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[…]The post The Cauldrons We Make appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Great American Dilemma: Israel-Hamas War – Is It Reverse Holocaust? (Category: Breaking News)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
A Brit trapped abroad in Sri Lanka after sharing videos of a civil uprising says she is ‘out of hope’ following 13 months hiding from the country’s oppressive Government. Kayleigh Fraser, 35, had her home in the south Asian island nation raided in August last year by immigration officials who claimed that she was visiting the […]
- Modi receives rockstar welcome in Australia (Category: Breaking News)
- Israel ramps up military activity along Gaza border as ground invasion looms (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia says China took port because Sri Lanka couldn’t pay (Category: Breaking News)
- Anne concludes Sri Lanka visit describing herself ‘eyes and ears’ of monarchy (Category: Breaking News)
PLACES, PEOPLE & PASSIONS (3Ps) Part five Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada chandij@sympatico.ca Profile Simon is the founder and Precedent Partner of ‘Simon & Associates’, a well-established corporate law firm. He was the first Managing Director of ‘Walkers Tours’ the leisure arm of John Keells and led […]
- Refreshing, Peaceful and Romantic (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘The Paths I’ve Travelled’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sharmini of ‘Silk Wrap Fame’ (Category: Breaking News)
- CONCLUSION: MISSIONS OF A GLOBAL PROFESSOR : CONFESSIONS OF A GLOBAL GYPSY (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)
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
- 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)
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana There is no doubt, whatsoever that the 1983 July pogrom was one of the most shameful events in the recent history of Sri Lanka which irrevocably tarnished the image of the country. How it was viewed then by the foreign media formed the basis of two opinion pieces by Jayantha Somasundaram, […]
- Canadian interference alleged in Kurundi temple dispute as Ottawa reiterates genocide charge (Category: Breaking News)
- JULY 1983: TAMILS DO NOT BLAME SINHALESE PEOPLE (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA insists on federalism (Category: Breaking News)
- India, too, should be investigated -Int’l HR organisations (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Moral Crisis Proving More Toxic Than The Economic Crisis! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- With Impunity Remaining Normalised, What Hope For Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Singapore Elected A ‘Tharman’; For Sri Lanka, A ‘Kadirgamar’ Still A Wish! (Category: Breaking News)
- Tackling The Elephant In The Room; Rising Violence Among Our Adolescents! (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics & Death Of Sanath Nishantha: Some Sombre Lessons & Reflections (Category: Breaking News)
Monday 25th July 1983 began like just another day. But what we didn’t know was that it was to be the last day of an era. By mid-morning from my second-floor office in Fort I could see the city being put to the torch. Already my two sisters’ homes in the suburbs had been attacked […]
- JULY 1983: TAMILS DO NOT BLAME SINHALESE PEOPLE (Category: Breaking News)
- Horror Of A Pogrom: Remembering “Black July” 1983 (Category: Breaking News)
- Memories of Black July 1983, and a spot-on cartoon (Category: Breaking News)
- July 1983 Riot: A Spontaneous Racial Outburst Or Planned Pogrom Or Both? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The International Priority To Be Heeded appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Resisting Elections Will Worsen Dissent (Category: Breaking News)
- Consolidating Economic Recovery Needs No Referendum (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court Shows Democratic Route To Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Second Aragalaya In The Making (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Overstressing The Proposed Truth & Reconciliation Commission appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Time For Truth Come Out (Category: Breaking News)
- Truth-Telling Mechanisms & Winning The Public’s Trust (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Needs To Commit To More Than Commissions (Category: Breaking News)
Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography UNESCO’s involvement with the Sri Lankan Cultural Triangle project was a milestone in our mutual relationship. It focused attention on the Sinhala cultural heritage, brought substantial funding from UN agencies to our culture sector, hastened the restoration of ancient monuments and conserved the visual heritage of […]
- Courting Parthasarathy for JRJ, equation changes after Indira’s assassination (Category: Breaking News)
- Kalkudah to Arugam Bay and some canny decision making by JRJ (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka elected to UNESCO Executive Board (Category: Breaking News)
- Mourning Mala: Remembering Malathi De Alwis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is The BASL Undermining The Rule Of Law? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Incubating, Again (Category: Breaking News)
- Bleeding Hearts & Brave Hearts (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Or What Made Us Insolvent (Category: Breaking News)
- Cockiness; What Price? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted Religion appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Suppressing Free Speech & Religious Freedom By Labelling Them Hate Speech (Category: Breaking News)
- Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted: A Res... (Category: Breaking News)
- My Jaffna Is No Longer My Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
- Money In Weakening Our Rights: Government Competing With Evangelicals (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Army Bigwigs Have Made Shameful Attempts To Bury The Truth appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Jobs for another 400 rehabilitated LTE cadres (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. To Reintegrate Over 400 LTTE Members To Society (Category: Breaking News)
- 400 rehabilitated LTTE cadres to be released (Category: Breaking News)
- The Innocent Need Not Fear The Law – Impartial Law, That Is: Australia’s Example (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who engineered a high profile project that culminated with Sri Lanka betraying her armed forces, at the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in early Oct, 2015, received a warm welcome here, recently. The one-time South Korean Foreign Minister, served as the […]
- Sri Lanka’s relations with United Nations still remain warm despite Ban Ki moon report (Category: Breaking News)
- Westminster event declares support for Canadian action against Rajapaksa brothers (Category: Breaking News)
- 'One country's ability to bury the evidence of war crimes endangers how civilians are treated in... (Category: Breaking News)
- Geneva challenge: Sabry needs to review ‘case’ anew (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe ceremonially declared open the fourth session of the ninth Parliament and delivered the Government Policy Statement today (February 08).The post Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil tells Parliament he will continue with unpopular decisions (Category: Breaking News)
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text (Category: Breaking News)
- An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil tells Parliament he will continue with unpopular decisions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President says Let 2048 be the year of development for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today that he will continue with his unpopular decisions. Making his throne speech, Wickremesinghe said that he is not here to be popular. He said that the unpopular decisions he takes will have positive results in the years to come. The President said that Sri Lanka expects to recover from […]
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement – Full Text (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
The Chinese have maintained a close relationship with the Tamils since ancient times, which amounts to nearly 3,000 years. Trade and cultural exchanges between them flourished during the reign of the Pallava dynasty of south India. However, with time, the geographical landscape has changed and distinct geopolitical dimensions are in place. Today, China is trying […]
- We condemn the opinion of Chinese Ambassador who supports the genocides: Jaffna University Stude... (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil assures full implementation of 13th Amendment (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka having regular consultations with US on China (Category: Breaking News)
- UK urged to impose sanctions on Shavendra Silva and Jagath Jayasuriya (Category: Breaking News)
Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan, the Managing Director of the Virakesari published by Express Newspapers, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Her Excellency Droupadi Murmu, the President of India at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2023 Valedictory Session held on January […]
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
[…]The post The Malicious “Shafi Frame Up”: Will 2023 See The Guilty Being Punished? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- County Council Denies Louis Dreyfus Abatement Requests (Category: USA, Indiana)
- County Council Denies Louis Dreyfus Abatement Requests (Category: USA, Indiana)
- County Council Denies Louis Dreyfus Abatement Requests (Category: USA, Indiana)
- County Council Denies Louis Dreyfus Abatement Requests (Category: USA, Indiana)
By R M M Lilani A significant shift in the chaotic foreign policy of the Sri Lankan government has raised the idea of Japan once more acquiring the East Container Terminal (ECT), as the International Monetary Fund works to ameliorate Sri Lanka’s current financial crisis. After signing a MoU
- by Arundathie Abeysinghe U.S., Japan, India and Australia ready to intervene to prevent Sri Lank... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lana PM laments unilateral termination of Japan, India-funded projects (Category: Breaking News)
- Quad urged to take more proactive role to address Sri Lanka crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Beijing restless as QUAD comes to Colombo’s aid (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Anatomy Of A Change; From Wijeweera’s JVP To AKD’s NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Government’s Attempt To Redefine The Political Discourse & Direction Through Suppression (Category: Breaking News)
- Restoring Parliamentary Government (Category: Breaking News)
Sea cucumbers are marine animals with leathery skin and elongated bodies containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide. Crabs, fish, turtles, and even some species of shark are natural predators of sea cucumbers. Sea cucumbers are also known as marine invertebrates related to sea urchins and starfish. It […]
- How the Chinese are destroying Sri Lankan fishing community (Category: Breaking News)
- Sea Cucumber Farming in Sri Lanka: A Threat to Local Fishermen? (Category: Breaking News)
- How a Chinese company destroyed a Sri Lankan fishing community (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Chinese investment’ in sea cucumber farm sparks concerns among northern fishermen (Category: Breaking News)
Earlier this month, Flipkart-backed Indian payments service company PhonePe announced that it had completed the move of its headquarters from Singapore to India. Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart is a subsidiary of American supermarket behemoth Walmart which bought a 77 per cent stake in the company in 2018. This is a rather unusual move as many Indian startups are doing the reverse […]
- HC Baglay reiterates India’s continued commitment to support Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- HAL hands over advanced light helicopter to Mauritius ahead of schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- Kabul mosque explosion: At least 20 dead, 40 injured (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s response to debt restructuring request expected by Jan end: SL (Category: Breaking News)
Canberra [Australia], September 29 (ANI): Western media seems to be seizing every opportunity to put out its inaccurate, biased reporting and narratives to manipulate, distort and harm India’s international image and undermine the country’s diversity and sow the seeds of hatred
- Liberal media teamed up for ‘smear campaign’ to dismiss The Post’s Hunter Biden story (Category: USA, New York)
- Liberal media teamed up for ‘smear campaign’ to dismiss The Post’s Hunter Biden story (Category: USA, New York)
- Liberal media teamed up for ‘smear campaign’ to dismiss The Post’s Hunter Biden story (Category: USA, New York)
- “It’s Not Yellow” (Category: Business)
Mr. Editor, may I please request you to give me a little space in your well-read newspaper to highlight a matter of public importance. That is not all, your no holds barred Editorials elevate us from that sense of hopelessness. I propose to draw the attention of the President, who is battling
- Orwellian Isle Ordeals (Category: Breaking News)
- Message from a Cell Death (Category: Breaking News)
- Post-Match Melancholia (Category: Breaking News)
- EC: Prez poll can’t be put off (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ground Situation In The Sri Lankan North & East; The Possibility Of A Resurgence Of Tamil Mi... (Category: Breaking News)
In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.
- What should modern independent India be and how can it get there? (Category: Breaking News)
- Gandhian Ethics (Category: Breaking News)
- China: Guidelines Instruct Religions How to Implement the New Patriotic Education Law (Category: Breaking News)
- The Buddha on politics and governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Will Subramanian Swami‘s Visit Revive Racist Politics? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Indian-Israeli Involvement In Sri Lanka Is A Disaster (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
- Cremating Muslim Covid Dead Bodies; Sri Lanka Is Right – Whole World Is Wrong? (Category: Breaking News)
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