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When you go to a cricket match in Pallekele, it’s as much about the game as it is about the atmosphereBy Anand Vasu in Pallekele The greatest challenge you’re likely to face when going to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium is the winding road that snakes around the lake in central Kandy. If you get ...
- Afridi carries Pakistan hopes at World Twenty20 – Hafeez (Category: Business)
- ‘Good Test wicket’ awaits Aussies, Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka fined for slow over-rate in fifth ODI (Category: Business)
- Cricket Chief insists Galle wicket was not poor (Category: Business)
The German Embassy in Colombo gave Rs. 2.9 million as humanitarian assistance to drought affected families in Mutur in Eastern Sri Lanka. The project is implemented by the Coordinating Centre for Community Development (3CD), a community based organisation that has undertaken safe drinking-water projects to serve displaced communities since 2007. The current project focuses on ...
- VIDEO: Fish rescued as drought takes toll (Category: Technology)
- Why not pipe water from north to south? (Category: Technology)
- Canal closes as reservoirs run low (Category: Technology)
- Tide of joy for river folks (Category: South Australia)
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)
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)
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: Ras Vehera, Kurunegala (Category: Travel)
- 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)
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)
Eisenhower Foundation South Asia Conference 2012 kicks off in Colombo By Cassandra Mascarenhas Bringing together Eisenhower Fellows from across the world for networking and deliberations in Colombo, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Philadelphia and conference organising teams from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka hosted the three-day Eisenhower Foundation South Asia Conference 2012 which kicke...
- Eisenhower South Asia Conference 2012 and Eisenhower Day celebrations (Category: Business)
- Promoting leadership qualities (Category: Business)
- South Asia doing worst on UN development goals :ADB official (Category: Business)
- India, China militaries ease tensions; to resume joint exercises (Category: Business)
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters): West Indies have not tasted much international success in the last decade but captain Darren Sammy believes he has succeeded in creating the kind of dressing room atmosphere that can help them end the title drought in Sri Lanka. The erstwhile giants
- Sammy to cheer for Tendulkar’s 100th ton, in another series (Category: Business)
- Windies expect Narine to play big role in World Twenty20 (Category: Business)
- Aussie coach not sure changes needed for 4th ODI (Category: Business)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $130 million to help Sri Lanka expand the reach and quality of its electricity supply, with a focus on former conflict areas in the north and east of the country. It will also improve transmission and distribution network efficiency and develop renewable
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $ 130 million to help Sri Lanka expand the reach and quality of its electricity supply, with a focus on former conflict areas in the north and east of the country. It will also improve transmission and distribution network efficiency and develop renewable
- ADB’s South Asia head meets Basil (Category: Business)
- $ 130 Mn. For Power (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB lends $130 mn to upgrade power supply (Category: Business)
- ADB’s new Sri Lanka partnership to target inclusive growth (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka, which did not qualify to make it to the Future Brands Country Brand Index 2011-2012 due to the lack of awareness and familiarity among the global community about the country, has made a surprise appearance in the 2013 Country Brand Index at number 67. This was revealed by Future Brands ...
- Orange brand illuminates (Category: Business)
- Airtel ranked amongst Top 100 Global Brands (Category: Business)
- GroupM launches in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Taking SL-owned tea export brands from good to great (Category: Business)
Pradeep Carvalho was recently appointed as Head of Corporate Communication at Etisalat Sri Lanka. He joins Etisalat after serving in the capacity of Channel Communication Manager at Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). Pradeep has experience not only in the highly competitive Sri Lankan Market but also in the US Market, working at Fortune 500 companies both ...
- Mobile Banking (Category: Business)
- Arabian Call (Category: Business)
- Tele Spend (Category: Business)
- Mobile Move (Category: Business)
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the main business chamber of the country has conducted a series of workshops in the regions of Uva, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central with assistance provided by the Asia Foundation. These were successfully conducted with the help of the regional chambers
- Hospital asks community to adopt healthier lifestyles (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Provincial workshops on bar coding, labelling and standards (Category: Business)
- SME businesses in Puttalam enriched by Seylan Bank and CCC workshop (Category: Breaking News)
- Plans for defence business (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Etisalat Sri Lanka has partnered with Commercial Bank to introduce mobile banking via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) technology, a global system for mobile communication used to send a text between a mobile phone and an application program in a network. Etisalat users can now enjoy the convenience of conducting their banking activities with Commercial ...
- Mobile Banking (Category: Business)
- Pocket Money (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank expands country’s largest ATM network to 500 (Category: Business)
At Standard Chartered, banking is certainly core business but this has never deterred or precluded the bank from contributing positively to communities which its business calls home. Standard Chartered is recognised globally as the single biggest corporate sponsor of avoidable blindness projects around the world. Seeing is Believing (SiB) is a major global public-private initiative ...
- Standard Chartered sponsors national athletes for Mumbai Marathon this weekend (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered micro-finances Jaffna start-ups (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered Bank continues supporting National Cancer Hospital (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered Bank commemorates World Environment Day 2012 (Category: Business)
Top experts shared their secrets with more than 350 photography enthusiasts who gathered recently at the full-day seminar and workshop ‘The Big Click’ organised to enlighten on the newest technologies and skills on photography, held by Metropolitan Office Ltd., the sole authorised distributor for Canon cameras in Sri Lanka. At the event, Teoh Peng Kee, ...
- Friday, January 8th: The Moose Man Nature Photos (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- Capturing the best sports photos from the biggest stages in 2020 (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Capturing the best sports photos from the biggest stages in 2020 (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Friday, January 8th: The Moose Man Nature Photos (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
With over 50 years of experience in creating mesmerising beauty, Lakmé since its inception has always celebrated beauty. Lakmé is dedicated to the contemporary woman’s exploration of the fine art of beauty by continuously innovating, offering range of high performance world class colour cosmetics, skincare products and state of the art beauty salons. Lakmé understands ...
- Unilever launches Lakmé Fruit Blast face wash (Category: Business)
- Time for a blast of colour! (Category: Business)
- Suicide Blast In Russia Kills 34 (Category: Breaking News)
- Bavarian Blast at Ceylon Continental Hotel (Category: Business)
Lipton Tea has reached another milestone in Sri Lanka with their latest range of flavoured tea being added to the product portfolio. The company launched three new black tea flavours which include – Earl Grey, Lemon and English Breakfast. Also the re-launch of new packaging and communication of the popular Lipton Clear Green variants – ...
- Fresh Brew (Category: Business)
- Stephan takes over as CEO/Director of Softlogic Properties (Category: Business)
- The world’s No 1 Tea brand : Handpicked from Sri Lanka’s finest tea gardens (Category: Breaking News)
“I am extremely delighted by the enthusiastic participation of leading private sector organisations to support our inventors by way of active sponsorships given to the Sahasak Nimevum – the first ever National Exhibition for inventions and innovations,” says Minister of Research and Technology Pavithra Wanniarachchi. Sahasak Nimevum is organised by the Sri Lanka Inventors C...
- Inventors Commission re-launches website to promote innovation (Category: Business)
- National Inventors Exhibition in October (Category: Business)
- Taking local inventors to the fore (Category: Business)
- The First Ever National Exhibition For Inventions And Innovations (Category: Business)
Diesel and Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) recently organised the second Tata Nano Mileage Challenge Rally for Tata Nano owners in Colombo. The rally was flagged off from Colombo, with the objective of raising customer awareness and reassuring the position of Tata Nano as the most fuel efficient passenger car in Sri Lanka. Twenty five Tata ...
- Will Nano succeed in Sri Lanka? (Category: Business)
- Nano Effort (Category: Business)
- Mercedes-Benz New Year Bonanza Winners Get Brand New TATA Nano Cars (Category: Business)
- Tata Nano Re-established As The Most Fuel Efficient Passenger Vehicle In Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
The WTO in its annual World Trade Report for 2012, in addition to analysing world trade, has dealt in detail on Non Tariff Measures (NTMs), which has gained an important place in international trade today. In a world of trade liberalisation and free trade agreements which deal mainly with tariff reductions, which are clearly spelt ...
- New external trade policy (Category: Business)
- WTO risks its future by keeping Doha talks alive (Category: Business)
- Time to update global services trade rules – report (Category: Business)
- Unfinished Business? The WTO’s Doha Agenda (Category: Business)
The Divi Neguma Bill has put forward new questions regarding transparency and good governance in Sri Lanka as well as the role played by powerful politicians in moving away from best practices under the guise of assisting people “for the greater good”. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court last week told Parliament that the Bill ...
- SC says Divi Neguma Bill needs PC sanction (Category: Business)
- SLMC face challenges in Divi Neguma bill (Category: Breaking News)
- Divi Neguma Bill: Govt. says will not violate Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Divi Neguma Bill to be back anew (Category: Business)
East London recently received a boost as five ICT firms announced plans to expand their operations in Tech City, Europe’s fastest-growing digital hub. Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Ulster will also benefit from multi-million pound international business deals announced at the Global Business Summit on ICT, organised by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) during the Olympic ...
- Sri Lanka: A hidden gem for IT, BPO and knowledge services, says A.T. Kearney (Category: Business)
- Infotel 2011 to ‘Accelerate IT’ (Category: Business)
- OpenArc offers 50 BIT Degree Scholarships for A/L Students (Category: Business)
Global giant Standard Chartered Bank tips Sri Lanka’s economic growth to rebound in 2013, after contracting this year from 2011. It is forecasting economy to grow by 7.5% in 2013 and by 7.7% in 2014 from 6.8% this year. However, forecasts for the next two years are lower in comparison to record 8.3% growth achieved ...
- SCB checkmates cameo CB! (Category: Business)
- Value investors enter as speculators exit (Category: Business)
- Growth to slow down in 2012 –Central Bank (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)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) granted the distinguished associate membership status to 215 passed finalists of the chartered accounting course offered by the Institute at the 2012 annual convocation held at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla on Thursday. Joining a fraternity of nearly 4200 existing CA Sri Lanka members, the ...
- CA Sri Lanka goes to Kalmunai (Category: Business)
- World Bank boost for CA Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Kasun Gunawardhana shines at CA Sri Lanka Strategic Level exam (Category: Business)
IBM has launched Expert Integrated Systems in Sri Lanka to help organisations achieve greater agility, efficiency, simplicity and control, with a seamless and more dynamic approach to IT. IBM also announced new server solutions designed to expand cloud and analytics capabilities across its entire
- Smarter computing boosts Sri Lanka’s advance towards economic growth, prosperity (Category: Business)
- IBM unveils new smart cloud services (Category: Business)
- IBM marks 50 years in Sri Lanka, partners with HNB (Category: Business)
- Zhara HS on SaaS redefines regional hospitality industry (Category: Business)
CHILD abuse hits headlines with sickening frequency in Sri Lanka, but new data suggests that victims have to wait as much as six years, often enduing mind-numbing stigma and distress, before they are given justice. IRIN reported over the weekend that Sri Lanka is taking as long as six years to prosecute criminals who abuse ...
- National project launched for expeditious processing of child abuse cases (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka records highest number of child abuse cases last year (Category: Breaking News)
- Child Abuses: Why “Prevention Is Better Than Cure” Is The Smartest Option? (Category: Breaking News)
A number of articles which appeared in print media in the recent past signify the volatility in the economy. High volatility leads to vulnerability. Volatility and vulnerability are reflections of the haphazard nature of the economic policies and poor economic governance in a country. What is volatility? Volatility is the severity and the frequency with ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
Weather and ground conditions hog attention ahead of ICC Women’s World Twenty20 kick-off today Even as the men’s competition is nearing the Super Eights stage, eight teams are preparing to battle it out in the third edition of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in Galle, starting from Wednesday (September 26). Sri Lanka and South ...
- The pressure is on Sri Lanka, says du Preez (Category: Business)
- Invitation side will test Sri Lanka: Barnes (Category: Business)
- Rain a greater threat to SA than Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
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