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[…]The post Country Has Fallen Due To The Socialist Thinking appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Impact Of The Next Election On The Economic Reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Elections & Economic Recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Are The IMF & Ranil Wickremesinghe Neoliberal? (Category: Breaking News)
- Redefining Traitors & Patriots In Relation To Sri Lanka Losing The Shipping Hub Status (Category: Breaking News)
The Australian government will lift emergency aid to Sri Lanka to AU$ 75 million as the south Asian island grapples with an economic crisis that has triggered a new surge of people fleeing on boats for Australia.The post Australia kicks in extra $25 million emergency aid to Sri Lanka appeared
- Australia kicks in extra $25 million emergency aid to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan provides additional US$ 6.6 million for food and nutrition in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ten U.S. Congress members urge additional support for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. sends Medicines and Medical Supplies worth over USD 12 million to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
“Estimates should be taken and a court case should be filed, to find the people responsible."
- Protestors say no to oil development (Category: Western Australia)
- Protests at BHP's annual general meeting (Category: Western Australia)
- Student Protest (Category: Business)
- Katunayaka protestors released (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Uncertainty About Elections Can Cause Instability (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
Wijesekera said the complaint also requests the CID to look into distribution irregularities.
- Sri Lanka in talks with Petro-China International over payment arrears (Category: Breaking News)
- Fuel prices increased in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- LIOC makes request for price hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis-hit Sri Lanka allows companies to pay in dollar to obtain weekly fuel supply (Category: Breaking News)
Stocks fell in the last two sessions on profit taking
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
The grant was given in response to a request by Sri Lanka’s government.
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka will ask Japan to invite the Indian Ocean island's main creditor nations, including China and India, to talks on bilateral debt restructuring, as it seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, its president said on Thursday.The post Sri Lanka to ask Japan to open talks
- Sri Lanka could wrap up debt restructure talks by Sept, president says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka already started ‘low level’ talks with India, China on debt restructuring – President (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka president to hold debt talks on France visit – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan, India and France launch creditors meeting on Sri Lanka debt (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is driving millions of people into poverty, jeopardizing their rights to health, education, and an adequate standard of living, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said the Sri Lankan Government should work with relevant financial institutions and partners
- Rights groups urge strong UN resolution on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil urged to end use of counter terror laws on protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- Ongoing abuses undermining proposed TRC goals in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Rights group accuses Sri Lanka of cracking down on dissent (Category: Breaking News)
Market down for 2nd time in 14 straight sessions
- Sri Lanka Nestlé unit’s profit up 34% amid net financial expenses jump (Category: Breaking News)
- Bourse up on strong earnings; Rupee weaker (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s IOC unit reports Rs12.3 bn in Sept 2022 profits (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain for third straight session led by market heavyweights (Category: Breaking News)
By Hiran H.Senewiratne ‘Sri Lanka is located at the heart of a vital global shipping line and more than 45000 ships and an equal number of aircraft navigate this route via Sri Lanka’s Dondra head annually. However, not a single ship nor aircraft is enabled to make a stop-over at Dondra for bunkering, re-fueling and […]
- ‘Chinese missile tracker ship prospecting Indian Ocean bed south of SL’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Six nabbed with high-tech satellite device in seas off Dondra Head (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt restructuring strategy out in April (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. borrowing costs drop as Treasury bill auction interest rates take big dip (Category: Breaking News)
Market has been on the rise due political stability hope after months of protests
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
- Record breaking Stock Market (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks slip in first-hour trade (Category: Breaking News)
The manufacturing PMI declined to 41.4 from 44.1
- Cooling Effect (Category: Business)
- SC experts say BMW hiring could lower jobless rate (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Canada's GDP rises 0.3% in August (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- Agreement to be signed to set up a canned fish factory in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has informed the Ministry of Finance to further restrict the import of non-essential goods as the foreign exchange crisis may worsen in the near future. The Central Bank has informed that the import restrictions must be enforced immediately as the impact
- Sri Lanka import controls are temporary: CB Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Expect rupee to strengthen in coming months: Cabraal (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to relax open account imports for 8 foods: Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Central Bank spends US$1.1bn in three months (Category: Breaking News)
The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) says that a new mobile application will be introduced to obtain information on filling stations with fuel stocks.The post Mobile application to be introduced to obtain information on fuel reserves and upcoming fuel stocks appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- National Fuel Pass to be introduced today in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka started issuing fuel only for National Fuel Pass holders from today (August 1) (Category: Breaking News)
- National Fuel Pass: users able to use revenue licence to register from Friday (July 29) (Category: Breaking News)
- Refuelling according to the National Fuel Pass further delayed (Category: Breaking News)
Electricity prices were last hiked in 2013 however were slashed almost by 25% in 2014
- Sri Lanka free trade zone manufacturers alarmed by electricity tariff hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Electricity tariffs to go up by 75 percent (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka utility regulator approves 75 percent electricity tariff hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka power tariff hike: ministry offers olive branch to protesting monks (Category: Breaking News)
President Rajapaksa fled the country after mass-protest triggered by forex shortages from money printing
- Kalutara gets the second Open University of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa goes back to China (Category: Breaking News)
- President Rajapaksa sworn in for new term (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankaâs President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa with US President (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)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
These new rates, proposed by the CEB, have been approved by the PUCSL, will be effective next month, he said.
- Sri Lanka’s CEB owes Rs137.9bn to CPC and IPPs: Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Energy Minister reveals estimated cost of an electricity unit for uninterrupted power supply (Category: Breaking News)
- Go solar, Sri Lanka’s energy minister tells ‘power users’ in religious category (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB seeks approval for another power tariff hike, alleges Electricity Consumers’ Association (Category: Breaking News)
It will be reopened upon the anticipated arrival of a crude oil shipment on August 13, he said.
- Sri Lanka hikes kerosene price 290-pct in steep correction (Category: Breaking News)
- Sapugaskanda oil refinery to resume operations next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expecting crude oil shipment on Aug 13 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery resumes operations (Category: Breaking News)
The decision was made “despite several objections raised against the proposed scheme,” the PUCSL said.
Bangladesh has warned developing countries not to become like Sri Lanka by taking loans from China. Bangladesh’s Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has warned that developing countries must think twice about taking more loans through China’s Belt and Road Initiative as global (BRI) inflation and slowing growth add to the strains on indebted emerging markets, […]
- Japan puts preconditions to support Sri Lanka’s debt issue (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh expects Sri Lanka to repay $200 million by March 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan set to do its part over Sri Lanka debt woes – Finance Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- SL owes $ 15 b on foreign borrowings since 1997 (Category: Business)
“Human Rights Watch is extremely concerned by the draconian and abusive state of emergency currently in effect."
- Ranil urged to adopt measures to protect basic rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe needs to end crackdown – Human Rights Watch (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW says economic crisis puts rights in Sri Lanka in peril (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s friendly nations abstained UNHRC voting – foreign minister (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s new president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, should ensure that his administration adopts measures to protect the basic rights of all Sri Lankans, Human Rights Watch said in a letter published todayThe post Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe needs to end crackdown – Human Rights Watch appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- Rights group says Sri Lanka harassed, intimidated protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- President appoints expert committee to address public sector salary discrepancies (Category: Breaking News)
- Human Rights Watch urges major creditors to help restructure Sri Lanka’s debts (Category: Breaking News)
- New resolution on Sri Lanka adopted at United Nations Human Rights Council with 20 votes in favour (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s new president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, should ensure that his administration adopts measures to protect the basic rights of all Sri Lankans, Human Rights Watch said in a letter published today outlining key human rights concerns. Wickremesinghe was sworn in as president on July 21, 2022, after then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stepped down after months of widespread protests against [...
- Rights group accuses Sri Lanka of cracking down on dissent (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW accuses Sri Lanka of ignoring EU GSP+ requirements (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil urged to end use of counter terror laws on protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW says economic crisis puts rights in Sri Lanka in peril (Category: Breaking News)
By Gomi Senadhira The press release by the Central Bank on the external sector performance ,in June 2022, perhaps was the first piece of good news we had received for a long time. According to the press release, “Earnings from merchandise exports, in June 2022, increased by 23.9 percent over the corresponding month, in 2021, […]
- Diesel shipment that arrived in Colombo on 16 July still not paid for want of dollars (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt.’s lethargy towards gem and jewelry sector seen as costing SL $ 1 billion in for-ex annually (Category: Breaking News)
- First-ever direct consultation with export titans starts in earnest (Category: Business)
- Central Bank Governor hopeful of assistance from IMF amid lingering uncertainties (Category: Breaking News)
and avoid a Lanka-like forex crisis. While the […]
- Bangladesh secures loans of $4.7 billion from IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh seeks $4.5 billion IMF loan as deficit widens (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF agrees $4.5 billion Bangladesh support programme (Category: Breaking News)
- Emerging Donor (Category: Business)
The National movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) said that it is gravely concerned about a number of actions taken by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration in recent days.NMSJ chairman, former Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya said that it is their belief that the arrests of Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union, Palitha Atampola and […]
- Sajith says govt lying about there being no money to hold polls after having printed Rs 278 bn i... (Category: Breaking News)
- Chief Govt. Whip insists only Presidential poll will be held this year (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP plans protest in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- The government printed Rs 278 billion between October and December 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
Rupee depreciation, dues from government-owned institutes and overpaid overstaff are prominent reasons for the loses
- Sri Lanka’s petroleum sector trade unions to launch protest on Aug 22 against new reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: CPC not audited since 2008 - JVP (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce new electricity tariff scheme for low-income households (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to make cash transfers to the those hit hard by record kerosene price hike (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is considering a restructure of local and sovereign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, as the island nation battles its worst financial crisis in its independent history.The post Sri Lanka considering restructure of local and sovereign debt appeared first on ONLANKA News
- Sri Lanka President says China’s assurances to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt received and forward... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to begin talks to restructure debt of $30 Billion (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Government hoping to restructure $17 billion foreign debts along with local debts (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could wrap up debt restructure talks by Sept, president says (Category: Breaking News)
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