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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)
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)
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)
USD 3.8 bn in six months Sri Lanka would be in a far more difficult situation if not for financial assistance provided by the government of India, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told ‘Hiru’ on Monday (17) night. Dissanayake compared the assistance provided to the tune of USD 3.8 bn, within 6 months, with USD […]
- Customs revenue exceeds Rs. 109 billion in October (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez reiterates need to go ahead with local debt restructuring (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to restructure USD 17 bn debt in five years  President (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt avoided loss of USD 450 Mn from controversial coal tender - COPE (Category: Breaking News)
Violence cannot be justified, under any circumstances. Therefore, the practice of referring to the JVP bids to topple the governments of the late Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike (April 1971) and JRJ and Ranasinghe Premadasa (1987-1990) as southern insurrections should be stopped. The armed forces and police defeated the JVP and LTTE terrorism. Several other Tamil terrorist […]
- India, too, should be investigated -Int’l HR organisations (Category: Breaking News)
- Westminster event declares support for Canadian action against Rajapaksa brothers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s foreign policy dilemma (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Will UK’s new PM deliver justice for Tamils?’ (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)
- EC: Prez poll can’t be put off (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)
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)
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)
- EC: Prez poll can’t be put off (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)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has reiterated that a handful of persons who advised President Gotabaya Rajapaksa caused the unprecedented economic meltdown. Sabry has alleged that politicians, officials, public sector as well as the trade unions are responsible for the crisis. The Minister said so in response to ‘Hiru’ anchor Chamuditha Samarawickrema seeking […]
- Sri Lanka to conclude debt restructuring in time for next IMF tranche  Ali Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka s biggest lesson from economic crisis was fiscal discipline  Ali Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister Sabry to participate in World Economic Forum in China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka ideal to facilitate platform for blockchain project  Ali Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
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- 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)
[…]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)
Police fire tear gas after fans invade pitch in East Java, triggering a stampede that killed at least 174 people and injured 100 more (Al Jazeera) At least 174 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a riot and a stampede at an Indonesian football stadium.The tragedy on Saturday night in the eastern […]
- More than 129 people killed after stampede at Indonesia football match (Category: Breaking News)
- Indonesia authorities say 125 dead in soccer stadium stampede (Category: Breaking News)
- At least 12 killed, 80 injured in Madagascar stadium stampede (Category: Breaking News)
- Egypt soccer violence kills 74, fans turn on army (Category: Business)
A recent news report that a student had brought “coconut kernel” to school for lunch some days ago acquired so much currency in both mainstream and social media that no less than the President’s Media Division (PMD) was constrained to deny it as false news and issue a press release to that effect. This followed […]
- Reports on student eating coconut kernel for lunch due to poverty unfounded- PMD (Category: Breaking News)
- Over 400 fall sick following NGO lunch (Category: Breaking News)
- Claims a student consumed coconut kernel for lunch false (Category: Breaking News)
- Report on student consuming coconut kernel for lunch unfounded – President’s Media Division (Category: Breaking News)
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 24 (ANI): Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday lambasted Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for his remark at the United Nations General Assembly session that a threat of terrorism emanates from Afghanistan. “The statement at #UNGA of Hon. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of #Pakistan regarding the presence of terrorist groups in […]
- As you sow, so shall you reap: Pakistan now has to deal with self-created demon Taliban (Category: Breaking News)
- Al Qaeda: Weakened, but not decimated (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s investment promises to the Taliban have not panned out (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s Alarming Rise in Terrorism Is Fueled by Afghanistan (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinanado State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has said that Sri Lanka wouldn’t have ended up being bankrupt if previous governments had adhered to agreements with the International Monetary (IMF). Reiterating that the country is experiencing the worst ever economic crisis, lawmaker Siyambalapitiya warned that the government would be under IMF scrutiny this time [...
- State Minister Siyambalapitiya emphasises transparency in Sri Lanka’s IMF deal and debt restruct... (Category: Breaking News)
- Eran proposes raising PAYE threshold to Rs 200,000 a month (Category: Breaking News)
- Shocking claim in House: Bandula reveals how sugar importers, their henchmen trapped Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. MP slams Finance Ministry over gaping holes in tax collection system (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Problem Of The People 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)
Cricket’s fastest format will return with a bang this winter, with Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Chris Lynn and David Miller all among this year’s Abu Dhabi T10 Icon Player picks. Bravo has been retained by the Delhi Bulls, while Lynn is top of the billing for host city franchise Team Abu Dhabi. Bangla Tigers have […]
- Abu Dhabi T10 franchises assemble explosive squads ahead of Season 6 (Category: Breaking News)
- Police fire tear gas on protesters in Fort (Category: Breaking News)
- Navy detains 91 people attempting to migrate by boat (Category: Breaking News)
- Menaka and Krishni (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya This is the third and final in a series of candid vignettes about Tony Ranasinghe. Pauline Kael once observed of Marlon Brando that his characters suggested tragic force. Comparable as he would have been to Brando, Gamini Fonseka never epitomised this kind of force: the closest he ever came to embodying it […]
- Deconstructing Ravi (Category: Breaking News)
- Douglas Ranasinghe: Second to none (Category: Breaking News)
- Ran Muthu Duwa (Category: Breaking News)
- Gamini Abeysinghe and Kamalangani Perusinghe’s legacy shines on (Category: Breaking News)
"But this time, because of this special situation that money can be used to finance the fiscal deficit as well."
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka cenbank says met all end-March IMF targets (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka cenbank says met all end-March IMF targets (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka cenbank says met all end-March IMF targets (Category: Breaking News)
That means authorities we should not talk about debt restructuring parameters
- Sri Lanka has no final decision yet on domestic debt re-structuring (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka would be able to use new IMF funding for budget: CB Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rupee bonds see initial interest from foreign investors (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expects to wrap up staff-level agreement with IMF end-August: CBSL (Category: Breaking News)
CBSL Chief Weerasinghe said on Monday that Sri Lanka had no practice of revealing IMF programmes.
- Fund Link (Category: Business)
- Continuation (Category: Business)
- No objection from Sri Lanka central bank chief to tabling IMF deal: Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka IMF deal, taxes cannot be revealed to parliament until implemented: CB Governor (Category: Breaking News)
Basically there is a limit to what can be shared with the public or parliament
- Sri Lanka opposition reiterates calls for IMF deal to be tabled in parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s JVP gen secy makes dubious claim on IMF deal, says loan “pittance” (Category: Breaking News)
- Rate Controversy (Category: Business)
- Monetary Kudos (Category: Business)
The sound of the no-ball siren was sweet music in Sri Lanka’s ears in Dubai. As soon as Asitha Fernando and Maheesh Theekshana ran two off the third ball of the last over, the TV umpire adjudged that offspinner Mahedi Hasan had overstepped, fatally, for the second time in the match. Sri Lanka had beaten […]
- Mendis, Liyanage fifties push Sri Lanka to 255 (Category: Breaking News)
- Mehidy, Shanto power Bangladesh into the Super Fours (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand make it three wins in three, but Williamson goes off hurt (Category: Breaking News)
- Mushfiqur Rahim mocks Angelo Mathews and other Sri Lankan players (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka pulled off a sensational two-wicket victory over Bangladesh and advanced to the Super 4 stage of Asia Cup on Thursday.The post Sri Lanka snatches thrilling 2-wicket win over Bangladesh appeared first on ONLANKA News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka News.
- Asitha Fernando added to Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka beats Afghans to open Asia Cup’s Super 4 stage (Category: Breaking News)
- Asitha makes it Sri Lanka’s day despite Mahmud’s fightback (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand 162/5 as Sri Lanka lead by 193 (Category: Sports)
By Saman Indrajith TNA Parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran told Parliament yesterday that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had started signing in Sinhala.Participating in the debate on the interim Budget, Sumanthiran said: “He normally signs in English. We are familiar with his signature. It used to be in English. He has signed the detention orders under the Prevention […]
- PSC a ruse to postpone polls – Sumanthiran (Category: Breaking News)
- Sumanthiran launches blistering attack on Supreme Court (Category: Breaking News)
- PTA unconstitutional, says TNA (Category: Breaking News)
- Sumanthiran reports no progress in talks with Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
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- Plea For The Rule Of Law And Personal Safety Of All Citizens (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Plea In Paris & Predicament At Home (Category: Breaking News)
- A plea to all Sri Lankans (Category: Business)
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