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[…]The post Reforming Education: Target For Creative Capital & Not For Mere Human Capital appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Target 2048 – Go For Creative Capital And Not For Mere Human Capital (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Develop A Knowledge-Based Innovative Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Complex Economy System (Category: Breaking News)
- A case for peer group based self-learning – Part 1 (Category: Breaking News)
The US and Sri Lankan navies are to cooperate to address maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific. From April 22-26 in Trincomalee, the United States Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Sri Lanka Navy will partner for the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Sri Lanka 2024 exercise. CARAT Sri Lanka will feature the expertise of […]
- US to conduct joint military exercise with Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Five-day USN, SLN exercise gets underway in Trinco (Category: Breaking News)
- US Navy ship USS Anchorage arrives in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- US to work with Sri Lanka to tackle trafficking of nuclear material (Category: Breaking News)
The United Nations on Sunday urged Sri Lanka to bridge its Âaccountability deficit and ensure justice as the country commemorated the 279 victims of its worst-ever attack against civilians five years ago.
Sri Lanka s fiscal landscape remains challenging as it continues to struggle with meeting its revenue to GDP target for the 33rd consecutive year. The recently released ÂState of the Budget Report 2024 by Verité Research underscores this persistent issue, offering a comprehensive analysis of Sri Lanka s fiscal health.
[…]The post Iran-Israeli Tit For Tat, India’s Vote Marathon & Lanka’s Long Election Eve appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Middle East on Edge, India’s Vote Marathon, and Lanka’s Long Election Eve (Category: Breaking News)
- American Chaos, Modi’s Heatwave & Ranil As Common Government Candidate (Category: Breaking News)
- The New Kurukshetra: BJP & Opposition Alliances For The 2024 Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Western Discontents, Modi’s New India, And Sri Lankan Anniversaries (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy Closer the presidential election gets, the more complex it is getting. Of course, it has always been the case, including the question if the parliamentary polls should precede presidential election. In the past, incumbent Presidents and their ruling coalition alone used to be pressured over the question but this time round, it […]
- Sajith has his job cut out (Category: Breaking News)
- Is economic revival an electoral option now? (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Executive Presidency Will Remain (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Will Blink First, When, Why and How (Category: Breaking News)
The United Nations (UN) says Sri Lanka suffers from a continuing accountability deficit, be it for alleged war crimes, more recent human rights violations, corruption or abuse of power. Speaking at a mass held in Colombo to commemorate the victims of the Easter Sunday attacks, the UN resident coordinator in Sri Lanka, Marc-André Franche, reiterated […]
- UN Secretary-General appoints new Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche meets Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- Marc-André Franche appointed as New UN Resident Coordinator for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP to continue supporting sustainable development in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Six people died in an accident during the 'Fox Hill SuperCross 2024' racing event held in Diyatalawa today (April 21).The post Six killed, 21 injured in accident during ‘Fox Hill Super Cross’ in Diyatalawa appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Schoolgirl injured in Fox Hill tragedy dies (Category: Breaking News)
- Army appoint seven member panel to investigate Fox Hill 2024 mishap (Category: Breaking News)
- Army appoints investigation panel to probe deadly Fox Hill crash (Category: Breaking News)
- Army appoints committee to probe deadly Fox Hill accident (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) faction led Maithripala Sirisena appointed Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe as the Acting Chairman of the SLFP. The appointment was made when the group convened a special meeting today. Rajapakshe recently said that he has been invited by a group of SLFP members and religious leaders to contest to […]
- Anti-Corruption Bill tabled in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Wijeyadasa accuses Kiriella of tapping his phone (Category: Breaking News)
- Court blocks Wijeyadasa’s appointment as Acting Chairman (Category: Breaking News)
- Wijeyadasa not ruling out contesting presidential polls (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Colonial Legacies: Cultural Imperialism & The Fracturing Of Ethnic Identities appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Celebrating Menstrual Hygiene Day: Reproductive Rights & The Fight Against Period Poverty (Category: Breaking News)
- The ‘Flower Seller’ Video & Sri Lanka’s Youth: Unveiling The Challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- The Tamil Nadu Factor (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala-Buddhism & The Nation State Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post On The Issue Of The Failure To Obtain Justice For The Victims Of The Easter Sunday Massacre appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Three Years Since Easter Bombings, Yet No Justice In Sight! (Category: Breaking News)
- Anarchy & Abuse Of Power By Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
- With Impunity Remaining Normalised, What Hope For Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- 2024 Election Year; The Perennial Challenge Of Cleaning The Stables For Sri Lanka! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Debt, Divestiture & Discontent appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW’s Plea In Paris & Predicament At Home (Category: Breaking News)
- Anti-Terrorism Act To Prevent System Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Glocalization Without Financialization (Category: Breaking News)
- Restructuring The Economy: A Stock Take (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Paris – A Moveable Feast appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- “Lamā Adhyāpanaya Sandahā Kathandara” (Stories To Be Used For Educating Children) (Category: Breaking News)
- The “Aragalaya“ Of 1848 (Category: Breaking News)
- Rat Cunning Or Intelligent Nation Building? (Category: Breaking News)
- Manikavasagam’s News Experience, A News Textbook (Category: Breaking News)
A tense situation has been reported in front of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headquarters at Darley Road in Colombo 10.
Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has been appointed as the Acting Chairman of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
In a landmark study published recently in the journal Mitochondrion, 10 researchers from five institutions -- including Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad;
The IMF s (International Monetary Fund) First Deputy Managing Director, Gita Gopinath has congratulated the Sri Lankan authorities on the steady progress made on several fronts, including inflation reduction, revenue enhancement and governance reforms.
Five years have passed since the horrific Easter Sunday attacks that shattered Sri Lanka's peace, claiming 269 lives in bombings targeting churches and hotels.The post Sri Lanka marks five years since Easter Sunday Attacks, calls for justice persist appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- NPP gives Cardinal written assurance over Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Human chains formed at several places on Easter attack anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- Comprehensive international probe on Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry rejects allegations on Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
All the churches across the island observed a two-minutes silence to mark the fifth anniversary of the deadly terror attacks on Easter Sunday (April 21) in 2019.
ECONOMYNEXT –The government is expecting to conclude all the transactions related to divestiture of State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) by August this year under an ambitious reform process, the government-led State-Owned Enterprises Restructuring Unit (SOERU) said. However, the divestiture of loss-making Srilankan Airlines is likely to be concluded by September, it said. The SOERU has already called [&...
- Experimenting with State-Owned Enterprises (Category: Breaking News)
- UL attempt to recruit foreign pilots flops due to low pay, high taxes – Dayasiri (Category: Breaking News)
- State need not do business, says Ranil, seven SOEs to be divested (Category: Breaking News)
- FSP accuses President of taking country on 1977 path to disaster (Category: Breaking News)
The Russian Embassy in Colombo, on Friday (19) stated that it possesses no information regarding the involvement of Sri Lankan citizens in the Ukrainian conflict on the Russian side, as well as any data on potential numbers of such individuals. Commenting on recent newspaper articles, the embassy said they are not aware of a local […]
- Putin orders to increase flights between Russia and friendly states (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka secures long-term credit line from Russia to procure fuel (Category: Breaking News)
- Direct job opportunities for Sri Lankan skilled migrant workers in Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankans warned against St. Petersburg University (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT –The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm emphasized the importance of the private sector engagement in the recovery of the crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s economic growth. Riccardo Puliti, the IFC’s Vice President for Asia and the Pacific said this when he met State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe and the island nation’s Central […]
- High Tech Private Buses (Category: Breaking News)
- No private buses on April 13 (Category: Breaking News)
- Private tanker owners withdraw from fuel transport services (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to open ground handling, catering, jet fuel supply at airports to private sector (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita It is virtually impossible to remove Maithripala Sirisena as the head of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), given the party’s constitution, and the “illegal attempts” made a section of the politburo to remove Sirisena will only paralyze the party, former general secretary of the SLFP Dayasiri Jayasekera said. He also denied […]
- Sirisena floats broader coalition under UPFA umbrella (Category: Breaking News)
- Wijeyadasa appointed SLFP Chairman as Maithripala resigns (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-president Maithripala reveals SLFP s presidential candidate (Category: Breaking News)
- Dayasiri suspended from SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
by Rajan Philips As Sri Lankans took time off to mark the national New Year last week, Iran launched a spectacle of drone and missile attacks against Israel. This was the first direct attack by Iran on Israel after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Until now Iran has been using proxies to harass Israel – […]
- Iran-Israeli Tit For Tat, India’s Vote Marathon & Lanka’s Long Election Eve (Category: Breaking News)
- Timetable set for India’s national election, deadlock elections loom in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- BJP Celebrates Victory despite Electoral Shifts: 2024 Lok Sabha Results (Category: Breaking News)
- Election Fright in Sri Lanka and India’s Marathon in a Midsummer of Elections (Category: Breaking News)
by ACB Pethiyagoda In spite of its technological advancement, perhaps as in no other Asian country, modern Japan still maintains close links with simple things of its past in several enduring forms. The commonest, to mention a few, are the tatami mat-covered floors in homes, tiny goblets of hot sake in winter, cold sake in […]
- Leaf Limit (Category: Business)
- January to June 2022 tea income records a hike of 28 per cent over same period last year (Category: Breaking News)
- MONLAR: SL has lost million hectares of forest cover since 1960 (Category: Breaking News)
- SL looking at mechanical tea harvesting to combat labour scarcity (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT – Two parliamentary groups have called for sensitivity training for staff at public spaces after a woman with disabilities was harassed at a government office, adding that the Government is obliged to ensure persons with disabilities have comfortable access to all public buildings. “We strongly condemn the incident that took place on 5th April […]
- EC to provide tactile ballot papers at future elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Special tactile ballot paper for visually impaired to be introduced at next election (Category: Breaking News)
- US delegation assesses progress of projects involving Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Persons with disabilities integral players in determining innovative solutions to fully inclusiv... (Category: Breaking News)
by Rex Clementine Young fast bowling sensation Mathesha Pathirana is rocking India. His deadly death over bowling efforts for Chennai Super Kings had made him an overnight sensation last season. Madras fans are beginning to love him even more this season after he blew away arch-rivals Mumbai Indians with a four-wicket haul during Sunday’s double […]
- Indian court reduces sentence imposed on two accused of conspiring to carry out attacks in Sri L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Process Sri Lankan refugee s plea for Indian citizenship, Madras HC directs India s Home Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian court directs to issue passport to woman born to SL parents in Tamil Nadu (Category: Breaking News)
- Freed Rajiv case convict wants to return home to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Compiled and written by Dr. Harold Gunatillake (Order of Australia (OAM), FRCS, FICS, FIACS, AM(Sing), MBBS(Cey) Sri Lankan cashews are highly sought after for their milky flavour, and the market for Rancrisp cashews continues to grow. The cashew, Anacardium occidentale L., belongs to the Anacardiaceae or cashew family. Two related plants in this family are […]
- Peanuts good to keep heart healthy (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajitha steals limelight as Battle of the Maroons ends in draw (Category: Breaking News)
- Deconstructing Ravi (Category: Breaking News)
- Is dark chocolate good for you ? (Category: Breaking News)
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