UNP Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe gestures while addressing the media yesterday at the Opposition Leader’s Office while commenting on the party leadership and organising a petition to release former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka – Pic by Romesh Danuska de Silva

DUInvest an arm of DirectFN, a Dubai-based ICT company which specialises in capital market based software and, a leading financial portal in the Middle Eastern, East European and African regions commenced its services to Sri Lankan Investor Community recently with the launch of http://lk.duinvest.com. The portal deployed by DirectFN for the Colombo Stock Exchange acts ...

CIMA Sri Lanka will be conducting an evening discussion programme on ‘Evaluating LKAS 17: Leases’ on 30 November at the CIMA auditorium. The objective of the discussion will be to enlighten participants on the changes that have been incorporated through the new leasing standard, how management accountants can create value when coping with these changes, ...

Danushka Jayakodi, a student of Polgasovita Sripathi Vidyalaya in Homagama Educational Zone got 183 marks at recently held grade five scholarship examination and got position 54 in Colombo District.

Rugby – Carlton Super 7’s – Colombo Leg By Milinda Gunawardena After an eventful two days in Kandy, the Carlton Super Sevens rugby tournament kicked off the first day of the second leg at the Royal Sports Complex in Colombo yesterday. The tournament which has created a carnival atmosphere and two days of scintillating display ...

The Annual Royal-Thomian Tennis Encounter for the E.F.C. Pereira Challenge Trophy will be played on 29 October, 2011 at the SLTA Hard Courts at 10.00 a.m. The Trophy donated by D.L. Seneviratne (Old Royalist and former President of the SLTA) is named in memory of E.F.C. Pereira who was a teacher at Royal College for ...

* Annual inflation at 6.4%, eases for second month * Improved food, vegetable supply helps ease inflation * CB expects annual inflation at 6% by December COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lanka’s annual inflation slowed to a lower-than-expected 6.4% in September from a year earlier, down from 7% in August on a new consumer price index, Government ...

The candidates of the ruling party and the main opposition not only share names that start with the letter M but they are also widely perceived to be mellow. This however is in addition to being visionaries and good strategists in their own right. Here SLFP candidate and former top Minister Milinda Moragoda (left) and ...

The Student’s Union of the Sabaragamuwa University has demanded the administrative board that the university be re-opened immediately. The administration had taken measures to close down the university yesterday on unjust grounds, Union President Danushka Disanayake said.

The Colombo Stock Market CSE has become the Asia’s best Stock Market in 2010 with a surge of 96 percent. Indonesia that rose a 46.1 per cent became a distant second. The Economic Times reported that the CSE’s main share index rose 21.74 points to 6,635.87. Danushka Samarasinghe, Director at TKS

Off spinner Koshan Danushka took a match bag of twelve wickets for 66 to spearhead Nalanda College to a morale-boosting eight wicket outright victory over Lumbini MV in their inter school under 19 cricket tournament match which concluded at Reid Avenue yesterday. Danushka who took a five wicket

Squads selected for the upcoming Inter Provincial Limited Over tournament

Airman P.D.Suresh won the Layton Cup as he was adjudged the Best Boxer at the ABA conducted Layton Cup Boxing Championship 2010 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium on Wednesday. Suresh defeated colleague H. S. Danushka in the fly weight under 52 kgs category. D. R. Wijeratne(Unichela

Kithruwan Vithanage named his deputy for the English tour.