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[…]The post Gathering Storms Cloud On The Horizon; Military, Political, Strategic & Economic Uncertainties Abound appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is It 1848 Again? Unrest This Time Is Global (Category: Breaking News)
- Threats To The Hegemony Of The US Dollar (Category: Breaking News)
- A Bleak Forecast For 2024 & Beyond: Politics (Security), Economics & Military (Category: Breaking News)
- Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping & Joe Biden (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lankan Dream For 2024 & Beyond: Changing The System appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Adopting A Humanist Approach To Empower Youths For National Development (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Is True “System Change” In Sri Lanka Only A Fantasy? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Hitler’s ‘Vermin’ & Trump’s ‘Vermin’; Trump’s Dog-Whistle To American ‘Whiteism’ appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 2024: The Year Of South Asian Elections appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil’s Last Hurrah For A New Parliament In March (Category: Breaking News)
- Election Year Road Map For Constitutional Reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Dhaka Goes Metro, Colombo Stuck On Tuk-Tuk (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil As PM Till 2025, Opposition Disappears, No End In Sight For Queuing Trauma (Category: Breaking News)
Pakistan’s election body has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nomination to contest the 2024 parliamentary elections, with Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-e Insaf (PTI) party accusing authorities of stopping most of its candidates from participating in the elections due in February. The 71-year-old former cricket star, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for corruption, was […]
- Sri Lanka Elections Department says over 20 percent nomination lists rejected (Category: Breaking News)
- Election Commissioner given time to submit facts on nomination rejections (Category: Breaking News)
- CA Asks EC To Accept UPFA Nominations (Category: Breaking News)
- Total Of 450 Nomination Papers Rejected (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Acting IGP & Police Minister Have Woken Up From A Deep Sleep? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- The Malicious “Shafi Frame Up”: Will 2023 See The Guilty Being Punished? (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Curse Of JRJ Constitution Continues (Category: Breaking News)
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been granted bail in a case alleging he leaked state secrets, but he remains in jail on other charges ahead of the general election due in February. The Supreme Court on Friday granted Khan bail in the case, but it was not clear how he could be released […]
- Pakistan court sentences ex-PM Imran Khan to 3 years in prison: State TV (Category: Breaking News)
- Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s party elects new head before election (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s May 9 & Aragalaya Anniversary In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan court suspends arrest warrants against ex-PM Imran Khan (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Search For Saviors In Crisis Times appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is The “System Change” We Anticipate? How Can It Be Achieved? (Category: Breaking News)
- Truth Is An Abyss (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Prema-Chandra Athukorala Chinthana On Import Substitution (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Citizens Need A Snow White To Prod The Dwarfs In Governance & Society! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Post-Crisis Essential Reforms Being Effectively Progressed? If Not What Is The Way Forward? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Postscript To Political Crisis: A Way Out (Category: Breaking News)
- Mr. President, Dawn Of The New Year Is The Time For Reflection & To Redress Citizens Grievances ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Are Providers Of Information Under RTI Cognizant Of Their Obligations? (Category: Breaking News)
Tuesday 12th December, 2023 Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has lashed out at a section of the media for floating a story that he is planning to patch up differences with President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Premadasa has alleged that the journalists who are spreading that story are in the pay of the government. His consternation is understandable. […]
- SJB: JVP’s call for RW’s participation in proposed debate diversionary tactic (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential polls cannot be delayed by advancing general election – EC (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential election- SJB floats potential backing of UNP for Sajith (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Sajith-Ranil alliance’ against NPP: GL denies Chung’s intervention (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post AKD’s Challenge: ‘Can He Outdo Ranil & Sajith?’ appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Black & White; No Shades? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Vs. AKD: Who Will Blink First? (Category: Breaking News)
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Accomplishments & Challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith & Anura Should Dare Arrest; Take The Battle To Gota & Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Reflecting Back On The Politics Of My Lifetime appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- In Memory Of Comrade Osman De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- RIP: Comrade R Singamapanar: The First Tamil Political Activist From Chunnakam (Category: Breaking News)
- Reflecting On 34 Years: The JVP & The Legacy Of Comrade Rohana Wijeweera (Category: Breaking News)
- In Memory Of Comrade H. A. Seneviratne, Lawyer, Writer & Human Rights Activist (Category: Breaking News)
Thanks to regular columnist Vijaya Chandrasoma’s incisive contributions on political developments in the USA, readers of this newspaper have been able to get a good understanding of what is happening in one of the world’s greatest democracies, in the run-up to its presidential election next year. Donald Trump is the current front-line candidate for the […]
- Poli (Sigh): Trump Is Never Going To Pivot (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Trump Is Never Going To Pivot (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Trump Is Never Going To Pivot (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Trump Is Never Going To Pivot (Category: USA, Indiana)
The Colombo District Court on Friday (08 Dec.) issued an injunction against SLVLOG Pod Talks , a political and current affairs talk show aired by the SLVLOG YouTube channel.
Nimisha Priya, barely 19, left the southern Indian state of Kerala for Yemen in 2008 with big dreams. She had found work as a nurse in a government-run hospital in the capital Saan’a and told her mother, a poorly-paid domestic helper, that their days of hardships would be over soon. Fifteen years later, that dream […]
- Russian jet carrying Ukrainian PoWs crashes – Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
- At least eight dead after major rioting and unrest in Papua New Guinea (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan jet crash: Passengers describe chaos inside flight 516 (Category: Breaking News)
- How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Reconciliation Process Requires Fairness & Equal Treatment appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Credibility gap grows to the detriment of national reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- Weaponising Of The Law (Category: Breaking News)
- People’s Continued Trust In Government Requires Equitable Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- People’s Continued Trust In Government Requires Equitable Governance (Category: Breaking News)
by Jehan Perera Minorities for the most part live in some apprehension of the power of the majority. At their worst, majorities can inflict violence on minorities, such as in the form of riots. While minorities may resist, they tend to be at the receiving end. In democracies, minorities will invariably face the problem of […]
- Reconciliation Process Requires Fairness & Equal Treatment (Category: Breaking News)
- Selective targeting not law’s purpose (Category: Breaking News)
- Constitutional Council: Still no finality (Category: Breaking News)
- Achieving national unity and reconciliation requires multi-partisan consultations and acceptance... (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy In the common man’s belief, an intent-on-voting opinion poll, that too on phone with only around 500 samples is a not a good way to assess the mood of the voter in an election year. Yet, in the absence of any other bench-mark from the ground, something is better than nothing, especially […]
- Which bell, what cat, and how to tie it? (Category: Breaking News)
- National consensus on debt and economy, need of the hour (Category: Breaking News)
- The President is Gone, Long Live the President! (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics after the protests (Category: Breaking News)
Member of Parliament Dr. Nalaka Godahewa says that even in this budget, the President’s plan to break a part of the opposition has failed. He said so at a recent press conference held at the Nawala office of the Freedom Janata Sabha on the budget and the current political situation. “We are in temporary relief […]
- Eran proposes raising PAYE threshold to Rs 200,000 a month (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition attacks increase in state debt (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Economy improving, VAT can be reduced – RW (Category: Breaking News)
- Kiriella alleges tax concessions granted to GR’s election funders (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Futility Of A ‘UN Day Of Palestinian Solidarity’ – In A World Carrying Its Past Guilt! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
- Gazan Fire Fuelled By Western Genocide Enablers With A Scrambled Moral Compass! (Category: Breaking News)
- 75 Years On: The Shameful Legacy Of The ‘Palestinian Nakba’ Continues! (Category: Breaking News)
- If It Is Not ‘Genocide’ In Gaza, Then What Should We Call It? (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya There is a point in Killers of the Flower Moon where it stops becoming a film and transforms into an experience. I found myself moved to anger, sadness, and then provoked into self-reflection. This is a film that tells us everything, in one go, about the history of the West, the plight […]
- “Cashew nuts are a healthy snack choice due to their nutritional benefits.” (Category: Breaking News)
- All Island Schools Games Athletics Championships (Category: Breaking News)
- Oppenheimer sweeps Golden Globes taking best drama, actor and director (Category: Breaking News)
- “The film kills Neruda” (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Northern Tamils Are Not For Sale To China appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins: A Comment (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Ocean Security Conference & Ranil’s Statement – A Point Of View (Category: Breaking News)
- Should The Country Be Governed By As Sangha Says?: A Rejoinder (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Forces To Be Trained In Modern Day Warfare: President (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Still, The Mirage appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pyromaniacs On The March (Category: Breaking News)
- The Smell Of Terror (Category: Breaking News)
- Shades Of An Undead Past (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy There Was, In Enthroning Gota; Not In Dethroning Him! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Suppressing Free Speech & Religious Freedom By Labelling Them Hate Speech appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lying About Age Of Protestant Mission Schools: Is Age Quality? (Category: Breaking News)
- My Jaffna Is No Longer My Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted Religion (Category: Breaking News)
- Scamming The Gestapo Church, Or Being Sound Christian Witness (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Democracy A Global Sine-Qua-Non: Social-Liberal-Electoral Or Whatever appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lula’s Slender Congressional Majority; Time To Mobilise! (Category: Breaking News)
- November 29 – UN Created Israel (Category: Breaking News)
- Genocide Of Palestinian Began Since 1948 (Category: Breaking News)
- Social Democracy, The NPP’s Tasks & Global Extremism (Category: Breaking News)
By Pof.K. Tennakone Today, the world celebrates science. The United Nations proclaimed 10th November as World Science Day to highlight the importance of science for peace and development. The theme this year is building trust in science. The method of science stands unshakably as the only reliable avenue available for understanding nature by solving problems. […]
- Religion and Science; both are necessary (Category: Breaking News)
- Freedom to think and will to doubt (Category: Breaking News)
- Miracles, miracle makers and mass hysteria (Category: Breaking News)
- Are science and religion mutually exclusive? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Probing Polemic To Rip The Racist Rhetoric appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Partial West & Shameful Muslim Leaders Complicit In Israel’s War Crimes In Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
- Genocide Of Palestinian Began Since 1948 (Category: Breaking News)
- Merely Focussing On Hamas Attacks – Missing The Wood For The Trees! (Category: Breaking News)
- ICJ Ruling On Israeli Genocide In Gaza; Stopped Short Of Ordering A Ceasefire (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Can Political Liberation Movements Be Called Fascists? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why A Tamil Common Candidate In The Presidential Election? (Category: Breaking News)
- Two Challenges: Economic Recovery, Political Devolution – II (Category: Breaking News)
- The Tamil Nadu Factor (Category: Breaking News)
- Two Challenges: Economic Recovery & Political Devolution – IV (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post SOE 2023: IPS Offers Some Inputs To Proposed Growth Lab appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- Navigating The Economic Reawakening & Sustainable Growth (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- Pointless Debate On The Economy When Issue At Hand Is Much Broader (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Doctors’ Brain Drain: Health Security Concern In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Flight Of Human Capital – A Catastrophic Fait Accompli (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Using Vaccines Against Covid Is Far Cheaper & Safer Than Using Local Brews! (Category: Breaking News)
- Using Vaccines Against Covid Is Far Cheaper & Safer Than Using Local Brews! (Category: Breaking News)
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