SriLankan Airlines Captain (Mrs.) Anusha Siriratne (34) and Junior First officer Madini Chandradasa (22) were the first all-female cockpit crew, operating a flight from Colombo to Trichy and back on November 1, 2009. Each leg on an Airbus A320 aircraft took one hour. They repeated the feat on New Year’s Day 2010 by flying to [...]
by Rhythmic Diaspora (londonlanka.blogspot.com) Is it ok for producers of the music video, to use a Buddha statue in the backdrop of that video?” asks VIC in his post on the subject here. Mr Mahasen Bandara goes on to answer the rhetorical question with “no, not at all”. What exactly is a rhetorical question anyway? [...]
How does one react when someone walks into your life and insists that there is a war taking place just beyond you? How does one come to a point when the death and destruction taking place so close goes unnoticed? How does one imagine neighbours at war? Does each neighbour shoot at the other, sitting [...]
By Raisa Wickrematunge School children are suffering in the run-up to the general elections, with teachers attending political meetings during school hours, according to the first interim report of the Programme for Protection of Public Resources (PPPR), the election monitoring unit of Transparency International Sri Lanka. The report outlined various instances where school principals, teachers [...]
Fiscal Profligacy Central Bank of Sri Lanka (C.B.S.L.) has been able to sell its story on interest rate and inflation management to the Treasury, an official said. C.B.S.L. Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said this in response to a query made by this reporter as to whether he was able to sell his story on interest [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara The Colombo Municipal Council’s (CMC) failure to provide adequate staff for its Public Health Department (PHD) poses a great threat to the public health in the city, Chief Medical Officer of Health CMC, Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam told The Sunday Leader. According to Dr. Kariyawasam, the PHD needs a 12,500 strong cadre for [...]
by RaKa (rakasuniverse.wordpress.com) I wanted to write this post after reading “Battery Myths” by Foxhound. It was a very nicely written post on the myth of not recharging the battery until it is fully discharged. It made me want to write a post on maintaining rechargeable batteries. But it took me some time to finalize [...]
Film Review By Sumaya Samarasinghe Just this week, I was a teenager again and reviewed a very simple and basic film which will earn absolutely no laurels for its acting, scripting or special effects, but the movie was directed by Chris Weitz to whom we owe the heartwarming screen adaptation of Nick Horby’s About A [...]
by On My Way(me-shak.blogspot.com) The love I have for the beach never seems to die. I much await to escape from the busyness of life, and spend a few hours listening to my love sing. The walks I take whenever I can spare a few hours have become events I look forward to, the most. [...]
The article that appeared on page 1 of The Sunday Leader issue of February 28, 2010 under the heading “Cooked Statistics,” drew flak from both the Department of Census and Statistics (D.C.S.) and the state controlled Sunday Observer, which, in the following Sunday, i.e. March 7, 2010, faithfully carried D.C.S.’ rejoinder without any comment as [...]
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