India hands over 450 million for Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity project: India has handed over INR 450 million in advance to Sri Lanka to fund its unique digital identity project in Aug 2023. It is the most crucial step in the island nation's digitalization program being ...

PM Modi urges Sri Lanka President to implement 13th Amendment: During the Sri Lanka President’s visit to India, Indian PM expressed his hope to implement 13th Amendment to Sri Lanka Constitution which flows from the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord 1987. Daily Current Affairs Quiz: July 2023 Background ...

Sri Lankan prime minister Mahindra Rajapaksa resigned from his position on 9th May 2022 and the president, his brother, step down over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, an official said. He sent his resignation letter to the president of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He has ...

India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a ‘Unitary Digital Identity framework’, apparently modelled on the Aadhaar card. The Rajapaksa government will “prioritise” the implementation of the Framework as a national level programme, Sri Lanka’s Cabinet decided on Monday. The ...

Sri Lanka fast bowler Suranga Lakmal has announced to retire from international cricket after their upcoming tour of India, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said in a statement. SLC said that Lakmal has informed the board of his decision. The 34-year-old right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman ...

The Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has extended a line of credit (LoC) of USD 500 million to Sri Lanka on behalf of the Government of India on February 03, 2022. The fund will be used by the Island nation for the purchase of petroleum products. With the signing of the LOC agreement for ...

India and Sri Lanka have extended the existing Science and Technology cooperation for three more years. Now, the countries focus on new areas like waste-water technologies, sustainable agriculture, aerospace engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence. ...

The Government of Sri Lanka has sought a $500 million credit line from India to pay for its crude oil purchases amid a severe foreign exchange crisis in the island nation after the pandemic hit the nation’s earnings from tourism and remittances. The USD 500 million credit line is part of ...

India and Sri Lanka will begin a 12-day joint military training exercise 'Mitra Shakti' in Sri Lanka's Ampara from October 4 with a focus on enhancing counter-terror cooperation. The 8th edition of the India – Sri Lanka bilateral joint Exercise “Mitra ...

Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka’s 2014 T20 World Cup winning captain, has announced his retirement from T20Is, marking his retirement from all forms of cricket on September 14, 2021.The 38-year-old had already retired from Test cricket in 2011 and then from the ODIs in 2019.He played 30 Tests, 226 ODIs ...