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Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with this line: “There are worse things than...
Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic...
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with this line: “There are worse things than...
Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic...
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with this line: “There are worse things than...
Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic...
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with this line: “There are worse things than...
Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic...
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with this line: “There are worse things than...
Photo Courtesy of Daily News With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic...
[…] The post Unreasonable ‘Covid-Cremation Policy’: Potentially Deadly Payback Would Be Enormous! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
Photo courtesy of Associated Press Just before the Presidential election of November 16, 2019, the UK’s Guardian newspaper began its editorial on Sri Lanka with this line: “There are worse things than...
It is with great sacrifices that Sri Lanka brought about a victory against ruthless terrorism, which is certainly a feather in the cap of Rajapaksa family. No one can dispute the fact that President Rajapaksa provided the political leadership and ensured that the LTTE was decimated at any cost. The Tamil diaspora and the pro-separatist ...
On Friday (7) afternoon, the eve of provincial council elections in three provinces, a certain gathering took place at 101, Rosmead Place, which houses the corporate offices of Democratic National Alliance (DNA) National List Parliamentarian, Tiran Alles. Consultations that lasted for hours, took place between Alles and UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa and a few ...
Foreign media have reported that the Sri Lankans have responded in a fitting manner to the world through the election results. This has explicitly displayed the rapport between the Government and the people. The foreign media attributed the Government’s development programme and the resettlement process to the election victory. All India Radio mentioned that President ...
The much-longed-for monsoon rains are lashing at the capital Colombo and other parts of the south west as Sri Lanka gears up for yet another provincial election and international challenges pertaining to its post-war accountability and reconciliation plans in the days and weeks ahead
Indo-Lanka relations Indo-Lanka relations have been cordial ever since the two countries gained independence. The most notable act of magnanimity on the part of India was to cede the Island of Katchchathivu to Sri Lanka through an agreement between the two countries. Relations have intermittently been strained due to domestic ethnic issue having had a ...
With apologies to Francis Bacon whose quote is misquoted but not in essence of what he meant. Bacon’s comment that “reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man” is to be seriously looked at today in education and in practice where we appear to falter at every step of ...
Four examples; two bad and two goodThe website of the London Economist newspaper has a reference to an official of a certain country referring to a journalist in words similar to what follows – I have substituted words which would be appropriate to an officer and a gentleman addressing a lady
Several international media rights groups have expressed concerns over the safety of The Sunday Leader Editor Frederica Jansz after Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa threatened her with death. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Article 19 called on the international community
Reuters: A U.S.-China tug-of-war over Southeast Asian influence is proving to be a critical test for Washington’s “pivot” East as Beijing strengthens its economic and military clout in its own backyard. Countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), one of the world’s fastest growing regions, are weighing up how to play their ...
Leo Burnett Solutions Inc. created history by being the first ever Sri Lankan agency to be recognised at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity by winning metal in the Best Consumer Engagement category for work done for the Mawbima newspaper, with the agency’
Ill feeling towards President Rajapakse The inability of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to deliver his speech at the opening session of the Commonwealth Business Council in London last week was a replay of the scuttling of the President’s intention to address the Oxford Union last year. On that occasion there was strong manifestation of ill feeling and even ...
By Cassandra Mascarenhas In a knowledge economy, learning becomes a vital ingredient for power and furthering the need for continuous learning, the Chartered Institute of Chartered Accountants’ annual flagship event, the CIMA Business Leaders Summit 2012 conducted the technical sessions, the second half of its two-day agenda. “Our theme is about power. Power existed even ...
Last week, this newspaper carried at least two articles pertaining to the import-export trade. One was found on page 4 under the heading “No More Duty Free Boat Imports” and the other, the lead story on the business section (page 33) under the heading, “Seven Reasons For Liberalising Tea
The corrupting influence of absolute power, with apologies to Karl Marx As long ago as in 1843, Karl Marx wrote that “religion is the opium of the masses”. The current behaviour of the political class in many nations, ranging across the whole range of types of governance, from functional democracies to one-party states, to ...