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Sanga nominated for the LG People’s Choice Award 1 Aug 2012 | 08:00 pm
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has been nominated as a candidate to win the LG People’s Choice Award. Sangakkara has won the award in a previous occasion. LG People’s Choice Award is the only award vote...
Sri Lanka appoints former ICC CEO as an adviser to SLC 31 Jul 2012 | 08:31 pm
Sri Lanka Cricket has appointed former ICC Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat as a special adviser to the Board. Lorgat, who concluded his term at the ICC last month, has agreed to work with the SL...
Sri Lanka’s six month Treasury bill rate moves up 31 Jul 2012 | 07:22 pm
Sri Lanka’s weekly Treasury bill auction held today saw the three and the one year rates remaining at last week’s level while the six month rate moved up by 2 basis points. The six month rate moved fr...
Sri Lanka to switch off half of its street lamps to conserve energy 31 Jul 2012 | 06:17 pm
Sri Lanka has decided to stop operating nearly 50% of its countrywide street lamps in a bid to save energy amidst a growing energy crisis. This means, out of the existing 800,000 street lamps only 400...
Check Point launches new products in Sri Lanka to counter web based threats 31 Jul 2012 | 04:31 pm
Check Point Software Technologies, a global firm engaged in securing the internet launched its new range of security appliances to help local firms be safe from web based security threats. The firm sa...
Australia advices its citizens to exercise high degree of caution when travelling to Sri Lanka 31 Jul 2012 | 02:51 pm
Australian government has warned its citizens intending to travel to Sri Lanka to exercise high degree of caution at this time because of the high risk of politically motivated violence. “We advise yo...
Unrealistic payments have become a real burden on importers and exporters – Shippers Council 31 Jul 2012 | 10:38 am
Sri Lanka Shippers Council says unrealistic payments which need to be made during transactions have become a real burden on the importers and exporters of the country. This situation, the newly electe...
Sri Lankan shuttler Karunaratne beats Japan’s Tago Kenichi at the Olympics 30 Jul 2012 | 05:54 pm
Sri Lankan badminton player Niluka Karunaratne defeated Tago Kenichi of Japan in the preliminary round of the men’s single event held at the London Olympics. Tago Kenichi who was beaten by Karunaratne...
Record number of tourists arrive in Kandy to witness “Perahera” 30 Jul 2012 | 04:10 pm
Sri Lanka’s historic Kandy Esala Perahera which is now ongoing, has seen record number of foreigners arriving in the hill capital to witness the cultural pageant. Sri Lanka Tourism says around 6000 to...
Colombo Stock Exchange on Wednesday 31 May 2012 | 12:52 am
Colombo Stock Exchange saw making gains by ending the day with ASPI gaining 1.1% to close at 4865 points. MIlanka Price Index, however declined by just 0.3% to close the day’s trading at a range of 4...
