First quarter bottom line up 19% to Rs. 2.37 b Group pre-tax profit tops Rs. 4 b; Revenue up 18% to Rs. 26.8 b ...
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A delegation from the US Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), led by Regional Deputy Vice President for Europe, Asia, the Pac...
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The Minister of Public Enterprise Development Kabir Hashim has appointed Samantha Rajapaksa to the Board of Bank of Ceylon as a Non-Executive Direc...
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Award-winning airline continues to demonstrate strong growth and expansion as passenger demand increases Weekly ca...
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Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said they have asked the Government to do away with the Board of Investment (BOI), claiming the...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 136
With reference to a Daily FT article which appeared yesterday titled ‘Rajitha says dengue vaccine not effective enough’, a Sanofi Paste...
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Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama has requested State Minister for International Trade Sujeewa Senasingh...
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Three Cabinet proposals put forward by Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday were rejected by President Mait...
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Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake Minister of Foreign Affairs Ravi Karunanayake says that he will give proper answers to the ...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 117
The Government has succeeded in providing electricity connections to 99.7% of households in Sri Lanka, the Power and Renewable Energy Deputy Minist...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 112
Reuters - A ship an anti-migrant group planned to use as part of its campaign to protect Europe’s shores from mass migration has been detaine...
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President Maithripala Sirisena held a meeting with the senior lawyers who were recently appointed as President’s Counsels. The meeting was ...
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President Maithripala Sirisena, congratulating newly-elected Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, expressed his willingness to work closely with the n...
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Professor Eyal Weizman of Goldsmiths, University of London, UK to speak ‘Forensic Architecture: Space and Violence in Pale...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 155
Sri Lanka has hailed the support given by China to defeat terrorism in the country. State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene, speaking at an e...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 109
Brussels: Following yesterday’s decision by the European Court of Justice to no longer identify Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...
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The Supreme Court has extended the interim injunction banning the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) from dumping garbage at the Muthurajawela sanctua...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 109
The Kayts Magistrate Court has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to record a statement from State Minister of Child Affairs Vija...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 111
All Ceylon Young Muslim Men’s Association 67th Annual Convention was held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute recently under the pa...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 110
The Sri Lankan Government’s bilateral efforts to regularise nearly 7,000 undocumented migrant workers in Lebanon commenced recently. ...
Friday, 28 July 2017 00:00 Views - 127
A proclamation declaring the supply or distribution of fuel, including petroleum products and gas, and all services, work, labour of any descriptio...
28 July 2017
It was the continent that made headlines for all the wrong reasons: the great famine in Ethiopia and HIV pandemic in 1980s, the Rwandan genocide in 1990s, and the Somalian civil war in 2000’s grabbed headlines. By mid-2000 some of the Afric...
28 July 2017
In line with the unfolding saga of innovative technologies pushing boundaries to disrupt traditional business models, ever so powerful forces are transforming the banking industry as well. Consistent growth remains relatively elusive, costs are pr...
26 July 2017
Introduction Institutions are an integral part of value chains. Government institutes drive agricultural advisory services in most value chains. Advisory services can come from the Department of Agriculture, which is attached to the Centra...
26 July 2017
Money laundering is presently a very timely topic, locally and internationally. A perpetrator of the offence of money laundering could be defined as: (1) Any person, who— (a) engages directly or indirectly in any transaction in relat...
