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Mercantilist fallacies have devasted countries at peace
Skills cultivated through mindfulness include awareness, scientific observation, empathy, equanimity, and compassion.
'A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state'
Footage showed the Moratuwa MOH engaged in a heated argument with Fernando, objecting to his demeanour
In 1968 with Bretton Woods soft-peg hanging on a thread, advantages of currency board had become clear
Aims to make the public service more independent
Sri Lanka's women’s economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment and political empowerment are major...
Labour markets are undergoing rapid changes, while technological advances, income growth, and urbanisation are transfor...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is driving the governing party’s Parliamentary Election campaign and at the outset ha...
When the government changes ground rules and conditions or the operating regime suddenly, like in Sri Lanka, it is very ...
Despite the president’s statesmanlike words, the government is continuing to fall short in its efforts to realize the ...
The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having its toll on the global economy with many economists now expec...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s recent assertion that those reported missing from the war are actually dead and the gov...
In this H.M.A. Herath Annual Memorial Oration delivered by W A Wijewardene, an economist, teacher and thinker takes the ...
Badly wounded at the last Presidential Elections, a deeply divided United National Party will try this week to reach a â...
Why we all should be afraid of Ranjan Rmanayake has done
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | % | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
The Ranjan Ramanayake tapes, particularly his conversations with Policemen and Judges are undermining the credibility of...
The government has faced severe backlash after the Finance Ministry announced the first Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...
As the New Year dawns it is our duty as watchdogs to look ahead and try to predict what lies ahead for us citizens of th...
Sri Lanka is heading into uncertain territory with an obsession on interest rates, a trigger happy central bank which te...
They have been eyeball to eyeball, staring each other down over the past month, but as of this week, Sri Lanka and Switz...
Along with the change of government that took place after the November 16 presidential election there is a sense of stro...
What they want is a two-thirds majority in Parliament that would allow them to change the Constitution and remove the sh...
Sri Lanka will face credit downgrades and possible sovereign default of dollar debt unless the highly unstable discretio...
The vote revealed that the minority-dominated North and East voted heavily against Rajapaksa and the majority South for ...
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