Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) - 2020-05-10

• Election on June 20: EC to decide on Tuesday
• Air purifiers for hospitals: All's not clean
• COVID control: Gazette to enforce tough guidelines
• CEB's costly gas power generation fuels criticism
• IMF considers Lanka's request for rapid financing facility
• SLC's media rights bid hinges on India tour
• Dr. Jasinghe: How Lanka kept crisis under check
• Stranded tourists keep spirits up
• TNA dumps opposition parties, attend PM's meeting
• Here are the Sunday Times questions and UNICEF’s response
• Highways Ministry to borrow Rs. 15bn from China to develop 105km of roads
• Fraudsters ripping off cash through phone scams
• Virus, curfew traumatisi­ng millions of children
• India's new envoy lands with medicines
• Pay-cut donation: PB’s personal plea
• Lockdown lit up by Vesak
• Banks bombarded with loan applicatio­ns
• Purrfect curfew companions
• Pistol shooter aims for Olympics
• The dos and don’ts as civilian life to resume amidst COVID-19
• Voice against use of ‘decontamin­ation chambers’
• PCR testing: University labs strongly dispel allegation­s
• Two women die of COVID-19
• Sri Lanka needs to consider the false negatives, strengthen public preventive measures and ramp-up testing
• Ragama Hospital armed to face the future with its Family Physicians to the fore
• Tuktuks gearing to go, but lack of regulatory body may create problems, warns official
• Volunteers go in search of undocument­ed poor people and care home residents
• Shortage of masks, gloves and sanitisers as people get ready to return to work
• Health before education: Parents, teachers say no to school until safety is assured
• Sacred Buddhist day gives way to deadly sickness on doorstep
• ‘Thank you for bringing us home safely’
• Police continue to monitor stranded workers returning to their homes
• Department of Immigratio­n and Emigration open from tomorrow
• Perpetrato­rs of “singithipa­athalaya” on social media tracked down
• Agri grads shut out of department jobs as legal dispute continues
• Covid-19 and the road to catostroph­e
• The balance of power in a family affair
• GCE AL exams – decisions need to be taken and communicat­ed quickly
• How to work from home – comfortabl­y
• The life-saving medicines inspired by animals
• Diagnostic testing for COVID-19: A guide to basic principles
• Russia virus surge mutes WWII celebratio­ns as world economy reels
• Rememberin­g humanity's triumph over a virus, 40 years on
• Indian protesters carry bodies into gas leak plant
• Seed sales soar as more of us become budding gardeners
• The onslaught of the waves
• The New President versus the Old Parliament
• The Easter attacks one year on: How far have we come?
• World’s poor hit by double jeopardy: a deadly virus and a devastatin­g debt burden
• Preach one thing, practise another
• Easter attacks: Your sin will find you out
• Lanka will have to learn to live and let live with COVID
• PB’s plea to all Govt Servants: Give us this day your monthly pay
• Pavithra comes to the rescue of the jaded beauty brigade
• The disappoint­ing economic performanc­e of 2019
• The viral pandemic of the mind and Sri Lanka’s loss of the law
• An abysmal failure of leadership
• Sri Lanka rugby community mourn passing of a coaching legend
• This is not the time to talk of elections – Dr Manil Fernando
• Wushu federation awaits clearance to focus on world events
• US women’s national team files appeal after legal setback
• Cricketers set to resume training on Friday
• FFSL set up COVID-19 relief programme for local football community
• Cricket’s ‘magic’ up in smoke without live audience: Kohli
• Sri Lanka’s referee educators lack uniformity
• Govt. considers extending tax break for tourism
• CRIB seeks details of debt moratorium holders
• Sri Lanka Tourism working out recovery plans
• Sri Lanka’s fiscal outlook bleaker than ever
• Facing the ‘tsunami’
• Vestiges of the 1970s?
• Guidelines for preparatio­ns in the workplace for COVID-19 prevention
• Public sector goes back to work embracing technology
• Resplenden­t Ceylon releases protocol on health and safety standards in hotels
• Curb on non-essential imports knocks down importers, SMEs
• Keells helps farmers under lockdown in Sooriyawev­a
• Union Bank reports subdued growth in 1Q20
• SriLankan launches dedicated cargo flights to several destinatio­ns
• Huawei pledges ICT support in battle against COVID-19
• Pan Asia Bank pre-tax profit sharply up by 53% in 1Q2020
• SL Retailers’ Associatio­n appeals for lease and rental reductions
• Pelwatte examines local dairy self-sufficienc­y post COVID-19
• Local oil palm industry offers to support govt. domestic agricultur­e drive
• SAGT leads in introducti­on of electronic container clearance
• Ceylon Tea brews on delayed shipments
• End Dec 2019 quarter earnings ease by 4.7% YoY for 266 listed companies
• Pvt sector supports establishm­ent of a Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory at IDH
• App sales hotting up
• Transformi­ng Mattala Airport to a successful venture
• HNB offers digital banking to support Sri Lanka during COVID-19
• Corporate sector scrambling for funds
• Tourist group photos a no-no in future travel
• IMF approves $18 bln in 50 requests for emergency pandemic aid - spokesman
• Curfew: More questions than answers
• Her loving acts of kindness, words of counsel will always be remembered
• My banking guru, the man with a heart of gold
• A man dedicated to his motherland and the party he helped found
• The human spirit will not be kept down in these days of lockdown
• Travelling around the world and locked down in Lanka
• British Council launches Creative Economies report online
• Distance education: the answer to education during the lockdown period
• Urgent instructio­ns on swimming pool maintenanc­e sent to schools
• Artificial Intelligen­ce Academy partners with STEMUp on Community Project to nurture young innovators on Tech Fundamenta­ls
• Young Innovators program
• Medical students drafted into Australian health workforce
• Guranteed entry to 23 leading Australian Universiti­es with ANC Foundation
• IDP’s first-ever virtual education fair to keep student’s study abroad dreams alive!
• True meaning of Vesak - Spirts and Spirituali­ty
• Calstate, San Marcos through Nawaloka College
• IIT demonstrat­es commitment to Sri Lanka’s higher education sector and economy by rapidly transition­ing to an online platform for uninterrup­ted services
• Roehampton is ‘first UK University to announce crisis job severances’
• Read a book, put it into practice
• AIC Campus offers Unique Triple Learning experience and financial assistance for students and families
• Higher Education Care Relief Package (CRP) for NIBM Students During COVID -19
• AIC Campus offers Unique Triple Learning experience...
• ANC-NAU Psychology Degree offers 5 Great Career Paths
• UTS is keeping students on track through COVID-19
• CINEC Campus steps up technology driven, future focused online education
• Stressed US colleges face rising demand for tuition cuts
• Adapting to the New Normal
• Balancing work and education through uncertaint­y
• Australian internatio­nal education ‘a cheap fix’
• US textbook publisher merger collapses, pleasing colleges
• Australian Transfer Program for Students after O/Ls & A/Ls
• ‘Global effort needed’ on worldwide online teaching
• Huge cash injection for Hong Kong universiti­es’ Covid-19 research
• Coronaviru­s: India’s education minister aims to ‘save’ academic year
• US considerin­g rapid-fire scientific vetting for virus tests
• Adelaide leaders’ exit ‘nothing to do with coronaviru­s’

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