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The week that passed saw considerable political activity related to the forthcoming presidential election that must be held late next year in accordance with the constitution. Connected events included business magnate Dhammika Perera’s declaration that he is willing to run for president provided
- SLPP to nominate four candidates for upcoming Presidential Election? (Category: Breaking News)
- The games they play (Category: Breaking News)
- Dhammika Perera s name to be gazetted as SLPP MP (Category: Breaking News)
- May Day signals (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Thank You Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
Launched under a year ago, CSN offers high quality sports entertainment as a fixed option for the deserving television (TV) viewer. Following are excerpts of an interview held with CSN Director Marketing & Promotions Prasanna Jayasundera. By Ashwin Hemmathagama Question (Q): Sri Lanka is a small nation with comparatively limited number of TV viewers. So, ...
- CSN joins hands with “Prime TV (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC secretary’s company wins SLC’s TV rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Carlton to exclusively show SL vs Pakistan Cricket (Category: Business)
- CSN completes one year of successful operations (Category: Business)
New release from Dr. Gunadasa A. Not often do English readers get a chance to enjoy a Gunadasa Amarasekera classic. Just out in bookstands is ‘Death by the Pool’ – a translation of his latest collection of short stories, ‘Vil Thera Maranaya’ described as the final episode and memories of a man facing his destiny. ...
- ‘The Artist’ Wins Producers Guild’s Best Picture Award (Category: Business)
- Results of 2012 SAARC Film Awards (Category: Business)
- Dr. N.M., the first Sinhala movie hero (Category: Business)
- ‘Avengers’ muscles to record $ 200 m in debut (Category: Business)
As Sri Lanka-Japan bilateral discourse completes 60 memorable events, Japan has become our seventh largest international trade partner. “The total bilateral trade turnover between the two nations has grown to $ 1,250 m in 2011. Japan, our seventh largest trade partner in 2011
- Looking East (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka, Japan talk of FTA (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to consider Special Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka: Japanese minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to consider possible FTA with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Japan continues to be a top partner of Sri Lanka as our bilateral trade with the Land of the Rising Sun topped $ 1.2 b in 2011 and knowledge transfer of Japanese manufacturing practices to Sri Lanka has helped improve quality of manufacturing here. “Japan has always been a key trading partner as well as ...
- JASTECA program on ‘Japanese Way to Delight Customers’ (Category: Business)
- Top seminar on Japanese style of management by JASTECA (Category: Business)
- “Land of the Rising Sun now our seventh trade partner”: Rishad to Japan Times (Category: Business)
A Governance Analysis of Frequency Allocation & TV Rights in Present Sri Lanka Frequency Allocation- A Grand Corruption? Understanding the state capture by Kleptocrats does not require a dedicated study; it is easily recognizable. For the benefit of keen students of governance, let me begin this article with the definition of Kleptocracy: “A form of political and government ...
- Video: 221214 MTV NFL HAKEEM EVENT (Category: Video)
- Watch “20-20” On CSN (Category: Breaking News)
- “Maximizing NFL Betting Success: Your Strategic Game Plan for Crushing the Vegas NFL Odds” (Category: Breaking News)
- With die-hard Dodgers fans like this, who needs the NFL? (Category: USA, California)
By T. Farook Thajudeen Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) sought time to file objections against the enjoining order obtained by Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) preventing the ABU from granting broadcasting rights of 30th Olympic Games within the territory of Sri Lanka to any other person other than Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. Senior Counsel Harsha ...
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas Wrestle For Olympic Rights Muscling Out Rupavahini (Category: Breaking News)
- Stay order on Olympic games telecast rights (Category: Breaking News)
Vesak is a time to revisit and refocus on the core of Buddhism. It is also the time to see how Buddhist principles of truth, peace, honesty and kindness can be promoted in the country. At the start of the week, just a cursory glance at the newspapers reveals many things that could do with ...
- Tactful Diplomacy Will Bring Durable Solution (Category: Breaking News)
- Notre Dame Federal Credit Union raises minimum wage to $16 an hour (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Museums' hidden treasures unveiled (Category: Technology)
- It's not a land of ‘mañana,’ but it is a good land (Category: USA, New Mexico)
The sports minister in Sri Lanka says that exclusive broadcasting rights of 2012 Olympics obtained by state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) will not be sold to private channel as reported by media. The Sunday Leader newspaper said the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), reportedly owned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s family, has sought the broadcasting ...
- Channel owned by the president Rajapaksa has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 201... (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas Wrestle For Olympic Rights Muscling Out Rupavahini (Category: Breaking News)
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
By D.C. Ranatunga “We bear a very heavy responsibility to build up this service with great care, vigilance and intellectual integrity so that the people of this country belonging to different ethnic groups, believing in four different faiths, of diverse economic groups, living in varying environments, urban and rural, with different levels of literacy and ...
- London Olympics biggest in US TV history, despite gripes (Category: Business)
- ABC sport cover feels pinch (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- ABC’s Hiru TV to launch on 23 May (Category: Business)
- ABC’s Hiru TV gears to shake up the television industry (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s most popular children’s television programme ‘Muthuhara’ broadcasted by Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) selected Cinnamon Grand’s Nuga Gama (the Village in the City) for its first live broadcast on 1 January. This is the first time a hotel has been selected as a venue for this renowned children’s programme, since its inception 30 ...
- Cinnamon Grand first ever hotel to launch first day cover (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand indulges children to mark World Tourism Day (Category: Business)
- A grand Vesak at Cinnamon Grand (Category: Business)
- Lights off and Earth on at Cinnamon Grand (Category: Business)
By Dinali Goonewardene Prathilaba was telecast on Rupavahini on Sundays at 10 a.m. The TV documentary, a studio discussion on investing in the stock market was commissioned by the Securities and Exchange Commission and panellists from the stock market industry participated. These included stock brokers, research analysts, fund managers and officials from the Colombo Stock ...
- Invest In Stocks With Good Valuations (Category: Breaking News)
- Investor Day at Negombo tomorrow (Category: Business)
- SEC Investor Day goes to Matara (Category: Business)
- Investor Day in Kurunegala on Saturday (Category: Business)
OCTOBER 17, 2011: Status: Not Free Legal Environment: 23 Political Environment: 30 Economic Environment: 18 Total Score: 71 Despite the end of the government’s long-running war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel group in May 2009, media freedom remained restricted in Sri Lanka, with journalists subject to myriad forms of legal harassment and physical intimidation. Altho...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan media gagged says RSF (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka’s government implement the LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
By Ranjit Jayasundera Sensational evidence has come to light that demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that in Sri Lanka fortune favours not necessarily the bold but certainly the favoured. Carlton Sports Network (CSN) a company incorporated on 10th February 2011 has won the rights to broadcast the Australian Cricket tour of Sri Lanka next ...
- Surrendering airwaves & liberty to nepotism (Category: Breaking News)
- Watch “20-20” On CSN (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas Wrestle For Olympic Rights Muscling Out Rupavahini (Category: Breaking News)
- Carlton to exclusively show SL vs Pakistan Cricket (Category: Business)
The New Interim Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket assumed office on 4th …
- Press Conference – Muralidaran’s Retirement (Category: Sports)
- Appointment of the National Selection Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (Category: Sports)
- Appointment of the National Selection Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (Category: Sports)
- Appointment of the National Selection Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (Category: Sports)
UNP Settles Internal Strife Last Thursday was Ranil Wickremesinghe’s 62nd birthday. It was yet early morning when he received a telephone call from President Mahinda Rajapaksa. He first wished Ranil for securing his leadership position of the UNP at the Working Committee meeting held the day before. Secondly, he wished him a happy birthday. Ranil ...
- Karu Defends UNP’s No Ball (Category: Breaking News)
- Discussions to reach consensus (Category: Breaking News)
- Future of UNP will be decided tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Local Polls Delay UNP Changes; Mahinda Throws Ranil A Lifeline (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka "A social group dominates antagonistic groups, which it tends to ‘liquidate’ or to subjugate perhaps even by armed force; it leads kindred and allied groups.” - Gramsci The massive WikiLeaks detonation took place in the wake of a significant conjunction of events
- Canada says end Emergency (Category: Breaking News)
- Eelam dreams only hurting Tamils: Devananda (Category: Breaking News)
- Shun negativity - EPRLF (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil diaspora asked to shun negativity (Category: Breaking News)
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