Fruits & Vegetables Transportation Transportation of fruits and vegetables by crates has been mandated to be effective from Thursday to minimize post harvest losses, an official told this reporter. Dr. D. B. T. Wijeratne, Agriculture Ministry Enterprise Development Director said that the necessary regulations in this regard have had already been passed. It will ...

By Dr. O.G Dayaratna-Banda Department of Economics and Statistics University of Peradeniya Adoring the discarded neo-liberalism The Secretary to the Treasury of Sri Lanka has seemingly informed the Vice Chancellors of the Universities at a meeting held at the UGC that the “increase of the salaries

By Dr. S. Narapalasingam PART I The baffling moves and actions on the political front of the potent government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, since the war ended conclusively mid May 2009 have been considered discretely by many analysts, ignoring...

By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The ‘Lions and Tigers’ here are not the four-legged animals that live in forests away from human habitats but the two groups of natives in the war-torn island, who opted to embrace the lion and the...