Archive for February, 2023
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of the Election Commission Nimal G. Punchihewa says that he will summon the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and its officials for a discussion tomorrow (Feb. 16), in order to hold talks on the release of funds required for the upcoming Local Government (LG) election. The Election Commission chief also pointed […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana With China yet to support Sri Lanka debt restructuring based on the debt sustainability analysis (DSA) of the IMF and Paris Club, time is running out on Colombo to secure a much-needed loan to revive the nation from the present economic crisis. Sri Lanka is seeking a USD 2.9 billion-dollar loan from the […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga The rapid development of South Korea from a backward nation whose per capita income was less than that of Ceylon in 1960 to a modern developed nation with a per capita income of US$ 42500 is considered an economic miracle. Do we have any lessons of experience to learn from that sensational achievement […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
පුවත් පත් නිවේදනය ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය ශ්රී ලංකාවට ප්රශ්නයක් වී ඇති හදිසි අත්යාවශ්ය ඖෂධ ආනයනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියනයක ඉන්දීය ණය සහනයෙහි ඉතිරිව පවතින මුදල් ප්රයෝජනයට ගැනීමේ හැකියාව පිළිබඳව අවධානය යොමු කෙරේ. ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ මහතා ඉන්දියාවේ මුදල් හා ආයතනික කටයුතු අමාත්ය නිර්මලා සීතාරාමන් මහත්මිය අද (පෙබ. […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Commercial and Industrial Workers’ Union, United Federation of Labour Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe was appointed by former President Rajapaksa. CBSL seems to function on the personal ‘belief’ of the CBSL Governor; CBSL continues to bury its head in the sand while the country is robbed by business elites in the export and import sector, saying corporate […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi Continuing his engagement with the key officials of the Government of India, the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in New Delhi Milinda Moragoda met with the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra at the Prime Minister’s Office. The meeting between […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය යුරෝපයේ රටවල්හරහා භාණ්ඩ ප්රවාහනය කරන ලිතුවේනියාවේ ප්රමුඛ සමාගමක් ට්රක් රථ රියදුරන් හය සියක් බඳවා ගැනීමට සූදානම් වෙයි .ඒ සඳහා ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්ට අවස්ථාව ලබාදෙන බව ලිතුවේනියාවේ Manvesta ප්රවාහන සේවයේ ජේෂ්ඨ අධ්යක්ෂ ධනා ජැනරිකෙඒට් මහත්මිය පවසයි. ඇය ඇතුළු නියෝජිත පිරිසක් 2023.02.13 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූහ. මෙම කඩිනම් බඳවා ගැනීම […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, February 14 (NDTV): Income Tax officials searched the BBC’s Delhi and Mumbai offices today and seized phones and laptops, weeks after a massive controversy over the UK national broadcaster’s documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the deadly sectarian riots in Gujarat in 2002. The taxmen sealed off the offices for […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Lanka Lead News රවිඩ භාෂාව කතාකරන ජනයා මේ රටේ මුල්ම ජනාවාස ඇති කළ බව හා සිංහලයන් පැවතගෙන එන්නේද ඔවුන්ගෙන් බවට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් මහතා පවසන ප්රකාශය කිසිම පදනමක් නැති ප්රකාශයක් බව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා යළිත් වරක් පෙන්වා දී තිබේ. එම ප්රකාශයේ ජීව විද්යාත්මක හෝ වාග්විද්යාත්මක පරදනමක් නොමැති බවත්, එය අවිද්යාත්මක ප්රකාශයක් පමණක් බවත් […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy The Nation LAHORE – Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman has said Pakistan and Sri Lanka have cordial relations and existing bilateral coopera-tion between the two countries can be further expanded. Talking to a delegation of Sri Lanka – Lahore Business Council, led by Honor-ary Consul General of Sri Lanka, Yasin Joya, during a meeting […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy AP News COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka is fast-tracking efforts to seal a stalled trade pact with Thailand in order to boost trade and tourism, and improve the foreign currency shortage that has led to its worst economic crisis, a government minister said on Tuesday. Sri Lanka began talks with Thailand on a […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News The Japanese government has agreed to provide USD 38 million to Sri Lanka for the purchase of fuel, mainly Diesel, in order to carry out uninterrupted essential and emergency health services in Sri Lanka. Cabinet spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena told the media today that the funds are being provided under the economic […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena stated that Japan has decided to provide a grant of 38 million dollars to Sri Lanka to ensure the uninterrupted maintenance of essential and emergency health services. He stated this joining the press conference to announce the Cabinet decisions held at the Government Information Department.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News The Treasury has released a circular on the government’s program for purchasing and distribution of paddy. The circular has been issued under the signature of the Treasury Secretary, K.M. Mahinda Siriwardena, on the direction of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policy. >The objective of the […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News Postal Voting for the Local Government Election postponed indefinitely, National Election Commission announced. The Chairman of the National Election Commission had earlier announced that it will not be possible to distribute postal vote ballot papers for the Local Government polls, from tomorrow (15). Nimal G. Punchihewa made the announcement by informing the […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Garvin Karunaratne It all happened in the Bangladesh Secretariat, three days after General Ershard took over the country in a bloodless coup on the 24 th of March 1982. The Minister for Youth Development was clamped in prison and the work of the Ministry was in jeopardy. The third in command, Air Vice Marshall […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ මුලින්ම, අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි ඝාතන තැත ගැන වදනක් – අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි මරා දැමීමේ වෑයමින් උන්වහන්සේ බේරුනේ අප ජාතියේ පිනටය. උන්වහන්සේ බොහෝ පිං කර ඇත. නුලෙන් මෙවර බේරුනේ ඒ නිසාය. මෙම මහා ඝාතන තැත ගැන රටේ දේශපාලනඥයෝ මුනිවත රකිති. කිසිවෙක් එය හෙලා දැකීමක් වත් කර නැත. මාධ්යයද, සමාජ මාද්යය ඇතුළු, එය ප්රධාන පුවතක් […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Ceylon Diary – SBPC Official Channel GEOPOLITICAL CRISIS REPORT 2023-02-12 මෙම සාකච්චාව වයසට ගිය වැඩිහිටි කුඩා දරුවන් සඳහා නොවේ. සමුද්ර ආරක්ෂක කටයුතු පිලිබඳ විශ්ලේෂක ඉන්දික සහභණ්ධු මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. සිංහලේ දිනපොත යුටියුබ් – YouTube චැනලයේ වීඩියෝ සදහා කතෘ අයිතිය ලබාගෙන ඇති බැවින් ඒවා නැවත යුටියුබ් – […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. දැන හෝ නොදැන ලංකාවේ අගමැතිවරු/ජනාධිපතිවරු දමිළ බෙදුම්වාදයට ඉණිමං බැඳීම Link between the Indian Railway Zones and the 13-A? හැඳින්වීම කොමියුනිස්ට් ගොරිල්ලා නිදහස් සටනත්, භූමිපුත්ර දේශප්රේමී ව්යාපාරයත් නිසා මැලේසියා බ්රිතාන්ය කොලනිය හැර යාමට සිදුවූ දමිළයෙක් ලෙස චෙල්වනායගම් ලංකාවට ආවේ (1940s) දකුණු ඉන්දියානු පල්ලිය හරහාය. පසු කාලයක කුඹුරු පණතට විරුද්ධ වුනත්, ලංකාවේ මාක්ස්වාදී […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Excerpted from volume two of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography Courtesy Island Excerpted from volume two of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography While tensions were rising between the two communities in 1978 I suggested to my Minister Wijetunga that we should visit the Jaffna peninsula for an inspection tour since Kokavil had a radio transmitter and the Japanese planners […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ 75 වැනි නිදහස් සංවත්සරය සහ ජපාන ශ්රී ලංකා රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික සබඳතාවලට වසර 70 ක් සපිරීම නිමිතිකොටගෙන ජපාන තානාපති මිසුකොෂි හිදෙකි මහතා විසින් සීතාවක තෙත් කලාපීය උද්භිද උද්යානයේ රුක් පැළයක් රෝපණය කරන ලදී. අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී යදාමිණි ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහභාගී වූ මෙම අවස්ථාවට, ජපන් තානාපති කාර්යාල නිලධාරීන් සහ […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Manusha Media ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ ක්රියාවලිය වේගවත් කිරීමට විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල් කරන්න – ඕමානයේ ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ ආයතන ඇමැති මනූෂගෙන් ඉල්ලයි විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය කඩිනමින් ඩිජිටල් කරනවා – මනූෂ සහතිකයක් දෙයි ඕමානයේ රැකියා සඳහා ශ්රී ලාංකික ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ දී ඇතිවන කාර්යපටිපාටි ම ය ප්රමාදයන් වළක්වා ගැනීම පිණිස, විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල් කිරීමට කඩිනම් […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review The majority Sinhalese community sees any further devolution to the Provinces as a pathway to the revival of Tamil separatism As part of measures to make devolution of power under the 13th. Amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution meaningful, the Tamils have suggested that the powers now vested with […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Courtesy The Hindustan Times Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is still alive was quashed by Tamil nationalists and the Sri Lankan army Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Courtesy FXEMPIRE By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Officials from China, India, Saudi Arabia and Group of Seven wealthy nations will participate in a first virtual meeting of a new sovereign debt roundtable on Friday, three sources familiar with the plans said on Monday. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Officials from China, India, Saudi Arabia and Group […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today 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 meaningful power-sharing arrangement […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Approximately 3.9 million families in the country live expecting help from the government, and therefore, the government has decided to provide them with 10kg of rice each free of charge in the months of March and April, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. Addressing the media, he said the government’s paddy […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Maritime resources on the Indian side of the sea have already been destroyed. We cannot allow further damage to our resources The fisheries issue is a long standing irritant to bilateral ties between Sri Lanka and India In response to a proposal for the introduction of a license system […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s external reserves surpassed two billion dollars in January, reflecting gradual improvement in the foreign exchange conditions in the domestic market which was made possible due to a slew of tightening measures and also due to the acceleration in the foreign currency inflows, recently. According to the latest data available, Sri […]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2023
Shenali D Waduge US military doctrine was such that American soldiers have been sent to war & to invade nations even for bananas! This was called America’s Banana Wars that involved US troops sent to invade Central America, Mexico & the Caribbean from 1898-1934. US actually occupied 6 nations (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti […]
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