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Sat, 19 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
Sri Lankans have a general attitude that this nation cannot be refined and made a developed country. This thinking or attitude surfaced when former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa- before stepping...
According to reports, several amendments are to be suggested and made at the Committee stage in Parliament on the 19th July, 2023. We, the public are unaware of these amendments.
Our country is gradually pulling itself out of the financial crisis of yester-year. Even though the foreign debt restructing process is not complete, government has pushed ahead with the domestic debt restructuring....
Justice and good decision-making flows in part, from the discipline of public reasoning. The belief in democracy is anchored in the hope of harnessing the power of reasoned decision making that is openly....
An enduring feature of tourism in Sri Lanka has been the Westerners’ fascination with the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR). Foreigners go into raptures over SLR’s old-world carriages, its quaint British-era stations...
A year ago, on July 9th, hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans, dispossessed by the economic destruction unleashed by a government they elected not long ago, descended on the Capital, Colombo. They stormed the President’s House while President Gotab
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday named a 14-member Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) under the Chairmanship of MP Sagara Kariyawasam, the General Secretary of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), to probe the country’s fina
July 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of ‘Black July,’ acknowledged as the most horrific episode of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Around 300-450 lives were lost, more than 40,000 people were reduced to refugee....
Economists, including the Governor of the Central Bank tell us that inflation is down. (When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; inflation corresponds to a reduction....
The Daily Mirror Editorial of March 18, 2023 said, “The Recent needs assessment by Save the Children show that 50 % of the families are struggling to support their children’s education and some children....
Sri Lanka experienced its first suicide bomber attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on July 5, 1987.
The private member’s Bills presented in Parliament by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Parliamentarian Jayantha Ketagoda on July 5
There’s a major noisy and over-excited reaction doing the rounds in cricketing circles in England. It is all over Jonny Bairstow’s stumping during the recently concluded second Ashes Test which England lost
Yet another terrorising experience for Palestinians ended on Wednesday after two days of Israeli military attacks on the Palestinian town of Jenin. Such attacks are increasingly being....
Just a few days ago we read in the newspapers that the All Island Canteen Owners’ Association (AICOA) President had stated that no one should be given free meals and that those ‘demanding’ free...
Our country’s external debt obligations in 2022 exceed US$7 billion. But the country’s forex reserves as of March 2022 is just US$1.6 billion. In April, the country announced a default on all its foreign debt and said it would seek an IMF bailout
The private sector workers of Sri Lanka are required by law to transfer 23% of their incomes to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and the Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF) every month, towards their retirement savings. The EPF is managed by a special
Parliament on Saturday approved a domestic debt restructuring program that would rework nearly half of the country’s US$ 42.1 billion domestic debt. The plan covered US$ 19.5 billion of Domestic debt in Treasury...
As public sector reform is one of the conditions for getting the IMF bailout, the Sri Lankan government is trying to figure out how...
The proverbial monkey planning to have permanent shelter amidst heavy rains and forgetting once the showers cease is always reminded....
This article focuses on the evergreen ‘Dingiri Dingaale’ song from the Tamil film ‘Anbu Engey?’ (Where is love?) that was first screened 65 years ago. Although a Tamil film song, the number was hugely popular among Sinhalese too. I have wri
The government is planning to permit limited cultivation of Cannabis (Ganja) on state land especially for export on a “get rich quickly” system.
With the restructuring program, Governor of Central Bank and Government has confirmed that there is no impact for the existing members’ balances and assured to release the fund on claim by members. Also guaranteed 9% annual interest to be paid with
Since the violent birth of Israel on May 14, 1948, in what was originally the State of Palestine, ‘Brittanica’ estimates that of the number of Arabs displaced from their original homes, villages, and neighbourhoods during the period from December
The domestic debt restructuring plan announced by the Government last Wednesday and passed by parliament on Saturday, targets only one significant domestic financial asset, namely retirement funds. Far reaching changes to the future of working people
Sri Lanka, it seems, is slowly losing its grip on governing the county in an acceptable manner; concerns coming mostly from how its citizens are suffering because of deteriorating facilities for...
War is too important to be left to the generals. This quote is as relevant today as it was in the early 19th century, when French statesman and journalist Georges Clemenceau first said it to stress the importance....
Not too long ago, I tried to remember all the states of the United States of America. I missed Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. A well-informed and well-read friend of mine, a citizen of the US was impressed. He said that most Americans (of t
In this era where the Government is taking bold moves to stabilise Sri Lanka’s economy after the worst ever crisis since independence in 1948, a vital move would be the revival and modernization of the co-operatives and societies in Sri Lanka. Acco
Five years back in China, I submitted my doctoral dissertation, having chopped off two complete chapters on my supervisor’s advice to be on the safe side for both of us. It was an analysis of competition....
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