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Militant group Hamas could very well have ‘bitten off more than it could chew.’ Hamas’ ongoing morbidly bloody and dramatic military onslaught on Israeli territory bordering the Gaza strip is by any standard daring but isn’t it more foolhardy than bold and courageous? The more seasoned Middle East commentator could not be faulted for raising […]
- Dangerous persistence of identity issues (Category: Breaking News)
- Apparent Israeli strike kills Hamas deputy leader in Beirut (Category: Breaking News)
- Global lawlessness and the responsibilities of statehood (Category: Breaking News)
- Mindset changes and the dangerous ‘Religious War’ rhetoric (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post IMF Shows It Cares More Than Government appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Parliamentary Support Required For Effective Recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Regular Elections Are The Foundation Of Democratic Society (Category: Breaking News)
- Preparing The Ground For Early Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Legitimacy Deficit Haunts Government (Category: Breaking News)
After years of anticipation Paranoid Earthling, the rebel rock band of 22 years releases their full-length album ‘Illusion Empire’ on all direct streaming platforms (DSPs) in November and will then commence their album tour from Colombo on Saturday 02 December at Floor by O in Colombo 07. The album includes seven original songs, which Paranoid […]
- Reign by Paranoid Earthling: First single from much-awaited Album now available on DSPs (Category: Breaking News)
- Legendary Skinsmen joins Sri Lanka’s premier heavy metal band Stigmata (Category: Breaking News)
- Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor dies aged 56 (Category: Breaking News)
- AkzoNobel brings joy and colour to SOS Children’s Village in Monaragala this Children’s Day (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy While the recent exit of Mullaitivu district judge T Saravanarajah from the country, alleging threat to his life, is still making news in capital Colombo and also elsewhere, in northern Jaffna, his Tamil political parties’ call for a human-chain flopped, like many such protests before it. In turn, this is going […]
- Overseas travel ban imposed on MP Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam (Category: Breaking News)
- A wrong message at a right time? (Category: Breaking News)
- Political solution to ethnic issue lies where the problem still is (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa lands in Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka cannot endorse the idea of international investigations into the island’s internal matters, President’s Media Division (PMD) said.The post Cannot endorse international investigations into Sri Lanka’s internal matters – PMD appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Cannot endorse int l investigations into Sri Lanka s internal matters - PMD (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President promised support for debt restructuring by Japan, other nations (Category: Breaking News)
- WB approves Sri Lanka s eligibility to access concessional financing from IDA (Category: Breaking News)
- President emphasizes on climate action and international collaboration (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil’s Berlin Rejections: No To International Inquiry, And To UNHRC appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Channel 4 Resurrects Easter Sunday & Exposes A Web Of Political Crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- The Easter Attacks & A Game Of Thrones: The Master Mind, A Cover Up Investigation & AI (Category: Breaking News)
- Destination Delhi: Roving President’s Next Port Of Call (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
A Russian attack on the village of Hroza, south-east of Kharkiv, has killed at least 51 people, including an eight-year-old boy, Ukraine says. Villagers were attending a wake for a local resident when a missile struck at 15:15 local time (13:15 BST). Ukraine’s defence ministry said there were no military targets in the area – […]
- Kremlin says 20 dead after attack on Russian city (Category: Breaking News)
- World leaders in India for G20 summit (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris attack near Eiffel Tower leaves one dead and two injured (Category: Breaking News)
- EU says starvation in Gaza being used as a weapon (Category: Breaking News)
By Uditha Devapriya Sena, the protagonist of Madawala S. Ratnayake’s Akkara Paha, embodies for me the hopes and frustrations of the rural Sinhala youth after 1956. Lester James Peries selected Milton Jayawardena, then an unknown player, for the role in his adaptation. Days after he finalised the casting he was visited by Vijaya Kumaratunga. I […]
- Tony Ranasinghe,in full flow (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB calls for sacking of SLC management (Category: Breaking News)
- Ninth recipient: Karu Jayasuriya awarded Lanka’s highest national honour (Category: Breaking News)
- DMC urges people downstream to be vigilant as spill gates opened at Kukuleganga and Laxapana (Category: Breaking News)
Friday 6th October, 2023 President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent interview with Deutsche Welle (DW), in Berlin, has been trending in the digital realm—not for all the right reasons, though. Thanks to it, the genre of interrogative interview has apparently taken on a whole new meaning, with the interviewee aggressively interrogating the interviewer! There was obviously much […]
- Big money taking over parties (Category: Breaking News)
- Cardinal, Bishops’ Conference deny difference of opinion over Easter Sunday carnage (Category: Breaking News)
- Herath accuses President of using SLPP as rubber stamp in Parliament to pass draconian laws (Category: Breaking News)
- President meets Sri Lankan Diaspora in Australia, outlines plans for economic modernization (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe slammed the allegations levelled in the documentary aired by British television network Channel 4 during an interview with an international broadcaster Deutsche Welle based in Germany.The post Sri Lanka President slams western media, says no to international probe appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- President hopeful of commencing debt restructuring process by March (Category: Breaking News)
- President proposes establishing Int l University on Climate Change in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President suggests non-aligned foreign policy for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Free trade is beneficial for both Sri Lanka and Asia  President Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, during an interview with an international broadcaster based in Germany, slammed the allegations levelled in the documentary aired by British television network Channel 4.
Opinion will surely be divided on whether Foreign Minister Ali Sabry should have waded into the ongoing spat between India and Canada on the assassination of a Sikh Canadian citizen allegedly by Indian agents according to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sabry got a lot of media play in India characterizing Trudeau’s statement to Parliament […]
- Sabry hits out at Trudeau over India-Canada diplomatic row (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian interference alleged in Kurundi temple dispute as Ottawa reiterates genocide charge (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka caught up in Canadian Indo-Pacific Strategy (Category: Breaking News)
- Grave diplomatic issue (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr Mohan Jayatilake Consultant Cardiologist Every year on the 29th of September, World Heart day is observed to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is heart diseases and strokes. As heart diseases are a leading cause of death in the world people must be educated about them and the timely prevention to achieve this […]
- World Health Day observed (Category: Breaking News)
- Gum Disease ‘Does Not Cause Heart Trouble’: Any Link ‘Coincidental’, Say Scientists (Category: Breaking News)
- Heart attacks number one cause of death in govt. hospitals (Category: Breaking News)
- Over 50 percent of businessmen in Kamburupitiya afflicted with NCDs (Category: Breaking News)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Monday that Kumar Dharmasena and Nitin Menon will be the on-field umpires for the opening fixture of the 2023 ICC ODI World Cup taking place between England vs New Zealand at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad on October 5 England’s group-stage clash against New Zealand will be a […]
- Aleem Dar steps down from ICC’s Elite Panel of Umpires (Category: Breaking News)
- Key South Africa pacer ruled out of third ODI against Australia (Category: Breaking News)
- India 2023 World Cup brand launched (Category: Breaking News)
- Match officials for World Test Championship Final revealed (Category: Breaking News)
by Shihar Aneez State revenue has seen a shortfall of Rs. 100 billion as of now compared to the revenue target agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said.Tax cuts for political reasons in December 2019 has resulted in a sharp fall in Sri Lanka’s tax revenue to GDP ratio, […]
- Sri Lanka s tax revision helps correct tax revenue expenditure imbalance  IMF Mission (Category: Breaking News)
- 93 percent jump in tax collection in first half of this year (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says increasing revenue of paramount importance for Sri Lanka; defends VAT hike (Category: Breaking News)
- VAT 18% from next year (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post In Reference To The Channel 4 Documentary Exposing The Perpetrators Of The Easter Sunday Bombing appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Channel 4 Resurrects Easter Sunday & Exposes A Web Of Political Crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- Time For Truth Come Out (Category: Breaking News)
- With Impunity Remaining Normalised, What Hope For Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Malicious “Shafi Frame Up”: Will 2023 See The Guilty Being Punished? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Commissions, An “Open Sesame” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Accuser & The Accused; Is Suresh Sallay In The Cross Hairs Of A Witch Hunt? (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Should We Beg IMF? – When More Than $36 Billion To Be Recovered (Category: Breaking News)
- Collusive Behavior Undermines Citizen Rights: Emerging Pseudo-Goebbels (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Politics Of Easter Investigation In A Wriggling Economy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Economy, Easter Phoenix & Politics (Category: Breaking News)
- Diaspora Tamils & 13A (Category: Breaking News)
- Economics Of Recovery & Politics Of Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Political Dilemma (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Unthinking Nation appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Smell Of Terror (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics Of Addiction (Category: Breaking News)
- Still, The Mirage (Category: Breaking News)
- Kurundi: A Runway To ’56? (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP, yesterday (15) asked whether a comprehensive international investigation into accountability issues here could be conducted unless India, too, was subjected to the same. The former Public Security Minister was responding to the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) declaration...
- GTF won’t support separate state, Surendiran tells MPs (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP MP asks FM for clarification (Category: Breaking News)
- Amnesty International head to join M’vaikkal commemoration (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil political parties suspicious of govt.-GTF initiative, flay TNA (Category: Breaking News)
Easter Sunday controversy: By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Ambassador to Germany, Switzerland and ex-High Commissioner in South Africa, Sarath Kongahage, yesterday (12) alleged that British television Channel 4 had tricked him into discussing political developments with the focus on the 2019 Easter Sunday carnage. Claiming that the Channel 4 programme didn’t reflect what he had said […]
- Channel 4 completely distorted my comments in Easter attacks documentary - Kongahage (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘We don’t have anything to add to programme’ (Category: Breaking News)
- C4 whistle-blower’s father among those killed with EPRLF’s Padmanabha in Chennai (Category: Breaking News)
- C4 film: MS asks for UN intervention (Category: Breaking News)
The death toll from floods in Libya in one city alone stands at more than 1,000, a senior official who visited the eastern port of Derna has said. “Bodies are lying everywhere,” the minister from the eastern-based government told Reuters news agency. Much of Derna, which has about 100,000 residents, is under water after two […]
- Libyan floods: Derna city alone recovers 1,000 bodies – minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Libya floods: Entire neighbourhoods dragged into the sea (Category: Breaking News)
- Libya declares emergency as Storm Daniel kills 150 (Category: Breaking News)
- Hezbollah steps back from all-out war on Israel over Gaza – for now (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Economy, Easter Phoenix & Politics appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Politics Of Easter Investigation In A Wriggling Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Regime Failure, Grassroot Anger & Ineffective Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Regime Failure, Grassroot Anger & Ineffective Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Regime Failure, Grassroot Anger & Ineffective Opposition (Category: Breaking News)
The ending of the Sri Lanka-Bangladesh Asia Cup thriller threw up a Laws of Cricket puzzler, with six awarded despite the fielder in question never being contact with the ball and the ground at the same time.The post Why the umpires were right to give ‘six’ despite fielder never touching ball and ground simultaneously appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top S...
- Mathews left out of World Cup qualifiers (Category: Breaking News)
- Ibrahim 98 trumps Asalanka 91 as Afghanistan go 1-0 up (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence has strongly condemned allegations made by British television network Channel 4 in its new documentary which proclaims the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attack was deliberately planned by senior government officials.The post Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry denies Channel 4’s claims on Easter Sunday attacks appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking N...
- Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry rejects allegations on Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings (Category: Breaking News)
- President appoints committee to probe Channel 4 s allegations on Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa responds to allegations made by Channel 4 on Easter Sunday attacks (Category: Breaking News)
A Turkish cryptocurrency boss and his two siblings have been jailed for 11,196 years each for defrauding investors of millions of dollars. Faruk Fatih Ozer, 29, fled to Albania in 2021 with investor assets after his Thodex exchange suddenly collapsed. He was extradited back to Turkey in June and found guilty of money-laundering, fraud and […]
- Russian court bans ‘LGBT movement’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Seychelles declares state of emergency after huge explosion (Category: Breaking News)
- Trump liable for fraud, judge finds in New York civil case (Category: Breaking News)
- Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Unthinkable, Unspeakable Can Happen appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Story Of Shadows (Category: Breaking News)
- “Really Real Manner Of Managing Sri Lanka” – ‘To Paris and Back’ 1977-1990 (JRJ Years) (Category: Breaking News)
- A Churlish Churchill, A Godawful Grusha (Category: Breaking News)
- Gorbachev And Gotabaya (Category: Breaking News)
At least 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed when Islamist militants attacked a military camp and a vessel in northeastern Mali on Thursday, the interim government said.The post At least 49 civilians, 15 soldiers killed in northeast Mali attacks – interim government appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- At least 49 civilians, 15 soldiers killed in twin attacks in Mali (Category: Breaking News)
- At least 49 civilians reported dead in attack on river boat in Mali (Category: Breaking News)
- Two French soldiers killed during mission in Mali (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- Two French soldiers killed during mission in Mali (Category: USA, South Dakota)
Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people.The post Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories...
- C4 documentary makers admit absence of evidence to support Maulana’s claims (Category: Breaking News)
- Retired Justice Imam to head Channel 4 probe, ex-SLAF chief member of committee (Category: Breaking News)
- President appoints committee to probe Channel 4 allegations (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4 documentary makers admit absence of evidence to support Azad Maulana s claims (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s Parliament and the Cabinet discussed the latest allegations over the Easter Sunday attacks. Minister Manusha Nanayakkara told Parliament today that the Cabinet which met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe discussed the allegations raised in the Channel 4 documentary. The Minister said that the Government will back an international investigation into the claims. The main […...
- Retired SC judge to chair committee on Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
- Pillayan ready to face international probe (Category: Breaking News)
- UK television to reveal shocking details on Easter attacks in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Comprehensive international probe on Easter attacks (Category: Breaking News)
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