With each succeeding year Nawaloka Hospitals has continued to make significant progress and extend its consistent record of being Sri Lanka’s leading private healthcare facility. Nawaloka Hospitals PLC recently celebrated their 25th anniversary with Prime Minister D.M Dayaratne as Chief Guest in a ceremony that felicitated its staff and paid tribute to the hospital’s achievements [...]
Take responsibility for your own heart health. Lanka Hospitals together with the Sri Lanka Heart Association will have their “Heart Health Walk 2010” today, September 26. Many activities will follow after the walk at the premises of Lanka Hospitals. The walk will commence from the D.S. Senanayaka College junction (Borella Cemetery Junction) at 6.45 am [...]
Ms. Ranee Mohammed’s article on Amali (The Sunday Leader, 12-09-10) for whom her heart seems to bleed, has been written contrary to her own religious tenets. Her religion prescribes only one punishment for adultery which is, in the case of a woman, she be buried chest deep and stoned to death. Ms. Mohammed does not [...]
“True, it is not the first time Rome has seen a man wielding unlimited power; but it is the first time he sets no limit to it…” — Camus (Caligula) By Tisaranee Gunasekara The 18th Amendment was the elixir of power, absolute and longue durée; empowered, the Rajapaksas are unleashing mopping-up operations to neutralise the [...]
Rajapaksa’s ‘Thank You’ To Political Stooges By Vimukthi Yapa Sri Lanka may have defeated terrorism – which is the trump card of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at this year’s UN General Assembly in New York but the country will never fail to draw a laugh and a snigger for her blatant show of decadence each time [...]
She lives in a village which has no name board even today. The only major board one finds in her village on the Morawaka-Deniyaya road in the Southern Province is that of M. D. Yapa Vidyalaya, Waralla. This school, which commenced operations in the 1930s through the initiative of a planter, was elevated to a college [...]
Forte International, a Forte Group member has been appointed Global Hospitals Group India’s strategic partner on account of the hold Forte group has in the healthcare industry. Forte Group Chairman and CEO M.F.A. Riyas said that they will facilitate locals seeking treatment in India with the support of Sri Lankan doctors. Patients could also approach [...]
Twelve-year-old Samm Pecht of Gateway College, Negombo has triumphed in the Junior Category of the Commonwealth Essay Competition bringing credit to Sri Lanka. The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) has been running international creative competitions for young people for more than a hundred years. The Commonwealth Essay Competition is the world’s oldest and largest youth writing [...]
I have witnessed the game change immensely during the last two decades since I have been involved with cricket. In the ’80s we had only a manager cum coach or/and an assistant manager cum assistant coach with the national team. Since then we have gone on to having physios, masseurs, computer analysts, psychologists, batting coaches, [...]
By Raisa Wickrematunge and Abdul H. Azeez Kilinochchi still holds much nostalgia for the would-be patriot. The symbolism attributed to the town for its role in the final conflict is exemplified by the many iconic war memorials, including the famous overturned water tower. The soldiers that guard them deliver lectures on the artistry and symbolism [...]
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