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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Can the minority get out of their rut?
Managing a democracy in normal times is bad enough. Managing it in times of crises can be a horripilating nightmare. Choices have to be made between confronting imperatives demanding urgent and unpalatable decisions and the popular will that would invariably opt for the comfortable and the least painful way out. The choices available for the drivers steering the wheel of...
5 July, 2020 0
Human-elephant conflict continues
Post Covid-19 era gives the Government an opportunity to engage in sustainable development and introduce multi-cultural agriculture to ensure food sovereignty, and at the same time minimise the human-elephant conflict, environmentalist from the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform, Sajeewa Chamikara said. The authorities attempted to resolve the human-elephant...
5 July, 2020 0
Pic by Rukmal Gamage
Managing the media on the road to Nanthikadal
Part II
While it was imperative to address the damage being done to Sri Lanka’s reputation and the international credibility of the Government by incorrect and unsubstantiated reporting, in parallel, it was also considered important to strengthen the belief that Sri Lanka was a democracy, in fact the oldest democracy in Asia, where elections were held regularly both at national...
5 July, 2020 0
Drug smuggling ring
No leniency for PNB officers - DIG Ajith Rohana
The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) was set up in 1973 to combat the rising drug trade in the country. Its vision ‘Towards freeing society from the scourge of drugs’ meant business for the body mandated to root out the menace from the land. PNB officers being escorted However, after almost five decades and many successful drug busts its reputation has been ruined following...
5 July, 2020 0

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Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara:
A true warrior of mother Lanka
Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara is a true warrior of mother Lanka, not only because he fought the barbaric LTTE terrorists for 30...
Heritage of Deshiya Chikitsa
The 2015 SAARC Cultural Centre publication titled Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions of South Asia, where...
Inadequacy of houses
A challenging issue
‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’, one of the most discussed psychological theories in the world, describes housing as a basic...
Newly formed Engineering Council, Sri Lanka:
Will it be fair and independent?
The Engineering Council Sri Lanka (ECSL) Act was rushed through and passed in Parliament without consulting all the stakeholders...
The importance of HRM in higher education
Human Resource Management (HRM or HR) in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) is not a topic discussed much in business and or...

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