News Archive for Apr 2024 Shenali D Waduge Like Sri Lanka, Greece too declared default on €1.6 billion debt to IMF. It was the same year US-India sponsored regime change took place in Sri Lanka. Greece’s default came exactly 15 years after joining the Eurozone. Both Greece & Sri Lanka had one thing in common – both guilty of systematic tax evasion which was a key component in their default. In 2015 the Greeks voted to reject debt restructuring. The Greeks were told its best to be bankrupt & start again with help of IMF of course, is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24) KAMALIKA PIERIS Buddhists in Sri Lanka should be made aware of the stature of Buddhism in the Asian region when discussing the Kurundi issue. Buddhism enjoys a unique place in Asian history as the single shared experience among half the world’s population. No other movement has equaled the degree to which Buddhism has affected nearly every corner of Asia, said Robert E Fisher. Buddhism influenced the cultures of all these countries. Buddhism did not convert by force or through inducements, only thorough conviction. Buddhists are very proud of this fact. Buddhism was a very accommodating religion,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
ෆීන්ක්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය නීති ග්රන්ථ ගණනාවක් ලියා ඇති, විද්යුත් සහ මුද්රිත මාධ්යයේ නීතිය පිළිබඳ ලිපි ලියන, නිතිය පිළිබඳ අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන්, වැඩමුළු පවත්වන කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ විද්යාවේදී උපාධියක් සහ උපදේශනය පිළිබඳ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ඩිප්ලෝමාවක් ලබා ඇති නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් සාධාරණ නඩු විභාගයක් පැවැත්ම සහ මූලධර්ම ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීම සඳහා වන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් අධිකරණ ඇමතිට, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන්ට, ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට ක්රියා කර ඇත.එකී යෝජිත පනත් කෙටුම්පත අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත (A Bill to Protection of the Rights of Persons Presenting Submissions before Courts, Tribunals and Institutions.) යන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
Ada Derana https://youtu.be/Su2WyK3EZg4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
Shenali Waduge https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/4228-2/ Who are promoting LGBTQ among adults & children & influencing governments? https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/gender-dysphoria-sex-change-lgbtq-is-a-business-dont-fall-prey-victim-sri-lanka/ Gender Dysphoria-Sex Change-LGBTQ is a BUSINESS, don’t fall prey/victim Sri Lanka https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/decriminalizing-lgbtq-impact-on-schools-children-in-uk/ Decriminalizing LGBTQ & impact on Schools & Children in UK https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/will-france-have-to-change-french-language-to-satisfy-lgbtq-gender-issue/ Will France have to change French language to satisfy LGBTQ “gender” issue? https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/sri-lanka-before-passing-gay-bill-wake-up-to-the-agenda-behind-lgbtq-transgenders/ Sri Lanka before passing GAY BILL – wake up to the AGENDA behind LGBTQ & Transgenders ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo Colombo, April 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka on Tuesday rejected international bondholders’ proposal to restructure more than $12 billion in debt, putting at risk critical International Monetary Fund support and delaying its efforts to resolve a two-year-long debt crisis. Some of the proposal’s “baseline” assessments and a lack of a contingency option in the case of continued economic weakness were the two main reasons the deal was not agreed, the government said in a statement. Colombo said it hoped to hold further talks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
OpenmindedThinker Show https://youtu.be/nEhQBtJDYv4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් අමෙරිකානු අධිරාජ්යය බිඳවැටෙන සෑම විටම ඔවුන් විසින් ලෝකයේ යුදමය තත්ත්වයක් නිර්මාණය කරන බවද, ඊශ්රායලය ත්රස්තවාදී රාජ්යක් ලෙස අමෙරිකාව භාවිත කළේ ඛනිජ තෙල් වෙනුවෙන් අරාබි මුහුද, රතු මුහුදේ ගැටලුවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට බවද වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේ දෙරණ වාද පිටිය දේශපාලන සංවාදය හා එක් වෙමිනි. ලංකාව පිහිටා ඇත්තේ ලෝකයේ වැදගත් උපායමාර්ගික මරමස්ථානයක බවත්, ලෝකයේ ප්රධානතම නාවික මාර්ගයේ පිහිටා ඇති රටක් නිසාම බලපෑම් කිරීමට හා අත්පත් කරගැනීමේ උවමනාව ඉන්දියාව අමෙරිකාව ප්රමුඛ විදෙස් බලවේගවලට ඇති බවත් ඒ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. සවිස්තරාත්මක වීඩියෝව නරඹන්න... ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/04/24)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මෙරට ගැමි සමාජය හසුරුවන ප්රධානතම රැහැන නම් සාමූහිකත්වයයි.පැරණි ගැමියන් කිසි විටක සාමූහිකත්වයෙන් තොරව සංවිධාන ගත නොවූහ.ඔවුන්ගේ ප්රධානතම ආර්ථික ක්රියාවලිය වූ කුඹූරු ගොවිතැන සහ හේන් ගොවිතැන සාර්ථකත්වයට පත් කරනු ලැබූවේ එකට වැඩ කරගැනීමට තිබූ දක්ෂතාවයෙනි.මුල් කැටෑ හේන නම් වියළ් ගොවිතැනේ දී සියලුම දෙන එකතු වී මූකලානක් කොටා පුලුස්සා වටේ දඬුවැට සවි කර තමන්ගේ පංගු වෙන් කර ගත්තද හේනේ පැල් රැකීම කරන ලද්දේ සාමූහික හැඟිමකිනි. එසේම අස්වනු කපා පා ගා ගැනීම සහ බෙදා හදා ගැනීම සඳහා පුද්ගලිකත්වයට වඩා සාමූහිකත්වය ඉස්මතු විය.මේ නිසා මුලු රටේම වැඩ කිරීමේ හැකියාව ඉතා ඉහළ මට්ටමින් තිබුණි. පසු කාලීනව රාජකාරිය යනුවෙන් නම් කළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
Manusha Media Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said today (17) that the demands for systemic change voiced by the public on the streets have been achieved within the Ministry over the past two years, with necessary policy adjustments implemented. The minister made this statement today (17) when he participated in the special event organized by the Ministry of Labor and Foreign Employment to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The Minister noted that many positive changes have been made in Sri Lanka's labor sector and highlighted that steps were taken to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana The owner of a street food eatery in Aluthkade, who was arrested for price-gouging a foreign tourist and behaving in a verbally aggressive manner, has been granted bail. When the accused was produced before the court earlier today (17), he was ordered to be released on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000 and surety bail of Rs. 1 million. https://youtu.be/eXcdMj81oSs On Tuesday (16), the police arrested the 51-year-old in question for trying to charge Rs. 1,900 from a foreigner for a Kottu Roti and verbally harassing him when... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
e-Con e-News ee wishes readers a Happy New Year! Last week, ee reproduced an Island report recalling how an attempted military coup, to overcome the so-called 2018 ‘constitutional coup’, was thwarted. Observers of such machinations of state & statecraft wonder if the latest tale about former President Maithripala Sirisena allegedly disclosing an ‘Indian Hand’ as being behind the April 2019 bombings, may indeed be true. ee also wonders if the dearly beloved ‘Cardinal’ too had inside information about this all along, ‘incensed’ because this handler was being censored? After all, the precious prelates of the Catholic Church must surely have hourly access via the Vatican... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
Garvin Karunaratne, PhD. Michigan Stae University, Is it not sad that Sri Lanka, a country that had no foreign debt in 1977, is today having a foreign debt of $ 91 billion( Prof. Charitha Herath:Lankadeepa- 7/2/24) When President Gotabhaya left the debt was $ 56 billion. Sri Lanka is a country of ample resources, a fertile land, blessed with rain and ample manpower. As a development expert with experience of handling development I can recall Great Development Programmes that if copied, could provide a way out. The Comilla Programme of Rural Development.(1960-1969)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-1994) සුභ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා! ශ්රී ලන්කා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී සමාජවාදි ජනරජයේ 2024 ක්වූ අප්රේල් 14. ගරු ජනාධිපති, රනිල් වික්රමසින්හ මැතිතුමා වෙතය. ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, 1815 ආරම්භවූ බ්රිතාන්ය යටත් විජිත පාලනයෙන් මිදී, මේ රට ව්යවස්ථාදායක,විධායක සහ අධිකරණ බලය සහිත පූර්ණ නිදහස ළබාගත්තේ 1972 මැයි 22 දාය. එසේම 1948 සිට වසර 24 කට පසු සෝල්බරී ව්යවස්ථාවේ තිබුණු අධිරාජ්යවාධී යදම්වලින් මේ රට මිදුනේත් එදිනය. 1972 සිට 1977 දක්වාම හත් වසරක්, එවකට පැවති සිරිමා බණ්ඩාරනායක රජය විසින් ජනරජ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
ගෝලිය ඒකාබද්ධ ජාතික සංවිධාන ශ්රී ලකාවේ යෝජිත අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්තිය තුළ මවු භාෂාභාවිතයේ වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳව සැලකිිමත් වී නැති බැවින් අපගේඅනාගත පරපුරේ දැනුම් උකහාගැනීමේ හැකියාව සහආත්මාභිමානය ප්රවර්ධනය පිළිබඳව සිදුවිය හැකි අඩාල වීම සහ,එ් ඔස්සේ සිංහල භාෂාව මළ භාෂාවක් බවට තල්ලු වී යාමේඇති දැඩි අවදානමශ්රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව විසින් සැප්තැම්බර් 23 දාතමින් ඉදිරිපත් කරනුලැබ ඇති ජාතික අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්ති රාමුව හා ඒ සඳහා වූ ධවලපත්රිකාව තුළ පාසල් අධ්යාපන මාධ්යය ඉංගිරිසියට හැරවීම සඳහායෝජනා කරනු ලැබ ඇති අතර මාතෘ භාෂාවන්ගෙන් අධ්යාපනයලැබීමේ වැදගත්කම අමතක කර ඇති බව පෙනී යයි. මේ අතර,විපක්ෂ නායක සංජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා ද ප්රසිද්ධියේ ප්රකාශ කරඇත්තේ අධ්යාපනයේ මුල් වසරවලදී පටන් ඉංගිරිසි මාධ්යයෙන්සියලු පාසල්වල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
Sugath Kulatunga A strident cry we hear now from goverment politicians and economic pundits is that State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) must be privatized to make them efficient and profitable and ease the burden of losses to the state. Majority of them think that a wave of the majic wand of privatization will turn the white elephants to cash cows. Historically in Sri Lanka, SOEs have made a significant contribution to industrial development, employment creation and providing essential services. Before 1977 many SOEs came into existence out of a nationalization wave born out of compulsions of state control or to fill a gap in the production of essential goods or services. Other than Corporations established under specific Acts, SOEs were formed under the Government Sponsored Corporations Act No.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
By David Hearst Zionism wants large war to cover the Genocide, and the West needs World War 3 to stall the BRICS and Rise of the Global South in the Asian 21st Century Staunch allies calling themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realise they are also friends of the murderers of western aid workers, friends of genocide and friends of fascism Six months on, the entire edifice that allowed Israeli forces to kill more than 33,000 Palestinians and wound another 75,000, displace a population of over 2.3 million and then starve them,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක - වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත1.මෙම පනත 2024 අංක .... දරන අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත යනුවෙන් හදුන්වනු ලැබේ.2.අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ට මෙම පනතේ විධිවිධාන අදාල වේ.3. අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ට වෙනත් ලිඛිත නීති වලින් ආරක්ෂා කර ඇති සාධාරණ නඩු විභාගයකට අදාල නීතිමය ප්රතිපාදන, 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස කිරීම පනතේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
YANIS VAROUFAKIS Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words: Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/04/24)
BY JENNIFER ANANDANAYAGAM Courtesy Health Digest The seasons of fall and winter are usually associated with the flavor of cinnamon. Whether it's homemade cinnamon rolls or cinnamon crumble apple pie, the spicy, sweet, and comforting aroma of this popular spice is something we've come to love. Historically, cinnamon was considered sacred, with Romans burning the spice at funerals, until it eventually became an important traded commodity. From being used for medicinal purposes and as an embalming agent to flavoring food and being used as a preservative, it's safe to say that we've found many uses for this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/04/24)
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම්; ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94) 2024. 4.14. මහනුවර රටට,ජාතියට මෙන්ම මේ රටේ නියෝජිත ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට හූනියමක් හා ශාපයක් වී ඇති, 35 වසරක් රට විනාශකළ1978 ව්යවස්ථාව සහ විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය වහාම අහෝසිකොට 1972 ජනරජ ව්යවස්ථාව යළි බලගන්වා මේ රටත්, ජාතියත්, සාශනයත් වැටී ඇති අඝාධයෙන් ගොඩගැනීමට ජාතියක් වෂයෙන් ඔබ සූදානම්ද? මේ රටේ අද පවතින සියළුම ආර්ථික, සාමාජික, දේශපාලනික, ජන වාර්ගික, ආගමික, සන්ස්කෘතික, වාර්ගික, අයිතිහාසික, ආරක්ෂක, හා භූදේශපාලනික අර්බුධ වලට මූලික හේතුව, 1978 ජේ. ආර්. ගේ ඇමෙරිකන්-ප්රන්ශ දෙබිඩි විධායක ජනාධිපතිකම සහ ඒ හා බැඳුණු විවුර්ත ආර්ථිකය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Garvin Karunaratne My We alleviate poverty that afflicts over half of us Mind you By the Sixties we had alleviated poverty We did control our economy then, made things. We imported only what we could not make In 1977 we embraced the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Sent all development workers to the barracks yet we pay them fat salaries! Once in the Fifties, I remember, we even grew cotton and the air was filled with pollen. Now we import. Once in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Sugath Kulatunga It is gratifying to note our President and a leading politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) making emphatic and unequivocal statements on two vital policy issues. Present stated repeatedly that the country has to convert itself into an export economy to be a developed nation by 1948. He was in the JR government when the the Export Development was established in 1979, and a comprehensive export development drive was launched under the policy direction of an Export Development Council of Ministers under the Chairmanship of JR the President. The implementing agency of the national drive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Palitha Mapatuna It is noted that a person, who describes himself as Kleppe Ariyamagga, has taken upon himself the task of ‘rectifying’ some alleged errors which, according to him (and some others like him) are found in the long accepted history of Sri Lanka, especially in its Buddhist history. Now, the fundamental question is whether this (presumptuous) person has a legal status, through delegation of authority by the government of Sri Lanka, to represent the country concerning matters of its history. If this person has no such authority, it seems that his conduct amounts... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Geopolitical Economy Report https://youtu.be/1p1-Psc0Un8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
SCOTT RITTER An Iranian missile is launched. Scores of these missiles were used to attack Israel. Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government. I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
By CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Colombo, April 12 (Daily Mirror) - Tim Tense, a Belgian traveller exploring Sri Lanka, recently shared a troubling encounter from his visit to Kalutara. According to Tim, he fell victim to a scam at a local restaurant, where he was charged an exorbitant Rs. 1,000 for a single Ulundu Vadai and a cup of plain tea. In his YouTube video titled "Avoid this man in Kalutara, Sri Lanka," Tim recounted his experience. He traversed Kalutara on his own three-wheeler, soaking in the sights. Upon parking, he was approached by a Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 12 - Sri Lanka's recovery could be stalled by abrupt policy changes after elections later this year even as the economy showed signs of stabilising, the Asian Development Bank warned Friday. The island nation weathered an unprecedented financial crisis in 2022 that forced a foreign debt default as well as food and fuel shortages that prompted months of unrest. It secured a $2.9 billion rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund last year, with President Ranil Wickremesinghe hiking taxes and cutting generous subsidies to restore the government's ruined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/04/24)
Dr. Sarath Obeysekera We proposed to establish an Offshore and Marine sector industry which would have been a Dollar Generating venture Instead same member of the committee sold it to another Chinese company God knows how our decision makers got Access to Chinese to take over this port Now they are killing our own Port Business by starting transshipment trade If we started the Offshore industry at that time we would be generating more income for our country Sri Lanka’s China-backed port starts container transshipment amid Red Sea... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/24)
Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Please find the attached regarding AI use by Israel in Gaza and OVER THE HORIZON (OTH) operations by foreign intelligence agencies in Sri Lanka for FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE including the Aragalaya Regime Change and Sovereign Default operation. There is a lot of AI and technology hype in Sri Lanka as if AI and drones can solve all our problems. The SL military is being downsized to enable drones to take over in a country where Data Security is non-existent, making the country even more vulnerable to external interventions than it is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/24)
By William J. Astore When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers? Song lyrics tell me to be proud to be an American, yet war and profligate preparations for more of the same are omnipresent here. My government spends more on its military than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/24)
පාලිත ආරියරත්න https://youtu.be/PoQ04RqMHVo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/04/24)
Dr. Tilak S. Fernando During Hartel ( the General strike) organanised by the Marxist parties in 1953 to express public dissatisfaction over the cost of rice of the GCSU ( General Clerical Services Union). Mr. Kanakasamy was shot by the police lead by LSSP stalwarts; Dr. N.M.Perera, Dr. Colvin de Silva and Lesley Gunawardena. The GCSU was powerful and acted as in the form of real power to demand a prominent powerful upsurge until 1985. It was stated by Nicky Karunaratne, who was based on the LSSP hierarchy. ‘The old left’ liked to look back with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
By P. K. Balachandran/Factum Colombo, April 10: There is hullabaloo in India over the tiny and uninhabited Kachchativu island in the Palk Strait. It was triggered earlier this month by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is also the supremo of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). To everyone’s surprise, Modi accused the opposition Congress party of giving the island away to Sri Lanka “callously” in 1974. This was followed by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s utterances blaming India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), an ally of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says its annual flagship economic publication – the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) April 2024 – has projected Sri Lanka’s economy to record moderate growth of 1.9% in 2024 and 2.5% in 2025 following two consecutive years of contractions. According to the publication, Sri Lanka is showing signs of recovery, with green shoots emerging in the second half of 2023. Inflation has decelerated to single digits, foreign exchange reserves continue to be built up, and the exchange rate has appreciated. Meanwhile, tourist arrivals and remittance inflows continue to show a commendable recovery... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/04/24)
Dilrook Kannangara The next presidential election will be decided by religious minorities – Christians, Hindus and Muslims. This is because the majority creed is seriously divided between various political parties. There is no leader capable of uniting Buddhists or at least 60% of them. At the same time there are no strong minority leaders either to call for election boycotts or split minority votes by each community. As a result, minorities are likely to vote as a bloc to one candidate while the majority will be divided between two, three or even four political parties. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
KAMALIKA PIERIS Eelamists maintain that Koneswaram kovil in Trincomalee is a very ancient kovil. The British accepted that statement without question. Pridham in his book ‘Historical, political and statistical account of Ceylon’ (1849) wrote about Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee, saying it was regarded with great reverence by its devotees. The temple is said to have had 1000 pillars, 3 Rajagopurams, two on either side facing the sea and one in the center. However, there is no evidence that an ancient kovil ever existed at Koneswaram. Two contradictory reasons are given by Eelamists, for this total lack... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil settlers brought in by the British administration in the early 20th century, to colonize the north and east, entrenched the Hindu religion in those two areas. Then they started to say that Hinduism had been in the north and east from ancient times. They said that according to legend there were five ancient temples dedicated to Lord Shiva in the littoral regions of Sri Lanka. They are called ‘Pancha Easwaram’, the five abodes of Siva as Easwaran. The temples are Naguleswaram at Keerimalai, Koneswaram in Trincomalee, Munneswaram near Chilaw, Thirukitheswaram at Mantota and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන 2024.04.09 අගවිනිසුරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය මැතිතුමා (ජ.නී) සභාපති, අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව, කොළඹ 12. ගරු සභාපතිතුමනි, අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයාගේ දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් ඇතුලුව පවත්වන ලද උත්සවයකට අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපතිතුමා වන ගරු අගවිනිසුරුතුමාව සහභාගී කර ගැනීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 1. අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයාගේ දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් ඇතුලුව පවත්වන ලද උත්සවයකට අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපතිතුමා වන ගරු අගවිනිසුරුතුමාව පසුගිය දිනයකදී සහභාගී කර ගෙන ඇති බව සහ තවද ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙසද අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයා ඉදිරිපත් කරවීමේ ඉල්ලීම් https://www.lankadeepa.lk/news/වජයදාස-ජනපතවරණයට/101-649965 සම්බන්ධව මාධ්යයේ පුවත් පළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන(පා.ම),අග්රාමාත්ය,ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය සිංහල හා හින්දු අලූත් අවුරුද්ද හෙවත් සූර්ය මංගල්යය හෙළයේ මහා සංස්කෘතික මංගල්යයයි. මෙලෙස නැකත් චාරිත්රයන්ට හා ආගමික කටයුතුවලට මූලිකත්වය දෙමින්, පාරම්පරික සම්ප්රදායන් හා සිරිත් සුරකිමින් එකම අරමුණකින් යුතුව, එකම මොහොතක එකම නැකතකට එක්ව කටයුතු කිරීම ලොව කිසිදු රටක සංස්කෘතියක දක්නට නොලැබේ.ස්වභාවධර්මයා සමග ගනුදෙනු කළ අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තෝ අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ එය තව තවත් යථාවත් කළෝය. ඔවුන්ගේ දරු මුණුපුරන් වූ අපට ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාවය, සකසුරුවම, අපේකම, සමගිය පිළිබඳව යළි යළි අකුරු කරන්නට අවශ්ය නොවේ. අවශ්ය ක්රියත්මකභාවයයි.ආහාර හා ආර්ථික අර්බුදයකට මුහුණ දී, රට බත බුලතින් සරි කරන්නට අභියෝගාත්මකව ගොවි ජනතාව කළ මෙහෙය මේ අලුත් අවුරුද්දේ කෘතවේදීව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
Courtesy Al Jazeera Indian Prime Minister Modi claims the former Congress government sneakily gifted Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka. But the truth is more complex, say diplomats and analysts. Video Duration 02 minutes 45 seconds02:45 By Junaid Kathju New Delhi, India – Fifty years after India and Sri Lanka settled a long-simmering dispute over a tiny island, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused a former government of the now-in-opposition Congress Party of gifting Indian territory to its southern neighbour. The allegation by Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
By Sena Thoradeniya 1. Introduction In this essay we do not intend to discuss the (i) surge of NPP/JVP activities in recent times displayed by its public rallies and reality of such activities (ii) Anura Kumara’s visits to some foreign countries (iii) visits of foreign envoys to NPP headquarters (iv) election forecasts of US funded “research institutes”, political careerists of dubious nature who earlier campaigned for Yahapalana project and (iv) glorification and enthrallment of so-called political analysts who are in RAW pay list - those eyeing for top diplomatic posts something more than what they have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/04/24)
e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 31 March – 6 April 2024 * ‘Maersk wouldn’t have taken on board containers carrying hazardous materials that were to be unloaded here without specific approval from the relevant authorities in Colombo’ – Gomi Senadhira, Former SL Ambassador to the World Trade Organization The US army has declared Baltimore Port a no-go area & drone-free zone, making it difficult for ‘independent’ investigators to report on the actual contents on that Maersk-chartered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/24)
Prime Minister’s Media Unit During the discussion held between Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena inSeoul, Chairman of Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Ban Ki-moon expressed appreciation over the close partnership with Sri Lanka and assured efforts to reinforce the longstanding amicable relations between Sri Lanka and GGGI and to explore opportunities to fortify bilateral ties across various sectors. “The Government of Sri Lanka is in the process of transitioning to a greener, inclusive, and more resilient economy through interventions on renewable energy, sustainable transport, and creating our cities greener,” Prime Minister Gunawardena said in his talks with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/24)
courtesy The Sunday Times National People’s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s pronouncement in Jaffna earlier this week that he did not come to bargain for votes by assuring that he would give ’13 plus’ or a ‘federal solution’ begs the crucial question as to what exactly is the NPP’s public position in regard to these and other thorny issues including the militarisation of the Sri Lankan State? Blind loyalty to rhetoric To be clear, these core dysfunctions have monstrously perverted constitutional democracy in this country, reducing the Sinhala majority... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/24)
KAMALIKA PIERIS Talk shows on Kurundi invariably led to the question, “Was there a kovil at Kurundi?” This ensures that in any discussion on Kurundi, the word Kovil also gets a mention. This is significant. Hinduism is now starting to run parallel to Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Hinduism, originated in India in the Vedic period (2000 BC – 400 BC). It was known then as Santana dharma. Hinduism does not have a founder or a leader but has many texts such as Vedas. Hinduism believes in one God, but in many incarnations. It has a trinity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/04/24)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් ඉන්දියාවේ මහ චන්දය ළඟා වී ඇත.බහුජන සාක්ෂරතාවය දුර්වල ඉන්දියාවේ චන්ද ගොඩ රැඳි තිබෙන්නේ මිනිසුන් ගේ හැඟීම් මත බැවින් ඒ හැඟීම් ඇවිස්සීමට නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි අගමැතිවරයා කච්චතිවු දූපත ඈඳා ගෙන ඇත. කච්චතිවු ලංකාවට ලබා දීම ගැන ඔහු ඉන්දීය කොන්ග්රස් බලධාරීන්ට දොස් කියා තිබෙන්නේ මේ ඇවිස්සීම කරන්නටයි.මේ උණුසුම අවුරුදු කටේ ලංකාවටත් දැනී තිබේ.ඉන්දියාවේ සරණ යන අන්තාවාදී දෙමළ දේශපාලඥයන් මෝදි ගේ කියුම් අල්ලා ගෙන නටන්නට බොහෝ විට ඉඩ ඇත.දැනටමත් උතුරේ ධීවර සහයෝගිතා ව්යාපාරය විරෝධය පළ කර ඇත. උතුරේ චන්ද ගොඩ වැඩි කර ගැනීමට වළිකන මේ දේශපාලඥයන් කිසිවිට සිංහල දෙමළ සමගිය පිළිබඳ කතා නොකරන බව සිකුරුය.කච්චතිවු හි යථාර්තය පිළිබඳ මහජනතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
Ministry of Defence - Media Centre The State Minister of Defence discusses welfare and administrative matters of retired/medically retired servicemen at Gajaba Regiment. The Security Forces- Wanni (SF-Wanni) organized a programme with the participation of retired/medically retired servicemen and next of kin of deceased war heroes at the Regimental Centre of the Gajaba Regiment on Saturday (06 April). The program was held with the aim to inquire about their wellbeing and address their outstanding issues and administrative matters. The State Minister of Defence, Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
Jayanty Nada Shofa Courtesy Jakarta Globe President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo meets his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe in China on Oct. 17, 2023. (Photo Courtesy of the Presidential Press Bureau) Jakarta. Indonesia is seeking to sign its trade pact with Sri Lanka by next March while hoping that one year of negotiations is enough to close the deal. It has only been a few weeks since Indonesia and Sri Lanka agreed to formally discuss the preferential trade agreement (PTA). The first round of negotiations already took place virtually earlier... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
BySajjad Shaukat courtesy Pakistan Today As part of his clever tactics, the leader of the BJP party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started a diplomatic war with Sri Lanka to win the general elections which will start on April 19. Modi has flagged the issue of Indian fishermen discontented after a 1976 pact between the neighbours barred them from the waters around the island. Now, he is putting pressure on Sri Lanka to hand over Katchatheevu Island to India. In return, New Delhi is offering financial assistance to Sri Lanka. However, according... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
Courtesy The Hindustan Times Despite political shifts in Maldives towards a pro-China stance under Muizzu's regime, India continues to provide essential commodities to its neighbours. The credibility of the Narendra Modi government’s neighbourhood first policy is evident as India is now planning to supply thousands of metric tons of onion to Sri Lanka after supplying vast quantities of essential commodities to Maldives under the pro-China Mohammed Muizzu regime. Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre), External affairs minister S Jaishankar (right), and commerce minister Piyush Goyal. It is understood that besides this, India on April 3... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that the present Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) lacks the policies of the United National Party (UNP), with its economic strategy now being overseen by individuals who was expurgated by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). Additionally, President Wickremesinghe highlighted that the SJB, once poised to take control of “Sirikotha” in 2020 under the UNP banner, has now been influenced by the chairman of the SLPP and other factions. https://youtu.be/McI8oOW0L-g These remarks were made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe during a meeting of political party representatives... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka and a group of its creditors are in final negotiations to suspend debt repayments until 2028, Nikkei has learned, as country creditors including Japan seek to prevent China’s influence from expanding in the debt-ridden island. “Negotiations [with the creditor nations] have concluded. We are hoping that it [a detailed announcement] will take place in the next few weeks,” Sagala Ratnayaka, Sri Lanka’s national security adviser to the president, told Nikkei in a recent interview. The repayment period will be 15 years, from 2028 to 2042, with the interest rate newly set at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/04/24)
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර්) පල්ලව පාලනයකලාබ්රයන්ට පසු ද්රවිඩ භූමියේ කොරමණ්ඩල ප්රදේශය ඇතුළු උතුරු කොටස ව්ය.ව. 9 වෙනි සියවස පමණ දක්වා පල්ලවයන් යටතේ විය. දකුණු කොටස පාණ්ඩ්යයන් යටතේ ය. පල්ලවයන් ද්රවිඩ වාර්ගිකයන් නොවේ. දකෂිණාපථයේ (ඩෙකාන් ෘැජ්බ) සාතවාහන අධිරාජ්ය සම්බන්ධය තිබූ, කලකට පසු වත්මන් ආන්ද්ර ප්රාන්ත භූමියට සංක්රමණය කළ ස්වදේශික ජන වර්ගයකි. ජෛන සහ බෞද්ධයෝ ය. චීන වාර්තා අනුව අගනුවර ආශි්රත ව බෞද්ධ විහාරරාම සියයක් පමණ විය. 7 වෙනි සියවසේ ලංකාව සමග ද සම්බන්ධතා විය. ජෛන භක්තික මහේනද්රවර්මන් රජු හින්දු භක්තික වූ පසු බුදු දහම පහත හෙළා ඇත. සමහරු බමුණු බිලිපූජා ක්රම ද පවත්වා ඇත. විෂ්ණු භක්තිය ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
By A. Abdul Aziz. Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Foreign Missions Office, U.K. Persecution of Ahmadis | PDF to Flipbook (heyzine.com)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 4: President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent announcement seems to have put an end to the confusion over the sequence of national elections. He has said that no election will be held until the external debt restructuring process being carried out under the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF ) assistance programme is completed and that process will be over before the Presidential election which is due later this year. As the President has mentioned the month of July as a deadline, he has given a clear message to those who have been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
Courtesy The Telegraph India 'It is the election time in India, it is not unusual to hear such noises of claims and counterclaims about Kachchatheevu' Representational image.Shutterstock The statements coming out of India on "reclaiming" Kachchatheevu island from Sri Lanka have "no ground", the Sri Lankan Minister of Fisheries Douglas Devananda has said. The senior Sri Lankan Tamil politician's comments came days after the Narendra Modi government targeted the Congress Party and its ally the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu accusing them of overlooking national interests in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana Actress Damitha Abeyratne and her husband, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over an alleged financial fraud, has been remanded on the orders of the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court. Accordingly, the couple will be behind bars on remand until April 17. The actress and her spouse, who had been wanted by the CID, were arrested after they appeared before the court on Thursday (04). https://youtu.be/xPfwD0sGTTA The CID is investigating Abeyratne and her husband, in connection with their involvement in an alleged money scam.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana Mr. Rajith Keerthy Tennakoon, President Director General of Community Affairs says that after between President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s assumption of office and February 2024, the Sri Lankan government has settled a total of USD 1909.7 million in foreign debt and interest payments. He also highlighted that from 21 July 2022 to February 2024, the government has disbursed $1338.8 million in multilateral loans and interest, with no outstanding arrears in loan instalments or interest payments up to February 2024. Mr. Rajith Keerthi Tennakone conveyed this information during a special media statement today (05). Expressing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana A meeting between Korean Prime Minister Han Duck Soo and his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena was held on Thursday (04) in Seoul. During the discussion, the Korean Prime Minister asserted that many new job opportunities would be opened for Sri Lankans. In addition to the labour force that provides jobs for agriculture, construction and other industries in his country, PM Han also mentioned the possibility of providing new jobs for health services and professional services. He said that South Korea, as a member of the Paris Club, will always... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
Courtesy Hiru News In a significant development in Sri Lankan political circles, Members of Parliament from the "Nidahasa Janatha Sabha" and the "Samagi Jana Sandanaya" led by the SJB (Samagi Jana Balawegaya) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This agreement reflects a strategic move towards cooperation and collaboration between the two political factions. The MPs involved in this MOU signing include:Prof. G L PeirisDilan PereraDr. Nalaka GodahewaDr. Upul GalappaththiWasantha Yapa BandaraK P S KumarasiriThese members of parliament, who had previously broken away from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), chose to sit independently in Parliament... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර්) බොරුවක් සත්යයක් ලෙස පිළිගැන්වීමට නම් එය යළි යළිත් කීමට නාසි හිට්ලර්ගේ ප්රධාන සගයෙකු වූ ගොඛෙල් නාසි අනුචරයන්ට උගන්වා ඇත. පුහුණු කොට ඇත. බටහිර යුරෝපීය රටවල පමණක් නොව සෑම රටක ම වාගේ විශේෂයෙන් ම ඉංගිරිීසීන්ගේ කොලනි ලෙස පැවති රටවල මේ පාඩම කි්රයාවට නගන අය අපමණ ය. වත්මන් ලංකාවේ පවා ගොඛෙල් පාඩම අනුව කටයුතු කරන නව නාසි අනුචරයන් සිටින බව පෙනෙන ඇසෙන දැනෙන දෙයකි. දෙමළ ජනයා ශී්ර ලංකාවේ මුල් වැසියන් වූ බව කියන පිරිසකි. විසිවෙනි සියවසේ අවසාන දසකයේ පමණ සිට නිර්මාණය කරමින් ඇති මේ අදහස අද අන්තවාදී දේශපාලකයන් මනෝ ලෝකයේ —ඊළාම්˜ රාජ්යයකට ඓතිහාසික අයිතියක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/04/24)
Vaishna Roy Courtesy The Frontline When the skeletons came tumbling out after the Supreme Court demanded full disclosure in the electoral bonds scheme, it did not really surprise anyone. The BJP exudes an almost contemptuous confidence that no revelations can derail its ultimate victory. Where does this confidence come from? It is 2024 and among the BJP’s star campaigners in the high-stakes electoral battle in Maharashtra are Ajit Pawar and Ashok Chavan. But rewind to the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha campaigns and you will find that Ajit Pawar and Ashok Chavan figured prominently... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
සමායෝජක - වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. සමායෝජක - වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. විද්යුත් ලිපිනය arunaunawatuna gmail.com දුරකථන 0712063394 2024.04.04 පාලක ලේකම්, ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, අංක 301,ටී. බී. ජයා මාවත, කොළඹ 10. විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයාට ජනාධිපති ධූර අපේක්ෂකත්වය බාර ගන්නා ලෙස කර ඇති ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධ පුවත් සහ අදාලව පැන නැගී ඇති නීතිමය කරුණු සම්බන්ධවයි. 1. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂක ධූරය බාර ගන්නැයි එම පක්ෂයේ විධායක සභිකයෝ සහ ආසන සංවිධායකයෝ අධිකරණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
Pathfinder Foundation renews call for establishing a marine research station Now and then, Kachchativu island, lying halfway between the islands of Rameswaram (India) and Delft (Neduntheevu -Sri Lanka), has been hitting the news headlines. Mainly, such interests are evinced when several of the hundreds of Indian trawlers that cross the International Boundary Line (IMBL) three times a week and engage in bottom trawling in Sri Lankan waters get arrested for a variety of offences, including illegal entry into Sri Lankan waters, engaging in fishing without licenses and practising bottom trawling, which is an offence in Sri Lanka. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ දකුණු කොරියානු මහජන සමුහාණ්ඩුවේ, ජියොන්ග්සන්ග්බක්-ඩු (Gyeongsangbuk-du) ප්රාන්ත ආණ්ඩුකාර ලී චෙයොල් වූ මහතා (Lee CHeol Woo) අතර හමුවක් 2024.04.03 දින ජියොන්ග්සන්ග්බක්-ඩූ ආණ්ඩුකාර කාර්යාලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. අධ්යාපන හා උසස් අධ්යාපන, කෘෂිකාර්මික, ධීවර, කාන්තා හා ග්රාමීය සංවර්ධන කටයුතු වෙනුවෙන් විශාල ප්රතිලාභ රැසක් ලබාදීමට මෙහිදී එකඟ වූ අතර තවත් ව්යාපෘති රැසක් කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කෙරිණි. පාසල් සඳහා සුහුරු පන්ති කාමර, උසස් අධ්යාපනය නොලබා පාසල් හැරයන්නන් සදහා වන වෘත්තීය පුහුණු ආයතන සඳහා තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ උපකරණ, විශ්වවිද්යාල ශිෂ්ය ප්රවේශ අවස්ථා වැඩි කිරීම, ශිෂ්යත්ව අවස්ථා වැඩිකර රට තුළ නේවාසික වීමේ ඉඩකඩ ලබා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
- අද දෙරණ - දිවුලපතාන ගම්මානය ආශ්රිතව ඉදිකර තිබෙන ආරක්ෂිත මුරකපොලු ඉවත් කිරීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සමක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. අම්පාර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සිංහල ජනතාව බහුතරයක් වාසය කරන දිවුලපතන ගම්මානය ආශ්රිතව ඉදිකර තිබෙන ආරක්ෂිත මුරකපොලු ඉවත්කොට එම ජනතාවට නිදහසේ ජීවත් විය හැකි වතාවරණයක් උදාකර දීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කරන්නැයි ඉල්ලා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය හමුවේ මෙම මූලික අයිතිවාසිකම් පෙත්සම ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. පූජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමි සහ දිවුලපතන ගම්වාසින් පිරිසක් විසින් මෙම පෙත්සම ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. එහි වගඋත්තරකරුවන් ලෙස වාරිමාර්ග අමාත්ය පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි, සංචාරක අමාත්ය හරින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
Courtesy the Island The Sangha for Better Sri Lanka (SBSL) and the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) are saddened by the untoward incidents that took place during the Maha Shivaratri Event (March 8, 2024) at Vedukkunari Aathi Sivan Temple in the North of Sri Lanka. On the Maha Shiva Rathri night (the most auspicious night in the Hindu calendar), in an alarming escalation of force, the security forces resorted to actions which included depriving the devotees of food, water and other basic necessities, and the forceful and humiliating manner in which the devotees including the temple priests... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
Nick Turse,TomDispatch TomDispatch is distinctly a forever-war creation. When I began it almost 23 years ago, the U.S. had just invaded Afghanistan and, of course, there wasn’t the faintest sense that what had been launched then, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on this country, would still be going on globally so many years later, or that, in all those years, the best-funded military on the planet would achieve so remarkably little (except perhaps in getting itself funded at ever more astronomical levels). If, in fact, you had told me then that, by March 2024, the U.S. military... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/04/24)
Chanaka Bandarage A NPP victory is highly likely in the forthcoming Presidential/Parliamentary elections. People are jubilant about this. People will vote for NPP en-mass; this is for sure. People’s only hope is that NPP will rescue them from the current social and economic plight and bring forth prosperity to them. What people want is a political party that can rebuild this nation, not a one that will put it further down. Since 1970 or so all parties have been extremely corrupt. In the past 30 years we have become... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/24)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් සූර්යයා පෘතුවියට සාපේක්ෂව යන ගමනේ දී ලංකාවට මුදුන්වන්නේ බක් මාසයේ දීය.සූර්ය රශ්මියේ තෙදබල වැඩි වැඩියෙන් අවශ්ය වන්නේ ගහකොළ බවභෝග වර්ධනයටයි. පැවති වර්ෂයේ යල සහ මහකන්න යන්හි අස්වනු කපා පා ගැනීමෙන් පසු ඉටු දෙවියන් සතුටු කිරීමට ගම්භාර වැව් කොටු භාර දෙවි දෙවතාවුන් සතුටු කිරීමට ගම්මඩු දෙවොල් මඩු නටා දේව දානය අහවර වීමෙන් පසු බක් මාසයේ ප්රථම වර්ෂාව පතිත වන බව පැරැන්නන් දැන සිටියහ. ඒ නිසා අවුරුදු උත්සවයට පළමු යල කන්නයේ ගොවිතැන සම්පූර්ණ කරති.එහෙත් එළඹෙන වසර සඳහා නිෂ්පාදන සැලසුමක් පිළිබඳ සුභ මුහුර්තයක් ගනු ලබන්නේ සූර්යයා මේෂ රාශියෙන් මීන රාශියට සංක්රමණය වීමෙන් අනතුරුව අවුරුදු දිනයේ දීය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/24)
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක - වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. මරදාන සහ කෙසෙල්වත්ත පොලිස් ස්ථානාධිපතිවරුන්, අධිකරණ අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම්තුමා, නීතිපතිතුමා, නීතීඥවරුන් , මාධ්යවේදීන් වෙත..., 1. “අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ජාත්යන්තර අධිකරණ යාන්ත්රණවල පරීක්ෂාවට ගැනීමට මාර්ගය පාදන, විරුද්ධ නීතිමය අදහස් දරන නීතීඥයන් දඩයම් කරන අධිකරණ අපහාස මුවාවෙන් ගෙනා නීතිය සහ අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්යාපනය ලබා දීම වැළකූ අගවිනිසුරු, අධිකරණ ඇමති නියෝජිතයන් ඇතුලු සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්යාපන සභාවේ ක්රියාකලාපය නිවැරදි කරමු... ” මැයෙන් නිහඬ විරෝධය සහ නීති සටහන් ලබා දීම නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් අධිකරණ අමාත්යාංශය ඉදිරිපිට 2024.04.02 අඟහරුවාදා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana බරපතල වැඩ ඇතිව බන්ධනාගාරගත කර සිටින පූජ්ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන්ට සමාව දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සියලු පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ අවධානය යොමු විය යුතු යැයි රාජ්ය අමාත්ය අනූප පැස්කුවල් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. බෞද්ධ ජනතාව වේදනාවට පත්වන ආකාරයෙන් තවදුරටත් ඥානසාර හිමියන් සිරගත කර තැබුණොත් එම වේදනාව වෛරයක් බවට පත්වනු ඇති බවද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. අවසානයේ එම වෛරය ගැටුමක් බවට පත්වීමටත් ගැටුම අවසානයේ යුද්ධයක් බවට පත්වීමටත් ඉඩ ඇතැයි ද හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් පල කරමි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court on Tuesday (02) rejected the bail application filed by the General Secretary of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero, who was recently handed a 4-year rigorous imprisonment. High Court Judge Aditya Patabendige conveyed the decision when the bail application put forward by the defense attorneys requesting the court to release their client on bail was taken up before the court on Tuesday morning. On March 28, Judge Patabendige sentenced the BBS General Secretary to four years of rigorous imprisonment for the defamatory comments made... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/04/24)
Dilrook Kannangara A debate rages over if the SLPP must contest the presidential election or not. Contesting elections only to win them is a disastrous approach. Win or lose, the SLPP must contest the election and remain relevant. Otherwise, it will permanently slip from the top slot and will never be able to get up there again, especially so at the current and future political climate. SLPP politicians must learn from the UNP. After the 2005 presidential election, UNP didn’t contest a presidential election. In 2010 and 2015 contesting it was outsourced to others and instead... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Palitha Ariyarathna In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, a groundbreaking initiative is set to empower Buddhists across Sri Lanka. The upcoming mobile application, designed to protect Buddhist rights, promises to be a beacon of justice and advocacy. Here’s why this app matters: Reporting Violations: The app provides a streamlined platform for reporting incidents that violate the sanctity of Buddha Sasana, Dharma, or the Sangha. Whether it’s an act of desecration, discrimination, or injustice, users can swiftly document and report violations.Legal Guidance: Backed by legal experts, the app ensures that aggrieved Buddhists receive accurate guidance. From understanding their rights to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Prime Minister's Media Division MP Yadamini Gunawardena stated that if the precious commitments of our people rendered in the past are not remembered again and again, the battles and legacies will be erased from the history books. He said this while attending the 52nd commemoration of the national hero Philip Gunawardena held at the Foundation Institute, Colombo (31.03.2024).MP Yadamini Gunawardena addressing the gathering stated that,“When Hon. Philip Gunawardena, who is remembered with respect even today as a national hero of the country who made many commitments for the achievements of the public not only in our country but... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Truth with Chamuditha නීතිඥ යමිත නලින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සමග චමුදිත සමරවික්රම. Yamitha Nalinda Rajapaksha On Truth with Chamuditha. https://youtu.be/XuFiPby7y2E... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer. Frederick North, the first British Governor of Ceylon Colombo, March 31: The British conquest of Ceylon from the Dutch in 1796 did not result in the wholesale dismissal of Dutchmen from the various institutions of the government. And the British too found it convenient to employ them. The reasons for employing the Dutch were basically four: The first was the failure of the early British policy of employing British officials drawn from the Madras Civil service. It was from Madras that the military campaign to take Ceylon was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Courtesy The Economic Times While responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Katchatheevu remark, Congress leader P Chidambaram on April 01 said that the PM should talk about the live issues. He also said that China has occupied 2,000 km2 of Indian territory and the Prime Minister gave a clean chit to China.He said, “Honourable Prime Minister raked up an issue that was settled in 1974 and 1976. 50 years ago, we had acknowledged that the small island of 1.9 km2 fell on the Sri Lankan side of the International boundary line. That was after many years of negotiations.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana April 1, 2024 01:52 pm Adding fuel to the Katchatheevu row, India’s Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi shared an RTI reply of 2015 where it was mentioned that the Katchatheevu island was neither acquired nor ceded and that it lies on the Sri Lankan side of the India-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line. In a post on ‘X’, Chaturvedi pointed out that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) should be able to address the “discrepancies” in its RTI response in 2015 and its position in 2024. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Tamil political parties plan to field a candidate from the minority community for the presidential election who would present a credible and acceptable political solution for them, a senior community leader has said. Sri Lanka is set to hold the next presidential election in the last quarter of 2024. The next president would be elected by mid-November at the latest. Addressing reporters at his residence in the eastern district of Trincomalee on Sunday, senior Tamil leader R Sampanthan said that Tamils would be well served in the forthcoming presidential election... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
Courtesy Hiru News In a significant operation, the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) apprehended 8 suspects, including four officers of the Excise Department, for possession of 45kg of Kerala Cannabis in Chilaw. The PNB, in a coordinated effort, conducted the operation resulting in the arrests of the suspects found in possession of the sizable quantity of illicit drugs. Additionally, a van belonging to the Excise Department was also taken into custody as part of the operation. The arrests highlight the ongoing efforts by law enforcement agencies to combat the illegal drug trade and ensure the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් 2005 දී නෝර්වේ රාජ්යයේ මැදිහත්වීම හරහා ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට උත්සාහ දැරූ ඊනියා සාම ක්රියාවලිය මගින් බෙදුම්වාදීන්ට තාවකාලික ආණ්ඩුවක් ලබා දී පසුව වෙනම රාජ්යයක් ලබාදීමේ ක්රියාවලිය අසාර්ථක වීමට ප්රධානතම හේතුවක් වූයේ පූජ්ය කොටපොල අමරකීර්ති නායක හිමි වැනි නායක හිමිවරුන්ගේ භූමිකාව නිසා බව මෙම ක්රියාවලිය මෙහෙයවූ පුද්ගලයන් පවසා ඇති බව දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ ශාන්ති පදනම මගින් පැවැත් වූ 45 වන වාර්ෂික මහා සභා රැස්වීමට එක් වෙමිනි. නැගෙනහිර තමන්කඩුව දෙපලාතේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක ශ්රි කළ්යානිවංශ පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක කොළඹ සේරුවිල බෞද්ධ මධ්යස්ථානාධිපති පිච්ච... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/04/24)
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