Archive for September, 2023

What is USAID upto in Sri Lanka?

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s governments always apply ‘don’t look a gifthorse in the mouth’ logic and then lands up putting the country in trouble. We seem to be euthanized to think that countries that carry out regime change, colored revolutions, election fraud, funding youth unrest & even carrying out political assassinations in other countries, […]

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Anthropological Study on Kalinga Sri Lanka Relationship

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Asutosh Mishra* Department of Anthropology, IGNOU University, Cuttack, India, Abstract The island country, Sri Lanka, famously known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean and the soul of India that is Odisha otherwise known as the temple city of India had a very ancient connection. History has been saying that the founder of the Sinhalese race […]

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Sri LankaWeb Writers – Get Our of The Box!

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Prof. Hudson McLean As an avid reader of LankaWeb for the past 45 years or so, I am surprised that the historically old writers and even the new are still battling history “Inside the Box”. without getting out into the world! Yes. Sri Lanka had the British Colonial hang-over, and still has!.  Then after the […]

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RADICAL MOB PLANS TO DEMOLISH HISTORIC MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN.

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

by A. Abdul Aziz U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has reported several times that a wave of bigotry against Ahmadiyya Muslims has intensified since the start of 2023. In an extremely worrying sign of growing crisis in Pakistan, thirty-one (31) Ahmadiyya Mosques have been desecrated in 2023. Another disturbing news is coming in […]

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Milinda Moragoda inspected the progress at the Sri Lanka Buddhist Pilgrims Rest (SLBPR) in New Delhi

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Sri Lankan High Commission in India  Media Release 2023.09.24 Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda inspected the progress of the ongoing renovation work at the Sri Lanka Buddhist Pilgrims Rest (SLBPR) in New Delhi. The Pilgrims’ Rest which is located very close to the New Delhi main Railway Station functions under the High […]

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මොළය හිරිවට්ටන විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය හිඟය

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් සෞඛ්‍ය කේෂ්ත්‍ර යේ අද පවත්නා ලොකුම ප්‍රශ්නය වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන් (MO) විදේශගතවීම නොව, විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ හිඟය යි.  ජාතික රෝහල් දෙක ට, ශික්ෂණ රෝහල් 20 ට තවමත් එහි පීඩණය දැනී නොමැති නමුත්, පලාත් මුලික හා දිස්ත්‍රික් රෝහල්වල දැවැන්තම අර්බුදය මෙයයි.  මෙරට අනුමත විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව 2,851 කි.  සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයට අනුව අද 2,574 ක් සේවයේ […]

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ලංකාවට IMF කොන්දේසි 100ක්.. රහසිගත 11ක් ඒ අතර…

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

 lanka C news ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ණය සැපයීම සඳහා කොන්දේසි 100ක් පනවා ඇතැයි ජාත්‍යන්තර මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා පෙන්වා දෙයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට කොන්දේසි 100ක් මූල්‍ය අරමුදල විසින් පනවා ඇති බව හෙළිදරව් වුණේ පළමු වරටයි. බී.බී.සී. ආයතනය (බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ගුවන් විදුලිය) ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් පළ කළ වාර්තාවක සඳහන් වන්නේ මෙම කොන්දේසි 100න් කොන්දේසි 62ක් තවමත් සපුරා නැති […]

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‘කාපන් අම්මගේ ####’ තැන්පතු මුදල් ගන්න ආ අයට සමෘද්ධි බැංකු මැනේජර් තිත්ත කුණුහරුපෙන් බනී…

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

 lanka C news මාතර අකුරැස්සේ සමෘද්ධි බැංකුවකින් තම තැන්පතු මුදල් ලබාගැනීමට ආපු තැන්පතු කරුවන් පිරිසකට එම බැංකුවේ නිලධාරීන් විසින් අසභ්‍ය වචනයෙන් බැණ වැදී තිබේ. එහි කළමනාකරණියක් ඇයි කියලා තැනැත්තියක් විසින් අසභ්‍ය වචනවලින් බැන වදින වීඩියෝවක් සමාජ ජාලවල හුවමාරු වෙයි. තවත් නිළධාරීන් කිහිප දෙනෙක්ම බැංකුවේ මුදල් නැති බව සඳහන් කරමින් පාරිභෝගික ගනුදෙනුකරුවන්ට එළවා දැමීමට කටයුතු කළහ. […]

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අශෝභන ලෙස හැසිරුණු ටියුෂන් පෙම්වතුන් පොලිසියට කොටුවෙයි (වීඩියෝ)

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ලව් කරන එකයි සිප් එක පාත් කරන් ඉන්න එකයි දෙකක් මහත්තයෝ “ හෝමාගම නගරයේ පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන පෞද්ගලික ආයතනයකට අයත් උද්‍යානයක ආවරණය කළ කුඩා කාමර තුල බාලවයස්කාර දරැවන් ලිංගික කටයුතු සිදු කරන බවට ලද පැමිණිලි මත එම ස්ථානය අද (24) දින වැටලූ බව හෝමාගම මූලස්ථාන පොලිසිය පවසනවා. පොලිසිය පවසන්නේ තම දරැවන් […]

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පෝලිම පැන්නාට මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරයෙකුගේ බිරිඳකගෙන් කෝටියක වන්දියක් ඉල්ලයි

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු හමුවීම සදහා පෝළිමේ සිටියදී පෝලිම් පැන,මහේස්ත්‍රාත්වරයෙකුගේ බිරිද සමග බහින්බස්වූයේ යැයි චෝදනා කරමින්, තමන්ව හා සිය බිරිදව පොලිසිය අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගතකිරීමට පියවර ගැනීමට එරෙහිව අඹුසැමි යුවලක් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සමක් ගොනු කර තිබෙනවා. ඔවුන් එම පෙත්සමෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත්තේ තම මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් උල්ලංගනය වූ බවත් ඒ සඳහා රුපියල් කෝටියක වන්දි […]

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India’s Greatest Hits in Sri Lanka & Canada

Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News September 2023 Part 4 The Canadian government this week threatened to expose the Indian government’s assassination of a separatist Khalistani Sikh leader in Canada. Serendipitously, Sri Lankan lawmakers were also wondering about disjunctive diasporic silences regarding India’s assassination of leaders & civilians in […]

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Sivajilingam indicted in HC over Thileepan show’ gets Rs. 1 mn bail

Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

Courtesy The Daily News The Colombo High Court yesterday served an indictment to former Tamil National Organization MP M. K. Sivajilingam who was allegedly organizing the Thileepan” commemoration of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in violation of the Constitution. Following serving the indictments, the accused was ordered to be release on two […]

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There are no spy ships in Sri Lanka, says President Wickremesinghe

Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, September 22: There are no spy ships in Sri Lanka. I don’t know if anyone can establish a spy ship,” Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in New York on the side lines of the United Nations General Assembly. The Lankan President added that research vessels have been visiting for […]

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My son studying in the US assists me voluntarily: Ali Sabry

Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

Courtesy Daily Mirror Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, in his response to the public outcry on his son’s presence at UN events with him, said, Having seen the concerns raised on social media, on the presence of my son at a couple of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the UNGA, I would like to place […]

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Five arrested over supermarket staff brutally assaulting female

Saturday, September 23rd, 2023

Courtesy The Daily Mirror At least five persons, a group of staff members of a leading supermarket outlet in Borella were arrested over an incident of brutally assaulting a female customer. Police launched investigations after a video showing a group of staff members from a supermarket outlet brutally assaulting a female customer went viral on social […]

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Patriotism: Where are we?

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

By Garvin Karunaratne Since leaving the Sri Lankan Administrative Service in 1973, I have happened to have worked and lived in four countries for years- that was in the UK, the Bahamas, the USA, and Bangladesh. ​​ Regarding patriotism among the people, I have to admit that Sri Lanka would easily be the worst. This […]

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Invaluable role played by Philip – Kusuma Gunawardena couple for China Sri Lanka friendship- Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Prime Minister’s Media Division The 73rd anniversary celebration of the Sri Lanka China Friendship Association was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on 21.09.2023 at The Temple Trees. Addressing the gathering, Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong said that the strong foundation laid by Philip-Kusuma Gunawardena couple in the 1940s for the China-Sri Lanka […]

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Slim Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Ltd donates 500 Face Shields

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Slim Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Ltd donated a package of Anti-Fog Face Shields to the Defence Ministry Secretary Gen. Kamal Gunaratne symbolically at a function held at the Ministry, yesterday (Sep 21). The Defence Secretary received 500 WEEPRO brand Multi-Purpose Face Shields from the officials of Slim Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Ltd […]

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Sri Lanka repays entire Bangladeshi loan

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Courtesy The Daily Star Sri Lanka has paid $50 million to Bangladesh, the final instalment of a $200 million loan taken under a currency swap agreement two years ago, a top Bangladesh Bank official said yesterday. The government of the island nation also paid $4.5 million as interest on the loan amount on Thursday, the […]

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Ali Sabry’s Photo with son at UN fuels nepotism outcry

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A picture of Foreign Minister Ali Sabry with his son at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly has sparked criticism with people questioning as to why such privileges are offered to the relatives of politicians. The picture posted on X formerly known as Twitter is doing the […]

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Did Channel 4 documentary reopen old wounds?

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

By  Dilanthi Jayammanne  Courtesy Ceylon Today Setting aside politics, Britain’s Channel 4 documentary on the 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday carnage, released ahead of the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva, possibly reopened the wounds of those impacted by the carnage while triggering a spate of reactions from others. A […]

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රටක් කැළඹු ‘සොනික් සොනික්’ ගැන තොරතුරු එළියට

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරය සිදුවූ කාල වකවානුවේදී මෙන්ම පසුගිය දා බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය චැනල් 4 නාලිකාව මගින් විකාශනය වු වීඩියෝව නිසා යළිත් කරළියට පැමිණි මාතෘකාවක් වන්නේ ‘සොනික් සොනික්’ යන යෙදුමයි. විවිධ පාර්ෂවයන් විසින් මේ දිනවල ජනමාධ්‍ය හා සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ මේ යෙදුම නිතර ව්‍යවහාර වීම සාමාන්‍ය දෙයක් වී තිබෙනවා. පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ දේශපාලඥයින් මෙන්ම […]

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Video of Cargills staff brutally assaulting female goes viral

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A video showing a group of staff members from a Cargills supermarket outlet brutally assaulting a female customer is circulating on social media. The incident is reported to have occurred at the Cargills outlet in the Hanwella area. However, police have launched an investigation to confirm the location and identify the […]

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SL debt justice collective writes open letter to IMF on DDO

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Sri Lankan debt justice collective An International Monetary Fund (IMF), team is in Sri Lanka from September 14-to 27. While national experts have raised concerns about the legitimacy of the IMF engaging in Domestic Debt Restructuring, amid questions about transparency, Data accuracy, veracity, and authenticity in the IMF’s debt restructuring operations, a group of academics […]

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Sri Lanka’s dangerous domestic debt restructuring

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Jayati Ghosh & Kanchana N. Ruwanpura courtesy IPS Journal.eu The IMF’s bailout plan for Sri Lanka is likely to exacerbate the country’s economic crisis and put further strain on already vulnerable workers More than a year after the mass protest movement known as the Aragalaya ousted Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankans […]

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Questions rising from Janahanda interview with former CID Chief RaviS 

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Shenali D Waduge ·      Was the interviewee evading accountability? ·      Was the interviewer asking questions based on reading Commission Reports & ability to identify falsehoods & half-truths? ·      Were the questions centered on the notions spread via social media? ·      Can a tv show with an interviewer asking weak questions enabling the interviewee to evade accountability & pass the […]

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Migration of Medical Officers Exaggerated Falsehood

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Former Governor of Southern Province Sri Lanka is a leading country that generates Graduates for Europe, North America, Australia and the Middle East region since the decade of 1970. Even after the 1971 insurrection, the Black July 1983 and the 1987–89 dark era (deadly era) intensified the said situation. Higher salaries, better […]

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වෛද්‍යවරුන් රට හැර යාම අතිශයෝක්තියට නැගූ මිත්‍යාව

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් හිටපු දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 1970 දශකයේ සිට යුරෝපය, උතුරු ඇමරිකාව, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව හා මැද පෙරදිග කලාපයට උපාධිධාරීන් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන ප්‍රමුඛ රාජ්‍යයකි. 1971 කැරැල්ලෙන් පසුව ද, 1983 ජූලි කලබලය හා 1987 – 89 ඝාතන රැල්ල මෙම තත්ත්වය වඩාත් තීව්‍ර කළේය. වැඩි වැටුප්, උසස් රැකියා අවස්ථාවන්, වැඩිදුර අධ්‍යාපනය, දරුවන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපනය හා ආයතන ප්‍රධානීන්ගේ […]

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Patali’s Action Plan

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Chandre Dharmawardana The claim that Champika “is a capable person” is based on (1) comparing him with many other MPs who are uneducated (2) that Champika has an engineering degree and so, he is “educated”. I think this assessment is incorrect. A person must be judged not only on his “degree”, but also on his […]

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India and Sri Lanka sign contract for installing railway signalling system

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 21: The Contract for the Design, Installation, Testing & Commissioning of the signalling system for the Sri Lanka Railways from Maho to Anuradhapura (66 km) was signed by the Ministry of Transport and Highways of Sri Lanka and IRCON Ltd of India today (September 21, 2023). It took place in the […]

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