By Indika De Zoysa With people being strictly confined to the comfort of their homes and compelled to rely on social media to keep up with the world outside, the outbreak of COVID-19 transformed social media usage. Over the past two-and-half-year period, social media usage has grown faster than it has in the four years…
The National Carrier, SriLankan Airlines, as a prime promoter of destination Sri Lanka, in a bid to support the country’s tourism recovery drive, will be hosting over 150 international travel agents in Sri Lanka for a commercial conference and a travel mart in mid-November this year. This will be the first time in recent history…
Seylan Bank announced the appointment of two veterans from financial and audit backgrounds into its Board of Directors recently. Ms. Sunjeevani Kotakadeniya joined the Board of Seylan Bank as Non-Executive Director while Ms. Averil Ludowyke joined in the capacity of Independent Non-Executive Director. Ms. Kotakadeniya possesses over three decades of experience in finance and general…
Strengthening its commitment to drive biodiversity regeneration and environmental conservation, Hayleys Group subsidiary and leading textile manufacturer Hayleys Fabric partnered with the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) and the Universities of Peradeniya and Wayamba to champion the protection of habitats connected to tributaries of the Bentota River. The Rs. 1.5 million initiative aims to stabilise the…
With the world’s energy sector moving away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources and companies being challenged in addressing this transition in transformative ways, “energy storage” has emerged as the critical component slated to play an important role in ensuring energy consistency for a country. Coming forward to help the Sri Lankan Government and…
The global chief executive of ACCA, Helen Brand, during her recent visit to Sri Lanka, provided valuable insights on how the finance function can help transform businesses to successfully navigate the current economic landscape faced by Sri Lanka. Outlining how finance executives in local corporates need to shift their thinking from the priorities of the…
GENNEXT Sri Lanka, one of Sri Lanka’s leading IT and telecommunications companies has been appointed as the Gold Partner for the National ICT Awards NBQSA 2022. Having reached the final stages of the marquee event, the NBQSA Awards ceremony is set to be held on 04th November 2022. ‘’As a leading digital transformation tech company…
Sri Lanka’s acclaimed sustainability advisory agency Climate and Conservation Consortium (CCC) reaffirmed its commitment to conservation when it entered into a partnership with PLANT (Preserving Land and Nature (Guarantee) Ltd, the country’s largest privately funded land conservation initiative. PLANT signed a multi-year Partnership MOU with the Climate and Conservation Consortium (CCC), with the objective of engaging their support to obtain specialist inputs…
Minister of Cooperation of Government of Karnataka welcomes first A380 service to Bengaluru Emirates and Airport celebrate first commercial A380 flight operations at Bengaluru Daily flagship A380 service to South Indian city will commence from 30 October; Bengaluru to join Emirates’ network of over 30 destinations served by the double-decker aircraft Emirates’ flagship A380 made…
Gapstars – a B2B service provider helping innovative Dutch software companies grow rapidly with high-performing agile offshore development teams in Sri Lanka, was recently recognized in the ‘Top 100 Workplace in Asia’ by Great Place to Work® 2022! Gapstars is no stranger to the GPTW stage – having been named in Top 10 IT/ITes Workplaces…
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