Archive for January 10th, 2021
Sunday, January 10th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala I like reading Prof. Kumar David’s (KD) column in the Sunday Island, even though the contents lean heavily towards Marxist mantras which have passed its used-by-date long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. What grabbed my attention was last Sunday’s (2/1/21) column which was a foray into English literature. As […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
C. Wijeyawickrema, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.A., Ph.D. Dear Mr. Austin Fernando: Thank you very much for your response (Jan. 2) to my previous essay titled, Attempts to exhume the provincial council cadaver: a reply to Mr. Austin Fernando,” (Lankaweb, Dec. 31). However, I am not happy with your decision to stop our exchange, because it […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS USA does not have a good human rights record and it does not care either. In the domestic sphere, US has the largest prison population in the world, mainly drug users, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate. 3000 odd were on death row in 2016. 2.3 millions American were behind bars. Many adults […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE This column focuses on local politics. As opposed to global affairs. However, ‘local-global’ is, as sociologists would point out, a false dichotomy. What happens or rather can happen here is by and large determined by overarching global political and economic structures. Local affairs don’t always shape global processes unless the particular ‘local’ enjoys […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා බලයට පත්වී වසරකි. ඒ කාලය තුලදී එතුමා කිසිවෙක් ඉලක්ක කර කිසිදු ප්රකාශයක් නිකුත් කලේ නැත. ඒ එතුමා සාමාන්ය තලයේ දේශපාලඥයෙකු නොවන බැවිනි. ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, යනු චමල් ජයන්ත, බැසිල් රෝහණ, පර්සි මහින්ද යන නාමදාරි දේශපාලඥයින් අතරම උපත ලද, දේශපාලඥයකු නොවෙන, රට වෙනුවෙන් සටන් කිරීම අරමුණු කරගෙනම මෙලොවට උත්පාදනය කල […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය වයඹ පළාතට අඩුවක්ව පැවති පී.සී.ආර් රසායනාගාරයක අවශ්යතාව වෙනුවෙන් ස්ථාපිත කළ කුරුණෑගල මහ රෝහලේ පී.සී.ආර් රසායනාගාරය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් අද 2021.01.10 දින විවෘත විය. රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 125කට ආසන්න මුදලක් මෙම රසායනාගාරය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට වැයකර තිබේ. ඒ සඳහා රුපියල් ලක්ෂ පනස් හතරක් වටිනා පී.සී.ආර් යන්ත්රය කුරුණෑගල නගරාධිපති තුෂාර සංජීව මහතා විසින් […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කුරුණෑගල පළාත් මහ රෝහල අති නවීන රෝහලක් ලෙස අලුතින්ම ඉදිකර දෙන බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.01.10 දින පැවසීය. පළාත් මහ රෝහලේ හා දිස්ත්රික්කයේ අනෙකුත් රෝහල් ආශ්රිතව පවතින ගැටුලු සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාලයීය ශ්රවණාගාරයේ පැවැති හමුවේදී අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. අලුතින් නව රෝහල ඉදිකර අවසන්වනතුරු අනෙකුත් […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මහා පරිමාණ හා කුඩා පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ ගැටලු විසඳීමට ගරු අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ඊයේ 2021.01.09 දින විෂය භාර රාජ්ය අමාත්ය ඩී. බී. හේරත් මහතාට උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. අන්තර්ජාල සූම් තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ මහා පරිමාණ හා කුඩා පරිමාණ බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදක සංගම් අධ්යක්ෂ මණ්ඩල සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. අභිජනන සතෙකුගේ මිල රුපියල් 220 සිට […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
ලංකා ගුරු සේවා සංගමය විභාග කොමසාරිස්තුමා, විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පැලවත්ත, බත්තරමුල්ල. කොමසාරිස්තුමනි, 2020 අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විභාග රාජකාරි දීමනා කප්පාදු කර ගෙවීම සම්බන්ධව. 2020 අ.පො.ස. උසස් පෙළ විභාගයේ විභාග රාජකාරිවල නිරත වු නිලධාරින්ට අදාල රාජකාරි ස`දහා වන ගෙවීම් සිදු කිරීමේදී විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව දන්වා තිබු පරිදි වවුචර් මගින් ඉල්ලා ඇති මුදල් කප්පාදු කර ගෙවීම් සිදු කර ඇති […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කසාගල පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරාධිපති, ඉහළ දොළොස්පත්තුවේ ද්විතීය අධිකරණ සංඝනායක,පූජ්ය මැල්සිරිපුර විමලරතන නාහිමියන් බැහැ දුටු ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2020.01.09 දින උන්වහන්සේගේ සුව දුක් විමසා බැලුවේය. රජයේ ඉදිරි ශාසනික හා සමාජයීය කටයුතු මෙන්ම කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය හමුවේ ජන ජීවිතය නගා සිටුවීමට රජය ගෙන ඇති ක්රියාමාර්ග සම්බන්ධයෙන් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා මෙහිදී නාහිමියන් දැනුවත් කළේය. ධර්මානුකූල […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Sunil Wimalawansa Myths & Facts f COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 with vitamin D: Application of the knowledge of biology, biochemistry, and physiology of vitamin D for effective control of COVID-19.
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Mattha Busby Courtesy The Guardian The sunshine drug: vitamin D is created in the skin’s lower layers through the absorption of sunlight and plays a central role in immune and metabolic function Photograph: Getty Images It’s cheap, widely available and might help us fend off the virus. So should we all be dosing up on the […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Ten parliamentarians have been identified to have come in close contact with MP Rauff Hakeem at the parliament. Tweeting this morning (10), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader MP Rauff Hakeem stated that he had contracted COVID-19 and that he will be entered into a quarantine facility. He also asked his contacts from […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, January 11 (Daily News): With the Sri Lankan cabinet granting approval to sign an agreement with manufacturers when allocating vaccines through the COVAX facility, vaccination against the dreaded COVID-19 is expected to commence shortly. Sri Lanka has already joined the COVAX facility and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
By Michael Oduor Courtesy aftica news Tanzania has signalled that it is not intending to use any Covid-19 vaccine but instead will settle on local herbs for protection against the disease. Speaking to the EastAfrican Gerald Chamii, a spokesman at the Ministry of Health said, There are no plans in place yet of importing vaccine […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
By Frances Bulathsinghala/ Sunday Observer Colombo, January 10: We are in a new year, nurturing hope for nation and mankind that the Covid-19 health crisis will pass away from our midst. However, judging by reports that there is yet another more virulent strain going around originated from Britain, rationality tells us that it remains a […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
By Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Jon Emont in Singapore/Wall Street Journal Courtesy Ceylon Today Islamabad, January 9 (Wall Street Journal): Governments and religious leaders in Muslim-majority nations are talking to vaccine makers, investigating production processes and issuing guidance in an effort to make sure concerns about products prohibited by Islam don’t interfere with Covid-19 […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Travelradar Today, the Sri Lankan government announced that it will open its international airports once again. Flight operations will start from the 23rd of January of 2021. Foreign travellers visiting the country can now visit 12 of the country’s major tourist attractions once again; The moves comes following months of Coronavirus travel restrictions in […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Ten parliamentarians have been identified to have come in close contact with MP Rauff Hakeem at the parliament. Tweeting this morning (10), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader MP Rauff Hakeem stated that he had contracted COVID-19 and that he will be entered into a quarantine facility. He also asked his contacts from […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister’s Coordinating Secretary for Political Affairs, Kumarasiri Hettige has tested positive for COVID-19. He has reportedly visited the parliament on Friday (January 08) and several staff members of the Leader of the House have been identified as close contacts of Mr Hettige. Sergeant-at-Arms of Parliament Narendra Fernando said his close contacts and […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services has confirmed three more COVID-19 related fatalities in the country. The new development has brought the death toll from the virus to 232, according to the Department of Government Information. One of the victims was identified as a 62-year-old inmate who was incarcerated at the Negombo Prison. He was […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The head of the World Health Organization says there is a clear problem” that low- and middle-income countries are not yet receiving supplies of COVID-19 vaccines and urged countries to stop striking bilateral deals with manufacturers. Rich countries have the majority of the supply,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in strongly-worded comments […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 236 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 236 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 536 new cases have been reported within […]
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