දූෂණයට එරෙහිව හා තොරතුරු අයිතිය වෙනුවෙන් කරන සටනේ අවුල
India’s anti-corruption movement, and the satyagraha Anna Hazare carried out to bring the struggle to a logical end, finished by winning the object they had set — an independent anti-corruption institution under a public ombudsman. It has not been discussed enough in Sri Lanka, Ivan writes, and it can be counted the largest popular revolution in India since Gandhi’s.
ඉන්දියාවේ හසාරේගේ දූෂණ විරෝධී විප්ලවය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී තිබෙන අවුල
Discussing the non-violent struggle Anna Hazare is carrying on in India to win a new anti-corruption bill matters to us here too: through it we can understand not only India’s future but the real nature of the tangle Sri Lanka faces in the same field.
රෝගීන් ගසා කෑම
The health minister has ordered that laboratory tests for patients at government hospitals with laboratory facilities may not be sent out to private hospitals. If the decision was taken with all the other problems it may create in mind, it can be called a very important step for the health service.
පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ බලය සීමා කර ගැනීම
When the JVP member Anura Kumara Dissanayake tried to make a statement in parliament about the hedging agreement, the government whip’s objection turned it into a point of order for the Speaker to rule on. Ivan answers it with a precedent: the debate in the State Council, at the end of 1938 or the beginning of 1939, over a worker named Govinda shot dead by police during a strike at Mul Oya estate in Hewaheta.
හෙජින් විනාශයට වගකිවයුත්තේ කවුද?
The British commercial high court has ruled that the Petroleum Corporation must pay Standard Chartered the 162 million dollars due under the hedging agreement, with interest. The bank went to that court rather than to an arbitration panel, probably meaning the judgment to affect the other banks party to the agreement as well.
විදේශ ආයෝජකයන්ට ඉඩම් විකිණීම හා සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය
The Sunday Times has reported that the government intends to sell the 500-acre island being built in the sea off Galle Face to a Chinese investor for 700 million dollars, and that it means to remove the 100 per cent tax now charged when land is sold to foreign investors and to replace the 99-year lease with outright sale.
අනතරු ඇඟවීමේ නලාව නාදවීම
The threat to the fish market from the extortionists was overcome by a policy of using force against them to the maximum, and for that problem the approach was right — the fish traders approved it and so did the public. The article then asks what happens when the same reflex is applied to everything else.
කප්පම් සංස්කෘතිය
After the government decided to move the St John’s fish market and the Manning market out of Pettah, an alternative wholesale fish market was built at Peliyagoda — and while traders were complaining that not all of them had been given stalls in it, an organised business of taking protection money from the fish traders at the new market was reported.
මැතිවරණ සංස්කෘතිය
A pradeshiya sabha election is the lowest of the four tiers at which elections are held, and looking at what the candidates spend on campaigning it might be a parliamentary election. The public had the same unpleasant experience at the last provincial council poll: the salary of a provincial member is not large, and candidates who spent three or four hundred million were among those contesting.
මහජන සෞඛ්ය සේවා-ශක්තිය හා සීමාසහිතකම්
Public health has always interested Ivan, and what made him write this was not that interest but a personal reason: a blood test done for an illness of his wife’s, an ESR eight times the normal level, and the run of investigations the doctors had to send her through to find out why. The article is what he saw of the service from the inside, set out in four parts.