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Sri Lanka's Motor Traffic Dept in final phase of digitalization: Min

DMT registers doubling of profit in 2023 despite vehicle import ban

February 29, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka's deaf drivers can get light vehicle driving licenses

Hearing impaired drivers will be allowed to obtain light vehicle driving licenses in pilot project

February 6, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka Trade Minister opts for drastic CAA restructuring

CAA's price fixing strategy has failed to benefit consumers

January 31, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka to issue on arrival driving license for foreigners from April: State Minister

Sri Lanka has been charging 30,000 rupees from foreigners for driving license under one-day service

January 17, 2024 1 min read
Sri Lanka shifts school book printing to private sector to cut costs: Minister

25.49 million copies of 362 relevant textbooks/modules will be printed by 29 institutions at a cost of 3,491.47 mn

Sri Lanka's inflexible labour laws may be hurting tech investments: PE fund

Originally designed for a manufacturing economy, now pose barriers in a service-based, technology-driven environment,

Light Rail Project: Maharagama to be linked to the network

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has asked that the Urban Development Authority (UDA) include the city of Maharagama in ...

March 5, 2021 3 min read
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Sri Lanka turns hotels in Colombo into Coronavirus hospitals

Sri Lanka's Nawaloka Hospitals said it had teamed up with two hotels in the capital Colombo to build intermediate care c...

February 27, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka makes progress in approving Pfizer vaccine, data awaited from China, Russia

Sri Lanka has made progress in analyzing data on a vaccine produced by Pfizer as a 'good one' based on analysis of data ...

February 9, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to manufacture 100 railway passenger coaches with private participation

Sri Lanka will manufacture 100 railway coaches locally with private sector participation to meet existing demands, the G...

Imesh Ranasinghe
February 2, 2021 1 min read
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Sri Lanka Nieslen retail store audit continued by PepperCube

Colombo-based PepperCube Consultants said it will conduct a nation-wide retail store audit (RSA) from March 2021 having ...

January 24, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka, Vietnam ICT sectors explore co-operation

Information and communications industries of Sri Lanka and Vietnam had a virtual meeting to discuss future co-operation,...

January 22, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka PM plans tax concessions for film industry

Sri Lanka is planning to give tax concessions to the film industry involving import duties and income tax relief, Prime ...

January 14, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka should start fund to bring back stranded workers: legislator

Sri Lanka should start a fund to bring back stranded foreign workers, as some are reportedly being forced into prostitut...

January 5, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to sell airtime on ex-DW relay station to Encompass Digital Media

Sri Lanka has agreed to sell airtime on a former Deutsche Welle relay station in Trincomallee in the North East of the i...

December 29, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka targets 25,000 women for Covid supply chain, amid constraints

Sri Lanka wants to help 25,000 women entrepreneurs get into distribution channels amid a Covid-19 pandemic State Ministe...

Mahadiya Hamza
December 14, 2020 4 min read
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Most Sri Lanka workers without formal protection amid Covid-19 shock: IPS study

About 75 percent of Sri Lanka's workforce or 1.5 million employees are facing a high risk of falling in to poverty, with...

November 28, 2020 8 min read

Harin urges President to move fast on a digital future

Opposition MP Harin Fernando is saying that if Sri Lanka is to go forward as a digital country, first, there is a need f...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 23, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka to open Rs6.9bn Peliyagoda Manning vegetable market

Sri Lanka is opening a new 6.9 billion rupee vegetable wholesale market in Peliyagoda, in the periphery of the capital C...

November 19, 2020 1 min read
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Ceylon Chamber of Commerce welcomes Sri Lanka's budget, calls for consultations

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has welcomed a budget for 2021 present by Prime Minister and its tax stability an...

November 18, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka EDB, BOI firms, essential offices to run in new Coronavirus isolated Colombo areas

Factories linked to the Board of Investment, Export Development Board, courts, essential government and private companie...

November 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka hikes bus fares by 20-pct as Covid-19 alert limits passenger carriage

Sri Lanka has raised bus fares 20 percent as passenger carriage was limited to the number of seats as required by health...

November 11, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka civil defence force to help run Covid-19 hit Manning market

Sri Lanka's civil defence force cadres will help run a Coronavirus hit wholesale vegetable market in the capital Colombo...

November 11, 2020 2 min read

Keells Supermarket in Union Place closed over Covid-19 as Sri Lanka total tops 13,000

A Keells Supermarket in Union Place had been closed after two workers tested positive for Coronavirus on November 07, fo...

November 7, 2020 1 min read

Restarting economies – Bankers and Telcos must rethink strategies to help Ecommerce

The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated lifestyle changes for most globally, and in this new normal, more and more folk ha...

Kshama Ranawana
November 6, 2020 8 min read

Sri Lanka Coroanvirus guidelines for businesses in non-curfew areas

Sri Lanka has released a series of Coronavirus protection guidelines for businesses operating in non-curfew areas.

November 3, 2020 1 min read