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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Economic backwardness in Sri Lanka had been a part of life of Sri Lankans since the era of homo sapiens and rulers in the country from time to time have been able to introduce new policies or to reform the existing policies with a view to generating productivity. In Britain there was […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ( UDHR)was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) In 1946, UN had wanted a declaration that would guarantee the rights of individuals, because the UN Charter only dealt with the rights of sovereign states. UN […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Dilrook Kannangara If functioning well, the gem industry has the highest local value addition of all exports. Unlike garments, EPZs and tea, the gem industry does not have imported raw materials. There is no requirement for foreign investments as locals are capable of investing with required machinery and expertise. In other words, the net export […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former Ambassador to UAE and Israel former Chairman Consumer affairs Authority, President Ambassador’s Forum, Solicitor in England and Wales sarathdw28@gmail.com Food in any form is difficult to make. Some are in fresh and original form – the rest is made by the man for consumption. 2.6 million tons of food is […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Sarath Bulathsinghala 12 Jan 2023 Canada is following up on Monkey Moon’s Darusman’s Report a clandestine report purportedly made for the eyes of the former UN Secretary of General of the UN – Moon only, but later surreptitiously leaked to the public and now used as a major document to castigate the Sri Lankan government […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
debtjustice.org.uk Sri Lanka, along with many other low- and middle-income countries, has experienced a series offinancial shocks due to both external and internal factors. Global forces have caused food and energyimport costs to soar and interest rates to rise, even as the currency has devalued significantly. Theseshocks, along with a history of policy mismanagement—and specifically […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
By Jeremy Kuzmarov Courtesy Global Research Says the U.S. and NATO triggered the conflict and are making Europeans suffer Pierre de Gaulle, a grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. is making Europeans suffer by fueling the Ukraine conflict and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia. A corporate consultant and bank manager, […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Empire Files Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants. Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it came to cover so much land since. From […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ (ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර්) කුරුඳුගමුරට පුරාණයව්ය.ව. 1815 දක්වා කුරුඳුගමුරට යනුවෙන් හඳුවනු ලැබූ, සිංහල රාජ්ය පාලන කොට්ඨාශයට දිවයිනේ නැගෙනහිර යාන්ඔය, මාඔය සහ පේර්ආරු ආදී ගංගා නිම්න ආශි්රත භූමි ඇතූළත් වී ඇත. ඒ භූමිය ලීිග් දහයක මුහුදු තීරයක් සහ රට තුළට ලීග් අටකට වැඩි භූමි ප්රදේශයක් වූ බව පුර්තුගීසි ජාතික රිබෙයිරෝ සඳහන් කරයි.1 ව්ය.ව. 1876 […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
තිසර සමල් ජාතික ඵලදායිතා ලේකම් කාර්යාලය මගින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලැබූ 2020 ජාතික ඵලදායිතා තරගයේ සමිමාන ලැබූ උතුරු මැද පළාතේ ආයුර්වේද දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවෙි පළාත් ආයුර්වේද රෝහල, ග්රාමීය ආයුර්වේද රෝහල්, ආයුර්වේද මධ්යම බෙහෙත් ශාලා හා ආයුර්වේද නිෂ්පාදනාගාර ඇගයීමෙි උත්සවයක් පළාත් අණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්විණි. මෙහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතා උතුරු මැද පළාතේ , […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.01.12 දින බණ්ඩාරනායක අනුස්මරණ සම්මන්ත්රණ ශාලාවේ පැවති වර්ල්ඩ් විෂන් අපද්රව්ය කළමනාකරණය පිළිබඳ සමුළුව සම්මන්ත්රණය අමතමිනි.මෙහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්රාමාත්ය වරයා – පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡන්දය පැවැත් වීමෙන් අනතුරුව පළාත් පාලන ආයතන සඳහා පරිසරය මුල් කරගෙන පරිසර හිතකාමී ජනතා හිතවාදී නව රෙගුලාසි ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට ඔබ සමග එක්ව කටයුතු […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය චීනය සමඟ සමග ඉතා සමීප සම්බන්ධතාවයක් ගෙන ගිය පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාට ගරු කිරීමක් ලෙස එතුමාගේ සංවත්සර දිනයේ දී ප්රදේශයේ තරුණ පෙළට පරිගණක පුහුණු මධ්යස්ථානයක් ලබා දෙනවා.. -ශ්රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති කාර්යාල උපදේශක Chen Xiangyuan පවසයි.ශ්රී ලංකාවට උදව් අවශ්ය සෑම මොහොතේම සැබෑ මිතුරෙකු ලෙස චීනය අප සමග එකට සිටියා. […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
By Ben Chu Economics editor, Newsnight Courtesy BBC Sri Lanka’s central bank has urged China and India to agree a write-down of their loans as soon as possible. The crisis-hit Indian Ocean state defaulted on its debt repayments and negotiated a $2.9bn (£2.4bn) bailout. But the International Monetary Fund will not release the cash until […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Lanka Lead News ට්විටර් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කරමින් විදේශ අමාත්ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ඩොලර් මිලියන 11.7ක සහනාධාර ලබාදීම පිළිබදව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයට ස්තුතිය පළ කරයි. ඊට අමතරව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයේ ශ්රී ලංකා කාර්යාලය නැවත විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වූ නිලධාරින් දෙදෙනෙකු සමග අමාත්ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ගනුලැබූ පින්තූරයක් ද මාධ්යවල දක්නට ඇත. ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදයට සෘජුව සහ […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පාස්කු ප්රහාරයට අදාළව වගකීම් පැහැර හැරීම පිළිබදව රාජ්ය නිලධාරීන් 4 දෙනෙකු සහ ජනාධිපතිවරයකු පෞද්ගලිකව වගකිව යුතු බවට ලබාදී ඇති නඩු තීන්දුව පිළිබදව ලංකා ලීඩ් විසින් ජාතික සංවිධානවල මතය විමසන ලදී. මේ මාධ්ය ප්රකාශක වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතාගේ මතය ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්. ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට අදාළව විධායකයේ වගකීම් පැහැර හැරීමේ වගකීමෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට පවා ගැලවිය නොහැකි […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Supreme Court today ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena to pay a sum of Rs.100 million as damages to the victims of Easter Sunday attacks. Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former SIS director Nilantha Jayawardhane were ordered to pay Rs.75 million each as compensation. Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando was ordered […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board approval for Sri Lanka’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) is now expected in the second quarter of 2023, Standard Chartered’s Global Research report revealed. Accordingly, the prediction was made owing to delays in securing financial assurances from its bilateral creditors, the report read, adding that this could further […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Adarsha Karandana arrested for allegedly blackmailing former Parliamentarian Prof. Ashu Marasinghe after threatening to post sexually-explicit videos on websites was ordered to be released on bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis ordered Adarsha Karandana to be released on two sureties of Rs.500,000 each. Adarsha Karandana was […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLT) and Sri Lanka-based Lakdhanavi Limited. Accrdingly, Fitch Ratings has downgraded the National Long-Term Ratings of 10 Sri Lankan banks following the recent sovereign downgrade and recalibration of the agency’s […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Supreme Court today ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena to pay a sum of Rs.100 million as damages to the victims of Easter Sunday attacks. Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former SIS director Nilantha Jayawardhane were ordered to pay Rs.75 million each as compensation. Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando was ordered […]
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