Govt urged to step up support for Palestinian cause
The Sri Lanka Committee for Solidarity with Palestine (SLCSP) held a panel discussion on ‘End Asia’s last colony, justice for Palestine’ to mark the UN Day for Solidarity with the Palestinian People on November 29. The event was held at the Olympus auditorium, Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. The gathering was addressed by Palestine’s Ambassador [...]
HelpAge greeting cards help provide free cataract surgeries of senior citizens
HelpAge Sri Lanka comes to mind, especially during the forthcoming Christmas and New Year season. Like in the past several years, this year too HelpAge is issuing over 300,000 greeting cards. As the Christmas season is coming closer anybody who wishes to contribute towards the HelpAge free cataract surgery programme could purchase seasonal greeting cards [...]
Lanka Japan Friendship Society AGM held
Lanka Japan Friendship Society – 63rd Annual General Meeting was held on November 25 at the Banquet Hall of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 100 Padanama Mawatha, Independence Square, Colombo 7 with Ambassador of Japan Mizukoshi Hideaki as the Chief Guest. The picture shows General Secretary of Lanka Japan Friendship Society Professor Gaminda Haegoda addressing [...]
Lanka Mahila Samiti annual handicraft exhibition and sale
Lanka Mahila Samiti will hold their Annual Handicraft sale on December 6, from 9 am to 5 pm, to display and popularise their samiti products in Colombo. The event will be held this Tuesday, at the Lionel Wendt Gallery, Premasiri Khemadasa Mawatha, Colombo 7. Talented rural members will display a wide array of gifts such [...]
SAARC cancer conference and SLCO annual academic sessions this week
The 17th SAARC International Cancer Conference of the SAARC Federation of Oncologists and the annual academic sessions of the Sri Lanka College of Oncologists (SLCO) will be held from December 7-10 at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo. The sessions will be held under the guidance of Sri Lanka College of Oncologists President Dr N [...]
Planet Earth has gone nuts over nationalism
In recent months, we witnessed many talking marathons — talkathons — held to help Planet Earth to overcome the natural, economic and political disasters it is engulfed in. There were the biggest of all talkathons — the United Nations annual General Assembly sessions, also the Shanghai Cooperation Council summit, the ASEAN summit, G-7, G 20, [...]
Killing Twitter
By Antara Haldar, exclusively for the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka In April 2022, the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, asked, “Is Twitter dying?” Five days later, he launched an apparently whimsical bid to buy the social-media platform. It took months of legal wrangling to complete the deal, but on October 27, Musk honoured his [...]