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Budget 2023: mixed reactions Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya yesterday (14) said that the maiden Budget presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as the Finance Minister didn’t address the daunting challenges faced by the country in the wake of unprecedented post-independence economic crisis. Dr. Amarasuriya asserted that President Wickremesinghe had failed to respond to […]

Text and picture by PRIYAN DE SILVA   Executive Director of the Centre of Policy Alternatives (CPA)  Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu told journalists and Civil Society Activists at a workshop held in Kandy that China’s unwillingness to accept the proposed debt restructuring might deprive Sri Lanka of the US$ 2.9 billion credit facility, from the IMF. The staff-level agreement is to […]

Distribution to smallholder paddy farmers in four districts to commence this week The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over 780.1 MT of Urea procured through the UN Central Emergency Relief Fund (UN-CERF) to the Ministry of Agriculture today (15). 15,619 farmers cultivating paddy on landholdings of half an acre or...

Since the 1960s, lakhs have returned, hoping for a secure future in India. Instead, their lives and livelihoods are threatened by a convoluted 1969 land law.

‘Vestosis’ is a dreadful illness with a dismal prognosis for the sufferers and even a worse one for their service recipients. Existence of this malady amongst state sector officials was well known for decades but the inclusion of its diagnosis in the satirical medical nomenclature awaited the advent of my erudite friend and Consultant Psychiatrist, […]