BY Shivanthi Ranasinghe ranasingheshivanthi@gmail.com The COVID-19 virus is severely challenging the credibility of the Education Ministry. This was underscored when the Ministry, amidst the ongoing second...
The late Mr. W.M.P.G. Dingiribanda, Poddalgoda in the Kandy District, a well-known government registered Ayurvedic Pysician, was my beloved father. My father had inherited many Ola...
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...