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News Archive for Feb 2023
Senaka Weeraratna
For many years it was the propaganda of the Victors full of hate speech directed towards the losers i.e., Axis powers, Germany and Japan, and demonizing one of them i.e.Japanese, as cannibals and savages that characterized the WW2 narrative. The people of Asia no longer accept the Western sponsored narratives as Gospel truths. There is increasing resistance to propaganda masquerading as historical fact. The Society for Dissemination of Historical Fact based in Japan is a striking illustration of such resistance. People of former European colonies are demanding accountability for rapacious colonialism. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
VIEWS A River for Jaffna and the concept of Jana Sabha C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. After reading the essay by Rama Somasuderam on the issue of fresh water supply to Jaffna, [Jaffna Saltwater SchemePosted on February 25th, 2023 Researched and written by Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS). This was called the Jaffna Peninsula Lagoon Scheme which is located at Elephant Pass which is located 30 miles Southeast of Jaffna], I thought of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
BY Mirudhula Thambiah Courtesy The Morning
No action into Karannagoda committee recommendation yetPolice, Defence Ministry say matter in President’s hands The Police stated yesterday (27) that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is yet to commence investigations into former Army Commander and incumbent Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Shavendra Silva as recommended by the committee led by former Navy Commander Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda, which was appointed to look into any lapses by the State Intelligence, the Police, and the armed forces during the mass anti-Government protests and violent incidents across the island on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Feb 27 (Bernama) – Sri Lanka’s tea production is expected to fully recover next year after last year’s drop, the country’s Environment Minister Naseer Ahamed said. The tea industry, a key foreign exchange earner, saw its output decline by 16 per cent to 251.5 million kilogrammes in 2022. “The production has dropped because of the fertilizer issue. It will recover by next year,” Naseer told Bernama in New Delhi. He was in India to attend an environment summit organised by the Energy and Resources Institute, a not-for-profit organisation. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
By Bandula Sirimana/Business Times
Colombo, February 26: Although the total government external debt amounts to US$ 35.052 billion as at end of September 2022, only bilateral debt is considered for the debt restructuring process to release the IMF Extended Fund Facility, The bilateral creditors including China, India, Japan and Paris club member countries have expressed their willingness to restructure their debt amounting to US$10.814 billion, sources said. The Finance Ministry along with the Central Bank have briefed those creditors on the country’s overall debt situation, the status of the economy and the process of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
e-Con e-News
The USA’s IMF package is still secret, right? The President keeps promising to present it ‘soon’. Just like the ‘promised’ IMF loan, which is supposed to act as a suppository to loosen the sphincters of tight-fisted money markets. The package is secret, the promised date is secret, and the IMF is still controlled by the US. So, while the money markets are clearly gaming Sri Lanka, why should China join the US in exploiting SL? As China’s recent statement says, they will support Sri Lanka, but not support the IMF. Yet clearly the English media will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
Allison Hurst Courtesy Toronto CTVnews
Almost six months have passed and Toronto woman Shamita Kumar is still looking for a piece of luggage her mom was supposed to have with her in Sri Lanka. "My aunt was sick, so we were really there to take care of her," Kumar told CTV News Toronto in an interview. They packed a variety of things in the suitcase, like bras for a mastectomy and other items to help Kumar's aunt through treatment. But, Kumar said the bag never even left Canada. “It moved to Montreal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
MARTIN RAISER Courtesy World Bank Blogs
Photo: Mindstorm/Shutterstock.com Sri Lanka is at a critical moment in its history. Years of economic mismanagement, weak governance, poor policy choices, and the impacts of external shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, plunged the country into its worst-ever crisis in 2022. Economic collapse and political instability have devastated lives and livelihoods across the board, dealing the heaviest blow to the poorest and most vulnerable. Regular climate-induced disasters add to Sri Lanka’s fragility. The depth of the crisis has made it clear that Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has signed a Gazette notification, a short while ago, declaring several services related to ports, airports and passenger transport services as essential services, with immediate effect, the PMD reported. Accordingly, the special Gazette declares public transport services for passengers or goods, discharge, carriage, landing, storage, delivery and removal of articles of food or drink, or coal, oil, fuel from vessels within any port as defined for the purposes of the Customs Ordinance (Chapter 235), the provision and maintenance of facilities for transport services by road, rail or air, including roads, bridges,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The group of 62 individuals including IUSF convenor Wasantha Mudalige and 48 Buddhist monks, who were arrested in relation to forcibly entering the Ministry of Education premises recently have been granted bail. https://youtu.be/mS78lzFMYlg They have been ordered to be released on bail, after being produced before Kaduwela Magistrate’s Court today (Feb. 27). A total of 62 protestors including 48 Buddhist monks and several other student activists, including the convenor of the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF), were arrested on February 23, after storming the Ministry of Education premises... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Faculty of Technology of the Ruhuna University will be closed for one week from today following an assault on the Sub-Warden, his wife and mother by a group of students yesterday (Feb. 26). Accordingly, the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Ruhuna said that the students have also been ordered to vacate the university premises by 2.00 p.m. today (Feb. 27). https://youtu.be/mJ9A88LozXQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, said it will provide Sri Lanka with a $400 million cross-currency swap facility to help fund essential imports. Three private banks will receive the facility to fund about 30% of imports, including medicine, food and fertiliser, the IFC said in a statement on February 27. The funds will provide a much-needed foreign exchange cushion for Sri Lanka, which is grappling with its worst financial crisis in over seven decades partly triggered by a severe shortage of dollars. The island nation’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has fixed for hearing a petition filed over the delay in holding the Local Government elections, for Friday, the 3rd of March 2023. The petition was filed by Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) General Secretary Ranjith Madduma Bandara. The petitioner claims that the government was violating the people’s fundamental rights by not holding the elections. The petition has also sought an order from the court seeking to release adequate funds to the Election Commission to hold the Local Government polls. The National... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
If Sri Lankan can secure the 36 billion US dollars of export income owed by Sri Lanka it would be able to improve its economy The Sunday Times reported in July (2022) about an investigation carried out by the Global Finance Integrity (GFI); a think tank based in Washington, USA operating with government support. Its task is to keep an eye on the export trade of countries of the world. GFI observes whether money is properly exchanged between two countries during a trade. According to its observations,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara.
It has been reported in today’s papers that the Fisheries Minister Devananda said the proposal to grant permits was a measure to reduce the tension between the fishermen on both sides, by preventing bottom trawling taking place off the northern seas. His mandate as the Minister of Fisheries is to develop the Sri Lankan Fisheries industry and look after the interests of Sri Lankan fishermen and not Indian interests and Indian fishermen. As the Minister of Fisheries it is on him to protect the Sri Lankan Fishermen and fisheries resources within the Sri Lankan waters... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Sasanka De Silva, Pannipitiya.
The most sought-after jobs in the world can vary depending on various factors, such as the economy, technology, and industry trends. However, some jobs are generally considered to be in high demand, and they include: 1. Healthcare professionals: Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are always in high demand as the world's population continues to grow, and people need medical care. 2. Software developers: As technology continues to play a more significant role in society, software developers who can create and maintain digital systems are in high... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
ලලිත් රෝහණ ලියනගේ,අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය ලේකම්.
අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්රාමාත්යධූරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වන බවට වන පුවත සම්පූර්ණයෙන් අසත්ය ප්රකාශයකි. එමෙන්ම අග්රාමාත්යවරයාට සිය ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වන ලෙස කිසිදු පාර්ශවයකින් ඉල්ලීමක් හෝ බලපෑමක් කොට නැත. මෙය රජය ගෙනයන වැඩපිළිවෙළ කඩාකප්පල් කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්රණයක කොටසකි.ලලිත් රෝහණ ලියනගේ,අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය ලේකම්.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Jubeda Chowdhury is a columnist, researcher
According to Bangladesh Export Development Bureau, significant agricultural exports are vegetables, tea, flowers, fruits, various spices, tobacco, dry food etc. However, Bangladesh has made significant progress in the export of dry food. These dry foods include various products like biscuits, chanachurs, cakes, potato crackers and nuts. Of the $100 million agricultural products exported from Bangladesh in the last financial year, the share of processed food products is high. There are more than five hundred companies involved in the production of agro-processed food products. Among them there are 20 large and medium enterprises.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Sufian Siddique
A bit of news published in the leading British daily ‘The Guardian’ on February 20, 2023 has come to my notice just as idle curiosity. They ran the news under the headline-- ‘Bangladesh shuts down main opposition newspaper’ with the subheading-- ‘Campaigners fear media crackdown under PM Sheikh Hasina after suspension order upheld’. What strikes me is that the news was published under the same headline by a number of overseas newspapers, viz. Al Jazeera, the Economic Times, Dawn, Deccan Herald, Arab News, the Week and many others. The journalistic approach of the news... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Aziz Patwary London, England
On February 19th, Bangladesh shut down a daily newspaper, Dainik Dinkal, for violating the country’s press and publication law. The decision has created a national debate in Bangladesh. Many portray this shutdown by legal intervention as an attack on the country’s media freedom. The issue has also attracted international media such as BBC, Al Jazeera, and The Guardian. Committee for Protecting Journalists (CPJ) also quickly gave a statement citing the decision as a ‘blatant’ attack against media freedom. Perhaps, the daily’s political affiliation with the opposition, BNP, and its top leader, Tarique Rahman is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
By P.k. Balachandran Courtesy Ceylon Today
On February 21, China released its ‘position paper’ on global security. The comprehensive paper touches on all aspects of global security (except security from debt traps). But an aspect that should please many countries of the Global South, both big and small, is the plea for non-interference in the internal affairs of countries by the big powers. “We believe all countries, big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor, are equal members of the international community. Their internal affairs brook no external interference, their sovereignty and dignity must be respected, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today
Last week, there was a buzz over the unfounded report that the IMF may consider approving the USD 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), even without China’s assurances. This was politely refuted by the IMF Asia and Pacific Department Director Krishna Srinivasan, for he thinks the ideal way would be to await financial assurance from China. Thus, we are back to square one, which is to wait for the IMF ‘bailout’ with our “any day now” attitude. Alternative Solutions While all eyes turn back towards China, the outspoken former... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday called for ‘timely and orderly processes’ under common framework with regards to Sri Lanka’s debt resolution. The island nation faced severe economic crisis which resulted in high debt. In a statement issued after conclusion of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting under India’s presidency, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva strongly endorsed efforts to strengthen the debt architecture and improve the speed and effectiveness of debt resolution, keeping in mind rising debt vulnerabilities in many countries. Sovereign debt vulnerabilities, which were already in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The committee appointed to look into any lapses by State Intelligence, Police and the Armed Forces during the mass anti-government protests and violent incidents across the island on 09 and 10 May 2022 has recommended that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) conduct an investigation into former Army Commander General Shavendra Silva. https://youtu.be/h16vH8KChoY Accordingly, the committee, referred to as the Karannagoda Committee, recommended that the CID conduct an investigation into General Shavendra for not taking the required measures to prevent the violence incited and the burning of MPs houses on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged young lawyers to specialise in offshore economy law and a form a committee to lead new legal developments in the Port City. Addressing the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Royal College Lawyers’ Association held at the Blue Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel Colombo yesterday (25 Feb.), the Head of State proposed the forming of a committee of lawyers focusing on offshore economy law, following the development of the Colombo Port City as a financial hub. https://youtu.be/_DLyZIEFn9s Wickremesinghe encouraged young lawyers to get... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Nearly 20 persons who were injured during today’s protest staged by the National People’s Power (NPP) were brought to the National Hospital in Colombo for treatment. Accordingly, hospital sources confirmed that those injured during the protest were brought for treatment after tear gas and water cannons were fired in attempts to disperse the protesters. Police had fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the group of protesters at Ibbanwala Junction near Town Hall in Colombo during the demonstration organized by the National People’s Power (NPP) earlier today (26 Feb.). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has stated that the country’s economy cannot afford the release of funds on an ad hoc basis, owing to its ongoing economic crisis. Taking to Twitter, the Head of State said “We are facing an economic crisis, and we need to plan our spending carefully. Budgets are made for the whole year, so we can’t release funds on an ad hoc basis. We have to keep a reserve in case the IMF funds for which we are negotiating aren’t received in March”. https://youtu.be/GZK0nrrRaN0 Speaking on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
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Courtesy Adaderana
In a bid to further facilitate investors through speedy approvals for investment projects, thereby easing the ease of doing business, the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) will be granted more powers in future, Investment Promotion State Minister Dilum Amunugama stated. He stressed that the new powers would see investors being given more efficient clearance processes for relevant projects, offering investors additional certainty and clarity. The State Minister made these remarks during a discussion held with the BOI trade union representatives recently. “It is evident that the modus operandi... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Researched and written by Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS).
This was called the Jaffna Peninsula Lagoon Scheme which is located at Elephant Pass which is located 30 miles South East of Jaffna. The lagoon is 19,000 acres and is saline due to sea water entering from the West during the South West Monsoon, through the bride at Elephant pass and from the East, during the North East Monsoon, due to the failure of the Sand Bar opening at Chundikulam.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS).
The Kelini Ganga is one of the main rivers of Sri Lanka. It has its source in the Central Hills near Adam’s Speak and follows through the South Western Part of the country and falls into the sea at Colombo. Due to the heavy rain fall the average yield of 486 million acre feet makes it the second largest water resource within Sri Lanka. The total basin is about 56 miles in length and 28 miles... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
දීර්ඝ නාවික ගමනකින් පසු 19 හැවිරිදි නාවික උප කපිතන් එඩ්මන්ඩ් දනතිස්ස කඩිනමින් ප්රංශයේ මාර්සෙයි නගරයට පැමිණියේ සිය ප්රියම්භිකාව වන මධුමනී විවාහ කර ගැනීමටය. නැවේ අවසාන මෙහෙයුමේදී කපිතාන් වරයා ද හදිසියේ මිය ගියෙන් එම තනතුරද ඔහුට ලබා දීමට නැව් සමාගම් අධිපතියා දනතිස්සට පොරොන්දු වී තිබුණි. තමනගේ හොඳම කාලය ලබා ඇතැයි තරුණ දනතිස්ස සහ මධුමනී සිතුහ. එහෙත්, නැවේ දනතිස්ස සමඟ එකට වැඩ කල දන්ගෙදර සහ ඉතා සුරූපී මධුමනීගේ අත ගැනීමේ සිහිනයෙන් දිවා රෑ පෙළුණු මොරලන්ද දෙදෙනාට තිබුනේ වෙනත් අදහසකි - කෙසේ හෝ දනතිස්ස අමාරුවේ දමා ඔහුගේ අභිප්රායන් පාගා, තමනගේ අභිප්රායන් ජය ගැනීමයි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
කොළඹ හිටපු ප්රධාන අධිකරණ වෛද්ය නිලධාරී, විශේෂඥ වෛද්ය ලූෂන් බර්නාඩ් ලලන්ත ද අල්විස් / එල් බී එල් ද අල්විස් / ලලන්ත සර්) සහ කාරියවසම් මැඩම් මගේ ගුරුවරු. ලලන්ත සර් කෙලින් අවංකව වැඩ කරපු කෙනෙක්. වෛද්ය ආනන්ද සමරසේකරලා වගේ අය මේ ක්ශේත්රය දූෂණය කලා බලය සහ මුදල් හමුවේ. ඒත් ලලන්ත සර් මහා පවුරක් වගේ මුදල් සහ බලය හමුවේ කෙලින් හිටියා. මරණ සහ මෘත ශරීර එක්ක නිතිපතා වැඩ කලත් ලලන්ත සර් විහිලුව සිනහව අගය කලා. ඔහු කී කතා වලට අපිට මෝචරියෙත් හිනා ගියා. වරක් මෝචරියේ සුළු සේවක ස්ට්රයික් එකක් ගියා. ඒකට යුද හමුදාවෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/02/23)
Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) refers to investment made by foreign companies or individuals in the economy of another country. FDI can have a significant impact on the economy of the recipient country in several ways: 1. Increased Capital: FDI brings much-needed capital to a country, which can be used to build infrastructure, create jobs, and develop industries. This increased capital can stimulate economic growth and create opportunities for local businesses. 2. Technology Transfer: Foreign investors bring in new technologies, processes, and management practices that can enhance the productivity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
සැදැහවත් බෞද්ධයෙක්
පෙබ 24 දා අධ්යාපන අමාහ්යාන්ශයේ යකඩ ගේට්ටුව උඩින් ඇතැමුන් සිවුරු වැට උඩ රඳවාද තවත් අය පේමන්ට් එකේ දමාද දිව්වේ බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන්ද. මා හිතන අන්දමට ඔවුන් භ්ක්ෂූන් නොවිය හැක.අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ඔවුන් සිවුරු පෙරවාගත් අන්තවාදී දේශපාලන පක්ෂයකට අයත් පිරිසක් විය යුතුය. ඔවුන් සැබෑ භික්ෂූන් නම් ඒ අයගේ ගුරු හාමුදුරුවරුන් විසින් ඔවුන් වහාම පන්සලට කැඳවා උපැවිදිකොට වහාම ගෙදර යැවිය යුතුයයි මම සිතමි. මන්ද මෙවැනි අය සිවුරේ සීටිම සාශනයට මහත් ව්යශනයක් බැවින් එවැනි පුද්ගලයින් කිසිසේත් තවදුරටත් සිවුරේ නොසිටිය යුතුය. එසේම ලාන්කික බෞද්ධ භිෂූන්ට ඉමහත් අපකීර්තියකි. එසේ වැට උඩින් පැන්න පුද්ගලයින් සැබෑ භිෂූන් නොවේනම් කැරළිකෝලාහලවලට සම්භන්ධ වීමට අමතරව ලන්කාවේ බෞද්ධ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
February 2023
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting and Exploitation IV. Technological Hegemony—Monopoly and Suppression V. Cultural Hegemony—Spreading False Narratives Conclusion Introduction Since becoming the world's most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more boldly to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy The Island
Wimal Weerawansa SLPP rebel and National Freedom Front leader, Wimal Weerawansa, told Parliament yesterday that the government was planning to place the State Intelligence Service’s decision-making responsibility under a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US. Weerawansa said that a similar shifting of the responsibility had happened in 2001. The 20-member Pentagon delegation, headed by US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs (PDASD), Jedidiah P. Royal, visited the SIS office in Colombo, according to Weerawansa. “We heard that the US... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy The New Indian Express
Sri Lanka's economic crisis and sovereign default were the result of long-lasting fiscal indiscipline, weak institutions, lack of transparency and accountability and short-sighted economic policies. By PTI COLOMBO: The issues that led Sri Lanka to become an economic basket case in 2022 serve as a warning for other nations. When politicians chase popularity over sound economic management, it can spell disaster. Just ask Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa quit in July last year after fleeing to Singapore at the height of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy Tempo.co
TEMPO.CO, Colombo - Sri Lanka will launch a mobile app on March 1 to protect tourists, Tourism Minister Harin Fernando said on Saturday, Feb. 25. The minister, addressing an event in Colombo, said this is one of the best mobile applications in the region for tourist safety. "The app can be operated in seven languages," he added. The mobile app will register all three-wheelers and a barcode will be displayed on the vehicle for foreign tourists to scan, the minister said. Once a tourist reports an incident by scanning... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy India Today
The United States has expressed its concerns about India’s neighbours using Chinese funds for terror threats. By India Today World Desk: The US is deeply concerned that loans provided by China to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, which are in India's immediate vicinity, may be utilised as means of exerting coercive pressure, a senior State Department official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. “Concerning Chinese loans to countries in India’s immediate neighbourhood, we are deeply concerned that loans may be used for coercive leverage,” Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary of State... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the government is seeking the possibility of introducing non-paying wards in private hospitals where the government is taking the tab for the treatments made in those non-paying wards, the President's Media Division (PMD) said. The President also said the government was considering to introduce paying wards in Government hospitals as well. He said it is discussed to introduce a health insurance scheme where the government can assist those in the lower income category, when they need to get the service of growing private hospitals.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
EXIM Bank of China (Export-Import Bank) submitted a comprehensive program in its financial support document on January 19 to ‘strongly support’ Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and it includes short, mid and long-term measures for debt treatment, a diplomatic source from the Chinese embassy said. Sri Lanka is seeking the support of all the creditors to unlock the US $ 2.9 billion program with the IMF in four years. According to the source, it is not just a two -year moratorium on debt repayments.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The report of the Board of Inquiry prepared by a three-member-committee headed by Admiral of Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda to ascertain lapses by the armed forces and state intelligence services during the recent incident of violence was today filed before the Court of Appeal. President’s Counsel Uditha Igalahewa appearing for Admiral of Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda filed this report before court when a writ petition filed by 22 government Parliamentarians representing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was called before the Court of Appeal. Filing a writ petition in Court of Appeal, 22... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
There are some disagreements over restructuring debt for distressed economies, the chief of the International Monetary Fund said on Saturday on the sidelines of a G20 meeting, adding that banning private cryptocurrencies should be an option. India’s G20 presidency comes at a time when its South Asian neighbours Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan are seeking urgent IMF funds due to an economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. China, the world’s largest bilateral creditor, urged G20 nations on Friday to conduct a fair, objective and in-depth analysis of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The US is deeply concerned that the loans being given by China to India’s immediate neighbourhood – Pakistan and Sri Lanka – may be used for coercive leverage, a senior State Department official said on Friday. “Concerning Chinese loans to countries in India’s immediate neighbourhood, we are deeply concerned that loans may be used for coercive leverage,” Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, told reporters ahead of the India trip of Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The top American diplomat is travelling to New Delhi on a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Chairman of Election Commission Nimal G. Punchihewa says that he has sent a letter to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene asking him to intervene to urge the Treasury to release the funds required to hold the Local Government election. The decision has been arrived at when the Election Commission met yesterday (Feb. 24). The Election Commission’s chairman further stated that the relevant letter was sent to the Speaker yesterday itself.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The National Council Sub-Committee to identify short- and medium-term programs related to stabilization has held a discussion on rural credit and social security programmes. This was taken up for consideration on Thursday (Feb. 23) when the National Council sub-committee met in Parliament under the chairmanship of MP Patali Champika Ranawaka. Representatives including the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Finance, the Sri Lanka Institute of Policy Studies and the Regional Development Bank were present in this committee meeting. There was a lengthy discussion about the programs including the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/02/23)
Sufian Asif Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka.
Today, challenges like climate change, pandemics, energy reliance, economic crisis, and many more are concerning us. No nation can overcome these obstacles without the assistance and collaboration of other nations. Most importantly, many of these problems have international repercussions. South Asia is facing much more difficulty when compared to other regions. In South Asia, we have some regional organizations, but they are ineffective. The time has come to revive regional organizations such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal (BBIN), a sub-regional organization under SAARC, which has gathered some... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
Post Independence Sri Lanka. That’s a period of 75 years. Long enough for a decent mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. And the downright scandalous. Now in this long period of time, we’ve had representative democracy. More or less. And we’ve had periods when that what and what it means were grotesquely twisted. Here’s a question: what were the darkest days for democracy? The Rajapaksa Era, hands down. During the tenure of Mahinda Rajapaksa and the presidency of Gotabaya Rajapaksa the following happened, as people would... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Courtesy Unz Review
Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting and Exploitation IV. Technological Hegemony—Monopoly and Suppression V. Cultural Hegemony—Spreading False Narratives Conclusion Introduction
Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more boldly to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, pursue, maintain and abuse hegemony, advance subversion and infiltration, and willfully wage wars, bringing harm to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Courtesy Alarabiya News
Sri Lanka’s independent election commission indefinitely postponed local polls Friday after the president, installed by parliament last year after his predecessor fled, refused to fund the vote. The March 9 polls would only have picked local councilors but would be the first electoral test for Ranil Wickremesinghe since he took office in July after months of protests over the island’s worst-ever economic crisis. They were seen by many as a de facto referendum on unpopular austerity measures he has imposed as he seeks to secure an International Monetary Fund bailout. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Courtesy Times of Oman
New Delhi: Sri Lanka's Board of Investment has approved the two wind power plants of Adani Green Energy to be built in Mannar and Pooneryn at a total investment of $442 million. According to the statement released by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka on Friday, it has issued a letter of approval to Adani Green Energy Limited, for the two wind power plants. Also, the new project will generate 1,500-2,000 new employment opportunities. The wind power plant in Mannar will operate at a capacity of 250 megawatt (MW) while the wind... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, February 24: A group of leading members of the Bohra community in Sri Lanka called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to express gratitude for the cooperation extended to the Bohra centers and international conventions in Sri Lanka. They briefed the Prime Minister about the religious and welfare activities of their centers. They also said that the Bohra spiritual leader and 53rd Da’i al-Mutlaq, His Holiness Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, wishes to meet the Prime Minister during his visit to Sri Lanka in March 2023. The group included Yusuf Huzefa, Abdeali Khuzema,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
New York, February 24: India abstained in the U.N. General Assembly on February 23 on a resolution that underscored the need to reach as soon as possible a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine in line with the principles of the U.N. Charter. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the draft resolution, put forward by Ukraine and its supporters, titled Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine. The resolution, which got 141 votes in favour and seven against, “underscores the need to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The new dates for the 2023 Local Government polls will be announced on March 03, 2023, the Election Commission announced in a media release today. Thereby, the LG election will not be held on March 09 as scheduled due to matters beyond the control of the election body, the communiqué read further. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the Election Commission this morning (Feb 24) to decide whether the LG polls would be held on March 09. It was attended by the chairman of the election body,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
A letter written by Thangathurai Thayani, wife of Arun Siddharth on her mother’s 60th birthday that fell on 4thAugust 2022 should make the human rights organizations feel ashamed and should make the international human rights & terrorism experts wonder why they continue to give lifelines to terrorists/their fronts. She raises two pertinent questions – why doesn’t Geneva invite the victims of LTTE & why didn’t the aragala protestors carry photos of LTTE victims? The Church, the foreign envoys, political parties, media outlets, top corporates & famous personalities that supported the aragala should respond.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
There are many issues, arguments and controversies relating to history and the origin of various races in the world. How did a race generate is a complex question that could not be exactly traced. Nobody can clearly state that a particular race began in that day at that time. Sinhala race begun centuries ago and nobody was seen this beginning. The major reasons for this type of convoluted attitude were based on personal advantages and sometimes, they may be misleading people with a view to gaining advantages. Various controversies were in this world... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
C.G. Uragoda continuing his account of ‘Medicine under Sri Lankan kings”, observed that the ancient records confirmed the existence of hospitals in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. The only hospital for the laity which had been identified in Anuradhapura at the time was the one found near Thuparama, probably dated to Kassapa IV. Udaya 1 who ruled from Anuradhapura had built a hospital in Polonnaruwa. An inscription at Alahana Pirivena, Polonnaruwa indicated that Polonnaruwa had at least one other hospital apart from Alahana. The inscription spoke of a hospital founded by Doti Valakna, indicating that hospitals... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Press Release LankaPropertyWeb
Overseas buyer interest in Sri Lankan properties increased by 40% in 2022, compared with the year before, according to the Real Estate Market Outlook Report 2023, published by Sri Lanka’s leading real estate portal, LankaPropertyWeb. The report said that traffic from overseas countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Middle-Eastern countries saw the highest increase mainly for residential properties in the Colombo district. While the average asking price of houses has increased by 4.4% and apartment prices increased by 60.4% during the last year, the increased... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
'ලේ හැලුනේ නෑ, සුද්දා තරහ වුනෙත් නෑ; යන්න ගියෙත් නෑ, නොගිහින් හිටියෙත් නෑ.' ඒ නන්දා මාලිනී අසූව දශකයේ අග භාගයේ එළිදැක්වූ 'පවන' ප්රසංගයේ ජනප්රිය ගීතයක මතකයේ රැඳුනු වචන කිහිපයක්. මේ 'නිදසස් බයිලාවට' සුනිල් ආරියරත්න මෙහෙමත් දෙයක් එකතු කරලා තිබුනා: 'නෑ බැට කෑවේ නේරු පාටෙල් වාගේ, නෑ දිවි දුන්නේ මහත්මා ගාන්ධි වාගේ.'නිදහසේ කතාව ඔහොමයි එයාලා අපට කිව්වේ. එතකොට 1815 දී, 1818 දී, 1848 දී සහ ඒ අතර සහ ඉන් පසුව කව්රුවත් බැට කාලා නෑ, කව්රුවත් දිවි දුන්නේ නෑ, ලේ හැලුනෙත් නෑ, පන්සල් විනාශ වුණෙත් නෑ, පොත්ගුල් ගිනිබත් වුණෙත් නෑ, මුඩුබිම් පනතක් ගෙනාවෙත් නෑ, හරිද?ඉතිහාසය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
By Thomas Tarantelli Courtesy Food Safety Tech
The Sol Andino brand of ground cumin was found to contain 1090 ppm lead. Laboratory reports recently acquired by the Freedom of Information Law from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets show the Sol Andino brand ground cumin to contain 1090 ppm lead as well as 259 ppm chromium. The spice was also analyzed by IS:2446, 1980 method, “Detection of Lead Chromate in Chillies, Curry Powder and Turmeric by diphenyl carbizide.” A positive result was given, indicating the presence of hexavalent chromium, which is a component... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/02/23)
India In Details
https://youtu.be/3SO2oEiBD-c... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/02/23)
By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today
The only progress vis-a-vis the prevailing economic crisis is the unfounded report that the IMF may consider approving the USD 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), fondly known as the “bailout package”, even without China’s formal assurance of debt-restructuring support. Even if we do finally get IMF’s assistance, which we have been hankering since March 2022, we do not seem to have a clear plan to execute it in order to strengthen our economy. Instead, the objective appears to be to gain our creditors’ confidence so that we may continue to borrow to live... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/02/23)
By Daya Gamage Former US State Department Foreign Service National Political Specialist Courtesy The Island
Activating the 13th Amendment and devolution of power – possibly with the merger of two provinces –seems to have returned to the national agenda with President Ranil Wickremasinghe taking a lead role. He undertook a similar endeavour as the prime minister in 2001-2004 during the Bush Administration with its Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage playing a significant role during the Norwegian-initiated peace talks. Washington policymakers and lawmakers had a very clear agenda: having a strong... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the Election Commission has not yet legally decided on a date to hold the election and that there are no funds to conduct an election. “The election has not been postponed and there is no election to be postponed”, he said. https://youtu.be/9hZ8A-jbWAk Addressing the parliament this morning (Feb. 23), the president highlighted that his priority is to rebuild the economy. “I prioritize the economy. If it is not built, there will be no country left.” Speaking further, the President also mentioned... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Patali Champika Ranawaka has written to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) office in Sri Lanka, questioning whether the recently introduced electricity tariffs and the fuel price hike is in accordance with the IMF criteria. Accordingly, the relevant letter was sent by Ranawaka, in his capacity as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Sub Committee on Economic Stabilization Committee, to the IMF office in Sri Lanka, located in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) building. He asserted that the unrealistic taxes imposed on fuel and electricity will ultimately lead... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
Over 50 persons, including the convener of the Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige, have been arrested for forcibly entering the Education Ministry in Battaramulla. The Police stated that nearly 56 persons, including 30 student monks from the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, have been arrested. https://youtu.be/Iaz587SNrVY The group staged a protest today and had entered the Education Ministry, demanding the reopening of the Buddhist and Pali University in Pitipana, Homagama. The protesters also demanded action against the Police for using tear gas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/02/23)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Western medicine as we know it today was introduced to the island by the British. The western tradition did not recognize the Asian systems of medicine and most local doctors trained in western medicine avoided non western medicine. In 1858 Dr. W.C Ondaatje wrote on “the empiricism of Singhalese doctors and the advantage of European practice.” This attitude continued. In 1974, Gananath Obeyesekera did a survey on the attitude of western medical practitioners to Asian medicine. He found that most were not interested in indigenous medicine. But 12 out of his sample of 38... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
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The Honorable Melanie JolyMinister of Foreign AffairsHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontario,CanadaK1A 0A6Feb 15th, 2023RE: Canada imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan state officials for human rights violations Ms. Melanie Joly, As Canadians of Sri Lankan origin, we feel that Canadian foreign policy towards Sri Lanka is extremely biased, unfair, and damaging. Imposing sanctions unilaterally by Canada against two former Presidents of Sri Lanka is unwarranted and serves no purpose, other than politically motivated to please the Tamil Diaspora... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
gotagohome අරගලය නොහොත් ගෝටව ගෙදර යැවීමේ ව්යාපෘතිය නොහොත් ආදරයේ අරගලය අනන්ය වූ ඇතැම් පුද්ගලයින්, සංවිධාන සහ බලවේග මුල සිටම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන අවශ්ය යැයි තර්ක කළෝය. ආර්ථික අර්බුදය කෙසේ වෙතත් දේශපාලන අර්බුද වලට දිගු කාලීන විසඳුම එය යැයි ප්රකාශ කරන ලදී. 1978 ව්යවස්ථාවේ අවුල් දකින්නත් විසඳුම් යෝජනා කරන්නත්, විසඳන්න ඉදිරිපත් වෙන්නත් අර්බුද අවශ්ය නොමැති වූවත් සංශෝධන/ප්රතිසංස්කරණ ගැන කතිකාවක් ඇතිවීම සාධනීය වේ. ඒ කෙසේ වෙතත් පුද්ගලයෙක් හෝ සංවිධානයක් ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන යෝජනා කරන්නේ නම් අඩුම තරමින් අදාල ව්යවස්ථාමය ලියැකියවිලි අධ්යයනය කර තිබීම මැනවි. උදාහරණයක් වශයෙන් කෙනෙක් 20වන සංශෝධනය අහෝසි කර නැවත 19වන සංශෝධනය ස්ථාපිත කළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය.
අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.02.21 දින ජාතික විදුලිබල පද්ධතියට තවත් පුනර්ජනනීය විදුලි ව්යාපෘතියක් එක්කරමින් දියත් කෙරෙන කඩුවෙල මහ නගර සභාවේ "රන් පැලැස්ස″ අපද්රව්ය පසු සැලසුම් මධ්යස්ථානය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට එක් වෙමිනි. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්රාමාත්ය වරයා - මෙවැනි සම්ප්රදායික නොවන මගක් ගෙන එම සම්ප්රදායික නොවන මඟ ජය ගැනීම කඩුවෙල නගරාධිපතිතුමා ඇතුළු කණ්ඩායමට දැවැන්ත අභියෝගයක් ජය ගැනීමක් වෙනවා අභියෝගයක් ජය ගැනීමට සැලසුමක් හා විශ්වාසයක් අවශ්යයි. ඒ වගේම ඉලක්කයට ගමන් කරන්නට තිබෙන ඕනෑකම වෙනුවෙන්ම කැප වෙන්නට පුළුවන් ශක්තියක් තියෙන්න ඕනේ. පුනර්ජීවන විදුලිය නිෂ්පාදනය කිරීමේ උවමනාව ලොවටම තිබෙනවා. අපේ රටටත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
By Asiri Fernando/The Sunday Morning
Colombo, February 19: Staff members of some State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) continued to rake in large paychecks due to massive overtime and allowance pay at the end of last month, despite the Government’s push to increase utility and fuel tariffs citing a need to be cost-reflective, The Sunday Morning reliably learns. This, in the wake of a Government circular to all ministries and State institutions, to cut their expenditure for 2023 by 6%. The Sunday Morning last week learned that a number of employees of the Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Ltd. (CPSTL)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, February 22 (Counterpoint): The latest Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) taken in January, shows political disarray in the country even as it battles a severe financial crisis marked by a continuing shortage of foreign exchange and sky-high prices of essential commodities. The survey found that even the front-runners in the political arena, namely, the National Peoples’ Power/Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (NPP-JVP) combine and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), got approval ratings of 32% and 31% respectively. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) got only 9%. And his support... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
After months of struggle and challenges, Sri Lanka has been successful in fulfilling the 15 tasks set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and now awaits for the verdict if enough has been done to unlock the bailout, the government said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe confirmed that only last week the final requirement of the Fund was fulfilled and with that Sri Lanka has done its part to obtain the relief package. The fifteenth issue that had to be addressed was the increase in electricity tariffs as the severely mismanaged Ceylon... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said that the agreement reached with the IMF would be presented to Parliament and the House could decide whether to pass or reject it. “Once an agreement with the International Monetary Fund is reached, it will be presented to Parliament and it will have the option to pass or reject it. If the proposal is rejected, the relevant parties should submit alternative proposals to the International Monetary Fund,” the President said. The President made these remarks while delivering the keynote speech at the Tax Forum 2023. The forum, held... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the current tax policy in Sri Lanka is not a normal tax policy, rather a rescue operation. He warned that if this process is disrupted, Sri Lanka will not be able to join the International Monetary Fund program and may lose the opportunity to do business with foreign countries. In addition to his comments on the tax policy, President Ranil Wickremesinghe also stated that the budget presented for the year 2023 in Sri Lanka is not an ordinary budget, but rather an operation to rescue the economy.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
The Cabinet of Ministers at its meeting on Monday approved to service of 2.6 billion dollars in debt payments due in the first half of this year, whilst vesting the authorisation powers to the Treasury Secretary to provide the necessary funds. Cabinet Co-Spokesman and Minister Bandula Gunawardena said at the post-Cabinet meeting media briefing Sri Lanka will continue to pay back multilateral loans obtained from institutions like the World Bank and Asian Development Bank as well as the bilateral partners. As per him, of the total of 2.6 billion dollars, just... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
During an event held this morning (Feb. 22) at Royal College, Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe urged all citizens, including politicians, professionals, teachers, those engaged in agriculture, the business community, and members of the security forces, police and civil servants, to work together to overcome the current economic crisis and promote reconciliation efforts. The event was held to honour President Wickremesinghe, who is an alumnus of Royal College. The President called upon the present generation of Royalists to dedicate themselves to serving the country and transforming it into a place where they would like to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Minister of Plantation Industries Dr. Ramesh Pathirana has highlighted the importance of identifying new localities for rubber plantation as a solution to address shrinking cultivations. Addressing an event to launch a project funded by France to support small holder rubber planters, the Minister pointed out that rubber planters shifting to other crop cultivation should be strategically addressed. Meanwhile, the French Ambassador in Sri Lanka pointed out that Sri Lanka and France can improve agricultural cooperation to uplift industries such as rubber, a major foreign exchange earner to the country. Rubber... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Facing a dire national financial crisis and an urgent need to generate foreign currency income, state-owned SriLankan Airlines (SL) is restructuring and expanding its network to markets that were strong in the pre-Covid period, including Australia, and China. India remains the flag-carrier’s largest market, though flights have been reduced from 125 to 90 each week. With negligible domestic business, the airline is aggressively tapping the Indian market to fly via Sri Lanka to international destinations. “Around 55 to 65 percent of our flights [in Airbus A330-300s] to Sydney with three dailies and a daily... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) has issued a letter of approval to India’s Adani Green Energy Limited for the two wind power plants to be set up in Mannar and Pooneryn at a total investment of USD 442 million. The project will add 350 MW of electricity to the national grid within two years, the BOI said. Thus, the wind power plant in Mannar will operate at a capacity of 250 MW while the wind power plant in Pooneryn will operate at a capacity of 100 MW. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
A national study conducted by local researchers has revealed that Sri Lanka has the highest rate of diabetes in Asia, with almost one in four adults having being diagnosed. The survey, done in 2019 by researchers from several local universities, the Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Colombo and the Institute for Health Policy (IHP), was the first national survey of diabetes in Sri Lanka that used the gold standard method of an oral glucose tolerance test to diagnose diabetes. Results of the study, which were published this week in the London-based British... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and the Ambassador of Japan today (22 Feb.) signed an exchange of notes for a grant of USD 46 million. Accordingly, Finance Secretary Mahinda Siriwardena and Ambassador MIZUKOSHI Hideaki signed an exchange of notes for the USD 46 million grant to provide 20 million litres of diesel for the operation of state hospitals across the country. The signing took place at the Presidential Secretariat today in the presence of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
Ask the majority of so-called Tamil leaders & they will claim Tamils have problems. They will quote problems that is not exclusive to them & examples that do not even exist. Ask them to name present problems exclusive to Tamils, they will get stuck, so everyone asking the problem are careful not to put them on the spot, while they make sure no one dares ask them what they cannot answer. Put the same question to Tamil Nadu, LTTE Diaspora, the foreigners supporting LTTE Diaspora including foreign MPs or even India, they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
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සිරි ලංකාවෙ ලොකුම වී මෝල් හිමියා පසුගිය වසර 5 තුල ගෙවා ඇති ආදායම් බදු මුදල රුපියල් 0 (බින්දුව) යි.. සිරි ලංකාවේ දෙවන විශාලතම වී මෝල් හිමියා වසරකට ගෙවා ඇති ආදායම් බද්ද රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 9 යි.. සිරි ලංකාවේ බිලියන ගණනින් ආදායම් උපදවන කැසීනෝ බලපත්ර 4ක් 5ක් ඇත.. ඒ අය ගෙවන ආදායම් බදු මුදල රුපියල් 0 (බින්දුව) යි.. සිරි ලංකාවේ රේස් බයි රේස් සූදුකරුවා ගෙවන්නේ ලක්ෂ 6ක් වූ බලපත්ර ගාස්තුව පමණි.. බිලියන ගණනින් ආදායම් ලබන ඒ මුදලාලිලාද ගෙවන ආදායම් බදු මුදල රුපියල් 0 (බින්දුව) යි.. සිරි ලංකාවේ ප්රධානතම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Amanda Ranasingha Convener
A digital voting system should be introduced in the country as soon as possible as it would benefit the country in a variety of ways, including a significant cost reduction when conducting polls, Sri Lanka Digital Citizen Association said. Sri Lanka Digital Citizen Association Convener Amanda Ranasinghe emphasized that it would bring down the cost of election sharply and the election staff required. Speaking at a press conference today, Ranasinghe pointed out that digitizing the voting system should not be considered as a cost incurred, but as a future investment. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
by A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka.
On 20th February 1886, the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) in Islam Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (peace be on him) – the Promised Messiah and Imamal-Mahdi, claimed to have received a divine revelation informing him that an exceptionally gifted and pious son would be born to him. This prophecy came to be known as the prophecy of ‘Musleh Maud’, meaning the ‘Promised Son’. In fulfilment of this grand prophecy, on 12 January 1889, his son, Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad was born. This Grand... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය.
මූල්ය ගැටලු හේතුවෙන් තාවකාලිකව නවතා ඇති සියලුම ව්යාපෘති නැවත ආරම්භ කරන ලෙස අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ජපාන ජාත්යන්තර සහයෝගිතා නියෝජිතායතනයෙන් (JAICA) ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මෙම ඉල්ලීම කළේ දකුණු ආසියාව සඳහා වන JAICA අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් ඉතෝ තෙරුයුකි මහතා සඳුදා (20) හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල විසින් ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගත කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන අවසන් කළ වහාම ජයිකා ව්යාපෘති නැවත ආරම්භ කරන බවට තෙරුයුකි මහතා අග්රාමාත්යවරයාට සහතික විය. රාජ්ය මූල්ය අර්බුදය හේතුවෙන් ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියන 2.5ක් වටිනා JAICA ව්යාපෘති 12ක් තාවකාලිකව නතර කර තිබේ. ජපානය ද ප්රධාන කාර්යභාරයක් ඉටු කරන ලද ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගත කිරීමේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය.
ජාත්යන්තර මව්භාෂා දිනය (International Mother Language Day) අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලයේ සංවිධානයෙන් 2023.02.21 දින කොළඹ නිදහස් චතුරස්රයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සෑම වසරකම පෙබරවාරි 21 වැනිදාට යෙදෙන ජාත්යන්තර මව්භාෂා දිනය සාමය ස්ථාපනය කිරීම, බහු භාෂා භාවිතාව ප්රවර්ධනය සහ ලොව පුරා ඇති මව්භාෂා ආරක්ෂා කිරීම අරමුණු කරගනිමින් පැවැත්වෙයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යාංශය, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නේවාසික සම්බන්ධීකාරක සහ ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂ සංගමය එක්ව මෙවර ජාත්යන්තර මව් භාෂා දිනය සංවිධානය කර තිබිණි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් ටරේක් අරිෆුල් ස්ලාම් (... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Natalia J. Courtesy Health by BabaMail
No need for alarm but be warned that some Turmeric Manufacturers Add Lead to the Spice The golden spice is one of the most potent natural ingredients out there, and the active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, has been shown to have antimicrobial and cancer-fighting properties, among many other health benefits. Unfortunately, several manufacturers have been adulterating the spice since the 1980s by adding lead chromate, a lead-based yellow dye that enhances the natural bright gold color of the spice, as reported in a recent article by Stanford researchers. Lead, a heavy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
පාලිත ආරියරත්න
මේ සාකච්ඡාව තුල අන්තර්ගත කාරණා වනුයේ; 🔸 බුද්ධ ශාසන නීතිය 🔸 රාජ්යත්වයේ උත්තරීතර සංකේතය 🔸 සිංහල ශිෂ්ටාචාරය හා බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය 🔸 ශිෂ්ඨාචාර රාජ්යය සහ සමාන්තර ආණ්ඩු 🔸 ජාතික පරමාර්ථය සහ විජාතික අභිලාෂයන් 🔸 අබෞද්ධ අර්බුදයට ඉහළින් ඇති බෞද්ධ විසඳුම 🔸 භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවයට පෙර ශිෂ්ටාචාරයේ අඛණ්ඩතාවය 🎙️👤📻👤 සාකච්ඡාව මෙහෙයවීම සිංහල බෞද්ධ ප්රතිපත්ති කේන්ද්රයේ හා ජාතික බෞද්ධ බලවේගය කැඳවුම්කරු හා සභාපති, ජාත්යන්තර බෞද්ධ කේන්ද්රය සභාපති සදාචාර විරෝධී අන්දමින් ආගමට හැරවීම සොයා බැලීම හා පර්යේෂණ, ජාත්යන්තර සම්බන්ධීකාරක සහ ප්රවීණ ලේඛක, පාලිත ආරියරත්න මහතා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
By N. S. Venkataraman Courtesy Eurasia Review
Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has suggested that local government polls in Sri Lanka should be postponed, in view of the economic crisis faced by Sri Lanka. The government has explained the difficulty in mobilising necessary funds to hold elections. The Government Printer, too, informed that it was unable to print ballot papers due to lack of funds. Instead of appreciating the issues and cooperating with the government, some political parties and some activists in Sri Lanka are demanding that local body election should be held as per the schedule.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy The Morning
Claims opportunity to do business with foreign countries may also disappearSays current tax policy is no normal tax policy but a rescue operation The current tax policy in Sri Lanka is not a normal tax policy but a rescue operation, and any disruption to this process will result in Sri Lanka not being able to secure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding, which may also result in the opportunity to do business with foreign countries being lost, warned President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday (21). He made these comments while delivering the keynote... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම
රටේ ශක්තිමත් ආර්ථිකයක් ගොඩනැගීමට නිවැරදි සැලැස්මක් තිබිය යුතු බව ත් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන යන ආර්ථික වැඩපිළිවෙළ නිසා පසුගිය මාස කිහිපය තුළ පැවති ආර්ථික දුෂ්කරතා තරමක් අඩු වී ඇති බව ත් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ පවසයි. මේ ආකාරයට බිඳවැටුණු රටකට සහය දීමට ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල හැර ලෝකයේ වෙනත් කිසිදු ආයතනයක් නොමැති බව සඳහන් කළ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ආර්ථිකය ගොඩනැගීම වෙනුවෙන් රජය ගෙන යන වැඩපිළිවෙළට විකල්ප යෝජනා ඇත්නම් ඒවා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට අවස්ථාව සලසා දීමට සූදානම් බව ද පැවසීය. වික්රමසිංහ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ, මහනුවර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ ව්යාපාරිකයන් හා නීතිඥවරුන් සමග ඊයේ (පෙබ. 20)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Court of Appeal today further extended its interim order preventing Justice Ministry officials from deducting the Advance Personal Income Tax (APIT) from the monthly salaries of the High Court Judges until February 24. (Lakmal Sooriyagoda)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
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Sri Lanka is tangled in the worst financial crisis in over seven decades, triggered by a severe shortage of foreign exchange that forced the country to annouce a suspension of foreign debt repayments in April 2022. https://youtu.be/JmoQWaTLYco Sri Lanka’s cabinet has approved loan repayments worth $2.6 billion in the first half of this year, in line with its debt suspension plans, its cabinet spokesperson said on Tuesday. The island of 22 million people is tangled in the worst financial crisis in over seven decades, triggered by a severe... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
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A petition has been filed against the decision taken not to release the funds allocated through the 2023 Budget to the Election Commission for holding the Local Government (LG) election. https://youtu.be/F_iEeaHK3k4 The fundamental rights petition has been filed with the Supreme Court requesting a verdict that the basic human rights of the public have been violated through the related decision. The petition has been submitted by the General Secretary of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara, naming a group of individuals including the Secretary of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/02/23)
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The Cabinet has approved the President’s proposal that the Secretary to the Treasury be given the authority to take all measures required pertaining securing the necessary funds within the set borrowing limit. As per the Appropriation Act No. 43 of 2022, a cap of Rs. 4,979 billion was set as the borrowing limit for the year 2023, with the intentions of using the funds for the repayment of loans, interests and the financing of development projects. Sri Lanka is expected to borrow a total of Rs. 3,562 billion from domestic sources and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe has stated that he is ready to arrange a meeting with officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Sri Lanka’s opposition parties including the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). https://youtu.be/-1guLceqA60 Speaking during a meeting held with a group of businessmen, the Head of State also noted that he is willing to implement those proposals presented by the two political parties that are considered beneficial.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Sunil Handunnetti has revealed that his party is not in agreement with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Speaking on the 13th Amendment during an interview with Ada Derana, Handunnetti revealed that the National People’s Power (NPP) does not accept the Amendment to any extent, adding that the JVP too is vehemently against the legislature. “The difference between the current state of Provincial Councils and that following the implementation of the 13th Amendment is the devolving of police and land powers. Where are these police and land powers now? They... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
AHILAN KADIRGAMAR AND DEVAKA GUNAWARDENA Courtesy Himal South Asia
Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a new, self-sufficient model of development Sri Lanka has been subject to a great lie: the IMF solution! For close to a year now, the country has been implementing the International Monetary Fund’s recommendations with complete obedience. The sudden devaluation of the Sri Lankan rupee, a drastic increase in interest rates, the withdrawal of fuel subsidies and severe cuts to state expenditure... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
While levying an income tax on individual earnings to supplement government revenue is a necessity to meet government expenditure, the issue in question is the perception and/or the reality of its unfairness and the lack of confidence and trust that people have about the way the tax they pay is spent by the government. There is no evidence that just and equitable approaches have been taken by politicians to address revenue raising and the curtailment of unaffordable expenditure in a systematic manner. On the question of unfairness, many are of the opinion that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
Ever since a regime change was choreographed in 2015 January, the US has been using its lackeys in government to exert tremendous influence in 3 areas – Sri Lanka‘s economy, Sri Lanka‘s Parliament and Sri Lanka‘s armed forces. Based on media articles, press releases and whatever other information has been made available to the public, an overview of the extent to which Sri Lanka’s sovereignty has been compromised can be deduced. Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation and Sri Lanka must uphold that sovereign status. Any new government must understand the fundamentals... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to Israel and UAE, President Ambassador’s Forum(Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel)
Aspire to be the best tourist destination Best tourist distinctions on the globe are not very many. Sri Lanka has been one sometime ago as the best destination of the Globe on tourism chosen by ‘’Lonely Planet’ ’and may take some time to regain the lost glory. Answer to the main topic it is indeed a possibility if and when working on a target with determination dedication and opportunity given to the able willing and qualified which are in abundance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
By Chandre Dharmawardana Courtesy The Island
The title of this article, and some of the material are in what I wrote (The Island, May 6 th, 2013) when the then Rajapaksa government hiked the price of electricity on the May Day of 2013. A decade later, Wickremesinghe’s energy minister Wijesekera has increased the electricity tariffs, refusing to carry the burden of the energy bills of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), which has had no vision whatever (i.e., no research arm). The CEB is beholden to corrupt politicians, various types of energy mafia, ignorant prelates and activists who derailed the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
BY JU-HYUN PARK Courtesy The Real News Network
After weeks of political theater, the Pentagon is walking back its claims that China invaded US airspace with a “spy balloon.” But the damage from the media frenzy is already done, and the worst is likely yet to come. At times, the ways people perceive an object betrays more about the people than the object itself. A case in point: The recent saga of the “Chinese spy balloon” may be presented as an allegory of the ever-present threat of airborne Asiatic infiltration, but in reality it tells us far... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
A.J. SMUSKIEWICZ Courtesy The Unz Review
I recall that when I was attending St. Albert the Great elementary school in Burbank, Illinois, during the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the history teachers used to tell us that the United States had never lost a war. Keep in mind that this was while the foolish American fiasco in Vietnam was unfolding, and this was only a decade or two after the inconclusive stalemate of the Korean War. That shows you that the indoctrination of school kids is nothing new. For a military-industrial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today
Colombo, February 20: The Eastern Sri Lankan Port of Trincomalee, one of the best natural harbors in the world, has always attracted the interest of global and regional economic and military powers. Hence, any visit of a high-level political or military delegation of foreign powers comes under the scrutiny of the media and most of the time there are sensational reports based on speculation. There are either inaccurate or highly exaggerated reports. Three recent visits by foreign delegates also resulted in such speculation. First, it was the Indian External Affairs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
Mike Unwin Courtesy https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/
Since Sri Lanka’s Jetwing Vil Uyana resort opened, its rewilded lands have lured native birds and animals back to the area, offering guests front-row seats... As early evening arrives in central Sri Lanka, I find myself searching a dark forest for a small animal. The idea is to sweep the beam of my headtorch across the foliage to catch its reflected eyeshine. In truth, my focus is as much on avoiding the snaking roots along the trail. “There!” I hiss, spotting a twinkle in the dark tangle. “Fireflies,” says my more experienced... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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The Export-Import Bank of China has provided Sri Lanka with a debt extension, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, noting that China is willing to negotiate a medium- and long-term debt disposal plan with the country in a friendly manner, and do its best to promote Sri Lanka’s debt sustainability. The remarks come as Bloomberg reported that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering approving Sri Lanka’s bailout, even without the formal assurance of debt-restructuring support from China, citing people familiar with the discussions. In response, Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for the Chinese... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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Former Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris says that the authority to dissolve the current parliament will be vested with the President from midnight today (Feb. 20). https://youtu.be/e9psHISh32w Speaking at a press briefing, the parliamentarian expressed that they strongly believe the President needs to use that power and dissolve the parliament. “Today, President Ranil Wickramasinghe receives the legal power to dissolve the current Parliament. We strongly believe that President Wickremesinghe should use that power”, he said. Prof. Peiris further charged that presently the decisions with regard to whether... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that an Economic Commission will be formed as early as possible to approve investment opportunity in order to provide more opportunities to local and foreign investors. The President also stated that it has the potential to significantly boost the country’s economy. https://youtu.be/fFYe17Hsn7U President Ranil Wickremesinghe made these remarks today at the opening of the country’s first migratory bird park and eco-tourism zone in Hanthane, Kandy (Feb. 20). President Wickremesinghe further said: “I remembered another bird park when I arrived here.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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Police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a protest march organized by the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) near Technical Junction in Maradana, a short while ago. The protest march had been organized by the SJB against the alleged attempts by the government to postpone the 2023 Local Government Election. https://youtu.be/J2Nu188yPmw Meanwhile Olcott Mawatha in Pettah, Colombo has been closed off completely by the police due to the protest march. Therefore, the police had urged motorists to use alternative routes in order to avoid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange has recorded a massive gain of 233.97 points to close at 9,082.33 points at the end of trading today (Feb. 20). This is an increase of 2.64 percent. According to reports, the massive gain was recorded as a result of increased investor interest in the banking sector. Meanwhile the S&P SL20 index has also gone up by 65.04 points (2.40%) to close at 2,777.78 points today. Today’s total turnover was recorded as Rs. 2.27 billion while the share volume... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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The Election Commission has filed a motion before the Supreme Court citing difficulties including inadequate funds to hold the 2023 Local Government elections on 09 March. The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that the activities related to holding the Local Government (LG) election have been hampered due to the non-availability of sufficient funds and other facilities. https://youtu.be/FppX3SCQMVk Accordingly, the commission has also informed the Supreme Court that there is a difficult situation to fulfill the pledge given before the Supreme Court that it will take steps to conduct the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
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Sri Lankan Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva has said the government will spend around USD132 million on port development projects. These investments would be made through revenue generated from port operations, the minister said on Saturday night. Speaking at an event in Colombo, the minister said the government has allocated over USD100 million for the Eastern Container Terminal and USD32 million for the Jaya Container Terminal. Both terminals are fully owned subsidiaries of the state-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority. He added that apart... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/02/23)
By Sena Thoradeniya
From time to time Sri Lankan Ministers in charge of Agriculture and Livestock Development and their officials attempted to improve the breed of cattle by means of imported animals. A few decades ago, it was alleged that a stock of cattle imported from a foreign country was infected with various types of worm diseases deliberately done to ruin the country’s fledgling dairy industry. Milch cows imported and distributed among dairy farmers during Yahapalana regime brought utter disaster to dairy farmers who bought these cows. The then State Minister, now a stalwart of SJB in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
දම්මි නොව පාසලේ කිසිම කෙල්ලක් සමඟ ප්රේම සම්භන්ධයක් ඇති කර ගැනීමට සුගත්ට කිසිම උවමනාවක් නොවීය. ප්රේම සම්බන්ධය පටන් ගන්නේ හුදු දම්මිගේ උවමනාවටය. පටන් ගත් පසු, දෙදෙනාම ඉතා භක්තියෙන් එය ඉදිරියට රැගෙන ගියහ. එය ඉතාම චමත්කාර, සොඳුරු, ආනන්දජනක, ආදර අන්දරයක් විය. පාසැලේ අවසන් දිනයේදී, මුහුදු වෙරළේදී, දම්මි ඇය එතෙක් සඟවා සිටී රහස සුගත්ට කීවාය. එනම්, දම්මි කුඩා කාලයේදීම ඇයව තම ඇවැස්ස මස්සිනා වන නිහාල් සමඟ විවාහ කර දීමට දෙපාර්ශවයේ වැඩිහිටියන් ගිවුසුම් ගසා සිටී බවයි. ඒ නිසා, තමනට කිසිදාක සුගත් හා එක්විය නොහැකි බවයි. නිහාල් එවිට වෛද්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
නන්දාගේ පවුල තරම් නොවුවත් ජිනදාසගේ පවුලද මාතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වංශක්කාර පවුලක් විය. රැකියාවක් නැති ජිනදාසට කයිසාරුවත්තේ මුහන්දිරම් නිවසේ තවදුරටත් නිකරුනේ කාලය කා දමමින් ගත කිරීමට අවශ්ය නොවීය. ඔහුට උවමනා වුයේ ඔහුගේ ස්ව-වීර්යයෙන් මුදල් හම්බ කර සිය බිරිඳට කන්න දීමටය. ජිනදාස සිංහලේ (බිබිලේ) ගොස් ව්යාපාරයක් ආරම්භ කිරීමට සනිටුහන් කර ගතී. නන්දා මේ අදහසට නොකැමැති වුවත් පසුව කැමති විය. කාලයාගේ අවෑමෙන් ජිනදාසගෙන් මුදල් කෙසේ වෙතත් ලියුමක්වත් නන්දාට නොලැබිණි. ජිනදාස සිංහලේ ගැහැනියක් කර කාර බැඳ එහි කඩයක් කරගෙන යන බවට පුවත් නන්දාගේ කණට අසන්නට ලැබුණි. සිංහලේ බොහෝ දුර ඈත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D
දැන හෝ නොදැන ලංකාවේ අගමැතිවරු/ජනාධිපතිවරු දමිළ බෙදුම්වාදයට ඉණිමං බැඳීම ඇල්ලේ ගුණවංශ හාමුදුරුවන් කියන, බුදු අම්මෝ නොව, <ඕ මයිගෝඩ් බෞද්ධයින්> විසින් දැන් කාලයේ නිතරම මතුරන්නේ දශරාජ ධර්මය, බෞද්ධ රාජ්ය පාලන ප්රතිපත්ති හා බුද්ධාගම රකිනවා යන ප්රලාපය! The End of P! ටැමිල්නාඩ් කොටි නායක නෙදුමරන් විසින් ප්රභාකරන් (P) ජීවත්ව සිටිනවා යයි කීමත්, ලංකාවේ කොළඹ වැල්ලවත්තේ ජීවත් වෙමින් ප්රභාකරන් මළ බවට ශාක්ෂියක් නැතැයි කියන ශිවාජිලිංගම් නම් හිටපු කොටි මන්ත්රීත්, මහින්ද- රනිල්-සිරිසේන- චන්ද්රිකා යන හැම දෙනාටම කරන්නේ විහිළුකාර අභියෝගයකි. ඉන් හොඳටම අමාරුවේ වැටෙන්නේ රනිල් මහතාය. ඊට හේතුව ඔහු 13-A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල" ෆීනික්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය
ශ්රී ලංකාව නිදහස් ස්වෛරී ජනරජයක් වූ 1972 සිට පැවති සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්යාපනය ලැබීමේ අයිතිය කළ සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්යාපන සභාවේ 2020.12.30 අංක 2208/13 අතිවිශෙෂ ගැසට් පත්රය මගින් අගවිනිසුරු ඇතුලු පහත දැක්වෙන සාමාජිකයන් විසින් අහිමි කර ඇ1) ගරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය (අගවිනිසුරු, ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ)2) ගරු ඩී. ද ලිවේරා (නීතිපති)3) ගරු බී.පී. අලුවිහාරෙ (ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ)4) ගරු කේ. සිසිර ආබෲ5) එම්. එම්.පී. කේ.මායාදුන්නේ මහතා (ලේකම්,අධිකරණ අමාත්යාංශය)6) සන්ජේ රාජරත්නම් මහතා (වැඩබලන සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල්, ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ)7) ප්රශාන්ත ලාල් ද අල්විස් මහතා (ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ)8) මහාචාර්ය වී. ටී. තමිල්මාරන්9) ප්රියන්ත නවාන මහතා (ජනාධිපති නීතීඥ)10) කේ. නවරත්න මහතා11) කේ. ඉන්ද්රතිස්ස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Courtesy The South China Morning Post
To secure the bailout, the government is having to pursue economic reforms and tighten purse strings when inflation and recession are already making lives difficultYet reforms are necessary to restore – and restore confidence in – the economy in the long term. Sri Lanka remains in the throes of an economic crisis, but there are signs of a silver lining and a possibility the island-state may have put the worst behind it. Its Paris Club creditors have finally provided the financing assurances that bring Sri Lanka one step closer to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
By Arike Idris Courtesy EssexLive
Residents on social media have claimed there are not enough public toilets in the Redbridge area Redbridge Council is funding £2 million into new and refurbished public toilets after a person was fined for excreting on an Ilford Road. The incident happened on Colombo Road last November when the culprit was caught in the act by a resident. Council enforcement officers carried out an investigation and tracked the offender using their vehicle number plate. The offender was issued a £150 penalty notice as a result. Councillor Khayer... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Courtesy CGTN
China's lifting of travel restrictions has pushed many countries to attract Chinese travelers, one of them is Sri Lanka. The island country expects Chinese tourists to arrive in the new year, alongside strengthened cooperation with China. CGTN sat down with the consul general of Sri Lanka in Shanghai.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The ‘Janaraja Perahera’, organized to coincide with Sri Lanka’s 75th independence anniversary, kicked off this evening (Feb 19) under the aegis of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The historic Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy is hosting the ‘Janaraja Perahera’ following a gap of 34 years. The procession commenced from the Magul Maduwa premises at 6.30 p.m. today and is parading Dalada Street, Yatinuwara Street, Kanda Street, and Raja Street before returning to the temple to mark the end of the event. The procession comprises cultural performances, including dancing troops, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has met with a group of youth to discuss his policy statement and the government’s plans for the country’s future on February 16. The group of young people expressed their views on the government’s policies in a newspaper article and the President had invited them over for a follow-up discussion along with the two young journalists, Anoushka Jayasuriya and Shannon Salgadoe who had written the article. During the discussion, they had expressed what they expect from the government, and discussed a range of issues with the President, the President’s Media Division... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he has given his consent to several requests made by the Maha Nayaka Theras of the Malwatu and Asgiri Chapters, during a discussion held today (19) between the Sanga Committee members and the President at the President’s House in Kandy. The President stated that he will urgently work to appoint a competent authority to the Pali and Buddhist University and to turn it into an “International Centre of Buddhist Studies”. This proposal made by the Sangha Committee members is essential and will definitely be implemented to raise the quality... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
The economic proxy war between the rising and fading Superpowers is escalating and expanding. This was apparent in an (un)diplomatic exchange between Chinese and United States officials over the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) debt restructuring delays in Sri Lanka which was the venue of the recent CARAT/MAREX war games. These happened in the run up to the country’s February 4 commemoration of 75 years of ‘Lost Independence, Democracy and economic sovereignty’ as a commentator put it. Before the MAREX US war games India’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Jaishankar paid a flying visit to the island... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Chris Hedges Fan Club
https://youtu.be/CmqojuijtFg John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer was born in December 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City. When he was eight, he moved with his family to Croton-on-Hudson, a suburb in Westchester County. When he was 17, Mearsheimer enlisted in the US Army. After one year as an enlisted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers
The recent bluff by the old snake gourd/bitter gourd Nedumaran is keeping the media on their toes busy. Every media unheard of is trying to depict everything about LTTE and Prabakaran which cannot be true in the sense of rightness and honesty. However, one or two reasons may be true in the correct sense. (A) China’s influence on Sri Lanka could be one reason to intimidate SL by (i) India (ii) USA and (iii) Other European... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
අසූව දශකයේ ඉංග්රීසි රොක් සංගීත ක්ෂේත්රය වර්ණවත් කල එක් සංගීත කණ්ඩායමකි 'ඊගල්ස්'. 'හොටෙල් කැලිෆෝනියා', 'ඩෙස්පරාඩෝ', 'ටේක් ඉට් ඊසි', 'ටේක් ඉට් ටු ද ලිමිට්' වැනි ගීත හරහා ප්රසිද්ධියක් ලැබූ මේ කණ්ඩායම එම දශකය තුල ග්රැමී සම්මාන 6ක් සහ ඇමරිකානු සංගීත සම්මාන 6ක් දිනා ගත්තේය. ඉහත සඳහන් ගීත වලට වඩා අඩුවෙන් ජනප්රියත්වයක් ලැබු එකකි 'සෑඩ් කැෆේ'. විශ්රාම ගිය අරගලකරුවන් නැත්නම් අරගලය තුලම ජයග්රහණ නොමැතිව වයසට ගිය අය ගැන කියන කතාවක් 'සෑඩ් කැෆේ'.පද කිහිපයක් ගනිමු. 'කියන්න බැරි බොහෝ දේ මහා හඬින් ගායනා කළෙමු,'ආදරය' 'නිදහස' වැනි වදන් වලින් ලොව වෙනස් කළ හැකි වෙතැයි සිතුවෙමු'පසුව මෙවන් නිගමනයකට එළඹෙනවා: 'වෙනස් වෙනවා නම් ජීවිතයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
ඒ වන විට 'භීෂණය' ජනගත වෙලා තිබුණේ නෑ. ඒත් පෙරනිමිති පහළ වෙමින් තිබුණා. ඒ භීෂණයේ මුල් අවධිය කියල කියන්න පුළුවන්. මතක හැටියට 1988 වසරේ සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ. පාසැල් ශිෂ්ය ශිෂ්යාවන් සහභාගී වුණ උද්ඝෝෂණයකට පොලිසියෙන් වෙඩි තියල නුගවෙල මාධ්ය මහා විද්යාලයේ අවුරුදු 15ක සිසුවෙක් මැරුණා. ඒ පිළිබඳව විරෝධය ප්රකාශ කරන්න පේරාදෙණිය සරසවියේ ශිෂ්යයින් මහනුවර පිකට් කෙරුව. සුපුරුදු විදිහට පොලීසිය බැටන් පොලු ප්රහාරයක් දියත් කෙරුවා. පාරේ එක පැත්තක කඩ පේලියක්, අනිත් පැත්තේ තාවකාලිකව අටවගත්ත රෙදි කඩ. උද්ඝෝෂකයින් කඩවල් ඇතුලට රිංගුවා බේරෙන්න. පාරේ අනිත් පැත්තේ පෝස්ටර් උස්සගෙන හිටපු අයට දුවන්න තැනක් තිබුණේ නෑ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
‘Crisis & Struggle’ is the title of an art exhibition that was recently held at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery. Sujith Rathnayake, the artist, calls it a visual art attack. Nice line. It is presented by, so the poster claims, ‘Art Gallery of the Galle Face Protest Site.’ Sujith Rathnayake’s stature as an artist got considerably enhanced during the ‘Aragalaya.’ Put another way, his stature as a conscious objector to perceived tyrannies or rather tyrannies perceived was elevated during those months. Now we do know that the Aragalaya spawned... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Senaka Weeraratna
The wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was clearly in the forefront of that fight. His fault was that his side lost. But that should not de-legitimize the worldwide struggle to end Western colonial domination and rule in Asia and Africa which was finally achieved at huge cost mostly to the Japanese people. The demonization of the Japanese soldiers as 'savages' , cannibals, and 'barbarians' in a non ending propaganda war against Japan now sprouting on the social media sponsored by mostly Anglo - American academics and historians in the most shameful way, must stop. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
By P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, February 19: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe firmly believes that no elections should be held in the island nation before the Presidential election in 2024 on the grounds that the country cannot afford elections in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Sources in his United National Party (UNP) say that the economic crisis, marked by shortages and sky-rocketing prices, calls for the maintenance of discipline and national unity without frittering away precious time and energy on politicking. Wickremesinghe himself has said this in parliament and outside. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today pledged to prioritize the country’s economic recovery while ensuring that law and order is maintained to prevent anarchy. He made a commitment to restore the country’s economy and establish a functioning democratic society before the end of this year. Speaking at the ‘Imagine’ 32nd Rotary District Conference in Colombo this morning (Feb 18), the President emphasized the importance of economic recovery and improving citizens’ quality of life. He affirmed that all government decisions would be based on these priorities. In his address, President Wickremesinghe stated that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Lanka Coal Company (LCC) says payments have been settled for 13 shipments of coal imported to Sri Lanka. According to the company’s general manager Namal Hewage, the 12th shipment is currently being unloaded while the unloading of the 13th shipment is expected to begin tomorrow (Feb 18). Meanwhile, plans are afoot to bring down a total of 36 coal shipments to the country this year, Hewage said further. Lanka Coal Company is in possession of adequate stocks to ensure an uninterrupted electricity supply until this September, he added. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Election Commission has decided to file a special motion before the Supreme Court detailing the difficulties it is facing during the preparations for the 2023 Local Government Election on March 09. Chairman of the election body, Attorney-at-Law Nimal G. Punchihewa says inadequate funds, inadequate supply of fuel for transportation, the delays in ballot paper printing by the Government Printer and several other issues stand in the way of LG election preparations. https://youtu.be/oI-AepHB15w Punchihewa also noted that adequate security measures are not in place for the Department of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The supply of electricity and all related services, the supply and distribution of petroleum products and fuel and health services have been declared essential services once again. This was announced in a special gazette notification, issued by Presidential Secretary Saman Ekanayake under the directives of President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday (Feb 17). It was published in accordance with the powers vested in the President under Section 2 of the Essential Public Services Act No. 61 of 1979. Previously, four announcements dated August 03, 2022, September 03, 2022, October 04, 2022, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Manusha Media
A special delegation from Israel visiting Sri Lanka has assured the Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara, that their country will offer 2000 job opportunities for female caregivers from Sri Lanka, this year.The delegation comprising Shiely Raisin Sason, director of Israel's Population and Migration Institute and members Zindani Mary, Yaccow Kabilau, Margarita Gaorodnitsky among others met Minister Manusha Nanayakkara today. The minister during the meeting requested from the delegation to provide more job opportunities to caregivers from Sri Lanka and in response the delegation assured the Minister that their country will recruit 2000 female... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය.
2023.02.17 දින කොළඹ අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේ පැවති වී මිලදී ගැනීම සහ බෙදාහැරීම සම්බන්ධ සාකච්ඡාව අමතමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සඳහන් කළේ අඩු ආදායම් ලබන පුද්ගලයින් සඳහා සහන සැලසීමේ රජයේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ සාර්ථක කරගැනීමට නම් මෙවර මහ කන්නයේ වී මිලදී ගැනීම් සහ බෙදාහැරීම් නිසි සැලසුමකට අනුව සිදු කළ යුතු බවයි. වී මිලදී ගැනීමේ කර්තව්යය සහ වත්මන් තත්ත්වය, සමාජ ආරක්ෂක ප්රතිශෝධනය පිළිබඳ දැනට පවතින තත්ත්වය විමර්ශනය කිරීම, සහ ආහාර නිෂ්පාදනය පිළිබඳ වැඩකටයුතුවල වත්මන් තත්ත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙහිදී වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමුකරනු ලැබීය. දිස්ත්රීක් රැසක වී මිලදී ගැනීම දැනටමත් ආරම්භ කර ඇති බවත් ඉදිරි සති කිහිපය තුළ අනෙකුත් දිස්ත්රීක්ක වල අස්වැන්න... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Swasthika Arulingam
https://youtu.be/sC4A8JkUJ-4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan
By Engr. Kanthar BalanathanDipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers With due respect to the Chief Minister, Mr MK Stalin, the son of a great writer/politician in India, Mr M. Karunanithi, I would like to point out that some people who are not in politics, or any other discipline in TN are involved in fashioning stories to disturb the peace in India and Sri Lanka and the Tamils overall. The purpose of creating these stories is not clear to the common... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
(Bloomberg) - The International Monetary Fund is considering approving Sri Lanka’s bailout even without the formal assurance of debt-restructuring support from China, the nation’s biggest bilateral creditor, according to people familiar with the discussions. Under a rarely used policy on lending into official arrears, the IMF may consider approving Sri Lanka’s loan because China’s assurance is the only prerequisite missing, according to the people who declined to be identified because the information isn’t public. This provision is aimed at preventing a creditor from blocking assistance to a country in dire need of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana has informed the National Election Commission of the difficulties in funding the 2023 Local Government polls. The election body says that the Treasury Secretary has cited the current adverse financial situation and the administrative decision taken by the government to allocate funds only for essential services as the reasons for the inability to release the funds required for the election. https://youtu.be/CITRl7pXv0s The Treasury Secretary conveyed this to the election body’s chairman, Nimal G. Punchihewa during a meeting held today (Feb 17) between the Election... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says reducing bank interest rates in relation to the gradual decline in inflation is currently under consideration. The Head of State further expressed hopes about receiving the USD 2.9 billion under the International Monetary Fund’s extended fund facility (EFF) program by March. His remarks came during a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday evening (Feb 16) to discuss the issues faced by small- and large-scale paddy mill owners, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. During the discussion, the mill owners raised concerns about the soaring fuel... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/02/23)
Sanka Chandima
13 සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්රියාත්මක කරන කිසිවෙකුට මේ රට පාලනය කිරීමේ කිසිදු අයිතියක් කිසිසේත්ම නොමැත. Decolonise our constitution & abolish the provincial councils. Build a new constitution for us based on who we are, not on what imperialists want us to be: slaves. We haven't forgotten how the Indian Army invaded SriLanka to the tune of 150,000 soldiers. https://youtu.be/v3rA2KEu0J8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/02/23)
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භූ දේශපාලනික රහස් හෙළිදරව් කිරීම් අතින් පසුගිය දශකයේදී ලෝකය උඩුයටිකුරු කළ එඩ්වඩ් ස්නෝව්ඩන් වඩාත් ලොව ප්රකට වූයේ ඔහු විසින් CIA සංවිධානය ගැන කළ විශේෂ හෙළිදරව් කිරීම් නිසාය. CIA සංව්ධානය විසින් දෙස් විදෙස් භූදේශපාලන නායකයන්ගේ දුරකථන ඇමතුම්, ඊ මේල් සහ සමාජ ජාලා ගිණුම වලට හොර රහසේ ඇතුල්වී තොරතුරු සොරා ගන්නා බව මෙන්ම ශුද්ධෝත්තම පාප් වහන්සේද CIA ඉලක්කයක් වූ බව ස්නෝව්ඩන් කළ හෙළිදරව් කිරීම් නිසා ඇමෙරිකාවේ දතකට පූට්ටු වූයේ එම තොරතුරු සාක්ෂි සහිතව ලෝකය හමුවේ අනාවරණය වූ බැවිනි. කෙසේ වෙතත් ස්නෝව්ඩන් වැනිම පුද්ගලයෙක් පසුගිය දා ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ ක්රියාත්මක වන ඉන්දියානු “රෝ“ සංවිධානයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/02/23)
Lanka Lead News
දෙමළ ජනතාවට රටක් නැති බවත්, එනිසාම ඔවුන් රටක් සොයන්නේ අතීතයේ සිටම බවත් විශ්රාමික ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් ජගත් ඩයස් ඩයස් මහතා පවසයි. මාධ්ය නාලිකාවක් සමග සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මෙම කරුණු සදහන් කරයි. ඊශ්රායලයට ද රටක් නොතිබුණු අවදියේ බටහිර බලපෑම මත ඔවුන්ට රටක් අත්පත්කර ගැනීමට හැකි වූ බවද, දෙමළ ජනතාවට රටක් නොමැති නිසා එය මුලින්ම ඉන්දියාවෙන් ලබාගැනීමට උත්සාහ කළ බවද, ඉන්දියාව තම රට තවදුරටත් බෙදීමට කිසිසේත් එකග නොවීම මත ඔවුන් ශ්රී ලංකාව දෙසට හැරුණු බවද ජගත් ඩයස් මහතා අතීතයේ උදාහරණ ගෙනහැර දක්වමින් ප්රකාශ කරයි. 1983 මෙරට සිදුවූ කෝලහාලය සහ එම කාලයේදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/02/23)
උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත්
පසුගිය බ්රහස්පතින්දා ජනාධිපතිවරයා මුදල් අමාත්යාංශයේ නිලධාරීන් සමග සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත විය. සාකච්ඡාව අවසානයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා රවි කරුණානායක හිටපු මුදල් අමාත්යවරයා සමග කිසියම් දෙයක් පිළිබඳ කතා කරමින් සිටින විට රවිගේ ජංගම දුරකථනය නාද විය. ‘‘එහෙමයි ස්වාමීන් වහන්ස, එහෙමයි. ඉන්න මම ජනාධිපතිතුමාට දෙන්නම් එතුමාටම කියන්නකෝ‘‘ යනුවෙන් දුරකතනය රනිල්ට දුන්නේය. ‘‘එහෙමයි ස්වාමීන්වහන්ස, මම දැන් මේ මුදල් අමාත්යාංශයේ නිලධාරීන්ටත් කිව්වේ ඔබ වහන්සේගේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ගැන. මම කිව්වා ඒ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ආදර්ශයට අරගෙන කරන්න පුළුවන් දේවල් කරන්න කියලා. ඇත්තටම ඔබ වහන්සේ හොඳ වැඩක් කරලා තියෙනවා ආදර්ශයට ගන්න වටිනා ‘‘යනුවෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා කියාගෙන කියාගෙන ගියේය. ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ අගය කිරීමට මේ අයුරින් ලක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon and Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne today held discussion with the delegation led by U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs (PDASD) Jedidiah P Royal over the matters of defence cooperation enhancement and regional security stability. Jedidiah P Royal paid a courtesy call on the State Minister of Defence and Defence Secretary during two separate occasions today. U.S. PDASD accompanied by Defence Attaché of the US embassy Lt. Col. Anthony Nelson on arrival at the State Ministry of Defence. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka and India will sign a pact to link their power grids and start negotiations on an upgraded trade agreement within two months, a Sri Lankan diplomat said on Wednesday, as the island nation seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades. India has provided some $4 billion in assistance to its southern neighbour since the crisis hit early last year, but Sri Lanka is now seeking to enhance trade and investments as it moves to close a $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the country’s envoy to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe says the government has requested the Ministry of Finance to look into how the upcoming local government election can be financed in order to safeguard the people’s franchise. Speaking during a panel discussion ‘At HydePark’ on Ada Derana 24, the Justice Minister said funding for the election has become problematic due to an unprecedented economic crisis which has never been experienced during the time of any election. Dr. Rajapakshe also noted that the Election Commission is vested with the powers to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
An uninterrupted power supply will be provided for the whole of Sri Lanka with effect from today, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said on Thursday (16). Addressing the media today, Minister Wijesekera said this is being made possible following the electricity tariff hike approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL). Minister Kanchana Wijesekera clarified that electricity tariffs have not been increased to cover longstanding losses of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). He explained that the tariff hike has been proposed only to manage the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/02/23)
By Rohana R. Wasala
Is former prime minister and president, Mahinda Rajapaksa still bluffing? The Most Venerable Mahanayake theras of the Three Nikayas (Siyam, Amarapura and Ramanna) wrote to president Ranil Wickremasinghe admonishing him not to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution two weeks ago, on February 2, as reported in The Island (‘Mahanayakes tell President not to implement 13A’/February 3, 2023). The Buddhist prelates reminded the president that his predecessors did not implement 13A fully because of the devastating consequences this would have on the country, and that the executive presidency was established... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara.
Reference the following news report. “Last week, two vocal representatives of Tamil political opinion, Abraham Sumanthiran and C.V. Wigneswaran made statements rejecting implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution under the unitary system of government and demanded a federal system. Sumanthiran claimed that all the Tamil parties agree on a meaningful power-sharing arrangement on a federal basis and added that his party would not have talks with the Government until that issue is resolved. Wigneswaran, using stronger words, said Sri Lanka’s position is internationally weakening and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Sri Lanka Support Group
Sri Lanka Peace Support Group නැමති සංවිධානයක් විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාව දෙකඩ කිරීමේ තදබල වැඩ වල නියැලී ඇති බව මෑතක Lankaweb අඩවියේ ලිපි මඟින් එලි දක්වා තිබුණි. Sri Lanka Peace Support Group (SLPSG) සංවිධානය (එවැනි සංවිධානයක් ඇත්තටම ඇත්නම්) එය හා අප සංවිධානය - Sri Lanka Support Group (SLSG) අතර කිසිම සම්බන්ධතාවයක් නොමැති බව මෙම නිවේදනය මඟින් අප දන්වා සිටිමු. SLPSG නමින් සංවිධානයක් ඇත යන්න අප දැන ගත්තේ මෙම ලිපි කියවීමෙන් පසුව, 2023 පෙබරවාරි මසය. SLPSG සංවිධානයේ ඊනියා නිලධාරීන් සමඟ අප Sri Lanka Support Group (SLSG) කිසිම ආකාරයෙන් සම්බන්දතා පවත්වා නැත. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Prime Minister’s Media Unit
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena held a productive discussion with representatives of IndustriALL Global Union, which represents powerful Trade Unions in more than 100 countries at the Temple Trees today (Feb 15). Secretary to the Prime Minister Anura Dissanayake, Atle Hoie, General Secretary 0f IndustriALL Global Union, Praveen Rao, Coordinator, South Asia Regional Office of IndustriALL Global Union, Leslie Devendra, General Secretary, Sri Lanka NIdahas Sevaka Sangamaya, Anton Marcus, General Secretary, FTZ&GSEU, Dilakson, Admin Coordinator, FTZ&GSEU, Palitha Athukorala, President, NUSS, Ranjan Perera, NUSS, Swasthika Arulingam, UFL and Sujeewa Amarasinghe, UF took part in the discussion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
අකිල තෙන්නකෝන්, මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය තුමාගේ,මාධ්ය ලේකම්.
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ස්විස්ටර්ලන්ත තානාපති ඩොමිනික් ෆර්ග්ලර් මහතා අද(15දා)දින සුහද හමුවක් සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමති ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා හමුවීමට මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයට පැමිණියේය.මෙහිදී ස්විස් තානාපති ඩොමිනික් ෆර්ග්ලර් මහතා ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසිය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමට අවශ්ය තාක්ෂණික සහය සහ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්ගේ පුහුණුවීම් වැඩමුළු පැවැත්වීමට සහයෝගය ලබාදෙන බව මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යවරයාට පැවසුවේය.තවදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් ස්විස් තානාපති මහතා මානව හිමිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ වැදගත්කම සහ සත්ය කොමිසම පිහිටුවීමේ වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳවද මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කළේය.මෙහිදී මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා සත්ය කොමිසම ඒක පාර්ශ්වික නොවිය යුතු බව අවධාරණය කෙරිණි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්තථාවේ නවවෙනි වගන්තියට කිසිදු හානියක් හෝ අත තැබීමක් කරන්නට ඉඩ තබන්නේ නැහැ. නව වෙනි වගන්තිය ආරක්ෂා කර තිබෙන්නේ මහ සඟරුවනේ දැවැන්ත ඉතිහාස ගමනක ප්රතිඵලයක් ලෙසයි. නොසෙල්වෙන මහා පර්වතයක් සේ සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ ආරක්ෂාවට ආණ්ඩු ක්රමයක එවැනි තැන්පත් කළ ශක්තිය අප ආරක්ෂා කර ගත යුතුයි. -අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා. අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ 2023.02.14 දින රත්නපුර කරන්ගොඩ සිද්ධාර්තෝදය පිරිවෙන් විහාරයේ පැවති අතිපූජ්ය කරන්ගොඩ සේනානන්ද නායක හිමියන්ට ශ්රී ලංකා අමරපුර මහා නිකායේ එක්නැලිගොඩ විහාර පාර්ශ්වයේ දොළොස් වන ශ්රීමත් මහා නායක පදවි අක්කපත්ර ප්රදානය කිරීමේ උත්සවයේ දී ය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Jordan Raup Courtesy The Film Stage
With its staggered, theatrical-only rollout over the last year, here’s hoping you’ve had the opportunity to experience the mesmerizing, transportive experience that is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria. The director, who left Thailand for Colombia to film the Tilda Swinton-led feature, has now announced the first details for his next project, and its intended home may surprise you. Speaking to Metrograph ahead of a 35mm run starting Friday, the director revealed he plans to head to Sri Lanka to shoot his next film and he may be partnering with a streamer for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
by Hassaan Shazuli Courtesy Mongabay
Marine experts say the seismic activity in the Indian Ocean in the past few days likely pushed a pod of pilot whales onto Sri Lanka’s shores.Authorities and volunteers undertook a strenuous 15-and-a-half-hour operation to send a pod of pilot whales safely back into the sea.Rescuers managed to push 11 pilot whales back into the sea while three died on the shores.Recorded incidents of whales beaching up on Sri Lankan shores go back as far as 1889. Kalpitiya, SRI LANKA: The Feb.11 beaching of 14 pilot whales in Kalpitiya, about 172... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Courtesy Alarabiya.News
Sri Lanka and India will sign a pact to link their power grids and start negotiations on an upgraded trade agreement within two months, a Sri Lankan diplomat said on Wednesday, as the island nation seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades. India has provided some $4 billion in assistance to its southern neighbor since the crisis hit early last year, but Sri Lanka is now seeking to enhance trade and investments as it moves to close a $2.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the country’s envoy to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Courtesy MailOnline
BEIJING (AP) - China expressed support for Sri Lanka ahead of a meeting Friday of government lenders to poor economies but did not say if it would help reduce a multibillion-dollar debt that has plunged the Indian Ocean nation into financial and political turmoil. Beijing is one of Sri Lanka's biggest creditors after extending it loans under President Xi Jinping´s Belt and Road Initiative, which expands trade by building ports and other facilities across Asia and Africa. China has offered a two-year suspension of repayments but balked at reducing the amount owed. That is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island
Many of those who call for the ‘full implementation of the 13th Amendment’ believe that all State land should be completely under the control of the provincial councils. The actual extent of the devolution of land powers would depend on the language used in the text of the 13th Amendment, and the interpretation given to that text by the Supreme Court which has exclusive jurisdiction in respect of Constitutional matters. Provisions with regard to land are to be found in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution and they cascade from the national government’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Chairman of the Election Commission Nimal G. Punchihewa says that he will summon the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and its officials for a discussion tomorrow (Feb. 16), in order to hold talks on the release of funds required for the upcoming Local Government (LG) election. The Election Commission chief also pointed out that they are trying to hold the postal voting on previously scheduled dates. https://youtu.be/iftezjcKY6s The Government Printer had earlier informed the Election Commission on Monday (Feb. 13) in writing that printing work pertaining to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
With China yet to support Sri Lanka debt restructuring based on the debt sustainability analysis (DSA) of the IMF and Paris Club, time is running out on Colombo to secure a much-needed loan to revive the nation from the present economic crisis. Sri Lanka is seeking a USD 2.9 billion-dollar loan from the IMF over four years in eight installments. While India has agreed to support the Island nation on the basis of DSA, China still has differences over period of loan moratorium and debt restructuring with the IMF’s Executive Board scheduled to meet... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/02/23)
Sugath Kulatunga
The rapid development of South Korea from a backward nation whose per capita income was less than that of Ceylon in 1960 to a modern developed nation with a per capita income of US$ 42500 is considered an economic miracle. Do we have any lessons of experience to learn from that sensational achievement launched by President Park? The present government does not seem to think so. The present government appears to depend on political authorities in the form of a National Council (a set of politicians who for decades failed to at least prevent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
පුවත් පත් නිවේදනය ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය
ශ්රී ලංකාවට ප්රශ්නයක් වී ඇති හදිසි අත්යාවශ්ය ඖෂධ ආනයනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇමෙරිකානු ඩොලර් බිලියනයක ඉන්දීය ණය සහනයෙහි ඉතිරිව පවතින මුදල් ප්රයෝජනයට ගැනීමේ හැකියාව පිළිබඳව අවධානය යොමු කෙරේ. ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ මහතා ඉන්දියාවේ මුදල් හා ආයතනික කටයුතු අමාත්ය නිර්මලා සීතාරාමන් මහත්මිය අද (පෙබ. 14) පස්වරුවේ නවදිල්ලියේ පිහිටි මුදල් අමාත්යාංශයේදී මහත්මිය මුණ ගැසුණු අතර එහි දී මෙම කරුණ සාකච්ඡාවට ලක්විය. ජී 20 රටවල මුදල් අමාත්යවරුන්ගේ පළමු රැස්වීම අමාත්ය සීතාරාමන් මහත්මිය ගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පෙබරවාරි 24-25 දිනවල බැංගලෝර්හිදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත අතර එයට පෙර ඉන්දීය මුදල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Commercial and Industrial Workers’ Union, United Federation of Labour
Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe was appointed by former President Rajapaksa. CBSL seems to function on the personal ‘belief’ of the CBSL Governor;CBSL continues to bury its head in the sand while the country is robbed by business elites in the export and import sector, saying corporate corruption is ‘their business’;CBSL ignores crucial findings and recommendations of IMF, World Bank, ADB, UNCTAD and OHCHR on illicit financial outflows affecting countries like Sri Lanka;Trade Unions demand immediate coordinated effort between CBSL, Commercial Banks and Customs to investigate the issue and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi
Continuing his engagement with the key officials of the Government of India, the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in New Delhi Milinda Moragoda met with the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra at the Prime Minister’s Office. The meeting between the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister and the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka was held in a very cordial manner, and a range of issues pertaining to the bilateral relationship was discussed. High Commissioner Moragoda also followed-up with Principal Secretary... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
යුරෝපයේ රටවල්හරහා භාණ්ඩ ප්රවාහනය කරන ලිතුවේනියාවේ ප්රමුඛ සමාගමක් ට්රක් රථ රියදුරන් හය සියක් බඳවා ගැනීමට සූදානම් වෙයි .ඒ සඳහා ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්ට අවස්ථාව ලබාදෙන බව ලිතුවේනියාවේ Manvesta ප්රවාහන සේවයේ ජේෂ්ඨ අධ්යක්ෂ ධනා ජැනරිකෙඒට් මහත්මිය පවසයි. ඇය ඇතුළු නියෝජිත පිරිසක් 2023.02.13 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූහ. මෙම කඩිනම් බඳවා ගැනීම සඳහා අගමැතිවරයාගේ මැදිහත්වීම අපේක්ෂා කරන බව ඇය සදහක් කළාය.. තෝරාගත් රියදුරන් සඳහා කඩිනම් පුහුණු වැඩසටහන් අවශ්ය වේ. ඇබෑර්තු හයසියයක් පැවතියත් තෝරා ගැනීමට හැකිවි ඇත්තේ කුසලතා ඇති එක සිය නව දෙනෙකු පමණි. එක් රියැදුරෙකුට රුපියල් මිලියනක පමණ මාසික වැටුපක් හිමිවේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
New Delhi, February 14 (NDTV): Income Tax officials searched the BBC’s Delhi and Mumbai offices today and seized phones and laptops, weeks after a massive controversy over the UK national broadcaster’s documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the deadly sectarian riots in Gujarat in 2002. The taxmen sealed off the offices for a “survey” linked to alleged diversion of profits and irregularities in transfer pricing involving the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). The survey will continue at least till tomorrow and the officials are expected to search all night at the offices.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Lanka Lead News
රවිඩ භාෂාව කතාකරන ජනයා මේ රටේ මුල්ම ජනාවාස ඇති කළ බව හා සිංහලයන් පැවතගෙන එන්නේද ඔවුන්ගෙන් බවට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් මහතා පවසන ප්රකාශය කිසිම පදනමක් නැති ප්රකාශයක් බව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා යළිත් වරක් පෙන්වා දී තිබේ. එම ප්රකාශයේ ජීව විද්යාත්මක හෝ වාග්විද්යාත්මක පරදනමක් නොමැති බවත්, එය අවිද්යාත්මක ප්රකාශයක් පමණක් බවත් මහාචාර්යවරයා සදහන් කරයි. මේ පිළිබදව ප්රකාශ නිකුත් කිරීමට පෙර මෙම විෂය පිළිබදව පුළුල් අවබෝධයක් ලබාගත යුතු බවද, දෙමළ භාෂාව කතාකරන ජනතාව ගැන පමණක් කතාකරන විග්නේෂ්වරන් මන්ත්රීවරයා දෙමළ භාෂාව කතා නොකරන එහෙත් ද්රවිඩ සම්භවයක් ඇති සහෝදර භාෂා කතාකරන කොපමණ ජනතාවක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy The Nation
LAHORE - Governor Punjab Muhammad Balighur Rehman has said Pakistan and Sri Lanka have cordial relations and existing bilateral coopera-tion between the two countries can be further expanded. Talking to a delegation of Sri Lanka - Lahore Business Council, led by Honor-ary Consul General of Sri Lanka, Yasin Joya, during a meeting at the Gover-nor’s House here on Monday, he said Sri Lankan students are studying in the universities of Pakistan and there are vast possibilities of cooperation be-tween the two countries in education, health and social sectors. The Governor Punjab appreciated the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy AP News
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka is fast-tracking efforts to seal a stalled trade pact with Thailand in order to boost trade and tourism, and improve the foreign currency shortage that has led to its worst economic crisis, a government minister said on Tuesday. Sri Lanka began talks with Thailand on a free trade agreement in 2016, held two rounds of discussions in 2018, and the latest last month. But government spokesman Bandula Gunawardena said there’s been a “huge delay” and Sri Lanka is now determined to sign the agreement before the end... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
The Japanese government has agreed to provide USD 38 million to Sri Lanka for the purchase of fuel, mainly Diesel, in order to carry out uninterrupted essential and emergency health services in Sri Lanka. Cabinet spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena told the media today that the funds are being provided under the economic and social development program of Japan. He further said that thereby, a proposal has been submitted by the President, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, to make necessary arrangements to sign the agreement with the Japanese Government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena stated that Japan has decided to provide a grant of 38 million dollars to Sri Lanka to ensure the uninterrupted maintenance of essential and emergency health services. He stated this joining the press conference to announce the Cabinet decisions held at the Government Information Department.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
The Treasury has released a circular on the government's program for purchasing and distribution of paddy. The circular has been issued under the signature of the Treasury Secretary, K.M. Mahinda Siriwardena, on the direction of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policy. >The objective of the paddy purchase and disbursement program is to offer farmers a fair price for their paddy harvest in the 2022/2023 Maha season, procure any surplus paddy, and provide aid to low-income households affected by the ongoing economic challenges. District Secretaries... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
Postal Voting for the Local Government Election postponed indefinitely, National Election Commission announced. The Chairman of the National Election Commission had earlier announced that it will not be possible to distribute postal vote ballot papers for the Local Government polls, from tomorrow (15). Nimal G. Punchihewa made the announcement by informing the General Secretaries of all political parties in this regard. The Election Commission Chairman revealed that this was due to the Government Printers refusing to print ballot papers until due payments are made. Sri Lanka is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/02/23)
By Garvin Karunaratne
It all happened in the Bangladesh Secretariat, three days after General Ershard took over the country in a bloodless coup on the 24 th of March 1982. The Minister for Youth Development was clamped in prison and the work of the Ministry was in jeopardy. The third in command, Air Vice Marshall Aminul Islam, the Minister for Labour and Manpower evaluated the work done in the Ministry. Suddenly at the close, he realized that I was an outsider and inquired who I was and I was then introduced as the Commonwealth Fund Advisor to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
මුලින්ම, අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි ඝාතන තැත ගැන වදනක් - අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමි මරා දැමීමේ වෑයමින් උන්වහන්සේ බේරුනේ අප ජාතියේ පිනටය. උන්වහන්සේ බොහෝ පිං කර ඇත. නුලෙන් මෙවර බේරුනේ ඒ නිසාය. මෙම මහා ඝාතන තැත ගැන රටේ දේශපාලනඥයෝ මුනිවත රකිති. කිසිවෙක් එය හෙලා දැකීමක් වත් කර නැත. මාධ්යයද, සමාජ මාද්යය ඇතුළු, එය ප්රධාන පුවතක් සේ වාර්ථා නොකරයි. අප රට වැටී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය කුමක්ද? උන්වහන්සේ මිය ගියා නම් මේ රටේ නැවත ජාතිවාදී ගින්නක් හට ගැනීමට පවා ඉඩ තිබුණි. ඝාතකයන් නැවත මේ දේ කිරීමට අර අඳිනු ඇත. එහි කිසි සැකයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Ceylon Diary - SBPC Official Channel
GEOPOLITICAL CRISIS REPORT 2023-02-12 මෙම සාකච්චාව වයසට ගිය වැඩිහිටි කුඩා දරුවන් සඳහා නොවේ. සමුද්ර ආරක්ෂක කටයුතු පිලිබඳ විශ්ලේෂක ඉන්දික සහභණ්ධු මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. සිංහලේ දිනපොත යුටියුබ් - YouTube චැනලයේ වීඩියෝ සදහා කතෘ අයිතිය ලබාගෙන ඇති බැවින් ඒවා නැවත යුටියුබ් - YouTube ඔස්සේ පල කිරීමෙන් ඔබගේ යුටියුබ් - YouTube චැනලයට ප්රකාශන හිමිකම් අයිතිය(YouTube Copyright Strikes) ලැබිය හැකි බව කරුණාවෙන් සලකන්න. Since Ceylon Diary TV has obtained the copyright to YouTube channel's videos Please note that re-uploading them on YouTube gives you ''YouTube Copyright Strikes''.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
දැන හෝ නොදැන ලංකාවේ අගමැතිවරු/ජනාධිපතිවරු දමිළ බෙදුම්වාදයට ඉණිමං බැඳීම Link between the Indian Railway Zones and the 13-A? හැඳින්වීම කොමියුනිස්ට් ගොරිල්ලා නිදහස් සටනත්, භූමිපුත්ර දේශප්රේමී ව්යාපාරයත් නිසා මැලේසියා බ්රිතාන්ය කොලනිය හැර යාමට සිදුවූ දමිළයෙක් ලෙස චෙල්වනායගම් ලංකාවට ආවේ (1940s) දකුණු ඉන්දියානු පල්ලිය හරහාය. පසු කාලයක කුඹුරු පණතට විරුද්ධ වුනත්, ලංකාවේ මාක්ස්වාදී ව්යාපාරය ඔහුට ක්ෂේම භූමියක් විය. කොසොවෝ, පකිස්ථාන් බෙදුම්වාදී උපනතීන් දුටු ඔහු, 1921/23 කාලයේ අරුණාචලම් පොන්නම්බලම් විසින් ආරම්භකල දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී සටනට නව මුහුණුවරක් දුන්නේය. 1911 දී අරුණාචලම් විසින් මලබාර් ඉන්හැබිටන්ට් වෙනුවට ලංකා දෙමළ යයි ද්රවිඩ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Excerpted from volume two of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography Courtesy Island
Excerpted from volume two of Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography While tensions were rising between the two communities in 1978 I suggested to my Minister Wijetunga that we should visit the Jaffna peninsula for an inspection tour since Kokavil had a radio transmitter and the Japanese planners were proposing the erection of a TV transmitter also in the same location. Wijetunga was initially reluctant but after we did the preliminary planning he agreed to my proposal and was warmly commended by the President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ 75 වැනි නිදහස් සංවත්සරය සහ ජපාන ශ්රී ලංකා රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික සබඳතාවලට වසර 70 ක් සපිරීම නිමිතිකොටගෙන ජපාන තානාපති මිසුකොෂි හිදෙකි මහතා විසින් සීතාවක තෙත් කලාපීය උද්භිද උද්යානයේ රුක් පැළයක් රෝපණය කරන ලදී. අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී යදාමිණි ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහභාගී වූ මෙම අවස්ථාවට, ජපන් තානාපති කාර්යාල නිලධාරීන් සහ සීතාවක ජපන් භාෂා පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථානය පිහිට වූ සීමාසහිත ෂිමොකිකාකු සමාගමේ අධ්යක්ෂ හිරොයුකි ෂිමොතොරි ද එක්ව සිටියහ. අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
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ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ ක්රියාවලිය වේගවත් කිරීමට විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල් කරන්න - ඕමානයේ ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ ආයතන ඇමැති මනූෂගෙන් ඉල්ලයි විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය කඩිනමින් ඩිජිටල් කරනවා - මනූෂ සහතිකයක් දෙයි ඕමානයේ රැකියා සඳහා ශ්රී ලාංකික ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ දී ඇතිවන කාර්යපටිපාටි ම ය ප්රමාදයන් වළක්වා ගැනීම පිණිස, විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල් කිරීමට කඩිනම් පියවර ගන්නා ලෙසට, එරට සිටින ශ්රමිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමේ ආයතන ප්රධානීන් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර, ඒ සඳහා කඩිනම් පියවර ගන්නා බවට ඇමැතිවරයා සහතික විය. ඕමානයේ සිව් දින නිල සංචාරයක නිරත ව සිටින... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
By P. K. Balachandran Courtesy Eurasia Review
The majority Sinhalese community sees any further devolution to the Provinces as a pathway to the revival of Tamil separatism As part of measures to make devolution of power under the 13th. Amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution meaningful, the Tamils have suggested that the powers now vested with Provincial Governors be pruned, and more powers granted to the Provincial Boards of Ministers. But the majority Sinhalese community sees the Tamils’ demand for further devolution or any more dilution of the Center’s powers, as a pathway to the revival of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Courtesy The Hindustan Times
Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is still alive was quashed by Tamil nationalists and the Sri Lankan army
Velupillai Prabhakaran (REUTERS) Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is still alive was quashed by Tamil nationalists and the Sri Lankan army. On Monday, Nedumaran had said that Prabhakaran (who was reportedly shot dead by the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Courtesy FXEMPIRE
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Officials from China, India, Saudi Arabia and Group of Seven wealthy nations will participate in a first virtual meeting of a new sovereign debt roundtable on Friday, three sources familiar with the plans said on Monday. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Officials from China, India, Saudi Arabia and Group of Seven wealthy nations will participate in a first virtual meeting of a new sovereign debt roundtable on Friday, three sources familiar with the plans said on Monday. 71% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today
Last week, two vocal representatives of Tamil political opinion, Abraham Sumanthiran and C.V. Wigneswaran made statements rejecting implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution under the unitary system of government and demanded a federal system. Sumanthiran claimed that all the Tamil parties agree on a meaningful power-sharing arrangement on a federal basis and added that his party would not have talks with the Government until that issue is resolved. Wigneswaran, using stronger words, said Sri Lanka’s position is internationally weakening and the Tamils could get federal powers with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Approximately 3.9 million families in the country live expecting help from the government, and therefore, the government has decided to provide them with 10kg of rice each free of charge in the months of March and April, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said. Addressing the media, he said the government's paddy procurement program for 2023 for the Maha season has been designed to maximize benefits to farmers and minimize errors. The minister pointed out that it is the government's expectation to carry out the rice purchase program this year, in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Maritime resources on the Indian side of the sea have already been destroyed. We cannot allow further damage to our resourcesThe fisheries issue is a long standing irritant to bilateral ties between Sri Lanka and India In response to a proposal for the introduction of a license system for fishing in Sri Lankan waters to resolve the India - Sri Lanka fisheries crisis, Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda said he refused to allow the use of trawling nets no matter what . The Minister told Daily Mirror yesterday that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Sri Lanka’s external reserves surpassed two billion dollars in January, reflecting gradual improvement in the foreign exchange conditions in the domestic market which was made possible due to a slew of tightening measures and also due to the acceleration in the foreign currency inflows, recently. According to the latest data available, Sri Lanka ended January with US$ 2,120 million in foreign currency reserves, compared to US$ 1,898 million in December 2022. This includes however the US$ 1.4 billion equivalent Chinese Yuan denominated swap line which has limitations in its use. The recent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
US military doctrine was such that American soldiers have been sent to war & to invade nations even for bananas! This was called America’s Banana Wars that involved US troops sent to invade Central America, Mexico & the Caribbean from 1898-1934. US actually occupied 6 nations (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti & Honduras) & invaded Panama & Puerto Rico all to control fruits! The banana wars culminated in successive US invasions for numerous reasons. One US company stands out – the United Fruit Company. How could a company get a national... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Citti Media
Jeffrey Armstrong provides rare insights into the history of Euro-Christian colonialism + how Britain's $45 trillion India loot was sanctioned by the Church. https://youtu.be/9SvirZJPxI8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
මෙරට තරුණ තරුණියන්ට නොමිලේ ජපන් භාෂාව සහ ජපන් සංස්කෘතික අධ්යාපනය ලබාදීමේ අරමුණෙන් මත්සුරි (Mathsuri) ජපන් භාෂා කේන්ද්රය 2023.02.11 දින අවිස්සාවේල්ල සීතාවක දී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ ජපාන තානාපති මිෂූකෝෂී හිඩෙකී (Mizukoshi Hideaki) විසින් විවෘත කරනු ලැබීය.මෙම මධ්යස්ථානය කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික්කයේ තරුණ තරුණියන්ට බෙහෙවින් ප්රයෝජනවත් වනු ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්යවරයා ප්රකාශ කලේය.ජපානය සහ ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර පවතින මිත්රශීලී සබඳතා සහ සහයෝගීතාව තවදුරටත් ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකික තරුණ තරුණියන්ගේ ජපන් භාෂා දැනුම ශක්තිමත් වීමද හේතුවනු ඇතැයි මෙහිදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා අදහස් පළ කරමින් කියා සිටියේය.ජපන් භාෂා පුහුණු කේන්ද්රය සිතාවක ස්ථාපිත කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජපන් තානාපතිවරයාටත්, ආයතනය පිහිටුවීමට භාවිතයට නොගත් ගොඩනැගිල්ලක් ලබාදීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Dr Raoul McLaughlin
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Dr Raoul McLaughlin
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By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers
There are controversial arguments being speculated about the Tamils in Sri Lanka by uneducated misleads that Tamils lived on the island for more than 2000 to 3000 years. The truth has been erased, and to get their Thamil Eelam people have been lying all these years. All those who went on “Kallathoni” Boats; have forgotten their ideology. Why did they leave? Now they are shouting and hypnotising foreign politicians with various lies. The truth is as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
LankaWeb Editorial
As the Nation teeters on the brink of instability with post Covid after effects, power cuts food and fuel shortages and the burgeoning financial crises awaiting IMF sanctions towards resolution another major serious crisis seems to be looming on the horizon. According to the latest report - authorities in the Sri Lanka Health Sector and consequently the people of Sri Lanka could face a serious crisis within a few weeks, if shortages of medicines, surgical equipment, and chemicals used in labs, are not replenished and replaced now! This alarming disclosure has been made public... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැති සමගි ජන බලවේග ප්රචාරක රැලියකදී හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා විමසුවේ ‘සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහත්තය මිනී මරල තියෙනවද’ යනුවෙනි. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=682807090192735 ජන රැලියට පැමිණ සිටි ජනතාව කිහිපදෙනෙකු ‘ඔව්’ යැයි පිළිතුරු දුන්හ. ‘කවුද යකෝඔවු කිවුවෙ’ යයි මන්ත්රීවරයා වහා විමසීය. මේ දිනවල සේනසිංහ සමගි ජනබලවේල වේදිකාවේ ප්රධාන කථිකයකු ලෙස කටයුතු කරමින් රට වටා ජන හමු අමතමින් සිටී. https://fb.watch/iFa4rEPBjB/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
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2010 ජනාධිපතිවරණය ආසන්නයේ දී හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට දළදා මාලිගාවේ දියවඩන නිලමේ නිලංග දෑල බණ්ඩාර මහතා විසින් මාලිගාවේ මුදල් ලබා දුන් බවටත් මාලිගාවේ රත්තරං සහ ඉඩම් මංකොල්ලයක් සිදුව ඇති බවට එල්ලවන චෝදනා අසත්ය බව දුක හඳුනන අපි සංවිධානයේ නිලන්ත රණසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. එවන් ප්රකාශයක් සමාජ මාධ්යයට වීඩියෝවක් මුදාහැර ඇති නිහාල් ෆර්නැන්ඩො නැමැත්තා සිදු කළ ප්රකාශ පදනම් විරහිත බවත් ඔහු මානසික රෝගියෙකු බවත් ඔහු වහා අත්අඩංගුවට ගත යුතු බවත් හෙතෙම පැවසීය. ඔහු රුපියල් 5000 නෝට්ටු මිටි බැඳ 2010 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ලබාදුන් බවට සඳහන් කළත් ඒ වන විටත් රු5000 නෝට්ටු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, February 12: A section of Sri Lankan Tamil political parties has proposed that as part of measures to make devolution under the 13 th. Amendment (13A) of the constitution meaningful the powers vested with the Provincial Governor be pruned, and more powers granted to the Chief Minister and the Board of Ministers. Under pressure from India and Western countries, and also eying the North-Eastern Tamil vote in the 2024 Presidential election, Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe had declared that he would discuss with Tamil parties the implementation of the 13A and other issues relating... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
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‘If we want to get out of the situation we are in now,one option is… Greater integration with India and this is not just for the Northern Province, it’s for the whole of Sri Lanka.’ Former Central Bank Governor Indrajit oomaraswamy, Sangarapillai Memorial Address, 21 January 2023 ‘The most dangerous moment of WW2’ according to the English genocidaire & Prime Minister Winston Churchill, ‘the one which caused him the greatest alarm’, was the news that ‘the Japanese fleet was heading for Ceylon’ in 1942. Sri Lanka, under unrelenting siege for over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Attorney General has filed a revision application before the Colombo High Court seeking the nullification of the order issued by the Colombo Chief Magistrate to release the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) convenor Wasantha Mudalige from charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Mudalige was arrested on 22 August 2022, on charges filed under the PTA, and was released from these charges on January 31 after being detained for 162 days under the PTA, by Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis, on the grounds that the accused was not found to have committed any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry on Saturday said that China is a friend of his nation and the two countries will continue to work arm in arm. However, there is no need for India to be concerned as at no point will the island nation let the Indian interests be undermined, Ali Sabry said. Sri Lanka‘s strong relationship is part of its civilization and will not permit any activity that poses a threat to India’s internal security to happen on its soil, he added. MFA Ali Sabry was speaking to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the government officials to take the necessary measures to purchase a kilo of paddy at a guaranteed price of Rs. 100. The President further said that the Northern Province and Jaffna District will be developed as a province capable of supplying food to Sri Lanka, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. https://youtu.be/yYCXc47clb4 These remarks were revealed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe this morning (Feb. 12) while attending the Northern Province harvest ceremony at Paranthan in Jaffna, according to the PMD. The President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) says that the stocks of more than 140 types of essential drugs used for the treatment of patients have been exhausted. https://youtu.be/BjGxK554jTM Dr. Chamil Wijesinghe, the Media Spokesman of the GMOA, pointed out that the attention of the Ministry of Health should be directed in this regard. He also said that in view of this situation, the maintenance of health services of the entire hospital system, starting from the National Hospital to the rural hospitals, has confronted a severe challenge. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/02/23)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D
දැන හෝ නොදැන ලංකාවේ අගමැතිවරු/ජනාධිපතිවරු දමිළ බෙදුම්වාදයට ඉණිමං බැඳීම හැඳින්වීම මහජන චන්දයෙන් එක මන්ත්රී ආසනයක්වත් දිනා නොගෙන, රටේ ජනාධිපතිවී, 13 නමැති විෂඝෝර සර්පයාව සිය කලිසම් සාක්කුවේ ඔබාගෙන, විශේෂයෙන් රටේ බුදු අම්මෝ බෞද්ධයින්ට පුස්පාට් දමනලද පංචකන්ධයක් වශයෙන් රනිල් මහතා ඉතිහාසගත වනු ඇත. ඔහු කුවේණීගේ සාපය යනු කුමක්දැයි යමෙකුට සිහිපත් කරවයි. ප්රභාකරන් විසින් අනිත් අය මරා දැමීම නිසා ඉතිරිවීම නිසාම UNP පක්ෂයේ නායක කම ඔහුගේ ඔඩෝක්කුවට වැටුනේය. ඔහු විසින් 2023 දී මේ කරගෙන යන්නේ 1948 දී ප්රථම අගමැති D. S. සේනානායක මහතා ගේ සිටම, ධර්මපාලතුමා විසින් රට අතහැර බුද්ධගයාවට යාමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
TED RALL Courtesy The Unz Review
Though their number is steadily dropping, especially among Republicans, most Americans support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. I have a question for you pro-Ukraine peeps: Imagine you were Russian President Vladimir Putin just shy of a year ago. What would you have done in his place? Putin faced an impossible situation. He knew that an invasion would bring Western sanctions and international opprobrium. Staying out of Ukraine, however, would weaken Russia’s geopolitical position and his political standing. Caught in an updated version of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1979 “Afghan Trap,” he acted like... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Courtesy Global Research
After the Russiagate Hoax, the Covid hoax, and the Insurrection hoax, We now Have the Chinese Spy Balloon Hoax According to Washington and the media, China sent a balloon that the Pentagon said “could” be loaded with explosives to spy on America. A top general said that similar balloons have entered US airspace undetected before. The balloon is huge–200 feet tall weighing in excess of a couple thousand pounds. So if such a large object can enter our airspace undetected, does this mean far smaller ICBMs can also? Do understand that what... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව
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ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල ජනතාව පරිනාමය වන්නේ දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් බවට උතුරු පළාත් හිටපු මහ ඇමැති සී.වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් සිදුකළ ප්රකාශය පිළිබදව මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේව මහතා අදහස් දක්වා ඇත. ඒ අනුව විග්නේෂ්වරන් සදහන් කරන ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මුල් පදිංචිකරුවන් වූ දෙමළ ජනතාව කතාකර ඇත්තේ සිංහල භාෂාවය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
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The government insisted that only 2.6 percent of Sri Lanka’s total workforce of 4.64 million are subjected to the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) income tax, with nearly half of the labour force receiving a less than Rs.30,000 monthly salary. “The country’s workforce consists of 4,645,572 people. Forty-eight percent of the labour force or 2,231,620 people receive a less than Rs.30,000 salary monthly. Only 120,965 persons or 2.6 percent of the labour force, who are earning over Rs.100,000 per month, are subjected to the PAYE tax,” Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyabalapitiya told Parliament yesterday. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe has claimed that the attitude and commitment of the people of Sri Lanka also plays a role in the economic development of the island nation. Speaking at an event held in Jaffna yesterday (10 Jan.), which focused on the issues faced by those in the Northern Province, Wickremesinghe stated that the rate of Sri Lanka’s economic development depends depends on the attitude and commitment of the people. He said this while acknowledging that the Northern Province had made extensive contributions to the national economy prior to the War, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
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An initial shipment of 600 metric tons of fortified rice funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) arrived in Sri Lanka last week to support the Government of Sri Lanka’s national school meal program. Through ongoing initiatives as well as new funding and food shipments, the United States is working with the Government of Sri Lanka, the WFP, and other partners to address these needs, the US embassy in Colombo said in a press release. According to a Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission report by the UN’s World Food... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
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The Court of Appeal has refused a petition by the Public Utilities Commission requesting that the CEB be ordered to provide an uninterrupted supply of electricity during the Advanced Level examination. The petition was refused by the court prior to any consideration. That petition was reconsidered today before the bench of Judges Sobitha Rajakaruna and Dhammika Ganepola. In the petition, the Public Utilities Commission had stated that the parents have complained that the students sitting for the exam are in distress due to power cuts. Therefore, it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/02/23)
Aloysius Hettiarachchi
Given below is a link to an experiment conducted recently on the above subject based on modern science and engineering which might be interesting. This explains how energy used in preparing the western medicines out of elements and minerals gives away that energy in the form of electro-magnetic waves of high frequency to cure ailments by preventing the growth of harmful organisms. But is this not what our ancestors (and those Rishies meditating under trees in Himalayan Forests) found out instinctively and concocted the solutions for same ailments?. It would be more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Sarath Wijesinghe Presidents’ Counsel, former Ambassador to Israel and UAE, Solicitor England and Wales, president Ambassador’s Forum
Time is precious and cannot be regained Time is precious that cannot be regained once spent except pleasant or unpleasant memories. Sweat does not mean that the sweat on hard labour. Sweat is time taken with body as well as mind which is valuable to you and the world over. Some work with blood sweat and tears for his livelihood and that of others with great sacrifice, which is valued on currency today in the fast developing modern society,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
1987 ඉන්දු - ලංකා ගිවුසුම මඟින් JR ජයවර්ධන 13 හඳුන්වා දුන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ දැඩි බලපෑම නිසා යයි කීම හුදු නිදහසට කරුණක් පමණි. දක්ෂ, එඩිතර ශ්රී ලාංකික නායකයෙකුට ඉන්දියාවට බැහැ කීමට අයිතිය තිබේ, සහ පිට කොන්දක් තිබේ. 1956 බැන්ඩුන් සමුළුවේදී සර් ජෝන් කොතලාවල වේගවත් කථාවක් කර හිඳ ගත් විට නේරු තුමා ඔහුගෙන් විමසුවේ තමාට ඒ කථාව කලින් නොකීවේ ඇයිදැයි කියාය. ‘මට කලින් කථා කල ඔබතුමාගේ කථාව ගැන ඔබතුමා මට නොකීවේ ඇයි’ දැයි සර් ජෝන් කොතලාවල මහතා පෙරලා නේරු තුමාගෙන් සිනහවෙන් ඇසීය. නේරු තුමා නිරුත්තර විය ("I have never met a more arrogant man than Mr. Nehru” යයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
දේශපාලනය ඉතා ගැඹුරු විෂයකි. මෙහිදී දැනුම, වචන හා අවිආයුධ බාවිතය අනිවාර්ය අංගයකි. දැනුම හා වචන බාවිතා කරමින් ජාතික දේශපාලනය කරමින් සිටි මිනිසුන්ව නිරුත්තර බාවයට පත් කරන ලද්දේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයාය.ඔහුගේ කාලය තුලදී ඔහු ගෝඨාභයගේ චරිතයට පණ පොවනවා වෙනුවට සිරිසඟබෝ චරිතයට පණ පෙවිමට යාම නිසා ඔහුට චන්දය දුන් සියල්ලන්ම අතරමං කළහ. ඒ සිදුකල වරදට ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම මෙරට ජනතාව තුල ඇත්තේ දැඩි කලකිරීමකි. රට හදන්නට අවැසි නීති නැත්නම් නීති හදපන් කියලා 2/3 ක පාර්ලිමෙන්තුවක්ද ජනතාව ඔහුට ලබාදුන්නේ විශාල බලාපොරොත්තු කන්දරාවක්ද සමගින්ය.ගෝඨාභය මිලින්ද මොරගොඩව ඉන්දීය මහා කොමසාරිස් බවට පත්කිරීමත් සමග, ඔහුත් දිරච්ච ලනුකාලා නොව ගිලලා දේශපාලනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
විපතට පත් තුර්කි ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් මානුෂීය ආධාර ලබාදීම පිළිබඳව විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ උපදෙස් මත අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් 2023.02.09 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. රාජ්ය ආයතන, රාජ්ය නොවන ආයතන හා පෞද්ගලික අංශය එක්ව මේ මොහොතේ තුර්කි ජනතාවට ලබාදිය හැකි අත්යවශ්ය මූලික පහසුකම් හා ශ්රම දායකත්වය පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා විය. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානුෂීය මෙහෙයුම් පිළිබඳ පුහුණුව ලත් වෛද්ය, ඉංජිනේරු ඇතුළු හමුදා බලඇණියක් තුර්කි ජනතාවගේ සහායට කඩිනමින් යැවීමටත්, රජයේ හා පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ නිෂ්පාදන තුර්කියට යැවීමටත් එහිදී සැලසුම් කරනු ලැබීය. අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් යුත් කමිටුවක් හරහා මෙම වැඩපිළිවෙළ ක්රියාත්මක කෙරේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
උතුරු සහ නැගෙනහිර සිංහල බෞද්ධ උරුමය උපුටා ගැනීම- Rathanasara Podi Hamuduruwo
වර්තමානයේ නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ තත්වය මෙසේ නම්, 13 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය බලාත්මක වූ පසු තත්ත්වය කොතරම් භයානක වේදැයි ඔබම සිතන්න. උපුටා ගැනීම- Rathanasara Podi Hamuduruwo https://www.facebook.com/groups/339320087007156/permalink/1217195242552965/?mibextid=S66gvF... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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‘Senator Cruz, like you I am and I think the administration is very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.’ – Victoria Nuland, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 26, 2023 – ‘Now as we see a genuine shift of power from West to East and to Asia and then Africa, that shift of power must... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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From the Andaman to the Red Seas, from Myanmar to Djibouti, preaching ‘peace’ and buzzing about reconciliation, the US & EU are igniting wars all around us. White America’s continuing Indian Wars. Wars not to be won or lost but to be daily waged. This truth will not flicker on tv or twitter on the net… The IMF keeps stalling to grab assets in a fire sale while dividing the country. Weakening fiscal and fuel and food and health security to undermine our territorial and political sovereignty, did not begin recently. Welcome to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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What is the relationship between the 19th-century origins of the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) and the Oriental Bank Corporation (OBC). The BoC & OBC were first set up by the English to exploit Sri Lanka’s recently stolen lands and impose the coffee plantations,. Their HR (Human Resources, ahem) expertise was based on American (yes, this term includes the Caribbean) chattel slavery. The OBC in 1863 effected ‘the largest transfer of property ever in Ceylon’. The OBC later lent 500,000 silver dollars in 1868 to the Japanese government‘to finance its path of modernization’, to industrialization,as ee reported last week. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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The International Monetary Fund said its approval for a $2.9 billion loan to bail out crisis-riddled Sri Lanka will depend on the island nation securing assurances on debt relief from its bilateral creditors. “Sri Lanka continues to engage with official bilateral creditors to obtain financing assurances and also continues to advance domestic reforms,” an IMF spokesperson said in a statement on the progress of its Extended Fund Facility to the South Asian nation. https://youtu.be/W0RE4zl02UM “As soon as adequate assurances are obtained and remaining requirements are met, including by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, today (Feb. 10) announced the list of MPs who were nominated to serve in the Committee on Public Finance in the fourth session of the Ninth Parliament. The nominations were made by the Committee of Selection. The MPs have been selected to serve in the Committee on Public Finance, in terms of the provisions of the Standing Order 121 of Parliament and the motion agreed to by Parliament today. The COPF nominations are as follows: • Vidura Wickramanayaka• Nalin Fernando• Shehan Semasinghe•... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe says he will ensure that maximum state support is provided to safeguard Theravada Buddhism to pass it on to future generations and spread it globally. He also emphasized the importance of translating the series of books that were translated into Sinhala, into English, German, French and Spanish and pointed out that by doing so, Theravada Buddhism could be spread to Western countries as well President Wickremesinghe also mentioned that the necessary provisions can be allocated through the Ministry of Buddhasasana. Further, the Head of State pointed out... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
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A large delegation from China, including officials from the Chinese government, provincial governments and other companies, is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka next month. Accordingly, the delegation will be visiting the island nation in search of new investment opportunities, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong confirmed.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Courtesy Hiru News
The CID has started an investigation after disclosing an incident of taking secret video footage threatening the life of the Governor of the North Western Province, Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karnnagoda. That was according to a complaint made by the Governor to the Inspector General of Police. The Governor's official residence is located in Kurunegala, the road leading from the Governor's office in Kurunagala to the official residence as well as the backup vehicle were filmed by a certain group, and the video footage was given to the Governor by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
“Some people’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”. What good is a justice system when the law & lawyers also twist the facts & try to manipulate clauses to the advantage of agendas. Fiorito has mixed heritage. His father is an Italian Canadian whose family migrated to Canada in late 1880s while his mother is an Indian-Estate Tamil, belonging to indentured labourers imported from South India by Colonials to work on plantations in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Canada in late 1970s. Fiorito himself was born in Canada in 1982. So Fiorito, has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
By Garvin Karunaratne
My craze for motoring in the forsaken neglected Sinhala areas where poor unequipped buddhist monks struggle to guide the people following the dictat of Lord Buddha: “Charita Bhikkae Charikan Mahajana Hitaya, Sukhaya" took me this time to Sandamal Eliya, five miles before one reaches Tanmtirimale. Tantirimale is a rock temple where there is a reclining Buddha statue carved on living rock like at Polonnaruwa. Tantririmale was within the domination of the LTTE for years. Sandamal Eliya is run by Venerable Viharegama Sangarakkhita , a pupil of the chief monk at Tantirimale who was killed by the LTTE cadres. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Courtesy ShiaTV
IMF and World Bank policies are opening national markets to US-dominated \"multinational corporations\" effectively destroying the homegrown economy of poor countries all over the world from Latin America to Africa to Asia. The program was essentially about enriching a few ruling. Money Trail | IMF & World Bank: Two major levers of US economic hegemony - English - ShiaTV.net... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Malinda Seneviratne
There are some uncomfortable truths about the 13th Amendment, devolution of power and of course provincial councils. Let’s begin with the here-and-now. Provincial Council elections haven’t been held in years. It is more than 10 years since the Eastern Provincial Council elections were held and more than nine since they were held for the Northern Provincial Council. Did the people in the Northern and Eastern provinces complain? Did their representatives complain? Did any who have screamed for devolution for the last forty years raise even a whimper? Did those who make... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Dilrook Kannangara
JVP was the last of the Sinhala political parties to accept 13A and provincial councils in 1999. By then UNP, SLMP, SLMC, EPRLF, SLFP and PA had succumbed to the 13A honeypot. It was a wise decision of the JVP to at last embrace the inevitable. 13A has no benefits for the nation; it adds more expenses, corruption and waste to national coffers and facilitates separatism. However, in the absence of a truly patriotic political party in the country, paying lip service to national unity while enjoying the benefits of provincial councils is the norm. JVP... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Courtesy Teheran Times
At times of natural disasters, countries actually set aside differences with the foes and extend a helping humanitarian hand. But the United States and its Western allies have refused to assist the Syrian government even as it faces one of the worst natural disasters in more than a century. Syria has already faced 12 years of war waged by foreign-backed militants and terrorists as well as sanctions that have ravaged the Arab country. Over the past years, Damascus has also seen large chunks of its oil, estimated at more... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Manusha Media
ඕමානයේ සුරක්ෂා නිවාසයන්හි රැඳී සිටින කාන්තාවන් 59 දෙනා මෙරටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේ නෛතික ගැටලු කිහිපයක් ඇති බවත්, කාර්ය මණ්ඩල අඩුපාඩු ඇතත් එකී ගැටලු විසඳාගත් සැනෙන් ඔවුන්ව ලංකාවට එවීමට කටයුතු කරන බවත්, ඒ සඳහා ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ද අනුමැතිය ලැබී ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවැසීය. දැනට ක්රියාත්මක මිනිස් ජාවාරම මැඩලීමට ගත හැකි උපරිම රාජ්යතාන්ත්රික ක්රියාමාර්ග ක්රියාවට නැංවීම සහ මෙරට පුහුණු වෘත්තිකයන් සඳහා ඕමානයේ වැඩි රැකියා අවස්ථා ප්රමාණයක් විවෘත කර ගැනීමේ මූලික අරමුණු ඇති ව ඕමානයේ සිව් දින නිල සංචාරයක නිරතව සිටින අමාත්යවරයා ඕමානයේ සුරක්ෂා නිවාසයේ රැඳී සිටින කාන්තාවන් හමුවී, ඔවුන්ගේ ගැටලු සොයා බැලීමෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa through a lawyer today claimed for sum of Rs. 17.85 million recovered from the President's House on 9th July. However, Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage rejected the application citing police are yet to conclude the investigations.(Lakmal Sooriyagoda) ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Former Minister and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna National Organizer Basil Rajapaksa said that he is ready to give up his US citizenship if the dual citizenship was an obstacle to his future political activities. He told a television political program that not only the dual citizenship, but he is also ready to remove any other legal obstacle to work for the people. He said the people of the country should decide whether he succeeded or failed. He said he has a great responsibility at this time, in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Claiming that the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has granted special electricity tariff reduction to Housing Apartment Complexes than normal domestic units, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said today that electricity could be provided to normal domestic units at concessionary rates if the special relief granted to Housing Apartments was withdrawn. The Minister told Parliament that the eletricity tariff charged from Housing Apartment complexes were 50% lesser than the tariffs charged from normal housing units and raised doubts as to why the PUCSL has allowed such special relief to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has taken a torch which is burning from both side by trying to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Former President Maithripala Sirisena said today. He said he wondered why Ranil Wickremesinghe was trying to implement this controversial 13A when the country was facing serious issues. Mr. Sirisena said none of the former Presidents such as JR Jayawardane who introduced the 13A, Ranasinghe Premadasa, D.B. Wijetunge, Chandrika Bandaranaike, Mahinda Rajapaksa, or himself ever attempted to implement it. He said it was not an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has urged all persons to be vigilant of the security of the details of their bank cards, owing to the recent rise in financial scams. Accordingly, CBSL warned all persons to refrain from sharing their usernames, passwords, PIN numbers, One Time Passwords (OTP), Card Verification Values (CVV) and other details related to their bank accounts, with any other third parties.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Country Representative for Sri Lanka, Dr. Nadeem Ul Haque says that the Sri Lankan government needs to take steps to ensure efficiency when it plots the way forward for the country and cut down on the number of subsidies given to the public as well. He made these remarks while speaking during a panel discussion ‘At HydePark on Ada Derena 24’. Joining the panel discussion, Economist Dr. Tissa Jayaweera added that even though economic experts like to call for ‘debt forgiveness’ it is not something that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
Sri Lanka’s Tamils are dreaming if they think India will help create Tamil Eelam with 13A land & police powers. It is time that Sri Lanka’s Tamils wake up to reality. At the time of India’s independence, Tamil Nadu sought self-determination, Indian leaders refused, subsequently even Bangladesh was given independence but not Tamil Nadu. Indian leaders squashed every movement in Tamil Nadu for separatism culminating in 16thamendment in 1963 to prevent Tamil Nadu from seceding. Inspite of 72million Tamils, not a word of Tamil is in the Indian National anthem though Tamil is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
By Rohana R. Wasala
Two stalwarts of the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, Dr Harini Amarasuriya MP and Mr Tilvin Silva, JVP General Secretary, as reported in the media early February 2023, have made more or less clear the alliance’s stand on the full implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (suggested by the president): the NPP is broadly for it. But both Amarasuriya and Silva are not convinced of president Ranil Wickremasinghe’s actual commitment to his decision to fully implement the controversial amendment. They both express misgivings about president Wickremasinghe’s real intentions in bringing up... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
By Dr Tilak S Fernando
After Harin Fernando, Minister of Tourism and Lands took over the portfolio, he appointed a new team to improve tourism. The new team's efforts have paid off. Sri Lanka Tourism Board is confident that the estimated 1.55 million tourists will arrive in Sri Lanka, adding an income of 2.8 billion dollars to government coffers by the end of 2023. Sri Lanka Tourism Board and Tourism Promotions Board should take into a video how a lady and gentleman explained in detail which are listed below. Valid points The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
It is important to understand that terrorism was only part of the problem. The bigger problem is the issue of attempts to separate Sri Lanka, a quest started by ITAK from 1949 onwards. ITAK or Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi translated meant Tamil State party but camouflaged quest as federal. Its aims & objectives & the use of “shamasthi” was promoted as federal. Yet, in 2008, ITAK changed “shamasthi” to “innaipachchi” & we connote that to mean confederal. Also at the same convention in 2008, ITAK went on to endorse the 1976 Vaddokoddai... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
කාලෙකට පෙර මෙරට ජනතාව හදුනාගෙන සිටි ප්රථම ඝනයේ ජාතික සතුරා රනිල් වික්රමසිංහයන් විය. ඔහුගෙන් රට බේරා ගැනීම සඳහා මෙරට දේශප්රේමී ජනතාව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂයන්ව බලයට පත්කළහ. ඒ වර්ෂ 2005දිය. බලය ලබාගත් මහින්ද මෙරට තිබුන බලවත්ම ගැටලුව වූ ප්රභාකරන්ගේ සන්නද්ධ ව්යාපාරය විනාශ කොට උතුර හා දකුණ ඒකාබද්ධ කොට නව ශ්රී ලංකාවක් ගොඩනංවන ලදී. රනිල් පිටුපස සිට රනිල්ව මෙරට ජනතාවට එරෙහිව මෙහෙයවූ බලවේග රනිල්ව මදකට නවතා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සහය ඇතුළුව සියලුම බටහිර වන්දනා කරමින් ඒ මත යපෙන සියලුම දේශපාලන සංවිධානවල සහය රටේ කීර්තිමත් චරිතයක්වූ සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතාට ලබාදෙමින්, මහින්ද හා සටන මෙහෙයවුහ. සරත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum Solicitor in England and Wales
NHS in the United Kingdom- a wonderful system NHS is the health system in the United Kingdom provided free to the citizens with a network of General Physicians to every citizen with a support staff, including the improvement and protection of health in the areas covered by the general physicians spread in the country. It is provided free to every citizen free medicine to those who are on income support, aged, low income groups and those declared by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
acTVism Munich
In this episode of The Source, we talk with Professor Emeritus of Economics (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, about the economic impact of the Ukraine war. We assess the impact of Western sanctions on Russia as well as how the war has affected the West economically. Interview topics: 0:00 Introduction 0:32 "Economic War" with Russia? 12:01 Moral significance of Western sanctions 14:20 Economic impact on the United States 21:07 Economic impact of military spending 32:21 Economic impact on Ukraine ABOUT RICHARD D. WOLFF: Richard D. Wolff is the founder... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.02.08 දින කොළඹ ටාජ් සමුද්රා හෝටලයේ දී ඉන්දියානු අලෙවි නියෝජිතවරුන් පන්සියය පනස් දෙනෙකුගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් පැවැති tata steel සහ tata tiscon ගනුදෙනුකරුවන්ගේ වාර්ෂික සමුළුවේ සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ඉන්දියානු සාගරය හරහා වැටී ඇති ගෝලීය මුහුදු වෙළෙඳ මාර්ග ඔස්සේ යුරෝපය උතුරු ඇමරිකාව සහ අග්නිදිග ආසියාව වෙත බොරතෙල් මෙන්ම වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩ ප්රවාහනය කරන අතර එමගින් තවත් බොහෝ ආර්ථික ප්රතිලාභ අත්වන බව අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මෙහිදී පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. පෘථිවියෙන් 7% ක ප්රමාණයක් ආවරණය කෙරෙන ඉන්දියානු සාගරය ලෝකයේ තෙවන විශාලතම සාගරය බැවින් ඉන්දියානු සාගර කලාපීය මිත්ර රටවල් දෙකක් වශයෙන් එහි ප්රතිලාභ රටවල් දෙක විසින්ම ලබා ගත යුතු බව අග්රාමාත්යවරයා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi
Sri Lanka and New Zealand explored ways and means to further strengthen and deepen cooperation between the two countries. The discussions took place when Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Milinda Moragoda met with the Foreign Minister of New Zealand Nanaia Mahuta who is on an official bilateral visit to India. The meeting between the visiting Foreign Minister of New Zealand and the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India was held today at the High Commission of New Zealand in New Delhi. The discussion focussed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
භූතානයේ අධ්යාපන හා නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන අමාත්ය ජායි බීර් රායි මහතා 2023.02.07 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවී ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සබඳතා, ආයෝජන හැකියාව සහ කලාපීය ගැටලු පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කළේය. දෙරට අතර ඓතිහාසික ආගමික සහ සංස්කෘතික සබඳතා ගැන සඳහන් කළ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා වෙළෙඳ, ආයෝජන සහ සංචාරක ව්යාපාරය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමේ අවශ්යතාව අවධාරණය කළේය. ප්රමුඛ පෙළේ විශ්වවිද්යාලවල වෛද්ය, ඉංජිනේරු, තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ සහ අනෙකුත් පාඨමාලා හැදෑරීමට භූතාන සිසුන්ට ශිෂ්යත්ව ලබා දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ස්තුතිය පුද කළ අමාත්යවරයා යුනෙස්කෝ ආධාර ඇතිව ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පිහිටුවා ඇති දකුණු ආසියාතික ගුරු අධ්යාපන සංවර්ධන මධ්යස්ථානය වෙත භූතාන ගුරුවරුන් සහ අධ්යාපනඥයන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A circular has been issued by the Inland Revenue Department exempting employees from paying PAYE tax on non-cash benefits such as for vehicles, fuel allowances, housing and medical benefits which have been provided to employees at their places of employment. This circular has been issued by the Commissioner General of Inland Revenue Department on the instruction of the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies yesterday. The circular calculates an employee’s gains and profits from January 01, 2023 and below is the full list of details.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Ceylon Today
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said an Anti-Corruption Bill will be introduced and the Government is taking steps to include the ‘Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR)’ in this Bill, together with the World Bank and the United Nations. “The strategy of the government should be to guide the private sector in business activities, while being in the background. Government should intervene only in areas such as monitoring functions, public facilities and maintenance of law and order. The private sector should be used as the driving force of the economy.” He ceremonially commenced the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Ceylon Today
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said new laws will be introduced for the implementation of powers of the Provincial Councils in the fields of education and health. “It is alleged that due to certain practices of the Central Government, the powers of the Provincial Councils have been reduced in the fields of education and health. Therefore, we envision bringing new laws regarding the implementation of powers of the Provincial Councils in these fields.” President Ranil Wickremesinghe ceremonially commenced the Fourth Session of Ninth Parliament this morning. Delivering the Government’s Policy Statement,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
උපුටාගැණීම මව්බිම
9 වන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිව්වන සභා වාරය මීට සුළු මොහොතකට පෙර උත්සවාකාරයෙන් ආරම්භ විය. ඒ, ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙනි. 9 වන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුන්වන සභා වාරය අවසන් කරමින් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනය නිකුත් කළේ ඉකුත් ජනවාරි 27 වන දා ය. ඒ අනුව, මේ වන විට ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්රතිපත්ති ප්රකාශය ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලබමින් සිටියි. එහි සජීවී දර්ශන පහතින් නරඹන්න… https://youtu.be/L_i6sIwAUWM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, delivering the government’s policy statement in parliament today, said he is ready to make politically unpopular decisions, such as introducing new tax policies, to put the country back on track. “I am not here to be popular. I am ready to make unpopular decisions for the sake of the country. People will realize the importance of these decisions in two to three years.” The Head of State, who arrived in Parliament earlier this morning, inaugurated the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament at 10:00 a.m. After he delivered the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Several teams of military personnel have been deployed within the Colombo Fort area, to help control the prevailing situation in the wake of various groups taking to the streets this morning (08 Feb.) to stage protest marches and rallies. A number of protests kicked off this morning, with different groups, including trade union activists, employees of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), the Maha Sangha and Government Executives, taking to the streets based on several issues including the new tax policy and the 13th Amendment.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policy, has instructed the Treasury Secretary to provide provisions only for essential government services. The directive was issued in an attempt to maintain public services until the state revenue situation improves. Accordingly, the list of expenditure to be funded includes salaries, debt servicing, pensions, medical supplies for hospitals, subsidies for low-income groups, scholarships, farmers’ pensions, school nutrition programs, payments for war heroes and disabled soldiers, utility payments, food supplies for hospitals and prisons, and others. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Attorney General (AG) has informed the Court of Appeal that the Cabinet of Ministers has decided not to implement the recommendations of the Political Victimisation Commission, which was chaired by former Justice Upali Abeyratne. AG Sanjay Rajaratnam had informed the court of this, when the petitions filed by a group of individuals including President Ranil Wickremesinghe and MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake were taken up today (Feb. 08). The petitions had been filed requesting the court to issue a writ order quashing the panel’s recommendations against them and also seeking an interim... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/23)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
KS Sivakumaran in his book “Sri Lankan Tamil literature and culture” (2019) wrote of the evolution of an indigenous Tamil literature of Sri Lanka. Prior to this, in 2015, the “Annasi and Kadalagotu festival” had a session “Tamil footprint in Sri Lanka literature”, focusing on Tamil writers writing in Sri Lanka. In 1990, LeRoy Robinson interviewed Sivakumaran on Tamil writing for Nagasaki University.” Mavata", a Sinhala literary magazine, published in the 1970s and 80s, edited by Piyal Somaratne, had dedicated a whole issue, its 46th, to Tamil literature in Sri Lanka. Sivakumaran said that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/23)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D
Balkanization of India (plan since 1800s) Source: Malhotra and Neelakandan (2012) ඉතිහාසය කන්නද? ජනවාරි 27 දා ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග මන්ත්රීවරයා වීසින් කල අභියෝගය නිසා පරලවූ රනිල් ජනාධිපතිතුමා නොසිතූවිරූ ලෙස දේශපාලන පඹගාලක පැටලී සිටී. ඔහුගේ තර්ක පුස්ස බින්ඳාක් වැනි දෙඩවිලි විය. සිංහල නායක කළු සුද්දන් විසින් කරන්න පොරොන්දුවී නොකරපු (නීතිපොතේ ඇති අකර්මණ්ය/මිය ගිය නීති) දේවල් කෙතරම්ද? 13-A+ ගැන නහයෙන් අඬන ජනාධිපතිට 9 වගන්තියට යන කලදසාව ගැන බොරුවටවත් මතක් වුනාද? මේ කඩිමුඩියේ දැන් දිනේෂ් අගමැතිටත් බුද්ධ ශාසන කොමිෂන් වාර්තා (1955->) හා උඩරට ගැමි පුනරුත්ථාපන කොමිෂන් වාර්තාව (1951) මතක්වී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
මන්නාරම මුරුන්කන්හි නරි කාඩු සිංහල ගම්මානය සිංහල වැසියන් ජීවත්වෙන ගම්මානයකි, මෙහි බොහෝ සිංහල අය පාරම්පරිකව එම ප්රදේශයේ ජීවත් වූ අයයි. ඒ අය දෙමල කථා කරති. දෙමළ නොදන්නා සිංහලයෝද මේ ගමේ ජීවත් වෙති. ප්රභාකරන් විසින් උතුරෙන් සිංහලයන් එළවීමේ ත්රස්තවාදී වැඩපිළිවෙල යටතේ මෙම ගමේ බොහෝ දෙනෙක් උතුර අත් හැර උතුරු මැද පලාතට ගියහ. 2009 යුද්ධය අවසන් වීමෙන් පසු මේ සිංහලයන්ගෙන් සමහරෙක් ආපසු නරි කාඩු ගම්මානය වෙත ආහ. මෙම ගමට වැදුණු තදබල පහරක් වුයේ ගමේ ළමුන් පාසැල් ගිය මඩු පාර සිංහල මහා විද්යාලය විග්නේස්වරන්ගේ උතුරු පළාත් සභාව විසින් 2018දී වසා දැමීමයි. එය වසර ගණනාවක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
බංග්ලාදේශයේ සහ නේපාලයේ විදේශ අමාත්යවරුන් වන ආචාර්ය ඒ.කේ. අබ්දුල් මොමන් සහ ආචාර්ය බිමලා රායි පෞද්යාල් 75 වැනි නිදහස් සංවත්සරයට සහභාගි වීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකාවට පැමිණ සිටින අතරවාරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී හමුවිය.දකුණු ආසියාවේ කලාපීය සහයෝගීතාවයේ වැදගත්කම අමාත්යවරුන් දෙදෙනාම මෙහිදි අවධාරණය කළේය. දකුණු ආසියාතික රටවලට එකිනෙකාගේ අත්දැකීම්වලින් පාඩම් ඉගෙන ගත හැකි බව පෙන්වා දුන් ඔවුහු දකුණු ආසියානු කලාපීය සහයෝගීතා සංගමයේ (සාර්ක්) දැනට පවතින අවහිරතා සමීප සහයෝගීතාවයට බාධා පමුණුවන බව පෙන්වා දුන්හ.නේපාල විදේශ අමාත්ය ආචාර්ය පෞද්යාල් දෙරට අතර ඓතිහාසික ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික සබඳතා ගැන සඳහන් කළ අතර, බුදුන් උපන් ස්ථානයට පැමිණෙන බෞද්ධයන් විශාල සංඛ්යාවකට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has the potential to establish the green economy, specially by way of renewable energy, said President Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing a High-Level event on Strategies and Actions to Accelerate Sri Lanka’s Transition to a Green Growth Pathway. He said further that the Sri Lankan Government prepared a Natural Adaption Plan and National Environment Action Plan to ensure a green economy and a better world by 2050. The event, held at the Hilton Colombo this morning (06), was organized by the Ministry of Environment and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/23)
By Sena Thoradeniya
On January 8 supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil invaded and pillaged Brazil’s Presidential Palace known as Planalto Palace regarded as a national treasure, designed by a modernist architect, along with the Congress building and Supreme Federal Courts. Protester’s shattered glass and burnt iconic furniture, ripped floors, broke windows and doors, vandalised priceless paintings and other art works, defaced portraits, decapacitated sculptures, all pieces of national heritage, scrawled graffiti across facades of buildings calling for a military intervention to remove the elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
Sugath Kulatunga
The obnoxious 13th Amendment to the Constitution has surfaced again with the announcement by the President that 13A should be fully implemented, which also implies the remerger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces. His argument is that the provisions on police and land powers have been in the Constitution for the last 37 years and should be either implemented or taken off. The President should explain why this controversial issue is being raised at a time when the nation is desperately fighting an economic crisis. He did not take up this subject for over 3 decades,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
පළමුව, විශේෂ දෙයක් - වසර 36ක ඇවෑමෙන්, දැන් - 2023, 13 පුර්ණ කර ඒ මඟින් ශ්රී ලංකාව නියතව දෙකට කඩන TNA මර උගුලට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිටින සියළු සිංහල ප්රධාන පක්ෂ (ජවිපෙද ඇතුළු) එකඟ වී ඇති බවයි පෙනෙන්නට තිබෙන්නේ. අනාගත ජනාධිපතිවරණයකදී ද්රවිඩ චන්ද (20%), තම ගොඩට දමා ගත හොත් තම ජය නියතයයි සෑම ප්රධානම සිංහල දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක්ම සිතයි. ඒ නිසයි අද සැවොම ඉඩම්, පොලිස් බලතල උතුරු නැගෙනහිරට ලබා දිය යුතු යයි කියා අත ඔසවන්නේ. සිංහලයා ඉතා දුර්වල නිසා කිසි බියක් නැතිව ඔවුහු මේ දේ කරති. ඉඩම් සහ පොලිස් බලතල උතුරට සහ නැගෙනහිරට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
නිහඞතාව අගය කළ බුදුන්ට මුනින්දා කීමුත් ඒ අගය කළ නිහඞතාව මේඝයක් සේ සිඳ බිඳ දමමින් නිහඞතායේ මියුරුහඞ පරයා ශබ්ද දූෂණය උපරිම කළ යකඩ කටින් එන පිරිත් හඞ පන්සල් භූමියටත් එහා ගිගුම් දෙයි පහන් සංවේගය මොට කරමින් ආගම තරඟයක් වූ කාලයක යහපත් ධර්ම මාර්ගය නොව ආගමික ආධිපත්ය වැදගත් වූ යුගයක උදේ සවස යකඩ කටින් අල්ලහු අක්බාර් කියන කටෝර හඞට තරඟයක් දීමට නිහඞතායේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
Palitha Ariyarathna Writer, Journalist, Author Publisher
බොරු ඉතිහාසයක් ගොඩනැගීම යනු බෙදුම් වාදයයි....සංවාදයට විවෘතයි 01: විග්නේස්වරන්ගේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී ප්රකාශයට සත්ය පිළිතුරක් | True answer to Tamil racism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roOZ5bTPm0A&list=PLaZtYsavWKfAj1x1u1pU5pkZQtYRCwViG&index=6 02: ලෝකයේ ලොකුම බොරුව සහ විග්නේශ්වරන්ගේ ගොබෙල්ස් න්යාය | දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී ප්රකාශයට සත්ය පිළිතුරක් https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egPSLFzPfBY&list=PLaZtYsavWKfAj1x1u1pU5pkZQtYRCwViG&index=40 03: Terrorism | Reply to Convo | Future of Eelam Tamils in Current Geo-Political Dynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NafYlXm6qU&list=PLaZtYsavWKfAj1x1u1pU5pkZQtYRCwViG&index=43 2. බෙදුම් වාදය | අන්තවාදය |ත්රස්තවාදය දීර්ඝ කාලීනව මැඩ පැවැත්වීමට ගතයුතු ක්රියාමාර්ග https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vQVhE3QewM&list=PLaZtYsavWKfAj1x1u1pU5pkZQtYRCwViG&index=46 නිජබිම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
by Senaka Weeraratna Attorney-at-Law & RASSL Council Member
Sri Lanka won freedom not in isolation but in step with the rest of the Asian countries in the aftermath of the end of the Second World War in 1945. Many factors contributed to the collapse of Western dominance in Asia. The Second World War was the pivotal factor. WW2 was a blessing in disguise for European colonies. Japan’s blitzkrieg inspired the national liberation movements in Asia and even Africa to awaken and fight for their freedom. Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948 on the back of Japan’s resounding military... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
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ජනාධිපතිවරයා දෙවැනි වරටත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව කල් දමනු ලැබුවේ ‘ලොකු පුටුවක’ යළි වාඩිවීමට යැයි පවසමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ සැබෑ වෑයම යටගැසීමට ඇතැමුන් උත්සාහ ගත්ත ද, ජනාධිපතිවරයා සූදානම් වන්නේ ‘දහතුන්වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය පූර්ණ ලෙස බලාත්මක කිරීම’ තම රාජාසන කතාවට ඇතුළත් කර එය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වැඩි ඡන්දයෙන් සම්මත කරගෙන, තම බෙදුම්වාදී ගමනට සුජාතභාවය සාදා ගැනීමට බව ජානිපෙ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා අනාවරණය කරයි. ඒ මහතා මෙසේ අනාවරණය කළේ පසුගිය දෙවැනිදා කොළඹ සම්බුද්ධත්ව ජයන්ති මන්දිරයේදී ‘රනිල් 13 බලාත්මක කර රට බෙදෙන හැටි’ මැයෙන් ප්රසිද්ධ දේශනයක් පවත්වමිනි. එහිදී දීර්ඝ ලෙස කරුණු දැක් වූ ජානිපෙ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
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රටේ ජනතාව බෙහෙත් පෙත්තේ සිට ගන්නා ආහාර වේල දක්වා ආපදාවට ලක්වී, අසරණ වී සිටින මොහොතක එම ආපදාව ප්රයෝජනයට ගනිමින් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා තමන්ගේ මාමා වූ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධනට කරගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ 13 සංශෝධනය හරහා රට බෙදීමේ ක්රියාවලිය සක්රීය කරමින් සිටින බව ජානිපෙ ජාතික සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා පවසයි. 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කර, රට බෙදා ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්යයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ ක්රියාවලියෙන් අඩියක් පස්සට තැබීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට අද සිදුව ඇත්තේ මෙරට ජාතික සංවිධාන, සිවිල් සංවිධාන විසින් ත්රෛනිකායික මහා සංඝරත්නය දැනුවත් කිරීමෙන් උන්වහන්සේලා මෙම ක්රියාවට එරෙහිව පියවර ගැනීම නිසා බවත්, එහෙත් ජනාධිපතිවරයා එම ක්රියාවෙන් තවමත් ඉවත්වී නොමැති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
By Nishel Fernando Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Eyeing to welcome 250,000 Indian tourists this year, Sri Lanka is exploring the possibility of adopting India’s home-grown cross-border digital payment systems as part of the country’s strategy to lure in more Indian tourists by enabling a cashless travel experience. In an interview with an Indian news agency last weekend, Sri Lanka High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda revealed that enabling payments using RuPay card and RuPay mechanism is being considered as a part of the country’s tourism strategy.“They are even looking at the possibility of using the RuPay... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Eastern Province Governor Anuradha Yahampath today expressed her displeasure over the implementation of the 13th Amendment because it could lead to separatism in the country. Addressing an event today, she said that she was totally against separatism. "The separatism will cause no peace in the island and leads to war. If separatism is implemented in any small island, it will create issues. Similar practice has created enough of issues everywhere in the world. There has been war wherever there is separatism, particularly in island nations. "There is no peace in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lankan YouTuber and political vlogger Dharshana Handungoda has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). He was reportedly arrested on Sunday (05) upon arriving in the country from Dubai. In May last year, Handungoda had been summed by the Criminal Investigation Department for questioning, however, he had declined to give a statement, claiming that the police never sent him an official notification calling him in for questioning. A journalist by profession, Handungoda operates a YouTube channel known for its biting political commentary.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
The northern province has become a virtual Tamil only province by virtue of chasing out Sinhalese & Muslims who had been living prior to Independence. Implementing 13A in full would mean this Tamil Only Northern Province will get the Tamil Eelam State their politicians politically vied for & Tamil militants fought for which Sri Lanka’s soldiers prevented by sacrificing their lives to ensure the Island nation was not separated. Such a political betrayal cannot be allowed. Those that take offence when Sinhalese say the island nation was built by Sinhale... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර.මහනුවර
Fist Posted on January 27th, 2023 1948.පෙබ 4 දා.අපට ලැබුණේ අධිරාජ්යවාදි යදම්වළින් බැඳි තවමත් බ්රිතාන්ය මහරජ අපගේද මහරජ වශයෙන් පිළිගන්නා ඔවුන් විසින්ම සකස්කරණලද ආණ්ඩු ක්රමව්යවස්තාවක් යටතේ පාලනයවන බ්රතාන්ය පොදුරාජ්ය මණ්ඩලය තුල ඩොමිනියන් තත්වයක් හා මේ රටේ මිනිසුන්ගේ චන්දයෙන් පත්කරගත් කලුසුද්දන්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් පාර්ලිමේන්ත්ව සහ උත්තර මන්ත්රී මණ්ඩලයක් සහිත සීමිත නිදහසක් පමණි. ඒ බව 1948 පෙබරවාරි 10 වනදා පැවති පළමු නිදහසේ නිළ උත්සවයේ ප්රධාන අමුත්තා වූ ග්ලොසෙටර්හි ආදිපාදවරයා විසින්ම එදින ඔහුගේ කතාව ‘ message From His Majesties king of Ceylon” යනුවෙන් ප්රකාශකිරීමෙන්ම තවදුරටත් සනාත වෙයි. එසේම සෝල්බරී ව්යවස්ථාවේ 45 වන වගන්තිය අනුව1948න් පසුවද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
By Dr Tilak S. Fernando
There was much controversy about a tablet that was supposed to mix with petrol which would give an extra percentage of consumption over ten times, on 92 and 95 grades. An advertising Agency or Manufacturing company became quite popular with this innovative tablet. Consequently, almost every motorist was compelled to use this Eco tablet since the fuel prices went up to rocket levels. However, The Minister of Power and Energy introduced a QR- code system to obtain petrol from all filling stations, which reduced the mile-long queues where people had to wait in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Media Release Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi
The Sinhala translation of renowned Indian author Jairam Ramesh's book "The Light of Asia; the poem that defined the Buddha", Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya, published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Independence and the 75th anniversary of Sri Lanka- India diplomatic relations was presented to its author and the Maha Sangha at the Independence Day flag hoisting ceremony held at the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi today (4). The Sinhala translation, published by the Pathfinder Foundation, was presented to the author of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers
Since independence in 1948, the country has gone bankrupt although Sri Lanka generated foreign income through tourism, tea, rubber etc. As a President, you should be aware of the country’s economic and financial situation. During your regime in 2015, the Arjuna Mahendran Bond scam opened and has now been buried. We blame the Rajapaksas. How about the others? The decline and problems started with the following sequence: SWRD Bandaranaike -1956JVP and LTTE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Sangadasa Akurugoda
As per the media reports, President Wickremesinghe reiterated his intention to fully implement the controversial 13th Amendment to the Constitution at the Thai Pongal celebrations, in Jaffna, on January 15 and again during the party leaders’ meeting at the Presidential Secretariat. According to above reports, the Cabinet is in favor of the full implementation of the 13th amendment. He further said that as the President of the country, he is bound to implement the laws of the land and the 13th Amendment is a part of the Constitution. The current President’s statement is not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara
Indian Foreign Minister and his government should stop meddling with Sri Lankan internal affairs and mind their own business. An open letter to Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s latest attempt to interfere with Sri Lankan internal affairs, violating all accepted diplomatic and international etiquettes and principles. I quote here the gist of a news report that refers to the Indian stand as stated in the press release by Foreign Minister Jaishankar of India. 1.“India considers the full implementation of the 13th Amendment in Sri Lanka "critical" for achieving reconciliation with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Dilrook Kannangara
There is a silly trend of glorifying and romanticizing the pre-Independence era. Those who do so have no idea how things were then. Although Sri Lanka is in a dire economic and political situation today, some matters are better than then. Yes; there are things that are worse today. Sri Lankans are utterly frustrated about how things are and for valid reasons. However, an imbalanced one-sided view is silly. We must move forward, not backward. A very small percentage of people lived a comfortable life during British rule but the vast majority of people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
N.A.de S. Amaratunga
The new wealth produced by the world since 2020 has been USD 42 trillion. Two thirds of this huge amount of wealth has gone into the pockets of 1% of the world population which comprises the billionares of the world. The whole of the rest of the world population, ie 99%, will have to do with one third of this wealth, which was largely produced by them. Apart from the gross unfairness of this world order the fact that its indefinite continuation may not be possible without huge social upheaval and irreperable environmental damage should... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
2004දී මහා පරිමානයේ සුනාමි සොරකමක් වූ බව දැන දැනත්, 1994 පටන් ඒ අයගේ කැරැට්ටුව දැන දැනත්, ඒ අයට දිගටම බලය ලබා දුන්නේ අපයි. මෙයින් පෙන්වන්නේ අපේ නොසැලකිල්ලයි. රටට නියම ආදරේ නැති කමයි. අප දිගු කාලීනව අනාගතය දෙස නොබලන බවයි. දියුණු රටවල ජනතාව නම් සොරුන් බව දැනගත් පසු කිසිදා එවැනි අය පලමුවරට හෝ නැවත නැවතත් බලයට පත් නොකරයි. කෙසේ හෝ සොරුන්ට උපරිම දඬුවම් ලබා දෙයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව යනු අප සමාජයේ කැඩපතකි. ඒ නිසා, දැන් පසුගිය වංචා දුෂණ තදබල ලෙස විවේචනය කරන අප එනම් - සාමාන්ය ජනයා, චන්ද වලින් බලයට පැමිණියහොත් කරනුයේද 2005,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
By Garvin Karunaratne
Perhaps what I wrote a year ago, if followed tells us the only way ahead. Sri Lanka’s economy finds itself in a situation where one wonders whether the government has allowed it to drift. Perhaps, studying how countries have suffered and faced similar crises in the past may offer us some ideas. In 1997 the economies of Asian giants Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea crashed. In 1995, the World Bank said that Thailand was the world’s fastest growing economy. Of Thailand, Phongpaichit and Baker says, “in 1996, export growth slumped from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත්
මහජන උපයෝගිතා කොමිසමේ සභාපති ජනක රත්නායකට එරෙහිව කරුණු දහහතරකින් යුක්ත චෝදනා පත්රයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්යාංශය සූදානම් වෙයි. එම චෝදනා පත්රය නීති කෙටුම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පසුගිය සිකුරාදා (03 වැනිදා) යොමු කර තිබුණි. නීති කෙටුම්පත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව චෝදනා පත්රය නීතියට අනුව සකස් කර ලබාදීමෙන් පසු විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති ඇමැති කංචන විජේසේකර එය ලබන අටවැනිදායින් පසු පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට නියමිතය. මහජන උපයෝගිතා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපතිවරයාට අයත් යැයි සැලකෙන ආයතනයක් මගින් විදුලිය තොග වශයෙන් ලබාගෙන පාරිභෝගිකයන්ට අලෙවි කිරිමේ බලපත්රයක් ලබාගැනිම ඇතුළු චෝදනා දාහතරක් ඊට ඇතුළත් කර තිබේ. සභාපතිවරයාට එරෙහිව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said regardless of the obstacles the anarchist political forces seek to create, he will continue the new reform program with the majority of people who love this country. "We can become a developed country by 2048 if we work and move forward in a united and planned manner envisioning peace and reconciliation. There is the potential to become a developed country which is not begging from any other nation in the world. True freedom can be achieved and it is possible," he said addressing the nation. "There... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Rani Wickremesinghe addressed the nation this evening (04 Feb.), in view of Sri Lanka’s 75th Independence Anniversary. In his speech, the Head of State discussed Sri Lanka’s looming economic crisis, stating that the only way out of it was by making difficult and unpopular decisions. https://youtu.be/nbZf0wqtEOQ “Sugarcoated stories by politicians will not resolve this crisis”, Wickremesinghe said, adding that he will continue to move forward with reforms such as those implemented thus far, albeit being severely unpopular and criticized. Moreover, he noted that under his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has reinstated the fact that Sri Lanka is not alone in the crisis it is currently facing. Speaking at the Inaugural Lecture for Geopolitical Cartographers yesterday 903 Feb.), Scotland said, “I know that Sri Lanka continues to feel the weight of political and economic pressure. The pressure can be hard to bear. It can be destabilizing, isolating, and frightening, and I am here because I want every Sri Lankan to know that you are not alone. You are part of this special precious Commonwealth family”. The Geopolitical Cartographer... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/02/23)
Courtesy Ada Derana
The Supreme Court today (Feb. 03) rejected a request made by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) to issue an interim order preventing the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) from imposing power cuts during the ongoing 2022 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination. A petition filed by the human rights group against the CEB and several other parties was taken up for consideration before Supreme Court’s three-judge bench consisting of Gamini Amarasekara, Kumudini Wickramasinghe and Shiran Gunaratne. During the court proceedings, President’s Counsel Upul Jayasuriya, who appeared on behalf of the HRCSL,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said today that the Export-Import Bank of China will provide an extension on the debt service to Sri Lanka due in 2022 and 2023, which means Sri Lanka will not have to repay the principal and interest due on the Bank’s loans during the above-mentioned period, so as to help relieve Sri Lanka’s short-term debt repayment pressure. Meanwhile, she said the Bank would like to have friendly consultations with Sri Lanka regarding medium- and long-term debt treatment in this window period and the Bank will make... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Courtesy Ada Derana
A total of 150 motorcycles, 74 vehicles and 115 pieces of search equipment have been handed over to the Sri Lanka Police by Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Takei Syunsuke. The automobiles and equipment were handed over under a grant by the Japanese Government at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat a short while ago. The ceremony was held under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Two members of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka have handed over their letters of resignation to the Finance Ministry Secretary. It was reported that Mohan Samaranayake and Udeni Wickremasinghe handed over their resignation letters.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Courtesy Ada Derana
China has hit back at the remarks made by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland that the terms extended by China to Sri Lanka to unlock IMF debt relief remain insufficient. In response to a question raised at a regular press conference on Thursday (Feb. 02), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the US Under Secretary’s comments do not reflect the truth. During her recent official visit to Sri Lanka, Nuland told reporters in Colombo that China’s offer on their financial assurances for Sri Lanka is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
13A is not about police or land powers, it is only about power. The question is, power for whom & under what conditions. 13A came subsequent to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987. Both were acts of aggression. India was pro-Russian & a closed economy while Sri Lanka had tilted towards West embracing an open-market economy. It is curious to ascertain whether the West coerced Indira Gandhi into training Tamil youth, tapping her personal anger against Sri Lanka’s JR Jayawardena. In short, did that Indian initial training have an element... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Prof. Hudson McLean
“There is no other way out. We are a country with 22 million people. We have to find markets outside." BBC Article Confirms What I Have Said Many Times! Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64464220 Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity? Ben Chu, Newsnight's economic editor, takes a closer look at the country's economic woes. The Survival Of Sri Lanka Depends on Foreign Trade! Period!!! Furthermore, based on IMAGINATION. The Spirit of Albert Einstein!... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
By Rohana R. Wasala
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesman and Jaffna District MP M.A. Sumanthiran says that his party has decided to boycott the independence day celebrations this year, as reported in The Island of January 31, 2023. Instead, they will declare it a Black Day and commence a movement towards achieving what they call true freedom. According to him, “Immediately after independence, it was transformed into a majority system under the guise of democracy. That’s why other people living in this country did not get freedom”. What he implies is that the ‘independence’ given was only for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
President, Ranil Wickremasinghe recently expressed that the proposed 13th amendment to the constitution should be fully implemented, and the purpose of the amendment would be a supportive action to the reconciliation process. The speech of the president, in fact, was to mislead people during independent celebration time or genuinely implement the constitutional reforms is a question to analysts and many Sri Lankans consider the speech has become a significant question. According to my understanding 90% of population of the country have no understanding of the contents of the 13th amendment and few groups of Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President of Ambassadors' Forum, Solicitor in England and Wales
Life is uncertain - yet care is needed before death Life is uncertain compared to a drop of water on the grass. But the desire of every living being is to live at least a few minutes more before death. The desire of the loved ones around his death bed is to make him alive even for a few minutes. Caregivers are those who have the strength, capacity, and desire, to look after their loved ones called... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
ALI SUKHANVER
When Burma was ruled by a monarchy in the pre-colonial era, its Army was given the name of ‘Tatmadaw’. In the Burmese language Tatmadaw means Royal Armed Forces. Today the Tatmadaw has lost all its popularity and public support because of its action of deposing the elected government on 1st February 2021. One could understand the public reaction against the Tatmadaw by going through an article of Desmond published in the ‘Irrawaddy’ on 25th May 2022. The writer is of the opinion that the name Tatmadaw must not be used for the present day Myanmar Military... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Sri Lankan High Commission in India
Continuing his efforts to enhance dialogue with Heads of Mission of Islamic countries concurrently accredited to Sri Lanka from New Delhi, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda presented copies of the Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran to the Ambassador of Morocco to India Mohamed Maliki. The impressive Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran, published by the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) of Sri Lanka, was presented to the Moroccan Ambassador at the High Commission of Sri Lanka. Ambassador Maliki highly appreciated this gesture of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් Slave Island ලෙස හැදින්වූ කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදිය සිංහල, දෙමළ, ඉංග්රීසි භාෂා ත්රිත්වයෙන්ම “කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදිය” ලෙස භාවිතා කිරීමට අදාලව නිසි සංශෝධනයන් කිරීමට කඩිනමින් පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක මහතා රාජ්ය පරිපාලන ස්වදේශ කටයුතු, පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්යංශ ලේකම්වරයාට උපදෙස් දී ඇත. අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි හැත්තෑපස් වෙනි නිදහස් දිනයට සමගාමීව ගෙන ඇති මෙම තීරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තැපැල්පතිවරයා හා කොලඹ මහ නගර සහාවේ නාගරික කොමසාරිස්වරයා ද දැනුම්වත් කර තිබේ. සිංහල හා දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් කොම්පඤ්ඤ වීදිය ලෙස භාවිතා කළ ද යටත් විජිත සමයේ එම පෙදෙස හැදින්විමට යොදාගත් Slave Island යන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
"නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල" ෆීනික්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය
මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණ, දිසා අධිකරණ, මහාධිකරණ, වාණිජ මහාධිකරණ, සුලු හිමිකම් අධිකරණ මුල් අවස්ථා අධිකරණ ලෙස හැදින්වේ.රටේ පවතින නඩු වලින් වැඩිම නඩු සංඛ්යාවක් කැදවෙන්නේ මෙම අධිකරණවලය. ජනතාව වැඩි වශයෙන් නීතියේ පිළිසරණ පතා එන්නේත්, වැඩි සේවකයන් සංඛ්යාවක් ඉන්නේත් මෙම අධිකරණ වලය.මෙම අධිකරණවල සේවකයන් සමබන්ධ තීරණ ගනු ලබන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව මගින් පිහිටුවා ඇති අධිකරණ සේවා කොමිෂන් සභාව විසිනි.මෙකී මුල් අවස්ථා අධිකරණ වල සහතික පිටපත් ලබා ගැනීම, ඇප මුදල් තැබීම, ඇප මුදල් ආපසු ගැනීම සම්බන්ධ කටයුතු වලදී නඩු කියන්නන් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ පවුල්වල අය වැඩි වශයෙන් ප්රමාදයට, කළකිරීමට, අයුතු මුදල් වැය කිරීමවලට, සම්බන්ධතා නැති අය නොසැලකිල්ලට හසුවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
Courtesy ANI
Beijing [China], February 2 (ANI): After US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during her visit to Sri Lanka said that the terms extended by China to Colombo for IMF debt relief are not enough, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has now retaliated saying that rather than commenting upon Beijing's ties with Sri Lanka, US must show some sincerity and actually do something for the island nation.In a regular press conference on Thursday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said, "What was said by the US side does not reflect the truth. The Export-Import Bank... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/02/23)
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පසුගිය දා රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කරන බව පවසා එමගින් රට නොබෙදෙන බව ප්රකාශ කළ ද එය සිදුවන්නේ කෙසේදැයි නොපැවසූ බව ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා පවසයි. ලබන 08 වැනිදා ජනාධිපතිවරයා 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කිරීමේ යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව කියා ඇති බවත්, ඔහු මෙයින් විශාල ප්රයෝගයක් කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරන බවත් ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා සදහන් කරයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේ ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් අද(02) පැවැත්වූ මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමිනි. කලකට ඉහත මාක්ස්වාදීන් බොහෝ දෙනෙකු මෙම 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය බලාත්මක කළාට රට බෙදීමක් සිදු නොවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
-Millions continue to be allocated for past heads of state in 2023 with a bulk of it going towards the maintenance of their state homes and vehicles -The state has to allocate for 4 past Presidents, namely Chandrika Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Hema Premadasa, wife of the late Ranasinghe Premadasa also gets a budget allocation under this category With 2022 bringing on an economic disaster for Sri Lankan citizens, one would expect the Treasury to reduce its budget allocations for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/02/23)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Chief Prelates of the Three Chapters have accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of confusing the country following his statement on the implementation of the 13th Amendment. In a letter addressed to the Head of State today (02 Feb.), the religious leaders deemed the 13th Amendment as a piece of legislation that gives rise to serious concerns pertaining to the country’s national security, territorial integrity and its independence. They further noted that by implementing the 13th Amendment, police and land powers too, will be devolved to Provincial Councils, and thus asserted that the Amendment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/02/23)
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Sri Lanka Police have decided to file an appeal against the recent release of Wasantha Mudalige, convener of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF), from the charges filed against him under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Accordingly, Police Spokesman Nihal Thalduwa stated that the Police Headquarters today (02 Feb.) requested the Attorney General to submit an appeal, in accordance with all relevant legal provisions, against the recent judgment given by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court. Meanwhile, Mudalige today held a special press conference, during which he claimed that several high-ranking police officers attempted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/02/23)
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The Paris Club of creditor nations is ready to provide financing assurances to Sri Lanka, a key step needed to unlock a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund bailout, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. https://youtu.be/BhdEe9I46cc The group of bilateral lenders is set to “soon” announce its support to the crisis-hit nation on a debt overhaul, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because talks are private. Sri Lanka entered into a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
The Indo-Lanka Accord was signed to end the “ethnic conflict”. The 13th amendment was to constitutionally end the “ethnic conflict”. Both were failures because the solutions became the problem. The solutions had vested interests & agendas in mind & became political footballs that were never meant to be solved. It is for this reason that both Indian Govt & Sri Lankan Govt must agree to bury the Indo-Lanka Accord & 13A for good. Relations must look at future as scenarios have changed. Contrary to what is being promoted. The Indo-Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/02/23)
Dilrook Kannangara
In 1971 there were more than 20,000 ethnic Sinhalas were living in the Jaffna District alone. None of them lived on rent. They had their own properties as with everyone else in Jaffna. However, after the TULF election win in July 1977, Tamils attacked Sinhala people in the north during Black August 1977, evicted them permanently and grabbed their properties which Tamils occupy to this date. Having robbed Sinhala property, Tamils repeated the same act of robbery against Muslims in August 1990. It is also called Black August 1990. The number of Muslims evicted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
first published in 2019“A Framework for the Constitution of the Union of Ceylon” prepared in 1994 by a firm of British solicitors (Bates, Wells and Braithwaite) for the Sri Lanka Peace Support Group an entity within the Centre of Policy Alternatives. Constitution. Illustration: Ratna Sagar Shrestha.THT What is interesting about this proposal is that it lays out the nuts and bolts of a confederate structure; a concept that many are unfamiliar with but elements which are being peddled through the present constitution giving rise to the reality that this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Courtesy Geopolitical Economy
RADHIKA DESAI: Hi everyone, and welcome to this Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Every fortnight we are going to meet for an hour to discuss major development in the fast-changing geopolitical economy of our 21st-century world. We’ll discuss international developments. We’ll discuss their roots in individual countries and regions. We will try to uncover the reality beneath the usually distorting representation of these developments in the dominant Western media. We plan to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශය
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නව ප්රංශ තානාපති ජොංෆ්රැන්සුවා පැක්තෙ මහතා අද(1දා)දින සුහද හමුවක් සඳහා මහජන ආරක්ෂක ඇමති ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා හමුවීමට මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයට පැමිණියේය.ප්රංශ - ශ්රි ලංකා රාජතාන්ත්රික සබඳතා පිළිබඳව මෙම හමුවේදී සාකච්ඡා වූ අතර තවදුරටත් එම සම්බන්ධතා ශක්තිමත් කරගැනීම සඳහා සිය පූර්ණ සහය ලබා දෙන බව ප්රංශ තානාපති ජොංෆ්රැන්සුවා පැක්තෙ මහතා ප්රකාශ කළේය.එහිදී ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් නීති විරෝධී සංක්රමණිකයන් ලෙස ප්රංශයේ දූපත් වලට ඇතුලුවීම වැලැක්වීම සඳහා ගත හැකි ක්රියාමාර්ග පිළිබඳවද මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කළේය.මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතාගේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිස් නිළධාරීන් සඳහා පුහුණු වැඩමුළුවක් සංවිධානය කිරීමට සහයෝගය දැක්වීමට ප්රංශ තානාපති ජොංෆ්රැන්සුවා පැක්තෙ මහතා මෙහිදී එකඟ විය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.
හිට්ලර් කෙනෙක්වී හෝ රට නොකඩන්න ජනවාරි 27 දා පක්ෂ නායක රැස්වීමේදී රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිතුමා විසින් ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග මන්ත්රීවරයා ඔහුට කල තියුණු අභියෝගයට (confrontation not challenge) දැක්වූ ප්රතිචාරය, ලංකාවේ නූතන මැකියාවේලි කෙනෙකුගේ දේශණයක් (lecture) නොව යමෙකු ඔල්මාදයෙන් (delusion) කල හැසිරීමක් වැනිය කියා මට සිතුනි. 13-A මර උඟුල (death trap) ගැන දශක දෙකක සිටම විමසිල්ලෙන් සිටින අයෙකු වශයෙන් මට සිතේ. මේ පිළිඹඳව විග්රහයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම අපගේ යුතුකමය. රනිල් ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ මනස ගවේශණය කිරීමට හෝ පෙබරවාරි 4 දා ඔහු මොන අන්ඩර දෙමළයක් කියාවිදැයි අනුමාණ කිරීමට නොහැකි හෙයින් ඔහුගේ කතාව ප්රශ්ණ තුනක් වශයෙන් හඳුනාගෙන සළකා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය
"බෞද්ධ කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තා සහ උඩරට ගැමි පුනරුත්ථාපන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ වාර්තාවල, අධිරාජ්යවාදීන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට කළ හානිය ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති අතර මෙතෙක් සිදුවී නොමැති නමුත් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීම විය යුතු වගකීමක්" බව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. මහාචාර්ය සී. එම්. මද්දුමබණ්ඩාර මහතා රචිත, FREEDOM STRUGGLES OF SRI LANKA - Lessons Learned and the Way Forward (ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විමුක්ති අරගල - උගත හැකි පාඩම් සහ ජාතියේ ඉදිරි ගමන) යන ග්රන්ථය, 2023.02.01 දින අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේදී පිරිනමනු ලැබූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා ද මේ බව සදහන් කළේය. මෙම කෘතිය, බ්රිතාන්ය යටත් විජිත පාලනයට එරෙහිව 1818 ඌව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Feb 1 (AdaDerana) – Sri Lanka has been listed amongst the ‘50 Most Instagrammable Places in the World 2023’ on travel website ‘Big 7 Travel’. The island nation made it to the Top 10 of the list, ranking ninth, amongst Italy, England, France and USA. The list is developed via a comprehensive scoring system that analyses the number of hashtags and TikTok views per destination, while sample surveys from the Big 7 Media’s 1.5 million audiences and their global editorial team is also taken into account. The final results are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By: Mohnish Singh Courtesy Eastern Eye
US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived on a one-day visit to Sri Lanka last night, called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and also met the representatives of Tamil political parties on Wednesday. The US is keen to see the ongoing talks between the Sri Lankan government and the minority Tamil leaders produce “real results”, a top official from the Biden administration said here on Wednesday. US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived on a one-day visit to Sri Lanka last night, called... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Telegraph Online
The minority Tamil leaders have been in talks with the new government over their long standing demand of political autonomy under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution The US is keen to see the ongoing talks between the Sri Lankan government and the minority Tamil leaders produce "real results", a top official from the Biden administration said here on Wednesday. US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived on a one-day visit to Sri Lanka last night, called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and also met the representatives... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy Star (Kenya)
Sri Lankan investors have employed over 20, 000 Kenyans at Export Processing Zone in Athi River Kananathan said Sri Lanka, a country in South Asia, was committed to supporting the Kenyan government in its quest of creating jobs for citizens in a bid of solving the challenge of unemployment in the country. Sri Lanka ambassador Dr. Kana Kananathan, EPZA acting CEO Hussein Mohamed and board chairman Ben Olunya during tree plantation exercise at the zone in Athi River, Machakos County on February 1.Image: GEORGE OWITI Over 40, 000 Kenyans have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
One-time Surveyor General Michael de Silva, who served as Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Australia (2004-2007) says in spite of begging for medicine and medical equipment, the health ministry sabotaged ongoing Australian Medical Aid Programme meant to assist state-run hospitals. Declaring that under the programme launched 15 years ago, 102 forty foot container loads of medical equipment worth over Rs. 2,000 mn had been provided to government hospitals, an irate De Silva alleged that the Medical Supplies Division (MSD) brazenly undermined the project by failing to clear... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
The National Freedom Front (NFF), a constituent member of Nidahas Janatha Sandhanaya (NJS), has declared that it would oppose President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s bid to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The patriotic people were ready to defeat such plans, even at the expense of their lives, the party has vowed. The breakaway JVP faction consists of six MPs, including former minister Wimal Weerawansa. The NJS is contesting the Local Government polls, scheduled for March 09, under the ‘Helicopter’ symbol. NFF spokesperson, MP Jayantha Samaraweera, on Monday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Some 46 people die of cancer every day in Sri Lanka out of the 105 cancer patients who are detected daily, the National Cancer Control Unit (NCCU) Director Dr. Ishani Fernando said today. She told a news conference at the Health Promotion Bureau in line with the World Cancer Day which falls on February 4, a total of 38,229 new cancer patients were detected in 2020 and 16,691 out of them died due to the disease. She said it was observed that females were prone to get cancer whereas the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has stated that the United States would also like to see an agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka as quickly as possible. https://youtu.be/RjZsAsjrM2I Speaking on the matter, however, the visiting US official noted that China’s offer pertaining to their financial assurances thus far remain insufficient, adding that the IMF needs to see credible and specific assurance that matches their standard on debt restructuring prior to moving forward with an agreement. Sri Lanka is currently awaiting board approval... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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Sri Lanka has seen a significant increase in the number of tourist arrivals for the month of January 2023, compared to the numbers seen in January 2022. A summary report issued by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed an increase of over 20,000 tourist arrivals, with a total of 102,545 arrivals reported within the first month of 2023. January 2022 saw a total of 82,327 tourist arrivals into the island. Meanwhile, Tourism Minister Harin Fernando took to Twitter, reaffirming that the growth seen in the number of inbound... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Shenali D Waduge
She maybe the highest ranking American official but most Americans do not even know her name. However, she is visiting Sri Lanka twice in one year & that should mean something. Why is she visiting Sri Lanka is however more important. She first visited Sri Lanka days before riots started resulted in the resignation of the former President. Naturally, all eyes are fixed on what is likely to emerge after her forthcoming visit. Over the years, there is no doubt the US has created local “agents” covering all spectrums of society. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
Macroeconomic issues strongly associate with living condition of ordinary people in Sri Lanka. Population, unemployment, economic growth, budget deficit, terms of trade, trade balance, investment such as many others could be given as examples and the pathetic situation in the country is macroeconomic issues and the influence of them to ordinary people has clearly not identified for policy making purpose, and the way these issues influence on the living condition of ordinary people have not studied and developed policies consistent with the issues giving benefits to ordinary people. The macroeconomy is directly associated with day... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga DSc
Tamil is one of the languages in the Dravidian family of languages which include Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and also several minor languages numbering more than twenty. Dravidian languages have been spoken through out India from North to South and East to West for centuries long before the arrival of Aryans. It is beleived that the language in use in the Harappan period (3300 – 1300 BCE) of the Indus Valley Civilization was Dravidian. Dravidians were the major inhabitants even in the North-West regions. With the decline of the Indus Valley culture... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers
Since its Independence in 1948, Sri Lanka had been a peaceful crime-free country until 1971, when the country became a republic. Since LTTE gave birth, Law & Order, Crimes have been on the accent. In some sectors LTTE maintained discipline, however, they were involved in killing civilians In Jaffna and the South, specially Anuradhapura etc. The Tamil terrorist groups attempted to kill themselves and between groups tensions were on the rise. LTTE attempted to kill Hon... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and President Ambassador’s Forum
Bribery and Corruption spread as air This is a current and a hot topic that will not be stale anytime anywhere as the issue continues worldwide in different degrees in different eras. Bribery is current with historical significance prevalent in all generations due to excessive greed of the human that defines in various ways with no clear definition today due to the complex nature in today’s context, most simple definition for bribery being the ‘’gift offered to influence a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Media Release Sri Lanka High Commission in India
Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda met with the External Affairs Minister of India Dr. S. Jaishankar today (31) at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi to review the current status of the relations between Sri Lanka and India. The External Affairs Minister of India and the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka also discussed the way forward and follow-up action, emanating from Dr. Jaishankar’s recent bilateral visit to Sri Lanka. On 20 January, Dr. Jaishankar concluded an official visit to Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka
Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Public Lecture “ What are the external factors that helped Sri Lanka to gain independence? ” by Senaka Weeraratna Attorney-at-Law & RASSL Council Member on Friday, 03rd February 2023 at 7.00 p.m. All are Welcome Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89845416149?pwd=UU1pNThHTmJqZkhtbUxaWE5vbE5EUT09 Meeting ID: 898 4541 6149 Passcode: 052915 YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/ZKXux2QAtD4?feature=share Visit-www.royalasiaticsociety.lk/monthly-lectures/ Lecture Medium – English Sri Lanka won freedom not in isolation but in step... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Senaka Weeraratna
Independence Day - Demands An accountability process for these colonial crimes is warranted through an apology, catharsis, and adequate reparations. An Apology must be particularly directed to the descendants of the Sinhala Buddhist Kandyan people who were singled out as victims of colonial brutalities. These are the descendants of a highly oppressed group of people who were also deprived of their inheritance by the colonial rulers planting thousands of indentured Indian labour of Malabar descent in their traditional homelands without their consent. 19th-century British official documents reveal how the freedom struggles against British colonial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island
File photo of a recent protest against tax hikes Who currently amongst those who receive a salaried income is not on the streets protesting against the need to pay income tax? The obvious answer is only those working in the private sector. The private sector is often slammed for its reluctance to criticise the government for everything wrong with our country. So their reticence may once again result in only private sector employees paying income tax if the government caves into the demands of the public sector... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, January 30 (Economynext): A future Sri Lankan government under the opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is not obliged to support deals with the International Monetary Fund or any other international funding agency as the current government does not have a mandate to sign such agreement. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government is in discussion to obtain $2.9 billion IMF loan once the sovereign debt-defaulted country agrees with all its bilateral creditors. Wickremesinghe government has already implemented many IMF demands that are required to be fulfilled before the global lender’s approval. The Opposition and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Colombo, January 31 (Daily Mirror): Sri Lanka’s professional elites are the greatest beneficiaries of the Sri Lankan welfare state, and many would not have been in their elevated places without the public tax-funded free education. However, as much as they want, rightly so, the welfare state to succeed, they are unwilling to pay their share Though Gotabaya should not be credited for his fallacies, the resultant exogenous shock on the economy due to his policies has compelled his successor to rare and decisive systemwide reforms – though how many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today
It was an act of cruel irony that forced the supporters of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to witness him resigning from Office on 14-07-2022 and hand over the reins to the then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. President Gotabaya won with an overwhelming majority and was given a rare two-third government precisely to save our country from Ranil Wickremesinghe’s anti-national policies. This majority did not come from the traditional vote bases of the SLFP and its allies. For the second time in Sri Lanka’s contemporary history, the country united as one. Voters... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy Financial Express
RCPL launched its packaged consumer products brand, ‘Independence’ in December 2022 and is creating a distinct and dedicated retail distribution network for its fast-expanding FMCG portfolio. RCPL’s vision is to bring to Indian consumers a bouquet of domestic and globally recognised consumer brands and product choices, the company said. (File) Reliance Consumer Products (RCPL), the FMCG arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures has entered into a strategic partnership with Sri Lanka-based Maliban Biscuit Manufactories. Maliban is a biscuit manufacturer in Sri Lanka for the past 70... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy News18
Sri Lanka and Pakistan are facing a major energy crisis like Bangladesh, but Dhaka has been able to secure a package to address the issue The International Monetary Fund has signed off on a $4.7 billion support loan package for Bangladesh to help it cope with soaring energy and food costs that have sparked huge protests. Bangladesh and other South Asian countries dependent on fossil fuel imports were hit hard by sharp cost-of-living increases following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nationwide blackouts of up to 13 hours a day hit the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Island
Foreign Secretary, Aruni Wijewardane, with UK’s Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Sir Philip Barton, at the Foreign Ministry, in Colombo, on January 17 (pic courtesy Foreign Ministry) As a result of sheer negligence, Sri Lanka has ended up being categorized as a perpetrator of war crimes, and those who had fought for the country are mercilessly targeted. There cannot be a better example than Air Marshal Sumangala Dias who suffered due to Sri Lanka’s failure. Canada refused to accept Dias as Sri Lanka’s High... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Culinary YouTube channel ‘Ape Amma’ has been identified by CashnetUSA.com as the largest revenue-generating handle in the country on the social media platform. A worldwide survey by the top online lender revealed that Ape Amma is among the list of all-time top-earning YouTube channels in the rest of the Asia and Oceania region. Ape Amma has generated a revenue amounting to US $ 962,386 and as of January 30, 2023, the channel has about 2.72 million subscribers. The channel took off on April 15, 2016 and has over 495 million... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in a note to the Cabinet, has stressed that public officers should refrain from obtaining goods and services on credit basis, and any officer who violates this will be held personally responsible for such expenditure. The President, in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, has said that the Government revenue at present (January 2023) is far below the monthly expenditure for the month of January 2023 and that the Government expenditure will have to be curtailed further and postponed until planned revenue to be raised on the recent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara charged that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is in spotlight once again due to the impending visit of the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to Sri Lanka. He said that a conspiracy is afoot to establish a US-India military base in Sri Lanka.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Steps were being taken to reduce the number of public sector employees in all government institutions and a self-retirement mechanism would be introduced for that effect, Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawradena said today. He told the weekly Cabinet briefing that inefficient public sector employees would be removed through this self-retirement mechanism. The Minister said the decision was taken in accordance with the instructions given by the Treasury to all Ministries to curtail their expenses in all departments and added that all the Ministry Secretaries are bound to adhere to the circulars... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
In reference to the article carried in the Daily Mirror today titled 'Despite Economic Crisis Treasury Allocates Billions for Offices of President, PM, Ministers', the President's Media Division has issued the following clarification. Writer's note - The article clearly exposes figures from a Treasury report which has been allocated for the Offices of the President, Prime Minister and Cabinet of Ministers under a 'Special Spending Unit' for 2023. It reveals to the general public, the allocations made by the Treasury for these offices under this unit for 2023 which runs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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Former President Maithripala Sirisena says he expects to contest the next presidential election with the support of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). Joining a media briefing today (Jan 31), the SLFP leader expressed confidence about winning the election race. “I am not the type of person to move backward. I am not scared of the conspiracies [against me]... Despite being harassed, I will contest the next presidential election with the support of my party. No matter how many votes I receive, I am confident that I can win the election.” ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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Earnings from exports in 2022 surpassed USD 13 billion per year for the first time, recording an increase of 4.9% from the previous highest recorded in 2021, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says. This improvement was a result of increased earnings from industrial exports, including garments, gems, diamonds and jewellery, machinery and mechanical appliances and petroleum products. Meanwhile, total import expenditure in 2022 amounted to USD 18,291 million, recording a decline of 11.4%, year-on-year, resulting from measures to restrict non-urgent imports and liquidity constraints that prevailed in the market for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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Father Jude Chryshatha, the National Director for Social Communication, has asserted the Catholic Church’s refusal of former President Maithripala Sirisena’s recent apology for the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 2019. https://youtu.be/85EKyAAB1z4 Accordingly, Father Chryshantha noted that the Catholic Church will not accept the apology made by the former President. Speaking at a press conference earlier today (31 Jan.), Sirisena publicly apologized to the Catholic community of Sri Lanka for the 2019 attacks, which took place during his tenure as President. He also assured that he is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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he Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) inflation based on the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) decreased to 54.2% in January 2023 from 57.2% seen in December 2022, the Department of Census and Statistics reported. Meanwhile, Y-o-Y inflation of Food Group has dropped to 60.1% in January 2023 from 64.4% in December 2022, it said quoting the latest data. https://youtu.be/5_Bfkv5H5p4 According to the department’s report, Y-o-Y Non-Food Group inflation decreased to 51% in January 2023 from 53.4% in December 2022. The CCPI for all items for the month of January... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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Over 80,700 candidates from 58 registered political parties and 329 independent groups are due to contest the upcoming Local Government (LG) election, the Election Commission of Sri Lanka stated. https://youtu.be/PGnDNr5Y6SM Accordingly, a total of 80,720 candidates will be contesting for 339 local bodies in the election. The 2023 LG election is scheduled to be held on 09 March. Meanwhile, all relevant documents received from District Returning Officers to hold the election have been sent to the Government Printer to be gazetted, the Chairman of the Commission... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/02/23)
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