It’s back to the drawing board for the Hathe Ape Potha, the supplementary reader on sexual and reproductive health.
On Tuesday, January 21st, interested stakeholders, Buddhist clergy, officials of the Education and Health Ministries, Psychiatrists, representatives of the Child Protection...
Remember Sri Lanka's opening fixture of the 1992 World Cup! Zimbabwe, yet to become a Test playing nation, gave us a near scare. The rookies piled up over 300 runs with debutant Andy Flower posting a fine hundred. It...
There is a growing body of literature including some from Dr. Ruchira Somaweera’s team that lizards adapt to changed environments in ways scientists didn’t previously think of.
Speaking to Counterpoint, renowned scientist, Dr. Somaweera, says it is very common to claim that...
I’ve been to Thailand many times, courtesy of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, and I’ve checked out the country’s famous Floating Markets.
On many an occasion it has got me wondering why Sri Lanka, with so many canals, and rivers,...
'Love, Mary' is a movie about a dyslexic teenager who beats the odds by earning an MD degree and achieving a career in family medicine despite her condition. What is dyslexia? Dyslexia entails difficulty to learn reading or writing,...
The guns and live ammunition given out to Civil Defence Force personnel in a bid to resolve the Human-Elephant conflict are to be withdrawn.
This follows a meeting that took place today, January 22, between Pahiyangala Ananda Sagara Thero, the...
The focus of everyone seems to be on the leaked voice clips containing telephone conversations between former State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake, MP, and various other including high ranking police officers, judges, public officials, politicians and actresses. A new phone...
A seven member committee appointed by the Minister for Higher Education Bandula Gunawardena, is expected to make recommendations on bringing back the many victims of ragging who have given up their university education.
The committee is expected to provide recommendations...
The Office on Missing Persons (OMP), in a media communique released on January 15, says that it has requested the government to hold wide ranging consultations with the OMP, the families of the missing and the disappeared as well...
Wildlife conservationists are up in arms over the decision by the Minister for Environment and Wildlife Resources, S M Chandrasena to recruit 2500 civil defence personnel and arm them, as a solution to the human-elephant conflict.
According to available reports,...
