By Dr. Suranga Hettipathirana In Sri Lanka, menstruation has more often than not been a topic spoken in hushed tones, behind closed doors and continues to be one of our culture’s greatest stigmas, despite being home to a female population of 52%, 5.7 Million of whom menstruate. Therefore, poorly-informed practices related to menstrual hygiene have continued to…
Huawei, one of the leading global technology companies, announced it is expanding its long-term brand cooperation with Viber following a successful consumer response to one of the world’s leading apps for free and easy communication on AppGallery. The service, which has hundreds of millions of users in 190 countries, was one of the first major…
Sysco LABS was recently named as a winner of the provincial award for the Western Province in the “Best Innovation in Internal Process” category at the SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards for 2021. Winning the accolade, was the Sysco Unified Test Automation Platform (SUTAP) team. SUTAP is a Test Automation Platform which was built in-house at…
Sri Lanka is known for talented artists that add value to the culture, heritage and diversity of the country. Both artists and art lovers alike look forward to ‘Kala Pola’ as Sri Lanka’s renowned annual fair for visual art. Conceptualized by the George Keyt Foundation in 1993 and supported by the unbroken patronage of the…
As part of their sincere efforts to further support and protect their policy holders, Sri Lanka’s fastest growing life insurer Softlogic Life, recently launched a completely free, 24/7 healthcare service, ‘Call a Doctor’, to enable their customers and employees to consult the expertise of qualified, experienced doctors via a phone call at any time. Further,…
Six teams of students from local schools and universities have been recognised for demonstrating their coding skills by developing innovative and useful applications, and have won a fully-equipped IT Lab, laptops, electronic devices, microcontroller kits, and other equipment from the Commercial Bank of Ceylon. The talent search was launched in the form of ‘Hack:bit 2020,’…
An advanced camera is a key feature every user looks for while buying a new smartphone. The phone camera has reached a point where it’s close to replacing a professional DSLR Camera. The only challenge that remains is low-light photography. Light is the most important aspect of photography; the quality and clarity of an image…
Port City Colombo donated over Rs. 2 million worth Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) yesterday (28) to support its ongoing efforts to clean up the debris and chemical waste collected on the coastline resulting from the MV X-PRESS PEARL ship fire. The MEPA, together with the tri-forces, undertook the…
Asthma & the elderly “Asthma is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, a whistling sound (wheezing) when you breathe out and shortness of breath.” says Director of Nursing at English Nursing Care, Fiona Eccles. Whilst asthma is often considered…
Further strengthening the national effort against COVID -19 Seylan Bank, the Bank with a Heart, gifted a fully equipped Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to the Colombo East Base Hospital in Mulleriyawa, on the 21st of May to support the national effort against COVID -19. The new ICU equipped with a special infection control technology system…
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