Dilan De Silva Chartered Quantity Surveyor Introduction Disruptive innovation fundamentally transforms a sector by replacing expensive, complicated, and inaccessible products or services with much less expensive, simpler, and more convenient alternatives.” (Staker, P.1) (Source: https://twitter.com/kenradio/status/1203204477655769088)   (Source: https://www.theengineeringcommunity.org/19-amazing-vintage-photos-that-show-how-people-worked-before-autocad/)   (Photograph by John Miranda: Source: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/workstations.html)   Let’s take a few examples of disruptive innovations; Within […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොළඹ වරාය නගර ව්‍යාපෘතියේ 6 වැනි සංවත්සරය යෙදෙන අද 2020.09.17 දිනයේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා එහි නිරීක්ෂණ චාරිකාවට එක් විය. වරාය නගරයේ සැහැල්ලු යාත්‍රාංගනය, පොදු වෙරළ තීරය නිරීක්ෂණය කළ අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා එහි ස්ථාපිත වන ඇක්වා ගෝල්ෆ් ක්‍රීඩා පිටියට පැමිණ ගොල්ෆ් ක්‍රීඩාවේ ද නිරත විය. අනතුරුව වරාය නගර මධ්‍ය උද්‍යානයේ  අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමා විසින් මැයි මාර […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොළඹ කොටස් හුවමාරුව සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සුරැකුම්පත් විනිමය කොමිෂන් සභාව එක්ව හඳුන්වා දෙන ලද  ඩිජිටල්කරණය  වූ කොළඹ කොටස් වෙළඳපොළ ජනගත කිරීමේ උත්සවය අද 2020.09.17 දින ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් කොළඹ කොටස් හුවමාරු පරිශ්‍රයේදී පැවැත් විණි. ”අනාගතයට අධි පිම්මක්  ”  (Hyper  leap to the future) යන තේමාව යටතේ සංවිධානය කර තිබූ […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ  අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමක් කලක පටන් නිර්මාණයවී ඇත. එහි ආරම්භය කවදාදැයි අපි නොදනිමු. නමුත් ඒ සටනින් මිනිසා ජයගෙන අලින් අල්ලා මෙල්ලකරගෙන උන්ගෙන් වැඩ ගන්නා තත්වයට පත්ව සිටියහ. එදා අලින් අල්ලා මෙල්ලකර උන්ගෙන් වැඩගත් සමාජය අද උන්ට දුටු තැන වෙඩි තබන තත්වයට පත්ව ඇත. ඒ වර්තමානයේදී පවතින අලි මිනිස් ගැටුමේ ස්වරූපයයි. මේ තත්වය වෙනස්කල යුතුය.අලියාට […]

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By Dr. Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai Courtesy NewsIn.Asia During the lockdown in Sri Lanka, the rich and the poor alike got their daily bread from the humble itinerant “choon paan” man Street vendors and hawkers are ubiquitous part of everyday business. The secret of their survival even under stressful conditions is that they are very adaptable to […]

BY ASHMAN ADAM Courtesy Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — The Kuala Lumpur High Court today dismissed a taxi driver’s legal bid to delist the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist group in the country. Malaysiakini reported Justice Mariana Yahya issuing the ruling over V. Balamurugan’s judicial review application during […]

Courtesy Adaderana The person alleged to be the fugitive gangster Maddumage Lasantha Chandana Perera alias ‘Angoda Lokka’ had died of heart attack in Coimbatore and no foul play was involved in his death, a senior officer of India’s CB-CID said on Wednesday based on the findings of the post-mortem, chemical examination and histopathology reports. K. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks warned MP Harin Fernando over the impulsive behavior displayed during his testimony at the commission. The former Sports Minster appeared before the Commission yesterday (16), to testify regarding the statement he made to the media that his father had pre-warned him […]

Courtesy Adaderana The 156th birth anniversary commemoration of Anagarika Dharmapala was held under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Mahabodhi Agrashravaka Maha Vihara in Maligakanda today (17). President was received by the Chairman of Mahabodhi Society and Chief Sanghanayaka of Japan Ven. Banagala Upatissa Thero at the venue. After paying floral tribute to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The World Bank Group’s 2020 Human Capital Index, released today, finds that a child born in Sri Lanka today will be 60 percent as productive when she grows up as compared to if she enjoyed complete education and full health. This is higher than the average for South Asia region and lower middle-income […]

Courtesy Hiru News 05 suspects including a lawyer arrested by CID for forging documents to claim a property of one Easter Sunday suicide bomber, remanded until September 28

Courtesy Hiru News The captain of the M.T. New Diamond ship was issued a notice to appear before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court on the 28th. This was when the CID made submissions before Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage. The Attorney General had instructed the CID to name the captain of the ship as a […]

Courtesy Hiru News One arrival from Qatar, one from UAE & one from Madagascar tested positive for Covid-19 raising the total in Sri Lanka to 3,274.