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Wanted fugitive, Udayanga Weeratunga, former Ambassador to Russia, was escorted to Colombo from Dubai by two Criminal Investigation Department (CID) detectives at dawn on Friday and driven from the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) straight to the CID headquarters where a statement was recorded from him for well over five hours. It related to the procurement [...]
Big Brother India is family, China just a business partner
Old feuds were forgotten, the old hatchet buried and the old adage that a nation ‘doesn’t have permanent friends, only permanent interests’ shunted aside when a change of fortunes and a change of attitude made New Delhi roll out the red carpet of welcome to the returning prodigal who came to genuflect and proclaim kinship [...]
Post-independence achievements and higher aspirations
On the 72nd anniversary of Independence once again the president articulated the aspirations of the country and its people. A society where all its communities could live in social harmony, where all its people could worship their own religion and where there would be freedom of speech and thought. These are essential prerequisites for economic [...]
Promises of change are yet to be seen
My dear Mahinda maama, I thought of writing to you when I saw you visiting India on a trip that has generated some amount of controversy. It must have been quite a different feeling for you, visiting a nation not as our Head of State but as its second in command- especially when the man [...]
The Puzzle of Sri Lanka’s ‘Missing” Admiral & Other Strange Stories
The escalating clash of words (hopefully, not arms) between the Attorney General (AG) and the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) over the failure to ‘immediately’ file charges against an interdicted High Court judge on the basis of allegedly attempting to fabricate evidence as revealed in leaked phone conversations with a parliamentarian, has thrown up [...]
Cracking whip to tame interfering officials
The fiat was in the name of Presidential Secretary P.B. Jayasundera. But there was little doubt where it came from. The tone and tenor of the order said it all. Who it ‘covered’ seemed to matter little. It applied to all, across the bureaucratic board. How many actually read this story that appeared in the [...]
Mahinda-Maithri talks to resolve polls issues
Disputes over symbol and co-leadership to be discussed SLPPers want to go it alone whilst SLFP MPs insist on an alliance Sajith to contest under Swan symbol in a new alliance Ranil and Sajith reach accord, Working Committee to meet tomorrow Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) leaders will meet their Sri Lanka Freedom [...]
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