Archive for February, 2024

නිවනේ ඇති පලය කුමක්ද? නිවන් දකින්නේ කුමටද? – 2 වන කොටස

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක ඉහත පැනයට පිළිතුර හමුවන්නේ නිවන යනු කුමන ස්වභාවයක්දැයි හදුනාගැනීම තුලයි. ඒ නිසා නිවනේ ස්වභාවය හොදින් වටහාගැනීමට තවදුරටත් උත්සාහ කරමු. පසුගිය ලිපියේ පැහැදිලිකල ආකාරයට අනාත්මීය (අනිච්ච), ශුණ්‍ය (දුක්ඛ) හා කරන්නෙක් නැති (අනාත්ම) ආකාරයෙන් ස්වභාවධර්මය පවතියි. ස්වභාවධර්මය අර්ථ දක්වන, පැහැදිලි කරන (definition) සද්ධර්මය තුල හමුවන තිලක්ෂණය මෙයයි. මේ ආකාරයෙන් ඔබත් මමත් සතාසීපාවාත් ගහකොලත් ගංඟා ඇල […]

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ජවිපෙ ඉන්දියන් විරෝධය ඇත්තක්ද?  

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ජවිපෙ ආරම්භයේ සිට අද දක්වා වසර 55 ක කාලය පුරාම, ‘ඉන්දියන් විරෝධය‘ කාලයෙන් කාලයට උඩ යට ගියේය. ඉන්දියන් විරෝධය හා එමගින් ඇති වූ සමාජ බලපෑම ගැන දත්ත පාදක විග්‍රහයක් බොහෝ දෙනාට නැත. චීන කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයට හිතවත් මතවාදයක් දැරූ විජේවීර, ඉන්දු – චීන ගැටුම් වර්ධනයවන විට, චීනයේ පැත්ත ගත්තේය.  1967 දෙසැම්බර් ඓතිහාසික කලැත්තෑව […]

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ඉරානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර  සංවර්ධන සහයෝගීතාව, වෙළඳාම සහ ආයෝජන පුළුල් කිරීමට පියවර…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ ඉරාන විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය හොසේන් අමීර් අබ්දුල්ලාහියාන් (Hossein Amir-Abdullahian) මහතා අතර, සාකච්ඡාවක් අද (2024.02.20) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. දෙරටෙහි සමීප ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා සහ සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති සම්බන්ධයෙන් සහයෝගිතාව පුළුල් කිරීම හා වෙළෙඳ සහ ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව මෙම සාකච්ඡාවේදී අවධානය යොමු කෙරිණි. විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට මෙගාවොට් 120ක අතිරේක විදුලි ධාරිතාවක් එක් කරන […]

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Sri Lanka’s tourism poised for remarkable growth as visa free travel enhances industry potential

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Courtesy Adaderana February, 20, 2024 Tourism in Sri Lanka is on a high growth trajectory following a boost in Sri Lanka’s potential as a must-visit destination. Visa free travel for tourists from China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan has provided the right nudge for tourists to put Sri Lanka on the top of […]

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Sri Lanka’s court okays controversial anti-terror bill with reforms

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Courtesy LaPrensalatina Colombo, Feb 20 (EFE).- Sri Lanka’s highest court has given its approval to a contentious anti-terrorism bill in a long-awaited verdict that calls for the removal of several unconstitutional provisions in the proposed legislation amid national and international pressure. Following legal challenges, the bill is now slated for approval by parliament, House Speaker […]

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Protest against Harin…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Courtesy Adaderana A protest was staged near the Office of the Minister of Tourism, located on the seventh floor of the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (SLITHM), this afternoon (20 Feb.). Accordingly, a group of protesters were seen calling for the resignation of Tourism Minister Harin Fernando, accusing him of violating the […]

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Protesting health workers claim over-time

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 19 (Daily Mirror) – The health sector workers who staged a protest at the National Hospital, Colombo (NHC) today demanding the removal of the National Hospital’s Deputy Director, had reportedly signed for overtime payments. When contacted, Deputy Director Dr. Rukshan Bellana claimed that more than 200 health workers attached […]

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Wimal questions Harin’s statement in India

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliament, Feb. 20 (Daily Mirror)- The government must inform Parliament wether the statement made by Tourism Minister Harin Fernando in India that Sri Lanka was part of India was the government’s official stance or his personal opinion, Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa said. He told Parliament that […]

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English language to be considered for conducting legal proceedings

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 20, (Daily Mirror) –  The English language is to be considered for conducting legal proceedings and maintaining records in certain courts, the Government Information Department said today. Particulars in the commerce sphere related to commercial activities are mainly used in the English language and require a considerable cost and […]

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A country governed by a flawed Constitution for 46 years? (1978-2024)

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Dr Sudath Gunasekara.  Former Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudhdha Jeista Purawesiyange SanviDhaanaya. The 1978 one-man Constitution of the Republic of Sri Lanka was promulgated on 7th September 1978 and it abolished the Republican Constitution framed on a popular mandate from the general public in 1972. Since then, 21 Amendments […]

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Does our Central Bank live in cloud cuckoo land? Emperor Nero fiddles while Rome burns: Rome will burn beware!

Monday, February 19th, 2024

By Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara My warnings about an unbridled Central Bank have come true with the Central Bank mandarins deciding a salary increase of as much as seventy percent, while over half our population lives in sheer poverty having to forgo at least a meal everyday. My Warnings appeared in Lanka Web of […]

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The Arts of Post-Colonialism, Geopolitics & Other White Trash

Monday, February 19th, 2024

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 11-17 February 2024 ‘Hi guys! How are you doing, exhorted US Ambassador Julie Chung as she walked towards a group of MPs… after the ceremonial opening of Parliament… Another parliamentarian quickly shot a question before the US envoy could move over […]

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False interpretation of Secularism to deny Freedom of Religion to Buddhist Students to listen to Pirith at Royal College

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Senaka Weeraratna An old boy who has expressed opposition in an article in the Daily FT recently, to the chanting of Pirith in a Buddhist religious ceremony at Royal College on grounds that it is ‘Anti Secular’, has given a false interpretation of Secularism. Moreover, he has made false allegations against the school authorities that […]

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A Message for Lord Marland, the Commonwealth  Enterprise Investment Council Chair

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University‚  The achievement of the CFTC- the Commonwealth  Fund, creating employment for over three million youths in Bangladesh may be of interest. In  Bangladesh when the new Military Government of General Ershard took over the country in 1982, the Ministry of Youth Development was providing skills training to 40,000 youths […]

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A RETURN TO WHAT SRI LANKA ONCE  WAS.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Politics (A Collective Symposium with expert input from Global Financial Advisors) Feb.19th.2024 Evaluating  Sri Lanka’s path to recovery and how the World Bank, as a development partner, is supporting the country’s journey towards green, resilient, and inclusive development, there is a positive indication that the country is on the  right track. The Nation is all […]

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West’s new cold war on Russia & China crushes EU’s economic heart: German industry

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Geopolitical Economy Report NATO’s new cold war on Russia and China is destroying Germany’s industrial base, devastating Europe’s economy, and destabilizing its politics, fueling the rise of the far-right, as neoliberal austerity policies exacerbate the ongoing recession. Ben Norton analyzes the evidence.

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PM urges FAO to support introduction of new tech to rural agriculture

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Prime Minister’s Media Division Director General of the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) Dr Qu Dongyu called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees in Colombo today (February 19). The Prime Minister, while thanking the Food and Agriculture Organization for the assistance provided to agriculture and the rural economic development over […]

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රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ අසාධාරණ තීරණ ගැනීමෙන් වැළකීමට විශේෂයෙන් කටයුතු කරන්න-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා

Monday, February 19th, 2024

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය වැඩ කල්දැමීම වෙනුවට හැකි ඉක්මනින් ඊට සූදානම් වී රාජකාරියට පිවිසෙන්න. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවයේ තුන්වන ශ්‍රේණිය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා විද්‍යාත්මක සේවයේ තුන්වන ශ්‍රේණිය, කළමනාකරණ සේවයේ අධි ශ්‍රේණිය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජයේ පුස්තකාලයාධිපති සේවයේ තුන්වන ශ්‍රේණිය යන සේවාවන් හි  සීමිත තරග විභාග සමත් 250 දෙනෙකු සඳහා පත්වීම් ලිපි ප්‍රදානය කිරීම අද (2024.02.19) දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් […]

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West Goes CRAZY Over Navalny Death. Ignores Gonzalo Lira, Julian Assange.

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Neutrality Studies The hypocrisy of the West and the utterly fake outrage over the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is breathtaking. While torturing to death Julian Assange in a UK prison—an Australian citizen who had been working in the UK and whose only “crime” it is to have revealed truths about US war crimes—and […]

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SLPP has to decide whether to sail or sink?

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Ex Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Bndaarnayaka This blind Government, which blindly elected him should immediately tame the President or ask him to resign forthwith, before completely ruining this country following the footsteps of his uncle going by Western advice with no regard or concern about this country or the Sinhala nation. […]

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Sri Lanka Air Force’s Taxpayer-Funded Charities are Discriminatory and Tribal-Minded

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka Air Force is taxpayer-funded. Therefore, it must equitably distribute any charitable donations to all. That means all provinces are equal. However, unfortunately, the recent charitable activities only benefit one ethnic group and one province in the North which is discriminatory and tribal-minded. This includes distributing school books and equipment to the […]

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BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 14C

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

KAMALIKA PIERIS The main strategy used to suppress Buddhism in the north and east, was to place Hindu kovils within Buddhist ruins. Kovils were set up on Buddhist structures. Hindu kovils have been built over many of the Buddhist shrines, said Medhananda.There was a historical precedent for this. Ama Wanniarachchi reported in 2022 that recent […]

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BUDDHIST VIHARAS  AND  EELAM  Part  14D

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

KAMALIKA PIERIS In 1983, Cyril Mathew prepared a 167 page document, titled An appeal to UNESCO to safeguard and preserve the cultural property in Sri Lanka endangered by racial prejudice, unlawful occupation or willful destruction.” The book also contains information on 24 selected sites, with supporting documents, showing the destruction of these Buddhist monuments.  Among […]

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BUDDHIST VIHARAS  AND  EELAM  Part  14E

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

KAMALIKA PIERIS When destroying Buddhist ruins,rock inscriptions were specifically targeted. They were sought out and deliberately destroyed. They were usulaly  broken into peices,  failing which,  words were tarred or obliterated.Mundikulammale in  Ampara had rows of caves with inscriptions. these had been shot and destroyed. The damage done is extensive. Buddhist ruins at Niyankullukama were shot […]

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හරීන්ට නඩු!

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ කොටසක් බවට සංචාරක ඇමැති හරින් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා කර ඇති ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් නඩු පැවරීම සඳහා නීති උපදෙස් ලබා ගනිමින් සිටින බව දේශහිතෛශී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ඇමැතිවරයා පවසා ඇති එම ප්‍රකාශය නිසා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය වන බවත් මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු වශයෙන් ලබා දී ඇති දිවුරුම කඩවන […]

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හරීන් ප්‍රනාන්දු “ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ කොටසක්!” කියද්දී “ජනපති -රාජපක්ෂවරු – බලයට ඉව අල්ලන විපක්ෂ කල්ලි” කසාය බීපු ගොළුවන් වගේ දත කට පූට්ටු කරගෙන ඉන්නවා – විමල් වීරවංශ

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් හරීන් ප්‍රනාන්දු සංචාරක අමාත්‍යවරයා ඉන්දියාවේ රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික කටයුත්තකදී සිදුකරන ලද “ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ කොටසක්!” යන බරපතළ ප්‍රකාශය හමුවේ ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ, “රටේ ස්වෛරීත්වය රැක්කේ අපි” කියා පවසන රාජපක්ෂවරුන්, විපක්‍ෂ නායකවරයා ඇතුළු බලයට ඉව අල්ලන විපක්ෂයේ අනෙකුත් කල්ලි කණ්ඩායම් කසාය බිව් ගොළුවන් සේ දත කට පූට්ටු කරගෙන ඉන්නා බවත් ඉන් පෙනී යන්නේ, “ශ්‍රී ලංකාව […]

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රාජ්‍ය සම්පත් පෞද්ගලීකරණය කිරීමෙන් සමාජ අනාරක්ෂිතතාවක් නිර්මාණය වීමේ අවදානමක් – මහානායක හිමිවරුන්ගෙන් ජනපති රනිල්ට අවවාදාත්මක ලිපියක්

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් රාජ්‍ය සම්පත් පෞද්ගලීකරණ කිරීම හේතුවෙන් සමාජ අනාරක්ෂිතතාවක් නිර්මාණය වීමේ අවදානමක් මතුව ඇති බව පෙන්වා දෙමින් ත්‍රෛනිකායික මහානායක හිමිවරුන් විසින්  ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත අවවාදාත්මක ලිපියක් යොමුකර තිබේ. එමගින් උන්වහන්සේලා පෙන්වා දී ඇත්තේ  ඇත්තේ මහජන සුබ සිද්ධිය, ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව, මෙන්ම රටේ ආර්ථික ස්ථායීත්වය පදනම් කොටගෙන ආරම්භ කරන ලද රාජ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාර මහජනයා […]

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Defence Secretary pays tribute to Colonel Olcott

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Remembering the 117th death anniversary of Buddhist revivalist, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne paid floral tributes to the statue of the late Colonel Olcott opposite the Fort Railway Station, Colombo today (Feb 17). A pioneer of the Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist movement, Colonel Olcott spearheaded […]

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The Worst Defeat for Ukraine – No Victory for Netanyahu – Huge Miscalculations | Larry C. Johnson

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Dialogue works Larry C. Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and […]

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President Ranil Wickremesinghe tells MPs that “there are no short cuts to abolish executive presidency”

Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Courtesy The Island Elections will be held in time, opposition circulating rumours” President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said that people of this country well know that there are no shortcuts to abolish the executive presidency.Responding to a query by a group of MPs at a meeting at the President’s Office in Colombo, the President said […]

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