Archive for June, 2024
Sunday, June 30th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS A strong Buddhist lobby should be set up to support the return of Buddhism to north and east. That lobby should firstly ensure the protection of Buddhist ruins in north and east. That will not be easy, because there are so many ruins and they are scattered all over, but the Buddhist Lobby […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 23-29 June 2024 This ee gapes at the role played by English and US and home-grown colonial agents in the new university set up in ‘postcolonial’ Sri Lanka. We look at the Wiltshire Regiment’s Sidney Arnold Pakeman, who was made Professor of Modern History […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
Senaka Weeraratna The T20 World Cup is over. But not the dispute over the origins of DRS. It is a forbidden topic of discussion for cricket commentators. It has become what in Sinhala is called ‘ Thanam vachanaya’ for them. It is a topic that is suppressed by all those who have an interest in […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
by A. Abdul Aziz. Sri Lankan Correspondent Al Hakam, London. OVER 30 AHMADIS, INCLUDING A 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD, ARRESTED AMIDST EID CELEBRATIONS URGENT INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION NEEDED TO UPHOLD RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN PAKISTAN Despite facing persistent challenges and harassment, the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan celebrated Eid under daunting circumstances this year. Instances of targeted persecution and discriminatory […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
C. Wijeyawickrema The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery (msn.com) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-us-supreme-court-just-basically-legalized-bribery/ar-BB1oZehQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e644141d35b344bfaadc683cffc1b34a&ei=44 ලංකාවේ නම් හැම දෙයක්ම මතක් කරන්නේ කොසොල් රජතුමාවය. ජනාධිපතිගේ සිට පියුන්/ජැනිටර් දක්වාත්, යම් පවුලක දෙමව්පියන් දූදරුවන්ගේ සිට ගම/නගරය, සමිති/සමාගම් හා හැම සමාජ ඒකකයක් දක්වාත් දූෂණය, වංචාව, හොරකම පිළික මෙන් උඩු දුවා ඇත. නඩුකාරයින්. උසාවි, බාර් ඇසෝෂියේසන් ගැන ඇත්තේද බලවත් කලකිරීමකි. ඇමෙරිකාවේ සෙනේට් සභිකයින් […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
Speeches by * President ACBC – DIG Chandra Nimal Wakista * Anusasanaya – Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero Key speeches by * Ven. Jinananda Thero * Senior Attorney Kalyananda Thirangama * Dr. Supun Jayasinghe * Attorney Kanishka Vitharana * Attorney Dharshan Weraduwage * Attorney Prasadini Mudunkotuwa * Teacher Nayana Mali * General Secretary ACJU Mr. Noor Amith […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට අනුව කටයුතු කිරීම මන්ත්රීවරුන්ගේ, ඇමැතිවරුන්ගේ, අගමැති හා ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ මෙන්ම සියලු දෙනාගේ වගකීමක් වන බවත්, බහුතරයේ කැමැත්ත ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය ලෙස හැඳින්වුවද මෙරට එම ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය පිළිබඳව බරපතළ ගැටලුවක් ඇති වී තිබෙන බවත් පූජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමියන් පවසති. රටේ පක්ෂ විශාල ප්රමාණයක් අද ඇති බවද, ඡන්දයක් පැවැත්වූ විට එම බහුතරය සොයා ගැනීම විශාල […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
Ani Sri Lankan Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe offers prayers at Tirupati Balaji templeRead more At:https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/sri-lankan-justice-minister-wijeyadasa-rajapakshe-offers-prayers-at-tirupati-balaji-temple20240630150338/
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
MEERA SRINIVASAN Courtesy The Hindu A Sri Lankan Navy sailor was killed in an operation targeting Indian fishermen and their fishing vessel off Kankesanthurai in the Jaffna peninsula, in the island’s nation’s Northern Province The death of a Sri Lankan naval sailor has brought a long-standing fisheries conflict between India and Sri Lanka into the […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් දණ්ඩ නීති සංග්රහය යටතේ සමලිංගික සබඳතා සාපරාධී වරදක් නොවන බවට සංශෝධනය කිරීමට ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ප්රේම්නාත් සී. දොළවත්ත විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද පෞද්ගලික මන්ත්රී පනත් කෙටුම්පතට තම පක්ෂය සහාය ලබාදෙන බව ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ආචාර්ය හරිනි අමරසූරිය පවසයි. ‘දෙරණ 360’ වැඩසටහනට එක්වෙමින් ආචාර්ය අමරසූරිය LGBTQ+ ප්රජාව […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් බලය බෙදීම හරහා අනාගත ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ මතුවිය හැකි අර්බුද ගැන පැහැදිලි කරමින් ප්රතිසංස්කරණ සඳහා වූ ජනතා සභාවේ පරිපාලන ලේකම් ශර්මිලා ගෝනවෙල මහත්මිය විසින් ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමුකර තිබේ. දේශපාලකයන් විසින් බංකොළොත් භාවයට ඇද දැමූ මේ රට තුල බලය බෙදීමේ ක්රියාවලියද දියත් කළහොත් තවත් අර්බුද රැසක් නිර්මාණය වනු […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader and former Opposition Leader MP R. Sampanthan has passed away at the age of 91. He has reportedly passed away while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Colombo. A veteran Tamil politician and prominent figure in country’s main Tamil alliance – Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK), […]
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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
By Rohana R. Wasala Poson was celebrated throughout the island by Sri Lankan Buddhists on the full moon poya day of June 21, 2024. Sri Lanka’s mainstream media including state media available online offered me little information about islandwide Poson observances that were held. It looks like state sponsorship of devotional activities connected with Poson […]
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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil Separatist Movement has shown an open lack of respect for Kurundi. Tamil activists entered Kurundi twice, while conservation was going on. They successfully disrupted the ceremony for enshrining relics, and then sometime later, said they wished to conduct a Pongal on the stupa premises. They behaved in a rowdy manner showing disrespect […]
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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Foreign Affairs and President’s Counsel Ali Sabri, has stated that the successful debt sustainability process with bilateral creditors will provide Sri Lanka with an advantage of approximately US $ 17 billion. The minister also stated that this situation will facilitate successful negotiations regarding international sovereign debts. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali […]
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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
හරෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන ව්යවස්ථාවට අනුව ජනාධිපති ධුර කාලය වසර 6 කි. 5 ක් නොවේ. මක්නිසාද යත්, ජනාධිපති දුර කාලය වසර 6 සිට 5 දක්වා අඩු කිරීමට යෝජනා කල ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත වූ 2015 වසරේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කල 19 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත ජනමතවිචරනයකින් ජනතාව අනුමත කර නැති බැවින් තවමත් ව්යවස්ථාව බවට හෝ […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
ධර්මන් වික්රමරත්න පෞද්ගලික වෛද්ය විද්යාලයට එරෙහි සටන 1987 මාර්තු 18 සටන පටන් ගනී. මෙහි ලොකුම සටන ඇති වුණේ අම්බලන්ගොඩ කහව පද්මසිරි ත්රීමාවිතාරණ ඝාතනයයි. ඒක සිද්ධ වුණේ 1988 ඔක්තෝබර් 22 රත්නපුරේදී. එකම දින එකම මොහොතක පැහැරගැනීමට සහ ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ තිදෙනා වන වෛද්ය සිසු ත්රීමාවිතාන, ඔරුවල වානේ සංස්ථාවේ රංජිත් පෙරේරා සහ ඇඹිලිපිටිය කඩදාසි කම්හලේ ගබඩා අංශයේ බී.ඩී […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ දිවයින පුරා විමධ්යගත අයවැය වැඩසටහන,විශේෂ ව්යාපෘති, උරුමය වැඩසටහන සහ කඳුකර දශකය වැඩසටහනේ ප්රගතිය විමසා බැලීම සඳහා 2024.06.27 දින ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයේ පැවති විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමිනි. විමධ්යගත අයවැය වැඩසටහනේ සම්පූර්ණ ව්යාපෘති ගණන 33 362ක් වන අතර ඒසඳහා වෙන්කළ මුළු මුදල රුපියල් මිලියන 11250කි. දැනටමත් දිස්ත්රික්ක වෙත නිදහස් කර […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre A group of disabled war heroes retired on medical grounds while in active service met the State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon at his office in Colombo on June 26 to discuss several issues they face. The veterans while expressing their views requested the State Minister to […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
Ministry of Defence – Media Centre The Defence Advisor (DA) for the Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka Colonel Amanda Johnston and the Commanding Officer of Peace Operations Training Centre (POTC), Government of Australia, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Webbe, visited the Institute of National Security Studies on 27th June 2024. The Director of Media (Ministry of […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe was declared as the common candidate of the United National Party led front As the presidential elections draw near, uncertainty still looms large over the possible contenders except for two prospective candidates- Anura Kumara Dissanayake of National People’s Power (NPP) and Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya who have […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 28 (Daily Mirror) – Former Colombo district Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra, who has been jailed for 3 years by the High Court of Colombo for her involvement in the abduction of a youth using a Defender, is expected to seek bail from the Colombo High Court. President’s Counsel Anura Meddegoda, […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 28 (Daily Mirror) – The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has conducted a widespread operation resulting in the apprehension of 137 Indian nationals suspected of being involved in a large-scale online financial scam across multiple locations in the country. According to Police Media Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa, the arrests took […]
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Friday, June 28th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana Under the Aswesuma” Welfare Benefit Payment Program, the Welfare Benefits Board has disbursed a total of Rs. 11.6 billion to the bank accounts of 622,495 beneficiaries in the transitional and vulnerable categories yesterday (27) for the payments of June 2024. In the first phase of the program, eligible beneficiaries in the vulnerable category […]
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Thursday, June 27th, 2024
Courtesy The Hindu India’s fisherfolk must be weaned away from bottom trawling The resumption of fishing off India’s eastern coast including the Palk Bay, after the annual 61-day ban on fishing, has led to the death of a sailor from the Sri Lanka Navy. The Sri Lankan Navy had carried out an operation on June […]
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