A billionaire cryptocurrency evangelist may have gotten a tougher reception than he expected when proposing widespread adoption of Bitcoin to a bankrupt country. Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper was in Sri Lanka to shoot an episode of his “Meet the Drapers” TV show with local entrepreneurs, and met President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday to proselytize…
Twitter is adding gold checkmarks for official brand accounts. Also Twitter is adding gray ticks for ‘government and multilateral’ accounts. “we’ll begin replacing that “official” label with a gold checkmark for businesses, and later in the week a grey checkmark for government and multilateral accounts” – Twitter said. Twitter’s paid-for verification feature is rolling out…
Central Bank Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) emphasizes to the public NOT to deposit money into the bank accounts of unknown parties or remit money through other means without proper verification. Public awareness in relation to defrauding individuals through scam calls, text messages, email messages and social media networksIn recent times, a rapid increase in the…
So far this year 2022 according to National Dengue Control Unit data, over 70,000 dengue cases report. Dengue fever increases in Sri Lanka, usually soon after rainfall as rains are optimal for mosquito breeding. So far a total of 70,403 suspected dengue cases reported in Sri Lanka. Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children says that the…
Update – 2022 Grade Five Scholarship Exam Results will release to examination department official websites by 2023 January 31 according to an analysis by LankaXpress. Results can be get via https://www.doenets.lk/examresults website or https://www.exams.gov.lk/examresults website. Examination Department or Examination Commissioner has NOT announced a exam results releasing date. The Grade 5 Scholarship exam was held on December 18 in…
2021 GCE O/L examination will be held from 2022 May 23 to June 1. The deadline for submitting applications for the exam has been extended. The closing date of the applications for the examination is now the 17th of February, the Commissioner-General of Examinations says. Private O/L candidates can submit their applications online through the…
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa February 11 declared the Vavuniya Campus, affiliated to the Jaffna University, as a National University named ‘Vavuniya University’. Accordingly, the Vavuniya University will be added to the history as the 17th State University in the country. The Faculty of Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Business and the English Language Unit…
XpressJobs and eLearning.lk have announced a new partnership to help Sri Lankan job seekers gain the skills needed for school leavers and graduates to take the first steps of their career or even experienced employees transition into a new role in their career. To that end, the two organisations have launched an online learning platform…
Only one Sri Lankan university is appeared among the top 2,000 universities in 2022 – 2023 global university rankings according to the latest university rankings released. The government’s objective is to add more local universities among the top 2,000 universities list in the world. “Webometrics” new university ranking released. Webometrics released 2022 -2023 Sri Lankan…
The European Union (EU) and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka held their 24th meeting of the Joint Commission on 8 February 2022 in Brussels. The meeting, which was held in a friendly and open atmosphere, reviewed bilateral relations and entailed an exchange of views and updates on a wide range of topics of…
