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Sri Lanka has approved a billion US dollar mixed development tower block project in Colombo Port City, where the sea ha...
Sri Lanka has halted a Japan funded light rail project for the capital Colombo as it was too costly and brought low retu...
Sri Lanka is looking at mortgaging route licenses of private buses to raise cash with operators saying revenues had halv...
Sri Lanka's Ceylon Chamber of Commerce had given proposal on how to reduce risks in public transport after Coronavirus cont...
People asking that the railways be privatized
To boost utilization of the airport government approval has been received for several new activities
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan vehicle imports recovered in January 2018 with big increases seen in small cars, scooter...
ECONOMYNEXT – Indian engineering consultancy company RITES Limited has won a contract to provide advisory service...
ECONOMYNEXT – SMEC International Pty, a unit of Singapore-based urban planning consultancy Surbana Jurong Pvt Ltd...
US-based General Electric Company has won 48 million US dollar deal to supply locomotives for SR Lanka's state-run railw...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s government bus service is to buy 50 electric buses for a planned Bus Rapid Transit (BR...
ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan unit of Ashok Leyland has reported a sharp rise in net profit for the December 2017 ...
A flyover that has helped speed up traffic along a key highway leading to Colombo is an interim solution pending a light...
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena will declare open a 4.7 billion rupee flyover in Sri Lanka capital with acces...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan registrations of vehicles continued a slow recovery in November, except for an increase ...
More than 110,000 motorists had used an expressway to the South kicking off the 2017 holiday weekend, making it the busi...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 6,365.57 | +0.26% |
| CSE All Share | 22,157.40 | +0.56% |
| Turnover Rs | 2975.05 million | 1193.67 million |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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Sri Lanka's regulated privately owned bus service has declined 2.0 percent to 19,917 in the first half of 2017 from a ye...
Colombo, Sri Lanka | AFP | Wednesday - Sri Lanka's railway workers called off an island-wide strike Wednesday that disru...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has relaxed budget proposals slashing Loan to Value (LTV) ratios for car imports and will...
ECONOMYNEXT – Individuals who opened Letters of Credit for import of vehicles prior to the presentation of Sri La...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's government will buy at least 70,000 hybrid and electric cars in the next seven years in line w...
ECONOMYNEXT - The latest duty reduction for small cars will see the prices drop by an average of half a million rupees i...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka aims to convert all its vehicles into those powered by non-fossil fuels with import taxes...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan transport professionals are lobbying for rail transport priority, saying the government ...
Sri Lanka’s government has chosen two South Korean engineering consultancy firms to do a pre-feasibility study fo...
Sri Lanka has received responses from nine parties for expressions of interest called to study five light rail transit l...
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