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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued instructions to all Heads of Mission/Posts instructing them to refrain from accommodating engagements with representatives of the Taliban administration in their host country/countries of accreditation. In case any inevitable necessity arises for such engagements, the Heads of Mission/Posts have been asked to obtain mandatory Ministry concurrence. The instructions [...]
Spotlight on baby
My dear Namal baby, I thought of writing to you this week after hearing these stories about an unpaid electricity bill, with you being portrayed as someone who doesn’t even pay his bills. You will agree that this is probably not the best publicity you can get, but your replies to this have left us [...]
Opposition: Speaker’s ruling undermines people’s judicial powers
JVP says resolution is not law; SJB says Speaker acting like Executive’s representative and interfering with judiciary By Sandun Jayawardana A ruling given by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena that no court is empowered to issue orders or judgments of any nature against a resolution already passed by Parliament created uproar in the House on Friday [...]
Educational reforms must also address two critical needs
The Government has announced that it intends to limit the number of examinations faced by school children to a year-end examination. Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said, from the year 2024 onwards, government schools will dispense with the customary exams held at the end of every term and instead confine the examination process to one exam [...]
Requirements for economic stabilisation and revival
It is vitally important that the economic stabilisation and revival process we are now undergoing is not disrupted in any way. The current stability in the economy has been achieved by entering the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and an improvement in the external finances. IMF It was not the modest finances [...]
Dodging presidential coconuts aimed at Sri Lanka’s judiciary
Hammer blows seem to be coming swiftly and cruelly from core points of political power in Sri Lanka, impacting hard on the country’s apex court. Was all this hot air warranted? First, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has resorted to his favorite tom-tom beat by warning the courts off interfering into what he thinks is just and [...]
Rambukwella faces home fire as family joins nation’s chorus
Experts full report into ‘allergy’ deaths suppressed by Health Ministry It is a pity that the nation’s Minister of Health Rambukwella has still not fathomed the depths and extent of mass opinion nor stared hard at the clear writing on the wall and re-considered his position at the helm. It’s almost as if nothing seems [...]
Selling the nation while the corrupt have a laugh
In my student days when given just three weeks to complete reading Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece “War and Peace”, under duress as it were, it seemed the abolition of slavery was a myth, just as much as our recent addition to the veritable cornucopia of the country’s laws—the Anti-Corruption Act—would soon assume mythical proportions. Going through [...]
PC reforms focal point in coming months
President outlines policy on power devolution; process likely to delay elections The initiative came from President and was not made in India or under pressure from it Opposition charges bribery and corruption rampant in health sector; but puts off till next month no-confidence motion against minister Minister threatens to resign over non extension of service [...]
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