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by Laleen Jayamanne ( Continued From Wednesday) The Multi-Ethnic fan base Gamini Fonseka, who introduced action (fights) with a new image of proletarian muscular masculinity into Sinhala cinema, was loved by both the Sinhala and Tamil male films fans for those reasons. His film Sarungale, where he played a rather sedentary Tamil Clerk (he spoke […]
Greatly saddened and given to discussion were Cass and her batch of friends on reading about the death of a 42-year-old Tamil domestic servant come to slave in a rich home in Colombo to support her very poor family in far-away Badulla. She worked at the home of teledrama producer cum businesswoman Sudharma Nethicumara. We […]
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The Independent Television Network (ITN) has launched an investigation into alleged sexual harassment allegations. ITN Chairman Sudarshana Gunawardana said that he has instructed the General Manager of ITN to launch an immediate inquiry according to the accepted practices of ITN. “The ITN Management is in the process of selecting an external inquiring officer. I am […]
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An investigation has been sought on sexual harassment claims made by a State TV journalist, who went public with her claims on Facebook. Ishara Devendra, a former journalist attached to the Independent Television Network (ITN), alleged that she faced sexual harassment from an institution head on a regular basis. Issuing a statement, the Federation of […]
[…]The post The Easter Attacks & A Game Of Thrones: The Master Mind, A Cover Up Investigation & AI appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
There is a pithy Sinhala saying that I surmise derived from the sinking of the Titanic where while the unsinkable ship was submerging in the Atlantic in the cold night of April 14, 1912, the band was ordered to play on. It starts with Neva gilunath … but I shirk completing it because its commonness […]
By Prof. Nalin Abeysekera Sri Lankans are celebrating the traditional New Year, and we can see that despite many obstacles people wanted to move back to their normal lives. The country has suffered three different blows––the Easter Sunday attack, Covid-19, and the economic crisis. They have caused many hardships for the general public. There has […]
Sri Lanka expects China to support its effort to restructure debts and help it begin repaying its obligations, according to the nation’s central bank governor.The post China will support Sri Lanka’s debt rework, says CBSL governor appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
By N Sathiya Moorthy If there is one aspect of the Sri Lankan system that needs to be applauded but is not acknowledged by critics, whether nearer home or overseas, it is this. It may also be the reason why no government in the country has known enough to alter the status quo, and make […]
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized during an interview organized by Harvard University on the 24th, through Zoom technology, that Sri Lanka’s access to the growing Indian and African markets should not be disrupted by any big power rivalry or conflictThe post Sri Lanka’s access to growing Indian & African markets cannot be disrupted – President Ranil appeared fir...
By N Sathiya Moorthy Like it or not, in the next big election in the country, or more of them, the IMF would be the key issue. The way the government has been dragging its feet on the relatively less important local government elections (LGE), and not all its arguments are wrong, the presidential elections […]
A popular Zimbabwe preacher who has links with a pastor in Sri Lanka, has denied allegations of corruption after he was accused of gold-smuggling. Issuing a lengthy statement, Presidential Envoy and preacher Uebert Angel, said that the allegations in an Al Jazeera documentary was part of a well-crafted ploy to trap the Ambassador and tarnish […]
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Premier Li Keqiang told the head of the International Monetary Fund that China is open to participating in multilateral efforts to help heavily indebted nations “in a constructive manner,” China Central Television reported.The post China tells IMF willing to take constructive part in debt talks appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
A Connoisseur of Journalism Several participants at a very popular night-time political chat programme on television recently talked about the history of Sri Lanka after gaining independence. They also chose to lament that the historical events in Sri Lanka are not even taught, let alone mentioned even and discussed in our schools. As a direct […]
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by Jehan Perera Government supporters appear to be satisfied at the masterful manner by which they believe they have had the local government elections postponed. They deny there was to be an election to be postponed, at all! They find fault with the Election Commission for not having minutes of the meeting they had to […]
A retired Indian Ambassador (never posted to Sri Lanka) sent me these two quotations by Nehru. “My greatest challenge has been how to make a modern nation of a people steeped in religiosity” and at the tail end of his career he was asked, ‘What has been your greatest success?” He answered, “to have taught […]
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By C. A. Chandraprema We now live in a digital world dominated by the social media, where information or disinformation coming through our mobile phones has more to do with forming public opinion than the plainly visible and palpable reality and well-established facts and data. Sri Lanka recently marked the 75th Anniversary of its Independence in […]
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Reforms to be introduced to end ‘media abuses’ President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said that the government was not in a position to lower the taxes. Delivering his second government policy statement to inaugurate the Fourth session of the Ninth Parliament, the President said: “Some people say that the primary taxable income should be raised from […]
Thursday 9th February, 2023 President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who presented his government’s policy statement in Parliament, yesterday, sounded like a seasoned insurance sales agent with glib phrases rolling off his experienced tongue; he sought to scare the public and infuse them with hope, at the same time, to sell his policies. The knee-jerk reaction of the […]
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe ceremonially declared open the fourth session of the ninth Parliament and delivered the Government Policy Statement today (February 08).The post Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
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