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Malaysia on Monday (Oct 31) contributed medicine valued at RM 288,610 (LKR 22,350,000) to Sri Lanka, according to a statement issued by the Malaysian Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra).
[…]The post Indian-Israeli Involvement In Sri Lanka Is A Disaster appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Remembrance Week Marking Persecution Of Sri Lankan Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Supports US War-Mongers Against Houthis (Category: Breaking News)
- RW-Israel Honeymoon & Political Matchmaking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Media Miserably Failed To Cover Israeli Genocide In Gaza (Category: Breaking News)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s premier defence exposition, DefExpo 2022, in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. “This is the first defence expo where only Indian companies are participating and it features only Made-in-India equipment,” he declared. “From the land of Iron Man, Sardar Patel, we are setting an example of the capabilities of India before the world,” said the PM. […]
- India makes it happen, enters the multi-billion dollar defence market (Category: Breaking News)
- PM Modi: India-Australia ties hinge on mutual trust, respect (Category: Breaking News)
- Eyeing aviation exports, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited opens first overseas office in Malaysia (Category: Breaking News)
- PM Modi to address joint session of US Congress on June 22 (Category: Breaking News)
Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail while speaking at Habib University stated that Pakistan’s economy suffers from three fundamental problems, i.e. living beyond its own means, focusing on import substitution instead of export growth and granting ‘elite bargain’, under which essentially 99% of the population continues to work for the privileged ones. He also lamented the […]
- Gilgit Balistan needs change says Pak HRCP (Category: Breaking News)
- How Fair Are Pak Elections? (Category: Breaking News)
- Former Pak Finance Minister Miftah Ismail says things to ‘remain tight for a while’ on economic ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Strong Lanka-Pak trade ties urged (Category: Breaking News)
By Ahmad Marzee The mountainous land in the heart of Asia known as Afghanistan has always remained a major geo-political dispute among the superpowers. The great game (Tsar Russia vs Britain), Cold-War (USSR/Russia vs America) and war on global terrorism gained attention of these giant-fish to fight for supremacy, domination and securing their strategic depth in […]
- India part of meeting on Kabul: ‘Military facilities of others in country unacceptable’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Kabul mosque explosion: At least 20 dead, 40 injured (Category: Breaking News)
- US calls on China to deliver on commitments to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Taliban welcomes back India-trained Afghan Defence personnel (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Says ‘Raising Direct Taxes Inevitable To Reach IMF Goals’ – A Response appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity, & The IMF: A Solution Or A Worsening Of The Problem? (Category: Breaking News)
- President Sets Macro Economic Fundamentals: A Point Of View (Category: Breaking News)
- Tax! Tax!! Tax!!! (Category: Breaking News)
Omar Sultan Al Olama, the UAE’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, on Wednesday lauded External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, saying he is impressed by how he positions India’s foreign policy at the world stage amid geopolitical tugs of war. Omar Sultan Al Olama, praised Jaishankar during a conference at a Delhi-based think tank. He […]
- India, UAE reach agreement on green hydrogen development and under sea cable connectivity (Category: Breaking News)
- New Consulate will further deepen India-UAE trade, investment relationship: Muraleedharan (Category: Breaking News)
- UAE impressed by Sri Lanka’s large export portfolio (Category: Business)
- India hosts Iran’s deputy FM to push Eurasian link (Category: Breaking News)
In an unprecedented public expose at the United Nations counter-terror meet in Mumbai, India on Friday revealed in detail Pakistan’s role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack by playing Pakistan-based terrorist Sajid Mir’s audiotape. In the audio clip, he is heard directing the attack on Chabad House during Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks. Playing the audio […]
- China blocks India-US bid to blacklist 26/11 LeT handler at UN (Category: Breaking News)
- Number of Times China Blocked UN from Designating Pakistan-based Militants as ‘Global Terrorists’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s false, misleading narrative on Kashmir dispute exacerbates tensions with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Banned terror outfit JeM seen openly collecting funds in Pakistan’s Peshawar (Category: Breaking News)
Beijing: The Chinese government has been accused of establishing two undeclared “police stations” in the Netherlands, media reports said on Friday. Dutch media found evidence that the “overseas service stations”, which promise to provide diplomatic services, are being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in Europe, BBC reported. The Chinese foreign ministry has denied ...
- Chinese Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Foreign Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Latest Developments on the Chinese vessel Yuang Wang 5 (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese Embassy donates material for police uniforms (Category: Breaking News)
- A meeting between SL President and the Chinese Vice PM (Category: Breaking News)
Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): In three separate cases, the US government has charged 13 individuals, including members of China’s security and intelligence apparatus and their agents, for alleged efforts to unlawfully exert influence in the United States for the benefit of their government. “As these cases demonstrate, the government of China sought to interfere […]
- Chinese Embassy donates material for police uniforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese delegation to meet Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- ASIO now targeting Chinese investors (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Chinese government trust president Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
Monday 31st October, 2022 Some dissident SLPP MPs have warned that the government will fail to secure the passage of the upcoming budget and collapse as a result if the latter seeks to bulldoze its way through without heeding the views of the Opposition and the interests of the public. The SLPP-UNP administration has only […]
- JVP: SLPP members won’t be able to distance themselves from Budget 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Theatrics of hypocrites (Category: Breaking News)
- Foxes in a hole (Category: Breaking News)
- Souls for sale! (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s worst post-war economic crisis represents a major blow to the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts that were already hobbled by the COVID pandemic. However, the situation is also providing impetus to the work of academics that are using their knowledge to tackle the immediate fallout from […]
- India assures continued support for SL at Creditors’ Committee along with Japan and Paris Club (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka eyes December bailout, IMF says timing hard to predict (Category: Breaking News)
- Government and UNDP map out SDG investment for private sector to support recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank approves $150 Mn to strengthen Lanka’s financial sector (Category: Breaking News)
Faithful urged to refrain from making Christmas a ‘mere occasion for external celebrations’ Catholic bishops have urged devotees to provide medicines and dry rations for the needy at a time when Sri Lankan is mired in crises.The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL), in a statement released on Oct. 28, urged people to be […]
- Four Sri Pada pilgrims die of suspected food poisoning; ten other victims hospitalised (Category: Breaking News)
- Fatty Habits (Category: Business)
- President wants cocoa planted on tea estates (Category: Breaking News)
- President proposes meeting of Agriculture Ministers of all countries to evaluate food requiremen... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
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- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Diaspora Tamils & 13A (Category: Breaking News)
- Failed Economy: Bribery & Corruption To Maintain Power (Category: Breaking News)
- “Really Real Manner Of Managing Sri Lanka” – ‘To Paris and Back’ 1977-1990 (JRJ Years) (Category: Breaking News)
When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev went to Peking on an official visit in July-August 1958, chairman Mao Zedong chose an unusual venue for one of their meetings―his private swimming pool. “You look after Europe, and leave Asia to us,” Mao told Khrushchev. The Soviet leader, however, was not impressed. “No one has authorised us to […]
- Saved snowy owl to be released (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Baby owl latest youngster at the zoo (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Decline of burrowing owl in Imperial Valley prompts calls for inquiry (Category: USA, California)
- Snowy owl released after 8-week rehabilitation from car strike (Category: USA, Illinois)
BY Ruchir Sharma As he embarks on a third term, Xi Jinping’s goal is to make China a mid-level developed country in the next decade, which implies that the economy will need to expand at a rate of around 5 per cent. But underlying trends — bad demographics, heavy debt and declining productivity growth — […]
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- IPO To Raise Rs. 400 mn (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
- IFC to provide $400 million to banks in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed (October 21) Pakistan from its “grey list” after more than four years. The multilateral watchdog said Islamabad would continue its work to further improve systems to combat terror financing and money laundering. At the conclusion of FATF’s two-day plenary meeting in Paris, the body’s president, T. Raja Kumar […]
- India plays 26/11 plotter Sajid Mir’s audio at UN anti-terror meet in Mumbai (Category: Breaking News)
- Crime syndicate venturing into terrorism getting state hospitality in neighboring country: India... (Category: Breaking News)
- Banned terror outfit JeM seen openly collecting funds in Pakistan’s Peshawar (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s false, misleading narrative on Kashmir dispute exacerbates tensions with India (Category: Breaking News)
The annual Asma Jahangir Conference in Pakistan, which took place in Lahore on October 22-23, saw some of the politicians and lawyers criticising the Army, alleging that the generals had taken billions of dollars to spread terrorism around the world. On the closing day of the conference on October 23, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) chairman […]
- China announces military drills near Taiwan after Biden remarks (Category: Breaking News)
- US bridge collapses after being hit by Colombo bound ship (Category: Breaking News)
- Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi feared dead in helicopter crash (Category: Breaking News)
- Anne concludes Sri Lanka visit describing herself ‘eyes and ears’ of monarchy (Category: Breaking News)
With the economic situation looking gloomy in Pakistan and the country being downgraded by Fitch and Moody, the International Monetary Fund has called on the nation to impose additional taxes worth PKR 600 billion, reported Express Tribune on Tuesday. The IMF has estimated that Pakistan may have to take additional revenue measures equal to 0.75% […]
- No That (Category: Business)
- Fine Balance (Category: Business)
- IMF sees “challenging” outlook for Pakistan (Category: Business)
- Tranche (Category: Business)
A 27-year-old Sri Lankan man is among those who died in a crush as huge Halloween crowds surged into a narrow street in South Korea’s capital, Seoul yesterday (October 29), according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Sabri.The post Sri Lankan among victims in Seoul Halloween stampede appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- S. Korea to provide financial aid for family of Sri Lankan who died in Halloween stampede (Category: Breaking News)
- More details released on Sri Lankan killed in South Korea stampede (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan among over 150 people killed in South Korea (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan among victims in Seoul Halloween crowd crush (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLBFE) has issued a special statement regarding the Sri Lankan national who is among more than 150 people killed in a stampede at a Halloween event in central Seoul, South Korea.
Rupee average rose to as much as 1676.93 rupees a kilo in the first week of October.
- Sri Lanka low-grown tea prices slips in June second week sale (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s medium grown tea prices fall in September 4th-week sale (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s tea prices hit record in August (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lank tea sharply up in rupee terms after currency collapse (Category: Breaking News)
A Sri Lankan is among over 150 people killed during Saturday night’s deadly crush in South Korea, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said. The Sri Lankan is said to be a resident of Kandy. At least 151 people were killed and 82 others injured in a deadly stampede in Seoul’s Itaewon district as huge crowds of […]
- Two people killed in fuel queues (Category: Breaking News)
- Crime wave continues to rock Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian among 2 killed after train rams into three-wheeler (Category: Breaking News)
- Five killed after tree falls on bus in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
A Sri Lankan male is among those who died in a crush as huge Halloween crowds surged into a narrow street in South Korea s capital, Seoul yesterday (Oct 29), according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Sabri.
Sri Lanka’s precariously low foreign reserves suffered another blow this week after Bangladesh’s Central Bank, Bangladesh Bank, directed all banks in that country to only resort to cash deals and no credit with Sri Lankan banks under an international payment settlement gateway.The post Sri Lanka’s forex reserves further hit by Bangladeshi move appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaki...
- Bangladeshi banks asked to stop ACU transactions with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladeshi banks asked to stop ACU transactions with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Reserve Position (Category: Business)
- Bangladesh hopeful Sri Lanka will repay debt of $200 Million by March 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
The Surinamese Government has sought access to a woman arrested in Sri Lanka on suspicion of drug smuggling. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation in Suriname said that information was requested from Sri Lanka on the basis of the Vienna Convention on Consular Traffic’ (Arts 5 and 36 paragraph 1c) and […]
- 22nd Amendment to the Constitution passed (Category: Breaking News)
- One killed, at least 30 injured in bus accident in Mawanella (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil assures to protect rights of children and elderly (Category: Breaking News)
- Jagath Samarawickrama takes oaths as new MP (Category: Breaking News)
Catholics in Bahrain hail mainly from the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka. (UCAN) Pope Francis is set to make a four-day visit to Bahrain, a journey that will make him the first pope to visit the Arab kingdom just off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf.The visit on Nov. 3-6 has two […]
- Pope advises Cardinal not to let up on Easter issue (Category: Breaking News)
- Cardinal urges Catholics to fight for justice (Category: Breaking News)
- UN rights chief under ‘tremendous pressure’ over Xinjiang report (Category: Breaking News)
- President Wickremesinghe and other world leaders extend condolences on the death of Iranian Pres... (Category: Breaking News)
Video: We should go beyond the traditional systems to earn more foreign income – PM (English)
- 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)
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