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  Sophisticated response to terror attacks needed

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on April 30, 2019

  SRI Lanka ended its first week after coordinated terror attacks on six locations left more than 250 dead and 500 injured without any further attacks....

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  Sri Lanka doesn’t need to remain tied to past

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 07, 2019

  SRI Lanka enters its 71st year of independence with political uncertainty in the air. The only certainty is that 2019 will be a year of...

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  Lanka president needs to limit opposition in govt

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on January 30, 2019

  THE issue of the leader of the opposition’s position once again came to the fore when it was brought up in the parliament last week...

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  Lanka govt must not deny TNA

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on January 02, 2019

  THE dispute over the position of the leader of the opposition is not attracting much attention. It is taken for granted by most people that...

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  Sirisena needs to be reached sooner rather than later

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on November 07, 2018

  EVEN as the political crisis continues to drag on the cost to the country is immense. This past weekend I was in Deniyaya to meet...

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  Continuing preference for 2015 Lanka reform agenda

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on September 26, 2018

  THE parliamentary committee headed by prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that was established to look into the provincial delimitation report has requested that they be given...

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  Lanka: all parties are wary of elections

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on August 29, 2018

  THE further postponement of provincial council elections will be necessary now that the report of the Delimitation Commission has been rejected in the parliament....

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  Catering to demand for a strong leader in Lanka

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:05am on August 07, 2018

  WITH the next presidential election due before the end of next year, and with a possibility that an early election might be called even by...

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  Losing faith in redemption

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:05am on July 17, 2018

  THE government has commenced launching its Gam Peraliya or rapid rural development programme and is also about to commence prosecutions under the fast track anti-corruption...

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  Cry behind provocative call for return of LTTE

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:05am on July 14, 2018

  JUST as in the south in the Sinhalese-majority areas where ethnic nationalism is being used for political advantage, a similar phenomenon is taking place in...