Archive for November 1st, 2021
Monday, November 1st, 2021
Published by Steven Novella Courtesy Neurologicablog Cautionary tales are extremely useful, as long as we take the right lessons away from them. As the saying goes, the best way to learn is from mistakes, but even better is to learn from someone else’s mistake without having to commit it yourself (and suffer the consequences). Sri Lanka […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando When a man looks into a mirror, the image reflects who he is today. But it also reveals whom he used to be. Although appearances change, many of the underlying characteristics remain the same. It is the same with ‘Ceylon Today’, as the paper celebrates its 10th anniversary and reflects on […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ලෞකික ජීවිතයේ දී තමන් හට ලබාගත හැකි පරම ලාභය නිරෝගී බව දන්නෝ ඒ වෙනුවෙන් කැපැවෙති. මෙයට කායික නිරෝගී බව මෙන් ම මානසික නිරෝගී බව ද ඇතුළත් බව අපි දනිමු. මෙය හුදෙක් පුද්ගලික කාරණයක් පමණක් නොවේ. පවුලෙහි, සමාජයෙහි සහ අවසාන වශයෙන් ජාතියෙහි නිරෝගිමත් බව සහ ශක්තිමත් බව මෙම කරුණ මත රඳා පවතියි. එහෙයින් […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara 3.40 Am on 1st November 2021. Mahanuwara. Minister Ali Sabry should make a public apology to the Sinhala nation and the Buddhist clergy of this country and resign from the post of Minister of Justice immediately in view of his following uncalled for anti-government, anti-President and anti-Sinhala Nation comments purported to have […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
By A. Abdul Aziz In Sri Lanka, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at was established in 1915.It was during the life time of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (Peace be on him) – Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) in Islam – Promised Messiah and Imam-al-Mahdi that, some of his books reached Ceylon as they reached Europe, America […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s Minority Population makes up 36% of Sri Lanka’ total population. Muslims account for 9.3% around 1.9million of Sri Lanka’s 21million population. The present proportional representation system has enabled minority leaders to act as king-pins plugging themselves into Parliament to prop up a government and demanding plum portfolios or threatening to […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok, Thailand Third session of the Committee on Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty Reduction and Financing for Development of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) was virtually convened in Bangkok, from 20 to 22 October 2021, and discussed a range of economic policies and innovative […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The dynamic nature of the world shows that changing attitudes and many occurring are natural in the world and evidence in history proves that people had been changed their thinking patterns or attitudes towards various issues throughout history. Despite this nature, the people of Sri Lanka are stuck with past issues and […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
MD Pathik Hasan Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed has invited Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit Bangladesh. She was talking to Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui during their meeting in Dhaka on October 25. Pakistan PM Imran Khan should utilize this golden opportunity to visit to Bangladesh for strengthening ties. […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Suzette Aloyo Dear Friends and Students: I would like to inform you that one of the Dhamma talks given by Ven. Bhante Wimala is now available on youtube for you. Click here to access the talk. Best Regards, Suzette Aloyo, Office Manager Here are two of the many comments we received from those who heard […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS The government of Sri Lanka took much trouble over the development of the north after the Eelam war ended. The government called it development initiatives to improve the quality of life for conflict affected returnee communities in the North.” Mahinda Rajapaksa initiated many improvements such as houses, roads and bridges. 15,000 wells were […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ශ්රී ලංකා පෝෂණ වෛද්ය සංගමය සංවිධානය කළ “රස වැඩියෙන් ලුණු අඩුවෙන් ආහාර පිසීමේ ජාතික අභියෝගය-2021” අවසන් මහා තරගය අග්රාමාත්ය ආර්යා ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ මහත්මියගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් අද (30) පස්වරුවේ කොළඹ ගාලු මුවදොර හෝටලයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. ලෝක සෞඛ්ය සංවිධානය, සෞඛ්ය අමාත්යාංශය සහ ශ්රී ලංකා සූපවේදීන්ගේ සංගමයේ සහයෝගය ඇතිව ශ්රී ලංකා පෝෂණ වෛද්ය සංගමය සංවිධානය කළ […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS Throughout the thirty year period of the Eelam war, the aid coming into the country was exclusively for the north and east. This was well known. Once the war ended, the north became the favored community with the blessings of the government. Foreign countries offered assistance. These offers accelerated during the Yahapalana period […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda, accompanied by a delegation of senior High Commission officials, paid a courtesy call on the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Adityanath recently at the Chief Minister’s official residence in Lucknow. The Chief Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Government […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Sri Lanka High Commission of India ඉන්දියාවේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ මහතා, උත්තර් ප්රදේශ් ප්රධාන අමාත්ය ශ්රී යෝගී ආදිත්යනාත් මහතා ලක්නව්හි ප්රධාන අමාත්යවරයාගේ නිල නිවසේ දී හමුවිය. උත්තර් ප්රදේශ් රජයේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් ශ්රී රාජේන්ද්ර කුමාර් තිවාරි සහ තවත් ප්රධාන රාජ්ය නිලධාරීන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු මෙම රැස්වීමට එක්ව සිටියහ. මහ කොමසාරිස් විසින් උත්තර් ප්රදේශ් ප්රධාන […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
newsfirst බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ හා තිරුකුමාර් නඩේෂන් යන මහත්වරුන්ට එරෙහිව මල්වානේ නිවසට අදාළව පවරා ඇති නඩුව (01)ගම්පහ මහාධිකරණය හමුවේ නැවතත් කැඳවීය. නඩුවේ සාක්ෂිකරුවෙකු වන මුදිත උපාලි ජයකොඩි මහතා අධිකරණයේදී කියා සිටියේ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා දුන් මුදල්වලින් කොන්ත්රාත්කරුවෙකු යොදා මල්වානේ නිවස ඉදිකළ බවයි. තමන්ට ලැබුණු මුදල් කොන්ත්රාත්කරුට භාර දුන් බව ද සාක්ෂිකරු කියා සිටියේ ය. මුදිත ජයකොඩි […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November. 1 (Xinhua): People are pinning hope on a major breakthrough at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) due to the failures in building a unified and global response to climate change in the last two decades, a Sri Lanka-based conservation activist has said. The COP26 or the first conference […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
BY ANH DOSTAFF WRITER Courtesy Los Angeles Times Hassina Leelarathna, a co-founder of the only Sri Lankan newspaper in the U.S. and an activist who spurred fellow immigrants to help when disasters struck their homeland, has died at age 73. Leelarathna died in Sherman Oaks on Oct. 17 after battling lung cancer for the last five […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
by Eng Parakrama Jayasinghe Courtesy The Island Both Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) which recently saw a sharp price increase and is now the preferred cooking fuel even in some rural areas, and yet-to-be-used Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) have received widespread public attention. Natural Gas (NG) , which is mostly Methane (CH4) , the fossil fuel […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island President’s Counsel Ali Sabry, the only Muslim among the Cabinet ministers, is likely to quit the justice portfolio over the recent appointment of Ven. Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera as the head of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) to make recommendations in respect of ‘One Country, One Law’ concept. Well-informed sources […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
ලංකාවේ වෙනදේ දැන් අප මුහුණ දෙන අභියෝගය වන්නේ නවීන විද්යාත්මක තාක්ෂණික ක්රම සහ භාවිතයන් පාරිසරික හානියක් ඇති නොකර කෘෂිකාර්මික නිෂ්පාදනය ඉහළ නැංවීම සඳහා යොදා ගැනීමයි. දශක ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ නිදන්ගත වකුගඩු රෝගය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කෘෂිකාර්මික හදවත් තුළ බරපතල ප්රශ්නයක් වී තිබේන බව නයිට්රජන් යළි සොයාගැනීම: දේශගුණික විපර්යාස, සෞඛ්ය, ජෛව විවිධත්වය සහ සඳහා විසඳුම් සහ සහයෝගීතාව” යන […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services has confirmed another 17 coronavirus related deaths for October 31, pushing the death toll in the country due to the virus to 13,760. This includes eleven males and six female patients. Six of the victims are aged between 30-59 years while the rest are aged 60 years […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force for ‘One Country, One Law’ Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera has said that he is committed to fulfilling the desired objectives of the Task Force together with its members. The Thera pointed out that in fulfilling that role, they will act according to a core policy framework […]
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Monday, November 1st, 2021
උපුටාගැනීමකි ඇය ගැහැණියක් වී මේ රටට කල සේවය අප රට පාලනය කල කිසිදු පාලකයෙක් සිදු කලේ නැත. 2000 අවුරුද්දේ සිරිමාවෝගේ නිසල දේහය නුවර පාරේ පෙරහැරකින් සමාධිය වෙත අරගෙන යද්දී ඒ දිහා බලාගෙන හිටිය මම මේ යන්නේ කවුද කින්ද මන්ද කියලා මුකුත් දැනගෙන හිටියේ නෑ.ඒත් ඒ ගියේ ලංකාව ඇත්තටම ආස්චර්යයක් කරන්න මාස්ටර් ප්ලෑන් එකක් තිබ්බ මහ […]
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