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By Rajitha JagodaArachchi
Sri Lanka’s battle with COVID-19, amidst many positive results so far has now bumped into the most awaited second wave of the virus spread. The Indian Ocean island has identified 159 COVID-19 cases as of yesterday morning, where 24 have now returned to their homes after full recovery. Despite the commendable efforts of the health authorities, the country reported five...
Breastfeeding:
“Over the past decades, evidence for the health advantages of breastfeeding and recommendations for practice have continued to increase. WHO can now say with full confidence that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has health benefits that extend into adulthood. On a population basis, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is the recommended way of...
Outside Colombo, people are of the opinion that benefits of development are limited to the city itself. But a traveller in Modera, Mattakkuliya, Colombo, would not have a beautiful picture of the country’s capital.
Due to various reasons such as dilapidated roads, poor drainage system with overflowing toilets, unauthorised constructions, a canal system blocked by plastic...
Mass media is widely considered as the gatekeepers of civil society. However, the reporting of the incident at the Kurunegala hospital challenged the ethical behaviour of traditional media too. A daily Sinhala newspaper broke a story of forcible sterilisations without verifying facts, which lead to a series of trouble to many, especially to the family of the alleged...
By Rajitha JagodaArachchi
Coincidently on the day the World Health Organisation announced COVID-19 as a world pandemic, March 11, Sri Lanka also found its...
As Covid-19 marks 100 days:
As Thursday marked 100 days since the WHO was notified of the first cases of “pneumonia with unknown cause” in China, Sri Lanka...
Education - only passport to Parliament?In April, the country will again head to the polls to elect MP’s for the ninth Parliament...
During a press briefing headed by the Chairman of the Election Commission of Sri Lanka (EC) Mahinda Deshapriya last week at the...
A meeting between former President and senior advisor to the SLFP Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge and Sri Lanka Freedom Party...
Regularly cycling over 10 kilometres up and down was not something that young Damith had introduced for himself as a physical...
The heart of Sri Lankan tourism, Colombo, is perhaps the only place in the island which gives a total Sri Lankan urban experience...