Sri Lankan student: reaches new height as an entrepreneur and tech blogger

During the 27 years of excellence, informatics institute of Technology has produced leading innovator, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. The institute is renowned for producing all round graduates that empower organizations and drive success

Banu Athurally ,22 years old final year undergraduate at IIT who is following the university of Westminster, UK, BSC(Hones) computer science degree programme with specialization in Mobile and Web Computing, He is a blogger ,You Tuber and an entrepreneur who has achieved much recognition in the local and international technology sphere.

Banu, better known as “Andro Dollar” is the Founder and CEO of the Andro dollar Network (www.network.and rodollar.com) which has a well-established tech website (www.androdollar.com) which focuses on the latest Tech News. Reviews and tutorials . Banu has featured many videos on latest trends on mobile technology on his YouTube channel (www.youtube.com\anddrodollar).He also is the founder of his very own Creative Agency startup -(www.services.androdollar.com).Following are excerpts of the interview with Banu;

What is the degree programme you are following at IIT?

I am currently in my Final Year following the computer science degree specializing in the Mobile and Web pathway.

What made you take the leap into entrepreneurship at such an early stage in your life?

I always had innovative ideas and thought differently. My ambition was to take Sri Lanka to the international stage , which is still my main vision for my tech website and You Tube channel .So I want my audience to be from all over the world , not just Sri Lanka .I always make sure I do something productive every day that gets me a tiny bit closer to my dream.

Since my hearts is filled with passion for the tech Industry , I wanted to build something for myself , something that will make me know to the world .This is what made me take the leap into entrepreneurship at the age of 18. I just want to keep doing this for the rest of my life because I love what I do.

trumps's, important points of the trip to Asia.

As Donald Trump embarks on his first presidential trip to Asia, will we see a clearer strategy emerge on U.S. foreign policy in Asia? Security issues related to North Korea, along with U.S. trade interests, will top the discussion agenda.
In the first 10 months of the Trump presidency, contradictory statements from the president and his advisers have created uncertainty among Asian leaders. The formal U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, once the emerging cornerstone of U.S. economic strategy in Asia, has left policymakers and business leaders across the Pacific concerned about the future of trade. And key Asia positions at the State Department and the Defense Department remain unfilled, adding to the mixed messages coming out of Washington.

With an 11-day itinerary including bilateral and multilateral meetings in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines, this will be Trump’s longest foreign trip to date. Here are four reasons this trip is so important:

These Birds Have a Sexy but Bizarre Dance Routine(video)

These hooded grebes were found "dancing" in Patagonia. The hooded grebe is one of the rarest birds in South America. This clip is part of the documentary Tango in the Wild ... which is promoting the conservation of this critically endangered bird.

Stunned Hidden chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Though they were constructed nearly 5,000 years ago, the Great Pyramids of Egypt are still packed with secrets. Using a technique that leverages the power of cosmic rays, scientists have confirmed the presence of a large empty space within Khufu’s pyramid—a void that’s signaling the presence of a possible hidden chamber.

It’s tempting to think that all the great archaeological discoveries from ancient Egypt have already been made, but new research published today in Nature shows there’s still plenty for us to uncover.

An investigation into the internal structure of Khufu’s pyramid—the largest pyramid in Giza—has revealed the presence of a large and inaccessible “void” within the structure. The researchers who led the study, Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute in France and Kunihiro Morishima from Nagoya University in Japan, won’t go so far as to say the cavity is a hidden chamber, but they’re reasonably convinced the internal feature is a deliberate architectural feature of the pyramid. As to what’s inside is anyone’s guess, but the presence of artifacts and funeral items are not out of the question, according to Egyptologists.

Off-season, Travel in Portugal

Summer may be Portugal’s peak tourist season, but more travelers from the United States are heading to the country this fall and winter than they have in recent years. The travel search engine Kayak has seen searches to Lisbon for this fall increase 46 percent compared with last fall, and according to American Express Travel’s internal booking data, trips to Portugal for travel between this September and December are up 81 percent, compared with the same period last year.

“The fall and winter are an excellent time to explore Portugal because temperatures are mild, and there’s fantastic value to be found on airfare, hotels and tours,” said Tom Stein, the vice president of American Express Travel.

Investing in Sri Lanka Video - English

The aim of the worldCeylon e news is to first connect Sri Lanka. and then connect Sri Lanka and the International.

If you are living in a foreign country, you can get a good picture about this in Sri Lanka.
If you are looking forward to invest money in Sri Lanka, you can get an accurate understanding of this.

What makes a whisky cask worth £500,000?

Just how much would you pay for a cask of rare Scotch whisky?

For some, it seems, the sky is the limit when it comes to liquid gold.

Earlier this month, an anonymous buyer in Hong Kong paid an auction-record £285,000 for a sherry cask filled with a 30-year-old Macallan single malt.

Its contents, if emptied, would work out at a neat £1,000 per 70cl bottle.

Others have paid even more for a cask of the hard stuff, with one Scotch whisky brokerage reporting a sale in excess of £500,000.

Some industry experts believe there are £1m casks out there 

waiting to be found.

So why are people willing to spend such eye-watering amounts of money on the spirit?

The answer isn't straightforward.

For some, casks are merely an investment. For others, such as connoisseurs and collectors, there's more emphasis on the experience - tasting a spirit that has been ageing in oak casks for decades.

But rarity is also highly prized.

N. Korean Nuclear test site collapse, 200 killed

 many as 200 North Korean labourers have been killed after a mine shaft being dug at the regime's nuclear test site collapsed, according to Japan's Asahi TV.

Sources in North Korea told the news channel that a tunnel being excavated by around 100 workers at the Punggye-ri test site collapsed earlier this month.

An additional 100 labourers sent to rescue their colleagues were reportedly killed when the tunnel suffered a second collapse.

An exact date for the disaster has not been provided, but it comes shortly after North Korea conducted its sixth - and most powerful - underground nuclear test at the site.

Lipton operations to remain on top

Unilever-owned, Lipton is handing over its local operation –auctioning, evaluation and buying of its tea – to Finlays as part of ensuring cost efficiency. 

 Lipton seems to be constantly moving out its operations, out sourcing its business to some of the other companies in a bid to ensure cost efficiency and in the wake of the UK tea market itself reducing its consumption of the brew. Currently one of the biggest tea brands in the UK, Lipton had also closed its packing and blending plant in 2001 and shifted operations to Dubal.

In transition in handing over their operations to the finlays , Lipton had taken this decision based on the fact that sri Lanka is currently believed to be the only country where the trade collectively decides that everything sold has to be via a public auction.

Tea brokers confirmed that the market has been informed of the move .officials from Lipton and Findiays declined to comment.

According to the complex rules for an auction and the other terms of quality involved Lipton’s wants to ensure that another non-competitive company could be involved in this tedious process thereby ensuring cost efficiency for the company.

Saudi Arabia is changing in the future world.

A robot with Saudi citizenship? It's the latest surreal scene from the kingdom's "Davos in the Desert", where Saudi Arabia's leaders have been attempting to impress their economic ambitions upon the rest of the world.

In a three-day event that has already seen the country announce its intent to build an entirely new city - called Neom - from scratch, the announcement that a robot named Sophia has been granted Saudi citizenship stands apart.

Alongside a holographic lion and a virtual rollercoaster, the robot has been on display at the Future Investment Initiative held by Saudi Public Investment Fund this week.

"Thank you to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," said the robot, named Sophia, when she learnt of her ostensible citizenship. "It is historic to be the first robot in the world granted citizenship."

The announcement could be controversial among conservative Saudis, many of whom believe that representation of the human form, even in art or on a mannequin, is sacrilegious.

Citizenship is also a carefully guarded benefit in the kingdom, which does not grant it to foreign workers who make up about a third of the population - even to some families who have been there for generations - or to the children of Saudi women and foreign men.

In a statement, the Saudi government's Center for  International Communication described the citizenship as "no laughing matter"

Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince on Tuesday announced plans to build a futuristic city run entirely on alternative sources of energy and said the ultraconservative kingdom must return to “moderate Islam.”

AJAHN BRAHMAVAMSO TO SPEAK AT TEMPLE TREES

Ajahn Brahmavamso ,the popular Buddhist teacher to a growing international audience eager to learn teach inquest of meditations , will speak at the Prime Minister’s auditorium at Temple Trees on November 06 and 07 Ajahn Brahm society – Sri Lanka branch announced this week.

Born  in  London as Peter Betts’ Ajahn Brahmavamso graduated from Cambridge University after obtaining a scholarship to study theoretical physics .He joined the Buddhist Society at Cambridge and after a short stint at teaching, was ordained as a monk in Thailand’s   Wat Saket in 1974.

What Sustains Georgia’s Film Industry?

A combination of factors help support the Peach State's film productions.

With its eighth season premiering Oct. 22, "The Walking Dead" has been one of America's most popular television shows since its debut in 2010. But the series did more than bring flesh-eating fear into the homes of viewers; it carried fans from a rural hospital through zombie-infested towns and fields to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. And that was just the first season.

While the Georgia setting in "The Walking Dead" was obvious, other successful series were more subtle about the setting. "The Vampire Diaries," which ended earlier this year after eight seasons, was shot in Covington, about 40 miles east of Atlanta. Jackson sits nearly 50 miles south of Atlanta and serves as the home to Netflix's "Stranger Things," the second season of which becomes available Oct. 27.
Georgia has also played host to many high-profile feature film productions, including Marvel Studio's 2017 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" and "Thor: Ragnarok," which premieres Nov. 2.