By CHANDRE DHARMAWARDANA Canada When the government suddenly banned the import of fertilisers and pesticides in April 2021 and went ‘100 percent organic’, many scientists warned...
By Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana Discipline, by definition, is the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing them if they do not. But...
As in certain offices, in banks too there are restricted areas for outsiders and staff members who are not attached to the relevant divisions. The Treasury...
Why didn’t the Education Minister and the Secretary pay due attention to the fair voices of the most vulnerable and largest service sector of this country,...
Prof Saroj Jayasinghe’s candid view, published in The Island of September 17, 2021, on Ivermectin use, both in treatment and prevention of COVID-19, has been based...
By Anton Peiris, Nyon, Switzerland The tourist season, in Sri Lanka, will comence in November. Tens of thousands of tourists from Switzerland, Germany, Austria and a...
The importation of inorganic fertilisers, synthetic pesticides and herbicides (agrochemicals) was banned from the end of April 2021, to promote the use of organic fertilisers (OF)...
Ananda Wickremaratne by G. H. Peiris Professor Ananda Wickremeratne ranked among our most brilliant scholars whose careers commenced in the Faculty of Arts of the University...
by Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam Former Chief Medical Officer of Health, Colombo Most citizens will wonder why I am asking for the lifting of the so-called ‘Lockdown’...
By Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva The country is in dire straits. The economy is almost bankrupt, the pandemic is still on a deadly rampage, children...