By Raisa Wickrematunge Last Saturday night (19), Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Kumarasena was agitated. Kumarasena, who worked as a driver at United Tractors, told someone that he had found out his wife of ten years was having an affair. He had been thrown out of the family house. He was visibly upset, even tearful at what had [...]
By Ranee Mohamed – Pictures by Asoka Fernando The couple from America who were waiting for their turn at the Children’s Home in Rawatawatte were not at fault. They wanted a baby with all their heart and they had gone through the correct process to get a child by contacting a ‘licenced adoption agency.’ They [...]
By Maryam Azwer Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ravindra Ruberu, said on Friday (25) that the price control mechanism proposed for pharmaceutical products is still “being considered.” He said this in response to certain claims made by the pharmaceutical industry, which last week spoke out strongly against the proposed price control. According to [...]
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization’ – Samuel Johnson Boswell’s Life of Johnson This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight today on abject poverty and the misery of beggars in Sri Lanka,which defeats the aspirations of our society to [...]
Of Beauty Queens.. The subject of “beauty queens” also making the trip to St. Kitts to boost Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth Games’ bid irked the ire of Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal at a press conference held recently to describe the Government’s bid fiasco. Cabraal, a co-chair of this failed bid attempt [...]
Horse Racing Kauto Star (6-1) rolled back the years to win the Betfair Chase at Haydock last week for a record fourth time. Paul Nicholls’ remarkable stable star had already achieved legendary status and was cheered around the parade ring before the race but the cheers that greeted his victory were unprecedented. Kauto Star [...]
The first few days of the parliamentary proceedings last week were mainly focused on the UNP’s protest in the Chamber holding placards with the words “shame” during the budget speech. The UNP lawmakers and the governing party lawmakers were engaged in friendly banter in the parliament lobby, discussing the incidents during the budget speech. Several [...]
IFS Applications has been ranked in the dominant zone for mixed mode manufacturing (MMM) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software by third-party analyst group Technology Evaluation Centres (TEC). According to the report: “IFS Applications has four modules located in the Dominant Zone: Manufacturing, Inventory, Purchasing and Quality Management. IFS Applications’ strength in these modules is due [...]
The Colombo Hockey association has completed 55 years of Hockey in the metropolis and it is the first ever initiative taken to develop Hockey in Sri Lanka, predating even the formation of the Sri Lanka Hockey Federation in 1956. The Colombo Hockey Association was inaugurated in the year 1955 on a concept initiated by Walter [...]
Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS Health writer It sounds a trendy word like “cholesterol” and “inflammation’, a medical term that could be exploited by slimming diet advocates. Ketosis is a normal process where excessive ketone bodies formed, a crucial organic compound- acetoacetate, when the human body is starved of carbohydrates for energy requirements. Plan [...]
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