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Friday, March 15th, 2024
LIFE DOCS Athula Disanayaka After the 30 years of war ragged in North and East of Sri Lanka, Tamil girl and Sinhalese boy started a love affair at Jaffna university. Their love affairs had a numerous social taboos and opposition. But finally they got married. ස්ත්රී-පුරුෂ ප්රේමය ඉදිරියේ අන් කිසිවක් දුහුවිල්ලක් තරම් නොවටී. ලෞකික ප්රේමය […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2024
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Share on WhatsApp Sri Lanka’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has issued a notice outlining the requirements for Sri Lankan non-residents concerning the Tax Identification Number (TIN). According to the IRD, Sri Lankan residents above 18 years of age are chargeable with income tax and are required to obtain registration with the Commissioner General […]
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Thursday, February 29th, 2024
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Friday, February 23rd, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ජාතික මතවාදය වෙනුවෙන් සැමවිටම පෙනීසිටිමින් ජාත්යන්තර වශයෙන් හා දේශීය වශයෙන් ඒ වෙනුවෙන් තම හඬ අවදිකරමින් රට වෙනුවෙන් තම මාධ්ය භාවිතාව හැසිරවූ ප්රවීන මාධ්යවේදිනී ෂෙනාලි වඩුගේ මහත්මියගේ ආදරණීය මෑණියන් වූ ශ්රීමා වඩුගේ මහත්මිය ඉකුත් දා අභාවප්රාප්ත විය. එම මෑණියන්ගේ අවසන් කටයුතු බොරැල්ල සුසාන භූමියේ දී සිදුවූ අතර, එම අවස්ථාවට බොහෝ පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ. එම […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
By Mawbima කෘතහස්ත මාධ්යවේදී එච්.එල්.ඩී. මහින්දපාල අභාවප්රාප්ත වී තිබේ. මිය යන විට ඒ මහතා 93 වන වියේ පසු විය. සන්ඩේ ඔබ්සර්වර් සහ ඔබ්සර්වර් (ඩේලි) පුවත්පත්වල ප්රධාන කර්තෘවරයෙකු ලෙස සේවය කළ ඔහු 50 දශකයේ ප්රකට මධ්යවේදින් වන ක්ලැරන්ස් ප්රනාන්දු, ඩෙන්සිල් පීරිස් වැන්නවුන්ගේ සමකාලීනයෙකි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, ඔහු 70 දශකයේ ඔස්ට්රේලියාවට සංක්රමණය විය. එහි සිට ඩේලි නිව්ස් පුවත්පතට […]
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Monday, January 29th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකුට පරුෂ වචනයෙන් බැනවැදී පොලිස් නිලධාරිනියකට පහරදීමේ චෝදනාව යටතේ කාන්තාවක් ගන්දර පොලිසිය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබෙනවා. අප කළ විමසීමකදී ගන්දර පොලිසිය සඳහන් කළේ මෙලෙස අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ ඔස්ට්රේලියාවේ පදිංචිව සිටින ශ්රී ලාංකික කාන්තාවක් බවයි. පොලිසිය සඳහන් කළ පරිදි මාතර, දෙවිනුවර ඔරලෝසු කනුව ආසන්නයේදී ත්රිරෝද රථයක ගමන්කරමින් සිටි පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් […]
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Monday, January 29th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 29 (daily Mirror) – The Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) has rescued six Sri Lankan fishermen who were captured by Somali pirates along with their multi-day fishing trawler, said Navy spokesman Capt. Gayan Wickramasinghe.
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Friday, January 12th, 2024
Courtesy The Stanadard Anne was heard to quip later that Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence had ‘still got his bowling arm’ VICE ADMIRAL SIR TIMOTHY LAURENCE AT VAJIRA PILLAYAR KOVIL HINDU TEMPLE IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA PA TONY JONES5 HOURS AGO The Princess Royal appeared impressed when her husband banished bad luck by smashing a coconut during […]
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Investigation activities concerning seven deaths that had occurred under similar suspicious circumstances within the last few days have been handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Police Media Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said. The bodies of a young female and a male who died of suspected poisoning were found by the police. […]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමන් වහන්සේ විසින් ජාතික ජන බලවේගය නායක අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ අතේ බඳින ලද පිරිත් නූල පන්සලෙන් එළියට බහින විටම ගලවා විසි කළ බව මිහින්තලා රජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්ය වලවාහැංගුනවැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමියෝ කියා සිටිති. අනුර දිසානායක මහතා පක්ෂයේ නායකත්වයට පත්වූ දිනවල මිහින්තලේ විහාරස්ථානයට පැමිණි අවස්ථාවේ මෙම සිදුවීම වූ බවද උන්වහන්සේ කියා සිටිති. […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D (848) ආන්ඩුව මට ගැහුවා – Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero – YouTube (ඉරාජ්) (854) ගිහි ජිවිතයේ දී මම Sunflower වේදිකාවේ ගීත ගායනා කරා/ Film එකකත් රගපෑවා-Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero] – YouTube (ලහිරු) ලබ්බෙක් (සේපාල්) හා <පිස්සෙක්> (අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි) රටේ හාමුදුරුවරු අතලොස්සකගේ අඩුපාඩු/දුර්වලකම් හුවාදක්වමින්, යූටියුබ්-ෆේස්බුක් හරහා මුළු සංඝ සංස්ථා පදනමට පහර ගැසීමේ ව්යාපාරයක් සංවිධානාත්මක […]
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
Courtesy The Times of Israel After working in Israel for a decade with families who considered her one of their own, she was murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 Anula Ratnayaka (Facebook) Anula Ratnayaka, 49, spent 10 years as a caregiver in Israel before she was murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 […]
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
by Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island I decided to patronize a cinema after several years to watch a movie. I am glad I did so because the film brought back happy memories of Muttiah Muralitharan, the spinning wizard and, in my opinion, the greatest cricketer Sri Lanka has produced. The movie 800 is about the […]
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
Courtesy India Today In the past 24 hours, ten people have died of a heart attack in different areas of Gujarat while they were performing Garba at Navratri celebrations. Garba organisers in Gujarat have taken steps to ensure the safety of people by stationing doctors and ambulances at the venues. (Illustration by Vani Gupta/India Today) […]
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Saturday, October 7th, 2023
Written by Arun Janardhanan Courtesy The Indian Express The ferry will operate between Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Kankesanthurai in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The transit time is expected to be three hours. The vessel to be used as the ferry is called Cheriyapani and it can accommodate 150 passengers. (Twitter/@KRD_forum) The much-awaited passenger ferry service between […]
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Monday, October 2nd, 2023
Valeria Vegh Weis Abstract This article addresses the origins of the term lawfare, as well as different definitions developed in the Global North and the Global South while proposing a conceptualization linked to the particularities of this socio-legal phenomenon in Latin America. Focusing on the cases of Brazil and Argentina the article deploys the notions […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
by Sarah Raymundo Increasing numbers of activists around the world are turning to Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World to learn more about the horrific atrocities committed by the United States against peoples’ struggles for the right to self-determination in the so-called postcolonial era. […]
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Sunday, September 24th, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has reported several times that a wave of bigotry against Ahmadiyya Muslims has intensified since the start of 2023. In an extremely worrying sign of growing crisis in Pakistan, thirty-one (31) Ahmadiyya Mosques have been desecrated in 2023. Another disturbing news is coming in […]
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Monday, September 11th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily News Three renowned Bollywood film producers have selected Sri Lanka to shoot eight of their films soon giving a tremendous destination mileage for Sri Lanka. Film Producer and Head of Film Content at Jio Studios of Reliance Group, Shobha Sant revealed that 8 scripts are already in hand to begin work in […]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2023
By Kit Klarenberg We are reproducing here an article published in mintpressnews.com regarding CIA plans for Indonesia. According to infromation from a friend of DDP from Indonesia the US Embassy in Jakarta had approached the PKS (islamist political party, opponent of Indonesian government) Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy […]
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
Nilame හැමෝම රැවටිලා බැන්නා සියල්ල අවසානයේදී ගිහිකල දරුවාගේ පියා වූ වූ කස්සපතිස්ස හිමි පළමුවරට ඇත්ත හෙළිකරයි දරුවා තනිකර පැවිදි වූ දෙමව්පියන් ගැන කිසිවෙකුත් නොදැන සිටි සත්ය කතාව
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
Niroshana De Silva Remembering a Stalwart in Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications Industry [Negombo, 1st September, 2023] – It is with deep sorrow and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Mr. Christie Alwis, a true luminary in the field of telecommunications. Mr. Alwis, a Professional Engineer with over 30 years of dedicated service in […]
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Singapore, September 2: Singapore’s President-elect Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a man of Jaffna-Tamil origin, said on Saturday that he was surprised at the margin of his victory at Friday’s polls, calling it a vote for an optimistic future and a vote for unity. The 66-year-old former senior minister scored a landslide win with 70.4 per […]
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
Lanka Lead News මරණයෙන් පසු ජීවයක් ඇති බවත් ඒ පිළිබඳව කිසිඳු සැකයක් නොමැති බවත් රෝගීන්ගේ මරණාසන්න අත්දැකීම් 5000 ක් පමණ අධ්යනය කළ ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ කෙන්ටකි ප්රාන්තයේ පිළිකා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්යවරයෙකු වන ජෙෆ්රි ලෝන්ග් මහතා පවසා තිබේ. ජෙෆ්රි ලෝන්ග් මහතා පිළිකා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්යවරයෙකු මෙන්ම මරණාසන්න අත්දැකීම් පිළිබඳ පර්යේෂණ පදනමේ නිර්මාතෘවරයාද වන අතර, තමාගේ වෘත්තීය […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හන්තාන සඳගිරි සෑය බෞද්ධ විහාරයේ ධාතුන් වහන්සේ පිටතට වැඩමවා පැයක් යන්නට පෙර මහ වැස්සක් ඇද හැලුණු බව එහි විහාරාධිපති ගඟසිරිපුර ධම්මාලෝක හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. මීට පෙර ද ධාතුන් වහන්සේ වැඩම වූ සෑම පිංකමකම වර්ෂාව ඇදහැලුණු බවද උන්වහන්සේ කියා සිටිති. සඳගිරි සෑය පින්කම් වලට වර්ෂාව ඇද බව ඒ අවට සැමදෙනා ම […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
VFM RADIO 107 උමාරට අමතක වුණු නමෝ ..නමෝ..මාතා මේ ජපානයේ යුවතියන් දෙදෙනෙක් අපේ රටේ ජාතික ගීතය ගායනා කල අපුරුව.. “නමෝ නමෝ මාතා…” මේක අහලා ඉගෙන ගන්න
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Sunday, July 30th, 2023
By Kanishka Singharia Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Chittoor district police issued a notice to Vigneshwari, instructing her to either leave the country before the visa’s expiration. In yet another cross-border love story, a Sri Lankan woman travelled to India to marry her six-year-old Facebook friend, who hails from Andhra Pradesh. According to Hindustan Times’s […]
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 12 (NewsWire) – Ms. India Inc, the esteemed beauty pageant celebrating the essence of womanhood, is all set to unveil its highly anticipated Season 4. This year promises to be a truly remarkable and international affair, as the grand finale will take place in the captivating island nation of Sri Lanka. […]
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Saturday, July 8th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand have bestowed an honour upon Don Upul Jayarathna Denelpitiyage, a Sri Lankan mahout, in recognition of his unyielding care for the recuperating Thai elephant, Sak Surin (also known as ‘Muthu Raja’), foreign media reported. The elephant is currently in 30-day quarantine in Lampang province of […]
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Friday, July 7th, 2023
By Senay Boztas Courtesy CNN The Dutch government is returning 478 objects looted during colonial times to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Following multiple claims from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria, the Dutch Secretary of State for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu announced the decision Thursday to repatriate objects including the Lombok treasure,” consisting of 335 objects from Lombok, Indonesia, the […]
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