Global Affairs Canada recently funded one million Canadian Dollars (Around Sri Lankan Rs. 151 million) to help smallholder farmers cultivate nutritious crops for the National School Meal Programme. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Sri Lanka welcomed the funding for a nationally important cause.
The Right to Information (RTI) Act No. 12 of 2016 brought with it a promise of open government, citizen’s active participation in governance and accountability to the people of the country. With RTI, anybody from a remote village such as Siyambalan
It’s been a year since Thaththa passed away in to the Lord’s arms peacefully on February 9, 2020, after quite a lengthy illness. He breathed his last in the presence of my mother and my two younger brothers in our home where he shared the last ten years of life with my mother. They were married for 47 years at the time of his demise.
The landmark Declaration, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on December 10, 1948, reaffirms that, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, birth or other status”. Then, why are there fewer women than men in science?
When one thinks of FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting), many think it is only prevalent in the African region. However, recent media reports and research show that the practice also prevails in Sri Lanka, especially among certain sects of the Muslim community and the Dawoodi Bohra community, around the island. The earliest available report of FGM/C in the country dates back to 1996.
In a paper published on www.thelancet.com Professor of Psychology Michelle Gelfand and her colleagues have reported that tightly-held and disciplined societies had been better able to tackle the unprecedented challenge posed by COVID-19 than loosely held, liberal and lax societies. The difference shows in the
Dr Neville Fernando,Maama,Aiya , Seeya or Uncle to diverse family members, left on his onward journey leaving his family in shock and grief, as Covid 19 took him completely unexpectedly. Even at 89, he was planning to make his next big dream come true. As the elder statesman in our large family circle, he was adored by one and all due to his magnanimous and lov
My first contact with young Avishka Mario Senewiratne was when he called me on a Sunday morning in early January and requested me to keep the date free to attend the launch of his book, “Till the Mountains Disappear – The story of St. Jos
When we are celebrating the 73rd Independence we should look back at what we have lost. We have nothing left of a free nation due to the foolhardiness of government officials who thought they were trying to protect the national treasures. There are a number of stories, but this one relates to the time when this writer was serving ‘Ceylon Daily Mirror’. The story was initially related by a watcher.
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