Why is this age worse than earlier ages?In a stupor of grief and dreadhave we not fingered the foulest woundsand left them unhealed by our hands?Russian poet- Anna AkhmatovaAftermath is the entirety of all consequences of a disastrous event. In the stupor of grief following Easter Sunday, it now seems that we have not ceased to finger our foulest wounds as the Russian poet observed in her poem written a...
The reinstatement of an army intelligence official...
Army Intelligence Major Prabath Bulathwatte has been back in the spotlight after Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake stunned civil society in a television interview last week, announcing that the officer, who was interdicted for allegedly running the white van squad responsible for a slew of attacks against journalists, had been reinstated into a team under Senanayake’s command to combat radical Islamic...
The Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year produced its first ever Cambrian who won the top award in Sahan Wijeratne who sported the crown in 2002 some 24 years after the inauguration of the event.The promising cricketer from Prince of Wales became the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year in 2002, the third in the new millennium after Kaushalya Weeraratne of Trinity College, Kandy in 2000 and...
* Maintains growth projection at 3.5%, * Says no immediate threat to Sri Lanka from trade wars
The Sri Lankan authorities have made progress to bring the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program, under the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on track, despite 2018 being a tough year and IMF commends the measures taken to improve security with a sustained effort by all parties to improve monetary, policy and market stability to achieve higher growth following the terrorist attacks, said IMF Mission Chief...
