Several institutions have been summoned before the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) a spokesperson for the watchdog committee said. Among these are the institutions which were scheduled to be summoned during the first session of the ninth Parliament. Accordingly, the Geological Survey & Mines Bureau (GSMB) will be summoned before the COPE Committee on February […]
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) and the Professionals’ National Front (PNF) yesterday condemned the proposal to hand over the Kantale Sugar Factory and 21,000 hectares of land that belongs to it to a Singapore-based company. FSP Education Secretary, Pubudu Jayagoda said that the land would be leased for 30 years and that […]
Written submissions to Geneva: Sri Lanka will get an opportunity to respond to UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet impending written report to the 49th session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The former Chilean President Bachelet is scheduled to present her report on 28 Feb. The UNHRC will take it up […]
The Dutch made this waterway, and the locals called it Kapu Ella (the canal that was dug). That was centuries ago, during the sad years when the civilised ‘New World’ was playing musical chairs, in the poorer continents, to own the rest of the planet. We, too, had our share, from a powerful threesome, the […]
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