“What we’ve seen so far in Sri Lanka is very encouraging-with highly literate people at above 90%. Sri Lanka is such a good destination for BPOs that even the global ATM processings of an international bank is done right here. Accenture believes that Sri Lanka will be very fast growing” stressed Lotfi Kibboua (Consultant & Business Analyst, Accenture France, Paris) on Wednesday (06) in Colombo.

None of the Ministers of Peoples' Liberation Front (JVP) voted in support of the budget to allocate funds for the war, during the period when President Rajapaksa was fighting against the war to save the country.  Therefore they cannot express views with regard to the victory obtained by defeating terrorism, without being guilty conscious.

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq won the toss  and elected to bat first against Sri Lanka in the first test in Galle, today.