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Photo Courtesy of ABC News A deeply polarised nation, a capitalist theme park, an embedded infrastructure of racism and segregation, and one of the poorest social welfare systems in one of the...
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,...
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Photo Courtesy of ABC News A deeply polarised nation, a capitalist theme park, an embedded infrastructure of racism and segregation, and one of the poorest social welfare systems in one of the...
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,...
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Launched under a year ago, CSN offers high quality sports entertainment as a fixed option for the deserving television (TV) viewer. Following are excerpts of an interview held with CSN Director Marketing & Promotions Prasanna Jayasundera. By Ashwin Hemmathagama Question (Q): Sri Lanka is a small nation with comparatively limited number of TV viewers. So, ...
Derana became the official electronic media partner for the team Basnahira Cricket Dundee of the Sri Lanka Premier League and will promote the team through its television, radio and web networks.
Sri Lanka Premier League which will be kicked off this evening will be broadcasted live in 80 countries. The tournament which is named as “Mahindra SLPL” will see leading broadcasters such as ESPN STAR SPORTS, Geo Super, CRIC ONE, GTV and Media Net among many other channels which will live broadcast the tournament. ESPN STAR SPORTS will ...
‘Ranaviru Real Star: Mission 2’, one of Sri Lanka’s most-watched reality shows will have its grand finale today, Friday, July 6. The concept of a reality television show focused on the country’s soldiers was born out of a desire to see our war heroes accepted among society, said Dr. Mohan Samaranyaka, Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, addressing the media at a ...
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 ...
Sanath Jayasuriya, the swashbuckling Sri Lankan World Cup winning cricketer, is the prime attraction on season 5 of an Indian TV’s celebrity dance show ‘Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa’, India Today reported.
| by Jessica Fox ( May 01, 2012, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Latest situation in Dhaka, the Capital city of the South Asian country named Bangladesh is fearsome in real sense. Members of law enforcing agencies are continuing combing operations in the city in search of top brasses of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), while private television channels in particular are already in th...
With cricket fever gripping the India, Emirates – the Team Sponsor of Deccan Chargers – reiterated its commitment towards the sport and the country by providing lucky youngsters a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet their idols. The international airline, which serves India with 185 weekly flights, staged a coaching clinic in conjunction with the IPL franchise ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron last week expressed alarm over the spread of dementia among British patients saying that it was a scandal that the disease was being ignored with a quarter of patients in hospitals suffering from the disease. He doubled funding towards treatment of the disease from 26 million pounds sterling to 66 ...
The Colombo Magistrate’s court has granted permission to the Police to secure video footage concerning the Magazine Prison ordeal. They have also been permitted to interrogate prisoners.The Police are conducting comprehensive investigations with regard to the recent clash at the Magazine Prison. The Police told the Courts that they need to secure video footage on ...
(Srilankamirror) - Cinnamon gardens police today (Jan. 27) informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Rashmi Singappuli that several persons who had allegedly threatened the media secretary of the Sports Ministry are being investigated on. Media secretary of the Sports Ministry, Harsha Abeykoon has been receiving death threats to his mobile phone after answering a question at the ‘Waada Pitiya...
By Victor Ivan This article is meant to analyse the inadequacy of traditional interpretations of the ethnic crisis and point out limitations inherent in them. It is not incorrect to treat this issue as an ethnic crisis. Yet, in my opinion, it is not correct to treat it only as a conflict based on ethnic ...
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “….an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies”. Avraham Burg (International Herald Tribune – 6.9.2003) The ‘plastic crates saga’ is a quintessentially Rajapaksa tale. Arbitrariness is a hallmark of the ‘Johnston Law’, decreeing plastic crates mandatory in transporting vegetables and fruits. Amidst the ...
Sarath Fonseka was found guilty on the first charge in an indictment filed in the High Court of Colombo, consequent to an article carried in The Sunday Leader on December 13 2009 - front page under the caption “Gota Ordered Them To Be Shot - Gen. Sarath Fonseka.” The case was heard at a Trial-at-Bar before ...
Lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit up once again in our life time, Musings of Edward Grey, British statesmen, looking out of his London Foreign Office window at dusk on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War. The lights have been going out with regularity in Sri Lanka too – ...
By Ranee Mohommed For the third consecutive year, the Sri Lanka Design Festival(SLDF) showcases Sri Lanka’s award winning apparel industry to a specifically invited global audience of buyers, retailers, sourcing specialists and backward integration supply chain partners -a key event of this apparel industry agenda at the festival is its Apparel Industry Fashion Show. The ...
Colombo: Newbie Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha has flown down to Sri Lanka on a four-day visit to film a documentary and do a magazine photoshoot. The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau said that the 24-year-old actress will do a photoshoot at the world heritage site Sigiriya for the European life style magazine L`Officiel and later do ...
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 ...
(VIDEO) The then Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara in writing requested the President for Dr. Eliyantha White to be taken for the World Cup, Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said last night. He said this while participating in the Wada Pitiya programme on TV Derana last night. .
June 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka political observers say the Western media sympathetic to the Tamil Tiger terrorist group is sensationalizing a female Tiger cadre as a TV star and calling for an investigation into her death during the battle.
A New York-based media rights organisation Tuesday called for an international inquiry into the death of a Sri Lankan television presenter who was allegedly executed by government forces.
By Roshan Abeysinghe Sri Lanka cricket and its cricketers are definitely in for some exciting times in July with the proposed Sri Lanka Premier League happening. The sponsoring company Somerset entertainment has unquestionably done a lot of hard work to make the event a success. The fact that many leading foreign players intend to participate ...
The veteran film star and the popular TV presenter Ravindra Randeniya has said that the challenge we face now because of the Darusman report is greater than the challenge we faced during the war.
By M.S.Shah Jahan Super slim Kate-Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, 29, the princess-to-be has a worry over her engagement ring with Ratnapura sapphire. Kate has slimmed down so much that she had to shrink her famous engagement ring to fit her finger...