'National accounts figures accurate'
The Director General of the Department of Census
and Statistics, D.C.A. Gunawardena assured the accuracy and
credibility of all the statistics published by the Department
including national accounts and inflation figures. Responding to the
recent charges raised against manipulation of figures of national
accounts during the Budget debate in Parliament, Gunawardena said
that all the charges were baseless.
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BoC upgrades technology
To keep pace with advancements in technology,
and harness ever-growing volumes of data affecting the banking
industry, the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) has upgraded its hardware
platform to IBM Power Systems servers with POWER7+ technology. As
the bank's primary live and DR (Disaster Recovery) servers,
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National Certification Authority for ICTA
The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) was recently
vested with National Certification Authority (NCA) powers by a
special gazette notification. The gazette establishes ICTA as the
Certification Authority for the purpose of the Electronic
Transaction Act.
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Tetra Tech wins Badulla water supply contract
Tetra Tech Inc, a US firm, said it had won a US
$ 74 million contract to build a water supply and treatment plant in
Sri Lanka. The US Export-Import Bank is financing the deal. Tetra
Tech will design and oversee the completion of a new water supply
treatment plant, storage tanks, pumping stations,
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