It is now three years since you left me lonely on August 21, 2015. I mark this third death anniversary with both the sorrow and the sweet memories of our 48 years of togetherness. Your birthday on October 10, Margaret, was a sad day without your presence.
By Saman Palitha Nanayakkara - Haldummulla, Rukmal Prasad - Ella, Tharangani Fonseka - Moratuwa, Sarath Siriwardhena - Aluthgama, D.G. Sugathapala - Galle, Thusitha Kumara De Silva - Aluthgama, Sunil Thanthriarachchi - Kalutara
As a part of ongoing 150 years of celebrating the Mahatma, Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre will screen the Oscar winning Film (English) at its auditorium at 16/2 Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7.
A cartoon of an elephant, stranded between the gates of the Sri Lanka Railways and the Wildlife Conservation Department done by our own staff cartoonist Gihan De Chickera very aptly describes the prevailing jumbo crisis. Within a period of three weeks, eight elephants succumbed to their
The University of Sri Jayewardenapura is slated to felicitate the journalists, writers and artistes among its alumni who have excelled in their respective fields at a gala awards ceremony to be held on October 17 at Waters Edge, commencing at 6pm. President Maithripala Sirisena is expected to grace the occasion as the chief guest.
For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history two Physiotherapists, Dr. Sujeewa Weerasinghe and Sanjeewa Thunpaththu, have been named in the scientific committee of the International Conference of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy 3WCPT). The conference is to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2019.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has called for the “Hub of the Indian Ocean” concept to be adopted as the policy platform for Sri Lanka’s maritime cooperation. This concept has become the ideal platform to address many policy bottlenecks that Sri Lanka encounters today, be they
Soldiering in Sri Lanka during ancient, medieval, colonial, post-independent and contemporary times undoubtedly mirrors how the exercise of military power, as in the case of many countries around us, turned our Nation to Statesmanship while ensuring a potent and dynamic force for defence of the new nation-state in place.
?In life he shared a radiant smile and in death I saw him, without any exaggeration, retaining that smile, as I paid my last respects to SHIBLY AZIZ on October 8 at his residence in Lake Drive, Colombo. The residence was packed to capacity with mourners.
The Round Table Conference 2018, organised by the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, will be held on October 12 under the theme ‘Renewable Integrated Secure Power System for Sri Lanka : Challenges and Solutions’ at Jasmine Conference Hall at the BMICH in Colombo.
The need to remove the stigma attached around mental health has been discussed in various platforms and the need to support and empower the well-being of those struggling with mental illnesses is crucial at all cost.
Ragging of freshers is an ordinary occurrence in Sri Lankan State universities. However, the tragic incidents that we hear of or read on newspapers are far from what ordinary youth must endure in their institute providing higher education. Nevertheless, like many other blatantly irrational aspects of our society, despite all measures that have been purportedly taken so far, nothing seems to have curbed the strong-willed mindset of those who engag
Ageing is inevitable. In the world, the number of people aged 60 years and over has tripled since 1950, reaching 600 million in 2000 and surpassing 700 million in 2006. It’s projected that the combined senior and geriatric population will reach 2.1 billion by 2050. Sri Lanka, with the highest ageing population in
Hiranya Malwatte, who takes amasing photographs of our landscapes, people, and cultural sites, once made an interesting observation about why young people take to photography so much today. She contended that it is because to the aspiring artiste, even the most mundane picture becomes a work of art. Roughly the same argument can be made o
To mark the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Colombo Declaration on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility, THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM unequivocally condemns the arrest and continued detention of Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam, the issuing of a non-bailable arrest warrant to Pakistani journalist Cyril Almeida, the conviction of two Myanmar journalists, U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, and the enforced disappearance of Maldivian blogger Ahmed Ri
On this day ten years ago, our parents were taken from this world alongside thirty other innocent civilians in the city of Anuradhapura in a senseless violent suicide bombing. There were no warnings and no goodbyes. While it was the worst day for us in our lives, dwelling on that act does not take away the pain inflicted in the minds of the families of all those who are no longer here, including us.
Ven. Mahopadyaya Agga Maha Panditha Aluthgama Dhammananda Nayake Thera, a senior member of the Karaka Sabha of the Malwatte Chapter, passed away in the early morning of October 2 at the General Hospital, Kandy following a brief illness. He was 103 years old.
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