By Gazala Anver Relief for flood damaged houses, crops and livestock in flood affected areas is still pending, as the flood assessment is yet to be completed, The Sunday Leader learns. However according to Deputy Director Early Warning, Disaster Management Unit, Pradeep Kodipilli, the Disaster Management Ministry had prior to the assessment already released Rs. [...]
By Abdul H. Azeez Around 50 new firms are set to enter the Colombo Stock Exchange in 2011 with 10 Initial Public Offerings (IPO) set to come out in March and April. Securities and Exchange Commission Director General, Malik Cader told reporters that at least two of these issues would be in excess of Rs. [...]
By Dinouk Colombage In a change of stance, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed on Thursday (24) that Attorney General Mohan Peiris and External Affairs Ministry Secretary Romesh Jayasinghe met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at his office in New York. This meeting was announced following previous denial from the government. An External Affairs Ministry spokesman [...]
Fabio Federico indeed ignited the 12th of February 2011 at the MLH, with guitar repertoire of the 19th and 20th Centuries held by illustrious exponents of worldwide fame such as: Angelo Gilardino, Tilman Hoppstock, Maurizio Colonna and Luigi Biscaldi. As Dr GianLuca Rubagotti explained the evening was a tri partnership of Chocolate, Red(which is the [...]
There is a new conflict in the North and it is currently churning up the waters of the Palk Strait By Abdul H. Azeez For several years now Indian fishermen have been breaching Indo-Sri Lanka maritime border in search of fish. Before the end of the war, they really didn’t have any competition from local [...]
By Dinouk Colombage Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has lost his case against extradition. He will now be extradited to Sweden in ten days time, he has seven days to appeal this verdict. District Judge Howard Riddle of the Belmarsh Magistrates’ court in south London ruled that the extradition of Assange would not [...]
Their colourful ancestry goes back to Capt. de Lanerolle (special emissary of France’s Royal Court) who arrived in Trincomalee in 1672 with a French naval expedition and later settled down here. Centuries later the French charm still holds good in his two famous descendants. The “de Lanerolle” brand (one rolls the ‘r’ when pronouncing the [...]
By Gazala Anver The ferry service between Colombo and Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu is due to begin next week, said Deputy Minister, Ports and Aviation, Rohitha Abeygunewardena. The date is however yet to be decided, he said, but it will be either on February 28, or the first few days of March. “On our side everything [...]
The Graduate So my Dancing Doll is also officially a graduate now. Of course, she had to make a fashion statement even amongst her very stylish Singaporean batchmates! Whereas they were all dressed very primly in dark coloured skirts or pants and light coloured shirts, madam decided she wanted a hot pink skirt with a [...]
The newest force in the general insurance industry, Continental Insurance Lanka Limited, launched in March 2010 has now extended its services to provide their corporate clientele with cashless medical insurance coverage. Thus, providing an unparalleled service with care, whereby endorsing their tag line – “service, redefined” in insurance. Policy holders could now enjoy hassle free [...]
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