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A goat’s best friend is Mervyn! The populace has been cruel to him. Ok, to the goat too, but I am talking about a man willing to be incarcerated just to liberate a hapless animal. Thankfully, the President interceded and saved the day for both. The Minister had promised to defy a Court order and ...
- The other red meat (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Battle of the superfoods (Category: Business)
- Mervyn Silva offers she-goat to Goddess Kali (Category: Breaking News)
- Marauding goat Billy attacks trio (Category: Australia, Victoria)
‘Shakthi’ fundraiser by Emerge Lanka Foundation today ‘Shakthi, a Celebration of Femininity,’ a fundraiser for Emerge Lanka Foundation to spread awareness about sexual assault/abuse through artistic avenues, will be held at Barefoot Café today, 21 July, from 6 to 10 p.m. Emerge Global is dedicated to empowering young women around the world who have ...
- All Ceylon Muslim Women’s Association celebrates Diamond Jubilee (Category: Business)
- Budget 2012’s impact on the export sector (Category: Business)
- Zonta launches mentorship programme (Category: Business)
- Unity is the way to success, not ethnic division: President (Category: Business)
Rio+20 has come and gone. For some, with June gone, the task may be looking at the flavour of the month for July to prop up different hoardings. The conference was concluded successfully and most of the final photos and comments indicated it was well attended and well run and perhaps well concluded. For sure, ...
- Green growth not targets needed for 2015 climate deal (Category: Business)
- Climate change: The definitive challenge of the 21st century (Category: Business)
- Be a part of Earth Hour 2012 (Category: Business)
- Climate Change: A Red Flag For Environmental Security In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
A solution for loss-making SOEs? In the USA, a new corporate entity referred to as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp) has been brought into being. The states of Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, California and Vermont have legislation which permits companies to combine the profit motive with the purpose of making a positive impact on society and ...
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- IMF-led privatisation, land and resource grab in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Experimenting with State-Owned Enterprises (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Holders Spain set up a European Championship semi-final with Iberian rivals Portugal after an uninspiring 2-0 win over France on Saturday which featured yet another headed goal but prompted boos from a sometimes bored crowd. The tournament has generally been graced by high quality, exciting soccer so far but for all Spain’s skill at ...
- Spain’s Iniesta named Euro 2012’s best player (Category: Business)
- Spain dominates World Player of the Year shortlist (Category: Business)
- Dutch top FIFA rankings without kicking a ball (Category: Business)
- Spain leads, Uruguay pips Germany in FIFA world rankings (Category: Business)
Reuters: England and France took the last places in a heavyweight final eight at Euro 2012 on Tuesday, with Ukraine joining co-hosts Poland on the sidelines after a 1-0 loss to the English marred by a controversial disallowed goal. In a tournament heavy on goals and drama but relatively free of debatable refereeing decisions, the ...
- Tournament must improve: Rugby WCup boss (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka face England in T20 World Cup semi-final today (Category: Breaking News)
- Insights to Rugby World Cup 2011 knockout stages (Category: Business)
- Italy’s ‘Gerrard’ hopes to explode against England (Category: Business)
Peter Kropotkin is a Russian revolutionist who has commented in his book ‘The Conquest of Bread’ what he considers to be the weaknesses of the economic systems of capitalism and how poverty and scarcity thrives on. However, Kropotkin did not believe in the theory of state and is known as an anarchist. The issue of ...
- Sri Lanka state finances would improve with domestic domestic restructure: think tank (Category: Breaking News)
- Limits of statist development or state capitalism (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka net government debt soars in 2021 despite zero foreign deficit finance (Category: Breaking News)
- Rupee depreciation: A powerful tool to drive growth and employment? (Category: Business)
Historically, capital markets have played an important role in the development of market economies and therefore the development of efficient regulation of securities too has become increasingly important. While fostering the development of the economy, the capital markets also play an important equalising role. Viz – it attracts the participation of a large number of ...
- SEC To Work Towards Strengthening Investor Protection (Category: Business)
- Regulatory framework in place for Exchange Traded Funds (Category: Business)
- Top Govt. politico among investors summoned by SEC via ‘fiery’ notice (Category: Business)
- ‘Those who live by the Dhamma are protected by the Dhamma’ SEC Chief tells investors (Category: Business)
By Damien The Secretary to the treasury Dr. P.B Jayasundera recently made statement that the country is wasting the foreign currency on things that can be made in this country. I would like to add to this by stating that as a country we should have clear targets and policies that are aimed at both ...
- Subsidized student loan scheme through commercial banks in addition to existing interest-free st... (Category: Breaking News)
- Banks lift overseas spending limits imposed on credit cards as dollar liquidity improves (Category: Breaking News)
- Ten problems; one solution (Category: Business)
- Causes Of Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka & Lessons For A New Age (Category: Breaking News)
n The Scholar who has refused to changeHumanistic approach Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera, scholar, writer, poet, novelist, social activist and many more, in a special contribution to Professor Buddhadasa Hewavitharana Felicitation Volume Two released last month, has tried to analyse the most recent history of Sri Lanka in the context of the onset of the process ...
- Globalisation: The challenges (Category: Business)
- Crisis lies in not knowing what higher education is! (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Impunity: Unequal before the law (Category: Business)
As we approach VESAK I am readying myself to witness first hand the hypocrisy of this nation. Led by the government of Sri Lanka and the totally abhorrent laws concerning alcohol its sale and consumption the public led by those with ecclesiastical authority pay scant regard for the laws of Sri Lanka. On the one ...
- Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s message for 2024 Vesak Day (Category: Breaking News)
- Vesak Day Celebrations in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Unite in solidarity to rebuild an affluent Sri Lanka – President (Category: Breaking News)
- All Sri Lankan’s must unite irrespective of race, religion, caste or political affiliation to he... (Category: Breaking News)
The solar energy development will not face any obstruction as it generates energy through sunlight. Being alternative energy source, it is sustainable as well as eco-friendly. An American political activist Ralph Nader writes- 'the use of solar energy has not opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. 'Yes! if we use the costly diesel generators to tide over long load shedding...
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
- NO POWER CUTS (Category: Breaking News)
- No power cuts without advance notice – CEB (Category: Breaking News)
- Power cuts during today as well (Category: Breaking News)
| by Jessica Fox ( May 01, 2012, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Latest situation in Dhaka, the Capital city of the South Asian country named Bangladesh is fearsome in real sense. Members of law enforcing agencies are continuing combing operations in the city in search of top brasses of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), while private television channels in particular are already in th...
- One Eleven Ghost Returns in Bangladesh (Category: Breaking News)
- EDITORIAL:Bangladesh - PM Sheikh Hasina ’s mind wandering (Category: Breaking News)
- Does Sri Lanka need India to run Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa’s bad gamble (Category: Breaking News)
In the time tested form of the parliamentary system of governance there is the concept of Cabinet Responsibility (Ministerial Responsibility) where ministers are said to be ‘collectively responsible’ for government policy. In Sri Lanka’s fast evolving constitutional form of government – particularly under President Mahinda Rajapaksa – the cabinet itself has become a tremendous joke .....
- Nawinna Gives Formula For Mervyn’s Success (Category: Breaking News)
- #SriLanka: New Cabinet takes oath in presence of President (Category: Breaking News)
- Ministers To See Stars (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka delays Cabinet swearing-in (Category: Breaking News)
The challenges Sri Lanka has to face in its march towards development are manifold. Although the war has ended the wrong political ideologies, the proposals and timetables it created are still in operation. By Government Information Department Additional Director General Chandrapala Liyanage Similarly, various social activity groups and individuals and organisations operating under the advice ...
- President’s leadership led to great achievements in ICT: Weeratunga (Category: Business)
- Building resilience in Asia Pacific’s digital society (Category: Business)
- Namal on dynasties and democracies (Category: Business)
- EDB turns 33 (Category: Business)
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children, as the Native American proverb goes. It is with this philosophy in mind that Jetwing Hotels will be participating in the Earth Hour campaign on 31 March. Jetwing will be the first Sri Lankan hotel chain to do so and ...
- Jetwing walks away with armful of medals at ‘Culinary Art 2011’ (Category: Business)
- 50,000 and rising as Jetwing Hotels reaches fan milestone (Category: Business)
- Jetwing Hotels and Earth Hour 2012 (Category: Business)
With the recent relaxing of the rupee exchange rate and subsequent increase in fuel prices, trade unions and the opposition parties are conducting protest campaigns against the Government, demanding a reduction in oil prices and the cost of living. This article investigates the living conditions of citizens in the recent past and present, quality and ...
- Treasury Secy. showcases recent economic success and future outlook (Category: Business)
- The Economic Impact of Exchange Controls (Category: Business)
- Living with debts (Category: Business)
- Strategies on reducing or getting out of foreign debt (Category: Business)
Can clothes, fashion accessories and makeup make a country look democratic?Dictators have begun to dress up their autocratic regimes in the manner of democracies with all the mod cons that help to pass off a system of government, which is for all purposes a dictatorship, as a five-star democracy. This in the manner that a ...
- Sri Lankan elections: A new dimension (Category: Business)
- Trust deficit and consequences (Category: Breaking News)
- Exercising civic responsibilities (Category: Business)
- Inept’ocracy (Category: Business)
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision” – Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist Queueing for bread Forgotten are the days when people waited in line for two to three hours to buy a loaf of bread; forgotten are the days when rice was not available ...
- NO END IN SIGHT:Tamil’s being searched and detained again in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics of power has destroyed the power of politics (Category: Breaking News)
- The Reformists must criticise the ruling regime and the Rajapaksas not Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- How the West is losing Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Benito Mussolini, the fascist ruler of Italy, during World War II, said that his brand of fascism ‘should be more appropriately called Corporatism, because it is a merger of state and corporate power’. Compare this with the dictionary definition of capitalism: ‘A system in which a country’s business and industry are controlled and run for ...
- Entrepreneur and the profit motive (Category: Business)
- The rise of State capitalism: new masters of the universe or an ominous portent? (Category: Business)
- State Capitalism: Revitalising underperforming businesses the Mussolini way (Category: Business)
- Governance - Four examples; two bad and two good (Category: Business)
Harsh rhetoric and emotional outbursts before the commencement of the19th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council next week in Geneva have obfuscated the objectives of the resolution to be moved against Sri Lanka at the sessions. The issue on alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan servicemen has polarised into a debate of ...
- Activists urge India to vote against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka resolution: Uproar in parliament, India undecided (Category: Breaking News)
- DMK supports US resolution against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- PM: LTTE Sympathizers Trying To Make War Crimes Charges Again (Category: Breaking News)
INSIDE STORY Former Maldivian President appeals for support from Sri Lankan public By Easwaran Rutnam Ousted Maldivian President Mohammad Nasheed says he will not seek asylum in Sri Lanka despite his family being here, but instead will continue his fight for democracy in his country. Speaking to The Sunday Leader yesterday the 42 year old ...
- Nasheed not to seek asylum in Sri Lanka, says media reports (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan Forces playing pivotal role - Maldivian President (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. has noted Nasheed’s resignation and VP’s appointment (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldivian President holds talks with Sri Lanka President (Category: Breaking News)
MALE (Reuters): The former President of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives sat inside his house awaiting arrest on Thursday after being ousted from his post in what he said was a coup at gunpoint. About 200 supporters stood under umbrellas in the pouring rain outside as Mohamed Nasheed spoke to reporters at his ...
- Maldives charges ex-President with Judge’s detention (Category: Business)
- Maldives President resigns after Police mutiny (Category: Business)
- Nasheed demands election, warns of protests (Category: Business)
- India appeals for peace in Maldives (Category: Business)
HAS democracy failed in the Maldives? As chaos engulfs the second closest country to Sri Lanka, it is impossible not to wonder over where this change will lead. Will the country still continue as a democracy or will it fall into extremist hands? What are the lessons that Sri Lanka can learn from what has ...
- Germany concerned over latest developments in Maldives (Category: Business)
- Nasheed Won’t Seek Asylum (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives charges ex-President with Judge’s detention (Category: Business)
- Ex-Maldives leader not to seek asylum in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
“It is unlikely that in making his overstatement on development that the President was seeking to downplay the achievements of the past by his illustrious predecessors in the governance of the country. In the 1950s there was the Gal Oya development scheme that opened up the vast territories of thick jungle land in the east ...
- US will support resolution on Sri Lanka at HRC sessions in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- why is Sri Lanka opposing US-sponsored resolution to implement its own LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
- The government, the LLRC and what civil society can do (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Government fears strategy of “Regime Change” through external intervention (Category: Breaking News)
A group of British and Australian Parliamentarians have nominated the controversial Channel 4 video on Sri Lanka for the Nobel Peace Prize, a press statement said on Saturday. British MP Siobhain McDonagh said that she and Australian Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon have made a joint submission to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating the team at ...
- C4 to release a new video on SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Second film by Channel Four: Damning new video evidence of war crimes in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel Peace Prize Nomination: UK and Australian MPs support Channel 4 ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Field... (Category: Breaking News)
- New Channel 4 video is unprofessional and propagandist – Dayan (Category: Breaking News)
Sydney Morning Herald: This summer’s tri-series will be played amid a backdrop of a pay dispute which sees Sri Lanka’s players owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country’s governing body. As Mahela Jayawardene’s team battle the world
- Funds on the way for Sri Lankan players (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankans put on a gutsy show for free (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka aim to rise above money worries (Category: Business)
- $3 m floor price set for T20 league franchises (Category: Business)
By Manoj Ridimahaliyadda espncricinfo.com: Sidath Wettimuny, the former Sri Lanka batsman, has suggested a radical restructuring of the country’s domestic cricket structure, which involves promoting provinces over clubs. The financial uncertainty surrounding Sri Lankan cricket and the upcoming board elections could, however, overshadow Wettimuny’s proposal. As a member of Sri Lanka Cri...
- Wettimuny proposes revamp of Sri Lankan cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- Lorgat for independent review of SLC governance (Category: Business)
- Durban win can’t erase Sri Lanka’s scars (Category: Business)
- SLC suspends all board-run domestic tournaments (Category: Breaking News)
By Victor Ivan This article is meant to analyse the inadequacy of traditional interpretations of the ethnic crisis and point out limitations inherent in them. It is not incorrect to treat this issue as an ethnic crisis. Yet, in my opinion, it is not correct to treat it only as a conflict based
- How Tamil Leadership Failed Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Deadly Symbols, Vibrant Electoral Politics and War Crimes in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The Need For An Overall Reorganization In The System Of Governanance (Category: Breaking News)
- Fragile State Policy & The Rise Of Muslim Extremism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
After the recent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, critics found three new words for the acronym ‘CWG’ – Corruption, Waste and lack of Governance. The Chairman of the Indian National Olympic Committee, who was Chairman of the Organising Committee, is presently in Tihar Jail, in Delhi with many of his acolytes, on charges regarding ...
- CWG bid money not wasted: Cabraal (Category: Business)
- Gold Coast wins CWG 2018 bid (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka hosting CWG would inspire 45 other nations – President (Category: Business)
- A month to go for vote, Govt. says momentum building on Hambantota’s 2018 CWG bid (Category: Business)
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