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Sat, 26 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
Brian Lara once said that if he had to put anyone to bat for his life, it would be Jacques Kallis or Rahul Dravid. Even Lara, who came from the land of legendary Vivian Richards, could not count his life on a player from his own country.
In Sri Lanka, the population issue has become a crisis not because of overpopulation but due to baseless allegations that a doctor had sterilized hundreds of women or girls after caesarian section births. In any event, in most countries, fertility le
The Bodu Bala Sena, a Sinhala Buddhist nationalist group blamed on propagating Islamophobia converged in a large gathering in Kandy on Sunday. Around a thousand Buddhist monks and a large number of devotees answered the call by BBS chieftain Ven. Gal
In his paper entitled, Kattankudy in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Mullah-Merchant Urban Complex Caught between Islamist Factionalism and Ethno-Nationalisms. Dr. Ameer Ali traced the history of the town and came to the ominou
Back to the People Before Chaos Reign Supreme... Sound incredible?, but it is the truth; a country that have been totally robbed, plundered and devastated by the politicians needs to go….
Merry days are back again! Measuring life in elections participated- another, in the offing, will add an additional notch. Same old faces in a thousand posters, same electors with a cohort of additional youths to be left derelict....
In the aftermath of the Easter Sunday suicide bombings where over 250 persons lost their lives in all places of religious worship, even tourist hotels and schools have been provided security by the state in the form of armed military guards.
In Sri Lankan society, the word democracy is often referred to in a protesting manner against anyform of injustice or inequality. We hear people say this is a “democratic Country” in the presence of perceived injustice or discrimination.
Five Tamil students were killed near the beach in the Trincomalee town thirteen years ago on January 2, 2006. Two other students suffered injuries but survived. The names and dates of birth of the five victims were: Manoharan Rajiharan – 22.09.198
The consumption of contaminated food has caused illnesses and deaths of millions of people. It has been recognized that food contamination is a global challenge and that “food contamination that occurs in one place may affect the health of consumer
Today is the United Nations International Day of Cooperatives and the world body in a statement says at a time when income inequality is rising around the world, it is good to be reminded that solutions to inequality do exist. The cooperative model i
The economy is in total disarray despite numbers trotted out to insist there is economic growth. The Prime Minister was reported as having told his ministers to complete all “Development” projects within three months by October.
We hear these days many voices against the statement made to the heads of media institutions last week by President Maithripala Sirisena that he had signed the documents for the implementation of the death sentence on four convicts.
On Sunday, June 30 the United Nations marked the International Day of Parliamentarianism at a time in Sri Lanka’s Parliament, standards, values and principles have plunged to one of the lowest levels with some cynics....
In journalism, dog does not bite dogs. Yet, there are times when, as civic conscious journalists, we need to, at least, bark. After all, we are watchdogs. In recent months and years, sections of Sri Lanka’s media....
I want Dr. Seigu Shihabdeen Mohamed Shafi cleared of all charges levelled against him with respect to unethical and unwarranted sterilization. I want him cleared because I want to believe that our medical profession is made of impeccably honourable a
“To be hanged by the neck until you are dead,” are the ominous and menacing words that a convicted criminal hears when the presiding Judge passes the death sentence. Whether these words are heard or registered in the mind of the convict standing
The success story of Bangladesh offers insight to Sri Lanka where unstable governance and lack of policy consistency hampered economic growth, discouraged Foreign Direct Investment and obstructed decision making
he death penalty or Capital punishment or judicial hanging or sending to the “Gallows” is the killing of a person by legal statute. In this situation the head of state is literally the executioner as he gives the final order for execution, includ
Being born a Buddhist, educated at one of the leading Buddhist schools in Colombo and for that matter by one of the greatest erudite scholarly monks at the time, I cannot help but feel very hurtful being witness to the total weaponising of our great
The melting roads in Germany say it all. Even Europe’s most technologically advanced nation was not prepared for a climate catastrophe of the magnitude of what it is experiencing right now. The heat wave has driven home a point to Europe and the re
We wonder if even God can help our country now. Our island was a beautiful paradise and its inhabitants were God-fearing. That was in the time of the benevolent and respected leaders who truly loved this country and its people. They fought long and h
Sri Lanka has set the precedent. The rest of the world, at least some of them seem to be following through. As social media gained credence as the main interpersonal communication mode of the ordinary person, attention also focused on the means of mo
Almost all new Constitutions and Constitutional Amendments that have been brought in by Sri Lankan leaders after Independence - especially after 1978 - have been meant for the fulfilment of their immediate wishes.
What drives the foreign policy of a country? Realists, the practitioners of the oldest and still the most influential intellectual tradition of international politics have long viewed external pressure as the primary driver of the state’s reaction
On the 23rd the President said “The biggest mistake made by this Government was the 19th Amendment. It created instability”. He added that the President and the Prime Minister were pulling in different directions; the reason was the 19A.
Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine has a Child Nutrition Unit which is responsible for uplifting the nutrition status of children under the age of 5 years. Among the unit’s broad areas of re
Our sister paper Sunday Timesreported on its first page that CBK who celebrates her Birthday on June 29, was in London to receive an award presented by ‘Search for Common Ground’ for her “vision, courage and commitment to peace and reconciliati
Last year, on October 2, Iran executed a 24-year-old woman, Zeinab Sekaanvand, who was a child at the time of her alleged offence. Under international law, she should have been excluded from the death penalty.
After every hustings, when the administration changes hands from a Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)-led administration to one led by a United National Party (UNP) government, opposition political parties, trade unions and....
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