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By Rathindra Kuruwita The government must make 10-day quarantine mandatory for those who have arrived in Sri Lanka from Africa or have transited from Africa since 10 November due to the newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Management Consultant Dr. Sanjaya Perera told The Island yesterday. Dr. Perera added that issuing a travel […]
A few days ago a very interesting article in the Daily Mirror newspaper quoted Gamini Lokuge, the Minister of Power and Renewable Energy, saying that Sri Lanka could be developing renewable energy plants up to 30,000 MW capacity and selling very large amounts of electricity to India through an undersea cable and even selling electricity […]
By Anura Gunasekera A few days ago President Gotabaya Rajapaksa(GR), the first military man and, unarguably, the most ignorant in the ways of governance to occupy the presidential seat, celebrated the completion of two years as the eighth president of the Republic of Sri Lanka. The salutation coincided with the formal vesting with the Sangha, […]
This month’s edition of Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar, on Tuesday 30 November at 7.00 pm on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, makes a journey to the hill capital Kandy to the Alliance Française de Kandy. A venue of historical significance in central Sri Lanka which […]
This is an amusing incident that took place several years ago. One evening we, then schoolboys, were playing soft ball cricket at the Mahinda College grounds, when someone came rushing up and told us that a young servant girl of a certain household had climbed a huge tree as a mark of protest over some […]