In a new Policy Brief from the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)’s Shahane de Silva outlines a governance-directed approach to addressing Sri Lanka’s continuing economic challenges. Ever since Sri ...

Open banking allows players to instantly deposit or withdraw money to and from their betting accounts without using their credit/ debit card details. The casino operator can instantly pay out the ...

The Batalanda Commission report which goes into details of what happened during the JVP insurrection of 1987-89 has become the centre of public attention. The controversy has long been a point of ...

Emerging world economic order. The emerging world economic order – now tagged as Trumporder after its initiator – has turned the economic policy package advocated by IMF and W ...

The tyranny of the hegemonic dollar lasting for more than half a century and provided the economic lubricant to the outreach of US imperialism has finally found in Trump a president who is prepared to ...

The Soul of a Nation. That a nation has a soul was introduced by Plato in the Republic, in which he stated that the state is infused with a soul that resembles the soul of an indi ...

Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Whether or not the world order is interested in Sri Lanka, the island country is in a fortuitously good place while other countries and polities are caught up in one way or another in the global waves ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar and statesman, said “A budget should be balance, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered ...

This dreaded collapse of class- a product of breed that teaches us etiquette, decorum and calmness of wisdom, and finesse and refined nuances of international diplomacy – might cause many more lives,, ...

There is an insightful saying with a touch of sarcasm and humour from ancient Tamil literature: “It is as though one listened to the entire Ramayana and then asked what the relationship between Rama ...

Lawyers Collective on the appointment of retired judges to positions in the public and private sectors. The appointment of retired judges, especially of the Superior Courts, to po ...