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By R.M.B. Senanayake The recent episode regarding the Z Score has led to demands that the Ministers of Education and Higher Education should resign. In their defence they say that the decisions were taken not by them but by experts. Yes, but didn’t they appoint these experts? How did they appoint such nincompoops? Not for ...
- Options For Interim Govt. To Overcome The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- How neuroscience can shape policy (Category: Technology)
- Economic decisions cannot be taken by politicians – Namal (Category: Breaking News)
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
An internship with MAS Holdings, Deutsche Bank and DialogCorporate heavyweights MAS Holdings, Deutsche Bank and Dialog Axiata PLC are in search of the next batch of exceptional interns to join their annual Summer Internship Program, commencing July 2012. This joint initiative is rated one of the best internship programs in the island and has been ...
- Major summer internship program kicks off (Category: Business)
- MAS-Deutsche Bank-Dialog Summer Internship Program ends successfully (Category: Business)
- Deutsche Bank rolls out new integration solution for Dialog Axiata (Category: Business)
- Dialog empowers 7.5m with mobile money transactions (Category: Business)
n The Scholar who has refused to changeHumanistic approach Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera, scholar, writer, poet, novelist, social activist and many more, in a special contribution to Professor Buddhadasa Hewavitharana Felicitation Volume Two released last month, has tried to analyse the most recent history of Sri Lanka in the context of the onset of the process ...
- Globalisation: The challenges (Category: Business)
- Crisis lies in not knowing what higher education is! (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Impunity: Unequal before the law (Category: Business)
The need for an integrated program on a war footingIn 2008, eight prizewinning economists were asked to list the type of projects which would do the most good for the most number of poor people, if they had an imaginary $ 75 million to spend. Half of their proposed projects involved nutrition. There has been ...
- Sri Lanka: Tea rich but nutrient poor (Category: Business)
- Dairy: The mirage of self-sufficiency (Category: Business)
- Equity and well-being in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
IBM yesterday unveiled smarter computing solutions designed to transform, grow and make Sri Lankan enterprises more competitive. A wide range of workload-optimisation hardware solutions, such as IBM Storwize V7000, IBM Starter Kit for Cloud and IBM BladeCenter blade servers were presented at the IBM Smarter Computing Forum. Tailored to the local market needs through IBM ...
- Flying smarter (Category: Business)
- IBM launches new cloud offerings for smarter commerce (Category: Business)
- Nokia unravels Asha 202 with smarter features (Category: Business)
- A Different Discourse For A Smarter Politics (Category: Breaking News)
Q: 13 Plus has become the most discussed topic in the political scene. What do you think about 13 Plus? A: Before looking at the 13th Amendment or the 13 Plus, first let us give a chance to the present mechanism. I strongly believe the present mechanism can address the majority of our issues. The ...
- Tamils only want Chelvanayagam’s demands met- not Prabakaran’s - Suresh Premachandran (Category: Breaking News)
- SLMC opposes govt. decision not to allocate land and police powers to the provinces (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part IV (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA and talks travails (Category: Business)
The Visible Hand of the government ‘The Visible Hand’ was the title which the famed London-based economics weekly, The Economist, used when it published a special report in its issue on 21 January 2012 on the rise of state capitalism in the modern era. The title has a pun
- Target 2048 – Economic Democracy Principles Should Be Followed To The Letter (Category: Breaking News)
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- A monetary constitution to add on to the legal constitution? (Category: Business)
Sampath Bank with effect from 1 January has got a new Chairman and several new youthful additions to its Board of Directors. The Bank announced on Friday that at a Board of Directors meeting held on 29 December Chairman I.W. Senanayake decided to step down with effect from 31 December. Whilst accepting this decision the ...
- Dhammika to be appointed Chairman of Sampath Bank (Category: Business)
- CB clears five new nominees to Sampath Bank Board (Category: Business)
- Qualified daughters make their way to boards (Category: Business)
- Former CB Deputy Governor appointed to COMBank Board (Category: Business)
Sri Lankan represents global team of entrepreneursAspirations Edu-cation’s General Manager Deepamala Abeysekera became the only Sri Lankan to represent a group of 30 entrepreneurs in the world from, USA, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa, to read for her postgraduate studies in entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge has acquired an international reputation as an ...
- University of Cambridge International Examinations meets stakeholders (Category: Business)
- Cambridge Ruskin International College introduces Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in Camb... (Category: Breaking News)
- Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday, was a singular figure in American business history. He will go in the pantheon of great American entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators, alongside John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Sam Walton. Jobs didn’t invent computer technology, or the cell phone, or the notion of digitising music. But he invented methods, ...
- Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies (Category: Breaking News)
- President’s office saddened by Jobs’ demise (Category: Business)
- Legend (Category: Business)
JACKSON HOLE: Central bankers gathered at an annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this weekend had a message for political leaders: monetary policy alone can’t keep the global expansion going. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke urged adoption of “good, proactive housing policies” to reverse the depressed US real estate market and warned lawmakers to ...
- Bernanke defends low rate policy for weak economy (Category: Business)
- Fed officials take wait-and-see approach on stimulus (Category: Business)
- Fed launches QE3, bets big to rescue US economy (Category: Business)
- Bernanke quiet on next Fed move, stresses job crisis (Category: Business)
Our ‘poli-socionomic’ dialogue You will recall that like Capt. Kirk in his Star Ship-Enterprise,’ we also ventured into new territory with our first discussions under this theme ‘poli-socionomics,’ which appears to have caught on somewhat; thus, on behalf of those of us who still dare to think, I must thank those editors who carried it. ...
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
By an Independent Analyst The State Assembly of Tamil Nadu (TN) passed a resolution on 8 June 2011, requesting the Indian Central Government to push the international community against Sri Lanka towards imposition of ‘economic sanctions’. The resolution at the TN assembly moved by Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister passed unanimously with the ruling party ...
- TN moves resolution to implead itself in Katchatheevu case (Category: Breaking News)
- TN seeks economic sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- TN group violently opposes Lions Flag (Category: Breaking News)
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