President Rajapaksa a business friendly leader
Two years ago when Mahinda Rajapaksa contested
the presidential election the opposition said that he would not be a
business friendly leader. The Mahinda Chintana policy statement was
described as impractical. When the President completes his second
year in office as the executive president of the country having
presented the third Budget as the Finance Minister the whole
thinking has changed.
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Military in a dilemma
Protecting the territory under the Security
Forces control in the Jaffna peninsula is a challenging one. They
have to throw a cordon around two fronts in their endeavour one to
provide a better security network for more than 40,000 Security
Forces personnel and the other for the nearly a 500,000 civilian
population in the peninsula.
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Protecting rights of humans despite diversity
Towards a universal accessibility
Travelling in one of those sardine packed busses
during a steaming noon of yet another day I saw a remarkable young
woman - may be in her early twenties - standing just in front of me.
I was astounded for not seeing her at first.
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