Saving the environment: Not a one-day job
The year of promises, resolutions and pledges is gone. Now it is the Year of Action, Pohottuwa activists have declared and the UNPers are asking: Where’s the Action? The year kicked off under a One Million Tree Campaign with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa himself planting a sapling in the garden at his home. ‘A Growing Tree [...]
Dealing with the miscreants
One of the things I have learned from my Indian friends is that peculiar dialect known as ‘Indian English’ – or more colloquially in Hindi-speaking India, simply as ‘Ind-E’. From phrases like ‘to airdash’ (to take an airplane flight to get somewhere in a hurry), ‘to prepone’ (to bring forward, as in the opposite of [...]
London Vihara holds New Year religious programme
From early in the morning till late at night on January 1, 2020, a large number of Sri Lankan and British devotees and those from many other communities living in the UK visited the London Buddhist Vihara to offer prayers and take part in the various religious programmes. Buddha Puja, Buddha Vandana, Dana and Pariththa [...]
An evening of classical music by young musicians
The Lionel Wendt Memorial Fund (LWMF) will, on Friday January 17, present the ‘Young Musicians at the Wendt’ — a biannual concert series — to nurture and showcase the talents of outstanding young musicians. Since its inception, the LWMF has been promoting the arts, living up to the founding principles of Lionel Wendt himself. This [...]
A military officers’ anthology of Sinhala and English poems to be launched on Saturday
“Sith Mal Dam”, an anthology of poems by Albert Petikitiarachchi, will be launched on January 11 at 9 a.m. at the Town, Council Public Library auditorium on Queen Mary Road in Gamapaha. The book is published by S. Godage and Brothers (Pvt ) Ltd. Having read the book, I realised that the poems both in [...]
Health journalists felicitated
An awards ceremony was held recently to felicitate journalists reporting on health issues. Journalist Chandana Samarawickrema is seen here receiving his award from Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi.
Dr. T.B. Jayah: A national hero and stalwart of the Muslim community
January 1, 2020 marked the 130th birth anniversary of the late Dr. T.B. Jayah whose renowned name has found an honoured place in the annals of this country. He was an educationist, politician, statesman, diplomat and national hero who did so much for our country and the Muslim community. Born at Galagedera in 1890 to [...]
Sri Lankan start-up set to reveal Vega EVX Electric supercar
The race to vehicle electrification is reaching greater levels with an onslaught of new EVs in the global market. One such EV maker is Vega Innovations. Relatively unknown, this EV maker from Sri Lanka has already finished a prototype of the country’s first electric supercar. It really wouldn’t surprise us if any company from the [...]
Negotiating while the world burns
LONDON – The 2010s may be remembered as the decade when the fight against harmful climate change was lost. In 2015, at the COP21 climate conference in Paris, 196 countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. But global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions have continued to increase, atmospheric concentrations of carbon [...]