| Columns |
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Political Column |
All major parties confident of majority |
| More than 14 million Sri Lankans go to the polls on Thursday, for a second time in three months, to pick their representatives to a new Parliament. They have a record 7,620 candidates representing political parties and independent groups to choose from. |
| 5th Column |
Seeking manape reaches dizzy heights |
| I thought I must write to you as you prepare to confront the umpteenth election in recent times on Thursday-although I know some of you may have already decided that you will not vote. |
| The Economic Analysis |
| Emerging trends in external trade unfavourable |
| One of the favourable developments last year was the drastic reduction in the trade deficit. The trade deficit was reduced to the extent that it was more than off-set by the inflows of remittances. There were however certain features of the trade performance that makes one wonder whether the external trade performance this year would be as favourable. |
| Lobby |
| Not issued with this week |
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| Focus on Rights |
| The indiscriminate irony of injustice |
| As one senior legal academic and administrator dispassionately remarked in an energizing conversation some months back, very few people look at issues when political and institutional accountability is debated in this country. Instead, the focus is on personal likes, dislikes and prejudices or indeed personal benefits and advantages. |
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