නීති ඇති කිරීම හා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය
The much-argued bill for the revival of underperforming enterprises and underutilised assets passed its first reading by a majority of 76 — 122 for and 46 against, with two parties in the government abstaining. That shows there is no common agreement about this law even inside the government, and the vote against was well short too.
කරන්දෙණියේ ඝාතනයෙන් උගත හැකි පාඩම්
The savage killing of a doctor at Karandeniya, the social setting of the people involved in it, and the violent behaviour of the people of that area after the suspects were arrested, show the country several important faces of the crisis it is in.
ව්යාපාර පවරා ගැනීමේ පනත
Two newspapers, one Sinhala and one English, led on the report that the government is moving to legislate in haste an act for taking over failed private sector businesses. Not all the government’s own businesses are profitable, Ivan points out: if every business must be profitable, the government should bring all of its own to profit before it puts a hand on the private sector.
සාධාරණ බව පෙනෙන්නටද තිබිය යුතුය
The investigation into the tragedy arising from the clash between the member Duminda Silva and the president’s trade union adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra is a criminal investigation that puts the working of the law in Sri Lanka to the test. In a criminal case the working of the law begins with the police investigation.
දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය ශීලාචාර කරගැනීම
If the tragedy that came out of the unseemly clash at Kolonnawa between a government member and a former government member is not taken as the warning signal it is, and the changes that would bring the country’s deeply uncivilised political culture to a civilised place are not made without delay, the price the country will pay may be enormous.
කොළඹ නගර සභා මැතිවරණය හා වත්කම් බැරකම් නීතිය
The crafty and comical way the assets and liabilities law works at elections was shown again at the Colombo municipal poll. The law matters at an election because it gives voters the right to know the background of the candidates’ assets and liabilities — and they get that right only if candidates file their declarations with their nomination papers.
සමනළ වැව හා හම්බන්තොට වරාය
When giant development schemes are made by decisions taken on the political power of politicians alone, disregarding expert advice, the destruction a country can suffer is enormous. Some geologists, irrigation engineers and civil engineers had heavy criticisms of the accelerated Mahaweli scheme, and it was begun in disregard of them.
ප්රමිතිය නොසලකන ජාතියක්
What has come out about the great railway accident at Alawwa on the 17th shows that those responsible gave no thought to the standards that must be considered when trains are bought and put into use. We have heard of motor cars made with fibreglass; we had not heard of railway power sets made with it. A car carries very few people and a train carries thousands.
මර්වින් සිල්වාගේ ගව මස් තහනම
The minister of public relations and public affairs told the Lankadeepa that the sale of beef in the butchers’ shops of the Gampaha district would be banned from next week — that killing and eating an animal which does such great service to agriculture is a great sin, and that the ban is meant to set the country an example from Gampaha in protecting the cattle resource.
මාලබේ පෞද්ගලික වෛද්යවිද්යාල ප්රශ්නය
A new crisis in the health and medical field is coming onto the stage around the private medical college at Malabe. Opposing a private university outright is one extremism, Ivan writes; allowing, in the name of permitting private universities, a shop system that sells degrees of no proper standard is another.