Courtesy The Daily News (Sri Lanka) Colombo, August 5: Following the month long violent unrest over the job quota issue in Bangladesh, and upon the intervention of the Bangladesh army chief Gen.Waker-uz Zaman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday flew out of the country, the daily Prothom Alo reported. Army Chief Gen. Zaman began a meeting […]

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Rama Lakshmi Courtesy The Print This isn’t just a story about street power and regime change. It is about a new semiotics of takeover. Dhaka protests have a dotted line all the way to Colombo, Lahore, and Washington. The loot and ransacking of Sheikh Hasina’s residence Ganabhaban in Bangladesh points to a disturbing new way in which […]

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By  Craig C Lewis Courtesy Buddhist Door Global Volunteers from the Buddhist humanitarian relief organization JTS Korea, founded by the revered Korean Dharma master and Buddhist activist Venerable Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님), recently conducted humanitarian relief work in Sri Lanka, reaching out to low-income students and underprivileged communities who have been the most vulnerable to the fallout […]

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By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, August 3: It has long been a common perception that none of the main candidates will be able to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote in the upcoming presidential election. For the last few days after the announcement of the Presidential election by the Election Commission, […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් බංගලාදේශ අරගලය මෙන් මෙරට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවද අල්ලා ගැනීම සඳහා පහුගිය අරගල සමයේ අවස්ථාවක් තිබූ බව ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ ජාතික විධායක සභික කේ.ඩී. ලාල් කාන්ත මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ගාලු මුවදොර අරගලය විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපති ධුරයෙන් නෙරපා දැමූ පසු වහාම අරගලය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට හැරවිය යුතුව තිබූ බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටියි. තම පක්ෂය එම එම […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The agreement for obtaining USD 300 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the implementation of power sector reforms and financial sustainability program has been signed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the ADB. The Government of Sri Lanka had discussions with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to mobilize three […]

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