AFP report, September 11, 2023COLOMBO: Sri Lanka´s president announced an investigation on Sunday into allegations made by a British television documentary that his current spy chief was complicit in the country´s worst attack against civilians. Ranil Wickremesinghe said he was naming a retired Supreme Court judge to probe accusations that Suresh Sallay, the head of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), orchestrated the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. The documentary aired this week featured a political insider…
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By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, June 17, 2023The US Department of State on Thursday published its annual report on the situation of human trafficking around the world, in which Afghanistan is among the worst countries in human trafficking. According to the newly published report, millions of people are exploited every year by human trafficking groups. In the 2023 report of the US Department of State, Afghanistan and ten other countries are among the…
report in The Island, June 11, 2023Sri Lanka’s poor has surged by 4 million to 7 million since 2019 to 31 percent of the population in 2023, a survey has found as the country was hit by the worst currency crisis in the history of its central bank. A 10,000 person survey by LirneAsia, a regional policy research organization, found that 33 percent of the respondents had skipped a meal and 47 percent reduced their…
It is gross incompetence and mismanagement by central and provincial governments alike, even more than the glaring demand-supply imbalance, that is responsible for the worst wheat crisis in the county’s history. Every day hundreds of thousands of people queue up for hours on end to receive subsidised wheat and flour promised by the government, only to return empty handed as the price of staple food continues to break all records. Worse still, there are reports…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 15, 2023The Awami League has become its worst enemy because of rampant infighting at its grassroots, said leaders of the ruling party yesterday. Rifts between local leaders and activists are responsible for the party’s poor state, they told AL President Sheikh Hasina and requested her to do something to unite the local leaders and thus make the party more organised, insiders said. Rivalry in the party is the only…