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News Archive for Jan 2021
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 29: When outgoing US President Donald Trump, in his last official act, pardoned a few of his supporters who were serving jail terms, the silence of the so-called champions of justice, the European Union (EU) and United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was deafening. However, these two multinational bodies are very enthusiastic in their pursuit to defend justice when dealing with smaller countries, especially sovereign nations that refuse to bow down to their unreasonable diktats. In its latest communication to Sri Lanka, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 31 (Sunday Observer) – Russia has expressed its willingness to allow Sri Lanka to produce its own Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V locally if the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) authorises it for local use, a senior state official said. The Sputnik V vaccine is already being manufactured in India and those two countries signed agreements last year to produce 300 million doses of the Russian vaccine in Indian laboratories. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has authorised the use of the Chinese and Russian drugs that have shown high efficacy levels but the NMRA is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 31: Sri Lanka is in discussion with India and other countries for support in the March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva when Western nations bring an intrusive and punitive resolution against it for alleged war crimes. A top source in the Lankan government said that the support of about 15 members of the 47-member UNHRC is being sought to counter the Core Group’s move to bring a resolution that is expected to call for targeted sanctions, asset freezes and travel bans among other intrusive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Colombo Today
පසුගිය රජයන් තුළ දක්නට ලැබුණු පුරුද්දක් අනුගමනය කරමින් වත්මන් රජය ද විදේශයන්හි ශ්රී ලංකා දූත මණ්ඩල සඳහා දේශපාලන පත්වීම් ලබා දීමට ද පියවර ගෙන තිබෙන බව දෙරණ මාධ්‍ය ජාලයේ හිමිකරු වන දිලිත් ජයවීරගේ පුවත්පතක් වන themorning පුවත්පත වාර්තා කර ඇත. පහත දැක්වෙන්නේ එම පුවත්පත දක්වා ඇති විදෙස් ශ්රී ලාංකික දූත මණ්ඩල සඳහා නව පත්වීම් ලයිස්තුවයි. සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී තිස්ස අත්තනායකගේ දියණිය දුල්මිනි ඉන්ද්‍රචාපා අත්තනායක ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ කැන්බරා හි ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලයේ තුන්වන ලේකම් ලෙස පත් කර තිබේ. ඇය මේ වන විට ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ මෙල්බර්න් හි පදිංචිව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Euresia Review
A think-tank close to the government says an anti-Lankan resolution will be a dead letter and warns that Colombo will switch economic ties from the invasive West to those countries which respect its sovereignty. Pathfinder Foundation (PF), a prominent Sri Lankan think tank which is close to the government, has clearly indicated that Sri Lanka will take a defiant posture at the March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva when Western nations bring an intrusive and punitive resolution against it for alleged war crimes. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy India Today
Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday denied selling, leasing out or coming into any sort of an agreement with a foreign country over the Eastern Container Terminal. espite reports of the Sri Lankan cabinet clearing the trilateral Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) project between Sri Lanka, Japan and India, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday denied selling, leasing out or coming into any sort of an agreement with a foreign country over the Eastern Container Terminal. Speaking to the media on Sunday, when asked about the ECT trilateral agreement with India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Ten political parties affiliated to the Government have decided to take a strong position on the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port after a discussion held with the representatives of the respective parties. The discussion was held at the official residence of Minister Wimal Weerawansa today with the participation of the party leaders including Ministers Udaya Gammanpila, Vasudeva Nanayakkara and MP Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero. They are of the view that the ECT of the Colombo Port should be in the 100% control of Sri Lanka Port Authority.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The police on Saturday conducted a 4-hour country-wide special roadblock operations in which more than 40,000 vehicles have been checked at nearly 2,000 roadblocks, police said. They said the operation was conducted from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm on Saturday and that a total of 14,420 police officers took part in it. A total number of 80,985 individuals travelling in 43,596 vehicles have been examined during the operation and suspects were arrested with possession of narcotics, firearms and traffic violations in addition to the suspects wanted by the police. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Three more COVID-19 related deaths were reported in Sri Lanka today (January 31), says the Director-General of Health Services. Accordingly, the new development has pushed the death toll from the virus outbreak to 316. The Department of Government Information said one of the victims is a 38-year-old man from Colombo 08 area. He had been moved from the Colombo National Hospital to National Hospital for Respiratory Diseases in Welisara after testing positive for COVID-19. He passed away today due to lung infection caused by novel coronavirus. In the meantime, a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another surge today (January 31) as 513 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said 476 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases detected from the Peliyagoda cluster. Another 10 are were meanwhile linked to the prison cluster. The remaining 27 have been identified as arrivals from foreign countries: 17 from the United Arab Emirates and 10 from South Korea. The country has registered 864 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the day. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A special Presidential Commission of Inquiry has been appointed to implement the recommendations of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Political Victimization. https://youtu.be/3eWnQqewud0 Supreme Court Judge Dhammika Priyantha chairs the tri-member Commission appointed by President Rajapaksa. In addition, Supreme Court Judge Khema Kumuduni Wickramasinghe and Appeals Court Judge Rathnapriya Gurusingha have also been named members of the commission. President Rajapaksa appointed the special Presidential Commission of Inquiry to create a suitable mechanism to implement the recommendations of the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Dear Members of the UNHRC, We, the citizens of Sri Lanka have a long proud historical past. We lived as one community under the Sinhale kings peacefully and you may like to wonder why there is not a single example of conflict between the communities before the arrival western colonial invaders to our shores in 1505. The answer to that harmony before 1505 and disharmony after 1505 is the divide and rule policies of these western colonials who plundered our resources and murdered our people. We, did not know to identity people as black, white, brown... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
Sri Lanka has gone to the extreme of free market economy. As a result, there had been a net outflow of foreign exchange and rapid depreciation of Rupee. Sri Lanka has continued Late President Jayawardene’s Open Economy and most recently former Prime Minister has transferred Hambanthota Port to China as an act of revenge against Rajapakse Regime. The situation is now convoluted with several demands from India, China, Japan and Pakistan as a tit for tat strategy to buy our assets at a bargain price, when Sri Lanka Rupee is hovering... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොළඹ වරායේ නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය විදේශ පාර්ශවයකට කොටසක් හෝ පත් කිරීමට විරෝධය පළ කරමින් ආණ්ඩුව දේශපාලන පක්ෂ දහයක් එකගතාවකට පැමිණ ඇත. අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතාගේ නිල නිවසේ දී ආණ්ඩුවේ පක්ෂ දහයක නායකයන් හමුවී මෙම එකගතාවයට පැමිණ ඇත. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=249594876820046&t=8 ඒ සඳහා එකඟ කැබිනට් පත්‍රිකාවක් සදුදා දින ඉදිරිපත් වුවහොත් ඊට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කිරීමට ද ඔවුන් මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කරන තිබේ. නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය විදේශ රටකට කොටසක් හෝ විකිණීමේ ක්‍රියාමාර්ගය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම පරාජය කිරීමට මෙහිදී ඒකමතිකව තීන්දු කර තිබේ. එම හමුව සදහා සහභාගී වූ පක්ෂ නියෝජිතයන් මෙසේය. ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
මධ්‍යම කමිටුව ඉංජිනේරු සේවා වෘත්තීය වේදී සංගමය
කොළඹ වරාය යනු ලෝකයේ වරාය ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම් හි 24 වන ස්ථානය අත්පත් කරගන්නා වරායයි. ශ්‍රීලංකාව ආසන්නයේම ඇති කොළඹ වරාය මිලදී ගැනීමට සුදානම් වන ඉන්දියාව සතු ප්‍රධානම වරායක් වන ජවහල්ලාල් නේරු වරාය එම ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීම් හි 29 වන ස්ථානය අත්පත් කරගනී. මන්ද්‍ර වරාය එහි 34 වන ස්ථානය අත්පත් කරගනී. ඒ අනුව 24 වන ස්ථානය අත්පත් කරගනිමින් කොළඹ වරාය ඉතා ඉහළ පිළිගැනීමක් සහ ධාරිතාවකින් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බව පැහැදිලි වේ. කොළඹ වාරයේ ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් කොටස් දෙකක් පවතී. ඉන් එකක් පැරණි වරාය නමින් ද අනිත් කොටස අළුත් වරාය නමින් ද සැලකේ. මෙහි පැරණි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Sudath GunasekaraPosted on 30th Jan 2021 (First published on 14th, December 2010 in Lankaweb)
A Statue to Commemorate Mrs Bandaranaike, the first woman Prime Minister in the world, most illustrious Lady and the greatest political leader of our time What a shame even not to have one such erected to commemorate this great of the nation lady in a suitable place even after 21 years of her death, in a country where we have hundreds of statues of colonial murderers and plunderers and even indentured labour leaders are exhibited in front of the Parliament and other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
30 January 2021Madam Michelle BacheletUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsPalais Wilson52 Rue des PaquisCH 1201, GenevaSwitzerland. Dear Madam Bachelet: What is it that I read that the UN Rights Boss calls for Sanctions on some Sri Lanka ex-military? Then I also went on to read that you had called on States to impose, “targeted sanctions in former Sri Lankan military commanders, implicated in alleged war crimes during the final years of a 26 year civil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
සංස්කෘතික ආධිපත්‍යයකින් තොරව රාජ්‍යයකට පැවැත්මක් නොමැති බව අපි දැන් දනිමු. සැබැවින් ම රාජ්‍යය යනු ද සංස්කෘතික නිර්මිතයකි. එය ස්වභාවික නිර්මාණයක් නොවේ. එකී මූලික අවබෝධය මත පිහිටා රාජ්‍යයක බලය තීරණය වන ආකාරය පිළිබඳ ව අපි විමසා බලමු. තව ද, අප රටෙහි රාජ්‍ය බලය තහවුරු කිරීම උදෙසා එම කරුණ බල පා ඇති ආකාරය ද අපි මෙයින් හඳුනා ගනිමු. යම් රාජ්‍යයක සීමාව තීරණය කරනුයේ එය සතු සංස්කෘතියේ ශක්තිය අනුව ය. ඇතැම් ජාතිහු තමන්ට උරුම භූමියේ සීමාව ඉක්මවා වෙනත් බල ප්‍රදේශ ද තමන් සන්තක කර ගනුයේ එහි සංස්කෘතික බලය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරවීමෙනි. පසුගිය සියවස් පහක කාලය තුළ අපි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
චාර්ල්ස් පෙරේරා
සමගි ජන බල වේගයත් , ජනතා විමුකිති පෙරමුනත් මේ නැගෙනහිර පරියන්තය පිළිබඳව අර්බුදයක් ඇතිකරගෙන තියෙන්නේ මොන ක්‍රමයෙන් හෝ ජනාධිපති ගොටභය මැති තුමාගේ රජය පෙරලලා උන් ගේ දේශපාලන ඔනෑකම් ඉටුකරගන්න. හිරු නාලිකාවේ සලකුණ වැඩ සටහනේ චමුදිත, මදුශාන්ත, හා චාපාටත් දෙරණ 360 වැඩසටහනේ සංකටත් වාදපිටියේ චතුරටත් ඔනෑ මාද්යවෙදීන් වශයෙන් ජනප්ප්‍රියවෙන්ට. මුන්ට රටට ජනතාවට වඩා අවශ්‍ය ඔවුනොවුන්ගේ ඔනෑ එපාකම් ඉටුකරගන්න. නමුත් ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංස හාමුදුරුවන්ටත් , මුරුතෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද හාමුදුරුවන්ටත් මැදගොඩ අබයතිස්ස හාමුදුරුවන්ටත් මොනවාද ඕනෑ ? මේ හාමුදුරුවරුන්ට වෙලාතියෙන්නේ උන්වහන්සේ ලා ගොටාභය ජනාධිපත් තුමා කෙරෙහි තැබු විශ්වාශය නැතිකම නේද ? අපි බෞද්ධයන් වශයෙන් හිතනවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Pathfinder View Point
As the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) looms large in about a month’s time, the debate on its controversial Resolution 30/1 of 2015, which the ‘Yahapalana Government’ co-owned in an un-precedented and unwise move, has resumed with renewed vigour. This is because the Res. 30/1 adopted in 2015 ‘runs out’ this year and the HRC egged on by the so called ‘core group’ of Western countries - the pilots of 30/1- will feel obliged to take stock of the situation and see where they want to go from here. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Writers Guild of the Sinhalese Cultural Forum of NSW In
Publishing a collection of short stories written by people of Sri Lankan origin living in Australia Calling for Contributions The Writers Guild of Sinhalese Cultural Forum of NSW Inc has launched a project to publish a collection of short stories written by people of Sri Lankan origin living in Australia. The aims of the project are as follows. 1. To establish and foster a literary link between the various community groups with Sri Lankan heritage living in Australia 2. To... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
https://youtu.be/_OcNADvH6Rw Prof. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan of the Department of Economics at the University of Colombo stated that the transfer of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to India will not bring any economic benefits to Sri Lanka. He stated this while participating in a special discussion with the Hiru news team. Yesterday Prof Rohan Samarajeeva stated that 49% of Indian ownership will not harm the sovereignty of Sri Lanka. The interview can be read with the link below;<... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
An extraordinary gazette was issued today declaring the services of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) as essential services. The gazette signed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was issued by President’s Secretary. He states that all services, work or labour of any description necessary or required to be done by or in connection with the SLPA would be declared as essential services.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has reported 08 more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (January 30). As per the Department of Government Information, five male patients and three female patients are among the victims. The new deaths bring the number of COVID-19 related deaths witnessed in Sri Lanka to 313 in total.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 32,539 frontline health workers have been vaccinated with the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine today (30), stated the Health Ministry. According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry, the vaccine has been administered to a total of 37,825 individuals since yesterday (29).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka reported 442 more infections of the novel coronavirus today (30), Army Commander General Shavendra Silva confirmed. Accordingly, a total of 848 cases have been reported within the day. This brings the total count of Covid-19 cases reported in the country to 63,293. According to the Health Ministry’s data, 56,277 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from the virus. However, 6,711 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers located across the island. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has witnessed 305 deaths from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/21)
By Professor Sunil J. Wimalawansa, MD, Ph.D., MBA, DSc.
Prof. Sunil J. Wimalawansa The official reports on the prevalence and the number of deaths related to COVID-19 in tropical countries including Sri Lanka (excluding India) have been surprisingly low compared to most temperate countries. Let us explore some of the critical reasons for this significant discrepancy. Why was the reported prevalence of COVID-19 low in Sri Lanka? The reported prevalence of COVID-19 was spuriously low due to technical and biological reasons. Technical reasons include, (A) minute number of PCR testing that was carried... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/21)
Courtesy Dr.David Grimes
Scene 1: A small meeting room in 10 Downing Street, London Early January 2021 Four sitting around a table. Boris Johnson, Prime minister of the UK Good morning to you all and thanks for coming in at short notice. This is an extremely important meeting. http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/21)
Myanmar Health
Informal intervention trial in Myanmar 1200 Buddhist monks and nuns in COVID-19 quarantine center were given 2 doses of water containing 200,000IU of vitamin D25 mg of zinc1000mg of vitamin C30 billion Probiotics. Mortality rate is only 0.07%The overall mortality rate in the country is steady at 2.1% The doctors in the that country (as well as most other countries) do not believe in such large doses of Vitamin DThe Buddhist monks were not constrained by doctors beliefs People in Myanmar are placed in quarantine... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Prime Minister’s Media Unit
Outgoing Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand, H. E. Mrs. Chulamanee Chartsuwan and Mr. Tayatat Kanjanapipathkul, Councilor of the Embassy met the Prime Minister at his residence in Wijerama this morning. The Ambassador thanked the Prime Minister and the Government for the support she received throughout her tenure. She said she believed that her successor would enjoy the same support she received over the years and have a productive working relationship with the Government. Discussing a few pending matters between the two nations, the Ambassador highlighted an investment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ධූර කාලය නිමවා මෙරටින් පිටව යන තායිලන්ත තානාපති චුලාමනී චාර්ට්සුවන් මහත්මිය (H. E. Mrs. Chulamanee Chartsuwan) සහ තානාපති කාර්යාලයේ කොන්සුලර් තයතත් කන්ජනපිපත්කුල් මහතා (Mr. Tayatat Kanjanapipathkul), අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විජේරාම නිවසේදී අද (29-01-2020) පෙරවරුවේ හමුවිය. ඇයගේ ධුර කාලය පුරාවටම ඇයට ලැබුණු සහයෝගයට තානාපතිවරිය අගමැතිවරයාට සහ රජයට ස්තූතිය පුද කළාය. කෙටි කලකින් පත්වීමට නියමිත අභිනව තායිලන්ත තානාපතිතුමා/තුමිය, වසර ගණනාවක් පුරා ඇයට ලැබුණු සහයෝගයම භුක්ති විඳිනු ඇති බවට විශ්වාසය පලකළ තානාපතිවරිය, එම අනුප්‍රාප්තිකයා රජය සමඟ දෙරටටම ඵලදායි ද්විපාර්ශවික සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ඇති කර ගනු ඇතැයි පැවසීය. දෙරට අතර සාකච්ඡා වෙමින් පවතින තායිලන්ත ආයෝජනයක් සහිත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ආශිර්වාද කිරීමේ තෙසැත්තෑ ඥාණ පූජාව නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේදී ඊයේ 2021.01.28 දින රාත්‍රියේ පැවැත්විණි. බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමි මෙම තෙසැත්තෑ ඥාණ පූජාව පැවැත්වූහ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇතුළු මහජන නියෝජිතයන් හා බැතිමතුන් පිරිසක් මෙම ආශිර්වාදාත්මක වැඩසටහන හා එක්වූහ. නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේ විහාරාධිපති බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක අති පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියන් වහන්සේ මෙහිදී තෙසැත්තෑ ඥාණ පූජාවේ නිමිත්ත පැහැදිලි කළහ. මේ රටේ පහල වූ ජන නායකයන් අතර එස්.ඩබ්ලිව්.ආර්.ඩී බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිතුමා හැරුනම යන යන තැනට ජන ගඟක් ගලන්නෙ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Angoda National Institute of Infectious Diseases. The Minister was admitted to IDH Hospital yesterday for further treatment. The Minister who was under quarantine at a hotel in Hikkaduwa was transferred to the IDH Hospital after being admitted to the Kotelawala Defense Hospital. However, the Health Ministry issuing a statement earlier said that the condition of Minster Pavithra Wanniarachchi was improving. Meanwhile, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
'Ape Janabala Party' Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera states that every Muslim should have the right to appear before a court. He stated this while participating in a press conference held in Colombo today. >A woman who converted to Islam before marriage also spoke at a press conference organized by the 'Ape Janabala Party' on Muslim marriage and divorce law as well as the Kathi court system. https://youtu.be/Kbss1ZIb_dc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Minister Wimal Weerawansa has invited six parties to take a tough decision if a cabinet paper is submitted regarding the sale of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port. Minister Wimal Weerawansa has telephoned the leaders of six member parties of the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna to hold a discussion on taking action against a cabinet paper on the sale of the Eastern Terminal on Monday (01) The crucial discussion in this regard is scheduled to be held tomorrow (30) at the official residence of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
දියුණුවීමට නම් මුළු ලංකාවම විකුණා දැමිය යුතු බව ශ්රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය සභාපති දයා රත්නායක මහතා සඳහන් කළ බව රාවය පුවත්පත වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සංවර්ධනයක් සිදු වීමට නම් වරාය නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය පමණක් නොව මුළු ලංකාවම විකුණා දැමිය යුතු බව ඔහු පැවසූ බව එම වාර්තාවේ දැක්වෙයි. රත්නායක මහතා මෙලෙස අදහස් පල කර ඇත්තේ නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය ඉන්දීය සමාගමකට කොටස් පැවරීම ගැන පුවත්පත විසින් කල විමසීමකදීය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලකයන් සහ මාධ්‍වේදීන් සමඟ රට දියුණු කිරීම අපහසු බැවින් රටම විකිණීම වඩා යහපත් බව ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් පැවසූ බව වාර්තාව කියයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Modern Sri Lanka enjoys well-deserved respect in the world as a sovereign, democratic, and socially oriented state, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She expressed these views during her briefing in Moscow yesterday (28). “Citizens of Sri Lanka are rightfully proud not only of their ancient history but also of their great achievements in the field of economic development,” she underlined. “Russian-Sri Lankan bilateral ties have invariably remained constructive since they were established. We maintain political contacts, including at the highest and high levels, and cooperate productively... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
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A total of 5,286 frontline healthcare workers have received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on the first day of coronavirus vaccination drive which kicked off in Sri Lanka today (29). Approximately 1,886 persons were administered the vaccine at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, 803 persons at Colombo North Teaching Hospital, 781 at Colombo South Teaching Hospital, 600 at Army Hospital and 400 at Army Camp Panagoda. Another 382 were vaccinated at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, 190 at Homagama Base Hospital, 108 at Mulleriyawa Base Hospital, 80 at IDH and 56 at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
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The Director General of Health Services confirms 08 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country increasing the death toll due to the virus to 305. One of the victims is a 65-year-old male from Kolonnawa who was transferred from Colombo National Hospital to Iranawila Treatment Center after being identified as Covid-19 positive. He had passed away at that center on January 27 while the cause of death is Covid-19 pneumonia. A 67-year-old woman from Panadura had passed away at the Panadura Base Hospital on January 27 also due to Covid-19 pneumonia. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
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The Government Information Department says that another 465 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today’s tally of confirmed cases to 859. Seven of the new cases are from the prisons cluster while the remainder (458) are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, and prison clusters to 58,489. The tally of Covid-19 cases reported within the country thus far has risen to 62,445 while the number of total recoveries has climbed to 55,398. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Sri Lanka News
The following report is a summary of mining giant Adani's track record, based on research into hundreds of court documents by Environmental Justice Australia and Earthjustice and other publicly available evidence. In 2011, a ship carrying Adani coal sank off the coast of Mumbai, devastating beaches, tourism and marine life. Adani did nothing to clean up the mess for five years. Adani can't be trusted to operate in the Great Barrier Reef. Adani's Australian CEO was Director of Operations at another mining company when it poisoned a river in Zambia... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
Sudath Gunasekra
Do they think that we are a Colony or a protectorate of theirs? In a way it is no surprise as our own so-called leaders except Sir John and Mrs Bandaranayaka no other had understood that we are an independent and sovereign country. What a tragedy not to be blessed with at least one national leader of that genre since Keppetipola Adikarama was beheaded. We bemoan this lacuna. But how long are we going to do that even-if we have to continue until the Maitree Buddha is born one should not be surprised, the way how... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The United State of America is getting ready for war in the Bay of Bengal and plans to drag Sri Lanka into that war to fight on behalf of USA. Sri Lanka does not welcome this. We are caught up in this power game between India, China and the US because of our geostrategic location, complained Sri Lanka. In the coming years, Sri Lanka, like the other states in the Bay of Bengal will be forced to pick a side as China–U.S. relations continue their downward spiral, said analysts. They will have to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
නව වසරේ පළමු පොහොය දිනයේ කැලණිය රජ මහා විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.28 දින විහාරාධිපති මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියන්ගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. දුරුතු පුර පසලොස්වක පොහොය දිනය බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ පළමු ලංකාගමනය සිහිපත් කරවන බව සදහන් කළ මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියෝ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා නව වසරේ පළමු පොහොය දිනයේ කැලණිය රජ මහා විහාරය වැදපුදා ගැනීමට පැමිණීම අගය කරන බව පැවසූහ. රටේ දේශපාලන, සමාජීය හා ආර්ථික ක්‍රියාපිළිවෙතට අදාළ ධර්මානුකූල පිළිවෙත් පිළිබඳව අනුශාසනා කළ මහාචාර්ය කොල්ලුපිටියේ මහින්ද සංඝරක්ඛිත නාහිමියෝ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට නිදුක් නිරෝගී චිර ජීවනය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කරමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව සෑම පුන් පොහෝ දිනකම පවත්වන “අමාදම් සිසිලස” ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාවේ 206 වැන්න අද 2021.01.28 දින විජේරාමේ පිහිටි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නිල නිවසේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ප්‍රථමයෙන් ආගමික වතාවත්වල නියැළුණු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා, ධර්ම දේශනය සඳහා වැඩම කළ කොළඹ, මාලිගාකන්ද විද්‍යෝදය පිරිවෙනේ ආචාර්ය, ගෞරවාර්හ කෙහෙල්වල නන්ද ස්වාමීන්ද්‍රයන් වහන්සේට දැහැත් වට්ටියක් පූජා කරමින් ධර්ම දේශනාවට ආරාධනා කළේය. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව සෑම පුන් පොහෝ දිනකම පැවැත්වෙන “අමාදම් සිසිලස” ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාවේ 206වැනි ධර්ම දේශනාවට මතෘකාව වූයේ සංයුක්ත නිකායේ මහා වග්ගයේ සතිපට්ඨාන සංයුක්ත සේදක සූත්‍රයයි. අත්තානන් භික්ඛවේ රක්ඛන්තෝ පරම් රක්ඛති - මහණෙනි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
දැන් 73 වෙනි නිදහස් සැමරුම ඉතාම ආසන්න දිනකදී සමරනවා. ඔබ අප ලබා ගත්තාවූ නිදහස සම්බන්ධව මොනවාද හිතන්නේ? විශේෂයක් දැනෙන්නේ නැහැ. ඒ උනාට හොඳයි. ඒ මොන කෝළම් කතාවක්ද? තමන්ට දැනෙන්නේත් නැති හැඟෙන්නේත් නැති දෙයකට හොඳයි කියන එක? සමහර දේවල් තියෙනවා අපට හැඟෙන්නෙ නැති හොඳ දේවල්. ඒ වගේම තියෙනවා තමන්ට කිසිවක් දැනෙන්නේ නැති හොඳ දේවල්; ඉතින් මට දැනුනේ නැහැ කියල හෝ මට හැඟුනේ නැහැ කියල, මේ රටේ අති බහුතරයක් මහත් භක්තියකින් සමරණ දෙයකට නරකයි කියන්න පුළුවන්ද? මට ඒක කරන්න අයිතියක් නැහැ. මේ නිදහස අපූරුයි කියල මම කියනවා. ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම ඔබ අවංකව හිතේ තියෙන දේ ප්රකාශ කරන්නේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
පාලිත ආරියරත්න
වික්ටර් රත්නායක මහතා සහ ඔහුගේ බිරිඳ යාච්ඤා මෙහයට සහභාගී වී ඇති අයුරු දක්වෙන පින්තුර කැබැල්ල අද වනවිට අන්‍යාගමික මාරයා නැවත හිස ඔසවමින් සිටි, අන්‍යාගමික කරණය දැන් දැන් අයෙත් නාඩගමක් බවට පත්වී තිබේ. ටයි කොට් ඇඳගත් පාස්ටර් වරු මේ නීති විරෝධී අන්‍යාගමික කරණයේ යේදී සිටි. ලංකාවේ සිටින ප්‍රසිද්ධ මින්සුන් මෙන්නම අප්‍රසිද්ධ පුද්ගලයන් සොයා ගොස් මේ පාස්ටර් මග මරුවන් මේ නීති විරෝධී ක්‍රියාදාමයේ යෙදී සිටි. දැන් මේ කපටි පාස්ටර් වරු කොවිඩ් මරණ ගැනකථා නොකර අතර මිනිසුන්ට ඇස් බැන්දුම් බැඳ දැන් උගුරු ආශ්‍රිත රෝග හොඳ කිරීමට පටන් ගෙන තිබේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Palitha Mapatuna
Among certain individuals, confusion seems to be evident with regard to disposal of dead bodies of Covid 19 victims and what they call ‘human rights’. However, the issue here seems to be not a question of ‘human rights’, but the most prudent form of disposal of these dead bodies, given the uncertainties regarding the survival of the specific virus. In this regard, the deciding factor for any authority with a proper sense of responsibility seems necessarily to be the welfare of all and not narrow-visioned considerations. Palitha Mapatuna... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
Cricket players who may have been above board should not get involved in politics Celebrated captain who lifted the World Cup should have stayed as a senior cricketer like Sanga or Mahela and serve the nation .Trying to emulate Imran Khan has not shown much results .Previous government have him a lucrative job as the minister for ports and shipping and also made him the minister of Petroleum .But the country did not see much of his contribution to both industries When the Galle Harbour marina project and Yacht repair project... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
By Hiran H.Senewiratne Courtesy The Island
The government will continue 289 infrastructure projects worth more than rupees five trillion despite current economic challenges, State Minister for Money and Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal said. ” Sri Lanka was able to pull through a very difficult period due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Despite those challenges the government was able to maintain macroeconomic fundamentals reasonably well. Further, the rupee has depreciated by 6.8 percent last year and to prevent further rupee depreciation, the Central Bank has taken prudent decisions, State... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The COVID-19 situation in most of the areas in the country has gone out of hands due to the negligence and poor sense of responsibility from the part of general public, the Public Health Inspectors' Union claimed. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Union Secretary M. Balasuriya said people have taken the gravity of the COVID-19 situation in the country for granted. “People living in areas where curfew and isolation status are imposed, have forgotten to follow the basic health guidelines. This is a very pathetic situation and we,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi who was infected with the coronavirus has been admitted to the IDH Hospital for further treatment. The Minister who was under quarantine at a hotel in Hikkaduwa was transferred to the IDH Hospital after initially being admitted to the Kothalawala Defense Hospital. However, the Ministry of Health stated in a statement that the health condition of the Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi who is receiving treatment for covid infection is improving.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Seven more persons who were infected with COVID-19 have succumbed to the virus, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. According to the Department of Government Information, total lives claimed by the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand at 297. One of the victims was identified as an 86-year-old from Colombo 06. He has passed away on January 26 on admission to Iththepana District Hospital. The cause of death was cited as diabetes and high blood pressure exacerbated by COVID-19 infection. Another man, aged 73, meanwhile fell victim to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 infections count saw another uptick today (January 28) as 501 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information said 501 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 40 are reportedly arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (33) and Oman (07). The country has registered 892 positive cases of novel coronavirus within the day. With today’s development, total COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country have soared to 61,586. Reports revealed that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
Stanley Gunaratne
No global tender was held. No effort whatsoever was made to list on the stock market. No effort seemingly made to screen domestic partners. No serious global player sought. No nation on Earth goes to India for infrastructure. An MOU (which itself mentioned Japan and not exclusively the pathetic Indians) is not a legally binding agreement. For the government to say otherwise is an OUTRIGHT LIE. India is known to have actively worked to destroy and suppress this country. Ceylon/Sri Lanka has never been part of India, is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/21)
MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR, Asia regional correspondent Courtesy Nikkei Asia
With eyes on growing Chinese influence, New Delhi ensures its interests get priority Port of Colombo in 2019: Sri Lanka and India recently agreed on terms for developing the port's Eastern Container Terminal with Indian company Adani Group. (Photo by Yuji Kuronuma) BANGKOK -- Sri Lanka's hawkish President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has caved in to Indian pressure for a stake in the Port of Colombo, the busiest harbor in the strategically located South Asian island where China already has a foothold. Rajapaksa's... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
2019 අ.පො.ස (උසස්පෙළ) විභාගයේ පැරණි සහ නව නිර්දේශ කඩඉම් ලකුණු මට්ටම් දෙකකින් විශ්වවිද්‍යාල වලට ශිෂ්‍යයන් තෝරා ගැනීම නිසා මතු වී ඇති ගැටළුව විසඳීම, බඳවා ගැනීම් පටිපාටියට හා පවත්නා නීති රීති වලට අනුකූලව ගැටළු පවතින ශිෂ්‍යන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම් සපුරාලන පරිදි සිදු කිරිමට විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප්‍රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව තීරණය කර ඇත. ඒ අනුව, ශිෂ්‍යයන් ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති අභියාචනා අධ්‍යයනය කර, අභියාචනා මණ්ඩලය විසින් නිර්දේශ කරන අමතර ශිෂ්‍ය සංඛ්‍යාව, විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවලට බඳවා ගැනිම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය පියවර කඩිනමින් ගන්නා බව විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ප්‍රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය සම්පත් අමරතුංග මහතා 2021.01.26 වන දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම්ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේදී ප්රකාශ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේ විහාරාධිපති බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක, අති පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියන්ගේ ඡන්ම දිනයට සමඟාමීව පැවති දානමය පුණ්‍ය කර්මයට අද 2021.01.27 දින ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එක් විය. අභයාරාමයට ගිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අති පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියන්ගේ 78වැනි ඡන්ම දිනයට සුභාශිංසන එක් කරමින් උන්වහන්සේට නිදුක් නිරෝගී චිර ජීවනය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කළේය. මෙහිදී අනුශාසනා කරමින් මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියෝ මෙසේ පැවසූහ. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ පස්වන විධායක ජනාධිපතිතුමා කළ සේවාව නිසා, විශේෂයෙන් රට නිදහස් කර දුන්නා, රට ගොඩගත්තා, ජන්දයට අවස්ථාවක් ලබා දුන්නා ආදී ඔබ කළ මහා පින්කම් නිසා ඔබතුමාට අපි ආදරෙයි. කවුරු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
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අමරපුර මූලවංශික මහා නිකායේ අනුනායක අති පූජ්‍ය යෝගියානේ සෝභිත අනුනාහිමියන් බැහැ දැකීමට අද 2021.01.27 දින එම විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. යෝගියාන ජයසුන්දරාරාමය සහ කිරුලපන සිරි ඇලන්මැතිනියාරාමාධිපති ලෙස ද කටයුතු කරන සෝභිත අනුනාහිමියන්ගේ 66වැනි ඡන්ම දිනය අද දිනට යෙදී තිබේ. ඒ නිමිත්තෙන් සුභාශිංසන එක් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අනුනාහිමියන්ට නිදුක් නිරෝගී චිර ජීවනය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කළේය. රටේ දේශපාලන, සමාජීය හා ආර්ථික ක්‍රියාපිළිවෙතට අදාළ ධර්මානුකූල පිළිවෙත් පිළිබඳව සෝභිත අනුනායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේ මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට අනුශාසනා කළහ. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ මහා නායක අග්ගමහා පණ්ඩිත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Rohan Abeygunawardena ACMA, CGMA.
When I was a kid while helping with homework, my mother told ‘’look at this eraser, it is made in England, but do you know this is made out of rubber from our country?’’ That was in early sixties. Then in mid-sixties my father showed me a newspaper heading ‘’Soviet Union to build a Tyre factory in Kelaniya.’’ Since I was fascinated by motorcars, although our family couldn’t afford one, I thought ‘’how nice if I get an opportunity to work in that factory.’’ I got that opportunity. In March 1982 I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
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කොළඹ වරායේ නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්ත කොටසක් ඉන්දියාවේ අදානි සමාගමට ලබා දීමෙන් රුපියල් මිලියන 15,000 ක කොමිස් මුදලක් කිසියම් පිරිසක් අතර බෙදා ගැනීමේ සූදානමක් ඇති බවට විශ්වාස කටයුතු තොරතුරු ලැබෙමින් ඇතැයි පූජ්‍ය මාගල්කන්දේ සුදත්ත හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති https://youtu.be/1urXb-ZA5Xw විකිණීම බදුදීම ආයෝජනය කිරීමත් ආදී විවිධ වචන භාවිතා කළ ද මෙහි සිදුවන්නේ එකම ක්‍රියාදාමයක් ඇයි ද උන්වහන්සේ පෙන්වා දෙති. මේ සම්බන්ධ වන යෝජනාවලිය සහිත කැබිනට් පත්‍රිකාවට අදානි සමාගම යන නම ඇතුළත් වන කෙසේදැයි දැඩි ප්රශ්නයක් ඇතැයි ද උන්වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් එහිමියන් මෙම අදහස් පල කරන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොළඹ වරාය නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය, කන්කසන්තුරේ වරාය, පලාලි ගුවන්තොටුපළ ඉන්දියාවට අවශ්‍ය බව ද ඉන්දියාව විසින් දන්වා ඇතැයි පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය සඳහන් කරයි. එහි අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම් පුබුදු ජයගොඩ මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ මෑතකදී මෙරට සංචාරයේ යෙදුණු ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍යවරයා විසින් මේ බව දන්වා තිබෙන බවය. පළාත් සභා ක්රමය අහෝසි කරන්නේ නම් මෙම ස්ථාන තුන ඉන්දියාවට අවශ්‍ය බව ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙරට කල සංචාරයේදී දන්වා ඇතැයිද ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. සම්මන්ත්‍රණ සභාවක් අමතමින පුබුදු ජයගොඩ මහතා මේ බව පැවසීය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Livia Yap, Courtesy Bloomberg News
BC-The-World’s-Best-Stock-Rally-Is-in-Sri-Lanka , Livia Yap (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka stocks have returned a world-beating 30% so far in 2021 as domestic investors get more active. Local individuals were responsible for 79% of total market turnover last year, according to the nation’s stock exchange, amid a 70% increase in new accounts from 2019. At the same time, overseas investors were exiting -- they sold $272.8 million of shares, data compiled by Bloomberg showed. “As the pandemic rebound got underway, abundance of global liquidity, substantial rate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy News18
ri Lanka will purchase 2 to 3 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from its Indian manufacturing company Serum Institute of India during the next two days, a top Sri Lankan official said here on Wednesday. Lalith Weeratunga, the advisor to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that purchasing from India will follow Thursday's arrival of India's free vaccines to Sri Lanka. He said the Indian Covishield vaccine is to arrive tomorrow and the consignment will be accepted by President Rajapaksa at the Colombo international airport. A total of 250,000 people, mostly health frontline workers, members of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on states on Wednesday to impose “targeted sanctions” on former Sri Lankan military commanders implicated in alleged war crimes during the final years of a 26-year civil war that ended in 2009. “States can consider targeted sanctions, such as asset freezes and travel bans against credibly alleged perpetrators of grave human rights violations and abuses,” she said in a report on Sri Lanka to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Bachelet voiced concern that since 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had appointed at least... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy The National News.com
Travellers visiting the Indian Ocean country must have a negative PCR test result, take another test upon arrival and stay in a government-approved hotel Sri Lanka has reopened to approved tourists who must show a negative PCR test and stay in a government-approved hotel for 14 days with supervised outside excursions. Unsplash Sri Lanka has reopened to tourists for the first time in almost a year. The island nation, which is a favourite with holidaymakers from the UAE, closed to international travellers in March 2020, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka reported 431 new infections of the novel coronavirus today (27), Army Commander General Shavendra Silva confirmed. Accordingly, a total of 742 cases have been reported within the day. This brings the total count of Covid-19 cases reported in the country to 60,694. According to the Health Ministry’s data, 52,566 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from the virus. However, 7,838 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers located across the island. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has witnessed 290 deaths from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director-General of Health Services confirmed that Sri Lanka has reported two more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. A 43-year-old male from Colombo 15 has passed away from COVID-19 pneumonia and a heart condition complication. He had passed away at Homagama Base Hospital today (January 27). Meanwhile, a 74-year woman from Gonapola has died upon admittance to the Horana Base Hospital yesterday (January 26). The cause of her death has been determined as COVID-19 pneumonia, kidney infection, and severe cellulitis. The new development brings the COVID-19 fatality count in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Principal Advisor to President, Lalith Weeratunga says Sri Lankan citizens will not be forced to receive the vaccine against Covid-19. Addressing a media briefing earlier today (January 27), he said getting vaccinated for the novel coronavirus is not mandatory and that inoculation drive will go ahead on a voluntary basis. Mr Weeratunga noted that however, those who decide to get themselves vaccinated will be required to fill a consent form before receiving the jab. The first consignment of Covid-19 vaccines – Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVISHIED jabs manufactured by Serum Institute in India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
China will donate 300,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Sinopharm to Sri Lanka, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said. China and Sri Lanka enjoy historical friendship and have always been strongly supporting each other including the joint fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the statement said. “Responding to recent request by the Sri Lankan government, China has decided to donate 300k coronavirus vaccine doses to Sri Lanka to jointly fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, although the production capacity of the vaccine is still limited compared with the huge domestic and international... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Arundika Fernando, the State Minister of Coconut, Kithul, Palmyrah, and Rubber Cultivation Promotion and Related Industrial Product Manufacturing, and Export Diversification, has tested positive for COVID-19 infection. https://youtu.be/eQPhV7Fpnl8 After he was confirmed to have contracted the virus he has been directed for medical care. Fernando is the 7th Member of the Parliament to be diagnosed with coronavirus. Starting with State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera, MP Rauff Hakeem, State Minister Piyal Nishantha, Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, and MP Wasantha Yapa Bandara had also tested positive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy Sunday Island
Signs are that anti-Sri Lanka forces at home and abroad are already gearing up for a wishfully devastating diplomatic assault on the country during the forthcoming 46th session of the UNHRC in Geneva in March 2021. Politicizing the artificial burial issue and the innocuous ‘peniya’ to resist/treat Covid-19 and blaming it all on the government is one form of attack that uses distortion of facts and disinformation as weapons. Which side stands to gain by politicizing these ‘problems’ would be obvious to any dispassionate observer. The implicit charges of racist discrimination... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
The privatization of public enterprises had been a significant policy initiative in a liberal economic system, and if it considers the era after the first world war, it could be seen that many countries in the world have espoused the privatization of public enterprises for various reasons and purposes, and many governments used various techniques for privatizing the public-owned enterprises. Investment in public enterprises began when the private sector has no sufficient capital to invest in such business or did not interest in investing in such business and services. People in Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
වෛද්‍ය රුවන්. එම් ජයතුංග
වෛද්‍ය W.G ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මට මුලින්ම හමු වූයේ 1989 වසරේදීය. එවකට වෛද්‍ය සිසුවෙකු වූ මා හට වෛද්‍ය අජිත් දංගෙදර යටතේ දකුණු කොළඹ ශික්‍ෂණ රෝහලේ (කළුබෝවිල රෝහල) ස්ථාපනයක් ලබා ගැනීම පිණිස ඔහු උපකාරී විය. එවකට වෛද්‍ය W.G ගුණවර්ධන මහතා දකුණු කොළඹ ශික්‍ෂණ රෝහලේ වෛද්‍ය අධිකාරීවරයා විය. ඉන් පසු 1993 දී වෛද්‍ය උපාධිය අවසන් කොට සිටි මා දකුණු කොළඹ ශික්‍ෂණ රෝහලේ ප්‍රී ඉන්ටර්න්වරයෙකු ලෙස සේවය කලෙමි. එම කාලයේදීද ඔහු දකුණු කොළඹ ශික්‍ෂණ රෝහලේ වෛද්‍ය අධිකාරීවරයා විය. වෛද්‍ය W.G ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඉතා ප්‍රිය මනාප කරුණාවන්ත පුද්ගලයෙකු විය. ඔහු ඕනෑම පීඩනකාරී අවස්ථාවකට මුහුණ දුන්නේ ඉතා සන්සුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
By Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D
The concept of Post Combat Depression (PCD) is not new. There are many historical records to provide that combatants manifested depressive symptoms after the war. The feeling of guilt and despair plays a major role in post-combat depression. For instance, King Dutugamunu went into a depressive type of reaction soon after the Wijithapura battle. The king’s emotional worries were later healed by a monk. Similarly, Napoleon Bonaparte developed depression while he was in exile on the island of St Helena. Post combat depression is evident among some... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
රවි කුමුදෙශ්
අද එන්නත් ගෙනල්ලා, හෙට විදගෙන විදගෙන යනවා වගේ සෞඛ්‍ය සේවාව පැත්තෙන් නිකුත් වෙමින් තියෙනවා. එන්නත් ලබාදීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය ඒ තරම්ම සරල වුණේ කොහොමද කියන එක බරපතළ ගැටලුවක්. අත් හෝදන්න ඕනේ නැහැ, මුව ආවරණ ඕනෙ නැහැ, දූරස්ථභාවය ඕනෙ නෑ, වගේ අදහසක් මේකෙන් මහජනතාවට ඇති වෙන එක වළක්වන්න බැහැ. එන්නත් ලක්ෂ හයක් හෙට ආවට විදින්න පුලුවන් වෙන්නෙත් ලක්ෂ තුනකට විතරයි. ඒ අයටත් එන්නත විද්දට පස්සේ සංකූලතා ඇති වෙනවද, එන්නත ශරීරයේ වැඩ කරනවද, රුධිරයේ වර්ධනය වන ප්‍රතිදේහ මොනවද, ප්‍රතිදේහ වර්ධනය වීමට කොච්චර කල් ගත වෙනවද, එක එක ප්‍රභේද වලට මොන වගේද හැසිරීමක්ද වැනි කරුණු පිළිබඳව අපි කවම මොකුත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
http://lankacnews.com/%e0%b6%a5%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%ab%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%8f%e0%b6%bb-%e0%b7%84%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%92-19-%e0%b7%80%e0%b7%83%e0%b6%bb%e0%b6%9a%e0%b6%a7-%e0%b7%84%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%99%e0%b7%8a/ How did the 2 court of appeal judges and the 2 supreme court judges who refused Ven. G’s permission to appeal, miss this video clip? Six lawyers and a monk: importance of impotence Posted on January 22nd, 2019 - Lankaweb Part II-continuation It is strange why the monk’s lawyers did not present the video clip above as evidence. It is also strange why the two monks who gave evidence on behalf of the monk said contradictory stories, which the judges used against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
On account of its strategic location, Sri Lanka is a key battleground of geopolitical rivalry, said Asoka Bandarage. Sri Lanka is now in the crosshairs of dangerous power games among the big powers, said Lasanda Kurukulasuriya. Sri Lanka must pursue an independent foreign policy, said Palitha Kohona. It must protect the territorial integrity, sovereignty, independence and economic advancement of Sri Lanka. We must maintain good relationships with USA, China and India, but that should not mean we should sacrifice our independence, Kohona said. We need an effective foreign policy, which ensures our security,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
රාජ්‍යයක් යනු යම් දේශ සීමාවකින් මායිම් කෙරෙන හුදු භූමියක් පමණක් නොවේ. එම භූමිය ද, එම භූමිය මත සහ භූමිය තුළ ඇති සියලු ස්වභාවික භෞතික සම්පත් ද, එය වසා පැතිරුණු වා තලය ද, භූමිය ඇසුරෙහි සාගරයක් වේ නම් ඒ හා සබැඳි සියළු ස්වභාවික සම්පත් ද, මේ මහා පරිසර පද්ධතියෙහි ම කොටසක් වන මානව සම්පත ද රාජ්‍යයේ එක් කොටසක් නියෝජනය කරයි. රාජ්‍යය යනු මිනිසා ඇතුළු මේ සියළු ස්වභාවික සම්පත්වල එකතුව පමණක් ද නොවේ. එම භූමියේ විසූ සහ වසන මිනිසා විසින් කළ සහ කරනු ලබන භෞතික සහ භෞතික නොවන නිර්මාණ සියල්ල ද රාජ්‍යයට ඇතුළත් වේ. එ ලෙස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
ප්‍රවෘත්තී නිවේදනය නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය.
රටේ තරුණ පරපුරට අභිමානයෙන් යුතුව යෙදිය හැකි රැකියාවක් ලබාගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපනය සඳහා ලොව ඉහළ තලයේ ඉල්ලුම හා ප්‍රමිතිය සකස් කිරීම නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් අමාත්‍යංශයේ අරමුණ බව ගරු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය පසුගියදා (2021.01 .22 ) අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක ජාතික ව්‍යාපාර කළමනාකාරිත්ව ආයතනයේ (NIBM) නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට එක්වෙමින් සඳහන් කළාය. රටෙහි ශ්‍රමබලකාය, පුහුණු වෘත්තිකයන් බවට සංවර්ධන කරමින් රටින් පිටවන ශ්‍රමිකයින් විදේශ විනිමයක් ගෙන ආ හැකි දක්ෂ වෘත්තිකයන් ලෙස ගොඩනැංවීම සිය අභිප්‍රාය බවත්, ඒ අනුව අලුතින් නිකුත් වූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය.
ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, ජී.එල්. පිරීස් මහතා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමනි, ශිෂ්‍යත්ව සමතුන් නොසලකා රුවන්වැල්ල රාජසිංහ ජාතික පාසලට දේශපාලකයින් සිසුන් ඇතුලත් කිරීමට කරන බැලපෑම් සම්බන්ධව. 2021 වර්ෂය සඳහා රුවන්වැල්ල රාජසිංහ ජාතික පාසලේ 6 ශ්‍රේ‚ය සඳහා සිසුන් ඇතුලත් කර ගැනීමේ දී 169 ක් වු මෙවර ශිෂ්‍යත්ව කඩඉම් ලකුණ මත සිසුන් ඇතුලත් කර ගැනීමට උපදෙස් දෙනු වෙනුවට අධ්‍යාපන ලේකම් විසින් පාසල අවට දේශපාලන හිතවතුන්ගේ දරුවන් 73 ක් ඇතුලත් කිරීමට බලපෑම් කරන බව වාර්තා වේ. 5 ශ්‍රේ‚ය ශිෂ්‍යත්ව සමත් සිසුන්ට ඇති අවස්ථා අහුරමින් මේ ආකාරයෙන් දේශපාලන හිතවතුන්ගේ දරුවන් ඇතුලත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ශ්රී ලංකා අමරපුර මහා නිකායේ උත්තරීතර මහානායක අග්ගමහා පණ්ඩිත මහෝපාධ්‍යාය අතිපූජ්‍ය කොටුගොඩ ධම්මාවාස නාහිමියන් බැහැ දැකීමට අද 2021.01.26 දින ශ්රී ගල්කිස්ස ශ්රී ධර්මපාලාරාම විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. උන්වහන්සේගේ 89 වන ඡන්ම දිනය අද දිනට යෙදී ඇති අතර ඡන්ම දිනට සුභාශිංසන එක් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා උන්වහන්සේට නිදුක් නිරෝගී චිර ජීවනය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කළේය. ලොවම වෙලාගත් වසංගත අභියෝගය හමුවේ මෙරට ජනතාව එම පීඩනයෙන් මුදා ගැනීමට ගෙන ඇති ක්‍රියාමාර්ග සම්බන්ධයෙන් කොටුගොඩ ධම්මාවාස නාහිමියෝ මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට ප්‍රශංසා පෙරදැරිව අනුශාසනා කළහ. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා දෙහිවල ගල්කිස්ස මහ නගර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
මෙරටට පැමිණීමට බලාපෙරොත්තුවෙන් සිටින විදේශගත ශ්රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයන් කඩිනමින් ගෙන්වීමට පියවර ගන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.26 දින උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. විදෙස්ගත ශ්රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයන් මෙරටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීම පිළිබඳව අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවකදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. ආර්ථික අපහසුතාවලින් පෙලෙන විදෙස්ගත ශ්රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයන් විශාල පිරිසක් මෙරටට පැමිණීමට නොහැකිව පීඩාවට පත්ව ඇතැයි රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය පියංකර ජයරත්න මහතා මෙහිදී පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව කොවිඩ්-19 වැළැක්වීමට අදාළ ජනාධිපති කාර්ය සාධක බලකාය සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කරමින් මෙම ශ්‍රමිකයන් කඩිනමින් මෙරටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමට කටයුතු කරන බවට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙහිදී විශ්වාසය පළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේ විහාරාධිපති බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක, අති පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියන් බැහැ දැකීමට අද 2021.01.26 දින එම විහාරස්ථානයට ගිය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. අති පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියන්ගේ 78වැනි ඡන්ම දිනය අද දිනට යෙදී ඇති අතර ඡන්ම දිනය වෙනුවෙන් සුභාශිංසන එක් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා උන්වහන්සේට නිදුක් නිරෝගී චිර ජීවනය ප්‍රාර්ථනා කළේය. රටේ දේශපාලන, සමාජීය හා ආර්ථික ක්‍රියාපිළිවෙතට අදාළ ධර්මානුකූල පිළිවෙත් පිළිබඳව පූජ්‍ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නාහිමියෝ මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට අනුශාසනා කළහ. උන්වහන්සේගේ ඡන්ම දිනයට සමඟාමීව නාරාහේන්පිට අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරස්ථානයේ පැවති ලේ දන්දීමේ උත්සවය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/21)
By P. K. Balachandran courtesy Eurasia Review
Containers stacked at Sri Lanka's Colombo port. Photo Credit: Rehman Abubakr, Wikipedia Commons Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation (JOIN) and India’s Adani Port are among foreign and Sri Lankan companies seeking a stake in the container terminal The Sri Lankan government has asked stakeholders in Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal (ECT) project to come up with a joint proposal to share a 49% stake in it. The Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), Maj.Gen. (Rtd) Daya Ratnayake, said that the SLPA will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy 5pillarsuk
The Sri Lankan government has said it will not comply with a United Nations report on Sri Lanka which demands the country stop forcibly cremating Muslim COVID-19 victims. Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said that Colombo is not prepared to take any steps which will harm the sovereignty of the nation. Yesterday UN human rights experts said the policy of forced cremations ran contrary to the beliefs of Muslims and other minorities in the country, and could foment existing prejudices, intolerance and violence. “The imposition of cremation as the only option for handling the bodies... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Co-Cabinet Spokesperson Minister Keheliya Rambukwella says the government will look into and take necessary actions regarding any violations of human rights that have taken place during the country’s civil war period. His remarks came during the press briefing held this morning (January 26) to announce the Cabinet decisions. The government is of the opinion that justice must be served if human rights violations have taken place. “We expect to take the rights decisions and to take necessary actions if someone has been wronged,” he added. On the 21st of January,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
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A special mutation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, has been detected in Sri Lanka, says the Director of Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of Sri Jayewardenepura University, Dr. Chandima Jeewandara. He made these remarks issuing a special statement today (January 26). This mutation of the virus is different from the strain previously identified in Sri Lanka, he said adding that it has similar characteristics to the strain that swept across in England, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Iceland. Dr. Jeewandara noted that this Covid-19 variant found in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena stated that a detailed draft of the response to the charges mentioned in the report submitted by the UN High Commissioner regarding Sri Lanka will be submitted to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva tomorrow (27). Meanwhile, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a 3-member Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to investigate, inquire into and report or take necessary actions on findings of preceding Commissions or Committees appointed to investigate into human rights violations, serious violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and other such offences. The Extraordinary Gazette... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
01 more COVID- 19, death reported increasing COVID- 19, death toll in Sri Lanka to 288. The deceased has been identified as a 71 year old frmale residing in Ragama. She was diagnosed while receiving treatment at the Welisara Base Hospital, and transferred to the National Infectious Diseases Unit. A statement issued by the Government Information Department states that the she died at the hospital on the 26th. The causes of death include hemorrhagic shock and covid pneumonia.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Army Commander Shavendra Silva stated that another 379 corona infected persons have been reported. According to the Government Information Department, the number of coronavirus infections reported so far today has increased to 755. This is the seventh consecutive day where more than 700 persons have been reported a day. Meanwhile Sri Lanka has now gone past Singapore in the list of covid cases in the world moving rapidly on the list now into 91st position. Singapore has reported 59,366 cases. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
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The Prime Minister instructed the authorities to expedite the repatriation of foreign workers who are expecting to return to Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister made this observation at a discussion held at Temple Trees on the repatriation of Sri Lankan workers abroad, according to the Prime Minister's Media Unit. Piyankara Jayaratne, State Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Market Diversification; Gamini Senarath, Secretary to the Prime Minister; Yoshitha Rajapaksa, Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the SriLankan Airlines Ashok Pathirage participated in the discussion. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Fact 1:India will always interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs Fact 2:India will always attempt to destabilize Sri Lanka Fact 3:International Relations is based on no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, only permanent interests. Permanent friends & enemies change from time to time. Fact 4:All nations know the value of Sri Lanka’s geopolitical positioningexcept Sri Lanka’s leaders & advisors Fact 5:Sri Lanka has a dismal record vis a vis signing agreements. Fact 6:Sri Lanka doesn’t know the art of saying ‘no’ diplomaticallycausing foreign policy blunders and fall outs with appeasement policies. Fact 7:Sri Lanka must look at the Commercial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
C.Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused…. Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I… Eurythmics,1983 (written for future Ranjan/s?)” “I was sent to jail for 19 years on false charges. If you see the Video tape... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
The series against England was umpired by world renowned our own Kumar Dharmasena with not to renowned Ruchira Palliyaguru. Throughout the series, the “UMPIRES CALL” haunted Sri Lanka. The two umpires were far too strict for the Sri Lankans, perhaps unwilling to be seen and criticised bias against England. But the professionals need not be act in that manner. Many of the deliveries of Lasith Embuldeniya were not properly read by both umpires, resulting stand in Skipper Chandimal to call for DRS. We now have clear evidence of at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 has made a significant impact on the domestic politics of the USA. It is seen as a possible sign of things to come. The Capitol attack was preceded by several other similar events. There was a white supremacist rally, in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. White supremacists marched through the streets chanting racist and anti-Semitic slogans. In the 2000 Presidential election, the recount in Florida was disrupted by Republican Party agitators. In April 2020, armed protesters went to the State Capitol in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
By India.com News Desk
Experts say herd immunity is said to have been developed in a population segment if 50-60 per cent of those are found to have the presence of antibodies in a sero-prevalence survey. New Delhi: The results of fifth round of sero-prevalence survey in the national capital indicate that people of Delhi could be heading towards attaining herd immunity against coronavirus infection The survey has found that in one district, 50-60 per cent of the sampled population has developed antibodies to COVID-19, sources said on Monday. Also Read - Coronavirus in Kids: More Than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy BBC
Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with almost 100 million confirmed cases in 191 countries and more than two million deaths. The virus is surging in many regions and countries that had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are also seeing infections rise again. Which countries have vaccinated the most?
Several coronavirus vaccines have now been approved for use, either by individual countries or groups of countries, such as the European Union and the WHO. Of the 53 countries administering vaccines and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia
Colombo, January 25: In all likelihood, Sri Lanka will face a tough resolution at the March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva as the draft report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) indicates. Admittedly, what Colombo has received is only a draft of the OHCHR’s case against Sri Lanka. It is to be modified with the comments of the Lankan government. And what will emerge eventually might be milder, having taken into account the rebuttals of the Lankan government based on its case that the allegations of war... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
by P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 25 (Counterpoint): Sri Lanka is gearing up for a hard battle at the 46 th.,Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva in February –March. While the core group, comprising UK, Canada, Macedonia, Germany and Montenegro, are working on a draft “consensual resolution”, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet, has sent a draft of her report to the Sri Lankan government for its comments. Sri Lanka is presently working on Bachelet’s report to rebut its claims point by point. In Colombo’s view, the High Commissioner’s contentions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
By Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgasia
Sri Lanka has welcomed its first batch of visitors from Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, after reopening its borders to foreign tourists last Thursday, following a 10-month pandemic-induced closure. The lifting of the ban on all commercial travellers, bar those from the UK which is currently under lockdown amid a virus surge, comes after a successful pilot project to test the waters ahead of the country’s full reopening. Started on December 28, the month-long pilot project involving Ukraine tourists ended on Sunday with a total of 1,700 arrivals. All foreign visitors, except... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
By Ifham Nizam and Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island
The Forest Conservator General has estimated the cost of restoring a section of the Kallaru Forest Reserve, which suffered extensive damage due to the establishment of a village, at Rs. 1.07 billion. The Court Appeal has ordered that SJB MP Rishad Bathiudeen, responsible for clearing part of the forest reserve bear the total cost of the reforestation programme. Sources close to Bathiudeen said he would file an appeal against the Appeal Court decision in the Supreme Court in the coming days. Commenting on the estimate,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
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https://youtu.be/3y2a-lRctbU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has reported four more coronavirus related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. Accordingly, Sri Lanka has witnessed a total of 287 deaths from the COVID-19 to date. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 case count in the country is at 59,167 with 8,547 active cases receiving treatment in hospitals. A total of 50,337 patients have completely recovered from the virus and been discharged from medical care. The details of the COVID-19 victims reported today (January 25) are as follows:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 354 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 354 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. Accordingly, a total of 737 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 59,167. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 50,337 earlier today, as more patients... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Kandy District Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarian Wasantha Yapa Bandara is confirmed to have contracted the COVID-19 infection. https://youtu.be/oP3gnHgaGRM Accordingly, he is the sixth Member of the Parliament to have been diagnosed with the virus. Starting with State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera, MP Rauff Hakeem, State Minister Piyal Nishantha, Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara, and Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi had also tested positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, State Minister Jayasekera and Minister Nanayakkara were recently sent home after recovering from the virus.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/21)
Ashley de Vos
Stemming from the advice given by Arahat Mahinda to King Devanampiya Tissa (3 C.BCE), that all beings including the animals in the forest and the birds in the air have a right to live, tradition dictated that all precious resources, are always protected. The thick forest covered hills and mountains, referred to, by Ferguson (1815) “as black, leach infested and full of animals”, were dedicated to the Gods or Devas, and as a royal decree ensured its continuous protection, very few went in to desecrate it. The central highlands were mostly uninhabited; the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Palitha Mapatuna
It is possible that an individual might hide behind the legal immunity of parliamentary privilege and, disregarding moral principles, engage in direct or implicit defamation of another or others. Such defamation may happen either through the defamer’s own intention or by instigation of others. If this occurs, it seems contrary to the intention behind parliamentary privilege and, as such, would amount to abuse of it. In fairness, it therefore seems necessary that framers of parliamentary rules re-examine the question of parliamentary privilege to determine whether it is possible to introduce... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
– divaina
ශ්රී ලංකාවට වඩාත්ම ජාත්‍යන්තර කීර්තියක් ගෙන ආ ක‍්‍රීඩාව ක‍්‍රිකට් ය. කලක් බොහෝ විදේශිකයන් ශ්රී ලංකාව හැඳින සිටියේ ‘සනත් ජයසූරියගේ රට’ ලෙසිනි. ශ්රී ලංකාව ජාත්‍යන්තර ක‍්‍රීඩා තලයේ සලකුණක් තැබුවේ අර්ජුන රණතුංගලා, අරවින්ද සිල්වාලා 1996 ක‍්‍රිකට් ලෝක කුසලානය ජය ගත් පසුවය. වර්තමානයේ නොමැති වූවද මේ රටේ ජනතාව ක‍්‍රිකට් හුස්ම ගන්නා ජනතාවකි. ඔවුන්ගේ ලේ වලටම ක‍්‍රිකට් ක‍්‍රීඩාව බද්ධ වී තිබේ. එතරම් වැදගත් ජාතියේ ක‍්‍රීඩාව ඉතා පරිස්සමින් රැකබලා ගත යුතුය. එතරම් වැදගත් ජාතික කණ්ඩායමේ අවස්ථාව කිසිදු භේදයක් නොසලකා සුදුස්සන්ට සහ දක්ෂයන්ට පමණක් හිමි විය යුතුය. මෙලෙසින් ශ්රී ලංකා ක‍්‍රිකට් ක‍්‍රීඩාව කඩාවැටීම පසුපස ඇත්තේ රසිකයන් නොදන්නා ක‍්‍රිකට්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
LOUISE WALSH Courtesy breakingnews.ie
Prof. Rose Anne Kenny, principal investigator at TILDA. Please take vitamin D to help protect against Covid-19 while the vaccine is being rolled out — this is the urgent message from a group of Irish medical experts. The experts from Ireland's leading universities have appealed to the Government to issue updated guidelines for all Irish adults on vitamin D supplements which, they say, can significantly reduce the risk of infection, serious illness and death from Covid-19 However, to date there has been no policy action despite... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
By Ivanhoe Broadcast News
| January 19, 2021 at 9:11 AM CST - Updated January 19 at 5:13 PM ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Vitamin D is an important nutrient that helps your body absorb calcium. But studies show about 40 percent of Americans don’t get enough of the vitamin. And, new research is suggesting low vitamin D levels may affect a person’s chance of getting COVID-19 and recovering from it. It’s known as the sunshine vitamin. Vitamin D helps keep your bones and immune system strong. Now, researchers are finding this vitamin may also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy The Indian Express
Talking about the aim of the exploration, Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture, Prahlad Singh Patel, said, “The world should get to know about the Ram Setu through evidence based on scientific research.” Also, Ram Setu's age will be ascertained through the study of fossils and sedimentation to see if it correlates with the Ramayana period, sources in the Ministry of Culture told The Indian Express. (Photo: NASA) The government has approved an underwater research project to ascertain the origins of the Ram Setu... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Widespread COVID-19 cases have been reported from each district in the country yesterday and that more than 100 cases have been reported from Colombo, Gampaha and Kandy districts. A total number of 724 COVID-19 patients have been detected in the country yesterday and the majority of 197 cases were reported from the Colombo District, while 110 cases from Kandy and 106 from the Gampaha Districts. In addition to these, 28 cases from Kalutara, 38 from Galle, 40 from Kurunegala, 27 from Matale, 24 from Kegalle, 31 from Ratnapura, 22 from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A total of 841 COVID-19 patients were detected within today bringing the total number of cases in the country to 58,430, the Government Information Department said. Accordingly, the total number of active cases thereby increased to 8,466. Meanwhile, the total Covid-19 recoveries stand at 49,684.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Three more persons who were infected with Covid-19 have fallen victim to the virus, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed a short while ago. Following the new development, the total number of novel coronavirus-related deaths reported in Sri Lanka has climbed to 283. One of the victims is a 77-year-old woman who was residing in Colombo 14 area. She was transferred from Colombo National Hospital to Mulleriyawa Base Hospital after testing positive for the virus. She passed away yesterday (January 23), while suffering from Covid-19 pneumonia, high blood pressure, liver infection and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed the grim milestone of 58,000 as 492 more persons were tested positive today (January 24). In addition, 349 from the Peliyagoda cluster were also confirmed as active coronavirus cases earlier this evening. Thereby, 841 infections in total have been identified so far within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 58,428. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 49,684 earlier today, with 423 more patients returning to health... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Members of 'Muslim Dikkasada Pilibanda Viyath Hamuwa' stated today (24) that they were wronged by the Kathi Courts. Meanwhile, Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekera stated that the issue regarding the Kathi courts will definitely be resolved in the new constitution. https://youtu.be/hZSAnHIqzcE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Venerable Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero says that non-governmental organizations are engaged in a conspiracy to create chaos in the country. He was commenting on the crisis regarding the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port when Parliamentarian Tissa Attanayake visited him. https://youtu.be/_qspjvCY5cU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/21)
Sri Lanka is never short of controversy. Colombo East Container Terminal is at the centre of a major national crisis which would decide the future of the current government and would decide the country’s future. The issue has traversed this far partly as a result of clueless politicians, corrupt public officials, wheeler-dealer advisors and not soliciting the advice from correct quarters. First and foremost, any government elected to power by the People are duty-bound to protect the sovereignty of the nation and not its neighbor. Secondly, any decision taken has to be in the best interest of the nation and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
H. L. D. Mahindapala
In continuing last week’s article on how lies manufactured and manipulated by charismatic leaders and mediocre theorists can distort the perceptions of the masses and lead societies to violence I must make a brief diversion, before I come to the local context – my main purpose -- to focus on how Donald Trump is leaving White House as the most dangerous President that ever walked out of it. He is leaving America under the darkest cloud that threatens to come down not in dismal rain but in ghastly blood. He left the White House... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
We have all read or heard Aesop’s fable ‘The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey’: A man and his young son set out taking their donkey to market to sell it there. Listening to different censorious comments of a number of people they encountered on the road, they first rode the animal, then they carried it. First the man rode the horse, then the boy, then both of them together, and finally, they started carrying the donkey tied to a pole by its legs; while passing a bridge over a river, the donkey struggled... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර
මේ රටේ සැබෑ නිදහස් දිනය පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ මැයි මස 22 දා මිස පෙබරවාරි 4 දා නොවේ. මන්ද පළමුව 48 පෙබරවාරි 4 දා අපගේ මව්බිමට හා සිංහල ජාතියට පූර්ණ නිදහස නොලැබුණු නිසාය. දෙවනුව අර්ධවශයෙන් හෝ මේ රටට කිසියම් දේශපාලන නිදහසක් ලැබුණේ 1972 මැයි මස ජනරජයක් වශයෙන් ප්රකාශ කළ දා බැවිනි. 1972 සිට 1977 දක්වා පුරා පස් වසරක්ම රටේ නිදහස් දිනය සැමරුම් උත්සවය පැවැත්වූයේ ද මැයි මස 22 වැනි දිනය. එබැවින් මේ රටේ නිදහස් දිනය වශයෙන් ප‍්‍රකාශකොට සැමරිය යුත්තේ ජනරජයක් වශයෙන් ප්රකාශ කළ මැයි මස 22 දා මිස ජෙනිංග්ස්ගේ බිරිඳගේ උපන් දිනය සිහිකිරීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
MICHAEL HUDSON AND PEPE ESCOBAR Courtesy UNZ Review
High-ended retailer Saks Fifth Avenue added private security, fencing and barbed wire ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in New York, June 7. 2020. (Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar last month took a hard look at rent and rent-seeking at the Henry George School of Social Science. Michael Hudson: Well, I’m honored to be here on the same show with Pepe and discuss our mutual concern. And I think you have to frame the whole issue that China... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක ජාතික උරුම ප්‍රාසාංග කලා හා ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පී ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය.
දශක ගණනාවක් පුරා ස්වර්ණමය පරිච්ඡේදයක් ඉතිහාසයට එක් කළ ජනමාධ්‍ය ලෝකය දික්විජය කළ කලාකීර්ති කලාසූරී ආචාර්ය එඩ්වින් ආරියදාස නම් වූ ඒ අසහාය යුග පුරුෂයාණන් අප අතරින් සමු ගත්තේ අපේ රටේ සියලූම දෙනාට උගත හැකි බොහෝ දේ ඉතිරි කර තබමින්. එමෙන්ම මාධ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ මෙන් ම විවිධ වූ ක්ෂේත්‍ර ගණනාවක් ඔස්සේ තම විශ්මිත කෞෂල්‍යයන් තුළින් රට වෙනුවෙන් මිල කළ නොහැකි සේවාවක් ඔහු ඉටු කළා. 1922 දෙසැම්බර් 03 දා දකුණු ලක උණවටුන ප්‍රදේශයේ ජන්ම ලාභය ලැබූ එඩ්වින් ආරියදාසයන්ගේ 98 වන ජන්ම දිනයේ දී හමුවීමට ලැබීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused…. Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I… Eurythmics,1983 (written for future Ranjan/s?)” “I was sent to jail for 19 years on false charges. If you see the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Ayurvedic practitioner Dhammika Bandara said he was not responsible for Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi contracting COVID-19, as she had failed to follow his advice on taking the syrup made by him. In a Facebook post, he said when taking his herbal syrup, people should avoid smoking, consuming alcoholic liquor and avoid eating meat. “Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi did two things which I advised her to avoid. Therefore, I cannot take responsibility for she had fallen ill now,” he said in the post.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා වෛරසය සඳහා තමන් විසින් හඳුන්වා දුන් ඖෂධය සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනි පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය භාවිතා කළ ආකාරය වැරදෙන්නට ඇතැයි කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. තමන් විසින් නියම කරන ලද මාත්‍රාව අනුව හරියටම ඖෂධය භාවිත කලේ නම් වෛරසය ආසාදන නොවන බවද ඔහු පවසයි. නියමානුකූල පිළිවෙතට මෙම ඖෂධය පානය කළ අය මෙතෙක් වෛරසය ආසාදන වී නැති බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. තමන් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනියට ඖෂධ ගෙනිහින් දුන් බවත් එම අවස්ථාවේ හැන්දකින් එය පානය කළද පසුව කෙසේ භාවික කලේ දැයි තමන් නොදන්නා බව ද ඔහු සඳහන් කළේ ය. සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in India is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka on the 27th of January. Accordingly, Sri Lanka will be receiving the 500,000 vials of doses with the first vaccine consignment. The President’s remarks came during the ‘Gama Samaga Pilisandara’ programme held in Walallawita, Kalutara today (January 23). He noted that Covid-19 jabs will be first administered to medical officers, Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and other health sector workers who are on the front line of coronavirus outbreak in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
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Sri Lanka has reported two more coronavirus related deaths today (January 230, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. One of the deceased is a 69-year-old male from Mount Lavinia who had passed away at the Homagama Base Hospital yesterday (January 22). He had been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital upon being diagnosed with COVID-19. The cause of his death has been determined as COVID-19 pneumonia and a kidney infection. The other victim is an 82-year-old woman from the Ranala area who succumbed to COVID-19 pneumonia and kidney disease. She had also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 371 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 371 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 724 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 57,587. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 49,261 earlier today, as more patients regained... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
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Covid-19 positive Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi is currently receiving treatment at an intermediate hotel quarantine centre in Hikkaduwa, the minister’s media secretary said. https://youtu.be/OJGYq4pOa8o Minister Wanniarachchi was tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday (January 22) in a rapid antigen test. She is the fifth Member of Parliament to contract the virus after State Ministers Dayasiri Jayasekara and Piyal Nishantha, MP Rauff Hakeem and Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/21)
BBC Newsnight
Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. How does this affect the road out of lockdown? However, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work. The virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December - which means the epidemic is shrinking in the UK. So what does this mean for the UK? Could we see travel restrictions imposed due to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
BBC Newsnight
Some viewers may find this film distressing As the UK coronavirus death toll reaches record levels, Newsnight returns to Salisbury District Hospital joining the ITU staff for a full 12 hour shift as they struggle to cope with the relentless influx of patients. https://youtu.be/hHcTZ8tHKW8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
Was TNA created by the LTTE in 2001? Yes.Press release on 22 Oct 2001 was signed by Sampanthan for TULF, N.Kumarakuruparan for ACTC, N. Srikantha for TELO & K.Premachandran for EPRLF. Why was TNA formed by LTTE in 2001? 9/11 sparked fears of actions against terrorist movements so TNA as LTTE’s political wing came into being. TNA issued its election manifesto on 12 November 2001 ahead of the 5thDecember 2001 elections. TNA’s manifesto goes out to explain the history to the Tamil nationality covering past 52 years. TNA uses ‘Citizenship & Franchise Laws’claiming it deprived hundreds and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
The Tamil National Alliance was formed in 2001 by the LTTE and became known as LTTE’s political wing. The rationale to create a political wing was probably the outcome of 9/11 and the US steered global ‘war against terror’. The TNA has contested 2 Parliamentary elections with backing of LTTE in 2001 and 2004 while the remaining 4 elections were post-LTTE defeat (2010, 2013, 2015 and 2020). Interestingly, TNA while claiming to be the representative of the Tamils contests only in Jaffna, Vanni, Trincomalee, Batticoloa & Ampara in all the 6 elections. Why has TNA ignored or refrained from representing all... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
By The Sri Lanka Study Circle
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/northamerica/top-stories/why-scientists-are-more-worried-about-the-covid-19-variant-discovered-in-south-africa/ar-BB1d02fQ?ocid=msedgdhp Why scientists are more worried about the Covid-19 variant discovered in South Africa On January 15, US public health officials warned that a more contagious variant of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could dominate infections in the United States by March. That grim warning referred to B.1.1.7, a variant that was first identified in the United Kingdom. But now, one week later, scientists are increasingly concerned about another variant that emerged in South Africa. There’s evidence from several small, and not-yet-peer-reviewed, studies that mutations... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A. (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture)
Book Review Dr. Sudath Gunasekara B. A. (Hons) (Geography) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Ph. D. (Agriculture) Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Visiting Lecture Univ. Peradeniya, Retired Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaarnaayaka (SLAS) 21.1.2021. Ven. Dr. Rambukwelle DevanadaThera Chief incumbent of Sri Sambhodi Vihaara, Berlin, was awarded a Ph.D. (Dr. Phil) “magna cum laude” with First Class Honours by the prestigious Berlin Humboldt National University of Germany for a Dissertation written in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
Senaka Weeraratna
Sinhala Buddhists are the most demonized ethnic group in South Asia, despite their tolerance of other races and religions. The following is an account written by an Englishman named Campbell in 1932, on his trip to Australia from Ceylon, accompanying a group of about 500 (largely Sinhalese), on the ship SS Devonshire, in 1882: " The Cingalese were a very highly civilised race...They have deep pride of the Island's historical and spiritual continuity. They burn with enthusiasm in their religious devotion and live up to it.. they are a race of primitive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
Dr SARATH OBEYSEKERA Ex CEO Colombo Dockyard
Colombo dockyard previously a part of the port commission was owned by Sri Lanka Ports Authority which was offered to a Japanese company called Onomichi Dockyard where 51 % ownership was transferred lot stock and barrel with two docks and fully equipped and skilled workforce with fully-fledged workshops in the eighties to a close to 3.5 million dollars by then UNP government When the share transfer took place, there was no lease agreement for the 13-acre portland with assets which was later given at 2 million Rs per month... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
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Unconfirmed reports state that Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi has tested positive for COVID19. This was based on a rapid antigen test conducted. However, the minister who was subject to a PCR test is awaiting results. False negative results tend to occur more often with antigen tests than with molecular tests. This is why antigen tests are not favored as a single test for active infection. There has been no official statement made regarding the test results at present. No... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
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The Government of Sri Lanka has conveyed that approval was granted for the emergency use of COVISHIELD vaccines, says the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka. In a tweet posted today (January 22), the High Commission said this clears the way to schedule the delivery of vaccines from India to the island nation. “Welcome emergency use approval of COVISHIELD vaccines by Government of Sri Lanka. This clears the way for scheduling delivery of the vaccine from India to lka. VaccineMaitri AffordableVaccine4All” COVISHIELD is the local name... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (January 22), as 441 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that 438 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. The remaining 03 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries; 02 from Tunisia and 01 from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Accordingly, a total of 787 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/21)
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Two more Covid-19 related fatalities have been confirmed in Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health says. Following the new development, total lives claimed by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 278. One of the victims was identified as an 82-year-old man from Colombo 08. He had been transferred to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) after testing positive for the virus while receiving treatment a private hospital in Colombo. He was suffering from Covid-19 pneumonia at the time of his passing earlier today (January 22). In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
There is much ado about the claims that the 1956 Official Language Act was responsible for the present ‘ethnic conflict’. The advocate of this notion must explain how ITAK formed in 1949 sought to create a Tamil Nation as per translation of its name? They must also explain how grievance over Sinhala language could be solved by giving into a demand for ‘federalism’ as sought via Bandaranaike-Chelvanagayam Pact. What does Sinhala language have to do with federalism? Let us simply ask some questions, find the answers and think about the false notions being spread What was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
Sunil Wimalawansa Professor of Medicine
Why such has not been adopted or implemented in Sri Lanka and other counties? This is very similar to what Professor Wimalawansa recommended to the SLGo in mid-March 2020 to effectively control COVID? A great example is summarized int the following website by one of our colleagues, from the U.K., Dr David Grimes. http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2021/01/covid-19-and-vitamin-d-miracle-in.html If implemented S/L would have carried out normal functions and economic activities, with no loss of jobs, no excess deaths, disruption of the supply chain, and avoid near bankruptcy. The country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
Ranjith Soysa
The US Ambassador patronizingly speaks of 1955 UDHR and advise Sri Lanka to respect the dead. But, in USA the black living are subjected to ridicule and at times violence as screened to the world especially during the last 12 months Black Lives Matter demos. It was reported in December 2020 how a black US doctor died due to alleged racist hospital care. Dr Moore who died due to the racism said “ this is how black people get killed. When you send them home and they do not know how to fight... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
While saying that attempts are made by certain private sector hospitals to carry out PCR and antigen tests at regional testing places and mini laboratories without the authorization from the Health Ministry, General Shavendra Silva, Commander of the Army said testing methodology has been twisted in some private Hospitals. He expressed this during a meeting held with representatives of private sector laboratory technicians to discuss the possibility of implementing a common regulatory mechanism to conduct antigen and PCR tests. "Only 30 technically-equipped such laboratories are authorized by the Health Department... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
Sri Lanka news
Sri Lanka decided to use an Indian vaccine COVAXIN™ made by Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech for Sri Lanka while the AstraZeneca vaccine developed by Oxford University and manufactured locally in India under British license will not available for export to Sri Lanka. Indian regulators gave the nod for emergency use to two vaccines earlier this month: the AstraZeneca vaccine and another one by Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech. COVAXIN™, India's indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
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The Health Ministry says that 536 new cases of coronavirus have been reported increasing the today’s tally of positive cases to 873. Seven new cases reported today are from the prisons cluster while the remaining are all close contacts of patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters to 52,202. Meanwhile the total number of novel coronavirus cases reported in the country thus far has increased to 56,076. Total recoveries stand at 47,984 while the number of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
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The Director General of Health Services today confirmed two more COVID-19 related deaths, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 276. One of the deceased is a 71-year-old woman from Peliyagoda who had been transferred from Colombo National Hospital to Mulleriyawa Base Hospital after being identified as Covid-19 positive. She had passed away at that hospital on January 20 due to acute diabetes pneumonia. The other patient is a 46-year-old from Athurugiriya who was also identified as Covid-19 positive while being treated at the Colombo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
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The Director General of Health Services says that necessary documents have been forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department for legal approval to obtain Covid-19 vaccines from India. India on Wednesday began supplying Covid-19 vaccines to six neighbouring and key partner countries. Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles are the first recipients to acquire the India-manufactured vaccines. However, India had said it is still awaiting the confirmation of necessary regulatory clearances from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of India had said the country has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
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The individual who spat at health officials in Atulugama has been sentenced to 6 years rigorous imprisonment by the Panadura Magistrate’s Court and also imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000. The incident was reported on December 02, 2020 in Atulugama police area when two Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and two public servants had visited the area to perform their duties. https://youtu.be/hExZrhv0aS0 However, they were obstructed by a person, who had been identified as Covid-19 infected, who had proceeded to spit on the face of one of the PHIs. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
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Steps have been taken to reinstate the interdicted Embilipitiya High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya, sources say. Reportedly, the Judicial Service Commission is due to issue a letter regarding his reinstatement. While he is reinstated to his duties, Pilapitiya will still be subjected to an investigation, according to sources. Embilipitiya High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya was interdicted on January 22, 2020, over a controversial phone conversation he had with Ranjan Ramanayake who is currently subjected to 4-years of rigorous imprisonment. Subsequently, the Attorney General instructed the Colombo Crime Division... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/21)
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The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange has surpassed the 8,000 points mark for the first time in history. The ASPI closed 8,131.25 points at the end of trading today (January 21), gaining 246.80 points from the previous day or 3.13%. The ASPI had reportedly crossed the 8,000 points mark during trading on several previous occasions, however this is the first time that it crossed the mark at the end of trading. The Colombo Stock Exchange’s turnover for the day was Rs. 14.20 billion, the highest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
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Two players of the Sri Lanka Cricket team have tested positive for COVID-19 infection, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) stated. Bowlers Binura Fernando and Chamika Karunaratne have been diagnosed with the virus, according to SLC.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
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The syrup produced by Dhammika Bandara of Kegalle was distributed to the public before the clinical study has been completed. It is reported that arrangements have been made to distribute 5,000 bottles of syrup at his residence in Udukumbura, Kegalle. https://youtu.be/JjHZtBpV0Aw However, the clinical work of the syrup produced by Dhammika Bandara is currently being carried out at the Methsiri Sevana Treatment Center attached to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital as well as at the Nochchiyagama Regional Hospital. Accordingly, the syrup will be given to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
There is much hue and cry over allegations of post-independent Sri Lanka disenfranchising Indian Tamils. Let us therefore address this question directly. Sri Lanka was illegally invaded and occupied by 3 western European countries from 1505 – the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. These colonial invaders followed a policy of divide and rule – dividing the natives so they were kept busy while the colonials plundered our wealth. The colonial invaders began many plantation projects and when the natives were too proud to work on them, they brought in indentured laborers mostly from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
The Attorney General of Sri Lanka is the Sri Lankan government’s chief legal adviser, TheAttorney General has now declared that the MCC Compact and the Program Implementation Agreement & Articles of Association of MCA are inconsistent with the written laws & the Constitution of Sri Lanka. This is a complete reversal of the AG’s legal opinion given on 10 October 2018 to the MCC Chief Operating Officer which the US Embassy has been using to justify the MCC Compact. This change in stand has severely impacted diplomatic relations, it has unnecessarily caused friction between the People & the US Government and it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
By The Sri Lanka Study Circle
Globalisation unmasked Globalisation has resulted in Third World Nations, inveigled into debt and encouraged to take decisions that have made their food-chains vulnerable and the Nations themselves, dependent on the globalists for their physical survival. COVID 19, has unmasked the evil face of Globalisation that had been deliberately concealed and, exposed it for what it is. COVID 19, in a globalised scenario, threatens the very survival of those living in Third World countries. If they survive, their existence as freemen is in jeopardy and the continued... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The military relationship between Sri Lanka and USA is continuing. Sri Lanka Air Force Airmen and Pacific Air Forces Airmen participated in the first virtual and fourth annual Airmen-to-Airmen Talk, known as A2AT, hosted from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on December 2020. The Talk included subject matter experts from each country in logistics, flight safety, risk management, crisis response, cyber security and medical procedures in response to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear emergencies. The effort is designed to help the Department of Defence work toward a free and open Indo-Pacific... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga
TNA has submitted its proposals to the Experts Committee appointed to draft a new Constitution. What they have asked for is far in excess of the devolution package granted in the 13th Amendment. The powers that are demanded exceeds those granted to the states in India which is a federal country. They seem to have forgotten that they also must show some conciliatory attitude when everybody is talking about reconciliation and communal harmony. It takes two to Tango. They must know what is possible and what is not. They must know that extremism begets... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
Pledged by: A small but significant community of South Asian immigrants from Sri Lanka in the USA and others who have reached out globally.
We support your journey with hope for the Soul of America and the Soul of the Free World………. We are profoundly gratified by your success and convincing win for saving the “Soul of America” of which we are very much a part. We rejoice with you and offer our support with gratitude to preserve our democracy and be a beacon to the world. You delivered hope to us, a small but... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
N.A.de S. Amaratunga
Indian Foreign Minister in his recent visit to Sri Lanka has firmly told the government that the 13th Amendment must be implemented in a united Sri Lanka. Unitary state is not acceptable to India probably because it is not acceptable to TNA and Tamil separatists. India has been reminding our governments when ever the opportunity arises that the 13th A is crucial for the dignified existence of the Tamils, their aspirations, peace and reconciliation of communities. When the Indian PM visited Sri Lanka he reminded the then 'yahapalana' government about this matter and in his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
Courtesy The Island
Public Security Minister retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera Monday, 18 at his ministry met Justice Minister Ali Sabry, PC, to discuss ways and means of strengthening law enforcement operations. Public Security Ministry Secretary retired Maj. Gen. Jagath Alwis and IGP Chandana Wickremaratne participated in the discussion. Former Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) of Police H.M.G.B. Kotakadeniya, having read our last week’s column, further elaborated on the revelation by retired SDIG Merril Gunaratne pertaining to what he called the unprecedented expansion of the DIG cadre during Dingiri Banda Wijetunga’s tenure as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ඇල්පෙනෙත්තක්වත් හදන්නෙ නැති ජාතියක් ලෙස තවදුරටත් අපි අපටම චෝදනා කර ගැනීම ඵලක් නොමැති බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.20 දින පැවැසීය. පන්නිපිටිය, මාකුඹුර ප්‍රදේශයේ ඉදිකළ යෝ බ්‍රෑන්ඩ් (Yoo Brand) පාවහන් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවේ සාමාරම්භක උත්සවයට විඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සම්බන්ධවෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. මෙම කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවේ නිෂ්පාදනය කරන පාසල් පාවහන් වෙළඳපොළ මිලට සියයට 30ක් අඩුවෙන් ඉදිරියේ දී සතොස වෙළඳසැල්වලින් ලබා ගැනීමට හැකියාව උදා වේ. පාවහන් කර්මාන්ත ශාලාව විවෘත කරමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කළ සම්පූර්ණ කතාව මෙසේය. ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් සියලු දෙනාටම අද සතුටු වෙන්න... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ලෝකයම වසංගත බියකින් වෙලී ගි‍යත්, දරුවන්ගේ අනාගතය වෙනුවෙන් මෙරට පාසල් පද්ධතිය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත් කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය ආරම්භ කළ බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.20 දින පැවසීය. ඇතමුන් විවිධ දෑ ප්රකාශ කළද දරුවන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපනය ප්‍රමාද කිරීමට හෝ ආපස්සට ගැනීමට ඉඩ දිය නොහැකි බව ද අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අවධාරණය කළේය. හෝමාගම මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විද්‍යාලයේ දස වැනි සංවත්සර උත්සවය සඳහා වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ කළ සම්පූර්ණ කතාව මෙසේය. දස වසරක් සපුරන හෝමාගම මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ විද්‍යාලයට සුබ පැතුම් එක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 20 (Daily Mirror) – While blaming the Health Ministry officials providing false picture about Covid-19 situation to the politicians, the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) Union yesterday warned of a considerable spike in Covid-19 cases in the coming weeks. Speaking to Daily Mirror, Union’s Chairman Upul Rohana said the Government did not heed to warnings when the PHIs urged the Government to restrict movement or lock-down high-risk areas during the festive season. “Now, the situation has almost gone out of hand and it is the people who have to pay the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
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Washington, January 20 (BBC): Kamala Devi Harris, born to a Jamaican Economist and an Indian Tamil cancer researcher, will make history when she takes the oath of office on Wednesday, becoming the first woman and first black and South Asian American to serve as US vice-president. Harris’ Domestic Policy Advisor is Rohini Kosoglu, daughter of a medical doctor of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. This is the first Indo-Lankan-American combo in the history of the White House. Here’s what awaits Ms Harris in her new job: What does a vice-president do? Historically... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/21)
Sandun A Jayasekara Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Sri Lanka has ventured into gold exploration to determine whether the country has gold deposits to be exploited commercially, a senior official of the Environment Ministry said. Secretary of the Ministry of Environment- Dr. Anil Jasinghe told Daily Mirror that a discussion was held last week with the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) and the Department of Wild Life Conservation to see the possibility of issuing a license to carry out excavation at Seruwawila in the Trincomalee District for gold. “A survey conducted in 1970 at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Muslims have become reluctant to go to hospital as they are being cremated if they succumb to COVID-19, MP Rishad Bathiudeen told Parliament today. "Muslims are scared to go to hospital as they are afraid that they will be cremated if they succumb to COVID-19," Mr. Bathiudeen said. "Some Government MPs are misinterpreting the holy Quran saying it has not forbidden cremation. One has to read the Quran in an honest manner to understand the truth," he added. "Muslims have got saddened, as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
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https://youtu.be/WyT6NCo0_2M... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
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Another individual has fallen victim to the deadly novel coronavirus today (January 20), the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. The deceased is a 53-year-old female residing in the Mallawagedara area in Negombo. Upon being diagnosed as a COVID-19 patient, she had been transferred from the Negombo District Hospital to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Angoda. However, she had succumbed to the disease today. The cause of her death has been determined as acute diabetes and blood poisoning caused by coronavirus infection. Thereby, the total count... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
With 389 persons testing positive for COVID-19 infection the country total increased to 55,189. So far 770 persons have been reported for the day. In January more than 11,000 cases have been reported with a daily average of over 600. In January the daily reported numbers have been increasing and this is the Sri Lanka is now closing in on Montenegro in the list of worst affected countries. Yesterday Sri Lanka overtook Afghanistan with the cases reported. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
By ASOKA BANDARAGE courtesy of Asia Times
Concertina razor wire tops the 2.4-meter 'non-scalable' fence that surrounds the US Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time on January 14, 2021, in Washington, DC. Image: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / AFP According to the mainstream narrative, US President Donald Trump’s incitement of his supporters during the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory led to the “insurrection” at the US Capitol on January 6, resulting in the banning of Trump’s social-media accounts and his second impeachment by Congress. According... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
ප්‍රවෘත්තී නිවේදනය -නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
අනාගත ශ්රී ලංකාවට මුහුණපාන්නට වන ප්‍රධාන අභියෝග අතරින් තීරණාත්මක සංසිද්ධිය වන්නේ බලශක්තියයි. මෙරට සංවර්ධන ක්‍රියාවලියේදි දැනටමත් ක්‍රියාත්මක අති දැවැන්ත ව්‍යාපෘති ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේදි විදුලිය සැපයීම අභියෝගයට ලක්ව තිබේ. මෙම බලශක්ති උත්පාදනය හා කළමනාකරණයේදී මුහුණදීමට සිදුවන ගැටලු සඳහා ප්‍රායෝගික විසඳුමක් වන්නේ කෙටිකාලීනව ක්‍රියාකළ හැකි පාරිසරික හානිය අවම වන බලශක්ති උත්පාදන ක්‍රමවේදයකි. නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් අමත්‍යංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක ශ්රී ලංකා නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන්ගේ කොමිසම, සුනිත්‍ය බලශක්ති අධිකාරිය සමඟ එක්ව පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති උත්පාදනය සඳහා නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන් හට දොරගුළු විවර කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
මීට දින කීපයකට පෙර මම හිටපු එෆ්. බී. අයි (Federal Bureau of Investigation) නිලධාරියෙකු වූ ගැරී නොස්නර් (Gary Noesner) සමග වේකෝ වැටලීම (Waco Siege) පිලිබඳව කතා කලෙමි. ගැරී නොස්නර් එෆ්. බී. අයි හි විමර්ශකයෙකු, උපදේශකයෙකු සහ සාකච්ඡාකරුවෙකු ලෙස වසර 30 ක කාලයක් සේවය කලේය. ඔහු එෆ්. බී. අයි හි අර්බුද සාකච්ඡා ඒකකයේ ප්‍රධානියා විය. වේකෝ වැටලීම සිදුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී ගැරී නොස්නර් ආගමික මූලධර්මවාදී ඩේවිඩ් කෝරෙෂ් සමග සාකච්ඡා කරමින් ජීවිත හානියකින් තොරව ගැටුම සමථයකට පත් කර ගැනීමට අඩිතාලම දමමින් සිටියේය. එහෙත් නිලධාරීවාදය උත්සන්න වීම නිසා නිසා ගැරී නොස්නර් ගේ සාම සාකච්ඡා පරයා මිලිටරි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
Courtesy Ceylon Today
Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, and Seychelles will begin to receive Covid 19 vaccines from India tomorrow, according to a media release issued by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Sri Lanka too could have been on this list and could have begun to receive shipments of the vaccine tomorrow yet that will not be the case because Sri Lanka is yet to provide "confirmation of necessary regulatory clearances" to India. The release by the Indian External Affairs Ministry notes that it is awaiting necessary clearances from Sri Lanka Afghanistan and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A candidate COVID-19 vaccine known as EpiVacCorona, Russia’s second to be registered, proved “100% effective” in early-stage trials, Russian consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has told local media. The data, based on Phase I and II trials, were released before the start of a larger Phase III trial which would normally involve thousands of participants and a placebo group as a comparison, Reuters reported. “The effectiveness of the vaccine is made up of its immunological effectiveness and preventative effectiveness,” the TASS news agency reported, citing Rospotrebnadzor. “According to results... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
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India will begin supplying Covid-19 vaccines to six neighbouring and key partner countries with effect from tomorrow (January 20). Thereby, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles will be the first recipients to get acquire the India-manufactured vaccines. However, India is still awaiting the confirmation of necessary regulatory clearances from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of India, in a statement published today (January 19), said the country has received several requests for the supply of Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in India. In keeping... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
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Sri Lanka has confirmed three new Covid-19 related deaths today (January 19), says the Department of Government Information. Following the new development, total lives in the country claimed by the coronavirus outbreak reached 273. The first victim is a 68-year-old man who was residing in Aranayake area. He was transferred from Mawanella Base Hospital to Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital after testing positive for the virus. According to reports, he was suffering from an infection in the respiratory system caused by Covid-19 pneumonia, at the time of his passing yesterday. A 48-year-old... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
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Sri Lanka registered 332 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (January 19) as the daily total climbed to 669. Department of Government Information confirmed that 323 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. The remaining 09 positive cases were confirmed as arrivals from foreign countries; 08 from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 01 from Poland. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 54,419. Recoveries from the virus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
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The Attorney General has declared the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact to be inconsistent with the Constitution of Sri Lanka. According to State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, the Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, the Attorney General has advised the Secretary to the President on the matter through a 20-page detailed instruction letter. The advice of the Attorney General has been based observations made by relevant state and other institutions, the report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister, provisions and conditions of the MCC Compact and relevant articles, and observations made... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
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India has signed many military agreements with US and has cemented a firm military link with USA. In recognition of this, in December 2020 US President Trump presented Prime Minister Narendra Modi with America's highest military decoration, Legion of Merit. This is a rarely-awarded, prestigious decoration. It shows how highly US rates its link with India. US and India both wish to contain China, but India does not intend to be a junior partner to US. An ally of the US may be, but not a pawn, said analysts. India wishes to increase her... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ශ්රී ලංකා රාජ්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු සංස්ථාවට අයත් පෑලියගොඩ C City වෙළඳ සංකීර්ණයේ ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු විෂය භාර අමාත්‍ය සහ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි අද 2021.01.18 දින නැවත ආරම්භ විය. සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම ප්රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශයට සමඟාමීව නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්‍රධානී යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පූර්ණ අධික්ෂණය යටතේ මෙම වෙළෙඳ සංකීර්ණයේ ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු සිදු වේ. ග්‍රාමීය නිවාස හා ඉදිකිරීම් සහ ගොඩනැගිලි ද්‍රව්‍ය කර්මාන්ත ප්‍රවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ඉන්දික අනුරුද්ධ මහතාගේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් එම අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක ශ්රී ලංකා රාජ්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු සංස්ථාව මෙහි ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු සිදු කරයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
Gamini Godakanda
The dialog is expected to provide policy-makers of the two countries with a better appreciation of the ground situation,challenges, opportunities and priorities that may affect the Sri Lanka - US bilateral relationship. The US delegation will be led by Robert O. Blake Jr., former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs under the Obama Adminstration and former Ambassador to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Indonesia. The Sri Lankan delegation will be headed by Bernard Goonetilleke, former Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to the United States. The conclusions reached at the discussion will be presented to the two governments for consideration.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/21)
By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review
The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka is unfazed by the possibility of Western nations’ taking a hostile stance at the March session of the UN Human Rights Council UNHRC) in Geneva. In sharp contrast to the past, Sri Lankan Tamil leaders (mainly from the Tamil-majority Northern province) have united and presented a joint charter of demands to the UN. For the first time, disparate and mutually antagonistic leaders like R.Sampanthan, C.V.Wigneswaran and Gajendrakumar Ponambalam, have banded together. The unity was brought about by the powerful and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Galle (Sri Lanka) (AFP) A lone England cricket fan who waited 10 months in Sri Lanka to watch his team play had unexpected phone call Monday from team captain Joe Root after they beat the hosts in the first Test. After winning the by seven wickets, Root telephoned Rob Lewis, who had been cheering from Galle fort overlooking the cricket stadium. The 37-year-old stayed in Sri Lanka after England quit the tour in March without playing a test because of the coronavirus pandemic.ADVERTISING With spectators... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Sri Lanka is famous for its picturesque beaches, but the country's tourism industry has been devastated by the pandemic Sri Lanka will reopen its borders to foreign tourists this week after a 10-month hiatus, officials said Monday, with travellers subject to tough Covid-19 protocols. The announcement came despite a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths, as authorities sought to revive a once-lucrative tourism sector devastated by the deadly 2019 Easter bombings and the pandemic. "Every precautionary measure has been set in place to make the island getaway... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
By Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgasia
Sri Lanka will once again welcome tourists on January 21, this time under a bio bubble, following a successful pilot programme to assess the country’s capability in managing tourists under a bio bubble amid the pandemic. A daily limit of 2,500 inbound tourists has been set. While tourists do not need to undergo mandatory quarantine, they have to abide by a strict set of rules. Travellers must obtain their visas online along with confirmed hotel booking, pre-purchased PCR tests and mandatory Covid-19 insurance coverage of US$50,000 on hospitalisation or medical bills for a month. They... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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The East Container Terminal of the Colombo Port will not be sold or leased, Sri Lanka has confirmed. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said the plan was to develop the terminal as an investment project that has 51% ownership by the state-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and the remaining 49% as an investment by India’s Adani Group and other stakeholders. The President said that the East Container Terminal Development was planned after “reviewing all the factors including the regional geopolitical concerns, sovereignty of the country, revenue and employment generation potential”. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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The Colombo High Court has served indictments on former minister Rajitha Senaratne and 2 others for causing losses to the state when leasing out Modera Fisheries Harbour in 2014. Indictments were served on the defendants before Colombo High Court Judge Pradeep Hettiarachchi. After the indictments were served, the court ordered the three defendants including MP Rajitha Senaratne to be released on a personal bail of Rs 1 million. The judge then ordered that fingerprints of the accused be obtained and called for a report on their previous offences. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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The Attorney General has declared that Ranjan Ramanayake’s seat in the parliament has fallen vacant due to his conviction and prison sentence. The Attorney General has advised the Secretary-General of the Parliament on this matter today (18), according to the Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne. On January 12, MP Ranjan Ramanayake was sentenced to four-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court regarding a contempt of court case.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Another six coronavirus-related deaths reported today (January 18) have brought Sri Lanka’s total fatality count to 270. One of the deceased is a 63-year-old woman from Colombo 13 who succumbed to COVID-19 pneumonia and acute diabetes. She had passed away at the Colombo National Hospital on January 17. A male, aged 80 years, from Colombo 15 has succumbed to COVID-19 pneumonia upon admittance to Colombo National Hospital on January 15. Another male – a 75-year-old from Modara – has also died on January 15 from COVID-19 pneumonia. He had been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 295 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 295 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 627 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 53,750. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 45,820 earlier today, as more patients regained health. However, 7,660 active cases are still... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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The Minister of Education, Prof. G. L. Peiris, has entered into a period of self-isolation, sources say. https://youtu.be/AjoH-t8qA7E This is after being identified as a contact of State Minister Piyal Nishantha who has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Earlier today (18), State Minister of Women and Child Development, Pre-School & Primary Education, School Infrastructure & Education Services Piyal Nishantha was confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus following a rapid antigen test. State Minister Nishantha is the 4th Member of the Parliament to have been diagnosed with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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State Minister of Women and Child Development, Pre-School & Primary Education, School Infrastructure & Education Services Piyal Nishantha has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus infection. This was confirmed following a Rapid Antigen test for the virus, Ada Derana reporter stated. State Minister Nishantha is the 4th Member of the Parliament to contract COVID-19. Meanwhile, Minister of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris entered into self-isolation as he was identified as a contact of the State Minister.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
Courtesy The Sunday Observer
A medical heritage of a country could be cited as one of its best treasures and most powerful weapons. Sri Lanka has proven that its medical legacy was protected by ancient kings as part of governance policy and aspects, such as agriculture, belief system/spirituality and diet encompassing the concept of health. We can only imagine that if there was a ‘Ministry of Health’ as we have today, in ancient times, how it would have been integrated to ensure the optimum health of its citizens; through what... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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China, unlike India is getting on just fine in South Asia. China has held three multilateral dialogues with South Asian countries. The first in July, 2020 was attended by Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan. At this dialogue, China proposed extending the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan, as well as taking forward an economic corridor plan with Nepal, called the Trans-Himalayan Multi-dimensional Connectivity Network. China said the four countries were “connected by mountains and rivers”. This dialogue was followed by a second meeting in November 2020 attended by China, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 15 (Daily Mirror) – According to Bloomberg data, the Colombo Stock Exchange’s (CSE) benchmark All Share Price Index (ASPI) is the second best performing stock index in the world as of Wednesday with a rate of return of 9.88 percent. Chile’s S&P CLX IPSA Index has been ranked as the top performing stock index of the world while the third places goes to KOSPI Index of Korean Stock Exchange. “Bloomberg says CSE is the second best performing stock market in the world! As the State Minister for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has issued a special circular to officers-in-charge of all police stations and all senior ranked officers to take legal action against the persons who are interfering with investigations conducted by the police. Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said, police have received telephone calls from various individuals claiming they were close relatives or friends of the IGP. “They have informed respective officers-in-charge of police station to conduct the investigation in favour of those 'concerned' parties,” he said. Accordingly, the IGP issued a special... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Sri Lanka has registered 08 more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. A 63-year-old woman from Kolonnawa has passed away at the Colombo National Hospital on January 13 from COVID-19 pneumonia. A 75-year-old male from Borella had been transferred from a private hospital in Colombo to the Mulleriyawa Base Hospital where he succumbed to COVID-19 pneumonia and high blood pressure on January 14. Meanwhile, a 27-year-old youth have succumbed to COVID-19 infection and a lung infection on January 15. The Udupussellawa resident had been transferred... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 428 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that 427 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. The remaining case has been reported from the prison cluster. Accordingly, a total of 749 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 53,062. Recoveries from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 943 persons at the parliament have been subjected to PCR testing to detect possible coronavirus infections among its members or staff. The testing was carried out on January 13 and 15 at the parliamentary premises. https://youtu.be/CdJzaIDMGPU According to the Chief Sergeant-in-Arms, 32 MPs and 911 members of other bureaus, affiliated bureaus, and security forces of the parliament. Reportedly, none of the tested parliamentarians have tested positive for coronavirus. However, 5 persons of the parliamentary staff and other bureaus, one member of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
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Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that steps have been taken to repatriate Sri Lankans living abroad under two methods. In addition, steps have also been taken to reduce the fares of those who choose hotels to remain during their quarantine period, he added. https://youtu.be/RmBhk3f5Y_4 The National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) Head mentioned this joining TV Derana breakfast show ‘Derana Aruna’ this morning (17). “Sri Lankans living abroad are brought to Sri Lanka under two methods. One is to bring down Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/21)
H. L. D. Mahindapala
After giving leadership to his futile and disastrous insurrection to remain in the White House Donald Trump, the lame duck President of America, has agreed at last to move out – I wouldn’t call it a peaceful transition of power -- on January 20, leaving America in shambles. There are more troops (20,000 National Guards) now in Washington D.C. than all the troops in Afghanistan, Iran and Syria put together to protect it from – no, not Russia or China –but from internal White terrorist who are threating to raid the capital on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/21)
By Garvin Karunaratne, PhD Michigan States University
Introduction The Central Bank Governor’s statement: “The New Economic Model deviates from notorious Structural Adjustment "(Sunday Times: 20/12/2020) marks a watershed in the economic policies of Sri Lanka. He has added that " Sri Lanka will move away from an import oriented market economy towards a production-oriented strategy". It is also stated that “working within a market economy…. the performance of the economic policies introduced in 1977 will be viewed rigorously.”(DailyFT:5/1/2021) Our Central Bank Governor deserves to be praised and congratulated for deciding to get away from the notorious Structural Adjustment Programme of the IMF,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/21)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්
වර්තමාන වසංගත තත්වය පාලනය කිරීම සඳහා තිබෙන එකම විකල්පය එන්නත්කරණය යයි දැඩිව විශ්වාස කරන ආණ්ඩුවක් අප ඉදිරියේ තිබේ. කුමන හෝ එන්නතක් විදේශයකින් ගෙන්වා ගැනීම සඳහා විශේෂ නිළධාරියෙකුද පත් කර ඇති මෙම ආණ්ඩුව වෙනත් විකල්පයක් ගැන නොසිතන තරම්ය.වර්තමාන සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිවරියත් වසංගත පාලනය සඳහා පත් කර ඇති රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරියත් විකල්පයක් ගැන කතා කිරීමත් කාලය නාස්ති කිරිමක් යයි පවසා ඇත.ලෝකය ඉදිරියේ වරින් වර ඇති වූ වසංගත තත්වය යටතේ එන්නත් ලබා දීමෙන් සිදු වූ සේවය නිසා එන්නත් සම්බන්ධව විශ්වාසයක් ජනිතව තිබීම පුදුමයට කරුණක් නොවේ.වර්ෂ 1886 දී ලංකාවේ දී ප්‍රථම වරට එන්නත් ක්‍රියාවට නීතියක් ආදේශ කිරීමෙන් පසු සියවසකට අධික කාලයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror
Colombo, January 16: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet,” said Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. True as this may be in many cases, there are situations in which the name means a lot. It may have a desirable or an undesirable connotation and a change of name may make a world of difference. In countries like Sri Lanka and in the Indian sub-continent, caste names say a lot about the status, background or origin of a person and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
Courtesy The Print
In major metros, the rate of Covid spread has slowed significantly. An epidemic is considered to have been arrested when the R value remains below 1 consistently. Municipal health workers screen residents for Covid-19 at Dadar in Mumbai, on 25 July 2020 | Mitesh Bhuvad | PTI New Delhi: India’s effective reproduction number ‘R’ for Covid-19 — a key parameter to measure the rate of infection — has reduced to 1.16 this week from 1.17 last week, with R of major metros Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai dipping below 1. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A total number of 12,339 prison inmates have been released from prisons across the country since December 1, 2020 upto today, in order to reduce congestion privailing in prisons. Prison spokesman Chandana Ekanayake said accordingly, 1,100 remanded male prisoners and 26 female inmates were among the released. Moreover, 10,832 male suspects and 371 female suspects have also been released from prisons. Prior to being released, the inmates were tested for COVID-19 infections through PCR tests. Earlier, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a directive to release prisoners who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The US State Department has amended its Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO) list and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains to be a banned organisation in it, the State Department said. Under the Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, the LTTE can be seen listed as an organisation designated since 10/8/1997. In a release issued by the State Department on Thursday said it has amended the terrorist designations of Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ) and ISIL Sinai Peninsula (ISIL-SP) to include additional aliases. These aliases have been added to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
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Sri Lanka reports another death from the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the total fatality count to 256 cases, the Director-General of Health Services stated. The deceased is an 82-year-old woman residing in the Ethulkotte area, the Department of Government Information confirmed. She had passed away today (January 16) at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID/IDH) in Angoda. She had been transferred there from the Colombo National Hospital upon being identified as a COVID-19 patient. The cause of her death has been determined as a heart condition exacerbated due... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 372 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that 357 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. The remaining cases are reported from the prison cluster. Accordingly, a total of 715 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 52,313. Recoveries from the virus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
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The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Minsk or Vienna. It is roughly equivalent to the population of the Cleveland metropolitan area or the entire state of Nebraska. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
The words of Abraham Lincoln to honour the soldiers that sacrificed their lives in order “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” were spoken at Gettysburg, but these words apply as well to the countless soldiers that died for the cause of democracy in the following 150 years. Barend ter Haar, Senior Research Associate writing in Clingendael (https://www.clingendael.org/publication/government-people-people-people) says “obviously, if politicians believe that voters cannot be trusted with the truth, democracy is seriously at risk. For a democracy to function it is essential that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest ocean in the world. It is 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) in extent. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west, Australia to the east and Antarctica to the south. The Arabian Sea, the Laccadive Sea, the Somali Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea are located within the Indian Ocean. Initially, only the sea around South Asia was known as Indian Ocean. The western section was known in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea. Erythraean Sea included the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Former Permanent Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka
Introduction The objective of this essay is to briefly explain the story of the origin of the Sinhala nation and how the valiant Sinhalese have defended their motherland and its culture against all invaders over the millennia and the history of the never-ending chain of Indian invasions on this Island from Rama to date and their ramifications and implications on its political economic and socio-cultural spheres, with special attention on the Tamil menace in the Island nation that had tormented this Island nation throughout... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
රත්නපුරේ ජනතාව දශක කිහිපයක් බලා සිටි මැණික් කුලුනක් ඉදිවීමේ සිහිනය අද පටන් යථාර්ථයක් වන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.15 දින පැවසීය. රත්නපුර, දෙමුමාවත මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජාත්‍යන්තර මැණික් කුලුනට මුල්ගල් තැබීම නිමිත්තෙන් අන්තර්ජාල වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සුබ පැතුම් එක් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ඒ අනුව ඉදිරි වසර 4ක කාලය තුළ මැණික් හා ස්වර්ණාභරණ ක්ෂේත්‍රයෙන් අමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 5ක විදේශ විනිමය ලැබෙනු ඇතැයි රජය අපේක්ෂා කරන බව ද අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. රත්නපුර මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජාත්‍යන්තර මැණික් කුලුනට මුල්ගල් තැබීම කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍ය විමල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/21)
RT Documentary
COVID-19 has dramatically changed the lives of many. A disinfection technician used to be the boss in his old job. But as the pandemic broke out, he wore a gas mask and armed up with a sanitiser spray. He never regretted it. Neither did an entertainment entrepreneur who wore a hazmat suit and went saving lives in the ‘red-zone’. Meanwhile, in Japan, the quarantine forced a Buddhist monk to take a VR camera to the cemetery. See the stories about those who managed to adjust quickly and saw the lockdown as a chance to evolve.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/21)
RT Documentary
Pavla Nikolaevna is a ‘chumworker’, a housewife in the tundra (Thundra is subarctic flat land with permafrost ground). Together with her husband, they continue their family ideal of driving reindeer herds in the far north. Instead of a regular flat this Russian family prefers a chum, a reindeer fur-covered hut. Even in winter, when the temperature outside falls to -34° C, they move the chum several times a week, following the ancient herding tradition. While the men are watching the herds, the women work at the chum making their snow dwelling comfortable. The family with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/21)
Despite decades of development of formal laws and tools for modelling legal knowledge for land rights by lawyers in developed countries, Sri Lankan lawyers stagnated preferring to work with statues of 1888 to 1927, Penal code 1883, Registration Ordinance of 1927 & Notaries Ordinance of 1907.The said countries have systematically moved on to digital land registries with data protection laws to protect their owners. We are receiving funds to leapfrog on to technology and the Australian law called title registration. Who wants deed system, who doesn’t want deed system? Who wants title registration, who shouldn’t want title registration... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
දේශීය සිනමා කර්මාන්තය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ගත් තීන්දුවට අදාළව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරයා වශයෙන් කටයුතු කළ සමයේ දී ලබා දී පසුගිය යහපාලන රජය විසින් අවලංගු කළ බදු සහන නැවත ලබා දීමට ඊයේ 2021.01.13 දින තීරණය කරන ලදී. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් එස්.ආර්. ආටිගල, බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් මහාචාර්ය කපිල ගුණවර්ධන මහත්වරුන් විසින් එම තීරණය ගෙන ඇත. සිනමා කර්මාන්තයේ නියැලි වෘත්තිකයන් පසුගිය (08) දා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවී කළ ඉල්ලීම්වලට අනුව එදින ගත් තීරණවලට අදාළව මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශයේ පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවකදී මෙම තීරණය ගෙන ඇත. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
The Sunday Observer (10/01/2021) reported that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is going to review economic liberalization policies, it is a good and overdue task. Economic liberalization policies initiated by President J. R. Jayewardene and it would have done when Mr.J.R.Jayawardane ended the presidency, and he was the right person to explain why Sri Lanka implemented economic liberalization policies, and why didn’t his cabinet ignore to correct indiscipline at the operational level? Mr.J.R.Jayawardane commenced good economic policies in the country and the tourism initiatives and related business were the best policies he introduced in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/21)
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
Whenever predictions are made about repercussions from the international community for things said or left unsaid or else things done or left undone, I am reminded of Libya. Muammar Gaddafi was for decades the bad boy. He decided at one point to try being the good boy. We all know how he was rewarded by those who saw him as an enemy and who he later thought were friends. That’s how the international community operates. International community as in the movers and shakers who can and do move and shake... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
By Rohan Maskarola/DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 11: I have always maintained that shipping and ports businesses are truly global, networked with multiple parties. No country which wants to be in the global shipping can compete single handedly without international partnerships. It is irrelevant whether a nation is developed or developing or has cargo and technology. All need partnerships to capture global trade in a network of ports and shipping services taking advantage of the economic opportunities the sector provides for maritime nations. This column gives insights to readers with examples of how the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
හෙළ බොදු සවිය සංවිධානය විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත යොමු කරන ලද ලිපියක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයකොළඹ 01 ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, නීතිඥයන් පොලිස් පරික්ෂකවරුන් ලෙස බදවා ගැනීම වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය මොහොමඩ් අලි සබ්රි විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා වෙත කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව නීතිඥවරුන් 150ක් ප්‍රධාන පොලිස් පරීක්ෂකවරුන් ලෙස පොලිස් සේවයට බඳවා ගැනීමට තීරණය කළ බව ජනමාධ්‍යවල හා සමාජ මාධ්‍යවල සදහන් වෙයි. එලෙස බඳවා ගන්නා ප්‍රධාන පොලිස් පරීක්ෂකවරුන්ට දෙමළ භාෂාව පිළිබඳව විශේෂ දැනුමක් තිබීම විශේෂ සුදුසුකමක් ලෙස සලකන බව කියවේ. මෙම නිළධාරින් බඳවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Four new COVID-19 related deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka today, says the Director-General of Health Services. Four new COVID-19 related deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka today, says the Director-General of Health Services. Following the new development, total fatalities from the virus registered in the country have hit 251. One of the victims was identified as a 47-year-old man from Dummalasooriya area. He had been transferred from Teaching Hospital in Kuliyapitiya to Narammala District Hospital, and later to Homagama Base Hospital where he passed away on Tuesday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today (January 14), as 316 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 670 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 50,899. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 43,747 earlier today, as 480 more patients regained... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
Harindra Jayalal
අවුරුදු 27දී ඉංදියාව,නේපාලය ඔස්සේ ලංකාවට පැමිණ පැවිදි වූ ඕලන්දේ ආනන්ද හිමිගේ ඇත්ත පැත්ත| https://youtu.be/2cV_CijT0aw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga
TNA has submitted its proposals to the Experts Committee appointed to draft a new Constitution. What they have asked for is far in excess of the devolution package granted in the 13th Amendment. The powers that are demanded exceeds those granted to the states in India which is a federal country. They seem to have forgotten that they also must show some conciliatory attitude when everybody is talking about reconciliation and communal harmony. It takes two to Tango. They must know what is possible and what is not. They must know that extremism... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
Mahinda RajapaksaPrime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
It is with immense pleasure that I wish all Tamil devotees in Sri lanka and all over the world a very happy Thai Pongal festival. In the Hindu-Tamil Calendar, the first month of the year is known as ‘Thai’, and ‘Pongal’ infers a new dawn. The arrival of a new harvest is celebrated on the day of Thai Pongal. It venerates Mother Nature and the Sun God, as an expression of gratitude for a bountiful harvest. This celebration of the dawn of the new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේඅග්‍රාමාත්‍ය
ලොව පුරා දමිළ ජනතාව බැතියෙන් සමරනු ලබන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවයට සුභාශිංසන එක් කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. හින්දු දින දර්ශනයට අනුව පළමු මාසය “තෛ” යනුවෙන් හැදින්වෙන අතර පොංගල් යන්නෙන් උදාව යන්න අර්ථවත් වේ. කෘෂිකාර්මික කටයුතු සාර්ථක කර ගැනීමට හිරු දෙවියන් ඇතුලු ස්වභාවධර්මය දුන් ශක්තියට කෘතගුණ සැළකීම මුල් කරගෙන නව වසරේ උදාව සමරනු ලබන තෛපොංගල් දින උත්සවය ආගමික, සංස්කෘතික හා සමාජීය වශයෙන් ඉතාමත් වැදගත් දිනයකි. වී අස්වැන්න නෙළා ලබා ගත් අලුත් සහල් ද, අලුත් උක් ගසකින් ගත් පැණි ද, එළකිරි යොදා පිසින පොංගල් කිරිබත හා මංගල ද්‍රව්‍යක් ලෙස කහ පිඩක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
ඌව පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර
ස්වභාව ධර්මයට කෘතගුණ සලකණු වස් සමරනු ලබන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය වෙනුවෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවාසී සහ ලෝකවාසී සියලූ හින්දු බැතිමතුන් වෙත මාගේ තෛපොංගල් සුභ පැතුම එක් කිරීමට අවස්ථාව ලැබීම පිළිබඳව බෙහෙවින් සතුටු වන්නෙමි. මානව සංවර්ධනය ආරම්භයේ සිට ස්වභාව ධර්මය හා බැඳුනු මිනිසා, ස්වභාව සෞන්දර්යය ප්‍රථාපවත් කරන හිරු දෙවියන් වන්දනා කිරීම කෙරෙහි තබා ඇති අපරිමිත විශ්වාසය හෙලි කරන, විශිෂ්ඨ මෙන්ම විශේෂ උත්සවයක් ලෙස තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය පෙන්වා දිය හැකිය. මිනිසා හා ස්වභාව ධර්මය අතර ඇති හැඟුම්බර බැඳීම්වලට කෘතගුණ සැලකීමේ මහඟු අවස්ථාවක් වන මෙම උත්සවය එම ජනතාවගේ ආධ්‍යාත්මික ජීවන රටාවට යහපත් සිතුවිලි එක් කරන උත්සවය ලෙසද හැඳින්වීම මනාය. එසේම ගොවිතැනට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
By P. K. Balachandran/newsin.asia
Colombo, January 13: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday assured representatives of Port Trade Unions that the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) in the Colombo Port will not be sold or leased out. The President, who met representatives of the port unions, made it clear that the plan is to develop the ECT as an investment project that has 51% ownership by the Government of Sri Lanka and the remaining 49% as an investment by India’s Adani Group and other stakeholders. Explaining the participation of India, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia
Colombo, January 13 (newsin.asia): The Batticaloa High Court on Wednesday released Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, a Member of Parliament and former Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, after the Attorney General’s department said on Monday that it would not pursue the murder case against him. The Court of Appeal had earlier ruled that there was no credible evidence to sustain the charge. The confessions were deemed to have been made under duress. In November 2020, Pillayan was granted bail. Pillayan is currently head of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The new variant of the COVID-19 virus found in the United Kingdom (UK) has been detected in a person who has visited Sri Lanka, says Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera. This has been identified during tests carried out focusing on people arriving in Sri Lanka from foreign countries. https://youtu.be/EHezbX8ixxo Reportedly, the infected person had arrived in the country from England, Dr. Samaraweera added. “The research team led by Professor Neelika Malavige of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura is continuing to study the variants of the COVID-19... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/21)
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Sri Lanka has registered 03 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. Following the new development, total deaths reported in the country has climbed to 247. One of the deceased is a 66-year-old male from the Battaramulla area. He had been transferred to the Homagama Base Hospital from the Colombo National Hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19. He had passed away yesterday (12) from a heart condition due to COVID-19 infection. An 81-year-old male resident of Colombo 15 has died at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) yesterday. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/21)
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Covid-19 infections registered in Sri Lanka crossed 50,000 as 378 more persons have tested positive today (January 13). The Government Information Department said the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. A total of 687 cases have been reported within the day so far. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 55,229. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 43,267 earlier today, with more patients returning to health. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/21)
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Major (Retired) Ajith Prasanna, who was in remand custody, has been released on bail by the Court of Appeal. Three defendants including Ajith Prasanna and two naval intelligence officers are accused of holding a press conference and intimidating witnesses in the case against several navy officials over the abduction and disappearance of 11 youths. In February last year, the defence attorneys had submitted a bail application to the Additional Magistrate on behalf of their clients. The defence attorneys had argued that no evidence was presented to the court, proving that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/21)
Garvin Karunaratne, PhD in Non-Formal Education & Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University Formerly of the SLAS- Government Agent, Matara in 1971-1973.
A Country that is saddled with a massive unsustainable foreign debt- as much as $ 56 billion, the servicing of which requires some $ 4 billion annually, where the outlay required for imports far outweighs the value that can be realized from exports, where the normal inflow of dollars from Middle East workers has ceased, has the only option of import substitution to enable its people to find employment and incomes on the one hand and to reduce... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
The first Sri Lankan Buddhist monk honoured by the King of Thailand awarding the status of Aggamaha Panditha ( meaning Chief Great Scholar) was none other than the former Vice Chancellor of Vidyalankara University Ven Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera. He has made valuable contribution to Buddhism and wrote series of books in Pali and Sinhala, including Pali Bhashava Tharanaya, which was a recommended text book in Sri Lanka. Similarly, Ven Balangoda Ananda Maithree Thero was also conferred the AP status in recognition of his contribution. To add to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
දුෂ්කර පළාත් වල තෝරා ගත් හින්දු කෝවිල් 100ක් සඳහා එළඹෙන තෛයිපොංගල් දිනය සැමරීම හා පූජා කටයුතු සඳහා රුපියල් 10,000ක් වටිනා චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානය අද 2021.01.12 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී සිදු විය. බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව මෙම චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානය කෙරිණි. කෝවිල් සඳහා කෙරෙන මෙම චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානය සංකේතවත් කරමින් අද දින කොළඹ, කළුතර, කෑගල්ල, රත්නපුර හා ගම්පහ කෝවිල් සඳහා චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානය කළ අතර අනෙකුත් කෝවිල් සඳහා එම ප්‍රදානයන් දිස්ත්රික් මට්ටමින් සිදු වේ. මෙයට පෙර නව රාත්‍රී උත්සව සමයේ රටපුරා තෝරාගත් කෝවිල් 40කට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
Prime Minister’s Media Unit
Mr. Wes Edens, Founder of New Fortress Energy, met Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss investment opportunities in the tourism, energy, transport and infrastructure sectors in Sri Lanka. Mr. Edens who is on a short visit to Sri Lanka expressed his interest in investing in cleaner, affordable and renewable energy sources that are cost efficient and environmentally friendly. Mr. Edens also showed keen interest in possible investment opportunities in areas of transport (railways), tourism and hospitality industries. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Mr. Edens discussed areas in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
උපාධිධාරී ජාතික මධ්‍යස්ථානය.
ගරු ජනාධිපති, ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 01. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී තනතුරට උපාධිධාරීන් බඳවාගැනීමේ දී ඌන සේවා උපාධිධාරීන් හා විදෙස් උපාධිධාරී පදනම තම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇති උපාධිධාරීන් පිළිබඳ රජයේ ස්ථාවරය කඩිනමින් අපේක්ෂා කරමු. සංවර්ධන නිලධාරී තනතුර සඳහා උපාධිධාරීන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ දී ඌන සේවා උපාධිධාරීන් ඉවත් කිරීම හා විදෙස් උපාධි පදනමින් ශ්රී ලාංකීය උගත් බුද්ධිමත් ප්‍රජාවක් නොසලකා හැරීමකට ලක්ව ඇති බව පළමුව ගරු ඔබතුමාගේ විශේෂ අවධානයට යොමු කරමු. රාජ්‍ය හා අර්ධ රාජ්‍ය සේවාවන්වල රාජ්‍ය හා පළාත් සේවයේ උපාධි සුදුසුකම් සහිත තනතුරු වල නොවන උපාධිධාරීන් දැනට රාජ්‍ය හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ජාතික සමාජ සංවර්ධන ආයතනයේ වාර්ෂික උපාධි ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය - 2020 ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.12 දින බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලා පරිශ්‍රයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සමාජ මාධ්‍ය පිළිබඳ මූලික උපාධිය සම්පූර්ණ කළ උපාධිධාරීන් 76 දෙනෙකු මෙම උපාධි ප්‍රදානයට සුදුසුකම් ලබා තිබිණි. එහිදී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ සුරතින් උපාධිධාරීන් 50 දෙනෙකුට උපාධි ප්‍රදානය සිදුවිය. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා සමෘද්ධි, ගෘහ ආර්ථික, ක්ෂුද්‍ර මූල්‍ය, ස්වයං රැකියා හා ව්‍යාපාර සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ෂෙහාන් සේමසිංහ, අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් නීල් බණ්ඩාර හපුහින්න, ජාතික සමාජ සංවර්ධන ආයතනයේ වැඩබලන අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් හා අතිරේක අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් (ශාස්ත්‍රීය) එම්.ටී.ආර්.ශාමිනී අත්තනායක ඇතුලු මහත්ම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය
ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, ජී.එල්. පිරීස් මහතා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමනි, 2018 අ.පො.ස. උසස්පෙළ විභාග ප්‍රතිඵල මත අධ්‍යාපන විද්‍යාපීඨ සම්මුඛ පරීක්ෂණ මෙතෙක් ආරම්භ නොකිරීම සම්බන්ධව. 2018 අ.පො.ස. උසස්පෙළ විභාග ප්‍රතිඵල මත විෂයානුබද්ධව අධ්‍යාපන විද්‍යාපීඨ 19 ක් සඳහා සිසුන් බ`දවා ගැනීමට 2020.09.04 දිනැති ගැසට් පත්‍රය මගින් අයදුම්පත් කැ`දවා තිබු නමුත් මෙතෙක් සම්මුඛ පරීක්ෂණ ආරම්භ නොවීම නිසා ඊට අයදුම් කළ 40000 කට අධික වන සිසුන් පීඩාවට පත්වීම සම්බන්ධව ඔබගේ දැඩි අවධානය යොමු කරමු. 02ග විශේෂයෙන් අධ්‍යාපන විද්‍යාපීඨවලට ඇතුලත් වීමට අපේක්ෂාවෙන් සිටින මෙම සිසුන් අ.පො.ස. උසස්පෙළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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Former Chairman of Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), President’s Counsel U.R. de Silva says the MP Ranjan Ramanayake, who was sentenced to four-year rigorous imprisonment today, will lose his parliamentary seat. Speaking further, he said Ramanayake will not be able to appeal the verdict delivered by the Supreme Court. The parliamentarian will further lose his right to vote for seven years after serving the prison sentence. Accordingly, former State Minister Ajith Mannapperuma, who contested the election from Gampaha District, is expected to receive Ramanyake’s parliamentary seat. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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The Supreme Court has sentenced parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake to 04 years of rigorous imprisonment over a case of Contempt of Court, stated Ada Derana reporter. Last month, the Supreme Court judge bench scheduled further clarifications on the contempt of court case for today (January 12). A three-judge bench comprising Justices Sisira de Abrew, Vijith Malalgoda, and Preethi Padman Surasena unanimously issued the verdict. Announcing the verdict, Sisira de Abrew, presiding judge of the bench, said that the contempt of court charges leveled by the Attorney General against Ranjan Ramanayake for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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Sri Lanka has reported 04 more coronavirus-related deaths, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. One among the deceased is an 82-year-old woman from Colombo 13. She had been transferred to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) from the Colombo National Hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19, where she passed away on January 10. The cause of her death has been determined as blood poisoning, multiple organ failure, and COVID-19 pneumonia. A 47-year-old male from Hanwella has been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital to the Homagama Base Hospital upon being identified as a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 278 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that 274 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. In addition, four arrivals from foreign countries – Pakistan (01), Qatar (01), Maldives (01) and Poland (01) – have contracted the virus. Accordingly, a total of 588 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
EASWARAN RUTNAM
The Oxford-Astrazeneca and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines will most likely be airlifted to Sri Lanka as early as next month. Speaking to journalists yesterday, state Minister of Primary Health Services, pandemics and COVID Prevention, dr. sud ar shani Fernandopulle said that the cold storage facilities were being prepared for the vaccines. She said that the Oxford-Astrazeneca would be obtained from India. Sri Lanka had recently shown interest in securing the Covid vaccine from India. A formal request was conveyed to Indian External Affairs Minister S. jaishankar during his meetings... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Democracy is fragile. It is more fragile that the window panes of the Congress that were smashed by the mob unleashed by President Donald Trump. It is the ultimate symbol of the desecration of American democracy. The world watched in horror as the misinformed, misguided, politically driven mob went berserk destroying not so much the material that stood in their way but the fundamental values of the holiest shrine of democracy that came crumbling down with not a single guardian of the law in sight to stop it. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
වාගිස ප්‍රනාන්දු විසිනි.
මෙවැනි මාතෘකාවක් අරඹයා මෙතරම් ඉක්මණට ලිපියක් ලිවීමට සිදුවෙතැයි ඔබ මෙන්ම මාද සිතුවේ නැත. නමුත් “සිතූ දේ නොම වේ - නොසිතූ දේම වේ“ යන්න අනුුව යමින් අද මේ ප්‍රවෘත්තිය ගැන අපට සාකච්චා කරන්නට අවස්ථාව සහ වරම හිමිවී ඇත. එම අවස්ථාව සහ වරම අපට හිමිවී ඇත්තේ රටේ සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිවරියට පිං සිදුවන්නට බව මුළින්ම කෘතගුණපූර්වකව සිහිපත් කල යුතුය. පසුගිය වසරේ ඔක්තෝම්බර් මාසයේදී කොරෝනා දෙවන රැල්ල මිනුවන්ගොඩ බ්‍රැන්ඩික්ස් ආයතනයෙන් ආරම්භවීමෙන් පසුව සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිවරිය විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රයක් මගින් කොරෝනා වසංගතය මැඩපැවැත්වීම සදහා රටේ ජනතාව විසින් අනුගමනය කල යුතු ආරක්ෂිත සහ සෞඛ්‍යාරක්ෂිත රෙගුලාසි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent visit to Sri Lanka has only underscored the continuing differences between New Delhi and Colombo on key issues. The only issue on which the two sides seemed to agree was on continued cooperation in figh... Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/second-edit/india-lanka-ties-in-choppy-waters-again-937961.html... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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The ‘Park & Ride City Bus Service’ system, will come to effect from today from the Makumbura Multi-modal Transport Centre (MTC), State Minister of Transport Dilum Amunugama said. He said the launching ceremony of the system will be held under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The Park & Ride system is a method introduced for the people to engage in their day-to-day activities, without entering the city of Colombo driving their vehicles,” he said. “The people who come to Colombo in their vehicles can use the allocated parking areas.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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A total of 31 Members of Parliament have been asked to self-quarantine in Sri Lanka thus far, after three parliamentarians were identified as Covid-19 positive recently. This includes 10 MPs who were identified as close associates of Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara, who had tested positive for the virus earlier today. https://youtu.be/U9OAmqet4YY Sergeant-at-Arms Narendra Fernando stated that the parliamentarians identified as the minister’s first contacts as well as relevant authorities have been notified. The remaining 20 parliamentarians are close contacts of State Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara and MP Rauff... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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The total count of COVID-19 fatalities in Sri Lanka has gone up as 8 more deaths were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services. On January 06, a 52-year-old prison inmate has succumbed to COVID-19 related pneumonia upon admittance to the Welikada Prison Hospital. A 61-year-old male from Rajagiriya has passed away on January 07 upon admittance to a private hospital in Colombo. The cause of death has been determined as COVID-19 pneumonia and severe diabetic condition. Meanwhile, two COVID-19 infected persons have passed away on January 08. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
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The Government Information Department reports that 283 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today’s tally of fresh cases to 568 thus far. The total number of positive cases reported from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda, and prisons clusters so far stands at 45,186. The total number of COVID-19 cases reported in the country has increased to 48,949 while total recoveries are currently at 42,091. Presently a total of 6,626 patients infected with the virus are under medical care. Sri Lanka has witnessed a total of 232 deaths from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Attorney General’s Department today informed the Batticaloa High Court that it will not continue with the case against MP Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias “Pillayan” regarding the murder of former TNA MP Joseph Pararajasingham. Senior State Counsel Madhawa Tennakoon informed the Batticaloa High Court of this decision today (11). Six defendants including Pillayan have been charged over the murder while five of them appeared before the court today. The High Court Judge stated that his decision on the request of the Attorney General’s Department would be delivered next Wednesday. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/21)
H. L. D. Mahindapala
I like reading Prof. Kumar David’s (KD) column in the Sunday Island, even though the contents lean heavily towards Marxist mantras which have passed its used-by-date long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. What grabbed my attention was last Sunday’s (2/1/21) column which was a foray into English literature. As a bibliophile I agree whole-heartedly with his love of classics and even with some of his likes and dislikes. For instance, one can’t expect everyone to enjoy James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, let alone read it. If I remember correct, Regi Siriwardena took great... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
C. Wijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D.
Dear Mr. Austin Fernando: Thank you very much for your response (Jan. 2) to my previous essay titled, “Attempts to exhume the provincial council cadaver: a reply to Mr. Austin Fernando,” (Lankaweb, Dec. 31). However, I am not happy with your decision to stop our exchange, because it appears to me that you did miss my message. The attachment to my message in Sinhala is simple and clear, and it identified you as a “devolution” thief. You are a cool disciple of the boisterous Dayan Jayatilleke, in a different... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
USA does not have a good human rights record and it does not care either. In the domestic sphere, US has the largest prison population in the world, mainly drug users, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate. 3000 odd were on death row in 2016. 2.3 millions American were behind bars. Many adults died in prison. Children can be sentenced to prison under US law. In 2010 USA came under the Universal Period Review of the UN Human Rights Council. After which, UNHRC issued 228 recommendations on how US can address its HR... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
This column focuses on local politics. As opposed to global affairs. However, ‘local-global’ is, as sociologists would point out, a false dichotomy. What happens or rather can happen here is by and large determined by overarching global political and economic structures. Local affairs don’t always shape global processes unless the particular ‘local’ enjoys privileged position in the overall structure, but they can inform the manner in which particular countries or country-collectives engage.Let’s start with a few examples.The previous government was the darling of Western powers. The leaders believed that the West would help.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බලයට පත්වී වසරකි. ඒ කාලය තුලදී එතුමා කිසිවෙක් ඉලක්ක කර කිසිදු ප්‍රකාශයක් නිකුත් කලේ නැත. ඒ එතුමා සාමාන්‍ය තලයේ දේශපාලඥයෙකු නොවන බැවිනි. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, යනු චමල් ජයන්ත, බැසිල් රෝහණ, පර්සි මහින්ද යන නාමදාරි දේශපාලඥයින් අතරම උපත ලද, දේශපාලඥයකු නොවෙන, රට වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කිරීම අරමුණු කරගෙනම මෙලොවට උත්පාදනය කල චරිතයකි. අතීතයේ අපි මෙවන් චරිතයක් දකිමු. ඒ මෙවැන්නකි. මිලින්ද රජුගේ ගැටළු නිරාකරණය කර මෙලොව වැඩසිටි මහා සංඝ රත්නය මිලින්ද රජුගේ පීඩනයෙන් ගලවා ගැනීමට ශක්‍ර දිව්‍ය රාජයන් විසින් මහාසේන නම් දිව්‍ය කුමාරයෙක් මෙලොවට එවන ලදී.එම දිව්‍ය කුමාරයා මිනිස් ආත්මයක් ලබා නාගසේන නමින් ප්‍රකටව,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
වයඹ පළාතට අඩුවක්ව පැවති පී.සී.ආර් රසායනාගාරයක අවශ්‍යතාව වෙනුවෙන් ස්ථාපිත කළ කුරුණෑගල මහ රෝහලේ පී.සී.ආර් රසායනාගාරය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.10 දින විවෘත විය. රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 125කට ආසන්න මුදලක් මෙම රසායනාගාරය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට වැයකර තිබේ. ඒ සඳහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ පනස් හතරක් වටිනා පී.සී.ආර් යන්ත්‍රය කුරුණෑගල නගරාධිපති තුෂාර සංජීව මහතා විසින් නගර සභාවේ විමධ්‍යගත අරමුදලින් පිරිණමා තිබේ. රිදීගම රිදී විහාරයේ ශ්රී බුද්ධරක්ඛිත හිමි, ඇත්කද විහාරයේ විහාරාධිපති ශ්රී සුමංගල හිමි අතුළු කුරුණෑගල විහාරස්ථානවල මහා සංඝරත්නය, ව්‍යාපාරික ප්‍රජාව සහ වයඹ වෛද්‍ය පීඨය මුදල් හා උපකරණ පරිත්‍යාග කරමින් මෙම රසායනාගාරය ඉදිකර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
කුරුණෑගල පළාත් මහ රෝහල අති නවීන රෝහලක් ලෙස අලුතින්ම ඉදිකර දෙන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.01.10 දින පැවසීය. පළාත් මහ රෝහලේ හා දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ අනෙකුත් රෝහල් ආශ්‍රිතව පවතින ගැටුලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයීය ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේ පැවැති හමුවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. අලුතින් නව රෝහල ඉදිකර අවසන්වනතුරු අනෙකුත් රෝහල්වලට සමගාමීව කුරුණෑගල මහ රෝහලේ පවතින වෛද්‍ය, හෙද හා සෞඛ්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල හිඟය වහාම පියවන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙහිදී සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනී පවිත්‍රාදේවි වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මියට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව මසක කාලයක් තුළ කුරුණෑගල රෝහලේ පවතින වෛද්‍ය, හෙද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
මහා පරිමාණ හා කුඩා පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ ගැටලු විසඳීමට ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ඊයේ 2021.01.09 දින විෂය භාර රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ඩී. බී. හේරත් මහතාට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. අන්තර්ජාල සූම් තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ මහා පරිමාණ හා කුඩා පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදක සංගම් අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. අභිජනන සතෙකුගේ මිල රුපියල් 220 සිට රුපියල් 175 දක්වා පහළ දැමීම, වසරකට ගෙන්වන මව් සතුන් සංඛ්‍යාව අසූ දාහකට සීමා කිරීම, සත්ත්ව අහාර මිලදී ගැනීම හා ගබඩා කිරීමේ ණය සහන ලබා ගැනීම, නීතියට පටහැනි අභිජනන මධ්‍යස්ථාන තුනක කටයුතු නැවත්වීම ඇතුළු ඉල්ලීම් කිහිපයක් බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සංගම්වල අධ්‍යක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය
විභාග කොමසාරිස්තුමා, විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පැලවත්ත, බත්තරමුල්ල. කොමසාරිස්තුමනි, 2020 අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විභාග රාජකාරි දීමනා කප්පාදු කර ගෙවීම සම්බන්ධව. 2020 අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විභාගයේ විභාග රාජකාරිවල නිරත වු නිලධාරින්ට අදාල රාජකාරි ස`දහා වන ගෙවීම් සිදු කිරීමේදී විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව දන්වා තිබු පරිදි වවුචර් මගින් ඉල්ලා ඇති මුදල් කප්පාදු කර ගෙවීම් සිදු කර ඇති බව අප සංගමය වෙත අදාල ගුරුවරුන් හා විදුහල්පතිවරුන් විසින් වාර්තා කර ඇත. 02ග විශේෂයෙන් ජදඩසාජ්19 වසංගතය හමුවේ විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව පැවැත්වු අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විභාගය සාර්ථකව අවසන් කර ගැනීම ස`දහා විවිධ දුෂ්කර තත්ත්වයන් යටතේ මහත් කැපවීමෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
කසාගල පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරාධිපති, ඉහළ දොළොස්පත්තුවේ ද්විතීය අධිකරණ සංඝනායක,පූජ්‍ය මැල්සිරිපුර විමලරතන නාහිමියන් බැහැ දුටු ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.01.09 දින උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. රජයේ ඉදිරි ශාසනික හා සමාජයීය කටයුතු මෙන්ම කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හමුවේ ජන ජීවිතය නගා සිටුවීමට රජය ගෙන ඇති ක්‍රියාමාර්ග සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙහිදී නාහිමියන් දැනුවත් කළේය. ධර්මානුකූල පිළිවෙත් පිළිබඳව අනුශාසනා කළ පූජ්‍ය මැල්සිරිපුර විමලරතන නාහිමියෝ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට ආශිර්වාද එක් කළහ. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා අමාත්‍ය ජොන්ස්ටන් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා ද එක් විය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
Sunil Wimalawansa
Myths & Facts f COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 with vitamin D: Application of the knowledge of biology, biochemistry, and physiology of vitamin D for effective control of COVID-19. https://youtu.be/8IInbShrVc0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
Mattha Busby Courtesy The Guardian
The sunshine drug: vitamin D is created in the skin’s lower layers through the absorption of sunlight and plays a central role in immune and metabolic function Photograph: Getty Images It’s cheap, widely available and might help us fend off the virus. So should we all be dosing up on the sunshine nutrient? In March, as coronavirus deaths in the UK began to mount, two hospitals in northeast England began taking vitamin D readings from patients and prescribing them with extremely high doses of the nutrient. Studies... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Ten parliamentarians have been identified to have come in close contact with MP Rauff Hakeem at the parliament. Tweeting this morning (10), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader MP Rauff Hakeem stated that he had contracted COVID-19 and that he will be entered into a quarantine facility. He also asked his contacts from the past 10 days to take necessary health and safety precautions. https://youtu.be/kTl9djphoJg As the parliamentarian had attended the parliamentary session on January 05, steps were being taken to identify the persons who closely associated with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News
Colombo, January 11 (Daily News): With the Sri Lankan cabinet granting approval to sign an agreement with manufacturers when allocating vaccines through the COVAX facility, vaccination against the dreaded COVID-19 is expected to commence shortly. Sri Lanka has already joined the COVAX facility and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) which is accredited by the World Health Organization. The COVAX facility is a global initiative that brings together governments and manufacturers to ensure equal distribution among the various countries of the world. The production and development of the vaccines for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
By Michael Oduor Courtesy aftica news
Tanzania has signalled that it is not intending to use any Covid-19 vaccine but instead will settle on local herbs for protection against the disease. Speaking to the EastAfrican Gerald Chamii, a spokesman at the Ministry of Health said, “There are no plans in place yet of importing vaccine for Covid-19, our health experts and scientists are still researching and undergoing clinical trials for the local herbs for covid-19.” Chemii put doubt on the efficacy levels of the current global vaccines claiming the production duration... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
By Frances Bulathsinghala/ Sunday Observer
Colombo, January 10: We are in a new year, nurturing hope for nation and mankind that the Covid-19 health crisis will pass away from our midst. However, judging by reports that there is yet another more virulent strain going around originated from Britain, rationality tells us that it remains a case of each nation to handle this continuing situation. We also hear of a brain eating amoeba spreading through water in the US which poses deadlier threats. The world may have to face even worse predicaments than coronavirus and the level of preparedness... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
By Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Jon Emont in Singapore/Wall Street Journal Courtesy Ceylon Today
Islamabad, January 9 (Wall Street Journal): Governments and religious leaders in Muslim-majority nations are talking to vaccine makers, investigating production processes and issuing guidance in an effort to make sure concerns about products prohibited by Islam don’t interfere with Covid-19 inoculations. On Friday, the high clerical council in Indonesia, with the world’s largest Muslim population, said that China’s Sinovac vaccine is allowed by Islam, or halal. The decision came after council representatives visited Sinovac’s factory in China last year and conducted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
Courtesy Travelradar
Today, the Sri Lankan government announced that it will open its international airports once again. Flight operations will start from the 23rd of January of 2021. Foreign travellers visiting the country can now visit 12 of the country’s major tourist attractions once again; The moves comes following months of Coronavirus travel restrictions in place within Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Open Its International Airports From January 23. Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister officially announced that all international Airports will be open. He held a meeting on the 5th and said that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
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Ten parliamentarians have been identified to have come in close contact with MP Rauff Hakeem at the parliament. Tweeting this morning (10), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader MP Rauff Hakeem stated that he had contracted COVID-19 and that he will be entered into a quarantine facility. He also asked his contacts from the past 10 days to take necessary health and safety precautions. https://youtu.be/kTl9djphoJg As the parliamentarian had attended the parliamentary session on January 05, steps were being taken to identify the persons who closely associated with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Prime Minister’s Coordinating Secretary for Political Affairs, Kumarasiri Hettige has tested positive for COVID-19. He has reportedly visited the parliament on Friday (January 08) and several staff members of the Leader of the House have been identified as close contacts of Mr Hettige. Sergeant-at-Arms of Parliament Narendra Fernando said his close contacts and relevant heads of departments were informed on the matter. Earlier today, it was revealed that Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader MP Rauff Hakeem has contracted the novel coronavirus. In a tweet, the parliamentarian appealed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Director-General of Health Services has confirmed three more COVID-19 related fatalities in the country. The new development has brought the death toll from the virus to 232, according to the Department of Government Information. One of the victims was identified as a 62-year-old inmate who was incarcerated at the Negombo Prison. He was admitted to the Negombo Base Hospital and had passed away on Friday (January 08) after being transferred to the Mulleriyawa Base Hospital. The cause of death was cited as COVID-19 pneumonia. In the meantime, an 80-year-old woman... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/21)
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The head of the World Health Organization says there is a “clear problem” that low- and middle-income countries are not yet receiving supplies of COVID-19 vaccines and urged countries to stop striking bilateral deals with manufacturers. “Rich countries have the majority of the supply,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in strongly-worded comments on vaccine nationalism at a Geneva news briefing. He asked countries and manufacturers to stop making bilateral deals and called on those who have ordered excess doses to immediately hand them over to the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/21)
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Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 236 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 236 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 536 new cases have been reported within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 48,376. Recoveries from the virus meanwhile climbed to 41,325 earlier today, as more patients regained... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/21)
The University of Jaffna is a State university. It is funded by the Government of Sri Lanka and Faculty are paid salaries by the GoS. Therefore, all staff are bound by rules & regulations applicable to the Public Sector. Jaffna University is a university where children of all communities gain admission to. It is not a Tamil Only university. LTTE is an internationally proscribed terrorist entity militarily defeated in May 2009. Anyone who wishes to immortalize Prabakaran & his outfit are welcome to do so privately in their homes but not in public and certainly not in state universities. Maybe... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
1.PRESS CONFERENCE OUTBURSTS BY INDIAN MINISTER: The BJP government need to recognize the rights of majority Sinhalaese in the same spirit as they recognize the rights of Hindus of India. Compared with the Congress Party, it is hoped BJP will review its foreign policy in future dealings with the new Rajapakse Regime. . The recent visit of Indian External Affairs Minister Hon Jaishankar should be seen in the light of above changes in approach by the Indian government. However, during the press conference Mr Jaishankar touched on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Revised 17.1.21 Sri Lanka is mainly concerned with American foreign policy, not America’s domestic policy. From the 1980s and especially in the 1990s, the American Neo cons shifted their focus from domestic issues to foreign policy. That is because they wanted a foreign policy which would further US economic interests. It is the neo cons who shape foreign policy in Washington, said analysts. It is they who influence the direction of US foreign policy, not the President of the US. The neo cons carry out the foreign policy irrespective of who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
ගරු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිනිය 2021.01.08 දින මෙරට කොරියානු තානාපති වුන්ජින් ජොං මහතා හමුවිය. මෙරට සාගර විශ්වවිද්‍යාල පද්දතිය වෙනුවෙන් කොරියානු රජය සමග නොදුරේදීම ආරම්භ කිරීමට සූදානම් කර ඇති koica ව්‍යාපෘතිය පිළිබඳව මෙහෙදී ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් අවදානය යොමු වූ අතර එම ව්‍යාපෘතිය සාර්ථක කර ගැනීමට අවශ්‍ය සියලු සහය ලබාදීමට මෙරට කොරියානු තානාපති වුන්ජින් ජොං මහතා එකග විය. තවද නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක වන විද්‍යා, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන සම්බන්ධ ව්‍යාපෘතින් වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම පිළිබඳවත් නව ව්‍යාපෘතින් හඳුන්වා දීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
Rohan Abeygunawardena
Hats off to present office bearers of SLC led by President Shammi Silva and the Tournament Director Ravin Wickramaratne for successfully staging the first everLanka Premier League (LPL) cricket tournament. They should be specifically lauded because this tournament was held against all odds under trying circumstances. Apart from the threat from COVID19 epidemic there were usual Sri Lankan style opposition too. However young Minister of Sports Namal Rajapaksa supported the SLC to the hilt. Five teams named after various Sri Lankan cities played a total of 23 matches from 26 November to 16 December... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
Courtesy The Associated Press
Three Sri Lankan men have been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019 Easter attacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens • LOS ANGELES -- Three Sri Lankan men have been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019 Easter attacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens, and injured hundreds, it was announced Friday. Mohamed Naufar, Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Riskan and Ahamed Milhan Hayathu Moahmed were charged last month in federal court in Los Angeles... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
කිර්ති වර්ණකුලසුරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින
බිහිසුණු අපරාධ සිදුකළ හිටපු කොටි ත‍්‍රස්තයන් 82 ක් මුදාහැරිය යුතු යැයි ද්‍රවිඩ දේශපාලකයන් නැවත වරක් රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත. මෙම ත‍්‍රස්තයන්ව හඳුන්වා ඇත්තේ දේශපාලන සිරකරුවන් ලෙසිනි. එහෙත් මොවුන් දේශපාලන සිකරුවන් නොවේ, මෙලෙස හිටපු කොටි මිනීමරුවන් මුදා හරින ලෙස ඉල්ලන දේශපාලකයන් ශ්රී ලංකා හමුදාවට එල්ල කරන යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා ගැන ජාත්‍යන්තර අධිකරණය හෝ වෙනත් විනිශ්චය සභාවක් පත්කර විමර්ශනයක් කළ යුතු බව කියා සිටියි. එසේ වුවත් නිදහස් කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලන මේ හිටපු කොටි ත‍්‍රස්තයන් සිදු කළ අපරාධ කෙරේ රජය අවධානය කළ යුතුයි. මෙහි දැක්වෙන්නේ ඊට නිදසුන්ය. 1. යුද සහ නාවික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
පොල්පිතිගම, ඉරුදෙණියාය ප්‍රදේශයේ ජනතාව දශක කිහිපයක් තිස්සේ විසඳුම් නොලද ඉඩම් ගැටලුව ඇතුලු ජනතා ගැටලු රැසකට ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මැදිහත්වී අද 2021.01.09 දින විසඳුම් ලබා දුන්නේය. ගම සමඟ පිළිසඳර - වැඩ සමඟ යළි ගමට ජාතික වැඩසටහනට අදාළව මකුලපොත, කට්ටම්බේරිය යාය ප්‍රාථමික විද්‍යාලයේ පැවති ජන හමුවට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙසේ ජනතාවගේ ගැටලු සඳහා ඒ මොහොතේම පිළිතුරු දෙමින් අවශ්‍ය රාජ්‍ය මැදිහත්වීම සලසා දීම විශේෂත්වයකි. මෙම ජනතාවගේ ගැටලු සඳහා අද දින ලබා දුන් පිළියම් ඉටුවනවාද යන්න ගැන සොයා බැලීමට දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම්තුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් යුතු, වන ජීවී, වාරි මාර්ග, වන සංරක්ෂණ හා ඉඩම් යන අංශ නියෝජනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික කටයුතු හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යංශය විසින් ඉදි කරන ලද පොල්පිතිගම සංස්කෘතික මධ්‍යස්ථානය බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික කටයුතු හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍ය හා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.09 දින විවෘත විය. රට හදන සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම සංවර්ධන වැඩපිළිවෙළ යථාර්ථයක් කරමින්, මහජන අරමුදල් යටතේ මෙම සංස්කෘතික මධ්‍යස්ථානය රුපියල් මිලියන 25 ක ප්‍රතිපාදන වැයකරමින් ඉදි කර තිබේ. සංස්කෘතික මධ්‍යස්ථානය සඳහා අවශ්‍ය භාණ්ඩ ලබාදීම ද අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අතින් මෙහිදී සිදු විය. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන ජොන්ස්ටන් ප්‍රනාන්දු, සී.බී.රත්නායක, රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන ඩී.බී.හේරත්, අනුරාධ ජයරත්න, සනත් නිශාන්ත, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වන ගුණපාල රත්නසේකර,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
කොවිඩ්-19 හමුවේ දේශීය සිනමා කර්මාන්තය රැක ගැනීම උදෙසා රාජ්‍ය මැදිහත්වීමෙන් දෙවසරක කාලයකට සහන ලබා දීමට අදාළ සාකච්ඡාවක් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.08 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සිනමා කර්මාන්තයේ නියැළි වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ සංගම් හා සංවිධාන ආශ්‍රිත ගැටලු සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට මෙම හමුව කැඳවා තිබිණි. චිත්‍රපට නිෂ්පාද සංසදය, ශ්රී ලංකා සිනමා අධ්‍යක්ෂවරුන්ගේ සංසදය, දේශීය සිනමා ශිල්පීන්ගේ සන්ධානය හා සිනමාශාලා හිමියන්ගේ සංගමය මෙම හමුවට එක් විය. කොවිඩ් -19 අර්බුදය හමුවේ සිනමා කර්මාන්තය ඉතා අවදානම් තත්ත්වයකට පත්ව ඇතැයි චිත්‍රපට අධ්‍යක්ෂවරුන්, නිෂ්පාදකවරුන් සහ සිනමාශාලා හිමියන් මෙම හමුවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට පැහැදිලි කළේය. එහිදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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The Government was making arrangements to provide COVID-19 vaccines to the people of Sri Lanka by mid-February, Primary Health Care, Epidemics and COVID-19 Disease Control Minister Sudarshani Fernandopulle said today. She told Parliament that the government is engaged in talks with Russia to purchase Sputnik V vaccines, while talks are also underway with India to purchase Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. “The Government is also considering the Pfizer vaccines as well,” she said. Minister Fernandopulle also said the government has placed the orders to the World Health Organization... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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The decision to remove the war monument at the Jaffna University was taken by Vice Chancellor of Jaffna University Professor Srisatkunarajah, as it was seen as an obstruction to unity and reconciliation, University Grants Commission Chairman Prof. Sampath Amaratunge said. Issuing a statement Prof. Amaratunga said several groups in the Jaffna University attempted to construct a war monument within the university premises around the year 2018. “It appears that this memorial statue was developed over the years. But honestly the monument can be an obstruction to the unity between... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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The coronavirus death toll in Sri Lanka has been increased by four new deaths, confirms the Director-General of Health Services. All 04 victims had been patient at the Homagama Base Hospital, according to the Department of Government Information. Accordingly, Sri Lanka has reported a total of 229 deaths from the virus.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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The Government Information Department reports that 238 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today’s tally of fresh cases to 535 thus far. All new cases are close associates of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. The total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the country has increased to 47,840 while total recoveries are currently at 40,838. Presently a total of 6,773 patients infected with the virus are under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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Former Directors of Edirisinghe Trust Investments (ETI) Finance Limited, who were arrested yesterday, have been remanded until the 12th of January. The order was delivered by Colombo Additional Magistrate Ruwan Nelumdeniya when the suspects were produced before courts today (January 09). Last evening, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested four former Directors of ETI Finance – Nalaka Edirisinghe, Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisinghe – acting on the directives issued by Attorney General Dappula de Livera. The suspects were taken into custody on charges of criminal misappropriation, cheating, money... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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All inmates who were incarcerated over failure to pay fines will be released under special State Pardon by the President, says the Spokesperson of Prisons, Commissioner Chandana Ekanayake. https://youtu.be/ZfAvcWMjoG0 The decision has been taken with the intention of easing the congestion at prisons across the island owing to the COVID-19 outbreak. Mr Ekanayake said these inmates will be released starting from today (January 09), after referring them to PCR tests and confirming that they are negative for novel coronavirus. Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) and relevant Police... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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9 Jan 2021 Some countries are experiencing a Second Wave of Covid pandemic, while some others have graduated into a Third Wave, this time with new and more virulent mutant forms of the virus. If these mutant viruses arrive in Sri Lanka it will be beyond the capacity of the Sri Lanka government to handle. Sri Lanka is already battling through the second wave. If the 70% more virulent mutant arrives in Sri Lanka it will be shutters on all activities. The UK has already gone to a shut down. Just on the news... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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ශ්රී ලංකා රක්ෂණ සංස්ථාවේ නාගරාජ ශාක්‍ය පුත්‍ර ඥාති වෛද්‍ය රක්ෂණ ක්රමය හඳුන්වාදීම අද 2021.01.08 දින ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. නව රක්ෂණ ක්රමය හඳුන්වා දෙමින් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මහා සංඝරත්නයට රක්ෂණ සහතික පත් පිළිගැන්නුවේය. සංඝයා වහන්සේලාගේ මව, පියා, සහෝදර සහෝදරියන් රජයේ රෝහලක හෝ පෞද්ගලික රෝහලක රෝහල්ගත වීමකදී දිනකට රුපියල් 1000 බැඟින් රු.15000 ක උපරිමයක් සහ රෝහල්ගතව සිදු කරනු ලබන වෛද්‍ය පරීක්ෂණයකදී හෝ ඖෂධ සඳහා රුපියල් 25000 ක උපරිමයක් දක්වා ගෙවීම මෙම රක්ෂණ ක්‍රමයට අයත්ය. රුපියල් 2000 ක මුදලක් පමණක් මේ සඳහා වාර්ෂිකව ගෙවිය යුතු අතර,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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සුළු හා මධ්‍ය පරිමාන සහල් නිෂ්පාදකයන්ට ණය පහසුකම් ලබාදීමට පියවර ගන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.01.07 උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. සමස්ත ලංකා සුළු හා මධ්‍ය පරිමාන සහල් නිෂ්පාදකයින්ගේ සංගමයේ නියෝජිතයින් සමඟ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී කමිටු කාමර 02 පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මේ බව පැවසීය. මහා පරිමාන සහල් නිෂ්පාදකයින්ගේ ගැටලුවලට පෙර සුළු හා මධ්‍ය පරිමාන සහල් නිෂ්පාදකයින්ගේ ගැටලු විසදීමට පියවර ගන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා බලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. රටේ පවතින සහතික වී මිලට අනුව පෙබරවාරි 01 සිට මාස 06 කට යාවත්කාලීන වන සහල් සඳහා ස්ථීර පාලන මිලක් ලබා ගැනීම ඇතුලු ඉල්ලීම් කිහිපයක් මුල් කරගනිමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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The Director General of Health Services has confirmed three more Covid-19 related deaths in the country today (8) increasing the death toll due to the virus to 225. One of the victims is a 75-year-old male from Colombo 14 who was identified as Covid-19 positive and transferred from the Colombo National Hospital to the Rambukkana Hospital and then to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (IDH). He had passed away at IDH earlier today (8) with the cause of death reported as shock caused by blood poisoning and Covid-19 pneumonia. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/21)
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The Government Information Department reports that 273 more persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing today’s tally of fresh cases to 524 thus far. All new cases are close associates of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. The total number of positive cases reported from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters so far stands at 43,547. The total number of Covid-19 cases reported in the country has increased to 47,305 while total recoveries is currently at 40,317. Presently a total of 6,766 patients infected with the virus are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/21)
Rohana R. Wasala
Watching the 11:55 A.M. Hiru News/January 7, 2021 (Live Stream) I was dismayed by a news ticker in Sinhala characters that flashed intermittently during a news item that covered a press briefing presided by His Eminence Malcom Cardinal Ranjit, the Archbishop of Colombo, who was raising concerns about some environmental degradation taking place in a wetland area in the name of development. The Sinhalese language crawler ran: “angaranda guruvaraya madya hamuve paevasu adahas” (Views expressed by the Archbishop before the media). However, the correct Sinhala equivalent for ‘Archbishop’ which is meant here is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/21)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
….and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron –H L Mencken 1920 It is 97 years since H L Mencken’s comment was reportedly published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on the 26th of July 1920. Who was this person? As per the Wikipedia “Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/21)
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
The Indian Foreign Minister arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday. His schedule includes discussions with the President, Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. Any visit by any Indian minister or senior official is important, this is undebatable. Not because ‘we are old friends’ or ‘have a long, shared history’ (the ‘friendship’ is debatable and the ‘history’ has been by and large sordid).That said, things can change (very slowly, yes). Prime Minister Modi is not exactly a clone of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who thought the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 would be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
සද් භාවයෙන් ජනතාවට සේවය කරපු කිසිම රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරියෙකුට දඬුවමක් දෙන්න බැරි ව්‍යවස්ථානුකූල ආරක්ෂාව ලබාදීමට බලාපොරොත්තුවන බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.01.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ ප්‍රධාන ශාලාවේ දී පැවැසීය. ගම සමඟ පිළිසඳර - වැඩ සමඟ යළි ගමට ජාතික වැඩසටහනේ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරින් දැනුවත් කිරීමේ වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කළ සම්පූර්ණ කතාව මෙසේය, 2021 අයවැය යෝජනාවලියෙන් අපි විශාල මුදලක් රටේ දේශීය කර්මාන්ත සංවර්ධනයට වෙන් කරලා තිබෙනවා. මේ අයවැයෙන් පොදු ජනතාවට මොනවත් නෑ කියලා අපේ විවේචකයෝ අපිට චෝදනා කළා. නමුත් මතක තියාගන්න අපි කොයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ඇතැම් කෝටිපති ලොතරැයි ජයග්‍රාහකයන් දුර්වල මුදල් පරිහරණය හේතුවෙන් හිටපු තත්ත්වයටත් වැඩිය පහළ මට්ටටමට වැටී ඇති නිසා ජයග්‍රාහී මුදල් දූ දරුවන්ගේ පවුලේ හා අවසානයේ රටේ යහපත වෙනුවෙන් යොදවන්න යැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවැසීය. සංවර්ධන ලොතරැයි මණ්ඩලයේ කෝටිපති කප්රුක හා ජයෝදා ලොතරැයිපත්වලින් බිහිවූ සුපිරි කෝටිපති ජයග්‍රාහකයින් දෙදෙනෙකු සඳහා අද 2021.01.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී චෙක්පත් ප්‍රදානයට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. කෝටිපති කප්රුක 652 වන වාරයේ සුපිරි ජයමල්ල රු. 87,991,625/- ක මුදල දිනාගත් අඹන්පොල කුමාර පතිරන්නැහැලාගේ සුනිල් මහතාට හා ජයෝදා 1717 වන වාරයේ සුපිරි ජයමල්ල රු. 57,138,276/- ක මුදල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/21)
Courtesy aljazeera
A medical worker shows used bottles of COVID-19 vaccines during Bharat Biotech's Covaxin human trial after it was approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research, at Maharaja Agrasen Super Speciality Hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India [File: Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images] 7 Jan 2021 India’s foreign minister has told Sri Lanka’s president that the country will be prioritised when Indian-produced COVID-19 vaccines are ready for export, the president’s office said. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar made the pledge in a meeting with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in response... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament yesterday that no decision had been made to hand over the East Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port or part of it to a foreign entity, or involve a foreign venture in managing it. Responding to a question raised by JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the Prime Minister said that ECT would be developed by the government and no decision had been made so far to hand it over to a foreign company. The PM said that the yahapalana government had inked an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා මර්ධනය සදහා තමන් විසින් හදුන්වා දුන් ඖෂධය ගැන ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයෙන් පර්යේෂණයක් සිදු කර ඇති බව කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා සදහන් කරයි. නමුත් පර්යේෂකයන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම මත දැනට එම වාර්තා ප‍්‍රසිද්ද නොකරන බවද ඒ මහතා කියා සිටියේ එකී පර්යේෂණ වාර්තාවද පෙන්වමිනි. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=408379460590899&t=19 තම ඖෂධයට බටහිර වෛද්‍යවරුන් හා සෞඛ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් අකමැති බවක් පෙනෙන්නට ඇතැයිද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඔහු මේ බව සදහන් කරන ලද්දේ තම නිවසේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමිනි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
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මියන්මාරයේ ශ්රී ලංකා තානාපති මහාචාර්ය නලින් ද සිල්වා මහතා විසින් තම සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ තබන ලද සටහනක් පහතින් දැක්වේ. අනිල් ජාසිංහ, දූවිල්ලෙන් සැදුණු ලිය හා කුරාණය සෝවියට් දේශයෙහි එකල යුක්රේනයෙහි අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබූ අනිල් ජාසිංහ වෙද මහතා ධම්මික වෙද මහතාගේ පැණියට විරුද්ධ වෙලා. ධම්මික වෙද මහතා අනිල් ජාසිංහ වෙද මහතාගේ පැණියකට විරුද්ධ බවක් දැන ගන්න නැහැ. කොහොමත් අනිල් ජාසිංහ වෙද මහතා හඳුන්වා දුන් පැණියක් නැහැ. බටහිර වෙද මහතුන් බටහිරින් එන පැණි නම් නියම කරනවා. මා හිතන්නේ එකල සෝවියට් දේශයට ගිය සිසුන් කාටත් අපෝහක ද්‍රව්‍යවාදය හදාරන්න සිදු වෙන්න ඇති.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා ආසාදනයෙන් මිය යන පුද්ගලයන්ගේ මෘතදේහ භූමදානය කර නේද ආදානය යන්න විමර්ශනය කිරීමට පත් කළ කමිටුවේ නිර්දේශ වී ඇත්තේ ආදාහනය කිරීම බව සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනි පවිත්රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය සඳහන් කරයි. එහිදී ආගමික දේශපාලන හෝ වෙනත් හේතු නොසලකන බවද ඇය පැවසීය. ඇය මේ බව කියා සිටියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අසන ලද ප්‍රශ්නයකට පිළිතුරු ලෙසයි. සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශයේ තවත් කමිටුවකින් භූමදානය නිර්දේශ කර තිබේදැයි විපක්ෂයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් කළ විමසීමක ඇය කියා සිටියේ එහ කමිටුව ප්‍රධාන කමිටුව නොවන බවයි. වෛරස විශේශඥයන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු විසින් සිය මතය රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිනී සුදර්ශනී ප්රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ මහත්මිය වෙන ඉදිරිපත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
The Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi stated in Parliament today that the recommendations of the expert virologists committee that corpses of people who die of corona infection should be cremated will be implemented in the same manner. https://youtu.be/B7E_EccJ5CI She said that the recommendations made by the experts have already been referred to the main committee which is looking into the manner in which funerals will be performed of those who die due to Corona. Meanwhile, Kumari Weerasekera, Secretary to the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine Promotion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Total lives claimed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka reached 222 today (January 07) as Director-General of Health Services confirmed three more virus-related fatalities. According to the Department of Government Information, three men including an elderly person have died of coronavirus infection. One of the victims was identified as a 53-year-old man from Meethirigala area. He had been receiving treatment at the Wathupitiwala Base Hospital when he passed away yesterday (January 06). The cause of death was cited as COVID-19 infection and asthma. The second victim, a 62-year-old man... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 46,780 as 277 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Reportedly, 231 of the new cases were confirmed as close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster while 39 others were confirmed from the prison cluster. The remaining 07 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries – 03 from Italy, 03 from Sudan and 01 from Jordan. According to Department of Government Information said 532 fresh cases have been detected within the day. As per the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara
The following map shows the graphic representation of the geomorphological structure of the Island determined by its geological foundation spreading from the center in all directions Morphological map of Sri Lanka Source Sudath Gunasekara 1991. You will see from this map that all the rivers in the Island starting from the Central Highlands flow in between these trend lines. Not only the rivers but also the movement and storing of underground water table also conforms to this morphological foundation. Hence the possibility of whatever... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්
වසංගත මගින් ඇති කළ බලපෑම යනු ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේ සෑම අවස්ථාවකම ඉස්මතු වූ රෝග තත්වයකි. සූර්ය ශක්තිය විසින් පාලනය කරන ලෝකය එහි උපරිමයට පත් වන විට වසංගත පැතිරෙන බව පැරණීයන් දැන සිටියහ.එම තත්වය තුළ රෝග පැතිරෙන කාලය තුළ ශරීර ප්‍රතිහක්තිකරණය බිහි කර ගැනීමටද සිරුරේ මල කොටස් බැහැර කොට හක්තිමත් කර ගැනීමද සිදු විය.නවම් මැදින් මාස වලදී ළමුන් සඳහා විරේක බෙහෙත් ලබා දීම සිදු වූයේ මේ පසුබිම මතය.එසේම දුරුතු සහ නවම් මාස වලදී ලැබෙන වැල් අල වර්ගයන් නිසි කලට ආහාරයට ගැනීමෙන් වෙසෙස් ශක්තියක් ශරීරයේ ගබඩා වෙන බව ඔවුහු දැන් සිටියහ. කෙටි නියන් සමයකින් පසු බක් මස ආරම්භයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
ප්‍රවෘත්තී නිවේදනය නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය පසුගිය දා (4) ඔරුගොඩවත්ත කොරියානු තාක්ෂණික අභ්‍යාස ආයතනයේ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවක නිරත වූවා ය. ජාතික වෘත්තීය පුහුණු අධිකාරිය සතු කොරියානු තාක්ෂණික අභ්‍යාස ආයතනයේ අරමුණ, සරසවි වරම් නොලබන තරුණ පිරිස රටේ සංවර්ධනයට, ව්‍යවසායකත්ව හා තාක්ෂණික වෘත්තිකයන් ලෙස දායාද කිරීමයි. මේ වන විට මෙම ආයතනය තුළින් මෝටර් රථ ඉංජිනේරු තාක්ෂණය, ඉදිකිරීම්, පරිගණක ඉංජිනේරු හා අධිපීඩන තාක්ෂණ විෂයයන් ගණනාවක් හැදෑරිය හැකි අතර රොබෝ තාක්ෂණය පිළිබඳව පාඨමාලාවක් ද හඳුන්වා දී තිබේ. කොරියානු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
Paul Craig Roberts Courtesy Institute for Political Economy
The accumulated evidence is overwhelming that Covid is an orchestration the purpose of which is to eliminate human autonomy and make the concept of freedom a dirty word that will bring you Covid illness and death. As physical currency is one necessity for human autonomy, globalists are working on its replacement with digital money. Paper currency, coins, money orders, and checks pass hand to hand and allegedly carry possible infection with Covid. In contrast, digital money is virtual. No one touches it. More importantly for the globalists, It cannot... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
C. Wijeyawickrema USA
Can a dog’s tail straighten by keeping it inside a piece of bamboo tree? In America I see dog tails in all kinds of shapes due to human intervention. In China and Japan there was a time that young girls were subjected to customary ‘feet-squeezing’ therapy to give them tiny, beautiful feet. The recent press release by Professor Tissa Vtharana (TV) on behalf of LSSP, reminded me the Sinhala proverb that one cannot make a dog’s tail straight by placing it inside a bamboo block [even for a decade or two]. Impermanence (change)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
C. Wijeyawickrema USA
After two atapirikara-presenting meetings with the Asgiriya and Malwatta Mahanayakas minister Vitharana, Chairman of APRC, says “the words federal and unitary have lost their meaning over the passage of time” (Daily News, 3/30/2007). He gives two safeguards to prevent a secessionist move in Sri Lanka: (1) the president can deploy the army and (2) if that is inadequate president can dissolve the Province and take over administration. Just like his uncles of LSSP preached “parity of status” from 1935-1964, blindly following international Marxist dogmas of Trotsky and Stalin, the nephew, minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
By Anjali Caldera
MTD Walkers PLC’s second largest minority shareholder Udaya Thuduwewatte accused MTD Walkers Malaysian ownership of conducting their Annual General Meeting (AGM) online yesterday illegally, with no notice being issued to its minor shareholders. In a letter drafted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sri Lanka, Director General, Thuduwewatte, also the third largest shareholder of the company, complained, that he and many other minority shareholders were not informed of nor was a Zoom link sent to them to connect to the meeting. I am a Minority share holder who was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 6: The Indian Foreign Minister Dr.S.Jaishankar said here on Wednesday that it is in “Sri Lanka’s own interest that the expectations of the Tamil people, of equality, justice, peace & dignity within a united Sri Lanka, are fulfilled. “And that applies equally to commitments made by the Sri Lankan government on meaningful devolution including the 13th Amendment,” he added. Jaishankar was addressing the media following talks with the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. The Indian Foreign Minister did not directly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා වයිරසය සඳහා කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා විසින් හඳුන්වා දී ඇති ඖෂධය කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන්ට සායනික පරීක්‍ෂාව සදහා ලබාදීමට අනුමැතිය ලබා දී ඇත. සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් අසේල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසුවේ තමන් ඒ සඳහා අවසර ලබා දුන් බවයි. එම ඖෂධය සායික පරීක්‍ෂාවෙ සදහා ආයුර්වේද ආචාරධර්ම කමිටුවේ අනුමැතිය ලැබීමෙන් පසු මෙම අනුමැතිය ලබා දී ඇත. අනුරාධපුර රෝහලේ ප‍්‍රතිකාර ලබනා කොරෝනා ආසාදිතයන්ට මෙම ඖෂධය ලබා දීමට නියමිතව ඇත. මෙම පරීක්‍ෂාවෙන් සමත් වුවහොත් එම ඖෂධය කොරෝනා රෝගීන්ට ඖෂධයක් ලෙස ලබා දීමට හැකියාව ලැබේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වටේ සිටින්නේ බෝර්න් අගේන් කල්ලියක් සහ ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදී කල්ලියක් බව සිංහලේ සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය මැඩිල්ලේ පඤ්ඤාලෝක හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීන්දු තීරණ ගන්නේ එම කල්ලි වලට අවශ්‍ය විදියට බවද උන්වහන්සේ පැවසූහ. https://youtu.be/GYkrNTyRh2g එම් සී සී ගිවිසුම අවසන් නැති බවත් එම ගිවිසුම හොඳටම සිදුකර ජනාධිපතිවරයාට ළඟදීම ගෙදර යන්න වනු ඇති බවත් උන්වහන්සේ කියා සිටියහ. එහිමියන් අන්තර්ජාල නාළිකාවක් සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් මෙම අදහස් පළ කර ඇත. ගලගොඩ ඥානසාර හිමියන් මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදීන්ගේගේ මුදල් වලට යටවූ බවත් තමන්ගේ ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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To counter China’s maritime influence in its backyard, India has been strengthening defence ties with countries in and around the Indian Ocean. India's foreign minister recently assured that India will be a reliable partner for the island nation. India is ramping up efforts to arm countries bound by the Indian Ocean and has offered to boost Sri Lanka's naval capabilities. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said New Delhi is ready to assist Colombo in enhancing its capabilities to meet growing maritime and security challenges in the region. “India has been strongly committed to the unity,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
By P.K. Balachandran* Courtesy Eurasia Review
With Sri Lanka drifting towards China to get funds for infrastructural development, India is anxious to demonstrate that it also can contribute to Sri Lanka’s economic development. This came out clearly in the statement made by the Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to the media here on Wednesday after he met Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Economic Ties The media statement touched upon a wide range of issues but it was predominantly about possibilities in economic cooperation. Jaishankar said that he would be meeting the Sri Lankan business community.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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The government has taken no decision to transfer the management part of the ownership of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port to a foreign entity, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Prime Minister mentioned this in response to a question raised by Jathika Jana Balawegaya MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake in the Parliament today (06). He said, “The previous Yahapalana government entered into agreements regarding the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port and I will table copies of those agreements. Our government has not decided to hand over the management... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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India is willing to prioritize Sri Lanka when supplying the COVID-19 vaccine now being produced by India, the External Affairs Minister of India Dr. S. Jaishankar told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The Indian Minister who arrived in the country yesterday (05) for a two-day visit, called on President Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today (06), President’s Media Division said. https://youtu.be/O5euS7bteXU Commenting on the future course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic President Rajapaksa stated that Sri Lanka would like to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine, which is being produced... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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A total of 12,255 COVID-19 patients have been identified within the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) jurisdiction, says Mayoress of Colombo Rosy Senanayake. Speaking to the media, she also stated that 292 employees of the CMC have been diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. https://youtu.be/TCIFMsPjofs “Yesterday we carried out 950 PCR tests. Twenty-five of them came out positive. Results of another 600 are yet to come. Never assume that Colombo is safe now. Seven out of 150 antigen tests were positive yesterday. So far 12,255 cases of COVID-19 have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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Administration approval has been granted to conduct clinical trials on the anti-Coronavirus herbal syrup manufactured by Dhammika Bandara from Kegalle. Director-General of Health Services Dr Asela Gunawardena said the letter pertaining to this has been directed to the Teaching Hospital in Anuradhapura, Health Services Director of Anuradhapura District and Provincial Health Services Director of North-Central. Ethical Committee of the University of Rajarata granted the approval for the anti-Coronavirus tonic, on the 30th of December last year. The committee accordingly recommended that the relevant tonic be directed for clinical trials.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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Two more COVID-19 related deaths reported today (January 06) has pushed Sri Lanka’s fatality count from the virus to 219 cases in total. As per the Director-General of Health Services, one of the victims is a 60-year-old male from the Dehiwala area. He had been transferred to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID/IDH) from the Colombo South Teaching Hospital in Kalubowila, upon being diagnosed as a COVID-19 patient. The cause of death has been determined to be blood poisoning, kidney infection, and COVID-19 pneumonia. Meanwhile, a 78-year-old female from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 46,248 as 269 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Reportedly, all 269 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. According to the Department of Government Information said 521 fresh cases have been detected within the day. As per the Health Ministry’s data, 39,023 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from the virus. However, 7,006 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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The four former Directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd and ETI Finance who were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have been granted bail. The former Directors Nalaka Edirisinghe, Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisinghe were produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate today (06) where they were granted bail. https://youtu.be/2o1gaJeoVu8 Last evening (January 05), Attorney General Dappula de Livera had directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a criminal investigation against the Directors of the ETI Finance and Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd. over their involvement in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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Colombo, January 5 (Xinhua): The Colombo Port City and the Hambantota Port will attract foreign investments to Sri Lanka and boost growth in 2021, the governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) said on Monday. Delivering a virtual address titled Road Map 2021, CBSL Governor W.D. Lakshman said Sri Lanka-China joint projects like the Colombo Port City and the Hambantota Port would attract “a sizable flow of foreign capital into the country.” “It is expected that the rapid development of the Colombo Port City Special Economic Zone,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/21)
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The Norwegian Medicines Agency has announced that two nursing home residents passed away days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, and that an investigation has been launched into the deaths. “We have to assess whether the vaccine is the cause of death, or if it is a coincidence that it happened soon after vaccination,” Medical Director Steiner Madsen said in a statement about the deaths. He also noted that, because people of advanced age are receiving the vaccine first, it is entirely possible the deaths could be coincidental. Around 400 people die every week... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
SOUTH ASIAN DEFENSE REVIEW
Terrorism affected 161 Police Districts across the country, especially Maoist-hit states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, terror-hit Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and other Northeastern states in 2019, according to inputs submitted to Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) organisation in its Data on Police Organisations-2019. However, there was a slight fall in the number of terrorism or extremism affected districts in the country in 2019 compared to 174 in 2018, the UMHA's focus is to reduce the number in 2021. Punjab News Express,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
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UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Mr. Robert Juhkam officially handed over the Global Human Development Report (HDR 2020) to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today at his residence in Wijerama. The Human Development Report (HDR), is the annual flagship report published by the Human Development Report Office of the UNDP that evaluates and measures human progress. This year’s 30th publication, emphasises on the relationship between people and nature, focusing on the impact that human activity has on the earth and stresses on the importance of improving people’s lives while working towards... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික් සම්බන්ධීකාරක ලෙස ඒ.එම්.ඩී.එච්. ධනසිරි අමරතුංග මහතා පත් කර තිබේ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් විජේරාමේ පිහිටි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නිල නිවසේදී අද 2021.01.05 දින ඒ මහතා සිය පත්වීම් ලිපිය ලබා ගත්තේය. ඒ.එම්.ඩී.එච්. ධනසිරි අමරතුංග මහතා දෙහිවල ගල්කිස්ස හිටපු නගරාධිපතිවරයා වේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
හපුතලේ නව නගරාධිපති උපුල් දිසානායක මහතා ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉදිරියේ විජේරාම පිහිටි නිල නිවසේදී අද 2021.01.05 දින දිවුරුම් දුන්නේය. හිටපු නගරාධිපති සම්පත් ළමාහේවා මහතාගේ ඉල්ලා අස්වීමෙන් පුරප්පාඩු වූ තනතුරට උපුල් දිසානායක මහතා පත්කෙරිණි. 1997 නාගරික මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු ලෙස සිය දේශපාලන දිවිය ආරම්භ කළ උපුල් දිසානායක මහතා මෙයට පෙර ද හපුතලේ නගරාධිපති ධූරය හොබවා තිබේ. මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය තේනුක විදානගමගේ, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී තිස්ස කුට්ටිආරච්චි, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම් ගාමිණී සෙනරත් මහත්වරුන් ඇතුලු ප්‍රාදේශීය දේශපාලනඥයෝ කිහිප දෙනෙක් එක්ව සිටියහ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
අශෝක අභයගුණවර්ධනඋපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින
දේශීය වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාවේ විසඳුම් කුණුබක්කියට යෑමට ප‍්‍රධානතම හේතුව නම් දේශීය වෛද්‍යවරුන්හට කොරෝනා රෝගීන් සමඟ කිසිදු විධිමත් පරීක්ෂණයක් කිරීමට අවස්ථාවක් නොතිබීමයි. අපේ රටේ කොරෝනා රෝගීන් පිළිබඳ සම්පූර්ණ වගකීම බටහිර වෛද්‍යවරුන් හට පැවරිණි. සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ පවතින ආයුර්වේද රෝහල් වල වත් මෙම රෝගීන්ට ප‍්‍රතිකාර කිරීමට ඉඩ දුන්නේ නැත.කොරෝනා වෛරසය මහා විප්ලවයක් සිදුකර, මානව සමාජය යටත් කර ඇත. ඒ අතින් බැලූවිට කොවිඞ්-19 වෛරසය තාවකාලිකව හෝ වත්මන් ලෝකයේ ප‍්‍රබලයා බවට මේ වනවිට පත්වී හමාරය.කොරෝනා වෛරසය නිසා දැන් මිනිසුන් හට අලූත් මාතෘකා රාශියක් ලැබී ඇත. මෙම ලිපිය මඟින් අවධානය යොමු කරන්නේ කොවිඞ්-19 නිසා ‘විද්‍යාව’ හා ‘මිථ්‍යාව’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
ගාල්ල - එස්. කේ. කළුආරච්චි ලලිත් චාමින්ද රවීන්ද්‍ර චන්ද්‍රලාල් උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින
- විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනිය එන්නතක් ගැන විශ්වාසයක් තබනවාට වඩා ප‍්‍රතිශක්තිකරණ පද්ධතිය ශක්තිමත්ව තබා ගැනීම මත කොවිඞ් වෛරස් රෝගයට සහ බෝනොවන රෝග වලින් බේරී සිටීමට මාවත විවර වන්නේ යයි රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනිය මහතා පැවසීය. ගාල්ල දිස්ත්රික් වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංගමය සහ සියත්මා සංවිධානය එක්ව පිලාන මුදලිගේ උත්සව ශාලාවේ පැවති වස විෂ නැති රටක් පිබිදෙන හෙටක් මැයෙන් දේශනයක් පවත්වමින් පාදෙනිය මහතා මේ බව කීවේය. පාදෙනිය මහතා මෙසේ ද කීය. එන්නතක් ගැන බලාපොරොත්තු තබාගනිමින් පොරොත්තු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
එරික් ගාමිණි ජිනපි‍්‍රය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින
මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදීන්ගේ බලපෑමට යටවී ආණ්ඩුව මිනී වැලලීමට අවස්ථාව ලබාදුනහොත් ඒ තුළින් මේ ආණ්ඩුවේ අධ්‍යාත්මයට මරුපහරක් වදින බව දේශ හිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පැවසීය. වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා ඒ පිළිබඳව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් පසුගිය 31 වන දා පැවැත්වු මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමිණි. එහි දී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වු ඒ මහතා මෙසේද පැවසීය. ආණ්ඩුව තමන්ගේ ජනවරමට විශාල වශයෙන් අභියෝග කරන කටයුතුවල යෙදී සිටිනවා. එකක් තමයි ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදයේ බලපෑමට යටත්වෙලා මළ මිනී ආදාහනය කළ යුතුද භූමදානය කළ යුතු ද යන ප්රශ්නය දේශපාලන ප්රශ්නයක් බවට පත්කර ගන්නට ඉඩදීම.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
All those who dealt with the Ukrainian tourists including Udayanga Weeratunga and safari drivers have been included in the bio bubble in order to be separated from the society, Minister of Tourism and Aviation Prasanna Ranatunga told Parliament today. He said that the measure had been taken to prevent them from spreading COVID -19, The Minister said that the safari drivers had not been quarantined as reported and added that they had only been put in the bio bubble. “They are placed in an isolated place in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Cabinet approves a proposal to enter into agreements with COVID-19 vaccine producers under the COVAX facility. The COVAX facility is a global initiative that brings together governments and manufacturers to ensure equal distribution among the countries, subsequently to the manufacturing of secure and effective COVID-19 vaccines. Through this facility, the production and development of the vaccines for the COVID-19 are being accelerated and the eventual reach of the COVID-19 vaccine to every country in the world is ensured. Sri Lanka has already joined with the COVAX facility; and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Two more COVID-19 related fatalities have been confirmed in Sri Lanka today (January 05), says the Director-General of Health Services. According to Department of Government Information, the new development has pushed the country’s death toll from the virus outbreak to 217. One of the victims was identified as a 68-year-old woman from Matale. She died on Sunday (January 03) while receiving treatment at the Matale District Hospital. The cause of death was determined as COVID-19 infection and lung infection. Meanwhile, a 75-year-old woman from Kalutara died on Saturday (January 02)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total count of COVID-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 45,726 as 260 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Reportedly, 255 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. The remaining 05 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries – 03 from Jordan, 01 from the United Kingdom and 01 seafarer. According to Department of Government Information said 484 fresh cases have been detected within the day. As per the Health Ministry’s data, 38,262 of the confirmed patients have made... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Three former Directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd. have been arrested for running an unauthorized finance business, says the Attorney General’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne. https://youtu.be/6VKY8_L5VNU Attorney General Dappula de Livera, earlier this evening (05), had directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a criminal investigation against the Directors of the ETI Finance and Swarnamahal Jewellers Ltd. Further directives later came to arrest former Swarnamahal Directors Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe and Asanka Edirisinghe and produce them before courts. State Counsel Jayaratne said that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Attorney General has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to conduct a criminal investigation against the directors of the ETI Finance and Swarnamahal Jewellers. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne, said that the investigations will be carried out over the unauthorized acceptance of deposits worth Rs 13.7 billion, misappropriation, and money laundering. The Attorney General has also decided to forward indictments against the Directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers for conducting an unauthorized finance business.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
Sri Lanka News
A suspect has been arrested for vandalizing a Buddha statue in Mawanella, says Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana. He was identified as Priyantha Sampath Kumara, a 30-year-old who was residing in Hettimulla area in Kegalle. The incident had taken place in the area of Imbula in Mawanella on the night of December 28. According to the police, the suspect is addicted to the use of narcotics and had been involved in stealing money from donation boxes at religious places.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
I would like to kindly alert readers to certain distorted versions of my articles,and forged documents falsely attributed to my authorship appearing in a fakeFace Book account created in my name by an unknown person, who is probably assuming a pseudonym. However, there are an unknown number of genuine social media websites that reproduce my articles without distortion and with due acknowledgements to the sources that I originally direct my writings to. Apart from several best known, widely circulated Sri Lankan national newspapers, there are only two reputed online news media journals - Lankaweb... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/21)
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
The year 2020 was eminently forgettable and that has very little to do with politics. The obvious need not be stated. As for the political, we had parliamentary elections and the passage of the 20th Amendment. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna effectively consolidated its hold on power, securing close to a two-thirds majority. The UNP (official) was routed and the UNP (in new garb, i.e. the SJB) was a distant second.The new parliamentary configuration resulted in the 20th Amendment being passed. Of course there were objections. Court was petitioned. The Attorney General promised... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
“Tamil-speaking people, after the defeat of the LTTE, see the Provincial Councils as an adequate sharing of power, given some minor modifications that were acceptable to them at the APRC, within a single unitary state.” LSSP communique issued by Tissa Vitharana, Island January 3, 2021 “I delivered Sri Lankan Tamils more rights than what Tamils in Tamilnad enjoy; That Island is now like Bhutan.” Rajiv Gandhi, boasting at the Chennai airport, returning from Colombo. We need King Pandukabhaya (437 BC-367 BC) in 2021 AD! After, the retired geography... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
The year 2020 ended with the COVID pandemic raging unabated, not just in Sri Lanka but throughout the world and bringing down the world as we all knew it. Economies of countries from the superrich to the very poor have all crumbled and health services are bursting at the seams. Education has been disrupted and so has the functioning of society as we knew it. Confidence in governance models, particularly democratic models is shattering as a consequence of the Trump led attack on the US system. 2021 is heralded amidst challenges perhaps not witnessed during... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ශ්රී ලංකා ප්‍රසව හා නාරිවේදී විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ සංගමයේ 35 වැනි සභාපති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රදීප් ද සිල්වා මහතා එම ධූරයේ පිහිටුවීමේ උත්සවය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.03 සවස පැවැත්විණි. කොළඹ බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලා පරිශ්‍රයේ නෙළුම් ශාලාවේ පැවැති මෙම උත්සව අවස්ථාව ආරම්භ වූයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සම්ප්‍රාප්තිය සමඟිනි. දකුණු ආසියාවේ අඩුම මාතෘ හා ළදරු මරණ අනුපාතයට හිමිකම් කියන රට ශ්රී ලංකාවයි. සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශයේ මෙහෙයවීම යටතේ ශ්රී ලංකා ප්‍රසව හා නාරිවේදී විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරුන්ගේ සංගමය ඒ සඳහා විශිෂ්ට දායකත්වයක් දක්වයි. 35 වැනි විධායක සභාපතිවරයා පත්වීමේ අවස්ථාව ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
රත්මලාන, කොතලාවලපුර සමාධි බෞද්ධ මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ ඉදි කළ රන්වැට සහිත බෝධි ප්‍රාකාරය ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.04 දින විවෘත විය. රත්මලාන, කොතලාවලපුර සමාධි බෞද්ධ මධ්‍යස්ථානාධිපති, මාතර වෙහෙරහේන පූර්වාරාම රාජමහා විහාරාධිවාසී, පූජ්‍ය මාපලගම බුද්ධසිරි නාහිමියන්ගේ අනුශාසනා පරිදි සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ශ්‍රම දායකත්වයෙන් මෙම රන්වැට සහිත බෝධි ප්‍රාකාරය ඉදි කර තිබේ. කටුබැද්ද රාහුල මාවතේ සුසිරි පෙදෙසේ පදිංචි ඩබ්ලිව්.එම් වසන්ත වර්ණසූරිය මහතා සහ ආර්.එම්. ලංකා වර්ණසූරිය මහත්මිය ඇතුළු දෙස් විදෙස් සැදැහැවතුන්ගේ ධන පරිත්‍යාගයන් ඒ සඳහා මුල් වී ඇත. සියම් මහා නිකායේ කොට්ටේ පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක, බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ උපකුලපති, මහාචාර්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 4 (newsin.asia): The Indian External Affairs Minister, Dr. S Jaishankar, will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka from January 5 to 7 at the invitation of the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Dinesh Gunawardena. Dr.Jaishankar will hold discussions with his counterpart and Sri Lanka’s leadership on the entire gamut of bilateral relations, a press release from the Indian External Affairs Ministry said on Monday. This will be the first foreign visit by the Indian Foreign Minister and the first visit to Sri Lanka by a foreign dignitary in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 4: The Sri Lankan State Ministry of Primary Healthcare, Epidemics, and Primary Disease Control has refuted media reports claiming that a committee has been appointed to make recommendations on the issues surrounding the cremation of the remains of Covid victims in Sri Lanka. Issuing a statement, the Ministry said there is no truth to recent reports published on various media that State Minister Sudharshini Fernandopulle had appointed a committee to deliberate if the remains of Covid victims should be cremated or buried. State Minister Fernandopulle has pointed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා මෘත දේහ වැලලීම සඳහා නිර්දේශ දුන් කමිටුව තමන් විසින් පත් කරන ලද්දක් නොවන බව ප්‍රාථමික සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා, වසංගත රෝග සහ කොවිඩ් රෝග පාලනය පිළිබද රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිනි සුදර්ශණී ප්‍රනාන්දු පුල්ලේ මහත්මියගේ මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය සදහන් කරයි. ඒ බව සදහන් කරමින් එම මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද නිවේදනයක් පහතින් දැක්වේ. රජයේ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශකවරයාද මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී පවසන ලද්දේ එක් කමිටුයකින් නිර්දේශ දී තිබියදී දෙවන කමිටුව පත් කලේ කවුදැයි තමන් නොදන්නා බවයි. කොවිඩ් මරණ ආදාහනයද භූමිදානයද යන්න නිර්දේශ කිරීම සදහා රාජ්‍ය ඇමති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සුදර්ශිනී ප්රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ මහත්මිය විසින් විශේෂඥ කමිටුවක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
People will have to live with the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic even this year and therefore, they should be prepared to adapt to the conditions and live adhering to health guidelines, Health Services Director General Dr. Asela Gunawardane said. He said this after paying an inspection tour to the new kidney hospital within the Polonnaruwa General Hospital. "Controlling the virus is very difficult with keeping the country open. But the Government has to spend more than Rs.60 million per day for PCR tests, " Dr. Gunawardane said. To get... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash. Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, believes he’s already found some of that garbage. In his upcoming book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), out Jan. 26, the professor lays out a compelling case for why an object that recently wandered into our solar system was not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director-General of Health Services confirms that Sri Lanka’s fatality count from COVID-19 has risen with 02 more deaths caused by the virus. Two men, both residents of Ratnapura, have succumbed to the virus pushing the COVID-19 death count to 215. A 71-year-old man had passed away at the Ratnapura Teaching Hospital on January 02. The cause of his death has been determined as a respiratory infection caused by COVID-19 and a complication of a lung infection. The other victim is a 86 year old male who had succumbed to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total count of Covid-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 45,242 as more persons were tested positive for the virus. The Department of Government Information said 277 more fresh cases have been detected within the day. Reportedly, 261 of the new cases are close contacts of the Peliyagoda fish market cluster. The remaining 16 cases have been identified from the prison cluster. With the new development, the Minuwangoda-Peliyagoda cluster has registered a total of 41,498 cases to date. According to the Health Ministry’s data, 37,817... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A special operation carried out by Sri Lanka Navy in the seas off Negombo led to the apprehension of 04 suspects with drugs worth over Rs 600 million. The Western Naval Command today (04) intercepted a suspicious multiday fishing trawler off Negombo and apprehended 04 suspects with over 100 kg of Crystal Methamphetamine (ICE) and nearly 80 kg of Hashish being transported aboard. The narcotic substance had been concealed in 09 sacks, as plastic containers and small packets, stated Sri Lanka Navy. The street value of the stock of narcotics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka Customs has seized 7,500 kilograms of turmeric illegally imported into the country under the guise of importing wheat flour. Customs spokesman Sunil Jayaratne said that the stock of turmeric was found inside a container shipped from India on December 20, declared as wheat flour. The container was searched based on information uncovered through investigations carried out by the ‘Risk Management Unit’ of Sri Lanka Customs while a stock of turmeric valued at over Rs 15 million was discovered inside. The turmeric had been imported by a resident of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Senaka Weeraratna
The LLRC Report was tantamount to a Betrayal of the Victory achieved by the Security Forces on the battlefield after a huge sacrifice of life and limb by the heroic soldiers. About 30, 000 personnel from the security forces perished. What was required and anticipated by the informed public from the LLRC were recommendations for 1) ' de - nazification' of the Terrorists and the network of their supporters, 2) scrapping or re - negotiation of the unequal Treaty between India - Sri Lanka which was forcibly imposed on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara
The following map shows the graphic representation of the geomorphological structure of the Island determined by its geological foundation spreading from the center in all directions Morphological map of Sri Lanka Source Sudath Gunasekara 1991. You will see from this map that all the rivers in the Island starting from the Central Highlands flow in between these trend lines. Not only the rivers but also the underground water table also conforms to this morphological foundation. Hence the possibility of whatever virus or germ that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara.
This is an article that should be seriously read, understood, chewed and digested and corrective measures taken immediately by the President, Prime Minister, the entire Cabinet first, and second by all the MPP in Parliament including those supporting burial of Muslim Covid 19 corpses. I think it is better for all who cannot agree with the writer’s discourse should refrain from continuing in politics in this country. Even you, Minister Ali Sabry? Posted on December 31st, 2020 By Rohana R. Wasala A HAPPY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The USA, we are told, has two governments, a visible government and an invisible one. The visible government is the one run by the US President and Congress. But the real power which drives US policy is elsewhere, say analysts. USA’s politics is masterminded by a small financial elite, they added, a kind of cabal, who control just about everything in Washington. They are the invisible government. Many in this elite are Jewish. The coterie includes powerful international bankers. This financial elite virtually runs the United States government. They operate independently of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
No. Not THAT elephant nor the one which turned itself into a telephone. Neither are in the room. The compass is not in the room either and there’s palpable evidence that even the lotus bud has got displaced. That’s if ‘people’ constitute ‘the room.’ These days, the proverbial elephant in the room is the Coronavirus. The room is enormous and constitutes almost the entire landmass of the earth or rather those parts inhabited by humans. Today we are told that the virus is going to hang in there for quite... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
The appointment of Mr Milinda Moragoda as High Commissioner for India met with strong reactions from certain sections of buddhist monks and majority Sinhalese. Naturally, a person who has been looking for fortunes and power by switching his loyalty from UNP to SLFP and then to Pohottuwa ought to face the reality. His current role is a Super role, not only just a High Commissioner, but he carried with him the status of a Cabinet Minister. At a time when several sensitive issues are under review between India and Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/21)
ALI SUKHANVER
Human rights abuses in the Indian Occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir have made the lives of the local people simply a hell. From mass killings to enforced disappearances and from torture and sexual abuse to political repression and from ban on freedom of speech to rape; the tale of miseries never comes to an end there. The helpless people of Indian Occupied Kashmir have to face the cruelties not only of the Indian Army troops deputed there but also of the Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Personnel and various personnel of the Indian intelligence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/21)
By Frances Bulathsinghala/Sunday Observer
Professionals from diverse streams of specialisations in the country, seek an opportunity for traditional physicians to treat Covid-19 patients so that it could be ascertained if we need to spend billions of dollars to import a vaccine. These professionals argue that Sri Lankans should not underestimate the vast knowledge and skills of its thousands of indigenous medicine physicians who have already cured the people with Covid-19 symptoms, who had sought their treatments. They said that some traditional physicians have also cured Sri Lankan Covid-19 patients living abroad by sending their medicines through... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/21)
Courtesy Prensa Latina
Colombo, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) The foreign minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Dinesh Gunawardena, congratulated the Cuban Government and people on the 62nd anniversary of the Revolution, a diplomatic source said on Sunday.Cuban Ambassador Juana Elena Ramos met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, who noted the victories and achievements of the Cuban people, as well as the historic relations between the two countries, characterized by friendship, mutual trust and good will. Gunawardena noted that Sri Lanka will continue to support Cuba in its struggle against the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic went up with two more deaths caused by the virus being reported, the Department of Government Information stated. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed that two females aged 57 and 76 years have succumbed to the virus in this manner. The 57-year-old woman had succumbed to a severe chest infection and COVID-19 pneumonia. The Welipenna resident had been transferred from the Kalutara General Hospital to the Homagama Base Hospital where she passed away today (January 03). The 76-year-old woman too had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total count of Covid-19 cases reported in Sri Lanka reached 44,774 as 188 more persons were tested positive for the virus. The Department of Government Information said 403 fresh cases have been detected within the day. According to the Health Ministry’s data, 37,252 of the confirmed patients have made complete recoveries from the virus. However, 7,311 active cases are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers located across the island. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has witnessed 211 deaths from the virus so far.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/21)
Vinod Kumar Menon | Mumbai Courtesy mid-day.com
They say the use of polythene sheets/body bags for burial of bodies of COVID-19 victims and sodium hypochlorite to spray them, could impact the environment; point the need for analysis of the same WHO guidelines emphasise usage of cloth for burial without using any chemical sprayed as disinfectant Research scientist and health experts including environmentalists are concerned about the usage of sodium hypochlorite on polythene sheets/body bags and dead bodies of covid 19 victims, before wrapping them for burial, as these plastic bags and chemical may have adverse... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
Austin Fernando
I refer to the article written by Mr. C Wijeyawickrema (CW) in Lankaweb, in response to my article that appeared in the Island newspaper on the last Xmas Day. CW says that he had two purposes in responding; one, to reply to the contents of my article; and second, to give an alternative proposal for consideration of the Romesh de Silva Committee. The second objective is personal to the writer and the Committee and I have no comments on it. Since I have had no deals with Chandrika- GL- Neelan and Jayampathy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
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https://youtu.be/xgzXctRb4l8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
United States rose to prominence after World War II. USA and Russia thereafter fought a Cold War which neither won. When the Cold War with Russia ended abruptly in 1991 USA became the world’s sole super-power. Throughout the 1990s, the USA reigned supreme. USA had the best army, air force and navy. No other country could rival it. USA became a global policeman. ‘American leadership is good for the world’ recorded TIME. USA divided up the globe into different military ‘combatant commands’, such as the Pacific command with each Command... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
The Centurian Park was famous for fast bowling attack. Yet Wanindu Hasaranga of Sri Lanka grabbed 4 wickets at 3.80 economy rate. The absence of a second front line spinner was clearly the weakness of Sri Lankan cricket team. The South Africans are more acclimatized for fast bowling, their key spinner Maharaj is yet to make a mark. The Wanderers was famous for fast bowling. But in order to exploit the weaknesses of SA batsman, Sri Lanka need to field a strong spin attack. Hence my choice: Batters:DIMUTH KARUNARATNE (c)BINOE BHANUKADINESH... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
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Russia assured Sri Lanka that it is ready to share all the necessary scientific data on Sputnik V vaccine developments and agreed to hold a series of further discussions to ensure the Sri Lankan party possesses the full spectrum of information, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said. The Sri Lankan Embassy facilitated an online meeting between the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health of Russia and the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Ministry of Health of Russia. The statement said,“in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
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The Director General of Health Services has confirmed three more coronavirus related deaths increasing the tally of fatalities in the country due to the virus to 211. One of the victims is a 93-year-old woman from Colombo 13 who had passed away at her home on December 30, 2020. The cause of death is cited as multiple complications caused by Covid-19 infection. The Government Information Department reports that the second deceased is a male around 70 - 80 of age whose identity has not been verified. He was found in Maradana police... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
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The Ministry of Health says that another 191 persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus. All new cases are close contacts of Covid-19 patients from the Peliyagoda cluster. This brings the total number of new cases reported so far today to 502. Meanwhile the tally of cases from the Minuwangoda, Peliyagoda and prisons clusters has increased to 40,628.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
The controversy associated with covid-19 remains unanswered. We still don’t know how it came and the root cause for its spread. But we do know that over 1.78million are dead. It’s a shocking number. We also know that covid makes no differentiation nor does it favor any race, religion, nationality or continent. Covid doesn’t care if one is rich or poor and definitely no one can bribe it. We also know that the world health body is just as confused as the rest of the world as evidenced by the plethora of contradictory statements issued since the outbeak. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
People in Sri Lanka as well as in the world got an excellent message from Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith for the new year 2021 that nobody has been expected from a religious leader in the country at the religious controversy current environment that Buddhism is being a great blessing upon Sri Lanka. Rev.Malcolm Ranjith has been playing a great role for the Christian Churches in Sri Lanka that the recognition of other religions than his religion as a great blessing upon the country. The altercation of religions began in Sri Lanka after the European... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
දෙදහස් විසි එක නව වසර උදාව නිමිත්තෙන් ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කතරගම පුදබිම කේන්ද්‍රකරගත් ආගමික වතාවත්වල නිරත වූයේ ය. දෙසැම්බර් 31 වැනිදා සන්ධ්‍යාවේ කතරගම කිරි වෙහෙර වැඳ පුදාගත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, අනතුරුව රුහුණු මාගම් පත්තුවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක කිරිවෙහෙර විහාරාධිපති ආචාර්ය කොබවක ධම්මින්ද නාහිමියන් බැහැ දැක උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. රටේ ජනතාවටත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ඇතුළු පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන්ටත් නව වසර උදාව වෙනුවෙන් ආචාර්ය කොබවක ධම්මින්ද නාහිමි ඇතුළු මහා සංඝරත්නය මෙහිදී ආශිර්වාද එක් කළහ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කතරගම අෂ්ටඵල බෝධිය වැද පුදා ගත්තේ ඉන් පසුවය. එහි ආගමික වතාවත්වලින් අනතුරුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කතරගම අභිනවාරාම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
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This is a complete guide to the Biography of Ashoka. In this guide, you will know why King Ashoka killed his 99 brothers and became a Great Indian King in History. So if you want to know about how he became a Great Indian King, you’ll love today’s guide. http://www.glorylearn.com/biography-of-ashoka/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම Colombo Today
කොරෝනා වෛරසය හේතුවෙන් මිය යන පුද්ගලයින්ගේ සිරුරු භූමිදානය කිරීම හේතුවෙන් එම වෛරසය සුළු වශයෙන් භූගත ජලයට එකතුවීමේ අවධානමක් තිබෙන බවත් වෛරසයෙන් මියයන මුස්ලිම් ජාතිකයන්ගේ දේහයන් භූමිදානය කිරීමට ලබා දීම එතරම් ගැටළුවක් නොවන බවටත් වෛරස පිලිබඳ මහාචාර්යවරුන්ගෙ කමිටුව විසින් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරියට නිර්දේශ කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙනවා. භූමිදානය ද ආදාහනය ද යන ප්රශ්නය පැනනැගුනු විට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරිය විසින් පත්කළ විද්වත් කමිටුව සහ වෛරස පිලිබඳ මහාචාර්යවරුන්ගෙන් සමන්විත කමිටුව අතර රැස්වීමක් ඊයේ (31) පවත්වා ඇති අතර භූගත ජලයට වෛරසය එකතුවීමේ අවධානමක් පැවතියද භුමිදනයට අවසර දෙන ලෙස වෛරස පිළිබඳව මහාචාර්යවරුන්ගේ කමිටුව නිර්දේශ කිරීම එහිදී ප්‍රශ්නයට ලක්වී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා ආසාදිතව මියයන පුද්ගලයන්ගේ මෘත දේහයන් සඳහා අවසන් කටයුතු සිදු කරන ආකාරය ගැන මාර්ගෝපදේශ මාලාවක් මේ දිනවල සකස් කරමින් පවති බවත් සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් වෛද්‍ය හේමන්ත හේරත් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. https://youtu.be/ZxJFTX_eRgs කොරෝනා මාත දේහ අවසන් කටයුතු සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශේෂඥ කමිටුව ගත් තීරණයක් මෙතෙක් ලැබී නැතැයි ද ඔහු පැවසීය. විශේෂඥ කමිටුවේ මතය අනුව ගන්නා ලද තීරණය සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා විසින් ඔහුගේ අත්සනින් චක්‍රලේඛයක් ලෙස නිකුත් කරනු ඇති බවද ඒ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. අවම හානියකින් යුතුව මෙම කටයුත්ත සිදු කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය කරන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The government will take a final decision on the most suitable vaccine to be administered on Sri Lankans early next week based on an expert report handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the senior advisor to President Lalith Weeratunga, Primary Health Services, Pandemics and Covid 19 Prevention State Minister Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle said yesterday. The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine produced at Bloomington in Indiana in the US, Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 Vaccine jointly produced by the two US and German pharmaceutical companies, the Oxford-astrazeneca vaccine from the UK and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The College of Forensic Pathologists of Sri Lanka (CFPSL) condemned the unduly interfering into the independent death management process by the Justice Minister Ali Sabri. While issuing a media release the CFPSL President Dr. Asela Mendis said the independent death management process was carried out by the Judicial Medical Officers. He said in the satement that the recent incident of threatening attitude towards the chairperson of the technical committee on "disposal of the COVID 19 infected bodies" is vehemently condemned.. However, the proposal was approved by the council of the CFPSL... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Deaths of four more persons who were infected with Covid-19 virus have been confirmed today (January 01), says the Director-General of Health Services. Thereby, Sri Lanka’s death toll from the virus now stands at 208, the Department of Government Information stated. One of the victims was identified as a 67-year-old man who was residing in Alayadivembu area. He had been transferred from Welikanda Base Hospital to National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) where he passed away today. The cause of death was determined as Covid-19 pneumonia. Another man, a resident... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 237 more persons were tested positive for the virus. According to the Department of Government Information, 235 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. The remaining two are arrivals from the United Arab Emirates and Italy. In all, the country has registered 557 new positive cases within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed in the country to date now stands at 43,856. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
A major reason for the economic downturn of Sri Lanka could be considered as the variation of foreign exchange reserves, and no government since 1948 has been explained the issue to the public, despite the policymakers widely talking about foreign exchange earnings and shortages. The public in Sri Lanka has no understanding of why the country needs a stable volume of foreign reserves, and what are issues associated with the up and down variation of foreign reserves of the country. The public needs to educate and motivate to encourage to make a voice to increase... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
In the 20th century, many developed countries considered establishing SOVERIGN WEALTH FUNDS and policy advisors of Sri Lanka with the strong hope of Mannar basin oil deposits advised the government to start Sovereign Wealth Fund, but the government is still talking Mannar basin oil deposits rather than realizing the oil and gas productions. The reality of Gas and oil production is that less than 15% of revenue could be generated from oil and gas fields in developing countries where oil and gas deposits are having, and if Sri Lanka’s Mannar basin would be successful only... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Courtesy Science Daily
The response to the global pandemic has focused upon preventing person-to-person transmission, however, experts now believe the virus could also be spread in wastewater. Earlier this week, it emerged that analysis of sewage in the UK could provide important data on the spread of COVID-19. However, Professor Richard Quilliam's new paper -- published May 6 -- now warns that the sewerage system itself could pose a transmission risk. Writing in the journal Environment International, Professor Quilliam and colleagues from Stirling's Faculty of Natural Sciences are calling for "an investment of resources" to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
A HAPPY PEACEFUL PROSPEROUS HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO ALL LANKAWEB READERS INCLUDING THOSE WHO HOLD CONTRARY VIEWS TO MINE! Media secretary Viraj Abeysinghe of the Ministry of Health has issued a press statement warning against spreading false information concocted by certain politicians and websites regarding the subject of whether to bury or burn the bodies of persons who have succumbed to the COVID-19 infection (lankacnews-Sinhala/December 28, 2020). It notifies that the Ministry is turning its attention to some ‘politically motivated fake news’ stories featuring powerful politicians connected with the government. The statement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Stanley Gunaratne
There has been recent noise to perpetuate Provincial Councils by various politicians - including within the government ranks. What of the PEOPLE'S VIEW? These useless politicians are as clumsy as they are incompetent and treasonous - the whole lot of them. To have come up with this ridiculous proposal to hold Provincial Council elections during a pandemic, at a time of economic stress and during public submissions for a new constitution and public calls for these parasitic things to be abolished shows complete disdain for the people. This is a farce... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
by Senaka Weeraratna
The making of Sri Lanka's Constitution from the time of the Soulbury Commission (1944) has been an exercise that had completely ignored the Dharmic religious background and civilizational history of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a nation state but is also an unique civilizational state with a set of Dharmic values the nature of which was completely overlooked by the framers of all the National Constitutions from the time of the first (Soulbury) Constitution. The same thing happened in India, more or less. In Sri Lanka, the making of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
New Year is a hopeful time for all of us, as we bid farewell to 2020, we must welcome the new year with renewed strength and determination. We are filled with gratitude for the unfaltering support the Sri Lankan people have instilled in our government to create an inclusive, and safe Sri Lanka for all. During the short tenure of our government, we take great pride in being able to recommence solving public grievances, and working towards the betterment of our community. After... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය
සෞභාග්‍යයේ බලාපොරොත්තු පිබිදෙන 2021 නව වසරට සුභාශිංසන පළ කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. සුරක්ෂිත දේශයක් වෙනුවෙන් අපගේ මාතෘභූමියේ අනාගතය උදෙසා ජනතාව අප කෙරෙහි තැබූ විශ්වාසය සහෘදව සිහිපත් කරමු. නව රජයේ මේ දක්වා ගෙවී ගිය කාලය ඉතා කෙටි වුවද එම කාලය ජනතාවගේ අභිලාශයන් වෙනුවෙන් යෙදවීමට හැකිවීම අභිමානයකි. වසර පහක කාලයක් ඇණහිට තිබූ රටේ මානව හා භෞතික සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සඳහා නැවත පණ දීමට අපට හැකිවිය. මැදහත්ව ඒ දෙස බලා ජනතාවට සතුටු විය හැකිය. ලොව අන් සියලු රටවල් මෙන්ම කොවිඩ්-19 වයිරසයේ අභියෝගයට අප ද මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටියි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
ඒ.ජේ.එම්.මුසම්මිල් ඌව පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර
නව වසර යනු අප ජීවන රටාව තුළ මුහුණ පෑමට සිදු වූ ජය පරාජය හා අඩු ලුහුඩුකම් දෙස නැවත හැරී බැලීමට අවශ්‍යය මොහොතකි. පිරිසිදු චේතනාවන් මුසු අවංක කැප කිරීම් කිරීමෙන් කළ නොහැක්කක් නොමැති බව ලොවටම සපථ කළ ජාතියක් ලෙස අපගේ යුතුකම් නොපිරිහෙලා ඉටු කිරීම අපගේ වගකීමකි. සිංහල, දෙමළ, මුස්ලිම්, මැලේ, බර්ගර් යන සියලු ජාතීන්ට අයත් ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් ලෙස තම තමන්ගේ අනන්‍යතාව ආරක්ෂා කර ගනිමින් සුහදව ජීවත් වීම සදහා අප විසින් නිර්මාණය කළ පසුබිම තවදුරටත් සුරක්ෂිත කළ යුතුය. ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ නිල්දිය රැලි මත දිදුලන සියල් සපිරි සුපහන් දේශයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම සදහා විනයගරුක පිරිසක් ලෙස පෙරටම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, December 31: One of the most attractive landmarks in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, is the Galle Face Green, a 5-hectare open sea-side field with a promenade running along the water’s edge. Flanked by the colonial-era Galle Face Hotel, built in 1864, in the south, and the more recently put up Kingsbury Hotel and the up and coming Colombo Port City in the north, Galle Face Green is in every sense a part of busy downtown Colombo. And yet, it is serves as a retreat, offering office-goers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, December 31: The coronavirus pandemic, which began in March and is still on, made 2020 a very stressful year for Sri Lankans of all classes, particularly the poor and the lower middle classes. The pandemic directly stalled economic development because of lockdowns, curfews and movement restrictions. It indirectly disrupted communal harmony when the government banned the burial of the COVID dead – a prohibition which hurt the Muslim minority for whom cremating the dead is “haram” – a religious taboo. The country is now seeing demonstrations for and against burial. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/01/21)
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