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By Ashwin Hemmathagama Our Lobby Correspondent Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday in Parliament expressed displeasure with the performance of Sri Lanka Cricket after he on Wednesday assured national cricketers would be paid on time. Aluthgamage told Parliament
- Minister orders Board to borrow Rs. 600 m from BOC to pay cricketers (Category: Business)
- Aluthgamage orders BoC to pay cricketers' wages (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricketers to be paid dues (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricketers salary issue resolved (Category: Breaking News)
ESPNCricinfo: Former ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat’s role as special advisor to the SLC will include an independent review of its governance and recommendations to the heavily indebted board on financial management, SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga has said. All recommendations made by Lorgat in his three-month tenure will then be made public. He will also ...
- Lorgat likely to join Sri Lanka Cricket as consultant (Category: Business)
- Lorgat joins Sri Lanka Cricket as special advisor (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC hires former ICC Chief Lorgat as Special Adviser (Category: Business)
- SLC close to appointing Lorgat consultant (Category: Sports)
Heads turning attraction! Biggest sporting event in post-war Sri Lanka aims to boost future cricket talent at provinces; leisure and entertainment industry to get a fillip 21-day contest from 10 August involving local and global stars to be promoted as “village, country and the world” coming together as one to celebrate Sri Lanka’s passion MCC ...
- Brian Lara, MCC Chief lift SLPL to the world (Category: Business)
- SLPL boost for tourism next month (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Premier League forges ahead (Category: Business)
- All set for maiden SLPL; sights set for bigger glory in the future (Category: Business)
with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to launch the Sri Lankan ...
- Sri Lanka Premier League names Gayle, Angelo as international icons (Category: Business)
- Dilshan Munaweera on his inclusion in Sri Lankan World Twenty20 Squad (Category: Business)
- SLPL boost for tourism next month (Category: Business)
- $ 100,000 Gayle most prized player in SLPL; Lankan top stars fetch $ 50,000 each (Category: Business)
Seylan Bank PLC recently signed up with Sri Lanka Cricket as their latest merchant to the Internet Payment Gateway. Sri Lanka Cricket has engaged in online operations that features three main segments specifically on Ticketing, Merchandising and Auctioning. The first segment to get online
- Trade Finance (Category: Business)
- Sampath Bank gives Lankan businesses one more reason to go online (Category: Business)
- Online visa income tops Rs 70 m (Category: Breaking News)
- Number of Lanka Gate users per day exceeds 3,000 (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said he still retains the passion to represent his country and play at the highest level; but reiterated that he sees his current stint as skipper only as a stop-gap arrangement. \\Jayawardene, who replaced Tillakaratne Dilshan as Sri Lanka captain after the tour of South Africa, has had decent success ...
- Slots open for World T20 squad - Jayawardene (Category: Sports)
- Won't captain team: Dilshan (Category: Breaking News)
- Jayawardene to lead Kochi (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPL to promote young talent (Category: Breaking News)
Parliamentary accountability The Parliament, as the country’s foremost representative institution, has the sole authority over national resources and financial allocations and concurrently has a prominent role to play in fiscal responsibility, the budgetary process, economic development and effective transparent economic and financial management, with a view to assuring sustainable growth an...
- Chandra J sends his proposals for 2013 Budget to the President (Category: Business)
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Time for reflection, reality check, risk mitigation and lessons learnt action (Category: Business)
Ahead of Friday's AGM, Pan Asia Bank Plc (PABC Bank) Board of Directors yesterday appointed Nimal Perera as the Chairman and Eshana de Silva as the Deputy. Nimal was previously the Deputy Chairman and was elevated as the incumbent senior banker A.G. Weerasinghe is up for retirement. The new appointments are effective from 2 April. ...
- Raises Rs. 150 Mn. (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-SEC DG Channa appointed to Pan Asia Bank board (Category: Business)
- Nimal Perera, new chairman of PABC (Category: Breaking News)
- Heavy movements in financial sector boards (Category: Business)
The ICC World Twenty20 2012 ticket launch will take place at the Galle Face Green on Saturday 24 March 18.30 (Colombo time) with President Mahinda Rajapaksa purchasing the very first ticket of the tournament. The launch will also feature the ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat as well as representatives from both the Sri Lankan men’s ...
- Second phase of ticket sales for ICC World T20 Cup ends on high note (Category: Business)
- Tickets for ICC WT20 final sold out (Category: Business)
- Final phase of ICC World T20 tickets opens today (Category: Business)
- ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka crosses 100,000 tickets-sold mark (Category: Business)
Calcutta (The Tele-graph): Sri Lanka’s cricketers are yet to see a cent from their tour of Australia and played Friday’s match out of contract, but there has been movement in a pay dispute with their board, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Also the Australian Cricketers’ Association and Cricket Australia, discussing the next pay deal, are ...
- Courtesy Call (Category: Business)
- South Africa backs Sri Lankan cricketers’ pay dispute: Smith (Category: Business)
- New Faces (Category: Business)
- Lankan cricketers have no appeal to Aussie fans (Category: Breaking News)
The Bank of Ceylon has agreed to release Rs. 600 million to Sri Lanka Cricket to pay longstanding dues to national players. The move follows discussions Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage had with the Chairman and Board officials of the Bank of Ceylon along with the officials of the Sri Lanka
- Political Distractions (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
- Not Cricket (Category: Business)
- Team Spirit (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s cricketing fortunes seem to be changing of late. The team’s better performance has raised hopes among many fans, while the Sports Ministry’s decision to finally pay the cricketers through a Rs. 600 million loan from the Bank of Ceylon will raise moral still higher. The financial fallout that resulted from the co-hosting of ...
- Extremist Leader (Category: Business)
- Sanga Resigns (Category: Breaking News)
- Basnahira Cricket Dundee launches official team jersey (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
What does independence mean to Sri Lanka? After 64 years, one would think that the value of freedom would have waned, but that is not the case. Yet the direction of this independence and what it means to people is undergoing a change and therein lies the challenge for the decades ahead. It is true ...
- Winners of the School essay competition conducted by Department of Information (Category: Breaking News)
- Hit Wicket (Category: Business)
- Judicial Jugglery (Category: Business)
- Each step taken for development a step towards freedom - President (Category: Breaking News)
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard hosted the touring Sri Lanka cricket team at her residence ahead of the team’s practice match against the Prime Ministers XI which takes place on February 3 at the Manuka Oval. Sri Lanka are in Australia for the Commonwealth Bank Tri Series
- Terminal Award (Category: Business)
- Fashion Freight (Category: Business)
- Capital Cushion (Category: Business)
- Share Allocation (Category: Business)
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) under its outreach programme ‘Sambhashana’ discussed ‘COPE Exposure and Beyond’ at the OPA Auditorium recently. On the panel were Rajiva Wijesinha, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC and Professor A.D.V. de S. Indraratna. The moderator was Lakshman Gunasekera. Below is the presentation by Professor Indraratna: This is not the first time tha...
- Ex-AG backs IMF bailout conditions (Category: Breaking News)
- DEW disappointed over disruption of COPE; AG acting in terms of Standing Orders (Category: Breaking News)
- AG, COPE take exception to ‘executive interference’ (Category: Breaking News)
- X-Press Pearl controversy: Prof. Peiris zeroes in on AG (Category: Breaking News)
Charith Senanayake new manager for Aussie tour COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lanka have sacked coach Geoff Marsh and appointed South African Graham Ford on a two-year contract, a Sri Lanka cricket official said on Thursday. “Ford has signed a two-year contract and his first assignment
- Sri Lanka axes Marsh (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka 'appoint Ford as coach' (Category: Breaking News)
- Graham Ford new coach (Category: Breaking News)
- Ford named Sri Lanka coach (Category: Breaking News)
The ceremonial induction of Sujeewa Rajapakse as the 21st President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) will be held today at 6 p.m. at the Oak Room of the Cinnamon Grand. Rajapakse will take over the mantle of CA Sri Lanka from Sujeewa Mudalige at the ceremony at which ...
- SLC faces financial crisis after World Cup - report (Category: Breaking News)
- People’s Bank joins hands with National Investment Industrial Bank of the Russian Federation to ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Would Do Well To Comply With The IFRS (Category: Business)
- Impressive participation at CA Sri Lanka’s regional seminars on IFRS convergence (Category: Business)
In celebration of World AIDS Day, Standard Chartered in association with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the National STD/AIDS control programme of the Ministry of Health will remind individuals about the importance of prevention in fighting the pandemic as well as the need to challenge the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, at a special corporate ...
- Lanka Business Coalition kicks off 2012 HIV and AIDS awareness programme (Category: Business)
- HNB and DFCC continue to support Lanka Business Coalition’s AIDS awareness program (Category: Business)
- Lanka Biz Coalition on HIV/AIDS hold AGM (Category: Business)
- Creating awareness’ on HIV and AIDS is just a click away (Category: Business)
MANY are the articles penned and opinions aired over Sri Lanka’s bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games bid, but now the only question that needs to be answered is, where to from here? Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told media that the cost for the promotion of Hambantota as the venue was US$ 8 ...
- Commonwealth Games bid money being audited (Category: Breaking News)
- Bid Achieved Global Platform for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth Games bid investment not in vain (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bids to host the games (Category: Breaking News)
Having made a name and mega bucks from the Colombo bourse, high net worth investor Nimal Perera has now sets sights on striking it big in the business of sports. Nimal has floated a sports industry-focused N Sports Pvt. Ltd., which incidentally is also his first self-owned venture. The inaugural deal of N Sports is ...
- Truth behind raid would come: Nimal Lansa (Category: Breaking News)
- Under-utilized Lands to be Re-acquired (Category: Breaking News)
- Introduction of boxing to Kandy SC a step in right direction (Category: Sports)
- National issues not to be Internationalized (Category: Breaking News)
By Tyrone Perera The MCA ‘Centenary Year’ 2011 Invitational 20+20 Super tournament got off to a start at the venues on Wednesday. Both Sri Lanka Cricket Development squads hogged the limelight when their U-20 team, led by Ramitha Rambukwella beat the fancied Sampath Bank team, 2011 MCA
- MCA “Centenary Year” 2011 Invitational T20 Super Tournament (Category: Sports)
- MAS Unichela take on MAS Active in MCA Premier League 2012 Knock-Out today (Category: Business)
- SLC Development Squad U-20 XI scored 2nd successive win (Category: Sports)
- Unichela wins against Sri Lanka Cricket U-20 (Category: Business)
Five new directors have been appointed to the Asian Alliance Insurance Board following the acquisition of control by Softlogic Holdings Group. The new appointees are Softlogic Holdings Chairman Ashok Pathirage, T.M. Iftikar Ahamed, Sujeewa Rajapakse, Ranil P. Pathirana and Suraj N. Fernando. Their appointment follows the resignation of Mano Nanayakkara, S.A. Abeysinghe, R. J. Wickramasinghe, ...
- Induction of Sujeewa Rajapakse as 21st ICASL Chief today (Category: Business)
- Sujeewa new CEO of Softlogic Communications (Category: Business)
- Rajendra appointed to CSE Board (Category: Business)
- Aitken Spence comes onboard as Lead Sponsor for CA Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Holmes Pollard and Stott has appointed Subashini Loganathan as the Chief Operating Officer (COO). Subashini joined Holmes Pollard & Stott 15 years ago as a Coordinator. Her charisma, poise and intellect have been crucial factors in maintaining strong ties with clients. She has handled several high profile brands such as Western Union, Seylan Bank, Brown ...
- Holmes Pollard And Stott Shifts Gears (Category: Business)
- HP&S shifts gears (Category: Business)
- HP&S Shifts Gears (Category: Breaking News)
- Toddler saved from death (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
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