Monthly Archives: March 2021

Lankan govt gazettes Special Economic Zone for Colombo Port City

A Bill to provide for the establishment of the Colombo Port City (CPC) Special Economic Zone has been published in the Gazette and is slated to be presented to Parliament next month. The 76-page Bill provides for the establishment of a Commission empowered to grant registrations, licences, authorisations, and other approvals to carry on businesses and other activities in the Special …

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Six vaccination centres allocated in Colombo this week

Colombo, March 23 (Daily Mirror) – The Colombo Municipal Council yesterday said it had allocated six centers in Colombo this week where those above the age of 60 years can receive the anti COVID19 Astra Zeneca jabs. Chief Medical Officer of the CMC, Dr. Ruwan Wijemuni told Daily Mirror that the vaccination programme will exclusively be administered to those above …

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Resolution on Sri Lanka passed at UNHRC

The resolution on Sri Lanka was adopted at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva today with 22 voting for, 11 against it and 14 abstentions. Resolution A/HRC/46/L.1 was presented to the Council by Julian Braithwaite, the UK representative to Geneva, on behalf of the Core Group on Sri Lanka. Several member States later expressed their views on the …

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කාන්තා චර්මච්ඡේදනය –

කාන්තාවන්ට විවිධාකාරයේ සුබ සිද්ධීන් ගෙනදෙන ඉස්ලාමීය පිළිවෙතක් කාන්තා චර්මච්ඡේදනය පිළිබඳව විවිධාකාරයේ ලිපිලේඛන ලියාපළකොට ඇති අතර බොහෝ ලේඛකයින් හට ඉහත කරුණු පිළිබඳ ඉස්ලාමීය පිළිවෙත FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)  බොහෝ දුරට අවුල්සහගත බව පෙනේ. කෙසේ වෙතත් මෙය යථාර්තයට වඩා බොහෝ සෙයින් වෙනස් ය. ඉස්ලාමයේ නියම කර ඇති පරිදි කාන්තා චර්මච්ඡේදනය යනු භගමණියේ (භගශිශ්නිකාව) හෙවත් කාන්තා ලිංගෙන්ද්‍රිය ආවරණය කර ඇති ප්‍රපූටිය හෙවත් පෙරසම …

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President and PM make phone calls to world Muslim leaders

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have made phone calls to world Muslim leaders, a day before the UN Human Rights Council takes a vote on a resolution against Sri Lanka. Secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef A. Al-othaimeen, had received a phone call yesterday (Sunday) from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who discussed with him …

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