Legal experts and parliamentarians have expressed divergent views over a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) decision to ask the Finance Ministry to probe the Tax chief over alleged involvement in the VAT fraud amounting to Rs 3.57 billion.While some members of the PAC said the committee had taken a decision to send a letter requesting that Tax Commissioner-General A.A. Wijepala should be probed by the ministry, Committee chairperson and Minister Rauf Hakeem however says no such decision was taken.
Odiris Perera widely regarded as one of Sri Lanka's best known entrepreneurs in the post independence era passed away this week at the age of 94. Odiris (as he was popularly known and to many as Odiris Silva) was responsible for bringing products such as gas stoves, kerosene lamps and coconut scrapers to the Sri Lankan market and his products are still held in great admiration. Former Secretary of the Ministry of Plan Implementation, Dr. Wickrema Weerasooria told The Sunday Times FT that Perera should be regarded as the entrepreneur of the country in the pre-liberalised era.
The Reggie Candappa Craft Awards are back to celebrate and recognize the genius of craft in creativity – and it’s happening as the advertising industry struggles to move away from the past of constant bickering over awards.
This is the fourth year of the foundation’s awards ceremony organized by the Reggie Candappa Foundation for the Arts.As plans get underway for an event that, the organisers say, is welcomed by all and sundry without any bias, the advertising industry is also eagerly awaiting the first Effies awards by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM).
It was 2,100 kg of kottu for some 4,000 guests who flocked the Hilton Colombo on Sunday for a one of a kind event.
Forty chefs from the hotel’s Curry Leaf restaurant worked through the evening to prepare 7,000 portions of chicken kottu to meet the excess demand at the event.In addition to the gruelling task of preparing 7,000 portions of chicken kottu in the short space of three hours, 3,000 portions of noodles........
Odiris Perera widely regarded as one of Sri Lanka's best known entrepreneurs in the post independence era passed away this week at the age of 94. Odiris (as he was popularly known and to many as Odiris Silva) was responsible for bringing products such as gas stoves, kerosene lamps and coconut scrapers to the Sri Lankan market and his products are still held in great admiration. Former Secretary of the Ministry of Plan Implementation, Dr. Wickrema Weerasooria told The Sunday Times FT that Perera should be regarded as the entrepreneur of the country in the pre-liberalised era. 
The Reggie Candappa Craft Awards are back to celebrate and recognize the genius of craft in creativity – and it’s happening as the advertising industry struggles to move away from the past of constant bickering over awards.
This is the fourth year of the foundation’s awards ceremony organized by the Reggie Candappa Foundation for the Arts.As plans get underway for an event that, the organisers say, is welcomed by all and sundry without any bias, the advertising industry is also eagerly awaiting the first Effies awards by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM). 
It was 2,100 kg of kottu for some 4,000 guests who flocked the Hilton Colombo on Sunday for a one of a kind event.
Forty chefs from the hotel’s Curry Leaf restaurant worked through the evening to prepare 7,000 portions of chicken kottu to meet the excess demand at the event.In addition to the gruelling task of preparing 7,000 portions of chicken kottu in the short space of three hours, 3,000 portions of noodles........