Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama last night reiterated that the Government was committed to ensuring Sri Lanka achieved inclusive growth while modernising the economy for the benefit of all segments of society, a process which required difficult decisions to be made.

Sri Lanka's new government is drafting reforms aimed at simplifying taxes, widening the tax base and increasing compliance, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said on Wednesday.

Students who enroll for the MBBS degree programme at SAITM meet with University Grants Commission entry criteria and have the requisite A/L examination results or its equivalent.

Many Central Banks have a single mandate, namely inflation targeting. However, it is time that they also take on a secondary mandate, that of "employment targeting", according to Dr. Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office, of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).