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[…]The post Gathering Storms Cloud On The Horizon; Military, Political, Strategic & Economic Uncertainties Abound appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is It 1848 Again? Unrest This Time Is Global (Category: Breaking News)
- Threats To The Hegemony Of The US Dollar (Category: Breaking News)
- A Bleak Forecast For 2024 & Beyond: Politics (Security), Economics & Military (Category: Breaking News)
- Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping & Joe Biden (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka received 1,487,303 tourists in 2023, the latest statistics released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) show. This is an increase of over 100 percent in comparison to the previous year, which recorded 719,978 arrivals, the data shows. The last month alone the country saw 210,352 tourist arrivals up from 151,496 recorded in November 2023. India, Russia, United Kingdom, ...
Sri Lanka received over 1.4 million tourists by the end of the third week of December, the latest statistics released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) show. The SLTDA weekly report on tourist arrivals released on Saturday (23) shows that 1,404,998 tourists had arrived in the country by December 21, 2023. Between December 01 and 21 […]
- Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka surpass 1.4 mln this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka records nearly 720,000 tourist arrivals in 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 100,000 tourists visit Sri Lanka in first 15 days of 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- SL notches more than 100 percent increase in tourist arrivals last year (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita It is up to Sri Lanka to determine whether to collaborate with Russia’s state owned Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation in building a small nuclear power plant or not, says Levan S. Dzhagaryan, Ambassador of the Russian Federation. Ambassador Dzhagaryan said nuclear energy was a viable alternative for Sri Lanka. He added […]
- Sri Lanka should decide if it wants nuclear cooperation with Russia - Envoy (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian envoy in Sri Lanka hits out at US for banning Karannagoda (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka discusses nuclear energy cooperation with Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian envoy commends Sri Lanka s Âbalanced and neutral stance (Category: Breaking News)
[An article based on the Keynote Address delivered by Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, recently at the Annual Research Symposium 2023 of the University of Colombo] Introduction Inflation affects every aspect of our lives; it is a force that shapes our purchasing power, influences our financial decisions, and […]
- Nexus between money, exchange rate, money printing and inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL’s inflation reduced to single digit levels in 2023 along with restoration of price stability’ (Category: Breaking News)
- High interest rates have prevented contraction of economy – CBSL Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- CB eases monetary conditions by reducing its interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka currently imports most of its energy needs, including oil, coal and hydrocarbons. To ease the economic burden, the island nation aims to generate 70% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.The post Sri Lanka approves nuclear power plant construction with Russia as top contender appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka s first nuclear power plant expected to be built by 2032 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka in talks with Russia to build nuclear power plant (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka seeks investors for nuclear power plants (Category: Breaking News)
- IAEA studying plans to build nuclear power plant in Sri Lanka (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)
Sri Lanka earned 205.3 million US dollars from tourism during the month of November 2023, which is over twice the amount in the corresponding month in 2022, the latest data by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) have revealed. The revenue from tourism in November 2022 was 81 million dollars, according to official data.The […]
- Travel Trend (Category: Business)
- Tourist arrivals increase in November (Category: Breaking News)
- Sports Draw (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Marks First Anniversary of Civil War End (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)
Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara emphasized that political parties on ethnic or religious lines established to gain narrow political advantage by sowing racism should be banned.The post Religion, ethnicity based political parties should be banned – Minister appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka’s foreign remittances up by 98.8% in February – Manusha (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel to recruit 2000 female caregivers from Sri Lanka this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Expats remitted US$100 Million to get 900 Electric Vehicle import licences (Category: Breaking News)
- Harin Fernando and Manusha Nanayakkara expelled from Samagi Jana Balawegaya (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Northern Tamils Are Not For Sale To China appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins: A Comment (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Ocean Security Conference & Ranil’s Statement – A Point Of View (Category: Breaking News)
- Should The Country Be Governed By As Sangha Says?: A Rejoinder (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Forces To Be Trained In Modern Day Warfare: President (Category: Breaking News)
The abstention from voting recently by some foremost powers of the vital UN Security Council on a crucial resolution relating to the wellbeing of the people of the Gaza Strip, helped focus on the vexatious issues central to the Israel-Hamas war which are driving the world apart. The abstention from voting by the US, Russia […]
- SA envoy to Sri Lanka lambastes Israel (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel-Gaza conflict: NPC asks int’l community to step in (Category: Breaking News)
- Defeating despair in the face of rising world disorder (Category: Breaking News)
- Quandaries for world community from Mid-East tangle (Category: Breaking News)
The convocation of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Colombo, (BCIS) for 2023, held at the BMICH on November 10, provided many a thought-provoking ‘take-away’ for the International Relations (IR) student and analyst. The principal dignitaries at the momentous event did considerable justice to current developments in the IR field and thereby rendered the convocation […]
- Epitome of administrative excellence (Category: Breaking News)
- BCIS honours two Lankan stalwarts in International Relations field (Category: Breaking News)
- Critical assessment of the state of democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- NAM means you can make independent decisions: Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part VII appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part IV (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part VI (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution and the 13th Amendment – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post From King Elara To Narendra Modi, Evolution Of A Geopolitical Impasse appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Destination Delhi: Roving President’s Next Port Of Call (Category: Breaking News)
- Modi-Wickremesinghe Tamil Drama (Category: Breaking News)
- Connectivity Or Captivity? (Category: Breaking News)
- India Is Over The Moon, Ranil Wants Sri Lankan Children Taught Hindi & Chinese (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Unelected Team At The BRI Forum: Speaking From Both Sides Of Mouth appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government Is A ‘Blackhole’: IMF Should Be Worried About The (225+1) (Category: Breaking News)
- Machiavellians Tend To Be Demonic: Stuck Between A Rock & A Hard Place (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- The Geopolitical Enabling Of The Gotabaya Garrison State (Category: Breaking News)
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the following steps to be taken in accordance with the joint proposals presented by the Prime Minister, Minister of Tourism and Lands, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Public Security with the aim of increasing the number of tourist arrivals to 5 million a year in the next […]
- Population can't be capped: minister (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Brazil and Sri Lanka aim to expand ties - Patriota (Category: Breaking News)
- G.L.Peries to be the next prime minister of SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ratnasiri tipped to be PM again no portfolios for new comers (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka Needs A Planning Commission appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ambiguity Of National Evaluation Policy In Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- FDIs – BOIs & Exchange Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- National Reconciliation, Criminal Accommodation & Election Juggling (Category: Breaking News)
This week, China is throwing a huge party to celebrate one of its biggest experiments in engaging with the world: its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Officials and leaders from all over the globe are in Beijing to attend a high-level summit marking the BRI’s 10th anniversary. Participants expected to show up range from Vladimir […]
- Beijing subway crash leaves 102 with broken bones (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden and Xi Jinping to meet in California (Category: Breaking News)
- Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes (Category: Breaking News)
- How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Palestinians, The Terrorists & Israelis, The Victims appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Merely Focussing On Hamas Attacks – Missing The Wood For The Trees! (Category: Breaking News)
- Hamas Onslaught, Israeli Revenge & The Return Of Diplomacy (Category: Breaking News)
- Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
- The Cauldrons We Make (Category: Breaking News)
by Neville Ladduwahetty In order to assuage the apprehensions of India regarding the intended arrival of the Chinese research vessel Shi Yang 6 to Sri Lanka, an informed source of the National Aquatic Resources Research Agency (NARA) is reported to have said “a team of officials from the NARA would board Shi Yang 6 to […]
- A Sri Lankan initiative to meet global challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- Mega corruption everywhere – real action nowhere (Category: Breaking News)
- Kachchativu and its maritime boundary ignore international law (Category: Breaking News)
- Multilateral treaties are tools for global governance (Category: Breaking News)
Thursday 21st September, 2023 The recent killing of a prominent Sikh activist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Canada, has triggered a diplomatic row between Ottawa and New Delhi. Canada lost no time in ordering an Indian diplomat out of the country, accusing India of having had a hand in the assassination. Denying Canada’s allegation, New […]
- India expels Canadian diplomat in tit-for-tat move as row over assassinated Sikh activist deepens (Category: Breaking News)
- ÂTerrorists found safe haven in CanadaÂ- Minister Sabry hits out at PM Trudeau (Category: Breaking News)
- The India – Canada spat (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict Santhan s body flown to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has received a stock of 352 tons of sunflower oil from Russia. The stock was received in line with the World Food Programme (WFP) project meant to assist Sri Lanka. Addressing the gathering at Veyangoda grain store, Russian Ambassador Levan Dzhagaryan said that one of the purposes of the Russian Foreign Policy is […]
Following quickly on the success of India's moon landing, the country's space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first such solar mission.The post After the moon, India launches rocket to study the sun appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- India successfully launches its first mission to the Sun (Category: Breaking News)
- India launches space mission to study black holes (Category: Breaking News)
- India sends new space mission to observe sun after success of moon landing (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ makes historic lunar landing (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post India Is Over The Moon, Ranil Wants Sri Lankan Children Taught Hindi & Chinese appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Destination Delhi: Roving President’s Next Port Of Call (Category: Breaking News)
- Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in ‘victory cry of a new India’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Neither North Nor South, Ranil At Home With The Global Right (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s Election Timetable & Sri Lanka’s Deadlock Elections (Category: Breaking News)
By Y P Prakash India’s Strategic Lunar Missions Contrast with Sri Lanka’s Costly Ventures and Underutilized Infrastructure, Highlighting Investment Priorities and Technological Futures Over the course of several years, the investment in India’s space exploration missions has seen both accomplishments and financial considerations. In 2008, the pioneering Chandrayaan-1 mission was ...
- What’s next for India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon mission? (Category: Breaking News)
- India becomes fourth country to land on the moon (Category: Breaking News)
- Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in ‘victory cry of a new India’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil writes to Modi congratulating him on moon landing (Category: Breaking News)
During the question-and-answer session, Dr. Dushni Weerakoon questioned the sustainability of Sri Lanka’s non-aligned foreign policy, as it weakened the country’s position in trade negotiations. The expert assertion was certainly not restricted to trade negotiations. Having signed ACSA (Access and Cross Servicing-Agreement) with the US, in August 2017, it would be ridiculous to still talk […...
- Norway departs as Indo-Lanka relations enter a new phase (Category: Breaking News)
- Deferred China ship visit takes place amidst diplomatic row (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka relations:Shared challenges and ‘Quad’ strategies (Category: Breaking News)
- House watchdog told of Army’s shameful failure to provide proper meals for troops (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)
by Rajan Philips PAKISTAN’S twisted political saga continues without the slightest deviation from a tired and predictable script. PTI chairman Imran Khan has been found guilty of “corrupt practices”, disqualified from representing the people of Pakistan, fined Rs100,000, and sentenced to three years in jail for good measure. Dawn (Pakistan Daily), August 6 Editorial The […]
- Ranil & His Options: Keep Running Or End The Executive Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- President needs to take up challenge of leaving a legacy (Category: Breaking News)
- Democracy requires elections in good times and bad (Category: Breaking News)
- 2024: The Year Of South Asian Elections (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil & His Options: Keep Running Or End The Executive Presidency appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Electing A New Parliament & Ending The Old Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Reform Prospects: Missing Middle, Last Chance, Aragalaya-2? (Category: Breaking News)
- Neither North Nor South, Ranil At Home With The Global Right (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Accomplishments & Challenges (Category: Breaking News)
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