Sri Lanka’s Arsenal fans have spoken. Mesut Ozil is Sri Lanka’s favourite English Premier League (EPL) player! Inarguably his incredible form this year (and considerably good looks!) played a big part in this result. Ozil has over 16 goals under his belt this EPL season so far and is thought to be on course to…
Sri Lanka’s Premier Technology Distribution company, EZY Distribution together with Transcend, launched a range of Car Video Recorders to spearhead road safety across the country. EZY Distribution is a subsidiary of EZY Corporation, a US $500 million, multi-cultural , diverse organization, with over 1000 employees from 30 nationalities, operating in 15 countries across South Asia….
Rs 37.3 billion dispensed at average of Rs 1.2 billion a day as Sri Lankans celebrated the festive season The automated teller machines (ATMs) of Commercial Bank dispensed a mind-boggling Rs 37.321 billion in December 2015, averaging Rs 1.204 billion a day, and processing an incredible 6.682 million transactions at a daily average of 215,548,…
Holcim (Lanka) Ltd, a member of the LafargeHolcim Group, in the pursuit of continued development in safety and technology has provided an astounding investment, partnering with facilitator, Diesel & Motor Engineering Plc (DIMO), who handed over the largest bulldozer to be supplied to Sri Lanka with its main operational functions being ripping and dozing limestone….
On 22nd November 2010 Dr. K. Benny Prasad arrived in Karachi (Pakistan) and broke the World Record becoming the fastest person to travel to 245 nations including Antarctica. This magnificent feat took Dr. Benny 6 years, 6 months and 22 days. This was however not the first of his many achievements. In 2004, he invented…
A special program encouraging the creativity of youth was held at the JICA hall in Mannar District Secretariat recently. The event was jointly organized by the “YOUth CREATE” project of CARE International and Mannar District Secretariat. The District Secretary M.Y.S. Deshapriya graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The project Youth CREATE (culture, reconciliation, education,…
The trophy for the Fairway National Literary Award was unveiled recently at the Fairway Holdings office in Rajagiriya. The trophy, composed of granite, glass and wood, is an impressive fourteen inches tall and aptly features a novel as its focal point. The Fairway National Literary Award was set up in conjunction with Fairway Holdings assuming…
~ One of Asia’s most historic luxury hotels recaptures its bygone allure More than 150 years after its debut on the shores of the Indian Ocean, Galle Face Hotel has emerged from a 30-month long restoration of the North Wing’s 72 rooms and suites, restaurants and bars, lobby, ballrooms and executive lounge. The current restoration…
Rhino Roofing Products Limited, the pioneering roofing sheet manufacturer and the largest player in the roofing sheet industry in Sri Lanka, as a part of their ongoing CSR initiatives made a donation of roofing sheets worth more than 1 million rupees to the restoration project at the Welikada Prisons Complex. The donation was handed over…
Nawaloka Fertility Centre (NFC) has completed 10 years of dedicated service to childless couples in Sri Lanka helping them conceive babies. Nawaloka is the only hospital providing immune tests and treatment to those who have had repeated failures and the center uses an ultramodern bench-top incubator called ‘Invicell’, first of its kind in the nation,…
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