2020-04-06 19:01:00
Former Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka Nivard Cabral at the center of many controversial transactions from Greek Bonds to Stocks using EPF money is now saying release of 20% of the EPF balances (amounting to around Rs.500 billion) from the fund of about Rs.2,500 billion to the Members themselves...
2020-04-06 15:54:00
On this day (05) forty nine years ago we left Vidyodaya University at about 4 am in the dawn and arrived at Fort Railway Station with eleven university students and 11 bags filled with 250 hand grenades...
2020-04-03 22:46:00
According to CNN, COVID-19 is now in 85 countries. This is despite four countries still accounting for 97% of COVID-19 cases...
2020-04-03 17:47:00
The island’s Muslim community has appealed to the government to reconsider its decision to cremate Muslim corona virus dead but to allow burial according to their religious rites...
2020-04-03 17:30:00
The world has been attacked by the most widely spread pandemic the world has ever experienced...
2020-04-03 11:28:00
Beijing is pushing to become a public health superpower—and quickly found a willing international partner...
2020-04-01 17:08:00
President gives unusually sombre press conference with projections taking physical distancing measures into account..
2020-04-01 08:36:00
China is facing a public relations catastrophe that is only likely to deepen, writes Sky’s diplomatic editor Dominic Waghorn...
2020-03-31 16:43:00
If I was the President of Sri Lanka, the following are the key steps I would take in the short to medium time -..
2020-03-31 10:36:00
Sigiriya (The Lion Mountain) is often considered to be the eighth wonders of the world and an ancient stone fortress used by a king of Sri Lanka as a site to build his palace and hide from attacks by his Enemy brother...
2020-03-31 09:52:00
As we come to the end of the ‘official quarantine’ period and begin to relax the ‘lock down’ within Sri Lanka but keeping the ‘international lock down’ in place, we need to look at how the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID -19 behaved in other countries...
2020-03-30 19:48:00
Nations are best tested in times of crisis. This is when our humanity should rise over self-interest and when all differences should be put aside...
2020-03-30 08:44:00
The Trump administration’s unprecedented indifference, even willful neglect, forced a catastrophic strategic surprise on to the American people...
2020-03-29 07:34:00
Sri Lanka is battling to control the coronavirus by getting the critical Government machinery into full gear to put an end to the crisis and has set an example in taking preventive measures to gain control over the epidemic...
2020-03-28 13:59:00
As policymakers around the world struggle to combat the rapidly escalating Covid-19 pandemic, they find themselves in uncharted territory...
2020-03-27 07:06:00
Humans don’t easily grasp the concept of exponential growth, but it’s exactly why coronavirus has gotten so hard to manage—and why climate change could too...
2020-03-26 11:57:00
In the first week of January, reports emerged that a mysterious new form of pneumonia had affected dozens of people in China. Some were in a critical condition, and a number had invasive lesions on both lungs...
2020-03-25 19:57:00
As I write this, confirmed Covid-19 case count has passed the 420,000-mark recording close to 19,000 casualties. China still leads the case count chart despite being successful in containing the disease within its boundaries. Overtaking China by the US and Italy in terms of confirmed Covid-19 cases, clearly, is a matter of time...
2020-03-25 11:50:00
Scholarly senior double doctorate Professor Sunil Ariyaratne, was a visual sensation of the Department of Sinhala and Mass communication, rendered and fulfilled inestimable artistic sustenance to the University of Sri Jayewardenepura during his long tenure...
2020-03-24 16:17:00
Corona is a spherical virus containing RNA, smaller than a bacterium. Although bacteria can be seen through an Optical Microscope, a picture of a virus can be created digitally using only an Electron Microscope. Corona virus is about 10,000th of a millimetre...
2020-03-24 15:28:00
The best strategy to prevent spread of COVID-19 virus in a country would be to restrict people from moving from one district to another district or in large countries from one province to another province...
2020-03-23 21:47:00
There have been no deaths due to Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sri Lanka. The number of confirmed cases per day went down the last two days (20th and 21st March)...
2020-03-22 19:35:00
A responsible Government Medical Officer publicly opined that the situation of corona virus of initial stage of Sri Lanka was worse than Italy. This is not correct comparing Italy and Sri Lanka figures. It is unrealistic to consider only one variable or one factor (the number of patients ) prior to arrive at a decision and make a statement of national interest. It can be categorized as a misleading news with the ulterior motive to create panic am..
2020-03-21 09:01:00
Visharada Neela Wickremasinghe’s voice bears a signature Sri Lankan female voice, at the same time, possessing the attributes of a versatile South Asian singer, has been employed with facility in songs which music motifs were derived from diverse traits of music in equally diverse musical traditions...
2020-03-20 18:48:00
I have borrowed the title of this article from the immortal work of Robert Lewis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...
2020-03-20 15:54:00
The news of emptied toilet paper shelves at supermarkets that extended to essentials shows the panic in many families to stock up to survive the next three to six months...
2020-03-20 09:57:00
The current Covid 19 epidemic has claimed nearly 9,000 deaths worldwide...
2020-03-19 23:58:00
Senanayakes’ endless Mission continues: Kanishka Senanayake, son of Rosy Senanayake, to battle in the General Election..
2020-03-19 23:10:00
Kanishka Senanayake, son of Colombo Mayor Rosy Senanayake, would be contesting the upcoming General Election from the Samagi Jana Balawegaya for Colombo District. Mr. Kanishka Senanayake has signed up for a young, educated, intelligent, efficient and clean service of politics out of traditional means most sought by the country under the leadership of Mr. Sajith Premadasa, leader of Samagi Jana Balawegaya...
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