Although many parts of the world had abolished slavery by the twentieth century, modes of unjust servitude exist, to this day, in the form of domestic workers who are paid a measly amount for their work. According to a recent analysis conducted by Sri Lanka’s Verité Research on the existing legal and policy framework regarding Sri Lanka’s domestic workers, there ...
Sri Lanka’s diverse wildlife has been blowing up on the big screen recently. There was National Geographic’s Wild Sri Lanka series that captivated us all and then Disney’s Nature Documentary Monkey Kingdom, which melted a little piece of our hearts. It doesn’t end here. Last month, Steve Winter, a National Geographic wildlife photojournalist, filmmaker and speaker visited Sri Lanka to ...
In local news, it hasn’t been a great week for certain police officers ‒ or even MPs, as it turns out. Meanwhile, Senator Ted Cruz has withdrawn his US presidential candidacy, while a partial truce was declared in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Local Thajudeen Murder Case: Colombo Traffic DIG Questioned The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday (4) questioned ...
Late last month, at a time of severe national financial crisis, the Treasury was told to absorb SriLankan Airlines’ liabilities of Rs. 461 billion. Once again, the national carrier is looking for partners. The Minister of Finance promised to convert SriLankan Airlines into a regional airline focused on profitable destinations. The transformation depends on the input of “professional management inclusive ...
‘Human rights’, once a theoretical concept debated among philosophers, has today become a phenomenal force which has even been given priority over sovereignty of states. All major religions of the world recognise at least some forms of these rights – the supremacy of morals and victory of good over evil. Human rights in the modern context may be defined in ...
Tired of typing and reading texts/IMs? Would you much rather deal with voice messages instead? There’s an app for that. It’s called Katha, and it’s 100% Sri Lankan. Katha aims to revolutionise the way we communicate by going back to basics: Talking. The service allows users to not only send direct voice messages to each other but also broadcast to ...
Just one more day to go and this exhausting, not altogether pleasant (to some of us, at least) year will come to a rather appreciated end. Regardless of whether it really has been that bad or not, we believe it’s important not to dive head first into a new year without looking back at the one that just passed, make ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has extended the time given to the Cabinet of Ministers to review the report on the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant by two weeks.
It’s been a relatively lazy week for news, possibly due to the poya on Tuesday – the highlights include protesting students, space debris heading towards Sri Lanka’s Southern tip and talks over a railway line from Maradana to Battaramulla. Here’s a brief recap of what happened this week in case you missed out: Space Debris Headed This Way WT1190F, an ...
Every year, Sri Lanka loses millions of rupees due to the country’s frustrating reluctance to adopt paperless trade. It’s 2016 and both state and [some] private sector players continue to display scant regard for the need to move on to electronic documents and electronic signatures. At a time when our direct competitors are reaping the benefits of embracing and keeping ...
2016 is well on its way, and considering the positive feedback we got following The Hottest Srilankan Startups of 2015, we’ve decided to feature our take on the most up and coming Sri Lankan startups on a monthly basis. With venture capitalist firms, angel networks and frequent startup events happening all around Sri Lanka, we feel the startup scene of ...
A Peacock Mansion, school principals, and court cases took centre stage in local news this week ‒ in what turned out to be a lighter contrast to the more intense events that took place on the global platform. Here’s this week in news: Local Unrest In Embilipitiya Embilipitiya hartal. Image Credit: asianmirror.lk A tense situation erupted in the small town ...
In his inaugural address to the nation just over two years ago, President Maithripala Sirisena made a solemn promise. Speaking in front of the sacred Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, broadcast live via all state and private television channels, Sirisena swore that he was going to be a one-term president ‒ in stark contrast to his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa’s unconstitutional and ...
Roar took the first steps towards our goal to be a regional digital media enterprise last year, with the launch of our Bangladeshi site (check out the glowing reviews!), but 2017 is all set to be the year that we truly go international. We already had an exciting start to the year when we quietly launched our brand new Hindi ...
Netflix is finally here in Sri Lanka, and for those of you who have been living under a rock, it’s THE leading TV service/streaming platform around the world. And Sri Lanka isn’t the only country to get Netflix either, as the global launch included some 130 countries worldwide. Netflix is pretty much global. Image Credit: support.netflix.com The launch was officially ...
