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By N Sathiya Moorthy Reports of consensual sex involving over 5,000 girls under 16 (hence ‘legal rape) in just one police division, Kandy, should be a cause for serious national concern. The fact that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has sought further information in the matter, obviously for possible corrective measures that the government could initiate could only […]
- Bill to reduce consent age for sex to 14 years withdrawn (Category: Breaking News)
- Tuition class teacher arrested for raping 15-year-old girl (Category: Breaking News)
- Riot Police deployed as staff take hospital official hostage (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil takes oaths as Finance Minister (Category: Breaking News)
Israel has turned to India and Sri Lanka in its search for much-needed workers to revive its largely comatose construction industry, after the country deported thousands of Palestinian workers and revoked their work permits following Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on it. Around 82,000 Palestinians worked in the country’s construction industry prior to the assault, accounting for a third of the sector’s [R...
- Sri Lanka Navy detains 12 Indian fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese farms recruiting workers from Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ship with two Sri Lankans hit by Houthi missile killing three seafarers (Category: Breaking News)
- First batch of Sri Lankan workers sent to Israel despite conflict (Category: Breaking News)
[An article based on the Keynote Address delivered by Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, recently at the Annual Research Symposium 2023 of the University of Colombo] Introduction Inflation affects every aspect of our lives; it is a force that shapes our purchasing power, influences our financial decisions, and […]
- Nexus between money, exchange rate, money printing and inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL’s inflation reduced to single digit levels in 2023 along with restoration of price stability’ (Category: Breaking News)
- High interest rates have prevented contraction of economy – CBSL Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- CB eases monetary conditions by reducing its interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged all political leaders to exhibit responsibility in their approach to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program.The post Sri Lanka President calls for proposals from opponents of IMF program to rescue country from financial crisis appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- The President desires to make the most of the development opportunities in the Indian Ocean regi... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rupees 1,500 million allocated for ‘Greater Kandy Urban Development Program’ – State Minister fo... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will not allow anything harmful to India’s security – President Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Having Proper plan to strengthen Sri Lanka’s economy is important – President (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Water Wars – In Relentless Pursuit Of Blue Gold appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 20th Amendment: Current Needs For Strategic Planning (Category: Breaking News)
- President Wickremesinghe warns of climate crisis and unveils ambitious plans (Category: Breaking News)
- Climate Change: A Red Flag For Environmental Security In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President highlights Global North’s failure in Climate Change Financing at 10th World Water Forum (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka needs $100 billion to become a net zero emitter by 2040, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday, as the island also attempts to build climate change resilience while navigating its worst financial crisis in decades.The post Sri Lanka needs $100 billion to become net zero emitter by 2040, president says appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka needs $100 billion to become net zero emitter by 2040, president says (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. allocates 600 acres for proposed International Climate Change University (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Commits to Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2040 While Pursuing Economic Goals (Category: Breaking News)
- President Calls for Unified Environment, Climate Change Law at Sri Lanka Climate Summit (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)
By Capt. A.G.A. Barrie P.Eng., B.Sc (Hons)(Eng) A.M.A. Azeez’s 50th death anniversary fell on November 24, 2023. Aboobucker Mohamed Abdul Azeez, an eminent educationist, erudite learned scholar in English and Tamil, brilliant orator, efficient administrator, writer, visionary and dedicated community worker, was born on October 4, 1911 to a traditional elite family of Vannarpannai in […]
- Dr. A.M.A. Azeez – He Placed Service Before Self (Category: Breaking News)
- Zahira College reflects on ‘Past Glories and a Way Forward’ (Category: Business)
- Zahira College holds 120th Anniversary Prize Day (Category: Business)
- Launch of support for Dharussalaam College on Sunday at Maligawatte (Category: Business)
By Uditha Devapriya Interactions are about connections. Connections are not always about commonalities. After all, it is not just commonalities that are celebrated, it is also differences. There are many ways of celebrating differences, many ways of affirming them. The Interact Movement in Sri Lanka is now almost 60 years old. The Interact Club of […]
- Covid surge in China (Category: Breaking News)
- Holcomb Announces New Limits As COVID Cases Surge (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holcomb Announces New Limits As COVID Cases Surge (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holcomb Announces New Limits As COVID Cases Surge (Category: USA, Indiana)
Budget highlights Following are the highlights of Budget proposals made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament yesterday: New economic and political system The President said in order not to fall back into a crisis, the economic and political system of Sri Lanka must be created anew. He said that a new social consensus should be […]
- Prez presents Budget to ‘build foundation of Sri Lanka’s recovery’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Budget Speech 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- President presents budget replete with reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Eran proposes raising PAYE threshold to Rs 200,000 a month (Category: Breaking News)
* Tax revenue to be raised by 47.1% in 2024 * Rs 10,000 increase for public sector workers * Pensioners to get Rs 2,500 allowance * Rs. 450 bn reserved for bank recapitalization * Four new universities to be established * 20% of state banks to be given off by Saman Indrajith President Ranil Wickremesinghe, […]
- Budget 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Budget Speech 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- A high-wire act (Category: Breaking News)
- President presents budget replete with reforms (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka and Argentina remain very vulnerable amid a worsening in global financial conditions while China has suffered a sharp deterioration in financial resilience since pre-COVID times, a think-tank study found on Wednesday.The post Sri Lanka, Argentina top list of most vulnerable economies -study appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- India has been greatly sensitive to the needs of Sri Lanka – Modi (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, Argentina top list of most vulnerable economies  study (Category: Breaking News)
- Nomura warns seven emerging economies including Sri Lanka face currency crisis danger (Category: Breaking News)
- A citizen’s rule should be established in the country – NPP (Category: Breaking News)
Close on the heels of humiliating battlefield defeats in the Jaffna peninsula, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga declared her intention to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel. Sri Lanka opened a diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv in Oct 2000 after having established full diplomatic ties with the Jewish State in May 2000, just a few weeks […]
- Focus on early stage of ‘unwinnable’ Eelam conflict over a decade after Nandikadal confrontation (Category: Breaking News)
- Army opens Advice Centre in EP (Category: Breaking News)
- “Go Gota Go” = Abolish EP (Category: Breaking News)
- Blind security sector reforms: (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT –Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa has accused the government of shrinking the economy through its proposal to increase value added tax (VAT) to 18 percent, claiming that it will reduce spending and investments. Speaking at an event on Friday November 03, Premadasa said Sri Lanka is experiencing a shortage in both dollars and […]
- Sajith slams Ranil’s Red Sea move (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP lashes SLPP’s VAT “dupliciy” (Category: Breaking News)
- Debate on VAT Bill: Parliament session adjourned (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP-led CTSU threatens protests against VAT on school materials (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Doctors’ Brain Drain: Health Security Concern In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Flight Of Human Capital – A Catastrophic Fait Accompli (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Using Vaccines Against Covid Is Far Cheaper & Safer Than Using Local Brews! (Category: Breaking News)
- Using Vaccines Against Covid Is Far Cheaper & Safer Than Using Local Brews! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Target 2048 – Growth Lab Experiment Should Be Converted From A Mere Wish To Ground Level Reality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Colombo University Business Economic Summit 2024: Keynote Address (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 Requires Sri Lanka To Develop A Viable Creative Capital Base (Category: Breaking News)
- Proposed Labour Reforms: When A Labour Lawyer Speaks Like A Labour Economist (Category: Breaking News)
- SOE 2023: IPS Offers Some Inputs To Proposed Growth Lab (Category: Breaking News)
Palestinian health officials now say that at least 471 people were killed by an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday night. They blame an Israeli air strike, but Israel’s military says the blast was caused by a failed rocket launch by the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The BBC’s Rushdi Abu Alouf […]
- More than 30 injured after blast in Paris (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 50 killed and dozens injured in Pakistan blast (Category: Breaking News)
- Kabul blast kills teenagers sitting practice exam (Category: Breaking News)
- Huge blast at oil terminal in Guinea’s capital (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's private creditors have sent a proposal on how to restructure $12 billion of overseas debt, including a new type of bond designed to ease repayments in case of future economic pressure, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.The post Sri Lanka bondholders sent $12 billion debt rework proposal to government, sources say appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking ...
- Sri Lanka’s bondholders send debt rework proposal to government (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka s bondholders send debt rework proposal to government (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka debt restructuring stumbles as government rejects bondholders’ proposal (Category: Breaking News)
- Global investors and Sri Lanka officials set for second round of Bond Restructuring talks (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) handed over a consignment of fifteen thousand (15,000) bottles of drinking water to State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon on Tuesday (October 10) at the Ministry of Disaster Management intended to be distributed among flood affected communities in the Galle and Matara districts.The post Sri Lanka Red Cross Society donates drinking water to flo...
- SL Red Cross Society donates drinking water to flood-affected communities (Category: Breaking News)
- FBL donates Milk Powder to flood victims (Category: Breaking News)
- ICRC donates equipment to Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka donates tea to flood-hit Australia (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Misconceived Resilient Economy Needs Fixing By Restoring Broken Supply Chains appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Navigating The Economic Reawakening & Sustainable Growth (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Social Market Economy Ideology Need Be Clarified & Signed Off (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Governance & Economic Development – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Has The Economy Been Assassinated & If So, Who Were The Assassins? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Foreign Debt Restructuring: Too Late & Too Short To Get Out Of The Debt Trap (Category: Breaking News)
- 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)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution and the 13th Amendment – Part II appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part IV (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part VII (Category: Breaking News)
By Udari Abeyasinghe One of the principles of free education is to provide opportunities in higher education. In 2020, then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued directives to the University Grants Commission (UGC) to increase university admissions by an additional 12,000 students, in line with his election manifesto. Subsequently, student enrollments were increased with inadequate resources allocat...
- Medical education at crossroads (Category: Breaking News)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
- Chaos in universities: A solution? (Category: Business)
- Country fast running out of dons to keep universities ticking (Category: Breaking News)
By Sanath Nanayakkare The Global CEO Forum Sri Lanka held at the Galadari Hotel on Thursday showed a clear shift of discussion topics by Sri Lankan business leaders compared to what they were talking about just a year ago. Completely deviating from airing worries about how to run their businesses amid economic turmoil, business leaders […]
- Indian business leaders keen on investing in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “SL must continue reforms but people demand openness, transparency & accountability” (Category: Breaking News)
- GLOBAL CEO FORUM SUMMARY (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP unveils its economic policy today (Category: Breaking News)
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR ICC U19 MEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP SRI LANKA 2024 Five venues in Colombo set to stage the action from 13 January, with the Final on 4 February at R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium 15th edition of the event will see the most exciting young talent in world cricket compete over 41 […]The post INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- RPS, CCC, SSC, NCC and Sara to host Under-19 World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to host next T20 WC in 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aiming for a golden encore (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Men’s U19 Cricket World Cup 2024 (Category: Sports)
The Chinese spy ship ‘Shi Yan 6’ has entered the Malacca strait, bound for Colombo, amid confusion over whether Sri Lanka has granted access for the spy vessel to dock at Colombo. According to reports last month, the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has granted Shi Yan 6 access to dock at Colombo port. However, the Sri Lankan […]
- Sri Lanka approves request to dock Chinese Research / Survey Vessel Shi Yan 6 (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese research vessel ‘Shi Yan 6’ to dock in Colombo today (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese research vessel permitted to make port call in Sri Lanka in Nov. (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka grants Chinese vessel 48 hours to conduct marine research (Category: Breaking News)
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi is visiting Russia for security talks, as Moscow seeks continued support for its war on Ukraine. A close ally of Moscow, Beijing is accused of supporting Russia indirectly during the war, which it denies. Mr Wang’s trip is thought to be paving the way for Vladimir Putin to make a […]
- Kim Jong Un ‘to visit Putin for weapons talks’ (Category: Breaking News)
- How India overcame bitter G20 divisions over Ukraine (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky wants Xi Jinping meeting following China’s peace plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Vladimir Putin signals help for Kim Jong Un but quiet on weapons (Category: Breaking News)
By Saman Indrajith Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) leader and Minister of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure Development, Jeevan Thondaman, plans to bring the grievances of his community before Global Union Federation Public Services International in Geneva and other international fora, such as the World Economic Forum and International Labor Organization, next month, he said. “I […]
- MAS dominate Inter-Firm Table Tennis (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister Thondaman raises concerns about Lankan migrant workers with ILO Director General (Category: Breaking News)
- Going to court? RW offers legal aid to estate workers (Category: Breaking News)
- Hot Air and Ruffled Feathers (Category: Breaking News)
Talks between Sri Lanka and its international bondholders will seek common ground on how much of a hit should be incurred by domestic banks and holders of debt of the country's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), two sources with direct knowledge said.The post Sri Lanka bondholders talks focus on state enterprise debt, domestic banks – sources appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breakin...
- Global investors and Sri Lanka officials set for second round of Bond Restructuring talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bondholders sent $12 billion debt rework proposal to government, sources say (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka debt restructuring stumbles as government rejects bondholders’ proposal (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post System Change Happening In Wrong Direction appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Overstressing The Proposed Truth & Reconciliation Commission (Category: Breaking News)
- From Demand For Systems Change To Systems Break (Category: Breaking News)
- Time For Truth Come Out (Category: Breaking News)
- The Missing Ingredients To Come Out Of The Economic Rut (Category: Breaking News)
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