 18 (The Pathfinder Foundation): The Sinhala translation of renowned Indian author Jairam Ramesh’s book The Light of Asia; the poem that defined the Buddha”, Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya, translated by award winning translator Niluka Kadurugamuwa was launched recently. Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Courtesy The Indian Express The order is a part of a Line of Credit extended by Export-Import Bank of India, under the Economic Assistance Scheme of the Indian government. Over 5,000 Ashok Leyland buses are currently in operation with SLTB. (Representational Image) Commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland on Wednesday said it has bagged a contract […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Days ahead of India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s visit to Sri Lanka, the neighbouring giant has sent financing assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), The Hindu reported. A top official source in Colombo has confirmed to The Hindu that the written financing assurances from India were sent to the […]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Refuting allegations that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill was brought in to suppress Aragalaya members, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe today said drafting of the Bill commenced in 2004 even before some of the Aragalaya people were born. He told Parliament that the Bill was initially drafted to rehabilitate drug addicts and […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (This was an article I wrote to Asian Tribune in 2006.) The mountain “where Buddha laid his foot on” By Sudath Gunasekara (S.L.A.S), Asian Tribune, Oct 21, 2006 The wonder that is Lakegala from where Ravana ruled Lanka and Lord Buddha preached Lankavatara Sutra and laid his Foot Print Lakegala, Sri Lanka […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Manusha Media සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ ක්රමවේදයක් හදුන්වාදීම, කම්කරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව සහ විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කිරීම ඇතුළු කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්යාංශ විශය පථය තුළ මේ වසරේදී ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට අපේක්ෂිත වැඩසටහන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කළ සාකච්ඡාවක් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ ස්විස්ටර්ලන්ත තානාපති Dominik Furgler මහතා අතර අද උදෑසන පැවති අතර එම වැඩසටහන් සදහා […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News Courtesy The Consortium News Given the duplicitous history of the Minsk Accords, it is unlikely Russia can be diplomatically dissuaded from its military offensive. As such, 2023 appears to be shaping up as a year of continued violent confrontation. After almost a year of dramatic action, where initial Russian advances were […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
PHILIP GIRALDI Courtesy The Unz Review US and Israel will prevent the sale of Iranian drones to Russia In spite of an overwhelming flood of disinformation coming from the Western mainstream media and governments, there continue to be obviously widely divergent views on the current war between Ukraine and Russia. The official and media supported […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Jan 17 (AdaDerana) – A delegation of investors from the United Arab Emirates, led by His Royal Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum, visited Port City Colombo on the 14th of January 2023, during a special visit to Sri Lanka for the purpose. Discussions were held between the members of […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Embassy of China in Colombo has slammed the Ambassador of the United States to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung over her remarks during a recent interview with a UK television program on Sri Lanka’s debt issue. In a press release, the Chinese embassy dismissed Chung’s comments as baseless accusing and lecturing” and lambasted the […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena has assured that positive responses have been received thus far with regards to the bailout due to be received by Sri Lanka from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Responding to a question at the Cabinet briefing this morning (17 Jan.), the minister noted that the Minister of […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe today invited the opposition to join hands through a new political system to provide relief to the people and free them from oppression. He made this request while speaking in parliament today (17). Despite the difficult economic background in the country, the President emphasized that the government is working to […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana China has assured that it stands ready to work with the relevant countries and institutions with regard to aiding Sri Lanka in terms of its debt. Speaking at a press conference yesterday (16 Jan.), the Spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbin, noted that China has been closely following the ongoing […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana India formally notified that it would support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring plan, clearing a major hurdle for the bankrupt nation to unlock a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund, Bloomberg reported citing a person with knowledge of the matter. India, one of Sri Lanka’s major bilateral creditors, gave its assurances late […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත යටතේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්යාලයීය ශිෂ්ය බලමණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු වසන්ත මුදලිගේ ලබන 31 වැනිදා දක්වා තවදුරටත් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් ප්රසන්න අල්විස් මහතා නියෝග කළා. එදින සැකකරුගේ ඇප ඉල්ලීම පිළිබඳ නියෝගය ප්රකාශයට පත් කරන බවයි විනිසුරුවරයා සඳහන් කළේ. එම ඇප ඉල්ලීමට අදාළ ලිඛිත දේශන තිබේනම් ඒවා ලබන […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge It is interesting how two groups terrorized 2 communities beyond measure. Both targeted youth and both are responsible for their deaths, their indoctrination, trauma to their families & ruining their youth & disabling their talents. Are there no legal framework to hold both these groups accountable for ruining the lives of youth […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge We have taken 16 loans from IMF since 1965, countless IMF officials have been landing & leaving advising every Government on how to manage the economy and yet we remain trapped into debt with no plan to come out. Instead of pruning the military, why doesn’t IMF insist on pruning the Govt […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS Sri Lanka Foundation held a seminar titled Seminar on Religious and Cultural traditions of Human Rights in Sri Lanka”, probably in 1981. The Foundation had organized three live-in seminars, with participation of Buddhist, Hindu, Islam, Catholic and Christian groups. The final reports of these groups were published in Religion and Culture in the […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Europe, Solicitor in England and Wales President Ambassador’s Forum Health is Wealth Health is wealth is the adage frequently used. The words of one of the richest in the world said at the death of his wealth and that it is of no use without proper […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
අකිල තෙන්නකෝන් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යතුමන්ගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම් 2023 පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරනයට එක්සත් මහජන පක්ෂය ලෙස අප පක්ෂයේ සහභාගීත්වය සහ ඉදිරි දේශපාලන වැඩපිලිවෙල පිලිබදව මාධ්ය දැනුවත් කිරීම සදහා වන මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව 2023.01.16 දින කොළඹ පදනම් ආයතනයේදී පවත්වන ලදී ඒ සදහා පක්ෂය නියෝජනය කරමින් චමින්ද ගුණසිංහ මහතා, අවිශ්ක විරාජ් කෝණාර මහතා, මාෂි සේනානායක මෙනවිය සහ චතුර රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහභාගී විය.එහිදි […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල උතුරු මැද පළාත් අාණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ සංකල්පයට අනුව රන් මාවත නමින් ආරම්භ කරන ලද වැඩසටහනේ ප්රගතිසමාලෝචන රැස්වීමක් කම්කරුව හා විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්ය ගරු මනූෂ නානයක්කාර හා උතුරුමැද පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් උතුරුමැද පළාත් සභා ශ්රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. උතුරුමැද පළාත් රැකියා විරහිත තරුණ තරුණියන් සඳහා ලංකාවේ පළමු වතාවට වැඩිහිටි ආරක්ෂණ […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර සමඟි ජන බලවේගය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට තරඟ කිරීම සඳහා අනුරාධපුර මහ නගර සභාව ඇතුළු අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සියලුම ප්රාදේශීය සභා සඳහා ඇප මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීම අද (16) සිදු කරනු ලැබීය. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේදී එම ඇප මුදල් තැන්පත් කිරීම සිදු කළ අතර, ඒ සඳහා හිටපු අමාත්යයවරුන් වන පී.හැරිසන්, චන්ද්රාණී බංඩාර, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රෝහණ බංඩාර, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී චන්දිම ගමගේ […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර්) (දෙවෙනි කොටසෙන්)ඉංගිරිසීන් 19 වෙනි සියවසේ සිට ක්රවුන් ලෑන්ඞ් (එන්ක්රෝච්මන්ට්* ඕඩිනන්ස් සහ සිලෝන් වේස්ට් ලෑන්ඞ් ඕඩිනන්ස් ආදී නීති ආඥා යෙදාගෙන සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් වසර දහස් ගණනක් භුක්ති විඳිමින් සිටි බිම්වලින් පළවාහැර සහ බෞද්ධ පුදබිම් පැවැත්ම සඳහා පුදා තිබූ සඟසතු ඉඩම් පැහැරගෙන ඉන්දියාවෙන් කූලීන් ලෙස ගෙනා ජනයා පදිංචි කරවා දෙමළ කොලනි පිහිටුවන […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය -17 ජනවාරි 2023 අධ්යාපන, පුහුණු, තරුණ සහ ක්රීඩා සංවර්ධනය සඳහා යුරෝ මිලියන 26000 ක් – ශ්රී ලාංකිකයින්ටත් අවස්ථා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අධ්යාපන, පුහුණු, තරුණ සහ ක්රීඩා සංවර්ධනය සඳහා යුරෝපා සංගමයේ (EU) ERASMUS Plus වැඩසටහන යටතේ අරමුදල්, ශිෂ්යත්ව හා පහසුකම් ලබා ගැනීම පිණිස අදාල පාර්ශවයන් පුහුණු කරනු ලබන නේවාසික නොවන තුන් දින පුහුණු වැඩසටහනක් 2023 […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Senaka Weeraratna I would like to draw your kind attention to the latest study on this subject. The Book is titled ‘ Freedom Struggles of Sri Lanka – Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward’ edited by Professor C.M. Madduma Bandara. I am attaching the Table of Contents of the Book together with the Foreword of […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The country would be divided within a short period of time once the pledge, which was given by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to the northern people that the government would fully implement the 13A, was made, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa said today. In a letter to the President, he […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has informed in writing to the Cabinet Secretary, declining to revise electricity tariffs as approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. PUCSL Chairman Janaka Ratnayake has informed the Cabinet of this decision in writing, citing reasons as per the Electricity Act of 2009. […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to provide 10kg of rice per month to 02 million low-income families including Samurdhi beneficiaries for a period of two months. Accordingly, the government will purchase 61,600 metric tons of paddy to meet the requirement of 40,000 Metric Tons. This […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News A high-level delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by International Department Vice Minister Chen Zhou called on Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Sunday (15). Former Minister Pavithra Vanniarachchi, MP Namal Rajapaksa, State Minister Tharaka Balasuriya, and SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam attended the meeting as […]
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