KAMALIKA PIERIS The History of Surgery published by the College of Surgeon of Sri Lanka (2022) has   provided a very positive picture of the role of our general surgeons. The first surgeons in the island were General Surgeons” who were expected to   deal with all surgical cases that came their way.  All surgical operations were […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS Surgical specialties were introduced to the state health sector in the late 1950s. The General Hospital Colombo was the first to get permanent special units, such as a thoracic unit, observed History of Surgery. But some specialties were started in the provincial hospitals as well.  Doctors who had trained in specialized surgery abroad […]

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Prof.  N.A.de S. Amaratunga  The purpose of this article is to show how and why man created religion and how man himself is destroying it. Religion was created by man in his search for solutions to the human predicament, full of defilement, insatiable greed, uncontrolable hatred, ignorence, self-ego which caused immense mental dissatisfaction and sorrow. […]

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Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Vermicomposting is a process of composting organic waste materials using earthworms. In this process, earthworms consume organic waste, such as food scraps, paper, and other plant-based materials, and then excrete it in the form of vermicompost, a nutrient-rich fertilizer that is beneficial for plants. During the process of vermiculture, the earthworms […]

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Manusha Media ඒත් සමහරු කලබල වෙලා තියෙන්නේ ජනතාව රවටන පටු දේශපාලනය තවදුරටත් කරන්න බැරි වෙන නිසා- අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මිනිස්සු ජීවත් කරවීමට, සිස්ටම් එක චේන්ජ් කිරීමට අපිට කලබලයක් තිබූ බවත්, ජනතාව රවටන පටු දේශපාලනය තවදුරටත් ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාමට නොහැකිවීම නිසා තවත් පිරිසක් කලබල වී ඇති බවත් කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. […]

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Courtesy Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 — The Immigration Department has busted a syndicate which used Malaysian international passports to smuggle Sri Lankan children to Europe, following the arrest of a local married couple. Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the couple were nabbed last Wednesday (April 12) when they turned up at the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe today refused to allow the education of children to be taken hostage and said education would be made an essential service under emergency law if teachers refuse to return to paper-marking by next week. No one is going to hold the education of children as hostage. That I am not […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The Chinese Embassy in Colombo says that the country’s wildlife authorities have clarified that they are not aware of the request to export 100,000 toque macaque monkeys from Sri Lanka to a Chinese private company and that no such application has been received from any side.  Issuing a press release on the issue, […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The last time emerging markets faced a major debt crisis, in the 1990s, influential creditors, named after traditional centres of diplomacy and finance, could quickly gather in private to agree a solution. These days, bringing together a more diverse group of lenders has proved a more cumbersome exercise. The Paris Club’s members are […]

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