After the introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) Roundup Ready crops in 1996, which were engineered to tolerate Roundup herbicide, the use of glyphosate has increased manifold....
Closure of Public utilities Commission – II By Dr Janaka Ratnasiri This is further to the writer’s piece on the same title appearing in The Island...
By Capt. G A Fernando MBA gafplane@sltnet.lk RCyAF, Air Ceylon, Air Lanka, SIA and Sri Lankan Airlines. The four engine Airbus A340 was designed for ‘long,...
By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake Human civilization began along rivers in the world over, as water is an essential natural resource for people. These early river valley...
by Rohan Wijesinha & Dr. Sumith Pilapitiya “The state of the planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal.” Antonio Guterres, U.N....
Angelo Rasanayagam, retired UN diplomat who worked for nearly three decades with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), passed away in Colombo, on Wednesday,...
Remembered Yesterdays by J. Godwin Perera Emerging from the dim recesses of the past I see this educated and dedicated cast The teachers who shaped us...
Gangaramaya’s “Podi Hamuduruwo”: by Ven. Aggamahapandita Dr. Walpola Piyananda Chief Sangha Nayake of America A ten-year-old boy from Matara was taken up to Colombo by Ven....
bY NIHAL DE ALWIS (former Intelligence Officer) Not only serving, but retired senior police officers and others, I am certain, will be glad if the new,...
China’s millennial centralised state; Donald Trump, America’s evil incubus by Kumar David The resilience of authoritarianism occupies much of political discourse today. Discussion spreads from Trump’s...