Author: Raihaan Ihsan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ12pxXlnOoSL Webcast, Srilanka’s youngest most viewed website and a platform to help youth to focus on goals which develop careers, hosted Profectus, a prestigious, motivational and inspirational workshop assembled on the 04th of September 2022. This program was mainly organised on behalf of guiding and helping our youth. Profectus convened as a virtual program and a successful program with 100+ registrations and participants from 8 different countries globally: Srilanka, Pakistan, UAE, India, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Fatuhada and Cameron.Project Profectus is an educational event. This event was hosted under two main topics guiding the youth. First  ‘How to create a professional…

Sri Lanka, a 22 million strong island nation, is currently facing the worst economic and political crisis ever since the country gained independence in 1948. The citizens of the country on protests taking down to the streets, despite curfews and the ministers, stepping down mostly functioning to continue as an independent group in the parliament. This has been the worst economic meltdown in the country, with crippling inflation sending the cost of basic goods skyrocketing. Adding the fact that the Sri Lankan rupee is now the world’s worst-performing currency. Protest in front of the Presidential Secretariat The cause of the…

Scholarships for Local students One of the main activities of the Ministry of Higher Education is providing opportunities for the Sri Lankans to follow Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses in various fields in foreign countries. In the selection of candidates, to have openness and transparency, as well as selecting the best applicants, applications are called through an advertisement, which is published on the website of the Ministry. Qualified applicants are interviewed by a panel of experienced University Lecturers. Selected best applicants are nominated for the final selection which is done by the respective scholarship agency. Foreign scholarships offered through the Ministry…

Advertisement Table of Contents Sri Lanka’s Looming economic crisis Everyday life for people in Sri Lanka has become a major challenge these days. Food, medicines and fuel are in high demand and are sold at a high price even if they are available. The Covid 19 pandemic is being blamed, but the high depreciation on the Lankan rupee value is making things even worse. The nation mainly depends on imports for food, and the currency being weaker makes it unaffordable to the general public. Advertisement Why exactly is Sri Lanka’s economy in trouble? Sri Lanka’s finances are in a perilous…

Advertisement Health Promotion Bureau of Sri Lanka announced today that Sri Lanka detected its first infection of the newly detected Covid variant, ‘Omicron’, from a Sri Lankan National who had returned from South Africa. In recent days, one of the words that we find everywhere, “OMICRON”. Here’s what you need to know about the worst COVID variant yet, which has just been named OMICRON. Why is it the worst variant yet? Where was it found? What countries is it already in? Is the virus immune to the vaccine? We are literally sick of hearing about COVID, but this is the…

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