COLOMBO (News 1st); Prof. Steve Hanke, who is the Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University warned that the poor people are crushed by inflation. "The official inflation rate is 21.5% per year. and the accurate inflation is the one I'm measuring that's a 132%. So the real inflati...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Government of Japan has provided a grant aid worth approximately Rs.488 million for the Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) project to enhance the capacity building of public sector officials. The sum of Japanese Yen 271 million (approximately Rs.488 million) gran...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association has warned that there is a grave risk in using imported organic fertilizers which are likely to have seeds of weeds, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, nematodes, etc. Such organisms could cause disease outbreaks in crops, livestock, a...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The candidates, sitting for the practical examinations of the 2020 GCE Advanced Level Examination, in isolated areas can use the Admission Card and the National Identity Card to travel to the Examination Centres, the Department of Examinations said on Friday (Jan. 08). Candida...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The government has decided to create 200,000 self-employment opportunities by next years, Basil Rajapaksa, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force in charge of Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication said on Sunday (Dec. 29). He made this statement during a discussion wit...