Finance Minister Anil Jayantha Fernando presented an interim budget to Parliament today, which includes a significant increase in the government’s borrowing limit to Rs. 4,000 billion. This increase was proposed to cover
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Editorial Minister of Health and Media Nalinda Jayatissa, in parliament yesterday, asserted that “racism will not be allowed to rear its head” and the threat of new laws to combat it is
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Editorial Note: This column is based on remarks made by the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka during the Chinese Food Carnival held on 4 December 2024 at the China Cultural Center in
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In a candid reflection on a 2007 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has claimed that the Russian leader brought his black Labrador, Koni, to the meeting
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Sri Lanka is home to the world’s first female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, yet it remains a country with one of the lowest levels of female representation in parliament globally. Despite this,
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In the aftermath of the devastation left behind in the wake of unprecedented floods, Nigeriens are rebuilding their livelihoods and economy with the help of several relief measures instituted by the government
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A Nobel Peace Prize is an award given to people who have made outstanding contributions to humanity in various fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics and peace. A Bangladesh’s citizen
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing mounting calls for impeachment following his failed attempt to impose martial law, sparking the country’s worst constitutional crisis in decades. Opposition lawmakers, enraged by
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Dr. Ganeshan Wignarajah, in his capacity as an advisor to the Sri Lankan President, and member of the Geopolitical Cartographer board, as mentioned in the latest Indo-Pacific Defence Forum, dealt with the
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The CIVICUS Monitor announced in a new report Wednesday that the main civic space violations across the Asia-Pacific were the crackdown on protests and the criminalisation of human rights defenders. The report, People Power Under Attack 2024,
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