Monitoring the health of free ranging wild animals is one of the toughest challenges for conservationists and wildlife managers. If the animal is a highly mobile animal like the elephant, then, it is near impossible. Unless the animal had...
Sunday (17) marked the 23rd Anniversary of Sri Lanka winning the ICC Cricket World Cup. The architects of the country's biggest achievement in the sporting arena are all too known, but Neil Perera has remained an unsung hero. The...
Just over a year ago, social media faced a shut down in Sri Lanka. The action, enforced by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), came in the wake of the violence that erupted in Digana, in the Kandy district between...
Budget 2019 themed “Enterprise Sri Lanka – Empowering the People and Nurturing the Poor” envisages to promote a new form of private sector free from the protectionist mindset that can operate efficiently in a rule-based system within a competitive...
On the 12th of March 2019, after much delay, the Sri Lankan parliament finally approved the country’s budget. Sri Lanka, with its cash-starved economy had been hobbling along since last year’s constitutional crisis. Though there were threats from the...
Not only was New Zealand's taken-for-granted peace shattered but also popular theories about the evolution of history reduced to tatters when 'Lone Wolf' terrorist Brenton Tarrant opened fire on two New Zealand mosques a few days back and cold-bloodedly...
(The third in a series of articles on education related issues)
The Sri Lankan education system is not without merits. According to the World Bank collection of development indicators we have achieved universal primary education and gender parity, with...
World Bank’s (WB) 2016 April report, titled, “International Development Association (IDA) Project Appraisal Document on Ecosystem Conservation and Management Project”, serves as the official document with regard to the ongoing ESCAMP project that stipulates the development of certain selected...
The proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) is a global phenomenon, threatening the whole of the human race. Hardly any country has been able to neutralise this threat effectively. The Small Arms Survey (SAS), an international watchdog...
Never a dull moment in Sri Lanka! In a dramatic turn of events replete with irony, National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa has threatened to break ranks with Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa if the latter supports the JVP’s...
March 3rd marked the tenth anniversary of heavily armed gunmen opening fire on a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, Pakistan. Several policemen were killed in the attack, which left quite a few other law enforcement officers and members...
