by Chamikara Weerasinghe The government will open the re-developed Palmyrah Research Institute in Kaithady, Jaffna, soon. The institute became defunct from 1995 due to the war in the North. Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Ministry Secretary V Sivagnanasothi yesterday told the Daily News that they are ready to open a state-of-the-art palmyrah research facility [...]
Archive of entries posted on 18th June 2012
Katuwana incident is aimed at all political parties fighting for the people
by Karu Jayasuriya A situation is emerging in the country where, permission is needed from goons to engage in politics. It is well known that these gangs who suppress opposing political views using iron bars during the past era had the blessings of some politicians or politically powerful persons. Now these goons are so powerful [...]
Sequence of events relating to editorial crisis at ‘Ceylon Today’ newspaper
By Lalith Allahakkoon (This is the full text of a public statement issued to the media by Lalith Allahakkoon the Editor in Chief and Editorial Director of “Ceylon Today”about recent events that have caused an Editorial crisis in the English newspaper published in Colombo) 1. At around 7 p.m. on the night of Wednesday June [...]
