Sri Lankan Paralympians vie for Gold in Australia     As advised to eLanka by Mr. Anton Swan OAM JP(Qual) Hon. Consul for Sri Lanka in Queensland, Australia, it is very pleasing to note that the Brisbane Community has rallied to pay all their Cost for Accommodation and Meals during their stay in Brisbane. Source: island Sri Lanka’s Para Javelin stars, Dinesh Priyantha (F46) and Samantha Dulan (F44) and shot put (F42) national para record holder, Palitha Bandara will be competing for medals at the Australian National Para Athletics Open Championship which will be held at the Olympics stadium Brisbane, Australia.  Dinesh Priyantha, with a distance of 67.79 meters entered the record books with a Gold for the longest throw at the 2020 Tokyo Games for F46 Javelin, while his team mate Samitha Dulan (F44) secured a Bronze at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020.  1450 Paralympians representing 23 countries will compete ...

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COMMERCIAL BANK WINS ACCA BEST SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING AWARD DIALOG FIRST RUNNER UP Fifteen awards presented across seven industry categories for 2021   Colombo Sri Lanka February 23rd 2022 – Commercial Bank of Ceylon came up trumps in the sustainability stakes when it won the overall award for the Best Sustainability Report 2021, while Dialog Axiata was adjudged overall first runner up at the CCA Sustainability Reporting Awards 2021. Commercial Bank also topped the Banking category in which Seylan Bank and National Development Bank (NDB) were joint runners up.  Dialog Axiata won the General Services Category.  Hayleys and John Keells Holdings were the winner and runner up respectively in the Conglomerates & Diversified category, while Alliance Finance won the Financial Services & Insurance category with the runner up being Citizens Development Business Finance. Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings won the Leisure & Connected Services category, Talawakelle Tea Estates and Dilmah Ceylon Tea ...

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