මාලබේ පෞද්ගලික වෛද්යවිද්යාල ප්රශ්නය
A new crisis in the health and medical field is coming onto the stage around the private medical college at Malabe. Opposing a private university outright is one extremism, Ivan writes; allowing, in the name of permitting private universities, a shop system that sells degrees of no proper standard is another.
රෝගීන් ගසා කෑම
The health minister has ordered that laboratory tests for patients at government hospitals with laboratory facilities may not be sent out to private hospitals. If the decision was taken with all the other problems it may create in mind, it can be called a very important step for the health service.
ග්රීස් යකුන් පිළිබඳ ඇත්ත කුමක්ද?
The grease devil story pushed people in some areas into acting on impulse. It was said at first to be the work of mental patients — which cannot be, since the work of mental patients does not happen in various parts of the country in the same period. Rumour may have played its part, and there is evidently something in the stories, because in several areas people caught men who were then arrested.
වගා සංග්රාමය
Whatever it is officially called, the government has begun the second stage of its cultivation campaign. In the first stage a small packet of fertiliser with a few kinds of seed was given out among people interested in home gardening, and it was heard from various places that the seed was not good and that only a small part of it germinated; in the second, fruit and vegetable plants were given.
විශ්වවිද්යාල අධ්යාපනය
On one side there is a great agitation for a pay rise fit for the self-respect of university teachers. On the other the programme of sending newly admitted students to army camps for leadership training has caused heated argument; the first group has finished and the training of the second began this week.
නලින් ද සිල්වාගේ ආසනික් විප්ලවය.
According to reports in the press and on television, what has caused the kidney disease among the people of Rajarata is arsenic in the water, put there by agricultural chemicals — and the arsenic problem has grown so large that there is arsenic in the rice we eat. The discovery was made by a group of scientists at the University of Kelaniya, in an investigation into the causes of the Rajarata kidney disease.
පෙන්ෂන් වැඩසටහන ගැන නැවත සිතා බැලිය යුතුය
The war is over and some social and political quarrels remain unsettled, and there is no sign of an approach wise enough to settle them. The proposed pension scheme for private sector employees is one that creates needless problems: the fund is to be built from what belongs individually to each worker, and a strong feeling has arisen that it will be a loss rather than a gain.
විශ්වවිද්යාල හා පාසල් ක්රමය මුහුණ දී තිබෙන ගැටලු
University teachers are agitating for a 200 per cent pay rise, and their withdrawal from the administrative work they do voluntarily is pushing university administration into a crisis — and it has come up while the higher education minister is carrying out a programme to reorganise the university system.
කප්පම් සංස්කෘතිය
After the government decided to move the St John’s fish market and the Manning market out of Pettah, an alternative wholesale fish market was built at Peliyagoda — and while traders were complaining that not all of them had been given stalls in it, an organised business of taking protection money from the fish traders at the new market was reported.
ජපාන ඛේදවාචකයෙන් ඉගෙන ගැනීම
The great disaster in Japan cannot but affect the world economy and, to a greater or lesser degree, Sri Lanka’s. What Ivan draws from it is a set of duties at home: protect what forest is left, since felling is a way a few businessmen make large money under political patronage, and stop treating that as the state’s business alone.