Archive for February, 2021
Sunday, February 28th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS Bandaranaike had advocated an independent foreign policy for Sri Lanka long before he became Prime Minister. In 1952, Bandaranaike speaking in Parliament during the debate on the Throne speech said that Sri Lanka has so far failed to formulate a well defined and independent foreign policy. Sri Lanka should play an important and […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Dr. SARATH GAMINI De SILVA Courtesy The Island The annual patriotic taunts and the laments of the majority are heard as the day of reckoning approaches in Geneva. We are shouting ourselves hoarse, complaining that the whole world is ganging up against the brave Sri Lankans, to punish them for eliminating the most brutal terrorist […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
By Ama H. Vanniarachchy Since the Department of Archaeology began exploration and excavation work in the Northern areas of the island, it has been the talk of the town. There were some incidents which stirred up some controversy, starting from arguments about the identity of these ancient monasteries and the true inheritance of them. One […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
The Jaipur Dialogues
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Courtesy Wire India has said the update lacked ‘objectivity and impartiality’. United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet. Photo: Twitter/UNGeneva New Delhi: United Nations Human Rights commissioner Michele Bachelet raised the farmers’ protests, sedition charges against journalists and curbing of social media in an update to the Human Rights Council on Friday, February 27. In her […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Times of India NEW DELHI: India and UN human rights chief < .. Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/81237179.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අම්බලන්ගොඩ සිරි විජයාරාම මහා විහාරාධිපති රාජකීය පණ්ඩිත ශාස්ත්රපති අති පූජ්ය අම්බලන්ගොඩ සුධර්ම ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේට අමරපුර සිරි සද්ධම්ම යුක්තික මාතර මහා නිකායේ අනුනායක ධූරය පිරිනැමීමේ අක්ත්ර පත්රය ප්රදානය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.02.28 දින පස්වරුවේ පැවැත්විණි. මෙම අක්ත්ර පත්රය පිළිගැන්වීමේ උත්සවය අම්බලන්ගොඩ, හිරේවත්ත සිරි විජයාරාම මහා විහාරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. අමරපුර […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකා අමරපුර මහ නිකායේ චූලගණ්ඨි පාර්ශවයීය සංඝසභා මූලස්ථාන ගොඩනැගිල්ලට ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද 2021.02.28 දින පස්වරුවේ වැලිතර පුෂ්පාරාම විහාරස්ථානයේ දී මුල්ගල් තැබුවේය. මෙහිදී ඤණතිලක ප්රභා” සමරු ග්රන්ථය ශ්රී ලංකා අමරපුර මහ නිකායේ චූලගණ්ඨි පාර්ශවයේ මහානායක, ශ්රී ලංකා අමරපුර මහ නිකායේ සභාපති හා වැඩබලන උත්තරීතර මහානායක ගන්තුනේ අස්සජි මහනාහිමි විසින් […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Veemansa Initiative, Veemansa Initiatives’ discussion on ‘external debt situation in Sri Lanka; Are we heading for a resolution or crisis?’. The Governor Central Bank is confident all debt obligations will be met. – The Central Bank Governor affirms the government’s commitment and ability to honor all debt obligations. – Sri Lanka to mobilize domestic […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Senaka Weeraratna Dr. Hans Wolfgang Schumann is a German Buddhist. He is a well known Buddhist scholar and chronicler of the history of Buddhism in Germany. Born on January 31, 1928, Dr. Hans Wolfgang Schumann died on June 26th, 2019 in Bonn. In a seminal article on the state of Buddhism in Germany, ‘ Buddhism […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardena says that the leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Rauff Hakeem is directly responsible for the split in the party. He was addressing a meeting of UNP district representatives. The Polonnaruwa District Representative Meeting of the United National Party was held today and the party members […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another”– Homer- Illiad (Deciet) The United States is fully committed to the universal protection and promotion of human rights” – Antony Blinken- US Secretary of State -Video Message to 46th UNHRC […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Dr Nihal Jayawickrama Courtesy The Island I grew up, spending my childhood, adolescence and early adult life, in the home of a judge who ended his judicial career as head of the country’s highest court. I also had the enviable experience of serving as his private secretary sometime between my graduation and entry into the […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Director-General of Health Services today (February 28) confirmed 07 new COVID-related fatalities in Sri Lanka. The new development has pushed the country’s death toll from the virus outbreak to 471, Department of Government Information said. Details of the deceased are as follows: 01. A 56-year-old man from Kurunegala area – He was under […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka registered 148 more positive cases of COVID-19 today (February 28) as total novel coronavirus infections reported within the day reached 352. Department of Government Information says 346 of today’s cases are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda cluster. Four others were detected from the prison cluster and the […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala The Tamil people followed Velupillai Prabhakaran blindly because he promised to deliver Eelam. The gains of the initial military adventures of the LTTE also made him look like the messiah who could fulfil their dream. But he took them for a ride – the biggest in the history of the Tamils […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. People in Sri Lanka see the current ‘Geneva debacle’ of UNHRC/OHCHR as a tug of war between a handful of white ex-colonial masters and the past and present Rajapaksa governments, with India hopelessly caught in between. However, when we try to unravel this Geneva game from a historical perspective, it becomes […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala All sensible adult citizens of Sri Lanka confidently hope that today’s youthful politicians will realise the importance of working together with their rivals in the national interest while maintaining their separate political identities, because, in the final analysis, all politicians of whatever party or faction they are affiliated to have no […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය නෝනාගම වෝටර් පාර්ක් ජල උද්යානය ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් අද 2021.02.27 දින පස්වරුවේ විවෘත කරනු ලැබුවේය. දකුණු පළාත් පරිසර අමාත්යංශය, රුහුණු සංචාරක කාර්යංශය සහ අම්බලන්තොට ප්රාදේශීය සභාවේ අරමුදල් සහ සම්පත් යොදා ගනිමින් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 58ක වියදමෙන් මෙම ජල උද්යානය නිම කර තිබේ. අම්බලන්තොට ප්රාදේශීය සභාවේ සභාපති එම්.ආර්.පී දර්ශන සංජීව මහතාගේ […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික්කයේ ශාසනාරක්ෂක මණ්ඩල යතිවර අභිමන් උපහාර උළෙල-2021 ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.02.27 දින පස්වරුවේ පැවැත්විණි. හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික් ලේකම් කාර්යාල ශ්රවණාගාරයේ දී පැවැති මෙම උත්සවයේ දී හම්බන්තොට ශාසනාරක්ෂක මණ්ඩලයේ හිමිවරු හත් නමකට අග්රාමාත්යතුමා අතින්ද අනෙකුත් හිමිවරුන්ට මැති ඇමැතිවරු ඇතුළු සම්භාවනීය අමුත්තන් අතින්ද උපහාර ප්රදානය කෙරිණි. වසර හතරකට ආසන්න කාලයක් […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම” ප්රතිපත්තියට අනුව අපනයන කෘෂි කලාප ඇති කිරීමේ ජාතික වැඩසටහන ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද 2021.02.27 දින පෙරවරුවේ ඓතිහාසික කසාගල රජමහා විහාරස්ථානයේ දී ආරම්භ විය. රට පුරා කෘෂි අපනයන ගම්මාන හෝ කලාප පිහිටුවීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙල යටතේ හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික් කෘෂි අපනයන ගම්මානය/කලාපය ට ආරම්භය තබමින් අග්රාමාත්යතුමා ටීජේසී අඹ පැළයක් සිටවූයේය. අනතුරුව […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ලංකාවෙන් කුරුඳු සිගරැට්ටුවක් ලෝක වෙළෙඳපොළට හඳුන්වා දීමට මේ වනවිට සියල්ල සූදානම් කර ඇතැයි වාර්තා වෙයි. මේ නිසාල බහු ජාතික දුම්වැටි සමාගම් කලබල වී ඇති අතර මෙම නිෂ්පාදනය එළි දැක්වීමට බාධා එල්ල කරමින් තිබෙන බව අනාවරණය වේ. මෙම කුරුඳු සිගරැට්ටු නිපදවීම සඳහා වසර 06 ක පමණ කාලයක් වෙහෙස මහන්සි වී තිබෙන […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
Courtesy The Wire India has a national position against resolutions targeting a single country in multilateral bodies. But, with regard to Sri Lanka, India’s record has been varied, as domestic political factors often dictated its voting decision. New Delhi: Indicating that New Delhi has kept all options open, India has signalled to Sri Lanka that its […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
By Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today It is getting clearer that as far as foreign policy is concerned the change of administration in the United States of America (USA) has no significant impact, at least with regard to the Indian Ocean Region or Asia-Pacific. The Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that the Biden Administration had […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Guidelines for the Circular permitting burial of bodies of COVID-19 victims has been drafted, says Director-General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardena. He added that locations for the burial of COVID victims will be identified within 3 – 4 days. Drafting of guidelines was completed after the committee of experts appointed to examine […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has registered 205 more positive cases of Covid-19 today (February 27), the Ministry of Health confirmed. Thereby, Sri Lanka has detected 425 new positive cases of COVID-19 within the day. As per statistics, the total number of Covid-19 infections confirmed so far in the country now stands at 82,855. Recoveries from […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
Today Sri Lanka, Tomorrow Your Country”is the message that countries of the Global South must internalize from the intrusive nature of the OHCHR Report and unprecedented precedents attempted to take place via Global North backed Resolutions using the UNHRC as puppet. When UNHRC head boldly reads out reports condemning the national judiciary, the national laws, […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
Senaka Weeraratna The Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is fundamentally an anti – Sri Lanka document. It is a biased and shameful report which is totally one sided. Not a semblance of fairness. One would not expect the Spanish Inquisition to return to the UN in the 21st century with total […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මෙවර රාජ්ය වෙසක් උත්සවය උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත් මුල්කරගනිමින් නාගදීප රජ මහා විහාරය කේන්ද්ර කොට පැවැත්වීමට බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්ය හා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ 2021.02.25 දින පස්වරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී උපදෙස් දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල විහාරස්ථාන 65ක් හා දහම් පාසල් 35ක් සම්බන්ධ කරගනිමින් මෙවර රාජ්ය […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 26: India has told the UNHRC’s on-going 46 th.session in Geneva that the full implementation of the 13 th. Amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution, which provides for devolution of power to the provinces, is the way to bring about ethnic reconciliation in the country. The Indian Ambassador to […]
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