Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Jonathan Frank
On August 22, 7:35 am, Johann Peiris became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mt. Elbrus in Russia – the highest mountain in the European continent. Johann has now climbed six out of seven of the highest peaks in the world; a quest that began after his successful summiting of Mt. Everest in May 2018.
The Sri Lankan mountaineer was part of the five member expedition to Elbrus...
Cabinet approved an amendment to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) Act in early August to ensure EPF members receive a minimum annual interest rate of nine percent from 2023 to 2026. The decision was based on the interest rates paid to EPF members in the past five years.
Under the Domestic Debt Optimisation program (DDO), the maturity of Treasury Bonds held by...
Unveiling the future of work:
Two young professionals at a coffee shop talk about how they are using ChatGPT to lighten their workload while a sponsored post on an AI app pops up in your Instagram feed while you sip your latte on a Monday morning. And then you have the ‘four-day work week’ with Belgium and Portugal following suit after a several UK companies widely adopted it in January this year....
Imagine for a moment that you are an enterprising tradesman sailing the Maritime Silk Road in the 9th Century. Setting off from the shores of Gujarat, you make a stopover at Cochin and make a quick exchange of exotic spices for some grain while loading up supplies for the long voyage ahead. You set off again hurriedly, further south and round off the verdant green Island...
“Two-hundred-and-eight elephants killed in Anuradhapura in two and a half years”, “One elephant a day: Sri Lanka wildlife conflict deepens as death toll rises”, “One dead after wild elephant attacks camper couple”. In Sri Lanka, headlines like these are not rare; the Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) has become routine – claiming lives and devastating the economy at the same...
By Jonathan Frank
In Sri Lanka, as in most South Asian countries, the concept of Guru Bhakti (devotion to one’s teachers) plays a significant role...
Sri Lanka’s battle against plastic pollution
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and the Ministry of Environment piloted the ‘Collect-Back Plastic Waste Management Model,’ a...
Temple of Apollo: Rock mania
Some of the finest names in Sri Lankan rock took the stage at Temple of Apollo: Rock Mania on July 8 at Excel World, Lake Edge....
Move expected to reduce case backlogs and boost investment climate:In a significant step towards enhancing the efficiency and...
The term ‘sustainable development’ gets thrown around quite liberally in a world desperately in need of solutions to the...
Air Vice Marshal Udeni Rajapaksa has been promoted to the rank of Air Marshal and appointed as the 19th Commander of the Sri...
The Sri Lanka Industrial Exhibition 2023 was unveiled on Thursday with thousands of visitors on its opening day at the BMICH and...
Attributed to irregular rainfall, DENV-3 and human behaviour:
Sri Lanka has witnessed a significant surge in dengue fever cases this year, with numbers three times higher than in previous...
Local rock and metal bands shook Chatham Street to the core recently as they took the lofty stage at the Joint Pub and Grill with...
The Israel Sri Lanka Solidarity Movement (ISSOM) on Sunday organised an event on 14 May at Vihara Maha Devi Open Air Theatre to...
A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived in Sri Lanka on Thursday (May11) as part of the global lender’s...
A pre-book launch was held for Chronicles of Melancholy, a collection of real-life stories of victims and survivors of child...
The BMICH’s Kamatha went all mystic-shamanistic two Saturdays ago, with performances by Isuru Kumarasinghe, Sanka Jayalath,...
D&D: Honour Among Thieves
Hollywood studios are banking hard on the movie-game bandwagon with more and more ambitious takes. From Netflix’s Tetris, HBO’s...
‘Rise of the machines’
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has hit the mainstream, but there is an enormous amount of scepticism around this new technology....
The Coconut Tree (TCT) is a multi-award-winning restaurant chain offering Sri Lankan street food and artisan drinks in the UK....
Things got extremely groovy on Wednesday, March 8, when Orange Mango took the stage at the Goethe Institut’s Thattu Pattu musical...
At least 25 people were reported injured after a bus carrying pilgrims toppled down a precipice on the Nelligala–Muruththettuwa...
Wealth inequality at an all-time high:
Although more than a century has passed since the death of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx, his ideas continue to make...
The pushcart business, street vendor and newsstand; not only are these a common sight in Sri Lankan towns and cities but they are...
Internet use in Sri Lanka has increased exponentially in the past decade thanks to smartphones and various advances in IT....