A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.’ John Locke-Thoughts Concerning Education This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight today on The Drug Menace and its ill effects on Sri Lankan Society in an effort [...]
A creative and colourful initiative that employs the fashion catwalk to highlight the untapped potential of knitted fabric will be unveiled by Textured Jersey, Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent value-added knitted fabric producer at Sri Lanka Design Festival’s (SLDF’s) third edition. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Textured Jersey, the2011 Festival’s official fabric partner, will present a “glamorous” facet [...]
Asian Alliance Insurance PLC (AAI) entered into an MoU with Von Fidel which is in the business of breeding and training quality working dogs in Sri Lanka recently. As a result of this tie-up, Alliance Pet Insurance (API) customers will now have the opportunity to consult Von Fidel experts in deciding the best path towards [...]
Pro-reformists Working To Make Karu The Leader The pro-reforms group of the UNP has decided to continue with their programme to get Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya to replace Ranil Wickremasinghe as party leader. Members of the pro-reforms group met last Thursday (27) night at Southern Provincial Councilor and Attorney Maithri Gunaratne’s residence after the Working [...]
Life enhancing “Noni,” predominantly formulated from “Morinda Citrafolia”-a blossoming shrub like tree that often grows as high as 20 feet-almost every part of it usable for health enhancement. Bearing fruit year round-“bumpy” fruit that begins green-turns yellow with an unpleasant odour, especially as it ripens to whiteness. Its odour and the fruit’s strange taste has [...]
Popular retailer fined Rs. 3.3 million for false declaration By Faraz Shauketaly The popular discounted fashion retailer “House of Fashions” is at the centre of a battle of influence between officials from the Treasury and Customs. Two containers destined for House of Fashions (Pvt) Limited were detained by Customs and found to have broken a [...]
F1 – Indian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton is ready to make up for the mistake he knows has put himself and McLaren “on the back foot” for this weekend’s Indian Grand Prix. Hamilton, along with Sauber’s Sergio Perez, was given a three-place grid penalty following Friday’s first practice session at the Buddh International Circuit as [...]
Malaysia’s former Premier Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, the man who turned Malaysia into a success story in Asia recognized selected award winners who assembled at Dewen Tun Hussein Onn, Putra World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur from several countries recently. On behalf of Prime Group of Companies its chairman B. Premalal, counting over 1½ decades in business, received [...]
PUCSL to propose remedies to CEB losses By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) says that a slight increase in electricity tariffs was likely in order to address the losses incurred by the country’s power sector due to the increase in thermal power generation. However, the increase is expected to [...]
Professionals highlight deficiencies By Paneetha Ameresekere The phrase “rule of law” has a wider dimension even encompassing tax payer rights as was enunciated by two tax professionals at a lecture in Colombo on Thursday (27). Picking holes on the law in this context, N. R. Gajendran, a tax consultant described the requirement of a taxpayer [...]
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