The age of Green dilemmas
Environmental politics has come a long way
forward in the last century but we are entering an age where the
issue might not be whether or not be ‘green’ but how best to
prioritise competing environmental concerns.
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Oil crisis: Boon for traditional paddy farming
Sri Lanka’s farmers who grow paddy for their
home needs are now discovering a new trend. Instead of the
widely-cultivated hybrid varieties they have opted to grow more
traditional varieties of paddy as the latter are more nutritious,
rich in taste, pest-resistant and need no artificial,
petroleum-based fertiliser.
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18 Engineering Faculty students bring global
acclaim for Motherland:
Moratuwa University: Top of the world
In a signal honour for Sri Lanka’s tertiary
education, the University of Moratuwa has been placed as the best
University worldwide at the GSoC 2008 competition. Sri Lanka has
emerged first where it competed with the other nine giants among the
first ten- the United States, France Germany, India, China, Canada,
Brazil, Hungary and Poland.
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Monks, protests and changing times
The week before last, on the sizzling streets of
Colombo, we were witness to the depressing scene of protesting
Buddhist monks running hither and thither. They were attempting to
escape the effect of tear-gas used by the Police in a bid to
disperse them.
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