Dec 24, 2024 · Broad Mandate to Cleanup. The government came on the promise to investigate corruption. They received a broad mandate from the people. That corruption whose extirpation the people want, is widespread in many Christian institutions but we do not see it as the duty of the government to root out corruption from religious institutions.

Dec 23, 2024 · Cost of living crisis is an economic pandemic spreading to almost every country whether developed or developing. Therefore, the constant barrage of attack on NPP government over the last few weeks about rising price of coconuts, shortage of rice and salt in the market is not unique to Sri Lanka even though there are certain specific factors such as oligopolistic control and hoarding which make ...

Jan 3, 2025 · Preliminary Remarks. Encouraged by the Presidential address delivered as a Christmas message to the people of Sri Lanka by the Hon. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the President of Sri Lanka, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to reiterate its earlier appeal regarding the urgent need for fundamental reforms in Sri Lanka’s justice system.The AHRC appreciates the clarity with which the ...

Jan 11, 2025 · When at a loose end I am in the habit of pulling a book out of my bookshelf to browse through. I do it with both pleasure and profit; passing time gives perspective, offering new insights to books read long ago or casually put aside then. While reading I also tend to look up on the author, the times ...

Jan 10, 2025 · It was also pessimism over the reckless exploitation of scale economies and blind commitment to technology as panacea for all economic problems that prompted E. F. Schumacher to publish a year later his Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered.And, as if to hasten the realization of MIT’s gloomy prediction the 1978 OPEC oil crisis struck the first blow to the Keynesian ...

Dec 28, 2024 · I have chosen this seemingly peculiar title for the reason that each summarizes the plight of our farmers, unresolved challenges that warrant greater attention of politicians, administrators and researchers. These are real and urgent problems.. All three share the common feature that easy solutions remain elusive and most likely to involve a number of causes and disciplines (multifactorial ...

Dec 31, 2024 · The desire to be part of the festivities was visible also in the large number of people who participate in them at different levels. They enjoyed themselves at the expensive buffets of five star hotels and in the open spaces of Galle Face Green, where there was a carnival and mobile eateries or in the big shopping malls where they might have a bite at Pizza Hut or engage in window shopping.

Dec 29, 2024 · “Elections have consequences,” President Barak Obama triumphantly told congressional Republicans in 2009, as he began his historic first term as the first African-American President of the United States of America. But the election of Trump eight years later and Trump’s election again in 2024 ...

Dec 22, 2024 · By Tisaranee Gunasekara – “Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of the global norms built after 1945.” ~ Pankaj Mishra (The Shoah after Gaza – London Review of Books – 21.3.2014) In the second decade of the 21 st Century, genocide is being televised.. 72 Virgins – Uncensored was a Telegraph channel run by the Israeli Defence Forces’ Influencing Department (Orwellian by name and ...

Jan 4, 2025 · The gravity of the issues confronted by the policy makers and the resulting dilly dallying associated n this regard is seen by the number of cabinet papers we have seen going up and down with varying observations being made by the Ministers based on official representations they received from the academics over a period extending well beyond a decade.