Archive for April, 2024
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Courtesy The Telegraph India ‘It is the election time in India, it is not unusual to hear such noises of claims and counterclaims about Kachchatheevu’ Representational image.Shutterstock The statements coming out of India on “reclaiming” Kachchatheevu island from Sri Lanka have “no ground”, the Sri Lankan Minister of Fisheries Douglas Devananda has said. The senior […]
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Friday, April 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Actress Damitha Abeyratne and her husband, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over an alleged financial fraud, has been remanded on the orders of the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. Accordingly, the couple will be behind bars on remand until April 17. The actress and her spouse, who had been wanted […]
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Friday, April 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Mr. Rajith Keerthy Tennakoon, President Director General of Community Affairs says that after between President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s assumption of office and February 2024, the Sri Lankan government has settled a total of USD 1909.7 million in foreign debt and interest payments. He also highlighted that from 21 July 2022 to February 2024, the […]
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Friday, April 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana A meeting between Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo and his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena was held on Thursday (04) in Seoul. During the discussion, the Korean Prime Minister asserted that many new job opportunities would be opened for Sri Lankans. In addition to the labour force that provides jobs for agriculture, […]
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Friday, April 5th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News In a significant development in Sri Lankan political circles, Members of Parliament from the “Nidahasa Janatha Sabha” and the “Samagi Jana Sandanaya” led by the SJB (Samagi Jana Balawegaya) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This agreement reflects a strategic move towards cooperation and collaboration between the two political factions. The […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර්) සිංහලයන්ට පෙර ලංකාවේ පදිංචි කරුවන් දෙමළ ජනයා ද? ලංකාව සහ මානව සම්බන්ධයලංකාවේ ප්රාග් ඓතිහාසික (ඡරු-්යසිඑදරසජ-පි්රහිස්ටොරික්) යුගය සම්බන්ධ පුරාවිද්යා පර්යේෂණ මගින් වසර 250,000 ට පෙර දිවයිනේ සිටි හෝමෝසැපියන්ස්් මානවයාගේ සිට නූතන මිනිසා දක්වා දිවයින අඛණ්ඩව මිනිස් වාසයක් ව පවතින බව සනාථ කරයි. බලංගොඩ ඛෙල්ලන්බැඳිපෑලැස්ස, කිරිඳිගල, ඉබ්බන්කටුව, ගුරුගල්හින්න, හම්බන්තොට, රංචාවෙල, පදියගම්පොල, […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Vaishna Roy Courtesy The Frontline When the skeletons came tumbling out after the Supreme Court demanded full disclosure in the electoral bonds scheme, it did not really surprise anyone. The BJP exudes an almost contemptuous confidence that no revelations can derail its ultimate victory. Where does this confidence come from? It is 2024 and among […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
සමායෝජක – වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. සමායෝජක – වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. විද්යුත් ලිපිනය arunaunawatuna@gmail.com දුරකථන 0712063394 2024.04.04 පාලක ලේකම්, ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, අංක 301,ටී. බී. ජයා මාවත, කොළඹ 10. විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයාට ජනාධිපති ධූර අපේක්ෂකත්වය බාර ගන්නා ලෙස කර ඇති ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධ පුවත් සහ […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Pathfinder Foundation renews call for establishing a marine research station Now and then, Kachchativu island, lying halfway between the islands of Rameswaram (India) and Delft (Neduntheevu -Sri Lanka), has been hitting the news headlines. Mainly, such interests are evinced when several of the hundreds of Indian trawlers that cross the International Boundary Line (IMBL) three […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ දකුණු කොරියානු මහජන සමුහාණ්ඩුවේ, ජියොන්ග්සන්ග්බක්-ඩු (Gyeongsangbuk-du) ප්රාන්ත ආණ්ඩුකාර ලී චෙයොල් වූ මහතා (Lee CHeol Woo) අතර හමුවක් 2024.04.03 දින ජියොන්ග්සන්ග්බක්-ඩූ ආණ්ඩුකාර කාර්යාලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. අධ්යාපන හා උසස් අධ්යාපන, කෘෂිකාර්මික, ධීවර, කාන්තා හා ග්රාමීය සංවර්ධන කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් විශාල ප්රතිලාභ රැසක් ලබාදීමට මෙහිදී එකඟ වූ අතර තවත් ව්යාපෘති රැසක් […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
– අද දෙරණ – දිවුලපතාන ගම්මානය ආශ්රිතව ඉදිකර තිබෙන ආරක්ෂිත මුරකපොලු ඉවත් කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සමක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. අම්පාර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සිංහල ජනතාව බහුතරයක් වාසය කරන දිවුලපතන ගම්මානය ආශ්රිතව ඉදිකර තිබෙන ආරක්ෂිත මුරකපොලු ඉවත්කොට එම ජනතාවට නිදහසේ ජීවත් විය හැකි වතාවරණයක් උදාකර දීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Courtesy the Island The Sangha for Better Sri Lanka (SBSL) and the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) are saddened by the untoward incidents that took place during the Maha Shivaratri Event (March 8, 2024) at Vedukkunari Aathi Sivan Temple in the North of Sri Lanka. On the Maha Shiva Rathri night (the most auspicious night in […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Nick Turse,TomDispatch TomDispatch is distinctly a forever-war creation. When I began it almost 23 years ago, the U.S. had just invaded Afghanistan and, of course, there wasn’t the faintest sense that what had been launched then, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on this country, would still be going on globally so many years later, […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Chanaka Bandarage A NPP victory is highly likely in the forthcoming Presidential/Parliamentary elections. People are jubilant about this. People will vote for NPP en-mass; this is for sure. People’s only hope is that NPP will rescue them from the current social and economic plight and bring forth prosperity to them. What people want is […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් සූර්යයා පෘතුවියට සාපේක්ෂව යන ගමනේ දී ලංකාවට මුදුන්වන්නේ බක් මාසයේ දීය.සූර්ය රශ්මියේ තෙදබල වැඩි වැඩියෙන් අවශ්ය වන්නේ ගහකොළ බවභෝග වර්ධනයටයි. පැවති වර්ෂයේ යල සහ මහකන්න යන්හි අස්වනු කපා පා ගැනීමෙන් පසු ඉටු දෙවියන් සතුටු කිරීමට ගම්භාර වැව් කොටු භාර දෙවි දෙවතාවුන් සතුටු කිරීමට ගම්මඩු දෙවොල් මඩු නටා දේව දානය අහවර වීමෙන් පසු […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක – වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. මරදාන සහ කෙසෙල්වත්ත පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන්, අධිකරණ අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම්තුමා, නීතිපතිතුමා, නීතීඥවරුන් , මාධ්යවේදීන් වෙත…, 1. අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ජාත්යන්තර අධිකරණ යාන්ත්රණවල පරීක්ෂාවට ගැනීමට මාර්ගය පාදන, විරුද්ධ නීතිමය අදහස් දරන නීතීඥයන් දඩයම් කරන අධිකරණ අපහාස මුවාවෙන් ගෙනා නීතිය සහ අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana බරපතල වැඩ ඇතිව බන්ධනාගාරගත කර සිටින පූජ්ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන්ට සමාව දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සියලු පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ අවධානය යොමු විය යුතු යැයි රාජ්ය අමාත්ය අනූප පැස්කුවල් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. බෞද්ධ ජනතාව වේදනාවට පත්වන ආකාරයෙන් තවදුරටත් ඥානසාර හිමියන් සිරගත කර තැබුණොත් එම වේදනාව වෛරයක් බවට පත්වනු ඇති බවද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. අවසානයේ එම වෛරය ගැටුමක් බවට පත්වීමටත් […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court on Tuesday (02) rejected the bail application filed by the General Secretary of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero, who was recently handed a 4-year rigorous imprisonment. High Court Judge Aditya Patabendige conveyed the decision when the bail application put forward by the defense attorneys […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Dilrook Kannangara A debate rages over if the SLPP must contest the presidential election or not. Contesting elections only to win them is a disastrous approach. Win or lose, the SLPP must contest the election and remain relevant. Otherwise, it will permanently slip from the top slot and will never be able to get up […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Palitha Ariyarathna In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, a groundbreaking initiative is set to empower Buddhists across Sri Lanka. The upcoming mobile application, designed to protect Buddhist rights, promises to be a beacon of justice and advocacy. Here’s why this app matters: Reporting Violations: The app provides a streamlined platform for reporting incidents that violate the sanctity […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Prime Minister’s Media Division MP Yadamini Gunawardena stated that if the precious commitments of our people rendered in the past are not remembered again and again, the battles and legacies will be erased from the history books. He said this while attending the 52nd commemoration of the national hero Philip Gunawardena held at the Foundation […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Truth with Chamuditha නීතිඥ යමිත නලින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සමග චමුදිත සමරවික්රම. Yamitha Nalinda Rajapaksha On Truth with Chamuditha.
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer. Frederick North, the first British Governor of Ceylon Colombo, March 31: The British conquest of Ceylon from the Dutch in 1796 did not result in the wholesale dismissal of Dutchmen from the various institutions of the government. And the British too found it convenient to employ them. The reasons for employing the […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Courtesy The Economic Times While responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Katchatheevu remark, Congress leader P Chidambaram on April 01 said that the PM should talk about the live issues. He also said that China has occupied 2,000 km2 of Indian territory and the Prime Minister gave a clean chit to China.He said, Honourable Prime […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana April 1, 2024 01:52 pm Adding fuel to the Katchatheevu row, India’s Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi shared an RTI reply of 2015 where it was mentioned that the Katchatheevu island was neither acquired nor ceded and that it lies on the Sri Lankan side of the India-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Tamil political parties plan to field a candidate from the minority community for the presidential election who would present a credible and acceptable political solution for them, a senior community leader has said. Sri Lanka is set to hold the next presidential election in the last quarter of 2024. The next […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News In a significant operation, the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) apprehended 8 suspects, including four officers of the Excise Department, for possession of 45kg of Kerala Cannabis in Chilaw. The PNB, in a coordinated effort, conducted the operation resulting in the arrests of the suspects found in possession of the sizable quantity of […]
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