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The Perceived Economic Opportunity Index (PEOI) picked up a bit in August after its steep fall in July to one of its lowest values in the last 12 months. Index compiler the Foundation for Economic Freedom in Sri Lanka (FEFSL) said it was significant that the PEOI is still languishing in the ‘relatively pessimistic’ territory ...
- Perceived Economic Opportunity Index up slightly in April (Category: Business)
- Perceived Economic Opportunity Index falls again in July (Category: Business)
- Optimism stuck: Perceived Economic Opportunity Index stays flat in June (Category: Business)
- Perceived economic opportunity index dips (Category: Business)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday asserted that there is no political interference of any kind in the country’s Judiciary, as some have alleged. Addressing a meeting with News Directors and Chief Editors of electronic and printed media at Temple Trees, the President said that the Government does not interfere in the affairs of judges or ...
- Devolution: Let Parliament decide, says President (Category: Breaking News)
- Regular elections epitomise a vibrant democracy: President (Category: Business)
- Mahinda calls for UNP to unite and build a strong opposition (Category: Business)
- Government to monitor NGOs (Category: Breaking News)
The protest marches launched by the union of striking university academics and the student union on Monday urging the government to save the state education reached the city marking a successful conclusion. The trade union of Sri Lankan university academics, Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) launched its protest from Galle on September 24 and ...
- Marches by university teachers, students to reach Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- The Long March To Nowhere (Category: Breaking News)
- Academics may quit local system (Category: Breaking News)
- University academics on token srike on Tuesday (Category: Breaking News)
US Ambassador Michele J. Sison joined over seven hundred school children and local communities in Nedunkerny, Vavuniya last week to celebrate International Day of Peace. Youth across Sri Lanka from all different ethnic backgrounds spent months preparing for this day by participating in awareness workshops, camps, cultural programs and sports competitions that explored and discussed ...
- Be partners in development (Category: Breaking News)
- Stability should not come at the sacrifice of values of freedom of expression: U.S. Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Int’l Day of UN Peacekeepers: Jaishankar remembers those who made supreme sacrifice in cause of ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Youth Fest 2012 takes off this August (Category: Business)
Diesel & Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) recently organised a seminar and workshop on ‘Lighting the Future’ at The Sands, Kalutara. Top architects, consultants and key opinion leaders in the building and project business were invited for this event, along with their families. The invited guests and their families checked in on Friday at the hotel. ...
- DIMO opens most modern Lighting Studio (Category: Business)
- Overall Gold for DIMO tribe (Category: Business)
- DIMO pays tribute to its champions (Category: Business)
- DIMO ventures into maritime industry, launches maritime solutions (Category: Business)
3M Sri Lanka, in collaboration with 3M India hosted a three day Key Opinion Leader (KOL) healthcare session recently under the themes of ‘Developments in Infection prevention and sterilisation in hospitals’, re-enforcing 3M’s commitment to bring in global knowledge and best practices through international industry experts, with the aim of reducing the burden of hospital ...
- 3M launches Long Life Coolant (Category: Business)
- 3M, a Global Partner in Innovation (Category: Business)
- Leveraging 3M capabilities to build businesses (Category: Business)
- Suresh joins 3M as Head of Marketing (Category: Business)
Five youth, from Anamaduwa, Anuradhapura, Kandy, Puttalam and Matara, respectively, were recently appointed Elephant House Ice Cream dealers for their respective communities. These young people, who have become self-employed due to assistance provided by Elephant House, will now be operating Elephant House-branded mini ice cream trucks in their home locales. An initiative to help improve ...
- Crunch time with Elephant House Ice Cream (Category: Business)
- High response for ITN Dansala (Category: Breaking News)
- Elephant House with Deyata Kirula for sixth consecutive year (Category: Business)
Commuters can now experience free wi-fi service in stations and train Customer service kiosks in 15 train stations across the country Seven branded trains steam across the whole of Sri Lanka The next time you take a train ride be prepared to witness Airtel Lanka’s latest innovation in branding as it takes its vibrancy to ...
- A true telecom switch? (Category: Business)
- SPECIAL CHRISTMAS TRANSPORT SERVICES OPERATIVE (Category: Breaking News)
- Airtel Lanka introduces Talk Time gifting for customers across geographies (Category: Business)
- Airtel launches ‘my Airtel status service’ in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Micromax has tied-up with Abans Ltd as the authorised retail channel partner for India’s largest mobile handset company. “Abans is presently the authorised channel partner for a range of mobile devices, stocking the largest collection of the world’s leading brands,” notes Abans Deputy Director Dinesh Perera. “The company is one of the largest importers and ...
- Micromax India appoints Sanjeev as Country Manager for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Micromax ties up with Metropolitan Telecom to grow stronger in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Union Motor Reload Insurance now available at Abans show rooms (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s Abans’ proposed debt rated ‘A-(lka)’ (Category: Breaking News)
New commander of Sri Lanka Navy took helms Thursday ceremonially at the Naval Headquarters in Colombo. Sri Lanka Commander-In-Chief, President Mahinda Rajapaksa promoted Rear Admiral Jayanath Colombage to the three-star rank of Vice Admiral with effect from 27 September, and appointed him as Sri Lanka Navy’s 18th Commander. He succeeds the retiring Navy Commander Vice ...
- Lankan Navy Commander visits Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Navy Commander visiting Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
- Navy Chief observes Naval Flood Relief Operations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Navy Commander brings rival navy chiefs together (Category: Breaking News)
The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) will be knowledge partner to Ananda College ICT Society annual conference, “Pulz’ 12”. Throughout its 25-year legacy of 25 glorious years, the ICT society of Ananda College (ACICTS) has rendered a great service to the school and the country. It has produced many giants in the field of ...
- Crowds throng ICTA stall at Ruwanpura exhibition (Category: Business)
- ICTA ready for crowd-drawing ICT stall at ‘Deyata Kirula 2012’ (Category: Business)
- True collaborative effort in ICT sector vital – ICTA CEO (Category: Business)
- Budget boosts ICT4 development in all sectors – Minister Siyambalpitiya (Category: Business)
Text and pics by Mohamed R. Farook Fathima Halidha, a Fathima Muslim Ladies College 2011 AL Examination Bio Stream student, who secured an astonishing Z-Score of 3.0, with an all island ranking number three and district ranking of number two having achieved three straight A’s in all the three subjects of biology, chemistry and physics, ...
- Muslim Ladies College Interact Club engages with community (Category: Business)
- Founder of Kenwick school guilty of making fraudulent grant claims (Category: Western Australia)
- School founder guilty of fraudulently claiming grants (Category: Western Australia)
- All Ceylon Muslim Women’s Association celebrates Diamond Jubilee (Category: Business)
ANC Education has commenced the first LLM student intake with a full batch in September 2012. Two prominent academics Dr Philipp Elliot-Wright, Course Leader for LLM Programs and Dr Yaraslau Kryvoi, Senior Lecturer, School of Law from the University of West London arrived in Sri Lanka to attend the inaugural lectures conducted at ANC Education. UWL ...
- ANC Education Partners EDEX Expo 2012 As Platinum Sponsor (Category: Breaking News)
- Public seminar on law on 11 June (Category: Business)
The inauguration and the opening sessions of the Eisenhower South Asia Conference 2012 and Eisenhower Day celebrations were held earlier this week at the Cinnamon Lakeside, where Eisenhower Fellows from across the world met in Colombo. Organised by Eisenhower Fellowships, Philadelphia and the conference organising teams from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the evening ...
- Man, 24, shot on Eisenhower Expressway, Illinois State Police say (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Man, 24, shot on Eisenhower Expressway, Illinois State Police say (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Man, 24, shot on Eisenhower Expressway, Illinois State Police say (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Woman shot on Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago’s West Side (Category: USA, Illinois)
By D. C. Ranatunga Each time we visit the Peradeniya Botanic Gardens, we always look for flowers. I remember whenever we went we used to make a bee-line to the Orchid House where the blooms were a treat. And they still are. We hardly took an interest in studying or admiring trees. True, we saw ...
- Standard Chartered Bank commemorates World Environment Day 2012 (Category: Business)
- Kotagala and Agrapatana win national plantations awards (Category: Business)
- Lanka IOC launches tree planting campaign to mark 10th anniversary (Category: Business)
Watching the World T20 matches on TV – currently being played in Sri Lanka, I noticed a Tourist Board commercial on the theme ‘Refreshingly Sri Lanka – Wonder of Asia.’ Immediately I recalled last year’s stamp released to mark World Tourism Day. Sri Lanka issued ten stamps with an attractive souvenir sheet carrying all the ...
- Celebrating World Tourism Day by linking global cultures (Category: Business)
- Linking cultures - World Tourism Day 2011 focuses on empowering youth (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand first ever hotel to launch first day cover (Category: Business)
A Sri Lankan born in California, Ras Ceylon speaks on how rasta and Sri Lanka has influenced his music By Rashika Fazali “For me, music is the universal language. It is the vehicle of expression,” said rastafarian rapper and lyricist Ras Ceylon. I first heard him when he performed at Alternative Sunday Round ...
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 244 | 2015-03-01 (Category: Video)
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 243 | 2015-02-28 (Category: Video)
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 231 | 2015-01-17 (Category: Video)
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 232 | 2015-01-18 (Category: Video)
High Commissioner of India Ashok K. Kantha visited Sri Palee College in Horana to attend the Tagore Day celebrations. The foundation stone of Sri Palee College, modelled after Santiniketan, was laid by Gurudev Tagore himself on his third and last visit to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) on 20 May 1934. The Tagore Day celebrations at ...
- Culmination of 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's Sri Palee College celebrates Tagore Day (Category: Breaking News)
- Rt. Sir Alan Haselhurst Exco-Member from…. (Category: Business)
- Islamic monuments of India (Category: Business)
By Air Chief Marshal Oliver Ranasinghe I spent about two months during school hours on the steps of the present school auditorium. When I sat during the whole day on the auditorium verandah, my feet could not reach the ground. I was only five years old in 1952 when my aunt took me to ...
- Nestlé creates ‘shared value’ for Kelaniya Maha Vidyalaya (Category: Business)
- Who will win the Gratiaen? (Category: Business)
- HNB donates school books in Nochchiyagama in conjunction with Deyata Kirula 2012 (Category: Business)
- Recognising future business leaders (Category: Business)
A booklet based on the sayings of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States of America, has just been released by the Eisenhower Fellowships Association of Sri Lanka. It is to be distributed free to school children to convey a strong message on leadership, peace and unity. “It was an exciting experience,” ...
- South Asia on the move (Category: Business)
- Eisenhower South Asia Conference 2012 and Eisenhower Day celebrations (Category: Business)
- Madame Ambassador Chung, Your Message Will Live On Forever! (Category: Breaking News)
By Jennifer Chen For years, Channa and Ajit Gunewardene lived with their mother in a 1950s bungalow in the posh Cinnamon Gardens neighborhood of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. It was spacious and comfortingly familiar. But it had a serious flaw: Most of the rooms were interconnected, a design quirk that was becoming increasingly ...
- Creating memories that last - Jetwing Hotels at the Bridal Fair 2011 (Category: Business)
- Two Lankan pilgrims die in Saudi (Category: Breaking News)
- Entranced by Lunuganga (Category: Breaking News)
- Exhibition on iconic SL architect Geoffrey Bawa attracts thousands of people (Category: Breaking News)
Dettol, a power brand from the portfolio of Reckitt Benckiser (Lanka) Ltd, launched its latest offering – Dettol re-energise soap, with the freshness of orange and Dettol’s trusted germ protection. During the course of the day, germs sap our energy which causes fatigue. The unique formulation of Dettol re-energise soap not only protects you against germs ...
- Dettol thanks Sri Lankan for 50 years of trust and confidence (Category: Breaking News)
- Dettol invites people to join the mission for health towards a germ free & healthy Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Dettol explores the world of mother care through islandwide healthcare initiative (Category: Business)
- Clear Throat (Category: Business)
A special health screening package which includes a breast cancer risk assessment and discounts on mammograms will be available in October at the Ceylinco Healthcare Centre. A promotion launched by the Centre to build awareness on the importance of early detection of breast cancer in the month dedicated universally to the cause, the special ...
- Ceylinco Healthcare Centre to offer special breast care packages (Category: Business)
- Special package from Ceylinco Healthcare for gastritis patients (Category: Business)
- Ceylinco Healthcare Centre offers easy payment via credit cards (Category: Business)
- Ceylinco Healthcare promotes health screening in June (Category: Business)
Creepy customer service Way too many Colombo stores seem to think it’s OK to silently follow customers around and just stare at them. It’s not. It’s just creepy and weird. Recently we went to Leather Collection. The manager immediately started following us like five feet behind. It was so obnoxious. They don’t even greet you ...
- CL Synergy goes regional with foray into India (Category: Business)
- SriLankan Airlines wins KLIA Award for sixth time (Category: Business)
- HNB Assurance launches ‘myhome’ and ‘myhealth’ (Category: Business)
- Expo Rail continues to redefine Sri Lankan train travel in style (Category: Business)
DISREGARDING an offered salary increase, academics on Friday staged a massive protest march demanding sweeping reforms to higher education and widening the abyss with the Government. As the three month anniversary of the strike nears, there is escalating concern of the consequences of this stalemate. The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA), the trade union ...
- Chaotic higher education – an opening to totalitarianism (Category: Breaking News)
- Academics of Sri Lanka's Jaffna University against setting up private universities (Category: Breaking News)
- Academics may quit local system (Category: Breaking News)
- University teachers and students began protest against the government (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Chelsea captain John Terry has been under the spotlight all week and there will be no change when the Premier League leaders play Arsenal on Saturday, the European champions’ first big game of the season according to team mate Branislav Ivanovic. Terry shocked English football on Sunday when he retired from international football ahead ...
- Spurs relish favourites tag against Arsenal (Category: Business)
- Chelsea and City triumphs could signal new era (Category: Business)
- United beats Chelsea to march on (Category: Business)
- Woeful Arsenal dumped out of FA Cup, Chelsea held (Category: Business)
Rain-hit game goes host’s way as West Indies fails to chase down 48 runs in eight overs (strap) In what was seen as the first major upset of the tournament, an inspired Sri Lanka overcame West Indies challenge by five runs, courtesy the Duckworth/Lewis method, to register its first win of the ICC Women’s World ...
- Windies aim to topple out-of-sorts Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Windies aim to topple out-of-sorts Sri Lanka (Category: Sports)
- Windies aim to topple out-of-sorts Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Windies aim to topple out-of-sorts Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The ‘Speed Championship 2012’ round three organized by Asian Motor Racing Club is scheduled to be worked off at the Speed Drome Pannala on October 14 from 8.30 a.m. The two rounds held earlier has not shown any driver with a clear indication of the championship except for the SL-GT Cars up to 3500cc where ...
- EZY Racing launches Kart Fighters with Speed Drome (Category: Business)
- Ten young drivers on starting grid this Sunday for Speed 2012 Championship (Category: Business)
- AMRC Championship round four to present top racing on 1 July (Category: Business)
- 2011 Champion Pasindu Peiris joins EZY Racing (Category: Business)
Simon Taufel’s retirement as an active umpire at the end of the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 will mean that the most decorated member of the ICC’s Elite Panel of Umpires will not be around to oversee big games anymore. Taufel has been among the few officials who have been regarded with respect across the board, ...
- ICC, CA play down umpiring error during India-Sri Lanka match (Category: Business)
- Lovely cricket! (Category: Business)
- Emirates contributes to Sri Lanka’s Carnival of Cricket (Category: Business)
- ICC cricket committee to re-consider legality of switch-hit (Category: Business)
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- More private sector investments key for higher growth – ADB (Category: Business)
- Government and UNDP map out SDG investment for private sector to support recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Plug the leaks (Category: Business)
- Govt. on right course, private sector must adapt and grow: Dr. P.B. (Category: Business)
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