Who is behind the new BBS offensive?

The most pertinent question at this juncture is the reason why the BBS and Ven. Gnanasara Thera have got involved in the murky Eknaligoda case. Authoritative sources from the Police Department disclosed that two suspects who had already been arrested in connection with the case – a Sergeant and a Corporal attached to the Army’s intelligence wing – gave statements a few weeks ago, revealing the name of an all-powerful official of the previous administration,

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Davos Forum, Sinha le and a monk remanded

This cat read the Sunday papers avidly – she means Sunday January 24 – to see how political columnists commented on Ranil Wickremasinghe’s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Menika was really overjoyed to see the country’s Prime Minister being welcomed as an invited participant at the Forum.

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With a prayer and an apology

Sri Lanka joins the global fight against ivory trading:

Conservationists’ slogan apart, by practice, only elephants should wear ivory, seemed to be the idea behind a special ceremony in Colombo last Tuesday (26) when a confiscated consignment of ivory was ceremonially crushed and later burnt.

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