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By N Sathiya Moorthy At a time the US secretary of state Anthony Blinken has applauded the ‘extraordinary contribution’ of the Amb Julie Chung for Sri Lanka on the 120th anniversary of Korean immigrants’ arrival in America, the Colombo government has cause to be concerned about the trajectory of bilateral relations. Worse still, acerbic and […]
- US designates Wasantha Karannagoda for human rights violations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka regrets decision by US to designate Karannagoda (Category: Breaking News)
- United States blacklists Wasantha Karannagoda for human rights violations (Category: Breaking News)
- IGP among cops and politicians who met MR (Category: Breaking News)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that 18 Sri Lankans who are currently residing in the Republic of Sudan have rejected to be evacuated from the country and repatriated to Sri Lanka.
Minister of Labor and Foreign Employment Hon. Manusha Nanayakkara stated that steps will be taken to prepare the new integrated labor law to avoid the complexities of the existing labor law. Hon Minister stated above at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Labor and Foreign Employment affairs held in Parliament recently (25).
- Smith moves aside but proud of new role (Category: Western Australia)
- Saudi, SL agree to streamline recruitment (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposing 13th Amendment was a violation of the constitution : Dilan Perera (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka government to table amended private sector pension acts in parliament despite protests (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why The Shock Over IMF’s Diagnostic Report? (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya, Political Buddhism & Ranilocracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Muslim Politics & National Crises (Category: Breaking News)
- Monk’s Imprisonment: Aragalaya Victory No. 2 (Category: Breaking News)
Notorious criminal and drug trafficker Sinhara Amal Saminda Silva alias Kudu Anju has been arrested in France, Sri Lanka Police confirmed today (April 29).The post Notorious criminal ‘Kudu Anju’ arrested in France – Interpol confirms appeared first on Sri Lanka Breaking News and Top Headlines - ONLANKA News.
- Interpol says Kudu Anju arrested in France (Category: Breaking News)
- French court orders release of ÂKudu Anju (Category: Breaking News)
- Police seek AG s advice to bring ÂKudu Anju from France to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- SL drug baron arrested in France to be brought here (Category: Breaking News)
Nearly 2,000 public sector employees have opted to obtain extended leave for a five-year period to travel overseas for employment.The post Some 2,000 state employees went abroad on five-year no-pay leave appeared first on Sri Lanka Breaking News and Top Headlines - ONLANKA News.
- Govt. to halt further rot in public sector by stopping state-sponsored brain drain (Category: Breaking News)
- Circular issued for state sector workers on taking no-pay leave for foreign jobs (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis-hit Sri Lanka finally starts to deal with bloated public sector (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt to encourage public employees to take entitled no-pay leave (Category: Breaking News)
By R. R. M. Lilani After pledging to renegotiate its debt to Sri Lanka, China is back on track. Besides, since Sri Lanka urgently needs China to restructure its USD 7 billion debt to the country, Sri Lanka has vowed to support the dragon at this juncture by conceding to its demands. High-ranking Chinese VIPs […]
- China proposes setting up radar base in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China confirms two-year debt moratorium offered to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka having regular consultations with US on China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka seen as China’s top option for naval base (Category: Breaking News)
14 Sri Lankans residing in the Republic of the Sudan who were evacuated due to the prevailing crisis arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport today, and were received and warmly welcomed by Director General of the Consular Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sisira Senavirathne.
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
By NESHELLA PERERA Millions of less affluent Sri Lankans works in the Middle East are sending money home to keep the economy afloat while the more educated who hold higher post in developed countries keep money stashed elsewhere, Labour Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said. “The most amount of foreign exchange generated for Sri Lanka comes from the […]
- Money printing drastically reduced in 2022 - CBSL governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Money-printing halted as a matter of policy  Cabinet Spokesman (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL permanently revokes money changing permit of Prasanna Money Exchange (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL warns of scams defrauding individuals through calls, SMSs, emails and social media (Category: Breaking News)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in India early next month, Russian officials said on Thursday. India is hosting the meeting of foreign ministers of the SCO countries in Goa on May 4 and 5. “Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will take part in the meeting […]
- Iran formally becomes full member of SCO, PM Narendra Modi conveys best wishes to President Ebra... (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan foreign minister to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meet in India (Category: Breaking News)
- SCO summit: Xi stresses on enhancing BRI cooperation; India says connectivity should respect ter... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajnath Singh holds bilateral talks with Russian counterpart, discusses ways to increase Russian... (Category: Breaking News)
Fourteen Sri Lankans residing in the Republic of the Sudan who were evacuated due to the prevailing crisis, arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport today. They were warmly welcomed by the Director General of the Consular Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sisira Senavirathne. Their evacuation was facilitated with the coordination of the Ministry […]
- President to hold talks with Japanese PM in Tokyo (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan born Aussie Gold Medalist wanted to withdraw from games (Category: Breaking News)
- India extends tenure of USD 1 billion credit facility provided to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Eight Sri Lankans among the released crew of the detained vessel by Nigerian High Court (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is It 1848 Again? Unrest This Time Is Global appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping & Joe Biden (Category: Breaking News)
- Waiting For Godot: Can Some Developing Nations Unite & Transform The Planet? (Category: Breaking News)
- Gathering Storms Cloud On The Horizon; Military, Political, Strategic & Economic Uncertainties A... (Category: Breaking News)
- Snivelling Won’t Combat Corruption; Are We Waiting For Sri Lanka’s Nelson Mandela? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Are We Leading From Behind? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Urgent & Critical Issues Related To Climate Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Rising Temperature Rising Frustration (Category: Breaking News)
- Impact Of Climate Change In Sri Lanka: National Security Challenges & Way Forward (Category: Breaking News)
- Forget The politicians & Their Bureaucrats, This Is Why We The Public, Need To Understand Climat... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Counter Terrorism Bill To Create A Security State; Impacting On Rights appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Treating Protests & Strikes As Terrorism: ATA Requires 2/3 Plus A Referendum (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Endangering National Security’ – A Trojan Horse To Erode Human Rights! (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposed “Anti-Terror” Bill Set To Introduce The Death Penalty & Break Existing Human Rights Vio... (Category: Breaking News)
- Anti-Terrorism Bill Terrifies The Public (Category: Breaking News)
Steps are being taken to prepare the new integrated labour law to avoid the complexities of the existing employment statutes, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara, recently told the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Labour and Foreign Employment affairs. The Minister said they will start taking opinions and suggestions of all relevant parties from […]
- Flexible work arrangements to be introduced in Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Draft of proposed Employment Act to be made public soon (Category: Breaking News)
- Manusha issues warning over health sector jobs in Israel (Category: Breaking News)
- Manusha and Harin resign from ministerial portfolios (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Powers Of The Judiciary & The Legislature: A Review appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Contempt Of Court: Hiragedarara Yawanna Hitiya Ekkenāwa Mama Raja Gedarata Yawwa (Category: Breaking News)
- Losing Faith In Sri Lanka: Is Wickremesinghe Corrupt? Are Our Judges Fair? (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota’s Goon Blasts Chief Justice; AG Refuses To File Contempt Charges (Category: Breaking News)
- The Law’s Delays (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Scamming The Gestapo Church, Or Being Sound Christian Witness appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Andrew Sujeevan, Anglican Johnian Punished By A Corrupt Theocratic Church (Category: Breaking News)
- Lying About Age Of Protestant Mission Schools: Is Age Quality? (Category: Breaking News)
- Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted Religion (Category: Breaking News)
- Mother’s Day & Rights Of Women (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Controversial Decision To File Damages For The X-Press Pearl In Sri Lanka Or Singapore? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- TISL takes bribery and corruption allegations surrounding X-Press Pearl disaster to SC (Category: Breaking News)
- AG led Lankan team holds talks with lawyers, insurers of owners of ‘MV X-Press Pearl’ in S’pore (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB steps in to help SL claim damages for X-Press Pearl disaster (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives USD 890,000 interim compensation for damages by X-Press Pearl (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Rising Temperature Rising Frustration appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Urgent & Critical Issues Related To Climate Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Are We Leading From Behind? (Category: Breaking News)
- Forget The politicians & Their Bureaucrats, This Is Why We The Public, Need To Understand Climat... (Category: Breaking News)
- An Oxygen Economy (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Missing Ingredients To Come Out Of The Economic Rut appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Warning To Be Heeded (Category: Breaking News)
- People Called On To Play Direct Role To Sustain Democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Parliamentary Support Required For Effective Recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Sabry is slated to leave for Incheon, South Korea to attend the 56th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). MORE.
by Sushant Sareen The good news is that there is some new evidence that despite all the adventurism and brinkmanship, the top echelons of the Pakistan Army have, by and large, remained rational and not radicalised players. The bad news is that the Pakistan Army’s bluster and grandstanding have injected exaggerated notions of its military […]
- Bleak Eid in PoK and Pompous Celebrations in J-K (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s Military, Pakistan’s Nukes Biggest Threat To India; New Delhi’s Nuclear Doctrine Must Be... (Category: Breaking News)
- PoK Burning – Decoding The Protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Modi celebrates Diwali with Indian forces boosting their morale (Category: Breaking News)
Is there any place where China is not exacerbating security concerns? Nearly everywhere one looks, China is ratcheting up tensions and flexing its muscles, whether in the South China Sea, around Taiwan, along the border with India, in the East China Sea, is steadfastly supporting Russia in a maniacal war against Ukraine, penetrating foreign airspace […]
- In bid to counter China, US ramps up effort to boost military ties in Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- China and India to send troops to Russia for joint military exercises (Category: Breaking News)
- Phillipines’ bold response to aggressive China in the South China Sea (Category: Breaking News)
- India, China militaries ease tensions; to resume joint exercises (Category: Business)
British organisations that are working in other nations must follow the laws of those countries, the UK’s top diplomat in India told NDTV today, days after Indian authorities investigated the BBC and Oxfam India for alleged violation of foreign funding rules. The Enforcement Directorate has filed a case against BBC India under the Foreign Exchange […]
- Russia Foreign Minister to attend regional summit SCO in Goa next week (Category: Breaking News)
- BBC India offices searched by income tax officials (Category: Breaking News)
- EU-India trade deal threatens ‘pharmacy of the developing world’ (Category: Business)
- Pakistan to tour India in December (Category: Business)
By R. R. M. Lilani The ferry service between India and Sri Lanka, as well as railway connections, have all but vanished since the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries, and the use of a comfortable Singaporean passenger vessel ‘IndSri‘ to sail between Karikkal (KKL)Port in South India and Kankesanthurai (KKS) Port in […]
- How Sri Lankan hurdles can hamper connectivity projects to India (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka ferry service to be launched this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to launch Cargo Ferry Service between Kankesanthurai and Tamil Nadu (Category: Breaking News)
- India, Sri Lanka passenger ferry service launched after 40 years (Category: Breaking News)
‘I haven’t sought US visa for more than 15 years’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda yesterday (27) said that he had not applied for a visa to visit the US and was not planning to do so. He said so when The Island sought his response to him being designated by […]
- US blacklists Wasantha Karannagoda for human rights violations (Category: Breaking News)
- US designates Wasantha Karannagoda for human rights violations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka regrets decision by US to designate Karannagoda (Category: Breaking News)
- United States blacklists Wasantha Karannagoda for human rights violations (Category: Breaking News)
Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhary is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on 01 May 2023 for an official visit on an invitation from Sri Lanka Air Force Chief, Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana. Air Chief Marshal Chaudhary, who joined the Indian Air Force as a […]
- Indian Air Chief arrives (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Air Force Commander arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Air Force Chief arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Air Chief pays tribute to IPKF soldiers fallen in Sri Lanka war (Category: Breaking News)
Friday 28th April, 2023 Ruling party MPs and their Opposition counterparts never see eye to eye on anything other than ways and means of feathering their nests. The national interest does not figure, at all, in their scheme of things. So, it is only natural that they are clashing over the IMF bailout, which is […]
- SJB lacked backbone to vote against IMF deal – NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabinet has not seen IMF agreement (Category: Breaking News)
- Kiriella accuses IMF of double speak (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP Leader punches plenty of holes in govt. (Category: Breaking News)
The duty-free allowance given to expatriate workers at the airport will be increased from May 01, Minister of Labour Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara says.
The Government is to regulate the poultry and egg industry to ensure uninterrupted supply of poultry and eggs to consumers at a reasonable price. A discussion regarding the import of maize to be used for the production of poultry feed was held at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture Mahinda […]
- Sri Lanka to target export market for poultry and eggs (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka imports Keeri Samba, eggs and maize (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka distribute chicks among poultry farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- Food insecurity in Sri Lanka likely to worsen (Category: Breaking News)
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