Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka Pakistan’s economy is on the brink of bankruptcy like Sri Lanka’s. Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen below $3 billion. They have asked the IMF for a ‘bailout loan’ a long time ago, but the IMF is trying to impose strict conditions that Pakistan’s current ruling coalition […]

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By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers Political System The political system in Sri Lanka (SL) is in chaos. The prime factors, for this, are the fundamental, innate mindset of Buddhism, racism, jealousy, avidity, the shortfall in perception, non-flexibility, incapability […]

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Senaka Weeraratna Had the Roman Empire under Constantine embraced Buddhism rather than Christianity we would have had a more peaceful Europe and a more peaceful world. Historically speaking despite all the rhetoric on Peace and Human Rights, Europe remains the same. The biggest battlefield in history compared to other continents. The track record of Europe is […]

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 Lanka Lead News 13 වන ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ගන්නා උත්සාහය සම්බන්ධයෙන් උතුරේ පීඩිත ජනයා දක්වන අදහස් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ලංකා ලීඩ් වෙබ් අඩවිය යාපනය සිවිල් ජනතා සංවිධානයේ කැඳවුම් කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්තන් මහතා ගෙන් කළ විමසීමකදී ඔහු මෙමගින් උතුරේ සිදුවන සැබෑ අර්බුදය පැහැදිලි කළේය. එහිදී ඔහු අදහස් දක්වමින්, මට තිබෙන ප්‍රශ්නය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ වැනි […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror While stressing that the date for the Local Government (LG) polls remain in the hands of the Treasury, the Election Commission (EC) ruled out yesterday the possibility of holding the election before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year which falls in mid-April. EC Chairman, Nimal G Punchihewa told Daily Mirror that […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen on Sunday said they fiercely oppose” the government’s plan to issue licenses to Indian fishermen to enter Sri Lankan waters, terming the move a serious setback” to their nearly 15-year-long struggle. On February 22, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told Parliament that authorities were looking into possibly issuing licences to […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) has facilitated 11,926 international tourists in February 2023, says the Airport and Aviation Services Pvt. Ltd. of Sri Lanka (AASL). While Sri Lanka’s tourism industry has recorded 107,639 international tourist arrivals in the month of February 2023 with a growth of 11.5% compared to the month of February […]

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