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The SLT Training Centre (SLTTC), the education arm of SLT-MOBITEL, now offers students the opportunity to create technology and design solutions to address global engineering challenges through knowledge gained by the world-class BEng (Hons) Degree, University of Hertfordshire UK. The SLTTC invites students to enrol for the prestigious BEng (Hons) Degree, University of Hertfordshire, August [̷...
- Engineering Education At CINEC For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
- An Engineering Career With Just O/L (Category: Breaking News)
- SLIIT enrols students from Asia and Africa for new intake (Category: Business)
- IIT offers degrees with a job guarantee (Category: Business)
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka will issue soft-liquor licenses to tourist hotels and restaurants under rules issued by President Ranil Wickremesinghe as Finance Minister, in a boost to tourism sector and government revenues. The new rules are effective from July 28.The beer and wine license will be issued by the Department of Excise following a recommendation from […]
- Prez offers to convert N’Eliya Post Office into a hotel (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil wants 10 acres of Mahamodara Hospital land allocated for tourism projects (Category: Breaking News)
- Gazette issued stipulating minimum rates for tourist hotels in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourism Expected To Be A Major Industry In 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Human Rights In Geneva This September appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What’s In Store In Geneva For The Sri Lankan Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Are Economic Crimes None Of The UNHRC’s Business? (Category: Breaking News)
- A snake may lurk in the UN grass (Category: Breaking News)
- So Far, No Good (Category: Breaking News)
Seoul [South Korea], July 24 (ANI): With the growing assertiveness of China in the Indo-Pacific region, the topic of relations with China, a top trading partner and powerful neighbour, remains a sensitive one among South Korean industry and government officials. Erika Na, writing in The Star said that South Korea’s Indo-Pacific strategy will ‘imitate’ the […]
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
- Apparel producers decry 400% off-peak electricty price hike (Category: Breaking News)
- US$ 400 m India-SL energy transaction in the pipeline (Category: Business)
Part of a 'flexible strategic' move to boost the tourism sector
- Sri Lanka-Singapore joint venture to construct three more hotels (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. to give beer licenses to cheer tourist restaurants, hotels (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to have her first Seven Star Hotel (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourism Expected To Be A Major Industry In 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
Friday 29th July, 2022 Humans are born dreamers, and dreams keep them going. But for their propensity for dreaming, they would never have invented the wheel, much less flown. It may be said that life is a process of chasing dreams, with or without success. Grave crises like the one Sri Lanka is experiencing are […]
- Hilary Duff confirms the Lizzie McGuire Disney Plus reboot is dead - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Hilary Duff confirms the Lizzie McGuire Disney Plus reboot is dead - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Hilary Duff confirms the Lizzie McGuire Disney Plus reboot is dead - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Zhoie's dream chance (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Ideal Motors unveiled the ‘Ideal Moksha,’ Sri Lanka’s first home-grown fully-electric car at the JAIC Hilton yesterday. Drawing inspiration from the iconic Austin Mini Moke that took the world by storm, the Ideal Moksha is geared to be a game changer for the Sri Lankan market and the most practical solution in the current technology […]
- Vehicle Market (Category: Business)
- Program to allow Sri Lankan migrant workers to import electric vehicles launched (Category: Breaking News)
- Elon Musk no longer world s richest man (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could benefit from global trend towards EV use – IPS study (Category: Breaking News)
Four Sri Lankan athletes and a coach have been sidelined by Commonwealth Games health authorities in Birmingham as they have tested positive for Covid-19, Ada Derana reporter said.
Bangladesh has sought a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the Daily Star newspaper reported on Tuesday, joining South Asian neighbours Pakistan and Sri Lanka in seeking help to cope with mounting pressure on their economies.
[…]The post President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citizens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Online Safety Bill & Anti-Terror Bill – Law Making To End Democracy & Fundamental Rights Of Sri... (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- When Will Sri Lankan Children Be Prioritized In This Crisis? (Category: Breaking News)
- Obligations Of 225 MPs & The Party Leaders To The People Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has lambasted those who are making wholesale criticism that Bangladesh will face the same situation like that of Sri Lanka. They are making the comments without realising the global context under the fallout of the Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine War, the Daily Star quoted her as saying. “Let them say that […]
- Bangladesh traders forced to export leather to China at low prices (Category: Breaking News)
- Special port facilities offered to Bangladeshi vessels in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Galle Face protesters decide to return properties (Category: Breaking News)
- Social media activist Pathum Kerner arrested (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 39 Years After Black July, It Is Time For Tamil Eelam: Preparing For A Unilateral Declaration Of Independence appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Genocide Of Tamils In Sri Lanka – Time For UN, UNHRC & Security Council To Take Action (Category: Breaking News)
- Eelam Tamils Struggle For Self-Determination (Category: Breaking News)
- The TGTE; Past, Present & Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Kuveni’s Curse, Black July & Ethno-Districts (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Who Is The Fascist Now? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Not My President (Category: Breaking News)
- So Far, No Good (Category: Breaking News)
- “Prudent, Sensitive & Faithful”: Reimagining The Sri Lankan Woman (Category: Breaking News)
- “Prudent, Sensitive & Faithful”: Reimagining The Sri Lankan Woman (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Janus Moment appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- July 9th 2022: ‘Ever Onward To Victory!’ (Category: Breaking News)
- 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A New Definition For Democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
Two men who were waiting in a fuel queue in Kinniya have died today (July 22), Ada Derana correspondent says.
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- Whales die in stranding (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Sri Lanka Navy launches a website for whale watching (Category: Breaking News)
- West Coast whale rescue (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Whale watchers’ paradise (Category: Business)
Thursday 21st July, 2022 President Ranil Wickremesinghe is in seventh heaven. Everybody wrote him off when he lost the last general election (2020), having contested two presidential elections unsuccessfully in 1999 and 2005, and baulked at running for President in 2010, 2015, and 2019. He became the Prime Minister in May and President in July. […]
- President at beck and call of Rajapaksas – Sajith (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential race and horse-trading (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Withdrawal syndrome’ (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB asks Mahinda why he protects Ranil if SLPP plans to go it alone at next election (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr. Sumedha S. Amarasekara Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka’s (SDJ) article, ‘Why Ranil Wickremasinghe cannot be my President in The Island 18.07.2022, discusses elegantly the constitutional issues and the fact that ‘sovereignty is in the people and is unalienable’. SDJ goes on to exemplify why RW cannot be PM as well. The editorial of the […]
- Political engagement with Aragayala necessary (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolishing The Presidency – Two Cunning Foxes Plan The Unexpected! (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya At The Cross-Roads & In The Cross-Hairs (Category: Breaking News)
- Whoever wields power under 22-A, will Mahinda continue to ‘rule’? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil’s Election To Pave The Way For Gota’s Return appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka’s ruling party asks new president to help with ex-leader Rajapaksa’s return (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya’s return to politics not ruled out (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe In Presidential Avatar (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has renewed his call for early elections after a stunning by-election upset saw his party take control of a crucial provincial assembly. His PTI party won 15 of 20 seats up for grabs in Punjab, beating their arch-rivals the PML-N on their home ground. The result is a foretaste […]
- Pakistan’s shock televangelist dies at 50 (Category: Breaking News)
- Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting in US (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan police open investigation into former PM (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- BASL; Altruistic Union That Does Not Stand For Its Members’ Sake But For The People (Category: Breaking News)
- A Janus Moment (Category: Breaking News)
- Is The IMF Mad To Give Loans To A Murderous Government? (Category: Breaking News)
- Dawn At Galle Face: Which Tomorrow? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Good Bye Ranil; “Welcome” President Dulles Alahapperuma appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Abolishing The Presidency – Two Cunning Foxes Plan The Unexpected! (Category: Breaking News)
- Dammika Perera Antics – Only Oligarch In Sri Lanka! (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
The security around the Parliament complex has been tightened and all the entry roads leading to it have been closed off with roadblocks, according to Ada Derana reporter.
Chants of “USA! USA! USA!” rang out across Hayward Field on Saturday night (16) after Fred Kerley led a US sweep of the men’s 100m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.Kerley’s decision last year to drop down from the 400m to the 100m paid off in spectacular fashion as he powered past Marvin Bracy-Williams and […]
- First sprinter to run 100m in under 10 seconds dies (Category: Breaking News)
- Bolt will not seek world champs’ 100m wild card (Category: Business)
- Fraser-Pryce runs fastest 100m of 2022 in Nairobi (Category: Breaking News)
- Bolt eyes 9.7s at 100m in Ostrava (Category: Business)
Wales bravely failed in a bid to win a first series against the Springboks in South Africa as the hosts triumphed in the third Test decider in Cape Town. South Africa fly-half Handre Pollard scored 20 points with hooker Bongi Mbonambi and captain Siya Kolisi crossing for tries. Wales responded with a try for flanker […]
- Springboks go top of Rugby Championship (Category: Breaking News)
- Springboks name unchanged side to face England in Rugby World Cup semi-final (Category: Breaking News)
- Qatar beaten by Ecuador as dream turns into nightmare (Category: Breaking News)
- Pumas create history with victory in Christchurch (Category: Breaking News)
UDO FIGHTING By Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum chandij@sympatico.ca … Continuing from last week’s column: ‘Judo Fighting in India’. When I travelled to India as a member of the National Judo Team of Sri Lanka in 1982, I enjoyed […]
- French Style, Sri Lankan Smile! (Category: Breaking News)
- Mastering Showbiz… Music, Food & Fashion In Oman (Category: Breaking News)
- CONCLUSION: MISSIONS OF A GLOBAL PROFESSOR : CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY (Category: Breaking News)
- Simon (Sriyantha) Senaratne: Lawyer, CEO & Leisure Business Visionary (Category: Breaking News)
by Kumar David Thus, we may all “Chortle in our joy” on July 13 or 20 if everything goes as promised. The first step in the Sri Lankan Colour Revolution seems to have inched forward like a golden dream but I will remain on guard till both Gotabaya (GR) and Wickremesinghe (RW) have been seen […]
- Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo Callay! (Category: Breaking News)
- President to make fresh clarion call for all-party national government (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF working with a government without a mandate – Handunnetti (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition to boycott today’s meeting with IMF (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo Callay! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh Callay! (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya At The Cross-Roads & In The Cross-Hairs (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Cascading Collapse Unstoppable? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A SWOT Appraisal (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Morning Prayer Of Rajapaksas: Ranil Saranam Gachchāmi appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sovereignty Betrayed: The Ball Belongs To The State (Category: Breaking News)
- Going, Going, But Not Gone Yet: Why Delay Inevitability (Category: Breaking News)
- Jeered & Sent Home: Ominous Sign Of An Impending Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- Did Faulty Constitution Bring Misery? – Undermining The State Is The Game (Category: Breaking News)
The first meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers chaired by Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was held last evening (July 15), Ada Derana learns.
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