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Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, attended, by invitation, the Economic Dialogue Series held in Berlin under the theme “Inflation Kills Democracy: Fiscal Rationality as the basis of Functioning Communities” on 21 November 2023. This event was organised by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany. Governor Weerasinghe presented Sri […]
Member of Parliament Dr. Nalaka Godahewa says that even in this budget, the President’s plan to break a part of the opposition has failed. He said so at a recent press conference held at the Nawala office of the Freedom Janata Sabha on the budget and the current political situation. “We are in temporary relief […]
- Eran proposes raising PAYE threshold to Rs 200,000 a month (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition attacks increase in state debt (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Economy improving, VAT can be reduced – RW (Category: Breaking News)
- Kiriella alleges tax concessions granted to GR’s election funders (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Four New Universities: A Premature Budget Proposal For Cheats appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Eternal Impunity For Academic Fraud In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lying About Age Of Protestant Mission Schools: Is Age Quality? (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaffna University Vice-Chancellor Commits Fraud Again With Impunity (Category: Breaking News)
- When The Gatekeepers Of Academic Standards & Integrity Commit Fraud, What Is Left Of The Sri Lan... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Bailout Conditions Plus New Central Bank Act Will Close Doors To Modern Monetary Theory (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
- The Role Of National Defence In A Crisis-Ridden Economy (Category: Breaking News)
Second death anniversary by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Who has known the ocean.” Rachel Carson (Undersea) Weddings require invitations. Funerals are open spaces. None are barred; anyone can turn up, even sworn enemies. Lankan politicians make use of this openness as a political tool, thus only so far as they remain in active politics. Sirisena Cooray never […]
- Where have millions of USD invested in good governance and accountability projects et al gone? (Category: Breaking News)
- Thico ‘investments’, money laundering and related matters (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential Dilemmas: Global Headwinds and Archaeological Mischiefs (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC, cryptocurrency and repealing of time-tested law (Category: Breaking News)
In Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) classes, teachers give their students a list of words for them to find the odd one out. Then they have to explain why they thought it to be odd. It’s an exciting game because teachers include more than one word that may be interpreted as odd in […]
- Going ritual mode (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘The A to Z of Conflict’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Important’ question of identity: Ethnicity and religion (Category: Breaking News)
- After brilliant 45 years, Ian Chappell quits commentaries (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Regain A Vision Of Rhe Common Good appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- System Change Happening In Wrong Direction (Category: Breaking News)
- Pragmatism Needs Fairness To Be Statesmanlike (Category: Breaking News)
- What The President Can Do Before He Goes (Category: Breaking News)
- Preoccupation With Repression Will Be Counter-Productive (Category: Breaking News)
COPE Chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara has said that his son Kanishka Bandara holds the position of coordinating secretary to the COPE Chairman and as such the latter had been allowed to attend the official functions of the COPE. When contacted for comments on social media reports going viral on Kanishka Bandara attending a COPE meeting […]
- COPE chairman s son attending SLC meeting will be probed  Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith tables evidence of COPE Chairman having conflict of interest (Category: Breaking News)
- Outsiders banned from COPE meetings unless approved by Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-COPE chief denies he was behind prorogation of Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
The convocation of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Colombo, (BCIS) for 2023, held at the BMICH on November 10, provided many a thought-provoking ‘take-away’ for the International Relations (IR) student and analyst. The principal dignitaries at the momentous event did considerable justice to current developments in the IR field and thereby rendered the convocation […]
- Epitome of administrative excellence (Category: Breaking News)
- BCIS honours two Lankan stalwarts in International Relations field (Category: Breaking News)
- Critical assessment of the state of democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- NAM means you can make independent decisions: Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
* Lankan universities have been running with no more than 60 percent of the cadre of teachers approved for them and now perhaps less. * Upper secondary schools are run with no teachers for mathematics, physics and information technology. * University teachers are emigrating in droves, driven away into uncertain lives in other countries. *In […]
- A Budget to dismember state universities (Category: Breaking News)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
- Budget 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- A people’s university and a national crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Monday 13rd November, 2023 Anyone’s death diminishes us. However, with apologies to Donne, we are diminished beyond measure when the veterans of the fourth estate depart. On Saturday (11), former editor of The Island Gamini Weerakoon crossed the Great Divide. His funeral took place yesterday. Our readers may recall the pivotal role he played in […]
- Liberty Publishers win big at Journalism Awards for Excellence 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Media must operate within respective country s legal framework  President (Category: Breaking News)
- Dispute over Kuliyapitiya property: CA moved against Chamuditha, others – Justice Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Need for positive news (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Budget 24: High Aspirations Amidst Mounting Challenges But Options Are Limited appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Citizens Should Be Aware Of The Burden Of Total Government Expenditure (Category: Breaking News)
- The Role Of National Defence In A Crisis-Ridden Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Evil Is Not Mere Money Printing, But Unbridled Government Expenditure (Category: Breaking News)
- Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Dhananath Fernando – determined to do much for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Tax Hike Welcome But Much More To Be Done To Come Out Of The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
The United States recognizes Sri Lanka’s right to assert its own aspirations and objectives to be recognized as an equal on the world stage. The U.S. Embassy Colombo, together with the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), brought together scholars from across the Indo-Pacific for the conference […]
- US and Sri Lankan navies to cooperate to address maritime security (Category: Breaking News)
- US asserts will stand with Sri Lanka through this difficult time (Category: Breaking News)
- US Ambassador to India holds talks with Sri Lankan envoy (Category: Breaking News)
- Power to raise human rights issue during Sri Lanka visit (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya One of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished yet underrated economists, S. B. D. de Silva died five years ago, on June 15. His magnum opus, The Political Economy of Underdevelopment, remains as underrated and under-read – one could say unread – as he. First published by Routledge in 1982, The Political Economy of […]
- SLPP MP asks FM for clarification (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s ‘Royal’ mess explained by old boy (Category: Breaking News)
- COPF: Tax concessions granted to BoI enterprise should be scrutinised (Category: Breaking News)
- Sirisena floats broader coalition under UPFA umbrella (Category: Breaking News)
This year’s Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, for her work on women’s employment and pay. Prof Goldin’s research uncovered key drivers behind the gender pay gap, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Iceland’s PM to strike over gender pay gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Iceland’s PM to strike over gender pay gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel Prize-winner to contest Democratic Republic of Congo presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump liable for fraud, judge finds in New York civil case (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Why The Shock Over IMF’s Diagnostic Report? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW’s Political Dilemma (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Budget Crisis & Ibn Khaldun (Category: Breaking News)
- A führer In The Making (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic Realities & Political Promises (Category: Breaking News)
There is a report in the Lankadeepa of 30 September, 2023 that thousands (‘dahas ganang’) of university graduates in biotechnology (and engineering technology) languish without employment. There is a comment that even if all of them were employed as teachers in state schools (in fact, there is no money to do so), the pool of […]
- President Ranil encourages graduates to stay and advance Sri Lanka s future (Category: Breaking News)
- Grads go back to study (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Sri Lankan government asked to provide employment to all unemployed graduates (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis-ridden Lanka’s brain drain hits ICT sector’s workforce; requires 100,000 more – official (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Has The Economy Been Assassinated & If So, Who Were The Assassins? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Foreign Borrowings: Are They An Evil Or Not? (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s New Government: Be Warned Of The Empty Treasury & Negative Foreign Reserves (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: How Colonial Ceylon Did It? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Only A Unified Approach Can Solve The Economic Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- People’s Preamble To IMF Technical Report (Category: Breaking News)
- If The Speaker Had Become The President, The Economic Crisis Might Have Been Eased By Now (Category: Breaking News)
- Entrepreneurs Argue Against Unpredictable Exchange Rate, Interest Rates & Tax Policy (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF’s Prescription: Panacea Or Palliative? (Category: Breaking News)
There was a pall of silence over who accompanied our President to the Big Apple for the Big Meeting of the United Nations. Hence our curiosity was roused, minds scratched around for news. Cassandra WhatsApped a good friend of hers now living in California and asked her whether she knew who accompanied our Prez. We […]
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez says he is neutral (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Glocalization Without Financialization appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Debt, Divestiture & Discontent (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Forecasts & Systemic Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic Realities & Political Promises (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP Deserves Fairness From Critics (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Trump-Ramasamy Ticket GOP’s Best Bet In 2024; US Events Will Affect The Whole World appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Trump Likely To Be The Next American President? (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
Efforts are on by the Union government’s Shipping Corporation of India to commence high-speed passenger ferry service between Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Kangesanthurai in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province by the first week of October. The service covering around 60 nautical miles will start from Nagapattinam Mini Port, sources said. Each ferry will carry around […]
- Sri Lanka-India ferry service launch deferred - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Passenger ferry service from TN to Sri Lanka likely from Oct first week (Category: Breaking News)
- India, Sri Lanka passenger ferry service launched after 40 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Nagai-Sri Lanka boat service trial run successful (Category: Breaking News)
Piyumi Ranadewa is a Research Assistant working on migration and urbanisation policy research at IPS. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture, specialising in Agriculture Economics and Business (First Class) from Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, graduating with Dean’s Honours. She also holds a Master
- Foreign jobs: growing mismatch between SL supply and global demand: World Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- IOM works with Japan and ILO to assist repatriated Sri Lankan migrant workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan, IOM and ILO help protect Sri Lankans from human trafficking (Category: Breaking News)
- Brain drain impediment to hospitality industry – Dr.Jayasinghe (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post IMF & Global Debt Crises appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Paris Summit To Push For Global Debt Reforms & What Sri Lanka Could Bring To The Table (Category: Breaking News)
- Glocalization Without Financialization (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s Economy – Nothing Is Going Right! (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
Dr Mary Srikanthi Handy was the daughter of the famous Dr George Rajanayagam Handy who was the pioneer cardiologist of Sri Lanka and the founder president of the Sri Lanka Heart Association. She was born in 1935 and is the eldest child and only daughter of Dr. George and Mrs. Kanmanie Handy. Even as a […]
- $66M settlement against Munster cardiology group, hospital for unneeded surgeries, implanted dev... (Category: USA, Illinois)
- $66M settlement against Munster cardiology group, hospital for unneeded surgeries, implanted dev... (Category: USA, Illinois)
- $66M settlement against Munster cardiology group, hospital for unneeded surgeries, implanted dev... (Category: USA, Illinois)
- $66M settlement against Munster cardiology group, hospital for unneeded surgeries, implanted dev... (Category: USA, Illinois)
by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka The sum and substance of Rajan Philips’ counter-critique of my critique is that I seem uninterested in reform, especially political reform, and most especially the abolition of the executive presidency or the same thing deferred, i.e., ensuring that this upcoming election is the last presidential election we shall have. (Political Reforms: […]
- Ranil is running out of time and tricks, now it’s time the people had their say (Category: Breaking News)
- Good King Ranil and his options: Keep running or end the Executive Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- President needs to take up challenge of leaving a legacy (Category: Breaking News)
- Time frame for presidential poll set by law: elections chief (Category: Breaking News)
China’s factories picked up their pace and retail sales also gained momentum in August, according to government data, suggesting the economy may be gradually recovering from its post-pandemic malaise. However, despite busy activity in restaurants and stores, the figures released on Friday showed continuing weakness in the all-important property sector, where real estate developers are […]
- Large number of students fail A/L exams (Category: Breaking News)
- More Brazilians buy into President Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 vaccine skepticism (Category: USA, New York)
- More Brazilians buy into President Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 vaccine skepticism (Category: USA, New York)
- More Brazilians buy into President Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 vaccine skepticism (Category: USA, New York)
[…]The post What Is Wrong With The President’s Vision & Mission? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conflict Resolution Might Be The Way Out? (Category: Breaking News)
- President Should Be Responsible! (Category: Breaking News)
- Mother’s Day & Rights Of Women (Category: Breaking News)
- Ambiguity Of National Evaluation Policy In Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
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