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From providing financial assistance for medical treatment to granting relief to low-income groups over the years, the President’s Fund is now, literally broke.President Maithripala Sirisena, under whom the Fund functions, wants at least a billion rupees immediately as a temporary measure to fund the Fund. Towards this end, he has come up with three different [...]
More details emerge on SriLankan’s state of affairs
Line minister had no knowledge on national carrier’s decision to terminate deal with Airbus CID probe underway on the purchase of four Airbus A -350 900 aircraft AG questions legality of Airbus agreement and the need to sign numerous agreements with other parties By Our Political Editor Hitherto unknown details of the financially wrecked national [...]
A nasty spat
My dear Wiggie, I thought I should write to you when I heard that Sampanthan seeya and you were having a good old fashioned fight, bringing the North to a halt with a ‘hartal’. In a way, it was a surprise because it is not every day that we hear of protests in the North [...]
Will the Sri Lankan economy be Asia’s left behind economy? Learning from Vietnam
Despite uncertainty in the global economy, Asia is expected to be the fastest growing region in the world. In fact Asia’s dynamic economies are continuing to lead global economic growth. Asian economic growth is likely to be around 6 percent this year. Sri Lanka’s economic growth is expected to dip to about 4.5 percent this [...]
Cricket, the law and the importance of being Lasith Malinga
In a country where people seldom challenge the political leadership of the day preferring instead to pay homage to blatant sycophancy, a refreshing contrast emerges from the ‘boy from Rathgama’ (as he identifies himself), one of Sri Lanka’s leading cricketers, Lasith Malinga. Monkeys and Parrots As someone entirely and quite unashamedly ignorant about the intricacies [...]
Press ejector-button at least now
At last! Whoever it is that finally decided enough was enough and brought the national carrier and some of those who run it (mostly to the ground) back to terra firma before an incensed public crash-landed it on those inflated heads at the top of SriLankan Airlines, deserves an attar of roses. For two years [...]
The Return of the Prodigal Monk
Asgiriya Chapter rushes in to back rebel bhikkhu’s nationalist call after Sirisena says anti Muslim action is to topple his government Ah, just when one had wondered whether the absconding monk, that fugitive of justice, had renounced the pleasures of the world and sought refuge in some quiet corner of some dense thicket to meditate [...]