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The Government is to strip the civic rights of those responsible for falsely implicating or involving others in murders or related investigations. Their conduct will be probed by a Special Presidential Commission to be appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Its tasks will cover those serving state investigative agencies such as the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), [...]
A political career of great interest…
My dear Green Man, I thought I should write to you because all that fuss about the big race is now over. Gota maama won quite convincingly and, although many thought that it would be a close contest, Sajith only came a distant second. It is that time when everyone is asking what the Greens [...]
Modi plays Santa and wows Gota with a fistful of 450m US dollars
India’s Delhi would have certainly worn a newer face when Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa set foot on its soil this Thursday evening — a face definitely friendlier and more welcome than the one he would have been accustomed to have seen the last time he was here in India’s British built capital five or six [...]
Human rights and Labour hypocrisy
There is an English saying that charity begins at home. So should, if one were impartial and balanced, look into one’s own history and actions before pointing accusing fingers at others. Unfortunately it seems that the leaders of the UK Labour Party such as Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have not learnt such [...]
Are we doomed to repeat the past, in fearful force?
The wildly popular urban myth of lemmings rushing to the sea in waves of mass suicide has a parallel in Sri Lanka in waves of ‘meru’ insects desperately attracted to the very light that eventually kills them. Quaintly known as ‘Christmas flies’ probably because they are most evident towards that time, hundreds cluster around any [...]
A higher balance of payments surplus crucial to reduce external financial vulnerability
The only means of reducing the country’s foreign debt and external financial vulnerability is by generating a higher balance of payments surplus and minimising foreign borrowing. Increased exports, higher earnings from services and much higher FDI are three of the crucial needs. A larger balance of payments would enable the repayment of debt and meeting [...]
Swiss embassy employee abduction shakes new Govt.
Diplomatic source says staffer was abducted in white car, molested, questioned and threatened Berne to deliver strong message to Sri Lanka while other EU countries also express concern CID’s Chief Inspector goes to Switzerland with copies of important documents on high profile cases Sajith insists on being party leader and leader of opposition; Ranil [...]
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