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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the premier ICT solutions provider in the country successfully concluded the 3rd edition of the trailblazing awards programme to recognize digital initiatives - the SLT Zero One Awards for Digital Excellence - at a grand awards ceremony held at the Hotel Shangri-La Colombo.

Huawei Sri Lanka and University of Moratuwa (UOM) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable the educated and talented youth in Sri Lanka to further enhance their skills in the ICT domain and to be competitive in the ever growing ICT industry, as part of Huawei’s long-term digital inclusion initiative - TECH4ALL, to support Sri Lanka to fulfil the “Smart Nation” vision of the country.

Sophos (LSE: SOPH), a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today published a SophosLabs report on Cloud Snooper, a sophisticated attack that uses a unique combination of techniques to allow malware on servers to communicate freely with its command and control servers through firewalls.

Expert financial planner NDB Wealth will continue its long-standing tradition of celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020, focusing on financial independence for women which is becoming a crucial and widely accepted factor in the empowerment of women.

To mark International Women’s Day, Uber Eats today pledged to scale up the number of Sri Lankan women entrepreneurs on its platform from 100 to over 1,000, by the end of 2020 as part of its Diviyata Diriya initiative, which enables equal access to flexible economic opportunities for women and other marginalised communities.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Toyota Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., have joined forces to offer special prices, reduced interest rates and attractive other benefits to customers leasing Toyota cars and pickup trucks.

For the fifth consecutive year, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, partnered with the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) to ring the opening bell for trading in celebration of International Women’s Day 2020.

CIPM Sri Lanka – the Nation’s leader in human resource management came into an understanding with the Sabaragamuwa Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) for academic cooperation to conduct CIPM’s accredited recognized human resource management education courses and corporate training programmes at SCCI’s premises in Ratnapura.

The “Responsibility in Fashion” program by HSBC Colombo Fashion Week introduces three responsibility and circularity-based initiatives, which are actionable impacts and with this HSBC Colombo Fashion Week opens the door for the stakeholders of the Sri Lankan fashion design industry to embrace & start on a journey towards circularity.

The ‘CBL Samaposha U14 Inter-School Football Championship 2019’ finals scheduled for 31 January to 03 February 2020 and delayed due to unavoidable circumstances by the Sri Lanka School Football Association (SLSFA) is scheduled to be held during the first week in March.