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By Zinara Rathnayake Jezima Mohammed has run a small workshop and boutique, Jez Look Batiks, from her home in Matara, Sri Lanka, for nearly seven decades. Now in her 80s, she still works every day. When visitors stop by, the batik artist proudly shows off framed letters from Buckingham Palace and a photo of Queen Elizabeth II […]
- Captains Wijetunga and Soza on what cricket has taught them (Category: Breaking News)
- Exciting scene for Mirage …Down Under (Category: Breaking News)
- Blowing-up Air Lanka’s Tristar-36 on May 3, 1986 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s economy shows signs of stabilization, but poverty to remain elevated (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Taxes, Swiss Bank Accounts & The Chinese Cafe appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Playing The Fiddle While The Country Burns! (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Economic Strategy: Will His Prioritisation Of Targets Misfire? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Budget Crisis & Ibn Khaldun (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Machiavellians Tend To Be Demonic: Stuck Between A Rock & A Hard Place appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Did Faulty Constitution Bring Misery? – Undermining The State Is The Game (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Perilous Authoritarian Alternative (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Is A ‘Blackhole’: IMF Should Be Worried About The (225+1) (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic Gloom, LG Polls & Coalitions Of Clowns (Category: Breaking News)
by Prof. Aruna Shanthaarchch (Department of Economics and Statistics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka) Who are the Middle Class? The term, middle class, has been defined in a variety of ways. Historically, it was a social class characterised by intellectuals, who were neither capitalists nor workers. They were the well-educated service providers and small-scale entrepreneurs, […]
- Budget, Taxation Turmoil and Policy Blunders – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
- Personal income tax shock dims economic activities (Category: Breaking News)
- Only one income taxpayer paying over Rs. 300 mn. a year says Aluthgamage (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s tax hike likely to discourage small time investors into stocks – analysts (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) trade unions yesterday (18) warned that they would go all out to end the political careers of those who would vote for the Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Amendment Bill tabled in Parliament. Most trade unions of the CPC
- Trade unions to hold special discussion on privatizing of CPC (Category: Breaking News)
- Armed soldiers forcing CPC employees to act against their will – Unions (Category: Breaking News)
- Unions up in arms against move to restructure CPC (Category: Breaking News)
- Unions accuse govt. of violating workers’ fundamental rights (Category: Breaking News)
Effective income taxes for some categories have been raised to around 29% from 8% earlier - analysts
- Sri Lanka’s tax hike likely to discourage small time investors into stocks – analysts (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka should aim for revenues of 12-pct of GDP, avoid shortfalls: IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka gambles on tax hikes; downside risks seen than gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Tax payers look to tighten belts further or migrate as progressive taxes bite (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Dragged Into The Darkness By Dictatorship, Democracy Is The Only Way Out Into The Light appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka Won’t Be The Last Nation To Need Friends (Category: Breaking News)
- 2020 Was The Year Of Doctors. Which Profession Would It Be In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
- 2020 Was The Year Of Doctors. Which Profession Would It Be In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
- 2020 Was The Year Of Doctors. Which Profession Would It Be In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Playing Games With Constitutional Reforms appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Abolishing The Executive Presidency – Is Time Running Out? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Senseless Killing Of 19A By 21A! (Category: Breaking News)
- 22nd Amendment: People Are Never Fooled (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post What’s Next, After The Rajapaksa Clan & #GotaGoGama Are Both Gone? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Brutalities Against Protesters (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry reaffirmed their support to the Government and the Ministry of Health for the implementation of the new National Drug Policy at their recently held Annual General meeting (AGM), at Colombo’s Taj Samudra Hotel. SLCPI President Vish Govindasamy who was elected for a second term in office, speaking ...
- Drug drama (Category: Business)
- Cure State health system first (Category: Business)
- Proposed drug price control draws flak (Category: Breaking News)
- Prices of pharmaceuticals under control from January (Category: Breaking News)
Cisco on Thursday announced the launch of the first Cisco Student Industry Training Program [CITP] in Sri Lanka. The six-month program, scheduled to commence in March, is aimed at providing Cisco Networking Academy students a unique opportunity in industry attachment to fuel ICT adoption and drive economic growth. This significant industry- academia collaboration will witness ...
- Cisco Networking Academy holds Second Sri Lanka Cisco Career Fair 2011 (Category: Business)
- Infotel 2011 to ‘Accelerate IT’ (Category: Business)
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