REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee was steady yesterday as inflows from inward remittances offset importer dollar demand, dealers said. 

Nature’s vistas and forms have once again inspired a seasonal fashion collection at Odel, this time the dramatic shapes and colours symbolic of the desert. 

In line with the bank’s 78th anniversary celebrations, Bank of Ceylon (BOC) is set to conduct an art competition, ‘Little Picasso’ among schoolchildren and reward their talents with valuable gifts. 

Spa Ceylon, the world’s largest luxury Ayurveda chain, yet again stamped its global dominance in the segment by clinching three major awards at the prestigious World Luxury Spa Awards 2017 annual gala held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Coffee was once a thriving cultivation in Ceylon. The British began large-scale commercial production and by 1860, the country was amongst the major coffee-producing nations in the world. Decades later ‘coffee’ is being revived and at the

The ever-evolving camera phone brand, OPPO, has established an association with Sony Pictures on the much-awaited superhero movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming, in theatres from July 8.

 In a bid to enable a culture of health-conscious culinary habits to penetrate into the wider social spectrum within Sri Lanka, Medical Services of the Health Ministry recently held a healthy cooking competition at the BMICH for the medical admi

The jury has reached its decision: after several days of assessing thousands of products from all over the world, the TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre 11 and the Autavia received the distinction ‘Red Dot’.  With the Monaco Calibre 11 and the

99X Technology held Sri Lanka’s first-ever technical meetup on the open source web framework Serverless earlier this month. The event saw some awesome cutting-edge globally trending tech 

The Mercantile Volleyball Association of Sri Lanka is once again organizing the annual Mercantile Volleyball Tournament in a bid to popularize the national sport and to widen interest in the game in the 

Amãna Takaful PLC (ATL) the only fully-fledged Takaful operator in the country and the flag bearer of the Takaful way of insurance in Sri Lanka, recently relocated its Akkaraipattu Branch with the intention

The Sri Lanka Debaters Council will compete in the World Schools Debating Championship (WSDC) in Bali, Indonesia in August. The team consists of 3 members from the 2016 team; Anish Fonseka 

Children of the Dikkowita area in Hendala have received a new purpose-built pre-school thanks to the generosity of a group of Korean students and funding support from Korean car maker Kia.

Sri Lanka’s number one toilet cleaning brand, Harpic pledged to contribute a percentage from the sale of each Harpic 500ml bottle of its popular toilet cleaner range, reaffirming its commitment to the national campaign to build 300 toilets.&nbs

Primary grade students at two schools in Talawa and Wellawaya need no longer learn in temporary shelters or under trees, thanks to the generosity of Ceylinco Life.

NDB together with British Council awarded the successful candidates who completed the ‘English for Teaching’ training programme.

People’s Bank offers Grade-five scholarship students an opportunity to win valuable scholarships through its Sisu Udana  savings account. 

SDB Bank organized an island wide Lakdaru Scholarship Seminar Series for Grade-five students.  This is carried out as a CSR project and few of the seminars are also in Tamil medium. The 31st 

Commercial Bank of Ceylon has introduced Mastercard debit cards with Chip and PIN technology for the first time in Sri Lanka.

Nestlé Professional, Nestlé’s out-of-home food and beverage solutions provider, has joined hands with the Chefs Guild of Lanka to become Diamond Sponsor for Culinary Art Food Expo 2017.

Reaching out to its customer base, CLC made a few iconic additions to their existing branch network during the month of June. 

People’s Bank achieved a unique milestone in its digitalisation drive with the opening of its fully-fledged Digital Centre by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, at York Street, Colombo 1.

Ustocktrade, the world’s first retail alternative trading system (ATS), the mission of which is to bring Wall Street to Main Street, announced yesterday its launch in Sri Lanka, the first international expansion for Ustocktrade.

The number one bank in the country, Bank of Ceylon (BOC) has won the Best Employer Brand Award and Best Bank in Public Sector – Excellence and Leadership Award for the Banking and Financial Services Industry, presented at the event hosted by th

The tactics are all too familiar – when you are the one who has built something from scratch, you think you cannot let go. When you know the pain of having to create something from nothing, you do not want to give up easily. You fear no one wil

Corrupt officials, tax cheats and the financial backers of terrorism have one thing in common: they often exploit vulnerabilities in financial systems to facilitate their crimes.

The minimum room rates in Colombo hotels have been a hot topic in the tourism industry for some time. There are many proponents of it, and too few opponents.

Evergreen Line vessel MV (Motor Vessel) Toledo Triumph with the capacity of 14,000 TEUS made it’s maiden call at Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT) recently.

Qatar Airways has announced it will introduce a fourth daily non-stop service from Doha to Colombo from 1 August 2017. 

 Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) - Sri Lanka arranged a panel discussion on “National Maritime Policy and way forward” following their Annual General Meeting held at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce