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News Archive for Aug 2021
Sri Lankan traditional Sinhala Wedakama (treatment) to counter COVID?By Raj Gonsalkorale
A medical heritage of a country could be cited as one of its best treasures and most powerful weapons. Sri Lanka has proven that its medical legacy was protected by ancient kings as part of governance policy and aspects, such as agriculture, belief system/spirituality and diet encompassing the concept of health. In this regard, a Sinhala Wedakama developed by Dr Laxman Embuldeniya warrants serious attention and consideration. Sri Lanka Daily Mirror newspaper of 31st August, says that Sri Lanka’s health officials have gone on alert over a new COVID-19... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
AFGHANISTAN-NEW MATCH NEW TEAM
ALI SUKHANVER
“Days after the fall of Kabul, nations are hurriedly evacuating their diplomats and citizens, leaving behind two decades of work and investments. The Taliban's blisteringly fast takeover of Afghanistan has stunned security and diplomacy experts worldwide” Vikas Pandey of BBC News Delhi said in a recent article. He further said, “Pakistan and China - both are expected to play a crucial role in Afghanistan's future.” As far as the matter of investment is concerned, India had been the fifth-largest aid donor and one of the most effective suppliers of technical support to the development projects running... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
එන්නත්කරණ මධ්‍යස්ථාන වෙත පැමිණෙන ජනතාව වෙත යෝගට් ලබා දීම
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
කොවිඩ් -19 පාලනය වෙනුවෙන් සිදු කෙරෙන එන්නත්කරණ ජාතික වැඩසටන සදහා අද(31) අනුරාධපුර නගරයේ එන්නත්කරණ මධ්‍යස්ථාන වෙත පැමිණෙන ජනතාව වෙත යෝගට් ලබා දීම බර්ටි දිසානායද පදනම මගින් සිදු කෙරිණි. අනුරාධපුර ශීක්ෂණ රෝහල, අනුරාධපුර හරිස්චන්ද්‍ර ක්‍රීඩාංගනය හා ම.නු.ප ප්‍රාදේශීය සභා ශ්‍රවණාගාරය යන මධ්‍යස්ථානයන්හී අද(31) දින 5000 කට ආසන්න පිරිසක් වෙත එන්නත්කරණ කටයුතු සිදු කෙරුණු අතර, එන්නත්කරණ මධ්‍යස්ථාන අසල දිගු පෝලිම් දැක ගත හැකි විය. එලෙස පෝලිම් වල රැදී සිට එන්නත්කරණය සිදු කර ගන්නා ජනතාවගේ මහන්සිය නිවා දැමීම වෙනුවෙන් යෝගට් ලබා දීම බර්ටි දිසානායක පදනමේ සභාපති රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ අදහසක් අනුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
වර්තමාන #කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්වය මධ්‍යයේ සංචාරකයින් අප රටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේදී හෝටල් සේවකයාට මුහුණපෑමට සිදුවන සෞඛ්‍යමය ගැටළු සම්බන්ධවයි. රජයේ තීරණ හා ප්‍රතිපත්ති විවේචනය කිරීම දඩුවම් ලැබිය හැකි බවට නිකුත් කර ඇති 2021.08.28 දිනැති ලිපිය හා බැඳේ. Sri Lanka sets highest single-day record by administering more than 550,000 doses; Over 20 million jabs administered Sri Lanka declares economic emergency to contain food prices amid forex crisis Teacher, principal services to be declared a closed service Over 11,000 more metric tons of sugar found stashed away in warehouses Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 death toll crosses 9,000 with another 194 deaths Daily coronavirus cases count reaches 4,221 today ගෝටාගේ කාබනික ගොවිතැනේ අවසාන කොටසත් ගැලවේ-පලිබෝධනාශක ආනයනයට සූදානම්.. මහින්දානන්දගෙන් කැබිනට් පත්රිකාවක්. පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රයේ ඇවිදින මංතීරුව එතන හදන්න එපා..- මෛත‍්‍රී කියයි.. Former President clarifies stance on Parakrama Samudhraya construction පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රය රැක ගන්න, මහා සඟ රුවන පෙරට එති Susil Siriwardena, a Pioneer Development Administrator no more. Structural Changes Needed For Sri Lanka’s Economic Emancipation - A Cambridge professor of Economics of South Korean Extract Explains How Such Korea Did It Delivering Oration at. 71st Anniversary Commemoration of the Sri Lanka Central bank Our Power Fiasco By the end of the 19th century, ‘Marx stood Hagel on his head.’ But in the 21st century, grudgingly settling old scores and turning the table the other way around, ‘Shylock has stood Marx on his head’ ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 25c East Timor-Bangladesh Relations: Expectations From Each Other THE FLAG AND THE CROSS බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය - 33 වැනි කොටස - ප්‍රත්‍යක්‍ෂයේ අධ්‍යාපනය සුභාශිංසන පණිවිඩය ස්වයං ප්‍රතිශක්තීකරණය උදෙසා කංසා නීතිගත කරන්න. Will US utilize the opportunity regarding Kabul Bomb Blast Clean Water the Key to Changing Lives in Rural Sri Lanka - Community owned water schemes IMF bailout will further weaken pandemic-hit Lankan economy Battle for Buddha Gaya Free Ayurveda medicine delivered to COVID-19 afflicted homes Cabinet approves salary increments for teachers, principals Coronavirus: Highest daily fatality count recorded on Sunday Daily COVID cases count hits 4,562 today Historic ‘Parakrama Samudra’ Bund dug up for Jogging Track? Walking park on Parakrama Samudra endangers ancient reservoir 'Most mutated Covid variant so far' may already be EXTINCT දින 3 රෝගියෙකු සුව කරන වෙදැදුරු - එස් බී ඉන්නෙත් ව්‍යාධි හරණී බීලා ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍ය බී.ඒ රත්නපාල (වීඩියෝ) ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 25b Pakistan-Sri Lanka Ties: A Game Changer in the Region? ශෝක පණිවුඩය. වසංගත රෝග ඒකකය ප්රසිද්ධ කරන ඌව පළාතේ කෝවිඩ් දත්ත පට්ටපල් බොරු SriLankan Airlines offers “Buy One Get One Free ticket” to Indian tourists travelling to Sri Lanka Lankan Tamils not refugees, we are there for them: Stalin No, the LTTE Cannot Come Alive Again 34 children reported with post-covid multisystem inflammatory syndrome: Pediatrician Over 07 million Sri Lankans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 SriLankan to operate regular flights between Colombo & 9 Indian cities Daily novel coronavirus cases count climbs over 4,600 Sri Lanka records 192 new COVID-related deaths අටුව කඩා පුටුව සෑදීම Leave Parakrama Samudraya alone, please ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 25a මහානායක හාමුදුරුවොත් පාපිෂ්ඨ සාහසික බලවේගයක්ද? - මනුෂ ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කරයි Watch out Sri Lanka: Today It is Afganistan Tomorrow It Could Be You , Unless the Regime Change Conspiracy is exposed and eradicated Racism, Nationalism and Supranationalism -II ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 24e The Great Game of Smashing Nations වැව් 27 ක් සංවර්ධනය ඇරඹෙයි. Government is Actively Pursuing Block-Chain Technology to Facilitate Digital Currencies: Minister Namal Rajapaksa. Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) TV presents the very first live telecast on Esala Perahera Randoli, the festival of Sacred Tooth Relic in Thailand Study reveals lifting lockdown could take deaths past 16,000 – The Morning Minister Bandula tests positive for Covid-19 Sri Lanka extends island-wide quarantine curfew China to extend full support to Sri Lanka to fight Covid-19 Record high of 214 daily COVID deaths reported in Sri Lanka Daily COVID cases count hits 4,591 today Afghanistan gives the world an Emperor without clothes PRAYING HANDS 85% of hospitalized COVID patients have not recovered months later POLICY EMINENCE OF MR. GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA How PTA helps Bhutan and Bangladesh fulfill the expectations of their people? PRE-EVENT PRESS RELEASE FOR MINISTER NAMAL RAJAPAKSA Bangladesh and Nepal: huge potentials for each other? Sri Lanka green light for Covaxin: Opens quarantine free for fully jabbed Indian tourists Sacred sapling from Buddhist bodhi tree in Australian quarantine ahead of Bendigo planting The Story of Rishvin Ismath, the Only Outspoken Ex-Muslim of Sri Lanka STF uncovers high-power explosives in Matara and Gandara Sri Lankans over 18 will be fully vaccinated by November end - Keheliya Coronavirus: over 4,600 fresh cases reported today Sri Lanka’s daily coronavirus deaths surpass 200 for first time as death toll tops 8,000 Covid infection protection waning in double jabbed International Webinar on the Geneva Resolutions 30/1 and the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Act. පන්සල වටා ගොඩනැගෙන ඔන්ලයින් මාරයා නීති පනවා කෝවිඩ් එන්නත අනිවාර්යය කර විදිනවානම් එන්නත් කාඩ් පතේ පහත කරුණු 10 ඇතුළත් කර ගැනීමට පුරවැසියන්ට අයිතිය ඇත. සක්ක්‍රයාගේ පුතා වයිමාගේ ගුරු ගැටලුව විසදීම “Take pride in modesty” – An address to Ahmadi Ladies by Ahmadiyya Supreme Head. S Arabia mulls FTAs with India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, 8 other nations Coronavirus death toll moves up with 198 victims COVID-19: Daily cases 4,483 highest for fourth consecutive day IGP delivers statement on progress of probes into Easter attacks I.S footprints in Kerala Possibilities of Economic Cooperation between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka බුදුන් ධර්මදේශනා කළ භාෂාව -3 බුදුන් ධර්මදේශනා කළ භාෂාව -2 ‘පූජනීය දළදා සංස්කෘතිය‘ අලි කුලප්පුවීමේ දේශපාලනය ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 24d ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 24c බුදුන් ධර්මදේශනා කළ භාෂාව -1 GMOA: Failure to inoculate those over 60 yrs first, led to high death toll, lockdown Indigenous medicines’ prevention mission against COVID ADB to provide USD 125 million additional financing to Sri Lanka Another 190 Covid-19 related deaths as the total nears 8,000 Daily COVID cases count tops 4,446 for third consecutive day Racism, Nationalism and Supranationalism - I ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 24b ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 24a COVID-19 VACCINATION IMPLICATIONS & HOMOEOPATHY බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය - 32 වැනි කොටස- ආදර්ශයේ පාඩම Taliban Takeover Forces Afghanistan To Shift Home Series To Pakistan From Sri Lanka Use indigenous medicine to prevent COVID complications' - Specialist Dr. Channa Perera (Video) Sri Lanka only second to US in terms of Covid-19 deaths by population Prisons Dept. inquiry into incident of Bathiudeen threatening doctor Rishad named as fifth suspect in death of teenage domestic worker Sri Lanka reports 194 more coronavirus fatalities Daily COVID cases count hits 4,355 today Sri Lanka moves up to 13th place in global COVID death rankings, just below US US coalition of Black and Latino churches hope to reduce the 3X COVID-19 disparity - Aug 2021 Bangladesh’s Ashrayan-3 Project (Bhasan Char Project): Is An Example For The Whole World To Deal With Refugees? ජීවනෝපාය අහිමි වූ පුද්ගලයින්ට රජය ලබා දෙන දීමනාව ලබා දීමට දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාල සහ ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාල සියල්ල සූදානම්. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා "අමාදම් සිසිලස" 213වැන්නට එක්වෙයි උඹ මහ පාරෙ පුච්චලා මරණවා…- බදියුදීන් වැලිකඩ සිට අමතයි.. වාසු-විමල්-උදය අමතා ජනපති දොස් කියයි.. කැබිනෙට්ටුවෙන් ඉවත් කල හැකි බවත් කියයි… RS 85 MILLION SENT FROM A FOREIGN NGO TO POLITICAL PARTIES. TRADE UNIONS AND MEDIA ORGS TO DESTABILIZE THE GOVERNMENT -ආණ්ඩුවට ගහන්න රුපියල් කෝටි 85ක් එයි බූරුවෝ තුන් දෙනෙකුට පිස්සු ...! Duckworth, Lewis and Senaka ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමනි..., යුක්තිය, සමානත්මතාවය සහ සාධාරණය සහිත රටක් ගොඩ නගමු...විචාරශීලී ජනතාවට අත දෙමු...කොරෝනා පරදවමු...! Photo: Beautiful Colombo goes silent amidst lockdown Sri Lanka: 52 vaccination centers operating in 10 districts India eyes bigger influence in Indian Ocean through Colombo Security Conclave Vaccination of persons between 18-30 to commence in September Rishad accused of threatening a prison doctor Sri Lanka’s COVID death toll moves up with 183 victims Sri Lanka sees new record high with 4,304 daily COVID cases Shuffling and re-shuffling Millions Murdered as Rich Nations Unleash Germ Warfare on the Poor! (Part1) Open letter to R.Sampanthan කොරෝනා මර්දනයේදී ජනාධිපතිවරයා ෆේල් වී ඇති බව ජාතිය ඇමතීමෙන් යළිත් තහවුරු වුනා - ජනාධිපතිගේ ජාතිය ඇමතීමට මනුෂ පිළිතුරු දෙයි Pakistan Hands Over Donation of Medical Equipment to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa කෝවිඩි වෛරස හේතුවෙන් ආසාදිතයන් මිය යාම දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්‍රහයේ 261, 289 සහ 298 වගන්ති යටතේ අපරාධමය වැරදි සිදුකිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි, සුදර්ශනී ප්‍රනාන්දු පුල්ලේ, චන්න ජයසුමන, සිසිර ජයකොඩි, සංජීව මුණසිංහ, අසේල ගුණවර්ධන සහ කුමාරි වීරසේකරට එරෙහිව වෛද්‍ය බී. ඒ. රත්තපාල මහතා පොලිස්පති සී. ඩී. වික්‍රමරත්න මහතාට පැමිණිලි කරයි. Lanka offers to join any regional effort to restore normalcy in Afghanistan Statement from Digital Minister Namal Rajapaksa: Online transaction charges දේශීය ඖෂධ රට පුරා බෙදන්නැයි දැනුම් දෙයි.. ගුරු සංගම් නියෝජිතයන් 15ක් කොරෝනාවෙන් මිය ගිහින්… කබ්රාල්ගේ අමාත්‍යංශයේ ඉතිරි ‘මෙහෙයුම් කාමරය’ විතරයි.. එයත් නාමල්ට දෙන්නැයි කබ්රාල් ජනපතිට කියයි.. Sri Lanka goes Silent Daily COVID cases count hits 3,884 today 198 New daily record propels Sri Lanka’s COVID fatalities count past 7,000 Gerontocratic Jokes Sri Lanka records biggest ever daily increase of Covid deaths due to inadequate corona patient management protocol. AFGANISTAN-20YEARS OF MISGUIDED ADVENTURE Mr President - Lead from the front! Lankan President stresses the need to prevent the economy from collapsing President urges public to prepare for sacrifices if country is forced to endure prolonged lockdowns Island-wide quarantine curfew from tonight (20th Aug.) to Aug. 30 COVID vaccination programs to continue during quarantine curfew Sri Lanka confirms record daily high of 195 COVID deaths Daily COVID cases count climbs to 3,839 Sri Lanka covid deaths - 90% have not been vaccinated Patients infected with three mutated strains of COVID Delta found in Sri Lanka Double Covid vaccine doesn’t stop symptoms for half of Delta cases British study shows COVID-19 vaccine efficacy wanes under Delta බදුල්ලේ ඇත්ත කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් 42% ක් ජාතික දත්තවලින් හංගලා - බදුල්ලේ රෝහල් රෝගීන්ගෙන් පිරී ගිහින්. ඖෂධ, ඔක්සිජන් මුහුණු ආවරණවත් නෑ. No matter what Minister Channa says '' My father died of Covid due to lack of essential medicine '' Malwathu-Asgiri Chief Prelates urge President to lockdown country Govt’s allied political parties request 3-week lockdown Over 97 percent of COVID-19 victims had not been vaccinated, data reveal Daily Covid-19 cases count climbs to 3,793 Sri Lanka confirms another 186 coronavirus deaths Plans to impose islandwide lockdown? සති තුනකට රට නො වැසුවොත් විසාලාවක් වෙයි - පක්ෂ නායකයින් 10ක් ජනපතිට කියයි Ayurvedic medicines for COVID patients from Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Sathosa to distribute relief packages from tomorrow An Approach to Resolve Issues of Accountability කාලිංග ඉන්දතිස්ස, සංජීව ජයවර්ධන සහ ඉක්‍රම් මොහොමඩ් ජනාධිපති නීතීඥවරුන්ගේ සහයෙන් අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාශය ව්‍යවස්ථා විරෝධී කොරෝනා පනත් කෙටුම්පත ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති බව එළිදරව් වුවද එකී පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමය ස්වාධීනව ක්‍රියා නොකිරීම ගැන බාර දුන් පැමිණිල්ල කුණු කුඩයට නොයැවිය යුතුය..... ඩිප්ලොමැටික් පරයා (2වැනි කොටස ) Silence Over LTTE Execution Ground Blood in the Sand Puzzling reshuffle From Saigon to Kabul Govt approves procurement of 9 Mn Sinopharm, 14 Mn Pfizer doses for 18 to 30 yr olds Sri Lanka cannot enter a lockdown' - President New health guidelines issued until 31st August Daily COVID cases count hits 3,660 today Sri Lanka records 170 more COVID-related deaths Govt. aims to complete vaccinating all above 18 by September end US in Afghanistan (2001-2021) for National or Corporate interest? Fast spreading mudslinging amidst Corvid-19 pandemic පමා වූ පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති ව්‍යාපෘති කඩිනම් කෙරේ. Tale of ignominious retreats from Afghanistan සරලයි පහසුයි.. එන්නත් නැතිව කොරෝනා මඩින විස්මිත ඔසුව සාර්ථකයි.. ලංකාවටත් ලගදීම.. Does Minister Pavithra's farewell speech have a hidden message? ''කැබිනට් සංශෝධනය කළේ පවිත්‍රා දොට්ට දාන්නයි'' Sri Lanka inks Rs. 61.5B Term Facility with China Development Bank Daily COVID deaths hit record high with 171 new fatalities More than 3,600 coronavirus cases detected within the day Opinion Forum : Cabinet reshuffle and covid (Video) ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ අතීසාරයට අබුඩය ගැසීම ඩිප්ලොමැටික් පරයා (1 වන කොටස ) දේශීය ඖෂධ මගින් ප්‍රතිශක්තිය වර්ධනය කරගන්නා එන්නත ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරන අයට වෙනස්කම් කිරීමට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමට පැමිණිල්ලක් බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය - 31 වැනි කොටස- ගිනි පුපුරු න්‍යාය අක්කර 13 ක වරාය ඉඩම හා වරාය අධිකාරිය යටතේ ලබාදෙන සේවාවන් චීනයේ CICT සමාගමට පැවරීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය වහා අහෝසි කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. Could the electric tuk-tuk be a success in Sri Lanka? සිංහලෙන් ලේඛන ඉල්ලූ නඩුවට අවසර නොදී අගවිනිසුරු විනිසුරු අසුනෙන් බැස යන විට සෙන්කෝලය ඉවත් කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වීමේ විශේෂ සිදුවීමක්.... මහජන බැංකුව 60 වසරක ඉතිහාස ග්‍රන්ථය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට පිළිගන්වයි ධීවර ගම්මානවල වෙසෙන ජනතාවට සහන සලසන්න අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගෙන් උපදෙස් UK 'surprised by scale and pace' of Taliban takeover, Raab admits - as 200 more troops being sent to Kabul to help with evacuation Biden points finger at Afghanistan officials and Trump as he stands behind decision to withdraw troops Sri Lanka rules out new coal power, promotes rooftop solar Sri Lanka demotes health minister for promoting Covid ‘magic potion’ treatment Cabraal on logic behind nighttime curfews Pavithra reacts to ‘unexpected’ Cabinet reshuffle during farewell speech Daily COVID case count climbs to 3,466 as deaths spike by 167 ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 23C ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 23 B බදුල්ලේ කෝවිඩ් සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන ජාතික මට්ටමින් විකෘති කරලා වසංගතයක සත්‍ය වසන්කිරීම බිළි පුජාවකින් අවසන්වේවි‘ මිහින්තලය කුණුරාගම වැව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කෙරේ. අවුරුදු දොළහට වැඩි ළමයින්ටත් කොවිඩ් ප්‍රතිශක්තීකරණ එන්නත් ලබා දීමට රජය සැළසුම් කර තිබෙනවා - ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රතිකාර මගින් ප්‍රතිශක්තිය ගොඩනගාගෙන සිටීමෙන් එන්නත නොගත්ත අයට වෙනස්කම් කිරීමට එරෙහිව සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂට, හමුදාපතිට, පොලිස්පතිට, නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදකට, රජයේ මුද්‍රණලාධිපතිට සහ නීතිපතිට එරෙහිව මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමට පැමිණිලි කොතලාවල, කෝවිඩ් 19 සහ මානව හිමිකම් සංවිධානය සංස්ථාගත කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත් ජනතාවට එරෙහි පොදු අරමුණක් වෙනුවෙනි....! WATCH: “Honestly Manike.. playing in loop whole night”, Amitabh Bachchan shares “Incredible Sri Lankan song” Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps Taliban enters Afghan capital as US diplomats evacuated by chopper Chinese pharma company to set up Covid-19 vaccine plant in Sri Lanka 582 attempting to enter Western Province turned away All wedding functions banned from Tuesday midnight PM says children above 12 years will be vaccinated Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 death toll exceeds 6,000 and 161 new victims today Daily COVID cases count hits 3,435 today සුව විරුවන්ගේ විඩාව - වැඳලා ඉල්ලනවා, ගෙදර ඉන්න Island wide quarantine curfew imposed from 10 pm tomorrow (Video) Govt is ready to impose lockdown on official advice from health sector' - Prof Channa Jayasumana (Video) Why aspirations of ethnic minorities matter. WEAK LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN OPEN GATE FOR TALIBAN-MAJOR THREAT LOOMING FOR SUB-CONTINENT ‘සිංහල’, බෞද්ධ’ - ක්‍රමයෙන් පරිහානියට යන දේද? ඉතිහාසය සමඟ සෙල්ලම් නොකරමු - එය සැමවිටම සත්‍යවාදී, නිවැරදි වීය යුතුයි Large number of Lankans listed as missing are living abroad under different names – FM Govt. succumbs to chemical fertiliser demand Drugs, ammo in Sri Lankan boat: LTTE, Pakistan links identified Some Christian preachers against COVID vaccine: SLNCC Multiple locations in India searched over LTTE arms found in Kerala, Tamil Nadu Fin. Min. clarifies new gazette on special commodity levy on several food items New daily record as Sri Lanka reports 160 COVID fatalities Daily COVID-19 caseload moves to 3,245 Current Covid Spike In Sri Lanka Started On 25th of July ,Two Weeks After Start Date Of Teachers Udghoshana Demonstration - Evidence of Cause Of Present Spike - "The Opposition Inspired Super Spreader Udghoshana Pokura" ජනාධිපති මොනවා කරන්නේදැයි නොදන්න බව ඔබේ අයියා පන්සල්වල කියනවා..- විජේදාස ජනපතිට කියයි.. පහළ මල්වතු ඔය ජලාශයේ ඉදි කිරීම් ඇමති දුමින්දගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඔරු පැදීමේ (Rowing) හා ස්කොෂ් (Squash) ක්‍රීඩාවන් හි ප්‍රවර්ධනයට තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගෙන් මූල්‍ය ප්‍රදානයන් හිමිවෙයි. Issues in banning polygamy in Sri Lanka. 6 new educational TV channels for school children from next week: Minister Special Commodity Levy imposed on several items භාණ්ඩ කිහිපයක් සඳහා විශේෂ වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩ බද්දක් පනවමින් ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් (වීඩියෝ) Key observations and recommendations of independent experts on current COVID-19 situation and way forward Inter-provincial travel restrictions further tightened; possession of vaccination cards to be mandatory in public Woman causes ruckus after policeman asked to wear face mask properly Sri Lanka records 155 more COVID-related deaths Daily COVID infections count hits 3,152 today Majority of Kalutara, Colombo districts’ population aged above 30 fully vaccinated Officials directed to pay special attention to senior citizens with long-term illnesses ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 23 A FOREIGN POLICY FOREIGN RELATIONS DIPLOMACY AND TOURISM වරද කොතැනද? A GLOOMY FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN PLAN YOUR REBIRTH ඩයලොග්, තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය සමගින් එක්ව ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය තාරුණ්‍යය බලගැන්වීම සඳහා Youth Can වැඩසටහන දියත් කරයි අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමට කිලෝමීටර 482.2 ක විදුලි අලි වැටක් More Than 125,000 People Join The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The extraordinary way in which China coped with COVID-19 Tusker walks 10 days to join Buddhist festival in Sri Lanka Detained Sri Lankan 'treated like a dog,' says family after seeing video How a Death Exposed a History of Sexual Assault at a Rich Politician's Home Is another lockdown the answer? Over 260 vaccination centres operational countrywide Tougher travel restrictions over the weekend? 156 COVID deaths confirmed yesterday - reported deaths exceed 100 for fourth day 3,039 COVID patients identified today Partitioning water between agriculture and hydro-power to maximize Sri Lanka's clean energy output. REGULATING MICROFINANCE (CREDITS) AND ENHANCEMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY OF MICRO BUSINESS PART 1 REGULATING MICROFINANCE (CREDITS) AND ENHANCEMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY PART 2 කොටියාව හඩවපු කර්නල් රත්නප්‍රිය බන්ධු කියන කතාව ජාත්‍යන්තර තරුණ දින සුබ පැතුම් පණිවුඩය New Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka calls on the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. අය-වැය 2022 සඳහා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පසුපෙළ මන්ත්රී යෝජනා ලබාගැනීම අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ලෝක අලි සුරක්ෂිතතා දිනය කාගේ බොක්ක පිරුණාද? Hambantota port to manufacture yachts for a Maldivian company BUSINESSSri Lanka Tourism attracts over $950 million in tourism investments despite pandemic Nearly 150,000 persons forgo COVID vaccine in Colombo district Homecare program for children infected with Covid-19 begins 95% of population over 30 have received at least one dose of vaccines Sri Lanka confirms another 124 Covid-19 deaths Covid-19: daily count of new cases climbs to 2,890 Budget proposals for 2022 held under the patronage of Prime Minister (Video) NO permission to import carbonic compost fertilizer - Shasheendra Rajapaksa (Video) Special mobile vaccination program by Colombo Municipal Council Discrepancies in statistics on COVID infections (Video) Covid Control In Sri Lanka - The Needs of the Hour Are Vaccinations , Compliance With Health Advice and Stopping The Super Spreader Uthgoshanas, If Necessary. Invoking Emergency Regulations. Colombo Security Conclave: Expectations of Bangladesh to ensure Regional Maritime cooperation The need for a new patriotic Political Movement, to rescue this country, Sinhala Nation and the Buddha Sasana from the imminent disastrous end to which this Government is taking. Immigration agency admits to mistreatment of Sri Lankan before her death Sri Lanka: Bridging The ‘Growing Trust-Deficit’ With The Indian Neighbor – Analysis Sri Lanka rejects lockdown to beat Covid-19 'bomb' No vaccine certificate needed for Sri Lankan expats flying to Dubai AG requests CJ to appoint Trial-at-Bar to hear cases against 25 suspects Inter Province travel restriction to be strictly monitored from today - Army Chief Herd immunity 'not a possibility' with Delta variant, says vaccines expert Sri Lanka’s daily COVID deaths top 100 for second consecutive day More than 2,900 fresh COVID cases confirmed within the day All import taxes on milk powder to be removed Govt allows import of organic fertilizer, minerals, plant nutrients for Maha Season Advice to graduating students: Balancing Hard and Soft Skills. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ පදවි ප්‍රාප්තියේ වර්ෂ පූර්ණය සිහිකර ඉන්දු - ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආශිර්වාද පූජාවක් බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය - 30 වැනි කොටස- ආයෝජන සමානාත්මතාව Shavendra responds to Ranil’s criticism China behind Sri Lanka’s vaccination programme success: Pavithra Every hospital to be converted to treat COVID patients 40,000 elderly forgo COVID vaccine in Colombo Sri Lanka holds mass cremations amid surge in Covid-19 deaths Sri Lanka’s daily fatalities count moves past 111 Ministerial committee appointed to resolve teachers’ salary anomalies With 1,010 new COVID cases, daily count climbs to 2,938 Homecare program for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients from today On What Conditions should Teachers on the Street be Allowed Back in the Classroom? 45,000 of COVID-19 cases so far are children, Lady Ridgeway overcrowded COVID-19 Survivors Have Broad, Longer-Term Immunity යුනිවර්ස් හෙවත් ලෝක ධාතුව In Sri Lanka, the Tamil link with Buddhism is brushed under the carpet COVID death toll moves up with 94 new victims Sri Lanka confirms 2,956 COVID cases within the day Demise of Dilip Kumar the demigod of Hindi cinema. Tamil Genocide / Mullivaikal Massacre Remembrance Day In Auckland – Stirring Up Communal Strife In New Zealand Based On A Disproven Allegation UK suppressed ‘robust evidence’ at Sri Lanka’s expense at UNHRC – Lord Naseby Give some comforts to the sick citizens Overcoming the COVID-pandemic: Ahmadiyya Khalifa delivers a faith-inspiring address from the Ahmadi Ladies marquee at UK Convention 2021 Police launch operation in Colombo to trace those who are not vaccinated Sri Lanka's study: Sinopharm vaccine efficient against Delta variant Reports on Japura hospital packed with COVID patients are false 2,796 fresh COVID-19 cases detected today Covid death toll exceeds 5,000 with 98 more deaths Special operation to trace unvaccinated people in Colombo Anyone over 30 can receive first dose from any centre where second vaccine is given: Prez Framework for a new Sri Lanka; a Union of Regions Malaysia: From COVID role model to a mini-India No congestion of COVID patients at hospitals, says Health Ministry A king of Burma and the Sacred Tooth Relic රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මියගේ උපදෙසින් දීප ව්‍යාප්තව වෘත්තීය පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථාන සුර්ය ශක්තියෙන් බල ගැන්වීමේ ජාතික වැඩසටහන ඇරඹේ සුර්යබල තාක්ෂණ විදුලි කාර්මිකයින් 10,000 ක් බිහි කිරීමට ද අවධානය යොමුවේ. කොවිඩ් රෝගීන්ගේ පහසුවට අචාර්ය බෝදාගම චන්දිම නාහිමියන්ගෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාට ඔක්සිමීටර් පරිත්‍යාගයක් This is the place where we can find REAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE LORD BUDDHA Getting Vaccinated Lankan President blames public rallies for spurt in COVID cases India Failed To Fulfill Its Obligations But Wants Sri Lanka To ‘Fully Implement’ 13th Constitutional Amendment – OpEd HEINEKEN LANKA Begins Local Brewing of Flagship Heineken® Beer in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka targets 70 percent renewable energy goal by 2030 Sri Lanka tightens Covid restrictions as hospitals struggle WORLDS POOREST PRIME MINISTER – W.DAHANAYAKE Formulate mechanism to prevent Covid patients inconvenienced in Hospitals: President tells officials Bomb threat in leading 5 star hotels and several places in Colombo are false Guidelines issued for home-based care for low-risk COVID patients Police investigate misleading post circulated in social media COVID death toll tops 4,900 with 98 new victims Over 2,700 COVID cases confirmed within the day The menace called the JVP – why has no government chased them out of universities? Are Governments losing control to Corporates එන්නත්කරණයට ප්‍රවාහන පහසුකම් නැති ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ඉල්ලීමට SLRCS සහ UBER SRI LANKA වෙතින් නොමිලේ ගමන්වාර 50000ක් මිහින්තලය සියඹලාගස්වැව වැව රුපියල් මිලියන 09 කින් ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කෙරේ. British Muslims Come Together for First Time since COVID Restrictions at UK’s largest Islamic Convention Lankan Supreme Court suspends the operation of De-radicalization Regulations ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය කේන්ද්‍රයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවක්.. කාබනික වගාව ගැන කිංස්ලි පහදයි.. Karunananda of Sri Lanka: The Courageous Loser Who Won Hearts at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics The Government of Sri Lanka and WFP provide food rations to children who are missing out on school meals Sri Lanka walks back fertiliser ban over political fallout fears Sri Lanka hospital capacity reaches 'tipping point' as the country records its highest COVID-19 toll in a day 75% of Delta variant cases detected in last week of July from Colombo Hospitals exceeding capacity as Covid-19 cases surge Covid-19: with 784 new cases, daily count climbs to 2,669 94 more Covid-19 deaths reported in Sri Lanka Hype over IMF අනුරාධපුර කේ.බී රත්නායක විද්‍යාලයේ ජල අවශ්‍යතාව සපුරාලීම වෙනුවෙන් එම විද්‍යාලයට ජල ටැංකියක් 5th AUGUST 2019-THE EVER BLACKEST DAY Permission for Carriage of Fully Vaccinated Passengers without any limitation of passenger numbers per flight effective 0001 hrs 1st August 2021. ජනාධිපතිවරයා හදිසි තීරණයක් ගනී. Are we to buy our solar energy with dollars? NEWSSLFP asks govt. to address SLPP constituents’ grievances or face consequences Sri Lanka heading for worst medical tsunami in coming weeks from Delta wave Reuters analysis on current Sri Lankan economic situation No permission granted to import chemical fertilizer: Presidential Media Division The Rajapaksa Dynasty in Sri Lanka: Democracy in Decline Govt. says no plan to change decision on use of organic fertilizer Daily COVID case count soars past 2,500 with deaths spike by 82 Sri Lanka lifts fertiliser import ban after outcry පොහොර තහනම ඉවරයි. වගා හානි වූ ගොවීන්ට රජය වන්දි ගෙවිය යුතුයි. ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාව වෙනුවෙන් සහාය දුන් සැමට ස්තුතියි. Why this punishment for our senior citizens? පියදාස මදරසිංහ -71 කැරැල්ලෙන් මතුවූ විශ්මිත ඉංජිනේරුවා සිංහලෙන් නීතිය ඉගැන්නූ ගුරුවරුන්ට නීති විද්‍යාලයේ දොර වැහුවේ සිංහලෙන් නීතිය ඉගැන්වීම වළක්වා රජය ගෙනෙන ව්‍යවස්ථා විරෝධී නීති පහසුවෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර දෙන්නද? රෝගයෙන් පෙලෙන දියණියක සිටි නිවසෙහි වැඩ නිම කර ගැනීමට රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා උපකාර කරයි පාසල් හා ක්‍රීඩා සංකීර්ණ සඳහා මිටර් 130 ක මංතීරු 04ක Full PUR Synthetic පුහුණු ධාවන පථ ඉදිකිරීමේ මිල ගණන් කැඳවීම සම්බන්ධවයි. Over 350 vaccination centers open today in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka receives state-of-the-art Beach Cleanup machines to remove X-Press Pearl plastic waste Emirates issues list of 11 countries from where passengers can travel to UAE Aeroflot will operate flights to Sri Lanka from September 2, opens ticket sales Gazette issued for importing Nitrogen extracts and Potassium COVID death toll moves up with 74 new victims Daily coronavirus cases count exceeds 2,400 ABUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEVELOPING COMMON CONTROLS For them, joy rides, and us, taken for rides Quality Engineering Education for ALL බෞද්ධ ජනරජ ප්‍රවාදය - 29 වැනි කොටස- ශ්‍රමයට ප්‍රාග්ධනය ලංකා බැංකුවේ විශේෂ අපනයන ඒකකය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඇරඹෙයි Sri Lankan bishop attacks coal power plant Teachers and principals decide not to report for duty today Sixty-three more COVID fatalities reported Daily COVID caseload moves to 2,382 මේ රමනීය දිවයින යලිත් සැබෑ සිංහල බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍යක් කිරීමට ලක් රජය විසින් ගතයුතු එක් ආරම්භක මනොවිද්යාත්මක මූලික පියවරක් හා ලංකික ජාතිය අපරාධ වලින් තොර දැහැමි සමාජයක් කිරීම සදහා විප්ලවීය සමාජ විද්යාත්මක යෝජනාවක්. ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 21Hb රට ගොඩනැංවීම සඳහා කල යුතු පළමු කාර්යවන්නේ අපේ අනාගතය ගොඩනැංවීමට බාරදී ඇති විනයක් නැති ගුරු හොරු මේ සේවාවෙන් පන්නා දැමීමයි. Sri Lanka beckons Indian pharma companies to Hambantota Another ex-domestic aide at MP Bathiudeen’s house claims she suffered sexual harassment Employees in education sector also recalled to work Daily COVID infections climb over 2,500 Sri Lanka reports 67 more COVID-19 deaths Sri Lanka-Russia direct flights resume after 6 years Organic fertilizer alone cannot ensure food security (Video) - කාබනික පොහොර මගින් පමණක් ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාවට යා නොහැකි බවට ප්රකාශයක් (වීඩියෝ)
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ගරු අමාත්‍ය කෙහෙලිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මැතිතුමා, සෞඛ්‍ය හා පෝෂණ අමාත්‍යාංශය, අංක 385, පූජ්‍ය බද්දේගම විමලවංශ හිමි මාවත, කොළඹ - 10. ඇමතිතුමනි, වර්තමාන කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්වය මධ්‍යයේ සංචාරකයින් අප රටට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේදී හෝටල් සේවකයාට මුහුණපෑමට සිදුවන සෞඛ්‍යමය ගැටළු සම්බන්ධවයි. ලෝක වසංගත තත්වයක් වූ කොවිඩ් වසංගතය අද වන විට අප රට තුල ඉතා සීඝ්‍රයෙන් ව්‍යාප්ත වෙමින් පවතින අතර එහිදී දෛනිකව රෝගීන් හා මරණ සංඛ්‍යාව ඉහල යමින් පවතී. මෙම තතව්ය හමුවේ වෘත්තීය සමිති, පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ, මහා සංඝයා වහනේසේලා සෞඛ්‍ය අංශවල බලවත් ඉල්ලීම් පරිදි අද වන විට රට වැසීමට සිදුව ඇත. එහිදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
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ප්‍රධාන ලේකම්, ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් කාර්යාලය (දකුණු පළාත), H.S. දහනායක මාවත, ගාල්ල. ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් තුමනි, රජයේ තීරණ හා ප්‍රතිපත්ති විවේචනය කිරීම දඩුවම් ලැබිය හැකි බවට නිකුත් කර ඇති 2021.08.28 දිනැති ලිපිය හා බැඳේ. CSS/03/01 පොදු - Covid-19/2020 අංක සහිත 2021.08.31 දිනැතිව දකුණු පළාත් ආයතන ප්‍රධානීන් වෙත නිකුත් කර ඇති රජයේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති හා තීරණ ආයතන සංග්රහයට පටහැනිව විවේචනය කිරීම දඩුවම් ලැබිය හැකි වරදක් බවට අවධාරණය කරමින් නිකුත් කර ඇති ලිපිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප සංගමයේ විරෝධය හා අප්‍රසාදය මූලිකව පල කර සිටිමු. රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ද ජනතාව වන බැවින් ද, ඔවුන් ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය පුරවැසියන් වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
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Colombo, August 31 (newsin.asia) – A record 571,589 COVID-19 vaccines were administered in Sri Lanka yesterday (30) making it the highest number of doses to be provided in a single day in the country. Reportedly, a total of 20 million (20,126,990) jabs have been administered as of today (31). Breakdown of the vaccines administered on Monday (30) below: Covishield – AstraZeneca: 11,951 persons were inoculated with the first dose and 653 persons with its second dose. Sinopharm: 48,280 persons were inoculated with the first dose and 488,158 persons with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Courtesy CNA
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has declared an economic emergency empowering the authorities to seize stocks of staple foods and set their prices, to contain soaring inflation after a steep devaluation of its currency due to a foreign exchange crisis. The president of the island nation, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Monday declared an emergency under the public security ordinance to maintain the supply of food items such as sugar and rice at fair prices. The emergency came into effect from midnight. The government has appointed a former army general as commissioner of essential services, who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to issue a gazette notification declaring teacher, teacher advisory, and principal services a closed service. The relevant gazette will be issued before November 20, 2021. https://youtu.be/8ZZz4CnTsxY In addition, the Cabinet has also agreed to pay an allowance of Rs 5,000 in September and October, till the salary anomaly of teachers and principals is resolved through the 2022 budget. This was considering the recommendations of cabinet appointed Sub-Committee on the elimination of salary anomalies in teacher-principal services. Accordingly,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
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Following the exposé made by Ada Derana ‘Ukussa’ on the truth behind the artificial market shortage of sugar, more warehouses stashing away large stocks of the product were tracked down by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA). Five teams of CAA officials, appointed by State Minister of Co-operative Services, Marketing Development and Consumer Protection Lasantha Alagiyawanna to look into the matter, carried out inspections in Colombo and Gampaha districts today (Aug. 31). During the raids, a total of 11,070 metric tons of sugar was recovered from warehouses in Hekitta, Enderamulla, Uswetakeiyawa and Heiyanthuduwa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
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The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 194 coronavirus related deaths for August 30, increasing the official death toll in the country to 9,185. According to the figures reported by the Department of Government Information today (31), the victims include 100 males and 94 females while three of the deceased are below the age of 30. Forty-five of the Covid-19 deaths are individuals between the ages of 30-59 and the remaining 146 are persons aged 60 and above. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
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Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka surpassed 4,000 for the tenth consecutive day today (August 31) as 1,881 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,221 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day and they have been associated with the New Year Cluster. The new development brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 cases tally to 440,302. At present, 56,961 active cases are receiving medical care at hospitals, treatment centres and their respective homes. Meanwhile, the number of total recoveries has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ආරංචි
රජය විසින් රසායනික පළිබෝධනාශක ආනයනය සඳහා පනවා ඇති තහනම ලිහිල් කිරීමට අවධානය යොමු වී තිබේ. පලිබෝධනාශක රෙජිස්ට්‍රාර් කාර්යාලයේ ලියාපදිංචි වී ඇති සහ ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානයේ අනතුරුදායක වර්ගීකරණය අනුව තුන්වන හා හතරවන පන්තියේ පළිබෝධනාශක කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ තීරණයකට යටත් ව ආනයනය කිරීමට කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් යෝජනා කර තිබේ. ඛනිජ තෙල් සංස්ථාව සංස්ථාව හෝ දේශීය නියෝජිත සමාගම් විසින් එම කෘෂි රසායන ආනයනය කර සිපෙට්කෝ කෘෂි රසායන අංශය සතු ගබඩාවල ගබඩා කිරීමටත් කෘෂිකර්ම දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිර්දේශ මත ගොවිජන සේවා මධ්‍යස්ථාන හරහා අලෙවි කිරීමටත් අනුමැතිය ඉල්ලා කෘෂිකර්ම ඇමැති මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා විසින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල පත්රිකාවක් ඉදිරිපත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන
පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රයෙහි වැව් බැම්ම මත ඉදි කිරීමට යෝජනා වී ඇති ඇවිදින මංතීරුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරයි. එම සම්පූර්ණ නිවේදනය මෙසේය. පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රයේ ඇවිදින මංතීරුවක් ඉදිකිරීම පොළොන්නරුව නගරය ආසන්න ඇවිදින මංතීරුවක් නොමැතිවීම නිසා මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඉතා සත්භාවයෙන් හා යහපත් අරමුණකින් ආරම්භ කරන්නට ඇතැයි සිතමි. පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රය මහාවේල්ල (බැම්ම) ඇති ඓතිහාසික පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක වටිනාකමත්, ගොවිජනතාවට එහි ඇති ජීවත්වීමේ අරගලයේදී තිබෙන දැඩි සම්බන්ධය සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය ආරම්භ කිරීමේදී ගොවිජනතාව සහ ප්රදේශයේ මහා සංඝරත්ණය දැනුවත් කිරීමට තිබුනි. එවිට මෙවැනි ගැටළුවක් පැනනගී නම් ව්‍යාපෘතිය කිරීම හෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Courtesy News 1st
COLOMBO (News 1st): Former President Maithripala Sirisena has clarified his stance on the project to build a jogging track on the Polonnaruwa Parakrama Samudra tank bund which is currently under controversy. In a statement, former President Maithripala Sirisena said that much care should be taken when embarking on any project on a vast reservoir such as the Parakrama Samudraya, a masterpiece of Sri Lankan irrigation technology. https://youtu.be/hMjDicYaR3Q The former President points out that it is reasonable for the farmers and the Maha Sangha to object such activities to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
NEWS1ST https://youtu.be/gdZW7gYkL0I COLOMBO (NEWS1ST) : ඓතිහාසික පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රයේ වැව් බැම්මේ රළපනාවේ ගල් සමතලා කොට එහි ඉදි කරමින් පවතින ඇවිදින මංතීරුවේ වැඩ වහා ම නවත්වන්නැයි, ඉල්ලමින් මහා සංඝරත්නය අද (27) වැව් බැම්ම වෙත වැඩම කළහ. පොළොන්නරුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ විහාරස්ථාන රැසක වැඩ සිටින භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ අද උදැසන එලෙස ඓතිහාසික පරාක්‍රම සමුද්‍රයේ වැව් බැම්මේ රළපනාවේ ගල් සමතලා කොට ඉදිවන ඇවිදින මං තීරුව නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා වැඩම කළහ. සමස්ත ලංකා ගොවිජන සම්මේලනයේ පිරිසක් හා ප්‍රදේශවාසීන් ද මෙම විරෝධතාවට එක්ව සිටි අතර භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේ පිරිස මෙම ඉදිකිරීමට විරෝධය පළ කරමින් වැව් බැම්මට එපිටින් පිහිටි මාර්ගයේ සිට සිය විරෝධය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Garvin Karunaratne, Former G.A.Matara 1971-73.
I must thank Tisuri Wanniaratchi for her note on Susil. Susil stood up for what is right for the masses. He contributed heavily for the Janasaviya and Gam Udawa of President Premadasa. It was unfortunate that President Premadasa did not live long to enable Janasaviya to flower to become a major programme. I knew Susil when he was a graduate teacher at Anuradhapura Central where my wife Bimba too taught. That was way back in 1962. With his university qualification from Oxford and his connections with the leaders in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM FRCP/FRACP
The above wonderful oration from the learned Cambridge Professor of South Korean extract, high lighted clearly the importance of protecting infant industries and ventures till they grow to maturity just like a parent protects a child till maturity before exposing them to the turbulence of the real world economies. He exposed that the high priests of free market ideology UK & US , did precisely that during the infancy of their manufacturing industry in the past two centuries . He also revealed how South Korea, Singapore , Japan also practiced strong... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
By Garvin Karunaratne
Minister Gammanpila is reported to have said that we will have to face a massive export bill to import fuel for the unending cadence of motor vehicles. He is right. It is also reported that our country is pleading with supplier countries to buy on credit not only fuel, but even lentils. I read of Lentils on credit in a news item yesterday! I had a last laugh as we can produce all the lentils we need in one chena cultivation- in just a few months but we dismantled our agricultural extension service- first... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Geethanjana Kualigamage
By the end of the 19th century, ‘Marx stood Hagel on his head.’ But in the 21st century, grudgingly settling old scores and turning the table the other way around, ‘Shylock has stood Marx on his head’ and reduced Marx into a mere scarecrow dangling in the horizon of the history of mankind. Not less a person than Marx himself said that “history repeats itself…. first as tragedy and second as farce.” Oh yes! Contemporary Marxists have proved Marx’s point so profoundly and farcically. Hagel is considered to be the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The Eelam victory has led to an interesting development in United Nations policy at the United Nations Secretariat. The failure to control Eelam War IV in Sri Lanka has led the UN to adopt a new global policy called “Rights up Front”, which places human rights at the center of the UN’s work. In 2012, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, appointed an “Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action in Sri Lanka “, known as the Petrie Report (2012). The Petrie Report found a “systemic failure” in the UN response during... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
MD Pathik Hasan writing from Bangladesh
The name of East Timor is well known in Bangladesh. Many Bangladesh migrant labors are working in East Timor. The people of Bangladesh praise the people of East Timor. In a few days ago, Bangladesh expressed deep mourning over the lives lost in flash floods and landslides in different parts of Timor-Leste recently. In a message sent to Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister of Timor-Leste Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen in favor of the people of Bangladesh conveyed heartfelt sympathies to both the leaders. He expressed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Courtesy: 'ANANDA IN SWADDLING CLOTHES' By S. A. Wijayatilake (Extracted from the Ananda College Golden Jubilee Souvenir - 1936)
Three and a half centuries of foreign aggression and occupation - at first partial, but since 1815 complete - of the land had not only demoralized and emasculated the Sinhalese people generally, but had adversely affected the position of Buddhism in this Island in particular. The Portuguese, whose arrival in Ceylon synchronized with the activities of the Counter-Reformation in Europe, believed that the Flag follows Trade and the Cross follows the Flag. In the words of Albuquerque, “The new heroes of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
බුදුදහමෙහි ආභාසය ලත් අපගේ මනස සැකැසී ඇත්තේ අත්දැකීම් මත පදනම් වූ ප්‍රත්‍යක්‍ෂය ඇසුරෙන් ලෝකය අවබෝධ කරගත හැකි ආකාරයකිනි. එහෙයින් වියුක්ත න්‍යායික කරුණු ග්‍රහණය කරගැනීම ද ඒ ඇසුරෙන් ලෝකය වටහාගැනීම ද අපගේ දරුවන් හට අපහසු ය. රූපසටහන් ඇසුරින් යම් යම් න්‍යායික කරුණු තම ශිෂ්‍යයන්ට පැහැදිළි කරදීමට අපගේ ඇතැම් ගුරුවරුන් කටයුතු කරන්නේ ද එබැවිනි. මෙය විශ්වවිද්‍යාල මට්ටමේ සෛද්ධාන්තික ගණිතය පිළිබඳ දේශනවල දී පවා කෙරෙන කාර්යයකි. අපගේ මනස මෙ ලෙසින් හැසිරුණ ද, බටහිර මාදිලියේ අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමයක් මෙ රට ක්‍රියාත්මක වන බැවින් එයින් කෙරෙනුයේ ශිෂ්‍යයන් හට න්‍යායික අධ්‍යාපනයක් ලබාදීම ය. ලෞකික කාර්යයන්හි නිරතවීමට න්‍යායික දැනුම අවශ්‍ය බව සැබෑවකි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය
ටෝකියෝ පැරා ඔලිම්පික් උලෙළේ හෙල්ල විසි කිරීමේ තරඟයෙන් නව ලෝක වාර්තාවක් ද පිහිටුවමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට රන් පදක්කමක් දිනා දුන් දිනේෂ් ප්‍රියන්ත හේරත් ක්‍රීඩකයාට උණුසුම් සුබ පැතුම් පිරිනමමි. බෙදුම්වාදයට එරෙහිව රට එක්සේසත් කරන සටනේ දී සිය වගකීම නොපිරිහෙළා ඉටු කළ රණවිරු දිනේෂ් ප්‍රියන්ත 2016 ඔලිම්පික් උලෙළේ දී ද අපේ මාතෘ භූමියට ලෝකඩ පදක්කමක් දිනා දීමට සමත් විය. ඒ අනුව අපේ රටට ඔලිම්පික් පදක්කම් දෙකක් දිනා දුන් එක ම සහ පළමු ක්‍රීඩකයා දිනේෂ් ප්‍රියන්ත ය. 'කොවිඩ් වසංගත තත්ත්වය නිසා මුහුණ පෑමට සිදු වූ අනේක විද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
තුසිත බාලසූරිය ලේකම් ශ්‍රී ලංකා සමාජ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී පක්ෂය
කංසා වැනි වටිනා ඖෂධ අනීතිකව තබාගෙන කොරෝනා වසංගතය මර්ධනයට යාමෙහි අනිටු ප්‍රතිවිපාක අප අද වනවිට අත්විඳිමින් සිටී. මෙම වසංගතයේ ස්භාවය පිළිබඳවත්, එහි රෝග ලක්ෂණ පිළිබඳව සහ කෝරෝනා වෛරසය මර්ධනයට යොදා ගන්නා දේශීය හා බටහිර වෛද්‍ය ක්‍රම පිළිබඳව දැන් අපට පැහැදිලි අවබෝධයක් ඇත. එහි දී දේශීය වෙදකමට නැත්නම් ආයුර්වේද වෙදකමට විශාල කාර්යය භාරයක් පැවරී ඇති බව මාගේ අදහසයි. නමුත් එය නිසි ලෙස යොදා ගන්නවාද යන්න ගැටලු සහගත ය. දේශීය වෙදකමට හා ආයුර්වේදයට පුරාතනයේ සිට යොදා ගන්නා කංසා වැනි ඖෂධ ලෝකයේ පවතින නව දැනුම හා තාක්ෂණය සමඟ මුසු කොට වසංගතය පාලනයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Pathik Hasan writing from Bangladesh
When US President Joe Biden declared on Tuesday that evacuation efforts would be completed by August 31 in the virtual meeting of G-7. Western states urged US to extend the deadline. A spokesperson of Taliban didn’t not agree to an extension of the evacuation mission from Afghanistan. Amidst these Scores of people were killed in several explosions at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport. The blast came after Western intelligence agencies warned citizens not to travel to the airport because of a credible terror threat and warned of consequences in case of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
Asian Development Bank
In Sri Lanka, women are assumed to be the main beneficiaries of projects improving the supply of water and management of sanitation. Women are traditionally responsible for cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the family and are highly affected by problems associated with water supply. During dry periods, women have to manage limited resources between household needs and for gardens surrounding their houses. Produce from gardens is an important contribution to food security. Women often have to share water with other households or walk great distances to find alternative sources. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/08/21)
By Shiran Illanperuma/The Morning Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 29: Covid-19 pandemic-hit Sri Lanka is undergoing a very difficult period in its economic history. Since around 2012, the country’s GDP growth rate has continuously plummeted, manufacturing output has flat-lined, and external debt stocks as a percentage of GNI have reached highs not seen since the mid-1990s. In 2016, the country entered into an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to borrow 1 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDR; an international reserve asset) as part of an Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Policy makers justified this on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 30 (Ceylon Today): Sir Edwin Arnold, a 19 th., Century Indologist, journalist, poet and author of the immensely popular Light of Asia on the life of the Buddha, campaigned hard, both singly and in collaboration with the Ceylonese monk Anagarika Dharmapala, to retrieve the ancient Buddhist shrine at Buddha Gaya from the hands of a Saivite Hindu priest, called the Mahant. Arnold’s role in the struggle for retrieval is vividly brought out by Jairam Ramesh in his book: The Light of Asia: the poem that defined The Buddha (Penguin Random House,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A program to distribute Ayurvedic medicines free of charge to the homes of COVID-19 infected patients and quarantined persons in the Western Province was launched today (August 30). The program is organized by the Western Provincial Department of Ayurveda. The patients were also provided with the necessary medical advice. The program will continue to serve COVID-19 patients and quarantined families who wish to seek home remedies by resorting to Ayurvedic medicine. The Western Province Department of Ayurveda states that COVID-19 patients are being treated at home under the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal to increase the salaries of principals and teachers. The proposal was submitted by the Cabinet Sub-Committee appointed to resolve the salary anomalies of teachers and principals. The salary increment will come into effect under several stages from the next Budget.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has registered 216 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Sunday (August 29). This marks the highest number of COVID-19 deaths reported in one day. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,991. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 115 males and 101 females. Five of the victims are aged below 30 years while 41 of them are aged between 30-59 years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 974 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,562. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 436,081. As many as 371,992 recoveries and 8,991 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 55,098 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Written by Zulfick Farzan Courtesy News 1st)
https://youtu.be/lFqwpBwircc COLOMBO (News 1st); The breakwater of the ancient Parakrama Samudraya is being bulldozed for the construction of a walking path. Video obtained by News 1st showed that bulldozers were being used to shove the rocks of the breakwater into the Parakrama Samudraya to construct a new walking path around the ancient water system. This 08 feet wide walking path will cover a 1.7 km stretch from the Divisional Secretary Official Residence to the D. S. Senanayake memorial at the Number 01 Sluice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Text and Pix By Karunaratne Gamage Courtesy The Island
Project suspended after protests The Maha Sangha on Friday took a stand against the possibe destruction of the bund of the historic Parakrama Samudra, endangered by the construction of a new walking path. Bhikkus from multiple temples across the Polonnaruwa District made their way to the construction site on Friday (27) morning to witness for themselves the danger to an ancient water conservation system. Monks representing all three chapters in the District attended the protest demanding the government to suspend... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
Luke Andrews Health Reporter For Mailonline Courtesy Daily Mail
A new Covid variant which has been branded the 'most mutated so far' may already be extinct, it was claimed today. Concerns were raised that the mutant strain — dubbed C.1.2 — could be more infectious than other variants and better able to evade vaccines. But experts said today there was no sign the mutant strain had managed to gain a foothold in South Africa — where it was first identified — or any other country. The director of University College London's genetics institute... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/08/21)
The News Reporter
https://youtu.be/Opdxyc_xFtk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The UN Security Council was approached, without success by the Tamil Separatist Movement to get the Eelam war stopped and Eelam declared. According to the UN Charter the only UN body that can discuss the Eelam war was the Security Council. This was clearly stated in article 7 of the UN Constitution. But the Security Council refused to discuss the Eelam war. They said it was an internal matter that did not affect international security. UN could interfere in the affair of a country only if a situation developed that would spill over... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
MD Pathik Hasan,
Source: Tribune Express Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Sri Lanka on February 23 and 24 at the invitation of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. This is his first visit to Lanka after coming to power. He said, ‘I go to cricket after finishing my studies, and you (Mahinda Rajapaksa) travel to the field of politics.’ The tour has created tension in the subcontinent even before the tour. Khan's visit took on a new dimension as India's relations with Sri Lanka deteriorated after the recent cancellation of an agreement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය
දශක හයක්පුරා මෙරට පුවත්පත් කලාවට විශිෂ්ට සේවයක් ඉටුකළ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදී එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතාගේ හදිසි අභාවය අසා මම බලවත් ශෝකයට පත්වූයෙමි. මාධ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ බහුශ්‍රැතයෙකු වන එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතා සම්මානනීය ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකි. එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතා නීති ශිෂ්‍යයෙක්ව සිටිය දී එය පසෙකලා 1954 දී ජනමාධ්‍යවේදියෙකු ලෙස සිය වෘත්තීය ජීවිතය ආරම්භ කරන්නේ ස්වදේශිය සමාගමෙන් ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කළ "සිංහල ජාතිය" සහ "ගාඩියන්" පුවත්පත්වල අධිකරණ වාර්තාකරුවෙකු ලෙසය. එල්මෝ ගුණරත්න මහතාගේ මාධ්‍ය දිවියේ හැරවුම් ලක්ෂය ලෙස සැළකෙන්නේ 1955 දී ලේක්හවුස් ආයතන‍යට සම්බන්ධ වීමය. සිළුමිණ, ජනතා, ඩේලි නිවුස් සහ සන්ඩේ ඔබ්සවර් පුවත්පත්වල පොලිස් හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණු පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර
රෝගී සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් 50.5% ක් සඟවලා. කෝවිඩ් දත්ත හපුතලේ කන්ද බහිනකොට වාශ්ප වෙනවාද? වසංගත රෝග ඒකකය ඌව පලාතේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව 50% කින් කපා දමා වාර්තා ලියා ඇත. පට්ටපල් බොරු දත්ත සහ සංඛ්‍යා මත පදනම්ව සම්පත් බෙදාදීම හේතුවෙන් ඌවේ සෞඛ්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ඖෂධ හා උපකරණ හිඟයකට මුහුණ දී ඇති බවත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. බදුල්ල හා මොණරාගල දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේඛන අනුව, 2021 අගෝස්තු 28 දින වන විට ඌව පළාතේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් 31,137 ක් වාර්තා වී ඇත. එයින් බදුල්ලේ රෝගීන් 18,630... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 29 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Airlines is offering a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ ticket offer to Indian tourists travelling to Sri Lanka. The offer is only valid for Indian nationals travelling on a tourist visa. “Exciting offer from SriLankan Airlines! Buy One Get One Free from India to SriLanka. Offer Valid only for Indian nationals travelling on tourist visa. Reserve your ticket today! Please contact your nearest SriLankan Airlines Office or your travel agent to book your ticket” SriLankan Airlines said in a tweet.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy The New Indian Express
Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed his regret in the Assembly that he called the camp for Sri Lankan Tamils a ‘refugee camp’ when he announced the welfare package for them. A child at a camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees near Vellore | S dineshBy Express News Service CHENNAI: Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed his regret in the Assembly that he called the camp for Sri Lankan Tamils a ‘refugee camp’ when he announced the welfare package for them. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
M.R. Narayan Swamy Courtesy The Wire
But even after their death, the Tigers seem to have the ability to keep tormenting Sri Lanka’s Tamils. Ever since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was militarily crushed in May 2009, it has been asked repeatedly: Can the group be resurrected by Sri Lankan Tamils? I insisted then and I insist now: the LTTE is dead for ever. Of course, the LTTE will live in the minds of many, both Tamils and non-Tamils. Those who admired and those who suffered at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
About 34 children have been infected with the post-covid syndrome called “Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children’ so far in Sri Lanka and five such children were receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital at present, a medical specialist said today. Consultant in charge of the Intensive Care Unit of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital Pediatrician Dr. Nalin Kithulwatta said 21 out of the 34 children who were infected with the syndrome have been reported from the Lady Ridgeway Hospital while six cases are from the Karapitiya Hospital and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Over seven million people in Sri Lanka have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccination as of yesterday (August 28), Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella tweeted. Accordingly, a total of 7,042,418 people have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus so far. Minister Rambukwella, in his tweet, has further said that Sri Lanka is on track to vaccinate 60% of the population by mid-October this year. He also says that the government is also striving to reopen the country. As per the Epidemiology Unit, a total of 12,309,254 people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi says that SriLankan Airlines will operate 4 weekly flights to Chennai, 4 to Mumbai and one to Bangalore under its new schedule, and is expected to introduce significant frequency enhancements after the country opened it borders to India. Under the new schedules, the airline will be resuming services between Colombo and the Indian points; Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Trivandrum and Cochin with flights once a week. In addition, Hyderabad and New Delhi will be connected to Colombo with twice-weekly flights. Further, the airlines’ operations out of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka surpassed 4,000 for the eighth consecutive day today (August 29) as 914 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,612 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day and they have been associated with the New Year Cluster. The new development brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 cases tally to 426,169. At present, 59,796 active cases are receiving medical care at hospitals, treatment centres and their respective homes. Meanwhile, the number of total recoveries has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as 192 more fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 29). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,775. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 109 males and 83 females. As many as 156 deaths were reported among the elderly people who are aged above 60 years. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
රැල්ෆ් නාරංපනාව
අද පොලොන්නරුවේ ඇති පරක්‍රම සමුද්‍රය අරක්ශාකරන රලපනාව ගලවා ඒ වෙනුවට කොක්‍රීට්වලින් සෑදු මංතිරුවක් සෑදීමට රජය ගෙන ඇති තීරනයට විරුද්ධව බලවත් කතාබහක් සමාජය තුල ඇතිවෙමින් පවතී.බොහෝ දෙනෙක් රලපනාව ගැන කතාකරත් මේ ගැන හරි දැනීමක් නොමැතිබවක් සමාජ මාද්‍ය ඔස්සේ ඇතිවන කතිකා වලින් පෙනී යයි. රජරට වැව් සංකීර්නය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වාරි ඉතිහාසය ක්‍රි.පූ. 6 වෙනි සියවස තරම් ඈතට දිවයයි. ක්‍රි.පූ. 6 වෙනි සියවසේදි උතුරු ඉන්දියාවෙන් පැමිණි ආර්ය ජන කොටස් ලංකා‍‍වෙ ජනාවාසකරණය කළ බව මහා වංශ තොරතුරු වලින් අනාවරණය‍‍වේ. විජය රජ සමඟ පැමිණි පිරිස් විසින් දිවයිනේ ගංඟා ඇසුරු කරගෙන ග්‍රාමයන් නිර්මාණය කරන ලදි. මේ ආකාරයට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජලය ඇසුරු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/08/21)
Chanaka Bandarage
News from Polonnaruwa states that a jogging track is to be built on the bund of the Great Tank (Wewa) - Parakrama Samudraya. Parakrama Samudraya is a gigantic tank (‘samudra’ means large as a sea). Its archeological value is unspeakable/unmeasurable. Parakrama Samudraya was built by Parakramabahu the Great, more than 1,500 years ago. During his period Sri Lanka exported rice to other countries as well. It is stated that he conquered parts of modern day Myanmar. Our ancient tanks were built with the intention of storing rainfall and surface... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The United Nations delegated the subject of ‘war’ to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The UN Charter authorizes the Security Council to investigate any situation threatening international peace and take suitable action. UNSC is the only UN agency whose decisions Member states are obliged to follow. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. it is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly and approving any changes to the UN Charter. Its powers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/08/21)
Manusha Media
රට තබන ලෙසට ඉල්ලීම් කරන්නේ පාපිෂ්ඨ සාහසික යැයි සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයා පවසන බවත්, ඒ අනුව මහානායක හාමුරුවෝත් පාපිෂ්ඨ සාහසික බලවේගයක්දැයි ඇමැතිවරයාගෙන් ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කරන බවත්, සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මනුෂ නානායක්කාර පැවසුවේය. මුදල් රාජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයා රටේ ආර්ථිකය ගැන සිතා රට විවෘත කළ යුතු යැයි පැවසුවත්, ජනතාව මළ සොහොන් බිමක්වූ විට ආර්ථිකයෙන් ඇති ප‍්‍රයෝජනය කුමක්දැයි ප‍්‍රශ්ණ කරන බවත් අද සවස මාධ්‍ය වෙත ප්රකාශයක් ලබාදෙමින් මන්ත්රීවරයා කීවේය. වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වු මන්ත්රීවරයා මෙසේද කීවේය. තවදුරටත් රට වසා තැබීම රටට ඔරොත්තු දෙන්නේ නෑ, රටේ ආර්ථිකයට ඔරොත්තු දෙන්නේ නෑ කියලා මුදල් රාජ්‍ය ඇමැති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/08/21)
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM
Please find below James Pilger's, “ The great Game of Smashing Nations”. This is how the foundations were laid to todays misery of Afghanistan The unprincipled , selfish, devoid of any moral qualms , designs that US and their western allies had then are now being duplicated and being implemented in Sri Lanka,today, destabilising an administration with overwhelming support from the rank and file of Sri Lanka, backed by 6.9 million votes, like the then Afghan regime. This is a carbon copy of their strategy and actions in Afghanistan in 2001 to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/08/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
(continued from August 23, 2021) Sri Lanka and supranationalism Every Sri Lankan government since independence has acted on the tacit understanding that, while remaining politically independent of India without being overawed by its size or strength, Sri Lanka should maintain friendly relations with its big northern neighbour at all times. But unfortunately, India doesn’t seem to reciprocate this established cooperative, non-threatening stance of Sri Lanka. Instead India seems to overlook or slily exploit the growing supranationalist influence of the West on Sri Lanka that is aimed at containing China. Here,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
UN Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report on Sri Lanka in January 2021. https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/LK/Sri_LankaReportJan2021.docx. Sri Lanka rejected this report. Tamara Kunanayagam commented on the report in a television interview. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2021/02/14/sri-lanka-cannot-compromise-at-the-unhrc-sessions/ Tamara said that this report has dangerous concepts in it. It is an attempt at precedent setting, to change the very norms on which the current international order is based. She drew attention to three matters recommended in the Report. First, ‘R2P’ which says if a state is not willing or able to protect its own citizens, then other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
John Pilger: Courtesy The Consortium News
More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed. As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed. In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir Shah. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
තිසර සමල්- අනුරාධපුර
තෝඩාමඩුව එල්ලංගා පද්ධතියට අයත් අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වැව් 27 ක් ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීම සමාරම්භ කෙරෙමින් සිදු වන තෝඩාමඩුව මහ වැව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක් විය. අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන්ගේ සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම ප්‍රථිපත්ති ප්රකාශනයට අනුව කෘෂිකාර්මික කටයුතු සදහා අවශ්‍ය ජලය සපයා ගැනීම සදහා තෝඩාමඩුව එල්ලංගා පද්ධතියට අයත් වැව් ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කිරීමට මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීය සම්බන්ධීකරණ කමිටු සභපති රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා කල යෝජනාවකට අනුව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කිරීම ආරම්භ වී ඇත. ඒ අනුව තිරප්පනය හා ඉපලෝගම ගොවිජන සේවා බලප්‍රදේශ ආවරණය වන ලෙස වැව් 27 ක් සංවර්ධනය වීමට නියමිත අතර එහි පළමු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Development Coordination and Supervision, State Ministry of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development.
The State Minister of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development Hon. Namal Rajapaksa delivered the keynote address on the theme "Digital Inclusion and Transformation in South Asia” at a virtual event that took place on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. The event, organized jointly by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) of India, Colombo Initiative in Sri Lanka and the Sappani Foundation in Canada, aimed to promote engagements between Sri Lanka, India and other nations in the region, which also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok, Thailand
The Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok, Thailand in collaboration with Sri Dalada Maligawa, Sri Lanka Tourism & Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (MCU) in Thailand presented the very first live telecast of Sri Lanka's most historic and colourful cultural event Esala Perahera Randoli in Sri Lanka on MCU TV Channel in Thai Language on 22nd August 2021. The Esala Perahera Randoli was also live streamed in Thai Language in social media platforms of Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University in addition to the MCU TV for Thai Buddhist devotees. Theravada Buddhism was introduced to Thailand from Sri Lanka and known as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 27 (NewsWire) – The decision to lift the nationwide lockdown on Monday (30) with gradual relaxation afterwards could contribute to an eventual Covid-19-related death toll of 16,700 in Sri Lanka, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has projected. According to The Morning Newspaper, a WHO-backed study has revealed that it will also limit the economic impact of the lockdown to US$ 1.1 billion, or 1.3% of GDP. The WHO has also revealed that if the lockdown is extended to 18 September then it would result in a death toll of 13,712... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardane has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the ninth Member of Parliament to be tested Covid-19 positive within this month, the minister confirmed. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has extended the current island-wide quarantine curfew orders by a week, in a bid to curb the soaring COVID-19 figures in the country prompted by the rapid spread of the Delta variant. Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella tweeted that the extended quarantine curfew orders are effective until 4.00 am on the 06th of September (Monday). He urged the members of the public to continue to work from home and to abide by the curfew orders while refraining from unnecessary travel. “The current COVID19SL curfew will continue till... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong has called on Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday (Aug. 26). During the meeting held at the Speaker’s official residence, the Chinese Ambassador reiterated that the Chinese Government would continue to extend its full support to the Government of Sri Lanka for the control of COVID-19 situation at a time when both countries are working with utmost commitment to control the current Covid-19 situation. They also discussed economic and financial cooperation between the two countries as well as the strengthening of inter-parliamentary relations.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as a record high of 214 new fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (August 26). This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic and the second consecutive day the daily fatalities count crossed the grim milestone of 200. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 8,371. According to the data... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka exceeded 4,000 for the sixth consecutive day today (August 27) as 779 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,591 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day. The Government Information Department stated that 4,561 of the latest cases were associated with the New Year Cluster and the remaining 30 have been identified as arrivals from foreign countries. The new development brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 cases tally to 416,961. At present, 55,399 active... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
The world needs an Emperor with full clothing to counter the increasing stridency of China. Unfortunately, the US has been progressively shedding its clothes beginning perhaps with the defeat in Vietnam. The many military incursions that followed, all basically abject failures in improving the lives of the people of the countries so invaded, has shown that US objectives have been flawed, and the execution of such objectives, even worse. One wonders however whether there is a dichotomy when it comes to these objectives. Were they meant to help the countries so invaded,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando
The writer is confident that readers may have seen the picture of ‘praying hands’ umpteen times, mainly hung on Christian homes, but wonders how the story originated! As narrated initially by Ranjit Seneviratne, some time ago, the story was about a family in Nuremberg, West Germany, in the fifteenth century. Dürer’s was a large family with eighteen children. The children's father was a professional goldsmith. Because he had to provide food for so many children, the father had to work overtime up to eighteen hours a day. Despite... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/08/21)
Mansur Shaheen Courtesy The Daily Mail
© Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo A large majority of COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized during last winter's surge still have not fully recovered, a new study finds. Researchers from the University of Michigan analyzed 253 patients who were hospitalized towards the end of fall 2020 and winter 2021. Nearly 85 percent of the patients reported that they had still not made a full recovery at least six months later. Around 55 percent of patients reported a new heart or lung condition as well. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
Since the election of Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka at the end of 2019, people expected from him he will launch Sri Lanka in an era of new policy implementation. People expected the eminence of the political administration compared to previous presidents. The excellent feature of his administration is a halcyon approach to issues and a focus on result-oriented reforms and supervision. The best example is the approach on the COVID-19 issue that needs the wide support of people without a political difference. The owned styles of administration had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
MD Pathik Hasan
Image source: Internet Bangladesh and Bhutan are situated in South Asia geographically. They share a common regional platform such as BIMTEC, SAARC. There are some harmonies between Bangladesh and Bhutan in sphere of mutual interest, shared history, culture. On December 6, 1971, Bhutan and India became the first countries to recognize the independence of Bangladesh. Bangladesh will never the Bhutanese support and contribution during the liberation war in 1971. Relations between Bangladesh and Bhutan started to deep from this period. Bangladesh and Bhutan have common... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Development Coordination and Supervision,State Ministry of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development.
Minister Namal Rajapaksa to Deliver Keynote Address on "Digital Inclusion and Transformation in South Asia" The State Minister of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development Hon. Namal Rajapaksa will be delivering the keynote address on the theme "Digital Inclusion and Transformation in South Asia” at a virtual event that will take place on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at 2 p.m. The event, organized jointly by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) of India, Colombo Initiative in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
MD Pathik Hasan
Bangladesh and Nepal are situated in South Asia geographically. They share a common regional platform such as BIMTEC, SAARC. There are some harmonies between Bangladesh and Bhutan in sphere of mutual interest, shared history, culture. Nepal recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state in 1971. Then Bangladesh Built up ties with Nepal. The bondage and relations between Bangladesh and Nepalese started from that time. Bangladesh was and is very interested regarding Nepalese culture, their trends of agricultural development, extraction of stone, production of hydro electricity, tourism etc The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
New Delhi, August 26 (TOI) – Sri Lanka has reopened for fully vaccinated tourists from India — including those who have got Covaxin— SriLankan Airlines’ head of worldwide sales and distribution, Dimuthu Tennakoon, told TOI on Tuesday. Also, there is no requirement for quarantine for travellers who test Covid negative on arrival in the Emerald Island. “Sri Lanka is now open for Indian tourists. People need to be fully vaccinated, with the second shot taken at least 14 days before the trip. On arrival, travellers will go to their hotel where RT-PCR test will be conducted. Those... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Courtesy ABC News
A ceremony was held in Anuradhapura when the sacred sapling was sent to Bendigo.( Supplied: Deeptha Wickramaratna) Australian quarantine is nursing a sacred sapling from a Sri Lankan bohdi tree that can be directly linked back to Buddha more than 2,300 years ago. Key points: Sapling from the famous bodhi tree in Sri Lanka is currently in Australian quarantine waiting to be planted in BendigoThe specimen is a direct descendent of the tree under which Buddha achieved enlightenmentThat tree is the oldest tree known to have been planted by humans some 2,300... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
BY GIOVANNI GAETANI • Courtesy The Humanist.com
Humanists, atheists, and non-religious people in Sri Lanka face discrimination and persecution every day, especially if they come from a Muslim background. Even though Sri Lanka is not a Muslim country (the majority of the population is Buddhist), the strong presence of Islamic militants, fundamentalists, and extremists is still very powerful and dangerous. Rishvin Ismath’s story illustrates the dangers nonreligious people can face. After years of activism as an Islamic preacher, Rishvin left Islam in 2013 and founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of Sri Lanka in 2016 (the only explicitly non-religious... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Special Task Force (STF) personnel have found a large haul of equipment used for high-power explosives in the Matara and Gandara police areas. The raids had been carried out based on intelligence received by the STF Special Operations Unit. A stock of ammonium nitrate, gelatine sticks, service threads, and other items have been found during the raid. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the explosives were stored under the guise of operating a quarry. Two individuals have been arrested in connection with the case. The explosives and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
All Sri Lankans over the age of 18 years will be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus before the end of November, Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella says. The vaccination of citizens over the age of 30 is scheduled to be completed by mid-September, the Minister said. Minister Rambukwella mentioned this during a meeting held at the Ministry of Health this morning (August 26). Further, attention will be paid to provide a third [booster] vaccine after fully vaccinating all citizens of this country, the Health Minister said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Ministry of Health reports that another 1,080 persons have tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases to 4,602. The new cases reported includes five returnees from overseas and 1,075 persons associated with the ‘New Year Covid-19 cluster’. This increases the total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in the country to 412,370.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director General of Health Services has confirmed 209 Covid-19 related deaths for yesterday (August 25), marking the first time daily Covid-19 deaths have breached 200 since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile the death toll due to the virus pandemic in the country has also crossed the 8,000-mark, as the virus continues its rapid spread. According to figures released by the Department of Government Information, the deaths confirmed today includes 108 males and 101 females while none of the victims are below the age of 30. Forty-six are between... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/08/21)
By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online
Researchers say they are seeing some waning of protection against Covid infections in double-jabbed people. The real-world study includes data on positive Covid PCR test results between May and July 2021 among more than a million people who had received two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine. Protection after two shots of Pfizer decreased from 88% at one month to 74% at five to six months. For AstraZeneca, the fall was from 77% to 67% at four to five months. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, Former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum.
Ambassadors’ Forum will be holding an international Webinar in London, on 5th September 2021 based on two books published by them recently. The two books are The Geneva Crisis: The Way Forward and the Port City Colombo and International Financial Centre. Altogether, Ambassadors’ Forum has published five books on Foreign Policy Perspectives, with the participation of experts in the relevant field. The Geneva Crisis: The Way Forward deals with the implementation of the Geneva Resolution 30/1 and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙන්කඩගල සිංහ ද්වාරයේ සිට
(වසර ගණනාවක් කිසිම බාධාවකින් තොරව ඇසුණු පිරිත ඔන්ලයින් මාරයා නවත්වන්න ඉල්ලයි !!!) පුංචි පැනයක් ? : කෝකද කලින් අවේ ? මාර්ගගත අධ්‍යාපනය ඊයේ පෙරේද අපේ රට ආ දෙයකි පිරිත එදා සිට? පින්තුරය උපුටාගැනීම – http://www.quora.com මිනිසා ලබාගත යුතු උත්තරිත ශකිතින් රාශියක් මේ විශ්වය තුල පවතී ඒ දේවත්වයේ සිට බුදු පදවියද අන්තිමට නිවනද යැයි ඕනෑම පුද්ගලයෙකුට සිතාගත හැකිය. දැනට පවත්නා කොරෝනා හමුවේ මිනිසුන් ලොමු ඩෑහැ ගැන්වෙන ප්‍රවෘත්ති අසමින් භියවී මිනිස්සු ගෙයි තුලම කල් ගෙවයි. ඔහුට අද මුඛවාඩමක් නැතුව එන්නතක් විද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන
1) එන්නත ලබා ගන්නා අයගේ නම 2) එන්නත ලබා දුන් දිනය 3) එන්නත ලබා දුන් ස්ථානය 4) ලබා දුන් එන්නතේ නම 5) ලබා දුන් එන්නත් ප්‍රමාණය 6) ඉදිරි එන්නත් විදීමට නියමිත දිනය / දින 7) එන්නත මගින් ආරක්ෂාව සපයන කාල සීමාව 8 ) එන්නත මගින් විය හැකි අතුරු ආබාධ 9) ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය සාමාන්‍ය භාවිතය සඳහා අනුමත කළ එන්නතක්ද? හදිසි භාවිතය සඳහා අනුමත කළ එන්නතක්ද? 10) එන්නත ලබා ගත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
ඔබවහන්සේට ගුරු ගැටලුව විසදීමට අරයුම්කලානම් ? අපි මිනිසුන් නෙමෙයි.ඒ නිසා අපි හිතන විදිය වෙනස්. ඒ වගේම අපි ගැටළු විසදන විදියත් වෙනස්. දැන් ඔබ අපෙන් විමසන්නේ ඔබ රටේ මේ දිනවල කතා කරන ගුරු ගැටලුව විසදීම සම්බන්ධවයි. දැන් බලන්න! ආසන්න වශයෙන්, ගුරුවරු 2,50,000 ඉන්නවා. ඒ අය රටට ආදායමක් ගෙනදෙන අය නෙමෙයි. වියදමක් විතරයි. දැන් මේ අයගේ ඉල්ලීමට අනුව මේ අය වෙනුවෙන් රජය දරණ වියදම වැඩිකරන්න වෙනවා. මේ අමතර මුදල කොහෙන් හරි හොයන්න ඕනි. ඒ මුදල කොච්චරද? රුපියල් බිලියන 58ක් බව කියනවා. රුපියල් බිලියන 58ක් උපයන විදියක් නිර්මාණය නොකර, බිලියන 58ක් රජයකට ගෙවන්න බැහැ. සත්‍ය එයයි. එහෙම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
By A. Abdul Aziz.
(The Gist of the Address by the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community the Fifth Khalifah (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered for the Ahmadi Ladies, on UK Convention 2019 - the gist of which as below) In the beginning, Ahmadiyya Supreme Head recited the verse of the Holy Qur’an (Ch: 57 – Verse 21) followed by their translation and continued to presenting statistics that portray the religious condition of the world; people do not believe in religion and even those who do are of very low standards faith. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
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Saudi Arabia is looking forward to more trading partners as it aims at increasing non-oil exports share in its gross domestic product (GDP). The kingdom is reportedly resuming free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with 11 countries: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, China, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, the Philippines and the United States. Based on a direction of the General Authority for Foreign Trade (GAFT), the Federation of Saudi Chambers (FSC) issued a circular regarding this to all domestic chambers of commerce, media outlets in the Gulf reported. The country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
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Sri Lanka has registered 198 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (August 24). This marks the tenth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,948. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 119 males and 79 females. One among the victims is aged below 30 years while 51 of them are aged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
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The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,093 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,483. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 407,768. As many as 348,930 recoveries and 7,948 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 50,890 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
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The series of bomb attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019 was not an isolated criminal activity orchestrated by Zahran Hashim and his group within a short period of time, Inspector-General of Police C.D. Wickramaratne said today (August 25). Delivering a special statement on the progress of the investigations into the incident, the IGP stated that several events that led up to the carnage – including the time bomb attack on a house in Kattankudy, murder of two constables on duty at Vavunativu roadblock, Buddhist status vandalism in Mawanella and recovery of explosives from Wanathawilluwa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
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The so-called Islamic State may be on the retreat in Iraq and Syria but it would be premature to predict the demise of its ideology in India. https://youtu.be/IYlRvhSeadA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
MD Pathik Hasan,
The government has taken initiative to export 21 products from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka with duty free facility. At the same time, Bangladesh-Sri Lanka has started work to expand bilateral trade, increase investment, and develop the shipping and tourism industries. Ready-made garments, medicines, jute and jute products, ceramics, juices, food products, vegetables, peppers, construction materials, melamine, paper and paper boards, flowers, plastic products, leather and leather products, shoes, soybean oil, potatoes, fertilizers and cosmetics. There is a huge demand in the Sri Lankan market. This time the government is working to get... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/08/21)
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්
අප කුඩා කල සිට දහම් පාසලේ දී පවා උගත් ධම්මපදය මෙයට ඉතා සුදුසු සේ සලකමි. අප උගත් ධම්මපදයේ පාලි ගාථා 423 කි. බුදුන්වහන්සේ එක් සූත‍්‍රයක් ලෙස දේශනා කොට නැත. අවස්ථා තුන්සියයකදී පමණ දේශනා කරන ලද, පැවිදි ගිහි දෙපිරිසට ම අදාල මේ ගාථා පළමු සංගායනාවේ දී ‘ධම්මපද’ නමින් කාණ්ඩයක් ලෙස ගොනුකොට ඇත.ඛෝටාන් ධම්මපදය දැනට වසර එකසිය විස්සකට පෙර ධම්මපදයේ පුරාණ පිටපතක් කාශ්මීරයේ උතුරු දේශ සිමාවට යාබද ඛෝටාන් ප්රදේශයේ ගොසර්න්ග කන්දේ පැවති පුරාණ විහාරයක නටබුන් අතරෙන් සොයාගෙන ඇත. බ(ර්*ච් ගස් පොතුවල ලියා ඇති එහි සමහර කොටස් විනාශ වී හෝ විනාශ කොට ඇත. එය ‘ඛෝටාන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්
සිහල අටුවා මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළයි දඹදිව ගයාවේ දී රේවත මහ ථෙරුන්ගෙන් ති‍්‍රපිටකය හදාරා දැනුම සම්පූර්ණ කරගැනීම සඳහා ලංකාවේ පමණක් තිබූ මිහිඳු මාහිමියන් විසින් සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් කරන ලද සිහල අටුවා හදාරා ලෝවැඩ පිණිස මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළීම සඳහා බුද්ධඝෝෂ හිමියන් පැමිණි බව සහ යෝග්‍යතා පරීක්‍ෂණයෙන් සමත් වූ පසුව ‘සියලූ සිංහල අටුවා කථා සියල්ලන්ගේ මූල භාෂාව වූ මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළන ලද බව මහාවංසය සඳහන් කරයි. ථෙරවාදී ති‍්‍රපිටකය මාගධී භාෂාවෙන් පැවති නිසා එය මාගධී භාෂාවට පෙරළීමට අවශ්‍ය නොවීය. වාර්තාවල සඳහන්වෙන පරිදි දීපවංශය සහ මහාවංසය රචනා කළේ මාගධී භාෂාවෙනි. බුද්ධඝෝෂ හිමියන් විමුක්තිමග්ග රචනා කළේ මාගධී භාෂාවෙනි. සිහල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්
‘පූජනීය දළදා සංස්කෘතිය‘ අලි කුලප්පුවීමේ දේශපාලනය දළදා පෙරහැර හා ලංකා දේශපාලන අතර දැවැන්ත සම්බන්ධයක් තිබේ. ‘පූජනීය දළදා සංස්කෘතිය‘ දාහතරවන කලාපයට පෙරවදනක් ලියන්නට මම දළදා සංස්කෘතියේ දේශපාලනය අධ්‍යයනය කළෙමි. දළදා සංස්කෘතියේ දේශපාලන කතාව කියන්නට දළදා හාමුරුවන්ගෙන් අවසරයි! ඇත්තු කුලප්පු හා මැතිවරණ දේශපාලනය මහනුවර දළදා පෙරහැරේ අලි කුලප්පුවීමකින් 1959 අගෝස්තු 19 දින පුද්ගලයින් 15 ක් මිය ගියේය. පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනෙකු වෙඩි තබා ඇතා ඝාතනය කළේය. මේ අලි කුලප්පුව ගැන දීර්ඝ ලිඛිත සාහිත්‍යයක් ‘අලි කොමිසම‘, පාර්ලිමේන්තුව, පත්තර, මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් විභාගය හරහා නිර්මාණය විය. පසුව එය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
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Sri Lankans have been given the impression that Sri Lanka is under the HRC. That is incorrect. Sri Lanka‘s connection to the UNHRC comes through Sri Lanka‘s membership of the UN. Sri Lanka became a member state of the UN in 1955 and since then is entitled to participate in all General Assembly deliberations and exercise a vote. Sri Lanka is also supported by the UN Charter, a much forgotten document, which when invoked, ranks above all other UN utterances. The UN Human Rights Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
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The Human Rights Council of the UN is, as its name indicates, the UN body which deals with human rights. However, HRC has no power over UN member countries. It cannot impose sanctions, but it can pass resolutions on a country, on majority vote, whether that country likes it or not. The human rights position of all UN member countries come up before the HRC on periodic review, every four years. HRC has three regular sessions per year, in March, June and September. HRC can also hold a special session at any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත‍්‍රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ‍්‍රාමික සොලිසිටර්
මෑත කාලයක සිට සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනයා අතර මාගධී භාෂාව සහ පාලි භාෂාව ගැන අපූරු අදහසක් මතු කොට ඇත. ඒ අදහස නම්, බුදුන්වහන්සේ ධර්ම දේශනා කළේ මාගධී භාෂාවෙන් මිස පාලි භාෂාවෙන් නොවේ. මෙයින් මාගධී සහ පාලි භාෂා වෙන් වෙන් වූ භාෂා දෙකක් බව ප‍්‍රකාශිතව හඟවයි. මේ භාෂා එකක් ද? නැත්නම් දෙකක් ද? සාකච්ඡුා කිරීම කාලීන වශයෙන් ඉතා අගනා එකකි. කරුණු කීපයකින් වැදගත් ය. 1. පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනයේ අ.පො.ස. සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ සිට සරසවි උපාධි සහ පශ්චාත් උපාධි සඳහා ඇති පාඨමාලාවල පාලි භාෂාව අධ්‍යාපන විෂයයක් වෙයි. 2. සමහර බටහිර උගතුන් වසර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
by Rathindra Kuruvita Courtesy The Island
The fact that those aged over 60 had not been fully vaccinated by now reflected a flaw in the inoculation programme, Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) Secretary, Dr. Senal Fernando said. The GMOA Secretary said that the Epidemiology Unit should present statistics on senior citizens who had been vaccinated. Dr. Fernando said that failure to follow a proper vaccination process was the main reason why the country had to go into a lockdown. “We have to reduce the number of deaths because this is the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
At the onset of the pandemic everybody focused on the vaccine to avoid being infected. But recently the President himself said arrangements should be made to deliver indigenous medicine to the doorstepMedication differs from patient to patient as we focus on the patient and not necessarily the diseaseWe are also educating the public on precautions they should take when treating a COVID patient at home Sri Lanka boasts of a rich cultural heritage that includes indigenous medicine (Hela Wedakama) as one of its important elements. The centuries-old wisdom on healthcare and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to release an additional financing of USD 125 million to Sri Lanka under ‘Health System Enhancing Project’ to facilitate the management of soaring positive cases due to COVID-19 circumstances. The Government Information Department stated that the Cabinet of Ministers granted the approval for the proposal furnished by the Minister of Health to conduct discussions with the ADB to obtain the said grant. Previously, Sri Lanka has been supplied with USD 50 million, which comprised a loan of USD 37.5 million and a grant of USD... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s coronavirus fatality count shot past the 7,500th mark as the Director-General of Health Services confirmed another 190 deaths reported yesterday (August 23). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,750. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 113 males and 77 females. Two of the victims are aged below 30 years, while 38 victims are aged between 30-59 years, and 150 are aged 60 and above.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Daily COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sri Lanka exceeded 4,000 for the third consecutive day today (August 24) as 1,131 more people were tested positive for the virus. According to official data, 4,446 novel coronavirus infections in total were detected within the day. The Government Information Department stated that 4,427 of the latest cases were associated with the New Year Cluster and the remaining 19 have been identified as arrivals from foreign countries. The new development brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 cases tally to 398,801. At present, 44,474 active... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
Definitions I would be the last to use the words ‘nation’ and ‘race’ interchangeably in the modern Sri Lankan context as some appear to do nowadays. There was a time in the past when in most countries, the two words could be used as synonyms. Each state was formed by a particular race, on territory fully or preponderantly inhabited by that race speaking the same language and following the same religious tradition. The modern idea of nation state is the culmination of centuries of evolution, particularly in Europe, that resulted in defining... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/08/21)
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Yahapalana government signed resolution 30/1 in September 2015, and then it signed resolution 34/1 in March 2017 and in November 2017 reiterated a "very firm" commitment to fully implement the resolution within two years. The commitment was made by the Head of Delegation to the HRC’s Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Harsha de Silva, Deputy Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs. But after the electoral defeat of February 2018, Yahapalana changed its stance. At the Geneva meeting of March 2018, Minister Tilak Marapana did not refer to the 2015 Geneva resolution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
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revised 24.8.21 The government of Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE in May 2009, and the Eelam War IV came to an end. Soon after, the separatist movement went into its next phase of attack, which was UN action against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was to be punished for defeating the LTTE and the LTTE was to be exonerated. UN action was attempted in 2007 when United Nations Security Council was asked to approve sanctions against Sri Lanka. This was the very first time, said analysts, that there had been a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Dr Tilak S. Fernando
There is an intensive drive by the Government to vaccinate people, irrespective of the type of vaccines. The adverse after-effects following vaccination are increasingly becoming evident worldwide. There is established proof that by vaccination, besides other complications like allergy etc., the formation of unusual blood clots (thrombotic complications) is a deadly possibility as an after effect. ''Blood clots in circulation can be deadly as they may precipitate pulmonary embolism, strokes, and heart attacks and place the liver in danger'' says Dr Mass R. Usuf, (President of the National Association of Homoeopaths & Affiliates)! ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
“අවවාදයට වඩා ආදර්ශය උතුම්” බව අප සැවොම පිළිගන්නා කරුණකි. මෙම ප්‍රවාදයෙන් යෝජිත ආර්ථික ක්‍රමය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ද ඒ ඇසුරින් අපේක්‍ෂිත ප්‍රතිඵල ලබාගැනීමට ද ආදර්ශයේ පාඩම උපකාරි වනු නිසැක ය. පෙර ලිපියෙන් සාකච්ඡාවට ලක් කළ “ගිනි පුපුරු න්‍යාය” සමඟ ද මෙම කාර්යය බැඳී පවතී. යෝජිත ආර්ථික කටයුතු ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට තෝරාගනු ලබන නිශ්චිත ගම්මානය (හෝ ගම්මාන කිහිපය) අනෙකුත් ගම්මානවල අයට අවශ්‍ය තථ්‍ය ආදර්ශ සපයනු ඇත්තේ ය. තෝරාගත් ගම්මාන සහ ඒවායෙහි ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබන ආර්ථික කටයුතු සැබෑ වශයෙන් පවතින නිශ්චිත ඒවා ය. එම කාර්යයන්ට සම්බන්ධ වූ නිශ්චිත පිරිස් සිටිති. එම පිරිස නිශ්චිතව ඔවුනගේ නම්වලින් හඳුනාගත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Outlook India
The three-match series was supposed to start in Hambantota on September 3 but commercial flights have been suspended in Kabul The ODI series between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been moved to Pakistan from Sri Lanka due to logistical issues. (More Cricket News) The three-match series was supposed to start in Hambantota on September 3 but commercial flights have been suspended in Kabul following Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. ESPNcricinfo reported that it will remain a home series for Afghanistan. Also, a 10-day lockdown has been imposed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
The distribution of Ayurvedic medicines to COVID patients receiving home-based medical treatments began today (23) in several districts. Meanwhile, Consultant Judicial Medical Officer ( Specialist in Forensic Medicine) Dr. Channa Perera stated that there is a possibility of using indigenous medicine to prevent complications caused by Covid infection. https://youtu.be/q9UAX_sijOc He added that Western medicine alone could not prevent the complications of Covid infection. He further stated that although there are treatments available in Western medicine for complications caused by the virus, it is important... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
https://youtu.be/uXvSxmxWiME... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Department of Prisons has decided to launch an inquiry into the incident where a prison hospital doctor had allegedly been threatened by MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is currently under remand custody. https://youtu.be/_q_zA1pzp0o The inquiry will be carried out under the supervision of an Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, the Prisons Media Spokesperson said. A doctor at the Magazine Prison had lodged the complaint with the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) accusing Bathiudeen of leveling threats against his life, which subsequently prompted investigations. As per the complaint, MP... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Former minister Rishad Bathiudeen has been named as the fifth suspect in the case pertaining to the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker at his residence. Meanwhile the four suspects including the MP’s wife who were arrested following investigations into the teenage girl’s death have been further remanded until September 06. They were ordered to be re-remanded when the case was taken up before the Colombo Magistrate’ Court today (23). On July 15, the 16-year-old girl, who was serving as domestic help at the Bathiudeen residence, succumbed to severe burn... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed another 194 coronavirus-related deaths for August 22, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 7,560. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today include 91 males and 103 females. None of the victims are below the age of 30 while another 49 are between the ages of 30 and 59. The remaining 145 are aged 60 years and above. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,132 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 4,355. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 394,355. As many as 344,381 recoveries and 7,560 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 42,608 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has moved up to the 13th position in the rankings of the global COVID-19 fatalities that occur daily. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka on March 11, 2020, the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases was recorded yesterday (August 22); that was with 4,304 new cases. This was also the first time the number of COVID-19 infections reported within a day exceeded 4,000. Meanwhile, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed yesterday that another 183 COVID-19 deaths had been reported on August 21. Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
Henry Lahore
The coalition is attempting to eliminate many race disparities Concerning COVID-19 They should consider distributing bottles of Vitamin D to their churches. The churches could hand out emergency packets of vitamin D The Vitamin D would be taken at the first sign of COVID-19 symptoms. This emergency Vitamin D appears to reduce the risk of serious COVID-19 by 3X It may cost less than $50 of Vitamin D to save a life Items in VitaminDWiki in both categories Virus and Dark Skin: US coalition of Black and Latino churches hope... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/08/21)
MD Pathik Hasan
Image source: Internet The whole world saw the Rohingya refugee’s influx towards Bangladesh in 2017. The Rohingya people have been displaced from their homeland (Rakhine in Myanmar) by the Myanmar military Junta regime. Then, Rohingyas take shelter in Cox’s bazar area in Bangladesh. Bangladesh gives them shelter temporarily based on humanitarian ground. But this temporal assistance has brought disaster for Bangladesh. As a consequence, Bangladesh faces a serious crisis and threat for this problem. Local unrest amongst people, huge economic burden, deforestation, illegal drug trades, human trafficking, prostitution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
රාජ්‍ය ආරක්ෂක ආපදා කළමනාකරණ සහ ස්වදේශ කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
නිරෝධාන ඇඳිරි නීතිය පැනීම හේතුවෙන් ජීවනෝපාය අහිමි වූ පුද්ගලයින් සඳහා රජය ලබාදෙන රුපියල් 2000 දීමනාව ලබාදීමට අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාල හා ප්‍රාදේශි ලේකම් කාර්යාල සියල්ල සූදානම් කර ඇති බව වාරිමාර්ග අමාත්‍ය සහ රාජ්‍ය ආරක්ෂක , ආපදා කළමනාකරණ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සහ ස්වදේශ කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය චමල් රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පැවසීය. රජය විසින් එම දීමනාව ලබා දීමට නිර්දේශ කර ඇති පුද්ගලයින්ගේ නාමලේඛනය කඩිනමින් සකස් කර ලෙස දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම්වරුන්ට සහ ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්වරුන්ට පසුගියදා අමාත්යවරයා උපදෙස් ලබා දෙන ලදී. ඒ අනුව ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්වරුන් විසින් ඊට අදාළ නාමලේඛනය මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
සෑම පුන් පොහෝ දිනකම ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව පවත්වන “අමාදම් සිසිලස” ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාවේ 213වැන්න නිකිණි පුන් පොහොය යෙදෙන අද (22) දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. පළමුව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මල් ,පහන්, සුවඳ දුම් පූජාකොට ධර්ම දේශනාව සඳහා වැඩම කළ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ශ්වේජින් නිකායේ නියෝජ්‍ය ලේඛකාධිකාරි පොකුණුවිට ශ්‍රී විනයාලංකාරාමවාසී, ආචාර්ය කුකුල්පනේ සුදස්සී නාහිමියන්ට දැහැත් වට්ටියක් පූජා කරමින් ධර්ම දේශනාවට ආරාධනා කළේය. ප්‍රඥාවන්ත දැහැමි ජන සමාජයක් උදෙසා බුදු දහමේ සිසිලස බෙදාදීමේ අරමුණ පෙරදැරිව සෑම පුන් පොහෝ දිනකම “අමාදම් සිසිලස” ධර්ම දේශනා මාලාව පැවැත්වේ. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සංල්පයෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ
සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රිෂාඩ් බදියුදීන් මහතා විසින් මරණ තර්ජන කළ බව පවසමින් බන්ධනාගාර වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් බොරැල්ල පොලීසියට පැමිණිල්ලක් කර තිබේ. පසුව ඒ පිළිබඳව වැඩිදුර විමර්ශන සඳහා පොලිස්පතිවරයා විසින් කොළඹ අපරාධ කොට්ඨාසය වෙත යොමුකර ඇත. https://youtu.be/krS1EwQlXg8 මැගසින් බන්ධනාගාරයේ වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු විසින් ඊයේ (21) එම පැමිණිල්ල කර තිබේ. එම පැමිණිල්ලේ දැක්වෙන්නේ, වැලිකඩ බන්ධනාගාරයේ බෙහෙත් ශාලාව තුළ පසුගිය 15වනදා අදාළ වෛද්‍යවරයා විසින් රෝගී රැඳවියෙකු පරීක්ෂා කරමින් සිටියදී රිෂාඩ් බදුර්දීන් මන්ත්රීවරයා බලහත්කාරයෙන් එම ස්ථානයට පැමිණ ඇති බවය. එහිදී මන්ත්‍රීවරයාට පිටතින් සිටින ලෙසත් අවශ්‍ය තොරතුරු ලබාගත් පසුව ඔහුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
– මෙම පුවත උපුටා ගත්තේ දේශය පුවත්පතිනි..-
ආණ්ඩුවේ කැබිනට් ඇමැතිවරුන් වූ වාසු, උදය හා විමල් පෙරදා පැය 5 ½ක් තරම් දිගට ගිය අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල රුස්වීමේදී රට වසා දැමීමේ යෝජනාවක් නොකර පසුදා සෙසු පක්ෂ ගණනාවක් සමඟ එක්වී රට වසන ලෙස ලිඛිතව දැන්වීම ගැන ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිටියේ තරහිනි. ඒ සමඟ මේ අමාත්‍යවරුන් තිදෙනාටම වෙන වෙනම දුරකතනයෙන් ඇමතූ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඔවුන් කර ඇත්තේ බරපතළ වරදක් බවත් අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල සාමූහික වගකීම උල්ලංඝනය කර ඇති බවත් කීය. එබැවින් තමන්ට ඔවුන් අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයෙන් ඉවත් කළ හැකි බවත් එක් අමාත්‍යවරයකු අමතා සඳහන් කර ඇත. එවිට අදාළ අමාත්‍යවරුන් සඳහන් කර ඇත්තේ තමන් වෙනත් පක්ෂ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින
* දේශපාලන පක්ෂ හා වෘත්තීය සමිති කිහිපයකට, ජනප්රිය හිමිනමකට සහ මාධ්‍ය කණ්ඩායමක් වෙත ගැසීම සඳහා රජය අපහසුතාවට පත් කිරීමට කටයුතු කිරීම සඳහා විදේශ සංවිධානයක් විසින් රුපියල් කෝටි 85ක පමණ මුදලක් රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන හරහා මෙරටට ලබාදී ඇතැයි විශ්වාසදායක ආරංචි මාර්ගයකින් ‘දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්රහයට’ වාර්තා වේ.එම ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරන ආකාරයට මෙම මුදල් මෙරට දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති කිහිපයකට ද ප්රසිද්ධ හිමිනමකට හා මාධ්‍ය කණ්ඩායමකට ද ලැබී ඇත. අදාළ විදේශ සංවිධානයේ සිටින ඉහළම නිලධාරියකුගේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් මෙම මුදල් ලබාදී තිබේ.මෙම මුදල් වලින් රුපියල් කෝටි 50ක් අදාළ මාධ්‍ය කණ්ඩායමටත් ප්රසිද්ධ හිමිනමට රුපියල් කෝටි 5ක් සහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
ලංකා ආරංචි
කිංබානට්තුමාව පත්තරේ එඩිටර් මහත්තයා කතා කළා. " අර ප්‍රෙස් කොන්ෆරන්ස් එකට ගියාද...? "එඩිටර් ඇහුවා. " ඔව්..." " කෝ කතාව ලිව්වද...?" එඩිටර් මහත්තයා ආපහු ඇහුවා. කිංබානට්තුමා ලියපු නිවුස් එක එඩිටර් ගේ අතේ තිබ්බා. එඩිටර් ඒක කියවන්න පටන් ගත්තා. " වෘත්තිය සමිති ව්‍යාපාරයේ බලපෑම හමුවේ ආණ්ඩුව විසින් දේශපාලන ලොක්ඩවුන් එකක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර ඇතැයි රජයේ හෙද නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සමන් රත්නප්‍රිය මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. නමුත් රට වසා දැමීමේ ප්‍රතිඵල ලබාගැනීමේ සැලසුමක ආණ්ඩුව නැති බවත් ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
by Rohan Abeygunawardena
The World Cup semi-finals between England and South Africa in 1992 became a talking point of the cricket world due to an ‘unfair’ rain related rule that cost South Africa a spot in the finals of the World Cup. South Africa’s task of gathering 22 runs from 13 balls was reduced after a brief spell of rain to 21 runs required off a single delivery in this World Cup semi-final game. The game became a farce and the subject of ridicule and parody. ICC then... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිතුමනි..., යුක්තිය, සමානත්මතාවය සහ සාධාරණය සහිත රටක් ගොඩ නගමු...විචාරශීලී ජනතාවට අත දෙමු...කොරෝනා පරදවමු...! පාලකයන් සිදුකරන දූෂණය, නාස්තිය සහ බලය අවභාවිතය එළිදරව්වීම සහ එයට එරෙහිව ක්‍රියා කරන පිරිස බිහිවීම වැළැක්වීමට විචාරශීලී ජනතාවක් බිහිවීම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නීතියෙන්, අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් සහ පාලනයෙන් වළක්වනු ලබුවත් එයම කොරෝනා ව්‍යසනයේදී පාලකයන්ට පාරාවලල්ලක් වී ඇත. විචාරශීලී බහුතර ජනතාවක් ඇති රටවල කොරෝනා ව්‍යසනය සහ ඒ ආශ්‍රිතව පැනනගින ගැටලු පාලනය කර ගැනීම පහසු වුවත් ලංකාව වැනි විචාරශීලීත්වය අවම මට්ටමක ජනතාවක් සිටින රටවල එයට ඇත්තේ අඩු අවස්ථාවකි. විචාරශීලීත්වයෙන් යුත් ජනතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
by Moiz Mustafa Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 22 (newsin.asia) – The Island nation announced a lockdown which began on Friday night (20), bowing to pressure from medical experts as infections have overwhelmed the healthcare system. All essential services will function as normal. Read more As the lockdown came into effect on Friday night, Colombo went silent. Busy stretches such as the Galle Road, Marine Drive and High-Level Road remained deserted, barring an occasional vehicle or two. Highlights: Lockdown. Image courtesy – newsin.asia Lockdown. Image courtesy – newsin.asia ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 22 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Authorities announced that 52 Vaccination Centers will be open on Sunday (22).... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
By Liu Zongyi Courtesy Global Times
India's attempts to revive the Colombo Security Conclave have garnered media attention. On Tuesday, the South China Morning Post argued that the revival of a trilateral grouping between India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, shows New Delhi's wariness of Beijing's growing influence in the Indian Ocean region. The group, now known as the Colombo Security Conclave, was formed in 2011 under the name National Security Adviser Level Meeting on Trilateral Maritime Security Cooperation. It was revived and renamed Colombo Security Conclave in November 2020 after a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The government has planned to commence the vaccination of people between the ages of 18 and 30 years in the second week of September. Joining the media briefing today (August 22), Acting Chief of the Epidemiology Unit, Dr. Samitha Ginige said that 3.2 million people belong to that age group. He said, “Our population over the age of 30 years is 11.5 million. We need 23 million to give them both doses. At the present, we have received 19.5 million vaccines. The remaining doses can be obtained within the next two weeks.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
MP Rishad Bathiudeen is once again under the spotlight after a doctor serving at the Magazine Prison, where the parliamentarian is remanded, accused him of levelling threats against his life. The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) launched investigations into the incident based on a complaint filed by the relevant doctor with the Borella Police. The doctor had lodged the complaint after informing the chief medical officer and a senior officer at the prison both verbally and in writing. According to the complaint, MP Bathiudeen had obstructed the duties of the doctor while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as a record high of 183 new fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 21). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,366. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 107 males and 76 females. As many as 136 deaths were reported among the elderly people who are aged above 60 years.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka reported its highest count of daily COVID-19 cases today (August 22) as total infections confirmed within the day exceeded 4,000. According to official data, 4,304 novel coronavirus infections were detected today. The Government Information Department stated that 4,282 of the latest cases were associated with the New Year Cluster and the remaining 22 have been identified as arrivals from foreign countries. Earlier today, 3,110 positive cases were confirmed, followed by 1,194 more. The new development brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed COVID-19 cases tally to 390,000. At present, 40,475 active... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/08/21)
Laksiri Warnakula
The Island editorial on 17/08/21 titled ‘Puzzling reshuffle’ amused me no ends as I was going through it. I somehow managed to look at it from another perspective, even with the gloom that is brought on by a ‘Viral cloud’ hanging above us the governed, and perhaps not the governors to the same extent. A refreshing change at least for me, away from what you see, hear and read these days: wailing of the poor, many families suddenly finding themselves in the middle of never-before-experienced economic hardships, the mass gatherings to get the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
by Members of The Sri Lanka Non-Aligned Movement
The Poor Order their Country Representatives to Cancel Payment on Trillions of Dollars of Sovereign ‘Debt’! I remember What my father said When he was waiting Inline for bread... Poor of the World Unite Let’s take up cudgels and fight the good fight Poor of the world Unite! unite! Let’s regain our dignity and our right to life The rich have unleashed germ warfare on the poor, annihilating 4.5 million human lives, as of now. The body count keeps rising terrifyingly by the day, while the rich relentlessly continue blitzing the poor with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
By Stanley Perera, Melbourne, Australia.
Looking at the recent past I find you are obsessed with false unexp[lained Tamil people's aspirations and issues that are not explained. I find it difficult to understand what your Tamil peop[le are deprived of. One day you go to a Teplis woman, the next day you go to the Indian High Commissioner and now you want to see President Rajapakse to discuss the grievances of Tamil people. At this hour of Covid 19 Pandemic every freeloader must join hands with GOSL to fight Covid. One must be frothing mad to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
Manusha Media
කොරෝනා වසංගතය මර්දනය කිරීමට ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව අසමත් බව ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ජාතිය ඇමතීමේ කතාවෙන් යළිත් වරක් පෙනී යන බවද, කොරෝනා නිසා මියගිය අයට කණගාටුව ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට තරම් ජනාධිපතිවරයා නිහතමානී වී නොමැතිබවත්, සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ මාධ්‍ය ප්රකාශක මනුෂ නානායක්කාර පැවසුවේය. සිය අසමත්කම තමන්ගේ කතාවෙන්ම පිළිගෙන ඇතැයිද විපක්ෂ නායක කාර්යාලයේදී පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්චාවකදී ඔහු කීවේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මන්තී‍්‍රවරයා මෙසේද පැවසුවේය අදට පාස්කු ප‍්‍රහාරයට මාස 28ක් සම්පූර්ණ වෙනවා. කතෝලික සහෝදර සහෝදරයින් කළු කොඩි ඔසවමින් විරෝධතා දැක්වීමට ඉල්ලීම් ඉදිරිපත් වුනා. සමගි ජන බලවේගය වන විට අපි මේ සදහා සහාය ලබාදෙන බව පවසනවා. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
High Commissioner of Pakistan to Sri Lanka Major General (R) Muhammad Saad Khattak called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at Temple Trees to hand over lifesaving COVID-19 medical equipment from the Government of Pakistan. In an expression of support to Sri Lanka in its fight against the pandemic, the donation included 75 ventilators and 150 C-PAP breathing aid machines, manufactured in Pakistan. The assistance of medical equipment is part of Pakistan’s SAARC COVID-19 emergency assistance to support regional efforts in the common fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන,
ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ සඳහන් වෛද්‍ය වෘත්තීන්හි නියැලෙන කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ දේශීය වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යායතනයේ උපාධිධාරි, ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍ය සභාවේ ලියාපදිංචි අංක 6942 සර්වාංග සහ 7319 විශේෂ යටතේ ලියාපදිංචි වී වෙද්‍ය වෘත්තියේ යෙදෙන නො. 66, සල්මල් පෙදෙස, මත්තෙගොඩ පදිංචි වෛද්‍ය බී.ඒ.රත්නපාල මහතා මෙම පැමිණිල්ල කර ඇත. එමෙන්ම ඔහු විසින් ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ලියාපදිංචි අංක කො/රෝහල්/06 යටතේ ලියාපදිංචි කර ඇති රෝපා ආයුර්වේද රෝහල පවත්වාගෙන යන බවත්, වර්ෂ 2019 අවසානයේ සිට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඌර්ධ ස්වසන ව්‍යුහාගත වෛරස් ආසාදනයක් (කෝවිඩි වෛරස් ආසාදනය හේතුවෙන්) ව්‍යාප්ත වෙමින් තිබූ අතර, මා එයට ප්‍රත්‍යක්ෂ ඖෂධ ලබා දී සුවකරන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
by P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 21 (newsin.asia): In its first statement after the Taliban assumed power in Afghanistan, the Government of Sri Lanka said on Saturday that remains concerned about the possibility of mass migration, extremist religious elements attempting to find a safe haven and enhanced illegal narcotic trade which can have a destabilizing effect on the entire South Asian region. The Government is keenly observing the situation on a daily basis, the Lankan Foreign Ministry said in a press release. “As a member of SAARC, Sri Lanka is prepared to play its... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
By Minister Namal Rajapaksa
Since the start of the COVID-19 in 2019, people’s movement has been restricted and as a result e-commerce platforms and the digital economy started making a new and vigorous rise. In both these areas, Sri Lanka had been lacking ground as these sectors were quite untapped with tremendous potential which lied ahead. It is not that Sri Lanka did not have the expertise to expand these areas, it’s just that the previous government had not given much consideration or way to it, despite several countries going ahead in digitalization. Today,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
දේශීය ඖෂධ වර්ග ජනතාවගේ නිවෙස් වලට ගොස් ලබා දෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය රාජ්‍ය ඇමති සිසිර ජයකොඩි මහතාට උපදෙස් දී ඇත. ඒ අනුව නිරෝධායන ඇඳිරි නීතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන කාලයේ දීද මෙම වැඩපිළිවෙල ක්‍රියාත්මකය. නාගරික මෙන්ම ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රදේශවල ජනතාවට මෙසේ දේශීය ඖෂධ වර්ග ලබා දීමට පියවර ගන්නා ලෙස දැනුම් දී තිබේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
කොරෝනා ව්‍යාප්තිය නොතකා පෙළපාළි හා විරෝධතාවල නිරත වූ ගුරු විදුහල්පති වෘත්තීය සමිති නියෝජිතයන් පහළොස් දෙනෙකු පමණ මේ වන විට වෛරසය ආසාදනය වීමෙන් මිය ගොස් ඇතැයි දේශප්‍රේමී එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය සඳහන් කරයි. මෙසේ මියගොස් සිටින පිරිස අතර විදුහල්පතිවරුන් තිදෙනෙකු හා සෙසු පිරිස ගුරුවරුන් බවත් එම පක්ෂයේ නායක සුදත් හේවාපතිරණ මහතා පැවසීය. මෙම පිරිස වෛරසයට ගොදුරු වී ඇත්තේ සෞඛ්‍ය උපදෙස් නොපිලිපැදීම නිසා යැයි ද ඒ මහතා තව දුරටත් සඳහන් කළේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
තමන් දරන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් කොටසක් අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා යටතට පත් කිරීම පිලිබදව රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ලිපියක් ලියා ඇති බව සති අන්ත ජාතික පුවත්පතක් වාර්තා කරයි. තමන් දරුණ ලද රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් කොටසක් කැබිනට් අමාත්‍යාංශයක් වීම පිළිබඳ සතුටු වන බව කබ්රාල් මහතා සඳහන් කර තිබේ. එම රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයට අයත්ව තිබූ ‘මෙහෙයුම් කාමරය’ පමණක් පවරා ගෙන නොමැති බවත් එය අතපසුවීමකින් සිදුවිය හැකි එකක් නිසා එයද නව අමාත්‍යවරයාට පවරා දෙන ලෙසත් කබ්රාල් මහතා එමගින් දැනුම් දී ඇත. ආසන්නයේදීම පැවති කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල සංශෝධනයේදී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
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A 10 day quarantine curfew came into effect from last night. Seen here are the deserted roads of Colombo today morning. Pix by Nisal Baduge Kottawa Pix by Nisal Baduge... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
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The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,099 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3,884. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 385,696. As many as 323,390 recoveries and 7,183 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 55,123 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
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Sri Lanka has registered 198 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (August 20). This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 7,183. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 117 males and 81 females. None among the victims are aged below 30 years while 44 of them... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
It is always in season for old men to learn. -Aeschylus, Greek playwright of the 5th Century BCE Partly to our dismay, gerontocracy has shownIts withered hands of a wizened old wizardBehind the recent cabinet reshuffle, muddle or mess,Moving ministers like pieces on a chessboard, changing,The configuration of portfolios, like pawns of restricted movement;But partly to our relief, it might turn out to be a stroke of geniusOf an experienced Gerontocrat with a Grandmaster title claim.Moving pawns in a game of chess to avoid checkmateIs an intellectual feat of the highest orderLet’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/08/21)
News of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka records the biggest ever daily increase of Covid deaths for the second day in a row, as new cases rise sharply The daily number of coronavirus deaths has reached 195 the highest since the pandemic began. The number of new cases rose sharply to 3839, after a fall earlier in the week which inspired optimism that lockdown restrictions may not be required. The general population is concerned with the higher daily death rate and the Opposition leader said the record daily death toll was “appalling” and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
RANJITH SOYSA
No sooner the US and Allied Forces left Afghanistan, the Taliban forces walked into the capital city and captured power. What was the mission of the US and allied forces in Afghanistan for 20 long years? The unfolding events paint a very bleak picture of the expectations of the war in Afghanistan, the human and material cost incurred, and the strategies followed by the USA, the elected Afghan governments and the UN which had bags under it eyes during this long war. Between 2010 to 2021 at times the US had more than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
Ratanapala
20 Aug 2021 The President was elected by the people - 69 lakhs of them! It is true that his candidature was spearheaded by Pohottuwa but he is not the leader of this political party. He is the leader chosen by a majority of Sri Lanka voters to be their President. At the inaugural ceremony, he promised to be the President of all Sri Lankans. It is time President took the people into his confidence and come out of virtual 'hiding' in the Presidential Secretariat! President should lead from the front and inspire the people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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Colombo, August 20 (newsin.asia): The Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his address to the country on Friday, that given the dire economic situation in Sri Lanka, it is important to keep the economy humming with activity even as steps are taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 and to treat the infected. He said that the only solution to the health crisis is full vaccination which his government is set to achieve by mid-September. Here is the full text of his address:- The accepted opinion of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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All citizens above the age of 30 years are expected to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the 10th of September, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said addressing the nation today (Aug. 20). In his statement, the President stated that nearly 98% of the population aged over 30 years have received the vaccine so far, while approximately 43% of them were fully vaccinated. https://youtu.be/EHiEOnFYnyc The President is hopeful that the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths reported in the country would see a decline with the ramped-up inoculation drive. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that a decision has been taken to impose quarantine curfew across the island with effect from 10.00 p.m. today (20) until 4.00 a.m. on August 30 (Monday). https://youtu.be/sF7OCpKqpEs He stated that essential services, export, apparel and agricultural sectors will be allowed to function as normal during that period while pharmacies will also be permitted to operate as per usual. He stated that this decision was taken during the meeting with the Special Committee on COVID-19 Control held at the Presidential Secretariat today. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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COVID-19 inoculation drive will continue despite the quarantine curfew, says General Shavendra Silva, the Head of National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO). The army commander noted that vaccine recipients who are scheduled to receive their second doses can get themselves vaccinated at respective clinics. An island-wide quarantine curfew came into effect from 10.00 pm today (August 20). It will be enforced until 4.00 am on the 30th of August (Monday). Essential services, export, apparel and agricultural sectors are allowed to function as normal during that period while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as a record high of 195 new fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (August 19). This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 6,985. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 98 males and 97... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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A total of 1,014 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 17), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 3,839. According to the Government Information Department, 3,835 of the latest cases reported today were associated with the New Year cluster. The remaining four are arrivals from foreign countries. Following the new development, the country’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally now stands at 381,812, the Epidemiology Unit said. Official data showed that as many as 320,810 patients who were infected with the virus have returned to health so far. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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A report based on the total of 5775 Covid-related deaths reported until the 13th of August, 2021 in Sri Lanka has been released. According to reports over 5,000 Covid-related deaths reported (5,295) in Sri Lanka consist of people who have not received a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore over 90% of the deaths (91.7%) in Sri Lanka were of those who were not vaccinated. However, only 417 deaths (7.2%) are of those who have received at least a single dose of the Covid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr Chandima Jeewandara stated that for the first time in the world, patients have been found in Sri Lanka who are infected with three mutated strains of the Delta variant. It is reported that the patients were found in Colombo. One of the identified mutated strains has originated from Sri Lanka.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent CourtesyThe Times (UK)
Fully vaccinated people are far more likely to develop symptoms if they catch the Delta variant of the coronavirus compared with earlier strains, a large study has shown. Research that looked at more than 700,000 fully vaccinated adults found that more than half of those who became infected with Delta developed “classic” Covid symptoms, such as a cough, fever and loss of taste and smell. With the Alpha variant, which fuelled the wave of infections over the winter, the equivalent figure had been less than 10 per cent. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
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A British public health study has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months. It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca vaccine may be of greater risk to others than under previous variants of the coronavirus. Based on more than three million nose and throat swabs taken across Britain, the Oxford University study found that 90 days after a second... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/08/21)
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්
බදුල්ලේ ඇත්ත කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් 42% ක් ජාතික දත්තවලින් හංගලා - බදුල්ලේ රෝහල් රෝගීන්ගෙන් පිරී ගිහින්. ඖෂධ, ඔක්සිජන් මුහුණු ආවරණවත් නෑ. බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කෝඩිව් රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවේ රෝගීන් 6060 ක් වසංගත රෝග විද්‍යා අංශයත් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයත් විසින් අතුරුදන් කර ඇතැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් 14,373 ක් මේ වන විට මාර්තා වී ඇත. වසංගත රෝග විද්‍යා අංශයට අනුව රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාව 8313 කි. පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂවරයා/දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ වාර්තා සහ වසංග රෝග විද්‍යා අංශයේ දත්ත අතර පරතරය රෝගීන් 6060 කි. බදුල්ලේ රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවන් 6060... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
The worst Covid Management capability
According to the data published by Worldometers.info website Sri Lanka reported being the worst Covid Management capability in the world except for a few African countries. USA Cases reported during the last 7 days 2937 per million population and death in the last 7days 16 per million population. UK Cases reported during the last 7 days 3068 per million population and death in the last 7days 10 per million population. Russia Cases reported during the last 7 days 1032 per million population and death in the last 7days 39 per million... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
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Chief Prelates of the Malwathu-Asgiri Sects have written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa requesting a country-wide lock for a period of one week. https://youtu.be/qGK2qM-gNE0 The Chief Prelates pointed out that the entire country is facing a catastrophe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease. The letter also noted that the health sectors have warned of the severity of the new mutant virus strains and the difficulty in controlling them due to their rapid spread. Further, the World Health Organization has also warned of a major health... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
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Ten allied political parties of the government have proposed to the President to lockdown the country for at least three consecutive weeks. In a letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, they have suggested seven measures to be taken to control the pandemic. The political parties say that, despite being aware of the economic impact of closing the country, the number of COVID-19 cases will not go down to a level that can be handled by the hospital system without a lockdown. The allied political parties have also suggested that an all-party mechanism be set... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
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According to the Ministry of Health, 97.7% of those who succumbed to COVID-19 as of August 13 had not been vaccinated against the virus. As per the data, Sri Lanka had witnessed 5,775 deaths from the coronavirus. Reportedly, 5,295 of them had not received any COVID-19 vaccine. The remaining 480 victims had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Of those, a total of 417 had died after receiving only one dose. This accounts for 7.2% of the total deaths. The health sector estimates that 63... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
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The Ministry of Health reported that another 1,073 persons shave tested positive for Covid-19, increasing the daily count of new cases in Sri Lanka to 3,793. All new cases confirmed today are associated with the ‘New Year’ Covid-19 cluster. Accordingly, this brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country thus far to 373,165. A total of 47,847 infected patients are currently under medical care while total Covid-19 recoveries has increased to 318,714. The death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka is 6,604.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
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The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 186 coronavirus related deaths for August 18, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 6,790. This is the highest number of deaths reported within a day since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today includes 111 males and 75 females. Four of the victims are below the age of 30 while another thirty-five are between the ages of 30 and 59. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
It is reported that there are plans to impose an islandwide complete lockdown to curb the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. The government is being pressured by various parties including the Chief Prelates of the Asgiriya and Malwaththa Chapters to impose a lockdown for a short period of time. More than 25 cities on the island have voluntarily imposed lockdown. Meanwhile, sources close to the Presidential Secretariat stated that the President is most likely to address the nation tomorrow (20). The sources further stated that the President is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත්
https://youtu.be/i4QyoWhxwqk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
The Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha has decided to launch a program to deliver Ayurvedic medicines at home to those who are currently being treated and quarantined at home for Covid infections. Accordingly, they have decided to deliver the relevant medicines to the homes every day from tomorrow (20). People in the Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha area can call 070 5551470 for more information.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena stated that a program has been launched to distribute a relief package of 20 essential items worth Rs.1,998 to the public for two weeks through the Sathosa from tomorrow (20). He was addressing a media briefing in Colombo today (19). The Minister pointed out that it is possible to get this relief package delivered to homes by calling the number '1998'. The relief package, which includes 20 items that normally sell for more than Rs. 2,600 in the market, will be available at Sathosa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/08/21)
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island
In keeping with the Government’s commitment to address accountability a Domestic Mechanism was instituted by appointing a Presidential Commission of Inquiry headed by a Supreme Court Judge by Gazette No. 222111/55 of 21 January, 2021. The mandate of this Commission was: “to investigate and inquire into, take necessary action or report on the following matters, namely”: (a) “Find out whether preceding Commissions of Inquiry which have been appointed to investigate into human rights violations, have revealed any human rights violations, serious violations of the international humanitarian law and other such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
මාධ්‍ය අංශය වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීතිඅධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන,
ජනමතවිචාරණයකට යා යුතුව තිබූ වගන්ති 7 ක් සහිතව 2019 කොරෝනා වෛරස් රෝගය තාවකාලික විධිවිධාන පනත් කෙටුම්පත අලි සබ්‍රි ජනාධිපති නීතීඥවරයා ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත්තේ කාලිංග ඉන්දතිස්ස, සංජීව ජයවර්ධන සහ ඉක්‍රම් මොහොමඩ් යන ජනාධිපති නීතීඥවරුන්ගේ සහායෙන් බව 2021 අගෝස්තු 17 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාව මගින් පැහැදිලි වේ. (2021 අගෝස්තු 18 දිවයින 07 පිටුව දක්වා ඇත්තේ එකී පනත් කෙටුම්පත ගෙන ඒමට එකී නීති විශාරදයන් මැදිහත් වී ඇති බවයි) පසුගිය මස 20 වන දින පුරවැසියන් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමයට පැමිණිල්ලක් ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් කොරෝනා පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීතීඥ සංගමයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය ඉතා බලවත් යාන්ත්‍රණයක් වුවද, එහිද අවසානයක් තිබේ. මේ අවසානය ඉක්මන් කරවන්නේ,ඔවුන්ගේ, නොඉවසිලිමත්බාවයයි. වර්ෂ 1994 ජනාධිපතිවරිය ලෙස තමන්ගේ නියෝජිතවරියක් බලයට ගෙන, විපක්ෂ නායක ධුරයද තමන්ගේම නියෝජිතයාට ලබාදී තමන්ට අවැසි ආකාරයට මේ රට ඔවුන්ගේ ඉලක්කයන් කරා මෙහෙයවුවද, ඔවුන්ට තම ඉලක්කය වූ රනිල් ජනාධිපති කිරීම ඉක්මන් කිරීම ඉතා වැදගත් කාර්යයක් විය. 1994දී වැඩි චන්ද එකකින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු බලය අතැතිව සිටි චන්ද්‍රිකාගේ පළමුවෙනි ධුර කාලය නිදහසේ ගලායාමට ඉඩදුන් අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ට,තවදුරටත් ඇය ජනාධිපතිවරිය ලෙස සිටිනු දැකීමට අවශ්‍ය නොවිය. ඒ අනුව 1999 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී, රනිල් ජනාධිපති බවට පත් කිරීමේ පළමු උත්සාහය ගැනීමට තීරණය කළහ. තමන්ගේම නියෝජිතවරියක්වූ, චන්ද්‍රිකා සමග තරඟ වැදීමට රනිල්ව මෙහෙයවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today
Early this month (August, 2021), a farmer in Vilavotei, Kilinochchi, whilst preparing his paddy field, detected a part of a uniform worn by Sri Lankan soldiers with skeletal remains. He promptly informed the Police. The investigators found besides the aforementioned also evidenced that strongly suggested a site used by the LTTE as an execution ground. Surprisingly, or not, this news had not generated any interest in the Media, civil societies or amongst the nosy western diplomatic corps. Even the various groups that have sprung up in support... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
By JEFFREY D. SACHS Courtesy Ceylon Today
The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US policymakers’ lack of interest in understanding different societies. And it is all too typical. Almost every modern US military intervention in the developing world has come to rot. It’s hard to think of an exception since the Korean War. In the 1960s and first half of the 1970s, the US fought in Indochina – Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Editorial Courtesy The Island
There has been a mini Cabinet reshuffle. One is at a loss to understand the rationale, if any, behind it. People would have been happy if at least one half of the Cabinet had been sacked. What made President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reshuffle only a few members of his ministerial team? Pavithra Wanniarachchi, who held the health portfolio, has been appointed the Transport Minister. The Health Ministry drew heavy flak, on her watch, for its poor response to the pandemic. Wanniarchchi also blotted her copybook by promoting a shaman’s herbal concoction, which... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Editorial Courtesy The Island
The US had its Saigon moment over the weekend in Kabul. The Americans have left behind another unfinished war. The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan two decades ago, promising to wipe out the Taliban, which harboured al-Qaeda, and bring order out of chaos. But today that country is back to square one. The Taliban are now in power, and their return to their old ways is only a matter of time. Although they have pledged, as part of the peace deal with the US, that they will respect human rights, it is not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The government has approved the purchase of nine million doses of Sinopharm and 14 million doses of Pfizer at the unit price and it has been decided to vaccinate all people over 18 years of age by September 30 in order to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was taken by the negotiating committee appointed by the Cabinet ministers for the vaccine requirements. The COVID-19 vaccination program was planned to be administered to a population of 14 million initially with a view to protecting the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stated that the country cannot enter a lockdown. He emphasised that steps are being taken to tighten the travel restrictions imposed in the country. The President stated this at a Cabinet meeting held last night (17). The President has pointed out that if the country enters a lockdown, the country's economy will collapse and those who depend on daily wages will face difficulties. It said the vaccination process should be accelerated to control the spread of the virus. Meanwhile, it is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
New health guidelines issued with immediate effect until August 31.Gym's, Spa's, Children's parks, Indoor Sports halls and swimming pools must be closed with immediate effect until August 31. Musical events, beach parties & carnivals also cannot be held until August 31.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,232 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3,660. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 369,359. As many as 316,528 recoveries and 6,604 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 46,397 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has registered 170 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Tuesday (August 17). This marks the tenth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 6,604. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 84 males and 86 females. None among the victims are aged below 30 years while 40 of them are aged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The government targets to complete vaccination of all Sri Lankans above the age of 18 years by the end of September, the Department of Government Information stated. The Cabinet of Ministers has approved purchasing 23 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for this purpose. Accordingly, 09 million doses of the China-manufactured Sinopharm vaccine and 14 million doses of the US-origin Pfizer vaccine will be purchased by the government. The government had reportedly planned to implement the vaccination program for a population of 14 million. By August 09, Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/08/21)
Shenali D. Waduge
Are America’s wars, on behalf of US citizens or to fatten the bank accounts of American corporations & defense contractors (who sponsor Members of Congress) as well as to ensure there is no alternate economic model to the ‘capitalist’ model US & West promotes? The list of US interventions since 1945 and the state of these countries thereafter should provide answers to countries lining up to be America’s ‘partner’ in South Asia or any other part of the world. India & Sri Lanka must redraw its foreign policy taking stock of the situation.US... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
Sangadasa Akurugoda
The second wave of Corvid-19 pandemic is spreading fast throughout the world including Sri Lanka. Unlike the rest of the world, all most all opposition parties in Sri Lanka appear to be critical on almost every measure taken by the government in the control of the pandemic including the vaccination role undertaken by the Army to control it. Even some of the government servants and officials appear to be politically motivated and making media statements, almost every day, promoting their political objectives disregarding the government instructions. Meanwhile we can see that social media... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
මෙතෙක් ජාතික විදුලි පද්ධතියට එක් කිරීමට පමා වූ පුනර්ජනනීය බල ශක්ති ව්‍යාපෘති කඩිනමින් විදුලි බල පද්ධතියට එක් කිරීමේ අරමුණින් අනුරාධපුර තරියන්කුළම ප්රදේශයේ ඉදි කිරීම් ආරම්භ කර වැඩ අතරමග නතර වූ සූර්ය බලාගාරයක් අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක් විය. මෙගා වොට් 01 ක් ජාතික විදුලි පද්ධතියට එක් කිරීමේ අරමුණින් 2017 වර්ෂයේ ටෙන්ඩරයට අනුව අනුරාධපුර තරියන්කුළම ප්රදේශයේ අක්කර 04 ක භූමි ප්‍රමාණයක මෙම බලාගාරය ඉදි කිරීම් ආරම්භ කළද, ඇති වූ ගැටලුකාරී තත්වයන් හේතුවෙන් මෙතෙක් එය ජාතික විදුලි පද්ධතියට එක් කිරීමට නොහැකි වී ඇත. අදාළ භූමිය නිරීක්ෂණය කළ අමාත්‍යයතුමන්, අදාළ බලාගාරය මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 17 (newsin.asia): Through sheer grit and a fierce commitment to their tribal and Islamic values, the Afghans have frustrated a series of imperialistic attempts to dominate them. Between 1842 and 2021, the British, Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia and the US had tried occupying Afghanistan to derive benefits from its strategic location in South and Central Asia. But their attempts had failed miserably. British Blunder The first major foreign debacle was in the first half of the 19th.Century. In 1839, the British, afraid of Tsarist Russia’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
වෛද්‍ය පාලිත බණ්ඩාර සුබසිංහ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින
අප සියලූම දෙනාට මෙම භයානක තත්ත්වයට මුහුණ දීමට සිදුව තියෙනවා සියලූම දෙනා රෝගය මර්දනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇති එන්නත් කවරක් හෝ වහාම ලබාගත යුතුවනවා. සමාජයේ සමහර පිරිසක් එන්නත්වල අතුරු ආබාධ පිළිබඳව විවිධ කට කතා නිර්මාණය කොට පැතිර හැරීම නිසා එන්නත් ලබාගැනීමට බියෙන් පසුවනවා. සත්‍ය තත්ත්වය නම් එන්නත්වලින් එලෙස අතුරු ආබාධ ඇති වන බවට කිසිදු සාක්ෂියක් නොමැති බවයි. වඩාත් මතක තියාගත යුතු කාරණය වන්නේ, සමහර පුද්ගලයන්ට එන්නත ලබා ගැනීමෙන් පසු අතුරු ආබාධ ලෙස දින දෙක තුනක් සිරුරේ වේදනාව, උණ ගතිය තියෙන්න පුළුවන් නමුත් එන්නත ලබා නොගතහොත් එහි අතුරු ආබාධය වන්නේ රෝගයට ගොදුරු වී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
Courtesy Ceylon Today
Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi who was appointed as the Minister of Transport in a cabinet reshuffle that took place earlier today (16) bid farewell to her former staff at the Health Ministry this afternoon. A special meeting was held at the Ministry of Health to bid farewell to Wanniarachchi and welcome newly appointed Minister Keheliya Rambukwella. Minister Wanniarachchi admitted that she too was shocked when she was offered a new portfolio, like many others in the Ministry. "When I was called, I told a group of doctors... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
අනුරාධා හේරත් https://mawbima.lk/news-more/87758... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Government of Sri Lanka and the China Development Bank have entered into an agreement of RMB 2 billion – approximately Rs. 61.5 billion – Term Facility today (August 17), the Chinese Embassy in Colombo announced. In a tweet, the embassy stated that the agreement was signed upon the request from Sri Lanka to support its COVID19 response, economic revival, financial stability and livelihood betterment.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The total number people who fell victim to COVID-19 infection in Sri Lanka soared yet again as a record high of 171 new fatalities were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (August 16). This marks the ninth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 6,434. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 102 males and 69 females. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 946 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 17), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 3,609. According to the Government Information Department, 3,555 of the latest cases reported today were associated with the New Year cluster. The remaining 54 are arrivals from foreign countries. Following the new development, the country’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally now stands at 365,683, the Epidemiology Unit said. Official data showed that as many as 314,340 patients who were infected with the virus have returned to health so far. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
The views expressed by the Maha Sangha and opposition politicians regarding the Covid situation in the country and the cabinet reshuffle that took place yesterday is given below; https://youtu.be/EFGDP5ysIdE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ
අතීසාරයට අබුඩය ගැසීම ප්‍රස්තා පිරුළ සිහිගන්නමින් ජනාධිපති ගොටාබය රාජපක්ශ රටේ ඇති දහසක් ප්‍රශ්න නිරාකරණය කිරීමේ අදහසින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල සංශෝධනයක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබේ. මහාචාර්ය ජී එල් පීරිස් නව විදේශ ඇමතිවරයා ලෙස පත් කර ඇති අතර දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අද කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල සංශෝධනයෙන් පසු නව අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්යවරයා වේ. ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය අංශය පවසන පරිදි සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනිය ලෙස කටයුතු කළ පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි ප්‍රවාහන ඇමති ලෙස පත් කර ඇති අතර කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල නව සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනිය වේ. ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ මහතාට විදුලිබල ඇමති ධුරය ලබා දී ඇති අතර නව ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්යවරයා ලෙස ඩලස් අලහප්පෙරුම මහතා පත් කෙරේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/08/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය යනු සැලසුම් සහගත ගෝලීය යාන්ත්‍රණයකි. ඔවුන්ට රටක් ඔවුන්ගේ කඳවුරට පක්ෂපාතිව හැසිරවීමට ඉතාම පහසු ක්‍රමය, රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික පරයෙක් හෝ පරයින් සමුහයක් නිර්මාණයකර ඔවුන් අතට රාජ්‍ය බලය ලබාදීමයි. මේ පදවිය ඔවුනට මෙන්ම ලබන්නාටද ඉතා ගෞරවනීය පදවියකි. එයලබා ගැනීම පහසු කටයුත්තක් නොවන අතර, ඒ සඳහා ඔවුන්ගේ පවුලේ අතීත ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වයන්ද ඉතා වැදගත්වේ. 1948දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට නිදහස ලබාදෙනවිට, අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ගේ කවය තුල රාජ්‍ය බලය පැවරීම සඳහා සිටි හොදම සගයන් වුයේ, එස්.ඩබ්ලිව්.ආර්.ඩී බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතා හා ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන යන දෙමහත්වරුන්ය. නමුත් එම කාර්ය කිරීමට එදා අධිරාජ්‍යවාන්දිට නොහැකි විය. එහි පලයක් වශයෙන් ඩී.එස්.සේනානායක මහතා අගමැතිවරයා වශයෙන් බලයට පත්විය. ධවල යක්ෂයින්ගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Professor Sunil J. Wimalawansa
Over-confidence and reliance on out of date information, lack of familiarity with recent rapidly changing medical and scientific advances, and 'close-mind set’ is likely to lead to inadvertently making false comments and unfair criticisms. There are over 350 published, recent peer-reviewed clinical scientific papers on being significant benefits of vitamin D and ivermectin: new peer-reviewed publications coming up every other day: these strongly support both prevention and treatment of early stages of COVID-19. In contrast, awaiting head-to-head clinical studies, in the longer term and eliminating SARS_CoV-2 from the world (through milder infection leading... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
මෙම ප්‍රවාදයෙන් යෝජිත පාලන ආකෘතිය එක්වර ම රට පුරා ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ හැකි ය. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් සම්පාදනය කෙරෙන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් හරහා එවැනි කාර්යයක් සිදුකිරීම අපහසු නොවේ. එසේ වුව ද, මෙයින් යෝජනා කෙරෙන ආර්ථික මාදිලිය පිළිබඳ අදහස් එ ලෙසින් එක්වර ම ක්‍රියාත්මක කළ යුතු නොවේ. ආර්ථික ක්‍රමයේ මහා වෙනසක් සිදුකිරීමට සැළැකිය යුතු කාලයක් අවශ්‍ය වෙයි. ඒ සඳහා මිනිසුන් ක්‍රම ක්‍රමයෙන් හුරු කළ යුතු වේ. ව්‍යවසායකත්ව හැකියාව එක් රැයකින් ලබාදීමට නො හැකි ය. විවිධ වූ ප්‍රාථමික ව්‍යවසායක කාර්යයන්ගේ නිරත වී, වැරැදීම්වලින් සහ වෙනත් අත්දැකීම්වලින් ඉගෙනගෙන එම හැකියාව වර්ධනය කරගත යුතු වෙයි. ප්‍රාග්ධනය ඒකරාශී කිරීමට ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
සමස්ත ලංකා වරාය පොදුසේවක සමිතිය.
ජනාධිපති තුමා, ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ - 01. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, අක්කර 13 ක වරාය ඉඩම හා වරාය අධිකාරිය යටතේ ලබාදෙන සේවාවන් චීනයේ CICT සමාගමට පැවරීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය වහා අහෝසි කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. සලංවපොසේස/2021/03 හා 2021-08-05 දාතමින් යුතුව ඉහත විෂයෙහි කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමට වැඩිමනත් වශයෙනි. 1. වරාය හා නාවික කටයුතු පිළිබඳ අමාත්‍ය රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා විසින් 2021-07-21 දින MPS/2021/01/20(II) අංක යටතේ යොමු කරන ලද කැබිනට් පත්‍රිකාව අනුමත කොට ඇත, 2. එම කැබිනට් පත්‍රිකාවෙන් දකුණු කොළඹ වරායේ CICT, WCT, ECT හා SAGT පර්යන්ත වලට ප්‍රවිෂ්ඨ වන මාර්ගයේ පිහිටි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Courtesy BBC
There are over one million tuk-tuks (also known as auto rickshaws) in Sri Lanka. They are cheap to use but can also be very polluting. Now electric tuk-tuks are being developed as well as conversion kits to change petrol powered vehicles to run on batteries. But will they take off? The Travel Show's Lucy Hedges looks at the technology and test drives an electric vehicle with tuk-tuk driver Thushari Medagamage to find out more. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-51489701... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීතිඅධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන,
විනිසුරුවරුන්ට එරෙහිව පැමිණිලි කළහොත් තමන්ට එරෙහිවත් පැමිණිලි කරන්න පුලුවන්... ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ලේඛන සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ඉල්ලූ නඩුවේදී අගවිනිසුරු කියයි...! එදින ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ සෙංකෝලය ඉවත් කරගැනීමට නොහැකිව ආධාරකවලට ඇලී පැවතීම විශේෂ සිදුවීමක්.... දිසා අධිකරණයට ඉදිරිපත් කළ ලිඛිත දේශනයේ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් තිබූ පෞද්ගලික ලේඛන ඇතුලු ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ලේඛන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 24.2, 24.3, 24.5 සහ 125 ව්‍යවස්ථා යටතේ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ඉල්ලා සහ ලිඛිත දේශන අවස්ථාගත තත්ත්වය අනුව නඩු වාර්තාවේ කොටසක් විය යුතු බවට පෙත්සම්කරුවෙකු ගොනු කර තිබූ විශේෂ අභියාචනා අවසර ඉල්ලේමේ පෙත්සමක් 2021.08.10 දින ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ අංක 502 ශාලාවේ අගවිනිසුරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය, මහින්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
මහජන බැංකුව සිය 60 වසරක අභිමානය අන්තර්ගත කරමින් සම්පාදනය කළ ඉතිහාස ග්‍රන්ථය එහි සභාපති සුජීව රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (16) දින පස්වරුවේ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පිළිගැන්නුවේය. වසර 60ක කාලයක් පුරා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකයට මහජන බැංකුව ලබා දුන් විශිෂ්ට දායකත්වය සහ එම කාලය තුළ බැංකුවේ දියණුව වෙනුවෙන් කටයුතු කළ සභාපතිවරුන්, ප්‍රධාන විධායක නිලධාරින් සහ සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරිවරුන් පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු ද මෙම ග්‍රන්ථයට ඇතුළත්ය. සිය හැට වසරක ඉතිහාසය තුළ මහජන බැංකුව මිලියන 14ක ජනතාවක් සමඟ ගනු දෙනු කරන අතර ඊට අදාළව පවත්වාගෙන යන ගිණුම් සංඛ්‍යාව මිලියන 18කි. මෙරට ඩිජිටල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ධීවර අමාත්‍යවරයාව සිටි සමයේ, එතුමාගේ සංකල්පයක් ලෙස ආරම්භ කළ “ධීවර ගම්මාන” වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම සඳහා අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා විසින් අද 2021.08.16 දින නිවාස විෂය භාර රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ඉන්දික අනුරුද්ධ මහතාට උපදෙස් ලබා දී තිබේ. ග්‍රාමීය නිවාස හා ඉදිකිරීම් හා ගොඩනැගිලි ද්‍රව්‍ය කර්මාන්ත ප්‍රවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්යවරයා සමඟ අද පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙම උපදෙස් ලබා දී ඇත. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ධීවර අමාත්‍යවරයාව සිටි සමයේ දිවයින පුරා ඇති මුහුදුබඩ ප්‍රදේශ හා වැව් ආශ්‍රිතව ධීවර ගම්මාන 60 කට වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් ඉදි කර තිබේ. මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත්තේ මෙම ධීවර ගම්මාන වැඩිදියුණු කිරීම,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Courtesy Skynews
Hundreds more British troops are being sent to Kabul to help with the evacuation effort in Afghanistan's capital - as the foreign secretary admitted the UK was left "surprised" by the speed with which the Taliban took control of the country. An extra 200 British troops will be sent to Kabul, bringing the number of UK armed forces personnel in the city to around 900 - the majority of which have been deployed in the past week. It is understood several hundred further troops are also set to be deployed in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
John Bowden Courtesy Independent
President Joe Biden characterised the US mission in Afghanistan as accomplished on Monday, even as the Afghan government collapsed in the face of advancing Taliban militants in Kabul. © AP President Joe Biden speaks on Monday about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s conquest of the country.- AP In a national address called by the White House in the hours after Kabul fell to the Taliban and as videos showed a chaotic evacuation of US personnel from the city’s airport, Mr Biden said that he stands “squarely behind” his decision,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
By Joe Lo Courtesy Climate Home news
The government wants 70% of the island’s electricity to come from renewables by 2030 and is offering cheap loans to install rooftop solar. Solar panels being installed in Sri Lanka (Photo: World Bank/Dominic Sansoni/Flickr) Sri Lanka will stop building coal-fired power plants and double the share of its electricity from renewables by 2030, according to the government’s latest climate plan. In 2019, the Indian Ocean island got 35% of its electricity from renewables, mainly from hydropower. By 2030, it wants to increase that figure to 70%... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Courtesy RT
Sri Lanka’s president has announced that the country’s health minister, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, has been sacked for pushing Covid misinformation and promoting false treatments amid surging case numbers. Announcing Wanniarachchi’s dismissal on Monday, the president’s office confirmed she would move to a position in the transport ministry, with media minister Keheliya Rambukwella taking her health portfolio. The cabinet shake-up comes after Wanniarachchi pushed claims that a “magic potion” made by a sorcerer helped to protect her and others against Covid. The former health minister stated that she had poured “blessed” water into a river in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal says that social gatherings such as parties that had taken place in the nighttime had led to the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in the country. https://youtu.be/PzUpNzN0xEU The State Minister of Finance, Capital Markets, and State Enterprise Reforms explained the reasoning behind the nighttime curfew imposed in the country, joining the Ada Derana ‘Big Focus’ program today (August 16). Sri Lanka imposed a quarantine curfew, effective island-wide, from 10.00 pm to 04.00 am daily. He said, “This has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Former Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that her removal from the Health Ministry was unexpected. Earlier today (August 16), several Cabinet ministries were reshuffled and Minister Wanniarachci was removed from the Health Ministry and assigned to the Ministry of Transport. https://youtu.be/s1pR-tMpOzo Speaking at a brief farewell function at the Ministry of Health, Wanniarachchi said that she will make up her mind with the mindset that everything happens for good. She said, “I didn’t think this change would come suddenly. Before I went there, I told... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 1,038 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3.466. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 362,074. As many as 312,057 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 43,921 active cases are currently under medical care. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has registered 167 more COVID-19 related fatalities on Sunday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Norway wanted to see the country divided, and Eelam become a reality. Norway tried to create Eelam through the Ceasefire Agreement. The “Ceasefire Agreement” (CFA) was signed on 22nd February 2002 by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka and by Velupillai Prabhakaran on behalf of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Norway was its creator and its go –between. Norway and LTTE had reached agreement on the CFA by the first week of Dec 2001. India had met secretly with LTTE. Norwegian Foreign minister Eric... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
Norway was the second country to enter Sri Lanka to deal with Eelam. Norway operated as a sole mediator in Sri Lanka. MichelsenInstitute, in its review ‘Pawns for Peace ‘said that Norway did not work in collaboration with any powerful state. However, Michelsen records that Norway felt it had to consult the US and India, regarding Sri Lanka, “US was consulted as the world’s superpower and India as the regional hegemon.” This means that Norway was not working alone in Sri Lanka. It is suggested that Norway accidentally stumbled into the Eelam issue. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කිර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්
පසුගිය සතිය පුරාම බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කෝවිඩ් රෝගීන් ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව පිළිබඳ දත්ත හා සංඛ්‍යා ජාතික මට්ටමේ දී බහිරවයෙකු විසින් ගිලදමා ඇතැයි හිටපු ඌව ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි. අගෝ. 11 දින රෝගීන් 412 ක් ද, අගෝ. 12 දින රෝගීන් 317 ක් ද, අගෝ. 13 දින රෝගීන් 313 ක් ද බදුල්ල සෞඛ්‍ය වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරි කාර්යාලයට වාර්තා වී ඇත. ජාතික කෝවිඩ් දත්ත මගින් වාර්තා කර ඇත්තේ බදුල්ලේ රෝගීන් සංඛ්‍යාවෙන් තුනෙන් පංගුවකි. බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කෝවිඩ් දත්ත සැඟවීම රෝගීන්ගේ ජීවිත අවදානම ඉහළ නැංවීමට ද, අනාගත සැලසුම් හා සැපයුම් ලබා ගැනීමේ දුෂ්කරතා ඇති කරයි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
රට හදන සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම බලගන්වමින් “වාරී සෞභාග්‍යා“ ජාතික වැඩසටහන යටතේ ග්‍රාමීය වැව්/ අමුණු සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියට සමගාමීව මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ කුණුරාගම ගම්මානයේ වැව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සමාරම්භ කෙරිණි. ග්‍රාමීය කුඹුරු හා ආශ්‍රී ත වැව්, ජලාශ හා වාරී මාර්ග සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යංශයේ මූල්‍ය ප්‍රථිපාදන මගින් වාරී මාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබයි, රුපියල් මිලියන 08 ක වියදමින් මෙම වැව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කටයුතු කිරීමට නියමිත අතර, මාස 03 ක් තුළ එහි වැඩ නිම කිරීමට නියමිතය. මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීීය සභා බල ප්රදේශයේ සීප්පුකුළම කොට්ඨාශයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ සංවිධායක ධනුෂ්ක කුමාර සෙනවිරත්න ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
වයස අවුරුදු 12ට වැඩි ළමයින්ටත් පියවරෙන් පියවර කොවිඩ් ප්‍රතිශක්තීකරණ එන්නත් ලබා දීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙලක් රජය විසින් සැළසුම් කර ඇති බව ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (15) දින පැවසීය. හම්බන්තොට රෝහලේ ස්ථාපිත දකුණු පළාත් කොවිඩ්-19 ළමා ප්‍රතිකාර ඒකකය විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට තංගල්ල කාල්ටන් නිවසේ සිට වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. ළමයින්ට එන්නත් ලබා දීමේ දී විවිධ සංකූලතා තිබෙන දරුවන්ට එහි දී ප්‍රමුඛත්වය ලබා දෙන බව ද අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා කියා සිටියේය. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මිය චාරිත්‍රානුකූලව පොල්තෙල් පහන දල්වමින් හම්බන්තොට රෝහලේ ස්ථාපිත දකුණු පළාත් කොවිඩ්-19 ළමා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාව HRCSL – ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලය, අංක 14, ආර්. ඒ. ද මෙල් මාවත කොළඹ 4. sechrcsl
gmail.com ගරු ලේකම්, ප්‍රතිශක්තිය ආශ්‍රිත රෝග සඳහා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රතිකාර හෝ වැළැක්වීමේ මාර්ග ඇති බව වෛද්‍යවරුන් ප්‍රකාශ කරද්දී කෝවිඩ් එන්නත ලබා නොගන්නා අයට වෙනස්කම් කිරීමේ/ බලහත්කාරකම් කිරීමේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කිරීම / තැත්කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. 1.) කෝවිඩ් එන්නත් සාමාන්‍ය භාවිතය සඳහා නිර්දේශ කර නැති අතර අත්හදා බැලීමේ පරීක්ෂණ තත්ත්වයේ පවතින අතර ලෝකයේ රටවල් අතර එකගතාවයක්ද නැත. 2.) කෝවිඩ් එන්නත ප්‍රතිශක්තිය වර්ධනය කිරීමට දායකවන බව දක්වා... -Full Story-
මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීතිඅධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන,
කොතලාවල පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද්දේ 2021.03.26 වන දිනය. කෝවිඩ් 19 පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද්දේ 2021.06.08 වන දිනය. මානව හිමිකම් සංවිධානය සංස්ථාගත කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත පෞද්ගකික මන්ත්රී පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් ලෙස පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද්දේ 2021.08.03 වන දිනය. කෝවිඩ් 19 පනත් කෙටුම්පතට එරෙහිව නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන මහතා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ කරුණු දැක්වූ අතර එකී පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ වගන්ති 7/13 ක් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කරන බව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය තීරණය කර ඇති බව 2021 ජූලි 06 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු හැන්සාඩ් වාර්තාවේ දැක්වේ. කෝවිඩ් 19 පනත් කෙටුම්පත ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට එකග බවට කිහිප... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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August 15 (NewsWire) – Bollywood Actor Amitabh Bachchan shared a perfect audio-video mix of his song from Kalia, “Jahan teri ye nazar hai” with the raging Sri Lankan track “Manike Mage Hithe”. Amitabh Bachchan said that the video was edited by his granddaughter Navya Naveli and he loved it. https://twitter.com/i/status/1426879893359394818 “Manike Mage Hithe” is a track sung by Sri Lankan artists Satheeshan Rathnayake and Yohahi De Silva. “Incredible Sri Lankan song `Manike Mage Hithe’ .. and edited here to my KALIA song by the genius in the house... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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A 15-year-old from Sri Lanka has spent his Covid lockdown building a solar-powered tuk-tuk. The best part is that Suntharalingam Piranawan used scraps for his homemade vehicle - and it works. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58192468 Video by BBC Sinhala’s Suneth Perera.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul today, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter. The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in "from all sides" but gave no further details. A tweet from the Afghan Presidential palace account said firing had been heard at a number of points around Kabul but that security forces, in coordination with international partners, had control of the city. U.S. officials said the diplomats were being ferried to the airport from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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China and Sri Lanka are set to deepen their bilateral “vaccine diplomacy” with a leading Chinese pharma company preparing to set up a manufacturing plant to make anti-Covid jabs in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home district, Hambantota The new plant will be set up under an agreement that will allow Colombo to source nine million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the Chinese pharma company that sets it up, Sri Lankan ambassador to China, Palitha Kohona, told the Hindustan Times. A deal between Sri Lanka’s State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC), a state-owned enterprise, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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A total of 582 persons who tried to enter the Western Province yesterday (August 14) violating provincial travel restrictions have been turned away, Sri Lanka Police said. Further, 108 persons have been arrested during the police operations carried out to monitor quarantine regulations yesterday. Police Media Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana stated that a total of 54,359 persons have been arrested so far in these operations. Police further say that special inspections are being carried out regarding vehicles entering the expressways.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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All weddings functions, irrespective of the venue, will not be allowed to be held from Tuesday (August 17) midnight, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) stated. The decision has been taken as a measure to control the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country. https://youtu.be/YFNb5O5gpzQ Accordingly, weddings, whether held at home or at a reception hall, will not be permitted until further notice. Further, no activity that amasses the public will be allowed to be carried out from midnight today (August 15), Head... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the government plans to provide COVID-19 immunization to children over 12 years of age step by step. The Prime Minister mentioned this speaking at the inauguration of the Southern Province COVID-19 Child Care Unit at the Hambantota Hospital, today (August 15). The Prime Minister joined the event through a video call from the Carlton House in Tangalle. He said that priority will be given to children with various complications when vaccinating children. The concept of the Pediatric Medical Association is to establish... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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Total lives claimed by the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka now stand over 6,000 as a record high of 161 new victims were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 14). This marks the seventh consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-related deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 6,096. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 83 males and 78 females. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
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A total of 859 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 15), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 3,435. According to the Government Information Department, all new cases reported today were associated with the New Year cluster. Following the new development, the country’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally now stands at 354,968, the Epidemiology Unit said. Official data showed that as many as 309,732 patients who were infected with the virus have returned to health so far. Meanwhile, the death toll reached 6,096 after a record... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත්
https://youtu.be/ASc1451R6t0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Army Commander General Shaveendra Silva stated that islandwide quarantine curfew will be imposed from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. every day from tomorrow (16) until further notice. However, he stated that this would not affect essential services https://youtu.be/Ad0YSV3foqo https://youtu.be/MQLitwuzyrg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana stated that the government is ready to go for an islandwide lockdown if a request is made from the health sector. The State Minister further stated that all decisions taken by the government are taken on the advice of doctors. https://youtu.be/qboaxrPtMBQ Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, Director, Department of Allergy, Immunology and Cell Biology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura stated that it is not possible to build immunity among the people by unnecessarily exposing society to the coronavirus. Posting a note... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviour. Keep your behaviour positive because your behaviour becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” Mahatma Gandhi Felice Leonardo Buscagliaalso known as "Dr. Love", was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. One of his quotations resonates with the general approach of most human beings to worldly problems.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
Taliban has not wasted any time in trying to capitalize on the weak leadership of President Joe Biden. Kabul is now within striking distance The election of Joe Biden was a great relief for Taliban who could not challenge during the Presidency of Donald Trump. Prior to Islamic domination, Buddhism was a major player in Afganistan. Today the Buddhism has vanished in similar fashion to that of Indonesia. Though the Rajapakse Leadership in Sri Lanka has successfully defeated the world worst terrorists, the Tamil Tigers, the world super... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
‘සිංහල’, බෞද්ධ’ සංකල්පයන් ‘සිංහල’, බෞද්ධ’ යන සංකල්පයනට පසුගිය වසර 40 ක පමණ කාලයක සිට සිදුවී ඇති අවැඩ, අගතිය, හානිය අති මහත්ය. 1815දි බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීහු පවා උඩරට ගිවුසුම මඟින් මේ රට හැඳින්වුයේ ‘සිංහලේ’ යන නමිනි. සිලෝන් හෝ ශ්‍රී ලංකා යන නම් ඔවුන් පාවිච්චි නොකළේ එකල ඒවා මේ රටේ නාමය ලෙසට සනිටුහන්ව නොතිබීමයි. 1995 මැද භාගයේ පමණ සිට මේ රටේ සැමදා තිබුණු ‘සිංහල බෞද්ධ’ වෙනුවට ශ්‍රී’ ලාංකික’ යන අනන්‍යතාවය දිය යුතුය යන රාජ්‍ය මතයක් ගොඩ නැඟීමට පටන් ගැනිණි. එක් සුළු ජාතියකට මහ ජාතිය විසින් කරන ලද අසාධාරණ වෙනුවෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
මහාවංශය බොරු බව ප්‍රභාකරන් සෑම විටම කීය. මහාවංශය සම්බන්ධව ඔහු තුල තිබුනේ තදබල තරහකි. LTTE න්‍යායාචාර්ය ඇන්ටන් බාලසිංහම් මහාවංශය බොරු බවට දැඩිව මත පල කළේය. ඔවුන් නික්ම ගිය පසු අද TNA වැනි සහ වෙනත් ඊලාම්වාදී ද්‍රවිඩ සංවිධාන මේ අදහස තවදුරටත් ප්‍රවර්ධනය කරත්. විජයට පෙර මේ රටේ රාවණ නමැති බලගතු රජකෙනක් සිටි බවත් රාවණ දෙමළ බවත් ඔවුහු පවසත්. මේ රටේ සිංහලට වඩා වූ දෙමළ උරුමයක් ඇති බව සනාථ කරනු වස් එළාර, චෝල, පාන්ඩ්ය රාජධානි ගැනද ඔවූහු කථා කරත් (මේ ‘රජවරු’ දකුණු ඉන්දියාවෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණි ආක්‍රමනිකයෝයි. වීර සිංහලයෝ ඔවුන්ව පරාජය කර, ඔවුන් ආ රටටම නැවත පලවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/08/21)
Courtesy The Island
Leader of the House and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday said that there were reports that a large number of persons believed to have gone missing during the war were living abroad under different names. They had left the country through unconventional channels during the last phase of the conflict and immediately after that, the Minister told The Island. “We have reports to prove that hundreds of persons said to have gone missing are in fact living abroad. Their names are on the lists of persons who allegedly disappeared. We have asked... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
By Dr. Parakrama Waidyanatha Courtesy The Island
The government has, at last, yielded to the unceasing demand of farmers for chemical fertilisers over the last several months, by its recent gazette notification, although it claims that its policy on organic agriculture remains unchanged! The farmers should, however, be elated and this is reminiscent of what happened nearly a century ago when British farmers did the reverse, shifting from organic to chemical farming! Sir John Russell (1942), a famous British soil scientist, in an article referring to transition from organic to conventional farming then, states that: “It is difficult... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
By Toby Antony Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express
The NIA has found that the conspiracy to smuggle drugs and weapons from Pakistan using fishing vessels started in the second half of 2020. KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the seizure of five AK-47 rifles and `3,000-crore worth of heroin from a Sri Lanka boat off the Kerala coast on March 25 has found that a Pakistan national was the main handler of the smugglers. Similarly, two residents of Chennai allegedly have associations with members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Some Christian preachers are misleading their followers requesting them not to get the COVID-19 vaccine, saying the Bible had forbidden taking such vaccines, Sri Lanka National Christian Conference (SLNCC) said yesterday. President of Sri Lanka National Christian Conference Bishop Janaka Kumaratunga told Daily Mirror that many preachers had been asking the people who attend their prayer sessions to resist vaccines.“many who come up with this false advice are individual preachers rather than those who belong to religious denominations,” he said. “Do not get deceived by false interpreters of the Bible.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India conducted searches at multiple locations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, in the Vizhinjam arms recovery case, where heroin and arms were seized from six Sri Lankan nationals in March this year. NIA teams conducted searches at seven locations, spread across Chennai and Tiruvallur districts in Tamil Nadu, and Ernakulam district in Kerala, at the premises of the accused and suspects involved in the trafficking of arms, ammunition and narcotics from Iran and Pakistan to Sri Lanka. The case was originally registered by the Vizhinjam police... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Ministry of Finance has issued a statement today, reiterating that a new special commodity levy was NOT imposed on several food items through the Gazette Extraordinary issued on August 11. Clarifying media reports, the finance ministry said the gazette notification only extended the validity period of the existing special commodity levy previously imposed on several food items including dried fish, sprats and salt. The finance ministry explained that the gazette notification published on February 11, 2021, which extended the validity period of special commodity levy on imported sprats and dried fish by 06... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has registered 160 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Friday (August 14). This marks the sixth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 5,935. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 87 males and 73 females. One among the victims is aged below 30 years while 35 of them are aged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 822 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 3,245. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 351,533. As many as 307,345 recoveries and 5,935 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 38,413 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM FRCP/FRACP
Dear Editor, I am writing in absolute frustration & anger on watching parliamentarian Mudgibur Rahman blaming the government for the present spike in incidence of Covid in Sri Lanka claiming that it was because of the delay in securing vaccine because it wasted time chasing a ‘Paniya’ without placing orders of vaccines.Nothing is further from the truth. For a start , as the graphs above shows the Aluth Aviruddha pokura started rising at the end of April , coinciding with two weeks since lifting travel restrictions for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට විවෘත සංදේශයක් යොමු කර ඇත. මන්ත්රීවරයා විසින් තම සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ පළකර තිබූ එම සංදේශය මෙසේය. විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ 2021 අගෝස්තු මස 13 දින දීය, ජනපති ගෝඨාභයට – විවෘත සංදේශයක් ? හිතවත් ගෝඨාභය, මෙහෙම ආමන්ත්‍රණය කළේ ඔබ හිතවත් ඇතැයි කියලා හිතලා. මම නම් හිතවත්. මොකද ඔබ මගේ පමණක් නොවේ රටේ මිලියන 22 ක ජනතාවගේ ම රාජ්‍ය නායකයානේ. ඔබෙ හිත රිදුනත් කමක් නැහැ. ඔබට තේරෙනවා ඇතිනෙ මම කථා කළේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/08/21)
තිසර සමල්- අනුරාධපුර
මෙරට වී අස්වැන්න, බලශක්ති උත්පාදනය, පානීය ජල හා වාරි ජල සැපයුම වැඩි දියුණු කරමින් දේශීය ඉංජිනේරු තාක්ෂණයෙන් ඉදිවන රජරට විශාලතම ජලාශය හා මෙරට හයවැනි විශාලම ජලාශය වන පහළ මල්වතු ඔය ජලාශයේ ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍ය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ නිරීක්ෂණයට ලක් විය. මෙරට වැඩිම වී අස්වැන්නක් ලබාගෙන මන්නාරම ‘සහල් නැළියේ’ අස්වැන්න තෙගුණ කිරීම හා අනුරාධපුරය, මන්නාරම හා වවුනියාව ජනතාවගේ පානීය ජල අවශ්‍යතාවන් හා ගොවිතැන් කටයුතු සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ජලය සැපයීම වෙනුවෙන්ක්‍ රියාවට නංවන පහළ මල්වතු ඔය බහුකාර්ය යෝජනා ක්‍රමය වසර ගණනාවකින් ඉටු නොවූ ජනතා පැතුමක් ඉටු කරමින් පසුගිය මාර්තු 31 වැනි දින වාරී මාර්ග අමාත්‍යය චමල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
ඔරු පැදීමේ හා ස්කොෂ් ක්‍රීඩාවෙන් ජාත්‍යන්තර ජයග්‍රහණ හිමිකර ගැනීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව එම ක්‍රීඩාවන් හි නිරත ක්‍රීඩික ක්‍රීඩිකාවන්ගේ දක්ෂතා ඔප්නැංවීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඔරු පැදීමේ සංගමය හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා ස්කොෂ් ක්‍රීඩා සංගමයසමඟ ගිවිසුම්ගතවෙමින් ඔවුන්ට මූල්‍යමය ප්‍රදානයන් ලබාදීම අද (13) දින තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ජාතික ක්‍රීඩා සභා ශ්‍රවණාගාර පරිශ්‍රයේ දී සිදුවිය. තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් අමල් එදිරිසූරිය මහතා සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඔරු පැදීමේ සංගමය වෙනුවෙන් එහි සභාපති දිමුත් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාත් ස්කොෂ් ක්‍රීඩා සංගමය වෙනුවෙන් එහි සභාපති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
by P.K. Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 12 (Counterpoint): There is no data on the extent of polygamy among Sri Lankan Muslims. Yet, polygamy is seen by the authorities and the majority Sinhala community as being a widely prevalent custom among Muslims, which is both a social evil and a demographic threat to the Sinhala community. In July this year, the Sri Lankan cabinet decided to prohibit polygamy among Muslims, a decision reiterated by Justice Minister Ali Sabry in an interview to Daily Mirror on August 9. However, Sabry appeared to be aware of the difficulty in implementing the decision by way... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
As a first step of the programme to launch 20 television channels dedicated to education, six new television channels and a radio frequency will be launched next week, Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said. Addressing a meeting held at the Mass Media Ministry today, he said the 'Vision FM' radio station, which will be launched in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. These educational channels are planned to be launched as never before in history as full-time, sustainable channels and television channels in association with Sri Lanka Telecom through... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් Hiru News
A gazette notification issued imposing a special Commodity Levy on several items. A kilo of Sprats and dried fish Rs. 100. Butter Rs. 880.00 per kg, Dairy spreads Rs. 880.00 per kg, Mathe seed Rs. 50.00 per kg, Kurakkan (Eleusine coracana spp.) fl our Rs. 150.00 per kg and Mustard seeds Rs. 62.00 per kg https://youtu.be/IopWm8IZDjU විශේෂ වෙළෙඳ භාණ්ඩ මත බදු පනවමින් මීට පෙර නිකුත් කර තිබූ ගැසට් නිවේදන අවලංගු කරමින් නව අති විශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබෙනවා. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
The key observations and recommendations by the national experts suggest that at current levels of mobility restrictions, the number of cases would increase up to mid-September at 6000 cases per day. The key observations and recommendations of the 5th Independent Expert Group Meeting convened by WHO Sri Lanka which was held on 10 August 2021 has been released. Please click here for full report , https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nl_7IkouTOWISQtLnUv9MjdJfz38yNEr/view?usp=sharing Independent Expert full report They state that deaths up to early October would peak around 220 deaths/day. ICU admission... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that inter-provincial travel restrictions will be further tightened from midnight today (13). He stated this while announcing the decisions taken today during the meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 Control, held under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. https://youtu.be/9dB37qQNcR4 The Army Commander said that traveling between provinces will be completely prohibited from midnight today in order to control the spread of Covid-19 and that inter-provincial public transport services will also be suspended. He said that only those in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
මුඛ ආවරණය පලඳින්නැයි කාන්තාවකට අවවාද කළ පොලිස් නිලධාරියාට දෝස්මුරයක්... https://youtu.be/Wh9gguJ619U... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has registered 155 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Thursday (August 12). This marks the fifth consecutive day that the daily count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 100. The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 5,775. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims include 85 males and 70 females. Three among the victims are aged below 30 years while 41 of them are aged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 770 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 13), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 3,152. According to the Government Information Department, 3,142 cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The remaining 10 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries. The latest infections and delayed reported cases for the last week have brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 348,270, the Epidemiology Unit said. Official data showed that as many as 304,628 patients who were infected with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
More than half of the population in Colombo and Kalutara districts, aged over 30 years in have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, says General Shavendra Silva. According to the army commander, 51% adults in Colombo District and 55% in Kalutara Districts have received both doses of coronavirus vaccine. Reportedly, 48% of Gampaha District’s population has also been fully vaccinated.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed the health officials to pay special attention to people above the age of 60 and are suffering from chronic non-communicable diseases. A study carried out into the deaths reported during the last few days has revealed that majority of them were from the Western Province. It has been identified that a higher percentage of this group were persons aged over 60 years who suffer from non-communicable diseases and have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Hence, the President emphasized the need to devise a special mechanism by paying... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
REVISED 15.8.21 Scratch below the surface of any civil war and there is usually a foreign sponsor to be found, said analysts. Almost all civil wars have an external dimension. It is necessary to be alert to such interventions. These interventions hide under the term ‘Terrorism”. Terrorism is the perfect tool to exert pressure upon government. It provides the perfect cover up for hidden agendas, said analysts. Terrorists are armed and supported by foreign countries. Nothing is done against the terrorists but international humanitarian laws are used against sovereign states that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel, former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President Ambassador’s Forum and Jeff Goonawardena-Former Counsel General, Managing Director Thilanka Group of Hotels (International) and Joint Secretary Ambassador’s Forum
Foreign and Domestic Policies These are some topics interconnected and interwoven for a country to prosper in tourism and economy. The world today is interlinked to communicate with the rest of the world in few seconds with a click of a button from the modern technology and digitalization which is fast spreading worldwide. Today tourism has become a major income in many parts of the world,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
වාගිස ප්‍රනාන්දු විසිනි.
ඊයේ (12 වනදා) ලංකාවේ ආසාධිතයින් ගණන 3039කි. (රජය විසින් නිකුත් කරන දත්තවල නිරවද්‍යතාවය පිළිබදවද ප්‍රශ්ණයක්ද මේ වනවිට මතුව තිබේ) ඒ කෙසේවෙතත්, එම දත්ත නිවරැදියැයි උපකල්පනය කිරීම හැර වෙනත් විකල්පයක්ද අපට මේ මොහොතේ නැත. මන්ද? පසුගියදා ඇතැම් රජයේ රෝහල්වල කොරෝනා ආසාධිතයින්ගේ ධාරිතාවය ඉක්මවාගොස් ඇතැම් ආසාධිතයින් රෝහල් භූමියේ පවා වැතිර සිටින ඡායාරූප මාධ්‍යයේ පලවූ විට ඊට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් රජයේ එක්තරා උසස් සෞඛ්‍ය නිලධාරියෙකු පැවසූයේ ආසාධිතයින්ට අවශ්‍යවිටෙක එළිමහනට පැමිණ හොදින් වාතාශ්‍රය ලබා ගැනීම සදහා බාදාවක් නොමැති බවකි. නමුත් ඊට දින දෙකකට පමණ පසුව රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරයෙකු එම රෝහලේ සංචාරයක නිරතවූ අතර ඒ මොහොතේනම් වාතාශ්‍රය ලබාගැනීමට පැමිණි කිසිදු ආසාධිතයෙක් එළිමහනේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
ALI SUKHANVER
Definitely US’ decision of pulling out its forces from the Afghan land is going to change the whole future scenario of the war-torn Afghanistan, might be in a positive way and might be negatively. But one thing is very much clear that things would take a long time in permanent settlement. At present a tug of war between the Afghan government and the Taliban is simply making the situation over there more horrible and more atrocious. The Taliban have to fight not only the Afghan government but also the veiled supporters of US in Afghanistan. Agents... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando
“Without accepting a religion, but simply developing a realisation of the importance of compassion and love, with more concern and respect for others, a kind of spiritual development is possible for those persons who are outside of religion”- Dalai Lama. Peter Kalu, who lives in Hertfordshire, UK, was intrigued by Nadi Astrology after two readings, once as a teenager and for the second time, when he was 52 years old. He comes out with some fascinating stories based on his personal experiences and considers himself a scientist. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/08/21)
තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය
ශ්‍රී ලාංකික තාරුණ්‍යයට තම කුසලතාවයන් ඔප් නැංවීමට මඟ පෙන්වීම හා සහයෝගය ලබා දීම අරමුණකර ගනිමින්, අන්තර්ජාතික තරුණ දිනයට සමගාමීව ඩයලොග් ආසිආටා සමාගම විසින් තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය සමගින් එක්ව Youth Can වැඩසටහන දියත් කරන ලදී මෙම වැඩසටන තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය හා ජාතික තරුණ සේවා සභාව සමගින් එක්ව, මිනිස් බල හා රැකියා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ, කුඩා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන අංශයේ සහ ක්‍රීඩා සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහයෝගය ඇතිව, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සැඟවුණු කුසලතාවයන් සෙවීමට කටයුතු කරනු ඇති අතර , මෙමගින් සුවිශේෂී හැකියාවන් සහිත තරුණ තරුණියන්ට ඔවුන්ගේ කැමති ක්ෂේත්‍රයන්හි, ඔවුන්ගේ සිහින සැබෑ කර ගැනීමට අවස්ථාව උදා වේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ගම්මාන රැසක පවතින අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමට විසදුමක් ලෙස සූර්ය පැනල භාවිතයෙන් 2021 වර්ෂයේ අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ගම්මාන රැසක් ආවරණය වන ලෙස කිලෝමීටර 482.2 ක ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිත විදුලි අලි වැට සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ජාවක් රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්විණි. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් ආර්.එම් වන්නිනායක, අනුරාධපුර සහකාර වනජීවි අධ්‍යක්ෂ ඩබ්ලිව්.එස් වේරගම යන මහත්වරුන් ඇතුළු නිළධාරීන්ගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් මෙම සාකච්ජාව අමාත්‍යයතුමන්ගේ අනුරාධපුර කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැත්විණි. අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ගම්මාන විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක ජනතාව වන අලි ගම්වැදීම හේතුවෙන් පීඩාවට පත්ව ඇත. අලින් ගම්වැදීම හේතුවෙන් සිදු වන අලි මිනිස් ගැටුම් හේතුවෙන් පසුගිය කාළය පුරා මිනිස් ජීවිත ප්‍රමාණයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
By A. Abdul Aziz
55th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) UK concludes with an inspirational address by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad “If governments and leaders do not understand their responsibilities, particularly with regards to warfare and conflicts, and if they do not fulfil the rights of others, I fear the onset of an unthinkable global war, the destruction of which will be beyond all comprehension.” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad On 8th August 2021, The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad concluded the 55th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Beijing, August 12 (Xinhua): China on Thursday released a White Paper titled “Moderate Prosperity in All Respects: Another Milestone Achieved in China’s Human Rights” in which it had a chapter on how it coped with the COVID-19 pandemic. The White Paper said: “ The Covid-19 pandemic is the most serious global health emergency in a century. Facing this crisis, China has put the people’s interests first – nothing is more precious than people’s lives. It has adopted thorough, rigorous and effective prevention and control measures, regardless of huge economic and social... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 12 (Xinhua): A tusker, escorted by the Special Task Force is on a 10-day journey to participate in the Kandy Esala Perahera, which is scheduled to be held from Aug. 14 to 24 in Kandy. The festival is one of the grandest Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka, with an elephant parade being one of the biggest attractions. Tusker escorted by Special Task Force.Photo: Ajith Perera/Xinhua Tusker passes through Kadugannawa market place. Photo:Ajith Perera/ Xinhua... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy Japan Today
TOKYO The family of a Sri Lankan woman who died in March following mistreatment at a Japanese immigration center said she was "treated like a dog" after the government disclosed Thursday security camera footage of her final days. Two weeks' worth of video footage showing Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, 33, before her death was edited to around two hours, but her family members, shocked by the content, could only get through around half of it after saying they felt unwell. "Our sister was murdered. Anyone could see that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Kris Thomas & Pallavi Pundir Courtesy VICE.com
Sri Lanka's court says the politician's family is powerful enough to influence the investigation. SRI LANKAN PARLIAMENTARIAN WAS NOT AT HOME WHEN THE 16-YEAR-OLD DOMESTIC AIDE AT HIS HOME SUFFERED FROM BURN INJURIES IN JULY 2021. PHOTO BY LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Before she burned to death last month, Jude Kumar Ishalini spent her days in a small, dingy room outside the palatial private residence of Rishad Bathiudeen. Ishalini, 16, was a domestic aide at the house of the parliamentarian and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
How did we get here? Sri Lanka is in crisis. Since April 2021, Sri Lanka saw a sharp increase of Covid-19 positive cases and deaths. Despite health authorities warning the public to limit celebrations and shopping sprees during the traditional new year festival, large gatherings and cross border travels resulted in a deadly spike of Covid-19 cases. However the dominant disease variant at the time was the Covid-19 variant also known as the UK variant. It must be noted that this variant was also considered a highly contagious variant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
About 263 Community Vaccination Centres manned by tri-forces and health authorities will be operational countrywide today. Accordingly, vaccination centres are operational in 22 locations in the Colombo district, 17 in the Gampaha district, 33 in the Kalutara district while remaining vaccination centres operational in the Kurunegala, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Matale, Badulla,MOneragala, Galle, Matara,Hambantora, Ratnapura, Kegalle, Anuradhapura, Jaffna,Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara Districts. https://www.scribd.com/document/519844015/Vaccination-Centers-on-12-08-2021from_embed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Another crucial meeting will held this morning between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Presidential Task Force on Prevention of COVID-19 to decide if travel restrictions will be imposed over the weekend to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Army Commander General Shavendra Silva told Daily Mirror that the meeting will be held with the participation of ministers, Director General of Health Services and several other experts to discuss the current developments and further decisions to be taken related to the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The meeting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Another 156 Covid-19 related deaths for 11 August have been confirmed by Director General of Health Services. This has increased the total number of deaths in Sri Lanka to 5,620. 956 deaths were reported in the first 10 days of this month. Therefore, with the deaths reported today, the total number of deaths reported this month has increased to 1,112. Accordingly, this is the highest number of deaths reported in a day so far.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Another 619 persons tested positive for COVID-19. With 2,420 cases reported earlier today, the daily total of COVID cases increased to 3,039. Accordingly, the total number of COVID patients in the country increased to 345,118... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
By Chandre Dharmawardana.National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa and Department of Physics and Astronomy Université de Montreal.
The largest drain on Sri Lanka's foreign exchange earnings is in purchasing fossil fuels for power and transport, and in feeding the 22 million people who depend on a mere million hectares of arable land, as compared to 44 million hectares in Canada with a population of just 37 million. Much of agricultural land in the “dry zone” depends on irrigation water. This is provided by a network of reservoirs that tap the heavy rains of the hill country to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
Microfinance for various small businesses (including agriculture) has been a vital support for the economic development and the growth of Sri Lanka since the beginning of the economic activities of the country. Microfinance helped non-economic purposes such as giving dowry, spending for weddings, funerals, and many other purposes helped in the management of human affairs. In history, how microfinance had been operated cannot clearly state, however, it was a private business and the government regulation did not apply. It is difficult to identify a fixed beginning of credit support for the variety of small businesses... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
The major areas of regulating microfinance should be included. Before regulating the operation process of microfinance, it requires identifying the lender and the business format of lenders that may be a sole proprietorship, partnership or a private company, or public company. Many micro-financing businesses are not identified as business owners due to tax reasons. Therefore, regulating them to register in a recognised format of business ownership is essential. In Colombo, there may be more than a hundred lenders, and in each regional town, over five lenders are operating. The regulating process would generate additional revenue... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
WANESA TV
https://youtu.be/QS9TxMELz4A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය
තාරුණ්‍යයේ වටිනාකම ලොව සියලුදෙනාගේ අවධානයට පාත්‍ර කරමින් සෑම වසරකම අගෝස්තු 12 වැනිදා සමරනු ලබන “ජාත්‍යන්තර තරුණ දිනය - 2021” නිමිත්තෙන් සුබාශිංසන පළ කරනුයේ ඉමහත් සතුටිනි. ''මානව හා ගෝලීය සෞඛ්‍ය උදෙසා ආහාර පද්ධති පරිවර්තනයට තරුණ ප්‍රජාවේ නවොත්පාදනයන්'' යන්න මෙවර එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ජාත්‍යන්තර තරුණ දින තේමාව වී තිබේ. කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් මුළු ලොවම පීඩාවට පත්ව සිටින මෙවැනි වටපිටාවක අනාගත ලෝකයේ සෞඛ්‍ය සම්පන්න හා නිරෝගී මිනිසකු නිර්මාණය උදෙසා තරුණ දායකත්වය මෙවැනි තේමාවක් යටතේ පෙළගැසීම ප්‍රශංසනීය වේ. අතිගරු ජානාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා සහ ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා ඇතුළු රජයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Prime Minister’s Media Unit
New Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka - Mr Michael Edward Appleton - together with Mr. Andrew Traveller the Deputy High Commissioner called on Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning (11th August 2021). The Ambassador conveyed his pleasure to be the New Zealand first resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and expressed his keen interest in growing collaboration between the both nations. As one of the world's largest milk producers, The Ambassador mentioned that New Zealand is pleased to share dairy industry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
අය-වැය 2022 සම්පාදනය කිරීම සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පසුපෙළ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ යෝජනා ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් වන පළමු සාකච්ඡාව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (11) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. මුදල් අමාත්‍ය බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සංවිධානය කළ මෙම හමුවේ දී ග්‍රාමීය, ප්‍රාදේශීය සහ දිස්ත්‍රික් මට්ටමින් ඉටුකළ යුතු කාර්යයන්, ජාතික මට්ටමින් අවධානය යොමුකළ යුතු කාර්යයන් සහ ජාතික ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කිරීම යන අංශ සඳහා පසුපෙළ මන්ත්රී යෝජනා ලබා ගැනීම සිදුවිය. දේශීය කාබනික කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය නගා සිටුවීම, අපනයන නිෂ්පාදනය ඉහළ දැමීම, කර්මාන්ත සහ සේවා අංශය වෙත ග්‍රාමීය ප්‍රජාවගේ දායකත්වය ලබා ගැනීම සහ සාම්ප්‍රදායික කර්මාන්තකරුවන් නගාසිටුවීම,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
2011 වර්ෂයේ අගෝස්තු මස 12 වන දින කැනේඩියානු ජාතික චිත්‍රපට නිෂ්පාදිකාවක් වන ප්‍රිටිසියා සිටි මයිකල් ක්ලාක් සහ අලි නැවක හඳුන්වාදීමේ පදනමේ ලේකම් වන සිවපෝන් ධර්දරානන්ද යන මහත්ම මහත්මීන් මූලිකත්වයෙන් “අලි නැවත සිහි කිරීමේ පදනම” මඟින් සෑම වසරකම අගොස්තු මස 12 වන දින ලෝක අලි දිනය (World Elephant Day) ලෙස නම් කරන ලදී. ලෝක අලි සුරක්ෂිතතා දිනයේ තේමාව වනුයේ “අරුම පුදුම සතුන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව හා සංරක්ෂණය සොයා දැනගන්න හොඳම කාලයය” යන්නයි. වන අලින්ගේ රැකවරණය සහ කළමනාකරණය වෙනුවෙන් වූ සුභදායි විසඳුම් ලෙස දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා නිර්මාණශීලී දැනුම බෙදා හැරීම ලෝක අලි දිනයේ ප්‍රධාන ඉලක්කය මෙන්ම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ
ලෝක වෙළඳපොලේ කිරිපිටි කිලෝ එකක මිල අද ඩොලර් 3.6කි. එනම් රු. 720කි. මේ වන විට හිතාමතාම ෆොන්ටෙරා සමාගම විසින් වරායේ ගුදම් තුළ රඳවාගෙන සිටින ප්‍රමාණය මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් 4200කි. එනම් කිලෝ මිලියන 4.2කි. මේවා මෙට්‍රික් ටොන් 28 බැගින් වූ කන්ටේනර් 150ක ඇත. මේ සඳහා දැනට අයකරන කිලෝවකට රුපියල් 15ක් වන බද්ද ඉවත් කළහොත් රජයට අහිමිවන මුදල රුපියල් මිලියන 63කි. වැට් බද්ද ඉවත් කළහොත් අහිමිවන මුදල මිලියන 242ක. පැල් ඉවත් කලහොත් මිලියන 302ක් අහිමිවේ. [8/10, 10:59 PM] කිරිපිටි සමාගමට කිරි උතුරුවමින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය, ජනතාවගෙන් මුදල් එකතුකර නවසීලන්තයට පටවයි. ගුදම් ගාස්තු චීනයට! අහිමිවන බදු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Hambantota, August 10 (Xinhua/HIP): Sri Lanka’s Hambantota International Port (HIP) signed a 58-million-U.S. dollar deal with Maldivian company Sea Horse Yachts on Monday to assemble and export yachts from HIP’s industrial park. Namal Rajapaksa, minister of youth and sports and state minister of digital technology and enterprise development, told Xinhua that the project would be a stepping stone for bigger investments in the local maritime industry, and for establishing Sri Lanka as a yacht-building nation. He later tweeted that the project is expected to generate 500 jobs. Rajapaksa said that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Sri Lanka Tourism Courtesy The Island
Foreign investment is a key driver of economic growth, as is the revenue generated via tourism. As one of its primary exports, tourism remains Sri Lanka’s calling card to the world. Over the last fifteen months (March 2020-June 2021) the government has attracted over $950 million in investments, dedicated to revitalising the island’s burgeoning tourism sector. 64 project proposals have currently been received and 38 projects, to the value of $102.38 Million, have received approval. These ventures will be executed under the auspices of SLTDA. The level of interest shown... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Nearly 150,000 persons have not received their COVID-19 vaccine in the Colombo district, Colombo District Secretary Pradeep Yasaratne said today. He said a total of 99,373 persons between the age 30 to 59 have forgone their vaccine while about 46,600 elderly above 60 have not taken their vaccine in the Colombo district. "It has been observed that the majority of peope above 60, who have not got themselves vaccinated are residents of Colombo and Kolonnawa areas," he underlined. The District Secretary said the Police have already... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Providing home-based care for COVID-infected children aged above 02 years has commenced, says Dr. Channa De Silva, Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician at Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo. Accordingly, symptomatic or mildly symptomatic children can also be referred to medical supervision, he added. Dr. De Silva noted that children who undergo home-based care should not have uncontrolled comorbidities, chronic heart diseases or other medical conditions. A home-based treatment program was initiated after taking into account the rapid increase in the number of children infected with COVID-19 and it is now being implemented... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka’s Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi says that around 95 percent of the country’s population above the age of 30 have received at least a single dose of one of the Covid-19 vaccines. The government had recently decided to extend the current Covid vaccination programme to include those below 30 years of age. Around 3.5 million of the total 21 million population of the country are below 30 and given the current surge of the deadly viral infection, the importance of vaccinating people in the 18-29 age group had been highlighted. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 124 coronavirus related deaths for August 10, pushing the country official death toll due to the virus pandemic to 5,464. This is reportedly the highest daily count of Covid-19 deaths recorded in the country while this also marks the third consecutive day that the daily count of Covid-19 deaths has exceeded 100. Of the Covid-19 deaths confirmed today, 75 are males and 49 are females while one of the victims is below the age of 30. Twenty-eight are between the ages of 30-59... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Ministry of Health reported that another 736 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, increasing the daily count of new cases to 2,890. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country thus far to 341,982. Over 36,000 infected patients are currently being treated for the virus while total recoveries has crossed the 300,000-mark in Sri Lanka. The death toll due to Covid-19 in island has climbed to 5,464.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
A meeting to obtain the proposals of the backbenchers for the 2022 budget was held under the patronage of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees today (11).< https://youtu.be/bsQn0UVrC-U At this meeting organized by the Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa, suggestions were obtained from the backbenchers on the work to be done for the development of the country at the rural, divisional, and district levels. It is stated that the backbenchers have been made aware of the measures to be taken to strengthen the national economy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
https://youtu.be/i-8AkEzl4Eg State Minister of Agriculture Shasheendra Rajapaksa states that permission was not granted to import carbonic compost fertilizer. he State Minister was responding to a statement made by Co-Cabinet Spokesman Ramesh Pathirana that the Cabinet had approved the importation of carbonic fertilizer following procurement methods... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) has organized a mobile vaccination program for citizens who are immobile and or bedridden and cannot go to a vaccination centre. Any citizen of Colombo who is residing in Colombo 1-15 and in need of this special service, can register for the service. To request vaccination, please email with name of the person to be vaccinated, National Identity Card (NIC) number, Address, mobile number and the reason to request the service in brief. CMC will SMS a slot with a date and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Courtesy Hiru News
It has been revealed that there is a discrepancy in the statistics on COVID infections in the Gampaha District and the Eastern Province. The Gampaha district has the second-highest number of infected persons in the country with 58,943 cases. https://youtu.be/XxiHzgMWYac Against this backdrop, the Gampaha District COVID Control Committee met at the Gampaha District Secretariat yesterday to find a solution to the increasing COVID risk in the district. Observation of the data presented by the Gampaha District Health Director's Office revealed that there... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/08/21)
Dr. Chula Rajapakse FRACP/FRCP MNZM
A podcast today from a front line doctor involved in Covid Control in Sri Lanka ,ended with call to seeing and staying positive I agree with this doctor that a most important requirement for Covid contra in SL was staying positive. Sadly, the biggest impediment to this as I see it are the politicians, social media and rumor mill that exaggerates the negatives and ignores the many positives in Covid control in SL today For example, the unprecedentedly successful vaccination program even acknowledge by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Pathik hasan
Colombo Security Conclave is a greater regional initiative taken by Indi a, Sri Lanka and Maldives simultaneously to tackle the maritime threat in Indian ocean. Then Sri Lankan defence secretary (Now President) Gotabaya Rajapaksa took this significatory initiative. The head quarter is established in 2020 in Sri Lankan capital city Colombo. Maritime threats matter really in this today’s modern world. Now Indian ocean is a piece of interest amongst world players. The powers eye shifts towards India ocean. Analyst says, Maritime security and countering terrorism and other crimes in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara
A Final call to all Patriots. Looking at the way how our political parties in this country have ruined the country during the past 69 years that was the richest in South East Asia by 1948, and are continuing to do so alternatively even now. As for me, therefore I have no faith or trust in any of the existing political parties as none of them have a clear cut national policy, other than their own enrichment. They all are only parasitic bunches of self-centered power crazy set of men and women who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy Japan Today
TOKYO Japan's immigration agency said Tuesday a probe has found that an immigration center in central Japan mistreated a detained Sri Lankan woman who died in March, and it has reprimanded the facility's top officials and supervisors. The Immigration Services Agency of Japan's final report on developments leading to the death of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, 33, said the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in Aichi Prefecture failed to provide appropriate medical care for her, though the probe could not determine the cause of her death. Justice Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
By Observer Research Foundation Courtesy Eurasia Review
File photo of India's Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa. Photo Credit: PM India By N Sathiya Moorthy The well-earned publicity that the ‘Integrated Country Strategy’ for Sri Lankan missions in India has received in the Indian media is a welcome for more reasons than one. In particular, it deserves to be praised for acknowledging the ‘trust-deficit’ that has re-emerged in the bilateral relations over the past year—after a relatively smooth sail in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy The Straits Times
Sri Lanka Army health workers administer Covid-19 vaccine shots at a vaccination centre in Colombo, on Aug 10, 2021.PHOTO: EPA-EFE COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's government rejected on Tuesday (Aug 10) mounting calls for an immediate lockdown to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths that is severely stretching hospitals and crematoriums. Government spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the country had not reached a critical stage even as the island nation suffers more than 100 deaths per day on average. "Curfews or a lockdown is the last... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
People travelling to Dubai from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Uganda, and Nigeria do not need to produce a COVID-19 vaccination certificate on arrival, but need to register for pre-entry approval before arrival. Emirates airline has announced that entry to foreign nationals is only limited to valid UAE visa holders, who must have a COVID-19 certificate issued at least 48 hours prior to their departing flight, the Times of Oman reported. “Only COVID‑19 PCR test reports from certified labs that issue a QR code linked to the original report will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Attorney General has sent indictments to the Chief Justice to constitute a Trial-at-Bar to hear the cases against 25 suspects indicted for conspiracy over the Easter Sunday attacks. The AG has requested the Chief Justice to hear and determine 23,270 charges filed under the prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) including the charges of conspiracy, preparation,aiding and abetting, collection of explosives and weapons, murder and attempted murder. The Attorney General's Department today filed the principal indictments in the Colombo High Court against 25 accused including Naufer Mawlawi,Sajid Maulawi, Mohammed Milhan,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The inter province travel restriction will be strictly monitored from today and no one will be allowed to cross provinces other than essential and health workers, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva told Daily Mirror a short while ago. He said following discussions, it had also been decided to limit the number of attendees to a wedding to 50 guests, from the 150 proposed earlier. In addition, the Health Ministry will release a set of new health guidelines and restrictions today late afternoon. The General said there had still... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Sophie Morris, political reporter Courtesy Skynews
Herd immunity is "not a possibility" because the Delta variant is still spreading fast and infecting fully vaccinated people, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said. © PA Sir Andrew told MPs 'anyone still unvaccinated at some point will meet the virus' Professor Sir Andrew Pollard told MPs in the All-Party Parliamentary Group on coronavirus that although 95% vaccination would stop transmission of measles, the same was not true for COVID. He warned that this means "anyone still unvaccinated at some point will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Daily COVID-19 fatalities confirmed in Sri Lanka swept past the grim milestone of 100 for the second consecutive day as 118 more victims of COVID-19 infection were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (August 09). This reportedly the highest number of deaths the island has reported in a day. The new development has pushed Sri Lanka’s death toll from the novel coronavirus to 5,340. The Government Information Department stated that 101 of the latest victims are senior citizens aged above 60 years. The remaining 17 were aged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 912 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 10), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,904. According to the Government Information Department, the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The latest infections and delayed reported cases for the last week have brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 339,092, the Epidemiology Unit said. Official data showed that as many as 298,162 patients who were infected with the virus have regained health so far. Meanwhile, the death... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
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The government has decided to remove all import taxes levied on milk powder, says the Cabinet Co-spokesperson, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella. Addressing a media briefing at the Government Information Department this morning, the minister said the decision was taken during the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers held on Monday (Aug. 09). https://youtu.be/Z0Efsx_fEU4 Speaking further, he also assured that country has stocks of sugar sufficient for the coming three months. “There is no reason for a shortage of sugar to arise, because we imported a large amount of sugar... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
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The government has decided to allow imports of organic fertilizers, natural minerals, and plant nutrients for the Maha Season of 2021/22. Fertilizers, minerals, and nutrients in short supply locally will be allowed to be imported in this manner. The Cabinet of Ministers had approved the relevant proposal made by the Minister of Agriculture.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/08/21)
By Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma, PhD
Background Graduating from a university or any higher educational institution marks a very important milestone in one’s life. It is a very significant event not only for the graduate but also for the family members and well-wishers who supported the student during the studies, morally, financially and otherwise. Studying for a degree is an endeavor involving heavy investment of time and money, great sacrifices and many opportunities gained and lost. With such a great investment of time and money, and sacrifices, one is expected to be successful in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධුරයේ වර්ෂ පූර්ණය සහ කොවිඩ් වසංගතය හමුවේ පීඩාවට පත් ජනතාවට ආශිර්වාද පතා අද (09) උදෑසන ඉන්දියාවේ සාරානාත් මූලගන්ධි කුටි විහාරස්ථානයේ පැවති “ශ්‍රී ලංකා - ඉන්දියා ආශිර්වාද පූජා” වැඩසටහනට ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ සිට සූම් තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සම්බන්ධ විය. ඉන්දියානු මහා බෝධි සංගමයේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ඉන්දු - ශ්‍රී ලංකා මිත්‍රත්වය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය එක්ව මෙම විශේෂ ආශිර්වාද පූජා වැඩසටහන සංවිධානය කර තිබිණි. ඉන්දියානු මහා බෝධි සංගමයේ මහ ලේකම් පැලවත්තේ සීවලී නාහිමියන්ගේ අවවාද අනුශාසනා පරිදි පැවති මෙම විශේෂ “ශ්‍රී ලංකා - ඉන්දියා ආශිර්වාද පූජා” වැඩසටහනට ඉන්දියානු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
බෞද්ධ දේශපාලන න්‍යාය තුළ සමානාත්මතාවට ප්‍රමුඛ තැනක් ලබා දී තිබේ. සෑම කෙනකු ම සමාන ලෙසින් සැළකිය යුතු බවක් මෙයින් අදහස් නො කෙරෙයි. දක්‍ෂ, හැකියාවෙන් පිරුණු අය සහ අදක්‍ෂ, කම්මැලි අය එක හා සමානව සැළැකිය හැකි නොවේ. බුදුදහම තුළ උට්ඨාන සම්පදාව අගය කෙරී ඇත්තේ සසර කෙළවර කරගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් කළ යුතු දෑ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පමණක් නොවේ. ලෞකික කාර්යය සාධනය වෙනුවෙන් ද එහි අගය පෙන්වා දී තිබේ. අංගුත්තර නිකායේ ව්‍යග්ඝපජ්ජ සූත්‍රය තුළ එය විස්තර කෙරී ඇත්තේ මෙ ලෙසිනි. “ව්‍යාඝ්‍ර‍පද්‍යය, උට්ඨාන සම්පත් යනු මෙයයි. ව්‍යාඝ්‍ර‍පද්‍යය, මෙම ලෝකයෙහි යම් කුල පුත්‍රයකු කෘෂිකර්මයෙන් වේවා, වානිජකර්මයෙන් වේවා, ගව පාලනයෙන් වේවා, දුනුවාකමින් වේවා,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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Responding to former Prime Minister and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe over his remarks on Presidential Task Force on Prevention of COVID-19, Army Commander General Shavendra Silva said that the decisions taken by the Task Force are collective decisions and not individual decisions. Mr. Wickremesinghe recently said that the Covid -19 Taskforce is a failure and it has no powers. Therefore, it should be dissolved and the task of controlling the pandemic situation should be entrusted with the institutions which enjoy constitutionally guaranteed power such as the Disaster Management Council and the Cabinet. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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The Chinese government has come forward to fulfil 80% coverage of vaccines in Sri Lanka making the vaccination programme a great success and thereby strengthen the country, Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said. She expressed these views at a special discussion held with the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong at the Chinese Embassy this morning. "The Chinese Government has extended its support to the Government of Sri Lanka in strengthening the programme to save the lives of people infected with Covid-19 and to control the virus by providing essential... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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Every hospital island-wide will be converted into hospitals where COVID-19 patients are treated within this week, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said. He said it has been observed that people had shown a little reluctance to seek medical care when they feel unfit. “People are kindly requested to go to the nearest hospital wherever symptoms similar to COVID-19 appear without endangering others,” he said. “People must have been panicked to seek medical assistance at hospitals due to the recent videos and images shared on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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At least 40,000 persons above 60 years of age have not received their COVID-19 vaccine in the Colombo city owing to several misconceptions, Chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said. In a special discussion held at the Government Information Department, he said they had been several misconceptions like vaccine is not suitable for people with different diseases and also some vaccines are ideal for separate purposes like going abroad. “All these misconceptions are baseless. The WHO has categorically stated that all current vaccines equally provide shield to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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The Director General of Health Services today confirmed another 111 Covid-19 related deaths for August 08. Sri Lanka’s death toll due to the coronavirus has climbed to 5,222 with this. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 56 males and 55 females. None among the victims are aged below 30 years while 21 victims aged between 30-59 years and 90 others aged 60 and above.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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A four-member ministerial committee has been appointed to look into the teachers’ and principals’ salary issues. The committee has been appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers today (August 09), Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated. The newly-appointed committee consists of Ministers Wimal Weerawansa, Prasanna Ranatunga, Mahinda Amaraweera, and Dullas Alahapperuma. The Committee is to study and submit proposals to resolve the salary anomalies of teachers and principals.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 1,010 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,938. This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 332,947. Sri Lanka’s total recoveries stand at 295,518 while over 32,318 COVID-19 positive patients are currently being treated at hospitals. The death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus is 5,222.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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An integrated homecare-based treatment program for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients commences from today (August 09). The program which was carried out as a pilot project in the Western Province until now will be launched island-wide from today, the Ministry of Health stated. Under the program, patients between the ages of 2 and 65 years, who do not show symptoms or show mild symptoms, are to be treated at home under medical supervision. The decision was taken due to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients exceeding the hospital capacities. Patients... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today
How to resolve the issues of the principals and teachers is no longer the question. The real question is whether we should allow these individuals to teach, influence and mould the character of our children. A teacher by definition would be an educated person. However, the ongoing trade union action by the primary and tertiary academic staff has challenged the very definition of an educated person. A misconstrued education The purpose of an education ought to be to understand the correct method of pursuing a matter. The sophistication... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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Nearly about 45,000 of the total coronavirus cases reported so far (out of 329,994 of total) in Sri Lanka have been children, Dr. Nalin Kitulwatta of Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital stated. He pointed out that a total of fourteen children have died from COVID-19 in Sri Lanka Dr. Kitulwatta says that the COVID-19 wards at the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital are overcrowded as the COVID-19 infection is rapidly spread among children. “We have taken steps to open two more wards elsewhere in Rajagiriya. As of this morning, about 150 children... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
BY RAJEE SURI Courtesy The Epoch Times
People who have recovered from COVID-19 retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease, according to a new study. Findings of the study, which is the most comprehensive of its kind so far, have implications for expanding understanding about human immune memory as well as future vaccine development for coronaviruses. For the longitudinal study in Cell Reports Medicine, researchers looked at 254 patients with mostly mild to moderate symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection over a period of more than eight months (250 days) and found that their immune response to the virus remained... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
යුනිවර්ස් හෙවත් ලෝක ධාතුව තුල චක්‍රාවාට නොහොත් ගැලැක්සීස් බිලියන 125 (1.25×1011) පමණ තිබෙනවා. සත්‍ය අගය මීට වඩා වැඩි වෙන්නටත් පුලුවන්. මෙහි විශ්කම්භය ආලෝක වර්ශ බිලියන 93 පමණ. අපට පෙනෙන ලෝක ධාතුව එනම් ඔබ්සවර්බල් යුනිවර්ස් එකට වඩා තත්‍ය ලෝක ධාතුව අති විශාලයි. අපට පෙනෙන ලෝක ධාතුව ෆුට් බෝලයක සයිස් එකක් නම් තත්‍ය ලෝක ධාතුව ෆුට් බෝල් පිට්ටනියකටත් වඩා ලොකුයි. යුනිවර්ස් එකේ වයස වසර බිලියන 14 පමණ වෙනවා. ලෝක ධාතුව (යුනිවර්ස් ) එක ප්‍රසාරණය වෙමින් පවතිනවා. යුනිවර්ස් එක ආරම්භ වුනේ බිග් බෑං හෙවත් මහා පිපුරුමත් සමග. මහා පිපුරුම වීමට ප්‍රථම යුනිවර්ස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 8 (The Citizen): Unsustainable claims put forward by the Sinhalese and the Tamils on language, religion and ethnicity, have muddied Sri Lankan politics in the post-independence era. The Sinhalese loudly proclaim that Buddhism is quintessentially and exclusively, a “Sinhala” religion. The Tamils, on the other hand, claim with equal vehemence, that they have always been unalloyed Hindus, who had never ever had anything to do with Buddhism, which they identify with “Sinhala hegemony.” Sinhala-Buddhist radicals claim that Buddhist archaeological sites in the Tamil-dominated Northern and Eastern Provinces are relics of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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Sri Lanka has registered 94 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Saturday (August 07). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 5,111. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 69 males and 25 females. Reportedly, among the victims are one male aged below 30 years, 22 victims aged between 30-59 years and 71 others aged 60 and above.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
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A total of 726 more people tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 08), bringing the daily count of positive cases to 2,956. The new development has brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 329,9942. As per official data, as many as 293,357 patients who were infected with the virus have returned to health so far while 31,620 are still under medical care at selected hospitals and treatment centers across the country. In the meantime, the death toll from coronavirus now stands at 5,111.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/08/21)
By Rohana R. Wasala
I have always strongly endorsed the necessity for actors to possess a reasonable degree of social responsibility. The actor who is adored by millions of people owes something to the society, which has given him an elevated and highly respected position. Dilip Kumar Dilip Kumar was born in Peshawar (which is now in Pakistan, but then part of India) on December 11, 1922, and died in Mumbai on July 7, 2021 at the ripe old age of 98. Named Mohammad Yousuf Khan at birth, he was better known and idolized... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZMSpokesperson , United Sri Lanka Assn, Wellington NZ
Rt Hon Jacinda ArdenPrime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Prime Minister, Tamil Genocide / Mullivaikal Massacre Remembrance Day In Auckland – Stirring Up Communal Strife In New Zealand Based On A Disproven Allegation The United Sri Lanka Association (USLA) of Wellington and it’s members are both frustrated and distraught at learning of a planned “ Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day” meeting on 18th of May at 6.30pm at 202 Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough , Auckland. This allegation of “Tamil Genocide” , during... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
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‘It is unforgiveable and a black day for my UK Govt.’ It was reprehensible that the UK, as the leader of the Core Group on Sri Lanka and a member of the UNHRC, had suppressed ‘robust evidence of utmost importance’, Lord Naseby said on Tuesday (23). The Conservative party member said in his capacity as the President of the All Party Parliamentary UK – Sri Lanka Group: “It is unforgivable and is a black day for my UK Government.” The following is the text of a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, , Dehiwela
Letter to the editor: Give some comforts to the sick citizens We hear and see the absolute destitute situation of the patients in the hospitals. Will it be too much to ask the government to think of alternative arrangements? We see very sick people, mildly sick people, and even dead people mixed up in the wards and doctors/nurses seeing the patients while they are even on the floor. Meanwhile, we get umpteen calls about the inability to get the patients admitted even when they are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Dr. Sunil J. Wimalawansa Prof. Medicine, Endocrinology, & Nutrition
While vaccines are a temporary solution, there is no possibility of generating herd immunity through vaccines to eradicate the pandemic. The current delta mutants, highly infectious, might direct the nations in that direction as nearly achieving in India, certain parts of the USA, and Sri Lanks in months to come. Protective effects against delta variant from Sinopharm or Sinovac (the worst vaccine) is abysmal, 31%, ~80% of Sri Lankans have had so far: they are little better than a placebo injection. Despite spending over $250 million to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
By A. Abdul Aziz
On the second day of U.K. Convention (7th August), Ahmadiyya Khalifa Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered an address for the Ahmadi Ladies, the gist of which as below: Ahmadiyya Khalifa said: Nowadays, such a notion of so-called freedom has taken hold in the name of enlightenment, which, rather than ensuring enlightenment, is in fact a means of pushing people further into the darkness. It is a superficial and shallow concept, that nobody has even cared to compare its real impact; its supposed benefits and harm. Aspects of this so-called freedom... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 7 (NewsWire) – Sri Lanka Police has commenced a special operation in Colombo to trace those who have not been vaccinated with even a single dose, Police Spokesman SDIG Ajith Rohana said. He said they had Police Community Policing Division has been assigned to identify people who are over 30 years not vaccinated yet and take them to get vaccinated. “Those over 30 years of age in Colombo city & still not vaccinated against Covid-19 are requested to go to the Sugathadasa Stadium & obtain their 1st dose” Police Spokesman... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Courtesy CGTN
Researchers from one of Sri Lanka's leading universities, the Sri Jayewardenepura University, have found that China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine is highly efficient against the Delta variant which has become the dominant variant across the world. According to the study, 95 percent of individuals who received two doses of the Sinopharm vaccine have developed antibodies similar to a naturally infected COVID-19 person.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Sri Jayawardenepura General Hospital today dismissed media reports that the COVID-19 patients are lying in corridors due to the insufficient space to treat patients at the hospital.Hospital Director Dr Rathnasiri A Hewage said none of their COVID or other patients are lying in corridors or on floor at the moment."We have adequate number of beds to treat and accommodate COVID and other in-house patients at the hospital," he added.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A total of 2,796 more COVID-19 patients were detected within today increasing the number of patients reported in Sri Lanka to 327,019, the Government Information Department said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Covid-19 death toll exceeded 5,000 mark with 98 more deaths being reported today, the Government Information Department said. Accordingly, a total of 98 more COVID-19 related deaths that occurred yesterday (06) were confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services today pushing the death toll to 5,017. According to the Government Information Department,51 females and 47 males are among the deceased.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Community Policing Division of the Sri Lanka Police has commenced an operation to trace those who have not been vaccinated with even a single dose in the Colombo city, Police Spokesman SDIG Ajith Rohana said. He said they had observed that a number of people in the Colombo city had not received the vaccine against COVID-19 owing to several reasons. “However, the police personnel attached to the Community Policing Division will trace such individuals from today and take them to the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium with their consent,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The President has decided to allow anyone over the age of 30 to receive the first dose at any of the centres where the second vaccine is given. The decision was taken during a meeting with the COVID Suppression Special Committee on Vaccination and Operations at the Presidential Secretariat this morning. He said there has been an escalation in the number of patients visiting hospitals in several major cities, including Colombo, on a daily basis due to COVID symptoms. Meanwhile, SPC Chairman (Consultant Neurosurgeon) Dr. Prasanna Gunasena said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
By Raj Gonsalkorale
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein Sri Lanka is in dire economic strife, its politicians are a discredited lot, and are produced by a system that perpetuates corruption, inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Inter community harmony is as facile as the cloak of ritualism that passes as Buddhism. A new governance model is needed that meets the inherent psyche of its people, and which lessens the power of politicians and enhances the real power of people. It is strongly suggested... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
James Chai Political analyst based in Kuala Lumpur Courtesy Aljazeera
What Malaysia’s raging COVID-19 crisis tells us about failed leadership. Family members of a victim of COVID-19 pray at a hospital mortuary before burial, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 23, 2021 [Reuters/Lim Huey Teng] The horrific and heartbreaking scenes at Malaysian hospitals are akin to a disaster movie. An overwhelmed healthcare system and overworked medical staff have struggled to cope with the exponential growth in COVID-19 admissions. Canvas beds have been put up in hospital car parks, several patients have had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/08/21)
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror
In a situation where videos and photos circulating online of patients lying in hospital corridors raising alarm among the public and medical community, the Health Ministry said they were not reported of any incidents where there is massive congestion at hospitals as shown in pictures and videos. Addressing a news briefing at the Health Promotion Bureau, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said all hospitals have been informed to act in times of an emergency situation of this nature. “It is difficult to say whether... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
By Maung Htin Aung
The June 10, 1962 edition of the Times of Ceylon contained the following tales about the tooth relic, the Burma connection and other legends surrounding the relic. Excerpts from the article: Maligawa Tusker steps on the Pavada carrying the casket of relics A recent statement in the popular ‘Believe it or Not’ series that a broom made with the hair of King Bayinnaung of Burma and his Queen was being used to sweep the Temple of the Sacred Tooth at Kandy, seemed to have been received... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
පරිසර හිතකාමී සූර්යකෝෂ භාවිතය ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වැනි සූර්ය තාපය බහුලව ලැබෙන රටකට විදුලි අවශ්‍යතාවය ජනනය කිරීම සදහා භාවිතා කළ හැකි ජනප්රිය විකල්පයකි. එමගින් ගෘහස්ත හා ආයතනික විදුලිබල අවශ්‍යතාවයන් අවම පිරිවැයකින් සපුරා ගත හැකිය. නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ වෘත්තීය පුහුණු ආයතන වල සුර්ය කෝෂ ස්ථාපනය කරමින් පරිසර හිතකාමි සූර්ය බලශක්තියෙන් විදුලිය උත්පාදනය කරමින් එම ආයතන ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරිම පිලිබදව රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මියගේ අවධානය යොමු වු අතර අමාත්‍යතුමියගේ ඉල්ලීම මත ඒ සම්බන්ධ සාකච්ඡාවක් අද (06) සූර්යබල, සුළං හා ජලවිදුලි ජනන ව්‍යාපෘති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
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රුධිරයේ ඔක්සිජන් මට්ටම මැන ගැනීම පහසු කරන ස්පන්දන ඔක්සිමීටර් (PULSE OXIMETER) 300ක් ආචාර්ය බෝදාගම චන්දිම නාහිමියෝ අද (06) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට භාර දුන්හ. කොවිඩ් ආසාදිත වී ප්‍රතිකාරවලට යොමුවන රෝගීන්ගේ පහසුව සඳහා බෙදා දීමට මෙම ස්පන්දන ඔක්සිමීටර් තොගය පරිත්‍යාග කෙරිණි. වසංගත තත්ත්වයට මුහුණ දෙමින් කොවිඩ් රෝගය පාලනය කිරීම උදෙසා රජය ගෙනයන එන්නත්කරණ වැඩපිළිවෙල අගය කරන බව කැලණිය මානෙල්වත්ත විහාරාධිපති, නාගානන්ද අන්තර්ජාතික බෞද්ධ අධ්‍යන ආයතනයේ උපකුලපති හා තායිවානයේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක ආචාර්ය බෝදාගම චන්දිම නාහිමියෝ මෙහි දී පැවසූහ. එන්නත්කරණය ඔස්සේ ජනතාවගේ ජීවිත ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීමට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
මා ඇසූ උතුම් සද්ධර්මය
This is the place where we can find REAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE LORD BUDDHA -Jethawanarama Forest Monastery- https://youtu.be/8AKyKczBP6k... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando
The emergence of COVID-19 in December 2019 in China spread like wildfire. In January 2020, despite China imposing a lockdown in Wuhan, the virus spread to the mainland and eventually worldwide. The pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide. The death rate is over four million up to date. Sri Lanka managed to control the initial stages of the pandemic, where even the WHO commended the actions taken by the Sri Lanka Government. People had to stay at home, and workers had to work from home during the lockdown period to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 6 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has pointed out that a rash of protest rallies across the island recently has contributed to the spurt in the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The intelligence agencies have found that the spurt giving rise of unprecedented congestion in the hospitals is due to the over 120 demonstrations across the country with over 1500 people participating in each of them, the President said on Friday. People getting together in this manner without following health guidelines have led to the rapid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Eurasia Review
View of South India and Sri Lanka from the payload bay of the Space Shuttle in earth orbit. Source: NASA, Wikipedia Commons. India Failed To Fulfill Its Obligations But Wants Sri Lanka To ‘Fully Implement’ 13th Constitutional Amendment – OpEd Deployment of Indian troops in Sri Lanka and establishing of provincial councils by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution are two of the main results of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement (ISLA) signed on July 29, 1987. The 34th anniversary of the ISLA gives an opportunity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy WEBWIRE
HEINEKEN LANKA today announced the commencement of local brewing operations of its flagship beer brand – Heineken® in Sri Lanka. With this, Sri Lanka joins an elite group of 60 countries that have the license and approvals from its global parent for local manufacturing operations. This move signifies the importance of the Sri Lankan market to the Dutch international brewer and comes at a time when the country needs it the most. Marking its largest investment into the country to date, HEINEKEN will ensure that all locally manufactured beer is produced... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
Sri Lanka will mandate a 70 percent renewable energy share by 2030 forcing state-run Ceylon Electricity Board to prepare a long term generation plan to that effect, renewable energy minister Duminda Dissanayake said. “We have decided to produce 70 percent of the electricity from renewable energy by 2030,” State Minister for Renewable Energy Duminda Dissanayake told parliament. “The balance 30 percent will be from other sources. After 2030 the balance will also be from renewable sources and we will go to 100 percent.” “The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy MailOnline
Sri Lankan authorities tightened coronavirus restrictions Friday as reports emerged of Covid patients dying while awaiting admission to overcrowded hospitals. The government said state ceremonies and public gatherings were banned until September 1 because of the growing health crisis. Public servants had previously been asked to return to work from Monday but that order has now been revoked and bosses told to decide who should report for duty on-site. The fresh curbs come after the number of coronavirus deaths and infections in the last week doubled from a month ago.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
by Nihal de Alwis Courtesy The Island
Most Lankans would by now have forgotten the poorest prime minister the world ever had, the late Dr W. Dahanayake. “W” was a poor man’s politician. When he lost his Galle seat as prime minister in the 1960 elections, he packed his suitcase and asked his Secretary, Mr. Bradman Weerakoon, to drop him off at the Fort Railway Station to take a train to Galle. Bradman told him that it was his responsibility, to see that he got home safely and provided him with a ‘pool’ vehicle in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed the Health Minister and health authorities to formulate a mechanism to prevent Covid patients from being inconvenienced in Hospitals. He directed the Health Minister, State Health Ministers and health officials to directly involve in the matter, the Presidential Media Division (PMD) said. He made this direction at the COVID meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning. The President has stressed the need to refer symptomatic patients to intermediate treatment centres and admit them to hospitals after assessing their condition. Intelligence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Jamila Husain and Dharshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Posts claiming that there is a bomb threat in two leading five-star hotels in Colombo and in places in Bambalapitiya, Wellawatta, Mirihana, Nugegoda, Mount Lavinia and Dehiwala are completely false and people have been urged not to panic, the Police told Daily Mirror a short while ago. Army Commander General Shavendra Silva also confirmed that these reports were false and the panic had spread as a result of a post, which had circulated on social media, soon after the Easter attacks in 2019, being re-edited and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
As Sri Lanka’s daily COVID-19 cases count continues to soar, the Ministry of Health has decided to triage the virus-infected patients for hospitalization on priority basis. Accordingly, a set of guidelines has been issued by the ministry on providing home-based care for asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients. These low-risk patients will be allowed to home-quarantine at their own discretion. As per the guidelines: 01. MOH in the area is responsible for triaging the virus-infected individuals who need home-based care and institutional health care. 02. The patients... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A misleading post on an impending explosion in Mirihana, Nugegoda, Mount Lavinia, Dehiwala, Wellawatta and Bambalapitiya areas is circulating in social media, says the police spokesman. Probes carried out into the matter have uncovered that a certain individual had created the relevant post on April 25, 2019, Senior DIG Ajith Rohana stated further. According to him, this same person had recirculated the post recently. “There is no cause for panic,” the police spokesman said in a statement. Further investigations in this regard are being carried out under the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has registered 98 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director General of Health Services on Thursday (August 05). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 4,919. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 54 males and 44 females. As many as 70 deaths have been reported among the elderly people who are aged above 60 years. In addition, one youth and 27 people aged between 30-59 years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 884 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (August 06), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,794. According to the Government Information Department, 2,792 of the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The new development has brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 324,223. Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that as many as 288,307 patients who were infected with the virus have regained health so far. Meanwhile, the death toll now stands at 4,919. More than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/08/21)
Shenali D Waduge
People have followed ideologies and their leaders but there has been no party that has been this disruptive & destructive of a country’s progress. While everyone has every right to choose their political ideology/principles etc, when a party infiltrates and influences the cream of the future, it is cause for concern. Just as we question these mischief makers, we are also pointing fingers at successive governments & the university system for not dealing with the issue for the betterment of the nation. Why has our university education deteriorated over the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Shenali D Waduge
There are many lessons to learn from history. A look back in time will reveal occasions that companies forced governments to invade or create regime change in nations because government policies were impacting their profit & presence in countries. US corporates in South America, assassination of Iran’s Mossadegh are just a handful of examples that come to mind. The important point is that corporates have silently been influencing governments to the point of even dislodging governments. Today, corporates (nowhere near squeaky clean) are even taking governments to court. With the corporate owned... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
එන්නත්කරණ වැඩසටහන ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ප්‍රවාහන අපහසුතා ඇති ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් නොමිලේ ගමන්වාර 50000ක් ලබා දෙන්නැයි ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (05) දින කළ ඉල්ලීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජය (SLRCS) සහ ඌබර් ශ්‍රී ලංකා (UBER SRI LANKA) සමාගම එකඟතාව පළ කළේය. කොළඹ, ගම්පහ,කළුතර සහ මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයන්හි කොවිඩ් ප්‍රතිකාර රාජකාරීවල නිරත වෛද්‍යවරුන්, හෙද හෙදියන් සහ සෞඛ්‍ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල සඳහා මේ වනවිට ක්‍රියාත්මක නොමිලේ ප්‍රවාහන පහසුකම් සැපයීමේ වැඩසටහනේ ප්‍රගතිය දැනුම් දීමේ හමුව අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවති අතරවාරයේ මෙම එකඟතාවය පළවිය. ශ්‍රී ලංකා රතු කුරුස සමාජයේ සභාපති ජගත් අබේසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් යුතුව ඌබර්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
රට හදන සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම බලගන්වමින් “වාරී සෞභාග්‍යා“ ජාතික වැඩසටහන යටතේ ග්‍රාමීය වැව්/ අමුණු සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියට සමගාමීව මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ සියඹලාගස්වැව ගම්මානයේ වැව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් සමාරම්භ කෙරිණි. ග්‍රාමීය කුඹුරු හා ආශ්‍රී ත වැව්, ජලාශ හා වාරී මාර්ග සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යංශයේ මූල්‍ය ප්‍රථිපාදන මගින් වාරී මාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව මගින් මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනු ලබයි, රුපියල් මිලියන නවයක වියදමින් මෙම වැව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය කටයුතු කිරීමට නියමිත අතර, මාස 03 ක් තුළ එහි වැඩ නිම කිරීමට නියමිතය. මිහින්තලය ප්‍රාදේශීීය සභා ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ මන්ත්රී චින්තන රුක්මන් මහතාගේ ඉල්ලීමක් මත මෙම වැව ප්‍රථිසංස්කරණය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka.
According to our Press Department U.K., thousands of British Muslims will gather together for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for the UK’s longest running Islamic conference. Ahmadi Muslims from across the UK will descend on the 200-acre Oakland Farm in Hampshire for three days of worship and gathering at the event known as the ‘Jalsa Salana’. Prior to last year’s global pandemic, well over 35,000 people from all over the world attended the last Convention (Jalsa), held... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 5 (Daily Mirror): The Supreme Court on Thursday issued an Interim Order suspending the operation of Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, which was published by way of a gazette notification on 12 March, 2021. This Interim Order will be effective until August 24, the next hearing date. Supreme Court three-judge-bench comprising Justice Murdu Fernando, Justice Yasantha Kodagoda and Justice Shiran Gooneratna issued this order pursuant to three Fundamental Rights petitions challenging the legality of the Deradicalization Regulations were taken up... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස්
විද්යාත්මක කරුණු මත පදනම්ව යම් යම් තීන්දු තීරණවලට එළැඹිය ද කාබනික පොහොර භාවිතය පිළිබඳ රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තියේ කිසිදු වෙනසක් නැති බව ජනාධිපති ප්‍රධාන උපදේශක ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. “රසායනික පොහොර තහනම ඉවත් කළා ද” යන්න මැයෙන් අද (05) ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය කේන්ද්‍රයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුව අමතමින් ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ජනාධිපති මාධ්‍ය කේන්ද්‍රය සතිපතා සංවිධානය කරන මාධ්‍ය හමු මාලාවේ දෙවන මාධ්‍ය හමුව අද පැවැත්විණ. මාධ්‍යවේදීන් යොමු කළ ප්‍රශ්නවලට පිළිතුරු දුන් ලලිත් වීරතුංග මහතා සඳහන් කළේ දශක ගණනාවක් රසායනික පොහොර භාවිතයට හුරුව සිටි රටක් කාබනික පොහොර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Keiji Morita, staff reporter, The Sankei Shimbun
Everyone shouted as if they were cheering for their own country’s athlete. Some of them watched him in awe with their eyes shining with tears. In 1964, an unknown Olympian from a foreign country took Japan’s breath away. The Olympian became known in Japan as “Uniform Number 67,” the runner from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who didn’t abandon the race despite coming last in the men’s 10,000 meters at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His story touched so many... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy World Food Programme
COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with food items and funding to provide school children with take-home rations in lieu of in-school meals. With WFP’s assistance, the Government will commence the second phase of take-home rations distribution to 1.2 million children enrolled in the National School Meal Programme. This initiative is funded by the Government with a contribution of US$6 million (approximately LKR1.2 Billion) and WFP with a contribution of US$200,000 (approximately LKR40 million). The food ration handout is overseen by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy France 24
Sri Lanka's government on Thursday walked back the lifting of an import ban on most chemical fertilisers over fears of a political fallout, despite warnings from farmers of food shortages and severe damage to the massive tea industry. The South Asian nation has been struggling with a cash crunch worsened by the pandemic, with the central bank imposing sweeping import bans since March last year to reduce the outflow of foreign currency. The ban on chemical fertilisers -- widely used in the tea and rice industries -- was opposed by farmers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy Business Insider India
IANSThe health authorities announced on Wednesday that 82 deaths were reported with 4,727 new cases. With the new figure, Sri Lanka's overall caseload and death toll stood at 3,18,775 and 4,727, respectively. With the outbreak of the Delta variant and overflow of patients, the Ratnapura General Hospital and Karapitiya Teaching Hospital have declared emergencies. Due to the unabated spread of the Delta variant and also an exponential rise in oxygen demand, medical experts have urged the Sri Lankan government to reconsider its decision to lift Covid-19 restrictions. The Association of Medical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been found to be spreading ultrafast in the Colombo area, medical experts pointed out. According to Director of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura Dr. Chandima Jeewandara, 75% of the COVID cases detected in Colombo during the last week of the month of July were individuals infected with the Delta variant. However, it was recorded in the first week of July as 13%. He said this was detected in lab tests carried out on COVID-19 variants. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
https://youtu.be/lxY0AJQ7Rt0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reports that another 784 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, pushing the daily count of new cases to 2,669. This brings the tally of confirmed cases of coronavirus identified in the country to 321,429. Sri Lanka’s total recoveries stands at 286,365 while over 30,000 covid positive patients are currently being treated at hospitals. The death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus is 4,821.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director General of Health Services today confirmed another 94 coronavirus related deaths for August 04, increasing the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the virus to 4,821. Forty-nine of the victims are reportedly males while the remaining 45 are females. Two female victims are below the age of 30. Nineteen are between 30-59 years of age while 73 of the Covid-19 deaths are persons aged 60 and above. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/08/21)
Shenali D Waduge
Both the World Bank and the IMF were founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference. The World Bank is tasked to aid developing nations in reducing poverty and increasing their well-being. The IMF’s main purpose is to stabilize the international monetary system and oversee the world’s currencies. The World Bank offers “financing, policy advice, and technical assistance to governments, and also focuses on strengthening the private sector in developing countries. The IMF keeps track of the economy globally and in member countries, lends to countries with balance of payment difficulties, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
අනුරාධපුර කේ.බී රත්නායක විද්‍යාලයේ ජල අවශ්‍යතාව සපුරාලීම වෙනුවෙන් එම විද්‍යාලයට ජල ටැංකියක් සහිත ජල කුළුණක් ඉදි කිරීම රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් ආරම්භ කෙරිණි. එම විද්‍යාලයේ ජල අවශ්‍යතාවන් සපයා ගැනීමේ අපහසුතා පවතින බවට රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාට විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පතිතුමිය ඇතුලු පාසල් සංවර්ධන සමිතිය කළ ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව මෙම ජල ටැංකිය හා ජල කුළුණ ඉදි කිරීම අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතාගේ යෝජනාවක් අනුව සිදු කෙරෙයි. මේ සදහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 08 කට වැඩි මුදලක් වැය වෙනු ඇතැයි ඇස්තමේන්තු කර ඇත. මෙම අවස්ථාවට හිටපු පළාත් සභා අමාත්‍යය සරත් ඉලංගසිංහ, හිටපු නියොජ්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
ALI SUKHANVER
Abrogation of the articles 370 and 35-A in Indian illegally Occupied Kashmir has altogether changed the demography of the Jammu Kashmir Valley. The helpless people of the Jammu Kashmir valley, who were already in trouble at the hands of the Indian troops, now are in a state of more pain and more agony. They are deprived of their liberty as well as of their identity. The article 370 allowed the state of Jammu Kashmir a certain amount of autonomy - its own constitution, a separate flag and freedom to make laws. Foreign affairs defence and communications... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka
The Hon.Minister of Tourism and Aviation has instructed this office of the following: 1. For Passengers not arriving via the Sri Lanka Tourism Bio Bubble and who have not been vaccinated or only partially vaccinated can be carried by Airlines only up to a maximum of 75 passengers per flight. (Explanation : This will include passengers arriving for Hotel Quarantine and Government Quarantine) 2. Airlines are permitted to carry fully vaccinated passengers (administered with the relevant doses and 14 days have lapsed) without any... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ විශේෂ රැස්වීමකි. මේ සඳහා ජනාධිපත්ජිවරයා කැඳවා තිබුනේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහා බැංකුවේ, ඉහලම ශ්‍රේණියේ නිලධාරින්වය. රැස්වීමේ කටයුතු ආරම්භවීමත් සමග මදක් නිහඬව සිටි ජනාධිපතිවරයා, මහබැංකු නිලධාරින් අමතා, "මම අද ඕගොල්ලන්ව කැදෙව්වේ විශේෂ වැඩකට. ඕගොල්ලෝ පොඩ්ඩක් නිශ්සබ්දව මම කියන මේ දේ දෙස සාවධානව අහගෙන ඉන්න." "මේක විශේෂ වැඩක්. මට ඕනි මේ කටයුත්ත කිරීම සඳහා මහා බැංකුව තුල වෙනම යුනිට් එකක් හදන්න. ඒක විශේෂ ඒකකයක් ." "ඊළඟට මට ඕනි මේ රටේ දරුවෙක් ඉපදෙන විටම හැඳුනුම් පතක් නිකුත් කරන ක්‍රමවේදයක් හා. ඒ දත්තයන් ක්ෂණිකව මහා බැංකුවට ලැබී ඒ මොහොතේම ඔහු වෙනුවෙන් ගිණුමක් ඇරඹෙන ක්‍රමයක් හදන්න. අද ඉපදුන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
By Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe Courtesy The Island
Email : parajayasinghe
gmail.com A Presidential Press release, dated 13th June 2021; clearly defines the policy on our Energy Sector. The direction indicated is congruent with the presidential policy declaration “Vision for Prosperity and Splendour”. This is not a moment to vacillate and get embroiled in personal or political agendas. The situation in the country is much too precarious with the Covid-19 raging and the spectre of the impact of Climate Change haunting us. The foreign reserves are falling, impacting the rupee and the cost of living. The agitation and indiscipline on... -Full Story-
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
Senior Vice President of the SLFP Prof. Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa says the continuing mismanagement of the affairs of the ruling coalition is causing turmoil. “The deepening crisis we are in should be examined against the breakdown in basic discussions at party level,” Prof. Piyadasa, told The Island, underscoring the urgent need to address the issues affecting the coalition. Due to the absence of a proper dialogue among constituent parties of the SLPP, the government was moving in the wrong direction and conducting its affairs in a messy manner... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 4 (DailyMirror) – Sri Lanka is heading for its worst medical tsunami in the coming weeks as there is a risk that the Delta variant is spreading beyond control, leading medical experts told Daily Mirror yesterday. Senior physicians at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic said that hospitals across the Western Province were filled to its brim and more than 2/3rd of the patients presently were oxygen-dependent. At the Colombo General Hospital alone, all medical wards had been taken to treat COVID-19 patients and till last morning alone, there were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
August 4 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka paid a $1 billion bond last week, but the alarming state of its finances suggests it may have been just another step towards its first sovereign default. All the tell-tale crisis signs are there: bonds at nearly half their face value, debt-to-GDP levels above 100%, over 80% of government revenues being spent on interest payments alone and barely enough reserves to cover a few months of spending. Chances of the island nation soldiering on alone look slim, especially with COVID-19 keeping the tourism industry on its... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The government has not granted permission to import chemical fertilizers for local agricultural purposes and has not made any changes to the decision taken by the President to use only organic fertilizers for local agriculture and will not make any changes to this decision in the future as well, Presidential Media Division (PMD) said today. The Cabinet has granted approval to the proposal made by the Minister of Agriculture on the 31st of May 2021, to import the plant nutrients which include natural chelated minerals and micro matter. As the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
By Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Courtesy The Diplomat
COVID-19, an economic crisis, and a majoritarian dynasty at the helm: Sri Lanka’s future hangs in the balance. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was swept into power with 6.9 million votes in November 2019 and subsequently saw his party’s control bolstered with a two-thirds majority in Parliament in the general election of August 2020. Yet by the summer of 2021, the popularity of the Rajapaksa presidency and regime is fast eroding. Social media in particular is rife with criticism of the president and his government, and there have been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The government stated that it has not made any changes to the decision taken by the President to use only organic fertilizers for local agriculture and there will be no changes to this decision in the future as well. Issuing a statement, President’s Media Division stated that the government has not granted permission to import chemical fertilizers for local agricultural purposes either. The Cabinet has granted approval to the proposal made by the Minister of Agriculture on the 31st of May 2021, to import the plant nutrients which include naturally chelated minerals... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 823 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,543. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 318,755. As many as 284,524 recoveries have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 29,586 active cases are currently under medical care. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has registered 82 more COVID-19 related fatalities on Tuesday... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
Courtesy MailOnline
Sri Lanka has reversed an import ban on fertiliser after farmer protests, forecasts of severe food shortages and worries about the island's crucial tea exports Sri Lanka lifted a ban on chemical fertiliser imports Tuesday after farmer protests, forecasts of severe food shortages and worries about the island's crucial tea exports. Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa issued regulations replacing the ban with an import licensing scheme which goes into effect immediately. Fertilisers were added earlier this year to a list of banned imports that includes vehicles and luxury... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/08/21)
හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකොන්
2021 අගෝස්තු මස 1 දින සිට පොහොර ගෙන්වීම සඳහා අවසර ලබා දීමට රජය කටයුතු කර ඇත. පොහොර ආනයනය සඳහා පනවා තිබූ තහනම රජය විසින් ඉවත් කර ඇත. එසේ නමුත්, පොහොර ගෙන්වීම සඳහා අවසර ලබා දෙන්නේ කුමණ ව්‍යාපාරිකයින්ට ද, ගෙන්වනු ලබන්නේ කුමන පොහොර වර්ග ද යන්න පිළිබඳ නිශ්චිත නැත. ඩොලර් හිඟය පියවා ගැනීම සඳහා පොහොර ආනයනය තහනම් කරනු ලැබූ නමුත් රජය කාබනික කෘෂිකර්මය සඳහා යැයි ඉතා ග්‍රාම්‍ය ප්‍රචාරක ව්‍යාපාරයක් ගෙන ගියේය. කාබනික වගාව ප්‍රචලිත කිරීම සඳහා යැයි කියමින් රු. කෝටි 8 ක ප්‍රචාරක ව්‍යාපාරයක් භාතිය සංතෘෂ් සංගීත කණ්ඩායම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Dr.Reffai Dehiwala
Why is that the citizens are expected to stand in mile long queues whiel waiting for the vaccination? Aren’t we civilized enough to have better system for these people. Specially since the army, well trained in discipline is supervising the project and most fo the people standing in the hot sun, and moving at snail pace are our senior citizens? I went for my second injection at Werahara Army hospital. I found the arrangement very well planned and executed methodically, by ample number of army officers attending, except that – the people were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
1971 කැරැලිකරුවන් සොයා ගිය ගමනේදි මට තවත් විශේෂිත පුද්ගලයෙකු හමු විය. අද ඔහු ඉදිකිරීම් ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ප්‍රමුඛ ව්‍යාපෘති කළමනාකරුවෙකි. පහත දැක්වෙන්නේ පියදාස මදරසිංහ මහතාගේ කථාවයි. මගේ පියා ගොවියෙක්. අපේ පවුලේ සහෝදර සහෝදරියෝ 9 දෙනෙක් ඉන්නවා. මම තමයි පවුලේ බාලයා උනේ. පාසල් කාලයේ සිටම මම ඉගෙන ගැනීමට දක්ෂයි. කවදාවත් 3 වැනියාගෙන් පහල ආවේ නැහැ. මම සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ හදාරන කාලයේදි අපේ ගණිත ගුරුවරයෙක් හිටියා. ඔහු කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයට ලැදියි. ඔහු නිසා මට දේශපාලනය පිළිබඳව උනන්දුවක් ඇති උනා. අපේ පවුලේ පසුබිම, පියාගේ ආදායම අනුව මට තේරුනා ඉහල අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබීිමට මට ඇති ඉඩකඩ අවම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන
සිංහලෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනගත් දැයේ දරුවන් රජය ගෙනෙන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා විරෝධී පනත් සිංහලෙන් නීති තර්ක ගෙන ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ දී පරදවද්දී සිංහලෙන් නීතිය උගන්නන ගුරුවරුන්ට නීති විද්‍යාලයේ දොර වැහැව්වේ ඇයි? යන ප්‍රශ්නය ජනතාව හමුවේ ඇත. ඉහත ප්‍රශ්නය වැදගත් වන්නේ රජය විසින් 2021.06.08 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ කොරෝනා පනත් කෙටුම්පත ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා විරෝධී බව නීතීඥවරයෙක් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේදී තහවුරු කර ඇත්තේ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නඩු පවරා (SC/SD/24/2021) සහ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති තර්ක ගෙන ඒමෙන් වන හෙයිනි. කොරෝනා පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ වගන්ති 13ක් ඇති අතර ඉන් වගන්ති 7 ක්ම ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි බව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
තිසර සමල් - අනුරාධපුර
අනුරාධපුර, රාජාංගනය, ගැමුණුපුර, යාය 09, ප්රදේශයේ මොලේ උණ රෝගයෙන් පෙලෙන දියණියක ඇතුළු දියණියන් තිදෙනෙකු හා මවුපියන් වෙනුවෙන් ඉදි කළ නිවසෙහි වැඩ නිම කර ගැනීමට එම නිවසට අවශ්‍ය සෙවිලි ෂීට් සියල්ල තම පෞද්ගලික මුදලින් රාජ්‍යය අමාත්‍යය දුමින්ද දිසානායක මහතා පරිත්‍යාග කරනු ලැබීය. රාජාංගනය අංක 115/1 නිවසේ පදිංචි ටී.එම් නිලූෂ චාමර කුමාර තෙන්නකෝන් (34) හා එන්.පී. කේ මධූකා කුමාරි (31) යන අසනීප තත්වයෙන් පසු වන තම දියණිය ඇතුළු දියණියන් තිදෙනා සමඟින් ජීවත් වූ කටු මැටි පැල වෙනුවට අවට ගම්වාසීන් ඉදි කර දුන්නද, එම නිවසට අවශ්‍යය සෙවිලි තහඩු මිලදී ගත නොහැකිව එහි ඉදි කිරීම් කටයුතු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්‍යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය
තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යාංශය මඟින් පාසල් මට්ටමේ සිටින දක්ෂතා දක්වන දරුවන්ට සහ ප්‍රාදේශීය මට්ටමේ සහ ජාතික තලයේ ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන්ට පුහුණුවීම් සඳහා අවශ්‍ය යටිතල පහසුකම් සංවර්ධනය මෙන්ම ජාතික මට්ටමේ සිටින ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන් ජාත්‍යන්තර මට්ටමේ ජයග්‍රහණ ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා යොමු කරවීමට අවශ්‍ය පුහුණු පහසුකම් සංවර්ධනය කිරීම අරමුණු කරමින් දිවයින පුරා ස්ථාන 07ක කෘත්‍රිම ධාවන පථ ඉදිකිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. ඒ අනුව, මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය යටතේ තෝරාගත් පාසල් 02ක් සහ ක්‍රීඩා සංකීර්ණ 03ක් සඳහා මීටර් 130ක මංතීරු 04ක Full PUR Synthetic පුහුණු ධාවන පථ සැලසුම් නිර්මාණය කොට ඉදිකිරීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 3 (NewsWire) – 129 Vaccination Centers will be open today for the AstraZeneca 02nd dose administration and 257 Vaccination Centers will be open for other vaccines. https://newsin.asia/over-350-vaccination-centers-open-today-in-sri-lanka/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, August 3 (News 1st) – The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) of Sri Lanka received eight (08) BeachTech Hydro Sweepy beach cleaning machinery worth about US$180,000, donated by Singapore-based global non-profit, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance). The donation was formally handed over by Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage to State Minister of Coast Conservation & Low-Lying Lands Development Mohan Priyadarshana De Silva, and Chairperson of Marine Environment Protection Authority Dharshani Lahandapura on Monday (02). BeachTech Hydro Sweepy beach cleaning machines manufactured by Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG, a company in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
Soon after the UAE authorities announced that eligible passengers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other countries will be allowed to travel to/through the UAE from Aug.5, Dubai’s flagship airline Emirates has issued the list of 11 countries from where the stranded residents can return or transit. The airline said, "The UAE authorities have announced that effective August 5, 2021, eligible travellers from the countries below will be allowed to travel to/through the UAE." • India • Pakistan • Sri Lanka • Nigeria ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Courtesy TASS
Russian citizens can enter the territory of Sri Lanka, having previously issued an electronic visa MOSCOW, August 3. /TASS/. Aeroflot has opened the sale of tickets for direct flights on the Moscow-Colombo (Sri Lanka) route, the flights will be operated from September 2 twice a week, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. At the moment, air traffic between Sri Lanka and Russia has been resumed after a break amid the coronavirus pandemic. The flights will be operated on wide-body Airbus A330-300 aircraft. Russian citizens can enter the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Import and Export Control Department has issued a gazette notification for the import of Nitrogen extracts and Potassium. This is under the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture and the Fertilizer Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture. The imported Nitrogen extracts and Potassium are to be used as fertilizer for the Maha season.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
Sri Lanka has registered 74 more COVID-19 related fatalities confirmed by the Director-General of Health Services on Monday (August 02). The new development has pushed the official death toll from the virus outbreak in Sri Lanka to 4,645. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the latest victims confirmed today include 48 males and 26 females. Reportedly, among the victims are one male aged below 30 years, 17 victims aged between 30-59 years and 56 others aged 60 and above.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 1,044 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (July 30), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,450. According to the Government Information Department, 2,423 of the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The new development has brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 316,219. Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that as many as 282,770 patients who were infected with the virus have regained health so far. Meanwhile, the death toll now stands at 4,645. More than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS
Social media, which has been originated in the last quarter of the 20th century, started giving justice to ordinary people who were restrained to express his /her views in major media (Print, Radio, and Television). The major media represented owners' views and sometimes advertisers' points of view regarding products and services and they excluded representation of the views of members of the community at the cost of advertisers because the major media is depending on the earning from advertisements. Social media also may depend on the revenue earned from advertisers. The major media cannot get... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Laksiri Warnakula
The Island editorial of 29-07-21 with the title ‘It’s MPs’ Code of Conduct, stupid!’ prompted me to write this short letter on the matter discussed in it. For starters, let me pose the same question that the editor and quite a few others too, including the Chief Opposition Whip have asked: What were (perhaps some of them are still there) they doing in Tokyo? Well, simple answer; Olympics. And one, obviously belonging to their clan might even try to defend them. Why can’t they? They need a rest too, having put in an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
Media Statement The Association of Engineering Teachers of the University of Moratuwa
The Association of Engineering Teachers of the University of Moratuwa (AETUM), possesses a responsibility to address issues in the education system and produce skilled engineers with the capacity to cater both national and global demand. Broadening the access to higher education in Engineering is a need for a country like Sri Lanka while assuring equal access to high-quality education and equal opportunities for all. The affordability should not be a deciding factor in accessing education opportunities. Private Engineering Education would lead to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති
බටහිර ආර්ථික මතවාද තුළ නිෂ්පාදන සාධක හඳුනාගනු ලබන්නේ එකිනෙකින් වෙන්කිරීමෙනි. ශ්‍රමය සහ ප්‍රාග්ධනය යනු ද එ ලෙසින් වෙන් කොට හඳුනාගනු ලැබූ නිෂ්පාදන සාධක දෙකකි. මාක්ස්වාදය තුළ මෙම සාධක දෙක විග්‍රහ කරනුයේ එකිනෙක හා ගැටෙන සමාජ පංති දෙකක් සතු සම්පත් ලෙසිනි. ශ්‍රමයට වැටුප් ද, ප්‍රාග්ධනයට ලාභය ද හිමිවෙන බව පොදුවේ පිළිගැනෙයි. මෙ ලෙසින් මේවා වෙන්කර හඳුනාගැනීමෙහි වරදක් නැත. සම්මුතිය තුළ අප විසින් භාවිතා කරනු දෑ අපි වෙන්කර හඳුනාගනිමු. කෙසේ වුව ද, ශ්‍රමයේ හිමිකරුවන් සහ ප්‍රාග්ධනයේ හිමිකරුවන් එකිනෙකාගේ පරම හතුරන් ලෙසින් ගැනීම වරදකි. අදාළ ආර්ථික කටයුතු නිසි පරිදි සංවිධානගත කර නැති විට මෙවැනි පාර්ශ්ව දෙකක් ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය
ලංකා බැංකුවේ 82 වැනි සංවත්සරයට සමඟාමීව අභිනවයෙන් පිහිටවූ විශේෂ අපනයන ඒකකය ( Export Circle ) ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් අද (02) දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී විවෘත විය. අන්තර්ජාල තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා මෙම විශේෂ ඒකකය විවෘත කළ අතර ලංකා බැංකුවේ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේ වෙළඳ සේවා ඒකකය තුළ මෙම විශේෂ අපනයන ඒකකය ස්ථාපිත කර තිබේ. ලංකා බැංකුවේ මහා කළමනාකරු ලෙස කටයුතු කරන ඩී.පී.කේ ගුණසේකර මහතා ලංකා බැංකුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨතම බැංකු සේවකයාට හිමි තිලිණය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සුරතින් මෙහි දී ලබාගත්තේය. ලංකා බැංකුවේ සභාපති කාංචන රත්වත්තේ මහතා සැමවිටම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/08/21)
UCA News reporter, Colombo
Bishop Mendis says toxic gas emitted from the plant is causing serious health problems for residents A Catholic bishop has criticized the largest power station in Sri Lanka for emitting carbon and causing environmental damage. Bishop Valence Mendis of Chilaw said Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant in Norochcholai is causing health risks to residents. "The toxic gas emitted from the plant has increased the risk of cancer and lung disease of people in the area," said Bishop Mendis during his sermon on Aug. "Responsible people around the world say they have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
All teachers and principals island-wide are required to report for their duties today (August 02) as per a circular issued by the Ministry of Public Service, Provincial Councils, and Local Government. According to Secretary of the Ministry of Education Prof. Kapila Perera, officers and staff of all the Provincial Departments of Education, Zonal and Divisional Education Offices and the academic and non-academic staff of all schools should report for duty today. However, the teachers’ and principals’ trade unions have decided not to report for duty today. Secretary of the Ceylon... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 63 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (August 01). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 4,571. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include 27 females and 36 males. None of them are aged below 30 years, seventeen victims are between 30-59 years and the remaining 46 are aged 60 and above.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 702 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,382. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 313,769. As many as 280,868 recoveries and 4,571 deaths have been confirmed in Sri Lanka since the outbreak of the pandemic. The Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that 28,393 active cases are currently under medical care.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/08/21)
අචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. - මහනුවර.
ක්‍රිස්තු පූර්ව 307 මහින්දාගමනයේ සිට ක්‍රි.ව. 1815 මාර්තු 2 දා වනතුරුම මේ රට පැවතියේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ රාජ්‍යක් වශයෙනි. ඊට පෙරද සිංහල ද්වීපය, හෙල දිව සහ ලංකා වශයෙන් හදුන්වා තිබු එය අනාදිමත් කාලයක සිටම සිංහලයින්ගේ ජන්ම භූමිය සහ මාතෘ භුමිය වශයෙන් පැවතිණ. 1948 ලැබුනා යයි කියන ඊනියා නිදහසත් සමගම 1815 දී දෙරට අතර ගිවිසුමකින් සුද්දන්ට බාරදෙන ලද සිංහලේ රාජධානියට අයත්ව තිබූ මාලදිවයින ඇතුලු සුවිසාල සමුද්‍ර කලාපයක්ද අපට අහිමිවිය. ඊට පෙර මාලදිවයි තැප්‍රොබේන් වලට (ලංකාවට අයත් දූපත් 1370 න් එක කුඩා දූපතක් වශයෙනි, අලෙක්සැන්ඩ්‍රියානු ජාතික පසුස් ක්‍රි.ව.4යේදී සඳහන්කොට ඇත. ඊට පසු කාලයේදී පාහියන් (ක්‍රි.ව.412ද අනතුරුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
KAMALIKA PIERIS
2nd Revision 6.8.21 REPARATION In 2005, the UN General Assembly passed a Resolution titled “Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law” (General Assembly resolution 60/147 of 16 December 2005) . This UNGA Resolution defines “victims” as persons who individually or collectively suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, and economic loss in war, due to gross violations of International Human rights law (IHRL) and International... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
රටපුරා රාජ්‍ය අංශයට අයත් ගුරුවරු දෙලක්ෂ හතලිස් එක්දහකට ආසන්න සංඛ්‍යාවක් අපේ දරුවන්ට ඉගැන්වීමේ කාර්යයේ යෙදී සිටි. ගුරුවර 2,41,000ක් නඩත්තු කිරීම යනු සුළුපටු කාර්යයක් නොවේ. මසකට රුපියල් බිලියන 12කට ආසන්න මුදලක් වැටුප් සඳහා ගෙවමින් මෙරට ජනතාව විසින් සිදුකරන මේ කාර්යය සුළුපටු කරුණක් නොවේ. මෙරට ජනතාව මේ කාර්යය සිදුකරන්නේ තම තමන්ගේ දු දරුවන්ට නිසි අධ්‍යාපනයක් ලබාදීමේ අරමුණ ඇතිවයි. මෙරට ජනතාවගෙන් කොටසත් මේ ගුරුවරුන්ට වැටුප් ගෙවීමට සම්මාදන් වුවද ඔවුන් තමන්ගේ දු දරුවන් පෞද්ගලික පාසල් වලට යවා අමතර වියදමක්ද දරයි. ඒ රටට හා අනිකුත් ජන කොටස්වල උන්නතිය සඳහා තමන්ගේ පංගුව සිදු කරමින්, තමන් පවතින අධ්‍යාපන දහරාවට වඩා ඉහල යයි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
Amiti Sen Courtesy The Hindu
Officials of Sri Lankan Investment Board, Pharma Manufacturers Association to hold virtual meet with investors on August 5 Sri Lanka is seeking to invite potential investors from India to set up manufacturing operations in the new Hambantota Pharmaceutical Zone and is likely to offer a number of incentives, including tax sops. Senior officials from the Sri Lankan Board of Investment and the Pharma Manufacturers Association of Sri Lanka will hold discussions with potential investors from India through an online meeting this week on the investment opportunity in the zones,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Investigations disclosed that three of the eleven women who had served as domestic workers at MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s residence in Colombo since 2010, have died. The Police launched investigations following the death of the 16-year-old girl who recently died of burn injuries while working at the residence last month. Following the investigations, the police said that 11 women including the 16-year –old girl had worked as domestic aides at Bathiudeen’s residence between 2010 and 2021. Then, the special investigation teams were deployed to record statements from the women... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Secretary to the Ministry of Education has requested all provincial, zonal and divisional education authorities, principals, teachers and non-academic staff to follow the circular on recalling public sector employees to work from August 02. On Friday (July 30), Secretary to President, P.B. Jayasundera announced that all state sector employees will be called back to work from Monday (August 02). Accordingly, Secretary to the Ministry of Public Services, Provincial Councils & Local Government J.J. Rathnasiri published a circular in this regard. In addition, all circulars permitting work... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
A total of 855 more people were tested positive for COVID-19 today (July 30), increasing the daily count of positive cases to 2,510. According to the Government Information Department, 2,490 of the new cases reported today have been associated with the New Year cluster. The remaining 20 were identified as arrivals from foreign countries. The new development has brought Sri Lanka’s confirmed coronavirus cases tally to 311,349. Epidemiology Unit’s data showed that as many as 278,910 patients who were infected with the virus have regained health so far. Meanwhile, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 67 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 31). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 4,508. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include 31 females and 36 males. One of them is aged below 30 years, ten victims are between 30-59 years and the remaining 56 are aged 60 and above.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
Courtesy Adaderana
SriLankan Airlines has resumed direct flights between Sri Lanka and Russia from today (August 01) after six years. The SriLankan Airlines flight UL534, which departed from Moscow, Russia, arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport at 06.30 this morning, Ada Derana Airport correspondent said. Accordingly, 51 passengers including foreign tourists were present in the flight. The flight will leave Moscow at 10.20 pm on Fridays and arrive in BIA at 06.10 am on Sundays.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
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රසායනික සහ කාබනික පොහොර සම්බන්ධයෙන් මේ වනවිට සමාජය තුළ දැඩි කතාබහක් මතුව තිබෙනවා. එවැනි පසුබිමක පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ භෝග විද්‍යා අංශයේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය බුද්ධි මාරඹේ මහතා සඳහන් කළේ කාබනික පොහොර පසට යෙදීම තුළින් පමණක් අවශ්‍ය කරන ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාව කරා යා නොහැකි බවයි. https://youtu.be/WFsThfjGLuE There is a heated debate in the society regarding the chemical and organic fertilizers in the market. In such a background, Senior Professor Buddhi Marambe of the Department of Crop Science, University of Peradeniya stated that the application of organic fertilier... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/08/21)
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