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News Archive for Jan 2022
160 MW of power added to national grid from Norochcholai and No scheduled power outages until further notice - PUCSLThe Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) says the third generator at the Lakvijaya Power Plant in Norochcholai has been repaired after it broke down last month. Accordingly, 160 MW of electricity has been added to the national grid. This generator, which adds 300 MW of electricity in total to the national grid, experienced a sudden malfunction in early December, 2021. Following the breakdown, the Kelanitissa power plant had been supplying 300 MW of electricity to the national grid, in lieu of the 3rd generator at the Lakvijaya power plant. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/22)
Daily COVID cases surpass 1,000 for second consecutive day and death toll moves up with 21 new fatalities
The Ministry of Health says that another 1,082 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 31). This figure includes 06 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 611,185. With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 17,312. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,441. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 21 new coronavirus-related deaths for January 30, increasing the death toll in the country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/01/22)
Proposal to set up an International Memorial Museum on Colonial crimes in Sri Lanka at the old Bogambara Prison site; Kandy.
In memory of the brave Kandyan Sinhale patriots who sacrificed, their lives in battles against three European Invaders, Portuguese, Dutch and English from (1505 to 1948) to save the Motherland and the Sinhala nation. (By this essay I propose to the Government of Sri Lanka to set up an International Museum on Colonial crimes from (1505-1948) in Kandy, at the old Bogamabara Prison site, in memory of the brave Kandyan Sinhale patriots who sacrificed their lives in battle against three barbaric and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
SHOULD PRESIDENT’S TERM BE EXTENDED BY TWO YEARS?
It is widely published the view expressed by Ms Diana Gamage in the parliament that the term of the president should be extended by two years and the reason for this change as pointed by Ms Gamage was the COVID-19 pandemic that has been limited the ability of president working to people. This is a critical constitutional issue and I do not know whether there is a constitutional provision to extend the period of the president. The reason given by Ms Gamage is shown as a valid point. It is a critical point for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
No strings attached to Sino-Lanka ties – Lankan envoy in China
Colombo, January 30: fSri Lanka’s Ambassador to China Dr. Palitha Kohona in an interview with the Sunday Observer explains where the ‘strong and warm’ bi-lateral relations between Sri Lanka and China are heading in the future, on the eve of 65th anniversary of establishing Sino-Lanka diplomatic relations. Dr. Kohona said Sri Lanka’s territorial integrity has not been a bargaining chip on the table for Chinese development assistance. Q: This year marks 65 years of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and China and the 70th anniversary of signing the China –... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
The Heir of Yahapalana Govt’s Failed Agenda
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa’s response to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s opening statement of the second session of the ninth Parliament was thought provoking. Leaving aside his need to portray the Government as a failure, one must pay attention to the remarks he made vis-a-vis the military. That he makes his references to the military in his opening remarks itself makes this exercise important. The Opposition Leader notes that national security in its broad sense includes many aspects. The first element he declares is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
BUSINESSDhammika’s seven-pronged strategy to overcome SL’s foreign exchange crisis
Mr. Dhammika Perera, the controlling shareholder of the Hayleys group and a multitude of other listed companies who is widely speculated to be the country’s wealthiest individual, has proposed a seven-pronged strategy to overcome Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange crisis in a wide-ranging interview with the Irida Divayina Sangrahaya. In terms of market value of his quoted share portfolio he will be among the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest in the country, analysts say. He is also on record claiming he’s the biggest taxpayer here but it is unclear whether this is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
TN police on high alert over probable regrouping of LTTE
The Central agencies and the elite 'Q' branch of the Tamil Nadu police are on high alert after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) used the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against three people in a fake passport case which was registered in the state in October 2021 by the 'Q branch. The NIA registered the case after intelligence inputs regarding former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) trying to raise funds to support the activities of the now-defunct movement in Tamil Nadu, the PTI reported. A few... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
Over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases were detected in Sri Lanka and confirm another 20 coronavirus deaths
The Health Ministry says another 1,056 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (30), as the country’s daily count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed 1,000 once again after four months. Out of the 1,054 persons to test positive for the virus today, two individuals had arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community infections. This is the first time that the daily count of new Covid-19 cases in the country has exceeded 1,000 since the end of September last year. Meanwhile the tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
Samagi Agrarian manifesto released today (Video)
The 'Samagi Govijana Prakashanaya' of the Samagi Jana Balawega was launched in Polonnaruwa this morning (29). It is headed by the Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa. https://youtu.be/pI8fKzQh0cM The launching ceremony of the Samagi Jana Balawega's Samagi Govijana Manifesto commenced this morning near the Parakrama Samudra in Polonnaruwa. The event was inaugurated by the Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and was attended by a number of party parliamentarians and activists.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
අනාගත කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය පිළිබඳව සමගි ජනබලවේගයේ දැක්ම
පොහොර තහනම් කොට ගොවිජනතාව මහා ව්යසනයකට ඇද දැමූ ආණ්ඩුව,ඒ ගොවි ජනතාව අසීරුවෙන් ගොවිතැන් කොට අස්වැන්න නෙළා ගන්නට සූදානම් වන විට චීනෙන් සහ ඉන්දියාවෙන් සහල් ගෙන්වීමට කටයුතු කොට ඇතැයි ද විපක්ෂ නායකතුමා පැවසීය. අනාගත කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය පිළිබඳව සමගි ජනබලවේගයේ දැක්ම, ප්රතිපත්තිය සහ වැඩ පිළිවෙල ඇතුලත් ” සමගි ගොවිජන ප්රකාශනය” දේශයට දායාද කිරීමේ අවස්ථාව (29) පොළොන්නරුව පරාක්රම සමූද්රය ඉදිරිපිට දී පැවැත්විණි. එ විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙනි. ඊනියා පොහොර තහනමක් මගින් මේ රටේ සරු බිම් මුඩුබිම් බවට පත් කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්රණයක් අතට ගත් ආණ්ඩුව තමන්ගේ ගජමිතුරුන්ට සහ සුවච කීකරු ගෝලයින්ට කෝටි ප්රකෝටි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
සාමාන්යය සංවර්ධන වැඩවලට එහා ගොස් ආර්ථික වශයෙන් පවුලක් ශක්තිමත් කරන්න විශාල යෝජනා ප්රමාණයක් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් නිර්මාණය කර තිබෙනවා
රටේ තියෙන ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නත් එක්ක, කොහොමද මේ රටේ ඉන්න ජනතාව ආර්ථික වශයෙන් සවිබල ගන්වන්නේ කියන කාරණාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුව වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කර තිබෙනවා. සාමාන්යය සංවර්ධන වැඩවලට එහා ගොස් ආර්ථික වශයෙන් පවුලක් ශක්තිමත් කරන්න විශාල යෝජනා ප්රමාණයක් ආණ්ඩුව විසින් නිර්මාණය කර තිබෙනවා යැයි රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා පැවසීය. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ මිහින්තලය ප්රාදේශීය සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා සැළසුම් කමිටු රැස්වීම සූර්ය බල සුළං හා ජල විදුලි ජනන සංවර්ධන රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සභාපතීත්වයෙන් මිහින්තලය ප්රාදේශීය සභා ශ්රවණාගාරයේදී ඊයේ (28) පැවැත්විණි. එහිදී මිහින්තලය ප්රාදේශිය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ පවතින රාජ්යය ආයතන මගින් ක්රියාත්මක කළ සංවර්ධන ක්රියාවලියේ පසුගිය ප්රගතිය හා ඉදිරියේදී ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිත සංවර්ධන යෝජනා සම්බන්ධයෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
Travel With Chatura | රුවන්වැලි මහා සෑය Ruwanweliseya Stupa
Ruwanweliseya Stupa (Ruwanveli Seya Stupa), the foremost of the supremely glorious ancient living monuments of Sinhalese Buddhist Heritage at the city of Anuradhapura . The new Crest Gem placed atop the historic Ruwanweli Maha Seya was unveiled recently. The unveiling ceremony of the Crest Gem was attended by the Mahanayake Thera of the Malwatte Chapter Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Maha Nayake Thera. The replacement of the old Crest Gem, the Pinnacle of the Maha Seya is being gold plated. Both the Crest Gem and the Pinnacle are more than 80 years old. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
NIA to probe arrest of Lankan woman with fake passport
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over investigation of the case involving the arrest of a Sri Lankan woman with a fake Indian passport, in Chennai. CHENNAI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over investigation of the case involving the arrest of a Sri Lankan woman with a fake Indian passport, in Chennai. The officers are also looking into four others who have alleged ties with LTTE and possible funding to expand the activities of Tamil Tigers. The five suspects... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
Sri Lanka seizes 16 tonnes of illicit beetroot shipment amid food shortages
Beetroots are contraband, according to a Customs official. Sri Lanka is battling food shortages, but officials have seized a 16-tonne shipment of beetroots for violating a strict import ban aimed at propping up the island's ailing economy. A shipping container full of the illicit vegetable arrived with a false manifest claiming they were potatoes, which are not subject to the restrictions, customs spokesman Sudaththa Silva told AFP on Saturday. "Beetroots are contraband," he said. "We seized the cargo which came from Pakistan yesterday and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/01/22)
Sri Lanka reports 982 new cases of Covid-19 and another 14 coronavirus related deaths
The Health Ministry says that 982 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in the country today (29). This includes 05 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community infections. This is the fourth consecutive day that the daily count of new cases has surpassed the 900 mark. Meanwhile the tally of Covid-19 positive cases registered in Sri Lanka thus far increases to 609,047 with this. he Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 14 coronavirus related deaths for January 28,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/22)
“The Three Fuels miracle” the only solution to the energy crisis in Sri Lanka and to keep Sri Lanka alight, even if the whole world that depends of fossil fuel, goes dark after 2050. Part 11 With revised Proposals
(මඟ හොඳට තිබේනම් යන්ට දෑසත් පෙනේනම් කිම බැදිවල යන්නේ මන්මුලාවු එකකු සේ සින්හලයකුගේ කියමනක්) Sri Lanka is geographically located almost right at the center of the globe (bet 5-10 degrees N of equator and 80-82 degrees E) and at the middle of the tropics. It is also blessed with the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, the third biggest body of water in the world covering 1/5th of the total ocean area of the world right round it extending 7000 miles from N-S and 4900 miles from W-E, East Africa to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/22)
දේශීය ඉලක්ක ජයගැනීමේ වගකීම වැඩිහිටි පරම්පරාව විසිනුත් ගෝලීය අභියෝග ජයගැනීමේ වගකීම ළමා මෙන්ම තරුණ පරපුර විසිනුත් දැරීමට අද සිටම අදිටන් කරගත යුතුයි. -අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා -
‘2022 එඩින්බරෝ ආදිපාද ජාත්යන්තර තිළිණ ප්රදානෝත්සවයේ ප්රධාන ආරධිතයා ලෙස සහභාගීවෙමින් තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශයේ ඩන්කන්වයිට් ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී පසුගිය (26) වනදා අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. මෙම වැඩසටහන තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශයේ අධීක්ෂණය යටතේ ජාතික තරුණ සේවා සභාව විසින් සංවිධානය කෙරිණි. වර්තමානය වන විට මෙම එඩින්බරෝ ආදිපාද ජාත්යන්තර තිළිණ වැඩසටහන සඳහා ලෝකයේ රටවල් 130කට අධික සංඛ්යාවක් සම්බන්ධ වී සිටියි. අවුරුදු 13-24 වයස් කාණ්ඩයේ තරුණ තරුණියන් මිලියන 1.3 කට අධික සංඛ්යාවක් මෙහි සමාජිකත්වය ලබාගෙන ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ද මෙම වයස් කාණ්ඩයට අදාළව 40000... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/22)
ඩිජිටල්කරණය තුළින් ඔබ්බට ගොස් Data Culture එකක් එහෙම නැත්නම් Eco System එකක් සෑදීම අපි ශ්රී ලංකා රේගුවෙන් ආරම්භ කරමු.-අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා -
ලෝක රේගු සංවිධානය විසින් ප්රකාශයට පත්කළ “දත්ත සංස්කෘතික පරිසරයක ඩිජිටල්ගත රේගු ක්රමවේදයක් තුළින් නව ප්රගමනයකට” යන මෙවර තේමාව රැගත් ජාත්යන්තර රේගු දිනය සැමරීමේ උත්සව අවස්ථාවට සහභාගීවෙමින් පසුගිය (26) වනදා ශ්රී ලංකා රේගුවේ ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේ පිහිටි ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. ජාත්යන්තර රේගු ප්රමිතීන්ට නිසි පිළිගැනීම ලබාදෙමින් නීත්යානුකූල වෙළඳාම උදෙසා පහසුකම් සපයන්නෙකු ලෙසත් ශ්රී ලංකා ආර්ථිකය වෙනුවෙන් ආදායම ජනනය කරන්නෙකු ලෙසත් නීතිය නිසි පරිදි ක්රියාවට නංවන්නෙකු ලෙසත් සමාජ සුබ සාධනය, සමාජ ආරක්ෂණය සලසන්නෙකු ලෙසත් ශ්රී ලංකා රේගු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව රාජ්ය ආයතන අතර වසර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/01/22)
තවත් ණයක් ගන්න බැසිල් සැරසෙයි (වීඩියෝ)
පවතින ආර්ථික ගැටලුවලට විසඳුම් සෙවීම සඳහා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල සමග වැඩපිළිවෙලකට යාමට රජය සාකච්ඡා කරමින් සිටින බව මුදල් අමාත්ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. https://youtu.be/f7cPfR-jE20 ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ ලන්ඩන්හි ෆයිනෑන්ෂල් ටයිම්ස් සඟරාව සමග පැවති සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවකදීයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වත්මන් ආර්ථික තත්ත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ෆයිනෑන්ෂල් ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පත මුදල් අමාත්ය බැසිල් රාපපක්ෂ සමග සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වා තිබුණා. ශ්රී ලංකාවට මේ වසරේ ඩොලර් බිලියන 6.9ක ණය ගෙවීම ඉතා දුෂ්කර බවත් ඖෂධ, අමුද්රව්ය, ඉන්ධන ඇතුළු සියල්ල සඳහා මුදල් සොයාගැනීමට සිදුවන බවයි මුදල් අමාත්යවරයා එහිදී ප්රකාශ කර තිබුණේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Discussion within govt on approaching IMF over financial crisis
https://youtu.be/xV0erSFFGHk Sri Lanka is negotiating debt relief with international bondholders and is weighing an approach to the IMF, as the country struggles with a foreign reserve crisis that has left it close to default, the Financial Times reported. Basil Rajapaksa, finance minister, told the Financial Times in an interview that the government was “negotiating with everybody” and “trying all our options” to avoid default and alleviate the economic crisis. “We have [international sovereign bonds] which we have to repay back, so we are negotiating with them. Then we... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Customs seize illegally imported beetroot hidden inside two containers
Sri Lanka Customs has detected 16,000 kilograms of illegally imported beetroot concealed inside a shipment of potatoes that had arrived from Pakistan. Customs officers at the Gray Line 2 container inspection yard under the Central Cargo Examination Division of Sri Lanka Customs today inspected two suspicious refrigerated containers imported into Sri Lanka from Pakistan. The two containers were ordered by a company based in Wattala from a company in India. The contents of the containers were declared to Sri Lanka Customs as 53,000 kilograms of potatoes. However, during the examination... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Omicron now 95% of COVID-19 infections in Sri Lanka
Laboratory tests prove that 95% of the Covid-19 positive cases reported in Sri Lanka are infected with the Omicron variant, the Director of the Health Promotion Bureau Dr. Ranjith Batuwanthudawa said. https://youtu.be/JbZcxrzdurk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Coronavirus: 961 new cases detected and reports another 17 coronavirus deaths in Sri Lanka
The Ministry of Health says that another 961 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 in the country today (28). This figure includes 04 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community cases. This is the third consecutive day that the daily count of new cases has surpassed the 900 mark. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases registered in Sri Lanka thus far to 608,065. 15,365 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment across the island. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Please, no more sanctions on Bangladesh’s RAB
A total of 12 human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have written to the UN calling for the removal of RAB from UN peacekeeping missions. In December, the United States imposed sanctions on the Bangladesh Police Special Forces Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and a total of six former and current officers for alleged involvement in "grave human rights abuses." Twelve international non-governmental organizations have recently written a letter to the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations peacekeeping mission. Different types of propaganda and speculation are going to be noticed here. They... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
ගෘහස්ථ ශ්රමිකයා ගැන ; ආණ්ඩුවට ගාණක් නෑ ! - විපක්ෂයටත් මතක් වෙන්නේ ඡන්ද කාලෙට විතර ද?
"සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම" ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශය ඔස්සේ සමස්ත සමාජය ම සෞභාග්ය කරා කැන්දාගෙන යනවා යැයි එදා මැතිවරණ වේදිකාවල පාරම් බෑ ජනාධිපතිවරයාත් වතමන් ආණ්ඩුවත් මේ වන විට ජනතාවට උදා කර ඇති සෞභාග්යයේ තරම අමුතුවෙන් කීමට අවශ්යය නොවේ. මේ වන විට, ගෘහස්ථ ශ්රමිකයන් ඇතුළු එදිනෙදා දිවි ගැටගසා ගන්නා අවිධිමත් අංශයේ කම්කරුවන් ආර්ථිකමය අතින් බිත්තියට ම හේත්තු කරන්න තරම් ඒ වැඩ පිළිවෙල ෆේල් කියලා දැන් ඔප්පු වෙලා. කොහොම නමුත්, ආණ්ඩුවටවත් ජනාධිපතිවරයාටවත් සිය ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශය තුළවත් ගෘහස්ථ ශ්රමිකයන්ට ඉඩ වෙන් කරන්න බැරි වීම ම "ගෘහස්ථ ශ්රමිකයා" ආණ්ඩුව විසින් හිතාමතා ම නොසලකා හරිනවා කියන්න නිදසුනක්. ඒ නොසලකා හැරීමේ ප්රතිපලය; අද ගෘහස්ථ ශ්රමිකයා එදිනෙදා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Fake passports puts NIA on alert as Tamil Nadu police probe reveals LTTE connection
Three arrests in Tamil Nadu in October 2021 over fake passports have drawn the NIA into the investigation. TN Police revealed that LTTE cadres are behind the fake passport racket. Three arrests in Tamil Nadu over fake passports in October 2021 has put the NIA on alert. (Representative image) Three arrests in Tamil Nadu over fake passports in October 2021 have put central agencies, including the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on alert. An investigation by Tamil Nadu police revealed the involvement of active Liberation Tigers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Case for a United Indian Subcontinent
The prevailing political climate may militate against such an idea, but here I make a case for a united Indian subcontinent. It may appear naïve to make such a case when polarization, identity-based violence, threats of war are looming large the world over. This is a futuristic outlook, but it is not new. The case has been made multiple times since the partition of the subcontinent, and certainly, all the cases are not motivated by political or identity or majoritarian motives. Mahatma Gandhi certainly comes to mind in this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
GT Investigates: Rumors behind ‘China debt trap’: How Western and Indian conspiracists smear China-Sri Lanka cooperation
Photo taken on Jan. 10, 2022 shows tourists viewing the scenery at the Marina in Colombo's Port City, Sri Lanka. (Photo: Xinhua) After Sri Lanka declared an economic emergency and asked China for help at the beginning of the year, some Western and Indian conspiracists once again went on a bashing spree against China and its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By maliciously tying Sri Lanka's recent financial distress to the Chinese investment in the country, they got busy hyping... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Ling Rinpoche, reincarnation of the teacher of Dalai Lama reaches Sri Lanka
Ling Rinpoche, reincarnation of the teacher of Dalai Lama reaches Sri Lanka Read more At: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/ling-rinpoche-reincarnation-of-the-teacher-of-dalai-lama-reaches-sri-lanka20220127210819/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Sri Lanka’s foreign debt crisis leads to shortages in basic necessities
For Sri Lanka, imports are increasingly expensive. China and India have granted lines of credit, but analysts note that they are short-term solutions. Due to the inability to buy fuel, the government announced daily power cuts. Colombo (AsiaNews) – In addition to a growing debt crisis and a shortage of foreign currency due to steadily dwindling reserves, Sri Lanka is also facing a serious shortage in basic necessities including food, medicines, gas and fuel. Soaring food prices are making life harder for a majority of Sri Lankans. As... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
New guidelines issued for travellers arriving in Sri Lanka
The Director-General of Health Services today (January 27) issued new guidelines for travellers arriving in Sri Lanka from overseas during the pandemic of Covid-19. As per the guidelines, foreign national passport holders who do not possess a valid visa must obtain a landing permit/visa from the Department of Immigration & Emigration prior to their departure from overseas. In addition, they are required to have travel insurance of at least USD 50,000 including cover for hospitalized treatment for Covid-19 infection. The guidelines specified that the period of stay in Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Daily Covid-19 cases tally crosses 900 for second straight day and record 23 new deaths from Covid-19
The Ministry of Health says that another 942 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 27). This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 607,104. With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 14,705. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,369. This is the second consecutive day Sri Lanka recorded more than 900 daily cases of Covid-19 in about four months. Over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/01/22)
Mercilessly Assaulted Suranga Lakmal Awaits Justice
Early last Christmas morning following the teachings of Jesus Christ’s, of kindness, forbearance, and tolerance, the writer accompanied by two friends headed towards Naththandiya. The coconut plantations on either side of the road made the drive down delightful watching. However, we found it strange the prices of coconut were so high because the coconut estates were in abundance. We went searching for a mercilessly assaulted man. He was the forty-two-year-old Suranga Lakmal. Suranga lives in the Asoka Pura housing scheme close to a prominent carbon factory... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/22)
Why SL does not need to become pray to the IMF
SL has laid out a plan that is in the public domain , for paying it’s loan commitments for 2022, 500 million paid 18/1 and about 5 Billion mid 2022 and beyond . Instead of securing bridging loans from the IMF , they have secured short term bridging loans and currency swaps and loans , from friendly countries China, India , Bangladesh and a Gulf country without IMF type adverse conditions, to satisfy its short term bridging needs. SL has also requested loan restructuring form one of their main lenders China, who is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/22)
මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධනය පිළිබද NVQ-4 පාඨමාලාවේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය
ඌව පළාත් මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධනය පිළිබද NVQ-4 පාඨමාලාවේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය ඊයේ දින ඌව පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවර ඒ.ජේ.එම්. මුසම්මිල් මැතිතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඌව පළාත් සභා ශ්රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්විය. ඌව පළාත් අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශයේ අධීක්ෂණයෙන්, ඌව පළාත් මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධන අධිකාරියේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් හා යුරෝපානු සංගමය (EU) මුදල් අනුග්රහය ඇතිව, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන (UNDP) ආයතනයේ පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වල ධාරිතා වර්ධනය කිරීමේ (CDLG) ව්යාපෘතිය මගින්, NAITA ආයතනයේ තාක්ෂණික සහයෝගයත් සමග පවත්වනු ලබන මෙම පාඨමාලා සඳහා පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වලින් පවත්වාගෙන යන මුල් ළමාවිය සංවර්ධන මධ්යස්ථාන වල ඉගැන්වීම් කරන ගුරුවරුන් 38 දෙනෙකු සම්මුඛ පරීක්ෂණ ක්රියාවලියන් හරහා තේරී පත්ව ඇත. පළාත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/22)
HELPLANKA AND DIMUTHU FOUNDATION HELPING THE POOR
Helplanka, a UK Registered charity, has teamed up with Dimuthu Foundation of Pambala Kakkapalliya, Sri Lanka, kick starting their collaboration with a very special event to commemorate the 90th birthday of Dhanasena Siriwardene Goonetillake, who was born and lived in Kakkapalliya and who is the father of Sampath Goonetillake ( Sam) the Chief Executive and Founder of Helplanka. On Saturday 15th January 2022, 90 Children from a remote village in Kawatiyawatta Wattakalliya, near Chilaw, were treated to a tea party and dry rations were distributed at the event,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/22)
Renewable energy producers say they can generate more power if govt and CEB support
From Left: Manjula Perera, Wind Power Developers Association Secretary, Thusitha Peiris, Small Hydro Power Developers Association President, Lasith Wimalasena, Ground Mounted Solar Developers Association President, Chamil Silva, Bio Energy Developers Association President, Kushan Jayasuriya, Solar Industries Association President. In the backdrop of dwindling foreign currency reserves and capacity shortages, the only logical solution for Sri Lanka to take is to adopt renewable energy as the primary source of energy production, Manjula Perera, Secretary of the Wind Power Developers Association said in Colombo yesterday. He said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/01/22)
Chinese company takes fight against Sri Lanka to UN
A Chinese company embroiled in a dispute with Sri Lanka over organic fertilizer, has made a formal complaint with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Qingdao Seawin Biological Group Co., Ltd, in an email to Daily Mirror sent through a local agent, said that the complaint was made just before the company and Sri Lanka reached an agreement over the payment for the disputed fertilizer. “Before reaching a Terms of Settlement on the L/C enjoining order cases between Seawin and the buyers on Jan 5, 2022, Seawin... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
Sri Lanka doesn’t need IMF relief, Cabraal tells foreign media
Sri Lanka’s central bank governor told CNBC that the South Asian nation doesn’t need an economic lifeline from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “Well, we don’t need relief if we have an alternative strategy,” Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday. He claimed Sri Lanka is able to finance its outstanding debt, especially international sovereign bonds, “without causing any pain to our creditors.” Credit agencies have recently warned Sri Lanka may need support to cushion the blow from inflation and foreign exchange headwinds, but Cabraal disagreed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
Railway unions cry foul on acts of fraud in purchasing carriages
The Railway Trade Union Alliance has highlighted a 2018 purchase of 160 Indian railway carriages at a cost of over USD 80 million that now lie in various states of corrosion and disuse. They also claimed that the carriages cannot be run on the upcountry line due to their 65-foot length, prompting a response from Bus Transport Services and Train Compartments Dilum Amunugama to the contrary. Calling a media briefing, the alliance exposed what they said were “acts of serious fraud” in the purchase of railway carriages from India.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
කෘෂිකර්ම ඇමතිට ගොවීන්ගෙන් ප්රතිචාර...
https://youtu.be/wGWESNt3ivo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
Daily COVID cases count tops 900 and confirms 16 new Covid-19 deaths in Sri Lanka
The Ministry of Health says that another 927 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 26). This figure includes 05 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country thereby climbed to 604,581. With this, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 12,454. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 15,346. This is the first time Sri Lanka recorded more than 900 daily cases of Covid-19 in about four months. For the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
Letter written to President asking permission to end one's life
A lawyer by the name of B.A.W. Abeywardena has sent a letter to all Members of Parliament, including the President and the Speaker, requesting permission from Parliament to end his life. He has stated that he arrived at such a decision following his dismissal from the Land Reforms Commission where he worked and his inability to repay the education loan from the people's tax money. This letter was recently addressed to the Speaker of Parliament and all Members of Parliament under the headline "Seeking Parliament's Approval for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
දරුවන් පෙන්වමින් සිඟමනේ යෙදීම
පසුගිය සතියේ දිනයකි. වේලාව රාත්රී 9.30 ට පමණ වන්නට ඇත. පොද වැස්සකි. මම මහනුවර දළදා මාළිගාව ඉදිරිපිට ඇති තෝසෙ කඩයක් ඉදිරිපිට මගේ ඇනවුම පිළියෙළ කරන තුරු වාහනය තුළට රැඳී සිටියෙමි.ඉදිරිපස වීදුරුවෙන් තෝසේ කඩය ඉදිරිපිට රැජණ හෝටලය අසලින් දිවෙන පදිකවේදිකාව පැහැදිලිව පෙනේ. පැවති සිහින් වැසි බිඳු අතරින් ඉදිරිය බලන විට පදිකවේදිකාවේ මට පිටුපා කාන්තාවක් සිටින ආකාරය දක්නට ලැබුණි. කාල වර්ණ කෙසඟ සිරුරකින් යුත් ඇය සුදු පැහැති බ්ලවුසයක් සහ කළු පැහැති දිගු සායකින් සැරසී සිටියාය. කොන්ඩය හිස් මුදුනට කොට ගැටගසා තිබිණි. ඇය පසෙකට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/01/22)
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose displaces Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of India’s Independence struggle
January 25 is India’s Republic Day. It will be celebrated on a grand scale this year as usual but with a marked twist. The Govt. of India will formally salute Netaji Subash Chandra Bose as the father of India’s freedom struggle displacing Mahatma Gandhi from a pedestal that many thought was unassailable. Its plans to elevate Subhas Chandra Bose above all other Indian freedom fighters include: 1) Commencement of the Republic Day celebrations from January 23 so as to include Bose's birthday anniversary, which has been declared as 'Parakram... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
Negating PSO culture among media persons in India
Guwahati: Should the journalist-editor-proprietors continue to have government sponsored personal security officers (PSO) even though they do not have visible threats to their lives ? Are PSOs slowly becoming status symbols for many celebrated media persons in India ? Should not they withdraw the policemen at the earliest and hire private security personnel (meaning paid by themselves) if they need them desperately? After all, why should the authorities pay for someone’s personal luxury? These are among few questions, lately floated in public domain, as Assam government in northeast India had lately... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ තානාපති කාර්යාලවල නියෝජිතයින් හා අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අතර හමුවක්
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ තානාපති කාර්යාලවල නියෝජිතයින් හා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් අද (25) දින පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. තනාපති සබඳතාවලට අදාළව අග්රාමාත්යතුමා හා තානාපති නියෝජිතයන් අතර මෙහි දී සුහඳ සාකච්ඡාවක් සිදුවිය. මෙම අවස්ථාව සඳහා, අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක, විදේශ අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් අද්මිරාල් (විශ්රාමික) ජයනාත් කොළඹගේ, අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්රධානී යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහත්වරු සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ තානාපති කාර්යාලවල නියෝජිතයෝ රැසක් එක්ව සිටියහ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
Daily COVID cases tally tops 800 for seventh straight day and records 17 new fatalities from Covid-19
The Ministry of Health says that another 891 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 25). This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country climbs to 603,654 with this while 11,784 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment. Meanwhile, this is the seventh straight day that the daily count of Covid-19 cases has surpassed the 800-mark in the island, showing a resurgence of Covid positive cases reported. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
Export earnings in November 2021 hit record USD 1.211 billion
Earnings from exports in November 2021 have recorded the highest monthly export value in history, notching up a total of USD 1.211 billion, says the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). According to the press release issued by CBSL’s Economic Research Department, this brings the cumulative export figures for the January to November period, to USD 11.345 billion, which is a 24.9% improvement. It also marks the sixth consecutive month of above USD 1.0 billion of exports. Meanwhile, import expenditure also increased at a higher rate in November 2021. Reflecting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
China Fertilizer Spat Underlines Sri Lanka’s Struggles With International Trade Deals
Sri Lanka has a lot to learn about entering agreements with international companies – and the repercussions of violating them. In September of last year, the Sri Lankan government banned a shipment of 20,000 tons of fertilizer, worth $6.9 million, from China’s Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., alleging that there were harmful bacteria in the fertilizer. The ensuing controversy has created a lively debate among analysts. After months of “lawfare” in Sri Lankan courts and never-ending missives between the Sri Lankan government and Qingdao Seawin Biotech, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
As India and China Compete, Smaller States Are Cashing In
The Maldives and Sri Lanka show how they can bargain with bigger powers to their advantage. JANUARY 24, 2022, 2:31 PM This month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Sri Lanka and the Maldives. On the surface, the trip was part of an effort by China to make further inroads into South Asia and cement its presence in the Indian Ocean. But it also reflects a new regional trend in which smaller South... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්රවාදය - 54 වැනි කොටස- දේපළ හිමිකමට ඥානයක්
වර්තමානයෙහි අප රටෙහි නීති ගැටලු විශාල ප්රමාණයක් ඉස්මතු වී ඇත්තේ දේපළ හිමිකම, භුක්තිය, පවරාදීම සහ බදුදීම වැනි කරුණු ආශ්රිතව ය. සුරක්ෂිත සහ සැපපහසු ජීවිතයක් ගතකිරීම වෙනුවෙන් ද අනාගත පැවැත්ම තහවුරු කරගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් ද දේපළ හිමිකරගැනීමට සහ ඒවා නිරවුල් ලෙසින් පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට මිනිස්සු යොමුවෙති. මෙ ලෙසින් හිමි කරගන්නා දේපළ ත්රිපිටකය තුළ “නිධාන” ලෙසින් ද දක්වා තිබෙයි. ඛුද්දක නිකාය අටුවාවේ ඛුද්දකපාඨ තුළ විග්රහ කෙරෙන ප්රථම ගාථා වර්ණනාව තුළ එවැනි නිධාන සතරක් ගැන කියැවෙයි. එනම් ථාවර (ස්ථාවර), ජංගම, අංගසම සහ අනුගාමික වශයෙනි. රන්, රිදී, කුඹුරු, ඉඩම්, නිවාස යනාදිය ස්ථාවර නිධාන ලෙසින් එහි විස්තර කෙරෙයි. ඇත්, ගව, අස්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/01/22)
Bengali elite’s role in Dharmapala’s mission to liberate Buddhagaya
Colombo, January 25: The name of Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) is deeply etched in the history of Buddhism as the man who passionately and single-mindedly (if not single-handedly), strove to liberate the Buddhist shrine at Buddhagaya in North India from the clutches of a Hindu priest. Sadly, Dharmapala could not achieve his cherished objective during his lifetime. This was partly due to rising Hindu consciousness in India in the closing decades of the 19 th.Century, and partly due to the British authorities’ reluctance to challenge the Hindu majority (see: Light of Asia by Jairam Ramesh,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Whistleblower prevented from leaving for Dubai
Lak Sathosa garlic scam: One-time Executive Director of Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA), Thushan Gunawardena says the Immigration and Emigration Department has barred him from leaving the country. An irate Gunawardena alleges he is being harassed over the disclosure of a massive garlic scam at Lak Sathosa last September. “Instead of prosecuting those responsible, expeditiously, I’m being targeted for ordering the raid that exposed the corrupt lot,” Gunawardena told The Island soon after returning home. The ex-CAA official declared he would be soon filing a fundamental rights case against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Central Bank continues to say ‘no’ to IMF prgramme; confident of home-grown fix
Having overcome the first debt hurdle for the year— yet with another US$ 6.0 billion dollars worth of debt waiting to be retired in the next eleven months— Sri Lanka is still showing aversion to seek International Monetary Fund (IMF) support to restore investor confidence and regain capital market access. Sri Lanka’s access to international capital markets was impaired after multiple rating agencies downgraded its sovereign credit rating. However, the authorities claim that they were not anyway going to rollover the sovereign bonds after the previous government piled up... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Daily count of new Covid-19 cases climbs to 877 and reports another 14 coronavirus deaths
The Ministry of Health says that another 877 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (24). This figure includes 08 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. Sri Lanka’s tally of Covid-19 cases confirmed in the country climbs to 602,763 with this while 11,126 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment. Meanwhile this is the sixth straight day that the daily count of Covid-19 cases has surpassed the 800-mark in the island, showing a resurgence of Covid positive cases reported. The Director... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
No dignity, equality and justice for Tamils in Tamil states
In their heart of hearts, the Vellalars who dominated the history of Jaffna through feudal, colonial and modern times are ashamed of their past not because they failed to produce a great culture, great heroes, great iconic monuments, great civilisation, a great language, -- or anything else outstanding or memorable, for that matter -- but because they reigned over a culture of inhuman violence and cruelty that reduced their oppressed Tamils to sub-human non-entities for around 700 years. It is so obscene that the entire political class and Tamil intellectuals, together ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
“The Three Fuels miracle” the only solution to the energy crisis in Sri Lanka and to keep Sri Lanka alight, even if the whole world that depends of fossil fuel, goes dark after 2050.
(මඟ හොඳට තිබේනම් යන්ට දෑසත් පෙනේනම් කිම බැදිවල යන්නේ මන්මුලාවු එකකු සේ සින්හලයකුගේ කියමනක්) Sri Lanka is geographically located almost right at the center of the globe (bet 5-10 degrees N of equator and 80-82 degrees E) and at the middle of the tropics. It is also blessed with the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, the third biggest body of water in the world covering 1/5th of the total ocean area of the world right round it extending 7000 miles from N-S and 4900 miles from W-E, East Africa to West... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Posturing in Sri Lanka for the March UNHRC session
Colombo, January 23: With the situation in Sri Lanka coming up for discussion at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on March 3, the Sri Lankan government as well as the Tamil parties have begun posturing either to get off the hook, as in the case of the Sri Lankan government, or to corner the adversary, as in the case of the Tamil parties. The Sri Lankan government is expecting censure following the report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) for 2021. And the Tamil side is worried as the international community... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
UK hints at restart of police training in Sri Lanka despite human rights abuse
The UK Government may continue training police officers in Sri Lanka despite Police Scotland pulling out of the contract amid escalating concern around human rights abuses. Human rights campaigners and politicians had urged the Scots force to stop the training programme when survivors, who endured rape, electric shocks and torture while being held by Sri Lankan police, told of their ordeal after fleeing to Scotland. Police Scotland, which had insisted its long-standing contract had improved the standard of policing in Sri Lanka, dropped the training contract last month but the UK Government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Trincomalee is a big win; more to do to get Lanka off China addiction
India’s assertive ‘neighbourhood first’ policy was once again in full view recently in Sri Lanka, providing Delhi with the much-needed window of opportunity to regain a larger foothold in the island-nation. Not too long ago, it had seemed that our so... Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/trincomalee-is-a-big-win-more-to-do-to-get-lanka-off-china-addiction-1073674.html... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
President to support green gram cultivation in lands not suitable for paddy
The Government intends to support Green Gram (Mung bean) cultivation as an intermediate crop in the lands where paddy cannot be cultivated, according to the President’s Media Division. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has taken this decision considering the information received during the observation duties at the Department of Agrarian Development. President Rajapaksa has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to farmers who cannot cultivate paddy in the Yala season and obtain required seeds for green gram cultivation as an intermediate crop during the Yala season due to lack of irrigation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Daily COVID cases exceed 800 for fifth straight day and Fifteen more people succumb to Covid-19
Meanwhile, the count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the fifth consecutive day as 838 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus today (January 23). According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 01 individual who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 601,886. As many as 576,114 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/01/22)
Farmers grappling with low harvest in Maha season, while Yala failure looms
COLOMBO (News 1st); The fertilizer crisis is continuing to aggravate in the public, leaving farmers helpless, and potentially affecting the country’s food supply. Although the Government continues to maintain its organic fertilizer policy, permission has been granted to import chemical fertilizer. However, the rising cost of imports has caused fertilizer prices to rise significantly, leaving them with no fertilizer. Farmers say they are grappling with two issues at present; they lament that they are unable to begin farming for the upcoming Yala cultivation, and that their harvests have declined this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/22)
China to donate one million tons of rice before Sinhala-Hindu New Year
COLOMBO (News 1st); The Minister of Foreign Affairs, prof. G.L. Peiris says that China will donate one million tons of rice before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, which would enable the public to celebrate the festival in a prosperous manner. Speaking during his visit to the Maha Sangha on Saturday (22), the Minister explained how foreign assistance has been obtained to overcome the economic crisis. Accordingly, the Minister pointed out that Sri Lanka will receive USD 2.5 million from India as a result of discussions held by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/01/22)
අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ජය ශ්රී මහා බෝධින් වහන්සේ වැඳ පුදා ගනී
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (22) පෙරවරුවේ අනුරාධපුර ජය ශ්රී මහා බෝධීන් වහන්සේ වැඳ පුදා ගනිමින් ආශිර්වාද ලබා ගත්තේය. අටමස්ථානාධිපති, උතුරු මධ්යම දිසාවේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක ආචාර්ය අතිපූජ්ය පල්ලේගම සිරි නිවාස නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේ බැහැ දුටු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පළමුව උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. කිසිදු ලාභ ප්රයෝජනයක් අපේක්ෂා නොකර ජය ශ්රී මහා බෝධිය වන්දනාමාන කිරීමට පැමිණෙන බැතිමතුන් වෙනුවෙන් අවට මං මාවත් පිළිසකර කරමින් ගල් අතුරා අලංකාර කරනු ලැබුවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බව අටමස්ථානාධිපති අතිපූජ්ය පල්ලේගම සිරි නිවාස නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේ මෙහි දී සිහිපත් කළහ. අනතුරුව රුවන්වැලි මහ සෑ චෛත්යාරාමාධිකාරී නුවර කලාවියේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
කතානාද සිනමාවට වසර 75ක් හා ජාතික චිත්රපට සංස්ථාවට වසර 50 පිරීමේ සමරු උත්සවය
ලාංකේය කතානාද සිනමාවට වසර 75ක් සම්පූර්ණ වීම හා ජාතික චිත්රපට සංස්ථාවට වසර 50ක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් සංවිධානය කළ සමරු උත්සවය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (21) පස්වරුවේ ජාතික චිත්රපට සංස්ථාවේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සමරු උත්සවය ආරම්භයේ දී ජාතික චිත්රපට සංස්ථාව ආරම්භ කළ දිවංගත අගමැතිනි සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ ඡායාරූපයකට ප්රවිණ රංගන ශිල්පීන් දෙපළක් වන රවින්ද්ර රන්දෙණිය සහ මාලනී ෆොන්සේකා, චිත්රපට සංස්ථාවේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනෙකු වන අතුල රෝහණසිරි, චන්ද්රිකා ශ්රීමතී හෙට්ටිආරච්චි මහත්ම මහත්මීහු විසින් පුෂ්පෝපහාර දක්වනු ලැබූහ. ජාතික සිනමාව අතික්රමණය කරමින් ජගත් අවධානයට පාත්ර වූ ප්රවීණ චිත්රපට අධ්යක්ෂිකා ආචාර්ය සුමිත්රා පීරිස් මහත්මියට අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතින් මෙහි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලයට නවීන බස් රථයක්
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (21) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලයට නවීන බස් රථයක් පිරිනැමිණි. කීර්ති මන්ත්රීරත්න මහතා විසින් පරිත්යාග කළ මෙම බස් රථය ජපානයේ නිෂ්පාදිත ආසන 54කින් යුතු සුඛෝපභෝගී බස් රථයකි. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලයේ විදුහල්පති එම්.වී.එස්. ගුණතිලක මහතා වෙත බස් රථයේ යතුර පිරිනැමුවේය. අනතුරුව අග්රාමාත්යතුමා විසින් බස් රථයේ පහසුකම් නිරීක්ෂණය කරන ලදි. මෙම බස් රථය පරිත්යාග කළ කිර්ති මන්ත්රීරත්න මහතා වෙත ද අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අතින් සමරු සිහිවටනයක් පිරිනැමුණු අතර කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලයේ විදුහල්පති එම්. වී.එස්. ගුණතිලක මහතා විසින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට ද සමරු තිළිණයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
නැන්දා සහ මාමා පිලිබඳ මතකය
අද දිනයේ නැන්දා සහ මාමා ජීවතුන් අතර නැත. එහෙත් ඔවුන් පිලිබඳ මතකය තවමත් මා තුල තිබේ නැන්දා ගේ නම සෝමා කිරිඇල්ලය. ඇය විශාකා ළදරු පාසලේ විදුහල්පතිනිය වූවාය. එසේම ළමා පොත් , ළමා නාට්ය , ළමා ගීත ලියූ නිර්මාණශීලීතාවයෙන් හෙබි කාන්තාවකි. මාමා පියදාස කිරිඇල්ලය. ඔහු සාන්ත තෝමස් සහ කොලඹ රාජකීය විද්යාල වල උගන්වන ලද ගුරුවරයෙකි. නැන්දා සහ මාමා මුල් කාලයේ පදිංචිව සිටියේ දෙහිවලය. ඔවුන් ගේ අසල්වාසීන් වූයේ ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩක අජිත් ද සිල්වා සහ දෙහිවල සුප්රකට කායික වෛද්ය ගුණවර්ධන මහතාය. ඒ කාලයේ අජිත් ද සිල්වාට කිව්වේ ගස් බෝටියා කියාය. මෝෂක නමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Colombo Port City clarifies: No fee for personal photography and videography
Colombo, January 22 (newsin.asia): The authorities of the Chinese-built US$ 1.4 billion Colombo Port City on Saturday clarified that they will not charge any fee for personal photography and videography but will charge a variable fee for professional photography and videography. A press release issued by the Colombo Harbor Engineering Company Port City Colombo Pvt. Limited, said: “Port City Colombo wishes to reiterate that a fee will be charged only for PROFESSIONAL photo or video shoot requests (for personal or commercial reasons) at public locations at Port City. There is NO... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Former President expresses views over extension of term of office of President (Video)
https://youtu.be/2pk3lQZbu0Q Former President Maithripala Sirisena today (22) expressed his views regarding the extension of the term of office of the President. He expressed these views after a ceremony held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall in Colombo. https://youtu.be/3P_aEKJhiGk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Outlook for Sri Lanka in the “Unlocking Year” 2022
Mumbai, January 22 (newsin.asia): 2022 would be the “Unlocking Year”. If so, there will be no more fear and anxiety; the masks would disappear; cosmetics and business suits would once again be out on display; work-from-home-battalions would go back to the usual hustle and bustle and to the intimidating presence of their bosses in offices; webinars and zoom meetings sans live presence would cease; more and more pompous grumblings about jet-lag would resonate in clubs and board-rooms; MBA brains would get overstressed; ‘ambitious-graphs’ for operational targets of corporates would peak;... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Colombo Port City now says no fee for personal selfies, videos
The Colombo Port City now says no fee is charged for taking personal selfies of videos within the city. It says in a statement that a payment structure was introduced for personal events, professional and/or commercial filming and photography due to the unprecedented number of such requests. The statement goes onto say the income received from these will be used for the maintenance of public spaces, lavatories and garbage clearing. According to its website, rates for taking pictures or videos for personal purposes will be Rs.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
'Father of mindfulness' Buddhist monk dies aged 95
Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Vietnamese Buddhist monk, has died at the age of 95. His Zen teaching organisation, Plum Village, said the monk "passed away peacefully" at the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam on Saturday. A prolific author and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, is often referred to as the "father of mindfulness". On Twitter, his organisation called for its followers to hold Thich Nhat Hanh "in our hearts". Thich Nhat Hanh, was exiled from Vietnam in the 1960s after opposing the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Sinhalese the result of a tidal wave of migration or long process of non-linear development
Brahmi inscription on a drip ledge at Vessagiriya, Anuradhapura. Pic courtesy: Preethi de Silva
By Seneka Abeyratne A distinguishing feature of the Early Historic Period, between 500 BCE and 300 CE, is the dramatic appearance of lithic Brahmi inscriptions, which indicates a ‘leap’ from protohistory to history, a kind of ‘explosive’ transformation accompanied by the widespread use of the proto-Sinhala language. Brahmi inscriptions represent the earliest extensive writings on The Island.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
“Sensationalized and biased”: Sri Lanka hits out at HRW ‘World Report 2022’
Sri Lanka today slammed the “World Report 2022” compiled by the Human Rights Watch, stating that it depicts an exaggerated and unduly negative picture of the current human rights situation in the country. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry noted that Sri Lanka Lanka follows a policy of constructive engagement with the international community including with international NGO’s such as HRW on matters related to human rights, and we recognize their constructive role as human rights defenders. “However, sensationalized and biased reporting during a particularly challenging global economic and social environment risks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Sri Lanka’s inflation rises to 14% YoY in December 2021
Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI, 2013=100)1, increased to 14.0 per cent in December 2021 from 11.1 per cent in November 2021, according to the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, on an annual average basis, the NCPI increased to 7.0 per cent in December 2021 from 6.2 per cent in November 2021, a statement issued by the CBSL said. Inflation was driven by monthly increases of prices of items in both Food and Non-food categories. Subsequently, Food inflation (Y-o-Y)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
COVID: 75 new Omicron variant cases found in Sri Lanka
A total of 75 new cases of Omicron and 3 new cases of Delta have been confirmed in Sri Lanka, according to the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant report published by the Allergy Immunology and Cell Biology Unit of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the Sri Jayewardenepura University. The new Omicron and Delta variant cases were detected from 78 samples, the media release published in the university’s website read. “These 78 samples were sequenced from the 1st 2nd and 3rd weeks of January from the community.” said Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, the Director of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Sri Lanka records 12 more COVID deaths and 845 new cases
The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 12 coronavirus-related deaths for January 21, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,272. This includes 09 males and 03 females, according to the Department of Government Information. One of the victims is in the age group of 30-59 years and the remaining 11 patients are aged 60 years and above. Meanwhile, the count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the fourth consecutive day as 845 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
SHOULD PRESIDENT’S TERM BE EXTENDED BY TWO YEARS?
It is widely published the view expressed by Ms Diana Gamage in the parliament that the term of the president should be extended by two years and the reason for this change as pointed by Ms Gamage was the COVID-19 pandemic that has been limited the ability of president working to people. This is a critical constitutional issue and I do not know whether there is a constitutional provision to extend the period of the president. The reason given by Ms Gamage is shown as a valid point. It is a critical point for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Prime Minister Requests for More Employment Opportunities for Sri Lankans in South Korea
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa requested South Korea to consider increasing the number of employment opportunities allocated for Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister made the request during a meeting with the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea Park Byeong seug yesterday at Temple Trees. Speaker Park is the first South Korean speaker to visit Sri Lanka in 10 years, The Korean Speaker responded positively to the request stating, “I’m pleased that young, talented Sri Lankan workers have contributed to income growth of both our countries.” According... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
නොමිලේ පිරිනමන වෛද්යාධාර හදිසි අනතුරු රක්ෂණය කලාකරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් අපට දෙන්න පුළුවන් හොඳම තෑග්ගක් - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
ඉතිහාසය වර්ණවත් වුණේ කලාකරුවන්ගේ නිර්මාණ මතින්නාට්ය ක්ෂේත්රයෙන් අපි පටන්ගත් වෛද්යාධාර හදිසි අනතුරු රක්ෂණය අද සියලු කලාකරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් තැබූ යෝධ පියවරක් වෙලාකලාකරුවන්ට දත්ත පද්ධතියක් නිර්මාණය කරන්න ලැබීම ජයග්රහණයක්කලා නිර්මාණවලට ජාතික හා ජාත්යන්තර වටිනාකම් හොයා දෙන මූලාරම්භයක් කිසිදු මුදලක් අය නොකර පිරිනමන වෛද්යාධාර හදිසි අනතුරු රක්ෂණය කලාකරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් අපට දෙන්න පුළුවන් හොඳම තෑග්ගක් යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. කලාකරු රක්ෂණ ඔප්පු ප්රදානය, ජාතික උරුම ප්රාසාංගික කලා හා ග්රාමීය කලා ශිල්පී ප්රවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ නිල වෙබ් අඩවිය www.heritage.gov.lk හා ඊට සමඟාමීව කලාකරු දත්ත පද්ධතිය එළිදැක්වීමේ උත්සවය එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඊයේ (20) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
TV commentators ignite debate on DRS authorship
The Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who has been running from pillar to post to be recognized as the author of the DRS (Decision Review System) was over the moon when, for the first time in the history of cricket commentating in Sri Lanka, Roshan Abeysinghe had said that there was a claimant from Sri Lanka (and named him) who has yet to get formal recognition from the ICC. He had dwelt on this subject for about three minutes. This DRS is a technology-based system used in cricket to assist the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
The International Society of Female Professionals Recognizes Anjalika Silva
Anjalika Silva’s background includes a mix of Bioscience, Management and Technology Management combined into a special area that includes technical writing, Human Resources and Benefits. These areas of knowledge and experience were applied to Scientific Society Program Management in technical employment opportunities with scientific employers, and promotion of science education. Her work involved being liaison to committees that brought significant contributions from the corporate and academic areas with input into steering scientific programs that drew the attention of Canadian and Singaporean scientific communities in addition to the United States. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
RANIL WICKREMESINGHE INTERVIEW WITH WION
Ranil Wickramasinghe is the one who sponsored Arjuna Mahendran to lead the Central Bank of Ceylon . Mahendran now stands accused in the Courts, of Sr Lanka hearings for which are proceeding ,for the biggest financial fraud in Sri Lanka’s over 2500 yr history . Even after Mahendran was dismissed by the the then President MS, RW tried to reappoint him as CBC governor again. This has irrefutably exposed himself as unprecedentedly corrupt , with no integrity and vey likely to have provided the blessings for this unprecedented fraud. These are established FACTS , NOT... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
When it rains more, there’s less economic growth (Bad news: There’s more rain now)
Our current climate brings plenty of disastrous examples of extreme rainfall. Floods have caused death and displacement around the world, from Sri Lanka to Colombia. In Canada, British Columbia’s unprecedented heavy rains caused mud- and rockslides, putting the province into a state of emergency and displacing 18,000 residents. Germany experienced its worst flooding in 200 years, which killed more than 150 people. Scientists later found the German floods were up to nine times more likely due to climate change. The heating of the globe—caused by the burning of fossil fuels—intensifies rainfall. Most industries, like agriculture, benefit... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/01/22)
Lankan minister says FTA with Pakistan yet to tap full potential
KARACHI: Sri Lankan Minister of Trade Dr Bandula Gunawardhane on Thursday said Pakistan Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (PSFTA) has moderately enhanced bilateral trade volume, but the real potential still needed to be achieved by both countries. Dr Gunawardhane visited the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) office with a Sri Lankan delegation, where he also said that in 2020, despite the debilitating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all businesses, Sri Lanka’s total exports to Pakistan reached $74 million, of which $53 million worth of exports or 73 percent took place... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Assembly speaker seeks support for Korean businesses in Sri Lanka
National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seug and Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pose for camera in their meeting in Sri Lanka on Thursday. (National Assembly Speaker’s Office) National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seug met with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka on Thursday to discuss expanding economic cooperation and minerals investment. Park made the two-day trip to Sri Lanka to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic relations. In the meeting with the Sri Lankan president, Park... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
China-SL to decide on relief plans
The Governments of China and Sri Lanka will commence discussions on what essential items should be obtained under the Chinese assistance scheme announced earlier. Both governments have agreed to explore the possibility of using this facility to purchase essential items such as rice to Sri Lanka, a release issued by the Department of Information said yesterday. The Cabinet of Ministers on January 18 decided to begin discussions with the Government of China on what kind of items that could be purchased under this facility. The Trade Ministry together with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Daily COVID cases count crosses 800 for third straight day and records 17 new COVID deaths
The count of new Covid-19 cases surpassed the 800-mark for the third consecutive day as 840 people in total were confirmed positive for the virus today (January 21). According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 06 individuals who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 600,203. As many as 569,043 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Bangladesh Needs Both The USA And China
Bangladesh needs both the USA and China. Now, Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal get attention from world powers. US, UK, China, India and Japan have focused their attention on South Asia, Bangladesh and 'Bay of Bengal'. US has shifted its policy from 'Asia Pacific' towards 'Indo Pacific' to counter China's 'BRI'. Both parties want Bangladesh into their respective blocks. Bangladesh’s polices are not towards bipartisan international politics. Bangladesh was an active member of the ‘Non-Aligned Movement’. Bangladesh has no intention and interest to join any bloc. But... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Prevention and Treatment Protocols for COVID-19
We are a group of expert clinicians who are driven only by our desire to save lives. We continually update our protocols based on clinical observations as well as the best studies of modes of prevention and treatment therapies for COVID-19. For our latest, most comprehensive clinical guide to the management of COVID-19, please click the following text, or the box below the logos, to read and download “An Overview of the MATH+, I-MASK+ and I-RECOVER Protocols, A Guide to the Management of COVID-19”, by Dr. Paul Marik. Studies recently... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
ශ්රී ලංකාව රනින් බැබළ වූ දිනේෂ් ප්රියන්ත හේරත්ට අග්රාමාත්යතුමා නව නිවසක් ප්රදානය කරයි
ටෝකියෝ නුවර පැවැති පැරාලිම්පික් 2020 හෙල්ල විසි කිරීමේ ඉසව්වෙන් නව ලෝක වාර්තාවක් තබමින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට රන් පදක්කමක් දිනා දුන් දිනේෂ් ප්රියන්ත හේරත් මහතාට අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (19) පස්වරුවේ නව නිවසක් ප්රදානය කළේය. තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මැදිහත්වීම අනුව ලබා දුන් මෙම නව නිවසේ ‘‘ප්රදාන පත්රය’’අග්රාමාත්යතුමා විසින් රන් පදක්කම් ලාභී දිනේෂ් ප්රියන්ත හේරත් මහතාට අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පිරිනමන ලදි. ලෝක වාර්තාවක් තබමින් පැරාලිම්පික් ඉතිහාසයේ ශ්රී ලංකා නාමය රනින් බැබළවූ දිනේෂ් ප්රියන්ත හේරත් මහතා වෙනුවෙන් නව නිවසක් ලබා දෙන්නැයි පසුගිය වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් 08 වැනිදා තමන් කළ ප්රකාශය අනුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කළ සිරිමතීපාය ජනපති අගමැති සුරතින් විවෘත වෙයි
ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කළ “සිරිමතීපාය” ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහත්වරුන්ගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද (20) දින පෙරවරුවේ විවෘත විය. කොළඹ 07 අර්නස්ට් ද සිල්වා මාවතේ අංක 58 දරණ ස්ථානයේ පිහිටි මෙම ගොඩනැගිල්ල අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඇතුළු මෙරට අග්රාමාත්යවරුන් අට දෙනෙකුගේ කාර්යාල පරිශ්රය පිහිටි ස්ථානය වීම විශේෂත්වයකි. කොළඹ සිටි ධනවත් ව්යාපාරිකයකු වන ඇල්බට් එම්මානුවෙල් ද සිල්වා මහතා තමන්ගේ ආදරණීය එකම පුත්රරත්නය වන ශ්රීමත් ඇල්බර්ට් අර්නස්ට් ද සිල්වා මහතා වෙනුවෙන් වර්ෂ 1916 දී මේ මන්දිරය ඉදි කර සිරිමතීපාය නමින් නම් කර ඇති අතර මනරම් පරිසරයක පිහිටි මෙම දෙමහල් මන්දිරය 1960 වර්ෂයේ දී අර්නස්ට් ද සිල්වා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැති පොරයක්…? බැසිල් ඉදිරියෙන්..?
ආණ්ඩුවේ අගමැති පොරයක් ඇති වී තිබෙන බව සමගි ජන බලවේගය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රිනී රෝහිණි කවිරත්න මහත්මිය සඳහන් කළාය. ඇය මේ බව කියා සිටියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පැවති විවාදයේදී අදහස් පලකරමිනි. ඇය එහිදී මෙසේද අදහස් පල කළාය. රාජාසන කතා කරන ජනාධිපති විතරයක් නෙවෙයි මුදල් ඇමති ගහන ගැසට් එකටවත් දැන් රටේ පිළිගැනීමක් නෑ. ගැසට් ගැහුවට ක්රියාත්වක වෙන්නේ නෑ. මාසයකට වැඩිය වහලා තිබ්බ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ඇරලා, රාජාසන කතාව කරලා ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපතිතුමා කිව්වා, ‘‘අපේ රජය පසුගිය වසර දෙක තුලම ගොවි ජනතාවට නොමිලේ පොහොර ලබා දුන්නා‘‘ කියලා. ඇත්තද? ආණ්ඩුව පොහොර ගෙන්වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Sri Lanka raises rates to rein in prices, boost reserves
COLOMBO (Reuters) -- The Sri Lankan central bank raised interest rates on Thursday, as expected, shifting its focus to controlling inflation, curbing imports and attracting foreign capital as it looks to build reserves and avoid a potential default later in the year. The island nation has reiterated its commitment to repaying the entire $4 billion owed to investors in the rest of 2022 but some analysts believe the country could face its first-ever default unless it increases dollar inflows. As expected by many economists, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
බ්රිතාන්යයේ දකුණු ආසියාව භාර ඇමති ජනපතිගේ මූණට ම කියපු දේ
මානව හිමිකම්, සංහිඳියාව සහ යුක්තිය හා වගවීම පිළිබඳව ප්රගතියක් ලබා ගැනීමේ අවශ්යතාව තමන් ශ්රී ලංකා රජයට අවධාරණය කළ බව එක්සත් රාජධානියේ දකුණු ආසියාව සහ පොදුරාජ්ය මණ්ඩලය පිළිබඳ අමාත්ය තාරික් අහමඩ් සාමිවරයා පවසයි. අමාත්ය තාරික් අහමඩ් සාමිවරයා අද (ජන. 20) පෙරවරුවේ ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේදී ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේ දී මේ බව සඳහන් කර තිබේ. ට්විටර් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කරමින් ඔහු සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ, දේශගුණික විපර්යාස සහ කොවිඩ්-19 හේතුවෙන් බලපෑමට ලක්වූ ආර්ථිකය යළි නගා සිටුවීම ඇතුළු ගෝලීය අභියෝග පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට තමන් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවූ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
CBSL expecting gradual economic recovery following ‘temporary setbacks’ posed by Covid 3rd wave
The Central Bank expects economic activity to record a gradual recovery following a temporary setback due to the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said. “We have noted that the External Sector remained resilient amidst heightened challenges. With the normalization of global economic activity, a notable improvement in export performance was observed, with monthly exports remaining in excess of US dollars 1 billion, consecutively since June 2021, Cabraal told the Monthly Policy Review Meeting yesterday at the Central Bank in Colombo. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Sri Lanka reports over 800 daily COVID cases for second straight day and confirms 12 more coronavirus deaths
he Health Ministry reported that 827 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (20), as the daily count of new Covid-19 cases surpasses the 800-mark for the second consecutive day. The new coronavirus cases detected today includes 03 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country jumps to 599,363 with this while over 15,000 infected patients are currently undergoing treatment. The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 12 coronavirus related deaths for January 19, pushing the death... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
UK’s Lord Ahmad stresses on need for progress of human rights in Sri Lanka
Holds series of meetings to discuss human rights issues over three-day visit UK Minister of State Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Central and South Asia, Commonwealth, UN, Human Rights) Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, during his three-day visit to Sri Lanka, met a series of officials, including President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to discuss key issues revolving around human rights. He met President Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (20). On his official Twitter account, Lord Ahmad stated that the purpose of the meeting was “to discuss global challenges including climate change and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Grenade inside Borella church: suspect who provided grenade to retired doctor arrested
Police have reportedly arrested the person who allegedly provided the hand grenade to the retired doctor from Piliyandala, who was recently arrested in connection with the grenade recovered from a church in Borella. The suspect has been arrested at Ranna in Hambantota, according to Ada Derana reporter. Investigations have uncovered that the same suspect had previously provided the retired doctor with the hand grenade which had been placed at a private hospital in Narahenpita. Following the discovery of a hand grenade at the All Saints’ Church in Borella on Jan.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Suspect confesses reason for planting hand grenade inside church in Borella
https://youtu.be/C4xAp4miu8s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/01/22)
Is the Public Served?
The Government constantly complains about public services being overstaffed. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa takes every opportunity to restate the public should not face harassment; instead they must be treated with courtesy. When the writer was a schoolboy, letters from any Government institution carried the phrase at the end of the communication as ‘Your obedient servant,’ and signed by an authorised individual. This signing style of ‘Your obedient servant’ has currently flown through the window, and at times, Government letters carry no name or legible signature at all! As everyone knows, the taxpayer... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
How Cambodia AS ASEAN Chair Can Play A Key Role In Rohingya Refugee Crisis Solution
The Rohingya issue is currently an important international issue. More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. About 50,000 newborn Rohingya children are added to it every year. Bangladesh Prime Minister raised the issue at the UNGA on September 25, 2021 to draw the attention of global leaders in solving the Rohingya crisis. She focused specifically on the engagement of ASEAN leaders. It is ASEAN which can resolve Rohingya refugee problem easily. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
එක්සත් රාජධානියේ රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තරික් අහමඩ් සාමිවරයා සහ අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අතර හමුවක්
එක්සත් රාජධානියේ දකුණු ආසියානු හා පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලයීය කටයුතු රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තරික් අහමඩ් සාමිවරයා සහ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් ඊයේ (18) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ හිල්ටන් හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලංකාව සමඟ පවතින සහයෝගිතාව තවදුරටත් ශක්තිමත් කර ගැනීමේ අපේක්ෂාවෙන් මෙරටට පැමිණි රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තරික් අහමඩ් සාමිවරයා දින තුනක කාලයක් මෙරට රැදී සිටිනු ඇත. ඉහළ රාජතාන්ත්රික හමුවීම්වලට අමතරව රාජ්ය අමාත්ය තරික් අහමඩ් සාමිවරයා යාපනය සහ ත්රිකුණාමලය ප්රදේශවල ද සංචාරය කිරීමට නියමිතය. සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයට සහය පළ කිරීම, සංචාරකයන්ගේ පැමිණීම වර්ධනය කිරීම, විදේශ රැකියා අවස්ථා සහ අධ්යාපන ක්ෂේත්රයේ දියුණුව වෙනුවෙන් ගත හැකි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවති 2022 වසරේ පළමු ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ මන්ත්රී කණ්ඩායම් රැස්වීම
නව වන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දෙවන සැසිවාරය ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද (18) පෙරවරුවේ ආරම්භ විය. ජනාධිපතිතුමා විසින් ඉදිරි වසර තුනක කාලය සඳහා වන රජයේ ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශය එහි දී ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදි. අනතුරුව දෙවන සැසිවාරයේ සහ 2022 වර්ෂයේ පළමු ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ මන්ත්රී කණ්ඩායම් රැස්වීම අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කමිටු කාමර අංක 01හි දී පැවැත්විණි. ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කල්තැබීමේ විවාදය ජනවාරි 19 සහ 20 දෙදින පැවැත්වීමට කථානායක මහින්ද යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී තීරණය වූවද ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ මන්ත්රීවරුන් බහුතරයක් විවාදයේ දී අදහස් දැක්වීමට සූදානම්ව සිටින බැවින් 21වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
දිවියෙන් සමුගත් සිය දියණිය සිහි කර අනුරපුර ආර්ථික අපහසුතා ඇති පවුල් වලට ආධාර
දිවියෙන් සමුගත් සිය දියණියට පිං පිණිස අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ ආර්ථික අපහසුතා ඇති පවුල් 100 කට අත්යවශය ආහාර මලු බෙදා දීමට කොළඹ 05 ප්රදේශයේ ව්යාපාරික මහත්මියක වන විශාකා වීරකෝන් මහත්මිය ඊයේ (17) දුරුතු පොහෝ දින කටයුතු කළාය. මීට දෙවසරකට පමණ ඉහතදී දිවියෙන් සමුගත් නදීරා විජේරත්න නම් දියණියට පිං පිණිස ඇයගේ මව වන කොළඹ ප්රදේශයේ ව්යාපාරික මහත්මියක වන විශාකා වීරකෝන් මහත්මිය මෙම පිංකම සිදු කරනු ලැබුවාය. මෙම පිංකම සඳහා රාජ්යය අමාත්ය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සම්බන්ධීකරණයෙන් අනුරාධපුර නොච්චියාගම අඹගහවැව ගල්කිරියාගම ගම්මානයේ , පලාගල කළුගල ගම්මානයේ හා ගල්නෑව ප්රදේශයේ ආර්ථික අපහසුතා ඇති පවුල් සියයක් වෙත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
නව ලොවට පියනගන දරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් ඉදි වූ සුහුරු පන්ති කාමර සංකල්පය වයඹ පළාතින් යථාර්ථයක් බවට පත් වේ.
පළාත් මට්ටමින් ක්රියාත්මක කෙරෙන "නිපුණතා උදානය" ජාතික වැඩසටහන පසුගියදා වයඹ පළාතින් ආරම්භ විය. එම වැඩසටහනට සමගාමීව සිදුවන තවත් එක් ජාතික මෙහෙවරක් වූ දිවයිනේ සියලුම දිස්ත්රික්කවල ස්ථාන 40ක ගොඩනැඟෙන සුහුරු පන්ති කාමර ව්යාපෘතිය පළමුවරට වයඹ පළාතින් ආරම්භ කරන ලදී. ඒ අනුව කුලියාපිටිය විශ්වවිද්යාල විද්යායතනයේ ඉදි වූ තාක්ෂණය උපයෝගී කරගත් දුරස්ථ අධ්යාපනය පහසු කරන සුහුරු පන්ති කාමරය පළමුවරට සිසු අයිතියට පත් කිරීම නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය, විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් සිදු කෙරිණ. මෙහි දී භාෂා ත්රිත්ත්වයෙන්ම අධ්යයන කටයුතු සිදු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
US sanctions on Bangladesh’s RAB: Was there a better way?
Dhaka contends that the US move against its elite paramilitary force was precipitous Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand guard during a rally by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Dhaka on December 19, 2011. Photo: Reuters / Andrew Biraj On December 10, 2021, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the elite paramilitary force of Bangladesh, as well as seven of its current and former officers, accusing them of human-rights abuses and abductions. Rather than slinging mud by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/01/22)
චීනයෙන් ලංකාවටම මාස පහක් බත් නොමිලේ..
චීන රජය විසින් සහල් මෙට්රික් ටොන් ලක්ෂ දහයක් ශ්රී ලංකාවට නොමිලේ ලබා දීමට තීරණය කර තිබේ. කොළඹ සිටින චීන තානාපතිවරයා මේ බව දන්වා ඇති බව මුදල් ඇමැති බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේ දී ඊයේ ප්රකාශ කර තිබේ. චීන ශ්රී ලංකා රබර් සහල් වෙළෙඳ ගිවිසුමට වසර හැත්තෑවක් සම්පූර්ණ වන නිසා මෙම තොගය නොමිලේ ලබා දෙන ලෙස බෙදන අමාත්ය බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා කළ ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව මෙම ප්රධානය හිමිවෙයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වාර්ෂික සහල් අවශ්යතාවය මෙට්ට්රික් ටොන් මිලියන 2.4ක් වන අතර චීනයෙන් මෙසේ නොමිලේ ලබා දෙන ප්රමාණය මාස පහක් සදහා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Spotlight on looming food crisis
According to food experts a rice shortage seems unavoidable Reportedly, 300,000 Metric Tons of Nadu and Samba are to be imported to address the rice shortage The price of one kilo of rice would be 200 rupees a kilo by March 1500 containers of food items such as sugar, milk powder, wheat, dhal and other items are currently stuck at port Corn cultivation has been heavily affected by the fertilizer shortage Paddy was cultivated in 1,208,454 hectares in 2020 with a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
“Erroneous and outdated information”: Sri Lanka responds to Canada travel advisory
Sri Lankan government today insisted that the recent travel advisory issued by Canada on the island nation contains flawed references to the economic and security situation in the country as well as inaccurate information with regard to the safety and security of female travelers and harassment of foreigners. The Foreign Ministry, responding to the said travel advisory which was published on January 13, stressed that it is erroneous and has outdated information. It does not reflect the actual situation in Sri Lanka, the statement read further. In a bid to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Daily COVID cases count moves to 829 today and reports another 12 coronavirus deaths
The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 829 today (January 19), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 09 individuals who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 598,536. As many as 568,637 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 14,600 active cases in total are currently... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
The Rajapaksas to blame for Sri Lanka’s disastrous 2021
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s 2019 election manifesto promised ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour’. Professionals for a Better Future (Viyathmaga) were to implement his programs, which would achieve successive years of economic fortune. But Rajapaksa will instead be remembered for presiding over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever year post-independence. 2021 was a year that millions will associate with lengthy queues to purchase sugar, milk powder, kerosene and cooking gas. This is because prices skyrocketed to hitherto unseen levels, thanks mainly to a severely indebted island lacking dollars... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Is Three years enough to make a country?
President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda have stated that two years were lost, but the promise of a glorious country will be achieved in the three years that remain. Can we re assert the economy of our country within three years? Having served in the Administrative Service of Sri Lanka where one gets posted to different positions very often for a year or two and having worked as a foreign consultant for two years terms, I have been charged to show quick results and my frank answer is that three years is enough... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
India’s “helping hand” to forex and energy-starved Sri Lanka
Colombo, January 18 (newsin.asia): India on Tuesday extended a US$ 500 million credit to Sri Lanka for emergency purchase of petroleum products. In a tweet, the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka tweeted to say that “a friend holds out a helping hand again.” “Energizing bilateral economic partnership, India offers a credit line of USD 500 million to Sri Lanka for the purchase of petroleum products. Critical support by India follows a discussion between External Affairs Minister Dr.S.Jaishankar and (Lankan) Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa,” the tweet added. Subscribe to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Sri Lankans celebrate Buddha’s first visit to the island
Colombo, January 18: The Buddhist festival Duruthu Poya was celebrated on January 17, the first full moon in January. It marked the first visit of the Buddha to Sri Lanka. This is a key religious and historic date in the calendar for Sri Lankan Buddhists as it marks Gautama Buddha’s first visit to Sri Lanka in the ninth month after attaining Enlightenment. Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates from around the world The Buddha first visited Mahiyanganaya in the Uva Province of Sri Lanka about 2,500 years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Sri Lanka in ‘debt trap’, India’s response shows pushback against China has begun
While China waits for a Hambantota Port-like 'takeover' of Colombo port city, India has responded with great alacrity to Sri Lanka’s financial needs. File photo of PM Narendra Modi with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa in New Delhi | Bloomberg Days after Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi returned home from his trip to a handful of Indian Ocean countries, including Sri Lanka, New Delhi eased Colombo from its stressful economic situation by extending a $912 million loan as well as another $1.5 billion for two credit lines involving the purchase of food and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Faulty decisions
Farmers protesting against the prevailing fertiliser shortage. (file photo) The importation of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides was banned by a Cabinet Memorandum, dated April 27, 2021, to promote the use of organic fertilizers and natural pesticides. As a result, inorganic fertilisers such as urea, Triple superphosphate, Muriate of Potash and other agrochemicals (insecticides, fungicides etc.) became scarce. Agriculture Ministry in the meantime promoted manufacture of organic fertilisers (OF) but they were unable to get sufficient amounts of organic fertilisers manufactured. Most of what was available... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
More power to Farmers
Farmers who use complete organic fertilizer for their crops are very rare in Sri LankaBefore this ban, the cost of fertilizer was about Rs.3,000 and now it’s Rs.9,000If our food security is under threat, that becomes a national security issueAgriculture should be changed into a situation where the farmers have ownership and protection of what is theirs It’s the people living in urban areas who should be more concerned than the farmersThere’s no quality assurance process or regulations for these fertilizers made within the country, therefore they won’t contribute much for the crop production ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Fossilised remains of a herd of Rhinoceros unearthed in Lunugala
The fossilised skeletal remains of a herd of Rhinoceros that died in a meteoric shower more than 80,000 years ago have been unearthed from an 80ft deep gem mine at the foot of Rilaulu hill range in Lunugala in Modalsima. Biologist of the Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology Kelum Nalinda Manamendra Arachchi said scientists who examined the fossils confirmed that they were the skulls of Rhinoceros that lived in the Pleistocene age. He said it was sad that the relevant authorities had not taken any interest in these finds to conduct further... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Ex IGP made prior warning to four top Police officers.-Senior DIG.
Former IGP Pujitha Jayasundera had given a prior warning about the Easter Sunday attacks on Catholic Churches to four of the top police officers including DIG Western Police and to the DIG-in-charge of the STF, Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon said today before the trial-at-bar at the Colombo High Court. DIG Tennakoon made this assertion before the three judges of the trial-at-bar giving evidence, led by Deputy solicitor General Dileepa Pieris. DIG Tennakoon further said that on the day the suicide attack took place he was on leave. He also asserted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
India offers $500 million credit line to Sri Lanka for fuel purchase
India has offered a new Line of Credit (LOC) of USD 500 million to Sri Lanka for purchase of petroleum products. India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar extended this critical support in his letter addressed to the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Prof. G.L. Peiris, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said today. “It would be recalled that in a landmark development, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Finance, Mr. Basil Rajapaksa held a detailed virtual meeting on January 15, 2022 and discussed various aspects of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Retired doctor arrested over Borella church hand grenade incident
A retired doctor has been arrested in connection with the hand grenade which was recently found planted inside All Saints’ Church in Borella. He was taken into custody in the area of Piliyandala by the crimes investigation unit of the Colombo South Division. According to the police, lengthy interrogations into the 65-year-old suspect who was apprehended in the Panamura area in Embilipitiya had led the investigators to the arrest of this retired medical officer. Reportedly, the suspect, who previously served as a doctor of the Piliyandala District Hospital, had later... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Sri Lanka records 672 new cases of novel coronavirus and death toll goes up with 13 new victims
The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 672 today (January 18), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 05 individuals who recently arrived on the island from overseas. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 597,707. As many as 568,506 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 13,900 active cases in total are currently... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/01/22)
Bangladesh’s Role In Combating Maritime Threat In The Strategic Bay Of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal, the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, is of great political, economic, and cultural importance to its coastal countries of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia. With maritime trade, fishing, and tourism being the region's most significant economic activities, it faces a variety of maritime security issues, including illicit trade, piracy, armed robbery, and illegal fishing. Incidents of human trafficking after the influx of the Rohingya refugees’ influx to Bangladesh from Myanmar in 2017, piracy, and attacking seamen at the cargo and fishing trawlers and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/22)
ඇයි මෙහෙම හිර වුණේ?- "එයා අපේක්ෂකයා වෙන බව දැන ගත්තහම ජාත්යන්තර සංවිධානවල නියෝජිතයො ඇවිත් එයාට කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය ගැන උපදෙස් දෙන්න ආව බව මම දන්නවා. ඒ අයට ඕනෑ කළේ ලංකාවේ ආහාර නිෂ්පාදනය නතර කරවලා පිටරටින් ආහාර ගෙන්වන ආර්ථිකයක් ලංකාවේ හදන්න".-මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ-
මම දැන් ටොස් එක වගේ මේ දවස්වල ඔබතුමාගේ දේශපාලන කටයුතු කොහොමද? ඔබ වැඩිය දේශපාලන වේදිකාවේ පෙනෙන්න නෑ? මේ දවස්වල දේශපාලන වේදිකා පෙනෙන්න තියෙනවද? නෑනේ. කොරෝනා පැතිරීම නිසා ප්රසිද්ධියේ මහජන රැස්වීම් තියෙන්නෙත් නෑනේ. ඉතින් මාව පෙනෙන්න විදියකුත් නෑනේ. එහෙම නෙවෙයි, ඔබ අතීතයේ රටේ නොයෙක් ප්රශ්න වෙනකොට පෙනී සිටියා. නමුත් දැන් එහෙම පෙනෙන්නේ නැහැ? එහෙම කියන එක හරි නෑ. දවසකට මම රැස්වීම් ගණනාවක් තියනවා. දැන් ගොඩක් විවෘත කිරීම් වාගේ උත්සව තියෙන්නේ සූම් තාක්ෂණයෙන්. චීන කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයේ සියවැනි සංවත්සරයත් ඇමතුවේ සූම් එකෙන්. ඒ වගෙම දවසකට අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/22)
බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්රවාදය - 53 වැනි කොටස - පංචශීල ප්රතිපදාව
පංචශීලයෙන් හික්මුණු සමාජයක් බිහිකිරීම බෞද්ධ ජනරජයේ පරමාර්ථයකි. නිසි ගුරු උපදේශ සහ මගපෙන්වීම් තුළින් අදාළ ගුණධර්ම වගා කරගත් මිනිසුන් බිහි කරගැනීමෙන් මෙම පරමාර්ථය සාක්ෂාත්වන්නේ ය. මෙම කාර්යය උදෙසා මූලික කාර්යයක් ඉටුකළ යුත්තේ විධිමත් සහ අවිධිමත් අධ්යාපනික වැඩපිළිවෙළ විසිනි. පංචශීලය ඇසුරින් ගුණගරුක, සත්පුරුෂයන් බිහිවන ආකාරය අභිධර්ම පිටකයේ පුද්ගල ප්රඥප්ති ප්රකරණයේ එන චතුෂ්ක නිර්දේශය තුළින් විස්තර කෙරෙයි. එහෙයින් එවැනි ඉගැන්වීම් මත පදනම් වුණු අපරාධ නීතියක් සම්පාදනය කිරීම ජනරජයේ වගකීමක් වෙයි. පන්සිල් සුරකින සමාජයක් නීතිය තුළින් බිහිකළ නො හැකි ය. කෙසේ වුව ද, වැරැදි සහ වැරැදිකරුවන් හඳුනාගැනීමට ද එ ලෙසින් හඳුනාගන්නා වැරැදිකරුවන් සියලු දෙනා ජනරජයේ පරමාර්ථවලට අනුකූල වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/01/22)
අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ පෞද්ගලික ධන පරිත්යාගයෙන් ඉඳි වූ නඳුන් මහ සෑයේ නිධන් වස්තු තැන්පත් කිරීම.
ඓතිහාසික තිස්සමහාරාම බෙරලිහෙළ සාලියපුර ශ්රී දුටුගැමුණු රාජමහා විහාර පිරිවෙන් විහාරස්ථානයේ අභිනවයෙන් ඉඳිකරන ලද නඳුන් මහ සෑ චෛත්ය රාජයාණන් වහන්සේගේ ගර්භයේ නිධන් වස්තු තැන්පත් කිරීම දුරුතු පුර පසළොස්වන පොහොය යෙදුණු අද (17) දින අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් සිදුවිය. මෙම චෛත්ය රාජයාණන් වහන්සේ සාදවා නිම කිරීමේ මාහැඟි වූ පුණ්ය කර්තව්යය, පන්නිපිටිය පැලැන්වත්ත විද්යා සමාධි ජාත්යන්තර බෞද්ධ මධ්යස්ථානාධිපති අමරපුර සිරි සද්ධම්මවංස මහා නිකායේ අනුනායක ධූරන්දර අති පූජ්ය හිපන්කන්දේ සද්ධාසිරි නාහිමිපාණන් වහන්සේගේ අනුශාසනා පරිදි ශ්රී දුටුගැමුණු රාජමහා විහාරාධිපති විද්යා ප්රදීප මහ පිරිවෙන් කෘත්යාධිකාරි පූජ්ය හක්මන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
මෙවර දුරුතු පුරපසළොස්වක පොහෝ දින යොවුන් ශීල සමාධි ජාතික වැඩසටහන තිස්සමහාරාම ශ්රී දුටුගැමුණු රජ මහා විහාරස්ථානයේදී.
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උදාර සංකල්පයක් අනුව ක්රියාත්මක කරන 'යොවුන් ශීල සමාධි ජාතික වැඩසටහන' මෙම වසරේ දුරුතු පුර පසළොස්වක පොහොය යෙදුණු අද (17) දින තිස්සමහාරාම බෙරලිහෙළ සාලියපුර ශ්රී දුටුගැමුණු රාජමහා විහාර පිරිවෙන් විහාරස්ථානයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. දැහැමි ගුණගරුක ජන සමාජයක් උදෙසා තරුණ පරපුර සුගතිගාමී කරවීමේ අරමුණ පෙරදැරිව රට පුරා සියලු විහාරස්ථානවල සෑම පසොළොස්වක පොහොය දිනකදී ම තරුණ තරුණියන් ශීල සමාධියෙහි පිහිටුවීම හා දාන ශීල භාවනා වැඩසටහන්වලට යොමු කිරීම යොවුන් ශීල සමාධි ජාතික වැඩසටහනේ අභිමතාර්ථයයි. ඒ අනුව,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
Friend in need: On India-Sri Lanka ties
India and Sri Lanka have shown an ability to quickly act on promises to each other External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s virtual meeting with Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa on Saturday, with an assurance that India will support Sri Lanka “in all possible ways for overcoming the economic and other challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic”, was significant and timely. A crucial week lies ahead for the Sri Lankan economy, when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa must make a decision on whether to service debts to bonds with an instalment of $500 million due on January 18,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
A country needs no enemies when its own politicians advise ISB default: Ajith Nivard Cabraal
Responds to JVP’s Handunnetti and SLFP’s Piyadasa and claims they have no knowledge about ISBs Questions whether foreigners would be ‘insane enough’ to supply defaulting country Says doom-sayers are spoilt children whose ‘lies have been exposed’ Responding to allegations that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) is servicing its maturing International Sovereign Bond (ISB) with a payment of $ 500 million today (18) despite facing a crippling foreign exchange shortage only because the investors of this particular bond are connected to CBSL Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal and the Rajapaksa family, Cabraal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
Sri Lanka Economists Oppose Government’s Allocation of $500 Million for Maturing Bond Repayment
Sri Lanka’s government has set aside $500 million for maturing bond repayment, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on Jan. 5, a move that some economists believe is a mistake given the country’s foreign currency shortage to pay for imports. Cabraal announced on Twitter that $500 million has been allocated for an international sovereign bond maturing on Jan. 18, but some economists opposed the move, urging the government to instead restructure its debt. Sri Lanka is reported to have to make about $4.5 billion in debt repayments in 2022,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
පොළොන්නරුවේ වී ගොවීන් මුහුණ දී සිටින සැබෑ තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳ හෙළිදරව්වක්
පොහොර අර්බුදය මධ්යයේ වුවද පොළොන්නරුව පරාක්රම සමුද්රය සහ මින්නේරිය ගොවි ව්යාපාරවල වගා කටයුතු සාමාන්ය පරිදි සිදුකෙරෙන බව "අද දෙරණ" එහි කළ සංචාරයේදී අනාවරණ විය. එහෙත් මෙවර අපේක්ෂිත අස්වැන්න නොලැබෙන බවත් එළඹෙන කන්නයේදී රසායනික පොහොර නොලැබුණහොත් තමන් කුඹුරු වගා නොකරන බවත් එම ගොවීන් පවසයි. පොළොන්නරුව දිස්ත්රික්කයේ මෙම කන්නයට පෙර සාමාන්ය කන්නයකදී වගාකරන ලද ගොවිබිම් ප්රමාණය හෙක්ටයාර 70,000 කට ආසන්නය. එහිදී එක් හෙක්ටයාරයකින් වී මෙට්රික් ටොන් 5 බැගින් එක් කන්නයකදී ලබාගෙන ඇති මුළු අස්වැන්න වී මෙට්රික් ටොන් තුන්ලක්ෂ පනස්දහසක් පමණ වේ. මෙවර මහ කන්නය ආරම්භයේ ඇතිවූ පොහොර අර්බුදයත් සමඟින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
688 new cases of Covid-19 and Seven new COVID-related deaths in Sri Lanka
The Health Ministry says that another 688 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today (17), increasing the tally of confirmed cases registered in the country to 597,035. Total coronavirus recoveries have risen to 568,373 while the number of infected patients undergoing treatment presently is 13,444. Sri Lanka’s death toll due to the virus thus far is 15,218. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus related deaths for January 16, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,218. This includes 05... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/01/22)
To remind our leaders what we need today: Wind Power to save forex spent on fuel imports.
Today it is reported that we do not have enough dollars tro buy coal and oil to produce electricty. All we need is a few thousand wind turbines sited at Madugoda, at Ramboda, at Ohiya. at Haputale- at places where there is ample wind power, not sited on the coast to run with the evening breeze. It will create employment for hundreds and all with little foreign exchange to import only the turbine mechanism. Even that I am dead cert that Jinasena Pumps can make it locally. It can all be done within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh And Nepal Need China In Their Development Process
It is true that South Asia needs China in its development process because ‘China’ is synonymous with the term “Development”. China’s ambitus project ‘Belt and Road Initiative” provides benefits for almost all South Asian Countries. Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are benefitting from the project directly. On the other hand, China helps most of the South Asian States through its Covid-19 Vaccine Diplomacy. South Asian countries always gain support from China in their crisis moment. ‘Vaccine Diplomacy of China’ is just an example to understand the reality. China helped Bangladesh,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
A critical analysis of the article "Banned pesticides in well water linked to declines in kidney function: Study"
The following article appeared in the newspaper morning.lk.I have added my comments in bold italic regarding the contents of the article. Chandre DW https://www.themorning.lk/banned-pesticides-in-well-water-linked-to-declines-in-kidney-function-study/ Banned pesticides in well water linked to declines in kidney function: Study By Beyond Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Washington, D.C., which works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides) Well water in agricultural regions of Sri Lanka is contaminated with highly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
When Coffee and Ceylon were synonymous
Governor William Gregory's term from 1872 to 1877 was the “golden age” of Ceylon coffee Colombo: Today, Sri Lanka is synonymous with tea and not coffee. As on date, it is way down in the list of coffee producing countries, 43 rd. to be precise. But back in the 1870s, Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then known, was among the top three coffee producing centers beaten only by Brazil and the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. In the last quarter of the 19th.Century, over 111,000 hectares were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
‘Menike Mage Hithe’ is BJP’s theme song in Uttar Pradesh elections
New Delhi, January 16 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva’s “Menike Maga Hithe” which had taken the Indian music scene by storm, is now being used by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to boost the prospects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh State Assembly elections. Uttar Pradesh, among India’s largest States, will go to the polls on February 10. Polling will end on March 7. https://twitter.com/i/status/1482626375177871361 READ: Indian Foreign Minister and Lankan Finance Minister have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Promises made to the people will be fulfilled in next three years: Prez
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday that everything promised to the people to fulfill within five years will be fulfilled in the next three years. The President assured during the opening the Mirigama-Kurunegala section of the Central Expressway that as a leader descended from a farming family, he would always take the lead in protecting the farmer. President Rajapaksa said that he would not forget the youths who had cultivated barren paddy lands when he came to power and invited them to join once again. The President said that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Coronavirus: 690 new cases detected and reports another 14 coronavirus deaths in Sri Lanka
The Health Ministry says that another 690 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (16). This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived from overseas while the remainder are community cases. Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 caseload climbs to 596,347 with this while presently 12,926 patients infected with the virus are undergoing treatment. The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 14 coronavirus related deaths for January 15, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 15,211. This includes 04 males and 10 females while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Cabinet reshuffle put on ice as Government struggles to find solutions
India and China shore up forex for now, but future remains uncertainAfter Indian visit postponed, Basil holds virtual meeting with India’s JaishankarChina mum on debt restructuring, but pushes recommencement of FTA talksDollar shortage leads to oil shortage and in turn electricity shortageCatholic Church makes bold allegation about Easter terror conspiracy3 Ministers tell SC that New Fortress deal was not approved by CabinetPresident notes ‘lost’ years; mulls referendum to lengthen term by two years With Sri Lanka squarely at a crossroads on several dimensions including the national economy, the week ahead... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
If China restructures debt, others will follow: S. R. Attygalle
Attygalle optimistic of receiving financial assistance from lenders The Government of Sri Lanka is optimistic of succeeding in its plan to restructure its debt with bilateral and multilateral lenders if its current attempts to restructure the debt with the Chinese Government materialises, the Treasury told The Sunday Morning Business. Speaking to The Sunday Morning Business, Treasury Secretary S. R. Attygalle stated that if the Government of China were to extend its support to Sri Lanka, and given the existing supporting ally, the Government of India, other lenders would also be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
ත්රිරෝද රථ රියදුරන් බහුවිධ නිපුණතාවයෙන් පූර්ණ කිරීමේ ජාතික මෙහෙවර වයඹ පළාතින් ඇරඹේ
පළාත් මට්ටමින් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිත නිපුණතා උදාන ජාතික වැඩසටහන වයඹ පළාත කේන්ද්ර කරගනිමින් නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය, විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ‘වයඹ උදානය’ නමින් පසුගියදා ආරම්භ විය. මෙම ජාතික වැඩසටහනට සමගාමීව වයඹ පළාතේ විසිර සිටින ත්රිරෝද රථ රියදුරන්ගේ නිපුණතා හැකියාවන් වර්ධනය කර ඔවුන් බහුවිධ නිපුණතා සහිත වෘත්තීලාභීන් බවට පත් කර ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කිරීමේ අරමුණින් "Skills 4 you" වැඩසටහන ආරම්භ විය. එම වැඩසටහන යටතේ ත්රීරෝද රථ රියදුරන් හට, 🔸ගොඩනැගිලි නඩත්තු සහ සේවා 🔸ලෝහ පිරික්සුම්කරණය ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
නිසි වෙලාවට බොරතෙල් ආනයනය කිරීමට අපොහොසත්වීම නිසා පිරිපහදුවේ නිශ්පාදන කටයුතු පූර්ණ ලෙස අඩාල වීම පිළිබඳව පැමිණිලි කිරීම
ගරු ඛනිජ තෙල් සහ බලශක්ති අමාත්යතුමා. ඛනිජ තෙල් සහ බලශක්ති අමාත්යංශය, මල් පාර, කොළඹ. ගරු සභාපතිතුමා ඛනිජ තෙල් නීතිගත සංස්තථාව මගින්, පිරිපහදු කළමණාකාරතුමා පිරිපහදුව මගින්, ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි, නිසි වෙලාවට බොරතෙල් ආනයනය කිරීමට අපොහොසත්වීම නිසා පිරිපහදුවේ නිශ්පාදන කටයුතු පූර්ණ ලෙස අඩාල වීම පිළිබඳව පැමිණිලි කිරීම නිසි වේලාවට බොරතෙල් ආනයනය කොට පිරිපහදුවේ නිෂ්පාදන ක්රියාවලිය අඛණ්ඩව පවත්වාගෙන යාම, පිරිපහදුවේ ඉහළ කලමනාකාරිත්වයේ සිට ඛනිජ තෙල් නීතිගත සංස්තථාවෙත්, ඛනිජ තෙල් අමාත්යංශයේත් ප්රමුඛ තම කාර්යාභාරයක් ලෙස සලකා ඒ වෙනුවෙන්ම සැකසූ නිලධාරී පලන රටාවක් පවතිද්දී මේ වනවිට නිසි වෙලාවට බොරතෙල් ආනයනය කිරීමට අපොහොසත් වීම නිසා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Cardinal Ranjith at Tewatte church today.. Disappointingly Continuing To Raise Allegations In Face of Now Known FACTS
Dear Editor , It is disappointing and frustrating to see the respected Cardinal, continuing to raise doubts of a “ underlying conspiracy " despite the clear facts identified by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday Bombings, not finding any underlyingcnspiracy . To raise these doubts he uses a. concern raised by an earlier appointed and later discredited parliamentary select committee, ( PSC) appointed by then PM RW, primarily with a view to deflecting any suspicion away from him,.The select committee included those well known to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
විදුලියට තවත් මාරකයක්.. ලොක්කෙක් පගාවක් ඉල්ලා මැලේසියා සමාගමක් ඩොලර් මිලියන 180ක් ඉල්ලා සිංගප්පූරුවේ නඩු දමයි..
ලංකා විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයෙන් ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් මිලියන 180 ක වන්දියක් ඉල්ලා මැලේසියානු සමාගමක් විසින් සිංගප්පූරු බේරුම්කාර මණ්ඩලයට පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. යාපනය සුළං සහ සූර්ය බල ව්යාපෘතියක් පිහිටුවීමට මෙම මැලේසියානු සමාගමට බලපත්රයකින් අනුමැතිය ලබාදී පසුව එය අවලංගු කර ඇති බව විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයේ ප්රකාශකයෙක් පැවසීය. බේරුම්කාර මණ්ඩලයේ විභාග වන මෙම නඩුව සඳහා මේ වන විට නීතිඥයන්ට රුපියල් මිලියන 200 ක ට වැඩි මුදලක් වැය කර ඇතැයි ද ඔහු සඳහන් කළේය. ව්යාපෘතිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා මණ්ඩලය නිලධාරියෙක් ඩොලර් මිලියන 2 ක අල්ලසක් ඉල්ලා සිටි බවද එම සමාගම බේරුම්කාර මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Indian Foreign Minister and Lankan Finance Minister have fruitful online interaction
Colombo, January 15 (newsin.asia): The Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar held a virtual meeting with Finance Minister of Sri Lanka Basil Rajapaksa on Saturday in which an Indian credit facility of US$ 1 billion for importing essential items and US$ 500 million for importing fuel from India were discussed. Dr. Jaishankar conveyed that “India has always stood with Sri Lanka, and will continue to support Sri Lanka in all possible ways for overcoming the economic and other challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic.” As close friends and maritime neighbors, both India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Prehistoric community heterogeneous despite Sinhalese character and ethnos
Kozakian Shamshir weapon made of crucible steel from the collection of the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels The ancient kings, inspired by Buddhism and the constant need to feed a growing population, produced a new culture as well as a new economy. They also created the necessary institutions to plan and implement development projects for transforming the dry zone. Buddhism figured prominently in the island’s hydraulic civilization, which emerged during the Early Historic Period (500 BCE-300 CE). Although the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/01/22)
Easter Sunday carnage cannot be blamed on Muslim extremists alone – Cardinal
Dastardly conspiracy gradually unfolding’ Declaring that 2019 Easter Sunday carnage couldn’t be blamed on Muslim extremists alone, the Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday (14) questioned the failure on the part of the government to at least implement the recommendations made by the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) and the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the near simultaneous suicide attacks. Delivering a sermon at the Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka where the Catholic Bishops’ Conference organised a special prayer service to mark 1000th day since the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
Defence Secy. reacts to Cardinal’s criticism about probe
Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne said it is not fair to criticize the police investigation into the incident in which a grenade was found at the Borella All Saints' Church, less than 24 hours after it was reported. He made this remarks responding to the statement made by Archbishop His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith regarding the investigation into the incident. Speaking to media after meeting with Chief Prelates of Malwatta and Asgiriya chapters, he assured that all those involved in the incident will be brought to justice. "Investigation is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
COVID: 661 new infections and 07 new COVID fatalities confirmed in Sri Lanka today
The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 661 today (January 15), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 04 individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 595,657. As many as 568,049 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 12,400 active cases in total are currently under medical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
Omicron cases in Sri Lanka surge with 160 new infections
Sri Lanka has identified 160 new cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.1.529), says Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, the Director of the Department of Immunology & Molecular Medicine at Sri Jayewardenepura University. These Omicron patients were found among 182 samples that were sequenced by the laboratory of the J’pura University. The new development pushed the total number of Omicron cases confirmed by the J’pura University’s lab so far to 205. Accordingly, Omicron now appears to be on its way to become the dominant variant of Covid-19 on the island, brushing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
The truth about future availability and pricing of medicines in Sri Lanka
Colombo, Jan 14 (AdaDerana) – In the context of rising prices of all consumer products and the limited availability of most, the people of Sri Lanka, are faced with two ominous questions about which they are justifiably anxious. Will there be a scarcity of medicines in the near future in the country and if so, should they be stocking up their regular medications?Will the price of medicines go up in conjunction with all the other products in the market? Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates from around the world Availability... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
US ‘pleased’ with Russian arrest of ransomware hackers
Biden administration said one of the suspected hackers arrested in Russia was to blame for the Colonial Pipeline attack The Biden administration is “pleased” about Russia arresting several suspected hackers, including one allegedly behind the ransomware attack that led to week-long fuel shortages last year. A senior administration official, speaking with reporters on Friday, said Moscow had informed Washington about the arrests, and that one of the individuals involved was responsible for the May 2021 attack that crippled the Colonial Pipeline. “I want to be very... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවති ජාතික තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය
ජාතික තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද (14) දින පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ගොවිතැන් කටයුතු සඳහා සූර්ය දෙවියන්ගෙන් ලැබුණු ශක්තියට කෘතගුණ සැලකීම මුල් කරගනිමින් දමිළ දින දර්ශනයේ පළමු දිනය මෙලෙස සුවිශේෂීත්වයෙන් සැමරීම සිදු වේ. අස්වනු නෙලා ගැනීම සහ නෙලාගත් අස්වැන්නෙන් පළමු කොටස යොදා පොංගල් කිරිබත සෑදීම මෙම මංගල්යයේ චාරිත්රයකි. බුද්ධශාසන ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්යවරයා වශයෙන් අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි මෙවර තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය උත්සවශ්රීයෙන් සැමරීමට අවශ්ය වටපිටාව සකසා තිබිණි. අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති ජාතික තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය හින්දු සංස්කෘතික අංග වලින් විචිත්රවත් වූ අතර අග්රාමාත්යතුමා සමඟ අග්රාමාත්ය ආර්යා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
Conservationists, veterinarians warn Sri Lankan plastic waste is killing region's elephants
Two elephants recently died in Sri Lanka after swallowing large amounts of plastic found in a garbage heap, prompting a renewed warning from conservationists about the issue. The Associated Press reported that at least 20 elephants have died in the past eight years from eating plastic waste in the open landfill in Pallakkadu village. The wild elephant population in Sri Lanka has plummeted 65 percent since the 19th century, with somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 left, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Elephants are protected under Sri Lankan law, and killing one... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
Sri Lankan tea exports earned 1.3 bln USD in 2021
Sri Lanka’s tea industry performed well in 2021 earning 1.3 billion U.S. dollars despite lower yields and higher costs of production, state media reported on Thursday. Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tea Board Jayampathy Molligoda was quoted by the state-owned Daily News as saying that Sri Lanka earned approximately 1.3 billion U.S. dollars from the export of 288 million kilos of tea in 2021. Molligoda said the cost of production of Sri Lankan tea is among the highest in the global market and tea production peaked in 2013 and has declined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
Sri Lanka: How Does A Country Restructure Its External Debt?
When a company’s foreseeable future earnings are not sufficient to repay debts, the company in question may choose to restructure its debt. And this applies to countries too. In years gone by, several countries have chosen to restructure their debt, with Sri Lanka potentially soon to join them. Image by Sneharashmini - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111021371 How does debt restructuring work for countries? Throughout history, there have been several cases of countries facing default on their external debt, including North Korea in 1987, Russia in 1998, and Argentina in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/01/22)
Elephants are dying from eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump
Wild elephants scavenge for food at an open landfill in Pallakkadu village in Ampara district, about 130 miles east of the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.AP MORE ON:ELEPHANTS Terrifying moment sex-crazed 13-foot elephant charges safari truckAfrica sees elephant baby boom thanks to pandemicIndonesia baby elephant dies after losing half of her trunkBaby elephant loses half its trunk to Indonesia poacher trap PALLAKKADU, Sri Lanka — Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Why Gotabaya Is Battling A Crisis No Sri Lankan Leader Has Faced – Analysis
For a large number of 6.9 million voters who voted for Gotabaya Rajapakse in the 2019 presidential election, it was like giving a benefit of the doubt. This is because GR was a political novice at age 70. And his style of management or governance was a big question mark, although he was credited with military success. After two years, a vast majority of Sri Lankans aren’t convinced that giving the benefit of the doubt is a good idea when electing national leaders. As Sri Lanka descends deeper into economic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Rs. 229 bn relief package will lead to printing more money
By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Minister D.E.W. Gunasekera says that the cash-strapped government lacked the wherewithal to implement the much publicized Rs 229 bn relief package. Therefore, the one-time General Secretary of the Communist Party said the government had no option but to print more money at the expense of financial stability at a time the country was under tremendous pressure. The former minister quit the top party post in August 2020. CP organ ‘Aththa,’ in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Probe still at early stage, all those involved will be arrested soon- IGP
At least 14 statements have been recorded so far in connection with the recovery of a hand grenade at the Borella All Saints' Church and those involved into the incident will be arrested irrespective of their possition, IGP C.D. Wickramaratne said. In a special statement the IGP said that those involved will be brought to justice. The IGP said that the Borella Police first commenced investigations into the incident after the hand grenade was found on January 11. Thereafter the Colombo Crimes Division took action... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Booster dose plummets rate of hospitalization due to Omicron by 90%
Three doses of COVID-19 vaccine drop hospitalization by 90% in people above 65 years of age, health experts highlighted. According to Head of the Immunology and Molecular Medicine Department at the Sri Jayewardenepura University Prof. Neelika Malavige, hospitalization due to Omicron is also dropped by 50% with two vaccine doses in the over 65 age group. “It is the people above 65 age of who are highly susceptible to get hospitalized and succumb to the virus. Omicron in the US is commonly seen among the unvaccinated population over 65 years.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Conspiracy to embarrass Govt.- Minister Sarath Weerasekara
Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara said today there was a main conspirator behind the incidents where hand grenades were placed at a private hospital in Narahenpita and at the Borella All Saints’ Church premises. He told reporters that in both instances, it was the same person who placed the bombs, who had found the bombs, and informed of them. He said this was a move to embarrass the government, police and security forces and added that the mastermind behind these incidents would be arrested soon.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
677 new cases of Covid-19 and 16 new COVID deaths reported in Sri Lanka
The Health Ministry reports that 677 new cases of the coronavirus have been detected today (14). This figure includes 03 persons who had arrived from overseas while the rest are community cases. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 594,996 while over 11,000 infected patients are currently under medical care. Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 16 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 13, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 15,190. According to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
"Red light for China, Green Light for India"
13 January 2022 Mr. R. Sampanthan , MPPresident, Tamil National Alliance16(30), Martin RoadJaffnaSri Lanka Dear Mr. Sampanthan (Sam): You intrigue me, and here I am writing to you again. This time to let you hear my thoughts on your down right arrogance letting the 21 million Sri Lankans know that You on behalf of the rest of the Tamils residing in the North and the East of the island decides who was welcome and who was not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Is the US right in sanctioning RAB in Bangladesh?
Although the RAB has paid a heavy price in its campaign against terrorists and drug smugglers, the US has unfairly imposed sanctions against the group. A major obstacle to Bangladesh’s progress has traditionally been a volatile law and order situation, which forced the government to form an elite force to make the police more dynamic and effective. This is how the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) began its journey on March 26, 2004. Its operational activities started on June 21 that year. Since its birth, the RAB has been fighting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
මෙවර රාජ්ය වෙසක් උත්සවයට පෙර නාගදීප රජ මහ විහාරය පූජා භූමියක් ලෙස නම් කර සන්නස් පත්රය පිළිගන්වන්න - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
මෙවර රාජ්ය වෙසක් උත්සවයට ප්රථම නාගදීප රජ මහා විහාරය පූජා භූමියක් ලෙස නම් කර ඊට අදාළ සන්නස් පත්රය පිළිගැන්වීම කළ යුතු යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. රාජ්ය වෙසක් උත්සවය - 2022 බලංගොඩ කූරගල ඓතිහාසික පුදබිම කේන්ද්ර කරගනිමින් පැවැත්වීමට තීරණය කරමින් ඊයේ (12) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව දැනුම් දුන්නේය. “ගියවර රාජ්ය වෙසක් උත්සවය පැවැත්වීමට අපි තීරණය කළේ ඓතිහාසික නාගදීප රජ මහා විහාරය කේන්ද්ර කර ගනිමින්. පැවති කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්ත්වය සමඟ සෞඛ්ය අංශයෙන් ලැබුණු උපදෙස් නිසා ජනතාවගේ සෞඛ්ය ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් රාජ්ය වෙසක් උත්සවය පැවැත්වීමට නොහැකි වුණා. මෙවර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
සුභාශිංසන පණිවුඩය
සමස්ත දමිළ ජනතාව බැතියෙන් සමරන තෛපොංගල් උත්සවය කෘතගුණ සැලකීම මුල්කරගත් උතුම් මංගල්යයකි. අස්වනු නෙලීම දක්වා හිරු දෙවියන් ඇතුළු ස්වභාවධර්මයෙන් කෘෂිකර්මාන්තයට ලැබුණු ශක්තිය සහ උපකාරයන් සිහිපත් කිරීම මෙම උතුම් මංගල්යයේ විශේෂත්වයකි. හින්දු දින දර්ශනයට අනුව පළමු මාසය සහ උදාව යන්න අර්ථවත් කරමින් තෛපොංගල් ලෙසින් සමරන මෙම උත්සවය ලොව පුරා දමිළ ජනතාවගේ ආගමික, සමාජීය හා සංස්කෘතික බැඳීම් විදහාපායි. විවිධ භාෂාවන් කතා කරන විවිධ ආගම් හා ජාතීන්ට අයත් ජනතාවක් ජීවත් වන ශ්රී ලංකාව සංස්කෘතික බැඳීම්වලින් පොහොසත් රටකි. ඒ නිසාම මෙවැනි උතුම් දිනයක ඇති සමාජ අර්ථය ජීවිතයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
තෛපොංගල් සුභ පැතුම්
ලෝකවාසී හින්දු භක්තිකයන් දුරුතු මස උත්සවශ්රීරීයෙන් සමරන තෛපොංගල් දිනය සාමාජීය, සංස්කෘතික හා ආගමික වශයෙන් අතිශය වැදගත්ය. අද දින ශ්රී ලාංකීය හා ලෝකවාසී සියළු හින්දු භක්තිකයන් වෙත තෛපොංගල් සුභ පැතුම් එක් කිරීමට අවස්ථාව ලැබීම පිළිබඳව මා බෙහෙවින් සතුටු වෙමි. කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය තම ජීවනෝපාය කරගත් ජනතාව අද දින හිරු දෙවියන්ට කෘතඥතාවය දක්වමින් තම ජීවන රටාවෙහි දියුණුව අපේක්ෂා කරයි. එසේම ස්වභාව ධර්මයට ගරු කරමින්, කළගුණ සැලකිය යුතුය යන්න මානුෂීය ගුණාංගයක් බව සියළු ජාතීන්ගේ අභිලාෂය වේය යන්න තෛපොංගල් දිනයේ ප්රාරාර්ථනාවයි. තෛපොංගල් වැනි සැමරුම් හේතුවෙන් ජනතාව අතර ඇතිවන නව බලාපොරොත්තු පවුල් ඒකකය මඟින් සමස්ත සමාජයට ගලාගෙන යනු ලබයි. මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
The truth about future availability and pricing of medicines in Sri Lanka
Colombo, Jan 14 (AdaDerana) – In the context of rising prices of all consumer products and the limited availability of most, the people of Sri Lanka, are faced with two ominous questions about which they are justifiably anxious. Will there be a scarcity of medicines in the near future in the country and if so, should they be stocking up their regular medications?Will the price of medicines go up in conjunction with all the other products in the market? Availability of medicines in the future At least some sections of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/01/22)
Sri Lanka puts the splendour into travel
Colonial mansions and chattering monkeys turn up the heat for Brigit Grant in Sri Lanka There are lots of things one expects to see at breakfast. Cereal boxes. Eggs in cups. Toast in a rack. But a monkey hanging from the branch of a Foxtail palm tree? Now that’s something different. Except it’s not, in Sri Lanka. Tufted grey langur monkeys engaged in a game of chase or clinging to rattans as they swing from palm to palm is morning cabaret at Haritha Villas + Spa and it’s an unmissable petit dejeuner performance. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/22)
Veganuary: Sri Lankan pulled jackfruit burgers
This week's yummy recipe is extracted from Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen: Over 90 Plant-Based Recipes to Save the Planet and Nourish the Soul Photo: Elena Heatherwick It can take 2,350 litres of fresh water to produce just one 150g beef burger – that’s enough water to fill 30 bathtubs or have a five-hour shower! So that’s a good reason to try this sensational pulled meat-style jackfruit instead and enjoy a burger experience without harming the environment.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/22)
Patali discharged after JMO's examination
The Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) yesterday (12) examined the health condition of SJB MP Patali Champika Ranawaka, as per an order issued by Colombo High Court judge Damith Thotawattavon the previous day. The JMO was ordered to submit a report, promptly, on the MP's health condition. The order was issued after the former Minister failed to appear in court for a case against him and two others Dilum Thusitha Kumara and ASP Sudath Asmadala was taken up for hearing. The trio have been charged with concealing and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/22)
Litro Chairman reappointed several hours after removal
Chairman of Litro Gas Lanka Theshara Jayasinghe is reported to have been reappointed several hours after he was removed from the position. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is reported to have instructed to reinstate the sacked Chairman following an inspection visit at the Litro Gas Terminal this morning even though the Finance Ministry Secretary has sent the letter of removal. It was informed that former Housing Development Authority Chairman Renuka Perera was appointed to the position left vacant after Jayasinghe's removal.(Ajantha Kumara Agalakada)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/22)
India extends USD 900 million facilities to Sri Lanka
The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, calling on Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, has expressed his country’s strong support to the island nation in the wake of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extending over USD 900 million facilities over the last week. These comprise deferment of Asian Clearing Union settlement of over USD 500 million and currency swap of USD 400 million, the Indian High Commissioner said in a tweet. The Indian envoy has noted that these steps are in line with India’s strong commitment to stand with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/22)
Daily COVID caseload moves up with 594 new infections and records 11 new COVID deaths
Courtesy Adaderana The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 594 today (January 13), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 04 individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 594,319. As many as 567,700 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 11,400 active cases in total are currently under... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/01/22)
Retired DIG's Anguish
The writer and his partner were invited on 1 January 2022 by Ceylon oldest living Olympian boxer, retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sumith Liyanage, with some guests. Our conversation at the lunch table discussed details of Sumith's career in Sri Lanka's Police force. During the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Sumith Liyanage fought in the same ring where young Cassius Clay as an amateur fought earlier in the light heavyweight category. It was at the Palazzo Dello Sports arena, and he fought against Poland's Jerzy Adamski. Sumith Liyanage was an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
මේ රට නාවික කේන්ද්රයක් කරමින් ආසියාවේ බලවත් රටක් ලෙස ඉදිරියට යාමට තැබූ බලාපොරොත්තුව අත්හැර නැහැ - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
වරාය ගොඩනැගීම මඟින් මේ රට නාවික කේන්ද්රයක් බවට පත්කරමින් ආසියාවේ බලවත් රටක් ලෙස ඉදිරියට යාමට තැබූ බලාපොරොත්තුව අත්හැර නොමැති බව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. දකුණු ආසියාවේ සමුද්රීය කේන්ද්රස්ථානය කොළඹ වරාය නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (12) දින පෙරවරුවේ මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු ආරම්භ කිරීමට අදාළ සමරු ඵලකය නිරාවරණය කිරීම සහ ඉදිකිරීම් ආරම්භ කිරීමේ සංඥාව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ලබා දෙන ලදී. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ වරාය හා නාවික අමාත්ය රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා ද එම අවස්ථාවට එක්ව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Border killings: detrimental to the India-Bangladesh bilateral ties?
No one has the right to kill a citizen at the border. This is a clear violation of human rights and international law. We need to intensify our foreign policy and diplomatic efforts to reduce border killings to zero. According to Human Rights Watch, between 2000 and 2019, the BSF shot and killed at least 1,165 Bangladeshis on the Bangladesh-India borders. The friendly relations between the two countries need to be taken into account by the Indian Border Security Force. They have to understand that there is no war on the border. Shooting alone... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
අධ්යාපන විද්යාපීඨවල 02 වන වසර සිසුන් නැවත මාස 03 ක නේවාසික පුහුණුවට කැදවීමේදී පැනනැගී ඇති ගැටඵ සම්බන්ධයි
ගරු අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය, දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්යතුමනි, අධ්යාපන විද්යාපීඨවල 02 වන වසර සිසුන් නැවත මාස 03 ක නේවාසික පුහුණුවට කැදවීමේදී පැනනැගී ඇති ගැටඵ සම්බන්ධයි. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් 2020 ඔක්. 10 වෙනි දින වසා දැමුණු අධ්යාපන විද්යාපීඨ පළමුව නිරෝධායන මධ්යස්ථාන බවටත්, පසුව ප්රතිකාර මධ්යස්ථාන බවටත් පත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව එහි නේවාසිකව සිටි සිසුන්ගේ පොත්පත් උපකරණ, ඇදුම් පැළදුම් ඇතුඵ දේපළවලට බරපතළ හානි සිදුව තිබියදී ඒ කිසිත් නොසලකා මාස 03 ක් සදහා නැවත 02 වන වසර සිසුන් අධ්යාපන විද්යාපීඨ නේවාසිකාගාරවලට කැදවිම සම්බන්ධව විරෝධය පළ කරන අප සංගමය මීට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
China to revise Lankan loans repayment schedules
Colombo, January 12 (newsin.asia): China has plans to revise schedules for the repayment of loans given to Sri Lanka, in response to the request made by the Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during his meeting with the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on January 9, the Global Times said. The Communist Party-run Global Times quoted Song Wei, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, as saying that the interest-free loans offered by the Chinese government are applicable for debt relief while the concessional loans raised through the market cannot... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Sri Lanka to meet all debt repayments while rebuilding forex reserves: Central bank
COLOMBO (REUTERS) - The Sri Lankan government will meet all debt repayments in 2022 and work on a more comprehensive plan to address its dwindling foreign exchange reserves, said central bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal on Wednesday (Jan 12). Sri Lanka managed to boost its reserves to US$3.1 billion (S$4.2 billion) at the end of December, thanks to a yuan currency swap with China worth US$1.5 billion. The government is also currently in talks with India and Qatar to obtain multiple credit lines and a currency swap arrangement, totalling around US$2.9 billion. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
China To Revise Sri Lankan Loans Repayment Schedules – OpEd
A part of interest-free loans may be the first to be rescheduled while arrangements for other loans will have to be negotiated China has plans to revise schedules for the repayment of loans given to Sri Lanka, in response to the request made by the Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during his meeting with the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on January 9, the Global Times said. The Communist Party-run Global Times quoted Song Wei, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Sri Lanka seeks 1 billion dollar loan from India
Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa told the visiting Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi that Sri Lanka would be helped if the debt could be restructured. Sri Lanka is currently experiencing a shortage of almost all essentials due to a shortage of dollars to pay for the imports. Sri Lanka is negotiating a USD one billion loan from India to import goods from the country, the governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on Wednesday, amidst a shortage of almost all essential commodities. Cabraal also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Sri Lanka is on the road to recovery: Cabraal
Sri Lanka’s economy is gradually but surely on the road to recovery and the country will record a GDP growth of over 5% in 2022, Governor of the Central Bank, Ajith Nivard Cabraal said today. “The government is in the process of negotiating with India and China to obtain the assistance of the two friendly countries – a super power and a regional power - to facilitate debt repayment of Sri Lanka which is the major issue before us right now,” Cabraal said. Cabraal said he had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Sri Lanka rules out IMF bailout, seeks new China loan
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka ruled out an IMF bailout on Wednesday and said it plans to seek another loan from China to address an economic crisis that has led to food and fuel shortages. The island's tourism-dependent economy has been battered by the pandemic, with supermarkets rationing goods and rolling blackouts imposed by power utilities unable to fund oil imports. Sri Lanka seeks Chinese debt reschedule for crashing economy International rating agencies have warned of a looming sovereign default on Sri Lanka's $35 billion foreign debt as the treasury battles... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief released on bail in Sri Lanka
Rasheed Hajjul Akbar was arrested in March 2021 by counterterrorism police, say sources. The former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Sri Lanka was released on bail by a Colombo court on Wednesday, sources said. “Our lawyers had challenged the detention of Usthadh Rasheed Hajjul Akbar as illegal under fundamental rights violation in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka,” sources close to the case told Anadolu Agency from Colombo. Akbar, 61, was arrested last year in March by the counterterrorism and investigation division of the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Daily Covid-19 cases count climbs to 653 and records 14 more COVID-related deaths
The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 653 today (January 12), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include 02 individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 593,725. As many as 567,519 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 11,000 active cases in total are currently under medical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
What Happens When Countries Do Not Pay Back Their Debt?
Sovereign debt is regularly in the news even though we may not realize it. Several poor countries keep defaulting on their debt. This occurs more frequently with countries in Latin America and Africa. People have a limited understanding of how sovereign debt works. This is because sovereign debt is a bit counter-intuitive. It is true that countries borrow money just like companies and must repay them in a similar fashion. If a company fails to repay the debt, it must face the consequences of its action. However, when a nation defaults on its debt,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
How is Money Created? – Everything You Need to Know
A lot of people can feel and see the wealth inequality but they have no idea where it is coming from - US as an example With trillions of dollars being printed around the world, it's time we take a look into how money is created. https://youtu.be/mzoX7zEZ6h4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Be Patriotic Not Hysteric - To Both Politicians and Media in Sri Lanka
Dear Editor , Please find below my response on listening to an interview given by the exUNP, now SJB , finance spokesperson on his hysterical advocation of “joining the world” seemingly oblivious to all the efforts of the past two years of inviting foreign investment ,with each visiting heads to SL ,and with each interaction with every foreign head by SL’s head of state & the improvement in conditions for foreign investment with legislation to make it a "one stop shop” with the Colombo Port City Commissioning bill. Has he short... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Animal Welfare Bill granted Cabinet Approval
Justice for Animals and Nature welcomes the grant of Cabinet Approval for the long-awaited Animal Welfare Bill initially drafted by the Law Commission of Sri Lanka and handed over to the then President Mahinda Rajapakse for enactment in May 2006. It has taken more than 15 years for the Govt. to reach the stage of giving Cabinet approval for this Bill that will enhance the protection given to Animals at a level comparable with modern standards of care. Its enactment will raise the moral stature of Sri Lanka in the civilized world. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
නිපුණතා සපිරි අනාගතයක් වෙනුවෙන් "නිපුණතා උදානය" ජාතික වැඩසටහන වයඹ පුරවරයෙන් ඇරඹේ.
ශ්රී ලාංකීය ශ්රම බලකායට එක්වන්නන් හට වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපනය ලබා දෙන ආයතනවල සමස්ත ක්රියාදාමය වැඩිදියුණු කරමින් නිපුණත්වයෙන් සපිරි අනාගත පරපුරක් බිහි කිරීමේ අභිප්රායෙන් නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යංශය සහ ඒ යටතේ පවතින ජාතික වෘත්තීය පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථානවල එකමුතුවෙන් පළාත් මට්ටමින් ක්රියාත්මක කෙරෙන ජාතික මෙහෙවරක් වන "නිපුණතා උදාන 2022" ජාතික වැඩසටහනේ සමාරම්භය වයඹ පළාත කේන්ද්ර කරගනිමින් "වයඹ උදානය" නමින් ඊයේ (10) දින නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් සාරගම දිස්ත්රික් වෘත්තීය පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථානයේ දී පැවැත්විණ. මෙහි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
අධිවේගී මාර්ගයේ පැවැත්වෙන පාපැදි ධාවන තරගාවලිය ලබන 14වැනිදා
මධ්යම අධිවේගී මාර්ගයේ මීරිගම - කුරුණෑගල කොටස විවෘත කිරීමට පෙර දින (14) තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය සහ මහා මාර්ග අමාත්යාංශය එක්ව ශ්රී ලංකා පාපැදි සම්මේලනයේ පූර්ණ අධීක්ෂණය යටතේ කාණ්ඩ තුනකින් සමන්විත පාපැදි තරගාවලියක් පැවැත්වීමට කටයුතු සංවිධානය කර තිබේ. රටේ සංවර්ධන ක්රියාවලියට සමඟාමීව ක්රීඩාවේ ජවය යාවත්කාලීන කිරීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව මෙම පාපැදි ශූරතාවලිය පැවැත්වේ. ජාතික හා අන්තර්ජාතික තරග නීති රීතිවලට සහ කොවිඩ් මාර්ගෝපදේශවලට යටත්ව පැවැත්වෙන මෙම පාපැදි තරගාවලිය මෙරට කාන්තා හා පිරිමි පාපැදි තරගකරුවන්ට ලැබෙන සුවිශේෂී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
China’s recipe for Sri Lanka’s economic recovery
Colombo, January 11 (newsin.asia): During his visit to Sri Lanka on January 8 and 9, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, had clearly indicated that China is keen on going beyond infrastructural development to investing in industries in the island nation to help it industrialize and develop a “Made in Sri Lanka” brand. He also urged an early conclusion of the long drawn out negotiations on a Sino-Lankan Free Trade Agreement so that the island’s economy is put on a more solid and modern footing, based on investment and trade. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
Sri Lanka relief package may worsen budget problems: Moody’s
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s 227 billion rupee ‘relief package’ to state workers and low income households may boost an economic recovery but will worsen the deficit, Moody’s a rating agency said. The handouts are about 1.6 percent of projected gross domestic product by Moody’s. “While the size of the package is moderate and will be fully funded via reallocations from the budget (6% of budget expenditure in 2022), it reduces the scope for fiscal and debt consolidation at a time when fiscal flexibility is already severely limited by the large share of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
ජනාධිපතිගේ ඉල්ලීම ලෝකයට රතු සංඥාවක්… ශ්රේණිගත කිරීම්වලින් තවත් පහල යයි..
ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රකාශයක් හේතුවෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාව නැවතත් ලෝකයේ ණය ශ්රේණිගත කිරීම්වලින් පහත හෙලීමේ අවදානමක් මතුව ඇතැයි සමගි ජන බලවේගය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී චම්පික රණවක මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. චීනයට ගෙවීමට ඇති ණය ගෙවීම සදහා අමතර කාලයක් ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් චීන විදේශ ඇමැතිවරයා මුණගැසුණු ඉල්ලීම මීට හේතුව බව ඔහු පැවසීය. මෙම ඉල්ලීම ශ්රී ලංකාව දැන් ණය ගෙවීමට හැකියාවක් නැති රටක් ලෙස මුල්ය වෙලදපලට දුන් ඉතා භයානක සංඥාවක් යැයිද ඔහු කියා සිටියි. මේ හේතුවෙන් මූල්ය වෙළඳපල විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාව තව තවත් පහළ හෙළීමට කටයුතු කරනු ඇති බවත් ඔහු පවසයි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/01/22)
SriLankan Airlines resumes codeshare operations with American Airlines
SriLankan Airlines announced (10-Jan-2022) it resumed codeshare operations with American Airlines from 23-Dec-2021 (Routes Online/Lanka Business Online/Colombo Page, 10/11-Jan-2022). Under the agreement, SriLankan codeshares on the following American Airlines services: New York JFK to London Heathrow and Paris CDG;Miami to London Heathrow and Paris CDG;Dallas Fort Worth to Paris CDG and Frankfurt;Chicago O'Hare-London Heathrow;Los Angeles-London Heathrow. SriLankan Airlines acting CEO and CCO Richard Nuttall stated: "We are pleased to reinstate our codeshare partnership with American Airlines as SriLankan Airlines continues to expand its operations in Europe". [more - original PR]... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/22)
Operation Flycatcher: disrupting Sri Lanka’s terrorist networks
Suspected terrorists and foreign fighters among arrests during INTERPOL-coordinated operation COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Boosting the ability of frontline border officers to detect travelers as potential terrorists was the focus of a counter- terrorism (CT) and border management operation led by INTERPOL across Sri Lanka. Codenamed Operation Flycatcher II, the five-day (8 - 12 November) operation saw the arrest of six suspects linked to terrorism, with further arrests and prosecutions foreseen globally as investigations continue to unfold. The operation saw Sri Lanka’s police, border and immigration agencies undertake specialized INTERPOL... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/22)
Hand grenade found at Borella All Saints’ Church premises
A hand grenade was found at the Borella All Saints' Church premises by the STF this evening. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident. Steps were being taken to defuse the ordinance, police said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/22)
Chinese Embassy lifts blacklisting on People’s Bank
The Economic and Commercial Office of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo has rolled back the move to blacklist the People’s Bank in Sri Lanka over the row concerning the payment for a consignment of organic fertilizer containing harmful bacteria shipped by a China-based company. The People’s Bank was blacklisted on October 29, 2021, for failing to make the payment in compliance with the Letter of Credit and the contracts. As per the terms of the contracts, the payment for the controversial organic fertilizer shipment was slated to be made through a Letter... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/22)
Coronavirus: 623 new cases confirmed within the day and death toll rises with 15 new victims
The daily count of COVID-19 cases recorded in Sri Lanka moved to 623 today (January 11), the Health Ministry said. According to the Government Information Department, the newly-detected cases include four individuals who recently arrived on the island. The latest development has brought the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country so far to 593,072. As many as 567,360 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 10,500 active cases in total are currently under medical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/01/22)
Vellalar extremism turns into “Tamil nationalism”
In three simple sentences Prof. S. Arasaratnam, the historian, has summed up the overarching force that governed Jaffna. He stated: “The Vellahlas (sic) were thus the key caste in the Tamil social system. They dominated the villages and ran its affairs. The numerous other castes served the Vellahlas.” ( p. 110 – Ceylon, Prentice- Hall Inc. 1964). This defines the omnipresent, Vellalar-dominated hierarchy that penetrated every nook and corner of the peninsula and dictated its laws and customs (Tesawalamai) to the subservient non-Vellalars. Even though Vellalars had no centralised political power during colonial and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
SHOULD PEOPLE GIVE A CHANCE TO JVP FOR GOVERNING THE COUNTRY?
I read in the media a specific cry that focused on giving a chance to JVP for governing the country. It is a highly responsible statement and why responsible statement published in the media? What is the logic behind this cry? People do not know speciously about this cry, but the cry seems like a media manipulation than genuine feelings for people that they satisfied with the policies of JVP. For example, if it asks the investment community in Sri Lanka, would they agree to give power to JVP with concrete policies to manage investments... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්රවාදය - 52 වැනි කොටස- සංස්කෘතියෙන් නීතිය
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන නීති ක්රමය ප්රධාන වශයෙන් සැකැසී ඇත්තේ යටත්විජිත උරුමය ඇසුරිනි. 17 වැනි සහ 18 වැනි සියවස්වල නෙදර්ලන්තයේ (ඕලන්දයේ) ක්රියාත්මක වූ රෝමානු නීතිය ඇසුරින් අපගේ පොදු නීතිය සැකැසී තිබේ. එහෙත්, නෙදර්ලන්තය විසින් මෙම නීති ක්රමය බැහැර කර මේ වන විට වසර දෙසීයකට වැඩි කාලයක් ගත වී තිබේ. ඉංග්රීසි යටත්විජිත උරුමය මත අප රටෙහි අපරාධ නීතිය සැකැසී තිබේ. විවාහ, දික්කසාද සහ දේපොළ උරුමයට අදාළ කරුණු කීපයක් වෙනුවෙන් පමණක් උඩරට නීතිය භාවිත කෙරෙයි. මෙයට අමතරව, ලන්දේසී යටත්විජිත ස්වාමියාගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් හඳුන්වා දුන් තේසවලාමේ නීතිය ද මෙ රට බලපැවැත්වෙයි. මුස්ලිම් නීතියට ද විශේෂ පිළිගැනීමක් ලබා දී තිබේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
The missionary position: When perpetrator pretends to be victim
Nuns and others pray beside the tomb of Saint Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity at its headquarter in Kolkata. AP The New York Times recently came out with a scathing report on Narendra Modi’s India. In the article, ‘Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians’, it made serious charges that there has been rise in attacks on Christians in India, and these attacks are part of a broader shift in the country, in which minorities feel less safe. “Anti-Christian vigilantes are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
වැටුප් විෂමතා දුරලන වැටුප් වැඩිවීම පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරුන් වෙත ලබා නොදීම.
අධ්යාපන ලේකම්, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. ලේකම්තුමනි, රාජ්ය සේවා,පළාත් පාලන හා පළාත් සභා අමාත්යාංශයේ ලේකම් ජේ.ෙජ්. රත්නසිරි මහතාගේ චක්ර ලේඛන අංක 03/2016 (සඩ) යටතේ රාජ්ය සේවයේ වැටුප් සංශෝධනය - 2016 යටතේ ලබාදී ඇති වැටුප් වැඩිවීම පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරයාට ලබා නොදෙන තත්ත්වයක් උදාකර ඇත. ඉහත චක්ර ලේඛනය ප්රකාරව දැනට කලාප කාර්යාල නිලධාරීහු ගුරු වැටුප් සකස් කරමින් සිටිති. එනමුත් ඔවුන්ට එවා ඇති චක්ර ලේඛනය මගින් පිරිවෙන් ගුරුවරුන්ට වැටුප් සකසන ලෙස උපදෙස් ලබා නොදීම නිසා ජනවාරි වැටුපට වැටුප් වැඩිවීම් නොකරන බව අප වෙත වාර්තා වෙයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
පන් කර්මාන්තකරුවන් නගා සිටුවීමට ආධාර උපකාර
අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ මිහින්තලය ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ පන් හා තල් කොළ ආශ්රයෙන් නිර්මාණයන් සිදු කරන කුණුරාගම ගම්මානයේ කර්මාන්තකරුවන් නගා සිටුවීම වෙනුවෙන් රාජ්යය අමාත්යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ මැදිහත් වීමෙන් ආධාර උපකාර රැසක් ලබා දීම සිදු කෙරිණි. එහිදී අදාළ කර්මාන්තකරුවන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම මත පන් හා තල් කොළ ආශ්රිත නිර්මාණ සිදු කිරීමට අවශ්යය වැඩ මඩුවක් සකස් කර ගැනීම සඳහා සිමෙන්ති, ගල්,වැලි හා ඇස්බැස්ටෝ ෂීට් මෙන්ම මූල්ය ආධාරයන්ද, පන් ආශ්රිත නිෂ්පාදනය සිදු කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්යය වන පන් බෑග් අච්චු ලබා දීම, පන් වර්ග ගැන්වීම සඳහා අවශ්යය උපකරණ කට්ටල හා පන් තැලීමට යොදා ගන්නා යන්ත්ර කීපයක්ද කර්මාන්තකරුවන් වෙත ප්රදානය කෙරිණි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
චීනය අපේ කල්යාණ මිත්රයෙක්. ඉතිහාසයේ කොතැනකවත් අපි අතරේ සිත් පළුඳු වීම් වෙලා නැහැ - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
“චීනය අපේ කල්යාණ මිත්රයෙක්. ඉතිහාසයේ කොතැනකවත් අපි අතරේ සිත් පළුඳු වීම් වෙලා නෑ” යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ චීනය අතර රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික සම්බන්ධතා වලට වසර 65ක් පිරීම සහ සුප්රකට රබර් සහල් ගිවිසුමට වසර 70ක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් චීන විදේශ අමාත්ය වැන්ග් යී මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් යුතුව කොළඹ වරාය නගරයේ පැවැති උත්සව අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අද (09) මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ, අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ සහ චීන විදේශ අමාත්ය වැන්ග් යී මහත්වරු මෙහි දී කොළඹ වරාය නගරයේ සැහැල්ලු යාත්රාංගණය ඉදිරිපස පිහිටි පදික මං තීරුව මහජනතාව සඳහා විවෘත කළහ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
China to Work with Sri Lanka to Facilitate Return of Sri Lankan Medical Students Studying in China
Following a special request by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on behalf of Sri Lankan medical students awaiting to return to China to complete their studies, State Councillor and Foreign Minister WANG Yi immediately instructed the Ambassador of China in Sri Lanka to work closely with the Foreign Ministry to facilitate the return of Sri Lankan medical students. The matter was discussed during the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Rajapaksa and the visiting Foreign Minister at Temple Trees this morning. Currently, approximately 1,200 medical students, including 400 final-year students, who were studying at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
China to help Sri Lanka build “Made in Sri Lanka” brand
Colombo, January 10 (newsin.asia): China proposes to help Sri Lanka become a manufacturing nation and to help build the “Made in Sri Lanka” brand. This was revealed to the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa by the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to the island nation on January 8 and 9. “China will continue to assist Sri Lanka in overcoming temporary difficulties within our capacity. We are convinced that Sri Lanka’s economy will walk out of the current predicament and achieve new and greater progress.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Who Insults Our War Heroes the Most?
A defence analyst, in his column of 5 January 2022, in a national newspaper, highlighted the ignominy Major General Udaya Perera underwent, recently, at the hands of US foreign policy and Sri Lanka’s insufferable silence over such conduct. Despite the enormous service rendered to the country, as observed by him, neither the Sri Lankan authorities nor the people blinked as the war veteran was treated as a criminal - even before he left the shores of his country. Major General Perera is a professional and a highly-qualified... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Prez scraps state ministry held by Susil
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has brought about changes in ministerial subjects in an extraordinary gazette notification. In this exercise , the subjects and the institutions held by sacked State Minister Susil Premajayantha has been brought under the purview of Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardane. They are the National Education Commission and the National Institute of Education . The president also scrapped the State Ministry of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation . The institutions and functions of that ministry have been assigned to the Justice Ministry . Mr. Lohan Ratwatte was the State Minister earlier... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Four govt aid agreements including Rs 25.5 billion grant signed during Chinese FM’s visit
The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says that four government aid agreements were signed during the visit of the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, to support the Sri Lankan people. In a twitter message posted today, the embassy said that the agreements signed are for an RMB 800 Million (LKR 25.5 Billion) Grant, BMICH Refurbishment, Kidney Disease Screening Ambulances and 1,996 Housing Units for Low-Income Families at Colombo.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
COVID: 461 fresh cases detected and 15 more coronavirus deaths reports in Sri Lanka
The Health Ministry reported that another 461 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (10). This figure includes 05 persons who have arrived from overseas while the remainder are community cases within the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases in the country to 592,128 while presently a total of 9,471 infected patients are undergoing treatment island-wide. The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 15 coronavirus related deaths for January 09, increasing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 15,134.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Maithripala says a new alliance ‘most likely’ as old ones have reached ‘expiry’
Leader of the SLFP and former President Maithripala Sirisena said that they are against the postponing of elections and that they want elections to be held without delay. https://youtu.be/foZpyubRGn8 Responding to questions from reporters today regarding reports that a gazette is to be issued postponing provincial council elections by a year, he said: “We are against the postponing of the election. What we want are elections.” He said that within the next couple of months, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) will be shaped into the most prominent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
New day has dawned for traditional potters (Video)
It is no secret that a large number of people in this country have been severely inconvenienced due to gas-related explosions. However, there are reports of people benefiting from the crisis. The areas of Kurunegala, Ibbagamuwa and Tittawella have been famous for their traditional pottery industry for a long time. These industrialists, who make a living from the sale of clay-based products, have been facing severe hardships in the past due to the inability to properly market their products in the face of conditions including the spread of COVID-19.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Govt has created a hell for people in Sri Lanka" (Video)
https://youtu.be/wZys4p68SSk Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa says that the government has created another era of queues for the people of the country. The Leader of the Opposition expressed these views during his visit to the Northern Province in Jaffna.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 25D2
Instead of keeping the UN as a skeleton organization servicing the needs of member states and acting as a meeting place for them, the western powers have piled more and more tasks on the UN system and then funded these activities, creating a great dependency on them to keep the system going. The UN now depends on ten to 15 western countries for funds and these countries have turned this dependency to a handle to make the UN further their foreign policies, said analysts. They use their money to make the UN system... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Role of Bangladesh’s RAB In Maintaining Peace, Harmony, Law, and Counter-terrorism In Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a developing country. Its economy is booming day by day. The pattern of crime is changing. Technological advancement has also changed the tendency of crime. One of the major obstacles to Bangladesh’s progress is the volatile law and order situation. In such a situation when every member of the society was suffering from uncertainty, the government planned to form an elite force to make the activities of the police force more dynamic and effective. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has started its journey on March 26, 2004, by participating in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Response to Anura Kumara's Anti-Sinhala Rhetoric – Part II
Q If we study the democratic political history of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna we don’t see a major change in the voter turnout for your party. The only time your party was successful was in 2004 with the Chandrika Bandaranaike government. There you proved that your party could work without corruption. Don’t you think that it is better for you to form an alliance with other parties. A:We don’t believe we could find solution to the existing issues by forming a government with any of these major parties. If you consider constitutionally... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
හෙට පත්කෙරෙන අලුත් ඇමති මංඩලය.
ආණ්ඩුකරම විවස්ථාවේ කුමක් සඳහන් උනත් අද රටේ පවතින ආර්තික අමාරුකම් නිසා ජනාධිපති වරයා වශයෙන් ඔබම වරෙක ජාතියට පොරුන්දුවූ පරිදි අමාත්යවරුන් 15 දෙනකුගේ ඇමති මන්ඩලයක් පත්කිරීමේ පොරුන්දුව ඉටුකිරීමට දැන් හොදම අවස්තාව උදාවී අත.හැබෙයි එම ඇමති මන්ඩලයට සින්හලයාගේ ප්රධාන ආහාරය බත බවවත් නොදන්නා අලුත්ගමගේ කෘශිකර්ම ඇමති වශයෙන් පත් නොකෙරීමටද එසේම සීන්හල බෞධ්දයෙකුපමණක් අධිකරණ ඇමති වශයෙන් පත් කිරීමටද වගබලාගනු ඇතැයි මම සිතමි. එසේ කළ විට ජනාධිපති වරයාට සහ අගමැතිවරයාට නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිවරුන් නැති නිසා නියෝජ්ය ඇමතිවරුන් පත්කල යුත්තේ 13 ක් පමණි. එසේ කලහොත් මුලු ඇමතිසන්ක්යාව 28 කට සීමා කලහැක එසේ වූ විට දැනට විවිධ නම්වලින් සිටින ඇමතිවරුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
WR on Chinese Debt Warning
Complete bunkum! W R is a pro-Indian. He is distracting people from the Indian takeover of SL's petroleum sector (IOC), Trinco oil tank farm and the land, Colombo Port East terminal, etc. None of these bring dollars but takes out SL's dollars. There is no foreign loan on Hambantota port. Colombo south port terminal and coal power plant make profit and earn foreign currency/save foreign currency. The total of other loans is very small. The debt trap is not due to any Chinese debt. It is due to International Sovereign Bonds and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
ණය හා වැටුප් ගෙවන්නට ජාතික ආදායම මෙන් සියයට එකසිහැටක් වෙන් කරන්නට සිදුවී ඇති බවට පාත්ෆයින්ඩර් නිවේදනයක්
රුපියල සහ ඩොලර් හි`ගය ගැන ආණ්ඩුව කතා කරන නමුත් මෙම ගැටළු වල බරපතලකම තේරුම් ගත යුතු අතර මෙරට ජාතික ආදායම අනුව සලකනවිට එයින් සියයට එකසිය හැට ගුණයකප්රමාණයක් ණය පොලිය හා රාජ්ය සේවක වැටුප් ස`දහා පමණක් ගෙවන්නට සිදුවී අති බව දැනට ප්රකාශ වී තිඛෙන විස්මිත දත්ත වලින් පිලිබිඹු කරන බව දේශීය බුද්ධි පර්යේෂණ ආයතයක් වන පාත්ෆයින්ඩර් පදනම නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් කියා සිටී. රජයේ ණය සේවා පොලී ගෙවීම් රජයේ වාර්ෂික ආදායමෙන් සියයට 70 කි. මෙය ලෝකයේ ඉහළම අගය විය හැකිය. රජයේ සේවක වැටුප් සහ විශ්රාම වැටුප් ස`දහා පිරිවැය රජයේ සමස්ථ ආදායමෙන් සියයට 90 ඉක්මවා තිබේ. රජය ගෙවිය යුතු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Lanka asks China to restructure debt repayment
Colombo, January 9: The Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Sunday sought from the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, a restructuring of the repayment of Sri Lanka’s debts to China and also a concessional trade-credit scheme to enable the island nation to import goods from China to make industries here operate smoothly. The rescheduling of the repayment of loans would provide “great relief” to Sri Lanka, which had been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the President said. China accounts for a little over 10 per cent of Sri Lanka’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Indian Origin Tamils and Muslims refused to ink Tamils’ joint letter to Indian PM
Colombo, January 8 (newsin.asia): A long and determined effort by the political parties of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka to jointly write to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his good offices to persuade Colombo to address the political grievances of the Tamils and the Muslims, has failed. The Indian Origin Tamil (IOT) parties led by Mano Ganeshan and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) led by Rauff Hakeem, had objected to certain demands and references in the draft saying that these were inimical to their political interests. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
ඉන්දියාවෙන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 500ක ණයක්.. එම මුදලින් ජීප් 750ක්.. කුඩා බස් 500ක්..
වත්මන් රජය ගෙන යන දුර්වල ආර්ථික ප්රතිපත්තීන් හේතුවෙන් යම් හෙයකින් රට බංකොලොත් භාවයට පත් වුවහොත්රටේ ආයෝජනය කොට ඇති විදේශිකයන් ඔවුන්ගේ එම ආයෝජන රැගෙන වෙනත් රටවලට යාමේ අවදානමක් මතුව තිබෙන බවත් එසේ වුවහොත් රටේ ආර්ථිකයට එයත් මරු පහරක් වනු ඇති බව පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්යා අධ්යයන අංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ආනන්ද මහතා පවසයි. ජනතාවාදී බුද්ධි මණ්ඩපය මැයින් මහනුවර ඩෙවෝන් හෝටලයේ දී පැවති ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවක දී ඒ බව අවධාරණය කළ මහාචාර්යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේ පැවසීය . “මේ වර්ෂයේ දී සමස්ත ණය ඩොලර් මිලියන 7000ක් ගෙවන්න තිබෙනවා . ජනවාරි මාසයේ පමණක් ඩොලර් මිලියන 699... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Lanza asks not to underestimate criticism from within Government
Pointing out that it is the voice of the people that emerges from all quarters, including those who represent the Government and criticise certain government policies, State Minister of Rural Roads and Other Infrastructure Nimal Lanza said that such criticisms should not be underestimated. Speaking to the media yesterday (9), he said that it is the responsibility of the people’s representatives to speak about the hardships of the people, even if they represent the Government. He said that as people’s representatives, they are saddened to see people queuing up to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Chinese Foreign Minister urges resumption of FTA talks
Says SL would benefit immensely from FTA with ChinaSays willing to discuss any concerns of SLNegotiations stalled since 2017 due to sticking points During Foreign Minister Yi’s visit, Sri Lanka and China signed four agreements; namely an agreement on Economic and Technical Co-operation, the Letter of Exchange on the project of 2,000 subsidised housing units for the low-income category in Colombo, the Handover Certificate of the Technical Co-operation Project for the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), and the Handover Certificate of the Technical Co-operation Project for the Kidney... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
''ගම්මන්පිලගේ මොළය පරීක්ෂා කරන්න ඕනේ'' - තිස්ස අත්තනායක
2022 වසරේදී සම්පූර්ණයෙන් ම අයිති වීමට තිබූ ත්රිකුණාමල තෙල් ටැංකි 101කින් තෙල් ටැංකි 14ක් බලශක්ති අමාත්ය උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා ඉන්දියානු IOC සමාගමට අවුරුදු 50කට බදු දුන් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී තිස්ස අත්තනායක මහතා පවසයි. මෙහිදී මන්ත්රීවරයා සඳහන් කළේ, උදය ගම්මන්පිල්ල මහතාගේ ''මොළය පරීක්ෂා කළ යුතු'' බව ය. එමෙන් ම මෙමගින් ත්රිකුණාමල තෙල් ටැංකි තිබෙන ත්රිකුණාමල වරාය ආසන්නයේ ඇති ඉඩම් කොටස ද ඉන්දීය තෙල් සංස්ථාවට පැවරෙන බව තිස්ස අත්තනායක මහතා පැවසීය. "වක්රාකාරව ත්රිකුණාමලය වරාය ත් ඉන්දියාවට දුන්නා හා සමාන එකඟතාවකට ඇති කර ගෙන තිබෙනවා," යනුවෙන් ඔහු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
The international plot to force Sri Lanka into the USA’s trap is thickening
With the dawn of the Year 2022 I wish you all happiness, good health, and fulfillment of your needs and targets. But I cannot wish you prosperity, because only the rich are enjoying that privilege. The maximum tax on the rich including multi billionaires still remains at 14%. The average maximum in Europe is 40% while that in Scandinavian country is over 50%. Thus it is clear that the burden of the present economic crisis is being placed on all the people including the poor, but not on the rich. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
රටේ ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නවලට සජිත්ගෙන් උත්තරයක්
රටේ ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නවලට පිළිතුර වන්නේ දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම් එකතු වී නව සංවිධාන බිහිකිරීම නොව, පාලකයින් කැපකිරීම්වලට යොමුවීම බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ සිය උතුරු පළාත් සංචාරය අතරතුර යාපනයේදී අද (09) ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමිනි. https://youtu.be/8STREpjKbOk "තෙල්, බෙහෙත්, ආහාර ගෙන්වන්න ඩොලර් නැහැ. කර්මාන්තවලට අමුද්රව්ය නැහැ. නිෂ්පාදනය කඩා වැටෙනවා. ඉතා භයානක තැනකට ඇවිත් තියෙන්නේ. ගත්තු වැරදි තීන්දුවලට රටම විඳවනවා. රටේ තියෙන්නේ නාමික ආණ්ඩුවක්. ආණ්ඩුවක් නෙමේ පාණ්ඩුවක්. සොරකම ඉහවහා ගිහින්. දූෂණත් වෙද්දි කොහොමද රට ගොඩගන්නේ. ගොඩදාන්න පුළුවන්. හැබැයි නිවැරදි ගමනක් යන්න ඕනේ. පාලකයන් කැපකිරීම් කරන්න... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
පාස්කු ප්රහාර සිද්ධිය ගැන කාදිනල් හිමිට මතුවූ සැකය
ජනතා ඡන්දය ලබාගැනීම ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරය සිදුවීමට ඉඩහැරියේ දැයි සැක සහිත බව අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසයි. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරයේ විමර්ශන පිළිබඳව සූම් තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ ඊයේ පැවති සම්මන්ත්රණයකට එක්වෙමිනි. https://youtu.be/9La7INZlr0s පාස්කු ඉරුදින ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරයේ විමර්ශනවල වත්මන් ප්රගතිය පිළිබඳ යුරෝපයේ වෙසෙන ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් දැනුවත් කිරීමේ සූම් තාක්ෂණික සම්මන්ත්රණයක් ඊයේ පැවැත්වුණේ අගරදගුරු අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන්ගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙනි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අගරදගුරු, අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන්, "DIG නාලක ද සිල්වා ව අත්අඩංගුවට ගත්තේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
අවුරුදු දෙකකට පසු මෛත්රී හෙළිකළ අවුල
ජනමත විචාරණයක් මගින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ කාලය දිර්ඝ කරගැනීමට සුදානම් නොවන්නැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මාතර දිස්ත්රික් සමුළුවට අද (09) එක්වෙමිනි. https://youtu.be/aGg06-UGKik ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මාතර දිස්ත්රික් සමුළුව පක්ෂ සභාපති හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද මෙලෙස පැවැත්වුණි. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සභාපති, හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා, "රටම අවුල්. මේ ලෝකෙ දෙයක් දන්නේ නැති අය කියනවා.. මැතිනියගේ කාලේ වගේලු දැනුත් කන්න නෑ. පෝලිම් කියලා. මම මැතිනියගේ කාලේ සතොසෙන් බඩු බෙදාහැරිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Chinese FM meets President; discuss solutions to Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
A meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China and Member of the State Council Wang Yi, and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was held at the Presidential Secretariat, today (09) further strengthening the 65 years of diplomatic relations between China and Sri Lanka, the PMD said. Warmly welcoming the Chinese Foreign Minister, President Rajapaksa recalled the historic close ties between the two countries. The President extended his sincere gratitude on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka and its people to the Chinese Foreign Minister for the material and financial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
China and Sri Lanka sign four agreements, discuss wide range of cooperation
Following a special request by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on behalf of Sri Lankan medical students awaiting to return to China to complete their studies, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi immediately instructed the Ambassador of China in Sri Lanka to work closely with the Foreign Ministry to facilitate the return of Sri Lankan medical students. https://youtu.be/HolH3Kvkh4c The matter was discussed during the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Rajapaksa and the visiting Foreign Minister at Temple Trees this morning (09), the PM’s Office said. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
Port City Marina Promenade declared open
The Port City Marina Promenade, a 500m public walking path, has been declared open at an event marking the 65th diplomatic anniversary between China and Sri Lanka today (January 09). https://youtu.be/P5YAtQVTbGo The opening of the Marina Promenade was announced during a ceremony graced by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is on two-day official visit to the country. The public can access the Port City Marina Promenade from tomorrow (January 10) onwards between 9.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. by foot.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
436 persons test positive for Covid-19 today and confirms another 07 coronavirus deaths
The Health Ministry reported that 436 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within today (09). This figure includes 06 persons who have arrived in the country from overseas while the rest are community infections. This brings Sri Lanka’s coronavirus caseload thus far to 591,667 while the number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment across the island is 9,478. The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus related deaths for January 08, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 15,119. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/01/22)
A Case for Feasibility Studies and Venture Capital
Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSMEs) play a major role in the development of the economy due to their potential to promote inclusive growth by reducing inequalities of economic performance, and their capacity to develop into large organizations later on, thereby providing employment to a substantial proportion of the population and contributing to the economic growth of the country over their lifespan. It is estimated that about 99 per cent of non-agricultural establishments in Sri Lanka are MSMEs, and that about 45 per cent of employment in the country is in the MSME... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/22)
Response to Anura Kunara’s Anti-Sinhala Rhetoric – Part I
We don’t believe in Sinhala only power - Anura Kumara Dissanayake Excerpts of an interview given by Tamil servile Anura Kumara on 5th January 2022 to Daily Mirror staff Susitha Fernando are given below with appropriate comments. Preamble: We can appoint a Cabinet with people who are extremely qualified in the respective subject areas. (A stupid suggestion. People of this country have even rejected many prominent professionals coming to politics. For example, the Father of Hydro Power was rejected by the people when he contested elections. This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/22)
බැසිල්ගේ මුදල් ඇමතිකම නීති විරෝධීයි - ලබන වසරේ මැද බල පෙරළියක්
පොදු ජන පෙරමුණ ආණ්ඩුවේ මන්ත්රීවරයෙකු වුවද පොදු ජන ප්රශ්න වලදී සිය ස්වාධීන මතයට මුල් තැන දෙමින් කටයුතු කරන මතභේදාත්මක චරිතයක් වන ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ , ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඒෂියන් මිරර් වෙත සිදුකළ ආන්දෝළනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්ව https://youtu.be/zivJar4iC5M... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/01/22)
අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අනද නාහිමි කුලපති උපහාර පුදයි
කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ කුලපති පදවියෙන් පිදුම් ලැබු නාරාහේන්පිට ශ්රී අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේට උපහාර පිදීමේ “අනද නාහිමි කුලපති උපහාර” උළෙල අද (08) දින පෙරවරුවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්විණි. කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ කුලපති ධූරයට පත් වූ නාරාහේන්පිට ශ්රී අභයාරාම පුරාණ විහාරාධිපති, බස්නාහිර පළාත් ප්රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්ය මුරුත්තෙට්ටුවේ ආනන්ද නායක ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේට උපහාර පිදීමේ උළෙලක් අද (ජන. 8) පෙරවරුවේ පැවත්විණි. මෙම උපහාර උළෙල "අනද නාහිමි කුලපති උපහාර" නමින් බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්වූයේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Wang’s visit and Jaishankar’s phone call could lift Lanka’s spirits
Colombo, January 8 (newsin.asia): The visit of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Sri Lanka from January 8 to 9, and the Indian Foreign Minister S.Jaishankar’s recent phone call to his Lankan counterpart G.L.Peiris, have given the impression that both Asian giants are keen on helping Sri Lanka come out of the economic woods it has been in in the past year. Due to a variety of factors, including COVID-19 and gross mismanagement, Sri Lanka is now frightfully short of dollars even to import essentials. The disastrous decision to shift wholesale... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
සල්ලි අච්චු ගසා සහන දීමෙන් උද්ධමනය නගිනවා.. බොරු සුරංගනා කතා නොකියා ආණ්ඩුව රටට ඇත්ත කිව යුතුයි..
මුදල් අච්චු ගසා සහන දෙන්න යාමෙන් ඇතිවන උද්ධමනය ගැන ආණ්ඩුව සිතා බැලිය යුතු බව අමාත්ය උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. රජයේ ආදායම් වැඩි වෙන්නෙ නැතිනම් වෙනත් වියදමක් කපා හැරෙන්නේද නැතිනම් සහන දෙන්න සිදු වන්නේ මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමෙන් බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. අද වන විට මේ රටේ ජනතාව දැවැන්ත උද්ධමනය මුහුණ දෙමින් සිටින බවත් එයින්ද වඩාත්ම පීඩාවට පත්ව සිටින්නේ අඩු ආදායම්ලාභීන් බවත් අමාත්යවරයා පෙන්වා දෙයි. බොරු සුරංගනා කතා නොකියා ආණ්ඩුව ඇත්ත ඇති සැටියෙන් ජනතාවට යුතු බවත් ඒ ආකාරයට ජන මනස හදන විට ජනතාව තත්වය අවබෝධ කොටගෙන ඕනෑම අභියෝගයකට මුහුණදීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Financial assistance: Government turns to China and Japan
Finance Min. proposes seeking financial package similar to that with India Notes 20% of Sri Lanka’s foreign debt payments are to China and Japan Proposes seeking trade concessions by doing away with trade restrictions Discussion with China likely to commence during Yi visit The Government of Sri Lanka is to look at initiating a dialogue with China and Japan to secure financial assistance packages from the two countries, similar to the one negotiated with the Indian Government, The Sunday Morning learns. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa last week proposed the initiation of a dialogue on financial assistance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Crop damage: Farmers protest conditional fertiliser compensation
Concerns over compensation mapping process Farmer trade unions have protested a decision by the Government to only provide compensation to farmers who suffered crop damage due to the use of organic fertiliser issued by the State, stressing that the conditions had been imposed retroactively. Farmers are also questioning how the Government plans to map those affected to provide compensation. The protests came following Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage’s statement that no compensation for crop damages will be paid to farmers who have not used the organic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Red light for China, green for India-NA MP Sumanthiran says former is hostile, latter has legitimate role
China is not welcome in the North and East while India has a legitimate role to play, asserted TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran in an interview with The Sunday Morning. Commenting on potential Chinese projects and investment in the North and East, in the backdrop of the high-profile visit to the Northern Province in mid-December 2021 by Chinese Ambassador to Colombo Qi Zhenhong, Sumanthiran firmly stated, “The Chinese are not welcome in the North or the East.” Outlining his reasons, the TNA MP said that firstly, the TNA’s own... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Wang Yi's visit will push China-Sri Lanka ties amid India's brouhaha
Sri Lankan Sanjeewa Alwis (1st R), a project engineer working at China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC)'s Port City Colombo project, checks the work at a construction site in Colombo's Port City, Sri Lanka, November 30, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note: Rabi Sankar Bosu is an Indian contributor to Chinese media outlets. He writes about Chinese politics, social and cultural issues, and China-India relations with a special interest in the Belt and Road Initiative. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily those of CGTN. The close bond... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
China manufactures giant tunnel boring machine for Sri Lanaka
China has manufactured a giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) for Sri Lanka. The TBM, made by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corp Ltd, has been rolled off the assembly line in Changsha, Hunan Province. The machine with a diameter of 7.6 meters will be used in a water diversion project in SL. The 27km project will be the longest hard rock tunneling project in the country and is expected to help with irrigation and alleviate droughts and floods.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
India tops Sri Lanka’s tourism charts 2021: Destination weddings, ‘Ramayana trail’ favourites of visitors
India topped Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals in December and the entire year, according to data published by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA). For most part of 2020 beginning April, Sri Lanka shut its borders fearing import of COVID-19 cases into the island nation, which was then making global headlines for managing the pandemic well, the Hindu reported. It was only in December 2020 that the country had gradually opened up to recover from the severe economic impact of the pandemic that had hit its tourism sector — third... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Chinese foreign minister on official visit to Sri Lanka
China’s Foreign Minister and State Councillor, Wang Yi arrived in Sri Lanka this evening (January 08) on a two-day official visit. Accompanied by a delegation of 18 Chinese officials, Minister Wang Yi reached the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake at around 8.20 p.m. via B-8415, a flight belonging to a Chinese carrier. Upon his arrival, Minister Wang Yi was accorded a warm welcome by Minister of Youth & Sports Namal Rajapaksa, and State Minister of Aviation & Export Zones Development D.V. Chanaka. Mr. Wang Yi will inaugurate the celebration... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Sri Lanka reports 580 new Covid-19 cases and death toll moves up with 13 more victims
Another 580 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 08) the Ministry of Health reported. This figure includes 06 persons who recently arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases. The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far stands at 591,231 with the new development. The number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment meanwhile went up to 9,183. The recoveries tally reached 566,936 as 176 more patients were discharged upon recovery today. Further, the Covid-19 death toll in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
ජනපතිගේ චෝදනාවලටසුසිල්ගෙන් හැරෙන තැපැලෙන් පිළිතුරු - දන්නේ නැත්නම් මහින්දගෙන් අහගන්න
ජනපතිගේ එක රටක් එක නීතියට නෝන්ඩියකුත් දමයි - සාමූහික වගකීම වගන්ති එක්කම කියයි https://youtu.be/TgTkJm_z_L8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Abort Immediately the Indian Oil Tank Deal - A Statement by the 'Socialist Vanguard Party for the Restoration of a United and Sovereign Sri Lanka'
A wild frenzy to sell-off the country’s assets to foreign parties, making dishonourable gains in the process and making plans to push off to foreign abodes to enjoy their booty, appears to be the sole aim of the members of the current government; there appears to be no difference between them and their predecessors in treacherously corroborating with the enemy to dismantle and balkanize the Island Nation. However, there is a difference. The current representatives of the people are throwing caution to the winds and recklessly careering on a course of treachery,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Towards a future free from fears of Islamism
Gravitas News (wionews, World is One News) web portal reported Tuesday December 21, 2021: “Riyadh holds 4-day EDM carnival”. Commenting on the electronic dance music extravaganza, unprecedented in Saudi Arabia, the young news anchor said, “The defacto leader of the Islamic World, the Guardian of the two holiest sites in Islam, Saudi Arabia, did the unexpected this weekend. It’s through a giant rave party, a four day electronic music festival complete with psychedelic lights and international DJs….”. With video footage of densely packed dancing men and women taken from the exhilarating event held two... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 25 D1
The UN started to take an interest in the Eelam war from Eelam War III onwards. Eelam War III was from `1995-2002 and Eelam War IV was 2006 -2009 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (not to be confused with UNHRC) was in Sri Lanka in 1987, invited by the Sri Lankan Government help with large scale repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees from India In 1990.Thereafter, UNHCR was asked to provide assistance to those displaced by the Eelam wars. UNHCR became the lead agency dealing with the IDPs of Eelam wars... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Nearly 2000 journalists died of Covid-19 in 94 countries
No continent is spared by the pandemic. Of the 1940 journalists dead registered by the PEC since March 1, 2020, Latin America leads with half of the victims, or 955 deaths. Asia follows with 556 dead, ahead of Europe 263, then Africa 98 and North America 68. More than 50 casualties are still under investigation. The actual number of victims is certainly higher, as the cause of journalists'deaths is sometimes not specified or their deaths not announced. In some countries, there is no reliable information. The 2000 figure is a low estimate. According to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් දේශපාලන අතකොළු බවට පත්කරවීම සම්බන්ධයෙනි.
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි. ලේකම්, ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය, නිල මැඳුර, නාරාහේන්පිට. ලේකම් තුමනි, ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් දේශපාලන අතකොළු බවට පත්කරවීම සම්බන්ධයෙනි. 2021 නොවැම්බර් 25 ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයෙන් නිකුත් කරන ලද රාජකාරී ලැයිස්තු ප්රකාරව රාජකාරී පැවරීම වෙනුවට ආණ්ඩුවේ දේශපාලන අධිකාරියේ පටු වුවමනාවන් ඉටු කිරීමට ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් යොදා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙනි. 2022 අයවැය යෝජනා අනුව ‘‘ගම සමඟ පිළිසඳරක්’’ වැඩ සටහන යටතේ දිවයින පුරා ග්රාම නිලධාරී වසම්වල ක්රියාත්මක ජීවන උපාය වැඩසටහන් සඳහා ප්රතිලාභීන් තේරීමේ දී ග්රාමීය කමිටුව යටපත් කරමින් දේශපාලන පක්ෂපාතීත්වය මත පුද්ගලයන් තෝරා ඒ සඳහා ග්රාමීය කමිටුව වෙනුවට කොට්ඨාශ මන්ත්රීවරයාගේ කැමැත්ත පමණක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Banks turn cautious on Sri Lanka exposures
As Sri Lanka grapples with a severe foreign exchange crunch, the high street banks in India have turned cautious and selective about their exposures to the island nation. Several institutions have reduced discounting letters of credit (LC) - the basic instrument for financing trade - issued by many Lanka lenders while others are giving credit to exporters based on the standing of the party, amount, the tenor of the credit, and standing of the bank issuing LCs. Given the long trade relations, Sri Lanka's... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/01/22)
Sri Lanka rations electricity as dollar crisis worsens
Sri Lanka's only oil refinery at Sapugaskanda has been shut down Sri Lanka imposed electricity rationing Friday with the main power utility unable to buy fuel oil for its power stations as a result of the island's worsening dollar crisis. Oil normally accounts for around nine percent of electricity generation on the island, but a Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) official said the company had run out of dollars to buy it from the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. The CEB was having to rely on its coal- and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
Revisiting presidential system of government
The government’s announcement that a new Constitution will be unveiled within the next few months is in keeping with one of the ten key policy commitments in the President’s election manifesto. This announcement has encouraged several prominent constitutional experts to express opinions relating to constitutional reforms, perhaps in the hope of influencing the ongoing constitution making process. However, at the fundamental level, all these opinions for governance boil down to a choice essentially between parliamentary or presidential systems with their favoured variations. At this fundamental level the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
Looming spectre of rice shortage
Friday 7th January, 2022 Has the country become rudderless? This is the question one asks oneself when one sees widespread chaos. The political authority does not take responsibility for virtually anything and baulks at taking decisive action. The cooking gas shortage, which has lasted for weeks, is not likely to be over anytime soon. People have been calling upon the government to make an intervention to sort out the problem, but to no avail. Perhaps, at this rate, it may not be necessary for the government to have the cooking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
Forerunner of purge?
Thursday 6th January, 2022 The sacking of State Minister Susil Premjayantha is indicative of the government’s desperation to suppress dissent, which shows signs of getting out of hand. It could be considered the beginning of a purge of sorts in the SLPP. Premjayantha got President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s goat, as it were, when he publicly declared, last Saturday, that the government’s organic fertiliser project had become a disaster, and led to a food shortage. He did not blame the President directly; he only inveighed against Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage, but one could see... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
Lankan dollar salary earners face forcible conversions by banks
CB Governor denies such claims dismissing them as rumours spread by mischievous elements New rules intended at wooing more services income and remittances appear to be backfiring Some migrants say they would hold off repatriations beyond a bear minimum until the rules are scrapped CB instructions appear to have caused some confusion among banks and clients A state of confusion appears to have been created by the instructions issued to banks by the Central Bank with regard to conversion of bank balances of resident Sri Lankans who earn in dollars and Lankan migrant workers who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
FR petition filed seeking to revoke Trinco oil tank farm deal
A fundamental rights (FR) petition has been filed seeking the nullification of the agreement signed with India to develop the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm. https://youtu.be/ubdbINrVU-M The petition was lodged before the Supreme Court by the Secretary of National National Bhikkhu Front, Ven. Wakmulle Uditha Thera. https://youtu.be/0saM8AMVpGk A total of 47 parties including the Attorney General on behalf of the President, the Cabinet of Ministers including Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and its chairman, the Trinco Petroleum Terminal Pvt. Ltd., the Auditor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
It’s a collective responsibility to face setbacks as a team - President
All lawmakers should unite as one group for the country’s future, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today (January 07) during an event held in Monaragala. https://youtu.be/vTDi051EGKQ He made this remark addressing the augural ceremony of the 1,000 New National Schools establishment programme at the Siyambalanduwa Maha Vidyalaya this morning. It is their collective responsibility to face the setbacks as a team, the President said further. Criticizing only the shortcomings while avoiding this collective responsibility depicts a person’s incompetence, he added.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
Coronavirus: 588 new cases, 16 deaths & 5,203 recoveries recorded today
Another 588 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (January 07), the Ministry of Health reported. This figure includes 07 persons who recently arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases. The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far stands at 590,651 with the new development while the number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment went up to 8,792. The recoveries tally reached 566,760 as 5,203 more patients were discharged upon recovery today. Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
කෘෂිකර්ම ඇමතිට ගොවීන්ගෙන් පිළිතුරු - සහල් හිඟයක් ගැනත් අනතුරු ඇඟවීම් (වීඩියෝ)
වී කිලෝවක් රුපියල් 75 කට මිලදී ගැනීමේ කටයුතු රජය ආරම්භ කළ බව කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්යවරයා පැවසුව ද එම මිලට හෝ ලබාදීමට වී තොග තමන් සන්තකයේ නොමැති බව ගොවීන් පවසනවා. මේ අතර, යල කන්නයේ මිලදී ගත් වී තොග මේ වන විට අවසන් ඇති බවයි වී අලෙවි මණ්ඩලයේ උසස් නිලධාරියෙකු කියා සිටියේ. https://youtu.be/OttdaOP8qsw කෙසේ වෙතත්, කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්ය මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ ඊයේ සඳහන් කළේ වී කිලෝග්රෑමයක් රුපියල් 75 කට මිලදී ගැනීම ආරම්භ කර ඇති බවයි. මේ අතර මහ කන්නයේ වී අස්වනු නෙළීම ජනවාරි 15 වනදායින් පසු ආරම්භ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
වැටුණු ආර්ථිකය ගැන පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ මන්ත්රීවරුන් ගැටේ (වීඩියෝ)
වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව වනාහි රටේ ජීවත් වන ගොවි ජනතාව දැඩි අසීරුතාවට ලක් කරමින්, ඔවුන්ට පොහොර ඉල්ලා පාරට බැසීමට ඉඩ සැලැස්වූ රජයක් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ගයන්ත කරුණාතිලක පවසනවා. https://youtu.be/ExtqOpq_ky8 අද (06) පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් මන්ත්රීවරයා සඳහන් කළේ, රුපියල් 5000ක් වැනි මූල්යාධාරයක් ලැබීමට නම් ගොවි ජනතාවට ගෙවතු වගාවට යොමුවන ලෙසට රජය විසින් දැනුම් දී ඇති බවයි. මෙම ක්රියාවලිය මෙලෙස සිදු වුවහොත්, පවුල් පාලනය පමණක් රටට ඉතිරි වනු ඇති බවට ද හෙතෙම සඳහන් කළා. මේ අතර, ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී චන්දිම වීරක්කොඩි අද (06) පැවති මාධ්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
Trinco Petroleum Terminal : An attempt to provide Oil Tank Farm completely to India?
COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lankan Trade Unions have raised concerns with regard to the agreement on the Trincomalee Oil Tank Complex, citing that the agreement could be an attempt completely have over the facility to India. Meanwhile, in Trincomalee in the presence of Minister of Mass Media Dullas Alahapperuma, the Maha Sangha warned that they would have to take to the streets to protect national resources. The government has planned to divide the 99 tanks and 827 acres of land in the oil tank complex near the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
SL simply can’t continue asking for financial assistance from China -Palitha Kohona
Country should increase exports to China instead SL lags behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal in exports to China Exported only US$ 280 million; imports US$ 4 billion from China in 2020Huge potential for SL products such as tea, coconuts, seafood, readymade garments Colombo should catch the bull by the horns and resume talks on FTA Fertilizer incident addressed now Sri Lankan ambassador to Beijing Dr. Palitha Kohona speaks to Daily Mirror regarding the present status of Sino-Lanka bilateral relations in the event of fertilizer crisis involving Chinese company Seawin Biotech which even threatened to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/01/22)
ක්රීඩාව තුළින් සියලු ජාතීන් අතර සමගිය ගොඩනැඟිය හැකි බව අපි තරයේ විශ්වාස කරනවා. - අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා -
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මහජන චීන සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ තානාපති කාර්යාලය සමග එක්ව එළඹෙන ශීත ඍතු ඔලිම්පික් උළෙලේ සමාරම්භයට දින ගණනය ආරම්භ කිරීම හා ඒ සඳහා ක්රීඩකයින් දිරිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ඊයේ (05) දින කොළඹ පෝර්ට් සිටි හිදී පැවති වැඩසටහනට සහභාගීවෙමින් අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. ලොවම වඩාත් අවධානයෙන් බලා සිටින ජාත්යන්තර ක්රීඩා ඉසව්වක් වන එළඹෙන XXIV ශීත ඍතු ඔලිම්පික් ක්රීඩා සැණකෙළිය 2022 වසරේ පෙබරවාරි 4 වන දින බීජිං හිදී ආරම්භවීමට නියමිතය. ශීත ඍතු ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල උත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් සහ විශිෂ්ට ආකාරයෙන් පැවැත්වීම සඳහා චීනය මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
අභියෝග හමුවේ වුවත් අද අප මේ කැපවන්නේ ඔබට සුරක්ෂිත දියුණු රටක් නිර්මාණය කරන්න - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
අභියෝග හමුවේ වුවත් අද අප මේ කැපවන්නේ ඔබට සුරක්ෂිත දියුණු රටක් නිර්මාණය කරන්න යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. කුරුණෑගල මලියදේව බාලිකා විද්යාලයේ නව තෙමහල් ගොඩනැගිල්ල සිසු දියණියන්ගේ අයිතියට පත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව පැවැති උත්සව සභාව අමතා අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අද (06) පෙරවරුවේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මලියදේව බාලිකාවේ විදුහල්පතිනිය ඇතුළු ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලය හා සිසු දියණිවරු අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඇතුළු සම්භාවනීය අමුත්තන් පළමුව මහත් ගෞරවයෙන් උත්සව අවස්ථාවට පිළිගත් අතර නව තෙමහල් ගොඩනැගිල්ල විවෘත කිරීම සංකේතවත් කරමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා සමරු ඵලකය නිරාවරණය කළේ ඉන් අනතුරුවය. නව ගොඩනැගිල්ල නිරීක්ෂණය කළ අග්රාමාත්යතුමා, එහි වූ පංති කාමරයකට පීත්ත පටියක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
දැවැන්ත විදුලි කප්පාදුවක් එනවාලු.. කැකුණ ඇට දල්වාගෙන දඩ මස් බුදිමින් ගල්ගුහාවල සිටින තත්වයක් ඒවිලු..
නුදුරේදීම දිනකට පැය ගණනාවක විදුලි කප්පාදුවකට මෙරට ජනතාවට මුහුණ දෙන්න සිදු වනු ඇතැයි විදුලි බල මණ්ඩලයේ ඒකාබද්ධ වෘත්තීය සමිති සන්ධානයේ කැඳවුම්කරු රන්ජන් ජයලාල් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ලංකා ඛනිජ තෙල් නීතිගත සංස්ථාව විසින් විදුලිබල මණ්ඩලයට ඉන්ධන ලබා නොදෙන බවත් සපුගස්කන්ද බලාගාරය දැනටමත් අක්රීය වී ඇති බවත් ඔහු පැවසීය. රටේ ජනතාවට නොදන්වා විදුලි කප්පාදුවක් සිදු වන බවට ජනතාවගෙන් චෝදනා එල්ල වන බවද ඔහු පෙන්වා දේ. වැඩි කලක් නොගොස් ජනතාවට පැය ගණනාවක් අදුරේ සිටීමට සිදු වන කාලයක් උදාවන බවද හෙතෙම පෙන්වා දෙයි. තව ටික දිනකින් රාත්රිය පුරා කැකුණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Chemical fertilizer will be imported for Yala season: Mahindananda
COLOMBO (News 1st); Adequate chemical fertilizer will be imported in time for the upcoming Yala season, says Minister of Agriculture, Mahindananda Aluthgamage. Speaking to media, the Minister admitted that as there is not enough time to purchase chemical fertilizer and use it for the existing Maha season, the fertilizer necessary for the Yala season will be imported by upcoming April month. Moreover, he stated that fertilizer companies have already placed orders and there will be no shortage of chemical fertilizers in the market by the coming Yala... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
කඩේ යන්නෝ අඩුවෙලා පොලේ යන්නෝ වැඩිවෙයි ! |
https://youtu.be/vzQtptqBB0c... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Opinion forum: Views expressed regarding current economic crisis (Video)
Politicians of the government, as well as the opposition and the Maha Sangha, expressed their views regarding the current political situation and various crises today (06) https://youtu.be/t_37RFELOCg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
"There is a conspiracy behind gas explosions" (Photos)
Highways Minister Johnston Fernando states that although there are reports of gas explosions islandwide, there are no reports of gas explosions in Colombo 07. The Minister pointed out that no such incidents have been reported in the Northern Province or in areas such as Kandy and Kurunegala and that doubts have arisen if there is a conspiracy behind these incidents The ceremony to open the new three-storied building of the Maliyadeva Balika Vidyalaya in Kurunegala was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning (06). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
People's Bank to pay over $6 million to the Chinese fertilizer company
People's Bank to pay USD 6.7 million to the Chinese fertilizer company tomorrow (07)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
SSP Thalduwa: Critically wrong on criticism of the president
SSP Thalduwa made these claims to the media in relation to the incident where an activist was questioned by the CID for posting a video on social media of the public verbally protesting against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as he was travelling through Mirihana. FactCheck.lk assessed these claims by analysing the provisions of the Constitution and judgments of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Article 14(1)(a) of the Constitution of Sri Lanka vests every citizen with the freedom of speech and expression. Under the Constitution, the freedom... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Over 11,000 tourists visit SL within four days: Russians top list
A total number of 11,380 tourists had arrived in the island in the first four days of the new year Russian tourists head the list with 2,032 visitors, Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga said. Moreover, 1,809 tourists, from India, 1,041 from Ukraine, 775 from Germany, 709 from the UK, 506 from Kazakhstan, 506 from the Maldives, 420 from Australia, 414 from France and 282 from Poland were among those arrived in the first four days of January. The minister said 194,888 tourists have arrived in the country in the year 2021... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Agreemnt to develop Trinco Oil Tank Farm signed: Ministry
Agreement to develop Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm was signed this evening, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said.He said in a twitter post that signatories were Treasury Secretary, Land Commissioner General, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), LIOC and Trinco Petroleum Terminal Ltd."85 of the 99 tanks will come under Sri Lanka's purview, which were under India," the Minister tweeted.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 case total tops 59,000 and 18 new COVID deaths for January 04
The Ministry of Health reports that another 584 persons have tested positive for coronavirus within today (06), as the country’s tally of confirmed cases crossed the 59,000-mark on Thursday. This figure includes 12 persons who had arrived from overseas while the rest are new community cases. The total number of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far stands 590,063 with this while the number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment is 13,423 Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 18 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 04, increasing the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Sri Lankan families forced to forego meals as economic crisis intensifies
Colombo, Jan 5 (EFE).- The severe economic crisis affecting Sri Lanka, with record inflation and the possibility of the country failing to pay its financial debts, has forced families to give up meals due to shortage of food and steep prices. “Our only option was to cut down on food consumption. Sometimes we only have two meals a day. At other times we cook once a day and eat sparingly,” Priyanka Kumari, 44, from Boralesgamuwa in the country’s Western Province, told EFE. Household incomes have been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
2022 Kathina sponsorship at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara
Dear friends, Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara organization has planned to give the opportunity to a team of youngsters (age 17+) to be sponsors and organizers of the 2022 Kathina ceremony. Our goal is to give full responsibility to this young team for conducting all the tasks and events from the initiation- Kathina invitation day (Saturday, July 9th, 2022) to the Katina Robe offering day (October 8 & 9th, 2022) at the end of the ceremony. We kindly invite all the young devotees to join the "sponsoring and organizing team of the Kathina... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
සමහර අයට ලොකුවට දැන් බලය තියෙනවා කියලා ටිකක් උඩින් යන ගතියක් දැන් ඇවිත්.-මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා
මං කථාව සැරට කරලා පෙන්නුවේ අපිටත් සැරට කථා කරන්න පුලුවන් කියලා පෙන්නන්නයි.මොකද සමහර අය හිතන් ඉන්නවා බෑ කියලා.සමහර දේශපාලන පක්ෂ දැන් ආණ්ඩු හදලා දිනලා ජනාධිපතිත් වෙලා ඉවරයි.සමහර අයට ලොකුවට දැන් බලය තියෙනවා කියලා ටිකක් උඩින් යන ගතියක් දැන් ඇවිත්.මේ රටේ දේශපාලනයේ 1956 බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිතුමන්ගේ ආණ්ඩුවේ ඉඳලම මේ ආණ්ඩුව වෙනකම්ම සියලු ආණ්ඩු සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩු, පෙරමුණු ආණ්ඩු කවුරුත් තනියෙම හදපු ආණ්ඩු නෙමෙයි යැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති, ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ නායක මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පැවසීය. ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්රික් සමුළුව අමතමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසීය.අනුරාධපුර පිහිටි ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී, ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ නායක,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
What Sri Lanka Can Learn From Duty-Free-Quota-Free Facility Extended By Thailand For Bangladesh?
Recently, Thailand has decided to provide the duty-free, quota-free (DFQF) market facility for Bangladeshi products in its market until 2026 to increase two-way trade volume. The declaration came as such facilities to Bangladesh by Thailand expired on 31 December 2020. It is high time to analyze the market situation of Thailand to devise appropriate strategies to get optimum benefits from the DFQF market facilities offered to Bangladesh. The journey of Bangladesh–Thailand relations began on 5 October 1972 when Thailand recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign nation-state. The diplomatic ties began with the establishment of the Thai... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Sri Lanka And Bangladesh’s Opportunities From Upcoming BIMSTEC Summit
BIMSTEC or Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation has 7 members - India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. The grouping is more than 20 years old and was formed in 1997. The last summit took place in Kathmandu in 2018 with PM Modi and other member-leaders attending the meet. BIMSTEC region has huge prospects for economic cooperation. Sri Lanka is the chair of the grouping and had earlier proposed holding a virtual summit on 9th December which has now been postponed. According to the media reports, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ මාරු මණ්ඩලයේ ගැටලුවට සියලු පාර්ශව එකඟතාවෙන් තීන්දුවකට එළැඹෙන්නැයි සෞඛ්ය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයාට අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගෙන් උපදෙස්
වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ මාරු මණ්ඩලය පිළිබඳව උද්ගතව ඇති ගැටලුවට සියලු පාර්ශව එකඟතාවෙන් තීන්දුවකට එළැඹෙන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සෞඛ්ය සේවා අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයාට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය සමඟ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ ඊයේ (04) පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී ඉදිරිපත් වූ කරුණු සැළකිල්ලට ගනිමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ මාරු මණ්ඩලය මෙතෙක් පැවති ආකාරයට පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට උපදෙස් දෙන්නැයි රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය මෙම හමුවේ දී ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. ඒ සඳහා එකඟවිය නොහැකි බව සෞඛ්ය අමාත්ය කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මහතා මෙහි දී අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. පැවැති ක්රමයම පවත්වාගෙන යාමට නොව යම් ගැටලුවක් ඇත්නම් ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Sri Lanka's current economic challenges and overcoming them
Sri Lankan economic challenges are because of many factors. Most important of these was the economy was run down for 5 years by the Ayahapalana govt where not a shred of economic activity was initiated and what had been started before was thwarted ( Colombo Port City, Hambantota Port activity) and then went back to the same after two to three years of delay on terms more adverse to SL, Sri Lanka borrowed 7 Billion $ external debt for spending spree and consumer goods to keep consumers happy blissfully ignorant of the damage being done while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
කොවිඩ් හමුවේ වුවත් 2021 වසරේ දී නිවාස ඉදිකිරීම් හා නාගරික සංවර්ධන ක්ෂේත්රවල ඉලක්කගත අභියෝග ජයගත්තා - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හමුවේ වුවද 2021 වර්ෂය තුළ නිවාස ඉදිකිරීම් හා නාගරික සංවර්ධන ක්ෂේත්රවල ඉලක්කගත අභියෝග ජයගැනීමට හැකි වූ බව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. 2022 වර්ෂය සඳහා අමාත්යාංශයේ වැඩ සැලැස්ම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම අද (05) දින බත්තරමුල්ල සුහුරුපාය අමාත්යාංශ ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී පැවැති අවස්ථාවේ අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය 2022 වර්ෂයේ දී නිවාස ඉදිකිරීම් හා නාගරික සංවර්ධන ක්ෂේත්රයට පැමිණෙන අභියෝගවලට මුහුණ දීමට ද සුදානම් බව අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මෙහි දී අවධාරණය කළේය. නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්යාංශය යටතේ රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශ හතරක් ක්රියාත්මක වන අතර නාගරික සංවර්ධන අපද්රව්ය බැහැරලීම හා ප්රජා පවිත්රතා කටයුතු රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය, වතු නිවාස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
PRIANTHA KUMARA -Sialkot Fanatics’ Senseless Lynching
The Coffin carrying the remains of Priantha Kumara at BIA Priyantha Kumara, a Sri Lankan Export Manager, employed by Rajko Industries, Sialkot, became an Islamic fanatic group’s victim on 3 December 2021. Police records revealed that he was beaten with sticks, fists and kicks by a group consisting of dozens of assemblies before being dragged to the road outside the factory and set on fire alive. Rajko Industries manufactured cricket jerseys and other gear for the Pakistan cricket team in T20 World Cup. Priyantha Kumara was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
If there’s a scarcity food will be imported – Aluthgamage
Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said, if there is a food shortage in the country, then food items will be imported just like Dubai and Singapore do. He was speaking at a ceremony to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Eppawala Phosphate Limited. “Many speak about food security and food shortages these days. Dubai does not have any agricultural produce. They import agricultural produce and the people never go hungry. The same applies to Singapore. If there is a food shortage, we will import it. This is standard procedure.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
Susil: Those not qualified to be even sanitary workers hold key positions in govt.
Susil Premjayantha, who was stripped of his mintierial portfolio yesterday, said that he would return to his legal profession. Premjayantha, speaking to journalists said: “Last week, when I visited the Delkanda fair, I was asked by journalists there to comment on prices of essential goods. I responded that agriculture had failed and the government’s policy decisions were a disaster. I said that price of a kilo of chillies sold at Rs 1,200. I was speaking on behalf of the people. Losing this portfolio is not a big... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
රාජ්ය ඇමතිවරයෙකුගෙන් සුසිල්ට බිරියානි සංග්රහයක්-අගමැති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ, සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිය කනස්සල්ල පළකරයි
රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ධුරයෙන් ඉවත්කළ නීතිඥ සුසිල් ප්රේම්ජයන්ත් මන්ත්රීවරයාට ඊයේ (04) දුරකථන ඇමතුමක් ලබාදී ඇති අගමැති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ, සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිය කනස්සල්ල පළකර ඇතැයි ආණ්ඩුවේ අභ්යන්තර ආරංචි මාර්ග පවසනවා. '' ඔබතුමාව ඇමතිකමෙන් අයින් කරලා කියල මම දැනගත්තේ දැන්" යයි පැවසූ අගමැති මහින්ද තමන්ට හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනි චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරණතුංග 2005 දී ජනාධිපති අපේක්ෂකත්වය නොදීමට තීරණය කර තිබිය දී එය ලබා ගැනීමට සන්ධාන මහ ලේකම් ලෙස දුන් සහය අමතක නැතැයි ද පවසා තිබෙනවා. එහිදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයාට ප්රතිචාර දැක්වූ රාජ්ය අමාත්ය සුසිල් ප්රේම්ජයන්ත් සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ තමන්ට කිසිදිනක අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සමග ගැටලුවක් නොතිබූ බවයි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
ආහාර හිඟ වුණොත්, රටින් ගේනවා ! - මහින්දානන්ද (වීඩියෝ)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආහාර හිඟයක් ඇතිවුවහොත් ඊට පිළියම් ලෙස විදෙස් රටවලින් ආහාර ආනයනය කරන බව කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්ය මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ පවසනවා. මේ අතර, රජයේ අනුවණ තීරණ හේතුවෙන් වගා හානි වූ ගොවීන්ට ආණ්ඩුව කොන්දේසි විරහිතව වන්දි ලබා දිය යුතු බව සමස්ත ලංකා ගොවිජන සම්මේලනයේ කැඳවුම්කරු නාමල් කරුණාරත්න පවසනවා. https://youtu.be/FT5C42rF4Yg පොහෙර නොමැතිව වගා හානි වීම හේතුවෙන් ප්රදේශ රැසක ගොවි ජනතාව තවදුරටත් පත්ව සිටින්නේ දැඩී පීඩාවකටයි. රජය කාබනික පොහොර ප්රතිපත්තිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමත් සමඟ ගොවීන් මේ වන විට දැඩි අර්බුදයකට මුහුණ දී සිටින්නේ කාබනික හෝ රසායනික පොහොර කිසිවක් සපයාගත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/01/22)
මේ මොහොතේ ජනතාවට අවශ්ය අන්දන ආණ්ඩුවක් නෙවෙයි - සජිත් (වීඩියෝ)
ජනතාවට මේ මොහොතේ අවශ්ය ජනතාව අන්දන විකල්පයක් නොව රටට වැඩ කරන ආණ්ඩුවක් බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස පවසනවා. පසුගියදා කින්නියා ප්රදේශයේ පාරු අනතුර සිදු වු ස්ථානය නීරික්ෂණයට එක් වෙමින් විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා මේ බව සදහන් කළා. https://youtu.be/or5RJY8lWKw මෙහිදී ජීවිත අටක් අහිමි කරමින් පසුගියදා කින්නියා ප්රදේශයේ සිදු වු පාරු අනතුර සිදු වු ස්ථානය විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක් වුණා. එහිදි කින්නියා පාලම් අනතුරෙන් ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත්වූ සහ අනතුරට ලක්වූ පවුල් සඳහා මූල්ය ආධාර ලබා දීමක් ද විපක්ෂ නායකවරයාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් සිදු වුණා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
Sri Lanka sees 550 new COVID cases and 10 more deaths
The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 10 more coronavirus-related deaths for January 04, increasing the death toll in the country due to the virus pandemic to 15,065. According to the figures released by the Government Information Department, the deaths reported today include 07 males and 03 females. Three of the patients are between the ages of 30-59 years. The remaining 07 are in the age group of 60 years. The Ministry of Health reported that another 550 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (January 05). This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
'No regrets about speaking the truth' (Video)
Susil Premajayantha, who was recently removed from the post of Minister of State, says that when he speaks the truth on behalf of the people, he does not regret losing his ministry post. He also said that if those who point out the wrong policies and decisions of the government are punished without question, the people will give the verdict for such things. https://youtu.be/MRHE3iYsagA The response by the former State Minister to a question raised by a journalist while he visited the Delkanda Fair to purchase... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
"Everyone will turn into thieves if they are elected to the Govt" (Video)
https://youtu.be/FWWc9lPnCWs Former President Maithripala Sirisena says that even if the people of this country vote to create governments without thieves, after the formation of a government all members of the government will become thieves. The former President also accused some party leaders of thinking that they are the President of the country from now on. Sirisena stated this while participating in a public meeting held in Anuradhapura today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
CEB trade unions issue warnings over a power outage
The CEB trade unions warn that there could be another power cut in the country amid the fuel crisis. They point out that the Sapugaskanda thermal power plant has also been closed due to a shortage of diesel The Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery Complex was closed for the second time and the refined fuel is currently in use. https://youtu.be/m60FoBM1gPw However, the issuance of letters of credit for the unloading of fuel from ships carrying such refined fuel has been hampered by the current dollar crisis. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පාලනය කරන්නේ අට පාස් නැති නූගතෙක්..- සුසිල් පිට පිට ප්රහාරයේ.. වියත්මගත් පතුරු අරී…
වත්මන් ආණ්ඩු පාලනය කරන්නේ කවුදැයි තමන් නොදන්නා බව ඊයේ දිනයේ අමාත්ය ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කරන ලද පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සුසිල් ප්රේමජයන්ත මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පාලනය කරන්නේ සනීපාරක්ෂක කම්කරු තරම්වත් අධ්යාපනයක් නැති අයෙක් බවද ඔහු පැවසීය. තමන් අමාත්ය ධුර ඉවත් කිරීම ආශිර්වාදයක් සේ සලකන බවත් ඔහු කියා සිටියි. මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ, බන්දුල ගුනවර්ධන අමාත්යවරුන් අසමත් කියා තමන් ඔවුන් පාස් කරන්නේ දැයි ඔහු ප්රශ්න කළේය. අන්තර්ජාලය නාලිකාවක සාකච්ඡාවක දී ඒ මහතා මෙම අදහස් පළ කලේය. වියත්මග සංවිධානය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ද ඔහු එහිදී විවේචන ඉදිරිපත් කළේය. https://youtu.be/LJN2_-IkMaE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth – The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with.
Breakdown of Sources SL’s Debt Burden China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As states around the world pile on debt to combat the coronavirus pandemic and bolster flagging economies, fears of such possible seizures have only amplified. Seen this way, China’s internationalization—as laid out in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
World Bank, IMF turned poor Third World nations into loan addicts
A CRITIQUE OF CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION (PART III): Creating a world that works for all must begin with an effort to undo the enormous damage inflicted by the free trade economic policies that so badly distort economic relationships among people and countries. The thrust of those policies is perhaps most dramatically revealed in the structural adjustment programs imposed on low- and intermediate-income countries by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Structural adjustment requires governments to do the following: • cut government spending on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
Susil Premajayantha leaves his office gracefully in a three-wheeler after he was sacked by the troubled president. Can Gotabaya leave his office the same way at the end of his term?
State Minister Susil Premajayantha left his office so gracefully after he has been removed from his post with immediate effect, https://youtu.be/JWksZfg7edg The decision was made by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in accordance with the powers vested in him. Susil Premajayantha served as the State Minister of Education Reforms, Open Universities, and Distance Learning Promotion. https://youtu.be/jWtoYxe-E6c Premajayantha says he intends to return to his legal profession. The former State Minister of Education Reforms, Open Universities and Distance Learning Promotion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
Sri Lanka leader sacks minister who criticized farm policy
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sacked a government minister on Tuesday after he criticized a now-abandoned government decision to ban chemical fertilizers. Rajapaksa´s office said State Minister of Education Reforms and Open Universities Susil Premajayantha was dismissed with immediate effect. It did not give a reason for his removal. Premajayanta was not immediately available for comment. However, he said on local television stations that he believed his dismissal was the result of his recent comments about government agricultural policy and rising food prices. On Sunday,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
Why was Susil Premajayantha fired? Former President reveals (Video)
Former President Maithripala Sirisena stated that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has embarked on a new program to save the country from the situation it is facing.He stated that the present government is an alliance government and that the strongest third party in parliament is the SLFP. https://youtu.be/7Thj2Hg6n_I Maithripala Sirisena also stated that although some people thought that the SLFP had fallen into a state where it could not recover, it had not reached such a stage. He further stated that the SLFP suffered a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියේ, සභ්යත්වයේ සහ රටේ දිගටම සිදුවන බිඳ වැටීම
නිදහස ලැබීමෙන් අනතුරුව සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියේ සහ සභ්යත්වයේ නැඟීමක් වෙනුවට වුයේ තව දුරටත් බිඳ වැටීමකි. ධර්මපාල තුමන් සඳහන් කල පරිදිම සුද්දන් ගිය පසු කළු සුද්දන් සිංහලත්වය පාගා දැමීමට, ගැරහීමට ලක් කළහ. බෞද්ධයන් දිගින් දිගටම ක්රිස්තියානිකරණය වුහ. මෙය අද ඉතා සීග්ර ලෙස නගරවල පමණක් නොව ගම් වලද පැතිර යයි. 1994ට පමණ පසුවයි මේ තත්ත්වය බොහෝ සෙයින් වැඩි වුයේ. රහසින් ක්රිස්තියානු ධර්මය අදහන බෞද්ධයෝ බොහෝය - ඒ අතර දේශපාලකයෝද ඇත. බෞද්ධයෙක් ක්රිස්තියානුවෙකු හා විවාහ වූ පසු බොහෝ විට එම තැනැත්තා සහ ලැබෙන ළමුන් ක්රිස්තියානි භක්තිකයෝ වෙත්. අද රටේ සිංහලයන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
A crisis of the Nannied
We are a much-nannied society. We live on subsidies from womb to tomb. We enjoy free health, free education, subsidized electricity, and water. Our farmers get their irrigation water-free and are given a guaranteed price for their main products. Besides all these, we also enjoy the fundamental right to defend these rights. We do not for a moment think that there is no free meal. Somebody else is paying for it. One has to be happy with the present predictions of the serious food crisis by March this year. I hope the nanny mollycoddled... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
ආණ්ඩුව කල්පවසානයේ වහිනවා කියන මුරුගසන් වරුසාවට අහුවෙලා. ආණ්ඩුව සල්ලි බෙදනවා කියන්නේ ඡන්දයක් ලඟ ලඟ එනවා කියන එකයි
මේ රට අද කල්පාවසානයේ වහිනවා කියන මුරුගසන් වරුසාවට අහුවෙලා වගේ. මැරුගසන් වැස්සට අහුවුනාම මිනිස්සුන්ට පිස්සු හැදෙනවාලු. ලඟ ඉන්න මිනිහා පෙන්නේ සතෙක් වගේ ලු. සාහිත්ය කතාවල කියනවා, මුරුගසන් වැස්ස වැටිලා පිස්සු හැදුණට පස්සේ එකිනෙකා මාරාගෙන ඒ රටේ ලෝකයේ සතා සිව්පාවා, ගහ කොළ පවා විනාශ වෙනවා ලූ. මේ ආණ්ඩුවත් දැන් මුරුගසන් වරුසාවට අහුවෙලා වගේ. විශේෂයෙන්ම කෘෂිකර්ම කේෂ්ත්රයට අදාල සියළුම දෙනා මුරුගසන් වැස්සට අහුවෙලා පිස්සුවැටිලා වගේ වැඩ කරන්නේ යැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පැවසීය. සාධාරණ සමාජයක් සඳහා වු ජාතික ව්යාපාරය අද නාරාහේන්පිට දී පැවැත්වූ පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
ඇප්ලිකේෂන් එකේ ප්රින්ට් අවුට් එකක් අරගෙන ගමේ දේශපාලනඥයන් කරා යන යුගය අවසන් කරනවා.
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රථම වරට වයස අවුරුදු 15ට වැඩි ශ්රී ලාංකේය තරුණ තරුණියන්ට ඩිජිටල් හැඳුනුම්පත (Digital Youth ID) හඳුන්වාදෙමින් ඊයේ (03) දින කොළඹ බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්යන්තර සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ පැවති වැඩසටහනේ දී අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. ‘මේ යෞවන සමාජ සම්මේලන තුළ සිටින තරුණයා ඇප්ලිකේෂන් එක ප්රින්ට් කරගෙන අපි ගාවට ගෙනැත් දෙන්න අවශ්ය නැහැ. ඇප්ලිකේෂන් එකේ ප්රින්ට් එකක් අරගෙන තමන්ගේ ගමේ දේශපාලනඥයා කරා යන්න අවශ්ය නැහැ. මේ Digital Youth ID එක ඇතුළේ තමන්ගේ සියලු විස්තර තිබෙනවා’ යැයි අමාත්යවරයා එහිදී පැවසීය. ජාත්යන්තර පිළිගැනීමකට ලක්ව තිබෙන Block... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ මාරු මණ්ඩලය මෙතෙක් පැවති ක්රමවේදයටම පවත්වාගෙන යන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්යතුමාගෙන් උපදෙස්
ශ්රේණිධාරී වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ ස්ථාන මාරු මණ්ඩලය මෙතෙක් පවත්වාගෙන ආ ක්රමවේදයටම ඉදිරියටත් පවත්වාගෙන යන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවැසීය. රජයේ වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය සමඟ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ අද (04) පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී ඉදිරිපත් වූ කරුණු සැළකිල්ලට ගනිමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙතෙක් පැවැති ක්රමවේද ඇතැම් නිලධාරීන්ගේ අභිමතය පරිදි වෙනස් කිරීමට යාමෙන් අර්බුද මතුවන බව පෙන්වා දුන් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා, දේශපාලන මතවාද අනුව යමින් රජය අපහසුතාවයට පත් නොකර වෘත්තිය සමිති සමඟ ආයතන සංග්රහයට අනුව ක්රියා කරන්නැයි සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශයේ නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. වෛද්ය පරිපාලනය ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කනිෂ්ඨ ලෙස දෙකොටසකට බෙදා ක්රියාත්මක නොකර එකම නියැදියක තබා කටයුතු කරන්නැයි රජයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
2022 ක්රීඩාවට කාර්යබහුල වසරක්.. අභියෝග ජයගෙන ශ්රී ලංකාව ක්රීඩාවෙන් ඉහලටම ගෙනඒමට කැප වෙනවා. - අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා -
කණිෂ්ඨ මලල ක්රීඩා සංචිතයේ ක්රීඩක ක්රීඩිකාවන්, ඔවුන්ගේ දෙමාපියන් සහ පුහුණුකරුවන් සමග අද (04) දින ජාතික ක්රීඩා සභාවේ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවෙන් අනතුරුව අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව පැවසීය. එම අවස්ථාවේදි අමාත්යවරයා මෙසේ ද කීය. ‘දිගු කාලීන සැළැස්මක් සමග ක්රීඩාව සංවර්ධනය කිරීමට කටයුතු ආරම්භ කර අවසන්. ඉදිරියේදී මෙම කණිෂ්ඨ ක්රීඩක ක්රීඩිකාවන්ගේ දක්ෂතා උසස් මට්ටමට ගෙනැවිත් 2024 හා 2028 වර්ෂවල තරගාවලි සදහා සූදානම් කරවීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ සම්බන්ධව අද දිනයේ අවුරුදු 20 න් පහළ කණිෂ්ඨ මළල ක්රීඩා සංචිතය සමග අපි සාකච්ඡා කළා. ඒ අනුව දීර්ඝ කාලීනව මෙම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්රවාදය - 51 වැනි කොටස- බෞද්ධ නීතියේ පරමාර්ථය
නීතියට අර්ථයක් ලැබෙනුයේ සංස්කෘතියක් තුළ ය. යම් ක්රියාවක නිවැරැදි බව, වැරැදි බව, යෝග්ය බව, අයෝග්ය බව යනාදිය අප විසින් තීරණය කරනු ලබන්නේ අදාළ සංස්කෘතික ඇගැයීම් මත පදනම්වීමෙනි. එහෙයින් රටක නීති සම්පාදනය විය යුත්තේ ද එම ඇගැයීම්වලට අනුරූප වන පරිදි ය. ඒ අනුව, රටක පවතින නීතිය තුළින් ද එහි අනන්යතාව ප්රකාශ කෙරෙයි. ජනරජයේ අනන්යතාව ප්රකාශ කෙරෙන සාමූහික හිමිකමක් ලෙසින් අපගේ නීතිය සම්පාදනය විය යුතු බව මෙම ප්රවාදය තුළින් යෝජනා කෙරුණේ ද එබැවිනි. යටත්විජිත බලපෑමෙන් මිදීමට නො හැකි වී ඇති බැවින් අප රට තුළ තවමත් ක්රියාත්මක වන්නේ ඉංග්රීසි ස්වාමියාගේ සම්ප්රදායට අනුකූල වන පරිදි අර්ථදැක්වුණු රෝම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ධුරයෙන් ඉවත්වන බවට පැතිරයන ප්රචාරය අසත්යයයි
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිය ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් වන බවට ප්රධාන මාධ්ය හා සමාජ ජාලා මාධ්යන්හි දින කිහිපයක් පුරා සහ අද (03) දින පැතිර යන ප්රචාරයන්හි කිසිදු සත්යතාවක් නොමැත. රටේ ජනතාව නොමඟ යවන අයුරින් සිදුවන මෙවැනි අසත්ය ප්රචාර තරයේ ප්රතික්ෂේප කරමි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/01/22)
තරුණ ප්රජාවේ අභිලාෂයන් මුදුන්පත් කිරීමට නව තාක්ෂණය සමග මුසු වූ සැළසුම්, ප්රතිපත්ති සහ වැඩසටහන් රැසක් ක්රියාවට නංවමින් නව වසරකට පා තැබුවා. -අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා -
2022 නව වසරේ රාජකාරි ආරම්භ කරමින් තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා, සංවර්ධන සම්බන්ධීකරණ හා අධීක්ෂණ සහ ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (03) දින තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශයේ ඩන්කන්වයිට් ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී මේ බව පැවසීය. එම අවස්ථාවේදී අමාත්යවරයා මෙසේ ද කීය. 2022 වර්ෂයේ රාජකාරි ආරම්භ කරන පළමු දින ප්රථමයෙන්ම ඔබ සියලු දෙනාට සුබ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා’යි මා ප්රාර්ථනා කරනවා. තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය ලෙස ඉතාමත් අභියෝගාත්මක වසරක් පසු කර තරුණයන්ගේ අභිලාෂයන් මුදුන්පත් කරන්න නව තාක්ෂණය සමග... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
ByRakeshSimha courtesy Indiafacts
Japan and India are the last two dharmic nations in the world. While Japan has avoided being sucked into Christianity’s digestive tract, Indic religions are losing members to the Abrahamic aggressor. What can be done to stop this? Playing Ostrich will only cause more harm. The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business that primarily deals in the harvest of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Barter trade with Sri Lanka is not fair
A member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce says barter of tea with oil between Iran and Sri Lanka is not fair because Sri Lankans will give Iran second or third degree tea as their low quality tea has no customer in the world. Speaking to ILNA news agency, Masoud Daneshmand talked about barter trade with Sri Lanka and said that China, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Latin American states and some other countries seek to buy cheap oil from Iran and they also accept Iran’s gas oil and gasoline. "Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Sri Lanka unlikely to seek IMF bailout;Cabinet fails to reach consensus
Sri Lanka is unlikely to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the Cabinet failing to reach a consensus last evening. Government sources told Daily Mirror last night that most members of the Cabinet did not support seeking financial support from the IMF. Sources said that a majority in the Cabinet are against the pre-conditions expected to be proposed by the IMF for the funding. As a result, Government sources said that Sri Lanka is most likely to decide not to seek an IMF bailout.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Removal from post a blessing in disguise: Susil
President's decision to remove him from his post is a blessing in disguise, Former State Minister Susil Premajayantha said today. "It is a blessing in disguise as remaining as a state minister would have been an issue considering the ways the country is being administered currently," Mr. Premajayantha told journalists. "I have been removed as I spoke on high cost of living. I was asked by a journalist on vegetable prices and I said the government's agriculture policy has been a failure. This is why I was removed. I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
COVID: 629 cases confirmed and 18 new COVID deaths in Sri Lanka today
The Ministry of Health reported that another 629 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (January 04). This figure includes 09 individuals who had arrived in the country from overseas. Following the new development, Sri Lanka’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases climbed to 588,929. The number of virus-infected patients currently undergoing treatment now stands over 12,600. The recoveries count reached 561,271 earlier today while the death toll moved to 15,055.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Cabinet nod to purchase 750 jeeps for Sri Lanka Police; 500 buses for SLTB
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the procurement of 500 new buses for the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) under the Indian loan grant scheme and another 750 jeeps for Sri Lanka Police under the Indian Line of Credit. On 08th January 2020, the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers had been granted to procure 500 new buses of 32 – 35 seating capacity to Sri Lanka Transport Board under the Indian loan grant scheme. Accordingly, bids have been called from 03 institutions that accomplish pre requisite for the purchase of buses,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Fertilizer crisis: Farmers facing difficulties due to lack of fertilizer (Video)
The National Federation of Tea Smallholders stated that they have faced many difficulties due to the collapse of their products. Meanwhile, farmers in several parts of the country are still complaining about the lack of fertilizer. https://youtu.be/hgbtWMiygdo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe writes to Chinese President
Parliamentarian President's Counsel Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has forwarded a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, requesting that China halt the economic invasion into Sri Lanka. In the detailed letter, MP Rajapakshe points out that the bilateral relationships between China and Sri Lanka extend back to the pre-era of B.C., where Bhikku Faxian visited the country. This letter politically describes the current damage to the Sri Lankan economy due to China's strong influence and the debt trap that Sri Lanka is entangled in. The last few chapters... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Caste and Education in the North
The last Kuppi Talk article by Erandika de Silva discussed the disjuncture between the emphasis on standardisation and the absence of serious efforts to address the challenges facing students and teachers in the peripheries due to socio-economic inequalities. She drew insights from her own teaching experiences in the North to elaborate on this disjuncture. If uneven resource allocation and development, the civil war, the North’s isolation during the war years, protracted militarization and the ethno-nationalism of the state produce the North and its academic institutions as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
NEWS‘Maha season ruined, Yala will be a disaster’
No agro-chemical imports yet, only fraction of liquid fertilizer received The government lifted the ban on agro-chemical imports, well over a month ago, but the country is yet to receive much-needed fertiliser supplies. The President’s Office on Nov. 22 announced the ending of the ban on agro-chemicals imports introduced on April 22, 2021. However, Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) MP Rohini Kaviratne claims that though Agriculture Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage assured the Parliament agro chemicals would be imported, so far the private sector hasn’t been given the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
President should bear responsibility for food crisis: Tilvin
While commenting on prevailing economic crisis and food scarcity were due to the ignorant decisions by the government, the Janatha Vikuthi Peramuna (JVP) said today the President should bear the entire responsibility for the food scarcity. JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva told a news conference that even though President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was trying to show that this was a natural crisis, this crisis was created by him. "This is not a natural crisis. This has been caused by the ignorant actions of the government. Food scarcity threatens people. Prices of ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Inflation hits double-digits in December rubbishing Central Bank’s transitory claims
Highest since January 2009; breaks country’s 12-year record of maintaining single-digit inflationFood inflation tops 20%; monthly increase exceeds 5%CB says “a large component of inflation driven by supply side factors” A gentle Christmas rally normally seen in prices every December turned into a blowout in December 2021, as inflation in Colombo soared to a 12-year high. Consumer prices measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) rose by 12.1 percent in the twelve months to December 2021, accelerating from 9.9 percent in November reflecting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Record money printing in 2021 as Central Bank-held Treasury bill stock tops Rs.1.4tn
Among the records made last year—most of which didn’t necessarily bring in a sense of achievement—was the record phase at which money was printed, as the Central Bank, influenced by the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), flooded the markets with liquidity to support the government bloat its fiscal deficit. As at the end of 2021, the Central Bank’s disclosed Treasury bill stock stood at Rs.1, 416.75 billion with overnight liquidity injections to the banking sector topping Rs.467.30 billion on December 31. However, other reports suggested that the estimated Treasury bill stock... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Basil back, now eying PM post?
In a major twist of events, Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa who returned back to the country from the United States on January 1st morning, is internally campaigning to be appointed as the Prime Minister in the coming months, replacing his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa whilst also calling for an urgent cabinet reshuffle, the Daily Mirror learns. Basil who took over as the Finance Minister recently, has been urging for a change in some ministries with a cabinet reshuffle now being planned as soon as possible. The Daily Mirror learns that at least six... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
A Rs 229 billion economic relief package announced
The Government today announced a Rs 229 billion economic relief package which comprises a Rs 5000, salary hike for state workers, increasing of pensions, Samurdhi and special stimulus payment for home gardens. Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa told a press conference that the cabinet today decided to grant an allowance of Rs.5000 for state workers while pensions will also be increased by Rs.5000. In addition, allowance for the disabled soldiers will be increased by Rs 5000. The owners of private companies will be asked to increase salaries of their workers.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
Court order preventing payment for Chinese fertilizer shipment dissolved
The Colombo Commercial High Court has dissolved the enjoining order preventing the payment on Letter of Credit to the Chinese company that shipped a disputed consignment of organic fertilizer to Sri Lanka, as all parties had agreed for a settlement. The court was expected to deliver its decision on extending or revoking the interim order when the petition filed by the Colombo Commercial Fertilizers Ltd. was taken up before Commercial High Court Judge Pradeep Hettiarachchi. The Ceylon Fertilizer Company (CFC) had previously secured two enjoining orders from the Colombo Commercial High Court... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
COVID: 365 new cases detected and another 18 COVID deaths in Sri Lanka
The Ministry of Health reported that another 365 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (03). This figure includes 06 persons who had arrived in the country from overseas. Sri Lanka’s tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 climbs to 588,300 with this while the number of infected patients currently undergoing treatment is 12,135. The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 18 coronavirus related deaths for January 02, increasing the death toll in the country to 15,037. This includes 11 males and 07 females while eleven victims... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/01/22)
How to manage our foreign exchange in this time of Crisis
Veteran administrator, Sudat Gunasekera former Secretary to the Hon Prime Minister , has said in his Paper What the Government should do to get rid of the present financial crisis ailing the country? in Lanka Web, 2/1/2022 what measures Sri Lanka has to take to get out of the financial mess we are in. I too think that his suggestions are the only way ahead. Let us look at what happened to Turkey when Turkey allowed a free float of the Turkish Lira and to other countries when they did what the IMF wanted it to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/22)
The rise of ‘Hoo Keliya’ by the people
Crackers did burst, and rockets did fly with blasts. As the old year folded up, the fireworks continued. Were some of the louder blasts from gas cylinders? Who knows, with no legal action taken against those gas-blast dealers so far. The law can wait till they draw in all the crooked profits. As the cracker and rocket blasts fade away, we are moving into a new sound of the public. It is the rise of the ‘Hoova’ time. We saw it first at Hambantota. Were the people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/01/22)
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