Archive for August 12th, 2023
Saturday, August 12th, 2023
e-Con e-News August 2023 Part 3 ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ This ee reproduces Pakistan’s Ambassador in Washington recounting the US demand to remove their leader Imran Khan…or else… This coup – though downplayed by the media as a coup – was apparently accomplished this week, with the collusion of Pakistan’s courts and military leadership. […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Garvin Karunaratne former GA Matara 1971-1973 Can we stop imports and save dollars. Yes, We CAN. Let us talk from what we once did. Once when I worked in Nuwara Eliya a car loan of tomatoes purchased at Hanguranketa made my home a Cannery for a weekend and we made Tomatoe Sauce that lasted six […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
විමල් පටබැඳිගේ – ශාස්ත්රවේදී, නීතිඥ, විශ්රාමික සොලිසිටර් 3 වෙනි කොටසෙන් …. ඉංගිරිසීන් මුහුදුබඩ පළාත අහෝසි කොට සීමා වෙනස් කොට වන්නි ප්රදේශය යළි නිර්මාණය කිරීමට පෙර සහ මලබාර් කොලනි පිහිටුවීමට පෙර නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ උතුරු සීමාවේ සිට යාපන අර්ධද්වීප සීමාව (කිලාලි කලපුව* දක්වා වූ භූමි ප්රදේශය, දිවයිනේ ඊශාණදිග ප්රදේශය සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජන්ම භූමියක් විය. 4 වෙනි කොටස […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. අපි ඇත්ත කතා කරමු (truth, nothing but the truth!) *(A) ඓතිහාසික පසුබිම – කෘතිම නිජබිම් පිස්සුව (කොසොවෝ ආකෘතිය) ක්රිස්තියානී යුරෝපීය මිෂනාරීන් මතුකල ඩලිත් දකුණු ඉන්දියාව හා හින්දි උතුරු ඉන්දියාව යන බෙදීම අනුව යමින් හා සුද්දන් ඇතිකල මැඩ්රාස් ප්රොවින්ස් යන කෘතිම ප්රදේශය මායිම් කරගෙන 1920 දශකයේදී වලදී ද්රවිඩස්ථාන් නිජබිම වශයෙන් බ්රාහ්මණ විරෝධීන් […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Chanaka Bandarage The International Covenant on Civil and Political rights (ICCPR) came into being in 1976. It is a multilateral treaty. More than 175 states have thus far ratified it. The treaty imposes obligations only upon states – the parties to the Covenant (hereinafter, ‘the Convention’). Eg. In the US, the Convention only applies to […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් හන්තාන සඳගිරි සෑය බෞද්ධ විහාරයේ ධාතුන් වහන්සේ පිටතට වැඩමවා පැයක් යන්නට පෙර මහ වැස්සක් ඇද හැලුණු බව එහි විහාරාධිපති ගඟසිරිපුර ධම්මාලෝක හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. මීට පෙර ද ධාතුන් වහන්සේ වැඩම වූ සෑම පිංකමකම වර්ෂාව ඇදහැලුණු බවද උන්වහන්සේ කියා සිටිති. සඳගිරි සෑය පින්කම් වලට වර්ෂාව ඇද බව ඒ අවට සැමදෙනා ම […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
“නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” ෆීන්ක්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය,වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 121(1) ව්යවස්ථාව ප්රකාරව, ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ අභියෝගයට ලක් කරන ලද ආයුර්වේද (සංශෝධන)” නමැති පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ තීරණය ගරු කථානායකතුමා වෙත ලැබී ඇති බව නියෝජ්ය කථානායක ගරු අජිත් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා 2023 අගෝස්තු 10 පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට නිවේදනය කළේය. ඒ අනුව ආයුර්වේද (සංශෝධන)” නමැති […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Politics INITTIATION OF THE ARAGALAYA AND $4b COMES AT A COST Explosive water conflicts Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state, is the first major city in India to go dry, causing innumerable problems for its 11 million residents. The neighboring state of Karnataka is now officially the most arid state in India and faces […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Written byManzoor-ul-Hassan Courtesy Newsbytes Prime Minister Narendra Modi—during the no-confidence motion debate in the Parliament on Thursday—blamed former PM Indira Gandhi for “gifting” the disputed Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka.Located between Rameswaram (India) and Sri Lanka, Katchatheevu was traditionally used by both Indian and Lankan Indian fishermen.However, under the “Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime Agreement” in 1974, Gandhi ceded Katchatheevu […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A few decades ago, immigrant communities in England comprised a few Africans and Western Indians. They were permitted to enter Britain for ‘cheap’ labour, as the average Englishmen hesitated to work and be on the National Assistance (dole). The first generation of Irish masters in the building […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Rebel SLPP MP Prof. Channa Jayasumana yesterday (11) said that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should make his position clear on his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe’s move to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Reiterating his strong opposition to President Wickremesinghe’s controversial plan, the Anuradhapura District MP stressed that […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
By Nishel Fernando Courtesy The Daily Mirror Amid the current human capital shortage, in particular the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates increasingly looking to migrate, the government said it has plans to establish a number of new universities and vocational training centres with greater participation of the private sector on an urgent basis. […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Following improved activity from the shippers to Iran following the ‘Tea for Oil’ agreement, this week’s Colombo Tea Auction saw increased demand for the better teas in the High and Mid Grown sector and Low Grown Small Leaf/Tippy teas. However, the total auction offerings were marginally lower and totalled 5.9 million […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he is aware that not many in the political circles are fond of him personally. The President made these remarks addressing the 36th Annual Conference of the Organization of Professional Associations (OPA) of Sri Lanka at Kingsbury, Colombo. Wickremesinghe said that he had to consider coming […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow has initiated direct employment opportunities for Sri Lankan skilled migrant workers in the Russian Federation, in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency (SLFEA), a fully-owned state organisation in Sri Lanka. The Embassy of Sri Lankan in Moscow said in an announcement that […]
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Saturday, August 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The existing charges applicable to obtain a licence for the public exhibition of any foreign or local films, stage dramas, musicals or performing shows under the Public Performance Act has been amended. Accordingly, the relevant amendment was made by way of an Extraordinary Gazette notification issued on Friday (11 Aug), by the Minister of Mass […]
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