Khurshid calls GL to discuss 13th Amendment Joint opposition protests intensify against govt President Mahinda Rajapaksa is now facing continuous headaches in the form of the possible re-entry into politics by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge and a joint opposition struggle against the government. All these issues haunted Rajapaksa last week with indications of them [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon The conventional belief was that the military at best should be confined to barracks or be on battlefields but after the much celebrated victory over terrorism the forces have not been demobilized as is usual in other countries or found civilian jobs but appear to move into civilian projects under the Ministry [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon Nawaz Sharif, the stocky 63-year-old businessman, performed the impossible last week by being elected for the third time a prime minister in a country where the political terrain is considered the roughest and most precarious in the entire world. He has withstood allegations of corruption amounting to billions of dollars and rupees, [...]
THE decision, last Tuesday, of a majority of rugby referees to boycott games involving Science College, no doubt, deals a harmful blow on the game’s development. A majority of the country’s top referees, including ‘internationals’ Dilroy Fernando and Nizam Jamaldeen, are signatories to the boycott; it’s a logical conclusion that the rest would follow – [...]
The proposal to issue the NIC in Tamil and Sinhala should have been implemented many moons ago. Nevertheless it will be of assistance to a large segment of people of all communities. A Tamil Officer functioning in any capacity will have occasions to refer to an NIC issued in Sinhala. Similarly, a Sinhalese Officer will [...]
Do you, perhaps, have something that’s bothering you which you can’t share with your friends and family? Write to auntypatto@gmail.com and she will answer in her no-nonsense style, just like one of your own aunties. Feel free to write in with a pseudonym if you’d like to remain anonymous. Dear Aunty Pat, My boyfriend has [...]
Opposition forces gear for combined struggle Hakeem’s integrity at stake Most astrologers believe that leaving the country for a short time would help overcome the bad period one is experiencing due to the ill-positioned planets. Whenever a bad period is reaching its peak, most astrologers advice their clients to undertake overseas trips. What with the [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon We were wondering on a windy May morning in our hansiputuwa in our Isstoppuwa about the name of our country: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Is it democratic? We wondered. Some loyalists of the ruling party would of course agree. Could there be a government more democratic than this? So far [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon The two year Syrian conflict which is estimated to have cost 70,000 lives so far, displaced tens of thousands of Syrians internally and sent thousands across its borders to neighbouring countries as refugees, threatened to engulf the Middle East into a regional conflict last week with Israel, Iran and the Hezbollah that [...]
SRI Lanka tennis’s successful defence of itsGroup Two Davis Cup status might be an old story, but the SLTA’s elation yet lingerson. Last week, nearly a month after the success, tennis officials threw a party felicitating the team that overcame hosts Lebanon in early April,so ensuring the country remained on ITF’s Group 2 list for [...]
