Ninewells Hospital, Sri Lanka’s leading private hospital specializing in Women and Child Care, achieved a remarkable milestone recently in their success story in fertility services. 

Balasooriya Private Hospital received the Gold award in large category – service sector (provincial level) and the Silver award in large category – service sector (national level) at the CNCI Achiever Awards 2017 organized by the Ceylon N

Apeksha IVF and Research Centre, Ratmalana, was recently recognized with a National Level service sector Merit Award at the CNCI Achiever Awards 2017 for Industrial Excellence.

Pioneering hearing care specialists in Sri Lanka, the Wickramarachchi Institute for Speech and Hearing (WISH) recently conducted a special training session for audiologists at the WISH Auditorium in Delkanda, Nugegoda. 

REUTERS: AstraZeneca is to receive up to US $400 million from TakedaPharmaceutical after striking a deal for the Japanese company to co-develop an early-stage medicine for Parkinson’s disease. The drug, MEDI1341, is an antibody treatment discov

A high-powered trade delegation from the Federative Republic of Brazil, one of the BRICS nations, visited Sri Lanka recently to participate in the CRT Trade Fair organised by the Plantation Industries Ministry, which was held at the BMICH, Colombo.&n

A joint study by the University of Peradeniya Soil Science Department and Agriculture Faculty has refuted claims that tobacco causes soil fertility degradation. 

Sri Lankans are gifted with two psychological traits by birth and they are being emotional and also being jealous. At a time we celebrate 150 years of tea in Sri Lanka, it will be a worthwhile effort to view as to how these two traits have affected t

Sports lovers, particularly cricket fans, must be highly concerned about the unruly crowd behaviour at recent ODIs. 

Publicis Director Selonica Perumal has been named as one of the Top 40 Women to Watch by Campaign Asia. 

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Akbar Al Baker, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Governors (BoG) of prestigious global aviation industry body International Air Transport Association (IATA), effective June 2018.

Customers travelling on Singapore Airlines and Silk Air will have the opportunity to avail attractive fares to their favourite destinations.

A signed sketch by the late Joy Stokes, designer of Gulf Air’s cabin crew uniforms in the 1960s and 1970s, was recently donated by her son Michael Stokes to the national carrier and now appears in the airline’s Gulf Air Falcon Gold Lounge

Ceylinco Life has been crowned the ‘Best Life Insurer in Sri Lanka’ by World Finance for the fourth consecutive year in 2017, on the basis of the company’s performance in FY 2016.

Amãna Bank recently concluded its education financepromotion by rewarding fourlucky studentswith laptops to help them excel in their education.

The NDB Private Wealth Center recently became Sri Lanka’s first ever all-in-one financial services hub, following the opening of its very own NDB Bank branch. 

Appreciating the innovative product designing approaches, Union Assurance (UA) was able to receive the recognition for its efforts on the introduction of the unique Health Insurance Solution - Union Smart Health. 

Union Bank reopened its Gampaha branch at a more convenient and easily accessible location at 170A, Colombo Road, Gampaha.

Fitch Ratings Lanka has assigned Siyapatha Finance PLC’s subordinated redeemable debentures of up to LKR one billion a final national long-term rating of ‘BBB+(lka)’.

Fitch Ratings Lanka has affirmed the Citibank N.A. Colombo branch’s (CitiSL) national long-term rating at ‘AAA(lka)’.The Outlook is ‘Stable’.

The third Tourism Leaders Summit and International Tourism Research Symposium will be held this October in an effort to continue to improve the strategic direction of Sri Lanka’s  tourism industry.

Sri Lanka Tourism, in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Embassy in Vietnam, arranged a familiarization tour for a TV crew of Nhan Dan (National TV) recently, to create awareness and promote Sri Lanka as a popular destination among the  Vietnames

Sri Lanka’s largest online travel company, findmyfare.com, is offering a mobile application (app) that allows customers to access, through smartphones, many of the travel-related innovations for which the company has become known.

The continuous decline in remittance income from Sri Lankans working abroad could make the job of the Central Bank’s efforts to build gross official reserves much harder— possibly drawing the wrath of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Seylan Bank PLC this week said it would issue 5 and 10-year debentures to raise up to Rs.10 billion to strengthen its regulatory Tier II capital adequacy ratio, which was seen weakening amid growing risk weighted assets or the bank’s loan portf

Hemas group pharmaceutical making subsidiary JL Morison Son & Jones has changed its corporate name to Morison PLC with effect from August 17, 2017.

REUTERS:  Sri Lankan shares ended slightly weaker yesterday, hovering near a more than four-month closing low hit last week, as foreign investors sold diversified shares, brokers said.

National newspaper circulation in Sri Lanka continued to grow, reaching higher levels than previously seen in 2016, with a greater preference shown towards daily English and Sinhala newspapers, official government data showed.

Despite the government securities yields pointing to a lowering trend, Sri Lanka is most likely to face higher interest rates during most part of 2018 as the Central Bank will have to borrow excessively from the banking sector to settle domestic borr

To mark the 67th anniversary of its establishment, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) yesterday held the 67th Anniversary Oration,