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  • For a new-look diplomatic service
    Non-Cabinet Minister Ajith P. Perera wants a shift in the methods currently adopted in the selection of persons to be sent as diplomats abroad. He says paper qualifications...
  • New constitution and communal politics
    The proposed new constitution is presently being used by interested parties to whip up communalism once again, what with major elections only months away. The pohottuwites...
  • A welcome move
    All civilized sections of society, no doubt, would welcome moves underway to prosecute Parliamentarians who misbehave in the House. According to the main story of an English...
  • The train to Beliatta
    We have all heard the common refrain that “not one inch” of new railway line has been built in post-independence Sri Lanka. While this is not 100 percent correct (see below...
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  • Justice at last?
    It appears that the long wait for justice in connection with the murder of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge is drawing to a close if one is to believe SLFP spokesman MP Mahinda...
  • Will an apology suffice?
    It appears that all those MPs who created mayhem in Parliament on November 15 are going to get away lightly, judging by the unfolding developments. The House appointed a Select Committee to...
  • The law as a subject
    The decision by the Government to include law as a subject in the school curriculum, while timely and commendable, whether the desired result of containing crime and other acts of wrongdoing by the...
  • Four transformative years
    Four years ago to this day, a “Rainbow Coalition” of political parties backed Common Presidential Candidate Maithripala Sirisena to take on the powerful incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa at the...
  • Trump of the Tropics
    Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as the President of Brazil on January 1, 2019, after winning the Presidential Election held a couple of months back by a landslide. He has followed through on several key...
  • An export milestone
    Our economy is an import-driven one, which basically means that we import more goods than the quantity of goods that we export. In simple terms, there is a net outflow of Dollars from Sri Lanka as we...
  • The IGP’s dilemma
    A new year’s drive launched by IGP Pujith Jayasundera to seize all illegal weapons in the country, no doubt, will be welcomed by all law abiding citizens of this land, who have been treated to...
  • Fighting corruption
    President Maithripala Sirisena, in a New Year message, has prioritized the elimination of corruption in public life, unusual in itself for a New Year message from a Head of State in this country. He...
  • The best of 2019
    Judging by all accounts, 2019 will turn out to be a remarkable year for the world. But to see how remarkable it is, some people have already travelled 50 years back in time to the “Summer of 69”....
  • A cautious step into the New Year
    A majority of Sri Lankans, no doubt, would be ushering in the New Year which dawns today with renewed hope after the grim forebodings cast by the recent political upheaval which is now behind us,...
  • The year that was
    October 26, 2018 dawned just like any other day. People went about their normal business. But as the evening approached, rumours began circulating that former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa has...
  • Global outlook 2018
    This year is actually not over yet, but with just a couple of days to go before 2019 dawns, the time is right to look back on an eventful year on many fronts. Migration is perhaps the biggest story...