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[…]The post Auditors Could Have Prevented Alleged ‘Thico’/Thilini Scandal appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Litro Gas & Sri Lanka Ports Authority File Challenges To RTI Commission Orders In CA (Category: Breaking News)
- CA Sri Lanka helps fight cyber crime (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka goes to Kalmunai (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka Members’ Night (Category: Business)
A frantic Super 12s encounter between South Africa and Zimbabwe in the Men’s T20 World Cup ended in bizarre fashion when the match was finally abandoned because of rain. After persistent yet light rain in Hobart reduced the game to nine overs a side, Zimbabwe made 79-5, with Wesley Madhevere smashing an unbeaten 35 off […]
- South Africa secure thrilling win over India (Category: Breaking News)
- Klaasen helps South Africa beat West Indies inside 30 overs (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan stun New Zealand to reach final (Category: Breaking News)
- Springboks go top of Rugby Championship (Category: Breaking News)
Union Assurance, Sri Lanka’s trailblazing Life Insurer, has incentivised customers with lifestyle rewards for the third consecutive year with ‘Lifestyle Bonus 2022.’ Fifty winners were selected from eligible customers who purchased a Life Insurance policy between 1st January and 31st March, 2022, in a raffle draw held in June 2022. The first-place winner, W. I. […]
- Union Assurance is a Most Loved Life Insurance Brand in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Pioneering Breakthroughs Win Global Acclaim for Union Assurance (Category: Breaking News)
- Union Assurance launches ‘Lifestyle Bonus 2021’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Union Assurance launches ‘Lifestyle Bonus 2021’ (Category: Breaking News)
Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her coalition allies have met President Sergio Mattarella and say they are ready to form a government “as quickly as possible”. He is set to ask Ms Meloni in the coming hours to become prime minister. Veteran ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attended the brief talks, despite shaking the coalition’s […]
- Biden tells Zelensky his country will never stand alone (Category: Breaking News)
- Italy floods leave 13 dead and force 13,000 from their homes (Category: Breaking News)
- Xi Jinping defends zero-Covid as party meeting opens (Category: Breaking News)
- Death toll rises as Hurricane Ian strengthens (Category: Breaking News)
Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe alleged that some journalists can be easily influenced if they are given liquor bottles. Speaking in Parliament today, the Minister accused the media of destroying the image of Parliamentarians. He said that some journalists read the newspaper headlines on television and use those programs to attack MPs. The Minister said that […]
- Anti-Terrorism Bill put on hold (Category: Breaking News)
- Government admits to shortcomings in Online Safety Act (Category: Breaking News)
- China yet to respond positively to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Sirisena confirms Wijeyadasa as SLFP presidential candidate (Category: Breaking News)
Tens of thousands of civilians and Russian-appointed officials are being moved out of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region ahead of a Ukrainian offensive, says the Russia-installed local leader. Vladimir Saldo said all Russian-appointed departments and ministries would cross the Dnieper river. Some 50-60,000 civilians would also leave in an “organised, gradual displacement”, he said...
- Massive Russian strikes target energy grid in Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- Putin signs Ukraine annexation laws amid military setbacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky denies Ukraine attacked Putin or Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
A military aircraft has crashed in a residential area of the southern Russian town of Yeysk, killing at least four people and injuring up to 25. An apartment block was set on fire and emergency services called in. A nearby school was evacuated, reports say. Russia’s defence ministry said the plane, a Su-34 fighter bomber, […]
- Kyiv hit by new massive Russian drone attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
- Putin signs Ukraine annexation laws amid military setbacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky wants Xi Jinping meeting following China’s peace plan (Category: Breaking News)
Ninety seven per cent of the respondents in a survey of Sri Lanka’s PR industry carried out in October by the Asia-Pacific chapter of the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA), the world’s largest and influential PR body, state that the local PR industry has got competitive over the recent years, with pricing, industry connections […]
- Print media the most preferred channel among Lankan PR professionals: survey (Category: Breaking News)
- Survey reveals Lankan PR agencies see AI as a game-changer, emphasizes need for technical know-h... (Category: Breaking News)
- PRCA APAC findings reveals the state of the PR industry in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ISOBAR Sri Lanka sweeps the boards at SLIM Digis 2.2 as the Most Awarded Agency (Category: Breaking News)
Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Uurumaya, MP Udaya Gammanpila, yesterday said that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has given a post of Presidential Adviser on Climate Change to Eric Solheim who had been sacked by the UN for wasting funds. Addressing the media in Colombo, Gammanpila said that so-called peace envoy Solheim has re-emerged as the Presidential […]
- Invite global renewable energy organizations to Sri Lanka  Solheim (Category: Breaking News)
- NP Governor receives assurance from Erik Solheim (Category: Breaking News)
- Norway’s Sri Lanka peace process evaluation presented (Category: Breaking News)
- Global Tamil Forum met with Norwegian politicians in Oslo, Norway on 16 March 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
The APAC chapter of the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA), the world’s largest and influential PR body, carried out a survey during October with the view of understanding and informing on the state of the PR industry in Sri Lanka. The survey was carried out among 33 leaders and senior executives from over local […]
- PRCA APAC appoints Country Representative for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Thanzyl Thajudeen joins PRCA Asia Pacific Regional Board (Category: Breaking News)
- MullenLowe Group Sri Lanka Contributes to Soaring Global Network Ranking of Effie Effectiveness (Category: Breaking News)
- PRovoke Media recognizes PR Wire as Asia-Pacific’s “Best Agency to Work For” for second consecut... (Category: Breaking News)
Mintpay, Sri Lanka’s first Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service provider has been consistently breaking new ground in order to bring absolute convenience and payment flexibility to its members. As a BNPL service, Mintpay allows consumers to enjoy interest-free payment plans that will enable them to pay for any purchase in 3 installments, even with […]
- Retail Equity (Category: Business)
- Kelvinator partners with Softlogic (Category: Business)
- Consumer Plan (Category: Business)
- Softlogic brings artificial intelligence device, TeDi Alexa, to Sri Lankan consumers (Category: Breaking News)
Kamahl Santamaria, a veteran television journalist, was just 32 days into his job at New Zealand’s top broadcaster TVNZ when he resigned. Surprise gave way to shock as allegations about his inappropriate behaviour in the newsroom surfaced. Soon Mr Santamaria’s former colleagues at Al Jazeera, where he had worked for 16 years, began speaking out. A BBC investigation […]
- Journalist opens USB letter bomb in newsroom (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- Pope condemns human ‘hunger for wealth and power’ at Christmas Eve Mass (Category: Breaking News)
- Protesters among prisoners pardoned by Iran leader (Category: Breaking News)
Print media has retained its supremacy as the most preferred channel among public relations (PR) professionals in Sri Lanka over other channels online, social media, TV/radio, and others, reveals a survey by the Asia Pacific branch of the world’s largest professional PR body- the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA).The survey carried out with the […]
- Survey reveals Lankan PR agencies see AI as a game-changer, emphasizes need for technical know-h... (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Pricing, industry connections and influence playing key roles in SL’s PR industry’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Squire (Category: Business)
- PRCA APAC findings reveals the state of the PR industry in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Feed a Child child nutrition program was jointly launched by Manusath Derana, Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians and the Family Health Bureau today (Oct. 15), concurrent to the 17th anniversary of TV Derana.
Sri Lanka s premium television channel TV Derana, bringing about a remarkable change to the history of television in the country while staying true to its brand credo of ÂProtecting indigenous values while protecting our futureÂ, marks its 17th anniversary today (15).
Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 72. He also appeared in ITV detective drama Cracker and the James Bond films Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough. In a statement, his agent Belinda Wright confirmed the actor died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland. She described Coltrane […]
- Suspect held after five killed in attack at Colorado nightclub (Category: Breaking News)
- Three dead, six injured after US school shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- Nepal mourns victims of worst air disaster in decades (Category: Breaking News)
- Police fire on protesters in Iran (Category: Breaking News)
Frustration appears to be mounting in Beijing as the Chinese capital comes under tight security and Covid restrictions ahead of a historic Communist Party congress. Authorities have tightened access to the city, shutting out many travellers, returning residents, and deliveries. Others had their movement restricted or were forced to quarantine. It has sparked an outpouring […]
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- BBC India offices searched by income tax officials (Category: Breaking News)
- Xi Jinping defends zero-Covid as party meeting opens (Category: Breaking News)
- US, UK and Australia agree on nuclear submarine project (Category: Breaking News)
Mr. Editor, may I please request you to give me a little space in your well-read newspaper to highlight a matter of public importance. That is not all, your no holds barred Editorials elevate us from that sense of hopelessness. I propose to draw the attention of the President, who is battling with what he […]
- Orwellian Isle Ordeals (Category: Breaking News)
- Message from a Cell Death (Category: Breaking News)
- Post-Match Melancholia (Category: Breaking News)
- Empire’s Enchantment (Category: Breaking News)
At a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin is making it all too obvious that he will be depending on Hard Power or armed might to forge ahead with his plans in Ukraine, the conferring of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on a human rights campaigner of Belarus and on two organizations engaged in kindred […]
- Belarus, Russia, Ukraine rights activists win Nobel Peace Prize (Category: Breaking News)
- Challenge of ushering international peace (Category: Breaking News)
- UN endures, but in the shadow of big powers (Category: Breaking News)
- Proxy wars make unsettling comeback (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka s premium entertainment channel TV Derana has anchored its position as the most trusted and entertainment portal of choice in the country once again, surpassing 4 million subscribers.
(Al Jazeera) French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.Ernaux was honoured “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”, the jury […]
- Swedish poet Transtroemer wins Nobel Literature Prize (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel economics prize goes to Claudia Goldin (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel Prize in physics won by trio who created rapid flashes of light to watch electrons move (Category: Breaking News)
- 3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Launch Of The E-Book Version Of The Mystique Of Kelani River appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Book Launch: The Mystique Of Kelani River (Category: Breaking News)
- RIP: Comrade R Singamapanar: The First Tamil Political Activist From Chunnakam (Category: Breaking News)
- In Memory Of Comrade Osman De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Writing The American Ceylon Mission: A Review Of The American River Of Love That Flowed Into Jaf... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Profound & The Profane appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Books Release – International Day Of Universal Access To Information, September 28th, 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Hilton Colombo celebrates the 28th Year of the original Oktoberfest (Category: Breaking News)
- Teens arrested for highway crime (Category: Breaking News)
- Seven bodies found in US search for missing teens (Category: Breaking News)
"Yesterday we returned to the old logo because there were requests from internal and external stakeholders.”
- Court orders probe on State TV (Category: Breaking News)
- Donors 'ignoring' resettled IDPs (Category: Breaking News)
- Kongahage remunerated – appointed Chairman SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic broadcast rights 'will not be transferred' (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Call For A May 9 Commission: Bring Gota, Mahinda & Basil Before A Parliamentary Commission appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pohottuwa’s Suicidal Plunge (Category: Breaking News)
- Evaluation Of Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Gota Mess Around With 13A? (Category: Breaking News)
The charges applicable on Telecommunication and Pay TV services in Sri Lanka have been revised again effective from today (October 05) with the introduction of the Social Security Contribution Levy (SSCL).The post Pay TV & Telecommunication service charges to be revised tonight (October 05) appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Charges for telecom and Pay TV services revised from today (Category: Breaking News)
- Driving licence fees revised in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Litro Gas to reduce prices tomorrow (January 05) (Category: Breaking News)
- LITRO Gas to reduce prices of gas after October 05 (Category: Breaking News)
The charges applicable on Telecommunication and Pay TV services have been revised effective from today (Oct. 05), instead of the recovery of the Social Security Contribution Levy (SSCL) of 2.5% introduced by the SSCL Act.
Wednesday 5th October, 2022 The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government has proved once again that probity is anathema to it. Its leaders have engineered the exclusion of dissident SLPP MPs Prof. Charitha Herath and Prof. Tissa Vitharana from the COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises), and the COPA (Committee on Public Accounts), respectively. Never do they baulk at anything […]
- Reconstitution of COPE, COPA in limbo (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB demands LG polls instead of conference on ‘local governance’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-COPE Chairman alleges executive intervention in House committees (Category: Breaking News)
- Probe into country’s bankruptcy: Ex-COPE Chief going ahead with own inquiry (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Will Subramanian Swami‘s Visit Revive Racist Politics? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Indian-Israeli Involvement In Sri Lanka Is A Disaster (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
It is a recognized incontrovertible fact that an amazing majority of the worlds chip and semiconductor output is restricted to some nations like Taiwan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam. Apart from the apparent causes of monopoly and overdependence on few nations, it additionally hampers the pursuits of the worldwide inhabitants at […]
- Biden’s order to restrict US investments in China’s tech sector opens new opportunities for India (Category: Breaking News)
- US bars ‘advanced tech’ firms from building China factories for 10 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Chips Are Everywhere: But Can Sri Lanka Ride The Wave? (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s PLA may have “complete capability” to attack Taiwan by 2025: Defence Minister (Category: Breaking News)
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