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Mortadella Bologna PGI from Italy Mortadella with pistachios from Italy. Mortadella (Italian: [mortaˈdɛlla]) [1] is a large salume made of finely hashed or ground cured pork, which incorporates at least 15% small cubes of pork fat (principally the hard fat from the neck of the pig).
Ceylon Cold Stores was established in 1866 as the Colombo Ice Company, which in 1863 imported the country's first ice-making machine.With an initial capital of £1,600, two steam engines of 8 and 9 horsepower, and a total of 22 employees, the company started producing ice on a commercial scale. [3]
A mortadella sandwich is any sandwich using mortadella, a large Italian sausage, and is a popular sandwich in Brazil, especially São Paulo. [1] The sandwich is made from nearly half a pound of mortadella sausage , provolone cheese, sourdough bread , mayonnaise and Dijon mustard .
It is based on market capitalisation. Weighting of shares is conducted in proportion to the issued ordinary capital of the listed companies, valued at current market price (i.e. market capitalisation). The base year is 1985, and the base value of the index is 100. This is the longest and the broadest measure of the Sri Lankan Stock market.
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, commonly known as CEYPETCO (CPC), is a Sri Lankan oil and gas company. Established in 1962 and wholly owned by the Government of Sri Lanka, it is the largest oil company in Sri Lanka. It was formed in 1961 by nationalisation and expropriation of all private oil companies in Sri Lanka at the time of its formation. [4]
Pastirma. Pastirma or Pasterma, [1] also called pastarma, [2] pastırma, pastrma, pastourma, [3] basdirma, [4] basterma, [5] basturma, [6] or aboukh [7] is a highly ...
Prostitution is not as widespread in Sri Lanka as in some neighbouring countries. [4] It is estimated that there are 40,000 prostitutes (known as "ගණිකාව" (Ganikawa)) [5] in the country, [6] and nearly half of them operate in Colombo. [7] Child Sex tourism [4] [8] and human trafficking [9] are problems in Sri Lanka.
The Housing Development Finance Corporation of Sri Lanka Act No. 7 of 1997 passed in the parliament of Sri Lanka. Under the act, the HDFC was established as a state-owned enterprise. The act was amended in 2003, allowing the HDFC to reestablish itself as a specialised bank. The bank was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 2005. Beginning in ...