According to the defense sources, investigations have revealed that new explosives have been used for the suicide bomb attacks in several parts of the country by terrorists on April 21, 2019.

The Minister of Science, Technology and Research Sujeewa Senasinghe, during his visit to Geneva on 17 May 2019, extended an invitation to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to participate in the Shilpa Sena exposition to be launched in July 2019 in Colombo.

The National Research Council (NRC), which functions under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Research, is a leading body providing government funding for the empowerment of scientific research in Sri Lanka.

Minster of Science, Technology & Research, along with a delegation is currently attending the 22nd session of the commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) in Geneva, Switzerland. This session is held from the 13th to 17th of May 2019.

Minister of Science, Technology and Research, Sujeewa Senasinghe has been formally invited for the fourth time to attend the 11th annual Global Empowerment Meeting (GEM19) hosted by the Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 9th and 10th 2019.