Archive for July, 2024
Sunday, July 7th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News President’s Fund scholarship program for students from low-income families, spanning from grade 1 to grade 11 and G.C.E. (A/L), will be implemented at the district level starting from July 12, 2024. District secretaries, in collaboration with all zonal education offices and school principals, will oversee the scholarship distribution process. Details regarding the […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Ramayana legend did not catch on in Sri Lanka the way it did in South East Asia. Unlike in south East Asia, Ramayana tradition was not allowed to take root here, said historian Bandu de Silva. Not a single manuscript of Ramayana is found among the many Sanskrit texts preserved in Sinhalese […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන ජනාධිපතිවරණය 2024 දී පැවැත්වීම නතර කර ගැනීමට, පානදුරේ ලිපිනයැති චමින්ද ලේනව නම් අයෙක් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ විධිවිධාන යටතේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් නඩුවක් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේදී පවරා ඇති අතර එය ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70 ව්යවස්ථාව අදාල කරගෙන පවරා නොමැත්තේනම් සාර්ථක කරගත හැකිද යන්න පෙන්වා දීම මෙම […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Dinesh Gunawardena (MP) Prime Minister Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Hon Keir StarmerPrime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland It is with great pleasure that I offer you my heartiest congratulations on the landslide victory as Leader of the Labour Party at the British Parliamentary elections and your assumption […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
මාධ්ය අංශය, සර්වජන බලය “සර්වජන බලය දේශපාලන එකමුතුව, “සතුටු දැයක් – ව්යවසායකත්ව රාජ්යයක්” නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ සජ්ජන අරමුණ පෙරදැරි කරගත් තම “උපායමාර්ගික වැඩපිළිවෙළෙහි පළමු කෙටුම්පත” අද(06) ජනතා සංවාදය උදෙසා ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැබීය. මෙම සුවිශේෂී කටයුත්ත සිදු කරනු ලැබුවේ ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ පිහිටි මොනාක් ඉම්පීරියල් හෝටල් පරිශ්රයේදීය. මෙම “සර්වජන උපායමාර්ගික වැඩපිළිවෙළෙහි පළමු කෙටුම්පත” මගින් ජාතික ප්රමුඛතා 20ක් […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana In a recent interview, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe addressed misconceptions regarding Sri Lanka’s total debt, clarifying that the increase from USD 96 billion in December 2023 to a projected USD 100 billion by March 2024 is largely due to exchange rate fluctuations rather than new borrowing. […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe recently emphasized that as the country builds a new economy, it is crucial to establish a new political system. This system must foster individuals who can take responsibility and speak the truth fearlessly. He made these remarks during the bankers’ forum organized by the National Bankers Association at Galle Face […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized the necessity of an advanced education system combined with modern technology to move the country forward with a new economy. He noted that educational reforms are currently underway to achieve this goal. President Rani Wickremesinghe made these remarks today (06) during a ceremony at Hall De Galle in Galle. […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Higher Education Dr. Suren Raghavan, urged non-academic staff across all universities to resume work promptly, emphasizing the importance of minimizing disruptions for the youth who are the future leaders of the nation. Speaking at the press briefing titled Collective Path to a Stable Country” held at the Presidential Media Centre […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
By Sena Thoradeniya (Continued from June 20, 2024) [As a typographical error appeared in sub-heading 1, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part IV (posted onJune 20, 2024) of this series, the error 1989 is being corrected as 1994. Para 2, line 5 should be read as: Janith Priyantha Vidyatilaka Vipulaguna who obtained the highest number […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Sugath Kulatunga I agree totally with my Senior colleague at Arunachalam Hall who on 24 February pointed out on the LBN the dangers of unbridled power enjoyed and abused by the Central Bank (CBSL). They relished this privilege even before the recent IMF inspired independence. It was the mandarins of the CBSL who controlled both […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS This series titled BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM ends with a discussion on the Hindu Ramayana viharas” sprouting in Sri Lanka. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata. Ramayana is a part of the Hindu mythology of India and is an important part of the […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS The location of Valmiki’s ‘Lanka’ had been keenly discussed by Indian scholars. Indian academics cannot agree on the location of the ‘Lanka’ in the Ramayana. Romila Thapar says the matter has been disputed by Indian scholars for centuries and Lanka remains unidentified. The term Lanka is some Indian languages means island and Sagara […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Michael Klare Courtesy TomDispatch July 4, 2024 In his years in power, Joe Biden and his top foreign policy officials have come up with a distinctly more aggressive and militarized approach to a rising China and, in particular, its claims to areas of the South China Sea or the island of Taiwan. As an old […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Juan Cole Courtesy Tomdispatch. July 2, 2024 Though I was never in the U.S. military, my life experience has been American wars, wars, wars, and more wars. I was born during World War II. I was in grade school when the Korean War took place. I still have a faint memory of a photo of […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre The procession, carrying the sacred relics and treasures in the Deegawapi Stupa and Neelagiri Stupa commenced its journey from the Sri Sambodhi Vihara, Colombo 07 on this morning (July 05) amidst the chanting of Seth Pirith by the Maha Sangha. The procession carrying the sacred relics will pass through […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර (ශ්රී.ලං.ප.සේ.) අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති. (1991-94) ඓතිහාසික යථාර්ථයන් සින්හල ජාතිය මෙන්ම සින්හලේ රාජ්ය ආරම්භ වන්නේ ක්රි. පූ. 543 ය. ඒ උත්ර භාරථයෙන් පැමිණි සින්හ වන්ශික විජය නම්වූ කුමාරයෙක් සහ ඔහුගේ 700 ක් පිරිස ස්වදේශයේ සිටි යක්ෂ, රාක්ෂ,දේව සහ නාග යන සිව්හෙළයන් […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Ceylon Diary – SBPC Official Channel යුධ ස්වෙච්චා හමුදාවේ හිටපු ලුතිනන් කර්නල් විජේසුන්දර මුදලිගේ අශෝක මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. නිවැරදි දේ අගය කරන්නත් වැරදි දේ හෙළිදරවු කර නිර්භයව එයට පහර දෙන්නත් හෘදය සාක්ෂියක් මාධ්යවේදියෙකුට තියෙන්න ඕනෑ බව සිංහලේ දිනපොත විශ්වාසයයි ! පර්යේෂණාත්මක පුවත් පත් කලාව ! මෙහයවීම […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has received a US $ 5 million aid package from the Global Environment Facility (GEF VII) to better manage the issues with chemical imports and disposal. The aid was granted to the Environment Ministry and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to implement a project aimed at supporting the transformation of […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Politics UK Labour’s biggest spending commitment, on top of existing departmental budgets, is the £23.7bn for green measures during the next parliament. That’s more than the additional spend on health or education. That is because green policies are at the heart of the party’s plans for growth and prosperity, as well as climate. The £1.7bn […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that the debt restructuring process will include USD 5 billion in loan interest relief from bilateral creditors and a USD 3 billion debt write-off from commercial creditors providing the country with a total relief of USD 8 billion. Wickremesinghe revealed this while addressing the ‘Urumaya’ Freehold Land Deed […]
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Friday, July 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Qatar Airways will be increasing its Sri Lanka-Doha flights from the current five-daily flights schedule to six-daily flights, starting 10 July 2024. “The increase in flights further demonstrate the award-winning airline’s dedication to providing more choices and better connectivity for all passengers flying to and from Sri Lanka”, a statement added. The additional […]
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Thursday, July 4th, 2024
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර බුදුන් වහන්සේට සමකළ හැකි වෙනත් කිසිම අයිතිහාසික ආගමික ශාස්තෲ වරයෙක් ලෝකයේ පහලවී නැත. බුදුන් වහන්සේ උපත ක්රි.පූ,623 බැවින් ක්රිස්තුස් වහසේ ගේ උපතට ඊට වසර 623ක පසුවය. ප්රොෆට් මොහොමඩ්ගේ උපත ක්රි. ව. 570 බැවින් එය සිදුව ඇත්තේ බුදු උපතින් වසර 1193 කට පසුවය. මේ නිසා ක්රිස්තුස් මෙන්ම ඉස්ලාම් ආගම් කතුවරයින්ගේ සිතුම් පැතුම් […]
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Thursday, July 4th, 2024
දේශබන්ධු ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර
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Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Courtesy hurriyetdailynews Sri Lanka‘s private creditors have accepted a 28 percent haircut on $12.5 billion in sovereign bonds, the government announced on Thursday, meeting a key condition of an IMF bailout. After two days of talks in Paris with most international sovereign bond (ISB) holders, Colombo clinched the final step in restructuring private, bilateral and domestic debt. […]
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Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice, is set to hear the Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by businessman C.D. Lenawa, seeking to delay the announcement of the presidential election, on Monday (08). The petition requests that an interim order be issued to prevent the calling of the […]
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Voice of Dharman විජය කුමාරතුංග ඉපදුණේ 1945 ඔක්තෝබර්ය. සුගතපාල සෙනරත් යාපාගේ හන්තානේ කථාවෙන් 1969දී සිනමාවට පිවිසි විජය සිනමා තාරකාවක් බවට පත් වූයේ තුෂාර චිත්රපටිය 1973 තිරගතවීමත් සමඟය. ඉනික්බිති සිනමා ලෝකයේ ජනප්රියත්වය කෙතරම්ද යත් 1976දී තිරගත වූ චිත්රපටි හතකම ප්රධාන නළුවා වූයේද ඔහුය. ආරම්භයේ සිට 1988 දක්වා විජය රඟපෑ චිත්රපට සංඛ්යාව 114කි. ගායන ශිල්පියෙකු වශයෙන් ගීත […]
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre All arrangements are in place for the ceremony of the enshrinement of the sacred Omniscient Relics and treasures in the hemispherical dome of the historic Deegawapi Stupa on July 14. This event is part of the reconstruction process to restore the former glory of Deegawapi Stupa, which was damaged […]
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
තිස්ස ගුණතිලක භාහිර රූපයෙන් උත්පාදවන අංශු තරංග යම්කිසි වේගයකින් පැමින අදාල පංචේන්ද්රිය සමඟ ස්පර්ශවෙයි. අදාල පංචේන්ද්රියන් සකස්වී ඇති අංශුද පවතින්නේ ඇතිවන පවතින නැතිවන (උප්පාද තිථි භංග) විපරිනාම වේගයකය. මේ වේගයන් එකිනෙකට වෙනස් තිව්රතාවයන් ගෙන් යුතු වේග දෙකකි. භාහිරව පවතින මෙම භෞතික අංශු එකිනෙක හා ගැටෙන වේග දෙක නිසා චෛතසිකය (පරමාර්ථය) තුල ‘ස්කන්ධය’ක් උපදින අතර එය […]
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් විසි එක් වන සියවසේ සියලු ක්ෂේත්රයන්හි පරිවර්තනීය වෙනසක් සිදු කිරීමට කෘත්රිම බුද්ධි තාක්ෂණය අදාළ වන බවත් අප රටට ද ඊට මුහුණ දීම අනිවාර්ය කාරණයක් වන බවත් අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය ආචාර්ය සුසිල් ප්රේමජයන්ත මහතා පැවසී ය. ඒ අනුව කෘත්රිම බුද්ධියත් සමග ලොව නැගී එන තාක්ෂණික විෂය ධාරාවන් වූ නැනෝ තාක්ෂණය, ජෛව තාක්ෂණය, […]
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