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Sri Lanka's police and military will give protection to 1,944 churches around the country on the second anniversary of an Islamist suic...
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Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa is proposing that the government involve a selected foreign investigative team to work with local authoritie...
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Fixed wing and helicopter aerobatics squadrons, multi-role combat aircraft, maritime reconnaissance aircraft backed up by military transports from In...
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TNA veteran and lawyer M A Sumanthiran says he is under threat and should not have had his Commando guards removed
Sri Lanka needs the state to provide public goods, including national defence, law and order and justice; to control market power; to address high lev...
The United States has placed several subsidiaries of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the ultimate pare...
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There is a concept of inclusive nationalism, in which everyone born within the boundaries of the country (regardless of ...
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The result of the election has shown that the people have heeded President Rajapaksa’s call and strengthened his hand ...
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Sri Lanka's military is planning to get into the business of producing driving licenses from next year amid a controvers...
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Sri Lanka’s defence authorities are expressing confidence that they have the largest cluster of COVID 19 patients, whi...
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The Secretary to the Ministry of Defense Major General Kamal Guneratne is claiming that the combination of the Security ...
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Civil Society organisations are expressing grave concern regarding the establishment of a spate of Presidential Task For...
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Security Forces in the Vanni region have been warned to be wary of handling parcels left near their camps after one of t...
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The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is expressing deep concern about the two Presidential Task Forces established t...
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Task Force entrusted with creating “a virtuous, disciplined and lawful so...
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| US Dollar | 199.5155 | 199.5887 |
| UK Pound | 277.4163 | 277.5680 |
| Euro | 240.7055 | 239.7459 |
| Aus Dollar | 155.2131 | 154.6214 |
| Yen | 1.8282 | 1.8259 |
| Latest | Last | |
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| Indian Rupee | 2.7107 | 2.7040 |
| Korea Won | 0.1781 | 0.1775 |
| Oman Rial | 518.2355 | 518.4257 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.1885 | 53.2194 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.3173 | 54.3372 |
| pts | % | |
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| S&P SL20 | 2,838.96 | 0.22% |
| CSE All Share | 7,188.09 | 0.59% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 1,248,630 |
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| 3-m bill | 5.04 | 5.03 |
| 6-m bill | 5.09 | 5.09 |
| 12-m bill | 5.15 | 5.15 |
| 5-yr bond | 7.12 | 7.08 |
| 8-yr bond | 7.71 | 7.70 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 4.65 | 4.65 |
| Gilt Repo | 4.68 | 4.67 |
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has vowed he will not permit officers and other ranks who fought in the separatist war to b...
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Sri Lanka is taking thousands of sailors out of a Naval complex in Welisara to contain an outbreak of Coronavirus, which...
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Sri Lanka has cancelled leave off members of all three forces and asked them to report to base, with 95 sailors so far ...
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Constitutional experts are saying that because the President is accountable to Parliament it is vital that the House be ...
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Sri Lanka's Navy and Air Force has stepped up maritime surveillance to keep out illegal entrants as Coronavirus spreads ...
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Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration and Emigration has been transferred to the Ministry of Mahaweli, Agriculture, Irri...
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Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Kamal Gunaratne said more than 170 Sri Lankans who had returned from Italy and Kore...
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Sri Lanka has set up a task force to monitor and speed up an investigation by the police criminal investigation departme...
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Days after Russia said it will continue to supply Sri Lanka with military hardware, India’s top security official has ...
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A Sri Lankan air force plane crashed in a tea-growing mountainous region Friday, killing the four crew on board, a milit...
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