Archive for November, 2023
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Wimal Weerawansa has warned that the downfall of the current government has commenced. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday (28 Nov.), Weerawansa alleged that the President’s decision to remove Roshan Ranasinghe from his ministerial portfolios was a ‘testament’ to Ranil Wickremesinghe’s true character”, and further accused the Head […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana It was disclosed at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Mass Media that the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) continue to incur losses. This was revealed when the relevant committee met in Parliament on Thursday (Nov. 23) under the Chairmanship of the Minister of Transport and Highways […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත්
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මීට පසු ජනාධිපතිවරණයකට කිසිසේත්ම නොඑන බව තමා හූණා කිව්වා සේ පවසන්නේ යැයි කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික් මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අද (28 ) ප්රකාශයක් සිදු කළා. “කවුරුහරි එහෙම හිතාගෙන ඉන්නවනම් අනේ පව් කියලා තමයි මට කියන්න වෙන්නේ” යැයි බවයි ඔහු වැඩිදුරටත් සඳහන් කළේ. ඔහු ජාත්යන්තර සංවිධානයක තනතුරක් ලබාගෙන ඉදිරි කාලය වැජඹීමට […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඇති වී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය මත තම ජීවිතයට හානියක් සිදු වුවහොත් ඊට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ හා සහ ජනාධිපති කාර්ය මණ්ඩල ප්රධානි සාගල රත්නායක මහතා ඇතුළු පිරිස වගකිව යුතු බව ක්රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී විශේෂ ප්රකාශයක් කරමින් තමන්ගේ ජීවිතය පිළිබඳව අද වන […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Roshan Ranasinghe says he has been removed from his positions as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs and Minister of Irrigation. The SLPP parliamentarian said that he received a letter from President Ranil Wickremesinghe informing him that he has been removed from all his ministerial portfolios and positions with immediate effect. Delivering […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 19-25 November 2023 * ‘What are the problems of the farmers who currently own lease lands? The government has stopped subsidies. The government has stopped fertilizer. The government is not helping with water supply. The government is not buying their crops. […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 26.11.23. The Sarasavi publication Kurundi vihara vamsaya” (2023) provides a systematic account of the difficulties faced by Kurundi in the present period. The account is often in the first person, from the experience of the chief priest of Kurundi, Ven. Galgamuwe Santhabodhi. In this book, Ven. Santhabodhi relates his experience in trying […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
Manusha Media ජාතිවාදය වපුරමින් පටු දේශපාලන වාසි ලබාගන්නා, ජාතිය, ආගම මුලට දාගත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ තහනම් කළ යතු යැයි කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. 1956 දී සිංහල භාෂාව රාජ්ය භාෂාව බවට පත්කළ දිනයේ සිට දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සිය දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් ජාතිවාදය යොදා ගන්නා බවද, ලබන වසරේදී මැතිවරණ පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව තිබියදී ඇතැම් […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
ධරණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක පළමු කොටස අපි ජීවත්වන්නේ සදාකාලික හදිසි අවස්ථාවක් තුළය. කොවිඩ්-19 වසංගතය, දේශගුණික ව්යසනය, දූෂිත ණය අර්බුදය, උද්ධමනය, දිළිඳුකම, අසමානතාව ආදි ආඛ්යානයන් නිර්මාණය කිරීම සහ ඒවා සම්බන්ධ ගෝලීයකරණවාදි ප්රතිපත්ති සැදීම සඳහා කටයුතු කළ එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ සංවිධානය සහ බ්රෙට්න්වුඩ් කවයන් තුළ මේ දිනවල ඉතා ජනප්රියව ඇති වදනක් වන්නේ බහුවිධ අර්බුද” යන්නයි. මේ අතර ජාතික සහ […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් රටේ බංකොලොත්භාවය අවසන් වී ඇති බවත්, රටවල් රැසකින් ඊට අවශ්ය ප්රතිචාර ලබා දී ඇති බවත් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ පවසනවා. ලබන වසර සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කළ අයවැය යෝජනාවක් වන උරුමය” වැඩසටහන පිළිබඳව ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීමේ පළමු අදියර අද (26) අනුරාධපුර නොච්චියාගමදී ආරම්භ කෙරුණු අතර ඊට එක් වෙමිනුයි ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ. උරුමය” […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
By Shivanthi ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The call for an independent investigation of the Easter Sunday bombings grew in crescendo during the last months of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s tenure in Office. The Catholic Church actively galvanised the anti-government protesters to oust President Gotabaya. Their grievance was not so much than the economic crisis but that […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
By DARSHANA SANJEEWA BALASURIYA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Kandy, Nov 26 (Daily Mirror) – Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said the recently resigned Sri Lanka Cricket Board Secretary Mohan de Silva contacted him from Australia, exposing corruption within the SLC. “Mohan de Silva called me from Australia revealing his attempts to steer the SLC in the right […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2023
Courtesy Hiru News In a historic move to empower the agricultural sector and strengthen the export economy, President Ranil Wickremesinghe unveiled the “Urumaya” Freehold Deed Program during the first phase of the public awareness campaign for the 2024 budget proposal. The President emphasized that this program is a tribute to the farmers who have been […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2023
Courtesy The Morning The forthcoming Presidential Election is slated to take place on a day between 16 September and 17 October next year, as confirmed by Election Commission (EC) Chairman R.M.A.L. Rathnayake. He told The Sunday Morning that the specific date for the election would be decided and officially announced in July (as per the two-month advance […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ ලේකම් ධුරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස් වූ මොහාන් ද සිල්වා මහතා එම ආයතනය වංචා දූෂණ වංචා පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු රැසක් තමන්ට හෙළිදරව් කළ බව ක්රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. දැනට ඕස්ට්රේලියාවේ සිටින හිටපු ලේකම්වරයා දුරකථන මාර්ගයෙන් තමන්ට මෙම තොරතුරු ලබා දුන් බවද හෙතෙම පැවසීය. අමාත්යවරයා මේ බව […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2023
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ අලි ඇතුන්ගේ වන ඉඩම් ආක්රමණය කර ඇත්තේ මිනිසුන් විසිනි. අලි ඇතුන් තවත් යා යුත්තේ කොතැනටද? දිනකට වල් අලියෙක් පමණ මැරෙණ තැනට අද රට පැමිණ ඇත. වල් අලින් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට වන ජීවී දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට තනිව කල නොහැකි බව ඔවුන් ක්රියාවෙන් ඔප්පු කර පෙන්වා අවසන්ය. සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක භටකාය විසිරුවා හැරීමට නියමිත නිසා මින් ඉදිරියට අලි වැටවල් […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2023
ANI Global Economic Forum Summit at Asia’s Biggest Convention Centre BMICH Colombo Sri LankaRead more At:https://www.aninews.in/news/business/business/global-economic-forum-summit-at-asias-biggest-convention-centre-bmich-colombo-sri-lanka20231125171429/
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Saturday, November 25th, 2023
Courtesy Reuters.com COLOMBO, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will likely approve on Monday a proposal from Chinese state refiner Sinopec to build a $4.5-billion-dollar refinery, the South Asian island nation’s energy minister said on Saturday. “It’s on the agenda for Monday. Once the cabinet gives approval, we will invite them to sign the agreement,” […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Dr. Rajapakshe and Dr. de Silva Top SJB spokesman Dr. Harsha de Silva on Monday (20) dismissed Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe’s claim that well over USD 56.5 bn had been parked overseas by some exporters. Dr. de Silva also contradicted claims made by rebel SLPP MPs Vasudeva Nanayakkara, […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
by Chandre Dharmawardana Courtesy The Island The Supreme Court has ruled (with one dissenting against four assenting voices) on 14th November 2023 that three members of the Rajapaksa family, including two former Presidents and a coterie of their close officials were responsible for the country’s worst economic crisis that ended in bankruptcy. The petition by civil […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island demands that govt. adhere to Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act Rebel SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga yesterday (23) said that Sri Lanka should be concerned about external interventions in the judiciary.MP Cumaratunga told The Island that without any malicious intent, on behalf of the Nidahasa Janatha Sabhawa he raised the issue at hand […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy The Island State Minister for Defence, Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon, addressing a Press Briefing held under the theme ‘Collective Path to a Stable Country,’ at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC) today (24) said that Sri Lanka was losing around US$200 million annually as only 116 of the 122 Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) which map out Sri Lanka […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – Former Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) President Saliya Pieris PC today rejected the claims by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament that Pieris had ambitions to be Prime Minister prior to May 9, 2022. Sharing a post on Facebook, Pieris said that the President had mentioned his […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo Nov. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Former Minister of Fisheries Rajitha Senaratne and two others who were indicted before the Colombo High Court, for causing losses to the State when leasing out the Modara Fisheries Harbour to a private company in 2014, pleaded not guilty of the charges following the reading out […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
BY AJITH SIRIWARDANA AND YOHAN PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliament, Nov.24 (Daily Mirror) Revealing that a certain private institution had obtained a loan amounting to Rs. 7 billion from the Bank of Ceylon and People’s Bank using the same security, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today urged the government to disclose the names of the […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Nov.24 (Daily Mirror) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe has slammed the Indian government for criticizing Sri Lanka at the United Nations over the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils. I don’t agree with Indian comments. I was surprised that India criticized our record,” Wickremesinghe said during an exclusive interview with First post. […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to further reduce the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank by 100 basis points (bps) to 9.00% and 10.00%, respectively. At its meeting on Thursday (Nov.23), the Board arrived […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Sri Lankan government and the European Union (EU) have signed a financing agreement to promote a circular economy and sustainable consumption and production in the food sector. The grant of EUR 15 million from the EU aims to increase food availability for vulnerable people through more efficient distribution channels/mechanisms of food, avoiding […]
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
By Raj Gonsalkorale Economic mismanagement by successive regimes made Sri Lanka bankrupt. Rather than proposing a collective self-reflection, analysing mistakes made and looking to the future rather than dwelling on the past, some politicians are throwing stones from glass houses and pretending they are fully clothed Emperors. It is common knowledge that the Sri Lankan […]
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