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Pulse Magazine, the leading publication in showcasing Sri Lanka’s vibrant lifestyle, has taken a pioneering role by becoming the first media publication to partner with The Galle Fort Hotel for the launch of its brand new bar – Ropewalk. Held on 17th June 2023, the ‘Murder Mystery Cocktail Party’ not only provided guests with […]
- Galle Fort Hotel and Thotalagala win prestigious Travelers’ Choice Award by Tripadvisor 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Thailand and Sri Lanka hold 5th Round of FTA talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka targets Korean high-end travellers (Category: Breaking News)
- Danushka Gunathilaka to stand trial for sexual assault (Category: Breaking News)
Bill titled ‘Central Bank of Sri Lanka’: By Shamindra Ferdinando Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena made the following announcement immediately after the opening of Parliament on April 04, 2023. The Speaker declared: “I wish to make an announcement in respect of the Bill titled ‘Central Bank of Sri Lanka.’ The court has determined that none of […]
- Parliament urged to incorporate amendments into Central Bank Bill in keeping with promise to SC (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL Bill passes muster with SC (Category: Breaking News)
- SC refers FR case on Revival Bill to CJ (Category: Business)
- SC commences hearing petitions challenging proposed 22 A (Category: Breaking News)
Ranthushka Karunathilaka and Nadeesha Gayanthi clinched the men’s and women’s open singles titles at the Mercantile Badminton Association (MBA) Open Badminton Championships which concluded at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo.The Sri Lanka Badminton Association (SLBA) Level 1 ranking tournament, jointly organised by the MBA and SLBA for the first time, saw the podium winners […]
- Badminton coaching camp (Category: Sports)
- Lochana and Gayathri win triple crowns (Category: Breaking News)
- Badminton coaches receive certificates (Category: Sports)
- Badminton Officials Play Another Private Game (Category: Sports)
Angelia Gunasekara was crowned the first ever Miss Sri Lanka New York at the pageant held at The Vanderbilt in South Beach. More than 300 attendees came out to support 14 contestants who dazzled at the first-ever Miss Sri Lanka New York beauty pageant. Beyond serving as a celebration of culture, the event had a […]
- Transgender woman Rikkie Valerie Kolle crowned Miss Netherlands (Category: Breaking News)
- UNHCR commends Sri Lanka for rescuing 105 Rohingya refugees (Category: Breaking News)
- Ashanthi and Mahesh (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith donates a school bus to Kotagala school (Category: Breaking News)
The European Union (EU) together with the Embassy of Switzerland, Italian Embassy, French Embassy, Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut and the British Council will be hosting a multilingual jazz music tour across three key cities in Sri Lanka, with the view of celebrating this year’s European Day of Languages falling on 26 September. As part of the […]
- EU puts focus on inclusive and peaceful society in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Rosy objects to using the name “Hellfire” for Colombo gig (Category: Breaking News)
- Rescued Sri Lankans from Myanmar to be repatriated to Sri Lanka via Bangkok (Category: Breaking News)
- Americares donates more than $773,000 USD worth of medical supplies to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Thulhiriya-based BAM Knitting started in 2005, as the fabric manufacturing and finishing arm of BAM Holdings
- MAS Holdings enters new venture with BAM Knitting (Category: Breaking News)
- MAS announces a JV with Tata company (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC Men’s T-20 World Cup Cricket Jersey for team Sri Lanka unveiled (Category: Breaking News)
- MAS named Official Clothing Partner for Sri Lanka Athletics Journey to the Olympics 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Manohara de Silva, PC, says the rejection by the US of a visa application by Gotabaya Rajapaksa towards the tail end of the latter’s presidential term may allow Western powers to arrest him in terms of the Geneva Resolution. The President’s Counsel emphasised that the Geneva Resolution authorised universal jurisdiction by accepting […]
- Ugandan President pledges support to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Overseas legal moves targeting ex-Prez: Manohara wants govt. to ensure his safe return (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka warned of Extraterritorial jurisdiction (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB: GoSL may be held accountable for ‘economic crimes’ (Category: Breaking News)
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- The Aragalaya & Morality (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Unarmed but not peaceful (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has informed the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet that an invitation to undertake an official visit to Sri Lanka extended previously, still stands. Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris met the High Commissioner as well as the Secretary General of the International Federation of the Red Cross and the […]
- Empathy and understanding sought by Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UN 51st session – “Zero draft remains Zero to victims”! (Category: Breaking News)
- President invites King Charles III to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Harin assures Sri Lanka is safe for tourists to visit (Category: Breaking News)
Some of the protesters said India should not use Sri Lanka's vulnerable position to take advantage in business deals.
- Sri Lanka legislator raises shock questions over Adani power deal (Category: Breaking News)
- India s Adani Green Energy given provisional approval for two wind projects (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka decides to sign 20-year wind power deal with Adani (Category: Breaking News)
- Adani Green signs 20-yr agreement for wind power stations in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has formally registered its strong protest and deep concern over the adoption of a motion in the Canadian Parliament on the alleged genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka. In a meeting with the Acting High Commissioner of Canada in Sri Lanka Amanda Strohan at the Foreign Ministry, Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris categorically […]
- Eight Sri Lankans among the released crew of the detained vessel by Nigerian High Court (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka raises deep concerns with Canada over statements on genocide (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka looks to enhance ties with Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- Distribution of Litro gas temporarily suspended (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Cult And Its Heretics appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Cult And Its Heretics appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Cult And Its Heretics appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Cult And Its Heretics appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult And Its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- Cult and its Heretics (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
When the crisis story of Dayan Anthony's deportation to Sri Lanka by the Australian federal authorities hit the headlines in late July the so-called FACTS retailed by the reporters of the Australian and Ian Rintoul, as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, were riddled with discrepancies. (i) They also believed his relatives' claim that Anthony had been tortured when originally arrested in 2...
Amanda Hodge reports from on board a Sri Lankan navy ship as it transfers 28 failed asylum seekers in a midnight operation.
When the crisis story of Dayan Anthony's deportation to Sri Lanka by the Australian federal authorities hit the headlines in late July the so-called FACTS retailed by the reporters of the Australian and Ian Rintoul, as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, were riddled with discrepancies. (i) They also believed his relatives' claim that Anthony had been tortured when originally arrested in 2...
Amanda Hodge reports from on board a Sri Lankan navy ship as it transfers 28 failed asylum seekers in a midnight operation.
By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe - Attorney-at-Law After checking in to Chaya Blue Resort, from our balcony, we watched the glorious sight of the scarlet sun accompanied by a blanket of streaks of orange clouds setting over the distant yellowish horizon as the blue waters of the lovely Indian Ocean lapped on the golden beaches of ...
- Navy rescues a Chinese naval rating (Category: Breaking News)
- Ambassador of France visits Trincomalee District (Category: Business)
- Navy rescue distressed Myanmar fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
- Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Independence (Category: Breaking News)
Independent Television Network has again been honoured with several Awards amidst high public response. ITN is Year’s People’s Channel as well as the Nationa’s Youth Channel. The Peoples Awards Nite, which was a joint effort by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and Nielsen, the largest Research Company in Sri Lanka was organized on a ...
- ITN feted with Business Excellence Award (Category: Breaking News)
- Vasanthan Radio celebrates third birthday (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN is the ‘Peoples TV Channel of the Year’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN Marketing Division honoured with another award (Category: Breaking News)
By Amanda Morrow It’s often mistakenly called “Little Bombay”, but the lively neighbourhood that stretches from the rue du Faubourg-St-Denis north to La Chapelle is actually home to Paris’s Tamil community. The air is often fragrant in this quarter –...
- "The 13th Amendment to the Constitution must be properly implemented": Dharmalingam Siddharthan (Category: Breaking News)
- The defeat of the LTTE is being systematically transformed as the defeat of the Tamil and Muslim... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka in a transition between light and shadow – Dayan Jayatilleka (Category: Breaking News)
- Thamilchelvan statue cannot affect relations with France says Sri Lankan envoy (Category: Breaking News)
by Associated Press More than three years after federal agents locked up a Sri Lankan immigrant they say was the top U.S. representative of the Tamil Tigers, his fate may hinge on a complex question: Was the rebel group a...
- US court sentences Tiger fundraiser and frees him (Category: Breaking News)
- Man convicted of trying to buy U.S. weapons for LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian Tamil pleads guilty to charges of supporting Sri Lanka's LTTE terrorists (Category: Breaking News)
- Fund Raising (Category: Business)
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