Recently, the NGage Goodvocacy and the Environmental Foundation Limited hosted their very first ‘Festival for Our Planet’ at the Good Market as an environmental awareness event to coincide with the worldwide youth climate strike that took place on March 15. The aim of the festival was to educate and mobilise enthused citizens about climate and environmental justice.
Public transportation in Sri Lanka is widespread that the majority of people prefer to make it their mode of travel. Apart from the people’s habit to travel in trains, they often choose the bus as a mode of transport. However, there has been criticism regarding buses in terms excessive speed, extra horns, competition among buses and sound systems that produce loud noise, etc. It is the commuters who feel inconvenien
Philip Cooray called Delovak Athara the most personal film that Lester James Peries ever made, and it shows. From the milieu depicted in it to its choice of subject matter, it may well have been a “statement” in the same vein that Truffaut’s The 100 Blows or Bergman’s Wild Strawberries had been. Audiences hadn’t seen this kind of story in a Sinhala film before. To Lester’s credit, to have sustained interest for two hours within such a narrow fram
Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann, the founder of the homeopathic system of medicine, was born on April 10, 1755 at Meissen in Saxony, Germany. He studied first at the “elector’s school” of Meissen, and thereafter as a student of medicine at Leipzig and Vienna. He took the degree of M.D. at the University of Erlangen in 1779, Dr. Hahnemann was very dissatisfied with the limited knowledge of human organism, disease process and the effects of
Shakespeare’s famous words All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts remind me of this remarkable woman....
Internationally the World Autism Awareness Day is recognized on the 2nd of April every year. World Autism Day is one of the seven official health-specific UN Days that brings individual autism organizations all around the world....
The oldest rotary club in the country, the Rotary Club of Colombo, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Kelaniya, recently conducted a successful health campaign for the residents in Kelaniya. They were supported by a skilled team of doctors and nurses from Siddhalepa.
We thank God everyday for blessing us with you as our amazing mom. However, time with you will never be enough, we will always wish for one more hug, one more laugh, but above all, for one more day! With your last breath the world around us has tumbled with no one to call mom.
Death has removed from our earthly scene my senior in the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka. Fr. Harold, as I called him in the recent past, began as a teacher at St. Paul’s School in Kandy when he was a lay person. In Kandy, he was known for his interest in scouting. From there, he moved to the North and East, where he tested his vocation to be a reverend in the local monastic movement.
Pakistan is predominately an Islamic country and Sri Lanka, a Buddhist country in main. So, presumption of many is that there is no cultural nexus between the two countries. As if to dispel such presumption and to woo Sri Lanka, Pakistan....
When Kumari Jayawardene wrote and published Nobodies to Somebodies at the beginning of the millennium, there were howls of protests from two separate though interrelated camps. First and foremost, there were the descendants of the families....
Nowadays schoolchildren and university students pay more attention on innovations and are willing to develop novel things which can be used to solve current problems in our day-to-day lives. Our new education system also highly contributes....
A group of women artistes, graduates of the University of Visual and Performing Arts, featured their collaborative and inclusive annual arts exhibition for the 6th consecutive year to mark ‘International Women’s Day,’ on March 8, 2019 at the J.D.A. Perera Gallery, Colombo 7.
After three decades Vidya Jothi Prof. Cyril Ponnamperuma who led the Moon Soil Analysis Laboratory at NASA, USA under the Apollo Space Mission was honoured with a Postage Stamp at the 2018 Annual Review sessions of the Institute of Fundamental Studies (IFS), held at the IFS Auditorium
Mahavidyala Mawatha is a main road which has light and heavy vehicles, containers, particularly Pettah bound buses, passing in hundreds every day. This road also leads to five government schools and is also a hardware commercial hub apart from being densely populated.
TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s statement to the Parliament made on the 22nd March is unconstitutional. He insisted the “Government” to implement clause 6 of the Geneva (UNHRC) resolution (30/1) or otherwise “we (they) will take steps to move Sri Lanka to the ICC or some other entirely international mechanism”... as “Tamil people will be left with no alternative”.
When the Kennels of the Sri Lanka Police Service is celebrating its seventieth year in existence, it would be a timely opportunity to remember Sir Richard Aluvihare who revolutionized the Police Service. It was in his time that Sri Lanka Kennels were established in Colombo, in 1948 with German Shepherd Canine Sleuths Sheba and Rex trained locally by two Police constables
Defensive driving requires one to ‘look-ahead’ both literally and metaphorically; in Cricketing parlance, it’s like a great batsman who sees the ball that much earlier than others less skilled to either score or defend and never be caught off-guard! One of the critical areas in the armoury of ‘Defensive Driving’ is adjusting ones speed according to a plethora of factors and the
Our research suggests that more than 500,000 patients in Mount Lavinia and the suburbs are awaiting the quality service at all times Mount Lavinia is a residential area with mostly middle class communities. Our research indicates that the majority of residents obtain medications from the private pharmacies. There are about 20 Pharmacies in the city including the drugs stores
Marital infidelity, or assumption of it, isn’t a new theme to Sri Lankan cinema. The black and white era offers many examples of wives being treated unspeakably because their husbands imagined things. The wife was always a virtuous woman and the husband a drunkard. Of course, it would never occur to her to find comfort in the arms of another man. That would be sacrilege.
In the history of Colombo University of Sri Lanka the first ever Coffee Table Book will be launched on April 7, 2019 at 11.30 am at the University of Colombo’s New Arts Theatre by the Alumni Unity of the 1960s of the University of Ceylon, Colombo. This Publication contains attractive photograph
All human life, once born, has to reach its logical end, death. That eternal truth was taught to us by our eternal teacher, Gautama Buddha. Yet when it happens to your loved ones, it is difficult to bear. No person should compare the loss of his or hers to another else’s loss. It is condescending and I do not wish to indulge in such idle and patronizing laments. But my mother’s loss is great; it is, albeit unavoidable, just cannot be reconciled i
Member of the Western Provincial Council Jayantha de Silva said dedication of the people was an integral part of the country’s development and meeting their requirements and pointing the accusing finger at others for the country’s ills would not serve any purpose. Addressing the annual general meeting of the “Sathmaga”community development society at Dabagre Mawatha in Narahenpita he expressed concern about the bad habit of several individuals
Jesus asked Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John; do you love me more than others do’? ‘Yes, Lord, He answered, you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, ‘Take care of my lambs.’ Centuries later, Jesus asked the same question from his chosen child, ‘Valence Mendis, ‘Do you still love me? and he replied. ‘Lord you know everything; you know I love you’. Jesus placed the staff in his hand and said, ‘Go unto to the world and look after my sheep
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