Archive for August, 2023
Sunday, August 20th, 2023
Dr Sudath Ggunasekara Mahanuwara Foreign Ministry clueless about top US spook’s clandestine visit Posted on August 16th, 2023 By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament yesterday that his ministry had received no information about CIA Chief William J. Burns’ alleged visit to Sri Lanka on Feb 14. Making a ministerial […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga A few days back the President stated that the education system has to be radically changed to meet the skills essential for the future development needs of the country. It is most encouraging that the President has become enlightened in such a critical need at least now after more than for long decades. […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
MEDIA RELEASE RANJITH SOYSA Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), The Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), Victoria Australia, along with like-minded organizations in Australia, England and the Middle East, write to register our protest with regards to the decision of President Ranil Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka, to offer pardon […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
Clinical Meditation By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Clinical Meditation By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. ( Published by the Gunasena Publishers Colombo Sri Lanka ) Pl see the link; https://gurulugomi.lk/Book/f867e3601c7b11ee993a159080e0b35a “Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge’s Clinical Meditation is a most ambitious project, providing a broad overview of meditative techniques without sacrificing in-depth analysis” Brian Rees MD MPH Colonel (retired) US Army Executive Director, […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
News Center උතුරේ කුල ප්රශ්නය ගැන අහද්දී ඉන්දියාවට කට උත්තර නෑ, විග්නේශ්වරන් තක්කඩියෙක්, සුමන්තිරන්ගේ පුතා බැඳලා ඉන්නේ සිංහල කෙල්ලෙක් -අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථන්ගෙන් ඉන්දියාවට සහ TNA එකට දරුණු ප්රහාරයක්
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
Manusha Media ලියාපදිංචි විදේශ රැකියා නියෝජිත ආයතන හරහා ශ්රමිකයින් පිටත් කර යැවීමේදි අදාල නියෝජිත ආයතවලට ප්රතිපූර්ණය කරනු ලබන ලියාපදිංචි ගාස්තුවලින් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ එකොලහක මුදලක්, විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශය විසින් ක්රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන සුබසාධන කටයුතු සදහා යොදා ගැනීම සදහා කාර්යාංශයේ අධ්යක්ෂ සහ කුරුණෑගල ට්රාන්ස් ගල්ෆ් විදේශ රැකියා නියෝජිත ආයතනයේ කළමනාකරණ අධ්යක්ෂ ෆස්ලි රෆයිඩීන් මහතා විසින් කම්කරු […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Garvin Karunaratne My dabbling in agriculture in Sri Lanka, for eighteen long years as an administrative officer in agriculture tells me that August is always a dry month- a month for harvesting. February and August are dry months and the pattern of paddy cultivation had to be geared to that reality, which Mother Nature has […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS A republic model is suitable to adapt in large countries is the opinion of constitutional experts, and Sri Lanka which is a small country with few ethnic groups that is less than number of figures in a hand, would not be adapted and why some people promote a republic model for Sri […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Ruwan M Jayatunge ( Medical Doctor, Author, and an Associate Professor) The work of Jacques Derrida has received relatively little attention on nihilism. Derrida is known best for deconstructing philosophy and Derrida’s philosophical elucidations are halting, opaque, punning, and elliptical leading to the rhetoric of ambiguity. His deconstruction makes language unintelligible to make a point. […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
BY CHRIS HEDGES AUGUST 18, 2023 Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani joins Chris Hedges to discuss his documentary ‘Coup 53,’ which uses newly discovered archival material to expose how the CIA and British intelligence worked clandestinely to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh 70 years ago. On Aug. 19, 1953, 70 years ago this week, the democratically elected prime minister […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
ෆීනික්ස් නීති සාර සංහ්රහය -වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 121 ව්යවස්ථාව යටතේ පෙත්සම් කිහිපයක්ම ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබූ අතර, එහි තීරණය 2023 අගෝස්තු 10 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති අතර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අන්තර්ජාල වෙබ් අඩවියේ එකී තීරණය පළකර ඇති අතර එහි අවසන් ඡේදය ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් මෙසේ දැක්වෙයි. In conclusion, we wish to record that our attention was drawn to several textual discrepancies between the Sinhala, Tamil […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News උතුරේ දූපත් 3ක දෙමුහුන් පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති පද්ධතිය ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා ඉන්දියානු සමාගම් වලින් පමණක් ලංසු කැඳවා තිබේ. ශ්රී ලංකා සුනිත්ය බලශක්ති අධිකාරියේ අධ්යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා විසින් නිකුත්කළ නිවේදනයක් මගින් මේ බව දන්වා ඇති අතර, ලංසු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම 2023 සැප්තැම්බර් 14 දිනෙන් අවසන් වන බවත් දක්වා තිබේ. අදාළ ලිපිය පහළින්…
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News ඊයේ දින කුරුන්දි විහාර භූමියට පැමිණි දෙමළ අන්තවාදී දේශපාලන නායකයන් සතුටු කිරීම සඳහා ගොන් කතාවක් කියන ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරිවරයකුගේ හඬපටයක් අප වෙත ලැබී ඇත. ඔහුට අනුව පුරාවිද්යා ආඥා පනතේ විධිවිධාන අනුව එම දෙපාර්තමෙන්තුවේ අධීක්ෂණය යටතේ පුරාවිද්යා රක්ෂිතයක ප්රතිසංස්කරණ කටයුතු කිරීම නීති විරෝධීය. අධීක්ෂණයට බලයක් ලැබෙන්නේ දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදීන් ඊට එරෙහිව ගැටුමක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ, ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා සමග හා රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා සමග ඩීල් එකක් ඇති බව පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ දුමින්ද නාගමුව මහතා සිරස රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවේ විකාශය වූ වැඩසටහනකට එක් වෙමින් නැවත වරක් පවසයි. ජවිපෙ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා දුපතක ආයෝජනය කර ඇති බවට තමන් පැවසූ කතාව සම්බන්දයෙන් ඔහු එහිදී පවසන්නේ ඒ […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Courtesy The Telegraph Online President appoints retired Major General-led team to shape contemporary security policies Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremeshinghe President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday highlighted the need for a comprehensive review of Sri Lanka’s national security strategy to chart a course devoid of entanglement in the emerging international rivalries and maintain neutrality in the […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy PIME Asia News The island wants to join the world’s largest free trade and economic cooperation agreement. The announcement by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who also wants to ‘demilitarise’ the Indian Ocean. For analysts and experts, it is an important step to revive the country’s economy and open up new avenues for […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
By Shirani ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today It is no secret that President Ranil Wickremesinghe always rooted for a federal solution. Nevertheless, regardless of his own personal beliefs, he, as an astute politician, is also aware that majority of the country (which is not to be read as ‘majority community’) bitterly oppose such a power-sharing structure […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana In a significant stride towards enhancing bilateral relations, the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Kenya Kananathan and the Prime Cabinet Secretary of Kenya, Musalia Mudavadi held a successful meeting aimed to advance mutual interests in trade, investments and collaboration across various sectors. The discussions underscored the commitment of both nations to foster […]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena visited the Yunnan Xiaguan Tuocha (Group) Co., Ltd., China’s premier tea enterprise integrating research and development, production and sales of tea in Dali in Yunnan Province on August 18. He held detailed discussions with the Chief Executive and top tea researchers about the possibilities of further strengthening the cooperation […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
By Sena Thoradeniya Several decades ago, at school we used Philip’s Modern School Atlas and saw countries of Asia, Africa and South America were given different colours to symbolise which colonialists – British, French, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or Italian – had subjugated those countries. On the occasion of the 77 th Independence Day of […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord of July 1987, led to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of November 1987. JR Jayewardene is remembered with contempt as the person who got the 13th Amendment accepted in Parliament. At the time, it was thought that this was forced […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර මෙම සිද්ධියෙන් මනාව පැහැදිළිවන පලමු කරුණනම් මෙතරම් ජාතික වැදගත්කමකින් යුතු දිස්ත්රික්ක 5ක මිනිසුන් දසලක්ෂ ගානක හා කර්මාන්ත ශාලා,රජයේ කාර්යාල, රෝහල් වැනි රාජ්යායත සිය දහස් ගානකට බලබපාන ඉතා වැදගත් සේවාකාක් ක්රියත්මක කිරීමට අමාත්ය මන්ඩල අනුමැතිය ලැබී චීන සමාගමක් සමඟ ගිවිසුම්ද අතසන්කොට වසර 5 ½ ක් ගතවනතුරුත් රජයේ සහ රාජ්ය ආයතනවල පවතින අකාර්යක්ෂමතාව […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Writing a good review is a valuable skill, whether you’re reviewing a product, service, book, movie, restaurant, or any other type of experience. A well-written review provides useful insights and helps others make informed decisions. Here’s a guide on what to include and what to avoid in your review: What to […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
Prime Minister’s Media Division Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena held a meeting with Vietnam Vice President Tran Luu Quang on the sidelines of the 7th China – South Asia Expo in Kunming, Yunnan Province in China on August 16.The Vietnamese Vice President acceded to the request made by the Prime Minister to explore possibility of new […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
Dr Sudath Gunasekara I am told the Samanala water after feeding the Hydro plant at Kapugala empties in to Katupitiya oya a RB head water river of Walave ganga above the UdaWalawe Reservoir that can use the same water for agriculture under Uda Walave and why does the Minister refuses to release Smanala water and […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda addressed the students of the 63rd National Defence Course at the National Defence College (NDC) in New Delhi, (18 aug) on the theme ‘Evolution of India-Sri Lanka Relation: Opportunities and Challenges.’ At the outset, High Commissioner Moragoda highlighted the uniqueness of […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
Courtesy People’s Daily Online COLOMBO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized the importance of learning Chinese along with English for school children, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said on Thursday. The PMD said the president made such remarks while addressing the annual prize awarding of a leading school called “Anula Vidyalaya” […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
JYOTI MALHOTRA Courtesy The Print A complete lack of trust between the Sinhala elite and Tamil minority is apparent across Sri Lanka, which seems unable to even begin laying some of its ghosts to rest. Forty years ago this July, back in 1983, Sri Lanka was devastated by an anti-Tamil pogrom in which several hundred people […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
Courtesy News18 Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral creditor China, is likely going to help the cash-strapped country in effectively addressing the debt challenges as it has to finalise the external and internal debt for restructuring of $41 billion by September before the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) first review, reported PTI. The IMF is set to conduct […]
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