Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s ‘Funny Boy’ has been rejected for Oscar nomination in the best International Feature Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards. The filmmaker has co-written and co-directed the film that tells the story a gay Tamil boy growing up in Sri Lanka during the ethnic conflict of the 1970s and 1980s. To be a contender for Oscar in the International
The total number of COVID-19 positive patients directed in the country reached 38,059 yesterday, the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry stated. Around 29,882 of them have recovered while 7,994 remain in hospitals. The National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) stated that the total number of COVID-19 positive cases reported from Minuwangoda
Army Commander Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva has said that the rumours that a curfew is being imposed in the next few days are untrue. The Army Commander who is also the Chief of Defence Staff and the Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) stated that despite such rumours no decision has been taken to impose a curfew during the festive
Public health is no excuse to keep business and patriotism at bay. Not a very humanitarian sentiment, but then again, healing the sick and preserving the healthy can become parochial, nationalist objectives. The least convincing language of the pandemic has been this baffling and trite notion that “we” and “all this” and “together” are somehow linked in blood sealed harmony,
The Supreme Court has ordered to set aside the conviction and the sentence imposed on Rosemary Felicia Perera alias Jeena Madam by the Colombo High Court in 2012 for the offence of procuring women for prostitution.