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@NewsWireLK එක නෙමේ.. මෙයාගෙ මහප්‍රාණ ඉංගිරිසි IMF එකට තේරෙන්නේ නැති නිසා

“The IMF won’t come to talk to me because I speak for the helpless people of this country. Today, there is no solution for the sorrow, tears, and pain in farmers’ hearts.” Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa criticised the government and the IMF, saying they are disconnected from ordinary citizens and have ignored the needs of farmers and the poor while holding discussions in air-conditioned rooms.

@Im_Sithara මෙහෙම dipressed වූ කෙනෙක්ට ගහන්නේ .. අවදානම ඉවත් කළ එක හරි.

දෙවියනේ 🥺 වෙලාවට එ මනුස්සයා දැකලා ඇදලා අරගත්‍තෙ

අපයෝජනය වූ දැරිය ට එරෙහිව නීතීඥයින් තිහක්. දැරිය වෙනුවෙන් කිසිවෙක් නැත. නීතීඥවරුනි ඔබ පතන ලෝකය කවුරුන් උදෙසා ද .

@BuduMalli State bureaucracy තියෙනකම් මොන ලබ්බක්වත් කරන්න බෑ

ඉදිරියේදී බලාපොරොත්තු විය හැකි දේ: රට energy crisis එකකට ලඟා වීම තෙල් ගැනීමට අපහසු වීම නව TAX ප්‍රතිපත්ති ඒම, TAX නොගෙවීමට දැඩි දඬුව දීම මධ්‍යම පංතිය නැති වීම Solar wind trigen සැවොම පාවිච්චි කිරීම Traffic අඩු කොළඹ නිර්මාණය ජන පෙරලි අහාර අර්බුද පාලනයෙන් තොර ව්‍යසන.....

@NewsWireLK Who is in Power now ?

“There are few media outlets in our country that do not allow any positive work to take place. Some dirty, ugly, and backward media institutions are holding back development. It is very difficult to move things forward because of them.” — Minister Lal Kantha

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@ronsterd89 Skin

@lahirunirmala 👏

ආයි පාරක් open source hero සම්මානය ලැබුනා

@sonaljay8 In some areas, ppl don't get refund of the initial payment to ceb even after informing transformer capacity has reached. What a pathetic system. !

As power costs continue to climb in Sri Lanka, I still don’t understand why the government isn’t providing tax relief on solar panels, batteries, and other equipment. Isn’t it good if more of the population moves towards renewables and reduces the strain on the grid?

@ItsmeSuppa There is no Human to human infection.

ආයෙ ලොක් ඩවුන් සීසන් එකක්ද මේ එන්න යන්නෙ

ඊයේ හවස මා METRO බසයකදී දුටු ​සිදුවීම් 3 ක් ගැ​න පවසන්නට කැමැත්තෙමි.හවස් වරුවේ කඩවත බලා ධාවන​ය වූ METRO බසයක තරම සෙනගක් විය. එහි ගමන් කළ උසස් පෙළ උගන්නා වයසේ පසුවූ තරුණ දරුවන්​ගෙන් එක් අයකු තම සිරුරේ මුළු ​බර යොදා හේත්තු වී සිටියේ බසයේ මැද කනුවක සවිකර තිබූ METRO ඇප් එක ස්කෑන් කරන යන්ත්‍රයට ය. එසේ නොකරන්නැයි ඔහුට කිසිවකු කීවේ ද නැත. මගීහු එය නුදුටුවාක් මෙන් ගමනේ යෙදුණහ. අනිත් කරුණ වන්නේ බසය කඩවතට සේන්දු වන විට බොරු හදිසියක් මවා ගත් තරුණ සරසවි සිසුවෙක් ධාවනය වන බසයේ මැද දොර විවෘත කරන්නට විවිධාකාරයෙන් උත්සාහයක නිරත වීම ය. ඔහු බසයේ මැද දොර රහි සවි කර තිබූ බාර්වලින් තදින් ගස්සා ඇද්දේ ය. එය සවි කර තිබූ අගුල පන්නන්නට උත්සාහ ගත්තේය. එසේ නොකරන ලෙස මා ඔහුට පැවසූ වීමට ‘තමාට පරක්කු වී ඇති නිසා බසයෙන් ඉක්මනින් බැස යාමට වුවමනා බව පවසමින්’ මට ද දොස් පැවරුවේ ය. අනෙක් කරුණ වන්නේ සිට ගෙන යන අයට අල්ලා ගෙන යන්නට ඕනෑතරම් පහසුකම් සපයා තිබියදීත් සිටගෙන යන බොහෝ අය බසයේ අසුන් සවි කර ඇති ප්ලාස්ටික් රාමුවට මුළු වෙර යොදා සිරුරේ බර දී ගමන් කිරීම ය. ඒ බරට ප්ලාස්ටික් සීට් රාමුව පසුපසට ඇදෙනු දුටුවෙමි. එය බසයේ ඉදගෙන යන මගීන්ට ද හිරිහැරයකි. තව කලක් මේ විදියට ගියොත් බසයේ ප්ලාස්ටික් සීට් රාමු පුපුරා සීට් අබලන් වීම නොවැලැක්විය හැකි වනු ඇත. මෙවන් තත්ත්වයන් වහාම වලක්වා නොගතහොත් METRO බස්වල කල දසාව හිතන තරම් යහපත් නොවනු ඇත. රටේ පොදු ප්‍රවාහන පද්ධතිය SMART කිරීමට රජය දරන වෙහෙස සැබෑවක් වන්නේ ඒවා භාවිත කරන පොදු ජනයාගේ ඔළුව ද SMART වීමෙන් පමණි. එය ආණ්ඩුවකට කළ හැකි දෙයක් නොවේ. මිනිසුන්ම හිතා මතා කළ යුතු දෙයකි. #Metrobus #Lka #Smartpeople #LMTGO @followers @BimalRathnayake

@RegularReh This is affecting for users as well.

#LK Twitter is having a meltdown over 18% VAT on digital services. Let me clarify some myths. 1) It is NOT a tax on the digital economy, it is the widening of the VAT tax net to include digital services. If it is a tax on digital economy, only digital services would be subject

@erangatennakoon Finally all those extra charges will be on downstream towards consumer/customer.

Is Sri Lanka’s 18% #VAT on foreign digital services (Google, Microsoft, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) from July 1st good or bad for our software industry? Mostly challenging or net negative in the short-to-medium term, especially for startups, freelancers, and SMEs. Our IT sector runs on these tools, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), AI, design, productivity, and dev platforms. 18% extra cost hits hard. A $100/month tool becomes ~$118. For teams and heavy cloud users, it adds up fast. Small players and freelancers absorb the full hit. Larger firms can offset it, but not everyone. They can't easily claim input VAT. Risks slowing AI adoption, innovation, and global competitiveness at a time when we’re trying to grow IT/BPM exports. The government needs revenue. But taxing the tools our developers and entrepreneurs rely on daily feels like taxing the ladder while we’re still climbing. Many countries do this, but 18% is steep for a developing tech ecosystem. Implementation will decide if it hurts or helps. #lka #SriLanka #DigitalSriLanka

මේකට සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම වග කියන්න ඕන ISP company ටිකයි TRCSL එකයි. මේ වගේ එක එක නම් වලින් scammers ලා register කරන්නේ එයාලා. කිසිම verification business registration එකක් නැතුව මේක දෙනවා. සල්ලි දුන්නම ඇති.

@Ayshmarq Protein rich foods are not affordable to #lka people now and then. Having a habit of comparing the price of whatever food with 1kg of white rice which can be served to multiple stomach and multiple times.

Sri Lankans have a weird moral-high ground towards fast food. Most think that Maggi & Bing Chun will give you a one-way ticket to Maharagama “අම්මෝ MSG කෙමිකල්ස්”. Sorry to sound like an imperialist, but your daily grind + සම්බෝලේ & දාගැබවගේ බත්එක isn’t as healthy as you think 😌

@Hamzaonchain The term " layer 2 switch" makes other definitions a mess. Switch itself is layer 2 in nature.

Types Of Switches

@KaviSenu Substandard after sale service in Sri Lanka #lka is a norm.

Review of BYD Sri Lanka – Service Experience After Accident I am writing to share a very disappointing experience we had with BYD Sri Lanka following an accident involving our BYD Sealion 6, which was purchased through John Keells. Unfortunately, we faced an accident on the 6th of April which caused significant damage to the front area of the vehicle. All the sensors were affected and continuously beeping, making the vehicle undrivable. As instructed, we contacted the BYD towing service to transport the vehicle to a service center. However, the towing service took nearly two hours to arrive. Initially, we were informed that the vehicle would be taken to the Colombo service center, but it was later redirected to the Wattala branch. During this already stressful situation, we were shocked to learn from the towing driver that even the towing truck broke down while transporting our vehicle. This caused further delays, and by the time the vehicle was moved again, it was around 11:00 PM. To make matters worse, the Wattala service center initially refused to accept the vehicle. Only after persuasion from the driver was the car finally parked there. Throughout this entire process, we received no official confirmation from BYD, despite being told that we would receive a notification once the vehicle was handed over to a service center. The next day, we contacted the hotline and were assigned a service advisor from Wattala, Mr. Tharindra. After reaching out to him, we were told he would inspect the vehicle and get back to us. Unfortunately, there was no follow-up, and when we contacted him again, we were shocked to hear that our vehicle was not at the Wattala location. After multiple calls and confusion, we were later told that the vehicle was indeed there—but they could not proceed with any repairs due to a lack of parking space. We were then asked to take the vehicle back home and park it ourselves. This was extremely unreasonable, considering the vehicle was not in a drivable condition due to severe front-end damage and malfunctioning sensors. When we questioned the responsibility and safety concerns, Mr. Tharindra did not provide a clear or reassuring response. After repeatedly contacting both Wattala and Colombo branches, and going through significant frustration, the Wattala team finally agreed to keep the vehicle—but only after we personally visited the service center to complete certain procedures. Even then, the service advisor did not provide clear timelines or proper guidance regarding the repair process or insurance documentation. We had to continuously follow up and push just to get basic updates. To make matters worse, we still have not received our vehicle. We are forced to travel to Wattala almost daily just to check on its status. The car, which is in pearl white, has had its paintwork redone multiple times, and even after five attempts, the color matching is still not done properly. This has raised serious concerns about the quality of workmanship and attention to detail. Overall, this experience has been extremely stressful and disappointing. The customer handling by John Keells for BYD is extremely poor, and we feel completely let down. For anyone considering purchasing a BYD vehicle through John Keells, we strongly advise you to be cautious. Based on our experience, we cannot recommend their services. We sincerely hope BYD Sri Lanka and John Keells take this feedback seriously and improve their after-sales service and emergency response systems for future customers. Copied