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[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (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 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)
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 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)
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 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)
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 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)
The global escalation of commodity prices in the latter part of last decade impacted Sri Lanka’s rice market, with retail prices showing sharp increases for the consumer. The regulatory forces with a ceiling on consumer prices and guaranteed price for paddy did alleviate this problem to some extent. Today it has taken a different turn ...
- Village as a developmental unit (Category: Business)
- Paddy farmers’ problems (Category: Business)
- Budget 2012’s impact on the export sector (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s stake in the intl. agriculture debate (Category: Business)
Sunil Bharti Mittal, India’s fifth largest dollar billionaire of Airtel fame, and Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma are among the renowned members of the top Indian delegation coming here next month. “The high-level Indian trade delegation arriving next week will consist of reps from the Government, business and the chambers. The arrival of this delegation ...
- Powerful Indian business delegation in Colombo next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Commerce Minister in town tomorrow to lead greater ties with Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Top Lankan CEOs bullish post Indo-Lanka meet (Category: Business)
- Mega ‘India Show’ in August 2012 to boost bilateral trade with Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Poor rainfall throughout Sri Lanka during the past few months has caused a drought unheard of during recent history. Particularly affected Districts are Kurunegala, Puttalam, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Batticaloa, Ampara, Nuwara Eliya and Badulla. Farmers complain that their crops are being ruined or are on the verge of being ruined. Some villages complain of the shortage ...
- Drought and lessons learned (Category: Business)
- Paddy farmers’ problems (Category: Business)
- Mahaweli Project – North Central Province canal: A tunnel in the wilderness? (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of irrigation water for paddy cultivation: A way out (Category: Breaking News)
Rio+20 has come and gone. For some, with June gone, the task may be looking at the flavour of the month for July to prop up different hoardings. The conference was concluded successfully and most of the final photos and comments indicated it was well attended and well run and perhaps well concluded. For sure, ...
- Green growth not targets needed for 2015 climate deal (Category: Business)
- Climate change: The definitive challenge of the 21st century (Category: Business)
- Be a part of Earth Hour 2012 (Category: Business)
- Climate Change: A Red Flag For Environmental Security In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
A solution for loss-making SOEs? In the USA, a new corporate entity referred to as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp) has been brought into being. The states of Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, California and Vermont have legislation which permits companies to combine the profit motive with the purpose of making a positive impact on society and ...
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- IMF-led privatisation, land and resource grab in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Experimenting with State-Owned Enterprises (Category: Breaking News)
Over 25,000 passengers carried in eight months with Kandy, Badulla, Trinco and Vavuniya as destinations Ever since its launch in October 2011, Expo Rail has been on an upward drive redefining rail travel in Sri Lanka. With four destinations in its portfolio – Badulla, Kandy, Trincomalee and Vavuniya – Expo Rail has, in the past ...
- Expo Rail Continues To Redefine Sri Lankan Train Travel In Style (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Railways rolls out first rail magazine with Spotlight PR (Category: Business)
- Luxury rail services on tracks from today (Category: Business)
- Travelon increases holidays on rail frequency (Category: Business)
Peter Kropotkin is a Russian revolutionist who has commented in his book ‘The Conquest of Bread’ what he considers to be the weaknesses of the economic systems of capitalism and how poverty and scarcity thrives on. However, Kropotkin did not believe in the theory of state and is known as an anarchist. The issue of ...
- Sri Lanka state finances would improve with domestic domestic restructure: think tank (Category: Breaking News)
- Road To Bankruptcy: The Role Of Foreign Currency Flows & Economic Vulnerabilities In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Limits of statist development or state capitalism (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka net government debt soars in 2021 despite zero foreign deficit finance (Category: Breaking News)
By Damien The Secretary to the treasury Dr. P.B Jayasundera recently made statement that the country is wasting the foreign currency on things that can be made in this country. I would like to add to this by stating that as a country we should have clear targets and policies that are aimed at both ...
- Subsidized student loan scheme through commercial banks in addition to existing interest-free st... (Category: Breaking News)
- Banks lift overseas spending limits imposed on credit cards as dollar liquidity improves (Category: Breaking News)
- Ten problems; one solution (Category: Business)
- Causes Of Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka & Lessons For A New Age (Category: Breaking News)
Seven young prominent marketing communications professionals from Sri Lanka’s advertising and marketing industries were selected to represent the country at the annual Young Lions Competitions and the Roger Hatchuel Academy in Cannes, France next month after having successfully completed the Sri Lankan Cannes Young Lions Competition. The local competition to select the contenders was organis...
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 (Category: Business)
- SLIM welcomes young marketers Dinal and Wishmini from Cannes (Category: Business)
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 finale (Category: Business)
The solar energy development will not face any obstruction as it generates energy through sunlight. Being alternative energy source, it is sustainable as well as eco-friendly. An American political activist Ralph Nader writes- 'the use of solar energy has not opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. 'Yes! if we use the costly diesel generators to tide over long load shedding...
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
- NO POWER CUTS (Category: Breaking News)
- No power cuts without advance notice – CEB (Category: Breaking News)
- Power cuts during today as well (Category: Breaking News)
Dispute The dispute over the presence of a Muslim mosque on Buddhist temple land in Dambulla points to an underlying tension in Sri Lanka’s multi religious society that is capable of being exploited by extremist forces. It is reassuring that the violence that suddenly manifested itself over the location of the mosque was not permitted to escalate ...
- ‘No provision for any other faith only Buddhism so move the mosque,’ says Thero (Category: Breaking News)
- All Mosques, Kovils, Churches to be paid and evicted from Buddhist Sacred City – ADC (Category: Breaking News)
- “Why can’t we all just get along”` (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse govt looks on as religious intolerance soars (Category: Breaking News)
HNB Pathum Vimana, the biggest deposit draw in Sri Lanka, has rewarded countless Sri Lankans with amazing prizes over the last twenty years. The lucky winners of the Pathum Vimana 2011 draw received their prizes at a ceremony organized by Hatton National Bank. The prize presentation for the winners was held at HNB Towers on ...
- HNB donates school books in Nochchiyagama in conjunction with Deyata Kirula 2012 (Category: Business)
- HNB promotes Pathum Vimana 2012 (Category: Business)
- Independence Day launch for HNB Pathum Vimana 2012 (Category: Business)
- HNB launches Pathum Vimana 2012 on Independence Day (Category: Business)
By Faraz Shauketaly The National New Year celebrations – Sinhalese and Tamil New Year – provides an unparalleled opportunity each year to visit friends, relax and simply do nothing. It is also an opportunity to make all the politically correct sound bites and assure anyone and everyone including pedantic outlaws (read in-laws) how very much ...
- Tsunami warning lifted in SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- No Tsunami threat for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Tsunami warning to be reviewed in an hour: East urged to be vigilant (Category: Breaking News)
- Tsunami preparedness pays off (Category: Business)
With ending of the Maha season paddy harvesting, newspapers and TV have been highlighting problems encountered by farmers in disposing of their harvest. Due excellent weather, free from drought, flood and disease, farmers have received a bumper crop but the problem is to convert the harvest into cash, in order to settle debts incurred in ...
- ‘Fodder’ for thought (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. all hat no cattle (Category: Breaking News)
- The drought, Mahaveli waters and the farmer (Category: Business)
- Drought and lessons learned (Category: Business)
In the time tested form of the parliamentary system of governance there is the concept of Cabinet Responsibility (Ministerial Responsibility) where ministers are said to be ‘collectively responsible’ for government policy. In Sri Lanka’s fast evolving constitutional form of government – particularly under President Mahinda Rajapaksa – the cabinet itself has become a tremendous joke .....
- Nawinna Gives Formula For Mervyn’s Success (Category: Breaking News)
- #SriLanka: New Cabinet takes oath in presence of President (Category: Breaking News)
- Ministers To See Stars (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka delays Cabinet swearing-in (Category: Breaking News)
With the recent relaxing of the rupee exchange rate and subsequent increase in fuel prices, trade unions and the opposition parties are conducting protest campaigns against the Government, demanding a reduction in oil prices and the cost of living. This article investigates the living conditions of citizens in the recent past and present, quality and ...
- Treasury Secy. showcases recent economic success and future outlook (Category: Business)
- The Economic Impact of Exchange Controls (Category: Business)
- Living with debts (Category: Business)
- Strategies on reducing or getting out of foreign debt (Category: Business)
Titan Fleet Management, France a specialist yacht management company places confidence in Colombo for their repair requirements on super luxury yacht Lauren L. This seven star category 90 meter long yacht called in for repairs on 1 February. The luxury yacht called in for her 10 year class survey repairs coupled with hull surface preparation ...
- Dockyard completes Norwegian BOS Angler’s dry-dock repair (Category: Business)
- Quick job for UK owned container carrier’s Kota Halus repairs at Dockyard (Category: Business)
- MV Brilliant dry docking repairs completed in Colombo (Category: Business)
The people for the past three decades have suffered the steady rise in the cost of living with great forbearance. We have no ready index to point to for this Himalayan climb other than the price of bread which Chandrika Kumaratunga in her presidential bid vowed to reduce to Rs 3 per loaf. Now the ...
- Malaysian government would loss many votes by supporting SriLanka at UNHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Construction work of the bridge in Dharmapuram area stopped (Category: Breaking News)
- SL government organize massive protest campaign in front of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- Rathika Sitsabaiesan welcomes US resolution against SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
Subsidies? Well yes, but make them smart subsidiesNigeria: Subsidising the neighbours Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamidi Sanusi, had a problem. In a recent live interview with the Aljazeera TV, he said that his country had to raise the retail prices of all petroleum products to match the rising international prices, despite the violent and ...
- Treasury defends fuel revisions (Category: Business)
- Nigeria regulator announces end to fuel subsidies (Category: Business)
- CPC implications (Category: Business)
- Commendable start; now for the finish (Category: Business)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the nation on Independence Day provided an indication of his two major concerns for the future. One concern was the persistent international pressure on his government on human rights issues during and after the end of the war. The other concern was the efforts to destabilize the government through mass agitation ...
- LLRC Report reflects enlightened Sri Lankan thinking (Category: Breaking News)
- US will support resolution on Sri Lanka at HRC sessions in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse banks on Blake’s diplomatic speak in US war crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s benchmark stock index, the world’s worst performer this year, may extend its slump as the central bank raises interest rates to curb inflation, according to HSBC Holdings Plc’s private banking unit. HSBC Private Bank, which oversees about $499 billion, will wait for stock valuations to fall to “single digit” multiples before it considers ...
- Stocks approach one-month low; rupee steady (Category: Business)
- China factory surveys signal economic growth stays soft in Q3 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Stocks May Slump More on Rates, HSBC Private Says (Category: Breaking News)
- CB seen holding rates, SRR steady – Reuters poll (Category: Business)
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