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[…]The post Undemocratic Rule Of Modi’s India Is A Security Threat To South Asia appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 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)
- Lanka Asymptomatic; US At ICU; India Near Morgue; Deadly Everywhere: Can The Authoritarian Pande... (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)
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. Khan, who was ousted by his opponents as PM in 2022, is already serving a three-year jail term after being convicted of corruption. He has called all the charges […]
- Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan ex-PM given three-year jail sentence (Category: Breaking News)
- Donald Trump ordered to pay $83.3m for defaming E Jean Carroll (Category: Breaking News)
- Kenyan marathon world record holder dies in road accident (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)
[…]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)
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to meet next week in the San Francisco Bay area, two senior administration officials said. The encounter on 15 November will be only their second face-to-face meeting during the Biden presidency. It will be wide-ranging, US officials said, with the Israel-Hamas war, Taiwan, war in […]
- Taiwan unveils new submarine to fend off China (Category: Breaking News)
- US and China pledge to stabilise tense relationship after talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan elects William Lai president in historic election (Category: Breaking News)
- Blinken begins talks in Beijing during high-stakes visit to China (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 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)
Singaporeans have chosen Tharman Shanmugaratnam as their next president – but many would have let out a small sigh of disappointment as they did so. On Friday, the former top minister won a record 70.4% of the votes, comfortably beating two other candidates in the country’s first contested presidential election in more than a decade. […]
- Singaporeans vote for ceremonial president after rare political scandals (Category: Breaking News)
- Iceland’s PM to strike over gender pay gap (Category: Breaking News)
- 1,000 buses evacuate scouts from disaster-hit World Jamboree (Category: Breaking News)
- Two officers injured in blast outside interior ministry in Turkey (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)
- Modern Ramsethu: An Unlikely Bridge (Category: Breaking News)
- Postponing Elections & Inviting The Dragon: Sri Lankan President’s China Tilt (Category: Breaking News)
- Moral Crisis Proving More Toxic Than The Economic Crisis! (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)
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)
Sri Lanka's national carrier has been struggling against even more headwinds than many of its rivals.The post Sri Lanka airline boss says ‘don’t be a CEO during Covid’ appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- SriLankan Airlines obtains Government’s approval to recruit foreign pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines participates at the Ottawa Travel and Vacation Show (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines, Korean Air activate codeshare partnership (Category: Breaking News)
- Dialog, SriLankan offer star points, FlySmiLes conversion (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Janatha Aragalaya: The People’s Struggle In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Exit Of The Old Guard & The Arrival Of The New (Category: Breaking News)
- Modi-Wickremesinghe Tamil Drama (Category: Breaking News)
- Saboteurs & Charlatans Of Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- Diaspora Tamils & 13A (Category: Breaking News)
The concerns of young people in the Pacific about climate change are set to be heard at the world’s top court. Four years after students in Fiji first proposed the idea, the International Court of Justice is about to be asked to decide on a country’s obligations to fight rising temperatures. But first, the UN […]
- At least 32 killed from Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar (Category: Breaking News)
- Four rescuers dead as typhoon hits Philippines (Category: Breaking News)
- Man charged with attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi (Category: Breaking News)
- Scientists release ‘survival guide’ to avert climate disaster (Category: Breaking News)
The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka today slammed the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, calling her a hypocrite for the comments she had made in a recent interview. The embassy was angered over her view that China was the “spoiler” in Sri Lanka’s efforts to reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund […]
- US tells Sri Lanka to protect freedom of expression (Category: Breaking News)
- US calls on Sri Lanka to conclude debt restructuring agreements (Category: Breaking News)
- US envoy in Sri Lanka says young people are the future (Category: Breaking News)
- US envoy meets Washington based Sri Lankan diaspora (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) bank has urged China and India to agree a write-down of their loans as soon as possible.The post Central Bank Governor urges China and India to reduce Sri Lanka’s debts soon appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor explains debt restructuring process (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka gives China deal details, keeping IMF aid on track (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor asks critics to provide alternatives (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF to visit Sri Lanka in late August for staff-level agreement – Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s central bank has urged China and India to agree a write-down of their loans as soon as possible. The crisis-hit Indian Ocean state defaulted on its debt repayments and negotiated a $2.9bn (£2.4bn) bailout. But the International Monetary Fund will not release the cash until China and India first agree to reduce Sri […]
- Modi US visit: Why Washington is rolling out the red carpet for Indian PM (Category: Breaking News)
- UN condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine ahead of anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: The fate of a protest that toppled a president (Category: Breaking News)
- How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
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