Archive for June, 2023
Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Courtesy Iranian Labour News Agency Iran’s Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian has said that a project to construct a 120-megawatt power plant by Iranian experts in Sri Lanka is at its final stages and will hopefully become operational in the near future. The Iranian official was speaking in Tehran on Saturday during a meeting with […]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Former MP Ven. Dr. Ellawala Medhananda Thera has refuted all claims that the Kurundi Viharaya in Mullaitivu is a kovil, asserting that the historical site is, in fact a temple. Speaking at a special press conference held in this regard, the archaeological expert alleged that despite recent claims that there was once a […]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to operate electric buses within the city of Colombo, Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardena revealed. Accordingly, he noted that the proposal was approved in a bid to reduce both, the environmental damage caused by exhaust fumes, and the impact of increasing fuel prices. The solution for […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
D Rajaratnam Month of May saw Lanka’s ever renewing political conversation tuning to a new subject. SLVLOG a you tube channel organised a stand-up comedy in a leading religious private school. Comedy topic : Buddhism and its affiliated nationalism. While the comedian ridiculed the nation’s piety and cultural values cemented for centuries the audience laughed […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) ඉංග්රීසි ජාතික භාෂාව කිරීමට යාම ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දියුණුවටද? ඉන් බෙදුම්වාදය අවසන් වෙයිද? ආසියාවේ නේටෝවට ලංකාවේ බැඳීම වෙනුවෙන්ද? ඉංග්රීසි ජාතික භාෂාවක් කිරීමට යාම ගැන සාකච්ඡාවක් මේ දිනවල සමාජයේ පවතී. ආසියාවේ නේටෝවක් ගැනද සාකච්ඡාවක් ඇත. මේ කෙටි ලිපිය ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ය. 1. වාහන වලින් ශ්රී අකුර ඉවත් කළා…2. බලය බෙදන්න 13වන […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. එදා දෙවෙනි ලෝක යුධ සමයේ අප මුහුණ දුන් දුෂ්කරතාවලට සමාන තත්වයකට අපගේ තරුණ ප්රජාව පසුගිය සමයේ මුහුණ දුන්නා. රජය සාර්ථක විසදුම් සමග අප ක්රමයෙන් එම අසීරු තත්ත්වයෙන් අත්මිදෙමින් සිටිනවා.-අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.06.17 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවති රොටරි ඉන්ටර්නැෂනල් හි 33 වැනි දිස්ත්රීක් අන්තර් ක්රියාකාරී සමාජයේ සම්මේලනය […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
සුගතදාස ක්රීඩා සංකීර්ණ සේවක සංගමය. නුවරඑලියේ තුරඟ තරඟ ක්රිඩා අමාත්යංශයට අයත් අක්කර 32 ක භූමි ප්රමාණයකි. මෙය නඩත්තු කිරීම සඳහා ක්රිඩා අමාත්යංශයේ ලේකම්ගේ අත්සනින් 2011.09.07 වන දින ඔහුගේ අංක MS/1/1310/12 දරණ ලිපි ගොනු අංකය යටතේ ලේඛනයක් මගින් 1997 අංක 17 දරණ පනත මගින් ස්ථාපිත කර ඇති සුගතදාස ජාතික ක්රිඩා සංකීර්ණ අධිකාරියට දෙවන පාර්ශවය ලෙස 2012 […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1. ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ධූර කාලය 2024 නොවැම්බර්වලදී අවසන් වේ. ඒ 19 වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය මගින් ජනාධිපති ධූර කාලය වසර 6 සිට 5 දක්වා අඩු කළ හෙයිනි. 2. ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 83.(ආ) අනුව්යවස්ථාව අනුව ජනාධිපතිගේ ධූර කාලය වසර 6කට වඩා වැඩිකර ගන්නේ නම් ජනමතවිචාරණයක් පැවැත්විය යුතුය. නමුත් වසර […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
Garvin Karunaratne, former SLAS, I had assumed duties as the Additional Government Agent at Kegalla in 1967 and the first assignment given to me by the Government Agent, Maralanda was to meet the Hon Prime Minister every Saturday and Sunday at 9 AM at the Warakapola Rest House and be with him till dusk, accompanying […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
Courtesy Hindustan Times Among the charge-sheeted persons are C Gunashekharaan alias Guna and Pushparajah alias Pookutti Kanna, Sri Lankan nationals who run a drug syndicate in the island nation and work closely with Pakistani drugs and arms supplier Haji Salim, the NIA said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 13 […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Exactly one year after political chaos and economic crisis hit Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is visiting India for a day on July 21 to consolidate ties with New Delhi, which gave nearly USD 3.5 billion in emergency aid to stabilize the island nation. While the economic and political situation of the country […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga The President Wickremesinghe must be thanked and congratulated for sharing his vision and plan to restore the failed State and economy of Sri Lanka with the people. His participatory approach to development has to be commended. His comprehensive statement of June 1 on sounds very inclusive but excludes the Parliament and specially the […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Geopolitical Economy Report Ben Norton discusses the rise and fall of US-led neocolonial financial order, from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that established the US dollar as the global reserve currency; to the 1971 Nixon Shock that ended the gold standard, Volcker Shock, Third World debt crisis, and emergence of neoliberalism; and finally to the […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
ආචාර්ය ධරිණී රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ආචාර්ය ධරිණී රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ‘අවිනිශ්චිතතාව මධ්යයේ නොනැසී ප්රකෘති තත්ත්වයට පත්වීම’(Recovery Unabated Amid Uncertainty)යනුවෙන් ජාත්යන්තර මුල්ය අරමුදල විසින් මෑතකදී නිකුත් කර ඇති වාර්තාවකට අනුව ඉතාම වේගවත්ම ආර්ථික වර්ධනයක් සහ ගතිකයක් සහිත කලාපය ආසියාවයි. 1 කොවිඩ්-19 මර්දනයට යයි කියමින් රටවල් වසා දැමීම,ලොක් ඩවුන් සහ ඇඳිරිනීති ආදි ක්රියාමාර්ග මගින් ගෝලීය සැපයුම්දාම කඩාකප්පල් වීම්, වර්තමාන […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga Pros and cons of SL’s palm oil industry Jun 16 (TM) The use of palm oil and the cultivation of oil palm have remained a controversial topic for years, with back and forth debates as to whether the potential harms of palm oil or oil palm cultivation outweigh their potential benefits. I The […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga Jun 15 (CT) A top official of Dept of Railways said applications from prospective investors to lease around 14,000 acres of land belonging to the Dept have been called and said it will be in effect till 24 June Sri Lanka Railway is vastly underutilized. The track and the stations are hardly used […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානය කොන්ද පණ තියෙනවා නම් ඩිජිටල්කරණ කටයුතු වහාම ආරම්භ කරන්න ඩිජිටල්කරණයට මුදල් නැතිනම් විදේශ ගත ශ්රමිකයින් එකතුවෙලා මුදල් සොයා දෙන්නම් – විදෙස් බලය සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරයි – විදේශ රැකියා ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් කිරීම ප්රමාද කරන්නේ කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මිනිස් ජාවාරම්කරුවන්ගේ සාක්කුවට වැටී තිබෙන නිසාදැයි ප්රශ්න ්රන බවත්, ඇමැතිවරයාට කොන්දක් […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
GET REAL with Mahieash Johnney | Episode – 164 | Are the laws in Sri Lanka curtailing the freedom of expression, in the guise of protecting Buddhism? Convenor of Lawyers for Buddhist Rights Attorney-At-Law Krisantha Nissanka joins Mahieash Johnney on Get Real. Original on-air date – 13th June 2023
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) නීති පැනවීමට කැමැත්ත දීම අතීතයේදී ජනතාවට සෘජුවම සිදුකිරීමට තාක්ෂණික පහසුකම් නොතිබුණි. ඒ හේතුවෙන් ජනතාවගේ නියෝජිතයන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නම් ව්යුහයකට මැතිවරණයකින් ඇතුල්කර පාර්ලිමේන්තුව මගින් නීති පැනවීම සිදුකර ගන්නා ලදී. එහෙත් අද තත්ත්වය වෙනස් ය. තාක්ෂණය බොහෝ දියුණුය. කෘතිම බුද්ධිය පවා පාසල් විෂයක් වෙමින් ඇත. පරිගණක සාක්ෂරතාවයෙන් යුත් සමාජයක් බිහිවී ඇත. එසේනම් අතීතයේ […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D Map 4 – Christian influence This map shows the Catholic Belt” in Sri Lanka. Red color indicates electorates with Christian over 30%. Between 10-29 is in green and 1-9 is in blue. Not a single church was attacked during the past 100 years until after 1977 the unethical conversion workers began […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando In 1815, the locals consented to hand over the Governance to the British to govern Ceylon. The social standards maintained during the 16, 17 and 18th centuries were challenged mainly by foreigners such as Solis, Portuguese and the Dutch. Some of the social norms were deep-seated in Sinhala traditions. However, […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Sugath Kulatunga There is a raging controversy on the proposal to privatise SLT. The Sectoral Committee in Parliament has said that it will be a threat to national security. The Sectoral Committee on Finance has stepped in to declare that it is not. There are comments supporting the privatization proposal from some professionals. It seems […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Senaka Weeraratna I refer to the article by Nicholas Dias Abeyesinghe in Lankaweb on the Beira Lake I checked the meaning of the word ‘Beira’ in Portuguese using Google. The answer given by Google is that it means ‘ Border ‘. The Portuguese word for Lake is ‘ Lago ‘ Using the word ‘ Beira’ for […]
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Friday, June 16th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan Rupee today (16 June) appreciated against the US Dollar, as per the reports of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). Accordingly, the buying rate was reported at Rs. 300.51, while the selling rate of the US Dollar was recorded at Rs. 319.66. The selling rate of the US Dollar […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS After the Briton-Wood agreement international financial system has created many issues for many countries, developing countries have been major victims, because small and developing countries got caught into in a trap of developed countries where there have hard currencies, and BRICS wants to introduce a new international currency unit despite the existing […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando In 1515, the locals consented to hand over the Governance to the British to govern Ceylon. The social standards maintained during the 16, 17 and 18th centuries were challenged mainly by foreigners such as Solis, Portuguese and the Dutch. Some of the social norms were deep-seated in Sinhala traditions. However, […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Nicholas Dias Abeyesinghe During the Portuguese Era in Sri Lanka the Portuguese referred to the lake in Colombo as ‘Beira’. This is just the Portuguese word for ‘lake’. They did not give it a special name. All the lakes throughout Sri Lanka have special names. Such as, ‘Nuwara Weva’, Tisa Weva, Yoda Weva, MInneriya Weva, […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Manusha Media සිංගප්පූරුව වැනි රටවල මාධ්ය ආයතන ස්වයං වාරණයක් සහිතව රටේ අවශ්යතාවය වෙනුවෙන් වගකීම් සහගතව කටයුතු කරන නමුත් ලංකාවේ මාධ්ය ආයතන වගකීමෙන් යුතුව කටයුතු නොකිරීම විශාල ගැටලුවක් බවට පත්ව ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. ලංකාවේ මාධ්ය ආයතන සිදුකරන ඇතැම් වාර්තා නිසා ලංකාවට පැමිණෙන සංචාරකයින්ද නොපැමිණෙන බවද, එක්තරා ජාතික පුවත්පතක් […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Embracing with love – Priyangika with her biological mother Priyangika Samanthie was another ‘brown child from abroad’ when she landed in Norway, seven weeks after she was born. Even though many Sri Lankans thought that she grew up white for a better opportunity, she was searching for her roots since her childhood. […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The significance of their findings cannot be understated. Water samples collected from the North Central Province revealed shocking levels of calcium, reaching up to 200 mg per litre, and fluoride concentrations of 2-3 mg per litre—both far exceeding acceptable limits CKDu’s impact on Sri Lanka has been staggering. Its discovery over three […]
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