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The coronavirus epidemic that is increasingly taking on the proportions of an international scourge seems to be raking-up thoughts of the Europe-wide 'Black Death' of the 14th century in the collective memory of humankind. While the wish of humanists...
In the 1980 American movie The Blue Lagoon, based on a 1908 novel of the same name, Richard Lestrange succeeds in getting cousin Emmeline Lestrange knocked up, sans any sex education, despite being marooned on a tropical island for...
It was in 2014 that a private Christian boy’s school in Colombo took the plunge, and decided to introduce Sound Mind Sound Body to its students. It is a programme that teaches children, amongst other things, to be respectful...
Sri Lanka’s first local COVID-19 patient is currently isolated and being treated at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, as the country has taken serious initiatives to tackle the killer-virus.
Speaking to Counterpoint, Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Sudath Samaraweera said that all visitors,...
Issuing a gazette notification President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dissolved the parliament with effect from midnight yesterday (02).
Accordingly, the general elections will be held on April 25.
The gazette notification was issued as soon as the parliament completed four and half years...
A group of young politicians want to distance themselves from the massive disinformation campaigns that take place during elections.
Unveiling “The Truth Square – Trap Disinformation” at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo on February 27, the group told...
Power outages experienced in many parts of the country of February 3 this year were not due to an emergency situation. Instead, it was of the manual rotational load shedding type Counterpoint learns.
This is the finding of a committee...
The warring factions of the UNP are said to have agreed to contest the upcoming general election under the Swan symbol of the New Democratic Front (NDF) as the party leadership is determined not to allow the new alliance...
Is it a human right or a human responsibility to ensure that no person is marginalised owing to physical or intellectual disabilities, just as much as inclusiveness must extend to all other diversities such as race, religion, colour or...
Twelve rock quarries in the Manilla Gama area are causing environmental damage in Dodamgoda, Kalutara, says the Centre for Environment and Nature Studies (CENS), in a complaint to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL).
The complaint to the...
Cricket's finest ambassadors, West Indies, are in town and tickets for the five match limited overs series are selling like hot cakes. Sri Lanka and West Indies have engaged in some of the fiercest rivalries the game has seen...
