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[…]The post System Change Happening In Wrong Direction appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Overstressing The Proposed Truth & Reconciliation Commission (Category: Breaking News)
- From Demand For Systems Change To Systems Break (Category: Breaking News)
- Time For Truth Come Out (Category: Breaking News)
- The Missing Ingredients To Come Out Of The Economic Rut (Category: Breaking News)
‘How come gold smuggling MP remains on Ethics and Privileges Committee’? By Shamindra Ferdinando The Opposition would seek the IMF’s commitment to rein in rampant corruption with the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government in spite of the country being declared bankrupt over a year ago, former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris said yesterday (11). Addressing the […]
- GL flays govt. for bringing in laws to consolidate power, protect crooks (Category: Breaking News)
- Opp. alleges Speaker disrupts CoPF ahead of vote on CBSL Bill (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF not paying sufficient attention to corruption: GL (Category: Breaking News)
- GL: Govt. not concerned about corruption despite Geneva warning (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Economy, Easter Phoenix & Politics appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Politics Of Easter Investigation In A Wriggling Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Regime Failure, Grassroot Anger & Ineffective Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Regime Failure, Grassroot Anger & Ineffective Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Regime Failure, Grassroot Anger & Ineffective Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
SJB Colombo District MP Dr. Harsha de Silva decried in Parliament last week what he considers a glaring injustice within the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) taxation intention. Participating in the debate on new Inland Revenue Bill, he argued that imposing taxes solely on EPF
- SOC reveals defaulted EPF payments by plantation companies (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP moves SC to prevent possible losses to EPF, ETF (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabinet gives nod to amend EPF Act (Category: Breaking News)
- EPF to participate in Treasury Bond exchange under DDO (Category: Breaking News)
The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe has revealed that in the event the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) participates in the Domestic Debt Optimisation (DDO) process, the opportunity loss to the EPF bond portfolio will amount to 4%.
[…]The post Unthinkable, Unspeakable Can Happen appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Story Of Shadows (Category: Breaking News)
- “Really Real Manner Of Managing Sri Lanka” – ‘To Paris and Back’ 1977-1990 (JRJ Years) (Category: Breaking News)
- A Churlish Churchill, A Godawful Grusha (Category: Breaking News)
- Gorbachev And Gotabaya (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part V appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part VI (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part IV (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණය, ආර්ථික කප්පාදුව හා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල: සර්වරෝගනාශකයක්ද නැත්නම් තත්වය උග්ර කරවන්නක්ද? – කොටස V appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණය, ආර්ථික කප්පාදුව හා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල: සර්වරෝගනාශකයක්ද නැත්නම් තත්වය උග... (Category: Breaking News)
- ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණය, ආර්ථික කප්පාදුව හා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල: සර්වරෝගනාශකයක්ද නැත්නම් තත්වය උග... (Category: Breaking News)
- ණය ප්රතිව්යුහගතකරණය, ආර්ථික කප්පාදුව හා ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල: සර්වරෝගනාශකයක්ද නැත්නම් තත්වය උග... (Category: Breaking News)
- ශ්රී ලංකාව – ජාතිය ගොඩනැගීම, බලය පැවරීම සහ 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය – කොටස II (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Republic That Fears The Independence Of The Judiciary Even More Than Terrorism appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill Amounts To A Parallel Constitution & A Criminal Procedure Code (Category: Breaking News)
- A Submission on the Making of a New Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- A Submission on the Making of a New Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Declining Trust In A Legal System; Where The “Fence Is Eating The Crops”! (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe underscored the imperative to fortify the nation’s economy, ensuring that forthcoming generations are spared from enduring the unfortunate period that both the country and its people have weathered in the past two years.The post Sri Lanka risks returning to bankruptcy within a decade unless steps taken promptly – President appeared first on ONLANKA -...
- Future generations must not be burdened with the challenging period that the nation has experien... (Category: Breaking News)
- BoI and Export Board of Sri Lanka fall short of targets (Category: Breaking News)
- President s New Year message (Category: Breaking News)
- In order for a country to develop economically, it must be open to the world – President Ranil W... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Debterioration Of Nations Social Security & Protection appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Covid-19 Vaccination: Who Gets, When And How? (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19 Vaccination: Who Gets, When And How? (Category: Breaking News)
- Failing Banks, French Turmoil & Sri Lanka’s Contraction & Confusion (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis: Social Security In A Stake (Category: Breaking News)
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena told Parliament on Friday thaty he would not revoke his ruling given on Wednesday with regard to the Parliament’s supremacy over the Supreme Court. He said that he had consulted legal experts in preparing his ruling that the Supreme Court is not empowered to issue orders or judgments of any nature against […]
- Opposition asks Speaker to withdraw his ruling on motions passed by Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Speaker says courts have no jurisdiction as regards DDR resolution passed by Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL holds back response pending talks with seniors (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition threatens to move no-faith motion against Speaker over OSB (Category: Breaking News)
By Saman Indrajith Opposition political parties yesterday (11) demanded that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena withdraw his ruling that courts are not empowered to issue orders or judgements of any nature related to a motion already passed by the Parliament. On 09 August, the Speaker gave the ruling after Tourism and Lands Minister Harin Fernando raised a privilege issue on petitions filed against ...
- Speaker stands firm on ruling, Opposition says he’s undermining constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Speaker says courts have no jurisdiction as regards DDR resolution passed by Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition accuses govt. of using Speaker’s ruling to bar judicial review of IMF dictates (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL holds back response pending talks with seniors (Category: Breaking News)
The Supreme Court on Friday (11 Aug) dismissed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed claiming that the government s recent decision to reduce the interest rates paid when investing the funds of the EPF in treasury bills and bonds is a violation of fundamental rights.
By Saman Indrajith The SJB yesterday accused the government of using trickery to prevent the judicial review of its new laws to bring down the value of money in the Employment Provident Fund by 30% as a part of IMF dictated economic reforms. Chief Opposition Whip Kandy District MP Lakshman Kiriella said that the government […]
- Sajith says govt lying about there being no money to hold polls after having printed Rs 278 bn i... (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP plans protest in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- The government printed Rs 278 billion between October and December 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- All 225 sitting MPs must share the blame for the present crisis: Ranatunga (Category: Breaking News)
The Supreme Court today (09 August) dismissed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed seeking an order preventing the government from waiving off loans obtained from the EPF and ETF funds during the domestic debt restructuring process.
[…]The post Bleeding Hearts & Brave Hearts appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Who Or What Made Us Insolvent (Category: Breaking News)
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- Ballad Of A Sad Trumpet (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to amend Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) Act to ensure a minimum of 9 percent annual interest rate to members during the next four-year period (2023 to 2026) following Domestic Debt Optimisation.The post Sri Lanka to amend EPF Act to ensure 9% annual
- Central Bank informs EPF members: “decided to opt for” DDO (Category: Breaking News)
- No harm to the Employee Provident Fund – Manusha (Category: Breaking News)
- Domestic debt restructuring: Harsha insists money belonging to EPF members must be safeguarded (Category: Breaking News)
- The Apologetic Custodian Of The EPF Is Also A Victim (Category: Breaking News)
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to amend the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Act to maintain a minimum of 9% annual interest rate within the next four years.
BASL urged to take a stand By Shamindra Ferdinando The Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) has accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of seeking to influence the judicial process in respect of a petition against domestic debt restructuring at the expense of the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF
- BASL holds back response pending talks with seniors (Category: Breaking News)
- No final decision on domestic debt restructuring : Bandula debt (Category: Breaking News)
- President agrees to consider university lecturers demands (Category: Breaking News)
- Special Cabinet meeting convened today to discuss domestic debt restructuring process (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita Brain drain is the worst manifestation of the country’s economic crisis, Freedom People’s Congress (FPC) member and MP, Prof. G.L Peiris, said on Thursday.Prof. Peiris said that a large number of academics had left state universities. In recent years, the number of students enrolled at the state universities had risen significantly, he […]
- University teachers to stage protest opposite UGC today (Category: Breaking News)
- FUTA warns of severe brain drain within universities (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith: Brain drain has deprived universities of more than 50 percent of their dons (Category: Breaking News)
- Little chance of Lanka becoming knowledge hub: FUTA (Category: Breaking News)
The Supreme Court today (03) ordered the consideration of the petition filed seeking an order preventing the government from waiving off the loans obtained from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees Trust Fund (ETF), during the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) process, to be postponed
Two petitions were filed before the Supreme Court this afternoon (28 July), seeking an order deeming the decision to reduce the interest rates paid when investing the funds of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) in treasury bills and bonds to 9% a violation of fundamental rights.
The Supreme Court has ordered the petition filed seeking an order preventing the government from waiving off the loans obtained from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees Trust Fund (ETF), during the Domestic Debt Optimization (DDO) process to be recalled on August 27 for consideration.
[…]The post වර්තමාන පාලනයේ පරස්පරතාව appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ව්යාකූලත්වය සංයුක්තවීම : මැතිවරණ දින සහ මැතිවරණ ප්රතිසංස්කරණ (Category: Breaking News)
- මැතිවරණ ප්රතිසංස්කරණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අශ්වයාට පෙර කරත්තය ඉදිරියට දැමීම (හොරාට පෙර කෙසෙල් කැන වැට පැනීම) (Category: Breaking News)
- හොඳ මෙන්ම නරක කාලවලදී ද ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයේ නිරෝගීකමට මැතිවරණ අවශ්ය වේ (Category: Breaking News)
- ප්රතිසංස්කරණ සිදුකිරීම සඳහා සෑම මට්ටමකම විශ්වාසය ගොඩනැගීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට පවතින අවශ්යතාව (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Speeding Up Recovery Requires Consistency appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka’s main opposition party the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will present an amendment to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) Act to ensure an equitable treatment in restructuring domestic debt, an SJB legislator said. MP Harsha de Silva told reporters on Wednesday July 12
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- Harsha points out “glaring injustices” in taxing EPF (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith: EPF will lose Rs 12 trillion due to domestic debt restructuring (Category: Breaking News)
The petition filed seeking an order preventing the government from waiving off the loans obtained from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees Trust Fund (ETF), during the domestic debt optimization (DDO) process is due to be heard on 27 July.
The Sectoral Oversight Committee on Foreign Employment and Labour has revealed that several plantation companies have defaulted on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) payments and have huge arrears to the EPF.
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[…]The post The International Priority To Be Heeded appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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