Retired senior #lka civil servant Sunil Kannangara says rulers have not grabbed anything from him or others "මගෙන් හෝ සමකාලීන දන්නා කිසිවෙකුගෙන් රට හෝ පාලකයන් කිසිවක් උදුරාගෙන නැති බවත් ඒ වෙනුවට අපව ගොඩ නැගීමට රටේ ජනතාව මහත් සේ උපකාර කර ඇති බවත් පැහැදිලිය" theleader.lk/featured/26037…

School Shootings #guns

IMF අත්හරින්නෙ නෑ කියන්න ලේසියි. නමුත් අත්හැරීමට කටයුතු සලසා ගන්න එක තමයි AKD යටතේ සිද්ධ වෙන්නෙ. බදු අඩු කරලා, වියදම් වැඩි කරලා, ප්‍රාථමික ශේෂ ඉලක්ක සපුරාලන්න බැරි වුනාම වැඩ සටහන ඉවරයි. අතාත්වික DSA එකක් ඉදිරිපත් කරලා IMF ආකෘතිය ප්‍රතික්‍ෂේප කල විටත් ප්‍රතිපලය එයමයි.

The Delhi High Court will ask the government to block @wikipedia in India, Scroll.in reports. Wikipedia didn't comply with orders to disclose information about users who added factual descriptions of ANI news agency on the platform Full piece below scroll.in/latest/1072891…

In 2023, 15 years after the end of the war, #SriLanka spent LKR 469 billion (8% of total expenditure) on defence. It is among the 10 countries with the highest number of armed personnel per-capita in the world, with a ratio 2.5x higher than countries with similar peace rankings.

“India’s economic emergence has, however, not translated into stronger investment in sport, or more recreation. Expenditure on physical recreation has not been a priority for successive governments…” #Olympics2024 Why is India so bad at sport? ft.com/content/4d8e01… via @ft

Sri Lankan market too small for entrepreneurs, industrialists to survive: AKD. So much for self-sufficiency/production economy crowd. Education of the leaders is happening. dailymirror.lk/breaking-news/…

Listen to this because it captures Trump’s incoherence, not just his policy incoherence but also his intellectual and verbal incoherence. He promises an outcome but otherwise it’s babble. When Biden bungled answers, I called on him to drop out; the same applies to Trump.

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Pratap Bhanu Mehta in conversation with editor Kanishk Tharoor: foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/can-i…

සෑම වසරක ම වින්දිතයන් මිලියන 4ක් සමගින් සහ ගෝලීය ජනගහනයෙන් 99%කට බලපෑම් කරමින්, වායු දූෂණ‍ය මහජන සෞඛ්‍ය අර්බුදයක් ඇති කරන බව ඔබ දන්නවාද? bbc.in/3XCp30k

Cartoon by RCPradeep #PresPollSL #EconomicCrisisLK

I listened to the whole speech, it does not paint AKD/NPP in a better light. You don’t go to the North and tell them what they should do, and that too in a mildly intimidating way. NPP’s presence in the N&E was lacking. This will not help.

Seeing a spike in misconceptions about the left/right spectrum. One helpful tool in dispelling these myths is the "political compass": X axis = individualism / collectivism, Y axis = authoritarian / libertarian. Not a single one of these are fully accurate, but as with most...

"In contemporary times, politicians have redefined the personal vice of envy as a virtue, effectively exploiting susceptible populations through this manipulation..." #PresPollSL #PoliticsOfEnvy #PoliticsOfHate #lka

No link between mobile phones & brain cancer, says World Health Organization (WHO)-backed review of available published evidence worldwide. That applies even to people who make long phone calls or those who have used mobile phones for over a decade. Will fear-mongers ease up now? 🤔 reuters.com/business/healt…