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Trading delayed for two hours An interruption of a server caused by a sudden power failure and a software fault delayed trading for two hours at Colombo Bourse yesterday. Trading commenced at 11.15 am after making trading fault tolerant. Director General of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE)Hiran Mendis explained to the media yesterday that the CSE has been keeping the trading network fault tolerant for 93% though it required to be 99.6%. Mendis assured that they would take steps to make the network fault tolerant and added that the interruption on hardware component made the Wide Area Net Work inactive. A spokesman for Millenium Information Technology (MIT) said that they would rectify the technical default with corrections. Meanwhile, the market continued its upward trend yesterday with the All Share Price Index (ASPI) moving up by 5.6 points. The ASPI which opened at 1,634.83 points closed at 1,640.50 points moving up by 0.3%. The Milanka Price Index (MPI) which opened at 2,262.78 points closed at 2,262.70 points moving down by 0.01%. SriLankan two more destinations in India Colombo, Wednesday, Lankapuvath - SriLankan Airlines plans to add Ahmaedabad and Kolkata to its Indian destinations this year. While flights to Ahmedabad would be available soon, those to Kolkata would take some more time, the Airlines' Commercial Head, G.T. Jayaseelan, told Lankapuvath. At present the airline operates flights to 10 cities in India. He said the Airline also proposed to increase the number of flights from 68 per week to 70, which would include 15 to Chennai. The Airline was looking at increasing the number of services to secondary cities such as Tiruchirapalli. "We are evaluating the potential, wherever we see economic feasibility, we will be there", he said. Despite the effects of the tsunami, which devastated parts of Sri Lanka, the national carrier recorded a 23 per cent increase in global passenger traffic in the first nine months of 2004, he said. Traffic on the Indian sector jumped by 30 per cent in the first nine months of 2004, compared to the same period the previous year, he said. There was no disruption or change to the flight schedule to any destinations from India on account of the tsunami, he said, adding that no flights were cancelled or rescheduled. |
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