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Kevin Pietersen will be at September’s World Twenty20 – not as a player but as part of ESPN STAR Sports’ team of television presenters. The news comes soon after it was confirmed that Pietersen would not play the World T20 for England following his spat with the ECB and his team-mates – whose performance he ...
- Live - England v Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Pietersen wants to dominate world cricket (Category: Business)
- Kevin Pietersen misses World T20 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pietersen woes continue with golden duck (Category: Business)
Whilst tracking the key moments of the London Olympics, I realised how reliant I was on the text updates that beeped on my Blackberry and then when time permits go to YouTube or the official websites to experience this key happening as it unfolds to the world. But, then I realised that my friends had ...
- HR and London Olympics (Category: Business)
- Coca-Cola and McDonalds launch London Olympics 2012 memorabilia (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- London Olympics biggest in US TV history, despite gripes (Category: Business)
ESPN and News Corp have announced a definitive agreement under which ESPN will sell its 50 per cent stake in ESPN Star Sports (ESS) to a unit of News Corp, ending a 16-year partnership. The transaction gives News Corp full ownership while “providing ESPN more independence and flexibility in future support of The Walt Disney ...
- ESPN STAR Sports bags the rights to cover ‘SLPL’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ESPN STAR Sports bags multi-year broadcasting rights for Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Business)
- Iowa Wolves to not hold season in state this season (Category: USA, Iowa)
- Iowa Wolves to not hold season in state this season (Category: USA, Iowa)
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Sri Lanka’s first-ever digital ready and HD ready television station, Hiru FM, will be launched on 23 May at 6.02 a.m., Asia Broadcasting Corporation announced yesterday. It marks the organisation’s foray into Sri Lankan television under its flagship brand Hiru after enjoying much success in the radio industry. Hiru TV will be the ...
- ABC’s Hiru TV gears to shake up the television industry (Category: Business)
- Stars for Hiru TV (Category: Business)
- Video: Hiru TV (Hiru Television) Introduction - www.hirutv.lk (Category: Video)
- Hiru FM blames Thilanga for Colombo defeat (Category: Breaking News)
News Butterfly, the unique TV programme from the US’ FOX news network, is now filming in Colombo for an exclusive segment on Sri Lanka’s new upswing. News Butterfly Market Place (NBMP) is described as a ‘unique women’s movement on TV’. According to NBMP, ‘the programme is a TV Channel venture for beautiful and talented women ...
- First-ever global logistics expo makes good ground for business networking (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian business supports Sri Lanka Expo 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
- Ind-Expo seminar on ‘New Food Hygiene Regulations’ (Category: Business)
- Over 55 tour agents, 50 international journalists for Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
Seylan Bank recently re-defined the concept of savings, in an initiative hitherto not seen in Sri Lanka’s banking and financial services industry, by literally ‘dropping’ Rs. 1 million from the skies and parallely supported by a door-to-door campaign. On Saturday 22 October helicopters hovered over different parts of Sri Lanka and dropped thousands of coupons ...
- Seylan Bank’s innovative ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ proves a success (Category: Business)
- Seylan launches ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ with mega benefits on offer (Category: Business)
- Seylan Bank gifts Rs. 100,000 from the skies and from door to door (Category: Business)
The best way to make the benefits of ICT to reach all the people, especially the disadvantaged as envisaged by the President is to develop local e-content talent, said President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga. The Presidential Secretary said so while participating as the Guest of Honour at the e-Swabhimani Awards 2011 held in Colombo recently. Speaking ...
- AVIVA NDB produces highest number of IQA winners again (Category: Business)
- Winners galore in Seylan Bank’s ‘Thagi Pita Thagi’ draw (Category: Business)
- Hemas rewards winners of ‘Fems Ran Million’ (Category: Business)
- Award winners at prize giving of Trinity College London (Category: Business)
I still remember the thoughts that crossed my mind on the day that Harvard University announced the top 50 candidates for the 2011 Global Leaders in Development forum. The excitement was high, but then again the commitment to me personally in Sri Lanka made it a catch 22 decision. The decision was tougher, given that ...
- A brilliant marketer? (Category: Business)
- The changing face of brand Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Tilan becomes youngest SLIM President (Category: Business)
- Developing cutting-edge brand strategies (Category: Business)
Women in South AsiaFollowing is the address delivered by the High Commissioner of Pakistan Seema Ilahi Baloch at the South Asia Women in Media Forum: The women of South Asia must be proud, because our land can boast of some of the greatest women leaders of our times. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Husina ...
- More Women In Politics For Better Politics (Category: Breaking News)
- More Women In Politics For Better Politics (Category: Breaking News)
- More Women In Politics For Better Politics (Category: Breaking News)
- More Women In Politics For Better Politics (Category: Breaking News)
Our ‘poli-socionomic’ dialogue You will recall that like Capt. Kirk in his Star Ship-Enterprise,’ we also ventured into new territory with our first discussions under this theme ‘poli-socionomics,’ which appears to have caught on somewhat; thus, on behalf of those of us who still dare to think, I must thank those editors who carried it. ...
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