The Chinese company has escalated the conflict by sending a legal notice to the Lankan official at the National Plant Quarantine Services (NPQS), Additional Director W.A.R.T. Wickramaarachchi, who had issued the test reports.
The Letter of Demand seeking US$...
By P.K.Balachandran
Mahatma Gandhi is known the world over as the one who conceived and led India’s uniquely peaceful and pioneering struggle for freedom from British rule. But that he was a tireless environmental crusader and a “human ecologist” is...
By P.K.Balachandran
Gotabaya Rajapaksacame to power through the November 2019 Presidential election with a thumping majority. His party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna(SLPP), secured a two thirds majority in the August 2020 parliamentary elections. Peoplehad high hopes of rapid economic...
By P.K.Balachandran
While mature democracies, like those in the West, have accepted pluralism and devolution of power as part of their social and political evolution, new nations emerging from colonialism consider both pluralism and devolution of power as threats to...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, November 2: The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on “One Country, One Law”, Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera, has ruled out the inclusion of any Tamils in the PTF but has assured that they will be...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government is moving closer to giving effect to the September 2020 decision to ban cow slaughter. Given its political importance, a comprehensive and integrated law banning cow slaughter will be passed by...
By P.K.Balachandran
: Seven Indian States are due to have their Legislative Assembly elections in 2022. These elections are expected to give a foretaste of the political scenario in 2024, when the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be facing...
By P.K.Balachandran
Julie Chung, who is slated to take over as US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, will implement President Joe Biden’s key foreign policy thrusts, namely, a tough stand on China’s bid to spread its tentacles in Sri Lanka and...
On the face of it, the conditions imposed by the international community on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for recognition and for the release of US$ 9.5 billion seized funds appear to be reasonable from the humanitarian angle. With...
Colombo, October 16: Democracy had declined sharply across the globe in 2020, says the recently released 5th., Annual Democracy Report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The alarming report is titled:...
Afghanistan is one country in the world which seems destined not to savor independence, peace and prosperity. Currently, it is sinking further into poverty as rich nations, which can lift it out of poverty and destitution, are haggling with...
Also a common law for all by 2021 end
President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, on Sunday declared that he would present a new constitution to the country within the year 2022. He was Addressing the 72nd Army Day function at the Saliyapura...
