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Sri Lanka, India ink deal to jointly redevelop strategic Trincomalee Oil Tank Complex

Sri Lanka, India ink deal to jointly redevelop strategic Trincomalee Oil Tank Complex

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday formally signed an agreement with India to jointly redevelop the strategic World War II-era oil tank farm in the island nation’s eastern port district of Trincomalee. Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said that the agreement to develop the strategic Trincomalee Oil Tank Complex, commonly known as the Trinco Oil Tank Farm, was signed this evening. He said the…

[ds4techofficial]

Sri Lanka to ‘re-acquire’ Trincomalee oil tanks

Sri Lanka to ‘re-acquire’ Trincomalee oil tanks

Sri Lanka will “re-acquire” the World War-era oil tanks in the eastern city of Trincomalee that were leased out to an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) subsidiary in 2003, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Energy Udaya Gammanpila has said. “I am proud to announce that the oil tanks the use of which had been denied to us since 2003 will be soon ours,” Mr. Gammanpila was quoted as saying by news agencies on…

[newsbunddle]

Sri Lanka: Panel on 20A set for last round of deliberations

Sri Lanka: Panel on 20A set for last round of deliberations

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By: PTI | Colombo | September 15, 2020 4:56:25 pm

Since Amendment 20A was gazetted on September 3, various groups have expressed opposition to it. (File)

The ministerial committee appointed to review the proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution will have a last round of deliberations on Tuesday before submitting the findings…

[janayugaya]

"අපි, ගහනවා දැනන් හිටියා. හැබැයි මෙහෙම ගහයි කියලා හිතුවේ නෑ...."

අද අප්‍රේල් 21 වෙනිදා. පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයට අවුරුද්දක්. හිතාගන්න බැරි වෙලාවක, ජේසුස් ක්‍රිස්තුස් වහන්සේ මරණයෙන් උත්ඨාන වුණු වෙලාවේ. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් දෙවියන් යදමින් හිටිය, ඒ වෙනුවෙන් සතුට සමරමින් හිටිය අහිංසක මිනිස්සු පිරිසක් අමු අමුවේ බෝම්බ ගහලා මැරුවා.

අපිට සමූල ඝාතන බෝම්බ හුරු කළේ LTTE එක. ඒ නිසා හැමෝම හිතුවේ LTTE එක කියලා. හැබැයි ටික වෙලාවකට පස්සේ තමයි දන්නේ ගැහුවේ මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදී පිරිසක් කියලා.…

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අධිකරණ විනිශ්චකාරවරුන්ට එරෙහිව ගම්මන්පිල කල ප්‍රකාශය සාවද්‍යයි - තලතා

2019 මැයි මස 08 වන දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා විසින් අධිකරණ විනිශ්චයකාරවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු අප්‍රේල් මස 08 වන දින සිට 12 වන දින දක්වා ඇමරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදයේ කරන ලද සංචාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශය සත්‍යයෙන් තොර දේශපාලන වාසි ලබා ගැනීම සදහා කරන ලද ප්‍රකාශයක් ලෙස වගකීමෙන් ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරන බව අධිකරණ හා බන්ධනාගාර ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ අමාත්‍ය තලතා අතුකෝරල මහත්මිය මාධ්‍ය…

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දුමින්දගෙන් හා ගම්මන්පිලගෙන් සම්මාන ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ තරුණ කලාකරුවන් (Video)

දුමින්දගෙන් හා ගම්මන්පිලගෙන් සම්මාන ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ තරුණ කලාකරුවන් (Video)

පසුගිය දා පැවැත්වූ යෞවන සම්මාන උළෙලේ දී සම්මානයට පාත‍්‍ර වූ යොවුන් නිර්මාණකරුවන් දෙදෙනෙක් දේශපාලනඥයන් අතින් සම්මාන ලබා ගැනීම ප‍්‍රතික්ෂේප කරනු ලැබීය.

සුරීන් චාමිකර සහ කසුන් චතුරංග නම් මේ යොවුන් කලාකරුවන් දෙදෙනා නැගී එන නාට්‍යකරුවන් අතර කැපීපෙනෙන අය බව දැනගන්නට තිබේ. පසුගිය දා අවසන් වූ රාජ්‍ය නාට්‍ය උළෙලේ ද හොඳම කෙටිනාට්‍ය වෙනුවෙන් සම්මානයට පාත‍්‍ර වූයේ ද කසුන් චතුරංග නාට්‍යකරුවාය.

40 වැනි යොවුන්…

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வாளுடன் வருகை தந்த கம்மன்பில

பிவிதுரு ஹெல உறுமயவின் ஊடகவியலார் மாநாடு கொழும்பில் இடம்பெற்றது.

இதன்போது அக்கட்சியின் தலைவர் பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் உதய கம்மன்பில உட்பட உறுப்பினர்கள் துருப்பிடித்த வாள்களுடன் ஊடகவியலார் மாநாட்டுக்கு வருகை தந்தனர்.

“சிங்க கொடியில் உள்ள கூர்வாளை ஜனாதிபதி மைத்ரிபால சிறிசேனவிடம் கொடுத்து 3 மூன்று வருடங்கள். கூர்வாள் துருப்பிடித்து போயுள்ளது. கூர்வாளை முறையாக பயன்படுத்தியிருப்பின் பிரதமரும், முன்னாள்…

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Sri Lanka Ministers hold party leaders' meet to resolve ongoing crisis

Jul 14, 2022 07:58 IST Colombo , July 14 (Always First): In order to tackle the ongoing political crisis in Sri Lanka, leaders of political parties met and decided that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should resign immediately to resolve the current situation in the country. It was discussed at the special meeting held in Parliament this afternoon (13) with the participation of the members of the Committee on Parliamentary Business and the party leaders that the Prime Minister should resign from his position as soon as possible to resolve the current crisis situation in the country. As per the media reports, all party leaders discussed the current situation in the country at length and the Chief of Defense Staff, the Commanders of the three-armed forces and the Inspector General of Police briefed the Members of Parliament about the current security situation. Speaker mentioned that the President informed him via phone that the resignation letter of the President will be submitted before 12 midnight today (July 13) as he had announced to the country, NewsWire reported. Minister of Public Security Hon. Tiran Alles, Members of Parliament Hon. Maithreepala Sirisena, Hon. Lakshman Kiriella, Hon. Hon. Anura Dissanayaka, Hon. Mano Ganesan, Hon. Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Hon. Weerasumana Weerasinghe, Hon. Douglas Devananda, Hon. Gayantha Karunatilleka, Hon. Hon. Ranjith Madduma Bandara, Hon. Gevindu Cumaratunga, Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Hon. (Dr.) V. Radhakrishnan, Hon. Udaya Gammanpila, Rev. Hon. (Ven.) Athuraliye Rathana Thero, Hon. M. A. Sumanthiran, Hon. Angajan Ramanathan, Hon. (Prof.) Tissa Vitharana marked their presence during the Party Leaders' meet in the Sri Lankan parliament. After President Gotabaya Rajapaksa escaped to the Maldives, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was made the interim President of Sri Lanka. Wickremesinghe declared an emergency and imposed a curfew in the western province of the country on July 13 as protesters came prepared to face tear gas shelling by security forces in the country. The country is facing a severe shortage of fuel and other essential supplies and is in the throes of its worst economic crisis with soaring inflation. The oil supply shortage has forced schools and government offices to close until further notice. Reduced domestic agricultural production, a lack of foreign exchange reserves, and local currency depreciation have fuelled the shortages. The economic crisis will push families into hunger and poverty - some for the first time - adding to the half a million people who the World Bank estimates have fallen below the poverty line because of the pandemic. (Always First) Read the full article

[opedguy]

Biden’s Russian Oil Embargo Fails

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), June 18, 2022.--All of 79-year-old President Joe Biden’s threats against he Russian Federation for its Ukraine War have backfired, with China and India, more than making up for a loss of Russian oil revenue from the U.S. and European Union [EU].  Biden pushed, cajoled and threatened any Western ally to continue buying oil from the Russian Federation, hoping the economic consequences would force the 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine War.  But once Biden decided to fund the Ukraine government and supply unlimited lethal weapons and cash to Ukraine, Putin understood Biden’s ultimate goal.  Biden decided, without consulting with allies, to fund a proxy war with Ukrainian troops to topple the Russian government.  No one in the EU agreed with the policy but it was already too late, with Biden delivering more lethal weapons to Ukraine to battle the Kremlin.

India’s 71-year-old Prime Minister Narendra Modi jumped at the chance to buy cheap Russian oil at a time of escalating global oil prices.  Biden shouted from every rooftop but ultimately had no clout over India and China’s appetite for oil.  India bought over 60 million barrels of oil from Russia since the Feb. 24, something eclipsing its 12 billion barrels from all of 2021.  Biden couldn’t convince India or China to stop a good thing, not necessarily because they like Putin or the Ukraine War but purely out of business.  Sri Lanka’s Oil Minister Udaya Gammanpila said he too would probably buy more oil from Russian to meet Sri Lanka’s demands.  Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said, given skyrocketing oil prices, he would be inclined to buy Russian oil to meet his country’s fossil fuel needs.  India dramatically increased its Russian crude oil purchase since the Ukraine War began.

In January and March, India had about 60,000 barrels of oil delivered from Russia.  In May and June, that number quadrupled.  “People are realizing that India is such a refining hub, taking it at such a cheap price, refining it and sending it out as clean products because they can make such strong margins on that,” said Matt Smith, lead analyst at Kpler, tracking Russian oil flows.  Smith said the Russian Urals crude now flows to India and China at unprecedented levels, completely undermining any Western sanctions on the Russian Federation.  Biden foolishly thought he could impose an oil embargo on Russia, thinking would crash the Russian economy.  Biden didn’t think through the obvious blunder to paying Ukraine to battle the Russian Federation, leaving Ukraine in ruins for the foreseeable future.  Not only has Biden destroyed Ukraine, he has wrecked the U.S. economy.

Hyperinflation has caused the Federal Reserve Board to hike rates to the point that Wall Street has been crashing for weeks, leaving the Dow Jones Industrial, Nasdaq Composition and S&P 500 down close to 25% from their January highs.  Let there be no mistake, Biden’s Ukraine War strategy has backfired, causing more damage to the U.S. and European Union [EU] economy than to Russia.  All of Biden’s tough talk about wrecking the Russian economy backfired, causing real damage to the U.S.   Watching India and China swoop up all of Russia’s crude oil should tell U.S. lawmakers that Biden’s war strategy must change before it plunges the U.S. economy into an intractable recession.  Third quarter GDP should plunge again, confirming recession in the U.S.  “We’re look to allies and partners not to increase their purchases of Russian energy,” said 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Biden and Blinken have been wrong about U.S. foreign policy since taking office Jan. 20, 2021.  Both have done everything possible to alienate Russia and China, driving both nuclear-powered U.S. adversaries into a strategic alliance.  China doesn’t back the Ukraine War but won’t compromise its relations with Russia because Biden threatens China with economic sanctions. China bought 1.6 million barrels of Russian oil a day, showing no signs of heeding Biden’s warnings.  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tried to coordinate with Western allies to set a price cap on Russian oil, something that’s done nothing to deter Moscow from selling its oil to Asian markets.  Instead of turning Russia into an active U.S. enemy, Biden should be working vigorously to end the Ukraine War and get back to some measure of diplomacy. Ukraine’s Zelensky wants to keep the fight going indefinitely.

Biden’s approach to the Ukraine War has been a complete failure, supplying Ukraine lethal weapons, hoping that it would discourage Russia from continuing the fight. But once Biden made the fight personal, saying Putin should not remain as Russian president, deciding to fight a proxy war using Ukrainian troops to fight the Russian Federation, Biden has made things far worse for Ukraine.  Biden and former President President Barack Obama poured billions for eight years into a proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, causing 500,000 deaths, 12 million refugees and practically broke the European Union. Biden’s doing the same thing in Ukraine, giving Zelensky the exact wrong approach to the Russian Federation. Zelensky has already lost so much sovereign Ukraine territory, he’s made peace negotiations next to impossible.  Biden should tell Zelensky to end the war at the earliest possible time

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor off OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma. 

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Fifteen-hour-long power outages to starvation: What awaits Sri Lanka as it runs out of petrol?

The Sri Lanka economic crisis has reached a tipping point after newly-elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday, announced that the island-country was down to its last day of petrol.

In a televised address to the country, which has seen violent protests and the subsequent reluctant resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa, Wickremesinghe said, “At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day. The next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives. We must prepare ourselves to make some sacrifices and face the challenges of this period.”

What does it mean to run out of petrol? What happens to a country in such a situation? How will Sri Lanka fight this crisis? We take a look at the situation and try to answer some of these questions.

Sri Lanka’s crisis

On Monday, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the country had run out of petrol and that the residents could face more hardships in the coming months.

https://twitter.com/RW_UNP/status/1526206619595739136

The country, Wickremesinghe added, needs $75 million in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports.

The dire situation could be seen in the streets of Colombo where auto rickshaw drivers queued in serpentine queues in a fruitless wait for fuel.

“I have been in the queue for more than six hours,” one driver, Mohammad Ali told Reuters. “We spend almost six to seven hours in the line just to get petrol.”

Another driver, Mohammad Naushad said, “We’ve been here since 7-8 in the morning and it is still not clear if they will have fuel or not,” he said. “When will it come, no one knows. Is there any point in our waiting here, we also don't know.”

Sri Lanka is in the throes of its worst-ever economic crisis since its independence. The island nation’s economy has been has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, rising energy prices and populist tax cuts. A chronic shortage of foreign currency and soaring inflation had led to a severe shortage of medicines, fuel and other essentials.

Wickremesinghe said he was forced to permit printing money in order to pay state-sector employees and for essential goods and services. “However, we must remember that printing money leads to the depreciation of the rupee,” he added.

He also proposed selling off Sri Lankan Airlines as part of efforts to stabilise the nation's finances. The carrier lost 45 billion Sri Lankan rupees in the year ending March 2021.

What’s in store for Sri Lanka?

Wickremesinghe warned that residents in the country will have to endure power outages for as long as 15 hours a day.

Earlier, in March, residents were left without any power for more than 10 hours when diesel ran dry in the country. Official reports had stated then that diesel — the main fuel for buses and commercial vehicles — was unavailable at stations across the island.

Public transport services will also be heavily impacted, causing inconvenience to people. Moreover, industrial production will also be hit, owing to the lack of petrol.

The shortage of petrol will also lead to lead to the collapse of agriculture, medical services and industrial production, leading to anarchy.

Udaya Gammanpila, the former energy minister of Sri Lanka, was quoted as telling Sky News, “It’s like a man without blood, the body dies. The situation is terrible.”

Yapa Abeywardana, a politician speaking in Parliament earlier, was also quoted as saying that this is “just the beginning” and cautioned that “the food, gas and electricity shortages will get worse”, and ultimately result in “very acute food shortages and starvation”.

Is there any hope?

As the nation continues its struggles, Sri Lankan minister of power and energy Kanchana Wijesekera assured the public of adequate fuel in the country soon.

In a statement on his Twitter page, Wijesekera said that with the arrival of a diesel cargo on Sunday and three fuel vessels in the near future, adequate fuel will be made available nationwide.

https://twitter.com/kanchana_wij/status/1526060282803417088

He also requested the public not to queue or re-fill in the next three days until the fuel station deliveries are completed.

Moreover, Wickremesinghe has appealed to the world for more help, saying “there won’t be a hunger crisis, we will find food”.

India has extended a helping hand to its neighbour, providing fuel, medicine, and food items. Since April, when the crisis got out of hand, India has played the role of big brother — supplying medicines and food to providing loans and financial assistance.

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As Sri Lanka Plunges Into Ruin, the Rajapaksa Family Is on the Run

As Sri Lanka Plunges Into Ruin, the Rajapaksa Family Is on the Run

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As the guests sat down for a banquet dinner last summer at the grand colonial-era home of Sri Lanka’s president, the small talk soon turned gravely serious. Addressing members of the ruling coalition, the country’s energy minister, Udaya Gammanpila, defended a small increase in fuel prices that was intended to address a critical shortage of dollars the island nation needed to…

[janayugaya]

"ඉන්ධන මිල අඩු කලොත් ජනතාව රස්තියාදුවේ යන්න පුරුදු වෙයි" - ගම්මන්පිල

ලෝක වෙළඳපොළෙහි ඉන්ධන මිල අඩු වූවද ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ ඉන්ධන මිල අඩු කළ නොහැකි බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල පවසනවා.

ඔහු සඳහන් කරන්නේ ඉන්ධන මිල පහත දැමුවහොත් ජනතාව “වැඩි වැඩියෙන් ඉන්ධන ගහගෙන කට්ටිය රවුම් ගහන්න එහෙම පුරුදු වෙනවා” යන්නයි.

ඒ අතර, අපනයන ආදායම මෙන් දෙගුනයක් ආනයන වියදම ඉහළ ගොස් ඇති බවද ඒ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය.

එම නිසා ඉන්ධන මිල අඩු කිරීමෙන් විශාල ගැටළු රැසකට මුහුණ දෙන්න සිදුවන…

[etthawitthi]

Gammanpila Sworn As Minister

Gammanpila Sworn As Minister

Udaya Gammanpila has sworn in as the Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs Minister a short while ago.

It is reported that Mr. Gammanpila took oaths before President Maithripala Sirisena at the President’s official residence.

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VIDEO! Sri Lanka could descend into 'anarchy' amid food and fuel shortages

VIDEO! Sri Lanka could descend into ‘anarchy’ amid food and fuel shortages

Watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsFXXt_EIcA Buy some tshirts here … Video description from channel Sri Lanka could run out of fuel and food in the next month, the country’s former energy minister has told Sky News. Udaya Gammanpila, who was sacked earlier this year for criticising government policy, said the economic crisis is reaching a tipping point and could lead to “anarchy”…

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Sri Lanka could descend into 'anarchy' as it risks running out of food and fuel, former energy minister says | World News

Sri Lanka could descend into ‘anarchy’ as it risks running out of food and fuel, former energy minister says | World News

Sri Lanka could descend into “anarchy” as it faces the risk of running out of fuel and food in the next month, the country’s former energy minster has said. Udaya Gammanpila was sacked earlier this year for criticising government policy that has taken the country to the brink of bankruptcy. The former energy minister told Sky News the economic crisis in his country is reaching a tipping point…

[colombonow]

Gammanpila expose facts and figures about Money laundering allegations of Basil

Gammanpila expose facts and figures about Money laundering allegations of Basil

Udaya Gammanpila has stated that his removal from the post of Minister of Energy was not due to the ‘The whole country is on the right path’ program. He said that in the agreement between New Fortress America and the SL Government , a license should be issued to the company and that he was removed as he would not sign the license as long as he was the Minister of Energy. He made these comments…