Archive for September, 2023
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sept 21 (NewsWire – Minimum prices for meals offered for residential guests at tourist hotels in the Colombo Municipal Council limits will be implemented from October, as per a Gazette notification issued by the government. The Gazette, dated September 11, 2023, has been authorised by the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sept 18 (NewsWire) – The Gazette notification on the introduction of Minimum Room Rates (MRR) for Colombo City Hotels will come into effect from October 01, 2023. According to the Daily FT, Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) Chairman Priantha Fernando has formally notified the General Managers of the hotels in this regard. The […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
By Antony Fernando Express News Service Courtesy The Indian Express The service covering around 60 nautical miles will start from Nagapattinam Mini Port, sources said. Each ferry will carry around 150 passengers. Published: 21st September 2023 08:45 AM | Last Updated: 21st September 2023 08:45 AM | A+A A- NAGAPATTINAM: Efforts are on by the Union government’s Shipping Corporation of India to […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
By Anusha Rathi and Jack Detsch Courtesy Foreign policy.com The United Nations has given the international community the greenlight to punish Sri Lanka for torture. Congress has taken it. Congress is calling on the Biden administration to formally hold Sri Lanka responsible for its human rights abuses and violation of international humanitarian law, including decades of torture, military […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy World Food Programme COLOMBO – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) handed over a substantial consignment of 4,700mt of soya beans and maize to Sri Lanka Thriposha Limited, to support the continuation of the Thriposha fortified food programme. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) facilitated the handover at a special event […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s consumer price inflation rate eased to 2.1% year-on-year in August from 4.6% in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Thursday. The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month. Sri Lanka’s economy shrank […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywadena has addressed recent concerns pertaining to disclosing to the public certain details included in the report presented by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 2019. Making a special statement in Parliament in this regard on Thursday morning (21 Sep.), the […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Acting Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya announced that over the past year, inflation in Sri Lanka has significantly decreased to 62.1%, thanks to President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s robust economic reform agenda. Siyambalapitiya also highlighted that inflation, which stood by 66.7% during the first and second quarters of 2022, has now plummeted to just 4.6% for […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, President Ranil Wickremesinghe pledged to lead Sri Lanka towards sustainable growth, ensuring peace and prosperity for all, with the support of both the nation and the international community. He stated this while delivering his address during the General Debate of the 78th Session […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Dilrook Kannangara IMF facility for Sri Lanka looks more and more like a bigger trap than a solution. Recent Pakistani experience shows there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes to get IMF facilities approved than what is openly discussed. USA as the largest stakeholder of IMF, calls the shots and never misses to […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මෑතකදී ජාතික ජන බලවේගයයේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ශ්රී ලංකා විවෘත විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ සමාජ විද්යා අධ්යයන අංශයේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය, ආචාර්ය හරිනි අමරසූරිය ගෙන් විශ්ව විද්යාල නවක වධය පිලිබඳ ඇයගේ ස්ථාවරය විමසමින් මහාචාර්ය හරේන්ද්ර සිල්වා, මහාචාර්ය සුජීව අමරසේන, මහාචාර්ය සිරි හෙට්ටිගේ, මහාචාර්ය හිරාන් අමරසේකර සහ පුරවැසි මාධ්යවේදියෙකු වන අජිත් පැරකුම් ජයසිංහ හරහා ප්රශ්න ඇයට […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ නුවරඑළිය දිස්ත්රිකයේ හඟුරන්කෙත කළාපයේ සංචාරය කරන්නෙකුට (අධිකාරිගම, මල්ලුල්ල, උඩවත්ත, රහතුංගොඩ, උඩ පදියපැලැල්ල, උඩ හේවාහැට වැනි ප්රදේශ) නොවැරදීම ඇස ගැසෙන දර්ශනයකි එහි කඳු වල පිහිටි රක්ෂිත වල හට ගෙන ඇති ගිණි. මේවා ස්වභාවික ගිණි (ලැව් ගිණි) නොවේ; පුද්ගලයන් විසින් උවමනාවෙන්ම ඇති කරන ලද ගිණිවේ. දැඩි නියඟය නිසා මේ කැලෑ ප්රදේශ තදබල ලෙස වියළීමකට බඳුන්ව […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
මාධ්ය ඒකකය, මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශය. 2023.09.19 (ඊයේ) දින, පාස්කු ප්රහාරයේ පරීක්ෂණ වාර්තාව පිළිබඳ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ගරු ටිරාන් අලස් මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් පාර්ලිමේන්තු කමිටු කාමර අංක 01 හීදී පැවැත්විණි. ඒ සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් වියානි ගුණතිලක මහතා ,පොලිස්පති සී.ඩී වික්රමරත්න මහතා, අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව සහ ත්රස්ත විමර්ශන කොට්ඨාශය […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Courtesy The New Cold War By Jonathan Cook, originally published on declassifieduk.org. The reality of the West’s trademark current foreign policy – marketed for the past two decades under the principle of a Responsibility to Protect” – is all too visible amid Libya’s flood wreckage. Many thousands are dead or missing in the port of Derna after […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs for Meta (Facebook), in New York on the side-lines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and highlighted the government’s new initiatives to combat online hate speech and the spread of fake news. He emphasized that the proposed bill will […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with his Iranian counterpart Dr. Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, a short while ago (20 Sep.), the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The duo met on the sidelines of the ongoing 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session, and engaged in cordial discussions. Dr. Raisi also accepted President Wickremesinghe’s invitation to […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The draft of the Bill on ‘Online Safety’ was published, by way of a gazette notification, on Monday (18 Sep.), by the Ministry of Public Security. Accordingly, the relevant Bills aims to prohibit online communication of certain statements within the country, prevent the use of online accounts, both authentic and inauthentic, for the […]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of the Federation of Information Technology Sri Lanka (FITIS), Mr. Indika De Soysa, has projected a substantial boost of USD 15 billion to Sri Lanka’s gross domestic product (GDP) through the expansion of the digital economy, by the year 2030. The digital economy currently contributes USD 3.7 billion dollars to the […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Senaka Weeraratna The Portuguese landed in Colombo in 1505. Within a few years of their arrival they were able to establish permanent trading settlements and then indulge in a game of intrigue and blackmail with the various rulers and minor chiefs of the country. They harassed Bhuvenakabahu (King of Kotte from 1521 ?1551) to a […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ Lankawebහි 10/8/23 දින පළ වුනු ‘Land and Police powers must not be given to the Provinces’ යන ඉංග්රීසි ලිපියේ සංශෝධිත සිංහල අනුවාදය, එම මුල් ලේඛකයා විසින්ම. 1987 ඉන්දියා – ශ්රී ලංකා ගිවිසුමේ ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙස බිහිවූ 13 වෙනි සංශෝධනයේ ( උපලේඛන 9) සමගාමී ලැයිස්තුවට ඉඩම් සහ පොලිස් බලතල ඇතුළත් වන බව සත්යකි. නමුත් මේ […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Ceylon Diary – SBPC Official Channel සමුද්ර ආරක්ෂක කටයුතු පිලිබඳ විශ්ලේෂක ඉන්දික සහභණ්ධු මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දේශබන්දු ,දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. නිවැරදි දේ අගය කරන්නත් වැරදි දේ හෙළිදරවු කර නිර්භයව එයට පහර දෙන්නත් හෘදය සාක්ෂියක් මාධ්යවේදියෙකුට තියෙන්න ඕනෑ බව සිංහලේ දිනපොත විශ්වාසයයි ! පර්යේෂණාත්මක පුවත් පත් කලාව ! මෙහයවීම දේශාභිමානී […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Media Centre – MOD The sacred Omniscient Relics and Crest-Gem of Deegawapiya Stupa was brought to the Ministry of Defence for veneration today (Sep 19). Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne received the religious procession that brought the sacred relics and the crest gem to the Defence Ministry, this afternoon. Gen. Gunaratne accompanied by senior Ministry […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
අජිත් සී. හේරත් 2021-22 එන්නත්කරණයෙන් පසු දෙවසර තුළ ශ්රි ලංකාවේ මරණ සංඛ්යාව 65,074කින් ඉහළ යයි: (පළමු කොටස) අජිත් සී. හේරත් රජයේ සංඛ්යාලේඛන සහ ජන සංගණන දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුවේ වාර්තා අනුව 2021 සහ 22 වර්ෂවලදී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මරණ සංඛ්යාව සාමාන්ය අපේක්ෂිත සංඛ්යාවට වඩා 65000කින් පමණ ඉහළ ගොස් තිබේ. රජයේ සහ ලෝක සෞඛ්ය සංවිධානයේම වාර්තා අනුව 2020 ජනවාරි මස […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ද්විපාර්ශ්වික මිත්රත්වය සහ සංවර්ධන සහයෝගීතාව ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා සිය රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික ධුර කාලය තුළ අඛණ්ඩව සහයෝගය ලබා දීම පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට සිය කෘතඥතාව පළ කරන බව, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තානාපති වශයෙන් සිට සිය සේවා කාලය අවසන් කොට නික්ම යන තානාපති හෂේම් අෂ්ජාසාදේ මහතා පවසයි. කොවිඩ් වසංගතය සහ ගෝලීය ආර්ථික අර්බුදයේ අභියෝගාත්මක කාල […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Dr Sudath Gunasekara I am not a cricketer. But I enjoy seeing our boys winning the game as it brings a good name and fame for the country and also lots of money for the boys as well as the country. But looking at the historic tragic end on the 17th I am thoroughly disappointed. […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Vichara 54th session of the Human Rights Council (11th September – 6th October 2023) has commenced and the annual pilgrimage to Geneva by pro and anti-Sri Lanka is on the move. The UNHCR and international agencies are coercing the government to accept unreasonable conditions of the resolutions adopted on Sri Lanka. In this background following […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Dialogue works Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Prime Minister’s Media Division Speaker of Bangladesh Parliament, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury said upcoming BIMSTEC and IORA meetings will boost cooperation between the countries in the region. She referred to close cooperation between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in international forums, and emphasized the need for further expansion of people-to-people ties between the two countries. The Speaker […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Gamini Sarath Godakanda Ambassador of Chad to India Dillah Lucienne called on Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda at the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi. Chad and Sri Lanka are to sign the agreement establishing formal diplomatic relations shortly, and the arrangements in this regard are in progress. Once the formal diplomatic relations are established, the Ambassador of Chad in New Delhi will […]
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