Submitted by zenno on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 06:07
Paper No. 5559 Dated 16-Sep-2013
By Dr. Kumar David
Leader of the Samasamja Party, Prof. Tissa Vitarana has since the IMF began to influence economic policy described it as a trend to neoliberalism.
Submitted by zenno on Tue, 09/03/2013 - 10:38
Paper No. 5554 Dated 03-Sept-2013
Guest Column by Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan
Though some diaries are written with publication in mind, the tendency is to think of them as being private. Ben Bavinck wrote his Sri Lanka diary in Dutch: see, Sarvan, online edition of the Sunday Leader, Colombo, 6 November 2011.
Submitted by zenno on Mon, 07/08/2013 - 05:17
Note No. 688 Dated 08-July-2013
By Col. R. Hariharan
President Mahinda Rajapaksa appears to have taken a pragmatic decision to go ahead with the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) election without tinkering with the 13th Amendment (13A).
Submitted by zenno on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 05:38
Note No. 687 Dated 28-Jun-2013
By Col. R. Hariharan
(This is an extract of answers to questions raised by webmedia in E-mail interview given to Confluence, a London Based Magazine.)
Q1. India has blown hot and cold over the Sri Lankan national question over the past several decades. Now there is 13A and the elections for a Northern Provincial government looming. Do you see the Manmohan government acting positive and decisively in this context?
Submitted by zenno on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 05:33
Paper No. 5518 Dated 28-Jun-2013
Guest Column by Dr. Kumar David
The political scene in Colombo has changed rapidly in the last two months. Actually it is not sudden, as I will explain at the end, but there has been a remarkable shift in the political domain. A regime which since the end of the civil war in May 2009 was strong, stable and popular has mutated fairly quickly into a regime of crisis.
Submitted by zenno on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 05:33
Note No. 685 Dated 26-Jun-2013
by Col. R. Hariharan
Indian Ministry of External Affairs took the unusual step of issuing a strong press statement cautioning Sri Lanka not to dilute the 13th Amendment (13A) at the end of a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation’s meetings with Indian leadership including the Prime Minister on June 19, 2013.
Submitted by zenno on Sun, 06/16/2013 - 06:12
Paper No. 5510 Dated 17-Jun-2013
Guest Coloumn: By Dr. Kumar David
The government successfully deflected attempts to move the Commonwealth Heads Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled for November out of Colombo, and secured promises of participation from UK’s Cameron and India’s Singh. This was a diplomatic success in the aftermath of the setback at the UN Human Rights meeting in Geneva in March.
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