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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)
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)
Launches its latest international watch brands; prizes and surprises on offer this weekendDiamond Dreams, one of the leading and most accomplished jewellery brands in Sri Lanka, has always left its customers mesmerised and spoilt for choice with its exquisite jewellery collections. Established in 2009, Diamond Dreams has rapidly evolved to become the country’s favourite high ...
- Directors aren’t a rarity at Blue Diamonds (Category: Business)
- New Directors on Blue Diamonds Board (Category: Business)
- Fake Diamonds (Category: Breaking News)
- Blue Diamonds poor with profits, rich with MDs! (Category: Business)
By Marianne David Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo won two coveted awards at the fifth annual Sri Lanka Tourism Awards – the Best Five Star City Hotel Award and the Best Host Hotel Spa. Sri Lanka Tourism Awards 2011 awarded high performers across 11 categories and evaluated hotels in the industry based on their contribution towards tourism. ...
- Top hotels sweep World Spice Food Festival awards (Category: Business)
- John Keells trendsetters win 12 key Sri Lanka Tourism Awards (Category: Business)
- New GM takes over at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lakeside rated ‘Best Luxury Hotel in Sri Lanka’ (Category: Business)
HDFC Bank, a specialized housing Bank launched the online Banking portal recently enabling customers to have access to their accounts at any time. This ensures fast, easy and secure access to HDFC accounts. HDFC Bank was in the process of upgrading its services continuously for the past period considering the evolving needs of its customers ...
- HDFC Launches HDFC EBanking (Category: Business)
- Affordable housing loans from HDFC (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank widens mobile access to online services (Category: Business)
- Shared ATMs (Category: Breaking News)
Globe Mirror Industries (GMI), the first tempering plant to be established in Sri Lanka in 1969 has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification, a clear indication of its growth and credibility in terms of maintaining a high standard of quality throughout the years. GMI was started by late Mohammed Nawaz and has since grown to be ...
- Piramal Glass wins National Biz Excellence award for second year (Category: Business)
- New wine glasses aim to balance “water and fire” (Category: Business)
- Piramal Glass Ceylon shines with Rs. 149 m after tax profit in 1Q (Category: Business)
- Piramal Glass Ceylon opens Rs. 25 m effluent treatment plant (Category: Business)
Mobitel, the country’s state owned mobile communication company intends to play a key role in national information and communication technology (ICT) transformation. It is going through an organisational revitalisation process in order to gear up to make a greater contribution towards national transformation led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Under its ‘Change to Lead.Now’ organ...
- Taking IT to the villages, Mobitel opens regional IT centre in Kegalle (Category: Business)
- Mobitel rings back Lalith as CEO (Category: Business)
- National Transport Commission signs up with Mobitel for Mobile Enterprise Solutions (Category: Business)
- Sooriyawewa gets Mobitel’s first regional customer care contact centre (Category: Business)
$ 450 m mega project to be completed in 2014 By Uditha Jayasinghe The Government has leased the iconic Transworks House land to India’s Krrish Group for 99 years at $ 49 million, whilst the $ 450 million mega project is slated to be completed by 2014. The land encompasses the Transworks House, a colonial ...
- Ambitious $ 460 m 4-towers Krrish Square at Fort to start selling units from today (Category: Business)
- $ 450 m Transworks Towers to transform city (Category: Business)
- People will be resettled in Sampur: Basil Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- Gains, Pains In Paki FDI (Category: Breaking News)
Hilton Colombo Residences yesterday announced its latest ‘Drink as much as you feast’ food and beverage promotion at its flagship restaurant, Union Bar & Grill. The promotion would be held every Sunday to Wednesday between 7 and 10 p.m. Guests would be treated to a full international buffet, which consists of salads, soups, main course ...
- Phase 2 construction begins on Unser (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Phase 2 construction begins on Unser (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Chinese man returning to Shanghai from Sri Lanka infected (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s women team to Sri Lanka for SAFF Championship (Category: Business)
Chandrasena Sudusinghe, one of Sri Lanka’s greatest culinary success stories and the only Lankan to become an approved judge by the World Association of Chefs Societies joined Cinnamon Grand, Colombo’s premier city hotel, as Executive Chef recently. Cinnamon Grand, which prides itself on inducting exceptional individuals into its hospitality team, is aiming high with the ...
- Cinnamon Grand bids farewell to Chef Moru (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand hosts training sessions for Sri Lanka’s Culinary Olympics Team (Category: Business)
- Martin Becquart appointed Executive Chef at Cinnamon Lakeside (Category: Business)
South Africa batsman Richard Levi has won the ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year in recognition of his 51-ball 117 not out against New Zealand. This is the fifth year the award has been given to recognise the most impressive performance by a player in Twenty20 Internationals during the 12-month voting period and it ...
- Sangakkara, Amla, Philander, Clarke in running for top ICC honour (Category: Business)
- Naming teams for World T20 deadline extended (Category: Business)
- Four vie for coveted ‘ICC Cricketer of the Year’ award; Sanga for ‘ODI Player’ (Category: Business)
- Pakistan to give own award to Ajmal after ICC omission (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka proud hosts of popular and shorter form of most entertaining tournament played in Asia for the first time; 20-teams, 20-day cricket fiesta ICC World T20 kicks off tomorrow Mega boost for tourism as 500 players and officials alone to take up 9,000 room-nights; hundreds of overseas fans, global sponsor officials and media to ...
- ESPN STAR Sports bags multi-year broadcasting rights for Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Business)
- ICC launches World Twenty 20 Sri Lanka 2012 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to host World T20 2012 (Category: Sports)
- ICC announces WT20 warm-up schedule (Category: Business)
Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was yesterday seen championing the cause of education for children. Virat Kohli has been named the star in a children’s book that has been published by Room to Read, a global non-profit organisation that promotes literacy and gender equality in education across Asian and African countries together with the International ...
- ‘Punchi Angelo’ to inspire kids (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan Team with children from the charity ‘Room to Read’ (Category: Sports)
- Virat Kohli matches Sachin and Dravid's records (Category: Breaking News)
- Gill, Kohli and Siraj dazzle as India smash Sri Lanka by record 317-run margin (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s best football talent identified 12 young soccer enthusiasts win a chance of a lifetime Winners will visit Manchester United Soccer school shortly Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced the conclusion of the Airtel Rising Stars program at a colourful awards ...
- Airtel Rising Stars program gathers momentum (Category: Business)
- Airtel Sends 12 Youngsters To Manchester United (Category: Breaking News)
- Airtel Rising Stars moves into second stage (Category: Business)
Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo celebrated twenty seven years with a host of activities taking place throughout the hotel. To mark this milestone Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo carried out an annual blood drive, encouraging associates of both the hotel and the John Keells group to donate. Since 1990 Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo has been running a blood drive that ...
- Cinnamon Lakeside rated ‘Best Luxury Hotel in Sri Lanka’ (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lakeside assists Ishwariya Lakshmi Amman Kovil (Category: Business)
- Team Cinnamon Lakeside restores Galloluwa Jumma Mosque (Category: Business)
- Highest number of All Island Cocktail Competition qualifiers from Cinnamon Lakeside (Category: Business)
The first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote 75 years ago: “It would be absurd to say that the profit motive does not appeal to the average Indian, but it is nevertheless true that there is no such admiration for it in India as there is in the west. The possessor of ...
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- The rise of State capitalism: new masters of the universe or an ominous portent? (Category: Business)
- Impunity: Unequal before the law (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s largest telephony services provider Dialog Axiata PLC has donated revenue generated from SMS (Short Messaging Service) based voting on the grand finale of Ranaviru Real Star: Mission 2 to the Api Wenuwen Api Fund, administered by the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development. The Api Wenuwen Api Fund, a cooperation between the Ministry ...
- Ranaviru Real Star Mission 2 commences (Category: Business)
- Ranaviru Real Star Season Two grand finale today (Category: Business)
- Ranaviru Real Star Grand Finale Today (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Ranaviru Real Star - Mission 2' winner receives her new house (Category: Breaking News)
Partners with the Department of Probation and Childcare to fund the education of children in need in Sri Lanka Baby Cheramy, a trusted brand of leading Sri Lankan conglomerate Hemas Holdings PLC, celebrates 50 years of enriching lives of Sri Lankan mothers and children this year. Commemorating the brand’s milestone and promoting the importance ...
- Baby Cheramy ‘Thaagi Pahasa’ competition thrills consumers (Category: Business)
- Baby Cheramy Has A Big Heart (Category: Business)
- Unilever’s Pears to make millionaire children (Category: Business)
- Baby Cheramy ‘Thaagi Pahasa’ awards exciting prizes to winners (Category: Business)
Sri Lankaandrsquo;s largest telephony services provider Dialog Axiata PLC has donated revenue generated from SMS (Short Messaging Service) based voting on the grand finale of Ranaviru Real Star: Mission 2 to the Api Wenuwen Api Fund, administered by the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development.
The Head of the ISO certifying body, Systems & Services Certification Business Manager of SGS Lanka (Pvt) Limited Batuvita Sumanasiri presented unprecedented kudos to Cinnamon Grand on the second re-certification audit for all three ISO certifications held in August this year. “It is worthy to mention that Cinnamon Grand is the first hotel in Sri ...
- Cinnamon Grand gets energy efficient (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand promotes energy efficiency and sustainable development, all year long (Category: Business)
- Ocean Lanka achieves latest ISO 45001 Standard for Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (Category: Breaking News)
- Ocean Lanka achieves latest ISO 45001 Standard for Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (Category: Breaking News)
Sincere apologies, Hamlet! This distortion is to highlight the current impasse and to stress the need for thinking beyond short-term situational measures. The impasse is in getting the public university system going and in dealing with demands without forgetting that there is a nation in waiting and the vision for it involves that it should ...
- This Fourth of July! (Category: Business)
- Education reforms for ‘disciplined development’ in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
- Nation branding: A holistic perspective (Category: Business)
By Shanuka Tissera Since January 2012, Airtel launched their latest corporate social responsibility programme and has proven to be a massive success. Over 10,000 applicants initially applied to take part in the Manchester United Soccer School challenge. Out of the 10,000 applicants, only 12 will be selected to go to Old Trafford and train at ...
- Airtel scores goal with Manchester United partnership (Category: Business)
- Airtel Rising Stars identified (Category: Business)
- Young footballers from the ancient capital city shine (Category: Business)
- Jaffna’s Airtel Rising Stars impresses (Category: Business)
Q: What are your thoughts on the Sri Lankan fashion industry? Ramona Oshini (an upcoming young designer): It’s a lifelong dream and I always wanted to do something in the creative field. The Sri Lanka fashion industry has come quite far. I personally believe if we do an excellent job in quality control we can ...
- ‘The Fashion Circle.com’ launched in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka apparel industry on Design Festival catwalk (Category: Business)
John Keells Leisure Group emerged at the forefront of the annual Sri Lanka Tourism Awards held on the 30th of August 2012 by winning 12 key awards across its three Sectors: City Hotels, Resort Hotels, and Destination Management Companies. Once again Walkers Tours Limited won the most prestigious award in the Inbound Category for the ...
- Keells tops Tourism awards with tally of 12; Spence takes 7 (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lodge and Chaaya Wild reign supreme at Sri Lanka Tourism Awards (Category: Business)
- Pledges, innovation, spiritedness: Unique cornerstones at John Keells Leisure Awards (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lakeside perfects staying on top (Category: Business)
By Devin Jayasundera In the run up to the ICC world Twenty20 the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Foundation of Goodness (spearheaded by Muttiah Muralidaran and Kushil Gunasekera) partnered in launching the ‘Murali Harmony Cup’ in order to promote Social harmony and unity among the country’s youth. The event is supported by the Mahela ...
- Murali cup: taking cricket to the masses (Category: Business)
- Appalachian State graduate spends summer helping others in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic gold in 2028, Kushil’s dream (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) honoured Prasanna W. Jayewardene with the ‘Pioneer in Tourism’ award at the recently-concluded Tourism Awards 2011. Hotelier Jayewardene has 45 years of experience in the tourism industry both locally and internationally and was recognised for his services as a pioneer in the field. Having received his education at ...
- Sri Lanka to celebrate World Tourism Day tomorrow (Category: Business)
- GFH Group goes for Rs. 2.5 b refurbishment (Category: Business)
- For tourism, after BRICs, Lanka-included SLIMMA is the best (Category: Business)
- Heritance Resorts sweep green and individual awards (Category: Business)
John Keells Resorts bagged three coveted awards at the recently-concluded Sri Lanka Tourism Awards 2011. The Sri Lanka Tourism Awards pays tribute to organisations and individuals for their excellence and inspired achievements whilst contributing towards the strengthening and empowering of our nation’s tourism industry. Winning the award for the ‘Best Five Star Resort’ was Cinnam...
- John Keells trendsetters win 12 key Sri Lanka Tourism Awards (Category: Business)
- Heritance Resorts sweep green and individual awards (Category: Business)
- The Fortress pampers guests with 5-star butler service concept (Category: Business)
- Veteran hotelier Srilal appointed to LAUGFS Leisure Board (Category: Business)
Part of the Kandurata Warriors team, Kithruwan Vithanage is a young and upcoming player in Sri Lanka’s domestic cricket league. Here are excerpts of an interview with the young star: Kithuruwan Vithanage Q: How do you feel about being chosen to participate in the Mahindra Sri Lanka Premier League? A: It’s an honour to ...
- Going Ahead (Category: Business)
- Slow Wicket (Category: Business)
- ATN brings Sri Lanka Premier League to Canada (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket Revamp (Category: Business)
www.pakpassion.net: The inaugural edition of the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL) T20 tournament got underway on 11 August and, as expected, has provided many international players with the ideal preparation just a month before the Twenty20 World Cup. This is an opportunity which many Pakistani players have taken advantage of as is evident with the ...
- Brian Lara, MCC Chief lift SLPL to the world (Category: Business)
- SLPL has given us edge ahead of World T20: Malinga (Category: Business)
- SLC Secy. Nishantha on success of maiden Mahindra SLPL (Category: Business)
- YouTube to broadcast Sri Lanka Premier League globally (Category: Business)
Son of Sudath Munaweera, a former first-class cricketer, Dilshan Munaweera began playing at the age of nine and has represented Nalanda College, Sri Lanka under 19, Bloomfield C & AC, Sri Lankan A and now is a part of the UVA NEXT franchise in the SLPL. An opening batsman, Munaweera has been picked to the ...
- Cuban beats (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka picks squad for T20 World Cup (Category: Business)
- Atul Kasbekar on photography, Sri Lanka and Jetwing (Category: Business)
- The role of the Chartered Financial Analyst (Category: Business)
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