The Sri Lankan government is committed to introducing new technologies in every sector to enable the country to increase its market share in the global economy, said Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapksa

The Sri Lankan government finally issued a notification granting permission to bury the bodies of the people who have died of COVID-19 infection

Alaina B. Teplitz, the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka, inaugurated a USAID-funded online education platform to connect students and teachers from different regions to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic

Sri Lankan authorities have decided to put China-developed COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccines on hold, and have not yet given approval for their usage, reported Daily Mirror

Sri Lanka will procure 10 million doses of Covishield from the Serum Institute of India through a direct commercial contract, reported Colombopage

Sri Lankan police have arrested a 25-year-old man for promoting and praising the slain Tamil separatist leader V Prabhakaran on Tik-Tok, reported Daily Mirror

Sri Lanka and the United States have been in talks for increased exports of more Sri Lankan products to the US market under the General System of Preferences (GSP) arrangement - a system to support the export from the developing economies

Sri Lankan exports to the Maldives dropped by 29 percent in 2020, in comparison to a year earlier, as the latter’s tourism-driven economy collapsed as travel restrictions hit the global travel industry

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expressed concern over the timing and purpose of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s two-day visit to Sri Lanka on Monday

The Sri Lankan government may impose a ban on the retail sale of cigarettes and 180ml quarter bottles of liquor, reported News 1st

The Core group of the United Nations Human Rights Councils on Sri Lanka recognized and welcomed Sri Lanka’s efforts but added more needs to be done

The United States has expressed disappointment over Sri Lanka’s discriminatory cremation policy for people who died of the COVID-19, reported Newswire

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapksa said higher education institutions need to keep their pace with the transformative changes happening globally, reported Colombopage

Dinesh Gunawardena, the Sri Lankan foreign minister, said that the government and opposition should unite while representing the country’s foreign policy on international forums, adding that, however, parties can have debates on foreign policy within the country

Health authorities in Sri Lanka on Friday announced the discovery of the fast-spreading UK variant of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, Daily Mirror reported. The variant came into light when samples from the four different places in Sri Lanka were tested