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A bun can get disqualified just because a sesame seed is in the wrong place Robinhood army at work Each year more than 30 percent of the world’s food production, weighing about three billion tonnes, is wasted, while 13.1 percent of the world population (6.8 billion) go hungry. According to UN Food and Agricultural Organization estimates, the waste is enough to feed three billion people. An outfit called The Robin Hood Army is doing its bit to curb food waste in Sri Lanka by literally taking from the rich and giving to the poor. "We accept food that cannot be sold due to minor quality issues from hotels and restaurants and give it to the less fortunate," said Robin Hood Army, Lead Volunteer, Hanzala Abdurrahman. The Robin Hood Army was founded on August 26, 2014, by Neel Ghose and Anand Sinha and registered as a charitable trust in India. It is active in 12 countries including Sri Lanka. Hanzala explained that, due to high quality standards, often perfectly edible food is disp...

Foremost authority on frog watching reveals in his new book 'The Peeping Frogs of Nuwara Eliya' Frogs cannot be fun. They are slimy, ugly creatures with bulging eyes and sticky tongues. Plus they fornicate externally. Heck, it takes all the fun out of sex! But Naturalist at Jetwing St. Andrew’s Ishanda Senevirathna would beg to differ, not the part about external fertilization, but about frogs being boring, slimy and ugly creatures. The foremost authority on frog watching, yes there is such a thing, recently released a book titled 'The Peeping Frogs of Nuwara Eliya'. In this up close and personal account Senevirathna draws attention to a frog's life cycle, the difference between frogs and toads, frog language, breeding habits, threats and most importantly frog watching. It was inaudible at first but one gradually became aware of the multitude of throaty croaks that made for the frog call music of the evening. True to the book's title, the auditorium of Jetwing C...