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By Eileen McDougall  -BBC  Feuture Edited by  Vinuri Randula Silva Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for "yes" or "no". It also has only one fluent speaker left, something linguists are racing to change. Through the winter mist of the hills of the Terai, in lowland Nepal, 18-year-old Hima Kusunda emerges from the school's boarding house, snug in a pink hooded sweatshirt. Hima is one of the last remaining Kusunda, a tiny  indigenous group  now scattered across central western Nepal. Their language, also called Kusunda, is unique: it is believed by linguists to be unrelated to any other language in the world. Scholars still aren't sure how it originated. And it has a variety of unusual elements, including lacking any standard way of negating a sentence, words for "yes" or "no", or any words for direction. According to the latest Nepali census data from 2011, there are 273 Kusunda remainin

  By -Amal Udawatta Harshan Arulmoli of Jaffna Hindu College won a Bronze Medal at International Biology Olympiad conluded in Armenia on 18th July 2022. Siluni Wickramathilake from Mahamaya Girls’ College, Kandy, Harshan Arumoli from Jaffna Hindu College, Praveen Thennakoon from Ananda Maithreya College Balangoda and Karthik Pravin from D.S.Senanayake College, Colombo participated as competiters. Prof. Hiran Amarasekera from University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Emeritus Prof. M.J.S. Wijerathne, University of Kelaniya participated as Jury members. Sri Lanka wins a Bronze Medal at International Biology Olympiad Harshan Arulmoli of Jaffna Hindu College won a Bronze Medal at International Biology Olympiad conluded in Armenia on 18th July 2022. 600 High School students and Jury members from 66 countries participated at this competition which consisted of Theory and Practical Examinations. This year, the IBO 2022 was held at Yerevan State University in Armenia from 10th to 18th July 2022.