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The Sri Lanka National Visually Handicapped Cricket Team was recently privileged to have been invited by the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) to participate in the first-ever T20 Asia Cup Tournament dedicated to visually handicapped cricketers.

Anuradha Roy has been announced as the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 for her novel, Sleeping on Jupiter at the Fairway Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced that an on-going initiative to make its branches island wide accessible to differently abled customers has passed the half way mark.

Pakistan’s Minister‬ for ‪Commerce‬ – Hon. Khurram Dastgir Khan and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade – Hon. Malik Samarawickrama and Minister of Industry and Commerce – Hon. Rishad Bathiudeen, together with a host of other dignitaries including the High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, HE Maj Gen (R) Syed Shakeel Hussain, CEO of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), S. M. Muneer, High Commissioner of Pakistan in the Maldives – Vice Admiral Khawar Ali and TDAP Secretary, Ms Rabiya Javeri Agha today (15th January) formally inaugurated the Pakistan Single Country Exhibition 2016.

Expert financial planner NDB Wealth has kicked off the new year by winning a coveted international award, presented by the prestigious Global Banking & Financial Review magazine.

Emirates announced the expansion of its operation in Switzerland with the addition of a second daily service to Geneva effective 1st June 2016.

Social Entrepreneurs trained in Sri Lanka

Thursday, 14 January 2016 10:11

Social Enterprise Lanka successfully concluded a series of unique workshops for a selected group of social entrepreneurs.

The Arpico retail chain has broken new ground in value addition with the deployment of its own dedicated taxi service exclusively for shoppers.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in partnership with the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) recently rolled out a program to promote improved corporate and ethical business practices for small businesses in the Mannar and Vauvniya districts of Sri Lanka.

Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC has announced the appointment of Neminda Karunaratne as Director, Human Resources, effective January 1, 2016 following the retirement of Chitral Perera.