How to mitigate landslides, floods and resulting devastations by rehabilitating and restoring the upper watersheds; A point of view.
Monday, December 26th, 2022Sudath Gunasekara Posted on May 31st, 2017
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Why Western Human Rights Reporting Is flawed and Untrustworthy
Monday, December 26th, 2022Sufian Siddique Dhaka Numerous western governments and west-funded NGOs produce reports on human rights conditions in countries all around the world. These reports typically share three characteristics: they identify developing nations as major human rights violators; present developed ones as the global defenders of those rights; and include nations that are strategic competitors or perceived as […]
More >Diplomats ‘melting nose’ in Bangladesh for how long?
Monday, December 26th, 2022Kamal Uddin Mazumder Researcher and Strategic affairs analyst.Dhaka, Bangladesh After the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, foreign diplomats’ noses in the country’s politics became shamefully public for the first time. What should the government do, how to do it – these instructions keep coming from abroad. With the evolution […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2022අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ආයෝජන ආකර්ශනය, අපනයන හා සංචාරක ව්‍යාපාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කෙරෙන නව්‍ය රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රිකභාවයක වැදගත්කම අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා අවධාරණය කරයි….. සාම්ප්‍රදායික රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික ක්‍රමය වෙනුවට ආර්ථික රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රිකභාවයට ලොව ප්‍රමුඛතාවය හිමිව ඇතැයි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පැවසීය. නව ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරුන් හා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා අතර අද (දෙසැ 26) අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ පැවැති විශේෂ සාකච්චාවකදී ඒ මහතා […]
More >Why Putin’s Winter Offensive Will Prompt US Entry Into the War
Monday, December 26th, 2022MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO’s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2022චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ පිරිමින්ගේ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම තුරන් වී යාම සහ ‘කාන්තාවන්ගේ සාරිය ගැලවීමේ’ දැඩි උවමනාව අනාදිමත් කාලයක සිට මේ රටේ සිංහල ජනයා වැදගත් අවස්ථාවකට ඇන්දේ ආර්ය සිංහල ඇඳුම සහ සාරියයි. එනම් පිරිමින් ජාතික ඇඳුමද ස්ත්‍රීන් සාරියද ඇන්දහ. උඩරට කතුන් ඔසරිය ඇන්දහ. නිවසේදී, පිරිමියා සරමද, කාන්තාව සාරියද ඇන්දහ. විවිධ කාලීන හේතු සහ ප්‍රායෝගික අවශ්‍යතා නිසා අද […]
More >What does ‘FULL IMPLEMENTATION of 13A’ mean?
Monday, December 26th, 2022by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The consensus at the recently concluded meeting of the Sri Lankan Party Leaders, chaired by the President, was for the Full Implementation of 13A” (the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka). However, none of the Party Leaders spelt out what precisely was meant by the phrase Full […]
More >Contract Farming Could Save Sri Lanka’s Tea Industry – Analysis
Monday, December 26th, 2022By P. K. Balachandran courtesy Eurasia Review High production costs, poor practices and low labor productivity call for a paradigm shift in the management system Sri Lanka’s tea industry is in crisis. The cost of production of the brew that cheers” is higher and labor productivity is lower in Sri Lanka as compared to other tea-producing […]
More >Prosecutors to reopen probe against Nagoya immigration officials over Sri Lankan’s death
Monday, December 26th, 2022Courtesy Mainichi Japan NAGOYA — The Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office’s decision not to indict 13 officials at a regional immigration bureau, including the bureau chief, over the death of a Sri Lankan woman was unjust, a citizens’ panel reviewing prosecutors’ judgments here announced on Dec. 26. In response to the Nagoya No. 1 Committee […]
More >Fuel consumption in Sri Lanka drops 50% in December
Monday, December 26th, 2022Courtesy Adaderana The fuel consumption in Sri Lanka has plunged by 50 per cent in the last months of 2022, compared to the first few months of the year, the state-owned fuel distributor Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said on Monday. The company said daily fuel consumption averaged 5,500 tonnes between December 2021 and February 2022 […]
More >Flights from Mattala to Russia will start tomorrow
Monday, December 26th, 2022Courtesy Hiru News Russian carrier, Red Wings will start charter flight operations to the Mattala International Airport twice a week, with effect from December 28, 2022
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