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Thought for the Day

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Women at the helm of Governments

In 1964 the first woman in the world to be elected as the Prime Minister of a country took place in the then Ceylon. This at once became the talk of the world. Little Ceylon, this little speck on the Indian Ocean, gave heart to the many in the Western world that a woman could be entrusted with the job of running a State.

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A personal vignette

The academic, professional and political achievements and career of the late Lalith Athulathmudali, who met with an untimely death in tragic circumstances, is too well-known and a matter of record for me to make any further useful contribution to it.

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Police investgations and Professional negligence

Establishing proximity generally involves examining factors such as the parties expectations, representations, reliance and property or other interests. There is sufficient proximity between police officers and a particularised suspect under investigation to recognize a prima facie duty of care.

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The role of the railway under Eastern Resurgence

Under the Negenahira Udanaya (Eastern Resurgence) the Government has proposed a mega development programme covering all aspects to bring relief to the people of all ethnic groups in the East. Improvements to the road network is a vital factor in the development programme.

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