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Arrivals creeping up
Tech parks will be set up in Galle, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Kandy and Batticaloa districts.
Fiver firms to invest Rs8bn and import 4,200 milch cows
Customer behavior expected to shift
"Around 40 percent of the supply comes from the SME sector while around 60 percent comes from large scale suppliers."
FTZMA said the high tariffs which are driving up cost of production would make Sri Lankan products highly uncompetitive
Sri Lanka’s palm oil plantations stand to lose 500 million rupees worth of fully grown plants in nurseries as the...
The Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) is threatening to strike from 10 September if they do not recei...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe laid the foundation to build a 209 million cubic metre (169,000 acre feet) reservoir...
Restoring Sri Lanka’s ancient system of irrigation reservoirs is helping farmers in the dry zone better cope with...
Sri Lanka is expecting its tourism industry to recover to prior year levels within weeks, rather than months from the Ea...
The Bohra Global Conference 2019 will bring as many as 25,000 tourists to Sri Lanka from September 01 to 10, boosting po...
Sri Lanka Wednesday opened a technical and vocational education facility in Colombo built with South Korean funds that i...
Australian mineral sands miner Iluka Resources Ltd. has said it has completed a pre-feasibility study of a Sri Lankan il...
Sri Lanka's newspaper circulation has fallen for the second straight year in 2018, with diminishing readership across al...
A hundred young entrepreneurs will receive funding on August 19 to set up greenhouses and to link up with an export firm...
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| US Dollar | 328.6083 | 334.9328 |
| UK Pound | 404.2407 | 411.1914 |
| Euro | 358.1529 | 359.7836 |
| Aus Dollar | 221.9914 | 225.8025 |
| Yen | 2.5191 | 2.5583 |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.8504 | 4.0593 |
| Korea Won | 0.2471 | 0.2566 |
| Oman Rial | 824.2395 | 870.3981 |
| Saudi Riyal | 84.4779 | 89.2088 |
| UAE Dirham | 86.3927 | 91.2333 |
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| S&P SL20 | 2,722.94 | -1.64% |
| CSE All Share | 9,395.98 | -1.38% |
| Turnover Rs million | 3,437,599,160 | 1,512,188,680 |
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| 3-m bill | 26.95 | 28.13 |
| 6-m bill | 26.26 | 27.13 |
| 12-m bill | 25.26 | 26.11 |
| 5-yr bond | 26.01 | 25.82 |
| 8-yr bond | 24.73 | 24.73 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 15.50 | 15.50 |
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Sri Lanka is forecasting 1.471 million tonnes of paddy to be produced in the Yala 2019 minor cultivation season with 12,...
Sri Lanka plans to re-take unused coastal areas released for aquaculture and salterns as part of a project to re-generat...
Vehicle assembly at a joint venture plant by India's Mahindra & Mahindra and Sri Lanka's Ideal Motors was flagged off by...
Sri Lanka’s Softlogic Holdings Plc is planning to expand its new Glomark supermarket chain with five more outlets...
President Maithripala Sirisena says that between 10 and 12 per cent of new University students quit and return home beca...
Sirimal Fernando was re-elected the President of the Sri Lanka Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (SLPMA) at its ...
Onalie Dissanayaka has been appointed as the head of the Charted Institute of Marketing (CIM) in Sri Lanka and the Maldi...
Profits at Distilleries Corporation of Sri Lanka Plc, the island's largest alcohol producer, grew 56 percent to 1.66 bil...
Sri Lanka will provide mobile and fixed dryers for paddy farmers , who are now forced to sell their harvest at ad hoc di...
Sri Lanka’s Jetwing Symphony said that its net losses for the June 2019 quarter grew 4.1 percent to 161.6 million...
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