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Sri Lanka’s largest single fund at over 6,000 billion rupees
49.1 percent stated they would leave Sri Lanka if given the opportunity.
Both bills are seen giving excess powers to police with vaguely defined clauses, legal experts say
Aimed at strengthening the country's technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector.
The financing consists of a $50mn regular loan, a $50mn concessional loan, and a $500,000 technical assistance grant
Archaeology Department mainly needs watchmen and work assistants to maintain operations.
Women in Tech Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee mission Women in Tech Sri Lanka expands its outreach to Trincomalee,
Amendment to the Employees' Provident Fund Act, No. 15 of 1958
Even if managed as a single entity under a tripartite governance structure EPF and ETF will remain as two separate funds
The EPF is the country’s largest state-managed pension fund, holding private sector worker savings managed under BC
Emerging trends in human trafficking, particularly technology-based recruitment, deceptive migration practices,
The CPF focuses on creating jobs through private sector-led growth, promoting reforms that improve the business climate,
Sri Lanka has delayed key reforms it committed under the IMF programme
Currently under central bank and labour department
New program with a more transparent labor-centric and sustainable labor mobility framework
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| US Dollar | 331.7485 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 443.7468 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 372.5204 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0969 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 233.0533 | 231.1659 |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.4948 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2499 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 861.6397 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.4403 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.3209 | 90.0766 |
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| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
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| 3-m bill | 7.61 | 7.84 |
| 6-m bill | 7.91 | 8.26 |
| 12-m bill | 8.23 | 8.3 |
| 3-yr bond | 9.24 | 9.25 |
| 5-yr bond | 9.82 | 9.56 |
| 8-yr bond | 10.50 | 10.48 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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Increase in number of state-owned enterprises employing workers on temporary basis through manpower agecies
CBSL, as the manager of the EPF, applies lower transparency standards to the EPF than to other financial entities
The move will see workers recruited into Sri Lanka's already bloated public sector across provincial, public bodies
Meeting to discuss foreign employment opportunities in the shipping and marine sectors for retired navy personnel
The contributory pension fund was intended to ward off a unfunded fiscal bomb
"There a large number of youth in villages waiting for jobs. On the other hand there are vacancies in the construction"
"Israel has expressed its willingness to recruit Sri Lankan workers for employment in commercial and services sectors
The MOU will see training for Sri Lankans in internationally recognised technological and professional subjects
When children graduate from school, they simply don't have the skills needed to enter the workforce
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