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Kuwait's leader Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has died at the age of 86, Kuwaiti state TV announced.The post Kuwaiti leader Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed dies aged 86 appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Kuwaiti leader Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed dies aged 86 (Category: Breaking News)
- Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf dies at 86, Sheikh Meshaal named successor (Category: Breaking News)
- Political turmoil in Kuwait as emir dissolves parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Kuwait s new emir Sheikh Mishal sworn in, highlights importance of accountability (Category: Breaking News)
Kuwait s leader Sheikh Emir Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has died at the age of 86, Kuwaiti state TV announced.
- 13 member SL crew on board Saudi ship held by pirates safe (Category: Breaking News)
- Ban, ban, ban! (Category: Breaking News)
- The new faces of terror (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Pandemic adds pressure for those struggling with alcoholism (Category: USA, Nebraska)
Suspected members of a separatist group killed 11 people and wounded eight others in a nighttime attack on a police station in southeastern Iran, state TV said Friday.
American actor Andre Braugher, who starred in television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life on the Street, has died aged 61. His publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed he died after a short illness. Braugher is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Raymond Holt on the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which ended in 2021. His […]
- Cricket star Andre Russell joins Mostbet brand ambassador team (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia deports Sri Lankan asylum seekers (Category: Breaking News)
- Wickremesinghe backs India-mooted 13A as solution to Tamil autonomy (Category: Breaking News)
- India 2023 World Cup brand launched (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando One-time Foreign Secretary Kshenuka Senewiratne and Admiral Ravindra Chandrasiri Wijegunaratne (Rtd.) on Dec 04, 2023 assumed duties at the Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi and Islamabad, respectively. It would be pertinent to mention that Wijegunaratne previously served as the First Secretary/Defence Advisor of Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi […]
- Indo-Lanka relations:Shared challenges and ‘Quad’ strategies (Category: Breaking News)
- The Katchatheevu politics (Category: Breaking News)
- Vanni war and Israel-Gaza conflict: Funding catastrophes (Category: Breaking News)
- Norway departs as Indo-Lanka relations enter a new phase (Category: Breaking News)
Turkish football bosses suspended all leagues after a referee was punched to the ground by a club president following a top-flight game on Monday. Halil Umut Meler was struck by MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca, who ran on to the pitch after his team conceded a 97th-minute equaliser in a 1-1 Super Lig draw with […]
- Manchester City make history with Fifa Club World Cup win (Category: Breaking News)
- Brazilian football legend Pele has died (Category: Breaking News)
- Mykhailo Mudryk ‘close’ to £62m Chelsea move from Donetsk (Category: Breaking News)
- Qatar beaten by Ecuador as dream turns into nightmare (Category: Breaking News)
The term ‘travesty’ is defined as a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something. In this case ‘the something’ is the Teaching of the Buddha and practices and customs done and followed at present times, arising thereof. Thus the propagation of false beliefs; the emphasis given to rites and rituals which the Buddha did not […]
- Jerome Fernando and his profane gimmicks – II (Category: Breaking News)
- Buddhism: A True Gift from India to the World (Category: Breaking News)
- Sacred Kapilavastu Relics arrive in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- The distortion of Buddhism and the rise of meaningless rituals (Category: Breaking News)
Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim has served legal notice to a private TV station, on Saturday for maligning his reputation by airing a spot-fixing report against him during the ongoing Bangladesh-New Zealand Test series. In the first innings of the Dhaka Test against New Zealand, Mushfiqur was dismissed for obstructing the field. Pushing the ball away after […]
- Advantage Bangladesh after Shanto ton (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh hit back with spin on 15-wicket day (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand spinners dent Bangladesh on Day 1 (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh edge closer to series lead after Taijul four-fer (Category: Breaking News)
American actor Ryan O’Neal, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in 1970 romance Love Story, has died at the age of 82, his son said. His family did not share a cause of death, but O’Neal was diagnosed with chronic leukaemia in 2001 and prostate cancer in 2012. He also starred in 1970s hits What’s […]
- Airlines warn of UK flight delays over air traffic control fault (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian court bans ‘LGBT movement’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Norway’s princess Martha Louise sets date to wed shaman (Category: Breaking News)
- Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards (Category: Breaking News)
Alert bystanders stopped a woman as she attempted to set fire to the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr in Atlanta, Georgia, police say. Officials said the prompt action “saved an important part of American history”. The two-storey house where Dr King spent the first 12 years of his life is a federal landmark. […]
- At least 16 feared dead in mass shootings in US city of Lewiston, Maine (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump liable for fraud, judge finds in New York civil case (Category: Breaking News)
- Seychelles declares state of emergency after huge explosion (Category: Breaking News)
- Glynn Simmons: US judge exonerates inmate after 48 years in prison (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post New Episodes Of Sri Lanka Political Theatre appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Restoring The Dignity Of Sri Lankan Cricketers (Category: Breaking News)
- The Rise & Fall of Bhanuka Rajapakse: How Sri Lankan Cricket’s Mismanagement Dimmed A Superb Tal... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will appeal ICC suspension – Sports Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Nominations handed over for Sri Lanka Cricket elections (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Cricketing Woes: A Needed Return To Glory From Doldrums appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Restoring The Dignity Of Sri Lankan Cricketers (Category: Breaking News)
- What are the rules of futsal? (Category: Breaking News)
- Amnesty, Purpose, Effect & Fairness (Category: Breaking News)
- On Missing The Bus (Category: Breaking News)
Newly appointed Sports Minister Harin Fernando exploded during a live TV interview, and threatened to walk out after objecting to the manner in which the presenter posed his questions. Fernando, who is also the Minister of Tourism, accused the presenter of posing some of the questions like a thug. The Minister told the host he […]
- Harin refuses to comment on “princess” Diana’s proposal (Category: Breaking News)
- Harin Fernando calls for a second “Aragalaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- Harin Fernando and Manusha Nanayakkara step down (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabinet approves visa-free entry for visitors from 7 countries (Category: Breaking News)
Nimisha Priya, barely 19, left the southern Indian state of Kerala for Yemen in 2008 with big dreams. She had found work as a nurse in a government-run hospital in the capital Saan’a and told her mother, a poorly-paid domestic helper, that their days of hardships would be over soon. Fifteen years later, that dream […]
- Russian jet carrying Ukrainian PoWs crashes – Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
- At least eight dead after major rioting and unrest in Papua New Guinea (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan jet crash: Passengers describe chaos inside flight 516 (Category: Breaking News)
- How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October (Category: Breaking News)
The 18% VAT imposed on agricultural equipment and inputs as well as diesel would have a devastating effect on farming, SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva told journalists on Monday. From 01 January, agricultural machinery and other equipment, including chemical fertiliser previously listed as exempted, would be liable to VAT. Finance Ministry officials had told […]
- JVP lashes SLPP’s VAT “dupliciy” (Category: Breaking News)
- Harsha finds many drawbacks in VAT system, ‘including lot of confusion even at highest echelons’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Debate on VAT Bill: Parliament session adjourned (Category: Breaking News)
- COPA concerned about VAT collection (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Climate Colonialism At CoP 28: Carbon Laundering Via Green Bondscams? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Greenwashing Bond Scams & Financializing Mother Nature: Climate Science Fiction Versus Local Rea... (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring As Rocket Science: The IMF, Green, Blue & Pink-Washing BlackRock? (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4’s Easter Sunday: The IMF Descends Amid An Over The Horizon Operation Staring ‘Sonic-So... (Category: Breaking News)
- Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean (Category: Breaking News)
Veteran cinema, theater and television actor Suminda Sirisena has passed away this morning at the age of 75.
SLPP Colombo District MP Gamini Lokuge on Friday in parliament challenged Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa to prove his educational qualifications to the House. Lokuge said that he knew that all MPs in the House have more educational qualifications than Premadasa’s father who had once been the executive president of this country. “The opposition […]
- Politicians need qualifications - Welgama (Category: Breaking News)
- Voluntary disclosure of educational attainments by MPs: A moral duty (Category: Breaking News)
- Siesta time for Lokuge (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. to open positions in police for rehabilitated LTTE combatants (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka will have Âexcess renewable energy and is in talks with neighboring countries, particularly India, to export supply, President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Bloomberg Television on Friday (01 Dec.), on the sidelines of COP28.
by Rex Clementine Arjuna Ranatunga hasn’t spared any sacred cow. All those years ago, he targeted Shane Warne calling him an ordinary cricketer and there was no love lost between the two of them. Yet, when there was a ceremony remembering Warne in Galle last year ahead of the Australia – Sri Lanka Test […]
- Arjuna s pledge to Sri Lankan cricket supporters (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka after 41 years of Test cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- Where corruption is bliss … (Category: Breaking News)
- Arjuna vows to reveal those who schemed with India to ruin SL cricket (Category: Breaking News)
The article titled “The distortion of Buddhism and the rise of meaningless rituals” written by ‘Member of the silent majority’, which appeared in The Sunday Island of November 26 is a bold explication of Buddhists’ going ritual mode, which most of them seem to feel as the highpoint of living a Buddhist life. The writer […]
- Religion and Science; both are necessary (Category: Breaking News)
- Religious and philosophical aspects of Buddhism (Category: Breaking News)
- 2-day seminar on religious harmony in Kandy (Category: Breaking News)
- Justice Minister assures legal action against Aragalaya activist for insulting Dalada Maligawa (Category: Breaking News)
The joint military exercise between India and Sri Lanka culminated on Tuesday at the Southern Command Foreign Training Node, Aundh in Pune. Joint army drills are a key component of military diplomacy between countries across the world.
All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for 17 days in northern India have been brought to safety, hours after rescue crew drilled through the debris of rock, concrete and mud to reach them. Following days of multiple rescue attempts that hit obstacles just metres from reaching the men, they […]
- Silkyara tunnel rescue- All 41 trapped workers brought out safely (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian rescuers drill through debris to reach 41 men trapped in tunnel (Category: Breaking News)
- Workers recover body of trapped Idaho miner (Category: USA, Washington)
- Rescuer lowered to trapped Chilean miners (Category: USA, South Carolina)
Monday 27th November, 2023 The SJB has commenced collecting signatures for a public petition as part of a campaign to have those who are responsible for the current economic crisis stripped of their civic rights. Given public resentment, which is palpable, the SJB may be able to obtain hundreds of thousands of signatures for its […]
- SJB blames Rajapaksas for impending financial burden on public, calls for Government change (Category: Breaking News)
- Reveal plans, uphold transparency (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB asks President to hold early general election (Category: Breaking News)
- Response to economic revival plan pathetic: Harsha disappointed (Category: Breaking News)
The 2023 men’s ODI World Cup in India has broken records for in-stadium attendance and broadcast viewership, according to the ICC and its broadcast partners Disney Star. The ICC said a total of 1,250,307 spectators watched the 48 games at the grounds in India, surpassing the previous record of 1,016,420 spectators during the 2015 World […]
- Play Off (Category: Business)
- Well Set (Category: Business)
- Cricket: Sri Lanka want revenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka want revenge (Category: Breaking News)
Delhi s Saket court has announced life imprisonment for four men who murdered television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008. The court also imposed a fine of #8377;1.25 lakh on the four convicts.
(24 Nov 1923 – 24 Nov 2023) by Kumar de Silva With his 21-year tenure as Principal of Wesley College from 1962-1983, Arthur Shelton Wirasinha goes on record as being the second longest serving Principal of the College after Revd. Henry Highfield. A product of Richmond College, Galle, he touched the hearts and lives of […]
- Wesley to revive sporting heritage and architectural grandeur of Campbell Park pavilion (Category: Breaking News)
- How the visionaries transformed the land by lighting the hill (Category: Breaking News)
- Adikaram, a man like no other (Category: Breaking News)
- A.M.A. Azeez, an Intellectual and Visionary (Category: Breaking News)
Veteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders has won a dramatic victory in the Dutch general election, with almost all votes counted. After 25 years in parliament, his Freedom party (PVV) is set to win 37 seats, well ahead of his nearest rival, a left-wing alliance. “The PVV can no longer be ignored,” he said. “We […]
- Belt and Road Initiative: Is China’s trillion-dollar gamble to transform the world working? (Category: Breaking News)
- Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan elects William Lai president in historic election (Category: Breaking News)
- Poles prepare to vote as rivals end acrimonious campaign (Category: Breaking News)
In Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) classes, teachers give their students a list of words for them to find the odd one out. Then they have to explain why they thought it to be odd. It’s an exciting game because teachers include more than one word that may be interpreted as odd in […]
- Going ritual mode (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘The A to Z of Conflict’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Important’ question of identity: Ethnicity and religion (Category: Breaking News)
- After brilliant 45 years, Ian Chappell quits commentaries (Category: Breaking News)
3P Media is now the Official Media Sales Representative for Google in Laos and Brunei, marking our entry into Southeast Asia as a go-to market specialist for global advertising platforms. Since 2022, 3P Media has represented Google in Sri Lanka, supporting 750+ clients to grow their businesses with Google Ads. 3P Media is a subsidiary […]
- Adstudio. Cloud successfully marks 4th year in Programmatic Advertising Industry in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ADSTUDIO.CLOUD bags Silver at FITIS Digital Excellence Awards Ceremony 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Antyra Solutions celebrates eight years of digital success, introducing new product portfolios (Category: Breaking News)
- Navigating the evolving landscape of digital media (Category: Breaking News)
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