The Centre for Environmental and Nature Studies, (CENS) is calling on the government to ban the use of plastics in Sri Pada. Also known as Adam’s Peak, Sri Pada is considered a sacred site by Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and...
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - Mahatma Gandhi
The brutal killing of Charlie, a Labrador in Negombo, sent shock waves throughout the country. The New Year dawned with unbearable suffering...
The College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka is recommending a staggered exit strategy that must be decided by an expert panel made up of ‘health and non-health authorities with vigilant monitoring of area specific caseloads.’
Bearing in mind that...
Monitoring the health of free ranging wild animals is one of the toughest challenges for conservationists and wildlife managers. If the animal is a highly mobile animal like the elephant, then, it is near impossible. Unless the animal had...
The UNP has reverted to the situation it was in prior to the 2015 regime change; it is faction ridden and in total disarray with the Sajith and Ranil faction fighting an internecine battle, which is sure to weaken...
While it is quite understandable that people anywhere should find enslaving chains of any kind intolerable, what progressive opinion would least expect are attempted tie-ups between such sections seeking emancipation and the former Western colonial powers. Unfortunately, this is...
Indian linguist Braj Kachru was spot on when he said, “...across cultures English has been successful in creating a class of people who have greater intellectual power in multiple spheres of language use,” in the 1990 publication 'World Englishes...
A couple of years ago 27-year-old Pramodh Senarath Yapa, a Sri Lankan-Canadian Ph.D. student in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at University of Alberta, Canada translated his jargon-ridden master's thesis, titled 'Non-Local Electrodynamics of Superconducting Wires: Implications for Flux Noise...
The world’s oldest airline
The airline industry is just 100 years old. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines founded in 1919 is a claimant for the crown of the ‘oldest’, but it ceased operations for a few years in the 1940s during...
Character education is a new global education trend, the importance of which cannot be emphasized enough. Character or lack thereof, is the main reason for the current predicament of the human race. In a country where grown men cannot...
