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Malnutrition has increased rapidly in Sri Lanka due to unprecedented economic crisis
Children in Sri Lanka forced to leave school due to economic crisis
Working very closely with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Investment Bank
Younger persons turning to commercial sex with unsafe practices
Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Agrarian Development, will distribute the fertilizer.
"At the moment we see things are developing more in line with expectations."
Sri Lanka's imports collapsed 30 percent to 1.2 billion US dollars March 2020 amid a Coronavirus crisis, with oil prices...
Sri Lanka's Bairaha Farms Plc, a feed-milling and poultry processing group which had already been hit by a Coronavirus c...
Sri Lanka could have lost around 37,500 overseas jobs up to the end of May due to the Coronavirus pandemic, while many a...
Sri Lanka's 12-month inflation fell to 4.0 percent in May 2020 from 5.2 percent a month earlier but prices picked up 0.4...
Sri Lanka businesses hit by a series of import controls to promote import substitution and 'save foreign exchange' as th...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called for unconditional support from bilateral and multilateral lenders fo...
Sri Lanka's has slapped import controls multiple ways to face the 'biggest forex crisis in history', Information Minist...
A fuel price stabilization fund which was to collect 200 billion rupees in 2020 as global prices fell has not grows as e...
The government is dismissing allegations that it has given in to the so-called “Rice Mafia” by increasing the contro...
Sri Lankan expats working in Korea have started to go back with the first batch of 160 workers leaving in a special flig...
Latest | Last | |
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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 | |
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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 | % | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
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Sri Lanka has lifted a para-tariff on personal protective equipment supplied to the military and state hospitals by expo...
The opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya has written to the Auditor General pointing out what they term as “three instanc...
Opposition politician Dr Harsha de Silva is saying that the government’s strategy of imposing price controls on rice a...
Sri Lanka's central bank defended its money printing, which led to forex shortages and fears of repaying foreign debt le...
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested a 1.1 billion foreign exchange swap from India and also invited a...
Sr Lanka has allowed the import of some foods at high tax rates after money printing and excess liquidity led to a forex...
Sri Lanka has extended import bans for three months on a wide variety of goods and started a license regime on other goo...
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence has formally listed a series of training agencies including the National Police Academy,...
Profits at Sri Lanka's central bank plunged 60 percent to 55 billion rupees in 2019 from 137 billion rupees in 2018 as t...
Sri Lanka is to looking to raise the retirement age of doctors and some technical grades to 61 from the current 60, the ...
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