A vaccine that was hijacked by the rich
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — There is a longstanding belief that virtually everything in this world is stacked up against the poor and the downtrodden. The Covid-19 vaccine is no exception because some of world’s richest nations, including the US, Canada and the UK, seem to have cornered most of the supplies — whilst marginalising the [...]
South Korea donates COVID-19 test kits
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) donated COVID-19 test kits to Sri Lanka to mark the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. This ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Colombo on December 8 was attended by the Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, Regional Cooperation State Minister Tharaka Balasuriya, Foreign [...]
Road project aunched at Bangalawatte
A road development project was launched at the Bangalawatte Housing Scheme in Hendala, Wattala recently under the initiative of Rural Roads and Other Infrastructure State Minister Nimal Lanza. Wattala Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Thyagi de Alwis inaugurated the project by unveiling the project name board. Addressing the gathering, Mr. Alwis said the project would be completed [...]
Running with miracle ‘Vedahs’ for votes while sticking by the profession
Quite recently we witnessed on NDTV (New Delhi Television) in its daily talk show, ‘Big Fight’: journalists, academics, medical professionals, Ayurvedic practitioners and politicians, including Narendra Modi’s BJP spokesman, in a rip-roaring shouting match on Ayurvedic medical practitioners being granted the right to perform surgery. The Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) had issued a [...]
A dispatch from India’s culture war
NEW DELHI – As if the raging COVID-19 pandemic, a spluttering economy, record-high unemployment, and massive farmers’ protests besieging the country’s capital were not enough, India’s ruling Hindu-chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has now incited a new crisis: a culture war. In late November, India’s largest state, BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, introduced a new law to [...]