Sri Lanka News Explorer
Last 7 Days
- Nov-23, Thursday (1)
- Nov-25, Saturday (1)
- Nov-27, Monday (1)
- Nov-28, Tuesday (1)
- Nov-29, Wednesday (1)
Older News
- Older than 2023-May (1115)
- 2023-May (14)
- 2023-Jun (13)
- 2023-Jul (13)
- 2023-Aug (17)
- 2023-Sep (19)
- 2023-Oct (10)
- 2023-Nov (12)
Narrow by Category
- Breaking News (685)
- Business (284)
- USA, Indiana (129)
- USA, South Dakota (47)
- Features (10)
- Canada, Ontario (9)
- USA, South Carolina (8)
- Technology (7)
- USA, Arkansas (6)
- USA, Illinois (6)
- USA, California (4)
- Video (4)
- Western Australia (4)
- Australia, Tasmania (3)
- USA, New York (3)
- USA, North Dakota (2)
- South Australia (1)
- USA, Montana (1)
Member of Parliament Dr. Nalaka Godahewa says that even in this budget, the President’s plan to break a part of the opposition has failed. He said so at a recent press conference held at the Nawala office of the Freedom Janata Sabha on the budget and the current political situation. “We are in temporary relief […]
- Eran proposes raising PAYE threshold to Rs 200,000 a month (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition attacks increase in state debt (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Kiriella alleges tax concessions granted to GR’s election funders (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith tells President to get facts right (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Four New Universities: A Premature Budget Proposal For Cheats appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Eternal Impunity For Academic Fraud In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lying About Age Of Protestant Mission Schools: Is Age Quality? (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaffna University Vice-Chancellor Commits Fraud Again With Impunity (Category: Breaking News)
- Disagreeing With One’s Community That Is Wrong Is A Duty (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Bailout Conditions Plus New Central Bank Act Will Close Doors To Modern Monetary Theory (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
- The Role Of National Defence In A Crisis-Ridden Economy (Category: Breaking News)
Second death anniversary by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Who has known the ocean.” Rachel Carson (Undersea) Weddings require invitations. Funerals are open spaces. None are barred; anyone can turn up, even sworn enemies. Lankan politicians make use of this openness as a political tool, thus only so far as they remain in active politics. Sirisena Cooray never […]
- Where have millions of USD invested in good governance and accountability projects et al gone? (Category: Breaking News)
- Thico ‘investments’, money laundering and related matters (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential Dilemmas: Global Headwinds and Archaeological Mischiefs (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC, cryptocurrency and repealing of time-tested law (Category: Breaking News)
In Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) classes, teachers give their students a list of words for them to find the odd one out. Then they have to explain why they thought it to be odd. It’s an exciting game because teachers include more than one word that may be interpreted as odd in […]
- Going ritual mode (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘The A to Z of Conflict’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Important’ question of identity: Ethnicity and religion (Category: Breaking News)
- After brilliant 45 years, Ian Chappell quits commentaries (Category: Breaking News)
Three of the world’s most influential women have told BBC News they want to end child marriage within a generation. Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates announced last year a collaboration between their foundations to combat the problem. At the current rate of progress, the UN has warned it will not be eradicated […]
- Iceland’s PM to strike over gender pay gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian women protest against child marriage mass arrests in Assam (Category: Breaking News)
- Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump liable for fraud, judge finds in New York civil case (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Regain A Vision Of Rhe Common Good appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- System Change Happening In Wrong Direction (Category: Breaking News)
- What The President Can Do Before He Goes (Category: Breaking News)
- Preoccupation With Repression Will Be Counter-Productive (Category: Breaking News)
- Taxation Without Accountability Is Not Sustainable (Category: Breaking News)
COPE Chairman Prof. Ranjith Bandara has said that his son Kanishka Bandara holds the position of coordinating secretary to the COPE Chairman and as such the latter had been allowed to attend the official functions of the COPE. When contacted for comments on social media reports going viral on Kanishka Bandara attending a COPE meeting […]
- COPE chairman s son attending SLC meeting will be probed  Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith tables evidence of COPE Chairman having conflict of interest (Category: Breaking News)
- Outsiders banned from COPE meetings unless approved by Speaker (Category: Breaking News)
- All state institutions to be summoned before COPE committee (Category: Breaking News)
The convocation of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Colombo, (BCIS) for 2023, held at the BMICH on November 10, provided many a thought-provoking ‘take-away’ for the International Relations (IR) student and analyst. The principal dignitaries at the momentous event did considerable justice to current developments in the IR field and thereby rendered the convocation […]
- BCIS honours two Lankan stalwarts in International Relations field (Category: Breaking News)
- Critical assessment of the state of democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- BCIS commences series of discussions on international relations (Category: Business)
- Sirisena boasts of his successful foreign policy to current rulers (Category: Breaking News)
* Lankan universities have been running with no more than 60 percent of the cadre of teachers approved for them and now perhaps less. * Upper secondary schools are run with no teachers for mathematics, physics and information technology. * University teachers are emigrating in droves, driven away into uncertain lives in other countries. *In […]
- A Budget to dismember state universities (Category: Breaking News)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
- Budget 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- A people’s university and a national crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Monday 13rd November, 2023 Anyone’s death diminishes us. However, with apologies to Donne, we are diminished beyond measure when the veterans of the fourth estate depart. On Saturday (11), former editor of The Island Gamini Weerakoon crossed the Great Divide. His funeral took place yesterday. Our readers may recall the pivotal role he played in […]
- Media must operate within respective country s legal framework  President (Category: Breaking News)
- Dispute over Kuliyapitiya property: CA moved against Chamuditha, others – Justice Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Need for positive news (Category: Breaking News)
- Pulitzer prize: AP’s Eranga, Rafiq Maqbool named finalists for coverage of Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Budget 24: High Aspirations Amidst Mounting Challenges But Options Are Limited appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Role Of National Defence In A Crisis-Ridden Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando (Category: Breaking News)
- Evil Is Not Mere Money Printing, But Unbridled Government Expenditure (Category: Breaking News)
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Dhananath Fernando – determined to do much for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Tax Hike Welcome But Much More To Be Done To Come Out Of The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
The United States recognizes Sri Lanka’s right to assert its own aspirations and objectives to be recognized as an equal on the world stage. The U.S. Embassy Colombo, together with the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), brought together scholars from across the Indo-Pacific for the conference […]
- US asserts will stand with Sri Lanka through this difficult time (Category: Breaking News)
- US Ambassador to India holds talks with Sri Lankan envoy (Category: Breaking News)
- Power to raise human rights issue during Sri Lanka visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian official discusses range of issues in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya One of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished yet underrated economists, S. B. D. de Silva died five years ago, on June 15. His magnum opus, The Political Economy of Underdevelopment, remains as underrated and under-read – one could say unread – as he. First published by Routledge in 1982, The Political Economy of […]
- SLPP MP asks FM for clarification (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s ‘Royal’ mess explained by old boy (Category: Breaking News)
- COPF: Tax concessions granted to BoI enterprise should be scrutinised (Category: Breaking News)
- SL has to achieve 6.6% GDP growth: Harsha (Category: Breaking News)
This year’s Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, for her work on women’s employment and pay. Prof Goldin’s research uncovered key drivers behind the gender pay gap, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Iceland’s PM to strike over gender pay gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Iceland’s PM to strike over gender pay gap (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel Prize-winner to contest Democratic Republic of Congo presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump liable for fraud, judge finds in New York civil case (Category: Breaking News)
American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
Oil prices have jumped on concerns that the situation in Israel and Gaza could disrupt output from the Middle East. Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed by $2.25 a barrel to $86.83, while US prices also rose. Israel and Palestinian territories are not oil producers but the Middle Eastern region accounts for almost a third […]
- How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- Hezbollah steps back from all-out war on Israel over Gaza – for now (Category: Breaking News)
- Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards (Category: Breaking News)
- US moves warships closer to Israel after Hamas attack (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Why The Shock Over IMF’s Diagnostic Report? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW’s Political Dilemma (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Budget Crisis & Ibn Khaldun (Category: Breaking News)
- A führer In The Making (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Forecasts & Systemic Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” which illuminate computer monitors and television screens and are used by doctors to map tumours. “The Nobel Laureates have succeeded in producing particles so small that their properties are determined by […]
- 3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel for expanding Universe find (Category: Technology)
- French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in literature (Category: Breaking News)
- Three scientists share Nobel Prize in Physics for work in quantum technology (Category: Breaking News)
There is a report in the Lankadeepa of 30 September, 2023 that thousands (‘dahas ganang’) of university graduates in biotechnology (and engineering technology) languish without employment. There is a comment that even if all of them were employed as teachers in state schools (in fact, there is no money to do so), the pool of […]
- President Ranil encourages graduates to stay and advance Sri Lanka s future (Category: Breaking News)
- Grads go back to study (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Crisis-ridden Lanka’s brain drain hits ICT sector’s workforce; requires 100,000 more – official (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government asked to provide employment to all unemployed graduates (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Has The Economy Been Assassinated & If So, Who Were The Assassins? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Foreign Borrowings: Are They An Evil Or Not? (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s New Government: Be Warned Of The Empty Treasury & Negative Foreign Reserves (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: How Colonial Ceylon Did It? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Only A Unified Approach Can Solve The Economic Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- People’s Preamble To IMF Technical Report (Category: Breaking News)
- If The Speaker Had Become The President, The Economic Crisis Might Have Been Eased By Now (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF’s Prescription: Panacea Or Palliative? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Central Bank Rejected U.S. Billionaire’s Bitcoin Pitch (Category: Breaking News)
There was a pall of silence over who accompanied our President to the Big Apple for the Big Meeting of the United Nations. Hence our curiosity was roused, minds scratched around for news. Cassandra WhatsApped a good friend of hers now living in California and asked her whether she knew who accompanied our Prez. We […]
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez says he is neutral (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Glocalization Without Financialization appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Forecasts & Systemic Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- NPP & Its Critics (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, ATA & RW’s Consolidation (Category: Breaking News)
- Restructuring The Economy: A Stock Take (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Trump-Ramasamy Ticket GOP’s Best Bet In 2024; US Events Will Affect The Whole World appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump Checks-Out Of His Job (Category: Breaking News)
Efforts are on by the Union government’s Shipping Corporation of India to commence high-speed passenger ferry service between Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Kangesanthurai in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province by the first week of October. The service covering around 60 nautical miles will start from Nagapattinam Mini Port, sources said. Each ferry will carry around […]
- Sri Lanka-India ferry service launch deferred - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Passenger ferry service from TN to Sri Lanka likely from Oct first week (Category: Breaking News)
- India, Sri Lanka passenger ferry service launched after 40 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Nagai-Sri Lanka boat service trial run successful (Category: Breaking News)
Piyumi Ranadewa is a Research Assistant working on migration and urbanisation policy research at IPS. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture, specialising in Agriculture Economics and Business (First Class) from Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, graduating with Dean’s Honours. She also holds a Master
- IOM works with Japan and ILO to assist repatriated Sri Lankan migrant workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Brain drain impediment to hospitality industry – Dr.Jayasinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- Remittances from expat workers improving, says Manusha (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan supports socioeconomic reintegration of Lankans (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post IMF & Global Debt Crises appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Paris Summit To Push For Global Debt Reforms & What Sri Lanka Could Bring To The Table (Category: Breaking News)
- Glocalization Without Financialization (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s Economy – Nothing Is Going Right! (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
the Valparaíso premiere of the film about Neruda’s rape episode in Ceylon directed by Asoka Handagama Asoka Handagama’s award winning film Alborada based on a 1929 rape episode admitted in Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s memoirs was screened for the first time in Chile on Sept. 1. Neruda who was the Chilean consul here in […]
- Domestic Debt Restructuring: An Episode In Capital’s Attack On Working People (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Midunu Vishwaya’—‘Frozen Cosmos’ (Category: Breaking News)
- An unprecedented journey like never before at Cinnamon Grand Colombo : Mrs. India Inc Season 4 (Category: Breaking News)
- “Killers of the Flower Moon”: Not just important, but timely (Category: Breaking News)
Popular Topics
- International Monetary Fund (514)
- Political crisis (595)
- Foreign exchange reserves (436)
- Shortage (43)
- Bank reserves (416)
- Anonymous (2)
- Fuel (96)
- Economy of Sri Lanka (850)
- Russia (68)
- Ukraine (39)
- Sri Lanka Tea (751)
- Tourism (75)
- Sri Lanka Quality Tea (771)
- Sri Lanka Tourism (753)
- Sri Lanka Cricket (749)
- Sri Lanka Hotels (749)
- Sri Lanka Elections (755)
- Sirasa (2)
- Hiru Tv (105)
- ITN News (746)
- Newsfirst (2)
- Shakthi Tv (105)
- Rupavahini (5)
- Derana Dream Star (138)
- EPF (9)
- BBC (24)
- Rob Ford (18)
- Amanda Knox (5)