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JENNIFER LOPEZ is set to expand her fashion empire by launching a luxury T-shirt company online. The superstar quit her job as a judge on U.S. reality show American Idol last week (ends13Jul12) to focus on other projects, and she has already lined up her first post-TV venture in Teeology.com. The website, co-founded by Lopez ...
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For a record-setting eighth consecutive year, Emirates ‘ice‘ in-flight entertainment system has been awarded the ‘World’s Best Airline In-flight Entertainment’ award at the 2012 Skytrax World Airline Awards. The awards are based on voting by over 18 million airline passengers from 100 different nationalities. The award was accepted by Emirates’ Vice Presid...
- Emirates offers Iftar service this Ramadan (Category: Business)
- Emirates reveals new industry-leading screens for inflight entertainment system (Category: Business)
- Emirates continues roll-out of inflight product innovations (Category: Business)
- Emirates announces special fares for HSBC Signature Cardholders (Category: Business)
Business Standard: At a time when overall three-wheeler exports from the country is down by 40 per cent during the first quarter of the fiscal 2012-13 with major players like Bajaj Auto reporting a dip in exports, Rajkot based Atul Auto has drawn up plans to set up a small assembly plant in Sri Lanka ...
- Bajaj Auto cuts price to woo more Sri Lankan customers (Category: Business)
- Fiat India to sell Linea in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Indian firm to set up a three-wheeler assembly plant in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF urges Sri Lanka to look to India, China (Category: Breaking News)
The Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information Dr. Chritha Herath assumed duties yesterday amidst invoking blessings by the Maha Sangha and the leaders of other religious faiths. Addressing the staff of the Media Ministry Dr. Herath said that the Media Ministry has a great task to perform in assisting the development activities ...
- Media freedom upheld, no restrictions – Media Ministry Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Website owners must now pay (Category: Breaking News)
- Code of ethics for newscasting websites in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Ganegala appointed Acting Chairman ITN (Category: Breaking News)
The wait for fans in India and Pakistan to see the two countries face each other in a bilateral series is set to end. The BCCI confirmed today that Pakistan will tour India for three One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches in December – January. This will be the first bilateral series between India and ...
- UAE wants to host ‘highly anticipated’ Indo-Pak cricket series (Category: Business)
- PCB wants formal discussions with BCCI for resumption of Indo-Pak cricket ties (Category: Business)
- Pakistan chief optimistic about renewing cricket ties with India (Category: Business)
- We are open for cricket series against Pakistan: Dhoni (Category: Business)
As Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce welcomed its new Secretary, an upbeat Minister announced that fundamentals for further advancing of industry and commerce domains are falling into place. “My new Secretary Anura Siriwardena’s vast experience and the strong trust placed on him by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa are essential ingredients for him to ...
- UNIDO’s first Lankan bamboo industry initiative today (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s second global brand born (Category: Business)
- India’s prescription for our pharmas: ‘Focus on huge global market first’ (Category: Business)
- Concessionary loans for coconut cultivators (Category: Breaking News)
As holidaymakers get ready to explore a tropical paradise for the summer holidays, HSBC will add to the excitement with an astonishing shopping escapade valid for ‘48 days of summer’ from 15 July to 31 August 2012. The latest offering comes in the wake of the bank’s recent ‘Blockbuster Holiday’ travel privilege program that entitles ...
- HSBC launches fresh offer of privileges (Category: Business)
- HSBC in strategic tie up with Anything.lk (Category: Business)
- HSBC credit cardholders to experience cash back surprises this season (Category: Business)
- Class above the rest HSBC Visa Signature debuts in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
HRP, as the Association of Human Resource Professionals is commonly known, began in the year 2000 with the vision of bringing HR to the forefront. It arose out of a need for HRM professionals to have a forum to meet, help each other, share best practices and, more importantly, to have the profession duly recognised ...
- Microimage, official technology partner for HRM Awards 2012 (Category: Business)
- Virtusa wins Gold for HR Practices at HRM Awards 2010 Super 10 (Category: Breaking News)
- Bharti Airtel Lanka – official telecom partner at HRM Awards 2012 (Category: Business)
- HRM Awards 2012: Honouring the nation’s best HR practices (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the nation’s number one integrated communications service provider and the leading broadband and backbone infrastructure services provider, is proud to announce the successful implementation of the first phase of its ultra-high speed broadband network under its nation-wide network modernisation project “i-Sri Lanka” which has already driven an increase of...
- SLT says boosting internet usage via superior broadband (Category: Business)
- Transforming towards broadband Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Telecom launches Technology Experience Centre (Category: Business)
Dialog Television (DTV), Sri Lanka’s leading Direct-to-Home (DTH) Digital Satellite TV service recently announced the introduction of the country’s first HD (High Definition) broadcast, leading Sri Lanka into the era of advance digital media. With enhanced picture quality, vivid colours, sharper images and Dolby digital surround sound; the HD service will enable DTV subscribers to ...
- Sri Lanka Ranked 97 in HD Index (Category: Breaking News)
- Panasonic launches FULL HD 3D Viera Plasma TV in Sri Lanka together with Softlogic (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Nidahase Inna Umaria n Devashrie Full HD www Music lk (Category: Video)
- Video: Hoda Kale Samanthi Sagarika Full HD www Music lk (Category: Video)
By R.M.B. Senanayake The recent episode regarding the Z Score has led to demands that the Ministers of Education and Higher Education should resign. In their defence they say that the decisions were taken not by them but by experts. Yes, but didn’t they appoint these experts? How did they appoint such nincompoops? Not for ...
- Options For Interim Govt. To Overcome The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- How neuroscience can shape policy (Category: Technology)
- Economic decisions cannot be taken by politicians – Namal (Category: Breaking News)
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
Thisara, Tharanga and Thilan score half centuries Reuters: Sri Lanka all-rounder Thisara Perera hit a maiden test half-century off 86 balls to place his team in a strong position at the end of the third day of the third and final test against Pakistan at the Pallakele Stadium on Tuesday. Perera came to the wicket ...
- Sri Lanka steady after Gul`s early strike (Category: Breaking News)
- 3rd Test: Sri Lanka steady after Gul's early strike (Category: Breaking News)
- Perera's 75 puts Sri Lanka in strong position (Category: Breaking News)
- Pacemen shape Pakistan win in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Poor rainfall throughout Sri Lanka during the past few months has caused a drought unheard of during recent history. Particularly affected Districts are Kurunegala, Puttalam, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Batticaloa, Ampara, Nuwara Eliya and Badulla. Farmers complain that their crops are being ruined or are on the verge of being ruined. Some villages complain of the shortage ...
- Drought and lessons learned (Category: Business)
- Paddy farmers’ problems (Category: Business)
- Mahaweli Project – North Central Province canal: A tunnel in the wilderness? (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of irrigation water for paddy cultivation: A way out (Category: Breaking News)
After over two decades, the untouched, charming beaches of Passikudah, in the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, are slowly being rediscovered for their scenic golden sands and calm waters, rich in biodiversity. The bay of Passikudah comprises of a flat, soft sandy bed extending approximately 100 meters into the sea with a shallow fringing coral ...
- Basil opens Amethyst Resort in Passikudah (Category: Business)
- Amethyst– the Gem of the East Coast (Category: Business)
- Citrus Group’s Passikudah land buy faces legal snag (Category: Business)
Sandeep Bhammer is the CEO of the Singapore based Somerset Entertainment Ventures (SEV) and above all an avid sports enthusiast. It is this interest in sports and an astute understanding of its commercial potential which inspired SEV to acquire overall sponsorship rights to exclusively partner 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)
IRIN:Sri Lankan Parliamentarians in favour of acting on the recommendations in a report into the final stages of the country’s civil war by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) are slowly gaining ground over those who are not, says a Presidential peace process advisor. The Government’s initial reaction to the LLRC recommendations was positive, ...
- SL attends UNHRC sessions with impressive post-conflict records: Former AG (Category: Business)
- Double-edged reconciliation (Category: Business)
- UK wants G'ment to "move quickly to implement" LLRC recommendations (Category: Breaking News)
- US urges Sri Lanka to go beyond implementing LLRC recommendations (Category: Business)
Union Bank of Colombo Plc (UBC) announced that the bank would be introducing a new state-of-the-art core banking solution that will enable the bank to add further value to improving its management processes and service delivery. UBC has picked the internationally renowned banking solutions supplier, Silverlake Systems, Malaysia to implement the core banking system that ...
- Union Bank the first to announce interim dividend for 2012 (Category: Business)
- Union Bank conducts free advisory service for SMEs in Chilaw (Category: Business)
- Union Bank welcomes Alex Lovell as new Chairman (Category: Business)
The grand finale of the highly anticipated Ranaviru Real Star Mission Two, one of the most watched reality shows in Sri Lanka which highlights the hidden talents of our armed forces personal to hit the airways live on Sri Lanka Rupavahini on 6 July. Ranaviru Real Star was developed on a concept given by Secretary, ...
- Ranaviru Real Star Grand Finale Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranaviru Real Star Mission 2 commences (Category: Business)
- New house for Ranaviru Real Star (Category: Breaking News)
- New house for Ranaviru Real Star (Category: Breaking News)
TCL has been ranked No.5 in the world according to the latest published global Flat Panel sales rankings. It is the first time TCL has been ranked among the top five in the global Flat Panel market. For April 2012 alone, TCL recorded an 81% year-on-year growth having sold 1.44 million LCD TVs. TCL is ...
- Most energy efficient range of LED TVs from TCL debuts in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- TCL - The Most Energy Efficient Range Of LED TVs Makes Its Sri Lankan Debut (Category: Business)
- TCL TVs make 8K more affordable, slim down Mini-LED and expand Roku - CNET (Category: Technology)
- TCL TVs make 8K more affordable, slim down Mini-LED and expand Roku - CNET (Category: Technology)
Performers will have copyright protection for their audiovisual works as a result of the successful conclusion of 12 years negotiations by the members of the World intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which has resulted in the finalisation of the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances on 26 June. The treaty will enter into force when ratified by ...
- W. Wash. tribes say tribal fishing rights at risk (Category: USA, Washington)
- Starin in Chesterton expanding its leadership team (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Starin in Chesterton expanding its leadership team (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Starin in Chesterton expanding its leadership team (Category: USA, Indiana)
Informatics successfully secured a contract recently with the Ministry of Culture and the Arts to provide an AVID Video Editing Solution. This is one of the milestones reached by Informatics in terms of AVID business, where this solution will be used by the Media Unit of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts, to create ...
- New video against the LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Can Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Can Do? (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: Can Do? (Category: Breaking News)
Laptop luck for Bogawantalawa tea plucker N.S.J. Arachchi of the Nugegoda Branch recently emerged the winner of the Rupees Million prize in Seylan Bank’s fifth ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ draw. The fifth batch of winners received their awards from Seylan Bank Chairman Mohan Pieris PC, Executive Director R. Nadarajah and General Manager / CEO Kapila Ariyaratne ...
- Seylan Bank’s ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ draw yields 7,890 winners so far (Category: Business)
- Winners galore in Seylan Bank’s ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ draw (Category: Business)
- Seylan Bangkok tour winners set to take off (Category: Business)
- HNB Pathum Vimana 2011 prize winners get their rewards (Category: Business)
Rio+20 has come and gone. For some, with June gone, the task may be looking at the flavour of the month for July to prop up different hoardings. The conference was concluded successfully and most of the final photos and comments indicated it was well attended and well run and perhaps well concluded. For sure, ...
- Green growth not targets needed for 2015 climate deal (Category: Business)
- Climate change: The definitive challenge of the 21st century (Category: Business)
- Be a part of Earth Hour 2012 (Category: Business)
- Climate Change: A Red Flag For Environmental Security In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Knowledge Conglomerate, an independent subsidiary of MTI Consulting dedicated to knowledge based businesses in Sri Lanka, has announced the launch of their Executive Education Series. The knowledge Conglomerate is intent to high performance knowledge-based business in Sri Lanka. The concept believes knowledge-based business will grow in size, importance and dominance and offers exciting, high ...
- The Knowledge Conglomerate launches Exec-Ed (Category: Business)
- The Knowledge Conglomerate launches Exec-Ed on Brand Management (Category: Business)
- Launches Exec-Ed On Brand Management (Category: Business)
- Know your ‘Manners in Management’ this week (Category: Business)
A solution for loss-making SOEs? In the USA, a new corporate entity referred to as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp) has been brought into being. The states of Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, California and Vermont have legislation which permits companies to combine the profit motive with the purpose of making a positive impact on society and ...
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- Experimenting with State-Owned Enterprises (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF-led privatisation, land and resource grab in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Test has been marred by at least 10 contentious decisions over three days by umpires Steve Davis of Australia and Ian Gould of England. Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore on Sunday slammed the absence of the Decision Review System (DRS) in the series against Sri Lanka after his team suffered several umpiring errors in the ...
- Whatmore upbeat about Pakistan coach job (Category: Business)
- Misbah hails new Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore (Category: Business)
- Pakistan wants DRS for all international matches (Category: Business)
- Pakistan appoint Whatmore as head coach for two years (Category: Business)
By Sachin Ambekar Leo Burnett Solutions Inc. Chief Creative Officer Reporting from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 Day Four: The fourth day at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the world’s largest advertising festival was just as eventful as the days past! The spirit of the festival is still high with every delegate ...
- Ini-Avan at Cannes (Category: Business)
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 finale (Category: Business)
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 (Category: Business)
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity: Day Three (Category: Business)
Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara left the ground fuming after being stranded on an unbeaten 199 during the first Test against Pakistan in Galle on Saturday. The left-hander missed out on his ninth double-century in Test cricket partly due to an error in the scoreboard on the ground which showed him on 194 when his ...
- Conviction (Category: Business)
- Opening Moves (Category: Business)
- High Hopes (Category: Business)
- Sanga to be reappointed captain? (Category: Breaking News)
GALLE, (Reuters): Pakistan were facing defeat at 36 for three wickets in their second innings at the close on the third day of the first test against Sri Lanka on Sunday after being set a formidable winning target of 510 runs. Sri Lanka, who scored 472 in the first innings, closed their second innings at ...
- Sri Lanka end series drought with drawn Test (Category: Business)
- Three T’s tough for Pakistan (Category: Business)
- Pakistan hit back after double-century stand (Category: Business)
- Younis Leads Pakistan Fightback But Lanka Have Edge (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Holders Spain set up a European Championship semi-final with Iberian rivals Portugal after an uninspiring 2-0 win over France on Saturday which featured yet another headed goal but prompted boos from a sometimes bored crowd. The tournament has generally been graced by high quality, exciting soccer so far but for all Spain’s skill at ...
- Spain’s Iniesta named Euro 2012’s best player (Category: Business)
- Spain dominates World Player of the Year shortlist (Category: Business)
- Dutch top FIFA rankings without kicking a ball (Category: Business)
- Spain leads, Uruguay pips Germany in FIFA world rankings (Category: Business)
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