‘World can behold SL’s progress’
As the current Vice Patron of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association, I am pleased to welcome all delegates to
this 58th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Colombo and
honoured to address you on this occasion.
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Prof. E.O.E. Pereira - father figure in real sense
The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL),
the apex body for the engineering profession in the country, will
commemorate the 105th birth anniversary of the late Professor E.O.E
Pereira with a memorial lecture at the Institution’s headquarters at
120/15, Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7, tomorrow September 13, 2012 at
5.15 p.m.. This year’s memorial lecture will be on 'Challenges
Facing Public Universities in Sri Lanka' to be delivered by Eng.
(Dr) Nihal Somaratna, Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil
Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
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NCP kidney disease - thinking outside the box
Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origins, known
as CKDU has presented itself as a baffling health problem with
serious socio-economic implications. CKDU is most prevalent in the
North-Central (Uthuru-Maeda) and Uva provinces. It has been
investigated for at least a decade, and various theories have been
presented. The use of pesticides and fertilizers, consumption of
contaminated drinking water, and even the use of Aluminum cooking
pots have been included in the gallery of rogues.
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The Human Dimension
In search of men of integrity...
Recently I had the pleasure of reading up in the
Sinhala print media on two men of the previous generation - men who
had lived by a code of integrity and honesty. They were ordinary
people from everyday, not celebrities but men who had lived their
lives the old fashioned way. The stories were not the kind of news
making, ground breaking tales but they made me sit down and think -
these men belonged to a generation or two before us. They lived by a
different way of living. They still believed in good old -fashioned
values and principles. One of them was a man who had lost his job in
the famous July strike in 1980.
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