The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), in its Statistical Digest for 2019, reports that a sum of Rs. 46.68 billion was spent on importing coal for operating...
The news that a former Army Veteran Officer has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the CEB is of much interest. With former Army Officer Nalinda Illangakoon, a...
Iraq was conquered and caused massive destruction by Americans, in search of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). As there were no WMDs at the end, the...
I see that an MP has drawn attention to the exorbitant cost of the heavily subsidized meals to members and their guests in the MP’s Restaurant....
The Island newspaper of 15/12/20 carried a front page news item attributed to Prof. Sriyal Malik Peiris, a Professor of Virology in Hongkong. He is an...
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....