• Why 100 percent organic farming will not succeed and the example of Bhutan
• Chemical fertilizer ban will precipitate food shortages
• Agriculture experts urge government to rethink its decision on the ban
Two weeks ago farmers in the town...
Fridays were freaky during the Yahapalanagovernment. It became a day of both expectation and trepidation for the people. Former President Maithripala Sirisena was the trendsetter for the Friday feeling after he chose a Friday to oust his Prime Minister...
The government has become notorious for changing its mind. The continuous revocation of gazette notices and other guidelines is testimony to this. The latest casualties are the sticker system which was adopted to monitor travelers into the city when...
The devastation wreaked by the MV X-Press Pearl, which came to a fatal end in Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, is on its way to becoming the biggest man-made maritime disaster in Sri Lankan history. It has been preceded by...
• Delay in not ordering Covid vaccines will cost Sri Lanka millions extra
• Special commodity levy on essential food and on face masks
Sri Lanka has been one of the most vaccinated countries in the world since 1947. According...
• Actual number of Covid cases are three times the number of those detected
• Discernible divisions in government camp emerge
• Low key 12th anniversary of ending of war
Once a beacon in the fight against Covid today, Sri Lanka has...
More than one thousand Covid positive patients are at home without hospital beds and ambulances to transport them to hospital as Sri Lanka’s Covid crisis worsens. The President of the Public Health Inspectors Association UpulRohana said that cases are...
Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa told parliament last week that the government’s decision to bring vaccines which are not approved by the WHO to give to the people of Sri Lanka is a crime against humanity. ‘This is...
Opposition legislators have ripped apart the credentials and work of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapakse to look into alleged cases of political victimization. The recommendations, widely seen as an affront to the law and...
The second anniversary of the Easter Sundayattacks was marked with a two minute silence in the country. Two years on and there is still no sight of justice being delivered for the victims of the attacks who have become...
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The second anniversary of the Easter Sundayattacks was marked with a two minute silence in the country. Two years on and there is still no sight of justice being delivered for the victims of the attacks who have...
Sri Lankans have just finished a week long break for the Sinhala and Hindu New Year. Scenes of people thronging streets and shopping malls shoulder to shoulder as they prepared to celebrate the New Year drew frowns and predictions...
