A masterclass on photojournalism
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, Essdras M. Suarez, visited Sri Lanka to lead a comprehensive three-day masterclass for journalists. The event unfolded from September 11-13, hosted at the Hilton Colombo. This workshop was organised by the Sri Lanka Press Institute, in collaboration with the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ), with valuable support from the United States [...]
Ceylon Baithulmal Fund – Office Bearers 2023/2024
The 66th annual general meeting of the Ceylon Baithulmal Fund was held on September 10. A A M Illiyas (President’s Counsel) was re-elected as the President for 2023/2024. Other office bearers elected were: Vice President: M S F Haqque Secretary: A N Nazvi Rahman Treasurer: A F Feroze Noon Asst Secretary: F M Asaf Khan [...]
Colombo Uni hosts ‘Back to Faculty’
The Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo, will host ‘Back to Faculty’, a gathering of past graduates to share their experiences and uplift future graduates of the Faculty. “The back to faculty event uniting all the past graduates in the faculty will discuss the future development and the contributions they can make in [...]
Tragic Libya flood toll result of years of division: Analysts
By Rim Taher TRIPOLI (AFP) – Over a decade of bloody power battles in Libya have resulted in vital infrastructure falling into disrepair, culminating in the catastrophic death toll in Sunday’s flood, politicians and analysts have said. Wracked by conflict and division ever since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in [...]
Elections: Only way out of impasse
Whither Lanka? This question is the most asked by all in this country but defies an answer. But there will be only a few who do not have their own solution. Pundits in the newspapers and on TV shows all have their solutions and some of them can be categorised into vast blocs of political [...]
The G20 wins the group battle
By Jim O’Neill, Project Syndicate, Exclusively to the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka LONDON – Following the recent summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), where the group agreed to add six new members, I argued that neither it nor the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and [...]