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"Sri Lanka needs to work collectively to solve the food issue in the face of the global food crisis."
The organisations expect the situation to worsen mainly during October 2022 to February 2023.
JICA to provide 200MT of seed
The eligible paddy farmers cultivating up to 0.5 hectares of land will receive 50 kg urea fertilizer
Sri Lanka’s High, Medium and Low Growns prices were down at an auction on April 19, following the New Year holidays
Sri Lanka's tourism promotion agency said it is assessing supply with the UN backed program and is also looking at marke...
Sri Lanka is making plans draw tourists after a Coronavirus crisis, with a raft of new operating rules for hotels, trans...
Sri Lanka's tourism industry is bracing for a year long downturn with the Coronavirus crisis coming on top of a hit from...
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals had dropped 70.8 percent from a year earlier to 71,370 in March 2020, amid a Coronavirus cr...
Sri Lanka' cabinet of ministers had cleared a global promotion plan proposed by the tourism promotion office with no mod...
Advocata Institute, a Colombo-based think tank, is hosting an online discussion on April 21 from 1030hour with leaders o...
Many of Sri Lanka's apparel firms have run out of working capital and credit lines to pay salaries in April and mass une...
A group of renowned educators and school administrators is urging the government to refrain from re-opening schools on M...
Colombo-based Advocata Institute, a think tank, said it is hosting an online discussion on April 21 at 1030hour with lea...
Sri Lanka's property developers have asked President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to start work which had been halted to stop Coro...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 330.2942 | 315.1016 |
| UK Pound | 429.0139 | 401.1871 |
| Euro | 372.1704 | 343.1959 |
| Aus Dollar | 227.2526 | 211.5951 |
| Yen | 2.3820 | 2.1908 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.6453 | 3.5932 |
| Korea Won | 0.2342 | 0.2292 |
| Oman Rial | 780.3569 | 769.4973 |
| Saudi Riyal | 80.1114 | 78.9849 |
| UAE Dirham | 81.7952 | 80.6569 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,573.80 | 1.00% |
| CSE All Share | 9,073.41 | 0.65% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,591,766,524.95 | 1,029,335,694.32 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 21.72 | 21.79 |
| 6-m bill | 19.55 | 20.31 |
| 12-m bill | 17.72 | 19.28 |
| 5-yr bond | 21.00 | 22.53 |
| 8-yr bond | 19.42 | 20.55 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka's tea farms will be able to pay salaries to workers in April since tea is being plucked and prices have also r...
Singer (Sri Lanka) Plc, a consumer durables retailer has been downgraded to 'BBB+(lka)' from 'A-(lka)' by Fitch Ratings ...
Sri Lanka commercial tea plantations which have thousands of workers per farm said they were operating with tight health...
Cambridge Assessment International Education has introduced a new grading system for students, in view of the COVID-19 p...
Sri Lanka’s Federation of University Teachers' Associations (FUTA) urged the University Grants Commission (UGC) yester...
Sri Lanka has given the go-ahead for tea, coconut, rubber, pepper, Cinnamon and other crop producers to resume harvestin...
Sri Lanka's pharmacies which are allowed to be open during a nation-wide curfew imposed to combat the spread of Coronavi...
Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) said it had started issuing permits for firms that are shipping minerals out o...
Sri Lanka will allow factories in low-risk areas and export processing zones to operated subject to health regulations d...
Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration and Emigration has been transferred to the Ministry of Mahaweli, Agriculture, Irri...
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