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Seylan Tikiri Plus Accounts, which teaches children on the savings habit the fun way, have come up with yet another innovative promotion, where 100 BMX bicycles are on offer to be won, for 100 lucky Tikiri Plus Account holders. Every Rs.2,000/- deposited in to a Tikiri Plus account during 16th July to 15th September 2012, ...
Biggest contingent of top Indian corporate leaders in town for the first ever bilateral CEOs Forum and other events as mega India Show kicks off today with Commerce Minister Sharma as Chief Guest By Nisthar Cassim Indian business leaders are rushing to Sri Lanka as the giant neighbour kicks off today what can be described ...
AOD design graduate Dilini Halvitigala leading her own practiceCommencing your own business at a young age is always a challenge; it’s even more challenging to start a business in a relatively new business sector. Dilini Halvitigala, a young interior design entrepreneur from AOD (Academy of Design) took on this challenge backed by AOD’s global design ...
Reuters: British royals Kate Middleton and Prince Harry led Vanity Fair’s international best-dressed list on Tuesday, following a year in which all eyes have been on Britain’s young members of the monarchy. The newly-wed Duchess of Cambridge, 30, whose husband is Harry’s brother Prince William, will grace the September cover of the magazine’s newsstand editions ...
The Sri Lanka State Engineering Corporation (SLSEC) won the International Star Gold Quality Award for its high quality service at the 16th Standards Conference and Awards Ceremony held in Paris on 24 and 25 June with the participation of institutions relating to various fields from 74 countries. The award was formally handed over to the ...
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles of India Anand Sharma will visit Sri Lanka from 2-5 August 2012, coinciding with the prestigious ‘India Show – Land of Limitless Opportunities’ being organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce from 3-5 August 2012 at the BMICH, Colombo. ‘India Show’ ...
By Charles Santiapillai Sri Lanka Guardian: Although the Jaffna man’s mind is preoccupied with money and matrimony, the thing that he treasures most above everything else is education and scholarship. For a Jaffna man, it’s books, and not dogs, that are his best friends. He would pay more attention to a good book than to ...
Reuters: The head of the US government’s secretive National Security Agency took the unprecedented step on Friday of asking a convention of unruly hackers to join him in an effort to make the Internet more secure. In a speech to the 20th annual Def Con gathering in Las Vegas, four-star General Keith Alexander stressed common ...
LONDON (Reuters) : It was 20-years ago that the original Dream Team was introduced to the world with the 116-48 destruction of Angola. The United States women’s basketball team got their shot at the African nation at the London Olympics on Monday, and were no less charitable. While Sue Bird will never be mistaken for ...
In results released to the Colombo Stock Exchange this week, Senkadagala Finance PLC announced an overall star class performance in all areas of operations for the financial year ended 31 March 2012 when compared with its performance in the previous financial year. In key performance indicators, profit after tax rose 128% to Rs. 506.2 million ...
Sri Lanka’s number one cable brand manufacturer, Kelani Cables held their Annual Distributor Convention on 21 July at Heritance, Dambulla with participation of their CEO Mahinda Saranapala and General Manager – Marketing Anil Munasinghe. Award ceremony was organised to reward the distributors and the sales staff who excelled during the financial year 2011/2012. The top ...
The Cinnamon Grand, Colombo’s premier five-star hotel, recently recruited another top chef to its ranks: Chef Susantha Rathnasuriya, who brings with him a quarter century of experience and knowledge gathered from all around the world. Having joined the hotel on 1 June this year, Chef Susantha is excited about all the possibilities the Cinnamon Grand ...
Thailand-based Centara Hotels and Resorts currently has 55 hotels and resorts in its portfolio, with a mixture of owned and managed properties. In the next five years the company has a target to acquire more than 45 hotel and resort properties with the intention of reaching 100 in 2017. Centara believes its ambitious target to ...
A group of upcoming bartenders from Heritance Kandalama and Heritance Ahungalla Hotels walked away with key wins at the recently concluded National Bar Tenders’ Cocktails and Flair Competition 2012, organised by the Ceylon Hotel School Graduates’ Association. Indika Kumara Marasinghe, Praveen Sampath Fernando, Gihan Sadanayake, Iresh Tharanga Mayadunna, Sithara Wickramasinghe and Rosha...
I must thank the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management Chairman Chandra Mohotti and the Director General Senaka Wijewardena for inviting me to be the Chief Guest at this graduation ceremony of Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management for 2011. It is a great pleasure for me for four reasons to ...
LONDON (Reuters): So how does it feel flying halfway round the world from the Maldives and losing your Badminton debut at the Olympics in straight sets? The reaction from Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed was remarkably upbeat, especially as he had fulfilled a boyhood dream only hours earlier by carrying the flag for his tiny Indian Ocean ...
Reuters: Swimmer Michael Phelps won his 17th Olympic medal to take him closer to the all-time mark, but his U.S. freestyle relay team were upstaged by France as records fell in the pool on Sunday’s second day of competition at the London Games. South Africa’s Cameron Van der Burgh and American Dana Vollmer set world ...
American swim star Ryan Lochte says he might have been beaten by a teenage girl whose gold medal at the London Olympics has set off a series of Chinese whispers. China’s 16-year-old sensation Ye Shiwen swam a section of her triumphant 400m individual medley in a time faster than Lochte and his feted compatriot Michael ...
T20 tourney to take up over 7,000 room nights in lean tourism season; bring in over Rs. 130 m revenue for hotels Destination Sri Lanka to get a fillip via global TV coverage The inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL), ready to kick off in two weeks’ time, is expected to give a big boost ...
Reuters: Shooting took centre stage at the Olympics on Saturday when IOC President Jacques Rogge handed over the first gold medal of the London Games, but it was the pioneering and pregnant athletes who stole the show. China’s Yi Siling took the honour of being the first London gold medallist when she won the women’s ...
Take a cue from celebs and fashion types who know that the right pair of sunglasses can add instant mystique, chic and polish to any look but also know that sunglasses are more than just a fashion statement: they are a necessity to protect your eyes from harmful UV rays. So, go for Vision Care ...
Reuters: While China tussles for top spot in the Olympic medal standings with the United States, the race to be best of the rest in Asia will come down to another battle between bitter rivals South Korea and Japan at the London Games. Sleeping giants India have ploughed money into sport in recent years and ...
The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL), aimed at being Sri Lanka’s most prestigious, annually-held, domestic Twenty20 cricket competition and featuring the best and upcoming cricketing talent from Sri Lanka playing alongside national Sri Lankan cricketers as well as some of the world’s biggest Twenty20 cricket stars, has made several new announcements. An introduction to the ...
Classic Travel, the IATA accredited subsidiary of Expolanka Holdings PLC, specializing in providing a total travel solution to both the corporate and leisure marketsrecently opened its new branch office at level 12, East Tower, World Trade Centre Hanif Yusoof, Group CEO of Expolanka declared open the new office together with Saif Yusoof, Director, Classic Travel ...
“I consider MLH a seven star because of the characteristic, quality of service and the uniqueness of the property and it really fascinates me,” states CIMA President Gulzari Babber. He was Sri Lanka recently as a judge for the GBC 2012 where over 22 countries participated in a Global Business Challenge that was held at ...
In-house TV Production venture starts next month with Test series vs NZ For the first time in its 84- year- old history, the BCCI has added an in-house television production unit and it will make debut with the home Test series against New Zealand next month. The BCCI Broadcasting Services will not only do the ...
Live the thrills and spills of the London Olympics from the comfort of your home as Dialog Television (DTV); Sri Lanka’s leading Direct-to-Home (DTH) Digital Satellite TV service is broadcasting the 2012 Olympic Games in High Definition for the first time in Sri Lanka on ESPN HD (High Definition). DTV customers who have subscribed to ...
‘The Gathering’ of elephants at the Minneriya National Park, named by National Geographic as the ‘sixth greatest animal spectacle of the world’ can be witnessed during months of August through September. It is a seasonal movement of elephants during the underlying period to form a gathering along the receding shores of the Minneriya Lake. As ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters): Grammy-winning pop star Mariah Carey will join Fox television’s American Idol singing contest as a judge next season as the highly rated show fights to regain its slumping audiences. Kevin Reilly, president of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting, told television critics on Monday in Los Angeles that popular singer Carey will be one ...
Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo excelled in the 21st National Bartender’s Cocktail and Flaring competition held at the BMICH on 15 July. Three talented members of the Cinnamon Lakeside team went through to represent the hotel in the finals. The finalists wowed judges at the Hotel show with Chandika Thilakarathna and Dinusha Vilashani in the Classical category ...