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EDITORIALS

  • Jun- 2022 -
    1 June

    STATE OF THE NATION

    Sri Lanka seemed to be on the cusp of sweeping change recently when the unthinkable happened. The state – in the person and

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  • 1 June

    NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

    Public opinion against the government and its leadership took a turn for the worse with the economic crisis began to be felt since

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  • 1 June

    FOOD SECURITY

    Due to the rapidly rising cost of global commodities, and their direct and indirect impact on domestic prices, depreciation of the rupee

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  • May- 2022 -
    31 May

    REPRODUCTIVE TECH

    The UN has marked 1 June as ‘Global Day of Parents’ to honour mothers and fathers, and the sacrifices they make to raise and mould

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  • 31 May

    PHILIPPINES ELECTION

    The presumptive president-elect of the Philippines is the son of former President Ferdinand Marcos who was ousted by a people

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  • 5 May

    THE BIG PICTURE

    The hundreds of protests around our precious island in early April culminated in a poignant and peaceful show of strength during

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  • 5 May

    STATE OF THE NATION

    Sri Lanka has not seen anything like it. There were civil rights protests in the past and important cricket matches are often

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  • 5 May

    PEOPLE POWER

    In 2011, the world witnessed the rise of hundreds of thousands of protesters congregating in Tahrir Square in Egypt to dethrone their

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  • 5 May

    IMRAN KHAN OUSTER

    When Imran Khan was ousted as prime minister shortly after midnight on 10 April, he made history in Pakistan as the first premier to

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  • 3 May

    PRESS FREEDOM

    Before the French Revolution, France was divided into three estates of the realm – clergy, nobility and commoners. A few centuries

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