Alleluia! The Christ is risen! The Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world, is truly risen! Easter Sunday is a day of unique joy, light, and life; the Lord has dissipated the night of death and will never cease to fill the whole universe with rejoicing, Alleluia!The resurrection of Christ is at the heart of the Holy Bible, Christian theology, and the Gospel. Many places in Scripture remind...
As Sri Lanka grapples with combatting the novel coronavirus, the Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva has been tasked with heading the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO). According to him, the success of the measures taken will be solely in the hands of the country’s people. In the interview, Silva discussed the quarantine process being carried out by the...
While the entire world is on one platform for the first time battling a common enemy called the coronovirus, some experts have also taken the syndrome as a means to bury their lapses in what they see as a new beginning ahead.One of the experts is Sri Lanka's South African cricket coach Mickey Arthur who has told his employer that he was using the period to put his future plans and ideas into some kind of a...
Meeting challenges of ‘Post COVID-19’ era
A task force comprising experts in multiple sectors should be set up to promote agriculture and develop micro, small and medium enterprises to manufacture agri-based products for the local and the export market, said Senior Professor of Business Economics, University of Colombo and Chairman Institute of Policy Studies, H.D. Karunaratne.Elaborating on the strategy to develop a vibrant agri...
