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News Archive for Dec 2022
An open letter to all Sinhala politicians, particularly those representing the CP. Uva and Sabaragamuva PROVINCES.Gentlemen what have you done to the Kandyan Sinhala people, for 75 years since 1948, who protected this country for you and all of us, for 443 years from foreign enemies (1815-1948), other than closing down the only organization they had at least ‘to seek protection from an unexpected rain’ as the famous Sinhala adage goes “The Department of Kandyan Peasantry Rehabilitation” on 1st Jan 2014. by the then Podu Jana Peramuna government by Basil Rajapaksha, the then Minister in charge of the subject.? I... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
SINGING SRI LANKA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM IN TAMIL Part 4C
The singing of the national anthem in Tamil has led to two opposite reactions, for and against. There is also a conciliatory approach which said the Tamil version, could be sung in Tamil, in Tamil majority population area but when it comes to state and national functions it must be sung in Sinhala. Others were less tolerant. A national anthem is a symbol of the identity of a nation, it is a symbol of unity. The Sinhala national anthem is composed with due regard to the auspicious nature of the words. Today the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
Let's unpack the query in 'Tamil National Question'
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called all parties to get together and solve what he calls the ‘ethnic-problem’ that has remained ‘unresolved’ for decades. Meanwhile, parties that claim to represent ‘Tamil interests’ have put forward a set of demands: a) stop ‘land grabs in the Northern and Eastern Provinces by armed forces the state institutions while releasing all lands so acquired earlier by them in those two provinces, b) hold provincial council elections forthwith after implementing all provisions in the Constitutions and other laws in respect of power devolution, and c) implement power devolution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
ANCIENT SRI LANKAN ENGINEERS AND ARTISANS
This article is based on our forefathers, excellent engineers and artisans with exceptional skills. How many of our present generation is conversant with Sri Lanka engineers’ activities in the bygone years who have amazed the whole world? During the remarkable Parakramabahu reign, the construction of the tallest buildings commenced. King Mahasen also did the most significant structures. The world’s first hospital was constructed during BC 367- 437 during King Pandukabhaya’s reign. No wonder foreigners became dumbstruck when these were built between the second and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
Ambewela Milk not that sweet
When I read the news below when HE visited Ambewela farm and commented about the tremendous growth Of course, they can grow when they “ milk” the nation by increasing the price of milk at will A liter of milk which was 160 Rs less than a year ago has gone up to 500 rs per liter! I cannot understand how the dollar rate has affected Ambewela Milk I remember when Norwegians gave milk free to schools and we used to pick up a liter of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
Sri Lanka setps up its anti-dengue fight after fresh outbreak
Colombo, Dec 30 (EFE).- Sri Lanka stepped up its fight against dengue on Friday as the country recorded its highest number of infections since 2019, following a fresh outbreak in recent weeks. Health officials recorded over 75,000 dengue cases this year, more than double the number of infections from last year, when around 34,000 people caught the disease. An average of 200 to 300 cases were recorded each day in the past four weeks, prompting a two-day intensive drive to control the outbreak. The authorities asked the people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
India arrests IS member with connections to mastermind of Easter bombings in Sri Lanka
The National Investigation Agency of India arrested a member of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) who was in touch with the mastermind of Easter bombings in Sri Lanka Zahran Hashim, for his links with suspects in October 23 blast in Tamil Nadu.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
Ashu Marasinghe demands Rs. 1.5B in compensation from Hirunika and Adarsha
Prof. Ashu Marasinghe, former advisor to President Ranil Wickremesinghe has sent a letter of demand claiming Rs.500 million and one billion rupees as damages from former Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra and Adarsha Karandana respectively for allegedly making a defamatory statement regarding him during a press conference held on December 23. This letter of demand has been sent through Attorney-at-law Malin Rajapaksa urging both Hirunika and Adarsha to pay a sum of Rs.1.5 billion as damages within 14 days. It has warned that legal action will be instituted if the money is not paid within... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/12/22)
CEB Tariff increase
Minister Kanchana Wijesekera insists on a CEB tariff hike in January of about 60% to 65%. Already there has been a steep increase of the electricity tariff and the proposed increase above the present increase will heap more burdens on the consumer who is finding it difficult to make ends meet. One cannot object to a level of tariff which covers the actual cost. But CEB should share with the public the breakdown of the cost. That cost should not exclude the cost of inaction, corruption and mismanagement of the CEB. It cannot disregard the cost... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
අපි මේ දෙස ඓතිහාසික දෘෂ්ටිකෝණයකින් විමසා බලමු.
ෆයිසර්- මොඩෙර්නා mRNA එන්නත් හෘදයරෝගවලින් සිදුවන මරණවලට හේතුවක්- බ්රිතාන්යයේ ප්රමුඛ හෘද රෝග විශේෂඥ අසීම් මල්හෝත්රා1976 දී ඌරු උණ එන්නත තහනම් කළේ එය විසින් එය ලබාගත් පුද්ගලයන් 100,000 කින් එක් අයෙකුට ගිලියාන් බැරේ සින්ඩ්රෝම්( Guillain-Barre syndrome) නම් ස්නායු රෝගයක් සැදීමට හේතුවන නිසා. 1999 දී රොටා වයිරස් එන්නත (Rotavirus Vaccine)තහනම් කළේ එය විසින් ළමුන් 10,000කින් එක් අයෙකුට බඩවැල්වල ආබාධ ඇති කළ නිසා.නමුත් කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නතින් සිදුවන හානිකර ප්රතිඵල සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්රතිචාර දක්වා ඇත්තේ කෙසේද? ආරම්භක සායනික දත්තවලට අනුව කොවිඩ්-19 එන්නත්වල බරපතල හානිකර ප්රතිඵල ලබාදෙන අනුපාතය සෑම 800කින්ම එක් අයෙක්. දැන් තත්ත්වය පරිණාමය වෙලා තියෙනවා. මම බ්රිතාන්ය තුළ පර්යේෂණ දත්ත විමසා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
NVQ – 3 කෙටි කාලීන පාඨමාලා සඳහා ආධුනිකයින් 3000 ක් බඳවා ගැනීමේ විශේෂ වැඩසටහන
කර්මාන්තගත ආධුනිකත්ව පුහුණු ක්රමවේදය යටතේ NVQ – 3 කෙටි කාලීන පාඨමාලා සඳහා ආධුනිකයන් 3000 ක් බඳවා ගැනීමේ විශේෂ වැඩසටහනක් 2023 වසරේ ජනවාරි මස ජාතික ආධුනිකත්ව සහ කාර්මික පුහුණු කිරීම් අධිකාරිය (නයිටා) මඟින් ක්රියාත්මක කෙරේ. දිවයිනේ දිස්ත්රික්ක 25 ම ආවරණය වන පරිදි රැකියා විරහිත තරුණ තරුණියන් පුහුණුව සඳහා බඳවා ගෙන ඔවුන්ගේ කුසලතා සංවර්ධනය කිරීම තුළින් දේශීය හා විදේශීය රැකියා අවස්ථා සඳහා යොමු කිරීම මෙම වැඩසටහනේ අරමුණයි. ක්ෂේත්ර සහකාර (කෘෂිකාර්මික), සාත්තු සේවක, ඇළුමිනියම් පිරිසැකසුම් ශිල්පී, මෝටර් රථ සේවා සහ අභ්යන්තර පවිත්රකරු, ජලනල කාර්මික, විදුලි කාර්මික (ගෘහස්ත), ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
ඉංග්රීසි නොදන්නා සේවාදායකයන් භාෂා වෙනස්කම් මත අභියාචනා අධිකරණවලදී අයුක්තියට ලක්වන ආකාරයට උදාහරණයක්
එක්තරා අභියාචනා අධිකරණයක අභියාචනා නඩුවක් විභාග වෙමින් පැවති අතර, දෙපාර්ශවයේ නීතීඥවරු සහ විනිසුරුතුමන්ලා ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් අභියාචනය විමසමින් සිටියේය.අභියාචකගේ නීතීඥවරයා දීර්ඝ වේලාවක් අධිකරණය අමතමින් සිටි අතර විනිසුරුතුමන්ලාගේ දෙනෙත් එක්වරම සේවාදායකයන් අසුන්ගන්නා පෙදෙස වෙත යොමු විය.සේවාදායකයන් අතරින් එක් අයෙක් අතක් ඔසවාගෙන නැගී සිටිනවා විනිසුරුතුමන්ලාගේ අවධානයට යොමු වී තිබුණි. එක් විනිසුරුවරයෙක් සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ඒ තැනැත්තා අමතා ඉදිරියට පැමිණෙන ලෙස දන්වා සිටි අතර, ඒ තැනැත්තා ඉදිරියට පැමිණ,My lord, I am the appellent of this case.I did not give instructions like this.......(උතුමාණෙනි, මම මේ නඩුවේ අභියාචකයා. මම මේ වගේ උපදෙස් දුන්නේ නැහැ)ලෙස විවෘත අධිකරණයේදී ප්රකාශ කළේය.විනිසුරුතුමන්ලා නීතීඥවරයා දෙස නෙත් යොමා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
Uzbekistan says 18 children die after consuming India-made syrup
At least 18 children have died after consuming a syrup manufactured by Indian drugmaker Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health says. The ministry said 18 of 21 children who took the Doc-1 Max syrup while suffering from an acute respiratory disease died after consuming it. It is marketed on the company’s website as a treatment for cold and flu symptoms. A batch of the syrup contained ethylene glycol, which the ministry said is a toxic substance. The syrup was imported into Uzbekistan by Quramax Medical LLC, the ministry said in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
Chairman of Beliatta Pradeshiya Sabha and his brother remanded
Chairman of Beliatta Pradeshiya Sabha, Siril Munasinghe and his elder brother, who were arrested and produced before the courts for allegedly stealing several lengths of GI pipes worth nearly Rs. 250,000, have been remanded in custody. https://youtu.be/zKyPCTB1zd0 At least 11 GI pipes which were intended for a community water project had been stolen last night (Dec.28) and the Chairman of the Pradeshiya Sabha and his brother were accused and arrested by the Beliatta police this morning (Dec.29), following a complaint regarding the incident. Accordingly, Tangalle Magistrate’s Court ordered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
Student leader of Peradeniya Uni. arrested over assault on former VC
Former president of the students’ union of Peradeniya University has been arrested over the assault on Prof. Athula Senaratne. The arrest was made by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today. On December 22, Peradeniya Magistrate’s Court recently an order calling for the immediate arrest of Withanage. Meanwhile, the studentship of the current president of Peradeniya University’s students’ union Chamod Sathsara and the former president of the students’ union Anuradha Withanage was temporarily cancelled on Tuesday (Dec. 27). On December 11, Prof. Senaratne was assaulted by a group of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
SINGING SRI LANKA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM IN TAMIL Part 4B
Sri Lanka Thaaye, the Tamil version of the Sri Lankan national anthem, is an exact translation of Sri Lanka Matha and is sung to the same tune, observed DBS Jeyaraj. Sri Lanka’s national anthem sings of patriotic praise to the country alone and not to any race, religion, caste, creed or community. Hence, the Tamil people found no reason to reject or protest against the national anthem. Once the meaning of the Sinhala words was known no Tamil found it objectionable. With an appropriate translation available the Tamils of Sri Lanka found themselves singing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
නේපාල අග්රාමාත්යවරයා ලෙස යළි තේරී පත්වූ පුෂ්ප කමල් දහාල් (Pushpa Kamal Dahal)මහතා වෙත අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සුභ පැතුම් එක්කරයි
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නේපාල අග්රාමාත්යවරයා ලෙස යළිත් පත්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පුෂ්ප කමල් දහාල් (Pushpa Kamal Dahal) මහතා වෙත ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ හෘදයාංගම සුභ පැතුම් එක් කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සුභ පැතුම් සංදේශයක් යොමු කරමින් කියා සිටියි. දකුණු ආසියානු අසල්වැසියන් ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකාවත් නේපාලයත් ගැඹුරු මිත්රත්වයෙන් හා සමීප සබඳතා තහවුරු කර කරගනිමින් වත්මන් අභියෝග ජය ගැනීමට සහ සහයෝගිතාව සඳහා නව අවස්ථා ගවේෂණය කිරීමට එක්ව කැප වී සිටියි. පොදු ආගමික සහ ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී වටිනාකම් වල පදනම මත ගොඩනගාගෙන ඇති ශක්තිමත් දිගු කාලීන ද්විපාර්ශවීය සබඳතා තව දුරටත් ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් අඛණ්ඩව ක්රියා කිරීමට බලාපොරොත්තු වන බව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
Tucker "Gets It" - Putin Doesn't Want American Missiles on His Border
“Getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia. We didn’t get it at the time. (But) Now it’s obvious. Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn’t want Ukraine to join NATO. Putin certainly had other motives as well; people always do, but that’s the main reason Russia invaded. The Russians don’t want American missiles on their border. They don’t want a hostile government next door. Now that is true, whether you are allowed to say it aloud in public or not. It has been true for a long time. A lot has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/12/22)
The Whisperers of the Central Bank & UN Agencies in Sri Lanka
‘The USA is never going to pay its debts. It doesn’t have to. Its debts are in its own currency. The US can simply print it. The African debt is not in its currency. The African debt is in US dollars. Africa has to earn the US dollars. And the only way Africa can earn its US dollars is not to be assassinated for growing its own food & becoming independent and doing something the US does not like. The principle underlying the foundation of the World... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/22)
A Parallel Mafia State, Mafia Judiciary, Mafia Media & Mafia Economists
e-Con e-News 11-17 December 2022 The bloody garrotting of the head of one of several ‘leading’ companies (financial, insurance, real-estate) on Thursday, found amidst the gothic crypts of Borella’s Kanatte – the country’s most expensive real-estate – will be just as quickly entombed and diverted by our mafia media. No questions are being asked yet as to why ‘a member of one of the leading business families in the country’ would lend Rs1.4 billion to a ‘cricket commentator’ & ‘former sports presenter’, to ‘invest in a well-known company’ in Sri Lanka. Is cricket... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/22)
Destruction of priceless paddy lands
I make reference to this subject, which is directly affecting the food security and safety, as well as the national security of our country in the future. Rice, being our citizens’ staple food over many centuries, plays an important role in our country’s food production chain, which is totally dependent on the limited paddy lands laboriously created by our ancestors. Apart from those paddy lands built by our earlier farmers, no new land is being turned into a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/22)
Sri Lankan students arrive to pursue higher education
ISLAMABAD: Twenty-six more Sri Lankan students have arrived in Pakistan to study in Pakistani universities at BS, MS and PhD levels under Allama Iqbal Scholarships for Sri Lankan Students. The students arrived at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, and Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore. These scholarships are part of the comprehensive educational programme entitled “Pakistan-Sri Lanka Higher Education Cooperation Programme (HEC). The Sri Lankan students will pursue their BS, MS, and PhD studies in public sector universities of Pakistan. The scholarships are being offered in all major disciplines, including Medicine, Engineering,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/22)
IS member connected with Sri Lanka Easter bomber held for links with Coimbatore blast suspects: NIA
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested a member of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) who was in touch with the mastermind of 2019 Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka, for his alleged links with suspects in the October 23 blast in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore Coimbatore: Emergency services personnel at the site after an LPG cylinder exploded inside a car, in Coimbatore, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. One person was charred to death in the incident. (PTI Photo)(PTI10_23_2022_000181A) (PTI) New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/22)
Marcos’ tale a key lesson for Gotabaya and clan
Irrespective of where he makes his next home, Rajapaksa will have the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head, eluding a retreat from the prying eyes of the public. The year 2022 proved tumultuous for Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s eighth executive president. Here’s a man who was swept into power with an unprecedented mandate to protect sovereignty and the interests of the majority, only to be unceremoniously ousted in less than two years by the same people who elevated him to high office. The populist leader offered a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/12/22)
6.8 billion dollars disregarded
A witty decoding of the acronym NATO is ‘’no action talk only’. In our country there is not even talk on some critical and palpable issues which are writ large. A few weeks back a think tank of the Peradeniya University pointed out that with an expected annualised export income of $ 16.3 billion in 2022 ($ 13.3 billion in merchandise exports and $ 3 billion in services exports) the country is being deprived of a staggering $ 6.8 billion in 2022 alone on the non-remittance of the total value of exports by exporters. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
SINGING SRI LANKA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM IN TAMIL Part 4A
This essay gives a quick resume of the story of Sri Lanka‘s national anthem and then records the developments up to 2021 regarding the Tamil version. A ‘national anthem’ is a western invention of the 18th century. European countries acquired ‘national anthems’ during this period. The British national anthem simply asked God to save the king and send him victorious, happy and glorious. The composer is unknown. It was adopted as the national anthem in 1745. The national anthem of France, La Marseillaise was originally a war song, adopted as the national anthem in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
කඳුරටේ සම්භවයක් ඇති දෙමල මිනිසුන්ගේ තත්වය නගා සිටුවීම සඳහා කමිටුවක් පත් කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා තීරණය කරයි (ප්රවෘතියක්)
පළමුව මේ ලක් පොලවේ වසර 2500 කට වැඩි කළක් එහි ශිෂ්ඨාචාරය බිහිකොට ජීවත්වූ ජන්ම උරුමකරුවන් සහ භූමිපුත්රයින් වන සින්හලයින්ගේ 1815 සිට සුද්දන් විසින් උදුරාගත් බැවින් අහිමිවූ අයිතිවාසිකම් ලබා නොදී ඉන්දීය දෙමල මිනිසුන්ගේ පමණක් තත්වය නගා සිටුවීම ජාතිද්රෝහී මෙන්ම් දේශද්රෝහී ක්රියාවකි. ලක් පොලවේ ජන්ම උරුමකරුවන් වන භූමිපුත්රයින්ගේ අහිමිවූ අයිතිවාසිකම් ලබා නොදී ඉන්දීය දෙමල මිනිසුන්ගේ තත්වය පමණක් නගා සිටුවීමට ක්රියා කිරීම කිසිසේත්ම අපට අනුමතකළ නොහැක.1948 සිට වසර 75 ක තිස්සේ සියළුම සින්හල දේශපාලකයින් විසින් වතු දෙමල චන්ද ලබාගැනීම සඳහා සිදුකරණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස 50 වැනි බස් රථය තඔුත්තේගම මධ්ය විද්යාලයට
විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ සංකල්පයක් මත ක්රියාත්මක කෙරෙන සක්වල වැඩසටහන යටතේ 50 වැනි බස් රථය තඔුත්තේගම මධ්ය විද්යාලය සඳහා ප්රධානය කිරීම අද (27) පෙරවරුවේ සිදු කෙරිණි. තඹුත්තේගම නගරයට පැමිණි විපක්ෂ නායකතුමන් තඹුත්තේගම ආර්ථික මධ්යස්ථානය අසල සිට පාසල් ළමුන් පිරිසක්ද නංවාගෙන නව බස් රථය පඳවාගෙන මඟ දෙපස සිටි ජනතාට ආචාර සමාචාර කරමින් විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා තඹුත්තේගම මධ්ය විද්යාලය අසට පැමිණ විදුහල්පති පූජ්ය මහමාන්කඩවල ධම්මිසිරි හිමි ඇතුළු සිසු දරු දැරියන් වෙත බස් රථය භාර කිරීම සිදු කරනු ලැබීය. මෙම උත්සවය අමතමින් විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා කියා සිටියේ, හැම වසරකම,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
As of 19 December 2022, Bangladesh imports 15,000 tonnes of white rice from Myanmar
According to the Government-to-Government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 150,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce.Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.According to this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to buy 250,000 tonnes of white rice and 50,000 tonnes of parboiled rice from Myanmar between 2022 and 2027.In accordance with the MoU, Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Food and Myanmar Rice Federation signed a sales contract for 200,000 tonnes of Myanmar’s white rice to be exported... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
Bangladesh imports Rohu fish from Myanmar
The Bengali saying "fish and rice" is true in its true sense, Bengalis have a long relationship with fish and rice. Bengalis have been eating fish since ancient times. The reason for the close relationship between rice and fish is that rice is the staple food of Bengalis and fish is a favorite item in the daily menu. Another main reason is that Bangladesh is a riverine country, both rice and fish are readily available. And the availability of food ingredients forms the basis of the food culture of a region. In regions where food ingredients... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
පිරිත් පැන් වෙනුවට ගිනි පැන් මතුවුණු පාලි බෞද්ධ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ නිගණ්ඨ දහම
අති පූජ්ය මහානායක නාහිමිවරුන් ඇතුළු මේ රටේ ධර්මධර, විනයධර සුපේෂල, ශික්ෂාකාමී සියලු නාහිමිවරුන්ගෙන් පළමුව අපි සමාව අයදින්නෙමු. ඒ මෙවැනි සටහනක් තබන්නට සිදුව තිබීම හමුවේය. කිසිසේත්ම මෙය මඟහැර යා නොහැකි කටයුත්තකි. උතුම් බුදු දහමේ චිරස්ථිතිය උදෙසා මෙය සිදු කළ යුතුවම තිබෙන්නකි. එනිසා අපි ඒ යුතුකම ඉටු කරන්නෙමු. හෝමාගම පිහිටි බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්යාලය තාවකාලිකව වසා දමන්නට ඉකුත් සතියේ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය තීන්දු කරනු ලැබීය. 1981 අංක 74 දරන පනත ප්රකාරව ආරම්භ කෙරුණු එම විශ්වවිද්යාලය මේ අන්දමට වසා දැමුණු ප්රථම අවස්ථාවද මෙය වේ. කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය එම තීන්දුව ගනු ලැබුවේද බෞද්ධ හා පාලි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
1815 පසු අප ඉදිරියේ ජෝන් ඩොයිලි ක්රියාත්මකය. එදා වගේම අපි පරාද වීමට සුදානම්ය.
ජෝන්,ඩොයිලි ඉතිහාසය තුළ බලවත් වුයේ අපේ අසමගිය නිසාය. එදාද අපි ඔවුන් විශ්වාස කිරීමේ අවසන් ප්රතිපලය වුයේ ස්වෛරී රාජ්යය අපට අහිමි වීමය. අද ජෝන්,ඩොයිලිගේ භූමිකාව ඉටු කරන්නේ එරික් සෝල්හම්ය. එදා වගේම අදත් එරික් සෝල්හයිම්, පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ සිංහලයාගේ අසමගියයි. (මම මෙතැන සිංහලයා ලෙස ගන්නේ මොන පක්ෂ වලින් බැලුවත් බහුතරය සිංහල දේශපාලකයන් වැඩි නිසාය.) රටේ අරගලයක් යනුවෙන් තානාපති කාර්යාළ කුමන්ත්රණයක් සිදුවිය. එහි ප්රතිපලයක් ලෙස රටේ ජනාධිපති රටෙන් නිළ නොළත් ලෙස දේශපාලනිකව පිටුවහල් විය. නිශ්ක්රීය කලේය. ඉන්පසු බටහිර ඉත්තෙක්ට සහ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ වැනි එක්නැළිගොඩලාගේද සහායෙන් බලය මාරු කලේය. දැන් එදා වගේම කුමන්ත්රණය ක්රියාත්මකය.රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ නම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
The Hambantota International Port HIP to promote floating repairs in 2023
The Hambantota International Port (HIP) is supporting Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) to handle running repairs to vessels while they remain afloat in the harbour. The majority of vessels directed to HIP for afloat repairs come with damages experienced below the water line. CDPLC carries out permanent repairs on these ships with service assistance from HIP. “Usually repairs of this nature require us to bring the vessel into dry docks, but we are confident of handling such operations efficiently at HIP. HIP has the berthing capacity and capability to handle afloat repairs along with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
India makes inroads into Lanka under China’s long shadow
When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach. When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach.India provided about $4bn in rapid assistance between January and July, including credit lines, a currency swap arrangement and deferred import payments, and sent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
Where are we heading in 2023?
One mistake we normally make in analysing the situation or crisis in Sri Lanka is to do it in isolation. Sri Lanka is unfortunately only a part of a world system. Although this situation is valid to almost all other countries, smaller or weaker a country, larger are the effects of external factors. Strategic importance also playing a part of the equation. Even before colonialism, there had been waves of civilisational expansions from major or larger countries into surrounding areas and countries. These happened in regional contexts until the advent of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
SLPP MP asks FM for clarification
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, owed an explanation as regards his claim that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded the enactment of 21 Amendment to the Constitution as a prerequisite for the finalisation of USD 2.9 bn Extended Fund Facility Arrangement (EFFA) with Sri Lanka, retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, MP, said yesterday. The SLPP MP said that the much-touted IMF loan hadn’t materialised yet though Sri Lanka had enacted the 21st Amendment on 21 Oct. In fact, there was no clear indication... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
International Coal Tender awarded to Indonesian company
The international tender to purchase coal was awarded to an Indonesian company called ‘Arista Mitra’, the Lanka Coal Company (LCC) announced today (27). This announcement comes after the Cabinet cancelled the tender that was initially awarded to United Arab Emirates-based Black Sand Commodities FZ-LLC due to a legal case filed over the awarding of the tender after which LCC subsequently had called for a new international tender to purchase coal. According to LCC Chairman Shehan Sumanasekara, the awarded tender is 720 000 Metric Tonnes, with 12 shipments scheduled to arrive. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
Will provide 5 KW solar system to all religious places within three months: Kanchana
A program will be implemented to provide solar panels to all low-income religious places through the Indian Credit Line within three months to provide at least a 5 KW solar system free of charge. Addressing the media, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the majority of religious places use less than 650 units of electricity. After installing the solar system, the electricity bill of such religious places will come to zero. However, the temples belonging to monks such as Athuraliye Rathana Thero will have to invest additional... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
Owners of unutilised land within Colombo City to be fined
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is to charge a fine from the owners of unutilised land within the Colombo City. This was one of the major proposals of the CMC budget which was approved recently. As per the budget the expected revenue for the year 2023 through this exercise is Rs. 12 billion. JVP member of the council Hemantha Kumara Weerakoon raised a question at the last sessions and queried whether this proposal is practical. An opposition member of the municipal council who did not wish... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
FAO, USAID to deliver TSP fertilizer to all paddy farmers in Sri Lanka
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will distribute 36,000 metric tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizer to all paddy farmers in Sri Lanka through the Ministry of Agriculture. The amount of TSP provided per farmer will be determined based on the area they cultivated in the 2022/2023 Maha cultivation season. The distribution list, along with the land extent cultivated during this Maha season, has been published and displayed at all Agrarian Service Centres of the Department... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
Sri Lanka recorded over 701,000 tourist arrivals so far this year - Minister
Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando states that 701,331 tourists visited Sri Lanka between January 2022 and December 26, 2022. The minister pointed out that the government expects tourist arrivals to hit 720,000 in total by the end of 2022. The number of tourist arrivals in the year 2021 stood at 194,495. According to the summary report on tourist arrivals this year, a total of 73,314 tourists have visited Sri Lanka just within this month, as of December 26. The Tourism Minister further stated that a considerable number of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
Gotabaya Rajapaksa & family leave the country - Hiru News
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left for the United States of America (USA) along with his family. According to officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Rajapaksa and his family left for the US via Dubai this morning. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had been accompanied by his wife Ayoma Rajapaksa, his son Manor Rajapaksa, his daughter-in-law, and his grandchild. However, in answer to a query from Hiru News, Gotabaya Rajapaksa's personal secretary Sugeeshwara Bandara stated that the former President had made the decision to stay in Dubai rather than travel to America.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/12/22)
How to mitigate landslides, floods and resulting devastations by rehabilitating and restoring the upper watersheds; A point of view.
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/05/31/how-to-mitigate-landslides-floods-and-resulting-devastations-by-rehabilitating-and-restoring-the-upper-watersheds-a-point-of-view/... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Why Western Human Rights Reporting Is flawed and Untrustworthy
Numerous western governments and west-funded NGOs produce reports on human rights conditions in countries all around the world. These reports typically share three characteristics: they identify developing nations as major human rights violators; present developed ones as the global defenders of those rights; and include nations that are strategic competitors or perceived as adversaries in the definition of the western "axis of evil" narrative. That assertion is supported by the U.S. Department of State's most recent "Countries of Concern" report. But another noteworthy aspect of those studies is their excessive, and to a greater... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Diplomats 'melting nose' in Bangladesh for how long?
After the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, foreign diplomats' noses in the country's politics became shamefully public for the first time. What should the government do, how to do it - these instructions keep coming from abroad. With the evolution of time, there has been some change in the image of their interference in the internal affairs of this country, but there is no chance to say that it is decreasing even after fifty years of independence of the country through the liberation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
නව ශ්රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරු හා අග්රාමාත්යවරයා අතර විශේෂ හමුවක්
ආයෝජන ආකර්ශනය, අපනයන හා සංචාරක ව්යාපාරය ප්රවර්ධනය කෙරෙන නව්ය රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රිකභාවයක වැදගත්කම අග්රාමාත්යවරයා අවධාරණය කරයි..... සාම්ප්රදායික රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික ක්රමය වෙනුවට ආර්ථික රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රිකභාවයට ලොව ප්රමුඛතාවය හිමිව ඇතැයි අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. නව ශ්රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරුන් හා අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අතර අද (දෙසැ 26) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති විශේෂ සාකච්චාවකදී ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසීය. නව තානාපතිවරුන් සහ මහ කොමසාරිස්වරුන් 16 දෙනෙකු මෙම සාකච්ඡාවට එක්ව සිටියහ. ආයෝජන ආකර්ෂණය කරගැනීම, අපනයනය හා සංචාරක ව්යාපාරය ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීම මෙන්ම සියලු දෙනා සමඟ මිත්රශීලී, නොබැඳි මධ්යස්ථ රටක් බවට වූ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්රතිරූපය ඉහළ නැංවීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Why Putin's Winter Offensive Will Prompt US Entry Into the War
“The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO’s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians to fight. Now Washington must urge them to stop.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative Volodymyr Zelensky did not fly across the Atlantic so he could deliver a speech to the US Congress. That was not the purpose of his trip. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (8වෙනි කොටස)
පිරිමින්ගේ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම තුරන් වී යාම සහ ‘කාන්තාවන්ගේ සාරිය ගැලවීමේ’ දැඩි උවමනාව අනාදිමත් කාලයක සිට මේ රටේ සිංහල ජනයා වැදගත් අවස්ථාවකට ඇන්දේ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම සහ සාරියයි. එනම් පිරිමින් ජාතික ඇඳුමද ස්ත්රීන් සාරියද ඇන්දහ. උඩරට කතුන් ඔසරිය ඇන්දහ. නිවසේදී, පිරිමියා සරමද, කාන්තාව සාරියද ඇන්දහ. විවිධ කාලීන හේතු සහ ප්රායෝගික අවශ්යතා නිසා අද මෙය වෙනස් වී ඇත. 1980 පමණ වනතුරු බොහෝ පිරිමින් ප්රසිද්ධියේ, ඉතා අභිමානයෙන් ජාතික ඇඳුම ඇන්ඳහ. ඒ අය අතර විදුහල්පතිවරු, ගුරුවරු, රාජ්ය සේවකයන්, වෙද මහත්වරුන්, ගොවී මහත්වරුන් වුහ. අද පාරක ‘බෙහෙතකටවත්’ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම හැඳි පිරිමියෙක් සොයා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
What does ‘FULL IMPLEMENTATION of 13A’ mean?
The consensus at the recently concluded meeting of the Sri Lankan Party Leaders, chaired by the President, was for the “Full Implementation of 13A” (the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka). However, none of the Party Leaders spelt out what precisely was meant by the phrase “Full Implementation of 13A”. The general opinion is that “Full Implementation of 13A” means the implementation of all the provisions specified in the 13th Amendment (13A). Since all provisions in 13A, except for Land and Police powers, have already been implemented, it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Contract Farming Could Save Sri Lanka’s Tea Industry – Analysis
High production costs, poor practices and low labor productivity call for a paradigm shift in the management system Sri Lanka’s tea industry is in crisis. The cost of production of the “brew that cheers” is higher and labor productivity is lower in Sri Lanka as compared to other tea-producing countries like China, India, Vietnam and Kenya. The cost of production in Sri Lanka is US$ 3.11/kg, while it is US$ 1.35 in Bangladesh, US$ 1.25 in India, US$ 1 In Kenya, and US$ 0.75 in Vietnam. Labor productivity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Prosecutors to reopen probe against Nagoya immigration officials over Sri Lankan's death
NAGOYA -- The Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office's decision not to indict 13 officials at a regional immigration bureau, including the bureau chief, over the death of a Sri Lankan woman was unjust, a citizens' panel reviewing prosecutors' judgments here announced on Dec. 26. In response to the Nagoya No. 1 Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution's ruling dated Dec. 21, the public prosecutors office will reopen its investigation into the death of Wishma Sandamali. Wishma died while detained at the Nagoya Regional Immigration Services Bureau in March 2021 at age... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Fuel consumption in Sri Lanka drops 50% in December
The fuel consumption in Sri Lanka has plunged by 50 per cent in the last months of 2022, compared to the first few months of the year, the state-owned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said on Monday. https://youtu.be/lG8o3Ayz26M The company said daily fuel consumption averaged 5,500 tonnes between December 2021 and February 2022 in the South Asian country. The economic crisis, which had led to a reduction in consumption, the introduction of fuel rationing and the end of hoarding of fuel, has resulted in the decline in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Flights from Mattala to Russia will start tomorrow
Russian carrier, Red Wings will start charter flight operations to the Mattala International Airport twice a week, with effect from December 28, 2022... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Why Chinese ‘debt trap diplomacy’ is a lie
Xi Jinping at a BRICS leaders meeting in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. U.S. politicians and corporate media often promote the narrative that China lures developing countries into predatory, high-interest loans to build infrastructure projects as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. As the story goes, China anticipates that the borrowing country will default on that loan, so that it can then seize that asset in order to extend its military or geostrategic influence — evidence of China’s so-called colonizing of the Global South. The concept of Chinese “debt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
Lapses in History
The Sinhalese nation has made a series of political and strategic lapses which have influenced the fate of this nation throughout history. This note is to roughly indicate them, and hope historians fill up the details. For strategic reasons valid at the time, all our capitals other than Kotte, were located away from the coast. Although we had many busy ports in ancient Sri Lanka like Mahathitta, Jambukola, Gokanna and Godawaya, none of them served as Capital cities. The economy of ancient Sri Lanka was based on agriculture and trade. Although the ports served... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/12/22)
THE TRILINGUAL INSCRIPTION OF CHENG HO
The ‘Tamil inscription’ in the Trilingual slab found in Galle, given by China, has been greeted with great joy by the Tamil Separatist Movement, saying that it shows the importance of the Tamil language in International relations and International trade. Unfortunately the inscription is not in Tamil. This Trilingual slab was discovered in 1911, by provincial engineer H.F. Tomalin, who was told of a carved stone covering a culvert near Cripps Road in Galle. This slab had been erected in 1411 in Galle, to commemorate the visit to Sri Lanka by the Chinese admiral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
‘’ADDICTION OF ‘’ICE’’ AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS AMONG YOUNG AND OLD INCLUDING SCHOOL CHILDREN’’
Addiction of ’’ ICE’’ and related narcotic drugs in Sri Lanka We are in danger of addiction of drugs in Sri Lankan society in an unexpected and unprecedented rate with the imminent danger of destruction and breakdown of the society, economy, including the entire functioning of the nation on a grinding halt unless immediate and positive steps are taken in the right direction to eradicate the menace growing faster. Sri Lanka has been a healthy and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
Zoophilia (Bestiality) and Buddhist Jathaka stories
සතුන් සමග රමණය බොහෝ විට එඬේර යුගයේ සිට මානවයා දැක්වූ චර්යාවක් විය හැකිය. බෞද්ධ ජාතක කතා වලද සතුන් සමග රමණය සඳහන් වෙයි. එක්තරා භික්ෂුවක් වැඳිරියක් සමග මෙවුන්ඳම් සේවනයේ යෙදීමක් පිලිබඳව බුදුන් විසින් පැනවූ තහංචියක් මෙහිදී සඳහන් කල හැක. වර්තමාන මනෝ විද්යාවේ සතුන් සමග රමණය අපගාමී ලිංගික චර්යාව ලෙස සනිටුහන් වෙයි. The Jātaka Storyteller vividly describes the Zoophilia (Bestiality) tendency of Queen Mallika who had a sexual encounter with an animal....... Zoophilia is a paraphilia whereby the perpetrator gets sexual pleasure in having sex with animals (Aggrawal , 2011). Zoophilia... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
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https://youtu.be/xAurLI0lOlo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
එප්පාවලින් පැහැරගත් දරුවා රිකිල්ලගස්කඩ ජොන්ස්ලන්ඩ් වතුයායේ නිවසකින් සොයා ගැනේ...
දරුවා පැහැර ගෙන ගිය 44 හැවිරිදි විදුලි කාර්මිකයාත්, ඔවුන්ට නවාතැන් දුන් පුද්ගලයින් දෙදෙනකුත් රිමාන්ඩ්...දරුවා රැගෙන ගිය ත්රී රෝද රථයත් පොලීස් භාරයේ.. එප්පාවල පොලිස් වසමේ කිරලෝගම, ගැටදිවුල ප්රදේශයේ පදිංචි 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවා පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් රිකිල්ලගස්කඩ ජොන්ස්ලන්ඩ් වතුයායේ නිවසක සඟවාගෙන සිටියදී සොයා ගැනීමට එප්පාවල පොලිස් ස්ථානයේ නිළධාරීන් කණ්ඩායමකට පසුගියදා (24) මධ්යම රාත්රියේ හැකි වී ඇත. මෙලෙස පැහැර ගැනීමට ලක් වූයේ අංක 16, ගැටදිවුල, කිරලෝගම ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි පී.කේ දෙනෙත් ගෞරව ප්රේමසුන්දර නම් නව හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවෙකි.ඔහු කිරලෝගම සුබෝධි මහා විද්යාලයේ සිව් වන වසරේ ඉගෙනුම ලබන සිසුවෙකි. මෙම සිසුවා එම ප්රදේශයේ විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (7වෙනි කොටස)
ඇමරිකාව, කැනඩාව, ඕස්ත්රේලියාව යන රටවල් (i) ‘සිංහල බෞද්ධ’ අයිතීන් පරයා ‘ශ්රී ලාංකික අනන්යතාවය’ ප්රවර්ධනය කරන්නවුනගේ තර්කයක් වනුයේ ඇමරිකාව, කැනඩාව, එංගලන්තය, ඕස්ත්රේලියාව, නවසීලන්තය වැනි රටවල් වල පවා මහ ජාතිය ක්ෂය වීමක් සිදුවන බවත්, අප රටේ සිංහලයන් ගණන අඩුවීම ගැන අප මැසිවිලි නොනැඟිය යුතු බවත්ය. මෙය වැරදි තර්කයකි. ඉංග්රීසි කථා කරන දියුණු බටහිර රටවල රැකියා සඳහා විදෙස් රටවලින් පුහුණු ශ්රමිකයන් ආගමනය කරවීමේ ප්රතිපත්තිය (migration) ඔවුන් ඉතා සුක්ෂම ලෙස මැනවින් පාලනය කරන්නේ එම රටවල සුදු ජාතික ප්රතිශතය සැමදා 75%න් ඉහලින් තබා ගන්නා අයුරිනි. අදද එම රටවල තත්ත්වය එයයි. තවද, පැමිණෙන විදේශිකයන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
Amending the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act: Reforms process to proceed as planned
Despite the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) backpedalling on its commitment to the consensus on the proposed reforms to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA), the move to amend the legislation is to continue as planned, The Sunday Morning learns. The MMDA reforms have been in the pipeline for decades and this month finally saw concrete headway being made. Muslim Council of Sri Lanka Vice President Hilmy Ahmed said the proposed reforms would see the age of marriage being increased to 18 and women being appointed as quazis. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
ෂාෆ්ටර්ගේ බිරිදගේ හා මිතුරාගේ සාක්ෂි පරස්පරතා රැසක්.. ඝාතනයේ හෙළි නොවූ රහස්…
ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් කණ්ඩායමේ පන්දු යවන්නකු ලෙස කටයුතු කරමින් පසු කාලයේ ක්රිකට් පරිපාලන නිලධාරියෙකු ලෙස කැපී පෙෙනන චරිතයක් බවට පත් වූ ප්රකට ව්යාපාරිකයෙක් වූ ජනශක්ති සමාගමේ සභාපති චන්ද්රා ෂාෆ්ටර්ගේ පුත් දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර්ගේ පසුගියදා සිදු වූ ඝාතනයෙන් අදටත් මුළු ව්යාපාරික ලෝකයම සිටින්නේ හෙල්ලී ගොසිනි. දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් ද සිය පියා මෙන්ම සමාජයේ කැපී පෙනෙන්නට සිටි ප්රකට චරිතයක් වූ බැවින් ඔහුගේ ඝාතකයා නීතිය හමුවට පමුණුවන තුරු මුළු රටම බලා සිටින්නේ නොඉවසිල්ලෙනි. ඒ සුසාන භූමියක් තුළට ගෙන්වා ගෙන මහ දවාලයේ දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් වැනි ඉහළ ධනපතියෙක් මරා දමන්නට තරම් මුල් වූ කරුණ කුමක්දැයි දැන ගැනීමේ පිපාසාව ද සමඟිනි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
අරක්කු ටිකක් සිගරට් එකක් බීම මහ ලොකු දෙයක් නොව්..- භික්ෂු සභාපති හිමි
විශ්වවිද්යාල ශිෂ්යයකු අරක්කු ටිකක් බිව්වට දුම්වැටියක් බිව්වට මහා ලොකු දෙයක් නොවන බව ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ භික්ෂු සංගමයේ සභාපති පූජ්ය උදේනිගම ගුණරතන හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. ශ්රී ලංකා පාලි හා බෞද්ධ විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ ඇති වූ සිදුවීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මාධ්යවේදීන් කළ විමසීමකදී උන්වහන්සේ මෙසේ කියා සිටියහ. භික්ෂු විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ හමු වූ මත්පැන් බෝතල් අලුත්ම බෝතල් බවත් ඒවා හමුවූයේ සිසුන් විශ්වවිද්යාලයෙන් පිටවී ගියාට පසුව වීම පුදුම සහගත වුවත් උන්වහන්සේ තවදුරටත් පැවසූහ. දෙරට රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවට එරෙහිව විරෝධතාවයක් පවත්වමින් සිටි අතරතුර මාධ්ය වෙත උන් වහන්සේ මේ අදහස් පල කරන ලදී.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/12/22)
Bribery
Bribery is one of the most vicious, repulsive and destructive features of our society. It is a subject which should receive the attention of all citizens in the country. It should be not only investigated but researched to identify its roots which might help in confronting it. It is a challenge for social scientists and historians. This note is only scratching the surface and doing some guesswork without deep research. In bribery there is a taker and a giver. The giver does not attract much attention. It is considered part of business strategy. Bribery... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
What is a True Religion?
No religion can be true to itself if it is indifferent to the welfare of animals or at worse calls for the exploitation and death of non-humans. The defining quality of a true religion is loving kindness and compassion. It cannot be confined to one species or shared on a cherry-picking basis excluding all other non-human species. Animals kidnapped from tropical countries are now dying en masse without heat in their cages in European Zoos being frozen to death. The bitter European Winter does not discriminate between man and animal. These... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
එප්පාවල දරුවා පැහැර ගත් සැකකරු හා ඔවුන්ට නවාතැන් සපයමින් සැඟවී සිටීමට උපකාර කළ ගෙහිමියා ජනවාරී 04 තෙක් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කරයි.
එප්පාවල පොලිස් වසමේ කිරලෝගම, ගැටදිවුල ප්රදේශයේ පදිංචි 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවා පැහැර ගෙන යාමේ සිද්ධියට සම්බන්ධ විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පියා හා ඔවුන්ට සැගවී සිටීමට උපකාර කළ රිකිල්ලගස්කඩ නගර සභාවේ රියදුරා එළැඹෙන ජනවාරි මස 04 වැනි දින දක්වා රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කරන ලෙස තඹුත්තගෙම මහේස්ත්රාත් එම්.එල් නුවන් කෞෂල්ය මහතා අද (24) පස්වරුවේ නියෝග කළේය. සැකකරුවන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන අද (24) පස්වරුවේ තඹුත්තේගම මහේස්ත්රාත්වරයාගේ නිළ නිවසට ගොස් මහේස්ත්රාත්වරයාට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව මෙමෙ නියෝග නිකුත් කරනු ලැබීය. මෙලෙස රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාර ගත කෙරුණේ 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවා පැහැර ගෙන යාමේ සිද්ධියට සම්බන්ධ ප්රධාන සැකකරු වන 22 කණුව, කැකිරාව පාර,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Why is Sri Lanka’s deal with IMF getting delayed?
Dec 23 (The Hindu) – Sri Lanka is waiting for financing assurances from its bilateral creditors, including India and China, to tap support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor P. Nandalal Weerasinghe, The Hindu reported. In September, the IMF reached a staff level agreement with Sri Lanka for a $2.9 billion package to help the island nation facing its worst economic crisis in decades. The development came months after Sri Lanka floated the rupee, opted for a preemptive default on its external debt, and increased interest rates... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
International project aims to investigate storm surge risk to three Sri Lankan coastal communities
The University is working with organisations in the UK and Sri Lanka on new research to develop compound flood hazard maps. An international team of engineers is joining forces with a disaster educationalist to investigate coastal flooding due to cyclones in three communities within the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Communities in these provinces face a significantly greater risk of flooding from storm surges associated with seasonal cyclones than those in the rest of the country’s coastal belt. Using a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Missing nine-year-old boy from Eppawala found; suspect arrested
The nine-year-old boy from Eppawala, who was reported missing several days ago, was found with the welding mechanic suspected of accompanying him. According to the police spokesman, they were found at an estate in Rikillagaskada early this morning. The suspect has been placed under arrest. https://youtu.be/QUvH822w_Vs Earlier this week, the Eppawala Police initiated an investigation in search of a man suspected to have kidnapped the nine-year-old from Kiralogama, Getadiwula in the North Central Province. In a complaint filed with the police, the parents of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Tourist arrivals for Dec. 01-20 cross 50,000 mark
PIC BY NISAL BADUGE Daily arrival average improves to 2,500Weekly arrival average improves to 16,000If current momentum is maintained, December could end with about 75,000 tourists The tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka for the first 20 days of December have crossed 50,000, indicating a significant improvement in tourism activities. The provisional data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority showed that for the December 01 to 20 period, a total of 50,375 international visitors entered the country. This brings the total tourist arrivals for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Anupa Pasqual says he was not late at meeting with Korean, decides to be punctual hereon
Social Empowerment State Minister Anupa Pasqual today denied media reports claiming that he had attended a meeting with a senior Korean official 30 minutes late and maintained that he had begun the meeting at the scheduled time. Pasqual, who came under immense criticism after South Korea Disaster Relief Foundation (SKDRF) President Cho Sung Lea slammed Sri Lankan ministers for not being punctual, said the meeting on Wednesday was scheduled to begin at 9.30 am but it was the media who was invited to arrive at 9 am. "The head table... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Schoolboy among 47 arrested with drugs during raids near schools
Police have arrested 47 people including a 17-year-old schoolboy of a leading school in Mirihana during a drug raid carried out near schools in the Western Province yesterday. Police said the raids were conducted from 6.30 am till 2.30 pm near 149 schools in the Western Province. The police have recovered 1.260 kg of 'Mava', 9.630mg of heroine and 2.38mg of ICE and 207g of cannabis during the raid. Police said the schoolboy was arrested with cannabis in his possession. They said the drug busting activities... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
SLAF signs MOU to airlift remains of deceased personnel for organ retrieval
The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) signed an agreement with the Health Ministry to provide aircraft on a mobile Charter Basis for the purposes of airlifting remains of deceased personnel for organ retrieval at the request of the Ministry of Health. Accordingly, C-130, AN-32, MA-60, Y-12, MI-17, Bell-412, Bell-212 and Bell-206 airworthy aircraft will be deployed to perform airlift operations under this agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Charter Aircraft Agreement was signed at Air Force Headquarters under the solemn approval by the Ministry of Defence. Commander... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
How much were those who led the ‘aragalaya’ paid?
Regime changes are engineered to remove nationalist/populist leaders or to fast pace globalist agenda. Social media is a tool used to manipulate people to align with their agenda. Social media is partnered by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society, media organisations, and any other locals, co-opted with various inducements. Some are knowingly involved, others get foolishly roped in. When diplomatic corps representing the regime change operators interfere on behalf of these “agents of system change”, it’s a clue. F. William Engdahl of Princeton University claims Srđa Popović’s organisation Otpor created in 1998, in Belgrade,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Is the current political system and the politicians it produces equipped to address challenges in 2023 and beyond?
Has the symbiotic interdependence between the political system, politicians and religious institutions been a major contributory factor for Sri Lanka’s economic bankruptcy? “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker - It’s not what you say but what you do that defines you - Buddha “Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.” – Buddha The year 2022 will end as the year that turned Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Let our cherished leader Hon Philip Gunawardena inspire us to end the economic meltdown.
As far back as 1937,Hon Philip Gunawardena mooted a Kelani Valley Development Scheme. It was in the days of our State Council- he made a special motion at the State Council meeting on 16/11/1937 , mooting the Kelani River Flood Management system to save agricultural lands from severe floods. It was an attempt to harness the waters of the Kelani River for development. As usual it fell on deaf years and the people keep suffering. In countries like the USA the Army has a Unit to attend to such tasks. It was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
මාළුන්ට සිදු වූයේ කුමක්ද? ආහාර සංස්කෘතියේ විපර්යාසය, ආනයනිත ආහාර මත රඳා පැවතීම සහ විදේශ ණය බර
ආචාර්ය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක බාහිර ආර්ථික කම්පන තරංග මාලාවකට මුහුණ දී ඇති ශ්රි ලංකාවේ ආහාර සංස්කෘතියේ සහ ජනතාවගේ පෝෂණ තත්ත්වයේ විශාල වෙනසක් සිදුවෙමින් පවතී. ශ්රි ලංකාවේ වෙරළතීරයේ ජනතාවන්ගේ සම්ප්රදායික ආහාරය වූ පෝෂ්යදායි බත් සහ මාළු ක්රමානුකූලව පසෙකට දමා ආනයනය කරන ලද කුකුළු මස් (බඩඉරිඟු වලින් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන ලද සත්වාහාර ලබා දෙමින් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන කරන ලද), සුදු තිරිඟුපිටිවලින් නිෂ්පාදිත පාන්, ක්ෂණික නූඩ්ල්ස්, සහ සකස් කරන ලද පැකැට් ආහාර එම තැන අත්පත් කරගෙන තිබේ. එමෙන්ම නිර්මාංශ ආහාර අනුභව කරන්නන් විසින් භාවිතා කරන ලද ඉතා පෝෂ්යදායි කොස්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Elections, democracy and monumental humbuggery
Sometime in May 2022, when it was announced that plans were underfoot to hold the delayed parliamentary elections, there was a hue and cry, mostly from the then Opposition. Key leaders of the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) argued that elections would worsen the Covid-19 situation. Nothing of the kind happened of course, but at the time there was some merit to the reasoning. The results revealed the true concern: defeat. Elections should be held simply because that’s part of upholding the constitution. Over the years we have heard lots of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda and Rahul Bhatia, Founder of IndiGo discuss aviation collaboration & use of rupee trade for tourism
High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda met with Rahul Bhatia, Founder and Managing Director of IndiGo. They discussed ways to expand collaboration in the aviation sector between Sri Lanka and India including ways and means to make Sri Lankan airports more competitive for Indian carriers. The opportunities presented by the recent permission granted by the Reserve Bank of India to allow VOSTRO accounts were also discussed. IndiGo is India’s largest airline by passenger carriage and fleet size, and is a pioneer in low-cost aviation in India. The airline has carried... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
නත්තල් දින පණිවිඩය
යථාර්ථවාදීව ලෝකය දෙස බැලීමට ආදර්ශ සැපයූ ජේසුස් ක්රිස්තුස් වහන්සේගේ උප්පත්තිය සිහිගන්වන නත්තල, ප්රේමය මානව ගරුත්වය සහ මනුෂ්යත්වය පෙරදැරි සමාජයකට නවමු අඩිතාලමක් කර ගනිමු. එය පීඩාවට පත් ජනතාව ඉන් මුදා, යහපත් සමාජයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම උදෙසා කැපවුණු ජේසුස් ක්රිස්තුස් වහන්සේගේ දර්ශනය මත වූ සැබෑ කාලීන අවශ්යතාවයක් වනු ඇත. වෛරය හා කෘරත්වය පිටුදකිමින් ගැටුම් සමනය වන ආර්ථිකමය වශයෙන් හා බව භෝගයෙන් සමෘද්ධිමත් වූ ශ්රී ලංකාවක් වෙනුවෙන් නත්තල තවත් ආරම්භයක් කරගත හැක. සාමය, සමාදානය හා සමානාත්මතාවය යන අපූර්ව පාඩම් මත පිහිටා අන්යයන්ට පිහිටවෙමින් නත්තල අර්ථාන්විතව ගත කරමු. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
දැන් බලාගෙන යන කොට දේශපාලඥයෝ නෙමෙයිනේ හොරු.ඒ නිසා අපේ ගෙවල් නෙමෙයි ගිණි තියන්නේ ඉස්සරහට...ඇමති චාමර කියයි.
ඇයි අපේ ගෙවල් ගිණි තිබ්බේ පහුගිය කාළයේ ? ඇයි අපේ ගෙවල් වලට ගැහුවේ? දැන් බලාගෙන යන කොට දේශපාලඥයෝ නෙමෙයිනේ හොරු.ඒ නිසා අපේ ගෙවල් නෙමෙයි ගිණි තියන්නේ ඉස්සරහට යැයි ප්රාථමික කර්මාන්ත රාජ්යය අමාත්යය චාමර සම්පත් මහතා ලංකා රාජ්යය පොස්පේට් ආයතනයේ අකටයුතුකම් සිදු කරන රාජ්යය නිළධාරීන්ට චෝදනා කරමින් පැවසීය. රාජ්යය අමාත්යය චාමර සම්පත් දසනායක මහතා ඊයේ (22) එප්පාවල පිහිටි ලංකා රාජ්යය පොස්පේට් ආයතනයේ වැඩබිම නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා පැමිණි අතර, පළමුව අමාත්යයතුමන් සේවක හමුවක් පැවැත්වීය.එහිදී එම ආයතනයේ වෘත්තීය සමිති ආයතනයේ සිදු වන දූෂණ අක්රමිකතා අමාත්යයවරයාට පවසා සිටි අතර, ඉන් අනතුරුව ලංකා රාජ්යය පොස්පේට් සමාගමේ අභිනව සභාපතිනිය වන ජී.ඒ.එම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
With dreams of Mars, this young activist works for a greener future on Earth
When he was just 15, Kazumi Muraki created a small, portable device to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Seven years later, the Japanese chemist is researching how to convert this captured carbon into fuel. As a young boy, Muraki was never very interested in science, he tells CNN, until his grandfather gave him the children’s novel “George’s Secret Key to the Universe,” by the late Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy. Muraki says the titular character goes on a quest to find a suitable planet for human life and settles on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
What the IMF did to Mali and lessons for Sri Lanka
Mali is synonymous with Timbuktu. It was one of the largest empires that existed in Africa. No different to Sri Lanka, from the 15th century, the Kingdom of Mali began to weaken. There is much that the two nations have in common. Mali is a country in Africa, created out of part of Sudan in 1891, and came under French control in 1892. In early 1959, the Sudanese Republic and Senegal formed the Federation of Mali, which was given independence on 20 June 1960. The population of Mali is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Difficult to say real form of Ram Setu is present but...: Govt in Parliament
The Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge between India and Sri Lanka has been a topic of debate for years By Rahul Gautam: The debate on Ram Setu, also known as Adam's Bridge, has come up yet again. This time, the issue was raised by an Independent MP from Haryana, Kartikeya Sharma, in Rajya Sabha. In a reply to his query of scientific research on the structure, the government said, "If it is said in simple words, it is difficult to say that the real form of Ram Setu... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Sri Lanka to launch urgent reforms to address fiscal challenges: Finance Ministry
On Friday, a senior Sri Lankan official indicated serious fiscal reforms that the country may take to revive its economy, which faces an unprecedented slump in decades. By Press Trust of India: Cash-strapped Sri Lanka will have to undertake serious fiscal reforms to revive the ailing economy as it has identified a huge gap between the state's revenue and expenditure, a senior official said on Friday. Addressing a seminar, Secretary to the Treasury Mahinda Siriwardena said, “We have an average monthly income of 145 billion rupees where the monthly expenditure amounts... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/12/22)
Sri Lankan partners open world-first green town-Development creates new opportunities for Plymouth students
One of the University’s closest academic partners, the National School of Business Management (NSBM) in Sri Lanka, has opened a new ‘green university town’ that will accommodate hugely increased numbers of students – including those from Plymouth. The state-of-the-art development in Pitipana, Homagama, covers 26 acres, and will house 30,000 undergraduates across business, computing and engineering degrees – a near sixfold increase from current levels. Built to the highest levels of sustainability, the Rs 10.2 billion (approx. £56 million) town includes cutting edge... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
State Minister slammed by Korean delegate for not being punctual
Social Empowerment State Minister Anupa Pasqual and its officials were taken to task by South Korea Disaster Relief Foundation (SKDRF) President Cho Sung Lea for getting late by 30 minutes for a scheduled meeting in Colombo. The meeting, which was held yesterday at the Social Empowerment Ministry, looked into how South Korea could help Sri Lanka overcome its current economic crisis. South Korea became one of the most developed economies in the world in just 40 years and remains one of the few success stories. "Getting late to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
State employees in SL behave like kings - Korean official
The Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary of Sri Lanka's democratic political system and the education system need to be reformed and the mindset of the people changed to see any development in the country, Korea Disaster Relief Foundation (KDRF) President Cho Sung Lea said yesterday. While addressing a meeting to elaborate on how South Korea became one of the most developed and powerful countries in the world in just 40 years and the way they were willing to help Sri Lanka overcome its current economic downfall, Lea requested the government to start "new... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
දින 04 ක් ගතවී ඇතත් එප්පාවල පැහැරගත් දරුවා සම්බන්ධයෙන් තොරතුරක් නෑ....ගෞරව බලන්න පන්තියේ මිතුරන්ද නිවසට ඇවිත්...
එප්පාවල පොලිස් වසමේ කිරලෝගම, ගැටදිවුල ප්රදේශයේ පදිංචි 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවකු රවටා පැහැර ගෙන යාමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් දින 04 ක් ගතවී ඇතත් මෙතෙක් එම දරුවා සම්බන්ධයෙන් හෝ පැහැර ගැනීම සිදු කළ පුද්ගලයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිශ්චිත තොරතුරක් සොයා ගත හැකි වී නැත. මෙලෙස පැහැර ගැනීමට ලක්ව ඇත්තේ අංක 16, ගැටදිවුල, කිරලෝගම ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි පී.කේ දෙනෙත් ගෞරව ප්රේමසුන්දර නම් නව හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවෙකි.ඔහු කිරලෝගම සුබෝධි මහා විද්යාලයේ සිව් වන වසරේ ඉගෙනුම ලබන සිසුවෙකි. මෙම සිසුවා එම ප්රදේශයේ විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පි ආයතනයක් පවත්වාගෙන ගිය විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පියකු සමඟ සමීප ඇසුරක් තිබූ බවත්, අදාළ විදුලි කාර්මිකයා දරුවා රවටා පැහැර ගෙන යන්නට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
මේ හැම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම ඡන්ද කල් දැම්මා, ඡන්ද තියලා තමයි පහුගිය කාළයේ ආණ්ඩු වලට කෙළ වුණේ -රාජ්යය අමාත්යය චාමර සම්පත් දසනායක
මේ හැම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම ඡන්ද කල් දැම්මා, ඡන්ද තියලා තමයි පහුගිය කාළයේ ආණ්ඩු වලට කෙළ වුණේ යැයි රාජ්යය අමාත්යය චාමර සම්පත් දසනායක මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේ එප්පාවල පැවති උත්සවයකින් අනතුරුව මාධ්යවේදීන් නැගූ ප්රශ්න වලට පිළිතුරු සපයමින්ය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ඒ මහතා, හැම ආණ්ඩුවම ඡන්ද කල් දැම්ම නේ, මේ ආණ්ඩුව විතරක් නෙවෙයි, මං හිටපු මහ ඇමති මං අයින් වුණේ 2019, මං තමා අන්තිමටම අයින් වුණ පළාත් සභාව ඌව පළාත් සභාව, අද 2022 යි, අද වෙනකල් පළාත් සභාවක් තියෙනවාද? මේ හැම ආණ්ඩුවක්ම ඡන්ද කල් දැම්මා, මේ ආණ්ඩුව ඡන්ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසියට නව ජීප් රථ 500ක්
ඉන්දීය ණය ආධාර යටතේ ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසියට ලබාදීමට නියමිත ජිප් රථ 500න් ප්රථම අදියර ලෙස නව ජීප් රථ 125ක් පොලිසියට ලබාදීම අද (22 දා) මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යාංශයේදී සිදුවිය. මෙහිදී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඉන්දියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් බාග්ලේ මහතා සංකේතාත්මකව ජීප් රථ මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා වෙත ලබා දුන්නේය. මෙහිදී අදහස් දක්වමින් අමාත්ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා ප්රකාශ කර සිටියේ ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසියට අද විශේෂ දවසක් බවත්, සමහර පොලිස් ස්ථානවල රාජකාරී කිරීම සඳහා වාහන නොමැති තත්ත්වයක් තුල එයට විසඳුමක් ලෙස මෙම නව ජීප් රථ 500 ලබා ගැනීමට හැකිවීම ගැන සතුටු වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (6වෙනි කොටස)
සිංහලයා වඳ වෙන ජාතියක්?, සිංහල ක්ෂය වෙන භාෂාවක්? 1981 සංගණනයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල ප්රතිශතය 74% විය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අදටත් සිංහලයන් 70% සිටිතැයි බොහෝ දෙනා කියත්. නමුත් එය එසේ යයි පිළිගැනීමට තරම් සාක්ෂි තිබේද? 1970 - 1978 පමණ දක්වා රජයන් ‘පුංචි පවුල රත්තරං’ කියා දැවැන්ත පවුල් සංවිධාන වැඩපිළිවෙලක් ක්රියාත්මක කරවීය. වාසේක්තමි ශල්යකර්ම කරන පිරිමින්ට මුදලින් ආධාර පිරිනැමුණි. දරු ප්රසුත සඳහා රෝහල්ගත වන කාන්තාවන් දරු ප්රසුතියෙන් පසු වඳ සැත්කමකට භාජනය කෙරිණි. ඔවුනටද මුදල් සහ වෙනත් තෑගී බෝග ලබා දුනි. ‘පුංචි පවුල රත්තරං’ වැඩපිළිවෙල අති සාර්ථක විය. රටේ ජනගහන වැඩිවිම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්යාල නේවාසිකාගාරයේ හිස් මත්පැන් බෝතල් (වීඩියෝ)
දින නියමයක් නොමැතිව වසා දමා ඇති හෝමාගම - පිටිපන පිහිටි ශ්රී ලංකා බෞද්ධ හා පාලි විශ්වවිද්යාලය නේවාසිකාගාරයේ හිස්වූ මතපැන් බෝතල් 1000 කට ආසන්න සංඛ්යාවක් තිබූ බවට වාර්තා පළවනවා. පසුගිය 19 වනදා එම විශ්ව විද්යාලය වසා දැමුණේ නවක වද සිද්ධීන් ඇතුළු විනය විරෝධී ක්රියාකාරකම් හේතුවෙන්. https://youtu.be/kWthOv7gh6Q පසුව විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ උප කුලපති මහෝපාධ්ය මහාචාර්ය පූජ්ය නෙළුවේ සුමනවංශ හිමියන්ගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් බලධාරින් එක්ව විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ නේවාසිකාගාරය විශේෂ සෝදිසියක් සිදුකළා. ඒ අනුවයි එම භූමියෙහි කසළ බැහැර කරන ස්ථානයේ අපජලය බැහැර කරන වලක් තුළ තිබී හිස් මත්පැන් බෝතල් 1000... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
Court orders immediate arrest of students’ union leader over assault on former Peradeniya VC
An order was issued by the Peradeniya Magistrate’s Court today (22 Dec.), calling for the immediate arrest of Anuruddha Withanage, the President of the Peradeniya University’s students’ union. https://youtu.be/mUrYm9MxTm4 Moreover, the 12 students arrested over the assault on the former vice-chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, Prof. Athula Senarathne and his son were also further remanded until 04 January 2023, after being presented in an identification parade before the court today. Those who had appeared as witnesses on behalf of the case had identified six students lined up... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
Cable car project between Pattipola and Boralanda to boost tourism
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the relevant officers to formulate a report jointly engaging all government agencies on the resolution of land problems within the Nuwara Eliya district. Wickremesinghe noted that in the event the said report is not presented to him before 04 February 2023, he will take necessary action in this regard. Moreover, the District Secretariat, Ministry of Plantation and Land Registration Department were also instructed to prepare a joint report on the government owned lands in the district within a month. “All the land licenses given to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
Sri Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China – CBSL Governor
In an interview with The Hindu, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe stated that Sri Lanka is waiting for financing assurances from its bilateral creditors, including India and China, to tap support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "We have shared all the information possible with our bilateral creditors, on an open, comparable, and transparent basis. Now they will have to look at it, make their decisions internally and come back to us…we hope they will do that soon”, he said in this regard. In September,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/12/22)
The lessons from the Destruction of Nalanda University in India and Easter Sunday blood bath in Sri Lanka
The most important question that people particularly Buddhists should ask themselves is, What are the lessons that we can learn from the total destruction of Nalanda University in the 12th Century? The answer lies in the necessity of Self Defense and the improvement of our abilities of Buddhist resistance. If the Buddhists cannot defend their own citadels no one else will do it for them. Nalanda University was ransacked and destroyed by an Islamic fanatic called Muhammed Bakthiyar Khilji, a Turk, and 200 other troops on horseback. With no armed guards at the entrance, it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
The Portuguese Conquest of India and Ceylon was one of the most brutal
The Portuguese conquest of India was one of the most brutal. They carried out a terrible Inquisition in which the Hindus were forcibly converted and then tortured on the suspicion of back-sliding. The conversion itself was gruesome. Christian fanatics razed Hindu temples, butchered Hindu men, and distributed their women to Portuguese soldiers. One of their favored torture technique was to surround the fishing boats early in the morning when the fishermen returned. They would then fire cannons from their naval ships and set the boats ablaze and burn the fishermen to death while their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
තවත් හඳුන් දිවියෙකුට අවාසනාවන්ත ලෙස දිවි අහිමි වෙයි. මියගිය වනජීවී සත්ත්වයාගේ සිරුරත් අතුරුදහන්
.කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයට අයත් ලිහිණියාව ප්රදේශයේදී 2022.12.20 වන දින සවස් කාලයෙදී මාර්ගය හරහා ගමන් කරමින් සිටි හඳුන් දිවියෙකු මාර්ගයේ ධාවනය වූ වාහනයක ගැටී අවාසනාවන්ත ලෙස දිවි අහිමි වී ඇති බවට වාර්තා විය. මෙලෙස මියගිය සත්වයාගේ සිරුර අනතුර සිදුවූ ස්ථානයේ මද වේලාවක් තිබී ඇති අතර පසුව මියගිය සත්ත්වයාගේ සිරුර අනතුර සිදුවූ ස්ථානයෙන් අතුරුදහන් වී ඇත. අනතුරෙන් මිය ගිය මෙම වනජීවී සත්වයාගේ සිරුර කිසියම් අයෙකු රැගෙන ගොස් ඇති බවට ප්රදේශ වාසීන් සැකකරයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඉහලම ජෛව විවිධත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබෙන මෙම ප්රදේශය යගිරල රක්ෂිත වනාන්තරය සහ පැණිවැල් මූකලාන, නාවලකන්ද රක්ෂිත කලාපය, මීගහතැන්න රක්ෂිත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවකු රවටා පැහැර ගෙන යාමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් 45 හැවිරිදි විදුලි කාර්මිකයකු අත්අඩංගුවට
එප්පාවල පොලිස් වසමේ කිරලෝගම, ගැටදිවුල ප්රදේශයේ පදිංචි 09 හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවකු රවටා පැහැර ගෙන යාමේ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් 45 හැවිරිදි විදුලි කාර්මිකයකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට පොලීසිය පරීක්ෂණ ආරම්භ කර ඇත. මෙලෙස පැහැර ගැනීමට ලක්ව ඇත්තේ අංක 16, ගැටදිවුල, කිරලෝගම ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි පී.කේ දෙනෙත් ගෞරව ප්රේමසුන්දර නම් නව හැවිරිදි පිරිමි දරුවෙකි.ඔහු කිරලෝගම සුබෝධි මහා විද්යාලයේ සිව් වන වසරේ ඉගෙනුම ලබන සිසුවෙකි. මෙම සිසුවා එම ප්රදේශයේ විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පි ආයතනයක් පවත්වාගෙන ගිය විදුලි කාර්මික ශිල්පියකු සමඟ මිතුරුව සිටි බවත්, අදාළ විදුලි කාර්මිකයා දරුවා පැහැර ගෙන යන්නට ඇති බවට සැකකරන බවත් දරුවාගේ දෙමාපියන් එප්පාවල පොලීසියට පැමිණිලි කර ඇත. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
රන් කුසලාන වොලිබෝල්
උතුරු මැද පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ සංකල්පයක් මත සියළු පුරවැසියන් යම් ක්රීඩාවක නිරත විය යුතු යැයි යන තේමාව යටතේ උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාවේ ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය සංවිධානය කළ පළාත් සභාවේ අන්තර් ආයතන වොලිබෝල් සැණකෙළිය දෙසැම්බර් 19-20 දෙදින පුරාවට උතුරු මැද පළාත් ගෘහස්ථ ක්රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවැත්විණි මෙය “රන් කුසලාන” ක්රීඩා සැණකෙළිය වශයෙන් නම් කර තිබූ අතර උතුරුමැද පළාතේ අමාත්යාංශ, දෙපාර්තමේන්තු, කොමිෂන් සභා සහ අධිකාරිවල සේවය නිරත නිලධාරීන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් කණ්ඩායම් 51 මේ සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් වී තිබුණි .මේ සඳහා ක්රීඩක ක්රීඩිකාවන් 500ක් පමණ සහභාගි වූහ මෙය තරග කාණ්ඩ 05ක් යටතේ පැවතුණු අතර විශේෂ කාන්තා,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
G 20 කණ්ඩායමේ සභාපතිවරයාව ඉන්දීය අගමැති නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි මහතා ලබාදුන් ප්රතිලාභ අසල්වැසි රටවලට ශක්තියක්."- අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා.
"ශ්රී ලංකාවේ හරිත සංවර්ධන ක්රියාවලියට ඉන්දියාවේ උපරිම සහාය දෙනවා."-ඉන්දියානු මහකොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් භාග්ලේ මහතා. අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ආරාධනයෙන්, සීතාවක උද්භිද උද්යානයේ 2022.12.21 දින සංචාරයක යෙදුන ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ඉන්දියාවේ ගෝපල් භාග්ලේ මහතා ඉන්දියාවේ 75 වන නිදහස සමරමින් උද්යානයේ පැළයක් රෝපණය කළේය.එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා..."ඉන්දු ශ්රී ලංකා මිත්රත්වය, වසර කීපයකට සීමාවූවක් නොවේ. එය ශතවර්ෂ ගණනාවක් ඈතට විහිදී ගිය එකක්. සෑම අවස්ථාවකදීම දෙරට අතර ද්විපාර්ශික සබඳතා වඩාත් ශක්තිමත් වූණා. මේ වසර වනවිට ඉන්දියාව ලෝකයේ බලවත්ම රාජ්යයක් බවට පත්ව තිබෙනවා. ඉන්දීය අගමැතිමෙන්ම ජී 20 කණ්ඩායමේ වත්මන් සභාපතිවරයා වන නරේන්ද්ර මෝදි මහතා යටතේ අසල්වැසි රාජ්යයන්ටද ප්රතිලාභ රැසක් ලැබී තිබෙනවා. ලෝකයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
The West and the Majority World - Repression Versus Openness
Since its inception, the leaders of the ALBA countries have denounced North American and European imperialism's brutal exploitation and domination and its gangster diplomacy of “Do what we want or else...”. In 2004, Comandante Fidel Castro and Comandante Hugo Chávez founded what is now the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of America, ALBA which now includes Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the Caribbean island nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St Kitts, and Nevis, Grenada, Antigua, and Barbuda and Santa Lucía. A year earlier, in 2003, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formally... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
CEB electrical engineers made blunders
News item today shows how stupid we were to build a coal power plant in Norrocholai but not in Sampoor in Trinco පුත්තලමර බැරිවුනොත් ත්රිකුණාමලයට ගල් අගුරු ගොඩ බා ලොරිවලින් නොරොච්චෝලට අදිනවා…
නොරොච්චෝල බලාගාරයට ගල්අඟුරු සැපයීමේ කිසිදු ගැටළුවක් නැති බව විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්ය කංචන විජේසේකර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. අප්රේල් මස 25 වන දින විට අවශ්ය ගල් අගුරු නැවු ප්රමාණය මෙරටට ගෙන ඒමට සැලසුම් කර ඇති බවද ඔහු පැවසීය Please read my previous article ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Challenging dollar hegemony, Sri Lanka to trade with Russia in INR
Sri Lanka is also mulling to trade with countries like Tajikistan, Cuba, Luxembourg and Sudan in Indian rupee. Being a leading economy in the world, India is offering the much-needed respite to the countries that are short of US dollars. New Delhi, Dec 21: Although this is being done in the most amicable manner, and India has clearly admitted that acceptance of Indian rupee (INR) is merely to help out the nations falling short of US dollar, it is definitely a challenge to the hegemony of US dollar (USD) for over a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
RUDN University mathematicians modeled a network with simultaneous signal distribution and physical layer security
RUDN University mathematicians with colleagues from Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka for the first time investigated a wireless network model with NOMA and PLNC technologies . It allows serving a large number of users at once, while ensuring security. The results are published in IEEE access. For more efficient operation of wireless networks, the NOMA technology was introduced (Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access). Its essence is that the station serves several users at the same time, and using the same frequency bands. The base station sends superimposed signals to two users simultaneously. The device that turned out to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
ADB grants Rs. 8 billion for paddy farmers in Sri Lanka
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted Rs. 8 billion to Sri Lanka for the benefit of paddy farmers, the President’s Media Division (PMD) says. The grant comes at the request of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. https://youtu.be/O0IDV7waIOI Accordingly, small-scale paddy farmers cultivating lands to the extent of one hectare or less will receive an allowance of Rs. 10,000. Meanwhile, Rs. 20,000 will be given to farmers who are engaged in paddy cultivation on lands of more than one hectare. This non-refundable financial assistance is provided only to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Coal shipment to arrive in January
Chairman of the Lanka Coal Company, Shehan Sumanasekara, reassured today (Dec. 21) that the country will not run out of coal by December 31. They expect the 6th vessel carrying coal to dock at the Puttalam anchorage within the first week of January 2023. https://youtu.be/Gv0NhtGXg50 He added that the shipment had been delayed due to a derailment at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal in South Africa and therefore had to be diverted to the Maputo port in Mozambique. The chairman further stated that the company has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Invite global renewable energy organizations to Sri Lanka – Solheim
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s International Advisor on Climate Change Eric Solheim has proposed him to invite all global organizations on renewable energy for a conference to discuss Sri Lanka’s way forward in this regard and to obtain their assistance in preparing policies to achieve these targets. https://youtu.be/MWAM5Lw9Z7I He made these comments during a meeting held yesterday (Dec. 20) on climate change. Meanwhile, President’s Local Advisor on Climate Change Ruwan Wijewardene stated such a conference will be beneficial for Sri Lanka and its people. A discussion on climate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Deputy Chinese ambassador calls on President Ranil
Chargé d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo, Hu Wei has called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (21). The two parties have reviewed recent fruitful discussions on Sri Lanka’s debt issue both bilaterally and multilaterally. https://youtu.be/QIe2lTzWtjw President Wickremesinghe has appreciated the continued support rendered by the Chinese government and the banks amidst the difficult times facing Sri Lanka.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Govt ready to empower industrialists to earn foreign exchange – President
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that an environment will be created for small and medium-scale industrialists to become successful using modern technology and the government is ready to empower the industrialists as the main stakeholders in earning foreign exchange for Sri Lanka. President Wickremesinghe made these remarks at the 21st ‘Achiever Awards 2022’ which was organized by the Ceylon National Chamber of Industries (CNCI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, held at Hotel Galadari, Colombo, yesterday (Dec. 20). https://youtu.be/iWWDJCUekg4 The President pointed out that instead of looking at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
NCPI-based inflation drops to 65% in November
Headline inflation of Sri Lanka, as measured by the year-on-year (y-o-y) change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) has dropped to 65% in November 2022 from 70.6% in October 2022. According to the Department of Census and Statistics, in comparison to November 2021, the reported inflation for the month of November 2022 was mainly due to the higher price levels that prevailed in both food and non-food groups. On a monthly basis, the y-o-y inflation of the food group decreased to 69.8% in November 2022 from 80.9% in October 2022 while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Ancient Ceylon History
There was so much hoo-ha about ex-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s intention to revert Sri Lanka towards a self-sufficient nation (Sawbagya Dekma). His main aims were to build a healthy nation for future generations by reducing toxic fertilisers and replacing them with carbonic fertilisers. The ex-President received the wrong advice from his so-called ‘new advisers’ to execute it overnight. He made a horrible decision by listening to his new advisers and ignoring the intellectuals (Viath Maga) who supported him in seeking power (6.9 million) votes. Ultimately, the farmers’ protest, which led to a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
"Putin Has Misread the West (And) if He Doesn't Wake Up Soon, Armageddon Is Upon Us"
Question 1—You think that Putin should have acted more forcefully from the beginning in order to end the war quickly. Is that an accurate assessment of your view on the war? And—if it is—then what do you think is the downside of allowing the conflict to drag on with no end in sight? Paul Craig Roberts—Yes, you have correctly stated my position. But as my position can seem “unAmerican” to the indoctrinated and brainwashed many, those who watch CNN, listen to NPR, and read the New York Times,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Why English?
Almost 100% of the people living in Sri Lanka can converse either in Sinhala or in Tamil or both. I have lived in the lovely country,Wales which has a much smaller population than us about three million people. It is just over hundred miles away from London. For the majority of people living in Wales, English is their first and only language. This was not always so. Only a couple of centuries ago, Welsh was the language of most of Wales. However Welsh was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Pakistan Buddhist temple among ‘Top 10 Discoveries of 2022’
Islamabad December 19: One of the world’s oldest Buddhist temples discovered last year in Pakistan has been featured in the ‘Top 10 Discoveries of 2022’ by the renowned Archaeology Magazine. The temple was uncovered in the town of Barikot in the Swat region of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The rich cultural heritage of Swat attracts many foreign tourists and heritage lovers. ADVERTISEMENT Archaeologist professor Luca Maria Olivieri of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice led the excavation which was conducted in collaboration with the International Association for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Cabinet nod to introduction new VISA categories for Colombo Port City
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to the proposal furnished by the Minister of Public Security to take necessary steps to introduce three new VISA categories for Colombo Port City. The new Visa categories would be subject to the recommendations of the Colombo Port City Commission. https://youtu.be/mIRE1Whug7w Accordingly, the new Visa categories are ‘Investment VISA’ category for investors under residential VISA category, ‘Employment VISA’ for employees and ‘CPC residential property lease vendor’ VISA category for foreigners who reside within the Colombo Port City on lease.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
New commercial HC to be established at Colombo Port City
Discussions are underway to establish a new commercial high court within the jurisdiction of the Colombo Port City, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this remark addressing an event organized by the Colombo High Court Lawyers’ Association in view of its 25th anniversary. The event was held on Dec. 19.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/12/22)
Ice Mafia Fights Back (Through People)
At last the government is doing something about the ice mafia. It is a very lucrative industry and the mafia is fighting back. The mafia cannot fight the police or the STF directly as they know it will be their end. Instead they agitate sections of the people to support them and save their lucrative industry. Paid supporters of the ice mafia question the usefulness of checking school children’s bags looking for drugs and ask why bigwigs are not arrested. It is a calculated attempt to save ice and heroin bigwigs. Tracing bigwigs starts... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/22)
Myanmar, Bangladesh benefitting from ‘Rice Diplomacy’
There is nothing new about the impact food has on politics. In the old days, many kings practiced food diplomacy in entertaining their guests; from serving the best unique dishes that could have been created only by the royal house’s finest chefs. The tradition continues in the modern political world. Many leaders of political parties and presidents use food diplomacy to strengthen relationships between allies or diffuse tension with the opposition. Rice seems to have emerged as a favourite diplomatic tool for Myanmar and Bangladesh to build strong ties with their neighbors. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/22)
Myanmar ships over 140000, 5000 and 1000 tonnes of rice, rohu and areca nut to Bangladesh
According to the government-to-government pact between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Myanmar has conveyed over 140,000 tonnes of white rice to Bangladesh, according to the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar .Myanmar and Bangladesh inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on rice trade on 8 September this year.In line with this MoU, Bangladesh has agreed to buy 250,000 tonnes of white rice and 50,000 tonnes of parboiled rice from Myanmar yearly between 2022 and 2027.In accordance with the MoU, Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Food and Myanmar Rice Federation signed a sales contract for 200,000 tonnes of Myanmar’s white rice... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/22)
Ahmadiyya Muslims converge in Qadian for annual congregation
Ahmadiyya Muslims from number of countries including Sri Lanka are expected to participate in the 127th annual congregation of the community (Jalsa Salana) to be held December 23, 24 and 25 at Qadian in Punjab, India. In 1891, the founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, had initiated this spiritual event to promote inter-religious peace and harmony. The event will be marked by a ‘world religions’ session in which people from different faiths will suggest solutions to the problems... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (5වෙනි කොටස)
මේ දේශපාලුවනට ඇත්තටම පිස්සුද? පසුගිය යහපාලන රජයේ සිමා නිර්ණ කොමිසමේ නිර්දේශ අනුව උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර සිංහල ගම්මාන වලින් සමහරක් එම පළාත් වලින් ගලවා උතුරුමැද පළාතට අනුයුක්ත කල යුතුය. මෙයින් වන්නේ උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර සිංහල ජනගහනය තවත් අඩු විමය. වත්මන් රජය මේ මෝඩ නිර්දේශ ක්රියාත්මක නොකරනු ඇතැයි උදක්ම පතමු. දකුණ අද ජනගහනයෙන් පිරි ඉතිරි ගොස්ය. මිනිසුන් පර්චස් 2 ඉඩම්වල පවා ගෙවල් සාදා ගනිති. තදබදය ඒ තරමට වැඩිය. අලි-මිනිස් අර්බුදය උච්චම තත්වයට පත්ව ඇත. කැලෑ වලින් පිරි ජන ශුන්ය ප්රදේශයක් වූ හම්බන්තොටද (ලෙනාඩ් වුල්ෆ්ගේ අති සුන්දර වනාන්තර ගමක් වූ බැද්දෙගමහි සිළිඳු, පුන්චි මැණිකා සහ හින්නිහාමි චරිත මතක්වේ) වරායක්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/12/22)
Monks in universities are like Taliban
Mihintale Raja Maha Vihara Chief Prelate Valahagunawewa Dhammarathana likened monks in universities to the Taliban. https://youtu.be/W8dVmQcZJrU The Thera made these comments stating that laws should be drafted to limit the number of years students can engage in academic activities at universities. “They can engage in politics, but in a way that doesn’t harm others. Their actions are despised by the people and it reflects badly on the entire Sangha community,” he said. (Kanchana Kumara Ariyadasa)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
China donates school uniform material worth Rs. 5 Bn to Sri Lanka
China will donate 90 million RMB (5 billion LKR) worth of school uniform material to Sri Lankan students to meet 70% of the whole country’s requirement in 2023, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said. Accordingly, the first batch of finished material of 3 mln meters of finished material in 38, 000 boxes via 20 containers has already left China for Sri Lanka, according to the Chinese Embassy in Colombo. In a tweet, the Chinese Embassy has mentioned that the first batch of school uniform donation contains 2374427.5 meters of white shirt/ frock... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
Buddhist and Pali University to be closed until talks with Mahanayake Theros
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to discuss with all the Mahanayake Theros to come to an agreement on the academic and administrative affairs of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. Accordingly, the Cabinet has also decided to close the university until then, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. https://youtu.be/zwwbvlVlROg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
Police uncover more details on murder of Dinesh Schaffter
As part of ongoing investigations into the murder of prominent businessperson Dinesh Schaffter under mysterious circumstances, authorities have uncovered several new leads. Following the murder of Janashakthi PLC Director, Dinesh Schafter on the December 15, the Homicide and Organised Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had launched an investigation in collaboration with the Borella police. https://youtu.be/4Tc5WdU1LQ0 Footage from the CCTV cameras which were inspected by authorities today has established that Mr. Schaffter had travelled alone from his residence to the Borella Public Cemetery, where he was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
Sri Lanka: Stop living off loans – Austerity for Rich & Stimulus for Middle Class & Poor
There are some harsh realities that Sri Lankans need to accept. We have enjoyed nominal independence since 1948 and artificially celebrate that every year. We ignore that we became a republic only in 1972. We have had 18 Prime Ministers & 8 Presidents since 1948. We have had countless manifestos, policies but the country is in massive debt & now declared default. We have had national plans which get overturned or overruled with each government while subversive oppositions are used to derail good initiatives adopted. We have had a business community who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
CLOSURE OF THE MODERN DAY ARHANT CASE?
Consequent to Siridhamma Thera’s insulting comments on the Dalada and his critical outbursts against the (in his opinion) foolish relic worshiping lay Buddhists, and against the Ven. Mahanayakes, the Karaka Sangha Sabha of the Malwatte Chapter to which he belongs wrote to him ordering him to tender a formal apology for his outrageous conduct. They warned him that he would be expelled from the nikaya if he failed to obey this ruling. (Threatened excommunication was a serious matter, for had it been imposed, it would have deprived him of the legitimacy of his monkhood... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
Grow more food by statute.
A few days back the President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that new laws are expected to be introduced in the future to ensure food security. The President also emphasized the need to obtain accurate data in establishing food security and the nutritional status of the people and stressed that there have been disparities in the data available at the national level and at the regional level which should be rectified immediately. This is crucial as the past experience with lack of precise information had led to wrong decisions and political fiasco. Gentleman Dudley Senanayake who led a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
The Egg Basket has Fallen
The Egg Producers Association informed the Court of Appeal on December 15th that they disagree with the Consumer Affairs Authority's new prices of Rs.42 rupees for a white egg and Rs.44 rupees for a red egg. This was informed during the hearing of a petition filed against a Gazette Notification issued last August setting a control price for eggs. The Court of Appeal granted the petition and scheduled the next hearing for February 6.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
ඉතිහාසයේ වැඩිම පිරිසක් විදේශ ගතවුනේ මේ වසරේදී. විදේශ ගතවූ ප්රමාණය ලක්ෂ 3 ඉක්මවයි. - අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර පවසයි.
මේ වසරේදී ශ්රි ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුන්කති කාර්යාංශයේ ලියාපදිංචිය ලබා විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා පිටත්ව ගිය සංඛ්යාව ලක්ෂ 3 ඉක්මවා ගොස් ඇති බවත් ඉතිහාසයේ විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා වැඩිම පිරිසක් විදේශ ගතවූ වසර ලෙස මෙම වසර වාර්තා ගත වන බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා ප්රකාශ කළේය.අමාත්යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළකළේ, ජාත්යන්තර සංක්රමනික දිනය සැමරීම නිමිත්තෙන් අද දින (12/18) ශ්රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශයේ පැවති සැමරුම් උත්සවයකට එක්වෙමිනි.තමන් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්යවරයා වශයෙන් රාජකාරි ආරම්භ කරන විට එක් මසකට දකුණු කොරියාවේ රැකියා සඳහා පිටව ගිය ප්රමාණය 300- 400 අතර ප්රමාණයක් වුවත්, තමන් මෙම අමාත්යාංශය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
How The US Stole Hawaii
https://youtu.be/HppFIY2o7t8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
India and Sri Lanka to launch ferry service next month between Kankesanthurai port and Pondicherry
Representational imageUnsplashSri Lanka and India will start a passenger ferry service next month between Kankesanthurai port in Jaffna district and Pondicherry, according to media reports. Ports, Shipping, and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said arrangements were made to start the ferry service in mid-January next year, Colombo Page reported. The minister said the Indian government had extended consent for the service, Daily Mirror reported. "A large number of Indian citizens are engaged in business activities in the Jaffna Peninsula. With such engagement, the new service is expected to generate a large portion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
Special notice for students selected to state universities
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued a special notice for students who sat for the 2021 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination and are selected for state universities. UGC Chairman Prof. Sampath Amaratunga said that students selected for universities will receive an SMS and email tomorrow (19), following which they can register for their selected course of study and university. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
Sri Lanka to sell plots in Colombo Port City for bunkering - Minister
Sri Lanka is to sell four plots of land in Colombo Port City for an investor to establish a facility for bunkering, a Minister told journalists. Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva said that they have also called for expression of interest to start an aviation fuel storage facility. The Minister added that providing fuel for ships and aircraft can play a big role in developing Sri Lanka’s economy, Xinhua news agency reported. Colombo Port City can bring in more than $5 billion as foreign direct... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (4වෙනි කොටස)
සිංහල ඉතිහාසය විකෘති කිරීම සහ ඒ පිළිබඳව සිංහලයා නිහඬව සිටීම සිංහලයාගේ සම්භවය දෙමළ බවත්, සිංහලයාට ප්රථමව මේ රටේ ද්රවිඩයන් සිටී බවත්, කුවේණීය දෙමළ බවත්, මහින්දාගමනයට පෙර මේ රටේ ‘දෙමළ බෞද්ධයන්’ සිටී බවත්, මහාවංශය බොරු බවත්, සැමදා යාපනයේ ස්ථිර දෙමළ රජුන් සිටී බවත්, පන්ඩුකාභය රජු දෙමළ බවත්, සීගිරිය කාශ්යප රජුගේ නිර්මාණයක් නොවිය හැකි බවත් වැනි ජනතාවට බොරු අදහස් සහිත කථා පවත්වන එක් ප්රසිද්ධ පුරාවිද්යාඥයෙක් සිටී. මොහුගේ ‘නොනවතින ඉතිහාසය’ වැනි නමකින් හඳුන්වන යු ටියුබ් වැඩ සටහන රටේ ඉතාම ප්රචලිත යු ටියුබ් වැඩසටහනකි. රටේ අවාසනාවට මොහු පාසැල් ළමුන්ගේ ඉතිහාසය පෙළ පොත් සැදීමේ සම්පාදක මණ්ඩලයේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/22)
THE ENTERPRISING CASE OF A MODERN DAY ARHANT - IV
In almost all the videos I watched on the internet, Ven. Samanthabhadra refers to Buddhists he judges to lack the level of intellect that he thinks a rational thinking Buddhist should have, using very derogatory terms such as fools, donkeys, animals, etc. He has no empathy for people with perceived weaknesses. He also betrays an inability to listen to others even when they want to confirm his point of view. Often, he puts a question to the audience (usually, he adopts what appears to me to be an intimidating tone, and most listeners, on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/22)
විදර්ශනා සමාධිය තුල නිවන් අවබෝධය (සිත නිවෙන ආකාරය - විතක්ක විචාර සංසිදීම, ප්රීති, සුඛ, ඒකාග්රතා)
ආත්මීය නොවන, අපට කිසිදා විදිය නොහැකි, භාහිර ලෝකයේ (රූප) ප්රතිබිම්භය පංචේන්ද්රියන් හරහා ප්රසාද වන වේගය සංඥා අභිසංකරනයක් ඇතිකරයි. භාහිරය දෙයක්/යමක් බවට පරිවර්තනය කරන මායාව සිතෙහි ඇතිකරන්නේ මේ සංඥා අභිසංකරනයයි. සිතුවිල්ල තුල මායාවක් සේ දෙයක්/යමක් ඇතිවීම (සක්කාය දිට්ඨිය) ගින්නකි, ඉමහත් ආතතියකි. සංඥාව පෙර මතකය විතක්ක විචාර කරගෙන සංකාරය නැතහොත් අරූපාවචර (නාම) ලෝකය සකස්කරයි. නිවන්මග අහුරන්නේ මෙසේ ඇතිවන නාම/අරූප ලෝකයයි. ක්රමයෙන් විතක්ක විචාර සංසිදීම යනු අරූපාවචර නාම ලෝකය ක්රමයෙන් සංසිදීමයි - සුකුම වීමයි. එවිට සිතේ ගින්නක්, ආතතියක් ඇති නොවේ. ගින්න නිවෙන තැන ඇත්තේ ප්රීතියකි. ආතතිය නැති තැන ඇත්තේ සැහැල්ලුවකි, එනම් සුඛයකි. ප්රීතියයි සුඛයයි ඇති තැන ඒකාග්රතාවයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/22)
Truth in 2031, reconciliation when and how?
The early versions of Udayasiri Wickramaratne’s celebrated theatrical piece ‘Suddek Oba Amathai (A white man addresses you) contained a short soliloquy, ‘Baya Vunu Minisek Oba Amathai (A scared man addresses you).’ The man was essentially scared of two things: a) that he would speak the truth even when he wanted to deceive, and b) that he would do the right thing by mistake.This delightful piece came to mind when reading an exchange between Lord Naseby and Lord Tariq Ahmad in the House of Lords a few weeks ago. Naseby wanted the UK government to do two things: a)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/22)
President suggests non-aligned foreign policy for Sri Lanka
President Ranil Wickremesinghe highlighted Sri Lanka’s potential to better itself within the international sphere by adopting a non-aligned foreign policy. Speaking at the 97th Passing out Parade of the cadet officers of the Diyatalawa Military Academy, Wickremesinghe stated that Sri Lanka’s position within the international forum can be elevated to a higher level by adopting a non-aligned foreign policy. He proposed that a non-aligned policy be adopted, as opposed to supporting or being dependent on any powerful country or group of countries. “As a country, we are not aligned or... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/22)
China agreed to form global sovereign debt ‘roundtable’ - IMF chief
Chinese officials have agreed to participate in a global sovereign debt “roundtable” that would include a wide variety of stakeholders, including private sector creditors, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday. Georgieva told an event hosted by the IMF that she was feeling “a bit more optimistic” about the prospects for dealing with major debt issues facing low- and middle-income countries after high-level meetings with Chinese authorities last week. The IMF chief last week she had a “fruitful exchange” with her Chinese counterparts on the need to accelerate debt relief... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/12/22)
The SMOG and the never ending POWER CUTS
The SMOG kept us indoors for a few days and the never ending POWER CUTS have caused problems for the people as well as industrialists. Many a garment factory is closed. There has to be an end to this. As an administrator in the SLAS my work included building massive stores- the largest one can find, small bridges and irrigation anicuts, small tanks and thus though not being an engineer I hold experience in making concrete structures. My knowledge though not on transcripts caused some qualified engineering staff to kiss goodbye to their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/22)
THE ENTERPRISING CASE OF A MODERN DAY ARHANT - III
Incidentally, disparagement or what appears to be attempted desacralization of the Tooth Relic by various individuals is not new. The famous Colonel Olcott (1832-1907), who greatly contributed to the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and who initiated a school system for the education of the children of Sinhalese Buddhists (something denied them under the British), showed little respect for the Tooth Relic. When Anagarika Dharmapala, Olcott’s junior colleague in his Buddhist work, quarreled with him over this, Olcott abandoned his longstanding friendship with him. A well-known Buddhist teacher of the time associated with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (3වෙනි කොටස)
සන්හිඳියාව යටතේ දකුණේ සිංහලයන් විශාල ලෙසින් උතුරු නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල සංචාරය කළ යුතු වුවත් එවැනි අවස්ථා බොහෝ අඩු විය. පැවති ආණ්ඩු ඒවාට අනුබල නොදුණි. යුද ජයග්රහණයෙන් පසු 2009/2010 වසරවල දිනකට සාමන්යයක් ලෙස සිංහලයින් රැගත් බස් 4/5 පමණවත් දකුණෙන් උතුරට ගියහ. ඔවුන් බොහෝ විට නැවතුනේ යාපනයේ නාග විහාරයේය. සමහරු නාවට්කුලිය සිංහල ගම්මානයේ (යාපනයට කිලෝ මීටර් 8ක් මෙපිටින්) නැවතුනහ. ඒ දිනවල සිංහලයන්ට උතුරේ බලන්නට බොහෝ දේ තිබුණේය. ප්රභාකරන්ගේ මාලිගා, පිහිනුම් තටාක, සුසෙයිගේ මාලිගා, LTTE සබ්මැරින, LTTE විශාල කාලතුවක්කු වැනි ආයුධ/ගුවන්යානා, තමිල් චෙල්වම් ඝාතනය වුණු ස්ථානය ආදිය එයින් කීපයකි. සන්හිඳියාව නාමයෙන් මේ සියල්ල ඉවත් කෙරිණ. මේ ස්ථාන යුද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/22)
Putin's Conundrum
The primary purpose of the Nuclear Posture Review(NPR) is to deceptively “rebrand” the offensive use of nuclear weapons as a justifiable act of defense. The new criteria for using these lethal WMD has been deliberately maligned with the clear intention of providing Washington with a green light for their use and proliferation. Accordingly, US foreign policy warhawks have established the institutional and ideological framework needed launch a nuclear war without fear of legal reprisal. These arduous preparations were carried out with one objective in mind, to preserve America’s steadily-eroding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/22)
German Dharmaduta Society - 70th Anniversary Commemoration
The 70th anniversary of the German Dharmaduta Society founded by Asoka Weeraratna (later known as Ven. Mitirigala Dhammanissanti Thero) was commemorated on September 21, 2022, at a Public Meeting held at the Auditorium of the Sri Vajiraramaya Temple at Bambalapitiya, Colombo 04. Ven. Thalpavila Kusalagnana Thero delivered the keynote address. The proceedings were recorded on Video Camera. The weblinks to the three video clips are appended below. Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQL8cGm57I&t=108s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFmayWYvg-U Part 3... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/22)
සමාජ පිළිල තුරන් කිරීමට නීතිය තදින් ක්රියාත්මක කරන්නැයි මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යවරයා පොලිසියට උපදෙස් දෙයි
මිනීමැරුම් හා මත්ද්රව්ය මැඩලීම් සඳහා උපරිම ක්රියාමාර්ග ගන්නැයි මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්ය ටිරාන් අලස් මහතා පොලිස්පතිවරයා ඇතුළු පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන් කැඳවා උපදෙස් දෙනු ලැබිය.ජනශක්ති සමූහ ව්යාපාරයේ සභාපති දිනේෂ් ෂාෆ්ටර් මහතා ගේ කුරිරු සහ අභිරහස් ඝාතනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදුකෙරෙන විමර්ශන මෙන්ම මත්ද්රව්ය මැඩලීම සම්බන්ධව කෙරෙන පොලිස් විමර්ශන වල ප්රගතිය විමසා බැලීම සඳහා අමාත්යවරයා විසින් එම නිලධාරීන් මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්යංශය වෙත අද (16) පෙරවරුවේ කැඳවා තිබිණ.පොලිස්පති සී.ඩී.වික්රමරත්න, බස්නාහිර පළාත් භාර ජේෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති දේශබන්දු තෙන්නකෝන් , පොලිස් විශේෂ කාර්ය බලකායේ අණදෙන නිලධාරි නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති වරුණ ජයසුන්දර, විශේෂ කාර්යංශයේ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති ධනපාල, අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුවේ නියෝජ්ය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/12/22)
ඉදිරි මාස කිහිපය තුළ සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ දැල ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට රජය ක්රියා කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේශ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි
.දෙහිවල ගල්කිස්ස මහ නගර සභාවේදී 2022/12/15 දින පැවති පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ මහජන නියෝජිත හමුවකදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සඳහන් කළේ සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ දැල ශක්තිමත් කිරීම සඳහා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය ආයතන සහයෝගය දෙන බවට ස්ථිර ප්රතිඥාවක් දැනටමත් ලබාදී ඇති බවයි. කොපමණ දුෂ්කරතා තිබුණත් සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ වළල්ලේ පහසුකම් අඩු නොකොට පවත්වාගෙන යාමට රජය අයවැයේදී ක්රියා කළා. පසුගිය කාලයේ පොදු ලක්ෂණය වූයේ ආදායම් ඉපයීමේ මාර්ග අඩුවීමයි. රැකිරක්ෂා අහිමිවීම,ආයෝජන සඳහා ඇති සැලසුම් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට නොහැකි වීම සහ ඒ සඳහා උනන්දුව අඩු වීම, ඉදිකිරීම් ක්ෂේත්රයේ සංවර්ධන කටයුතු ඇනහිටීම මෙම තත්වයට බලපෑ අතර පසුගිය මාස ගණනාව තුළ අප මුහුණදුන් මූල්ය හා ආර්ථික පසුබෑම තුළ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Murder of top businessman: Travel ban imposed on ex-commentator Brian Thomas
Foreign travels of former English cricket commentator Brian Thomas have been barred pursuant to an order given by Colombo Additional Magistrate Harshana Kekunawala. The travel ban was imposed in support of the investigations into the murder of top businessman Dinesh Schaffter, the director of a leading insurance company in the country. https://youtu.be/81tr0HVuJfQ Borella Police presented facts to the court regarding the ongoing investigations into the incident. Following the death of Mr. Schafter, it was revealed that a popular cricket commentator had obtained millions of rupees on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Building up our broken economy. Who can bell that cat?
Our Central Bank chief has said that , “with or without the IMF Sri Lanka needs to bring in reforms to correct the economy.”(Daily FT:15/12). Our President has pledged “to build an economy that is free from debt.” Both aims are worthwhile and it is in the interest of a sovereign Sri Lanka to achieve both aims. For this purpose what is essential is a development programme aimed at producing , what we imported which we cannot import due to the lack of dollars, and in that process to get our unemployed work... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
THE ENTERPRISING CASE OF A MODERN-DAY ARHANT - II
Ven. Samanthabhadra Thera used to be a very popular preacher in the past as Pitiduwe Siridhamma Himi. He has been claiming for a few years now that he has attained Arahanthood which is the highest stage of spiritual attainment in Buddhism and it is identical to the attainment of the ultimate Nibbanic bliss. Nibbana is the summum bonum of Buddhism. Unlike in other religions, one does not have to die before one can attain that state of perfect happiness that the realization of the Ultimate Reality brings. Ven. Samanthabhadra Thera also says in a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (2වෙනි කොටස)
ගරුතර සංඝරත්නයට කරන පහරදීම අප ඉමහත් සේ ගරු කරන මහා සංඝරත්නයට චීවරධාරීන්, ශ්රමණ වේශධාරීන්, හොර ගණයෝ, යෙලෝ පෙට්ස්, සංඝ මුදලාලි වැනි අපහාසාත්මක වදන් වලින් ප්රධාන මාධ්ය නාලිකා තුලින් සහ ඇතැම් සමාජ මාධ්ය මාධ්යකරුවන් විසින් නිරන්තරයෙන් ආමන්ත්රණය කරනු ඇසීම ඉතාම කණගාටුවට කරුණකි. අද මාධ්ය මඟින් දැඩිව පහර නොගසන ලද රටේ එකදු ප්රසිද්ධ බෞද්ධ භික්ෂුවක් හෝ සොයා ගැනීම අපහසුය. තත්ත්වය ඒ තරම්ම බරපතලය. මේවා අසන කුඩා දරුවනට ගරු සංඝරත්නය පිළිබඳව තරහක් ඇතිවේ; බුද්ධාගම එපාවේ. ඔවුහු බුද්ධාගමෙන් ක්රමයෙන් ඉවත් වෙත්. බෝර්න් අගේන්, එවාන්ජලිස්ට් වැනි අති සංවිධානාත්මක ක්රිස්තියානි කල්ලිවල ගොදුරු බවට ඔවුහු ඉතා පහසුවෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
1815 දී අප ජාතියට අහිමිවූ කිසිවක් 1948 පෙබ 4 වනදා ආපසු නොලැබුණේනම් මේ රටේ දේශපාලනඥයින් තවමත් එදින නිදහස් දිනය වශයෙන් සමරන්නේ කුමන පදනමක් මතද?
1815 දී අප ජාතියට අහිමිවූ කිසිවක් 1948 පෙබ 4 වනදා ආපසු නොලැබුණේනම් මේ රටේ දේශපාලනඥයින් තවමත් එදින නිදහස් දිනය වශයෙන් සමරන්නේ කුමන පදනමක් මතද? මෙම ලිපිය ලිවීමට මා අදහස් කළේ පසුගිය දිනක මේ රජයද ලබන වසරේද උත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් නිදහස් දිනය පෙබ 4 දාම පැවැත්වීමට තිරණය කොට ඇතැයි ප්රවුර්තියක් පලවී තිබුණු නිසාය මේ රටේ නිදහස් දිනය පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ කවදාදැයි අපි තිරණය කළ යුත්තේ 1815 ආරම්භවූ ඉන්ග්රීසි අධිරාජ්යවාදී පාලනයෙන් ශ්රී ලන්කාවට සැබෑ සහ සම්පූර්ණ දේශපාලන නිදහස ලැබුණු දිනය අනුවය.ඒ අනුව එම පාලනයෙන් පළමුවෙන්ම පූර්ණ නිදහස ලැබුණේ 1948 පෙබ 4 වනදාද එසේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
අනාගත පරම්පරාවට විශ්වාසනීය මඟක් ජනිත කළ හැක්කේ ඵලදායීතාවය ඉහළ නැංවීම මතයි
අනාගත පරම්පරාවට විශ්වාසනීය මඟක් ජනිත කළ හැක්කේ ඵලදායීතාවය ඉහළ නැංවීම මත යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය.අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ 2022.12.15 අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති “ජාතික ඵලදායිතා සම්මාන උළෙල අමතමිනි. ජාතික ඵලදායිතා ලේකම් කාර්යාලය මගින් සංවිධානය කරන මෙම සම්මාන උළෙල මෙවර පැවැත්වුනේ 2020 වසරේ ඵලදායිතාවය ඇඟයීමයි. මෙහිදී රාජ්ය, සේවා, නිශ්පාදන, පාසල්, පිරිවෙන් ආදී අංශ ගණනාවක් ඔස්සේ ඵලදායීතාවය අගයමින් සම්මාන ප්රධානය කෙරිණි.එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්රාමාත්යවරයාඵලදායීතාවය අපට අභියෝගයක්. රටක සංවර්ධනයේ ඉදිරි පියවර වගේම, අනාගත පරම්පරාවට විශ්වසනීය මඟක් ජනිත කළ හැකි වන්නේ ඵලදායිතාවය මතයි. අපේ රටේ නිෂ්පාදන ඵලදායිතා ඉහළ නැංවිය යුතුව තිබෙනවා. ඒ අභියෝගය ජයගැනීමේදී පුමුඛතාවයන් හඳුනා ගැනීම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
විදේශ රැකියා සහ සංක්රමණ ක්ෂේත්රයේ ජාවාරම් නතර කිරීමට නම් වහාම ඩිජිටල්කරණයට යොමුවෙන්න - විදෙස් බලය අවධාරණය කරයි
විදේශ රැකියා සහ සංක්රමණ ක්ෂේත්රෙය් මේ වන විට වාර්තාවන ජාවාරම් සහ අක්රමිකතා වැලැක්වීම සදහා වහාම සංක්රමණයන්ට අදාල සියලු කටයුතු ඩිජිටල් වේදිකාවකට ගෙන ආ යුුත බවත්, මෙය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් නොකරන්නේ කාගේ බලපෑමක් නිසාදැයි ප්රශ්ණ කරන බවත් විදෙස් බලය සංවිධාන පවසයි. විදේශ රැකියා සහ සංක්රමණ ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් නොවීම නිසා මේ වන විට විවිධ ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ට අවශ්ය ආකාරයට මෙම ක්ෂේත්රෙය් කටයුතු මෙහෙයවීමට අවස්ථාව ලැබී ඇති බවද විදෙස් බලය අවධාරණය කරයි. පසුගිය කාලයේදී විසිට් වීසා මගින් විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්ව යාම් සීග්රෙයන් වර්ධනය වී තිබුණි. විසිට් වීසා මගින් රැකියා සදහා ශ්රමිකයින් රැගෙන යාම ජාවාරම්කරුවන් අතටද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
China’s humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province
Colombo, December 15 (newsin.asia): The Deputy Chief of the Chinese Embassy Hu Wei paid a visit to the Eastern Province from 8th to 10th December, to follow up the distribution of China’s recent donations to the island in various ways, including 10.6 million litres of diesel to farmers and fishermen, 9,000 metric tons of rice to students from underprivileged families and 100 sets of solar streetlights donated by China’s Yunnan Province to 38 schools across the Eastern Province. A Chinese embassy press release said that on the afternoon of 8th December, DCM Hu Wei... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
ගෝඨාභය, ‘ජුලියාගේ’ කීම අහපු හැටි විමල් හෙළිකරයි
ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිනිය(Julie J. Chung) විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාව පාලනය කළ ආකාරය ගැන ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා මෙසේ පවසයි. “ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා කරගත්තු ඊළඟ බලවත් වරද තමයි කොළඹ ඉන්න ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිනිය(Julie J. Chung) ‘ජුලියාගේ’ කීම අහලා ඔහේ වැනි වැනි හිටපු එක. ඒ ‘ජුලියා නෝනා’ මාස ගාණක් තිස්සේ ගෝඨාභය මහත්තයාව දිනපතා හමු වුණා. (මේවා කට්ටිය කියන්නේ නැහැ. කියන්න බයයි.) ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ මිරිහානේ ගෙදරට වට කරලා ගහපු දවසේ රෑ ඒ ගෙදරට එනවා ‘ජුලියා නෝනා’. ඇවිල්ලා කියනවා, ‘මට හරි කනගාටුයි ඔබට මේ සිදු වූ දේ ගැන. ඔබ බෞද්ධයෙක්. මම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Mahaveli & Kelani: Selling Out Our Future in 48 Hours
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 04-10 December 2022 ‘Our’ President met with NATO Indo-Pacific QUAD alliance envoys, from the US, India, England, Japan & Australia, on December 6. In case the President didn’t understand their English, European Union envoys met the Prime Minister. All these whites (or ‘honorary whites’) are dying to lecture & threaten. Or so the media tells us. The President then promised a probe into corruption (which in WhiteHouse English is spelled ‘Rajapakse’). A Rs 10-billion local government election was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Sri Lanka’s Recession Likely Deepened Amid High Rates, Inflation
, (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s economy likely fell deeper into recession, as tight monetary policy and Asia’s fastest inflation further dampened the nation’s economic health. Gross domestic product probably contracted about 10% between July and September compared to the same period last year, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists. That’s the slowest reading in two years and compares with an 8.4% contraction in the April to June period. “Demand remained sluggish as high inflation and weak confidence kept consumption under pressure,” said Ankur Shukla of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Repatriation of export earnings
The headlines in the front page of the Daily News of December 7, 2022 states: “GOVT. WILL FORMULATE LAWS TO REPATRIATE USD 53 BILLION”. Quoting Minister Dr. Wijedasa Rajapakse, the report states: “Exporters who earn Dollars do not bring that earnings back to Sri Lanka but they deposit it in foreign banks. They bring limited amounts. We don’t have to face foreign exchange crisis if we can get this money back to Sri Lanka”. Continuing, the headers state further: “GOVT. LOOKING AT REMOVING LOOPHOLES IN THE LAW IN THIS REGARD”.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Muslims oppose bid to remerge North and East, Minister tells party leaders
President Wickremesinghe speaking with Dharmalingham Siddarthan, Angajan Ramanathan, M. A. Sumanthiran and R. Sampanthan (seated) at the All Party Conference (pic courtesy PMD) Environment Minister Nazeer Ahamed told an all-party conference chaired by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, at the Presidential Secretariat, on Tuesday (13), that the Muslims were opposed to the re-merger of the Eastern and Northern Provinces. The former Chief Minister of the Eastern Province said, responding to several lawmakers, including Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader, Rauf Hakeem, reiterating the urgent need to conduct... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/12/22)
Sri Lanka discusses nuclear energy cooperation with Russia
Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Levan Dzhagaryan met with Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera this morning (15 Dec). The meeting focused on the requirements of Sri Lanka’s energy sector, Wijesekera stated. Accordingly, the fuel requirements, refinery operations, challenges in coal supply and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed for nuclear energy cooperation with Rosatom – a Russian state-owned corporation specializing in nuclear energy, nuclear non-energy goods and high-tech products – were discussed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/22)
Sri Lanka’s GDP contracted by 11.8% in third quarter 2022
The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) Sri Lanka, has released the estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at current price and at constant (2015) price in Production approach and the other macroeconomic indicators for the third quarter (July 01 - September 30) of 2022. The Gross Domestic Product for Sri Lanka for the third quarter of year 2022 at current price reported as Rs. 6,417,031 million. https://youtu.be/KouJWtuaEjM The Gross Domestic Product for Sri Lanka for the third quarter of year 2022 at constant price (2015) reported as Rs.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/22)
THE ENTERPRISING CASE OF A MODERN DAY ARHANT REVISITED
I wrote a long feature article (entitled ‘Case of a modern day arhant’) in September/October 2017 about a controversial Buddhist monk named Pitiduwe Siridhamma. This person (b. 1975) became a bhikkhu in his mid-twenties, as he claims, on leaving the university with a bachelor’s degree in science. In the course of time he earned a name among Sri Lankan Buddhists as a popular preacher. However, Siridhamma later gained a different kind of popularity and identity under the alias Siri Samantabadra from what was originally associated with him. He conferred this title on himself after... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/12/22)
සිංහලයනට වන අසාධාරණ (නොහොත් සිංහලයාගේ බහිනකලාව) (1වෙනි කොටස)
සිංහල බෞද්ධත්වයේ දිගටම සිදුවන වැටීම නිදහස ලැබීමෙන් අනතුරුව සිංහල බෞද්ධත්වයේ නැඟීමක් වෙනුවට වූයේ තව දුරටත් බිඳ වැටීමකි. ධර්මපාලතුමන් සඳහන් කළ පරිදිම සුද්දන් ගිය පසු කළු සුද්දෝ සිංහල බෞද්ධත්වය පාගා දැමීමට, ගැරහීමට ලක් කළහ. අද කළු සුද්දන්ට අමතරව වෙනත් බොහෝ අයද මේ දේට සම්මාදම් වෙත්. බෞද්ධයන් දිගින් දිගටම ක්රිස්තියානිකරණය වූහ. මෙය අද ඉතා සීග්ර ලෙස නගරවල පමණක් නොව ගම් වලද පැතිර යයි. 1994ට පමණ පසුවයි මේ තත්ත්වය බොහෝ සෙයින් වැඩි වීමට පටන් ගත්තේ. නොයෙක් හේතුන් නිසා බෞද්ධයෝ අද ක්රිස්තියානි වෙත් (කතෝලික ආගමද අඩංගුය). ඉංග්රීසි කථා කරන බටහිර රටවල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
SPECIAL AUDIT REPORT ON COLOMBO-MALAMBE LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT PROJECT PROPOSAL
The Auditor General has issued a Special Audit Report dated 17th November 2022 on the above mentioned project proposal is now published in the National Audit Office website with the following link : http://www.auditorgeneral.gov.lk/web/images/audit-reports/upload/2022/special/Light-Rail-Transit/Final-Report-LRT.pdf We, the members of the Committee that had been appointed in 2020 to review public investment projects, wish to draw the attention of all media institutions to the Auditor General’s observations on page 37 in Sinhala and page 140 in English. The paragraph 5.9.3 of the above-mentioned pages and the contents of the letter issued to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
Ukraine and Mexico emerge as most dangerous countries for journalists in 2022
Geneva, 14 December 2022: Ukraine and Mexico emerge as the most dangerous countries for media work this year, stated the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) in its annual report published in Geneva on Wednesday. Since January, 115 media workers have been killed in 29 countries around the world and the number of victims is increased by 45% compared to last year (79 journo-casualties). “It is the highest number of casualties since 2018 with a brutal deterioration in Europe due to the war in Ukraine. By region, Latin America is ahead with 39 journalists... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
Investment Promotion
A few days back Derana TV in their Rebuild Lanka program had a very interesting episode on investment promotion. It was very positive. The contrast presented between the Singapore procedure and that of Sri Lanka was revealing. That discussion made me give some thought to the subject. In the beginning, the GCEC made good progress under the leadership of Upali Wijewardhana who himself was an astute investor. The fact that the GCEC was under the President made all the ministers and state officials extend their unstinted cooperation to investment promotion. But there was a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
Restructuring SOE’s in Sri Lanka
An example of failing a SOE is Restructuring of Dockyard Dockyard One of the main features of the privatization was to hand over 10% shares to workers in the restructured company As mentioned in a tv talk President DBW and a few leaders of JSS which was the state-sponsored union helped to persuade management and the government to hand over shares in the nineties The current minister of energy should seriously think about it and initiate crowdfunding for the public to infuse funds into SOE to make the people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
President Ranil vows to build debt-free economy
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reiterated that he would work towards resurrecting the country from bankruptcy. Addressing an event in Kadawatha today (Dec. 14), the Head of State pledged to build a debt-free economy and to create a stable economy that is able to pay its debts. He attributed the country’s bankruptcy to the lack of changes made to the economic program following the end of the civil war. President Wickremesinghe is hopeful of bringing in investment opportunities in order to take the country’s economy forward by next year. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
Sri Lanka expects up to USD 8 Bn more in loans, asset restructuring - Sabry
Sri Lanka is expecting loans of up to USD 5 billion next year from multilateral agencies besides a deal with the IMF, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Reuters, adding that the government could raise up to USD 3 billion through the restructuring of state assets. https://youtu.be/MbuFo2mWwYs “Apart from what we get from the IMF, we are looking at all others, the multilaterals put together another USD 4 - USD 5 billion ...,” Ali Sabry said in an interview on Wednesday. “The president is interested in restructuring some of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
IMF not expected to discuss Sri Lanka before year-end - sources
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund is not expected to formally approve Sri Lanka’s $2.9 billion bailout before year-end, a key step required for the embattled country to receive funding, two sources familiar with the matter said. Seeking a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, Sri Lanka reached an IMF staff-level agreement in June with the deal subject to approval and contingent on Sri Lanka authorities following through with previously agreed measures. Sri Lanka said in September it expected the board to approve the deal by year-end.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
President pledges to build an economy capable of settling the country’s debts
President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressed that he will definitely work towards resurrecting the country from bankruptcy and stressed that he will build an economy that is free from debt and create a stable economy that is able to pay its debts. He said during the opening of the Toyota Lanka fulfilment Centre in Mahara, Kadawatha today (14), coinciding with 70 years of Japan-Sri Lanka relations. The President said that today the country has become bankrupt due to the failure to change the economic program after the war, but said that he expects... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/12/22)
MERRY CHRISTMAS -Merry for Humans and Hell for Animals
The scene today in the month of December is somber. The unseen sight is that countless millions of innocent animals destined for slaughter are being shipped in large container ships with multiple decks from country to country over long distances in the sea. Huge trucks with several decks can be seen busily moving on the street roads carrying packed exhausted animals in crates to slaughterhouses. Screams of defenseless animals in fear of death penetrate the atmosphere nonstop day and night in this month of December. To animals,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
මානව සංහතිය වෙනුවෙන් දිනයක් වෙන්කරන්නැයි අග්රාමාත්යවරයා එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයෙන් ඉල්ලයි.
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ දින දර්ශනයට අනුව මනුෂ්යත්ව දිනයක් ප්රකාශයට පත් කරන ලෙස අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියි. කොළඹ, ශ්රී ලංකා පදනම් ආයතනයේ දී 2022.12.12 දින පැවති විශ්ව සංහිඳියාව සඳහා සාමය පතුරවන්නන්ගේ ජාත්යන්තර සමුළුව අමතමින් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මෙලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. මානව සාරධර්ම සීඝ්රයෙන් පිරිහීම මානව සංහතියට ඉතා භයානක තර්ජනයක් බැවින් තම යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ සළකා බලා සුදුසු ක්රියාමාර්ග ගතයුතු බව අග්රාමාත්යවරයා පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. “මිනිසා ජීවිතයේ සෑම ක්රියාකාරකමක්ම පාහේ සිදු කරනු ලබන්නේ සාමය සහ සහජීවනය ලබා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් වන අතර එම ආශාව අපට ඇතිවන්නේ අපගේ පැරණි ශිෂ්ටාචාරය තුළිනි. හින්දු වේදයන්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Staff members at higher education institutions should not be under threat - President
Under no circumstances should the staff members at educational institutions be under threat, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. The Head of State mentioned this articulating his visions for the next 25 years in the higher education sector during a meeting with the vice-chancellors of local universities.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Kollupitiya fatal car crash: Police tracing woman who assaulted female passenger
Sri Lanka Police is seeking the assistance of the members of the public to trace the woman who assaulted the female passenger who was inside the car involved in a fatal crash at Kollupitiya. A three-wheeler driver was killed on the spot after a speeding car crashed into the three-wheeler in the early hours of Saturday (10). The police have appealed to the public to provide any information to the following contact numbers: Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Colombo South – 0718 591578Officer-in-Charge of Kollupitiya Police – 0718 591579 A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Has the 2023 Budget Replaced the LTTE?
Tamil-only political parties rarely vote in favour of the national budget. When they do it raises many questions. At least one TNA MP has said he supports the 2023 budget to help resolve problems affecting Tamil people and to meet Tamil aspirations. Looks like the 2023 budget has replaced the LTTE which stood for the same stuff. Sri Lanka is in dire economic hardships and they affect all Sri Lankans irrespective of ethnicity. Trying to resolve the problems of just one tribe at the expense of others only makes matters worse. Besides... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Mrs. Chandrika’s ‘conspiracy’ to balkanize Sri Lanka (නොහොත් මළවුන්ගෙන් නැඟිටිමට සිතන නීලන්-GL- ජයම්පති-චන්ද්රිකාලාගේ පැකේජ් ඩීල් හොල්මන)
1931 සිටම සිංහල කළු සුද්දන් විසින් බෞද්ධ මධ්යම ප්රතිපදාව අනුගමණය නොකිරීම නිසා රටට ජාතියට කොඩිවිනයක් කරගත් දෙමළ නිජබිම් හෙළුවට සළුපිළි අන්දවා 2023 පෙබරවාරි 4 දා එලියට දැමීමට කුමන්ත්රණයක් කෙරෙනවා යනුවෙන් ප්රවෘතියක් අසන්නට ලැබේ. එය චන්ද්රිකාගේ 1995-2000 පැකේජ් ඩීල් එකය චන්ද්රිකාගේ පැකේජ් ඩීල් එක මියගියේ රනිල් හා චන්ද්රිකා අතර විධායක අගමැති වන්නේ කවුද යන්න ගැන ඇතිවූ පුද්ගලික ආරවුල නිසාය. එසේ නොවන්නට අන්තිම මොහොතේ පාර්ලිමීන්තුව ඇතුලේ එයට UNP කාරයින් ගිනි තබන්නේ නැත. එය පැරදුනේ චන්ද කීපයකින් පමණය. නැත්නම් මේ වන විට සිංහලයාට අබසරණවී අවසානය. මුළු රටම පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී කොට්ඨාශ මට්ටමින් අවුල් ජාලයක් වෙන්නට තිබුණි. ප්රභාකරන්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
නිවන
අපෙන් ස්වායත්තව (indepedant) ස්වභාව ධර්මයේ ධර්මතාවලට අනුව පවතින, හැසිරෙන භාහිර ලෝකයක් පවති. ආලෝකය, සුළඟ, උශ්ණත්වය, පීඩනය භාහිර ලෝකය හසුරවන සාධකයන්ය. එම භාහිර ලෝකය විඤ්ඤාණය සහිත ජීවින්ගෙන් මෙන්ම විඤ්ඤාණය රහිත වස්තූන්ගෙන්ද සමන්විත රූපවලින් පමනක් සැදුනකි. විඤ්ඤාණය සහිත ජීවීන් (රූපවලින් පමනක්ම සෑදුන) භාහිරය ආත්මීය කරගෙන (දෙයක්/යමක් ලෙස ගෙන එය දකින/විඳින මමෙක් ඇතිකර ගෙන) විඤ්ඤාණ මායාවට හසුවී දුක්විඳියි. සක්කාය දිට්ඨිය යනු මෙම මායාවයි. විඤ්ඤාණය සහිත ජීවියා සිත නොහොත් අරමුණ ක්රියාත්මක නොවනතාක් කල් අයත්වන්නේ ස්වභාව දහමටයි. විඤ්ඤාණය සහිත ජීවින්ගේ විඤ්ඤාණ මායාව යනු පහත සඳහන් ක්රියාවලියයි. භාහිර ලෝකය කිසිදාක පෘතග්ජනයාට (දැකිය/ඇසිය/)විඳිය නොහැකි අතර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
චන්දෙන් පැරදුන අගමැති කෙනෙක් අරලිය ගහ මැදුරෙන් පිට වුණේ සූට්කේසයත් අරගෙන
රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගේ නායකත්වයෙන් 2001 දෙසැම්බර් 9 වැනිදා පිහිටවූ එ.ජා.ප. ආණ්ඩුව 2004 අප්රේල් 06 දා කඩා වැටුණේ බෑග් පලහිලව්වක් මුල් කර ගනිමින් ඇරඹි බල අරගලයකින්ය. එදා අගමැති ලෙස රනිල් ආණ්ඩු කරද්දී විධායක ජනාධිපතිකම කළේ චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංගය. ආණ්ඩුව රනිල්ගේ වුවත් පොතේ හැටියට කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයේ ප්රධානියා වන්නේ ජනපතිවරයාය. එහෙත් ඇය වවුලාගේ මඟුල් ගෙදර ගොස් එල්ලිලා සිටීමට අකමැති වූවාය. රනිල්ගේ එ.ජා.ප. ඇමැති මණ්ඩලයේ ප්රධානත්වය උසුලන්නට ඈ ගියාය. චන්ද්රිකාගේ පැමිණීම එ.ජා.ප. ඇමැතිවරු නොරිස්සුවෝය. කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයේදී එදා යූ.ඇන්.පී. ඇමැතිවරු චන්ද්රිකා අපහසුතාවට පත් කළේ ඇගේ අත්බෑගයේ අධිතාක්ෂණික කැමරාවක් අටවා කැබිනට් රහස් පිටකරන බවට චෝදනා කරමින්ය. චන්ද්රිකා කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට එන සෑම දිනම එ.ජා.ප.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Draw Me The Economy: How can a country go bankrupt?
https://youtu.be/hMBf7ipyXgs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
US scientists reach long-awaited nuclear fusion breakthrough, source says
— For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN. The US Department of Energy is expected to officially announce the breakthrough Tuesday. The result of the experiment would be a massive step in a decadeslong quest to unleash an infinite source of clean energy that could help end dependence on fossil fuels. Researchers... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
The City of London
You may be surprised to learn that the city of London and the City of London are two very different things, related to each other mostly by historical accident and geographical proximity, and co-existing today in a rather complicated power system in which the City of London appears gloriously victorious. First, the City of London, a small area of about one square mile in size, was established as a haven by the Khazar “Jews” during their extermination from Khazaria nearly 1,000 years ago, and was named ‘London’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Multiple sources of air pollution in Sri Lanka
Colombo, December 12 (Counterpoint): In recent days, there has been a lot of concern over the deterioration of air quality in Sri Lanka due to the increase in the level of fine particles (PM2.5) in the atmosphere. The primary reason for the current deterioration is said to be the entry of polluted winds from the Indian subcontinent and the South Asian region at large. This movement had been triggered by the cyclonic conditions prevailing over the Bay of Bengal. Air pollution, which is evident in all parts of Sri Lanka, has a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
බෝසතාණන් වහන්සේ කුරුණෑගල පොතුහැරින් පහළ වේ… ප්රසිද්ධ භික්ෂූන්ද ඔහුට වැඳ වැටේ…
කුරුණෑගල පොතුහැර ප්රදේශයේ තමන් ආධ්යාත්මික ශක්තිය සහිත බෝධිසත්වයෙකු බව පවසන පුද්ගලයෙකු සිටින බව සමාජ ක්රියාකාරිකයෙකු වන නිලන්ත රණසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. ඉදිරියේදී තමා සිටින ස්ථානයට මහනුවර තැන්පත් කර ඇති ශ්රී දන්ත ධාතූන් වහන්සේද වඩින බවට එම පුද්ගලයා පවසා ඇතැයිද හෙතෙම කියයි. රටේ ප්රසිද්ධ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා පවා මෙම ක්රියාවන් අනුගමනය කරමින් ඔහු බෝධිසත්වයකු බව සඳහන් කරමින් ඔහුට වැඳ නමස්කාර කරන ආකාරය දක්නට වීඩියෝ ඇතැයිද හෙතෙම තව දුරටත් කියා සිටි. https://youtu.be/ALSHAQv9Zm0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
යුක්රේන ජනපති යුද නොවැදී මධ්යස්ථව සිටීමට ගත් තීන්දුව වලක්වා ඇත්තේ බ්රිතාන්යයයි- හිටපු අමෙරිකන් හමුදා නිලධාරිහු පවසති
යුක්රේන නායක වැලැදිමිර් සෙලෙන්ස්කි මහතාට මොස්කව් පාලනය සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට ඉඩ දීම එක්සත් රාජධානිය ප්රතික්ෂේප කළ බව විශ්රාමික කර්නල් ඩග්ලස් මැක්ග්රෙගර් චෝදනා කරයි.පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා(10) ප්රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද මිලිටරි ඉතිහාසඥ මයිකල් ව්ලහෝස් සමඟ සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් සාමය සඳහා මොස්කව්හි කොන්දේසි කිහිපයක් සපුරාලීමට යුක්රේන ජනාධිපති ව්ලැඩිමීර් සෙලෙන්ස්කි පසුගිය මාර්තු මාසයේදී සූදානම්ව සිටි බව විශ්රාමික එක්සත් ජනපද හමුදා කර්නල් ඩග්ලස් මැක්ග්රෙගර් ප්රකාශ කළේය.යුක්රේනය සහ රුසියාව සමථයකට පත් වීම වැළැක්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔහු හිටපු බ්රිතාන්ය අගමැති බොරිස් ජොන්සන්ට දොස් පැවරීය. යුක්රේන සහ රුසියානු නියෝජිතයින් මාර්තු මාසයේදී ඉස්තාන්බුල් හිදි මුහුණට මුහුන සාකච්ඡා වලට අසුන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
The New Mantra
Because of the enormous gap between ‘unknown effectiveness’ in conventional (allopathic) medicine, ‘integrative medicine’ should be the new ‘mantra’ in any healthcare system i.e., using the best from conventional medicine and homoeopathy combined. Homoeopathy is both alternative and complementary medicine that can be used alone or with conventional drugs. Two similar diseases – one weaker and the other stronger — cannot exist in a living body. The stronger disease, which is the artificial disease created by taking allopathic medicine destroys the weaker disease, which is the natural disease in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
කබ්රාල් මහ බැංකු අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ ගැන කියූ දේ
වර්තමාන මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා සහ මුදල් මණ්ඩලය ද සිදු කරනුයේ තමන් කළ ආකාරයෙන් ම ඩොලරයේ අගය ඉහළ යා නොදී පාලනය කිරීම බව හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් පවසයි. මහනුවරදී මල්වතු මහ නාහිමි අතිපූජ්ය තිබ්බටුවාවේ ශ්රී සුමංගල නාහිමි බැහැ දැකීමෙන් අනතුරුව ඒ මහතා මාධ්ය හමුවේ අදහස් දක්වමින් මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ය. තවදුරට ත් අදහස් පළ කළ හිටපු මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා මෙසේ පැවසීය. “අද මට මේ අය චෝදනා කරනවා ඩොලරයේ අගය ඉහළ යා නොදී බලහත්කාරයෙන් පාලනය කොට රුපියලේ අගය රැකගත් නිසා රටේ ආර්ථිකය කඩා වැටුණා කියා. නමුත් අද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
President orders full probe into assault on former VC of Peradeniya University
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urgently ordered all relevant authorities to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the assault on the former Vice Chancellor of the Peradeniya University Prof. Athula Senaratne and take necessary action, the President’s Media Division reported. https://youtu.be/Yo2qLBNKKUs Former Vice Chancellor of the Peradeniya University Prof. Athula Senaratne was assaulted by a group near his official residence and hospitalised due to injuries on December 10. The attack had been carried out following an argument with Prof. Senaratne, stating that his son’s car had collided with a parked... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
A new UNP-SLPP alliance in the offing?
SLPP MP S.M. Chandrasena says that in the upcoming local government elections, victory can only be achieved, if the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) forms an alliance with the United National Party (UNP) and many other parties. https://youtu.be/limKUh0Y1Qk In response to a question raised by journalists whether President Ranil Wickremesinghe will join them in the upcoming election, the MP pointed out that they are joining together with many parties as an alliance, the UNP and many other parties may also join. “Discussions are being held on different levels.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Once Regulations Are Finalized, Port City Colombo Will Immediately Begin to Bridge SL’s Balance of Payments Gap
The Balance of Payments, (BOP) is what you get when take a country's total foreign currency inflows and subtract its total foreign currency outflows. This has a direct effect on the value of that nation’s currency. In Sri Lanka, our BOP has been negative for decades, meaning that more foreign exchange flows out of Sri Lanka than into it. That's why the Rupee has seen such significant depreciation. FDIs and trade inflows are some of the best ways to narrow the BOP gap, and projects like Port City Colombo, Sri Lanka's largest FDI-driven... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/12/22)
Are Sri Lanka’s “leaders” going to watch IMF-US-India ruin Sri Lanka?
US-India-China profane rivalry but are leading trade partners. They work together & in isolation as per their country agenda/goals & policies. Sri Lanka’s nicely documented policies are just that – it always gets changed with every new govt. Not many governments have had national plans to raise Sri Lanka & instead ends up coolies of global power players. One thing is certain no nation would be bullying or pressurizing Sri Lanka if elected leaders learnt to stand for their nation & their people. That’s how nations respect leaders. There are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
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1. Bring narcoterrorism under Terrorism Act. Colonial powers have used drugs and alcohol to weaken cultures and economies of countries throughout history. The use of opium to weaken China was a good example. In a more subtle way Arrack was used by the British to attack the culture of Buddhism in Ceylon. It is rumored that the British spy oily John D’Oyly supplied whisky to the last king and made him an alcoholic and masterminded the King’s downfall with a mix of vile propaganda and bribes. There is a belief that the present drug... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
THE ETHNIC ISSUE AND THE TEACHING OF HISTORY IN SCHOOLS Part 1
Ceylon history was introduced as a subject to schools during the British period. Initially, pupils were only taught European history, and, as one commentator observed, pupils left school with the notion that ‘our ancestors were barbarians’. Ceylon history should be introduced, it was suggested, so that pupils would be in a position to admire Ceylon’s ancient civilization and develop a sense of pride and patriotism. S.A.Pakeman, lecturer in history at University College, Colombo, had pointed out in 1922 that it would be good if some schools at least paid some attention to Asian history in their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
THE ETHNIC ISSUE: OBSERVATIONS OF JAYATISSA BANDARAGODA
Jayatissa Bandaragoda’s biography titled “Path of destiny: autobiography of a farmer’s son’ was published in 2011 by Godage international. “One reason I wrote this autobiography was to refer to some events relating to the ethnic issue in Trincomalee and elsewhere,” said Bandaragoda. “This was a key motivating factor behind my autobiography. I thought I should place some of my personal experiences and related view points in the public domain.” Bandaragoda’s brush with the Tamil Separatist Movement started with his appointment as Government Agent, Trincomalee. Bandaragoda was Government agent, Trincomalee from 1978-1981. This... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
The allegory of the slow road
Contour makes the bends bends make for pause feet stop and go and heart to footprint returns Roads are either slow or fast depending on road conditions, weather, traffic, the condition of the particular vehicle and the urgency or lack thereof of the person at the wheel. The same road can be fast for some and slow for others. It can make for a slow grind at a certain hour and an easy pass at another.One does plan to get from A to B, from Colombo to Kudumbigala,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
Global Tamil Eelam Project: Nirmala Chandrahassan’s Tamil Buddhist bricks & stones
සිංහල නම් ඇති පෙඩරල්කාරයින් හා දෙමළ නම් ඇති ක්රිස්තියානි ඊළම්කාරයින් සංවිධානාත්මකව කරගෙන යන ලිපි ලිවීමේ ක්රියාවලිය නිසා මේ පංචස්කන්ධ ගැන සිංහල ජනයාට කරුණු එලිදරව් කිරීම මෙසේ සටහන් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමේ අරමුණ විය. මෙය ඒ සම්බන්ධ අවසාන ලිපියය. මෙම ලිපියෙන් සළකා බලන්නේ නිර්මලා නමැති වයසක කාන්තාවක් විග්නේශ්වරන්ගේ දෙමළ බෞද්ධයා ලණුව ගිලගෙන අමාරුවේ වැටෙන හැටිය. නොහොත් චෙල්වනායගම්ගේ ඊළම් නිජබිමට විග්නේශ්වරන් විසින් එකතුකල අළුත් කොටිවලිගය ගැනය. චෙල්වා මෙන්ම විග්නේශ් විසින්ද අහිංසක පීඩිත දෙමළ ජනයාට ගෙනදුන් දුක ගැන <විග්නේශ්වරන් දමණය> යන මාතෘකාව යටතේ ලිපි පහක්ම කලකට පෙර, 2015 මුලදී ලියන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
Mud ( ilmenite sand) slinging again
Now that two top-level people in Geological Survey and Marine Bureau ( GSMB ) are replaced by new people, the very first complaint published by the ex-chairman of the cement corporation, has landed on new bosses to handle We should seriously look into the possibility of value addition to our own mineral resources which has been ignored in the past Recently we saw a large amount of mineral sand in raw form has been shipped From Trinco . The Sad ( sand) thing is there may a politician behind... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
High Commissioner Moragoda invited to address the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (EAC-PM) Dr. Bibek Debroy at the latter’s office in New Delhi and had an exchange of views. The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) is an independent body constituted to give advice on economic and related issues to the Government of India, specifically to the Prime Minister. During the discussion, the Chairman of the EAC-PM briefed High Commissioner Moragoda on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
https://youtu.be/8X7Ng75e5gQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/12/22)
Sri Lanka registers decline in crop yield, high food inflation rates following switch to organic fertilisers: Report
In order to switch to organic fertilisers, Sri Lanka yet again relied on a Chinese company, only to get deceived in the end as the organic fertilizer supplied could not pass the two rounds of the National Plant Quarantine Services (NPQS) test due to high contamination. Moreover, the Chinese firm also pressurized Sri Lanka for the payment of contaminated fertilizer during the island nation’s worst economic crisis, Indo Pacific Centre for Strategic Communications reported. However, the SL government’s choice to transition to organic fertilisers had a negative impact on the nation’s crop productivity, leading... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/12/22)
North Sri Lanka: Battle between Indian Tamil Hindus vs Western Tamil Christians/Catholics
There is a reason why India is always stressing on India’s security interest when the issue of Sri Lanka emerges. It maybe now dawning on India, that it was foolishly roped into training Tamil militancy & allowing Tamil Nadu to be used as a logistics base. That India never trusted LTTE or Prabakaran was evident when he was kept under virtual duress in Delhi while Rajiv Gandhi the Indian PM arrived in Colombo to sign the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987. LTTE, Prabakaran or even its ideologue Anton Balasingham were not privy to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
සියයට සියක්ම ආගමික අන්තවාදින් මෙල්ල කළහැකි ක්රම
මෙරට ආගමික අන්තවාදීන්ට තම ආගම පැතිරීමට වල්බුරු නිදහසක් නැතිබව ඔප්පුවෙන ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ නියෝග හා අනිකුත් ව්යවස්ථාමය කරුණු. https://youtu.be/TUcKQnyXX0U... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
IMF Bribes Central Bank & Media: US & India Set to Split Sri Lanka
India’s Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) ‘spy chief’ Samant Kumar Goel slunk into Colombo to further grab strategic sectors (fuel, ports, etc) and regions (Trincomalee, Mannar, Hill Country, etc) to divide the country. His arrival accounts for the rather muted LTTE Maaveerar Naal or Great Heroes Day on 27 November (see Random Notes). India-allied MPs and media then raised greater clamour blaming China for the delay in the IMF’s gifts. Their IMF demand amounts to continuing the colonial import-export plantation economy. Warlord-backed Trinitian TNA MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam is reported as calling for ‘Go Home... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
Strengthening Systems to Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
A woman is seen in the fields in Nepal Each year, as we mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, we join our partners to renew our commitment and step up our actions for the prevention and elimination of gender-based violence. Gender-based violence is a major issue in South Asia, where a staggering two out of five women experience intimate partner violence (IPV). Only a few women seek any help or report the abuse. This is a pattern of gender-based violence (GBV) that we see across the Maldives,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
Sri Lanka bans transportation of beef, mutton as bad weather kills cattle
President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued the orders to ensure public health safety, officials said. Sri Lanka on Saturday suspended the transportation of beef and mutton at district and provincial levels after a large number of cattle and goats died in the last two days due to unusually cold weather in areas of north and eastern provinces. President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued the orders to ensure public health safety, officials said. According to the statistics by the Department of Animal Production and Health, 358 cattle and 191 goats have died in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
We are almost there with IMF bailout – CBSL Governor
The IMF could finalise Sri Lanka’s financing package within three weeks of the country’s main bilateral creditors formally informing the IMF that they would help Sri Lanka restructure its debt, Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, said on Thursday appearing on a TV programme. Dr. Weerasinghe said that Sri Lanka had already provided adequate information to the country’s main bilateral creditors and they were in a position to make an informed decision about the role they could play in making Sri Lanka’s debt sustainable. “Sri Lanka’s ability to secure... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
THE SINHALA SCRIPT IN ANCIENT SRI LANKA
Archaeological excavations in Anuradhapura have shed new light on writing in ancient Sri Lanka. Valuable findings have emerged from the excavations in the Anuradhapura citadel site. Thirty two pieces of broken pottery, with writing on it, were found in 1984, during excavations at the Anuradhapura citadel excavation site. The writing signified ownership. Researchers from Cambridge University dated these to 500-600 BC. Techniques used for the dating includedradiocarbon and thermo luminescent techniques. The dates have been accepted by foreign experts. The letters in the writings were almost identical to the Asokan script used 200... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
System Change: an Aragalist touch-me-not?
Such diversity! Such passion! Such innovation and creativity! Such courage and heroism! Such were and still are the encomiums floating around in mainstream and new media about the Aragalaya. Yes, there was diversity, passion, creativity, innovation and courage. These however do not necessarily constitute good, healthy, wholesome etc. For example, the LTTE, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban and other such outfits had little diversity as is the case in identity based ‘struggles,’ but that all have long histories marked by creativity, innovation, passion, courage and heroism.There was diversity and there was division. There were... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
MUCH NEEDED FOREIGN RESERVES
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 paper shall be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
POLITICAL UPHEAVALS OF CHANGE
Regardless of all the political upheavals of change which have been realistically fortuitous for Sri Lanka under the present administration, the country is still facingunprecedented crises in many areas. Despite all the promises made by the administration which realistically is of a 'pro tem' nature and hardly a legitimately elected one exercised by the will of the people veritably, immediate actions are necessary to resolve the political and socio-economic crises, including aggravating social unrest and severe damage to the livelihoods and well-being of all corners of society. Distinguished members of parliament, opposition... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
Traffic and Road Conditions in Sri Lanka
Traffic Safety and Road Conditions While in Sri Lanka, U.S. citizens may encounter road conditions that differ significantly from those in the United States. Vehicular traffic in Sri Lanka moves on the left (British style). Traffic in Colombo can be congested. Narrow two-lane highways, overloaded trucks, poorly driven buses, and a variety of conveyances on the road, ranging from ox carts and bicycles to new four-wheel-drive vehicles, make driving dangerous. Unexpected road blocks and one-way streets are common and may not be clearly marked. Many visitors hire cars and drivers for long trips... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
CBSL Governor sets record straight on export remittances and conversions
Says wants to make it clear that based on Sept. and Oct. data, exporters are not keeping money abroadPoints out 25% export proceeds not converted due to dollars being utilised for local purchasesJAAF reiterates that its members strictly abide by CBSL laws on repatriating export income Apparel industry points out, given current economic milieu, companies use a considerable portion of export proceeds to purchase raw materials, fuel and other items essentialThe issues revolving around the exporters repatriating income were clarified this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
Tourist arrivals for first week of Dec. already cross15,000 mark
Daily arrival average increases to 2,302Russia and India rank as top two source markets for SL tourismUnited Kingdom regains position as third largest tourist traffic generator for SLArrivals for January 1-December 7 period total 644,186Influx contributed by arrival of luxury cruise Azamara The tourist arrivals for the first seven days of December have already crossed the 15,000 mark, indicating the revival of the hard-hit sector is on track.The provisional data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed that for the December 1-7 period, the arrivals to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
IMF chief Georgieva cites ‘fruitful exchange’ with China on debt issues
(Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Kristlina Georgieva said she had a “fruitful exchange” with her Chinese counterparts this week on her repeated calls for accelerating debt treatments for countries like Zambia and Sri Lanka. Georgieva, World Bank President David Malpass and other financial leaders met in person in China’s Anhui province this week with officials from the People’s Bank of China, China’s finance ministry and its EXIM Bank and China Development Bank. Georgieva said the discussions touched on the common framework for debt treatment set up in late 2020 by China,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/12/22)
Dollar Leakage
Now, ex-Finance Minister BR has also threatened to bring in new regulations against exporters who default on repatriation of the full amount of export proceeds. Here again, the proposal is confined to exports only and confined to getting back the full amount of the export value as declared. It is not about trade mis-invoicing. Was he as Minister of Finance not aware of this scam? The extent of this global crime was brought to the notice of the public by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) as far back as 2008. UNCTAD published a report in 2019 giving... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/22)
The GREATEST LIE
Yesterday’s Island reported the Minister Bandula Gunawardana claiming that only way to stop the crippling shortages is by selling state assets. And, he was endorsing the remarks of Ranil Wickramasinghe who also was canvassing to sell Telcom, Insurance Corp etc to enable to build a reserve of $3 billion! But, according to a think tank of University of Peradeniya , the exporters of Sri Lanka has hoarded a sum of $6.8 billion in 2022 in foreign countries! Further, the Minister of Justice is now... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/22)
Jehan Perera and Anandasangaree: Two Indian F ghosts [how can you unite by dividing?]
මේ දිනවල රටේ තිබෙන ඊළම් ප්රශ්ණය 2023 පෙබරවාරි 4 ට පෙර විසඳන්න බලනවා යන තදියම අතරේ, ඉන්දියන් පෙඩරල් ක්රමය ඒ සඳහා විසඳුම යයි NGO ඩොලර් මුදලාලි කෙනෙක්වන ජෙහාන් පෙරේරා විසින් අයිලන්ඩ් පත්රයට පසුගියදා ලියූ ලිපිය දැක මෙම සටහන ලිවීමට සිතුනේ ඔහුට ඉතිහාසය මතක් කර දීමටය. ඊළම් ව්යාපාරයට කරදෙන සිංහල නම් ඇති තුන්දෙනෙක් මට මතක්වේ. ක්රිස්තියානි ජෙහාන් පෙරේරා, ක්රිස්තියානි මාක්ස්වාදී දයාන් ජයතිලක (කලින් දයාන් සිල්වා) හා මාක්ස්වාදී නිර්මාල් දේවසිරි ඒ අයය. විග්නේෂ්වරන් පස්සේ ගොස් දයාන් පාඩමක් ඉගෙන ගෙන නැත. උතුරු පලාතේ මහඇමතිවූ වහාම විග්නේෂ් දෙමළ ජෙනොසයිඩ් යෝජනා පාස් කරණ විට දයාන් ගල උඩ සිටිනා බළලෙක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/12/22)
යුරෝපා සංගමයේ නියෝජිතයන් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා හමුවෙයි
අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හා යුරෝපා සංගමයේ සාමාජික රටවල තානාපතිවරුන් අතර සාකච්ඡාවක් 2022.12.08 දා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවැත්විණි.රටතුළ ආර්ථික, සමාජීය සහ දේශපාලන ස්ථාවරත්වය ඇති කිරීම සඳහා රජය ගෙන ඇති පියවර සහ එහි ප්රතිඵල සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්රාමාත්යවරයා තානාපතිවරුන් දැනුවත් කළේය.මෙම සාකච්ඡාවට යුරෝපා සංගමයේ තානාපති ඩෙනිස් චිබි (Denis Chibi), ජර්මනියේ තානාපති හොල්ගර් සූබර්ට් (Holger Seubert), නෙදර්ලන්ත තානාපති බොනී හොබච් (Bonnie Horbach), ප්රංශ තානාපති ජීන් ෆ්රැන්සුවා පැක්ටෙට් (Jean-Francois Pactet) සහ රුමේනියානු තානාපති කාර්යාල දූත මණ්ඩල ප්රධානි වික්ටර් ටියුඩ්ජියා (Victor Tiudjia) සහ අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක යන මහත්ම මහත්මීහු සහභාගී වුහ.අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Gun violence and human rights in the USA: should the US concentrate on fixing the situation in its own country first rather than offering counsel or advise to others?
The United States is regarded as the largest democracy or fully democratic nation in the world. The question of whether the United States believes it is its "right" to warn other nations of the world about kidnappings, killings, or violations of human rights may follow from this introduction. However, a number of publications claim that the state of human rights in the US is deteriorating daily. Gun violence, murder, and police brutality are all on the rise. The US public is concerned that the justice system in the "vocal" nation is failing to uphold international human... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
ඇමරිකාව, චීනය, ඉන්දියාව, ජපානය, පකිස්ථානය ලෝක බලවතුන්ට එකම ඉඩම දීලා මේක විසඳන්න කියා මට කියනවා…- ජනපති
දුරදිග නොබලා ජනප්රිය තීන්දු තීරණ ගැනීම හේතුවෙන් අද රට බලවත් දුෂ්කරතාවකට මුහුණ දී සිටින බවත්, රටේ අනාගතය යහපත් කිරීමට නම් ජනප්රිය නොවන තීන්දු තීරණ ගැනීමට සිදුව තිබෙන බවත් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පැවසීය. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව පැවසුවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ (08) අයවැය තෙවැනි වර කියැවීමේ විවාදයට එක්වෙමිනි. රට මෙවැනි ආර්ථික අර්බුදයකට පත්වීමට වැරදි තීන්දු තීරණ ගත් පර්ශ්වයන් සහ ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයා බැලීමට පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාවක් පත් කරන ලෙස මෙහිදී මන්ත්රීවරු කළ ඉල්ලීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිය එකඟත්වය පළ කර සිටියේය. ඒහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙසේද පැවසීය. ‘පළමුවෙන්ම මම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Sri Lanka's most beautiful train journey
The Colombo to Badulla railway is so enchantingly beautiful that it's become a bucket list adventure for many visitors. I was woken by the long, forlorn sound of the siren. The brakes hissed and screeched as our train chugged up the hill and pulled into Radella, a station along one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world: the Colombo to Badulla railway. "The journey is so enthralling that you don't want to take your head out of the window," said Dayawathie Ekanayake, who has travelled extensively by train across the island... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Presidential election next year?
Whilst highlighting that a Presidential election is the best option when it comes to seeking a mandate of the people, UNP stalwart Navin Dissanayake today said one could expect a presidential poll in August 2023. "The best option to hold a Presidential election, as people can elect a new president after one whom they elected had left the post. Therefore expect a Presidential election in August 2023," Dissanayake told a media briefing. "The Predident believes in conducting elections on time and therefore there won't be a postponement of polls," he... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Uvatenne Sumana Thera remanded over alleged financial fraud
Chief incumbent of the Maligawatta Sri Bodhirajarama Vihara Uvatenne Sumana Thera has been remanded till December 14 by Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court over an alleged financial fraud relating to coconut oil deal. The CID alleged that Sumana Thera had issued eight dishonored cheques amounting to Rs.58 million in lieu of purchasing coconut oil from a businessman in Dematagoda. The CID told the court that the suspect monk had purchased 84,240 kg of coconut oil while acting in the capacity of a private company director. (Lakmal Sooriyagoda)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
President slams Janaka Ratnayake, says PUCSL cannot overrule electricity tariff hike
President Ranil Wickremesinghe made special revelations regarding the increase in electricity tariffs and claimed that Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Janaka Ratnayake has no power in this regard. https://youtu.be/b-8olGzcHHo Speaking in Parliament this morning (08 Dec), Wickremesinghe addressed recent concerns pertaining to the proposed increase in electricity tariffs. Stating that the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is currently at a loss of Rs. 300 billion incurred since 2013, Wickremesinghe stated that in the event a drought takes place next year, an additional Rs. 420... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
PSC to look into those responsible for Sri Lanka’s economic bankruptcy
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says a parliamentary select committee will be appointed on a resolution by parliament to look into those who led the economy to bankruptcy with incorrect fiscal policies. The President made this remark joining the debate on budget proposals in parliament today (Dec. 08), in response to a query made by parliamentarians as to who drove the country to such a bankruptcy and how to hold them responsible, the President’s Media Division reported. Speaking on the issues faced by banks, the President said the banks will have to auction their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
CBSL governor hopeful of securing creditor assurances in December
Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe says that Sri Lanka can expect approval for the USD 2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) Rapid Financing Instrument in January next year, as creditor assurances from countries including China and India can be obtained this month. Joining ‘
HydePark’ current affairs programme on Ada Derana 24, the governor said that Sri Lanka should not fear IMF involvement, as in the case of Greece following its financial crisis, but instead look to the success in India and South Korea following IMF bailout. In response to a question whether it will... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Parliamentary Select Committee to look into those who led the economy to bankruptcy
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said during the Budget Debate today that a Parliamentary Select Committee will be established on a resolution by the Parliament, to look into those who led the economy to bankruptcy with incorrect fiscal policies. President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the country has had to face adverse repercussions today due to the short sighted popular decisions taken in the past and unpopular decisions have had to be taken for the future prospects of the country. The President made this observation today (08) taking part in the third reading debate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Why doesn’t IMF/World Bank propose pruning Sri Lanka’s Parliament & recovering from Big tax defaulters first!
Was Sri Lanka’s economic crisis precipitated by an externally planned course to incrementally result in outcome? This is a question Sri Lankans need to ask themselves. How far have Sri Lanka’s elected leaders, paid policy advisors failed to read the external threats & mitigate internal measures to address them, instead of blindly following external advice? Another question for Sri Lankans to answer. Sri Lanka is in a default status. Why does IMF/World Bank not place these conditions instead of demanding governments cut welfare of the ordinary people & increase taxes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Is Global South being robbed & corrupted & scorned for it?
An interesting article by Caitlin Johnstone titled “Robbing the Global South, then scorning its poverty: notes from the edge of the narrative matrix” gives much food for thought. She quotes Michael Parenti “poor countries are not under-developed”…they are over-exploited”. She claims the poverty of the developing world is as a result of western theft & exploitation & she likens it to ‘mugging someone and then scorning them for their empty wallet”. She goes on to say that the western civilization prides itself in being better at killing and stealing than... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour changed the course of world history
Today, December 7 is the 81st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour which finally led to the liberation of the oppressed people in European colonies in Asia and Africa and other parts of the world. The fightback of the Japanese Imperial Army, Navy, and Air Force, and Japanese people destroyed the myth of the so-called Invincibility of the Western colonial countries and the untenable Christian concept of Manifest Destiny, which promoted the idea of White Supremacism and the collapse of all other civilizations which were not rooted in Judeo - Christian doctrines. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
රට තුළ සිටින ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ගේ සේවා තත්වයන් හා ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කිරීමට විශේෂ ක්රමවේදයක්
රට තුළ සේවයේ යෙදෙන ගෘහ සේවිකාවන්ගේ සේවා තත්වයන් සහ ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කිරීම සදහා විශේෂ ක්රමවේදයක් ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා තීරණය කර තිබේ.ඒ සදහා වන වැඩසහටනක් වහාම ක්රියාත්මක කරන ලෙස කම්කරු කොමසාරිස් ජනරාල්වරයාට අමාත්යවරයා උපදෙස් ලබාදී ඇත. අමාත්යාංශයේ මාසික ප්රගති සමාලෝචන සහ ඉදිරි වැඩ සටහන් සැලසුම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන සාකච්ඡාවේදී මෙම ක්රමවේදය සකස් කිරීම සදහා වන තීරණය ගත්තේය.මේ වන විට ගෘහ සේවිකාවන් ලෙස විදේශ රැකියා සදහා පිටත්කර යන ශ්රමිකයින්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීම සදහා ක්රමවේදයක් ශ්රී ලංකා විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති කාර්යාංශය හරහා ක්රියාත්මක කරන නමුත් දේශීය වශයෙන් ගෘහ සේවයේ යෙදෙන ශ්රමිකයින් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සොයා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය තුමනි. ශ්රී ලන්කාවේ වාර්ෂික නිදහස් සමරු උළෙල පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ මැයි මස 22 දාද?පෙබවාරි 4 දාද?
මෙම ලිපිය ලිවීමට මා අදහස් කළේ පසුගිය දිනක මේ රජයද ලබන වසරේද උත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් නිදහස් දිනය පෙබ 4 දාම පැවැත්වීමට තිරණය කොට ඇතැයි ප්රවුර්තියක් පලවී තිබුණු නිසාය මේ රටේ නිදහස් දිනය පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ කවදාදැයි අපි තිරණය කළ යුත්තේ 1815 ආරම්භවූ ඉන්ග්රීසි අධිරාජ්යවාදී පාලනයෙන් ශ්රී ලන්කාවට සැබෑ සහ සම්පූර්ණ දේශපාලන නිදහස ලැබුණු දිනය අනුවය.ඒ අනුව එම පාලනයෙන් පළමුවෙන්ම පූර්ණ නිදහස ලැබුණේ 1948 පෙබ 4 වනදාද එසේ නැත්නම් 1972 මැයි 22 දා ද යන්න පළමුව පැහැදිළිකොට ගත යුතුය. 1948 පෙබ 4 වනදා ඉන්ග්රීසි අධිරාජ්ය වාදීන්ගේ වසර 133 ක රිජු යටත් විජිත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
අරගලය දෙස ආපසු හැරී බලන කලාකරුවන් ගැන ජාතික සංවිධානවල ඇගයීමක්
ප්රවීන රංගන ශිල්පී ගිහාන් ප්රනාන්දු මහතා කලාකරුවෙක් ලෙස ඊනියා අරගලය ගැන ඉදිරිපත් කරන මතය පිළිබදව ලංකා ලීඩ් ජාතික සංවිධානවල මතය විමසන ලදී. මේ වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ අදහස් ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්, ‘‘ගිහාන් සමග අපි සියයට සියයක්ම එකඟ වෙනවා. ජාතික සංවිධානවලට අරගලය ආරම්භයේදීම ඒ ගැන නිවැරැදි විග්රහයක් තිබුණා. ඒක වික්ටෝරියා නූලන්ඩ්ගේ පිටපතට අනුව රඟපාන නාට්යයක් බවට.නීතිඥ සංගමයේ සහ ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිනිය ගෝඨාභය කියන දුප්පත් ජනාධිපතිවරයාව සහ ඔහුව පාවාදීම සදහා ආරක්ෂක හමුදාවට පැනවූ මානසික බාධකවල ශක්තිය අරගෙන පොඩි කොල්ලො කුරුට්ටො ටිකක් තමයි ඒක ආරම්භ කළේ. ඕනෑම සටනකින් පසු දේශපාලන වාසි ලබාගන්න බලන දේශපාලන බලවේග ඊට සෘජුවම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
China supports financial bodies on Sri Lanka debt talks: ministry
China-aided nephrology hospital in Sri Lanka China maintains good long-term cooperative relations with international financial institutions including the IMF and supports relevant financial institutions to properly negotiate and address debt issues with Sri Lanka, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday, in response to media reports about an IMF team’s visit to China this week to discuss debt restructuring for Sri Lanka. “We urge relevant countries and international financial institutions to work with China to continue playing an active role in helping Sri Lanka cope with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Economic Support to Sri Lanka Not Based on Communal Approach: Jaishankar in Rajya Sabha
On the issue of Palestine, Jaishankar said India stands for a two-state solution, with the two states living peacefully side-by-side (Image: YouTube/MEA)
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday justified the government’s support to Sri Lanka, saying India would be shirking its responsibility if it did not step forward to support a crisis-hit neighbour. The economic support that India offered to Sri Lanka during its worst post-independence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/12/22)
Sri Lanka lifts Covid-19 restrictions for overseas travellers
Travellers to Sri Lanka would be free of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions with the lifting of a circular issued in 2021, Asela Gunawardena, the Director General of Health Services said. Sri Lanka on Wednesday decided to discontinue the Covid-19 vaccination certificate for travellers entering the island nation, officials said. Travellers to Sri Lanka would be free of mandatory Covid-19 restrictions with the lifting of a circular issued in 2021, Asela Gunawardena, the Director General of Health Services said. Accordingly, the mandatory requirement of producing the Covid-19 vaccination certificate to enter... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/22)
Unilaterally terminating LRT project cost over Rs. 5 Bn to Sri Lanka: audit report.
Sri Lanka incurred a loss of staggering Rs. 5,978 million after the previous government unilaterally decided to terminate the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project funded by Japan, a report compiled by the National Audit Office revealed. https://youtu.be/Q60tkIL8SJs The project was initiated in 2016 with the aim of reducing the traffic congestion in the city of Colombo and to provide better public transportation facility to the commuters. Plans were afoot to construct seven lines, covering several areas from Rail Transit System (RTS) 1-7 as Green, Yellow, Red, Purple, Pink, Olive and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/22)
Merchandise export earnings decline, trade deficit contracts in Oct. 2022
Earnings from merchandise exports declined in October 2022 – on a year-on-year basis – for the first time since March 2022 due to lower earnings from garments exports, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says. The decline in import expenditure continued in October 2022, (y-o-y), for the eighth consecutive month, despite recording an increase, compared to September 2022. The merchandise trade deficit recorded a notable contraction in October 2022, compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, the workers’ remittances steadied and earnings from tourism improved in October 2022, whereby earnings... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/22)
Presidential election next year?
Whilst highlighting that a Presidential election is the best option when it comes to seeking a mandate of the people, UNP stalwart Navin Dissanayake today said one could expect a presidential poll in August 2023. "The best option to hold a Presidential election, as people can elect a new president after one whom they elected had left the post. Therefore expect a Presidential election in August 2023," Dissanayake told a media briefing. "The Predident believes in conducting elections on time and therefore there won't be a postponement of polls," he... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/22)
International land grab for national resources & implications for Sri Lanka
Land grabbing is taking place at national / regional & global scales. Large-scale land deals/transactions are taking place by transnational corporations or initiated by foreign governments. One of the major reasons for escalation of land grab is the global economic/political and dwindling resources tied to structural reforms promoted by IMF/WB & this is tied to an impending food/water crisis. Global food prices are increasing, food production is in demand & this means those who own the land are at a commanding role – even to decide what will get grown & how... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/12/22)
රනිල් වික්රමසින්හ ජනාධිපතිවරයාට 2019 ජනාධිපති සහ 2020 පාර්ලිමේන්තු පොදුපෙරමුණ මැතිවරණ ප්රකාෂන වල සඳහන් ප්රතිපත්ති වලින් බැහැරව ක්රියාකළ හැකිද?
ප්රථමයෙන්ම 2022 මැයි මස ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ විසින් රනිල් වික්රමසින්හ වැඩබලන අගමැති වශයෙන් ප්ත්කෙරින.දෙවනුව ගෝඨාභය ඉල්ලා අස්වීමෙන් පුරප්පාඩුවු ජනාධි පති කමට 2022 ජූලි 13 දින ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්තාවේ 40 වන වගන්තිය යටතේ පාර්ලිමේතුවේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් විසින් ඔහු ගෝඨාභය ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉල්ලා අස්විමෙන් ඉතිරිවූ කාලය සඳහා ජනාධිපති වෂයෙන් පත්කර ගණු ලැබිණ. මෙම අවස්ථා දෙකේදීම නව ජනාධිපතිවරයා පත්වී ඇත්තේ පොදුපෙරමුණේ මැතිවරණ ප්රකාශයවු “සව්භාග්යයේ දැක්ම” යන මැතිවරණ ප්රකාෂනයේ අඩන්ගු පොරුන්දු ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම සඳහාය.ඒ නිසා ඔහු ක්රියාකළ යුත්තේ එම මැතිව රණ පොරොන්දු රාමුව තුලය. එම ප්රකාෂනයේ රාජ්ය ආයතන විකිනීමේ ප්රතිපත්ත්ය කිසිතැනක සඳහන්ව නැත. නමුත් මේ වනවිට ඔහු ලාභ ලබන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
High Commissioner Moragoda meets Finance Minister of India to review the status of bilateral economic cooperation
High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India, Milinda Moragoda met with the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman today (06) at the latter’s office in North Block, New Delhi. This was the latest of a series of meetings High Commissioner Moragoda has had with Minister Sitharaman since November last year on Indian economic cooperation and assistance to Sri Lanka in the context of the present crisis. At the outset, High Commissioner Moragoda briefed Minister Sitharaman on Sri Lanka’s ongoing discussions with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Waiting for the honourable Migettuwatte Gunananda or Angaraika Dharamapala
Volume 2 revised The statement that Sri Lanka can afford peace through ethical foreign policy was extremely provocative. It is true that if Migettuwatte Gunananda and Angaraika Dharamapala were alive today, they would have questioned and stood up for the protection of Buddhism and the welfare of Sinhala people. But now politics has become a family matter or business venture. Sri Lankan politicians want to be in the good books of the heads of other countries rather than being interested in the welfare of the general public. They want to save their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
මහනුවර බෞද්ධයෝ නිදි මිෂනාරීන් හා තටු නැති දෙවදුතිකාවන් දෙදෙනා සමග අත්කොට කමිසේ ඇඳගත් පාස්ටර් අයියගේ නීතිවිරෝධී ආගම් ප්රචාරය වලක්වන්න
බෝගම්බර අවට, ටොරින්ටන් උද්යානය අවට හා ශ්රී දළදා මාලිගාවට ඔබ්බෙන් හා මල්වතු විහාරය ආසන්නයේ වැව රවුමේ සිට ආගමික මරුවන් සිටින බව තැනින් තැන මහනුවර පුරා කසුකුසුවක් ආකාරයෙන් පැතිර යමින් තිබේ. අප දන්නා කරුණු අනුව අන්යාගමික කරණය හෝ ආගමික ප්රචාරය නීති විරෝධී හා තහනම් වන අතර බොරදියේ මාළු බාන අන්දමට ස්ත්රීන් සහා තරුණ බුද්ධියෙන් හින නිතී ගරුක නොවන මග මරු පාස්ටර්ලා ”බෝ” එක නැතුව ”ටයි” කරපටිය සමග මිනිසුන් වෙත ආගම් ප්රචාරය කරමින් සිටීම දැකීම ඉතා කනගාටු තත්වයකි. බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ උතුම්වූ වම් දන්තධාතූන් වහන්සේ වැඩ සිටින මහනුවර ආක්රමණය කිරීමට මොවුන් විසින් කරනා නීති විරෝධී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Why Americans Should Care About Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis | Opinion
Hundreds of Sri Lankan protestors recently took to the streets, frustrated with the South Asian country's worst economic crisis in seven decades. Sri Lanka's crisis is no mere financial downturn, like Americans are experiencing now. Our economic system is literally collapsing, with millions of people in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Ten-hour blackouts have become part of daily life in Sri Lanka. Food, water, and other basic necessities are not guaranteed. More than 6 million Sri Lankans are food insecure. Inflation is 66 percent year over year (as of October), child malnutrition is skyrocketing. Parents cannot afford meat,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
'No Point in Economic Reforms when We Don't Have an Economy: Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has acknowledged that there was no point in economic reforms in Sri Lanka because the cash-starved island nation didn’t have an economy, as he made a strong pitch for a new economic model. Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948, triggered by a severe paucity of foreign exchange reserves. In mid-April, Sri Lanka declared its international debt default due to the forex crisis. Addressing the inaugural session of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2022 on Monday, Wickremesinghe said the country’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Economist says time right to start debating if Sri Lanka should charge for tertiary education
IPS Chief calls for meaningful reforms to upskill and reskill peopleSays Budget 2023 failed to adequately address factor endowment issues and labour market woesSL’s labour shortage compounded by mass exodus of people fleeing economic crisis It is high time that Sri Lanka started debating whether the tertiary education must be charged and should the private sector be allowed to get engaged more actively in this sector, through facilitating investments for meaningful reforms in higher education, in order to produce the skills needed for high-paying jobs in a growing economy, a senior economic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Sri Lanka needs strong new economic system, not reforms - President
Sri Lanka does not need economic reforms that offer no solutions to the ongoing crisis, but a strong new economic system that can face 2050, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. Outdated economic systems cannot help rebuild Sri Lanka’s economy, the Head of State said, inaugurating the 2022 Economic Summit organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. https://youtu.be/UYX7yYTZlzY The event themed ‘Resetting from Turmoil to Opportunity’ was held at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo on Monday (Dec. 05). President Wickremesinghe noted that foreign exchange is essential to recover... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Medical aid worth over LKR 2 billion from China reaches Colombo
A consignment of essential medicines and medical supplies worth LKR 2 billion, donated by China, reached the Colombo Port today (Dec. 06). The shipment came in 24 containers (16,000 boxes) with a total of weight over 255 metric tonnes. It contained 8 million infusion sets, 1.2 million vials of omeprazole sodium for injection, 1 million capecitabine tablets, 612,720 PF. syringes of enoxaparin sodium injection, 240,000 bottles of sodium valproate tablets, and 100,800 ampoules of heparin sodium injection. China has donated medicines worth LKR 5 billion to Sri Lanka since June, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Main broker in organ trafficking racket at private hospital remanded
The main broker, who was arrested this morning (06 Dec) over his involvement in the human organ trafficking racket at a private hospital in Borella, has been remanded till 13 December. The 41-year-old resident of Kajimawatte was remanded till 13 December on orders of the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, while travel bans were imposed on six directors of the said hospital. Earlier today, the suspect was arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has appointed a seven-member committee to investigate the said organ transplant racket recently exposed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
China calls for joint efforts to ease Sri Lanka’s debt burden
China hopes relevant countries & international financial institutions will work with China to play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka overcome the difficulties. Chinese FM Spokesperson said China attaches high importance to Sri Lanka's challenges. China hopes relevant countries and international financial institutions will work with China to play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka overcome the current difficulties. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks when asked to comment on media reports that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team will travel to China this week to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
World Bank grants Sri Lanka access to concessional financing
The World Bank yesterday approved Sri Lanka's request to access concessional financing from the International Development Association (IDA). This type of financing, which is offered at low-interest rates, will enable the country to implement its government-led reform program to stabilize the economy and protect the livelihood of millions of people facing poverty and hunger. The request is the result of Sri Lanka's sustained deterioration in economic and social conditions, which have reduced income levels, reversed poverty gains, and affected its access to financial markets. This approval means Sri Lanka now becomes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Coordinated assistance program required for Sri Lanka’s recovery – WB, ADB, IMF, AIIB
Following a lengthy round table discussion with WB, ADB, IMF, AIIB in Colombo this morning, it was agreed that a coordinated assistance program supported by the multilateral financial institutions is vital for Sri Lanka to recover from the present economic difficulties. World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) representatives decided that a coordinated assistance program supported by the multilateral financial institutions is required for Sri Lanka to recover from the economic crisis the country is currently facing. They reached the agreement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
How far are Foreign Companies (MNCs) IMF/WB influencing Sri Lanka?
It is estimated that 80,000 companies drive the 21st century economy. How far do they exert political & economic power over their own country-govts to influence foreign governments & how far does this impact the national security, national economy & welfare of citizens? Do MNCs abuse the poor in developing nations? MNCs employ people in developing nations – but what is the quality of these jobs? Coca Cola’s bottling facility in El Salvador hired sugar cane planters. OXFAM accused Coca Cola of paying lower than the minimum... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Oh Galle Face!
One good thing done by the present government is to grow grass at the Galle Face Green, especially during the Covid period - to fill the empty patches. Now most of the Green is a beautiful turf. True, the turf is damaged in the Aragalaya areas. Can the authorities be able to continually maintain the Green in its current pristine condition? Let's hope so. The responsibility largely lies with the general public. It is they who use it. One bad thing done by the present government is to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
Global Tamil Eelam Project: No homeland for Jaffna fish!
ලංකාවේ ඊළම් හීතල හොරුන් තුන් දෙනෙක් ගැන කලින් ලිපියේ සඳහන් කරණ ලදී. DBSJ, රාසමානික්කම් හා නිර්මලා යන තුන්දෙනා තුන් ආකාරයකට ඊළම් ඉණිමඟේ නඟිමින් සිටී. ඊළම් බට්ටන් විසින් වෙන් වෙන්ව ක්රියාත්මක කරන්නේ සංවිධානාත්මක සැලැස්මකි. මේ තුන්දෙනාගේ හැසිරීම මීට හොඳ උදාහරණයකි. මේ මාතෘකාව ගැන ලිවීම මට එපාවී ඇතත් එය සිංහල ජනයාට පෙන්වාදීම මගේ යුතුකම යයි සිතමි. DBSJ ගේ උප්පරවැට්ටියවූයේ බොරු උසාවි තීන්දුවකට හුස්ම පිඹීමය. මම එය ඔහුට ඊමේල් කර යැවුවෙමි. ඔහුට ඕනෑනම් ලංකාවෙබ් එකට ඒ ගැන ලිවිය හැකිය. මේ දෙවැනි ලිපිය රාසමානික්කම්ගේ ගේම් එක ගැනය. මොහු සුමන්තිරන්ට වඩා හොඳින් සිංහල... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
ප්රතිසංස්කරණ හරහා ආර්ථික පුනර්ජීවනයට ශ්රී ලංකා නායකයන්ගේ කැපවීම ඉතා අගය කළ යුතුයි. - ADB උප සභාපති
ශ්රී ලංකා නායකත්වයේ ශක්තිය සහ මුදල් ක්ෂේත්රවල ප්රතිසංස්කරණ හරහා කඩිනම් ආර්ථික ප්රබෝධයක් ළඟා කර ගැනීමට රජයේ කැපවීම පිළිබඳව ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය නියෝජිතායතන බෙහෙවින් පැහැදී ඇති බව ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ (ADB) උප සභාපති Shixen Chen මහතා පවසයි.ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේ 2022.12.05 දින කොළඹ අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදීය. ඉදිරි වසර සඳහා යෝජිත ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ ව්යාපෘති අවසන් කිරීම වත්මන් සංචාරයේ අරමුණ බව පැවසූ ඒ මහතා රටේ සංවර්ධනයට සහ ආර්ථික හා මූල්ය අභියෝග ජය ගැනීම සඳහා ආසියානු සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ සහාය සහතික කළේය.ආර්ථික පුනර්ජීවනය සහ රාජ්ය මූල්ය ක්ෂේත්රවල ප්රතිසංස්කරණ මෙන්ම බලශක්ති, විදුලිය සහ ඛනිජ තෙල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
2022 දෙසැම්බර් 04 වැනි දින ෂැංග්රිලා හි "රනිල් 50" ගෘන්නෝමයෙන් පරමාධිපත්යයට කරන බලපෑම තුළණය කිරීමට ප්රවේශයක්.
රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ නීතීඥ වෘත්තියට වසර 50ක් සම්පූරණ වීම වෙනුවෙන්කොළඹ ෂැන්ග්රිලා හෝටලයේදී දෙසැම්බර් 04 දාපවත්වන ලද උත්සවය අංශ කිහිපයකින් වැදගත් වේ. දේශපාලනික, නෛතික සහ ආර්ථික අංශ 3ම එහිදී සළකා බැලිය හැකිය.1972 දී කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්යාලයේ නවරගහලේදී ඩොමීනියන් සිට නිදහස දක්වා පැමිණි අතර, 2022 දෙසැම්බර් 04 දා කොළඹ ෂැන්ග්රිලා හෝටලයේදී නැවත ඩොමීනියන් යටත් විජිතයට රට ගෙනයාම ආරම්භ වූයේද යන්න එහිදී දක්වා ඇති අදහස් මාධ්යයේ පළවී ඇති ආකාරය අනුව පෙනී යයි. ඒ නීති දේශපාලනික කතාවට පූර්විකාවක් මෙම ලිපියෙන් ලබා දී ඇත.මෙම ලිපියෙන් සාකච්චා කිරීමට අදහස් කරන්නේ2022... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
BOOMERANG: Empire and Britain's economy [FULL FILM] ft. John Barnes |
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For China, aid to Sri Lanka does not constitute a 'debt trap'
According to a recent study, China is Sri Lanka's top international creditor with debt largely owed to two Chinese state-owned banks. Concerns remain over China’s geopolitical ambitions in the region. A US$ 2.9 billion IMF aid package to Sri Lanka is still pending. Colombo (AsiaNews) – China has reiterated that no political strings are attached to its aid to Sri Lanka and that it does not seek such influence with investments and financing in the island nation. To this end, Beijing welcomed a recent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/12/22)
China calls for joint efforts to ease Sri Lanka’s debt burden
(Xinhua) -- China hopes relevant countries and international financial institutions will work with China to play a positive role in helping Sri Lanka overcome the current difficulties. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning made the remarks when asked to comment on media reports that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team will travel to China this week to discuss faster progress on debt restructuring for countries including Sri Lanka, which is trying to get an assistance package from the IMF. Mao said China has long-standing sound cooperation with the IMF and other international... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/22)
ADB Vice President commends Sri Lanka’s commitment to economic revival through reforms
Vice President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) Shixin Chen said international monetary agencies are highly impressed with the strength of the Sri Lankan leadership and its commitment to achieve speedy economic revival through reforms in monetary sectors, the PM’s Office reported. He stated this when he called on Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena today (Dec. 5) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Colombo. He said the current visit is aimed at finalizing proposed ADB projects for next year and assured ADB’s support for the country’s development and its efforts to overcome economic and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/12/22)
3 Britishers debunk Tamil Homeland myth
In 1992 a paper was presented by a Working Group of the International Federation of Tamils in London. This paper cites a quote from the British Colonial Secretary in June 1799 to the UK Government while Robert Brownrigg the Governor of Ceylon refered to Tamil as Malabar Language. Clearly both ethnicity & language of Tamils were identified as Malabars who belonged to South India. 1. HUGH CLEGHORN – BRITISH COLONAIL SECRETARY When the Portuguese arrived in then Ceylon there was no Tamil independent nation, therefore... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
වයධම්මා සංඛාරා අප්පමාදේන සම්පාදේථ - පිරිනිවන් මඤ්චකයෙහි කල දේශනාව
පන්සාළිස් වසක් සත්වයා සසර සයුරින් ඵතර කරවීමට (උපන්දා සිට මේ මොහොත දක්වා ඵකතු කල ක්ලේෂයන් දුරැකොට දුකින් මිදීම) උත්සාහයක යෙදුන තතාගතයින් වහන්සේ පිරිනිවන් මඤ්චකයෙහි තමන් වහන්සේ සියළු ලෝක සත්වයාට මින්මතු දේශනයක් නොකරන බවත් ඵ්නිසා මෙම අවසන් දේශනාවේ තමන් වහන්සේ කල සියළුම දේශනාවල ක්ෂාරය අඩංගුවිය විය යුතුබවත් දැන සත්වයා දුකින් මිදීමට කලයුතුම දේ පිරිනිවන් මඤ්චක දේශනාවට ඇතුලත් කලේය. ප්රමාදය සියල්ලම වසයි ඵනිසා ප්රමාදය ඉවත්කර වහවහා අප්රමාදය මතුකර/සකස්කර ගැනීමට (සම්පාදේථ) යුහුසුළු වන්න. මෙයයි බුද්ධ වචනය. සිතුවිල්ලේ (අරමුනේ) ඇතිවන ස්කන්ධයේ උදය-වය දැකීමට - නාම රෑප පරිච්ඡේදය දැකීමට, ‘සිහියේ’ හා සිතුවිල්ලේ වේගයන් ගැලපිය යුතුය. ඵනම් ‘සිහියේ’... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
Re: Nepotism ‘Machang Diplomats’ at Sri Lanka’s Foreign Missions
1 December 2022Rt. Hon. Ranil WickremesinghePresident of Sri LankaPresidential SecretariatGalle Face Center RoadColombo 1Sri Lanka Dear Rt.Hon. President Ranil Wickremesinghe: Re: Nepotism ‘Machang Diplomats’ at Sri Lanka’s Foreign Missions You have surprised and disappointed me one more time. I have just taken off my trusted cap-of-diplomacy to deal with the present concern of mine, with a raw non-diplomatic fashion, as facts need not be glazed with window-dressing niceties, even for a President of a sovereign country. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
Social Stratification in Jaffna: A Survey of Recent Research on Caste
A SYNOPSIS: Since 1983, war has dominated the perception of Sri Lanka. This has affected scholarship on the country, such that the subjects of an overwhelming number of research proposals and publications have been on the war and the prospects and prescriptions for peace. This survey paper is an attempt to locate the system of caste in transition in the Jaffna Peninsula by reviewing recent literature written after the commencement of the war. While detailed ethnographies of caste in Jaffna may have temporarily come to a halt, caste practices have not and remain a salient... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
මැද පෙරදිග මධ්යම ආසියානු හා දකුණු ආසියාවේ රටවල් එකොලහක රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රිකයන් සමග වෙළ`ද, ආයෝජන හා සංචාරක සහයෝගීතාවයක්
ශ්රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් නවදිල්ලියේ නේවාසිකව සිටින මැද පෙරදිග මධ්යම ආසියානු හා දකුණු ආසියාවේ රටවල් එකොලහක තානාපතිවරු හා මහ කොමසාරිස්වරු කණ්ඩායමක් පසුගිය දා ඉන්දීයාවේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ මහතා මුණ ගැසිණ. අසර්බයිජාන්, බහරේන්, කාම්බෝජියා, කසකස්තාන්, උතුරු කොරියාව, මොන්ගෝලියාව, සිරියා, තජිකිස්තාන්, ලෙබනන්, කිරිගිස්තාන් හා ෆිජි යන රටවල රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික නිලධාරීහු මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගී වු අතර ශී්ර ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් ඉන්දියාවේ සිට කටයුතු කරන රටවල් අනූහතරක් අතරින් කොටසකි. මෙම රටවල් අතර සබ`දතා තරකරන අතර වෙළ`ද, ආයෝජන සහ සංචාරක අංශ කෙරෙහි පුලූල් අවධානයක් යොමු කිරීම හමුවීමේ අරමුණ විය. මෙයට කලින් ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
Sri Lanka’s submarine cable legislation inordinately delayed
Colombo, December 4 (): Sri Lanka’s digital communications umbilical to the world remains vulnerable as the Government continues to drag its feet on enacting legislation on the protection of undersea data cables. Today, Sri Lanka’s connectivity, trade, and digital economy as an island nation are largely dependent on seven undersea fibre-optic data cables which remain under-protected by local legislation. This gap in legislation leaves Sri Lanka’s national security and economic recovery in a vulnerable state, with a part of the critical digital infrastructure of the country lacking a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
නිවාස ඇමැතිධුරය සජිත් දැරූ කාලයේ වංචා දූෂණ වාර්තා 2ක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට
විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා නිවාස අමාත්යධූරය දරන අවධියේදී එම අමාත්යංශයේ සිදුව ඇතැයි කියනු ලබන වංචා හා දූෂණ සම්බන්ධව විගණන වාර්තා 2ක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සභාගත කර ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ. විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා නිවාස අමාත්යධූරය දැරූ 2017 වසරේ සිට 2019 වසර දක්වා කාලයේදී හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වීරකැටිය කලාප කාර්යාලය මගින් නිවාස ණය හා ආධාර නිකුත් කිරීම, හිස් ඉඩම් බැහැර කිරීමේදී සිදුකර ඇති වැරදි හා අක්රමිකතා සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාව මෙහි එක් වාර්තාවක් ලෙස දැක්වේ. අනෙක් වාර්තාව වන්නේ 2016 වසරේ සිට 2019 වසර දක්වා කාලය තුළ නිවාස ගම්මාන වෙනුවෙන් මුද්රණය කළ පෝස්ටර්, ආරාධනා පත්ර සහ සමරු කලාප සම්බන්ධ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
IMF Bribes Central Bank & Media: US & India Set to Split Sri Lanka
• India’s Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) ‘spy chief’ Samant Kumar Goel slunk into Colombo to further grab strategic sectors (fuel, ports, etc) and regions (Trincomalee, Mannar, Hill Country, etc) to divide the country. His arrival accounts for the rather muted LTTE Maaveerar Naal or Great Heroes Day on 27 November (see Random Notes). India-allied MPs and media then raised greater clamour blaming China for the delay in the IMF’s gifts. Their IMF demand amounts to continuing the colonial import-export plantation economy. Warlord-backed Trinitian TNA MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam is reported as calling for ‘Go... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
98 Acres Resort & Spa named as most Luxurious Mountain Resort in Asia
98 Acres Resort & Spa, a subsidiary of U.H.E. Group, was recently awarded as the Number 1 Luxury Mountain Resort in Asia, at the recently held 16th World Luxury Hotel Awards (2022) in Antalya, Turkey. The prestigious awards recognised 98 Acres Resort & Spa – placing it on a par with some of the world’s most sought-after, luxury hotels and resorts, known for exclusive service and offering and impeccable quality. The recent recognition shines a spotlight on Sri Lanka and the luxury offering that is available to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
ජනපතිගේ අපේක්ෂාව "නිදහස ඔප්නංවන ව්යවස්ථාදායක රජයක් බිහිකරනවා...
https://youtu.be/jBLYkpp5oyo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
Rumors about tax on remittances of migrant workers are false : CBSL
Rumours in circulation that remittances of expatriates will be taxed or forcibly converted into Sri Lankan rupees, are completely false. Overseas remittances can be kept in expatriates' bank accounts in foreign currency and be converted into Sri Lankan rupees at the expatriates' discretion.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
ආර්ථිකය කඩාවැටීම ගැන ජනපතිගෙන් චෝදනා (වීඩියෝ)
ආර්ථිකයේ කඩාවැටීම පිළිබඳ වගකිව යුතු පාර්ශව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව දැනුවත් නොකළ බව ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ පවසනවා. https://youtu.be/w-Br3lJFa6Y මහ බැංකුවේ එවකට සිටි නිලධාරීන් ද එම අනතුරු ඇඟවීම සිදු නොකළ බවයි ප්රතිපත්ති සම්පාදන ක්රියාවලියට තරුණ ප්රජාවේ දායකත්වය ලබාගැනීම පිළිබඳ පැවති වැඩසටහනකට එක්වෙමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කළේ. මෙම වැඩසටහනේදී තරුණ තරුණියන් යොමුකළ ගැටළුවලට ද ජනාධිපතිවරයා පිළිතුරු ලබාදුන්නා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/12/22)
Production oriented employment creation- poverty alleviation-- What our budget lacks.
This is what all budgets since 1978 lack. It is production oriented- to make everything that we imported, saving the foreign exchange the country has been spending to import and also in that process finding incomes for the people engaged in that pursuit- that is what is required to remedy the economic meltdown our Motherland is facing today. It is easily done- with local currency, foreign funds are required only to get down some small-scale machinery to make something that we imported eg paper, and in that case, the output... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
TO MY MIND…. Part 2
To my mind, said one writer, the most important question to be resolved is whether this Country is to be regarded as a Sinhala Buddhist State where all the other ethnic, religious groups are treated as guests, or as a multi- ethnic- multi-religious, secular country where all citizens have equal rights. The above statement contains the following key words ‘Sinhala, ‘Buddhist’, ‘state’, ‘secular’ ‘ethnic’,’ religion’ ‘multi- ethnic/multi-religious’ ‘citizens’ and ‘rights’ . The first essay looked at the words ‘Sinhala ‘and Buddhism. ‘This essay looks at the words ‘State’ and ‘Secular’. SINHALA STATE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
Jiang Zemin.
In early 1980 the GCEC was getting many visitors to learn about the experience of the new investment promotion zone. One of those visitors was a Chinese official who at that time was vice-chairman and concurrently secretary-general of the State Administration Commission on Import and Export Affairs and the State Administration Commission on Foreign Investment. At that time the GCEC had so many visitors, the Chinese official was not given any special treatment. After the usual official briefings, the visitor was passed on to the then Export Promotion Secretariat (EPS), which happened to be the nucleus... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
SLT-Mobitel සබුද්ධි ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය සම්මාන උළෙලේ ජිවිතයේ දී එක්වරක් පමණක් පිරිනැමෙන ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය රන් සම්මානය විමලසේන පෙරේරාට... වසරේ ක්රීඩා රන් සම්මානය යුපුන් අබේකෝන්ට. වසරේ ශාස්ත්රීය ක්රීඩා කෘතිය මළල ක්රීඩාවේ වසර සියය.
මෙරට පැවැත්වෙන එකම ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය සම්මාන උළෙල වන SLT-Mobitel සබුද්ධි ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය සම්මාන උළෙලේදී යෝගානන්ද විජේසුන්දර අනුස්මරණ සබුද්ධි ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය රන් සම්මානය ආර්. ඒ. විමලසේන පෙරේරා මහතාට පිරිනැමිණ. ඒ ක්රීඩා සාහිත්යයේ ප්රවර්ධනයට ලබා දුන් ක්රීඩාමය පෞරුෂ දායකත්වය වෙනුවෙනි. සම්මාන උළෙල දෙසැම්බර් (02) වැනිදා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශ ඩන්කන් වයිට් අනුස්මරණ ශාලාවේදී ක්රීඩා හා යෞවන කටයුතු රාජ්ය අමාත්ය රෝහණ දිසානායක මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත් විණ.මෙවර සබුද්ධි සම්මාන උළෙලේ දී යෝගානන්ද විජේසුන්දර අනුස්මරණ සබුද්ධි ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය රන් සම්මානය හිමි කරගත් ආර්. ඒ. විමලසේන පෙරේරා මහතා ආසියානු ක්රීඩා (1966 - තායිලන්ත), පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලීය ක්රීඩා (1966 ජැමෙයිකා)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
සිංහල - දෙමළ භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්යාපනය වැළැක් වූ සංස්ථාගත නීති අධ්යාපන සභාවේ සාමාජිකයන් කවුද යන්න දැන ගැනීමත්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට කැදවා ප්රශ්න කිරීමත්, අධිකරණයේ නඩු පැවරීමත් නීතියේ පාලනය, යහපාලනය, ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය ශක්තිමත් කරයි.
නීතිය යනු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව පනවන නීති සහ ඒ අසුරෙන් අධිකරණය ලබා දෙන අර්ථ නිරූපණවල එකතුවකි. ප්රධාන නීති මූලාශ්ර 2කි, ඒ පාර්ලිමේන්තු පනවන පනත් සහ ඉහළ අධිකරණ තීරණ ය.අංගුලිමාල සිවුර දරාගෙන බුදු හාමුදුරුවන්ට කරදර කළා කියා ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්රකාශ කළද එය වැරදි බව ජනතාව දනී. ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ එකී වැරදි ප්රකාශය ජනතාව නිවැරදිව දකී.ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ බලවත්ම කුළුණ එහි 9 වන ව්යවස්ථාවයි.එහි ඇති ව්යවස්ථා 172 අතරින් වඩා බලවත්ම ව්යවස්ථාව එයයි.1815 උඩරට ගිවිසුමේ 5වන වගන්තිය දක්වා එහි සම්බන්ධය තිබුණද එහි ඉතිහාසය ඊට ඈත අතීතයට යයි.වර්තමානයේ සමාජ කතිකාව ඇත්තේ එකී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
සාරිය පටලවාගත් දෙමුහුන් මිනිසා | A hybrid man tangled in saree
යුධ ස්වෙච්චා හමුදාවේ හිටපු ලුතිනන් කර්නල් විජේසුන්දර මුදලිගේ අශෝක මහතා සමග සාකච්චාව මෙහයවිම දෙශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්. නිවැරදි දේ අගය කරන්නත් වැරදි දේ හෙළිදරවු කර නිර්භයව එයට පහර දෙන්නත් හෘදය සාක්ෂියක් මාධ්යවේදියෙකුට තියෙන්න ඕනෑ බව සිංහලේ දිනපොත විශ්වාසයයි ! පර්යේෂණාත්මක පුවත් පත් කලාව ! මෙහයවීම දේශාභිමානී සුර්ය වංශ රත්න විභූෂණ පාලිත ආරියරත්න විසින්… https://youtu.be/mf4hic-AspA?list=PLaZtYsavWKfAj1x1u1pU5pkZQtYRCwViG... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
Indian High Commission releases Volume II of the Jataka Tales audio book
Colombo, December 3 (newsin.asia): Commemorating the arrival of Most Venerable Sanghamitta Theri in Sri Lanka from India, the second volume of the Jataka Tales Audio Book in Sinhala was released at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC), the cultural arm of the High Commission of India on December 2. The Audio Book contains 50 Jataka Tales, selected from Jatakattakatha under the theme of ‘Good Advice’ and is dedicated to the people of Sri Lanka, particularly the visually impaired. The first volume was released at the sacred Ruwanweli Maha Seya premises in Anuradhapura... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
අරගල කරපු කුඩ්ඩොයි, ගණිකාවොයි කූඩාරම් අස්සට වෙලා කරපු දේ මෙන්න…
‘අරගල කරපු කුඩ්ඩොයි, ගණිකාවොයි කූඩාරම් අස්සට වෙලා කරපු දේවල් දැන් එළිවෙනවා. ලක්ෂ 220ක් නියෝජනය කරන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙ ඉන්න අයයි මේ අර්බුදයට විසඳුම් හොයන්න ඕන. කුඩ්ඩෝ කියන දේවල් කරන්න ගියොත් රට ගොඩගන්න බෑ’ නගාරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස අමාත්ය ප්රසන්න රණතුංග මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පැවසීය. පවතින ආර්ථික අර්බුදය හමුවේ ඒ සඳහා විවිධ බාධා එල්ලවුවද නවීන තාක්ෂණය භාවිතා කරමින් නාගරික සංවර්ධන හා නිවාස කේෂ්ත්රය වැඩිදියුණු කිරීමට සූදානම් බවද අමාත්යවරයා සඳහන් කළේය. අළුත් දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතියක් තුළ අළුත් රටක් හදන්න නම් අළුත් අදහස්වලින් පෝෂණය විය යුතු බවද හෙතෙම කීය අමාත්ය ප්රසන්න රණතුංග මහතා මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
Paris Club for 10-year moratorium on Colombo debt, global north and south to take haircut
With Sri Lanka still to initiate a dialogue with the Xi Jinping regime, chances of the IMF executive board approving an extended fund facility of USD 2.9 billion to deeply indebted island nation this month are virtually non-existent. The question is who will give the bridge funding till the IMF meeting in March 2023. New Delhi: Putting equal onus on rich global north and developing global south, the Paris Club creditor nations are proposing a 10-year moratorium on Sri Lankan debt and another 15 years of debt restructuring as a formula to resolve the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
SJB MPs most undisciplined group in parliament: Speaker
Time management and discipline of MPs were questioned today by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene saying that Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs are the most undisciplined lot in the House. “Some SJB MPs rise and speak by force. This group of MPs are the most undisciplined group in the House,” the Speaker said. https://youtu.be/j75AoKPcJMY “It is the chair who should maintain discipline of the House,” Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella said. “You allow MPs to speak if they want to raise an issue. However it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
Nutritients for children suffering from malnutrition soon: Ministry
A program to provide packs containing nutrients for children suffering from malnutrition is to be starte soon by the health ministry, Ministry Secretary Janaka Sri Chandraguptha said. He said a special program is to be drawn to put in place to provide 'Thriposha' for them. A recent survey conducted by the Ministry identified between 20,000 and 30,000 children suffering from malnutrition across the country. About Rs. 500 million have been allocated to provide nutrients for those children. (Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
“Ukussa” uncovers testicle trafficking at private hospital involved in kidney racket
A testicle trafficking racket has been uncovered at the private hospital in Borella where Ada Derana’s “Ukussa” recently exposed a kidney trading racket was being carried out. Further investigations into this incident uncovered the said testicle trafficking business that was also being operated at the hospital. The illegal operation is believed to be run by a broker by the alias of “Bhai” who initially convinced people, faced with various difficulties, to sell their kidneys and later offered higher sums of money in return for their testicles. An individual who was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
IMF Led Privatization, Land and Resource Grab in Sri Lanka
On September 1, 2022, debt-trapped Sri Lanka reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 48-month Extended Fund Facility of $2.9 billion, which hardly covers the country’s outstanding debt, nor its immediate survival needs. Nevertheless, IMF structural adjustment requires the country to meet its familiar debt restructuring conditions: privatization of state-owned enterprises, cutbacks of social safety nets and alignment of local economic policy with US and other Western interests. There are already signs that these policies would be detrimental to the well-being of ordinary Sri Lankans and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
Revamp the Health Service
The health of the nation is in the hands of the medical profession. The President claimed in Parliament that the government spends Rs 6 million to produce a graduate MBBS physician. What is unfortunate is that around 500 doctors leave the health service to go abroad. The GMOA claims that in the first 8 months of this year 477 doctors left for foreign jobs. In fact, we are producing doctors for developing countries. It is impossible to stop this brain drain. More rats will leave the sinking ship. It will be fair to demand the personnel who... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
"ප්රභාගේ උපතේ සිට මරණය දක්වා විශේෂ අනාවරණයක්" - ප්රභාගේ පවුල ලඟින්ම ඇසුරු කළ වෛද්යවරයෙක් හෙළිකරයි
https://youtu.be/JV11SoRjDGQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
The speech in the Japanese Parliament (Diet) that won Japan's abstention on the Resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC
The resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) titled ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ (A/HR/51/5/L1/Rev1) was adopted on October 06, 2022, without Sri Lanka's prior consent or consultation. The number of votes against the Resolution (7) and the number of absentations (20) totaling 27 votes exceeded the number that voted in favour ( 20) of the Resolution. It was interpreted as a moral victory for Sri Lanka as the proponents of the Resolution failed to gain a clear majority for the adoption of the Resolution. Japan which usually... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/12/22)
බුදුන්වහන්සේ ලොවට දෙසු ප්රථම දහමේ ඉතිරිය
ධම්මචක්කප්පවත්තන සූත්රයේ පලමු ගාථාව 2022 නොවැම්බර් 28 වනදා ලිපියෙන් අපි සාකච්ඡා කලෙමු. එහි අඩංගුවන දෙවන ගාථාවේ අදහස පැහැදිලි කරගැනීමට අපි අද උත්සාහ කරමු. ඇත්තෙන්ම බුදු දහමේ එන විශේෂිත අවස්තාවක් තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ මෙහිදී අපට හඳුන්වා දෙයි. "එතෙ ඛො, භික්ඛවෙ, උභො අන්තෙ අනුපගම්ම මජ්ඣිමා පටිපදා තථාගතෙන අභිසම්බුද්ධා චක්ඛුකරණී ඤාණකරණී උපසමාය අභිඤ්ඤාය සම්බොධාය නිබ්බානාය සංවත්තති’’ එතෙ ඛො තථාගතෙන අභිසම්බුද්ධා - තථාගතයන් අවබෝධ කල මග වන අන්තෙ අනුපගම්ම - අන්තවලට නොපැමින (මිදී) උභෝ මජ්ඣිමා පටිපදා - යහපත පිනිසම පවතින මධ්යම පටිපදාව නම් චක්ඛුකරණී ඤාණකරණී - දැකීමෙන් අවබෝධයෙන් (රූපාවචර හා අරූපාවචර -... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/22)
Global Tamil Eelam Project: where are the toilets?
පෙඩරල්-ඊලම් දෙමල දේශපාලන පක්ෂවල නායකයින්ට අරූන් සිද්ධාර්ථන් විසින් යාපනයේ සිට කරණ යෝජනාව නම් එහි වසන පීඩිත ජනයාට ඊලම ලබාදීමට පෙර පිටරටින් ලැබෙන ඊලම් ඩොලර් යොදවා එක දෙමල පවුලකට එක වැසිකිලිය බැගින් සාදා දෙන ලෙසටය. Where Tamils live (Source map: Tamilnation.org website 1/25/2010) මේ වනවිට ශීඝ්රයෙන් පිරිහෙමින් යන ජන අප්රසාදය ඉදිරියේ යන්තමින් හෝ ජාම්බේරා ගැනීමට ක්රමයක් ඔවුන්ගේ පොදු සතුරාවන අරුන් විසින් සුමන්තිරන්-විග්නේශ්-පොන්නම්බලම් කල්ලියට මෙසේ පෙන්වාදී ඇත. මේ සමඟ ඇති යූටියුබ් ලින්ක් එකෙන් අරුන් දෙමළ දේශපාලකයින්ට කරණ අභියෝගය විෂ්මිත ජනකය. එපමණක් නොව ඔහු අන්ද මන්දව හැසිරෙන දකුණේ සිංහල පක්ෂ නායකයන්ටද සරදම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/22)
ආගමට මුවාවී බලයට එන්න කැස කවන ඩින් ඩියම්ලා
(වියට්නාමයේ ක්වාන් ඩක් හිමි සිරුරට ගිනි තබාගත් අවස්ථාව) 1963 ජූනි මස 11 වැනි දින උදෑසන වියට්නාමයේ සයිගොන් නුවර ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයට ඉතා නුදුරු ස්ථානයකට ඔස්ටින් වෙස්ට්මිනිස්ටර් වර්ගයේ මෝටර් රථයක් මැදි කරගෙන භික්ෂූන් සහ භික්ෂුනීන් වහන්සේලා පෙරටුකරගත් පෙරහැරක් පැමිණියේය. ක්වාන් ඩක් හිමියන් මුලින්ම මෝටර් රථයෙන් බිමට බට අතර තවත් හිමි නමක් මෝටර් රථයෙන් බිමට බැස බිම වාඩි වීමට හැකි ආකාරයේ කුෂනයක් මහා මාර්ගයේ මැද තැබුවේය. කාරයෙන් බිමට බට තවත් හිමි නමක් එහි ඩිකියෙන් පෙට්රෝල් කෑනයක් එළියට ගත්තේය. පෙරහරේ පැමිණි අනෙක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/22)
SRI LANKA: ICITAP CONDUCTS FORENSIC INTERVIEWING TRAINING FOR SRI LANKAN COUNTERPARTS
From November 14 to 18, ICITAP conducted two, two-day training programs regarding Forensic Interviewing training to forty (40) male and female officers from the Sri Lankan Police Women & Children’s Bureau who are responsible for conducting investigations involving child abuse, eight (8) Attorney General’s Department Child Abuse Unit prosecutors and seven (7) representatives from the Child Protection Force (a civil society child advocacy group). Two instructors from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) delivered the training, one of whom is a forensic interview specialist with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/22)
Indo-Sri Lankan Relations Hit A Snag: Absence Of Reciprocity Irks New Delhi – Analysis
Indo-Sri Lankan relations are currently in the doldrums. The bonhomie seen in the early stages of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka when India rushed US$ 4 billion worth of fuel, food and medicines, is now missing. Apparently, New Delhi is deeply aggrieved that while accepting Indian largesse, Sri Lanka has not shown due regard for India’s economic, political and strategic concerns. Colombo has not followed up on important economic, strategic and political agreements already entered into by the two countries. Perhaps this is the reason... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/22)
Tamil Talks Doomed To Fail From The Start?
Revisiting his proposal to hold power-devolution talks with the Tamil parties after the conclusion of budgetary processes in Parliament in the first half of December, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has since advised/appealed to them, ‘not to place hurdles’ before even meeting them once. Else, they might end up regretting once again that they had ‘’missed one more opportunity’’, he has said. Given his vast and varied experience as a parliamentarian for 45 years and association with the Tamil political leaders, especially those from the TNA, Wickremesinghe was obviously referring to the TNA’s pre-conditions... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/12/22)
Shackles on Development
This is a season for scapegoating. Aragalaya blames Gota for all the ills in the economy and called for his resignation and demanded that both Gota and MR must go. Later they added Ranil to the list of expulsions. Maithree swears that only an all-party govt can find a solution. Minister Wijedasa thinks that without a legal solution no economic solution can be found. The JVP and FSP insist that the solution must be extraconstitutional. All these snake oil vendors claim that a solution to the present economic crisis is in only their prescriptions. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Visionary Leaders
There is a misconception that a nation’s leader cannot singlehandedly build a country for it to become rich and prosperous. The writer states that a visionary leader alone (of course with the support of his/her chosen team) can transform a country from utter poverty to utmost prosperity, within a matter of few years. We have seen this happened in some countries. One of our prominent political parties states that if they are elected to power a council of professionals numbering about 6 will advise each and every cabinet minister. According to them... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Sri Lankans falling prey to Pyramid racket called Onmaxdt
-The Chairman of Onmaxdt organization was a Sri Lankan expatriate in Australia Dan Basnayake from Kandy -Attempts to contact several officials of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to seek clarification in this regard failed Many Sri Lankans have fallen prey to a surreptitiously carried out Ponzi Scam run by a purportedly Australian Company Onmaxdt, it is learned. A source at the Onmaxdt scheme said senior Government officials, leading businessmen, Police officers and ordinary people from several areas of the country were among its members and that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
අධ්යාපනය කඩා වැටෙන්නේ සෙස් බද්දෙන් විතරක් නෙවෙයි
https://youtu.be/s-sIj3hsB5k... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Lanka can be made a regional hub for education - President
Addressing parliament a short while ago, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that Sri Lanka can be made a regional hub for education... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
GoSL & Diplomatic Community is going behind TNA/ITAK which hardly has 2% of Tamil mandate
How many would agree that the views of Tamils in Sri Lanka has been hijacked by parties like ITAK & its umbrella group TNA? With 2.2million registered Tamils (of which many are registered but living overseas) why is it that the TNA/ITKA hardly get even 1/3 of their vote? Can ITAK & TNA make demands claiming their demands are what the Tamil people want. Should GoSL peddle newest “solution” District Development Council as a stepping stone to federate Sri Lanka? Before the GoSL venture into anything without thinking, they should address the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
What happened to us. What is the way ahead
Once Nicholas Kristof, Jakarta correspondent for The New York Times, wrote of what happened to Suharto, the President of Indonesia: “What overthrew Suharto was not a guerrilla insurgency, but a conspiracy of far more subversives – capitalism, markets and globalisation; Suharto’s sleuths never figured how to handcuff them (Herald International Tribune) That is exactly what happened to President Gotabhaya of Sri Lanka.. Perhaps what I wrote in January 2022, tells us what has to be done Way ahead for Lankan economy Published 11 months ago on 2022/01/7 ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
TO MY MIND…. Part 1
To my mind, said one writer, the most important question to be resolved is whether this Country is to be regarded as a Sinhala Buddhist State where all the other ethnic, religious groups are treated as guests, or as a multi- ethnic- multi-religious, secular country where all citizens have equal rights. The above statement contains the following keywords‘ Sinhala, ‘Buddhist’, ‘state’, ‘secular’ ‘ethnic’,’ religion’ ‘multi- ethnic/multi-religious’ ‘citizens’ and ‘rights’ . SINHALA The word Sinhala has an important place in Sri Lanka. It is the name of the island Sihaladvipa, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Ethnic Problem is a Beggar’s Wound That Never Heals
Amidst the economic crisis racist politics has raised its ugly head once again. Instead of addressing the problems of 22 million people, tribal politicians want special treatment for their tribe of 3.5 million people. In order to perform their extortion racket, they are still using the ethnic problem begging bowl. The so-called ethnic problem is a beggar’s wound and it will never heal. Scientific evidence proves it and Sri Lanka’s historical evidence on the matter also proves it. The more the monster is fed, the more demanding it becomes. Greed Was the Root Cause... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
ශ්රී ලංකාවට අඛණ්ඩව සහය දෙන බවට ලෝක බැංකුවෙන් සහතිකයක්..
රටේ ආර්ථික තත්ත්වය ලිහිල් කිරීම සඳහා රජය ගෙන ඇති කෙටිකාලීන ක්රියාමාර්ග පිළිබඳව තෘප්තිමත් වන බව ලෝක බැංකුව සඳහන් කරයි. ලෝක බැංකුවේ මෙරට අධ්යක්ෂ චියෝ කන්දා (Chiyo Kanda) මහත්මිය ඇතුළු නියෝජිත පිරිසක් 2022/11/29 කොළඹ, අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී වත්මන් ආර්ථික අර්බුදයෙන් රට ගොඩ ගැනීමට ගෙන ඇති නව මූල්ය සහ අනෙකුත් ප්රතිසංස්කරණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කරනු ලැබීය. අඛණ්ඩ මධ්යකාලීන හා දිගු කාලීන ප්රයත්නයන්ගේ අවශ්යතාවය ද ලෝක බැංතු නියෝජිතයින් අවධාරණය කළ අතර මූල්ය සහ අනෙකුත් ප්රතිසංස්කරණ ඉක්මනින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය හා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව මගින් සම්මත කර ගැනීමට හැකි වනු ඇතැයි විශ්වාසය පලකළේය. ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගත කිරීමේ වැඩසටහන හොඳ ප්රගතියක් අත්කරගෙන ඇති අතර අන්තර්ජාතික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
ආර්ය අෂ්ටාංගික මාර්ගය තුලින් ලොවට දායාදකල නාම රූප පරිච්ඡේදය
කාමසුඛල්ලිකානුයෝගයත් (සක්කාය දිට්ටිය) අත්තකිලමථානුයෝගයත් (සීලබ්බතයක්වූ සීලයත්) තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ ප්රකික්ෂේප කල අතර දුකින් මිදෙන මාර්ගය ලෙස හදුන්වා දුන්නේ මධ්යම ප්රතිපදාව වන ‘නාම රූප පරිච්ඡේදය’යි නැතහොන් ආර්ය අෂ්ටාංගික මාර්ගයෙන් ප්රකටවන ‘නාමයෙන් මිදීමයි’ අදටත් සමහර දේශකයන් තමන් පැටලී ඇති ධර්මය අනුන්ටද පැටලවීමේ අපේක්ෂාවෙන් තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ දේශනාකල සරල සුන්දර දහම විවිධ දෘශ්ඨීන් වල එල්බ දේශනාකරයි. ඹවුන් ආර්ය අෂ්ටාංගික මාර්ගය ලෞකික ලෝකෝත්තර වශයෙන් දෙකොටසකට බෙදා තම තමුන්ගේ දෘශ්ඨි කෝණයන්ගෙන් විග්රහකරයි. ‘ඒකායන මග්ගෝ’ වූ මධ්යම ප්රතිපදාවේ ගැබ්වී ඇත්තේ නාම රූප පරිච්ඡේදය නැතහොත් ‘නාමය වෙන් කොට දකිනා ආකාරය’ මිස වෙනත් දහමක් නොවේ. අම්මා හෝ දරුවා ලෙස සිතේ මායාවක් සේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Vladimir Putin’s Vision of a Multipolar World -An end to US hegemony?
In history books as well as in politics every story is shaped by where one chooses to begin the tale. The current fighting in Ukraine, which many observers believe to already be what might be considered the opening phase of World War 3, is just such a development. Did the seeds of conflict arise subsequent to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s consent to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 after having received a commitment from the United States and its allies not to advance the West’s military alliance NATO into Eastern... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
HOMOEOPATHY Series 1
In response article in my blog 'tilaksblog.com' when Covid-19 implications were at their Peak, the writer received a detailed description of homoeopathy from Dhiru Nathwani at rogers.com, which opened the eyes of those who are sceptical about Homoeopathy. Dr Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843 A.D.), a German physician, chemist and linguist, gave up his practice of medicine, being disgusted with the medical treatments of his day. He then earned his living by translating medical textbooks. While solving a book written by William Cullen (a physician of great repute in his time), Hahnemann came... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Government should walk the talk
The article below promoted me to write this An investor who wanted to build a marina and a yacht boat building and repair yard near a harbour had to face the following difficulties Get Local authority approval for blocking out a plan of the land Submit seeking preliminary approval request to UDA who gives approval with conditions Getting No Objection from Port Authority Fisheries Ministry CCD CEA Local traffic Authority MEPA Ministry of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Are ‘clients’ of irrigation projects (farmers) dying of diseases caused by agrochemicals?
Engineer Madinda Panapitiya (MP), writing about “Using existing resources for agri-food sector in Mahaweli areas” in The Island (30-11-2022) makes a number of claims and suggestions. 1. One such claim is that “the main clients of irrigation projects (farmers)” are “dying of diseases caused by indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals”? This is an unsubstantiated claim propagated from at least 2011, as seen from a discussion in the Kalaya website of Dr. Nalin de Silva where he claims precedence to Ven. Ratana in fear-mongering, stating that “Sri Lanka’s food is poisoned by arsenic and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Use existing resources for agri-food sector in Mahaweli areas
As originally planned, the present phase of the Mahaweli Project should be focused on social and economic development of the families settled in Mahaweli areas. It could be done by promoting food production in a sustainable way, to gain the return on investment of capital cost incurred on the infrastructure constructed for delivering water to fertile lands in the dry zone. The potential available in lands under Mahaweli Project, which cover about 1/3 of farming areas of the Dry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
SLPP dissidents ask govt. to bring back USD 35 bn ‘parked’ overseas-underscore need to amend Exchange Control Act
MP Gevindu Cumaratunga, who represents the SLPP dissidents, yesterday (27) alleged that the incumbent government was yet to bring enough pressure to bear on those who had parked as much as USD 36 billion overseas to bring the money back.Cumaratunga said the government’s failure to amend the Exchange Control Act No 12 of 2017 should be examined against the backdrop of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Budget proposal to draw more loans in 2023. The leader of the civil society group Yuthukama, Cumaratunga, who represents the Uththara Lanka Sabhagaya, one of the breakaway factions of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
Sri Lanka will get finances once IMF program is in place - Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy (English)
https://youtu.be/fhqEGzOoKTA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
‘We need to continue moving in this direction’ – CBSL Governor
The stabilisation and recovery of the country’s economy is currently the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s (CBSL) key objective, CBSL Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said. Speaking at the International Conference on the Roadmap for Economic Recovery of Sri Lanka held in Colombo today (Nov 30), he attributed the ongoing economic crisis to an imbalance in macroeconomics such as large fiscal deficits and debt standstills. Acknowledging the hike in inflation rates, Weerasinghe stated that although they rose to 70% last month, inflation rates are currently on a downward trend, thus preventing the hyperinflation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
President Ranil says outcome of COP27 summit is discouraging
President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the agreements reached at COP27 have once again failed to place the nations of the world on a complementary and progressive course of redress. In a statement issued on Tuesday (Nov 29), the Head of State attributed the biggest obstacle to success to politicisation and stagnation. “The outcome of the Summit is discouraging.” https://youtu.be/d7wux70jXMM President Wickremesinghe, who participated in the COP 27 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt earlier this month, was critical of the countries that were historically accountable for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
District Development Committees will NOT replace Provincial Councils
Media reports claiming the President is planning to establish District Development Committees instead of Provincial Councils are false. Recent media reports attributing a quote to the President stating that the Provincial Councils will be replaced with the District Development Committees is incorrect. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s response in Parliament yesterday (29) has been reported by several media in such a way that the meaning is distorted. During the ongoing Parliamentary budget debate responding to a statement by MP Maithripala Sirisena the President stated that the District Development Committees (DDCs) will be established... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/12/22)
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