By M.C.M. Iqbal PhD The decision to make cremation the mandatory form of disposing the COVID-19 dead in Sri Lanka was based on the premise that...
The above captioned letter, by ‘Concerned Consumer’, for reasons better known to him to remain incognito, has, I gather, is mainly to attack the short period...
We are clearly in an era of Twists and Turns, with Kali Amma projected as the power against the Covid-19 pandemic. What happened at the Sri...
Donald Trump, who contested the 2016 presidential election, was beaten by Hillary Clinton by 2.9 million in popular votes which would have been more than sufficient...
Dr. Chandana Jayawardena DPhil When? Over the last 12 months, the whole world has battled against the greatest pandemic it has faced in 100 years....
The Maldives has, at the request of the Sri Lankan government, agreed to take the bodies of Sri Lankan Muslims who die of Covid-19 for burial...
The Covid pandemic, apart from causing much human misery all over the world, has had a deleterious effect on human values as well. It appears that...
The Island editorial on the 14th of December, 20, titled ‘Putting the cart before the horse’, and the following little story, made me pen this short...
The recent release of the report of a panel of inquiry that probed the affairs of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) and the subsequent removal...
An article in The Island regarding the Ramanathan (Hall) oath attracted my attention, as I knew some of the parties concerned, since I was resident there....