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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 A Layman’s Long-View Of The Economy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lanka: Dilemmas & Economic Programmes – Do We Consume More Than We Produce? (Category: Breaking News)
- We Are On Course To A Dual Currency Regimen (Category: Breaking News)
- Purchasing Power Parity (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Yuan Can’t Replace Dollar As The Global Currency (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
Citing the recent economic and geo political developments across the world, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that the way forward for India to deal with the emerging ‘new world order’ is to reduce the country’s dependency on the external world and fulfil ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. EAM Jaishankar was speaking in the Lok […]
- Modi, combining India’s foreign policy with domestic interest (Category: Breaking News)
- World recognizes India capable of defending its interests: S Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
- India notes increase in investments in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- India extended concessional loans of over 12.3 billion dollars to Africa: Jaishankar at CII EXIM... (Category: Breaking News)
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ranjith Siyambalapitiya has stepped down from his post. The Deputy Speaker told reporters today that he has informed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena that he will not remain in his post after today. He had resigned earlier in the month but later decided to continue until the end of […]
- Ranjith Siyambalapitiya steps down as Deputy Speaker from today (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranjith Siyambalapitiya re-elected as Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President accepts Siyambalapitiya s resignation (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranjith Siyambalapitiya to resign as Deputy Speaker again (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Aragalaya At GotaGoGama For System Change! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- From “Gota’s War” To War Against Gota; Aragalaya’s Historic Strike! (Category: Breaking News)
- Moral Crisis Proving More Toxic Than The Economic Crisis! (Category: Breaking News)
- Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post The Hoax Of A War appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Govt. woos international community (Category: Breaking News)
- The fall of Pohottuwa govt. (Category: Breaking News)
- This is a govt of the Rajapaksa, for the Rajapaksas, by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Civilian deaths and injuries in the Govt-LTTE conflict in the Wanni (Category: Breaking News)
[…] 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 Ali Sabry’s Misplaced Optimism appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Politics Behind A Politician’s Gold (Category: Breaking News)
- The President, IMF & System Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Grand Alliance For Systemic Change (Category: Breaking News)
- What Next For Aragalaya? (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.
With the ousting of yet another corrupt head of state, Pakistan is on the verge of civil unrest as bipartisan politics spills over into the masses. Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, was forcibly removed from his position through a No Confidence motion in the state legislature. Typically of Pakistani politics, the vote was successful […]
- Pakistan’s election body issues arrest warrant against ex-PM Khan (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistani nationals celebrate ouster of Imran Khan (Category: Breaking News)
- Dominant issue in Pakistan politics: Who will be next Army chief? (Category: Breaking News)
- Imran Khan says Pakistan PM Sharif involved in plot to kill him (Category: Breaking News)
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.
A group of MPs who were among the independent MPs who met President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today, have been picked to take forward talks to form an all-party Government. The MPs are to have talks with the main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and others to seek support for an all-party Government. The President’s Office quoted […]
- SJB to take disciplinary action against Harin and Manusha (Category: Breaking News)
- SLFP did not approve MPs joining Cabinet (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith removes Harin and Manusha (Category: Breaking News)
- President to ask Prime Minister to step down (Category: Breaking News)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has extended an invitation to form an all-party government comprising all political parties represented in the Parliament, the President s Media Division (PMD) said in a statement issued today regarding the meeting held with party leaders and representatives who now sit independently in Parliament.
- Kamala Harris' VP win is huge for HBCUs, Tougaloo president says (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
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)
Brussels [Belgium], April 25 (ANI): Rights Group, International Campaign for Tibet, organized a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Brussels demanding the release of Panchen Lama and his family abducted by Beijing. Brussels [Belgium], April 25 (ANI): Rights Group, International Campaign for Tibet, organized a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in […]
- Failure to impose fake Panchen Lama embodies China’s colonial rule over Tibet (Category: Breaking News)
- China miffed with Tibetan leader’s testimony before Canadian parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- India can push for Tibet dialogue, says former ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan calls for Dalai Lama’s visit to Taipei during celebrations of Tibet Democracy Day (Category: Breaking News)
The Tamil Nadu Assembly today adopted a unanimous resolution urging the Union Government to consider the state government’s request immediately to send humanitarian assistance worth Rs 123 crore including rice, life-saving drugs and milk powder for children to the people of Sri Lanka 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)
Sri Lanka has briefed diplomats on steps taken so far on post conflict reconciliation. At a meeting with a group of Ambassadors, Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris outlined the progress made by the Government of Sri Lanka in addressing post conflict reconciliation related issues and further strengthening democracy and human rights, the Foreign […]
- Central mechanism to be established to streamline requests for assistance (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese Foreign Minister on two-day visit to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese Foreign Minister on two-day visit to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to seek assistance from Paris Club and G7 (Category: Breaking News)
Video: President invites all political parties in parliament to form all-party govt (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)
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to form an interim government representing all political parties in the parliament, says former President Maithripala Sirisena.
- Kamala Harris' VP win is huge for HBCUs, Tougaloo president says (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
India held talks with dissident MPs of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and reiterated India’s continued commitment to support Sri Lanka. The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay received a group of parliamentarians and reiterated India’s continued commitment to support Sri Lanka, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said. The High Commission […]
- India delivers another 40,000 MT of petrol to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Public urged not to queue up for fuel over next 3 days (Category: Breaking News)
- India wants Sri Lanka to probe attacks on fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
- President speaks to Putin and asks for credit to get fuel (Category: Breaking News)
The discussion called by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa this morning will see the participation of the 11 constituent political parties of the government which now function independently.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to meet the leaders of constituent political parties of the government this morning (April 29).
[…] 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)
Social unrest, political uncertainty and a complex web of creditors could scupper Sri Lanka s push for a swift overhaul of its $12 billion overseas debt, analysts warn, saying the South Asian nation is fast running out of road.
The 11 political parties that became independent in the parliament recently have conditionally agreed to attend the meeting convened by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa tomorrow (April 29).
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