Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has come to stay and is a well-recognised development over the last decade or so. AI has now progressed on to...
The Geathiswaran Chapter: Dr. Ganesanathan Geathiswaran, Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai is in hot water, dragging in with him the Foreign Ministry as well...
Key Points * Lack of transparency and competitiveness in procurement processes * Financial losses due to coal purchases above international market prices * Weak contract management...
The government’s defeat of the no-confidence motion against Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody, by a large parliamentary majority, was not surprising. The vote was 153 against...
It is time for the government to move away from the outdated practice of lowest bidding (L1) in public procurement and adopt the globally accepted Quality-cum-Cost-Based...
It is also different from all past governments as it faces new and different challenges No one knows whether the already broken ceasefire between the US...
After threatening to annihilate one of the planet’s oldest civilizations, TACO* Trump chickened out again by grasping the ceasefire lifeline that Pakistan had assiduously prepared. Trump...
We are passing through the ten-day interregnum called a ceasefire over the War on Iran. The world may breathe briefly, but this pause is not reassurance—it...
It all began in 1881 with a single platoon at Royal College, Colombo. John B. Cull, then principal, envisioned promoting ‘discipline through drill’ among students and...
“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home!” John Howard Payne (1823) Deep within each of...