SAFAL honours Dilka Samanmali with Significant Contribution Award in Film, TV and Video
The 7th South Asian Film, Arts & Literature (SAFAL) Festival Awards Night took place on September 21 at the Pioneer Theatre, Castle Grand, a renowned performing arts venue in Castle Hill, Australia. The “Significant Contribution Award in Film, Television, and Video” was presented to journalist and TV Derana news anchor Dilka Samanmali [...]
‘Living with Nature’ book presented to Malaysian HC
Mafahir Shuhood presented his latest book ‘Living with Nature’ to High Commissioner of Malaysia Badli Hisham Adam recently at the High Commission. The book, a hardcover publication, now in its second edition, contains a plethora of information on natural remedies for a variety of aliments using various condiments, herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables. The book [...]
Knowledge session: Lichens as air quality sensors
In collaboration with the University of Peradeniya, Dilmah Tea has been partnering for several years with the South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) on a groundbreaking study examining the impact of ammonia on tropical forest ecosystems. The research sheds light on how nitrogen pollution affects biodiversity and ecosystem health in Sri Lanka and South Asia. The [...]
Pakistan should restructure its debt now
By Sanjay Kathuria, Project Syndicate, Exclusive to the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka NEW DELHI – In July, Pakistan reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a record 25th programme, in yet another attempt to kick-start economic growth and development as the country lurches from crisis to crisis. But the new IMF [...]
World leaders commit to action to ensure future of modern medicine
By Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, all countries approved a major new political declaration to radically scale up efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major threat to modern medicine. AMR threatens to unwind a century of medical progress and could return us to the pre-antibiotic [...]
The case of Winston Churchill and Ranil
I could not help musing this week about a famous leader who suffered a similar fate to what President Ranil Wickremesinghe did last weekend—the British general election of 1945 often being described as history’s greatest example of democratic ingratitude. In 1940, Winston Churchill—not the most popular member of parliament at the time—accepted the role of [...]