Drug abuse on the rise

How to combat drug abuse?:

There is no other social bane that hampers the future of the nation more than drug abuse as it adversely affects the most productive segment of the economy. Most of the drug addicts happened to be in the age group of 14-30 and the social cost incurred in terms of rehabilitation and re-integration of them into production process is very high.

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Five new gecko species discovered

Endemic and highly localized

Cnemaspis alwisi is the biggest of the five species, found in Dolukanda, Retigala and Maragala mountains and Nilgala areas. It's dark grey in colour and uses camouflage to blend in with the lichens on rock surfaces among which it lives, by changing the colour patterns of its' skin.

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Benefit of school-based teacher counselling

Teacher counselling has been going on in a big way for the past three or so decades in this country, yet little discernible uplifting of teacher quality has been achieved in spite of formidable numbers of resource personnel employed in the task and more devastatingly, billions spent on these quality-improvement endeavours.

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