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England slumped to their first defeat by Sri Lanka in T20 internationals as the visitors levelled the series with an eight-wicket win at Chelmsford. England collapsed to 104 all out off 18 overs with Sri Lanka’s superb spinners taking eight of the 10 wickets. Charlie Dean’s 34 was the only score of more than 20 […]
- Sri Lanka beat England by seven wickets to win women’s T20 series (Category: Breaking News)
- England stunned by Ireland as rain results in five-run defeat (Category: Breaking News)
- Afghanistan beat the Netherlands to boost World Cup semi-final hopes (Category: Breaking News)
- Nottinghamshire sign Sri Lanka seamer Asitha Fernando (Category: Breaking News)
England joined India, New Zealand and South Africa in introducing pay parity for men’s and women’s teams in international cricket. England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced their decision to have equal match fees for the women’s and men’s teams. This is yet another landmark in what is turning out to be a historic year […]
- Tickets to 1st T20I between England Women and Sri Lanka Women sold out (Category: Breaking News)
- England’s T20 World Cup winner announces shock retirement (Category: Breaking News)
- Match fees of Sri Lanka Women’s cricket team increased (Category: Breaking News)
- England beat Sri Lanka after Brunt scores record hundred (Category: Breaking News)
Member of Parliament Anura Kumara Dissanayake said he has been selected as the candidate representing the National People's Power (NPP) party for the upcoming presidential election.The post Anura Kumara Dissanayake selected as the next Presidential candidate of National People’s Power appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake to contest for Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake to contest for Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- MR That Did Not Fulfill Any Promise Given At Presidential Election (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA names national slots (Category: Breaking News)
Sharmini Seneviratne is known for pushing boundaries and leading the next generation of elegant fashions. She was the founder of the popular designer label “Silk Wrap” Her ensembles appeal to every women from all ages,corporate women, celebrities, fashionistas and models. She looks beyond the shores of Sri Lanka, drawing inspirations from all over the world. […]
- Distinctive styles of Indian Designers (Category: Breaking News)
- Our vision is to empower women (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Ramani’s brides are so special and radiant (Category: Breaking News)
- Lakvijaya shatters decades-old hurdles record, Olympian Lakmali retires (Category: Breaking News)
An Indian spacecraft became the first to land on the rugged, unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India's standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed.The post Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in ‘victory cry of a new India’ appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News...
- India becomes fourth country to land on the moon (Category: Breaking News)
- Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft sends back its first photo (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil writes to Modi congratulating him on moon landing (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan makes history, becoming fifth country to land spacecraft on moon (Category: Breaking News)
Monday 21st August, 2023 Much is being talked about ‘pyramids’ and ‘islands’, of all things, these days. Another pyramid scheme has reportedly collapsed, and those who have lost their money are letting out howls of protests via social media. The Central Bank, from time to time, issues severe warnings to the public about such frauds, […]
- Choosing poison (Category: Breaking News)
- Aiyo, Aragalaya! (Category: Breaking News)
- Guns in closets (Category: Breaking News)
- AKD vows to stop allocating funds for ex-presidents, questions Sagala’s role (Category: Breaking News)
Cassandra drooled with anticipation when reading the headlined article in the Sunday Island of August 13 titled Cops to join IRD to raise revenue. It continued to say that the police had launched a new collaboration with the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) “to track down unexplained wealth and go after black money.” This move to collaborate came after […]
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
Dialog Axiata PLC announced, Thursday 10th August 2023, its consolidated financial results for the six months ended 30th June 2023. Financial results included those of Dialog Axiata PLC (the “Company”) and of the Dialog Axiata Group (the “Group”). The Group concluded the 1H 2023 with positive revenue performance being recorded across all business segments, namely, […]
- Gulf Air flies to positive 1H (Category: Business)
- NDB reports significant profit growth during 1H 2012 (Category: Business)
- Textured Jersey 2Q profits dip, upbeat 1H (Category: Business)
- ODEL reports strong 1H profit growth (Category: Business)
[…]The post Cricketing Models In Australia appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket, Politics & Other Games (Category: Breaking News)
- Anti-Corruption, A Losing Battle? (Category: Breaking News)
- An Incident At Independence Square (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Litany Of Tragedies That Is Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lasantha’s 66th Birthday: Who Was Lasantha? (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy There Was, In Enthroning Gota; Not In Dethroning Him! (Category: Breaking News)
- Fearmongering & Spreading Rumors By Indian Intelligence In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Vain Attempts To Bowl Imran Khan Out! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pakistan’s May 9 & Aragalaya Anniversary In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Imran Khan’s supporters hold anti-Pakistan protest outside UN in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- Imran Khan: The Rising Star Over Battered Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s Imran Khan: Playboy cricketer to PM? (Category: Business)
The license fee for the public exhibition of any foreign or local films, stage dramas, musicals or performing shows in Sri Lanka under the Public Performance Act has been amended.The post Sri Lanka increases license fee for public performances appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka bus owners protest raising license fees (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Finance Ministry increases casino license and renewal fees (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt crisis: 33 NGOs target some creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- British Council presents ‘The Animals and Children Took To the Streets’ (Category: Business)
Over 150 Sri Lankan Muslims, including academics, professionals, community leaders, business personalities, media personalities and youth from across the country, have rejected MMDA proposals put forward by Muslim Members of Parliament. They say that the recommendations by the MPs come at the cost of the most vulnerable, especially the Muslim women and girls, who have […]
- Grave concerns raised over Ranil’s attempt to enforce dictatorship (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse govt looks on as religious intolerance soars (Category: Breaking News)
- Graves of minority Ahmadiyya community being desecrated in Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- All Ceylon Muslim Women’s Association celebrates Diamond Jubilee (Category: Business)
[…]The post The Rooster Coop & Its Impact On Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Beneath The Skin Deep Liberalism Lies Cancerous Caste Prejudices (Category: Breaking News)
- The Tamil Nadu Factor (Category: Breaking News)
Cassandra in her Friday Cry-s has often noted with deep gratitude that nature has been benevolent to suffering, down and almost out Sri Lanka. Forest fires due to intemperate temperature in usually cool climes; sudden floods due to torrential rains; erupting volcanoes and earthquakes have all assiduously avoided troubling poor little Sri Lanka struggling against […]
- ADB to provide Rs 10 billion for local paddy cultivators to buy MoP this Maha (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrogance of power (Category: Breaking News)
- The drought, Mahaveli waters and the farmer (Category: Business)
- Reservoirs run dry with no rains, country heading for electricity crisis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hero Syndrome & Unlawful Acts: Politicians In The Fantasyland Of Omnipotence appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Commissions, An “Open Sesame” (Category: Breaking News)
- Fear Corrupts Politicians: Time To Repeal Custom-Made Laws (Category: Breaking News)
- Naked King & The Crumbling State: Seven Decades Of Fake Saviours (Category: Breaking News)
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 2nd August, 2023 A brouhaha has erupted over what is described as the distortion of the national anthem at the Lanka Premier League (LPL) opening ceremony. Talented young vocalist Umara Sinhawansa has been drawing heavy fire for singing the national anthem in operatic style, and mispronouncing some words therein. Her performance has sparked a […]
- National Anthem distorted at Lanka Premier League Cricket tournament? (Category: Breaking News)
- Patriots and crooks (Category: Breaking News)
- Independence Day celebrations to cost Rs. 200 mn (Category: Breaking News)
- Authorities to probe alleged distortion of national anthem at LPL opening ceremony (Category: Breaking News)
Tuesday 1st August, 2023 The QR code-based rationing mechanism introduced one year ago has helped halve the national fuel consumption, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has said, according to media reports. In fact, it helped bring order out of chaos and thereby saved current dispensation. Ideally, fuel should be available sans any restrictions, but the […]
- Fuel quotas to be increased from midnight today (Category: Breaking News)
- Increased fuel quota to continue indefinitely (Category: Breaking News)
- Ministry to decide on changes to weekly fuel quota (Category: Breaking News)
- Weekly fuel quota for all types of vehicles revised (Category: Breaking News)
At least 44 people have been killed and nearly 200 injured after a suicide bomb blast at a political rally in Pakistan.The post At least 44 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing during political rally appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Suicide attacks rock Pakistan, Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- IS claims responsibility for bombing at pro-Taliban election rally in Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Anthony Quinn Warner confirmed by DNA test as Nashville Christmas bomber (Category: USA, New York)
- Anthony Quinn Warner confirmed by DNA test as Nashville Christmas bomber (Category: USA, New York)
Cassandra needs to commemorate, in words, one of the most shameful episodes, or evil occurrences, that happened in this island of ours: the planned and directed massacre of Tamils among us; burning their possessions and homes and tarnishing the name Ceylon/Sri Lanka around the world. I retell what I heard and did – safe in […]
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County sheriff's office investigates latest ATM theft (Category: USA, North Dakota)
Leaders of India and Sri Lanka were on the same page over regional security following President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s latest visit to New Delhi, an official source said amid fears of China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean region, Wickremesinghe addressed India’s security concerns over China’s increasing footprint in Sri Lanka and vowed to fast track […]
- Won’t do anything to hurt India’s security: President (Category: Breaking News)
- President’s India visit expected to boost stronger economic and commercial ties (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian think-tank sanguine about Indo-Lankan ties, but calls for security redlines – Analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s envoy Milinda Moragoda meets NSA Ajit Doval (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)
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal submitted by the Minister of Mass Media to sign the license agreement for exchange of television programmes between the National Radio and Television Administration of the Peoples’ Republic of China and Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation with the objective of strengthening mutual understanding, friendship and cooperation.
Monday 25th July 1983 began like just another day. But what we didn’t know was that it was to be the last day of an era. By mid-morning from my second-floor office in Fort I could see the city being put to the torch. Already my two sisters’ homes in the suburbs had been attacked […]
- JULY 1983: TAMILS DO NOT BLAME SINHALESE PEOPLE (Category: Breaking News)
- Horror Of A Pogrom: Remembering “Black July” 1983 (Category: Breaking News)
- Memories of Black July 1983, and a spot-on cartoon (Category: Breaking News)
- July 1983 Riot: A Spontaneous Racial Outburst Or Planned Pogrom Or Both? (Category: Breaking News)
Singer Sri Lanka, the largest consumer durable retailer in Sri Lanka has announced the launch of its highly anticipated SINGER RED ‘Hadawathe Thagi’ Exclusive Loyalty Raffle Draw. The raffle draw presents an incredible opportunity for customers to win exciting prizes while enjoying the benefits of their loyalty tier. Running from 21st July to 21st August […]
- SINGER Rewards Loyal Customers with Prizes Worth Over 1 Million Rupees (Category: Breaking News)
- Singer Sri Lanka Crowned Most Valuable Consumer Brand – Retail 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Fashion Bug Rewards Getaway: Celebrating Loyalty and Giving Back (Category: Breaking News)
by Rex Clementine At times you wonder whether the reason for our cricket to suffer setbacks is lack of talent or poor man management. Take the case of Pathum Nissanka. He scores a Test hundred on debut, that too overseas and has notched up five more half-centuries in nine Tests and then was sidelined fearing […]
- Sri Lanka retain Wellalage in Test squad (Category: Breaking News)
- Pathum Nissanka tests positive for Covid-19 (Category: Breaking News)
- Lahiru Kumara – handle with care (Category: Breaking News)
- Afghanistan bowl first in second T-20 International (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)
A top Sri Lankan athlete who set national records in the pole vault has been working as a housemaid in Dubai to help support her family at home. For the last year Sachini Perera, 24, has put her athletics dreams on hold when Sri Lanka’s currency crisis and soaring medical bills made it difficult for […]
- Sri Lanka s Vaulting Queen works as Dubai housemaid to support family at home (Category: Breaking News)
- Daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants wins Australia’s biggest literary prize (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Resident Coordinator and Ranil discuss human rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Thai King makes donation to rehabilitate elephant mistreated in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
There is bad news for Beijing from Colombo. President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that his government will not allow the island nation to be used as a base for threats against India. He has also emphasized that Sri Lanka is a neutral country and has no military agreements with China. In an […]
- Sri Lanka virtually let down by China in securing a $2.9 billion IMF loan in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to resume debt restructuring talks with China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should prevent Chinese vessel from reaching Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
- President urges China to change tune on debt (Category: Breaking News)
Another brilliant, high-octane spell from Mark Wood cracked open Australia’s second innings after Jonny Bairstow’s blitz continued England’s batting rampage at Old Trafford as they did all they could to buy themselves enough time to beat a poor weekend weather forecast and level the Ashes series. After Bairstow’s unbeaten 99, with 50 coming from his […]
- Woakes, Wood and Brook keep England’s Ashes hopes alive (Category: Breaking News)
- Seifert, Phillips and Chapman counter Bairstow’s fireworks to seal New Zealand win (Category: Breaking News)
- Moeen Ali turns on the power as England overwhelm Bangladesh (Category: Breaking News)
- Mitchell Marsh, Mark Wood stand out on roller-coaster day (Category: Breaking News)
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