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- Estimated Rs 1,400 bn, from VAT in 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka tax revenues up 27-pct with galloping inflation, one off levy (Category: Breaking News)
- VAT 18% from next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Government revenue surges by 43.5%, yet expanding budget deficit spurs VAT hike (Category: Breaking News)
A new visa scheme for foreign investors to invest, live and study in Sri Lanka was launched today. The launching ceremony of the ‘Golden Paradise Visa Scheme’ was held under the aegis of Central Bank Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne at the Department of Immigration and Emigration, Battaramulla today (May […]
- Turkey shifts visa applications in Sri Lanka to authorized agent (Category: Breaking News)
- Accepting applications for passports temporarily suspended (Category: Breaking News)
- Fake and fraudulent web URLs offer Indian e-Visa (Category: Breaking News)
- Visa applications from Sri Lanka in 2022 saw significant increase (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Dollar Crunch & Expanding Horizons appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF – Eagerly Awaited – Desperation Grows! (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
- Current Political Scenario: Smoke & Mirrors (Category: Breaking News)
- Reducing The Tax Burden (Category: Breaking News)
They brought the proposal (in 2020) that Financial Advisors have to be appointed to make debt sustainable.
- IMF says “require adequate assurances” on Sri Lanka’s debt sustainability restoration (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF team in Sri Lanka policy talks on program from August 24 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka IMF discuss macro-fiscal plan, Finance Minister needed for policy sign-off (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL governor hopeful Sri Lanka can achieve debt sustainability before IMF dates (Category: Breaking News)
Lack of jet fuel in Colombo forces SriLankan, other airlines to refuel in other airports
- Price Hike (Category: Business)
- Engine Efficiency (Category: Business)
- Soft Asset (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka faces risk of international airlines pullout after fuel notice (Category: Breaking News)
The Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) Kimarli Fernando has resigned after accusing newly appointed Tourism Minister Harin Fernando of a cavalier attitude. In her resignation letter, Fernando noted the work she has put in during her stint which lasted for 30 months. She also said that it was regrettable and unprofessional […]
- Kimarli Fernando resigns as chairperson of Sri Lanka Tourism (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition draws Parliament attention to rift between Udayanga, Kimarli (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition draws Parliament attention to rift between Udayanga, Kimarli (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition draws Parliament attention to rift between Udayanga, Kimarli (Category: Breaking News)
By Easwaran Rutnam Despite strong denials, a Maldivian journalist has insisted that former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajaoaksa and his family were planning to flee to the Maldives with the assistance of Maldives Speaker Mohamed Nasheed. The Maldives Journal had reported that the Speaker of the Maldivian Parliament, President Mohamed Nasheed, was presently brokering safe passage […]
- Transparency International wants Sri Lanka’s presidential hopefuls to declare assets (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankans express anger, frustration over president’s tweet after cricket win (Category: Breaking News)
- Yupun Abeykoon breaks 100m South Asia record (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka opposition MP says agreed with rival on post-presidential vote economy (Category: Breaking News)
Fernando, a former banker, was appointed as SLTDA chairperson n December 2019 succeeding Kishu Gomez.
- Promoter keeps SLTDA in the dark on itineraries of Ukrainians (Category: Breaking News)
- Promoter keeps SLTDA in the dark on itineraries of Ukrainians (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 100,000 tourists visit Sri Lanka in first 15 days of 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourism earnings buoyant raking in over USD 160 million a month so far this year (Category: Breaking News)
The chairperson of Sri Lanka Tourism, Kimarli Fernando has tendered her resignation to Tourism Minister Harin Fernando.The post Kimarli Fernando resigns as chairperson of Sri Lanka Tourism appeared...Click on the headline to read the full story
- Space, Scotland's final frontier? (Category: Technology)
- Dream property for sale (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Tourism awards for Hobart (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Even in tough economy, Seattle tourism continues to thrive (Category: USA, Washington)
The chairperson of Sri Lanka Tourism, Kimarli Fernando has tendered her resignation to Tourism Minister Harin Fernando.
- Kimarli Fernando resigns as chairperson of Sri Lanka Tourism (Category: Breaking News)
- Harin expresses confidence in President Ranil s long-term plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential election most likely in October - Harin (Category: Breaking News)
- Harin appointed Vice Chair to UNWTO s South Asia Commission (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s new Tourism Minister Harin Fernando has warned that if the 21st Amendment to the Constitution is not tabled at the Cabinet meeting today (May 23), he would not remain with the...Click on the headline to read the full story
[…]The post A Cabinet Of Patriotic Opportunists appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Economic Realities & Political Promises (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Post-IMF Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Parliament Of Monkeys (Category: Breaking News)
- Muslim Politics & National Crises (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Could A ‘National Government’ Resolve The Crisis? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Crisis Deepens Without Rescue Plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Recent Political Violence And Its Consequences (Category: Breaking News)
- Current Political Scenario: Smoke & Mirrors (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Causes Of Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka & Lessons For A New Age appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Inflation – Public Enemy Number One (Category: Breaking News)
- Navigating The Economic Reawakening & Sustainable Growth (Category: Breaking News)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- The Contribution Of The Monetary Policy For Overcoming The Current Economic Crisis Faced In Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
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Delays is fiscal reforms can reduce the recovery rate
- Exemptions for ACCA members to follow Australian MBA offered at CA Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- National question must not be treated as a rift between the Sinhalese and Tamils with Muslims ca... (Category: Breaking News)
- 26th National CA Students’ Conference on 4 April (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka goes to Kalmunai (Category: Business)
Inflation is projected to remain elevated in the coming months before moderating thereafter, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said today. The bank said that headline inflation is projected to remain escalated in the near term on account of domestic supply shortages, increased global commodity prices, the effects of the large depreciation of the Sri […]
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka expects economic recovery in 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh gives Sri Lanka 6 more months to repay $200m loan (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt restructuring process being expedited (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s gross official reserves at US dollars 1.9 billion (Category: Breaking News)
Policy undermined by printing money for state workers
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka maintains policy interest rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka policy rate unchanged amid slowing private credit (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expects inflation to slow, rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka threatens administrative measures over high market interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The 5 Most Beautiful Places to Visit in America appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 10 Cool and Obscure things to do in Northern Arizona (Category: Breaking News)
- Lula’s Slender Congressional Majority; Time To Mobilise! (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump’s Attempted Coup: Neo-Fascism’s Last Warning To All The World; Biden Navigates Treacherous... (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump’s Attempted Coup: Neo-Fascism’s Last Warning To All The World; Biden Navigates Treacherous... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War (Category: Breaking News)
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse & Privatization Of The Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota Back In The USA & A Chilling Killing: Welcome To 2023 A (Virtual) Realty In A Post-Truth Wo... (Category: Breaking News)
The United Kingdom has issued a travel advisory on Sri Lanka warning against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said that it advises against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka, due to ongoing political and economic instability. This advice does not apply to airside transit […]
- Sri Lanka FCDO advice campaign gains UK s House of Lords support (Category: Breaking News)
- UK considers imposing sanctions on Gen. Silva, others over ‘war crimes’ (Category: Breaking News)
- UK advises against Sri Lanka travel as soft-peg collapse triggers violence (Category: Breaking News)
- UK travel advice tweaks for Sri Lanka ‘still unfair’ (Category: Breaking News)
Tourism receipts estimated at US$174mn up from US$9mn last year
- Sri Lanka gets World Bank loans to support Small and Medium Enterprises and tourism (Category: Breaking News)
- Earnings from tourism increases (Category: Breaking News)
- Perth to host national athletics final (Category: Western Australia)
- Mattala int’l airport on track (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has been facing a severe economic crisis since the beginning of 2021 and was trying to cushion the effect of the financial instability by seeking help from almost all friendly countries. Sri Lanka sought the intervention of the good offices of the political hierarchy of Bangladesh and Pakistan, apart from India, for much-needed […]
- China assures will not harm Sri Lanka’s interests (Category: Breaking News)
- China only observer in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring platform (Category: Breaking News)
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s attitude puzzles Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post President Must Resign Now! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Options For Interim Govt. To Overcome The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- What’s The Country Need Now? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post What’s Next, After The Rajapaksa Clan & #GotaGoGama Are Both Gone? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Brutalities Against Protesters (Category: Breaking News)
SriLankan Airlines has posed a number of questions on public concerns over its procurement process and other operational matters. Issuing a lengthy statement, SriLankan Airlines said it welcomed and respects the rich debate in the public space on matters concerning the operation of the airline in general and the ‘notice of procurement’ for the lease […]
- SriLankan Airlines insists it has sufficient amount of pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic management and the way forward (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan Airlines loses Rs248bn in four months after soft-peg collapse (Category: Breaking News)
- Cash-strapped SriLankan grounds three disabled aircraft (Category: Breaking News)
Calling the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka unfortunate, Israel s envoy to India, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Naor Gilon said that the country can use its potential in tourism and agriculture to come back to stability.
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
Hundreds of trade unions in Sri Lanka have been staging a nationwide protest over the mishandling of the ongoing economic crisis in the country and have called for the immediate resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The work at many state and private institutions was disrupted on Thursday due to the strikes launched by nearly a thousand trade […]
- Gazette issued declaring electricity essential service (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP demands protection for Gotabaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Trade union leaders arrested for threatening PUCSL members (Category: Breaking News)
- Decision to free Duminda Silva challenged in court (Category: Breaking News)
Indian High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay received a group of Parliamentarians and reiterated India’s continued commitment to support the island nation. “High Commissioner (HC) received a group of parliamentarians and reiterated India’s continued commitment to support Sri Lanka. The Parliamentarians thanked the people of India for standing with people of Sri Lanka. They ...
- India’s response to debt restructuring request expected by Jan end: SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Explained: Why Indian Startups are establishing a base in Singapore (Category: Breaking News)
- House full as cinemas open in Shopian and Pulwama in South Kashmir (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF asks China to boost vaccination, recalibrate strategy to fight Covid (Category: Breaking News)
Calling the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka “unfortunate”, Israel’s envoy to India, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Naor Gilon said that the country can use its potential in tourism and agriculture to come back to stability. “Very unfortunate. I visited Sri Lanka to present my credentials just a couple of months ago. It’s a beautiful […]
- Maldives Speaker to coordinate relief assistance for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- India not sending troops to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- India will be guided by the best interest of the Sri Lankan public (Category: Breaking News)
- India and Japan to cooperate to address crisis in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
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