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[…]The post Vain Attempts To Bowl Imran Khan Out! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pakistan’s May 9 & Aragalaya Anniversary In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Imran Khan’s supporters hold anti-Pakistan protest outside UN in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- Imran Khan: The Rising Star Over Battered Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s Imran Khan: Playboy cricketer to PM? (Category: Business)
[…]The post The Rooster Coop & Its Impact On Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Beneath The Skin Deep Liberalism Lies Cancerous Caste Prejudices (Category: Breaking News)
- The Tamil Nadu Factor (Category: Breaking News)
Cassandra in her Friday Cry-s has often noted with deep gratitude that nature has been benevolent to suffering, down and almost out Sri Lanka. Forest fires due to intemperate temperature in usually cool climes; sudden floods due to torrential rains; erupting volcanoes and earthquakes have all assiduously avoided troubling poor little Sri Lanka struggling against […]
- ADB to provide Rs 10 billion for local paddy cultivators to buy MoP this Maha (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrogance of power (Category: Breaking News)
- The drought, Mahaveli waters and the farmer (Category: Business)
- Reservoirs run dry with no rains, country heading for electricity crisis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hero Syndrome & Unlawful Acts: Politicians In The Fantasyland Of Omnipotence appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Commissions, An “Open Sesame” (Category: Breaking News)
- Fear Corrupts Politicians: Time To Repeal Custom-Made Laws (Category: Breaking News)
- Naked King & The Crumbling State: Seven Decades Of Fake Saviours (Category: Breaking News)
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 2nd August, 2023 A brouhaha has erupted over what is described as the distortion of the national anthem at the Lanka Premier League (LPL) opening ceremony. Talented young vocalist Umara Sinhawansa has been drawing heavy fire for singing the national anthem in operatic style, and mispronouncing some words therein. Her performance has sparked a […]
- National Anthem distorted at Lanka Premier League Cricket tournament? (Category: Breaking News)
- Patriots and crooks (Category: Breaking News)
- Independence Day celebrations to cost Rs. 200 mn (Category: Breaking News)
- Authorities to probe alleged distortion of national anthem at LPL opening ceremony (Category: Breaking News)
At least 44 people have been killed and nearly 200 injured after a suicide bomb blast at a political rally in Pakistan.The post At least 44 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing during political rally appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Suicide attacks rock Pakistan, Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- IS claims responsibility for bombing at pro-Taliban election rally in Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Anthony Quinn Warner confirmed by DNA test as Nashville Christmas bomber (Category: USA, New York)
- Anthony Quinn Warner confirmed by DNA test as Nashville Christmas bomber (Category: USA, New York)
Leaders of India and Sri Lanka were on the same page over regional security following President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s latest visit to New Delhi, an official source said amid fears of China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean region, Wickremesinghe addressed India’s security concerns over China’s increasing footprint in Sri Lanka and vowed to fast track […]
- Won’t do anything to hurt India’s security: President (Category: Breaking News)
- President’s India visit expected to boost stronger economic and commercial ties (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian think-tank sanguine about Indo-Lankan ties, but calls for security redlines – Analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s envoy Milinda Moragoda meets NSA Ajit Doval (Category: Breaking News)
By Jayantha Somasundaram (This articlecontinued from yesterday (25) is based on reporting by the international media on the events in Sri Lanka forty years ago.) “For day after day Tamils were beaten, hacked or burned to death in the streets, on buses, on trains – sometimes in the sight of horrified foreign tourists. Their homes […]
- JULY 1983: AS THE WORLD SAW SRI LANKA (Category: Breaking News)
- Horror Of A Pogrom: Remembering “Black July” 1983 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
- Niemöller’s Quote Resonating With Aragalaya’s Aim For Racial Unity! (Category: Breaking News)
(Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) During one of my visits to Colombo I got a call to see the President at ‘Breamar’. Gamini Dissanayake had told him of my friendship with Parathasarathy and he wanted me to help him repair the damage done to their friendship due to the abuse heaped […]
- No deal yet on Singapore GP renewal (Category: Business)
- Organisers predict Indian GP sellout (Category: Business)
- Perez shines in unpredictable Malaysian GP (Category: Business)
- Australian GP hails more competitive season (Category: Business)
A top Sri Lankan athlete who set national records in the pole vault has been working as a housemaid in Dubai to help support her family at home. For the last year Sachini Perera, 24, has put her athletics dreams on hold when Sri Lanka’s currency crisis and soaring medical bills made it difficult for […]
- Sri Lanka s Vaulting Queen works as Dubai housemaid to support family at home (Category: Breaking News)
- Daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants wins Australia’s biggest literary prize (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Resident Coordinator and Ranil discuss human rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Thai King makes donation to rehabilitate elephant mistreated in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
There is bad news for Beijing from Colombo. President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that his government will not allow the island nation to be used as a base for threats against India. He has also emphasized that Sri Lanka is a neutral country and has no military agreements with China. In an […]
- Sri Lanka virtually let down by China in securing a $2.9 billion IMF loan in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to resume debt restructuring talks with China (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should prevent Chinese vessel from reaching Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
- President urges China to change tune on debt (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Target 2048: It Is Democracy & Not Authoritarianism That Will Do The Job appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Target 2048 – Is It Firm Responsive Leadership Or Dictatorial Authoritarian Leadership? (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Social Market Economy Ideology Need Be Clarified & Signed Off (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Growth Lab Experiment Should Be Converted From A Mere Wish To Ground Level Reality (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 Requires Sri Lanka To Develop A Viable Creative Capital Base (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Agony Continues Or A New Beginning With Fonseka As Leader Of SJB? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil Vs. AKD: Who Will Blink First? (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Ranil Wickremesinghe Unelectable? (Category: Breaking News)
- Black & White; No Shades? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s political ‘Trickonometry’ (Category: Breaking News)
The muted, panicked voice came through the phone of a friend who croaked she was very confidentially warning Cassandra and advising her. Yours truly was immediately panic infected. With deep emphasis and concern the friend took her time to advise that Cass withdraws all money from banks. Cass was for once glad she was poor […]
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Authorities warn of fake Cass County Jail checks (Category: USA, North Dakota)
Debt-laden Sri Lanka will unveil its domestic debt restructuring strategy this week, central bank chief P Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Sunday (Jun 25), as the island navigates its worst financial crisis in decades. Sri Lanka will also likely obtain Cabinet and parliamentary approval for the debt restructuring strategy this week, Weerasinghe told local TV channels […]
- CB warns of catastrophic consequences if banking sector collapses (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s sovereign lenders yet to outline debt talks plans (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to announce debt restructuring strategy in April (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL Governor refuses to resign over pay hike issue (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Proposed Broadcasting Regulations: Striking A Balance Between Control & Freedom appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Online Safety & Broadcasting Regulatory Commission laws DO NOT meet international standards – UN (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Due Impartiality’ Should Be Our Top Most Objective In Regulating The Broadcasting Sector (Category: Breaking News)
- Vote To Establish Democracy Instead Of The Same Political Cults At The Next Election (Category: Breaking News)
- Broadcasting Regulatory Commission Act jolts Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 21st June, 2023 The ‘Rice Mafia’ has emerged so powerful over the years that it is now running a parallel government of sorts. Wealthy rice millers resort to market manipulations, determine paddy and rice prices and exploit farmers and consumers alike, with impunity. This country is not short of political leaders who talk tough […]
- Needed: Action not rhetoric (Category: Breaking News)
- Of that paan (Category: Breaking News)
- A loaf of Bread goes up by Rs. 5 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sprat in the soup (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Think 2048, Act Now appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Missing Ingredients To Come Out Of The Economic Rut (Category: Breaking News)
- If The Speaker Had Become The President, The Economic Crisis Might Have Been Eased By Now (Category: Breaking News)
- My View Completes 13 Years: Still Batting & Not-Out Yet (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Social Market Economy Ideology Need Be Clarified & Signed Off (Category: Breaking News)
The government is trying to rekindle ethnic and religious conflicts in the country for its political survival, National People's Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said yesterday (June 18).The post Government engaged in a conspiracy to rekindle ethnic and religious conflicts for survival – Anura appeared first on ONLANKA News - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Live Updates - Sri L...
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake to contest for Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake selected as the next Presidential candidate of National People’s Power (Category: Breaking News)
- President has no right to express opinion on legality of Local Government Election – Anura (Category: Breaking News)
- Obstructing Elections is a Punishable Offence – Anura warns Treasury Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Kurundi: A Runway To ’56? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pyromaniacs On The March (Category: Breaking News)
- National Reconciliation & Archaeological Mischiefs (Category: Breaking News)
- Incubating, Again (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics Of Addiction (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Collusive Behavior Undermines Citizen Rights: Emerging Pseudo-Goebbels appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Psychopathic Tendencies: Pet Dogs, Incompetency & Beds To The Foray (Category: Breaking News)
- The Galle Face Struggle & Its Importance (Category: Breaking News)
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post ‘Due Impartiality’ Should Be Our Top Most Objective In Regulating The Broadcasting Sector appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Proposed Broadcasting Regulations: Striking A Balance Between Control & Freedom (Category: Breaking News)
- Weaponising Of The Law (Category: Breaking News)
- Dullas feels Ranil bringing new Bill to control Sirasa TV (Category: Breaking News)
- Lord Of The Flies Sri Lankan version: Strange experiment: Making A Good Society Through Bad Laws (Category: Breaking News)
This last week has seen two very white, very important politicians having to slide down the pallang, certainly not to obscurity but to real shame and huge setbacks. Yes, they are the yellow haired charlatan reprobates who think they know it all from the US of America and the UK. Ex-President Donald Trump has been […]
- Lanka in shock treatment to reduce elephant deaths (Category: Breaking News)
- Six jumbos killed by trains (Category: Breaking News)
- Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds since 1700 (Category: Breaking News)
- So-called experts blind to what is exacerbating human-elephant conflict (Category: Breaking News)
A highly appreciative skill of the Pakistani administration is their extensive theatricals which can deceive the most intelligent of men. Lengthy speeches in the parliament are converted into minutes packed with wise counsel. After collecting enough praises and spewing venom on the opposition, they end up ultimately doing what they would do anyway — putting […]
- Pakistan’s election chaos casts shadow on next IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF promises Pakistan ‘immediate’ release of $1.1bn loan after key meet (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan, IMF reach staff-level deal to release $1.1bn from bailout package (Category: Breaking News)
- Target Tool (Category: Business)
[…]The post A Typology Of Sri Lanka’s Presidential Candidates appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Election ’24: Rajapaksa Implosion & Ranil’s Red Sea Meddling (Category: Breaking News)
- Electing A New Parliament & Ending The Old Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Challenges In The Forthcoming Presidential Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil & His Options: Keep Running Or End The Executive Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
Two years into the military recapturing power, there does not seem to be a let-up to the torment of the people of Myanmar. The latter are putting up sustained and spirited armed opposition to the military but the ruling junta is yet to contemplate backing down from its harshly repressive treatment of the resisting public. […]
- The issue of rising state brutality in the Asian theatre (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar: South Asia’s other ‘Small Miracle’? (Category: Business)
- New Myanmar Democracy: Generals In Plain Clothes (Category: Breaking News)
- China, Russia, India enabling Myanmar’s military rule: Report (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 7th June, 2023 The easiest task in Sri Lanka is perhaps to distract the public. In ancient Rome, the patricians used bread and circuses to take the plebeians for a ride, but there is no need for bread to hoodwink the masses in this country, where a mere political circus can make them forget […]
- Ranil: SJB has abandoned UNP vision (Category: Breaking News)
- People don’t vote rationally at general election held after presidential polls (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil asks President to hold general election first (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota as scapegoat (Category: Breaking News)
New laws contemplated by the government appears to have caused much concern among Opposition political parties for obvious reasons. The constitutionality of the proposed Broadcasting Authority Bill is expected to be challenged in the Supreme Court. The whole process of law making raised quite a stir in the wake of the recent shocking Supreme Court […]
- Opp. alleges Prez intends to bring media under his thumb, roll back election map (Category: Breaking News)
- GL urges AG to ensure compliance with SC recommendations before Speaker certifies Online Safety ... (Category: Breaking News)
- GL frowns on Prez downplaying importance of elections before judges (Category: Breaking News)
- Herath accuses President of using SLPP as rubber stamp in Parliament to pass draconian laws (Category: Breaking News)
‘Broadcasting Authority a political mechanism led by Media Secretary’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Top Opposition spokesman Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday (05) alleged that President Ranil Wickremesinghe intended to silence television and radio stations through the proposed Broadcasting Authority Bill (BAB). The former External Affairs Minister asserted that the BAB was part of a destructive political [&...
- GL urges AG to ensure compliance with SC recommendations before Speaker certifies Online Safety ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Broadcasting Regulatory Commission Act jolts Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- GL frowns on Prez downplaying importance of elections before judges (Category: Breaking News)
- UNHRC concerned about constitutional jugglery to suppress Opposition: GL (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Political Robber Barons Fear The Rejuvenated ‘Aragala’ Spirit! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Politics & Death Of Sanath Nishantha: Some Sombre Lessons & Reflections (Category: Breaking News)
- Calm Before The Storm! Aragalaya -’22 Has Rested Enough!!! (Category: Breaking News)
- Evaluation Of Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- With Impunity Remaining Normalised, What Hope For Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
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