Archive for July 19th, 2021
Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy MailOnline Gotabaya Rajapaksa previously said he would be a one-term president Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced Monday he would stand for a second term, reversing a promise to only stay for five years, media reports said. The 72-year-old nationalist leader told top media executives he needed more time to fix Sri Lanka’s worsening […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 19: Given the intense speculation that incumbent President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be replaced by his brother Basil Rajapaksa as the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidate in the 2024 Presidential election, Gotabaya’s announcement on Monday that he intends to seek a second term came as a surprise to […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති එකමුතුකම ශක්තිය වේ” යන අදහස අපි සැවොම පිළිගනිමු. තනි තනිව සිටින කල මහා ශක්තියක් නිර්මාණය කළ නො හැකි ය. ඉරටු මිටි වැනි දේ ආදර්ශයට ගෙන පවා මෙම අදහස පැහැදිළි කෙරෙයි. තනි ඉරටුවක් ඉතා පහසුවෙන් බිඳ දැමිය හැකි ය. එහෙත් ඉරටු විශාල ප්රමාණයක් එක්ව තබා මිටියක් බැඳි විට එය බිඳ දැමිය නො හැකි […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය කොවිඩ් වසංගතයෙන් පීඩාවට පත් රෝගීන්ට ප්රතිකාර සඳහා ලැබුණු රුපියල් මිලියන ගණනක් වටිනා වෛද්ය උපකරණ තොගයක් ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද (19) දින පස්වරුවේ දෙබරවැව සහ වලස්මුල්ල මූලික රෝහල්වෙත පරිත්යාග කළේය. හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික්කයේ රෝහල් සඳහා වෛද්ය උපකරණ බෙදා දීමේ වැඩසටහන යටතේ අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් මෙම උපකරණ තොගය ප්රදානය කෙරිණි. දෙබරවැව […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ඩරාස් ශ්රී ලංකා ආයතනය ඉටුකම කොවිඩ්-19 සෞඛ්ය හා සමාජ ආරක්ෂණ අරමුදල ඉහළ නැංවීම සඳහා රුපියල් මිලියන 2ක මුදල් චෙක්පතක් අද (19) දින පස්වරුවේ දී ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී භාර දුන්නේය. මෙයට සමඟාමීව කොවිඩ් රෝගීන්ට ප්රතිකාර කිරීමේ දී සෞඛ්ය කාර්ය මණ්ඩල සඳහා අවශ්ය පී.පී.ඊ (PPE) කට්ටල තොගයක් ද ඩරාස් […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය,ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. තිරසාර නිෂ්පාදන ක්රියාවලියක් යටතේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නිෂ්පාදිත ලොව ප්රථම පරිසර හිතකාමී ස්මාර්ට් මුව ආවරණය (Smart Face Mask) BreathTech-S3 සන්නාමයෙන් ලොවට හඳුන්වාදීම අද (19) දින අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් ජාතික ක්රීඩා සභා පරිශ්රයේ දී සිදුවිය. හයිඩ්රාමනී (Hirdaramani) සමූහය, ශ්රී ලංකා නැනෝ තාක්ෂණ ආයතනය (SLINTEC) සහ CirQ Technolagies ආයතන ත්රිත්වය එක්ව මෙම පරිසර හිතකාමි ස්මාර්ට් මුව […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
තරුණ හා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යංශය, ඩිජිටල් තාක්ෂණ හා ව්යවසාය සංවර්ධන රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය. අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම යථාර්තයක් බවට පත් කිරීම උදෙසා තරුණ ප්රජාව ව්යාපාර කරා යොමු කරමින් ජාතික ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට තරුණ ව්යවසායකයින් 50,000 ක් බිහිකිරීමේ Hope 4 Sri Lanka” නවතම වැඩසටහන පසුගියදා මහරගම ජාතික තරුණ සේවා සභාවේදී අමාත්ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්විණි. තරුණ හා […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 19 (NewsWire) – Over 7.36 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered as the first and second dose in Sri Lanka to date. According to the Health Ministry, 925,242 people have been administered the AstraZeneca vaccine as the first dose, while 385,885 people have been provided as the second […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
By Feizal Samath Courtesy ttgasia Sri Lanka is now allowing fully vaccinated international travellers to enter the country without undergoing quarantine, as the country looks to restart its tourism engine. Vaccinated tourists are required to only spend 24 hours in a dedicated hotel facility to await their on-arrival PCR test results. Once they test negative, they […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
By Eroshan Meewella Courtesy Olive Eroshan Meewella, co-founder of Kolamba in London’s Soho, tells us what makes the food of his homeland so special Want to learn about Sri Lankan cuisine? Take a virtual trip to this South Asian country with Eroshan Meewella, co-founder of Kolamba in London’s Soho. Try Kolamba’s parippu recipe here, then read our review of Kolamba. […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
By S Godson Wisely Dass Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express Sri Lankan and some vernacular media outlets here had published reports speculating the purpose of the vessel’s visit to Thoothukudi, one of the southernmost ports of the country. THOOTHUKUDI: After photos of submarine INS Sindhushashtra at the Thoothukudi VOC port were circulated on social […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
By N Sathiya Moorthy Courtesy Ceylon Today The way the Catholic Church is going about with their own follow-up on the ‘Easter blasts’ investigations and prosecution, there may be something for the Tamil and Muslim victims of physical assaults on the respective communities to learn from. In a way, the National Catholic Committee (NCC), under […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Hours after the Moody’s Investors Service has placed Sri Lanka’s rating ‘under review for downgrade,” the government hit back at the Moody’s Investors Service, stating that unwarranted announcement by Moody’s reemphasizes the need for the Sri Lankan Government to revisit its relationship with rating agencies. Issuing a statement by the Finance […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Pakistan cricketer and commentator Ramiz Raja analysed the first ODI between Sri Lanka and India, calling it a game between a university and a school team – where the Indians looked strong like university players who made the hosts struggle like school team cricketers. India vs Sri Lanka seemed like […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The almanac case filed against two accused including Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa was today fixed for September 15 by Colombo High Court. The defence sought a calling date before the matter is fixed for trial. Accordingly, the case against two accused including former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa for allegedly misappropriating Rs.29.4 million […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Ministry of Health says that 20 to 30 percent of COVID-19 infections reported from the Colombo District can be of the Delta variant. Deputy Director-General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath said that this is revealed through the testing of samples collected from reported infections. We find information on the variants only through […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Court has ordered service providers to produce telephone conversation records of Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife and three others in connection to the death of the 16-year-old domestic worker at the parliamentarian’s house. Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya ordered for the records to be handed over to the Borella Police when a motion filed by […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 484 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,464. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 286,419. As many as 261,848 recoveries and 3,827 deaths […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director-General of Health Services has confirmed 48 more COVID-19 related fatalities that have occurred yesterday (July 18). The new development has pushed the official death toll due to the virus in Sri Lanka to 3,827. According to the data released by the Department of Government Information, the new victims confirmed today include […]
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Monday, July 19th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Fifty percent of the COVID-19 patients receiving treatment at Colombo National Hospital, reportedly, require oxygen therapy. This was revealed at a press conference held at the Health Promotion Bureau today (July 19). Speaking on the matter, specialist physician Dr. Upul Dissanayake said that nearly 200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 are currently receiving treatment […]
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