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Powerful Kuwaiti sheikh changes goalposts in Asian soccer

Powerful Kuwaiti sheikh changes goalposts in Asian soccer

Mariyam Mohamed Didi lost her bid for a seat in the Asian Football Federation (AFC) last week because of strong lobbying against her by Kuwait’s Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, who is a member of the Royal family and runs the Olympic Council of Asia. The New York Times reported that the Maldivian did not realise [...]

GOTA ENDS HIS US CITIZENSHIP

GOTA ENDS HIS US CITIZENSHIP

Awaits Certificate of Loss of Nationality Will civil suits against him delay its release? Major political parties prepare for May Day Retired Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Defence Secretary, handed in documents to the United States Embassy in Colombo on Wednesday to relinquish his United States citizenship. That included the surrender of his US [...]

Captain Marvel is not like Sirisena

My dear Dimuth, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you had been appointed as captain of our cricket team for the World Cup, however unexpected that announcement was. After all, you were not in the team for the past four years but here you are today, leading it at no [...]

Increasing export crop production vital for enhancing export earnings

Increasing export crop production vital for enhancing export earnings

Had tea, rubber, coconut and other export crop production increased in the past three decades, the economy would have been vastly better. Instead, we have been slaying the geese that were laying the golden eggs. Agricultural performance While the attainment of self-sufficiency in rice is, undoubtedly, a singular achievement, the neglect of the three principal [...]

The Palm Sunday attack and a government’s duty

The attack by stone-wielding and fire-cracker throwing ruffians, reportedly led by a provincial politician of the newly minted Rajapaksa-led Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP), holding the President of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka and twelve terrified worshippers hostage in a prayer centre in Anuradhapura on Palm Sunday is no isolated, mundane incident, as much [...]

Palm Sunday’s church attack ruins nation’s aluth avurudu calm

Palm Sunday’s church attack ruins nation’s aluth avurudu calm

Whilst thousands of Lankan Christians of all denominations celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ this Easter Sunday morn, one worrying bell tolls in the nation’s mind – whether Palm Sunday’s attack on a Methodist church in Anuradhapura by a Sinhale mob was the first sighting of the first vulture in the sky boding ill to [...]

A Khan who can’t see truth

No, it is not that the ineffectual London Mayor Sadiq Khan does not know. Nor is it that the politically ‘wounded’ Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn is unaware that Sri Lanka’s Sinhala and Tamil communities resident in the UK and elsewhere celebrate the same New Year each April. But the fact that Labour grandees persist [...]

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