Archive for March, 2024
Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Anura Kumara Dissanayake with Gujarat Chief Minister Colombo, March 3: In the aftermath of the five-day Indian visit of Anura Kumara Dissanayake(AKD) of the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) and his comrades, there has been an intense campaign against that party in South Sri Lanka. Politicians of major political parties, political […]
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Snake watches as a farmer works in his field in India Colombo, March 3: Bites of venomous snakes cause significant morbidity and mortality in the rural areas of tropical countries. Despite this, until recently, snakebites did not receive the attention they deserved as a public health problem. The main reason for this […]
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මහබැංකුව වර්තමානයේ රට පත්ව ඇති ආර්ථික අර්බුධය සඳහා සෘජුව වගකිව යුතු බව සමගි ජනබලවේගය පක්ෂයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ විපක්ෂයේ ප්රධාන සංවිධායක අධිනීතිඥ ලක්ෂ්මන් කිරිඇල්ල මහතා පවසයි. ශ්රී ලංකා මහබැංකුව බලයට පත් සෑම ආණ්ඩුවක් සමඟම එක්ව නීති විරෝධී ක්රියා රැසක නිරත වූ බව අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක් සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් […]
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has vowed to convert all schools in the country into smart-schools if he is elected as the President in the upcoming elections. Speaking at a ceremony held at a school in Tissamaharama, the Samagai Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader stated that if the people of Sri Lanka make the correct […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Geopolitical Economy Report The Western media showed extreme bias by de-politicizing the fatal protest of US airman Aaron Bushnell, who set himself on fire outside Israel’s embassy in Washington, DC while shouting “Free Palestine!” and “I will no longer be complicit in genocide!”. Ben Norton contrasts the press’ coverage of Russia, illustrating clear double standards.
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
MEHBOOB JEELANI Courtesy TRTWorld Ministers from four Asian countries spoke about the necessity of steering the so-called global south away from a bipolar discourse in which the world is perceived solely through the prism of the US or China. As panellists at the distinguished Antalya Diplomacy Forum 2024, top ministers from Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Courtesy BorneoBulletin COLOMBO (XINHUA) – Sri Lanka recorded its highest monthly income from tourism in four years in January, according to the latest data issued by Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The central bank’s Economic Research Department said in a report released on Friday that in January, the South Asian country earned USD342 million from […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Courtesy The Sunday Times The government’s decision to cancel a free visa facility granted to Russians and Ukrainians who have remained in Sri Lanka since February 2022 has not been reversed, Public Security Minister Tiran Alles confirmed this week. Either they apply for a visa or they go back,” he told the Sunday Times. They will not […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
By Damith Wickremasekara Courtesy The Sunday Times Financial powers of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including the Central Bank, will be curtailed in terms of a bill the Justice Minister will present to Parliament this month. The move would remove the power of the Central Bank to determine its staff’s salaries, and that power would be vested […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Courtesy The Sunday Times Sri Lanka has told the UN Human Rights Council that double standards, which contribute to the politicisation of human rights, cannot be condoned. Himalee Arunatilaka, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva, addressing the 55th session of the Human Rights Council on Friday, drawing attention […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
By Thanzyl Thajudeen Courtesy Ceylon Today By Thanzyl Thajudeen Human rights have a skin colour, and the darker you are, the less human rights you have. These exact words by Swedish MP Abir Al-Sahlani, when speaking at the European Parliament on 27 February, couldn’t have put it any way better. She said this when she […]
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News A Spanish tourist has suffered a group sexual assault in the Dumka district while traveling around the world with her husband. Seven men have raped me, recalled the Spanish woman who was gang-raped in Jharkhand’s Dumka, around 300 km from state capital Ranchi, on Friday night. The woman, with bruises all over […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Despite all the consumer items going up in prices on a daily basis, so are the channeling services in private hospitals. It varies from hospital to hospital! For example , especially in Colombo hospitals, there are rumors floating about that the Nawaloka hospital is facing the brink of bankruptcy, but […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
by Daya Gamage Foreign Service National Political Specialist (rtd.) US Department of State Courtesy The Island India’s security needs consolidate US manoeuvring strategy in Indo-Pacific: Aware or unaware of the intricacies of big power play in the Indo-Pacific region to the emerging political entity in Sri Lanka, JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
DIYESA TV ඇස් දෙකම නොපෙනෙන කැම්පස් ජෝඩුව ජීවත් වෙන්න ගහන ගේම සමහර මාසවල ගෙවල්කුලී ගෙවලා අපි බඩගින්නෙ ඉන්නවා දෑස් දෙකම නොපෙනී කාටවත්ම බරක් නොවී ජීවිතේ ගොඩදාගන්න මාර ගේමක් ගහන කැම්පස් ජෝඩුව.. ඔවුන්ව සම්බන්ද කර ගැනීම සඳහා අමතන්න.. 077 2577868 ගිණුම් අංක 032200267681312 I.H.D.N tharunethmi මහජන බැංකුව මාතර උයන්වත්ත ශාඛාව
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
Al Jazeera English The Netherlands has returned six artefacts taken by force from Sri Lanka during the colonial era. This is the first batch of treasures to be returned. Comment The artifacts that were stolen from Ceylon rightfully belong to Ceylon (now renamed as Sri Lanka). Additionally, Sri Lanka has a strong claim under the […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
Prime Minister’s Media Unit Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena handed over laptops to software engineering students at a function held at the Temple Trees yesterday (February 29). Japanese IT University has provided free laptops to software engineering students of newly-established Lanka Nippon BizTech Institute (LNBTI), with the contribution of funds from Japan. The Prime Minister attended […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාතික ජන බලවේග ආණ්ඩුවක් යටතේ විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්රමය අහෝසි කිරීම අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම සිදු කරන බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. තම ආණ්ඩුවක් යටතේ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්මාදනය කර විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරයද අහෝසි කිරීම ද සිදු කරන බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඉදිරි මැතිවරණ පරාජය පිළිබඳව බියට පත්ව ඇති පාලකයන් […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් 2022/07/09 වන දින රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ පුද්ගලික නිවසට අයුතු ලෙස ඇතුල් වී නිවස තුළ තිබූ බෝතලයක් තුළ වූ රුවල් නැවක ආකෘතියක් නො.21/1,ඒ 03 වන පටුමග, කටුවාවල මාවත, ඇඹිල්ලවත්ත පාර,බොරලැස්ගමුව ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි චූදිත අබේධීර ආරච්චිගේ දිල්රුක් මධුශංක යන අය විසින් සොරකම් කිරීමේ වරදට ලං.ද.නි.ස 394 වගන්තිය යටතේ නිතිපති උපදෙස් ප්රකාරව ගල්කිස්ස […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රංගන ශිල්පිනි දමිතා අබේරත්න මහත්මිය හා ඇගේ සැමියා එක්ව තමන් විශාල මූල්ය වංචාවකට හසු කළ බවට පුද්ගලයෙකු චෝදනා එල්ල කරයි. තමන් විදේශගත කරන බව පවසමින් ඔවුන් දිගින් දිගටම තමන්ගේ සියලු වස්තුව දේපළ ඔවුන් දෙදෙනා විසින් සැලසුම් සහගතව සූරා කෑමකට ලක් කල බවටත් ඔහු චෝදනා කරයි. තමන් මෙම යුවල සමග බොහෝ […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ආණ්ඩුව පවත්වා ගැනීම සඳහා ප්රමාණවත් ආදායමක් නොලැබෙන බව ප්රවාහන, මහාමාර්ග හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්ය බන්ධුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. පසුගිය වසර පුරාම මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරයට ලැබී ඇත්තේ රුපියල් ත්රිලියන තුනක් පමණක් බවත් ඉන් ට්රිලියන දෙකකට වැඩි ප්රමාණයක් රාජ්ය සේවක වැටුප් ආදිය ගෙවීමට වැයවූ බවත් හෙතෙම පැවසීය. රට තුළ ගෙන ඇති ණය වලට […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
BY MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu New Delhi had objected to a Chinese energy project in the location, instead offering a grant for the initiative The initiative is the third India-backed energy project coming up in Sri Lanka’s north and east. The National Thermal Power Corporation is spearheading a solar venture in the eastern Sampur town, […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
Courtesy News18 Sri Lanka awards solar and wind power projects to Indian company, signaling strategic shift amid concerns over Chinese influence. India boosts bilateral energy partnership Sri Lanka on Friday awarded the construction of three solar and wind hybrid power generation facilities to an Indian company after cancelling a tender won by a Chinese firm. […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී වත්මන් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා නැවත ජයග්රහණය කරවීම මගින් තම න්යායපත්ර ඉදිරියට ගෙනයාම සඳහා වික්ටෝරියා නූලන්ඩ්ලා සහ අජිත් දොවාල්ලා අවසානයේ දී කරන දේ පිළිබදව ජාතික සංවිධාන විසින් පත්රිකාවක් නිකුත්කිරීම මගින් විශේෂ හෙළිදරව්වක් සිදුකර තිබේ. ලංකා ලීඩර් වෙත අදහස් දැක්වූ දේශපාලන විචාරකයකු සඳහන් කළේ එවැනි විග්රහයක් කිසිඳු පාර්ශ්වයකින් ඉදරිපත් […]
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The Finance Ministry on Thursday (Feb.29) unveiled the Government Action Plan, which was prepared based on the Governance Diagnostic Assessment (GDA) furnished by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Taking to his X handle (formerly Twitter), Finance State Minister Shehan Semasinghe said this action plan further demonstrates the Sri Lankan government’s commitment to building […]
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