Vichara The country is aware of several mafiosi like the diesel mafia, rice mill mafia and the drugs mafia which are a curse on the country. But it is very rare that people refer to the Pettah mafia which is the mother of all mafiosi. This mafia has existed from colonial times and grown in […]

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e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 14-20 April 2024 * ‘Firstly, the political parties & party politics, and secondly the Executive Presidency; both these structures should be abolished. Thirdly, the independence of the judiciary should be maintained. Fourthly all the appointments in ministries & government institutions such as Central Bank, Treasury, etc, should be managed by non-political, non-partisan […]

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by Tom Engelhardt courtesy counterpunch.com I’ve been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I’ve written my way through three-and-a-half presidencies — god save us, it could be four in November! I’ve viewed from a grave (and I mean that word!) distance America’s endlessly disastrous wars of this century. I’ve […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් වර්තමානයේ දී ලෝකයේ බොහෝ රටවල් අමෙරිකාව ප්‍රමුඛ බටහිර ආධිපත්‍යයෙන් මිදී බහුධ්‍රැවීය ලෝකය තුළට පිවිසෙමින් ඇති බව හා ගෝලීය මූල්‍ය ක්‍රමය බිඳවැටී නව මූල්‍ය පද්ධතියක් ලෝකය තුළ ස්ථාපනය වෙමින් පවතින බවත් රුසියානු ශ්‍රී ලංකා ව්‍යාපාරික සංසදයේ සභාපති ආචාර්ය ජගත් චන්ද්‍රවංශ මහතා අනාවරණය කරයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව අනාවරණය කළේ බිඳවැටෙන අධිරාජ්‍ය හමුවේ […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 22 (Daily Mirror) – President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Dr. Ebrahim Raisi is scheduled to make an official bilateral visit to Sri Lanka at the invitation of President Ranil Wickremesinghe to jointly declare open the Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project on April 24, The Foreign Affairs Ministry […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The overall rate of inflation as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) on Year-on-Year basis has been decreased to 2.5% in March 2024, compared to 5.1% in February 2024, the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) revealed in its latest report. Meanwhile, the contributions to the inflation rate of March 2024 from […]

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Courtesy Adaderana April 22, 2024   09:42 pm A historic milestone in the Indo-Sri Lankan cultural and religious bond was marked yesterday (21) with the official launch of the ‘Sri Ramayan Trails’ project at Taj Samudra in Colombo, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported.  This initiative aims to bolster the country’s tourism industry by leveraging cutting-edge […]

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