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Wickremesinghe also met King Charles III on Sunday September 18.
- Sri Lanka president meets Commonwealth secretary general in London (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president confident of strengthened ties with UK under new PM Rishi Sunak (Category: Breaking News)
- President returns after London visit (Category: Breaking News)
- President urges SL diaspora in the UK to invest in their motherland (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Two Challenges: Economic Recovery & Political Devolution – IV (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
The week ended on September 15 saw 1027 suspected dengue cases reported in 23 districts
- Vaccine Hopes (Category: Business)
- Forex crunch boosts dengue spread (Category: Breaking News)
- Public Health Inspectors of Sri Lanka on strike amid a dengue outbreak (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka dengue cases double in first 19 weeks; shortage of chemicals weighs (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka still struggles to smoothen its fuel distribution due to forex shortage created by money printing
A food crisis in Sri Lanka looms as the island nation faces its worst economic disaster in decades. With food price inflation higher than 90%, even staples like rice have become almost unaffordable for many Sri Lankans. The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that about 30% of the population is food insecure and that one out of […]
- Sri Lanka urges farmers to plant more rice amid crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce anti-hoarding laws for food stocks – PM (Category: Breaking News)
- FAO to provide Urea, cash for crisis-hit Sri Lankan small-hold farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- As Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Chinese Projects, India Moves to Recover Influence (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertiliser and fuel shortages during the nation's most severe financial crisis in more than seven decades.The post Sri Lanka’s economy shrinks 8.4% amid fertiliser, fuel shortages appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ...
- Worker remittance income up in August amid Government incentives (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka economy shrinks 8.4-pct in 2Q amid currency crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. presses Sri Lanka to advance human rights amid economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Colombo Port sees jump in traffic amid Red Sea tensions (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita Those who claimed that privatisation was the panacea for Sri Lanka’s economic ills had to present information about privatise institutions first, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said on Wednesday at a conference on privatisation of state assets. Dissanayake said that the SLPP had campaigned in 2019 and 2020 on a […]
- AKD: JVP-led NPP will not undermine India’s national security (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB opposes blanket privatisations (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP urges youth not to leave country, but to stay and fight (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. resorting to uncivilised measures to delay polls – JVP (Category: Breaking News)
"Sri Lanka needs to work collectively to solve the food issue in the face of the global food crisis."
- UN Food Programme, FOA warn Sri Lanka of acute food shortage (Category: Breaking News)
- Food insecurity improves in Sri Lanka but prevails within specific regions- report (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Sri Lanka debates elephant capture (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Sri Lanka debates elephant capture (Category: Technology)
The multi-sector mechanism to empower rural economic revitalization centres to ensure food security and nutrition was initiated under the patronage of President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (September 13).The post Multi-sector combined mechanism launched to ensure food security and nutrition in Sri Lanka appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka president calls for national food security plan as UN warns of shortage (Category: Breaking News)
- A country’s security is not only militarily but economic and food security as well – President (Category: Breaking News)
- Multi-Sector Combined Mechanism for Empowering Rural Economic Revitalization Centres to ensure f... (Category: Breaking News)
- Instructions to district and divisional secretaries to expedite the program to ensure food secur... (Category: Breaking News)
The program aims to provide fertilisers up to 1 million farmers
- Agricultural equipment at concessionary terms for Sri Lankan farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. to ban tobacco cultivation (Category: Breaking News)
- Pay farmers their pension they have contributed to Anura Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Tribute to our gutsy farmers (Category: South Australia)
An online crowdfunding platform titled ‘Rebuild Sri Lanka’ launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is now live providing the opportunity for global citizens to contribute to alleviating the impacts of the crisis in the island nation, the UNDP said.The facility can be accessed at www.undp.org/srilanka/donate. Sri Lanka is undergoing its worst economic crisis […]
- ÂRebuild Sri LankaÂ- UNDP-led crowdfunding platform launched (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP launches ‘Rebuild Sri Lanka’ crowdfunding platform (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP appeals for assistance to help rebuild Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Government and UNDP map out SDG investment for private sector to support recovery (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Unelected President Ranil A Vicious Hypocrite? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why Did Ruwan Exonerate NTJ Leader Zahran? (Category: Breaking News)
- Any Dealing With President Who Lacks Legitimacy Is Political Suicide (Category: Breaking News)
- Are BASL & Media Acting In Cahoots To Promote Ranil? (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
Interested parties can contribute to two ailing sectors: healthcare and food.
- UNDP launches ‘Rebuild Sri Lanka’ crowdfunding platform (Category: Breaking News)
- Helping Hand (Category: Business)
- Rebuild Effort (Category: Business)
- ÂRebuild Sri LankaÂ- UNDP-led crowdfunding platform launched (Category: Breaking News)
Filling Station Association has said nearly 300 filling stations have been temporarily closed
- Three shipments of fuel to arrive in Sri Lanka by mid, end July, August: Lanka IOC (Category: Breaking News)
- My Dear Sinhalese Friend (Category: Breaking News)
- Amid shortage, Sri Lanka suspends filling station licenses for hoarding fuel (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce weekly fuel quota by July as costs shoot up (Category: Breaking News)
“We asked them to register with the police because it will make it easier to identify them."
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
- 400 new teachers for the Central Province (Category: Breaking News)
- 400 Shops In Colombo To Be Sealed (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who returned home after seven weeks in exile following protests over economic hardships, could face legal action over forced disappearances of activists now that he has been stripped of constitutional immunity, a lawyer said. Rajapaksa flew to Colombo around midnight Friday from Thailand and was escorted under military guard […]
- Air Force evacuates President Rajapaksa to Maldives (Category: Breaking News)
- MR sees foreign hand in economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- President declares State of Emergency (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP demands protection for Gotabaya (Category: Breaking News)
(PTI) The IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva yesterday (4) said she is pleased the Washington-based lender and the Sri Lankan government have reached a staff-level agreement to provide about $2.9 billion to help the bankrupt country, terming the deal as an “important step forward.” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced that it will provide […]
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China, says Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says 2.9bn loan bailout for Sri Lanka tied to debt relief from bilateral creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka crisis would deepen if creditors disagree, IMF says amid China concerns (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in New Delhi, Milinda Moragoda, has declared that the preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under which Sri Lanka could receive $2.9 billion to tackle the ongoing economic crisis, is a “first step” in the long haul of economic recovery, but would provide the country and investors “confidence” to […]
- SL must restructure debt and ease import restrictions by year end says Morgoda (Category: Breaking News)
- Milinda: Sri Lanka should stabilise economy, relax import restrictions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala translation of Quran presented to Bharain Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Moragoda and ICCR Prez review Indo-Lanka cultural relations (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis, has returned to the country after seven weeks.The post Sri Lanka’s ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns home after fleeing appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Latest Breaking N...
- Sri Lanka’s ruling party asks new president to help with ex-leader Rajapaksa’s return (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s ousted president expected to go to Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa concludes holiday in Dubai and returns to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sources close to Rajapaksa say he will not involve in active politics again
- Orchid named after the President and First Lady (Category: Breaking News)
- President Rajapaksa casts his vote (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop the self-glory seek a solution now (Category: Breaking News)
- Red carpet welcome for President in Seoul (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's politicized petroleum sector has been mostly subsidized in post-independence era.
- India must win away (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, dies at 28 (Category: USA, Iowa)
- Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, dies at 28 (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Minnesota records 72 deaths on Wednesday (Category: USA, North Dakota)
President Wickremesinghe through interim budget expects 2.5 million tourists in 2023.
- Spending Plan (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to issue development bonds to cover the costs of the first quarter of 2010 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka can earn more targeting experiences, sustainability (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s president to cut spending in interim budget (Category: Breaking News)
Wickremesinghe is budgeting in a sea of monetary instability
- Sri Lanka tax revenues grow 29-pct up to May amid inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s tragedy and the lost wisdom of D S Senanayake on money printing (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka banks cut foreign borrowings, see more deposit dollarization (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka plans to cut deficit to 6.8-pct of GDP in 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
By CHANDRA FERNANDO Educational Consultant, USA The last few months of this year have been a time of great anxiety and much hardship for the people of Sri Lanka. No matter on which side of the political divide one stands, common problems converge into a cloud of nervousness, unease and uncertainty. Sri Lankans have not […]
- Women and children the most affected by Lanka’s economic crisis – ESCAP (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan women to protest today over the sexual abuse against women and children (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt may consider hangwomen if execution starts: State Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Kalkudah to Arugam Bay and some canny decision making by JRJ (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 31st August, 2022 Trade unions in the power and energy sectors are up in arms against a government move to restructure the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). They would have the public believe that the blame for the staggering losses the two institutions have been incurring should be laid […]
- Corporate sector offers policymakers a blueprint for CPC reform (Category: Breaking News)
- Armed soldiers forcing CPC employees to act against their will – Unions (Category: Breaking News)
- Remedy worse than malady? (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt.’s strong-arm tactics bound to fail, say petroleum unions (Category: Breaking News)
Video: Filling stations close down as fuel shortage worsens again (English)
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
By N Sathiya Moorthy After a steep, 75-per cent hike in power-tariffs, the government has now announced increased charges for water and drainage charges. Though brought down after a steeper increase at the peak of fuel-shortage, the transport fares
- Ranil leading talks to form all-party Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabinet to resign after agreement reached on all-party Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Government to provide free food to 10% of the population (Category: Breaking News)
- President wants uninterrupted power (Category: Breaking News)
Fuel shortages drive power cuts despite coal plant
- Sri Lanka schedules power cuts of 3 hours for August 27, 28 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka schedules power cuts of three hours for August 26 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka schedules power cuts of 3 hours for August 25 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka schedules three hour power cuts for August 24 (Category: Breaking News)
Requests the public not to distress unnecessarily
- Gas muzzlers (Category: Technology)
- Why 'feed' a car? (Category: Technology)
- 'Miracle material' (Category: Technology)
- Gas Only (Category: Business)
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) today insisted that there is no shortage of fuel in the country and urged the public not to be misled by false claims. The CPC said that there is sufficient stocks of petrol, diesel and kerosene oil to distribute to fuel sheds in the country. Minister of Power
- Gates shut for over 20 CPC employees who went on strike (Category: Breaking News)
- Price of kerosene increased by Rs. 253 (Category: Breaking News)
- Fuel quota to be increased from June (Category: Breaking News)
- No move to enforce 12-hour power cuts (Category: Breaking News)
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