The most looked forward to event in the academic calendar of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL), the annual convocation was held yesterday (24) at Water’s Edge, Battaramulla.
The locally manufactured BTI will be used for the first time in a pilot project tomorrow at Matakuliya and Peliyagoda to control the spread of dengue mosquitoes, Health Minister Maithripala Seirisena said today.
The Ministry of Health has taken steps to ban all food products promoted through advertisements that include false information about their nutritional content.
I was glad to read the news that Mr Olcott Gunasekera, President, Dharmavijaya Foundation, has urged the government to enact the Animal Welfare Bill, prepared by the Law Commission in 2006 (The Island, Sept 20. 2010). Mr Gunasekera has my appreciation and support.
The Leftist parties’ opposition to the proposed Constitutional Amendments are the same as to their opposition to the 1978 Constitution, Democratic Leftist Front General Secretary and United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Parliamentarian Vasudeva Nanayakkara told Adaderana a short while ago.
A Senate committee on Thursday unanimously agreed to a blueprint for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that cancels the agency’s return-to-the-moon program, starts investments in commercial companies that could build rockets to take astronauts to low Earth orbit and speeds development of a heavy-lift rocket for more distant missions.
Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar scored yet another double century of his legendary Test career when he touched the milestone in the morning session on day four of the Bangalore Test against Australia.
Photos show shoppers at the Colombo International Book Fair, which is currently underway at the BMICH. The Fair, which was declared open by the Minister of Education, Bandula Gunawardena on Saturday, will run until September 26.
Washington: Police shot dead a gunman to safely free three persons ending hours of standoff after he had taken them as hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in the suburb of Silver Spring.