KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay presents, as an annexure, several projects which have been commented on, during the ‘Yahapalana wake up call’. Critics are using Yahapalana rule to give vent to certain economic resentments. Samantha Kumarasinghe of Nature’s Secrets stated that an agreement was entered into in the 1980s with a Singaporean Company to mill wheat […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera How  Sri Lankan Industry can benefit By Sandun Jayawardena A Danish wind turbine manufacturer has won a tender to build the 100 MegaWatt wind farm in Mannar but the project is held up by delays at Cabinet level. The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) has now urged Cabinet to speed up […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera පුත්තලම, අරුවක්කාලු සනීපාරක්ෂක කසළ රඳවනය ඉදිකිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියට අදාළ අපද්‍රව්‍ය මුදාහැරීම සඳහා කලපු ප්‍රදේශයට කාණුවක් කපා ඇති බවට පළවන මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා සම්පූර්ණයෙන් අසත්‍ය බවට මහා නගර හා බස්නාහිර සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යාංශය අවධාරණය කරයි. When such megaprojects and planned authorities should ensure to hold multiple meetings in the project area with stake holder participation to […]

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හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සරත් එන්. සිල්වා ජනතා මුදල් සොරා කෑ පුද්ගලයන් අල්ලා පර සක්වල ගසන බවට වහසි බස් දොඩමින් බලයට පත් ආණ්ඩුව වසර තුනකින් පසුව හදිසියේම ත්‍රිපුද්ගල විශේෂ මහාධිකරණ ස්ථාපිත කොට දූෂණ, වංචා පිළිබඳ නඩු විභාග පැවැත්වීමට සූදානම් වේ. එම විශේෂ අධිකරණය පළමුවරට මේ මස 24 දින රැස්වීමට නියමිතය. බැලු බැල්මට මෙය ජනතා හිතවාදී, නීතියට අදාළ […]

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Editorial Monday 10th September, 2018 Courtesy The Island September 9, 2018, 9:45 pm President Maithripala Sirisena has come to terms with reality. He has gone on record as saying that the head of the next government will be the Prime Minister, according to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Speaking at a public event in Nivitigala, […]

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By Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Former Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka September 9, 2018, 9:42 pm Governor of the Central Bank Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy has, recently, stated that the Central Bank is to soon raise USD 250 million through the issuance of Panda Bonds. Such funds would be in addition to the Syndicated Loan of […]

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 Courtesy The  Hindu Former Sri Lankan President seems to be warming to India. In an indication of warming of ties, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will visit New Delhi this week and hold important discussions. Mr. Rajapaksa, who is credited with ending the reign of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with the military […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Chennai, September 9 (PTI/newsin.asia): Following the Indian Supreme Court’s suggestion, the All India Anna Dravida Kazhagam government in  Tamil Nadu  on Sunday decided to recommend to the State Governor Banwarilal Purohit the release of all seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Sept 9 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo ranked the world’s leading container growth port among the top 30 container ports for the first half of 2018, according to international rating agency, Alphaliner, the Ports and Shipping Ministry said in a statement Sunday. According to the rating, the Port of Colombo has recorded […]

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