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Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
Taslima Hyat Freelance Journalist and researcher Gun violence isn’t slowing down in America. So far this year, the US has seen at least 130 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US. The month of January this year had more mass shootings than in the previous five […]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Rohan Abeygunawardena (The Message” that came after Line of Destiny”) Ask Lester to come and see me” If not for above message Lester James Peries (Lester) received from K. Gunaratnam, the film industry of Sri Lanka would have probably lost the classic work of the Master Filmmaker of the country. Lester’s first Sinhala film Rekawa” […]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz, Chairman, Press Desk, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Through knowledge bestowed upon him by God, the All-Knowing, the Holy Prophet, Muhammad, peace be upon him, foresaw the condition under which his Community (Ummah) had to pass during different ages and particularly in the Last Days. He is reported to have […]
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Friday, March 17th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s first-ever free-of-charge, luxury, high-tech-equipped, conference hall and a grand banquet hall are to be declared open at the Devram Vehera temple in Pannipitiya on Monday (20). Temple’s founder Ven. Kolonnawe Siri Sumangala Thera said the conference hall and wedding hall were built for the people to conduct their social […]
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Courtesy First Post The process of SRVAs started last year in the month of July when the RBI issued detailed guidelines on cross-border trade transactions in the Indian rupees (INR) Several nations express interest to facilitate international trade in Indian rupee. Representational Image/PTI. New Delhi: Indian rupee is edging closer to becoming an international currency with […]
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Friday, March 3rd, 2023
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දමිළ භාෂාවයි සිංහලයි මට මගේ ඇස්දෙක වගේ ” தமிழ் மொழியும் சிங்கள மொழியும் எனக்கு இரு கன் போல
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයට අයත් 849-D ග්රාම සේවා වසමේ බොදු බැතිමතුන්ගේ ආධ්යාත්මික හා සමාජීය දියුණුව සඳහා විශාල අඩුපාඩුවක් ව පැවති බුද්ධ මන්දිරයක අවශ්යතාවය ඉටුකර ගැනීම සඳහා නාවලකන්ද සමනල යෞවන සමාජයේ සභාපති පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මහතාගේ මූලිකත්වය යටතේ යෞවන සමාජ තරුණ තරුණියන් ඇතුළුව ප්රදේශ වාසීන්ගේ දායකත්වයද ලබා ගනිමින් අභිනව බුද්ධ මන්දිරය […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2023
Researched and written by Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS). This was called the Jaffna Peninsula Lagoon Scheme which is located at Elephant Pass which is located 30 miles South East of Jaffna. The lagoon is 19,000 acres and […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2023
Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS). The Kelini Ganga is one of the main rivers of Sri Lanka. It has its source in the Central Hills near Adam’s Speak and follows through the South Western Part of the country […]
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Sri Lanka Canada Association of Markham Suite 135, 4981 Hwy 7 East, Unit 4, Markham, ON L3P 0E3 The Honorable Melanie JolyMinister of Foreign AffairsHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontario,CanadaK1A 0A6 Feb 15th, 2023 RE: Canada imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan state officials for human rights violations Ms. Melanie Joly, As Canadians of Sri Lankan origin, we […]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. On 20th February 1886, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) in Islam Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be on him) – the Promised Messiah and Imamal-Mahdi, claimed to have received a divine revelation informing him that an exceptionally gifted and pious […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2023
Lt Col. A.S.Amarasekera.(Rtd.) Co-President National Joint Committee The 13th Amendment was enacted in 1987 consequent to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord between the Government of India and the Republic of Sri Lanka. The Accord was signed in Colombo by President J.R Jayawardena and Rajiv Gandhi while the country was under curfew. The Government of […]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෑත කාලයේ සමාජ ජාල වල අවස්ථා කිහිපයකදී ම මත ගැටුම් ඇතිකරගත් පූජ්ය සිරි සමන්තභද්ර හිමියන් සහ කිරුලපන ධම්ම විජය හිමියන් අතර විවාදාත්මක සාකච්ඡාවක් අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක පැවැත්විය. සංගීත ශිල්පී ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න මහතා විසින් තම අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාව ඔස්සේ එයා සංවිධානය කර තිබින.
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රජය විසින් මෙම ජනවාරි මාසයේ සිට අය කිරීම ආරම්භ කර ඇති නව ආදායම් බද්ද සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශ්වවිද්යාල ආචාර්යවරුන්ගේ සංගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි මහතා අදහස් පල කරයි. තම මාසික වැටුප් සටහනක්ද සහිතව ඔහු විසින් සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ තබා ඇති සටහන මෙසේය. බදු පිළිබද මගේ මතය!!!=============මේ තියෙන්නෙ ගිය මාසෙ මට ගෙදර ගෙනියන්න […]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Sarath Bulathsinghala Canada is following up on Ban ki-Moon’s Darusman’s Report a clandestine report purportedly made for the eyes of the former UN Secretary of General of the UN – Moon only, but later surreptitiously leaked to the public and now used as a major document to castigate the Sri Lankan government and her past […]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2023
Sarath Bulathsinghala 22 Jan 2023 In a by-gone era seven wandering beggars arrived at a wayside resting place- (අම්බලම) in an evening to rest their weary limbs and feed their hungry stomachs. After exchanging pleasantries, they all decided to have some gruel for dinner. All agreed to contribute a handful of rice to the common […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023
Sangam Talks This talk leverages cutting-edge scholarly researches in textual criticism and cognitive sciences to arrive at a reasonable understanding of Christian beliefs. The findings will reveal a hitherto unknown face of Christianity to the rational Hindu. About the Speaker: Kalavai Venkat is a Silicon Valley-based writer, an atheist, a practicing orthodox Hindu, and author […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023
බ්රිතාන්ය ඉංජිනේරු ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩනයේ සිට ලියන අලුත්ම ලිපිය 2023 ජනවාරි14 ඉරිදා සති අග අරුණේ 17 පිටුවේ .මේ දවස් වල පත්තරයක් දිග ඇරියොත් අපි දකින්නේ චං නෝනාය. උදේ පාන්දර ටී.වී එක දැම්මොත් ලංකාවේ කොහේ හරි නගරයක චං නෝනා මොකක් විවෘත කරන හෝ කවුරුන් හෝ හමුවන ප්රවෘත්ති කෑල්ලක් අපට දකින්නට ලැබෙනවා ෂුවර්ය. චං නෝනා […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Sarath Bulathsinghala 12 Jan 2023 Canada is following up on Monkey Moon’s Darusman’s Report a clandestine report purportedly made for the eyes of the former UN Secretary of General of the UN – Moon only, but later surreptitiously leaked to the public and now used as a major document to castigate the Sri Lankan government […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2023
Gamini Sarath Godakanda Jennifer Smith, Justice of the Peace and retired London solicitor who has had a long association with Sri Lanka, presented a set of watercolours by the Irish artist, Andrew Nicoll (1804-86) to the Pathfinder Collection. The paintings were recently handed over to Milinda Moragoda, Founder of MMBL-Pathfinder.The Pathfinder Collection was established in […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2023
By Palitha Ariyarathana Evidence of tactful proselytizing activity goes through marriage life in Sri Lanka, where Buddhist secretly convert to become slaves of another religion. When we screen through actual incidents in our society, we can clearly find out that church propagandists plant early seeds in their community to convince another religious partner to convert […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2022
නුවන් මොණරවිළ Lanka Lead News ජෝන්,ඩොයිලි ඉතිහාසය තුළ බලවත් වුයේ අපේ අසමගිය නිසාය. එදාද අපි ඔවුන් විශ්වාස කිරීමේ අවසන් ප්රතිපලය වුයේ ස්වෛරී රාජ්යය අපට අහිමි වීමය. අද ජෝන්,ඩොයිලිගේ භූමිකාව ඉටු කරන්නේ එරික් සෝල්හම්ය. එදා වගේම අදත් එරික් සෝල්හයිම්, පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ සිංහලයාගේ අසමගියයි. (මම මෙතැන සිංහලයා ලෙස ගන්නේ මොන පක්ෂ වලින් බැලුවත් බහුතරය සිංහල දේශපාලකයන් වැඩි […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2022
Rahul Gautam Courtesy India Today The Ram Setu or Adam’s Bridge between India and Sri Lanka has been a topic of debate for years By Rahul Gautam: The debate on Ram Setu, also known as Adam’s Bridge, has come up yet again. This time, the issue was raised by an Independent MP from Haryana, Kartikeya […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
by an Indian Columnist The Portuguese conquest of India was one of the most brutal. They carried out a terrible Inquisition in which the Hindus were forcibly converted and then tortured on the suspicion of back-sliding. The conversion itself was gruesome. Christian fanatics razed Hindu temples, butchered Hindu men, and distributed their women to Portuguese […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
MIKE WHITNEY AND PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Courtesy The Unz Review Question 1—You think that Putin should have acted more forcefully from the beginning in order to end the war quickly. Is that an accurate assessment of your view on the war? And—if it is—then what do you think is the downside of allowing the conflict to drag […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2022
Tilottama Rani Charulata There is nothing new about the impact food has on politics. In the old days, many kings practiced food diplomacy in entertaining their guests; from serving the best unique dishes that could have been created only by the royal house’s finest chefs. The tradition continues in the modern political world. Many leaders […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2022
Samina Akhter According to the government-to-government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 140,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar .Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.In line with this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz, Chairman, Press & Media Desk Ahmasiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Ahmadiyya Muslims from number of countries including Sri Lanka are expected to participate in the 127th annual congregation of the community (Jalsa Salana) to be held December 23, 24 and 25 at Qadian in Punjab, India. In 1891, the founder of Ahmadiyya […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2022
Sufian siddique The United States is regarded as the largest democracy or fully democratic nation in the world. The question of whether the United States believes it is its “right” to warn other nations of the world about kidnappings, killings, or violations of human rights may follow from this introduction. However, a number of publications […]
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