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Aljazeera reported that Myanmar’s military-controlled election commission has announced that the party of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be dissolved for failing to re-register under a new electoral law, according to state television. The National League for Democracy (NLD) party was among 40 political parties that failed to meet the ruling military’s registration […]
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)
Beijing [China], March 20 (ANI): China and Cambodia have begun their first ever naval drills in Cambodian waters. Dubbed China-Cambodia Golden Dragon 2023, the maritime drills involve personnel from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Command bagan on Sunday according to the Chinese Ministry of National Defence. The Type 071 comprehensive landing ship of the […]
- China’s military stages large-scale military drills aimed at Taiwan (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese naval base in Cambodia raises security concerns, debt trap threat (Category: Breaking News)
- India-Sri Lanka joint military exercise Mitra Shakti 2023 culminates in Pune (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese military raises tensions everywhere it goes (Category: Breaking News)
The 95th awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 2022 films were on March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The event was produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss. Nominations were announced on January 24. BBC had much on the awards ceremony and awards. The American film Everything, […]
- The King’s Speech Gets 12 Oscar Nominations (Category: Breaking News)
- Flashdance singer and actress Irene Cara dies aged 63 (Category: Breaking News)
- John Cena stuns Oscars viewers as he presents Best Costume Design Award while completely naked (Category: Breaking News)
- The 95th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday (Category: Breaking News)
[…]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)
[…]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)
Our regular columnist Nan has commented today about the everyday spectacle of short haired and bearded Buddhist monks participating in various protests. They are regularly projected on television screens and their rowdy behavior attracts the revulsion of not only Buddhists but also followers of other religions. Some of the antics beamed on national television, particularly […]
- IUSF convenor arrested during student monks protest inside Education Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- 48 Buddhist monks among nearly 60 arrested after storming Education Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake a prelate (Category: Breaking News)
- Tears of hypocrisy (Category: Breaking News)
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)
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)
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 6 (ANI): Former Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said that things on the economic front will “remain tight” as the economy faces a severe liquidity crunch, Geo News reported. Pakistan is seeking an installment of USD 1.1 billion from the International Monetary Fund to avoid default. In a tweet, Ismail stated, […]
- Pak Rupee loses ground against dollar in interbank market (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan accepts one more IMF condition, agrees to increase interest rate by 200 basis points (Category: Breaking News)
- Tranche (Category: Business)
- Political party conspiring against IMF deal: Pakistan PM Sharif (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)
Reforms to be introduced to end ‘media abuses’ President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said that the government was not in a position to lower the taxes. Delivering his second government policy statement to inaugurate the Fourth session of the Ninth Parliament, the President said: “Some people say that the primary taxable income should be raised from […]
- Ranil tells Parliament he will continue with unpopular decisions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez insists on IMF approved new tax regime, warns of dire consequences unless fully implemented (Category: Breaking News)
Thursday 9th February, 2023 President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who presented his government’s policy statement in Parliament, yesterday, sounded like a seasoned insurance sales agent with glib phrases rolling off his experienced tongue; he sought to scare the public and infuse them with hope, at the same time, to sell his policies. The knee-jerk reaction of the […]
- Rs. 100 bn cannot be raised with PAYE hike – Harsha (Category: Breaking News)
- Wajira says new tax formula meant to consolidate economy (Category: Breaking News)
- President Ranil delivers govt s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- President reveals plans to exempt school essentials, medicines medical equipment from VAT (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe ceremonially declared open the fourth session of the ninth Parliament and delivered the Government Policy Statement today (February 08).The post Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil tells Parliament he will continue with unpopular decisions (Category: Breaking News)
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text (Category: Breaking News)
- An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil tells Parliament he will continue with unpopular decisions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says Let 2048 be the year of development for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
In an unprecedented turn of events, Pakistan’s close allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE have asked Islamabad to forget the Kashmir issue as the country is embroiled in other complex issues that need to be resolved. “Don’t cry for Kashmir” were the innuendos used by the Middle Eastern leaders when Pakistan Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif […]
- Pakistan’s false, misleading narrative on Kashmir dispute exacerbates tensions with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Political party conspiring against IMF deal: Pakistan PM Sharif (Category: Breaking News)
- India says it has done more for Sri Lanka than IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Modi’s soft power diplomacy be an antidote to Russia–Ukraine War? (Category: Breaking News)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today that he will continue with his unpopular decisions. Making his throne speech, Wickremesinghe said that he is not here to be popular. He said that the unpopular decisions he takes will have positive results in the years to come. The President said that Sri Lanka expects to recover from […]
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Celebration Of Independence Day Could Have Been Done Differently appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government Celebrates Independent Of The People (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. actions must be for people’s benefit (Category: Breaking News)
- Black July Fiasco Highlights No Trust In Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Dream Team For National Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
By Jehan Perera The government celebrated the 75th Anniversary of its independence from colonial rule under tight security. President Ranil Wickremesinghe did not even deliver a speech on the occasion. He had an excellent written speech, but chose not to deliver it for reasons not known. The speech was circulated later. The exclusion of the […]
- Celebration Of Independence Day Could Have Been Done Differently (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. insulates itself from the people (Category: Breaking News)
- The Absurdity Of ‘Independence’ & The Myth Of ‘Public Mandate’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Bipartisan consensus for national reconciliation is urgent, necessary and possible (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ballad Of A Sad Trumpet appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Brahmins Demand A Debate On Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Or What Made Us Insolvent (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
- The Past Is Never Dead (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Fragile State Policy & The Rise Of Muslim Extremism In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Deadly Symbols, Vibrant Electoral Politics and War Crimes in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Janatha Aragalaya: The People’s Struggle In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Muttonhead Zahran & The Theatrical Professor (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala-Buddhism & The Nation State Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The US has shot down a giant Chinese balloon that it says has been spying on key military sites across America. The Department of Defense confirmed its fighter jets brought down the balloon over US territorial waters. China’s foreign ministry later expressed “strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US’s use of force to attack civilian […]
- Top US diplomat says China balloon over US is ‘unacceptable’ (Category: Breaking News)
- US and China pledge to stabilise tense relationship after talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Blinken begins talks in Beijing during high-stakes visit to China (Category: Breaking News)
- US military shoots down another flying object over Lake Huron (Category: Breaking News)
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