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[…]The post Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Aragalaya & Morality (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Unarmed but not peaceful (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka could have avoided its current economic turmoil if it had gone to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout sooner, the country’s central bank governor says. P Nandalal Weerasinghe told BBC Newsnight that the delay in seeking outside help was a mistake. The country
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting in US (Category: Breaking News)
- China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Is Bowing Out! What About Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions. It marks the most significant moment so far in the country’s slow relaxation of its Covid-19 entry restrictions. But some restrictions will remain, including a requirement to visit the country as part of a tour […]
- Israel and Switzerland confirm Monkeypox cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Hong Kong’s John Lee: Ex-security chief set to become new leader (Category: Breaking News)
- North Korea orders strict lockdown with first official Covid cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay Alive appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Political Robber Barons Fear The Rejuvenated ‘Aragala’ Spirit! (Category: Breaking News)
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- The Operation Successful But The Patient Died? Not If People Stand Up! (Category: Breaking News)
- Recent Political Violence And Its Consequences (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post System Change Or Systemic Thinking; Wither To Ranil? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Aruna Ranasinghe – Wayward Brilliance (Category: Breaking News)
- Tharushi, Aruna secure Gold at Taiwan Athletics Open 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Derana Aruna 24.06.2013 (Category: Video)
- Video: Derana Aruna - 21.06.2013 (Category: Video)
“After I speak to [friendly nations], there will be help coming from there. They won’t allow people to starve.”
- SL must help toward peaceful settlement in the Maldives: Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Easter Attacks: Sri Lanka to seek assistance of UK Government & intelligence over Easter Sunday ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will not allow anything harmful to India’s security – President Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil to cut short UK visit (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Ranilism & The RW Fan Club: A Response To The Critics Of My New Appointment appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranilism & The RW Fan Club: A Response To The Critics Of My New Appointment (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Ranilism & The RW Fan Club: A Response To The Critics Of My New Appointment appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranilism & The RW Fan Club: A Response To The Critics Of My New Appointment (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Just Mummified Himself & Embalmed The UNP, So What Should A Democratic Opposition Do? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Photo Courtesy of BBC News Sri Lanka is led by a man who has, by his admission, two faces. In a more democratic avatar is Gotabaya Rajapaksa the President. Here, the individual...
- From Biden To Trump, Mahinda To Ranil! Have We Run Out Of Choices? (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Exporting’ The ‘Covid Burial’ Issue To Maldives: Is It A Hobson’s Choice Or Another Red Herring? (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
- Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Call For Immediate War Crimes Trials & Trade Embargoes Against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign media have reported that the Sri Lankans have responded in a fitting manner to the world through the election results. This has explicitly displayed the rapport between the Government and the people. The foreign media attributed the Government’s development programme and the resettlement process to the election victory. All India Radio mentioned that President ...
- Aussie fashion 'wearable' (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- FM calls for immediate inquiry in to diplomat�s conduct (Category: Breaking News)
- President briefs foreign media (Category: Breaking News)
- Media drenched (Category: Breaking News)
How focused and efficacious are the current infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka, executed through a public investments programme (PIP)? Take for instance the Chinese funded Norochcholai coal fired power plant, built after obtaining a commercial loan from China, and its subsequent breakdowns resulting in power cuts that will stifle growth and earnings, on top of ...
- Investment Deals (Category: Business)
- Power Projection (Category: Business)
- India tops investments in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- BOI web site removes reference to ‘No FDI nationalisation’ (Category: Business)
Government caught lying to defend Defence Secretary By Frederica Jansz Last week, Gamini Abeyratne alias Taxi Abey telephoned me from the United Kingdom. He was agitated and in more than three telephone conversations told me that Hudson Samarasinghe (Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) had telephoned him and asked, “if Frederica went with ...
- Media rights groups concerned over threat to Frederica (Category: Breaking News)
- Sunday Leader Editor Sues Media Minister For 50 Million (Category: Breaking News)
- The Judgment On The White Flag Case (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA says Gota should resign (Category: Breaking News)
“The demoralising, destructive character of the patriotic degeneracy….” Sebastian Haffner (Germany: Jekyll and Hyde) By Tisaranee Gunasekara It was the Oxford Debacle all over again. The events were drearily predicable. Sri Lanka, like every Commonwealth nation, received an invitation for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II. President Rajapaksa, unlike most Commonwealth leaders,...
- Protest stage in London against the arrival of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- President leaves for UK (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth parliamentary session to be held in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa to be guest of honour at CWG closing (Category: Breaking News)
The NSB/TFC deal and the General Recent events in Sri Lanka have reconfirmed that though seemingly power may be unlimited, there are in reality constraints which limit the options those in power have. As proof of this fundamental reality, the first event is the purchase by the National Savings Bank (NSB), a State-owned entity, whose ...
- NSB conspicuous by its silence on allegations over TFC buy (Category: Business)
- Not-so-ugly truth of the NSB saga! (Category: Business)
- NSB-TFC deal’s stench spreads! (Category: Business)
- NSB Head gives quit notice (Category: Business)
Documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, along with Jamal Osman’s reporting from Somalia, won the awards for the channel Channel 4 documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, which at the time was described by presenter Jon Snow as “one of the most important” stories he had ever reported, collected two prizes at the One World Media Awards last ...
- Channel 4 wins award for Lankan documentary at AI Media Awards (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4 documentary on Sri Lanka wins Amnesty Award (Category: Breaking News)
- C4 Wins Award For “SL's Killing Field” (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4's Sri Lanka documentary draws 700,000 viewers (Category: Breaking News)
Receipt of aid, both in the form of grant aid and concessional aid, like in the good old days, would give an impetus to development. When there are roads, power plants and power connections, water supply and sewerage facilities and such like built, that would also give a fillip to investments and therewith job creation ...
- Rupee Makes Pyrrhic Gains On Negative Trade Data (Category: Breaking News)
- World stocks, euro rise on hopes Greece ditches referendum (Category: Business)
- EU sovereign debt crisis: Hurling towards the abyss of recession (Category: Business)
- The Magic 2048: What Is To Be Done To Make Ranilnomics A Reality? (Category: Breaking News)
Relatives and friends of Sri Lankan Tamils who risked their lives in search of a better future abroad after the end of the war in May 2009 are desperately seeking information as to their fates. Thousands of Tamils migrated from the country to escape the violence of the 30-year civil war, which ended with Sri ...
- Six fold rise in Lankans seeking asylum in Australia (Category: Business)
- Waves of Sri Lankan asylum seekers arriving (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop the surge (Category: Business)
- 21 Lankans remanded to judicial custody (Category: Breaking News)
In May, 2003, I travelled around Iraq reporting on its oil industry. Before reaching Baghdad, I got in touch with Marie Colvin, who was there covering the war and its aftermath for the Sunday Times, where I worked from 1986 to 1993. She wrote back to say that she was staying at a hunt club in ...
- Marie Colvin killed in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
- War reporter Marie Colvin laid to rest in New York (Category: Breaking News)
- Marie Colvin remembered by Jaffna journalist (Category: Breaking News)
- Family remembers Marie Colvin (Category: Breaking News)
THERE are signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable for alleged war crimes committed by its forces at the end of the brutal civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. A resolution is being prepared for next month’s session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva ...
- Sri Lankan Tamil leaders reject commission report, call for international war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka risks forced war crimes probe: US (Category: Breaking News)
- FULL ACCOUNTING TO DEAL WITH WAR CRIMES CHALLENGES (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Calls for war-crimes probe escalate as Tamils commemorate massacre (Category: Breaking News)
Francis Harrison, former BBC foreign correspondent whose book of accounts of survivors from Sri Lankas civil war is to be published this summer, says in an article in the Dawn, that there are "signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable
- Reality check for doping in sport (Category: Technology)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- How the Amazon rainforest is being saved (Category: Technology)
A UN special envoy arrived Friday for talks with the new administration in the Maldives, as former president Mohamed Nasheed called for fresh elections after being ousted in what he called a coup d'etat, AFP reported. Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco reached the capital Male early Friday and was due to hold talks with new president Mohamed Waheed. “There will be a meetin...
- Nasheed demands election, warns of protests (Category: Business)
- Nasheed Won’t Seek Asylum (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrest warrant issued for M. Nasheed ! President inquires about Nasheed’s safety (Category: Breaking News)
- New president denies Maldives coup (Category: Breaking News)
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