Posted on March 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
MEP government brought in
Capital Punishment Act No 20 of 1958,
which suspended the death penalty from May 1958.
Voting age at general election was
brought down to 18 years from 21 years.
Elections Amendment Act No, 11 of
1959.
May
Day was declared a holiday in Sri Lanka in 1956 for the Government
sector, bank and mercantile sectors.
A brand new
A
National Planning Council was formed it. This was a first for the
country. This Council brought out Ceylon’s first Ten Year Plan for 1959-68. This
Plan was prepared after consultation with economists such as Joan
Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Gunnar Myrdal. It was a
Professor Rehman Sobhan turns 86 today. Born in Kolkata into an illustrious family, with connections to the Nawab family of Dhaka from his mother s side and a reputed Murshidabad family from his father s side, Sobhan had no business to be a champion of the poor and the downtrodden. His father was trained at Sandhurst and held a senior post at the Police Department in Kolkata, yet in his maturity Rehman Sobhan stood firmly on the side of the oppressed.
Educated at St. Paul s at Darjeeling, where he divided his time between sports and debate excelling in both, it is hard to believe now that once he was a long-distance runner. After finishing college at the Aitchison College, Lahore, he went to Cambridge University where he studied with Joan Robinson and others on the left, who shaped his intellectual orientation. His circle of friends at Cambridge included Amartya Sen, Mahbubul Haque, and Manmohan Singh. Sobhan was elected the president of Majlish, the South Asian students associatio
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Thereâs No Logic In Delaying Induction Of Private Parties And Making Covid Vaccines Available For A Price
by R Jagannathan - Feb 22, 2021 06:07 AM
Faster vaccine rollout needed.
We cannot allow the best laid plans of
babus, mice and men to constrain our fight to roll out the vaccine faster than we had earlier thought was needed.
We have to induct the private sector, and also start pricing the vaccine for those who can afford it.
âWhen the facts change, I change my mind â and what do you, Sir?â
The authenticity of the above quote, attributed at various times to John Maynard Keynes, Winston Churchill, Paul Samuelson and even Joan Robinson, is not material. But it contains a huge truth in a situation where facts on the ground change dramatically from month to month, if not week to week, in dealing with the Covid pandemic.
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