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Inside the Chamber - A temporary recess of Parliament - Prorogation
(Manthri.lk, 2024-01-24)This infographic provides the important facts about the prorogation, which is a temporary recess of the parliament that will not extend for more than 2 months. This infographic further highlights the history of prorogations ... -
Inside the Chamber - Anatomy of a Parliamentary Sitting
(Manthri.lk, 2024-01-19)This infographic provides insight about how a normal sitting day at Parliament is organized. The infographic also highlights how the sitting days are decided and duration for each sitting day. Then it provides information ... -
Inside the Chamber - Bills and Acts - What is the difference?
(Manthri.lk, 2024-01-31)This infographic is useful to understand the difference between a bill and an act. This explains how a bill; a proposed law becomes an act once it is successfully passed through all the stages of the legislative process. ... -
Inside the Chamber - No Confidence Motion
(Manthri.lk, 2024-03-06)This infographic offers insights into how no-confidence motions (NCMs) are conducted in parliament. It discusses the procedure, including the duties and composition of the Committee on Parliamentary Business, which determines ... -
Inside the Chamber - Secretary General of Parliament
(Manthri.lk, 2024-02-16)This infographic delves into the Secretary General (SG) of parliament, who is the chief executive officer responsible for the efficient functioning of parliament and its related activities. It further covers their role and ... -
Inside the Chamber - The legislative process: How do laws pass?
(Manthri.lk, 2024-02-02)This infographic provides insight into the legislative process in parliament, discussing the types of government bills presented to parliament, including how these bills undergo the first, second and third reading. The ... -
Inside the Chamber - The Mace - A Symbol of Authority
(Manthri.lk, 2024-01-17)This infographic provides insight into mace in parliament, which is the symbol of authority in the Chamber. The infographic explains about the origin and the importance of the mace. Further, the last slide of the infographic ... -
Inside the Chamber - The Throne Speech
(Manthri.lk, 2024-02-07)On February 7, 2024, the 5th session of the 9th parliament was ceremonially declared open by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He then presented the Statement of Government Policy, which was known as the “Throne Speech” in ... -
Inside the Chamber - What happens if parliament is prorogued?
(Manthri.lk, 2024-01-26)This infographic provides insight about the changes happen in the parliament after the prorogation. The infographic highlights what happens to certain positions, business and committees in the parliament after the prorogation. ... -
Inside the Chamber - What if a seat of a MP becomes vacant?
(Manthri.lk, 2024-02-09)This infographic provides insight into how parliament fills vacant seats. It delves into the possible situations whereby a seat becomes vacant, the process that governs the filling of such vacancies, including the instances ... -
Inside the Chamber - What's the Constitutional Council?
(Manthri.lk, 2024-03-01)This infographic delves into the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka (CC), a 10-member body established under the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that is tasked with making recommendations on key appointments such as ... -
Inside the Chamber - What’s a standing order?
(Manthri.lk, 2024-02-14)This infographic provides insight into Standing Orders of Parliament, which are considered to be the most important source of parliamentary procedure, which guides Parliament’s operations, debates and decision making. It ... -
Interest payments weigh heaviest in 2022!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-07-24)The central bank's annual report for 2022 reveals that interest payments have reached their highest level. This increase in interest payments suggests a significant debt burden on the government. The ratio of interest ... -
Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-03)The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering ... -
Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-03)24 expenditure proposals and 5 regulatory proposals were tracked in this assessment. Expenditure proposals refer to those proposals that involve capital expenditure by the government distributed across ministries etc. ... -
International Day of Democracy 2023
(Manthri.lk, 2023-09-15)The International Day of Democracy is celebrated, on September 15, providing an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. One way this is checked is through elections, as public participation in such ... -
International intervention: needed or not?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/18/2019)The entry contains writeups regarding international intervention to defeat terrorism after the Easter Sunday attacks. The entry also contains images of newspaper excerpts regarding the issue. Some Sinhala newspapers reported ... -
International involvement: To help or to meddle?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/28/2019)The entry contains writeups in all three languages on the views of the Sinhala and Tamil press on international intervention in Sri Lanka. The entry also includes 2 images of newspapers pertaining to the issue. -
International Women's Day
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-03-08)In Sri Lanka women are half as likely to enter the labour market, and twice as likely to be unemployed than men. 82% of the unemployment for women comes from between the ages of 20 and 40. This is almost seven times the ... -
International Women's Day: Ethical Reporting on women
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03-07)On International Women's Day, ethical guidelines were published on a post to create awareness on reporting on women.