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People’s Bank’s Annual Report 2022 wins 5 awards Source:Dailynews People’s Bank’s Annual Report 2022, titled Creating a Legacy of Caring for Generations to Come, won five awards at the recently held International ARC Awards 2023. With a history spanning over 30 years, and an annual application pool of over 1,600 applications from over 90 countries, the ARC Awards are widely known as the Oscars for Annual Reports by the international financial community. The accolades received by the Bank were across several categories and, most notably, it was the only Licensed Bank from Sri Lanka to win a gold at this year’s event. Bank’s Chairman Sujeewa Rajapakse stated: “The awards are a testament to the Bank’s remarkable ability to seamlessly merge financial transparency with creative storytelling. This annual report goes beyond figures, encapsulating the Bank’s strategic direction, accomplishments, and dedication to stakeholders in a captivating narrative covering both quantitative and qualitative ...

Data on poverty, vulnerability essential for effective planning – Prime Minister Source:Dailynews Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena called upon all policy-makers, as well as the private sector and civil society, to use the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) formulated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to understand and implement measures to help move Sri Lanka away from vulnerability and poverty in the future. He said this when UNDP Resident Representative Azusa Kubota called on him at the Temple Trees yesterday (31) together with the members of the UNDP experts team Dr. Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford and Prof. Siri Hettige, Professor in Sociology to hand over the UNDP MVI MPI Reports. The Prime Minister thanked the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, the UNDP SURGE Data Hub, and the Citra Social Innovation Lab, which is anchored within ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Anura Dissanayake, Dr. Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford

Kandy Perahera rituals end with water-cutting ceremony Source:Dailynews The water-cutting ceremony of the Kandy Esala Perahera was carried out according to ancient rituals at Gatambe water-cutting pier yesterday (31). After completion of the last Randoli Maha Perahera, the Sathara Maha Devala perahera heads to the Gatambe water cutting pier and perform the water cutting festival by sending afloat the Kap trees planted in each of the four devalas at the time the Perahera festival commenced in the Mahaweli river. It is a tradition from the past for the four devala priests and other officials to go to the middle of the Mahaweli River in a boat and carry out the ritual of cutting the water and keeping the water collected in a container until the end of the next year’s Perahera festival. ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged athara Maha Devala perahera, Kandy Esala Perahera, Perahera festival, Randoli Maha Perahera

No.2 Heavy Transport Squadron 66th Anniversary Source:Dailynews No.2 Heavy Transport Squadron today (September 1) marks its 66th year of proud service to the motherland. At its inception, the rce (RCAF), had only a few aircraft housed in No.1 Squadron. Later, with the development of the RCAF’s capacity during the stewardship of Air Vice Marshal JL Barker, a requirement arose for a separate Training Squadron and an Operational Squadron. As a result, on September 1, 1957, the No.1 Squadron was split into two, setting up the No.2 Squadron. Initially, No.2 Squadron comprised of Oxford Airspeed, Prestwick Pioneer, De-Havilland Dove aircraft and the S-51 Dragonfly helicopter, which was the first helicopter of the RCAF. Initially, the squadron was located at SLAF Base Katunayake, carrying out Transport and Patrol duties. In September 1959, two De Havilland Herons were purchased from England and directly ferried by a local aircrew, to the Squadron, to enhance ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Air Marshal RAUP Rajapaksa, Wing Cmdr HMM Samarakoon

The Brad and Kiara Show Podcast – 2023-9-2 Source : omny.fm The Brad and Kiara Show A lifestyle radio show that connects with your community and focuses on topics that you can relate to, a little bit of this and a little bit of that with a real Sri Lankan touch – Anything and everything goes on The Brad & Kiara Show – Tune in Saturday Mornings 7-8 right here on Triple H 100.1 FM ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged A lifestyle radio show, Brad and Kiara Show

Lets Try To Make a Passion Fruit Mojito At Home – By Malsha – eLanka Creating a Citrus-Passion Fruit Charm Beverage: Ingredients: ( This Ingredients For Two Glasses ) Half a passion fruit One lime, cut into pieces Salt to taste 2 teaspoons of powdered sugar 30ml of fresh lime juice A few fresh mint leaves Soda water as needed Ice cubes Instructions: Begin by taking a glass and placing lime slices, powdered sugar, mint leaves, and half of a passion fruit in it. Use a small wooden muddler to gently grind and mix these ingredients together. Add ice cubes to the glass, then sprinkle in salt to taste and pour in the fresh lime juice. Finally, top off the glass with soda water until it’s filled to your desired level. Give it all a good stir to combine the flavors. For an extra touch of freshness and presentation, garnish ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, eLanka Recepies, Malsha Madhuhansi Tagged elanka recipes, How To Make Mojitos, Mojito Recipe, Passion Fruit Mojito

A Man-Created Warming of Mother Earth. – By Noor R. Rahim The devastating ecological changes that humans encounter today Are just the result of the humans’ avaricious and ambitious weighs Always throwing caution to the wind and putting it off for another day Comfort foremost being the mindset without thought to what may lay In his/her greed for material gains there’s nothing withheld in the foray The whole World appears to follow this disastrous concept, so to say In boosting the National Wealth do they indulge and encourage The exploitation of Mother Natures’ assets to fulfil the National usage It was in “Nature Studies” we were taught The results of the ravages on the ecology of the land Would bring to the humans untold distraught Summing it: “Man will destroy Nature & Nature will destroy Man” Does one really think for a moment the felling of these ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Noor Rahim Tagged Mother Nature, Nature, Nature Studies, Noor R. Rahim, Warming Earth

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Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Obituaries Tagged CLASSIFIED NOTICES - AUGUST 2023

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Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Weekly Events and Advertisements

Sadeera, Matheesha and Asalanka star in big win-by Rex Clementine at Pallekele Matheesha Pathirana finished with four wickets as Sri Lanka bowled out Bangladesh for 164 at Pallekele yesterday. Source:Island There were doubts about how Sri Lanka’s depleted bowling attack will go about things in the Asia Cup, but the backup bowlers came up with a splendid performance in their opening encounter yesterday at Pallekele helping Sri Lanka to a seven wicket win over Bangladesh. Hometown boy Matheesha Pathirana was sensational finishing with four wickets providing early breakthroughs and then coming back for a last spell to destroy the tail as Bangladesh were bowled out for 164 runs with five overs to spare. Sadeera Samarawickrama then smashed a half-century to help Sri Lanka to a comfortable win with 11 overs to spare. He was joined by Charith Asalanka, who posted an unbeaten 62. ...

Sep 2, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka, Dhananjaya De Silva, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Pathum Nissanka, Sadeera Samarawickrama