On Wednesday (August 4) afternoon we walked into the Viharamahadevi Amphitheatre, which is now a 24 hour Vaccination Center. It was nearly empty except for a few people who were there to get their second dose of AstraZeneca. The visu
Many lives, both human and elephant, are lost as a result of the human-elephant conflicts that are prevalent in most parts of Sri Lanka. The number of victims (on both sides) and the intensity of occurrences has been increasing over th
I met Chris last year on a beautiful evening in Singapore. We took a cab to a restaurant in Mount Faber for dinner. It took only twenty minutes to get there, but during the ride, I felt as if I had known him all my life. He was open like a book, heartfelt and no show-off. I started liking him, chatted till late and left as good buddies. He stayed a close, caring friend till the end.
Dr. R. O. B. Wijesekera, the doyen of Natural Product Chemistry, and a much loved figure among all those he worked with passed away on July 13, 2021 after a brief illness. He was 92 at the time of death. Knowing his abiding love of cricket, he would have said with a satisfied smile, “I have batted a good innings”. Dr. ROB leaves behind his charming wife Marina.
Civil society groups, state university representatives, academics, leftist and socialist movements have rallied together to protest against the proposed Kotelawala National Defense University (KNDU) Bill. One of the main concerns is w
Today we wish to remember and pay tribute to Dr Ashley Godwin Senarath-Dassanayake who passed away on 3rd August 1997, a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists UK, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and MBBS
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