The visiting Indian Foreign Secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, has emphasized the “people-centric” character of India’s projects in Sri Lanka and lauded the commitment of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to strengthening India-Sri Lanka relations.
Speaking...
The visit of the Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to Sri Lanka from October 2 to 5, will be taking place when the bilateral relationship is at the cross-roads in a changing geopolitical context.
Though Chinese influence in...
Sri Lanka has time till April next year
Sri Lanka can still retain access to the Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus(GSP+) concession if the Prevention of Terrorism Act is repealed by the first quarter of next year.
‘If there is...
The government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wittingly or unwittingly has made yet another brazenly, risky mistake similar to that of the previous regime by appointing Ajith NivardCabraal to be at the pinnacle of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka(CBSL)....
It appears the government is not seeking third party intervention such as from China to overcome the present economic crisis other than a few currency swaps from India and China or other neighbouring countries. The insights of the Finance...
The Association of Medical Experts has questioned the rationale behind the decision to immunize 20-30 -year olds with the Pfizer vaccine.
The medical experts point out they have a letter issued by the DGHS on September 2 regarding immunizing people...
The 32-year old Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen from Kathankudy in East Sri Lanka, who knifed seven persons in an Auckland shopping complex, got refugee status in New Zealand by posing as a persecuted Sri Lankan “Tamil” Muslim, it appears....
Sri Lanka has incurred a total of LKR 117.5 billion in 2020 and LKR 53.0 billion during Jan-June of 2021 as expenses on the country’s COVID-19 response. According to the Ministry of Finance.
However, according to data from the IMF...
Epic Lanka Technologies, the company responsible for digitalizing the documentation and workflow in the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA), has offered it several options to recover the attachments that have been lost as a result of files being deleted from...
Colombo, August 29: Those who wrote off India and gave Pakistan the thumbs up after the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15 may have to eat their words now.
After the bombing of the Kabul airport perimeter by the...
An extension of the lockdown up to 2 October will save 10, 000 lives while a shorter duration will save 7500 lives.
The University of Monash made these projections after analysing Sri Lanka’s current Covid trajectory.
Meanwhile the Independent Technical...
Professor Neelika Malavige of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, has recently scrutinized the efficacy of the vaccines used within the country, based on a report published by a group of medical researchers in Bahrain.
According to the report, the...
