Microsoft and Trainocate, a learning and development service provider, will work alongside each other to bridge the digital skills divide in Sri Lanka and route students to diverse and equitable hiring and employment opportunities. With this partnership Microsoft is aiming to reach more than 600 undergraduate and graduate students in Sri Lanka to address the…
Innovative technology company 99x announced the launch of ‘Hacktitude’, an inter-university hackathon geared at grooming young talent to be industry-ready upon graduation, by exposing them to technical challenges that drive participants to develop ‘production-grade’ code. The competition will take place on 22nd January 2022, with the winning team walking away with MacBook Pros, other prizes,…
Sri Lanka’s leading non-bank primary dealer, First Capital Treasuries PLC, a subsidiary of First Capital Holdings PLC, saw its Initial Public Offering (IPO) being oversubscribed 4.5 times within hours on its opening day and the offering was closed on the same day, as indicated in the prospectus. First Capital Treasuries received 1,991 applications amounting to…
Sampath Bank recently unveiled the Sampath RemitWise remittance support mobile application to offer greater support to the countless Sri Lankans living and working abroad. The unique app is set to serve as a one-stop-shop for all remittance related information for all Sri Lankans, irrespective of whether they are customers of Sampath Bank or not. “The…
The American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka (AmCham Sri Lanka) on Tuesday the 7th of December hosted its members and partners to its inaugural Christmas fundraiser – Yuletide Greetings 2021. Slated to be held annually, AmCham Sri Lanka will host this event with the aim of providing its members and partners the opportunity to…
Exports 1,000 containers of roofing sheets to South Asia Awarded “Best Exporter” at 24th Presidential Export Awards 2020/21. Rhino, the nation’s leading provider of roofing solutions, marked the key milestone of exporting its first 1,000 containers of roofing sheets to South Asian locations, in Colombo on December 14, 2021. Hon. Minister of Finance, Basil Rajapaksa…
A brightly lit open double decker bus driven around the city, with a choir singing Christmas Carols, became a common sight in the past few weeks in the city of Colombo and Negombo. Initiated by Daraz, the #darazcarolingbus took to the streets every weekend evening, greeting holiday shoppers at various places in the city. People…
Back in July 2021, twenty-eight emerging startup founders from Sri Lanka, Nepal, and India put their ideas and ambition to the test by enrolling with the Founder Institute Sri Lanka. On the 15th of December, eight of those founders will graduate from the rigorous and intensive program. Founder Institute (fi.co) is the world’s largest pre-seed…
Contributing a gift that can change lives and spread cheer, SLT-MOBITEL has partnered with the Senehasa Educational Resource Research and Information Center (SERRIC) to support children with special needs and help them celebrate the festive season. Senehasa was established to care and support children with special needs, belonging to families of the Armed Forces and…
Bairaha Farms PLC, the pioneer chicken processor in Sri Lanka for over four decades, shone bright at the FMCG Asia Awards, being honored as the winner of the Environmental Social Governance Initiative of the Year in Sri Lanka for 2021. For the first time in Sri Lanka, a recipe book of chicken recipes written in…
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