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The newly appointed brand ambassador for Sri Lanka Tourism, former cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya met the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay and discussed promoting tourism between both countries. The Indian High Commission said that the meeting focused on strengthening ties between the people of India and Sri Lanka and promoting tourism as an […]
- Sri Lanka to use Sanath, Yohani in attempt to draw more Indian tourists (Category: Breaking News)
- Sanath Jayasuriya appeals to Indians to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sanath applauds sportsmanship of Indian captain in Sri Lanka game (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian tourists visiting Sri Lanka can pay in INR (Category: Breaking News)
Video: CPA Poll: Who can solve Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis?
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
Sri Lanka has given approval for India s Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) to open 50 new fuel stations, a company official said on Monday, as part of efforts to reduce severe shortages that have crippled the island nation.
- Terminal Award (Category: Business)
- Fashion Freight (Category: Business)
- Capital Cushion (Category: Business)
- Share Allocation (Category: Business)
"I'm sure by next year we will be able to run smoothly," he said.
- Gas prices reduced (Category: Breaking News)
- Domestic Gas prices to go up from midnight (Category: Breaking News)
- Gas price reduced (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s state-run Litro reduces cooking gas prices (Category: Breaking News)
"We will put out the advertisements and open them in the fifty locations."
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has launched an appeal for US$9 million to deliver lifesaving healthcare to more than 2 million women and girls in Sri Lanka in the next six months. Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst socio-economic crisis since independence
- Norway concerned about the food crisis in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNFPA appeals for US $ 10.7 Million to meet urgent needs of Lankan women and girls affected by e... (Category: Breaking News)
- UNFPA appeals for over 10 million dollars to assist Sri Lanka’s vulnerable women (Category: Breaking News)
- Critical medical equipment handed over to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
China's embassy has sought an urgent meeting with senior Sri Lankan authorities after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking of a high-tech Chinese research vessel at the strategic Hambantota port over which India raised concerns, sources said.The post Chinese embassy seeks urgent meeting with Sri Lankan authorities appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Lat...
- Chinese embassy seeks urgent meeting as Sri Lanka seeks to delay ship s arrival - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Nearly 90 Sri Lankan female domestic workers stranded in Oman (Category: Breaking News)
- China responds to reports of exporting monkeys from Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese Embassy donates uniform material for Sri Lanka Police (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Operation Successful But The Patient Died? Not If People Stand Up! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- From “Gota’s War” To War Against Gota; Aragalaya’s Historic Strike! (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Robber Barons Fear The Rejuvenated ‘Aragala’ Spirit! (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
- 2024 Election Year; The Perennial Challenge Of Cleaning The Stables For Sri Lanka! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 600 Articles Over 11 Years: What Did They Tell The Reading Public & Policymakers? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- My View Completes 13 Years: Still Batting & Not-Out Yet (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
We cannot create another problem at the expense of solving an existing problem
- Deficit Warning (Category: Business)
- Greek Lesson (Category: Business)
- US Battle (Category: Business)
- Rescue Deal (Category: Business)
[…]The post Leaping Without Looking From Gota’s Vistas To Ranil’s Vistas appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- Neither North Nor South, Ranil At Home With The Global Right (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential Dilemma: Find Fuel Or Face Protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Foreign Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris says that whatever the political arrangement, envisaged by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, to address the developing political-economic-social crisis, the expansion of the Cabinet-of-Ministers wouldn’t be acceptable
- Appointment of new EC may disrupt upcoming LG polls, GL tells CC (Category: Breaking News)
- Prof. Peiris predicts general election in mid-2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Parliament faulted for deterioration of public finances (Category: Breaking News)
- Absence of common strategy impedes Opp. campaign: SLPP (Category: Breaking News)
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking donor support to reach 3.4 million people in Sri Lanka with food and nutrition assistance as nearly a quarter of Sri Lanka is facing food shortages for millions.Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence is spinning off a “serious food
- Rice paid for by Australia delivered here (Category: Breaking News)
- US funded fortified rice shipments begin arriving at Colombo Port (Category: Breaking News)
- UN warns situation here likely to worsen (Category: Breaking News)
- UN issues dire warning of food insecurity in SL (Category: Breaking News)
Ten members of crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth Games contingent in Birmingham have disappeared in a suspected attempt to remain in Britain, a top sports official from the island nation told AFP on Sunday. The nine athletes and a manager vanished after completing their events, the official
- Marawila Resorts to add another 56 rooms (Category: Breaking News)
- Around world, companies loath to add jobs: Survey (Category: Business)
- Repression Without Addressing Root Causes Will Add To Misery (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to remove 7.5% Port and Airport tax from Fuel & Gas but add 18% VAT (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has asked China to defer the planned visit of a Chinese survey ship to the island country after an objection from India, a government source told Reuters on Sunday.The post Sri Lanka asks China to defer arrival of ship after India objects appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- Chinese Survey Vessel Yuan Wang 5 reaches Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says China survey ship can dock in its port (Category: Breaking News)
- China defends military ship visit to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka asks China to defer visit of research vessel at Hambantota (Category: Breaking News)
SL too on agenda BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 6: India is maintaining a studied “loud silence” on the tensions between China and the United States and the developments in the Taiwan Straits in the wake of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taipei last week. The decision […]
- Sirisena boasts of his successful foreign policy to current rulers (Category: Breaking News)
- China-Taiwan tension is major concern for the Philippines (Category: Breaking News)
- China fires missiles in ‘unprecedented’ drills around Taiwan (Category: Breaking News)
- China, India call for negotiated way out of Ukraine war (Category: Breaking News)
Protestors say the Aragalaya site on the Galle Face is a symbol of a country-wide phenomenon
- Sri Lanka police confirm second body to wash up on Galle Face in 72 hours (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka protest site to remain till Aug 10, attorney general pledges to court (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Galle Face protestors ordered to vacate site by August 05 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Bar Association slam assault on protestors, UK, US concerned (Category: Breaking News)
The protest group Black Cap Movement called for a “commission to find the causes for the 2022 people's uprising.”
- Military raid on Sri Lanka protest site mars cabinet swearing in; nine injured (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Bar Association slam assault on protestors, UK, US concerned (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka under emergency, curfew in Western Province (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka parliament approves emergency rule (Category: Breaking News)
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is concerned about the impact of the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka on food supplies for the country s poorest.
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday that the proposals put forward by political parties during the crucial talks held to form an all-party government in Sri Lanka will be made available to all stakeholders by Monday.The post Sri Lanka President says proposals set forth by parties to form all-party Government will be shared with stakeholders appeared first on ONLANKA News :. S...
- President says proposals set forth by parties to form all-party govt will be shared with stakeho... (Category: Breaking News)
- President calls Opposition Party Leaders for crucial meeting on IMF proposals (Category: Breaking News)
- Meeting between SLFP and President Ranil Wickremesinghe on forming all-party Government (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA to support forming of all-party government (Category: Breaking News)
and avoid a Lanka-like forex crisis. While the […]
- Bangladesh secures loans of $4.7 billion from IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh seeks $4.5 billion IMF loan as deficit widens (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF agrees $4.5 billion Bangladesh support programme (Category: Breaking News)
- Emerging Donor (Category: Business)
The National movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) said that it is gravely concerned about a number of actions taken by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration in recent days.NMSJ chairman, former Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya said that it is their belief that the arrests of Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union, Palitha Atampola and […]
- Sajith says govt lying about there being no money to hold polls after having printed Rs 278 bn i... (Category: Breaking News)
- Chief Govt. Whip insists only Presidential poll will be held this year (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP plans protest in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- The government printed Rs 278 billion between October and December 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Thank You Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan completely justified: CTA’s Penpa Tsering (Category: Breaking News)
- China to skip meeting with US Secretary in Cambodia amid tensions over Pelosi’s visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Climate Colonialism At CoP 28: Carbon Laundering Via Green Bondscams? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Have We Lost It All? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- ‘Ranil Resign!’: Awaken Aragalaya 3.0 (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Robber Barons Fear The Rejuvenated ‘Aragala’ Spirit! (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Is The Aragalaya Failing? (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has asked China to indefinitely delay a visit by a ship following intense pressure by India, official sources said Saturday. The Yuan Wang 5 is en route from the Chinese port of Jiangyin and due in the Chinese-run Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on Thursday, according to analytics website MarineTraffic. It is described […]
- India lodges formal concerns with Sri Lanka on Yuan Wang 5 (Category: Breaking News)
- China accused of using Sri Lanka as a pawn (Category: Breaking News)
- China research ship requests Sri Lanka port call (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese warship docks at Colombo Port (Category: Breaking News)
In a congratulatory message sent to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stated that the leadership of Sri Lankan Head of State will be decisive in overcoming the challenges faced by the island nation.
Opposition proposes to lift the emergency law and to release “aragalaya” prisoners
India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar on Thursday conveyed to his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry that India, as a “dependable friend” of Sri Lanka, remained committed to assisting it in its economic recovery.The post India remains committed to assist Sri Lanka in its economic recovery – Jaishankar tells Sabry appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates -...
- India remains committed to assist Sri Lanka in its economic recovery- Jaishankar tells Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaishankar conveys India’s commitment to increase investment flows to Sri Lanka to hasten econom... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s creditors must take proactive steps to facilitate its recovery: Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
- Permission not given to Chinese ship to dock, India’s concerns important: Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
Rupee depreciation, dues from government-owned institutes and overpaid overstaff are prominent reasons for the loses
- Sri Lanka’s petroleum sector trade unions to launch protest on Aug 22 against new reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: CPC not audited since 2008 - JVP (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce new electricity tariff scheme for low-income households (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to make cash transfers to the those hit hard by record kerosene price hike (Category: Breaking News)
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