Frontline – July 05, 2019

ANINDIAN HOTELPROJECTcomingupin GalleFace, Colombo.(Left)Anempty restaurantat a hotelin Hikkaduwa.Thetown,in thesouthwest,usedto ...

anceof tradeto thecountry’seconomy. Oneof hisfirst requeststo headsof missions in Colombowasto consider withdrawing the travelad ...

SRI LANKA MUSLIM Congress (SLMC) leaderand formerMinisterof CityPlanning, WaterSupplyandHigher Educa- tionRauffHakeemhasa track ...

It is happening. A varietyof sideshowsaregoingonin anattempttoonce againinstigateviolence—ithas already happenedin Kurunegala[at ...

wherewe needto insistthathate speeches andthe cul- tureof impunitybe checked.If thereis eventhe slightest feelingof a pervadingc ...

COVER STORY THEMALDIVES ANDSRILANKAWERETHE twocountriesPrimeMinisterNarendra Modi chose to visitafterhis sweepingvictoryin the g ...

independent foreignpolicy.Thepreviousgovernmentin the Maldives headedby Abdullah Yameenhad a strained relationshipwithIndia.TheM ...

maritimearena,especiallyin Sri Lanka. Indiannaval shipsrecently participated in a militaryexercisein the SouthChina Sea alongsid ...

THE ECONOMY IN no branch of knowledgedo academics enjoyas muchclout as in thedisciplineof economics.And, economists whoare in cl ...

statisticians, including theformer ChiefStatisticianPronabSen,have justified with some merittheargu- mentthatan emphasis on valu ...

Governor, Raghuram Rajan, ap- peared unconvinced. Fundament- ally,sceptics wereunconvincedthat theIndian economywasclipping alon ...

FREEDOMOF EXPRESSION THEre-electionof the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Demo- craticAlliance at the Centrehasfur- thernarr ...

jurisdictional magistrateremanded Kanojia to custody for 14 daysfor his socialmediapostsandtweets.“We are notinclined to sit bac ...

gistrate,warranting Kanojia’sarrest. Whenthepolicerealised that Section 66 wasinapplicablein this case,theyinvokedSection67 of t ...

CRIME ONJune10, the DistrictandSes- sionsCourtof Pathankot,Punjab, convicted six of the seven accusedin theKathuagang-rape case. ...

challengethetrialcourt’s order in theHighCourt. J.K.Chopra(Pun- jab),S.S.Basra(Punjab),Harminder Singh(Crime Branch, Jammu)and B ...

wereforcedto resignafterthe incid- entcausednational andinterna- tionaloutrage. Therupturepointcamewhen,on April9, lawyersin Kat ...

EDUCATION NATIONAL Democratic Alli- ance(NDA)governmentsheadedby theBharatiya JanataParty (BJP) havealwaystakeneducationseri- ou ...

educational and life-related out- comes,suchas higherincomes,and leadsto lowerratesof unemploy- mentandcrime.It canbe argued tha ...

between the artsandsciencestreams andbetween academicandvoca- tionaleducation. Whetherthisis meantforall schools,public and priv ...