The Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC) recently announced that the institution is cottoning onto a unique new proposal to shore up dollars.
Thushara Vajira Perera, Director SLINTEC, the first Public Private Partnership focusing on research and nanotechnology told the Business Times in an interview with Duruthu Edirimuni Chandrasekera that the institution is collaborating with manufacturing arms of other firms in the country to prototype and put out new products. "I am proposing to have this ecosystem of Research and Development (R&D) extending beyond Sri Lanka to other countries as well.”
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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