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[…]The post Modi’s Wolf Worrier Diplomacy Opens A Window For China In South Asia appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Rise Of Ultranationalism & Elections, Tamil Nationalism & Resurrection Of LTTE Ideology In Sri L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Undemocratic Rule Of Modi’s India Is A Security Threat To South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Postponing Elections & Inviting The Dragon: Sri Lankan President’s China Tilt (Category: Breaking News)
- Destination Delhi: Roving President’s Next Port Of Call (Category: Breaking News)
For the fifth time Vladimir Putin took the long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St Andrew’s Throne Hall. There he took the oath of office and was sworn in as Russia’s president for a new six-year term. “We are a united and great people. Together we will overcome all obstacles, we will […]
- Russia says all four suspects arrested after 133 killed at concert hall (Category: Breaking News)
- Georgia rocked by clashes over ‘foreign agent’ bill (Category: Breaking News)
- Pentagon to ‘rush’ Patriot missiles to Ukraine in $6bn package (Category: Breaking News)
- US House passes crucial aid deal worth $61bn for Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
For the fifth time Vladimir Putin will be taking the long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St Andrew’s Throne Hall. There he will take the oath of office and be sworn in as Russia’s president for a new six-year term The route may be familiar, but much has changed since Putin’s first […]
- Pentagon to ‘rush’ Patriot missiles to Ukraine in $6bn package (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan accused of killing eight women and children in Afghanistan air strikes (Category: Breaking News)
- Ghana rejoices as ‘crown jewels’ looted by British put on display (Category: Breaking News)
- Bishop stabbed during sermon in Sydney (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Undemocratic Rule Of Modi’s India Is A Security Threat To South Asia appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Modi’s Wolf Worrier Diplomacy Opens A Window For China In South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Postponing Elections & Inviting The Dragon: Sri Lankan President’s China Tilt (Category: Breaking News)
- Rise Of Ultranationalism & Elections, Tamil Nationalism & Resurrection Of LTTE Ideology In Sri L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Destination Delhi: Roving President’s Next Port Of Call (Category: Breaking News)
It was the most spectacular trial ever held in Vietnam, befitting one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen. Behind the stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday for looting one of the country’s largest banks […]
- COP28: UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash (Category: Breaking News)
- Powerful storms wreak havoc in Europe (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunmen storm Ecuador television studio live on air (Category: Breaking News)
- Rohit Sharma: The Indian captain who lost cricket World Cup but won hearts (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Gender Equality, Empowerment Of Women & The JVP appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Gender Equality, Empowerment Of Women & The JVP: Capitalism & Empowerment Of Women (Category: Breaking News)
- The Fight For Women’s Empowerment In An Era Of Conflict & Multifaceted Crises (Category: Breaking News)
- Gender Equality & Empowerment Of Women & The JVP; Lessons From The JVP’s Evolution (Category: Breaking News)
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign, the chair of the Caribbean group of countries has said, following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the country. It comes after regional leaders met in Jamaica on Monday to discuss a political transition in Haiti. Mr Henry is currently stranded in Puerto Rico […]
- Namibia’s president Hage Geingob dies aged 82 (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia confirms damage to warship in Black Sea (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan holds election tainted by rigging claims (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunmen storm Ecuador television studio live on air (Category: Breaking News)
Sumitra Malkandi breaks down as she recounts the fateful evening in March last year when her husband was trampled to death. She was busy in the kitchen – the couple lived in a farming village in central Sri Lanka – and her husband, Thilak Kumara, was just outside feeding their cows. Then she heard an […]
- COP28: UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunmen storm Ecuador television studio live on air (Category: Breaking News)
- Rohit Sharma: The Indian captain who lost cricket World Cup but won hearts (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan election: Final results give Khan-backed candidates lead (Category: Breaking News)
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in a case in which he was charged with leaking state secrets.The post Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in jail for leaking state secrets appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Pakistan s former PM Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan gets 10-year jail term for leaking state secrets (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan and wife jailed for 7 years for unlawful marriage (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistani court suspends former PM Imran Khan s graft conviction (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Israel Versus Palestinians: Thank God For South Africa’s Boldness appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ICJ Ruling On Israeli Genocide In Gaza; Stopped Short Of Ordering A Ceasefire (Category: Breaking News)
- Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
- Disturbing Echoes Of The Last Phase Of The Civil War In Sri Lanka & The Treatment Of Palestinian... (Category: Breaking News)
- Palestine & Ukraine: Two More Nails In Imperialism’s Coffin? (Category: Breaking News)
Japan is going through a “once in a generation” political crisis, analysts say, as the government fights to clean up its image in the face of a corruption scandal. Four cabinet ministers from the long-term ruling party have resigned in the past fortnight, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fights to hang on. His approval ratings […]
- COP28: UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunmen storm Ecuador television studio live on air (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan election: Final results give Khan-backed candidates lead (Category: Breaking News)
- Rohit Sharma: The Indian captain who lost cricket World Cup but won hearts (Category: Breaking News)
The risks from China’s debt pile are mounting as the country grapples with an economic slowdown and property crisis, a leading credit ratings agency has said. Moody’s issued the warning as it cut its outlook on the government’s debt to negative, from stable.The firm is the latest to raise concern about problems facing the world’s […]
- World leaders in India for G20 summit (Category: Breaking News)
- How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- Belt and Road Initiative: Is China’s trillion-dollar gamble to transform the world working? (Category: Breaking News)
- China sends top envoy Wang Yi to Russia for security talks (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Suppressing Free Speech & Religious Freedom By Labelling Them Hate Speech appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- My Jaffna Is No Longer My Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted Religion (Category: Breaking News)
- Lying About Age Of Protestant Mission Schools: Is Age Quality? (Category: Breaking News)
- Scamming The Gestapo Church, Or Being Sound Christian Witness (Category: Breaking News)
The Hezbollah leader took his time to respond to the past month of bloodletting which has turned the Middle East into a tinder box. And when Hassan Nasrallah spoke, what he did not say was as important as what he said. There was no declaration of all-out war on Israel. At least, not now. Few […]
- EU says starvation in Gaza being used as a weapon (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel says it has arrested hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel carries out intense air strikes on Khan Younis in southern Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
- Hostages’ fates haunt Israel as war intensifies (Category: Breaking News)
Weeks of mounting political tension have erupted into protests and bloodshed in Bangladesh, leaving the country on edge ahead of general elections due in January. Several senior opposition leaders were arrested last Sunday, a day after a massive rally against the government turned violent, resulting in the deaths of at least two opposition supporters. The rejuvenated […]
- Hezbollah steps back from all-out war on Israel over Gaza – for now (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan elects William Lai president in historic election (Category: Breaking News)
- World leaders in India for G20 summit (Category: Breaking News)
- Australians vote No in historic referendum (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Merely Focussing On Hamas Attacks – Missing The Wood For The Trees! (Category: Breaking News)
- Isn’t It Time For Sri Lanka To Expel Israelis? (Category: Breaking News)
- If It Is Not ‘Genocide’ In Gaza, Then What Should We Call It? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of A ‘UN Day Of Palestinian Solidarity’ – In A World Carrying Its Past Guilt! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Cauldrons We Make appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Great American Dilemma: Israel-Hamas War – Is It Reverse Holocaust? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera The English cricketer Moeen Ali, who incidentally is also the vice-captain of the team, posted on his Instagram page a thought-provoking quote: “If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”. The quote is attributed […]
- Rafael Nadal does not know when he will return from injury (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Cross border co-operation, key to stopping illegal migration’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil MPs question alleged inaction on monk’s racist outburst (Category: Breaking News)
- JULY 1983: TAMILS DO NOT BLAME SINHALESE PEOPLE (Category: Breaking News)
This week, China is throwing a huge party to celebrate one of its biggest experiments in engaging with the world: its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Officials and leaders from all over the globe are in Beijing to attend a high-level summit marking the BRI’s 10th anniversary. Participants expected to show up range from Vladimir […]
- Beijing subway crash leaves 102 with broken bones (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden and Xi Jinping to meet in California (Category: Breaking News)
- Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes (Category: Breaking News)
- How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Was There A Conspiracy Behind The Easter Sunday Bomb Attacks? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Was There A Conspiracy Behind The Easter Sunday Attacks?: A Follow-Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Retired Justice Imam to head Channel 4 probe, ex-SLAF chief member of committee (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota denies Channel 4 allegations (Category: Breaking News)
- C4 documentary makers admit absence of evidence to support Maulana’s claims (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Singapore Elected A ‘Tharman’; For Sri Lanka, A ‘Kadirgamar’ Still A Wish! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sinhala-Buddhism & The Nation State Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Would Voting For A Tamil Presidential Candidate Polarize The Tamils? (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka An Ethnocracy? (Category: Breaking News)
- Janatha Aragalaya: The People’s Struggle In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Changing Dimensions In ‘Power’; The Role Of India & China & Sri Lanka’s Predicament appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Janatha Aragalaya: The People’s Struggle In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Modi’s Wolf Worrier Diplomacy Opens A Window For China In South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Modern Ramsethu: An Unlikely Bridge (Category: Breaking News)
- Postponing Elections & Inviting The Dragon: Sri Lankan President’s China Tilt (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Naked King & The Crumbling State: Seven Decades Of Fake Saviours appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Machiavellians Tend To Be Demonic: Stuck Between A Rock & A Hard Place (Category: Breaking News)
- True Meritocracy Not The Sham Of All Party Mediocracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Psychopathic Tendencies: Pet Dogs, Incompetency & Beds To The Foray (Category: Breaking News)
By Jayantha Somasundaram (This articlecontinued from yesterday (25) is based on reporting by the international media on the events in Sri Lanka forty years ago.) “For day after day Tamils were beaten, hacked or burned to death in the streets, on buses, on trains – sometimes in the sight of horrified foreign tourists. Their homes […]
- JULY 1983: AS THE WORLD SAW SRI LANKA (Category: Breaking News)
- Horror Of A Pogrom: Remembering “Black July” 1983 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
- Niemöller’s Quote Resonating With Aragalaya’s Aim For Racial Unity! (Category: Breaking News)
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) During one of my visits to Colombo I got a call to see the President at ‘Breamar’. Gamini Dissanayake had told him of my friendship with Parathasarathy and he wanted me to help him repair the damage done to their friendship due to the abuse heaped […]
- No deal yet on Singapore GP renewal (Category: Business)
- Organisers predict Indian GP sellout (Category: Business)
- Perez shines in unpredictable Malaysian GP (Category: Business)
- Australian GP hails more competitive season (Category: Business)
At first glance, life in Sri Lanka's financial capital Colombo looks deceptively normal.The post Is the worst over for Sri Lanka’s economic crisis? appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- USAID Administrator Samantha Power arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s revenue shortfall concerns IMF team – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka hit by record brain drain, but some stay to rebuild (Category: Breaking News)
Udeni Kaluthantri, a 54-year-old port worker, became an overnight sensation last year for reasons that had nothing to do with his job. Days after protesters stormed the presidential palace in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, a video surfaced of Mr Kaluthantri lounging on a bed draped with the presidential flag. Pictures of young men jumping […]
- Brazil’s President vows to punish rioters who stormed Congress (Category: Breaking News)
- Mass arrests in Brazil as President condemns ‘terrorist’ riots (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court rules Imran Khan arrest was illegal (Category: Breaking News)
- A divided Japan bids farewell to its slain ex-PM (Category: Breaking News)
Crisis-hit Pakistan has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over $3bn (£2.4bn) of funding. The deal, which still needs to be approved by the global lender’s board, comes after an eight-month delay. The South Asian nation is facing its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1947. To help secure […]
- Pakistan’s ex-president, Pervez Musharraf dies aged 79 (Category: Breaking News)
- JP Morgan to take over First Republic bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Nearly 40 pupils killed by militants in Uganda school attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Protesters among prisoners pardoned by Iran leader (Category: Breaking News)
The muted, panicked voice came through the phone of a friend who croaked she was very confidentially warning Cassandra and advising her. Yours truly was immediately panic infected. With deep emphasis and concern the friend took her time to advise that Cass withdraws all money from banks. Cass was for once glad she was poor […]
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
[…]The post Liberal Or Edible Economics: Global Disorder Worst In A Century appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Liberalism, capitalism & The Hungry Masses: “Edible Economics” Will Need To Restrain Choices (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump-Ramasamy Ticket GOP’s Best Bet In 2024; US Events Will Affect The Whole World (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Yuan Can’t Replace Dollar As The Global Currency (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Yuan Can’t Replace Dollar As The Global Currency (Category: Breaking News)
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