Archive for February, 2022
Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy Sputnik Russian and Ukrainian officials agreed to meet in Gomel region, Belarus on Monday for talks aimed at halting the fighting in Ukraine and resolving the crisis between Moscow and Kiev.Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have found some points of contact from which common positions can be built on, Vladimir Medinsky, special assistant to President […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy RT Ceasefire talks hosted by Belarus adjourn for consultations © Getty Images / MicroStockHub Moscow and Kiev have found certain things that could be agreed on during the ceasefire talks hosted by Belarus and will return for consultations before the next round, both delegations told reporters after the talks ended on Monday. The main […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy RT The British foreign secretary made unacceptable” statements on clashes” between NATO and Russia, Putin’s spokesman said Liz Truss during a panel discussion at the 58th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany, February 19, 2022 © Getty Images / Ronald Wittek Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
BBC A huge convoy of Russian armour, nearly 17 miles long, is advancing on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, satellite images show https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60542877
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Since the days of President Jayawardena we have got used to look for foreign goods and following the IMF model of allowing imports without any control, spending our foreign exchange for luxury purposes even when we did not have sufficient funds, we have become an indebted country. The IMF advice was […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga The question before policy makers today is whether to seek a bail out from IMF and face a certain devaluation of the rupee. It is like the proverbial curate’s egg. Sri Lanka has had several devaluations of the rupee. I am not aware whether a proper evaluation of the impact of devaluation on […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Mehjabin Bhanu Rajshahi City Corporation in Bangladesh A six-day joint exercise titled ‘Exercise Cop South-2022’ participation of Bangladesh Air Force and US Pacific Air Force under the direction of the Armed Forces Department and under the management of Bangladesh Air Force Air ended at Bangladesh Air Force Base Bangabandhu on 25 February 2022 (Friday). 36th […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර, මහනුවර. (1815 මාර්තු 2 උඩරට ගිසුම අත්සන්කළ දිනය නිමිත්තෙන් ලියන ලිපියකි) 1505 පෘතුගීසි මේරටේ මුහුදුබඩ ප්රදේශ අල්ලාගන්නා තුරුම මේ රටේ ජාතිවාදයක හෝ බෙදුම්වාදයක කිසිම සලකුනක් තිබුණේ නැත. මන්ද ක්රි පූ 543 සිටම එතෙක් රටේ උතුරේ සිට දකුණු කෙලවර දක්වාත් බටහිර සීට නැගෙනහිර සමුද්ද්රය දක්වාත් සිටි එකම ජාතිය සින්හල ජාතිය පමණක් වූ නිසාය.. […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් රටේ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ජනතාවගේ ප්රශ්න දැකිය යුතුය. තරුණ පරම්පරාවේ බලය සහ ශක්තිය හඳුනා ගත යුතුය. එම තරුණ බලයේ සම්පූර්ණ විභවය ජාතියේ රටේ උන්නතියට මුදා හල යුතුය යොදා ගත යුතුය. ප්රයෝජනයට නොගෙන විනාශ වීමට ඉඩ නොදිය යුතුය. පරාක්රමබාහු ගේ ජල බින්දු වැනිය. තරුණයන් සවිබල ගැන්විය යුතුය. සෑම කෙනෙකුටම ධනාත්මක වෙනසක් කල හැක. දේශපාලන පක්ෂ […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අග්රාමාත්ය සියලුම හින්දු බැතිමතුන් ඔවුන්ගේ උත්තරීතර දෙවියන් සිහිකර උපවාසයේ යෙදෙමින් ඉතාමත් ශ්රද්ධාවෙන් සමරන මහා ශිව රාත්රී දිනයට මම ඉතාමත් සතුටින් සුභාශිංසන පළ කරමි. සෑම ආගමක් තුළම සමෘද්ධිමත් ජීවන ගමනක් උදෙසා අධ්යාත්මිකත්වය මූලික වේ. විමුක්තිය සොයා යන සියලුම හින්දු භක්තිකයන්ට මහා ශිව රාත්රී දින උපවාසය අධ්යාත්මික වශයෙන් ශුද්ධ වූ […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
by Melani Manel Perera Courtesy Asia News Because of war, Ukrainian holiday makers cannot leave the island nation. Today the Sri Lankan government will discuss the possibility of providing financial assistance and extending visas. In recent days, protests broke out in front of the Russian embassy. Colombo (AsiaNews) – The Sri Lankan government will consider […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror While identifying the priorities, the government should decide whether to stay in the dark after eating apples, grapes and oranges or make sacrifices to prioritise our limited foreign exchange spending on essential commodities such as medicine and fuel, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said. Addressing the media yesterday, he said without considering […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 996 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus today (Feb. 28). This brings the tally of confirmed cases of Covid-19 detected int eh country to 646,033. Approximately 20,888 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment across the island. The Director General of Health Services […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy Sputnik As Global media outlets provide 24/7 updates about the conflict in Ukraine, several Western media journalists used racialised language while reporting about the developments. The military operations started after the Donetsk, and Lugansk People’s Republics requested Russia to defend them from Kiev aggression.India’s Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar […]
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Monday, February 28th, 2022
Courtesy Sputnik Over the weekend, Western countries initiated new sanctions against Russia in connection with the Russian operation in Ukraine. European Union banned any Russian aircraft from landing, taking off or flying over the territory of the EU.Russia, as a response to a ban the European states placed on the operation of flights of Russian […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The history of the International Monetary Fund indicates that it was established (1944) when there was a crisis in the international financial system in the 1930s, France and associated countries attempted to devalue and revalue national currencies to gain trade advantages using the international financial system. At that time there was no […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
Chanaka Bandarage Many Sinhalese believe that due to Thesavalamai law they cannot buy (or lease) property in the North. This seems a misconception on their part. There are only two classes of people who are benefitted by the Thesavalamai Ordinance (No 59 of 1947). They are bestowed with the right of pre-emption: Persons who are […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය එක් ප්රදේශයකට පළාතකට සීමා නොවී මුළු ලංකාවම එක හා සමානව සංවර්ධනය වන මෙවන් යුගයක් මීට පෙර තිබුණෙ නැහැ යැයි අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (26) පස්වරුවේ පැවසීය. කිරම – කටුවන ඒකාබද්ධ ජල යෝජනා ක්රමය සහ කිරම බස් නැවතුම්පොළ ජනතා අයිතියට පත්කරමින් අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. සැමට පිරිසිදු පානීය […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
Courtesy RT Earlier, Kiev refused to conduct negotiations on Belarusian territory amid the conflict Russian delegation is pictured in the Russian embassy, in Minsk, Belarus. © Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev Russia said on Sunday that, after some back-and-forth, Ukraine agreed to dispatch a team to Belarus for talks to end the Russian military campaign in […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
Courtesy Sputnik The Western alliance promised to “hold Russia” and Belarus “accountable” for the “brutal and wholly unprovoked and unjustified” “invasion” of Ukraine on Friday, warning that Moscow would be made to pay “a severe price” for its actions. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to put the nation’s nuclear deterrence forces on high […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
By Asiri Fernando/The Sunday Morning Colombo, February 27: Sri Lanka should not take its relations with China for granted and should pay more attention to develop its longstanding relationship with the global power, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Beijing Dr. Palith Kohona told The Sunday Morning. Sri Lanka and China are celebrating a milestone year in diplomacy, […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 977 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 within today (27). The total number of coronavirus cases registered in the country thus far climbs to 645,037 with this. Meanwhile over 20,000 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment island-wide The Director General of Health Services has […]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022
ජයන්ත හේරත් අධ්යාපන නිදහස ප්රාථමිකය. ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයේ පරමාදර්ශ ද්විතියිකය. 1945 දී කන්නන්ගර මධ්ය මහා විද්යාල රට පුරා ඇති කළේය. නිදහස ලැබෙන්නට පෙරය. ඒ මධ්ය විද්යාල වල උසස් පෙළ පන්ති වලින් අවුරුදු පතා නිපදවන ලක්ෂ 3 න් විශ්වවිද්යාලයට ඇතුළුවන්නේ 14% කි 43,000 කි. ඉතිරි 86%ට දෙවියන්ගේ පිහිටය. සිරිමා 62 අද්යාපන ප්රතිසන්විදානය ක්ෂණිකව කළේය 73දී ප්රතිසංවිධානය distribute කලේ […]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022
By, Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha George Turner, an English officer in the Ceylon Civil Service, translated the first 38 chapters of the Mahavamsa (termed the Great Dynasty ending with King Mahasen) from Pali to English which was published in 1837. With his death at the age of 44, the balance chapters 38 to 100 […]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022
Courtesy Russia Today Washington has accused the Russian president and his FM of being directly responsible” for an unprovoked” attack on Ukraine The United States has slapped sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, mirroring an earlier decision by the European Union and British government in retaliation for Moscow’s military action […]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 988 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 644,060. According to official figures, 608,475 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022
Ilya Tsukanov Courtesy Sputnik Russia and its allies from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics launched a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday aimed at “demilitarising and denazifying” the country in the face of a security crisis of a scale unseen in Europe in decades.Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a temporary halt to the Russian military […]
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Friday, February 25th, 2022
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති ශ්රී ලංකාව බෞද්ධ ජනරජයක් බවට පත්කළ යුතු බවත් ඒ වෙනුවෙන් රාජ්ය පාලනයේ, ආර්ථික ක්රමයේ, අධ්යාපනයේ සහ නීතියේ වෙනස්කම් සිදුකළ යුතු බවත් මෙම ප්රවාදයෙන් යෝජනා කෙරිණි. බෞද්ධ මූලධර්ම මත පදනම් වී එම අංශ සතරෙහි වෙනස්කම් සිදුවිය යුතු ආකාරය ද මෙම ප්රවාදයෙන් පෙන්වාදුණි. මෙම කාර්යය වෙනුවෙන් මුලින් ම සිදුකරන ලද්දේ ශ්රී ලංකාව බෞද්ධ ජනරජයක් […]
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Friday, February 25th, 2022
ප්රොටෙක්ට් සංගමය පසුගිය දවසක අපිට කණගාටුදායක ප්රවෘත්තියක් ආරංචි වුණා. මේ ඒ වගේ ප්රවෘත්තියක් අපට ආරංචි වූ පළමු අවස්ථාව නොවේ. නිතර නිතර මෙවැනි ප්රවෘත්ති සහ මේ වැනි අත්දැකීම් ලද්දෝ අපට හමු වූණා. මේ කියනා, සිද්ධියට මුහුණ පැවේ හැටන් ප්රදේශයේ ගෘහසේවිකාවන් සිව් දෙනෙකි. ගෘහ සේවය සඳහා ශ්රමිකයන් සපයා දෙන තැරැව්කරුවෙක් මාර්ගයෙන් කොළඹ නගරයේ නිවාසවල ගෘහස්ථ සේවයෙහි යෙදීමේ […]
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