Srilankan airlines flight diverted to Mattala

Sri Lanka?s first Social Innovation Lab launched

The Citra Social Innovation Lab, co-developed by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Research and the United Nations Development Programme, was officially launched under the auspices of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo today. As Sri Lanka?s first Public Sector Innovation Lab, Citra works to strengthen institutions, build capacities of the public sector, and re-engineer public service delivery through specialized foresight and innovation tools, such as design-thinking, user-jou

13 Feb, 2019

Pentagon seeks sustained engagement with Sri Lanka

Amid the increasing Chinese influence over the strategically important Indo-Pacific region, a top Pentagon commander has advocated sustained US engagement with Sri Lanka, despite the political and ethnic turmoil in the island nation, posing a challenge to their ties, the Press Trust of India reported. ?Sri Lanka remains a significant strategic opportunity in the Indian Ocean, and our military to-military relationship continues to strengthen,” told the Senate’s Armed Services Committee during a

13 Feb, 2019

Government to pay Rs. 50 a day to increase wage of estate workers

The?Government has decided to pay Rs. 50 a day to increase the daily wage of estate workers. The funds will be allocated through the 2019 budget of the Government. Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake said that the decision was taken at talks with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today. Dissanayake said that the decision to allocate Government funds to increase the daily wage of estate workers was taken as a result of demands made by?a group of Ministers representing the planta

13 Feb, 2019