President’s second term in office:

New era begins

President Mahinda Rajapaksa recorded a historical conquest by obtaining over 1.8 million votes from the second Presidential Election he faced. This was another historical landmark of the country,

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The Morning Inspection

Prison stories

A schoolboy prank landed me in a cell once. It happened in the year 1984. I had offered my opponent, Ishan Weerakoon, a draw even though I had a clear advantage in one of the rounds of the Sri Lanka Chess Nationals in order to partake of a mouth-watering deal at the Holiday Inn,

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Fourth Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD):

National policy to ensure welfare of migrant workers

Sri Lanka was amongst the first States that ratified the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their families, on March 11, 1996. Sri Lanka has ratified all core ILO conventions and endorsed the ILO Multilateral framework on Labour Migration which was the basis for the National Policy on Migration,

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