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The NPP government having their November memorials for those dead during the JVP insurrections, yet not applying the same standard when it comes to the North and East, is very telling about how even the supposedly 'progressive', actually aren't.
CCTV footage shows police officers removing a statue of Rasaiah Parthipan, better known as Thileepan, from a memorial site in Nallur, Jaffna, in the early hours of Sunday (27).
Thileepan was a member of the LTTE who died in 1987 after a hunger strike over a series of demands.
The statue was removed a day after commemorations marking the 39th anniversary of his death concluded at the site. Police have yet to publicly state the reason or legal basis for the removal.
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Disappointment for those who thought the govt would actually get rid of para tariffs. Expected revenue from SCL goes up; PAL and import cess decline but not to zero by 2029 as promised elsewhere. No help with housing costs and none with imported food.
The spending plan for 2027 puts the government in a strange place of trying to centrally plan a free market environment for some sectors while hiring more people to reduce the amount of red tape.
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Remembering Professor M.S. Swaminathan - a pioneering Indian scientist whose contribution to agriculture, food security and rice research extended beyond India, including to Sri Lanka. Those in Colombo are encouraged to join this conversation on his remarkable life and enduring legacy. 📅 16 November | 🕟 4.30 p.m. | 📍 Lighthouse Auditorium, Colombo 👇
Old Blueprints on New Guardrails: Historical Tension in the 2027 Budget Speech thersq.org/article/budget-sp…
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හෙට ඉඳන් පොලීසිය හිරු එකේ camera crew එක ලඟ තියාගෙන බස් වල ලයිට් ගලවයි.
#GPSOurBuses
Update : මිහින්තලේ රඹෑව ප්රදේශයේදී ලංගම බස් රථ 2 ක් සහ පෞද්ගලික බස් රථයක් ගැටී සිදු වූ අනතුරෙන් 5 දෙනෙකු මරුට. 40 අධික පිරිසකට තුවාල. - පොලිස් මාධ්ය ප්රකාශක
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Ooft.
The @CBSL barred the Ernst & Young partners who audited NDB from auditing any commercial bank in Sri Lanka. They had failed to flag the Rs13b fraud. Former EY country manager and senior partner Duminda Hulangamuwa is now an adviser to @anuradisanayake
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The President's Fund should be scrapped. This is something that could be done through the hospital system, direct. Same with paying for medical costs.
The State should not be subsidising the private healthcare industry. Reduce tariffs if you want the health sector to thrive.
458 Ruhuna University students receive free spectacles under President’s Fund programme ift.tt/gBHVj2z
A breakdown by @thersq shows good intentions, marred by lack of confidence to implement, worsended by removing financial discipline safeguards in a budget that is also illegal (under the Public Finance Management Act).
Main theme: "We're not sure if we can spend all that money".
President @anuradisanayake will present his third budget Thursday, 12 October. This is RSQ's detailed analysis of what's in store, seeming policy priorities, and substantive legal changes on how the Rs ~10tn is planned on being spent.
More than half of it is discretionary.
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That's not the role of the Prime Minister nor her Cabinet portfolio. Her job is to have a heartbeat if the President dies or resigns, and to cover her portfolio which is education.
Factories then invest in laser cutters and sewing robots, and eventually move to full automation. Labour is paid for only till it's cheaper than automata. For window knockers it was alarm clocks, for developers it was generative AI, for labour it is robots.
Government's budget speech is next week. This primer by @thersq explains how the laws around the budget works, the oddities, limitations, and will prep you to understand what's coming. A free subscription on RSQ allows several paid-articles each month.
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All rice is sticky rice when I cook.
Rs. 280 import tax applies only to Jasmine and sticky rice : Minister clarifies
Full Story: newswire.lk/i6x2
October narcotics seizures had a total estimated street value of Rs 15.8 bn (this figure excludes transit seizures): made up of 443.4kg of heroin, 244kg of crystal methamphetamine (ice) and 5.125kg of cocaine. Read the full October report at @thersq: thersq.org/article/narcotics…
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Bulk Class I narcotics (heroin & methamphetamine) remain dominated by maritime mother-vessel transfers off the southern and western coastlines (Thalalla, Weligama, Ahungalla), requiring heavy multi-agency naval and coast guard offshore interception.
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High-margin synthetic substances (ecstasy, cocaine and 'premium' kush) are increasingly routed through commercial aviation (BIA) and express airmail parcels (CME), originating directly from Western Europe (Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam) and Southeast Asia (Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City). Sri Lanka is increasingly targeted both as an affluent domestic consumer market for party drugs and as an air-transit node toward South Asia.
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"I'll only hit you twice instead of three times ".
President ready to reduce detention period from 72 to 48 hours under proposed organised crime law
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says the government is prepared to amend the proposed Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill following concerns raised before the Supreme Court.
He said the government is willing to reduce the detention period from 72 hours to 48 hours and remove provisions relating to the identification of organised criminal groups if they are unnecessary in Sri Lanka.
“We are ready to listen,” the President said.
