SriLankan Airlines has entered into a first-ever interline partnership with Virgin Australia that will strengthen the airline’s network in Australia and offer customers extensive connections across the land down under and beyond. The new partnership reaffirms SriLankan’s commitment to Australia and will present customers the convenience of adding select Virgin Australia domestic or international connections to their SriLankan Airlines booking and managing a multi-airline itinerary under a single ticket. SriLankan Airlines – 28 September, 2023 Dimuthu Tennakoon, Head of Worldwide Sales & Distribution of SriLankan Airlines commented on the partnership by stating, “Australia has one of the largest Sri Lankan…
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CONNECT Aberdeen Deena Tissera Embracing diversity The daughter of a doctor and an entrepreneur, and a former beauty queen and movie star, Deena Tissera has made her mark in diverse roles – viz. a politician, an entrepreneur and a former beauty queen in her own right – while continuing to be driven by a passion for social justice and positive change. Hailing from Sri Lanka and having moved to Scotland to pursue her higher education, she has earned the distinction of being the first woman of colour elected to the Aberdeen City Council. In this role, Tissera advocates for policies…
Carving a path through cloud-swathed villages and centuries-old tea estates, the new long-distance Pekoe Trail gives hikers a chance to explore Sri Lanka’s quiet central highlands. National Geographic – September 24, 2023 When I reach Galaha in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, the sun is high in the sky and the streets are clouded with dust. Tuk-tuks rattle around women in red saris flecked with gold, narrowly missing the one-eyed dog sleeping in the road. Amid the honking and coconut selling, I hear a familiar sound — Beethoven’s Für Elise — moving closer, crackling from a tuk-tuk selling fish buns, and…
The new office will be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris and led by Stefanie Feldman, a policy adviser to President Joe Biden on gun issues. By Zoë Richards President Joe Biden announced plans Thursday for the White House to establish a first-of-its-kind office of gun violence prevention. The new office will be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris and led by Stefanie Feldman, a longtime policy adviser to Biden on gun issues. Its creation is a win for advocacy groups that have been pushing Biden for years to designate an office to coordinate gun violence prevention measures across the federal government. “I’ll continue to…
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The Orbital Reef space station (Picture: Sierra Space/Blue Origin) An inflatable module that may one day replace the International Space Station (ISS) has blown up. For the fifth time. But don’t worry, it was intentional. All five explosions were carried out by Sierra Space, a commercial company which hopes the module will form part of the Orbital Reef space station, a venture led by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. It has been labelled a ‘mixed-use business park in space’. In 2031, the much-loved ISS will be retired and brought crashing back to Earth, splashing into the Pacific in a region known as Point Nemo, or…
KEY POINTS China is the world’s largest auto market. In the last few years, the country has become a driver of the global push toward electric cars. The automotive segment, which Nvidia has said it expects to become a billion-dollar business, reported its first sequential decline in quarterly revenue in more than a year. Other automotive chip companies are also seeing sequential revenue declines in the segment. Nvidia automotive segment primarily sells chip systems for assisted driving. CEO Jensen Huang has touted it as the company’s “next billion-dollar business.”Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S.…
Featuring a look ahead to forthcoming editions of the competition where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter ESPNcricinfo – 19 September, 2023 The Asia Cup, which is the world’s premier cricketing tournament for countries that tell their friends they hate each other but constantly send each other “U up?” texts, has finally ended. As is standard for situationships of this nature, nobody is really fully happy with how it all went down. So let’s debrief. I guess. Oh god. RULES FOR THE NEXT JAYSIA* CUP For several tournament cycles, the ICC has unashamedly put India and…
A protracted heatwave crawling across much of Europe has brought scorching temperatures to France