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Hameedia, Sri Lanka’s leading menswear brand that is synonymous with style and quality, marked International Women’s Day with a special knowledge-sharing event for all of its female employees at the Head Office in Ratmalana on 8th March. The event was the highlight of a series of sessions Hameedia is conducting throughout the months of February […]
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JJB plans to file FR petition By Shamindra Ferdinando Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) yesterday (22) declared that it would soon file a fundamental rights application against restrictions imposed on retired Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha for appearing on its political stage. Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara questioned the rationale behind blacklisting a decorated pilot of the 09 […]
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Virtusa Sri Lanka celebrated International Women’s Day at Shangri-La, Colombo today, as part of its global campaign to close the gap in gender equity across the IT industry and STEM fields. Virtusa, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering and IT services and solutions, will host the global Engineering Equity hackathon, to spur […]
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Did you know that globally women amount to only about a quarter of the workforce in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and that men vastly outnumber women majoring in most STEM fields in universities? The gender gaps are particularly high in some of the fastest-growing and highest-paid jobs such as IT and engineering. How […]
Positioning women’s business leadership at the forefront of Sri Lanka’s economic recovery, Women in Management (WIM) in collaboration with Women in Work, a partnership between the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the government of Australia, launched the ‘Top50’ Women Global Economic Forum and ‘Top50’ Global Professional & Career Women Awards 2023. The three-day event, which […...
I was very saddened by the news that my dear friend Nazeer had passed away. Nazeer was a very close friend of mine, my parents & siblings for about 65 years. He was living at Hudson road, Colombo 03 with his family and first attended Marshall Preparatory school in Kollupitiya. Thereafter went to STC Prep. […]
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Six people, including two police officers, have been shot dead after a suspected ambush at a remote Australian property. Police said they had been searching for a missing person in Wieambilla – 270km (168 miles) west of Brisbane, Queensland – when they were fired upon. After a lengthy siege, three suspects were fatally shot by […]
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King cricket, as the adage goes, could not have got any better for Sri Lanka, a country smitten by the cricket bug running well over a century of years when the second edition of Sri Lanka Cricket’s Lanka Premier League (LPL) as several international cricketers lined up along with local...The post LPL 2022 unfolds in riot of colour appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
Intrepid Travel, the world’s largest adventure travel company and a leader in responsible small group adventures recently announced the appointment of Anu (Anuruddha) Karunatilaka as its new Chief Technology Officer to lead the Australian headquartered company’s digital transformation strategy. The company’s previous chief information officer role has been revamped and restructured, incorporating ...
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Tuesday 29th November, 2022 What is this world coming to when sport sparks violence and engenders animosity instead of unity and friendship? Riots broke out in Brussels, of all places, on Sunday during a World Cup football match between Belgium and Morocco, which pulled off a 2-0 upset win. It was too much for some […]
Tuesday 22nd November, 2022 Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, 97, has suffered an ignominious electoral defeat, the first in 53 years. He has lost not only his parliamentary seat in the Langkawi island constituency but also his deposit! He became the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1981 and held that post until […]
by Prof. Aruna Shanthaarchch (Department of Economics and Statistics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka) Who are the Middle Class? The term, middle class, has been defined in a variety of ways. Historically, it was a social class characterised by intellectuals, who were neither capitalists nor workers. They were the well-educated service providers and small-scale entrepreneurs, […]
Rex Clementine in Melbourne Some people get second chances in life and rebuild their careers and go onto succeed. Cricket has many such examples Makhaya Ntini of South Africa, Ricky Ponting of Australia and now Alex Hales of England. The top order batsman was kicked out of the England World Cup
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Video: SLASSCOM relaunches Future Careers bridge website in Colombo
By Rathindra Kuruwita The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) trade unions yesterday (18) warned that they would go all out to end the political careers of those who would vote for the Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Amendment Bill tabled in Parliament. Most trade unions of the CPC
Kamahl Santamaria, a veteran television journalist, was just 32 days into his job at New Zealand’s top broadcaster TVNZ when he resigned. Surprise gave way to shock as allegations about his inappropriate behaviour in the newsroom surfaced. Soon Mr Santamaria’s former colleagues at Al Jazeera, where he had worked for 16 years, began speaking out. A BBC investigation […]
Effective income taxes for some categories have been raised to around 29% from 8% earlier - analysts
In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.
With the view of keeping our beautiful and pristine coastline immaculate, the volunteers at Wiley Sri Lanka came together with their family and friends on Saturday 17th September at the Mount Lavinia beach to clean up the shore and spread the message to many others. This activity is part of a broader global volunteer event […]
Sri Lanka is sending trained nurses to work in hospitals in the United Kingdom. Foreign Minister Ali Sabry awarded letters of appointment to a group of Sri Lankan trained nurses who are scheduled to begin their employment at hospitals in the United Kingdom. This is the first batch of trained nurses under the programme implemented […]
Tourism, vital cog, of economy in dire straits By Harischandra Gunaratna The emigration statistics revealed that at least 32% of tourism industry experts had left the country for foreign employment, and 32 Sri Lankans left for greener pastures every hour, since early this year due to the current economic downturn, said Dr. Harsha Jayasinghe, the […]
The Hack:AI 2021 Hackathon, powered by SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT Solutions Provider, successfully concluded recently with the winners showcasing ground-breaking innovative solutions for sustainable living. In the Schools category, Team ‘Calori’ from Gateway College, Colombo emerged the winner, while Team ‘Prostasia’ representing the University of Colombo was adjudged the winner in the Universi...
The SLT Training Centre (SLTTC), the education arm of SLT-MOBITEL, now offers students the opportunity to create technology and design solutions to address global engineering challenges through knowledge gained by the world-class BEng (Hons) Degree, University of Hertfordshire UK. The SLTTC invites students to enrol for the prestigious BEng (Hons) Degree, University of Hertfordshire, August [̷...