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The new rules apply to bills of lading and airway bills dated May 06 or after.
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The situation in his city has become serious (barapathala), Mayor Jaliya Opatha had said.
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Sri Lanka will ban the import of chemical fertilizer in the 'near future' as pollution of waterways and suspected kidney disease is a cost to society ...
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Sri Lanka's maize prices have soared and fears of aflatoxin in poultry feed are growing as businesses newly displaced by import controls got into corn...
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Sri Lanka's commercial plantations producing tea and rubber has called for fast-track vaccination of their workers on whom key export sectors are depe...
Sri Lanka's fresh chicken prices have soared as a combination of state controls and Coronavirus impact hit the sector, with higher meat prices driving...
A leaf fall disease caused by Pestalotiopsis, a fungus has begun to ravage Sri Lanka's rubber plantations and could reac...
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Finlays Tea Estates Sri Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, which runs privatized tea plantations, is nurturing female managers in a bid to...
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The German Industry and Commerce (AHK Sri Lanka) together with United National Industrial Development Organization launc...
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Sri Lanka is projecting a record 424,508 metric tonne maize harvest in the main Maha season in 2021 amid an import ban, ...
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Sri Lanka is forecasting a 3.08 million tonne rough rice (paddy) harvest from the main Maha cultivation season in 2021, ...
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Sri Lanka will launch an ambitious program to be nearly self-sufficient in liquid milk aiming to meet most of the nation...
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Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has kicked off the construction of a 28 kilometre long irrigation tunnel costin...
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Sri Lanka is to lease 2,750 acres of state land to investors to grow maize in a commercial scale after banning its impor...
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Sri Lanka will lease 2,750 acres of underutilised land to potential investors for a period of one year to produce 250,00...
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Wages for workers in Sri Lanka's commercial tea and rubber plantation companies will go to a state wage control board, t...
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| US Dollar | 199.5695 | 199.5817 |
| UK Pound | 281.7522 | 281.8593 |
| Euro | 242.1377 | 242.3121 |
| Aus Dollar | 155.9436 | 156.4721 |
| Yen | 1.8334 | 1.8328 |
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| Indian Rupee | 2.7185 | 2.7143 |
| Korea Won | 0.1778 | 0.1784 |
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| UAE Dirham | 54.3320 | 54.3353 |
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| S&P SL20 | 2,843.40 | 0.18% |
| CSE All Share | 7,143.38 | 0.11% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 1,167,831 |
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| 3-m bill | 5.07 | 5.04 |
| 6-m bill | 5.11 | 5.09 |
| 12-m bill | 5.16 | 5.15 |
| 5-yr bond | 7.38 | 7.12 |
| 8-yr bond | 7.87 | 7.71 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 4.65 | 4.65 |
| Gilt Repo | 4.68 | 4.67 |
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Sri Lanka's Bairaha Farms Plc, a poultry group has reported profits of 120 million rupees in the December 2020 quarter, ...
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Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved the transfer of 22 hectares of state land to Pelwatte Milk Industries Ltd,...
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Sri Lanka maize farmers have sown over 96,000 hectares for the main (Maha) 2021 season which can produce up to 385,368 m...
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Sri Lanka is expecting a rough rice (paddy) harvest of 2.8 million metric tons of rice in the main 2021 (Maha) cultivati...
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Sri Lanka's state-run Paddy Marketing Board will buy rough rice harvested in the current Maha cultivation season at pric...
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Rwandan military officers conducting experimental spraying of pesticides to combat the Fall Army Worm which is threateni...
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Sri Lanka's paddy farming in the 2021 Maha (main) season is below average, the state agricultural office said, forecasti...
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Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had visited maize farms hit by infestations of fall armyworm, his office said.
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Sri Lanka is allowing the import of coconut dried coconut slices with the seed coat for domestic processing, under a sta...
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Sri Lanka's fruit and vegetable producers and exporters have linked up with a World Bank supported project to modernize ...
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