Saturday 1st October, 2022 The much-advertised National Council (NC) has had its inaugural meeting, which was nothing much to write home about, so to speak. Those who were present there did what they are adept at; they waxed eloquent but, as usual, said nothing new or anything of substance. Our representatives have a remarkable ability […]

Unlike the financial crisis of 2008, the economic levers alone were insufficient to stimulate global economic recovery in 2022 as what had led to the current crisis was the consequences of evolving geopolitics, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Thursday at the ADB’s 55th annual meeting. “The Ukraine war on one side and the US-China rivalry, […]

By Rafia Zakaria SHE was a Kurdish woman who had been visiting relatives in the Iranian capital Tehran. Mahsa Amini (who was also called Jina) was out and about in the city when she was detained by the morality police for not wearing the hijab according to Iranian law. No one knows what happened in […]

By ATANU BISWAS Exactly one hundred years ago, in October 1922, Benito Mussolini and his National Fascist Party seized power through the March on Rome (Marcia su Roma) and became Italy’s youngest Prime Minister. A dark period of totalitarian evolution emerged which eventually would spread wings in some other parts of Europe as well. And […]

Stock market has seen the highest monthly foreign inflow this month in more than 10 years

Sri Lanka is struggling to secure dollar earnings and that has threatened its fuel, gas imports.

“I will not allow you to venerate Satanic music for Satan in my city,” Senanayake was heard saying.

UNICEF Sri Lanka says it received a contribution of USD 500,000 from the Government of Japan to support the provision of nutrition services for children and families affected by the ongoing crisis.

Except 2 sessions, the market has witnessed foreign inflows in last 34 straight sessions.

Food prices up 94.9-pct in the past 12 months

Due to current economic conditions social problems were worsening,

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men in any form. Ayn Rand. Does that apply to our President minus the common man’s vote? When he accepted the invitation to be President by poised-to-flee Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa, […]

President of the Yuthukama organisation MP Gevindu Cumaratunga yesterday said that despite all gloom and doom predictions and statistics of a crisis prevailing in the country there was still a way out of the present plight if the country attempts to find solutions through cultural norms and ancient wisdom. Addressing the media in Colombo, Cumaratunga […]

The Veddah Chief, Uru Warige Wannila Aththo, has also called for a general election. With all the nonsense taking place in the Parliament these days, a general election is all the people must want in the hope of getting a good government to face up to the many issues caused by the economic crisis the […]