Approximately 1.23 billion ‒ that’s around one-seventh of the entire world’s population. That’s also the number of people checking Facebook on a daily basis. Facebook use has almost become a full-fledged addiction: a visit just out of boredom and you’ll find yourself still scrolling through the home page hours later. Facebook becoming a habit wasn’t a mere accident; it is ...
Sri Lanka and the Maldives have become the first two countries in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) South-East Asia region to eliminate measles and rubella, ahead of the 2023 target.
During most crises, the effects felt are uneven. The COVID-19 pandemic has its fair share of consequences, both as a result of the crisis and the state's response to it. While the lockdown has been a measure implemented to mitigate the threat of COVID-19, it has produced unintended consequences and circumstances that are yet to be addressed.
For Kendrick Fernando (19) and his fellow passengers, the process took more than 14 hours. They landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) on March 15, but only arrived at the Vavuniya quarantine centre the next day.
Instances of rape of young boys in Sri Lanka are frequent but the idea that the boy child is less susceptible to sexual abuse and rape in this country is also widespread.
Across the largest Gulf State, more than hundreds of Sri Lankan workers wait in hope to return home. It has been over three months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a COVID-19 pandemic, but none of the stranded workers in Saudi Arabia have yet been repatriated.
Almost every week, for the last 126 years, well-dressed tea traders have gathered at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) to snap up Ceylon Tea for export.
There are new taps installed in the guard room, with bars of soap on the side. A nurse monitors your temperature and you wipe your feet against a special mat, before you enter the premises. At the doorway is a separate chamber, where you are sprayed with disinfectant from head-to-toe. Promptly after, you punch-in on the fingerprint machine—like everyone else ...
Speaking to European Union (EU) ambassadors at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (18), President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed the need for new investments, not further debt.
Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) eastern military commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, commonly known as ‘Karuna Amman’, has been summoned before the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to record a statement into controversial comments made on Friday last week (19).
Repatriation of Sri Lankans stranded abroad due to the COVID-19 pandemic is to continue, with ten more flights scheduled for the next two weeks, the Cabinet of Minister announced yesterday (26).
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said people need to be careful not to allow themselves to be ‘distracted’ from the ‘bigger picture’, saying the country would be ‘destroyed’ if people fail to “distinguish between what is politically important and politically unimportant.”
