Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake At this time amid exaggerated climate crisis media narratives, Green and Blue Bonds are being marketed as an opportunity” to kill two birds with one stone (pardon the poor pun), through so-called debt reduction and carbon sequestering in Sri Lanka. The local corporate media routinely and uncritically promotes Disaster Capitalism –from Covid-19 to […]

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BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka ascends many issues and the process of peacebuilding has been a giant process since before 1983 that required considering different influential factors related to the nature of ethnic and religious beliefs of people. When Sri Lanka faced the problem of loss of peace among ethnic communities there was […]

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Sugath Kulatunga Sri Lanka is not a poor country but a poorly managed country. According to the list by Credit Suisse published in 2022 pertaining to Total Wealth of Countries and reported by Wikipedia the value of total assets of Sri Laka was 400 Billion US dollars and the country is placed 57 out of […]

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Senaka Weeraratna  The consequence of God Delusion in the West largely among the mainstream Christian populace is the increasing search for Sati ( Mindfulness) originally taught by the Buddha in India over 2,500 years ago. Sati Meditation is filling a huge void in the Western consciousness due to the collapse of Monotheistic belief systems. The […]

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Courtesy Telesur Sanctions force people to prolong the use of older vehicles that burn fuel less efficiently, while making it impossible for Iran to obtain equipment and technology to reduce emissions. With the arrival of the cold season, the air pollution in Iran’s capital Tehran has reached an alarming level and is hazardous for the […]

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By: Pramod Thomas Courtesy Eastern Eye Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran fled to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday (3) raised concerns over the country’s intelligence network after notorious underworld gangster and drug lord Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran fled to India after his release on bail. Imran, wanted by the […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued orders to the Chairmen of Sri Lankan Airlines & Ceylon Petroleum Corporation calling for a report on the payment of bonuses at a time when both institutions were running at a loss. පාඩු ලබන සංස්ථා හා මණ්ඩල සේවකයන් හට ප්‍රසාද දීමනා නොගෙවන ලෙස මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශය දැනුම් දී […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera today reiterated that the proposed tariff structure had been proposed by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). The minister has shared the proposed tariff structure for a cost-reflective electricity pricing formula on his official Twitter account as an official message. Accordingly, there are details relating to […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cabinet that met on Monday for the first time in 2023 has decided to strictly adhere to restrict the number of students to a maximum 40 for Grade 1 – 5 and 45 students for Grade 6-11 from this year, cabinet spokesman, Minister Bandula Gunawardana said today. He told the […]

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