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The academics are marching. The students are marching. The Muslims are marching. Every day hundreds images of throngs of people shouting slogans and demonstrating blare across television screens, newspapers and of course, the internet. SMS news alerts about road closures and barricades abound as popular discontent rises to the surface through trade union agitation and ...
- No interference in Sri Lanka’s Judiciary, President asserts (Category: Business)
- Divi Neguma Bill to be back anew (Category: Business)
- Northwestern Provincial Council approves the Divi Neguma Bill (Category: Breaking News)
- SC order and govt.’s trial balloon (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Lionel Messi proved that anything Cristiano Ronaldo can do he can do better when he struck twice for Barcelona to rescue a 3-2 comeback win for the favourites at home to Spartak Moscow in their Champions League Group G opener on Wednesday. Ronaldo, hoping to end Messi’s three-year run as World Player of the ...
- Messi fires Barca to dramatic Super Cup win (Category: Business)
- Real Madrid storm back to take Super Cup from Barca (Category: Business)
- Ronaldo chases scoring record after securing league title (Category: Business)
- Ronaldo copies Messi as Real qualify (Category: Business)
I wonder if you can remember the famous World Cup Soccer final some years back where the fourth referee intervened after the great Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final. It would have perhaps gone unnoticed if not the TV referral. In my view, if this had gone unnoticed, it ...
- From science to commercialisation (Category: Business)
- Will companies overpower countries? (Category: Business)
- Brand Finance launches Nation Brands 100 (Category: Business)
- Interbrand reveals world’s best global brands in 2011 (Category: Business)
The global escalation of commodity prices in the latter part of last decade impacted Sri Lanka’s rice market, with retail prices showing sharp increases for the consumer. The regulatory forces with a ceiling on consumer prices and guaranteed price for paddy did alleviate this problem to some extent. Today it has taken a different turn ...
- Village as a developmental unit (Category: Business)
- Paddy farmers’ problems (Category: Business)
- Budget 2012’s impact on the export sector (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s stake in the intl. agriculture debate (Category: Business)
Reuters: Real Madrid notched their first victory of the La Liga campaign at the third attempt when Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice in a 3-0 win for the champions at home to 10-man Granada on Sunday. Jose Mourinho’s side badly needed a good performance after taking only a point from their opening two games and Ronaldo ...
- Ronaldo chases scoring record after securing league title (Category: Business)
- Ronaldo fires Real top, Barca held by Sevilla (Category: Business)
- Ronaldo copies Messi as Real qualify (Category: Business)
- It is not about the money, says sad Ronaldo (Category: Business)
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)
The rollout of broadband in Sri Lanka was pioneered by the country’s national telecommunications provider, Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), which counts over 300,000customers in the country for its fixed broadband service. Also the company played a crucial and significant role as the infrastructure facilitator for the country’s mobile broadband boost. Over the years, SLT has ...
- SLT deploys FTTX technology to boost broadband (Category: Business)
- SLT says boosting internet usage via superior broadband (Category: Business)
- SLT opens newest teleshop at Heritage Building in Fort (Category: Business)
Gearing up to grab international attention with new song ‘Game Over’Q: What’s happening on your end, Yashan? A: Well I’m working on my third studio album these days. I will be releasing a brand English new song this weekend titled ‘Game Over’. I am also in the process of producing a song for Shanudrie, one ...
- Official event song of ICC World T20 Sri Lanka 2012 launched (Category: Business)
- Video: Maharaja Gemunu Movie - Theme Song (Sanda Payanne) (Category: Video)
- Video: Thaniwenna Ba Aye Jude Rogans (Category: Video)
- Video: Ape Ahinsaka Adare - Amarasiri Peiris (Category: Video)
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)
From 1 January 2013, EK203 from Dubai to JFK, and its return sector EK204, will become A380 flights, offering an increased capacity of almost 1,000 additional seats in both directions every week. The service is currently operated by a Boeing 777-300ER. “Emirates is experiencing very high demand for its New York flights and the start ...
- Emirates to Fly A380 Twice Daily to JFK (Category: Breaking News)
- Emirates to fly A380 twice a day to JFK (Category: Travel)
- Did Fox Valley tip JFK election? (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Thousands of unedited government JFK assassination files released (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife have separated, as his legal battles run on over a New York sex assault case and his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, weekly magazine Closer reported on Thursday. Anne Sinclair, a wealthy heiress who recently re-launched her media career as a news editor at ...
- Inapt Advance (Category: Business)
- New Chief (Category: Business)
- Another One (Category: Business)
- Strauss-Kahn arrest: Judge denies bail on sex charges - Report (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)
The Minister of International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama will inaugurate ‘Nostalgie02,’ an exhibition of black and white photographs celebrating France by Kumar de Silva on Friday, 29 June 2012 at the Harold Peries Gallery at the Lionel Wendt Arts Centre. Minister of Water Supply and Drainage Dinesh Gunawardena will be the Guest of Honour. Presented ...
- Alliance Francaise de Kotte presents ‘Nostalgie02’ (Category: Business)
- Alliance Française de Kotte moves to new home (Category: Business)
- Fête de la Musique on 21 June at BMICH (Category: Business)
- Lankan team for U19 World Cup (Category: Business)
Reuters: England and France took the last places in a heavyweight final eight at Euro 2012 on Tuesday, with Ukraine joining co-hosts Poland on the sidelines after a 1-0 loss to the English marred by a controversial disallowed goal. In a tournament heavy on goals and drama but relatively free of debatable refereeing decisions, the ...
- Tournament must improve: Rugby WCup boss (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka face England in T20 World Cup semi-final today (Category: Breaking News)
- Insights to Rugby World Cup 2011 knockout stages (Category: Business)
- Italy’s ‘Gerrard’ hopes to explode against England (Category: Business)
Reuters: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country’s full transformation to democracy was still far off. “What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other ...
- Aung San Suu Kyi released (Category: Breaking News)
- Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes historic debut in Parliament (Category: Business)
- Suu Kyi says ready to lead Myanmar to democracy (Category: Business)
- Suu Kyis release a lesson to Sri Lankas leaders - Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
The government of the Maldives is said to be looking for funding from the private sector for an advertising campaign to boost its tourism industry following turmoil earlier this year when its elected president was forced from office in what he later claimed was a coup. A report in Minivan News said the government had ...
- Maldives repositions with new tourism slogan, logo (Category: Business)
- Maldivian Dy President meets with President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives denies luxury spas are fronting prostitution (Category: Business)
- Seminar on bilateral trade between Maldives and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
CANBERRA (Reuters): Australia will create the largest network of marine parks in the world, protecting waters covering an area as large as India while banning oil and gas exploration and limiting commercial fishing in some of the most sensitive areas. Australia’s marine reserves will increase from 27 to 60 under the new scheme, covering more ...
- Maldives to create world’s biggest marine reserve (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to auction more oil exploration blocks (Category: Business)
- Licences for oil and gas cut back (Category: Technology)
- Cairn to decide on Sri Lanka oil viability by mid-2013 (Category: Business)
Reuters: Authorities in the world’s major economies are preparing for a possible market storm or public panic after cliffhanger Greek elections this weekend, officials said on Thursday, should radical leftists win and cast doubt on the nation’s future in the euro zone . Britain announced on Thursday it would flood its banking system with cash ...
- Euro zone crisis heads for September crunch (Category: Business)
- Euro zone seals second Greek bailout worth 130 b euros (Category: Business)
- Merkel scrapes win on Greek bailout, rebels grow (Category: Business)
- World stocks, euro rise on hopes Greece ditches referendum (Category: Business)
Rameez Fazal and Danushka Kathriarachchi of Leo Burnett Solutions Inc. (LBSI) the Sri Lankan office of the internationally acclaimed advertising agency network Leo Burnett Worldwide will represent Sri Lanka in Cannes at the Young Lions TV category at the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France.
- Triad Team wins Young Lions in Sri Lanka - heads to Cannes 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Seven young Sri Lankans to compete at Cannes Lions 2012 (Category: Business)
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 finale (Category: Business)
- Leo Burnett wins first ever Cannes Lion metal for Sri Lanka (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)
Historically, capital markets have played an important role in the development of market economies and therefore the development of efficient regulation of securities too has become increasingly important. While fostering the development of the economy, the capital markets also play an important equalising role. Viz – it attracts the participation of a large number of ...
- SEC To Work Towards Strengthening Investor Protection (Category: Business)
- Regulatory framework in place for Exchange Traded Funds (Category: Business)
- Top Govt. politico among investors summoned by SEC via ‘fiery’ notice (Category: Business)
- ‘Those who live by the Dhamma are protected by the Dhamma’ SEC Chief tells investors (Category: Business)
CHENNAI (TrustLaw): Indian villager Jaya places the bright pink, sequined, moulded C-cupped designer bra under the needle of her sewing machine and carefully stitches the seams together. The padded “Very Sexy” push-up bra which 22-year-old Jaya sews is for American lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret – designed to give a “boost” to buyers in hundreds of ...
- Kate Moss and Lara Stone strip for Pirelli calendar (Category: Business)
- D’Divas brings haute couture to Cambridge (Category: Business)
- Leaders unequal - Women in South Asia (Category: Business)
- Women’s political participation must be accelerated through quotas (Category: Business)
By Patricia A. Butenis The 20th century American politician Thomas “Tip” O’Neill once famously said that “all politics is local”. That was often true of the news in the last century as well. With the advent of so many technological changes, however, the truism for information in the 21st century has become “all news is ...
- EU Heads of Mission express concern over blocking of news sites (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC backs Right to Information law (Category: Breaking News)
- Right to information: Transformation from a secretive society to transparency (Category: Business)
- Twitter to restrict user content in some countries (Category: Business)
The need for an integrated program on a war footingIn 2008, eight prizewinning economists were asked to list the type of projects which would do the most good for the most number of poor people, if they had an imaginary $ 75 million to spend. Half of their proposed projects involved nutrition. There has been ...
- Sri Lanka: Tea rich but nutrient poor (Category: Business)
- Dairy: The mirage of self-sufficiency (Category: Business)
- Equity and well-being in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Reuters: Cristiano Ronaldo struck his 43rd league goal of the campaign to set Real Madrid on their way to a 3-0 home win over Sevilla on Sunday that put them within a whisker of a first La Liga title in four years. It was a much-needed return to winning ways for Jose Mourinho’s side after ...
- Barcelona rout Rayo to keep Real Madrid waiting (Category: Business)
- Ronaldo chases scoring record after securing league title (Category: Business)
- Barca takes long view on title race after first defeat (Category: Business)
- Bayern oust Real after dramatic shootout (Category: Business)
Reuters: Real Madrid have one hand on a first La Liga trophy in four years after Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brilliant winner in a 2-1 victory at Barcelona on Saturday that stretched their lead over their bitter rivals to seven points with four games left. On a dramatic, rain-lashed night at the Nou Camp, the ...
- Real recover pride and belief despite Cup exit (Category: Business)
- Real Madrid storm back to take Super Cup from Barca (Category: Business)
- Leaders Real rattled as Barca close in (Category: Business)
- Messi fires Barca to dramatic Super Cup win (Category: Business)
Last Sunday when the unknown Ajinkya Rahane scored 103 runs off just 60 balls at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, which helped the Rajasthan Royals to score a massive 195 runs at IPL season five, my mind went to just one ethos the IPL is all about – highlighting performance. It is how IPL ...
- Developing cutting-edge brand strategies (Category: Business)
- The ‘real’ problem with brand Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- HR and London Olympics (Category: Business)
- Nation branding: A holistic perspective (Category: Business)
Reuters: Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi took their remarkable scoring achievements to new heights when they jointly set a record for La Liga goals in a season of 41 on Saturday. Portuguese international Ronaldo, who set the previous best of 40 last term, nodded home an Angel Di Maria centre in the 74th minute at ...
- Sharapova shines after the rain delay (Category: Business)
- Usain Bolt Falls Short In 300m World Record Attempt (Category: Breaking News)
- Blood pressure meters at several places (Category: Breaking News)
- Murray grows in confidence after amazing turnaround (Category: Business)
PYONGYANG,(Reuters) : North Korea’s new leader delivered his first major public speech on Sunday as the impoverished state celebrated the centenary of its founder’s birth, calling for a push to “final victory” despite a failed rocket launch two days earlier. A jowly Kim Jong-un, clad in black and the third of his line to rule ...
- North Korea says fuel being injected into rocket (Category: Business)
- North Korea confirms mystery woman is leader’s wife (Category: Business)
- Kim to reform North Korean economy after purge: source (Category: Business)
- North Korea’s Kim Jong Un threatens to build more nuclear weapons (Category: USA, New York)
DUBAI (Reuters): Iran has cut oil exports to Spain and may halt sales to Germany and Italy, Iran’s English-language state television reported on Tuesday, in an apparent move to strengthen its position ahead of crucial talks with world powers later this week. But, in an indication that Tehran’s “counter-sanctions” were of little impact, Spain’s biggest ...
- Sri Lanka suffering huge loss after replacing Iranian oil with Arabian crude (Category: Business)
- Iran halts oil sales to UK, France on eve of talks (Category: Business)
- Iran oil output steady despite sanctions (Category: Business)
- Iran offers “new initiatives” for talks with powers (Category: Business)
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