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News Archive for Jul 2023
An open letter to The Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Eric WalshI reproduce here your statement as it appeared in the Lankaweb, for my readers to see what you have really said and where you have said that. Mr. Walsh told a media conference organized by the Canadian Tamil Congress to announce its assistance to Sri Lanka. There was genocide in Canada: Canadian envoy Posted on July 29th, 2023 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh yesterday said that there was genocide in Canada and its now trying to bring about reconciliation with its... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 4E.
One strategy used to suppress Buddhism in the north and east, is to plant a Hindu kovil amidst the Buddhist ruins. These brand new ‘kovils’ were set up in carefully selected Buddhist sites which were of strategic importance. Unknown to the Sinhala Buddhists, the Tamil Separatist Movement was busy identifying critical Buddhist ruins in the north and east, damaging them, destroying the Buddha statues, placing a trident and a lingam in its place and then calling them ancient kovils where Tamil have been worshipping for several generations. These ‘ancient kovils’ are not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
SPUR writes to register our protest with regard to the decision of President Ranil Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka, to offer pardon to the former LTTE cadres who participated in killing 91 innocent civilians and injuring over 1400 people in the 1996 Central Bank bombing.
The Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), Victoria Australia, along with like-minded organizations in Australia, England and the Middle East, write to register our protest with regards to the decision of President Ranil Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka, to offer pardon to the former LTTE cadres who participated in killing 91 innocent civilians and injuring over 1400 people in the 1996 Central Bank bombing. This dastardly act also resulted in over 100 victims losing their eye sight, when a 440 pound bomb was detonated by LTTE terrorists. After a lengthy court hearing,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
ගඩොල් මෝඩයින් රට කැබලි කිරීම - ලිපි මාලා අංක 1- විග්නේශ්වරන්ගේ පොන්ඩිචෙරි පොල්ල
මෝඩි මෝඩද? අපි හරි මෝඩයි-වික්ටර් අයිවන් මෝඩි විසින් ලංකාවේ දෙමළ ජනයාගේ dignity හා respect ගැන රනිල් ජනාධිපතිට දෙහි කපද්දී, කවුරුන්හෝ මෝඩිටත්, රනිල්ලාටත්, රට වැසි සිංහල කතාකරණ ජනයාටත් ලංකාවේ ඉතිහාසය හා භූගෝල විද්‍යාව කියා දියයුතුව තිබෙනවා නොවේද යනුවෙන් සිතමින් සිටින විට, ක්‍රිස්තියානි, මාක්ස්වාදී වික්ටර් අයිවන් විසින් <අපි හරි මෝඩයි> යනුවෙන් කල යූ ටියුබ් කතාව දැක මෙම ලිපි මාලාව ලිවිය යුතුයයි මම තීරණය කලෙමි. මර්වින් සිල්වා පවා දර්ශන් හඳුන්ගොඩ ඉදිරියේ < මට මොළේ නෑ> යයි කියයි! ගුජරාත් මහ ඇමති වශයෙන් ඇමෙරිකාවට ඒමට විසා එකක්වත් නොදුන් මෝඩි දැන් ඇමෙරිකාව හා එකතුවී චීනය දමණය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යවරයා විසින් පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්ට හා සිවිල් පුද්ගලයන්ට ත්‍යාග හා ප්‍රශංසා පිරිනැමීම
පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් හා සිවිල් පුද්ගලයන් විසින් සිදු කරන ලද යහපත් ක්‍රියාවන් අගයමින් ඔවුනට ත්‍යාග හා ප්‍රශංසා පිරිනැමීම අද (31) දින මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේදී පැවැත්විණි. මෙහිදී අදහස් දක්වමින් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා, අල්ලස් නොගෙන රාජකාරිය අකුරටම ඉටු කරන මෙවැනි පොලිස් නිළධාරීන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියට ආදර්ශයක් බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. මෙම අවස්ථාවේදී මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා සිවිල් පුරවැසියන් දෙදෙනාට ත්‍යාග මුදල් සහා ප්‍රශංසා පිරිනැමීය.තවද අපරාධ මැඩලීමට මහජනතාවගේ සහායෝගය ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිස් දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව අඛණ්ඩව බලාපොරොත්තු වන බවද පැවසීය. මහමග යතුරු පැදිවලින් පැමිණ වෙඩිතැබීම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
ජාතික ගීය වෙනස්කර ගායනා කිරීම ගැන පරීක්ෂණයක්
Referring to the brouhaha over the video circulating on social media in which a popular singer Umara Sinhawansa was mispronouncing a key lyric whilst performing the National Anthem at the 2023 LPL opening ceremony, Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Minister Vidura Wickramanayake warned legal action against the incident. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the Minister said, “No one can distort the National Anthem of any country as it represents the county’s identity and culture. Therefore, such incidents where the National Anthem is distorted can’t be condoned. “A national anthem can’t be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
Distorting National Anthem at LPL opening: Minister mulls legal action
Referring to the brouhaha over the video circulating on social media in which a popular singer Umara Sinhawansa was mispronouncing a key lyric whilst performing the National Anthem at the 2023 LPL opening ceremony, Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Minister Vidura Wickramanayake warned legal action against the incident. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the Minister said, “No one can distort the National Anthem of any country as it represents the county’s identity and culture. Therefore, such incidents where the National Anthem is distorted can’t be condoned. “A national anthem can’t... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
Colombo inflation dips to 6.3% in July
Sri Lanka’s headline inflation, as measured by the change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), has further decreased to 6.3% in July, compared to the previous month. The CCPI-based inflation was calculated as 12.0% for the month of June 2023. According to the latest report issued by the Department of Census & Statistics (DCS), the inflation of Food Group dropped to -1.4% in July from 4.1% in June 2023. The CCPI for all items for the month of July 2023 was 190.2 and it records a decrease of 2.1 index... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/07/23)
Who said 'There was Genocide in Canada" in todays Lankaweb 7.30.2023.
To The Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Eric Walsh Yes Mr. High Commissioner, the whole world knows that there was large-scale genocide done by your ancestors of Europe during the period 1400 -1850, not only in Canada but all over the world in continents like NA, SA, and Australia where your ancestors have annihilated the natives and concord those lands in the process of those dark Western colonial invasions in world history and also committed large scale genocide in Islands like Sri Lanka and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
The double standard of US Democracy, Human Rights
Every day, our mentality becomes more convoluted and twisted. We are all like exact copies of one another. toast with fruit mash. Put a lovely veil over the biting bitterness. It is the pinnacle of civilization's crisis. It is incorporating morals. The venomous sting of this dualism is biting our society and state. Our values, ethics, and ideals are moving in the wrong direction. People from a variety of professions, besides politicians, social reformers, educators, writers, doctors, and cultural workers, are developing dualistic ethical standards. Many actors had doubts about their sincerity.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Merge Western, Central, Wayamba, Southern, Uva, Sabaragamuwa and North Central Provinces into One Province
Provincial Councils are again in the news. These useless, money-guzzling and inefficient white elephants must be put to rest to reduce governance costs, corruption and bring Sri Lanka out of bankruptcy. However, India and Indian minorities want provincial councils to continue so that the island nation will be economically doomed forever. Instead of one, Sri Lanka has 10 health ministers, education ministers, etc. That is 10 times the administrative cost of education, healthcare, etc. On top of that, it is 10 times corruption, waste and salaries for staff. Approvals have to go through an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
මහා විහාර ව්‍යාපෘතිය පෙන්වා ත්‍රිකුණාමලය බිලිදෙන ට්‍රෝජන් සංකල්ප
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි හමු වී මෙරටේ ආර්ථික දේශපාලනික ව්‍යුහයට ඉන්දීය මැදිහත් වීම තහවුරු කළ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ලංකාවට පැමිණි විගසම සිදු කරන ලද්දේ අනුරාධපුරයට ගොස් අටමස්ථාන නායක ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලා මුණ ගැසී සංස්කෘතික සාකච්ඡාවකට මුල පිරීමයි.ඉන්දීය බලහත්කාරය ඔස්සේ බලය බෙදීම හරහා රට දෙකඩ වන තත්වයකට තල්ලු විය හැකි බව හොඳින්ම දැන දැන ගිවිසුම් කීපයක් අත්සන් කළ ජනපතිවරයාට වහාම මහා විහාරය මතක් වූ යේ ඇයි. මීට කලින් කුරුන්දි විහාර ප්‍රශ්ණය සහ ඉඩම් ප්‍රශ්ණය ඇද ගත් අවස්ථාවේ දීද මහා විහාරයට වඩා කුරුන්දි වෙහෙර ඉඩම් ලොකුද යන්න ගැන විවාදයක් ඇති කල බව කවුරුත් දනී.එම කතාව මගින් කියැවෙන්නේ මහා විහාර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Sri Lanka Cricket In Danger Of Crumbling!
It is sad and disgusting to watch our National Cricket Team get beaten to a pulp by a team of Pakistanis who are pretty good players nonetheless but not that powerful albeit with many new players who have beaten the Sri Lankans comprehensively on their own turf which is all the more distressing and somewhat unfathomable. The match was played on a familiar home ground the SSC. All or most members of the Sri Lanka national cricket team are familiar with the quality of the SSC wicket, having over the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
‘Zero tolerance for terrorism in Sri Lanka’ - State Minister Tennakoon
Turkish Defence Minister praises Sri Lanka’s role in cracking down of FETO terrorists State Minster of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said that Sri Lanka practices a zero tolerance for terrorism and acts of any nature that supports terrorist activities will be strictly dealt with. Minister Tennakoon made these remarks when he met the Turkish Defence Minister Yaser Guler during his visit to Turkey. The Turkish Defence Minister highly admired Sri Lankan Government especially the intelligence agencies and the security forces for their contribution in cracking down on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Iran takes legal action against South Korea over frozen funds
TEHRAN – After years of unsuccessful diplomatic efforts, the Iranian government has decided to initiate legal proceedings against South Korea over Iran’s blocked assets in the East Asian nation. In a letter dated July 22, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi referred a government bill to the Speaker of Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf for the purpose of observing the legal formalities. The bill, officially called “the Referral of Dispute between the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Government of the Korean Republic for Arbitration,” was ratified... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Why should local, regional, and international media outlets broadcast more articles on Myanmar-Bangladesh's Rohingya aid issue?
More than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees are living in Bangladesh, and the UNHCR's most recent news item, "Rohingya refugees face hunger and loss of hope after latest ration cuts," raises questions regarding their nutritional status and food security. At the beginning of the year 2023, the World Food Program (WFP) shockingly lowered the amount of ration per person twice in the course of just three months. The WFP cut the value of monthly food vouchers from USD 12 to USD 10 per person in March and further reduced it to USD... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 3D.
Another strategy of the Tamil Separatist Movement when dealing with Buddhist ruins in North is to try and surround the Buddhist ruins with Tamil settlements, so that the archaeological reserve cannot expand, also access to the Buddhist monument can be controlled. In order to do so, Tamil Separatist Movement has brought the residents living close to Kurundi, into the Kurundi issue. Sunday Times reported that attempts to survey the land had been blocked by the locals who alleged that their farming and residential lands were included in the proposed acquisition, they demanded immediate access... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත රාජ්‍ය භාෂා අයිතිය පිය උරුම මූලධර්ම අගමැති ඇතුලු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව වැසීමේ විවරණය.
ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධනයේ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණය සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාවට ඇතුළත් කර ගන්නේ කෙසේද?නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි පැහැදිලි කරයි... https://youtu.be/1l_WN0AJWyY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
කුරුන්දි පුදබිමෙන් අප පන්නන්න හදනවා..- කුරුන්දි විහාරාධිපති
උතුරේ සිටින අන්තවාදී පිරිස් විසින් මුලතිව් කුරුන්දි විහාරයෙන් තමන් වහන්සේව පන්නා දමා එහි අයිතිය ලබා ගැනීමට උත්සහ දරමින් සිටින බවට කුරුන්දි විහාරාධිපති උතුරු පළාතේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක පූජ්‍ය ගල්ගමුවේ ශාන්තබෝධි හිමියන් පවසති. එම අන්තවාදී පිරිස් තමන් වහන්සේට නින්දා අපහාස සිදු කරමින් ජීවිත තර්ජන එල්ල කරමින් සිටින බවට ශාන්තබෝධී හිමියන් සඳහන් කරති. සිංහල ජනතාව උතුරු පළාතේන් පන්නා දැමීමට අන්තවාදී දේශපාලකයන් විසින් මේ වන විට මෙහෙයුමක් දියත් කරමින් සිටින බවටද උන්වහන්සේ චෝදනා කරති. https://youtu.be/QBL62HT7uhk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Japan to boost human resource development in Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena thanked Japan for continuous assistance to Sri Lanka and said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on JDS human resource development scholarship scheme is yet another landmark in bilateral cooperation.The MoU was signed by Japanese Ambassador Mizukoshi Hideaki, and the Secretary to Ministry of Finance, Mahinda Siriwardene in the presence of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and the visiting Foreign Minister of japan Yoshimasa Hayashi at the Temple Trees today.The Prime Minister said the high level visit from Japan to Sri Lanka was very useful in order to explore potential projects on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
NEITHER LIVING NOR DEAD – PERSECUTION OF AHMADIS IN PAKISTAN CONTINUES.
According to reports available from U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) fanatic mullahs are planning to demolish minarets of Ahmadi Muslim Mosques in Jhelum, Pakistan, in a planned march this weekend. This comes after police destroyed the minarets of an Ahmadi Mosque in Kala Gujran, Jhelum District on the order of the extremist clerics. The radical clerics forced the police to destroy minarets, threatening repercussions if they did not. The demands of the group are: 1. All the Minarets and the Mehrabs (prayer niche at the front... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
KDU Wing to be set up in Kurunegala – Defence Secretary reiterates
• KDU strengthens its wings to cater upcoming higher educational needs • Opens fully-fledged Cadets' Mess and accommodation facilities at Southern Campus • ‘KDU Journal of Built Environment’ and Industrial Magazine ‘QUALITY- for Sustainable Future’ launched Work in progress to set up another KDU Wing at the Kurunagala District, Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne reiterated today (28 Jul). “This expansion will offer students of our nation an unparalleled opportunity to experience a world-class, time-bound, and disciplined education, coupled with guaranteed job opportunities”, he also said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
The plight of a monk and the Sinhala Buddhist in the Eastern Province
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1978 සිට මේ දක්වා ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 23.4 අනුව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනනුකූල පනත් කෙටුම්පත් කීයක් නීතියක් බවට පත්වී තිබේද?
1. 1972 ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව පළමු ස්වස්ථානික ව්‍යවස්ථාව එනම් පළමු ජනරජ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව වෙයි.2. එහි 10.1 ව්‍යවස්ථාව මෙසේය.10. (1) All written laws, including subordinate legislation in force immediately prior to thecommencement of the Constitution, shall be publishedin the Gazette in Sinhala and in Tamil translation asexpeditiously as possible under the authority of theMinister in charge of the subject of Justice.3. ඒ අනුව 1972 ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව පැනවීමට පෙර බලාත්මක වූ සියලු නීති සහ අනුනීති හැකිතාක් ඉක්මණින් සිංහල සහ දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් ගැසට් පත්‍රයේ පළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Everything Them IMF Don’t Want to Hear!
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News August 2023 Part 1 ‘The shortest route to London from Paris is through Calcutta’ – Napoleon Bonaparte India’s Defence Acquisition Council bought for its Navy: 26 more Rafale fighter jets & 3 more Scorpene submarines ‘worth 1000s of crores’, from France, just as Indian PM N Modi landed in Paris on July 13. The Indian Navy says it needs at least 18 submarines to carry out its ‘full spectrum of operations’. France is India’s 2nd-largest arms supplier. Then... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
LPL අරඹමින් ජාතික ගීය රීමික්ස් කරයි.. ශලනිගේ යෂ්ඨිය උමාරා අතට.. ගායනයට කුණු බැණුම්..
අද කොළඹදී ආරම්භ වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රිමියර් ලීග් තරඟාවලියේ ආරම්භක උළෙලේ දී ජාතික ගීය ගායනා කළ ආකාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සමාජ ජාලයන්හි දැඩි විවේචන එල්ල වෙමින් තිබේ. උමාරා සිංහවංශ විසින් මෙම ගායනය සිදු කළ අතර එය ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ගීය මෙතෙක් ගායනා කළ ආකාරයට වෙනස් ආකාරයකින් ගැයීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙම විවේචනයන් එල්ල වෙමින් ඇත. ක්‍රිකට් ආයතනයටත්, තරගාවලිය සංවිධායකයන්ටත්, ගැයූ ගායිකාවටත් මේ ගැන චෝදනා එල්ලවෙමින් තිබේ. https://fb.watch/m6x6JjVnPS/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Cross border tale: Sri Lankan woman's journey to Indian citizenship began with Facebook friendship
The Chittoor district police issued a notice to Vigneshwari, instructing her to either leave the country before the visa's expiration. In yet another cross-border love story, a Sri Lankan woman travelled to India to marry her six-year-old Facebook friend, who hails from Andhra Pradesh. According to Hindustan Times's sister publication, Live Hindustan, Shivakumari Vigneshwari, a 25-year-old woman from Sri Lanka, tied the knot with her Facebook friend, Laxman, 28, at a temple in V Kota on July 20. The couple's journey to matrimony began when they first... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Japan presses Sri Lanka to expedite debt restructuring
Japan pressed bankrupt Sri Lanka on Saturday to expedite its debt restructuring, including with its biggest creditor China, to stabilise the island nation's economy after an unprecedented crisis. Tokyo's foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi welcomed economic reforms under the auspices of an International Monetary Fund bailout but said Sri Lanka needed to pick up the pace in its negotiations with creditors. "I conveyed my expectations for further progress in the debt restructuring process," Hayashi told reporters after his one-day visit. China holds about 52 per cent of Sri Lanka's... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
Along with Japan and India, China can join debt relief effort for Sri Lanka: Nirmala Sitharaman
As a large creditor to Sri Lanka, China is welcome to join the effort steered by Japan, India and France to help the island nation cope with its debt distress, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. She also called upon the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to speed up relief measures for countries facing debt vulnerabilities. Terming multilateral development banks’ (MDBs) reforms and debt-relief measures for many stressed economies as the top two finance track priorities for India during its G-20 Presidency, Ms. Sitharaman said that a comprehensive, better and quicker... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/07/23)
There was genocide in Canada: Canadian envoy
Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh yesterday said that there was genocide in Canada and its now trying to bring about reconciliation with its indigenous people, and Sri Lanka also has potential for the same. “Sri Lanka can achieve much like Canada, which has presented itself as a bilingual nation both domestically and internationally. Canadian life is in bilingual nature with English and French and Tamil to some extent. This is how Canada has presented itself domestically and internationally. this is what we are focusing on when it comes to our relationship with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/23)
Japan-SL discuss LRT, Central Expressway, BIA projects
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Minister of Japan Hayashi Yoshimasa discussed several Japanese-funded projects such as the Light Rail Transit (LRT), the East Terminal, the Kandy Development Plan, Central Highway, and the expansion of the Bandaranaike International Airport. Both parties expressed the importance of expediting the implementation of these projects, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. They delved into bilateral, regional, and global issues, emphasizing their shared commitment to maintaining the region as a peaceful and stable area. President Wickremesinghe also highlighted the investment opportunities in Sri Lanka's... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/23)
Raghavan says President’s decision on 13A a positive, optimistic step for country’s future
State Minister of Higher Education, Suren Raghavan, says President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s proposal to implement the 13th Amendment of the Constitution without police powers as a measure to foster national harmony may not be popular, but it is a forward-looking decision for the future of the country. Additionally, Minister Raghavan, highlighted that this decision was taken despite the considerable risk involved, in order to pave the way for a new political journey anticipated by the young people who have been actively engaged in the ‘Aragalaya’. He conveyed these perspectives while addressing a Press... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/23)
Prof. Gunaratne calls for rehabilitation programme for Easter attack suspects
Prof. Rohan Gunaratne, a threat specialist of the global security environment, has called for a rehabilitation programme for those arrested in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Speaking at a conference in Colombo, Prof. Gunaratne urged that suspects connected to the bombings be subjected to a rehabilitation programme prior to their release. He emphasised that in the event this is not done, another attack with the same or a similar magnitude to that of the one which took place in 2019 is likely to happen again. Thus, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/23)
Macron’s “historic” foray into Sri Lanka is a challenge to the Anglo-Saxon powers
Colombo, July 28: History would be made on Friday July 28, when for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka and the French Presidency, a French President will be visiting the island nation. Emmanuel Macron will be in Colombo for a quick tête-à-tête with his Sri Lankan counterpart, Ranil Wickremesinghe. But the short time-span of the visit does not detract from its geopolitical importance. It marks a paradigm shift in France’s relations with Sri Lanka. And the context for this is the emerging geo-political scenario in the Indo-Pacific... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/07/23)
Bangladesh case: What is the need for diplomatic channels if ambassadors become critical in the media or in public on all minor matters?
Foreign diplomats poking their noses at the country's internal affairs does not fall within the Vienna Convention. Although the government has repeatedly expressed its enthusiasm on this matter, the foreign ambassadors are not stopping talking. The government warned the ambassadors and heads of missions of 13 countries including the United States for talking about the internal affairs of Bangladesh. The ambassadors of the countries have been called and informed about the displeasure of the government regarding a joint statement centered on Ashraful Alam, an independent candidate for Dhaka-17 seat. Foreign diplomats are becoming active day by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/23)
The largest Islamic Convention in U.K begins.
Around 40,000 representatives from all over the world attend the Convention. The Convention began on Friday with the traditional Friday Sermon The Three day Ahmadiyya Muslim International Convention (JALSA SALANA) commenced yesterday (at 9.00 p.m. SL time) with Flag hoisting followed by silent Prayers led by His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the World Head (Khalifa) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Alton, Hampshire, U.K. He also delivered his faith inspiring inaugural address. This address focused on the subject of righteousness. He quoted various writings... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/23)
Sri Lanka stops buying eye drops made in Gujarat after infections, vision loss
The pharmaceutical company in question continues operations. The India’s drug regulator has yet to act three months since the problem was flagged. Three months after the Sri Lankan government flagged infections in at least 50 patients linked to an eye drop made in Gujarat, it is yet to receive a response from Indian drug regulators. But Sri Lankan health officials have confirmed that they have stopped procuring the eye drop from the manufacturer, Indiana Opthalmics. Sri Lanka had purchased the methylprednisolone eye drops in March from a Mumbai-based... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 4 D2
The Tamil Separatist Movement has cooked up the bogus idea of a separate Tamil Buddhism in the north to prevent Sinhala claims to those ruins. The claim of a Tamil Buddhist heritage in Jaffna is to prove their right to be in the north, observed historian G.V.P. Somaratne. But this stunt has met with opposition within the Tamil Separatist Movement itself. Tamils in Sri Lanka are either Hindu or Christian.No one is Buddhist .Both groups, Christian and Hindu, oppose the idea of a Tamil Buddhist past in the north. “A Buddhist past is unpleasant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/23)
Proof In The Pudding of Canada's Tamil Sympathies
If anyone is wondering how Canada's Prime Minister Mr. Justin Trudeau suddenly became very sympathetic towards Sri Lanka Tamils and even emphasized the term 'Genocide' towards his parlance and coined it with what he termed the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka which is a downright misrepresentation of facts, here then is what appears to be the sudden empathy by Mr. Trudeau towards Sri Lanka Tamils where the source for all his rhetoric could more than likely be his ties and close associations with Sri Lanka born Anandasangaree named here whom he... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/07/23)
Welfare Programmes: Janasaviya, Samurdhi and now- Aswesuma- Ideas for Consideration
We have seen two- the Janasaviya and Samurdhi in action and now are about to march further and have another- Aswesuma. I came to know the Janasaviya, when at the behest of Governor of the Central Province, Mr Imbulana I wrote out the Programme for the economic development of the Central Province. That was in 1993, when I casually ran into him and he accused me of not working for my Motherland. I undertook a two weeks’ study and assessment of what has happened in the field of development. The Janasaviya was the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
A message from Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, MP India
Your government is about to bring in an Act on Animal Welfare which will actually work against the principles of animal welfare . I have a written a small piece and I would be grateful if you could highlight it so that it can be corrected before it is too late . I am putting it down below: "I am appealing to the President and the Government of Sri Lanka NOT to pass a supposed Animal Welfare Act which is in reality a pro butcher , anti animal Act. I can... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
13 වෙනි ව්‍යාවස්ථා සංශෝධනය
අපේ රටේ දෙමළ ජනතාවට ඇත්තේ කුඩම්මලාගේ සැලකිලිලු. එසේ කියන්නේ, මෙරට රාජ්‍ය පාලනය කල ද්‍රවිඩ ජාතික රජෙක්වූ ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ රජතුමාව බලයෙන් පහකොට, පසුව රටෙන්ද පිටුවහල් කර දැමු ඉංග්‍රීසි ජාතිකයින්ය."ඈ බොල ------- පුත්‍රයනි! තොප එදා අපේ සිංහල ජනප්‍රධානින්ට, මහජාතියට අයත් නොවෙන රජෙක් කොහොමද සිංහලයින්ව පාලනය කරන්නේ?" යන ප්‍රශ්නය සමාජගත කොට, ජාතිබේදය ව්‍යාප්ත කොට, ඉන් නොනැවතී, එදා සිංහලේට හදුන්වා දුන් නව ව්යාවස්තාව වන උඩරට ගිවිසුමහි 2වන වගන්තියෙන්,'සිංහලේ ආණ්ඩු කිරීමට දෙමළ වර්ගයට ඇත්තාවූ සියලුම අයිතිකම් නැතිකරන්ඩද, විනාශ කරන්ඩද යෙදුන වග මෙයින් එළිදරවු කරණුය'යනුයෙන් ව්යාවස්තානුගත් නීතියක් බවට පත්කරනු ලැබුයේ තොපම නොවේද"යි සුද්දන්ගෙන් ඇසීමට කිසිවෙක් ඉදිරිපත් නොවෙනුයේ, පිට කොන්දේ ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
High Commissioner Moragoda speaks at the Indian Council of World Affairs
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda attended a closed-door panel discussion organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi on ‘Economic Recovery of Sri Lanka & Visit of the President of Sri Lanka H.E. Ranil Wickremesinghe to India’ as the lead speaker recently. Opening his remarks, the High Commissioner stated that the Sri Lankan President thanked the Indian Prime Minister and his government for the financial assistance rendered during the recent economic crisis which served as the lifeline towards laying the critical initial steps... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
විෂ්ව විකුර්ථියක් සහ ලෝක විහිලුවක් බවට පත්ව ඇති ලන්කාවේ වර්ථමාන ආණ්ඩුව නඩත්තු කිරීම
රාජ්‍යක මූලික වගකීම් 3 වූ රක්ෂ, (රටේ ආරක්ෂාව) පාලන (නීතිය සහ සාමය පවත්වාගෙන යාම සහ යෝගක්ෂේම (ජනතා ශුභසෙත) යන මූලික යුතුම් තුනෙන් එකක් හෝ අවම වශයෙන්වත් ඉටුනොකරණ විෂ්ව විකුර්ථියක් සහ ලෝක විහිලුවක් බවට පත්ව ඇති ලන්කාවේ වර්ථමාන ආණ්ඩුව නඩත්තු කිරීම සඳහා වසරකට මහජන මුදල් රුපියල් බිලියන 4,472 (කෝටි 44,720 ක්) නාස්ති කරන්නේ ඇයි?. අද මේ රටේ තිබෙන්නේ කෞටිල්‍ය විසින් පෙන්වා දෙනලද රාජ්‍යක මූලික වගකීම් 3 වූ රක්ෂ,පාලන සහ යෝගක්ෂේම (ජනතා ශුභසෙත) යන මූලික යුතුකම් තුනෙන් එකක් හෝ අවම වශයෙන්වත් ඉටුකිරීමට අපොහොසත්වූ රජයකි. එසේම මේ රටේ දැනට පවතින රජය 2019 සහ 2020... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
Mr Narendra Mody- Charity begins at home
Mr Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India says the dignity and respect for Tamils should be given priority and to achieve his objective the 13 amendment of Sri Lanka’s constitution should be implemented as agreed under the infamous Indo-Sri Lankan agreement imposed on Sri Lanka by India. Mr Mody and others who share the views of misguided Tamil leaders and some of their followers should probe India and question whether all the Indian Muslims per se , supporters of Kalisthan and DMK , the majority Kashmiris, and the people who live in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland live in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
US Congressman Gregory Meeks' questions about US democracy and human rights show the dire picture of US human rights
Congressman Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US Congress and the chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that there are many questions about the democracy of the United States. Donald Trump's undemocratic behavior has created such a situation. He said, I am always vocal about the human rights situation in the United States. Because the protection of human rights is important for all countries. Congressman (Democrat) elected for 13 consecutive times from Queens, Gregory Meeks, in an exchange program on contemporary issues with expatriate Bangladeshis on the evening of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
අස්වැසුම බැංකු ගිණුම් විවෘත කිරීමේ කටයුතු මේ සති අන්තය වන විට අවසන් කර ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීම සඳහා කඩිනම් ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්න.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා.
සමාජ සුභසාධන ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීම සඳහා බැංකු ගිණුම් විවෘත කිරීමේ කටයුතු මේ සති අන්තය වන විට අවසන් කර ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීම සඳහා කඩිනම් ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගන්නැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා නිලධාරීන්ට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. මහරගම ප්‍රාදේශීය සම්බන්ධීකරණ කමිටු රැස්වීම අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 2023.07.27 දින මහරගම ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී රැස්වූ අවස්ථාවේදී අස්වැසුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැනනැගී ඇති ගැටලු සහ ප්‍රදේශයට බලපාන ගැටලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කරනු ලැබීය. සමාජ සුභසාධන ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීම සඳහා දැනට බැංකු ගිණුම් විවෘත කර නොමැති අය වෙත කඩිනමින් බැංකු ගිණුම් විවෘත කර දිය යුතු බවද මෙහිදී අවධාරණය කෙරුණි. අපේක්ෂා රෝහලේ වසා දමා ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
මාක්ස්වාදය අසාර්ථක වූ දේශපාලන / ආර්ථික න්‍යායක් ද ?
කාල් මාක්ස් යනු දර්ශනය, සමාජ විද්‍යාව, ආර්ථික විද්‍යාව සහ ඉතිහාසයේ වැදගත් චරිතයකි. මාක්ස් මානව ඉතිහාසයේ සමස්ත ගමන් මාර්ගය පිළිබඳ සවිස්තරාත්මක පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් වර්ධනය කළේය. ඔහුට ඇඩම් ස්මිත්ට වඩා වෙනස් දැක්මක් තිබුණි. මාක්ස් ජීවත් වූයේ රැඩිකල් නැගිටීම් යුගයක ය. කාල් මාක්ස් එංගලන්තයේ ජීවත් වීමට පැමිණියේ එහි කාර්මික විප්ලවයේ උච්චතම අවස්ථාවේදීය. ඔහු සූරාකෑමට ලක් වූ දුගී කාර්මික කම්කරුවන් කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කළේය. ධනපතියන් ලාභ ඉපැයීම සඳහා පුද්ගලික දේපල භාවිතා කළ බව මාක්ස් ලිවීය. කාර්මික කම්කරු පන්තිය සූරාකෑම සඳහා තම ධනය සහ ආන්ඩුව මත පාලනය භාවිතා කළ මෙම පන්තිය ධනේශ්වරය ලෙස මාක්ස් හැඳින්වීය. සැබෑ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත රටේ ඒකීයභාවයට තර්ජනයක් - නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි කියයි.
රජය විසින් මේ වන විට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කොට ඇති ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත රටේ ඒකීය භාවයට දැඩි තර්ජනයක් එල්ල කරන ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් වන්නේ යැයි එම පනත් කෙටුම්පත අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් පෙත්සමක් ගොනුකර තිබූ කමල් බන්දුල වීරප්පෙරුම හා වොෂින්ටන් ගල්හේනගේ නානායක්කාර යන ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍යවරුන් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මහතා ඊයේ (26 දා) ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට පැවසීය.එම ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍යවරුන් දෙදෙනා හා බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ආයුර්වේද පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරි පරාක්‍රම අමරතුංග මහතා ඇතුලු පිරිසක් ගොනු කර තිබූ පෙත්සම් විභාගයේ දී කරුණු දක්වමින් නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
Sri Lanka’s Reconciliation Efforts Get Stuck in the 13th Amendment, Again
Perhaps the path to reconciliation is a new amendment to the constitution, something most people can agree to. On July 26, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe convened the much-hyped All-Party Conference (APC) on reconciliation. Two days earlier, he had met representatives of Tamil political parties. Following that meeting, Tamil politicians hyped up expectations of the APC claiming that Wickremesinghe would discuss devolving police powers to provinces as per the 13th amendment to the constitution. Passed in 1987 as a part of the India-Sri Lanka Accord, the 13th amendment created the Provincial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුවක් කැඳවුවේ රටේ ජනතාවගේ මිනී පෙට්ටියට අන්තිම ඇණය ගැසීමටයි – ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර
රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුවක් කැඳවූවේ රටේ ජනතාවගේ මිනී පෙට්ටියට අන්තිම ඇණය ගැසීම සඳහා බවත්, 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය යම් ආකාරයකින් ක්‍රියාත්මක වුවහොත් රට රටේත්, ජනතාවගේත් අවසානය එය වන බවත් ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා පවසයි. අද(27) ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව විසින් පැවැත් වූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක් වෙමින් ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා චෝදනා නැගුවේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුවක් මගින් නැති ලෙඩකට බෙහෙත් කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරන්නේ රටේ ජනතාව මුලාකරමින් බවය. මෙරට ජනවාර්ගික ප්‍රශ්නයක් කිසිසේත්ම නොමැති බවත්, රටේ පවතින්නේ රට අස්ථාවර කිරීම සඳහා දේශීය හා විදේශීය බලවේග විසින් සිදුකරමින් පවතින කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් පමණක් බවත් ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
උතුරේ බෙදුම්වාදී පක්ෂ හා ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඇතිකරගත් රහස් ගිවිසුමක් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර අනාවරණය කරයි… 13 දෙන්න හදන විදිහ මෙන්න
ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීමක් හරහා 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය පූර්ණ වශයෙන් බලත්මක කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා හා උතුරේ දෙමළ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ අතර ඇති වූ එකඟතාවයන් ඇතුළත් ලියවිල්ලක් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා අද( 27) ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව මගින් පැවැත්වූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවක දී අනාවරණය කළේය. මෙහි සඳහන් එකඟතා පිළිබඳව මෙතෙක් රටේ ජනතාව හෝ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරු පවා නොදන්නා බව මෙහිදී ඒ මහතා හෙළිදරව් කළේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් කැඳවා ඔවුන්ගේ ඇස් වසා කණ අත්සන ලබා ගන්නා අයුරින් මෙය සම්මත කරගැනීමට උත්සාහයක් ඇති බවද, 13 වැනි සංශෝධනයේ ඇති බාධක නිසා තවමත් රට නොබෙදී පවතින බව හා ඒවා ඉවත් කළ සැනින් රටේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම බලාත්මක කිරීමෙන් රට බෙදුම්වාදයේ ගොදුරක් බවට පත් කිරීමේ අනතුර සහ සැබෑ ලෙසම ජාතික ගැටළුව විසඳිය යුතු ආකාරය ගැන විමල්ගෙන්, ජනපති රනිල්ට ලිපියක්
ඊයේ(26) දින පැවැති සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුව සඳහා ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ නියෝජනය කරමින් එහි නායක විමල් වීරවංශ සහ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක, ප්‍රචාරක ලේකම් මොහොමඩ් මුසම්මිල් යන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරු සහභාගි වූ අතර එහිදී ඔවුහු “13 වැනි සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම බලාත්මක කිරීම මගින් රට බෙදුම්වාදයේ ගොදුරක් බවට පත් කිරීමේ අනතුර පිළිබඳව සහ සැබෑ ලෙසම ජාතික ගැටළුව විසඳිය යුතු ආකාරය පිළිබඳව ලියැවුණු පහත සඳහන් දීර්ඝ ලියවිල්ල(ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ විසින් සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුව වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලබන ප්‍රකාශය) ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත භාර දුන්හ. අදාළ ලිපිය පහළින්… ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා ප්‍රමුඛ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් වෙත, 13 වැනි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
Primary aim is to discuss the 13th Amendment of the Constitution with all parties – President
During the All-Party Conference at the Presidential Secretariat held on Wednesday (26), President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the significance of discussing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution with all parties, as it is a matter that affects the entire country. He highlighted that a decision on this matter should involve input from all relevant parties. The conference was organized to update the Parliament’s party leaders on the National Reconciliation Program and the North-East Development Plan. President Wickremesinghe recalled that neither he nor the previous seven Executive Presidents had the authority to pass new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
All-Party Conference: President underscores urgency of promptly determining fate of 13A
උණුසුම මැදින් 13 ගැන ඇතුළේ කළ සැර කතා "හැමදාම කරපු සෙල්ලම ආයෙමත් කරන්න එපා https://youtu.be/U54E1ANTDFA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/07/23)
Julie Chung Commemorates “Black July”
On 24 July, 2023 Julie Chung the American Ambassador, on the anniversary of “Black July”, “attended a special exhibit” of the sculptor (who moved the Court of Appeal against Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s candidature that he had not renounced his US citizenship), “to see the powerful and moving stories expressed through art that reveal past wounds & hope to create a future that is just for all Sri Lankans”. Her message shows that she is fond of revealing past wounds, not healing past wounds. This may be the task of art she advocates, revealing – exposing the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
LTTE had POLICE POWERS without 13A – TNA wants POLICE POWERS with 13A
The 13th amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution followed the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord between Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi & Sri Lankan President J R Jayawardena. Both are now dead. LTTE was defeated in May 2009 & Prabakaran is dead. Prabakaran was kept in India until the Indo-Lanka Accord was signed & he was never in favor of either the Accord or the 13th amendment. Nevertheless, LTTE-created TNA which was originally against the 13A, are now demanding it with full police & land powers, realizing it is the only way they can be lords... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
Canada Govt redefining “Reconciliation” in Sri Lanka for cheap Toronto political drama
Inspite of the reconciliation mumbo-jumbo, what is being promoted is retributive justice for a National Army & restorative justice for an internationally banned terrorist movement. When foreign govts slap sanctions on those who ended decades of terror and envoys visit terrorist linked individuals, what is the message being conveyed? It therefore comes as no surprise when successive Canadian envoys are happy to be chit chatting with those linked to either terrorism or separatism and now cultural genocide with the vandalism taking place targeting Buddhist archaeological sites. Of course, cultural genocide is a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 4 D1
The Tamil Separatist Movement invented a fictitious Tamil Buddhism to prevent Sinhalese taking over the Buddhist ruins in the north. Buddhist ruins, dated to the ancient and medieval periods and looking just like the ruins in the south were found in abundance in the north and east of Sri Lanka. This was a great blow to the Tamil Separatist Movement. Ven. Santhabodhi said that an academic from the University of Jaffna had arrived at Kurundi. He had been sent to find proof that Kurundi was not Buddhist. On his return he had stated that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
CANADIAN PM SPEAKS OUT OF TURN AGAIN
25thJuly 2023 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has every right to protest incongruous statements by those without the real knowledge of what truly transpired in Sri Lanka during the three and a half decade long terrorist insurrection eventually put down by the Government Armed Forces in defense of her people and Sovereign Territory. It has sometimes erroneously been termed a civil war which detracts from the reality it was an internal armed insurrection by Tami Tiger Terrorists where there were Tamil People who were against it also and paid a severe price... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
Bangladeshi killings in the USA: Where are Anthony Blinken, Uzra Zeya, Donald Lu, Victoria Nuland, Peter Hass?
The incident took place on Sunday morning local time in the Casagrande area near the city of Phoenix in the state of Arizona, USA. Earlier on July 18, Bangladeshi youth Yazuddin Ahmed was shot dead at a gas station on Hampton Avenue in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam tweeted this information. He wrote, 'We are horrified by the news of the second Bangladeshi being killed in the United States in the last five days. The last victim is Abul Hashim.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
අස්වැසුමේ ගැටලු අගමැතිගේ අවධානයට.
අස්වැසුම ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේදී පැනනැගී ඇති ගැටලු පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡාවක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 2023.07.26 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. වැඩිහිටි, ආබාධිත, වකුගඩු යන නිර්ණායකයන් ඒ ආකාරයෙන්ම ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට සහ මතුව ඇති අනිකුත් ගැටලු වහා නිරාකරණය කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෙහිදී දීර්ඝවශයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කෙරිණි. රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් වන ෂෙහාන් සේමසිංහ, අශෝක ප්‍රියන්ත, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක, රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන ලේකම් රංජිත් අශෝක, අස්වැසුම සභාපති බී. විජේරත්න ඇතුළු රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීහු මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වූහ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
රටක ඉතිහාසය, සංස්කෘතිය නොදත් පරම්පරාවක් බිහි කරන්නේ කුමක් සඳහාද?-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා.
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ 2023.07.26 දින අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති දහම් සරසවිය බුද්ධ ධර්ම උසස් ඩිප්ලෝමා සහ ඩිප්ලෝමා සහතික පත්‍ර ප්‍රධානෝත්සවය අමතමිණි.ශ්‍රී ලංකා බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය හා බෞද්ධ කටයුතු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ඒකාබද්ධව ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන දහම් සරසවිය බුද්ධ ධර්ම ඩිප්ලෝමා පාඨමාලාවේ ඩිප්ලෝමා හා උසස් ඩිප්ලෝමාධාරීන් 1544 ක් සඳහා සහතික පත් ප්රදානය මෙහිදී සිදුකෙරිණි.එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා -උසස් අධ්‍යාපන සුදුසුකම් නොලබා දහම් පාසල්වල සේවය කරන ගුරුභවතුන්ට අවශ්‍ය දැනුම ආකල්ප කුසලතා වර්ධනය කර දීම සහ ඔවුන් එම කාර්යයෙහි නියුතු නිපුණතා ඇත්තවුන් බවට පත්කිරීම තුළින් සාරධර්ම පිරි යහපත් දරු පරපුරක් බිහි කිරීමට ඉවහල් වෙනවා. මේ සඳහා බෞද්ධ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
Crackdown on extra-marital relations in China
Colombo, July 26: Given the stony silence of the Chinese government about the missing Foreign Minister Qin Gang, rumours about his fate and about why he has gone missing abound. The 57-year old Qin, has not been heard or seen since June 25, even though he still figures as ‘Foreign Minister’ in the ministry’s website. The story that has gone viral is that he has been shamed for an alleged extra-marital affair with a high profile TV anchor, Fu Xiaotian, and fathering a child out of wedlock. Having an extra-marital affair... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
Bridge between India and Sri Lanka: Wicremesinghe moves and agreement signed
As Chinese influence grows in the country, the link would give India access to the key ports of Trincomalee and Colombo. It remains an ambitious project and not without technical problems and socio-economic risks, but the step forward took place at a significant moment in a political key: the first official visit to New Delhi by the president of Sri Lanka. Colombo (AsiaNews) - The governments of India and Sri Lanka have signed an initial agreement to lay the foundations for the construction of a bridge... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
රාජපක්ෂලා ගත්තෙ ටිකයි…වැඩිපුරම අරගත්තේ රනිල් – අනුර රටේ ණය ගැන දැන් කියන කතාව
විදෙස් ණය බරේ විශාලම පංගුව ඇත්තේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ස්වෛරී බැඳුම්කර හරහා ගත් ණය බවත්, රාජපක්ෂලා ගැන විවේචන තිබුණ ද 2007 සිට 2015 දක්වා ඔවුන් ජාත්‍යන්තර සවෛරී බැඳුම්කර ණය ලබාගෙන ඇත්තේ ඩොලර් බිලියන 3.5ක් පමණක් බවත් ජාතික ජනබලවේගයේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා පවසයි. ජාත්‍යන්තර ස්වෛරී බැඳුම්කර හරහා ඩොලර් බිලියන 12ක ණය ලබාගෙන ඇත්තේ 2015 – 2019 කාලසීමාවේ දී රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ප්‍රමුඛ ආණ්ඩුව බවයි අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා පවසන්නේ.වීඩියෝව නරඹන්න…... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
The Unsung Heroes
The successful campaign by the LTTE ideologists to promote a false narrative in the West must not be ignored. This spells a serious issue for Sri Lanka as this narrative is peddled by some of the prominent politicians in the West. The LTTE propaganda – A time bomb It is noteworthy that these politicians, for reasons of their own, are latching on to this narrative, despite holding reliable evidence that resolutely negates this blasphemy. These reasons have nothing to do with any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
President stresses need for inclusive talks on 13A and to address shortcoming of PCs
President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed the need for inclusive discussions on the 13th Constitutional Amendment during the All-Party Conference being held at the Presidential Secretariat this evening (July 26). https://youtu.be/DrqgHRkPzRw The meeting was convened with the primary aim of apprising party leaders representing Parliament about both, the National Reconciliation Programme, and the North and East Development Plan. Commenting further, Wickremesinghe emphasized that this matter affects the entire country and should be addressed with the participation of all political parties, not just limited to MPs of Tamil political parties, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/07/23)
WHY EXCLUSIVE LAND & POLICE RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE HANDED OVER TO NOTHERN & EASTERN PROVINCIAL COUNCILS AT THE REQUEST OF T N A INDIA OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY
SRI LANKA AT A GLANCE - DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION & LAND Out of the 9 Provinces SinhaleseTamilsSL TamilsInd. TamilsMuslimsOthersNo. of Provinces havingover 75 %611000 "Over 50%711000 "less than 50%288999 "less than 25%167989 "less than 2.5%023509 Out of the 9 provinces, only 1 province – only Northern Province- is having more than 50% Tamils Out of the 9 provinces, 7 provinces are having more tan 50% Sinhalese. - When Nothern & Eastern Provinces are combined around... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Self Cleansing and Reconstruction
Autophagy is a natural cellular process that occurs in the body to maintain cellular health and balance. The word "autophagy" originates from Greek, where "auto" means self, and "phagy" means eating. Essentially, autophagy is the process of self-eating, where cells degrade and recycle their own damaged or dysfunctional components. Here's how autophagy works: Recognition: The cell identifies and targets damaged organelles, misfolded proteins, and other intracellular waste for degradation. Formation of autophagosomes: Membrane-bound structures called autophagosomes are formed to enclose the targeted cellular components. Fusion: The autophagosomes then fuse with lysosomes, which are organelles containing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Why Warner and Khawaja should be reviewed of their places after the fifth Test Match based on their performances.
Warner and Khawaja are of the age where their respective performances as opening batsmen for Australia are of paramount importance. They cannot afford to be dropped and selected again to the national team based on their respective ages at thirty six years of age respectively. The Australian team has included Warner too long based on his past performances and Khawaja even if he keeps making the same mistakes again time after time. I will be more specific in regard to both Warner and Khawaja. Warner in my view... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
China remained a true friend to Sri Lanka- Defence Secretary
“When baseless allegations were raised on the international platform, China remained a true friend, standing shoulder to shoulder with us, and providing us with the necessary understanding and backing’ said the Defence Secrtary General Kamal Gunaratne speaking at a ceremony held to celebrate the 96th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army of China, on Monday (Jul 24). Recalling the long standing friendship between the two countries Gen. Gunaratne said that “our countries have shared strong diplomatic ties and have cooperated in various fields, particularly in defence and security”. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
On Ranils actions
I fully agree with PC Manohara.This kind of pardoning is something unheard and unseen in Statecraft anywhere in the world. Pardoning two convicted and sentenced criminals who waged war against the State, (one for life and the other for 200 years, thereby making the supreme court a mockery) in the public eye. It is crystal clear that this decision of the President is aimed at winning Tamil support at the next Presidential election. I am not a lawyer. But, even as a lay man, I think this type of decisions, that appears to be a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
පුරාවිද්‍යා භූමිවල මායිම් ගල් ගැලවීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් ගොනුකළ රීට් පෙත්සම් විභාගය හෙට
පුරාවිද්‍යා ආරක්ෂක ස්මාරක හා පුරාවිද්‍යා රක්ෂිත ගැසට් කිරීමට පෙර අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයට යොමු කිරීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් හා පුරාවිද්‍යා භූමිවල මායිම් ගල් ගැලවීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ පෙත්සම් දෙක හෙට(25) දින විභාගයට ගැනේ. පුරාවිද්‍යා ආඥාපනත මගින් විෂයභාර අමාත්‍යවරයා හා පුරාවිද්‍යා අධ්‍යක්ෂක ජෙනරාල්වරයාට පිළිවෙළින් පුරාවිද්‍යා ආරක්ෂිත ස්මාරක හා පුරාවිද්‍යා රක්ෂිත ගැසට් කිරීමට ඇති බලතල ක්‍රියාත්මක නොකොට අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලය වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ උපදෙස් පරිදි ජනාධිපති ලේකම් සමන් ඒකනායක මහතා පුරාවිද්‍යා අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල් වෙත නිකුත් කර ඇති 2023 ජනවාරි 11 වන දින ලිපිය හා එහි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
You Probably Have "Fake" Cinnamon In Your Cupboard
Using cinnamon in your homebakes? You may be barking up the wrong tree. Roll up! Roll up! For cozy vibes. Image credit: rsooll/shutterstock.com Cinnamon is synonymous with the Christmas season – in pumpkin spice lattes, dense spice cake, and gooey cinnamon rolls, it is a key staple of the cozy aesthetic that many people fantasize about. So, it may be disappointing to know that the cinnamon that you make putting into your delicious homemade treats may not be "true" cinnamon at all. True cinnamon spice (Cinnamomum verum/ Cinnamomum... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
ඉන්දීය සංචාරයේ දී ඉන්දියාව සමග ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට සදාචාරාත්මක අයිතියක් නැහැ – ගැසූ ගිවිසුම් රටට හෙළිකළ යුතුයි – මහාචාර්ය චරිත හේරත්
ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ඉන්දීය සංචාරයේ දී ජනාධිපතිවරයා මැදිහත්වී ඉන්දියාවේ දී ගිවිසුම් කිහිපයකට අත්සන් කළ බවත්, එම ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට තිබූ ජනවරම කුමක්ද යන්න විමසා සිටින බවත් නිදහස ජනතා සභා කාර්යාලයේ ඊයේ (24 දා) පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවට එක්වෙමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී මහාචාර්ය චරිත හේරත් මහතා විමසා සිටියේය. රට තුළ මෙතෙක් පැවති ප්‍රශ්නවලට අමතරව අනාගතයේ දැවැන්ත ප්‍රශ්න රැසක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට මෙම ගිවිසුම් හේතු වන බවත් ඒ මහතා පවසයි. නීත්‍යානුකූලව අනුප්‍රාප්තික ජනාධිපතිවරයකු වූ වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට ජනතාව නියෝජනය කරමින් ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කිරීමට නීත්‍යානුකූලව කෙසේ වෙතත් සදාචාරාත්මක අයිතියක් නැතැයි පැවසූ මන්ත්‍රීවරයා එම නිසා මේ ගිවිසුම්වල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
LTTE’s Balasingham, Garnier and Western diplomatic missions
Garnier Francis Analysis of telephone data revealed that Swiss embassy employee Garnier Banister Francis had been in touch with Chief Inspector Nishantha Silva before the latter left for Switzerland. She had also been in touch with several others. Had she really desired to migrate to Switzerland with her family, the Swiss mission here could have arranged it. They could have left the country without making an issue. Unfortunately, Sri Lanka seems still blind to the machinations of Western powers. That is the undeniable truth. However, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Canadian interference alleged in Kurundi temple dispute as Ottawa reiterates genocide charge
Ex-NPC member T. Raviharan of TNA greets HC Walsh Jawaharlal Nehru University facilitates talk on ‘structural genocide’ SLPP MP retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday (24) accused Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh of backing those propagating separatist sentiments. The former Public Security Minister, who is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on National Security, claimed that the HC’s recent visit to the Northern Province was intended to further divide the communities. The one-time Chief of Staff of the SLN was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
CA refuses extending Interim Order preventing collection of Personal Income Tax from judges
The Court of Appeal today refused to further extend its interim order preventing Justice Ministry officials from deducting the Advance Personal Income Tax (APIT) from the monthly salaries of the High Court Judges, Magistrates, District Judges and Presidents of Labour Tribunals. However, the Court of Appeal decided to issue notices on the respondents in three petitions filed by High Court Judges' Association, Judicial Service Association and Presidents of Labour Tribunals. The petitions were fixed for argument on September 22.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Anyone seeking power before 2048 must have plans to repay foreign loans: Bandula
Claiming that Sri Lanka had outstanding foreign loans of USD 36 million to be settled until 2048, Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardane said today anyone who wishes to come to power during that period is bound to pay the loans and must have plans to do so. He told the weekly Cabinet briefing that if anyone came to power deceiving the people without having any plans in advance would only put the people in crisis again just as the country experienced in the recent past. “Sri Lanka has outstanding foreign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Sri Lanka rejects Canadian PM’s reference to ‘Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day’
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected the reference to a ‘Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day’ in a recent statement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Issuing a statement in this regard, the Ministry said it “unreservedly rejects the reference to a Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day in the statement issued on 23 July 2023 by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.” They further accused that Canada’s continued reference to a “false, distorted narrative” of the past conflict in Sri Lanka is aimed solely at achieving “local vote-bank electoral gains”, and is not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Sri Lanka–Thailand FTA likely to be signed in March 2024
The proposed Sri Lanka – Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is expected to be signed in March 2024, in accordance with the action plan concerning the proposed agreement, Sri Lanka’s cabinet spokesman said today. Accordingly, negotiations pertaining to the proposed FTA are scheduled to conclude in February 2024, as per the information presented by the President on the progress of the fifth round of negotiations on the proposed trade agreement, during the cabinet meeting held yesterday (24 July). The fifth round of negotiations on the proposed agreement was held in Colombo from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/07/23)
Correcting 40 years of lies about Sri Lanka’s July 1983 riots – Tamils, please set the story straight
When countries with records of unprecedented mass murders feel it politically fashionable to annually commemorate an incident which took place in Sri Lanka which is miniscule to the crimes they committed, when political correctness has silenced people & prevented them voicing the truth, at least this 40th year we need to produce some unpalatable facts for all to digest in particular the countries with murderous records. The background to 1983 July 1975 Prabakaran committed his first assassination in killing Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah May 1976 Vaddukoddai Resolution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
Merrill J Fernando
Merrill Fernando the pioneer of branded teas and the creator of the internationally recognized Dilmah Tea is no more. With his demise there has been a number of articles of appreciation in the media. In his path of triumph, he had to face many problems both in the market and on the domestic supply side. His unique success is more striking when one recalls the not very friendly local scenario on tea production and promotion. The Export Development Board (EDB) was proud to have been associated with Merrill in the difficult journey he travelled.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
How Singapore Dealt Decisively with a Minister Under Investigation for Corruption
In a statement issued on July 12,, Singapore’s Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) said, “Singapore adopts a strict zero-tolerance approach towards corruption. The CPIB investigates all cases without fear or favour and will not hesitate to take action against all parties involved in corrupt practices.” The statement was issued following the arrest of the senior member of the governing party and cabinet minister S Iswaran holding the Transport and Trade Relations portfolio. He is a 22-year veteran lawmaker for the ruling People’s Action Party, having held a long list of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
Recent Proposal Of A Land Bridge Not Beneficial
The recent proposal by President Wickremasinghe to approve a land bridge between Sri Lanka and India may not be beneficial to Sri Lanka from many perspectives.It could open the floodgates to many issues that have been contentious towards Sri Lanka's National Security in the past and have been conscientiously kept secure for very valid reasons. It could also provide a foothold for Indians in Tamil Nadu as well as the Indian Government to gain access to Sri Lanka in a manner previously kept in control through the protocols of Territorial Integrity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
සුනේත්‍රා බණ්ඩාරනායක සිය පියා ව පාවා දීම (Betrayal of her father by Miss Sunethra Bandaranayaka)- Part II
“All human progress has depended on ‘new questions’ rather than on ‘new answers’ to the old questions.” Alfred North Whitehead — Science and the Modern World, 1925 Sinhala [language]’s survival as a clearly Indo-Aryan language can be considered a minor miracle of linguistic and cultural history” –James W. Gair, Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and other South Asian languages, 1998, Chapter 14: How Dravidanized was Sinhala phonology? Pages 185-199). 1946/7 දී වලපොල රාහුල හිමියන් විසින් භික්ෂුවකගේ උරුමය යන කෘතියෙන් සනිටුහන් කලේ ධර්මපාලතුමාගේ අභාෂය අනුව යමින් 1933 සිට කළුකොඳයාවේ ප්‍රඥාශෙඛර නාහිමියන් විසින් ක්‍රියාවට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
Public Health Sector Crisis in Some Government Hospitals Due to Ethnically Discriminatory Funds Allocation
Sri Lankan government spend on public health is not the same across the provinces. There is acute discrimination against some provinces. Healthcare cost is measured in per head (per capita) spend so it is a fair and comparable measure. When per head public healthcare cost is compared across the provinces, a terrifying and discriminatory practice comes to light. The following map is taken from an unrelated publication by the Institute of Health Policy. The original document can be downloaded from the following link. https://www.ihp.lk/publications/docs/SLHAPB1E.pdf Although it contains data from 2018 the trend... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
සජිත්ට බෝට්ටු තල්ලු කරන්න පුලුවන්. ක්‍රිකට් ගහන්න පුලුවන්. බස් එලවන්න පුලුවන්. හැබැයි රට පාලනය කරන්න බෑ
පටු විදියට හිතන්නේ නැති, ජාතිවාදී, ආගම්වාදී නොවන, ජාතික වශයෙන් හිතන නායකයෙක් එක්ක වැඩ කරන්න උතුරේ ජනතාව සූදානම්ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ පුස් රැල්ල බිදිලා. ඒ ශෝ එක ඉවරයිහරිනි අමරසූරියලාගේ දේශපාලන නිරුවත දැන් පේනවාහැමෝම එකට එකතු කරගනිපු ගමන් අපි යන්නේදැන් ආර්ථිකය ගොඩ නගමින් යනවාවැටී තිබුණ රට ගොඩ ගැනීමේ ගමනට එක්වන සෙට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ, සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ කණ්ඩායම්වලට ආරාධනා කරන බවත්, දේශපාලන අනාගතය ගැන හීන මවමින් සිටින නායකයින් ජනාධිපතිතුමා සමග එක් නොවුන්, ඇතුලේ සිටින කණ්ඩායම් ගැලවී ආණ්ඩුව සමග එක්වෙමින් තිබෙන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. බේරුවල එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ ආසන සංවිධායක රොහාන් පැට්‍රික් මහතා සංවිධාන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
Ukraine Is Ammunition-starved, and the West Simply Cannot Keep Up with Its Pledge
While Western discussions have focused on sending sophisticated weapons to Kiev, Hal Brands, a Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, argues that what Ukraine needs the most, besides air-defense systems, is artillery ammunition. He describes the current conflict as an artillery-centric one: “if Kiev can’t find enough artillery pieces and ammunition, especially 155mm shells, it will be at a dire firepower deficit along the conflict’s front lines.” Already on March 29, Earle Mack, former US ambassador to Finland, writing in a piece for The Hill, described the current... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
Plans to establish Agriculture and Plantation Research University in Sri Lanka – Minister
Minister of Plantation Industries and Minister of Industries, Dr. Ramesh Pathirana stated that action will be taken to establish an Agriculture and Plantation Research University by merging all institutions connected to the plantation industry and agriculture sector, as per President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s concept. The fundamental draft related to this has already been prepared, the Minister noted, and it is intended to complete the basic work this year. He expressed these views today (24) during a press conference themed ‘Collective Path to a Stable Country’ held at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/07/23)
Continuity or Change?
Sri Lanka is still reeling from the blows of economic meltdown and bowing down to continuous pressures from Western capitals, this time from Canada as well and India. Hopelessness for the future rather than an abstract theoretical construct has become ingrained in the minds of people as an irrefutable fact. Men and women who carry the label of “intellectual” are still not satited with their absurd predictions and engage themselves in a never-ending game. Continuity or Change? This question has been prominent among historians. This is a very simple question. Continuity and change... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 4A.
The Tamil Separatist Movement complained loudly that Buddhist temples were being built in the north where there were no Buddhists. They are built on state land and in many instances by the army. In 2011 TNA politicians from Mullaitivu protested against the construction of a Buddhist temple at Bogaswewa near the Sapumalgaskada archaeological site. They claimed that the area traditionally belongs to the Tamil people. TNA’s T. Raviharan said that the area belongs to Tamil people traditionally and it was known as Kachchcalsamalankulam. Tamil people have been given paddy fields and they are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 4B.
The Tamil Separatist Movement has tried to dislodge Sinhala settlements and the accompanying Buddhist temples introduced to the north after the war. In 2009 57 Buddhist families were brought in and settled in Navatkuli. Navatkuli is located 6 km from Jaffna. They were Sinhala families that had been driven out of Jaffna in 1984 and 1990. “There was a fairly large Sinhalese community in Jaffna at the time. The Jaffna Sinhala Vidyalaya had 250 students. Life was pleasant with the Tamils and Sinhalese getting along like one family. Our family had roots in Maniyamthottam... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 4C.
The opposition to Buddhist temples has extended also to cremation of chief priests on the temple premises in the north. Two such protests are on record. The first was in 2017. In 2017, a group of 12 Jaffna-based lawyers had gone to courts to prevent the last rites of the late chief incumbent of the Naga Vihara, Ven. Meegahajandure Gnanaratana, being performed at the Jaffna Fort Sports Ground. The restraining order had been sought on two grounds. Permission had not been obtained from Jaffna Municipal Council and secondly, the cremation of bodies could damage... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
Ranil in the Family: Coolie’s Coolie to the Red Fort
“Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News July 2023 Part 4 * With the US & India fertilizing chaos in Sri Lanka, while threatening division and invasion – the US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), to allow troops on Lanka’s soil, has apparently been ‘unanimously’ endorsed – Sri Lanka’s President is now summoned to pose at Delhi’s Red Fort – final citadel of the Mughal invasion, of England’s East India Company (EIC) and of the current Brown-Sahib Raj – to embrace the role of the coolie’s coolie. Last ee reported that Washington assigned India to a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
‘රණවිරු අපි වෙනුවෙන් අපි’ ජාතික එකමුතුවෙන් රුවන්වැලි සෑ මළුවේ දී විශේෂ අධිෂ්ඨාන පූජාවක්
රටෙත්, සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයේත් සුරක්ෂිතභාවය උදෙසා ‘රණවිරු අපි වෙනුවෙන් අපි’ ජාතික එකමුතුවෙන් අනුරාධපුර රුවන්වැලි මහා සෑය අභියස සලපතල මළුවේ දී අද(22) දින විශේෂ අධිෂ්ඨාන පූජාවක් පැවැත්විණි. මෙම අධිෂ්ඨාන පූජාව සඳහා ආබාධිත රණවිරුවන් 500 කට අධික පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූ අතර, එම අවස්ථාවට ජාතික සංවිධාන නියෝජනය කරමින් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා සහ ඉංජිනේරු කීර්ති වික්‍රමරත්න මහතා ද සහභාගී වී සිටියහ. එම අධිෂ්ඨාන පූජාව පහළින්… මේ තාක් ලොවට පහළවූ සියලුම බුදු රජාණන් වහන්සේලාගේ අධිෂ්ටානය පරිදි බුද්ධ ශක්තියේ ආනුභාවයෙන් ද, මෛත්‍ රීබෝධ්සත්වයින්වහන්සේ ඇතුලු සියලු බෝධිසත්වයින්වහන්සේලාගේ අධිශ්ටානය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
De-radicalisation of ideology is the best way to tackle Islamic terrorism: Lankan expert
Colombo, July 23: In his book on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, internationally known terrorism expert Dr.Rohan Gunaratna says that de-radicalization of Islamic ideology is the best way to tackle Islamic terrorism. In Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International community (Penguin 2023), Gunaratna says that Islamic terrorism is but an outgrowth of Wahhabism or Salafism, which is spreading rapidly across the world using modern tools of communication. It will be futile to try combating Islamic terrorism if nothing is done to destroy its ideological roots. Gunaratna,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
ජනාධිපති ලංකාව ඉන්දීය ප‍්‍රාන්තයක් කරන අන්තිම ඇණේට කලින් ඇණේ ගහලා ඇවිත්..
ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා තව වතාවක් ඉන්දියාවට ගිය හොත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කිසිම දෙයක් ඉතුරු නොවනු ඇති බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ගාමිණී වලේගොඩ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෑතකදී සිදු කළ ඉන්දීය සංචාරයේදී ත්‍රිකුණාමලයේ කොටසක් ඉන්දියාවට පැවරීමටත්, ඉන්දියාවේ සිට ලංකාවට ගොඩබිම් මාර්ගයක් ඉදි කිරීමටත්, තෙල් නලයකින් ලංකාව ඉන්දියාව සම්බන්ධ කිරීමටත්, විදුලි පද්ධතියකින් සම්බන්ධ කිරීමටත් එකග වී ඇති බව ද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. එමෙන්ම ලංකාවේ ප්‍රධාන වරාය මෙහෙයුම් කටයුතු ඉන්දියානු සමාගම් යටතට පත් කිරීමටත් මෙරට පුනර්ජනනි විදුලි බලය නිෂ්පාදන ඒකාධිකාරිය ඉන්දියාවට ලබා දීමටත් එකඟ වී ඇති බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටී. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
රනිල්ව පත්කළේ ආර්ථිකයයි, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයයි ස්ථාපිත කරන්න විතරයි… 13 ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන්න රනිල්ට සදාචාරාත්මක අයිතියක් නැහැ – සාගර කියයි
අරගලයෙන් පසු රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපති ධූරයට පත්කළේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සහාය ඇතිව රටේ ආර්ථිකය ස්ථාවර කර, ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට බවයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් නීතීඥ සාගර කාරියවසම් පවසන්නේ. ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ වෙනත් කිසිදු ව්‍යාපාරයකට සහාය දැක්වීමට එකඟ නොවූ බවද ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් පවසයි. සාගර කාරියවසම් මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ රාජ්‍ය ඇමැති දිලුම් අමුණුගම, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජොන්ස්ටන් ප්‍රනාන්දු ඇතුළු පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ දඹදෙණිය ආසන බල මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමට එක්වෙමිනි. මේ අතර, ජේ. ආර්. ජයවර්ධන ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ සිට ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයා දක්වා කාලය තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොකළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
Delhi’s ties with Colombo see promising new turn
The visit of President Ranil Wickremasinghe last week to New Delhi was not of the customary meet-and-greet variety. It was more than symbolic that Sri Lanka should propose a land bridge to connect with India. At no time since the breakout of the ethnic conflict in the early 1980s have Colombo and New Delhi been near enough like this to lend the belief that the geopolitics of the region have changed somewhat, for it does seem Sri Lanka has had to disengage itself from the Chinese embrace lately. Having suffered at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
Sri Lanka: Security tightened in Colombo as activists commemorate 1983 riots
The Sri Lankan government tightened security on Sunday (July 23) as activists in the capital city of Colombo commemorated those killed during the 1983 anti-Tamil riots which fuelled a deadly civil war for six days (July 25-30). According to a report by the news agency AFP, authorities deployed armed troops that outnumbered the protesters. Several activists lit oil lamps and candles outside Colombo's main cemetery, where inter-communal inter-communal riots started 40 years ago. "Let's not forget the slaughter of Tamils," read a banner carried by members of North-South Solidarity, a rights group... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/07/23)
Understanding what went wrong to the former President of Sri Lanka
Was the former President roped into pretend to be the “nationalist” candidate BEFORE or AFTERvictory? (this should answer whether nationalists were taken for a ride from the beginning) IF BEFORE – does it explain why he ignored the Viyathmaga policies & began appointing pro-US/India appointees who were misusing their positions and nothing was done against them. IF AFTER – at what point & how & by whom was he compromised (his son in US & wishing to return to US & live –is a factor the nationalists failed to look... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
India vs China in the battlefield to acquire supremacy
We have seen many news items about the visit by the President of Sri Lanka and the MOUs signed between the two countries to convert Trincomalee harbor into an energy hub A multi-product oil pipeline to be laid between Trincomalee and the nearest Indian export port coupled with the development of Steel oil tanks built by British in Trinco can be a blow to Chinese plan to build a refinery in Hambantota where Synopac envisage to grab business fuel bunkering of ships and tankers plying between the Middle East and Far East via southern ocean... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
INDIA 'S BIG BROTHERLY ADVISE
Indian PM Narendra Mody has advised Sri Lankan PM following many other Prime Ministers of India such as Indira Gandhi and her son Raji Gandhi. He said “ that India expects Sri Lanka to implement the 13th to ensure a life of dignity and respect for Tamil population” It is frivolous to believe that devolving powers in relation to land and the police to the North and the East are going to enhance the dignity and the respect of Tamils in Sri Lanka as, in fact, the majority of Tamils live in areas other than the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
වැඩ්ඩෙක් කියලා හිතාගෙන හිටපු සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස වැඩ බැරි දාස කෙනෙක් කියලා දැන් රටටම පෙනිලා ඉවරයි
ජනතාව දැනුමෙන් ඈත් කරලා, බොරුවෙන් අන්ධ කරලා වෛරය කරා ගෙන යාම ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ අරමුණයි ඒත් රට වැටුණ වෙලාවේ ජනතාවගේ බර කරට අරගෙන, රට ගොඩ ගැනීම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ වැඩපිළිවෙලයිවැඩ්ඩෙක් කියලා හිතාගෙන හිටපු සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස වැඩ බැරි දාස කෙනෙක් කියලා දැන් රටටම පෙනිලා ඉවරයිසජිත්ට හැමදාම විපක්ෂ නායක පුටුවේ ඉන්න අපි උදව් කරනවාජනතාව දැනුමෙන් ඈත් කරලා බොරුවෙන් අන්ද කරලා වෛරය කරා ගෙන යාම ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ වැඩපිළිවෙල වන නමුත් ඉතිහාසයේ සිට රට වැටුණු වෙලාවල්වල ජනතාවගේ බර කරට ගෙන රට ගොඩ ගැනීම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ වැඩපිළිවෙල බවට පත් කරගත් බව කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධූරයට පත්ව වසරක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් පැවති ආගමික වතාවත්
"අද රට යම් යහපත් තත්වයකට පත්ව ඇති බව කුහකත්වයෙන් තොරව පිළිගන්න ඕන සත්‍යයක්."-කිරින්දේ අස්සජි හිමි"ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය හා විධායකය නොගැටී රට සුභවාදී දිශාවකට යොමු කිරිමට ජනාධිපතිතුමා සමඟ අත්වැල් බැඳ ගැනීමට අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට හැකි වුණා."- උඩවෙල කෝලිත හිමි.උන් වහන්සේලා මේ බව ප්‍රකාශ කළේ දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධූරයට පත්ව වසරක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ 2023.07.22 දින පැවති ආගමික වතාවත් සිදුකිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව ය.එහිදී අනුශාසනා කළ කොළඹ, ගංගාරාම විහාරාධිකාරී කිරින්දේ අස්සජි හිමි -"ඔබතුමා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධූරය බාර ගත්තේ ඉතාමත්ම රට අස්ථාවර කාලවකවානුවක. ඇත්තෙන්ම රට ගිනි අරගෙන තියෙන මොහොතක ඇතිවුණු කැරලි කෝලාහලත් එක්ක රටේ සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවගේ විතරක් නෙමෙයි මහජන නියෝජිතයන් හැටියට මේ රටට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
කුරුන්දි විහාරය බෞද්ධ පුරාවස්තුවක් ලෙස නම් කිරීමට ඇමැති විදුර පොරොන්දු වෙයි
අද දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී මුලතිව් හි කුරුන්දි අශෝක විහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් හා වර්තමානයේ එහි ඇතිවී තිබෙන අර්බුදය පිළිබඳව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා විසින් බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික අමාත්‍ය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක මහතාගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කිරීමක් සිදු කළේය. එහිදී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා මතුකළේ අද දිනයේත් දමිළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු වන රවීහරන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් මෙම විහාර භූමියේ පෝංගල් උත්සවයක් පැවැත් වීමට සූදානම් බවට තොරතුරු ලැබී ඇති බවත්, 1931 දී කුරුන්දි විහාර ගැසට් කිරීමේ දී මෙය බෞද්ධ පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක නටඹුන් සහිත ස්ථානයක් බව ප්‍රකාශකර ඇති බවත්ය. මෙම ස්ථානයේ පුරාවිද්‍යා කැනීම් සිදු කිරීමේ දී ද හින්දු කොවිලක හෝ හින්දු ස්මාරකවල නටඹුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
විදෙස්ගත ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට රටට මුදල් වන්න එපා කිව් මාලිමාවේ වීඩියෝ ලීක් වෙයි – අනුර පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී කිව් බොරුව එළියට
තමා දන්නා ලෙසින් පක්ෂයේ කිසිවෙකුත් විදෙස්ගත ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට රටට මුදල් එවන්න එපැයැයි නොකියූ බවත්, තමාගේ මෙම ප්‍රකාශය හැන්සාඩ් ගත කරන ලෙසත් ජාතික ජනබලවේගයේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පවසා තිබේ. එහෙත් ජාතික ජනබලවේගයේ සභික සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති හා තවත් ක්‍රියාකාරිකයකු එසේ විදෙස්ගත ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට රටට මුදල් එවන්න එපා යැයි කියූ වීඩියෝ කිහිපයක් සමාජ මාධ්‍ය තුළ සංසරණය වෙයි. වීඩියෝව නරඹන්න https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100080175133276%2Fvideos%2F997396287953979%2F&show_text=false&width=267&t=0 https://www.facebook.com/100080175133276/videos/997396287953979/?ref=embed_video&t=2... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka may allow Indian rupee to be used in local transactions
Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the use of the Indian rupee to be used in local transactions, as the island nation struggles to build its depleted foreign reserves and to emerge from last year’s unprecedented economic crisis. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the use of the Indian rupee for local transactions, as the island nation struggles to build its depleted foreign reserves and to emerge from last year’s unprecedented economic crisis. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said Saturday the move to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Sri Lankan president Wickremesinghe agrees to be sensitive to India's strategic and security concerns
During PM Modi and Wickremesinghe's private lunch, it is not difficult to assume that China was the elephant in the room as Beijing has been engaging Colombo. During his discussions with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi apparently reminded the visitor that India was among the first responders to economic crisis that wracked the island nation in 2022 while maintaining that Colombo must take into account India’s national security interest before collaborating with a third power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Sri L:ankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe(Twitter/Narendra Modi)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Two former LTTE cadres convicted of CBSL bombing get presidential pardon
The former LTTE members, who were found guilty of the bomb attack on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) on 31 January 1996 which killed 91 individuals, have been granted presidential pardon. Accordingly, former LTTE member Selliah Navaratnam who had been sentenced to 200 years in prison and S. Shanmugarajah who was sentenced to life in prison have been pardoned and released from prison on Tuesday (18), according to the Department of Prisons. Selliah Navaratnam is currently 69 years old, while Shanmugarajah is aged 56. The terror attack –... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
CBSL urges banks to ‘adequately’ reduce lending rates without delay
Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has urged licensed commercial banks to take immediate measures to adequately reduce lending rates in view of the recent reduction of policy interest rates. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, in a letter directed to the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association (SLBA) chairman, said the Central Bank would be compelled to take administrative measures in the event the banking and financial sector fails to take adequate and expeditious adjustments in this regard. Explaining that the central bank recently dropped the policy interest rates by 450 bps on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Foreign Minister briefs media on outcomes of President Ranil’s India visit
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry says that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has discussed India’s intervention for the progress of the plantation Tamil people who have been in Sri Lanka for about 200 years. Joining a press conference held at the President’s Media Centre today (22), to announce the outcomes of President Wickremesinghe’s official visit to New Delhi, Foreign Minister Sabry detailed the agreements reached with the Government of India. https://youtu.be/icQWVky-ER4 The Head of State, on July 20, embarked on a two-day visit to New Delhi at the invitation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Govt gives ultimatum to investors on resuming halted projects in Colombo
Steps will be taken to provide commercially valuable lands located in major cities in the country to investors in a bid to contribute to the economy, State Minister of Urban Development & Housing says. Arundika Fernando also stated that the government has informed the investors in writing to resume the projects on commercially valuable state-owned land in Colombo that have been halted midway due to the economic situation facing the country. Accordingly, the government has given an ultimatum to the investors demanding the resumption of the suspended projects, the lawmaker mentioned, adding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Why the Ukraine Conflict will Unravel NATO and Biden
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Our Peoples’ Prime Minister is for economic development
The Peoples’ Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at a Seed Distribution at Mawatagama rightly said “We look forward to accomplishing the special goal of building the economy of the country”. In detail, “the economic development of the country has to be with the farmers”. He has also emphasized that “the next challenge is to support small and medium scale industry.”(Ceylon Today: 7/7/23) Our Prime Minister has to be congratulated for making this statement. How can this be achieved? A year has passed by since our Prime Minister took office and it has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Cultural and Hygienic Shortfalls of Tamils Relative to Sinhala Community.
General This article is written not to scorn Tamils, but to think and educate themselves about their shortfall and correct themselves rather than insulting others. Tamils shall not think that Hinduism is the greatest religion in the world because Hindus celebrate the murders of opponents by their gods. Hindus have a mindset of imaginary thinking of events, actions, and programs. E.g., Deepavali.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Turkish Ambassador meets Acting Defence Minister
Her Excellency R. Demet Sekercioglu, Ambassador of Turkey for Sri Lanka, made a courtesy call on Acting Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at the State Ministry of Defence today (Jul 21). Minister Tennakoon held a cordial discussion with the Ambassador following a warm reception at his office. Matters of bilateral importance and mutual relevance were discussed during the meeting held between Minister Tennakoon and H.E. Sekercioglu. During the occasion, the Minister presented a memento to the Turkish Ambassador to mark the occasion. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
පුවත්පතක පළවූ වැරදි ප්‍රවෘත්තියක් හේතුවෙන් ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධනයට එරෙහි මුල්ම පෙත්සමේ නීතීඥවරයා එම නඩුවෙන් ඉවත්වීමට ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයෙන් ඉල්ලයි.
ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්ජයන්ත ඇමතිවරයා විසින් 2023 ජූලි 05 වැනි දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පළමුවර කියවා ඇත.එයට එරෙහිව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කරන්නේය පදනමින් මත්තෙගොඩ රෝපා ආයුර්වේද රෝහලේ වෛද්‍ය බී. ඒ. රත්නපාල මහතා නීතීඥ අරුණ උණවටුන මහතා මගින් SC/SD/22/23 අංක යටතේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 121 ව්‍යවස්ථාව යටතේ පෙත්සමක්ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත.පළාත් සභා ලැයිස්තුව යටතේ ඇති ආයුර්වේදය අදාල කාරණා සම්බන්ධයෙන් යෝජිත ආයුර්වේද පනත් සංශෝධනය පළාත් සභා නොවිමසා ගෙනවිත් ඇති බව ඇතුලු කාරණා එකී පෙත්සම මගින් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් දක්වා ඇත.සෙවනගල ප්‍රදේශයේ වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු වන කමල් බන්දුල වීරප්පෙරුම සහ මුල්ලේරියාව නව නගරයේ වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
President underscores positive impacts of India’s growth on neighbourhood and Indian Ocean region (IOR)
During his inaugural visit to India after assuming office, President Ranil Wickremesinghe commended the neighbouring nation’s unwavering support and solidarity during Sri Lanka’s recent economic crisis. Addressing a joint press briefing, he expressed his sincere gratitude to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government and people of India for their continued support during Sri Lanka’s most difficult times in recent history. https://youtu.be/Ct_1kGBNsVQ Meanwhile, President Wickremesinghe also praised the impressive economic, infrastructure, and technological advancements made under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership. He emphasised that India’s growth... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Second Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) possible if targets of current strategy not achieved – CBSL governor
The central bank (CBSL) governor says Sri Lanka will have to go through another Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) strategy if the targets of the current plan are not achieved. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe also noted that the DDO strategy announced by the government is strong enough to restore the country’s debt sustainability. He made these remarks during the CEO Forum 2023 organized by the Chartered Financial Analysts of Sri Lanka on Friday (July 21) in Colombo. Addressing concerns about a second DDO strategy, the central bank governor said if the country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Multi-product petroleum pipeline to be built between India and Sri Lanka
India and Sri Lanka have decided to cooperate towards the establishment of a multi-product petroleum pipeline from the southern part of India to Sri Lanka, in a bid to ensure an affordable and reliable supply of energy resources to Sri Lanka. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Friday (21 July), held bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, during which a wide range of issues was discussed. Sri Lanka and India also signed five key Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on (1) animal husbandry and dairying, (2)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Sri Lanka’s consumer inflation eases to 10.8% in June 2023
Sri Lanka inflation, based on National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), for June 2023 has been recorded at 10.8%, as measured by the year-on-year change. According to the latest report published by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS), this is a slight drop in comparison to the headline inflation of 22.1% recorded in May 2023. https://youtu.be/rE3dzYmSZgM The contributions to the NCPI on a month-on-month basis (June 2023 as opposed to May 2023) were by the increases in food items of 0.44% and decreases in non-food items of 0.3% respectively. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
Indian PM urges SL President to ensure “life of dignity and respect” for Tamils
India expects Sri Lanka to implement the 13th Amendment and ensure a life of “dignity and respect” for its Tamil population, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (July 21). Welcoming Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to India, Mr. Modi informed that both sides have held talks on a number of infrastructure projects that can ensure greater connectivity between the two countries and announced a development assistance package for the Tamils of Indian origin who are marking 200th anniversary of their arrival into the island nation. https://youtu.be/qwJS-mB3fLY ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/07/23)
STRONG ARM TACTICS ARE NEVER A SOLUTION IN A DEMOCRACY
The events of the not too distant past relative to regime change seems to be of little or no avail relative to Law Enforcement when it comes to the circumstances which forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in corruption and draconian measures when he was defense secretary, is also purported to have presided over an economic catastrophe amid allegations of widespread corruption with impunity and the Rajapaksas collectively over periods of political power are accused of bringing the country to her knees economically which appears to have been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
The time has come for the USA to focus on improving its own internal law and order rather than worrying about others?
The United States is often referred to as the 'champion of democracy and human rights'. But over the past two decades, as it has transformed into a multicultural society, the United States has faced numerous domestic human rights problems, including institutionalized racism, hate crimes, and extrajudicial killings by criminals and law enforcement. Numerous statistics show an alarming increase in gun-related violence, including extrajudicial executions and hate crimes, as well as systematic violations of human rights. Hate crimes, extrajudicial killings, and police violence are daily problems in American society. Additionally, the government is failing to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
Are Foreign diplomats in Bangladesh playing roles like internal political activists?
Foreign diplomats become active when the election time approaches. Their activity becomes like a political party. While the ruling party protested this breach of etiquette, the opposition parties rightly took their word for it. Sometimes prompting them to be more active. They are also seen going to the embassy and paying some things. Analysts say that according to the Vienna Convention friendly relations are developed between different countries by following certain rules. which is universal. But various influential countries ignore these rules. The activities of the diplomats... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
යාපනයට ගිහින් මනුෂ කියපු කතාව හොදයි - ඒත් වැඩ නැති එක ගැන දුකයි
උතුර සහ දකුණ අතර පවතින දුරස්ථභාවය නැති කිරීම සදහා විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්‍රය ඇතුළු සියලුම ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කළ යුතු බවට අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර යාපනයට ගොස් කළ ප්‍රකාශය අගය කැන නමුත්, ඩිජිටල්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය ප්‍රායෝගිකව ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට කිසිදු පියවරක් නොගැනීම කණගාටුවට කරුණක් බව විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරයි.විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානයේ කැදවුම්කරු ජනක බලල්ල මහතා මාධ්‍යයට ප්‍රකාශයක් ලබාදෙමින් මේ බව සදහන් කර තිබේ.වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වන ඒ මහතා මෙසේද ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටී.විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ පවතින ජාවාරම් වලක්වන්න, මේ ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ කටයුතු ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කරන්න කියලා අපි මාස ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. අපි දිගින් දිගටම කරන බලපෑම නිසාදෝ ඇමැතිවරයා යාපනයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
India's Assam CM's anti-Muslim remarks: the ugly politics of hatred and division towards Indian Muslims must be stopped
Violence, hatred, division - these are unpleasant words. Its meaning can be found in the dictionary. Synonyms of those words can be found in the dictionaries of other languages of the world. The meaning of those words is the same in the dictionary of all languages of the world. When students and teachers go to the interpretation of those words, they realize that there should not be an environment of violence, hatred and division in human society. But the question is, should we all be involved in action? The atmosphere of hatred and division can... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
Man remanded for sending threatening messages to State Minister
The suspect Roshan Dissanayaka was produced before the Naula (Paldeniya) Magistrate's Court on charges of threatening a Member of Parliament, breaching Parliamentary privileges and criminal intimidation. Senior State Counsel Shaminda Wickrema appearing for the prosecution submitted to Court that the suspect had sent threatening messages to the mobile phone of State Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon on May 10, 2022, immediately after the death of MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala and his security officer and the aftermath of the 9th of May when the State Minister's house had already been burned to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
Import restrictions on 328 more items to be relaxed tonight
Restrictions imposed on imported goods will be further relaxed later today (July 20), State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. Thereby, import restrictions on 328 more items will be eased. The lawmaker said the gazette notification announcing the import restriction relaxation would be published tonight. The announcement comes a month after the government relaxed import restrictions on 300 other items including electronic equipment, sanitaryware and food items with effect from June 09. However, import restrictions on vehicles are unlikely to be lifted anytime soon. Speaking on the matter... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
India says Sri Lanka has already notified that INR is designated foreign currency in system
The Spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi, has revealed India’s willingness to further expand financial economic relations between Sri Lanka and India. Speaking on President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India, Bagchi said “We would like to steepen this financial economic connection, but I think it’ll be premature for me to say when the visit is tomorrow”. Bagchi made these remarks while commenting on trading in national currencies between India and Sri Lanka at a media briefing held on Thursday (20 July), and commended the fact that Sri Lanka has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
FAO launches training programme for 300 Agriculture Extension Officers in Sri Lanka
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will conduct training programmes for 300 Agriculture Extension Officers in Sri Lanka under an European Union (EU) funded project in order to boost Sri Lanka’s rice sector, the FAO announced. The programme comes as part of an innovative project titled RiceUP, launched by the FAO in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Mahaweli Authority in Sri Lanka (MASL), with funding of €4 million from the European Union (EU). The project aims at addressing the threat to food security caused by two... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 3C.
Tamil Seperatist Movement alleges that there was an ancient kovil at Kurundi called Kurundumale Aadi Sivan Aiyanar Kovil. Tamil Separatist Movement complained on 1 July 2021, that they found the lingam missing from the site and that a trident had been damaged.Sivan Aiyanar Kovil Society Chief Weerasingham Kaleichelwan, told the newspaper, The Morning on 26.6.2022 that villagers had long worshipped at this kovil but they were not allowed to enter the site after the war ended. In the same month TNA MP Sumanthiran filed a fundamental rights petition in Supreme Court saying that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
Unsolicited Short Messages
I believe I'm alone in receiving unsolicited electronic mail and text communications often. Despite internet service providers' best efforts to keep spammers out of their customers' accounts, some unscrupulous people manage to slip through the cracks. On this basis, internet service providers' efforts should be lauded. On the same point, despite the users' protests and dismay, mobile telephone service providers use the facility to increase income in their coffers while being a pain to the customers. And the authorities' failure to take steps to prevent subscribers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
Deputy High Commissioner of India pays farewell call on State Minister of Defence
Deputy High Commissioner of the Indian High Commission in Colombo Vinod Kurian Jacob paid a farewell call on the State Minister of Defence, Hon. Pramitha Bandara Thennakoon at the State Minister’s Office today (Jul 18). The State Minister extended a warm welcome to the Indian Deputy High Commissioner and later had a cordial discussion with him. The outgoing Indian diplomat conveyed his gratitude to the State Minister for his cooperation and assistance in maintaining the existing cordial bilateral military diplomacy. During the occasion, State Minister presented a memento... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
විදේශ රැකියා අපේක්ෂිතයින්ගේ සුදුසුකම් - රැකියා අවස්ථාවන් එකිනෙකට සම්බන්ධ කරන IGRS වැඩසටහන ග්ලෝකල් ෆෙයාර් 2023 දී ජනගත කෙරේ
විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්වීටම අපේක්ෂිත ශ්‍රමිකයින්ගේ සුදුසුකම්, රැකියා අවස්ථාවන් එකිනෙකට සම්බන්ධ කරනු ලබන අන්තර්ජාලය පදනම් කරගත් වැඩසටහනක් (IGRS) සංක්‍රමණය පිළිබද ජාත්‍යන්තර ආයතනයේ සහාය ඇතිව ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබූ අතර කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ සංක්‍රමණය පිළිබද ජාත්‍යන්තර ආයතනයේ ආසියානු පැසිපික් කලාපීය අධ්‍යක්ෂ Sarah Lou Arriola අතින් එම වැඩසටහන යාපනය මුට්‍රවේලි ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවති ග්ලෝකල් ෆෙයාර් 2023 දී එය එළි දක්වනු ලැබීයකම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍යාංශය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශය සහ සංක්‍රමණය පිළිබද ජාත්‍යන්තර ආයතනය එක්ව අන්තර්ජාලය පදනම් කරගත් මෙ වැඩසටහන සකස් කර තිබේ.මෙම වැඩසටහන අනුව විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්ව යාමට අපේක්ෂිත ශ්‍රමිකියන්ගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
Bangladesh is not in China’s debt trap, says Foreign Minister Abdul Momen
Dhaka, July 12: Bangladesh is not in a Chinese debt trap, says its Foreign Minister A.K.Abdul Momen. In an article in Daily Sun, Momen said that the single-biggest bilateral lender is Japan. “Unfortunately, there is a wrong perception among few US lawmakers and officials regarding Bangladesh. They believe that Bangladesh is moving towards the Chinese debt-trap as a few Chinese companies are engaged in constructing a few mega projects in Bangladesh. Since the Chinese companies were lowest in price in submitting international public tenders, they got the job. For example, they got the job of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
ජාතිවාදීන්ගේ උවමනාව මත ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් උතුරු නැගෙනහිර භූමියෙන් පාරම්පරික සිංහල ජනයා ඉවත් කිරීම හෙළා දකිමින් නැගෙනහිර පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාරතුමියගෙන් මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක්
පසුගියදා වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව, මහවැලිය සහ පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තුමෙන්තු විසින් මායිම් යොදා වෙන් කර තිබූ මුලතිව් දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ රක්ෂිත වනාන්තර ඉඩම් අක්කර 29,000ක් ඔවුන්ගේ භාරයෙන් නිදහස් කොට දෙමළ ජනතාව වෙත පවරන ලෙස ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය විසින් දැනුම්දී ඇති බවත්, ඊයේ දිනයේ (18) දෙමළ සන්ධානයේ ජාතිවාදී දේශපාලනික අරමුණු ඉටුකිරීම උදෙසා වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා (පොලිස් බලතල පමණක් රහිතව) 13 වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය බලාත්මක කරමින් උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල ඉඩම් බලතල ලබා දීමට සුදානම් වෙමින් සිටින බවත් පවසමින් හිටපු නැගෙනහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර අනුරාධා යහම්පත් මහත්මිය මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක් යොමුකර තිබේ. මෙවන් තත්වයක් යටතේ, ඊට සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම පරස්පර විරෝධී ක්‍රියා පිළිවෙතක් අනුගමනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
Nuts, bolts not stolen from New Kelani Bridge: Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardane
Refuting claims that nuts and bolts worth millions of rupees had been removed and stolen from the New Kelani Bridge, Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardane said these nuts and bolts cannot be removed so easily as special tools are needed to do so. The Minister told Parliament that no nuts and bolts had been removed from the bridge and that only the relevant engineering companies were in possession of the special tools required to remove them. Responding to a question by MP Dayasiri Jayasekara, he said only some GI pipes PVC... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
Sri Lanka should pass first IMF review, visit in Sep - IMF Board Member
Sri Lanka's forthcoming review of the USD 3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package "should go through" given the falling inflation, appreciation of the rupee and build-up of foreign reserves says Prof. Krishnamurthy Subramanian, representative at the IMF Executive Board for Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Sri Lanka stands a strong chance of passing the first review of its $3 billion bailout given falling interest rates and a build-up of foreign reserves, according to the nation’s representative on the International Monetary Fund executive board. Sri Lanka's efforts to achieve... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
IMF board member expects Sri Lanka to pass first bailout review
Sri Lanka stands a strong chance of passing the first review of its $3 billion bailout given falling interest rates and a build-up of foreign reserves, according to the nation’s representative on the International Monetary Fund executive board. The South Asian country’s efforts to achieve debt sustainability in line with IMF stipulations are also progressing smoothly, said Krishnamurthy Subramanian, who also represents India, Bangladesh and Bhutan. IMF officials will visit Sri Lanka in September “to take stock of the situation,” added Subramanian, one of 24 executive directors on the board. Loan disbursement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
European Commission suggests 4-year extension to GSP+ scheme
The European Commission has suggested that the current GSP+ (Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus) scheme be extended by 04 years, amidst the ongoing negotiations for the EU’s new GSP+ arrangement. https://youtu.be/IVmF87eKwik Taking to Twitter, the Delegation of European Union (EU) to Sri Lanka has mentioned that as one of Sri Lanka’s largest trading partners with nearly EUR 3.2 billion worth of Sri Lankan exports to the European Union in 2022 alone, it recognises the importance of GSP+ scheme for Sri Lankan exporters. Accordingly, the European Commission has proposed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
Anti-Corruption Bill passed with amendments
The Anti-Corruption Bill was passed in Parliament on Wednesday (19 July) with amendments. The Bill which was presented before the House on 06 July, was passed in Parliament this morning without a vote. The Bill was presented before the Parliament, with amendments, today, for the Committee Stage. Amendments proposed by the Minister and certain amendments proposed the opposition incorporated during the Committee Stage of the Bill today. https://youtu.be/6qmFR0rQC58 The Second Reading debate of this Bill, which was presented to the Parliament on 27th April 2023 by the Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/07/23)
At 90years, R. Sampanthan is still ailing for an elusive Tamil Eelam
Rajavarothiam Sampanthan is a Vellala MP and the oldest MP in Sri Lanka’s Parliament. There are not many nonagenarian MPs but Sampanthan is likely to take his Eelam dream to his grave & beyond coupled with the hate, racism, vengeance & revenge that will follow him for many births. Having lived through insurrections, terror, watched his fellow comrades gunned down by those he referred to as “sole representative”, Sampanthan chooses not to retire but to drum lies and racism. No wonder the youth continue to go astray when the leaders are taking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
SRI WICKRAMA RAJASINGHE ERA-ECONOMY DURING THE COLONIAL ERA FROM 1815- 1832
Since Sri Wickremara Ranasinghe became King of Senkadagala (Kandy), many conflicts existed between the elite and society. When it became so aggressive to take revenge in April 1802, there was an incident in British-occupied Puttalam, where a Muslim group was battered, and their belongings were seized with the help of Pilimathala Chief Adikam using Ceylonese lots. During the 18th Century, the British Indian Trading Company owned many parts of India. Meantime, The United States of America had a battle with the British. Simultaneously, the Dutch were fighting for their independence against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Burning the Quran is not pleasant
Al-Qur'an is the book of guidance sent by Allah Ta'ala. In this Quran, there are all the guidelines for managing the life of mankind. From the beginning of creation, Allah Ta'ala has described the words of all the Prophets and Messengers and the descriptions of various heavenly books and in the Qur'an. This Qur'an is the emancipation document of mankind and was revealed during the 23 years of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) prophet's life. Even when this Quran was revealed, some people opposed it. But a holy book like the Qur'an is a far cry!... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
සිල්ලර දේශපාලනය වෙනුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ න්‍යායපත්‍රය අවභාවිතා කරන්න දෙන්න එපා - අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර කතානායකගෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඉල්ලයි
සිල්ලර දේශපාලනය වෙනුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ න්‍යායපත්‍රය අවභාවිතා නොකරන ලෙස කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා කතානායකවරයාගෙන් අද (18) උදෑසන කතානායකවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියේය.අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුව රැස්වූ අවස්ථාවේදී විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස පාර්ලිමේන්තු න්‍යායපත්‍රයෙන් ඔබ්බට ගොස් විවිධ ප්‍රශ්න මතු කළ අතර ඉන් පසුව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ ඉල්ලීම කළේය.පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද කීවේය.මේ සිල්ලර දේශපාලනය වෙනුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ න්‍යායපත්‍රය භාවිතා කිරීම වලක්වන්න කටයුතු කරන්න කියලා කතානායකතුමාගෙන් මම ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. පාර්ලිමේන්තු න්‍යායපත්‍රයෙන් පස්සේ මේ දේවල් කතා කරන්න කියලා මම ඉල්ලා සිටිනවාපාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ විනය ගැන කතා කරාට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ න්‍යාපත්‍රය අවභාවිතා කරලා, විනය කඩනවා. කිසිම ක්‍රමවේදයක්, කිසිම පිළිවෙලක් නැතිව තමයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
රුසියානු බොක්සිං සම්මේලනයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං ක්‍රීඩකයින්ට ජාත්‍යන්තර ඉසව්වලට සහභාගී වීමට පුහුණුව සහ මූල්‍ය ආධාර.
ජාත්‍යන්තර බොක්සිං සංගමයේ (IBA) සභාපති උමාර් ක්‍රෙම්ලෙව් මහතා 2023.07.18 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. ජාත්‍යන්තර බොක්සිං සංගමයේ (IBA) සභාපතිවරයා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං සහ අනෙකුත් ක්‍රීඩා දියුණු කිරීමට අඛණ්ඩව ගන්නා උත්සාහයන් පිළිබඳව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට සහ ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශයට මෙහිදී ස්තූතිය පුද කළ අතර රුසියානු බොක්සිං සම්මේලනය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං ක්‍රීඩාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමට සහාය වන බව සහතික කළේය. රුසියානු බොක්සිං සංගමය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පාසල් සඳහා බොක්සිං අත්වැසුම් විශාල තොගයක් පරිත්‍යාග කර ඇති අතර ඒවා ශ්‍රී ලංකා බොක්සිං සම්මේලනය හරහා බෙදා හැරීමට නියමිතව තිබේ. මීට අමතරව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං ක්‍රීඩකයින්ට ජාත්‍යන්තර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
වගකීම අපිට දෙන්න, අවුරුද්දකින් කෙහෙලිය ලැබ් එකක් හදලා දෙන්නම්, ආඩම්බරයෙන් ගෙදර යන්න - රවී කුමුදේශ්
"විශ්ලේෂණ රසායනාගාරයක් හදන වගකීම අපිට දෙන්න, වසරකින් ඇමතිවරයාට ආඩම්බරයෙන් නිදර්ශක එවන්න රසායනාගාරයක් හදලා දෙනවා කියලා සහතික වෙන්නම්' ඖෂධ තත්ව පාළණයට ලංකාවේ රසායනාගාරයක් හැදුවේ 1990දී. ඒකාලේ ඒකේ පරීක්ෂණ කරන්න අවම වශයෙන් වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ 67ක් ඕනේ කියලා තීරණය කලේ රේණුකා හේරත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමති තුමයගේ කාලේ. අද වෙනකොට ඒකේ ඉන්නේ 10දෙනයි. ගෙනල්ලා දාපු උපකරණ වලින් 50%ක් අවුට් ඔෆ් ඕඩර්. දවසින් දවස අපු ඇවිල්ලා තියෙන්නේ පසු පස්සට. අපිත් එක්ක සමාන්තරව ඖෂධ තත්වපාළණ රාසායනාගාර හදපු හැම රටක්ම වාගේ අද වෙනකොට සෑම ඖෂධයක්ම රෝගීන්ට දෙන්නට පෙර තුන් පාරක් රසායනාගාර පරීක්ෂණ වලට ලක් කරලා තවුරු කරනවා. ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරියේ හදපු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
The caste-based culture is still the key obstacle for development in Sri Lanka
Over a long period, many erudite scholars and critics have engaged with the issue of the extent to which caste remained a relevant factor in understanding social development in Sri Lanka. One could sum up broadly the overwhelming view among such writers as being that while caste influences still remain in some way or the other, the predominant factor relating to changes in Sri Lanka is not caste but class. The starting point of this article is that while purely on theoretical considerations about the new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
රට අමාරුවේ දැමූ සැබෑ ආර්ථික ඝාතකයින් සම්බන්ධව කබ්‍රාල්ගෙන් බරපතළ හෙළිදරව්වක්!
ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ අධිපතිධූරය දෙවරක් දැරූ මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්‍රාල් මහතා තමාට එල්ලවන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙබ් අඩවියට සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවක් ලබාදෙමින් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක කරුණු රැසක් හෙළිදරව් කළේය. වත්මන් මහ බැංකු අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ මහතා දැවැන්ත ලෙස මුදල් නෝට්ටු අච්චු ගැසීම මෙන්ම හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි මහතා මහ භාණ්ඩාගාර්ය ඩොලර් බිලියන සෘන 7.4කට වැට්ට වූ අයුරුද ඒ මහතා තම සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාව තුල විධිමත්ව හෙළිදරව් කරයි. සම්පූර්ණ සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාව පහතින්… නන්දලාල් 2022 ජූනි 20 දක්වා කාලය තුළ දිනකට රුපියල් බිලියන 4.5 බැගින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
නන්දලාල් 2022 ජූනි 20 දක්වා කාලය තුළ දිනකට රුපියල් බිලියන 4.5 බැගින් අච්චු ගැහුවා.කුමාරස්වාමි භාණ්ඩාගාරය ඩොලර් බිලියන සෘන 7.4ක අගයකට වැට්ටුවා- හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්‍රාල්
හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයෙකු වන අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්‍රාල් මහතා මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයෙකු ලෙස බරපතල චෝදනා වලට ලක්වූ පුද්ගලයෙක්. ඔහු විසින් මහ බැංකු අධිපති තනතුර දෙවරක් දරා ඇති අතර ඔහුගේ එම දූර කාල දෙක තුලදීම ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආර්ථිකයට බරපතල හානි සිදු කළ බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා තවමත් අවසන් නැහැ. කෙසේ වුවද අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්‍රාල් මහතා 2022 වර්ෂයේදී ‘ආර්ථික ඝාතකයන් මැද’ නමින් ග්‍රන්ථයක් ලියා තමා වෙත එල්ල වන චෝදනා වලට පිළිතුරු දීමට උත්සහා කරනු ලැබුවා. කෙසේ වුවද තමා වෙත එල්ල වන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් මෑත කාලයේදී ජන මාධ්‍ය ආයතනයකට සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡා ලබා දීමට කබ්‍රාල් මහතා කටයුතු නොකළේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Are agrochemicals the cause of the Rajarata Kidney Disease?
Various reports in the media yet claim that the Rajarata kidney disease, scientifically defined as the chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu), is caused by agrochemicals whereas the overwhelming evidence is that it is caused by hard water and fluoride prevalent in dug wells on high ground. Further it claimed that the number of patients is on the increase whereas published evidence is that it has been decreasing from 2016. Agrochemicals are not the cause An exhaustive study carried out... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Shocking claim made regarding drug imports by NMRA
The importation of certain drugs are sometimes approved by the Director Board of the National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA), even in the absence of such approval from the relevant expert committee, according to Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama. Speaking during Ada Derana’s ‘Big Focus’ programme with regards to the importation of drugs, Dr. Wijewickrama made a shocking claim that certain unregistered drugs are also being imported to the country. When inquired as to who made these decisions, Dr. Wijewickrama stated that the said decisions are made by the Board of Directors... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
CID to investigate nine bank accounts belonging to Pastor Jerome
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday (18 July) obtained approval from the court to investigate nine bank accounts belonging to Pastor Jerome Fernando, who recently found himself in hot water after making controversial statements during a sermon. The order was issued by Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage this morning (18), upon consideration of a motion filed by the CID in this regard. Accordingly, the CID was granted permission to investigate the bank accounts which had been opened at several banks including People’s Bank, Sampath Bank, HNB, DFCC, HSBC, NDB and Seylan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
13th Amendment to be implemented with full powers excluding police powers – President
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has stated that the 13th Amendment will be implemented with full powers, except Police Powers, subject to agreement among political parties in parliament. Outlining his plans for the devolution of power, President Wickremesinghe said that the 13th Amendment with full powers, except Police Powers, as outlined under List 1, will be implemented including specified functions in List 3 in the provincial councils list. https://youtu.be/PJHg66BP21k Meanwhile, a draft law for the Office of National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR) has been sent to the Attorney General for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 3B.
Kurundi is set deep in the Nagacholai Forest reserve. Santhabodhi thera said that a large extent of Nagacholai forest surrounding the Kurundi Vihara was illegally cleared in 2019 and 2020 and five acres were turned into paddy fields. The Kurundi pond was enlarged into a lake to make sure that it could not be treated as a pond belonging to a monastery. Sashi Kumar, a “powerful person” who owns over 100 acres of paddy fields in Mullativu had carried out the task. Valuable trees such as kalumadiriya, ebony, were cut down and burnt. Archaeology... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Harnessing the Mahaveli – SA Wickramasinghe, 1955
(from ‘Relief of Ceylon’, Chapter V, The Way Ahead) ‘The study of the problem of agriculture & industry necessarily involves the study of the relief of the country before a comprehensive scheme could be intelligently planned for agriculture and industry. In the centre of the island is the hill country over 1000ft. in elevation. The rest of the country is lowlands or plains which can be subdivided into 3 sections, the South East Plain, the South West Plain and the Northern Plain. The hill country consists of mountain... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
There's something the matter with boys
Boys' academic outcomes are sinking at an unprecedented rate. At university, girls now outnumber boys by two to one. Here, in a speech to an international policy workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka, I venture into the minefield of political impropriety and argue that boys and girls should not be treated equally when it comes to education. I show also that unless we fix this problem, we risk serious societal outcomes, not just when it comes to crime but also to political outcomes. BREXIT and Trump, after all, were in large... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Sri Lanka's Denial Of An Entry Visa To Canadian MP Insight
The name Anandasagaree certainly does not get a stamp of approval from the Government of Sri Lanka with very valid reason hence the recent denial of an entry Visa to Sri Lanka by the Government of Sri Lanka to Gary Anandasagaree. Canadian MP Gary Anandasagaree inasmuch as his father V Anandasagaree of the Tamil National Alliance both play major roles in misleading the world about the recent Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka and campaign hard to bring Sri Lanka to disrepute in their own way albeit similarly when it comes to subject... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
PM thanks Sri Lanka for helping clinch IMF deal
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday expressed his gratitude to Sri Lanka for supporting and helping Pakistan in reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. During a telephonic conversation with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, PM Shehbaz acknowledged the role played by Sri Lanka as a friend and well-wisher of Pakistan. The PM said both Islamabad and Colombo are close and reliable friends and commended the island nation’s role in regional peace and prosperity. PM Shehbaz also expressed confidence that the two nations will soon come out of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Is the worst over for Sri Lanka's economic crisis?
Image caption,Colombo's public spaces, restaurants and shops are bustling with locals and tourists By Archana Shukla BBC News, Colombo At first glance, life in Sri Lanka's financial capital Colombo looks deceptively normal. Roads are packed with traffic, public spaces and restaurants are full of both locals and tourists, while shops are bustling. It is hard to imagine that just a year ago, this was a country struggling with massive shortages after it ran out of foreign currency. With no money to buy fuel, roads... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
Sri Lanka: The ‘Back Door’ for Indian Nationalists
This fascinating post by Graham Shaw draws attention to the little known role that Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) played in the Indian National Movement by becoming a critical entry-point for nationalists and revolutionary literatures that would otherwise have found it impossible to enter India. A perfectly timed post as both countries mark the 75th anniversary of their independence from British colonial rule. A little-known link between Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and the Indian freedom struggle was its role in combating the elaborate censorship measures put in place by the British in India... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
US Treasury Secretary hopes debt treatments for Sri Lanka could be finalised quickly
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday she was “eager” to work with China on areas of mutual interest, including debt restructurings for poorer countries, and that multilateral development banks needed reforms before capital increases could be considered. At a press conference before a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers in India, Yellen said her visit to Beijing last week helped put the U.S.-China relationship on “surer footing” and that the world’s two biggest economies had an obligation to the world “to cooperate on areas of mutual concern”. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
IRD collects nearly Rs. 700 bn in tax revenue in first half of 2023
The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) says that it has collected a total tax revenue of Rs. 696,946 million for the first half of this year. In comparison, the revenue collected from the income tax during the first half of 2022 amounted to a total of Rs. 361,832 million, according to the department. Accordingly, the collected Tax Revenue of the first half of this year shows a positive growth of 93% compared to last year, the Commission General of the IRD said in a statement. He also mentioned that the factors... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/07/23)
US World Bank Hangs Up Sri Lanka Telecom
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ * ‘The US decided to undertake… an influence campaign behind the scenes, providing favors…through grants, training grants & money for individuals involved in participating to get them to flip their decision… Stakeholders from China have left that project and have struck out on their own to try to construct what has been seemingly seen as competing cables at the same time along similar routes… A key pressure point in this process... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
නවසීලන්ත ශ්‍රී ලංකා සබඳතාවයේ නව අදියරක්
නවසීලන්තයේ රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික දූත මණ්ඩලයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේදී ස්ථාපනය කිරීම තුළින් ප්‍රායෝගික සහ අර්ථාන්විත ආකාරයේ සහයෝගිතාව ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාමේ වැදගත්කම පිළිගන්නා බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.07.14 දින කොළඹ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නවසීලන්ත මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය නිල වශයෙන් විවෘත කිරීමේ උත්සවයේදීය. එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා - මටාරිකී( Matariki) හෝ මාඕරි ( Maori) නවසීලන්ත අලුත් අවුරුද්ද සැමරෙන අද දිනයේදීම මෙම කටයුත්ත සිදුකිරීම සුභදායකයි. මූලික වශයෙන් ආර්ථික, වෙළඳ සහ ආයෝජන හවුල්කාරිත්වය ඉදිරියට ගෙනයාම මත පදනම්ව දෙරට අතර සියලු ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් හරහා ශක්තිමත් සබඳතා ඇති කර ගැනීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම් රටවලින් සල්ලි ඇවිත්.. රැට්ටා ඇතුළු පිරිසක ගිණුම් පරීක්‍ෂාවක.. අනුරගේ පුතා-ලේලි ගලදාරියේ..
අරගලයේ සිටි රැට්ටා ඇතුළු පිරිසගේ ගිණුම් පරීක්ෂණ නිලධාරීන් විසින් පරීක්ෂණ කරමින් සිටින බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ දී මිනුවන්ගොඩදී පැවති ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ආසන බලමණ්ඩලය අමතමිනි. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ නායක අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ පුත්‍රයා සහ ලේලිය ගලධාරී හෝටලයෙන් ආහාර ගනිද්දී අනුර දිසානායක මහතා කෙසෙල් කොලේ බත් කන බවත් හෙතෙම එහිදී පැවසීය. මන්ත්‍රීවරයා තවදුරටත් මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. ‘2019 ජනාධිපති ලෙස පත්වු ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා 2020 අගෝස්තු මාසය වන තුරු කොවිඩ් වසංගතයත් හොදින් කළමණාකරණය කර ගනිමින් රට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
ගෝඨාභය එලවන්න දියත් වූ කුමන්ත්‍රණය ගැන සාගර කියයි… අලුත් ජනාධිපති ගැනත් අමුතු කතාවක්
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපති වී සති දෙක තුනකින් තානාපති කාර්‍යාලයක කාන්තාවක් තමංව පැහැරගෙන ගොස්, ලිංගික අඩන්තේට්ටම් කර, මරන්න උත්සාහ කළ බවට පැමිණිල්ලක් දැමූ බවත්, දැං එම කාන්තාව එය ඕනකමින් කළ බොරුවක් බව අධිකරණයේ දී පිළිගෙන ඇති බවත්, පසුව අරගලය හරහා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයාව අයිං කළ බවත් පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මහලේකම් සාගර කාරියවසම් මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ ඊයේ (15) පැවැති පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ තෙල්දෙණිය ආසන බල මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමේ දීය. එහි දී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ පොදුජන පෙරමුණු මහලේකම් සාගර කාරියවසම්, ”ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපති වෙලා සති දෙක තුනකින් අපිට මතකයි නේද තානාපති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
Elements of terror group FETÖ eliminated from Sri Lanka - Türkiye ambassador
The Ambassador of Türkiye to Sri Lanka says the elements of FETÖ (Fethullahist Terrorist Organization) – the group behind the foiled 2016 coup bid – have been eliminated from Sri Lanka after successful joint efforts by the two nations against terrorism. https://youtu.be/9VQnyO519r0 Addressing the Democracy and National Unity Day Commemoration Ceremony in Colombo on Saturday (July 15), Ambassador Demet Şekercioğlu said Türkiye continues to engage with the Sri Lankan authorities with enhanced intelligence sharing to build a strong, vigilant and comprehensive response to terrorism. On July 15, 2016,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
Protect Crabs and Lobsters in the Animal Welfare Bill
The sentience of animals like crabs, lobsters & prawns (decapod crustaceans), calls for their legal protection. The welfare of decapod crustaceans remains largely unprotected, and they are truly voiceless. Their suffering at the humans is a blot on our moral conscience. There is compelling scientific evidence that they are sentient and therefore can experience pain, and in light of the extreme practices they are subjected to, the animal welfare movement of Sri Lanka must take up their cause. There must be a legal requirement for food processors,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
Lobsters, octopus and crabs recognised as sentient beings
Amendment to Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill following LSE report on decapod and cephalopod sentience Crabs, octopus and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings in government policy decision making Decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs will be recognised under the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill Amendment to Bill follows London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) scientific research findings on decapod and cephalopod sentience Existing industry practices will not be affected and there will be no direct impact on shellfish catching or in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
Indo-Lanka oil pipeline: Govt. to appoint committee to study proposal
Ministry to consult President’s Secretariat on composition Pipeline can link Nagapattinam refinery to SL storage The Government will appoint a committee to evaluate the proposal submitted by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for an oil distribution pipeline connecting Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu to Trincomalee and Colombo, the Ministry of Power and Energy said yesterday (15). The proposal comes days before President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to visit New Delhi on the invitation of Indian Premier Narendra Modi. According to the Ministry of Power and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
පටු දේශපාලන උවමනාවන් සඳහා සෞඛ්‍ය පද්ධතියට පහරදීම බලවත් වරදක් – ජාතික සංවිධානවලින් ජනතාවට අවවාදයක්
සෞඛ්‍ය පද්ධතියට ඖෂධ මිලදී ගැනීමේ දී දීර්ඝ කාලීනව දක්නට ලැබෙන දූෂණ, වංචා සහ අකාර්යක්ෂමතාවයන් අද වන විට වර්ධනය වීම නිසා සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා සැපයීමේ දී මතුවන ගැටලු මුල්කර ගෙන මේ දිනවල විවිධ වෘත්තීය සමිති නායකයන් විසින් සමස්ත සෞඛ්‍ය පද්ධතියට සහ සෞඛ්‍ය සේවකයන්ට පහරදීමේ හොඳ නරක පිළිබඳව ලංකා ලීඩ් ජාතික සංවිධානවල මතය විමසන ලදී. මේ වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ අදහස් ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්, “අපේ රටේ පවතින නිදහස් සෞඛ්‍ය සේවයට අදාළ පද්ධතිය ලෝකයේ තිබෙන සෞඛ්‍ය පද්ධති සමග සැසඳීමේ දී සියළු දුර්වලතා එසේම තිබියදී ඉතා විශිෂ්ට මට්ටමක පවතිනවා. එසේ නිදහස් සෞඛ්‍ය පද්ධතිය යටතේ අතීතයේ සිටි විශිෂ්ටයන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
ජනපති ගෝඨාභයට ලණු දුන් ආර්ථික ඝාතකයා කවුරුන්දැයි දැන් පැහැදිලියි… ස්තුතියි ලංකා ලීඩ් – පාඨකයන්ගෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙත ප්‍රශංසා
ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ සංජීව ජයවර්ධන මහතා විසින් අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ ලියකියවිල්ලක අඩංගු වූ කරුණු අනුව ජනපති ගෝඨාභයට ලණු දුන් ආර්ථික ඝාතකයා කවුරුන්දැයි පැහැදිලි වූ බව ලංකා ලීඩ් පාඨකයන් රාශියක් අදහස් දක්වා ඇත. ඒ අනුව ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ සහ හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි අදාළ චෝදනාවෙන් නිදහස් වනවාද යන්න පාඨකයෝ ප්‍රශ්න කරති. ඊට අදාළ පොදු පිළිතුරක් ලබාදෙමින් ලංකා ලීඩ් සඳහන් කළ යුත්තේ ඒ පිළිබඳව සොයා බැලීම සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව මගින් ස්වාධීන කමිටුවක් පත්කළ යුතු බවය. නමුත් හොරාගේ අම්මාගෙන් පේන අහන සාගර කාරියවසම් කමිටුව මගින් එම අවශ්‍යතාව ඉටුකර ගත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
New research shines a light on Sri Lanka fireflies
Until recently, there had been a significant absence in research on Sri Lanka’s fireflies; previous work was by British scientists a couple hundred years ago, but now a new surge in research has led to new findings in the pipeline for publication. Recent research has led to the rediscovery of Luciola nicolleri, a firefly not seen since its description 100 years ago, and Curtos costipennis, a new discovery in Sri Lanka. Glowworms are the larval stage of fireflies, and folklore has it that once stung by them, treatment would require mud... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/07/23)
Sri Lanka Not Averse To Using Indian Rupee As Common Currency: President
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, also the Sri Lanka's finance minister, made this remark while addressing the Indian CEO Forum this week. Sri Lanka would want to see the Indian Rupee used as much as the US dollar, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said, days ahead of his first official visit to New Delhi. President Wickremesinghe, also the Sri Lanka's finance minister, made this remark while addressing the Indian CEO Forum this week. "Just as East Asia, including countries like Japan, Korea and China, witnessed significant growth 75 years ago, it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/07/23)
1948 ඉංගිරිසීන් දුන් දෑවැද්ද - 2
(පළමු කොටසින්)”ලෝක කම්කරුවෙනි එක්වව්!” නිෂ්කී‍්‍රය කරමින් මහ පොලව තුළ ලෝක ධන කුවේරයන් එක් වී ඇත. ඇමරිකා, කැනඩා, යුරෝපා, ඕස්ටේ‍්‍රලියා නවසීලන්ත, බටහිර ලේ නෑයන් එක් ව ඇත. සියලූ ජාතීන් එකමුතු විය යුතු මිස ලෝකය භේද කොට පාලනය කිරීමේ (ඩිවයිඞ් ඇන්ඞ් රූල්* සහායකයන් විය යුතු නැත. ස්වාධීන, ස්වෛරී රාජ්‍යයක්/රටක් තූළ පුරවැසියන්ට වාර්ගිකව හෝ ආගමිකව ”වෙන්වීමේ” අයිතිය ඇති ලෙස අර්ථ දක්වමින් ”නව ගෝති‍්‍රක යුගයක්” බිහි කිරීමේ තැතට තිත තබා, අධිරාජ්‍ය වියගහෙන් මිදීමට අදාල ව යටත් විජිත රාජ්‍ය වෙනුවෙන් වසර සියයකට පමණ පෙර අඳුන්වා දෙන ලද ”ස්වයංතීරණ අයිතිය” නවීකරණය විය යුතුව ඇත. තෙවෙනි ඉල්ලීමඉංගිරිසි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
නීට්ෂේ විසින් පෙන්වා දුන් බලයට ඇති කැමැත්ත හෙවත් will to power සංකල්පය පිලිබඳව හැඳින්වීම
දාර්ශනික ආතර් ෂොපන්හෝවර් භාවිතා කළ "ජීවත්වීමට ඇති කැමැත්ත (Wille zum Leben / will to live) පිලිබඳ සංකල්පය වෙනුවට ෆ්‍රෙඩ්‍රික් නීට්ෂේ බලයට ඇති කැමැත්ත පිළිබඳ සංකල්පය හඳුන්වා දුන්නේය. බලයට ඇති කැමැත්ත "will to power" මිනිසුන්ගේ ප්‍රධාන ගාමක බලවේගය ලෙස නීට්ෂේ දුටුවේය. ඔහු බලයට ඇති කැමැත්ත පිළිබඳ සංකල්පය මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක, ජීව විද්‍යාත්මක සහ පාරභෞතික මූලධර්මයක් ලෙස විවිධ ලෙස අර්ථකථනය කළේය. බලයට ඇති කැමැත්ත යනු ජය ගැනීමට දරණ අඛණ්ඩ උත්සාහයයි. එයින් නීට්ෂේ අදහස් කරන්නේ තමාට බාධා කරන බාධක ජය ගැනීම සහ තමාව ජය ගැනීමයි. බලය යනු තමන්ගේම ජීවිතයේ ස්වාමියා වීමට ඇති හැකියාවයි. ඔහු කෲරත්වය සඳහා වූ ආශාව බලය පිළිබඳ හැඟීමේ සතුට සමඟද සම්බන්ධ කරයි. නීට්‍ෂේගේ විවේචනාත්මක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Colombo Stock Exchange’s All Share Price Index crosses 10,500-point mark
The All Share Price Index (ASPI) of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) crossed the 10,500-point mark at the end of trading today (14 July). Accordingly, the ASPI gained 103.50 points today, closing at 10,595.02 points. Meanwhile, the day’s turnover was recorded at Rs. 2.70 billion, while the S&P SL20 went up by 60.88 points to close at 3,119.20, marking an increase of 1.99%... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Several electric cables and other parts of Golden Gate Kalyani bridge stolen
Reports have revealed that the lighting system of the ‘Golden Gate Kalyani’ bridge which was declared open in 2021 is no longer in operation, as several electric cables have been hampered with and stolen. Speaking in this regard at a press briefing in Colombo today (14 July), the Director General of the Road Development Authority (RDA) explained that a loss of nearly Rs. 270 million has been incurred as a result. He further raised concerns about several such robberies that have also taken place on the Katunayake, Central and Southern highways, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
President responds to drug shortage, suggests amendment of NMRA Act
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Ministry of Health to expedite the approval process for drugs endorsed by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). The Head of State issued these directives in response to the drug shortage caused by existing procedures, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. Accordingly, the Health Ministry was ordered to expedite the approval process for drugs endorsed by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), and were also asked to look into the possibility of directly ordering FDA- and UK-approved drugs, without going through the existing NMRA process.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
සුනේත්‍රා බණ්ඩාරනායක සිය පියාව පාවා දීම (Betrayal of her father by Miss Sunethra Bandaranayaka)- Part I
“All human progress has depended on ‘new questions’ rather than on ‘new answers’ to the old questions.” Alfred North Whitehead — Science and the Modern World, 1925 Sinhala [language]’s survival as a clearly Indo-Aryan language can be considered a minor miracle of linguistic and cultural history” –James W. Gair, Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and other South Asian languages, 1998, Chapter 14: How Dravidanized was Sinhala phonology? Pages 185-199). (1956 අප්‍රේල් මස මහ මැතිවරණයට පෙර බෙදාහරින ලද මෙම කාටූනය සංකේතවත් කලේ කළු සුද්දන්ගෙන් රට බේරා ගැනීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවයය. 2018 නොවැම්බර්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
The Waterworks of Money (Part 1/2)
Although money plays a key role in our lives, the workings of our monetary system are a mystery to most of us. ‘The Waterworks of Money’ by cartographer Carlijn Kingma is an attempt to demystify the world of big finance. It visualizes the flow of money through our society, its hidden power made manifest. If you see money as water, our monetary system is the irrigation system that waters the economy. The better the flow, the more prosperous society will be. Just as water makes crops thrive, so money sets the economy in motion. Or at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ චීන ආයෝජකයින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ගවේෂණ චාරිකාවක
චීන ව්‍යවසායකයින් විශාල පිරිසක් ක්ෂේත්‍ර රැසක සිදුකළ හැකි ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා 2023.07. 13 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. සංචාරක හා හෝටල් කර්මාන්තය, මැණික් හා ස්වර්ණාභරණ, කෘෂිකර්මය, ඖෂධ, ආහාර සැකසුම්, පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති සහ විනෝදාස්වාද කර්මාන්තය ඇතුළු ක්ෂේත්‍ර රැසක ආයෝජන සඳහා විශාල විභවයක් පවතින බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පැවසීය. සීමාසහිත දගුඕවෙන් කල්චර්(Daguowen Culture Co) හි සභාපති ස්හෑන්ග් කිව්හුවා (Zhang Qihua) පැවසුවේ ජාත්‍යන්තර සංස්කෘතික හුවමාරුව හා ගෝලීය තිරසාර සංවර්ධන ප්‍රවර්ධනය සමඟ තමා කටයුතු කරන බවත් චීනයෙන් මිලියනයකට අධික සංචාරකයින් ආකර්ෂණය කර ගැනීමේ හැකියාව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ඇති බවත්ය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Top Chinese investors on exploratory visit to Sri Lanka
A large group of Chinese entrepreneurs called on Prime minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees today (July 13) to discuss possible investments in many spheres. The Prime Minister said there is vast potential for investments in many fields including tourism and hospitality industry, gem and jewellery, agriculture, medicine, food processing, renewable energy and entertainment industry. Chairman of Daguowen Culture Co., Ltd., Zhang Qihua said he is dealing with international cultural exchange, global sustainable development promotion and Sri Lanka has potential to attract more than million tourists from China. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Reply from MP SARATH WEERASEKERS TO BASL
Bar association’ should be shamed for their one-sided stance with regard to the ongoing debate about the speech done by MP Sarath Weerasekara in the Parliament on 7th July 2023. It is very clear that BA stands for what and aligned with whom. Sure it is not the general opinion of all the members but of a few with vested interests. Below reply given by MP Sarath Weerasekara is self-explanatory… The President, Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Colombo. Dear Sir, This refers to your press release... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
නීතිඥ සංගමයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සරත් වීරසේකරට මානසික බාධක
සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා විසින් ජූලි මස 7 වැනි දා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශයක් පිළිබඳව අදහස් දක්වන නිතිඥ සංගමයේ සභාපති කවුශල්‍ය නවරත්න මහතා සඳහන් කරන්නේ කුරුන්දි විහාර ගැටලුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඒ මහතා වරප්‍රසාද යටතේ අධිකරණයට බලපෑම් කරන බවයි. ඒ මගින් අදාළ ප්‍රශ්නය පිළිබඳව සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා තවදුරටත් කතා කිරීම වැළැක්වීම සඳහා නීතිඥ සංගමය උත්සාහ කරන බවට දේශපාලන විචාරකයෝ අදහස් පළ කරති. නම සඳහන් කිරීමට අකමැති වූ නිතිඥ මහතකු සඳහන් කළේ නිතිඥවරුන් අධිකරණයේ දීම අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීම ගැන නීතිඥ සංගමය කතා නොකරන බවයි. ඒ පිළිබඳව වැඩිදුරටත් විමසීමේ දී ඔහු සඳහන් කළේ මිරිහාන බස් ගිණි තැබීමට අදාළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Kataragama and its multiple meanings
Colombo, July 12: Historically, Sri Lankans have tended, whatever their faith, to tolerate other faiths. Indeed, to some extent every religion on the island has been influenced by the others. This mystical assimilation is reinforced by the existence of a syncretic system of folk belief underlying the major religions, incorporating a gamut of myths and legends drawn from a variety of sources. The existence of such a broad system of folk belief goes beyond the shores of this island and may be found in different... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Symposium raises global awareness about Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage
Islamabad, July 12: The three-day Gandhara Symposium 2023, titled “Cultural Diplomacy: Reviving Gandhara Civilization and Buddhist Heritage in Pakistan”, commenced in Islamabad today. The Symposium has been organized by PM Task Force on Gandhara Tourism; the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISS); and the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Inaugural Session was addressed by the President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, as Chief Guest. Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Minister of State/Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Gandhara Tourism, was the Guest of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
රට නවීකරණය කිරීමට යැයි කියමින් දුරාචාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම ආණ්ඩුවේ අනිවාර්ය අංගයක් වෙලා – ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නීතිඥ කල්‍යානන්ද තිරාණගම
2001 වසරේ සිට 2004 දක්වා පැවැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුතු ආණ්ඩුවේ ‘යළි පුබුදමු ශ්‍රී ලංකා‘ වැඩපිළිවෙල හරහා ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නොහැකි වූ රටට හානිකර සියලු දේ වර්තමානයේ දී ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් සිදුකරමින් සිටින බවත්, එම වැඩපිළිවෙල ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහා ලහිලහියේම අනපණත් ගෙනෙමින් සිටින බවත් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නීතිඥ කල්‍යානන්ද තිරාණගම මහතා පවසයි. අද(13) පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා පැවසුවේ දුරාචාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමද එම වැඩපිළිවෙලේ එක් අංගයක් බවයි. 2001 වසරේදී ගෙනෙන ලද ‘නොනිදන නගර‘ සංකල්පය ද එදා ගෙන ආවේ මෙම දුරාචාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා බවද, එමගින් මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය භාවිතය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමට එදා උත්සාහ කළ බවත්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Dr. Nicholas advises Lanka against swallowing IMF dope
The IMF in 2020 told nations around the world that they should maintain a budget deficit to tackle the effects of COVID-19, however, two years later, the IMF insists that this would lead to chaos, Dr. Howard Nicholas, senior lecturer at Erasmus University – Rotterdam, and International Institute of Social Studies – The Hague told The Island. “Obviously, the IMF is playing a game here. If you look at the past, it is obvious that IMF recommendations have not helped countries like Sri Lanka,” Dr. Nicholas said,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
India urged to prevent racketeers from misusing its credit line to import substandard drugs to Lanka
The Government Medical Officers’ Forum (GMOF) yesterday (13) pointed out that India couldn’t absolve itself of the responsibility for the alleged supply of low quality Indian medicines to Sri Lanka under the USD 1 bn credit line opened over a year ago. GMOF President Dr. Rukshan Bellana said so, referring to the third death due to low quality drugs reported on Wednesday (12) from the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital. “We appreciate the Indian credit line that allowed Sri Lanka to procure a range of urgently needed medicines at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
IMF refutes reports on its advice to digital service tax in Sri Lanka
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has not discussed any plans for a digital services tax with the Sri Lankan authorities in the current program. https://youtu.be/F-ckLAbGKoc In a statement, a spokesperson for the global lender further clarified that it has not provided any recommendation on whether or not Sri Lanka should sign on to the OECD/G20 inclusive framework agreement for international corporate taxation. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)/G20 inclusive framework on BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) over 135 countries and jurisdictions are collaborating... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
Court orders suspension of 95 bank accounts belonging to ONMAX DT pyramid scheme
The bank accounts of six individuals, identified as members of the Board of Directors of ‘ONMAX DT’, a private firm believed to be a pyramid scheme, have been frozen, on orders of the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court. Accordingly, the relevant bank accounts are believed to have deposits amounting to Rs. 790 million, while 95 accounts belonging to the said company have been suspended thus far. Investigations were launched into the firm by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division, based on a complaint received from the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/07/23)
1948 ඉංගිරිසීන් දුන් දෑවැද්ද -1
ලංකා ජාතික සංගමයේ ප‍්‍රධානීන් සිංහලේ (Ceylon/ලංකාවේ පූර්ණ නිදහස සඳහා සටන් කළේ නැත. දැඩිව ඉල්ලීමක් හෝ කළේ නැත. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ප‍්‍රතිසංස්කරණ මගින් පාලන සහායකයන් වීම සඳහා අතොරක් නැතිව ආයාචනා කොට ඇත. දෙවෙනි ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසු, අවරට යමින් සිටි ඉංගිරිසි කොලනිවාදී පාලකයෝ 1948 ඩොමීනියන් තත්වය (අඩ නිදහස) ප්රදානය කළහ. රටේ ජනතාව සම්බන්ධ වගකීමෙන් සහ වගවීමෙන් මිදුනු ඉංගිරිසි කොලනිවාදීන්් (colonialists) රටේ ආර්ථිකය, ආරක්ෂාව සහ විදේශ ප‍්‍රතිපත්තිය පමණක් නොව විධායකය, ව්‍යවස්ථාදායකය සහ අධිකරණය මෙහෙයවීමේ බලය ද අත්හළේ නැත. 1955 වසර අවසානය දක්වා ලෝක වාසීන් ඉදිරියේ ලංකාව ”බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය රූකඩයෙක්” (්a puppet of Britain) හැඳින්වීමෙන්1 සමච්චලයට ලක් විය. බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INVESTIGATING THE PAST CRISIS
It seems perhaps a bit late in the day for the Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa to appoint a committee to look into how Sri Lanka went into bankruptcy and plan to gather information from foreign institutions as a Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB)has indicated to the media. Mr.Premadasa has apparently been awoken from a sudden pang of conscience after he turned down an opportunity when offered the Presidency once where had he accepted perhaps he could have righted many wrongs related to the bankruptcy issue among others and what happened subsequently which was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
Britain Must Face Justice for Crimes in Africa
https://youtu.be/7xXZZAeOOGo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
Are the United States' policies toward Bangladesh flawed?
The United States and Bangladesh have close, long-standing relations that have their roots in history. Friendships between the two countries have grown over the past fifty years, increasing cooperation in fields like economic development, environmental preservation, counterterrorism, democratic government, and human rights defense. However, the recent acts of the US government and President Joe Biden have strained bilateral ties. The strong ties between the US and Bangladesh have experienced considerable turbulence as a result of the United States' poor policy choices. The policy of penalizing RAB people in 2021 signaled the beginning of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
Can a coercive strategy in South Asia be counterproductive for the US?
Recent years have seen a perplexing change in the fundamental attitude of the West, led by the US, towards nations in South Asia. The US periodically exhibits a hostile and indifferent attitude towards this friendly country, despite participating in Security Dialogue and Partnership Dialogue with Bangladesh. Not just in Bangladesh is this true. In the past few years, the United States' attitude to countries like Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, and the Maldives has experienced an intriguing change that has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
Is the current American policy toward Bangladesh mis calculative?
The new US visa policy was introduced before the general elections in May 2023. US Secretary Antony Blinken made a remark that sounded more like a threat from Washington, saying that Bangladeshi people who meddle in the democratic political process would face visa restrictions, which is never within the purview of an outside authority. Following the incident, six members of Congress wrote the US President calling him to take action to secure free and fair elections in Bangladesh. Do these actions follow any diplomatic rules? Someone... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
ගොවි ජනතාව අමතක කර රටේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය ඇති කරන්නට බැහැ. -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ අපනයනය ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් ගොවීන් නගාසිටුවීම සඳහා දේශීය බීජ බෙදා දීම 2023.07.12 දින මීපේ, මාවතගම දී ආරම්භකළ අවස්ථාවේදීය. මෙහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා - මොහොතකට හැරී බැලුවොත් අද කඩා වැටී සිටි තත්ත්වයෙන් රට ගොඩගෙන තිබෙනවා. ඊට ප්‍රධානතම බලවේගය වුණේ ගම්බද ගොවි ජනතාව යි. අපට තිබෙන ඉඩම් වල කොපමණ ප්‍රමාණයක් වගා කරලා නැද්ද කියලා හොයාගන්න. වතු සමාගම් වලට දුන්නට වඩා අපිට දුන්න නං ඉවරයි කියලා ගොවීන්ගෙන් පැමිණිලි තිබෙනවා. ඒ සඳහා භූමිය නිදහස් කිරීමේ අභියෝගය අප හමුවේ තිබෙනවා. අපිට තිබුණු මූලික අර්බුද වලින් රට දුවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
Top stars to attend Mrs.India season 4 in Colombo
Colombo, July 12 (NewsWire) – Ms. India Inc, the esteemed beauty pageant celebrating the essence of womanhood, is all set to unveil its highly anticipated Season 4. This year promises to be a truly remarkable and international affair, as the grand finale will take place in the captivating island nation of Sri Lanka. It will be the first time in the history of Mrs. India Inc that the prestigious event will be held on an international stage. With an impressive participation of 75 contestants from various parts of India and across the globe, Season... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/07/23)
Sri Lanka Railways: Trains that drain the Treasury
Colombo, July 12: An enduring feature of tourism in Sri Lanka has been the Westerners’ fascination with the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR). Foreigners go into raptures over SLR’s old-world carriages, its quaint British-era stations and its scenic routes. The journey into the past, which is what a journey on SLR is, kindles nostalgia among seniors and is an altogether new experience for young backpackers. Indeed, there is much that is charming about the SLR. But it also has glaring flaws, that might lead to irredeemable decay if not corrected now. Currently, the SLR... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
President deplores burning of Quran in Sweden, urges West to respect Global South’s values
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has deplored the burning of the Holy Quran outside a mosque in Sweden amidst Eid al-Adha celebrations two weeks ago, deeming it “a violation of the freedom of worship”. On June 28, an Iraqi named Salwan Momika, who is said to be living in Sweden, set fire to a copy of Islam’s sacred text outside the central mosque in Stockholm, sparking anger among Muslims across the world. https://youtu.be/8fcJHwQ0Vbk Swedish police had initially granted permission for the protest to take place, but the demonstrator was later... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
Shame on you Sri Lanka: LTTE Terrorists commemorate their dead but victims of LTTE are not
Every July & November terrorists contest for the best drama award. This year’s theme has been to open a former LTTE “welfare” office in Vavuniya and use that to commemorate dead terrorists. Whether these are “former rehabilitated terrorists” or terrorists that ran away, sought asylum/refugee status and have now returned, I something for state intel to investigate. If they are “rehabilitated”and claim to be “former LTTE”, then they cannot be lighting candles for LTTE leaders – Anton Balasingham, Thamilselvan, Sivakumar, Thileepan – what a pity they forgot to put Prabakaran’s photo too.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
Asianization Set to Dominate the West in a Generation
The West is in a death spiral. Unable to sustain demographic, military and economic dominance over the rest of the world, the West has resorted to beef up its population with the help of Asians and Africans. A massive push to bring millions of Asians and Africans is underway in many Western nations. Although it is a temporary fix to economic, ageing population and military challenges, it comes with many costs to the West. The most pressing is its impact on climate change. Carbon emissions are set to rise exponentially in the West as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
US Envoy Threatens & Bribes Sri Lanka Telecom EDUCATION POLICY FDI is the key to come out of the mess we are in ආයුර්වේද පනත ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි බවට ගොනුකළ පෙත්සම විභාගයට ඉන්දියාවේ මැද පෙරදිග උපායමාර්ගය: එක්සත් ජනපදයේ අභිලාශයන් නොමඟ යවන්නේද? Abuse of Western freedom of speech and naked dualism towards Muslims must be stopped India to ensure that Wickremesinghe’s visit to New Delhi is a “huge success” Reviving Gandhara civilization and the Buddhist heritage in Pakistan Sri Lankans Struggling as Country Caps Turbulent Year Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality in Sri Lanka New university to produce only teachers: Minister Cabinet nod to appoint IFC for divestiture of three SOEs including SriLankan Can today’s youth match the bravery of Capt Saliya Upul Aladeniya in Kokavil July 1990 INTERNATIONALISATION OF INDIAN RUPEE: INDIA NEEDS TO ORGANISE A CONFERENCE කොක්කුතුඩුවායි සමූහ මිනී වළේ ඇත්ත එළියට – දෙමළ දේශපාලකයින්ගේ බොරුව අතේ පත්තු වෙයි කෘතීම මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය නිවාරණය සම්බන්ද ජාතන්තර සමුළුව. Soldier who saved lives by preventing Kandy- Mahiyangana bus accident commended Muslim Ummah needs unity for the protection of their religion and its sanctity IGP service extension: GL wants CC to intervene for permanent appointment Western safe havens for Sikh and Tiger terrorists Rootin’ for Putin The Collapse of the West, Spring/Summer 2023 AHMADI MUSLIMS UNDER THREAT OF IMPRISONMENT FOR CELEBRATING EID-UL-ADHA (HAJJ FESTIVAL) IN PAKISTAN President asks Tiran to decide on IGP post. CBSL governor says more rate cuts needed for economy to ‘bounce back’ Spotlight on potential BRICS currency as pushback against US dollar grows Thai royal family honours Sri Lankan caretaker of tusker ‘Muthu Raja’ Tamil Buddhist ලු The truth about Sinhalese ambassadors to the court of Roman emperor Claudius in the first century BCE අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියෝ බල්ලා නිසා දිවි ගලවාගත් හැටි පවසති කාදිනල්තුමෙකුගේ විප්ලවය (Revolt of a Cardinal) Jenin Massacre: never ending torture to Palestinian Muslims අවුරුදු සියයකට ආසන්න පැරණි කම්කරු නීති වෙනුවට නූතන වැඩ ලෝකයට ගැලපෙන කම්කරු නීතියක් Draft Animal Welfare Act of 2022 - We seek an Urgent Meeting with You -An Open Letter Hon. Mr. Udaya Gammanpila Does burning destroy the Quran? - Never Netherlands to return nearly 500 looted objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka "You Saved Us": Lanka Speaker Thanks India For Providing Aid Amid Crisis Sri Lankan central bank expects inflation to drop to 7pc in July Sri Lank's one final opportunity to rescue itself from a cycle of economic shocks that stretches back decades. President confident tourism sector will be major contributor to country’s forex earnings Govt to address critical concerns in country’s health sector India to allow Sri Lanka to repay debt over 12 years The Cost of “People’s Riots” – Role of social media in Sri Lanka & France & double standards in commentary TO PRESIDENT WICKRAMASINGHA 53 years of harmony: India's world record in granting visas to Bangladeshis ලුම්බිණිය වෙත ඍජු ගුවන් ගමන් හඳුන්වා දෙන ලෙස නේපාල‍යෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්... නූතන වැඩ ලෝකයට ගැලපෙන කම්කරු නීතියක් - අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස් Novel finding about CKDu in Sri Lanka: Joe Biden blocked UK from leading Nato in REVENGE for Britain helping Ukraine මෝඩාභිමානයේ නතාෂා විෂාදය රෝගයෙන් පෙළිලා…අධිකරණයේ දී හෙළිවෙයි Malwana mansion a State property now: Wijeyadasa Second reading of Anti Corruption Bill passed CB urges banks to bring down interest rates or face consequences Central Bank further reduces policy interest rates EPF/ETF funds safe due to Domestic Debt Optimization – Sri Lanka Banks’ Association ගෝල්ෆේස් ඊනියා අරගලයේ ඇතුළාන්තය ගැන සේන තෝරදෙනිය ගෙන් සුවිශේෂී හෙළිදරව්වක් (වීඩියෝ) Taking the lid off the Golden Bowl රජයේ විභාග වල ලකුණු වෙනස් කරන්න ඇමතිතුමාට බැහැ. එක ලෙස භාෂාව උච්චාරණය කිරීමේ කාල පරිච්ඡේදයකට අප පැමිණෙමින් සිටිනවා. -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පළාත් පාලන ආයතනවල සේවකයින් ක්‍රමයෙන් ස්ථිර කරනවා- අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා Comment on 51st Session of UNHRC: Time for course correction What is neoliberalism? How the 'Washington consensus' was imposed on the world ජනාධිපති, සජිත්ව කැදවයි.. ලොකු බලයක් දෙන බව කියයි.. ජනාධිපති වෙන්නත් පාර කියයි… නතාෂා සිය දිවි නසා ගන්න ගිහින්.. 2017 වසරේ සිට විශාදිය නම් රෝගී තත්වයට ප්‍රතිකාර ලබා ගනිමින් සිටියි-අද ඇප ලැබෙයි.. Belgian Govt. to provide European technology to develop SL’s ports Sri Lanka to revive scrapped Japan-funded LRT project Sri Lanka stock market continues upward momentum Free Education. ප්‍රංශ විප්ලවය හා නුතන කැරැල්ල ශ්‍රී ලංකා- ට්‍රිනීඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ද්ව්පාර්ශවික සහයෝගිතාව විධිමත් කිරීමට පියවර එයාර් සීෂෙල්ස් සෘජු ගුවන් ගමන් කොළඹට හඳුන්වාදීම තුළින් සංචාරක පැමිණීමේ ශීඝ්‍ර වර්ධනයක් ඇති කරනවා.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා A FORETOLD. Sri Lanka launch program to gauge resistance of buildings against earth tremors Air China Eyes Multiple International Route Resumptions From Chengdu Killer black market drugs: dead and blind in Sri Lankan hospitals Brain and Language NGOs trying to do away with elephants from Perahera culture: Asgiriya Chapter Sri Lanka’s domestic debt plan a significant step for resolving bank uncertainty - Fitch. Ceylon Petroleum Corporation repaid all loans, is on path to becoming financially stable - Minister The Colombo Stock Exchange shows significant performance as All-Share Price Index (ASPI) gains over 633 points COULD THE EXTERNAL VALUE OF THE SRI LANKA RUPEE BE IMPROVED BY INFLUENCING PROCESS OF THE DE-DOLLARIZATION- A CRITICAL ANALYSIS Bitcoins යනු බොහෝ විට cryptocurrency ලෙස හඳුන්වන ඩිජිටල් මුදල් වර්ගයකි Bit of Bitcoins Facts ආගම් පිළිබඳව නීට්‍ෂේගේ ස්ථාවරය China to stay out of official creditors’ platform, but Sri Lanka ‘very confident’ of bilateral support President Ranil Wickremesinghe urges Sajith Premadasa to prioritize national interests over politics Sneak attacks on Buddha Sasana BUDDHIST VIHARAS AND EELAM Part 3A. Aragala means Business? IMF Scams EPF! ලංකාවේ ලොකුම වැට් බදු වංචාවට හොර හැදුනුම්පත් හදපු system එක මෙන්න. Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World by Asoka Bandarage Remembering George Turnour as UNESCO includes Mahawamsa in its heritage list Thailand airlifts 'gifted' elephant from Sri Lanka amid spat over mistreating jumbo Dr. Aurangasri Hinriksson : Brave Lankan lady knighted for her battle against baby farm racket Ex-President released Jude Shramantha under due process of law: Counsel මුතුරාජා ට තායිලන්තයේ දී උණුසුම් පිළිගැනීමක් Team of NASA scientists in Sri Lanka for research MoU to be signed for direct flights between Sri Lanka and Israel No union leader or officers submitted asset liability statements: Labour Ministry How the IMF took our leaders for a ride: What can be done today. New role for India in ICC administered Cricket America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire Discrimination & Oppression by Tamils - Suffered by an engineer at Kankesan Cement Works (KCW). "Seychellois love coming to Sri Lanka": Air Seychelles starts twice-weekly flights to Colombo Inflation eases sharply in bankrupt Sri Lanka Rajapaksa clan absent during DDR vote Proposed domestic debt optimization strategy passed in Parliament Mercenary mayhem: Putin emerges as a Machiavellian Prince
‘When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc, Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waist of America…’ – Pablo Neruda, Document (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
Sri Lanka does not possess an abundance of physical resources for large-scale industrial development but is blessed with ample human resources. It is on this comparative advantage that the country has to develop its economy. Education is the driving force with which the optimal benefit could be derived from this rare advantage and is the key to developing competitiveness and excellence. High-performing countries in the Far East considered relevant education as the foundation of economic development and social advancement. They focused on developing human capital in science and technology and vocational skills as they are pivotal... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
I remember the times of RP when garment factories were built in rural areas The progress of each factory was monitored by the president himself with a few super secretaries. Ministers were given marching orders if things go wrong There was an incident when an Investor who was waiting to get a power supply to his factory complained about the delays during the progress meeting, President was looking for the CEB chairman who was absent He was contacted over the phone by RP and firmly told him that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/07/23)
අමාත්‍ය සුසිල් ප්‍රේම්ජයන්ත් මහතා විසින් පසුගිය 5 වැනිදා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ ආයුර්වේද පනත් කෙටුම්පත ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි බවට නිගමනය කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා පාරම්පරික ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍ය බී.ඒ. රත්නපාල මහතා විසින් ගොනුකළ විශේෂ පෙත්සම ලබන 19 වැනිදා එස්. තුරෙයිරාජා, යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ සහ ජනක් ද සිල්වා යන මහත්වරුන්ගෙන් සමන්විත ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ ත්‍රිපුද්ගල විනිසුරු මඩුල්ල හමුවේ කැඳවීමට දින නියම කර තිබේ.ආයුර්වේද විෂය ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් පළාත් සභාවලට අයත් විෂයයක් වන නමුත් පළාත් සභාවල නිසි අනුමැතියකින් තොරව එම පනත් කෙටුම්පත ඉදිරිපත් කොට ඇති බවත් එමගින් ප්‍රධාන කොට ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 154.උ.3 ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනිව ආයුර්වේද, සිද්ධ, යුනානි සහ ඔසු උයන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදිගේ මෑත කාලීන කයිරෝ සංචාරයේ ආලෝක රශ්මිය උපයෝග කර ගනිමින් ඉන්දියාව මැදපෙරදිග කළාපයේ ඉටුකරන භූමිකාව ඉහළ නංවන විට, ඊජිප්තුව සමඟ සබඳතා පුළුල් කරන විට, ඊශ්‍රායලය සහ ගල්ෆ් කලාපයේ අරාබි රටවල් මෙන්ම තුර්කිය සහ ඉරානය සමඟ සහයෝගීතාව තීව්‍ර කරන කරන විට, සාම්ප්‍රදායිකව කලාපයේ ප්‍රමුඛ බලවතා වන එක්සත් ජනපදය ඉන්දියාවේ උපායමාර්ගය සමීපව නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීම පුදුමයට කාරණයක් නොවේ. RT වෙබ් අඩවිය ප්‍රමුඛ විදේශ ප්‍රතිපත්ති විශේෂඥයින් සහ හිටපු රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රිකයින් වෙත ළඟා වූයේ මැද පෙරදිග කලාපය සමඟ ඉන්දියාවේ සම්බන්ධය ගැන කිරා බැලීම සඳහා ය. ඇමරිකාවේ විදේශ ප්‍රතිපත්ති සඟරාවේ මෑතකදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
An Iraqi refugee named Salwan Momika publicly burned the Quran in front of the central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden, on the last Eid al-Adha. A few days ago, an anti-immigration and anti-Islam extremist organization called Stram Kurs burned the Quran in Malamo, Sweden. This heinous act was led by a fanatic named Rasmus Paludan. This hard right-wing organization has announced to burn the Quran in the future as well. We strongly condemn this reprehensible act in the name of freedom of expression. Demonstrators are protesting on the streets of Muslim countries in protest against this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Colombo, July 11: The Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra who is on a short visit to Sri Lanka in preparation for the forthcoming visit of the Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to India, told the media here on Tuesday, that Wckremesinghe’s visit will be a “huge success.” The Lankan President is assured of a “very warm welcome” in New Delhi, Kwatra said Wickremesinghe is a “well-known leader and a very strong supporter of the relationship,” the Indian Foreign Secretary said and added: “We have worked and cooperated very well in the last... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Gandhara Art Islamabad, July 11: A three-day Gandhara Symposium 2023, titled “Cultural Diplomacy: Reviving Gandhara Civilization and Buddhist Heritage in Pakistan”, is being held in Islamabad from July 11 to 13. The Symposium’s organizers include PM Task Force on Gandhara Tourism; the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI); and the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Over the next three days, the Gandhara Symposium will have an Inaugural and Concluding Session; four Sessions focused on Gandhara Civilization and Buddhist Heritage in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Record-high three in four struggling to afford food Record-low 33% see economy getting better Confidence in government drops to 37% WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As Sri Lanka passes the one-year anniversary of massive civil unrest that toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Gallup surveys show a nation still in crisis for the reasons that led it to that point last July: A record-high three in four (76%) Sri Lankans report struggling to afford food, while their confidence in the political system has never been lower. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Activist Hyshyama Hamin explains how Sri Lankans’ personal stories intersect with global movements. On a humid morning in June 2006, a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, buzzed with the activities of my nikah (Islamic marriage) ceremony. The men, I imagine, were huddled together around the marriage documents, with the local imam explaining the duties of the husband and wife. I can only assume this – because I wasn’t there. The ceremony and the men did not require my presence. I was, instead, at home, dusting a shelf in an attempt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Teachers will not be recruited for a three-year teaching diploma course at National Colleges of Education (NIE) in the future, but they will be assigned to a university established to produce teachers for a four-year degree, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said. While participating in a programme to educate the principals on the development of education quality in the North-Western Province today (11) at the Sudesha Theater in Chillaw, he said all the 19 NIEs in existence now will be converted into a teacher training university and related faculties in the future. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has been appointed for the divestiture of three state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (10 July) approved the appointment of IFC for the divestiture of Sri Lankan Airlines Limited, Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC and Sri Lanka Telecom PLC. Meanwhile, the appointment of advisors for the remaining 4 entities, namely Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Ltd (SLIC), Hotel Developers Lanka Ltd (Hilton), Canwill Holdings (Pvt) Ltd (Hyatt) and Litro Gas (Pvt) Ltd (Litro, including Litro Gas Terminals (Pvt)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
The name Captain Upul Aladeniya is possibly unknown to most, particularly so, because the State & the Education system make no effort to glorify our national war heroes. This year he would have turned 60 but he died a soldiers death on 11th July 1990 in Kokavil at the age of just 26 years. We not only rekindle that bravery but the lessons we need to learn from them. He was also the 1st recipient of the nation’s highest award of “Parama Weera Vibhushana” that only 23 others have been recipient since 1981. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
When critically evaluate international critique on the operation of hard currencies of the world, many experts concern about different opinions to change the injustice that are incurring many of the countries. It needs dividing the international financial system into regions. Indian region should use Indian rupee as an international reserve currency and it will give justice to the high populated country. Asia is a large of the planet and the best option is maintaining two reserve currencies in the Asian region such as Indian rupee and Chinese Yuan. Since the Briton-Wood agreement, which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
මුලතිව් කොක්කුතුඩුවායි සමූහ මිනී වලේ වළ දමා ඇත්තේ එල්.ටී.ටී. ඊ. වධකාගාරයකින් මරා දමන ලද කොටි සෙබළියන් පිරිසකගේ මළ සිරුරු බවට තොරතුරු අනාවරණය වී තිබේ.මෙම සමූහ මිනී වලේ කැණීම් කටයුතු සිදු කරගෙන යන පිරිසට සමූහ මිනී වලේ තිබී බෝම්බ හා පතරොම් කීපයක් 8 දා හමු වී ඇත.යුද්ධයේ අවසන් කාලයට ඉතා ආසන්න කාලයේ මෙම සමූහ මිනී වලේ දමා ඇත්තේ කොටි වධකාගාරයකින් මරා දමන ලද කොටි සෙබළියන් බවට තොරතුරු අනාවරණය වන අතර දෙමළ දේශපාලනඥයින් මෙම සමූහ මිනී වලේ වළ දමා ඇත්තේ යුද හමුදාවෙන් ඝාතනය කරන ලද කොටි සෙබළියන්ගේ මළ සිරුරු බව ජාත්‍යන්තරයට පෙන්වීමට විශාල උත්සහයක් දරමින් සිටිති. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුවේ මූලිකත්වයෙන්,ඇමෙරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදයේ රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් ඇන්ටනී බ්ලින්කන් මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් කෘතීම මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය නිවාරණය පිළිබඳ ජාත්‍යන්තර සමුළුවක් 2023 ජුලි 7වෙනි දින zoom තාක්ෂනය ඔස්සේ පවත්වන ලදී. ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය,එක්සත් රාජධානිය,ඊශ්‍රායලය,ජර්මනිය,ඉතාලිය, ආජන්ටිනාව, බෙල්ජියම, කැනඩාව,ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව, දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව, කොරියාව ඇතුළු රටවල් විශාල සංඛ්‍යාවක විෂය භාර අමාත්‍යවරුන් සහ රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික නිලධාරීන් මෙම සමුළුවට සහභාගි වූ අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා ද සහභාගි විය. කෘතීම මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය නිෂ්පාදනය සහ බෙදා හැරීම මර්දනය කිරීමට ලොව සියලු රටවල් එක්ව කටයුතු කළ යුතුය යන සංකල්පය ඔස්සේ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුතියකට එළඹීම මෙහි අරමුණ විය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena praised corporal B.R.K.L Karunaratne of the Sri Lankan Infantry who intervened and prevented a major accident of a bus, which could have which falling into a cliff while traveling from Kandy to Mahiyangana. The soldier’s quick action prevented the accident and saved the lives of more than fifty passengers of the bus.When the bus was traveling via Ududumbara on 26.05.2023, the driver was thrown out of the driver's seat and the bus was running without the driver for about fifty meters. At that time, the army corporal who was traveling... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
The burning of the Qur’an in Sweden has sharply heightened tensions throughout the world with Turkey at its forefront aggressive approach, expressing its strict condemnation over this unethical and heinous act against the holy Quran. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on our holy book. Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of freedom of expression is completely unacceptable,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. At least this kind of statement must be given by every Muslim and should take necessary actions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/07/23)
Claims repeated extension tantamount to improper use of Exec. powers Claiming that the continuous extension of the service of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana D. Wickramaratne, who was scheduled to retire in March 2023, amounts to an improper use of Executive power in a way that is harmful to the public, Opposition Parliamentarian Prof. G.L. Peiris said. He further reiterated that the Constitutional Council (CC) should make a direct intervention to make a permanent appointment for the post of the IGP. Wickramaratne, whose initial service extension expired on 26... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/23)
More than three decades have passed since the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh Khalistan terrorists in October 1984 in New Delhi and her son Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991 in Tamil Nadu and President Ranasinghe Premadasa in May 1993 in Colombo by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorists. Although terrorist groups were banned by Western countries, the Khalistani and LTTE terrorists continue their bloody violent activities in those countries claiming that they are human... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/07/23)
Following in the footsteps of her illustrious predecessor Josef Goebbels, Mrs. Ursula Von der Leyen, unelected president of the “Fourth Reich” has imposed censorship. In the endless wisdom of her little brain, Mrs. Von der Leyen has decided that the inhabitants of the EU who survived or escaped the covid death jabs she tried to force on them with her Pfizer cronies are not to be exposed to Russian propaganda. For their own good, of course, because that is what autocrats always brandish as the main justification for imposing censorship. “We decide... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
No longer is it a matter of speculation whether or not the “West” is in free fall. It clearly is, and it is clearly intentional. The Great Covid Show, brought to you by the usual suspects, seems to have created the right conditions for the “Great Reset.” There were some hiccups, because an operation so vast and all-encompassing as the Great Covid Show was beyond the technical and intellectual capabilities of the US neocons and their foreign cronies, including the WEF, the WHO and the EU. The Russian Special Military... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
According to the latest information received by U.K. based IHRC, at least six Ahmadi Muslims have been arrested and five First Information Reports (FIRs) have been registered in Punjab, Pakistan against Ahmadi Muslims for sacrificing animals on Eid-ul-Azha (Hajj Festival). Eid Festivals are times of family get-togethers and rejoicing but Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan are being fiercely persecuted for offering animal sacrifices, and this year (2023) were even barred from offering Eid prayers which is a basic tenet of their religious faith. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed Public Security Minister Tiran Alles to take the final decision on the appointment of the new IGP, informed sources said. Accordingly, the Minister has been instructed to decide whether to appoint an acting IGP or to grant another extension for former IGP C.D. Wickramaratne. Sources further noted that a special meeting has been convened by President Wickremesinghe with the subject Minister tomorrow (09). It is highly likely that a final decision on the matter will be taken during this meeting. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
Debt-ridden Sri Lanka may need to cut interest rates again to further boost growth in its economy, according to the head of its central bank. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, told CNBC Friday that there will be more rate cuts to come, even after the central bank lowered its policy rate for a second consecutive month from 12% to 11% on Thursday. Asked if additional rate cuts will be needed, the governor answered: “Of course.” He pointed to falling inflation rates in the Sri Lankan economy.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
The de-dollarisation, the movement to reduce other countries’ reliance on the greenback, among the emerging economies of the BRICS economic group is yet to reach a ‘common currency’ breakthrough. The de-dollarisation movement, however, is currently morphing into a growing number of countries ditching the dollar and choosing to trade in their own currencies instead. But despite an official clarification, the Russian embassy in Kenya said in a tweet, “The BRICS countries are planning to introduce a new trading currency, which will be backed by gold.” Earlier this week, however, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand have bestowed an honour upon Don Upul Jayarathna Denelpitiyage, a Sri Lankan mahout, in recognition of his unyielding care for the recuperating Thai elephant, Sak Surin (also known as ‘Muthu Raja’), foreign media reported. The elephant is currently in 30-day quarantine in Lampang province of Thailand, following his flight from Sri Lanka on 02 July. Thai Air Marshal Pakdee Saengchuto, serving as the King’s deputy private secretary, represented the royals on Thursday as he presented a gift to Denelpitiyage, who originally hails from Dehiwala... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
If anyone is a Tamil Buddhist they should be PROTECTING THE BUDDHIST HERITAGE SITES NOT VANDALIZING THEM?Everyone must understand that this new strategy & tactic is because all their previous lies have fallen flat 40,000 genocide lie cannot be proved homeland history cannot be proved separate independent kingdom existing cannot be proved all the above were created to advance their quest for a separate state - now they have plucked out a new lie - claiming to be TAMIL BUDDHISTS to demand ownership of the Buddhist... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
At the conclusion of a thoughtful feature article under the title ‘A new identity for Sri Lanka’ in the Sunday Island of June 25, 2023, Uditha Devapriya, a young journalist that I admire for the quality of his writing, refers to what he calls a minority view that he shares about Sri Lanka's contemporary culture. It is that contemporary Sri Lankan culture is ‘derivative and predicable’. To be frank, his concept of culture is not clear to me, nor what he exactly means by the phrase ‘derivative and predicable’. But in the same breath... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
රාත්‍රීයේ ආරක්ෂාවට සිටි පොලිස් සැරයන්වරයා පරුෂ වචනයෙන් බැන වදිමින් තමන්ට වෙඩි තියන්නට සුදානම්වු බවත් පන්සලේ සිටි බල්ලා නිසා දිවි ගලවා ගත් බවත් මඩකලපුව මංගලාරාමාධිපති අම්පිටියේ සුමනරතන හිමියෝ පැවසුහ. ඒ සම්බන්ධව වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් උන්වහස්සේ මෙසේද පැවසූහ.මම මේ දිනවල ඉන්නේ කෙවිලියාමඩුව පන්සල්ගල අභිනවාරාම පුදබිමේ. මිට මාස ගණනකට පෙර මට කිසියම් පුදගලයෙක් වෙඩි තැබිම නිසා මේ වන රාත්‍රී කාලයේ පොලිසියෙන් ආරක්ෂාවට දෙදෙනෙක් එවනු ලබනවා. ඉකුත් හතර වැනිදා මම රාත්‍රී 12ට පමණ බෝධිය අසළ විදුලි පහන් නිවන්න ආවා. ඒ වෙලේ බෝ මඵව පිටු පසින් ගොරවන ශබ්දයක් ඇසුනා . මම ඒ දෙසට යද්දී සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
සුද්දන් ලංකාවට කල විනාශය, රට සූරාකෑම ගැන මැල්කම් රංජිත් කාදිනල්තුමා විසින් වතුකම්කරුවන් ලංකාවට ගෙනත් අවුරුදු 200 පිරීමේ සැමරීමකදී කල කතාව දැක මෙම සටහන ලිවීමට සිතුණි (Sri Lanka SEDEC, Lifetraveler.lk). ක්‍රිස්තියානි, මාක්ස්වාදී රාවයේ වික්ටර් අයිවන්ට, පන්සලේ විප්ලවය යන නමින් පොතක් ලියා (2006) සංඝ සමාජයට උපදෙස් දෙන්නට පුළුවන් නම්, හුදෙක් සිංහල පාඨකයින්ගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහාම, කාදිනල්තුමාගේ කතාවට ඔහු සඳහන් නොකල ඉතිහාසය එකතු කිරීම යෝග්‍යයයි මට සිතේ. සුද්දන් ලංකාවට මුලින්ම ආවේ පරංගින් ලෙස 1505 දීය. 1551 දී පෘතුගීසීන් කෝට්ටේ රාජධානීයේ ක්‍රිස්තියානි රජු ලෙස දොන් ජුවන් ධර්මපාලව පත්කර ගත්තේය. ඉන්පසු මුලින්ම කලේ කෝට්ටේ රජමහාවිහාර ඉඩමේ පල්ලියක් ඉදිකිරීමය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
‘COMPLAINING to Iqbal: Dialogue with the Dead’ (also titled ‘SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’) is a poem written by the late Malaysian poet and public intellectual Mohd Kamal Hassan (1942–2023). Inspired by his trip to Spain, the poem provides a concise account of the pitfalls of the international order that he calls ‘the New World Disorder.’ It talks about the predicaments of various global communities — including the Palestinians — over the years leading to the poem’s publication in 2002. In respect of the question of Palestine, Kamal Hassan uses the literary device of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
දවස් 180ක් වැඩ කළත් පාරිතෝශික දීමනාවට හිමිකම්සේවා ස්ථානයේ ලිංගික හිංසනය වැලැක්වීමට ප්‍රතිපාදනසේවකයින්ගේ කැමැත්ත මත නම්‍යශීලී වැඩ කරන වේලාවන්අර්ධකාලීන රැකියා සදහා අවස්ථාපීතෘ නිවාඩු සදහා අවස්ථාවජාතික වේතන කවුන්සිලයක්ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුතීන් අපරානුමත කිරීමට ප්‍රතිපාදනඅවුරුදු සියයකට ආසන්න පැරණි කම්කරු නීති සංශෝධනය කරමින් නූතන වැඩ ලෝකයට ගැලපෙන ආකාරයට සේවා නියුක්ති පනත ගෙන එන බවත්, එමගින් පීතෘ නිවාඩු ලබාදීම, දිද 180ක් සේවය කළත් පාරිතෝශික දීමනාවන්ට හිමිකම්කීම වැනි අවස්ථාවන් විවෘත කරන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය.සේවා නියුක්ති පනත් කෙටුම්පත සකස් කිරීමට ආදාල දළ කෙටුම්පත කම්කරු උපදේශක සභාවට ඊයේ (06) දින ඉදිරිපත් කළ අතර ඉන් පසුව මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් දක්වමින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
6th July 2023 -- An Open Letter Hon. Mr. Udaya Gammanpila, MP Dear Sir Draft Animal Welfare Act of 2022 - We seek an Urgent Meeting with You 1. We write this letter of protest objecting to the arbitrary manner in which you have proceeded to select and interact with a set of Animal Welfarists/Rights Groups and People, (except for one who was nominated by HE the President), which are not at all representative of the wider Animal Rights/Animal Welfare movement of Sri Lanka,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
The Holy Quran was burned last Wednesday in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm, Sweden. The day was Eid-ul-Azha. Such atrocities have been committed in the name of freedom of expression. The act of burning the Quran was carried out under the security of the Swedish police. The OIC has called an emergency executive committee meeting in Jeddah next week to discuss the consequences of burning the Quran. A spokesperson said, the meeting will discuss what can be done against this heinous act. The burning of the Quran in Sweden has caused widespread outrage in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
The Dutch government is returning 478 objects looted during colonial times to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Following multiple claims from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria, the Dutch Secretary of State for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu announced the decision Thursday to repatriate objects including the “Lombok treasure,” consisting of 335 objects from Lombok, Indonesia, the Pita Maha collection, a key collection of modern art from Bali and the 18th-century Cannon of Kandy, a ceremonial weapon from Sri Lanka made of bronze, silver and gold and inlaid with rubies. “This is a historic moment,” Uslu said in a press statement. “It’s the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
Sri Lanka was hit by a catastrophic financial crisis in 2022, the worst since its independence from Britain in 1948, due to a severe paucity of foreign exchange reserves. Colombo: Describing New Delhi as a "close associate" and a "trustworthy friend" of Colombo, Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Friday thanked India for the financial assistance it extended to the island nation when it reeled under an unprecedented economic crisis last year. Sri Lanka was hit by a catastrophic financial crisis in 2022, the worst since its independence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
Sri Lankan inflation will drop to 7 percent in July, an official of the country’s central bank told journalists in Colombo on Thursday. The central bank’s Director of Economic Research P. K. G. Harischandra, while addressing a press conference, said the headline inflation will stabilize around mid-single-digit level in the medium term. Harischandra said that the core inflation for June was reported at 9.8 percent and this is the first time inflation has gone below 10 percent in a few years. In September 2022, Sri Lanka’s headline, core, food... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
The man charged with clawing Sri Lanka out of bankruptcy says he had warned about economic calamity years before it hit -- and was pressed into retirement for his troubles. Central bank chief Nandalal Weerasinghe was asked to return to the island nation last year to help steer it through a financial collapse that triggered months of food shortages, petrol queues, and nightly blackouts. The 63-year-old says his mandate coincides with Sri Lanka's one final opportunity to rescue itself from a cycle of economic shocks that stretches back decades. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/07/23)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his belief that Sri Lanka’ tourism industry would significantly contribute to the country’s foreign exchange earnings in the coming decade. Speaking at the “Transcending Borders – Transforming Lives” program organized by the Indian Tourism Federation at the Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH) in Colombo on Thursday (06 July), the President highlighted that comprehensive plans have already been formulated to enhance Sri Lanka’s appeal as a tourist destination and stressed that promoting tourism could lead to an increase in per capita income. President Wickremesinghe also emphasized the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
A special meeting was convened at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon (07 July), under the patronage of Sagala Ratnayaka, Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of the Presidential Staff, with the aim of swiftly resolving issues plaguing the health sector. Accordingly, concerns pertaining to the shortage of medicines and medical equipment, the quality of medicines, and challenges in the procurement process, were discussed at the meeting, for which Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella, President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
India plans to allow Sri Lanka up to 12 years to repay its debt to help ease the financial burden on the island nation, India’s Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) Ltd’s chairman-cum-managing director M. Senthilnathan said. Sri Lanka, facing its worst economic and political crisis in over seven decades, owes $7.1 billion to bilateral creditors— $3 billion owed to China, $2.4 billion to the Paris Club and $1.6 billion to India. “Sri Lanka’s negotiations with the IMF are going on. After that restructuring package will come, we will recover [our] money over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
In France, a teenager is accused of being killed by French police. Yet, can riots, burning vehicles, stealing goods, burning libraries, damaging public property bring justice? In 2022, Sri Lanka experienced shortages in essential goods that other nations also went through but the reaction was to illegally occupy state land, cause mayhem, damage, steal & burn property while chasing out an elected leader & allowing an unelected leader to take the helm. How did this become the solution? When essential goods suddenly became available, it does raise questions of whether the “scarcity”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
Dear Hon. President Ranil Wickramasinghe, Highly appreciate you restoring Law and order in Sri Lanka and your wise appointment of a great PM Hon. Dinesh Gunawardane. You better have educated and patriotic advisors without having your party henchmen. Think about Sri Lanka first. You helped LTTE merely because you were afraid of your life and wanted to become the president with LTTE help. By sacrificing his position and without massacring own Sri Lankans ex-President and who spearheaded the victory over heinous and most brutal terrorist organization with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have built a new history of bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh. Both countries have undertaken a number of successful programs for the development of their countrymen. India granted a record number of visas last year in compliance with Bangladesh's long-standing demand. Appropriate infrastructure for issuing more visas is being developed in Bangladesh. The top leadership of both countries understood that we complement each other. Development is not possible without neighbors. Therefore, Bangladesh Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader rightly said, "Bangladesh... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානයක් වන ලුම්බිණිය වෙත පැමිණෙන බැතිමතුන්ට පහසුකම් සැලසීම සඳහා බෞද්ධ රටවල් විසින් ලුම්බිණි ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළට ඍජු ගුවන් ගමන් හඳුන්වා දිය යුතු බව නේපාලයේ හිටපු අගමැති සහ නේපාල කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂ සභාපති වන මාධව් කුමාර් නේපාල් මහතා පැවසුවේය. කත්මණ්ඩු සිට කොළඹ දක්වා සෘජු ගුවන් ගමන් දැනටමත් ක්‍රියාත්මක වන අතර ශ්‍රී ලංකා බලධාරීන්ට එය ලුම්බිණියේ සිට කොළඹ දක්වා දීර්ඝ කළ හැකි බවත් එමගින් බුදුන් උපන් දේශය වන්දනා කරන සංචාරකයින් විශාල සංඛ්‍යාවකට පහසුකම් සැලසීමට හැකි බවත් 2023.07.05 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සමඟ පැවති සාකච්ඡාවේදී මාධව් කුමාර් (Madhav Kumar) මහතා සදහන් කළේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/07/23)
නූතන වැඩ ලෝකයට ගැලපෙන කම්කරු නීති පද්ධතියක් සකස් කිරීම සදහා වන දළ කෙටුම්පත කම්කරු උපදේශක සභාවට ඉදිරිපත් කිරිමෙන් පසුව කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා මාධ්‍යයට අදහස් දැක්වූ අතර ඔහු දැක්වූ අදහස් මෙසේය. සේවයට බඳවා ගැනීමේ දී හෝ සේවා ස්ථානය තුළ හෝ සේවා නියුක්තිකයෙකු වෙනස් කොට සැළකීම (Discrimination) වැළැක්වීමේ නීතිමය ප්‍රතිපාදන හඳුන්වා දීම. රැකියා ස්ථානයේ සියළු ආකාරයේ හිරිහැර කිරීම් හා ලිංගික හිංසනය වැළැක්වීමට අදාළ නීතිමය ප්‍රතිපාදන හඳුන්වා දීම. (ප්‍රචණ්ඩත්වය හා හිංසනය පිළිබඳ අංක 190 දරන ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුතිය අපරානුමත කිරිමට මෙම ප්‍රතිපාදන ඇතුළත් කිරීම මඟින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
Eradication of CKDu (CKD-CTN) is straightforward and costs less than 10% of what the health department spends annually to manage CKDu! Yet new patents and deaths are continuing. Authorities have hardly any interest in preventing CKDu, partly due to those affected having little voice and thus being ignored by politicians. Besides, there is a significant conflict of interest at several levels, indulging health department officials. https://twitter.com/SJWimalawansa/status/1676576604967796736?s=20 CKDu has no relation to agrochemicals or heavy metals. It is caused by natural Geo-Bio causes leading to the precipitation of calcium‒phosphate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
US president Joe Biden has pushed to make Ursula von der Leyen Nato's secretary general after Britain revealed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s without his approval. The role is up for grabs until Autumn 2024 when Jens Stoltenberg, who has been secretary general since October 2014, steps down as head the alliance. Ben Wallace, the UK Defence Secretary, had been a front-runner but has failed to back support from the US. It has emerged that the lack of US backing is due to tensions over Britain’s ambitious... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
නතාෂා එදිරිසූරියට කොළඹ කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයෙන් ඇප නියම වී තිබේ. ඒ, දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්‍රහය සහ පරිගණක අපරාධ පනත යටතේ ගොනු කර තිබූ චෝදනාවලට අදාළව ය. ආගමික සහජීවනයට බාධා කළ හා බෞද්ධ ආගමට අපහාස වන ලෙස ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත් කළ බව කියන නතාෂා එදිරිසූරිය තවදුරට ත් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කරන ලෙස ඊයේ (ජූලි 5) කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණය නියම කර තිබිණි. “මෝඩාභිමානය” නමින් වැඩසටහනක් සංවිධානය කර එම වැඩසටහන අතරතුරදී බෞද්ධ ආගමට අපහාසයක් සිදුවන අයුරින් ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදුකිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නතාෂා එදිරිසූරිය යන අයට එරෙහිව අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මෙම නඩුව කොටුව මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණය හමුවේ ගොනු කර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
The controversial Malwana mansion is a property of the State now and it was set on fire during the Aragalaya time without knowing that it is a State property, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today. He told Parliament that Cabinet approval was granted to take over the Malwana property by the Justice Ministry and the process is now underway. "When I learnt through the newspapers that no party has claimed ownership of the Malwana property, I submitted a Cabinet Paper the following day to take it over to the Justice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
The second reading of the proposed Anti Corruption Bill was approved unanimously in Parliament today while the Commitee Stage was postponed to July 19 when the ammendments will be approved. The initial proposal made by Leader of the House Susil Premajayantha to postpone the vote on the Bill came under fire by the Opposition while Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapaksha also questioned the move. "I have worked hard to prepare the Bill with amendments and have not put in so much effort to get other legislations enacted. I cannot understand why... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
The Central Bank today said action will be taken against banks if they do not reduce interest rates in line with the reduction in policy interest rates. The Central Bank today reduced policy interest rates by 2 percent after reducing them by 2.5 percent in June. Now the policy interest rates remain at 11 percent (deposit) and 12 percent (lending). The Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said the average weighted lending rate has come down from 29 percent to about 20 percent in response to the June policy rate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to reduce the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank by 200 basis points (bps) to 11.00 per cent and 12.00 per cent, respectively. https://youtu.be/TyWaGlnrMtQ The Board arrived at this decision, at its meeting held on Wednesday (05 July), following a careful analysis of the current and expected developments, including the faster-than-envisaged disinflation process and benign inflation expectations in the domestic economy, with the aim of enabling the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
Emphasising the importance of the recently-approved Domestic Debt Optimising (DDO) strategy, the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association has highlighted the risk of funds, including the Employees’ Provident Fund, being compromised if such optimization measures were not taken. https://youtu.be/MR1jBKk_IzU Speaking during the ‘101 Katha’ programme hosted by the President’s Media Division (PMD), Mr. Russel Fonseka, the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Ceylon and SLBA member, expressed the importance of the DDO strategy, highlighting that the need for such a programme is not a recent development. “I want to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
කෘතහස්ත ලේඛක සේන තෝරදෙනිය මහතා විසින් ඊනියා ගෝල්ෆේස් අරගලයේ ඇතුලාන්තය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශ්ලේෂණාත්මකව ලියන ලද “GALLE FACE PROTEST: SYSTEMS CHANGE OR ANARCHY? Politics, Religion & Culture in a Time of Terror in Sri Lanka” ග්‍රන්ථය 2023 ජූලි මස 04 වෙනි දින කොළඹ 7 නිදහස් මාවතේ පිහිටි පුස්තකාල හා ප්‍රලේඛන සේවා මණ්ඩල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී එළි දැක්විනි. සාහිත්‍යසූරී ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා මුලසුන දැරූ මෙම උත්සවයේදී, දේශ හිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පිළිගැනීමේ කතාව කරනු ලැබීය. ප්‍රවීණ මාධ්‍යවේදී මොහාන් සමරනායක මහතා ප්‍රධාන දෙසුම පවත්වනු ලැබූ මෙම උත්සවයේදී මහාචාර්ය පූජ්‍ය මැදගොඩ අභයතිස්ස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
(Introduction to Sena Thoradeniya’ s book- Galle Face Protest: System Change or Anarchy?)
‘US foot prints at GF protest site’ deals with the international players involved in the Aragalaya. In the article ‘Who were most afraid of Galle Face protesters?”, he deals with the main group and sub groups of local players in the Aragalaya. The sub-groups involved were so diverse and numerous it is almost impossible to keep track of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/07/23)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ භාෂා පරිවර්තක සේවයේ විභාගවලින් සමත්වූවන්ට රජයේ භාෂා පරිවර්තක සේවයේ පත්වීම් ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය 2023.07.05 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවති අවස්ථාවේදීය. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා- ‟අපේ රට මව් භාෂා දෙකම භාවිතා කරන ජනතාව ඉන්න රටක් නිසා භාෂා පරිවර්තනයේ දී සැලකිලිමත්විය යුතුයි. ආර්ථිකයට, සේවාවට සහ ජන ජීවිතයට භාෂා පරිවර්තනය වැදගත් නිසා එය වඩාත් පහසු කිරීමට ඔබ මෙලෙස දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් පවත්වන විභාගයක් පවත්වා අදාල පුහුණු කිරීම් වලට යටත්ව එලෙස පරිවර්තනය කිරීමේ කර්තව්‍යයට එක්වෙනවා. ලිඛිත භාෂාව වගේම අපි කතා කරන භාෂාවන් විවිධ ප්‍රදේශ අනුව උච්චාරණය වෙනස්. එවැනි අත්දැකීම් විවිධ ප්‍රදේශ කරා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවේ වරිපනම් ඇතුළු අනෙකුත් ගෙවීම් අන්තර්ජාලය ඔස්සේ සිදුකිරීමට පහසුකම් සැලසීම හදුන්වා දීමට 2023.07.05 මහරගම නගර සභාවේදී පැවැති වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමිනි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාඅද සිට වරිපනම් ගෙවීම ඔන් ලයින් තාක්ෂණය භාවිතයෙන් කර ගැනීමට හැකියාව ලැබෙනවා වගේම, ඉදිරියේදී මහජනතාවට අවශ්‍ය සේවාවන්, පහසුවෙන් හා ඵලදායි ලෙස ලබා දීමට අනෙකුත් මහජන සේවාවන් ද මේ ආකාරයෙන් තාක්ෂණික ක්‍රමවේද යොදා ගැනීම වැදගත්.මහරගම ආශ්‍රීතව ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, අපේක්ෂා රෝහල, ජයවර්ධනපුර රෝහල වැනි සුවිශේෂී ආයතන පිහිටා තිබෙනවා. කුඩා හා මහා පරිමාණ ඇඟලුම් ව්‍යාපාර කේන්ද්‍රස්ථානයක්. ඒ වගේම විරල, තියුණු වටිනා වෙළඳ ව්‍යාපාරවල තෝතැන්නක්. අපි ඒවා ආරක්ෂා කරමින්, එම ව්‍යාපාර දියුණු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
Addressing the 51st Session of the Human Rights Council, the UN Acting High Commissioner stated: “Thirteen years since the end of the war, tens of thousands of survivors and their families continue to seek justice and to know the truth about the fate of their loved ones. They remain in need of reparations. The Sri Lankan State has repeatedly failed to pursue an effective transnational justice process and uphold victims right to truth, justice and reparations. Rather, as described in our previous reports, successive governments have created political obstacles to accountability, actively... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
Neoliberalism is often misunderstood, but it is very important to understand this ideology that has dominated global economics and politics for decades. Ben Norton discusses the history of the neoliberal "Washington consensus", and how it was imposed on the world. How China became the world's industrial superpower - and why the US is desperate to stop it. https://youtu.be/oUwLB4xUk0s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
බොරු තර්ක ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් තවදුරටත් අසාර්ථක වනවා වෙනුවට දැන්වත් රටේ ජනතාවගේ ප්‍රශ්න විසඳීමට ආණ්ඩුව සමඟ එක්වන ලෙස තමා විපක්ෂනායකවරයා ප්‍රමුඛ සමස්ත විපක්ෂයට ආරාධනා කරන බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. https://youtu.be/nrXr21mzFVo දේශීය ණය ප්‍රශස්තකරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විපක්ෂය නැගූ සියලු චෝදනා මේ වන විට අසත්‍ය වී ඇති බව පෙන්වා දුන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා දැන්වත් ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් වගකීම් ඉටුකර රට ගොඩනැඟීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළට තමන් ද දායක වූ බව පවසමින් ඉදිරි ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමේ අවස්ථාව උදාකර ගන්නා ලෙස ද විපක්ෂයට පැවසීය. අවශ්‍ය නම් කථානායකවරයා සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කර ඔවුන්ට පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළ තවත් වගකීම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
බෞද්ධාගමට අපහාස කළේ යැයි රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කර සිටි නටාෂා එදිරිසූරිය අද කොළඹ මහාධිකරණය විසින් ඇප මත නිදහස් කරන ලදී. රුපියල් ලක්ෂයක පුද්ගලික ඇපයක් මත ඇයට මෙම නියෝගය නිකුත් කර තිබේ. අධිකරණයේදී අදහස් පළ කරමින් තිපතිවරයා වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය සොලිස්ටර් ජෙනරාල් දිලීප පිරිස් මහතා සඳහන් කර සිටියේ මෙම සැකකාරිය 2017 වසරේ සිට විශාදිය නම් රෝගී තත්වයට ප්‍රතිකාර ලබා ගනිමින් සිටින බවයි. එමෙන්ම ඇය සියදිවි නසා ගැනීමේ ප්‍රවණතායෙන් පෙලී සිට පෙනී ඇති බවට පරීක්ෂණවලින් පෙනී ගොස් ඇති බවද ඔහු සඳහන් කලේය. එවැනි තැනැත්තියක් ප්‍රහසන වැඩසටහන් ඉදිරිපත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
The Belgium Government expressed consent to provide modern European technology required to develop Sri Lanka's ports. The decision was announced during a special discussion held between Belgium Ambassador to Sri Lanka Didier Vanderhasselt and Ports, Shipping and Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva this morning. The Minister requested Belgium's support in the development of the ports of Trincomalee and Galle, while also extending lucrative opportunities for Belgian investors to actively participate in these undertakings. Discussions were also held seeking possibilities to train local youth at the Belgium yacht ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
https://youtu.be/SnbX1UiwqTo The Sri Lankan government has decided to initiate diplomatic discussions with Japan on the revival of the Japan-funded Light Rail Transit (LRT) project.The Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday (July 04) approved a proposal made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the matter.Accordingly, the government will prepare a timeframe to revive the previously scrapped LRT project and enter into an agreement following discussions with the Japanese diplomatic mission in Colombo.In March 2019, the Japanese government agreed to grant loan assistance of USD 1,800 million for the LRT system project which was to be implemented that year... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
The Colombo Stock Exchange’s All-Share Price Index (ASPI) continued its upward momentum today (July 05), gaining 99.49 points at the end of trading today to close at 10,176.13 points. This is an increase of 0.99 per cent. Meanwhile, the S&P SL20 index also moved up by 35.97 points to close at 3,009.09 points at the end of today’s trading, recording an increase of 1.21 per cent. The market generated a turnover of more than Rs. 4.945 billion today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
Ivor Jennings did not sign the Kannangara Committee Report on Free Education. Following are a few excerpts from his Rider. His stance on the country not being able to absorb commercial and technical qualified products was perhaps one of the reasons that practical education was neglected. "THOUGH there is much in the Report with which I agree, I regret that I am unable to sign If, however, education really became compulsory and if pupils of all classes were encouraged by free education to remain at school up to the age of 16, there might... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
ප්‍රංශය ලෝක දේශපාලනය වෙනස් කිරීම ආරම්භ කල මර්මස්තානයකි.සමාජ පරිනාමයේ ඉතා වැදගත් පිම්මක්වූ වැඩවසම් සමාජ ක්‍රමය නිමකොට ඊටවඩා සුවිශේෂී සමාජ ක්‍රමයක්වූ ධනවාදී සමාජ ක්‍රමයට ආරම්භක සංඥාව නිකුත් කරන ලද්දේද 1789 ජුනි මස ආරම්භවූ ප්‍රංශ විප්ලවයයි.දැන් ගලාගෙන යන්නේ ධනවාදයේ අවසන් කාලයයි. තවදුරටත් ධනවාදයට මේ ලොවතුල ඇති සමාජ ප්‍රශ්න හා ගැටළු වලට නිශ්චිත පිළිතුරු නැත. ඒවාට පිළිතුරු සැපයීමට නම්, ධනවාදය විනාශ කොට නව සමාජ ක්‍රමයක් ස්ථාපිත කල යුතුව ඇත. නමුත් ධනවාදයෙන් පෝෂිතවූ පරපුර මේ පරිවර්තනයට සුදානම් නැත. එහි ප්‍රතිපලය කැරලි ස්වරුපයෙන්, ඊට එරෙහිව නිර්මාණය වේ. නුතන ප්‍රංශ අරගලයද එවැනිම වූ කැරැල්ලකි.1789 ජුනි මස ඇතිවූ ප්‍රංශ විප්ලවය කාර්මික විප්ලවයත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ජනරජය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සමඟ මෑතකදී අත්සන් කරන ලද අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුම මඟින් විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍රයන්හි ද්විපාර්ශික සහයෝගිතාව විධිමත් වන බව ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ජන රජයෙහි නව මහ කොමසාරිස් ආචාර්ය රොජර් ගෝපෝල් මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.ට්‍රිනිඩෑඩ් සහ ටොබැගෝ ජන රජයෙහි නව මහ කොමසාරිස් ආචාර්ය රොජර් ගෝපෝල් මහතා 2023.07.03 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අතර දෙරට අතර සබඳතා විධිමත් කිරීම මගින් වෙළඳාම , අධ්‍යාපනය, රැකියා නියුක්තිය, සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය සහ ආයෝජන ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ සහයෝගීතාව වර්ධනය සඳහා අවකාශ තිබෙන බව කීය.නවදිල්ලියේ පිහිටි සිය කාර්යාලයේ සිට මෙරට කටයුතු මෙහෙයවන මහ කොමසාරිස්වරයා ජූනි තිස් වන දින මහනුවර දී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
එයාර් සීෂෙල්ස් සෘජු ගුවන් ගමන් කොළඹට හඳුන්වාදීම තුළින් සංචාරක පැමිණීමේ ශීඝ්‍ර වර්ධනයක් ඇති කරන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ නව සීෂෙල්ස් මහ කොමසාරිස් ලලතියානා ඇකුචේ (Lalatiana Accouche) මහත්මිය 2023.07.03 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය.මහනුවර පැවති විචිත්‍රවත් උත්සවයකදී ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත අක්තපත්‍ර ප්රදානය කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඇල්ල සහ මහනුවර ප්‍රදේශවල සංචාරය කිරීමෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සුන්දරත්වය පිළිබඳව තමන් මවිත වූ බව Accouche මහත්මිය මෙහිදී පැවසුවාය. විනිසුරුවන්, ඉංජිනේරුවන් සහ ගුරුවරුන් වැනි ශ්‍රී ලාංකික වෘත්තිකයන් සැලකිය යුතු පිරිසක් සීෂෙල්ස් හි සේවය කරන අතර ඔවුන්ගේ සේවය තම රට විසින් බෙහෙවින් අගය කරන බව ඇය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, peace be on him, Promised Messiah and Imam-al-Mahdi and Holy Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, in 1905, he warned the world in the following words: “Remember, God has informed me of many earthquakes. Rest assured, therefore, that as earthquakes have shaken America and Europe, so will they shake Asia. Some of them will resemble the Day of Doom. So many people shall die that rivulets of blood shall flow. Even the bird and the beasts will not be immune against this death. A havoc shall... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
July 4 (Xinhua) – A program to gauge the resistance of buildings and new constructions against earth tremors is being conducted across Sri Lanka, the country’s Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) said on Monday. Several small tremors have been felt in the country in the past year, said senior geophysicist of the GSMB Mahinda Seneviratne on TV.Seneviratne said they are paying special attention to buildings in Colombo due to the high density of structures in the city. He added that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake was reported in the seas off the southeast... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
As the summer travel peak approaches, Air China and other Chengdu-based airlines are increasing domestic and international flights to seize the market According to Air China, its Southwest Branch, which is based in Chengdu, a hub city in Southwestern China, will launch, resume, and put extra flights from Chengdu to multiple international destinations this July to cope with the upcoming summer travel peak.
Among them, starting on July 2nd, Air China launched a new direct flight from Chengdu... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
An alarming number of cases reported of people dying or suffering severe visual impairment after routine eye surgeries. Some doctors say the cause is an anesthetic purchased by the ministry in India from companies on the blacklist of unreliable products. But the government in Colombo rejects the allegations. Colombo (AsiaNews) - Alarm is growing in Sri Lanka over several cases of patient deaths, including a woman pregnant with twins, that have occurred in Sri Lankan hospitals, which may be linked to an uncertified anesthetic drug... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/07/23)
It is crystal clear that the language is powerful engine of human intellect and creativity, allowing for ultimate combination of words to generate an endless number of new structures and ideas out of ‘old’ ones. It has the main role in the human brain. It directs how we specify visual attention, explain and memorise events, categorise objects, distinguish smells and musical tones, present mental mathematics, make financial judgments, experience and express emotions, allow communication, which leads to exchange information, build relationships and create art. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/23)
In the wake of the elephant Muthu Raja who was badly abused while being kept at a Buddhist temple, several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are attempting to publicize the notion that elephants should be removed from the perahera culture, Asgiriya Chapter Venerable Narampanawe Ananda Thera said. He told the media that Muthu Raja was a well-tamed elephant. This is a planned propaganda that NGOs always resort to during every perahera season, Thera said. "Every nation in any country has its own culture. In the Sinhala Buddhist culture, we used... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/23)
The Sri Lankan government’s proposal for treatment of domestic debt marks a significant step towards resolving uncertainties around the impact of the sovereign’s debt restructuring on the local banking sector, but complications may arise from a number of factors, says Fitch Ratings. https://youtu.be/Ha3DEddwjv8 The proposal excludes banks’ holdings of Sri Lankan rupee-denominated treasury securities, which will alleviate some of the pressure on their already stressed capital positions from weakening loan quality and the rupee’s depreciation. Fitch’s base case did not expect treasury bills held by banks to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/23)
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera has assured that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is on a path towards achieving financial stability. Participating in a media briefing held at the Presidential Media Centre themed ‘Collective path to a stable country’, Wijesekera expressed confidence in the government’s program, led by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, to promote financial stability in both the Electricity Board and the Petroleum Corporation. https://youtu.be/NpTZcVOd2zo Meanwhile, addressing accusations from various parties regarding the electricity price revision, the Minister highlighted that in June’s price revision, the government... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/23)
The Colombo Stock Exchange’s All-Share Price Index (ASPI) showed significant performance today (July 04), gaining 633.69 points at the end of trading today to close at 10,076 points. As a percentage, this is an increase of 6.71 per cent. Meanwhile, the S&P SL20 index also moved up by 279.17 points to close at 2,992.82 points at the end of trading today, marking an increase of 10.29 per cent. The market generated a turnover of more than Rs. 7.41 billion today.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/23)
When Sri Lanka ended the ethnic war fourteen years ago, many analysts expected that the declining trend of additional military expenses, combined with the reducing of many public expenditures, improving productivity, would be positively accomplished the economic potential of the country and the external value of Sri Lanka rupee will increase. Addition to the above gains, the increasing of economic performance and the growth of merchandise exports and the development of export related services would be supported to an increase in external value of the Sri Lanka rupee. Despite such expected progress, rupee value has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/23)
Bitcoins යනු බොහෝ විට cryptocurrency ලෙස හඳුන්වන ඩිජිටල් මුදල් වර්ගයකි. ඒවා පවතින්නේ ඩිජිටල් ආකාරයෙන් පමණක් වන අතර ඔබට තබා ගත හැකි භෞතික කාසි හෝ නෝට්ටු නොවේ. සාමාන්‍ය මුදල් මෙන්, ඔබට භාණ්ඩ හා සේවා මිලදී ගැනීමට බිට්කොයින් භාවිතා කළ හැකිය, නමුත් ඒවා ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් අන්තර්ජාල ගනුදෙනු සඳහා භාවිතා වේ. Bitcoins නිර්මාණය වන්නේ mining නම් ක්‍රියාවලියක් මගිනි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, ඔබ බිම හාරන සම්ප්‍රදායික පතල් කැණීම් මෙන් නොවේ. Bitcoin mining වලදී, blockchain ලෙස හඳුන්වන පොදු ලෙජරයක ගනුදෙනු වලංගු කිරීම සහ වාර්තා කිරීම සඳහා බලවත් පරිගණක සංකීර්ණ ගණනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/23)
Bitcoins are a type of digital currency, often referred to as cryptocurrency. They exist only in digital form and are not physical coins or notes that you can hold. Just like regular money, you can use bitcoins to buy goods and services, but they are mainly used for online transactions. Bitcoins are created through a process called mining. However, it's not like traditional mining where you dig the ground. In Bitcoin mining, powerful computers perform complex calculations to validate and record transactions on a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/23)
ෆ්‍රෙඩ්‍රික් විල්හෙල්ම් නීට්ෂේ උපත ලබන්නේ 1844 ඔක්තෝම්බර් 15 වන දින ජර්මනියේදීය. දේවගැතිවරයෙකු වූ ඔහුගේ පියාගේ මරණය මෙන්ම සොහොයුරෙකුගේ මරණය දුටු කුඩා නීට්ෂේ ඛේදවාචකයන් තුලින් ජීවිතය පසක් කලේය. මෙම ඛේදවාචකයන් නිසා ඔහු කුඩා කල සිට ඇළුම් කල ක්‍රිස්තු ධර්මයෙන් ඈත් විය. ඔහුගේ පියාගේ ඇදහිල්ල ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරමින්, නීට්ෂේ ක්‍රිස්තියානි ධර්මයට එරෙහිව ජීවිත කාලය පුරාම කැරලිකරුවෙකු බවට පත්විය. ඔහුගේ මානසික කම්පනය ඔහුව ඊනියා ප්‍රති-ක්‍රිස්තුස් (anti Christ) බවට පරිවර්තනය කළේය. නීට්ෂේ පවසන්නේ දෙවියන් මිය ගොස් ඇති බවත් ආගම අවලංගු බවත්ය. මිනිසා ආගමික ජීවියෙකු වීම පිලිබඳව ඔහු නොසතුටට පත් විය. ආගමික විශ්වාසයන් මිනිසුන් බිය ගන්වමින් එම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/23)
The country faces the challenge of restructuring its foreign and domestic debt ahead of an IMF deadline. COLOMBO China “will not join” the official creditors’ platform negotiating a common debt treatment plan with Sri Lanka, but Colombo is “very confident” of Beijing’s bilateral support to the island’s economic recovery, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said. “We are very hopeful of China’s cooperation. I was recently in China and met with the Foreign Minister, Finance Minister, and Chairman of the Exim Bank [Export-Import Bank of China]. They have said they will not come... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/23)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe urged the Opposition and Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa to prioritize national interests over politics. Addressing the "Amaraviru Abhiman 32" commemoration ceremony held in Hambantota today, the President urged them to fulfill their responsibilities to the people and help rebuild the country, President's Media Division (PMD) said. https://youtu.be/NlW3FV5qQLM Speaking at the tribute ceremony,he emphasized the development of the agriculture and livestock sectors to not only fulfill domestic demands but also establish them as export-oriented industries.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/23)
The article under the title ‘Timely action must be taken to preserve Buddhism in Sri Lanka’ by a virtually anonymous writer, signing as R.W.W., published in the Sunday Island/June 11, 2023 provided the cue for the following. I sincerely thank him or her for expressing those factually unsupported ideas about the issue of preserving and protecting the Buddha Sasana because those views opened this opportunity for me to set the record straight at least belatedly. Had s/he given her or his name instead of just initials, her or his writing would have acquired a better... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
The British administration settled the ‘Ceylon Tamil’ in Mullativu in the mid 19 century.”The 19th century saw the settlement of Tamils along the coastline in Mullativu, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts” said historian D.G.B. de Silva. As soon as they got into Mullaitivu the ‘Ceylon Tamil’ started to destroy the Buddhist heritage of Mullativu. JP Lewis Government agent for North, said in his Manual of Vanni ( 1895) “There are several damaged ruins on the Kurundi hill and the tank bund. The damage seems to have been caused through willful defacement by the Tamil occupants... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News July 2023 Part 1 * ‘The days of government funding are gone. It really needs to be a private enterprise, just as exploration was at the turn of the last century where people with means make the exploration possible.’ – Stockton Rush (see ee Workers, OceanGate & How the Wealthy Kill) Stockton Rush, now ‘former’ CEO of OceanGate, ‘maker’ of crewed submersibles to meditate on Titanic ruins, in his last... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
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About this book This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global existential crisis facing more and more debt trapped countries, especially in the post-colonial Global South. The book's in-depth case study raises important questions pertaining to sovereignty and political and economic democracy in Sri Lanka and the world... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
Colombo, July 2: UNESCO has included the Sri Lankan historical account, the “Mahawamsa”, in its list of 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register. The Memory of the World (MoW) Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and endorsed by the Executive Board of UNESCO. on the basis of their world significance and outstanding universal value. ADVERTISEMENT Inscription on the Register publicly affirms the significance of the documentary heritage, makes it better known and allows... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
Thailand airlifted an elephant from Sri Lanka after the authorities accused the island nation of mistreating the animal. The elephant -- Muthu Raja -- was gifted to Sri Lanka almost two decades ago, in 2001. More than two decades ago, in 2001, a Thai elephant was gifted to Sri Lanka. (Photo: AFP). By Agence France-Presse: A Thai elephant that was gifted to Sri Lanka twenty years ago was flown back to Thailand on Sunday due to a diplomatic dispute over its alleged mistreatment. Thai authorities had given the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
Dr. Aurangasri Hinriksson receiving the Order of the Golden Falcon at the President’s House in view of National Day of Iceland During most of my adult life I was interested in international affairs, violation of human rights and the harm caused by racial and religious prejudices All adopted children have the right to find their biological parents, but the parents do not have the same right as they have signed a document giving up that right In my opinion, a mass DNA analysis of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
Ex-President Maitripala Sirisena‘s counsel told the Supreme Court that Jude Shramantha Jayahama was released from prison following the due Constitutional process which the petitioner had suppressed to Court. Faizer Musthapha PC contended this while challenging the Fundamental Rights petition filed by the organisation 'Women and Media Collective' against the pardon granted by former President Maithripala Sirisena to Jude Shramantha Jayamaha. Counsel further asserted that it is unfair to target President Maithripala Sirisena as he had followed the due process of law. Counsel underscored the fact on what the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
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A team of scientists from NASA is reportedly on a visit to Sri Lanka these days, in order to carry out research related to the alleged similarities in the stones found in Sri Lanka to those on the planet Mars. The team of experts is led by Mr. Sunithi Karunathilake, a Sri Lankan national who is a Senior Scientist at NASA. https://youtu.be/XrbgklhEqFc They will first join an observation tour in the Ginigalpalassa (GGP) and Indikolapalassa (IP) areas and then travel to the Ussangoda area in the Southern Province... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
The Civil Aviation Authority of Israel has confirmed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed by the relevant authorities of Israel and Sri Lanka in order to commence the air service of providing direct passenger flights from Tel Aviv in Israel to Katunayake. During a discussion held in this regard, Minister of Ports Shipping and Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva said that the new air service will provide convenience to Israeli tourists who are looking forward to travelling to Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, Israeli representatives said aircrafts belonging to Israel’s ‘Arkia’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
The Ministry of Labour alleges that neither the union leaders nor officers have provided asset liability statements within the granted period. When inquired by “Ada Derana”, Secretary of the Ministry R.P.A. Wimalaweera stated that none of those 2,000 representatives has so far submitted asset liability statements. In general, the officials including trade union leaders of state and semi-government institutions must submit their asset-liability statements to the Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, as per the Asset Liability Act. Wimalaweera also stressed that although he has informed the relevant parties regarding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/07/23)
When Prime Minister Sirimavo lost the General Election in Sri Lanka in mid 1977, Sri Lanka did not have a foreign debt. During the time of Sirimavo and earlier, Sri Lanka got foreign loans on projects, where once the development project was completed the production brought about due to the completion of the project enabled the payment of the loan. They were all project loans. In 1975, Sri Lanka/s foreign debt was negligible. Then, the foreign debt, only $ 743 million, $ 75 million at the end of 1976 and at $ 750 million in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXp6dXZQR-I India under Narendra Modi can play a bigger role in the Cricket world wherever there is racism, sexism, and the like in ICC-administered cricket. The recently released damning Report on racism in English cricket is equally true of similar types of racism and inequity on race-based grounds within the ICC. There is no mechanism within the ICC to entertain genuine complaints from both players and cricket fans, especially from the Indian subcontinent. A manifest wrong cannot be righted within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time. But these victories and wealth led to arrogance and hubris. Croesus turned his eyes eastward, ambitious to conquer Persia, ruled by Cyrus the Great. Having endowed the region’s cosmopolitan Temple of Delphi with substantial silver and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
The author had the ambition to write about history during his working career as an Electrical Engineer/Works Engineer (Elect) from 1969 to Feb 1977 at Kankesan Cement Works (KCW). It is the right time now that come forward to present them in a concise article format. The reason is that by hiding activities the world will not change and in particular the North is like a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
The airline's inaugural flight on its Airbus A320 landed at Bandaranaike International with 110 passengers onboard. (Air Seychelles) Seychelles' national carrier, Air Seychelles, started operating twice weekly flights to Colombo after it made its inaugural flight on Tuesday, June 20th. The airline operates the twice-weekly flights from Seychelles to Colombo on Tuesdays and Saturdays and returns on Wednesdays and Sundays. The airline's inaugural flight on its Airbus A320, which landed at Bandaranaike International, had 110 passengers onboard. In a press statement from the airline, Sandy Benoiton, acting chief executive of Air... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
COLOMBO, July 1 — Sri Lanka's inflation eased to 12 per cent in June, official data showed today, the lowest figures since the island nation careened into an unprecedented economic crisis last year. Sri Lanka defaulted on its US$46 billion foreign debt in April 2022 and the public endured months of food, fuel and medicine shortages. The crisis has eased since, with the government securing a US$2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund in March. June inflation was the lowest since the 9.9 per cent figure recorded in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
Several Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs were absent during the vote on the Domestic Debt Restructuring programme today in Parliament. SJB MPs Rajitha Senaratne, Mayantha Dissanayake, Rohini Kaviratne and Mano Ganesan were among the absentees from the Opposition while Mahinda Rajapaksa, Namal Rajapaksa and Chamal Rajapaksa from the SLPP were notable absentees from the ruling party.(Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
The Resolution on Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) was passed in Parliament with amendments a short while ago (01 July). Accordingly, the DDO strategy was passed in Parliament with a majority of 60 votes, with 122 votes in favour and 62 votes against. https://youtu.be/FbWPiTwrq9Y Meanwhile, the Secretary General of Parliament Kushani Rohanadeera has informed the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, in writing, that the DDO strategy was passed in Parliament. A full-day special parliamentary session took place today, during which lawmakers debated the restructuring of local... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
War is too important to be left to the generals. This quote is as relevant today as it was in the early 19th century, when French statesman and journalist Georges Clemenceau first said it to stress the importance of civilian control over the military and the war. If this is so with the generals, then where do mercenaries stand when it comes to decisions on war? Given this all-important rule of civilian political leadership taking control of the war, last week’s events in Russia lead to two conclusions: Either President Vladimir Putin has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/23)
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