Archive for December, 2024
Thursday, December 5th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka vowed Thursday to complete its long-delayed foreign debt restructure within the month before a 2025 budget adhering to strict revenue targets set by the International Monetary Fund. The island nation defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in April 2022 after running out of foreign exchange to finance even the most […]
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Thursday, December 5th, 2024
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Thursday, December 5th, 2024
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Thursday, December 5th, 2024
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Chanaka Bandarage The debate on abolishing the Executive Presidency has come to light again. This is good. True we have a new President, elected by the majority vote. But this does not negate the long felt need of abolishing the Executive Presidency. Since 1978, incompetent, fraudulent, sometimes violent, visionless Presidents have come and gone. They […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
by Garvin Karunaratne I write in support of MP Mr Tilvin Silva’s, idea that Provincial Councils should be abolished(FTLK:4/12) I enclose my opinion as an administrator why the Provincial Councils imposed on us by an outsider, Rajiv Gandhi, should be abolished. Why the 13 th Amendment is inimical for our development and how it will […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Dilrook Kannangara NPP government received the largest percentage of votes in any parliamentary election in South Asia. What is more important is its mandate came from all ethnic and religious groups. It won all except one district. With 159 seats in parliament, it is the only party ever to rule Sri Lanka without a coalition. […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Ibrahim Khalil Ahasan, Dhaka, Bangladesh The average weather pattern in a place over the years is called climate. The change in that familiar weather pattern is called climate change. However, in the current world, climate change has become a global problem. As a result of climate change, the world is getting warmer, the weather is […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka has achieved another Staff-Level Agreement for the Third Review of the IMF program. The IMF delegation during its recent visit to Colombo praised the state of the economy and the success of their programme in Sri Lanka. The reality is far from its applause, where real output and incomes […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj/DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 29: November 13 is a date of great significance as far as the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP) – known as the Makkal Viduthalai Munnani in Tamil and People’s Liberation Front in English-is concerned. It was on 13 November 1989 that the JVP’s charismatic founder-leader Rohana Wijeweera. Since 1994 the JVP […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dec 3 (AdaDerana) – Sri Lanka’s tourism sector is taking a bold step into the limelight as a leading destination for Indian film productions, with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) taking centre stage at the 10th edition of the India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC) in Mumbai, held from October 23 […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran/Saunday Observer-Feautres Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Prof.Kurt F.Leidecker Colombo, Decembr 1: Buddhism and democracy are two sides of the same coin, if they are seen in the correct way, says the father of India’s democratic constitution and the modern-day apostle of Buddhism in India, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. He saw Buddhism as a democratic religion and […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අයහපත් කාලගුණය හේතුවෙන් පූර්ණ හානි වූ වගා බිම් අක්කරයකට රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක වන්දි මුදලක් අවශ්ය බව අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික් මහා වාරිමාර්ග ඒකාබද්ධ ගොවි සංවිධානය සඳහන් කරයි. එහි සභාපති පුංචිරාළ රත්නායක මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ අක්කරයක් වගා කිරීම සඳහා ඊට වඩා මුදල් ප්රමාණයක් වැය වී ඇති බවයි. නව රජය කළ යුතුව ඇත්තේ පරණ චක්රලේඛ […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Today, December 4th, upon the request of the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency relief goods (tents, plastic sheets, sleeping pads) through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to Sri Lanka in response to the damages caused […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
by Dharshan Weerasekera Courtesy The Island Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the UNHRC in 2015.(Picture courtesy Sunanda Deshapriya) Ever since the victory of the Sri Lankan armed forces against the LTTE in May 2009, the international community has been calling on successive governments in this country to ensure ‘transitional justice.’ These governments, in turn, have […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana The NPP government should probe the killings of its founder leader Rohana Wijeweera and actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaratunga in keeping with the pledges made by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during his policy statement, opposition MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake told Parliament yesterday The President in his address to Parliament […]
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
C. Wijeyawickrema Venerable Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera at Panadura (26 – 28 August 1873) vs Wesleyan Missionary Fathers හැඳින්වීම මෙම ලිපිය ඊමේල් මඟින් හිනිදුම සුනිල් සෙනෙවි ඇමතිවරයාට යවන්නට මට සිතුනේ ඔහු ගැන මට අසන්නට හා දැනගන්නට ලැබුණු කතා නිසාය, ගින්නක් නැතිව දුමක් නගින්නේ නෑ යන කියමන නිසාය. ඒ මක්නිසාදයත්, ඒ කතාවල අබමල් රේණුවක තරම් හෝ සත්යයක් […]
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන 1. 19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත 2002 සැප්තැම්බර් 19 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ අතර එමගින් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීමට උත්සාහ කළ අතර, එයට අදාලව ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන් 7ක් විසින් SC/SD/11/2002 ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණය ලබා දී එම සංශෝධනය ජනමතවිචාරණයක් මගින් නීතියක් විය යුතු බවට තීරණය වීමෙන් එකී සංශෝධනය 2002 දී ක්රියාත්මක […]
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Sarath Wijesinghe (President’s Counsel, Senior Solicitor, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum UK / Sri Lanka) Attention and priority to foreign policy Nations give attention and priority to foreign policy due to the importance of the subject for the successful existence in the family of nations they live in. USA gives top […]
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel Sri Lanka, Solicitor in England and Wales, President Ambassador’s Forum UK/SL, and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Tourism is a Competitive trade Tourism is competitive as it is the fastest and easiest to thrive with available resources the country is bestowed with naturally not everybody is lucky to possess. World […]
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka will not be able to afford a large public sector in the near future and will soon need to start reducing the number of state employees, a senior advisor to the president said yesterday. Projecting that the Treasury would be unable to sustain the current expenditure levels in the […]
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ශ්රී ලංකාවට විශාල රාජ්ය අංශයක් දැරීමට තව දුරටත් නොහැකි වනු ඇති බවත් නුදුරේදී රාජ්ය සේවක සංඛ්යාව අඩු කිරීම ආරම්භ කළ යුතු බවත් ජනාධිපති ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ උපදේශක දුමින්ද හුළංගමුව මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. භාණ්ඩාගාරය දැනට සිදුකරන වියදම් ඉදිරියේදී පවත්වා ගැනීමට නොහැකි වනු ඇති බවද පැවසූ ඔහු දැනට රට තුළ සිටින ලක්ෂ දහතුනක් පමණ […]
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාතික ජන බලවේග ආණ්ඩුව යටතේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වරප්රසාද අඩු වෙනු ඇතැයි බලාපොරොත්තු වූ බව සමගි ජන බලවේග පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී දයාසිරි ජයසේකර මහතා පවසයි. තමන් පසුගිය සමයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු භෝජනාගාරයෙන් ඇතැම් දිනවල පමණක් දිවා ආහාර ගත් බවත් උදේ ආහාරය කිසිදා නොගත් බවත් හෙතෙම කියයි. මාලිමාවේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් දැන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් උදේට, දවල්ට ද කා හැකි […]
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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
ආචාර්ය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ආචාර්ය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණයේ සාර්ථකත්වය පිළිබඳ ශ්රී ලංකාව හොඳ උදාහරණයක්[i] බව ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලේ ප්රධානියාවන ක්රිස්ටිනා ජෝර්ජියේවා පසුගිය මාසයේ වොෂින්ටනයේ පැවැති වාර්ෂික රැස්වීමේදී පවසා තිබේ. නමුත් ඇය විසින් නොපවසන ලද දෙය නම් මෙම උපායමාර්ගික වශයෙන් වැදගත් දිවයින බංකොළොත්” යැයි ප්රකාශයට පත්කරන විට තිබූ ණය ප්රමාණය වන ඩොලර් බිලියන 26 ජාත්යන්තර […]
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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.November 30, 2024Posted inUncategorizedTags:asia, China, politics, sri-lanka, travel blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 24-30 November 2024 * ‘I also ask him to examine the Central Bank, another institution that has been exercising influence over the economy of the country. The body of John Exter has been removed from the territory […]
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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
by Garvin Karunaratne A Statement by Advisor Duminda Hulangamuva tells that our President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has decided to delay the implementation of the IMF’s decision that Imputed Taxes should be taxed. (EN: 2/12/24) Our President has to be congratulated for this decision. This is a minor decision but it is important to note that […]
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