Dr Sudath Gunasekara As it is not clear whether this 12 hrs decision is meant for both the public sector and the private sector, I limit this discussion only to the public sector. At present, keeping with universally accepted international labour laws in almost all countries the 8-hour working day rule has come to satay […]

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Dilrook Kannangara Dismal performance of Sri Lankan cricketers in Asia Cup 2023 and ICC CW 2023 can be attributed to many things. However, what is most intriguing is the bizarre circumstances they have put themselves in. Getting all out for 50 odd runs in both last encounters with India is a very strange fluke as […]

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Dheshamaanya Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Ex-Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayaka and President Mahanuwara Sinhala Baudhdha Jesta Purawesiyange  Sanvidhanaya. EELAM concept is a vicious colonial invention of the West to entice the Tamils in Sri Lanka to destroy the only Sinhala Buddhist nation on this planet, to realize their long term strategic and geopolitical goals in […]

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Vijay Prasad From 9 to 15 October, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions met on African soil was in 1973, when the IMF-World Bank meeting was held in Nairobi (Kenya). Kenya’s then President Jomo Kenyatta (1897–1978) […]

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Sugath Kulatunga. Cricket has today become virtually the national game of Sri Lanka. It is played in different forms of hard ball to soft ball games in the urban playgrounds and in the village fields. It is watched and enjoyed by spectators of all ages and means. The brilliant performance of our women’s team has […]

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By Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – There is a slight increase in the roaming of the highly poisonous fish species called ‘Gonmaha-Stone Fish’ in the sea areas these days with the changing of the monsoon, Parasitology Department Senior Lecturer Dr. Janaka Ruben said. He told the media that even […]

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Manusha Media සීනි බද්ද වෙනස්වන බවට තොරතුරු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමටත් පෙරම ව්‍යාපාරිකයින් අතට පත්වූයේ කෙසේ දැයි ප්‍රශ්ණ කර සිටින බවත්, බදු සංශෝධනය පිළිබඳ දැන සිටියේ රේගු නිලධාරීන් බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනූෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසීය. සීනි බදු වැඩි කිරීම ගැන දැන සිටියේ කවුරුන්ද. කිසිවෙක් මේ පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු එළියට ලබා දුන්නේද යන්න පිළිබඳ […]

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Courtesy The Times of Israel After working in Israel for a decade with families who considered her one of their own, she was murdered in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 Anula Ratnayaka (Facebook) Anula Ratnayaka, 49, spent 10 years as a caregiver in Israel before she was murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 […]

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