Yesterday marked the 130th commemoration of late Dr. T. B. Jayah whose renowned name has found an honoured place in the annals of this country. He was an educationist, a politician, statesman, diplomat and a national hero who did so much for the Muslim community and to our country as well.
A programme launched by the Department of Prisons is working to rehabilitate prisoners by teaching them farming skills to enable them earn a living once they are out of prison. When life offers a second chance, it’s important to be equipped with the right skills to make the best of the opportunity. Programmes such as these are therefore an integral part of the overall rehabilitation framework to prevent re-offending.
For many years, our books taught us about climate change, its causes and effects. However, we just kept learning. We learnt that climate change leads to disastrous results caused due to careless human activities such as environmental pollution and destruction of ecosystems. And yet, we kept destroying. Not many people gave thought about this or felt the need to spread
The Hospital Services Council (HSC) in Colombo donated a set of medical equipment to the National Hospital Sri Lanka (NHSL), Maligawatte Kidney Hospital and the Eye Hospital, under the patronage of Dr. Kanchanamala Ranasinghe, General Practitioner at the Cannon Hill Doctors and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Griffith University Australia on December 23 at
In the 1960s the Sinhala cinema attempted to develop a distinct national identity. It sought to do this mainly by obliterating the Indian influence. To do that, it was necessary to nurture and mobilise an entirely new generation of actors, writers, directors, and even producers. Looking back today, to me it seems that the experiment, though not totally successful, did succeed in shaping the cinema, particularly due to a shift in artistic taste am
Writing in www.conversations.com two US scholars, Clayton Beswa and Mathew Frank, reported that there were 463 coup attempts worldwide between 1950 and 2017, of which, 233 were successful. Military coups had also been a hardy annual they say, though for reasons yet unknown, the years 2007 and 2018, were free from military take-overs. According t
Human Rights in Sri Lanka has been something widely discussed about on various platforms domestically and internationally. In lieu of World Human Rights Day which fell on 10 December, Daily Mirror spoke to Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya, LGBTIQ activist Rosanna Flamer Caldera and Human Rights activist Shreen Abdul Saroor.
The inauguration of the five- day contemporary art exhibition which was hosted by Sri Lankan international artist, Chathuranga Biyagama, under the patronage of Bangladesh High Commission was held at Harold Peiris Gallery, Lionel Wendt on December 16.
Rev. Fr. William Laurie Sullivan, the Blessed Sacrament Missionary from Australia to Sri Lanka, breathed his last peacefully at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital, Fitzroy on December 30 two years ago at a very ripe age of 92.
In a country dominated by Cartesian thinking, it’s probably not surprising that a man vilified for the better part of a decade as a Sinhala Buddhist chauvinist, traditionalist, warmonger and opportunist should be celebrated as a martyr today. I remember coming across a particularly unsavoury (and no doubt defamatory) article on the man on an anti-Rajapaksa website before he decided to cross over to the side that the website was tacitly supporting
Joy and happiness are wonderful feelings to experience, but are very different. Joy comes when you make peace with who you are and how you are whereas happiness tends to be externally-triggered and based on other people, things, places, thoughts and events.
Sonali Deraniyagala who published the memoir titled ‘Wave’ about her terrible tsunami experience that claimed her husband and two little children penned the following piece that was printed in the Sunday Times of England.
By At first glance, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) may seem like just another issue in the world that doesn’t apply to your life. But in truth, you are at risk of experiencing GBV in the very next second and you would be completely unaware of its occurrence due to normalization of such acts. During our life, all of us encounter some form of GBV. It could be in forms of domestic
The Eastern Province is home to as many as 60,000 war widows who have been forced to become breadwinners of their families upon the death or disappearance of their husbands. 10 years after the war, some are still destitute, going from place to place doing odd jobs as they were not educated or skilled enough to take up ‘dignified’ jobs. Some recall how they last saw
A team from the University of Moratuwa won the 1st place at the premier IEEE BIBE 2019 International Brain Computer Interface Hackathon, held in Athens, Greece in October this year. The competition was organised by the BR41N.IO in conjunction with 19th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bio engineering 2019.
When Thomas Jefferson was Vice President of the United States (1797 and 1801), there was not a railroad in the world and there were no broad highways as there are now. The roads were crooked, muddy and rough. If a man were obliged to go from one city to another, he often rode on horseback, jolting along through mud and mire, exposed to wind and weather.
The world is once again blessed with a fresh opportunity for celebrating the Christmas festival, a profoundly religious event that takes on great importance because of the perennial echo of its traditional and age-old message of peace. A second important issue intertwined with it is the one on human dignity and human rights. Christianity which bestows this festive season to the
With their parents bombarding them on WhatsApp with misinformation and even abuse over their stand on India’s new citizenship law, young women are hiding their identities on social media to voice outrage and find alternative families.
The Apartheid could be described as one of the most gruesome blows to human existence. Non-whites not only had to work as slaves, but were isolated from society, separated by law and were denied basic human rights. With the involvement of iconic figures such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Apartheid system was put to a halt during the early 1990s. Thereafter, the struggle was continued to ensure that justice was served to survi
The angel Gabriel came to her and said “Don’t be afraid Mary: God has been generous to you. You will become pregnant and give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus: ‘How this can be? I am a virgin? and the angel replied. ‘The Holy Spirit will come on you.’ Mary and Joseph remained in Bethlehem u
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