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  • JANABALA COLOMBATA IN RETROSPECT
    Looking back after the dust had settled on the Janabala Colombata attempted mass protest earlier this month, in the overall context of the SLPP / Joint Opposition politics,...
  • Towards a peaceful society
    There is a proposal to break free from and reorganise the commitments made by the government to the international community with regard to issues of war time accountability...
  • Appreciations
    K. L. Ariyananda of Mahaweli: Harnessed nature to serve mankindGrowing up in the shelter of a great human being who harnessed nature to serve mankind, my sibling and I...
  • UNDERVALUED LIFE IN THE LANKAN SCENARIO
    Some human beings in the process of getting civilized and cultured through education get enlightened, and in addition to being lawful in public conduct also become urbane,...
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  • Viral video as vehicle for understanding
    It was a tough week for the country’ wild elephants. A Batticaloa-bound train barrelled down a pregnant elephant and her two calves near Habarana. A five-year-old calf died after eating a hakapatas...
  • Steer safely!
    Road traffic injuries have been a leading cause of mortality globally for several years. In Sri Lanka the scenario is not much different. Road traffic injuries that occur daily take away many lives...
  • In quest of Perfect Presidential candidate
    Even if there is a period of fifteen months before the next presidential elections, the run up to the poll appears to have begun already with the major political parties eyeing the contest and...
  • Fundamental problem of Currency Depreciation
    Policy-making on exchange rate and BOPWhile market participants do businesses within their resources and market forces, there is an extensive network of state policy-making authorities in the area of...
  • Australia is one of the countries which lead the ranking of 189 countries and territories in the latest HDI.
    South Asia has fastest HDI growth in developing regions
    Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Ireland and Germany lead the ranking of 189 countries and territories in the latest Human Development Index (HDI), while Niger, the Central African Republic, South...
  • The Third Attempt
    It is believed that the American Public especially remembered the classic statement made by the French philosopher Montesquieu in 1748 when he expounded his thesis on the Separation of powers....
  • Fundamental problem of the currency depreciation
    The currency value is a frequently discussed topic among financial media, opposition political corners and policy-makers in almost all countries without. The most in emerging market economies (EMs)...
  • Dudley Senanayake’s vision for freedom
    “The words ‘progressive’ and ‘reactionary’ are being bandied about on the floor of this House. What is the criterion by which a measure is judged progressive or reactionary? Surely any measure that...
  • Economist signals another defeat for Rajapaksa
    Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s breakaway faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party is set for another humiliating defeat at next year’s presidential elections, according to the track record of the...
  • All guns aimed at a single target
    The JO and its ideological siblings in the yahapalana Government have turned all their guns on a single target – the 20th Amendment to the Constitution (20A).Judging by the expressions of views by...
  • Protest, Arab Spring and Zimbabwe
    Cricket civilizes people and create good gentlemen - Robert MugabeOn the Fifth of September the city of Colombo woke to an unusually quiet morning, an uneasy air, something big was going to happen,...
  • Fitness after fifty
    “Proper exercising of the body by the middle-aged and the elderly can turn the ageing clock back by as many as 10 to 25 years. No matter at what age a person starts exercising, changes and...