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Friday, August 9th, 2019
Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. A group of Sri Lankan descent American youth performed a traditional Kandyan Drums Orchestra at the 10th Annual Cultural Celebration organized by the South Asian American Employee Association of the U.S. Department of State on 01st of August 2019. Performances by youth from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan […]
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, The 53rd Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 04 August 2019 with faith inspiring addresses of his five speeches. by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The Convention began on […]
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Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Fatima Yasmin Country: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is seeing an alarming rise in female genital cutting among adults. Ever since a recent health ministry circular prohibiting medical professionals from performing it on baby girls, and strong protests against the ban by leading Islamic organizations, a new movement has gained momentum promoting the practice among adult […]
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Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න, මාධ්ය සම්බන්ධීකාරක, වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය ශ්රී ලංකාව පුරා විහිදී ඇති ජාතික වනෝද්යාන තුල ඉතාම දුෂ්කර රාජකාරියක යෙදමින් වනජීවී දෙපාර්තමෙන්තුවට විශාල ආදායමක් ස්වෙච්ඡා සේවකයන් විසින් ගෙන දෙයි. වනෝද්යානයන් තුල දැනටමත් කාර්ය මණ්ඩල පුරප්පාඩු විශාල ප්රමාණයක් පවතින අතර එසේ තිබියදීත් මෙම ස්වේච්ඡා මාර්ගෝපදේශකයින් ස්ථීර නොකිරීම නිසාවෙන් 2019 අගෝස්තු මස 01 වන දින සිට ඔවුන් […]
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Monday, July 29th, 2019
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
JANAKI CHANDRARATNA Courtesy The Island It was indeed a breadth of fresh air to read the American Ambassador’s clarifications on US-Sri Lanka Agreements in The Island newspaper – 18 July 2019. The Ambassador, Alaina Teplitz, needs to be commended for understanding the Sri Lankan concerns and articulating her Govt’s assertions in a professional manner. This […]
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Courtesy Ceylon Today Power outages due to the adverse weather conditions have been reported from several areas in the island including Matara, Galle and Ratnapura today (18). Deputy Director of theDisaster Management Centre (DMC), Pradeep Kodippili advised the public not to proceed to the sea and to avoid travelling to the mountain areas due to […]
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය යුනෙස්කෝ ලෝක උරුම තෙත් කලාපීය වැසි වනාන්තරයක් වන සිංහරාජ රක්ෂියේ නැගෙනහිර රක්වාන කඳුවැටිය හා ඒ ආශ්රිතව පවතින්නා වූ වනාන්තර පද්ධතිය සූවිශේෂි ජෛව විවිධත්වයකින් යුක්ත වන අතර සිංහරාජයේ වෙසෙන අවසාන දැවන්තයන් දෙදෙනා වසරේ වැඩි කාලයක් සක්රීය වන ප්රදේශයකි. මානික්වත්ත, බෝටියතැන්න ප්රදේශය ආශ්රිත කලාපය සිංහාරජ අලි සංක්රමණ කලාපයක් ලෙසටද ලෙස නම් […]
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Friday, July 12th, 2019
Prof. Harendra de Silva President Sri Lanka Medical Council Reference web publication : and social media dissemination regarding claims about the SLMC. I was appointed as the President SLMC by the Hon.Minister since January 2019. However to date he has not influenced me on any matter in relation to the proper functioning of the activities […]
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Friday, July 12th, 2019
Anjalika Silva Sri Lankan American Community member https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-easter-sunday-attacks-muslims-face-boycotts-and-violence-in-sri-lanka/2019/07/06/3e4a405a-91f6-11e9-956a-88c291ab5c38_story.html?utm_term=.8745a1f0c4f4 The above article that appeared in the Washington Post on Monday July 8, 2019 singles out the occurrence of reaction by the citizens of Sri Lanka against the recent extremist Islamic violence portrayed as Muslims being under siege with insinuations of unfair treatment of Muslims as a […]
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Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Courtesy Scroll.in For some Sinhala-Buddhists, the mythological king is a symbol who challenges Indian cultural hegemony. On June 19, Sri Lanka successfully put its first satellite into orbit. This was a landmark moment for the small island country that spent nearly four decades focused on a civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the […]
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Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
navrangindia.blogspot.com In the annals of world history, the period of “The Inquisition” introduced by Portuguese rulers of Goa, India was the worst and scary chapter no body can ever think of, all in the name of Christ, an embodiment of love and compassion. In 1542, Fr. Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Society of Jesus, arrived […]
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Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
By Dr. P. G. PunchihewaOf the former Ceylon Civil Service July 2, 2019, 9:08 pm (A shorter version of this article appeared in the Sunday Island August 5,2018) Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong? — R. Chandrasoma Since the announcement was made by the government […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කය නිවර්තන සදාහරිත වනාන්තර කීපයකටම හිමිකම් කියන්නා වූ ජෛව හා පරිසර පද්ධති විවිධත්වයෙන් පොහොසත් දිස්ත්රිකකයක් වේ. වර්තමානය වන විට ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වනාන්තර පද්ධතියට විශාල වශයෙන් මානව ක්රියාකාරකම් නිසා තර්ජන එල්ල වෙමින් පවතින අතර කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වනාන්නර පද්ධතිද විශාල වශයෙන් හායනයට ලක් වෙමින් පවතී. මේ නිසා මෙම සංවේදී පරිසර පද්ධති රැක ගැනීමට […]
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Thursday, June 27th, 2019
By Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka, ඔබ සියළු දෙනාටම ස්තූතියි.
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Thursday, June 27th, 2019
By Imtiaz Thaha/Daily FT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Easter Sunday seemed to be another peaceful day in Sri Lanka. Then suddenly there was pandemonium as five bombs exploded and a carefully-planned ISIS-oriented bombing resulted in nearly 300 lives being lost to the deadly bombs with scores of people injured. The ISIS had struck in Sri Lanka this […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
අහ්මදියා මුස්ලිම් ප්රජාවේ කලීෆා නායක තුමා නෙදර්ලන්ත පාර්ලිමේන්තු ඝර්භයේ කළ ෙඓතිහාසික දේශනය ඔබ සියළු දෙනාටම ස්තූතියි.
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Monday, June 17th, 2019
By Rathindra Kutuwita Courtesy The Island A large number of high- yielding milch cows, imported from Australia, in 2017, were suffering from Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD), hitherto not found in Sri Lanka, and officials had failed to stop the spread of the disease, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing allegations of large scale corruption […]
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Sunday, June 16th, 2019
Parakrama Niriella 238A, Rajagiriya Road, RaJagiriya. 16th June, 2019 To all media institutions and All political leaders of Sri Lanka Freedom Party, United National Party, Sri Lanka People’s Alliance, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, Tamil National Alliance, Sri Lanka Communist Party, Lanka Samasamaja Party Statement Against hounding journalist Kusal Perera We are reliably […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
රාජ්ය සේවා කළමනාකරණ සහකාර නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය ලේකම්, සෞඛ්ය පෝෂණ හා දේශීය වෛද්ය අමාත්යාංශය, පූජ්ය බද්දේගම විමලවංශ හිමි මාවත, කොළඹ 10. ලේකම්තුමියණි, රාජ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවාවේ නිළධාරීන් මුදාහැරීම සම්බන්ධව. රාජ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවාවෙන් විතැන්කොට සංවෘත සේවාවක් ලෙස,ජාතික සෞඛ්ය කළමනාකරණ සහකාර සේවාව ස්ථාපිත කරණු ලබුයේ මීට පෙර අධිකරණ තීන්දුවකින් ඒකාබද්ධ කළ සේවාවක් බව නොසලකමින් හා සියලූ වෘත්තීය […]
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
Courtesy Chiniquy Africans who voluntarily converted to Christianity before the colonial conquest such as Affonso I of the BaKongo in the 15th century probably did not discern the purpose of the brand of Christianity that was supplied to them. Which was probably why they fell easy prey to the missionaries and the white traders and […]
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Thursday, June 13th, 2019
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
සම්පත් සමරකෝන් කැදවුම්කරු මාධ්ය නිවේදනය 04 ජූනි 2019 ‘සයිබර් ආරක්ෂණ පනත් කෙටුම්පත’ පිළිබද මහජන සංවාදයට ලබා දී ඇති කාලය ප්රමාණවත් නොවේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සයිබර් ආරක්ෂණ උපායමාර්ග ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම, සයිබර් ආරක්ෂණ නියෝජිතායතනයක් පිහිටුවීම සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සයිබර් ආරක්ෂණ ක්රමවේදයන් සඳහා විධිවිධාන සැලැස්වීමට යනුවෙන් පවසමින් ‘සයිබර් ආරක්ෂණ පනත් කෙටුම්පතක්’ ඩිජිටල් යටිතල පහසුකම් සහ තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ අමාත්යාංශය විසින් […]
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Righteous Society Project There are three signs of a good person: 1) Speaking the truth and searching it out. Only truth has value. 2) Knowing what is good and supporting it, and protecting it. . 3) Recognizing beauty and appreciating it. Schools are intended to guide students into these three ways of basic goodness. But […]
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Courtesy thereligionofpeace.com https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx Does Islam permit Muslims to lie? Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences” or “gain the upper-hand over an enemy”There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya (the […]
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Saturday, June 1st, 2019
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න Peshala Media මානව හා සත්ව සංහතියේ සුරක්ෂිතභාවය රඳා පවතින පරිසරයේ සුවිශේෂී වැදගත්කම කියාපාමින් ජුනි මස 5 වන දිනට යෙදී ඇති ජගත් පරිසර දිනය සැමරීම සඳහා බොහෝ දෙනා විවිධ වූ වැඩසටහන් රැසක් දිවයින පුරා සංවිධානය කර ඇත. එම වැඩසටහන් අතුරින් බියගම නොර්ත් සේල්ස් ආයතනය හා මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය සමඟ එක්ව 2019 ජුනි මස […]
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Friday, May 31st, 2019
Courtesy Sputnik One man’s morning commute included quite the spectacle in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, after he spotted a local pineapple salesman taking his job to the next level. According to the owner of the footage, the salesman is a normal passenger on the train and is always seen with a pineapple dish. However, on this particular day the man displayed a new talent […]
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
By, Asiff Hussein/Asian Tribune There has perhaps been no garment that has aroused so much controversy as the Niqab or face-veil worn by a small minority of Muslim women. Although worn by only a very small percentage of women, it is conspicuous as can be and grabs attention wherever it is worn, making one wonder […]
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Sunday, May 26th, 2019
Issued by the Sri Lankan Brampton Peel Region Community On May the 21st evening, about 1,0000 people gathered in front of the Brampton City Hall in Ontario, Canada to express their disappointment and frustration towards Mr. Patrick Brown, the city mayor through a massivedemonstration and a peaceful rally. The mayor has already passed a proclamation (April 24th, 2019) OF GENOCIDE OF TAMIL PEOPLE that never occurred in Sri Lanka. […]
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Friday, May 24th, 2019
Gamini Gunawardane The other day at a meeting held at the BMICH after the April 21st disaster, MP Sumanthiran, it was reported in ‘The Island’, had asserted something to the effect that the carnage in question was again a symptom of non-addressing of the grievances of the minorities and that the minorities would not […]
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