Business

Digital Realty Pvt Ltd recently launched Orion Stellar, Sri Lanka’s first carrier-neutral and high-density data centre. Orion Stellar has been in planning for over 5 years and hopes to bring cutting edge IT services to Sri Lankan…

Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) will host the 24th Presidential Export Awards for the financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21 on November 26, 2021 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH). President…

The Hambantota International Port (HIP) recently facilitated the shipment of locally manufacture trailers, marking the beginning of its services to the local industry as a gateway port. “The master plan of the Hambantota…

Reaching a significant mile stone to ensure worker safety, The Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PA) and the Plantation Human Development Trust (PHDT) announced that nearly100% of RPC estate workers have been fully vaccinated against…

Sri Lankan government has decided to develop new tourism zones to boost the local tourism industry and the process of establishing those new tourism zones is currently underway. According to Ministry of Tourism, Secretary,…

Empowerment of vulnerable sections of the Indian society have a common denomination - women. No community can be considered truly empowered unless the women of that particular community have the freedom and the agency to express…

The digitisation drive and pandemic-induced emergence of the gig economy have led to a faster formalisation of the economy, with the share of the informal sector shrinking to just 15-20 per cent in 2021 from 52.4 per cent in 2018,…

Enfection becomes the first-ever Sri Lankan company to be nominated for the global Drum Awards, which was concluded recently. The Drum Awards is a globally recognized award programme which recognizes the best practices and…

UB Finance, a subsidiary of Union Bank of Colombo PLC, has announced the appointment of Atul Malik as the new Chairman with effect from June 3. Malik succeeds Alexis Lovell MBE who stepped down from his position as Chairman of UB…

An overwhelming 66% of participants agreed that climate change will be the biggest threat to Sri Lanka in the coming years. Notably six out of ten people in rural Sri Lanka think that climate change will be the biggest impending…