BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The history of the International Monetary Fund indicates that it was established (1944) when there was a crisis in the international financial system in the 1930s, France and associated countries attempted to devalue and revalue national currencies to gain trade advantages using the international financial system. At that time there was no […]

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Chanaka Bandarage Many Sinhalese believe that due to Thesavalamai law they cannot buy (or lease) property in the North. This seems a misconception on their part. There are only two classes of people who are benefitted by the Thesavalamai Ordinance (No 59 of 1947).  They are bestowed with the right of pre-emption: Persons who are […]

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අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය එක් ප්‍රදේශයකට පළාතකට සීමා නොවී මුළු ලංකාවම එක හා සමානව සංවර්ධනය වන මෙවන් යුගයක් මීට පෙර තිබුණෙ නැහැ යැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ඊයේ (26) පස්වරුවේ පැවසීය. කිරම – කටුවන ඒකාබද්ධ ජල යෝජනා ක්‍රමය සහ කිරම බස් නැවතුම්පොළ ජනතා අයිතියට පත්කරමින් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. සැමට පිරිසිදු පානීය […]

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Courtesy RT Earlier, Kiev refused to conduct negotiations on Belarusian territory amid the conflict Russian delegation is pictured in the Russian embassy, in Minsk, Belarus. © Sputnik / Alexandr Kryazhev Russia said on Sunday that, after some back-and-forth, Ukraine agreed to dispatch a team to Belarus for talks to end the Russian military campaign in […]

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Courtesy Sputnik The Western alliance promised to “hold Russia” and Belarus “accountable” for the “brutal and wholly unprovoked and unjustified” “invasion” of Ukraine on Friday, warning that Moscow would be made to pay “a severe price” for its actions. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to put the nation’s nuclear deterrence forces on high […]

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By Asiri Fernando/The Sunday Morning Colombo, February 27: Sri Lanka should not take its relations with China for granted and should pay more attention to develop its longstanding relationship with the global power, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Beijing Dr. Palith Kohona told The Sunday Morning. Sri Lanka and China are celebrating a milestone year in diplomacy, […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 977 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 within today (27). The total number of coronavirus cases registered in the country thus far climbs to 645,037 with this. Meanwhile over 20,000 patients infected with the virus are currently undergoing treatment island-wide The Director General of Health Services has […]

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