Notable
Experienced engineers leaving to Ireland, New Zealand, Australia
They plan to sign the agreement with the BOI and obtain the license to operate by mid this year
Some of the projects have already obtained provisional approvals, environment clearances, land clearances
Sri Lanka signed power purchase agreements for 150MW ground mount solar project at Solar Energy Park
You cannot do it overnight, but there should be some way of moving forward and narrowing it
Areas ABCDEFGHIJKL will have 2 hours in day and 1 hour 15 min in evening
Short term tenders have been floated
The cost of a 12.5 kg cylinder Litro gas is now estimated at 4,462.25 rupees - official
A three-hour power cuts will be imposed in the rest of the island, the CEB said.
"We have no types of fuel yet. Not Until Monday (21). We have closed the station," a spokesman said.
Areas ABCDEFGHIJKL will have power cuts of 5 hours in two blocks
The USD 1 billion credit line is expected to be signed during Rahjapaksa's visit, which was postponed twice.
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) said other areas will experience two hours of outage in two blocks.
Laugfs said it needs on average 15-30 million US dollars per month to import gas.
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 332.5018 | 332.3603 |
| UK Pound | 440.0661 | 440.9424 |
| Euro | 367.7137 | 368.4879 |
| Yen | 2.0793 | 2.0805 |
| Aus Dollar | 226.4670 | 227.4342 |
| Latest | Last | |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.5357 | 3.5474 |
| Korean Won | 0.2494 | 0.2492 |
| Oman Rial | 863.5962 | 863.2287 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.5939 | 88.5586 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.5259 | 90.4874 |
| pts | % | |
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| S&P SL20 | 6,293.72 | -1.13% |
| CSE All Share | 22,024.18 | -0.60% |
| Turnover Rs | 3232.70 million | 2975.05 million |
| Latest | Last | |
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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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
‘’Diesel prices increased by one third so travel fees will be increased from 1,800 to 2,000 rupees,” he said.
Power cuts the same as March 14
Power crisis worsened because the authorities denied the CEB of 1-2 hour power cuts to conserve hydro storage
That the Southern grid would face a serious deficit was warned earlier
1 hour block for some areas, 3 hour 15 for others
In the location of the cancelled joint venture coal plant
Octane 92 price was increased by 43.5-pct to record 254 rupees a litre while diesel raised 45.5-pct to 176 rupees.
Ceypetco incurs a loss of 128 rupees per litre of diesel and 80 from a litre of petrol as of March 10 - Ceypetco chief
Sapugaskanda A, Uthuru Janani and Sojitz have diesel to run only for another 1.4, 1.3 and 2.4 days respectively - CEB
Sri Lanka can use the credit line to buy oil from India and also third countries
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