Archive for June, 2023
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
By Garvin Karunaratne former GA Matara The twitter statement made by Kristilina Georgina, the Managing Director of the IMF, quoted by Adaderana on 22/6 is to be admired. She said that I warmly welcomed the strong ownership by the Sri Lankan government to address current economic challenges. We are committed to support Sri Lanka’s economic […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
LankaWeb Editorial Finally In the face of sweeping genocide allegations against Sri Lanka, Canada takes a firm stand, debunking the claims and highlighting political opportunism as succinctly reported in prominent recent News Media. The Canadian Government has officially communicated to the Sri Lankan Government that there is no credible evidence supporting the occurrence of genocide […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර මහනුවර ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, මේ සමඟ ඇති ආචාර්ය ටිකිරි බණ්ඩාර ඇටිපොළ සම ලේකම් – සත්ව අවිහිංසා ජාතික එකමුතුව ගේ ලිපියට ඔබතුමාගේ ක්ශනික සහ දැඩි අවධානය යොමුකරණු කැමැත්තෙමි. එම ලිපියෙන් දක්වා ඇති යථාර්තවාදි අදහස් සහ මවිසින් යෝජනාකොට ඇති කරු ණුද සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන මේ සින්හල බෞද්ධ රටේ සත්ව ඝාතනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම තහනම් කරනමෙන් මම ඉල්ලා […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka’s central government long term debt, excluding the debt of government entities, amounts to $84 billion as of 2023. About half of it is foreign debt and the other is domestic debt. After months of negotiations, foreign debt holders agreed to debt restructure. However, holders of domestic debt are dragging their feet […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. මෙරට නවසීලන්ත මහකොමසාරිස් මයිකල් ඇපල්ටන් මහතා 2023/06/28 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. ශ්රී ලංකාව සමග කෙරෙන ද්විපාර්ශික ආර්ථික සහයෝගිතාව ඉහළ නංවන ලෙසත්, කොළඹ සැලැස්ම යටතේ ලබා දෙන සහය වැඩි කරන ලෙසත් අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා මෙහිදී නවසීලන්තයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක් කළේය. මහරගම ශ්රී ලංකා දන්ත වෛද්ය විද්යාලය නවසීලන්ත රජය ලබාදුන් […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන අග්රාමාත්ය ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය ලොව පුරා විසිරී සිටින මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව ඒකරාශීව සිය ආගමික පිළිවෙත් ඉටු කරමින් හජ් උත්සවය සමරයි. ඉමහත් හරසරින් සැමරෙන ආගමික පිළිවෙතක් වූ හජ් උත්සවයේ ප්රමුඛ පරමාර්ථය වන්නේ සමානාත්මතාවයෙන් හා සහජීවනයෙන් දිවි ගෙවීමයි. එකී අධ්යාත්මික වටිනාකම්වලින් ශ්රී ලාංකීය සමාජය තව තවත් පෝෂණය කොට පටු භේද අතැර සියලු දෙනාම මිත්රත්වයෙන් […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Courtesy Malay Mail COLOMBO, June 29 — The World Bank approved US$700 million (RM3.27 billion) in budgetary and welfare support for Sri Lanka today, the biggest funding tranche for the crisis-hit island nation since an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal in March. About US$500 million of the funds will be allocated for budgetary support while […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s crippling debt crisis and the long wait it had to endure until receiving a bailout from international creditors forced emerging markets to re-evaluate the existing global financial structure, according to economists and diplomats at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday. They also noted that the world needs a more […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Education Minister Susil Premajayantha held a discussion with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Assistant Administrator Ms. Anjalie Kaur and its executive officials in Washington DC, on the development and collaboration requirements of Sri Lanka’s education sector. The Minister pointed out that plans are being made to expand the […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Central Bank on Wednesday presented possible domestic debt restructuring scenarios to the Cabinet of Ministers, which indicated that restructuring/optimization will apply only to Treasury bills held by the Central Bank and the bonds held by superannuation funds. Interestingly, it appears that banks have been excluded in the process. However, the […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers have approved the domestic debt restructuring programme. Accordingly, the proposed restructuring of the country’s local debts was approved at the special Cabinet meeting which concluded a short while ago. All Government MPs were notified a short while ago at the Presidential Secretariat, the Presidnet’s Media Division (PMD) reported, adding […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry has stated that it is ‘good to have’ multiple ‘big players’ in the world, as opposed to a single monopoly-like player, and has called for the West to come to terms with this. During an interview with CGTN reporter Zhou Yiqiu in Beijing about China’s role in […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Nanda Abeywickrama Auckland It is quite by accident that I came to know that my dear friend and colleague Shyamon ( Jayasinghe –stage name Saparamadu) had passed away in Melbourne recently. In recent times Shyamon has figured more as a regular Facebook –YouTube commentator than anything else and the appreciations and public comments too seem […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. චීනය, ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන අඛණ්ඩ සහය ඉතා ඉහළින් අගය කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති කි ෂෙන්හොං (Qi Zhenhong )මහතා 2023.06.26 දින කොළඹ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සදහන් කළේ ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නවලට දීර්ඝ කාලීන විසඳුම් වෙනුවෙන් චීනයෙන් සෘජු ආයෝජන මෙන්ම කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය, පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය, තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ, අධ්යාපන […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Cricket News https://www.skysports.com/cricket/news/12123/12909999/english-cricket-deep-rooted-in-racism-sexism-and-classism-report-by-icec-finds This is true not only of English Cricket but also of ICC. Senaka Weeraratna is the inventor of DRS. Google and Wikipedia recognize him as there is no other challenger. ICC, however, is always in a state of denial when it comes to attributing due credit to the inventiveness of non-white authors. […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS Kurundi Vihara, situated in Mullativu district, is today at the centre of a battle for supremacy between the crafty Tamil Separatist Movement and the sleepy, lethargic Buddhist lobby. The Tamil Separatist Movement is objecting to any extension of the Kurundi Vihara forest reserve. Tamil Separatists have been objecting to Kurundi since 2018, but […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. In a grievous violation of basic human rights and religious freedom, circulars by the Lahore Bar Association and the Gojra Bar Association instruct local police forces to take pre-emptive and preventive” measures to ensure Ahmadi Muslims neither participate in Qurbani (animal sacrifice ritual […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Kandy Mr President and the Minister in charge of Internal Security, please see the following incident where an ethnic extremist politician in the hill country, who is also not a legitimate Bhummiputra of this Island nation has taken the law into his hand and intimidated and obstructed the police officers who were […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
ආචාර්ය ටිකිරි බණ්ඩාර ඇටිපොළ සම ලේකම් – සත්ව අවිහිංසා ජාතික එකමුතුව ගවයින්, එළුවන් ඇතුළුව තවත් අහිංසක සතුන්ගේ ජිවිත ඉතා ඛේදනීය අයුරින් බිලිගන්නා තිරස්චීන ආගමික උත්සවයක් ඉදිරියේදී එළැඹෙන්නට නියමිත බව දින දර්ශනය කියාපායි. දහස් ගණන් සතුන්ගේ ජිවිත බිලිගනිමින්, එම අහිංසක සතුන්ගේ රුධිරයෙන් තම දෑත් හා නිවෙස් සෝදා දමන මෙම දිනය, ගවයින් ඇතුළුව ලොව පුරා කෝටි සංඛ්යාත අහිංසක සතුන්ගේ […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Written and compiled by Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge- Associate Professor Educational underachievement is a major problem among children. Many children struggle in school with learning difficulties. Some learning difficulties relate to neurobiological factors and alter brain functioning. The term” learning difficulties” is used to cover a wide range of problems. Children who have difficulty with handwriting […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් චීනය, ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබාදෙන අඛණ්ඩ සහය ඉතා ඉහළින් අගය කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ චීන තානාපති කි ෂෙන්හොං (Qi Zhenhong )මහතා 2023.06.26 දින කොළඹ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේදී අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සදහන් කළේ ආර්ථික ප්රශ්නවලට දීර්ඝ කාලීන විසඳුම් වෙනුවෙන් චීනයෙන් සෘජු ආයෝජන මෙන්ම කෘෂිකර්මාන්තය, පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්තිය, තොරතුරු […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Courtesy Nikkei Asia Funding would be biggest infusion for crisis-hit nation since IMF deal COLOMBO (Reuters) — Sri Lanka will enter into an agreement with the World Bank for $500 million in budgetary support after the cabinet approved it on Tuesday, the biggest funding tranche for the crisis-hit nation since an International Monetary Fund deal […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Lanka Lead News අරගලය අවස්ථාවේ නිතිඥයන් බහුතරයක් සිටියේ අරගලකරුවන්ගේ පාර්ශවයේ බවත්, අරගලකරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් නොමිලේ පෙනීසිටින බව පැවසූ නිතිඥයන් අද සොයා ගැනීමටවත් නැති බවත් නීතිඥ මනෝජ් ගමගේ මහතා පවසයි. අමරකීර්ති අතුකෝරළ මන්ත්රීවරයාව එදා මහමග ඇදගෙන ගොස් මලේච්ඡ ලෙස මරා දැමූ අරගලකරුවන් 42 ට විරුද්ධව මහ අධිකරණයේ අධිචෝදනා ගොනුවෙද්දී අරගලකරුවන් වෙනුවෙන් නොමිලේ පෙනීසිටින බව පැවසූ නිතිඥයන්ගේ දුරකථන […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Courtesy The Morning The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka, the Mahavamsa”, has been listed among the 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Memory of the World (MoW) International Register in 2023. It is one of the world’s longest unbroken historical accounts, and the first […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe assured that the restructuring of domestic debt will have no impact on the membership balance of any public funds, including the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). He emphasized that the rate of return for superannuation funds will not be affected in any way. Furthermore, the President stated that the restructuring of […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry has called for a ‘global debt restructuring architecture’, in a bid to prevent smaller countries and emerging economies from ‘embroiling in controversy forever’. Speaking to CNBC during his visit to China, Sabry spoke of several matters of concern, including the potential ways in which China […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2023
Courtesy The Telegraph Vladimir Putin said blackmail attempts” were doomed to failure” in an angry address after an aborted mutiny by Wagner mercenary fighters over the weekend. The Russian President claimed the mutineers wanted Russians to fight each other” but had badly miscalculated” as he thanked those who had stood down to avoid bloodshed. Mr Putin […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2023
Dilrook Kannangara The Vallipuram Inscription or Vallipuram Gold Plate is an important ancient artifact that busted fake homeland claims of a certain ethnic group found. It was unearthed as part of archeological excavations carried out during the British era. It states that the Sinhala Buddhist temple in the area now known as Vallipuram (Veli Pura […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2023
Manusha Media විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කරන ලෙසට ඉල්ලා සිටිමින් සිංහල රාවය සංවිධානයේ අක්මීමන දයාරතන හිමියන් ඇතුළු එම සංවිධානයේ නියෝජිතයින් පිරිසක් අමාත්යාංශයට පැමිණ කළ ඉල්ලීමට කම්කරු සහ විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා සුබවාදී ප්රතිචාරයක් ලබාදුන්නේය. සිංහල රාවය ජාතික සංවිධානයේ නියෝජිත කණ්ඩායම පෙර දැනුම්දීමකින් තොරව අමාත්යාංශයට පැමිණ තිබුණත් අමාත්යවරයා ඒ වන විට පැවති සාකච්ඡාවක් […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2023
Malinda Seneviratne Human beings are curious. Their curiosity prompts them to explore the unknown, venture into unmapped territory and test their own capacities to endure. They climb, they sail and they dive to depths never reached before. Exploration itself is a challenge. Explorers encounter the unknown which could take the form of species and peoples […]
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