Curbs on children’s ads, an urgent need

It’s a sad commentary on Sri Lankan priorities when consumers spend more time and effort reading consumer reports when deciding what refrigerator or television to purchase, but spend virtually no time when deciding how they will feed their infants. The main cause of such a serious misalignment,

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Vignettes

Is the universe expanding?

Although ordinary people may not be interested in cosmology or the scientific study of the universe and its origin and development, scientists, astronomers and philosophers down the ages have paid close attention to it. In fact, before thinking of the universe, they tried to understand what the world was like.

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Thorns on the Side

The future of power

The current drought has given us much to mull about in terms of power generation capacity and emergency measures. Our hydropower reservoirs are only making a minimal contribution to the national grid in this backdrop and almost every other type of power plant is working at full capacity to fill the gap.

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