Archive for June 14th, 2021
Monday, June 14th, 2021
S. AKURUGOA As per the media reports, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), under a special team, has been tasked with investigating those who are misleading the public by spreading false propaganda on social media. Police Spokesman DIG Rohana has said it is an offence punishable under Section 98 of the Police Ordinance, that if anyone […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The main charge against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC is that they deliberately killed thousands of civilians in the last phase of Eelam War IV. Rajiva Wijesinha was Secretary-General of the Sri Lankan Government Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) from 2007–2009. In that capacity Rajiva had access to war data. Rajiva […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් දකුණු හා මධ්යම පළාත් හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර 2010 – 2015 ආණ්ඩුවේ උපදේශකයින් තවත් වරක් ලංකා ආර්ථිකය ඝාතනය කිරීමේ මාවතට ශ්රී ලංකාව වේගයෙන් තල්ලු කරමින් සිටින්නේ යැයි හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. ‘‘2010 සිට 2017 මැයි 17 දක්වා යුරෝපයේ ජීඑස්පී ප්ලස් බදු සහනය අහිමිවීම නිසා ශ්රී ලංකාවට රු. බිලියන […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් වසංගත පැතිරීම පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු රාශියක් ලෝක ඉතිහාසය තුළ සටහන් වී ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම වසූරිය වංසගතය ලෝකයම පීඩාවට පත් කළ ආකාරය පුදුම සහගතය. දූපතක් වශයෙන් ලෝක ගෝලයේ දක්නට තිබෙන ලංකාවට මෙවැනි වසංගතය පැමිණෙනුයේ සංක්රමණ නිසාවෙනි.විශේෂයෙන්ම වෙළෙඳාම හරහා පැමිණෙන නාවිකයන් මෙන්ම සෙබළුන් නිසා මේ රෝග තත්වයන් ලංකාව පුරා පැතිරුණු අවස්ථාවන් තිබේ. පරංගි(ෆිරංගි යනු විදේශික යන […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති සෑම මිනිසකු ම සමාන ය” යන අදහස අර්ථවත් වනුයේ සාමාන්ය, පොදු ඇසකින් ලෝකය දෙස බැලීමේ දී විනා ප්රායෝගික භාවිත අර්ථයකින් නොවේ. ස්වභාවයෙන් ම මිනිසුන් අසමාන ය. විවිධ වූ නියාම ධර්ම කරණ කොට ගෙන මෙම අසමානතා ඇතිවෙයි. මේ සඳහා හේතුවන ධර්ම – කර්මාදී නියාම ධර්ම ගැන බෞද්ධ අපි හොඳින් ම දනිමු. ආර්ථික අරමුණු […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
By A. Abdul Aziz. The Gist of the Address by the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community the Fifth Khalifah (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France on 8th October 2019. The event was attended by over 80 dignitaries and guests, including diplomats, politicians, academics and the representatives of […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
By Darshani Kumaragamage, PhD d.kumaragamage@uwinnipeg.ca Banning the import and use of synthetic chemical fertilizers: I read with interest and concern the conflicting and controversial views expressed by many experts and stakeholders, regarding the Sri Lankan government’s decision to ban the importation of agrochemicals, including synthetic chemical fertilizers. Undoubtedly, some have genuine concerns regarding the negative […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
by Professor W. A. J. M. De Costa -Senior Professor and Chair of Crop Science Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture University of Peradeniya Why use fertiliser on crops? Fertilisers are used for two purposes. One purpose is to provide essential plant nutrients that are required for crops to produce an economically-important product (i. […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
The letter signed by Dr. Sampath Dharmadasa, President/SAEA and Dr. Shashika Rathnayaka, Secretary, has been copied to the Prime Minister, Ministers of Agriculture and Plantations, among others. In the absence of proper substitutes The Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) has expressed some concerns on the appropriateness of the newly introduced regulation to restrict forthwith […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Dr .C.S. WEERARATNA Former Professor of Agriculture at Ruhuna and Rajarata Universities In 2019, around Rs 310 billion worth of food has been imported. Among these are rice, sugar, green gram, red onion, big onion, maize, etc., which can be locally produced. If we are to reduce our expenditure on food imports, it is essential […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
by Devaka Dias Courtesy Island 1. Vegetatively Propagated Teas are CLONAL HYBRIDS which requires high and correct nitrogen ratios to reach its potential yield of over 3,000 kg per hectare made tea per annum. 2. The required norm is 10 kg nitrogen for every 100 kg of made tea. If soil carbon ratios are good […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාඨලි චම්පික රනවක මහතාගේ විශෙෂ නියොජිතයකු හා සජිත් ප්රෙමදාස මහතාගේ විශෙෂ නියොජිතයකු අතර දෙපාර්ශවයේ අනුදැනුම ඇතිව 11 දිනයේ විශේෂ සාකච්ජාවක් පවත්වා තිඛෙ. මෙහිදි පාඨලි චම්පික රනවක මහතාගේ පාර්ශවයේන් දැඩිව ප්රකාශ කර තිබුනේ ඉදිරි මැතිවරණයෙදි අගමැති අපෙක්ෂකත්වය එ මහතාට ලැබිය යුතු බවයි.තවද එය සානාත කරමින් මැතිවරණයට පෙර සමගි ජන බලවේගයේ නියොජ්ය […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් තමනට ඇමති ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වන්නැයි ලිපිය නිකුත් කිරිමට පෙර නෙළුම් මාවතේ ZOOM සාකච්චාවක් තිබූ බව බලශක්ති ඇමති උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ මහ ලේකම් සාගර කාරියවසම් හසුරුවන අදිසි හස්තය තමන් දන්නා බවත් එය සිදුවන්නේ විදේශයක සිට බවත් ඇමතිවරයා කියා සිටී. මේ ප්රහාරය එල්ල වන්නේ තමනට නොව මහින්ද […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily News Tissa Wewa The Holy City of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka is a place unlikely to be the setting for a fascinating tale of flying objects and other mundane events. Anuradhapura, named after a King’s chieftain called Anuradha, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world. It thus means […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy fibre2fashion.com Pic: ShutterstockSri Lanka’s Export Development Board (EDB) recently expressed concern over the resolution adopted by the European Union (EU) parliament calling on the European Commission to consider the temporary withdrawal of Sri Lanka’s generalised scheme of preferences plus (GSP+) status for the latter’s persistent failure to adopt and enact human rights reforms and repeal the Prevention […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy Vietnamplus The Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese State always treasure the traditional friendship and fruitful cooperation with Sri Lanka, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has said. Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong holds phone talks with President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Galle Chief Magistrate Harshana Kekunawela today ordered health authorities to hand over the list of persons who were given the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine at the Galle Health Services Director’s Office on June 5 and 7, to the police. The orders were issued after considering the facts provided by […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services confirmed that Sri Lanka has reported 57 more deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As per the Department of Government Information, the reported deaths had occurred on June 13. Among the deceased are 32 male patients and 25 female patients. Accordingly, the total number of deaths due to […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka on Sunday (June 12) registered 67 more victims of COVID-19, the Director-General of Health Services. The latest fatalities have moved the death toll from the virus infection to 2,203, according to Government Information Department’s data. Meanwhile, Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawardena says that COVID-19 deaths will be reported […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 479 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 2,259. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 225,922. As many as 190,464 recoveries and 2,203 deaths […]
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