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Credit for attack on peaceful protestors go to Royal
Empty streets reduce emissions, lack of chemical fertilizer promotes organic food
One-day service now costs 15,000 rupees compared to the standard 3,500 rupees
Cher had previously helped move a Sri Lanka elephant from a zoo in Pakistan to Cambodia
Takes the total raised up to 17.4 billion rupees
The SLFEB has submitted the request and it is up to the health ministry to see it through, an official said.
The ‘Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2021 (BCCS Awards)’
Why Are Creation’s Biggest Animals Crooning Flatter Year by Year? Blue Whale Mating Call Mystery.
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) announced an automated hotline, +94112208208, for the public to contact the council ...
Crime surrounding the increased use of hard drugs in Sri Lanka is a major societal and law and order concern, but are we...
Almost a year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many Sri Lankan migrant workers remain stranded mostly in the Gulf States...
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it repatriated 320 stranded migrant workers out of which more than 81 work...
Opposition MP Amarasuriya says the government has no proper procedure to repatriate Lankan workers who have lost jobs an...
More than 500 Sri Lankan foreign workers in Oman have been repatriated last week free of charge the Foreign Ministry sa...
They may be intelligent, communicative and super-social in ways we can scarcely imagine
A shortage of automated extraction reagent kits cuts tests to 600 per day as arrivals are ramped up
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| US Dollar | 368.6066 | 368.5670 |
| UK Pound | 448.2898 | 450.8744 |
| Euro | 379.5297 | 381.8782 |
| Aus Dollar | 264.0291 | 263.9965 |
| Yen | 2.7780 | 2.7764 |
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| Indian Rupee | 4.5311 | 4.5327 |
| Korea Won | 0.2763 | 0.2766 |
| Oman Rial | 937.4424 | 937.2606 |
| Saudi Riyal | 96.1159 | 96.0666 |
| UAE Dirham | 98.2603 | 98.2413 |
| pts | % | |
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| S&P SL20 | 3,097.30 | 0.82% |
| CSE All Share | 9,191.52 | 1.82% |
| Turnover Rs million | 5,829,973,145 | 6,339,984,932 |
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| 3-m bill | 26.11 | 26.24 |
| 6-m bill | 27.06 | 26.52 |
| 12-m bill | 27.87 | 27.36 |
| 5-yr bond | 24.19 | 23.86 |
| 8-yr bond | 24.68 | 24.21 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 15.50 | 15.50 |
| Gilt Repo | 15.50 | 15.50 |
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Sri Lanka will continue the repatriation of Sri Lankans abroad at a slow pace due to the capacity of the quarantine cent...
The blue is not only the largest animal ever to live on our beautiful planet, but the largest that ever could and how th...
Sri Lanka will pay LKR 500,000 as compensation to the families of each migrant workers who died due to COVID-19 overseas...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is setting up a project for Prison Inmates in Sri Lanka to interact ...
Minister Chamal Rajapaksa is saying that he will not allow local cultivation of cannabis and manufacture of cannabis-rel...
The body of a 31-year old Sri Lankan maid who has allegedly been tortured to death in Kuwait is to be repatriated to Sri...
Parliamentarian Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is proposing that the government prioritize the return of more than 50,000 Sri Lan...
Sri Lanka will use two of its international airports at Katunayake and Mattala for the repatriation of Lankans abroad wh...
Eliana Apicella, is among the many tourists in Sri Lanka who is stranded in Sri Lanka because of Covid. And adding to th...
Sri Lanka is seeing a post-election mini-spike in Covid cases as the government resumes flights repatriating citizens pa...
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