In September 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution 30/1 and committed to fulfil a range of measures on human rights, accountability, and reconciliation. On February 27, 2020, Sri Lanka responded to an update presented by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) at UNHRC’s 43rd session.
Soma Maha Thera was born on December 23, 1898 in Kotahena, Colombo, his father was Emmanuel Marian Pererapulle and his mother Theresa Rodrigo Babapulle, his name was Victor Emmanuel Pererapulle. He received his entire education at St Benedict’s College, Kotahena, which is the premier Catholic school in Colombo and a school that also produced such great Buddhist leaders like Anagarika Dharmapala and Ven. Narada Nayaka Thera.
The untimely demise of hearty-healer Lalani Kapuruge on November 16, 2019 is a great loss to the field of cardiology. It is not often that you come across a lady who enters this male-dominated arena of interventional cardiology and excels in the art of healing diseased hearts.
“Depends on the client”- Shabeeb Muzammil Shabeeb Muzammil, Associate Creative Director at LOOPS Solutions, said there were no legal or ethical guidelines for advertising in Sri Lanka, but only certain regulations. “In Sri Lanka, one cannot advertise certain medicines, cigarettes and alcohol,” he said. Ethics, meanwhile, mostly depended on the client. “While most advertising ethics stem from societal and cultural norms, the ethical side of adver
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is a condition that manifests in children. A juvenile is a young person, medically defined as a child less than or equal to 16 years of age. Idiopathic means without a cause. Arthritis is a joint inflammation or a special type of joint swelling. Therefore as the name implies JIA happens in children less than or equal to 16 years of age without a known trigger and involves joints. For us to diagnose JIA properly
Having experienced flares at a young age, Anya Raux was confined to crutches and was recommended bed rest. After several visits to various doctors, she was diagnosed with JIA after three months, at the tender age of 11. Two years later she is determined to spread the word around and is getting ready to pull off ‘Raise to Rise’ a walk followed by a concert this Saturday.
During the period under the British Administration, it had been a daily habit of the elite and rich families to visit Galle Face Green in the evenings for horse rides which provide exercise and entertainment for them and their
“That the man who wrote these plays wasn’t mentioned in the State Drama Advisory Board’s ‘Playwrights of the 60s’ baffles me even today.” (Sunil Mihindukula) Nuwan Nawayanjith Kumara once identified the five pioneers of 20th century Sinhala drama: Ediriweera Sarachchandra, Gunasena Galappatty, Sugathapala de Silva, Henry Jayasena, and Dayananda Gunawardena. What set these luminaries apart from their contemporaries, peers, and students was the fac
Food control activities in Sri Lanka are being carried out by the Ministry of Health and the Director General of Health Services is the Chief Food Authority. There is a Food Administration Committee headed by him to take policy decisions on allowing food to be manufactured, transported, stored and sold in the country. The Food Control Administrative Unit (FCAU) is spearheading the controlling work. There are Food Inspectors attached to Municipali
Wesley College - a Premier Christian Boys School in Colombo was founded on March 2, 1874. Every year, the Double Blue Fraternity gather to celebrate the memory of their Founder, the Rev. Daniel Henry Pereira – on Founder’s Day which is the death anniversary of Rev. John Wesley the great Evangelist and Founder of the Methodist Church. This year 2020 Wesley College Colombo celebrates its 146th Birth Anniversary. The Founder’s Day is considered the
With each day that passes, it seems I miss my father more; he was a man with tremendous presence, tall, incredibly handsome, compassionate, brilliant as a doctor and as a writer. It is to him that I owe my love of reading and writing which still remain my favourite pastimes which were instilled in me by him almost from birth. He was born on February 25, 1904,
P. H. Nishantha Pradeep Kumara of Pethiyagoda, Kelaniya is undergoing treatment for chronic renal failure and he needs to undergo an urgent kidney transplant. At present Kumara is undergoing dialysis treatment twice a week at the cost of Rs 7850 for each.
I pen this appreciation in gratitude to the life and times of Aurasie Weerasinghe, an aunt who not only I but our entire family is indebted to, for her help in numerous ways we recall with gratefulness. Lord Buddha advocated that gratitude was one of the finest qualities of a human being but also a hard act to practice.
Sri Lanka’s female domestic workers in the Middle East undergo multiple forms of abuse and harassment, much of which remains ignored or unknown. Migrant workers contribute immensely to the national economy by earning foreign exchange. In 2018, Sri Lanka earned over 7 billion US dollars from domestic workers, accounting for 7.9% of GDP. Despite this, migrant workers in the Middle East face a desperate plight, and their labour is akin to modern-day
University of Peradeniya, the premier university in the country, has deviated from the norms in order to bring about an end to inhuman ragging and instill the message in the minds of the undergraduates that their main task is to become
The third and final part of the retelling of Buddhamitra’s account of Sigiriya: The traditional view of Kassyapa as a renegade who walled his father to death is not present in Buddhamitra’s account. The Culavamsa is emphatic on the point that Kassyapa’s murder of Dhatusena was instigated in part by the scheming of Dhatusena’s son-in-law Migara, whose mother Dhatusena had burnt naked when she injured his daughter “without blame on her part” or f
Canada issues travel advisory over serious risk in Arugam Bay
More countries issue travel advisories
Sri Lanka Tourism invites global travellers for upcoming season
Russian embassy urges citizens to stay vigilant in Arugam Bay
US Embassy issues travel warning for Arugam Bay
Immigration authorities to crack down on overstaying Russians, Israelis
Sri Lanka may face another economic turmoil: Sajith