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[…]The post A True Democratic Leadership appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil Wickremesinghe Becomes Prime Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Any Dealing With President Who Lacks Legitimacy Is Political Suicide (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
A new Director-General and Chief Executive Officer has been appointed to the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL). P.A. Jayakantha, who was serving as the Additional Director-General of CAASL, was appointed to the position. Jayakantha, who was commissioned officer in Sri Lanka Air Force, joined the Civil Aviation Authority in 2004 as a civil […]
- New DG appointed to Civil Aviation Authority (Category: Breaking News)
- Geological surveying aircraft made brief stop in Sri Lanka – official (Category: Breaking News)
- Geological surveying aircraft made brief stop in Sri Lanka – official (Category: Breaking News)
- New Director General CAASL’s Commission Was Once Withdrawn By CBK (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 600 Articles Over 11 Years: What Did They Tell The Reading Public & Policymakers? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Remember Ranil Is Revengeful & A Risk To Rights appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Vs. GR: Who Will Outwit Whom? (Category: Breaking News)
- Hold Elections & Avert A Dual-Power Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya At The Cross-Roads & In The Cross-Hairs (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A SWOT Appraisal (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)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (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)
by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca. The forex crisis had forced the government to jettison its initial set of economic managers of the Central bank who looked for home-grown solutions and opposed dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President re-instated a set of managers whose ideas were more orthodox and aligned with the neo-liberal bankers […]
- Dollars and conscience (Category: Breaking News)
- CB Governor stresses on need to stay the course (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka growth to dip below 7.5% – IMF (Category: Business)
[…]The post Ranil’s Biggest Woe: What To Do When Fiscal & Monetary Policies Have Failed & Are Still Falling? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- 600 Articles Over 11 Years: What Did They Tell The Reading Public & Policymakers? (Category: Breaking News)
- JR & Expert Advice: Failing To Implement Goh Keng Swee Report Of 1980 (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Pimp Or A Prince? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Pimp Without A Country (Category: Breaking News)
- Online bid to punish pimp (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Pimp gets 50 years at dramatic hearing (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Pimp jailed for 10 years (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Developments in Sri Lanka underline the risk of destabilising social and labour unrest throughout Asia-Pacific because of rising living costs impacting the region, S&P Global Market Intelligence said. Countries with similarly weak economic fundamentals and/ or poor economic policies have reduced resilience to external shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, high oil...
- WFP says 6.26 million people in Sri Lanka are food insecure (Category: Breaking News)
- India focusing on ways it can help Sri Lanka economically (Category: Breaking News)
- WFP says 66 % Sri Lankans reduced number of meals eaten daily (Category: Breaking News)
- Narendra Modi calls for all-party meeting to discuss Sri Lanka crisis (Category: Breaking News)
British Politics and Ours Both Sri Lanka and the UK have experienced an unprecedented political upheaval of late. It is interesting that both leaders agreed to resign within a day of each other. Everybody else saw the ‘the end is nigh’ sign for quite a while. They didn’t or didn’t want to see it until […]
- Former Indian president to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahamodara Hospital Baby care unit temporarily closed (Category: Breaking News)
- Peradeniya town shifts to new location in Iriyagama (Category: Breaking News)
- Police stations in all liberated areas (Category: Breaking News)
Global un-employment set to rise
- Sri Lanka inflation hits 54.6-pct in June 2022 after money printing (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, world suffers terribly from Fed’s accidental discovery: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Fed hikes rates 75bp as Powell Bubble pushes up food prices hurting the poor (Category: Breaking News)
- Price Trend (Category: Business)
[…]The post Impunity In Times Of Uncertainty appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Kapila Jayasekera: Killer-In-Chief In Both ACF & Five Students Cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Commission Of Inquiry: Testify At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- The ACF Commission: To Exorcise Ghosts Of Truth That Continued To Haunt Regardless (Category: Breaking News)
- Looking To The Past: The Political Cultivation Of An Obliging Judiciary To Violate Rights (Category: Breaking News)
By GEORGE BRAINE Getting on the bus in Badulla town, I asked the driver if he could let me off at the Kendegolla Maha Vidyalaya. He gave me an odd look, but said “Naginna” (get in). The small bus went along the Passara Road, turned left, and began to climb a narrow road, winding past […]
- 32 injured as bus skids off road in Badulla (Category: Breaking News)
- Bus accident kills three (Category: Breaking News)
- Bus Driver Fired For Letting Students Drive (Category: USA, Georgia)
- 40 hospitalized after bus accident (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citizens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- When Will Sri Lankan Children Be Prioritized In This Crisis? (Category: Breaking News)
- Obligations Of 225 MPs & The Party Leaders To The People Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Civil Society Calls on Government to Enable Burials of COVID-19 Dead (Category: Breaking News)
- Civil Society Calls on Government to Enable Burials of COVID-19 Dead (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Global Financial Crash Imminent in 2022? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Madame Ambassador Chung, Your Message Will Live On Forever! (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Should The United States Care About Sri Lanka’s Predicament? (Category: Breaking News)
- Make the most of your small bathroom decor (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Indian billion dollar credit line also works Undiyal fashion
- Sri Lanka removes ban on open account food imports (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka CB takes on task finding dollars for food after open account ban (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka food shortfalls, high prices feared after open account, DA/DP ban (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Pimp Without A Country appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Pimp Or A Prince? (Category: Breaking News)
- Pimp gets 50 years at dramatic hearing (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Online bid to punish pimp (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Pimp jailed for 10 years (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Video: Learning medicine not similar to getting economics degree
- 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)
Video: Newsfirst GCE A/L Economics question paper - Education Minister lodges complaint with CID
- 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)
Video: Newsfirst GCE A/L Economics exam paper and flaws in marking scheme - a study before SLHRC
- 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)
Central bank gets ACU dollar to peg and also force purchase dollars through a surrender rule to prevent a float
- Sri Lanka central bank busts US$9.8bn since Feb 2020 to suppress rates, for stimulus (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank US$4.0bn in debt by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka continues to soft-peg in May intervening in both directions (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Lost Revolution appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Open Letter & Appeal To The IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP Proposal Points To Consensual Way Forward (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL; Altruistic Union That Does Not Stand For Its Members’ Sake But For The People (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP & SJB Issue Ultimatums After Ranil’s Hint At Being A Full Term PM (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka’s New Government: Be Warned Of The Empty Treasury & Negative Foreign Reserves appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Debt Restructuring: Not A Cakewalk But A Task Entailing Hard Work (Category: Breaking News)
- 600 Articles Over 11 Years: What Did They Tell The Reading Public & Policymakers? (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Gota Goes: Diary Of A Disaster Foretold appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Aragalaya After Ranil: Re-Booting The Revolution (Category: Breaking News)
- Defeating Gota-Ranil: Re-Thinking The Aragalaya & Left Strategy (Category: Breaking News)
- How To Stop Ranil’s Constitutional Coup & Counter-Revolution (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake The country is in a deep economic crisis to which everyone equally contributed. We, as citizens, have consumed beyond our capacities prompted by the economic mismanagement of the leaders. The higher officials and advisors either misled those leaders or humbly remained without being at odds. In terms of investments, the government […]
- Rs. 9,940m Japanese assistance for infrastructure rehabilitation (Category: Breaking News)
- ETI continues growth momentum (Category: Business)
- Decline in net foreign outflows from CSE this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Country to face dire economic consequences; UNP (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Going, Going, But Not Gone Yet: Why Delay Inevitability appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Janus Moment (Category: Breaking News)
- The Morning Prayer Of Rajapaksas: Ranil Saranam Gachchāmi (Category: Breaking News)
- Jeered & Sent Home: Ominous Sign Of An Impending Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
n a wide ranging Colombo datelined story published on Thursday, The Guardian, the widely respected British newspaper, has laid bare the inside story of Sri Lanka’s current predicament in a report headlined “‘The family took over:’ how a feuding ruling dynasty drove Sri Lanka to ruin.” Written by Hanah Ellis-Peterson the report offers damning quotes […]
- Gota leaves Singapore after fleeing protesters at home (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya became victim of elitist conspiracy – Dilan (Category: Breaking News)
- President flees to a “nearby” country (Category: Breaking News)
- Unarmed but not peaceful (Category: Breaking News)
Says economy could contract 7-pct in 2022
- Sri Lanka’s total debt burden Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- PM warns Sri Lanka facing threat of hitting rock bottom (Category: Breaking News)
- PM warns next three weeks will be tough (Category: Breaking News)
- Dr. Harsha on rupee depreciation, balance of payment crisis and ongoing tug-of-war (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s total debt burden increased to Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today. He said that Sri Lanka needs to pay $3.4 billion between June and December this year, $5.8 billion in 2023, $4.9 billion in 2024, $6.2 billion in 2025, $4.0 billion in 2026 and $4.3 billion […]
- Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s full statement on IMF negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
- PM warns Sri Lanka facing threat of hitting rock bottom (Category: Breaking News)
- PM warns next three weeks will be tough (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis Deepens Without Rescue Plan (Category: Breaking News)
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