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Ajith Doval, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Security Advisor, was in Sri Lanka this week to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with member states of the Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) and the Charter for the Establishment of the CSC Secretariat in Colombo on Friday. While Colombo was full of election momentum with campaign [...]
An ungrateful bunch
My dear Anura sahodaraya, I thought of writing to you even though you are very busy criss-crossing the country for campaign rallies and launching a manifesto before any of the ‘main’ contenders did. That is because I have written to Uncle Ranil, Sajith and young Namal recently and it would be unfair not to write [...]
Is the IMF deal cast in stone or is renegotiation possible? The country awaits clarity
With the country plunged into bankruptcy by the mismanagement of the economy by the Gotabaya Rajapaksa Presidency, Sri Lanka turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeking a lifeline to salvage the economy. While there are many who have ideological reservations about the IMF, in view of the dire straits that the country finds itself [...]
Sustaining improvement in external finances vital for economic growth
An increase in export revenue, inward remittances, and earnings from tourism resulted in an improvement in the balance of payments and an increase in gross external reserves to US$ 5.7 billion at the end of June. These favourable developments continued to increase external reserves to over US$ 6 billion at the end of July. Sustaining [...]
JVP promises the sun, moon and stars in their utopian manifesto
A ‘Rich Beautiful Life’ but a blanket hush on how to raise the nation’s income: Economist Harsha thrashes JVP plan to change IMF’s Debt Sustainability Analysis Behold and lo! Soon under a Marxist JVP government all Lankans will live in a rich beautiful utopian paradise where milk and honey trickles nonstop from the cornucopian horn [...]
Playing a gentlemen’s game but without gentlemen
Aficionados of cricket, the game the British invented and then spread across its imperial empire, will remember that annual encounter played here called “Gentlemen versus Players.” That stopped several decades ago, not because the British gave up the game in the face of rising competition from its former colonies. It just happened that while they [...]
Main candidates declare manifestos, polls campaigns intensify
Top contenders draw large crowds for meetings, though it may not be a voting factor ITAK to meet on Wednesday to decide on its course of action regarding the election By Our Political Editor The first phase of the September 21 presidential election, three-days of postal voting, gets underway on Wednesday with frontrunners scurrying to [...]
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