EDITORIALS
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GOVERNANCE LACUNA
Constitutional change was the leitmotif of the government’s campaign for a two-thirds majority. But in the history of constitutional
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RELIGION IN NATIONALISM
“He’s against God. He’s against guns.” In only six words, US President Donald Trump made Democratic presidential
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FOREIGN REMITTANCES
FALLOUT FROM REPATRIATION Zulfath Saheed underscores the need to manage the post-COVID remittance decline The coronavirus pandemic is having a widespread impact on the economic front across the globe, leading…
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STATE OF THE NATION
The people’s appetite for more agency and less alienation in their own governance was tasted by the high electoral turnout
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SINO-INDIAN RIVALRY
China and India – two global giants jostling for supremacy in the region and beyond – share a complicated history
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VIRAL BLIND SPOT
Where was artificial intelligence when the novel coronavirus was lurking in the shadows in late December 2019
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COLD WAR BLUES
When the former US president Ronald Reagan demanded that his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev
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NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
A noteworthy and less positive feature of the recently concluded election was that none of the major
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THE BIG PICTURE
On a special edition of LMDtv on election day, President’s Counsel and former Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL)
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ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
Among the main reasons that prompted the electorate to vote for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was a hope that he’d bring change
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