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News Archive for Sep 2020
LTTE Thileepan: Since when did UN start getting orders to allow commemoration of dead terrorists?United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly & Association and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression are receiving letters to tell Sri Lanka to allow LTTE to commemorate a dead ‘martyr’. Who is LTTE? An internationally banned terrorist organization. Who is Thileepan – a member of that internationally banned terrorist organization who died after going on a death fast in 1987 September 26. It’s the month of September and LTTE fronts naturally need to show they exist, so they pluck out the dead from the grave some 33 years after death. The virtual... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/09/20)
Mahawillachchiya Illuk to alleviate poverty and also to save foreign exchange
My craze for motoring in the forsaken neglected Sinhala areas where poor unequipped buddhist monks struggle to guide the people following the dictat of Lord Buddha: “Charita Bhikkae Charikan Mahajana Hitaya, Sukhaya" took me this time to Sandamal Eliya, five miles before one reaches Tanmtirimale. The Sandamal Eliya Temple is run by Venerable Viharegama Sangarakkhita, a pupil of the chief monk at Tantirimale who was killed by the LTTE cadres. As happens very often I think I know the roads where I had often travelled long ago when I worked in the Sixties... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Genealogy of Concept and Genesis of 13th Amendment – A Reply
Prof. Gamini Keerawella (GK) in an article titled “Genealogy of Concept and Genesis of 13th Amendment” (The Island 16th & 17th Sept. 2020) attempts to show that the 13th A was not something forced on us by India, that it was a concept discussed by political leaders starting before independence and that India had to intervene as a midwife due to the failure of our political leaders to deliver their own baby. He says “It must be noted that at the outset the Provincial councils have to carry a certificate of illegitimate birth due to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
SWRD Bandaranaike; Victim of sordid politics and unmitigated avarice
Two issues had rankled Buddharakkitha. One was the Prime Minister’s refusal to hand over a lucrative shipping contract to a company named Colombo Shipping Lines that was co-founded by him in the name of his associate HP Jayawardena to import rice from Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand. The second was over a sugar manufacturing licence to start a sugar factory – DBS Jeyaraj 30th September 2019 - THE PRIME MINISTER IS DEAD! How and Why SWRD Bandaranaike Was Assassinated Sixty Years Ago) 26th September 2020 is the 61st death anniversary of Sri Lanka’s fourth... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C 11
Wiswa Warnapala declared that violence was first injected into the politics of Sri Lanka by the JVP. JVP was a violent murderous movement from the very beginning. They were guilty of gruesome killings. Despite JVP ‘s attempts to identify itself with Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara, JVP had more in common with the Peruvian Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), and Kampuchea’s Khmer Rouge, said Tisaranee Gunasekera. Its use of lethal violence is very similar to Shining Path. Like the Khmer Rouge it eliminated anyone who opposed them. JVP killed their accomplices so as not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
The Easter carnage – Musings
“It is not that religeous fanatics always walk around with a few kilos of explosives tied to their bodies, looking for a good spot to push the button. There can be others, who are as explosive, destructive and vicious as those suicide-bombers” It has been nearly one and half years now, since the tragedy happened. Nearly three hundred innocent including children perished and probably as many suffered: deeply bruised and burnt to the bone, scarred and some maimed for the rest of their lives. And for the kith and kin of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Bogoda Premarathne – Education Visionary
Mr Bogoda Premarathne is a pioneer in streamlining Sri Lanka’s education system. As the Commissioner of Examinations he devised a strategy to release public exam results (O/L and A/L) within few weeks of their completion. This was a remarkable achievement as in the 1970s it took many months for the results to be released. Sometimes students had to wait for more than 12 months for the results to be released. Mr Premarathne served on the American Field Service (AFS) and Fulbright Scholarships committees. He was very fair, honest and reasonable in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
බූවැලිකඩින් ගිලාබැස්සේ කලුසුද්දන්ගේ නාගරික පුරාජේරුවයි
මහනුවර පොළව කම්පාවී ඇත.බූවැලිකඩ පස් මහල් නිවසක් කඩා වැටීමෙන් එකම පවුලේ තිදෙනෙකු ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත් වී ඇත. මේ ඛේදවාචකය උලුප්පා තලු මැරීමෙන් වන්නේ සැබෑ ප්‍රශ්ණය යටපත් වීමයි.එනම් මෙම විනාශය දක්වා පැමිණි ගමන් මග පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා නොකර අත හැරීමයි.සෙංකඩගල සිරිවර්ධනපුරය නොහොත් මහනුවර නගරය බිහිවන්නේ උඩරට රාජධානියේ ක්‍රමික විකාශනයත් සමගය.අවසාන සිංහල රජවරුන් ගේ ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු වන ආකාරයට තැනූ මේ පුරවරය සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ගේ මුදුන්මල්කඩ වූ දළදා වහන්සේ වැඩ සිටින අති පූජනීය සිද්ධස්ථානය වෙයි.එම නිසා මහනුවර නගරයේ පවතින ෙඑතිහාසික වටිනාකම් ආක්ෂා කර ගැනීමට විශේෂ තැනක් ලබා දිය යුතුයි.ඉංග්‍රීසින් මහනුවර නගරය අත්පත් කරගත් පසු එහි ඉඳි කරන ලද බෝගම්බර හිරගෙදර බිහිවූයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
අලි මිනිස් ගැටුම විසඳීමට විද්‍යාත්මක ප්‍රවේශයක්
බොහෝ දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ මෙරට ජනතාව මුහුණ දෙන සමාජ ගැටලුවක්ව පවතින අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමට විද්‍යාත්මක පර්යේෂණ ඔස්සේ විසඳීම් සෙවීමට නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය සහ වනජීවී රැකවරණ හා වන සම්පත් සංරක්ෂණ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය එක්ව වැඩපිළිවෙළක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කෙරෙමින් පවතී. ඒ පිළිබඳ විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් පසුගිය දින විෂය භාර රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මියගේ සහ විමලවීර දිසානායක මහතාගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශ ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සීතා අරඹේපොල අමාත්‍යවරියගේ උපදෙස් මත එම අමාත්‍යාංශය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
True Test of a Sri Lankan
The true test of a Sri Lankan is neither the waving of a Sri Lankan National flag nor the singing of the National Anthem nor the composing of Music for the YouTube such as ‘We are Sri Lanka’, but it is much more than that. It is the willingness to ensure that any manifestation of your religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching, should be carried out in peace and harmony with Buddhism, and such conduct should not cause hurt to the moral sensitivities of the Sinhala Buddhists, who constitute the overwhelming... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Closer scrutiny of criticisms against 20A
Over the past several days, we have been hearing various criticisms of the 20A by members of the opposition as well as from pro-government quarters. Some members of the government audit service too came out against certain provisions in the 20A. Are these criticisms valid or are we missing something? If we grade the criticisms that have got the most amount of media coverage from the most serious to the irrelevant, the most serious allegation relates to the issues concerning the Auditor General and the Audit Service Commission. The decision of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Withdrawing from UNHRC?
“This is a new dawn for Sri Lanka, a fresh era creating the opportunity for the country to come together…Now is the time for the West to understand the new mood in Sri Lanka, the desire on all sides for reconciliation to become realistic without any interference from the West or the UN Human Rights Council.” - Lord Naseby President-All Party British Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group in UK. Ceylon Today reported on 18 September that Cabinet Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella, while concurring with the position that Sri Lanka should pull... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Stable Governance Under Proposed 20A
“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the Government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.” - Andrew Jackson-Former US President “Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests ‘all executive power’ in one and only one person - the president.” –William Barr-US Public Servant The draft of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution has been published in the Government Gazette and made available for public scrutiny.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Ethnic issue only a few are talking about a political solution - media minister Keheliya Rambukwella
Will not push probe on Lasantha, Thajudeen murder13th Amendment to be revisited Media freedom will be guaranteedIf you introduce that system here, you are talking about 1.5 million people wearing batik clothingTo supplement that we must make use of the Port CityThe drug menace and the underworld have to be controlled at any costThe 13th Amendment needs to be revisited. From 1986 we have been talking about Police powers and land powersWhen we are competitive the people will accept what is competitive The former Government placed much focus on a political solution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Strong executive presidency needed for rapid development - GL
Checks and balances also have limitsThe president of the country is not entitled to be the defence minister but bound to be the defence ministerPresident is accountable to people Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, in an interview with Daily Mirror, comments on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and responds to questions about it. Excerpts: QThe 20th Amendment has been the subject of criticism these days. What is the rationale behind the government’s move? The 20th... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Hejaz Hezbollah’s organization funded by suspicious Qatari institution, CID tells court
Investigations have revealed that the ‘Save the Pearls’ organization, belonging to currently detained Hejaz Hizbullah, has received funds from an institute in Qatar suspected to be funding terrorist activities. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) informed the court today (23), that the said institute had deposited an amount of Rs 13 million to the bank account of the ‘Save the Pearls’ organization. https://youtu.be/HztsNNqjONE The relevant institute in Qatar has been identified as a banned organization that provides funding to various terror groups. Therefore, the CID informed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Six (06) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,321
05 arrivals from the UAE, & 01 from Ethiopia tested positive for Covid-19 increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,321.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
The story behind the inspirational letter sent by the principal to a student hoping to join grade one
A girl who is about to enter the first grade of a school next year had received an inspirational letter from the school.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Former President Maithripala instructed me not to conduct any open investigation into Islamic extremist activities - Pujith (Video)
Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara making a statement today before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter attacks stated that former President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed him not to conduct any open investigation into Islamic extremist activities. https://youtu.be/Rpp93KDhMEM He was giving evidence before the commission for the second day today This was when the Commission inquired whether the Prime Minister had been consulted without obtaining advice from the President at any time Meanwhile, while Pujith Jayasundara was giving evidence, former President Maithripala Sirisena arrived... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
What will India do when US creates Eelam with Greater Tamil Nadu & separates Kashmir from India?
As of now India is on the best of terms with US and that partnership has etched out the Indo-US Pacific Strategy with India playing a greater role among Quad Nations. That India was a crucial link in US pivot to Asia is without a doubt and the US re-chartering its Asian venture is something that policy makers in both India & Sri Lanka must seriously worry about. The sudden rise in LTTE diaspora voices alongside the Church echoing a subtle ‘time to forgive’ and the silent manner western-government funded faith-organizations are evangelizing India & Sri Lanka is nothing India’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/09/20)
Cattle slaughter ban and common sense
It was reported in the media (September 8, 2020) that prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s proposal for a ban on cattle slaughter received cabinet approval as well as the approval of the government parliamentary group. Some Buddhist monks and allied groups who have long been agitating for such legislation to be enacted raised euphoric cries and invoked blessings on the prime minister and the president. I don’t know how the two privately reacted to the acclamation they received on the basis of a controversial measure tentatively proposed, but not finally agreed upon: Did they accept... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
THE ‘POHOTTUWA’ GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA Part 1
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna ( Pohottu) had a sweeping victory at the General Election of 2020. Pohottu got 59.09 %of the total vote and 145 seats. Nobody expected such a landslide victory and it was promptly dubbed the ‘mother of all landslides’. Voter turnout island-wide was 71%. It would have been more, but Pohottu supporters from abroad were unable to attend due to Covid 19.. They have won a ‘super majority’, said BBC. The two-and-half-year-old SLPP has placed a firm footprint in Sri Lanka’s political firmament, said analysts. That remains to be seen. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
Dual Citizens
With the advent of 20A bashing the dual citizens has become a pastime of many. It has now become a fashionable social phenomena. Currently dual citizens are seen as a ‘pariah community’. They are attacked from left, centre and the right. They are despised in every corner. They are seen as the reason for every evil of the land. When we refer to Sri Lankan dual citizens we largely mean the very large Sinhalese community who have taken up citizenship in developed western countries like the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
ප්‍රංශ සාහිත්‍යයේ දැවැන්තයා- වික්ටර් හියුගෝ
ප්‍රංශ කවියෙකු, නවකතාකරුවෙකු සහ රොමෑන්ටික ව්‍යාපාරයේ නාට්‍යකරුවෙකු වූ වික්ටර් මාරි හියුගෝ 1802 පෙබරවාරි 26 වන දින ප්‍රංශයේ බෙසානොන් හි උපත ලැබීය. වික්ටර් හියුගෝ උපත ලබන්නේ ප්‍රංශ විප්ලවය විසින් ශක්තිමත් කරන ලද ලෝකයක ය. ඔහුගේ පියා ජෝසප්-ලියෝපෝල්ඩ් හියුගෝ නැපෝලියන්ගේ හමුදාවේ ජෙනරාල්වරයෙකි. ලියෝපෝල්ඩ් හියුගෝ නැපෝලියන් වීරයෙකු ලෙස සැලකූ නිදහස් සිතිවිලි සහිත ජනරජවාදියෙකු විය. හියුගෝගේ මුල් ළමාවිය කැලඹිලි සහිත විය. හියුගෝගේ දෙමව්පියන්ගේ ප්‍රතිවිරුද්ධ දේශපාලන හා ආගමික මතයන් දැරුවෝය. මෙම ආතතීන් හියුගෝගේම පවුල තුළ නිරූපණය විය. ඔහු සහ ඔහුගේ වැඩිමහල් සොහොයුරන් දෙදෙනා වන ආබෙල් සහ ඉයුජින් ඔවුන්ගේ මව සමඟ ප්‍රංශයේ පැරිස් නුවර ජීවත් වූ අතර ඔවුන්ගේ පියා ඉතාලියේ ජීවත් විය. හියුගෝට වයස අවුරුදු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
Several SJB Leaders Absent During 20A Protest
Several Party Leaders attached to the SJB alliance had not participated in the protest that was staged in Parliament yesterday (22) by the SJB while Minister of Justice, M.U.M. Ali Sabry, PC was presenting the draft of the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution, informed sources said. Three of the SJB Party Leaders who had been absent during the protest had been the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Leader Rauff Hakeem, the All Ceylon Makkal Congress Leader Rishad Bathiudeen and the Jathika Hela Urumaya Leader Patali Champika Ranawaka. Although the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
13 more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,312
7 arrivals from Kuwait, 2 from Saudi Arabia, 2 from UAE, an Indian national & an inmate from Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre tested positive for Covid-19 raising the total in Sri Lanka to 3,312.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
BUILDING A VALUE EDUCATION STRUCTURE BASED ON AUSTRALIAN VALUES
President Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa concerns education reforms, and I posted several articles on this website, regarding the reforming agenda, and my concern was directed to declining values in Sri Lanka’s society. If value education included the curriculum with primary, secondary, and TVET education that could be used accelerating economic development, and growth, and to create value respected society in the country. Value education should be practiced from early childhood education to university education, and it is a broader practice. Many problems in Sri Lanka are a result of lacking value practice in society. In any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
Are Gota and Basil Conspiring with the US to Set-up Eelam Where Prabhakaran Failed? (Part 1)
In 2009 the people of Sri Lanka led by their Commander in Chief Mahinda Rajapakse and his Army, ably led by Sarath Fonseka, decimated Prabhakaran and his gang of proxy - terrorists who were attempting to carve out a portion of Sri Lanka to set up the State of ‘Eelam’. As analysed by several foreign and local intelligence agencies, the terrorists were backed by America and acted as mercenary soldiers for the Americans who considered Sri Lanka critical for the American domination of South Asia. The Defence Secretary... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C 10
JVP was out to create a failed state. Firstly, it set out to weaken government authority at village level. In 1971 insurgency, JVP killed government representatives in the village, such as GA postmaster, station master, and co-op manager. The first killing took place in Tangalle. In 1987 insurgency, even Grama sevakas were not welcomed in the villages. JVP issued threats to government officials, followed by killing of such officials and their families. In April 1989 unprecedented number of government officials, grama sevaka, and security forces were killed. It did not matter whether they were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
ලෝක සාම දින පණිවිඩය
සියලු ජාතීන් සහ ජනයා අතර “සාමය නැමැති පරමාදර්ශය“ ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට වෙන් කළ දිනය වන ලෝක සාම දිනය අදට යෙදී තිබේ. දශක තුනකට අධික කාලයක් තිස්සේ පැවතුණු බෙදුම්වාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කළ රටක අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් ලෝක සාම දිනයට පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කරනු ලබන්නේ මහත් ආඩම්බරයකින් හා අභිමානයකිනි. 1981 වසරේ දී එක්සත් රාජධානියේ සහ කොස්ටරීකා රාජ්‍යය ඉදිරිපත් කළ යෝජනාවක් අනුව, ජාතීන් අතර සහ ජන ප්‍රජාවන් අතර සාමය ප්‍රචලිත කිරීම සඳහා එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය විසින් ප්‍රකාශිත ජාත්‍යන්තර සාම දිනය, 1982 වසරේ සිට සෑම වසරකම සැප්තැම්බර් 21 වන දා සමරනු ලබයි. ජාතීන් අතර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
APPOINTMENT OF ASOKA MILINDA MORAGODA AS THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL CABINET RANK
15th September 2020. The Committee on High Posts Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Parliament Approach Road, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte APPOINTMENT OF ASOKA MILINDA MORAGODA AS THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL CABINET RANK We would like to bring to your notice the shocking and appalling points relevant to the above mentioned appointment which the Government of Sri Lanka does not seem to have taken into consideration in selecting the candidate Milinda Moragoda Allegations of Corruption, Abuse of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
The Constitutional Council should go
The Constitutional Council (CC) is a 10 member constitutional authority tasked with maintaining the Independent Commissions and monitoring their affairs. The CC is aimed at depoliticising the public service. The CC was first established in 2000 under the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution. In 2010 President Mahinda Rajapaksa replaced it with a Parliamentary Council, under the Eighteenth Amendment. After Maithripala Sirisena was elected as the President, the then Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe presented reforms to reinstate a new Constitutional Council in 2015 under the Nineteenth Amendment. Five independent commissions are established under the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
How Your Banks Made Money From Slavery | Empires of Dirt
VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng explores how the City of London and its financial institutions profited from slavery in America long after the slave trade was abolished. Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng uncovers the ugly history of the European colonial empires they don’t teach us in schools. Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited and European powers relentlessly profited. The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us, from our financial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
US absence from UNHRC makes passing resolution against Sri Lanka problematic
“When the US was there and sponsoring resolutions, as it did between 2012 and 2014, they got sufficient votes. But since the US has opted out of the UNHRC, the onus of getting a resolution passed will be on less powerful countries." Colombo, September 20: The absence of the US in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is going to make it difficult for the Sri Lankan Tamil lobby to get a resolution against Sri Lanka passed in the March 2021 session of the Council when the current resolution expires. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/09/20)
On UNHRC’s bi-annual ritual of making unsubstantiated allegations against Sri Lanka
Repetition of unsubstantiated allegations in session after session puts in question not just the credibility of the UNHRC’s sources of information but the credibility of the UNHRC itself Michelle Bachelet, UN Human Rights High Commissioner) It has been a practice during the last two decades, especially since 2009 for the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to wake up from its slumber on the eve of its September and March sessions and pick up some issue or the other in Sri Lanka to express ‘concern’. Continuing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
Sri Lanka's Ambassador to Russia Plans Getting Vaccinated With Sputnik V
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sri Lanka's Ambassador to Moscow Meegahalande Durage Lamawansa said on Monday he planned getting inoculated with Russia's vaccine against COVID-19, dubbed Sputnik V, in the near future. "I am ready to receive Sputnik V vaccine in the near future, as soon as I come back from Sri Lanka. The vaccine is now going through Phase 3 trials, I would be happy to take part in it", Lamawansa said. "As a doctor, I want to add that although some countries have recently recorded some decrease in the spreading of COVID-19,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
Modi-Rajapaksa virtual summit on September 26
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BRI a functional machinery in global economic recovery: Sri Lankan expert
The continuation of protectionism by America, the largest economy body in the world, will only result in further contraction of the world economy and aggravation of unemployment, poverty and deprivation, said Luxman Siriwardena, president of the Sri Lanka-based Pathfinder Foundation. In a recent interview with People’s Daily Online, Siriwardena said that the unilateralism and protectionism currently being championed by the American administration goes against the values the West has promoted since the end of World War II. “When I was undertaking graduate studies at an American university in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
NEWSAthaulla: Those responsible for MR’s defeat had a hand in Easter Sunday attacks
MP A.L.M. Athaulla displays a copy of a letter he sent to the then President Maithripala Sirisena and PM Wickremesinghe underscoring the need to do away with the 19th Amendment(Pic courtesy National Congress)
Those who had a hand in engineering President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s defeat at the 2015 presidential election were behind the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, National Congress MP A. L. M. Athaulla, told a media briefing at his Thalakotuwa Gardens road residence, Narahenpita yesterday (20). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
Govt. reiterates no decision to withdraw 20A Says amendments can be made at committee stage
The government today reiterated that it has no decision to withdraw the 20th Amendment to the Constitution but said if needed, amendments to it can be made at the committee stage in Parliament. Speaking at a news briefing held at the SLPP head office, SLPP Chairman and Minister Professor G.L.Peiris said the opportunity is available to make amendments to the piece of legislation at the committee stage. “The 20A which was included in the Order Paper of Parliament on September 17 will be presented to Parliament tomorrow (22).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
We expect UN not to interfere in domestic affairs of states: President
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that Sri Lanka expects that the United Nations will place due emphasis on non-interference in the domestic affairs of other states. The President expressed these views in a pre-recorded statement, at the High-Level Meeting to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations today (21). “At a time when the world is facing a common and an unrivaled threat, the “United Nations We Need”, I am certain, will place due emphasis on the sovereign equality of States, respect for territorial integrity and non-interference in their domestic affairs”, President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
Bribery Commission files indictments against Ravi and Arjun Aloysius
The Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has filed indictments against former Minister Ravi Karunanayake and the Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius at the Colombo High Court. https://youtu.be/D6VS_ocC-Xs Karunanayake has been charged under Section 19 (c) of the Bribery Act for taking up residence –all the while serving as the Finance Minister– at ‘No. 5 PH2, Monarch Housing Complex’ acquired under the Walt & Row Associates (Pvt) Ltd, where the second accused of the case Arjun Aloysius is a director, during the period from 12th February to 30th... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/09/20)
Wigneswaran a serious threat to peace and reconciliation
Needling the South with provocative anti-Sinhala-Buddhist hate speech led the North all the way to Nandikadal. So why is C. V. Wigneswaran going down the same old path of divisive and destructive politics? What does he hope to gain when the mightiest collective forces of the Jaffna Tamils failed to divide the nation under various constitutional formulas by basing their strategy on anti-Sinhala-Buddhist extremism? Besides, his hate speech is loaded with toxic distortions of known realities which stand in the way of future reconciliation and peaceful co-existence. It is apparent that he is merely... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C 9
In both JVP insurgencies, 1971 and 1987, JVP tried to infiltrate all four security services, police, army, navy and air force. The 1971 insurgency this was not very successful in this. Only about ten persons became JVP supporters in each of the four services in 1971 said Chandraprema., Some joined the JVP when the insurgency ended. However, Godahewa observed that several members of the armed forces were recruited into the JVP and used very discreetly. Wijeweera had tried to recruit army personnel who were thought to be loyal to SLFP, but they were not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
මුන්ට පිස්සු හිමියනේ!
ඉන්දියාවේ දඹදිව වැඩ විසු බුදුරජානන්වහන්සේ දෙසු ධර්මස්කන්ධය තමන්ගේ ධර්මය කොටගත්,70%ක ජනතාවක් වාසය කරන ශ්රී ලංකාවේ, තවත් ජන කණ්ඩායමක් පෘතුගීසින් මෙරටට ගෙන ආ රෝමානු කතෝලික ධර්මය තම ධර්මය කරගෙන ඇත. තවත් ජන කණ්ඩායමක් ලන්දේසින් මෙරටට ගෙන ආ රෙපරමාදු ධර්මයද තමන්ගේම ධර්මය කරගෙන සිටි. එංගලන්තයේ උපත ලැබූ එංගලන්ත සබාවේ ධර්මය හා මෙතොදීස්ත සභාවේ ධර්මය තවත් මෙරට වසන ජන කණ්ඩායමක ධර්මයයි. මේ අතර ඉන්දියාවේ ආරම්භවූ හින්දු ධර්මය තමන්ගේ ධර්මය ලෙස සලකන තවත් ජන කණ්ඩායමක් එම ධර්මය තම ධර්මය කරගෙන ඇත. ඒ ආගමික සංස්කෘතීන්ට මෙරට ජනතාව අනුගතවී ඇති ආකාරයයි. මෙරට ඇත්තේ රෝම ලන්දේසි නීතියයි. එය රටපුරාම බල පැවැත්වෙන නිතිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
තුන්සින්හලේ නැවතත් පිහිටුවීම
පළාත් සභා ක්රමය ගැන වර්තමානයේ පවතින නිහඬ සමාජ අසන්තුෂ්ටිය තුළින් උත්පාදනය වන නව චින්තනයක් ක‍්‍රමයෙන් මෝදුවෙමින් පවතින අයුරු දැකීම සාමාන්‍ය පුරවැසියන්ගේ අමන්දානන්දයට හේතු වේ. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් මීට දින කිහිපයකට පෙර, අග‍්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමන් විසින්ද, පසුව පළාත් සභා ඇමැතිවරයා විසින් ද, කරන ලද ජනමාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශ වලින් පැවසුන චින්තනය, (ලංකාදීප සැප්තැම්බර් 10 වන දින) මේ රටේ අනාගතය කෙරෙහි බෙහෙවින් වැදගත් සන්ධිස්ථානයක් ලෙස සැලකිය යුතුව ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්, එතුමන් රටේ අනාගතය ගැන දරන ප‍්‍රායෝගික චින්තනය බෙහෙවින් අගය කළ යුතු වේ. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දැනට පවතින පළාත් 9 මීට වසර 130ට පෙර (1889) අවසන් වරට ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
කුඩා සහ මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ ව්‍යවසාය ක්ෂේත්‍රය අද අප රටේ ආර්ථිකයේ කොඳුනාරටියයි - ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා
“කුඩා සහ මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ ව්‍යවසාය ක්ෂේත්‍රය අද අප රටේ ආර්ථිකයේ කොඳුනාරටිය වී ඇති බව” ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.20 දින පැවසීය. හම්බන්තොට මාගම් රුහුණුපුර ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මේලන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ පැවති “කුඩා සහ මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ ව්‍යවසායක සංවර්ධන සම්මන්ත්‍රණය - 2020” සඳහා එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙම අදහස් පළ කර සිටියේය. කොවිඩ්-19 බලපෑමට ලක් වූ කුඩා හා මධ්‍ය පරිමාණ ව්‍යවසාය නගා සිටුවීම සඳහා රජයක් ලෙස පසුගිය කෙටි කාලය තුළ සහනදායී ණය පොලී අනුපාත හඳුන්වා දෙමින් කාරක ප්‍රාග්ධන අවශ්‍යතා සහ ණය ඇපකර සපුරාදීමට හැකි වූ බව ද අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මෙහිදී අවධාරණය කළේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
Lucian Rajakarunanayake's Lament on the fall of democracy.
For there to be a down fall of democracy, there should have been democracy in the first place. Do you think we had "democracy" when the UNP+TNA+SLFP rules the country? When you are at the very bottom of the well, perhaps you can only look up to see light. If what we see is not democracy, how did we get there? What the last government created was anarchy and lawlessness, with the country in the hands of a cabal of people who worked closely with some foreign embassies. Didn't Samantha Powers of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ANAGARIKA DHARMAPALA
(The 156th birth anniversary of the Anagarika falls today, September 17, 2020. The following lines are in celebration of the event.) The pioneer of true national thinkingWas none other than the historical Hate-figure of anti-nationalistsGreat Anagarika DharmapalaWho engineered social reform through itTo kindle hopes of freedom from foreign rule. History will recognize DharmapalaAs perhaps the first ideological-As perhaps the first ideological-Champion of the unarmed fight for freedom,And the first proponent of modernityTruly based on the Buddhist tradition. Though Brits and colonial parasitesProjected him as a Don QuixoteTilting at windmills... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
Disce Aut Discede Vigi.
The rapacious speech MP Vigneswaran , elaborated more there after in the Colombo Telegraph achieves most is to stoke the dying embers of racial disharmony in Sri Lanka to raise its dangerous flames that , over three decade period of war saw over a hundred thousand dead and many times more injured and maimed. The veracity of your claims can be best assessed by the pictures below , that speaks more than words can, comparing the oldest Tamil monument in Jaffna the Nallur Temple of 948 AD and the Buddhist stupas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
We are targeting 500 listed firms for next 5 years: State Minister Cabraal
The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) should aim at increasing the number of listed companies from the current number of about 200 to 500 firms, State Minister for Finance, Capital Market and Public Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated. “The digitalization will take away from you, from the brokers as well as the market players a lot of the paperwork and the mandate tasks that have been so far done by you personally. When you are relieved of those duties, I’m sure you will find enough time to make this market work. The Stock Exchange is really... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
COVID-19 case count in Sri Lanka at 3,287
Three more cases of novel coronavirus have been identified increasing the tally of confirmed cases reported in the country to 3,287. Three recent arrivals from Saudi Arabia have tested positive for COVID-19 while in quarantine. Accordingly, 185 patients infected with the virus are being treated at selected hospitals across the island. Meanwhile, while the total number of recoveries moved to 3,088 with 18 more patients being discharged today (20) over complete recovery. Sri Lanka has witnessed 13 deaths from the virus so far.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
Will Harin be removed from a disciplinary inquiry? (Video)
https://youtu.be/JkQgAITkXcA The clergy and politicians expressed various views against the statement made by Harin Fernando. Ven. Magalkande Sudaththa Thero of the Sinhala Ravaya organization said that Sajith Primadasa's group is in the group that hates religious leaders and is questioning the Leader of the Opposition Sajith Primadasa about the action to be taken regarding Harin Fernando's statement. Meanwhile, Tissa Attanayake, from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, said that insulting any religion by anyone in his party or any party should not be allowed. He further... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
Small and medium enterprises are the backbone of the economy - PM
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that the small and medium scale enterprise sector has become the backbone of the country's economy. The Prime Minister was addressing the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Conference held at the Magamruhunupura International Conference Center in Hambantota today... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
Colombo archdiocese rejects Harin’s remarks at PCoI
The archdiocese of Colombo says it condemns the puerile attempt by MP Harin Fernando to find excuses for his own grave misdeed and cast unjustified and unfounded aspersions on Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith. In a statement, it refers to remarks made by the MP at the presidential commission that inquires into the Easter Sunday attacks. “Once again we affirm categorically that the Cardinal and the Bishops as well as the Catholic clergy were in no way made aware of this plot by anyone and so the allegation is baseless,” the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
Bim Saviya with MCC – A Government without Land & Legal professionals unable to adjudicate our Land Rights
The Yahapalana Government & US Government finalized MCC (development arm of US Govt’s Pivot to Asia) in 2018. It was to create a dynamic market for land and was a key component in Yahapalana 8-year National Development Plan – Vision 2020: A Country Enriched. Land & Transport were identified as tools with which MCC would enter Sri Lanka with bim saviya & Title Registration Act playing a key role. MCC Land Project in Sri Lanka is going to use the bim saviya that has removed judicial authority in 1998 Act together with MCC immunity clause to grab our land and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/09/20)
SHOULD PRESIDENT SURRENDER TO GEVINDU KUMARATUNGA, PREMARATNE DOLAWATTE, VASUDEWA, WIMAL, DAYASIRI and few Buddhist Monks?
The Vision Statement issued by Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse, had received overwhelming approval of the general public. Then Mr Mahinda Rajapakse faced the General Election without a new Vision Statement, but committed to comply with that of the elected President. Now there are several brickbats attempting to drive their own personal Agenda’s overriding that of the President. a. GEVENDU KUMARATUNGA: The new national list MP Mr Gevindu Kumaratunga was an unknown quantity until recent times, even though he is the grandson of Late Munidasa Kumaratunga. He formed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
පාර්ලිමේන්තු විපක්ෂය කොහොමද ජනතාවාදී විපක්ෂයක් වෙන්නේ ?
මේක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස විපක්ෂ නායකයාගේ තවත් ඩයිනමෝවලින් වැඩකරන මොලේ විකුර්ති අදහසක් විය හැකියි. විපක්ෂයේ සමගි ජනතා බලවේගයට ලැබුණු මුළු චන්දය සීයට 23.90වයි( 2,771,980යි). රටේ ජනතාවගෙන් බහුතරයක් සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාට හා ඔහුගේ පක්ෂයට විරුද්ධව චන්දය දුන්නේ. ඉතින් කොහොමද පාරලිමේන්තුවේ විපක්ෂය ජනතාවාදී වෙන්නේ. සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස තාමත් කරන්නේ ජනතාව රවට්ටන එක. මෙයිටවඩා හොඳ නැද්ද පාරලිමේන්තුවේ විපක්ෂ නායකයා හැටියට වැඩ කලොත්. එතකොට නේද එ විපක්ෂයම කියන ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර වාදය ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙන්නේ. ගෝටාබය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට බහුතර ජනාතාවගේ චන්දය දී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපති වශයෙන් පත්කිරීමේදී ඒ අති මහත් ජනතාව එතුමා කෙරෙහි කොන්දේසි විරහිත විශ්වාශයක් තැබුවා. කොන්දේසි විරහිත කීවේ මා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
ලෝකය හා ඇති විශ්වීය සම්බන්ධතාවය
ඔබට මේ ලෝකය හා ඇති විශ්වීය සම්බන්ධතාවය අවබෝධ කරගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය නම් මේ සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධව සිතා බලන්න. 1.එදා ඇමරිකාව හා ඉන්දියාව එකතුව එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සලයේදී, මානව හිමිකම් කඩකලා කියා සිරගත කරවීමට සැලසුම් කල ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂයන් මෙරට ජනාධිපති වූ විගසම කොවිඩ් 19 වයිරසය ආරම්භවීම. 2. එම වෛරසය ලොවපුරා පැතිරී ගොස්, ඇමරිකාව කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසයෙන් බැටකන 1 වෙනි රට බවටත්, ඉන්දියාව 2වෙන් රට බවටත් පත්වී. 3. ශ්රී ලංකාව කොවිඩ් 19ට මුහුණදුන් සාර්ථකම රට බවට පෙරමුණේ සිටීම නිර්මාණය කලේ කවුද?... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
PM joins national beach clean-up operation -වෙරළ පවිත්‍ර කිරීමේ ජාතික ක්‍රියාන්විතයට - අගමැති එක්වෙයි...
https://youtu.be/XXRGJegF608... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ජාතික සමුද්‍ර සම්පත් සුරැකීමේ සතිය ඇරඹෙයි
සමුද්‍රීය පරිසර ආරක්ෂණ අධිකාරියේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ගල්කිස්ස වෙරළ තීරයේදී පැවති අන්තර්ජාතික වෙරළ පවිත්‍රතා දිනය සහ ජාතික සමුද්‍ර සම්පත් සුරැකීමේ සතියේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.19 දින එක් විය. අන්තර්ජාතික වෙරළ පවිත්‍රතා වැඩසටහනට සමගාමීව වෙරළ හා සාගර සම්පත් සුරැකීමේ සතිය සංකේතවත් කිරීම සඳහා සමුද්‍රීය පරිසර ආරක්ෂණ අධිකාරියේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් "නිකසල සයුරක්- පිරිසිදු වෙරළක්" යන කාලෝචිත තේමාව යටතේ ස්වභාව සෞන්දර්යයෙන් අනූන ශ්රී ලංකාවක් තුළ ජාත්‍යන්තර වෙරළ පවිත්‍රතා වැඩසටහන අද දින ආරම්භ වුණි. මෙහිදී ජගත් සාගර දිනයට සමඟාමීව පැවති පෝස්ටර් චිත්‍ර තරගාවලියේ ජයග්‍රාහක සිසු සිසුවියක් සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Empowering President at the Expense of the PM Helps Rajapaksa Rivals in the Long Run
The anti-Rajapaksa camp has a distinct advantage at presidential elections than in parliamentary elections. On the other hand, the Rajapaksa camp has a clear advantage in parliamentary elections than at presidential elections. Given this fact, it is unwise the empower the president at the expense of the PM. What should happen is the opposite. The parliament and the PM must be given more powers and the president less powers. Although more power to the president seems a good idea today because the president is Gotabaya, it will be a disaster for Rajapaksas in the long run.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Watch: Sri Lanka’s ‘coconut minister’ holds press conference halfway up a coconut tree
State Minister Arundika Fernando, in charge of coconut, fishtail palm, palmyra, and others, was hoisted up a coconut tree in his estate to address reporters. https://youtu.be/18R614tOtQE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Constitutions and amendments
The 20th Amendment (20A) to the Constitution has become a topic of spirited debate and discussion. Much of it is generated by misunderstanding the true intent of 20A. It should not be a durable amendment to the Constitution. Instead, it should be temporary, until a comprehensive new Constitution is developed and presented to the nation. Until then, 20A should serve as a stop gap for the Executive President to address the unprecedented challenges the country has to face following the COVID-19 pandemic. With this in mind, the intent of 20A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Sirisena promised Pujith retirement perks if he took responsibility: Hemasiri
Former President Maithripala Sirisena on April 24, 2019 informed former IGP Pujith Jayasundara that if he accepted responsibility for the co-ordinated terror attacks on April 21, 2019 and resigned from his position, he would be given the pension and a position as an ambassador in any country he wished to serve, former Defense Secretary Hemasiri Fernando yesterday informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying before the Commission Mr. Fernando said that after President Sirisena's communication, former IGP Jayasundara had come to seek his advice in this regard. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Two COVID-19 cases found, total moves to 3,283
The total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country reached 3,283 as two more arrivals from foreign countries tested positive for the virus today (19). The new cases include 01 recent returnee from the United States and 01 sea marshal who arrived in the country from Red Sea area, the Department of Government Information said. In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 3,070 as 10 persons infected with the virus were discharged from hospitals upon recovery earlier today. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
President inspects developmental projects in Puttalam
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa visited Puttalam district today (19) to inspect some of the development projects in the area, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). Commencing the tour President Rajapaksa has inspected the activities in Palachchonai Estate in Madurankuliya. Coconut, vegetables and several other agricultural crops are cultivated in the 900-acre estate, says the PMD. President has appreciated the successful model cultivation of grapes in 10 acres of land. President has then declared open the agro-technical institute constructed with funds received by His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith from the Government of Italy. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Buddhist Advisory Council commends President for heeding advice
The Buddhist Advisory Council has commended President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for following advice and implementing suggestions of Maha Sangha, says the President’s Media Division (PMD). Member Theros of the Council are confident that the policies being followed by the President will be instrumental in building a fair and virtuous society. https://youtu.be/Pck-7j0u1jw Five months ago, President Rajapaksa decided to set up the Buddhist Advisory Council to seek the advice and views of MahaSangha in the process of implementing policies of the Government, the PMD said in a statement. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Ex-Defence Secretary on why Ranil and IGP were not invited to Security Council meetings
Former Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis gave evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks for the 7th day on Thursday (17). During the proceedings, the legal counsel representing the Director of State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena asked the witness as to how he came to know that an attack had been carried out on Easter Sunday in 2019. https://youtu.be/E_M_y0QPR2U The former National Intelligence chief replied that he came to know of the attacks via a relative from an area... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Harin faces protest from various factions including the maha Sanga- Urged to seek pardon from the Cardinal
The statements made by parliamentarian Harin Fernando at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks was criticized by various factions today as well. State minister of Prison Reforms & Prisoners' Rehabilitation Sudharshini Fernandopulle said parliamentarian Harin Fernando should publicly apologize to his eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith and the Catholic community. https://youtu.be/_HuJ-9Ezugc Giving witness before the commission recently Harin Fernando said that he believes that the Catholic Church was aware of the attacks. Several protests against the statement were voiced yesterday as well,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/09/20)
Mahinda Rajapaksa wants Colombo Port City project to be accelerated as it will be the main source of income in future
The Lankan Prime Minister echoed the view of Forbes magazine which in 2018 listed the CPC as one of the "Five New Cities to Shake Up the Future." Colombo, September 18: (Xinhua): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday called for the construction of a multi-billion U.S. dollar Colombo Port City project to be accelerated, saying it is a landmark in the island country and will be the main income generator in the future. Rajapaksa inspected the Colombo Port City construction site, in the heart of capital Colombo, to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
A fruit which saved Sri Lankans from starvation
An amazing variety of dishes can be made from Jackfruit which is also the heaviest fruit in the world Colombo, September 18: My mother grew up in a house of eight people in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, 100km north-east of Colombo. During the island’s severe droughts in the 1970s, most of her family’s humble, home-cooked meals consisted of boiled jackfruit served in a clay pot with a handful of freshly grated coconut. This simple, carb-rich meal fused with natural fats fuelled enough energy for the farmer-family to toil day... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
Consequences of the commemoration of an LTTE hero’s death
Besides exacerbating Tamil-Sinhala ethnic tension in Sri Lanka, the commemoration of Thileepan's death could sour the Lankan Tamils' relationship with India Thileepan is to the left of Prabhakaran. He belonged to the inner circle in 1987 Colombo, September 17: The commemoration of the 33 rd.Anniversary of the fast-unto-death of the Tamil Tiger hero Thileepan this year has become an issue in Sri Lankan politics. It has the potential to further sharpen the divide between the Tamils and the Sinhalese and sour the Tamils’ relations with India, whose help... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
Welcome the Presidents move to develop Sri Lanka as the maritime hub of the Indain Ocean
The maritime and Air hub of Asia in the 21st century The above map shows the relative location of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean in relation to four continents and four Oceans Atlantic, Indian Pacific and Antarctic Oceans. This also shows the maritime and Air links of all these four continents with Sri Lanka. The validity of the President’s plan has to be viewed in this broader perspective. You will also notice the unique geographical location Sri Lanka enjoys in its centrality in relation to four continents and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
Activities of foreign organizations
I enclose below what I read in the Divayina issue of 17/9 කැනේඩියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් අම්පාරේදී අප‍්‍රකට සාකච්ඡා කැනේඩියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් ඬේවිඞ් මැක්යිනොන් මහතා පසුගිය දිනවල අම්පාර සංචාරයක නිරත වුණා. පොතුවිල් ප‍්‍රදේශයේ සංචාරය කළ ඔහු පසුව ඉලංකෙයි තමිල් අරුසු කච්චි පක්ෂයේ අම්පාර දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයට ජාතික ලැයිස්තුවෙන් පත්කළ කාලෙයි අරසන් මන්ත්රීවරයා සමගින් නාවිදන්වෙලි මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයාගේ නිවසේදී සාකච්ඡුා පවත්වා තිබෙනවා. ඊට පසුව කැනේඩියානු මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා සමස්ත ලංකා මහජන කොංග‍්‍රසය අම්පාර දිස්ත‍්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී යූ. එල්. මුෂාරෆ් මහතා සහ තවත් කීප දෙනකු සමඟ අම්පාර ප්රසිද්ධ තානායමකදී තවත් සාකච්ඡුාවක් පවත්වා තිබෙනවා. ඉන්පසු අම්පාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
රජීව් ගාන්‌ධි හාරාදුන් රන්‌ආකරය: දකුණේ පළාත් සභා
පළාත් සභා මිණියට ඔක්‍ෂිජන් පිඹීමේ ව්‍යායාමය මේ වන විට මියගොස් සිටිනා, පලාත් සභා, වලෙන් ගොඩට ගන්නා මෙන් ඉල්ලමින් කනා අඳෝනාව සිහිපත් කරන්නේ, පාරේ දමා තිබූ මී මළකුණක් විකුණා ධනවත්‌වුන සිටුවරයෙක් ගැන ජාතක පොතේ ඇති කතාවය. බුදුන්ගේ කාලයේ ඉන්දියාවේ සිටි හැමෝම සතුටින් ලංවූ සිරිමා නගර නම් සෝබිනියගේ සිරුර, ඇය මළ පසු වෙන්දේසියෙන් තියා නොමිලේ වත් ගෙනියන්නට කිසිවෙක් ඉදිරිපත් නොවීම ධම්මපදයේ එක් ගාථාවක නිදාන කතාවය. 1987 දී පලාත් සභාවට විරුද්ධ අරගලයේදී වෙඩිතබා ගොඩගැසූ මිණී 144 ක් සහිත ශාලාවක දින තුනක් චම්පික රණවක සිටියේය. ජේ.වී.පී. මුල්‌වූ විරෝධතා සටනින් 60,000 ක් වත් මියගියේය. අද වනවිට මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම් සොයා බලන කමිටුවේ නව සභාපති අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හමුවෙයි
රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම් පිළිබඳව සොයා බලන (2015-2019) කමිටුවේ නව සභාපති ප්‍රවාහන අමාත්‍ය ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ මහතා ප්‍රමුඛ කමිටු සාමාජිකයන් අද 2020.09.18 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමුවිය. මෙම කමිටුවේ සභාපතිවරයා ලෙස මෙයට පෙර මහින්ද යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතා කටයුතු කළ අතර එතුමා කථානායක ධූරයට පත්වීමත් සමඟ නව සභාපතිවරයා ලෙස ප්‍රවාහන අමාත්‍ය ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ මහතා පත් කෙරිණි. නව සභාපතිවරයා පත්වීමෙන් පසු පැවති පළමු හමුව මෙය වේ. රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම් පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන කමිටුවට මේ වන විට ඉදිරිපත්ව ඇති අභියාචනා ප්‍රමාණය 6952 කි. ඉන් අභියාචනා 2365ක් කමිටුවට සෘජුවම ලැබී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
කොළඹ වෛද්‍ය පීඨ සිසුවාගේ නව නිපැයුම් CPR යන්ත්‍රය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට හඳුන්වා දෙයි
සෞඛ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ කාර්යක්ෂමතාව ඉහළ නංවමින් කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතයට මුහුණ දීම සඳහා කොළඹ වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ ඩිල්ෂාන් අබේසිංහ සිසුවා නිර්මාණය කළ සී.පී.ආර්. (CPR) යන්ත්‍රය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට හඳුන්වාදීම අද 2020.09.18 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. සෞඛ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ කාර්යක්ෂමතාව වැඩි කිරීමට නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන්ට ලබාදුන් අවස්ථාව ප්‍රයෝජනයට ගනිමින් මෙම නිර්මාණය කර තිබිණි. හදවතට නැවත පණ දීමට කෙරෙන ප්‍රතිකාරයක් ලෙස සී.පී.ආර්. (CPR) ලබාදීම සඳහා යාන්ත්‍රික ක්‍රමයක් මේ ඔස්සේ හඳුන්වා දෙනු ලැබේ. වෛද්‍ය සිසුවා කළ මෙම නව නිර්මාණකරණයට මේ වන විට නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන්ගේ සංගම, ජාතික ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරිය, ශ්රී ලංකා වෛද්‍ය සංගමයේ අවසරය ද ලැබී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
රජයේ ඉඩම්වල කළුගල් කැණීම් කර්මාන්තය පිළිබඳ වාර්තාව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට භාරදෙයි
රජයේ ඉඩම් තුළ සිදුකරන කළු ගල් කැණීම් කර්මාන්තය පිළිබඳ සොයා බැලීමට පත්කළ කමිටුව විසින් අදාළ වාර්තාව අද 2020.09.18 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට භාර දෙන ලදී. ඉඩම් කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල් ආර්. එම්. සී. එම් හේරත් මහත්මියගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් යුතු එම කමිටුව, කමිටු සාමාජිකයන් 12 දෙනෙකුගෙන් සමන්විත ය. කමිටු වාර්තාව භාරදීමෙන් අනතුරුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා එම කමිටුවේ නිර්දේශ සහ යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ විමසා බැලුවේය. කළු ගල් කර්මාන්තයේ යෙදෙන ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ට ප්‍රායෝගිකව මුහුණපාන ගැටලු අවම කිරීම සඳහා පරිහරණ හා කැණීම් ගාස්තු එකම ක්‍රමවේදයක් යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන පරිදි සංශෝධනය කිරීමට අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ජන්ම දිනයට අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා සුබ පැතුම් එක් කරයි
ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතාගේ 70 වෙනි ජන්ම දිනයට අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.17 දින දුරකථන ඔස්සේ සුබ පැතුම් එක් කළේය. උපන්දින සුබ පැතුම් එක් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ස්තූති කළ ඉන්දීය අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතා, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ සුහද කතාබහක නිරත වෙමින් ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සහ ඔහුගේ බිරිද ලිමිණි රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිගේ පළමු පුත්‍ර රත්‍රනයේ උපත වෙනුවෙන් ඔවුන්ට සුබ පැතුම් එක් කළේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව ගුණානුස්මරණ උත්සවය සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එක් වෙයි
හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ පැවති, දිවංගත හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මහතාගේ 37 වැනි ගුණානුස්මරණ උත්සවය සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.18 දින සහභාගී විය. හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව සංසදය සහ හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව ගොවි පර්යේෂණ ආයතනය විසින් සංවිධානය කළ මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා එක්වුණු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මහතාගේ පිළිරුවට පුෂ්පෝහාර දැක්වීය. මෙහිදී හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව සංසදය විසින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට සමරු තිළිණයක් හා ග්‍රන්ථයක් පිළිගැන්වීය. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා වෙළඳ අමාත්‍ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන, රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන ශෂේන්ද්‍ර රාජපක්ෂ, අනුරාධ ජයරත්න, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මදුර විතානගේ හා හෙක්ටර් කොබ්බෑකඩුව මහතාගේ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයින්, ඥාතීන් හා සම්භාවනීය අමුත්තන් රැසක් එක්ව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/09/20)
The Imminent Requirement to Regulate Online Education Providers in Sri Lanka
Introduction “Disruptive innovation fundamentally transforms a sector by replacing expensive, complicated, and inaccessible products or services with much less expensive, simpler, and more convenient alternatives.” (Staker, P.1) (Source: https://twitter.com/kenradio/status/1203204477655769088) (Source: https://www.theengineeringcommunity.org/19-amazing-vintage-photos-that-show-how-people-worked-before-autocad/) (Photograph by John Miranda: Source: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/workstations.html) Let’s take a few examples of disruptive innovations; Within just a decade, an expensive helicopter, a pilot and a camera were replaced with an inexpensive drone, a single software reduced the requirements for many drafters to one,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා, 6 වැනි සංවත්සරය යෙදෙන කොළඹ වරාය නගර ව්‍යාපෘතියේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක් වෙයි
කොළඹ වරාය නගර ව්‍යාපෘතියේ 6 වැනි සංවත්සරය යෙදෙන අද 2020.09.17 දිනයේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එහි නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවට එක් විය. වරාය නගරයේ සැහැල්ලු යාත්‍රාංගනය, පොදු වෙරළ තීරය නිරීක්ෂණය කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා එහි ස්ථාපිත වන ඇක්වා ගෝල්ෆ් ක්‍රීඩා පිටියට පැමිණ ගොල්ෆ් ක්‍රීඩාවේ ද නිරත විය. අනතුරුව වරාය නගර මධ්‍ය උද්‍යානයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා විසින් මැයි මාර ගසක් රෝපණය කරන ලදී. ඉදිවෙමින් පවතින වරාය නගරයේ ආදර්ශ ආකෘතිය සහිත ප්‍රදර්ශනය පීඨයට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දැනට සිදුවන ව්‍යාපෘතියේ යටිතල පහසුකම් සංවර්ධනය වන ආකාරය ගැන විමසා සිටියේය. මෙහිදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙසේද කීය, ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ ඩිජිටල්කරණ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා එක්වෙයි
කොළඹ කොටස් හුවමාරුව සහ ශ්රී ලංකා සුරැකුම්පත් විනිමය කොමිෂන් සභාව එක්ව හඳුන්වා දෙන ලද ඩිජිටල්කරණය වූ කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ ජනගත කිරීමේ උත්සවය අද 2020.09.17 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් කොළඹ කොටස් හුවමාරු පරිශ්‍රයේදී පැවැත් විණි. ''අනාගතයට අධි පිම්මක් '' (Hyper leap to the future) යන තේමාව යටතේ සංවිධානය කර තිබූ මෙම සැමරුම් උත්සවය සඳහා එක්වුණු ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, ඩිජිටල්කරණය වූ කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් විය. මෙහිදී සමරු සටහනක් තැබූ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ හඳුන්වා දුන් නව වෙබ් අඩවිය අන්තර්ජාලයට මුදා හැරියේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
අලි මිනිස් ගැටුම සමතයකට පත් කරමු.
අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමක් කලක පටන් නිර්මාණයවී ඇත. එහි ආරම්භය කවදාදැයි අපි නොදනිමු. නමුත් ඒ සටනින් මිනිසා ජයගෙන අලින් අල්ලා මෙල්ලකරගෙන උන්ගෙන් වැඩ ගන්නා තත්වයට පත්ව සිටියහ. එදා අලින් අල්ලා මෙල්ලකර උන්ගෙන් වැඩගත් සමාජය අද උන්ට දුටු තැන වෙඩි තබන තත්වයට පත්ව ඇත. ඒ වර්තමානයේදී පවතින අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමේ ස්වරූපයයි. මේ තත්වය වෙනස්කල යුතුය.අලියාට අලියෙක් ලෙසත් මිනිසාට මිනිසෙක් ලෙසත් නිදහස්ව ජීවත්වීමේ වටපිටාවක් නිර්මාණය කල යුතුය. ඒ සඳහා අලි ගම්වැදීම නතර කොට කැලාවට සීමාකොට තැබිය යුතුය, මේ සඳහා ගම හා කැලෑව අතර ඇති මායිම දෙපාර්ශවයම හඳුනාගෙන කටයුතු කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලියක් නිමානය කිරීමට කාලය එළඹ ඇත. මේ මායිමෙන් මෙහාට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Trump on ABC News town hall: We will protect coverage for preexisting conditions
https://youtu.be/29mJJ4zFxcM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Coronavirus: The lost six weeks when US failed to contain outbreak
Having watched Asian and European countries struggle against Covid-19, the US was slow to ramp up testing and order its residents to stay at home. We look at this crucial time period and what exactly was done to prevent the outbreak. Produced by the BBC's Franz Strasser, narrated by Hannah Long-Higgins https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-52622037... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Street vendors’ survival instinct sees them through the pandemic
During the lockdown in Sri Lanka, the rich and the poor alike got their daily bread from the humble itinerant "choon paan" man Street vendors and hawkers are ubiquitous part of everyday business. The secret of their survival even under stressful conditions is that they are very adaptable to changing conditions. And they have been around for a long, long time, from the era of the ‘The Jataka’ and ‘The Panchatantra’. They are also part of the modern popular culture, being shown in cartoons, animation movies and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Court dismisses taxi driver’s bid to remove LTTE from Malaysia’s terrorist list
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — The Kuala Lumpur High Court today dismissed a taxi driver’s legal bid to delist the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist group in the country. Malaysiakini reported Justice Mariana Yahya issuing the ruling over V. Balamurugan’s judicial review application during proceedings this morning. Mariana had also ruled that Balamurugan had already been discharged and acquitted of an LTTE-linked court case, therefore the applicant no longer has the right or capacity to proceed with the judicial review. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
‘Angoda Lokka’ died of heart attack, India’s CB-CID says
The person alleged to be the fugitive gangster Maddumage Lasantha Chandana Perera alias ‘Angoda Lokka’ had died of heart attack in Coimbatore and no foul play was involved in his death, a senior officer of India’s CB-CID said on Wednesday based on the findings of the post-mortem, chemical examination and histopathology reports. https://youtu.be/XuQSIu76hTk K. Shankar, Inspector General of Police, CB-CID, told The Hindu the three reports did not have any finding related to unnatural death. “There was no finding of poisoning or other suspected aspects in the reports,” he said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
PCoI on Easter attacks warns Harin over impulsive behavior
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks warned MP Harin Fernando over the impulsive behavior displayed during his testimony at the commission. The former Sports Minster appeared before the Commission yesterday (16), to testify regarding the statement he made to the media that his father had pre-warned him of the Easter attacks. https://youtu.be/urZZxG_C67c Testifying at the Commission, Fernando said that his sister had called him when the first series of attacks happened on Easter Sunday last year, and told him that they were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
156th birth anniversary commemoration of Anagarika Dharmapala held under patronage of President
The 156th birth anniversary commemoration of Anagarika Dharmapala was held under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Mahabodhi Agrashravaka Maha Vihara in Maligakanda today (17). President was received by the Chairman of Mahabodhi Society and Chief Sanghanayaka of Japan Ven. Banagala Upatissa Thero at the venue. https://youtu.be/o7l85rUePD8 After paying floral tribute to the memorial of Anagarika Dharmapala, President Rajapaksa planted a sapling of Rath Handun to mark the launch of “Suwa Dharani”, the traditional medicine preservation project by the Ministry of Promotion of Indigenous Medicine. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Sri Lanka progressed in human capital gains but can accelerate with better nutrition and learning outcomes - World Bank
The World Bank Group’s 2020 Human Capital Index, released today, finds that a child born in Sri Lanka today will be 60 percent as productive when she grows up as compared to if she enjoyed complete education and full health. This is higher than the average for South Asia region and lower middle-income countries. Investments in human capital—the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate over their lives—are key to unlocking a child’s potential and to improving economic growth in every country. “In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, investing in people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Attempt to claim property of Easter Sunday suicide bomber - 05 suspects including a lawyer remanded
05 suspects including a lawyer arrested by CID for forging documents to claim a property of one Easter Sunday suicide bomber, remanded until September 28... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Captain of the New Diamond ship made no attempt to extinguish the fire - AG's dept
The captain of the M.T. New Diamond ship was issued a notice to appear before the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court on the 28th. This was when the CID made submissions before Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage. The Attorney General had instructed the CID to name the captain of the ship as a suspect and produce him before a Magistrate's Court yesterday. Accordingly, the Attorney General's Department presented information in this regard in court today. Deputy Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris stated that the captain... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Three (03) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,274.
One arrival from Qatar, one from UAE & one from Madagascar tested positive for Covid-19 raising the total in Sri Lanka to 3,274.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/09/20)
Constitution Reforms
The 19th A is being replaced by the 20th A and a new constitution is being planned. A Committee has been appointed for the drafting of a new constitution comprising some of the leading intellectuals in the country. That would be the fourth new constitution for the country since independence. And there had been 19 amendments too. It is interesting to ponder why the country could not draft a constitution that could last at least 25 years without radical changes. Almost all the amendments had been radical. 13th A had introduced some almost federal features.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C 8
Why did the two JVP uprisings happen precisely in 1971 and 1987, asked Nira Wickremasinghe. The answer is that they were both linked to the Eelam war. Rohan Gunaratna observed that JVP insurgency and the Eelam Wars both started around the same time. The first JVP insurgency started in the south in 1971 and violence in the north started in 1972. The second JVP insurgency of 1987-89 ran parallel to Eelam War 2. The timing of the second JVP insurrection was significant. 1987 was the year of the Vadamarachchi campaign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
අපට විද්‍යාත්මක චින්තනය ඉගැන්වූ කේ ආරියසිංහ ගුරුතුමා
විද්‍යාව ඉගැන්වූ දක්‍ෂ ගුරුවරු තිදෙනෙක් මුණ ගැසීමට සහ ඔවුන් ගෙන් ඉගෙනුම ලැබීමට මට භාග්‍ය ලැබුණි. පිළිවෙලින් ජී .ගෞතමදාස , පී.ඩී.ඩබ් ජයවර්ධන සහ කේ ආරියසිංහ යන මහතුන් මෙසේ නම් කල හැකිය. කේ. ආරියසිංහ මහතා අපට විද්‍යාව ඉගැන්වූයේ ප්‍රගති විද්‍යායතනයේය. එතුමාගෙන් ඉගෙනුම ලැබූ දහසක් වූ වෛද්‍යවරු ඉන්ජිනේරුවරු සහ විවිධ විශේසඥයෝ අද ලෝකය පුරා තම සේවය ප්‍රජාවට ලබා දෙති. කේ. ආරියසිංහ මහතා අපට දුන්නේ විද්‍යා දැණුම පමණක් නොවේ. විද්‍යාත්මක චින්තනයටද ආරියසිංහ මහතා අපව හුරු කලේය. එතුමාගේ පන්ති වලදී බොහෝ විට සිසුන්ට පත්‍රිකා ලැබුනු අතර එහි විවිධ ප්‍රශ්න තිබුනේය. මේ ප්‍රශ්න සාමාන්‍ය ජීවිතයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
දේශීය හස්ත කර්මාන්තය වඩාත් ප්‍රචලිත කිරීමට රටක් ලෙස ඒවා පරිහරණය කළ යුතුයි- ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා.
දේශීය හස්ත කර්මාන්තය වඩාත් ප්‍රචලිත කිරීමට නම් එම නිෂ්පාදන අලෙවි කිරීම මෙන්ම, රටක් ලෙස ඒවා පරිහරණය කළ යුතුව ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.16 දින පැවැසීය. වේවැල්, පිත්තල, මැටි, ලී බඩු සහ ග්‍රාමීය කර්මාන්ත ප්‍රවර්ධන අමාත්‍යංශය, ජාතික ශිල්ප සභාව, එක්ව ශ්රී ලංකා ඉඩම් සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ සංස්ථාවේ සහයෝගයෙන් සංවිධානය කළ “SHILPA THURSDAY“ විශේෂ හස්ත කර්මාන්ත අලෙවි ප්‍රදර්ශනය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. “SHILPA THURSDAY“ අලෙවි ප්‍රදර්ශනය සෑම බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා දිනකම බත්තරමුල්ල, දියත උයන පරිශ්‍රයේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතය. ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ පවතින ගැටලු හා සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙතෝදිස්ත සභාවේ පූජක පියතුමන්ලා හා රජයේ නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හමුවෙති
නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ පවතින ගැටලු හා සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙතෝදිස්ත සභාවේ පූජක පියතුමන්ලා හා රජයේ නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක්අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ අද (2020.09.16) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වූහ. නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ තිරුක්කෝවිල්, කල්මුණේ, අම්පාර යනාදී ප්‍රදේශයන් හි පාසල්, නිවාස, රෝහල්, ගමනාගමනය, අධ්‍යාපන යන ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් හි පවතින ගැටළු සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කෙරිණි. අම්පාර නගර සංවර්ධනය, ඇඟළුම් හා වෙනත් කර්මාන්තශාලා සහිත කාර්මික පුරයක් ඇති කිරීම, පසුගිය කාලයේ නැවතී ඇති ගමනාන්ත දක්වා නව බස්රථ සේවාවන් ආරම්භ කිරීම, දේවස්ථාන නියාමනයක් සහිතව ගොඩනැගීම, කිතුණු ආගමික ගුරු පුරප්පාඩු පිරවීම හා දරුවන් කිතුනු පාසල්වලට ඇතුළත් කිරීමේදී ඇති වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Research should be focused to resolve issues affecting the general public. - State Minister Dr. (Mrs.) Seetha Arambepola.
Dr. (Mrs.) Seetha Arambepola , State Minister of Skill Development, Vocational Education, Research and Innovations stated that scientific research should be carried out identifying the issues encountered by the general public and aimed at resolving such issues The Hon. Minister expressed these views recently during an observation visit she paid to the Industrial Technology Institute at Malabe. She paid special attention to the ongoing research and value added products being developed by the institution, employing latest research technologies and inaugurated the construction of the final... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
ජනතාවට බලපාන ගැටළු හඳුනාගනිමින් ඒවාට විසඳුම් සෙවීමට පර්යේෂණ සිදුකළ යුතුයි. - රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිනී සීතා අරඹේපොල
ජනතාවට බලපාන ගැටළු හඳුනාගනිමින් ඒවාට විසඳුම් සෙවීමට විද්‍යාත්මක පර්යේෂණ සිදුකළ යුතු බව නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිනී සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය පැවසුවා ය. අමාත්‍යවරිය මේ බව පැවසූවේ පසුගිය දින මාළඹේ කාර්මික තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක්වෙමිනි. මෙම නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවේ දී එම ආයතනය තුළ සිදු කෙරෙන පර්යේෂණ කටයුතු හා නව පර්යේෂණ දැනුම තුළින් නිර්මාණය කරන ලද අගය එකතු කළ නිෂ්පාදන අමාත්‍යතුමියගේ විශේෂ අවධානයට යොමු වූ අතර, පර්යේෂණ සංකීර්ණයේ ස්ථාපනය කෙරෙන චීන ශ්රී ලංකා ඒකාබද්ධ ජෛව තාක්ෂණ විද්‍යාගාර ව්‍යාපෘතිය යටතේ, නිර්මාණය වන ශාකසාර ඹෟෂධ නිෂ්පාදන පර්යේණාගාරයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
ගව ඝාතනය නැවැත්වීමට රජයෙන් සම්මත කෙරුණු යෝජනාව බලගන්වමු.
සියලූ වෘත්තීයමය හා සිවිල් සංවිධාන වෙත, පූජ්‍ය ස්වාමීන් වහන්ස, ගරු පූජකතුමනි, මහතාණෙනි, මහත්මියනි,ගව ඝාතනය නැවැත්වීමට රජයෙන් සම්මත කෙරුණු යෝජනාව බලගන්වමු. මේ මස 8 දින ආණ්ඩුපක‍ෂ මන්තී්‍ර කණ්ඩායම විසින් මේ රටේ ගව ඝාතනය සපුරා නැවැත්වීම සඳහා ගන්නා ලද ඒකමතික තීරණය සදාචාර ගරුක හා යුක්තිධමය අගයන සියලූ දෙනාගේ ම අමන්දානන්දයට හේතුවන්නක් බව අමුතුවෙන් කිවයුත්තක් නොවේ. අනගාරික ධමපාලතුමන්, අතිපූජ්‍ය මඩිහේ පඤ්ඤාසීහ මහනාහිමියන් ඇතුළු ගිහි පැවිදි උතුමන් විසින් දසක ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ සිදුකරන ලද මහා අරගලයෙහි ජයග්‍රාහී ප්‍රතිඵලය ඒකාන්තයෙන් ම ලැඛෙන බවට, ඉහත සඳහන් තීරණය සුභදායී පෙරනිමිත්තක් බව ද නිගමනය කළ හැකිය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
India and Sri Lanka discuss skills development
Training the trainers was a key aspect of the talks between the Indian envoy and the Lankan State Minister of Skills Development. Colombo, September 16 (Indian High Commission): The High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay on Tuesday met the State Minister of Skills Development Dr. Seetha Arambepola, to discuss ways to deepen partnership between the two neighboring countries in areas such as capacity building and skill development. Discussions were hinged on aspects such as training of trainers in vocational institutes in Sri Lanka, strengthening infrastructural capabilities of these institutes and generating interest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Those who commemorate terrorists should be given maximum punishment: Terrorism expert Dr.Rohan Gunaratna
He was commenting on former MP M.K. Shivajilingam’s commemorating the 33 rd anniversary of the fast-unto-death undertaken by Thileepan, a member of LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s inner circle Colombo, September 16 (newsin.asia): Dr.Rohan Gunaratna, an international expert on terrorism who is now Honorary Professor at the Sir John Kotelawala Defense University, Sri Lanka, has called for the arrest and trial of pro-LTTE Tamil leader and former MP, M.K.Shivajilingam and others who glorify terrorists. “They should be given the maximum punishment to deter others from following their destructive path,” he told... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Committee to probe SLMC
Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi has appointed a five-member committee to look into the activities of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC). The five-member committee comprises Specialist Dr. Hemantha Perera, former Dean of the Ragama Medical Faculty Professor Prishantha Wijesinghe, Specialist Dr. Anula Wijesundera, Specialist Dr. Maithree Chandraratne and Specialist Dr. Darshana Sirisena. They have been advised to compile an independent report and present it to the Minister, with the latter looking to overhaul the SLMC shortly afterwards. Speaking after appointing the committee, Wanniarachchi said, “The SLMC is an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Govt took swift steps for economic recovery: Ajith Nivard Cabraal
The present Government took three immediate steps to restore the economy which had been destroyed by the previous Government, and took steps to stabilize the rupee, reduce all taxes and reduce interest rates on bank loans, the Minister of State for Finance, Capital Markets and Public Enterprise Restructuring, Ajith Nivard Cabraal stated. He stated this addressing the investors' pavilion organized by Softlogic today (16). The Minister further said that the present Government took these swift actions after coming to power in 2019, and despite the strong criticism in this regard, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Stricken tanker's captain to face charges in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka will file negligence and pollution charges against the Greek skipper of an oil tanker that leaked fuel off the island nation's coast after a week-long fire, authorities said Wednesday. Some of the 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil aboard the New Diamond poured into the Indian Ocean, prompting a large effort to contain a slick that was roughly two kilometres (1.2 miles) in length. Its 270,000-tonne cargo of crude oil was unaffected by the fire. "There is sufficient evidence to prosecute the skipper under the marine pollution act... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Former SIS Director blames his superiors for not acting on intelligence conveyed to them
The State Intelligence Service (SIS) had not been aware that National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) had direct links to the ISIS, by the time it received information from a foreign source warning of a possible terrorist attack on April 09, 2019, former SIS Director SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena yesterday told the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. SDIG Jayawardena made this statement while being cross-examined by Anura Meddegoda, PC, who appeared for former IGP Pujith Jayasundara. However, the SIS had found that the NTJ had the intention to carry out a terrorist attack and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Complete 100,000 kms of road development project by 2024: President tells officials
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the officials to complete the national programme to develop 100,000 kilometres of roads by 2024, the President's Media Division said. Speaking at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat to discuss the future plans of the State Ministry of Rural Roads and other Infrastructure Development, President Rajapaksa yesterday said each citizen has a right to obtain easy and comfortable access to roads. He also said the programme to develop roads should be done without harming the environment.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Fmr. SIS Director refutes Maithri’s claims
Former Director of State Intelligence Service (SIS) SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena today rejected claims made by former President Maithripala Sirisena for not informing the National Security Council (NSC) that Zahran Hashim was a terrorist and a threat to the country's security. SDIG Jayawardena made this remarks while responding to a question raised by Shamil Perera PC who appeared for Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith during the cross-examination. In an interview conducted by a leading TV channel, former President Sirisena said that he was only told of Zahran Hashim as an extremist and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Sri Lanka dismisses UN rights chief’s comments on 20A as unwarranted, pre-judgemental
Sri Lanka says the comments of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on the proposed 20th Amendment are unwarranted and pre-judgmental, based on presumption. https://youtu.be/WTQckbsfPnI This was highlighted in the statement delivered by Sri Lanka’s Acting Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Dayani Mendis during the General Debate under Agenda Item 2 at the 45th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (15). The High Commissioner on Monday (14) said the proposed 20th amendment to the Constitution may negatively impact on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
AG submits Rs 340 million interim claim to lawyers of ‘MT New Diamond’ owners
The Attorney General has submitted an interim claim of Rs 340 million to the lawyers representing the owners of the ‘MT New Diamond’ oil tanker, for the costs incurred by the Sri Lankan government in the assistance rendered to the ship and other related matters. The AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne stated that the claim was presented today (16) in writing seeking compensation for the costs related to the assistance rendered by all parties including the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN), Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF), Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), Colombo Dockyard... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
තරුණ අරගලයේ අමිහිරි මතකය...
1971 අප්‍රේල් කැරැල්ල ගැන සඳහන් කරන විට ප්‍රේමවතී මනම්පේරි නාමය ද නිතැතින්ම කියැවෙන්නේ, ඇය හමුදා ප්‍රධානියෙකුගේ අණ පරිදි නිරුවත්කොට, මහමග ඇවිද්දවා ඉතාමත් කෲර අන්දමින් වෙඩි තබා ඝාතනය කිරීම නිසාය. 1970 වර්ෂයේ කතරගම අවුරුදු කුමරිය වශයෙන් අභිෂේක ලබා සිටි ප්‍රේමවතී මනම්පේරි මෙනෙවිය ඝාතනය කර දැනට වසර 47 ක් ගතවී ඇතත් එම සිදුවීම අදත් ජනතාවගේ සිත්වලින් බැහැරව නැත. කතරගම වන සත්ව දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ මුරකරුවකු වශයෙන් සේවය කළ හෙන්ද්‍රික් අප්පුහාමිගේ හා ලීලාවතී ඔබේසිංහ යන අයගේ වැඩිමහල් දියණිය වූ ප්‍රේමවතී මනම්පේරි ඝාතනයට ලක්වන විට 22 වැනි වියේ පසුවූවාය. කතරගම විද්‍යාලයේ දීප්තිමත් සිසුවියක වූ ඇය,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
Will Moragoda deliver a ‘Sri Lanka First’?
With much thought and strategy Sri Lanka has appointed Moragoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Delhi iced with cabinet ranking, the first such fringe benefit afforded to a high commissioner. No doubt, Sri Lanka is thinking the Moragoda magic will provide much relief to Sri Lanka, given the appointment is being made against tremendous objections. So what will Sri Lanka be expecting from Moragoda · Will Moragoda be able to subdue America’s bullying of Sri Lanka in Geneva and shut the trap of the UNHRC Head who is following her predecessors issuing statements on Sri Lanka’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/09/20)
A Reply to Harsha de Silva
It is strange to see the present ragtags-the remnants of the former Yahapalanaya who ridiculed democracy, and devastated the country politically,economically, and socially for four and half years, now thundering in the parliament and out side about a disappearing democracy they in fact seem to know nothing about. Among the remnants of the Yahapalanaya now in the opposition are some who are supposed to be educated. But the question is, are they wise. Wisdom is not what you put inside as knowledge, but what comes out from that accumulated knowledge. But these yahapalanaya... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Wigneswaran up against a wall of scholarly opposition
It seems to me that the former NPC CM and present Jaffna District MP octagenarian C.V. Wigneswaran has taken to dispensing racist hatred in order to wipe out the Sinhalese race as a pest. It is funny, but regrettable that he indulges himself in this sort of thing. But since the Sinhalese are not what he pretends them to be, his blasts of unprovoked hate will only irk them a bit, but will certainly fail to cause them any harm if sense and sanity prevail. All his anti-Sinhalese Buddhist assertions that are made without... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
රජයේ දැඩි හා ක්සනික අවධානය යොමුවියයුතු කරුණු කීපයක්
15.9.2020 1 පරාජිත මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් නිල නිවාසවලින් ඉවත්ව නොයාම 2 අපරාධකරුවන්ට මැතිසභයට එන්ට අවසර දීම 3 මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් ඇතුළු කිසිම කෙනෙකුට තීරුබදු රහිත වාහන ලබා දීමට අවසර නොදීම 1 පරාජිත මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් නිල නිවාසවලින් ඉවත්ව නොයාම මෙම ප්‍රශ්නය ඉතා දිගුකලක් තිස්සේ ඇදෙන කරුණකි. මේ මිනිසු නේද රටේ නීති හදන්ට චන්දදායකයින් විසින් උත්තරීතරයයි කියන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට යවල තියෙන්නේ.මොවුන් හැසිරෙන්නේ ඉන්ට හිටින්ට තැනක් නැති පාර්ලිමේතුවට එන්ත ඉස්සර පාරේ හිටපු හිගන්නෝ වගේ. ඉතින් මේ අය ඔය මහ සභාවේදී නීති හැදුවේ කාගේ යහපතටද කියලා දැන් අපට හිතාගන්ට පුලුවන්. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ ඉන්න කාලෙට නිල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Ontario Bill 104 2019 for creation of “ Tamil Genocide Education Week” Leading Upto 18th May Annually
Dear Members of Ontario Parliament, I write to you as a contributor to a webinar on 16/8/20 organised by the " Ontario Centre for Policy Research" on the alleged Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka and the Mullivaikal Massacre, that has formed the basis of the above bill. Mullivaikal in Mulativu Sri Lanka , is where the final battles that laid to rest three decades of brutal terrorism in SL were fought in May 2019. In these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
The Power Game
The Power fiasco is not over yet. Listening to the utterances by State Ministers over the Television it is clear that they have been outsmarted. Perhaps an old Paper of mine published sometime back will provide details for the State Ministers to arm themselves for the next bout.. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2020/02/01/the-power-game-small-hydro-and-wind-power-to-our-rescue/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
HOW TO DETERMINE THE SECURITY THREAT TO INDIA?
The security threat to India is a quite complicated archetype and many people confuse with the term the security threat to India. The major reason people get confused about the nature of the threat is specifically delineated and people have a feeling it like a groping in the dark. Since Indian independence in 1947 Indian bureaucrats manipulated and accused any support to surrounding countries from China as a security threat to India which accused Chinese aided projects in Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. There has not been logic in the manipulation. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
PAKISTAN: Blasphemy as Pretext
On September 8, 2020, a Sessions Court in Lahore, Punjab, sentenced a Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, to death, after convicting him of sending text messages containing “blasphemous content”. The court order issued by Additional Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmad Qureshi said Pervaiz would first serve a three-year prison term for “misusing” his phone to send the derogatory text message. Then “he shall be hanged by his neck till his death.” He was also fined PKR 50,000. Asif Pervaiz has been in custody since 2013, fighting blasphemy charges... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 17 C7
The two JVP insurgencies of 1971 and 1987 have not been looked at deeply or analytically. Commentators have concentrated on describing what the JVP did, not why they did it. Commentators treat the JVP with great indulgence, calling the JVP an idealistic, romantic youth movement. Dharman Wickremaratne said that, as a working journalist, he had associated with many JVPers. They had a broad vision, much energy and strong voices, he said. Neville Jayaweera and S. Nadesan were also sympathetic. These commentators have only looked at the JVP student and youth base, observed analysts.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නා මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම්කරුවන් විසින් නීති විරෝධීව උපයා ගන්නා ලද දේපල හා මුදල් රජය භාරයට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සාකච්ඡාවක්
මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම් ඇතුළු නීති විරෝධීව එක් රැස් කර ගත් මුදල් සම්බන්ධව ඉදිරි කටයුතු කිරීම පිළිබඳව නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ශ්රී ලංකා පොලීසිය සහ අනෙකුත් අදාළ රාජ්‍ය ආයතනවල උසස් නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා සමඟ 2020.09.14 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වූහ. නීති විරෝධී ලෙස උපයා ගත් මුදල්, රථ වාහන, ඉඩම්, නිවාස, ගොඩනැගිලි, යනාදියට අදාළ පුද්ගලයන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන රිමාන්ඩ් බන්ධනාගාර ගත කිරීමෙන් පසුව ද නඩු විභාගය අවසන් කර දේපල රාජ සන්තක කරන තෙක් ඒවා ඔවුන් විසින්ම භුක්ති විදීම හා ඒවායෙන් මුදල් ඉපයීමත්, එම මුදල් හා දේපල තවරදුටත් නීති විරෝධී අරමුණු සඳහා යෙදවීම වැළැක්වීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
20 වෙනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය අධ්‍යයනයට පත් කළ කමිටුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට වාර්තාව භාර දෙයි
20 වෙනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය අධ්‍යයනය කිරීමට පත් කළ කමිටුව විසින් අදාළ වාර්තාව අද 2020.09.15 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට භාර දෙන ලදී. කැබිනට් අමාත්‍යවරුන්, රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් හා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් අදාළ කමිටුවේ සභාපතිත්වය දරනු ලැබුවේ කැබිනට් අමාත්‍ය මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතාය. විසි වෙනි සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කළ අධ්‍යයනයේදී හඳුනාගත් අලුතින් එක් කළ යුතු හා සංශෝධනය කළ යුතු කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදාළ කමිටු සාමාජිකයන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දැනුවත් කළේය. 20 වෙනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධ්‍යයනය කිරීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙම කමිටුව පසුගිය දා පත් කර තිබිණි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
දරුවන් 46 දෙනෙකු සමඟ සිරගතව සිටින මව්වරුන් පිළිබඳ වාර්තාව අග්‍රමාත්‍යතුමාට භාර දෙයි
සිරකරු සුභසාධක දිනය වෙනුවෙන් නිකුත් කරන සමරු කොඩිය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට පැළඳවීම අද 2020.09.15 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. ජනාධිපති විශේෂ ව්‍යාපෘති අධ්‍යක්ෂ සිරකරු සුභ සාධක සංගමයේ හිටපු උප සභාපති, හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ආර්.ඒ.ඩී. සිරිසේන මහතා, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට සමරු කොඩිය පැළඳුවේය. කොඩි අලෙවි කිරීමෙන් ලැබෙන මුදල් සෘජුවම සිරකරු සුභ සාධනය වෙනුවෙන් වැය කිරීමට නියමිතය. ජාතික පුවත්පතක පළ වූ, මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම් ඇතුළු විවිධ අපරාධ සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා ලැබ දරුවන් 46 දෙනෙකු සමඟ සිරගතව සිටින මව්වරුන් පිළිබඳ වාර්තාව බන්ධනාගාර ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ හා සිරකරුවන් පුනරුත්ථාපනය පිළිබඳ රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිනී සුදර්ශනී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනයේ 14 වැනි බෞද්ධ සාහිත්‍ය උත්සවයට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා එක්වෙයි
සමස්ත ලංකා බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනය 14 වැනි වරටත් සංවිධානය කළ බෞද්ධ සාහිත්‍ය උත්සවය සඳහා අද 2020.09.15 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එක්විය. බුද්ධ ශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශය හා එක්ව සංවිධානය කළ, මෙම බෞද්ධ සාහිත්‍ය උත්සවය කොළඹ 07, බෞද්ධ සම්මේලන ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පරිවර්තන, පර්යේෂණ, නව ප්‍රබන්ධ, ගී කාව්‍ය නිර්මාණ, ශාස්ත්‍රීය පරිවර්තන, ළමා සාහිත්‍ය, ජනශ්‍රැති පර්යේෂණ ඇතුළු බෞද්ධ සාහිත්‍ය ඔපවත් කරන කෘතීන් උදෙසා මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අතින් සම්මාන හා ත්‍යාග ප්‍රදානය කෙරිණි. බෞද්ධ මහා සම්මේලනයේ හිටපු ජ්‍යේෂ්ඨ සභාපති, මහාචාර්ය ගුණපාල මලලසේකර, බිතු සිතුවම් ශිල්පී සෝලියස් මෙන්දිස් සහ බ්‍රහ්මචාරී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
The many reasons behind SLPP’s decision to revisit the draft 20th Amendment
Colombo, September 14: The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP) decision to revisit the draft 20thAmendment (20A) to the Constitution follows multiple dissensions over it both within the party and its alliance. Although the draft 20A was cleared by the Cabinet without objections and was even published in the gazette, the moment it came to the public domain, it ran into very rough weather inside the SLPP, the SLPP-lead alliance, the Opposition and the media. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Sino-Lankan relationship is a strategic partnership not limited to economic development, says China’s Acting Ambassador
China never forces Sri Lanka to choose sides and is happy with the latter’s friendship with its neighbors, Hu Wei told Kelum Bandara of Daily Mirror. By Kelum Bandara/Daily Mirror Colombo, September 14: The Acting Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Hu Wei, spoke to Daily Mirror about the present status of bilateral relations between China and Sri Lanka and responded to questions about controversial issues relating to China’s relations with the US and India. Here are Excerpts: *How do you analyze the present status of Sino-Lankan bilateral relations? ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Sri Lankan Diplomatic Missions Abroad
A major overhaul of Sri Lanka’s diplomatic service is well overdue. The new Government aims to re-organise and make significant changes in overseas diplomatic missions abroad. According to news Media in the Sunday newspapers, the reorganisation will come into effect within a month. Those diplomats who had been in service for too long, and who are over sixty years of age, and be over the age of sixty on 4 October 2020 will have to get back. It should also include minor staff (such as handymen, drivers and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Tamil and Sinhala-Buddhist Unity: Cow Slaughter Ban
It’s high time we made use of the power of intelligence, gifted by God and discard fake concepts of political deception and obfuscations of scriptural texts, rooted, consecutively, in communal violence and religious racism. The Tamil voters, in the void of destructive racist politics and power-greedy opportunism, must understand that their peace and prosperity is a possibility, in the main, with the unity of the Sinhala Buddhist absolute majority. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, with the blessings of the President of Sri Lanka has courageously pioneered the initiative... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Sri Lanka’s trade deficit narrows in July 2020 as imports decline and exports rise
September, 15, 2020 According to the latest external trade data released by the Central Bank, country’s trade deficit narrowed in July 2020, with a more than expected rebound in merchandise exports and notable reduction in merchandise imports. Sri Lanka’s external sector recovered further in July 2020 supported by an increase in merchandise exports and increased workers’ remittances amidst reduced merchandise imports. Several notable achievements were observed in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earnings from merchandise exports surpassed US$ 1 billion in July for the first time since January 2020... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Sri Lanka has potential to become one of world’s leading maritime hubs – President
Sri Lanka can use its unique locational advantage to become one of the world’s leading maritime hubs, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today (15). He pointed out that development goals could be achieved speedily by developing the ports in the country while emulating the world’s most advanced ports as examples. The President emphasized the need to develop the country’s ports to a higher level that would make them capable of attracting world’s largest cargo ships each with a capacity of 24,000 containers. He made these remarks during a discussion held at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Six more arrivals test positive for COVID-19
The total number of positive COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country reached 3,271 as six more arrivals tested positive for the virus today (15). In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 3,016 as 11 persons infected with the virus were discharged from hospitals upon recovery. The Epidemiology Unit says that 242 active cases are currently under medical care. Sri Lanka has thus far witnessed 13 deaths due to the virus outbreak.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Former intel. chiefs reveal national security flaws at PCoI on Easter attacks
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday Attacks, heard evidence on Monday (14) from two former intelligence service chiefs – Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena and Retired DIG Sisira Mendis – who exposed a lack of responsibility and leadership in the country’s national security establishment. During their individual testimonies, the subject of whose responsibility it was to take up the foreign intelligence warning of an imminent attack and the intelligence coordination meetings chaired by the Defence Secretary were disputed by both parties. Testifying before the PCoI on Easter Sunday terror... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Committee appointed on 20th amendment hands over report to PM
The committee appointed to study and review the draft bill of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution handed over its report to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees today (15). The nine-member committee comprised of Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers and MPs is chaired by Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris. The committee members briefed the Prime Minister on what needs to be added and amended, as identified by them during the review of the draft bill, the PM’s Office said. PM Rajapaksa recently appointed the committee... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
Ruwan wins the vote to succeed Ranil
When the Working Committee of the UNP met yesterday at Siri Kotha to decide who will succeed the Leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the voting was decisive: 28 voted for Ruwan Wijewardene and 10 voted for Ravi Karunanayake, according to informed Party sources. It was a secret ballot. Shamal Senarath prepared the ballot papers. After the count Ranil did not declare the results officially. The meeting began around 4.p.m with the Working Committee targeting the 20 A. It was after that the issue of the next leadership came up. Ranil began by saying that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/09/20)
A Story from Coffee. Ideas for our economic revival.
The other day, locked down in Sri Lanka because of the Corona, I ran out of the Starbucks Coffee I had brought with me. Being a coffee connoisseur, the tastes of Island, Hariischandra and Wijeya Coffee did not satisfy me. I have yet to find Soul Coffee. They are all the same- the same taste as half a century ago. They were all pure coffee, not blended to different tastes. I went to Coffe Bean, the leading coffee maker in Colombo that has a countless number of coffee outlets in Colombo .... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
People mandated to a new constitution, which must ensure Security, Safety, Law & Order, & Development:Please empower president with full executive powers without delay. -Public
Almost 41 years ago the first president of this country who had a long nose introduced a constitution which he boasted himself that he is capable to do anything in his power as the president, except converting man to a woman and women to man. he belong to present day demised UNP political wing of Sri Lanka. People well aware the person in the above description. In those days there was a political analysis from well respected politicians of this country.They request not to appoint the above personal to take power of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
MCC – A Crime like no other!
14 Sep 2020 What is the use of all the sacrifices people have been asked to go through and are making if the likes of MCC come to pass. People will be made vassals in their own country. The nation is being encouraged to save, to grow, to be more self-reliant, to be more disciplined. All these for whose gain? Can the authorities be more honest with the people and let them know the specific advantages and benefits they will receive in the event MCC and the sister agreements come into... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
The Baseless & Diabolical Claim Of Tamil Genocide In Sri Lanka It’s Genesis and The Way to Eliminate It-A New Zealand Perspective-Webinar 16.8.20
The about 10% Tamil minority in Sri Lanka were the privileged minority of one hundred and fifty years of “Divide and Rule” British Colonial administration, while the about 75% Sinhalese majority were the oppressed and disadvantaged majority, as they posed the greatest threat to the colonial administration. Thus at independence, nearly 90%of Engineers and Surveyors and 60% of doctors, and a vast majority of the civilian administration were from the 10% Tamil minority. The first Sri Lankan to act as head of state in post independence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඉතාලියේ තානාපතිනිය සහ ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක්
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඉතාලි තානාපතිනි රීටා ජුලියානා මැනෙල්ලා මහත්මිය අද 2020.09.14 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමුවූවාය. ඉතාලිය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර සහයෝගයෙන් කටයුතු කළ හැකි ක්ෂේත්‍ර ගණනාවක් පිළිබඳව දෙරටේ නියෝජිතයෝ මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කළහ. ඉතාලි රජය මේ වන විටත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ග්‍රාමීය සංවර්ධන හා කෘෂිකාර්මික ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා ආධාර ලබා දී ඇති නමුත් ආහාර සැකසීම, ජලජීවී වගාව සහ පාරිසරික සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය ඇතුළු විශේෂ ක්ෂේත්‍ර කිහිපයක් ඔස්සේ අනාගත සහයෝගීතාව වර්ධනය කිරීමට උනන්දුවක් දක්වයි. ඉතාලියේ සමාගම් රැසක් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සංචාරක ආශ්‍රිත ආයෝජන කෙරෙහි වැඩි උනන්දුවක් දක්වන බව තානාපතිනි ජුලියානා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී දින පණිවිඩය
“ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී දිනය ලෝකයේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ තත්ත්වය සමාලෝචනය කිරීමට අවස්ථාවක් සපයයි.” ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සුරක්ෂිත කළ රටක අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී දිනයට සමගාමීව පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කිරීමට ලැබීම පිළිබඳව මම ප්‍රථමයෙන් සතුටට පත් වෙමි. ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ශක්තිමත් කිරීම හා තහවුරු කිරීම සඳහා ලොව රටවල් දිරිමත් කරමින් 2007 දී එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩලය සෑම වරසකම සැප්තැම්බර් 15 වන දා ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී දිනය ලෙස නම් කළේය. වත්මන් මිනිස් සමාජය තුළ සියල්ලෝම තම ප්‍රජානත්ත්‍රවාදී අයිතිවාසිකම් තහවුරු විය යුතු බව විශ්වාස කරති. ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිතය, නිදහස හා සතුට ලැබීමේ අයිතිය රැකදීම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ පරමාර්ථය විය යුතු බව අපි විශ්වාස කරමු. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
With a ministry of its own now, Sri Lanka’s Batik industry is poised for growth
B.A.Hussainmiya suggests integration of the dispersed cottage industry to enable it to grow both stylistically and economically. Colombo, September 14 (newsin.asia): In the latest round of Ministerial appointments made by the new Gotabaya Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka, the Batik industry has been given an elevated status. For the first time, it has been bought under a separate State Ministry. This is meant to encourage improvements in the Batik industry. Accordingly, several plans are afoot and programs are underway to make it a national level industry to appeal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Crushing LTTE: Gotabaya’s armed forces shape up
The inspiring story of the Sri Lankan armed forces' make over done by Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa is told in a gripping way by the current Defense Secretary Maj.Gen.(Rtd) Kamal Gunaratne. Colombo, September 14: In 2005, when Gotabaya Rajapaksa took over as Sri Lanka’s Defense Secretary at the request of the newly elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the country’s armed forces were in a depleted, ill-equipped and dispirited state. They were being outwitted and outmaneuvered by the intrepid and innovative LTTE. The Lankan Army, Navy and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Will study 20A in depth before making recommendations: Minister Peiris
The committee chaired by Minister of Education Professor G. L. Peiris which was appointed to look into the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, will study it in depth before making recommendations, Minister Peiris today said. Cabinet ministers Udaya Gammanpila, Ali Sabry, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Wimal Weerawansa and State Ministers Susil Premajayantha, S. Viyalendran and MPs Dilan Perera and Premanath C. Dolawatte were appointed as the committee members by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Speaking at a news briefing today, Minister Professor Peiris said the government was open to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Ranil to continue as UNP Leader till early Jan.
Ranil Wickremesinghe will continue as the leader of the United National Party at least till early January despite his earlier announcement that he is ready to resign and appoint a new leader, senior party sources told Daily Mirror yesterday just after a secret ballot elected former Gampaha District MP Ruwan Wijewardene as the UNP's new Deputy Leader. Ruwan Wijewardene contested for the post with Ravi Karunanayake, and he won through the secret ballet with 28-10 votes. Sources said the deputy leader will now be prepared by Wickremesinghe and other senior... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Ruwan Wijewardene elected UNP Deputy Leader
Former MP Ruwan Wijewardene has been elected as the Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP). https://youtu.be/fr4btgIjuGg He was reportedly elected to the position following a secret ballot held during the UNP’s Working Committee meeting today (14). Former Minister and UNP Vice Leader Ravi Karunanayake had also contested for the position. Former State Minister Ruwan Wijewardene had obtained 28 votes while Karunanayake had received 10 votes. Wijewardene had previously held the position of Deputy General Secretary in the UNP. The position... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
President instructs to implement plans to meet domestic liquid milk demand
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed officials to implement a short-term and long-term plan in collaboration with the public, private sectors and small-scale farmers to meet the local demand for liquid milk. The President stressed the need to improve grass cultivation, dairy cow breeding and research institute services in order to achieve the set targets expeditiously. https://youtu.be/GWcEs2D8n4g President Rajapaksa made these remarks during a discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat today (14) on the future activities of the State Ministry of Livestock Farm Promotion and Dairy and Egg Related... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Covid-19: nine new cases brings total to 3,262
Nine more novel coronavirus cases have been identified increasing the total number of confirmed cases reported in the country thus far to 3,262. According to the Govt. Information Department, five passengers who arrived from United Arab Emirates (UAE) and another four arrivals from Bangladesh tested positive for Covid-19. Accordingly, 28 new cases have been confirmed so far today (14). 244 patients infected with the virus are currently being treated at hospitals while the total number of recoveries in the country has climbed to 3,005.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
UN rights chief urges UNHRC to give renewed attention to Sri Lanka
The United Nations human rights chief said on Monday that she is troubled that the new Government of Sri Lanka is “swiftly reneging on its commitments” to the Human Rights Council since it withdrew its support for resolution 30/1. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet also warned that the proposed 20th amendment to the Constitution may negatively impact on the independence of key institutions, including the National Human Rights Commission. The comments from Michelle Bachelet came in her global human rights update during the 45th session of the U.N. Human... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Sri Lanka’s 13th COVID-19 death reported
The person who passed away at the Chilaw Hospital earlier this evening (14) has been identified to have been infected with COVID-19, confirmed the Department of Government Information. The deceased is a 60-year-old seaman who had been undergoing quarantine after returning from abroad, according to Dr. Sudath Samaraweera of the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry. He had arrived in Sri Lanka from Bahrain on the 02nd of September; however, he had not been identified as COVID-19 patient at the point of arrival. On 09th of September, he had been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
AN OPEN LETTER TO DR.KOHONA -DESIGNATED SRI LANKAN AMBASSADOR TO CHINA
Congratulations to you on being designated to china as Sri Lankan Ambassador. I watched the Sirasa Pathekade “ program by Asoka Dias interviewing you. President Gotabaya has quite rightly picked the right person to the right position. Mr. Kohana has already identified his role and Sri Lankans can be assured that he will perform his duties to the best of his ability. I Remember having met him in Colombo when the LTTE at its peak, as a representative of one of the foreign organisation based in Melbourne against LTTE. SPUR org had many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is creating a new continent “Eurasia” says veteran Lankan communist leader
DEW Gunasekera said that the Lankan communists convinced Colombo to sign the Rubber-Rice Pact with China in 1952 and to recognize Communist China in 1957 Colombo, September 13 (Xinhua): China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), of which Sri Lanka is an early participant, is beneficial to developing countries and creates multi-polarity in world affairs. Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) D.E.W. Gunasekera told Xinhua that the China-Sri Lanka ties have reached a new high due to the implementation of the BRI and massive Chinese... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
PM appoints committee to study 20A
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has taken steps to appoint a committee comprising of parliamentary representatives to study the 20th Amendment to the Constitution. The committee comprising of Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers, and Members of Parliament will be chaired by Ministers of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris. Cabinet Ministers Udaya Gammanpila, Ali Sabry, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Wimal Weerawansa, and State Ministers Susil Premajayantha, S. Viyalendran have been appointed to the committee. In addition, parliamentarians Dilan Perera, and Premanath C. Dolawatte have been added as members of the committee. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
Sri Lanka realty battle heats up
Multiple cases being fought over the fate of the $300-million Altair project declared as a ‘flagship foreign investment project’ in the island nation wo strands of a bruising court battle are looming on either side of the Palk Strait as a clutch of top builders from Calcutta mount legal challenges to claw back at a prestigious development in Colombo. Multiple cases are being fought before the company law court in India and the commercial court in Sri Lanka over the fate of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
India needs to invest in regional disaster relief mechanisms | Opinion
With climate uncertainty, humanitarian emergencies in the region are poised to grow. India must invest in regional frameworks for disaster management and take the lead in setting up a road map for greater cooperation On September 3, a fire broke out in a large crude carrier MT New Diamond off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)-chartered ship was carrying 270,000 tonnes of oil en route to Odisha and was helped by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Navy to douse the fire, rescue crew members, and prevent an oil spill. India’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/09/20)
How can this happen?
The Sunday Morning says that Sri Lanka stands to lose the opportunity of claiming one-fourth the value of the MT New Diamond and one-fourth the crude oil on board (67,500 metric tonnes) due to an oversight by Sri Lanka’s maritime authorities. The Undersigned had published this article/content and had forwarded it to the Attorney General's Office, Chairman MEPA and the Office of the Secretary to the President as shown below. An immediate inquiry regarding this has to take has to be launched by the President immediately regarding the failure of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
20 වන විවස්ථා සන්සෝධනයේ පහත සදහන් කරුණු වළට මුලු රටම විරුද්ධය
13.9.2020 1 අමාත්යය මන්ඩලයේ 30 සීමාව ඉවත් කිරීම 2 ජනාධිපති කමට තරග කිරීමේ වයස සීමාව අවුරුදු 30 දක්වා අඩුකිරීම 3 ද්විත්ව පුරවැසියන්ට මැතිවරණ වලට තරන්ග කිර්‍රිමට අවසර දීම සහ රජය යටතේ දෙස් විදෙස්වල (තානාපතිකම් වැනී තනතුරු දැරීමට අවසර දීම 4 ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම විවස්ථාවේ 53 විවස්ථාවේ විධිවිධාන වෙනස් කිරීම. කෙසේ වුවද එය වෙනස්කළයුතුම නම් එයට" එසේ දිවුරුම් දී වුවත් පසුව ඊට හැනිව ක්‍රියා කළහොත් වහාම ඒ පුද්ගලයා අදාල තනතුරෙන් ඉවත් කිරීම ' එබැවින් මෙම කරුණු 20 වන සන්ශෝධනයෙන් වහාම ඉවත්කළ යුතුයයි මා ඇතුළු මුලු රටම රයයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
Twelve new cases of COVID-19 reported
Twelve more new cases of coronavirus infection have jumped the total number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka to 3,231. Six among the latest cases are recent arrivals from Kuwait while remaining 06 are from the United Arab Emirates. Accordingly, 36 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been reported within the day so far, with 16 returnees from Qatar, 04 from the UAE, 02 from the Maldives, 01 from Ethiopia, and 01 Ukranian testing positive earlier today (13). As per the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health, 223 active... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
Three (03) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,234
Three (03) more persons have been confirmed for Covid -19 in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka Country total has increased to 3,234.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
Information on MPs who prevented the arrest of extremists - Easter Commission
Former senior DIG of the Eastern province Edson Gunatillake says that muslim radicals have been taking arms since 2008 and 2009 under the pretense of fighting the LTTE, and spread their radicalistic ideas. He expressed this view last evening while giving his statement before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks. The witness informed the commission that an individual named Zahran was involved in one of the 18 armed radical groups which emerged during the 2008 to 2009. He said that Hizbulla commenced cultivating dates in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
Instructions to plant one million plants on both sides of the road
Highways Minister Johnston Fernando has instructed officials to expedite the green project of planting one million saplings on both sides of the road. Participating in the 100,000 km road development progress review meeting currently underway, he said that in line with the new Government policy statement, the project of planting one million saplings nationwide has been launched with the aim of implementing sustainable environmental management. Minister Johnston Fernando has instructed the authorities to identify suitable plant species for planting on both sides of the roads endemic to each... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
Chief Justice Burnside (1882) rejected Vellala “show of force and terror” and confirmed one law, one nation.
Once upon a colonial time, when the Vellalas dominated the casteist fiefdom of Jaffna, a husband of a low-caste Tamil decided to bury his wife accompanied by the ritual of beating the tom-tom. But beating the tom-tom was an exclusive privilege accorded only to the Vellalas, the highest caste. The ritual of beating the tom-tom by low-castes was taboo. It was considered to be an intrusion into the domain preserved exclusively for the Vellalas. Angered by the violation of this ritual a Vellala mob waylaid the low-caste mourners and assaulted them. The triumph of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය අන්තර්ජාලයට මුදා හරියි
ලොව පුරා විසිරී සිටින බෞද්ධ ජනතාවට මෙන්ම බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය පිළිබඳ උනන්දුවක් දක්වන අන්‍යාගමිකයින්ටත් දැනුම ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය අද පටන් හේතුවක් වනු ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.12 දින පැවසීය. කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය www.kelaniyatemple.lk අන්තර්ජාලයට මුදා හැරීමේ “කල්‍යාණෝදා” උත්සවය අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය පිළිබඳවත්, ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලාට යොමුවන විවිධ ප්‍රශ්න පිළිබඳවත්, පිළිතුරු සැපයීමට රජය විසින් කළ යුතු කාර්යක් අද කැලණිය රජ මහා විහාරාධිපති මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියන් ඇතුළු දායක සභාව විසින් ඉටු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
මාලඹේ, ශ්රී විමලාරාම විහාරයේ අවුකන බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමා අනුරුවට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ප්‍රථම මල් පූජාව පවත්වයි
මාලඹේ, ශ්රී විමලාරාම විහාරස්ථ පුදබිමේ ඉදි කළ දහඅට රියන් අවුකන බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමා වහන්සේගේ අනුරුව සහිත ප්‍රතිමා වහන්සේ නිරාවරණය කිරීමේ උත්සවය හා බුද්ධ මන්දිරය හා සංඝාවාසයට මංගල ශිලා ප්‍රතිෂ්ඨාපනය කිරීමේ උත්සවයට අද 2020.09.12 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එක්විය. ධර්මායථනාධිපති පූජ්‍ය ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ නාහිමියෝ දහඅට රියන් අවුකන බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමා වහන්සේගේ අනුරුව සහිත ප්‍රතිමා වහන්සේ නිරාවරණය කළහ. ඊට අදාළ සමරු ඵලකය හා බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමා වහන්සේට ප්‍රථම මල් පූජාව ගරු අග්‍රමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතින් සිදු විය. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක මහාචාර්ය මැදගම නන්දවංශ නාහාමි, ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
SL’s response to COVID-19 swift, decisive & coordinated: WHO
Sri Lanka’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been swift, decisive and coordinated using whole-of-society approach under the strong leadership of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa with technical guidance from the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO), a monthly selection of case studies released by the WHO said. The monthly selection of case studies titled ‘COVID-19: WHO’s Action in Countries | August 2020’ featured several countries including Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar and Russia. The report which was released on September 9 said Sri Lanka has ‘a Robust Health System... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
Sri Lanka navy plugs leak on fire-hit supertanker
COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan navy said on Saturday it had sealed an inlet on the fire-stricken New Diamond oil supertanker that was leaking fuel oil and sparking fears of an environmental disaster. A team of divers that inspected the rear of the tanker, which caught fire last week, found a sea water inlet leaking a mix of fuel oil and sea water. “They took immediate action to completely seal the inlet,” the navy said in a statement. The tanker, which is carrying about 2 million barrels of oil,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
Twenty- three (23) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,195
Twenty- three (23) more persons have been confirmed for Covid -19. They are returnees from Qatar, Kuwait, India and UAE.< The Sri Lanka country total has increased to 3,195.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
Case filed against MP Kiriella's daughter for clearing an echo sensitive area in Hanthana (video)
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has taken legal action against the daughter of MP Lakshman Kiriella for clearing an eco-sensitive area in the Hanthana Reserve. https://youtu.be/nsAhLcOHcf8 Meanwhile, it was reported to us that another group had cleared another 30 acres of land that did not belong to the Hanthana ecological area. Hanthana has been a popular destination for many locals and foreigners since the days of the Kingdom of Senkadagala in Kandy and during the British rule. Hanthana, rich in biodiversity and temperate climate,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
A 9-member committee to study the proposed 20th amendment
The Chief Secretary of the Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagari Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha Ven. Prof. Kotapitiye Rahula Thero stated that constitutional amendments are essential for decisions to be taken by one leader. This was during a discussion with Minister Prof. GL Peiris on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and a new Constitution. Meanwhile, a nine-member committee appointed by the Prime Minister is scheduled to meet next Monday to study the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution. It is chaired by Minister G.L. Peiris. The other members are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
The demands of the inmates on hunger strike cannot be met - Defense Secretary
The hunger strike launched by a group of inmates in the special section of the Boossa Prison continues. Thirty people, including organized criminals Podi Lasi, Wele Suda and Kosgoda Tharaka, are still on hunger strike which commenced based on several demands. However, Defense Secretary Retired Major General Kamal Gunaratne said the demands of the Boossa prison hunger strikers could not be met. The Defense Secretary stated this while expressing his views to the media after participating in an inspection tour of the Bogambara Prison in Kandy this morning.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
Wither the August Mandate: Why no dividends to the Nationalist Majority
The August 2020 Parliamentary victory showed for the 2ndtime the power that ensues when the majority is united. The victors of 2015 openly declared their debt to the minorities which got translated into marginalizing the majority. Was this what the minorities really wanted? If that was not so, there was no visible voice objecting to the wave of discriminations & humiliations the majority was subject to, eventually culminating in mass murder on Easter Sunday. Come 2020, tables reversed & a magnificent 2/3 victory was delivered based on a nationalist platform. In terms of paying back, what the minorities via their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/09/20)
අනේ ඔබ කවදාක බිහි වෙයිද මේ රටේ?
ආයුබෝවන්අපි ඔබතුමාට පලමුව ස්තුථිවන්තවෙනවා අපට මේ අවස්ථාව ලබාදීම සම්බන්ධව. මේ වනවිට ඔබ නවක තරුණ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු බවට පත්වී හමාරයි. මේ ජයග්‍රහණය ඔබ දකින්නේ මොනවිදියකටද? ඕනෑම මනුෂ්‍යයකු තරගයකදී බලාපොරොත්තු වන්නේ ජයග්‍රහණයයි. මේ වනවිට මම ඒ ජයග්‍රහණය ලබාගෙන සිටිනවා; මේ ජයග්‍රහණය මගේ ජීවිතයේ එක්තරා කඩඉමක් පමණයි. තව දිනා ගැනීමට කරුණු කාරනා රාශියක් තියෙනවා. ඔබ තරුණ මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙක් වශයෙන් ඔබගේ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ සිටින තරුණ තරුණීයන්ගේ ප්‍රශ්න වලට මුල් තැනක් දෙන්න සිදුවේවි ඒ සදහා ඔබතුල ඇති සැලස්ම කුමක්ද? ඔබ කිව් ලෙසම මම තරුණ මන්ත්රී වරයෙක්. නමුත් මම මේ දිස්ත්‍රික්යේ සිටින තරුණ තරුණීයන්ගේ මන්ත්රීවරයා නොවෙයි. සන්ධානයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Book Review :-Colonialism in Sri Lanka; Plantation Economy 1833 – 1867 – Author Dr. Asoka Bandarage
A read through the scholarly work of Dr. Asoka Bandarage, or more appropriately the study of that voluminous material, posit the question whether such extensive dialectics is necessary, at this stage, on the evolution of an economy of a small country that has suffered under colonialism for over three centuries. The relevance of the study however, dawns in the last chapter of the text which deals with neo colonialism that bedevils almost all these ex colonies in the present era, as if bequeathed by their colonial history. There is a school of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
රටේ නිදහස් සෞඛ්‍ය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට කැපවෙනවා - ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා
රටේ නිදහස් සෞඛ්‍ය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට නව රජය කැපවන බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.11 දින පැවසීය. කොවිඩ්-19 පාලනය කර ගනිමින් රටක් ලෙස යම් ජයග්‍රහණයක් ලැබුවේ නම් ඒ අපේ රටේ පවතින විශිෂ්ට සෞඛ්‍ය සේවය නිසා යැයි ආඩම්බරයෙන් කියන බව ද අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අවධාරණය කළේය. කොළඹ හෙද විදුහලේ හෙද සිසුන් 298 දෙනෙකු සේවයට කැපවීම හා හිස් වැසුම් පැළඳවීමේ උළෙල අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවති අවස්ථාව් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මේ බව පැවසීය. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා කළ සම්පූර්ණ කතාව මෙසේය, සෞඛ්‍ය සේවය අන් කවරදාටත් වඩා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයකින් රටකට ලබාදෙන ආර්ථික හා සමාජමය සේවය මිල කල නොහැකියි - රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිනී විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල -
පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයකින් රටකට ලබාදෙන ආර්ථික හා සමාජමය සේවය මිල කල නොහැකි බව නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය ඇමති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය පැවසුවාය. අද දින (11) නැනෝ තාක්ෂණ විශිෂ්ටත්වයේ කේන්ද්‍රය, ශ්රී ලංකා නැනෝ තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේ (ස්ලින්ටෙක් ආයතනයේ) නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක් වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරිය මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළාය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය ඉහළ නැංවීමේ කාර්යයේ දී සුවිශේෂී දායකත්වයක් ලබාදීමේ හැකියාව ඇති ශ්රී ලංකා නැනෝ තාක්ෂණ ආයතනය මේ වන විටත් අපේ ස්වභාවික සම්පත් වලට අගය එකතු කිරීම සඳහා වූ නව සොයාගැනීම් රාශියක් සිදුකර ඇත. , තවත් වැදගත් පර්යේෂණ ගණනාවක් සිදුකෙරෙමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Wigneswaran's tribal perspectives in perspective
The feature article: 'False historical perspectives of Wigneswaran' jointly written by Rienzie and Kusum Wijetilleke (The Island/September 4, 2020) provided the cue for the following positive response. The Wijetillekes' article makes interesting reading, though Wigneswaran's tribal perspectives are hardly worth talking about except for the danger of their acquiring a false validity due to halo effect (for, after all, Wigneswaran is a retired supreme court judge). His attempt to falsify the long history of the country of the Sinhalese (the unrecorded part of it is much longer than the recorded part, as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
ඇමරිකානු සාහිත්‍යයේ කේන්ද්‍රීය චරිතය - එඩ්ගර් ඇලන් පෝ
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ඇමරිකානු ලේඛකයෙකු, කවියෙකු, සංස්කාරකයෙකු සහ සාහිත්‍ය විචාරකයෙකු වන එඩ්ගර් ඇලන් පෝ ඇමරිකානු සාහිත්‍යයේ රොමෑන්ටිකවාදයේ කේන්ද්‍රීය චරිතයක් ලෙස සැලකේ. ඔහුගේ පරිකල්පනීය කතන්දර හා අභිරහස හා භීෂණය පිළිබඳ කතා නූතන රහස් පරීක්ෂක කතාවට උපත ලබා දුන්නේය. ඔහු සාහිත්‍ය කෘතියක ශෛලිය හා ව්‍යුහයේ බලපෑම කෙරෙහි මූලික වශයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කළ පළමු විචාරකයින්ගෙන් කෙනෙකි. ඔහු ඇමරිකාවේ පළමු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ සාහිත්‍ය විචාරකයා සහ න්‍යායාචාර්‍යවරයා ලෙස අද දිනයේ සැලකේ. එඩ්ගර් ඇලන් පෝ 1809 ජනවාරි 19 වන දින මැසචුසෙට්ස් හි බොස්ටන්හි උපත ලැබීය. ඔහුගේ පියා 1810 දී පවුල අතහැර ගිය අතර ඊළඟ වසරේදී ඔහුගේ මව මිය ගියේය. පෝ කිසි විටෙකත් ඔහුගේ දෙමව්පියන් දැන සිටියේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා, රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සිරිපාල ගම්ලත් මහතාගේ මෑණියන්ට අවසන් ගෞරව දක්වයි
මහවැලි කලාප ආශ්‍රිත ඇළවේලි හා ජනාවාස පොදු යටිතල පහසුකම් සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සිරිපාල ගම්ලත් මැතිතුමා ගේ ආදරණීය මෑණියන් වූ අභාවප්‍රාප්ත පනාගොඩගේ දොන් දයාවතී මැතිනියට අවසන් ගෞරව දැක්වීම සඳහා අග්‍රමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.11 දින එක්විය. පොලොන්නරුව, පලුගස්දමන, මොණරතැන්න නිවසට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ඇයට අවසන් ගෞරව දක්වමින් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සිරිපාල ගම්ලත් මහතා ඇතුළු පවුලේ සාමාජිකයින් සමඟ ශෝකය බෙදා ගත්තේය. පිරිමි දරුවන් නව දෙනෙකුගේ, ආදරබර මෑණියන් වූ දයාවතී මැතිනිය සිය මවගේ භූමිකාව තුළ ආදර්ශමත්, නිහතමානි හා යහපත් ජීවිතයක් ගත කළ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ කාන්තාවක් බව පැවසූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා, ජාතිය ගොඩ නැගීමට ඇය විසින් ශක්තිමත් දරු පරපුරක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Sri Lanka: Salvage team struggles to plug supertanker fuel leak
Salvage operations continue to stop fuel leak from fire-sticken New Diamond oil supertanker off Sri Lanka's east coast. A salvage team is still trying to plug a fuel leak from the fire-stricken New Diamond oil supertanker, Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Indika de Silva said on Friday. The tanker, which is carrying the about two million barrels of oil, caught fire on September 3 and is currently 45 nautical miles (83 km), off Sri Lanka's east coast. The fire has been extinguished but the New Diamond has left two long trails... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Salvagers Working to Repair Leak on Oil Tanker off Sri Lanka
The MT New Diamond, which is carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil, was damaged by two fires in a little over a week. This photo released by Sri Lankan Air Force shows ships fighting fire on the MT New Diamond, about 30 nautical miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Ships and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India intensified efforts to extinguish a new fire on an oil tanker off Sri Lanka's coast on Tuesday, two days after the previous three-day blaze was doused, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Are “walkntalk” meetings the way forward? Lankan Youth Minister Namal Rajapaksa sets an example
To promote a healthy lifestyle, Namal Rajapaksa had his first ‘walkntalk’ meeting with the State Minister of Self-employment Shehan Senasinghe on Friday. cabinet Youth Minister Namal Rajapaksa and Self Employment State Minister Shehan Semasinghe Colombo, September 11 : A walking meeting is simply a meeting that takes place during a walk instead of in an office, boardroom or coffee shop where meetings are commonly held. It should be noted that sitting at one place for a long period is potentially as harmful to our health as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
WHO congratulates Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella and mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis
General Tedros on Twitter posted his message saying, “I congratulate Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella & mother to child transmission of HIV & congenital syphilis"... Colombo, September 11 (newsin.asia) – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella and mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis. General Tedros on Twitter posted his message saying, “I congratulate Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella & mother to child transmission of HIV & congenital syphilis, the Maldives for eliminating rubella and Myanmar for eliminating trachoma.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
The incendiary politics of beef
There is more to the proposal to ban cow slaughter than safeguarding the cow The 30-year old Buddhist monk, Bowatte Indraratna Thera committing self-immolation in protest over the killing of cattle by Muslims. The act was committed near the main entrance of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy to have a religious effect Colombo, September 10: When the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa got the unanimous approval of his parliamentary group for legislation to ban cow slaughter, it was not the first attempt to have the practice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
‘The Diaspora gave Prabakaran all the wrong advice’ - Erik Solheim
https://youtu.be/ja22g78BTVU Mahinda sought a summit with Prabakaran Prabakaran didn’t understand the outside world Tigers rejected civilian evacuation plan Balasingham knew rebels would lose Sri Lanka’s 30-year war would be remembered, in part, for the crucial role played by Norway. The Norwegians managed to secure peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the LTTE and the peace process continued for a number of years under successive Governments. Though Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim mediated between the GoSL and the LTTE under three Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Russian Embassy concerned over SLMC’s decision on three Russian universities
The Russian Embassy in Colombo has expressed concern over the decision of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) to remove three prominent Russian State Universities from the SLMC Approved List “without prior information”. On Wednesday, it was reported that that three Russian medical colleges which have been offering free full scholarships to Sri Lankan students since 1960 have been removed from the approved list by of the Sri Lanka Medical Council for this year. Issuing a statement, the Cultural section of the Russian Embassy stated that the three universities had been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Seven (07) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,169
Seven (07) more persons have been confirmed for Covid -19 infection. The Sri Lanka Country total has increased to 3,169... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
COPE and COPA members nominated
The Speaker nominated the members of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) for the 9th Parliament today. The committees will consist of 22 members each, including 14 members from the ruling party and 8 members from the opposition. The chairpersons will be appointed at the first meeting of the two committees. Accordingly, Minister Udaya Gammanpila, State Ministers Duminda Dissanayake, Dayasiri Jayasekara, Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle, Shehan Semasinghe and Prarasanna Ranaweera are included in the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Another announcement from Russia today - likely to suspend tea purchases
The Government Medical Officers' Association states that if action is not taken to protect the independence of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, a severe trade union action will be taken during the week beginning on September 21. The executive council of the association met yesterday and decided to convene an emergency central committee meeting in the future. Speaking at a media briefing in Colombo today, the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) said that Rajitha Senaratne was the only minister who politicized and weakened the Sri Lanka Medical Council. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Former Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala issued a stern warning by the Presidential Commission
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing into Political Victimisation, issued a stern warning to suspended Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala. This was when he appeared before the commission for the first time today. The commission accused him of undermining the judicial process and undermining public confidence. Nihal Jayatilleke had complained to the Commission that his arrest was due to political pressure in connection with the distribution of subsidies under the Prosperous Housing Program and the payment of compensation and gratuity for employees who resigned voluntarily during the conversion of the Divineguma... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Hotel complex to be built adjacent to Sinharaja - Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation (Video).
https://youtu.be/nGR5UMgtpkI The Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation C.B. Rathnayake states that if there are any politicians who supported the destruction of the Puttalam Anavilundawa Reserve using backhoes, the law will be enforced against them as well. He expressed these views participating in the 'Hiru Ettha' programme. He also says that no prawn farm will be allowed to be leased to anyone from now on in the Puttalam Anavilundawa reserve . The Minister also spoke about the road being constructed adjacent to the Sinharaja,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
A proposal from the Prime Minister to increase the nutrition of school children
The Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa states that the Minister of Education has been instructed to look into the issue of providing an egg daily to improve the nutritional status of school children. The Prime Minister said this when he met the Bakery Owners Association and the Egg Producers Association today. The Bakery Manufacturers Association has briefed PM Mahinda Rajapaksa on the impact of egg prices on bakery products The Prime Minister's Office announced that the egg producers had explained the high cost of egg production. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
How our excellent agricultural extension system of the Sixties was sacrificed.
In view of the attempts by our President to boost our agriculture, it may be worthwhile to ascertain what did happen to the excellent agricultural extension service we had in the Sixties- the effort of the combined Agriculture Department and Agrarian Services. I enclose a chapter from my forthcoming publication: NuwaraKalaviya which details what happened.. “I was stunned to read a news item stating that youths from schools in. Anuradhapura are very likely to be the cannon fodder for renal disease. “Students in grades 10 to 12 in the North Central Province... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
MCC Privatizing Sri Lanka – Landless State, evicting role of Politicians & creating Tamil Eelam
On 28 June 2019, the Yahapalana Government tabled the State Lands (Special Provisions) Bill. The Bill, if enacted would have privatized 84% of land that belonged to the People (State). Sri Lanka would have become perhaps the only State without land. This would have raised the question of sovereignty, national security, key fundamental rights of the masses and plenty more issues that no politician would have been in a legal position to answer or solve. With no land under the State to control or tax, there would have been no reason to hold elections, to have a Government & it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/09/20)
Justice for Animals and Nature pledges fullest support to the ban on Cattle slaughter in Sri Lanka
We wholeheartedly welcome the Government’s decision to ban the slaughter of cattle. We thank the President Hon. Gotabhaya Rajapakse and the Prime Minister Hon. Mahinda Rajapakse for taking this courageous step, and the Government Parliamentary Group for endorsing this move. It is inspiring to note that the State is now becoming committed to not only the welfare of human beings but also to the preservation of the precious lives of animals. Such a policy enshrines the essence of Buddhism –... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
තිරසර සංවර්ධන අරමුණු පිළිබඳ පංච පුද්ගල වාර්තාව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට පිළිගන්වයි
තිරසර සංවර්ධන අරමුණු පිළිබඳ පංච පුද්ගල කමිටු වාර්තාව එම කමිටු සාමාජිකයින් විසින් අද 2020.09.10 දින ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පිළිගන්වන ලදී. විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යවරයාගේ උපදෙස් මත පත් කළ මෙම පංච පුද්ගල කමිටුවේ සභාපති ලෙස විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශයේ අතිරේක ලේකම් අහමඩ් ජාවිඩ් මහතා කටයුතු කළේය. එම කමිටුවේ සෙසු සාමාජිකයින් ලෙස අග්රාමාත්ය අතිරේක ලේකම් ඇන්ටන් පෙරේරා, අචාර්ය ලොයිඩ් ප්‍රනාන්දු, මහාචාර්ය සී. එස්. වීරරත්න මහත්වරු සහ චාමින්ද්‍රි සපරමාදු මහත්මිය කටයුතු කළහ. විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ උපදෙස් මත වසර 2030 ගෝලීය තිරසර සංවර්ධන ඉලක්කවලට අදාළ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තිරසර සංවර්ධන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපතිනිය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමුවෙයි
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපතිනි ටන්ජා ගොන්ග්‍රිජ් මහත්මිය හා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක් අද 2020.09.10 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්වුණි. මහ මැතිවරණයේ ලද ජයග්‍රහණය පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට සුභ පැතුම් එක් කළ නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපතිනිය කොවිඩ් -19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය පාලනය කිරීමට ශ්රී ලංකාව කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳව රජයට ප්‍රශංසා කළේය. අනතුරට පත් MT - නිව් ඩයමන්ඩ් තෙල් ප්‍රවාහන නෞකාවේ සිටි නෙදර්ලන්ත විශේෂඥයින් පිළිබඳව විමසූ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා දෙරටේ සමුද්‍රීය විශේෂඥයින් අතර පුහුණු වැඩසටහනක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේ වැදගත්කම පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව ඵෙතිහාසික අත්දැකීම් බහුල නෙදර්ලන්ත සමුද්‍රීය විශේෂඥයන්ගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
FOREIGN RELATIONS in the CONTEXT of GEOPOLITICS
The Additional Secretary to the President for Foreign Relations, Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage in an interview stated: “The foreign policy of the new government is based on some key pillars. The number one is neutrality. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has repeatedly stated in Sri Lanka and India and in his interaction with the press and the diplomatic community, that his primary responsibility is maintaining neutrality. We don’t want to be labelled or get caught in this power game (Daily Mirror, January 28, 2020). However, expanding on the above policy in his current... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
Euthanasia: Political, Social and Health Dilemmas
You don’t need to kill the patient to kill the pain –Dr. Andre Bourque University of Montréal Euthanasia or assisted suicide is a controversial topic that is defined as deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering. Today several countries have legalized euthanasia and some view it as a human right. Those who support euthanasia point out that the importance of personal autonomy and self-determination, the right of every human being to have his / her wishes respected in decisions involving his / her own body and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
Chera, Chola, Pandya: Using Archaeological Evidence to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms or Homelands.
Chera, Chola, Pandya: Using Archaeological Evidence to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms of Early Historic South India Abraham, Shinu Anna. Asian Perspectives, Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2003, pp. 207-223 (Article) Published by University of Hawai'i Press DOI: 1 Quote “important in the identification of Tamilakam is inscriptional evidence. Within Tamil Nadu, for example, about 80 to 90 rock inscriptions have been discovered in natural caverns. Along with fragmentary epigraphs on potsherds from around 25 sites in southern India (Zvelebil 1992 : 123) and outside South... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
OPINION-Muslim Marriages and One Country, One Law
Open Letter to Minister of Justice As you are aware, Muslim marriages in Sri Lanka centre around the Nikah and Walima in accordance with the tenets of Islam. The Nikah, which is Shariah-based and therefore immutable, is essentially a brief ceremony where, under the guidance of a pious Muslim male, vows are exchanged between the Bride’s guardian (Wali) and the Groom, and is most importantly witnessed (usually) by two pious Muslim males. Additionally, prayers and duas may be recited and a sermon may be delivered by the individual-in-charge, if the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
President responds to claims on 20A and Premalal Jayasekara
https://youtu.be/4lVKA__0_RI President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (10) responded to comments by the Opposition and its allies on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and the court ruling on Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Ratnapura District Parliamentarian Premalal Gunasekara. Referring to the allegations by the Opposition during today’s meeting with State Ministers held at the Presidential Secretariat President Rajapaksa said the objective of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution is to remove the obstacles imposed by the 19th Amendment and move forward. “Everything cannot be changed overnight. It takes a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
Government pays attention to increase the number of national schools to one thousand
The Government has decided to increase the total number of National Schools in the country to one thousand and to expedite the development of National Schools. This was stated at a discussion chaired by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa with all state ministers at the Presidential Secretariat today (10). Meanwhile, the President and other state ministers have decided to appoint district education committees for the development of the school system.< It was also agreed to strengthen the coordination between the Education Zonal Offices and the Divisional Offices. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
Three (03) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,155
03 arrivals from Kuwait, Singapore & the UAE, tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,155.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
Shani Abeysekara fabricated false evidence - Witness at the Presidential commission (Video)
It was stated today that the weapons found in connection with the arrest of former DIG Vass Gunawardena in the Mohammed Siyam murder case was fabrication by a group including Shani Abeysekera. https://youtu.be/B2U-XVSr5LI This was when Inspector Irosh Villawarachchi testified before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Political Victimisation.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/09/20)
Statement of the National Joint Committee on the Proposed 20th Amendment and the Urgent Need to Repeal the 13th and 16th Amendments
The National Joint Committee wish to salute the principled stand taken by Honourable Sarath Weerasekera Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Authorities, that he is against the Provincial Council system and would endeavor its abolition. We hail the Honourable Prime Minister’s bold decision to advise the President under the existing provisions of the Constitution to appoint Honorable Sarath Weerasekera for this office, when it was public knowledge that Mr. Weerasekera was always against the thirteenth amendment and the Provincial Council system introduced... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
බලව සබඳ 19යේ අග්‍රපලය ලිහලා
වර්ෂ 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයට, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ, දෙමල ජාතික සන්ධානය, මුස්ලිම් කොන්ග්‍රසය යන සියලුම පක්ෂ වෙනුවෙන් තරඟ කල අපේක්ෂකයා වුයේ, මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතායි.අවසන් මොහොතේ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ගෙන් වෙන්ව, ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත්වූ එතුමාට ඒ වෙනවිට දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් නොතිබුන තත්වයක් තුල ඒ මහා මැතිවරණයට මුළු රටම ආවරණය වන පරිදි වියදම්වෙන මහා ධනස්කන්දය වියදම් කලේ කවුද? ඒ මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන නම් නොවේ. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයද නොවේ. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ හෝ දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය හෝ මුස්ලිම් කොන්ග්‍රසයද නොවේ. විදේශීය අදිසි හස්ත ගණනාවක් එකතුව මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ, මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරයට වියදම් සඳහා විශාල මුදලක් ආයෝජනය කල අතර, ඉහත සඳහන් කරන ලද සියලුම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY PT 17 C 5b
THIS ESSAY INCLUDES MATERIAL WHICH COULD NOT BE USED IN THE PREVIOUS ESSAY. BOMBS In 1970 JVP had experimented with making safety bombs and Molotov cocktails. JVP conducted training classes in bombs at Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya, Moneragala, Ampara, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee, Kalutara. In 1970 3000 bombs were sent to Badulla, Anuradhapura, Trincomalee and Jaffna. JVP had underground stores for the bombs. SCHOOLS Principal of Polonnaruwa Rajarata Vidyalaya was threatened when he took down a black flag on Independence Day hoisted by pupils. JVP regularly organized demonstrations in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY PT 17 C 5a
The JVP did not fade away after April 1971 as it would have done, had it been a purely local affair. Instead, JVP met secretly and reorganized. JVP first retreated into their hideouts in the jungles of the North Central Province. They moved the camps from place to place. They did not stay in one place for long. The leader at Namal oya camp was in a separate chena known only to couple of trustworthy members. There were jail breaks. In November 1971 JVPers escaped from Vidyalankara, Vidyodaya and Weerawila camps. At Vidyalankara,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
Who is the Sun King, Raavana or Prabhakaran? Pseudo-histories of Tamils and Sinhalese.
Tamil Nationalists are making their myths, extending their history to ancient times and claiming that they were in Sri Lanka (and even in Africa, Babylon and Egypt) since the beginning of time, and that Tamil language is the source of the ancient Sumarian language. Wigneswaran, the ex-Chief Minster of the Northern province, has captured the lime light by repeating these unsubstantiated fairy tales. He loves the publicity garnered from all this. Some Sinhalese Nationalist groups are also undermining well-established history and reviving old stories (specifically, the Ravana story) by giving them a huge new dimension.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
ණය ලබාදීමේ ලිහිල් ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් අනුගමනය කරන්න - අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා සියලු රාජ්‍ය බැංකු ප්‍රධානීන්ට උපදෙස් දෙයි
විවිධ ආර්ථික අර්බුධයන්ට ලක්ව සිටින ජනතාව ඉන් මුදා ගැනීම සඳහා ණය ලබාදීමේදී ලිහිල් ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් අනුගමනය කරන්නැයි විෂය භාර අමාත්‍ය, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.09 දින රාජ්‍ය බැංකු ප්‍රධානීන්ට උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීම මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ පැවති අවස්ථාවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ණය ගෙවා ගැනීමට අපහසු හා අලුතින් ණය ලබා ගැනීමට පැමිණෙන ජනතාව බැංකු තුළ අනවශ්‍ය ලෙස අපහසුතාවයට ලක් නොකරන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා පැවසීය. ශ්රී ලංකා ණය තොරතුරු කාර්යාංශයේ (CRIB) දත්ත පරීක්ෂා කිරීමේ කාර්යය තුළ මහජනතාවට සිදු වන අපහසුතාවන් පිළිබඳව මුදල් අමාත්‍ය අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
Backed by Buddhists, Tamil Hindus, Sri Lankan PM Pushes Proposal for Cow Slaughter Ban
Rising Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka has prompted the government to revisit plans for a cow slaughter ban, with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa reportedly floating the proposal in a parliamentary meeting. The proposal has brought together Buddhists and Tamils who see such as law as in line with their religious sentiments. Fresh from last month’s landslide poll victory, Sri Lanka’s ruling party is moving ahead with a longstanding demand of the country’s Buddhist population for a cow slaughter ban, local media has reported.The proposal will be finalised into law after being... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
Chinese investment will transform Sri Lanka’s landscape, says State Minister of Regional Cooperation
The US$ 1.4 billion Colombo Port City project is to bring in US$ 13 billion worth of investments and generate over 80,000 jobs. Tharaka Balasuriya, Sri Lankan State Minister for Regional Cooperation at Colombo Port City. Photo: Tang Lu/Xinhua) COLOMBO, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya said during a tour of Chinese-built projects in capital Colombo on Tuesday that Chinese investment will transform the landscape of Sri Lanka. Balasuriya led a delegation of senior diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
Five (05) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,147
05 more arrivals from Saudi Arabia tested positive for Covid-19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,147.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
PM instructs state-owned banks to adopt a lenient policy on lending
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance has instructed the heads of state banks to adopt a lenient policy in granting loans to the people who are facing various crises. He was participating in the progress review meeting of the ministry.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
It was a mistake to give priority to reconciliation - Former Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis (Video)
Former Chief of National Intelligence Sisira Mendis has admitted that it was a mistake to prioritize reconciliation without prioritizing national security during the previous good governance government in which he served as the Chief of National Intelligence. https://youtu.be/OLjKEuRUV9w This was when he testified for the first time before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing into the Easter attacks.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
Former Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala to be charged if he does not appear before the commission
Former Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne has stated that the suspended former Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala will be charged by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Political Revenge, if he does not appear before it on the 11th. This was when a complaint lodged by former Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Affairs Dr. Nihal Jayatilleke was taken before the Commission today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
President instructs to renovate 5,000 tanks nationwide
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa directed relevant authorities to rehabilitate 5,000 tanks scattered across the island following a mechanism combining ancient technology and modern scientific methods. In parallel to this initiative, the “National Food Production Contribution Programme” covering 120,000 abandoned paddy lands will also be launched. Tanks will be rehabilitated under “Wari Saubhagya” programme. The assistance of the Civil Defence Force will be secured to expedite the project. The proposed programme was reviewed in length during the meeting to discuss future activities of the State Ministry of Development of Rural Paddy Fields... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/09/20)
Travel with Chatura @ Lankagama , Sri Lanka - 23rd September 2017
https://youtu.be/oPM8Kp34SgI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Who is the Sun king, Raavana or Prabhakaran?Myth-making is a past time of both sides - Tamils as well as Sinhalese.
Tamil Nationalists are making their myths, extending their history to ancient times and claiming that they were in Sri Lanka (and even in Babylon and Egypt) since the beginning of time, and that Tamil language is the source of the ancient Sumarian language. Wigneswaran has captured the lime light recently, with such fairy tales. He loves the publicity garnered from all this. Some Sinhalese Nationalist groups are also undermining well-established history and reviving old stories (the Ravana story) by giving them a huge new dimension. This is driven by popular media and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
යස්මින් සූකා කොටි උපාසිකාවට පොටෝ මාරුවීම
නොබෝදා කොටි ඩොලර් උපාසිකා යස්මින් සූකාට සිදුවූ අකරතැබ්බයක් ලංකාවේ මාධ්‍යවලින් වසන්‌කර තිබුණේය. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිධූරය වැනසීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයට උඩගෙඩි දෙන මැය, ලංකාවේ ඩොලර් කාක්කන් සමඟ හවුල්වී පින්තූර සටහනක් සදා එය ලංකා ටෙලිග්‍රාෆ් වෙබ් අඩවියේ නැවත නැවත පලකරවා ගත්තේය. එය ඇගේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ලංකා සත්‍යය හා යුක්තිය නම් සංවිධානයේ වැඩකි. මේ උපාසිකාවකගේ සත්‍යය හා යුක්තියට අදාල භාවනාවත්, ලක්‍ෂ සංඛ්‍යාත විශ්‍රාම ගත් හා නොගත් නිලධාරීන්ගෙන් කීපදෙනක් ගෝඨාභය විසින් තමාට ලංකර ගැනීමත් අතර ඇති සම්බන්‌ධය කුමක්ද? එහි අරමුණවූයේ ගෝඨාභය වටකරගෙන ඉන්නේ යුදහමුදා නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් යයි කියමින් ඔවුන්ගේ පින්තූර ලෝකයාට ප්රසිද්ධ කිරීමය. මෙහි යටි අරමුණ යහපාලනකාරයින්ගේ අළුත් නීති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Fr. Emmanuel Must Be Forgiven For His Sins by Cardinal Ranjith
Father Sleemanpillai Joseph Emmanuel is back in Sri Lanka and appealing to the immigration for leave to remain. He wants to die in Sri Lanka, a country that he spent the last three decades demonising. In spite of his record of supporting the LTTE and glorifying violence by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the generous people of Sri Lanka have decided to accommodate his plea. The foundational culture of Sri Lanka has been compassion, mercy, and forgiveness. Buddhist thinking permeated moderating all other traditions permitting an environment for those... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
The Demarcation of Provinces in Ceylon under British Rule
After the British imperial power consolidated its conquest of the island of Ceylon in 1815 and 1817/18, they began to ‘stitch the island together by commencing a road building programme; while the Colebrooke Cameron Commission which visited the island recommended the creation of five “Provinces.” As the Wikipedia account notes,[i] “accordingly, on 1 October 1833 five provinces under one administration came into being”: Central Province– composed of the central Kandyan provinces.Eastern Province– composed of the maritime districts of Batticaloa and Trincomalee, and the Kandyan provinces of Bintenna and Tamankaduwa.Northern... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
The Insidious and False Dimensions of the “Traditional Homeland” Thesis
The concept of the ‘Traditional Tamil Homeland’ as promulgated by its exponents is based on the notion that, from the distant past, the island of Sri Lanka comprised the territories of two distinct nationalities that were arbitrarily unified in the formation of British Ceylon in the early 19th century. My survey, which draws from several authoritative writings, some of which have been authored by reputed Tamil scholars, shows that such a notion does not conform to known facts and unbiased interpretations of the country’s history. There is no doubt that,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් හා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක්
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් ඩේවිඩ් හොලි මහතා හා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් 2020.09.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්වුණි. පසුගිය මැතිවරණ ජයග්‍රහණය සහ නැවත අග්‍රාමාත්‍යධූරයට පත්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙහිදී මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට සුභ පැතුම් එක් කළේය. මේ අතර COVID-19 වසංගත තත්ත්වයට සාර්ථකව මුහුණ දීම සඳහා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු රජය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබා දුන් අන්‍යෝන්‍ය සහයෝගය පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයාට ස්තූතිය පළ කළේය. ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු රජය විසින් පුද්ගලික ආරක්ෂණ උපකරණ කට්ටල (Personal Protective Equipment - PPE) ශ්රී ලංකාවට පරිත්‍යාග කර තිබේ. එමෙන්ම වසර ගණනාවක් පුරා ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු රජය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Australian High Commissioner Calls on Prime Minister Rajapaksa
Australian High Commissioner David Holly called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (Sept. 7) afternoon. While congratulating Prime Minister Rajapaksa for the election victory and reappointment as Prime Minister, Ambassador Holly thanked Sri Lanka for the mutual support in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia has provided assistance to Sri Lanka by providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Prime Minister Rajapaksa thanked Australia for its strong support to Sri Lanka throughout the years. He also recalled his recent phone conversation with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
සබරගමු පළාත තුළ දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ දරුවන්ට විද්‍යා හා ගණිත විෂය ධාරාවන් හැදෑරීම සඳහා පාසල් නොමැතිවීම සම්බන්ධවයි.
ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, ජී.එල්. පිරීස් මහතා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය. බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමණි, සබරගමු පළාත තුළ දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ දරුවන්ට විද්‍යා හා ගණිත විෂය ධාරාවන් හැදෑරීම සඳහා පාසල් නොමැතිවීම සම්බන්ධවයි. සබරගමු පළාත තුළ අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විද්‍යා, ගණිත විෂය ධාරාවන් හැදෑරීම සදහා දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ සිසු දරුවන්ට තම මාධ්‍යයෙන් ඉගැනීමට අදාලව කිසිදු පාසලක් නොමැති වීම පිළිබදව ඔබගේ දැඩි අවධානය යොමු කරවන අප සංගමය ඊට කඩිනම් විස`දුම් ලබා දීමට මැදිහත් වන ලෙස ඉතා ඕනෑකමින් යුතුව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු. 2022 වර්ෂයට අදාලව මේ වන විට පාසල් වල අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ පන්ති ආරම්භ වෙමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
42 blasphemy cases registered in Pakistan in August:
According to data compiled by a social media user, at least 42 cases pertaining to blasphemy were registered across Pakistan in the month of August. Most of those accused of blasphemy belonged to the Shia community, who have been booked under 295-A and 298 sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for allegedly 'insulting the companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)'. Similarly, members of Ahmadiyya and Christian communities are also among the people accused of blasphemy.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
20A: SLPP rejects criticism, plans to secure its passage next month
Dismissing criticism of the proposed 20th Amendment that it would pave the way for a dictatorship, Education Minister Prof. Peiris yesterday (7) told the media at the SLPP office, Battaramulla, that it would be presented to Parliament next October ahead of the presentation of Budget 2021. Prof. Peiris, who is also the Chairman of the ruling SLPP, said that the government wasn’t worried about the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) moving the Supreme Court against the 20th Amendment as it was gazetted having secured the Attorney General’s approval. Flanked... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
My imprisonment was an act of political revenge: Premalal
Ratnapura District MP Premalal Jayasekara said yesterday he was convicted on false charges levelled against him by the yahapalaana government to take political revenge from him. In his maiden speech in Parliament he said he was sent to jail for a crime he did not commit. “My conscience knows that I am innocent. I have been engaged in clean politics. I have not been engaged in any fraud or corruption during my political career,” he said. The MP said it was the yahapalana... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Tamil-speaking people in East - Hakeem asked for separate admin district in 2015: PCoI told
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader, MP Rauff Hakeem had requested former president Maithripala Sirisena and former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to create a separate administrative district for Tamil-speaking people in the Eastern Province, the PCoI into the Easter Sunday attacks was told on Monday. He said he had made this request during the 2015 presidential election and that it was a just proposal because people have to conduct their administrative work in their own language. “The SLMC was of the view that a separate administrative district should... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Parliamentary group approves PM’s proposal to ban butchering of cows
A proposal to ban butchering of cows in Sri Lanka has been approved by the parliamentary group of the ruling party. A parliamentary group meeting of the governing party was held at the parliamentary premises at 11 am this morning (08). The proposal has been submitted at the meeting by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Prime Minister has made a proposal to importing beef from other countries instead of butchering cows for beef within the country. Reportedly, the Premier’s proposal has been approved by the parliamentary group.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Oil Slick Spotted Near Burning VLCC Off Sri Lanka
A Sri Lankan Navy boat sprays water on the New Diamond, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) chartered by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), that was carrying the equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil, after a fire broke out off east coast of Sri Lanka September 8, 2020. Sri Lankan Airforce media/Handout via REUTERS By Waruna Karunatilake COLOMBO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s navy said on Tuesday that an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded supertanker off the country’s east coast, as efforts to extinguish a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Bombay HC refuses bail to Finnish woman arrested for helping Sri Lankan national illegally migrate to Europe
The Bombay high court last week refused bail to a 60-year-old Finnish national arrested for helping a Sri Lankan national to illegally migrate to Europe. Justice Sarang Kotwal rejected the bail plea of Miira Mirva Helena Pasma observing that there were strong circumstances against her. Pasma was arrested after Sri Lankan national Kuhapriya Thevarasa was found carrying a forged French passport issued in the name of Pasma on June 28, 2019, at Mumbai airport. Thevarasa was stopped from boarding a flight to Frankfurt after the airline staff suspected immigration stamps... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
Fires of communalism were fanned by anti-Sinhala-Buddhist ideologues
The abuse of history has been one of the major contributory factors that led to the exacerbation of the North-South relations. If our political/social scientists had balanced the mono-ethnic extremism of the North with the Southern forces rising against the provocative politics of the peninsula (Example: 12% Jaffna Tamils demanding 50% of power at the centre) and given both the due weightage, the communal conflagration that kept the nation burning for 33 years could have been avoided. Instead the anti-Sinhala-Buddhist ideologues in academia and NGOs played foul by manufacturing and reinforcing the mono-causal perspective... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
To hide embarrassment to comrade Sooka/ITJPSL, LTTE diaspora campaigns against Sri Lanka’s Defense Attache in UK
The International Truth & Justice Project (Sri Lanka) administered under EU funded Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa, has apologized to Brig. Ravindra Dias for wrongfully using his picture claiming it to be Maj. General Suresh Salley, the Director of Sri Lanka State Intelligence Service. This apology came 2 months after a letter of demand was sent by attorneys representing Brig. Dias to Sooka & ITJP(SL) on 6 July 2020. A sum of Rs.5,000,000 has also been demanded from Sooka and/or ITJP(SL). Naturally, the LTTE lobbyis embarrassed & what do they do about it – pluck out the name... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/09/20)
It’s a lift-off: Russia’s ‘Sputnik V’ Covid-19 vaccine LAUNCHED into public circulation
The first batch of Russia’s pioneering coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V has been greenlighted for public use and has already entered civilian circulation, the Russian Ministry of Health has announced. The vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, “has undergone necessary quality tests” and “has entered civilian circulation,” the ministry said in a short statement on Tuesday. More batches are on their way to be distributed across Russian regions, it added. The announcement marks another milestone in the development of Gam-COVID-Vac, better known by its trade name... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
Sputnik V questions ANSWERED: Head of team financing world’s first Covid-19 vaccine explains formula to critics
Kirill Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund - one of the world's leading sovereign funds with a reserve capital of $10 billion under its management.Since the launch of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by scientists from Moscow's Gamaleya Center, Russia has seen immense interest and expressions of hope from many countries and has received requests for 1 billion doses. However, it has also faced criticism and questions from some Western countries and companies, especially those developing their own vaccines—often based on technologies yet to be proven for safety and efficacy, such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
Sri Lankan Economy Further Disrupted by Covid 19 – Work.lk Founder
E-Future Tech Systems (Pvt) Ltd Celebrates 3rd Anniversary with a Bang In addition to ensuring a safe and healthy working environments, Sri Lankan businesses must innovate and adapt workplaces as the Covid-19 Global Pandemic has brought forward a transition in to on-line work practices while creating new vistas for freelancer and team-sharing platforms, said Anjana Rathnayake, founder of work.lk, jobpal.lk and rubik.lk which continue to disrupt the job market and the gig economy. “The Covid 19 Global Pandemic has directly and indirectly affected over billions of both formal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ව්‍යාපාර කෝවිඩ් 19 වසංගතයට මුහුණ දීම සඳහා නව්‍යකරණය විය යුතුය
ඊ-ෆියුචර් ටෙක් සිස්ටම්ස් තෙවන සංවත්සරය උත්කර්ෂයෙන් සමරයි කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය හේතුකොටගෙන ඇතිවු නව වාතාවරණයට මුහුණදීමට ශ්රී ලාංකීය ව්‍යාපාර ආරක්ෂිත හා සෞඛ්‍ය සම්පන්න සේවා පරිසරයක් සහතික කරලීමට අමතරව, ව්‍යාපාර නව්‍යකරණය හා සේවා ස්ථාන සහමුලින්ම පරිවර්තනයක් සිදුකළ යුතු බව work.lk, jobpal.lk සහ rubik.lk නිර්මාතෘ අංජන රත්නායක මහතා පවසා සිටි. “කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය විධිමත් හා අවිධිමත් සේවකයින් බිලියන ගණනකට සෘජුව හා වක්‍රව බලපෑම් එල්ල කර ඇත. පූර්ව අර්බුද මට්ටම්, එනම් 2019 සිව්වන කාර්තුව හා සසඳන විට, කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය හේතුකොටගෙන ලෝකයේ රැකියා නියුක්තිකයන්ගෙන් සියයට 10.5කගේ රැකියා අහිමිවිමක් අපේක්ෂා කරන අතර,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
SRI LANKA BEING THE FIRST "VOLUNTEER" TO RESCUE BURNING OIL TANKER NEW DIAMOND SHOULD PURSUE A COURSE OF ACTION DEEMED PROPER TO BUY THE 270000 MT OF CRUDE OIL AND 170000 MT OF DIESEL IN THE SALVAGED TANKER.
The law of salvage is a principle of Maritime Law whereby any person who helps recover another person’s ship or cargo in peril at sea is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the property salved. Maritime law is inherently international, and although salvage laws vary from one country to another, generally there are established conditions to be met to allow a claim of salvage. The law of salvage is the result of the Latin negotiorum gestio concept. In the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
පාර්ලිමේන්තු සභාවක් මොකට ද?
අපේ රටේ විධායකයට අදාළ විධිවිධාන පනවලා තියෙන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 7, 8 සහ 9 කියන පරිච්ඡේද තුනේ. 7 වැනි පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් කියන්නේ ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා පත් කරගන්නා විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ගැන. 8 වැනි පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් කියන්නේ ඒ ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් පත් කරන අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලය ගැන. 9 වැනි පරිච්ඡේදයෙන් කියන්නේ රාජ්‍ය සේවය ගැන. ඉතින් මේ බෙදීම ඉතාමත් පැහැදිළි එකක්. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 7, 8 සහ 9 කියන පරිච්ඡේද “විධායකය” කියලා නම් කරලා තියෙන එකෙනුත් ඒවායේ අන්තර්ගත විධිවිධානවල ස්වභාවය පැහැදිළි වෙනවා. ජනරජයේ විධායකයට අදාළ විධිවිධාන ඒ පරිච්ඡේදවල තියෙනවා කියලා ඒකෙන් අපි තේරුම් ගන්නවා. හැබැයි එහෙම කියපු පමණින් ජනරජයේ විධායකයට අයිති හැම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
ශ්රී ලංකාව ගෝලීය නවෝත්පාදන කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානයක් බවට පත් කරනවා - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පවසයි
ශ්රී ලංකාව ගෝලීය නවෝත්පාදන කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානයක් බවට පත් කිරීම සඳහා නව රජය තොරතුරු හා සන්නිවේදන තාක්ෂණ ක්ෂේත්‍රයට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දී ඇති බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.07 දින පැවසීය. ඉන්දියාවේ තෙවැනි විශාලතම තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ සමාගම වන එච්.සී.එල් (HCL) ටෙක්නොලොජීස් හි පළමු ගෝලීය බෙදාහැරීම් මධ්‍යස්ථානය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා කළ කතාව මෙසේය, එච්.සී.එල් ටෙක්නොලොජීස් සිය පළමු ගෝලීය බෙදාහැරීමේ මධ්‍යස්ථානය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට ඔබ හා එක්වීමට ලැබීම මහත් සතුටක්. ජාතියක් වශයෙන්, එච්.සී.එල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
Remarks by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa for the Inauguration of HCL Technologies’ First Global Delivery Center in Sri Lanka
His Excellency the High Commissioner of India, Chairman of the BOI, Honorable Executives of HCL Technologies, and all those who are virtually joining us today. It gives me great pleasure to join you on the occasion of HCL Technologies inaugurating its first Global Delivery Center in Sri Lanka. As a nation, we are not only honored to welcome a multinational technology giant such as HCL, but we are also thankful for the opportunities that this center will offer our youth. As you know, the new Government has prioritized the ICT... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
“බුදුපුත් සුරක්ෂා සෞඛ්‍ය රක්ෂණාවරණය“ ඔක්තෝම්බර් 01 දා සිට ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්න අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගෙන් උපදෙස්
මෙතෙක් ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවූ බෞද්ධ ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලා 15000 ක් ආවරණය වන “බුදුපුත් සුරක්ෂා සෞඛ්‍ය රක්ෂණාවරණ“ වැඩසටහන ලබන ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස 01 වනිදා සිට ආරම්භ කරන්නැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.07 දින උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. නව රජය පිහිටුවීමෙන් පසුව අරලියගහ මන්දිරියේ පැවති, බුද්ධ ශාසන අරමුදලේ 84 වෙනි පාලක මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමට එක් වෙමින්, අරමුදලේ සභාපතිවරයා වශයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේය. ඒ අනුව බුදුපුත් සුරක්ෂා සෞඛ්‍ය රක්ෂණාවරණ වැඩසටහනට බුද්ධ ශාසන අරමුදලෙන් රුපියල් මිලියන 40 ක මුදලක් ආරම්භයේදී ප්‍රදානය කිරීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ඊට අමතරව මෙම අරමුදලට රජයෙන් රුපියල් මිලියන 50ක මුදලක් දායක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
20ත්...,19ය ව්‍යවස්ථා කුමන්ත්‍රණයේම දිගුවක් වුවත් 20ට සුදුහුනු ගාන ආචාර්යවරු....!
"විස්සේ හරි වැරැද්ද" මැයෙන් ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති විසින් ලියන ලද ලිපියක් 2020.09.07 දින www.lankaweb.com වෙබ් අඩවියේ පළ වී තිබේ. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2020/09/06/%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%92%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%8a%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%9a-%e0%b7%84%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%92-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%90%e0%b6%af%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%af/ එකී ලිපියේ දැක්වෙන පහත ඡේදයන් සැළකීමේදී 19ය සහ 20 ගැන මෙන්ම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 70 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව සහ 2002 දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ 19ය සහ එයට අදාල ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරු 07 දෙනාගේ තීරණය පිළිබද මූලික අවබෝධයක් නොමැතිව හෝ එම කාරණා යටපත්වන ලෙස එම ලිපිය රචනා කර ඇති බව පෙනේ. එකී ලිපියේ සදහන් 'අපි' යන ඔහු සමග සම්බන්ධ අනෙක් අයගේ ස්ථාවරයද එය විය හැකි හෙයින් ඒ ලිපිය මගින් දක්වන කරුණු මගින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
Wigneswaran’s folly
Provocative statements by the former Northern Province Chief Minister will only serve to harden the majority community stand on 13th Amendment Colombo, September 7: Controversial and provocative statements made by the Tamil Makkal Thesiya Koottani (TMTK) MP and former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran are likely to result in a hardening of the majority Sinhala community’s stand on the contentious 13 th.Amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution. The 13 A, enacted in 1987 at India’s insistence, gives Sri Lanka’s provinces a modicum of autonomy through devolution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
SLMC agreed to Zahran’s policies before the 2015 General Election: Shibly Farook
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) had agreed to a policy statement submitted by National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) Leader Zahran Hashim to the representatives of five political parties before the 2015 General Election, former SLMC Provincial Councilor Shibly Farook today admitted at the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying before the Commission Farook said that the SLMC had agreed to most of the policies Zahran had mentioned in his statement before the 2015 General Election. Earlier, Secretary to the Alhaj Abdul Jawaadh Alim Waliyyullah Trust, Mohammed Zailan informed the Commission that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
President calls for removal of taxes imposed on gem and jewelry industry
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed relevant officials to remove the 14% income tax levied on profits earned by gem and jewelry manufacturers and the 15% import tax on gold. The income tax concession given to the gem and jewelry industry from 1971 was removed from the income tax policy introduced in 2017. This created a situation where the actual income earned from the export of gems and jewelry was not disclosed, states President’s Media Division. https://youtu.be/CeQZXb6YBPc “In 2018, a 15% tax was imposed on gold imports. These taxes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
PM on making Sri Lanka a global innovation hub
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the new government has prioritized the ICT sector and establishing a knowledge and technology based society to make Sri Lanka a global innovation hub. In addition to implementing a comprehensive digitization policy for the country, the government is also working on a number of other related programs, said Prime Minister Rajapaksa. These include setting up a Citizen Centric Digital Government, establishing a digitally-inclusive Sri Lanka and promoting IT entrepreneurship, he added. The Premier made these remarks addressing the inauguration ceremony of Indian technology company... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
Over 6,000 persons occupy quarantine centers - NOCPCO
Over 6,000 persons are currently occupying the tri-service-managed quarantine centers, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said. Accordingly, 6,610 individuals are undergoing the mandatory quarantine process at 63 quarantine centers (QC). As of this morning (07), 38,359 individuals in total have been sent back home after the quarantine process. A total of 32 quarantined individuals have left for their homes today following subject to PCR tests. Among them, 04 persons are from Nipuna Bossa QC, 06 are from Passara UDMI QC, 01 from Hotel... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
Colombo HC issues summons on Rajitha and two others
The Colombo High Court today issued summons on former minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne and two others to appear before the court on October 29, over the case filed regarding the leasing of the Modara fisheries harbor. The other two defendants in the case, former Chairman of the Ceylon Fisheries Harbour Corporation (CFHC) Upali Liyanage and its former Managing Director Neil Ravindra Munasinghe, have also been issued summons. https://youtu.be/by6t_mLyJvU The Bribery Commission last month filed indictment against the former minister and the other two defendants, for allegedly causing losses... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
What’s the point of commissions? – Ali Sabry
Minister of Justice President’s Counsel Ali Sabry says that Independent Commissions have created a confusing situation within the country in the past few years. Speaking at an event held in the Wettamakada area in Kalutara yesterday (06), the Minister said that they have come to serve and not make amendments and write books. https://youtu.be/xipEH7x1SIY He says that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is removed to create an environment where the President can work better. By vesting power with the Police Commission through the 19th Amendment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/09/20)
19 A has no reason to remain in the Constitution of Sri Lanka, 20A is a welcome alternative. But 13 A remains yet to be removed.
When the people had sanctioned the removal of UNP from Parliament , there was no reason to keep 19A any more in the Constitution. It was introduced by Maithreepala Sirisena- Ranil Wickramasinghe duo on the19th April,2015, by Ranil Wickramasinghe to remove the executive powers of the President and make the Presidency a Ceremonial office, and as he knew that he would never be the President of Sri Lanka, to have the executive powers of the President conferred on himself as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Maithrpala Sirisena was duped to accept it. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
Wiggy stop stoking communal tension
5 September 2020 Mr. C.V. WigneswaranLeader, TAMIL MAKKAL THERSIYA KUTTANISri Lanka ParliamentKotteSri Lanka Dear Mr. Wigneswaran (Wiggy): What's going on Wiggy? You have exposed yourself indirectly that you bombed your Grade 8 Ceylon History' subject and failed it miserably, at Royal College, by giving a helluva-go to usurp the Wanniyalaeto (Veddha) community's rightful place as the indegenous peoples of Ceylon on behalf of your Tamils. You bluntly say that you Tamils were the first indigenous people that walked on the kabook earth of Sri Lanka. Prove it Wiggy. Let... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
“පාංශු” සිනමා සිත්තම : සංහිඳියාවේ සභ්‍යත්වය ලෙස
විසාකේස චන්ද්‍රෙස්කරම්ගේ “පාංශු” මෙරට සිදු වු දේශපාලන සංසිද්ධියක් විෂය කරගත් සිනමා නිර්මාණයකි. 1988⁄89 “දේශප්‍රේමී” නැගිටීම, කුරිරු රාජ්‍ය මර්දනය හා පුද්ගල අතුරුදහන්වීම් සහ දේශපාලන ඝාතන එහි පසුබිම් කතාව වේ. අතුරුදහන් වූ කැරලිකරුවෙකුගේ මවකගේ (බබා නෝනා) දෘෂ්ඨියෙන් දිග හැරෙන කතා තේමාව සහ සිද්ධි සමූහය, එම කැරලිකාර පසුබිමට වඩා ඉන් වසර 6 ට පසු එළ‍ඹි පශ්චාත් කැරලිකාර කාලපරිච්ඡේදය පාදක කොට ගනී. එනම්, කැරැල්ලේ වින්දිතයන් සහ චෝදනාකරුවන් ඇතුළු විවිධ පාර්ශවයන්ගේ සමාජ පසුබිම සහ දුක් දෝමනස්සයන් සිනමා රූපී පැහැයෙන් එහි අඩංගුය. යුක්තිය සඳහා වූ අරගලය මෙන්ම යළි ජීවිතය ජීවත්කිරීමේ අති මානුෂීය කතා පුවතද “පාංශු” හි තේමාවට ඇතුළත් ය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
Statement of the National Joint Committee on the Proposed 20th Amendment and the Urgent Need to Repeal the 13th and 16th Amendments
The National Joint Committee wish to salute the principled stand taken by Honourable Sarath Weerasekera Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Authorities, that he is against the Provincial Council system and would endeavor its abolition. We hail the Honourable Prime Minister’s bold decision to advise the President under the existing provisions of the Constitution to appoint Honorable Sarath Weerasekera for this office, when it was public knowledge that Mr. Weerasekera was always against the thirteenth amendment and the Provincial Council system introduced by this amendment. We believe that entrusting both Provincial Councils and Local... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ධුරයට රනිල්ව යෝජනා කරයි... - අර්ජුන
එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට හිමි ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ධුරය එහි නායක රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට ලබා දිය යුතු බවට හිටපු අමාත්‍ය අර්ජුන රණතුංග මහතා පවසයි. අද (6) එම පක්ෂයේ 74 වැනි සංවත්සරයට එක් වෙමින් සිරිකොත පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානය ඉදිරිපිටදී මාධ්‍යයට අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. එහිදී අර්ජුන රණතුංග හිටපු අමාත්‍යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසුවේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ධුරය ලබා ගැනීමට එජාප නායක රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ප්‍රතික්ෂේ කර සිටින නමුත් නව තත්ත්වයන් හමුවේ එම මන්ත්රී ධුරය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට ලබා දීම වඩාත් සුදුසු බවට තමන් පෞද්ගලිකව සිතන බවයි. ''පාර්ලිමේනතුවට විසිවැනි සංශෝධනය ඉදිරියේදී ගෙන එනවා. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
විස්සේ හරි වැරැද්ද
“19 වැනි සංශෝධනය” කියන නමින් හඳුන්වපු ව්‍යවස්ථා මංකොල්ලයට කාරණා දෙකක් පදනම් කරගෙන අපි තරයේ ම විරුද්ධ වුනා. මූලිකව ම, ඒ වැඩේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි, නීති විරෝධි වැඩක්. ඒ කාරණය විස්තරාත්මක විදිහට අපි පැහැදිළි කරලා තියෙනවා. දෙවනුවට අපි අවධාරණය කළේ මේ ව්‍යවස්ථා මංකොල්ලය හින්දා ඇති වෙච්ච දේශපාලන අස්ථාවර බව. 2018 ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේ ඉඳලා 2019 අවුරුද්දේ ජනාධිපතිවරණය පවත්තන කල් රට මුළුමනින් ම අකර්මන්‍ය වුනා. ආරක්‍ෂක මණ්ඩලය රැස්වුනේ නෑ. අයවැයක් සම්මත කරගත්තේ නෑ. මහ බෝමබ පිපුරුම් මාලාවකින් විශාල පිරිසක් මිය ගියා. සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය කඩාගෙන වැටුණා. සමාජ - ආර්ථික හැම පැත්තකින් ම රට එක තැන පල්වෙන්න පටන් ගත්තා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
මානව හිමිකම් රකිමින් ලෝකයේ දරුණුම ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් පිරිසක් පුනරුත්ථාපනය කළ රට ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකාවට පිළිගැනීමක් ලැබුණා - අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දිවංගත චන්ද්‍රසිරි ගජධීර මහතාගේ වර්ෂ පූර්ණ ගුණානුස්මරණ උත්සවයේදී කියයි
ලෝකයේ දරුණුම ත්‍රස්තවාදී පිරිසක් කිසිඳු ගැටළුකාරී තත්ත්වයකින් තොරව පුනරුත්ථාපනය කර නැවත සමාජයට යොමු කරවීමට හිටපු අමාත්‍ය ගජධීර මහතාගේ නායකත්වය ඉතාම වැදගත් වූ බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.06 දින දිවංගත චන්ද්‍රසිරි ගජධීර මහතාගේ වර්ෂ පූර්ණ ගුණානුස්මරණ උත්සවයට සහභාගී වෙමින් ප්රකාශ කළේය. මානව හිමිකම් රකිමින් ලොව දරුණුම ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් පුනරුත්ථාපනය කළ රට ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලොව ඉදිරියේ පිළිගැනීමක් ලබා ගැනීමට හැකියාව ලැබුණු බවත්, ඒ සියල්ල සඳහා දිවංගත චන්ද්‍රසිරි ගජධීර මහතාගේ දේශපාලන උගත්කම හා මහත්මා ගුණය හේතු වූ බවත් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කියා සිටියේය. “ යුද්දේ ඉවරවෙන කාලෙ වෙන කොට චන්ද්‍රසිරි ගජධීර මහතාබන්ධනාගාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ඉල්ලීමට අනුව බිත්තර මිල හෙට සිට රුපියල් දෙකකින් අඩු කරයි
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා කළ ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව හෙට 2020.09.07 දින සිට බිත්තර මිල රුපියල් 2.00 කින් පහළ දැමීමට සමස්ත ලංකා බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සංගමය තීරණය කර ඇත. සමස්ත ලංකා බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සංගමයේ නිලධාරීන් හා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක් තංගල්ල කාල්ටන් නිවසේදී 2020.09.05 දින පැවැත්විණි. මෙම හමුවේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පාරිභෝගික ජනතාවට සහන සැළසීම වෙනුවෙන් බිත්තර මිල පහල දමන්නැයි කළ යෝජනාවට ප්‍රතිචාර ලෙස සමස්ත ලංකා බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සංගමය මෙම තීරණයට එළැඹිණි. ඒ අනුව හෙට සිට සුදු බිත්තරයක් රු.18.00 කට හා රතු බිත්තරයක් රු.18.50 ක මිලකට බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
20 මගින් 70.1 ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කරන්නට යාමේදී රජයට වැරදි නීති උපදෙස් ලබා දීමෙන් 2015 සහ 2020 නීතිපතිවරු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණවලට සහ 1988 ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ රීතිවලට ගරු කර නැද්ද?
මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා 33.2.(ඈ) අනුව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව 2018 නොවැම්බර් මස 09 වැනි දින අංක 2096/70 දරන අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් පත‍්‍රය මගින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවාහැරි අවස්ථාවේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය 2018.12.13 දින තීන්දු (Judgement) කරන ලද්දේ 70.1 ව්‍යවස්ථව අනුව වසර 4 1/2 ක් යන තෙක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීමට නොහැකි බවයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා වසර 4 1/2 කට පෙර පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීම ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය විසින් අවලංගු කිරීමෙන් 2015 දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ 19ය මගින් 70.1 ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය වී ඇති බවත් වෙනත් ව්‍යවස්ථා එනම් 33.2.(ඈ) අනුව්‍යවස්ථාව අභිබවා 70.1 අනුව්‍යවස්ථාව බලවත් බවත් තහවුරු වූ අතර, ඒ අනුව පැහැදිලිවම 2002 දී 19යට දුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
Two books written by the Defense Secretary are released under the patronage of the President
Two books written by retired Defense Secretary Major General Kamal Gunaratne were launched at the Kularatne Hall of Ananda College, Colombo today, released under the patronage of the President. https://youtu.be/Cdgum25hNt0 The English translation of the book "Gotabhaya" written by the Defense Secretary as well as the novel 'Underworld' based on a series of true events were released at this event. Meanwhile, the commemoration of the late Minister Chandrasiri Gajadeera was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Uyanwatta Stadium in Matara today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
It is not going to be easy
Sri Lanka is well and truly in the vortex of Indian Ocean geo-politics, and the three new envoys to Beijing, New Delhi and Washington -Dr. Palitha Kohona, Milinda Moragoda and Ravinatha Aryasinha, will have their work cut out for them in their new stations Colombo, September 6: Sri Lanka is in the process of sending new envoys to three of its most important diplomatic stations, Beijing, New Delhi and Washington. Dr.Palitha Kohona goes to China, Milinda Moragoda to India and Ravinatha Aryasinha to the US. All three have had distinguished... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
“If the Tamils of Sri Lanka do not the right to self-determination they will become Sinhalese within 15 to 20 years,” says Wigneswaran.
"The genuine grievance of our people is the non-settlement of their political issues. Not the denial of economic sops!" the former Northern Province Chief Minister said. Colombo, September 6: Maintaining his penchant for making controversial statements, the former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran told the Sunday Observer in an interview that if the Tamils of Sri Lanka do not get the right to self-determination they will become Sinhalese within 15 to 20 years. Here are excerpts: Q: You maiden speech in Parliament last week... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
NEWS‘All those in authority who failed to avert Easter Sunday attacks will be punished’ – PM
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Friday that punitive action will be initiated against all persons who failed to avert the devastating 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, based on the findings of the ongoing Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the carnage. “Notwithstanding their positions and standing in society, we will file legal action against those identified by the Commission for their failure to prevent the coordinated scourge of terror”, the premier assured. The Prime Minister was responding to Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith’s public statement that justice should be meted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
Fire on oil tanker completely doused
The fire onboard the crude oil tanker MT New Diamond has been completely doused, the Commander of Sri Lanka Navy confirmed. However, there still remains a risk of the ship catching on fire again due to the temperature of its current location, the Commander told media following a meeting held with the Attorney General today (06). https://youtu.be/PHsTn4QRYIs The tanker MT New Diamond had been sailing 38 nautical miles off Sangamankanda Point east of Sri Lankan seas at around 8.30 am on Thursday (03), when the unfortunate turn of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
COVID-19: WHO tempers quick vaccine hopes
The World Health Organization says that it did not expect widespread immunisation against the novel coronavirus until mid-2021, tempering hopes just as research revealed encouraging early results from a Russian vaccine. The virus which has killed nearly 870,000 people worldwide continues to spread, with Italy’s flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi now in hospital after becoming the latest high-profile figure to test positive for Covid-19. Across the world, governments are hoping to announce a vaccine as soon as possible against the virus, which has infected well over 26 million people, upended millions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
Russian coronavirus vaccine results have been published – here’s what they reveal
President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it had been approved for use by the regulators. President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it had been approved for use by the regulators – at least, in Russia. However, the announcement caused consternation among scientists and clinicians in the rest of the world as human trials for the vaccine – nicknamed Sputnik V – had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/09/20)
HOT DIP GALVANIZING OF EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY THROUGH 20A TO PREVENT RUSTING AND CORROSION
The 43 page draft amendment No.20 for the constitution is now in the public domain. Most of us thought the amendment might be couple of pages, as there was not enough time from the date of general election to draft an elaborate amendment. Surprisingly, The Gota, Mahinda, Basil chemistry had produced a masterpiece draft legislation, which goes beyond some of the basics of 1978 original constitution. It was not possible to compile a draft like this in a couple of days. Therefore, we can safely conclude... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Ehi Passiko
Ven. Prof. Kotapitiye Rahula Thero, Our perception and opinion and knowledge are all based on the amount and quality of information we have about phenomena As a panchaskanda, not free from loba-dwesha-moha, your opinion on Milinda Moragoda or on Amin of the Ulema Sabaha is a world of your own that you have developed. Please see the world I have developed with just two examples. These essays and more are available from the Lankaweb site or from the Colombo Today website. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2020/06/08/%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%94%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%bd%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%99%e0%b7%85%e0%b7%99%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%b3%e0%b6%b1%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b7%81%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%92/ ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට හා රටට සෙත් පතා කතරගමදී සර්ව රාත්‍රික පරිත්‍රාණ ධර්ම දේශනාවක්
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට හා රටට සෙත් පතා සර්ව රාත්‍රික පරිත්‍රාණ ධර්ම දේශනාවක් 2020.09.04 දින කතරගම පූජා භූමියේ අෂ්ඨඵල බෝධීන් වහන්සේ අභියස දී පැවැත්වුණි. රුහුණු මාගම් පත්තුවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක, කතරගම ශාසනාරක්ෂක බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති, කිරි වෙහර රජමහා විහාරාධිපති කොබවක ධම්මින්ද නාහිමි, කතරගම අභිනවාරාමාධිපති රුහුණු මාගම්පත්තුවේ ප්‍රධාන අධිකරණ සංඝනායක කපුගම සරණතිස්ස නාහිමි ඇතුළු මහා සංඝරත්නය දේශනා කළ මෙම පිරිත් සජ්ජායනාව ශ්‍රවනය කිරීම සඳහා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ද එක්ව සිටියේය. ඊට සමගාමීව අද 2020.09.05 දින පෙරවරුවේ කතරගම අභිනවාරාම විහාරස්ථානයේදී සංඝගත දක්ෂිණාවක් පැවැත්විණි. අනතුරුව රුහුණු මහා කතරගම දේවාලයේ දේව පූජාව සඳහා එක්වුණු අග්රාමාත්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Chinese embassy gifts kits for disadvantaged Lankan school kids
Over 700 students from 19 schools in Sri Lankan capital city received stationery and panda school bags An official of the Chinese embassy handing over a panda school bag to a student. Photo: Ajith Perera/Xinhua) COLOMBO, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — Over 700 students from 19 schools in Sri Lankan capital city have received gifts of stationery and panda school bags from the Chinese embassy to Sri Lanka. Students from different religious communities were joyful at the ceremony receiving the gifts on Wednesday. Due to the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Distinguished diplomat Dr.Palitha Kohona tipped to be Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to China
Dr.Kohona comes to the job armed with a distinguished record in academics, international law and practical diplomacy. He has advanced degrees from three countries and experience as a civil servant with the Australian and Sri Lankan governments and the UN. Colombo, September 5 (newsin.asia): Dr. Palitha T. B. Kohona, a former Sri Lankan Foreign secretary and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York, is tipped to be the country’s Ambassador to China, reliable sources said. Asked about it, Dr.Kohona would neither confirm nor deny the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Sri Lanka Sufi scholar warns against extremist groups
Sufi Scholar in Sri Lanka have raised alarm on radical groups. Sufi scholar is receiving threats from Wahhabi groups. According to reports, 48 radical islamic groups are active in the country. https://www.wionews.com/videos/sri-lanka-sufi-scholar-warns-against-extremist-groups-325404... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Government to go ahead with Ruwanpura Expressway
Government is to go ahead with the construction of the Ruwanpura Expressway (E06), with instructions being given by the Minister of Highways Johnston Fernando, to expedite the commencement of its work. The expressway will begin from the Kahatuduwa exit point of the Southern Expressway to Pelmadulla and will he 73.9km long. First phase from Kahatuduwa to Ingiriya will be 23.4km while the second phase will from Ingiriya to Ratnapura and is expected to 21km in length. The first phase is estimated to cost Rs 80 billion and is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine showed antibody response in initial trials
Russia’s “Sputnik-V” Covid-19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in early-stage trials, according to results published on Thursday (03) by The Lancet medical journal that were hailed by Moscow as an answer to its critics. The results of the two trials, conducted between June and July and involving 76 participants, showed 100 per cent of participants developing antibodies to the coronavirus and no serious side effects, The Lancet said. Russia licensed the two-shot jab for domestic use last month, the first country to do so and before any data had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases count hits 3,121
Three more persons tested positive for COVID-19 today (05), taking total number of positive cases confirmed in the country to 3,121. The Department of Government Information confirmed that the latest cases include 02 arrivals from India and 01 inmate at the Kandakadu Rehabilitation Centre. According to statistics, only 191 active cases are currently receiving medical care at hospitals. In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 2,918 as 11 patients were discharged from hospitals earlier today. Sri Lanka has thus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Three arrivals test positive for COVID-19
The total number of positive cases confirmed in the country reached 3,118 as three new COVID-19 patients were detected today (05). The Department of Government Information confirmed that the latest cases are arrivals from India, Bahrain and Qatar. https://youtu.be/N--XxiuR0Rw As per statistic, only 188 active cases are currently receiving medical care at hospitals. In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 2,918 as 11 patients were discharged from hospitals earlier today. Sri Lanka has thus far... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
PCoI on political victimization issues summons on Vijayakala
The Presidential Commission on Inquiry (PCoI) probing the incidents of political victimization has issued summons on former State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran and Kumaran Sarvananda, who contested the General Election 2015 from the United National Party (UNP). They are scheduled to appear before the Presidential Commission on the 17th of September. The PCoI decided to summon this duo based on a complaint filed by Police Constable Gnanalingam Mayuran who was previously attached to the Chunnakam Police. Gnanalingam, who testified before the Presidential Commission today (05), had claimed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
President stresses importance of maintaining centralized healthcare system
One of the important lessons emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic is the importance of maintaining a centralized healthcare system President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said. Although the administrations of most of Sri Lanka’s state-run hospitals are vested with the Provincial Councils, fortunately there were enough hospitals nationwide under the management of the Health Ministry that could be utilized without difficulty during the height of the pandemic, the President said further. “Had we been in a situation where healthcare was a subject completely devolved to the Provincial Councils, the efficacy of Sri Lanka’s response... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/09/20)
Fire at 'New Diamond crude oil tanker' contained - SL Navy
The Navy says that the fire that broke out in the New Diamond ship in the eastern seas is now contained. Meanwhile, the Indian Coast Guard also confirmed that the fire that broke out on the ship has been brought under control. They said this by leaving a special note on their official Twitter account.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
EDUCATION REFORMS: TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS
Before elected to the president position, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa broadly talked about technical vocational education and training (TVET). After the general election in 2020, the president has appointed two state ministers for education reforms and TVET system development, in addition to the minister of education. TVET system has spread in many countries as it directly related to economic development and growth, many western countries spend billions of US dollars for TVET, and UNESCO has developed policies and procedures for TVET, which is the most vital aspect of education reforms in many countries. Although developed countries... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
[This article was first published in the Daily News of 04 June 2013. I have requested republication in Lanka Web as the issues discussed are relevant today as they were then]. “QUO VADIS, NORTH? When the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed in July 1987 it was hailed as “New Delhi's biggest diplomatic coup, which had immense strategic value”. Indeed. The conditions imposed on Sri Lanka were intended to end the freedom it enjoyed in having independent defence, foreign affairs and regional administration policies. A significant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
තෙල් නෞකාවෙන් සමුද්‍රීය පරිසරයට සිදුවිය හැකි හානිය වළක්වා ගැනීමට උපරිම ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්න - අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දැනුම් දෙයි
MT - New Diamond තෙල් නෞකාවෙන් සමුද්‍රීය පරිසරයට සිදුවිය හැකි හානිය වළක්වා ගැනීමට උපරිම ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්න - අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දැනුම් දෙයි අනතුරට පත්වී ඇති MT- New Diamond තෙල් නෞකාවෙන් සමුද්‍රීය පරිසරයට සිදුවිය හැකි හානි වළක්වා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය උපරිම ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්නා ලෙස ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අදාළ බලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් ලබා දී තිබේ. පැය 24 පුරා ක්‍රියාත්මක ඒකාබද්ධ මෙහෙයුමක් ඔස්සේ අනතුරට පත් නෞකාවෙන් සමුද්‍රීය පරිසරයට ඇති විය හැකි හානිය වළක්වා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය සෑම පියවරක්ම ගන්නා ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස දන්වා ඇත. නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා, කතරගම කිරිවෙහෙර ආගමික වතාවත්වල නිරත වෙයි
ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.04 දින කතරගම කිරි වෙහෙර චෛත්‍ය රාජයාණන් වහන්සේ වැද පුදා ගත්තේය. රුහුණු මාගම් පත්තුවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක, කතරගම ශාසනාරක්ෂක බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති, කිරි වෙහෙර රජමහා විහාරාධිපති කොබවක ධම්මින්ද නාහිමියන් වහන්සේ බැහැ දුටු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය. අනතුරුව කතරගම දේවාල භූමියට පැමිණි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අෂ්ඨඵල බෝධිය වන්දනාමාන කළේය. මෙම ආගමික වතාවත් සඳහා කතරගම අභිනවාරාමාධිපති රුහුණු මාගම්පත්තුවේ අධිකරණ සංඝනායක කපුගම සරණතිස්ස නාහිමි සහ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ලොහාන් රත්වත්තේ, කතරගම ප්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ සභාපති චානක අමිල රංගන, රුහුණු කතරගම මහා දේවාලයේ බස්නායක නිලමේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
කොළොඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිපලයෙන් ජනතාව 19 වෙනි ව්‍යාවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරන ආකාරය වටහා ගෙන 20 බලගන්වන්නට පෙරට එන්න.
පසුගිය මැතිවරණයේදී ජනතාව විසින් කුඩ්ඩෙක් සේ සලකා ඉවත දැමු ජවිපාවුන්ගේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක යලිත් දේශපාලන පිටියට අවතීර්ණව, 20 වෙනි ව්‍යාවස්ථා සංශෝධනයට එරෙහිව කතා කිරීම අරඹා ඇත. ඒ සමගම 19 වෙනි ව්යාවස්තා සංශෝධනයේ වර්ණනාවද මාධ්‍ය හමු තබමින් ප්රකාශ කරමින් සිටි. ඔවුන්ගේ විග්‍රහයට අනුව, 19 වෙනි ව්යාවස්තා සංශෝධනයෙන් 20 වෙනි ව්යාවස්තා සංශෝධනයට සපැමිණීම ශිෂ්ඨාචාරයෙන් අශිෂ්ඨාචාරයට ගමන් කිරීමකි. මෙසේ ප්රකාශ කරන්නේ මිට සති තුනකට පෙර ජනතාව විසින් දේශපාලන පිටියෙන් එළවා නින්දාවට භාජනය කල දේශපාලන සංවිධානයක නායකයා තමා බව ඔහුට අමතකව ගොස් ඇති බැවිනි.. 19 හොදද නරකද තීරණය කරන්නේ මෙරට ජනතාව මිස අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක නොවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Ready to operate floating hospital to facilitate repatriation: Senadhipathi
Currently in discussion with authorities Avant Garde Chairman Nissanka Senadhipathi said he was prepared to operate a floating hospital and surgery to facilitate the repatriation of Sri Lankan migrant workers. Senadhipathi said that he is currently in discussion with Sri Lankan authorities to initiate the proposed programme. "About a month earlier, a plan was in place to repatriate migrant workers in an emergency situation such as this one. Therefore communications and documentation were in place to prepare cruise liners as floating hospitals or corona centres," he said. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Nothing wrong with section on dual citizenship : Mano
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP and Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader Mano Ganesan yesterday said there were aspects of the 20th Amendment which he cannot agree with, but would agree with the clause under which those with dual citizenship are allowed to come into Parliament. “ There are some aspects of the 20th Amendment which I don’t agree to but there is nothing wrong in the clause under which, those who hold dual citizenship are allowed to come into Parliament,” he said. “There is nothing wrong in those who hold... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
‘අද දෙරණ“ ගුවනේ සිට වාර්තා කළ ‘නිව් ඩයමන්ඩ්' නෞකාවේ ගිනි නිවීමේ මෙහෙයුම...
https://youtu.be/wTARjygiEUI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Owners hand over blazing ship to international salvage company
The owners of the crude oil tanker “MT New Diamond”, which was engulfed by flames on Thursday morning (03) off Sri Lanka, have handed over the vessel to an international salvage company. A team of the company is set to arrive in Sri Lanka on Monday (07), the chairperson of the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said. At around 8.30 am on Thursday (03), the oil tanker, carrying 270,000 metric tons of crude oil, had been sailing 38 nautical miles off Sangamankanda Point east of Sri Lankan seas, when the unfortunate turn... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Maha Sangha praises President for not attending private functions (Video)
https://youtu.be/tAs-HaM0oKA The Maha Sangha today expressed their views regarding certain appointments made by the President and the present government Meanwhile Ven. Asgiri Anunayake Thera expressed his views regarding the President's decision not to participate in private functions.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Special commission needed to review controversial court decisions during good governance - Sinhale Organization (Video)
The 'Sinhale' organization states that an investigation should be carried out into certain verdicts given during the period of good governance and those cases should be heard again. https://youtu.be/CA_OVbTmsPo The organization stated this at a press conference convened in Colombo today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
9 more ships to control crude tanker fire - No risk of fuel leakage to Sri Lanka (Photos)
Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard are currently engaged in a joint effort to control the fire raging in the oil tanker, MT New Diamond caused by an explosion. Nine ships have been deployed to control the fire. Meanwhile, the Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) ‘Sarang’ has arrived for disaster relief mission, to the sea area where the ill-fated oil tanker is located. Moreover, a special tug called TTT One which is equipped with dedicated firefighting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Three (03) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,115
Two arrivals from India and a seaman from the Philippines were among the four persons tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,115.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Mangala Samaraweera and Shani Abeysekera summoned before the political victimization commission
Presidential Commission probing incidents of political victimization issued notice on Mangala Samaraweera and Shani Abeysekera to appear before the Commission on September 16.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Sri Lankan and Indian forces working together to douse the Panama-flagged 'New Diamond' oil tanker on fire
The Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Air Force, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard continues to work together to contain the spread of fire erupted on board the oil tanker, MT New Diamond on 03rd September 2020 at 8.00 a.m. Accordingly, an MI 17 helicopter of Sri Lanka Air Force has been carrying out a number of aerial operations, to contain the raging flames by showering water from the skies. Meanwhile, the beach craft is conducting periodic air surveillance to spot the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
See the battle to stop fire consuming an oil tanker at sea
An oil tanker carrying 270,000 metric tons of crude oil has caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking a transnational firefighting mission. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/09/04/oil-tanker-on-fire-sri-lanka-india-jba-lon-orig.cnn/video/playlists/around-the-world/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
Sri Lankan Couple Spends Wedding Day Feeding the Homeless
A newlywed couple in Sri Lanka decided to do a kind gesture for the needy on their special day. ishan Thilakshanaabout a month ago ගුරුදෙවිඳුන් ගෙන් අහලා තියෙන්නේ මංපුතේ,දන් දෙන්න පුළුවන් වේලාවේ දෙන්න පුළුවන් හොදම දේ වටිම දේ දන් දෙන්න කියලා.💝 අතේ තියන සතේ හරි වියදන් කරලා මනුස්සයෙක්ගේ කුසක් පුරවන්න හිතුනු හැම මොහොතේදීම ඒ පින ඒ අයුරින්ම මගේ ජිවිතේ දී කරලා තියනවා💪...See more Love for others: Bride Anoma Geeganage and groom Dishan Thilakshana spent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/09/20)
USD 300 mn tyre factory for Hambantota
Minister of Industries Wimal Weerawansha and Hambantota International Port Group (Private) Limited (HIPG) held a meeting regarding a proposal to set up a tyre factory in Hambantota at the Ministry of Industries, Colombo 03 recently. HIPG CEO Ray Ren said the first tyre factory was to be built with an investment of USD 300 million. He also said that 2,000 employees are required for the factory and they would be recruited from the area. Also all the materials needed for the production of tyres would be obtained from Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
20 වෙනි ව්‍යාවස්ථා සංශෝධනය පෙරමුණෙහි තබාගෙන කටයුතු කරමු.
මෙරට ජනතාව වන අප විසින් විශාල පරිශ්‍රමයක් දරා නව රජයක් බිහිකරගෙන ඇත. එහි පළමු අදියර පසුගිය වසරේ නොවැම්බර් මස ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරයා වශයෙන් පත්කරමින් තැබූ පළමු පියවර, මහාමැතිවරණය නිමවෙන තෙක් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවත්වාගෙන ගියේ දහසක් දුෂ්කරතා මධ්‍යයේ බව අපි දුටුවෙමු. එතුමා දේශපාලන බිම්බෝම්බ අටවා තිබු මගදිගේ ගමන් කලේ ඉතා පළපුරුදු දේශපාලඥයෙකුටත් වඩා සුක්ෂම අයුරිනි. ඒ එතුමාව මේ යුගයේදී මෙරට සිදුකලයුතු වෙනස්කම් කිරීම උදෙසාම නිර්මාණය කොට ස්වභාවය විසින් දැයට පුදකළ විශේෂිත පුද්ගලයෙකු බැවිනි. ස්වාධින කොමිසන් සභා නම්වූ දේශපාලන බිම්බෝම්භයකට අසු නොවී එතුමා දේශපාලනිකව ගොඩ ඒම සම්බන්ධව අප එතුමාට අපේ විශේෂිත ගෞරවය පුදකළ යුතුමය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Asoka Bandarage on the timely new edition of her classic book “Colonialism in Sri Lanka
Dr. Asoka Bandarage discusses the new edition of her book "Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands from 1833-1886." This second expanded edition includes a significant new chapter, Neocolonialism in Sri Lanka, 2020, assessing the beleaguered state of Sri Lankan sovereignty in the midst of 2020, under the powerful forces of U.S., Chinese and Indian expansion in the region. https://youtu.be/S-UauKFizic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ සංස්කෘතික සහ සාහිත්‍ය සංකේතය රබීන්ද්‍රනාත් තාගෝර්
රබීන්ද්‍රනාත් තාගෝර් ඉන්දියානු සාහිත්‍යයේ හා සංස්කෘතියේ වඩාත්ම බලගතු චරිතයකි. ඔහු ජාත්‍යන්තර පිළිගැනීමක් ලැබූ පළමු ඉන්දීය ලේඛකයන්ගෙන් කෙනෙකි. තාගෝර් කවියෙකු ලෙස හැඳින්වූවද , ඔහු නාට්‍යකරුවෙකු, නවකතාකරුවෙකු, කෙටිකතා රචකයෙකු සහ ප්‍රබන්ධ නොවන ගද්‍ය රචකයෙකු ලෙස සාහිත්‍යයට කැපී පෙනෙන දායකත්වයක් ලබා දුන්නේය. තාගෝර් ඉන්දියානු සංස්කෘතික පුනරුදයේ ප්‍රමුඛ කාර්‍යභාරයක් ඉටු කලේය. ඔහු දළ වශයෙන් ගීත 2,230 ක් රචනා කල අතර ඔහුගේ ජීවිතයේ අවසානය දක්වා සිතුවම් 3,000 කට ආසන්න ප්‍රමාණයක් පින්තාරු කළේය. ඔහුගේ සියලු සාහිත්‍ය ජයග්‍රහණවලට අමතරව තාගෝර් දාර්ශනිකයෙකු හා අධ්‍යාපනවේදියෙකු වූ අතර 1921 දී සාම්ප්‍රදායික අධ්‍යාපනයට අභියෝග කරන විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයක් වන විශ්ව භාරතී විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය ආරම්භ කළේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
කොකා කෝලා සමාගම සහ ශ්රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය එක්ව පී.සී.ආර්. (PCR) කට්ටල 16800ක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට පරිත්‍යාග කරයි
කොකා කෝලා සමාගම හා ශ්රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය එක්ව පී.සී.ආර්. (PCR) පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල 16800 ක් හා VTM 17000 ක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා වෙත පරිත්‍යාග කිරීම 2020.09.02 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. කොවිඩ් 19 රෝගීන්ට ප්‍රතිකාර කරන රෝහල් 06ක් සඳහා මෙම වෛද්‍ය උපකරණ කට්ටල යොමු කිරීමට නියමිතය. එම උපකරණවල වටිනාකම රුපියල් මිලියන 50 කි. මේ දක්වා කොකා කෝලා සමාගම හා ශ්රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය හා එක්ව කොවිඩ් 19 රෝගීන් වෙනුවෙන් රුපියල් මිලියන 130ක පරිත්‍යාගයන් කර තිබේ. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් වෛද්‍ය මහේෂ් ගුණසේකර,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
CEB shows total mismanagement
This is in relation to the article by Dr. Chandre Dharmawardana, “Sri Lanka’s power supply, blackouts, and how to prevent them” published in the Island Newspaper. I am an electrical engineer, who has spent the last 30 years in research and development in telecommunication systems and system reliability, which includes software reliability. Today, as a consultant, I am guiding the engineers and scientists of the Canadian Utilities in trying to understand a previously unknown condition affecting the grid networks. Canadian utility networks are highly sophisticated, complex networks, protected by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Rejected Votes: An Unintended Disenfranchisement
Universal suffrage is a democratic right that we must all respect and uphold. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Sri Lankan voters who exercised their voting right in this election. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the inaugural session of 9th parliament of Sri Lanka. Now that the euphoria over the victories and the postmortems of the defeats have faded away it may be beneficial to take a look at a ballot number that has drawn less,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
AG assigns Additional Prosecutors to four High Courts
The Attorney General has assigned Additional Prosecutors to the Homagama, Kalutara, Matara and Negombo High Courts having considered the large number of cases pending in each High Court, AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said. She said over 600 cases are pending in these courts. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Committee to be appointed to prepare drafts for new Constitution
The Cabinet has decided to appoint an Expert Committee headed by Romesh de Silva PC to prepare the preliminary drafts for a new Constitution, co-cabinet spokesman and Minister Udaya Gammanpila said today. The committee comprises of Romesh De Silva PC (Chairman), Gamini Marapana PC, Manohara De Silva PC, Sanjeewa Jayawardena PC, Prof. Nazeema Kamurdin, Dr. A Sarveswaran, Samantha Ratwatte PC, Prof. Wasantha Senevirathne and Prof. G.L. Peiris. Though the government expects to introduce the 20th Amendment to the Constitution on a priority basis repealing the 19th Amendment,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
20A: CC to be replaced with Parliamentary Council
The draft of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution which was gazetted today has proposed key amendments such as replacing the Constitutional Council (CC) with the Parliamentary Council, enabling the President to hold Cabinet portfolios and enabling the President to appoint Cabinet of Ministers. According to the draft gazetted, the CC will be replaced with the Parliamentary Council which comprised of the Prime Minister, the Speaker, Leader of the Opposition, a nominee of the Prime Minister and a nominee of the Leader of the Opposition. The President will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ යට සම්බන්ධ අයගේ නම් අසාදු ලේඛනයෙන් ඉවත් කර ඇතැයි හෙළිවේ (වීඩියෝ)
https://youtu.be/w1zAlQD34hA ජාත්‍යන්තර රතු නිවේදන නිකුත් කර ඇති , එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානයට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින් 338 දෙනෙකුගේ නම් අසාදු ලේඛනයෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට හිටපු අමාත්‍ය මංගල සමරවීර මහතා ඍජුවම කටයුතු කර ඇතැයි බුද්ධි අංශ මාණ්ඩලික නිලධාරි කර්නල් ෂම්මි කුමාරරත්න මහතා අද ප්රකාශ කළා . ඒ දේශපාලන පලිගැනීම් පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති පරීක්ෂණ කොමිෂන් සභාව හමුවේ සාක්ෂි ලබාදෙමින් .... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Five (05) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,111
Five arrivals from Qatar have tested postive for Covid -19 increasing the total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,111.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Gazette Notification of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution is issued
The gazette notification pertaining to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution which has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers has been issued by now.The gazette notification (English) is given below. http://www.documents.gov.lk/files/bill/2020/9/22-2020_E.pdf Click Here for Sinhala Version http://documents.gov.lk/files/bill/2020/9/22-2020_S.pdf... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Supreme Court rejects request to summon Easter Commission's documents
The Supreme Court today rejected a request to summon copies of evidence and documents summoned before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter attack. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka and Attorney-at-Law Moditha Ekanayake yesterday requested that the relevant transcripts be summoned to the Supreme Court for use in the case. After considering the request before a panel of judges headed by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, the bench unanimously decided to reject the request.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
Can Sri Lanka’s Government give State land to permit holders as outright deeds?
The last government made several attempts to privatize State land. This would have left Sri Lanka with no state land. What good is a government without land? How can a government tax when it has no land to tax? Land is the underlying foundation of a country’s sovereignty. As an Asian Dharmic civilization, our perception of land & land ownership differs to the concept of considering land as a commodity. For us, land has historical value, it is associated with emotions & cultures and has a rich and memorable history. No price can measure the value of our land. When... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/09/20)
US Sanctions on Selected Chinese Companies Will Worsen Sri Lankan Economic Downturn
USA has announced economic sanctions on a number of Chinese companies and other companies that deal with them. Among them are Chinese companies involved in the Port City, Hambantota Port and Mattala Airport. This is obviously a US attack on China’s “one belt one road” initiative. The impact on Sri Lanka will be catastrophic given the massive amount of money already spent on these unviable projects. Repayments must have to be made, otherwise China can takeover the land. Port City was touted as the development project that can make or break Sri Lanka. If... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
අභාවප්‍රාප්ත ඉන්දියාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ප්‍රනාබ් මුකර්ජි මහතාට ගෞරවයක් ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ශෝක පණිවිඩයක් තබයි
ඉන්දියාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ප්‍රනාබ් මුකර්ජි මැතිතුමාගේ අභාවය පිළිබඳ ශෝකය පළ කිරීම සඳහා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.02 දින ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඉන්දියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් නිල නිවස වෙත ගියේය. ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අතර පවතින දිගු කාලීන මිත්‍රත්වයේ එක් සංකේතයක් ලෙස ජනාධිපති මුකර්ජි මැතිතුමා කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳව සිහිපත් කළ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මුකර්ජි මැතිතුමාගේ අභාවය වෙනුවෙන් වූ ශෝක පණිවිඩ පොතෙහි පණිවිඩයක් තැබුවේය. රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික සංචාරවලදී මෙන්ම පෞද්ගලික සංචාරයන්හි දී ප්‍රනාබ් මුකර්ජි මැතිතුමා, රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික නායකයකු මෙන්ම, දේශපාලන මිතුරෙකු ලෙස ද බොහෝ අවස්ථාවල මුණ ගැසීමට ලැබුණු අතර ඒ සෑම අවස්ථාවකදීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
ජපානය “නව මානයකින්” ශ්රී ලංකාව සමඟ දිගුකාලීන ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සම්බන්ධතාවය වැඩි දියුණු කරයි
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජපාන තානාපති අකිරා සුගියාමා මහතා අද 2020.09.02 දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමුවිය. “පසුගිය මැතිවරණයෙන් ලද ජයග්‍රහණය සහ අගමැති ධූරයට නැවත පත්වීම පිළිබඳව ඔබට සුබ පතනවා,” යැයි තානාපති සුගියාමා මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට පැවසීය. ජපාන අග්රාමාත්ය සිං ෂෝ අබේ සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සාමය ගොඩනැංවීම, පුනරුත්ථාපනය හා ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය පිළිබඳ ජපාන රජයේ නියෝජිත යසුෂි අකාෂි යන මහත්වරුන්ගේ සුබ පැතුම් ලිපි දෙකක් තානාපතිවරයා විසින් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට භාර දුන්නේය. COVID-19 වසංගතය මධ්‍යයේ ශ්රී ලංකාව මැතිවරණයක් පැවැත්වීම “ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ ශක්තිය පැහැදිලිව පෙන්නුම් කරන” බව තානාපති සුගියාමා මහතා පැවසීය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හා නැගෙනහිර ආණ්ඩුකාරතුමිය අතර හමුවක්
නැගෙනහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර අනුරාධා යහම්පත් මහත්මිය හා ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක් අද 2020.09.02 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ ඉදිරි සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුකාරතුමිය විසින් මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දැනුම්වත් කළ අතර නැගෙනහිර සංවර්ධන කටයුතු කඩිනම් කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය ඉදිරි පියවරයන් පිළිබඳව ද මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා විය. ස්වාභාව සෞන්දර්ය අතින් අනූන වූ නැගෙනහිර පළාත තුළ සංචාරක කටයුතු ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම හා සංචාරකයින්ගේ ආකර්ශනය දිනා ගත් පුරාවිද්‍යා උරුමයන් සුරැකීම පිළිබඳව ද මෙහිදී අවධානය යොමු විය. මෙම අවස්ථාවට අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් ගාමිණී සෙනරත් මහතා ද එක්ව සිටියේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Sri Lanka and Japan Seek to Enhance Long-Standing Bilateral Relationship to “New Heights”
The Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka Akira Sugiyama called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning. “I congratulate you on the victory at the recent election and reappointment as Prime Minister,” Ambassador Sugiyama said. He also handed over two congratulatory letters, from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Representative of the Government of Japan on Peace-Building, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka. Ambassador Sugiyama said that Sri Lanka holding elections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic “clearly shows the strength of democracy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
London Pain Management Center අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අතින් විවෘත වෙයි
වේදනා මර්දනයට විශේෂිතව හඳුන්වා දෙන කොළඹ 07, හෝටන් පෙදෙසේ, අංක 31 ස්ථානයේ, ස්ථාපිත “ලන්ඩන් වේදනා මර්දන කළමනාකරණ මධ්‍යස්ථානය“ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2020.09.02 දින විවෘත විය. මෙතෙක් දියුණු රටවලට පමණක් විශේෂිත වූ නිධන් ගත වේදනා කළමනාකරණ ප්‍රතිකාර මෙම මධ්‍යස්ථානය ඔස්සේ සිදු කෙරේ. ඊට අදාළ නව වෙබ් අඩවිය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විසින් අන්තර්ජාලයට මුදා හැරියේය. මෙම අවස්ථාවට සිරි නන්ද මහා පිරිවෙණේ සහ ශ්රී පුෂ්පාරාම මහා විහාරයේ විහාරාධිපති මලේගොඩ නන්ද හිමි, ලන්ඩන් වේදනා කළමනාකරණ මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ (London Pain Management Center), නිධන් ගත වේදනා මර්ධන විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය නාමල් සේනසිංහ මහතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම් පිළිබඳ කමිටුවේ වාර්තාව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට භාර දෙයි
දේශපාලන පළි ගැනීම්වලට ලක්වූවන් (2015-2019) පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන කමිටුවේ මූලික වාර්තාව අද 2020.09.02 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට භාර දෙන ලදී. 2015-2019 කාලය තුළ රාජ්‍ය හා අර්ධ රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ පරිපාලනමය වශයෙන් දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම්වලට ලක් වූ පුද්ගලයින් 6952 දෙදෙනෙක් මේ වන විට මෙම කමිටුවට අභියාචනා ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. https://youtu.be/nLmHUKyh210 ඒ අතුරින් 1152 දෙදෙනෙකුගේ අභියාචානාවලට අදාළ පරීක්ෂා කිරීම්, නිරීක්ෂණ හා ඉදිරි පියවර මෙම වාර්තාවට ඇතුළත්ය. 2015-2019 කාලයේ දේශපාලන පළිගැනීම් සිදුව ඇති ආකාරය, කමිටුවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ අභියාචනා පිළිබඳව සොයා බැලීමේදී හෙළි වූ බව කමිටුවේ සාමාජිකයෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Grand elephant parade at the Kotte Rajamaha Viharaya enthralled Sri Lankans
It was the first “Perahera” with public participation in Sri Lanka after the lifting of the country-wide COVID-19 lockdown Colombo, September 1 (newsin.asia): On August 29th, as the sun was setting, a historic Buddhist temple, the Kotte Rajamaha Viharaya located in the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, held its annual “Perahera” or public festivities which included a grand procession of richly decorated elephants accompanied by dancers, musicians and entertainers. It was the first “Perahera” with public participation in Sri Lanka after the lifting of the country-wide lockdown which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
White House says it won’t help global vaccine effort to spite China, World Health Organization
As per the Washington Post, the U.S. isn’t participating in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, a joint coronavirus vaccine effort run by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and vaccine alliance Gavi that has received statements of interest from 170 countries. Washington. September 2 (gizmodo.com): The U.S. won’t contribute to an international effort to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19, the White House said on Tuesday, because it involves the “corrupt World Health Organization” and China. As per the Washington... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
China seeks to set up military logistic facilities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar: Pentagon
China is seeking to set up more robust logistics facilities in about a dozen countries, including three in India's neighbourhood, to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power at greater distances, according to a Pentagon report . WASHINGTON : China is seeking to set up more robust logistics facilities in about a dozen countries, including three in India's neighbourhood, to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power at greater distances, according to a Pentagon report. In addition to the three neighbours of India -- Pakistan, Sri Lanka and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Fmr. President’s irresponsible decision helped extremists to recuperate: Witness
An irresponsible decision taken by former President Maithripala Sirisena after the coordinated terror attack had allowed the Islamic extremist organizations to operate even better than the period before Easter Sunday attacks, a Moulavi who wish to stay anonymous yesterday informed PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. A Moulavi who requested to not to revealed his name, informed the Commission that after the Easter Sunday attacks former President had taken steps to ban only two Islamic extremists organization operated within the country. "There were seven more Islamic extremist organizations within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Power Blackout Committee Report:Recommendations run counter to President’s policy
The Minister of Power, four days after assuming duties, had to face an island-wide power blackout which commenced around 12.30 pm on the 17th August and lasted up to 7-8 hours. The following day, he appointed a committee, comprising Ministry officials and power experts, to investigate the matter and submit a report within a week. COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER The Committee comprised two administrative officers, including an Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Power, serving as the Chairman, a Retired Professor of Mechanical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Case against establishing quarantine centre in private property
Two Colonels of the Sri Lanka Army including Maj. Gen. Priyankara Perera and the Urban Development Authority have been summoned to appear in the Hatton Magistrate’s Court on September 15 on charges of forcibly establishing a quarantine centre at a private land. President's Counsel Maithree Gunaratne said the order was issued by Hatton District Magistrate J. Trotsky today. President's Counsel Gunaratna said several buildings in a sizeable land belonging to his client, situated along the Hatton-Nuwara Eliya main road in the Kotagala commercial town, have been forcibly occupied... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Four arrivals test positive for COVID-19; Cases hit 3,101
Four new cases of COVID-19 have been detected today (02) as the total number of positive cases in the country to 3,101. Accordingly, 02 recent arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 01 each from India and Qatar have tested positive for the virus, the Department of Government Information confirmed. The Epidemiology Unit says 206 active cases are currently under medical care at hospitals. In the meantime, the number of recoveries from the disease in Sri Lanka moved up to 2,883 as 04 patients were discharged from the IDH... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Rauff Hakeem to appear before PCoI on Easter attacks
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks has informed MP Rauff Hakeem to appear before its police unit. Accordingly, the parliamentarian will be recording a statement with the police unit of the PCoI on Friday (September 04).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Report of PCoI on political victimization handed over to PM
The preliminary report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged incidents of political victimization was handed over to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today (02 sep 2020).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
20th amendment draft bill can be enacted with 2/3 majority - AG
The Attorney General has advised the Secretary to the Ministry of Justice that the draft bill of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution does not attract the holding of a referendum, in terms of Article No. 83 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. The Attorney General has therefore informed the Justice Secretary that the bill may be enacted by the Parliament with a two-thirds majority of all members. On Tuesday (01), the Minister of Justice, President’s Counsel (PC) Ali Sabry said the 20th Amendment draft bill was directed to Attorney General Dappula... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Attempt to stop HIRU CIA revelations by offering bribes (Video)
https://youtu.be/nCsQes-Xe4s Puttalam Forest Officer W. N. C. K Wasala said that legal action will be taken against those involved in the destruction of the Kalpitiya Pallivasalthurai Mangroves which was exposed by Hiru CIA. Following the revelation, forest officials and the police inspected the area today, where the mangroves were destroyed. Meanwhile, the Chairman of Kalpitiya requested the Hiru CIA team not to reveal the destruction of the relevant mangroves an attempted to pay bribes to the team.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Both tremors in Kandy from the same epicentre (Video)
The Geological Survey and Mining Bureau says that they have observed that the epicenter of the tremor that occurred in the Pallekele area in Kandy this morning, and the previous tremors that occurred were located in the same place. Geologist Nalin de Silva, head of the team investigating the case, said the data from Victoria Reservoir accelerometers would also be used to prepare the final report. https://youtu.be/fenX3fbhsjw The tremor from the epicenter was reported at 8.32pm on Saturday, with a magnitude of 2.2 on the Richter... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
දෙරණ 360° | ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මනෝහර ද සිල්වා
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=314305056500158&ref=watch_permalink... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
US sanctions China – Sri Lanka & MCC
Nothing happens in this world without some geopolitical thrust or shove. In viewing any geopolitical incident, it is necessary to see the pattern in what culminated in an incident(s) and attempt to connect the dots to understand better. With a crumbling economy, with food & water becoming global issues, the power states are fishing around for new horizons to tap. Pivot to Asia is the most lucrative means to satisfy that lust. We must identify the methodology & modus operandi with which the pivot to Asia thrusts are taking place & devise ways to mitigate them. What colonials could not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Dual Citizenship & 20a: President Gotabaya, MilindaM & Geetha Kumarasinghe
The best piece of legislation introduced by the yahapalana government is the clause related to dual citizenship. It highlighted the NATIONAL SECURITY aspect of a person who was a citizen of two countries contesting elections to hold public office & surfaced many conflicts that could arise from holding citizenship in two countries. Therefore, this important clause must remain in 20a. If the President of Sri Lanka had to forsake his dual citizenship to become President, there is no reason why any other cannot do so if they genuinely wish to serve Sri Lanka.Geetha Kumarasinghe was unseated because she was a dual citizen.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/09/20)
Dilrook is perfectly correct.
And what he says about DS, He not only took GGP into his Cabinet and made him the Minister of Industries but also accepted the name of his new Party UNP proposed by Governor Moor which itself meant that there were more than one nation in this country which was an absolute travesty of history which they deliberately planted here for the first time. Neither D.S. nor any other so-called Sinhala leaders in that Parliament had the brain to refute this diabolic lie and put the record right. None of them perhaps knew the history... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
නවවන වගන්තිය අනුව රජයේ ඉහළ තනතුරු බෞද්ධයන්ට පමණයි
ලංකාව බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය යටත් විජියක් බවට පත් වීමට පළමු මෙරට පාලනය වන ලද්දේ ලිඛිත ව්‍යවස්ථාවකට අනුව නොවේ.නමුත් ශිලා ලේඛන මගින් ප්රකාශ කරන ලද්දා වූ පෙර රජවරුන් විසින් පිළිගන්නා ලද ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් විය.වෙසෙසින්ම සතරවන පැරකුම් රජු කාලයේ රචනා කරන දළදා ව්‍යවස්ථාව මගින් දක්වන ලද කරුණු සිංහල බෞද්ධ පාලකකයෙකු ගේ යුතුකම් වශයෙන් සළකන ලදී.එසේම මෙරට නායකත්වයට පත්වන පුද්ගලයා බෞද්ධයෙකු බෝධිසත්වයෙකු ලෙස පැවතීය යුතු බවට සම්ප්‍රදායක්ද ගොඩ නැගී තිබුණී.1815 වසරේ අත්සන් කරන ලද සිංහලේ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ගිවිසුමේ පස්වන වගන්තිය ප්‍රකාරව බුද්ධාගම ආරක්ෂා කල යුතු බවට ලිඛිත පිළිගැනීමක් සිදු විය.ඉංග්‍රීසි පාලනය විසින් මේ පිළිගැනීම පසුව කඩ කිරීම නිසා යටත් විජිත ක්රමය තුළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ උපදෙස්මත කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළෙඳපොළ ඩිජිටල්කරණය වෙයි
කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ ඩිජිටල්කරණය කර අවසන් කිරීම දැනුම් දීම සඳහා සුරැකුම්පත් හා විනිමය කොමිසන් සභාවේ නියෝජිතයෝ 2020.08.31 දින පැමිණ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා හමු වූහ. නව මානයකින් ලෝකයට නිරාවරණය වීමේ ක්‍රමෝපායක් යටතේ කොටස් වෙළෙඳපොළ ඩිජිටල්කරණය කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ උපදෙස්මත ආරම්භ විය. ඒ අනුව සැප්තැම්බර් 17 දින සිට කොටස් වෙළඳපොළෙහි සියලු කටයුතු ඩිජිටල්කරණය වීමට නියමිතය. සුරැකුම්පත් හා විනිමය කොමිසන් සභාවේ සභාපති විරාජ් දයාරත්න මහතා හා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් චින්තක මෙන්ඩිස් මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මුණගැසී ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේ කොවිඩ්-19 හේතුවෙන් දින 52ක් කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළෙඳ පොළ කටයුතු අඩපණ වුවද, සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ඩිජිටල්කරණ වූ කොටස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා පුවක්දණ්ඩාව, පන්ථාරාම විහාරාධිපති හිමියන්ගේ සුවදුක් විමසයි
බෙලිඅත්ත, පුවක්දණ්ඩාව, පන්ථාරාම මහා විහාරයේ විහාරාධිපති, දෙහිගහහේනේ ඥානවිමල හිමියන් බැහැදැකීමට අද 2020.09.01 දින බෙලිඅත්ත පුවක්දණ්ඩාව පන්ථාරාම විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විහාරාධිපති හිමියන්ගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. රටේ ආර්ථික, සමාජීය හා දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාදාමයන්ට අදාළ ධර්මානුකූල පිළිවෙත් ගැන ඥානවිමල හිමියෝ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට මෙහිදී අනුශාසනා කළහ. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා ක්‍රීඩා හා තරුණ කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ, දකුණු පළාත් සභාවේ සභාපති සෝමවංශ කෝදාගොඩ මහත්වරු එක්ව සිටියහ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා “අමාදම් සිසිලස” 201 වැන්නට එක්වෙයි
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව සෑම පුන් පොහෝ දිනකම පවත්වන “අමාදම් සිසිලස” ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාවේ 201 වැන්න අද 2020.09.01 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. බුදු දහමේ සිසිලස සකළ ලෝ වැසියන්ට බෙදා දීමේ උදාර අරමුණ පෙරදැරිකර පවත්වන මෙම ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාවේ මෙවර ධර්ම දේශනාව පැවැත්වූයේ කැලණිය රජ මහා විහාරාධිපති, මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියන් විසිනි. “සතර සංග්‍රහ වස්තු ගැන විමසීමේදී අද ආදර්ශයට ගන්න, අපේ අගමැතිතුමා. පඥා, වීර්ය, අනවජ්ජ, සංග්‍රහ කියන මේ සතර සංග්‍රහ වස්තු ඔබ සියලු දෙනාත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා වගේම ප්‍රගුණ කරනවානම්, දහස් ගණන් ජනතාව එකතු වෙලා බලයක් බවට පත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ උල්ලංඝණය කරමින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් සකස් කර ඇති නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහ නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අදාල නිලධාරීන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට පැමිණිල්ලක්.....
ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ උල්ලංඝණය කරමින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත් සකස් කිරීම සහ අදාල වැරදි සිදුකර ඇති නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහ නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අදාල නිලධාරීන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශන කර නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා පොලිස් මූලස්ථානයට නිතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් පැමිණිලි කර ඇත. එම පැමිණිල්ල මගින් වර්ෂ 2002 දී 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් ගෙන එමින් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 70 ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීමට උත්සාහ කරන ලද බව දක්වා ඇත. එම අවස්ථාවේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ විනිසුරුතුමන්ලා හත් දෙනෙකු විසින් ඒකමතිකව තීරණය කරන ලද්දේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීමට ජනමත විචාරණයක් පැවැත්වීම අවශ්‍ය බව දක්වා ඇති බවත් එසේ තිබියදී එකී ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තිරණයට පටහැනි වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
සිංහරාජ හෝටලය ගැන ඇත්ත ඉරාජ් හොයගනී.. සාක්ෂි සහිතයි.. [Video]
සිංහරාජ රක්ෂිත වනාන්තරය අාසන්නයේ පිහිටා ඇතැයි හෝටලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන වීඩියෝවක් සංගීත ශිල්පී ඉරාජ් වීරරත්න විසින් එළි දක්වා තිබේ. සිංහරාජ ප්‍රදේශය සංචාරයක් කරමින් ප්‍රදේශවාසීන්ගෙන් ද අදහස් ලබාගෙන මෙම වීඩියෝව නිර්මාණ නිර්මාණය කර ඇත https://youtu.be/znNka8mNfbI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Draft of 20A sent to AG
The draft of the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution has been sent to the Attorney General for observations, the AG’s Coordinating Officer Nishara Jayaratne said. She said Justice Ministry Secretary M.M.P.K. Mayadunne has referred the draft for the AG’s observation.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Public requested not to invite President for private functions
President’s Media Division requests the general public to refrain from inviting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to private functions. This request is made considering that such invitations may hinder his priority to attend to vital national issues, stated PMD issuing a press release. PMD points out that President Rajapaksa has given priority to expedite development projects and resolve issues of grass-root level public issues in his daily schedule. Accordingly, the general public is kindly requested to refrain from inviting the President as he does not expect to spend time attending functions, prize... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Eleven (11) more persons confirmed for Covid -19: SL Country total increases to 3,092
06 arrivals from Qatar & 05 arrivals from Kuwait tested positive for COVID- 19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,092 Two Indian nationals who arrived in the country tested positive for COVID-19, increasing the total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,075. One arrival from India & 01 from the UAE tested positive for COVID-19, increasing total infected in Sri Lanka to 3,073.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
The latest solution to control the floods in Colombo (video)
https://youtu.be/nntt4IIPOxQ Flooding of many parts of Colombo, the commercial capital of the country as well as the most populous city, has been an unresolved issue for a long time. About 35% of the area in Colombo city is inundated due to unauthorized and informal constructions. Another factor is the inadequacy of canals to drain rainwater. The people of Colombo have suffered from floods in the last few years. In order to find a solution to this situation in 2013 several projects were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Providing 100,000 employment opportunities aimed at eradicating poverty will commence tomorrow (Video)
The Programme of providing 100,000 employment opportunities aimed at eradicating poverty will commence on September 02. The objective of the Programme is to empower those who live in absolute poverty with no formal education and skills through the Multi-Purpose Development Task Force established by the government. During 6-month continuous training programme a monthly allowance of Rs 22,500 will be paid. Following successful completion of the training program trainees will have the opportunity to be appointed to an accepted permanent government position in his own residence area with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Chairman's reply on Kalpitiya mangrove destruction (Video)
Hiru CIA reports on another mangrove devastation in the Puttalam district amidst the devastation of the Anavilundawa Ramsar wetland. https://youtu.be/m0G4p53L0xE The mangroves have been destroyed by changing the boundaries of a land belonging to the Forest Department with the direct intervention of the Chairman of the Kalpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha. Today the CIA revelation is about this situation.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
19th Amendment should be withdrawn as soon as possible (Video)
Politicians expressed their views regarding the repealing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution and the introduction of a new constitution. Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Rajitha Senaratne stated that the technical issues in the 19th Amendment should be resolved. https://youtu.be/QIIeqBeey2U Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution should be withdrawn as soon as possible. Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Manusha Nanayakkara stated that if the 19th amendment to the constitution is repealed, the voice of the people will be raised against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Disclosure of foreign secretary raises eyebrows
According to the disclosure of Foreign Secretary Admiral Jayanath Colombage to the media, the government is to appoint one time Minister Milinda Moragoda, as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner of Cabinet rank to India and, once such status is afforded, Mr. Moragoda will be able to interact with the leaders of both the countries directly without the procedure of going through the respective foreign ministries. Meanwhile, considering the recorded background and chequered history of the person involved, social media have started to raise questions on the government’s intermediaries connected to Moragoda and his Pathfinder outfit.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Media reports on the appointment of Mr Milinda Moragoda as Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to India
The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) has provided expatriate leadership to protect Sri Lanka’s unitary status, territorial integrity and sovereignty for over 25 years. It has fought many battles against Tamil diaspora led LTTE separatism and Muslim extremism, and Western denigration of our beloved Nation and its people. Attempts by the Yahapalana government since 2015 to prosecute valiant armed forces within and external to Sri Lanka in Geneva, undermine nationalistic values, persecution of Buddhists and despicable attempts at fabricating evidence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
මිලින්ද ප්‍රශ්නය
මිලින්ද හොර-ගොඩඅතින් අරන් අහවල් එකේ තබා ගැනීමේ කලාවේ පිකාසෝ නම් අපේ මහින්ද මහත්තයා ය. එතුමා ඒ වාගෙ වැඩ කරගන්නේ දකුණේ පුරුද්දට කළගුණ සළකන්නට යාමෙන් බව අපි හැමෝම දන්නවා ය. මහින්ද මහත්තයා එහෙම හොඳම එකෙන් ඇර ගැනීමේ කතා ගොඩක් ඇත. නමුත් ප්‍රස්තූතයට ගැලපෙනම එක කතාවක් ලියා තබන්නේ අතීතය අමතක වෙච්ච අපේම බයි රාළලාට එය මතක් කිරීම වටිනා නිසා ය. බයිරාළලා වන අපි අපේ මහ බයියා වන මහින්ද මහත්තයාටත් එතුමාගේ පවුලේ සැමටත් බොහෝ ආදරය ඇත්තතෝ වෙමු. සමහර වෙලාවට මේ ආදරය දෝරෙ ගලා ගොස් ඒ අයට හිත් රිදේවි යැයි කියා ප්‍රශස්ති ගයා ඒ අය අමාරුවේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
Sri Lanka's power supply, blackouts, and how to prevent them.
Sri Lanka recently had a nationwide blackout that cost millions and even compromised its security. A blackout may be compared to a sudden heart attack, leaving a debilitated individual. This was the fifth “heart attack” suffered by the grid since the end of the Eelam wars, with blackouts in 2009, 2015, twice in 2016, and on 17th August 2020. So we have a chronically sick patient. Given that a big chunk of Sri Lanka's foreign exchange income goes for importing fuel, any government must urgently look at the power sector and make it work efficiently,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/09/20)
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