http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sun, 16 May 2021 11:05:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210516/sunday-times-2/dealing-with-covid-19-pandemic-the-bad-the-devastating-and-the-good-444007.html 15 May 2021 @ 7:03 pm Most people around the world are today extremely knowledgeable about COVID-19 than any other disease but are unable to do anything to strike it down, other than to hopefully follow directions of the experts. Newspapers are packed with Covid 19 stories from the front page to the sports page; TV has learned doctors and experts who are supposed to be the most knowledgeable and others not so learne... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210516/sunday-times-2/money-power-and-finance-vis-a-vis-justice-morality-and-public-order-444003.html 15 May 2021 @ 6:59 pm Money, power and finance have been the subject of discussion in this column before too. This article deals with aspects, though pertaining to the same subject, not in focus hitherto, yet within space limitations. nbsp; Vis- agrave;-vis lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-444004 quot; title= quot;Law- amp;-Order-Logo quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/210516/uploads/2021/05/Law-... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210516/sunday-times-2/a-commander-is-only-as-good-as-443999.html 15 May 2021 @ 6:57 pm In military parlance, a General Staff consists of a group of officers who assist the commander by formulating and disseminating the commander rsquo;s policies, transmitting his orders, and overseeing their implementation. These staff officers are tasked with providing the commander with accurate and timely information as well as situational appreciations on which the commander can base his decisio... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210516/sunday-times-2/us-protects-a-client-state-45-vetoes-and-counting-443981.html 15 May 2021 @ 6:01 pm UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The UN Security Council (UNSC), the most powerful political body at the United Nations, has largely remained silent or ineffective in resolving one of the longstanding military conflicts in the Middle East, involving Israelis and Palestinians. But, at the same time, several attempts to condemn Israel for its excesses have been thwarted by successive US administrations, wh... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210516/sunday-times-2/pandemic-and-politics-in-south-asia-443974.html 15 May 2021 @ 5:58 pm This edited volume published by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various countries in the South Asian region. This volume differs from much of the emerging body of literature on politics and governance of the pandemic in that it seeks to capture civil society perspectives relating to this public health crisis and humanitarian emergency, w... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210516/sunday-times-2/what-it-will-take-to-overcome-the-pandemic-443966.html 15 May 2021 @ 5:55 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt; lt;strong gt; lt;em gt;By Palitha Abeykoon, Maha El Rabbat, David Nabarro, et al. exclusively for the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka lt;/em gt; lt;/strong gt; lt;/p gt; GENEVA ndash; As special envoys on COVID-19 for the director-general of the World Health Organisation, we have witnessed firsthand the intensity of the suffering c...