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Monday, November 20th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News Colombo, November 20, 2023 – The ongoing crisis within Sri Lanka Cricket took center stage in Parliament today as Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tabled three letters sent by Cricket President Shammi Silva to the International Cricket Council (ICC). These letters, requesting the suspension of Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership, have sparked a public […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe claims that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) forced the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Sri Lanka from international cricket. Ranasinghe made this accusation while quoting a letter allegedly sent by SLC to the ICC on 07 November 2023, during a media briefing which is currently being held in Colombo. […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
By AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today revealed that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Shammi Silva had sent a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC) alleging that the Sports Ministry had made undue interferences in its activities and claimed that this had paved the way for the […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana November 18, 2023 10:34 pm Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s (SJB) has drawn attention to bringing up a no-confidence motion against the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) Prof. Ranjith Bandara. SJB Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella stated that discussions pertaining to the matter are currently in progress. COPE chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara came under […]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
By YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) Sri Lanka’s cricket crisis has taken a chaotic turn with some members of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and its chairman Ranjith Bandara accusing each other of mishandling the probe on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Some COPE members highlighted that Prof. Bandara should be removed […]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News In a startling revelation, serious concerns have emerged about the potential conflict of interest involving the present COPE Chairman, Prof. Ranjith Bandara, who has reportedly been retained by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a consultant for the Kandy Cricket Campus project. According to circulated minutes, Prof. Ranjith Bandara has also agreed with […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Courtesy Ceylon Today Among all the things the environmentally-conscious superhero, Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority, was supposed to protect, his bank account was not one of them. He was caught red-handed in a dramatic arrest last week when he traded his green cape for what would have been some big bucks (and greener’ pastures) […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) rebuked Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for following weak processes in performing its activities. It was highlighted that these weak processes had led to the current crisis in cricket. COPE Chairman Ranjith Bandara made this observation after SLC was probed by the […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Raids and Special Investigations Unit of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has sealed the storage facility owned by a leading sugar importer in Sri Lanka, for hoarding over 250 metric tonnes of sugar. The relevant storage facility was sealed during a series of raids carried out by the CAA in the Peliyagoda […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනම් කළේ ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ඉල්ලා සිටීම නිසා බව ක්රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එම තහනම ලැබීම ගැන පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ තිරිසනුන් සතුටුවෙමින් සාද පවත්වා ඇති බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කරන්නේ අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ශ්රී […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
VFM RADIO 107 ක්රිකට් සම්බන්ධ අභියාචනාධිකරණ තීන්දුවේ විනිසුරුගේ සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම ගැන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් වෙයි….අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා මෙන්න ඇත්ත.. මෙන්න යථාර්තය.. අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දෙන්න කලින් මම හැමදේම දැනං හිටියා ඉතිහාසයේ දැකපු සුපිරිම ක්රීඩා ඇමති රොෂාන්ද..?
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
By Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – According to reports, the Power and Energy Ministry is expediting the signing of documents for a Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with India’s Adani Group to establish a new wind power plant in the Mannar basin with a capacity of 250 MW, Sri Lanka […]
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Monday, October 9th, 2023
පාලිත ආරියරත්න මෙම මධ්යස්ථානය සකස් වන්නේ බොහෝ දුරට දැනට අවරුදු ගනනාවකට පෙරය එනම් යුද්ධයේදී එල් ටි ටි ය පරාජයවී යාමත් සමගමය. එසේ සිතීමට ආසන්නම හේතුව යුද්ධය පරාජය වූ පසු හමුදාවේ මානුෂිය මෙහෙයුම් ප්රතික්ෂේප කල කණ්ඩායම් මහනුවර ප්රදේශයෙන් පන්සලක් තැනීමට ඉඩමක් මිලදී ගැනීමට උත්සහා කරන බව නුවර මාධ්ය කරුවන්ගේ සවනට ඇසුණු බැවිනි.රකුස් භාවනා මධ්යස්ථානය ප්රධාන ඉලක්කය […]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A total of USD 56 billion has been parked abroad by powerful persons during the past few years, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapaksha informed Parliament today. A sum of USD 9 billion has been parked this year alone,” the Minister said. I propose a special motion to order these persons to […]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The proposed cable car line from Nanu Oya to Nuwara Eliya has been halted as a certain Forest Department official was refusing to grant permission to release 150 perches on the Kikiliyamana mountain without any reason, a government MP revealed today. Parliamentarian Madura Vithanage told Parliament that the project is unable […]
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Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A picture of Foreign Minister Ali Sabry with his son at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly has sparked criticism with people questioning as to why such privileges are offered to the relatives of politicians. The picture posted on X formerly known as Twitter is doing the […]
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2023
Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy Wire In June 2022, Ceylon Electricity Board chair M.M.C. Ferdinando told the Committee on Public Enterprises that in November 2021 President Rajapaksa had told him the wind power project must be awarded to the Adanis, and that this was the wish of PM Modi. Three days later, Ferdinando retracted his statement and […]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පොතුවිල් ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලය විසින් මුදල් වලට තමන්ගේ ඉඩම් අනීතික ලෙස වෙනත් පාර්ශව වලට පවරාදෙන බව පවසමින් පොතුවිල් කනගර් ප්රදේශයේ සිංහල, දෙමළ ජනතාව උද්ඝෝෂණයක නිරත විය. එම ජනතාව පවසන්නේ 1980 ගණන් වල සිට තමන් මෙම ඉඩම්වල පදිංචි වී සිටි බවත්, යුද්ධයෙන් අවතැන්වී අනාත කඳවුරුවල සිටිය දී නැවත මෙම ප්රදේශයේ පදිංචි කළ බවත්, […]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Jeannine Mancini Courtesy Finance Yahoo.com Grant Cardone, a renowned sales trainer, speaker and entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $600 million, recently took to X, formerly Twitter, to raise a thought-provoking question: “Can someone explain to me how public servants (politicians) are becoming multimillionaires on $100,000 salaries?” While the message did not specify which public servants […]
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Monday, August 21st, 2023
Lanka Lead News කැබිනට් අමාත්ය ජීවන් තොණ්ඩමන් මහතා නීතිය අතට ගනිමින් ඇල්කඩුව වැවිලි සමාගමේ සමාන්යාධිකාරිවරයා වන සුරේෂ් නවරත්නම් මහතාට තර්ජනය කරමින් සිදුකළ අනීතික ක්රියාවේ දිගුවක් ලෙස එම සාමාන්යාධිකාරීවරයාගේ වැඩ තහනම් කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ. ජීවන් තොණ්ඩමන් ඇමැතිවරයා විසින් එම සාමාන්ය අධිකාරීවරයාගේ වැඩ තහනම් කරවීම සඳහා වැවිලිකර්මාන්ත ඇමැති රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතාට බලපෑම් කර ඇති බවද […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News උතුරේ දූපත් 3ක දෙමුහුන් පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති පද්ධතිය ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා ඉන්දියානු සමාගම් වලින් පමණක් ලංසු කැඳවා තිබේ. ශ්රී ලංකා සුනිත්ය බලශක්ති අධිකාරියේ අධ්යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා විසින් නිකුත්කළ නිවේදනයක් මගින් මේ බව දන්වා ඇති අතර, ලංසු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම 2023 සැප්තැම්බර් 14 දිනෙන් අවසන් වන බවත් දක්වා තිබේ. අදාළ ලිපිය පහළින්…
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
Courtesy The Island Letter of resignation sent through wife A senior official of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC),under investigation for massive losses, suffered over a period of time, has resigned after having gone abroad, authoritative sources told The Island yesterday (07). The former Deputy General Manager, responsible for the commercial and supply chain had been investigated for […]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පුරාවිද්යා ආරක්ෂක ස්මාරක හා පුරාවිද්යා රක්ෂිත ගැසට් කිරීමට පෙර අමාත්ය මණ්ඩලයට යොමු කිරීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් හා පුරාවිද්යා භූමිවල මායිම් ගල් ගැලවීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ පෙත්සම් දෙක හෙට(25) දින විභාගයට ගැනේ. පුරාවිද්යා ආඥාපනත මගින් විෂයභාර අමාත්යවරයා හා පුරාවිද්යා අධ්යක්ෂක ජෙනරාල්වරයාට පිළිවෙළින් පුරාවිද්යා ආරක්ෂිත ස්මාරක හා පුරාවිද්යා […]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පසුගියදා වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව, මහවැලිය සහ පුරාවිද්යා දෙපාර්තුමෙන්තු විසින් මායිම් යොදා වෙන් කර තිබූ මුලතිව් දිස්ත්රික්කයේ රක්ෂිත වනාන්තර ඉඩම් අක්කර 29,000ක් ඔවුන්ගේ භාරයෙන් නිදහස් කොට දෙමළ ජනතාව වෙත පවරන ලෙස ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය විසින් දැනුම්දී ඇති බවත්, ඊයේ දිනයේ (18) දෙමළ සන්ධානයේ ජාතිවාදී දේශපාලනික අරමුණු ඉටුකිරීම උදෙසා වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා (පොලිස් බලතල පමණක් […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The importation of certain drugs are sometimes approved by the Director Board of the National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA), even in the absence of such approval from the relevant expert committee, according to Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama. Speaking during Ada Derana’s ‘Big Focus’ programme with regards to the importation of drugs, […]
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
විජය උදුපිටිය චමුදිත සමරවික්රම සමග Vijaya Undupitiya On Truth with Chamuditha
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Labour alleges that neither the union leaders nor officers have provided asset liability statements within the granted period. When inquired by Ada Derana”, Secretary of the Ministry R.P.A. Wimalaweera stated that none of those 2,000 representatives has so far submitted asset liability statements. In general, the officials including trade union […]
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