| Columns |
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| Political
Column |
Enter the political General |
| What most leaders of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) did not believe happened this week. Retired General Sarath Chandralal Fonseka, the former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) became the "common candidate" of the country's major opposition parties. |
| 5th
Column |
Velu’s heroes day draws zero in a
divided country |
My Dear Velu,
I thought I must write to you even though you have been dispatched to the Land of No Return because this is the time you usually deliver your ‘Heroes’ Day’ address to us. And would you believe it, the day has come and gone and hardly anyone has noticed it! |
| The Economic Analysis |
| Reducing the fiscal deficit essential for economic growth |
| The essential prerequisite for economic stabilization and growth is fiscal discipline that brings down the fiscal deficit consolidation. This has been stressed ever so often in this column, accepted by the government, the Central Bank, the Institute of Policy Studies and the International agencies assisting Sri Lanka. It is a condition for the continuation of the remaining tranches of the IMF stand-by facility. |
| Lobby |
| Not issued with this week |
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| Focus on Rights |
| Degenerative duplicity and a government's response - part (III) |
| In this final column deliberating on the Government of Sri Lanka's (GOSL) formal response to the European Commission's (EC) Report on the factors negatively affecting the renewal of the GSP Plus trade privilege, some remaining questions that put the Government on inquiry are dealt with. |
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