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The Chinese Embassy in Colombo has slammed US Ambassador here Julie Chung over her comments in an interview with the BBC. The Chinese Embassy has questioned the US policy vis-a-vis Sri Lanka struggling to overcome an unprecedented economic crisis. The following is the text of the Chinese Embassy statement: “‘China, China, China!’, our US colleague […]
- Letter on China s refusal to help Sri Lanka s debt crisis completely forged - Embassy (Category: Breaking News)
- 40 Sri Lankan students awarded full scholarships from China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to receive essential medicines worth Rs. 1.8 Bn from China today (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese nationals urged to strictly abide by Sri Lankan laws and regulations (Category: Breaking News)
By Sanath Nanayakkare The Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Tuesday that Sri Lanka had been hiding its bankruptcy which had actually occurred months before it was officially announced. He said so during a multi-TV channel programme where several key political and public officials responsible for the country’s economy were quizzed […]
- IT professionals leaving country (Category: Breaking News)
- Country attracts more than 800,000 tourists by 8 August (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF final review discussion with President today (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka reports 383 new COVID-19 cases (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Taxing Without A Mandate appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Semiotic Aspects Of The Discourse On Ethnic Conflict In Sri Lanka; A Re-Reading Of Modern Mega-T... (Category: Breaking News)
By Eng Parakrama Jayasinghe parajayasinghe@gmail.com Sri Lankans have not forgotten the advice given by one of our former Presidents: “Citizens should look after their own security.” It appears that the Electricity Consumers are now faced with this choice given the upheavals and shocks received in recent times, with the sword of Damocles of a further […]
- Another electricity tariff hike: Is there no option for Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Correct method of pricing electricity and need to reduce costs (Category: Breaking News)
- What PUCSL and CEB did not disclose (Category: Breaking News)
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
Rex Clementine in Rajkot Often Virat Kohli’s on field antics doesn’t win him many friends outside India. As a result, Indian cricket is frowned upon by all and sundry. As a norm, most Sri Lankan fans, especially the young ones want India to lose wherever they play. There was this fan who came to RPS […]
- India not to send its players (Category: Breaking News)
- Why cricket needs more men like Bedi (Category: Breaking News)
- When a cricket writer met the don of Bombay (Category: Breaking News)
- The legend of Man Singh (Category: Breaking News)
By Fan Wang The growing number of Chinese public figures whose deaths are being made public is prompting people to question the official Covid death toll. The death of Chu Lanlan, a 40-year-old opera singer, last month came as a shock to many, given how young she was. Her family said they were saddened by […]
- China to end Covid quarantine for travellers in January (Category: Breaking News)
- US imposes Covid testing for visitors from China (Category: Breaking News)
- China reports first Covid deaths in six months (Category: Breaking News)
- Xi Jinping defends zero-Covid as party meeting opens (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya Somewhere in early 2015, I took the bus from Maradana to Nugegoda, the 176. It was, by all accounts, an ordinary weekday morning, and people were going about and shuttling from one workplace to another. Normally, the 176 bus can be a long ride, but on this occasion, it wasn’t. Having left […]
- The Musical phenomenon called Victor Ratnayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Bus strike called off (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-SLAF officer sheds light on developments leading to Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Wasps endanger bus stand (Category: Breaking News)
“A time to say goodbye and a time to say hello. A time to bid farewell and a time to look forward. A time to let go and a time to learn new things, that’s what happens when the New Year rings in.” Catherine Pulsifer We have said goodbye to a crime filled year of great […]
- Malwatte prelate welcomes Online Bill to check abuses by social media (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Urgent Lessons for Sri Lanka – 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- GL accuses govt. of encouraging chaos to prevent peaceful Presidential election next year (Category: Breaking News)
BY GEORGE BRAINE This was early 1981, and the government was planning to start a state-run television service. Applicants were invited for an inaugural training course for producers, directors, researchers, and writers. I had applied, and was called for an interview. The interview was at the newly set up National Television Planning Centre, at Kirulapone. […]
- Shelton Wirasinha, the Bard of the Wesley Manor (Category: Breaking News)
- A fish that sparked a national obsession (Category: Breaking News)
- Leading cosmetic doctor says under-30s are overdoing Botox and fillers (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranasinghe says his life in danger (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hirunika Trapped In A Wider Political Game appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Dog’s Case of Professor Ashu & Hirunika’s Indiscretion (Category: Breaking News)
- In Memory Of Mr Shyamon Jayasinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
Burkina Faso’s Government has expelled the top UN diplomat in the country who was a former UN official in Sri Lanka. Barbara Manzi, the United Nations’ resident and humanitarian coordinator in the West African nation, was declared persona non grata, the foreign affairs ministry said in a statement. Burkina Faso has been wracked by violence […]
- Mahinda’s son allegedly owned luxury resort (Category: Breaking News)
- Jagath Samarawickrama takes oaths as new MP (Category: Breaking News)
- India sends 2,000 MT wheat to Afghanistan via Attari-Wagah border (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia deports Sri Lankan asylum seekers (Category: Breaking News)
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- Sinhala Colonisation Of Ancient Tamil Hindu Sites & The Importance Of Muslim, Christian, Hindu U... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Remembrance Week Marking Persecution Of Sri Lankan Muslims appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- President’s Peace Overture Ignores Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
Ex-top House official says govt. move meant to suppress all media By Shamindra Ferdinando The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) and Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) yesterday (18) condemned a government move to appoint a seven-member Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to inquire into the conduct of Siyatha television.The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) didn’t respond to The Island query pe...
- SJB opposes President’s bid to appoint PSC on CC (Category: Breaking News)
- Privilege issue: House warned against move to summon SC judges (Category: Breaking News)
- Eran asks PM to inform Parliament of progress in probe into C-4 allegations (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposal to set up PSC to probe Channel 4 allegations before House on 17 Oct. (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 2023: Saffron, Kurahan, Red Or Green? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The World After Mikhail Gorbachev & Sri Lanka After JR Jayewardene (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Pohottuwa’s Suicidal Plunge (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
The local media industry has been hit hard by the prevailing economic crisis as money spent on advertising decreased by around 70 percent while production costs were on an incessant rise, journalists and media organization representatives informed the National Council Sub Committee on Economic Stabilization of Parliament. This sub-committee met on Thursday at the Committee […]
- Opposition to appoint alternative committee (Category: Breaking News)
- Loans for media personnel (Category: Breaking News)
- PB to be blamed for economic downfall (Category: Breaking News)
- SC ruling: SLPP always respects judiciary – NR (Category: Breaking News)
Iran says it has publicly hanged a 23-year-old in what is the second execution linked to the recent anti-government protests. Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged early on Monday in the city of Mashhad, the judiciary said. A court convicted him of “enmity against God” after finding he had stabbed to death two members of the […]
- Iran executes British-Iranian dual national (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- Police fire on protesters in Iran (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran investigating poisoning of 650 schoolgirls with toxic gas (Category: Breaking News)
The IMF could finalise Sri Lanka’s financing package within three weeks of the country’s main bilateral creditors formally informing the IMF that they would help Sri Lanka restructure its debt, Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, said on Thursday appearing on a TV programme. Dr. Weerasinghe said that Sri Lanka had already provided […]
- Debt restructuring strategy out in April (Category: Breaking News)
- Info about USD 4.2 bn debt deal with China shared with other creditors – CBSL Chief (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to officially present IMF deal, debt restructuring plans to creditors tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- CB Governor upbeat about taking country’s loan request to IMF Board in Jan ’23 if it misses Dece... (Category: Breaking News)
Peru has a female president for the first time, after ex-president Pedro Castillo was impeached – hours after he tried to dissolve parliament. Dina Boluarte – previously the vice-president – was sworn in after a dramatic day in Lima on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Mr Castillo had said he was replacing Congress with an […]
- Death toll rises as Hurricane Ian strengthens (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden tells Zelensky his country will never stand alone (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter Christine McVie dies aged 79 (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Narendra Fernando, Sergeant-at-Arms of the crisis-ridden Parliament, has declared that the largest number of students, in the post-independence era, visited the House on Thursday (Dec. 01). Director, Legislative Services, Janakantha Silva, who is also the Acting Director of Communication, quoted Fernando as having said that approximately 5,000 students, from 32 schools, rec...
- MPs demand stern legal action against ex-Chairman, DG on compulsory leave (Category: Breaking News)
- DG Archaeology resigns over discord with govt. (Category: Breaking News)
- Wildlife DG Advocates Bio-Piracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka appoints new DG to head the country’s Petroleum Exploration Secretariat (Category: Breaking News)
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- Will Subramanian Swami‘s Visit Revive Racist Politics? (Category: Breaking News)
- Remembrance Week Marking Persecution Of Sri Lankan Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- No one to listen to the plight of Lankan Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- Rohan Gunaratna Hostility Towards Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post No Constitution Without Separation Of Power Will Fix Corruption appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- AG says COVID showed Connecticut that it needs a tougher price-gouging law (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Protect Shani Abeysekara’s Life: Victims Appeal To AG (Category: Breaking News)
- Protect Shani Abeysekara’s Life: Victims Appeal To AG (Category: Breaking News)
- Protect Shani Abeysekara’s Life: Victims Appeal To AG (Category: Breaking News)
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- Cricketing Models In Australia (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Danushka’s Sex Scandal: Time For “Me Too Aragalaya” In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Marital Blitz & On The Subject Of Marriage As A License To Rape (Category: Breaking News)
- Examining Sri Lanka’s New ‘Romeo & Juliet Law’: A Departure From The 1995 Age Of Consent Legisla... (Category: Breaking News)
- A departure from the 1995 Age of Consent Legislation (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka Still The “Pedophile’s Pleasure Center?” (Category: Breaking News)
“Templeton Freedom Award has been won by Advocata Institute Sri Lanka. The CEO is our Dhana. It is with great pride I send this message to you to celebrate our dear friend Dhananath’s leadership victory of Advocata. Horekale and St Sebastian’s College man has really shown class.” That was Elmo Jayawardena’s email to me since […]
- Dhananath Fernando – determined to do much for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Anatomy Of A Change; From Wijeweera’s JVP To AKD’s NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Government’s Attempt To Redefine The Political Discourse & Direction Through Suppression (Category: Breaking News)
- Restoring Parliamentary Government (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy At a time when India, Sri Lanka and Maldives are fighting international drug menace jointly and severally, comes President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s budget that has proposed legalising cannabis cultivation. The idea is to help boost farm-produce (?) exports and forex reserves, which are at the lowest level since the economic crisis hit […]
- Minister insists no move to legalise cannabis (Category: Breaking News)
- American arrested in Beliatta with cannabis plants (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says no approval to cultivate cannabis (Category: Breaking News)
- Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill inconsistent with Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Domestic Debt Restructuring: Another Time Bomb Clicking Down? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Apologetic Custodian Of The EPF Is Also A Victim (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Debt Restructuring: Not A Cakewalk But A Task Entailing Hard Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Biggest Woe: What To Do When Fiscal & Monetary Policies Have Failed & Are Still Falling? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Economic Bankruptcy & Political Instability appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Remembrance Week Marking Persecution Of Sri Lankan Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- Modi’s Wolf Worrier Diplomacy Opens A Window For China In South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- New Delhi, Colombo & Tamils: The Adani Factor (Category: Breaking News)
- New Delhi, Colombo & Tamils: The Adani Factor (Category: Breaking News)
PALM BEACH, Fla. - Donald Trump, the only president impeached twice, launched a campaign to reclaim the Oval Office on Tuesday, two years after voters ousted him and a week after they rejected his hand-picked candidates in several pivotal Senate races.The post Former President Donald Trump launches 2024 presidential campaign appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ON...
- Poli (Sigh): Trump Hurting GOP And His Own Legacy (Category: USA, Indiana)
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