Sri Lanka, March 27 -- Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya at the party leader's meeting

He has been appointed to this task possibly due to his experience in dealing with the massive rehabilitation drive in the immediate aftermath of the end of the war in May 2009. At that time, nearly 300,000 people were displaced from the north, and they had to be provided with food and shelter at welfare villages set up in the Menik Farm area in the Vavuniya District

As the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, engulfs the world with its cruel tentacles, governments all over are in a dilemma on how to best deal with it. It is a reasonable dilemma because no government in the world has dealt with a health crisis of this magnitude in recent hist...