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[…]The post Entertainment & Intellectual Activity In Jaffna – The Ramanathan Lectures appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Rajakulendran Academy Of Western Music, Speech & Drama: Reviving English In Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Provincial Councils: Gejendrakumar Ponnambalam & The Federal Party’s Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Provincial Councils: Gejendrakumar Ponnambalam & The Federal Party’s Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Four New Universities: A Premature Budget Proposal For Cheats (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Black & White; No Shades? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ‘Risk’ And ‘Fear’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Multiple Choice Or A Binary Option? (Category: Breaking News)
- An Open Missive To AKD & NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- Are We Going To The Fringes Or Coming To The Middle? (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy If anything, the recent initiative of fisheries minister Douglas Devananda to create a fishermen’s volunteer force to tackle the fishers’ issue with the Indian neighbour can make it more complicated than already. If taken forward, it can lead to situations that could cause diplomatic heart-burning between the two South Asian neighbours […]
- There is much more to Katchchatheevu now (Category: Breaking News)
- How Sri Lankan hurdles can hamper connectivity projects to India (Category: Breaking News)
- Stalin writes to Centre seeking release of Indian fishermen from Sri Lankan custody (Category: Breaking News)
- Six Sri Lankan fishermen arrested for poaching in Indian waters (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Trump Likely To Be The Next American President? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Trump-Ramasamy Ticket GOP’s Best Bet In 2024; US Events Will Affect The Whole World (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 The Tamil Nadu Factor appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Who Were The Early Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- DMK Blown Away By Multiple Tsunamis In Tamil Nadu, Is Drowning In The Deluge (Category: Breaking News)
- Prelude To The ‘Long March’ In Tamil Nadu (Category: Breaking News)
- Modi’s Strategies & Engagements In Tamil Nadu In Recent Times (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka s premium entertainment channel ÂTV Derana won the People s Television Channel of the Year Award for the 7th consecutive year at the SLIM-KANTAR People s Awards 2024.
By N Sathiya Moorthy The figure is still low yet for ten per cent of Sri Lankans to indicate a preference for authoritarian rule does not augur well for the nation’s democracy, which is already under multiple pressures. The continuing economic crisis, which some experts say could push the nation back to a 2002-like situation is […]
- Anura regrets 1987–1989 JVP insurrection (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP-led alliance invited for talks in Delhi for the first time (Category: Breaking News)
- A clichéd phrase that still makes sense and nonsense, too (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP to push for early Parliament elections (Category: Breaking News)
The founder of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Basil Rajapaksa, hinted at the possibility of the SLPP forming an alliance with President Ranil Wickremesinghe ahead of the upcoming elections. In an interview on Sirasa TV, Rajapaksa said that in his opinion Wickremesinghe has what it takes to lead the country. He also said that […]
- Basil says he is not part of the Government (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP not ruling out Basil as presidential candidate (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil accorded grand welcome on return to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Government wants to see Basil in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has granted USD 7.1 mn for the modernization of the plant quarantine system of Sri Lanka. According to a KOICA statement, this project has been implemented with National Plant Quarantine Service (NPQS) of Department of Agriculture (DOA) under the purview of the Ministry of Agriculture. The project, originally launched in […]
- RoK provides USD 6 mn for Central and Uva regions (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. receives USD 6 mn KOICA grant for career platform project (Category: Breaking News)
- KOICA ICT Laboratory for students from vulnerable community in Matara Technical College area (Category: Breaking News)
- KOICA tackles unemployment here (Category: Breaking News)
Six people, including a mother, her four young children, and a family acquaintance, were killed inside a townhouse in the south Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven, late Wednesday night. During a media briefing Thursday afternoon, Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs said there were initially two calls to 911 around 10:52 p.m. Wednesday. He said first responders […]
- Sri Lankan family dead in Canada ‘mass killing’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan family murdered: 6 dead including 4 children in Ottawa mass killing (Category: Breaking News)
- Father of Sri Lankan family killed in Canada in shock (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspect charged in mass killing of Sri Lankan family in Ottawa not seeking bail (Category: Breaking News)
Veteran actress, journalist and former radio news reader Ramya Wanigasekara passed away at the age of 73, this morning (March 08).The post Ramya Wanigasekara passes away appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Veteran actress journalist Ramya Wanigasekara passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- President pays last respects to late Ramya Wanigasekara (Category: Breaking News)
- Veteran dramatist R.R. Samarakoon is no more (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka earns over 18 billion rupees from UN peace keeping (Category: Breaking News)
Six people including a mother, her four young children and a family acquaintance were killed inside a townhouse in the south Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven late Wednesday night.The post Sri Lankan family murdered: 6 dead including 4 children in Ottawa mass killing appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Grief, pleas for compassion at funeral for Sri Lankan family slain in Ottawa (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspect charged in mass killing of Sri Lankan family in protective custody (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan family dead in Canada ‘mass killing’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspect in killing of Ottawa Sri Lankan family held in protective custody (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Gaza: Creating Hell On Earth appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Putting Palestine In Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is Necessary In Gaza? Ceasefire Or Peace Keeping, Or Both? (Category: Breaking News)
- Israeli Right To Defend & Palestinian Right To Be Free (Category: Breaking News)
- From ‘Never Again’ To ‘Here Again’ – World’s Shameful Indifference To Israeli Impunity! (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando With the presidential election scheduled for later this year, political parties represented in Parliament have stepped up efforts to forge alliances. In terms of the Constitution, presidential elections will have to be conducted between Sept 18 and Oct 18, 2024. The last presidential election was held in Nov 2019. Even though the […]
- AKD vows to stop allocating funds for ex-presidents, questions Sagala’s role (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-SLAF officer sheds light on developments leading to Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez, SLPP urged not to use ex-CJ’s committee to put off next presidential election (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-COPE Chairman alleges executive intervention in House committees (Category: Breaking News)
Monday 26th February, 2024 Sri Lanka is a nation in the hara-kiri mode. It needs no enemies; it has become its worst enemy. It continues to maintain a bunch of failed, corrupt politicians and their bureaucratic lackeys responsible for ruining the economy and hell-bent on degrading vital national assets which they are planning to dispose […]
- 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)
‘Umpire hora’ is a famous cry in this country whether be it at backyard cricket after school, soft ball games played on the Parliament grounds during the weekend, inter-school fixtures or even during international games. Some 25,000 ardent cricket fans were yelling the same on Wednesday night as Sri Lanka lost a tense game against […]
- Hannibal was brought in for Palliyaguruge due to fatigue (Category: Breaking News)
- Hannibal unfit for international games – Hasaranga (Category: Breaking News)
- Wanindu Hasaranga conundrum (Category: Breaking News)
- Hasaranga suggests ‘another job’ for umpire following no ball controversy (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is probably the only democratic country where people wonder if elections would be held in an election year, Nidahasa Janatha Sabawa (NJS), leader MP Dullas Alahapperuma said. Sri Lanka is also the only country that postponed an election under the pretext of bankruptcy, he added. “From my experience, an election boosts an economy.” […]
- NGO Head: Delays in holding polls lead to political violence (Category: Breaking News)
- Time frame for presidential poll set by law: elections chief (Category: Breaking News)
- People don’t vote rationally at general election held after presidential polls (Category: Breaking News)
- EC seeks Rs 30 bn for polls next year (Category: Breaking News)
Rex Clementine at Dambulla Moments after his altercation with match officials following Sri Lanka’s loss in the third T-20 International at Dambulla, Wanindu Hasaranga was charged by Match Referee Chris Broad for bringing the game into disrepute. Hasaranga was disputing with the umpires for not calling a no ball after Kamindu Mendis faced a high […]
- Wanindu Hasaranga announces retirement from international Test cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- Wanindu Hasaranga suspended for two matches, fined (Category: Breaking News)
- Wanindu Hasaranga conundrum (Category: Breaking News)
- T20 World Cup- Wanindu Hasaranga shortlisted for Player of Tournament award (Category: Breaking News)
A team of medical experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), specializing in leprosy, will arrive in Sri Lanka in March, said Director of the Anti-Leprosy Campaign (ALC) Prasad Ranaweera appearing in local TV on Wednesday. He said that the number of leprosy patients found in Sri Lanka has significantly increased in 2023 following a […]
- Sasakawa to assist the Health Ministry to curb leprosy (Category: Breaking News)
- 10% of Leprosy patients in Sri Lanka are children - health officials (Category: Breaking News)
- WHO team to travel to Sri Lanka to help eliminate leprosy (Category: Breaking News)
- WP accounts for 40% of leprosy cases in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita Over 50 percent of Sri Lankan exports to Thailand are gems, and Sri Lanka doesn’t face any trade barriers when exporting precious stones, Subhashini Abeysinghe, says Research Director at Verité Research. Commenting on the recent free trade agreement between the two nations, she said in a recent television interview that Thailand imported […]
- ‘SL should expedite signing FTA with China and expand scope of same instrument with India’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka eyes FTA with Thailand by March as growth in focus (Category: Breaking News)
- President wants Lanka to be first in South Asia to join RCEP, largest trade bloc in history (Category: Breaking News)
- Five Years on with garbage, myths and lies (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s newly appointed T20I captain Wanindu Hasaranga was left fuming after a non-no-ball call by Lyndon Hannibal cost his side the opportunity to register a clean sweep in the three-match T20I series on Wednesday at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. With 19 needed to win off the last over, the hosts looked firmly placed […]
- Mathews leads Sri Lanka to T20 win over Afghanistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Debutant Shivam Mavi joins exclusive club as India register thrilling win (Category: Breaking News)
- Wanindu Hasaranga becomes no.1 T20I all-rounder (Category: Breaking News)
- Poor umpiring gives Afghanistan three-run win over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
by Ifham Nizam The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) yesterday expressed displeasure at some comments made by CEB Media Spokesman during a live telecast called ‘Big Focus’ on the Derana Television Channel on Tuesday (February 20, 2024). CEBEU Joint Secretary Buddika Wijeyawardhna said: “We urged the General Manager of the CEB to clarify the […]
- CEB charges Rs 10,000 more than LECO for new connection (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB charges Rs 10,000 more than LECO for new connection (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB spokesperson resigns (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB hands over proposal to reduce power tariffs (Category: Breaking News)
Ayubowan Wanakkam Good morning! International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21 February every year by UNESCO and the UN to highlight the significance of languages in advancing human and social development. The theme for 2024 is “Multilingual education – a pillar of learning and intergenerational learning” which is crucial for inclusive education and to […]
- Justice Minister says English remains medium of instruction at Law College (Category: Breaking News)
- The promise of ‘English for all’: Gloomy contextual notes and unsolicited advice (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka seeks Indian strategy on language gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Bridging the language divide in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
By A Special Sports Correspondent Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club (CR&FC) produced rib bruising rugby last Sunday (February 18) to end Kandy’s winning streak and be crowned as the new men’s champions in domestic rugby. The women’s tournament was won by Sri Lanka Navy. Turn the pages of time to the launch of this tournament […]
- Lions-Kandy SC Transfer Deal: A Reference For The Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Speaker’s announcement consistent with SC determination? (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic way forward; corruption; stunning SC ruling (Category: Breaking News)
- Army, Kandy SC and Upcountry Lions register wins (Category: Breaking News)
The 2024 Sumathi Awards ceremony, the 29th edition of one of the most popular television awards shows in Sri Lanka, is taking place in Colombo on Tuesday (Feb.20).
Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bowl first in the second T-20 International against Sri Lanka at Dambulla on Monday. Sri Lanka opted to play the same side that won the first T-20 International by four runs. All-rounder Angelo Mathews underwent a fitness test prior to the game and was declared fit to play […]
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka and Ireland make promising starts (Category: Breaking News)
- Seven killed, dozens injured in Fox Hill Supercross mishap (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to play ten Tests next year (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita A National People’s Power (NPP) administration will not do anything that will undermine Indian security, but it will maintain economic and political relations with China, the NPP delegation to India told Indian officials, JVP/NPP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in an interview with Sirasa TV, on Thursday (15). In his first interview […]
- NPP administration will not undermine India’s security interests: AKD (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP has told India it won’t do anything to upset regional security and peace (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP fears conspiracy to cause chaos (Category: Breaking News)
- AKD urges northerners to help relegate political dregs into dustbin of history (Category: Breaking News)
අපනයන කේන්ද්රීය ආර්ථිකයක් කරා ශ්රී ලංකාව රැගෙන යාමේ අරමුණ ඇතිව කර්මාන්ත අමාත්යාංශය හා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය එක්ව සංවිධානය කරන “International Industry Expo 2024 Sri Lanka” පළමු අන්තර්ජාතික කර්මාන්ත ප්රදර්ශනය සදහාThe post ‘International Industry Expo’ ප්රදර්ශනයේ අනුග්රාහක වෙක්පත් ලබාදෙයි appeared first on ITN News.
- අපනයන කේන්ද්රීය ආර්ථිකයක් වෙනුවෙන් අන්තර්ජාතික කර්මාන්ත ප්රදර්ශනයක් (Category: Sinhala)
- ආයෝජන අවස්ථා සොයා බැලීමට ඉහළ පෙළේ රුසියානු ආයෝජක පිරිසක් ශ්රී ලංකාවට (Category: Sinhala)
A name that will never ever be forgotten, especially in the local Western music scene, is Noeline Honter. This multi-faceted Sri Lankan celebrity, who is now based in Australia, is still very much in the spotlight…as a singer, TV presenter and English training. At present, she lives partly in Melbourne and Adelaide and says she […]
- Exciting scene for Mirage …Down Under (Category: Breaking News)
- Bidding adieu with music (Category: Breaking News)
- DERRICK J… helping you discover the true power of your voice (Category: Breaking News)
- Khemadasa’s daughter arranges choral musical in British church (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy For the uninitiated in Sri Lanka, AKD in politico-strategic circles in the neighbouring India’s capital, New Delhi, refers to Ajit Kumar Doval, the nation’s all-important National Security Advisor (NSA). For counterparts in India, who are even less initiated, the initials stand for Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the centre-left Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna […]
- Ungoverned, ungovernable? (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura insists visit to India will not change party policy (Category: Breaking News)
- Can this ‘centrist path’ take JVP up there? (Category: Breaking News)
- Is there a ‘next time’ violence? (Category: Breaking News)
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