Archive for July, 2023
Monday, July 24th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Plantation Industries and Minister of Industries, Dr. Ramesh Pathirana stated that action will be taken to establish an Agriculture and Plantation Research University by merging all institutions connected to the plantation industry and agriculture sector, as per President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s concept. The fundamental draft related to this has already been prepared, […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
By Sena Thoradeniya Sri Lanka is still reeling from the blows of economic meltdown and bowing down to continuous pressures from Western capitals, this time from Canada as well and India. Hopelessness for the future rather than an abstract theoretical construct has become ingrained in the minds of people as an irrefutable fact. Men and […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement complained loudly that Buddhist temples were being built in the north where there were no Buddhists. They are built on state land and in many instances by the army. In 2011 TNA politicians from Mullaitivu protested against the construction of a Buddhist temple at Bogaswewa near the Sapumalgaskada […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS The Tamil Separatist Movement has tried to dislodge Sinhala settlements and the accompanying Buddhist temples introduced to the north after the war. In 2009 57 Buddhist families were brought in and settled in Navatkuli. Navatkuli is located 6 km from Jaffna. They were Sinhala families that had been driven out of Jaffna in […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS The opposition to Buddhist temples has extended also to cremation of chief priests on the temple premises in the north. Two such protests are on record. The first was in 2017. In 2017, a group of 12 Jaffna-based lawyers had gone to courts to prevent the last rites of the late chief incumbent […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
e-Con e-News Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News July 2023 Part 4 * With the US & India fertilizing chaos in Sri Lanka, while threatening division and invasion – the US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), to allow troops on Lanka’s soil, has apparently been ‘unanimously’ endorsed – Sri Lanka’s President is now summoned […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
Lanka Lead News රටෙත්, සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයේත් සුරක්ෂිතභාවය උදෙසා ‘රණවිරු අපි වෙනුවෙන් අපි’ ජාතික එකමුතුවෙන් අනුරාධපුර රුවන්වැලි මහා සෑය අභියස සලපතල මළුවේ දී අද(22) දින විශේෂ අධිෂ්ඨාන පූජාවක් පැවැත්විණි. මෙම අධිෂ්ඨාන පූජාව සඳහා ආබාධිත රණවිරුවන් 500 කට අධික පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූ අතර, එම අවස්ථාවට ජාතික සංවිධාන නියෝජනය කරමින් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 23: In his book on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, internationally known terrorism expert Dr.Rohan Gunaratna says that de-radicalization of Islamic ideology is the best way to tackle Islamic terrorism. In Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International community (Penguin 2023), Gunaratna says that Islamic terrorism […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
lanka C news ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා තව වතාවක් ඉන්දියාවට ගිය හොත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කිසිම දෙයක් ඉතුරු නොවනු ඇති බව ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ගාමිණී වලේගොඩ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෑතකදී සිදු කළ ඉන්දීය සංචාරයේදී ත්රිකුණාමලයේ කොටසක් ඉන්දියාවට පැවරීමටත්, ඉන්දියාවේ සිට ලංකාවට ගොඩබිම් මාර්ගයක් ඉදි කිරීමටත්, තෙල් නලයකින් ලංකාව ඉන්දියාව සම්බන්ධ කිරීමටත්, විදුලි […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
Lanka Lead News අරගලයෙන් පසු රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ ජනාධිපති ධූරයට පත්කළේ, ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ සහාය ඇතිව රටේ ආර්ථිකය ස්ථාවර කර, ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට බවයි ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ප්රධාන ලේකම් නීතීඥ සාගර කාරියවසම් පවසන්නේ. ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ වෙනත් කිසිදු ව්යාපාරයකට සහාය දැක්වීමට එකඟ නොවූ බවද ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් පවසයි. සාගර කාරියවසම් මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
Courtesy Asian Age The visit of President Ranil Wickremasinghe last week to New Delhi was not of the customary meet-and-greet variety. It was more than symbolic that Sri Lanka should propose a land bridge to connect with India. At no time since the breakout of the ethnic conflict in the early 1980s have Colombo and […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
Courtesy WION The Sri Lankan government tightened security on Sunday (July 23) as activists in the capital city of Colombo commemorated those killed during the 1983 anti-Tamil riots which fuelled a deadly civil war for six days (July 25-30). According to a report by the news agency AFP, authorities deployed armed troops that outnumbered the […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Shenali D Waduge Are we a nation of people being handled by external forces knowingly (via funds/positions/perks/scholarships/sponsorships/gifts etc) or unknowingly (victim to social media psychological indoctrination as a result of one’s inability to think & put facts into perspective without falling prey to disinformation/misinformation) – this is the battle that prevails. So at both spectrums, […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have seen many news items about the visit by the President of Sri Lanka and the MOUs signed between the two countries to convert Trincomalee harbor into an energy hub A multi-product oil pipeline to be laid between Trincomalee and the nearest Indian export port coupled with the development of Steel […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
RANJITH SOYSA Indian PM Narendra Mody has advised Sri Lankan PM following many other Prime Ministers of India such as Indira Gandhi and her son Raji Gandhi. He said that India expects Sri Lanka to implement the 13th to ensure a life of dignity and respect for Tamil population” It is frivolous to believe that […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Manusha Media ජනතාව දැනුමෙන් ඈත් කරලා, බොරුවෙන් අන්ධ කරලා වෛරය කරා ගෙන යාම ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ අරමුණයි ඒත් රට වැටුණ වෙලාවේ ජනතාවගේ බර කරට අරගෙන, රට ගොඩ ගැනීම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ වැඩපිළිවෙලයි වැඩ්ඩෙක් කියලා හිතාගෙන හිටපු සජිත් ප්රේමදාස වැඩ බැරි දාස කෙනෙක් කියලා දැන් රටටම පෙනිලා ඉවරයි සජිත්ට හැමදාම විපක්ෂ නායක පුටුවේ ඉන්න අපි උදව් […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. “අද රට යම් යහපත් තත්වයකට පත්ව ඇති බව කුහකත්වයෙන් තොරව පිළිගන්න ඕන සත්යයක්.”-කිරින්දේ අස්සජි හිමි“ව්යවස්ථාදායකය හා විධායකය නොගැටී රට සුභවාදී දිශාවකට යොමු කිරිමට ජනාධිපතිතුමා සමඟ අත්වැල් බැඳ ගැනීමට අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට හැකි වුණා.”– උඩවෙල කෝලිත හිමි.උන් වහන්සේලා මේ බව ප්රකාශ කළේ දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අග්රාමාත්ය ධූරයට පත්ව වසරක් පිරීම නිමිත්තෙන් අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේ 2023.07.22 දින […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Lanka Lead News අද දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී මුලතිව් හි කුරුන්දි අශෝක විහාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් හා වර්තමානයේ එහි ඇතිවී තිබෙන අර්බුදය පිළිබඳව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා විසින් බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික අමාත්ය විදුර වික්රමනායක මහතාගෙන් ප්රශ්න කිරීමක් සිදු කළේය. එහිදී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා මතුකළේ අද දිනයේත් දමිළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයකු වන රවීහරන් ඇතුළු පිරිසක් මෙම විහාර භූමියේ […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Lanka Lead News තමා දන්නා ලෙසින් පක්ෂයේ කිසිවෙකුත් විදෙස්ගත ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්ට රටට මුදල් එවන්න එපැයැයි නොකියූ බවත්, තමාගේ මෙම ප්රකාශය හැන්සාඩ් ගත කරන ලෙසත් ජාතික ජනබලවේගයේ නායක අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පවසා තිබේ. එහෙත් ජාතික ජනබලවේගයේ සභික සුනිල් හඳුන්නෙත්ති හා තවත් ක්රියාකාරිකයකු එසේ විදෙස්ගත ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන්ට රටට මුදල් එවන්න එපා යැයි කියූ වීඩියෝ […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Courtesy abc News Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the use of the Indian rupee to be used in local transactions, as the island nation struggles to build its depleted foreign reserves and to emerge from last year’s unprecedented economic crisis. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
ByShishir Gupta Courtesy The Hindustan Times During PM Modi and Wickremesinghe’s private lunch, it is not difficult to assume that China was the elephant in the room as Beijing has been engaging Colombo. During his discussions with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi apparently reminded the visitor that India was among the first responders […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The former LTTE members, who were found guilty of the bomb attack on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) on 31 January 1996 which killed 91 individuals, have been granted presidential pardon. Accordingly, former LTTE member Selliah Navaratnam who had been sentenced to 200 years in prison and S. Shanmugarajah who was […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has urged licensed commercial banks to take immediate measures to adequately reduce lending rates in view of the recent reduction of policy interest rates. Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, in a letter directed to the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association (SLBA) chairman, said the Central Bank would […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry says that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has discussed India’s intervention for the progress of the plantation Tamil people who have been in Sri Lanka for about 200 years. Joining a press conference held at the President’s Media Centre today (22), to announce the outcomes of President Wickremesinghe’s official […]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Steps will be taken to provide commercially valuable lands located in major cities in the country to investors in a bid to contribute to the economy, State Minister of Urban Development & Housing says. Arundika Fernando also stated that the government has informed the investors in writing to resume the projects on commercially […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2023
by Garvin Karunaratne The Peoples’ Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at a Seed Distribution at Mawatagama rightly said We look forward to accomplishing the special goal of building the economy of the country”. In detail, the economic development of the country has to be with the farmers”. He has also emphasized that the next challenge is […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2023
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical EngineersLeading Engineer of the World 2006, UK Authority Award This article is written not to scorn Tamils, but to think and educate themselves about their shortfall and correct themselves rather than insulting others. […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2023
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre Her Excellency R. Demet Sekercioglu, Ambassador of Turkey for Sri Lanka, made a courtesy call on Acting Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at the State Ministry of Defence today (Jul 21). Minister Tennakoon held a cordial discussion with the Ambassador following a warm reception at his office. […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2023
වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන ආයුර්වේද සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත සුසිල් ප්රේම්ජයන්ත ඇමතිවරයා විසින් 2023 ජූලි 05 වැනි දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පළමුවර කියවා ඇත. එයට එරෙහිව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය කරන්නේය පදනමින් මත්තෙගොඩ රෝපා ආයුර්වේද රෝහලේ වෛද්ය බී. ඒ. රත්නපාල මහතා නීතීඥ අරුණ උණවටුන මහතා මගින් SC/SD/22/23 අංක යටතේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 121 ව්යවස්ථාව යටතේ පෙත්සමක්ඉදිරිපත් […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana During his inaugural visit to India after assuming office, President Ranil Wickremesinghe commended the neighbouring nation’s unwavering support and solidarity during Sri Lanka’s recent economic crisis. Addressing a joint press briefing, he expressed his sincere gratitude to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government and people of India for their continued support […]
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