Dr Sarala Fernando In today’s world of the Covid pandemic and climate change disasters, the increase of human violence is seen in the many family murders...
* Another Pathbreaking Innovation from the Bank That Gave Sri Lanka Its First ATMs ~ * Customers of All Banks in Sri Lanka Can Withdraw Cash...
The “rural energy crisis” has been receiving increasing attention from development policy makers because it affects the very survival of the vast majority of the world’s...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA In April 1978 in Afghanistan, a pro-Soviet Communist Party effected a revolutionary seizure of power for the first time since world communism suffered...
By Sanath Nanayakkare Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga in a letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has proposed several steps that parliamentarians, public and private sector employees...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, August 21: Esala Weerakoon, the 14th SAARC Secretary General, visited India on his customary introductory, visit during...
Nearly ten years ago when I first stepped into the Island editorial, it was Suresh Perera who warmly greeted me and directed me to the offices...
by Dr. Ruwantissa Abeyratne Compulsory vaccination is anchored on two propositions: the vaccines concerned must be formally approved by the authorities of a particular jurisdiction; there...
An invitation to write a review for the new book by Rajiva is a reason for immense joy. Seeing activity from Rajiva after nearly a decade,...
Delays in the issuance of licenses due to the prevailing Covid-19 epidemic may make it difficult to obtain the required raw materials for development projects and...