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By Saman Indrajith The Cricekt Borad crisis cannot be sorted out without changing the method of electing office-bearers, says Chief Opposition Whip SJB MP Lakshman Kiriella told parliament yesterday. Participating in an adjournment debate on an Auditor General’s Department report on SLC officials
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[…]The post Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part V appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part VI (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part IV (Category: Breaking News)
Herath asks whether govt. wants to pave the way for new player By Shamindra Ferdinando The Cabinet-approved national energy policy related to the development of natural gas infrastructure has been suspended by the government following representations made by Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera. Dissident SLPP MP Prof. Charitha Herath on Tuesday (22) said that […]
- SLPP dissidents ask AG if Adani Group represents govt. of India (Category: Breaking News)
- Removal of PUCSL Chairman will be ominous turning point in SL politics, says Charitha Herath (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez accused of seeking to gain total control of public finance (Category: Breaking News)
- Herath questions significance of SLPP second convention (Category: Breaking News)
India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday pledged continued development assistance in every possible area to Sri Lanka amid its ongoing economic crisis.The post India will continue developmental assistance to Sri Lanka in every possible area: Jaishankar appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- India exceptional in helping neighbourhood including Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaishankar conveys India’s commitment to increase investment flows to Sri Lanka to hasten econom... (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘The next time you want to take a holiday, go to Sri Lanka’ – Jaishankar to Indians (Category: Breaking News)
- India remains committed to assist Sri Lanka in its economic recovery – Jaishankar tells Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
Video: Mujibur expresses concern over planned attempts to create a crisis
- 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)
[…]The post Naked King & The Crumbling State: Seven Decades Of Fake Saviours appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Machiavellians Tend To Be Demonic: Stuck Between A Rock & A Hard Place (Category: Breaking News)
- True Meritocracy Not The Sham Of All Party Mediocracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Psychopathic Tendencies: Pet Dogs, Incompetency & Beds To The Foray (Category: Breaking News)
Video: FACE THE NATION | Are we heading for a food crisis? | 23rd Aug 2023
- 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)
India s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday pledged continued development assistance in every possible area to Sri Lanka amid its ongoing economic crisis.
Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella today refused to push for a public apology for the decision taken during the coronavirus crisis, to cremate Muslims who were infected with the virus. The Minister told Parliament that he will need to appoint a committee to study the decision taken at the time
- No-confidence motion against Keheliya Rambukwella defeated (Category: Breaking News)
- Keheliya removed from Health Minister post (Category: Breaking News)
- Keheliya Rambukwella remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Court rejects bail for Sri Lanka’s former Health Minister (Category: Breaking News)
By The Coca-Cola Company, Managing Director – Sri Lanka & the Maldives, Pankaj Sinha Coca-Cola, with its 62-year presence in Sri Lanka, has remained committed to supporting this beautiful country through its challenges. As someone who has made Sri Lanka his home since 2019, and seen the country grapple with natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and […]
- Coca-Cola’s Christmas Spirit – Your Festive Sip Comes with Gifts! (Category: Breaking News)
- Coca-Cola appoints Kaushali Kusumapala as Country Director for Sri Lanka and Maldives (Category: Breaking News)
- Coca-Cola’s free tumbler with every 1.5L and 2L Coke or Sprite PET bottle (Category: Breaking News)
- Coca-Cola and the art of embracing local flavors: A journey through Sri Lankan cuisine (Category: Breaking News)
of the Economic Crisis.
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has called for the drinking water requirements to be considered an emergency situation.The post Sri Lanka declares emergency on drinking water crisis appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Water Access (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's health authorities to test drinking water standards in the country (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's water board says 45 percent water supplied to Colombo wasted (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka launches major inter-provincial irrigation project to serve north central and east (Category: Breaking News)
Video: 132,000 families suffer from clean drinking water crisis
- 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)
All eight people who were stuck in a cable car dangling hundreds of metres above a ravine in Pakistan’s north-west for many hours have now been rescued. In a slow and dangerous operation, a military helicopter rescued one child, while teams on the ground recovered the rest of the group after dark. They were helped […]
- Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (Category: Breaking News)
- Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 50 killed and dozens injured in Pakistan blast (Category: Breaking News)
- Airlines warn of UK flight delays over air traffic control fault (Category: Breaking News)
Alleged presidential interference in judiciary: By Shamindra Ferdinando Declaring that the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) steadfastly protected the independence of the judiciary, its President Kaushalya Navaratne yesterday (22) said that senior members would be consulted to decide what he called,the best possible course of action. Navaratne said so when The Island sought his response […...
- Outgoing BASL chief asks lawyers to continue struggle to safeguard rule of law, democracy, judic... (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL responds to referral of court order allegedly violating Parliament privileges to committee (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL: MPs exploiting privileges to intrude on matters sub judice (Category: Breaking News)
- Kaushalya Navaratne assumes duties as 27th BASL President (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Story, Untold, Ignored & Forgotten appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- The Malicious “Shafi Frame Up”: Will 2023 See The Guilty Being Punished? (Category: Breaking News)
- Change Flight From Stability With Stagnancy (Category: Breaking News)
- Faith, Love, Disagreement & Social Change (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part IV appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity, & The IMF: A Solution Or A Worsening Of The Problem? (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part VI (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Change Flight From Stability With Stagnancy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Resisting Elections Will Worsen Dissent (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court Shows Democratic Route To Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Preparing The Ground For Early Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- New Mandates Before New Amendments (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s consumer inflation rate more than halved to 4.6% year-on-year in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Monday.The post Sri Lanka’s July consumer inflation more than halves to 4.6% appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.
- Sri Lanka’s inflation climbed to 60.8% in July – CCPI (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s inflation increases to 66.7% in July (Category: Breaking News)
- Inflation in Sri Lanka drops to single-digit levels in July (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 4% in August (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has finally started paying back the $200 million it took from Bangladesh in a currency swap agreement in August 2021, more than a year and a half later than the original agreed date. On August 17, Sri Lanka sent $50 million to Bangladesh, which is the first instalment of the payment, according to Md Mezbaul […]
- Bangladesh says Sri Lanka paid back another $100m (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh gives Sri Lanka more time to repay $200 million loan (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka pays off $200m loan from Bangladesh with $4.5m interest (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh gives Sri Lanka 6 more months to repay $200m loan (Category: Breaking News)
By Jehan Perera The situation in the country, particularly with regard to the economy and politics, can be described as stable but stagnant. The economy is stable in that it has not experienced further collapse in comparison to the kind witnessed last year when international bankruptcy was admitted. But the economy still continues to contract, […]
- Electionsand economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Electionsand economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme court nudges govt., to democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Electoral process also an essential service (Category: Breaking News)
Thuesday 22nd August, 2023 No sooner had the Indian government announced its decision to impose a 40% tax on onion exports to overcome a shortfall in the domestic supply than Sri Lankan traders jacked up onion prices exponentially. They would not have reacted so swiftly to a drop in onion prices in the international market. […]
- Agriculture Minister calls for immediate report on big onion cultivation (Category: Breaking News)
- Pesticide resistant insect destroys onion cultivation in Jaffna peninsula (Category: Breaking News)
- Rice morning , noon ,and night in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. all hat no cattle (Category: Breaking News)
A discourse on the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, under the theme ‘Reform and Social Justice,’ will be held at 4.00 p.m. on Thursday, 24 August 2023, at the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) Auditorium, 281, Deans Road, Colombo 10, under the auspices of the Socialist Study Circle. The speakers
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The speed at which young Chartered Accountants leave for other countries has increased during the last 18 months due to the prevailing economic crisis in Sri Lanka, president, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) Sanjaya Bandara said. “
- CA Sri Lanka goes to Kalmunai (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka launches scholarship scheme for 2012 (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka seminar series on new accounting standards (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka Members’ Benevolent Society seminar on taxation (Category: Business)
Rebel group questions national security review By Shamindra Ferdinando Having elected UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the President, in July last year, the SLPP couldn’t keep silent as the UNP leader took decisions that would have far reaching implications, Prof. G. L. Peiris warned yesterday (21). Addressing the media at the rebel SLPP group’s Nawala Office, Prof. […]
- Prof. Peiris complains of continuing shenanigans by President in the run-up to presidential poll (Category: Breaking News)
- GL alleges Wijeyadasa’s move ruse to put off national polls (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPP MPs urged not to protect Health Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez would not have taken on judiciary without SLPP’s backing – GL (Category: Breaking News)
Video: Farmlands likely to face further destruction. Did the crisis intensify due to poor water ...
- 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)
Sri Lanka’s consumer inflation rate more than halved to 4.6% year-on-year in July, helped by falling food prices, the statistics department said on Monday. The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) captures broader retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month. In June consumer inflation stood at 10.8%. Food prices […]
- Sri Lanka records slight drop in inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- WFP says 6.26 million people in Sri Lanka are food insecure (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka crisis raises alarm about further unrest in APAC region (Category: Breaking News)
- China confirms two-year debt moratorium offered to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Video: Small lakes dry up, drinking water crisis in many areas
- 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)
By Dr. Prasanna Cooray First, we should question whether the age-old notion of “Free Healthcare in Sri Lanka” is valid anymore. Going by the Total Health Expenditure statistics of the country, one would realise it is a misnomer.According to healthcare spending in Sri Lanka, from 1990 to 2019, published by the Institute for Health Policy, […]
- Budget, Taxation Turmoil and Policy Blunders – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
- FSP frowns on increases in defence expenditure (Category: Breaking News)
- Tax payers look to tighten belts further or migrate as progressive taxes bite (Category: Breaking News)
- High out-of-pocket expenditure seen as affecting healthcare access of local households (Category: Breaking News)
The National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) led by former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has lauded the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) for recognising the responsibilities of Parliament and acting in the interest of the public. The NMSJ chief has appreciated the Acting Chairman COPF and all its members. “We are making this assessment taking into […]
- COPF green-lights proposed domestic debt restructuring program (Category: Breaking News)
- Speaker accused of being notorious for suspending Standing Orders (Category: Breaking News)
- COPF summons CBSL, Fin. Min. officials to discuss domestic debt restructuring (Category: Breaking News)
- Harsha de Silva reappointed as COPF chairman (Category: Breaking News)
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