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Mon, 30 Mar 2020 Today's Paper
30 Mar 2020 - 0 - 452
Like so many bad things, COVID-19 or Novel Coronavirus came across as something abstract, unreal, something which can’t happen to you.
30 Mar 2020 - 0 - 143
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has issued a brief guide highlighting legal concerns regarding the Government response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Sri Lanka.
28 Mar 2020 - 4 - 1304
In order to encourage social and physical distancing practices, the government took steps to distribute essential food items to households with effect from March 25. For this, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a taskforce on continuous supply, operation and coordination of services.
24 Mar 2020 - 5 - 1403
Amid 86 people being tested positive at the time this article was penned and 222 others currently undergoing treatment at designated hospitals...
24 Mar 2020 - 0 - 162
I have known Uncle Sarath (1948 - 2020) my entire life. He and Aunty Tania were my parents’ closest friends. Uncle Sarath and my father....
24 Mar 2020 - 1 - 540
The medical profession in Ceylon had by the late 19th century followed patterns set down in most of the European colonies in Asia.
24 Mar 2020 - 0 - 176
Desamanya Dr Roland Silva was a unique personality. I am yet to meet someone who can be compared as a close second to him.
22 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1783
A responsible Government Medical Officer publicly opined that the situation of corona virus of initial stage of Sri Lanka was worse than Italy. This is not correct comparing Italy and Sri Lanka figures.
20 Mar 2020 - 4 - 2547
Dr Leong Hoe Nam, infectious disease specialist at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, answers questions you may have on the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Dr Leong Hoe Nam is an infectious disease specialist practising at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.
20 Mar 2020 - 3 - 490
Is this the reason why many good people die early? March 20 is my fathers birthday.. He would have been 78 had he lived.. He was a wonderful father and a wonderful husband, but most of all he was a wonderful human being.
19 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1010
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected the everyday lives of people, including those of politicians. With public health concerns increasing, questions are being raised about holding national elections amid the coronavirus spread. Although nomination papers have been signed, candidates contesting the upcoming Parliamentary Elections will be hampered in running their campaigns and holding public meetings, until the crisis subsides. While some leaders h
18 Mar 2020 - 2 - 3965
With the discovery of the 34th active Covid-19 positive patient in Sri Lanka, the municipal council of Nuwara Eliya is taking preventive measures and raising awareness seriously. Although the government declared Monday (16) a public holiday, all the essential services including health and other services as well as wholesale and retail shops had been requested to function as per usual.
17 Mar 2020 - 0 - 999
Filled with brightly coloured balloons and music playing in the background, the hall at the Home of Compassion had an air of festivity and cheerfulness about it. As the residents of the home gathered together, the man of the hour, Sellat
17 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1566
Certainly, 75 years is a long period. It is a triple quarter centenary; more than a Diamond memory; Just a quarter less than a century. It is a well-fit occasion to be commemorat
16 Mar 2020 - 0 - 443
The action-thriller is a genre that was relatively rare in Indian commercial cinema, Bollywood, Kollywood or any other, until the new millennium. Though the 1958 film Madhumathi is based on a murder and its unravelling, it can’t be classified as a thriller (its described as a paranormal romance).
16 Mar 2020 - 0 - 105
As a kidney patient having undergone dialysis over 375 times in private hospitals I noted last year this day passed unnoticed by many. I found no such activities conducted for CKD- Chronic Kidney Disease....
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 139
On March 11, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. While Italy is currently on lockdown, China’s situation is slowly being controlled.
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 185
Damien was a character well-known for a combination of qualities that intrigued and attracted many. He was a very close friend of other interesting people who were his contemporaries at Peradeniya University in the 1950s and of others who were his mates at the Sri Lanka Administrative Service.
14 Mar 2020 - 0 - 519
The Peradeniya University Science Faculty Alumni lost W.M.D. Wijekoon, old boy of Dharmaraja College, who entered university in October 1968.
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 1695
A recent a joint research by a leading Dutch based institute, in which a world renowned Sri Lankan scientist too was involved has shown that half of the world’s beaches including Sri Lanka’s would disappear by 2100.
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 232
Time and memory are closely intertwined, as it seeps away quite unconsciously, adding meaning to the oscillating moments between past and future. Some of these moments are deemed worthy of notice and recorded as history....
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 137
A team of orthopaedic surgeons from the global humanitarian organisation ‘Steps 2 Walk’ visited Sri Lanka recently. They held workshops for local orthopaedic surgeons and conducted foot and ankle surgeries in the National Hospital, Colombo.
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 57
Political alliances are marriages of conveniences. The UNP, which promises everyone that it would stick together, and accuses the media of painting a false picture of disunity, is trying to outdo itself in vilifying the rival factions.
13 Mar 2020 - 0 - 48
Journalists under threat during elections is nothing new in Sri Lanka, but the nature of these threats is changing. The November election illustrates just how underprepared journalists....
12 Mar 2020 - 1 - 1132
Chances are you love (or hate) getting to know your daily step count, the flights of stairs you’ve taken each day or even the distance you’ve walked or not walked during your day. Yes, it can get you a little distressed sometimes, but let’s face it; it does motivate you, without a visit to your doctor and an uncomfortable reminder of having to exercise more. All this and a nudge towards managing a more active lifestyle is possible with a smartpho
12 Mar 2020 - 0 - 42
The Animate Her series is a collection of animated interviews told through stop-motion and experimental animation which features a group of exceptional women living and working in Sri Lanka.
12 Mar 2020 - 0 - 589
A group of 72 academics from eight universities has urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and all national leaders to reject violence and division, and ensure everyone’s safety, as the country prepares to mourn the victims of the Easter bombings on 21 April.
12 Mar 2020 - 0 - 21
Referring to the set of guidelines issued by the Mullaitivu District Secretariat to all non-governmental organisations working in the district asking them to focus on infrastructure development and not on soft skill training, the National Peace Council (NPC) said soft skill training was also essential.
11 Mar 2020 - 0 - 186
The International Women’s Day culminated with vibrant celebrations and appreciation toward women who have succeeded in life. And then, there are those women who represent the estate sector, farmer and fisheries communities, janitorial service, prostitution and many other blue-collar professions that never get appreciated. Female migrant labourers too are part of this
10 Mar 2020 - 0 - 198
When they weren’t climbing mountains or conversing with kings, the earliest foreign writers on Sri Lanka were dwelling on gems, rubies, topazes, sapphires, and moonstones. From Pliny and Cosmas to Fa Hsien, Odoric of Pordenone.....
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