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The Ceylon tea industry, a vital component of the national economy, is under immense pressure from the proposed 700 Rupee wage increase for tea estate workers. While it is said that the intention behind the wage hike is to improve worker livelihoods, industry experts refer this as a pure political move aimed at gaining the […]
- Planters’ Association threatens legal action (Category: Breaking News)
- Going to court? RW offers legal aid to estate workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Tea traders call for a wage cut (Category: Business)
- Planters’ Association strongly opposes arbitrary wage hike (Category: Breaking News)
Conspiracy theories have sprung to life Iran declares five days of mourning Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber named successor Iranian State media yesterday confirmed the death of the country’s President, Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of north-western Iran, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. They were killed after the helicopter they were […]
- Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, dies in helicopter crash aged 63 (Category: Breaking News)
- Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi feared dead in helicopter crash (Category: Breaking News)
- Search teams locate crash site of helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi (Category: Breaking News)
- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash, official says (Category: Breaking News)
Donald Trump’s unprecedented criminal trial has begun with half of a group of potential jurors ruled out within minutes on impartiality grounds. Mr Trump denies falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Sixty of 96 potential jurors were quick to say in the New York court that they could […]
- Biden and Trump set for election rematch after securing party nominations (Category: Breaking News)
- Have Trump prosecutors made their case at hush-money trial? (Category: Breaking News)
- Iceland violent volcanic flare-up triggers state of emergency (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel military intelligence chief quits over 7 October (Category: Breaking News)
Iran’s mission to the United Nations has suggested that any Iranian military response to a deadly Israeli air raid on the Iranian consulate in Damascus could have been averted if the UN Security Council had denounced Israel’s attack. The Iranian statement on Thursday comes amid a growing number of media reports that an Iranian attack […]
- Iran launches air attack on Israel, with drones ‘hours’ away (Category: Breaking News)
- Israeli launches missile attack on Iran  media reports (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel cripples Syria’s two main airports in strikes: Syrian state media (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran warns Israel, US of ‘severe response’ in case of retaliation (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Leap Of Faith Awaits appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- With A View To A Kill (Master Spy-James Bond)! (Category: Breaking News)
- Rat Cunning Or Intelligent Nation Building? (Category: Breaking News)
- Anti-Corruption, A Losing Battle? (Category: Breaking News)
- April & May – Images From Two Months (Category: Breaking News)
There is always a method to Chinese madness and this applies to its “Xiaokang Villages” also. Construction of these villages began across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) just over a decade ago, China has today began populating them. The delay in getting residents for these villages is probably because of the reluctance of Tibetans […]
- China’s approach to develop border areas centred on coercion and encroachment (Category: Breaking News)
- Pentagon report claims China considered Sri Lanka for military logistic support (Category: Breaking News)
- India-China border skirmish signals volatile ‘new normal’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Coup a further complication for tricky Myanmar-China ties (Category: USA, South Dakota)
[…]The post From Biden To Trump, Mahinda To Ranil! Have We Run Out Of Choices? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Trump Likely To Be The Next American President? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
- A Democracy Like No Other: Learning From Trump (Category: Breaking News)
Donald Trump shook his head in disgust Tuesday as the judge in his New York defamation trial told prospective jurors that another jury had already decided that the former president sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. Later, when the judge asked during jury selection if anyone felt he had been treated unfairly […]
- Donald Trump ordered to pay $83.3m for defaming E Jean Carroll (Category: Breaking News)
- Donald Trump must pay $83.3m for defaming E Jean Carroll (Category: Breaking News)
- Donald Trump disqualified from 2024 ballot by Colorado Supreme Court (Category: Breaking News)
- Donald Trump guilty on all counts in hush-money trial, New York jury finds (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Intervention Or Flirtation: America’s Interest: Good Governance Or Economic Stability? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil’s political ‘Trickonometry’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Fleas Dream Of Buying A New Dog (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil & Sajith Running Out Af Alternatives (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Vs. AKD: Who Will Blink First? (Category: Breaking News)
A veteran US senator has temporarily stepped down as head of the chamber’s powerful foreign relations committee as he battles bribery charges. Justice department prosecutors allege Robert Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for aid to Egypt’s government. The couple have denied the charges. The embattled senator has rejected […]
- Bob Menendez steps down as US Senate foreign relations chairman after indictment (Category: Breaking News)
- Rudy Giuliani must pay more than $148m over false election claims (Category: Breaking News)
- Former CIA hacker sentenced to 40 years in prison (Category: Breaking News)
- Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (Category: Breaking News)
A Uyghur refugee from China’s Xinjiang region died of alleged police neglect this month at the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center, raising concerns about the treatment of the more than 50 Uyghur refugees who have been held at the center since 2014. The victim was Abdulaziz Abdullah, 49. His son, Muhammad Abdullah, who lives in […]
- Thailand arrests Tamils waiting to hear status of UNHCR for refugee (asylum) status - Sydney Mor... (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankans stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- On the smugglers’ trail: ‘So many refugees are here’ (Category: Breaking News)
- On the smugglers’ trail: Sun Sea’s Canadian link and the unlucky ones (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Election Monitoring Organisations Raise Serious Concerns On Election Expenditure Law appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill inadequate - monitoring groups (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka elections monitor calls for guidelines on campaign expenditure for candidates (Category: Breaking News)
- The Committee on Parliamentary Business decides to take into debate the Regulation of Election E... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka election watchdog complains of election law violations (Category: Breaking News)
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men in any form. Ayn Rand. Does that apply to our President minus the common man’s vote? When he accepted the invitation to be President by poised-to-flee Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa, […]
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Thus spake Prez (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition unions accuse Prez of being two-faced (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez asks Opp. to cooperate (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Anniversary Angst (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post ‘Aragalaya’ – From The Spark To The Conflagration appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Taxing Without A Mandate (Category: Breaking News)
- JR Jayewardene And The 20 Amendment (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How Useful are VPNs in the Fight for Freedom of Speech? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- FBI and European law enforcement shut down VPN used by ransomware groups - CNET (Category: Technology)
- FBI and European law enforcement shut down VPN used by ransomware groups - CNET (Category: Technology)
- FBI and European law enforcement shut down VPN used by ransomware groups - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Yoruba People & Culture (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Janus Moment appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- July 9th 2022: ‘Ever Onward To Victory!’ (Category: Breaking News)
- 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A New Definition For Democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post War On China? – III: Pivot To East appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- War On China? – VI: India & The US: Forward Policy & The Brzezinskian Project (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – V: A “Carnival” Of Quads (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Past Is Prologue For China (Category: Breaking News)
- War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Parliament Of Monkeys appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Cabinet Of Patriotic Opportunists (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Ranil Rescue The Economy Or Rajapaksas? (Category: Breaking News)
- RW, IMF & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- GR’s Gamble With RW (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Moment Of Truth For The Church Of Ceylon: Are We Better Than The Rajapaksas? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- The Anglican Church Annual Diocesan Council: A Jaffna Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has been facing a severe economic crisis since the beginning of 2021 and was trying to cushion the effect of the financial instability by seeking help from almost all friendly countries. Sri Lanka sought the intervention of the good offices of the political hierarchy of Bangladesh and Pakistan, apart from India, for much-needed […]
- China assures will not harm Sri Lanka’s interests (Category: Breaking News)
- China only observer in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring platform (Category: Breaking News)
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s attitude puzzles Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Malathi De Alwis (1963-2021) – Beloved Friend, Feminist Comrade (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
A staff nurse of Changi General Hospital, Singapore who was allegedly molested by a doctor from Sri Lanka, was reportedly ‘advised’ by the hospital not to lodge a police report against the culprit, according to an informant who wishes to remain anonymous. A resident physician from Sri Lanka who works in the hospital’s Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care department was accused...
- Call for GPs to end emergency dept jam (Category: South Australia)
- Doctor commits suicide (Category: Breaking News)
- Sisters gave birth 90 minutes apart after sharing pandemic pregnancy experience (Category: USA, Iowa)
- Sisters gave birth 90 minutes apart after sharing pandemic pregnancy experience (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- The Darusman (UN) Report was inevitable due to colossal failure by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas using Sinhala spremacism to win Southern consent for anti-democratic constitutional r... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa treatment of Fonseka is like Prabhakaran tratment of Mahathaya (Category: Breaking News)
Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own cloth. President of the United States Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India said that:”I am mindful that I ...
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Children of the 1977 Free Market Economy and their world without vision (Category: Breaking News)
- US Judge dismisses case against Rajapakse but warns no way a reflection on the merits (Category: Breaking News)
- US grants immunity to President Rajapakse in War Crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lankan army ordered extra-judicial killings and assassinations during the final days of the country’s civil war, according to allegations made by a former member of the army. The source made the statements in an affidavit, obtained by The International as a part of an investigative report on the civil war, published today. The allegations ...
- Sri Lankan government ordered to commit war crimes says report (Category: Breaking News)
- What does the US know about alleged Sri Lankan war crimes? (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse banks on Blake’s diplomatic speak in US war crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
- International Crisis Group statement on LLRC report (Category: Business)
The Rajapaksa brothers, Basil and Gotabhaya, have both shown a keen sense of likened thinking with regard to the conduct of the war in Sri Lanka. In a leaked US embassy cable Basil Rajapaksa is quoted as having told members of the US Senate Foreign Relations that, ‘I’m not saying we’re clean; we could not ...
- US Raises Concerns About SL’s HR Record (Category: Breaking News)
- Do not put SL’s wellbeing in peril, Prof. Peiris asserts in Paris (Category: Business)
- SL not done enough says US (Category: Breaking News)
- Relevance of Non-alignment or ‘dynamic neutrality’ to SL’s foreign policy (Category: Breaking News)
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