Archive for December 9th, 2025
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Bandula Kendaragama Page 1 of 31 ——— For further details, Contact Bandula Kendaragama on WhatsApp +61403204066Attention: His Excellency Anura Kumara Dissanayake – Kotmale Dam – Gate Opening – Has Mahaweli Authority made a mistake or not? Is there something wrong in the system Your Excellency, Could you please pass this information to His Excellency the […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Dr. Asoka Bandarage Courtesy: IPS NEWS Tropical Cyclone Ditwah, which made landfall in Sri Lanka on 28 November 2025, is considered the country’s worst natural disaster since the deadly 2004 tsunami. It intensified the northeast monsoon, bringing torrential rainfall, massive flooding, and 215 severe landslides across seven districts. The cyclone left a trail of destruction, […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
By Rohana R. Wasala The Joint Opposition rally dubbed the ‘Maha Jana Handa’ (Vox Populi/ Voice of the People) held at the Ananda Samarakoon Open Air Theatre, Nugegoda on November 21, 2025 has suddenly acquired an increasing potential to be remembered as a significant turning point in post-civil conflict Sri Lankan politics, in the wake […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is in shock. Never before in our history has all 25 districts been affected at once. We are in national mourning. The resilience of our people has been unwavering. As a nation we have endured 17 South Indian invasions, 3 colonial illegal occupations. 2 armed insurgencies, 3 decades of LTTE […]
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Posted in Shenali Waduge | Comments Off on What Sri Lanka’s landslides & cyclones teach — A Buddhist view
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Facilitators Dr. Upali Peiris -Consultant PsychiatristDr. Ruwan M Jayatunge – Medical Doctor / Clinical PsychologistDr. Priya – General Practitioner Date: 11th of December 2025, ThursdayTime 8.30 pm Link; https://meet.jit.si/moderated/974a3405ecd97ef132153456f7d2e23e8a0a6311d1976d4227808f5f198ccfba
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Posted in Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. | Comments Off on Discussion on 2025 Climate-Related Natural Disaster (Cyclone Ditwah) and Mental Health Outcomes
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
උදය ප්රභාත් පතිරණගේ උපුටාගැනීම-උපුටාගැණීම මුහුනුපොත නොම්ලේවත් කවුරුවත් යූස් කරන්නේ නැති ඒවා… ශ්රී ලංකාව සිංහල බෞද්ධ රාජ්යක් නොව, එය සර්ව ආගමික රාජ්යක්. එහි ඉතිහාසයේ සිංහලයාට වඩා වැඩි ඉතිහාසයක් දමිළයන්ට ඇත, යන්න තේමා කරගෙන, මාළිමා ආණ්ඩුව ” ශ්රී ලංකන් ඩේ ” එකක් දෙසැම්බර් 12 සිදු කරන්න, කෝටි 300 ක් අය – වැයෙන් වෙන් කරනවා. නමුත් ස්වභාදහම එයට […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පසුගිය දින කිහිපය තුළ මෙරටට බලපෑ දරුණු සුළි කුණාටු තත්ත්වය සහ ආපදා කළමනාකරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දැක්වූ හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නිමල් පියතිස්ස මහතා සඳහන් කළේ, වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව මෙවැනි දරුණු අනතුරු පිළිබඳ අනතුරු ඇඟවීම් නොතකා හරිමින් ආපදාව සිදුවීමට ඉඩ දුන් බවයි. මහජන නියෝජිතයෙකු ලෙස නුවරඑළිය දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වසර 20කට අධික අත්දැකීම් ඇති තමන් […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
By Meera Srinivasan Courtesy The Hindu The programme’s crushing austerity measures make recovery harder, contend activists Updated – December 09, 2025 at 07:16 PM As Sri Lanka reels from Cyclone Ditwah’s devastation, calls to revisit the ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, which critics say imposes punishing austerity, are growing louder. At least 638 people […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 9 (Daily Mirror) – The United Nations has allocated US$4.5 million (LKR 1.38 billion) from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to strengthen Sri Lanka’s response to Cyclone Ditwah, which made landfall on November 28. The funding will enable the UN to rapidly scale up emergency assistance, including food […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Save the Children 9 Dec 2025 sri lanka At least 86,000 homes were damaged in the landslides and floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah on 28 November. More than 630 people were killed, and nearly 70,000 are still living in temporary shelters, including schools. Save the Children, and partner organisation CCH (Centre for Children’s Happiness), have started […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Courtesy The National Latest humanitarian flight carries 1,080 food parcels December 09, 2025 The UAE has sent an eighth plane of crucial aid and supplies to support communities in Sri Lanka hit by fatal floods and landslides. The eighth aid plane from the Emirates arrived on Tuesday in the capital Colombo, laden with 1,080 food parcels as […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Courtesy Daily Mirror It is now evident that the Meteorology Department had forecast intense rainfall well in advance The era of global warming, no country is immune from extreme climate events such as cyclones, floods, or heatwaves. Yet nations with stronger disaster-preparedness systems consistently mitigate damage and reduce death tolls. The global lesson is clear: […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Courtesy Adaderana The ‘Level-3’ (Red) landslide evacuation warning issued to multiple areas in four districts has been extended. Accordingly, the National Building and Research Organisation (NBRO) landslide warning will be in effect till 04:00 p.m. tomorrow (10). Districts and Divisional Secretariat Divisions (DSDs) that have been issued the Level 3 (Red) landslide warnings, advising people […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Railways has announced that starting tomorrow (10), several office trains on the main line will resume operations. Due to recent adverse weather conditions, a culvert near the Bujjomuwa railway station between Ambepussa and Alawwa was damaged due to the overflowing Ma Oya river. As a result, a cavity of about […]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Courtesy Hiru News The United Nations Development Programme termed Cyclone Ditwah one of the worst flooding disasters in decades after new geospatial analysis revealed floodwaters submerged 20% of Sri Lanka’s landmass, more than 1.1 million hectares. The report confirms that 2.3 million people reside in the inundated zones, with women accounting for more than half […]
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Posted in News | Comments Off on UNDP enumerates Ditwah’s dark achievement
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Posted in JVP Anti-National Activities | Comments Off on ” ආණ්ඩුවට සල්ලි දෙන්නට ඇය හදිස්සි වුණේ ඇයි ? ” 😎🥸😉පැලවත්තේ පිං කැටේ හොලවන්නේවත් නැද්ද ?
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Posted in Politics | Comments Off on අපේ රටේ ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ බුද්ධිමට්ටමේ තරම.. මෙහෙම කරන්නේ හිතලමද ?
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Posted in World | Comments Off on Putin Has Last Laugh As Zelensky Silences Million Ukrainians; Russian Crackdown Ignites Firestorm
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
උපුටාගැණීම මුහුනුපොත ඔබ නොදත් BMICH අරමුදල..(දත්ත, තොරතුරු , ව්ශ්ලේශන අවශ්යබව කියන්නේ මේ නිසාවෙනි..අනුර පොරක් වී ඇත්තේ ඔවුන්ගේ බොරු වපුරන ජඩ මාධ්ය බලකාය නිසා මෙන්ම ඒ බොරු එලෙසින් ව්ශ්වාස කරන අනුගාමික් ලබ්දිකයන් සහ ඒවා බෙදාහරින Distributorsලා නිසාවෙනි. බන්ඩාරනායක අරමුදල කාගේද? ඔබ පුදුම කරන බන්ඩාරනායක අරමුදල මගින් ආපදාවෙන් විපතට පත්වූ ජනතාවට සහන සැලසීම සදහා රු. මිලියන 250 […]
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Posted in Corruption and bribery | Comments Off on බන්ඩාරනායක අරමුදල මගින් ආපදාවෙන් විපතට පත්වූ ජනතාවට සහන සැලසීම සදහා රු. මිලියන 250 ක් ආධාර ලෙස ලබාදී ඇත. බන්ඩාරනායක අරමුදල කාගේද?