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Sri Lanka expects China to support its effort to restructure debts and help it begin repaying its obligations, according to the nation’s central bank governor.The post China will support Sri Lanka’s debt rework, says CBSL governor appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring: China expected to inform its support to IMF today (Category: Breaking News)
- China tells IMF willing to take constructive part in debt talks (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s EXIM bank offers Sri Lanka debt extension – report (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to announce debt restructuring strategy in April – Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy If there is one aspect of the Sri Lankan system that needs to be applauded but is not acknowledged by critics, whether nearer home or overseas, it is this. It may also be the reason why no government in the country has known enough to alter the status quo, and make […]
- Spotlight sought on urgent human rights challenges in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- AI calls for transparency on IMF deal with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UN concerned over arrest of Muslim women in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- EU tells Sri Lanka to suspend the PTA (Category: Breaking News)
Veteran Sri Lankan actor Amarasiri Kalansuriya has passed away at the age of 82.The post Amarasiri Kalansuriya passes away appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Veteran actor Amarasiri Kalansuriya passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Veteran actor Amarasiri Kalansuriya passed away (Category: Breaking News)
- Veteran actor Amarasiri Kalansooriya passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- National People’s Power candidate injured during protest dies (Category: Breaking News)
Veteran actor Amarasiri Kalansuriya passed away at the age of 82. Popularly known as Kalan, Amarasiri Kalansuriya appeared on Sri Lankan cinema, theatre and television. He made his first film appearance alongside Vijaya Kumaratunga in Hanthana Kathawa. His next film Ahas Gauwa won him a best actor award in 1974. In 2019 he received the […]
- Amarasiri Kalansuriya passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Batman Christian Bale captured on SriLankan Airlines flight (Category: Breaking News)
- Veteran actor Jackson Anthony passed away (Category: Breaking News)
- Actor G.R. Perera passes away (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka s premium entertainment channel ÂTV Derana won the People s Television Channel of the Year Award for the 6th consecutive year at the SLIM-KANTAR People s Awards 2023.
ÂTV Derana won the award for Youth Choice TV Channel of the Year at the SLIM-KANTAR People s Awards 2023 being held at the Monarch Imperial, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized during an interview organized by Harvard University on the 24th, through Zoom technology, that Sri Lanka’s access to the growing Indian and African markets should not be disrupted by any big power rivalry or conflictThe post Sri Lanka’s access to growing Indian & African markets cannot be disrupted – President Ranil appeared fir...
- Sri Lanka will not allow anything harmful to India’s security – President Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Fearing political pressure, Sri Lanka president wants to avoid trade integrations with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to establish International Trade Office to deal with International Trade Negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says ‘this is our last chance to forge ahead’ (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy Like it or not, in the next big election in the country, or more of them, the IMF would be the key issue. The way the government has been dragging its feet on the relatively less important local government elections (LGE), and not all its arguments are wrong, the presidential elections […]
- India continues to support debt-ridden Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Worse than Shylock, did you say? (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Executive Board approves bailout package for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- US Treasury Secretary speaks to Ranil on IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
A popular Zimbabwe preacher who has links with a pastor in Sri Lanka, has denied allegations of corruption after he was accused of gold-smuggling. Issuing a lengthy statement, Presidential Envoy and preacher Uebert Angel, said that the allegations in an Al Jazeera documentary was part of a well-crafted ploy to trap the Ambassador and tarnish […]
- Zimbabwe preacher linked to Sri Lankan pastor stripped of title (Category: Breaking News)
- Zimbabwe preacher with links to Sri Lankan “prophet” accused of gold-smuggling (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda’s links with Ubert and Jerome likely to be probed (Category: Breaking News)
- New conditions for long term residence visa for foreign investors (Category: Breaking News)
The Human Rights Committee said yesterday that it has concluded its one hundred and thirty-seventh session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Egypt, Panama, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan and Zambia.The post UNHRC concludes observations on reports on six countries including Sri Lanka appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Review all security related legislation and detention Pillay tells Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Core Group on Sri Lanka to present draft resolution at UNHRC session (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, India abstain on UN resolution calling on Russia to make reparations to Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- New resolution on Sri Lanka adopted at UNHRC with majority votes (Category: Breaking News)
PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) —Indiana Wijay is a senior at Pasadena High School.With graduation around the corner, he’ll be off to college to take on a new challenge. He’ll be a quarterback on the University of Houston’s football team.He’s believed to be the first Sri Lankan American Division 1 quarterback. “It’s very exciting, representing a community […]
- Murder in Adelaide's south (Category: South Australia)
- An Incomparable Friend; Dr Carmel Indranie Ernest (Category: Breaking News)
- Bicyclist struck Friday night in Pasadena dies at hospital (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Bicyclist struck Friday night in Pasadena dies at hospital (Category: USA, Maryland)
[…]The post JVP-NPP & Lankan Left Populism’s Lacunae & Lapses appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- JVP’s Popularity & Ranil’s IMF Prop (Category: Breaking News)
- The Aragalaya & The Wijeweera Legacy: How The Lankan Left Could Win (Category: Breaking News)
- The NPP Factor: Rise Of Left-Wing Populism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Repression Will Hit The JVP-NPP While It Indulges In Political Narcissism (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s hopes of playing the World Test Championship final later this year at The Oval during the British summer largely depended on Angelo Mathews and he didn’t disappoint posting his 14th Test hundred enabling Sri Lanka to set the Kiwis a challenging target. Play gets underway in Christchurch at 3:30 am Sri Lanka time […]
- Sri Lanka steady in Mathews’ 100th Test (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka in control after Chandimal hundred (Category: Breaking News)
- Afghanistan bowl first in second T-20 International (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka crush Ireland to complete 100th Test win (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka Customs has taken custody of a stock of electronic items such as televisions, refrigerators and air conditioners which were illegally imported to the island.
144th Battle of the Blues Powered by Dialog With the de-restriction of COVID-19 safety protocols on public events, Sri Lanka’s longest-running cricket series played between Royal College, Colombo, and S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia will be battled out in its full glory for the 144th uninterrupted time for the prestigious Rt. Hon. D S Senanayake […]
- Yeti powers S. Thomas’ tennis for Big Match (Category: Breaking News)
- 72nd Battle of the Golds Powered by Dialog (Category: Breaking News)
- An underdog, a positive approach and the victory no one saw coming (Category: Breaking News)
- A captain’s knock that stands out (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Anura & Sajith: Sri Lanka’s Tweedledum And Tweedledee Or Hero And Jester appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Anatomy Of A Change; From Wijeweera’s JVP To AKD’s NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- Black & White; No Shades? (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Is AKD Of JVP Free Without Imprisonment? [This Is To Clear So Many Clouds Of Confusion] (Category: Breaking News)
- The Exit Of The Old Guard & The Arrival Of The New (Category: Breaking News)
Canadian-American actor Ryan Reynolds says Hikkaduwa is his favourite movie shooting location of all time.Answering a Q&A session of a London-based TV talk show on Saturday, Hollywood actor Reynolds spoke of his first movie “Ordinary Magic 1993” which was filmed in Sri Lanka. According to a video posted by social media user Aqeel Sirraj, the […]
- Jury deliberating on former state trooper's cause of death (Category: USA, Washington)
- Greens reveal Denison hope (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- 'This is a disaster': Iowa Public Health Association asks Reynolds for mask mandate (Category: USA, Iowa)
- 'This is a disaster': Iowa Public Health Association asks Reynolds for mask mandate (Category: USA, Nebraska)
Air Force Commander Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana said on Friday that they would continue to reduce SLAF troop numbers while ensuring that national security is not compromised.Taking part in a TV talk show, Air Marshal Pathirana said that troop numbers have already been reduced to 30,000 from 35,000. “I don’t really think that the money […]
- TNA Wants Troop Reduction (Category: Breaking News)
- Security fears over troop flights (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- Visor 'could stop troop injuries' (Category: Technology)
- Trump to order troop reductions in Afghanistan, Iraq (Category: USA, New York)
Premier Li Keqiang told the head of the International Monetary Fund that China is open to participating in multilateral efforts to help heavily indebted nations “in a constructive manner,” China Central Television reported.The post China tells IMF willing to take constructive part in debt talks appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- China calls for joint efforts to ease Sri Lanka’s debt burden (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s talks with creditors ongoing, unaware of specific deals – IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF board poised to approve $2.9 billion Sri Lanka bailout (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF eyes creditor assurances as it prepares Sri Lanka visit (Category: Breaking News)
A Connoisseur of Journalism Several participants at a very popular night-time political chat programme on television recently talked about the history of Sri Lanka after gaining independence. They also chose to lament that the historical events in Sri Lanka are not even taught, let alone mentioned even and discussed in our schools. As a direct […]
- Evolution and disintegration of political parties (Category: Breaking News)
- Pope Francis implores Lankan leaders to listen to the cries of the people (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President is Behaving like gangster politician in Hindi film (Category: Breaking News)
- Is the report of the UNSG’s panel of experts a conspiracy and obstacle to reconciliation? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Resisting Elections Will Worsen Dissent appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Preparing The Ground For Early Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court Shows Democratic Route To Government (Category: Breaking News)
- New Mandates Before New Amendments (Category: Breaking News)
- Change Flight From Stability With Stagnancy (Category: Breaking News)
by Jehan Perera Government supporters appear to be satisfied at the masterful manner by which they believe they have had the local government elections postponed. They deny there was to be an election to be postponed, at all! They find fault with the Election Commission for not having minutes of the meeting they had to […]
- JVP ready to bring Colombo under siege: AKD (Category: Breaking News)
- Resisting Elections Will Worsen Dissent (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP: Ranil threatening stability of country by trying to put off polls (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP member arrested over foreign job scam (Category: Breaking News)
A retired Indian Ambassador (never posted to Sri Lanka) sent me these two quotations by Nehru. “My greatest challenge has been how to make a modern nation of a people steeped in religiosity” and at the tail end of his career he was asked, ‘What has been your greatest success?” He answered, “to have taught […]
- Douglas County to use leftover CARES Act money to help families in need (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Douglas County to use leftover CARES Act money to help families in need (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Douglas County to use leftover CARES Act money to help families in need (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Fungus threatens to wipe out bat population (Category: USA, Washington)
[…]The post Taxing Times appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Still On The Rotten Bridge (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics Beyond 22 (Category: Breaking News)
- Selling Our Troubles In Bankrupt Times – Sri Lanka’s Anarchism (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Election Or No Election, Ranil Is done; He’s Not Fit For Office appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Anura & Sajith: Sri Lanka’s Tweedledum And Tweedledee Or Hero And Jester (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolishing The Presidency – Two Cunning Foxes Plan The Unexpected! (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Accomplishments & Challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s political ‘Trickonometry’ (Category: Breaking News)
Hopeless title since it connotes no hope. Thus Cassandra joins her front house neighbour’s refrain of a couple of months ago, when things were not so hopeless as now. He said, passing judgment on the government: “Why won’t they let me die in peace? I have worked all my life earning income for the government […]
- ‘Ethir: Legendary high jumper’ – a response (Category: Breaking News)
- Will President stop playing balls with crooks? (Category: Breaking News)
- Are we so bad? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sirisena says he won’t leave country for good (Category: Breaking News)
By C. A. Chandraprema We now live in a digital world dominated by the social media, where information or disinformation coming through our mobile phones has more to do with forming public opinion than the plainly visible and palpable reality and well-established facts and data. Sri Lanka recently marked the 75th Anniversary of its Independence in […]
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Rulers have reduced SL to nation of beggars – Cardinal (Category: Breaking News)
- Rulers have reduced SL to nation of beggars – Cardinal (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
The Independent Television Network (ITN) has begun telecasting Sinhala-dubbed version of the Japanese television series ‘Mineko Bloom’. Follow the journey of Mineko, a 17-year-old girl from a rural village in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, as she travels to Tokyo in 1964, the year of the first Tokyo Olympics, to find her missing father. Along with two […]
- Let's do our Block (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- $869,000 splurge on education ads (Category: South Australia)
- Print queen turns to TV (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Channel 4 does it again! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Should A Country Be Governed By As Sangha Says? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Kurundi: A Runway To ’56? (Category: Breaking News)
- Exploring Interfaith Dialogue & Cooperation: Sri Lanka’s Religious Landscape (Category: Breaking News)
- Should The Country Be Governed By As Sangha Says?: A Rejoinder (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Indian Expansionism’, JVP & AKD’s Indian Tour (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post I Was Nowhere Near Isaipriya: Major General Harrendra P Ranasinghe appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ballad Of A Sad Trumpet (Category: Breaking News)
- GR Regime’s New Year Gift To Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- GR Regime’s New Year Gift To Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- GR Regime’s New Year Gift To Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
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