ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s National Immunization Summit 2025 opened on Friday with over 180 immunization and medical experts gathering to review the island nation’s immunization program and strengthen ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will partner with GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, to improve vaccine access in the country, Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said. Speaking at the National Immunization Conference ...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of ...

Sri Lanka has approved the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in May this year. Approval for the mRNA-based COVID-19 jab was granted by National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA).

The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) yesterday granted approval for the emergency use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka will accordingly receive 500,000 ...

The seven member states include five from South Asia—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka—and two from Southeast Asia ... has already said that the national election could be delayed until ...

By prioritizing transparency, the Sri Lankan government aims to rebuild trust with international lenders and investors, a ...

MANILA, Philippines — A resolution seeking to probe the implementation of the National Immunization Program in light of high vaccine hesitancy rates and reemergence of polio and other vaccine ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, India supplied over 25 tonnes of medicines on a special aircraft to Sri Lanka in May 2020; gifted 5,00,000 doses of Covishield vaccine in January 2021; and 1 lakh ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (April 6, 2025) travelled to the historic city of Anuradhapura in north-central Sri Lanka and launched two India-assisted railway projects before wrapping up ...

India secured defence and energy deals with neighbouring Sri Lanka on Saturday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, seen as a move to counter rival China's growing influence in the region.

Although the country nationalized private schools in 1960, "We have full freedom and dignity," said Apostolic Carmel ...