2021-07-27 07:31:00
For quite some time, experts in economics and finance not associated with any political party have been raising the red flag about the severe economic challenges that our country was facing. Unfortunately, the politicians have consistently ignored these challenges...
2021-07-23 00:59:00
SRI LANKA: Why the British colonial ‘rule of law’ project failed..
2021-07-21 23:22:00
They are increasingly viewed as agents of foreign influence..
2021-07-21 23:09:00
It was in 2010 when the interior designer Dean Sharpe first glimpsed the crumbling mansion on the Sri Lankan hillside near the town of Weligama. In its glory days, Halala Kanda — known as Firefly Hill to locals — played host to guests such as Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and the legendary Australian cricketer Keith Miller...
2021-07-09 10:04:00
Yesterday (08) dawned with banners, posters, flags, and cutouts for the ’’Punurudayaka Arambuma - Beginning of a Renaissance’’ across the island...
2021-07-05 13:27:00
“These speculative comments have naturally created some unnecessary short-term imbalance in the foreign exchange market between inflows and outflows. However, it must be noted that the Government and the Central Bank have ensured that trade is not unduly disrupted, and intermediate and capital goods imports are given priority in the process of imports...
2021-07-01 03:59:00
India’s COVID-19 woes have rightly attracted the attention of the world, but the rest of South Asia is hardly sitting pretty, Jeevethan Selvachandran writes...
2021-06-29 15:52:00
Wilfred Owen, among English poets in the early part of the 20th Century, wrote about war’s futility. More importantly he had in his sights the point of view of the soldier — it is theirs not to reason why but merely to do and die. The declaration of war is the business of politicians. Soldiers have to fight. They die...
2021-06-29 09:52:00
China might prevail in its epic battle with the United States but if so would struggle to build its own world order..
2021-06-24 23:09:00
Sri Lanka’s top tourist highlight is the famous train route from Kandy to Ella. Get your Sri Lanka visa organised to experience this magical ride...
2021-06-21 12:12:00
Fishmeal, bonemeal and bloodmeal are also considered as organic sources to provide nitrogen and phosphorous in an organic setting, if they are produced using organic inputs..
2021-06-20 15:41:00
(CNN)There is barely a person in Brazil today who hasn’t lost a loved one to Covid-19, say local scientists, as the country reached the grim milestone of half a million deaths...
2021-06-19 16:29:00
Strained and underfunded health systems, economics and misinformation have all led to a surge in deaths..
2021-06-19 14:31:00
The coronavirus pandemic has raised so many questions as it has continued its inexorable spread across the planet, but perhaps the first of them remains the most contentious: where did Sars-CoV-2 come from?..
2021-06-19 13:07:00
On the May 7, 2014 Sandun Malinga, a 17 year old boy and four others with him were beaten by police officers, arrested and detained at the Kandaketiya police in the Badulla district. The next day, around 2.30 am, Sandun complained of chest pains when his mother visited him at the police station but police officers refused the mother’s request to admit him to hospital...
2021-06-13 13:31:00
Sri Lanka’s ongoing efforts to criminalise “fake news” or alleged falsehoods on the internet is an attempt by the government to intimidate the public into self-censorship, opposition National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian Dr Harini Amarasuriya said...
2021-06-06 17:37:00
Importing disinfected organic fertiliser to Sri Lanka would be an illegal and dangerous decision, said Environmentalist and Attorney at Law Jagath Gunawardena...
2021-06-06 13:00:00
Ranil’s passivity following his accession to the leadership of the UNP was not initially upsetting to the party. But after he lost the Presidency to Chandrika Kumaratunga in the early Election she called in 1999, and then the Parliamentary Election the following year, rumblings began...
2021-05-31 09:38:00
Ben Hillier looks at some of the similarities and differences between Zionist oppression in Palestine and Sinhala-Buddhist supremacy in Sri Lanka...
2021-05-30 16:30:00
Sajith Premadasa, is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka and leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya...
2021-05-30 10:48:00
Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka last Wednesday (19) explained why the Tamil electorate voted for him at the January 26, 2010, presidential election. The explanation coincided with the low-key 12th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s triumph over the LTTE...
2021-05-29 14:41:00
The 2020s are to the Rajapaksas what the 1970s were to the Bandaranaikes: the transitional time of exaltation and exit. The Rajapaksa arc of contemporary political history has begun to bend. Hardship, injustice and chaos will be the hallmarks and abiding public memories of this Government. The electorate will want neither repetition nor return. Recovery may take over a decade..
2021-05-26 20:52:00
On the 20th of May 2021, the Parliament of Sri Lanka passed the Colombo Port City Economic Bill into law. Two days prior to the vote on the Bill, the Speaker of Parliament revealed to the members of Parliament and the general public the determination given by the Supreme Court of the Country with regard to the constitutionality of the Bill...
2021-05-23 13:35:00
Parliament last Thursday (20) passed the Colombo Port City (CPC) Economic Commission Bill, which made headlines over the past few weeks. Following the Supreme Court’s determination on the Bill, the Government accepted its amendments and passed the Bill...
2021-05-23 10:58:00
14 police complaints have been lodged by microfinance victims against LOLC Finance Limited and its subsidiaries within 2 days...
2021-05-23 09:22:00
Nadine Sadaka Boulos, lecturer in the American University of Beirut (AUB) said - “Opportunists are manipulators who take the advantage of an opportunity and use it to reach their goals with no regard to ethics and morals.”..
2021-05-19 12:20:00
The original Colombo Port City project is acknowledged as the germination of an inspiration grown in the heart of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during the early period of his second term of office. Basically the project is to reclaim a part of the sea surrounding the southern part of the Colombo Harbour facing the Galle Face Green area...
2021-05-19 09:54:00
REGN-COV2, an antibody drug cocktail for the treatment of coronavirus patients by pharmaceutical giant Roche, has received Emergency Use Authorization and approval in the US, Europe, Switzerland, India and Japan...
2021-05-18 23:59:00
On May 18th, the Gwangju uprising is being celebrated in the Republic of Korea as well as elsewhere. It has been the position of the Asian Human Rights Commission that May 18th should be recognized as a universal day of commemoration and also reaffirm the commitment to democracy, human rights, and human dignity...
2021-05-17 22:59:00
The 12th year of the end of the war will fall on May 18 and 19. May 18 is the day that the Tamil people in the North and East have selected to remember those who died in the course of the war, particularly in its last phase...
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