India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Malta together have promised to provide a total of $5 million of capital to the scheme, which has been dubbed the “Commonwealth Small States Trade Finance Facility”. Speaking at the roundtable event, Sri Lankan Finance M…
COLOMBO (Sports Desk) – Sri Lankan cricket board is likely to hire former Pakistani Spin master Mushtaq Ahmed as spin bowling coach after the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan. Although Sri Lankan team already has a ready-made coach in the form of Ran…
UN-Habitat is currently assessing the spatial dynamics of Sri Lanka’s urbanisation. The analysis is being conducted across the country’s 9 provincial capitals for the period 1995-2017. The project is on-going, with results to be published later this year in the State of Sri Lankan Cities Report, but the data …
In keeping with the traditions of the National New Year, employees of Leo Burnett Sri Lanka, Arc Worldwide Sri Lanka, MSL Sri Lanka, Publicis Sri Lanka, Starcom Sri Lanka and Saatchi and Saatchi Sri Lanka which forms Publicis Communications in Sri Lank…
When the Sri Lankan Government took action to impose the curfew, banning the social media and declaring the State of Emergency to control the Sinhala-Muslim unrest in the Kandy District in March, there were undue pressures from certain diplomats on the…
The facility opens opportunities for around 5000 products of 120 developing countries to be imported to the US without tariffs. The Ministry added that this measure further strengthens ties with the world’s largest trade partner. The US became the leading buyer of Lankan exports last year. Sri Lanka’s total …
The Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of Dominica decided to establish Diplomatic Relations between the two countries with effect from April 17 following the signing of Agreement by Dr.Amrith Rohan Perera, Ambassador and Permanent Representati…
ENGLAND’S tours of Sri Lanka and the West Indies will be broadcast on talkSPORT – as BBC lost the audio rights for an oversees tour for the first time since 2005. The free-to-air rights cover the Tests, ODIs and T20s for the tours which start in Sri Lanka in October and then continue in the Caribbean in …
Police Scotland has come out in defence of a contract with the Sri Lanka, which included training of Sri Lanka’s notorious Special Task Force, despite continued concerns over the use of torture by security forces. In response to a freedom of information request submitted by The Ferret, Superintendent …
COLOMBO, April 18 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee hit a record low of 156.50 per dollar on Wednesday as importer dollar demand weighed on the local currency in the absence of greenback sales by exporters due to extended holidays, dealers said. Three d…