In the period 1969/71, the Research & Development section of the State Engineering Corporation (SEC) comprised of five senior engineers, four of whom had graduated from...
Douglas Devananda took to his heels in Manila fearing an LTTE gunman was trailing us 1994 saw a new crop of MPs who had political knowledge...
Between the years 629 and 645 AD the famous Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled through Central Asia and India to visit Buddhist sacred places, learn from Indian...
A Comprehensive Examination of Human Loss, Environmental Devastation, and Governance Failure Tropical Cyclone Ditwah, which blew its way across Sri Lanka between November 27 and November...
Insights from global adaptation strategies Sri Lanka has been heavily affected by floods, and extreme flooding is rapidly becoming one of the most disruptive climate hazards...
Weather forecasts are useful. People attentively listen to them but complain that they go wrong or are not taken seriously. Forecasts today are more probabilistically reliable...
The water came quietly at first, a steady rise along the riverbanks, familiar to communities who have lived beside Sri Lanka’s great waterways for generations. But...
Increasingly countries of Asia are falling victim to environmental crises and going forward it is hoped that this question of the first importance will come to...
This seems to be a common scene at beauty pageants where there are allegations that the results are fixed. It is happening here, as well –...
Last week I did mention that I would work out some combinations to help you slow down skin ageing. Well, this is what I’ve worked out...