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The Women Technopreneurs forum, an initiative launched by SLASSCOM in 2019 to create a positive change across the tech ecosystem in Sri Lanka, in supporting, promoting and harnessing the talents  of women to be innovative technopreneurs, met with Hon. Namal Rajapaksa, Minister of Youth & Sports, Minister of Development Co-ordination and Monitoring and State Minister...

The Sri Lankan government said it plans to create 1 million new job opportunities for young people through a new initiative as the country looks to return to normalcy from the Covid-19 pandemic, local media reported here Monday.The initiative, ...

DFCC Bank, the Bank for Everyone, through its exclusive account scheme for minors, ‘DFCC Junior’, hosted the Junior Art Workshop – an online event to celebrate and nurture the artistic ability and talent of children from across the island. The workshop was conducted ‘free-of-charge’ and was open for children from the ages of 7 to […]

HUTCH accomplished yet another major milestone in its rapid transformation journey, successfully implementing the latest Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in the middle of the COVID pandemic. Most legacy ERP systems including Oracle are fully deployed on-premises but now technology is moving toward the Cloud and Hutch decided to leap forward and […]

Elephant House, Sri Lanka’s iconic and most respected household consumer foods brand, has been awarded Gold and Silver awards at the 29th annual NCE Export Awards 2021. As a brand established in 1866, Elephant House is supported by a strong and vibrant heritage that has propelled it to reach its pinnacle as one of the […]

‘Broad money growth mainly due to decline in net foreign assets of the banking system’ ‘Once some inflows received, net foreign assets of the banking system could reverse’ ‘Lending rates, government securities rates have adjusted upwards’ ‘Adjustments in deposit rates remain sluggish’ by Sanath Nanayakkare The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) on Friday urged […]

Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Finance chaired the above investor forum on 31st January 2022 at the Ministry of Finance. Namal Rajapaksa -Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Development Co-ordination and Monitoring and State Minister of Digital Technology, D V Chanaka -State Minister for, Aviation and Export Zones Development , Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister […]

Cargills Online has become the first and currently the only e-commerce platform in Sri Lanka to integrate LANKAQR for delivery thereby providing greater convenience to its customer base together with its wide merchandise offering. LANKAQR is a project initiative from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to ensure all QR codes and QR based transactions […]

More than 1,000 houses to Sri Lanka plantations workers of Indian origin as part of a 60,000 houses project on January 15 during the Festival of Pongal, Indias High Commission in Colombo said.

The efforts of Sri Lanka and Kenya to increase economic activities between the two countries had received further momentum during the visit of Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Development Co-ordination and Monitoring and State Minister of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development Namal Rajapaksa to Kenya in October, 2021. Although, the bilateral relations have reached over 50 years of friendship and cooperation, the...