Archive for February, 2024
Sunday, February 4th, 2024
e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 28 January – 03 February 2024 * Unlike in India, the national anthem in Sri Lanka is not associated with a freedom struggle. Independence battles in this country were fought by Keppetipola, Puran Appu, Gongalegoda Banda, Dharmapala & others, but there […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් සිද්ධාර්ථ කුමාර උප්පත්තිය ලුම්මිනියේ නොව ලංකාවේ බඹරගල යයි මතයක් හදාගෙන යන පිරිසක් දැන් ඇත. එය සුලු කොට තැකිය හැකි නොවේ.ශ්රී මහා බෝධිය හිරිවඩුන්නේද ලංකාදීපය රුහුණු දනව්වේද තිබෙන විට මෙරට ෙඑතිහාසික බෞද්ධ ඉතිහාසය කෙප්පයක් බවට පත් කරන්නට හැකිය.එවිට බෙදුම්වාදී ප්රවණතාවයන්ට ලැබෙන ශක්තිය තේරුම් ගත හැකිය.විශ්ව බුද්ධලා මෙහෙයවන සංකල්ප ව්යාජ අවලෝකිතේශ්වර බෝධි සතවයන් විසින් […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අසරණ රෝගීන්ට ලබා දෙන ඖෂධවලින් ද සොරා කන පිරිස් එක සිරගෙයක පමණක් නොව සිරගෙවල් දහසක දැමුවත් ප්රමාණවත් නොවන බවත් දැන් වත්මන් පාලකයන් මෙවැනි සොරකම්, වංචා, දූෂණ” පෙන්වමින් වැරදි ප්රතිකර්ම සඳහා ජනතාවගේ මනස සකසන බවත් ඒ අනුව සොරකම” පෙන්වා ජනතා විරෝධයකින් තොරව රජයේ රෝහල් පෞද්ගලීකරණයට පාර කපා ගැනීමේ අවදානමක් මතුව ඇති […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ. ජානිපෙ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා නිදහස් දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත්කරමින් පවසන්නේ ‘නව නිදහස් දිනයක් ප්රකාශයට පත් කරනවා’ යයි උදම් අනමින්, වත්මන් පාලකයන් දුෂ්ට කොන්ත්රාත්තුවක් ඉටුකරමින් සිටින බවත්, ඒ පිළිබඳව ජනතාව දැනුම්වත් වී මෙම දුෂ්ට කොන්ත්රාත්තුව පැරදවීමට පෙරට පැමිණිය යුතු බවත් ය. විමල් වීරවංශ මහතාගේ නිදහස් දින පණිවිඩය පහළින්… 1815දී බ්රිතාන්ය […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL.B., Ph.D යෝධ ඇලට ලංකාවේ බූරු (මගේ ආමන්ත්රණය) B.Sc. ඉන්ජිනේරුවන් විසින් කරණ ලද විනාශය පිළිඹඳව ගාර්වින් කරුණාරත්න මහතා විසින් ලියූ ලිපිය කියවූ විට (Lankaweb, Feb 4, 2024), මීට වඩා ඉතාමත් සුළු, එහෙත් මේ බූරුවන්ගේ බටහිර ගැති හැසිරීම (European/western/modern technology is far superior to local, native knowledge) එලිදරව් කරණ උදාහරණයක් කලක් මහවැලි සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
@TruthwithChamuditha ජාමුණි කමන්ත තුෂාර සමග චමුදිත සමරවික්රම . Jamuni Kamantha Thushara On Truth with Chamuditha.
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 04 (Daily Mirror) – Former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who was remanded over importation of substandard Immunoglobulin injections, was admitted to Prison Hospital. Prisons Spokesman Gamini Dissanayake said that Rambukwella was admitted due to illness, following doctor’s recommendation. Rambukwella, remanded until February 15, was produced before Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court.
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Courtesy NDTV As per the Rameswaram Fishermen Association, the fishermen were fishing near Delft Island in the Palkbay sea area. Last month, the Sri Lankan Navy arrested 18 Indian fishermen. (Representational) Ramanathapuram: A total of 23 Indian fishermen were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy from Rameswaram, officials said on Sunday. As per the Rameswaram […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD). ©IFAD/Ruvin de Silva Around the world, young people are bringing their ambition for success to rural communities. Meet two young rural entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka who are making a difference. Magical mushrooms When Nadeeshani was a child, she was fascinated by her parents’ mushroom farm, housed in a tiny mud hut. She dreamed […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Courtesy The Hindu India must incentivise fishers to give up bottom trawling The continuing arrests of fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by the Sri Lankan Navy in the Palk Bay, despite diplomatic interventions at the highest level, and the attacks on them mid-sea by armed civilians are a matter of serious concern. True, Indian fishermen cross […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Courtesy Gulf Times Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) hoists the national flag during the Sri Lanka’s 76th Independence Day celebrations at the Galle Face Green in Colombo yesterday. Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is gradually” emerging from its worst economic crisis after the austerity of an IMF bailout, the president said yesterday in a speech to […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana A delegation of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist communist party which led an anti-India campaign in 1987-90 against the Indo-Lanka Accord, will on Monday (05 Feb.) start on an official visit to India. The delegation of JVP, the largest party under the broad entity National People’s Power (NPP), is to leave […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News As Sri Lanka celebrated its 76th Independence Day, President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his Independence Day message, invited all Sri Lankans, here and abroad, to contribute their utmost energy to the noble mission of rebuilding the nation. The President reflected on the challenges faced in the preceding year, marked by economic hardships and […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake With the wisdom of hindsight, the Root Causes of Sri Lanka’s first Sovereign Default, staged three years ago on the eve of 75 years of ‘Independence’ from the British Raj are clearly discernible. Back in March 2021 when the default happened there was too much Aragalaya hype and confusion to discern the deep […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
By Garvin Karunaratne In the Fifth Century we built Yodha Ela in Anuradhapura District at a gradient of five inches in a mile. Today, we are begging for dollars from the IMF. Our leaders were fooled by the IMF and A country that was never in Debt, got weaned to live on loans and handouts . Our […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Since Independence was sought on 4th February 1948, without shedding a single blood drop, the first Prime Minister was chosen by the Colonials as the as Right Honorable D.S. Senanayake. He was the Prime Minster from 24 September 1947 till 22 of March 1952 when he had an accident and […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක එන්නත් ගනුදෙනුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන නීති කෘත්යට මුළු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයම අධිකරණයට කැඳවා සාක්ෂි ගත යුතු බවට ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ අනූජ පේ්රමරත්න මහතා ඉල්ලා සිටියි. ඔහු මෙසේ කියා සිටියේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නා ලද හිටපු සෞඛ්ය අමාත්ය වත්මන් පරිසර ඇමති කෙහෙළියට මහතා වෙනුවෙන් මාලිගාකන්ද මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණය හමුවේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කරමිනි. ප්රශ්නගත ප්රතිදේහ එන්නත් ආනයනය […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Times Malta Former health minister detained over fake medicines scandalWorldSri LankaHealth Former Sri Lankan health minister Keheliya Rambukwella is being investigated in connection with the scam. Photo: AFP A Sri Lankan court remanded a senior cabinet minister in custody Saturday over the purchase of fake medicines for state hospitals when he was in charge […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana In Sri Lanka’s pursuit of transforming into a high-income country by 2048 involving trade negotiations with countries like Thailand, the Sri Lanka Thailand Free Trade Agreement (SLTFTA), was signed, during the visit of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and his delegation of business dignitaries today (03) at the Presidential Secretariat. This move aims […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana In a gesture of warm hospitality, President Ranil Wickremesinghe extended a cordial welcome to the distinguished Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, Srettha Thavisin, and the accompanying official delegation at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon (Feb.03). After the gracious reception by the Sri Lankan leader, a formal ceremony unfolded, with the Chief […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says that the cumulative deficit in Sri Lanka’s trade account narrowed to USD 4.9 billion from USD 5.2 billion within last year, the lowest recorded since 2010. However, the CBSL also stated that the country’s trade deficit widened in December 2023 compared to the trade deficit […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News In a significant development, President Ranil Wickremesinghe addressed the Thailand-Sri Lanka Business Forum at the Kingsbury Hotel, highlighting the auspicious timing of the event. The President announced the signing of a ground-breaking free trade agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and Thailand, marking the second FTA with an ASEAN country. President Wickremesinghe emphasized […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Chanaka Bandarage Up to 2015 or so there was little media scrutiny of bribery and corruption in Sri Lanka. True the private electronic media like Sirasa did investigative journalism, but that did not go far enough. The 2005 – 2015 government was very clever and ruthless in suppressing decent. Some media personnel made the supreme […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Dilrook Kannangara It is yet another secret military deal with USA approved following agreement by both parties on April 6, 2022. It is not surprising that Sri Lankan media failed to report this as they were silent on the first ACSA secret deal signed between USA and Sri Lanka on March 11, 2007. This was […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
LANKA LEADER ඊයේ(01) කොළොඹ පැවැති මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ජාතික පෙරමුණේ සභාපති ඉංජිනේරු කපිල පෙරේරා මහතා ඉදිරි දින කිහිපය තුළ මේ අටවා ගෙන තිබෙන ශ්රී ලංකාවට භයානක ප්රතිඵල අත්පත් කර දෙන තායිලන්ත,සිංගප්පූරු සහ එට්කා ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන බව අවධාරණය කරනු ලැබීය. මේ වන විට ජනතාව මුහුණ දෙන ආර්ථික අපහසුතා හේතුවෙන් මතුවි තිබෙන […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre The Cabinet has approved the Cabinet Paper No. 23/2527/603/061 dated 24.01.2024, on paying of salary and allowances to the dependents of deceased Tri-Forces personnel, who had retired from service on medical grounds owing to terrorist activities during active service in the war prior to 19.05.2009, those deceased prior to […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය .දරිද්රතාවය අවම කිරීම, ආහාර සහ පෝෂණ සුරක්ෂිතතාව ඉහළ නැංවීම සහ ස්වභාවික සම්පත් වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම සඳහා කැපවී සිටින ජාත්යන්තර ජල කළමනාකරණ ආයතනය (IWMI) සහ අන්තර්ජාතික කෘෂිකාර්මික පර්යේෂණ පිළිබඳ උපදේශක කණ්ඩායම (CGIAR ) සිය නිෂ්පාදන හවුල්කාරිත්වයේ 40 වැනි සංවත්සරය නිමිත්තෙන් මේ වසරේ ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ නව වැඩසටහනක් දියත් කිරීමට පියවර ගෙන තිබේ. අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් […]
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Dr Sarath Obeysekera Over half of students BestColleges surveyed (54%) say that the use of AI tools on college coursework counts as cheating or plagiarism. ImageCredit: picture alliance / Contributor / Getty I I myself placed a question in AI Chat Box as follows In need to formulate a plan to invest in a program […]
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