By Chandre Dharmawardana chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca The title of this article, and some of the material are in what I wrote (The Island, May 6 th, 2013) when the then Rajapaksa government hiked the price of electricity on the May Day of 2013. A decade later, Wickremesinghe’s energy minister Wijesekera has increased the electricity tariffs, refusing to […]
By Daya Gamage Former US State Department Foreign Service National Political Specialist Activating the 13th Amendment and devolution of power – possibly with the merger of two provinces –seems to have returned to the national agenda with President Ranil Wickremasinghe taking a lead role. He undertook a similar endeavour as the prime minister in 2001-2004 […]
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years of president biden s term with a divided congress, the number of things that you can actually get across the finish line are limited. president biden, though we just receive see from the white house. excerpts from the speech. and in sort of an olive branch to your point that he will say to my republican friends. if we could work together in the last congress, there is no reason we can t work together in the new congress. we will see if that rings a bell tonight with the republicans that are in that day s okay. like as we were talking about extending that olive branch, but obviously a lot of time tonight, going to be focused on the economy, right? president biden expected to tell a number of things that he has done the bipartisan infrastructure law, the chips act, the inflation reduction act, but what we are seeing from the american people. despite the sort of large deposits into american infrastructure. are the fact that americans may not be feeling that we ve seen infl
Russian nuclear exports, if unaddressed, could overshadow thecurrent U.S.-North Korean nuclear weapons disagreement, derailU.S.-Russian relations, and destabilize the uneasy geopoliticalequilibrium in Eurasia.