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Sri Lankan wins worldwide engineering award Source:Sundaytimes Ishan Kavan Abeysekera BEng 1st Class (Warwick), MSc Earthquake Engineering (Imperial College London), DIC, CEng MIMechE, won the prestigious ‘Young Structural Engineering Professional Award 2022’ of the Institution of Structural Engineers. The institution is one of the world’s leading professional bodies providing professional accreditation. The Institution press release states (27/06/2022): “The Young Structural Engineering Professional Award is an internationally recognised mark of achievement that highlights young engineers who are driving the profession forward. Being a recipient of this award shows that they have demonstrated the skills and achievements necessary to mark them as “one to watch” among the Institution’s global membership. ...

Before the jab know how it works-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website:www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: At last, a vaccine is on trial and launched as emergency vaccination drive in the UK, US, and the European Union, to eradicate the pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 17 million lives worldwide. We all should be proud and above all confident that we can overcome this pandemic as the mRNA vaccine will pave the way out of this crisis. As fast and efficiently the mRNA vaccine being tried in many developed countries, will it have the same efficacy against the new fast-spreading variant of the virus detected in the UK? Viruses mutate all the time, including the novel coronavirus that’s caused the global pandemic. The mutation known as the B,11,7 lineage may be up to 70 per cent more infectious and more of a concern for children. This variant was first seen ...