Archive for December 12th, 2023
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga Business Times of December 03, 2023, published a relevant article by Agri experts pointing out that the Ad hoc ban on oil palm deters foreign exchange savings. One was under the impression that Minister Amaraweera had instructed the CEA to conduct further formal research on palm oil cultivation. The knee-jerk ban on Oil […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B., Ph.D චන්ද සූත්රය: [අනුරකුමාර = රනිල්/සජිත්/චන්ද්රිකා/මෛත්රීපාල/පොහොට්ටුව..+ (27/4/23 හිමාලයන් ගිවිසුම)] හැඳින්වීම JVP හා බුද්ධාගම යනුවෙන් මීට පෙර ලියූ ලිපි දෙකේ අවසාන ලිපිය වන මෙයින් විශේෂයෙන් jvp පක්ෂ නායකයාගේ අදහස් හා මත උදාහරණ ලෙස යොදාගනිමින් පොදුවේ (ද්රවිඩ හා මුස්ලිම් නොවන) ලංකාවේ දේශපාලකයින්ගේ හෘදයශාක්ෂිය (truthfulness) සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉදිරියේ කිරීමට යන විමර්ශනයකට පසුබිම සපයයි. මෙහි සළකාබැලෙන කරුණු […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සහ කණ්ඩායම් 12 ක් මේ වන විට ‘මැතිවරණ සන්ධාන‘ ගොඩ නැගීමට සාකච්ඡා පවත්වති. පාර්ලිමේන්තු දේශපාලනයේ උපරිම අවදානව ඇත්තේ සන්ධාන හැඳීමේ දී ය. ‘දැලි පිහියෙන් කිරි කෑමට වඩා බියකරු‘ සන්ධාන හැදීම ප්රවේශමෙන් කළ යුතු ව්යවස්ථාමය අභ්යාසයකි. විධිමත් ලියාපදිංචියක් සහිත ‘සන්ධාන‘ හා ‘කට වචනයට නැතිනම් අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට‘ සීමා වූ සන්ධාන රැසක […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභානායක කාර්යාලය නිවසට හෝ කම්හලට ඇතුළුවීමට පෙර මෙරට බලශක්තියෙන් 19%ක් නැතහොත් පහෙන් එකක් අපතේ යන බවත්, ඒ නිසා බලශක්ති විගණනයක් අත්යවශ්ය බවත්, පා.ම. යදාමිණි ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී 2023.12.12 දින අවධාරණය කළේය. සම්ප්රේෂණයේදී 11%කට ආසන්න ප්රතිශතයක්ද, ගෘහස්ත සම්බන්ධතාවයට පෙර තවත් 9%කට ආසන්න ප්රතිශතයක්ද මෙසේ අපතේ යන බව ඔහු අනාවරණය කළේය. මේ නිසා ආයෝජන ප්රවර්ධනයට සෘජුවම […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre Senior officials of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) met with the State Minister of Defence in Sri Lanka Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at his office in Colombo yesterday (Dec. 11). Upon arrival, the delegation led by BMGF’s Deputy Director for Emergency Response, Global Development Dr. Valerie Bemo was warmly […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon chaired a special discussion on the wet weather related emergency situation presently being experienced in the country at the Emergency Operations Centre of the Disaster Management Centre in Colombo, yesterday (Dec 11). The landslide risk situation being experienced in the Badulla […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dec 12 (NewsWire) – The Cabinet has granted approval to enter into a Power Purchase Agreement with United Solar Group of Australia for a Solar Power Project, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera announced today. Taking to ‘X’, Minister Wijesekera said United Solar Group of Australia will invest in a 700 MW […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
IMF As part of the IMF-supported arrangement Sri Lanka has undertaken significant reforms to pave the way out of a deep economic and debt crisis. The economy is showing tentative signs of stabilization, supported by rapid disinflation and a significant fiscal adjustment. Tax revenues have increased but not as much as initially projected, and reserves […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said its executive board cleared the first review of Sri Lanka’s about $3 billion bailout on Tuesday, providing about $337 million in funds to help tackle the fallout from the country’s worst financial crisis in decades. The South Asian island nation is recovering from […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Island The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Transport and Highways to award the contract for the design and construction of the Ratmalana Railway Diesel Power Set Factory under the Railway Efficiency Improvement Project which is being implemented under Asian Development Bank funds, to China Civil Engineering Construction […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Sarath Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera yesterday (05) said that over a year after the killing of eight persons, including SLPP MP Amarakeerthi Atukorale and his police bodyguard and destruction of approximately 150 private properties the government was yet […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island attackers among 25 arrested along with two trawlers Poaching Indian fishers on Saturday night (Dec 09) caused injuries to two sailors in Sri Lankan waters off Point Pedro. Authoritative sources said that Indian fishers attacked them with sticks and then threw boiling water in a bid to thwart SLN […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec.12 (Daily Mirror) – In the wake of the organisations from countries such as Russia, China, Denmark and the United States proposing to invest in nuclear energy, Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA) has given the green light for nuke power, an official said. Russia which has already invested in […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government has decided to appoint a combined standing committee to make decisions concerning renewable energy projects and monitor whether the decisions are efficiently and promptly implemented by relevant institutions. Cabinet of Ministers green-lighted this resolution on Monday (Dec.11), after identifying the need to accelerate the implementation of renewable energy projects, in […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The police have arrested a saffron-robed monk called ‘Vishwa Buddha’ for behaving in a manner offensive to Buddhism. The 34-year-old, who is originally from Ratnapura, was taken into custody in the area of Kalagedihena. While the arrestee is slated to be produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court tomorrow (Dec.13), the Criminal Investigation Department […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka extended restrictions on outward remittances by six months to manage foreign exchange reserves, cabinet spokesperson and transport minister Bandula Gunawardane told reporters at a weekly cabinet briefing on Tuesday. The nation’s central bank suspended permission to remit funds for overseas investments by Sri Lankan residents from mid-2020 except under certain conditions. […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Media Spokesman of Sri Lanka Army, Major General Ravi Herath states that so far, police have arrested 126 out of around 139 inmates who had escaped from the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre last evening (11). Of the arrested inmates, 44 individuals have been detained at the Pulasthipura Police Station, 23 at […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Sports Harin Fernando on Tuesday (Dec.12) signed a new gazette notification to revoke the decision appointing an Interim Committee for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the national governing body of the sport. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the lawmaker said the move is an effort to lift the suspension imposed by the […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජනාධිපතිවරණයක් හෙට පැවැත්වුවත් මෙරට ජනාධිපති වෙන්නේ අනුර දිසානායක මහතා බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සුනිල් හදුන්නෙත්ති මහතා පවසයි. තම පාර්ශවයට පසුගිය මැතිවරණයෙන් පැවති 3%ක ප්රතිශතය අද වන විට එතරම් වර්ධනය වී ඇති බව සහතික කර පැවසිය හැකි යයිද ඒ මහතා පවසයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයක් පැවැත්වුවද ජාතින ජන බලවේගය ආණ්ඩු […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අද රටත් ජනතාවත් සිටින්නේ පරිවර්තන යුගයක් අබියස බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ලෝකය තුළ මිනිසුන්ට ජීවත්වීමට සුදුසුම කාලය වගේම හොඳම කාලය මේ පරිවර්තන යුගය බවද හෙතෙම පවසයි. ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ කඩුගන්නාවේදී පැවති ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ ජන හමුවක් අමතමිනි. ‘රටේ ජනතාව දැන් ජීවත් […]
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