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[…] The post Mahinda Is Bowing Out! What About Gota? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Lack Of Accountability, Ability & Credibility appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Concepts, Solutions & Actions (Category: Breaking News)
- President Must Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Trap, Lack Of Accountability & Blunders (Category: Breaking News)
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Politicians—Constitutional Amendment Mess (Category: Breaking News)
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced a 40 percent price hike for dozens of commonly used medicines on Saturday as the island nation labours through its worst economic crisis in decades. The post... Click on the headline to read the full story
[…] The post An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What’s Next, After The Rajapaksa Clan & #GotaGoGama Are Both Gone? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Postscript To Political Crisis: A Way Out (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post An Open Letter To All Parliamentarians appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lihini Seafoods expands into local market by entering LAUGFS supermarkets (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Tharu Dilena Ambaraye Song Rahal Alwis & Lihini Hettiarachchi (Category: Video)
The latest findings of the survey Confidence in Democratic Governance Index (Wave 2) have found that an overwhelming majority of Sri Lankans have been affected by the current crisis.
Sri Lanka s finance minister has told the BBC he has no choice but to hike the country s sales tax as it faces its worst-ever economic crisis.
Sri Lanka’s president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country’s worst economic crisis in decades,... Click on the headline to read the full story
Nine out of 10 Sri Lankans hold the opinion that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa should resign and that the Rajapaksa family should leave Sri Lankan politics. The Confidence in Democratic Governance Index (Wave 2) conducted by Social Indicator (SI), the survey research arm of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) found that 87% support the […]
- Sri Lankans in Sydney stage demonstration against Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Cabinet approves proposal for 21st Amendment (Category: Breaking News)
- Resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa as PM gazetted (Category: Breaking News)
- Go Gota Gama at Galle Face marks 50 days (Category: Breaking News)
22-04-2022, Amsterdam: In the latest series of EFSAS interviews, Mr. Junaid Qureshi (Director EFSAS) welcomed virtually Professor Mick Moore, a highly regarded political economist and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He is also the founding CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development and was appointed […]
- Sri Lanka state finances would improve with domestic domestic restructure: think tank (Category: Breaking News)
- China leaves crisis-ridden Sri Lanka in the lurch to fend for itself (Category: Breaking News)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
who are now suffering due to the economic crisis. “The Tamil […]
- Stalin thanks Jaishankar for accepting Tamil Nadu’s request to help Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil diaspora recognises hopeful developments in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil Nadu sends another shipment of relief goods to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Stalin accuses Sri Lankans of attacking Indian fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post The Absurd, Asinine All-Parties Administration Attempt appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- July 9th 2022: ‘Ever Onward To Victory!’ (Category: Breaking News)
- The New Opposition Group Of 40 & The Aragalaya: Potentials, Prospects & Problems (Category: Breaking News)
- Defeating Gota-Ranil: Re-Thinking The Aragalaya & Left Strategy (Category: Breaking News)
- Pohottuwa’s Suicidal Plunge (Category: Breaking News)
India, the world’s second-biggest tea producer, will likely fail to take advantage of an export gap in the global market sparked by Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, according to a top grower. The post... Click on the headline to read the full story
Many schools in Colombo were shut and several train stations deserted on Thursday as teachers and train drivers joined mass walkouts demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government quit over Sri... Click on the headline to read the full story
[…] The post On Political Appointments To Universities appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- When The Gatekeepers Of Academic Standards & Integrity Commit Fraud, What Is Left Of The Sri Lan... (Category: Breaking News)
- Friday Forum on crisis in the education sector (Category: Business)
- "I dont like to use the term 'student supppression' simply because there is no such thing" (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaffna University Vice-Chancellor Commits Fraud Again With Impunity (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Government Brutalities Against Protesters appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Second Wave Of Covid-19 Or Continuation Of Community Spread Of Covid-19 In Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Second Wave Of Covid-19 Or Continuation Of Community Spread Of Covid-19 In Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19 Vaccination: Who Gets, When And How? (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19 Vaccination: Who Gets, When And How? (Category: Breaking News)
Indonesia has provided humanitarian aid worth US $1.6 million to Sri Lanka. The Indonesian Embassy in Colombo said that the Indonesian Government has provided humanitarian aid of essential medicines and medical equipment to Sri Lanka to the value of LKR 517.5 million (around US $1.6 million), due to the severe shortage in Sri Lanka caused […]
- Second consignment of Indonesia humanitarian aid arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- EU provides €200,000 in humanitarian funding for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Children in Sri Lanka still require critical lifesaving support (Category: Breaking News)
- Indonesian aid for needy Sri Lankan families (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Beyond Ousting The Shamed ‘Suhartos’ Of Sri Lanka! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- From “Gota’s War” To War Against Gota; Aragalaya’s Historic Strike! (Category: Breaking News)
- Irony Of The Downfall Of Rajapaksas; Lessons & Opportunities! (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka Come Out Of Its ‘Deer In The Headlights’ Mindset? (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- Of Elections, Bond Scams & Money Politics: The Anatomy Of Default @75 (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota Back In The USA & A Chilling Killing: Welcome To 2023 A (Virtual) Realty In A Post-Truth Wo... (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse & Privatization Of The Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Sri Lanka: Typical Propaganda By A Corrupt Nefarious Regime! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- High Time To Repeal The PTA & Release All Prisoners Held Under It (Category: Breaking News)
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
- Is President Wickremesinghe Following In The Footsteps Of His Uncle, President Jayewardene, In 1... (Category: Breaking News)
- National Peoples Power’s Indian Visit: A Boost To Its Status? (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed in principle to form an all-party government that will include all the political parties represented in Parliament as a solution to face the crisis... Click on the headline to read the full story
In the wake of the crisis situation faced by Sri Lanka, the Italian government has decided to grant an in-kind emergency contribution of nearly Rs. 125 million to Sri Lanka for the purchase of medicine and medical equipment.
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
The World Bank has agreed to provide USD 600 million in financial assistance to address the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the President s Media Division (PMD) says.
The World Bank has agreed to provide USD 600 Million in financial assistance as a solution to Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis. The post World Bank to provide USD 600 Million to Sri Lanka... Click on the headline to read the full story
Sri Lanka must tighten monetary policy, raise tax and adopt flexible exchange rates to address its debt crisis, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Tuesday.
- Sri Lanka partly shielded from Greek crisis by IMF and donor loans (Category: Breaking News)
- Easing Policy (Category: Business)
- Dollar Woes (Category: Business)
- Downward Pressure (Category: Business)
Global rating agency Standard and Poor’s has lowered the long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on Sri Lanka to “SD” (selective default) from “CC” as the crisis-hit Island nation missed an interest payment on bonds. On April 18, Sri Lanka missed interest payments on its $1.25 billion
- Fitch downgrades Sri Lanka’s long-term local-currency IDR to ‘CC’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch Ratings downgrades ratings of seven Sri Lankan insurers (Category: Breaking News)
- S&P Global cuts Sri Lanka’s bonds ratings (Category: Breaking News)
- S&P marks Sri Lankan bonds as ‘default’, deepening junk status (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Debt Trap, Lack Of Accountability & Blunders appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lack Of Accountability, Ability & Credibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Preventing Crooks From Entering The Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Brutalities Against Protesters (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Could The Central Bank New Governor Alone Grasp The Nettle! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- New Central Banking Bill: Positive But Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- Four Popular Fallacies Relating To Central Banking (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Has Printed The Biggest Quantity Of Money? Lakshman, Cabraal Or Nandalal? (Category: Breaking News)
- Deciding On New Central Bank Act Is Too Precious To Be Left Only To Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka must tighten monetary policy, raise tax and adopt flexible exchange rates to address its debt crisis, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Tuesday. The post IMF... Click on the headline to read the full story
[…] The post New Faces & New Ethos Might Be Able To Save The Country appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Getting Nearer To Solution As Options Narrow (Category: Breaking News)
- A Warning To Be Heeded (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Leaders Need To Analyse Problems More Rationally (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Leaders Need To Analyse Problems More Rationally (Category: Breaking News)
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