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[…] The post Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (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 Budget Blues appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil’s Budget Crisis & Ibn Khaldun (Category: Breaking News)
- Warning Signal To RW’s Transformation Agenda (Category: Breaking News)
- Why The Shock Over IMF’s Diagnostic Report? (Category: Breaking News)
- Celebrating Independence Or Inaugurating Dependence? (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)
Sampath Bank PLC recently announced that it has improved its position in the Business Today Top 30 for the year 2019-2020, reaffirming its status as one of Sri Lanka’s best performing companies. The Bank rose one spot in this year’s ranking to reach 4th place among Sri Lanka’s corporate elite. Currently in its 23rd year, […] The post Sampath Bank improves ranking to 4th place in Business Tod...
- Sampath Bank improves ranking to 4th place in Business Today Top 30 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sampath Bank improves ranking to 4th place in Business Today Top 30 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sampath Bank improves ranking to 4th place in Business Today Top 30 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sampath Bank improves ranking to 4th place in Business Today Top 30 (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Why The Gotabaya Rajapaksa Presidency Will Be A One-Term Wonder appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 165 million loan to Sri Lanka to provide immediate financing support for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs), which have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and long-term financing to underserved SMEs, including businesses led by women and tea smallholders.
- EU Links (Category: Business)
- New concessionary credit scheme for the Small and Medium Enterprises (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank approves US$ 57.4 million to support small and medium business development (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank approves US$ 57.4 million to support small and medium business development in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s first digital banking experience, FriMi powered by Nations Trust Bank, is proud to announce the launch of the revolutionary Round Up Savings feature for the first time in Sri Lanka. Round Up Savings is an innovative new way to save, and FriMi is the first to introduce this concept to Sri Lanka. Through […] The post FriMi Introduces Revolutionary “Round up Savings” first appeared ...
- FriMi Introduces Revolutionary “Round up Savings” (Category: Breaking News)
- FriMi Introduces Revolutionary “Round up Savings” (Category: Breaking News)
- FriMi Introduces Revolutionary “Round up Savings” (Category: Breaking News)
- FriMi Introduces Revolutionary “Round up Savings” (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Curfew, 5000 A Month, Compensation; Why Care About Constitutional Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Curfew, 5000 A Month, Compensation; Why Care About Constitutional Change? (Category: Breaking News)
- Curfew, 5000 A Month, Compensation; Why Care About Constitutional Change? (Category: Breaking News)
- Curfew, 5000 A Month, Compensation; Why Care About Constitutional Change? (Category: Breaking News)
- Curfew, 5000 A Month, Compensation; Why Care About Constitutional Change? (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Dinarzarde Raheem Circular MWFC/1/20201 issued on 4 November by the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Conservation has caused widespread concern and consternation. This circular seeks to make all Sri...
- Other State Forests and the Conservation of Sri Lanka’s Rainforest Biota (Category: Breaking News)
- Other State Forests and the Conservation of Sri Lanka’s Rainforest Biota (Category: Breaking News)
- Other State Forests and the Conservation of Sri Lanka’s Rainforest Biota (Category: Breaking News)
- Other State Forests and the Conservation of Sri Lanka’s Rainforest Biota (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Budget 2021: A Reversion To JR Jayewardene Policies Of 1940s? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Budget 2021: A Reversion To JR Jayewardene Policies Of 1940s? (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: A Reversion To JR Jayewardene Policies Of 1940s? (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: A Reversion To JR Jayewardene Policies Of 1940s? (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: A Reversion To JR Jayewardene Policies Of 1940s? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Idiot’s Guide To Global & Domestic Debt appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Idiot’s Guide To Global & Domestic Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Idiot’s Guide To Global & Domestic Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Idiot’s Guide To Global & Domestic Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Idiot’s Guide To Global & Domestic Debt (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post PM & President Offer Fool’s Paradise Instead Of Facing Up To Covid-19 Realities appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said that one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 on 19 November 2020. The employee is now under medical care. Acting swiftly following this incident, the Central Bank said that it implemented all necessary measures to prevent contagion, including rigorous sanitisation and disinfection of its Head Office premises, […] The post Central Bank employee inf...
- Central Bank employee infected but essential operations to continue (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank employee infected but essential operations to continue (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank employee infected but essential operations to continue (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank employee infected but essential operations to continue (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post (Mis)understanding Of The Budgets! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- (Mis)understanding Of The Budgets! (Category: Breaking News)
- (Mis)understanding Of The Budgets! (Category: Breaking News)
- (Mis)understanding Of The Budgets! (Category: Breaking News)
- (Mis)understanding Of The Budgets! (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) says one of its employees was tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday (19).
[…] The post “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Foundation “Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, we’ve cut them down, dug them up, burnt them and poisoned them. Today we’re doing so...
- Four Million Different Solutions to the Problems of Staying Alive (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Million Different Solutions to the Problems of Staying Alive (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Million Different Solutions to the Problems of Staying Alive (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Million Different Solutions to the Problems of Staying Alive (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Populist Budget Risking Higher Debt appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Populist Budget Risking Higher Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- A Populist Budget Risking Higher Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- A Populist Budget Risking Higher Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- A Populist Budget Risking Higher Debt (Category: Breaking News)
Seylan Bank, the bank with a heart, has set out an array of digital banking platforms facilitating a safer and convenient option for customers to carry out financial transactions from home, as Sri Lanka navigates through the COVID-19 pandemic. As consumers move most of their financial transactions to online and mobile channels in an attempt […] The post Seylan Bank secures customer safety th...
- Wider Margins (Category: Business)
- Name Change (Category: Business)
- Change Process (Category: Business)
- Cash Call (Category: Business)
A two-year partnership, known as SheWorks Sri Lanka, has led to a 12 percent increase in the number of women employed by 15 of the country’s leading companies, equating to over 12,000 more women in the workforce. Initiated by Women in Work, a partnership between IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—and the Australian government, […] The post IFC and Australian Government Help Create and Reta...
- IFC and Australian Government Help Create and Retain Jobs for 12,000 Women in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- IFC and Australian Government Help Create and Retain Jobs for 12,000 Women in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- IFC and Australian Government Help Create and Retain Jobs for 12,000 Women in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- IFC and Australian Government Help Create and Retain Jobs for 12,000 Women in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2021: Gota’s Third War, But Forgive Me, It Is Our War Too (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 Budget Blues appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil’s Budget Crisis & Ibn Khaldun (Category: Breaking News)
- Warning Signal To RW’s Transformation Agenda (Category: Breaking News)
- Why The Shock Over IMF’s Diagnostic Report? (Category: Breaking News)
- Celebrating Independence Or Inaugurating Dependence? (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)
By Indika Sri Aravinda The National Blood Center of Sri Lanka has revealed it has the capacity to store the COVID-19 vaccines obtained by the Government, at the required temperature of -70 degrees Celsius. The Center’s Director Dr. Lakshman Edirisinghe told Colombo Gazette that the blood bank currently has the storage capacity to stock nearly […] The post Blood bank prepared to store COVID v...
- Blood bank prepared to store COVID vaccines (Category: Breaking News)
- Blood bank prepared to store COVID vaccines (Category: Breaking News)
- Blood bank prepared to store COVID vaccines (Category: Breaking News)
- Blood bank prepared to store COVID vaccines (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): Sri Lanka is holding talks with India to import the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, state minister for COVID-19 disease control Sudarshani Fernandopulle said. Attention has been drawn towards using the Blood Bank’s cold storage facilities with a temperature of minus 70 degrees for the storage of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. A final decision has not [R...
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- Secret List (Category: Business)
- CDC: 2 Chickenpox Vaccines Better Than 1 (Category: USA, Georgia)
- Thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses redirected; Mississippi ramping up pace (Category: USA, Mississippi)
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has made an order permitting Swarnamahal Financial Services PLC to resume business notionally for a limited purpose and limited time under the supervision of the Panel of Management appointed by the Monetary Board (Panel of Management), subject to several strict conditions.
- Snow is mostly limited (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Snow is mostly limited (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Limited snow this week (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- TOTE sold to Tatts group (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Photo courtesy of Longitude 80 The estate sector, a high foreign exchange earner for the country, is undergoing a severe crisis. On one hand, estate workers are underpaid and forced to live...
- Alternative Models to Improve Lives of Estate Workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Alternative Models to Improve Lives of Estate Workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Alternative Models to Improve Lives of Estate Workers (Category: Breaking News)
- “Tea Is The Most Affordable Luxury,” Says The Sri Lanka Tea Board. How So? On Whose Toil? (Category: Breaking News)
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