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Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
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- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
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- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
The Reformists The Reformist groups’ attempt to oust the current leader of the United National Party seems to have experienced some serious setbacks. Ranil Wickremesinghe is still the leader; his Working Committee is still intact and as committed to him as it was at the height of the crisis. Although the Party suffered yet another humiliating electoral ...
- Rumours of Freedom: Whither Fonseka now (Category: Breaking News)
- Karu Jayasuriya goes online (Category: Breaking News)
- Children of the 1977 Free Market Economy and their world without vision (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP, from the Party of the Minorities to a Minor Party (Category: Breaking News)
The solar energy development will not face any obstruction as it generates energy through sunlight. Being alternative energy source, it is sustainable as well as eco-friendly. An American political activist Ralph Nader writes- 'the use of solar energy has not opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. 'Yes! if we use the costly diesel generators to tide over long load shedding...
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
- NO POWER CUTS (Category: Breaking News)
- No power cuts without advance notice – CEB (Category: Breaking News)
- Power cuts during today as well (Category: Breaking News)
Dispute The dispute over the presence of a Muslim mosque on Buddhist temple land in Dambulla points to an underlying tension in Sri Lanka’s multi religious society that is capable of being exploited by extremist forces. It is reassuring that the violence that suddenly manifested itself over the location of the mosque was not permitted to escalate ...
- ‘No provision for any other faith only Buddhism so move the mosque,’ says Thero (Category: Breaking News)
- All Mosques, Kovils, Churches to be paid and evicted from Buddhist Sacred City – ADC (Category: Breaking News)
- “Why can’t we all just get along”` (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse govt looks on as religious intolerance soars (Category: Breaking News)
The Met. Department has called on the people to refrain from wearing metal jewellery to minimize the risk of lightening. Duty Officer at the Met. Dept Chaminda de Silva said that lightening strikes may occur in the evenings and nights. It is dangerous to stay in open spaces, use metal instruments and electrical appliances. It ...
By Faraz Shauketaly The National New Year celebrations – Sinhalese and Tamil New Year – provides an unparalleled opportunity each year to visit friends, relax and simply do nothing. It is also an opportunity to make all the politically correct sound bites and assure anyone and everyone including pedantic outlaws (read in-laws) how very much ...
- Tsunami warning lifted in SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- No Tsunami threat for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Tsunami warning to be reviewed in an hour: East urged to be vigilant (Category: Breaking News)
- Tsunami preparedness pays off (Category: Business)
In the time tested form of the parliamentary system of governance there is the concept of Cabinet Responsibility (Ministerial Responsibility) where ministers are said to be ‘collectively responsible’ for government policy. In Sri Lanka’s fast evolving constitutional form of government – particularly under President Mahinda Rajapaksa – the cabinet itself has become a tremendous joke .....
- Nawinna Gives Formula For Mervyn’s Success (Category: Breaking News)
- #SriLanka: New Cabinet takes oath in presence of President (Category: Breaking News)
- Ministers To See Stars (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka delays Cabinet swearing-in (Category: Breaking News)
The people for the past three decades have suffered the steady rise in the cost of living with great forbearance. We have no ready index to point to for this Himalayan climb other than the price of bread which Chandrika Kumaratunga in her presidential bid vowed to reduce to Rs 3 per loaf. Now the ...
- Malaysian government would loss many votes by supporting SriLanka at UNHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Construction work of the bridge in Dharmapuram area stopped (Category: Breaking News)
- SL government organize massive protest campaign in front of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- Rathika Sitsabaiesan welcomes US resolution against SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the nation on Independence Day provided an indication of his two major concerns for the future. One concern was the persistent international pressure on his government on human rights issues during and after the end of the war. The other concern was the efforts to destabilize the government through mass agitation ...
- LLRC Report reflects enlightened Sri Lankan thinking (Category: Breaking News)
- US will support resolution on Sri Lanka at HRC sessions in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse banks on Blake’s diplomatic speak in US war crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO: A TV documentary with gruesome footage that appears to back up war crimes charges against Sri Lankan troops has aggravated ethnic wounds two years after the end of the island’s civil war.
COLOMBO: A TV documentary with gruesome footage that appears to back up war crimes charges against Sri Lankan troops has aggravated ethnic wounds two years after the end of the island's civil war.
Fridges Consume 51% Electricity Air conditioning takes 78% of the electricity bill followed by lighting (16%), but in an un air conditioned house, the fridge with 51% of electricity intake is the paramount consumer, followed by the television (13%), rice cooker (12%) and lighting (8%). Intake of electricity in fridges increases in the opening and ...
- ORCL profit increases by 200% to Rs 2.7 b (Category: Business)
- SLT Records Impressive Revenue (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka Cement gets new Board (Category: Business)
- Yet another year of success for NSB (Category: Business)
By Lewie Diasz* Marketing’s forefathers Theodore Levitt and Phillip Kotler defined marketing in an era where baby boomers and generation X prevailed and marketing has evolved ever since and the evolution can be classified into different eras. The evolution begins from a hunter-gatherer orientation to agriculture orientation and then the early 1900s where demand exceeded ...
- Marketers confounded by mounting data: CMO Council (Category: Business)
- Driving marketing in the boardroom (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan universities and marketing orientation (Category: Business)
By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...
- India’s Chinese Bogeymen (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China and India playing the great game in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- For India, Sri Lanka is not indispensable, but for Sri Lanka, India is indispensable (Category: Breaking News)
by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...
- Asia economy: Consumers to the rescue? (Category: Business)
- Economic power shifting to Asia from the West? (Category: Business)
- No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
by Dr.Kavan Ratnatunga Anula Meier Radalage has the distinction of having been the last Sinhalese to run a business in Jaffna before the conflict with the LTTE ended in May 2009. Her guest book lists special envoys Erik Solheim and...
- Jaffna - Poonaryn ferry service resumes (Category: Breaking News)
- LNP to halve fare increase (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Prabhakaran's house demolished (Category: Breaking News)
- Prabhas Velvetithurai parental house razed to the ground (Category: Breaking News)
Bedevil: In the same boat by Channa Wickramasekera Colombo: Bay Owl Press, 2010 Reviewed by Sivamohan Sumathy ‘We may have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now’. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Why has...
- Sri Lanka – Literary Essays And Sketches By Charles Sarvan (Category: Breaking News)
- The Perfect Guide (Category: Breaking News)
- Sumathy’s Ingirunthu : (Here and Now) (Category: Breaking News)
- How I Have Used Obeyesekere In My Teaching (Category: Breaking News)
The media office of the Voice of Asia Network that operates Siyatha TV, Siyatha FM, Real Radio, Vettri FM and Siyatha, came under arson attack at around 1.30 this morning, reports say. Residents of the area around the office – located on Hunupitiya Lake Road in Colombo 2 – said that they had first heard ...
- Protest On Police Attack On Journalists (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Fire In Ministry Of Agriculture Building (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Campaign For Salary Hike (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Wickremesinghe At Cambridge Terrace (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty ...
- 40 Years After The Anti-Tamil Pogrom Of July 1983: Root Causes Remain Unaddressed (Category: Breaking News)
- The Sinhalese are content with an unjust peace: But are Tamils? (Category: Breaking News)
- July 1983 Pogrom: The Black Week That Devastatingly Impacted Sri Lanka Forever (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
By Rajan Philips On May 17 in Tehran, the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil announced that they had reached a deal on exchanging uranium fuel for use in the Tehran Research Reactor....
- Iran to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear deal (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Can Tehran Non Aligned Summit End Iran’s International Isolation? (Category: Breaking News)
- Iran loads fuel rods into 1st nuclear power plant (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit as China slams new sanctions (Category: Business)
by Pearl Thevanayagam The recently concluded war with all its human miseries such as loss of lives, widowhood, displaced and maimed civilians, orphans, destruction of properties and denigration of agricultural lands and the disruption to normal life throughout the island...
- Reality check for doping in sport (Category: Technology)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- How the Amazon rainforest is being saved (Category: Technology)
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