By Imaad Majeed – Photos by Pranil Abeysinghe flickr.com/photos/pranilabeysinghe The English Writer’s Cooperative held an Evening of Poetry, Prose and Music on November 23, at the Goethe Institut, Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7. Authors featured for the night included Gnana Moonesinghe, Faith Ratnayake, Myrle Williams, Ayesha Herath, Jayani Senanayake and Anthea Senarathna, who were coincidentally part [...]
Hatton National Bank PLC (HNB), the premier private sector commercial bank opened the 225th & 226th Customer Centres in Atchchuveli and Kodikamam recently. The bank now has a total of 18 Customer Centres in the Jaffna peninsula. The Chief Guest for the occasion was HNB Managing Director/CEO Rajendra Theagarajah. Human Resources & Administration Deputy General [...]
By Raisa Wickrematunge A wave bears down on me. I ready myself, push off and find myself borne along by sheer force. It’s a feeling of pure adrenaline, rushing along on top of the sea- almost like going down a playground slide, except of course the sea is anything but a flat surface. Weligama is [...]
Was it an error trade or alleged manipulation by seemingly disgruntled traders that brought the sensitive Milanka Price Index (MPI) that captures the movement of blue chip stocks down by 5% at Friday’s trading? As a result the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) was compelled to temporarily halt trading, in a bourse which is already on [...]
By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe – Attorney-at-Law Wrong must not win by technicalities Aeschylus -The Eumenides-Justice The criminal justice system of Sri Lanka finds its foundations in English common law. The British introduced this system when they captured part of the country at the end of the 16th century. British laws were gradually applied throughout the [...]
English football By Dion Michael Carlos Tevez’s problems with Manchester City and its manager Roberto Mancini intensified this week amid speculation that the star player was linked with transfer talks to AC Milan. The ace striker has not been training with his club Manchester City after a string of issues following his alleged refusal to [...]
Hewlett-Packard (HP), said to be the world’s largest Technology company and a leader in innovative technology and services launched HP Advantage Plus for notebook consumers recently. HP PSG Sri Lanka has been in the forefront of providing their customers with innovative services over the past few years. With Sri Lanka IT industry’s growth, HP PSG [...]
Nodath and Sududath, alumni of the Instant English Taught Here in Six Months College, were having their usual political pow-wow at the Waterhole. Sududath (SD): So, how, how Machang, budget and all that? Nodath (ND): What for the telling. You saw on TV no? Pull Serial. Only thing missing Kadu pight and Pisst pight. Damn [...]
Rugby Football Former Italy and Japan coach and a member of the winning All Blacks world cup team of 1987, John Kirwan has thrown his hat into the ring to become England’s new manager. The All Blacks legend who was in charge of the Brave Blossoms during the recently concluded World Cup admits it would [...]
Dubai’s new skyrise commercial complexes have been able to attract 1,000 companies to set up office there, beating the 700 firms that set-up shop in the desert city for the totality of last year. Of this year’s entrants, 90% were new corporates, including those from China, Europe and from other parts of Asia. A trading [...]
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