Archive for September, 2024
Monday, September 30th, 2024
by Prof Sunil J. Wimalawansa Considering what has happened over the past few decades, it is no surprise that people do not want to see disruptive politicians who once governed the country returning to power. This sentiment is reflected in the over 4.7 million voters (out of 6.9 million) who previously voted for the former […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Prof. Hudson McLean Read the Facts & Figures. The Bottom Line is-: How will BRICS Membership Benefit Sri Lanka Economy in the Short-Term to Climb Out of the Hangmans Noose? How Would a New BRICS Currency Affect the US Dollar? (Updated 2024) https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-would-new-brics-currency-affect-us-dollar-updated-2024 On 1 January 2024, BRICS – the intergovernmental organisation comprising Brazil, Russia, […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රටේ දළ දේශීය නිෂ්පාදිතයෙන් 11% ක මට්ටමේ පවත්නා රාජ්ය බදු ආදායම 15% ක් දක්වා තවත් 4% කින් වැඩි කරන ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුවට ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල මෙයට පෙර කර තිබූ නිර්දේශය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමේ වගකීම වත්මන් රජයට පැවරී ඇතැයි බ්රිතාන්ය ගුවන්විදුලිය (BBC) විශේෂ වාර්තාවක් පළ කරමින් පෙන්වා දී තිබේ. පසුගිය වසරේ […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අනුර දිසානායක මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස පත්වීමෙන් පසු කරන කරන සියලුම පත්වීම් වල යම් ප්රශ්නයක් තිබෙන බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී අජිත් පෙරේරා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඒ ඇතැමුන්ගේ චරිතය සම්බන්ධ ප්රශ්න ඇති බවත්, ඇතැමුන් අධිකරණ හරහා දඬුවම් ලබන පුද්ගලයන් බවත්, සමහර පුද්ගලයන් අධිකරණවල නඩු පවතින පුද්ගලයන් බවද හෙතෙම පෙන්වා දෙයි. ඒ අනුව […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඇතැමෙකු චෝදනා කරන්නේ, නව ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඔහුගේ හිතවතුන් රජයේ තනතුරුවලට පත් කරන බව ය. මීට පෙර සිටි පාලකයින්ගේ පත් කිරීම් විවේචනයට ලක් කරමින් බලයට පැමිණි ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකුගෙන් එවැන්නක් අපේක්ෂා කළ නොහැකි බව ඔවුන්ගේ අදහස යි. ජනතාව නව ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායකට ඡන්දය දුන්නේ පැවති දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය වෙනස් කිරීමට,” බව අමාත්ය විජිත හේරත් […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් යුක්ක්රේන, ඉන්දීය සහ බල්ගේරියන් සයිබර් අපරාධකරුවන් රටට ඇතුළු වී කරන මුදල් වංචා හේතුවෙන් මෙරට බැංකු පද්ධතිය කඩා වැටී ජාතික ආර්ථිකයට විශාල බලපෑමක් එල්ල විය හැකි බව රහස් පොලිසිය කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් තිළිණ ගමගේ මහතාට (30) දැනුම් දුන්නේය. අන්තර්ජාලය හරහා සිදුවන වංචා හේතුවෙන් මෙරට බැංකු පද්ධතිය කෙරෙහි ජනතා විශ්වාසය බිඳ වැටීමට […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror I hope you will carry this child even more safely than I did,” Ranil said, expressing hope that the new president would resolve the country’s remaining challengesThe then NPP leader, now the President, appealed to the North/East electorate to join forces with voters in the south to push for systemic changeWith […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Authors : Harsh V. Pant | Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy Courtesy Observer Research Foundation Since Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) was elected as the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka, there is speculation about the new government’s foreign policy. Given the economic and geopolitical scenario, pragmatism is likely to take precedence — Sri Lanka will […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy D.D.News India It is more than two years since the Aragalaya Protests shook Sri Lanka to the core. Aragalaya means Struggle in the Sinhala language. The imagery of people storming the Presidential Palace and hoisting the Sri Lankan national flag, amid slogans of ‘Gota Go Home’, is fresh in the minds of many, in this […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
By ARCHANA MASIH Rediff News ‘If there is a push towards a Marxist oriented government it will be dangerous.’‘We have seen this in Nepal and Myanmar and it will be a concern for India if it is surrounded by countries with such political dispensations.’ IMAGE: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Photograph: Kind courtesy Anura Kumara Dissanayake/X […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Hamzah Rifaat Courtesy TRTWorld The pro-Marxist official faces the daunting task of addressing a severe economic crisis while uniting a divided nation. In a sharp rebuke to dynastic rule in Sri Lanka, voters recently elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a working class, neo-Marxist leader and head of the National People’s Power. His victory with 42 percent of the vote comes as […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The International Monetary Fund delegation addressing the media in Colombo Dissanayake is going to have to walk a tightrope. For a country and people that are going through the worst phase of dispossession since independence, international solidarity should mean providing space for rebuilding the country Sri Lanka is at a historic […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, September 30 (Daily Mirror) – There is no change in the decision not to re-conduct the Grade Five scholarship examination, Examination Commissioner General Amit Jayasundara said. He made this comment while addressing the media at a media conference held this evening. He also said that it was decided to give […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) announced that it will reduce the prices of fuel from midnight today. Under the new pricing, Petrol Octane 92 will see a reduction of Rs. 21, bringing the price down to Rs. 311 per litre. Auto Diesel will also see a reduction of Rs. 24, making […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, September 30 (Daily Mirror) – Only a single independent candidate of the Presidential Poll 2024 has declared his campaign finances, whereas no major party had stated their election expenses by the end of September, having nine of 21 days of the grace period to declare expenses had lapsed by yesterday, […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy The Daily Mirror * Says it should remain with state for tourism promotion * Plans for new management improvement Colombo, September 30 (Daily Mirror) – The National People’s Power (NPP) government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is to abandon initial plans by the previous rule to sell off or divest the cash-strapped SriLankan […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana A high-level team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by its Director of the Asia Pacific Department, Krishna Srinivasan, is scheduled to visit Colombo from October 02 to 04 to meet with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sri Lanka’s new economic team. The high-level delegation is visiting the island to discuss latest […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Courtesy Hiru News The President’s Office has clarified concerns regarding the vehicles parked near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. According to the statement, 107 vehicles handed over to the Presidential Office after the appointment of the new President are temporarily parked outside the Secretariat premises under police protection. These vehicles were not assigned to regular […]
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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
Shenali D Waduge Anura Kumara Dissanayake representing the JVP-NPP becomes the 9th President of Sri Lanka. Ironically, the majority of votes that crowned him President was from disgruntled 4.5million plus SLPP voters who were part of the 6.9million voters that brought Gotabaya Rajapakse to power in 2019 & was overthrown by the very groups that the […]
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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 22-28 September 2024 Sri Lanka has elected a ‘Marxist’, ‘Leftist’ & ‘Socialist’ & ‘Communist’ executive president: The capitalist media keeps slobbering these labels out with studied stupefaction and saturated headlines to anybody who cares heed them. We do not have to guess […]
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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
Press Release Ministry of Defence – Media Centre It has been noted that some media and social media platforms have reported that the motivation incentive allowance paid to tri forces personnel attached to VIP security details have been stopped. However, the Ministry of Defence in a letter to tri forces commanders informed that this allowance […]
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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් ජාතිය මුහුදෙන අභියෝගය සහ ජාතික බලවේගවලට පැවරී ඇති ඓතිහාසික වගකීම පිළිබඳව පැහැදිලි කරමින් ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුව මගින් ජනාධිපති අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මහතා වෙත ලිපියක් යොමුකොට තිබේ. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ නැමැති දේශපාලන ව්යාපාරය විසින් ගොඩනගා ඇති අතීත උරුමය සහ ජාතික බලවේගවල අපේක්ෂා අතර ගැටුමක් නැති නමුත් ජාතික ජන බලවේගය නැමැති දේශපාලන ව්යාපාරයට […]
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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය • දේශපාලනීයකරණය වී ඇති අධ්යාපන පද්ධතිය ඉන් මුදවා ගත යුතුයි.• අධ්යාපනය පිළිබඳව විශ්වාසය ගොඩනැගීම අප රජයේ ප්රමුඛ වගකීමක්.• රැකියාවට පමණක් නොව ගුණ ගරුක සමාජයක් බිහි කිරීමට හැකි වන පරිදි අධ්යාපන පද්ධතිය ප්රතිසංස්කරණ සිදු කළ යුතුයි.• පවුලේ ආර්ථික මට්ටම දරුවන්ට ගුණාත්මක අධ්යාපනයක් ලැබීමට බාධාවක් නොවිය යුතුයි.• අපේ ප්රතිපත්තියේ සඳහන් වී තිබෙන්නේ අධ්යාපනය සදහා […]
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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
Prof. Hudson McLean Whatever mistakes the Rajapaksa brothers did during their tenure, one must agree and give Full Credit to Mahinda & Gotabhaya for eliminating the Tamil Tiger Terrorism from the Island without forgetting General Fonseka. Yes the Corruption was rife and a few made millions whilst the poor became poorer. The Right Wing leaning […]
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Friday, September 27th, 2024
Defend Democracy Press Russia, together with BRICS countries, is working on creating its own payment system for the independent handling of all foreign trade, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced. In cooperation with BRICS countries, we are working on creating our own payment and settlement system, which will create conditions for the effective and independent servicing […]
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Friday, September 27th, 2024
Chanaka Bandarage It is refreshing that the Japanese government has announced considering the grant of a soft loan to build the Light Rail system from Malabe to Colombo (Stage 1). Japan made the Light Rail offer to Bangladesh also. But, they requested for a Metro system and received it. An underground Metro rail system like […]
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Friday, September 27th, 2024
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Friday, September 27th, 2024
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