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By Indusara Pathirana
After a prolonged campaign
‘If he was a gift from Sri Lanka to Pakistan, we had the authority to reclaim him after getting to know that he is not well taken care of’ said the Director of Species Conservation and Project Manager of the Tree Society of Sri Lanka, Pubudu Weerarathna, speaking to the Sunday Observer concerning Kaavan, the elephant who left Sri Lanka as a baby elephant for a Pakistani...
You may be known by the entire world overnight for whatever your artifice is, in which you show your originality. For that, your size, age, gender, nationality and many other tags to which you belong, would not always be compelling. Because sometimes, it all depends on how smart your art is like that of Georgia’s in enchanting her loved ones by playing magic with their...
A new species of ‘Chilobrachys’ (a genus of spider in the family Theraphosidae found in South and East Asia) emerges from a fragmented rainforest patch in Western Province Sri Lanka after 126 years. The species is named ‘Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansicklei’ in honour of the conservationist and co-founder of Idea Wild, a foundation supporting biodiversity research around...
Last year, the Horana Base Hospital was gifted with two inventions, an electronic three-wheeler and an electronic trolley to carry patients to the wards and the theatre. The architects of these two innovations were Amaralal Karunarathne, a businessman, Malinka Gunasekara, a Training Instructor at Toyota Ltd and Jinasoma Kalubowila, a mechanic.
Amaralal Karunarathne who...
Exploring the outer space has always been more of a tenacious work and it takes much of innovatory guts to come up with quests to skim through the cosmos. Even though we come across only a handful of inventions and experiments in line with Earth Science, every passing moment, the astronomers are constantly making newer attempts to traverse the universe. So in the...
By Indusara Pathirana
Chamara Janaraj Peiris’s Candy Lamissi, a YouTube drama series, premiered on December 24, last year. The drama unveils the...
What we all desire to see in life is positivity and goodwill, to get our fair shakes in whatever we do. But we know that it’s...
Plastic pollution has snowballed into a massive threat to ecosystems, including marine life, wildlife and human life. Some 300...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the European Union (EU) call on youth leaders, influencers and creators to...
Sri Lanka has the highest density of Asian Elephants with around 6,000 elephants and the Asian Elephant is listed as ‘endangered...
Sri Lanka is positioned as the leading country of the South Asian region in a new planetary pressures-adjusted human development...
At a time the entire world has stepped backwards trying to get into grips with Covid-19 other major issues have taken a back seat...
Marine life enriches the beauty of Sri Lankan beaches and seas and they are home to a vast majority of marine life. But during...
Marking a new era in space history
With three Americans and a Japanese on board, Space X launched their Dragon Crew capsule to the International Space Station on...
Foreign recruitment in Sri Lanka has increased as most people are concerned about the competency level, job exposure and salaries...
SL Embassy in Moscow tells Sri Lankans
The Sri Lankan Embassy in Moscow said that it has received complaints from Sri Lankans against fraudulent employment and...
For all of us, music has been a healer in one way or another because music addresses each different sentiment that is kindled in...
Although she is renowned for enrapturing audiences both young and old with her words, it was after hearing the voices of her...
In the first week of this month, a rare black leopard endemic to Sri Lanka died succumbing to injuries suffered in a snare...
Deforestation has escalated though it is difficult to claim who is responsible for it when probing into data from 1998 to 2018,...
Tikiri was forced to parade at the Esala Maha Perahera despite the Wildlife Department’s recommendation to let the giant jumbo...
Taking the path less travelled requires much fortitude; it is only those who have faith in themselves who risk it all for their...
The word ‘Art’ simply brings a sense of survival and escapism to the mind. Living within a conflict affected era. Sri Lanka...
Technology breaks through outwitting the pace of time to traverse the barriers of knowledge of the circumstances beyond Earth....
Art, with its therapeutic effect has always been something that reminds us of the things we live for. Drawing and painting is one...
Entertaining others is not easy as it is thought to be. Being in the audience of a top band can be great entertainment. On the...
LOVE and MOTHER are synonymous and both resonate the other. Actually, words cannot really do justice to this unique person,...
It is a long time since technology took control over us, and we are technologically overloaded with information. How are we...
The Averihena Kudawewa wetland in Thalangama was declared an environmentally sentsitive area by the Central Environmental...
In this era of massive environmental pollution that threatens all living beings, the world is well aware that it needs to focus...
With air pollution rates of many major cities in Sri Lanka rising to alarming rates, one man hopes his ‘green’ solution to...
As thousands of young people wait anxiously to tear open the envelopes containing their GCE Advanced Level results, there will be...
Everyone deserves to be cared for and loved. None of us can live without a sense of belonging. ‘Mother Charitable Foundation’,...
Sinhala folk music is considered as a dying art form but it holds the key to the nation’s musical identity. Folk poems, Jana Kavi...
Belonging to the lot of ‘the youngest authors who have published books internationally’, 14-year-old Lohan Wijerathne of Colombo...
Just recently, wewitnessed a song that captured many hearts on You Tube, after its release. Within a short period, this song went...
Federico Garcia Lorca’s ‘The House Of Bernarda Alba’, a tragedy of the women in the villages of Spain in the 1930s (at the time...
Life sometimes can be defined as an act. We have to act many roles in a lifetime to keep it going. “It isn’t that simple to cast...
Like we all say and agree, the most important day of our life is the day we get married. We cling to the notion of making this...
This is a true story, which he never believed would drive him crazy enough to recreate the real characters on the silver screen....
Let me introduce you to rising star Sayumi, the young songstress. Her passion for music and studies are one. She is an...
‘Sri Siddhaa’, a classical movie by Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara was launched in Colombo last month. The movie presents the...
Sri Lanka, being a tropical country, is very much vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. As the country undergoes...
TRILOGY, an exhibition of paintings opened to the public on October 8 at J.D.A. Perera Gallery, unfolding an unmatchable...