Archive for April, 2024
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
News In continuation of his association with the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Former Cabinet Minister, Ambassador and Founder of the Pathfinder Foundation, Milinda Moragoda, has been recently designated as a Honorary Senior Fellow by the institution. The ISAS was established in 2004 as an autonomous research institute at the […]
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre High-ranking officials from around the world gathered in Saint Petersburg for the 12th International Meeting on Security Matters from April 22nd to 25th, 2024. This prestigious event serves as a platform for global leaders to discuss and address pressing security challenges facing nations today. One notable highlight of the […]
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre The exposition of the Sacred Omniscient Relics of Deegawapiya Stupa and the Crest-Gem takes place at Sri Lanka Army Infantry Training Centre, Minneriya for public veneration. These revered articles will be on public display there until the morning on April 27. Subsequently, these revered articles will be on display […]
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Hiru News Iranian President Dr. Ebrahim Raisi and President Ranil Wickremesinghe engaged in one-on-one discussions followed by a bilateral meeting between representatives of both nations at the Presidential Secretariat. The discussions culminated in the signing of five memorandums of understanding (MoUs) aimed at enhancing bilateral relations. These MoUs cover various sectors including film, media, tourism, […]
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
Prime Minister’s Media Under the leadership of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, the rice distribution program for the beneficiary families that belong to the Colombo Divisional Secretariat division was held on 22.04.2024 at Sri Wickramarama, Mattakkuliya, symbolizing the national program of providing rice to low income-earning families.The Prime Minister addressing the event commented … “The necessary […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
by Nick Turse Courtesy Counterpunch.org Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries. The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
Kautiliya Pundit The US has more than 750 military bases around the world and it may be time for the rest of the world to follow the example of the Niger Junta and call for an end to environmentally destructive military bases and war games, and declare the Indian Ocean a ‘Zone of Peace’. As […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 23 (Daily Mirror)-A top delegation of the Chinese Communist Party headed by Vice Minister of the International Department, Sun Haiyan met National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the JVP head office today. The delegation included head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party Liu […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Vichara The country is aware of several mafiosi like the diesel mafia, rice mill mafia and the drugs mafia which are a curse on the country. But it is very rare that people refer to the Pettah mafia which is the mother of all mafiosi. This mafia has existed from colonial times and grown in […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 14-20 April 2024 * ‘Firstly, the political parties & party politics, and secondly the Executive Presidency; both these structures should be abolished. Thirdly, the independence of the judiciary should be maintained. Fourthly all the appointments in ministries & government institutions such as Central Bank, Treasury, etc, should be managed by non-political, non-partisan […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
by Tom Engelhardt courtesy counterpunch.com I’ve been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I’ve written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies — god save us, it could be four in November! I’ve viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America’s endlessly disastrous wars of this century. I’ve […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් වර්තමානයේ දී ලෝකයේ බොහෝ රටවල් අමෙරිකාව ප්රමුඛ බටහිර ආධිපත්යයෙන් මිදී බහුධ්රැවීය ලෝකය තුළට පිවිසෙමින් ඇති බව හා ගෝලීය මූල්ය ක්රමය බිඳවැටී නව මූල්ය පද්ධතියක් ලෝකය තුළ ස්ථාපනය වෙමින් පවතින බවත් රුසියානු ශ්රී ලංකා ව්යාපාරික සංසදයේ සභාපති ආචාර්ය ජගත් චන්ද්රවංශ මහතා අනාවරණය කරයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව අනාවරණය කළේ බිඳවැටෙන අධිරාජ්ය හමුවේ […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 22 (Daily Mirror) – President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Dr. Ebrahim Raisi is scheduled to make an official bilateral visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of President Ranil Wickremesinghe to jointly declare open the Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project on April 24, The Foreign Affairs Ministry […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The overall rate of inflation as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) on Year-on-Year basis has been decreased to 2.5% in March 2024, compared to 5.1% in February 2024, the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) revealed in its latest report. Meanwhile, the contributions to the inflation rate of March 2024 from […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana April 22, 2024 09:42 pm A historic milestone in the Indo-Sri Lankan cultural and religious bond was marked yesterday (21) with the official launch of the ‘Sri Ramayan Trails’ project at Taj Samudra in Colombo, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. This initiative aims to bolster the country’s tourism industry by leveraging cutting-edge […]
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර එහෙත් වැඩිම මැසිවිලි නගන්නේත්, ඊනියා ජාත්යන්තරය ලවා මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් උල්ලන්ඝනය ගැන දොස් නගන්නේත් සිංහල බෞද්ධයින්ට, ඒ අනුව වැඩිම හානිය සිදු කරන්නේත් ඔවුන්, ඒත් ලෝක අනුකම්පාව ලබාගන්නේ ඔවුන්.ඒ ඇයි? මෙසේ වීමට හේතු රැසක් ඇත. මා දකින අන්දමට ඒවා පහතින් දක්වමි. 1.සිංහල රටේ සිංහල දේශපාලනඥයින්ට මේ රට, එහි ඉතිහාසය, තම ජාතිය හෝ ජනතාව […]
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
ALI SUKHANVER Robin Jeffry, in a recent write up ,appeared in the East Asia Forum, said, From a young age, Modi has been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu-supremacist organization whose inspiration stems from Italian fascism of the 1920s. The social and cultural goals of the RSS call for the creation […]
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
ගෝලිය ඒකාබද්ධ ජාතික සංවිධාන ශ්රී ලකාවේ යෝජිත අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්තිය තුළ මවු භාෂා භාවිතයේ වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳව සැලකිිමත් වී නැති බැවින් අපගේ අනාගත පරපුරේ දැනුම් උකහාගැනීමේ හැකියාව සහ ආත්මාභිමානය ප්රවර්ධනය පිළිබඳව සිදුවිය හැකි අඩාල වීම සහ, එ් ඔස්සේ සිංහල භාෂාව මළ භාෂාවක් බවට තල්ලු වී යාමේ ඇති දැඩි අවදානම ශ්රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව විසින් සැප්තැම්බර් 23 දාතමින් ඉදිරිපත් […]
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
තිස්ස ගුණතිලක අරහත්භාවය නොහොත් නිවන අත්කරගැනීමට පලමුවෙන් සෝතපන්නයට පැමිනිය යුතුය. සෝතාපන්නයෙන් තොර නිවනක් නැත. එසේ නම් සෝතපන්නය පලමුවෙන් දත යුතුය. සෝතාපන්නයට පලමුවෙන් පත්විය යුතුය. ඉහත සඳහන් සංයෝජන තුනම සෝවාන් මාර්ගයට පිවිසීමට ප්රහානය කලයුතු ධර්මයෝය. මෙම තුන් සංයෝජන ප්රහානය සිඳුවන්නේ දැනුමෙන් නැතහොත් සත්ය ඤාණය හා එම දැනුමට අනුගතවූ ජීවිකාව තුල පමනක් බව බුදුන්වහන්සේ සබ්බාසව සූත්රයේ දස්සනේන […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Senaka Weeraratna I got disillusioned with politics. An idea was born in my mind that a social revolution minus political colouring should be staged. The Sarvodaya Shramadana movement was the outcome of this thinking” A.T. Ariyaratne The passing of A.T. Ariyaratne at the age of 92 years on April 16, 2024, removes from the national scene […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Kurundi issue has created an interest in the archaeology of Sri Lanka. Siran Deraniyagala said that Sri Lanka’s archaeological heritage is divisible into Prehistoric (Stone Age) Protohistoric (Iron Age) and historical periods. This covers an estimated 1 million years or more. The Iron Age appeared at about 1000 BC and the historic […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock and Minutes to Midnight – an initiative by the world’s top nuclear scientists to quantify the likelihood and yes we are closer to nuclear war in 2024 than ever before. It is just 90 seconds to midnight. Worst ever. But this did not happen suddenly. It gradually deteriorated […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre The Ministry of Defence announces that the General Amnesty period announced from 20.04.2024 to 20.05.2024 for members of the Tri-Forces who have been marked as Absent Without Official Leave (AWOL) is not applicable for Commissioned Officers who are marked as AWOL. 1. General Amnesty is valid only for other […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Manusha Media Sakura blossoming Japan has become the dream state of many Sri Lankans. Accordingly, the SSW (Specified Skilled Worker) Visa project that provides an opportunity to earn a high salary in Japan. It’s given you a great opportunity to fulfill your Japanese dreams, and for that you have to come to the ”Jayagamu Sri […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Voice of Dharman 0 දශකයේ(1980 සිට 1990 දක්වා) ධවල භීෂණයේ අඳුර විනිවිදි සත්ය සිදුවීමක තිත්ත ඇත්ත කියන youtube චැනල් එක @ භීෂණය සියැසින් දුටු සහ වාර්තාකළ ගවේෂණාත්මක මාධ්යවේදී ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න කියයි. ලාංකීය දේශපාලන ඉතිහාසයේ ගමන්මග වෙනස්කල සන්ධිස්ථානයක් ලෙස 1986 සිට 1990 දක්වා පැවති ජවිපෙ 2වැනි කැරැල්ල හැඳින්විය හැකිය. එම කාලය තුළ ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ සහ අතුරුදන් […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Reinvent Money Paul Buitink talks to John Mearsheimer, a renowned American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is a Professor at the University of Chicago. John gives an overview of what offensive realism is. Furthermore he discusses the European Union’s foreign policy and how dependent it […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
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