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On Thursday, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan met Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay at his official residence, India House for a discussion. The meeting was the outcome of a pending request from TNA leadership seeking a one-on-one meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the Presidential election in November last year. TNA [...]
Something wicked comes this way
My dear Basil maama, I am writing to you to congratulate you on achieving the near impossible, getting the 20th Amendment to the Constitution passed when it looked like you would fall one or two votes short of a two thirds majority. Regardless of others who take the credit, we know it was you who [...]
Diversifying sources of development assistance key to minimising impact on Sri Lanka due to US-China spat
Health experts the world over as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO) tell us that the world will have to live with the COVID-19 virus for at least one year or more. Even if a vaccine is discovered and administered, there will be no quick fix solution as the process is likely to take [...]
China’s snub to US Pompeo: ‘You ain’t welcome in Lanka’
The levelled playing fields of Lanka were queered this week when two titans – one the world’s superpower, the other its regional counterpart – chose to turn the tended turf to a muddied battlefield where invective missiles against each other were fired at will from their local silos, with scant regard to the much vaunted [...]
To the depths of diplomacy
So Mike Pompeo has come and gone. For which we give thanks to whoever it was that facilitated this quick exit. The problem with some leaders of major powers is not just their pomp and arrogance. It is also their growing readiness to bring their geopolitical battles to the soil of other countries which are [...]
Prospects and uncertainties in the balance of payments
Considerable uncertainties in the global containment of COVID-19 and when the international economy would rebound as well as the recent resurgence of COVID-19 in the country, make economic projections quite hazardous. It is in this uncertain health and economic environment that we venture to discuss the prospects of Sri Lanka’s balance of payments. Global economy [...]
The 20th Amendment’s increase of judges and consequent concerns
Eyebrows are being raised over the 20th Amendment to the Constitution’s inclusion of provisions at committee stage to increase the number of judges in Sri Lanka’s superior courts of record, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. Justified by the Justice Minister on the floor of the House on the rationale that the increase [...]
IIHS broadens horizons for students as first-ever Sri Lankan Institute to offer Western Australian Education Certificate forYear 11 and 12
For many Sri Lanka parents, providing their children opportunities to gain an Australian senior secondary education has hitherto remained a pipe dream. Sri Lanka’s premier international university learning centre, the International Institute of Health and Science (IIHS) has come forward to pioneer a new educational era and fulfill this need by initiating an exclusive partnership [...]
Govt. faces gruelling task in combating the new wave of COVID-19 pandemic
President handled first wave effectively, but multiple factors led to apparently uncontrollable new upsurge Pompeo talks place Lanka in no-win situation, Gotabaya confides in ministers he will not sign MCC deal The Government’s popularity, less than a year after the presidential election, is taking a nosedive as the COVID-19 pandemic, now resurging upwards uncontrollably, is taking [...]
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