BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS       Many countries engage in animal exports for various purposes. Many Middle East countries import animal for various purposes such as getting meat, wools and skins and export of animal are major businesses and export of monkeys has no specific problems to Sri Lanka. It would be a business like in […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The first contemporary monograph on western medicine in Sri Lanka was C.G Uragoda’s History of medicine in Sri Lanka from the earliest times to 1948, issued as the centenary publication of the Sri Lanka Medical Association in 1987. It recorded the   development of western medicine during the Portuguese, Dutch and British occupation and […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  The History of surgery in Sri Lanka published by the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka contains surgical information which will be greatly valued by the surgeons. But the book also contains information which will appeal to those interested in the history of medicine.  The book is a gold mine of medical biography. […]

Manusha Media Caregiver jobs in Japan and Europe – Hospitality industry jobs in England, Canada, Australia – Construction industry jobs in the Middle East Agreement inked for a vocational training programme aimed at foreign employment Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said  his Ministry has been able to secure lucrative employment opportunities in several countries for […]

By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Courtesy BBC Ghana is the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been described as a “world-changer” by the scientists who developed it. The vaccine – called R21 – appears to be hugely effective, in stark contrast to previous ventures in the same field. Ghana’s […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ප්‍රධාන කරුණු දෙකක් පදනම් කර ගනිමින් ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්පාදනය කළ බව අධිකරණ, බන්ධනාගාර කටයුතු හා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ අමාත්‍ය ආචාර්ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ පවසයි. විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ, අද (අප්‍රේල් 18) පැවැති කැබිනට් තීරණ දැනුම් දීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවේදී ය. රැඳවුම් නියෝග නිකුත් කිරීම සහ පාපොච්චාරණය මත චූදිතයන් වරදකරුවන් බවට […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror An intelligence report revealed that certain extremist political groups wanted to promote extremist political ideologies by using the frustration of the youth by delaying the scrutinization of GCE (A/L) answer scripts, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said. After signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Vocational Training Authority (VTA) and the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has initiated discussions for the conversion of the Department of Railways to a public corporation as part of the process of reforming the state-owned enterprises (SOEs), a minister said today. A public corporation or a statutory corporation is operated on a commercial basis and governed by a chairman and […]

Courtesy Adaderana President of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong has affirmed that his country always attaches importance to developing its traditional friendship and multifaceted collaboration with Sri Lanka. This was mentioned when the new Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Sajeewa Umanga Mendis presented their credentials to President Thuong on Tuesday (April 18). The Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy Adaderana Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe says he has been tipped off on several occasions about a local official being bribed by the insurer of the tanker MV X-Press Pearl, which was gutted in a fire that erupted off the western coast of Sri Lanka two years ago. The lawmaker made this staggering revelation while […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත සකස් කර ඇත්තේ ජනතාවාදී අයුරින් බව අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ පවසනවා. ප්‍රවෘත්ති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අද (18) පැවති කැබිනට් තීරණ දැනුම්දීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවට එක්වෙමින් අමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියා. “ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනතින් ජනතාවට හානියක් නැහැ – එක්ස්ප්‍රස්පර්ල් වන්දිය යට ගහන තැන

Courtesy Hiru News The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to permit only religious events at the Galle Face Green from 20th April 2023. According to a document from the Department of Government Information, permission will not be granted for musical shows, political meetings, or mass gatherings to be held at the Galle Face Green in […]