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Home » ColumnsRajapaksa restores ties with Modi
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who returned to Colombo on Friday after a visit to India, told Opposition confidants that Premier Narendra Modi appeared to be well briefed on developments in Sri Lanka. “I did not have to tell him anything about what is going on,” he told senior members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [...]
The best laid plans of mice and men
My dear Green Man, I thought I would write to you because of what you recently said about the Greens, and also what Maithri appears to have said about you. I felt that they were both extremely important statements, and many people are concerned about them – so I thought I should let you know [...]
Fundamental weaknesses and vulnerabilities in external finances
The persistent and widening trade deficits, the large foreign debt, the heavy debt servicing obligations, the risks of capital outflows and uncertainties in remittances from workers in the Middle East are fundamental weaknesses in the country’s external finances. Furthermore, the current global uncertainties: trade embargoes, rising fuel prices and interest rate policies of the US [...]
Presidential ire and playing pandu with cricket
Well what do you know! Sri Lanka’s president with a penchant for legal lynching of convicted drug dealers and the corrupt many has gone nuts-metaphorically speaking — over the cashew served by the national carrier. So the Sri Lankan president is after SriLankan Airlines for serving him cashew nuts which he thinks were not even [...]
Keeping the crown, the sceptre and the throne in the Mahinda family
This week in India, fond father Mahinda Rajapaksa declared for the first time the presidential ambitions he harbours in his heart of hearts for his eldest son Namal to be his natural successor and heir apparent, groomed to be the president of Lanka come 2025. Speaking to the Indian media, he said on foreign soil [...]
MS cashiers Srilankan over nuts: JO cries over spoilt milk after phut
SriLankan Airlines makes cadju forbidden fruit for Bird of Paradise Perhaps it was not the best of all possible ways in this best of all possible worlds to lodge one’s disquiet at the complaints’ desk and express dissatisfaction over the inferior quality of food served on the national airline the SriLankan merely because a couple [...]
Presidential outbursts and falling through the rabbit hole
It is difficult not to be exasperated by the constant bewailing of what is wrong about the functioning of Government institutions by leaders of the Government, no less. Endless illusions of justice It is almost as if the coalition alliance is perpetually in Opposition mode, a part of which is noisily quarreling with each other [...]
Arrest of military top brass: President irked by indefinite detentions pending trials
Sirisena calls emergency Cabinet meeting to express concern over plan to arrest former Navy Chief and CDS JHU also opposed to arrest and long detention of security forces personnel Cabinet approves new Counter-Terrorism Bill, but Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe wants a change Aninety-minute emergency Cabinet meeting Thursday appears to have muddied the waters for the coalition, just [...]
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