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Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe called on every Sri Lankan to contribute to creating a glorious and prosperous country free of bankruptcy.The post Sri Lanka President says everyone must work together to build a country free from bankruptcy appeared first on ONLANKA News | Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories - Sri Lanka News.
- Everyone must work together to build a glorious country free from bankruptcy- President (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ella Odyssey: 75 Years of Diplomacy (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President visits Indonesia for World Water Summit, meets Elon Musk (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President’s 2023 New Year Message (Category: Breaking News)
A 38-year-old person was shot dead at Suchi village in Hambantota on Sunday evening (May 21), police said.The post 38-year-old shot dead in Hambantota appeared first on ONLANKA News | Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories - Sri Lanka News.
- Young married couple found shot dead in a house at Nuwara Eliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Three people shot dead in Minuwangoda (Category: Breaking News)
- Man shot dead in Middeniya (Category: Breaking News)
- Man found shot dead inside vehicle in Panadura (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry summoned Canadian High Commissioner Eric Walsh to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday (19), and condemned and rejected outright the statement issued by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on 18 May 2023, the Ministry said in a release on Saturday. It said: “Minister Sabry stated that the politically motivated […]
- Ken Sunquist to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- No reason for people to flee Lanka -Lankan Foreign Minister tells Canadian counterpart (Category: Breaking News)
- SL disappointed over Canadian PM's remarks (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadians' attitude hardening towards illegal migrants - Public Safety Minister (Category: Breaking News)
by Saman Indrajith Government leaders are all out to secure 113 votes to ensure the passage of a motion to remove Janaka Ratnayake from the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), which he currently heads.The vote is scheduled to be taken on Wednesday (24) evening after a full-day debate from 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 […]
- Charge sheet drafted to remove PUCSL chairman - Energy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Parliamentary debate on proposal to remove PUCSL chief today (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposal on lubricant levy an attempt to paralyse PUCSL s independence  Chairman (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB will oppose sacking of PUCSL chairman (Category: Breaking News)
by Jagath C Savanadasa Tribute intends to shed light on how Piyadasa Sirisena became one of the leaders in mass communication, in the early part of the 20th century. Using communication, as a tool, he launched a long drawn out resistance against imperial rule. He was in a crux a countervailing force against the British […]
- One-time solitary theatre Tower Hall hits the century mark (Category: Business)
- Kalkudah to Arugam Bay and some canny decision making by JRJ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka At 76: Past, Present & Possible Future (Category: Breaking News)
- UNESCO, the Cultural Triangle and some forunate contacts in Paris (Category: Breaking News)
Japan’s Nippon Ishin no Kai Upper House lawmaker Mizuho Umemura was dismissed from a parliamentary committee and party officials apologized after her remarks questioning the March 2021 death of a Sri Lankan woman at an immigration facility ignited a firestorm of criticism, said The Japan Times. It said: Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali, 33, died at […]
- Controversial new French immigration law promulgated by Macron (Category: Breaking News)
- British national to be deported (Category: Breaking News)
- Organised gangs exploit passport applicants for queue priority (Category: Breaking News)
- British national under probe for posting anti-govt protests on social media (Category: Breaking News)
By Norman Palihawadane Police commandos have arrested three persons with a stock of ICE (crystal methamphetamine) and Kerala cannabis. The suspects work for two organised criminals and drug traffickers who run the drug network in Sri Lanka, from abroad, according to the police. During two separate raids, conducted in Gampaha and Seeduwa, recently, the STF […]
- Motorists nabbed with large quantity of liquid drug, police say (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Motorists nabbed with large quantity of liquid drug, police say (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Motorists nabbed with large quantity of liquid drug, police say (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Blitz nets drugs in state's Far North (Category: South Australia)
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana I wish experts on human behaviour introduced a gullibility index, as this surely would have been the one, we could easily have topped! We have been fooled by politicians of all hues who have mastered the art of exploiting gullibility. We have been brainwashed to believe that family bandyism is an […]
- Jerome Fernando and his profane gimmicks – II (Category: Breaking News)
- Jeromy’s Quake – Confined To His Church (Category: Breaking News)
- Silk and spice - Startling evidence of Buddhist influence in Christian origins (Category: Business)
- Buddha statue found in Egypt points to ancient India links (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is among three South Asian governments that increased borrowing from domestic banks to finance their record debt, and, as a result, sovereign-bank nexus increased, heightening the financial sector’s vulnerability, according to a World Bank report. The other two countries are the Maldives and Pakistan, says a WB report, titled ‘A mixed bag for […]
- Sri Lanka to enhance trade relations with South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Devastating crisis for Sri Lanka s children is a caution for South Asia- UNICEF (Category: Breaking News)
- Children in South Asia including SL most likely to face water scarcity problems- UN (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to build South Asia s largest logistics complex at Colombo Port (Category: Breaking News)
An investigation has been launched after a young man was found dead on the foreshore at Tranmere Point in Hobart, Australia Sunday afternoon (21), said a report by the Pulse Hobart. Hobart Police said the man, who is believed to be Sri Lankan and between18-25, was located around 1:30 p.m. and is yet to be […]
- Clinic death inquest begins (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Million-dollar gift windfall (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- March heatwave record (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Number's up for Hobart (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Monday 22nd May, 2023 There has been a public outcry in this country, recently, over some extremely tragic deaths, the latest being that of a Sri Lankan woman in Singapore. Those incidents must be probed thoroughly and justice served expeditiously, but, curiously, there is no such public reaction to the daily loss of about seven […]
- Scourge of asphalt cowboy terror (Category: Breaking News)
- Police launch special operation to identify drugged-up bus drivers (Category: Breaking News)
- Truck-bus collision leaves 44 injured (Category: Breaking News)
- 22-year-old cop killed in tragic collision in Kataragama (Category: Breaking News)
By Tharishi Hewavithanagamage ‘Ksheera Sagaraya Kalabina ’ (The Milky Ocean Churned) is the latest masterpiece of veteran filmmaker Professor Sunil Ariyaratne. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, by the late writer, Simon Navagaththegama. Directed by Professor Sunil Ariyaratne, produced by H.D. Premasiri, Ksheera Sagaraya Kalabina presents a stellar cast, […]
- “The film kills Neruda” (Category: Breaking News)
- 15667 Army personnel AWOL discharged during General Amnesty – Sri Lanka Army (Category: Breaking News)
- Exotic dancer drama, Anora, wins Cannes top prize (Category: Breaking News)
- Oppenheimer sweeps Golden Globes taking best drama, actor and director (Category: Breaking News)
By Hema Senanayake [email protected] IMF has an ideology, a system of ideas and ideals which forms the basis of its decisions and policy prescriptions for which the recipient country of the loan claims as of its own. The most important idea does not originate from economic theory but international trade theories instead. The Great Recession […]
- Flexible Rate (Category: Business)
- RW says great power rivalries and geopolitics emerging threat to Third World (Category: Breaking News)
- Steve Hanke on currency boards and flawed pegs amid Sri Lanka meltdown (Category: Breaking News)
- Reactions (Category: Business)
By N Sathiya Moorthy The foreign ministry cannot be blamed for coming down relatively heavily on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for using the 14th anniversary of the end of the ethnic war to play to the gallery in his country. Yes, Diaspora Tamil constitutes a substantial constituency for him, yes, but to over-do the […]
- Canadian PM remembers Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s war (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM says Sri Lankans deserve peaceful and stable country (Category: Breaking News)
- A wrong message at a right time? (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM remembers Black July when Sri Lankan Tamils were killed (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Prof. C.A. Saliya Making Research Methodology Easily Accessible To Sri Lankan Researchers appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ‘Contemporary Issues In Socio-Economic Development’: A Timely Publication By Kelaniya University (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Complex Economy System (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Develop A Knowledge-Based Innovative Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- “Lamā Adhyāpanaya Sandahā Kathandara” (Stories To Be Used For Educating Children) (Category: Breaking News)
Subsidy Vouchers worth Rs. 20,000 per hectare will be provided to paddy farmers in Sri Lanka from tomorrow (May 22) for the cultivation of the ‘Yala’ season, the Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera said.The post Sri Lanka Government to provide fertiliser subsidy vouchers to paddy farmers from 22nd May appeared first on ONLANKA News | Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories - Sri Lank...
- Urea fertiliser prices to be reduced (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan provides $ 4.6 Million through FAO to boost paddy production in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President instructs officials to purchase a kilo of paddy at a guaranteed price of Rs.100 (Category: Breaking News)
- European Union donates 3,820 tonnes of urea fertilizer to Sri Lanka’s paddy farmers (Category: Breaking News)
With Sri Lanka mired in a severe food crisis, support from South Korea is Âcrucial, the South Asian country s representative for the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) has said.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe while declaring open the Kegalle, Aranayaka ‘Asupini Ella water scheme’, the largest water project in the Sabaragamuwa Province on Saturday (20) called on every Sri Lankan to contribute to creating a glorious & prosperous country free of bankruptcy. This water scheme was implemented under the financial allocation of Rs. 3,847 million from […]
- Plumber Dylan no tap dancer (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Shortages: Water supplies in crisis (Category: Technology)
- Regional beauty winners (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Water infection fixed for now (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
An investigation has been launched after a young man was found dead on the foreshore at Tranmere Point in Hobart, Australia this afternoon (21).
Sri Lanka Police said it will provide armed security to the burial site of late businessman Dinesh Schaffter, whose remains are to be exhumed on May 25, 2023.
[…]The post Aragalaya, Political Buddhism & Ranilocracy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins (Category: Breaking News)
- On System Change (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF’s Prescription: Panacea Or Palliative? (Category: Breaking News)
- Economics Of Recovery & Politics Of Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called on every Sri Lankan to contribute to creating a glorious and prosperous country, the President s Media Division (PMD) reported.
- Kamala Harris' VP win is huge for HBCUs, Tougaloo president says (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
[…]The post April & May – Images From Two Months appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Colombo – Burning In The Sun, Drowning In The Rain (Category: Breaking News)
- Playing The Fiddle While The Country Burns! (Category: Breaking News)
- An Incident At Independence Square (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Politics Of Addiction appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pyromaniacs On The March (Category: Breaking News)
- Kurundi: A Runway To ’56? (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka A Buddhist Country? – A Critical Reflection Of Sri Lankan Buddhism (Category: Breaking News)
- Freedom Of Speech & Religion (Category: Breaking News)
Madhushan Chandrajith has been appointed as the new Convenor of the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF), former Convenor Wasantha Mudalige said.The post Madhushan Chandrajith appointed as Convenor of Inter University Students’ Federation appeared first on ONLANKA News | Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories - Sri Lanka News.
- New Convenor appointed to IUSF (Category: Breaking News)
- IUSF convenor released on bail (Category: Breaking News)
- IUSF activists dispersed (Category: Breaking News)
- IUSF threatens showdown (Category: Breaking News)
Expressway Traffic Police Division has informed the motorists using the expressways to limit their vehicle speed to 60 kilometres per hour, due to adverse weather conditions prevailing in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Podujan Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarian S.B. Dissanayake alleges that the state mechanism is no longer functioning properly.
Four police officers were interdicted while three others, including two Women Police Constables (WPCs) were transferred over the death of a 42-year-old female while in police custody.The post Four police officers interdicted and several others transferred over death of woman in custody appeared first on ONLANKA News | Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories - Sri Lanka News.
- Three Sri Lankan Policemen interdicted after poisoning two suspects in custody (Category: Breaking News)
- Two Army soldiers arrested over death of woman during raid in Borella (Category: Breaking News)
- Death of a woman in Welikada Police custody: Court orders all suspects to be arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- Seven Police Narcotics Bureau officers arrested over death of vocational trainer in custody (Category: Breaking News)
Japan’s Nippon Ishin no Kai Upper House lawmaker Mizuho Umemura was dismissed from a parliamentary committee and party officials apologized after her remarks questioning the March 2021 death of a Sri Lankan woman at an immigration facility ignited a firestorm of criticism.The post Japanese lawmaker disciplined over remarks about death of Sri Lankan woman appeared first on ONLANKA News | Sri Lanka ...
- Footage of Sri Lankan woman who died at Japanese detention facility made public (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese lawmaker disciplined over remarks about death of Lankan woman (Category: Breaking News)
- Dead Sri Lankan detainee’s family calls for officials to be indicted (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese lawmaker disciplined over remarks about death of Sri Lankan woman (Category: Breaking News)
Shammi Silva has been re-elected as Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC’s) president for a third consecutive term, alongside nearly all members of the previous executive committee. All members were voted in uncontested. The only change has been to the post of treasurer, with previous treasurer Lasantha Wickramasinghe withdrawing from contention citing other commitments. Sujeeva Godaliyadda, previ...
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