Archive for February, 2024
Thursday, February 29th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Buddhist lobby set out to re-establish Buddhism in the Northeast when the Eelam war ended in 2009. They were helped in this task by the army. The Buddhist lobby started off by setting up Buddha statues. Buddha-images were planted triumphantly in Tamil areas of re-conquest” lamented Tamil Separatist Movement. By 2012 the […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS Buddhist lobby made it a point to celebrate Wesak in the Northern Province. Wesak celebrations were organized in Jaffna in 2005. Religious activities were at Naga Vihara and Kadurugoda temple. Large crowds had thronged to Jaffna for Wesak to view the celebration. There were lanterns and dansala at the Alfred Duraiyappah stadium. Jaffna […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
The Pathfinder The Pathfinder Indian Ocean Security Conference Phase III was held in Colombo. President Ranil Wickremesinghe was the chief guest with Julie Chung, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Hayashi Makoto, Japanese Deputy Assistant Minister for Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs, and Milinda Moragoda founder of Pathfinder Foundation. The distinguished speakers were joined by other heads […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ශ්රී ලංකාව සතිපොළක් මට්ටමටම අද පත්කර ඇති බවත්, මේ රට උරුමයක්, ඉතිහාසයක් හා අයිතියක් ඇති රටක් මිස සතිපොළක් නොවන බවත් මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් මහතා පවසයි. රාජ්ය ව්යවසායකත්වය රටේ අනිවාර්ය අංගයක් බවත්, පෞද්ගලික අංශයක් තිබුණ ද සියලුම දේට මැදිහත් වීමට එම අංශයට නොහැකි බවත්, උපායමාර්ගික අරමුණුකරා යන විට වෙළඳපොළ න්යාය මතම පදනම් […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
By Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LL.M (UCL London)), former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, former Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Authority, President of the Lanka Ambassador’s Forum – United Kingdom, Solicitor in England and Wales Legal education is paramount in Sri Lanka, where there is a legal profession comprising 20,000 lawyers and academics in universities. […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
Palitha Mapatuna It is evident that a recent claim is being made by some that the Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, delivered his teaching and passed away in Sri Lanka. However, evidence seems to strongly indicate that the Buddha was born outside Sri Lanka (most probably in Lumbini in the country known today as Nepal) and that […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
Truth with Chamuditha උදයංග වීරතුංග චමුදිත සමරවික්රම සමග
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රංගන ශිල්පිනී දමිතා අබේරත්න හා ඇගේ සැමියා නිසි වරෙන්තුවක් නොමැතිව අත්අඩංගුවට නොගන්නා ලෙස කොටුව මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණය විසින් නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ. ඒ ඇය හා ඇගේ සැමියා විසින් ගොනු කරන ලද ඇපේක්ෂිත ඇප අයදුම් පත්රයක් සලකා බලමිනි. කොරියානු රැකියා ලබාදෙන බව පවසමින් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ තිහකට ආසන්න මුදලක් වංචා කරන ලදැයි සිදුකරන […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රංගනවේදිනී දමිතා අබේරත්න සහ ඇයගේ සැමියා කොරියානු රැකියා ලබාදෙන බව පවසා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 30ක මුදලක් වංචා කළ බව කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශන පවත්වන බව අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව කොටුව මහේස්ත්රාත් තිළිණ ගමගේ මහතාට (26) දැනුම් දුන්නේය. දමිතා අබේරත්න සහ ඇයගේ සැමියා කොරියානු රටට යවන බව පවසා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 30කට අධික මුදලක් […]
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement angrily noted that a process of BUDDHISIZATION and SINHALISATION started in the north and east from the year 2009. Buddhist temples were being constructed in places where no Buddhists reside and outside Sinhala Buddhist people” were being settled in Tamil villages, the Tamil Separatist Movement complained. The Tamil Separatist […]
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
– රෝහිත මුණසිංහ, පැරිසිය, ප්රංශය ජවිපෙ, දේශපාලනයේදී මුල පටන්ම ඉලක්ක කළේ ග්රාමීය, දිළිඳු, ගැමි තරුණ පරම්පරාවය. ඔවුන්ට පහසුවෙන්ම දිනාගත (ගොදුරු කරගත) හැකිවුයේද තමා ජීවත් වූ වපසරිය මිස ලෝකය ගැන එතරම් නොදත්, එතරම් ඉහළට ඉගෙන ගැනීමට අවස්ථාව නොලද මේ පිරිසය. රහසිගත ස්වභාවයෙන් කළ පන්ති 5 මෙම ප්රජාවට විශ්මිත ආකර්ෂණයක් එන්නත් කළ බන්ධනයක් මෙන් වීය. හේන්, කුඹුරු, ගොඩ ගොවිතැනින් හා ධීවර කර්මාන්තයෙන් හෝ කුලී වැඩෙන් යැපුණු, කිසිදු රැකියාවක් නොමැති වශයෙන් වූ මෙම පිරිසට ගැලපෙන ආකාරයට ජවිපෙ විශේෂ […]
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, February 28: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that Sri Lanka does not want to get involved in great power rivalry in the Indian Ocean Region. He was giving the keynote speech at the Pathfinder Indian Ocean Security Conference – Phase III, here on Wednesday. Wickremesinghe traced the growth […]
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
By Sena Thoradeniya US Ambassador Julie Chung was very busy welcoming Liz Allen, US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, (on February 17), Afreen Akter, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs (Feb. 21), Lindsey Ford, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and South East Asia […]
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre ‘In acknowledging the role played by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in advancing global peace and security, we are proud to announce that Sri Lanka’s initiative to introduce a new Act and an online Chemical Monitoring and Regulatory System (CM&RS) dedicated to overseeing security-related chemicals’. […]
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
By A. Abdul Aziz Over 40000 attended this three day Convention. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim (may Allah be his Helper), conducted the concluding session from the Masroor Hall, Islamabad, UK, for the Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana ) Ghana 2024 on last Saturday. With the grace of Allah, the Ahmadiyya […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
tomdispatch.com/ Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a $95-billion bill to give many more Americans reasonable health care. No, it really doesn’t sound likely, does it? Okay, then, how about Congress teetering at the edge of passing just such a bill to further arm Ukraine, Israel, […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
තිස්ස ගුණතිලක පසුගිය ලිපි දෙකෙන්ම උත්සාහකලේ ප්රස්තූත පැනයට පිලිතුර සාකච්චාකරන අතරම සමාජය තුලත් අප සියළු දෙනා තුලත් නිදන් ගතවී ඇති නිවන වසනා (මිත්යා) දෘෂ්ඨීන් හඳුනාගෙන ඒවා දුරුකිරීමය. 1. උදාහරනයක් ලෙස ස්වභාවධර්මය තුලවූ සියල්ලම අසංඛතය බවත් ඒ සියල්ලේම එකතුව නිවනේ ස්වභාවය නැතහොත් නිවනම බවත් පලමුව දත යුතුය. එනම් ස්වභාවධර්මය යනු නිවනයි. නිවන් දැකීම යනු ස්වභාවධර්මගත වීමයි, ස්වභාවධර්මයම […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 27 (Daily Mirror) – Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena is reported to have used his decisive vote as the chairman of the Constitutional Council (CC) to affirm the appointment of Mr. Deshabandu Tennakoon as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) permanently. The other eight members of the CC […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 27 (Daily Mirror) – In the wake of reports that President Ranil Wickremesinghe ordering an immediate investigation into the circular asking overstaying Russian and Ukrainian tourists to leave within 14 days, the Russian Embassy in Colombo said it awaits the results of the probe directed by the […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb. 27 (Daily Mirror)- The legality of the no confidence motion which is being brought against Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene is questionable, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today. The opposition claims that the Speaker got the Online Safety Bill enacted violating the constitution. It is not the Speaker who […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The Indian government is working on operationalizing Rupee investments in Sri Lanka in a move to boost Indian investments in its southern neighbour, two people aware of the matter told Mint. Rupee investments will ease the way for Indian firms to enter the Sri Lankan markets, the people mentioned above said, speaking under […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has given the go-ahead to a proposal seeking to upgrade the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake and the Colombo Port to be on par with the international practices, recommendations and standards under a grant provided by Japan. As Sri Lanka’s economy is mainly dependent on the income generated […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana All political parties will be informed of the Regulation of Election Expenditure Act on Tuesday (27 Feb.) and 06 March, as per a decision made by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka. Chairman of the Commission R. M. A. L. Ratnayake explained that the discussion will be held in light of the fact […]
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Monday, February 26th, 2024
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Monday, February 26th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre ආරක්ෂක රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ගරු. ප්රමිත බණ්ඩාර තෙන්නකෝන් මැතිතුමා, එක්සත් ජනපද රාජ්ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ කළමනාකරණ සහ සම්පත් පිළිබඳ නියෝජ්ය රාජ්ය ලේකම් සහ ප්රධාන මෙහෙයුම් නිලධාරී රිචඩ් ආර්. වර්මා මහතා, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ එක්සත් ජනපද තානාපති අතිගරු ජූලි චන්ග් මැතිනිය ඇතුළු එරට නියෝජිත පිරිසක් පසුගිය සිකුරාදා (පෙබ 23) ශ්රී ලංකා නාවික නෞකා විජයබාහු […]
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Monday, February 26th, 2024
Dr Sarath obeysekera During a recent meeting held by the president, he mentioned the need for developing more comprehensive vocational Training in Sri Lanka We need to seriously discuss and implement the following plan The state of welding training and employment opportunities for welders from Sri Lanka We are discussing the state of welding training […]
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