President holds special discussion on resettlement

Veteran singer Sanath Nandasiri is no more

Veteran singer and musician, Sanath Nandasiri, passed away today at the age of 81. Sanath Nandasiri had also served as the Chancellor of the University of the Visual and Performing Arts in Sri Lanka. Nandasiri first appeared on Sinhala Radio at the age of 13 in 1955. In 1972, Nandasiri recorded the song?Mahada Veena which was included in the Soorya album titled ‘Songs and Rhythms of Sri Lanka’. He also recorded “Sanda Balanna” and “Gamey Kopi Kade” composed by Premasiri Khemadasa in the 70s w

28 Mar, 2023

Erik Solheim calls on Sri Lanka to join the green revolution

Former Norwegian peace envoy and advisor to President Ranil Wickremesinghe on climate change, Erik Solheim, called on Sri Lanka to join the green revolution. He said this while speaking at the Sri Lanka Clean Energy Summit 2023 held at Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo. Solheim said that the two biggest developing countries, China and India, are now the two leaders of the green revolution and Sri Lanka has enormous opportunity to move towards a green economy. “I?ve been associating with Sri Lanka sinc

28 Mar, 2023

Dawn special report: Predators in the workplace

Dr Saima Nadeem* was in a meeting with three colleagues, all men, when she says that one of them ? her boss ? asked her an extremely offensive, sexually explicit question. While the other two men snickered, she flushed with embarrassment. According to her, this was far from an isolated incident, that she would be repeatedly called into his office and asked ?indecent and intolerable questions of a sexual nature?. Another doctor at the same organisation, Anisa Hasan*, in a sworn affidavit spoke o

29 Mar, 2023