Today’s Front Page 25-06-2011
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New look Jetwing Blue debuts
By Cheranka Mendis
The Jetwing Group yesterday officially re-launched Jetwing Blue, Negombo, along with a brand new logo for the Group. The hotel was opened by Economic Minister Basil Rajapaksa at a ceremony held last evening.
Sri Lanka, world’s fifth best in development of ICT sector: ICTA CEO
Sri Lanka ranks fifth in the world in development in the ICT sector, said ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) Chief Executive Officer Reshan Dewapura.
Dewapura said so during his address at the launch of the National ICT Workforce Survey 2010 Report cum media conference held in Colombo last Thursday (23).
Sri Lanka, Bahrain sign double tax avoidance and fiscal evasion prevention agreement
An agreement between the Government and the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income initialed on 10 December 2009 in Colombo was signed yesterday.
Big guns for Games
Five 2018 Commonwealth Games bid awareness
The Government has roped in several big guns in the business world to market Sri Lanka’s bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Five ‘Bid Awareness Sub Committees’ have been set up with mandates to concentrate on different regions – Asia, America and Europe, Oceania, Caribbean and Africa.
Stock market recovers from lows; concerns remain
- Telcos, diversified shares help boost index
- Rs. 136.4 m net foreign selling
- Rupee steady again on state bank’s dollar sales
COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lankan stocks rebounded on Friday from a five-and-half month closing low, snapping a four-session fall on gaining telecom and diversified shares, but concerns over margin calls that forced selling and low liquidity remained.
Sri Lanka autorickshaw drivers say no to Nano
PTI: Taxi drivers in Sri Lanka’s capital held up traffic today, demanding the Government should stop allowing anymore use of Tata Nanos on the streets that offer stiff competition to the ubiquitous three-wheelers.
A dream come true
By Joanna Lindamulage
I was neither the smartest nor the richest student of Uncle Dissa and Aunty Pri. But I was definitely one of the most courageous.
SLIM yields yet another world-prize winner to CIM
The Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM), the national body of marketing yet again produced a world-prize winner in the Chartered Institute of Marketing examination held in December 2010, further moulding world-class marketers in the country.
Public seminar on ‘Free and Free to Choose Higher Education’
In an environment where critical issues relating to university education in Sri Lanka are being debated, the Pathfinder Foundation (PF) is organising a public seminar (Sanvada) on ‘Free and Free to Choose Higher Education’.
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