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News Archive for Nov 2022
Police OrdinanceThere is plenty of discourse on updating and modernizing our bullock cart age systems of administration. The laws of the land are one area that has received attention recently and the previous Minister of Justice did revise a few of the antique provisions in some of the statutes. Unfortunately, the law governing the Police which had been enacted as the Police Ordinance in 1865 still stays in the days of carts and tom-toms in spite of 29 amendments as an Ordinance and 7 times as an Act. One is confused about whether it is still an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/22)
අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනීමේ අයිතිය අහිමි කරවීම සහ වෙනම රටකට දිරි දීම පාලනයට ඇති නෛතික විසඳුම
අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනීමේ අයිතිය අහිමි කරවීම සහ වෙනම රටකට දිරි දීම පාලනයට ඇති නෛතික විසඳුම් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් සහ වෙනත් නීති වලින් දැන ගනිමු... 2022 දෙසැම්බර් 15 සවස 2.30 - කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාල සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී... ආසන සීමිතයි. ආසනයක් කලින් වෙන්කර ගන්න. https://youtu.be/9C8z9xQ10tU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/22)
Be Proud of Sinhala Language..සිංහල භාෂාව ගැන ආඩම්බර වෙන්න
*සිංහල භාෂාව සිංහලේ නම් රටේ, දිවයිනේ උරුමක්කාරයින් වන සිංහලුන්ගේ භාෂාවයි.එම භාෂාව ඉතාම විචිත්‍ර වූත්, අහන්න ප්‍රියවූත් භාෂාවකි .**How fortunate I am to be Sinhala.??*ලෝකේ තියෙනවා අකුරු සහිත හා රහිත කියලා භාෂාවන් 2ක්.There are two Languages in the world…One is a Language with Letters and theother is a Language without Letters,ජර්මන් භාෂාවට , ප්‍රංශ භාෂාවට අකුරු නෑ.German and FrenchLanguages-doesn't have letters,ඔයාලා පිලිගන්නවද ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවටත් අකුරු නෑ කියලා.ඔව් ඒක තමයි ඇත්ත.Will you believe that even English doesn't have Letters ? Yes that’s theTRUTH !ඉංග්‍රීසි , ජර්මන් හා ප්‍රංශ අය භාවිතා කරන්නේ රෝමන් අකුරු.හැබැයි රෝමන්කියලා භාෂාවක් නෑ.English,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/22)
Debt-for-Nature Swap after IMF Extended Fund Facility?
Colombo, November 27 (The Sunday Morning): The Sri Lankan Government is planning to explore alternative funding means such as the announced $ 1 billion ‘Debt-for-Nature Swap’ (DNS) programme in late 2023, following the approval of the anticipated $ 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility, The Sunday Morning learns. It is understood that the Government is keen to pursue the DNS programme after Sri Lanka’s debt has been restructured and made sustainable following negotiations with creditors. Presidential Advisor on Climate Change Ruwan Wijewardene confirmed to The Sunday Morning that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/22)
How the economic crisis has hurt the Hill Tamils
Meera Srinivasan in Sri Lanka and Kanishkaa Balachandran in Bengaluru have put together a video report for The Hindu on the plight of the Malayaha Tamils or Hill Country Tamils who work on the tea plantations of Central Sri Lanka. As the poorest community in Sri Lanka, these workers of Indian origin have had to put up with harsh deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis that followed. https://youtu.be/fkqXr2fMjxo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/22)
Bright prospects for Nepal-Sri Lanka tourism
Kathmandu, November 28 (The Rising Nepal): As the economic situation of Sri Lanka is gradually coming back to normal, Nepal may receive more travelers from that country in the days ahead. It has become easier for these two South Asian nations to promote bilateral tourism and trade thanks to the operation of direct scheduled flights between Colombo and Kathmandu by Sri Lankan Airlines. Currently, the national carrier of Sri Lanka is operating five flights a week to Kathmandu. The airline is planning to start daily flights soon with demand growing steadily. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/11/22)
ඊළඟ බිල්ල රනිල් ද?
පොතේ හැටියට ජනපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැමිණිය යුත්තේ සය මසකට වරකි. එනමුත් ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ගිය සතියේ දින තුනක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ආවේය. මේ දිනවල පැවැත්වෙන අයවැය විවාදයට ඉතා සක්‍රියව එක්ව සිටින ජනපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ රටේ ආන්දෝලනයට ලක්වන කතා කිහිපයක් කළේය. පළමු දිනයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැමිණෙන විට අදහස් දක්වමින් සිටියේ ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි අනුර දිසානායකය. ඔහු ජනාධිපතිවරයා විවේචනය කරමින් සිටි අයුරු රූපවාහිනියෙන් දුටු ජනාධිපතිවරයා සභා ගැබට පැමිණියේය. මන්ත්‍රිවරයා කතාව ඉවර කළේ බුදු දහමේ සමානාත්මතාව ගැන කියමිනි. එම ප්‍රශ්නවලට ජනාධිපතිවරයාද පිළිතුරු දුන්නේ බුදු දහමෙනි. බුද්ධ දර්ශනයේ මූලික හරය චතුරාර්ය සත්‍ය බව ඔහු කී‍වේය. ජනපති බණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
මහ බැංකු ලොක්කන් අර්බුදය උත්සන්න කළ හැටි
මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු සහ නව ප‍්‍රධානීන් මෙන්ම ඔවුන්ට එරෙහිව නඩු පවරන විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ආචාර්යවරුන් ද එකම කරුණක් පිළිබදව විවිධ පරස්පර මත පලකරති. ඔවුන්ගේ ප‍්‍රකාශවල සම්ප‍්‍රයුක්තය වන්නේ නව මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයාට පෙර ධුරය දැරූ අධිපතිවරයා විසින් රුපියල අවප‍්‍රමාණය වීමට ඉඩ නොදී පවත්වා ගැනීම නිසා සහ ඒ සඳහා ඩොලර් සංචිත වෙළෙදපොළට නිකුත් කිරීම නිසා ඩොලර් සංචිත සිඳී ගිය බවය. එසේනම් එහි ප‍්‍රතිවිරුද්ධ මතය වන්නේ එසේ නොකළා නම් විදේශ විනිමය අර්බුදයක් ඇති වන්නේ නැත. වෙනත් වචනවලින් කියන්නේ නම් රුපියල් පා කිරීමේ තීන්දුව ගනු ලැබූ මාර්තු 7 වැනිදාට මාස තුනකට පෙර එසේ කළා නම් අර්බුදයක් ඇති නොවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
Travel Sri Lanka For Stunning Natural, Historic & Cultural Sites
Judith Baker journeys to Sri Lanka to discover the island nation’s hidden gems... Sri Lanka is firmly back on the tourist radar and anyone visiting in 2023 will encounter not only the country’s amazing cultural and historic sites, beaches and wildlife but also a wealth of fabulous new hotels, previously unexplored hiking trails and eco experiences. Read More: nhow London: 'I Stayed At One Of London's Wackiest Hotels & Left Surprised'Colombo In Sri Lanka’s bustling energetic capital, life is getting back to normal after a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
Cabinet, Parliament should question CB over economy: Bandula
Both Cabinet and Parliament should question Central Bank officials about the recent decisions they have made with regards to the economy, Minister Bandula Gunawardena told Parliament yesterday. “We will be able to question the decisions which Central Bank officials have made during the recent past if they are summoned to Parliament and the cabinet,” the Minister said. “It was the Central Bank which made decisions on issuing bonds, on exchange rates and interest rates. However, the MPs of this House had to pay the price by having their houses attacked,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
China welcomes SL foreign minister’s remarks on ‘Chinese debt trap’
China welcomes Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry's rebuttal of the narrative of the so-called Chinese "debt trap" in Sri Lanka, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said here on Monday. Sabry has said that when Sri Lanka went to China in search of funds, China was respectful and never forced Sri Lanka to take money. China also provided Sri Lanka with some financial facilities and credit line, as well as some humanitarian assistance, Sabry said, adding that the "debt trap" is a Western phrase. Zhao said this is a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
Ready to reintroduce district development councils: President
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today said he is ready to reintroduce District Development Councils in place of Provincial Councils. President said this in Parliament when Former President Maithripala Sirisena proposed setting up of District Council. “Former President I listened to your comments on District Development Councils and I am ready to do it,” the President said. “This is good and we in SLFP will fully support it,” MP Sirisena responded. https://youtu.be/Wg_UD7Bm9aA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
President raises concerns about Buddhist monks leaving universities as “laymen”
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has questioned the actions of monks in the recent past, accusing several of them who enter universities do so as monks, however, leave as laymen. “They cannot use the robes they are in as a shield to behave in an unruly manner,” the President said while speaking in Parliament this morning (Nov 29). He further added that during their years in local universities, monks get too involved in societal issues and concerns, thus leading them astray. President Wickremesinghe suggested that monks who enter universities be awarded their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
IRD’s RAMIS system installed using over Rs. 10 billion not functioning properly, COPA hears
The Committee on Public Accounts COPA revealed that the total arrears of taxes, penalties and interest in due to the Inland Revenue Department as at June 30th, 2022 is Rs. 773 billion. It was disclosed that an amount of Rs. 201 billion has been identified as income that can be collected without any legal concern and that Rs. 572 billion has been identified as income that has been suspended due to certain reasons. It was also pointed out by the Auditor General that this amount has been identified as the total arrears... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
මැති සබේ පරාභව සූත්‍රය දෙසපු රනිල් - කතා හදන උන් සේරම බෝසත් ද?
https://youtu.be/LaMzXId2e-0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe prepared to re-introduce District Development Councils
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that he is prepared to re-introduce District Development Councils. President Wickremesinghe speaking in Parliament made the announcement in response to a request made by former President Maithripala Sirisena. Former President Sirisena said District Development Councils could play a better role in working with the rural population of the country.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
Merchandise exports earnings exceed USD 11 billion in 10 months
Earnings from merchandise exports have exceeded $11 bn from January to October 2022, indicating a growth of 9.33% in comparison to the same period in 2021: Export Development Board. This is a growth of 9.33% in comparison to the same period in 2021. The earnings from merchandise exports in the first ten months of last year were recorded as USD 10 million, according to the EDB. However, earnings from the merchandise exports saw a decrease by 8.18% year-on-year to USD 1,094.8 million in October 2022, caused mainly due to the drop... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/11/22)
THE DEBT RESTRUCTURING CONTROVERSY IN SRI LANKA
The information on the debt restructuring of Sri Lanka shows that it has become a serious controversy among many people, despite this situation ordinary people in the country have no idea about the controversy. Some information publishes in the media and much of them have limited to policymakers. As the process of restructuring involved diverse organizations which provided debt facilities to the country with different objectives and some organisations have been involved with the process with strange conditions which cannot disclose to the public and insist on various conditions that may not be justifiable and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
Queen Victoria Statue
A giant statue of Queen Victoria is currently on display at Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7, next to Kalabhawana. It is bigger than her life size. It is a magnificent creation. This statue was constructed in England to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and sent to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) for public display. It was in the year 1897. The writer believes that a number of similar statutes were constructed and sent to various British colonies to commemorate the ‘great occasion’. Queen Victoria was the Queen of England for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
“The Doctor in the Society: A Sri Lankan Perspective”
Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva: Plenary lecture delivered at the Colombo Medical Congress. 24th Nov 2022, where his chosen title was “The Doctor in the Society: A Sri Lankan Perspective” I thank the organizers for inviting me to talk on a very relevant topic at a time when the role of the educated in society is becoming the focus of the people as well as the members of our own profession. I am known to be somewhat blunt calling a spade a spade in expressing my opinion as I strongly believe that diplomacy often fails to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
වියට්නාම් කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයෙන්ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ඖෂධ පරිත්‍යාගයක්..
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයේ ඉල්ලීම පරිදි මෙරටට පරිත්‍යාග කෙරුණු එම ඖෂධ තොගය අද දින (2022.11.28) කොළඹ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා වෙත භාර දුන්නේය. අදාල ඖෂධ තොගය කඩිනමින් ඖෂධ හිඟ රෝහල වෙත බෙදා හැරීමට ක්‍රියා කෙරෙයි. මෙම අවස්ථාවට වියට්නාම් තානාපති (Ho thi thanh truc)හෝ තායි තාන් ට්‍රක්, අමාත්‍ය කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල,රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සිසිර ජයකොඩි, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී වීරසුමන වීරසිංහ, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ජී. වීරසිංහ ඇතුළු නිලධාරීහු පිරිසක් එක්ව සිටියහ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
බලශක්ති සහයෝගීතාවය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා සහ එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍ය යේ තානාපති Khaled Nasser AlAmeri අතර සාකච්ඡාවක්..
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බලශක්ති ක්ෂේත්රයේ ආයෝජන සඳහා විශාල විභවයක් පවතින බව එක්සත් අරාබි ජනරජයේ තානාපති Khaled Nasser AlAmeri පැවසීය. ද්විපාර්ශ්වික සහයෝගීතාව සහ නව ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා කොළඹ,අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා ආයෝජනය කිරීමට උනන්දුවක් දක්වන බව එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍ය යේ තානාපතිවරයා සඳහන් කළේය. පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති ක්ෂේත්‍රයට අමතරව කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය සහ කාර්මික ක්ෂේත්‍ර වැනි නව ක්ෂේත්‍රවල ආයෝජනය කිරීමට දැන් අවස්ථාව පවතින බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබා දී ඇති සහයෝගය මෙන්ම වර්තමාන ආර්ථික ගැටලුවලින් ඉක්මනින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
රුසියාව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ස්වෛරීභාවය වෙනුවෙන් සැමවිටම පෙනී සිටි විශ්වාසවන්ත මිතුරෙක් - අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
රුසියාව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ස්වෛරීභාවය වෙනුවෙන් සැමවිටම පෙනී සිටි විශ්වාසවන්ත මිතුරෙක් බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. කොළඹ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී පසුගියදා නව රුසියානු තානාපති Levan S. Dzhagaryan මහතා හම වූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. දශක ගණනාවකට පෙර ඔරුවල වානේ කර්මාන්ත ශාලාවක් සහ කැලණියේ ටයර් කම්හලක් පිහිටුවමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කාර්මීකරණයට සෝවියට් සංගමය ලබා දුන් සහයෝගය අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී සිහිපත් කළේය. ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සිසුන්ට ලුමුම්බා රුසියානු විශ්ව විද්‍යාලවල පිරිනමන ශිෂ්‍යත්ව පිළිබඳව ද අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ස්තූතිය පළකළේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික ප්‍රගතිය සඳහා රුසියාවේ උපරිම සහයෝගය ලබාදෙන බව තානාපතිවරයා මෙහිදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට සහතික විය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ රුසියානු මහා පරිමාණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
The journalists who revealed about Thilini’s father are receiving death threats
The program ‘Truth with Chamuditha’ made the most revelations about the investment company run by Thilini Priyamali in the World Trade Complex. Recently the ‘Truth with Chamuditha’ made another hair straightening revelation. The ‘Truth with Chamuditha’ program revealed that Thilini’s father is former JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe. They exposed this with evidence. With that revelation, Keerthi Ratnayake has received death threats from unidentified group. Moreover, he continues to receive harassing phone calls. So far, the “Truth with Chamuditha” YouTube channel and Facebook page have received thousands of reader responses. When analyzing them carefully, an operation targeting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh ports to boost connectivity
It is commendable that Sri Lanka opened their eyes, ( though whoever is in the above picture is sleeping ) and take meaningful action to further develop transshipment trade with Bangladesh Hopefully SAG5, and CICT joined hands on this mission SLPA port is having difficulties in finding funds to complete ECT as early as possible to attract more and more Megaliners to Colombo to help transshipment developing to Europe and the Middle East Does one wonder whether Adani who invests in WCT which was given to India also joined... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
"කොහොමද එහෙම වුණේ?..."බිලියන 390ක් දැම්මේ ඇයි ? කවුද ඒ තීන්දුව ගත්තේ ?
https://youtu.be/ZVzbUbpQhk4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
Sri Lanka Central Bank sees inflation to cool from 70% to 4% by end 2023: Report
Sri Lanka’s inflation is expected to significantly cool in the coming months after peaking near 70% this year, and the nation may gradually relax a currency band as inflows improve, central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said. Sri Lanka’s Central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe expects that the country's inflation will substantially decrease in the coming months with gradual relaxation in currency band as inflows improve. This positive prediction comes after the nation saw inflation rising to massive 70% earlier in the year. Consumer price gains “will continue on the disinflation path,” Weerasinghe... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
SHOULD WE CURTAIL THE COST OF PRODUCTION OR INFLATION?
Last Friday (25 November 2022) at the event, Driving Towards a Resurgent Economy, organised by the Business Economics Studies Association of the University of Colombo, delivering a keynote speech Central Bank Governor, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe defended the high interest rates. Currently, inflation is on the wrong side of two-digit numbers. Thus certain sectors, acknowledged Dr. Weerasinghe, as construction are hit hard by the ongoing economic crisis. “Inflation is only 70 per cent, but the prices of cement and other raw materials have gone up by 300 per cent,” pointed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
80% school attendance a must for A/L exam from 2023
The Education Ministry announced today that 80% school attendance is mandatory for students appearing for the G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) examination from next year. A notice on this directive was issued by the Ministry today. Earlier, following a letter from the Education Secretary, it was announced that it was not necessary to confirm 80% attendance only for students appearing for the 2022 A/L examination. (Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
176 Specialist doctors go before Court against 60 years compulsory retirement
Filing a writ petition before Court of Appeal, about 176 consultant specialist doctors have challenged the government's decision to reduce their compulsory retirement age to 60 years. The petitioners are Specialist Consultants in varied fields of medicine including Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Oncology, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Haematology, Opthalmogy, Histopatholy, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics and Auto-Rhinolaryngology. When this petition came up before Court of Appeal two-judge-bench comprising Justice Sobitha Rajakaruna and Justice Dhammika Ganepola issued notices on the respondents including the Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Health and the Director General of Health Services returnable... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
Jalani Premadasa had called GR asking for PM post for Sajith’ - Diana claims
State Minister of Tourism Diana Gamage today claimed in Parliament that Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa's wife, Jalani Premadasa had telephoned former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking for the premiership for her husband when Gotabaya was the President. https://youtu.be/0XOP2dpD-pk "Not only the Opposition Leader, but his wife too had called Gotabaya Rajapaksa asking him for the opportunity to allow Sajith to become the Prime Minister. Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had shared this with us," Gamage said. She further warned Sajith in Parliament saying that if he continued organizing protests,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
Nuwara Kalaviya is on Death Row
I give below the Summary of my book: Nuwara Kalaviya(2020): I can understand disasters caused by Natural Calamities, but I cannot come to terms with the demise and destruction of the ancient irrigation tanks and its unique agricultural cultivation system in Nuwara Kalaviya. The demise of the irrigation tanks began with the abolition of Rajakariya, by the Colebrook and Cameron Reforms of 1833. However, the Government Agents and the Cultivation Committees established under the Paddy Lands Act organized paddy cultivation and managed the distribution of irrigation water. When the Paddy lands... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/11/22)
Dangers of 13a to both India & Sri Lanka
India’s intel chief is to arrive in Sri Lanka for talks with the President. Top on the agenda should be 13a but not to canvass for its implementation, but to discuss the dangers that underlie its implementation for Sri Lanka, India & entire South Asia. In 2021, 4 actions by US raised eyebrows about where relations between US & India stood. While India is the world’s biggest vaccine maker it relies on US exports for raw materials which were banned by US & diverted to US vaccine production... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Resolving the ethnic issue: Thinking and acting outside the box is the pathway to a solution, not bellowing old, failed tunes
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results -Albert Einstein A challenge for all political parties. Why not a second chamber with equal representation for Tamils, Sinhalese, and Muslims? The momentum for resolving the ethnic issue that has bedeviled the country since independence has taken a fresh urgency with the President calling on all parties to convene to discuss the issue and resolve it before the 75th year of independence in 2023. As reported in Ada Derana, it is understood that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
බුදුන්වහන්සේ ලොවට දෙසු ප්‍රථම වචන කීපය ධම්මචක්කප්පවත්තන සූත්‍රයේ පලමුවන ගාථාව:
"ද්වෙමෙ, භික්ඛවෙ, අන්තා පබ්බජිතෙන න සෙවිතබ්බා. කතමෙ ද්වෙ? යො චායං කාමෙසු කාමසුඛල්ලිකානුයොගො හීනො ගම්මො පොථුජ්ජනිකො අනරියො අනත්ථසංහිතො, යො චායං අත්තකිලමථානුයොගො" පබ්බජිතෙන - ආර්ය මාර්ගයට පිවිසෙන තැනැත්තා න සෙවිතබ්බා -. ආශ්‍රය නොකල යුතු ද්වෙමෙ අන්තා - අන්ත දෙකකි කාමසුඛල්ලිකානුයොගො යනු ශරීරයට අධික සැප සම්පත් ලබාදීම බවත් අත්තකිලමථානුයොගො යනු ශරීරයට අධික දුක්දීම බවත් සමහර ගිහි පැවිදි දේශකයින් අදටත් අපට කියාදෙයි. සත්‍ය ධර්මයේ විශ්වීය (universality) බව අමතක කරනා මොවුන් ශරීරයට අධික සැපත් දුකත් දිය හැක්කේ සමාජයේ එක්තරා කොටසකට පමනක් බව අමතක කරති. එවිට ධර්මයේ ඇති විශ්වීය ස්වාභාවය ගිලිහී යයි. උදාහරනයක් ලෙස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
KHUSHI ABORTION RISE IN SRI LANKA
The use of KHUSHI Abortion Pill Kit in Sri Lanka has risen above an average of over ten thousand units, commencing from the first quarter of June 2022 to October 2022. The 2015 Presidential election manifesto, of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, offered a complete economic and development restructuring package, from the “Mahinda Chinthanaya”; which went under sabotage, and was aborted by elements which projected elsewise. In 2020, the people gave a clear mandate of 6.9 Million votes to Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to restore the lost, which too, came... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Why Do Americans Hate Putin?
Why do Americans hate Putin? Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Here’s what he said: “… Democrats in Washington have told you it’s your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It’s not a suggestion. It’s a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason.Many Americans have obeyed this directive. They now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin. Maybe you’re one of them. Hating Putin has become the central purpose of America’s foreign policy. It’s the main thing that we talk about. Entire cable channels are now devoted to it. Very soon, that hatred... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
BIG FOCUS | කොළඹ වරාය නගර ව්‍යාපෘතිය හා යළි නැගිටින ශ්‍රී ලංකාව
https://youtu.be/PMIcE3-kf-I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනීමේ අයිතිය දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් අහිමි කිරීමට එරෙහිව දෙමළ ජනතා අයිතීන් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී ඉන්නා අය ඉදිරිපත් නොවන්නේ ඇයි?
දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් නීතිය ඉගෙනීමේ අයිතිය දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් අහිමි කිරීමට, අලි සබ්‍රි අධිකරණ ඇමති, ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය අගවිනිසුරු ඇතුලු සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන සභාව, අනු නීති පැනවීමට එරෙහිව දෙමළ ජනතා අයිතීන් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී ඉන්නා අය ඉදිරිපත් නොවන්නේ ඇයි?ඇමෙරිකාවට, එංගලන්තයට, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවට යන රටේ ඇත්තෝ එහි කලු පැත්ත මිස සුදු පැත්ත රටට ගේන්නේ නැත.ඒ මිලියන 18ක් වූ සිංහල ජනතාවගෙන් ලැබෙනවාට වඩා වැඩි වාසියක් මිලියන 80ක් වන දෙමළ ජනතාවගෙන් ලැබෙන නිසා මෙන්ම සිංහල මිලියන 18ට දේශපාලන, ආර්ථික, නෛතික බලයක් අහිමිකර ඇති නිසාය.මිලියන 80කගේ සහාය ලැබෙන ඩයස්පෝරාවේ ඩොලර්, පවුම් මත මිලියන 18ක් වන සිංහල ජනතාව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Yohani: I have nothing against remakes, good way of making new generation hear old songs
Singer Yohani, whose viral hit Manike Mage Hithe was used in the recent film Thank God speaks up on the recreation debate. Yohani’s viral song Manike Mage Hithe was used in the film Thank G Yohani shot to instant fame with Manike Mage Hithe, a Sri Lankan song, which currently holds more than 200 million views on YouTube. And even if we don’t gauge it’s success by solely the views, the song found itself being rehashed for a Bollywood film, Thank God recently too. It was filmed on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Why Rajiv Gandhi Sent Military To Sri Lanka And How LTTE Played Both Sides
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord with Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayawardene in 1987. Under the pact, the Indian military was deployed as the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka. Soon after the deployment, the circumstances changed and IPKF was engaged in combat by the Tamil armed group LTTE. In 1987, the Indian security and intelligence apparatus is believed to have assured Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that Tamil armed groups in Sri Lanka would surrender to the Indian military within 72 hours. In... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Cabraal says he alone is not responsible for economic crisis
Former Central Bank governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal in his recently released publication on the current economic meltdown ‘Amidst Economic Hit Men’ says that if anyone is to blame for the current predicament, it is not only him but the previous administration, previous cabinet, finance minister and the monetary Board of the Central Bank as all the fiscal and economic decisions were taken collectively and not by a single person. The decision to default debt payment, keep the rupee steady, increase or cut tax and obtaining bilateral and multi-lateral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Why is NED sponsored Verite Research worried about LTTE dead commemorations?
US Congress funded NED-the 2nd CIA of America’s Sri Lanka sponsored Verite Research asks how Sri Lanka’s media covered LTTE’s Maaveerar Naal commemorations. Interesting that US-NED & Verite are bothered to know how terrorists are commemorated. Do they cover commemorations of Al Qaeda & associates? This leads us to ask, who is commemorating whom post-LTTE defeat. What is this Maaveerar Naal & who is it for? Maaveerar Naal is an LTTE event that commemorates its dead. Wigneswaran says Tamil people have a right to commemorate Maaveerar Naal.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Sri Lanka’s Water should NOT be privatized
It is predicted that by 2025, over 5billion of the worlds population will not be able to access fresh drinking water. The population has hit 8billion already. 2025 is just 3 years away. Water is the oil of the future. Governments must realize that the flurry to privatize “water” is nothing but a devious means for multinational private companies to grab ownership of the water & place a price for its distribution. It has nothing to do with better management of water. Rather the water is going to be managed at a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
Totally Free Energy from Sky – an addendum
I write with respect to Dr. Obesekera's article that appeared a couple of days ago in this forum. He, perhaps presented a novel concept for capturing free solar energy by the fisher folk. This seems to be practical. However storing sufficient energy is the problem as the technology to convert that energy by way of liquid hydrogen may be too complicated. Batteries to store energy may not be affordable to fishermen. However there can be other forms of energy that humanity not yet thought about. The link below gives a glimpse to one of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
දේශපාලනඥයෙක් හිඟ මුදල් නොගෙවීම මත විදුලිය විසන්ධි කිරීමට ගිය ලංවිම සේවකයින්ට පහර දී රාජකාරියට බාධා කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි
ප්‍රවෘත්ති අධ්‍යක්ෂතුමා/ ප්‍රවෘත්ති කර්තෘතුමා,සියලූම ජනමාධ්‍යදේශපාලනඥයෙක් හිඟ මුදල් නොගෙවීම මත විදුලිය විසන්ධි කිරීමට ගිය ලංවිම සේවකයින්ට පහර දී රාජකාරියට බාධා කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයියහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ හිටපු අමාත්‍යවරයෙක් වන නවීන් දිසානායක මහතගේ නිවස පිහිටා ඇති කොළඹ 09, මැකාර්ති පෙදෙසේ 2022 නොවැම්බර් මස 23 දින විදුලි විසන්ධි කිරීම් රාජකාරි සිදු කළ ලංවිම සේවක කණ්ඩායම විසින් රු. 105,117. 00 ක හිඟ මුදලක් නොගෙවීම මත විදුලිය විසන්ධි කිරීම සඳහා අදාල පුද්ගලයාගේ පරිශ්‍රයට ඇතුලත් වී ඇත. ලංවිම විදුලි මනුව දක්වා පරිශ්‍රයට ඇතුළු වීමට මෙම ආයතනයේ සේවකයින්ට නෛතික බලයක් ඇති අතර ඒ සඳහා කිසිදු පූර්ව අනුමැතියක් අවශ්‍ය නොවේ. එවසේ ඇතුළු වූ ලංවිම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
අනපේක්ෂිතව හඹා ආ ව්‍යසන හා අර්බූදයන් මැද අකුරු කර, අපොස සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ ජයගත් දුවා දරුවන්ට සුබ පතමි.
නිර්දේශිත හෝ අපේක්ෂිත ඉලක්ක කරා ළඟා නොවු දුවා දරුවන්ගේ අවසන් අධ්‍යාපන කඩඉම මෙය නොවන බැවින් උත්සාහය හා අධිෂ්ඨානය මත ඇවැසි ඉලක්ක කරා ළඟා වීමට ශක්තිය ධෛර්යය පතමි.ජීවිතය ජයගත හැකි යහපත් මාර්ග ඔස්සේ ගමන් කරවීමට අප ඔබ පසුපස සිටිමු.දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධනඅග්‍රාමාත්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/11/22)
සජිතට සැප එයි.. සජිත් ඇමති කාලේ සංස්කෘතික අරමුදල වැනසූ හැටි සොයා පරීක්ෂණ…
මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ 2015 – 2019 අතර කාලයේදී රුපියල් කෝටි දහසකට වැඩි මුදලක් වියදම් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්වරයා විශේෂ පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වන බව පොදු ව්‍යාපාර පිළිබඳ පාර්ලිමේන්තු කාරක සභාවේදී (කෝප් කමිටුව) තොරතුරු අනාවරණය විය. මේ අතර පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට 2017 වර්ෂයේදී මුරකරුවන් 2250 දෙනකු බඳවා ගෙන ඇතැයි කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන්ද කමිටුවේ අවධානය යොමුවිය. පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ අනුමැතියකින් තොරව රුපියල් කෝටි සියයකට වැඩි මුදලක් ස්ථාවර තැන්පතු වලින් මුදා හැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්ද විශේෂ අවධානය යොමු වූ බව කෝප් කමිටුව පවසයි. පොදු ව්‍යාපාර පිළිබඳ පාර්ලිමේන්තු කාරක සභාව එහි සභාපති මහාචාර්ය රංජිත් බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
යහපාලන සමයේ සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ මුදල් ගිල්ල බහිරවයන් ගැන පරීක්ෂණයක්
2015 – 2019 යහපාලන සමයේදී මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ රුපියල් කෝටි 1000 වැඩි මුදලක් වියදම් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්වරයා විශේෂ පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වන බව වාර්තා වේ. පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට 2017 වර්ෂයේදී බදවාගැනීමේ ක්‍රමවේද අනුගමනය නොකරමින් මුරකරුවන් 2250 දෙනකු බඳවා ගෙන ඇතැයි කියන සිද්ධියක් ගැනද කෝප් කමිටුවේ අවධානය යොමුවී අති බව පැවසේ. මධ්‍යම සංස්කෘතික අරමුදලේ 2018-2019 අතර කාලයේදී ආදායම් උපයන ව්‍යාපෘතිවලට වඩා දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපෘති වෙනුවෙන් විශාල මුදලක් වැය කර ඇති බවටත් එහිදී තොරතුරු අනාවරණය වී තිබේ. පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ අනුමැතියකින් තොරව රුපියල් කෝටි සියයකට වැඩි මුදලක් ස්ථාවර තැන්පතු වලින් මුදා හැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
විශ්වවිද්‍යාල වලින් කල් ඉකුත්වූ සිසුන් පන්නන්න අලුත් පනතක් එයි
නියමිත කාලය තුළ විභාගවලට පෙනී නොසිට දීර්ඝ කාලයක් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවලට ඇතුළු වී නියමිත කාලය තුළ උපාධිය ලබා නොගන්නා ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවලින් ඉවත් කිරීමට අදාළ පනතක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙන ඒමට අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යංශය තීරණයකර තිබේ. විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවලට ඇතුළු වන ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යාවන් නියමිත කාලය තුළ විභාගවලට පෙනී සිට විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවලින් පිටව යා යුතු බවට නීතියක් දැනට පවතින විශ්වවිද්‍යාල කොමිෂන් සභා පනතේ සඳහන් නොවන නිසා මෙම තීරණය ගත් බව උසස් අධ්‍යාපන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සුරේන් රාඝවන් මහතා පවසයි. උපාධි කාලසීමාව ඉක්මවා විශ්වවිද්‍යාල නේවාසිකාගාරවල රැඳී සිටින ශිෂ්‍ය ශිෂ්‍යයාවන් කවුරුන් ද යන්න පිළිබඳව සංගණනයක් කිරීම සඳහා පියවර ගෙන ඇති බව ද ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
International Law Implications of Canadian Parliament’s Motion on ‘Tamil Genocide’
On 18 May 2022, the Canadian House of Commons adopted without opposition a motion introduced by Rep. Gary Anandasangaree recognising 18 May of each year as “Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day” (www.parliament.ca). This follows a Bill adopted by the Ontario legislature in May 2021 calling for the week following May 18th of each year to be celebrated as “Tamil Genocide education week.” However, the Ontario legislature is a provincial body and its actions do not carry the same weight as a national legislature. The fact that purported ‘Tamil genocide’ in Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
Sri Lanka to ban arriving air passengers from wearing more than 22-carat gold
The government has decided to enforce the law against the air passengers who smuggle in gold into Sri Lanka, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. Accordingly, air passengers will be banned from wearing gold jewellery valued more than 22 carats without the approval of the Controller General of Imports & Exports, the lawmaker said further. Meanwhile, Customs officials have been instructed to use special techniques to ascertain the condition and quantities of gold items. The gazette notification pertaining to this decision will be issued in the coming week, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
81st Madras-Colombo Rowing Regatta resumes after three-year hiatus
The 81st Madras-Colombo Rowing Regatta came was held today (November 26) at the Colombo Rowing Club. Considered to be the oldest boat race in the world between two cities in different countries, the event was inaugurated way back in 1898. The Madras Boat Club and the Colombo Rowing Club take turns in hosting the regatta every year. This year’s regatta, which resumed after a three-year hiatus due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, was graced by High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay, supported by the Indian CEO Forum. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
Tamil political parties agree on three steps to resolve issues in north & east
The political parties representing the Tamil community in the northern and eastern parts of the island have agreed on three preliminary steps to resolve the issues faced by the Tamil community. The meeting took place at the official residence of MP R. Sampanthan. During the discussion, the focus fell on several issues of the Tamil community and a final agreement was reached to propose three preliminary steps to President Ranil Wickremesinghe in order to resolve them. Speaking to the media in this regard, MP M.A. Sumanthiran said the first step... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
Stalin’s teachers don’t want to wear saree/osariya
On 21st November 2022 a handful of teachers & principals arrived wearing casual clothing instead of sarees. Ceylon Teachers Union (representing over 50,000 teachers) VP Rasika Handapangoda claims there have been social media campaigns encouraging teachers to replace the saree. This is a clue as to the mischief at play and provides answers to many doubts. Teachers have been wearing the saree/osariya since 1930s – why should it suddenly become a problem in 2022? Breakdown of discipline is dangerous to a country & has detrimental consequences – what if doctors or nurses decide... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
Where have all the Fish gone? Corporate Capture and Import Dependency Deepen the Debt trap
A great transformation in food culture and nutrition is taking place in Sri Lanka following various exogenous economic shocks: The traditional, nutritious ‘rice and fish’ diet, common throughout coastal Asia is increasingly substituted with imported maize or corn-fed chicken, white wheat flour breads, instant noodles and processed food. For the first time in history the humble fish lunch packet was more expensive than a chicken lunch pack in this island at the center of the Indian Ocean! So too, the nutritious local Jack fruit, Polos and cashew nut curry, high protein staples for vegetarians,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
Specter of Federalism
It is reported that the President has invited all party leaders to discuss after the ongoing Budget debate, the problems of minorities. This discussion is likely to focus on devolution of power where the Tamil parties will demand a federal constitution. In fact, TNA MP Sumanthiran who is a prime mover for a federal structure has said that there are 48 countries in the world with Federal Constitutions. According to Google there are 27 federations in the world, with 6 of them in each of Africa, Asia and Europe, 4 in North America, 3 in South... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
අධිරාජ්‍ය විරෝදී කැරලි වලට නායකත්වය දුන් නිසා අක්කර ලක්ෂ දහතුන් දහසක ඉඩම් විහාරස්ථානවලට අහිමි වුනා.-අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා
විහාරස්ථාන දහ හතරක් පුජා භූමි ලෙස ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කළ ඊට අදාල සන්නස්පත්‍ර ප්‍රදානය කිරීම අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 2022.11.25 දින අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේදී අද සිදුකෙරිණි. රත්නපුර කූරගල රජමහා විහාරය, කුරුණෑගල නිකසලා නුවර රජමහා විහාරය, මැද්දේපොල රජමහා විහාරය, බිංගිරිය දේවගිරි රජමහා විහාරය, කොටහේන පරමානන්ද පුරාණ විහාරය, කෑගල්ල මාම්පිට ගල්ලෙන් රජමහ විහාරය, අම්පාර මගුල් මහා විහාරය, පියංගල රජමහා විහාරය, මාතර කොළවෙනිගම රජමහා විහාරය, ත්‍රිකුණාමලය ඇතානැගි කන්ද පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරය, බඹරගල ආරණ්‍ය සේනාසනය, සංඛමලේ රජමහා විහාරය, ත්‍රිකුණාමලය ආසිරිකන්ද රජමහා විහාරය, ත්‍රිකුණාමලය නාගලෙන රජමහා විහාරය පූජාභූමි සන්නස්පත්‍ර ප්‍රදානය කිරීම අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අතින් සිදුකෙරිණි. එහිදී අදහස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/11/22)
ජපානය ශ්‍රි ලංකාවේ නව ආයෝජන ක්ෂේත්‍ර ගවේෂණය කරයි...
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ සිදුකළ හැකි නව ආයෝජන පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කිරීම සඳහා ජපානයේ ඉහළ පෙළේ ව්‍යවසායකයින් පිරිසක් 2022.11.24 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. එම දූත පිරිසට ජපානයේ රාජකීය පවුලේ සාමාජිකාවක් සහ තෝක්යෝ මෙට්‍රොපොලිටන් කවුන්සිලයේ හිටපු සාමාජිකාවක් වන සයිගෝ අයුමි මහත්මිය සහ දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසු සුප්‍රසිද්ධ සැන් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්කෝ සමුළුවේදී හිටපු ජනාධිපති ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතා ජපානයට ලබා දුන් සහයෝගය වෙනුවෙන් එතුමාට කෘතවේදීත්වය දැක්වීම සඳහා ජපානයේ ස්මාරකයක් ඉදිකරන ලද ව්‍යවසායක පවුලට අයත් කමිසකමොතෝ යූජි සහ කමිසකාමොතෝ හිසාකෝ මහත්මිය ඇතුළත් විය. ජපානය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදුන් සහය පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී ස්තූතිය පළ කළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Electric War
Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage – later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII – unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American “intelligence”. Such tawdriness was compounded by a ridiculous cover-up: the Ukrainians were firing on Russian missiles from a direction that they could not possibly be coming from. That is: Poland. And then the U.S. Secretary of Defense, weapons peddler Lloyd “Raytheon”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Putin's Sledgehammer
“The Ukrainians are in bad shape… It won’t be long before the Ukrainians run out of food. It won’t be long before they freeze… They have done all that we can reasonably expect them to do. It’s time to negotiate…. before the offensive begins, because once it begins, there will be no further discussion between Moscow and Kiev until it is over to the satisfaction of the Russians.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor, “War in Ukraine; Quiet Before the Storm”, 15 minute-mark “Strictly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet.” Russian President Vladimir Putin The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
The Richest Man in the World
The purpose of this essay is threefold: (1) to bring to the attention of readers the existence of a long-standing conspiracy about the identification of “The Richest Man in the World”, (2) to dismiss from contention the current list of candidates, and (3) to document that a small number of Jewish banking families operating out of the City of London have for generations held these wealth records with fortunes that are orders of magnitude above anything we might have imagined. I will address these points in reverse order, and deal with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Sri Lankan parliament green lights high defense expenditure
Colombo, November 25 (Counterpoint): Despite criticisms both inside and outside the House, the Sri Lankan parliament on Thursday passed a high defense and national security budget amounting to US$ 1.46 billion for 2023. It was passed by a majority of 81 votes, with 91 MPs voting in favor and 10 voting against. President Wickremesinghe, who is also Finance and Defense Minister, had allocated 539 billion rupees (US$ 1.46 billion) for both defense and public security while allocating 322 billion rupees (US$ 868 million) for health and 232 billion (US$ 629 million)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Sri Lanka-based FitsAir eyes services to key south Indian cities next year
FitsAir — a Sri Lankan based private airline — is looking at possibilities to operate services from Colombo to key destinations in south India by the end of 2023, the airlines vice-president (Passenger) Peter Murray Hill said here on Friday. The airline has narrowed down on five destinations - Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Coimbatore, Kochi and Madurai to expand its operations in south India next year, Mr. Peter Hill told reporters here. Mr. Peter Hill was in Tiruchi to announce the launch of the airline’s direct flight services from Colombo to Tiruchi and back. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
"කබ්‍රාල්ගෙන් නන්දලාල්ට පිළිතුරු - කමෙන්ට්ස් කියවන්න කලින් පොත කියවන්න
උද්ධමනය ස්ථාවර මට්ටමක් දක්වා ළඟා කරගැනීම එකවර සිදු නොවන බවත් ඒ සඳහා තවත් වසර එක හමාරක පමණ කාලයක් ගතවනු ඇති බවත් මහ බැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ පවසනවා. https://youtu.be/71PeniBm9-o මේ අතර මහබැංකු අධිපතිවරයා ඊයේ සිදුකළ චෝදනාවක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් අද ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්වූවා. තම කෘතිය නොකියවා ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් පළ නොකරන ලෙසත්, සියල්ලටම පෙර කමෙන්ට් නොකියවා පොත කියවන ලෙසත් හිටපු මහබැංකු අධිපතිවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කළා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Chinese cruise ships to visit Sri Lanka after travel restrictions relaxed
The Sri Lanka Embassy in Beijing says that it is actively exploring the possibility of Chinese cruise ships and yachts visiting Sri Lanka with a view to attracting more Chinese tourists to the island nation. Sri Lankan Ambassador, Dr. Palitha Kohona has had a very successful virtual meeting with the Vice President of the China Cruise and Yacht Industry Association (CCYIA), Zheng Weihang, on 23 November 2022. Vice President Zheng said that Sri Lanka will be promoted as a new market for Chinese cruise ships. On 15 November, he had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
China assures continued support for Sri Lanka Diesel consignment donated by China to reach Colombo tomorrow UK contributes £880,000 to help marginal fishers in Sri Lanka Court dismisses private plaint against two cops for blocking protest ලාභ ලබන ආයතන විකුනා පාඩු ලබන ආයත තබාගැනීම ව්‍යාපාර කළමනාකරණ පාසල (BMS) සහ නෝතම්බ්‍රියා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් ශ්‍රි ලංකාවට ඒකාබද්ධ හෙද පාසලක්... Significance of Bangladesh PM's upcoming Japan visit Q & A session 2 - භාහිර ලෝකය හා තුන් ලෝකය Will never allow violence and anarchy to prevail under the guise of human rights - President Prez gets tough with anti-govt. protesters, issues dire warning President participates in 55th D.A. Rajapaksa Commemoration Lecture Bangladesh seeks direct shipping connectivity, preferential trade agreement with Sri Lanka Comments on Budget 2023 සුභසාධක ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීම් ලැබීම් පිණිස සුදුසු තැනැත්තන් හඳුනා හඳුනාගැනීමේ ක්ෂේත්‍ර සමීක්ෂණයේ ගැටළු විසඳන තෙක් තාවකාලිකව ඉවත් වීම. පොදු රාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය චෙස් ශූරතා සම්මාන හා තිළිණ ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් මෙරට විදේශ විනිමය ඉපැයීමේ අලුත්ම දොරටුව ධීවර කර්මාන්තය Experiences of Rachel Dennis from UK at the Foundation for Goodness in Seenigama, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka President to convene all-party meet on Tamil minority issues Economic collapse. Mahinda Rajapaksa blames ‘foreign forces’ for Sri Lanka’s crisis Sri Lanka Bonds Gain as Fiscal Reforms Boost IMF Deal Optimism රටේ මූල්‍ය ස්ථාවරය ඇති කිරීමට නව වැඩපිළිවෙලක් - ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හිඟාකන රටක් බවට පත් කරන්නේ නැහැ කොක්කෙන් හරි කෙක්කෙන් හරි ඊළඟ අරගලය නවත්වනවා! හදිසි නීතිය වුණත් දාන්න පසුබට වෙන්නෙ නෑ! - ජනපතිගෙන් මැති සබයේ සැර කතාවක් (වීඩියෝ) Great Development Programmes that show us the way out of the economic meltdown: Dollar Crisis, attacking Undiyal and other monetary Issues බෙදුම්වාදීන්ට තුවක්කුවෙන් කළ නොහැකි වූ අධිකරණ භාෂා නීති අධ්‍යාපන අයිතිය අහිමි කිරීම අධිකරණ ඇමති - අගවිනිසුරු ඇතුලු සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්‍යාපන සභාව ගැසට් පත්‍රයකින් කළේ ඇයි? Totally Free Energy from Sky Saree Bangladesh tackling KNF's separatism and terrorism in CHT for promoting peace දරදඬු ආර්ථික න්‍යායන් වල සිට හැමදේම රජයෙන් කරන්නට ඕනේ කියලා දැන් හිතන්න බැහැ. -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා Fighting a War on the Wrong Planet Sri Lankan ministers sacked by party ahead of crucial budget vote in parliament As the economy nosedives, human trafficking resumes in Negombo Sri Lanka’s ‘IMF-friendly’ budget 2023 gains parliamentary nod "I never left the people " - Mahinda Rajapaksa International force behind SL’s economy: MR Myanmar donates medicines and medical supplies worth over USD 1.48 Mn to Sri Lanka Disciplinary action against teachers who attended school in casual attire? Bill to limit candidates’ election campaign spending to be gazetted REVISITING EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’. Part 3 සත්‍ය ධර්මයේ විශ්වීය ස්වාභාවය (universality of truth) Sri Lanka proposes to set up a group of Eminent Persons to galvanize greater political will to combat terrorist financing Who sold urea plant? Wajira ducks Vasu’s question Economic crisis and the Blame Game Moving on with Hydrogen IS A MANDATORY SCHOOL UNIFORM A BANE OR A BOON? Green Hydrogen by Green Man කාලාම සූත්‍රය තුල ප්‍රකටවන නාම-රෑප පරිච්ඡේදය සිංහල ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් ලංකාවට ඩොලර් ගේන්නෙ නැත්තේ ඇයි? රජයේ දේපල දෙමළ ඩයස්ෆෝරාවේ අතට යන්නේ ඇයි? Whither research (institutes)? Myanmar presents opportunities to a growing Bangladeshi medicine industry Ranil likely to go for presidential poll first – sources රටේ ණය අර්බුදයට හේතුව ස්වෛරීත්ව බැඳුම්කර ණයයි - මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් "මෙන්න රටට වෙච්ච හරිය" "ඒ මිනිහාට තමයි ගහලා පන්න ගත්තේ" - මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් CID arrests two women for defrauding Rs. 120 million from Sri Lankan in Norway Sri Lanka to lift ban on Glyphosate after 07 years REVISITING EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’ Pt 2 REVISITING EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’. Part 1 The National List and several other improper Parliamentary Electoral Systems must be abolished Keen To Solve Tamil Community Problems In Sri Lanka By Next Year: President Wickremesinghe Battle of Pooneryn Eight committees to be appointed at provincial level to resolve land issues Initial steps taken through budget to strengthen economy under five-year plan: President Sri Lanka receives another rice donation from China Finance State Minister’s clarification regarding CESS tax on stationery items Where is the Report of the Experts' Committee on the new Constitution or the draft Constitution submitted by them to the President? Economic Update: Nomi Prins on the Distorted US Financial System NEW UK PRIME MINISTER - RISHI SUNAK භාහිරය අසත්‍යයක් බොරැවක් වන කල රෑප කොයින්ද? වගා කරන්න කියලා අපේ ආණ්ඩුව හදිසියේ නීති රීති පනවන්නේ නැහැ. සියලු දෙනා සාමූහිකව වගා කරන්න එකතු වෙන්න.. - අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන ණයට අරගෙන සැපට කකා පෙරටම… Pakistan, Lanka vow to boost defence and military ties World Bank eyes huge offshore wind potential in Sri Lanka Can the IMF Alone Deliver? Sri Lanka in talks for USD 1 Bn “debt-for-nature” swap deal: report CID probing ‘auctioning’ of Sri Lankan female domestic workers in Oman Investment agreement inked to develop water sports, entertainment zone at Lotus Tower Reason for crisis is focusing only on policies, not on results - President Bullying and ragging: Is there no end to it? The budget ignored North and East IN QUEST OF TRADE AND CONNECTIVITY ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුරක්ෂිතතා හා සෞඛ්‍ය ආයතනය වරලත් ආයතනයක් බවට පත් කිරීමට අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාරගෙන් තීරණයක් Prepping for a China War: The United States and the New Arc of Militarization Across Northern Australia Attack of the Ekonomik Killers! The Empire Demands: Pick a Side! මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ කබ්රාල්ගේ වාර්තාව නන්දලාල් කඩයි.. ණයත් නොගෙවා මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීම පුදුමයක්.. Wasantha Mudalige and Galwewa Siridhamma Thera remanded indefinitely Govt. placing Mahaweli lands under Divisional Secretaries: SLPP rebels see sinister move CDB delegation on visit to Sri Lanka, discusses debt-related issues CBSL Governor expects inflation to reach 4-5% by end of next year Arjuna ordered to pay Rs. 25 Mn in compensation to Thilanga Discussion with World Bank representatives on future development plans of Sri Lanka ‘Genius’ 10-year-old school girl of Sri Lankan origin is smarter than Einstein මිනිස් ජාවාරම්කරුවන් සොයා දීප ව්‍යාප්ත වැටලීම් - වරදකරුවන්ට තරාතිරම නොබලා දඩුවම් රාජ්‍ය කළමණාකාර සේවා චක්‍රලේඛණනයට අනුගතව ශ්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ වැටුප් සංශෝධනය විධිමත්ව සිදුකරන්න අයවැයේ එක් යෝජනාවකින් ගොවි ජනතාවගේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය, රටේ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාව හා ඒකීයභාවය මුළුමනින්ම අහෝසි කිරීමේ වෑයමක් – චන්න ජයසුමන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී හෙළි කරයි (වීඩියෝ) Rajiv Gandhi case: Released Sri Lankan nationals to be deported China asks PM to introduce legal reforms to clear way for investment Banking cooperation launched between SL & Russia for tourists CBSL governor says construction sector will see growth after economy recovers President instructs to expeditiously implement Singapore-Sri Lanka FTA BOOKER PRIZE AND DISSECTING “SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA”- PART II- “SECOND MOON” ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසය විකෘති කිරීම් (3 වන කොටස) AVOID JUST FALLING INTO ALLURING WEEKEND FAMILY PACKAGES. ‘LOGISTICS AND SHIPPING INDUSTRIES MUST BE LIBERALISED’ Thilan’s Speech is One of the Best on Economics If Reasons Were Included Hiru TV Salakuna Live | Wimal Weerawansa | EP 361 | 2022-11-14 SCOTT RITTER: DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE. UKRAINE CAN’T WIN THIS WAR. USA’s Military Empire: A Visual Database Q & A - ධර්මයේ හමුවන භාහිර ලෝකය හා තුන් ලෝකය -කීප දෙනෙක් ඇසූ ප්‍රශ්න හා පිලිතුරැ ශ්‍රීපාද වන්දනා සමයට අවශ්‍ය යටිතල පහසුකම් - සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදින් අල්ලගත් ඉඩම් නැවත ජනතාවට Venezuela Rejects ‘Biased’ Decision to Resume ICC Probe into Alleged Human Rights Abuses Unity against fake news ප්‍රාදේශීය විගණන ඒකකවලට අනුයුක්ත විගණන සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් විගණන ඒකකවලින් ඉවත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි Blue Economy neglected but the Canabis promoted Lanka to learn from China new ways to increase rice production 'Not happy at present.. release my husband': Nalini Sriharan requests TN, centre Britain to send Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Rwanda for medical treatment Sri Lanka govt takes over $1.7bn in debt owed to China හිටපු ජනපති ගෝඨාභය ඝාතන සැලැස්මක් ගැන විමල්ගෙන් හෙළිදරව්වක් ගෝටාභය කළු සල්ලිකාරයන්ට ගොදුරු වූ හැටි විජේදාස හෙලි කරයි.. Why civil society is in error CEO makes shocking revelation: 50% of factories are closed- If Islamic extremist teachings removed from textbooks, why not distributing them? Minister Govt. has unpaid bills of about Rs. 200 billion - Finance Secretary Sri Lanka avoided ‘crash landing’ of its economy - CBSL Governor ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසය විකෘති කිරීම් (2වන කොටස) Olcotte Oration 2022 - Key Note Speech | Mr.Thilan Wijesinghe | Sri Lanka Economic Situation රටක බඩගින්න නිවන්න සියලු දෙනා මැදිහත් වෙන්න අවශ්‍යම වෙලාවක්. ඒකට කැපවෙන්න මේ මහපොළොව සූදානම්... - අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා. Who and where is Nalini Sriharan’s daughter Harithra? Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict claims innocence after release Four freed convicts of Rajiv case detained at Tiruchy camp UNP to take action against its member who protested in front of Chinese Embassy Plight and Prospects of our Public Service. “SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA” BY SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA. රටක් විදියට අපේ බලාපොරොත්තුව විදෙස් රැකියා සදහා වෘත්තිකයන් යොමු කිරීම මිස තවදුරටත් ගෘහ සේවය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම නෙවෙයි-ඇමැති මනුෂ සෞදියේ දී HighCommissioner Moragoda meets Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to review the status of the bilateral relations ඩයනා ගමගේ ගේ මන්ත්රී ධූරය අහෝසි කරන්නට නඩු දාන්නේ නැත්තේ ඇයි? ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසය විකෘති කිරීම් (1වන කොටස) ආයුර්වේදය ලොව පුරා ව්‍යාප්ත කළ යුතු බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි Ambassador of Sri Lanka symbolically receives donations from Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand පොහොර තහනමේ අභිරහස… Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Nalini Sriharan released from jail, may move to London Reviewing Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy IMF China and debt-trap Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) raises alarm over Indian investments in strategic locations ’’Among Economic Killers’’, Cabraal releases his book for a price Committee to be appointed to formulate national policies related to food security India’s NIA files charges against three LTTE supporters ජාත්‍යන්තර සහයෝගීතාව සඳහා වූ රුසියානු දූත පිරිස හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා අතර හමුවක්. Need to expedite construction of East Container Terminal in Colombo Port CID to investigate complaints filed on ragging incidents Maiden export of 12,500kg sour bananas(Plantains) to Dubai on Nov. 26 2023 budget compiled within IMF economic framework: President US Treasury designates Sri Lanka-based business partner of al-Qa’ida financial facilitator Agreement on debt restructuring expected by December - President Great Development Programmes that show us the way out of the economic meltdown . The Comilla Programme of Rural Development Philip. Colvin, NM , Dr Wicks My recollections සිංහළ රාජ්‍ය භාශාව කිරීමේදී දෙමළ ජනයාට විශේශිතව අබමල් රේණුවක අසාධාරණයක් සිදුවූවාද? High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi celebrates Diwali felicitating long-serving staff members ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට සෞදි අරාබියේ ඉදිකිරීම් - සෞඛ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රවල රැකියා අවස්ථා ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ගේ වැටුප් ඉහළ දැමීමට අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගැනීමටත් කමිටුවක් Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff NOAM CHOMSKY: UKRAINE, CLIMATE CRISIS, AND DECLINING EMPIRE "ප්‍රභාගේ උපතේ සිට මරණය දක්වා විශේෂ අනාවරණයක්" - ප්‍රභාගේ පවුල ලඟින්ම ඇසුරු කළ වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් හෙළිකරයි Mobilising Youth for Preventing Violent Extremism Adani Group to become the first Indian port operator in Sri Lanka Muditha (sympathetic joy) in Buddhism Justice Minister irked by delay in addressing privilege issue, contempt of court matter -endorses President’s criticism of Parliament Sri Lanka’s economy showing signs of stability - CBSL Catholic priest remanded over alleged Rs.8 million fraud 81 drug-addicted schoolchildren referred to rehabilitation within nine months: Minister “Hospitality doesn’t die just because inflation is high” - Harin Regulating of Int’l schools will begin next year Govt to recover loss of Rs. 16 Bn incurred from tax cut on imported sugar CEB maps out plan to add 2,800+ MW of renewable energy to national grid 13 opposition MPs to cross over to the govt? Will a Boralugoda Viraya come to allay the economic meltdown Buddhism stands for universal compassion for all living beings ( all species) and not for selective compassion for only one species i.e. human beings Myanmar-Bangladesh’s growing trade and business ties in 2022 Year Why does Myanmar, Bangladesh pursue military diplomacy? UN warns of worsening food crisis in Sri Lanka amid economic woes How a Sri Lanka cricket star accused of raping date was trying to live a 'playboy lifestyle' .... without the talent to match - as he trades lavish Sydney hotel for prison cell India pushes Rupee trade beyond Russia. President’s vision for the country includes measures exceeding IMF/WB stipulations – Sagala Ratnayake WB Country Director amazed by President Ranil’s vision and action policy - Sagala Developing countries worst affected by rising emissions from industrialized world and must be compensated - President at COP27 China reiterates continued assistance for Sri Lanka’s economic recovery Practical solutions to protect your land from fraud in Sri Lanka සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්‍යාපනය සහ නීති විභාග පැවැත්වීම වළක්වා ඇති අලි සබ්‍රිගේ ගැසට් පත්‍රයට එරෙහිව ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිට කළ ඉල්ලීමට අනුව ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශයට යොමු කළ ලිපියට කුමක් වීද? A bust of Sir D.B. Jayatilaka, first Representative of Sri Lanka to India unveiled at the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi ආර්ථිකයට විලාප නැගීමට සැලැස්වීම : ආසියාවේ සියවස තල්ලුවෙමින් ඇත්තේ දෙමුහුන් යුද සමයකටද? If Danushka proven guilty, he must settle all expenses incurred by SLC: Ministry Secretary 100 Years of the BBC & Fascism ප්‍රියමාලි නළු නිළියන් සියයකට සල්ලි බෙදූ හැටි.. සේමිණී රහස් පොලිසියේ හෙලිකල රහස් මෙන්න.. What is True Humanity? FAST ACTION NEEDED TO GENERATE MUCH NEEDED FOREIGN RESERVES The NM I knew. We need him right now Food security during economic insecurity and instability Frying pan to fire Abby Martin’s Speech on US Sanctions & Economic Gangsterism A case for Sri Lanka's Samurdhi Banking system යෝජිත විදේශ ආයෝජන ව්‍යාපෘති කඩිනමින් අනුමත කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය නව සංශෝධන හඳුන්වා දෙනවා--අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන Ambassador of Sri Lanka symbolically receives donations from Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand වෛද්‍ය පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයේ මන්කිෆොක් රෝගියාගේ නිදර්ශකය තවදුරටත් තහවුරු කල යුතුය Met police say Sri Lankan suspect ‘released’ but still under investigation President to swear in a few more Cabinet ministers Navy seizes two poaching trawlers and 15 Indian fishermen in Sri Lanka waters Iran donates essential medicines and medical supplies to Sri Lanka Xi Jinping vows greater access to Chinese market Sri Lanka receives another 500 MT of rice from China Hotline is introduced for the Public to lodge complaints in all three languages against bribery and corruption Sri Lanka's gross official reserves at USD 1.8 billion Earnings from tourism for January -October 2022 surpass USD 1 billion Amaradeva: a name for everything that is our little island AMARADEVA: THE VOICE OF OUR NATION Towards a peaceful and inclusive European Union Christian-Hindu-Buddhist leaders seek apology from Taylor Swift for trivializing “karma” Germany’s Position in America’s New World Order ධර්මයේ හමුවන භාහිර ලෝකය හා තුන් ලෝකය ධීවර කර්මාන්තයේ පළපුරුද්දක් ඇති ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට කොරියාවේ රැකියා අවස්ථා ලබාදීමට සාකච්ඡා - අවභෝධතා ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කිරීමටත් අවධානය මාධ්‍ය මගින් පෙන්වන තරම් අයහපත් වාතාවරණයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නොමැති බැවින් ලෝකයේ පවතින තත්වය අනුව සංචාරය කලයුතු පළමු රට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ජපන් භාෂා පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් සීතාවකට. ගම්පහ දුම්රිය ස්ථානයේ නව වැසිකිළික් ඉදිකිරීම පිටුපස මුදල් වංචාවක් ව්‍යාපෘතිය වහාම නතර කරන්න. Azur Air, Swiss and Air France to resume flights to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka announces “FIFA Fan Zone” targeting football fans visiting Qatar Indian envoy and Lankan culture minister discuss key Indian-aided projects China lets down Colombo in securing $2.9 billion IMF loan in December Two Russian warships enter territorial waters of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Heading for Another Turbulence as it Fails to Secure $2.9 Billion IMF Loan, Courtesy China Qatar Fund for Development sends 4.7 tons of urgent medical aid to Sri Lanka Putin orders to increase flights between Russia and ‘friendly’ states WHAT’S THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF RISHI SUNAK? COULD HE SAVE UNITED KINGDOM’S DETERIORATING THE ECONOMIC POWER AFTER THE BREXIT? කඳුරටේ සම්භවයක් ඇති දෙමල මිනිසුන්ගේ තත්වය නගා සිටුවීම සඳහා කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීරණය කරයි (ප්‍රවෘතියක්) Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse on November 8th at moonrise නොවැම්බර් 8 දා බීවර් රුධිර චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් Why some segments of society are good at doing business? Press Emblem Campaig (PEC) urges to end impunity to crimes against journalists ෂෙහාන් කරුණාතිලක බුකර් සම්මානය දින්නේ මගේ කතාවක් හොරකම් කරලා..- රාජ්පාල් අබේනායක Sri Lanka inflation slows for first time in year in October Sajith leaves anti govt. protest amidst displeasure from protestors විපක්ෂයේ පාගමන කොළඹට - "අරගලයේ විරෝධයට පොලිසියෙන් වැට - විරෝධයට ආ සජිත් ඇතුලු පිරිසකට හූවක් SRI LANKA NEEDS A NEW FAMILY FOR POLITICAL LEADERSHIP National Council ජන සභා සංකල්පය, පන්සල හා පොලිසිය - part -3 හෙට දිනයේදී උද්ඝෝෂණයට එන්නේ කවුද? කාගේ උවමනාවටද මිනිස්සු පාරට බහින්නේ - අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර ප්‍රශ්න කරයි රුපියල බාල්දු වී ජීවන වියදම දරාගත නොහැකි ලෙස ඉහළ ගොස් ඇතැයි සියලු දෙනා පිළිගත යුතුය Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide: Dr. Naomi Wolf on the Pfizer “Confidential Report” 'It's done': Liz Truss 'message' to Blinken over Nord Stream attack Sri Lanka Can’t Afford Enough Fuel Imports, Energy Minister Says Fourteen under arrest over death of assaulted cop in Kebithigollewa Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment questions the purpose of the protest, planned tomorrow Business chambers urge all parties to call off protests planned for Nov. 02 Ven. Borella Sirisumana Thero arrested over probe into Thilini Priyamali China donates over 10 Mn litres of diesel to Sri Lanka; shipment scheduled in Nov. Malaysia donates urgently required medical supplies to Sri Lanka FOR LEANER, MORE ROBUST, EFFICIENT AND GREENER PUBLIC SERVICE
Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong today assured President Ranil Wickremesinghe that China would continue to extend its support to overcome the current challenges faced by Sri Lanka. https://youtu.be/_CnD_PysrEk They reviewed the progressive bilateral & multilateral negotiation on the debt issue of Sri Lanka and denounced misinformation by foreign media on (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
A total of 10.6 million litres (9,000 metric tonnes) of diesel donated by China to Sri Lanka is scheduled to reach the island nation tomorrow (Nov. 26), the Embassy of China in Colombo said in a tweet. Oil tanker “Super Eastern” carrying the diesel consignment has left Singapore and it will berth at the Colombo Port tomorrow. https://youtu.be/P7m7Y2p81L4 This diesel consignment will be distributed among farmers and fishermen in remote areas of the island to upgrade the livelihood of the most-affected sectors of agriculture and fishery. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
The United Kingdom, through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is providing GBP 880,000 (USD 1,043,395) to strengthen the food and nutrition security of marginal fishers in Tangalle, Negombo, Colombo, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Puttalam, Chilaw, and Mannar of Sri Lanka. https://youtu.be/qj79WyG-GV8 In light of World Fisheries Day (November 21) being celebrated this week, the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Sarah Hulton OBE announced the support stating “We recognize that the fisheries sector in Sri Lanka has been going through a very difficult period. The UK... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
A private plaint filed against Colombo SSP Roshan Dias and ASP Nalin Dilruk, for allegedly blocking a peaceful protest on October 10, was dismissed by Colombo Fort Magistrate today. The complainant accused the two police officers of putting up barricades to block the demonstration. The private plaint, filed by media activist Tharindu Jayawardena, was called before Magistrate Thilina Gamage this morning. https://youtu.be/6mOXKJUoDRw On November 08, appearing on behalf of the Attorney General, State Counsel Shaminda Wickrema raised strong objections to the private plaint. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
ලාභ ලබන ආයතන විකුනා පාඩු ලබන ආයත තබාගැනීම කිරි එළදෙන විකුනා කිරිනැති එළදෙන පුන්නක්කු දීලා, නාව නාවා, කිනිතුල්ලෝ කඩ කඩා තියගන්නවා වගේ වැඩක්. එහෙමත් නැතිනම් රන්බිජු දාන කිකිළිය විකුනා බිජු නොදමන කිකිළියක් තියාගන්නව වගෙ වැඩක්. මේ අයවැය ලේඛනය පසුපස ඇති මූලික දේශපාලන, ආර්ථික හා සමාජ දර්ශනයම සාවද්‍යයි. දැනට පාර්ලිමේතුවට ඉදිරිපත්කොට ඇති අය වැය යෝජනා ක්‍රියාත්මකකළහොත් රටේ පවතිනකඩා වැටී ඇති ආර්ථික තත්වයෙන් ගොඩ ඒමට 2026 දී හැකි වෙතැයිද 2048 දී සන්වර්ධිත රටක් කළහැකි වේයයිද මුදල් ඇමතිවරයා ප්‍රකාශකොට තිබීමෙන්ම මේ සමස්ථ යෝජනා වලිය මනා සැළසුමකින් හා දර්ශනයකින් තොර ලෝක විහිළුවක් ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
ව්‍යාපාර කළමනාකරණ පාසල සහ එහි බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය පාර්ශවකරුවා වන නෝතම්බ්‍රියා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලීය ප්‍රචලිත කිරීමේ සැලසුම් යටතේ හෙද පාසලක් ස්ථාපනය කරන ලෙස අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. නෝතම්බ්‍රියා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ නියෝජ්‍ය උපකුලපති මහාචාර්ය ජොන් රීස්ට් සහ ව්‍යාපාර කළමනාකරණ පාසලේ සභාපති ආචාර්ය ඩබ්ලිව්. ඒ. විජේවර්ධන යන මහත්වරුන් 2022.11.24 දින කොළඹ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා හමුවිය. ව්‍යාපාර සහ ආර්ථික ක්ෂේත්රයේ උපාධිධාරීන් අන්තර්ජාතික මෙන්ම දේශීය රැකියා සඳහා අවශ්‍ය සුදුසුකම්වලින් සන්නද්ධ කිරීමටත් ඔවුන්ගේ කුසලතා වැඩි දියුණු කිරීම සඳහාත් විශේෂිත අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන් දියත් කරන ලෙසද අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙහිදී යෝජනා කළ අතර දේශීය හා විදේශීය රැකියා ඉල්ලීම් සපුරාලීම සඳහා ආර්ථික විද්‍යාව, මූල්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
On February 10, 2022, marked 50 years of diplomatic ties between Bangladesh and Japan. The recognition of Bangladesh on February 10, 1972, marked the beginning of Japan's cordial state relations with Bangladesh, but they actually started almost a century before. Before Bangladesh became an independent nation, Japan maintained excellent relations with the Bengalis. This region of India used to send a lot of individuals to Japan for technical education, and the practice is still present now. Even throughout Bangladesh's liberation conflict, Japan's cordial demeanor was tremendously beneficial. The Japanese students supported... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Q: බාහිර ලෝකයක් ඇත හෝ නැත යන අන්තවලට මම එකඟ නැත. A: බුද්ධදේශනයේ වැදගත්ම සූත්‍රයක්වන මහාසතිපට්ඨාන සූත්‍රයේ කායානුපස්සනාවේ මෙසේ සඳහන් වෙයි (කායානුපස්සනාව තුල ඇති 'පබ්බං 6ම' රෑපය අරෑපයෙන් (නාමයෙන්) වෙන්කරන ක්‍රම 6 කි) : 'අජ්ඣත්තං වා කායෙ කායානුපස්සී විහරති, බහිද්ධා වා කායෙ කායානුපස්සී විහරති, අජ්ඣත්තබහිද්ධා වා කායෙ කායානුපස්සී විහරති' යන්න විමසා බැලීම වටී. අජ්ඣත්තං කායෙ -අභ්‍යන්තරකාය යනු සිතතුල උපාදානවන ශරීරයයි. බහිද්ධා කායෙ -බාහිර ලෝකයේ ඇති රෑප ශරීරයයි අජ්ඣත්තබහිද්ධා කායෙ -බාහිර ලෝකයෙ ඇති රෑප කාය අභ්‍යන්තරයේ ඇතිවන නාම කාය සමග ගැටගැසීමෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Those who cause violence in the name of human rights cannot be protected ; President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that he will never allow violence and anarchy to prevail under the guise of human rights, adding that if any party engages in such an attempt, the security forces will be used to suppress it completely. Under such circumstances, the President emphasised that everyone from the lower officer of the army to the rank of field marshal is obligated to fulfil their responsibility. President Ranil Wickremesinghe said this delivering a special statement in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday announced in Parliament a moratorium on public protests and vowed to use the military to crush any future anti-government protests aimed at regime change. “They can call me a dictator. They must obtain police permission to stage street protests and not cause traffic chaos. There is a plan to stage another Aragalaya (mass public protest) to oust the government. I will not allow that. I will deploy the military and use emergency laws to stop them if they try it again”, Wickremesinghe said. The President also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
A special commemoration lecture to mark the 55th death anniversary of late D.A. Rajapaksa was held this afternoon (24) under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Nawarangahala in Colombo. This ceremony was organised by the Rajapaksa Memorial Educational, Cultural and Social Services Foundation, and was presided over by the Venerable Anunayake of the Sri Lanka Ramanya Maha Nikaya, Head of the Minuwangoda Patthaduvana Bhikshu Training Institute Venerable Nadagamuwe Vijaya Maitri Thero. Professor Samitha Hettige of the University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia delivered the keynote address on “The Belt – Road:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
Bangladesh has stressed on direct shipping connectivity with Sri Lanka and the resumption of negotiations for early conclusion of preferential trade agreement (PTA) between the two countries. Foreign Minister Dr A.K. Abdul Momen met his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry on Wednesday evening, on the eve of the 22nd Ministerial Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). The two foreign ministers discussed the wide spectrum of bilateral relations and expressed hope to work closely for their countries and inclusive development of the region. Momen requested to boost trade relations between... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/11/22)
In his budget speech the President asked the rhetorical question Where did we go wrong? How did we go wrong? The answer which is obvious seems to be still evading the President and present policy makers which has not identified the real the problem. In common parlance it is the dearth of dollars arising from the persistent adverse trade balance and balance of payments and the propensity of governments to resort to heavy borrowing and falling into a debt trap. The ordeal became unbearable with the drying up of the income from services from repatriation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
ලේකම්,රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන ස්වදේශ කටයුතු පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්‍යංශය,නිදහස් චතුරස්‍රයකොළඹ - 07.ලේකම් තුමනි,සුභසාධක ප්‍රතිලාභ ගෙවීම් ලැබීම් පිණිස සුදුසු තැනැත්තන් හඳුනා හඳුනාගැනීමේ ක්ෂේත්‍ර සමීක්ෂණයේ ගැටළු විසඳන තෙක් තාවකාලිකව ඉවත් වීම.ඉහත සමීක්ෂණය සඳහා සමාජ සුබසාධක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාල වෙත අවශ්‍ය උපදෙස් දැනටමත් ලබා දී තිබේ. ඒ අනුව මෙහි මූලික කටයුතු ප්‍රාදේශීය මට්ටමෙන් සිදුවෙමින් පවතී. මෙම සමීක්ෂණයේ අරමුණු කුමක් වුවද එම සමීක්ෂණය තුළින් වසම්වල පදිංචි ජනතාවගේ සියලු තොරතුරු ආවරණය කොට තොරතුරු පද්ධතියක් සැකසීම කාලීන අවශ්‍යතාවයක් ලෙස අපි දකිමු. එසේ වුවද එම සමීක්ෂණය සිදු කිරීමේදී පැනනගින ප්‍රායෝගික ගැටලු රාශියක් තිබෙන බව අපි පෙන්වා දෙමු.ඒවා පහත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
පොදු රාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය චෙස් ශූරතා සම්මාන හා තිළිණ ප්‍රදානෝත්සවය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් 2022.11.22 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි.එංගලන්ත, දකුණු අප්‍රිකා, ඉන්දියා, පකිස්තාන්, මාලදිවයින්, බංගලාදේශ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජයග්‍රාහකයින් ඒ අතර විය. පොදු රාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය චෙස් ශූරතාවය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පැවැත්වීමට ලැබීම රටට භාග්‍යයක් බවත් මෙරට තරුණ පෙළ අතර විනය හික්මීම ඉවසීම මෙන්ම දැනුම සඳහා චින්තන ශක්තිය වර්ධනය කර ගැනීම සඳහා චෙස් ක්‍රීඩාව ඉවහල් වන බවත් අග්‍රමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මෙහිදී සඳහන් කළේය. ක්‍රීඩා රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය රෝහණ දිසානායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී යදාමිණී ගුණවර්ධන, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක, පොදු රාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලීය චෙස් සංගමයේ සභාපති භාරත් සින්ග්, ශ්‍රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
Ø මත්ස්‍ය වස්තුව විදේශ විනිමය උපයන ජාතික වස්තුවක් බවට පත්කර ගනිමු... Ø අලුත් පරපුර සමඟ නිර්මාණශීලීව ධීවර කර්මාන්තය ශක්තිමත් කරමු... Ø ධිවරයින්ට විශ්‍රාමවැටුපක් හා රක්ෂණයක්... Ø ධීවර පවුල්වල දරුවන්ට දියවර කැකුළු ළමා ගිණුමක්... -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මෙරට විදේශ විනිමය ඉපැයීමේ අලුත්ම දොරටුව ධීවර කර්මාන්තය යැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. බේරුවල ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේ පසුගියදා පැවැති ලෝක ධීවර දින සැමරුමට එක්වෙමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේ සඳහන් කළේය. නව ධීවර රක්ෂණ ක්‍රමය, නව ධීවර විශ්‍රාම වැටුප් ක්‍රමය හා දියවර කැකුළු ළමා ඉතුරුම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
An interesting interview with Rachel Dennis of the Uk who volunteeredher services as an ESL Teacher for a month at the Foundation of Goodness in Seenigama,Sri Lanka. Volunteering at FoG by Rachel Dennis - Foundation of Goodness (unconditionalcompassion.org... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
Sinhalese, mostly Buddhist, make up nearly 75 per cent of Sri Lanka’s 22 million population while Tamils are 15 per cent. Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (23) said he will convene an all-party meeting next month to resolve the long held demand for political autonomy for the minority Tamils in the island nation. Addressing parliament, Wickremesinghe said he would call the meeting after December 11, when the parliament concludes its work on the budget 2023. “Mr Sumanthiran (a Tamil parliamentarian) mentioned everything we had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
They are ‘still active and driving protests’, the former Prime Minister tells Parliament Two-time President and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday blamed “foreign forces” and the former government for Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, while admitting to “some wrong decisions” taken by their ousted administration. Sri Lankan ministers sacked by party ahead of crucial budget vote in parliament Foreign powers “eyeing Sri Lanka’s national assets”, and their “local agents” who were “still active” were fuelling anti-government protests, Mahinda told Parliament, during the second... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan dollar bonds advanced to a two-month high as the fiscal reforms announced in this month’s budget spurred hopes of securing an International Monetary Fund bailout. The 7.55% 2030 dollar bond was indicated up about 0.7 cents to 27.9 cents on the dollar on Wednesday, the highest since mid-September. The budget for 2023 was passed on Tuesday by parliament. Sri Lanka pledged to raise revenues by 63% and cut fiscal deficit to 7.9% of gross domestic product from an estimated 9.8% in the current year, steps seen as key... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හිඟාකන රටක් බවට පත් කිරීමට තමන් කිසිලෙසක සූදානම් නොමැති බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පවසනවා. බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේ පැවති දිවංගත අමාත්‍ය ලලිත් ඇතුලත්මුදලි මහතාගේ 86 වැනි ජන්ම දින සැමරුම් උත්සවයට එක්වෙමින් ජනපතිවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවා. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්‍රකාශ කළේ රටේ මූල්‍ය ස්ථාවරය ඇති කිරීම සඳහා බැංකු පද්ධතිය ශක්තිමත් කරමින් විධිමත් වැඩපිළිවෙළකට රජය අවතීර්ණ වී ඇති බවයි. ලලිත් ඇතුලත්මුදලි මහතාගේ සංකල්පය, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ ඉහළටම ඔසවා තැබීමට හැකි සංකල්පයක් බව පෙන්වා දුන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කර කළේ පශ්චාත් උපාධි පාඨමාලා හැදෑරීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
ආණ්ඩු ක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 17 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය, 19 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සහ 21 වැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන ගෙන ආවේ තමන් බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අද (23) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පවසා සිටියා. https://youtu.be/iIqvrdkKSjg අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී අදහස් දක්වමින් අරගලය ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ ආකාරය සහ එහි යටි අරමුණු පිළිබඳව සිය මතය ගෙනහැර දැක් වූ ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙහිදී සදහන් කළේ ප්‍රගතිශීලී ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙන ආ තමන් දැන් හිට්ලර් කෙනෙකු ලෙසින් සලකන බවයි. අරගලකරුවන් පළමුව ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය ඉදිරිපිට අවහිර කරමින් ඉන් පසුව ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අත්පත් කරගත් බවත්, පසුව ජනාධිපති මැදුර, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
The Small Industries Textile Manufacturing Programme This began with handloom training provided in village areas. Textile Handloom Programmes were commenced all over the island from the early Fifties and the Small Industries Department imported yarn and sold them to the entrepreneurs at cost. The Department of Small Industries employed Textile Demonstrators who trained the handloomers. What was very special was that sarees and other textiles could be done bespoke – according to the colour and style ordered. No one ever went to Bangkok to find an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
The country is facing a severe foreign exchange crisis. Our real foreign reserves are extremely low now. It seems the government has again resorted to keeping the Rs/US Dollar rate static (Rs 368 or around = US$1). For the moment, the government has no other option. Sri Lanka being imports driven country, this artificial arrangement serves well. This keeps the inflation in check. The irony is that moment the Rs is floated against the dollar (this is the accepted thing to do), inflation will sky rocket. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
"මා රුසියාව මගේ මාතෘභූමිය ලෙස සළකන්නේ නම් එයින් අදහස් කරන්නේ මම රුසියානු ජාතිකයෙකු ලෙස රුසියාවට ආදරය කරන බවත්, මගේ සමස්ත චින්තනයෙන් මෙන්ම ගීත ගායනය, හැසිරීම පවා රුසියානු ජාතිකයෙකු ලෙස කටයුතු කිරීම බවත් ය. මම රුසියානු ජනතාවගේ අධ්‍යාත්මික ශක්තිය විශ්වාස කරමි. එහි ආත්මය මගේ ආත්මයයි. එහි ඉරණම මගේ ඉරණමයි. එය බිඳ වැටීම මගේ දුකයි. එහි සමෘද්ධිය මගේ සතුටයි.""If I see Russia as my motherland, then that means that as a Russian I love, think, sing and speak; that I believe in the spiritual power of the Russian people. Its spirit is my spirit; its destiny is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
I write with respect to Dr. Obesekera's article that appeared a couple of days ago in this forum. He, perhaps presented a novel concept for capturing free solar energy by the fisher folk. This seems to be practical. However storing sufficient energy is the problem as the technology to convert that energy by way of liquid hydrogen may be too complicated. Batteries to store energy may not be affordable to fishermen. However there can be other forms of energy that humanity not yet thought about. The link below gives a glimpse to one of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
The current topic of interest is the dress of a female teacher. I am reminded of Sunil Shantha’s lilting song mihikatha nalawala where he salutes the village school teacher the ‘Hela guru liya” with the words- Sudu hela sariya andala hada kota inga wata rali lelawa. He was probably referring to the Kandyan osariya which was the stately dress of Mrs. Bandaranayake. It must be conceded that the saree is an expensive and an inconvenient workplace dress although it is the working dress of the plantation females. I remember a few daring females in Peradeniya prided... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
In early 2022, the general people of Bangladesh suddenly began to notice a political articulation of an armed political organization named Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF). Members of the organization maintain a Facebook page titled: Kuki-Chin National Front-KNF, through which they are seen making the photographs and military training videos of their regulars, and political statements public, specifically, propagating concocted tales about a separate state. As mass people of Bangladesh are active social users, they started to show interest in this unknown organization and almost believe their cooked and untrue information. But now, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
වැය අඩු කරමු, අය වැඩි කරමු යන මැයෙන් සණස සංවර්ධන සමිති තුළින් ගම්මාන පන්සියයක් සංවර්ධනය කිරීමේ ජාතික වැඩසටහන අරඹමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා පසුගියදා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා -අපේ රටට අපේ සමාජයට දායාද වුණු උත්තුංග ගුණාංගයක් තමයි පරාර්ථකාමිත්වය. පරාර්ථකාමීත්වය තුළින් හැදුණු වැඩුණු හැම ගමක්ම අත්වැල් බැඳගෙන එකිනෙකාට උදව් වෙමින් එදා අපේ රටේ ජාතික නිෂ්පාදනයේ ප්‍රධාන අංශ සියල්ල ශක්තිමත් කළා. ඒ තමයි අපේ ඉතිහාස කතාව. එකට එකතුවෙලා වැටුපකට නොවෙයි අපේ ශ්‍රමය නැමැති ශක්තිමත් දායාදය ජාතික නිෂ්පාදනයට එකතු කළා. එම අතීත පූර්වාදර්ශයෙන් අපේ ගමේ ජනතාවගේ ඒ ඒ මිනිස් ගුණාංගයන් එකතු කරමින් ශක්තිමත් වැඩපිළිවෙළක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/11/22)
What Climate Change Should Have Taught Us Washington’s vaunted “rules-based international order” has undergone a stress test following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and here’s the news so far: it hasn’t held up well. In fact, the disparate reactions to Vladimir Putin’s war have only highlighted stark global divisions, which reflect the unequal distribution of wealth and power. Such divisions have made it even harder for a multitude of sovereign states to find the minimal common ground needed to tackle the biggest global problems, especially climate change. In fact, it’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
Minister of Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva and Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera along with three other junior ministers in the government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe were sacked At least two front-line ministers in the Sri Lankan government have been suspended by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) for breach of party discipline, it was announced on Tuesday. “They have been suspended temporarily until they offer explanations," Dayasiri Jayasekera, the party general secretary, told reporters. Minister of Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva and Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
Some 300 Sri Lankans are rescued off Vietnam after trying to sail on a fishing boat from Myanmar to Canada. A syndicate tries to smuggle Sri Lankan women into Oman and the United Arab Emirates; meanwhile, police smash a group demanding 1.5 million rupees for a job in Romania. Colombo (AsiaNews) – The economic crisis that has brought Sri Lanka to its knees is fuelling human trafficking. Police have made some arrests following recent operations. In Negombo trafficking in humans begun in 2010 when... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister, had presented the budget on November 14 featuring tax reforms to raise government revenue Sri Lanka‘s Parliament on Tuesday approved the 2023 budget, with 121 lawmakers voting for and 84 opposing it in the 225-member House. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister, had presented the budget on November 14 featuring tax reforms to raise government revenue. On Tuesday, second reading of the budget was approved by a majority of 37 votes in Parliament with 121 members voting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that everyone should support the budget in accordance with the amendments. He mentioned this while making a special statement in Parliament today (22).<br /><br />Meanwhile, he said that he never left the people and ran away. "The President as the Minister of Finance indicated in the budget that he will create a new economy. To create such an economy, there are many long-term and short-term activities that we need to do. We must understand all this with the realities of the global economic and political... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
An international force is behind Sri Lanka’s economy and this force is still active, Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament today. Speaking during the second reading debate in the House, the local agents of these forces are still active. https://youtu.be/cIgQr3b6oSY “It was them who sponsored protests that are taking place in the nation. Their action affects the tourism sector which has begun to recover now,” the former PM said. “Some are questioning the defence allocation. I would like to tell them that a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
The government of Myanmar donated a consignment of urgently required essential medicines and medical supplies worth over USD 1.48 Million to Sri Lanka, on Monday (Nov. 21). The consignment was officially handed over to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Myanmar, Janaka Bandara, by the Union Health Minister of Myanmar Dr. Thet Khaing Win, in a ceremony held at the Department of Medical Research in Yangon. Accepting the consignment, Ambassador Janaka Bandara extended his gratitude and sincere thanks to the government and the people of Myanmar, for the generous gesture of donating medicines... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
Acting Minister of Mass Media, Shantha Bandara says that steps will be taken to initiate disciplinary action against teachers who had attended schools dressed in casual attire. Responding to a question during the Cabinet press briefing today (Nov. 22), he emphasized that the Ministry of Education must take disciplinary action in this regard since the culture, morals and the existence of the school system should not be allowed to be changed. “I hope that the Educational Minister will definitely take necessary actions”, he added. Further, the Acting Minister mentioned that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
The Cabinet of Ministers has green-lighted the Bill prepared by the legal draftsman to set expenditure limits on election candidates for their campaigns. In a statement, the Government Information Department stated that the relevant Bill has received the Attorney General’s clearance. The proposal tabled by the Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms, Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe to publish the said Bill in the government gazette has received the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers. Subsequently, it will be presented to the parliament for its approval. According to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/11/22)
When Ralph Pieris told me ‘I was one of those who persuaded Sarachchandra to show Maname at Lionel Wendt theatre’ I sniggered a little. I knew the Lionel Wendt audience of the 1950s. It was culturally insensitive, utterly ignorant, and wanting only to be seen at a ‘western’ cultural event. Why present Maname there. My own preference for seeing Sinhala plays in Colombo was Lumbini or YMBA, never Lionel Wendt. But I recently read something that changed my mind. Lionel Wendt Memorial Fund issued a document to celebrate fifty years of performances at Lionel... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/22)
මෙම ලිපිය ඊයේ (2022 නොවැම්බර් 20වනදා) lankaweb හි පලවූ “කාලාම සූත්‍රය තුල ප්‍රකටවන නාම-රෑප පරිච්ඡේදය” සමග සබදී. බුදුන්ගේ දහම ලොවේ සැමට පොදුවේ අදාල විය යුතුය. Universally applicable to all mankind. තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ ලොවේ එක් ජන කොටසක් සදහා පමනක් දේශනා කල දහමක් නැත. ජාති භාෂා ආගම් දේශසීමා ආදියෙන් බෙදී වෙන්වී පවතින ලොවකට පොදුවේ ගැලපෙන දර්ශනයක් ඉදිරිපත්කල පලමු හා එකම තැනැත්තා බුදුන්වහන්සේමයි. විවිධ දෘශ්ඨි කෝණයන්ගෙන් බුද්ධදර්ශනය දකින්නහුට ධර්මයේ ඇති මෙම විශ්වීය ස්වාභාවය (universality) හමුනොවන අතර ඹවුන් එම දහමේ ඇති සුන්දරත්වය හෝ ගැඹුර කිසිදා අවබෝධ නොකරනු ඇත. තතාගත දහම එක්තරා ජන කොටසකට පමනක් අදාලයයි හැගෙන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/22)
Sri Lanka proposed to set up a group of Eminent Persons with a view to helping galvanize greater political will and to create further international awareness among states on the importance of combating terrorist financing, at the recently concluded 3rd No Money For Terror (NMFT) Ministerial Conference in New Delhi. Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda, who led the delegation of Sri Lanka to the Ministerial Conference made this proposal in his statement to the Conference. The 3rd No Money For Terror Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/22)
General Secretary of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) Vasudeva Nanayakkara, MP, yesterday (20) said that the UNP had sold the urea plant at Sapugaskanda to a foreign buyer who set it up in an Arab country.Having brought the machinery as scrap iron the buyer had re-installed the machinery and today Sri Lanka procured urea from that facility, Nanayakkara said. The veteran politician called what the UNP had done a crime by the nation. The former minister said so when The Island sought an explanation from him about his brief exchange with UNP National... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/22)
Rather than adopt export-led development and aim at a healthy balance of trade and payments and provide productive employment, all past governments resorted to devaluation and prolific borrowing as the remedy. The outcome of the multiple devaluations and IMF prescriptions has been negative as far as the trade balance is concerned. The LKR which was 8.83 in 1976 declined 15.56 to a US dollar after the 1977 devaluation and slumped to LKR 100 per dollar in 2005 and 135 to a dollar in 2015 and today it is frozen at 365 per one USD. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/11/22)
On today's BBC World service (19.11.22) they showed buses and cars running on liquid Hydrogen. This appears to be a new innovation perhaps initiated by tech companies or universities of the UK and is very relevant to the day's happenings. COP27 is taking place in Egypt and Qatar is showcasing its financial clout of 'petro dollars' in their controversial staging of the world cup with equally controversial alcohol and gay ban in the vicinity of the playing fields. So, is this the end of fossil fuels, and whose innovation is it? I remember seeing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
Making it mandatory for children to come to school to get an education is a very outdated concept. Allowing them to attend school in any attire is the way forward. Some argue that the prescription is to make all children look equal, and class disparities will not matter then, but for how long? Only for 8 hours, after which the rich go their separate ways and the less fortunate go their separate ways. To maintain balance in society, it is necessary for there to be good... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
lanka C news | ධීවර බෝට්ටු සඳහා හරිත හයිඩ්‍රජන්… Sorry to say this This is like LNG to be used as CNG to power cars like in many countries Why all of a sudden Green hydrogen? Why cannot we develop Solar power on boats? Green hydrogen may have to be stored in Fish collector vessels which should carry green hydrogen storage to replenish the fisherman’s boat hydrogen stock So far no country has done this except In some Norwegian vessels where hydrogen is used ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
භාහිර රෑප හැඩතලයේ ප්‍රතිබිම්භය පංචේන්ද්‍රියන්ගේ ප්‍රසාදනය වීමෙන් 'ස්ඛන්ධ ක්‍රියාවලිය' ආරම්භවන බවත් ඒ නිසාම සිතේ රෑප ලෝකය හටගන්නා බවත් අප දැන් දන්නෙමු. ඒ රෑප සංඥාව පෙර මතකය හා ගැලපීමෙන් (විතක්ක විචාර වීමෙන්) භාහිර රෑප හැඩතලයට අනූරෑප නාමය (අරෑප ලෝකය-world of labels) සිත තුල සංකාර වෙයි. විඤ්ඤාණයට හේතුවන මෙම සංකාරය භාහිර රෑප හැඩතලය පිළිබද සම්පූර්න දැනුම (නාමය) සිතට ලබාදෙයි (සංකාර පච්චයා විඤ්ඤාණ). උදාහරනක් ලෙස; දකින්නේ භාහිරයේ ඇති පුටුවක වර්ණරෑප හැඩතලයේ ප්‍රතිබිම්භය යයි සිතමු (චක්ඛු ප්‍රසාදය). එම වර්ණරෑපයේ 'සංඥාව' පෙර මතකය හා ගැලපීමෙන් සම්මුතියෙන් පනවාගත් (ප්‍රඥ්ප්ති) නාමය වන 'පුටුව' හා එහි සම්පූර්ණ ගුණ (characteristics) සිත තුල 'සංකාර'වී පුටුව පිළිබඳ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
(මෙම කෙටි ලිපිය කියවීමට පෙර ලෝකයේ සිංහල ජනතාව මිලියන 18ක් බවත් දෙමළ ජනතාව මිලියන 80ක් බවට අදාල දත්තය දක්වමි.)සිංහල ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ගේ ලංකාවට එන්න තියෙන ඩොලර් ප්‍රමණය, මිලියන 80ක් වූ ලෝකය පුරා විසිරී ඉන්නා දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ ව්‍යාපාරවල ආයෝජනය කිරීම හේතුවෙන්, එකී ඩොලර් ලංකාවට එන්නේ නැත. මේ උපයන ඩොලර් ආයෝජනය කර ඇති රටවල් සහ ව්‍යාපාර පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනයකින් මේ බව පැහැදිලි වෙයි.ඉංදියාවේ හිංදූන් මේ ආකාරයට ක්‍රියා කරන්නේ නැත. ඔවුන් විදේශවලින් උපයන සෑම ඩොලරයක්ම ඉංදියාවට ගෙන එයි. ඒ සඳහා නීති ඉංදියාවේ පැන වී ඇත. ඒ නිසා ඉංදියාවට ඩොලර් ප්‍රශ්නයක් නැත.ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙ එසේ නීති පැන වී නැත. එකී නීති පැනවීම වැළැක්වීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
There are two questions. First, does research really matter or rather does research drive decisions when it comes to policy planning? Second, what is the role or research institutes or, put another way, do policy-makers understand the worth of such bodies? My friend Sugath Kulathunga raised an interesting point recently with regard to the fertiliser policy of President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa: ‘One is baffled why a risk analysis of the overnight, island-wide implementation of the decision on organic cultivation was not done.’ The truth is that such an analysis was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
New Horizons for Profitable Investments Manufacturing an essential adjunct to healthcare is important in any case. Because people's lives are directly related to this wonderful product. Medicines play a direct or indirect role in ensuring the well-being and well-being of people by getting rid of human diseases and alleviating anxiety and restlessness. Therefore, medicine is one of the largest and most profitable industries in the world today. The pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh is known as an emerging industry with great potential. Which is playing a major role in the country's economy. Despite many crises, this industry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is likely to hold presidential election before any other polls after November 16 2023, three sources close to him said, as he seeks a $2.9 billion IMF loan to consolidate the economy which is on a slow recovery path from a crisis. Wickremesinghe was elected as the president in the 225-member parliament on July 19, days after former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country fearing for his life following tens of thousands of protesters stormed into the presidential palace, demanding his resignation after his failed economic policies.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
රට මුහුණ දී ඇති ණය අර්බුදයට ප්‍රධාන සාධකයක් වන්නේ ස්වෛරීත්ව බැඳුම්කර මත ලබාගත් ණය බව කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයනාංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් පවසනවා. https://youtu.be/dfywvSp4gsw අර්බුදය, අයවැය සහ අනාගතය යන මැයෙන් මහවැලි කේන්ද්‍රයේ පැවති සම්මන්ත්‍රණයකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මේ අදහස් පළ කළා. මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණය පැවැත්වුණේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේනගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්.<br /><br />අර්බුදය, අයවැය සහ අනාගතය යන මැයෙන් මෙම සංවාදශීලී සම්මන්ත්‍රණය සංවිධානය කර තිබුණේ ශ්‍රි ලංකා වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංවිධානය විසින්. එම අවස්ථාවට එක් වූ මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් මහතා පැවසුවේ ස්වෛරීත්ව බැඳුම්කර මත අසීමාන්තික ලෙස ලබාගත් ණය හේතුවෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
https://youtu.be/3cg2CZG7Ilg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
Two women have been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for forging bank documents and defrauding Rs. 120 million from a Sri Lankan living in Norway. The suspects, who are sisters aged 30 and 34 years, have been arrested in Jaffna by the CID, police said. They had allegedly defrauded the Sri Lankan by forging bank documents and using 23 bank accounts. It has been uncovered during the investigations that the two women have defrauded the money from the concerned person through 23 bank accounts from time to time... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
The gazette notification pertaining to the lifting of the ban imposed on the import of the herbicide Glyphosate has been sent to the Government Printer, says the Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Gunadasa Samarasinghe. https://youtu.be/gpRhqvURUc0 The Minister of Agriculture had decided to lift the ban on Glyphosate following inquiries made from various sectors including the representatives from farmers, agricultural experts, and agronomists as to whether the ban should be continued further or not, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Further continuation of the Glyphosate ban had become... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/11/22)
‘Maname made its first appearance, not in Peradeniya but at the Lionel Wendt Theatre in Colombo. ‘I selected Lionel Wendt as it had a good stage and auditorium, also the facilities needed for the actors. Its chairman, Harold Pieris gave me the hall free and it was shown for four days running,’ Sarachchandra said in an interview. However, Sarachchandra had to be persuaded to present Maname at the Lionel Wendt. We insisted that Maname must be shown at the Lionel Wendt, Ralph Pieris told me. ‘Sarath was hesitant, but we insisted.’ That was how... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
This essay is a revised version of the earlier essay titled EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’ (2015) ‘Maname’ was a landmark event in Sinhala theatre. But the events leading up to it have received little attention. The emergence of ‘Maname’ at Peradeniya was no accident. The Arts faculty of the University of Ceylon was exposed to a new atmosphere when they moved to Peradeniya in 1953. Peradeniya was secluded, residential and ‘outstation.’ it was safely away from Colombo and Colombo’s preference for imitative, half-baked western culture. There was a change also in the undergraduate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
One – person, One – vote is a cardinal principle of representative democracy. This means every citizen is entitled to elect their own representative. It personifies that all people are equal. Casting the vote at an election is how the citizens participate in government. The MPs who get elected by the majority vote represent the citizens' ideas and concerns in the parliament. The National List MPs are unelected. The voter has absolutely nothing to do with them. Basically, they do not know them. Prior to an election, the proposed National... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said that he is keen to solve all issues, including land and housing, pertaining to the Tamil minority community in the country’s Northern Province by next year when the island nation celebrates its 75th anniversary of Independence. Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said that he is keen to solve all issues, including land and housing, pertaining to the Tamil minority community in the country’s Northern Province by next year when the island nation celebrates its 75th anniversary of Independence. Speaking in Vavuniya, a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
Nothing is impossible for the brave warrior of the nation who was born to a heroic mother. Several heroic sons were born on this island to eradicate this menace from the ‘suppressed communities’ of terrorism. When the time where the country was passing ‘years of blue’, the region of Pooneryn was not prosperous with the fear of terrorism, which was instilled in every corner of the Northern area. It was 14 November 1993 and the battle of Pooneryn took its fearsome form with its enemy. LTTE code-named ‘Operation Frog Leap’;... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has assured immediate solutions to land, housing, health, irrigation, and agriculture-related issues in the Northern Province, the President’s Media Division (PMD) says. The Head of Stated also stated that 08 committees would be appointed at the provincial level to resolve the land issues. https://youtu.be/TIF_B1K5CXI He pointed out that all the land-related issues in the North and South of the country would be resolved accordingly. President Wickremesinghe made these observations while participating in the District Development Committee meeting held at the Vavuniya District Secretariat... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the measures to strengthen the economy under a five-year plan are envisaged in the budget proposal for 2023 which has the potential to bring about a transformative economic change within the period between 2023 and 2027. He made this observation during the District Development Progress Review Meeting held at the Vavuniya Town Hall today (Nov. 19). The statement made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe is as follows: “It is clear to us that the government’s program for food security has been implemented in Vavuniya, Mannar, and Mullaitivu... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
A new consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes (100,000 packs) of rice donated by China reached Colombo Port this morning (Nov. 19). This rice consignment will be distributed to island-wide schools, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said in a tweet. According to the embassy, China has so far donated 7,000 metric tonnes of rice (700,000 packs) in total to Sri Lanka since June.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
The CESS tax proposed in the 2023 Budget is not applicable to stationery items and equipment used by schoolchildren, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. He mentioned this while delivering a special statement in the parliament this morning (Nov. 19). He addressed the concerns raised about the increase in the prices of stationery items following the CESS tax revision. https://youtu.be/jnodx0nJr3g The state minister stressed that the prices of imported textbooks, notebooks, pencils, erasers and paper materials used to produce notebooks have not been revised due to the CESS... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
A nine-member experts’ committee was appointed to draft a new constitution, on the 3rd of Sept 2020. according to a Cabinet spokesman. President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva President’s Counsel Manohara de Silva (the only Constitutional Lawyer in the Committee) President’s Counsel Gamini Marapana President’s Counsel Sanjeewa Jayawardena President’s Counsel Samantha Ratwatte Prof. Nadeema Kamurdeen Prof. G. H. Peiris (only scholar on political and legal history, geopolitics, the culture of the country and the implications of a constitution from an impartial... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff talks about a new Congress report on huge US wealth inequality; Angela Merkel on relying on Russian oil and gas, the irrationality of 20,000 immigrants dumped on NYC, and Harvard exploiting its tax-exempt status. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. Nomi Prins, former Goldman Sachs director, on the distorted US financial system and its social effects. https://youtu.be/ii3TEen_LP4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
Rishi Sunak became the first Asian Prime Minister in the UK on 7th November 2022, creating a world record in the history of politics. Liz Truss decided to give up the premiership due to the extreme pressure of the UK's economic crisis, and she entered the history books as the shortest Prime Minister in the UK. Rishi Sunak was the Chancellor of the Exchequer before contesting for the Premier's post. More surprising is how approximately over two hundred members of his party supported him to be the Prime Minister. Th Conservative party respects... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
භාහිරය (ලෝකය) සම්මතයට අයත්ය. එයට ගහකොල සතාසිව්පාවා මෙන්ම විශ්වය හා ස්වාභාවදහමද අයත්වේ. සුලඟ, ආලෝකය, උනුසුම, පීඩනය ආදි ස්වාභාවික සංසිද්ධීන් සියල්ලම සම්මතයේ ඇති භාහිර ලෝකයට අයත්ය. භාහිරය අසත්‍යයක් බොරැවක්බව සමහර දේශකයන් පවසනවිට මේ ස්වාභාව දහමේ සංසිද්ධීන් සියල්ලම අසත්‍යබව ඉන් කියවේ. මෙය සිදුවිය නොහැක්කකි. රහතන්වහන්සේ පිරිනිවන් මඤ්චකයට එළැබෙන තෙක්ම ස්වාභාවදහමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට ලක්වන සම්මත ලෝකයේ වැඩවසයි. සම්මතය අසත්‍යයක්, බොරැවක්වන විට රහතන් වහන්සේට වැඩසිටීමට භූමියක් සොයාගත නොහැකිවනවා ඇත. තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ තමන්වහන්සේ හමුවට පැමිනි රාහුලයන් ඇතුළු සියළු දෙනාම හදුනාගෙන ඒ ඒ අයට ගැලපෙන සේ ධර්මය දේසනා කලබව කියැවේ. තතාගතයන් වහන්සේද සම්මත භාහිර ලෝකය පරිහරනය කල බව මෙයින් ගම්‍ය වෙයි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
හදිසි නීති රීති පනවා වගා කිරීම සඳහා ආණ්ඩුව ජනතාවට බලපෑම් නෙකරන බවත් අර්බුදයෙන් ගොඩඒම සඳහා සියලු දෙනා සාමූහිකව වගා කිරීමට එකතුවන ලෙස ඉල්ලන බවත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකා හදබිම අධිකාරිය විසින් සංවිධානය කළ ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාවය පෝෂණය හා තිරසාර කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය සඳහා ජනතා සවිබල ගැන්වීමේ වැඩසටහන 2022.11.18 දින කොට්ටාව මාකුඹුර ප්‍රදේශයේදී පැවති අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. ආර්ථිකයට බරපැනක් තිරසර ගෙවත්තක් යන මැයෙන් සංවිධානය කොට තිබූ මෙම වැඩසටහන යටතේ තිරසාර ගෙවතු වගාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා කෘෂි භාණ්ඩ බෙදාදීමක් සංවිධානය කොට තිබිණී. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා -... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
ලාභ ලබන රාජ්‍ය ආයතන විකිණීමට යෝජනා කරන,මෙවර “අය – වැයට” විරුද්ධව ඡන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට උත්තර ලංකා සභාගය නියෝජනය කරන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් තීරණය කර ඇතැයි එම සභාගයේ සභාපති, හිටපු අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ බොරැල්ලේ පිහිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කොමිනියුස්ට් පක්ෂ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදීය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක් වූ විමල් වීරවංශ හිටපු අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේද සඳහන් කළේය. ‘පැරණි මාවතේ පැරණි ආකාරයටම’ “අප කාගේත් ජීවිතවලට ඉතාමත් සෘණාත්මක ලෙස බලපා ඇති මේ ආර්ථික අර්බුදය ඇති වීමට ප්‍රධාන හේතුවක් තමයි ඉවක්බවක් නැතිව ණය අරගෙන, ඵලදායී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/11/22)
The third round of Pakistan-Sri Lanka Armed Forces Defence Dialogue (AFDD) was held in Expo Centre Karachi from November 16-17 where both sides agreed to continue to support each other at all regional and international fora. The Pakistan delegation was led by Secretary Defence, Lt General (R) Hamood uz Zaman Khan, Sri Lankan delegation was headed by Secretary Defence,General (R) Kamal Gunaratne, said a news release issued here Friday. The delegations also agreed that the cooperation in the field of defence industry, military training, and joint exercises high level visits would continue.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Sri Lanka’s offshore wind resource far exceeds the South Asian nation’s energy demand, and its development could help the country’s economic recovery by displacing costly fuel imports, according to the World Bank. Sri Lanka’s offshore wind resource far exceeds the South Asian nation’s energy demand, and its development could help the country’s economic recovery by displacing costly fuel imports, according to the World Bank. The World Bank has completed a draft offshore wind development roadmap for Sri Lanka designed to evaluate the potential opportunities. There is an estimated fixed-bottom potential of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
As forex became tight, leading to disruptions in the supply of essentials and other imports, people began to take to the streets. The queues became longer and so did the crescendo of the anti-government protests. In a bid to control the situation, the Gotabaya Administration did a sudden U-turn in its policies. Changing the stance on seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was one such reversal as we commenced discussions for a bailout in mid March. The month of March 2022 marked the beginning of one of the most... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Sri Lanka is in talks for a “debt-for-nature” swap deal of up to USD 1 billion in climate-focused finance, a kind of agreement discussed at the United Nations COP27 summit in Egypt, Reuters reported citing people familiar with the matter. According to the news report, such agreements are part of efforts to address an intractable quandary facing world leaders as to who would pay the bill for the global fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. https://youtu.be/ZJCGyoy_Bww Sri Lanka is among several other countries including Ecuador and Cape Verde exploring the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
The Criminal Investigation Department has dug up more information about a large-scale human trafficking syndicate that ‘auctions’ Sri Lankan women who were taken to Oman on the promise of jobs in the Arabian country. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Sri Lanka had directed to the CID the complaints it had received about the unfortunate situation of Sri Lankan female domestic workers in Oman. Initiating a probe in this regard, a three-member team of the CID, led by the director of Human Trafficking, Smuggling Investigation and Maritime Crime Investigation Division, flew out to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Singapore-based renovation and interior design company, Kreate Design Pte. Ltd. today (Nov. 18) signed a USD 1 billion investment agreement with the Colombo Lotus Tower Management Company (Pvt) Ltd. This investment agreement will see the development of water sports and an entertainment zone at the Lotus Tower in Colombo within the next six months. https://youtu.be/vNMOBBBimZA The Lotus Tower, considered the tallest self-supported structure in South Asia and the tallest skyscraper in Sri Lanka, officially commenced operations on September 15, 2022 as it was declared open to the public.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Placing the focus only on policies and not on the results is the reason for the crisis that the country is facing at the moment, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this remark addressing the post-budget 2023 forum organized by the MBA Alumni of the University of Colombo.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
A UNICEF study in 2020 revealed that over 40 percent of reported cases of bullying in schools involved physical attacks and fights among peers. Alarmingly, they also found that “risky behaviors and activities such as smoking, consuming alcohol, skipping classes, dropping out of school, and considering or attempting suicide, were significantly associated with violence victimization.” Sri Lanka is by no means an exception when it comes to the prevalence of bullying, either physically or through the internet. School violence and bullying, including cyberbullying, are widespread and affect a significant number of children and adolescents.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Wigneswaran says that the Budget did not mention any development in the East and specifically north Only one proposal regarding blue economy-related industry was to consider development over three zones in the Western southern and eastern regions where nautical tourism is to be developed with water skiing etc A northern peninsula with a waterfront with shallow waters and few islands is ideal for such development and a northwestern area where Kalpitiya is not even mentioned Trinco and Oluvil are not even considered So many projects can be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
The transit issue between India and Bangladesh has long been debated. An agreement was made in 2010 to carry products to India's northeastern states through the Bangladesh route. Since then, several arguments and complaints have centered on the transit problem, which climax in 2016 when Bangladesh agreed to allow India to use its road in exchange for a nominal tariff. During Hon'ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India in 2018, an agreement was made to carry products by road to India's north-eastern states via the ports of Mongla and Chittagong. Since then, products have been transported to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුරක්ෂිතතා හා සෞඛ්‍ය ආයතනය වරලත් ආයතනයක් බවට පත් කිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇතැයි කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය.එය දකුණු ආසියාවේ විශිෂ්ටත ම සේවා මධ්‍යස්ථානය බවට පත්කිරීමටත් කටයුතු කළ යුතු බවත්, ඒ සදහා ආයතනයට හැකියාවන්, සම්පත් සහ නායකත්වය ඇති බවත් අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවැසීය.ඒ අද (17) දින පැවැති ජාතික වෘත්තීය සුරක්ෂිතතා හා සෞඛ්‍ය සම්මන්ත්‍රණයේ ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිතයා වශයෙන් සහභාගී වෙමිනි.සම්මන්ත්‍රණය ඇමතූ අමාත්‍යවරයා එහි දී ප්‍රකාශ කළේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වාර්ෂික ව වැඩබිම් තුළ අනතුරු 4000ක් පමණ වාර්තා වන බවත්, ඒ හේතුවෙන් වසරක දී වැඩකරන දින ලක්ෂ හයක් පමණ අහිමි වන බවත්, එය වාර්තා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
In recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with China. * In an arc of militarization across northern Australia, successive Australian governments, in close concert with the United States, have responded to the rise of a newly assertive China in terms that constitute an almost historically irrevocable opposition to any accommodation with China as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
A ‘Chinese’ & an ‘African’ meet in ‘Europe’ ‘Chinese’: Xi Hong is my name. ‘African’: Delighted, my name is Emmanuel Noël de Souza. ‘Chinese’: So you’re not African but Franco-Brazilian? ‘African’: Yes, I am African ‘Chinese’: And your name is Emmanuel Noël De Souza? ‘African’: Yes, I owe my parents this pretty name. ‘Chinese’: Even simple names that don’t require any technique, any technology, you can’t produce them at home? Do you have to import them or have them donated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Cuba shot down a US U-2 spy plane flying over its airspace on 27 October 1962, at the peak of what the US media love to call ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis’ – 60 years ago. The US Navy also attacked a Soviet nuclear submarine B-59, which auspiciously, we are told, did not escalate the provocation that day. It’s another of those ‘most dangerous global moments’ that took place, 17 years after the latest colonial power dropped atomic bombs on Asia, in Japan in 1945 to announce... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ ආදීනව සම්බන්ධයෙන් දිගින් දිගටම අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කළ මහ බැංකු අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ මහතා මේ වන විට හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතාගේ මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ වාර්තාව ද බිඳ දමා ඇතැයි පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ අයවැය විවාදයට එක් වෙමින්. එහිදී පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායකයා වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේ අදහස් දැක්වීය. මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීමේ කබ්රාල් වාර්තාව නන්දලාල් බිඳ දමයි ජනාධිපතිතුමා කෙතරම් බුදු බණ අසා තිබුණත් කතා පුරාවට දහම් පද තිබුණත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/11/22)
Colombo Additional Magistrate T. N. L. Mahawatta today (17) ordered Convener of the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige and IUSF member Ven. Galwewa Siridhamma Thera to be remanded until such time instructions are received from AG Sanjay Rajaratnam. The duo were detained by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) at its Tangalla Old Prison premises under the Provisions contained in the PTI for close to three months before being produced in Court following a decree to that effect from the Supreme Court. The two suspects were arrested... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
Budget 2023 has sought to deprive the farming community of their land rights by placing the Mahaweli lands under the purview of Divisional and District Secretaries, SLPP dissident MP Prof. Channa Jayasumana says. “This proposal will take away the farmers’ rights to land. Farmers of Mahaweli lands in 15 districts and their children, will be affected by this move,” Prof Jayasumana said, participating in the debate on Budget 2023. He said Mahaweli Project encompased 39 percent of the country’s landmass and 55 percent of the lands of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
A working team of the China Development Bank (CDB), an important supporter of Sri Lanka’s development, is currently on a visit to Sri Lanka. They have called on State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe and held discussions with the Finance Ministry with regard to the debt-related issues, according to diplomatic sources.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe stated that customers who have been inconvenienced due to the increase in the interest rates charged for the loans obtained under variable interest rates in the past are able to get relief by negotiating with the bank. The Governor stated this when Parliamentarians inquired regarding the aforesaid at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies held yesterday (16) in Parliament chaired by the State Ministers of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Shehan Semasinghe. The Members of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
The Civil Appellate High Court of Mount Lavinia today (Nov. 17) ordered National Sports Council chairman Arjuna Ranatunga to pay a compensation of Rs. 25 million to former president of the national cricket board Thilanga Sumathipala. The order was issued with regard to a defamation case filed by the former Sri Lanka Cricket president against the former national cricket team captain over a statement made in 2003. Sumathipala had sought compensation of Rs. 500 million from Ranatunga for making a defamatory statement claiming that he is unsuitable to serve as Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
A discussion was held today (17) at the Ministry of Finance with World Bank representatives on Sri Lanka’s future development plans and policies, the President Media Division said. The discussion was held under the patronage of Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of Staff to the President Mr Sagala Ratnayake, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe and Minister Dilum Amunugama with the World Bank Director for Sri Lanka Faris Hadad-Zervos. The future development plans and policies of the country were discussed at length during the meeting, the PMD... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
A school girl of Sri Lankan origin who passed an IQ test in England with flying colours is now officially “smarter than Einstein”. Ariana Dambarawa Hewage, aged 10, took a Mensa IQ test and scored a whopping 162 which is thought to be “genius” level. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, widely considered to be benchmarks of intelligence, both have an estimated IQ of 160. Ariana has beaten them and has now been invited to become a member of Mensa, the High IQ Society. Ariana loves books and has a passion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/11/22)
මිනිස් ජාවාරම්වලට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින් සොයා දීප ව්‍යාප්ත වශයෙන් වැටලීම් සිදු කිරීමටත්, මිනිස් ජාවාරම් සහ මිනිස් වෙළදාමට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින්ට තරාතිරම නොබලා දඩුවම් කිරීමටත්, කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා, පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයේ, ආගමන විගමන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ඉහළ නිලධාරීන් සමග අද (16) පැවති විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකදී තීරණය කර ඇත.මිනිස් ජාවාරම්වලට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින්ට එරෙහිව ගන්නා පියවරයන්හි ප්‍රගතිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සෑම සති දෙකකට වරක්ම නිලධාරි මට්ටමේ ප්‍රගති සමාලෝචනයක් පැවැත්වීමටත් මෙහිදී තීරණය කර තිබේ. දේශීය හා විදේශීය වශයෙන් මිනිස් ජාවාරම්වලට සම්බන්ධ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයින් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයට මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක ජෙනරාල් තුමා,කළමණාකාර සේවා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව,මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය,කොළඹ - 01.අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක ජෙනරාල් තුමනි,ශ්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින් බලවත් ලෙස අසහනයට පත් නොකර 30/2006 සහ 2/2016 රාජ්‍ය කළමණාකාර සේවා චක්‍රලේඛණනයට අනුගතව වැටුප් සංශෝධනය විධිමත්ව සිදුකිරීමට කඩිනමින් මැදිහත් වන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම.2018 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින් සිදුකරන ලද දැඩි වෘත්තීය ක්‍රියාමාර්ගයක් නිසා 2018 ඔක්තෝබර් 01 වන දින සිට PL කාණ්ඩයේ ශ්‍රී ලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ වැටුප් සංශෝධනය සිදුකරන ලදී.නුමුත්, 2018 ඔක්තෝබර් 01 වන දින සිට ශ්‍රී ලංගම කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ සහ නිලධාරීන්ගේ වැටුප් සංශෝධනය සිදුකිරීමට ඔබතුමා ඇතුලූ ඔබ ආයතනය හිතාමතාම ප්‍රමාද කර ඇත. වෘත්තීය සමිති වල දැඩි බලවත් ඉල්ලීම මත අවසානයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා මුදල් අමාත්‍යවරයා ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කළ අයවැය යෝජනාවේ සදහන් 13 වැනි යෝජනාව මගින් රටේ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩතාවයට හා ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට පමණක් නොව දේශපාලනික, සමාජීය හා සංස්කෘතික යන සියලු අංශයන්ට බරපතළ තර්ජනයක් එල්ලවන බව අනුරාධපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මහාචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කරයි. https://youtu.be/UNWNII09Smw අයවැය යෝජනාවේ 13වැනි යෝජනාව ලෙස දක්වා ඇති රජයේ සියලුම ඉඩම් බැහැරකිරීමට අදාළව සියලුම කටයුතු ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්වරු හරහා සිදුකිරීමට යෝජනා කිරීම තුළ මහවැලි ව්‍යාපාරය සතු ඉඩම් බරපතළ අර්බුදයකට ලක්වන බව චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා පවසයි. පසුගිය අවුරුදු 50ක පමණ කාලයක සිට මෙරට ගොවිජනතාවගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
MHA sources say no fixed time frame set for deportation, but will be in accordance with law. NEW DELHI: The four Sri Lankan nationals, convicted for their role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, but released by the Supreme Court recently, will be deported to their country of origin, according to Union Home Ministry sources. The ministry has issued instructions to the Tamil Nadu government for the deportation of the four persons, Murugan (alias Sriharan), Robert Payas, S Jayakumar and Santhan alias T Suthendraraja, soon after they were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
A top Chinese envoy has said that Sri Lanka should introduce legal reforms to attract foreign investments. Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s Office quoted President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) Ambassador Lin Songtian as having told the Premier as Sri Lanka’s infrastructure facilities, human resources and other required services were in place. Therefore, the requirement is to introduce necessary legal reforms. Ambassador Songtiyan, called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena together with the Chinese Ambassador in Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong at the Prime Minister’s Office in Colombo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow initiated a banking cooperation between People’s Bank in Sri Lanka and National Investment Industrial Bank in Russia (NIIB) to devising a platform for Russian tourists to make payments in Sri Lanka seamlessly in Sri Lankan Rupees (LKR) with effect from November 22, 2022. According to this banking collaboration, Russian tourists will be able to remit funds to People’s Bank in Sri Lanka prior to their visits, in liaison with the National Investment Industrial Bank in Russia without having any intermediate banks involved. Upon... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
The governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says the construction sector is unlikely to see growth until the economy recovers. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe made these remarks during an event held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute with the representatives of the construction sector. Speaking further, he said the relative cost of construction in Sri Lanka, compared to India and other countries in the region, is way too high. Stating that the domestic prices do not reflect the prices in the global market, the central bank governor said the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed relevant officials to implement the Singapore-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) immediately. The Head of State gave these directives during the discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (Nov 16) on the implementation of the Singapore-Sri Lanka FTA. The existing problems in this regard were discussed at length and the President highlighted the need to provide quick solutions to all the existing problems. President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, Senior Economic Advisor to the President Dr. R.H.S. Samaratunga, Attorney General Sanjaya Rajaratnam, Secretary to the Ministry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/11/22)
This is a sequel to my previous article titled “Booker Prize, Chattel Slavery, Sugar, its Politics and Sri Lanka” posted on October 30 th 2022. In the last part of my article, “First Moon of Maali Almeida” I had quoted certain passages from the Booker Award winning novel “Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to express that “The First Moon” is more than enough to get the Booker, why waste seven moons, you have already accomplished what you wanted, portraying your country as a killing field. Although I had stated that “a detailed critique... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
රටේ අවාසනාවකට, මෙම මහාචාර්යවරයා ශ්‍රේණි 6, 7 සහ 10 ඉතිහාසය පෙළ පොත සංස්කරණ කණ්ඩායමේ ප්‍රධාන සාමාජිකයෙකි. ඔහු සම්බන්ධ පාසැල් පෙළපොත් වල පහත සඳහන් වැරදි ඇත: ඔහු සම්බන්ධ නැති ශ්‍රේණි 8 සහ 9 පෙළ පොත්වල කිසිදු වරදක් නැත. (කලින් (1වෙනි සහ 2 වෙනි) ලිපිවල මෙන් ඇල අකුරු වලින් (italics) දක්වා ඇති සටහන් මෙම ලියුම්කරුගේ ඒවාය). 6 ශ්‍රේණිය පොත (සංස්කාරක මණ්ඩලය – හඟුරන්කෙත ධීරානන්ද හිමි, රාජ් සෝමදේව, පත්මසිරි කන්නංගර, චන්දිමා ධර්මපාල) – 33වෙනි පිටුව – "විජය නමින් හැඳින්වෙන කුමරෙකු ……. ඉන්දියාවේ සිට පැමිණ මේ රටේ පදිංචි වූ බව ඉතිහාසයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
Due to the current situation in the country, most hotels are trying to bring in local guests with attractive family weekend packages that include the use of the pool without additional cost. Recently, I attended a wedding at one of these hotels, and their pool was full of young and small kids, but nowhere to be seen as any lifeguard on duty. A couple of days ago, a 24-year-old young man drowned in one of the hotels in Mount Lavinia. What really led to the drowning? ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
The newly appointed Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), Dr. Sarath Obeysekera has called for immediate liberalisation of the shipping and logistics sectors in Sri Lanka. In a letter to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, he stated that there is a general consensus among the majority of stakeholders in the shipping industry for such a liberalisation policy. “I have observed that Sri Lanka has not really capitalised to reap the benefits of liberalisation, which was mooted a few years back, despite the fact that the island is located... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
This year’s Olcott Speech at Ananda College by Thilan Wijesinghe was a refreshing presentation of what went wrong with the Sri Lankan economy. It was an apt topic given the fact that the school had produced many winners who decorated the nation with prestige and who saved the nation when under threat. The presentation contained plenty of factual matter and substance. However, it lacked the reasons for the outcomes presented in those charts. Though reasons may be politically and socially sensitive, unless these are addressed, the economic crisis will not end. Annual Economic Growth... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
"සලකුණ" ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී, විමල් වීරවංශ සමඟින්, https://youtu.be/KeYs1bYGG3o... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
https://youtu.be/JCR-Phtgx0k Reports of Ukrainian triumph and imminent Russian defeat have flooded the West since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February. Yet how much merit is there to this narrative? Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector William Scott Ritter Jr. speaks with Dimitri Lascaris in a special interview for The Real News. Despite taking some ground in September’s counteroffensive, the Ukrainian military has taken heavy losses and is totally dependent on external support. Moreover, Ritter argues that Ukraine’s objectives in this war are unachievable,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were displaced to make room for these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence. To explore this database, click on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2022/11/03/%E0%B6%B0%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%9A-%E0%B7%84%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%94%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%B1-%E0%B6%B7%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BB-%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%9D%E0%B6%9A%E0%B6%BA-%E0%B7%84/ Q: තතාගත දේශනාව තුලද භාහිර ලෝකයක පැවැත්මක් නැතිබවත් ඵය අසත්‍යයක් බවත් දැක්වේ. A: සූත්‍ර පිටකයේ බොහෝ තැන්හි මේ සම්බන්ධව කියැවේ. ඵ්වා විග්‍රහ වන්නේ ඵක් ඵක් අයගේ දෘෂ්ඨිවලට අනුකූලවයි. ප්‍රථමනිබ්බාන සූත්‍ර දේශනාවේ අත්ථි, භික්ඛවෙ, තදායතනං, යත්ථ නෙව පථවී, න ආපො, න තෙජො, න වායො,......., නායං ලොකො, න පරලොකො, න උභො චන්දිමසූරියා. ........ න ගතිං, න ඨිතිං, න චුතිං, න උපපත්තිං; අප්පතිට්ඨං, අප්පවත්තං, අනාරම්මණමෙවෙතං. එසෙවන්තො දුක්ඛස්සා’’ති. පඨමං. මහණෙනි, යම් තැනක (යත්ථ) පෘථිවිධාතුව නොම ඇත්තේද, ආපෝධාතුව නැත්තේද, තෙජෝ ධාතුව නැත්තේද, වායෝධාතුව නැත්තේද,....... මෙලවක් නැත, පරලොවක් නැත, ඉපදීමෙක් නැත්තේද, සඳ හිරු දෙදෙනද නැත්තේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
ශ්‍රීපාද වන්දනා සමයට අවශ්‍ය යටිතල පහසුකම් පිළිබඳව රජය මැදිහත් වෙනවා... Ø මහනුවර රාජධානිය බිඳවැටීමෙන් පසු අපේ ජනතාව වගාකළ ඉඩම් බොහෝමයක් සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදින් අල්ලගත්තා... Ø ඒ ඉඩම් නැවත ජනතාවට ලබාදී වගා සංග්‍රාමයට එක් කරනවා... - අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා ශ්‍රී පාදස්ථානාධිපති පූජ්‍ය බෙංගමුවේ ධම්මදින්න නායක හිමියන් බැහැදැකීමට පසුගියදා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැල්මඩුල්ල රජමහා විහාරයට ගියේය. එළැඹෙන උදුවප් පොහොය දින සිට ඇරඹෙන ශ්‍රී පාද වන්දනා සමයට අදාලව පහසුකම් සැපයීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ද මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කෙරිණි. එහිදී අනුශාසනා කළ ශ්‍රී පාද ස්ථානාධිපති බෙංගමුවේ ධම්මදින්න හිමි... ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
Caracas stated that it would continue "to defend the truth” and move forward with legal proceedings in cases of possible human rights violations. Caracas, November 7, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government rejected the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s announcement to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses committed by state security forces. “Venezuela regrets that, despite all the information provided and the fluid exchanges with the ICC throughout the year, prosecutor Karim Khan maintains a clearly biased view in relation to the situation in Venezuela, echoing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
It was attended by about 60 managing directors and senior editors of news agencies from 35 countries that are members to OANA. OANA was founded in 1961 at the initiative of UNESCO. Its purpose is to secure direct and free exchange of news between news agencies from countries that account for half of the world's population. The organization was formed through the establishment of an NGO between Asia and the Pacific media outlets and its focus is on issues and conditions of media outlets and journalists. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්,සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව,4 වන මහළ,සෙත්සිරිපාය,බත්තරමුල්ල.අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් තුමනි,ප්‍රාදේශීය විගණන ඒකකවලට අනුයුක්ත විගණන සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් විගණන ඒකකවලින් ඉවත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි.සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව යටතේ දිස්ත්‍රික් 25 ආවරණය වන පරිදි ක්‍රියාත්මක ප්‍රාදේශීය විගණන ඒකක වලට අනුයුක්ත කර සිටින විගණන සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් විගණන ඒකකවලින් ඉවත් කිරීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය බරපතල ගැටළු සහගත තීරණයක් බවත් එම තීරණයට අප සංගමයේ විරෝධතාවය ගොනු කරන බවත්, එසේ ඉවත් කිරීමට ගෙන ඇති තීරණය යළි සලකා බලන ලෙසත් පළමුව ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රධාන අභ්‍යන්තර විගණක විසින් 2022.10.18 දින සියලූම කණ්ඩායම් නායකවරුන්ට හා සියලූම ප්‍රාදේශීය විගණන ඒකක භාර විගණන නිලධාරීන් වෙත යොමු කර ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
Tourism Industry 18. Promotion of Marine Tourism 18.1. New programs have been introduced in many countries in various ways to attract tourists. However, there are lack of approaches to develop the maritime tourism considering advantages of the location of Sri Lanka. Therefore, three maritime zones in the Eastern, Southern and Western provinces will be identified and developed the related infrastructure in those areas. Accordingly, identification and development of the safety sea areas for tourists to engage in sea-related activities in the shallow seas, the development of related infrastructure including, anchoring bays for parking... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
Colombo, November 14 (Ceylon Today): China concluded an important International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security in Beijing last weekend, where the focus was on China’s hybrid rice varieties that could revolutionize global food production and ensure food security. Virtually addressing the Forum Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena expressed deep appreciation to the People’s Republic of China and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who chaired the Forum for the efforts taken on behalf of the people of the world who are affected by the food scarcity. Pointing out that, such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a woman suicide bomber while at a poll rally. Nalini Sriharan - one of six convicted of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and whom the Supreme Court released from a prison in Tamil Nadu's Vellore last week - has appealed to the centre and state to release four Sri Lankan nationals - including her husband V Sriharan. All four are being held at a special refugee camp in Tiruchirappalli - even after being formally... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
‘One thing that worries me is that this could be the precursor to the Rwanda deportation plan.’ BANGKOK Three Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT, are expected to be transported to Rwanda for medical treatment, the British foreign office told The New Humanitarian. More than 200 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, mostly ethnic Tamils claiming to have faced persecution by the Sri Lankan government, arrived on Diego Garcia in five successive boats starting in October 2021.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
Colombo: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka said Monday it would take responsibility for $1.7 billion owed to China by state enterprises as it seeks to sell them off and restructure its foreign debt to secure an IMF bailout.The government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe is in talks with the Washington-based lender as it seeks funding to enable the island to recover from its worst-ever financial crisis.His predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to flee the country and resign after demonstrators overran his house following months of protests over the unprecedented economic hardships faced by the 22 million population. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
පසුගිය ජූනි 9 වනදා අරගලකරුවන් කොටුව ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයට ඇතුළු වූ අවස්ථාවේ දී හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඝාතනය කිරීමේ සැලසුමක් තිබූ බවට උත්තර ලංකා සභාගයේ සභාපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ පවසනවා. ඔහු මෙම අනාවරණය සිදු කළේ, හිරු ටී.වී ඔස්සේ ඊයේ විකාශ වූ සලකුණ දේශපාල සංවාදාත්මක වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින්. https://youtu.be/VxD9XQXAiI8 මෙම සැලැස්මට පෙර අමරිකනු තානාපතිනි ජූලි චන්ග් විසින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ රැකදෙන ලෙස දෙවියන් වහන්සේගෙන් ඉල්ලා යාඥා කළ බවත්, නමුත් ඝාතන සැලැස්මක් වූ එහි අවසානය වූයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයාව ඝාතනය කිරීම බවත් මන්ත්රී වීරවංශ සඳහන් කළා. අරගලකරුවන් මන්දිරයට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා කළු සල්ලි ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ ගොදුරක් බවට පත් වී තමන් මෙන්ම , රටත්, රටේ ආර්ථිකයත් බිිහිසුණු ව්‍යසනයකට පත්කළ ආකාරය අධිකරණ ඇමති විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී හෙළිදරව් කළේය. තමන්ගේ මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරයට කළු සල්ලි ආයෝජනය කළ ජවාරම් කාරයින් කීප දෙනෙකුගේ පෙළඹවීම මත රටේ බදු ප්‍රතිපත්තිය වෙනස් කිරීමෙන් සිදුකළ විනාශය අද ජාතියක් වන්දි ගෙවන බව ද ඔහු පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. බිලියන 1400ක් පූර්ණ ආදායමක් සහිත රටක බිලියන 600ක බදු ආදායම ව්‍යාපාරිකයින්ට සහන දීම සඳහා එක්වර කපා හැරි විට රටේ ආර්ථිකයට වෙන දේ ගැන හිතාගන්න පොඩි ළමයෙකුට උවද සිතා ගත හැකි නමුත් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා එම තීරණය ගත් බව ඇමතිවරයා පෙන්වා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu visited Sri Lanka last Wednesday, October 19. He is reported to have arrived early morning. Having briefed US Embassy staff, he then presided over a civil society roundtable, after which he paid a visit to President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Sabry. Given that civil society does not see the president eye-to-eye, there’s little doubt that these two sessions yielded two completely different pictures of Sri Lanka’s situation. In any case, while commending civil society, Mr Lu went on record stating that President... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
About 50% of factories had been closed and the others were operating at sub optimal levels, Dhammika Samarawickrama, head of the Micro Electric International (Pvt) Ltd said during a TV interview on Wednesday night. “This is a big problem. A lot of factories have been closed, and the others are working only for about two weeks a month. This is because the demand has dropped and there is no point in running the factory throughout the month, he said. Samarawickrama said that apart from the obvious economic problem, a large number... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
While commenting on the start of distributing textbooks for Islamic schools that contain extremist teachings, the education minister said several amendments have been made to remove certain words and sentences from textbooks through a committee appointed by the ministry. Education Minister Susil Premajayantha told the media today after a program at the Prince College, Kotahena in Colombo that the committee had decided before he took over. In recent times, there have been many revelations that Islamic school textbooks contain extremist teachings. The printing of Islamic school textbooks was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
The government has unpaid bills of about Rs. 200 billion, mainly to the construction and various other institutions, says the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Mahinda Siriwardana. He stated that the government has come up with revenue and tax policies because the government is unable to pay those bills. https://youtu.be/FQoxGCYJ10c The Treasury Secretary stated this while speaking during a post-budget seminar on the 2023 budget, under the theme “Dissecting the Budget 2023”, at the Central Bank in Colombo today (15). “On day-to-day operations when you... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL ), Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says Sri Lanka was able to avoid a crash landing of its economy and turn it into a soft landing but on a lower point. “If we have not taken those macroeconomic measures the situation would have been much worse”, he mentioned. https://youtu.be/FQoxGCYJ10c Commenting on the 2023 Budget presented to the parliament yesterday, the CBSL Governor emphasized that this stability could carry forward with necessary reforms. Sri Lanka needs to implement budget... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/11/22)
මෙහි පළමු ලිපියේ සඳහන් මහාචාර්ය වරයා සිංහලයාගේ සම්භවය දකුණු ඉන්දියාව බව (එනම් සිංහලයා පැවතෙන්නේ ද්‍රවිඩයන්ගෙන් වැනි මතයක්) ඔහුගේ 'නොනවතින ඉතිහාසය' යු ටියුබ් නාළිකා වැඩසටහන් වලින් ඉතා සියුම් සහ සැඟවනු ලෙස පෙන්වා දීමට උත්සහ දරා ඇති බවක් පෙනේ. මෙතුමා පල කරන සමහරක් කරුණු මෙරට ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිදාක පිළිනොගත් ඒවායි. ඔහු විසින්ම සොයා ගන්නා ලද ඒවා බව පෙනී යයි. නමුත්, ඒ කිසිවක් මේ ලියුම්කරු දන්නා පරිදී, බාහිර ලොව ඉතිහාසඥයින්, පුරාවිද්‍යාද්‍යාඥයින් පිළිගෙන නැත. මෙම නාලිකාව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආදී ඉතිහාසය පිළිබඳව වැඩ සටහන් සිය ගණනක් සිදු කර ඇති අතර මෙම ලියුම්කරු සවන් දී ඇත්තේ ඉන් අතලොස්සකට පමණි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/22)
The Olcott Oration is annually hosted by the Ananda College Old Boys' Association in memory of the yeoman services rendered by our founders & in particular, the late Col. Henry Steel Olcott in nurturing & establishing the English Buddhist education in "CEYLON". The Olcott Oration 2022 will be delivered virtually by the Former B.O.I Chairman, Investment Banker, PPP Specialist and Entrepreneur Mr Thilan Wijesinghe, Founder & Executive Chairman of TWC (Pvt.) Ltd. The oration is titled "Bridging the Ideological Divide that Caused Sri Lanka's Economic Situation" https://youtu.be/QfCze72DZxI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/22)
රටක බඩගින්න නිවන්න සියලු දෙනා එක් විය යුතු අවස්ථාව එළඹ ඇතැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාව සහ පෝෂණය පිළිබඳ රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් රැස්වීම 2022.11.12 දින රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ පැවති අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය.එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය වරයා -වගා කල හැකි කිසිම රජයේ ඉඩමක් වගා නොකර නිකන් තියන්න බැහැ. නිලධාරීන්ට ඒවාට හරස් වෙන්නත් බැහැ. බාධා කරන්නත් බැහැ. මේ මහ පොළොවට පුළුවන් අපිව අහරින් ස්වයංපෝෂිත කරන්න. අලුත් යෞවන ව්‍යවසායකයන්ට කෘෂිකර්මය පිළිබඳව විශ්වාසයක් ඇති කිරීමට වාතාවරණයක්ඒ තුළින් ඇති කළ යුතුයි. නිලධාරීන් හැම විටම ඒ සඳහා වන සියලුම සහයෝගයන් ලබා දිය යුතුයි.ඇති වී තිබෙන දැවැන්ත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/22)
Nalini was pregnant at the time of the assassination. Nalini Sriharan, one of the six convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who were released on Saturday, said she wasn’t involved in the murder of the Prime Minister of India. In an interview on Sunday, she claimed her only fault was getting acquainted with her husband’s friends. She also spoke about the difficult equation she has with her daughter, Harithra. Sriharan’s husband Murugan is a Sri Lankan national and a co-convict. Nalini said she had no role in Gandhi’s murder. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/22)
While calls for their release arise from various quarters, the four Sri Lankan nationals’ movement remains restricted until further orders. TIRUCHY: Even as the Supreme Court on Friday allowed the remaining six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to walk free, four of them—V Sriharan alias Murugan, Santhan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar—were brought to the special camp at the Central Prison in Tiruchy under police escort on Saturday night. While calls for their release arise from various quarters, the four Sri Lankan nationals’ movement remains restricted until... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/22)
UNP is to take action against its local government member Sashi Hettiarachci who held a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo asking China to restructure Sri Lanka's debt, Party General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara said. "UNP has nothing to do with this protest held by pradeshiya Sabha member Shashi Hettiarachci. Our party believes in diplomacy and the government is engaged in resolving debt matters with China through diplomatic ties," Range Bandara said. " Debt restructuring is a matter concerned with the minister of finance and not an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/11/22)
The edifice of a democratic government rests on three pillars the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. In Sri Lanka, there had been as many as 21 changes in the Constitution dealing with the powers of the executive and legislature. There were heated debates and profuse analyses on the issues involved in these themes. Similar but less frequent and less controversial reviews have been there on the Judiciary as well. The success or failure of a government pivots mainly on the executive. It is also the body that is directly engaged with the public. It is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The award is announced in London. A five-person panel of authors, librarians, literary agents, publishers, and booksellers is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. The Booker Prize is a high-profile literary award, it is greeted with much fanfare. It is considered a great honor for authors to be nominated for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
රටක් විදියට අපේ බලාපොරොත්තුව විදෙස් රැකියා සදහා වෘත්තිකයන් යොමු කිරීම මිස තවදුරටත් ගෘහ සේවය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම නෙවෙයිබිංදුවට වැටුණු රටකත් පටු දේශපාලනය වෙනුවෙන් වැඩ කරනවා නම්, අපට කවදාවත් අපේ රට ගොඩගන්න වෙන්නේ නෑ.මේ තත්ත්වයට රට වැටීමේ වගකීම 100%ක් ම දේශපාලනඥයන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් භාර ගත යුතුයි.ඔබේ යුතුකමේ පිහිටෙන් දැන් රටේ මිනිස්සු දෙයියනේ කියලා හුස්ම ටිකක් ගන්නවා.ඇමැති මනුෂ සෞදියේ දී කියයි.වර්තමානයේ රට වැටී ඇති තත්ත්වයට දේශපාලනඥයන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් 100%ක් ම වගකිව යුතු බවත්, රට බිංදුවට වැටී තිබිය දීත් පටු දේශපාලන අරමුණු මත වැඩ කරනවා නම් යළි මේ රට ගොඩ නැගිය නොහැකි වනු ඇති බවත්, කම්කරු හා විදේශ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the National Security Advisor of India Shri Ajit Kumar Doval today (12) in New Delhi and reviewed the current status of the relations between Sri Lanka and India. The meeting took place as part of the regular and ongoing dialogue between the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka and the National Security Advisor of India. They discussed a range of issues pertaining to the mutual interests of the two countries as well as priority areas for future cooperation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයේ දැන් විභාග වන ඩයනා ගමගේ නඩුව ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ සුවිශේෂ නඩු කටයුත්තක් බවට පත්වෙමින් තිබෙනවා. මා මිත්‍ර නීතිඥ ගුණරත්ත වන්නිනායක ඇතුළු පිරිසක් ස්වෙච්ඡාවෙන් ඉදිරිපත් වී, ඩයනා ගමගේ මන්ත්‍රීවරියට විදේශ ගමන් තහනමක් ලබාගැනීමට කටයුතු කර තිබෙනවා. ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය දිනේවා!! ඩයනා සජබ මන්ත්‍රීවරියක්. ඇය ඉවත් කිරීමට දැන් සජබට ඇත්තටම ඒච්චර උනන්දුවක් තිබෙන බවක් පෙන්නේ නෑ. මේ නඩුවේ පැමිණිලිකාර ඔ්ෂල හේරත් දිගු කළක් මේ විෂය කතා කර තියෙනවා. ඒක දවසක් තුල සජබ පක්ෂ ලියාපදිංචිය සිදු කිරීමේ සිට ඈඳුණු කතා ගොඩක් මේ හා බැඳී තිබෙනවා. අද විපක්ෂය මහින්ද දේශප්‍රියට ගහන්නටත්, වත්මන් මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපති නිමල් පුංචිහේවා වෙනුවෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
'ලොව හොඳින්ම කලේ අපය' යන මත ජනගත කිරීමක් පසුගිය කාලවල සිදු විය. ඒ හා සමාන දෙයක් රටේ ප්‍රසිද්ධ යයි කියා කිව හැකි පුරාවිද්‍යාඥයෙක් අපේ ඉතිහාසය ගැන දැන් කාලාන්තරයක් තිස්සේ ඉතා සාර්ථක ලෙස කරගෙන යයි. මොහු කියන අයුරින් මීට වසර දහස් ගණනකට පෙර ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අති සාර්ථක කෘෂිකාර්මික ජිවන ක්‍රමයක් පැවත ඇත. මෙය දැවැන්ත, නව සොයා ගැනීමකි. නමුත් ලෝකයේ වෙනත් ඉතිහාසඥයන්, පුරාවිද්‍යාඥයන් අද වෙනතුරු මෙය සනාථ කර නොමැත. ලොව පිළිගත් සමාජ විද්‍යා මුළ ධර්ම අනුව ලොවේ ජීවන ශිෂ්ටාචාර 3කි - දඩයම සහ එකතුකිරිම (Hunter and Gatherer), කෘෂිකාර්මික (Agrarian) සහ කාර්මික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
• උරුමය රැකගෙන ජීවිතවලට ශක්තියක් එකතු කිරීමට මහපොළොව සූදානම්...• නීති රීති වල තිබෙන වාද විවාද වලට කාලය ගත කරන්න තවදුරටත් ඉඩක් නැහැ..• රජයේ වගා සංග්‍රාමයේ ආයුර්වේදයට අවශ්‍ය වගාවන් අන්තර් ගත විය යුතුයි... -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාමහ පොළොවේ හරය, උරුමය රැකගෙන මනුෂ්‍ය ජීවිතවලට ශක්තියක් එකතු කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකීක ආයුර්වේදය ලොව පුරා ව්‍යාප්ත කළ යුතු බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.රජයේ ආයුර්වේද වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමයේ දහනම වැනි සංවත්සරය 2022.11.11 දින කොළඹ දී පැවති අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අවධාරණය කළේ නීති රීති වල තිබෙන වාද විවාද වලට කාලය ගත කිරීමට තවදුරටත් ඉඩක් නොමැති බවයි. මෙරට ආයුර්වේදය ලොව පුරා ප්‍රසිද්ධ නමුත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
At the Second handing over Ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai symbolically handed over cash donation of 14,000,000 Thai Baht (SLRS 135,398,986 ) from Royal Thai Government to Sri Lanka Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UNESCAP C.A. Chaminda I. Colonne on 01st of Nonmember 2022. This financial donation will be channeled through the United Nations to Sri Lanka. Other symbolic donations made included medicines and medical supplies valued THB 1,000,000 by Thai Red Cross Society, THB... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ රජය විසින් සිදුකළ විශාල වරදක් වන රසායනික පොහොර තහනම් කිරීම සඳහා උපදෙස් ලබාදුන්නේ කවුරුන්දැයි යන්න අදටත් අභිරහසක් බව පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. මෙය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට පෙර තමන් සහ විමල් වීරවංශ මන්ත්‍රීවරයා මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැඩි ව විරෝධය පළ කළ බව ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කළේය. පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායකයා මේ බව සදහන් කර සිටියේ උත්තර ලංකා සභාගයේ අනුරාධපුර සමුළුව අමතමිනි. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායකයා වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේ පැවසීය. ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේ අඛණ්ඩව වසර 1,400ක් අගනුවර ලෙස පැවැති එකම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
Santhan, Robert Payas, and Jayakumar are Sri Lankans while Nalini and R P Ravichandran, belong to Tamil Nadu. Nalini (File) The six Indian and Sri Lankan nationals convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi are likely to be released from jail today. The jail authorities have reportedly received copies of the Supreme Court order that secured their premature release and set in motion formalities required to end their three-decades-long incarceration. Nalini Sriharan, who has been released from jail, may stay in Chennai or might join her... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
I t is reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tasked the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKI) “with reviewing Sri Lanka’s foreign policy and making recommendations on the structure of the island’s diplomatic apparatus” (The Sunday Morning, October 30, 2022). According to the Executive Director Dr. D. L. Mendis of the LKI, “once the consultations are completed, recommendations on a new foreign policy will be presented to the President and later to Parliament (Ibid). Continuing, Dr. Mendis stated: “Sri Lanka comes first. But we have to also be mindful of our neighbourhood.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
The above topic is relevant to all countries experiencing economic crises for IMF and China, it appears are alternative and perhaps competing sources for economic aid and they are both accused of causing debt-traps for the recipient countries. IMF is accused by people like Joseph Stiglitz of manipulating the economy of poor countries in such a way that there is a drain of their wealth for the benefit of the rich countries. China is accused of trapping the recipients of its aid to cough out to the Chinese their valuable national... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
Indian investments in some strategic locations in Sri Lanka could pose a serious national security threat, Education Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), Pubudu Jayagoda says.Jayagoda added that President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who does not have a mandate to be the President, had initiated a number of economic policy and legal amendments to facilitate Indian investments in strategic areas. “Speaking in Parliament on Thursday Wickremesinghe urged the Tamil political parties to join him in finding a solution to the problems faced by Tamil people. No one opposes this in principle,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
Former Central Bank Governor, Ajith Nivard Cabraal who has been one of the individuals criticized for Sri Lanka's worst-ever economic crisis, has released a new book titled "Among Economic Killers" which is priced at Rs.2500. The book is written in Sinhalese. Cabraal was last week released on bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court over a private plaint filed alleging that he was responsible for the country's crippling economic crisis. Colombo Additional Magistrate Harshana Kekunawala ordered Cabraal to be released on a surety bail of Rs.10 million. Outside court,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
The National Council sub-committee on national policy which met on Nov. 10 has decided to appoint a sub-committee made up of representatives of all the relevant institutions to formulate policies related to ensuring food security in this country. This was decided at the meeting of National Council sub-committee on identifying short and medium-term programs related to National Policy chaired by MP Namal Rajapaksa. Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Fisheries, as well as other institutions under the said ministries were invited to this meeting and basic proposals were discussed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against three LTTE supporters who were allegedly planning terrorist acts to revive the proscribed group in Tamil Nadu. “The charge sheet was filed against the arrested accused from Tamil Nadu – Naveen alias Chakaravarthy M, Sanjay Prakash J and A Kabilar alias Kabilan,” a spokesperson for the NIA said. The NIA said the case was related to the recovery of two country-made pistols, ammunition and gunpowder during a vehicle check near Puliyampatti division in the Omalur police station area of Salem... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/11/22)
ජාත්‍යන්තර සහයෝගීතාව සඳහා වූ රුසියානු සංගමයේ අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල නියෝජ්‍ය සභාපති පොලොස්කොව් ව්ලැඩිමීර් (Polozkov Vladimir) මහතා හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අතර හමුවක් 2022.11.10 ශ්‍රි ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී සිදුවිය. දෙරට අතර පවතින දීර්ඝ කාලීන මිත්‍රත්වය සහ රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික සබඳතා පිළිබඳව අදහස් දක්වමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා රුසියානු දූත පිරිස පිළිගත්තේය.ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිදුකළ හැකි මහා පරිමාණ ආයෝජන අවස්ථා පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කළ දෙපාර්ශවය කර්මාන්ත, වරාය, නාවික ඇතුළු ක්ෂේත්‍ර කිහිපයක ආයෝජන අවස්ථා පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කරනු ලැබීය. මෙම අවස්ථාවට අමාත්‍ය රමේෂ් පතිරණ, මොස්කව් හි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ජනිතා ලියනගේ මොස්කව් හි ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ සංවර්ධන සමාගම් කිහිපයක අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල සභාපති Ryzhkov Petr, සහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
Operations of the Port of Colombo with the help and investment of companies from China India and Mersk with Keels have shown remarkable progress and efficient functioning under POP basis enabling the country to generate more income. This is the best time to promote another investor like Japan or Korea to take lion’s share paving the way to infuse funds to complete the construction of the East Container Terminal (ECT) In order to satisfy union demand it is also suggested that 10% shares are allocated to all the port workers ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
Investigations into complaints filed over the incidents ragging will be handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the police said today. https://youtu.be/rRIxmtn-ndw According to a press release issued by the police media division, the decision was taken based on a directive given by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP). The IGP has informed all senior police officers that hereafter, the CID would be probing the complaints regarding ragging incidents received by police stations.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
For the first time from Sri Lanka, arrangements have been made to export the first consignment of sour banana to the Dubai Market on November 26, Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. He said 12,500kg of sour bananas in a 40' container will be exported to Dubai market later this month. Sri Lanka's economy is currently suffering from foreign exchange crunch. Therefore, Sour Banana has been cultivated as a project in Rajanganaya with the aim of earning foreign exchange. It has been cultivated in 200 acres of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
Budget proposals for 2023 has been compiled within the framework of economic program recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), President Ranil Wickremesighe informed Parliament today. The President came out with this information in response to questions raised by the opposition MPs on the budget in the House. “What we will focus on the budget whether to increase direct taxes or indirect taxes, and on controlling state expenditure. This will be the framework on the budget and it will also reflect the economic targets set by the IMF,” he said.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
The United States has imposed sanctions on an individual who was identified as the Sri Lanka based-business partner of a sanctioned al-Qa’ida financial facilitator and external operations plotter. According to a statement issued by the US Department of the Treasury, the individual named Mohamad Irshad Mohamd Haris Nizar had been al-Qa’ida financial facilitator, Ahmed Luqman Talib’s business partner in Sri Lanka since at least late 2018. “Their business dealings in Sri Lanka have generated nearly USD 200,000 per year in profit; the majority of Talib’s income was derived from one-third of those... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe held discussions on debt management with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva, Finance Minister of Ghana Ken Ofori-Atta and Speaker of the People's Majlis of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed on the sidelines of COP27. President Ranil Wickramasinghe says that they expect to reach an agreement on debt restructuring by December. The President mentioned this when he briefed Parliament today (10) regarding the discussions he had with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva. President Ranil Wickramasinghe further stated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/11/22)
Sri Lanka being a Third World country will find the attempt of Michigan State University to find the best and quickest method of bringing about economic development in Bangladesh, very helpful. That was the The Comilla Programme of Rural Development which stands out as an instance of how an educational institute could bring about development. Here the ‘university’ was called an Academy. The Government of Pakistan requested help from the USA. The United States assigned that task to Michigan State University, the institution that had successfully brought about economic development in the State of Michigan.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
In nostalgia I remember my handling public address systems in Colombo. My father owned Radio Works, Bambalapitiya, that held a contact to supply public address systems for the LSSP for years. He employed three technicians who were busy at other venues and I was dropped off with equipment somewhere. I would scale a wall or scramble up a small tree to set up a loudspeaker and blast music till the speakers would drop in one by one. NM, Philip, Colvin had to attend to about five meetings and the people would... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
සිංහළ භාශාව රාජ්‍ය භාශාව කිරීමෙන් එවකට රටෙහි මුළු ජනග්‍රහණයෙන් 6% වැනි කුඩා කොටසක් පරිහරණය කල ඉංගිරිසි බස අභිබවා, 94% ක් වැනි ජනකොටසකට තම බසින් රජයත් සමග ගනුදෙනු කිරීමේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී මහඟු අවකාශය තහවුරු විය. එමගින් දෙමළ ජනයාට විශේශිතව අබමල් රේනුවක අසාධාරනයක් වූවාදැයි අභියෝගාත්මකව ප්‍රශ්ණ කල හැක. නිදහසෙන් පසු ලංකාව පාලනය කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාදාමය කේදවාචකයක් යයි පවසන සමාජ දේශපාලන විශ්ලේශකයෙකු වශයෙන් හැඳින්වන තැනැත්තෙකු විසින් සමාජ මාද්‍ය ජාලය ඔස්සේ පවසන්නේ සිංහළ භාශාව රාජ්‍ය භාශාව කිරීම හේතුකොටගෙන බර්ගර් ජනයා සහ දෙමළ ජනයා රට හැර ගිය බවය. ප්‍රතිශතයක් වශයෙන් ඉතා කුඩා ජනකොටසක්වූ බර්ගර් ජාතිකයන් හට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi celebrated this year's Diwali festival, felicitating its long-serving Indian staff members and with a family get-together that included the family members of both home-based and local staffs numbering around 150. The felicitation ceremony and the family get-together were held instant in the garden of the official residence of the High Commissioner. The event was organized under the guidance and full sponsorship of the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda, with a view to promoting camaraderie between the home- based... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
ඉදිකිරීම් සහ සෞඛ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍ර සඳහා වැඩි ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් පිරිසක් බදවා ගැනීමටත්, ගෘහ සේවක සේවිකාවන්ගේ අවම වැටුප ඉහළ නැංවීමටත් අවශ්‍ය පියවර ගැනිමට සෞදි අරාබිය එකගතාවය පළ කර තිබේ.ඒ අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ සෞදි අරාබියේ මානව සම්පත් සහ සමාජ සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය ඉංජිනේරු අහමද් බින් සුලෙයිමාන් බින්අබ්දුල් අසීස් අල් රාජ්හි මහතා අතර ඊයේ (08) පැවැති පළමු නිල ද්වීපාර්ශ්වික සාකච්ඡාවේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ලෙසිනි.මෙහි දී ඉදිකිරීම් සහ සෞඛ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍ර බදවාගැනීම් සදහා ද්වී පාර්ශ්වීය කමිටු දෙකක් පත් කිරීමටත්, ගෘහ සේවක සේවිකාවන් බදවා ගැනීමේ දී පවතින අක්‍රමිකතා සොයා බැලීම සදහා දින 30ක් තුළ නිර්දේශ ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට උපදේශන කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීමටත් සෞදි අරාබියේ මානව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl Marx, remains extremely relevant today. The Empire’s recent rigged presidential election has been disrupted by the support of an avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders, by millions of voters. To find out why Marx’s popularity has stood the test of time, Abby Martin interviews renowned Marxist economist Richard Wolff, Professor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
In the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky explore the links between militarism, rising fascism, and climate catastrophe. World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky joins The Chris Hedges Report for the first of a two-part interview. Chomsky has been a vocal critic of the $47 billion dollars in military aid the US has sent to Ukraine—an amount that equals the total budget of the State Department and exceeds the paltry amounts the country has committed to the fight against climate change. In a wide-ranging... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
"ප්‍රභාගේ උපතේ සිට මරණය දක්වා විශේෂ අනාවරණයක්" - ප්‍රභාගේ පවුල ලඟින්ම ඇසුරු කළ වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් හෙළිකරයි https://youtu.be/JV11SoRjDGQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Since the end of the civil war, hate narratives and extremist ideologies spread by nationalistic groups and politicians have gradually changed the mindset of citizens to suspect other ethno religious groups. Trust among communities had been lost and furthered eroded by the Easter Sunday attacks, undermining religious coexistence. The tendency of youth to accept hate narratives has grown in recent years as a result of social media. Identifying the need of strengthening multi religious cooperation, the iDove approach was launched by the African Union Commission and GIZ to foster innovative youth based interventions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
The Adani Group will become the first Indian port operator in Sri Lanka as construction of the Colombo Port's Western Container Terminal (WCT) is set to start on Wednesday. The group will have the majority stake in the West Container International Terminal Joint Venture (JV) which is valued at $700 million. The build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreement which is to remain valid for 35 years, is said to be the "largest" foreign investment ever in Sri Lanka's port history. The state-run Sri Lanka Ports Authority will own 15 per cent, while local company John Keells will own... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Greed is a burning desire, unquenchable thirst, a craving and lust. People who are greedy want the objects of their desire to provide them with lasting satisfaction so they feel fulfilled, whole, and complete. Greed creates an inner hunger so that that they always seem to be striving towards an unattainable goal. They mistakenly believe their happiness is dependent upon that goal, but once they attain it they get no lasting satisfaction. Greed is all encompassing as it includes defilements relating to money, yearning lust and food and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday (08) said that the party leaders were yet to respond to his request for the appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to examine TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s criticism of the Supreme Court. Minister Rajapakse said that he was quite disappointment over the inordinate delay on the part of the party leaders. The Colombo District lawmaker said that he had sought the party leaders’ intervention through Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, about two weeks ago. The Speaker chairs the party leaders’ meeting.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says that the Sri Lankan economy, which faced extreme headwinds and heightened uncertainties during the first half of 2022, has shown signs of stability in the second half of the year so far. In a report titled “Recent Economic Developments: Highlights of 2022 and Prospects for 2023” published by the CBSL today (Nov 09), it is revealed that the stability has been assisted by the myriad of multifaceted policy interventions undertaken to steer the economy to transition towards a path of stable and sustainable growth over the medium... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
The Colombo Fort Magistrate today remanded a catholic priest on charges of having cheated a man of Rs.8 million on a promise of providing a Prado Jeep imported from Japan. Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage remanded Fr. Warnakulasuriya Leslie Fernando till November 22 after being produced before Court by Colombo Fraud Investigations Bureau. The complainant claimed that he had given a sum of Rs. 8 million to the priest as he agreed to provide a Prado Jeep. Defence Counsel appearing for the suspect told court that the priest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Some 81 schoolchildren who were addicted to drugs have been sent for rehabilitation within the first nine months of this year, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said today. He told Parliament that three children who are between 1 and 14 year-old and 78 children aged between 15 and 19 years were among those referred to rehabilitation between January and September 2022. https://youtu.be/mgsmMCkJgBg The minister said this while responding to a question raised by Parliamentarian Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera. The Minister said prevailing laws were not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Pitches SL as a safe and secure destination that places hospitality at its coreSays country cheaper than competitors and offers value for money Tourism Minister Harin Fernando appealed to international travellers to add Sri Lanka to their travel wish list, assuring tourists are cushioned from the economic shocks the country is undergoing, and that they will be well looked after. Fernando, currently at the World Travel Market 2022 London (WTM), pitched Sri Lanka as a safe and secure destination that places hospitality at its core, regardless of the situation in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Regulating of international schools will begin next year, Minister of Education Susil Premajaynatha told Parliament today. Responding to a question raised by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, the Minister said the Department of Education will only look at the available space in schools, available facilities and other criteria such as education qualifications of teachers. “We don’t intend to control any other aspects pertaining to international schools,” the Minister said. “International schools also come under the purview of Child Protection Authority and this institution can look into any incidents of child abuse... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
The revenue of Rs. 16 billion that the government lost after the special commodity levy imposed on sugar was slashed by the previous administration in 2020, Acting Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. He made this remark in parliament today (Nov. 09), presenting a document compiled by the Commissioner-General of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) based on the report of the Auditor General. https://youtu.be/7YXDl0WnkJg Siyambalapitiya explained that, pursuant to the existing law, 24% of the aforementioned amount can be recovered from the relevant companies as income tax. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara says that after 06 months of discussions, the officials of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) have finally mapped out a plan to accommodate more than 2,800 Mega Watts of renewable energy to the existing grid between 2022-2026. In a tweet, the minister said that he had a positive meeting with CEB and the Senior Engineers’ Association (SEA) pertaining to this yesterday (Nov 08). “After 6 months of discussions, CEB officials finally mapped out a plan to accommodate 2800+ MW of Renewable Energy to the existing grid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
Preparations are underway for the parliamentarians of several political parties to join the United National Party (UNP) and to support the government in the upcoming budget, according to political sources. Accordingly, the sources further claim that nearly 13 MPs of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will join the UNP on the date of the Budget Speech. https://youtu.be/gu2TXdMabpk It is also reported that initial discussions have been held in this regard and that further discussions are being carried out regarding the ministerial positions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/11/22)
It is only a Philip Gunawardena that can do it. I happened to have worked with him. He was the Minister for Food and Agriculture and me an Assistant Commissioner of Marketing at Ratnapura, my first year of service. Down came an immediate transfer for me to the Tripoli Market in Colombo. It was a punishment transfer. I had punished one of his trade union men, fining him one day’s pay for not carrying out the Marketing Officer, Saparamadu’s instructions to run to the stores and bring some bananas that were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
The command ' Kill and Eat animals ' found and endorsed in all Abrahamic religions is a throwback to the primitive hunter-gatherer mindset that prevailed at the commencement of the life of the Homo Sapiens species. Basically, it means you live off other species. But this conduct is morally indefensible for a higher level of humanity in its evolutionary progress. The Buddha saw the vile nature of the destruction of other lives resulting from the hunter-gatherer mindset still dwelling in the inner recesses of our minds. He wanted to develop a mindset... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
According to reports of pro-government media outlet of Myanmar, Global New light of Myanmar, Myanmar’s export has been surpassing imports in the cross-border trade with Bangladesh and 8,620.7 tonnes of exports to Bangladesh was estimated at US$10.733 million between April and October in the 2022-2023 financial year.Myanmar’s fishery export accounted for 65 per cent and dried groceries constituted 35 per cent in Myanmar’s two border posts with Bangladesh; Sittway and Maungtaw border posts. The fishery products include farmed rohu, hilsa, mackerel, dried anchovy and dried fish powder. Tamarind, onion,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
After mortars landed in Bangladesh during attacks against the Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State, border soldiers from Bangladesh and Myanmar's junta promised to mend bilateral ties on Sunday. The Rakhine region of Myanmar, which borders Bangladesh, has seen a number of airspace violations over the past few months as border guards there have fought domestic militants. Myanmar border guards have apologized to their counterparts in Bangladesh for these events. A BGP delegation from Myanmar also promised that similar situations would not occur in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
UN agencies in Sri Lanka say they raised $79m in aid, they need an additional $70m to cater to growing number of poor people. The number of people in Sri Lanka needing urgent humanitarian help has doubled to 3.4 million, the United Nations has said as it warned of a worsening food crisis in the south Asian island nation that declared itself bankrupt in July amid an unprecedented economic crisis. UN agencies working in Sri Lanka in a joint statement on Tuesday said that they had raised $79m to feed those in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka charged over alleged sexual assault Injured star was preparing to leave Sydney when arrested at team's CBD hotelGunathilaka has been moved to Parklea jail in western Sydney on remand31-year-old arrested in luxury city hotel early on Sunday and handcuffed He is accused of raping a 29-year-old woman at Rose Bay in the city's east The Sri Lankan cricket star charged with four counts of rape had 'developed a playboy lifestyle' and struggled with discipline on and off the field, it has been revealed. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
The Reserve Bank of India had announced guidelines on overseas trade in Indian Rupee in July. In part, this is also aimed at curtailing India’s dollar dependence for trade, and indirectly strengthen the domestic currency. On the lines of an arrangement being worked out with Russia, India is in talks with Sri Lanka, the Maldives and multiple south east Asian, African and Latin American countries to initiate trading in the Indian Rupee. The countries in these geographies have shown interest in opening Special Rupee Vostro or SRV... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of Staff of the President Sagala Ratnayake recalled that Faris Hadad-Zervos, the World Bank Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka was amazed with the action policy and the vision of President Ranil Wickremesinghe which was revealed during their meeting recently. The WB Country Director also expressed his willingness to support the President’s vision. “The president’s vision for the country includes some measures that go beyond what the IMF or WB has stipulated. His vision is actually far ahead than this sphere,” Mr.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
Senior Advisor to the President on National Security and Chief of Staff of the President Sagala Ratnayake recalled that Faris Hadad-Zervos, the World Bank (WB) Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka was amazed by the action policy and the vision of President Ranil Wickremesinghe which was revealed during their meeting recently. The WB Country Director also expressed his willingness to support President Wickremesinghe’s vision. “The president’s vision for the country includes some measures that go beyond what the IMF or WB has stipulated. His vision is actually far ahead than this sphere,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe addressing the COP27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt said that unbridled industrialization of the developed countries is the root cause of climate change, leaving the poor to suffer the consequences. https://youtu.be/kMpHIqhSwqg He said that the problems facing poor countries are augmented due to the absence of adequate funding. As a result, these countries are facing double jeopardy – struggling to develop economically while fighting to protect the living standards of their populations. Therefore, President Wickremesinghe said that the developed countries must... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong has reiterated China’s continued assistance to Sri Lanka in overcoming the country’s debt crisis. Qi Zhenhong has given this assurance during an extensive discussion held with State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe yesterday (Nov 07) on Sri Lanka’s debt issue. In a tweet, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo mentioned that the Ambassador reiterated China’s continued and concrete support to the island to overcome various challenges. State Minister Semasinghe stated that they had an extensive discussion on the debt treatment process of Sri Lanka. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
Sri Lanka has 4 land registers & successive governments continue to pass amendments without passing 2 simple insertions that would protect land owners & their lands including State land. Whether this is being done intentionally or on the advice of advisors or ignoring advice is something the legislature needs to answer. Land owners cannot simply wait for the Government or Public officials to protect their land. Here are some practical solutions that land owners can take to protect their land. The former Minister of Justice Ali Sabry proudly announced in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්‍යාපනය සහ නීති විභාග පැවැත්වීම වළක්වා ඇති අලි සබ්‍රිගේ ගැසට් පත්‍රයට එරෙහිව ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිට කළ ඉල්ලීමට අනුව ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශයට යොමු කළ ලිපියට කුමක් වීද?සිංහල භාෂාව රාජ්‍ය භාෂාව බවට 1972 ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව මගින් පත්කර තිබුණි.ඒ අනුව නීති අධ්‍යාපනයද රාජ්‍ය භාෂාවෙන් ලබා දීම ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති විද්‍යාලයේ ආරම්භ විය.ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති විද්‍යාලයේ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්‍යාපනය ලබා දීම වැළක්වීමට නොයෙක් බලවේග ක්‍රියාත්මක විය.2010 දී රවුෆ් හකීම් අධිකරණ ඇමතිව සිටි සමයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති විද්‍යාලයේ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්‍යාපනය ලබා දීම වැළැක්වීමට නීති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
A bust of Sir D.B. Jayatilaka, the first Representative of Sri Lanka to India, commissioned by the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi in a bid to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Sri Lanka sending her first Representative to India in 1942, was ceremonially unveiled today (7). A few former High Commissioners of India to Sri Lanka, family members of two former Indian High Commissioners to Colombo and two Deputy High Commissioners of India who had served in Sri Lanka joined Sri Lanka’s High... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
“ ඉතිහාසය පුනරාවර්තනය වෙමින් පවතී. පළමුව ඛෙදවාචකයක් ලෙසය. දෙවනුව විගඩමක් ලෙසය.”-කාර්ල් මාක්ස් සෝවියට් දේශය ප්‍රමුඛ සමාජවාදි කඳවුරත් එක්සත් ජනපදය ප්‍රමුඛ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදි කඳවුරත් අතර සීතල යුද්ධය උග්‍රව පැවැති 1970 දී චිලියේ මහජන එක්සත් පක්ෂය අති විශාල ජනවරමකින් ආණ්ඩු බලය ලබාගැනීමට සමත් වූ අතර එම පක්ෂයේ නායක සැල්වොදෝර් ඇලන්ඩේ චිලියේ පළමු සමාජවාදි ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස තේරිපත් විය. මේ අවස්ථාවේදී එක්සත් ජනපද ජනාධිපති රිචර්ඩ් නික්සන් විසින් ඇමෙරිකාවේ මධ්‍යම රහස් ඔත්තු සේවයට දෙන ලද උපදේශය වූයේ චිලියේ ‘ආර්ථිකයට විලාප නැගීමට සලස්වනු’ (Make the Economy Scream) යන්නයි.(1) ජනාධිපති ජෝන් එෆ්. කෙනඩි සහ තානාපති එඩ්වර්ඩ් කෝරී ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
Controversial Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka is still only a suspect in the incident, and if he is proven guilty, Sri Lanka will enforce all its laws against him, Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry Secretary Dr. Amal Harsha de Silva said. https://youtu.be/Exvq8JVrC2c Addressing the media, he said Danushka Gunathilaka was a cricketer who was approved by the Sports Minister and sent to Australia representing the country. "We cannot escape from our responsibility. We should appear for him, if he has come up with a problem. If... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/11/22)
The (so-called Sri Lankan-owned) media has demanded with one voice that Sri Lanka default on debts & submit to the IMF. These debts were largely incurred to pay for imports of fuel, fertilizer, food, pharma and machinery, most of which was not invested in productive efflorescence. At the same time, the US Treasury’s IMF, which is not a democratic organization at all, is clearly working thakata-thei with US games to turn Sri Lanka into a US military base in the Indian Ocean. Until Sri Lanka submits, they aim to play all sides against the middle, while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/22)
November 6, 2022 at 10:22 pm | lanka C news මෙරට අප්‍රකට ප්‍රකෝටිපතියන් මෙන්ම කළු සල්ලි ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ව හොඳට අන්දවා රුපියල් බිලියන ගණනාවක් වංචා කර අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට හසුවී දැන් බන්ධනාගාරයේ සිර මැදිරියකට වී කල් ගෙවන තිලිණි ප්‍රියමාලිගේ තවත් සඟයන් දෙදෙනකුව අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ විමර්ශන නිලධාරීන් විසින් ඉකුත් සතියේදී අත්අඩංගුවට ගත්තේය. ඒ අපේ රටේ අන්ධ භක්තියෙන් මිථ්‍යාව පසු පස හඹා යන අහිංසක බොදු ජනතාව හොඳට අන්දමින් රහත් වෙස් ගෙන මඩිය තරකර ගත් තවත් එක් භික්ෂුවක් වන බොරැල්ලේ සිරි සුමන හිමියන්ව සහ සමාගම් අධ්‍යක්ෂවරියක වූ ජානකී සිරිවර්ධන නැමැත්තියවය. කඩවත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/22)
The definition of 'True Humanity' must go beyond the species of Humanity. This is the true test of our Humanity. If Humans confine themselves to the well-being of only one species i.e. Homo Sapiens ( human species) and remain indifferent to the well-being of non-human beings (other species) and the surrounding Nature we become emasculated morally and ethically. Every religion that wants to retain its credibility in the future must embrace a vision of 'Going Beyond Humanity. The notion that God created animals to serve purely the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/22)
Preamble This proposal has been made with an action plan to develop NAUTICAL TOURISM with much emphasis on Entertainment Based facilities for tourists who will be tempted to visit Sri Lankan shores. This document is an outline of the idea, and a complete discussion is needed in person to elaborate in detail. Already existing entertainment-based Casino Industry currently existing in the country can be further expanded with support from the government to attract tourists from China, Hongkong, Singapore, Europe and middle eastern countries. Timeline Special Cabinet... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/11/22)
As a school boy at St Peter’s College I was always dragged by my father to mount and set up a public address system at one of the LSSP meetings. He owned Radio Works Bambalapitiya and held a contract with the LSSP to supply public address systems at election meetings for years. We employed three technicians but they were busy at other meetings. I have many a time observed NM looking hard at me again and again- a schoolboy who could mess up a meeting. But I was up to the mark. Ultimately... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Food Security means that all people always have physical & economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appropriate foods, which are produced in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner, and that people are able to make informed decisions about their food choices (https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-01-09/what-is-food-security/). The FAO defines the four pillars of food security as availability, access, utilisation, and stability of food. Whether it is from a Sri Lankan context, or more generally from a global context, ensuring food security is a complex subject that has no easy answers if all aspects... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
I took over the post of the chairman of the Ports Authority with a genuine intention of initiating action to develop Galle port as a tourist destination by developing a marina A steel gas barge berthed over 15 years occupying 100 m length of Closenburh Pier was cleared by courts during this period for scrapping. A feasibility study to develop Trinco Port as the nucleus for the Marine and Offshore industry was to be awarded after much effort to a local consultancy company. Managed to issue an RFP to expand bunkering tankage... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Abby's speech at the People’s Summit for Democracy, the progressive counter to Biden's imperialist ‘Summit of the Americas’ on June 9 2022 https://youtu.be/qG2G5sC7qWA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
The Monetary Institute's "Our Money, Our Banks, Our Country - Money Creation in the Modern Economy" conference was held in Zurich, Switzerland on February 5, 2018. Professor Richard Werner, Chair in International Banking, University of Southampton, England provided this overview of how money is created in nations throughout the world and the impacts and consequences of the current system. https://youtu.be/IzE038REw2k?list=PLqUdGWk835zPiNJbd9svNFy3iE4eBjE1l... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
යෝජිත විදේශ ආයෝජන ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා අවශ්‍ය අනුමැතිය කඩිනමින් ලබාදීමට නව ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ හඳුන්වා දෙන බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. කැනේඩියානු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රේචල් තෝමස් මහත්මිය ප්‍රධාන ප්‍රමුඛ ව්‍යවසායකයින් පිරිසක් 2022.11.03 දින කොළඹ, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. විදේශ ආයෝජන සඳහා ඉදිරිපත්වන යෝජනා කඩිනමින් අනුමත කිරීමට අවශ්‍ය සංශෝධන ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට රජය දැනටමත් සැලසුම් කර ඇති බව අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මෙහිදී කැනේඩියානු ව්‍යවසායක පිරිසට පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. ආර්ථිකය ස්ථාවර කිරීම සඳහා මේ වන විට රජය ගෙන ඇති පියවර පිළිබඳව ඔවුන් දැනුවත් කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වැඩි වැඩියෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
At the Second handing over Ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai symbolically handed over cash donation of 14,000,000 Thai Baht (SLRS 135,398,986 ) from Royal Thai Government to Sri Lanka Ambassador and Permanent Representative to UNESCAP C.A. Chaminda I. Colonne on 01st of Nonmember 2022. This financial donation will be channeled through the United Nations to Sri Lanka. Other symbolic donations made included medicines and medical supplies valued THB 1,000,000 by Thai Red Cross Society, THB... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
PCR පරීක්ෂාවෙන් සොයාගත් මන්කිෆොක්ස් රෝගියාගේ නිදර්ශක, ජාන අනුක්‍රමික විශ්ලේෂණයක් මගින් වහා තහවුරු කර ගත යුතුයි. නව රෝගයක් සදහා සිදු කරනු ලබන PCR පරීක්ෂණ වල නිරවද්‍යතවය විචලනය විය හැකි නිසාත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුල භාවිත කරණු ලබන පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටල තොගයට පසු පරීක්ෂණ කට්ටටල වල විශාල දියුණු කිරීම් සිදු වූ නිසාත්, රටට ඇතුළු වී ඇති ප්‍රභේදය නිවැරදිව හදුනා ගැනීම රෝග පාළණය සදහා අතිශය වැදගත් නිසාත්, වෛද්‍ය පර්යේෂණ ආයතනය එම අත්‍යවශ්‍ය පරීක්ෂණ පියවර මග නොහැර සිටීමට අනිවාර්යෙන්ම වගබලා ගත යුතුය. මන්කි ෆොක්ස් සමීප සම්භන්ධතා හරහා වැඩි වශයෙන් බෝවන අතර, වාතයෙන් හෝ බිදිති හරහා බෝ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
A Sri Lankan arrested in the UK in February this year in connection with the killing of Mylvaganam Nimalarajan, who contributed to the BBC’s Tamil and Sinhala services, is under investigation, though released from custody there.Jack Griffith of Metropolitan Police Service’s Directorate of Media and Communication said that the arrested person had been released but was under investigation. Griffith said so early this week responding to The Island queries. Nimalarajan was killed at his Jaffna residence in an area held by the governmentThe spokesperson said... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint a few more Cabinet ministers during the budget period, a top source said. The president can increase the size of the Cabinet to 30 according to the Constitution. Earlier, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) requested the president to swear in the remaining number of ministers to run the government. According to the source, SLPP MPS Pavithra Wanniarachchi, C.B. Ratnayake and S.M. Chandrasena are tipped to get ministerial posts. Besides, MP Jeewan Thondaman of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MP Duminda Dissanayake will be included... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Sri Lanka Navy today (Nov. 05) intercepted two Indian trawlers with 15 Indian fishermen poaching in the Sri Lanka waters. The interception was made during an operation mounted in the sea areas north of Talaimannar. The operation was conducted by the North Central Naval Command this evening, having spotted a cluster of Indian poaching trawlers in Sri Lankan waters, in seas north of Talaimannar. Accordingly, 02 Fast Attack Craft of the 4th Fast Attack Flotilla (4 FAF) attached to the Northern Naval Command were deployed for this operation, leading to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with the Iranian Red Crescent, donated an urgently required consignment of essential medicines and other medical supplies to Sri Lanka at a ceremony held at the Red Crescent Office in Tehran on November 03. The total value of the medicine consignment is over SLR 108,123,522 which is equivalent to US Dollars 294,743. The donation, consisting 119 essential medical items, was handed over to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Iran G.M.V. Wishwanath Aponsu by the Government of Iran in the presence of senior... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
China will allow greater market access and share opportunities with all countries, President Xi Jinping said on Friday, following a sharp slowdown of external trade and ongoing tensions with major economies. In an address via video to open the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Xi called on the world to commit to openness amid what he deemed “accelerated changes unseen in a century.” “We will share with every country China’s vast market opportunities [while] we step up efforts to cultivate a robust domestic market,” Xi said. “China will urge... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Sri Lanka has received another 500 metric tonnes (50,000 packs) of rice donated by China. The rice consignment was handed over to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education on Friday (Nov. 04). https://youtu.be/W8pjXNhMZsM The Chinese Embassy in Colombo stated that this batch would be distributed to needy students in the Eastern Province. Including the delivery of this rice consignment, China has provided a total of 6,000 MT of rice (600,000 packs) to schools in Sri Lanka since June this year. On October 26, China delivered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Hotline 1905 was introduced for the Public to lodge complaints in all three languages against bribery and corruption activities of government officials by the Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, and Local Government.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Sri Lanka's gross official reserves were at USD 1.8 billion at the end of September including the China Central Bank exchange facility. The aggregate value of gross official reserves and foreign reserves of the banking sector is USD 6 billion.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
Earnings from tourism for January -October 2022 surpass the USD1 billion mark with the USD 75.6 million earnings of October 2022.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/11/22)
There are rain clouds, not too dark and not threatening. It might rain later. There was rain last night. Tomorrow, there will be other clouds of similar shade. Non-threatening for a while. There might be rain. The city pulsated in rhythms acquired over the years. In some village in the Dry Zone, there are children at play. The potter is at his wheel. Someone, somewhere is listening to music. The country called Sri Lanka in determination and resilience, hope and foreboding, meanders through the hills and vales of joy and sorrow at a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
පින් කෙත හෙළ රන් දෙරණේ යලි උපදින්නට හේතු වාසනා වේවා There are differences in playing to a full and captive audience in a magnificent theatre, engaging in a light rehearsal at home with table and hand-pumped harmonium or a full rehearsal with an entire orchestra and sophisticated sound system, and in responding to a simple request by an admirer. The place, moment, ambience, sense of occasion and size and character of the audience naturally make for difference in setting and context. For Pundit W.D. Amaradeva however what matters is music and its appreciation, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
A good hearted woman, Barbara Undershaft, devotes all energies to help the poor as a major in the Salvation Army. She sees Andrew, her millionaire father, an arms dealer, as someone who needs to be saved. At one point though, she is forced to accept a large contribution from the errant father to continue her work. In this story scripted by the playwright George Bernard Shaw, the woman who has to reexamine her moral assumptions started off with good intentions. Shaw, through her, brings to the fore the tensions between religion, wealth and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
In a remarkable interfaith gesture, a coalition of Christian-Hindu-Buddhist faith leaders is seeking apology from singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for trivializing “karma”, a serious and ancient religious doctrine of Hindus and Buddhists, calling it highly inappropriate. Senior Episcopal priest in Connecticut Father Thomas W. Blake, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, renowned Buddhist priest Rev. Matthew T. Fisher, Senior United Methodist Pastor Rev. Dawn M. Blundell; in a joint statement today in USA, said that while Hindu and Buddhist seekers and devotees took the concept of karma very seriously; Swift seemed to have irreverently trivialized it in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Germany’s position in America’s New World Order Germany has become an economic satellite of America’s New Cold War with Russia, China and the rest of Eurasia. Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine. U.S. President Biden and his State Department spokesmen have explained that Ukraine is just the opening arena in a much broader dynamic that is splitting the world into two opposing sets of economic alliances. This global fracture... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
සත්‍යයක් නොවන භාහිර ලෝකයක් පිළිබදව නොයෙකුත් දේශකයන් වහන්සේලා තම දේශනාවල සදහන් කරයි. භාහිර ලෝකයෙන් මිදීම යනු භාහිර ලෝකය අසත්‍යයබව (බොරැබව) අවබෝධ කරගැනීම යයි මේ දේශකයින් පවසයි. මෙසේ කරනා දේශනාවම අසත්‍යයකි. අපෙන් ස්වායත්ත (independent) භාහිර ලෝකයක් පවතී. ඵය රෑප හැඩතල වලින් පමනක් සමන්විත ඵකකි. ස්වාභාව ධර්මයේ සංසිද්ධීන් මත පදනම්වන භාහිර ලෝකය මිනිසා ප්‍රධාන ජීවීන් ගොඩනැගූවකි. ලස්සන හෝ කැත ලෝක භාහිරයේ නොපවතී. ඇත්තේ ‘මෙලෝ රසක් නැති’ රෑප (වර්ණ, ශබ්ද, ඝණ්ධ, රස හා ස්පර්ශ රෑප) හැඩතල වලින් පමනක් සමන්විත භාහිර ලෝකයකි. භාහිර ලෝකයේ ආත්මීය වන ‘දෙයක් හෝ යමක්’ නැත. ඇත්තේ ඉහත සදහන් රෑප හැඩතල පමනි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
ධීවර කර්මාන්තයේ පළපුරුද්දක් ඇති ශ්‍රමිකයින්ට කොරියාවේ ධිවර ක්ෂේත්‍රෙය් රැකියා අවස්ථා විවෘත කරදීමත් ධීවර ක්ෂේත්‍රෙය් වැඩි රැකියා අවස්ථා ප්‍රමාණයක් ලබාගැනීමත් සම්බන්ධයෙන් කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සහ දකුණු කොරියානු ජාත්‍යන්තර සමුපකාර ධීවර සංවිධානයේ සභාපති Im Joon Taek මහතා අතර සාර්ථක සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වා තිබේ.ඒ අනුව ධීවර රැකියා සම්බන්ධයෙන් දෙරට අතර අවභෝධතා ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කිරීමටද දෙපාර්ශවයේ අවධානය යොමුවී ඇත. සෝල් නුවර පිහිටි ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති කාර්යාලය සහ කොරියානු රජය ඒ සදහා අවශ්‍ය ඉදිරි කටයුතු සිදු කිරීමට නියමිතය.දැනට කොරියානු ධීවර රැකියා සදහා ලබාදෙන ඊ 9 වීසා කාණ්ඩය යටතේ බදවාගනු ලබන ශ්‍රමිකයින්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව ඉහළ නංවාගැනීම සදහාද මෙහිදී අවධානය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
මාධ්‍ය මගින් පෙන්වන තරම් අයහපත් වාතාවරණයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නොමැති බැවින් ලෝකයේ පවතින තත්වය අනුව සංචාරය කලයුතු පළමු රට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව බව ආසියානු මාධ්‍ය හා සංස්කෘතික සංගමය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවෙමින් පවසයි. 2022.11.03 දින කොළඹ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා හමුවූ ආසියානු මාධ්‍ය හා සංස්කෘතික සංගමයේ ඉන්දියාවේ සහ නේපාලයේ මාධ්‍ය නියෝජිතයින් කණ්ඩායම සඳහන් කළේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය කඩිනමින් ප්‍රකෘතිමත් කිරීමට සිය මාධ්‍ය හරහා පූර්ණ සහයෝගය ලබාදෙන බවයි. ආර්ථික අභියෝගවලට මුහුණ දෙමින් කෙටි කාලයක් තුළ ඉක්මනින් යථා තත්ත්වයට පත්වීමට රජය ගෙන ඇති පියවර පිළිබඳව ඉන්දියාවේ සහ නේපාලයේ මාධ්‍ය නියෝජිත පිරිස අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වෙත ප්‍රසාදය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
ජපානයේ ප්‍රමුඛ පෙළේ සමාගමක් වන ශිමෝ ( SHIMO) ආයතනයේ නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්යක්ෂ ශිමොටෝරි හිරෝකි (SHIMOTORI HIROYUKI) මහතා 2020.11.02 දින අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමු විය.සීතාවක ප්‍රදේශයේ ජපන් භාෂා පුහුණු මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් ආරම්භ කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා සහ ශිමෝ ( SHIMO) ආයතනයේ නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්‍යක්ෂවරයා අතර මෙම සාකච්ඡාව පැවැත්විණි. මෙම ජපන් භාෂා අධ්‍යාපනය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාවට ජපානයට පැමිණීමට හැකිවන පරිදි රටවල් දෙකම ඒකාබද්ධව ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිතව තිබේ. එමගින් පුහුණු වන ශිෂ්‍යයින් සඳහා ජපානයේ ශිමෝ ( SHIMO) ආයතනයේ රැකියා අවස්ථා ලබා දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ද මෙම සාකච්ඡාවේදී වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කෙරිණි. ජපානයට යෑමට කැමැති ඕනෑම පුද්ගලයකුට ජපන් භාෂා අධ්‍යාපනය නොමිලේ ලබා ගැනීමටත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
ගම්පහ දුම්රිය ස්ථානයේ නව වැසිකිළික් ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා පෞද්ගලික සමාගමකට කොන්ත්‍රාත්තුවක් භාරදී ඇති අතර, ඒ සඳහා රුපියල් එක්කෝටි අසූ ලක්ෂ අසු එක් දහස් හයසිය පහලොවයි ශත හතරක (18081615.04) මුදලක් වැය කිරීමට නියමිතව ඇත.සැලසුමට අනුව, කාන්තා හා පිරිමි වැසිකිළි දෙකකින් සමන්විත තනි තට්ටුවේ ගොඩනැගිල්ලක් වන මෙහි, වර්ග ප්‍රමාණය වර්ග අඩි 594 කි. ඒ අනුව එක් වර්ග අඩියක් සඳහා රුපියල් 30440/= මුදලක් වැය කිරීමට නියමිතය. ආරම්භයේදී ඇස්තමේන්තුගත වියදම මෙය වුවත්, වෙළඳපොලේ භාණ්ඩ මිළ උච්ඡාවචනය අනුව ව්‍යාපෘතිය අවසන් වන විට මෙම වියදම දෙගුණයක් හෝ තුන් ගුණයක් විය හැකිය.දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ගොඩනැගිලි අංශය විසින් වග දුම්රිය ස්ථානයේ,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Colombo, Nov 3 (AdaDerana) – Russia’s largest charter airline — Azur Air and the flag carrier of France — Air France, will resume flights to Sri Lanka starting from this week, according to Sri Lanka’s Tourism Ministry. Azur Air will commence flights to Sri Lanka from tomorrow (November 03) while Air France is scheduled to resume flights from Friday (November 04). Meanwhile in a twitter message today, Tourism Minister Harin Fernando announced that Switzerland’s national airline, Swiss International Air Lines, is now staring operations in Sri Lanka once again with weekly flights... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Colombo, Nov 3 (NewsWire) – The Sri Lanka Tourism Ministry has launched a ‘FIFA Zone’ at Negombo Beach to coincide with the upcoming Football World Cup in Qatar. Tourism Minister Harin Fernando officially launched the ‘FIFA Zone’ today, which includes 3 night and 4-day stay in Sri Lanka. The ‘FIFA Zone’ package offers return air tickets, stays at three-star hotels, food stalls, and several other entertainments as part of the package... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Colombo, November 2: High Commissioner Gopal Baglay held two separate meetings with Vidura Wickramanayaka, Sri Lankan Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs on the implementation of USD 15 million grant by the Government of India for the promotion of Buddhist ties and the functioning of the Jaffna Cultural Center (JCC) on Tuesday. The Secretary, Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Somarathna Vidanapathirana, First Secretary (Development Cooperation), Eldos Mathew Punnoose and other officials representing the Governments of India and Sri Lanka attended these meetings. It may be recalled that Indian Prime... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Sri Lanka will miss the December deadline for securing an IMF loan as main bilateral debtor China was involved in 20th party congress and had little time for holding debt restructuring talks with Colombo. The next meeting of IMF executive board is in March 2023. Sri Lanka is headed for major political turbulence ahead as it will not be able to secure the much-needed IMF loan in December for its main ally and debtor China was involved in the 20th party congress and is still to initiate a dialogue on debt restructuring... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
According to information published by the Russian MoD on November 3, 2022, a detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship missile cruiser Varyag has entered the TOF area of responsibility south of Sri Lanka. A detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship of the Nakhimov Guards missile cruiser Varyag, the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs and the large sea tanker Boris Butoma have entered the responsibility zone of the TOF south of Sri Lanka. The detachment of ships is making an inter-fleet transition from the Mediterranean Sea... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Sri Lanka, which is under an ongoing economic crisis, is headed for another major turbulence as the country will not be able to secure the much-needed IMF loan in December as its ally and debtor China is yet to initiate a dialogue on debt restructuring with Colombo. A report in Hindustan Times quoting financial analysts based in Washington said that Sri Lanka will miss the IMF deadline and will have to wait till March next year to secure a loan of $2.9 billion. The country was expecting the IMF to approve the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
An urgent shipment of medical aid has arrived in Sri Lanka, and which has been provided by the Qatar Fund for Development to support the health sector in the country, QNA reported. Qatar’s ambassador to Sri Lanka Jassim bin Jaber al-Sorour received the Qatari medical aid, which he handed over to Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella. The ceremony was attended by the Diplomats in the Mission and the senior officials of the Ministry of Health in Sri Lanka including Mr. Janaka Chandraguptha, Secretary – Ministry of Health, Dr. Asela Gunawardana, DGHS, Dr.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Government of Russia to increase the number of flights between Russia and friendly states, according to the Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the first resuming flight of Russia’s largest charter airline, Azur Air has arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) this morning. The first flight reportedly arrived with around 335 passengers onboard. Russian airlines have not been flying to Sri Lanka since early June, when an A330-300 operated by Aeroflot was briefly detained due to a dispute with lessor AerCap’s special... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/11/22)
The change in the British Prime Minister has become a question of whether Britain needs a new leader with dynamic abilities for economic policy innovation and conceivable to direct such policies to the world as happened in the past. In this environment, another question emerges, why is apocryphal thinking respected by British people has failed to innovate policies for their own country and relegate to a difficult situation? The economic history of the world indicates that British economists contributed many views to change the economic policies of the world. It may not be the way... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
බොහොම හොඳයි.එහෙත් මොවුන් ඉන්දීය සම්භවයක් ඇති පුද්ගලයින් වශයෙන් පලමුව එය සන්ශෝධනය කළයුතුය. කවුරු කලත් හොඳ දෙයක් නම් අපි එය හොඳයි කියන්ට ඕනෑ. මොකද ඔවුනුත් 1830 පමණ ඉඳලා සුද්දන්ට වහල් මෙහෙයේ යෙදෙමින් මේ රටේ හිටපු මනුස්සයෝ. හැබැයි ලන්කාවේ දෙමල දේශපාලකයින් මෙන්ම ඉන්දියාවේ දේශපාලකයින්ද එදා සිටම හිතුවෙත් අද සිතන්නෙත්, ක්‍රියා කරන්නෙත් ඔවුන් මෙහෙ හිටියට තවම ඉන්දීය පුර වැසියෝ කියලා. ඒ වගේම 1987 න් පසු ලන්කාවේ පුරවැසිකම ගත්තත් ඔවුන් ක්‍රියාකලයුත්තේ ඉන්දියාවේ මිනිසුන් වශයෙන් කියලයි. ඒ වගේම ඔවුන් මේ රටේ හිටියට,මේටේ සම්පත් වලින් යැපුනට ඔවුන් ඉන්දියන් සම්භවයක් ඇති මිනිසුන් කියමින් ක්‍රියා කළයුත්තේ ඉන්දියාවට පක්ශපාතීව කියලයි වතුකරයේ සිටින මේ දෙමල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
eclipse on November 8th at moonrise (A lunar eclipse on the 8th full moon day) On November 8, 2022 full moon day, there will be a total lunar eclipse that will be visible in Asia, Australia, America and part of Europe. However, this eclipse is visible to Sri Lanka as a partial lunar eclipse at the moon’s rise. The total eclipse begins at 1.32 p.m., the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
(නොවැම්බර් 8 දා බීවර් රුධිර චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් ) 2022 නොවැම්බර් 8 පුර පසළොස්වක පොහොය දිනයේදී ආසියාව, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව සහ ඇමරිකාව සහ යුරෝපයේ කොටසකට දර්ශනය වන පූර්ණ චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් සිදුවනු ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත්, මෙම චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට දිස්වනුයේ අර්ධ චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණයක් ලෙස t බව කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ භෞතික විද්‍යා අංශයේ තාරකා විද්‍යා හා අභ්‍යවකාශ විද්‍යා ඒකකයේ අධ්යක්ෂ මහාචාර්ය චන්දන ජයරත්න මහතා පැවසීය. පූර්ණ චන්ද්‍රග්‍රහණය ආරම්භ වන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සම්මත වේලාවෙන් පස්වරු 1.32 ට වන අතර ග්‍රහණ උපරිමය පස්වරු 4.29 ට ත් ග්‍රහණ අවසානය රාත්‍රී 7.26 ටත් සිදු වේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Interesting question, and in an ethnically divided society like ours, it is better to find answers and how some, if not all, of their methods, can be adopted by others as well. One of the most successful business communities in the world for centuries has been the Jews. What are the secrets of their success? They are no longer secrets, and a few methods that they practice can be adopted and practised by others as well. The first and foremost one is honesty in all dealings. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Geneva, 2 November 2022: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while marking the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Wednesday commented, ‘more needs to be done to fight impunity on the ground’. Slow progress is made, but still very insufficient, said the PEC after appealing to launch the work for an international convention. “Recently, five years after the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in October 2017 in Malta, two brothers were sentenced to 40 years in prison on 14 October, Justice is very... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
ෂෙහාන් කරුණාතිලක මහතා බුකර් සම්මාන දින්නේ තමක්ගේ කතාවක් හොරකම් කරගෙන බව ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදී රාජ්පාල් අබේනායක මහතා චෝදනා කරයි. https://youtu.be/n5evvOxCBnk තමන් එම නවකතාව මුද්‍රණය කර ගැනීම සඳහා උදව් ලබා ගැනීමට ෂෙහාන්ට කතා කළ බවත් එහිදී ඔහු තම කතාව හොරකම් කරන ලද බවත් පවසන ඔහු ශෙහාන් කරුණාතිලක මෙතරම් අදම හොරෙක් යැයි තමන් නොදැන සිටි බවත කියා සිටියි. තමන් මේ ගැන නීතිමය ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගෙන ෂෙහාන් විසින් ලබාගත් සම්මානය නැති කරන බවත් තමන්ට සම්මාන නොලැබුණද ගැටලුවක් නැතැයිද ඔහු පවසයි. 2009 වසරේදී තමන් මෙම නවකතාව ලියූ බවත් 2011 වසරේදී ෂෙහාන්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Nov 1 (Bloomberg) – Sri Lanka’s inflation slowed in October for the first time in a year as shortages of food and fuel eased. The consumer price index in the capital Colombo cooled to 66% from a year ago, the statistics department said in a statement Monday. That’s down from 69.8% in September and a median of 68.5% in a Bloomberg survey. Transport costs stood at 150.4% and food prices came in at 94.9%, the data showed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and several members from the SJB were today seen leaving the anti government protest site after they failed to move past the human barricade set up by the police. https://youtu.be/P9ym7Bb39ZA Much to the displeasure of the protestors who were seen urging Premadasa and the SJB members to move past the human barricade, the opposition Leader and opposition members were seen getting into their vehicles and leaving the protest site to maintain calm and non violence. The protestors however showing their displeasure, even... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
සමගි ජනබලවේගය ඇතුළු පක්ෂ කිහිපයක් සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති එක්ව අද කොළඹදී විරෝධතා පාගමනක් සංවිධාන කළා. ඒ, කොටුව දුම්රියපල ඉදිරිපිට හෝ ඒ ආසන්නයේ උද්ඝෝෂණයක් පැවැත්වීම සඳහා අවසර ලබා නොදෙන බවට පොලිසිය අදාළ සංවිධායකයින්ට ලිඛිතව දැනුම් දී තිබූ පසුබිමකයි. සමගි ජනබලවේගය, ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය ඇතුළු පක්ෂ කිහිපයක් සහ වෘත්තීය සමිති එක්ව සංවිධාන කළ අදාළ විරෝධතාව ආරම්භ වීමටත් ප්‍රථම මරදාන, කොළඹ කොටුව ඇතුළු ප්‍රදේශවලට පෙරවරුවේ සිටම දැඩි පොලිස් ආරක්ෂාවක් යොදවා තිබුණා. https://youtu.be/PAH0V099sl8 විරෝධතාව සඳහා සහභාගී වන බවට තොරතුරු ලැබී ඇති කණ්ඩායම් වෙත විරෝධතාව හේතුවෙන් සිදුවන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Family politics is a concerning matter for all Sri Lankans because there has been severe criticism against family politics which promoted corruption in the country. In history, before foreign invasions, families got the power to become kings and queens. Since the beginning of the Donormore administration in 1932, the political leadership has been transferred from one family to another and this tradition will be ended after the next election. The last family in the political administration was the Rajapaksa family, which has lost its respect because the family has been associated with disgraceful management and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
A National Council has been established within the Parliament consisting of 35 members representing all political parties with the objective of a) Determine priorities on guidelines for the formulation of National short-, medium- and long-term policies. b) To reach a consensus on a common minimum short-, medium- and long-term program to stabilize the economy. There is serious doubt whether the members of this Council have the capacity and the will to deliver the tasks assigned. Most of them have been in Parliament for decades and some have held ministerial responsibilities.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
හැඳින්වීම රට මුහුණපා ඇති අවාසනාවන්ත ඉරණම ඉදිරියේ, පෙලපාලියෑම හා ජනතාව කුලප්පු කිරීම, ඉදිරියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බලය අල්ලා ගැනීම සඳහා අළුත් පක්ෂ-මන්ත්රී කණ්ඩායම් රංචු ගැසීම් වෙනුවට, සියළුම පක්ෂ දේශපාලකයින් විසින් කල යුතුව තිබෙන්නේ රට ගැන සිතා මේ වලෙන් ගොඩ ඒමට තම සහයෝගය ලබාදීමය. ජන සභා පැලැස්තරයක් නොව, නියමාකාරයේ ජන සභා ක්‍රමයක් සදාගැනීමට කරු ජයසූරිය මහතාට සහාය දීමය. ඊට හේතුව මේ හැම පංචස්කන්ධයක්ම හා පක්ෂ දේශපාලනය කරණ හාමුදුරුවරුන්, අනිකුත් පූජක වරුන් හා කාදිනල්තුමා විසින් අපට මතක් කරන්නේ නමින් කපුරුහාමි නමුත් කට ගඳයි යන කියමන වීමය. රටේ දැනට නැති ප්‍රජා (නාස් ලණු) තන්ත්‍රවාදයක් ගැන කතාකරමින් දේශ-පාලනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
උද්ඝෝෂණ සදහා දැන් පාරට බහින්නේ ගෑස් පෙට්‍රල් පෝලිම් දරා ගත නොහැකි පිරිස් ද, නොඑසේ නම් ඉල්ලූ වෙනසට අනුව රට ක්‍රමයෙන් ස්ථාවර වෙනවාට, ජාතිවාදී ආගම්වාදී දේශපාලය වෙනුවට රට ගොඩනගන වැඩපිළිවෙළ ක්‍රියාත්මක කරනවාට අකැමැති පිරිස දැයි අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා අද (01) දින පැවැති කැබිනට් තීරණ දැනුම් දීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවේ දී දැඩි ලෙස ප්‍රශ්න කර සිටියේ ය. ඒ කැබිනට් තීරණ දැනුම්දීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව අතරතුර මාධ්‍යෙව්දියකු නැගූ පැනයකට පිළිතුරු ලබා දෙමිනි.එහි දී අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙසේ ද පවසා සිටියේ ය.‘දෙවැනිදා උද්ඝෝෂණයට එන්නේ පෙට්‍රල්, ගෑස් පෝලිම් දරා ගන්න බැරි, පැය දහයක් දොළහක් කරන්ට් කපන නිසා, දරුවන්ගේ අධ්‍යාපනය කඩාකප්පල් වුණු, කර්මාන්ත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
රුපියල බාල්දු වී ජීවන වියදම දරාගත නොහැකි ලෙස ඉහළ ගොස් ඇතැයි සියලු දෙනා පිළිගත යුතු බවත් කුමන තනතුරක් දැරුවත් ජනතාවට යථාර්ථය පැවසිය යුතු බවත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2022.11.01 දින සමස්ත ලංකා හාබර් සහ ඩොක් කම්කරු සමිතියේ 77 වන සංවත්සර මහා සභාව කොළඹ දී අමතමිණි. කම්කරු සමිතියේ සභාපතිවරයා වූ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සහ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් අජිත් ධම්මික මහතා නැවතත් එම තනතුරු සඳහා තෝරා පත්කර ගැනීමද මෙහිදී සිදුවිය. රුපියල බාල්දු වූ අවස්ථාවක ඇතිවන ආර්ථික පසුබැස්මේ අවාසිය ජනතාවට සෘජුව දැරීමට සිදුව තිබේ.මේ නිසාම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
It's Really True: They Know they are Killing the Babies All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** Incisive analysis by Dr. Naomi Wolf, first published by Global Research on May 31, 2022 *** I’ve been... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
https://youtu.be/GxzBqghRs5k Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss allegedly sent a message saying ‘It’s Done’ to the U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken immediately after the Nord Stream attack. Kim Dotcom, a German-Finnish internet entrepreneur who resides in New Zealand, said the text message is the reason Russia claims the UK was involved in blowing up the pipeline. He has credited iCLOUD admin access for the disclosure. The Russian Foreign Ministry has asked the British government to officially comment on the explosive claims against Truss. Last week, several British media outlets... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka is still struggling to afford international fuel prices and is unable to fully procure the country’s requirements, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said. The cash-strapped country is still seeking financial assistance from oil-producing nations, but has yet to secure any aid apart from an existing deal with India, Wijesekera said Tuesday on the sidelines of the Adipec conference in Abu Dhabi. Sri Lanka’s financial crisis has been stretching on for months, impeding its ability to pay for food and fuel. “It’s very difficult for us to access... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
A total of 14 suspects are under arrest in connection with the tense situation in Kebithogollewa in which a police officer succumbed to injuries after being assaulted last night. Several police officers, responding to a report on the death of a woman caused by a wild elephant attack, had shown up in Rambakapuwewa area in Kebithigollewa. When the police officers arrived at the location, at least 100 people including a Buddhist monk had blocked the road, staging a protest against the authorities’ inaction to resolve the human-elephant conflict. A tense... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara has questioned if individuals participating in tomorrow’s (2) demonstration are joining the protest as the government brought an end to the era of queues. The Minister speaking at a media briefing today (1) said the Cabinet of Ministers informally discussed the protest planned for tomorrow and questioned if individuals joining the protest were those who were attending after waiting in fuel or gas queues and having to endure more than 10-12 hours of power cuts with their children unable to study or businessmen unable to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Several business chambers in a joint statement have noted with concern that some organizations have called for mass protests tomorrow (Nov. 02). While recognizing their freedom of speech and right to express views, the Chambers requested all parties to call off protests of this nature that could “undermine the efforts being taken to resolve the current economic crisis with the support of the international community.” Any act of destabilization taking place at this time and any negative publicity arising from it would seriously derail actions that are being taken to revive the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/11/22)
Venerable Borella Sirisumana Thero has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today (Nov. 01), the police spokesman says. He was taken into custody over the information uncovered during investigations into the alleged financial frauds committed by Thilini Priyamali. The owner of Thico Group of Companies (Pvt.) Ltd., Thilini Priyamali was arrested and remanded on October 06 over alleged multi-billion rupee fraud by swindling businesspersons and VIPs. Meanwhile, Isuru Bandara who is said to be her business partner was also taken into custody by the Criminal Investigation Department on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/22)
China has donated 10.6 million litres of diesel to farmers and fishermen in remote areas of Sri Lanka, to upgrade livelihood in the most affected sectors of agriculture and fishery. The shipment is scheduled to arrive between November and December, according to the Chinese Embassy in Colombo. Reassuring support for Sri Lanka, the Chinese government has handed over 5,500 metric tons of rice and essential medicines worth LKR 3 billion over the past 5 months as emergency humanitarian donations to the island nation.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/22)
The Malaysian government has extended a goodwill gesture by donating a consignment of urgently required medical supplies to Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. Based on a request made by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health seeking assistance in acquiring medical supplies for the island nation, the High Commission of Sri Lanka in Kuala Lumpur had reached out to the Malaysian government for their support. At a symbolic handing-over ceremony held at the Ministry of Health of Malaysia yesterday (Oct. 31), Minister of Health of Malaysia, Khairy Jamaluddin handed over the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/22)
According to official data, Sri Lanka's public sector now employs more than 1.5 million people, doubling in size over the previous 15 years. Despite having one public servant for every 14 inhabitants, efficiency in the public sector is lower than that of Sri Lanka's Asian counterparts. The need for staff reductions in public services has been going on for some time now and there are many suggestions from various corners already percolating in the media. A reduction drive should have to have a multi-prong approach to be successful.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/11/22)
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