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News Archive for Mar 2022
ජනාධිපති විශ්වාස නෑ… කරන්න බැරිනම් පුළුවන් කෙනෙකුට දීල යන්න.. අපට වැඩ්ඩෙක් ඔ්නෑ…වර්තමානයේ රටේ පවතින අර්බුදය විසඳීමට නොහැකි නම් එම අර්බුදය විසඳීමට හැකි පුද්ගලයන්ට රට භාර දීමට ආණ්ඩුව කටයුතු කළ යුතු බව බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියෝ පැවසූහ. එසේ නොමැතිව රට අයාලේ යෑමට ඉඩ හැරීම මෙන්ම ජනතා අරගල හමුවේ සිදුවන්නේ පවතින අර්බුදය තවදුරටත් සංකීර්ණ වීම බව කොළඹ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ සඳහන් කළහ. පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු සඳහා චෝදනා කරමින් මෙම අර්බුදය විසඳිය නොහැකි බවත්, සාමූහිකව ගනු ලබන ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ඔස්සේ මෙය විසඳා ගැනීමට වැඩපිළිවෙළක් සකස් කළ යුතු බවත් සඳහන් කළ පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥානසාර හිමියන්, ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
Alleged War crimes: Lord Naseby: UK dispatches have cleared Sri Lanka of five major accusations
Member of House of Lords, Michael Naseby, has assured that he will try very hard to convince the UK to make public the sections of the Colombo British High Commission dispatches censored by London, pertaining to the last phase of the Vanni offensive. Lord Naseby gave this assurance at the launch of his memoirs, ‘Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained’ at the BMICH on Tuesday (29). Among those present on the occasion were Foreign Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence General... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
Sri Lanka asks for food aid
China has offered 2,000 metric tonnes of rice free of charge, following cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s request for urgent food aid. The Chinese Embassy spokesperson said that Ambassador Qi Zhenhong recently informed Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa of their decision to provide 2,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka, experiencing difficulties, and assured the Premier that China would continue to support the island’s development, within its capacity. The Embassy stated: “The year 2022 marks the 65th anniversary of China-Sri Lanka diplomatic relations and the 70th anniversary of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
Opposition politicians stay away from public protests
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is not organizing the protests on April 3, 2022 but will only support it, its General Secretary Ranijth Madduma Bandara said today. Madduma Bandara told Daily Mirror that his party is only coming out to support the social media groups who are organizing the protest. “People are suffering in darkness, they don’t have gas, food. We have tolerated the government enough. It’s time to act therefore join us and take to the streets on April 3,” Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa said on his Facebook... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
Police curfew imposed in parts of Colombo and suburbs
Police curfew has been imposed in several parts of Colombo and suburbs with immediate effect, the Sri Lanka’s police chief announced. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne said curfew has been imposed within Colombo North, Colombo South, Colombo Central and Nugegoda Police Divisions until further notice. https://youtu.be/Wy5X-_AAZAI He said police curfew has also been imposed in Kelaniya and Mount Lavinia Police Divisions. (UPDATED: 1.12 a.m.) This comes just hours after police had used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a large group of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
Police fire tear gas to disperse protesters near President’s residence
UPDATE: (10.28 p.m.) - Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protesters gathered near the Pengiriwatta Mawatha in Mirihana, which leads to the President’s residence. Riot police had resorted to using tear gas and water cannons on the protesters as the agitation turned violent with stones and other objects being hurled at security personnel and damages to public property. https://youtu.be/m5eSgPQXeu8 Hundreds of people have reportedly gathered near the entry road to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence in Mirihana. The protesters are demanding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
12-hour power cuts scheduled for tomorrow
The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has approved power cuts of 12 hours for tomorrow (April 01), as requested by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). The CEB had requested for 12 hours power cuts due to the limited supply of fuel for thermal power plants, the PUCSL said. Accordingly, the power cuts will be imposed as follows: Areas ABCDEF - 2 hours from 4am to 6am, 4 hours from 8am to 12pm and 6 hours from 4pm to 10pm. Areas GHIJKL - 2 hours from 6am to 8am,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/22)
SRI LANKA IN CRISiS BORNE OF AN ILL WIND
Sri Lanka's present crisis borne of an ill political wind based on detrimental administration and bad choices as it appears are of a severe socio-economic nature that can end in complete bankruptcy which seems like an impending disaster looming over the horizon.Despite warning signs the Government seems to be unconcerned and act as though it might blow away in the manner of a proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand where properly targeted drastic action which is the key to resolving it seems to be the furthest thing from the present administration currently dabbling in issues... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/22)
CITIZENS ENRAGED IN SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka is facing an economic crisis and all consumer prices have gone up as a direct result because the Government did not have US dollars to pay for goods such as fuel, milk powder and gas. Six point nine million of the voting population elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa because he was not a politician. For the last 74 years all politicians failed to work towards a national interest. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, being a strict administrator and disciplinarian, proved his mettle as Defence Secretary during the separatist war. When he... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/22)
Thirteen-hour power interruptions tomorrow
The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has approved the Ceylon Electricity Board’s request for 13-hour interruptions to the power supply tomorrow (March 31). The CEB had sought to increase the duration of power cuts to 13 hours due to the unavailability of fuel for thermal power plants. https://youtu.be/B7abcEv0moE Thereby, the areas listed under the following groups will experience power interruptions of 13 hours as mentioned below: • Areas A, B, C, D, E, and F – Three hours from 3.00am to 6.00am / Four... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/22)
India’s NIA files charge sheet against 6 accused in LTTE terror funding case
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against six accused persons, including a woman, before the NIA Special Court in Chennai in connection with LTTE terror funding case. The charge sheet was filed against Letchumanan Mary Franciska, T. Kenniston Fernando, K. Baskaran, Johnson Samuvel, G. Dharmendran, and E. Mohan under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Passport Act and the Foreigners Act. The case pertains to a criminal conspiracy to revive the LTTE by committing forgery for cheating besides using forged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/22)
To consider funding from expatriate Tamil groups is to vow a candle to the Devil
Fund collection and maintenance by the expatriate Tamil groups were essentially to promote Anti Sri Lanka propaganda to undermine the sovereign Sri Lankan state. Hardly any funds from this source were spent on developing or repairing the damages caused to the houses or the infra structure by the war initiated by the LTTE. On the other hand, the Sri Lankan governments spent millions of funds to resettle the people and initiated many development schemes in the war damaged areas. We now hear of some expatriate Tamil groups have indicated to consider tp channel funds... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
Remedies for the Plight of School Leavers
Deciding what to do when you leave school is tough. It becomes a nightmare for students and parents alike when you suddenly find yourself not having enough marks to qualify for a place in a university. Every year about 270,000 students face this dilemma. Let's delve a little deeper into the unpleasant statistics. In all streams of study combined, about 70% of GCE (O/L) students qualify for A/L and then out of around 350,000 who sit A/L about 63% become eligible for admission to a university. However due to the limited capacity of the universities, on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
මාර්තු 28 (සඳුදා) සල්ලි අච්චු ගැහිල්ල රු. ලක්ෂ 272,800 යි අච්චු ගහන කඩදාසි කන්න බැරි නිසා, ආහාර මිල වැඩිවෙනවා.-හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් කියයි
2022 පෙබරවාරි 27 සිට මාර්තු 28 (ඊයේ) දක්වා මාසයක කාලය තුල මහ බැංකුව විසින් රු. මිලියන 216,470 ක් අච්චු ගසා ඇත. කැබිනට් බලතල සහිත මහ බැංකු අධිපති ධූරයක් ස්ථාපනය කර එයට අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් පත් කිරීමෙන් පසුව අච්චු ගසා ඇති මුදල රු. ලක්ෂ 4,434,700 ක් (රු.බිලියන 443.47) කි. සඳුදා (මාර්තු 28) අච්චු ගැසූ රු. ලක්ෂ 222,800 ක මුදලත් සමඟ වත්මන් රජය බලයට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව අද දක්වා (2020 ජනවාරි සිට 2022 මාර්තු 28 දක්වා) අච්චු ගසා ඇති මුළු මුදල රු. මිලියන දාසය ලක්ෂ විසි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
(Pakistan) Blasphemy Law – Treatment from the root – need of the hour.
Religious blasphemy laws can be a touchy subject, especially in Pakistan, where just bringing up the subject of the blasphemy laws and whether they are right or wrong is considered, well …blasphemous. This wasn’t always the case. The sentiment behind most blasphemy laws is easy to understand. No person or group should insult another religion’s beliefs or holy personages, or desecrate their Holy Scriptures, icons, or places of worship. Yet the golden rule is the foundation of many freedoms—from speech to the press to privacy. The right to choose and practice a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
නොරිටාකේ ඉහළ කළමනාකාරීත්වය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හමුවෙයි
නොරිටාකේ ලංකා පෝසිලේන් (පුද්) සමාගමේ ඉහළ කළමනාකාරීත්වය අද (29) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා හමුවිය. සමාගමේ විධායක උපදේශක සිරිනිමල් පෙරේරා, ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ටී.සී තෙන්නකෝන්, අධ්‍යක්ෂ/සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී සුජාතා එගොඩගෙදර මහත්ම මහත්මීහු මෙසේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා හමුවූහ. නොරිටාකේ ලංකා පෝසිලේන් (පුද්) සමාගම මේ දක්වා ලබා ඇති ව්‍යාපාරික ප්‍රගතිය පිළිබඳව ඔවුහු මෙහි දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා දැනුවත් කළහ. ජපානයේ නොරිටාකේ සමූහ ව්‍යාපාරය සහ සිලෝන් සෙරමික් කෝපරේෂන් අතර හවුල් ව්‍යාපාර සමාගමක් ලෙස නොරිටාකේ ලංකා පෝසිලේන් (පුද්) සමාගම ආරම්භ වූයේ 1972 වසරේ දීය. එතැන් පටන් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පුරෝගාමී පෝසිලේන් පිඟන් භාණ්ඩ නිෂ්පාදන ආයතනයක් බවට නොරිටාකේ ලංකා පෝසිලේන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
“හරිත දැයක්” ජාතික ගෙවතු වගා සංග්‍රාමයට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අරලියගහ මන්දිර පරිශ්‍රයේ කොස් පැලයක් රෝපණය කරයි
“හරිත දැයක්” ජාතික ගෙවතු වගා සංග්‍රාමය - 2022 ජාතික වැඩසටහනේ සමාරම්භය සනිටුහන් කරමින් අද (29) පෙරවරුවේ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අරලියගහ මන්දිර පරිශ්‍රයේ දී කොස් පැලයක් රෝපණය කළේය. පෙරවරු 9.18 යෙදුණ සුභ මොහොතින් හිරෝසා ප්‍රබේදයට අයත් කොස් පැලයක් මෙසේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා විසින් මෙහිදී රෝපණය කරන ලදි. වස විසෙන් තොර පෝෂණයෙන් පිරි නැවුම් එළවළු හා පළතුරු, පලාවර්ග, අලවර්ග ඇතුළු බෝග සිය ගෙවත්තෙන්ම සපයා ගැනීමට සැලසීමත් ඒ තුළින් නිරෝගී හා ස්වයංපෝෂිත පවුල් ඒකකයක් බිහිකිරීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව “හරිත දැයක්” ජාතික ගෙවතු වගා සංග්‍රාමය ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ. මෙම ජාතික වැඩසටහන අනුව යමින් අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් අනුර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය එස්. ජෙයිශංකර් (S. Jaishankar) මහතා අතර හමුවක්
තෙදින නිල සංචාරයක් සඳහා දිවයිනට පැමිණ සිටින ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය එස්. ජෙයිශංකර් (S. Jaishankar) මහතා සහ ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර හමුවක් ඊයේ (2022.03.28) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි. එම අවස්ථාවේදී, 2014 වර්ෂයේ උතුරු වසන්තය වැඩසටහනට සමඟාමීව ඉන්දියානු හා ශ්රී ලංකා රජයන් අතර අත්සන් කළ ගිවිසුමට අනුව ඉදිකළ, යාපනයේ සංස්කෘතික මධ්‍යස්ථානය ජනතා අයිතියට පත් කිරීම මාර්ග ගත ක්‍රමය ඔස්සේ සිදු විය. ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හා ඉන්දීය විදේශ අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය එස්. ජෙයිශංකර් (S. Jaishankar) යන මහත්වරුන් අතින් එය ජනගත කරන ලදී. ඉන්දියානු රජය විසින් උතුරු පළාතේ ඉදි කළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
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ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුවෙන් ජනාධිපති ගෝටාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත යොමු කරන ලද ලිපියක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා,ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය,කොළඹ අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, ඩොලර් අර්බුදය යොදාගනිමින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍යයට එරෙහිව දියත් කෙරෙනපංචවිධ වටලෑම සහ එම ක්‍රියාවලිය තුළ රණවිරු දඩයමට ඉඩ සැළසීම පිළිබඳව මේ වන විට රටේ විදේශ සංචිත සිදීයාම හෙවත් ගෙවුම් ශේෂ හිඟය වර්ධනය වීම රාජ්‍ය ආදායම් වියදම් පරතරය වැඩිවීම සහ විදේශ ණය ආපසු ගෙවීම පිළිබඳ ගැටළුකාරී තත්වයන් නිසා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ රජයට බරපතළ ආර්ථික අර්බුදයකට මුහුණදීමට සිදුව ඇති බව ප්‍රකට කරුණකි. ඊට අමතරව එම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
ආර්ථිකඋද්ධමනය 55%යි.. ලංකාව ලෝකයෙන්ම හයවෙනියා.. ආජන්ටිනාවත් පරදවයි.. ජෝන් හොප්කින්ස් ලොක්කෙකුගේ විචාරය මෙන්න…
ජෝන් හොප්කින්ස් විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ව්‍යවහාරික ආර්ථික විද්‍යාව පිළිබඳ මහාචාර්යවරයෙක් වන ස්ටීව් හැන්කි මහතාගේ නවතම උද්ධමන වගුවට අනූව ශ්රී ලංකාව හයවෙනි ස්ථානය දක්වා ඉහළට පැමිණ ඇත. ස්ටීව් හැන්කි මහතාගේ උද්ධමන වගුවට අනූව 14.2% ක් ව තිබූ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ උද්ධමනය 55% දක්වා වාර්තාගත ලෙස ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත. මහාචාර්ය ස්ටීව් මහතාට අනූව ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ 1884 සිට 1950 දක්වා ක්‍රියාත්මක මුදල් මණ්ඩලයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම තුළින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තිබෙන ඉහළ උද්ධමනයට කදිම විසඳුමක් සොයාගත හැකි බව ස්ටීව් හැන්කි මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. විශේෂ කාරණය නම් මීට පෙර මහාචාර්ය හැන්කි මහතාගේ උද්ධමන වගුවට ශ්රී ලංකාව ඇතුළත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
India Scores a Strategic Victory Over China in Sri Lanka
India has signed an agreement to set up power plants in northern Sri Lanka months after China suspended its plans for similar projects. India signed an agreement to set up hybrid power projects on northern Sri Lankan islands Tuesday in a deal seen as a strategic victory in its competition with China for influence in the Indian Ocean. India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who was visiting Colombo, witnessed the signing along with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Gamini Peiris, the Indian embassy said. In December, China... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
Aid Sri Lanka’s economy and not Rajapaksa’s grip
India should help Colombo get past its economic crisis for the sake of friendly ties and our regional interests. But this should be done in a way that doesn’t strengthen its leader’s power Sri Lanka’s finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, brother of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been in talks with our foreign minister S. Jaishankar in Colombo on helping its cash-strapped economy out. Reports indicate that the island-nation has sought an additional $1 billion by way of a credit line, which would be on top of the $2.4 billion aid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
Sri Lanka’s media clarification reveals two recent defence pacts with India
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COLOMBO A media clarification issued by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence has brought to light two recent defence pacts it has signed with India that neither side officially announced. “The recently signed maritime security pacts with the Government of India will not result in hindrance or threat to the national security of Sri Lanka,” said a media statement issued by the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
India, China, Bangladesh to help Sri Lanka steer economic crisis
India, China and Bangladesh have stepped in to help Sri Lanka weather a foreign exchange shortage that has forced it to devalue its currency amid soaring inflation, and to seek International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance. Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis in decades is a result of mismanaged government finances and ill-timed tax cuts, alongside the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. With only $2.31 billion left in reserves, Sri Lanka has to repay debt of about $4 billion over the rest of this year, including a $1 billion-international sovereign bond that matures... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
Defence Ministry clarifies media reports on maritime security pacts with India
The Ministry of Defence today (March 29) clarified the media reports on the maritime security pacts signed with the Indian government for the receipt of Floating Dock Facility, Dornier Reconnaissance Aircraft, and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Colombo (MRCC). In a statement, the ministry noted that the recently signed maritime security pacts with India will neither result in hindrance nor threat to the national security of Sri Lanka, as misinterpreted by several print and electronic media. According to the ministry, the receipt of the Floating Dock Facility from India at no... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/22)
Dairy industry and price of milk
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered price controls on farmgate prices of milk, following a visit to Milco, a state-run dairy firm.” The present Farm gate price is Rs 80-110. Dairy farmers demand that it should be Rs 130. Dairy industry is one which has immense potential but also one of the most neglected industries in Sri Lanka. The local production is only 35% of the required milk and the balance imported mainly in the form of milk powder. It is also noted that the consumption of dairy products per capita is very... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
LTTE Diaspora & Sri Lanka’s Economy & Balkanizing India
This news is upsetting for several reasons as there are many Sri Lankans who selflessly defended the nation with their own funding in the halls of Geneva against the lying machine of the LTTE Diaspora inspite of successive governments offering only lukewarm assistance. For 3 decades India & West between each other manipulated LTTE against Sri Lanka. That was phase 1 of their plan & then came Phase 2 which meant the need to remove the ground force of the LTTE & that successfully came to a conclusion using the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
ඩොලර් අර්බුධයෙන් ගොඩ ඒමට ආණ්ඩුව හමුදාකරණය විය යුතුය.
අපේ ඩොලර් අර්බුධය පැන නැගී ඇත්තේ පසුගිය ආණ්ඩු වල වැරදි වලට වඩා විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ වල කඩා කප්පල් කාරී ක්‍රියාවලියන් නිසාය. 56 සිටම රට අගාධයට දැම්මේ මේ කඩාකප්පලකාරීන්ය. මහජනතාව පත්කර එවන ආණ්ඩු වලට වැඩ කරන්න නොදුන්නේ විරුද්ද පක්ෂ ය. විරුද්ද පක්ෂවලට ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රශ්න වලට විසඳුම් නැත. ආණ්ඩු අභියෝගයන් අභිභවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part16 F Pt 3
The LTTE was able to obtain the support of the Tamils living in the north through clever propaganda. Kumaran Pathmanathan, (KP) said he had got involved in politics in the 1970s at the early stages of the Tamil youth uprising in the Northern Province. At that time there was much unrest among the youth. Our political leaders were very keen on taking the advantage of the unrest and mobilizing youth. Politicians gave emotional speeches to us students. We attended their political meetings, They spoke on ‘very emotional things.’ They would speak and elaborate about... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
Colombo asks Beijing for another 2.5 billion in loans
The amount would be added to the 2.8 billion the Chinese have granted since the outbreak of the pandemic. New economic agreements also with India. Blackouts continue due to lack of fuel. Colombo (AsiaNews) - Sri Lanka has made a new request to China for 2.5 billion dollars: a loan of one billion dollars and a line of credit of 1.5 billion, which would be added to the 2.8 billion in assistance that Beijing has granted Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
What's behind Sri Lanka's economic crisis?
Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst economic crises in recent decades, with skyrocketing inflation, weak government finances and COVID wreaking havoc on the economy. The economic pain has caused growing anxiety and frustration among Sri Lankans Sharine Silva, a hair and makeup artist in Colombo, has been struggling to make ends meet as costs of essential items skyrocket in Sri Lanka, which has been facing one of its worst economic crises in recent decades. "There's no fresh milk or milk powder for tea. Prices for baby milk formula are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
BR tries to duck IMF debate, MR gives nod
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa who has not attended Parliament for the past three months will finally have to attend sittings and face questions from legislators when the IMF debate is taken up for discussion in the first week of April following a nod given by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday. The Daily Mirror learns that Basil had no intention of debating the IMF report and had even in the All Party Conference mentioned that it was only a draft that had been readied by the IMF and this was subject to change.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
UNP hints RW to play a major role soon?
UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardene today hinted that there will be a national consensus soon where all the parties will get together to resolve the crisis which Sri Lanka has been plunged into and Ranil Wickremesinghe will play a major role in it. Abeywardedne told a press conference that the need of the hour was to establish a national consensus forgetting party politics. "It is also essential to hand over the nation to the best person who could pull the country through from the present economic crisis. The best person who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
SriLankan Airlines suspends flights to Moscow
SriLankan Airlines announced the suspension of operations between Sri Lanka and Moscow, Russia with effect from today (March 28), due to operational restrictions that are outside of the airline’s control. The restrictions are in the form of international financial and aircraft insurance limits which have been imposed on Russia due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and directly impact SriLankan Airlines’ flight operations to Russia, the national carrier said. Accordingly, SriLankan Airlines will cease operations to Moscow until further notice. The airline expressed regret for any inconvenience caused to customers by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
Sri Lanka seeks further $1 billion credit line from India - reports
Sri Lanka has sought an additional credit line of $1 billion from India to import essentials amid its worst economic crisis in decades, two sources said on Monday, as the Indian foreign minister began talks with the government of its neighbour. The island nation is struggling to pay for essential imports of food and fuel after a 70% drop in foreign exchange reserves since January 2020 led to a currency devaluation and efforts to seek help from global lenders. https://youtu.be/qLcwjRDu4sg New Delhi has indicated it would meet the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
US assistance for renewable energy projects in Sri Lanka
The recent US-SL Partnership Dialogue underlined our commitment to a democratic, prosperous, and sovereign Sri Lanka. I met with President
GotabayaR to discuss SL’s economic challenges and how we can work together to promote inclusive governance and protect
USAmbSL) March 28, 2022 https://youtu.be/rMpVsstL1_g US Ambassador Julie Chung has said that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide credit facilities for Renewable Energy Projects in Sri Lanka, the President’s Media Division reported. The Ambassador had made these remarks when she called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
Cabinet approval to revise train fares
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for Sri Lanka Railways to revise train fares of several categories, according to Transport Minister Dilum Amunugama. He said that the effective date for the fare revision will be announced later. Accordingly, the rail fares are to be increased as follows:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part16 F Pt 2.
By 2002, LTTE had an army (the ground forces), navy (the Sea Tigers), air force (the Air Tigers), and the LTTE intelligence wing (the Tiger Organization Security Intelligence Service, (TOSIS). The LTTE intelligence wing, known as the Tiger Organization Security intelligence Service (TOSIS) was formed in December 1983 and was originally based inChennai. In 1993, TOSIS was divided into two divisions, the national intelligence division and the military intelligence service. The national intelligence division had five departments: 1) the intelligence gathering section headed by Kapil Ammam who was also the deputy chief... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
Why Indian troops should never return to Sri Lanka
It was the first time India had sent its troops beyond the seas to Sri Lanka in July 1987 to engage the very militants India had trained, armed & funded. The Indian Army Chief Gen. Sundarji declared “if the LTTE does not agree and wants to take on the Indian Army, we will finish them within a week or 10 days” Ironically, it was with the very arms India had supplied, that LTTE killed over 1200 Indian peace keeping soldiers & officers while maiming over 3000, eventually suffering a humiliating return to back to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE 7 MILLION WHO DESTROYED SRI LANKA
· Fundamentally racist · Indifferent to corruption · Inherently selfish · Basically foolish though imagining themselves to be wise, and · Afflicted with a malignant distorted religiosity Prof. Asoka N.I. Ekanayaka This article is not primarily about the woeful record of the present government. Nor is it about the abomination of governance by family oligarchy in whose stranglehold a nation groans in every part as if being slowly crushed by the constricting coils of some giant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part16 F Pt 1.
LTTE was a separatist movement poised to take over the north and east. By 1986, the LTTE had 25 military bases and many more sub-bases within the Northern Province, in the populated areas of Jaffna and in the thick jungles of Vavuniya, reported Joanne Richard (2014). By 1987, roads approaching these bases had been fitted with hidden use-wires and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) developed by the LTTE inside Jaffna University. The northern and eastern provinces were divided into five military regions, Jaffna, Mannar, Wanni (Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, and Mullaitivu), Trincomalee, and Batticaloa (including Ampara). Each... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
GENEVA WAR CRIMES ALLEGATIONS – GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO CHANGE STRATEGY
The Tamil Diaspora (and their western allies) and the TNA exert immense pressure on Western Nations to set up an International Tribunal to investigate the bogus War Crimes allegations that have been made against Sri Lanka. The Western countries pay high deference to Tamils as the Tamil vote is crucial for any party to win elections (there are millions of Sri Lankan Tamils living in these countries). Furthermore, the worldwide Tamil movements are extremely powerful. Some operate as viscious cabals. Tamil groups mollycoddle many leading Western politicians. They fund Western election campaigns.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
සර්ව පාක්ෂික පරණ මිතුරු සංදර්ශනය
පසුගිය සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුවේදී කබ්රාල් පටන් ගත්තේ පහුගිය ආණ්ඩුවේ වැරදි නිසා ආර්ථික දුෂ්කරතා පැන නැගී ඇතිබවය. කපටි සිනාවකින් රනිල් පිළිතුරු දුන්නේ විජේ රජු දක්වා යන බවයි. විජේ හොර ගෙඩියාය. තක්කඩි යාය. තාත්තා බැරිම තැන විජේව පිටුවහල් කළේය. නැවක දමා පාකර ඇරියේය. නැව ලංකාවට ආවේය කුවේණි බැන්දේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් කොළඹ පැවති බංග්ලාදේශයේ 51වැනි නිදහස් හා ජාතික දින සැමරුම
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය සංවිධානය කළ බංග්ලාදේශයේ 51වැනි නිදහස් හා ජාතික දින සැමරුම අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (26) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ, ගාලුමුවදොර හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් තාරික් මොහමඩ් අරිෆුල් ඉස්ලාම් මහතාගේ ආරාධනයෙන් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමඟ අග්රාමාත්ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති වික්රමසිංහ රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය ද මෙම සැමරුම් උත්සවයට එක්වූවාය. ශ්රී ලංකාව සහ බංග්ලාදේශය අතර රාජතාන්ත්‍රික සබඳතාවලට 2022 වර්ෂයට වසර 50ක් ගත වීමද විශේෂත්වයකි. කථානායක මහින්ද යාපා අබේවර්ධන,අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන ජොන්ස්ටන් ප්රනාන්දු,එස්.බී. දිසානායක,ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් තාරික් මොහමඩ් අරිෆුල් ඉස්ලාම්, රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය තාරක බාලසූරිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
අමාරු කාලයක් වුවද, ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රශ්න දිහා බලලා සහනයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩපිළිවෙලකට යනවා- අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
අපට අමාරු කාලයක් තියෙන්නෙ, ඒ අමාරු කාලය පිළිගන්න ඕන. හැබැයි ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රශ්න දිහා බලලා සහනයක් ලබාදෙන වැඩපිළිවෙලකට යනවා යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජගත් කුමාර මහතාගේ දේශපාලන දිවියට වසර 20 පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් බත්තරමුල්ලේ පැවති උපහාර පිදීමේ උත්සවයට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (26) පස්වරුවේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙම අවස්ථාවට රාමඤ්ඤ මහා නිකායේ අනුනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය වලේබොඩ ගුණසිරි අනුනායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ ඇතුළු මහා සංඝරත්නය ද වැඩම කළහ. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජගත් කුමාර මහතාගේ දේශපාලන දිවියට වසර 20 පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් පැවති උත්සවයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කළ කතාව මෙසේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
නව පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද යෝජනාව -ලොකු පක්ෂයකට බත්-කොස් දෙකම බෙදා, කාන්තා නියෝජනය නැති කරනවා
යෝජිත පලාත් පාලන ඡන්ද ක්‍රමය ලොකු පක්ෂයක් ‘බත් කොස් දෙකම බෙදා ගන්නා අතර, සෙසු කුඩා පක්ෂවලට කැඳත් නැති කරයි. ලංකාවේ ඡන්ද ක්‍රමයට පදනම් වී ඇති ‘එක් ඡන්දයක් - එකම වටිනාකමක්‘ සංකල්පයට පිටින් ‘ලොකු අයට ලොකු කුට්ටිය‘ බෙදන ක්‍රමය නියෝජිත ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය විනාශ කරන බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රෙය් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකොන් පවසයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාව හරහා යෝජිත නව ඡන්ද ක්‍රමය මගින් පලාත් ආණ්ඩුකරණයට සිදුවන කිසිදු යහපතක් නැති නමුත්, ලියාපදිංචි දේශපාලන පක්ෂ බහුතරයක් මැතිවරණ සිතියමෙන් අතුගා දමනු ඇත. නව ඡන්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
Sri Lanka Is Facing ‘Clear Solvency Problem’: IMF Report
Debt issues seen constraining growth, jeopardize economyNegotiations on possible IMF support to start in April Bloomberg - Sri Lanka faces “solvency” issues because of risks stemming from unsustainable debt levels that jeopardize the nation’s economy, according to International Monetary Fund staff. “Based on staff analysis, the fiscal consolidation necessary to bring debt down to safe levels would require excessive adjustment over the coming years, pointing to a clear solvency problem,” the IMF said in its Article IV consultation report, released Friday in Washington. The full report provides further analysis... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
IMF releases staff report on Sri Lanka: Read full report
March 27 (AdaDerana) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Sri Lanka needs to implement a credible and coherent strategy covering both the near- and medium-term to restore macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability. In its Staff Report for the 2021 Article IV Consultation with Sri Lanka, the IMF recommended a comprehensive set of policies with specific measures. The IMF noted that reforms should focus on strengthening VAT and income taxes through rate increases and base-broadening measures. Fiscal adjustment should be accompanied by energy pricing reforms to reduce fiscal risks from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
ශ්රී ලන්කන් රුසියානු ගුවන් ගමන් සියල්ල නතර කරයි.. යුක්රේනයට පක්ෂ වී රුසියාවට විරුද්ද වීමක්.
රුසියාව සහ ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර ගුවන් ගමන් සියල්ල 26 රාත්‍රියේ සිට නවතා දැමීමට ශ්රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවය තීරණය කොට ඇති බවට තොරතුරු වාර්තා වෙයි. එහි නව ප්‍රධාන වාණිජ නිලධාරී ලෙස රිචඩ් නට්ල් විසින් විසින් මෙම තීන්දුව ගෙන ඇති බව දැනගන්නට ඇත. පසුගිය කාල සමය පුරාම ලංකාවට වැඩිම සංචාරකයන් පිරිසක් පැමිණියේ රුසියාවෙනි. නට්ල් විසින් ගෙන ඇති මෙම තීන්දුවත් සමග ශ්රී ලංන්කන් ගුවන් සේවයට පමණක් නොව සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයටද විශාල බලපෑමක් සිදුවනු ඇති බව විශ්ලේෂකයන්ගේ මතය වී තිබේ. ඇතැම් වාර්තා සදහන් කරන්නේ රුසියානු-යුක්රේන යුද්ධය හේතුකොටගෙන රුසියාවට විරෝධය පළකිරීමක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
බහුතරය නැතිවෙන්න ආසන තුනයි.. ආණ්ඩු පෙරලියක් අත ලගමයි..
පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළින් ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දමන්නේ කෙසේදැයි 43 සේනාංක නායක, හිටපු අමාත්‍ය, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී පාඨලී චම්පික රණවක මහතා ඊයේ හෙළිදරව් කළේය. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළ වත්මන් පොදුජන පෙරමුණු ආණ්ඩුවේ සරළ බහුතරය අහිමි වීම සඳහා තවත් ඇත්තේ මන්ත්රී ආසන 3 ක වෙනසක් පමණක් බවය. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදු කරන විවේචන මෙන්ම ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සමග සන්ධානගතව සිට පසුගියදා අමාත්‍ය ධුරයන්ගෙන් ඉවත් කරන ලද විමල් – ගම්මන්පිල ප්‍රමුඛ පක්ෂ 11 සන්ධානය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ ඇතුළු රාජපක්ෂවරුන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැන් සිදු කරන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
Pressure of mass opinion near explosion: Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe
Police and forces will back the people Blames a single family appropriating all credit for war victory Pressure building up among the masses over the current country situation imposing unbearable hardship on them is nearing exploding point. In the event of a public uprising it would be impossible to prevent the police and security forces taking the side of people, SLPP MP Wijayadasa Rajapakshe, PC, said last week. He identified the beginning of the crisis to a single family taking the credit for the war victory against the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
Govt decides to hold parliament debate on IMF report
The government has decided to hold a debate on the IMF report when Parliament meets in the first week of April, says Chief Government Whip Minister Johnston Fernando. Former Prime Minister and Leader of the United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremesinghe, had called for an immediate debate in Parliament on the IMF report on Sri Lanka. “As the Government has agreed to engage the IMF for financial assistance, the Parliament must be briefed on their plan of action,” he had said. Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella had also written to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/22)
Summon the Parliament Immediately to have an emergency debate as to how all these agreements have singed without prior Cabinet approval?
Summon the Parliament Immediately to have an emergency debate as to how all these agreements have singed without prior Cabinet approval? I am asking this question, as a citizen of this country on behalf of the whole country, as neither the Leader of the Opposition nor any other MP including even Ranil or any other MP, the so-called representatives of the people, dares to raise this issue. I also ask the question as to why the officers, who are veterans of the procedures on international Agreements didn’t refuse to sing them without... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
USLA Spokespersons Report April 2021 to March 2022
The year began with the communal strife stirring news that A Tamil Genocide/ Mullivaikal Remembrance day ,along the lines of those in Ontario Canada, was to be observed at meeting to be held on the 18th May’21 in Auckland, , the day before the Ranaviru commemoration in Wellington. Spurred on by frustrations expressed by many in the community at this news, I wrote to Prime Minister Jacinda Arden expressing these frustrations, siting this as a violation of our human rights through being the targets of a now clearly disproven allegation. I provided the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
IMF ලංකා වාර්තාව - සුරංගනා කතාවෙන් රටක් ඇන්දවූ මහ බැංකු අධිපති, දේශපාලනඥයින් නිරුවත් කිරීමකි
රටටත්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවටත් ආර්ථික අර්බුදය ගැන නොමඟයවන යැවූ මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් සහ ආණ්ඩුවේ දේශපාලනයින් ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල් වාර්තාව මගින් නිරුවත් වී ඇතැයි, ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදලේ ශ්රී ලංකා වාර්තාව ගැන නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරයෙකු ලෙස පාර්ලිමේන්තුවටත්, මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා ලෙස ‘හය මසක මාර්ග සිතියමක්‘ මැයෙන් අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් ඉදිරිපත් කළ තර්කයන්ගේ හා කරුණුවල හරසුන් හා නිරර්ථක බව, IMF ලංකා වාර්තාව මගින් නිරාවරණය වී ඇත. IMF ලංකා වාර්තාවට අනුව, ලංකාවේ දළ දේශීය නිශ්පාදනය සහ ණය ප්‍රමාණය අතර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
විදුලි අර්බුදයට විසඳුමක් ලෙස පුනර්ජනනීය බල ශක්තිය යොදා ගැනීමේ බාධා ඉවත් කරන්න - අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා
විදුලි අර්බුදයට විසඳුමක් ලෙස පුනර්ජනනීය බල ශක්තිය යොදා ගැනීමට පවතින බාධාවන් ඉවත් කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය කඩිනම් ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්ති හා සැළසුම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේ අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම් අනුෂ පැල්පිට මහතාට ඊයේ (25) උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්ති හා සැළසුම් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචන රැස්වීම ඊයේ (25) පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැති අවස්ථාවේ ඊට එක්වෙමින් විෂයභාර අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. මෙම අමාත්‍යාංශයට අයත් ජාතික ක්‍රම සම්පාදන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ජනලේඛන හා සංඛ්‍යාලේඛන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ප්‍රතිපත්ති අධ්‍යයන ආයතනය, තිරසර සංවර්ධන සභාව, කොම්ප්ට්‍රෝලර් ජනරාල් කාර්යාලය, තක්සේරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ශ්රී ලංකා ගිණුම් සහ විගණන ප්‍රමිති සමීක්ෂණ මණ්ඩලය, ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
Sri Lanka faces solvency issues on unsustainable debt, IMF says
A surge in global crude prices and the loss of tourists because of the war in Ukraine exacerbated the country's foreign exchange crisis. People queue to buy oil for home use at a petrol station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, amid surging prices and shortages. AFP Sri Lanka faces “solvency” issues because of risks stemming from unsustainable debt levels that jeopardise the nation’s economy, the International Monetary Fund has said. “Based on staff analysis, the fiscal consolidation necessary to bring debt down to safe levels would require excessive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
US $ 1Bn loan from China to settle previous loans
The proposed US $ 1 billion loan to be obtained from China will be utilised to settle the previous loans from the Chinese banks, Daily Mirror learns. Sri Lanka’s current loans from China also amount to nearly US $ 1 billion, a top source said. The latest method will be adopted since China does not have the concept of rescheduling debts. The authorities of the two countries are currently negotiating terms and conditions of the new financial facility to be extended. Besides, there will be another US $... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
IMF releases staff report on Sri Lanka; calls for strengthening VAT and income taxes
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Sri Lanka needs to implement a credible and coherent strategy covering both the near- and medium-term to restore macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability. In its Staff Report for the 2021 Article IV Consultation with Sri Lanka, the IMF recommended a comprehensive set of policies with specific measures. The IMF noted that reforms should focus on strengthening VAT and income taxes through rate increases and base-broadening measures. Fiscal adjustment should be accompanied by energy pricing reforms to reduce fiscal risks from loss-making public enterprises, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/22)
තලබෝල වටය
අප මේ යුහුසුළු වෙන්නේ ඊනියා දියුණුවේ හිණිපෙත්තටම නගින්නටය. කොහොම වෙතත් ඊනියා දියුණුව වනාහි පල් වුන මඩගොහොරුවක් වග තේරුම් ගත් ඇත්තන් පහුගිය අවුරුදු දෙක තුන ඇතුළත එය තවත් යසට තේරුම් කර ගත්හ. තේරුම්ගත් ඇත්තන් හා නොතේරුණ ඇත්තන් අතර තියෙන්නේ ලොකු පරතරයක්ය. නොතේරුණ ඇත්තන් කොවිඩ් සමයට පෙර තිබූ ඊනියා 'නෝමැල්ටිය' එනු ඇතැයි මග බලන් අරහෙන් මෙහෙන් යදින්නේය, ඇති යමක් ඇත්නම් ඒවා විකුණන්නේය. එහෙමත් නැත්නම් පෙළපාලි යමින් උද්ඝෝෂණ කරන්නේය. 'ග්ලෝබල් ප්‍රොපර්ටි'යක් වන සයිබර් අවකාශ හිතුමතේ භාවිත කර උන්මාද සිතුවම් මවන්නේය. ආණ්ඩු පෙරළන්න බල ලෝභය පෙරටු කරගෙන නං විකාර දොඩවන්නේය, කොටින්ම රැයක් දවාලක් නැතුව බොර දියේ මාළු බාන්න දත කන්නේය.ඊනියා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
නව ලංකා ඩොලර් එකක් අච්චු ගහමු.
අපේ මුදල් ඒකක රුපියල් ශතය. දැන් අපි භාවිතා කරන්නේ රුපියල් විතරය. ශත නැතිවී ගොස් බොහෝ කල්ය. මහ බැංකුව print කරන්නේ රුපියල් විතරය. අපිට මුදල් ඒකක දෙකක් වත් ඕනය. එකක් රුපියල් ය අනෙක ලංකා ඩොලර් ය. මිලියන් 20 ජනගහනයට පාවිච්ච්යට රුපියල් ගොඩක් අවශ්‍යය. ලංකා ඩොලර් පොඩ්ඩය. මිනිස්සු කතා කරන්නේ සංඛ්‍යාය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වන බැටී වීරකෝන්, එම්.එස්. සෙල්ලසාමි, ජස්ටින් ගලප්පත්ති සහ තංගේෂ්වරී කදිරාමන් මහත්ම මහත්මීන්ගේ අභාවයන් පිළිබඳ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා අද (25) දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී කළ ශෝක ප්රකාශ යෝජනාව
ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, මෙම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ හිටපු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වන බැටී වීරකෝන් මැතිතුමා, එම්.එස්.සෙල්ලසාමි මැතිතුමා, ජස්ටින් ගලප්පත්ති මැතිතුමා, තංගේෂ්වරී කදි-රාමන් මැතිණිය පිළිබඳව ශෝක ප්රකාශ යෝජනාවන් මා මේ ගරු සභාවට ඉදිරිපත් කරනවා. ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, ලංකා සමසමාජ පක්ෂයෙන් දේශපාලනයට පිවිසි බැටී වීරකෝන් මැතිතුමා මහනුවර ත්‍රිත්ව විද්‍යාලයෙන් අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබූ අතර ලක්ෂ්මන් කදිර්ගාමර් මැතිතුමාගේ සමකාලීනයෙක්. එතුමා පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ශිෂ්‍ය සභාවේ සභාපති ලෙස ද කටයුතු කළා. වාම වාදී දේශපාලනයට කැපවූ එතුමා 1953 හර්තාලයේදී පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සිට එයට සම්බන්ධවී සිය විප්ලවකාරී දේශපාලනය මනාව පෙන්නුම් කළා. සමසමාජ පක්ෂයට බැඳුණු එතුමා එන්.එම්. කොල්වින්, ලෙස්ලි, බර්නාඩ්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
මෙරට වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපනය නගාසිටුවීම වෙනුවෙන් කොරියාව තවදුරටත් සහයෝගය ලබාදීමට එකඟ වේ
ඔරුගොඩවත්ත කොරියානු තාක්ෂණික අභ්‍යාස ආයතනයේ (K Tec) විශේෂ නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවකට ශ්රී ලංකා කොරියානු තානාපති වූන්ජින් ජියොන්ග් (Woonjin Jeong) මහතා සහ කොරියානු EXIM බැංකුවට අයත් මෙරට නියෝජිත කාර්යාලයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂක Ha Wonsuk මහතා ඇතුළු කොරියානු නියෝජිතයින් පිරිසක් ඊයේ දින (24) සහභාගී වූ අතර ඒ සඳහා ගරු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය, විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණිය ද එක් විය. එම නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවෙන් අනතුරුව විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් ද පැවති අතර මෙරට වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපනය ලබන සිසුන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපන කටයුතු තවදුරටත් නගාසිටුවීම වෙනුවෙන් අවශ්‍ය සහයෝගය ලබාදෙන ලෙස රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යතුමිය විසින් කොරියානු නියෝජිතයින්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් සිදුකළ අතර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
The Requirement of Military Diplomacy Between Bangladesh-Myanmar
Military diplomacy has long been one of the essential constituents of international diplomacy and an effective methodology, to foster bilateral and regional relationships. Military training cooperation is an essential component of military diplomacy and helps to build close ties with other nations. Such cooperation also helps to strengthen strategic security relationships and address common security concerns. Bangladesh and Myanmar are two neighboring countries having 271 kilometers of the international boundary. After the independence of Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh on 13 January 1972 as a sovereign state. On 13 August 1973, a general... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
As Sri Lankan economic crisis deepens, officials say 2,000 to 4,000 refugees may land in Tamil Nadu
Prices of essential commodities are skyrocketing in Sri Lanka, deepening the ongoing economic crisis. Many Tamil refugees are crossing the sea and arriving in Tamil Nadu. Officials estimate that if the ongoing crisis continues, 2,000 to 4,000 refugees may land in Tamil Nadu. A group of Sri Lankan refugees who arrived in Tamil Nadu in the midst of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka.https://trinitymedia.ai/player/trinity-player.php?language=en&gaAccountId=UA-795349-17&partner=IndiaTodayGroup&pageURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiatoday.in%2Findia%2Fstory%2Fas-sri-lankan-economic-crisis-deepens-officials-say-refugees-may-land-in-tamil-nadu-1929291-2022-03-25&unitId=2900004882&userId=cd441e7d-17a6-47d4-ae7e-64acf4161163&isLegacyBrowser=false&version=20220325_f962b3561135c6b59e675ccd44db018195416f39&useCFCDN=0&themeId=197 With the price of essential commodities skyrocketing, Sri Lankan refugees have begun to flock to Tamil Nadu. On Tuesday, March 22, a family of six... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
Five defence agreements signed with India: Handunnetti
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today revealed that the government had entered into five defence agreements with India in line with the recently obtained US$1 billion credit facility, despite claims that no condition had been laid down in the credit line. Former JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti told a news conference that these agreements had been signed violating the due procedure prior to Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa's visit to India. "Basil on his return from India said there were no conditions pertaining to the US$1 billion credit line obtained from India.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
What Is a Currency Board?
A currency board is an extreme form of a pegged exchange rate. Management of the exchange rate and the money supply are taken away from the nation's central bank, if it has one. In addition to a fixed exchange rate, a currency board is also generally required to maintain reserves of the underlying foreign currency. KEY TAKEAWAYS A currency board is an extreme form of a pegged exchange rate.Often, this monetary authority has direct instructions to back all units of domestic currency in circulation with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
Dump rupee, install currency board, top US economist tells SL
A top US economist has recommended the dumping of the rupee and installing a currency board as the only way to save Sri Lanka’s economy. Steve H. Hanke of the John Hopkins University notes the country had such an entity from 1884 to 1950. He tweeted, “Today, I measure inflation in Sri Lanka at a roaring 49%/yr. Sri Lanka’s currency crisis and recent fuel price hikes are sinking LKA……” “Since January 1st 2022, the Sri Lankan rupee has depreciated ~26% against the USD. Sri Lanka’s severe balance... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/22)
Getting out of the economic anarchy
It is good news that we have reached an input of $ 1 billion aid from India and that China is considering and very likely to give a 2.5 b. loan, but this can bring us out of the economic mess we are in if only we act in a prudent manner. It all depends on how we spend the funds. We do not have to wonder far, because if we closely copy the blueprint economic model of the days of Premier Dudley Senanayake, 1965-1970, days when we had no food, gas and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
සාගර සරසවි විශිෂ්ටයින් හට උපාධි ප්‍රදානය කෙරේ
ශ්රී ලංකා සාගර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය මඟින් සිදුකෙරෙන නාවික, ධීවර හා සාගර සම්බන්ධ පාඨමාලා 04ක් යටතේ අධ්‍යයන කටයුතු සාර්ථකව අවසන් කළ සිසු සිසුවියන්ගේ උපාධි ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ දින (23) පැවැත්විණ. එහි දී, · සමුද්‍රීය ඉංජිනේරු විද්‍යාවේදී උපාධිය · ධීවර හා සමුද්‍රීය විද්‍යාවේදී උපාධිය · නාවික ප්‍රවාහන කළමනාකරණය හා සැපයුම් විද්‍යාවේදී උපාධිය · සමුද්‍රීය හා වෙරළ සම්පත් කළමනාකරණ විද්‍යාවේදී උපාධිය යන පාඨමාලා හැදෑරූ සිසු සිසුවියන් 219 දෙනෙකු අද දින උපාධිධාරීන් බවට පත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
අනිත් අය කරන කරන දේ නොකිරීම ලැජ්ජාවට කාරණයක් නොවේය. සල්ලි අච්චු ගහන්න බෙදන්න.
මට A/L chemistry ඉගැන්වූ ගුරුතුමිය මට මෙහෙම ලිව්වේය. ලියුම තවම මා ළඟය. ජීවිතේ හමු වූ ලස්සන ජීවිතයය. අපිට කෙළවුණේ අනිත් අය කරන දේ කොරන්න ගිහිල්ලය. ආර්ථිකය මිරිඟුවකය. සංවර්දානේ මිරිඟුවකය. අපි ලං වෙන කොට ඈතට යයි ඈතින් ඈතට යයි. අපිට ලොකු අලුත්ම SUV ඕනාය ලබන අවුරුද්දේ මේක පරණය ලොකු super highway ඕනාය මාළිගාව වාගේ ගෙවල් ඕනාය මේවා ඉල්ලන්නේ අපේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
දේශපාලන පළිගැනීමේ අරමුණෙන් යහපාලන රජයෙන් පැවරූ නඩුවලින් නිදොස්කොට නිදහස් වූ රාජ්‍ය හා අර්ධ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ට සහන සැලසීමට පත්කළ කමිටුවේ වාර්තාව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට භාරදෙයි
යහපාලන රජය යටතේ දේශපාලන පළිගැනීමේ අරමුණින් රාජ්‍ය සහ අර්ධ රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ට එරෙහිව පවරන ලද නඩුවලින් නිදොස්කොට නිදහස් වූ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ට සහන සැලසීමට පත් කළ කමිටුවේ වාර්තාව කමිටු සභාපති විශ්‍රාමික අගවිනිසුරු අසෝක ද සිල්වා මහතා විසින් අද (24) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට භාර දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව මෙම කමිටු වාර්තාව අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සූදානම් කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ඒ මොහොතේදීම සිය නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ 2021 ජූලි 30වැනි දිනැති අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල සංදේශය මගින් 2021 සැත්තැම්බර් 07 වෙනිදා අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලය ගන්නා ලද තීරණයකට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
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“ජාතික කාර්ය උපාය සම්මාන උළෙල-2022” අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (23) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ ෂැංග්‍රිලා හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. දේශීය භාණ්ඩ සැපයුම් ක්ෂේත්‍රයක් තුළ කැපීපෙනන කාර්යයක නිරත ශ්රී ලංකා කාර්ය උපාය සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර භාණ්ඩ ප්‍රවාහකයන්ගේ සංගමය (SLFFA) එම ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ වර්ධනය සඳහා සුවිශේෂී කර්යභාරයක් ඉටු කළ පාර්ශවකරුවන් ඇඟයීම සහ ක්ෂේත්‍රයක් ලෙස ලැබූ ජයග්‍රහණ සැමරීම අරමුණු කර ගනිමින් මෙම සම්මාන උළෙල සංවිධානය කර තිබිණි. ශ්රී ලංකා කාර්ය උපාය සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර භාණ්ඩ ප්‍රවාහකයන්ගේ සංගමයේ (SLFFA) සභාපති දිනේෂ් ශ්රී චන්ද්‍රසේකර මහතා විසින් සම්මාන ප්‍රදානෝත්සවයට පැමිණි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා පිළිගන්නා ලදි. ප්‍රධාන කාණ්ඩ 6ක් යටතේ සම්මාන 40කට අධික සංඛ්‍යාවක් මෙහි දී ප්‍රදානය කෙරුණු අතර Legend... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
අන්තර් රාජ්‍ය සේවක නිර්මාණ තරගාවලියේ ජයලැබූවන්ට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ සුරතින් සම්මාන
“අන්තර් රාජ්‍ය සේවක නිර්මාණ තරගාවලිය - 2021” සම්මාන ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ දී ඊයේ (23) පස්වරුවේ පැවැත්විණි. රාජ්‍ය ආයතන සේවකයන්ගේ නිර්මාණ හැකියාවන් ඔප් නැංවීම,ඇගයීම සහ එම නිර්මාණ එළි දැක්වීමට අවස්ථාවක් උදාකිරීම හා එමගින් රාජ්‍ය ආයතනවල සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම අරමුණු කරගනිමින් විෂයභාර අමාත්‍ය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් මෙම සම්මාන ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය සංවිධානය කරන ලදි. සිංහල හා දෙමළ භාෂා මාධ්‍යවලින් ළමා කතා, පද්‍ය රචනා, ගීත රචනා, චිත්‍ර, කෙටිකතා, කෙටි චිත්‍රපට, ඡායාරූප සහ කෙටි නාට්‍ය යන අංශ ගණනාවක් යටතේ මෙම තරගාවලිය සඳහා දිවයිනපුරා සේවයේ නිරත රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ගෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
Sri Lanka to seek World Bank support alongside IMF loan programme – report
March 24 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will seek World Bank assistance to stave off a severe economic crisis in addition to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue plan to be discussed next month, two sources said. A 70% drop in foreign exchange reserves since January 2020 has left Sri Lanka struggling to pay for essential imports, including food and fuel, leading to growing unrest and even military deployments at gasoline stations. For similar articles, join our Telegram channel for the latest updates. – click here Holding paltry reserves of $2.31 billion as of February,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
When Sweet Turns Sour
By Gagani Weerakoon Karunawathie belongs to a community that represents the poorest of the poor in Sri Lanka and lives in Uva Wellassa, one of the least developed areas. She has been paying land tax (Akkara Badda) for the land she seeks a shelter and cultivates to earn her family a daily pot of rice. However, she was recently informed that the land she was living on, no longer belongs to her, and in fact will be taken away from her to be invested in a “promising”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
Wijedasa proposes 21st Amendment which enable Parliament to elect new President
SLPP MP Wijedasa Rajapaksha has handed over the 21st Amendment to the constitution under which he proposed the transformation of executive powers of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to the cabinet and to elect a new President by Parliament forthwith. The MP, when inquired by the Daily Mirror, confirmed that he had handed over the private members Bill to the Secretary General Parliament through which he had proposed the 21st Amendment to the constitution. Mr. Rajapaksa said he has proposed in his private members Bill the executive powers vested in the presidency... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
Sri Lanka can be made the Asian destination of tourists - President
Sri Lanka can be made the Asian destination of tourists, says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa while pointing out that obstacles should be removed and plans should be made to attract tourists through global promotional programmes. More than 260,000 tourists have arrived in the country in the first quarter of the year. That’s higher than last year’s overall tourist arrivals. The government expects to achieve the target of 1.3 million tourists by the end of the year. The President pointed out that all sectors of the tourism industry should be prepared to achieve this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
Rs. 68 million worth loans obtained from SMIB using forged documents in 2017 - COPE
The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has observed that in 2017, some 47 people were involved in preparing fake documents and submitting fake information and have obtained loans to the tune of Rs. 68 million from the State Mortgage and Investment Bank (SMIB). This was taken into discussion during the meeting of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) chaired by Prof. Charitha Herath held on Wednesday (23), to examine the Auditor General’s reports and current performance of the State Mortgage and Investment Bank for the financial years 2017 and 2018. The officials... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/22)
Time for Sri Lanka to move from the Hydrocarbon age to the age of Electricity
Currently, we are using hydrocarbons for all our energy needs. We use it for our transportation, for cooking, and production of some of the electricity. Due to global warming, it has become imperative that we start using renewable energy instead of hydrocarbons for our energy consumption. If we switch to electricity we can start switching our tuk-tuks, cars, trains, buses and cooking to electricity.Most of the switching can be done by giving the correct tax incentives to consumers to switch to electricity. If it becomes cheaper for a household to use electricity for cooking they will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Getting out of the economic anarchy
It is good news that we have reached an input of $ 1 billion aid from India and that China is considering and very likely to give a 2.5 b. loan, but this can bring us out of the economic mess we are in if only we act in a prudent manner. It all depends on how we spend the funds. We do not have to wonder far, because if we closely copy the blueprint economic model of the days of Premier Dudley Senanayake, 1965-1970, days when we had no food, gas and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Is “Eershiyawa” (Jealousy) blocking Senaka Weeraratna and Sri Lanka from gaining credit for the invention of DRS?
On 25 March 1997, the prestigious “Australian” national newspaper published a letter to the editor from Senaka Weeraratna entitled “Third Umpire should perform the role of Appeal Judge”. It spelled out the concept of ‘Player Referral’ which is now universally known as the UDRS or DRS (Decision Review System). It’s now exactly 25 years since that groundbreaking idea was first aired in public and the ICC administered cricket world making the best use of it, without even conveying a simple ‘Thank you' acknowledgment to the inventor of the idea. Senaka Weeraratna continues to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
A Tribute to Podi hamuduruwo
When I was in London my niece Shyamala Fernando asked me to interview Dr Galagoda Gnanissara Thera when I visited Sri Lanka on holiday in 2000, one of the most respected Buddhist prelates in Sri Lanka. He’s popularly known as Podihamuduruwo, the Chief Incumbent at the Gangarama Temple. Venerable Nayaka Thera was born on 14 December 1943, ordained in the village of Galagoda, Matara, on 8 November 1954. After completing his primary education, he entered Vidyodaya University in 1961 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
OIC Conference and Rohingya Refugee Issue
A conference of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) started at the Parliament House in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on March 22. This year the conference was held under the theme 'Building Cooperation for Unity, Justice and Development. The conference was very important to address some common problems for the Muslim world. At the beginning of the conference, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomed the OIC foreign ministers to the conference. The OIC is the collective voice of 200 million Muslims around the world,"... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගෙන් ඉන්දීය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට ප්‍රණාමය
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනයට ඉන්දියානු රජය කරනු ලබන සහයෝගයන් පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඉන්දියානු අග්රාමාත්ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතා වෙත සිය ස්තූතිය පළ කර ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම පසුගියදා ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබාදුන් ණය ආධාර පිළිබඳව ස්තුතිය පළ කළ අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, ඉදිරියේදීත් ඉන්දියානු රජය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කටයුතු පිළිබඳව සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සංවර්ධනය පිළිබඳව විශේෂ අවධානයක් යොමුකරනු ඇතැයි තමා අපේක්ෂා කරන බවත් සඳහන් කර තිබේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Foreign Exchange Rates in Sri Lanka; US dollar further increases
Colombo, March 22 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lanka Rupee has further depreciated against the US Dollar as per the official exchange rates for foreign currency issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) today. For similar articles, join our Whatsapp group for the latest updates. – click here The exchange rates are as follows: READ: 4 things you should keep in mind while investing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
What Led To Sri Lanka's Worst Economic Crisis In Recent History, What Is The Way Forward?
Sri Lanka is facing an acute economic and energy crisis triggered due to a shortage of foreign exchange. A sudden rise in prices of key commodities and fuel shortage forced tens of thousands of people to queue for hours outside petrol pumps. A Sri Lankan bus worker carries empty containers searching for fuel in Colombo, Sri Lanka AP Two elderly men reportedly fainted on Sunday in Sri Lanka while waiting in a queue to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation. Sri Lanka on Tuesday deployed military personnel at state-run petrol... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Six Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Land in TN to Escape Food Inflation, Unemployment
As the foreign exchange crisis goes from bad to worse in India's southern neighbour, an exodus of refugees into India seems more and more likely in the coming weeks. New Delhi: Six members from two ethnic Tamil families in Sri Lanka, including a four-month-old child, were found to have snuck into India in the wee hours of the morning of Tuesday, March 22, the Hindu reported. The families were fleeing the rapidly rising inflation and unemployment in the country precipitated by the worsening economic crisis and are reportedly the first of thousands of people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Sri Lanka: Criminalisation Of Same-sex Sexual Activity Breached Rights Of A LGBTI Activist - UN Women’s Rights Committee
GENEVA (23 March 2022) – Sri Lanka violated the rights of a lesbian and leading LGBTI activist who was subjected to discrimination, threats and abuses due to the country’s Penal Code that criminalises same-sex sexual activity, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has found. In its decision published today, CEDAW found that Sri Lanka has breached the rights of Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, the founder and Executive Director of Equal Ground, an organisation defending the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community in Sri Lanka. Flamer-Caldera has been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Inflation in Bangladesh better than neighbours’
Inflation in Bangladesh is at a better level than that in nearby countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka alongside Southeast Asian countries, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday. "You can compare with nearby countries, as well as more Southeast Asian countries, and see what our inflation is and what theirs is," he told a press briefing following a meeting of the cabinet committee on government purchase. His comment comes against the backdrop of a recent observation of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) about price hikes of commodities... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Sri Lanka’s Financial Meltdown Could Be End Of The Road For Rajapaksa Family
The Russia-Ukraine war which has led to a steep hike in oil prices has further amplified Sri Lanka’s economic problems. The crisis resulting from Sri Lanka running out of foreign reserves has led to shortages of almost everything. Is this the end of the road for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the powerful Rajapaksa brothers that had dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades? Going by the anger in the streets triggered by financial mismanagement and the near melt down of the island’s economy, the Rajapaksa family firm is running out of steam. Protest marches... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
Is an IPKF Invasion Imminent–Re-charting US Strategy After the War?
Having inked the SOFA document permitting the American military to intervene in Sri Lanka with impunity, is an invasion by India, a US military ally (QUAD) in the region, imminent? Could this be one reason why India did not vote with the US on the Ukrainian issue? Sri Lanka is fighting for her life; she is in the political ICU struggling with multiple complications stemming from treachery, corruption and chicanery. There are rampant shortages of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
The entire cricket world should celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of the 'Player Referral' concept in the 'Australian' newspaper ( March 25, 1997) which led to the formulation of the DRS
Shashi Tharoor, the celebrated Indian writer, and author, recently expressed his views on the impact that the Decision Review System (DRS) has had on the modern game, and he stated unequivocally that it has been one of cricket’s best innovations. Tharoor further said that international cricket should never be without DRS in the future, given how many errors technology prevents. “DRS is such a major innovation. I never want to see international cricket without DRS ever again. It is so indispensable and eliminates so many bad decisions, and it creates an additional form of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
23rd March – Ahmadiyya Founder’s Day
On February 13th, 1835, in the small Indian village of Qadian, Punjab, India, a man named Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadwas born. He belonged to a well-known and noble family. All religions contain prophecies that foretell the advent of a special individual, who will come as a reformer in the latter days. In Islam, Muslims await a promised Mahdi and Messiah. The advent of the Promised Messiahwas prophesized by the Prophet of Islam Muhammad (PBUH) himself. According to a tradition, the Holy Prophet(PBUH) was sitting among his companions, two verses from Holy Qur’an (Surah... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
හිතන ක්‍රමය වෙනස් කර ආර්ථික දුක නැති කිරීම
ඉන්දියාවේ ජනගහනය 1.5 බිලියන් ය. ලඟදි අපට බිලියන් 1 ක් දුන්නේය. ඩොලර් ය. අපේ හිතවතාය friend in need ය. friend indeed ය. ඉන්දියාව ලොකු රටකි අපි සිතිය යුත්තේ ඉන්දියාව අපේ කියාය. මනෝ පුබ්බන් ගමාය අපේ අසල්වාසියා අපේය. අසල්වැසියාගේ ඉඩම් ධනය අපේය. අපේ යටත් විජිතයක් කියා හිතීම හොඳ නැත. ලෝක ගෝලය දකුණු-උතුරු කලාම ඉන්දියාව යටින්ය ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/22)
ජාත්‍යන්තර කාන්තා දින සැමරුමක් හැටන්-අප්කට් හි දී.
ජාත්‍යන්තර කාන්තා දිනයට සමගාමීව ප්‍රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය සහ 'හා(ර්)ට් සංවිධානය එක්ව සංවිධානය කරන ලද කාන්තා දින සැමරුම් වැඩසටහනක් සහ පාගමනක් පසුගිය දා (20 දා) හැටන් අප්කට් ප්‍රදේශයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පාගමන අප්කට්, බාග්‍රෝ ඇසෙම්බ්ලි ඔෆ් ගෝඩ් දේවස්ථානය අසලින් ආරම්භ වූ අතර එය හැටන් මස්කෙලිය මාර්ගය ඔස්සේ දිනේෂ් උත්සව ශාලාව වෙත පැමිණියේය. පාගමන සඳහා හාරසියයක පමණ පිරිසක් සහභාගි වී සිටියහ.මෙම පාගමනට සහ කාන්තා දින සැමරුම් වැඩසටහන සඳහා ගෘහස්ථ ශ්‍රමිකයන්, කොළඹ සහ තදාසන්න ප්‍රදේශවල නිවාසවල නේවාසිකව සේවයෙහි නියුතු ගෘහස්ථ ශ්‍රමිකයන්ගේ පවුල්වල පිරිස්, සංක්‍රමණික ශ්‍රමිකයන්ගේ පවුල්වල සාමාජිකයන්, සාප්පු සංකීර්ණවල සේවයෙහි නියුතු අවිධිමත් අංශයේ කම්කරුවන් ඇතුළු අවිධිමත් අංශය නියෝජනය කරන කම්කරුවන් හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
උපදේශකවරු, විශේෂඥ කමිටු යෝජනාවෙන් පෙන්වන්නේ ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ නිරුවතයි
ලංකාවේ වැඩිම ආර්ථික විශේඥයින් හා මුල්‍ය විශේෂඥයින්ට බාහිරව ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව හා මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයට පිටින් උපදේශකයින් හා නීති උපදේශකයින් පත් කිරීමට ‘ජාතික ආර්ථික සභාවේ යෝජනාව‘, කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිලධාරීන්ගේ නිර්දේශ පසෙකලා අතුරලියේ රතන හිමි, වෛද්‍ය අනුරුද්ධ පාදෙනියගෙන් ‘කාබනික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තයට උපදෙස් ලබා ගැනීම‘ වැනි විනාශකාරී අවදානම් සහගත ක්‍රියාවකි. කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට පිටින් ව්‍යාපාරිකයින්, භික්ෂුන්, වෛද්‍යවරුන් දුන් උපදෙස් කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය විනාශ කර රට සාගතයකට ඇඳ දමා ඇත. මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය, මහ බැංකුවේ විශේඥයින්ට පිටින් උපදේශකයින් හා විශේෂඥ කමිටු හා නීති උපදේශකයින් ආර්ථික අර්බුදය තවදුරටත් වේගවත් කර මහා විනාශයකට පාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Mahara Pradeshiya Sabha's four storied multi-purpose building opens under the patronage of the Prime Minister
The four storied multipurpose building of the Mahara Pradeshiya Sabha was declared open by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning (21). This multi-purpose building constructed at a cost of Rs. 108 million consists of the Pradeshiya Sabha Head Office, Library, Ayurvedic Center and other Pradeshiya Sabha administrative units. Mahara Neligama Sri Shailasannaramadhipathi Ven. Makure Piyananda Nayaka Thero and other members of the Maha Sangha graced the occasion. Member of Parliament Sahan Pradeep Vithana, Chairperson of Mahara Pradeshiya Sabha A.A. Sudima Chandani, Deputy Chairman Ajantha Wickramaarachchi and Chairmen of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Prime Minister is adorned the first flag to mark the 105th anniversary of Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement
Nirmali Williams, Assistant Chief Commissioner of the Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement adorned Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse the first flag at Temple Trees today (21) to mark the 105th anniversary of Sri Lanka Girls Guide Movement. A book on the history of the Girl Scout Movement was also presented to the Prime Minister by Miss. Rukshani Aziz, Communications Commissioner, Sri Lanka Girl Scout Movement. The Girls Guide Movement was started in 1910 under the leadership of Miss Olive Baden-Powell, the sister of Lord Robert Stevenson Smith Baden-Powell, the founder of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
How Four Powerful Brothers Broke an Island Nation
The Rajapaksa clan may have defeated the Tamil rebellion, but they’ve lost control of Sri Lanka’s economy after two years of worsening crisis. Mahinda, Chamal and Gotabaya Rajapaksa during a Cabinet swearing-in in August 2020.Photographer: Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto/Getty Ruth Pollard is a columnist and editor with Bloomberg Opinion. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia Government team leader at Bloomberg News. She has reported from India and across the Middle East and focuses on foreign policy, defense and security.
rpollard+ Get alerts forRuth Pollard In just over two years, Sri Lanka’s first... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Sri Lanka current economic crisis is similar to 1970s: New York Times article from 1974
March 22 – Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is similar to that it faced in the 1970s, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka W.A. Wijewardena has pointed out. Wijewardena said Sri Lanka is facing shortages and queues similar to that what was reported in the 1970s. Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates from around the world He said during the 1970s the Government sought Chinese help to keep afloat and ship to mouth consumption. Stating that the policy as today was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Escalating Fertilizer Prices and Subsidy Removal
The Maha harvesting of rice is now nearing completion and the strong indications are that this season’s crop decline would be 40% to 50% due to lack of fertilizer. Concurrently, the yields of other crops too are dropping and the tea yields of 2022 could be the worst affected. According available information, whereas the 2021 producer price was only Rs90.33/kg green leaf, the cost of production was Rs94.05 and the corresponding values for 2020 were Rs92.15 and 68.18. On the other hand, increasing the purchase price of paddy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Hypocrisy, false propaganda and war in Ukraine
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year and the war is entering its 26th day. Whilst one may sympathize with Russia’s anger at Ukraine and the Western countries led by the US for their attempts to expand NATO to Russia’s doorstep, and despite assurances that this would not take place by the NATO bloc, the invasion of one country by another cannot be condoned. During its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been accused of bombing civilian targets including hospitals, schools and apartment buildings. ‘Aljazeera’ on March 22, reported the confirmed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Four cardinal mistakes the president did not admit in his speech
Last week President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressed a nation in crisis. Instead of calming the masses, a good part of whose life is now spent in everyday queues, he managed to further enrage them. What could probably be the operating para of his speech was ‘this crisis was not created by me’. “Our country is not the only country in the world affected by the prevailing crisis situation. The entire world is engulfed with various hardships,” he said. Fair enough, President Rajapaksa inherited an economy that was loaded with an unsustainable amount of foreign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
“Amma, should I go with this stranger?”
Married too young, many girls get married by 18 despite societies’ advancements and that will cost the developing world trillions of dollars Mama, why am I going with this strange man?For your safety, my dear But Mama, he scares me, he’s hurt me, everywhere, I don’t feel safe Oh honey, it’s okay. It’s what all girls do. But-but...I love you, I love Papa, I don’t wanna leave you. It is your duty, child, we need the money. If you love us, go. So goes the poem by one Sam.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
Proposed MRCC deal threat to SL security: Harin
Samagi Jana Balavegaya MP Harin Fernando said today that proposed Indian funded Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) is to be set up inside the Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters will threaten Sri Lanka’s security. He said at a media briefing that a sub-unit will be set up in Hambantota and seven other units will be positioned across the country. The Cabinet has approved to establish an MRCC in Sri Lanka with a grant of US$6 million from India. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of India and an agreement with Bharath Electronics of India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/22)
REAL ISSUE OF ECONOMIC STAGNATION BETWEEN 2015-19-PLUS 2 YEARS OF COVID DISRUPTION, TAKING RESPONSIBILITY IS ALSO IN ORDER
ASK YOURSELVES HOW DID WE GET THERE? *Forwarded as received*.......... Coomaraswamy is highly qualified & educated gentlemen but what happened to our economy during his time as The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and with his IMF compatriots. Very interesting to check the numbers i have quoted below better you can verify that with your own independent sources before you believe my write up. Here we go! 2015 January total forex reserve 8.3 billion USD 2019 November forex reserve's drop to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 16 E PT 3B
Since LTTE was not a lawful army, the weapons had to be smuggled in by sea. LTTE smuggled in weapons, including heavy items, and other equipment such as power generators, by carrying out mid sea transfers, 200 nautical miles off Sri Lanka. They used special semi submersible submarines, capable of carrying 10 tons of equipment. The goods were then transferred to small ships and subsequently into small fast boats. In this manner, 130 mm and 152 mm artillery guns were transported to Sri Lanka by ship and were unloaded mid sea onto barges and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 16 E PT 3A
In the Eelam war, Sri Lanka faced a brutal, well funded terrorist organizations with a vast range of sophisticated weapons . These powerful weapons gave the LTTE the appearance of great military strength. A sophisticated, extremely secretive, weapons procurement system had been set up abroad and the LTTE had a continuous supply of powerful weapons. Weapons procurement was in the hand of K Pathmanathan. KP set up base in Thailand in the 1980s. Thailand provided easy access to the former war zones of Cambodia and Burma with their surplus weaponry. He procured modern hardware... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්‍යාපාරයට වසර 105ක් පිරීමේ කොඩි දිනයේ පළමු කොඩිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට පළඳවයි
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්‍යාපාරයට වසර 105ක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් ආරම්භ කළ කොඩි දිනයේ පළමු කොඩිය ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්‍යාපාරයේ සහකාර ප්‍රධාන කොමසාරිස් නිර්මලී විලියම් මහත්මිය අද (21) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට පැළඳවූවාය. බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්‍යාපාරයේ ඉතිහාසය පිළිබඳ ලියැවුණු ග්‍රන්ථයක් ද ශ්රී ලංකා බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්‍යාපාරයේ සන්නිවේදන කොමසාරිස් රුක්ෂානි අසීස් මෙනවිය විසින් මෙහි දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා වෙත පිළිගන්වන ලදි. බාලදක්ෂ ව්‍යාපාරයේ නිර්මාතෘ රොබට් ස්ටීවන්සන් ස්මිත් බේඩ්න් පවෙල් සාමිවරයාගේ නැගණිය වූ ඔලිව් බේඩින් පවෙල් මෙනෙවිය ගේ මූලිකත්වය ඇතිව 1910 දී බාලදක්ෂිකා ව්‍යාපාරය ආරම්භ විය. ශ්රී ලංකාවට එහි සාමාජිකත්වය හිමිවූයේ 1917 මාර්තු 21 වෙනිදාය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
ආර්ථික දුෂ්කරතා මඟ හරවා ගැනීමේ කෙටි මාර්ග
ප්රේමෙ උදේම breakfast යන්නෙත් ජිනිවාය. දවල්ට යන්නෙත් Genewa ය. රෑට යන්නෙත් Genewa ය. සිහිනෙන් යන්නෙත් Genewa ය. රංජං ගලවා ගන්නටය. ගලවා ගත් රංජං කෙනෙක් නැත. පහුගියදා ලොකු රැස්වීමක් තබා ජනාධිපති කම ඉල්ලුවේය. පක්ෂයේ ආර්ථික විශේෂ්ගචයෝ ඉල්ලන්නේත් ආණ්ඩුවය. අවුරුදු 2-3 ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Amid barrage of western sanctions against Russia, India to soon finalise alternate payment system
Amid a barrage of western sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine, India is in the process of setting up an alternative payments system by identifying a potential bank to keep its trade relations with Russia intact. A top interministerial committee examining the issue has said the government should prioritize edible oil and fertilizer imports from Russia, and the payments it owes to India, Hindustan Times reported. l. The country also imports around 11-11.5 per cent of edible oil imports from the Russia-Ukraine region. This inter-ministerial panel is examining the potential impact of the western... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා යාපනය විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්‍යස්ථානය විවෘත කරයි
යාපනය මඩ්ඩුවිල්හි ඉදිකළ "යාපනය විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්‍යස්ථානය" අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද (20) පෙරවරුවේ විවෘත විය. ගොවි ජනතාවට සිය නිෂ්පාදන සඳහා සාධාරණ මිලක් ලබා ගැනීම හා පාරිභෝගික ජනතාවට සහන මිලට එළවළු,පළතුරු මිලදී ගැනීමේ පහසුකම් සැලසීම සඳහා මෙම විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්‍යස්ථානය ඉදිකර තිබේ. රජය ඒ සඳහා වැය කර ඇති මුදල රුපියල් මිලියන 200කි. යාපනය මඩ්ඩුවිල් ප්‍රදේශයට පැමිණි අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ප්‍රදේශයේ ජනතාව විසින් මහත් හරසරින් පිළිගත් අතර යාපනය විශේෂිත ආර්ථික මධ්‍යස්ථානය විවෘත කරමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා එහි සමරු ඵලකය නිරාවරණය කළේය. කාබනික පොහොර නිෂ්පාදන, ප්‍රවර්ධන හා සැපයුම් නියාමන සහ වී හා ධාන්‍ය, කාබනික ආහාර, එළවළු, පලතුරු, මිරිස්, ළූණු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 16 E PT 2
In 2007 Janes Intelligence Review issued a report on the LTTE, saying that the LTTE had created one of the most sophisticate insurgencies in the world, largely due to a complex global network of financial resources and weapons. It has a financial and procurement structure well organized and strategically positioned around the globe and a profit margin that would be the envy of any multinational corporation, Some USD 200 to 300 million a year. Critics observed that the Tamil Separatist Movement could not have generated such a complex venture on its own. Al Jazeera... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
කබ්රාල් ගේ සල්ලි අච්චු ගැහිල්ල ‘අති ධාවන උද්ධමනය‘ ට පාර කැපුවා මාර්තු 18 (සිකුරාදා) තවත් රු. ලක්ෂ 559,500 ක සල්ලි අච්චු ගහයි
ශ්රී ලංකාව දැනටමත් ‘අතිධාවන උද්ධමනය‘ ට මුහුණ දී ඇති බවත්, කිසිදු පාලනයකින් තොරව සල්ලි අච්චු ගැසීමට මහ බැංකුවත් කටයුතු කරන්නේ නම් එය ‘ජවන උද්ධමනයක්‘ බවට පත්වීම නොවැලැක්විය හැකි වනු ඇත. 2022 පෙබරවාරි 28 සිට මාර්තු 18 දක්වා මහ බැංකුව විසින් රු. මිලියන 188,610 ක් අච්චු ගසා ඇත. එය සාමාන්‍යයෙන් සෑම දවසකටම රු. ලක්ෂ 9,9268 ක් බැගින් අච්චු ගැසීමකි. සල්ලි අච්චු ගැසීමේන් බඩු මිල වැඩි නොවන බවත්, අච්චු ගැසීම සාමාන්‍ය දෙයක් බවත් විටින් විට පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවල දී පැවසූ අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Bangladesh-Myanmar Trade and connectivity Prospects
The good news for both Myanmar and Bangladesh is that Myanmar-Bangladesh’s trade ties are going to be normalized and strengthened day by day. For example, Myanmar has decided to import 3,000 tons of cement to Rakhine from Bangladesh after the State chamber of commerce and industry urged the center to grant permission for importing cement from the neighbouring country. Basically, Bangladesh-Myanmar improved ties can ensure some common regional advantages for the whole region. Geographically, Myanmar is located in the eastern part of Bangladesh with a 271 km border. To its southeast, it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 16 E PT 1
The LTTE evolved from a militant Tamil youth group, in the 1970s, to become ‘one of the most powerful terrorist groups in the world’. It challenged the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Sri Lanka state, said admiring supporters of LTTE. We are asked to believe that a bunch of village lads from Valvettiturai, who had never left Jaffna, did not know English, were not highly educated and had no military training, were able to launch a military campaign against the government of Sri Lanka and hang on to it for thirty years. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
China may give Sri Lanka US$2.5bn in loans, trade credits
Colombo, March 21 (EconomyNext): China is considering 2.5 billion US dollars in a loan and buyers credit to Sri Lanka Beijing’s Ambassador to Colombo Qi Zhenhong as the country is trying hard to repay foreign debt amid a forex crisis triggered by money printed to enforce low interest rates on top of tax cuts. “We are considering 2.5 billion – 1 billion dollar loan, 1.5 billion dollars buyers credit,” Ambassador Qi told reporters in Colombo. A buyer’s credit is usually a loan given... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
බැසිල් ඊළම හදන සැලසුමක… ඉන්දුනීසියා පන්නයේ කුමන්ත‍්‍රණය ක‍්‍රියාත්මකයි.
‘දෙමළ ඊළම හදන පාර දිගේ ලංකාව අරගෙන යනවද කියලා ප්‍රශ්නය ගැටලුව අද අපිට මතුවෙලා තියෙනවා මිත්‍රවරුනි . ඉන්දුනීසියාවට කරපු දේමයි ලංකාවට කරන්න හදන්නේ ඒ ඇමරිකානු න්‍යාය පත්‍රය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන අවලස්සන ඇමරිකානුවා බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ යි කියලා අපි බය නැතුව ප්රකාශ කරනවා’ යයි හිටපු බලශක්ති ඇමති උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි.javascript:window["$iceContent"] පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය මහරගම ජන සභාව අමතමින් පක්ෂ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කරන ලදී.javascript:window["$iceContent"] අපි පුංචි කාලේ වෙසක් එකට බලන්න යනවා අපාය. පුංචි කාලෙ අපිව බය කරන්න එක්කන් ගිහිල්ලා මෙන්න මෙහෙමයි අපායේ තියෙන්නෙ නරක වැඩ කළොත් අපායේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Is President a Hostage of the Ugly American?
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s special address to the Nation on 16 March lacked luster, character and much needed answers. This is a curiosity in itself as he is an articulate man with the unique knack of explaining complex issues in simple terms that makes logical sense to the intellectual, the not so educated and all in-between. Both President and his advisors must make note of this speech that could not uphold the President’s image. Instead, this directly fed into the narrative propagated by the Vasu-Udaya-Wimal led rebel team that President is now a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Malwathu and Asgiri Mahanayake Theras write 14-point letter to President
Malwathu and Asgiri Mahanayake Theras have presented a letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa highlighting the importance of convening an all-party conference of local and foreign scholars to formulate a plan for sustainable development, and 13 other issues. The letter sent to the President was signed by Malwathu Mahanayake Most Ven. Thibbatuwawe Sri Sumangala Thera and Asgiri Mahanayake Most Ven. Warakagoda Gnanaratana Thera. In the letter, the Mahanayake Theras pointed out the need to formulate a national policy to provide relief to the people affected by the economic crisis, the PMD reported. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Advisory committee submits 5 proposals to national economic council
The Advisory Committee appointed to assist the National Economic Council has presented five proposals that need to be implemented expeditiously, the President’s Media Division said. The members of the Advisory Committee met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and members of the National Economic Council for the first time this morning (21) and presented the set of proposals. The President appointed a 16-member Advisory Committee on March 15 to assist the National Economic Council in finding solutions to the prevailing economic issues. The proposals submitted by the committee are as follows: 1. Immediate appointment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Sri Lanka requests $1 billion loan and $1.5 billion credit line from China
The Sri Lankan government has requested for a USD 1 billion loan and a USD 1.5 billion credit line from China, says the Chinese Ambassador in Colombo, Qi Zhenhong. He added that the request is being considered by China. https://youtu.be/0XwhUVrK2BY The ambassador, Qi Zhenhong, told reporters in Colombo on Monday that China is considering a $1 billion loan and a $1.5 billion credit line to purchase goods from China, both of which would be new lines of financing. He had said earlier in the same briefing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
President calls special meeting of the ruling party
A special meeting of the ruling party is scheduled to be held tomorrow (22) under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The meeting is to be held at Temple Trees at around 6.00 pm tomorrow, government sources told Ada Derana. All members of parliament (MPs) from the ruling party have reportedly been informed to attend the mandatory meeting. It is reported that the discussion will focus on economic issues, including the dollar crisis in the country. Prior to the special meeting to be held in the evening, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/22)
Covid: Four more deaths, 238 new cases added to total count
The Health Ministry says that another 238 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 657,791. According to official figures, 624,592 positive cases have recovered. Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 16,943. Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 04 new coronavirus-related deaths for March 18, pushing the country’s death toll from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Is Basil looking to India at the cost of China?
Twice-postponed Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa's visit to New Delhi took place finally to secure a US $ 1 billion credit line to purchase essentials - food items and pharmaceuticals for dollar-starved Sri Lanka. India offered such assistance for Sri Lanka to stave off food and fuel shortages. The latest engagements herald the elevation of Indo-Lanka bilateral economic ties to new heights. The US $ 1 billion credit line for essentials and another US $ 500 million credit arrangement for fuel purchases serve as a lifeline to the ailing Sri Lankan economy with people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Experts refute rumors of 'China debt trap' in Sri Lanka
Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka, December 21, 2021. /Xinhua Sri Lanka is mired in a financial crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic hammered the country's tourism sector and led to a foreign currency shortage. Some Indian media have taken the chance to revive an old accusation of a "China debt trap" to slander China-Sri Lanka economic cooperation while ignoring plain facts."Although the proportion of loans from China increased from two percent in 2008 to nine percent in 2017, it accounted for about 10 percent of Sri Lanka's foreign debt," Fu Xiaoqiang, vice president at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Adani Group entering country through back door, says Sri Lanka’s Opposition
SJB slams Rajapaksa govt. for “pampering PM Modi’s notorious friends” The Adani Group’s “back door” entry into Sri Lanka’s energy sector disrupts the country’s competitive electricity generation system, the Opposition has said, accusing the Rajapaksa government of “pampering” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “notorious friends”. “It is with deep regret that we note that the Adani Group has chosen the back door to enter Sri Lanka. Avoiding competition is not something we take kindly. It hurts our battered economy, aggravates the balance of payment issues, and causes further misery to our citizens,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Broke Sri Lanka out of paper, exams cancelled
Country seeks IMF bailout to deal with worst debt crisis in decades. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has cancelled exams for millions of students as the country has run out of printing paper and is short on dollars to finance imports, officials said on Saturday. Education authorities said the tests, scheduled for March 28, would be postponed indefinitely due to an acute paper shortage as the country contends with its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948. “School principals cannot hold the tests as printers are unable... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
West and Japan urge Sri Lanka to extend “vocal support” for Ukraine
Envoys of the United States and several other key nations in the west, as well as Japan on Friday, called on Sri Lanka to join in active support against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a joint statement, the ambassadors and high commissioners to Sri Lanka urged the island nation to raise “vocal support” for Ukraine, international law, including the United Nations charter. “We urge Sri Lanka to join us in calling on Russia to end it hostilities immediately.” The statement was issued by the head of the delegation of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
US should have dialogue with Russia, address ‘crux’ of Ukrainian crisis, China’s Xi tells Biden
The presidents of the two countries have held talks discussing the hottest international and bilateral issues. China’s President Xi Jinping urged his US counterpart Joe Biden to engage in talks with Russia to address the reasons behind the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, stressing it should be resolved through diplomacy. The two presidents held talks via a video link on Friday, discussing various international and bilateral issues. The talks were held “at the request” of Washington, China’s Foreign Ministry noted in a statement. China’s leader stressed that Beijing has always stood “for peace and opposes war,” urging all the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Ukraine backtracks on Mariupol theater claims
Kiev initially claimed Russian bombs had killed more than 1,000 people, but local officials now say otherwise More than 200 civilians have been rescued unharmed from the bombed Mariupol Drama Theater, in Ukraine, and one injured woman has been taken to hospital, the local deputy mayor told reporters on Friday. Initial claims from Kiev estimated that over 1,000 people may have been killed in what they alleged was a Russian airstrike. Ukrainian media announced on Wednesday that the Drama Theater – located on the main square of the city – had been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Russia fires hypersonic missiles in Ukraine
Moscow has deployed Kinzhal missiles for the first time since the start of its military operation. The Russian military has said it used its state-of-the-art Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to destroy an arms depot near the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. The strike with the air-launched missile system took place on Friday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a briefing. It targeted “a large underground depot of missiles and aerial munitions of the Ukrainian forces” in the village of Deliatyn, he added. Kinzhal, which means ‘dagger’ in English,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Russia's divorce from the West has pushed it into China's arms, here's how it will work
Beijing is the only major power to benefit from Moscow’s conflict with Kiev Russia’s military operation in Ukraine and the consequent economic embargo of Moscow by the West is the largest upheaval in world politics since at least the end of the Cold War. The result will be a complete reformatting of the country’s foreign economic relations and its economic model, as well as Russia and the US sinking into a protracted military-political confrontation in Eastern Europe. Both factors will have a direct impact on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
Lanka tea production drops to a 13 year low due to fertilizer ban
Official data showed yesterday that Sri Lanka’s tea crop suffered its lowest yield in 13 years, reducing output in the country's main export commodity as the island grapples with its worst economic crisis in seven decades. The Sri Lanka Tea Board figures showed that monthly tea crops dropped to 18.16 million kilos in February, down nearly 20% from the corresponding period last year. Tea exports brought in 1.3 billion US dollars annually before the fertilizer ban.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/22)
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උස මහත විනිවිද පෙනෙන වීදුරු බෝතල් කීපයක් පේලියට පේවිලා කඩේ මේසෙ අග්ගිස්සේ හිටියේ, හරියට හරිබැරි ගහල වාඩිවෙලා උන්නු මුදලාලිගෙ දිලිහෙන තට්ටෙ යාන්තමට හරි වහන් කරන්න වාගේ. එකක, පාට පාට හූනු බිජු (සීනි දවටපු මාදුරු ඇට), තව එකක දේදුන්නේ පාට නාරං බික්, (නාරං බිකක් වාගේ සීනි පෙති) අනික් බෝතලේ ගුණසිරි බුල්ටෝ, තව තිබ්බ ඩෙල්ට ටොෆි බෝතලයක්. ඒ කාලේ, මෝරලා නැති මෝඩ හිච්චන්ව ආකර්ෂණය කරන්න ඔහොම ලස්සනට තිබ්බට, ඒවා ඕනමය කියන පොඩිම හැඟීමක්වත් අපට තිබ්බේ නෑ.ඔය හරියෙම අලවලා තිබ්බා කැත අත් අකුරෙන් 'ණයට දෙනු නොලැබේ 'කියල දැන්වීමක්. මක් කරලා හරි කියව ගත්තත් ඒ වාක්ය ඛණ්ඩයේ හැබෑ තේරුම හරියටම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
විනිමය දුෂ්කරතා මඟහරවා ගැනීමට වැඩි වැඩියෙන් රට පැටවිය යුතුව ඇත්තේ අපේ පුහුණු ශ්‍රමිකයන් ය.
MicroSoft CEO සත්‍ය නදෙල්ල ඉන්දියාවෙන් රට පැටවූ ඇමෙරිකන් ඉන්දියන්ය. Google CEO සුන්දර පිචෛ ද ඉන්දියාවෙන් රට පැටවූ ඇමෙරිකන් ඉන්දියන්ය. අපි දිවා රෑ වඳින බුදු හාමුදුරුවොත් ඉන්දියන්ය. රටේ විදේශ විනිමය දුෂ්කරතා මඟහරවා ගැනීමට ඩොලර් බිලියන් අවශ්‍ය නම් වැඩි වැඩියෙන් රට පැටවිය යුතුව ඇත්තේ අපේ පුහුණු ශ්‍රමිකයන් ය. Brain gain ය Brain drain නොවේය. උසස් පෙළ ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
ජනපති ගෝඨාභය ගේ පාලන සමය තුල රු. මිලියන පහළොස් ලක්ෂ හැට නව දහසක් (රු. මිලියන 1,569,290) ක් අච්චු ගහලා
ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදලේ නිර්දේශ හා උපාය මාර්ගික උපදේශයන් නොතකා හරිමින් ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව රටත්, ආර්ථිකයත් කාබාසිනියා කරමින් උද්ධමනය අහස උසට නංවන මැරතල් මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමක දිගටම නිරතවන බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රෙය් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ බලයට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව මේ දක්වා කාලය තුළ අච්චු ගැසූ මුලු මුදල් ප්‍රමාණය රු. බිලියන 1500 සීමාව ඉක්වමා ගොස් ඇත. මාර්තු 1 දින සිට මාර්තු 16 දක්වා මුද්‍රණය කර ඇති මුළු මුදල් ප්‍රමාණය රු. බිලියන 132.66 කි. අද (මාර්තු 18)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
Will India’s line of credit suffice to revive Sri Lanka's economy?
There is palpable anger in island nation against govt On Friday, a day after India extended one billion dollar line of credit to Sri Lanka, the official Twitter handle of Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka noted, “A friend holds out a helping hand again!!!Energizing bilateral economic partnership, India offers a credit line of USD 500 million for purchase of petroleum products. Critical support follows a discussion between EAM Dr S Jaishankar and finance minister Basil Rajapaksa.” Sri Lanka’s finance minister Basil Rajapaksa was on a three-day trip... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
China-aided hospital in Sri Lanka completes 1st organ transplant
COLOMBO, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A specialized nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka, built with the assistance of the Chinese government, has successfully performed a kidney transplant surgery from a living donor recently, the first of its kind since the operation of the hospital. The China-Sri Lanka Friendship National Nephrology Hospital said the recipient of the transplant is a 28-year-old woman who had been suffering from kidney disease for 10 years and the kidney donator is her mother. The mother and daughter are in stable condition after the surgery, and both the medical staff... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
IMF to begin talks with Sri Lanka on program to support the country
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) intends to begin discussions with Sri Lanka on a programme to support the country, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice says. Speaking at a media briefing on Thursday (March 17), Mr. Rice said the IMF has highlighted the urgent need to implement a credible and coherent strategy to restore macro-economic stability and debt sustainability or protect vulnerable groups through strengthened well-targetted social safety nets. “We stand ready to discuss all options for Sri Lanka,” Mr. Rice said further. The IMF recently concluded its Article IV consultation with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
No conditions for USD 1 billion Indian credit facility - Minister Basil
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa says no conditions have been set for the USD 1 billion credit facility received from India. He made this remark speaking to the media upon returning to the island after concluding his two-day official visit to India.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
COVID: Three more deaths and 288 new cases confirmed
The Health Ministry says that another 288 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 657,723. According to official figures, 624,521 positive cases have recovered. Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 16,780. Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed 03 new coronavirus-related deaths for March 17, pushing the country’s death toll from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
Motorcycle parade cancelled due to public protest
A three-day motorcycle parade organised by a private motorcycle club called "Spin Rider Club" from Mirigama to Anuradhapura via Kalpitiya has been cancelled by the police due to public protest. The said club had sought permission to hold the parade in line with a cash donation to Maharagama Apeksha Hospital and distribution of books and stationery to school children in Kalpitiya. Police said. They said permission was granted subject to conditions and charging government fees as it was a request made legally regarding a charity work. However, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/22)
Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world's pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart.© Reuters/SPUTNIK FILE PHOTO: Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council Medvedev gives an interview outside Moscow Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia's Security Council, said the United States had stoked "disgusting" Russophobia in an attempt to force Russia to its knees. "It will not work -... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Letter to Clarify present situation in Sri Lanka
Some of our people need to have their heads examined! They were demonstrating in front of the Presidential Secretarial without thinking about what will happen if they remove President Gota. Who is the person who can replace him? Last year when the Covid 19 broke in Sri Lanka, thanks to the quick action of President Gota, we had only very few deaths. In the early days, we only had 22 die initially since the country was put into lockdown quickly. Later the numbers increased since the Opposition fought the lockdown. By comparison in the USA,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Justice for Animals & Nature (JAN) - The Aims and Objectives
We are a not-for-profit organization incorporated under the company laws of Sri Lanka as an Association (Registration No.GA236166). In order to create a just society anchored to compassion for all living beings and nature we are carrying on this public fb group, with a view to drawing public attention to pain and suffering of animals largely due to the inhumanity of humans, and destruction of the natural habitat. We are also uploading videos to our YouTube channel. Please watch them by searching the YouTube under... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Ministers Rajapaksa, Jaishankar and Sitharaman witness the signing of the USD 1 billion Indo – Lanka Loan Agreement
Concluding his two-day official visit to New Delhi, Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa today (17) witnessed the signing of the agreement pertaining to the Short-Term Concessional Loan facility of USD 1 billion extended by the Government of India to the Government of Sri Lanka through the State Bank of India. The USD 1 billion loan facility, which formed the key component of the four-pillar economic cooperation arrangement agreed between India and Sri Lanka during Minister Rajapaksa’s visit to New Delhi in December last year, was extended to the Government of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
දේශපාලන කඹ ඇදිල්ලක හිර වූ IMF යාම - පමා වී එන වසන්තයකි
වෘත්තීය භාවය සහ බල ලෝභී දේශපාලන උවමනාවන් අතර ගැටුමකින් පමා වූ ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල හරහා ලංකාවේ විදේශ විනිමය අර්බුදයට පිළියම් සෙවීමට අවසානයේ රජයට සිදු ව ඇත. පරාජිත බිඳුණු හඬකින් ජාතික අමතමින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂය තම තීරණය රටේ ජනතාවට පවසන විට රටට බිඳ වැටී, අඳුරේ ගිලී අවසන්ය. ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල වෙත යාමට ප්‍රමාදවීම ආණ්ඩුවට තරමටම, ජනතාව ද අන්ත අසරණ කර තිබේ. ලංකාවට ලැබෙන IMF කොන්දේසි මොනවාද? ජාත්‍යන්තර මුල්‍ය අරමුදල සහ ශ්රී ලංකා රජය අතර 2019 පෙබරවාරි සිට දීර්ඝ සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්වුණි. එහි දී, IMF ලංකා රජයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ මුලික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Sri Lanka confirms 03 more Covid-19 deaths, 301 new cases
The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another three coronavirus related deaths for March 16, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 16,419. This figure includes two males and one female patient while all three deceased are over the age of 60 years. Meanwhile the Health Ministry says that another 301 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the tally of confirmed cases registered in the country to 657,435.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
තෙල් හිගය මැද අධිබල යතුරුපැදි, ප‍්‍රාඩෝ සවාරියක්.. තෙල් බවුසර පසුපසින්.. ජනතාව කුපිත වෙති… නාමල් දන්නෑලු…
අධිබල යතුරුපැදි තුන්සියයකට ආසන්න ප්‍රමාණයක් ගමන් කරමින් තිබු යතුරු පැදි සවාරියකට පුත්තලම ප්‍රදේශයේ දී ජනතාව විරෝධයක් පෑහ. ඔවුන් කියා සිටියේ දැඩි ඉන්ධන හිඟයක් රටේ පවතිද්දී මෙවන් සවාරි සිදු කරන්නේ කෙසේද යනුවෙනි. https://youtu.be/C5N-av9O-YM කොළඹ සිට කල්පිටියට ගමන් කරමින් තිබූ මෙම යතුරුපැදි සවාරිය සමග අධි සුඛෝපභෝගී ජීප් රථ විශාල සංඛ්‍යාවක් එක්ව සිටියේය. සවාරියට ඉදිරියෙන් පොලිස් පෙරගමන් යතුරුපැදි ගමන් කළ අතර එම පෙළපාලියේ අවසානයේ ඉන්ධන බවුසර ගමන් කල බවද කියති. ප‍්‍රබල දේශපාලඥයකු මේ සඳහා මැදිහත් වී ඇතැයි ද වාර්තා පළ වේ. කෙසේ වෙතත් ක‍්‍රීඩා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
ජනතාව පෝලිමේ සුපිරි රථ සැණකෙළියේ..
https://youtu.be/KpCFGOnvhKI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Russian MoD Names Curator of Pentagon-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine, Releases Original Docs
The Russian military began to pull back the curtain on the scale and scope of the network of Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine last week. US officials and media initially dismissed these revelations as "Russian disinformation," but were forced to correct the narrative after undersecretary of state Nuland admitted that such labs do in fact exist. The Russian Ministry of Defence has released fresh details about the US military-funded biolabs operating in Ukraine, including a trove of original documentation. The MoD also revealed that Joanna Wintrol, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency's liason... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Sri Lankan minister in Delhi, India eyes Jaffna airport, harbour projects
Rajapaksa, who arrived in Delhi on Wednesday for a three-day visit, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is scheduled to meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to finalise the credit line. AS INDIA prepares to sign off on a $1-bn emergency credit line to Sri Lanka for food and essential commodities during Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s visit, it will push Colombo for the finalisation of earlier proposals on the joint development of Palaly airport and Kankesanthurai harbour, both in the Jaffna... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/22)
Hundreds protest in crisis-hit Sri Lanka as IMF talks loom
Anger is growing over a worsening economic situation that has brought fuel shortages and spiraling food prices, prompting officials to seek international help. An activist shouts and holds up burning bread as he protests rising living costs at the entrance of the president’s office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday.Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP via Getty Images COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Opposition leaders led a march of hundreds of protesters through Sri Lanka’s main city of Colombo on Tuesday as anger grows over a worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
50 Years of Myanmar-Bangladesh Ties: Relations Must Be Warm, Special and Unique with Neighbourly Spirit
January 13, 2022, marked the 50 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. But there weren’t any seminars, discussions, statements, reciprocation, felicitations between the two neighbors to mark the special day. There were many ups and downs between the tow neighbors over 50 years. But Myanmar-Bangladesh needs to strengthen ties for ensuring the greater interest of the two regions such as South Asia and Southeast Asia. When Bangladesh celebrated its glorious journey of 50 years, many countries in the world... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
DID NOT JVP LEADER ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKA KNOW THAT FORMER PM RANIL WICKRAMASINGHA HAD MAINTAINED CONTACTS WITH MAKUNDURE MADUSH (THE BIGGEST NARCOTICS DEALER IN SRI LANKA, )
DID NOT JVP LEADER ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKA KNOW THAT FORMER PM RANIL WICKRAMASINGHA HAD MAINTAINED CONTACTS WITH MAKUNDURE MADUSH (THE BIGGEST NARCOTICS DEALER IN SRI LANKA, ) 1) THE COURT HAS RECENTLY GRANTED BAIL TO ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKA FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN POLITICAL VICTIMIZATION OF OPPOSITION POLITICIANS DURING 2015-2020 GOVERNMENT OF WHICH RANIL WICKRAMASINGHA WAS THE PM. HOPE YOU ARE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THE DISCUSSIONS REGARDING THESE VICTIMIZATION TOOK PLACE IN RANIL WICKRAMASINGHA OFFICIAL RESIDENCE “ARALIYAGAHA MANDIRAYA” . ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKA WAS A FREQUENT VISITOR AND MAINTAINS VERY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
සිමෙන්ති පොළොවේ විදුලි ඉංජිනේරු ගැටළු විසඳු මගේ රූමා
අත්තනගල්ලේ අමරසිංහ මගේ පළමු වසරේ කටුබැද්ද නේවාසිකාගාරයේ මිතුරු රූමාය. වර්ෂය 1974 ය. ඔහු එවිට පස් වන අවසන් වසර විදුලි ඉංජිනේරු උපාධිය ඉවර කරමින් සිටියේය. අමරේ ගණිත ගැටලු විසඳන්න පාවිච්චි කලේ කාමරේ සිමෙන්ති බිම Chalk වලින් ය. ලියලා මකලා ලියනවාය. ගණිත ගැටලු විසඳුම් ලියන්න කඩදාසි ගනන්ය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
හිස් භාවය
ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ කතාව ඇසීමට අපි සියලු දෙනාම බලා සිටියේ නොඉවසිල්ලෙනි. කතාව නිමවීමත් සමග අපට මහත් හිස් භාවයක් දැනුනි. ඇයි මෙතුමාට මෙහෙම කලේ ? මේ පැනය අපි අසන්නේ එතුමාගේ උපදේශකයින්ගෙන් හා මේ කතාව සකස් කර නැවත නැවත කියවමින් ශෝධනය කල එතුමා වටා සිටින මණ්ඩලයෙනි.මේ කතාවෙන්, පෝලින්වල ගෑස් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, ඩිසල් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, පෙට්‍රල් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, බුමිතෙල් අපේක්ෂාවෙන්, සිටින මිනිසුන්ට දෙනු ලබන පණිවුඩය වන්නේ "මේ අර්බුදය මා විසින් ඇතිකරන ලද්දක් නොවේය" යන්නයි. එමෙන්ම විදුලිය නොමැතිව අඳුරේ සිටින මිනිසුන්ට දෙනු ලබන පනිවුඩයද වන්නේ "මේ අර්බුදය මා විසින් ඇතිකරන ලද්දක් නොවේය" යන්නයි.මිනිසුන් ඉතිහාසගත ජයග්‍රහණයකින් මෙතුමාව ජනාධිපති බවට පත්කොට කැවුම්, කිරිබත් කමින්, උත්සව පවත්වමින්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
ආර්ථික කණ්ඩායම දෙකට බෙදිලා.. බැසිල් එක මතයක.. කබ්රාල් තව මතයක.. කබ්රාල් ධුරයෙන් ඉවතට යයි තොරතුරු…
ආර්ථික අර්බුදය පිළිබඳව නිසි තීරණයක් ගැනීමට නොහැකිව මේ වනවිට ආණ්ඩුවේ ආර්ථිකය හසුරුවන කණ්ඩායම දෙකට බෙදී ඇති බවත් බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂගේ කණ්ඩායම සහ මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයාගේ කණ්ඩායම අතර මත ගැටුමක් හටගෙන තිබෙන බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ආචාර්ය හර්ෂ ද සිල්වා මහතා අනාවරණය කරයි. https://youtu.be/xkSgL199aUM කොළඹදී මාධ්‍ය අමතමින් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා පැවසුවේ මේ කඹ ඇදිල්ල නිසා ආර්ථික අර්බුදය දිනෙන් දිනම උත්සන්න වෙමින් පවතින බවයි. මෙරටට පැමිණි මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ නියෝජිතයින් සමග සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට මුදල් අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සහ මහා භාණ්ඩාගාර ලේකම්වරයා කටයුතු කළත් ආර්ථිකය පිළිබඳව වැදගත්ම තනතුරක් දරන මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
බැසිල්-කබ්රාල් ගැටුම ගම්මන්පිල හෙලි කරයි.. කළු කඩ ඩොලරයේ රහසත් හෙලි කරයි…
රටේ ආර්ථිකය කඩා බිද දැමීම සදහා මුදල් අමාත්‍යවරයා සිතා මතා සැලසුම් සහගතව කටයුතු කරණ බවට පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා චෝදනා කර සිටියේය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව සදහන් කර සිටියේ මුළු රටම හරි මගට යන තේමාව යටතේ බොරැල්ල එන් එම් පෙරේරා මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ දී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් හා එක්වෙමිණි. එහිදී වැඩි දුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය නායකයා මෙසේ අදහස් දැක්වීය. ජනතාව පෝලිම් වල ඉන්නේ මුදල් ඇමතිගේ වරදින් https://youtu.be/Sy0UbT68RkU අව්වේ වේලෙමින් වැස්සට තෙමෙමින් අපේ රටේ බහුතර ජනතාව අද ඩීසල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Sri Lankan leader seeks IMF help as economic crisis deepens
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka´s president said Wednesday that his government was in discussions with the International Monetary Fund, other agencies and countries on deferring loan repayments and requested people's support by limiting electricity and fuel consumption to cope with the worst economic crisis in memory. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his televised address asked the nation not to be discouraged and have faith in his steps to salvage the situation. His appeal comes amid widespread public anger at the severe shortages of essential goods including medicine, cooking gas, fuel and daily power... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Sri Lankan FM calls on PM Modi; appreciates India's economic support
PM Modi conveyed to visiting Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa that India would always stand with the island nation as it occupies a central role in New Delhi's 'neighbourhood first policy'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday conveyed to visiting Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa that India would always stand with the island nation as it occupies a central role in New Delhi's 'neighbourhood first policy'. Sri Lanka is expecting a USD 1 billion Line of Credit (LOC) from India to tide over its economic crisis and a pact on the additional... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Protesters blame Sri Lanka leader for severe economic crisis
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Anti-government protests roiled Sri Lanka's capital on Tuesday amid demands that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis within memory. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside of the president's office in Colombo, led by supporters of the opposition party of the United People's Force. Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa addressed the demonstration, declaring it marked the beginning of a campaign to oust the government. "You have been suffering now for two years. Can you suffer further?" he told the large... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Sri Lankan minister in Delhi, India eyes Jaffna airport, harbour projects
Rajapaksa, who arrived in Delhi on Wednesday for a three-day visit, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is scheduled to meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to finalise the credit line. AS INDIA prepares to sign off on a $1-bn emergency credit line to Sri Lanka for food and essential commodities during Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s visit, it will push Colombo for the finalisation of earlier proposals on the joint development of Palaly airport and Kankesanthurai harbour, both in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Viyath Maga or Jara Maga?
In the nineties with the emergence of the Newly Industrialised Economies (NIEs) or so-called Asian Giants or Asian Miracle, theorists all over the world began to talk about “Easternisation” as against “Westernisation”, “Asianness”, “Borderless World” and “Blurring of Borders”. In present day Sri Lanka, we witness a new kind of “blurring of borders”, that is between Viyath Maga and “Jara Maga”. The Sunday night (13 March) newscasts and Monday dailies (14 March) flashed a news item, i.e. Chairman of the Committee of Public Enterprises (COPE) lambasting the Chairperson and her cohorts of the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Former Auditor General: Parliament has failed
Former Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe has presented an eight-point plan to restore democracy, good governance and accountability. He has declared that far reaching remedial measures are required as an utterly corrupt political party system, has caused irreparable damage to the country. Wijesinghe’s proposals pertain to the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. The country couldn’t be saved unless the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary were brought under the law, Wijesinghe has said, referreing to the 2015 and 2016 Treasury... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
People languishing in queues due to Basil’s wrong actions: Gammanpila
Claiming that people have had to stay in gas, fuel and medicine queues because of the failure of Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya Leader former Minister Udaya Gammanpila said today people would not have to languish in queues if the import of non essential goods was restricted. He told a news conference that the total import cost last year was US Dollars 20.6 billion, which was a highest import cost reported in the history of Sri Lanka. He said only US Dollars 4.6 billion out of the total... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
I will not remain in govt. If IMF assistance sought: Vasu
Minister of Water Supply Vasudeva Nanayakkara said today he would not remain in the government, if it was seeking the assistance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and abiding by its conditions. The Minister told a news conference convened by the eleven constituent parties of the government that seeking assistance of the IMF would mean that Sri lanka would have to abide by its conditions. He said Sri Lanka would have to cut down on expenditure on welfare, transferring ownership of state institutions to the private sector and imposing restrictions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
I have decided to work with the IMF – President
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is very sensitive to the many sufferings the people have experienced over the past two months and said he is determined to make tough decisions to find solutions to the inconveniences experienced by the people. He stated this while delivering his special address to the nation on Wednesday (16) night. “I address you today at a challenging time. I am well aware of the shortages of essential items and increase in prices. I am also aware of issues such as gas shortage, fuel shortage and power cuts.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Sri Lanka detects 320 new positive cases of Covid-19 and death count drops to one
The Health Ministry says that another 320 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 657,134. According to official figures, 619,193 positive cases have recovered. Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 21,525. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,416. Only one coronavirus related death has been reported within yesterday, according to the Government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
GL conveys Sri Lanka’s concerns over UK Travel Advisory
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris has pointed to “inaccuracies” contained in the UK Travel Advisory on Sri Lanka in its successive revisions, resulting in the projection of “a negative image” of the country. He has conveyed the above to the UK authorities at a high level on Tuesday (March 15), the foreign ministry said. “In this regard, the Foreign Minister has observed that the reference in the Travel Advisory to the likelihood of terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka and their indiscriminate nature, is contrary to the ground reality, when... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Civilians feared trapped and killed in theater explosion in Ukraine
Russia says neo-Nazi “Azov” militants blew up building where they were holding hostages. Responding to claims by Ukraine that an airstrike destroyed a theater in Mariupol and killed civilians sheltering there, the Russian Defense Ministry said there had been no such strikes against ground targets in that city, and accused the neo-Nazi “Azov” battalion of killing its hostages. The Russian military was aware of reports that “Azov” militants had kept civilians inside the theater as human shields, and did not consider the building a target for airstrikes for that reason, Major-General Igor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
West’s global political and economic dominance ends – Putin
The Russian president says the “myth of the Western welfare state, of the so-called golden billion, is crumbling” Russia's President Vladimir Putin © Kremlin Press Service / Handout / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin has opined that the latest rounds of unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and its allies over the Kremlin’s military campaign in Ukraine, mark the end of an era. According to Putin, from now on the West will be losing its “global dominance” both politically and economically. Speaking on Wednesday,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa calls on Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi stated that India would always stand with Sri Lanka, a close friendly neighbour, when the visiting Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa called on him this afternoon (16) in New Delhi. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa is on a two-day official visit to New Delhi to follow-up on the short and medium-term economic cooperation measures that were agreed during his visit to India in December last year. The meeting between the Prime Minister of India and the Finance Minister of Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Devaluation
15/3Down with the Rupee Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble, Down with the rupee, make it tumble, Poor people let them crumble. (With apologies to Shakespeare) During the last few days there were many excellent presentations on the present economic crisis. There are several points I as a non-economist do not understand. Much repeated argument is that the corvid pandemic is not the main cause of the present debacle. According to CBSL statistics from 2014 to 2018 the workers’ remittance was 7 billion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Are Glory and Pride Over?
There has been a lot of criticism concerning the dollar deficit that has significantly affected inflation. At long last, the dollar was allowed to free-float. However, financial experts say, “it is too late!” Simultaneously, 367 non-essential items were restricted from 9 March 2022 after 45 years. Many point an accusing finger at the Government for not planning its economic structure steadfastly. The writer of this column does not wish to point the finger at any successive governments because loans obtained were to develop the country, of course at exorbitant rates (with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Freeze on Russian Reserves Domino That May Topple Dollar’s World Reserve Status, German Media Warns
With a national debt of over $30 trillion, a skyrocketing consumer price index thanks to trillions in new government spending, and renewed efforts by emerging economies to find alternative means of exchange in foreign trade, the greenback’s time in the sun as a harbour of stability in uncertain times could be coming to an end. The dollar may lose its status as the de facto world reserve currency thanks to inflation, the fragmentation of the globalized economy and, fatefully, the new US and Western sanctions slapped on Russia targeting its foreign reserves, Spiegel contributor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/22)
Who thinks IMF can bail out Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka is $35billion in debt. It is a debt that did not happen overnight. It is a debt that IMF will not solve & cannot solve. Taking loans without a plan & internal measures to curb & cut expenses is not going to help or solve Sri Lanka’s debt situation. Taking loans and burdening the middle class and poor is unforgiveable while offering tax holidays and incentives to the rich & privatizing the little state owned enterprises we have left. It is a valid question to pose whether the economic collapse... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
The forked tounged IMF
The IMF warns Sri Lanka of its unsustainable foreign debt. It is sad that the IMF forgets that it is the IMF itself that paved the path for the creation of this unsustainable debt. That happened in 1977 when the IMF imposed its Structural Adjustment Programme(SAP)on Sri Lanka. Till then Sri Lanka had no foreign debt. Dr Gamini Corea, a celebrated son of Sri Lanka- the one son who held the high position of the Secretary General of UNCTAD, has “castigated the IMF for laying down stringent conditions euphemistically called Structural Adjustment Programme... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
Sri Lanka – Economic Advisors & Foreign Loans
If we judge Sri Lanka’s economic development vis a vis the western loans & expert economic advisors our story is quite bleak. We have had countless economic gurus claiming to be the know-it-alls but have failed to come up with a plan to bring Sri Lanka out of the debt trap it happily walks into. To pay a loan we take a loan & this has been the expert advice followed. We blame the politicians & demand the experts be given a bigger role, but what have the experts tapped to advice,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
The USA and Sri Lanka
Current visits by US administrators to Sri Lanka deserves special attention. The USA controls the IMF which has imposed neoliberal economics on all Third World countries since the Seventies. Sri Lanka today is the worst casualty, caught unawares. The MCC Programme is another carrot dangled at us. In this context my earlier Paper is enclosed for kind info. Posted on October 26th, 2020 The MCC Compact Method of Creating more Poverty: The USA can definitely do better.By Garvin Karunaratne, PhD. Michigan State University The Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
High Commissioner Moragoda meets India's Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy to discuss further cooperation
Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda sought ways and means of further enhancing cooperation with India in the power and renewable energy sector, when he met the Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy of India Shri Raj Kumar Singh in New Delhi. Minister Singh, recalling the age-old close relations between India and Sri Lanka, extended a warm welcome to High Commissioner Moragoda. The Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy of India and the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka discussed a range of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
වැඩබිමට අවශ්‍ය දැනුම සහිත ශිල්පීන් අධ්‍යාපනික ආයතනවලින් බිහි නොවීම විශාල ගැටලුවක්.
වැඩබිමට අවශ්‍ය දැනුම සහිත ශිල්පීන් අධ්‍යාපනික ආයතනවලින් බිහි නොවීම විශාල ගැටලුවක්. ඒ නිසාම අප අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ තිබෙන සියලුම වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනවල ඉගෙනුම ලබන දරුවන්ගේ වෘත්තීය පුහුණුව පිළිබඳව වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කරමින් ක්ෂේත්‍ර පුහුණුව වැඩි වශයෙන් ලබා දීමට අපි කටයුතු කරනවා.” “වැඩබිමට අවශ්‍ය දැනුම සහිත ශිල්පීන් අධ්‍යාපනික ආයතනවලින් බිහි නොවීම විශාල ගැටලුවක්. ඒ නිසාම අප අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ තිබෙන සියලුම වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනවල ඉගෙනුම ලබන දරුවන්ගේ වෘත්තීය පුහුණුව පිළිබඳව වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කරමින් ක්ෂේත්‍ර පුහුණුව වැඩි වශයෙන් ලබා දීමට අපි කටයුතු කරනවා.” නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
Ukraine admits it won’t be part of NATO
Kiev’s constitution-enshrined bid for membership in the military bloc can’t be realized, Zelensky said Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the UK Joint Expeditionary Force meeting NATO allies don’t want to see Ukraine among their ranks and Kiev realizes that, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Western leaders on Tuesday. Now Kiev seeks protection from individual member states. “We’ve been hearing for years that the [NATO] doors were supposedly open, but now we know we won’t enter there. That is the truth, and we must acknowledge that,” Zelensky said during a video call... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
China responds to sanctions threat
Beijing will safeguard its legitimate rights and interests, according to the country’s foreign minister. While stating that China will stand up for its legitimate economic interests in the face of Western sanctions, the country’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, has refuted the notion that Beijing is taking Russia’s side in the Ukrainian conflict. “China is not a party to the [Ukrainian] crisis, nor does it want the sanctions to affect China. China has the right to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,” insisted Wang Yi on Monday during a phone call with his Spanish... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
US Advisers Help Kiev Make Biological & Nuclear Weapons – Russian Security Council Secretary
The Ukrainian leadership's rhetoric about the prospect of changing the country's nuclear status wasn't just empty words, and such a development would not only pose a security risk to Russia but to the entire world, Patrushev stated. Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Security Council, has declared that "it became clear" that advisers from the United States encourage and support the Ukrainian government's efforts to create biological and nuclear weapons. Speaking at a conference on national security held at Russia's North Caucasus Federal District on Tuesday, Patrushev argued that Ukraine possesses all the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
Dollar crisis driven import issues to hamper Yala season
A seed crisis has emerged because of the impossibility of importing hybrid seeds due to the dollar crisis. (PIC: AFP) There are issues regarding importing fertilizer, pesticides and seeds for the Yala season due to the dollar crisisFarmers have faced difficulties during the Yala season due to the lack of seedsVitamins and hormones are required for the better growth of plants and they are not available in the market244,964 kilos of seeds were imported in 2020 alone at the cost of 1,955,140,724 rupeesImporting 85% of the seed requirement of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
Foreign newspaper spills the beans: Myanmar-Sri Lanka rice deal smells of corruption
Myanmar uses 70% of chemical fertilizer during the monsoons and 100% of such fertilizer during the dry weather Sri Lanka’s pride has taken a beating because it has gone to the extent of obtaining loans from Bangladesh and importing rice from MyanmarThe Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has paid 3.05 billion rupees more than what other countries pay to import rice from Myanmar, The Global New Light reportedThe newspaper article also reported that the exported rice was of low qualityReportedly, 100,000 MT of white raw rice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
COVID: Sri Lanka confirms 08 more deaths and 428 new cases
The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 08 coronavirus related deaths for March 14, increasing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 16,407. The deaths reported today include 04 males and 04 female patients, according to the Government Information Department. Two of the Covid-19 victims are between the ages 30-59 years while the rest are aged 60 years and above. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry says that another 428 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the tally of confirmed cases detected in the country to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/22)
Who Benefits From EU Dragging on Ukraine Conflict With Arms Supplies and Anti-Russia Sanctions?
Sanctions against Russia and the arms supplies to Kiev will not solve the current crisis, while Ukraine's guaranteed neutrality would be a reasonable solution, argued Sahra Wagenknecht, a member of the Bundestag for The Left, in her latest interview with Die Welt. Could Berlin become a responsible peace broker?"The German government under Chancellor Scholz is more subservient to Washington than the Merkel government," says Gilbert Doctorow, an international relations and Russian affairs analyst. "As a US vassal, Germany is dancing to the melody coming from Washington which is to extend the Ukraine-Russia war as long as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
මැතිවරණයේදී චමල් පරදන්න බැසිල් වැඩ කල හැටි ගම්මන්පිල හෙළිකරයි…
https://youtu.be/5cRbvtyRnjs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
IMF in Sri Lanka to discuss worsening economic crisis
People stand in line to buy diesel at a Ceylon Petroleum Corporation fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 2, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS COLOMBO (AFP) - An IMF delegation was in Sri Lanka on Monday (March 14) for talks on the island's worsening economic crisis, with the public suffering through months of food, fuel and medicine shortages. A lack of foreign currency has left traders unable to pay for vital imports in what authorities concede is the South Asian nation's worst financial crisis since independence from Britain in 1948. Long... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
UK Travel Advisory on Sri Lanka Warns of Dire Economic Situation, Shortages
'There may be long queues at grocery stores, gas stations, and pharmacies,' UK warned those travelling to the island nation whose economy has been severely hit by the pandemic. New Delhi: Responding to the economic crisis caused by foreign exchange depletion in Sri Lanka since the pandemic, the United Kingdom has issued a travel advisory for its citizens travelling to the island nation. According to Sri Lankan news reports, the latest advisory has warned British citizens about the dire economic situation in that country leading to shortage of basic necessities like medicines, fuel... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
Moscow and Kiev may soon come to agreement – Russian negotiator
Ukraine said Russia was seeing the situation “much more adequately” than before © Getty Images / EA A member of the Russian negotiating team, Leonid Slutsky, has said he believes the “significant progress” he has observed in talks between Moscow and Kiev might soon lead the two sides in the conflict to sign an agreement. Speaking to RT Arabic on Sunday, Slutsky – who also chairs the State Duma’s Committee on International Affairs – said, “If we compare the positions of both delegations at the talks, at the very... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
China Slams Claims About Russia Asking for Military Assistance in Ukraine Op as 'US Disinformation'
© Sputnik / Pavel Lvov / Go to the photo bankSubscribeSvetlana EkimenkoAll materialsWrite to the authorBeing updatedEarlier, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy to the United States reportedly rejected media allegations that Moscow had sought Beijing's help with military equipment and other logistics for its operation to de-Nazify Ukraine. Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the embassy, reportedly told Reuters on Sunday that he had "never heard of that."China's Foreign Ministry has slammed claims by US officials that Russia allegedly asked Beijing for military equipment after the start of its special operation to demilitarise Ukraine as 'disinformation'.Furthermore, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
Moscow Considers West's Attempts to Push Russia Into Storming Major Ukrainian Cities 'Provocative'
r two weeks after starting the operation to demilitarize Ukraine, Russian forces have been hesitant to enter major populated centers -especially in areas where Ukrainian ultranationalist battalions are holed up. The Russian MoD has repeatedly accused the latter of placing heavy weapons in residential areas, and using civilians as human shields. Moscow considers recent statements by US and European officials on President Putin's supposed "frustration" with the state of the operation in Ukraine to be provocative, and aimed at getting Russia to storm Ukrainian cities and cause civilian loss of life, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/22)
A red light to the President.
I request all my Sinhala and Tamil readers both at home and abroad, particularly the Sinhala people to read very carefully the following letter at the end of this note, addressed to President Rajapaksa by one of the most versatile and veteran young journalist Shenali D Waduge as it focuses and highlights on the fundamental rights of both these communities living in this country, as this is the only piece of land we have to live, totaling to 25,332 sq miles only, on this planet. This letter by Senali, in my opinion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
මහාචාර්ය PADe Silva
මහාචාර්ය PADe Silva මොරටුව විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ මහාචාර්ය වරයෙකි. දැන් Emeritus ය. ඔහු සිටියේ යාන්ත්‍රික ඉංජිනේරු විද්‍යා පීඨයේ ය. ඔහුගේ එංගලන්තයේ සිට ලංකාවට මෝටර් රථයෙන් ආ කථා ඒ දවස් වල සුරන්ගනාය. ඔහුට ඒ කාලයේ විදුලි වාහන ගැන පර්යේෂණ උනන්දුවක් තිබුනේය. එය ඔහුගේ signature ව්‍යාපෘතිය විය. ඉඳ හිට ඔහු විදුලි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
ඥානක්කා දේශපාලන හයියෙන් අනුරාධපුර වැව් රක්ෂිතයේ හෝටල් හදයි..
ප‍්‍රබල දේශපාලන බලධරයන්ගේ අතින් එසවූ දෝලාවල නැගගත් දේවාලවල කපු නෝනලාට අසීමිත දේශපාලන බලය ලැබෙන විට නීතිය නිහඬ කළ හැකිද? මෙම දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාදාම රාමුවට මුවා වී මුදල් හා දේපොළ හම්බ කිරීමද මීට සමාන්තරව සිදු වෙයි. එවන් ක්‍රියාදාමයක් වාර්තා වෙන්නේ අනුරාධපුර නගරයෙනි. දේශපාලකයන්ගේ සාස්තර ගෙදර නමින් හඳුන්වන ඥානාමැණියන්ගේ දේවාලය ඊට කදිම නිදසුනකි. අනුරාධපුර ජනතාව අතර ඥානක්කා නමින් ප්‍රසිද්ධ මෙම සාස්තරකාරිය මෙහි ප්‍රධාන චරිතයයි. ඇය සාස්තර සහ අනාවැකි කියමින් මෙරට දේශපාලකයින්ගේ සිත්දිනා ගන්න දක්ෂය. රට කරවන්නන්ගේ මුල් අසුන්වල පටන් මැති ඇමැතිවරුන්, විපක්ෂයේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්, ආරක්ෂක අංශ ප්‍රධානීන් මෙන්ම ඇතැම් ප්‍රසිද්ධ නිළමේලාද ඥානක්කාගේ සාස්තර සාමාජිකයෝය. තවත් පිරිසක් වන්නේ ව්‍යාපාරිකයින්ය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
ඇග කිලිපොලා යන ‘බැසිල් මෙහෙයුම’ ගම්මන්පිල සිරසේදී හෙලි කරයි..
ශ්රී ලංකාව නිදහසින් පසු මුහුණ දුන් බරපතලම අර්බුදය ට මුහුණ දී සිටියත් මේ මොහොතේ ආර්ථිකය කඩා වැටෙද්දී ඊට පිළියම් ලෙස කිසිවක් නොකර ආර්ථිකය කඩාවැටීමට ඉඩ දී බලා සිටීමට බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කටයුතු කරන බව පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේ ය. බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ රටට අහිතකර ව්‍යාපෘතීන්ට එරෙහිව ජනතාව නැගී සිටින බවත් රට තුළ ඖෂධ, ආහාර සහ ඉන්ධන හිඟයක් ඇති කර ජනතාව අසරණ කිරීම තුළින් එම ව්‍යාපෘතීන්ට එරෙහි විය නොහැකි බෙලහීන ජාතියක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම ඔහුගේ සැලසුම බවත් ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ ඇමරිකා උවමනාවට රට බංකොලොත් කරනවා.. ඩොලර් අර්බුදය හැදුවේද ඔහුයි…
බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ නම් අවලස්සන ඇමරිකානුවා විසින් මේ ශ්රී ලංකාව විනාශ කරමින් සිටින බව හිටපු බලශක්ති අමාත්‍ය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අද ඇතිව තිබෙන ඩොලර් අර්බුදයට වගකිව යුත්තේ මුදල් අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ බවත් මේ රට බංකොලොත් වුණා නොව බංකොලොත් කර ඇති බවත් හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. https://youtu.be/5cRbvtyRnjs බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාව බංකොලොත් කරමින් සිටින්නේ ඇමරිකානු උවමනාවට බව ද හෙතෙම චෝදනා කරයි. අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද අවලංගු කාසියක් වී ඇති බවත් රට පාලනය කරන්නේ ජනාධිපති හෝ අගමැති නොව බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
Cabinet sub-committees on economic way forward initiate deliberations; China-SL FTA to be fast-tracked
The three Cabinet sub-committees, appointed by the President last month to negotiate with China, Japan and the Middle East Region on economic matters met for the first time on the 9th and 10th of March at the Parliament under the chairmanship of the Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris. Commencing its task, the Cabinet sub-committees convened the initial meetings with the participation of Cabinet Ministers Bandula Gunawardena, Namal Rajapaksa, Ali Sabry, Ramesh Pathirana and Johnston Fernando, who function as the members of the sub-committees. The Committees were appointed based on a Cabinet Memorandum... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
President directs to add 5,000 MW to national grid from renewable energy sources
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given directives to make arrangements to generate 5,000 MW via renewable energy sources and add them to the national grid within next six years, Minister of Highways Johnston Fernando says. As a part of the new programme, the approval of the cabinet sub-committee has been given to India’s Adani Group to invest USD 500 million in developing renewable energy projects in Sri Lanka, minister Fernando said, adding that the Indian company is expected to invest in several more similar projects here. The minister, who is also the chairman... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
SJB to bring no-confidence motion against Minister Basil?
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is considering bringing forth a motion of no confidence against Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa. SJB National Organiser MP Tissa Attanayake said the party has initiated internal discussions on the matter. https://youtu.be/ADrTlO1nVFA He added that the finance minister’s conduct is responsible for the downfall of the country’s economy, adding that there is lack of confidence in the actions of the lawmaker. Attanayake also slammed the finance minister for not delivering a statement in the parliament pertaining to the ongoing economic crisis. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
Daily Covid-19 cases count at 311 today and Seven more Covid-19 deaths confirmed
The Health Ministry says that another 311 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 656,041. According to official figures, 618,886 positive cases have recovered. Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 20,758. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,397. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 07 coronavirus-related deaths for March 12,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/22)
Decision to float the dollar, not a wise thing to do at this moment
Since September last year the government kept the Rs/US Dollar rate static (Rs 203 = US$1). Sri Lanka being imports driven country, this artificial arrangement served the country well – it kept the inflation under watch. It was a very clever achievement by the government (solely due to the efforts of the Central Bank Governor Mr Cabral). But, on 10 March 2022 the government decided float the dollar. This means that the government would no longer fix the exchange rate for the dollar, it will be determined by the forex market based... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
අපට වැරදුනේ නැත
1962 පොලිස් කුමන්ත්රණයට ආණ්ඩුව වැඩේ දුන්නේය පොලිස්කාරයාට වැරදුනේය ලංකාව පොලිස් රාජ්ජයක් වීම වැලකුනේය පොලිසියට ගියා නම් ආපසු ඒමක් නැත අපිට වැරදුනේ නැත රට අරාජික උනේ නැත. 71 JVP කාරයාට ලංකාව සුං කරන්නට ඕනා විය කිම් ඉල් සුං උනා නම් රට සුනේ සුං ය අපි කන්නේ කොරියන් ය ඒ වැඩෙන් දැන් අපිට වත් ඕවර් නයිට් ගහන්නට බැරිය ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
එක දවසේමඅපෙන් සමුගත් ආනන්දයෙන් බිහිවුණු විශිෂ්ට කර්තෘවරුන් දෙදෙනා
කොළඹ ආනන්දය රටට බිහිකළේ ෆොන්සේකා, කරන්නාගොඩ, වීරසේකර, ගෝඨාභය වැනි රණවිරුවන් පමණක් නොවේ. ලොව ඉහළ පෙළේ ඉංජිනේරුවන් හා වෛද්‍යවරුන්ට අමතරව සාහිත්‍යය ලොව බැබළ වූ පත්තර කලාවේ පතාක යෝධයෝ දුසිම් ගණන්ද ආනන්දය රටට දායාද කළේය. ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න, සිසිර පරණතන්ත්‍රී, ජටිල වැල්ලබඩ මෑතකදී පුවත්පත් ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ඉහළටම ගිය ආනන්දීයයන්ගෙන් සමහරෙකි. එසේම සුනිල් මාධව ප්‍රේමතිලක හා බන්දුල පද්මකුමාර ආනන්දය නිර්මාණය කළ ඉහළම පෙළේ මාධ්‍යවේදීන් දෙදෙනෙකු යැයි මා කිවහොත් එයට කිසිවකු විරුද්ධ නොවනු ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකා පත්තර කලාව උඩු යටිකුරු කළ ආනන්දයේ මගේ සමකාලීනයන් දෙදෙනා එකම සතියක අපෙන් සමුගෙන ඇතැයි යන ආරංචිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
Public rage boils as Sri Lanka fumbles with faltering economy
IMF warns of worse to come as South Asian nation fights shy of 17th bailout. COLOMBO -- Random flashes of public anger have erupted all across Sri Lanka, the South Asian nation in a deepening economic crisis exacerbated by the policy flip-flops of its ultranationalist government. In some rural areas, effigies of ministers have been burnt by enraged farmers who have suffered from the government's failed organic fertilizer policy, fingered by agriculture scientists as a main cause of the poor rice harvest. "If they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
Sialkot lynching case: ATC indicts 89 accused of murdering Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara
An anti-terrorism court on Saturday indicted 89 individuals accused of lynching 49-year-old Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadanage in Sialkot over blasphemy allegations last year. Kumara was lynched by a mob comprising hundreds of protesters, including the employees of the factory he was the manager of, on December 3. The mob had tortured him to death and later burnt his body. A first information report was registered against 900 workers of Rajco Industries on the application of Uggoki Station House Officer Armaghan Maqt under sections 302, 297, 201, 427, 431, 157, 149 of the Pakistan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
WIMAL-UDAYA EXPULSION: FIRST FISSURES, COMING CRACK-UP
There are two cracks, not one: the crack in the Cabinet with the expulsion of the Weerawansa-Gammanpila duo, and the incipient crack in the ruling SLPP coalition manifested in the launch of a new program under the leadership of ex-president Maithripala Sirisena. The obvious parallel is superficial, i.e., the beginnings of the crack-up of the United Front coalition in 1975. What’s happening now has a deeper dimension. What is well-known is that Wimal and Udaya were prominent in the Mahinda Rajapaksa comeback campaign which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
Remittances from exported goods and services from foreign earnings should be remitted to SL within 180 days - CBSL
Foreign earnings from all exported goods and services have been made mandatory and to be remitted to Sri Lanka within 180 days from the date of shipment or provisioning of services, the Central Bank stated. Issuing an Extraordinary gazette notification, “Repatriation of export Proceeds into Sri Lanka” the CBSL Governor stated that every exporter of goods and/ or services shall; immediately upon all and every receipt/s of export proceeds being received, forthwith submit all related documentary evidence on each and every receipt of export proceeds, in respect of every export of goods... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
Covid: 347 new infections and 19 deaths confirmed in Sri Lanka
The Health Ministry says that another 347 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 655,730. According to official figures, 618,797 positive cases have recovered. Following the new development, the number of virus-infected people who are undergoing treatment moved to 20,543. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 16,390. The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 09 coronavirus-related deaths for March 11,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
The Way Out of the economic abyss besetting Sri Lanka
A depleted treasury- living on loans like a beggar on the streets, endless food queues-, is unfortunately Sri Lanka today. Today it is reported that the dollar has fetched over Rs 260 and unless one can imagine the cost of imports. A New Programme to make everything we import is mandatory and I hope our leaders understand this fact. Till 1977 Sri Lanka managed its economy without any foreign debt. The IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programme imposed on Sri Lanka in 1977 ruled that the Public Sector should not do any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
බඩපිස්සගේ ලියුං කරදහිය
හැටනව ලක්ස ආරස්සාවයි!හිතවත් ගොටයියේ,මේ ලියමන කොහොම පටන් ගත්තොත් හොඳද කියා නිනව්වක් නැත. බොලාගේ සැප සනීප කොහොමද, මා නං සැප සනීපෙන්ය, කියා ආදි-කාලෙ ලියුං කරදහි පටන් ගත්තැහෙ පටන් ගන්නටද හැක. ඒත් නැත්නං, වැල්වටාරම් නැතුව කෙලින්ම කාරණාවට බහින්නටද ඇහැක.කොයි හැටි වෙතත්, හැටනව ලක්ස පිහිටෙන් ගොටය්ය සනිපෙන්ය. බොලා වාගේම බඩපිස්සෙක් වන මට නං එහෙම නැත. පොඩි එකා සංදියේ නං බඩපිස්සෙක් වීමම භාග්යයකි. අම්ම අප්පච්චි ඇරෙන්නට තව තුන් හතර දෙනෙක් වටේ දැවටුන එක ලොකු දෙයක්ය. ගොටයියාටද එසේය කියා අසා ඇත්තෙමි. මේ ලියමනට හේතුවද එයමය. මහළු බඩපිස්සන්ට දැනෙන, තේරෙන කරුණු කාරනා, මහළු ලෝකලාට, මද්දුමයන්ට, ඩිංගින්ට, හින්නින්ට දැනෙන්නේද, තේරෙන්නේද නැතිය. මේ කතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
Shame! Shame! For the Greatness of India! when Sri Lanka in dire distress, asked for a distressed loan, instead of helping its neighbor, opportunist India is trying to fish in troubled Sri Lankan waters.
Shame! Shame! For the Greatness of India! when Sri Lanka in dire distress, asked for a distress loan, for emergency supplies of food, fuel and medicines, instead of helping its neighbor, opportunist India is trying to fish in troubled Sri Lankan waters. I earnestly request all my patriotic readers first, to read carefully the following arrogant and opportunistic and utterly undiplomatic statement India has issued and how she has reacted to a request made by the Sri Lankan Government for a distress lo purchase food, fuel and medicine from its worthy neighbor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY PT 16D PT 1
Selvarasa Pathmanathan a.k.a. Kumaran Pathmanathan a.k.a. "KP" (b. 1955) was an important figure in the Eelam war. Pathmanathan was a top LTTE official. He was the chief procurer of arms for the LTTE. KP functioned as the chief arms procurement agent for the LTTE throughout the Eelam war, starting from 1984. KP was the head of the most sophisticated weapons procurement net work operated by any terrorist organization observed Shanaka Jayasekera. Sri Lanka Army said “KP” was born in Kankesanturai and belonged to the Karayar caste. He had studied at Nadeshwar College in Kankesanturai... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 16D PT 2
KP was solely responsible for purchase of new ships for the LTTE. Five or six small freighters were added to the fleet, working under several dummy companies with offices in Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. These were officially to carry timber and grain KP together with a UK based activists then purchased 11 merchant vessels. By 2000, there were 11 well equipped ships, capable of transoceanic long distance sailing, for smuggling LTTE had 13 ships in 2003. There were many merchant navy officers, sailors and engineers from Valvettiturai and elsewhere in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/22)
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තෙළිඟු ජනතාවගේ ගැටලු විසඳීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මැදිහත්වෙයි
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වෙසෙන තෙළිඟු ජනතාවගේ සංස්කෘතික අනන්‍යතාව රැකෙන පරිදි ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවනෝපායට පවතින බාධාවන් ඉවත් කරමින් නිවාස, පානීය ජලය ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් අවශ්‍යතා ඉටුකරන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම්තුමා ඇතුළු ඒ ඒ විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම්වරුන්ට සහ ආයතන ප්‍රධානීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. සමස්ත ලංකා තෙළිඟු ශිල්පීන්ගේ සංස්කෘතික සංගමය සමඟ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අද (11) පෙරවරුවේ පැවැති සාකච්ඡාවේ දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව දැනුම් දුන්නේය. ශ්රී ලංකා තෙළිඟු ජනතාවගේ නායක කේ.ආර් අනවත්තු මහතා ඇතුළු දිවයින පුරා තෙළිඟු ජනතාව නියෝජනය කරමින් පැමිණි නියෝජිතයෝ මෙහි දී තෙළිඟු ජනතාව මුහුණ පා ඇති ගැටලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
POLICY ON ELDERS
1.CURRENT STATUS With impressive improvements in health and nutrition the latter half of the 20th century has resulted in a revolution in longevity, which in Sri Lanka today is 76.98 years (2019). With high fertility in the past and rising life expectancies in the future, the number of elderly is rapidly increasing and the percentage of older persons was due to reach 15 percent by 2020.Because of their higher longevity more women elders will lose the support of their spouses in later life. The traditional family culture of lifelong care... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පැවති තරුණ ලාංකේය ව්‍යවසායක මණ්ඩලයේ 23වන සංවත්සර සැමරුම
තරුණ ලාංකේය ව්‍යවසායක මණ්ඩලයේ 23වන සංවත්සරික සැමරුම අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ (10) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ ශ්‍රැංග්‍රිලා හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ශ්රී ලාංකික ව්‍යාපාර 500කට වැඩි සංඛ්‍යාවක් ආවරණය වන තරුණ ලාංකේය ව්‍යවසාය මණ්ඩලය දේශීයත්වය ප්‍රමුඛ කොට ගත් ව්‍යවසායකයන්ගෙන් සැඳුම්ලත් මණ්ඩලයකි. මෙම මණ්ඩලයේ ආරම්භක හමුවීම සඳහා ද අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා එක්ව තිබීම විශේෂත්වයකි. එතැන් පටන් අවස්ථා ගණනාවක දී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මෙම මණ්ඩලයේ සංවත්සර සැමරුම් සඳහා එක්ව තිබේ. තරුණ ලාංකේය ව්‍යවසායක මණ්ඩලයේ 23 සංවත්සර සැමරුම සමගාමීව පැවති මහා සභා රැස්වීමේ දී 2022/2023 වසර සඳහා නව සභාපති ලෙස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
දෙස් විදෙස් රැකියා දොරටු විවර කරමින් මෝටර් රථ කාර්මික ශිල්පීන් සහතිකපතින් පූර්ණත්වයට පත් කෙරේ
ඔරුගොඩවත්ත මෝටර් රථ ඉංජිනේරු අභ්‍යාස ආයතනයේ (AETI) සහතික ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය ගරු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මැතිණියගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඊයේ දින (10) පැවැත්විණ. මෙහි දී, · මෝටර් රථ යාන්ත්‍රික ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · මෝටර් රථ විදුලි ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · යන්ත්‍ර ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · ටිංකර්/ පෑස්සුම් ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · වාහන පින්තාරුකරු ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව · වාහන වායුසමීකරණ ශිල්පී පාඨමාලාව යන වෘත්තීය පුහුණු පාඨමාලා සාර්ථකව හැදෑරූ සිසු සිසුවියන් 456 දෙනෙකු සහතිකපත්ලාභීන් බවට පත් විය. තවද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
Cardinal – UNP – LTTE/TNA & Associates
Citizens of Sri Lanka should be mature enough to put politics & preference for political parties aside when it comes to issues concerning the Nation. In such scenarios, citizens must be able to separate their personal preferences & evaluate if anything or anyone is doing wrong by the nation. We do not need to remind the citizens of the lies & illegalities taking place in the UNHRC against a UN Member State. We have seen too many of our own fly to Geneva to betray the nation. Not many have flown to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
Sri Lanka and India sign agreement to develop a solar power plant in Sampur
Colombo, March 11 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka and India on Friday signed an agreement to develop a solar power plant in Sampur as a joint venture. The agreement was signed between NTPC Limited, India’s largest integrated energy company and the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the Indian High Commission tweeted. The High Commission in Sri Lanka said that the agreement will help strengthen the economic partnership between India and Sri Lanka for mutual prosperity, through cooperation in renewable energy. Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, three other ministers, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
Sri Lanka rupee devaluation aimed at improving macro stability - Cabraal
The move to devalue the Sri Lankan rupee was aimed at improving macroeconomic stability as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in years, the country’s Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said on Friday. https://youtu.be/13S1q_2VT-w The central bank earlier in the week introduced a flexible exchange rate framework, which saw the rupee depreciate by around 30% to 260 rupees against the dollar on Thursday. “The decision to impose a flexible exchange rate has caused challenges but we are confident these can be managed,” Cabraal said in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
PUCSL approves CEB request for emergency power purchase
The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) says it has approved the request of the Ceylon Electricity Board for emergency power purchase subject to the conditions given by the PUCSL. Considering the existing fuel shortage of the country and electrical energy capacity shortage of the CEB, coupled up with the long term forced outage of all thermal power plants at Kelanithissa, Sapugaskanda and Kerawalapitiya due to no fuel with severe depletion of water resources in reservoirs that led to experience more than 7 hours daily power cut to the electricity consumers, the cabinet... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/22)
Upcoming talks with IMF not for debt restructuring purposes - CBSL governor
Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal has denied media reports which stated that the meetings between Sri Lankan authorities and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials over the next few weeks are for the purpose of debt restructuring. Taking to his official Twitter account, Cabraal said “Meetings of Sri Lankan authorities with
IMFNews officials over the next few weeks are NOT for the purpose of
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