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The Cultural Affairs Ministry, on the President’s initiative, is framing legislation to introduce a code of conduct for television advertisements, said Cultural Affairs Minister Piyasiri Wijenayake. Wijenayake addressing of meeting after opening the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna’s Kandy district office in Kandy, alleged that certain television advertisements corrupt young minds. The JVP is betraying the country [...]

London Stock Exchange Group plc (‘the Group’) has today agreed to acquire MillenniumIT, a Sri Lankan-based technology services company serving the capital markets industry. MillenniumIT’s high performance technology will provide the Group with a highly scalable and very low latency in-house developed trading system with multi-asset class functionality and quicker time to market. In addition, [...]

National Transport Commission has approved a fare hike for Private bus operators by 5.3% effective from September 22. The minimum fare of six rupees will not be affected by this increase.

A Lankan kitchen boss who claims he was fired from Boston Pizza in Richmond, Canadalast month for not speaking English well enough has filed a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. Ramesh Thangarajah, a 35-year-old immigrant from Sri Lanka, has also hired a lawyer and plans to sue Boston Pizza for wrongful dismissal. “My [...]

The government is planning to resettle as many internally displaced persons as possible in the area west of the A9 before tackling resettlement in the Vanni east. The army is of the opinion that all its efforts should be directed at clearing the western part of the Vanni in keeping with the original plan, though [...]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa met President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and was engaged in a cordial discussion on bilateral issues yesterday (Sep 2). The two Presidents met after the grand celebrations to commemorate the 40th National Day held in the Libyan capital where both leaders were special invited guests of [...]

As a specialist in video coding I decided to look into this video footage and verify the technical features of the video against the claim that it came from a mobile phone. I was a head of R&D in a Major British Broadcasting company and later worked in global companies like Cisco and Cable and [...]

SLNS ‘Sayurala’, an Off Shore Patrol Vessel acquired in August 2008 was commissioned at the Sri Lanka Navy Dockyard, Trincomalee today (28th August 2009) by the Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Public Security, Law & Order Mr.Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The Commissioning Ceremony was attended by the Commander of the Navy Vice Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe and large number [...]