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eLanka Newsletter – 5th January 2025 – 2nd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Clean minds essential for a Clean Sri Lanka. The system change must begin with mind-set change. – By Aubrey Joachim Health & Views JANUARY 1st issue 2025 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake SUNDAY CHOICE – COME HOLY SPRIT – By Charles Schokman Watch Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand – T20 Series BIBLE FOR THE BLIND – By Lakshman Navaratne A packed Grand on Princes hosted a wonderful night of music and fine food at the VOC New year’s Eve dinner dance Kusal Perera fireworks gives Sri Lanka an auspicious start to 2025. New Zealand take T20 series 2-1 but face resurgent Lankans in one-dayers. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor) SRI LANKA NEWS – DECEMBER 2024 SRI LANKA NEWS – ...

Jan 5, 2025 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , , , ,
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SRI LANKA NEWS  (NOVEMBER  2024) – Compiled by Victor Melder. A team of researchers has discovered a new plant species in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, scientifically named Coleus hakgalensis Abeysekara, Kasunika, Haluwana & Nilanka sp. nov. This unique discovery was made by the National Herbarium staff as part of the national plant discovery programme, which has been ongoing since 2013. Sumedha Abeysekara, O.M. Kasunika, Nishanthi Haluwana, and Nadun Nilanka played a key role in identifying this new species, which belongs to the Coleus genus within the Lamiaceae family. The National Botanic Gardens Department and the National Herbarium discovered the plant in February 2024 during botanical research conducted in the Hakgala region of the Nuwara Eliya District.The discovery was featured in Phytotaxa, a leading international journal on plant taxonomy and classification. (Ceylon Today, 1.11.2024) Sri Lanka has reached a significant milestone, surpassing 1.6 million tourist arrivals for the year, with over ...

Nov 30, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged
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eLanka Newsletter – 3rd November 2024 -1st Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter STC OBA NSW/ACT AGM & New Committee CBS Correspondent Shanelle Kaul featured on NYC Billboard and the White House SUNDAY CHOICE – His Mercy is More – By Charles Schokman ATTENTION OF A PROPOSED SPONSOR – By Sunil Thenabadu Sri Lanka: Embracing a Vibrant Future – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Sex and a Sex Therapist: Why You Must Watch “Sex Education” – By Alok Das SRI LANKA CRICKET NEWS – OCTOBER 2024 The Brad and Kiara Show Podcast – 2024-11-2 Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 234 31 10 2024 From development to cricket, he had a vision Hon Gamini Dissanayake reminisced on this 30th death annoversary – By Sunil Thenabadu SRI LANKA NEWS – OCTOBER 2024 Andrew McDonald (Australia, Head Coach) | Post-Match Media Conference Transcript ...

Nov 4, 2024 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , , , ,
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eLanka Newsletter – 4th August 2024 – 1st Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Sundown Karaoke Night – 27th July 2024 ….. Shades and Moods of a community (organised by the Sri Lankan NSW Catholic Association ) – photos thanks to Claude Perera Further Donation of Five Eye Corneas from Sri Lanka to Pakistan International Masters Cricket (IMC) Over 70 World Cup Cricket Tournament – July-August 2024 in Englands – Scores and Highlights Qld Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – August 2024 SRI LANKA NEWS – JULY 2024 Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 221 01 08 2024 The Brad and Kiara Show Podcast – 2024-8-3 Pilikuttuwa – ancient forest monastery in Western Province By Arundathie Abeysinghe Susila Malaviarachchi (82) of Henderson, Nevada passed away on July 30, 2024 – By Jayam Rutnam Lymph Nodes: Guardians of the Immune System ...

Aug 4, 2024 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , , ,
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SRI LANKA NEWS (JULY  2024) Compiled by Victor Melder In a remarkable dive that highlighted historical reverence, the Diving Unit of the Sri Lanka Navy on 30th June 2024 explored the sunken remains of HMS Hermes, a fascinating and historic World War II shipwreck off Batticaloa. The event, which took place in the eastern seas, was joined by the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Priyantha Perera and former Commander of the Navy, Admiral Piyal De Silva (Retd). During the World War II, HMS Hermes was targeted and ultimately sunk by Japanese aircraft. During the Second World War, following the Japanese bombing of Colombo on 05th April 1942, the Royal Navy’s HMS Hermes and HMAS Vampire, stationed in the South Sea area of Trincomalee, were sunk by aerial attacks on 09th April 1942. Under the directives of Vice Admiral Priyantha Perera, a seasoned diving expert, the Navy Diving Unit conducted ...

Jul 31, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged , , , , , , ,
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SRI LANKA NEWS  (APRIL  2024) Compiled by Victor Melder Traffic on the Badulla – Randenigala – Kandy main highway came to a standstill last morning when a wild elephant from Randenigala forest reserve stood motionless across the road.   The vehicles from either direction were halted at a distance to avoid any possible danger. However the jumbo that kept standing on the road for about half an hour had gone back padded towards the Randenigala reservoir reservation much to the relief of the drivers. (Daily Mirror, 1.4.2024) Sri Lanka’s Services sector recorded notable net inflows in terms of earnings from tourism, sea transport, air transport, and computer and IT/BPO-related services. The major outflows from the services sector in February 2024 were mainly attributed to air transport, sea transport, and technical, trade-related and other business services. In addition, Computer and IT/BPO-related services were the major contributors to the inflows to the services ...

Apr 30, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged
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SRI LANKA NEWS (MARCH  2024) Compiled by Victor Melder The Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (YoY) change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI, 2021=100)1 decreased to 5.9% in February from 6.4% in January 2024. The Central Bank said the increase in the headline inflation is mostly in line with its projections.  It said the Food inflation (YoY) increased to 3.5% in February from 3.3% in January 2024, while the Non-Food inflation (YoY) decelerated to 7% in February from 7.9% in January 2024.  CBSL also said the monthly change of CCPI recorded -0.05% in February due to the combined effect of price decreases of 0.67% observed in the items of Food category and price increases of 0.62% observed in the items of Non-Food category. The core inflation (YoY), which reflects the underlying inflation in the economy, increased to 2.8% in February from 2.2% in January 2024.  The Central Bank ...

Mar 31, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged , , , ,
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SRI LANKA NEWS (DECEMBER  2023) Compiled by Victor Melder Sri Lanka’s inflation, as measured by the change in the Colombo Consumers’ Price Index (CCPI) marginally increased to 3.4 percent in November 2023 from 1.5 percent in October, the Department of Census and Statistics reported Thursday. The CCPI for all items for the month of November 2023 increased to 193.4 from 191.4 in October 2023. The Year on Year inflation of Food Group increased to -3.6 percent in November 2023 from -5.2 in October 2023 and the Year on Year inflation of Non Food Group increased to 6.8 percent in November 2023 from 4.9 percent in the previous month. For the month of November 2023, on year‐to‐year basis, contribution to inflation by food commodities was -1.20 percent and the contribution of Non Food items was 4.56 percent. (Colombo Page, 1.12.2023) Pastor Jerome Fernando has been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department ...

Jan 2, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged , , ,
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58 වන කොළඹ බාලදක්ෂ කැම්පොරියට අගමැතිගෙන් සුබ පැතුම්! 58 වන කොළඹ බාලදක්ෂ කැම්පොරියට අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සුබ පැතුම් එක කළේය. ඒ, කොළඹ කැම්පොරියේ සංවිධායක කොමසාරිස්වරුන් සහ දිස්ත්‍රික් නායකයින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය කාර්යාලයේදී 2023.12.07 දින අගමැතිවරයා මුණගැසුන අවස්ථාවේදීය. රටට දක්ෂ මෙන්ම විනයගරුක නායකයන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාවය පිළිබඳව අදහස් දැක්වූ අගමැති දිනේෂ් ගුණර්වධන මහතා ස්වෙච්ඡා නිලධාරීන් මෙවැනි වැදගත් සමාජ හිතකාමී ව්‍යාපාර ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාමට දක්වන කැපවීම ඉහළින් අගය කළේය. මෙම අවස්ථාවට කොළඹ බාලදක්ෂ කොමසාරිස් අමිල් අබේසුන්දර, කඳවුරු සංවිධායක කොමසාරිස් ෂබීන් අහමඩ් සහ කොළඹ බාලදක්ෂ සංගමයේ සභාපති සරත් චන්ද්‍රසිරි විතාන යන මහත්වරු ඇතුළු නිලධාරී පිරිසක් සහභාගී වූහ. 58වන කොළඹ බාලදක්ෂ කැම්පොරිය දෙසැම්බර් 8, 9 සහ 10 යන දිනවල කොළඹ විහාර මහාදේවි උද්‍යානයේදී පැවත්වෙන අතර බාලදක්ෂයෝ මෙන්ම බාලදක්ෂ නායකයෝ දොළොස් දහසකට වැඩි පිරිසක් සම්බන්ධ වන මෙම කඳවුරේ මෙවර තේමාව ‘හදවතින් මෙන්ම මනසින් පිරිපුන් බාලදක්ෂයින්’ (Scouting with Heart and Mind) යන්නය. ...

Dec 8, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , ,
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