Archive for March, 2024
Saturday, March 16th, 2024
by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. Where a veto power exists, the scales of justice can never be balanced” – Ahmadiyya Head. According to our Press Department, U.K., on 9 March 2024, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
PEPE ESCOBAR Courtesy The Unz Review The Four Stooges saga of Bundeswehr officers plotting to blow up the Kerch bridge in Crimea with Taurus missiles and getting away with it is a gift that keeps on giving. President Putin, in his comprehensive interview to Dmitry Kiselev for Russia 1/RIA Novosti, did not fail to address […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre ‘I am extremely happy that the College has selected a timely theme this year: Diversity and Inclusion towards Excellence in Military Medicine.” I firmly believe that striving for excellence in military medicine cannot be achieved by merely being knowledgeable and developing skills in military medicine but by creating and […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් තායිලන්තය යනුවෙන් වර්තමානයේ හඳුන්වන රට අතීතයේ දී සියම් දේශය ලෙසට ව්යවහාර වුණි.මොන්ගෝලියානු ජන වර්ගයට අයත් කහ මිනිසුන් ගෙන් පැවත එන මේ රට වාසීන් ගේ සම්භවය සහ සංස්කෘතික හැදියාව වර්ධනය වනුයේ බෞද්ධ මූල ධර්මයන් අනුවයි.අතීතයේ දී තාඹුලිංගමුව යනවෙන් දැක්වුණු පෙදෙස දෙකට බෙදී බුරුමය සහ තායි සියම් දේශය යනුවෙන් බෙදී වෙන් ව ගිය නමුදු […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
Senaka Weeraratna India has repealed three colonial-era laws that governed India’s Criminal Justice System namely the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Indian Evidence Act, and three new laws were enacted by the Parliament in December 2023. The three new laws are Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita […]
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් එදා මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ජනාධිපති කර බලය ලබාගත්තේ ද රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා බවත්, එහෙත් ඔහුට එදා ඉන්දියානු කොන්ත්රත්තුව ඉටු කිරීමට ඉඩක් නොලැබුණු බවත් මහාචාර්ය පූජ්ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස හිමියෝ පවසති. 2019 වනවිට ගෝඨාභය මහතාටද ඉන්දියානු කොන්ත්රත්තුව ලැබුන බවත්, එම කොන්ත්රාත්තුව ඉටු කිරීමට මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ වැනි ඒජන්තයන් යැවූ බවත් උන්වහන්සේ පවසති. මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS Senior nurse Somawathi recalled that as the morning progressed the crowd was swelling to uncontrollable levels at Ampara Base hospital, a large crowd had gathered in the public areas of the hospital .people were visibly upset Bhikkhus from Sri Vidyananda Pirivena, Mahawapi Vihare and from all around Ampara began arriving at the hospital […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS The intention of the LTTE in their Arantalawa attack was to destroy the Sri Vidyananda Pirivena. But the opposite happened. The late Indasara was promptly replaced by his pupil, Ven. Kirindiwela Somaratana. Ven. Somaratana had recently left Sri Vidyananda Pirivena to pursue his higher studies at the Kelaniya University. He returned immediately to […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS After the Arantalawa massacre, the government offered one-time compensation to the victims’ families: Rs. 25,000 for the slain adults and Rs. 15,000 for the slain children. Even by 1987 standards, this was a paltry sum, observed analysts. Some families, such as Ven. Indasara‘s family, rejected the offer. But, most of the families of […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
By Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LL.M (UCL)), former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President of the Lanka Ambassador’s Forum – United Kingdom, Solicitor in England and Wales, and Suchithra Withanage (LL.M (UK) (LL.M (UK) MBA (UK | Reading) LL.B (Hons) (UK)) Diploma in Law (UK) MCIArb (UK) MBCS (UK) MCMI (UK) ACIPR (UK) ASIArb (Singapore) […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
Prime Minister’s Media Division A special discussion was held on 14.03.2024 between Ven. Welamitiyawe Dharmakeerthi Sri Gnanarathana Thera, Chief Sanghanayaka of Colombo and Chilaw Districts, Parivenadhipathi of Vidyalankara Pirivena, and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena regarding the future development of International Buddhist Center Complex located at Vidyalankara Pirivena, Kelaniya.The Secretary to the Ministry of Urban Development, […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
Courtesy The Island By Rathindra Kuruwita Sri Lankan environmental groups are intensifying their campaign against the proposed Adani wind farm in Mannar. They have accused the Sri Lankan political parties of having ignored the the disastrous environmental, social and economic implications of the Adani wind farm to be established in Mannar. Prominent among the senior […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ඉන්දියාව වැනි ආරක්ෂකවාදී රටක් සමග වෙළෙඳ ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කළද, එම ගමන සාර්ථක ලෙස යා නොහැකි බවත්, එට්කා යනු සාමාන්ය වෙළෙඳ ගිවිසුමක් නොවන බවත් වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ ජාතික පෙරමුණේ සභාපති ඉංජිනේරු කපිල පෙරේරා මහතා පවසයි. එට්කා හරහා මෙරට දේශීය වෙළෙඳපොළ ඉන්දියාවට විකුණා දමන බවද එමගින් දේශීය ව්යවසායකයා අමු අමුවේම විකුණා දැමෙන බවද ඒ මහතා […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ලංකා ලීඩර් පාඨකයකු එවා ඇති 2016 දී පළ වූ පුවත්පත් සිරස්තලයක සඳහන් වන්නේ එදා අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගේ ප්රකාශයකි. ඒ මගින් කියවෙන්නේ 2020 දී රට ණය බරින් නිදහස් කරගන්නා බවය. ඔහු එසේ කියන්නේ 2015 සිට 2016 දක්වා ඩොලර් මිලියන 10,000ක් ජාත්යන්තර ස්වෛරී බැඳුම්කර ණය ගැනීමෙන් පසුවය. සමස්තයක් ලෙස 2019 දක්වා ඔහු විසින් […]
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
LIFE DOCS Athula Disanayaka After the 30 years of war ragged in North and East of Sri Lanka, Tamil girl and Sinhalese boy started a love affair at Jaffna university. Their love affairs had a numerous social taboos and opposition. But finally they got married. ස්ත්රී-පුරුෂ ප්රේමය ඉදිරියේ අන් කිසිවක් දුහුවිල්ලක් තරම් නොවටී. ලෞකික ප්රේමය […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Dilrook Kannangara Victoria Nuland quietly retired recently after multiple failures around the world, particularly in Ukraine. Her services” were never appreciated by the countries that received them! Except Sri Lanka under President Gotabaya. And the timing of the book release could not have been better. On 22 March 2022, Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary for […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Asoka Weerasinghe Dreaming of the joy of wanting to make an offering of sharing moments of poems, music and the theatre there haven’t been many who have walked beside me with the courage of a lion roaring at dinner circuits through polemical acts of ethnic hate and tensed moments. I have admired your conviction of not backing away from hastily constructed arguments parachuted with twisted […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 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 In the era of rapid technological advancement, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an important force driving innovation across various sectors. […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS Gunaratna and Jayakody have given a full description of the massacre of samaneras at Arantalawa. Gunaratna and Jayakody have interviewed persons who were physically present at the massacre and obtained first person information. .They speak of the joyful preparations and happy start to the charikawa, and then describe the massacre, as it was […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS There was a deep hatred of Buddhism within the Tamil Separatist Movement. Buddhists seem unaware of this, though it is clearly visible. It is right under their noses. This animosity is not new. I saw it as a schoolgirl in the 1950s in Kandy, both in my school and in the area where […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අවිස්සාවේල්ල ප්රදේශයේ අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී දිළිඳු පවුල් කීපයක දෘශ්යාබාධිත පුද්ගලයන් වෙත ඇස් කන්නාඩි බෙදා දීමේ අවස්ථාවකට සහභාගී වෙමින් හත් වන විධායක ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂගේ හිටපු පෞද්ගලික ලේකම් සුගීෂ්වර බණ්ඩාර මේ දින වල ජනප්රිය මාතෘකාවක් බවට පත් වී ඇති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් රචිත කුමන්ත්රණය නැමති ග්රන්ථයේ හෙළි කොකල කතාවක් වෙත අවධානයට […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පාලනය බිඳ වැට්ටවීමට ප්රධාන කුමන්ත්රණ කරුවා වන්නේ එවක ජනාධිපති ලේකම් පී බී ජයසුන්දර මහතා බව හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ පෞද්ගලික ලේකම් සුගීෂ්වර බණ්ඩාර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට කිසිදු පුද්ගලයෙකු මුණ ගැසීමට නොදී හිර කරන ලද්දේ ජෙනරාල් එගොඩවෙල බවටද ඔහු චෝදනා කරයි. ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් කමල් ගුණරත්න […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ප්රමුඛ ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ඇතුළු ආණ්ඩුවට සම්බන්ධ ජනතා නියෝජිතයන්ට සංඝ ආඥාවක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ. ආර්ථික සහ දේශපාලනික අර්බුදය තුළ ජනවරමට පිටුපාමින් නැවත නිවැරදි කරගත නොහැකි ලෙස රට විදේශීය ආධිපත්යයට යටත් කිරීම, ආර්ථික මරමස්ථාන විකුණා දැමීම වහාම නැවැත්විය යුතු බවටත්, මහ නායක හිමිවරුන්ගේ අනුශාසනා පිළිගත යුතු […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 14 (Daily Mirror) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said that he will submit the IMF technical assistance reports to Parliament soon. The President in his latest X message said he will submit the reports to Parliament following a request by TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran during talks on […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
By SUNIL JAYASIRI Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has refuted recent claims from US intelligence that there are potential plans for a Chinese military base to be established on its soil. State Defence Minister Premitha Bandara Tennakoon told Daily Mirror that Sri Lanka has not engaged in any discussions with foreign governments, including China, regarding […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS Sarita Gunaratna and Dinesh Jayakody (2022) have provided a comprehensive, well-researched and heart-rending account of the brutal murder of samaneras at Arantalawa by the LTTE on June 3rd, 1987. The essay is titled The Saffron Children: Massacre of samanera: Aranthalawa, 35 years on”. The link is https://sundaytimes.lk/online/opinion/The-Saffron-Children/158-1137728 The account was compiled using the […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
By Peter Koenig Global Research, September 06, 2023 The Criminal Insanity of Climate Change: Direct Energy Weapons (DEW) Create Forest and Bush Fires, Destroying Entire Cities and Igniting Boats in the Sea. Climate change – climate change – climate change – the world is burning. The Global North with the CO2 emission is the culprit. Weather maps […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Vladimir Putin Colombo, March 13: Of the two countries that are at each other’s throats now – Russia and Ukraine – it is Ukraine which appears to be the underdog despite massive American and Western arms aid. While the Russian economy is growing despite severe US and European sanctions, Ukraine is facing […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The finds included the archaeological remains of ponds and several buildings which were indicative of a sophisticated society in Polonnaruwa area Archaeologists carrying out excavations in the historic Polonnaruwa city have found evidence of a civilization that dates back to a period before the Polonnaruwa period recorded in history.Prof. Prishantha Gunawardene […]
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested Dr. Thusitha Sudarshana, the Deputy Director of the Health Ministry’s Medical Supplies Division on arrival in Sri Lanka at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake. Police Media Spokesman DIG Nihala Thalduwa said the arrest was carried out in connection with the import of substandard Human Immunoglobulin […]
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