Archive for February, 2023
Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe today pledged to prioritize the country’s economic recovery while ensuring that law and order is maintained to prevent anarchy. He made a commitment to restore the country’s economy and establish a functioning democratic society before the end of this year. Speaking at the ‘Imagine’ 32nd Rotary District Conference in Colombo […]
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Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Lanka Coal Company (LCC) says payments have been settled for 13 shipments of coal imported to Sri Lanka. According to the company’s general manager Namal Hewage, the 12th shipment is currently being unloaded while the unloading of the 13th shipment is expected to begin tomorrow (Feb 18). Meanwhile, plans are afoot to bring […]
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Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Election Commission has decided to file a special motion before the Supreme Court detailing the difficulties it is facing during the preparations for the 2023 Local Government Election on March 09. Chairman of the election body, Attorney-at-Law Nimal G. Punchihewa says inadequate funds, inadequate supply of fuel for transportation, the delays in […]
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Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The supply of electricity and all related services, the supply and distribution of petroleum products and fuel and health services have been declared essential services once again. This was announced in a special gazette notification, issued by Presidential Secretary Saman Ekanayake under the directives of President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday (Feb 17). It was […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
Manusha Media A special delegation from Israel visiting Sri Lanka has assured the Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara, that their country will offer 2000 job opportunities for female caregivers from Sri Lanka, this year.The delegation comprising Shiely Raisin Sason, director of Israel’s Population and Migration Institute and members Zindani Mary, Yaccow Kabilau, […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. 2023.02.17 දින කොළඹ අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේ පැවති වී මිලදී ගැනීම සහ බෙදාහැරීම සම්බන්ධ සාකච්ඡාව අමතමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සඳහන් කළේ අඩු ආදායම් ලබන පුද්ගලයින් සඳහා සහන සැලසීමේ රජයේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ සාර්ථක කරගැනීමට නම් මෙවර මහ කන්නයේ වී මිලදී ගැනීම් සහ බෙදාහැරීම් නිසි සැලසුමකට අනුව සිදු කළ යුතු බවයි. වී මිලදී ගැනීමේ කර්තව්යය සහ වත්මන් තත්ත්වය, සමාජ […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan By Engr. Kanthar BalanathanDipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers With due respect to the Chief Minister, Mr MK Stalin, the son of a great writer/politician in India, Mr M. Karunanithi, I would like to point out that some people […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana (Bloomberg) – The International Monetary Fund is considering approving Sri Lanka’s bailout even without the formal assurance of debt-restructuring support from China, the nation’s biggest bilateral creditor, according to people familiar with the discussions. Under a rarely used policy on lending into official arrears, the IMF may consider approving Sri Lanka’s loan because […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana has informed the National Election Commission of the difficulties in funding the 2023 Local Government polls. The election body says that the Treasury Secretary has cited the current adverse financial situation and the administrative decision taken by the government to allocate funds only for essential services as the reasons […]
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says reducing bank interest rates in relation to the gradual decline in inflation is currently under consideration. The Head of State further expressed hopes about receiving the USD 2.9 billion under the International Monetary Fund’s extended fund facility (EFF) program by March. His remarks came during a meeting at the […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Sanka Chandima 13 සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්රියාත්මක කරන කිසිවෙකුට මේ රට පාලනය කිරීමේ කිසිදු අයිතියක් කිසිසේත්ම නොමැත. #Decolonise our constitution & abolish the provincial councils. Build a new constitution for us based on who we are, not on what imperialists want us to be: slaves. We haven’t forgotten how the Indian Army invaded #SriLanka to the […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Lanka Lead News භූ දේශපාලනික රහස් හෙළිදරව් කිරීම් අතින් පසුගිය දශකයේදී ලෝකය උඩුයටිකුරු කළ එඩ්වඩ් ස්නෝව්ඩන් වඩාත් ලොව ප්රකට වූයේ ඔහු විසින් CIA සංවිධානය ගැන කළ විශේෂ හෙළිදරව් කිරීම් නිසාය. CIA සංව්ධානය විසින් දෙස් විදෙස් භූදේශපාලන නායකයන්ගේ දුරකථන ඇමතුම්, ඊ මේල් සහ සමාජ ජාලා ගිණුම වලට හොර රහසේ ඇතුල්වී තොරතුරු සොරා ගන්නා බව මෙන්ම ශුද්ධෝත්තම […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Lanka Lead News දෙමළ ජනතාවට රටක් නැති බවත්, එනිසාම ඔවුන් රටක් සොයන්නේ අතීතයේ සිටම බවත් විශ්රාමික ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ජගත් ඩයස් ඩයස් මහතා පවසයි. මාධ්ය නාලිකාවක් සමග සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මෙම කරුණු සදහන් කරයි. ඊශ්රායලයට ද රටක් නොතිබුණු අවදියේ බටහිර බලපෑම මත ඔවුන්ට රටක් අත්පත්කර ගැනීමට හැකි වූ බවද, දෙමළ ජනතාවට රටක් නොමැති නිසා එය […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් පසුගිය බ්රහස්පතින්දා ජනාධිපතිවරයා මුදල් අමාත්යාංශයේ නිලධාරීන් සමග සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත විය. සාකච්ඡාව අවසානයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා රවි කරුණානායක හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්යවරයා සමග කිසියම් දෙයක් පිළිබඳ කතා කරමින් සිටින විට රවිගේ ජංගම දුරකථනය නාද විය. ‘‘එහෙමයි ස්වාමීන් වහන්ස, එහෙමයි. ඉන්න මම ජනාධිපතිතුමාට දෙන්නම් එතුමාටම කියන්නකෝ‘‘ යනුවෙන් දුරකතනය රනිල්ට දුන්නේය. ‘‘එහෙමයි ස්වාමීන්වහන්ස, මම දැන් මේ මුදල් […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon and Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne today held discussion with the delegation led by U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs (PDASD) Jedidiah P Royal over the matters of defence cooperation enhancement and regional security stability. Jedidiah P Royal paid a […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka and India will sign a pact to link their power grids and start negotiations on an upgraded trade agreement within two months, a Sri Lankan diplomat said on Wednesday, as the island nation seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades. India has provided some $4 billion in […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe says the government has requested the Ministry of Finance to look into how the upcoming local government election can be financed in order to safeguard the people’s franchise. Speaking during a panel discussion ‘At HydePark’ on Ada Derana 24, the Justice Minister […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News An uninterrupted power supply will be provided for the whole of Sri Lanka with effect from today, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said on Thursday (16). Addressing the media today, Minister Wijesekera said this is being made possible following the electricity tariff hike approved by the Public Utilities Commission of […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
By Rohana R. Wasala Is former prime minister and president, Mahinda Rajapaksa still bluffing? The Most Venerable Mahanayake theras of the Three Nikayas (Siyam, Amarapura and Ramanna) wrote to president Ranil Wickremasinghe admonishing him not to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution two weeks ago, on February 2, as reported in The Island […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara. Reference the following news report. Last week, two vocal representatives of Tamil political opinion, Abraham Sumanthiran and C.V. Wigneswaran made statements rejecting implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution under the unitary system of government and demanded a federal system. Sumanthiran claimed that all the Tamil parties agree on a […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Sri Lanka Support Group Sri Lanka Peace Support Group නැමති සංවිධානයක් විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාව දෙකඩ කිරීමේ තදබල වැඩ වල නියැලී ඇති බව මෑතක Lankaweb අඩවියේ ලිපි මඟින් එලි දක්වා තිබුණි. Sri Lanka Peace Support Group (SLPSG) සංවිධානය (එවැනි සංවිධානයක් ඇත්තටම ඇත්නම්) එය හා අප සංවිධානය – Sri Lanka Support Group (SLSG) අතර කිසිම සම්බන්ධතාවයක් නොමැති […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Prime Minister’s Media Unit Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena held a productive discussion with representatives of IndustriALL Global Union, which represents powerful Trade Unions in more than 100 countries at the Temple Trees today (Feb 15). Secretary to the Prime Minister Anura Dissanayake, Atle Hoie, General Secretary 0f IndustriALL Global Union, Praveen Rao, Coordinator, South Asia […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
අකිල තෙන්නකෝන්, මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය තුමාගේ,මාධ්ය ලේකම්. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ස්විස්ටර්ලන්ත තානාපති ඩොමිනික් ෆර්ග්ලර් මහතා අද(15දා)දින සුහද හමුවක් සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමති ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා හමුවීමට මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයට පැමිණියේය.මෙහිදී ස්විස් තානාපති ඩොමිනික් ෆර්ග්ලර් මහතා ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසිය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමට අවශ්ය තාක්ෂණික සහය සහ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්ගේ පුහුණුවීම් වැඩමුළු පැවැත්වීමට සහයෝගය ලබාදෙන බව මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යවරයාට පැවසුවේය.තවදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් ස්විස් තානාපති මහතා මානව හිමිකම් […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්තථාවේ නවවෙනි වගන්තියට කිසිදු හානියක් හෝ අත තැබීමක් කරන්නට ඉඩ තබන්නේ නැහැ. නව වෙනි වගන්තිය ආරක්ෂා කර තිබෙන්නේ මහ සඟරුවනේ දැවැන්ත ඉතිහාස ගමනක ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙසයි. නොසෙල්වෙන මහා පර්වතයක් සේ සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ ආරක්ෂාවට ආණ්ඩු ක්රමයක එවැනි තැන්පත් කළ ශක්තිය අප ආරක්ෂා කර ගත යුතුයි. -අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා. අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Jordan Raup Courtesy The Film Stage With its staggered, theatrical-only rollout over the last year, here’s hoping you’ve had the opportunity to experience the mesmerizing, transportive experience that is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria. The director, who left Thailand for Colombia to film the Tilda Swinton-led feature, has now announced the first details for his next project, and […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
by Hassaan Shazuli Courtesy Mongabay Marine experts say the seismic activity in the Indian Ocean in the past few days likely pushed a pod of pilot whales onto Sri Lanka’s shores. Authorities and volunteers undertook a strenuous 15-and-a-half-hour operation to send a pod of pilot whales safely back into the sea. Rescuers managed to push 11 […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Courtesy Alarabiya.News Sri Lanka and India will sign a pact to link their power grids and start negotiations on an upgraded trade agreement within two months, a Sri Lankan diplomat said on Wednesday, as the island nation seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades. India has provided some $4 billion in […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Courtesy MailOnline BEIJING (AP) – China expressed support for Sri Lanka ahead of a meeting Friday of government lenders to poor economies but did not say if it would help reduce a multibillion-dollar debt that has plunged the Indian Ocean nation into financial and political turmoil. Beijing is one of Sri Lanka’s biggest creditors after […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Many of those who call for the ‘full implementation of the 13th Amendment’ believe that all State land should be completely under the control of the provincial councils. The actual extent of the devolution of land powers would depend on the language used in the text of the 13th Amendment, […]
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