Pakistan election: Economic challenges facing Nawaz Sharif
Power cuts can put businesses and people out of workNawaz Sharif faces many economic challenges as he becomes prime minister of Pakistan for an unprecedented third term, but most pressing of them all...
View ArticleWill Malaysia's brain drain block its economic ambitions?
By Jennifer PakBBC News, Kuala LumpurWillson Lee left his businesses in Malaysia to join the restaurant industry in ChinaWillson Lee is a proud Malaysian, but he left the country five years ago.The...
View ArticleTNA: Tamils don’t want a return to violence but anything is possible
June 5, 2013, 9:29 pmBy Zacki JabbarAmidst moves to amend the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said that neither it nor the Tamil people wanted a return to...
View ArticleLaw student dies of dengue
June 5, 2013, 9:30 pmBy Dilanthi JayamanneA student of the Colombo Law Faculty who was receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital for dengue died of the disease yesterday morning. S.J....
View ArticleM’nella PS UPFA chairman sentenced to death
June 5, 2013, 9:33 pmKegalle High Court Judge Menaka Wijesundera yesterday sentenced Mawanella Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman K. G. Piyatissa (UPFA/SLFP - Ruling Party in Sri Lanka) to death for killing...
View ArticleGovt. MP says Ekneligoda living in France
June 5, 2013, 9:34 pmBy Saman IndrajithPuttalam District UPFA parliamentarian Arundika Fernando told Parliament yesterday that journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, said to have gone missing, was living in...
View ArticleUL goes for Rs. 310 bn aircraft purchase
June 5, 2013, 9:51 pmSriLankan airlines will purchase six new aircraft at a cost of Rs. 310,000 million, Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne told Parliament yesterday.The A 340 aircraft,...
View ArticleHakeem to return, raise devolution issues
June 5, 2013, 10:32 pmSLMC leader and Minister of Justice Rauff Hakeem, who was on a visit to Palestine to attend an Islamic Conference, has decided to return to Colombo, to attend today’s Cabinet...
View ArticleDevolution and Sri Lanka’s global vulnerability:
A response to Prof. GH PeirisJune 5, 2013, 7:39 pmby Dr. Dayan JayatillekaThe debate on devolution between Prof GH Peiris and me has reached the point where a statement of what I regard as the...
View ArticleClose ties with Indian States- a Need
June 5, 2013, 7:42 pmTamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha Jayaram’s anti - Sri Lanka stand needs to be countered by strengthening cultural, religious and sporting ties with other Indian States.We...
View ArticleSecurity perspectives of province-based devolution: A reappraisal...
June 5, 2013, 8:23 pm by G. H. PeirisContinued from yesterday Devolution and Empowerment in IndiaIn a rebuttal of my suggestion that the implementation of the B-C Pact of 1957 or the document produced...
View ArticleEditorial Island.lk
The Gaddafis and other thievesJune 5, 2013, 7:46 pmLibyan transitional authority’s call for repatriating part of the slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s ill-gotten wealth has disturbed South...
View ArticleGen-next Ambanis could join RIL soon Kalpana Pathak & Jyoti Mukul |...
Isha (left) and Akash Ambani (BS photo)From being seen beside their billionaire parents and grandmother Kokilaben Ambani at the annual general meetings of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the Ambani...
View ArticleM&M enters hatchback stable with Vibe BS Reporter | Mumbai
Pawan Goenka of M&M at the launch of Verito VibeUtility vehicle market leader Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) today launched its first indigenously developed premium hatchback, Vibe, to...
View ArticleKiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Instead of having bad blood with a good company,I...
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw talks about Biocon’s fallout with Pfizer which was perhaps the company’s most significant event since its insulin analogues breakthroughImage: Mallikarjun Katakol for Forbes...
View ArticleHarsh Mariwala: Ours is the story of a small Indian FMCG player globalising
Image: Prasad Gori for Forbes IndiaHarsh Mariwala started his career with Bombay Oil Industries in 1971. He set up Marico in 1990 and turned a traditional commodity business of coconut oil into a...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Behind the Turkish Protests
If you are fortunate enough to have many Turkish friends, you’ll know how fiercely proud they are of their country. And why not? Turkey is a spectacular place that has connected East and West...
View ArticleStarting with books, movies and video products, Amazon.In will introduce...
The Seattle-based Nasdaq-listed e-commerce company Amazon today entered India by launching its marketplace model, offering up to 25 to 30 per cent discount on products and the option of paying by cash...
View ArticleMaggi is Nestle trademark only, decides patents' appellate body Gireesh Babu...
The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has set aside an order by the senior examiner of the Patent Office, allowing the application of a Mumbai-based company to register the 'Maggi' trademark...
View ArticleExclusive: Coal fire returns to burn PMO, CBI set to quiz top officials over...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is all set to quiz the top guns of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in its Coalgate scam probe.Highly placed sources confirmed to Mail Today that among those...
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