(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Department for Registration of Persons (DRP) so far has issued about 75, 000 Smart Identity Cards with the new digital technology since the introduction of the new Smart Identity Card on 27th October this year.
"DRP issues 75, 000 smart identity cards"Category: LOCAL
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) last week has approved additional loans totaling $120 million for a project to bring drinking water to urban areas of the Jaffna Peninsula, one of Sri Lanka’s less developed regions.
"ADB grants Sri Lanka additional financing of $120 Million to bring drinking water to Jaffna"
Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure and UNDP partner for HackaDev – Youth Social Innovation Challenge
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to scale up HackaDev – Youth Social Innovation Challenge.
"Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure and UNDP partner for HackaDev – Youth Social Innovation Challenge"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Law and Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayaka said Sri Lanka has developed a strong defence mechanism to protect the country from foreign terrorist fighters.
"SL DEVELOPS ROBUST DEFENCE MECHANISM AGAINST FOREIGN TERRORIST FIGHTERS"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Ambassador Karunasena Hettiarachchi paid an official visit to Bremen recently.
"Ambassador pays an official visit to Bremen"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – A three-member delegation from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will carry out an official visit to Sri Lanka from 4 to 15 December 2017 to assess the country’s situation regarding the deprivation of liberty.
"UN experts on arbitrary detention launch official visit to Sri Lanka"
Second International Conference on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’-Innovations in Social Enterprise for Development (ICSE 2017)
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Colombo School of Business and Management (CSBM) organised the Second International Conference on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’-Innovations in Social Enterprise for Development (ICSE 2017) on 1 December 2017 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. The Conference Partners were the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok and the Colombo Plan. High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Mr. Taranjit Singh Sandhu was the Chief Guest at ICSE 2017.
"Second International Conference on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’-Innovations in Social Enterprise for Development (ICSE 2017)"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the present government in 2015 put a definitive end for crimes against the media and there since being no journalist abductions, murders, attacks, or intimidation.
"No crimes against journalists under present govt. – PM"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Academics from the Journalism Unit of the Colombo University’s Arts Faculty have decried an opinion poll on who the next leader of the country should be in 2020, referring to it as baseless, false and fabricated.
"Colombo University debunks ‘opinion poll’"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayaka has directed Acting IGP C.D. Wickremaratne to place the investigations into the killings of Dala Puttuwa and other tuskers under the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), with immediate effect.
"Investigations into killings of tuskers to be handled by CID"