Five arrested over disappearance of girls in Kolonnawa remanded

Dayasiri Jayasekara suffers mild heart attack

The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Dayasiri Jayasekara was admitted to hospital today after suffering a mild heart attack. Jayasekara was admitted to the?Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital but his condition was not critical. (Colombo Gazette)

12 Feb, 2019

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

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