by Rajan Philips in The Island, Nov 12, 2023President Wickremesinghe’s political days are numbered in more ways than one. There are virtually none left for Mahinda Rajapaksa. The oldest of them, R. Sampanthan, is under pressure to formally retire. Vasudeva Nanayakkara has not been heard in a while, but he too belongs to the cohort of politicians who entered parliament in 1970 or 1977. They respectively came from Colombo, Hambantota, Galle/Kiriella and Trincomalee, and belonged…
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by Sahan Tennekoon in The Daily Morning, Oct 30, 2023National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) yesterday (29) confirmed that the Sri Lankan Government will have access to, and ownership of, data collected by the research conducted with the controversial Chinese geophysical and seismic scientific research vessel Shi Yan–6. Following the Chinese vessel being authorised by the Government to jointly survey the island’s “western waters”, NARA is to launch a two-day survey on the…