Archive for January, 2024
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Bangkok Post The World Bank’s Women, Business, and the Law Index has documented a persistent gender pension gap in rich and poor countries. This is partly because of gender-based legal disparities, such as lower mandatory… Please credit and share this article with others using this link:https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2731005/. View our policies at http://goo.gl/9HgTd and http://goo.gl/ou6Ip. © Bangkok […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
ANNA BJERDE Courtesy Worldbank blogs A recent visit to Sri Lanka took me to the Kopay Divisional Hospital in the Jaffna District in the northern part of the country. For the close to 16,000 people living in the area, this hospital serves as the first point of care. It is also one of the primary […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
By AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Hambantota, Jan. 25 (Daily Mirror)- A group connected to a particular political party and fake account holders have posted insulting posts on State Minister Sanath Nishantha’s tragic death, Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. He told reporters that they observed those who circulate such insulting posts on social media and came […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් රට ආර්ථික අර්බුදයකට ලක් වූයේ අවශ්ය අවස්ථාවේදී පාලකයින්ට නිවැරදි උපදෙස් ලබා නොදීම හේතුවෙන් බව මහ බැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ පවසනවා. රට ආර්ථික වශයෙන් බංකොළොත් වීමට හේතු සෙවීම සඳහා පත් කළ පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක සභාවට කැඳවූ අවස්ථාවේදී මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා පැවසුවේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය විසින් ප්රකාශ කළ රට බංකොලොත් වීමට බලපෑ ප්රධාන කරුණු […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News In the final interview conducted before his untimely demise, State Minister Sanath Nishantha participated in the Hiru ‘Aththa’ program. During the discussion, he expressed that he had not done anything against the people. Additionally, he shared that his wife and children did not want him to continue in politics. This last conversation […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
දේශමාන්ය ආචර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ ලේකම් සහ හෙළ අභිමානි ජාතික පදනමේ සභාපති මේ දිනවල බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට විධායක ජනාධිපතිකම අහෝසි කිරීමේ රුදාවක් හටගෙන තිබෙන බව පෙනේ. එහි ඇති විශේෂත්වය නම් ඒ රුදාව හැදී ඇති සියළු දෙනාම මේ රටේ ශිෂ්ඨාචාරාය හෝ ඉතිහාශය නොදන්න ආත්මාර්ථකාමි දේශපාලකයින් වීමය.එසේම දේශපාලන හේතු නිසා දෙමළ සහ මුස්ලිම් හිත වාදීහුය. ඒ […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
Kaarige Channel Eka | Dharmasri Kariyawasam ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ සංස්කෘතියට රාජ්ය අනුග්රහයෙන් දූෂණය සහ භීෂණය හඳුන්වා දුන්නේ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන ජනාධිපතිගේ පාලන සමයේ දී ය. 1982 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී විරුද්ධ පක්ෂවලට මුහුණ දීමට සිදු වූ ඡන්ද භීෂණයට ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ මුහුණ දුන් ආකාරය පිළිබිඹු කෙරෙන සිද්ධියක් කාරිගෙ චැනල් එකේ මෙවර වීඩියෝවෙන්
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 24: Maldives and Sri Lanka are in the unenviable position of meeting the contradictory demands of India and China on the visits of Chinese naval research vessels. While India and China have competing strategic interests in the Indian Ocean around the Maldivian archipelago and Sri Lanka, the Maldives and […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The self-proclaimed ‘Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’, Mahinda Kodituwakku has been further remanded until February 07. He was produced before Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage earlier today. During today’s proceedings, the forensic psychiatrist told the magistrate that the suspect requires psychiatric treatment. Accordingly, the magistrate ordered that Kodituwakku be further remanded and referred to psychiatric treatment […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Parliament, Jan. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Amidst criticism from tech industry giants such as Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, Parliament approved the contentious Online Safety Bill, a piece of legislation perceived by some as draconian and a potential threat to freedom of expression. The bill was passed without a vote in the House after Third Reading […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 14-20 January 2023 ‘We are coming, Colombo! Next month the iconic Greenpeace´s Ship: The Rainbow Warrior will be in our country, SriLanka, demanding Climate Justice!’ – Facebook Demanding? From whom? Greenpeace – yet another Anglo-American Environmental NGO camouflage – is set to sail their much-hyped […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර (අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ හෙළ අභිමානි ජාතික සභාවේ සභාපති. මහනුවර). 12.01.2023 ගරුතර නා හිමිවරුන් ප්රමුඛ දේශප්රේමී සන්ඝයා වහ්න්සේලා සහ සියළුම දේශප්රේමීන් වෙතය. මේ සින්හල දේශය, ජාතිය සහ බෞද්ධ උරුමය බේරාගැනීමට එකාවන්ව අපි එක්වෙමු අද මේ රට පත්ව ඇත්තේ මේ රටේ ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිම දවසක නොවූ විරූ අතිශයින්ම භයානක […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre The exposition of the Sacred Omniscient Relics of Deegawapiya Stupa and the Crest-Gem commenced at Minuwangoda Rajamaha Viharaya today (Jan 23). These revered articles will remain there until the morning of January 25. Further, arrangements have been made for the public veneration of these revered articles at the Diwulapitiya […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ‘අපි තමයි හොඳටම කළේ’ න්යාය බොහෝ ලෙස ප්රචලිත වුයේ 2009 යුධ ජයග්රණයෙන් පසුවය. ශ්රී ලංකාව යනු මුළු ආසියාවේම ආශ්චර්ය (Wonder of Asia) බවට වූ සංචාරක ප්රවර්ධන වැඩසටහන් එවකට තිබු රජය විසින් ආරම්භ කෙරිණ. මේ ගැන සෙසු ආසියානු රටවල වැඩි කැමැත්තක් නොතිබීණ. කෙසේ වෙතුදු, එකී රජයට තමනට එරෙහිව නැඟුණු අභූත යුධ අපරාධ චෝදනා වැරදි […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය ආචාර්ය දසරත් ජයසූරිය සභාපති ස්පර් සංවිධානය ඔස්ට්රේලියාව 18/01/2024 ශ්රි ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා, දැනට දශක දෙකකට අධික කාලයක් ඕස්ට්රේලියාවේ සිට අඛණ්ඩව කටයුතු කරනු ලබන, දේශහිතෛශි ශ්රි ලාංකිකයින්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත් ‘ස්පර්’ නමින් හදුන්වන අප සංවිධානය, ගෝලීය දෙමළ සංසදය සහ භික්ෂූන් හත්නමක් මගින් එලිදක්වා ඇති හිමාලයා ප්රකාශනයේ සඳහන් කරුණු සහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
By Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel (LL.M (UCL)), former Ambassador to UAE and Israel, President of the Lanka Ambassador’s Forum – United Kingdom, Solicitor in England and Wales, and Suchithra Withanage (LL.M (UK) (LL.M (UK) MBA (UK | Reading) LL.B (Hons) (UK)) Diploma in Law (UK) MCIArb (UK) MBCS (UK) MCMI (UK) ACIPR (UK) ASIArb (Singapore) […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ Lankaweb අඩවියේ කළින් පළවූ ‘Bandaranaike Assassination – due to Banda – Chelva pact?’ යන ඉංග්රීසි ලිපියේ සිංහල අනුවාදය, එම මුල් ලිපිකරු විසින්ම. 1956 මැතිවරණ ව්යාපාරයේදී බණ්ඩාරණායක මහතා සිංහල එකම රාජ්ය භාෂාව බවට පත් කරන බවට පොරොන්දු විය. නමුත් බලයට පත් වූ පසු එම පොරොන්දුව ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට යම් ප්රමාදයන් ඇති විය. ඒ.පී ජයසූරිය මන්ත්රීවරයාගේ […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
Courtesy abc news The Maldives government has confirmed giving clearance to a Chinese ship to dock in its port, a move which could further irk India with whom the tiny archipelago nation is involved in a diplomatic spat COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Maldives government said Tuesday that it had given clearance to a Chinese ship […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 23 (Daily Mirror) – Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is to spend more than Rs 20 million to be paid for the people who are to be brought to Colombo for its protest on January 30 2023, UNP General Secretary Palitha Range Bandara alleged […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News A team of scientists from Japan has made an incredible discovery, capturing real-time footage of plants “talking” to each other. According to Science Alert, plants are surrounded by fine mist of airborne compounds that they use to communicate. These compounds are like smells and warn plants of danger nearby. The video recorded […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Six Indian nationals, together with two fishing trawlers, have been taken into custody by the Sri Lanka Navy for poaching in local water north of Delft Islands, Jaffna. The apprehension took place during a special operation conducted on Monday night (22 Jan.), in a bid to chase away foreign fishing vessels poaching in […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana A group of Sri Lankan Tamil legislators has sought India’s intervention to ensure that Colombo fully implements the New Delhi-mooted 13th Amendment, which provides for the devolution of power to the minority community, PTI reported quoting sources. The group led by the veteran politician and TNA Leader R Sampanthan met India’s new High […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Police have recovered the vehicle which is suspected to have been used by the suspects involved in the shooting of a Buddhist monk in Malwathuhiripitiya area of Gampaha earlier today (23 Jan.). The vehicle was found abandoned in a shrubby area at Godella in Kaduwela, Police said, adding that it had been torched […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Jon Schwarz The question of Israel is whether European colonialism can ever make peace with the rest of the world. Partisans of Israel have often asked: On a planet overflowing with war, famine, and cruelty, why does the world pay so much attention to what’s happening in Gaza (and the West Bank) in comparison with […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Politics මහා සංඝරත්නයට සහ රටේ සමාජ සංස්ථාවට දිගින් දිගටම සිදුවන පහර දීම දීර්ඝ කාලීන න්යායපත්රයකට අනුව සිදුවන බවත්, රටේ පවතින අර්බුදය මැද එය උච්චම තැනට ගෙනවිත් ඇති බවත් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. රූපවාහිනී සංවාදයකට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා පවසන්නේ මහාවංශයට, ත්රිපිටකයට පහර දෙමින් බුදුන් වහන්සේ ලංකාවේ ඉපදුනු බව පවසමින් ඇතැම් […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
by A. Abdul Aziz Muslims should rejoice that the era of the second rejuvenation of Islam has arrived” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Given below are the few extracts from the address of Ahmadiyya Khalifa, related to the fulfilment of Latter Days Prophecies, delivered at Concluding Session of the last month Qadian Convention.) His Holiness mentioned […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Design of proposed mosque in Ayodhya Colombo, January 23: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday consecrated, amidst unprecedented fanfare, an idol of Lord Rama in a grand new temple coming up at Rama’s birthplace in Ayodhya in the North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. But even as the consecration was […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 21 (Daily Mirror) – A total of 987 suspects have been arrested during the islandwide operation ‘Yukthiya’ within the last 24 hours, the Public Security Ministry said. They said 663 suspects have been arrested over drug offenses and 324 suspects who were on the list referred to Crime OICs […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Jan 22 (Daily Mirror) – Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and the Local Government Minister requested that high priority be given to renewable energy in order to reduce the recurrent costs of the local government bodies in 2024. He made these comments while participating in the progress review meeting […]
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