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Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Public Security website was reportedly hacked this week, after a Google search for the website displayed explicit and pornographic terms, in an embarrassing incident for the government body.   The incident, which occurred on Thursday, saw sections of the ministry’s website that were meant to host official government information, including details about senior…

Rajapaksa's alternative reality

The Sri Lankan government is  apparently abandoning the garment sector if press reports over the weekend are to be believed. Given that the EU has withdrawn its GSP+ concession and the US is investigating its version of GSP, this is perhaps just the government accepting that garments are going to be hard to sell if the country's human rights record is not improved.

TNA's well-meaning folly

The TNA is undermining the Tamil nation's calls for an independent inquiry