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Tuesday 27th February, 2024 Sri Lankan politics is turning red in tooth and claw; the battle for the coveted executive presidency is getting down and dirty with every passing day. The presidential election is about eight months away, but the prospective contenders are already trading blows below the belt. At this rate, they might even […]
- Govt. formed by Ranil-Rajapaksa camp not an all-party arrangement – JVP (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP unveils its economic policy today (Category: Breaking News)
- Domestic debt restructuring and pension funds : JJB alleges Prez trying to influence judiciary (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez recalls co-operation between JVP and Yahapalana govt., requests Opposition’s help for natio... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Risk Of Repeating The Past Continues appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Don’t Disregard The Less Privileged (Category: Breaking News)
- The Hardware & Software Of Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- Dream Team For National Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- Weaponising Of The Law (Category: Breaking News)
By Usvatte-aratchi ‘The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.’ The Communist Manifesto (1848) ‘… where political and business elites are intertwined in corrupt dealings, each reliant on the other’s power for survival… the downfall of one party can drag the other down […]
- Heritage Matters: Federation (Category: South Australia)
- Using SORTITION to prevent electing of same crooks to parlimant (Category: Breaking News)
- 75 Years Of Non-Democracy In Our Democratic Nation (Category: Breaking News)
- Enemies of progress (Category: Breaking News)
Opposition political parties signed a no-confidence motion against Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa said the no-confidence motion is to be submitted to Parliament accusing the Speaker of unlawfully authorising the Online Safety Bill. The Bill was found to be inconsistent with the Constitution by the Supreme Court, yet it was […]
- No-confidence motion against Speaker handed over (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP decides to back no-confidence motion on Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- SLFP to support no-confidence motion on Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- Speaker survives no-confidence vote (Category: Breaking News)
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has announced the resignation of his government, which rules parts of the occupied West Bank, due to the escalating violence in the occupied territory and the war on Gaza. “The decision to resign came in light of the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem and the war, genocide […]
- Palestinians say Israeli gunshot in the neck paralyzed man (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- Palestinians say Israeli gunshot in the neck paralyzed man (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- UK foreign minister says Israel won’t be secure until Palestinians have safety (Category: Breaking News)
- 39 Palestinian prisoners expected to be released today (24) (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Modi’s Civilizational Duty & Connectivity Bordering Soft Colonization appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- SL Stands For Sheep Loom: Obedience Above Intelligence (Category: Breaking News)
- SL Stands For Sheep Loom: Obedience Above Intelligence (Category: Breaking News)
- Separation Of Powers, Rule Of Law, Corruption & SL Bankruptcy (Category: Breaking News)
- SL Debt Justice Collective Writes Open Letter To IMF On DDO (Category: Breaking News)
On 24 January this year, the Chinese Vice-Premier Li Guozhong made a brief transit halt in the Maldives. During the stopover, he met with the Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer. The Vice-Premier was on his way back after attending the Non-Aligned Summit and the third South Summit in Uganda from 19-24 January. This came after President […]
- New Maldives president promises to expel foreign military personnel (Category: Breaking News)
- DESTABILIZING DYNAMICS: Unraveling Chinese Interference in South Asia’s Geopolitical Landscape (Category: Breaking News)
- Undermining Stability: Chinese Interference in South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives In Murky Waters: Chinese Debt Challenges For Economic Stability (Category: Breaking News)
Across South Asia, an ominous great game is unfolding. China is battling for regional influence, with smaller buffer states caught in the middle as pawns. Far from peaceful rise, China’s tactics reveal a belligerent dragon pulling neighbors ever tighter into its orbit through debt-trap diplomacy, data colonialism and brazen political interference – a 21st century […]
- Undermining Stability: Chinese Interference in South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- Forbes: Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives among biggest debt burdens to China (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt owed by Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to China rise to record levels: Data (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka turmoil highlights risk for Chinese firms investing overseas (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, confirmed that the presidential election scheduled for later this year will indeed take place.The post Sri Lanka’s justice minister assures presidential election scheduled for 2024 appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Presidential election will be held in due time - Wijeyadasa (Category: Breaking News)
- Wijeyadasa to contest upcoming presidential election? (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe appointed Acting Chairman of SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister says Anti-Terrorism Act to ensure people’s safety (Category: Breaking News)
Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, over the weekend assured that presidential election scheduled for later this year would be held.This assurance was given at a meeting held at the Batticaloa Divisional Secretariat on Saturday (24). Referring to his role and that of several unnamed others during the unprecedented 2022 crisis, Minister Rajapakse said that […]
Foreign Minister Ali Sabry PC has said that in the emerging multipolar world, countries like Sri Lanka cannot afford to take sides and must be open to working with anyone. Minister Sabry made these observations when he delivered the opening address at the 3rd ‘LKI Foreign Policy Forum’, held on the theme ‘Reassessing Non-Alignment in a Polarised […]
- Ali Sabry reaffirms Sri Lanka s support to Palestine, calls for humanitarian ceasefire (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreign Minister Ali Sabry addresses the Meeting of the NAM Ministerial Committee on Palestine (Category: Breaking News)
- Sabry emphasizes need to reform Sri Lanka s higher education (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankans in Sudan to be evacuated within next few days  Minister (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Navigating The Economic Reawakening & Sustainable Growth appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Can Sri Lanka Drive Itself From Bankruptcy To Prosperity In 2023? (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023 Will Be The Acid Test Of RW’s Magic Wand (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Bankrupt Sri Lanka Celebrated Independence, But Now It Is Back To Hard Economic Realities (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Gazan Fire Fuelled By Western Genocide Enablers With A Scrambled Moral Compass! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of A ‘UN Day Of Palestinian Solidarity’ – In A World Carrying Its Past Guilt! (Category: Breaking News)
- From ‘Never Again’ To ‘Here Again’ – World’s Shameful Indifference To Israeli Impunity! (Category: Breaking News)
- If It Is Not ‘Genocide’ In Gaza, Then What Should We Call It? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Disturbing Echoes Of The Last Phase Of The Civil War In Sri Lanka & The Treatment Of Palestinians Under Zionist Occupation – Part II appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Disturbing Echoes Of The Last Phase Of The Civil War In Sri Lanka & The Treatment Of Palestinian... (Category: Breaking News)
- Disturbing Echoes Of The Last Phase Of The Civil War In Sri Lanka & The Treatment Of Palestinian... (Category: Breaking News)
- Disturbing Echoes Of The Last Phase Of The Civil War In Sri Lanka & The Treatment Of Palestinian... (Category: Breaking News)
- Palestine & Ukraine: Two More Nails In Imperialism’s Coffin? (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT –The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects Sri Lanka not to reverse its International Monetary Fund-led policy reforms despite elections soon, the ADB Country Director for Sri Lanka Takafumi Kadono said. The island nation has witnessed repeated reversals of policy reforms in the past due to greedy politicians who misled the people to vote for […]
- ADB approves USD 350 million loan for economic stabilisation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Uncertainty over impending elections could risk Lanka’s economic recovery: ADB (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB approves $350 mn for Sri Lanka Economic Stabilization Programme (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Effective management of climate vulnerability jeopardized by political instability’ (Category: Breaking News)
Colombo (Sri Lanka) (AFP) – Cash-strapped Sri Lanka said Wednesday it had exported tea worth $20 million to Iran to partially repay its $251 million oil debts, with Colombo saying Tehran’s visiting foreign minister had expressed “satisfaction” at the deal. “So far $20 million worth of tea has been exported to Iran under the barter […]
- Iran to double tea imports from SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan, Iranian officials discuss how to boost SL tea exports (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to start tea-for-oil barter with Iran next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka partially repays Iranian oil debt with USD 20 million worth of tea (Category: Breaking News)
by Rajan Philips Never mind what Anura Kumara Dissanayake wore in Delhi. Never mind what Ranil Wickremesinghe wears daily. What the people want is not the word salads of sartorial politics by Sunday pundits, but the proffering of substantive politics by contenders for political office. As the pre-election dust takes its own time to settle, […]
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Accomplishments & Challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- The Election-Economy Nexus and the Politics of JVP Apology (Category: Breaking News)
- May Day Politics: A Pregame to Presidential Election (Category: Breaking News)
- May Day Politics: A Pregame To Presidential Election (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Accomplishments & Challenges appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What’s in a Suit? That which is substantive can be delivered in a Bush Shirt! (Category: Breaking News)
- May Day Politics: A Pregame To Presidential Election (Category: Breaking News)
- Electing A New Parliament & Ending The Old Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Election ’24: Rajapaksa Implosion & Ranil’s Red Sea Meddling (Category: Breaking News)
Leader of the United Republic Front Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka, presented the proposal titled “A United Step for the Country” to President Ranil Wickremesinghe , at ‘Srikota’, the United National Party headquarters in Colombo this morning (24). Speaking at the event President Ranil Wickremesinghe, highlighted the government’s concerted efforts over the past two […]
- Liz Cheney, No. 3 House Republican, says she will vote to impeach President Trump (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Liz Cheney, No. 3 House Republican, says she will vote to impeach President Trump (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Liz Cheney, No. 3 House Republican, says she will vote to impeach President Trump (Category: USA, Maine)
- Liz Cheney, No. 3 House Republican, says she will vote to impeach President Trump (Category: USA, Iowa)
Senior U.S. diplomat Richard Verma on Friday met Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Minister Ali Sabry in Colombo, and discussed Sri Lanka's economic recovery and progress on its IMF program, the U.S. State Department said.The post Senior U.S. official discusses Sri Lanka’s IMF program in Colombo appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Senior US official discusses Sri Lanka s IMF program in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State commends Sri Lanka’s economic efforts (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. Deputy Secretary Verma commends Sri Lanka s economic recovery efforts (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State calls on President Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
As Pakistan grapples with the aftermath of controversial elections, political chaos is threatening to cloud its $3bn deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which analysts say is key to the country’s economic stability. On Thursday, the global lender said Pakistan’s interim government had “maintained” economic stability. The IMF’s communications chief, Julie Kozack, said the […]
- IMF promises Pakistan ‘immediate’ release of $1.1bn loan after key meet (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan, IMF reach staff-level deal to release $1.1bn from bailout package (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan accepts one more IMF condition, agrees to increase interest rate by 200 basis points (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF seeks more Pak assurances before releasing bailout package (Category: Breaking News)
Prof. Peiris highlights need for ex post facto judicial review By Shamindra Ferdinando Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris, MP, said that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena’s refusal to accept that Supreme Court recommendations hadn’t been accommodated in ‘Online Safety Act No 09 of 2024’, would undermine their faith in the committee stage of […]
- Online Safety Act: Opp. to move no-faith motion against Speaker for ignoring SC recommendations (Category: Breaking News)
- HRC finds five sections of new Act inconsistent with SC determination (Category: Breaking News)
- GL urges AG to ensure compliance with SC recommendations before Speaker certifies Online Safety ... (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL Bill passes muster with SC (Category: Breaking News)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Tharaka Balasuriya spoke to WION’s diplomatic correspondent Sidhant Sibal on the sidelines of Raisina Dialogue 2024 in New Delhi.Balasuriya weighed in on several issues ranging from the India-Lanka relationship, Colombo’s ties with China, tourism, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and more. While speaking on China, Balasuriya said that “both countries [&...
- Sri Lanka keen on expanding ties with China s Yunnan Province (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL should expedite signing FTA with China and expand scope of same instrument with India’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka and ASEAN countries to strengthen relations (Category: Breaking News)
- President implemented best foreign policy of independent Sri Lanka  State Minister (Category: Breaking News)
Saturday 24th February, 2024 The West has taken upon itself the task of protecting human rights and democracy in the world and meting out punishment to those who violate them. It has thus been able to weaponise human rights to compass its geopolitical interests. It manipulates the UN, especially the UNHRC, for that purpose. The […]
- Israel using white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon, endangering civilians- HRW (Category: Breaking News)
- Gaza ceasefire talks show no sign of progress, US says onus on Hamas (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Security Council demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza after US abstains (Category: Breaking News)
- Egypt, US, Israel agree ceasefire in southern Gaza, opening of Rafah crossing - security sources (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Driving Forces Behind NPP’s Popularity appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Tale Of Shifting Sentiments & Political Chess (Category: Breaking News)
- Elitism – A Hidden Downfall Factor (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP’s Visit To India & Learning From India’s Success (Category: Breaking News)
- Protecting Commuters’ Ears & Rights (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The 56% appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Open Missive To AKD & NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- Black & White; No Shades? (Category: Breaking News)
- Feminist Revolt & Masculinity Pitfalls In The Bolshevik Camp: Sri Lanka’s Election Prelude (Category: Breaking News)
- System Change & Its Replacement!!! (Category: Breaking News)
.. two cabinet ministers to address the gathering The New Alliance consisting of SLPP MPs backing President Ranil Wickremesinghe will hold its second public rally tomorrow (24) at Hyde Park Corner commencing at 2 pm. Two cabinet ministers, including the Education Minister who is also Leader of the House Susil Premjayantha will address the gathering. […]
- Orwellian Isle Ordeals (Category: Breaking News)
- Message from a Cell Death (Category: Breaking News)
- Post-Match Melancholia (Category: Breaking News)
- EC: Prez poll can’t be put off (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lankan government has held the 37th Session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) organized by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, yet it appears to be unaware of the challenges faced by local farmers, says the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR). The APRC was held in Colombo from […]
- FAO delivers 780.1 MT of urea for farmers in poverty stricken districts (Category: Breaking News)
- Smallholder paddy farmers receive Japanese boost (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan provides $ 4.6 million through FAO to boost paddy production in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. dethrones national mammal giant squirrel (Category: Breaking News)
Dozens of lawmakers stormed out of Britain s parliament on Wednesday with tempers flaring as the three biggest political parties sought to outmanoeuvre each other over a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza.
[…]The post On [De]criminalizing Fantasies & Pinkwashing appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Bankrupt Country Craves For Urgent ‘System Changes’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Mother’s Day & Rights Of Women (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolition Of The Executive Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Let Dudley Speak! (Category: Breaking News)
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