On 20 January 2024, Minister of foreign affairs, Vijitha Herath publicly defended the actions of Himalee Arunatilaka, justifying under the purview of diplomatic privileges and demonstrating utter lack ...

A special note is when these schools that abuse their private status but have staff salaries from the state. Two such institutions are St. John’s College and the Nuffield School. These really are ...

These are temporary palliatives and not permanent cure to kill the viruses that brought this pandemic in the first place. Neither the banks nor the governments are seriously interested in discussing ...

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Sri Lanka has little discrimination when it comes to allowing foreign nationals in, be it as tourists or investors. Since there’s no screening of any kind, the country is Open Sesame for any criminal, ...

Sri Lanka has been under the influence of neoliberal, open economic policies and authoritarian political tendencies over several decades, followed by political populism in the recent past. As is well ...

The lead pair of Santa’s Reindeer, will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and ...

The corporate world has long been shaped by principles like productivity, efficiency, profitability, and growth. Since World War II, these concepts, alongside the demand-supply equation, have defined ...

The manner in which the government is seeking to project the two visits that the president is to make is to call them economic investment-related visits. Indeed, both countries hold keys to Sri ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ~ Antonio Gramsci President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his Cabinet of Ministers seem to have settled in ...

Lee Kuan Yew’s Crusade against Corruption LKY adopted uncompromising standards and a principled approach to governance. Hallmarks of his policies comprised inter alia: providing top-flight public ...

Delivering his inaugural policy statement to parliament, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dealt mostly with the economy and in particular the IMF agreement. The problem he faces is that the former ...