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Forget national news, South Dakota has made international news (BBC, UK Daily Mail) for our handling of the COVID pandemic. I'm afraid Gov. Noem has her rowboat tied to the Titanic.
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
Indian workers in factories supplying the supermarket chains Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and the fashion brand Ralph Lauren, told the BBC they are being subjected to exploitative conditions. Women working at a Ralph Lauren supplier said they had been forced to stay overnight
- Trafficking Charge (Category: Business)
- India is to build 5,000 housing units for Estate Workers. (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian worker's death exposes job racket in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- India offers scholarships to Sri Lanka's plantation children (Category: Breaking News)
US President-elect Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia, the BBC projects, the first Democratic candidate to do so since 1992. The win solidifies Mr Biden’s victory, giving him a total of 306 votes in the electoral college, the system the US uses to choose its president. President Donald
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
Forget national news, South Dakota has made international news (BBC, UK Daily Mail) for our handling of the COVID pandemic. I'm afraid Gov. Noem has her rowboat tied to the Titanic.
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
Indian workers in factories supplying the supermarket chains Marks and Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and the fashion brand Ralph Lauren, told the BBC they are being subjected to exploitative conditions. Women working at a Ralph Lauren supplier said they had been forced to stay overnight
- Trafficking Charge (Category: Business)
- India is to build 5,000 housing units for Estate Workers. (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian worker's death exposes job racket in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- India offers scholarships to Sri Lanka's plantation children (Category: Breaking News)
US President-elect Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia, the BBC projects, the first Democratic candidate to do so since 1992. The win solidifies Mr Biden’s victory, giving him a total of 306 votes in the electoral college, the system the US uses to choose its president. President Donald
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
US President-elect Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia, the BBC projects, the first Democratic candidate to do so since 1992. The win solidifies Mr Biden’s victory, giving him a total of 306 votes in the electoral college, the system the US uses to choose its president. President Donald
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden takes Georgia to solidify US election victory (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Eliyantha White Is A Fraud! Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Stop Endangering Anymore Lives! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How Is Eliyantha White A ‘Doctor’ Today? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Lost Revolution (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
The Vietnamese Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2021 Formula 1 calendar, BBC Sport has learned. It raises doubts that the race, due to make its debut in April before it was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic, will ever take place. The date of the Vietnam race, 25 April
- Sydney 'lacks focus' to steal F1 (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Button takes out Australian GP (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Melbourne GP posts $49m loss (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Govt refuses to discuss Grand Prix cost (Category: Australia, Victoria)
A retired British nurse was arrested for taking her dementia-stricken 97-year-old mother out of a nursing home ahead of the country’s second national lockdown amid surging coronavirus cases, according to reports. Video of the Tuesday confrontation obtained by BBC News shows Ylenia Angeli, 73
“As you know the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will take place in Geneva in November, 2012. It is through this the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) will examine the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. The government wants to score marks by announcing that they were able to re-settle all the IDPs who were ...
- Menik Farm And Beyond… (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt.: All IDPs Will be Resettled By Year End (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s infamous Menik farm IDP camp to shut down later this month (Category: Breaking News)
- Only 10,956 IDPs remain unsettled (Category: Breaking News)
Frederica Jansz, the editor of one of the last remaining "outspokenly anti-government" English newspaper published in Colombo, was sacked by the new businessman owner when Jansz refused to "curb her style of writing and compromise her credibility," as demanded by the owner, BBC
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation reports 79 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death (Category: USA, New Mexico)
Foreign media have reported that the Sri Lankans have responded in a fitting manner to the world through the election results. This has explicitly displayed the rapport between the Government and the people. The foreign media attributed the Government’s development programme and the resettlement process to the election victory. All India Radio mentioned that President ...
- Aussie fashion 'wearable' (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- FM calls for immediate inquiry in to diplomat�s conduct (Category: Breaking News)
- President briefs foreign media (Category: Breaking News)
- Media drenched (Category: Breaking News)
How focused and efficacious are the current infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka, executed through a public investments programme (PIP)? Take for instance the Chinese funded Norochcholai coal fired power plant, built after obtaining a commercial loan from China, and its subsequent breakdowns resulting in power cuts that will stifle growth and earnings, on top of ...
- Investment Deals (Category: Business)
- Power Projection (Category: Business)
- India tops investments in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- BOI web site removes reference to ‘No FDI nationalisation’ (Category: Business)
General Secretary of the Lanka Teacher Services Union has told the Criminal Investigations Department that he is not a teacher although he holds the Post of General Secretary. An enjoining order has been issued on the Lanka Teacher Services Union preventing it from staging protests with the involvement of Grade Five students. General Secretary of ...
- Trade unionist files HRC complaint against Police (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan court bans education sector trade union official from organizing agitations (Category: Breaking News)
- Education sector trade union in Sri Lanka calls on government to annul the Grade 5 Scholarship E... (Category: Breaking News)
- A/L questions pasted on school walls? (Category: Breaking News)
“Where is it written that you can be beaten to death? Which article is it written thus? I am not afraid of anyone. I don’t care who you are. Come and shoot me. I am not afraid. People need justice and the truth. The people who beat my son up are animals. My heart burns. ...
- Practical steps to meaningful reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lasantha Wickrematunge and the role of journalism in a rotten political culture (Category: Breaking News)
- Loss of judicial independence can be traced to the 1972 Constitution – Justice Wigneswaran wh (Category: Breaking News)
- The Fonseka release, Rajapakse strategy and international pressure (Category: Breaking News)
REUTERS: US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday. Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the family said in a statement, just two ...
- Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, dies aged 82. (Category: Breaking News)
- US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies (Category: Technology)
- VIDEO: Memorial for first man on Moon (Category: Technology)
- China puts its first woman astronaut into orbit (Category: Business)
Thaandavam is an upcoming Tamil action thriller movie directed by AL Vijay. The music of the movie is by GV Prakesh. It stars Vikram and Anushka Shetty in lead roles. Amy Jackson, the 2008 British Miss Teen and Daughter of BBC Radio Show host Alan Jackson also plays a main role in the movie. The ...
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Maryland)
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Iowa)
- An outdoor TV will take your backyard enjoyment to the next level (Category: USA, Maine)
A Norwegian court has found that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is sane and sentenced him to 21 years in jail. Breivik admitted killing 77 people and wounding more than 240 others when he bombed central Oslo and then opened fire at an island youth camp last year. He insisted he was sane and refused ...
- Court finds Norwegian mass killer Breivik sane (Category: Business)
- Norway killer on trial: “I would have done it again” (Category: Business)
- Norway mass killer bent on turning trial into “circus” (Category: Business)
- Norwegian court sentences mass killer Breivik to 21 years in prison (Category: Breaking News)
Human rights activists in Sri Lanka say the government must seek UN help in investigating serious violence in jails which has resulted in the deaths of two Tamil prisoners.
The BBC's Charles Haviland reports from Putumattalan, the scene of fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger militants three years ago.
BBC News visited the Royal Institution's Young Scientist Centre in London, where manager Dave Porter showed some of the experiments that could be conducted with chemistry sets past and present.
BBC television aired live programme on the opening ceremony event of the London Olympic Games which commenced last night.
Government caught lying to defend Defence Secretary By Frederica Jansz Last week, Gamini Abeyratne alias Taxi Abey telephoned me from the United Kingdom. He was agitated and in more than three telephone conversations told me that Hudson Samarasinghe (Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) had telephoned him and asked, “if Frederica went with ...
- Media rights groups concerned over threat to Frederica (Category: Breaking News)
- Sunday Leader Editor Sues Media Minister For 50 Million (Category: Breaking News)
- The Judgment On The White Flag Case (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA says Gota should resign (Category: Breaking News)
Gearing up to grab international attention with new song ‘Game Over’Q: What’s happening on your end, Yashan? A: Well I’m working on my third studio album these days. I will be releasing a brand English new song this weekend titled ‘Game Over’. I am also in the process of producing a song for Shanudrie, one ...
- Official event song of ICC World T20 Sri Lanka 2012 launched (Category: Business)
- Video: Maharaja Gemunu Movie - Theme Song (Sanda Payanne) (Category: Video)
- Video: Thaniwenna Ba Aye Jude Rogans (Category: Video)
- Video: Ape Ahinsaka Adare - Amarasiri Peiris (Category: Video)
At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at a Batman film premiere in the US city of Denver, the BBC reported. Watch the video About 50 people have been injured in the incident at the cinema complex in the suburb of Aurora. Witnesses say a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire
- Capri theatre looks to long-term survival (Category: South Australia)
- Navajo Nation extends stay-at-home order, lifts weekend lockdowns for more vaccinations (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation extends stay-at-home order, lifts weekend lockdowns for more vaccinations (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Navajo Nation extends stay-at-home order, lifts weekend lockdowns for more vaccinations (Category: USA, New Mexico)
TNA Batticaloa district parliamentarian Ponne Selvaraja announced TAN would contest alone in the upcoming eastern provincial council election, BBC reports.
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