A shared commitment to fight NCDs is the need of the hour
Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have become an
acute global crisis these days. People from developing countries are
at most vulnerable status to NCDs. When Health Ministry Additional
Secretary, Dr. Palitha Maheepala stated recently that, 71 percent of
the total deaths reported from hospitals were caused by NCDs, it
became obvious that NCDs have become an acute problem in our
country, also.
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Reminiscences of Gold
The Law at his finger-tips
Today we focus on Dr. Amrith Rohan Perera, an
International Civil Servant of high repute. He retired as Legal
Advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after serving the
ministry for over 30 years. He is an authority on International Law.
“My family hails from Ruwanwella. I grew up in a village in
Ruwanwella. And then we came to Mount Lavinia for our studies in
Colombo. My father had a political background. He was a Member of
Parliament and a Senator. I studied at S. Thomas’ College, Mount
Lavinia.
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Take a bow – academic staff of Colombo University, Law Faculty
This is not a mere paper article. To be honest,
one can say, this is a letter of gratitude. As we all know,
currently, a non-academic strike is underway in all the universities
in our country. According to Sri Lanka's Inter University Trade
Unions Federation, this strike has been called islandwide to force
government to rectify the salary anomalies that have been there for
a long now. And, they have vowed not to suspend the strike until
their demands are granted.
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Mahapola Scholarships: they survive the great man, Lalith
I heard the shocking news over the radio while
lying in a hospital bed: Lalith Athulathmudali gunned down. The
assassin’s bullet tore into his heart while he was addressing a
meeting at Kirulapone. Devastated I left hospital to visit the man,
now dead, whose Publicity Officer I had been for ten years. It was
an edifying association with the brilliant Oxonion and I was never
fettered in my work; I sensed a new press freedom not vouchsafed to
me before.
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Holding regular meetings, keeping records, at DS and GN levels
Following the establishment of Divisional
Secretariat Reconciliation Committees in all Divisions in the Vanni,
follow up meetings were held in June in Oddusuddan, Puthukudiyirippu,
Karachi and Vavuniya North Divisional Secretariat. As one Divisional
Secretary observed, the difference in the problems raised was
remarkable, and indicated the great strides made in the resettlement
process.
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