Courtesy Hiru News The Minister of Power and Energy Dullas Alahapperuma states that more than 100 mega watts could be added to the national grid using wind power before the end of this year. The Minister said this while inspecting the construction work of the Mannar Wind Power Plant, the largest wind power plant under […]

A. Hettiarachchi The recent unfortunate incident where three lives were lost due to a building collapse in Kandy prompted me to write this article. About six months ago there was a ‘Question Time Meeting ‘ of a professional association allied to building construction industry held in Wijerama Mawatha in Colombo 7. The topic of that […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational Education, Research and Innovation has initiated measures to setup a coordinating unit to bring Technology, Research and Innovation related services closer to the general public, as well as to provide technical guidance in addressing the issues related to the said fields faced by the general public, in pursuance […]

Team at E-Future Tech Systems E-Future Tech Systems (Pvt) Ltd Celebrates 3rd Anniversary with a Bang  In addition to ensuring a safe and healthy working environments, Sri Lankan businesses must innovate and adapt workplaces as the Covid-19 Global Pandemic has brought forward a transition in to on-line work practices while creating new vistas for freelancer […]

ඊ–ෆියුචර් ටෙක් සිස්ටම්ස්   කණ්ඩායම ඊ–ෆියුචර් ටෙක් සිස්ටම්ස් තෙවන සංවත්සරය උත්කර්ෂයෙන් සමරයි කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය හේතුකොටගෙන ඇතිවු නව වාතාවරණයට මුහුණදීමට ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ව්‍යාපාර ආරක්ෂිත හා සෞඛ්‍ය සම්පන්න සේවා පරිසරයක් සහතික කරලීමට අමතරව, ව්‍යාපාර නව්‍යකරණය හා සේවා ස්ථාන සහමුලින්ම පරිවර්තනයක් සිදුකළ යුතු බව work.lk, jobpal.lk සහ rubik.lk නිර්මාතෘ අංජන රත්නායක මහතා පවසා සිටි. කෝවිඩ් 19 ගෝලීය […]

LAYANANDA ALLES, Eng.Montreal, Canada courtesy The Island This is in relation to the article by Dr. Chandre Dharmawardana, Sri Lanka’s power supply, blackouts, and how to prevent them” published in the Island Newspaper. I am an electrical engineer, who has spent the last 30 years in research and development in telecommunication systems and system reliability, […]

By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island The Minister of Power, four days after assuming duties, had to face an island-wide power blackout which commenced around 12.30 pm on the 17th August and lasted up to 7-8 hours. The following day, he appointed a committee, comprising Ministry officials and power experts, to investigate the matter […]

Courtesy Hiru News Flooding of many parts of Colombo, the commercial capital of the country as well as the most populous city, has been an unresolved issue for a long time. About 35% of the area in Colombo city is inundated due to unauthorized and informal constructions. Another factor is the inadequacy of canals to […]

Courtesy Hiru News A team of officers from the Geological Survey of Sri Lanka visited the Kandy area today to inquire into the unusual tremors that are reported to have occurred in several areas. The tremors have been felt in Kandy, Anuragama, Haragama, Gurudeniya, Thalathuoya and several other areas last night. The tremors were recorded at […]

නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යතුමියගේ  මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් “දුෂ්කර පළාත්වල දුවා දරුවන්ගේ වෘත්තීය පුහුණුව නැංවීමට අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සොයා බැලීම සහ එම ආයතන පරීක්ෂා කිරිම සඳහා ඇමතිවරිය උදෑසන හදිසි මෙහෙයුමක නිරත විය.” නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්‍යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය සීතා අරඹේපොල මහත්මිය ඊයේ දින (22 දින)උදෑසනම  අනුරාධපුර […]

ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය කොවිඩ් 19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය හමුවේ අඩපන වූ පාවහන් සහ සම්භාණ්ඩ කර්මාන්ත ක්ෂේත්‍රයට නව පනක් ලබාදිමේ අරමුණින් සෞභාග්‍යයේ දැක්ම ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශනය අනුව ගරු කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ අමාත්‍යතුමාගේ දේශීය කර්මාන්ත නගාසි‍ටුවීමේ සංකල්පය මත ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ සම්භාන්ඩ නිෂ්පාදන හා පාවහන් සංවර්ධන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් ‘Made in Sri Lanka’ දීපව්‍යාප්ත දේශීය සම්භානණ්ඩ නිෂ්පාදන […]

B.D. Witharana In a series of speeches made at the State Council, especially during 1933-34, Wimalasurendra identified the broad alliance that worked against the Hydroelectric Scheme. He used different names at times to identify this alliance: ‘Big Business’, ‘Oil and Coal Combine’, ‘Almighty Oil Interests’, ‘Big Business and Alien Combines’, ‘Imperialistic Element’, ‘Big Business Element’, […]

නියෝජ්‍ය අධ්‍යක්ෂ ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලය දිස්ත්‍රික් කාර්යාලය – කොළඹ වැවිලි කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍යාංශයේ රබර් ලේකම් කාර්යාලය හා ලංකා කාර්මික සංවර්ධන මණ්ඩලයේ රබර් භාණ්ඩ සංවර්ධන හා සේවා මධ්‍යස්ථානය එක්ව රබර් ආශ්‍රිත නිෂ්පාදන පිළිබඳ දැනුවත් කිරීමේ එක් දින වැඩසටහනක් සංවිධානය කර ඇත. මෙම වැඩසටහන රබර් ආශ්‍රිත නිෂ්පාදන ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ නිරත ව්‍යවසායකයන් සහ රබර් නිෂ්පාදන ක්ෂේත්‍රයට අලුතින් එක්වීමට කැමති […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi. I am not a medic, but in this Covid-19 pandemic, the most qualified medical experts or scientists appear to be clueless as we are as to how Covid-19 behaves. Hence, I like to put the above question for our medics to ponder, giving my own observations and those of a few others. A […]

Dr. Gamini Padmaperuma Background It was clearly observed how the existing digital infrastructure was over-stretched and overwhelmed during this difficult time, which led to computer system and website overloads or crashes. Also, long queues for securing necessary food provisions, medicines, etc. were observed. All public and private educational institutions were closed which disrupted most of […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi Few days ago I was watching an interesting program hosted by ITN between 10pm and 12pm where the National Innovation Council chairman presented six innovations done by Sri Lankans. They were mostly the solutions related to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The chairman stated that about 250 innovation have been brought to the council […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi In trying to take advantage of the lockdown that we have been subjected to, I decided to read a book on digital technology from which I had previously read here and there, this time with a determination of understanding it better. It had been written by a famous professor (US) who had inspired […]

ප්‍රවෘත්ති නිවේදනයයි තාක්ෂණ හා නවොත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය උසස් අධ්‍යාපන, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන අමාත්‍යාංශය (MHETI) සහ  තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය (SMTI) විසින් එම අමාත්‍යාංශ යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක රාජ්‍ය පර්යේෂණ ආයතන (GRI), විශ්වවිද්‍යාල සහ පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ සහයෝගීතාවෙන් සංවිධාන කරන  INNOTECH 2020  – තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන ජාතික  ප්‍රදර්ශනය  මාර්තු මස 11 වන දින සිට 14 වන දින දක්වා […]

Tudor Wijenayake 1. The country is facing a shortage of electricity 2. CEB is purchasing power from private suppliers paying excess of Rs 30 per unit. 3. World’s technology has advanced for solar and wind producing electricity at less than Rs.3 per unit. 4. Our country is blessed with sun’s energy throughout the year and high […]

Tudor Wijenayake Concerns of pollution worldwide have led to an interest in renewable energy, mostly supplied from wind and solar power, delivering increasing quantities of electricity. The developments started on a small scale prior to 2010 have reached substantial proportions and are expected to meet the entire world’s power demand by 2050 The country is facing […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය, තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන සම්බන්ධීකරණ ලේකම් කාර්යාලය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික බුද්ධිමය දේපල කාර්යාලය සමග එක්ව, ලෝක බුද්ධිමය දේපල සංවිධානයේ සහ ජපාන පේටන්ට් බලපත්‍ර කාර්යාලයේ සහයෝගීතාවෙන් සංවිධාන කළ පේටන්ට් බලපත්‍ර ගොනු කිරිම පිළිබඳ නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන සහ පුහුණු සිව්දින වැඩමුළුව අද දින තාක්ෂණ හා නවෝත්පාදන […]

Courtesy APK Metro News In a dusty northwest India desert dotted with cows and the occasional camel, a solar-power plant is producing a few of the world’s cheapest power. In-built 2018 by India’s Acme Photo voltaic Holdings Ltd., it may possibly generate 200 megawatts of electrical energy, sufficient to energy all of the properties in […]

Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia could build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Sri Lanka someday, considering the growing energy demand in the country, Russian Ambassador to Colombo Yury Materiy has said in an interview with Sputnik. Since the Sri Lankan government favours pollution-free energy and aims at gradually replacing coal and oil with gas and […]

Emma Davies Courtesy  Proactive Investors Australia he Mannar Island project has power, road and rail infrastructure, is backed by a government supportive of foreign investment and is ideally situated for product export to Asian markets. Panning of RC aircore samples from below the water table at the Mannar Island project Titanium Sands Ltd‘s (ASX:TSL) initial assay […]

Prof. Chandana Jayalath As a matter of way out of the subdued economic growth, the Sri Lankan government recognizes the need to increase the employability rates of the youth. To that end, the ministries in the subject of skills development, vocational training and youth affairs have been tasked with providing technical and vocational training to […]

Ada Derana

By Dr Garvin Karunaratne, formerly of the SLAS

By IM Dharmadasa, Leslie Dep, Jayantha Silva, Lakshman Dissanayake and Oliver Ileperuma August 2, 2019, 8:47 pm  According to the news items in the local press during the first week of June 2019, the “Surya Bala Sangramaya” programme launched in 2016 seems to be on the verge of collapse. The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and […]

BP Advertisement As billions of people lift themselves out of poverty, we’ll need a lot more energy. But at the same time emissions need to reduce dramatically. This is the dual challenge the world faces. India, with its growing, increasingly prosperous population – and where emissions have risen sharply – captures the complexity of this challenge […]

Xinhua ADDIS ABABA, July 31 — Officials from Ethiopia, China and Sri Lanka on Wednesday vowed to spur trilateral partnership under the South-South cooperation modality in the renewable energy technologies sector. They disclosed the joint commitments in the renewable energy technologies sector in here on Wednesday during a high-level workshop, which focused on a trilateral […]