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A team of medical experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), specializing in leprosy, will arrive in Sri Lanka in March, said Director of the Anti-Leprosy Campaign (ALC) Prasad Ranaweera appearing in local TV on Wednesday. He said that the number of leprosy patients found in Sri Lanka has significantly increased in 2023 following a […]
- Sasakawa to assist the Health Ministry to curb leprosy (Category: Breaking News)
- 10% of Leprosy patients in Sri Lanka are children - health officials (Category: Breaking News)
- WHO team to travel to Sri Lanka to help eliminate leprosy (Category: Breaking News)
- WP accounts for 40% of leprosy cases in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita Over 50 percent of Sri Lankan exports to Thailand are gems, and Sri Lanka doesn’t face any trade barriers when exporting precious stones, Subhashini Abeysinghe, says Research Director at Verité Research. Commenting on the recent free trade agreement between the two nations, she said in a recent television interview that Thailand imported […]
- ‘SL should expedite signing FTA with China and expand scope of same instrument with India’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka eyes FTA with Thailand by March as growth in focus (Category: Breaking News)
- President wants Lanka to be first in South Asia to join RCEP, largest trade bloc in history (Category: Breaking News)
- Five Years on with garbage, myths and lies (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s newly appointed T20I captain Wanindu Hasaranga was left fuming after a non-no-ball call by Lyndon Hannibal cost his side the opportunity to register a clean sweep in the three-match T20I series on Wednesday at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. With 19 needed to win off the last over, the hosts looked firmly placed […]
- Mathews leads Sri Lanka to T20 win over Afghanistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Debutant Shivam Mavi joins exclusive club as India register thrilling win (Category: Breaking News)
- Poor umpiring gives Afghanistan three-run win over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Selectors hope to keep Kusal, Wanindu till next World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
by Ifham Nizam The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) yesterday expressed displeasure at some comments made by CEB Media Spokesman during a live telecast called ‘Big Focus’ on the Derana Television Channel on Tuesday (February 20, 2024). CEBEU Joint Secretary Buddika Wijeyawardhna said: “We urged the General Manager of the CEB to clarify the […]
- CEB charges Rs 10,000 more than LECO for new connection (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB charges Rs 10,000 more than LECO for new connection (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB spokesperson resigns (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB hands over proposal to reduce power tariffs (Category: Breaking News)
Ayubowan Wanakkam Good morning! International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21 February every year by UNESCO and the UN to highlight the significance of languages in advancing human and social development. The theme for 2024 is “Multilingual education – a pillar of learning and intergenerational learning” which is crucial for inclusive education and to […]
- Justice Minister says English remains medium of instruction at Law College (Category: Breaking News)
- The promise of ‘English for all’: Gloomy contextual notes and unsolicited advice (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka seeks Indian strategy on language gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Bridging the language divide in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
By A Special Sports Correspondent Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club (CR&FC) produced rib bruising rugby last Sunday (February 18) to end Kandy’s winning streak and be crowned as the new men’s champions in domestic rugby. The women’s tournament was won by Sri Lanka Navy. Turn the pages of time to the launch of this tournament […]
- Lions-Kandy SC Transfer Deal: A Reference For The Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Speaker’s announcement consistent with SC determination? (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic way forward; corruption; stunning SC ruling (Category: Breaking News)
- Army, Kandy SC and Upcountry Lions register wins (Category: Breaking News)
The 2024 Sumathi Awards ceremony, the 29th edition of one of the most popular television awards shows in Sri Lanka, is taking place in Colombo on Tuesday (Feb.20).
Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bowl first in the second T-20 International against Sri Lanka at Dambulla on Monday. Sri Lanka opted to play the same side that won the first T-20 International by four runs. All-rounder Angelo Mathews underwent a fitness test prior to the game and was declared fit to play […]
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka and Ireland make promising starts (Category: Breaking News)
- Seven killed, dozens injured in Fox Hill Supercross mishap (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to play ten Tests next year (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita A National People’s Power (NPP) administration will not do anything that will undermine Indian security, but it will maintain economic and political relations with China, the NPP delegation to India told Indian officials, JVP/NPP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in an interview with Sirasa TV, on Thursday (15). In his first interview […]
- NPP administration will not undermine India’s security interests: AKD (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP has told India it won’t do anything to upset regional security and peace (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP fears conspiracy to cause chaos (Category: Breaking News)
- AKD urges northerners to help relegate political dregs into dustbin of history (Category: Breaking News)
A name that will never ever be forgotten, especially in the local Western music scene, is Noeline Honter. This multi-faceted Sri Lankan celebrity, who is now based in Australia, is still very much in the spotlight…as a singer, TV presenter and English training. At present, she lives partly in Melbourne and Adelaide and says she […]
- Exciting scene for Mirage …Down Under (Category: Breaking News)
- Bidding adieu with music (Category: Breaking News)
- Mastering Showbiz… Music, Food & Fashion In Oman (Category: Breaking News)
- Sixteen teams from Mannar qualify for final round (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy For the uninitiated in Sri Lanka, AKD in politico-strategic circles in the neighbouring India’s capital, New Delhi, refers to Ajit Kumar Doval, the nation’s all-important National Security Advisor (NSA). For counterparts in India, who are even less initiated, the initials stand for Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the centre-left Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna […]
- Ungoverned, ungovernable? (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura insists visit to India will not change party policy (Category: Breaking News)
- Can this ‘centrist path’ take JVP up there? (Category: Breaking News)
- Is there a ‘next time’ violence? (Category: Breaking News)
We have watched on TV the parade of security vehicles with flashing lights; docilely trotting horses; luxury vehicles depositing VVIPs and spouses; march past of armed forces and police; crawling of outdated military vehicles and the kaleidoscopic splash of a well-choreographed cultural display of local styles of dancing. As usual, the students who sang the […]
- Urgent Lessons for Sri Lanka – 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Energy, EVs, environment and economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Health experts call for enhanced trauma network and data-driven solutions to tackle high acciden... (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-finance secretary on what led to Sri Lanka s economic collapse (Category: Breaking News)
Top Indian actress Ramba arrived in Jaffna to take part in a show to be held on 9th February. The popular actress arrived with her family and was welcomed by organisers of the show. Ramba told reporters she was happy to be in Jaffna to attend the show which was originally scheduled for last December. […]
- Cuban leader seeks healthy economic cooperation with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Hollywood star congratulates Sri Lanka for working together to make positive change (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL concerned over Ranil’s attack on Saliya Pieris (Category: Breaking News)
- Plantation workers stage protest demanding Rs. 1700 wage (Category: Breaking News)
The Lawyers’ Collective in a letter addressed to Public Security Minister Tiran Alles on Friday said that the latter’s personal endorsement of Deshabandu Tennekoon continuing in his post as IGP, and expression of confidence in him, amounts to a total violation of the rule of law as explained by the Supreme Court of our country. […]
- Letter To Tiran (Category: Breaking News)
- An Open Letter To Me And To My Fellow Citizens (Category: Breaking News)
- Chandima raises privilege issue over Weerasekera’s letter to State Defence Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Ups & Downs Of Jaffna appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lying About Age Of Protestant Mission Schools: Is Age Quality? (Category: Breaking News)
- Entertainment & Intellectual Activity In Jaffna – The Ramanathan Lectures (Category: Breaking News)
- In Tamil Nadu Even As BJP Moves In Spurts, I.N.D.I.A. Wilts Away (Category: Breaking News)
- Rise Of Ultranationalism & Elections, Tamil Nationalism & Resurrection Of LTTE Ideology In Sri L... (Category: Breaking News)
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- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Let Us Know Who Are Contesting? What Are Their Policies? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Challenges In The Forthcoming Presidential Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- President Should Be Responsible! (Category: Breaking News)
- Labor Wins In Australia! (Category: Breaking News)
- A Bankrupt Country Craves For Urgent ‘System Changes’ (Category: Breaking News)
The death on Thursday of State Minister Sanath Nishantha on the Katunayake expressway when his luxury sports utility vehicle (SUV) crashed headlong into the back of a container carrier in the early hours of the morning generated the predictable publicity in the evening news bulletins of the various television stations and Friday’s newspapers. What caused […]
- Decisive actions needed against state officials who fail to back govt. s development initiatives... (Category: Breaking News)
- State Minister suggests decisive actions against state officials unsupportive of govt s developm... (Category: Breaking News)
- Remains of late State Minister Sanath Nishantha lie in state (Category: Breaking News)
- Sanath Nishantha dies in road accident (Category: Breaking News)
Onlanka.com which was launched on January 26, 2004, celebrating its 20th anniversary today (January 26).The post Onlanka celebrates its 20th Anniversary appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka Air Force celebrates 73rd anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Navy promotes 1,877 personnel on its 73rd anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- 3-hour daily power cut during weekend (Category: Breaking News)
- Victoria Nuland arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ram Mandir At Babri Masjid Site: Death Of Secular Democracy & Rise Of Hindutva Fascism appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Ups & Downs Of Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- In Tamil Nadu Even As BJP Moves In Spurts, I.N.D.I.A. Wilts Away (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Subramanian Swami‘s Visit Revive Racist Politics? (Category: Breaking News)
- Spectacular Ram Mandir In Historic Ram Janma Bhoomi (Category: Breaking News)
N Sathiya Moorthy It is interesting to note that many international NGOs, and also the UN, have come down heavily on the government’s ‘Yukthiya’ (Justice) operation aimed at cleaning the nation’s streets of drugs, citing rights violations. But they seem to have no problem with the government permitting casinos as a part of the IMF-designed […]
- Taking the nation to a new ‘high’ (Category: Breaking News)
- President issues tough warning against violent street protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to expand controversial mass drug crackdown (Category: Breaking News)
- UN concerned over torture during Sri Lanka’s crackdown on drugs (Category: Breaking News)
… USD 5 mn paid to Iran a month By Shamindra Ferdinando Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera has confirmed that consumers of petrol and diesel have been made to pay Rs. 50 to Rs. 55 per litre since the middle of last year to settle what the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) owed its creditors. […]
- SJB unionist: IOC and Sinopec benefit from special levy on fuel to recover CPC losses (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. flayed for jacking up fuel prices despite Rs 120 bn profit since last Sept. (Category: Breaking News)
- CPC reduces price of petrol and diesel (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB questions Kanchana over suspension of fuel pricing formula, USD 3 bn debt to suppliers (Category: Breaking News)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent disclosure that Sri Lanka intended joining the United States-led Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) in the Red Sea has triggered the inevitable response: Why are we fighting other people’s wars? Wickremesinghe, more than most, is acutely aware of the permutations and combinations of this equation both in the context of domestic politics […]
- SLN’s Red Sea deployment unlikely (Category: Breaking News)
- Operation ‘Prosperity Guardian’: No SLN Red Sea deployment (Category: Breaking News)
- Red Sea deployment: SLN still studying US proposal (Category: Breaking News)
- Don’t make SL Navy fight others’ wars (Category: Breaking News)
Former Sri Lankan cricketer and current Rajasthan Royals (RR) coach and Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara on Friday expressed happiness at Indian wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel earning a maiden national side call-up for the Test series against England at home, saying that the player understands pressure well and has a fine work ethic. Dhruv was a […]
- Kumar Sangakkara turns into a Taylor Swift fan (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket legends slam Rajapaksas over violence (Category: Breaking News)
- Sanath Jayasuriya gets cricket consultant role at SLC (Category: Breaking News)
- Sanath Jayasuriya warns of threat of anarchy taking over (Category: Breaking News)
… admits CEB-owned hydropower plant benefited from Samanalawewa leak By Shamindra Ferdinando Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera has disclosed that cash-strapped Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) arranged for bank loans to its employees at government’s expense. The SLPPer said that of the 15%-16% interest, the CEB paid 2/3 whereas the workers paid the balance. Minister […]
- Kanchana suspends CEB salary increase, stops bonuses (Category: Breaking News)
- Two units of Uma Oya Hydro Power Plant to be added to national grid (Category: Breaking News)
- CEBEU knives out for Power Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Breakdown in one power plant at Norochcholai (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)
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- Elementary, My Dear Watson (Category: Breaking News)
- Financial Crisis As Seen By A Non-Economist (Category: Breaking News)
- Tailoring Our Needs To Match International Legal Requirements (Category: Breaking News)
- Improvising To Overcome Tragedy (Category: Breaking News)
A group of civil society groups has asked the government to consult all stakeholders, both in and outside Parliament, before the enactment of the ONUR (Office for National Unity and Reconciliation) law. The following is the text of a statement issued by the grouping: “This week the government will be taking up the ONUR (Office for National Unity and […]
- Achieving national unity and reconciliation requires multi-partisan consultations and acceptance... (Category: Breaking News)
- 13 A: Prez accused of abusing GR’s mandate (Category: Breaking News)
- Office for National Unity and Reconciliation Bill to be taken up next Tuesday (Category: Breaking News)
- Formulating a National Action Plan for Reparations: An Interview with the Head and Director Gene... (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy In northern Jaffna ahead of the annual Tamil harvest festival of ‘Thai Pongal’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe promised the full implementation of the India-facilitated 13th Amendment as the way forward to restore ethnic peace in full. Coming as it did after his none-too-distant uttering that he was for ‘13-A minus police powers’, […]
- Wickremesinghe backs India-mooted 13A as solution to Tamil autonomy (Category: Breaking News)
- Making mischief over land-bridge to India (Category: Breaking News)
- What A Way To Keep 13-A ‘Relevant’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Damocles’ Sword of Defection (Category: Breaking News)
Bangladeshi cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan won a seat in the country's parliament on Sunday after a landslide victory in a general election boycotted by the opposition, an official said.The post Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan wins parliament seat appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Knee injury keeps Shakib out of SLPL (Category: Sports)
- ශකීබ් අල් හසන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට (Category: Sinhala)
- Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan joins politics (Category: Breaking News)
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