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News Letter of Hindu Council of Australia Hindu Council of Australia Representing Hindus in Australia In the 10-06-22 (part-2) edition: Join Australian Defense Forces as a Chaplain International Day of Yoga Celebrations 2022 REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! COURSE STARTING – 15 JULY 2022 Join Australian Defense Forces as a Chaplain Vishva Hindu Parishad of Australia is currently accepting applications from Australian citizens who we can nominate as a Hindu Chaplain in the Australian Defence Force (Army, Air Force and Navy). You will be appointed as a Captain (or equivalent) in a Reserve role (part-time) and will not have go move outside your state of residence. […] Read in browser » International Day of Yoga Celebrations 2022 Art of Living Sydney in collaboration with Consulate General of India celebrates the 8th International Day of Yoga on 25th June About this event Yoga, Breathing, Meditation, Music….. it’s all free. Come and ...

Tharanga sets new Javelin record, Hirusha wins Long Jump-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Rumesh Tharanga (Javelin Throw) Source:Dailynews The promising athlete Rumesh Tharanga of St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya, created a new meet record in the boys’ under 20 Javelin Throw when he was placed first with a distance of 69.3m at the Junior National Athletic Championship held at the Sugathadasa Stadium, yesterday. Tharanga who also qualified earlier (during the selections trials) for the forthcoming World Junior Athletic Championship in Colombia once again came up with good performances to finish in first place with a new record while Dinesh Dilshan of St. Mary’s College, Chilaw, was placed second with a 64.95m personal best. ...

Jun 10, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Nihinsa Mandini, Rumesh Tharanga, St.Peter's College

OrionStellar accredited as Sri-Lanka’s first ever ‘TIA Rated 3 design certified’ Data Center OrionStellar, Sri Lanka’s first carrier-neutral,, high-density data center, achieved another historic milestone after becoming the first facility of its kind in the island to be listed as a TIA-942 Rated 3 Data Centre facility. Data center design conforms to delivering highest level of availability and resiliency in terms of uninterrupted power and cooling to the enterprises hosting their IT infrastructure at Orionstellar. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) standard is one of the most widely recognized and globally implemented standards for reviewing and ensuring conformity with international best practices. The certification covers all physical infrastructure including, but not limited to, site location, architectural, electrical, and mechanical, fire safety, telecommunications, and security. The facility design ensures concurrently maintainability in critical infrastructure equipped with the redundant capacity components and multiple independent distribution paths in conformity with all applicable global standards. ...

Jun 10, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Orion City IT Park, Orionstellar data center, Telecommunications Industry Association

NSW GOVERNMENT MAKES RECORD INVESTMENT INTO STATE’S MULTICULTURAL FUTURE The state’s rich multicultural society and its communities are set to benefit from a record level budget spend. A $28 million package, secured through the upcoming NSW Budget, will support whole-of-Government Language Services, boost community cultural events and festivals, and increase engagement with multicultural and multi-faith communities. Premier Dominic Perrottet said the multi-year funding will benefit the state’s diverse cultures by providing important information in many languages, and bringing different communities together to celebrate their shared values. ...

Jun 10, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Premier Dominic Perrottet, Treasurer Matt Kean

SRI LANKA NEEDS FEWER POLITICIANS AND MORE TECHNOLOGISTS – By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando “There are rumours that Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had to take over the finance portfolio since no member of the Sri Lankan Parliament was willing to take up this challenge of managing the country’s finances. Instead of looking at the scenario negatively, it would be appropriate to think that the Prime Minister taking over the finance portfolio is also a progressive step, as the finance portfolio requires the maximum attention at this stage,” says veteran Indian journalist N.S. Venkataramanin in his latest article, which landed in my email ‘in box’. He further states that ‘when the Sri Lankan Government negotiated with the IMF to obtain financial support, the present scenario appears to be that the IMF is procrastinating the issue and has not given a firm assurance to the Sri Lankan Government. When ...

Jun 10, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Tilak S Fernando Tagged Gotabaya Rajapaksa, IMF, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa, Sri Lankan government, SriLankan Airlines, United National Party, World Bank

Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 109 10 06 22 Today it’s all about risky cheese rolls, glam jewels, 1679 violins, pencil-tip art, R&R workspaces, some ocean trivia plus chats on life insurance, protestors rights & the week that was. Enjoy, ...

Jun 10, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Savithri Rodrigo Tagged life insurance, ocean trivia, Savithri Rodrigo

Ashton Agar’s Sri Lankan Lineages – By Dr Michael Roberts Source:thuppahis.com Ashton Agar may play cricket now for Western Australia, but he is the eldest of three boys schooled at the De La Salle College in Melbourne. Our investigations indicate that his father John Agar is from a cricketing family associated with the Prahran Cricket Club in Melbourne – a happy coincidence because Prahran had several Burgher migrants active within its portals—notably Owen Mottau and Dav Whatmore.[1] As vitally, his mother Sonia is a Sinhalese Sri Lankan, being the daughter of Nala Hewawisa[2] from a marriage with Sheila Plunkett,[3] who is described in one source as a “Burgher of British descent.” John & Sonia Agar and eldest son Ashton The Agar family at Lords By marvelous coincidence it appears that there were Agars too in British Ceylon – working as planters. Philip Sansoni (in Sydney now) sent me this note: “Interestingly, there is a tablet ...

Jun 9, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged "CRICKET, De La Salle College, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland

WEBXPAY partners with Visa to expand scope of digital payments in Sri Lanka WEBXPAY, Sri Lanka’s leading online payment gateway solution provider, has entered into a partnership with Visa to expand the scope of the country’s digital economy by enabling seamless, effortless, and sustainable digital payment acceptance solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) across the island. This collaboration provides WEBXPAY a boost to faster achieve its goal of empowering SMBs island-wide with face-to-face digital payment acceptance capability; offering them access to Visa cardholders across the globe. This in turn will increase scalability for the small business sector and consequently aid its recovery. WEBXPAY, now a part of the Visa Acceptance Fast Track Program for Asia Pacific, hopes to widen its net of financial inclusion by enabling digital payment acceptance to 10,000 new-to-digital Sri Lankan SMBs by 2025; aiming for a Gross Merchant Volume (GMV) of LKR 10 billion by ...

Jun 9, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Avanthi Colombage, Krishan Samarasinghe, Nalin Dissanayake, Natalie Ferdinands

Sri Lankan Baila: Its Roots and Variations – By Dr Michael Roberts Source:thuppahis.com Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN, Vol XXI, No 3, August 2018 … with highlighting emphasis added by The Editor, Thuppahi The extraordinary love of the Portuguese for music is epitomised at El Ksar el Kabir in Morocco, in 1578, where 10 000 guitars lay on the battlefield, near the dead Portuguese soldiers. The Portuguese took guns and guitars to battlefields! Is it surprising that the Portuguese presence is vibrant through Sri Lankan popular music – Baila? Baila is a ballad in which the poetry is of paramount importance. A ballad is a short poem suitable for singing which was originally intended to accompany a dance. The etymology of ballad is ballare (late Latin/Italian) meaning ‘to dance’. Today the Portuguese word bailar meaning ‘to dance’ is used in the context of a Ball; dançar means ‘to dance’. Meanings of words change over time ...

Jun 9, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Michael Roberts Tagged BBC World Routes, C M Fernando, Cinnamon Gardens, sinhala baila, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan popular music, Sri Lanka’s Portuguese