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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
BY CHARMINDA RODRIGO Ceylon Today UPFA Parliamentarian Bandula Gunawardena answering Ceylon Today said that the recent Budget presented to Parliament is nothing but a bizarre farce to deceive the public. ?: How do you see the recent Appropriation Bill proposals presented to the Parliament? A: The proposals submitted by the Minister of Finance are a […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් අයවැය යෝජනාවන්හි ප්රධාන දුර්වලතාවය වන්නේ පෙර වසරේ එනම් 2016 අයවැයෙදි සිදුවුයේ කුමක්දැයි විග්රහ නොකර පුරාජේරු පමණක් පැවසීම යයි ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු නියෝජ්ය අධිපති ඩබ්.ඒ. විජේවර්ධන පැවසීය. ‘2016 අයවැයෙදි සිදුවුයේ කුමක්දැයි මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා අපට කියාදිය යුතුය. සෑම මාස හයකට වරක්ම මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට වාර්තාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කළ යුතුයි. […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Adaderana November 16, 2016 02:38 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa slammed the Budget 2017 Wednesday, saying the government may intend to address the needs of the foreign elements than it focusing on local’s issues. This Budget aim to cut taxes for foreigners and motivate them to buy our lands,” Rajapaksa said […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2016
Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald The stock market is easily rattled, but it can also be easily seduced. President-elect Donald Trump’s long-term relationship with Wall Street is just getting started, but he has already demonstrated that he can not only shake up but also mollify the market. It soared to a record on Thursday, as […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2016
By Simon Watkins for The Mail on Sunday Britain and the US would both benefit from a new open trade deal, Donald Trump’s senior economic adviser told The Mail on Sunday this weekend. In a wide-ranging interview, Stephen Moore, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan and a key architect of Trump’s plans to slash taxes, […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2016
Editorial Island November 11, 2016, 9:18 pm The government is hailing its own budget as a very progressive one and the Joint Opposition has dismissed it as yet another burden on the masses. One should not be as uncharitable as those who are still smarting from last year’s electoral defeats in describing the budget. But, […]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2016
The Indian Express Stocks on major world markets gave back some of the week’s gains on Friday, while global bond yields rose for a fifth day, supporting the US dollar but pressuring commodities and emerging markets. Stocks on major world markets gave back some of the week’s gains on Friday, while global bond yields rose […]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් මහජන චීන රජය විසින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එරට සංචාරයක යෙදන ලෙස නිල ආරාධනයක් සිදු කර තිබේ. ඒ අනුව හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ මස 23දා චීන සංචාරයක යෙදෙන බව ඔහුගේ ප්රකාශකයෙක් පැවසීය. මෙම සංචාරයේදී චීන රජයේ ප්රධානීන් මෙන්ම දේශපාලන පක්ෂ නායකයන්, එරට වෙසෙන ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් හමුවීමටද නියමිතය.
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Courtesy The Island November 8, 2016, 7:59 pm Though much has been said and written in the past two years about the opaque operations of Avant Garde Maritime Services, most people know little or nothing of what it was all about – a classic case of a controversy creating more confusion than enlightenment. In this […]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Courtesy BBC Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the existing 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes will be withdrawn from the financial system overnight. The surprise move is part of a crackdown on corruption and illegal cash holdings, he said in a nationwide address on television. Black money and corruption are the biggest obstacles […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 3, 2016, 10:04 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday thanked China for publicly countering lies propagated by the UNP- led government as regards loans received by the Rajapaksa administration. Top JO spokesmen former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris and MP Bandula Gunawardena said that China had set […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Prof. Sirimevan Colombage Courtesy The Island November 3, 2016, 9:51 pm The forthcoming Budget 2017 is to be presented in the midst of many macroeconomic vulnerabilities manifested by persistent fiscal deficits. Revenue generation is constrained by the limitations in mobilizing direct taxes which have led to a continuous rise in the indirect tax burden making […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 3, 2016, 12:00 pm The Joint Opposition yesterday acknowledged that none of those who had faced serious accusations during the previous SLFP-led PA and UPFA administrations had given up portfolios and positions temporarily to facilitate investigations. Asked by The Island whether those in the Joint Opposition had practised what […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
By Ajith Nivard Cabraal Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka November 3, 2016, 9:57 pm In terms of Section 66 (1) of the Monetary Law Act, the Monetary Board is responsible for the management of the international reserves. In keeping with such authority and responsibility, the Monetary Board has approved Foreign Exchange Reserve Management […]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
Media Secretary to the Minister of Primary Industries ගරු අමාත්යතුමන්ගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම්ගරු අමාත්යතුමන්ගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම් Minister of Primary Industries Daya Gamage said on Wednesday that direct trade between the two countries can be more beneficial for both nations. Minister Gamage made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Minister of Agricultural Jihad for Commercial […]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
Adaderana November 2, 2016 10:26 am China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Yi Xianliang, on Tuesday, said it was unfair for Sri Lanka to term loans given by China’s EXIM Bank as ‘expensive’ and questioned the government as to why it had sought fresh loans from China if the interest rates were ‘too high’. I have noted […]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් කොළඹ ගාළු මුවදොර ඉදරියේ චීන රජය විසින් ඉදිකරමින් සිටි වරාය නගර ව්යාපෘතිය නව රජය බලයට ආ කාලයේ නවතා දැමීම නිසා ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් 5,000කට පමණ රැකියා අවස්ථාවන් අහිමි වූ බවත් එම වගකීම බාර ගන්නේ කවුදැයි කිව යුතු බවත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති යී ෂියෑන්ලින්ග් මහතා කොලඹ පැවති මෙරට චීන […]
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
Adaderana November 1, 2016 02:22 pm Former CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran should be arrested upon his arrival to Sri Lanka at the airport, the Joint Opposition urged. The observation was made by MP Bandula Gunawardena at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (01). The Government has suffered a loss of nearly Rs.1000 billion due […]
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
By Paneetha Ameresekere Courtesy Ceylon Today Three reasons are causing foreign funds of significant value to exit from the Treasury (T) Bond and T-Bill market as was reflected in the movement of such outflows in the week ended 19 October 2016, a banker told this reporter. Those are the prevalence of a weak rupee, artificially shored […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් තමන් විසින් මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර මගඩිය සිදු කරනු ලැබුවේ අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත බව හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් මහතා කෝප් කමිටුව හමුවේ පැහැදිලිව සාක්ෂි දුන් බව කෝප් කමිටුවේ හිටපු සභාපති හිටපු ඇමති ඩියු ගුණසේකර මහතා පවසයි. සිරස රූපවාහිනියේ නිවුස්ලයින් වැඩසටහනේදී අදහස් පල කරමින් ඔහු […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2016
| lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් ශ්රී ලංකාව 2014 දෙසැම්බර් 31 දිනට ලබාගත් සම්පූර්ණ ණය රුපියල් බිලියන 7391කි. මෙය ශ්රීලංකාව 1948 නිදහස ලබාගත් දින සිට 2014 දෙසැම්බර් 31 දින දක්වා ලබාගත් දෙශිය විදේශිය ණය වල ගෙවිය යුතු ශේෂයයි. මෙසේ ලබාගත් ණය රටේ සංවර්ධනයට එනම් ඩී එස් යුගයේ ගල්ඔය ව්යපාරයේ සිට වික්ටෝරියා, රන්දෙණිගල, මාදුරුඔය, […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2016
Adaderana October 28, 2016 11:04 am The special COPE report on the Central bank bond issue was presented to the Parliament by the Chairman of the Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) MP Sunil Handunnetti, a short while ago. The 55-page COPE report recommends that former Governor of the Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran should be held directly […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් පසුගිය වසරේදී ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව විසින් සිදු කරන ලද බැදුම්කර නිකුතුවේදී සිදුව ඇතැයි කියන අක්රමිකතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් කෝප් කමිටුව විසින් මාස ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ නොයෙකුක් අවුල් වියවුල් මැද සිදු කරන ලද පරීක්ෂණයන්හි අවසන් වාර්තාව මීට ටික වේලාවකට පෙර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සභාගත කරනු ලැබීය. කෝප් කමිටු සභාපති ජවිපෙ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සුනිල් හදුන්නෙත්ති මහතා විසින් වාර්තාව […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් 2020 වන විට අපේ රටේ ණය බර අඩු කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය වික්රමසිංහ පසුගියදා ප්රකාශ කලේය. එය ජනතාවට තාවකාලික අස්වැසිල්ලක් වුවත් මෙය ලෙහෙසියෙන් කල හැකිද යන්න සොයා බැලීම වැදගත්ය. එහිදි 1990 සිට ශ්රීලංකාවේ තිබු රජයන් විසින් ඊට පෙර රජයන් ගත් ණයද ඇතුලත්ව ඉදිරියට ශේෂය ගෙන යනු ලබන අතර ඒ ඒ වර්ෂවල දල ජාතික […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් වැට් බදු ඉහල නැංවීම තුලින් උපයා ගැනීමට බලාපොරොත්තුවන රුපියල් කෝටි 180ක මුදල උපයා ගත හැකි පහසුම මගක් ජවිපෙ නායක අනුර දිසානායක මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වැට් පනත විවාදයට එක්වෙමින් හෙලි කලේය. ඔහු යෝජනා කලේ ඇමතිවරුන්ට වාහන ගෙන්වීම සදහා පරිපූරක ඇස්තමේන්තුවකින් වෙන් කරගන්නා ලද රුපියල් කෝටි 180 හා අගමැතිවරයාට වාහනයක් ගෙන්වීමට වෙන් කර ඇති රුපියල් […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
By Charminda Rodrigo Courtesy Ceylon Today Professor Rohan Samarajeewa was a member of the Intergovernmental Joint Study Group on the India-Sri Lanka Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in the year 2003 and chaired the GATS Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, Sri Lanka (2002-2004). He expressed his views to Ceylon Today on the proposed Economic […]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island October 25, 2016, 8:06 pm An internal investigation conducted by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) into Treasury bond scams has shed light on unusually huge profits made by one of the primary dealers, Perpetual Treasuries, belonging to the son-in-law of former CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran. A damning report put […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy Island October 24, 2016, 8:19 pm The incumbent dispensation seems to be the political version of Golden Key. Those who, expecting higher returns on their investment, reposed their trust in Golden Key lost their deposits. The people who, fed up with the previous regime, voted the present administration in, hoping for good governance […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph The 13-member Special Parliamentary Investigation Committee that probed the alleged insider trading and favoritism in the recent treasury bond issue has established Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran’s direct intervention on behalf of his son-in-law Arjun Aloysius owned Perpetual Treasuries.We publish below the interim report prepared by the committee, the sudden decision to […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) today held former Central Bank (CB) Governor Arjuna Mahendran’s son-in-law Arjun Aloysius and other directors of Perpetual Treasuries responsible for the controversial CB Bond Scam, UNP member of COPE and Deputy Minister Ajith P. Perera said. The COPE recommended to arrest Aloysius […]
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