KAMALIKA PIERIS Britain had two types of universities in the 1940s, the elite Oxbridge and the non-elite Redbrick. The elite universities, Oxford,  and Cambridge catered primarily to the aristocracy and rich upper class pupils who, after university   went  back to their estates or  to high powered  careers in  the public service. A limited number of […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror he Sri Lankan authorities continue negotiations with Russia on the provision of a loan to buy Russian fuel, Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardena said. “We can manage that crisis because previous months we were facing the crisis, but now we slowly recover from economic crisis and foreign exchange crisis. […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror The arrest of the Russian Aeroflot plane in Sri Lanka was a terrible mistake, the authorities promise that this will not happen again, Minister of Transport and Highways and Minister of Mass Media Bandula Gunawardena said on Saturday in an interview with Sputnik. “That was a big mistake, we apologize for […]

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Courtesy Adaderana September 17, 2022   07:28 pm Three institutions that were under the purview of the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies have been brought under the Ministry of Investment Promotion, through an Amended Gazette Extraordinary. Accordingly, the Board of Investment (BOI), the Export Development Board (EDB) and the Port City Commission which […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Acting Registrar of Pesticides, Mr. Lasantha Ratnaweera, says that the news published in two Sunday newspapers claiming that poisonous rice was imported to Sri Lanka, is completely false and baseless.  He said that no such research as claimed in the news article has been conducted by the Office of the Registrar of […]

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Sugath Kulatunga Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh- This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;” Merchant of Venice -Shakespeare. India came to support Sri Lanka in our moment of utter despair ravaged by a unprecedented economic and social crisis when no other nation responded to our plight, for […]

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Sudath Gunasekara  Mahanuwara 17.9.2022. Your serious attention is drawn to the following revelation by Dilrook Kannangara and thereafter my protest notes, that follows. I also wish that this issue be taken up immediately, by all Sinhala MPP in Parliament irrespective of their political alignments. No Sinhala MP who cannot do that should also immediately resign […]

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