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[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
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- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
The Reformists The Reformist groups’ attempt to oust the current leader of the United National Party seems to have experienced some serious setbacks. Ranil Wickremesinghe is still the leader; his Working Committee is still intact and as committed to him as it was at the height of the crisis. Although the Party suffered yet another humiliating electoral ...
- Rumours of Freedom: Whither Fonseka now (Category: Breaking News)
- Karu Jayasuriya goes online (Category: Breaking News)
- Children of the 1977 Free Market Economy and their world without vision (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP, from the Party of the Minorities to a Minor Party (Category: Breaking News)
Iran’s president Ahmadinejad has said that “a heavy, covert and all-around battle” was being waged against his country by the West, admitting that Iran was experiencing difficulties in selling oil and receiving payments as a result of Western sanctions. In July, the European Union banned oil imports from Iran, just after the U.S. enacted tough ...
- Israel’s existence ‘insult to all humanity’ (Category: Breaking News)
- South Korea to send delegation to Iran over tanker seized in Persian Gulf (Category: USA, New York)
- US sanctions Chinese, German and UK companies linked to Iran (Category: USA, New York)
- South Korea to send delegation to Iran over tanker seized in Persian Gulf (Category: USA, New York)
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Airtel chief and India’s fifth top Forbes billionaire and Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma are in a top Indian delegation attending the India-Sri Lanka CEO Forum on August 4 in Colombo, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said.Others in the delegation are Commerce, Industry and the textile Minister Anand Sharma, Bharti Mittal (Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises), Commer...
- Minister Sharma, Mittal to pitch for more Indo-Lanka biz ties in Colombo next month (Category: Business)
- Ayubowan India! (Category: Business)
- Indian trade delegation to visit Sri Lanka next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian trade delegation to visit Sri Lanka next week (Category: Breaking News)
A Governance Analysis of Frequency Allocation & TV Rights in Present Sri Lanka Frequency Allocation- A Grand Corruption? Understanding the state capture by Kleptocrats does not require a dedicated study; it is easily recognizable. For the benefit of keen students of governance, let me begin this article with the definition of Kleptocracy: “A form of political and government ...
- Video: 221214 MTV NFL HAKEEM EVENT (Category: Video)
- Watch “20-20” On CSN (Category: Breaking News)
- With die-hard Dodgers fans like this, who needs the NFL? (Category: USA, California)
- Sri Lanka Cricket signs 15-year deal with little-known company (Category: Breaking News)
Everybody looked as if they were something out of Jurassic Park. It was probably the eerie blue lighting. As I perched myself on a chair I whispered softly to my companion on my right that she looked good. She actually did. Despite the awful lighting – perhaps because she had wisely chosen white for her ...
- Test cap in sight (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Nowhere to hide from wind and snow after blizzard takes over Council Bluffs Friday (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Nowhere to hide from wind and snow after blizzard takes over Council Bluffs Friday (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Nowhere to hide from wind and snow after blizzard takes over Council Bluffs Friday (Category: USA, Nebraska)
As we approach VESAK I am readying myself to witness first hand the hypocrisy of this nation. Led by the government of Sri Lanka and the totally abhorrent laws concerning alcohol its sale and consumption the public led by those with ecclesiastical authority pay scant regard for the laws of Sri Lanka. On the one ...
- Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s message for 2024 Vesak Day (Category: Breaking News)
- Vesak Day Celebrations in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- All Sri Lankan’s must unite irrespective of race, religion, caste or political affiliation to he... (Category: Breaking News)
- Unite in solidarity to rebuild an affluent Sri Lanka – President (Category: Breaking News)
The solar energy development will not face any obstruction as it generates energy through sunlight. Being alternative energy source, it is sustainable as well as eco-friendly. An American political activist Ralph Nader writes- 'the use of solar energy has not opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. 'Yes! if we use the costly diesel generators to tide over long load shedding...
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
- NO POWER CUTS (Category: Breaking News)
- No power cuts without advance notice – CEB (Category: Breaking News)
- Power cuts during today as well (Category: Breaking News)
By Faraz Shauketaly The National New Year celebrations – Sinhalese and Tamil New Year – provides an unparalleled opportunity each year to visit friends, relax and simply do nothing. It is also an opportunity to make all the politically correct sound bites and assure anyone and everyone including pedantic outlaws (read in-laws) how very much ...
- Tsunami warning lifted in SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- No Tsunami threat for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Tsunami warning to be reviewed in an hour: East urged to be vigilant (Category: Breaking News)
- Tsunami preparedness pays off (Category: Business)
The Independent Television Network organized several programmes marking International women’s Day.Several programmes particularly focusing on women on Women’s Day were organized at the premises of the National Crafts Council based at the Janakala Centre in Battaramulla throughout today. These events were held under the patronage of Deputy Minister Weerakumara Dissanayake, ITN Chairman Rosmund Sena...
- Over 59,000 War Widows In North And East (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN programmes to mark International Women’s Day (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN launches special programmes to mark International Womens’ Day (Category: Breaking News)
- Programmes To Assist Women And Children (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s Nations Trust Bank has launched a promotional campaign in a bid to reward its existing savings account holders. Under the campaign which will be held every quarter of the year, the Bank is planning to offer an array of electrical household appliances for its customers. Customers who maintain a minimum balance of Rs. 5000 continuously ...
- Bell accused of turning rebate into promotion (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- Bangkok tour for Seylan Sure customers (Category: Business)
- Politicians' cheesiest jingles (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- eZ pay services from LOFC (Category: Business)
“It is unlikely that in making his overstatement on development that the President was seeking to downplay the achievements of the past by his illustrious predecessors in the governance of the country. In the 1950s there was the Gal Oya development scheme that opened up the vast territories of thick jungle land in the east ...
- US will support resolution on Sri Lanka at HRC sessions in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- why is Sri Lanka opposing US-sponsored resolution to implement its own LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
- The government, the LLRC and what civil society can do (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Government fears strategy of “Regime Change” through external intervention (Category: Breaking News)
Independent Television Network which has been feted with many Awards is again crowned as the Peoples channel. It has again won the highest number of Awards at the People’s Awards Festival. The Peoples Awards Night was held at Water’s Edge in Battaramulla last night under the patronage of Minister Patalie Champika Ranawaka. This unique event ...
- ANCHOR the Peoples Choice (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN is the ‘Peoples TV Channel of the Year’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN honoured with many awards (Category: Breaking News)
- SLIM-Nielsen Peoples Awards gives voice to the people (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka central bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, in an interview on Bloomberg Television today, said the central bank raised its repurchase rate a half- percentage point to 7.5 percent and increased the reverse repurchase rate by the same amount to 9 percent.
New Delhi: Indian companies, including Infosys, Taylor Rubber, TVS Group, Bhoruka Power Corporation, Brigade Hospitality Services and ICICI Bank, are heading for Sri Lanka to make strategic investments in the island nation. “A 13-member delegation of business leaders is visiting Sri Lanka on December 12 for exploring opportunities for investments especially technology partnerships, tourism a...
- Tech Ventures (Category: Business)
- Neighbourly Investment (Category: Business)
- Factory Interest (Category: Business)
- SL attracts US firms (Category: Breaking News)
Independent Television Network has again been honoured with the National Business Excellence Award. It is significant to note that Sri Lanka’s Family Channel ITN being honoured with this Award for six consecutive years. The National Business Excellence for Media was received by ITN Chairman Rosmund Senaratne and the Working Director P.G. Dassanayake. The Awards Nite ...
- The Winning Streak Continues Nestlé Lanka PLC wins yet again (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN feted with Business Excellence Award (Category: Breaking News)
- Debutant Nestlé Lanka triumphs ‘Achievers Awards’ (Category: Business)
- ITN HONOURED AT CNCI AWARDS 2011 INDUSTRIAL EXCELLENCE (Category: Breaking News)
This year’s conference of the Asian and Middle East Regional Stakeholders of the KPMG Audit Firm is being held in Sri Lanka. Chairman of KPMG International Michael Andrew said that a conducive environment prevails in Sri Lanka for the conduct of such a Conference. KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax ...
- Dhammika appointed new Partner (Category: Business)
- KPMG MESA Partners’ Conference in Colombo (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka ranked 22 in Change Readiness Index (Category: Breaking News)
- KPMG Global Chief meets CB Governor (Category: Business)
Introduction We all entered politics at various points of our lives not because we wanted to serve our kith and kin but the people. All of us have been elected at the levels which we chose as our strong domain, be it Parliament, Provincial Council, Municipality, Urban Council or Pradesheeya Sabha. Our areas of influence and ...
- Uva Vipers and Jaffna Challengers dominate opening day (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- උතුරු, උතුරු-මැද සහ නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වලට වැසි වාර කිහිපයක් (Category: Sinhala)
- Video: Leader in conversation with Deputy... (Category: Video)
‘There is reason for fearing that men and women will be taught that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable’- Anthony Trollope in his Autobigraphy (1883) The famous English Novelist, Anthony Trollope wrote the above words after he was disgusted by what he perceived as a decline of ethical values in British public life ...
- Rs. 60 million Kotelawala Jewellery Stash Found- Police (Category: Breaking News)
- Of Confidence Tricksters and Ponzi Schemes (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court calls for interim report on Golden Key settlement (Category: Business)
- INTERPOL confirms Sicille Kotelawala legally living in the UK since 2009 (Category: Breaking News)
By Richard Browne Dilshan’s honeymoon as brief as it was is well and truly over. Seemingly hindered by having two superstar ex captains swirling around him, a distinct lack of help off the pitch with a dearth of adequate back room staff and a horrible loss of form on it has turned what the bookies ...
- Sri Lanka aim to put Australians in a spin (Category: Breaking News)
- England-India Series Disappointingly One-Sided (Category: Breaking News)
- Misbah praises professional Pakistan (Category: Business)
- What A Shame It Rains (Category: Breaking News)
ITN has been highly acclaimed at the Ceylon National Chamber of Industries (CNCI) Achievers Awards 2011 for Industrial Excellence. The Independent Television Network received the Bronze Award in the Service Sector at the Awards Festival organized in Colombo yesterday. ITN General Manager Aruna Wijesinghe accepted the Award. ITN was honoured with this Award for its ...
- Toyota Lanka holds its 5th Dealer Convention (Category: Breaking News)
- New technology to make optimum use of resources (Category: Breaking News)
- Ada Derana app wins e-Swabhimani award (Category: Breaking News)
- Young Entrepreneur 2010 award recipient meets President (Category: Breaking News)
The much talked about test series between England and India has sadly turned out to be one sided so far. The highly acclaimed Indian batting appears to struggle and have come a cropper in the hands of the English seamers and with two tests played, the margin stands at two nil in favour of the ...
- Gavaskar Slams India’s “Schoolboy” Performance (Category: Breaking News)
- Tendulkar landmark set to dominate Windies series (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka show guts and guile but it's too late to save series (Category: Breaking News)
- Pietersen left out of tour to India (Category: Business)
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