Global experts join Lankan architects to promote our urban heritage
Historic places connect our past with our present and with our future. They help form our individual and collective identities and contribute to a sense of place and belonging. But in the race to build tomorrow’s city, the fate of Colombo’s past is at stake. Living Heritage, from November 2-6 is a collaboration between Sri [...]
Focus on contraception
Prof. Hemantha Dodampahala, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine delivered an awareness lecture on contraception at the Winchester Ballroom of the Kingsbury to mark World Contraception Day last month.
Sri Subuthi Principal wins Prathiba Praba award for sixth time
Battaramulla Sri Subuthi National School’s principal D.S.S. Baranage won the 2016 Guru Prathibha Prabha Award. This is the sixth occasion that she has won this award. President Maithripala Sirisena and Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam were also present at the awards ceremony held recently at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre. She is seen receiving her award [...]
Why can’t we end polio?
By Ilona Kickbusch, Stephen Matlin, and Michaela Told BERN, LONDON, GENEVA – October 24, 2016, should be a unique day in the history of polio. If all goes according to plan, it will be the last annual World Polio Day before the disease is eradicated. But now is not the time for celebration or complacency; [...]
Weeding without glyphosate as a precautionary principle
By Prof. Athula Perera Human life is full of risks – from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to sleep again we confront a myriad of risks. Even while sleeping we may face the risk of seeing a nightmare but we still go to sleep every night. Marriage is a [...]
ET a far superior being and could be a danger to mankind
By Alvin Sallay We are not alone. And we could be courting danger if we go in search of extraterrestrial life, according to Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe, an eminent astrobiologist whose views on the origins of life has vexed religious traditionalists who believe in creation. The Sri Lankan-born British astronomer and astrobiologist whose unconventional approach to [...]
The Great Game
By Dr. Sarala Fernando “The Great Game” was a term coined to illustrate the long drawn out rivalry between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries seeking to expand territory and spheres of influence with terrible repercussions on the native people on the ground. With globalisation, this term [...]
Big powers set to grab high level UN posts
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS – When Antonio Guterres, the former Prime Minister of Portugal, takes office as the new UN Secretary General on January 1, his top management team is likely to be dominated by nominees from the five big powers, namely the US, Britain, France, China and Russia (P5). As befits tradition, the [...]
A noble youth leader and budding all rounder
ADHIL BAKEER MARKAR “Good people, the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come” In Arabic Adhil denotes a judge. Our Adhil judged everything in mundane life spot-on right greatly backed by those [...]