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“Who takes responsibility for the destruction of over 70 MPs’ houses, 600 other properties?” By Shamindra Ferdinando General Secretary of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Sagara Kariyawasam, MP, yesterday (23) said that there should be no holds barred investigation into violence in the run-up to the May 09 incidents, at Galle Face, and […]
Officials of the National Water Supply and Drainage Board recently visited the Jaffna peninsula to inspect ongoing projects. The delegation included the Chairman of the Board, Nishantha Ranatunga, Deputy Chairman, Sanjiva Wijekoon, and General Manager, Engineer Thilina Wijetunga. The delegation focused on their primary project in the north to turn sea water to drinking water. […]
By Ifham Nizam The first Unit of the LakVijaya Coal Power Plant Complex, in Norochcholai, will be back in operation during the weekend after repairs, a senior electrical engineer of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) said yesterday. The plant’s first unit developed technical hiccups on 15 August, forcing the CEB to depend more on hydroelectricity […]
Cartoonist Jeffrey in The Island recently, without a single written word, succinctly depicted the latest international crisis Sri Lanka is caught in. His cartoon showed our island as an arecanut caught between the blades of a giraya labeled China and India. The Yuan Wang 5, a ballistic missile and satellite tracking Chinese ship, was then […]
By Anura Gunasekera All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership- J.K. Galbraith.Dr. M.M., through an inexplicable thought process, has seen it fit to classify my […]