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Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Lanka Lead News ඉන්දියාව පුරා ඊයේ(24) දීපවාලී උත්සව සැමරෙද්දී ඉන්දීය අගමැති නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි පාකිස්ථාන දේශ සිමාවේ පිහිටි කාගිල් හමුදාකඳවුරේ සෙබළුන් සමග දීපවාලී උත්සවය සැමරු බව වාර්තා වේ. එහිදී තමිල්නාඩුවේ සිට පැමිණ සිටි සෙබළු සුරංගනීට මාළු ගෙනාවා” සිංහල ගීතය ගයමින් අගමැතිවරයා සමග සතුටු වූ ආකාරය අගමැතිවරයාගේ නිල ට්විටර් ගිණුමට එක් කර තිබුණි. මෙම උත්සවයේ දී ඉන්දීය […]
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Friday, October 21st, 2022
Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka Courtesy Stuff Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka is a Sri Lankan-born New Zealander based in Auckland, where she lives and works as a public relations consultant. OPINION: “Man wins top literary prize to convince parents he didn’t need to do medicine,” a Sri Lankan Aucklander tweeted in response to the announcement of this year’s Booker Prize winning author, Shehan Karunatilaka. […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
Yoga Science ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාව යනු බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ පැවිදිවූ ස්වාධීන පැවිද්දයි. මෙය ලෝකයේ සදාකාලිකව ඇති පැවිද්දකි. බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ මෙන් නිදහසේ ශ්රමණ ධර්මය පිරීමට ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාව හොඳම තැනකි.ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාවෙන් පැවිදිවීමට කැමති අයට ඒ සඳහා මාර්ගය පෙන්වන පොතක් නිකුත්වී ඇත. මේ පොත අන්තර්ජාලයෙන් නොමිලේ download කරගත හැක. මෙගා බයිට් එකක PDF විද්යුත් පොතකි. මේ පොතේ නම: “ඍෂි ප්රවෘජාවෙන් […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz In Historic City Of Zion The Fifth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated first Mosque in the city where a grand sign of the truth of Islam and of the Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be upon him) came to pass over a century […]
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Friday, October 14th, 2022
Capt Elmo Jayawardena A few years ago there was an extremely popular book in North America called What Colour is Your Parachute?” It is a great book that all young people who leave universities from all parts of the planet should read. The contents wise up the reader what they need to do to get […]
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Friday, October 14th, 2022
ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ මුලතිව් මහෙස්ත්රාත් ලබාදෙන තීන්දූ,. 2020/10/22 පුරාවිද්යා දේපාර්තමේන්තුවේ රාජකාරිය අඛණ්ඩව සිදුකරන්න. ..2022/07/14 සංරක්ෂණය වන ස්ථූපය ඇතුළු නිර්මාණ ඉවත් කරන්න,.. #නීතීපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව සහ පුරාවිද්යා අධ්යෂක ජෙනරාල්තුමා කරැණු පැහැදිලි කළ පසු,2022/07/19 ඔහු විසින් මීට පෙර ලබාදුන් නියෝගය (07/14) අත්හිටවූ අතර ඊට කලින් පැවති ආකාරයට වැඩකටයුතු සිදුකරන්න (එනම් 2020/10/22 ලබාදුන් තීන්දුව පරිදි කටයුතු කරන්න [පුරාවිද්යා දේපාර්තමේන්තුවට රිසි […]
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
Anjalika Silva – USA I. Purpose: To examine all avenues available to find appropriate avenues to address the current foreign reserves crisis with the help of a ready resource of foreign earners as expats for a long-term relationship beneficial to the country and individuals who are a strength that has not been tapped while many […]
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Saturday, October 1st, 2022
Dr Priyanka Bandara Dear patriots, I have been trying to warn Sri Lankans for the last 2.5 years that there is a secret evil agenda of the world’s elite to destroy sovereign nations and establish a One World Government. This agenda is called the New World Order which has been operating through the World Economic […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya It is not a secret that the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has never made any profits. The public must always chip in by paying more taxes to cover their expenses by pumping money from the government coffers. Another generator at the Norochchole plant has been shut down, and social media is […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Colonial subjugation is no secret to many in the Indian subcontinent, and Sri Lanka is no different. Talking about how much they have presumably looted from us is of no use now, after seven decades of independence. There are many numbers circulating on many social media platforms suggesting the wealth taken […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Taking one’s own life and or assisting another person to end his or her life has never been endorsed by the Buddha.If that is the clear teaching, how can someone dressed in robes and claiming to be a monk openly threatens the authorities with immolation if the electricity tariff for places of […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
Kamal Uddin Mazumder Dhaka Bangladesh As the Indo-Pacific region represents the world’s economic and strategic center of gravity, the Indian Ocean today is becoming the centerpiece of all geo-strategic play. So, Cooperation in the region is crucial to implementing the international community’s global agenda, including achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Major powers like the […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 19: In 1796, the British took over Ceylon from the Dutch after a brief military operation launched from Madras. The change in regime put the White Dutch and people of mixed Dutch-Ceylonese blood (called Dutch Burghers) in a quandary. They wondered what their position would be under the new dispensation. […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
by A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk, AMJSL Prayers Offered for Her Majesty’s Extraordinary Life of Service The members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK, are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty The Queen. We mourn her loss and stand united with the nation, and the rest of […]
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Labour and Foreign Employment has introduced three telephone numbers for obtaining information, including a hotline number to refer problems related to obtaining electric vehicle import permits under the recently introduced initiative of allowing Sri Lankan migrant workers remitting money through formal channels to import an electric vehicle. Accordingly, the necessary […]
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Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha (Sarasota) I can recall back to when Mr. Wickremesinghe was made the Minister of Education on 14 February 1980; where Mr. Wickremesinghe promised educational reforms. We were then studying for our A/L’s at STC Mount; and all of us with the O/L batch sent a communique requesting that O/L curriculum […]
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Dr Arpita Hazarika Gauhati University, Assam, India After almost three years, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to Delhi again on a state visit on September 5. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit is very significant in India-Bangladesh bilateral relations. The Modi government also wants to give special importance to this visit. Because in the […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk, AMJSL. A four member delegation from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Sri Lanka (AMJSL) visited to Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs in Colombo on 22 August 2022. Ministry Officials welcomed the delegation and arranged to meet Hon. Vidura Wickramanayaka, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්යා අංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් විසිනි 1873 අගෝස්තු මස 26 හා 28 දෙදින තුළ පාණදුරේදී ඉමහත් ආශ්චර්යාත්මක පරිවර්තනයක් සිදු විය. ඒ අන් කිිසිවක් නොව අධිරාජ්ය විරෝධී සහ දේශීයත්වය නියෝජනය කළ බෞද්ධයන් හා සුදු අධිරාජ්යවාදය නියෝජනය කරමින් යටත්විජිත පාලනයේ අනුග්රහය ලද ක්රිස්තියානි මිෂනාරින් අතර පැවැති මහා වාදයයි. මේ වසරේ දී අප සමරන්නේ […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya The Editor, Lanka Web, Dear Sir Why do some think that one has to be politically correct all the time? A video doing the rounds on many social media platforms shows a woman being caught red-handed by the owner of a lost credit card. The gist of the incident was that […]
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Saturday, August 20th, 2022
Mehjabin Bhanu Rajshahi City Corporation in Bangladesh According to the IMF, Bangladesh is not at risk of experiencing a crisis similar to the one that occurred in Sri Lanka. An IMF official said Bangladesh is not facing a crisis and its external position is “very different from several countries in the region”. When describing Bangladesh’s […]
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Friday, August 19th, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk – AMJSL. ((Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 12 August 2022, at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K. gave a discourse on The Blessings & Impact of […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary. CONVENTION CALLS FOR JUSTICE AND WORKING FOR THE GREATER GOOD TO ATTAIN LASTING PEACE The 56th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 7th August 2022 in which five speeches delivered by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness […]
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Sunday, August 7th, 2022
UK Friends of Galle The Srilankan schools that were closed for two weeks due to fuel and other shortages have reopened on the 25th July 2022 and UKFG has resumed their Free Lunch For Children programme . The situation in Srilanka is still critical. Prices of essential food have gone up by 300% aince April […]
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Saturday, July 30th, 2022
Charith Gunawardena Fight for Private Creditor Debt Cancellation. With the whole world watching the deteriorating political, economic and humanitarian situation unfolding in Sri Lanka, and while we pray for swift solutions to food, fuel and medical shortages, there is now an opportunity to reinvent how countries caught in post-Covid 19 debt traps recover from crippling […]
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Monday, July 25th, 2022
Mr Ranjith Naranpanawa Rowville Victoria The Hon Senator Penny WongSuite 419 Gouger StreetAdelaideSouth Australia CC: Prime Minister Albanese. Secretary General UNHRC. Re: $50 – $80 million dollar investigation: Dear Senator Wong,Firstly please allow us to congratulate you on your outstanding efforts towards peace and International trade. Secondly this letter was authorised by the Executive Committee of;THE […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2022
DR Arpita Hazarika The chief of army staff of India, General Manoj Pande completed his Bangladesh visit recently (from July 18 to July 20) as part of the “outstanding” bilateral defense relations between Bangladesh and India. General Manoj Pande was on his first trip abroad since taking over the post. First day of his visit, […]
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Monday, July 18th, 2022
John Rozario Karnataka, India In recent times, one of the topics of discussion in regional politics including Bangladesh is the economic and political disaster in Sri Lanka. Since early 2022, this issue has been the subject of extensive discussion in both national and international level. Bangladesh’s story is different from others The worsening economic crisis […]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2022
Dr. Patrick Mendis, Courtesy Harvard International Review Dr. Patrick Mendis, a former American diplomat and a military professor in the NATO and Indo-Pacific Commands of the US Department of Defense, is a distinguished visiting professor of transatlantic relations at the University of Warsaw in Poland as well as a distinguished visiting professor of global affairs at the […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2022
Sufian Siddique In recent days, Power generation is being disrupted as per the demand due to sudden power and gas crisis in the country. This has increased load shedding in the country, including the capital Dhaka. According to media reports, load shedding is going on for six to eight hours in some districts including Rajshahi […]
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