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[…]The post Two Experiments In Social Psychology & Their Relevance To Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lord Of The Flies Sri Lankan version: Strange experiment: Making A Good Society Through Bad Laws (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Were The Early Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- How I Have Used Obeyesekere In My Teaching (Category: Breaking News)
- To Permit Burial Will Be A Politically Wise Decision (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post From Biden To Trump, Mahinda To Ranil! Have We Run Out Of Choices? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Trump Likely To Be The Next American President? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
The Emirati president of the United Nations Climate conference in Dubai has denied reports that he has used his role at the negotiations to pursue fossil fuel deals. A day before the talks are due to begin, Sultan al-Jaber, who also is the CEO of the state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc), rejected allegations […]
- India, UAE reach agreement on green hydrogen development and under sea cable connectivity (Category: Breaking News)
- UN COP28: What to know about the climate summit in Dubai (Category: Breaking News)
- COP28: UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash (Category: Breaking News)
- Kuwaiti leader Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed dies aged 86 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Merely Focussing On Hamas Attacks – Missing The Wood For The Trees! (Category: Breaking News)
- Isn’t It Time For Sri Lanka To Expel Israelis? (Category: Breaking News)
- If It Is Not ‘Genocide’ In Gaza, Then What Should We Call It? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of A ‘UN Day Of Palestinian Solidarity’ – In A World Carrying Its Past Guilt! (Category: Breaking News)
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) thas urged the government to revise the recently gazetted Online Safety Bill. It has made seven recommendations. In a letter addressed to the Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles, the HRCSL has revealed its preliminary observations and recommendations on the controversial Bill. The HRCSL has said the general observations […]
- HRCSL makes key recommendations for Bill on Commission for Truth, Unity and Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- HRCSL to release set of guidelines on protection of human rights defenders (Category: Breaking News)
- HRCSL to launch 3 very important guidelines and recommendations in view of Human Rights Day (Category: Breaking News)
- Rambukkana police shooting- HRCSL s final report handed over to IGP (Category: Breaking News)
Some of Sri Lanka’s official creditors are advocating for a debt restructuring agreement that excludes China, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (28.) This move, if successful, could have implications for how wealthier nations handle financial stress in developing economies. The proposal involves major creditors, including the US, Japan, and India, signing a memorandum of understanding with [...
- Info about USD 4.2 bn debt deal with China shared with other creditors – CBSL Chief (Category: Breaking News)
- Some Sri Lanka creditors seeking debt restructuring deal without China - Bloomberg (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka confident of meeting conditions for IMF funding soon (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says 2.9bn loan bailout for Sri Lanka tied to debt relief from bilateral creditors (Category: Breaking News)
[…]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)
[…]The post Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries Of Struggle appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- May 11th Indefinite Hartal: Plug The Gaps (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Deal Is Not A Solution – Restart Decisive Struggle Against Government Attacks! (Category: Breaking News)
- Risk Of Another Tsunami Disaster: Are We Adequately Prepared? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka & Israel: Parallel Legacies As Geo-Conscious States (Category: Breaking News)
A Uyghur refugee from China’s Xinjiang region died of alleged police neglect this month at the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center, raising concerns about the treatment of the more than 50 Uyghur refugees who have been held at the center since 2014. The victim was Abdulaziz Abdullah, 49. His son, Muhammad Abdullah, who lives in […]
- Thailand arrests Tamils waiting to hear status of UNHCR for refugee (asylum) status - Sydney Mor... (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankans stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- On the smugglers’ trail: ‘So many refugees are here’ (Category: Breaking News)
- On the smugglers’ trail: Sun Sea’s Canadian link and the unlucky ones (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Election Monitoring Organisations Raise Serious Concerns On Election Expenditure Law appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill inadequate - monitoring groups (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka elections monitor calls for guidelines on campaign expenditure for candidates (Category: Breaking News)
- The Committee on Parliamentary Business decides to take into debate the Regulation of Election E... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka election watchdog complains of election law violations (Category: Breaking News)
Tens of thousands of civilians and Russian-appointed officials are being moved out of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region ahead of a Ukrainian offensive, says the Russia-installed local leader. Vladimir Saldo said all Russian-appointed departments and ministries would cross the Dnieper river. Some 50-60,000 civilians would also leave in an “organised, gradual displacement”, he said...
- Massive Russian strikes target energy grid in Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- Putin signs Ukraine annexation laws amid military setbacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky denies Ukraine attacked Putin or Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
Kamahl Santamaria, a veteran television journalist, was just 32 days into his job at New Zealand’s top broadcaster TVNZ when he resigned. Surprise gave way to shock as allegations about his inappropriate behaviour in the newsroom surfaced. Soon Mr Santamaria’s former colleagues at Al Jazeera, where he had worked for 16 years, began speaking out. A BBC investigation […]
- Journalist opens USB letter bomb in newsroom (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- Pope condemns human ‘hunger for wealth and power’ at Christmas Eve Mass (Category: Breaking News)
- Protesters among prisoners pardoned by Iran leader (Category: Breaking News)
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men in any form. Ayn Rand. Does that apply to our President minus the common man’s vote? When he accepted the invitation to be President by poised-to-flee Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa, […]
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition unions accuse Prez of being two-faced (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez asks Opp. to cooperate (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Anniversary Angst (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How Useful are VPNs in the Fight for Freedom of Speech? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- FBI and European law enforcement shut down VPN used by ransomware groups - CNET (Category: Technology)
- FBI and European law enforcement shut down VPN used by ransomware groups - CNET (Category: Technology)
- FBI and European law enforcement shut down VPN used by ransomware groups - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Yoruba People & Culture (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A White Paper For A Draft Campaign Finance Regulation Bill/Act appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Bribing voters (Category: Breaking News)
- 2024 Election Year; The Perennial Challenge Of Cleaning The Stables For Sri Lanka! (Category: Breaking News)
- System Changes Are Critical For Our General Election Process To Produce A Genuinely Democratic, ... (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s Election Timetable & Sri Lanka’s Deadlock Elections (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Janus Moment appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- July 9th 2022: ‘Ever Onward To Victory!’ (Category: Breaking News)
- 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A New Definition For Democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
As the Tibetan people and their supporters across the world celebrate 87th birthday of the Dalai Lama on this 6th July, some inquisitive, and also a few serious questions too are bound to pop up in people’s minds. Some of these obvious question are:”What has he achieved in his six decade long self-chosen exile?”; “Was […]
- Rights Group protests in Brussels against China, demanding release of Panchen Lama (Category: Breaking News)
- China miffed with Tibetan leader’s testimony before Canadian parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Failure to impose fake Panchen Lama embodies China’s colonial rule over Tibet (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan calls for Dalai Lama’s visit to Taipei during celebrations of Tibet Democracy Day (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankans living in Australia are refraining from sending desperately-needed funds to struggling friends and family back home, fearing money will never end up in the hands of those in need because the government will steal it. Multiple members of the Sri Lankan community contacted by NCA NewsWire have lost trust in the government to […]
- Samantha Power urges Sri Lanka to take corrective measures (Category: Breaking News)
- Protest in Singapore against Rajapaksa draws audience of one (Category: Breaking News)
- WikiLeaks recalls Ranil asking Japan in 2007 to suspend funding (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia says 4 boats from Sri Lanka were intercepted in June (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hamaduru Ethics Or Deontology? The Challenge Before Modern Sri Lankans appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- Identity In Choice: The Problem Caste In Christianity (Category: Breaking News)
- My Jaffna Is No Longer My Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Scamming The Gestapo Church, Or Being Sound Christian Witness (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post War On China? – III: Pivot To East appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- War On China? – VI: India & The US: Forward Policy & The Brzezinskian Project (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – V: A “Carnival” Of Quads (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Past Is Prologue For China (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End (Category: Breaking News)
Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and businessman Thirukumar Nadesan have been acquitted in the Malwana property case. Basil Rajapaksa was accused of misappropriating Government funds to purchase the land. He is reported to have constructed a mansion on the land, with a swimming pool and a functioning farm. However, the Gampaha High Court today acquitted […]
- Overseas travel ban on Basil temporarily lifted (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil Rajapaksa likely to step down as an MP (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil says he is not part of the Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil not disappointed on losing MP seat (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Parliament Of Monkeys appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Cabinet Of Patriotic Opportunists (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Ranil Rescue The Economy Or Rajapaksas? (Category: Breaking News)
- RW, IMF & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- GR’s Gamble With RW (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Moment Of Truth For The Church Of Ceylon: Are We Better Than The Rajapaksas? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has been facing a severe economic crisis since the beginning of 2021 and was trying to cushion the effect of the financial instability by seeking help from almost all friendly countries. Sri Lanka sought the intervention of the good offices of the political hierarchy of Bangladesh and Pakistan, apart from India, for much-needed […]
- China assures will not harm Sri Lanka’s interests (Category: Breaking News)
- China only observer in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring platform (Category: Breaking News)
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s attitude puzzles Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Edgewood Middle School's Annual Food Drive has been a long-standing tradition for over a decade and officials say it's needed more than ever this year.
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
Edgewood Middle School's Annual Food Drive has been a long-standing tradition for over a decade and officials say it's needed more than ever this year.
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
Edgewood Middle School's Annual Food Drive has been a long-standing tradition for over a decade and officials say it's needed more than ever this year.
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
Edgewood Middle School's Annual Food Drive has been a long-standing tradition for over a decade and officials say it's needed more than ever this year.
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
Edgewood Middle School's Annual Food Drive has been a long-standing tradition for over a decade and officials say it's needed more than ever this year.
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Edgewood MS Food Drive Aims To Help 185 Families (Category: USA, Indiana)
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