By Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A.Matara As a school boy at St Peter’s College I was always dragged by my father to mount and set up a public address system at one of the LSSP meetings. He owned Radio Works Bambalapitiya and held a contract with the LSSP to supply public address systems at election meetings […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera Ex CEO Cololmbo Dockyard Pvt Ltd and chairman advisory board under EDB to develop Marine and Offshore Industry  1. Introduction Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture in its economic and industrial development. The current Government’s development priorities, especially under the NPP administration, recognize that a robust and skilled workforce is indispensable […]

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Senaka Weeraratna  Imran Khan delivered the ‘ MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture’ in 2010.  In this riveting lecture full of exciting personal anecdotes Imran Khan refers also to the tensions on the field due to poor umpiring decisions stemming from either negligence or deliberate wrong doing usually favouring the home side.   He cites a […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Sept. 19 (Daily Mirror) – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 with Sri Lanka positioned at the 93rd spot.   Last year, Sri Lanka ranked the 89th spot in the index. Published annually since 2007, the ranking uses 80 indicators – from research and […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ආහාර සුරක්ෂිතතාව ඉහළ නැංවීමේ අරමුණින් පොළොන්නරුව නගරයේ සහ ඒ අවට ආහාර පරිහරණය කරන ආයතන ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීමේ සහ ඇගයීමේ උත්සවයක් කථානායක වෛද්‍ය ජගත් වික්‍රමරත්නගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්වුණා. එම අවස්ථාවට එක්වෙමින් කථානායකවරයා සඳහන් කළේ, වසර 40ක් වූ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ඉතිහාසය තුළ කිසිදු අවස්ථාවක මුළුතැන්ගෙය මහජන සෞඛ්‍ය පරීක්ෂකවරුන්ගේ අධීක්ෂණයකට හෝ ලක්වී නොමැති බවයි. එම අවස්ථාවේදී ඔහු […]

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