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Medical Faculty Students Action Committee alleges that there is a severe shortage of lecturers in every medical faculty in the country.
- Three faculties at Jpura uni closed - Registrar (Category: Breaking News)
- Laboratory to identify cancer cells (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajarata University medical faculty closed down (Category: Breaking News)
- Medical Faculty students stage satyagraha against hostel fees hike (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. C. S. Weeraratna (csweera@sltnet.lk) Poverty is a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, such as food, shelter, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, and education. Various criteria are used to measure poverty. The most commonly used is based on incomes. A person is considered poor if his or her income level […]
- Urban poverty triples in Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Pro-poor growth and Economic growth in Sri Lanka - A critical analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- Deteriorating rural economy, and food security (Category: Breaking News)
- Overcoming Food Insecurity (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Misunderstood Taxation Of EPF & Other Superannuation Funds appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Apologetic Custodian Of The EPF Is Also A Victim (Category: Breaking News)
- Economy 2024: More Challenging Than The Two Previous Years (Category: Breaking News)
- EPF asked to pay 30% tax unless it participates in domestic debt restructuring process (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank informs EPF members: “decided to opt for” DDO (Category: Breaking News)
Udeni Kaluthantri, a 54-year-old port worker, became an overnight sensation last year for reasons that had nothing to do with his job. Days after protesters stormed the presidential palace in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, a video surfaced of Mr Kaluthantri lounging on a bed draped with the presidential flag. Pictures of young men jumping […]
- Brazil’s President vows to punish rioters who stormed Congress (Category: Breaking News)
- Mass arrests in Brazil as President condemns ‘terrorist’ riots (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court rules Imran Khan arrest was illegal (Category: Breaking News)
- A divided Japan bids farewell to its slain ex-PM (Category: Breaking News)
Attempts made by SriLankan Airlines to recruit foreigners had failed due to low pay and high taxes here, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MP Dayasiri Jayasekera told Parliament on Friday (07).He said that the management of SriLankan and the line Minister were encouraging pilots to leave the airline. “The dispute between pilots and the management […]
- Getting Wings (Category: Business)
- SriLankan obtains govt s approval to recruit foreign pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- Pilots of SriLankan Airlines slam shortsighted decisions of the management (Category: Breaking News)
- 70 pilots leave SriLankan during last six months – Sajith (Category: Breaking News)
an ammunition shortage. […]
- Pope condemns human ‘hunger for wealth and power’ at Christmas Eve Mass (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky wants Xi Jinping meeting following China’s peace plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Biden tells Zelensky his country will never stand alone (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak visits President Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50m in aid (Category: Breaking News)
By Rathindra Kuruwita The government must establish an institution to entertain complaints from patients about problems with drugs or services and a mechanism to investigate these complaints, President of the College of Medical Laboratory Science (CMLS) Ravi Kumudesh says. The Laboratory Technologist had also demanded an investigation into the death of a 35-year-old woman following […]
- Kumudesh questions Keheliya’s stand on drugs imported outside procedure (Category: Breaking News)
- Security forces to investigate drug problem in universities (Category: Breaking News)
- Transparency required for all available medicinal drugs - President (Category: Breaking News)
- STF arrests man with cache of controlled drugs worth Rs. 100mn (Category: Breaking News)
The German Embassy in Colombo, under its micro project scheme, signed two small-scale projects as part of its efforts towards community development and livelihood support in Sri Lanka. The project signed with Rajarata Janasahana Foundation aims to empower poverty-stricken communities in two villages of Mihintale, Ambathalagama and Thambuththegama Janajayagama in the Anuradhapura District. A grant ...
- Cabinet approves proposal to get LRT project back on track (Category: Breaking News)
- Over 20 injured after bus falls down precipice in Punduloya (Category: Breaking News)
- Academy of International Business and University of the Pacific sign Memorandum of Understanding (Category: Breaking News)
- Samantha Power to visit Sri Lanka to discuss crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella states that the government has introduced a program in order to prevent a shortage of medicines in the future.
By Norman Palihawadane Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says that traders fleece the consumers by jacking up prices as well as selling substandard food while the Consumer Affairs Authority officials are preoccupied with egg raids. “I informed President Ranil Wickremesinghe of this problem. The Consumer Affairs Authority is there to ensure the protection of consumers’ rights. It is the mecha...
- Karu blasts businessmen, official for fleecing consumers (Category: Breaking News)
- Fish for consumers at reasonable prices for the festive season (Category: Breaking News)
- Watchdog group says 2011 smart grid legislation cited in federal bribery case put ComEd interest... (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Watchdog group says 2011 smart grid legislation cited in federal bribery case put ComEd interest... (Category: USA, Illinois)
Three hundred out of 1,400 medical graduates who completed internship in April this year had not accepted appointments as doctors here, former JVP MP Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said at a seminar in Colombo recently. Dr. Jayatissa said some medical graduates from local universities had not even completed internship. Around 1,700 medical doctors have left the […]
- Doctors across the island to stage protest today (Category: Breaking News)
- GMOF: Specialists hogging posts in Colombo at the expense of young docs (Category: Breaking News)
- Program to bring expatriate Sri Lankan doctors back to country (Category: Breaking News)
- Woman who was never sick in her life has medical problems post-coronavirus infection (Category: USA, Maryland)
Both airlines have a serious shortage of pilots, he said.A large number […]
- UL attempt to recruit foreign pilots flops due to low pay, high taxes – Dayasiri (Category: Breaking News)
- Four replacement engines for grounded aircraft by mid-July: Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan obtains govt s approval to recruit foreign pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan crisis: Pilots lambaste top management for mess (Category: Breaking News)
Laugfs Gas PLC, one of Sri Lanka s two largest suppliers of domestic Liquefied Petroleum (LP) gas, has assured that there is no gas shortage in the country, despite certain rumors.
- The answer to cheaper gas bills? (Category: Technology)
- Mining Fear (Category: Business)
- Analysts: High Gas Prices Will Last Into 2011 (Category: USA, Georgia)
- Tragic chemistry (Category: Technology)
Through the facility established by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka, Michelin Foundation channels support to procuring essential medicine given the ongoing socio-economic situation in the country and to address the identified drug shortage as highlighted by the Ministry
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka and Michelin Foundation have partnered to procure essential medicines for Sri Lanka. The medicines were handed over to the Ministry of Health this morning, in the presence of Keheliya Rambukwella, Minister of Health, and Dr. Anver Hamdani, Director Medical Technical Services, Coordinating In Charge/ COVID-19, Ministry […]
- UNDP and Michelin Foundation partner to procure essential medicines for hospitals in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan to provide essential medicines to Sri Lanka through UNICEF (Category: Breaking News)
- India supports early political solution in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP gives importance to working with vulnerable communities in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
SriLankan Airlines insists it has sufficient amount of pilots to meet its operational requirements of a reduced fleet. Issuing a statement, SriLankan Airlines said that it has been managing with a reduced fleet of 15 as opposed to the intended 18 aircraft over the last two months, which has impacted the airline’s flight schedule and […]
- SriLankan Airlines denies claims flight made emergency landing in Delhi (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines avoids possible mid-air collision (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan denies claims flights grounded over financial issues (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines denies claims it lost essential workers (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is set to start bartering tea to Iran next month in lieu of $250 million owed for oil, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Friday, as the crisis-hit country tries to lift sales to a key market and protect its forex reserves.The post Sri Lanka set to start tea-for-oil barter with Iran next month appeared first on ONLANKA - Latest Breaking News updates on Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka settles US$ 20 million Iranian oil debt with tea (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to start tea-for-oil barter with Iran next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan, Iranian officials discuss how to boost SL tea exports (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran to double tea imports from SL (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Wickremesinghe Safeguards The Rajapaksas; Mega Business Safeguards Wickremesinghe? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Calm Before The Storm! Aragalaya -’22 Has Rested Enough!!! (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Risk’ And ‘Fear’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Multiple Choice Or A Binary Option? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Vs. AKD: Who Will Blink First? (Category: Breaking News)
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament today that he loves to be a pilot. He said that flying as a pilot is a stressful thing and he loves to do it. Premadasa said this while speaking on the issue surrounding SriLankan Airlines. The Opposition Leader said that SriLankan Airlines is short of pilots. He said […]
- Getting Wings (Category: Business)
- SriLankan Airlines insists it has sufficient amount of pilots (Category: Breaking News)
- Dispute between SriLankan Airlines pilots and management (Category: Breaking News)
- Dispute between SriLankan Airlines pilots and management (Category: Breaking News)
The Matara Magistrate s Court has imposed fines on a company and two shops which had sold eggs above the controlled price declared by the government.
Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella has threatened to resign from his post if he is unable to resolve the shortage of medicines in the market. Speaking in Parliament today, Rambukwella said that a legal issue and shortage of funds had resulted in a crisis in importing drugs. Rambukwella
- Senate to be formed to solve national issue Govt. (Category: Breaking News)
- âÂÂRanaviru Dayâ will be an annual event on May 18 (Category: Breaking News)
- Visa for UN Panel only to testify before LLRC Govt. (Category: Breaking News)
- Wide-ranging Indo-Lanka talks in process of finding solution - Minister Rambukwella (Category: Breaking News)
By Prabhat Patnaik After Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Bangladesh has become the third country in our neighbourhood to become afflicted by a serious economic crisis. It has asked for a $4.5 billion loan from the IMF, apart from $1 billion from the World Bank and $2.5-3 billion from multilateral agencies and donor nations. Though the […]
- A stitch in time saves nine - Facing the short-term economic challenges (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- After Lanka and Pakistan, now Bangladesh lines up before IMF for bailout (Category: Breaking News)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
Thursday 22nd June, 2023 The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government is in overdrive, trying to regulate the electronic media purportedly to safeguard the interests of the public. It is going hell for leather to set up a broadcasting regulatory authority as if the very survival of the country hinged on its ability to control the media! This, it […]
- Presidential Task Force to crack down on toxic and dangerous drugs (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. hospitals compelled to ask patients to buy almost all their drugs from private sector – GMOA (Category: Breaking News)
- Shortage of 112 types of drugs in govt hospitals  Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- 80% of medicines brought under Indian credit line are not registered? (Category: Breaking News)
The anaesthetic which is believed to have caused two deaths at the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital had been procured through the Indian Credit Line, Dr. Vijith Gunasekera from the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) told journalists on Monday (June 19).The post Anaesthetic from India blamed for two deaths at Peradeniya Hospital appeared first on ONLANKA News - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking New...
- Kumudesh calls for appointment of ombudsman to hear woes of patients (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith wants immediate action to halt use of substandard anaesthetic that causes deaths (Category: Breaking News)
- FSP warns danger of negating country’s successful vaccination programme by importing low quality... (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Dangerous drugs’ (Category: Breaking News)
The Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) has decided to extend the validity period of temporary driving licenses issued after next Monday (June 26) for 2 years.The post Validity period of temporary driving licenses to be extended by two years appeared first on ONLANKA News - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Live Updates - Sri Lanka News.
- DMT to extend validity period of temporary driving licences (Category: Breaking News)
- Validity of temporary driving licenses extended by two years (Category: Breaking News)
- Validity period of temporary driving licenses extended (Category: Breaking News)
- Driving license cards to be printed again from next week (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Think 2048, Act Now appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Missing Ingredients To Come Out Of The Economic Rut (Category: Breaking News)
- If The Speaker Had Become The President, The Economic Crisis Might Have Been Eased By Now (Category: Breaking News)
- My View Completes 13 Years: Still Batting & Not-Out Yet (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Social Market Economy Ideology Need Be Clarified & Signed Off (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has begun distributing chicks among poultry farmers, the Trade Ministry said today. The Trade Ministry said that the first stage of the islandwide program to increase the production of eggs commenced in Gampaha today. Accordingly, the Trade Ministry distributed approximately 2300 chicks to selected poultry farmers today. The Trade Ministry said that another […]
- Moves to regulate poultry and egg industry (Category: Breaking News)
- Permission granted to import 10 essential items through open accounts (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka in the process of opening diplomatic Mission in Romania (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar to help Sri Lanka tackle human trafficking (Category: Breaking News)
There is no shortage of Petrol Octane 95 or any other petroleum products at filling stations owned by both the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) and the Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC), Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wjiesekera said.The post Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy
- Weekly fuel quota for all types of vehicles increased (Category: Breaking News)
- Fuel prices reduced in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- 35,000 MT petrol shipment to arrive in Sri Lanka tonight (August 11) (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister assures no shortage of petroleum products (Category: Breaking News)
Video: Minister assures no shortage of petroleum products (English)
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wjiesekera has assured that there is no shortage of petroleum products at filling stations.
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