Outbreak of Covid 19 has caused adverse impact on liquidity
The Monetary Board has imposed restrictions on discretionary payments of commercial banks after having considered the adverse impact on liquidity and other key indicators caused due to the outbreak of...
From climate change to China to ending the forever wars, here are 10 of the biggest challenges facing the Biden foreign-policy team as it takes office.
BY ROBBIE GRAMER, AMY MACKINNON, JACK DETSCH, CHRISTINA LU
This article is part of Foreign...
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The issue of Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm comes up for discussion.Indian tourist bubble another area which officials broached.
Indian external affairs minister S. Jaishankar’s three-day visit to Sri Lanka which concluded last Thursday could see...
Wars are horrible affairs but once the hostilities have commenced they are also periods of intense technological innovation. World War One saw the invention of tanks, the rapid development of aeroplanes and, for the first time, the utilisation of...
Read excerpts of CounterPoint’s exclusive interview with former CEO of SriLankan Airlines, Suren Ratwatte, as he weighs in where Sri Lanka’s national carrier is headed.
Q. What kind of restructuring should UL adopt and what kind of strategy should UL...
Heavily unionized and long used as a playpen by politicians, the SriLankan Airlines Group has incurred a loss amounting to billions in rupees. Years of high costs and low revenues have been aggravated by the ongoing global pandemic.
In an...
The proposed 20th Amendment is full of controversial provisions which have caused the government to draw heavy fire. They have been discussed at length before the Supreme Court and at other fora, and it is now evident that President...
How has the threats to Sri Lanka changed after end of the war in May 2009?
When war ended and peace returned to Sri Lanka in May 2009, the ideological and operational threats to Sri Lanka originated mostly from overseas....
The airline industry is just 100 years old. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines founded in 1919 is a claimant for the crown of the ‘oldest’, but it ceased operations for a few years in the 1940s during the Second World...
A decade of appeasement had only helped the Muslim League gain greater legitimacy. When the Second Round Table Conference came in September 1931, the League leadership played an even more divisive role.
Jinnah and the Aga Khan were present in...
When strategy became policy at Lucknow in 1916, and the Khilafat and Moplah lay bare the slide of the Congress, many leaders were genuinely worried. They realised that the appeasement policies of the Congress were helping the League in...
The Khilafat misadventure was not without consequences. It had set a trend, both in the Congress as well as the League. For the League, it was more demands, and for the Congress, more capitulation.
Moplah Rebellion:
The Khilafat movement had led to massive...
