By Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam (Former Chief Medical Officer of Health) Chairman, Standing Committee on Health, Colombo Municipal Council The Delta virus, which sneaked into the country...
By M. C. M. Iqbal The vaccines against COVID-19, available today, are based on different strategies and come with different numbers to indicate their performance. Many...
Puzzling reshuffle Kudos to you for your editorial where you have exposed, without any ambiguity, saying ‘One is at a loss to understand the rationale, if...
Need for urgent reforms for improvement (This article is an excerpt of the book ‘PRESENT STATUS OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS AND THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN SRI LANKA...
I have watched with sadness how the teachers protested to obtain their just demands. I reflected on what my teachers taught, and silently prayed for them...
Covid-19 is the third viral epidemic to have come upon man since the first in 2003 and it may not be the last. Next pandemic could...
Procrastination seems to be rampant in the government today. It was Oscar Wilde who said, “Never put off for tomorrow what you can put off for...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa polled 6,924,255 (52.25%) at the last presidential election and the current Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa 5,564,239 (41.99%). In the Presidential Task Force, set...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Maybe, it is time to add a new phrase to the political lexicon: ‘A corrupt Cameron’ to mean a corrupt politician! Perhaps,...
Disaster in waiting As emphasised, the microbes (‘germs’ in lay terms) have always been a constant threat to human existence. Hence, an endless war between microbes...