By Namini Wijedasa/Sunday Times Colombo, December 24: President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in his capacity as Investment Promotion Minister, on Friday gazetted the initiative under the 2008 Strategic Development Projects Act (SDPA), stating that the aim was to turn the Colombo Port into a logistics hub for South Asia. The use of the SDPA goes contrary to […]

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By P.K.Balachandran/Ceylon Today Colombo, December 25: The Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA) chairman, Prof. S.R.D. Rosa told Daily Mirror on December 12, that his office had given the nod to the incorporation of nuclear power in the country’s energy mix. This is in line with President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s exhortation last year that Sri Lankans should seriously […]

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By Mawbima පාතාලය සහ මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරම්කරුවන් සමග සබඳතා පවත්වන දේශපාලඥයන් ‘යුක්තිය’ මෙහෙයුම හෑල්ලුවට පත්කරන කුහක ප්‍රකාශ නිකුත් කරන බව මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ටිරාන් අලස් පවසයි. ගල්කිස්ස පොලිස් කොට්ඨාසයේ ප්‍රජා පොලිස් කමිටු දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා හෝමාගම දියගම තාක්ෂණික විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ පැවති වැඩසටහනකට‍ එක්‌වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේ ය. එහිදී තවදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා; මීට වසර එකහමාරකට […]

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Prof. Desmond Mallikarachchi Courtesy The Daily Mirror For the pledged loan of 2.9 billion dollars to be granted, the IMF laid down a condition that two of our main profit-generating institutions namely, the insurance cooperation and the Sri Lanka Telecom (Inset) may need to be sold to private entrepreneurs in the open market ‘Colonialism has […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror We will operate an economy based on three pillars- production growth, economic expansion, and public participation We believe in a uniquely Sri Lankan economic model based on socialist principles It is important to bear in mind that Sri Lanka cannot develop disregarding its ties with India, the closest neighbour and the […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said even some religious leaders who maintain links with organized criminal gangs act with hypocrisy making remarks critical of the police crackdown on criminals. Addressing a function in Homagama, he said politicians also indulge in such acts to demoralize the police.  This is to distract the […]

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