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[…]The post Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Can Sri Lanka Come Out Of Its ‘Deer In The Headlights’ Mindset? (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Robber Barons Fear The Rejuvenated ‘Aragala’ Spirit! (Category: Breaking News)
- Evaluation Of Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics & Death Of Sanath Nishantha: Some Sombre Lessons & Reflections (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 31st August, 2022 Trade unions in the power and energy sectors are up in arms against a government move to restructure the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). They would have the public believe that the blame for the staggering losses the two institutions have been incurring should be laid […]
- Corporate sector offers policymakers a blueprint for CPC reform (Category: Breaking News)
- Armed soldiers forcing CPC employees to act against their will – Unions (Category: Breaking News)
- Remedy worse than malady? (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt.’s strong-arm tactics bound to fail, say petroleum unions (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post “Really Real Manner Of Managing Sri Lanka” – ‘To Paris and Back’ 1977-1990 (JRJ Years) appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ballad Of A Sad Trumpet (Category: Breaking News)
- A Story Of Shadows (Category: Breaking News)
- Cockiness; What Price? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
A Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station has killed 22 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow’s invasion began. It says five of the victims of the attack in the eastern town of Chaplyne burnt to death in a vehicle. An 11-year-old boy also was killed. President Volodymyr Zelensky […]
- Ukraine retakes 6,000 sq km from Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Pope tells Zelensky he is ‘praying for peace’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
Singapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state. The decision, announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on national TV, comes after years of fierce debate. LGBT activists in Singapore have hailed the move as “a win for humanity”. The city-state is known for […]
- Dozens dead in Egypt church fire (Category: Breaking News)
- One third of Pakistan under water (Category: Breaking News)
- Kenyans to choose a new President (Category: Breaking News)
- Powerful storms wreak havoc in Europe (Category: Breaking News)
Pakistan’s police have said the country’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is under investigation. He is accused of making threats against the police and judiciary following a political speech he gave on Saturday. Tensions are high in the country, with the former leader’s supporters gathering outside his house vowing to “take over” if he is […]
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court rules Imran Khan arrest was illegal (Category: Breaking News)
- Man charged over Queen coffin incident (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s shock televangelist dies at 50 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan appeals to world for flood help amid devastation (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Perversions Of The Justice System: Comparative Remarks On Sri Lanka & The USA appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A plea… (Category: Business)
- Plea For The Rule Of Law And Personal Safety Of All Citizens (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Plea In Paris & Predicament At Home (Category: Breaking News)
- A plea to all Sri Lankans (Category: Business)
[…]The post Witch-Hunting Mudalige, Ranil-Rajapaksa Repression & the Opposition’s Convoluted, Collaborationist, Confusion appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Aragalaya After Ranil: Re-Booting The Revolution (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Policy Train-Wreck, Opposition Own-Goals, Dullas-GL Game-Changer (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Despot President Was Replaced By A Tyrant In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Preventing Crooks From Entering The Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Politicians—Constitutional Amendment Mess (Category: Breaking News)
- Anarchy & Abuse Of Power By Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
Yes, of course, the older folks would all remember Edward Joseph; the young ones may find the name unfamiliar as Edward now lives in Germany and does his thing in that part of the world. Better known as Eddy, he was with the leader of the group Steelers and they were big in the local […]
- How the celebrities reacted (Category: Breaking News)
- Earl’s Hotels & Resorts in Rs. 4 billion expansionary drive in SL and Japan (Category: Breaking News)
- MONLAR lashes out at Wildlife Dept. for failure to protect elephants (Category: Breaking News)
- Skinny jeans will never die (Category: Breaking News)
We run on this page today an article written by a retired Major General of the Sri Lanka Army who argues forcefully that the Aragalaya protesters were NOT repeat NOT peaceful. Over the weeks and months of the protest, which now appears to be fizzling out, although contrary claims that it will continue persist, the […]
- CBK: Ranil fears electoral defeat (Category: Breaking News)
- As UN General Assembly Convenes, Leading Senators Unveil Resolution Urging International Coopera... (Category: Breaking News)
- British MP calls for global arrest warrant against Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith visits Stalin in police custody (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Did Bankruptcy Of Sinhala Language Help Push The Country Off The Cliff appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Clifford ‘Cliff’ Lee Gagnon (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Clifford ‘Cliff’ Lee Gagnon (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Lasantha Wickrematunge’s Assassination: Empty Promises Of Accountability (Category: Breaking News)
- Manslaughter By Proxy (Category: Breaking News)
A close aide to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will face sedition charges, accused of inciting mutiny in the military, the interior minister has said.News agencies say the charges are related to comments made by Khan adviser Shahbaz Gill and aired on ARY TV on Monday night, which the minister, Rana Sanaullah, said was […]
- Pakistan court grants interim bail to former PM Imran Khan (Category: Breaking News)
- ABC report surfaces many discrepancies in Easter investigations: Catholic Church (Category: Breaking News)
- Expect more Easter Sunday type attacks: minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath draws RW’s attention to humiliation of military officers (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Truth Is An Abyss appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is The “System Change” We Anticipate? How Can It Be Achieved? (Category: Breaking News)
- Prosecuting Aragalaya Protestors; A Legal Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- Sovereign People, Legal Despotism & Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Well, It’s Legal! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Thank You Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan completely justified: CTA’s Penpa Tsering (Category: Breaking News)
- China to skip meeting with US Secretary in Cambodia amid tensions over Pelosi’s visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Climate Colonialism At CoP 28: Carbon Laundering Via Green Bondscams? (Category: Breaking News)
Friday 5th August 2022 Sri Lanka’s struggle to shore up its crumbling economy continues, and there are no signs of promised foreign assistance materialising anytime soon. The Cabinet has just retained the services of some foreign firms for external debt restructuring, which is one of the main conditions for the IMF bailout package. When the […]
- Sri Lanka relaxes dollar conversion requirement for service exporters (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL relaxes mandatory conversion requirement on service export proceeds (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka exporters say committed to repatriating funds (Category: Breaking News)
- Why record export earnings may not be good news (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Sri Lanka Becoming A Police State? Government Efforts To Delegitimise Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards The Myanmar Model Of Governance? (Category: Breaking News)
- Government’s Attempt To Redefine The Political Discourse & Direction Through Suppression (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Political engagement with Aragayala necessary (Category: Breaking News)
The secret vote on the new President as well as the Emergency sharply divided the SLFP. In spite of talks among members of its parliamentary group, the party, led by one-time President Maithripala Sirisena, has not been able to reach a consensus on a strategy to deal with the new President. Of the 14 SLFPers, […]
- Gevindu faults Prez, PM over deferred 22 A (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez makes headway amidst deepening turmoil (Category: Breaking News)
- Rebels to launch new alliance, initiate talks with GL-Dallas group (Category: Breaking News)
- Absence of dialogue among MPs unfortunate – Gevindu (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post BASL; Altruistic Union That Does Not Stand For Its Members’ Sake But For The People appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur (Category: Breaking News)
- Is The IMF Mad To Give Loans To A Murderous Government? (Category: Breaking News)
- Bar Association of Sri Lanka strongly condemns attack on Galle Face protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citiz... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Poor Governance: Lack Of Policies To Overcome The Crises appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Current System & Unlawful Actions (Category: Breaking News)
- Options For Interim Govt. To Overcome The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: Manufactured Economic Crisis & Peoples’ Suffering (Category: Breaking News)
- President Must Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
Newspapers, TV programmes and video presentations have been dealing with the terrible incident that occurred in the premises of the Presidential Secretariat and on the steps leading to it, at predawn on Friday 23 July. Cassandra feels compelled to present her opinion though it is one week from that day. Experts have dissected it and […]
- Catherine W. ‘Cass’ Amiss (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Catherine W. ‘Cass’ Amiss (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Cass County divorces (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County divorces (Category: USA, North Dakota)
British Politics and Ours Both Sri Lanka and the UK have experienced an unprecedented political upheaval of late. It is interesting that both leaders agreed to resign within a day of each other. Everybody else saw the ‘the end is nigh’ sign for quite a while. They didn’t or didn’t want to see it until […]
- Laksiri, Issadeen win open men’s and women’s titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to play ten Tests next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Lochana, Warangana clinch singles titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Mihiran, Malshani adjudged best boxers at Nationals (Category: Breaking News)
India is maintaining an in depth watch throughout its southern neighbourhood following a report that a Chinese scientific analysis vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5‘ will enter Hambantota port on August 11 to allegedly conduct satellite tv for pc management and analysis monitoring within the Indian Ocean Region. What has raised eyebrows right here is the timing […]
- Chinese Survey Vessel Yuan Wang 5 reaches Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese “spy ship” leaves Hambantota Port (Category: Breaking News)
- Prime Minister Modi has given us a breath of life: Ranil says addressing Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says China survey ship can dock in its port (Category: Breaking News)
By Sanath Nanayakkare There is still possibility for Sri Lanka to arrive at a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by August 2022 to qualify for an extended fund facility, but the new government will need to demonstrate its ability to implement the required policies within an agreed upon time frame.” the […]
- Central Bank eyeing USD 8 -10 billion currency reserves in 3-4 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Diesel shipment that arrived in Colombo on 16 July still not paid for want of dollars (Category: Breaking News)
- USD 2.9bn IMF loan facility: Govt. confident of completing process early next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Asian Century will not happen if China and India could not join hands – Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post July 1983 Pogrom: The Black Week That Devastatingly Impacted Sri Lanka Forever appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- July 1983 Riot: A Spontaneous Racial Outburst Or Planned Pogrom Or Both? (Category: Breaking News)
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
- Prasanna Ranatunga’s Misguided Claims, The JVP & The Tragedy Of The Black July Riots, 1983 (Category: Breaking News)
- A Reflection On Forty Years Since The ‘Black July’ Anti-Tamil Pogrom In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post July 1983 Riot: A Spontaneous Racial Outburst Or Planned Pogrom Or Both? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Welikada jail riot ‘injures 31’ (Category: Business)
- LPL 2022 unfolds in riot of colour (Category: Sports)
- Two Hoosiers Face Charges In Capitol Riot (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Two Hoosiers Face Charges In Capitol Riot (Category: USA, Indiana)
warns electorate not to expect early general election By Shamindra Ferdinando Veteran politician DEW Gunasekera (22) said that there must have been a tacit understanding between the new Sri Lankan administration and the Western camp, regarding the deployment of the military and the police to remove Galle Face protesters in the early hours of yesterday. […]
- CP Chief calls for re-alignment of political forces to thwart Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Devananda throws his weight behind RW’s candidature (Category: Breaking News)
- DEW disappointed over disruption of COPE; AG acting in terms of Standing Orders (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil likely to go for presidential poll first – sources (Category: Breaking News)
He lost the election, but became the president using the bonus seat.
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Has Harin Fernando Lost His Credibility? (Category: Breaking News)
- Abeywardana fills vacant seat of Wickremesinghe after Sri Lanka president vote (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil likely to go for presidential poll first – sources (Category: Breaking News)
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