The French Football Federation has suspended all 23 members of France’s World Cup squad for their next game. New France Coach Laurent Blanc requested that no member of the squad be selected for a friendly against Norway in Oslo on August 11. France failed to win any of their three group games in South Africa. [...]
In keeping with the commemoration of the 175th Anniversary of their alma mater, Royal College Class of ‘72, which is probably the largest old boys’ Group of Royal College, has organised a series of mega events during the years 2009 and 2010. “Bridging Sri Lanka” is one of such projects which will pave the way [...]
The Rs. six billion turnover Lankem Group of Companies through land held by its subsidiary York Hotels (Kandy) Ltd. in Kandy and land in the Trincomalee coastal belt held by another of its subsidiaries, plans to develop such real estate into hotel properties. Anushman Rajaratnam, Managing Director Lankem Ceylon PLC told The Sunday Leader on [...]
Michael Schumacher says he will drive for Mercedes again in 2011 — because he has not reached his “final target” of winning an eighth world championship. The 41-year-old German returned to Formula 1 this season after three years in retirement but has been well off the pace in the drivers’ championship. Schumacher said: “When I [...]
IPM Career Guidance Workshop Institute of Personnel Management Sri Lanka, the nation’s leader in Human Resource Management has embarked on yet another initiative aimed at developing future human talent. The institute is to conduct a career guidance workshop to help youngsters take the correct decisions at vital junctions in their careers. An expert on the [...]
This reporter, early this month (July 3-4), visited Jaffna after a lapse of 11 years and for the first time heard the national anthem sung in Tamil by a bevy of schoolgirls at the opening of the Central Bank’s provincial branch in Jaffna, which took place on July 4. The tune was the same, and [...]
PROPARCO, AFD Group’s (French Development Agency’s) private sector arm, recently signed a 10 million euro loan with LOLC (Lanka ORIX Leasing Company PLC) to support the development of their operations in the North and East (N&E) of the country. LOLC, a leading financial services conglomerate in Sri Lanka, pioneered leasing and factoring to the country, [...]
Etisalat, Sri Lanka’s 3rd largest mobile telecoms operator, beaten to 3rd place by the narrowest of margins, plans to invest US$ 163 million in the next six months to expand its network and to provide greater clarity to some of those localities already covered, but which have a few grey spots in terms of not [...]
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was quickest in the second practice session at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim The Spaniard traded fastest laps with the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel, who was second, and Mark Webber who was fourth — behind Ferrari’s Felipe Massa. Lewis Hamilton crashed his McLaren in first practice and only had 12 [...]
Park Street Mews The Park Street Mews, in partnership with the British Council and Borsao will present ‘Book and Wine Tasting’ on Monday, August 2 at 7.30pm at Park Street Mews. This event has been organised as part of the Animating Literature Programme, with the key objective of introducing new Sri Lankan and UK writing [...]
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