By Cassandra Mascarenhas The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID), as part of its ‘Power Evening’ series of events, presented an eclectic combination of chairmen from leading organisations in the country last week and at the occasion delved into the subject ‘Performing

Fortunaglobal (Pvt) Ltd. won this year’s e-Swabhimani award for the country’s best e-content applications in the m-Content category for its mobile application for the iPhone and Android. The prestigious e-Swabhimani awards presentation is organised annually by the apex Government body for ICT in Sri Lanka, the Information & Technology Agency (ICTA). Derana Macroentertainment Accoun...

In keeping with its ongoing endeavour to foster and promote national level sporting stars from school level, Janashakthji Insurance PLC recently extended its patronage of two of its sponsored athletes, on their completing their secondary level education. They are 19 year old Ishara Sandeepani Dayananda from Ferguson Girls High School, Ratnapura and 19 year old ...

The best way to make the benefits of ICT to reach all the people, especially the disadvantaged as envisaged by the President is to develop local e-content talent, said President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga. The Presidential Secretary said so while participating as the Guest of Honour at the e-Swabhimani Awards 2011 held in Colombo recently. Speaking ...

OYAMA-CHO (Reuters): Toyota Motor Corp unveiled a highly anticipated sports car that it hopes will trigger the rebirth of the company as a maker of “fun” cars that it hasn’t been in years. Japan’s top automaker took the wraps off the compact, rear-wheel-drive model at the Fuji Speedway circuit at the foot of Mount Fuji ...

Veteran golfers from all parts of India will converge on Sri Lanka’s celebrated Victoria Golf Course in Digana, Kandy, to work off the finals of the Touché Golf League (TGL) on Saturday, 4 December. SriLankan Airlines joins this prestigious event and will fly in the winning teams from India, which includes top celebrities as Kapil ...

Boeing is to launch a six-month tour with its all-new 787 Dreamliner. The December schedule for the 787 Dream Tour includes six stops in Asia, Africa and the Middle East: 4-11 December: China with stops in Beijing, Guangzhou and Haikou to visit customers, partners, and government officials including representatives from Civil Aviation Administration of China ...

The dream entertained by the nation for several decades to witness revolution in road development has been realized. The President inaugurated the Southern Expressway bestowing an expressway to the nation. The auspicious time dawned this morning transforming the entire network of roads. The shrub jungles from the Western Province to the Southern Province were cleared ...

Lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit up once again in our life time, Musings of Edward Grey, British statesmen, looking out of his London Foreign Office window at dusk on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War. The lights have been going out with regularity in Sri Lanka too – ...

to friends, as recently as last weekend, Slover appeared at events in the suburban Chicago area.Slover wa...

Organisational sustainability is the ability for a group of persons to endure the internal and external pressures of a culture, through change and innovation, as they endeavour to deliver their specific products.There are seven components to create organisational sustainability. 1.Organisational identity Every organisation needs to distinguish and market its organisational identity. The organisati...

By Chamitha Kuruppu The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna claims spending Rs. 265 billion on an 11-day extravaganza is intolerable for an economically ailing country like Sri Lanka. Addressing a media briefing the JVP warned that the aftermath of hosting the 2018 Commonwealth Games would not be rosy as the Rajapaksa administration predicts According to JVP Propaganda ...

The Ceylon Continental Hotel recently hosted the very popular Continental Weddings Exhibition. One of the highlights of this exhibition was the raffle draw that allowed a lucky couple to win an all paid for dream wedding.   Ceylon Continental Director Sales and Marketing Harsha Samaranayake (centre) draws a winner watched by Amaya Resorts and Spas ...

This is the seventh article in the Daily FT’s fortnightly series titled ‘Business of Sports,’ focusing on the back office of the various sports administered and played in this country. Readers are invited to share their views and express their opinion via email to editor@ft.lk on the features carried in this column so that a ...

Lives by the quote “Live to eat! Life is cooking” Chef Carlos Gomez Melendez is a true Latin American in “every sense” . You will hear him miles away” loud and full life” with a zest to produce the finest culinary pieces that can even impress the greatest dignitaries such as US Presidents Barak Obama ...

Reuters: The capital is set to get a taste of F1 glitz and glamour this weekend as India hosts its first Formula One Grand Prix, with parties and events featuring global A-listers organised in New Delhi. Topping the bill is pop star Lady Gaga, performing at an invitation-only show in a five-star

The last week was an eventful week indeed. We barely recovered from the news of the death of the maverick inventor Steve Jobs. Although I am a loyal Microsoft right-brain person, I admired the ‘left-brain innovative spirit’ of Apple and the ingenuity of the man. He had not gone to university and had what some ...

on and off at family events, I was ...

Nations Trust Bank (NTB) presents for the fifth time the much-awaited Corporate Quiz for their corporate elite. This year, fittingly, it will run on a format akin the 2011 Cricket World Cup.   The Nations Trust Corporate Quiz Competition is an annual event initiated by NTB in order to foster a spirit of camaraderie, friendly ...

The Royal Colombo Golf Club once again gave golfing enthusiasts of all stature an opportunity to compete for the challenge trophy of HSBC’s annual 5-Club Stableford Golf Tournament 2011, held for the seventeenth year. The tournament which concluded over the last weekend saw over 230 enthusiastic golfers in the Men’s, Ladies’ and Senior’s categories, displaying ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders gathered at United Nations Headquarters Wednesday for the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate that they face critical choices on global issues to ensure the well-being of future generations. “We have five imperatives – five generational opportunities to shape the world of tomorrow by the decisions we make today,” the ...

Deputy Economic Development Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena says activities have been organized in the Beira Lake area in Colombo to mark World Tourism Day. Abeywardena has said the events would be held on September 27th and 28th around the Beira Lake. Among the event planned are an art wall

Women in South AsiaFollowing is the address delivered by the High Commissioner of Pakistan Seema Ilahi Baloch at the South Asia Women in Media Forum: The women of South Asia must be proud, because our land can boast of some of the greatest women leaders of our times. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Husina ...

Local surfing in the wake of SriLankan Airlines Pro 2011By Ben Fowler A common theme among the surfers of Sri Lankan Airlines’ ASP Pro 2011, when describing Arugam Bay, was seeing its similarities to other countries. Brazilian-born Andre Derizans said the waves reminded him of his own slice of the ocean back home in Hawaii. ...

Douglas & Sons (Pvt.) Ltd., popularly known as DSL among its trade partners, celebrates 25 years of success this year with religious observances held at the Corporate Head Office, CSR projects and a gala dealer awards ceremony. A Kaprooka Bodhi Pooja was also held at the Kelaniya Temple invoking blessings on the Management and staff ...

Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka ’s exotic southeast coastline, is set to welcome 96 top world surfers from 19 countries spanning Argentina , Peru , USA across the globe to New Zealand , to compete in SriLankan Airlines Pro Surfing contest held in association with Australasia ’s Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) from 30th August – ...

Dustin Johnson fired a six-under par 65 on Saturday to win The Barclays by two strokes over fellow American Matt Kuchar in an event reduced to 54 holes due to an approaching hurricane. The $US7.5 million ($A7.2 million) tournament, the first of the US PGA season-ending playoffs, would have reverted to 36-hole scores had bad ...

By Jayantha Prasud Sittampalam Anna Hazare’s popular agitation and protest fast begun unexpectedly at Tihar jail (the same syllables as Tahrir Square – an omen, or coincidence?) and then moved to Ramlila Park has thrown the spotlight on the issue of corruption in India, and people from all classes have gathered behind this septuagenarian adherent ...

Rational men are scarce and fear-driven, emotional men are plentyKautilya’s advice: If people are gullible, exploit them Kautilya, the fourth century BCE Indian economist, strategist and statesman of ‘The Arthashastra’ fame, had a fine piece of advice to his king. When the king’s treasury runs low, he should use extraordinary measures to build the treasury. ...

President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga delivered the keynote address as the Guest of Honour at the FutureGov Forum Sri Lanka 2011 in Colombo recently. Addressing the gathering, he asserted that it was the President’s leadership that led to the great achievements recorded by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka even under the trying circumstances of wartime. ...