Finally, it dawned on me why they call Mihin Lanka a “budget airline”. From LBO:Sept 11, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka’s troubled state-run budget carrier Mihin Air is to ask for another three billion rupees in peoples’ money in the next budget to revive oper…

For the past few years, despite high inflation, despite the war, there’s one statistic that the government had been harping about — Sri Lanka’s GDP growth has managed to hover at around 7%.Writing for her regular column in the DM Financial Times, Anil…

Well, at least that’s what this should amount to. The government has made it a requirement for ‘people of the north’ to get special permission from the police to go to any place in the ’south’.Here’s a Sunday Times report, Civilians in the no…

It seems the Pillayan group(TMVP) a break away (still-armed) group of the Karuna faction a break away faction of the LTTE, who contested under the government’s election symbol and patronage seems to have won the elections in the Eastern province after…

..Has been grounded until further notice. Now, His Excellency is trying to fly on his own. Budget-airline no.

Today the Sri Lankan government announced price controls on rice. From the Daily Mirror:The government in a move to control the escalating prices of locally produced rice imposed maximum wholesale and retail prices from midnight yesterday. A gazette no…

This is what a Sri Lankan Government official had to say about not including alcohol and tobacco from the new consumer price index:Sri Lanka’s statistics officials said alcohol and tobacco had been dropped from the index because of a government policy …

This is what a Sri Lankan Government official had to say about not including alcohol and tobacco from the new consumer price index:Sri Lanka’s statistics officials said alcohol and tobacco had been dropped from the index because of a government policy …