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The government will buy 61,600 metric tonnes of paddy to produce 40,000 MT of rice.
The multi-task force was allocated 9.8 billion rupees in the 2023 budget.
Sri Lanka saw long queues for cooking gas last year
"From today onwards there will be no such buses in the Kataragama – Colombo route via Galle road."
DMT officials have resisted digitization move in the past
Renovations started in January with Indian financial assistance
ECONOMYNEXT – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has started a project in Sri Lanka t...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has awarded a contract worth over Rs1.96 billion to a local and Chine...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has approved several projects to ensure adequate supplies of drinking...
ECONOMYNEXT – Shifting to an electronic procurement system could yield big efficiency gains for both the governme...
ECONOMYNEXT - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a loan agreement with the government of Sri L...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank will give Sri Lanka a loan of $60 million to provide safe drinking water...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is giving Sri Lanka another loan of $128 million to fund safe wate...
Thayalan Bartlett has been named the new chief executive for MullenLow Sri Lanka, (formerly Lowe LDB (Pvt.) Ltd), an adv...
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| US Dollar | 332.3603 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 440.9424 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 368.4879 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0805 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 227.4342 | 231.1659 |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.5474 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2492 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 863.2287 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5586 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.4874 | 90.0766 |
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| S&P SL20 | 6,365.57 | +0.26% |
| CSE All Share | 22,157.40 | +0.56% |
| Turnover Rs | 2975.05 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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ECONOMYNEXT – Monthly losses at Sri Lanka's state-run Lak Sathosa retail chain have been reduced to Rs68 million ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will gradually stop sending house maids abroad, mainly to the Middle East, due to rights a...
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ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha de Silva invited businesses to help expand an island-wide param...
ECONOMYNEXT - Google has launched 'Street View' allowing viewers to travel virtually around the island, going through hi...
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