Archive for March, 2019
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
ලංකා ගුරුසේවා සංගමය – Ceylon Teachers’ Services UnionSenaka Mahinda Jayasinghe 2019. 03. 28 ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ගරු අධ්යාපන අමාත්ය, අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මහතා, අධ්යාපන අමාත්යංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්යතුමණි, ග්රාමීය පාසල් දරුවන්ගේ අධ්යාපනය වෙනුවෙන් කැපවන ගුරු, විදුහල්පති දුෂ්කර දීමනා සම්බන්ධවයි දුෂ්කර ග්රාමීය පාසල් වල සේවයේ නියුතු ගුරුවරුන්ට හා විදුහල්පතිවරුන්ට මේ වන විට මසකට ගෙවනු ලබන රු: 1500 […]
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Thursday, March 28th, 2019
අද (28) දින පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුව නැවතත් ජාතික ආන්ඩුවක් බිහිවන සලකුණක්වත් නැහැ ශ්රී දරන්ට අවශ්ය කෙනා අපේ ජනාධිපති අපෙක්ෂකයා වෙන්නේ නැහැ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජානක වක්කුඹුර මහතා ජිනීවා හි තානාපති අෂීස් මහතා නැවතත් 30-1 යෝජනාවට අත්සන් කර නැවත වරක් මේ රට පාවාදෙන බව අපි පහුගිය කාලයේ දිගින් දිගටම ප්රකාශ කළා. වත්මන් මුදල් ඇමැතිවරයා විදේශ ඇමැතිවරයා සමයේදි […]
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Thursday, March 28th, 2019
BY MAJORIE CHIEW Courtesy Star2 Bhante Saranapala has a bigger dream. He said: One day, I hope there will be United Kindful Nations (something like a United Nations).” Photo: The Star/ Chan Tak KongPEOPLEHomePeople Four years ago, a Facebook post of a group of Canadian police officers sitting in a lotus position, alongside a Buddhist […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Bond scam saga is not over. It is still going on and looks as though it will go on forever. Those responsible, such as former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran and his son in law Arjun Aloysius have not been arrested and the matter is still pending. There is no sign of […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
UN News UN Photo/Violaine MartinMichelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressing the Human Rights Council on the state of global human rights, 6 March, 2019. The UN’s top rights official on Wednesday rejected claims by Sri Lankan officials that she distanced herself from a report on the country and instructed her staff to […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Courtesy ABC News Sri Lanka’s president has distanced himself from the government’s co-sponsorship of a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council giving the island nation two more years to fulfil its commitment to investigate alleged abuses during its civil war Sri Lanka’s president distanced himself on Wednesday from the […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island While appreciating Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya’s article on the present power crisis appearing in The Island of 25.03.2019, I would like to fill in some gaps in his article and also make some comments on the President’s statement about the power crisis as appearing in the media on the […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
By Dinasena Ratugamage Courtesy The Island Former Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa should stop dreaming of the executive presidency because the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) would ensure that he would never secure it, TNA Kilinochchi District MP, S. Shritharan told media yesterday. The TNA would also not allow Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa to become the President, […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) says the controversy surrounding the proposed USD 3.85 billion oil refinery in Mirijjawila, Hambantota, could have a negative impact on Sri Lanka’s efforts to remove itself from the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) ‘Grey List’ of countries vulnerable to money laundering and terrorism financing. The main investor in […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
lanka C news March 28, 2019 at 3:30 am | lanka C news පසුගිය දා හම්බන්තොට මිරිජ්ජවිල දී මුල්ගල් තැබූ තෙල්පිරිපහදු ව්යාපෘතියේ ප්රධාන ආයෝජකයා වන සිල්වර්පාක් ඉන්ටර්නැෂනල් පුද්ගලික සමාගම තිබෙන්නේ ආමර් වීදිය ප්රදේශයේ බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. පාර්ලමේන්තුවේ දී ඔහු මේ බව පැවසීය. හම්බන්තොට තෙල් පිරිපහදුවකට මුල් ගල තිබ්බා. ජාත්යන්තර මාධ්යයක් කිව්වා […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS BAMBALAPITIYA FLATS The cabinet has approved a multi-million dollar project to replace the Bambalapitiya Flats, a significant landmark in Colombo, lying on very valuable land. A plan was, floated in 2014 to redevelop the ten-acre land on which the Bambalapitiya flats now stand. UTL Global Projects registered in Singapore made the proposal. A […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Traffic congestion, in the Colombo city, cost around one billion rupees a day, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka told Parliament, yesterday.Participating in third reading of the budget debate under the expenditure heads of the Ministries of Transport and Civil Aviation and Ports and Shipping, the Minister said that the […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS REVISED 2.4.19 This essay is a follow up of the matters discussed in the first essay. It is confined to happenings in 2017 and 2018. NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD The head of the National Identity Card division was to be removed from office for opposing a racket, said Campaign for Free and Fair Elections […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන විදුලි අර්බුදය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපි කණගාටු වෙනවා. ලංකාවේ විදුලි බල පද්ධතියෙන් ජනනය කළ හැකි සම්පූර්ණ විදුලි ධාරිතාව මෙගාවොට් 4000යි. සියලුම අංශ උපරිමයෙන් ක්රියාතම්ක වුනොත් ජලවිදුලියෙන් මෙගාවොට් 1700යි. ගල් අගුරුවලින් මෙගාවොට් 900යි. තෙල්වලින් මෙගාවොට් 1200කුත් අනෙකුත් පරිසරකාමි විදුලි ජනක ක්රමවලින් මෙගාවොට් 200ක් විදියටයි මේ මෙගාවොට් 4000 නිෂ්පාදනය වෙන්නේ. අපි නොරොච්චෝලේ විදුලි බලාගාරය […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
සමස්ත ලංකා සුවසේවා සංගමය. – All Ceylon Health Services Union.ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ඌව පළාත් සභාවට අයත් රෝහල් හා සෞඛ්ය ආයතනයන් හි සේවය කරනු ලබන සෞඛ්ය කාර්යය මණ්ඩලයන් විසින් නිම කර ඇති අති කාල දීමනා අඩු කර ගෙවීමටත්, ගෙවිය යුතු ගමන් වියදම් සීමා කර ගෙවීමටත්,අලුත් අවුරුදු අත්තිකාරම් මදල් අපේ්රල් මස 11 වන දින ගෙවීමටත් ඌව පළාත් පරිපාලනය […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
හසිත මානන්දුව ලේකම්. විධායක සභාව සහ බහුතර සාමාජිකයින්ගේ කැමැත්ත සහ ඉල්ලීම මත වෙබ් මාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ ජාතික ව්යාපාරය සමුහිකව විසුරුවා හරින බව මෙයින් දැනුම් දෙමි. වෙබ් සහ සමාජජාල මාධ්යය තහනමට ලක්වූ අවස්ථාවේදී මෙරට මාධ්ය නිදහස වෙනුවෙන් ඉතා සක්රීයව සහ වේගවත්ව ක්රියාත්මක වූ වෙබ් මාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ ජාතික ව්යාපාරය කලක් නිහඬ සහ අක්රීයව පැවතීමත්, ඇතැම් ඉහළ නිලධාරීන්ගේ විනිවිදභාවයෙන් තොර ක්රියාකලාපයත්, පටු […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC The Thripitakabhivandana Week in the US that continued from 16th – 24th March 2019 under the patronage of four Sri Lankan Buddhist Temples in Washington and Maryland came to a close with the completion of religious events at Nisala Arana Buddhist Monastery and Mahamewnawa Meditation Center in Maryland on […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
by P. WEERASEKERA Courtesy The Island The issue of mass graves in Mannar continues to remain an inconclusive hot topic, despite the radio carbon dating analysis report received from the Beta Analytic Testing Laboratory in Florida, USA., which cleared the Sri Lanka Army of responsibility, by declaring the skeletal remains referred to the Laboratory pre-dates […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island UPFA MP Dullas Alahapperuma on Monday (March 25) said that the denial of a visa to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka to attend the United Nations was as wrong as denying Lt. Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu an opportunity to visit Geneva, Switzerland. The Switzerland embassy, in Colombo, denied a visa to […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt burden had increased by over Rs 626 billion due to the depreciation of the rupee against the US dollar between January 2015 and November 2017, Parliament was told yesterday. State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne revealed this in answer to a question posed by […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
By Umesh Moramudali Courtesy The Diplomat In the aftermath of political turmoil, Sri Lanka’s government will be hard-pressed to manage debt and growth in 2019. Following one of the most dramatic political crises in the recent history of South Asia, Sri Lanka’s government budget for 2019 was approved by the majority of the parliament on March 12. […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Courtesy onemileatatime.com I’m a big fan of countries eliminating barriers to entry, whether that comes in the form of removing the hassle or cost associated with visiting. Over the past few months we’ve seen quite a few countries shake up their visa requirements, both for better and worse. It looks like the latest country to […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
By Prof. Tissa Vitarana Courtesy Ceylon Today The 2019 Budget comes as the last one of this Government. The people have experienced four years of an ‘open market economy’ and practically everyone in different walks of life complain that they feel dissatisfied, find it difficult to work and live the way they did before and […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A heated argument erupted in Parliament yesterday between Hambantota District UPFA Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa and Deputy Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Nalin Bandara over the Hambantota-Oman Oil Refinery. Speaking during the committee stage debate in the House, MP Rajapaksa said the cabinet had given the approval for the project […]
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardene Courtesy The Daily Mirror Opposition MP Sarath Amunugama, who was a member of the Sri Lankan delegation to the UNHRC, told Parliament today that Sri Lanka did not agree to a time frame to implement what it promised through the resolution adopted in Geneva. We told the UNHRC that we […]
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
TNA the party created by LTTE is making a lot of sound of late. It’s a pity that there is no political party or leaders with spine to commence investigation into LTTE-TNA links, afterall LTTE remains banned and TNA was created by LTTE. There is much that TNA must answer and there are many that […]
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
By Charles.S.Perera On the 26th October,2018 President Sirisena sacked his Prime Monster Ranil Wickramasinghe and appointed Mahinda Rajapakse as his Prime Minister. What was his motive ? Was it because he had no other solution or was it because he regretted what he did in November 2014 by leaving the SLFP to become the Common […]
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When Sri Lanka had a lean time in tourist arrivals during war time, locals were treated with arms extended by the staff of all hotels in Sri Lanka. Brownies are not well treated by the brownie managers as the hotel is collecting dollars .from foreigners . Now that tourism is booming, many […]
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
අද (25) දින මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු නියෝජිතයින් මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී රෝහිත අබේවර්ධන මහතා 2015 ජනවාරි 8 වැනිදා ඉදන් මේ වනතුරු ආන්ඩුව රටට එක මෙගාවොට් එකක් එකතු කරන වැඩපිීලවෙලක් හැදුවද. මේ ආන්ඩුව නොහැකියවේ ආන්ඩුවක්. මිනිස්සුන්ට දෙන්න තියෙන දසවද දුන්න ආණ්ඩුව සිංහල අවුරුද්ද කලුවරේ සමරන්න සලස්වුවා. මේ ආන්ඩුව හවස 7 – 8 […]
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Monday, March 25th, 2019
තක්ෂක හේමචන්ද්ර ගරු විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්යතුමාගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම් විද්යා තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්යාංශය යටතේ ක්රියාත්මක වන නවීන තාක්ෂණ පිළිබඳ ආතර් සී. ක්ලාක් මධ්යස්ථානය විසින් චීන රජයේ සහයෝගය ඇතිව පෘථිවි නිරීක්ෂණ චන්ද්රිකා දත්ත ලබාගැනීම සහ බෙදාහැරීම සඳහා වන ජාතික මධ්යස්ථානයක් ස්ථාපනය කිරීමට පියවර ගනිමින් තිබේ. ඒ සඳහා ආතර් සී. ක්ලාක් ආයතනය සහ චීනයේ දුරස්ථ […]
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