‘The Government is striving to eliminate terrorism’

The Charges on bribery and corruption and the waste of public money levelled against the Government by Opposition parties were 'Just Claims' not with concrete evidence, Chief Government Whip and the Highways and Road Development Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle said.

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Kokila naade:

Why the Avurudu Koha sings these days

It seems we have got it all wrong about why the Avurudu Koha sings early in the mornings these days. He is not telling us that Avurudu is near and we must get about making the usual kavung and kokis. Oh no, he has other motives and interests.

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Bhutan after the polls

Bhutan must be a truly unique country, something more than an idyllic nest high on the Himalayas. At a time when foreign troops have to be sent to bring ‘democracy’ to defiant autocracies and dictatorships of various hues here is a tiny country where most people are still figuring out why their monarch wants to give them an unknown, untested and even unwanted commodity called ‘democracy’.

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