Employment rate unaffected by new wave
Regardless of a year-on-year increase in unemployment recorded in the year 2020 driven by the local first and second waves of the virus, the Ministry of Labour noted that the prevailing third wave has Read More »
Imaginative Geographies: Picturing what was, is, and can be through Sri Lankan contemporary literature
Sri Lankan authors and contemporary English writing took centre stage at “Imaginative Geographies”, a special panel organised by the University College London’s (UCL) VIRTUAL IAS Festival, organised b Read More »
Flights banned only from India: CAA
Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAA) Air Transport and Economic Regulations Director Rayhan Wanniappa said that Sri Lanka has only imposed a ban on flights from India, and not from any other co Read More »
Health staff shortage if situation worsens: Sudarshini
The country will soon have to confront the problem of a shortage of health workers, State Minister of Primary Healthcare, Epidemics, and Covid-19 Disease Control Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle said. Read More »
‘Conversion period to organic farming should be minimum of two years’
Last month, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that the importation of chemical fertilisers into the country would be banned in an effort to become the first country in the world to eliminate the Read More »
Sampath Bank PAT doubles YoY
Sampath Bank recorded a Profit Before Tax (PBT) of Rs. 6.1 billion in Q1 2021 compared to Rs. 3 billion in Q1 2020, denoting a growth of 101%, while Profit After Tax (PAT) increased by 83% to Rs. 4.6 Read More »
Here we go again
If as William Shakespeare famously wrote in Romeo and Juliet, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, would a lockdown by any other name feel as frustrating? For all its insistence and reiterat Read More »