Miracle potion’s week from hell
Nothing succeeds like success, it is said, meaning that one success leads to other successes. Then surely the converse must be true as well, that nothing fails like failure. When the dominoes start.. Read More »
The unseen side of activism: Threats activists face in their quest
The environment is dying; mother nature is no longer an abundance of flourishing flora, flowing rivers, and frozen icebergs that we once knew, and that’s a fact. A lesser acknowledged fact is that... Read More »
Plastic surgery island for leprosy patients
The Anti Leprosy Campaign (ALC) of the Ministry of Health hopes to build a facility to provide reconstructive services for leprosy patients at a part of the 99-acre Mantheevu Island Leprosy Hospital.. Read More »
Negligent prison officials to be banished
Steps will be taken to transfer executive-grade officials of the Prisons Department, who have failed to properly supervise the operations of prisons in Colombo, to remote areas.. Read More »
‘SriLankan tickets among costliest’
SriLankan Airlines’ air ticket prices have not decreased in the height of the pandemic, with passengers who have returned to Sri Lanka on repatriation flights complaining that the national carrier’s.. Read More »
‘PTSD can manifest itself in trance-like states’
Sri Lanka’s psychiatrists should be aware that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can present itself in children and adolescents as trance-like states and states of possession, which in turn.. Read More »
Suspended sentence over prison for statutory rape
A legal amendment is being drafted to change the provisions in the Penal Code regarding statutory rape to allow for magistrates to be afforded the power to, depending on the individual circumstances.. Read More »