Sri Lankans visiting India can get visas on arrival from April 14 onwards, the visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday.Speaking to Colombo’s business community at an event in Colombo amidst tight security at the Taj Samudra hotel, he said: “We have extended visa on arrival facility to Sri Lanka from April 14. We should do more to connect our countries by air and sea. India and Sri Lanka were, in some ways, better connected in the past than we are now! In the past, a person could buy a rail ticket in Colombo and travel to Chennai by rail and ferry! Air India’s decision to launch direct flights between our capitals will help reverse that trend. Tourism unites people and creates economic opportunities,” he was quoted as saying. Pic by Amila Gamage.

Primary dealers seek urgent meeting with CB on bond issue

Mattala open 24/7

Former SEC official traded in stocks

UDA sorts out certain contractual matters of TATA housing project

Clarity on 15% interest helps some, hurts others

From Mahinda’s “Mahinda Chinthana” to the Maithri-Ranil’s “100 Day Programme”

Central Bank Governor under fire

Modi at chamber event, CB Governor flies to Singapore, LA

CDA to crack down on substandard virgin coconut oil companies

China doesn’t use Sri Lanka to threaten any other country’s security, asserts new Chinese Ambassador

15% interest rate scheme discriminatory

SLIM-Nielsen People’s Awards 2015 announces this year’s nominations

MasterCard offers host of privileges for UK Rugby World Cup 2015

Japanese businesses to invest $100 mln in Sri Lanka thro’ Asia Capital

Navein Perera appointed new COYLE chairman

Dreams with Colombo port city

Business delegation from Sri Lanka examines transfer of new technology from Japan

Major contracts given to Chinese while imports were preferred over local supplies, equipment

Foreigners banned from gem mining as their technology can extract total Sri Lankan gem deposits in a single year!

Candor facilitates Ironwood Legal Solutions, the first BOI approved LPO in Sri Lanka

Aitken Spence Logistics enhances operations with successful deployment of Oracle Warehouse Management

Traditional marketing ‘far less effective’ than online

Five young Sri Lankans for Intel’s global science competition this year

13th South Asian Management Forum to be held in Colombo on March 26-27

DVB’s 2014 post tax profit in phenomenal 80% hike over 2013

China-Sri Lanka trade ties firm despite tensions over Colombo Port City

Regime change happening across the world, says Indian academic

New regime’s foreign policy frees exports markets in the US and Europe

Customs, CASA conduct joint seminar on ‘Cargo Targeting System’

Unions urge PM and Govt. to grant wage hike thro’ legal provisions

Justice still awaits residents of Colombo condo

Need for FATCA Inter-Governmental Agreement with the US

CAL’s female investment management team now the largest in the country

Santani fills wellness market gap in Sri Lanka

Vega’s super electric car to hit the roads next month for its first test drive

“Small Shareholders complain to SEC over malpractices by their brokers”

Dialog wins big at Mobile World Congress

COSMOS gets six months licence extension