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Monday, August 21st, 2023
Lanka Lead News කැබිනට් අමාත්ය ජීවන් තොණ්ඩමන් මහතා නීතිය අතට ගනිමින් ඇල්කඩුව වැවිලි සමාගමේ සමාන්යාධිකාරිවරයා වන සුරේෂ් නවරත්නම් මහතාට තර්ජනය කරමින් සිදුකළ අනීතික ක්රියාවේ දිගුවක් ලෙස එම සාමාන්යාධිකාරීවරයාගේ වැඩ තහනම් කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ. ජීවන් තොණ්ඩමන් ඇමැතිවරයා විසින් එම සාමාන්ය අධිකාරීවරයාගේ වැඩ තහනම් කරවීම සඳහා වැවිලිකර්මාන්ත ඇමැති රමේෂ් පතිරණ මහතාට බලපෑම් කර ඇති බවද […]
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Sunday, August 20th, 2023
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Saturday, August 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News උතුරේ දූපත් 3ක දෙමුහුන් පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති පද්ධතිය ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා ඉන්දියානු සමාගම් වලින් පමණක් ලංසු කැඳවා තිබේ. ශ්රී ලංකා සුනිත්ය බලශක්ති අධිකාරියේ අධ්යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා විසින් නිකුත්කළ නිවේදනයක් මගින් මේ බව දන්වා ඇති අතර, ලංසු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම 2023 සැප්තැම්බර් 14 දිනෙන් අවසන් වන බවත් දක්වා තිබේ. අදාළ ලිපිය පහළින්…
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
Courtesy The Island Letter of resignation sent through wife A senior official of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC),under investigation for massive losses, suffered over a period of time, has resigned after having gone abroad, authoritative sources told The Island yesterday (07). The former Deputy General Manager, responsible for the commercial and supply chain had been investigated for […]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පුරාවිද්යා ආරක්ෂක ස්මාරක හා පුරාවිද්යා රක්ෂිත ගැසට් කිරීමට පෙර අමාත්ය මණ්ඩලයට යොමු කිරීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් හා පුරාවිද්යා භූමිවල මායිම් ගල් ගැලවීමට ජනාධිපති දුන් නියෝගය අභියෝගයට ලක්කරමින් ඉදිරිපත් කළ පෙත්සම් දෙක හෙට(25) දින විභාගයට ගැනේ. පුරාවිද්යා ආඥාපනත මගින් විෂයභාර අමාත්යවරයා හා පුරාවිද්යා අධ්යක්ෂක ජෙනරාල්වරයාට පිළිවෙළින් පුරාවිද්යා ආරක්ෂිත ස්මාරක හා පුරාවිද්යා […]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පසුගියදා වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තුමේන්තුව, මහවැලිය සහ පුරාවිද්යා දෙපාර්තුමෙන්තු විසින් මායිම් යොදා වෙන් කර තිබූ මුලතිව් දිස්ත්රික්කයේ රක්ෂිත වනාන්තර ඉඩම් අක්කර 29,000ක් ඔවුන්ගේ භාරයෙන් නිදහස් කොට දෙමළ ජනතාව වෙත පවරන ලෙස ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය විසින් දැනුම්දී ඇති බවත්, ඊයේ දිනයේ (18) දෙමළ සන්ධානයේ ජාතිවාදී දේශපාලනික අරමුණු ඉටුකිරීම උදෙසා වත්මන් ජනාධිපතිවරයා (පොලිස් බලතල පමණක් […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The importation of certain drugs are sometimes approved by the Director Board of the National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA), even in the absence of such approval from the relevant expert committee, according to Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama. Speaking during Ada Derana’s ‘Big Focus’ programme with regards to the importation of drugs, […]
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
විජය උදුපිටිය චමුදිත සමරවික්රම සමග Vijaya Undupitiya On Truth with Chamuditha
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Labour alleges that neither the union leaders nor officers have provided asset liability statements within the granted period. When inquired by Ada Derana”, Secretary of the Ministry R.P.A. Wimalaweera stated that none of those 2,000 representatives has so far submitted asset liability statements. In general, the officials including trade union […]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Lanka Lead News ගාලුමුවදොර අරගලය සිදුවීමට පෙර විදේශයක සංවිධානයක් විසින් මෙරට සංවිධාන අටකට ඩොලර් මිලියන අටක අතිවිශාල මුදලක් ලබාදී ඇතැයි ජාතික පුවත්පතක් තොරතුරු හෙළිකරයි. මෙම විදේශ සංවිධානයට සහාය වන එම සංවිධානය අයත් රාජ්යයේ තානාපති කාර්යාල තුළ සමාජ අඩවි ක්රියාකාරීන් 40 දෙනකුට පුහුණුවීමක් ලබාදී ඇති බවත් හෙළි වේ. මේ අතර සංහිඳියා කටයුතු සඳහා යයි දක්වමින් එම […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2023
සුගතදාස ක්රීඩා සංකීර්ණ සේවක සංගමය. නුවරඑලියේ තුරඟ තරඟ ක්රිඩා අමාත්යංශයට අයත් අක්කර 32 ක භූමි ප්රමාණයකි. මෙය නඩත්තු කිරීම සඳහා ක්රිඩා අමාත්යංශයේ ලේකම්ගේ අත්සනින් 2011.09.07 වන දින ඔහුගේ අංක MS/1/1310/12 දරණ ලිපි ගොනු අංකය යටතේ ලේඛනයක් මගින් 1997 අංක 17 දරණ පනත මගින් ස්ථාපිත කර ඇති සුගතදාස ජාතික ක්රිඩා සංකීර්ණ අධිකාරියට දෙවන පාර්ශවය ලෙස 2012 […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2023
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Monday, June 5th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Association of Health Professionals has revealed that the automatic vaccination machine of the PET Scan machine worth Rs. 200 million at the Cancer Hospital in Maharagama, is not in use for over a period of one year, due to the non-availability of FDG chemical and connection tubes. When inquired by Ada Derana […]
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Sunday, June 4th, 2023
Lanka Lead News පසුගිය සිදුකුරාදා දිනයේ රැස්වූ මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාවේ අධ්යක්ෂකවරු යැයි කියා ගන්නා කිහිප දෙනෙකු හා විර්ශන නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් මානව හිමිකම් කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සිදුවන අල්ලස් හා දූෂණවලට විරුද්ධව කටයුතු කළ කොමසාරිස්වරු තිදෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව ක්රියාමාර්ග ගතයුතු බව තීරණය කර ඇති බව එම කොමිසමේ අභ්යන්තර ආරංචි මාර්ග හෙළිකරයි. එම කොමිසමේ උසස් නිලධාරියකු පවසන්නේ මෙම කොමසාරිස්වරු […]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Numerous investment proposals initiated by the Sri Lankan embassy in Beijing with leading Chinese companies have not taken off the ground due to what a top source called ‘lack of any serious enthusiasm at the Colombo end and the absence of committed, knowledgeable and goal -oriented bureaucrats for a long period […]
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Coming up with more staggering disclosures on the ill-fated X-PRESS Peral ship, Minister of Justice Wijedasa Rajapakshe told Parliament today that Chamara Gunasekera who had received US$ 250 million to delay the prosecution is a close associate of MP Nalaka Godahewa who was the minister in charge of Ports during that […]
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe says he has been tipped off on several occasions about a local official being bribed by the insurer of the tanker MV X-Press Pearl, which was gutted in a fire that erupted off the western coast of Sri Lanka two years ago. The lawmaker made this staggering revelation while […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island AG favours Singapore court, compensation claim USD 6.2 bn The inordinate delay in initiating legal action against X-Press Feeders, the owners of container carrier X-Press Pearl, which sank off Colombo in early June, 2021 causing a maritime disaster, has taken a new turn with Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, […]
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Saturday, April 8th, 2023
Courtesy WION STORY HIGHLIGHTS Before approving the loan, the IMF had urged Sri Lanka to reduce corruption by improving fiscal transparency and public financial management and introducing a stronger anti-corruption legal framework. Sri Lanka has gazetted a new anti-corruption bill that is in line with the conditions listed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror ***One company registered in Lagos remains inactive according to the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission ***Directors of Petrichor Capital named defendants in $4.6 million US fraud case *** Vitol group repeatedly blacklisted for supplying substandard fuel to Sri Lanka The Daily Mirror conducted a research on the six companies who had submitted […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) has investigated numerous cases of procedural impropriety and financial misappropriation at the University of Peradeniya. This comes in the wake of an evaluation of current performance and status of issues raised in the Auditor General’s report from 2020 and 2021. The COPE Chairman, Professor Ranjith Bandara attributed […]
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Courtesy Ceylon Today The International Monetary Fund has emphasised the importance of anti-corruption and governance reforms as a central pillar of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF)-supported programme as they are indispensable to ensure the hard-won gains from the reforms benefit the Sri Lankan people. In a statement issued ahead of the IMF press briefing on […]
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Thursday, March 9th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cabinet Spokesperson Bandula Gunawardana says new anti-corruption bill will be presented to Parliament soon Says Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has already drafted bill Reducing corruption vulnerabilities remains a key objective of IMF-backed programme A stolen asset recovery initiative likely to be included in new law The government will bring in an […]
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has recommended that a committee, headed by a retired court judge, be appointed to investigate the issues raised by the special audit report of the Central Cultural Fund for the period between 2015 and 2019. It was also recommended that the report of the newly-proposed committee be […]
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Sunday, February 26th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror If Sri Lankan can secure the 36 billion US dollars of export income owed by Sri Lanka it would be able to improve its economy The Sunday Times reported in July (2022) about an investigation carried out by the Global Finance Integrity (GFI); a think tank based in Washington, USA operating […]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
| Lanka Lead News සිරි ලංකාවෙ ලොකුම වී මෝල් හිමියා පසුගිය වසර 5 තුල ගෙවා ඇති ආදායම් බදු මුදල රුපියල් 0 (බින්දුව) යි.. සිරි ලංකාවේ දෙවන විශාලතම වී මෝල් හිමියා වසරකට ගෙවා ඇති ආදායම් බද්ද රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 9 යි.. සිරි ලංකාවේ බිලියන ගණනින් ආදායම් උපදවන කැසීනෝ බලපත්ර 4ක් 5ක් ඇත.. ඒ අය ගෙවන ආදායම් බදු […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Commercial and Industrial Workers’ Union, United Federation of Labour Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe was appointed by former President Rajapaksa. CBSL seems to function on the personal ‘belief’ of the CBSL Governor; CBSL continues to bury its head in the sand while the country is robbed by business elites in the export and import sector, saying corporate […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Courtesy Ceylon Today President Ranil Wickremesinghe said an Anti-Corruption Bill will be introduced and the Government is taking steps to include the ‘Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR)’ in this Bill, together with the World Bank and the United Nations. The strategy of the government should be to guide the private sector in business activities, while […]
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island One-time Surveyor General Michael de Silva, who served as Sri Lanka High Commissioner in Australia (2004-2007) says in spite of begging for medicine and medical equipment, the health ministry sabotaged ongoing Australian Medical Aid Programme meant to assist state-run hospitals. Declaring that under the programme launched 15 years ago, […]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Chairman of Beliatta Pradeshiya Sabha, Siril Munasinghe and his elder brother, who were arrested and produced before the courts for allegedly stealing several lengths of GI pipes worth nearly Rs. 250,000, have been remanded in custody. At least 11 GI pipes which were intended for a community water project had been stolen last […]
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