Archive for September 22nd, 2021
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
BY SHENALI WADUGE · 22ND SEPTEMBER 2021 Whether anyone likes or dislikes Mohan Pieris is irrelevant. If due process was alleged to be denied to CJ43 Shirani Bandaranaike, was due process applied to CJ44 Mohan Pieris. This is the question and the response must be based on principled facts. If entities like UNHRC and BASL took up the […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Lord Buddha said on his deathbed: Do not believe what others say just because others say so! Do not believe it because you heard it from a wise being, but only believe something when you know it in your Heart.” The Heart is supposed to be the seat of sentiment, […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Jaffna public library was rebuilt twice. The library was fully renovated in 1984, with donations from well-wishers around the world. But the LTTE took up residence inside it and it was bombed. At the start of the project, the Municipal Council of Jaffna decided not to repair the burnt building, but to […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE was also a suspect in the burning of the Jaffna library. What was the LTTE doing while the Jaffna library was burning” someone asked on social media. Came the reply, In 1981, LTTE was not as strong as it became in later stages. They were just using hit and run tactics. So […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්රාමාත්ය ශ්රවණය අහිමි පුද්ගලයන් සහ සංඥා භාෂා භාවිතා කරන්නන්ගේ භාෂාමය අනන්යතාව ලෝක මට්ටමෙන් පිළිගැනීමට ලක් කළ අන්තර්ජාතික සංඥා භාෂා දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් සුබ පැතුම් නිකුත් කරනුයේ ඉතාමත් සතුටිනි. මිනිසාගේ සියලු කාර්යයන් ඉටුකර ගැනීමට ශ්රවණය සහ භාෂා අවබෝධය අවශ්ය වේ. එහෙත් අප සමාජයේ සිටින උපතින්ම ශබ්ද නෑසෙන ශ්රවණ ආබාධිත සියලු […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල උතුරු මැද පළාත් හිටපු ප්රධාන අමත්යය බර්ටි ප්රේමලාල් දිසානායක මහතා අභාවප්රාප්ත වී සයවසරක් ගත වීම නිමිත්තෙන් අභාවප්රාප්ත බර්ටි ප්රේමලාල් දිසානායක මහතාට පිං අනුමෝදන් කරමින් මේ මස 26 හා 27 දෙදින සෞඛ්ය මාර්ග උපදේශ අනුව අවම ජන සහභාගීත්වයකින් බර්ටි දිසානායක 08 වැනි ගුණානුස්මරණ පිංකම් මාලාව සංවිධානය කර ඇත. සැප්තැම්බර් 27 වැනි දිනට […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
තිසර සමල් සෝමරත්න අනුරාධපුර රජරට ඉරි තැලී වියළි ගිය පොලව තෙත් කරමින් වැටෙන මහා වැස්ස රජරට ගොවි ජනතාවගේ එකම බලාපොරොත්තුවයි.ඒ වැස්සෙන් වැව් අමුණු පිරී ගිය පසු රජරට ජනතාව වගා කටයුතු සිදු කර ආර්ථිකය ශක්තිමත් කර ගනිති. එදා රජරටට සංවර්ධනය ගෙන එමින් රජරට ජනතාවගේ දුක හදුනාගනිමින් රජරට පෝෂණය කළ බර්ටි දිසානායකයන්ද කලට වහින වැස්ස වගේ රජරට […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Source: New age bd The Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday completed disbursement of the $200-million bailout fund to cash crisis-hit Sri Lanka amid a deepening foreign reserve crisis in the country. The disbursement was fully executed to the island nation at a time when the country announced a state of emergency over food shortage, instigating Sri […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
තිසර සමල් – අනුරාධපුර සෞභාග්යයේ දැක්ම ප්රථිපත්ති ප්රකාශනයට අනුව 2030 වර්ෂය වන විට 75% ක් පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තියෙන් විදුලිය ජනනය කිරීම සඳහා නව ගමනක් ලෙස මෙගා වොට් 50 ට වැඩි පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තියෙන් විදුලිය නිෂ්පාදනය කරන්නට හැකි යෝජනා කැඳවා එම ව්යාපෘති කඩිනමින් ක්රියාත්මක කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වනවා යැයි සූර්ය බල සුලං හා ජල විදුලි ජනන සංවර්ධන රාජ්යය අමාත්යය […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් මීගහතැන්න ප්රදේශයේ නාවලකන්ද ග්රාමය යනු ශ්රී ලකාව පුරා පවතින වනාන්තර පද්ධතියේ ඉහලම ජෛව විවිධත්වයක් හිමි සදාහරිත වැසි වනාන්තරවලට මැදි වූ සුන්දර ගම්මානයක් සහිත කඳුකර වනාන්තර පද්ධතියකි. මෙම ගම්මානය සහිත වනාන්තර පද්ධතිය ආවරණය වන පරිදි වනසංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් රක්ෂිත කලාප කීපයක්ම ඇති අතර එම රක්ෂිත ප්රදේශ […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Daily Mirror UN expert, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, explains how Big Powers manipulate Third World economies Since 2014, the OLOBC has been saying that the DBR and the EDB scale have had a disastrous impact on poor countries The World Bank announced last Thursday that it has paused” or temporarily suspended its Doing Business Report […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
By Gurudas Nulkar Courtesy Down To Earth ‘Lankan food crisis shows perils of organic farming’. This was the headline of a column by Indian economist Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar column published in a national daily recently. Aiyar’s article analysed the Sri Lankan food crisis, which has been triggered by the President’s recent decision to shift from chemical […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඉඩම් ප්රතිසංස්කරණ කොමිෂන් සභාවට අයත් ඉඩම් අක්කර රුපියල බැගින් වූ බදු මුදලකට ලබා දී ඇතැයි මල්දෙණිය වතු සමාගමේ සභාපති ධම්මික එළියපුර මහතා සදහන් කරයි. ඇතැම් ඉඩම් ලබා දී ඇත්තේ අක්කර 75 ක් පමණ වන බදු මුදලකට බව ද ඔහු චෝදනා කරයි. මේ සඳහා දකුණේ ඇමතිවරයකුට කප්පම් දෙමින් ඇති බවත් ඒ […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy NDTV SAARC Foreign Ministers Meet: Sources said SAARC members could not reach a consensus on Pakistan’s request or give the Taliban a guarantee it could attend. New Delhi: Pakistan found itself isolated on the global stage this week after an attempt to generate support for the Taliban – which seized power in Afghanistan last […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
By PTI Health inspectors said those below the age of 30 had shown vaccine reluctance Sri Lanka has decided to ask for a $100 million loan from the IMF to procure 14 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and finance other vaccination programme related costs, it was announced here on Wednesday. “Minister of Health […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Energy Voice New Fortress Energy has finalised a contract with the government of Sri Lanka that gives it the rights to develop a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal off the coast of Colombo that is expected to start up in 2023. Register here for the Energy Voice daily newsletter, bringing you key […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
By Lizzie Edmonds Courtesy Evening Stanadard Top destinations Sri Lanka, Egypt and the Maldives are now off the red list for British travellers. But the Foreign Office still suggests against non-essential travel for holidaymakers according to their official website. Eight countries were taken off the red list in the early hours of Wednesday morning including Turkey, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Oman, Kenya and Sri […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy The Japan Times The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ruled that Japanese immigration authorities’ actions toward two Sri Lankan men were unconstitutional. The two me claim that they were deported without getting enough time to take legal action after being denied refugee status. The two had filed a lawsuit against the government seeking a […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy MailOnLine People in March 2021 watch a three-dimensional projection of the Salsal Buddha at the site where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001 Sri Lanka called Wednesday on the world to safeguard the Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan under the Taliban, who provoked outrage by destroying […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 92 coronavirus related deaths for September 21, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus pandemic to 12,376. According to the figures released by the Govt. Information Department, the deaths reported today includes 51 males and 41 females. Two of the victims, one […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana US-based New Fortress Energy has finalised a contract with the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to build an offshore liquified natural gas (LNG) receiving, storage and regasification terminal. To be located off the coast of Colombo, the new terminal is expected to be commissioned in 2023. The agreement will provide the US-based firm […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reports that another 464 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, moving the daily total of new cases to 1,342. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 508,672. As many as 435,022 recoveries and 12,376 deaths […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankan faith healer Eliyantha White has passed away earlier today (September 22), sources told Ada Derana. He had been receiving treatment for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Colombo when he had passed away. White also served as a personal physician to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena made a special statement during the debate on the amendments to the Consumer Affairs Authority Act today (22). Citing a statement made by Thushan Gunawardena, former Executive Director of the Consumer Affairs Authority, the Minister further stated that if any party proves that he or any of his […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Hiru වැඩේ හරියට කරොත් ගොඩ. ඉස්සර වගේ රටේ හැම තැනම කිරිමන්ඩල දාන්න. එතකොට හැමෝටම දියර කිරි බෙදා හරින්න පුළුවන්. මතක අය දන්නවා ඇතිනේ ඉස්සර උදේ පාන්දරින්ම කිරි මාම එනව…
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Justice Minister Ali Sabry informs Parliament that the Cabinet has decided to appoint a retired High Court Judge to inquire into the recent Prison incident involving a Minister. He stated the above while responding to an oral question. The Justice Minister further condemned the incident, call that ‘it should have never happened’ […]
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