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Sri Lanka is stressing the need for Asian countries to come together to face the uphill task of economic recovery and re...
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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...
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Parliamentarian Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is proposing that the government prioritize the return of more than 50,000 Sri Lan...
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Russia is expressing concern that Sri Lanka’s Medical Council (SLMC) has cut several Russian Universities from the app...
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An influential Buddhist monk who has close links to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Party of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ...
Speculation is intensifying on who will fill the vacant national list seat of the United National Party (UNP), with part...
A follower of Sri Lanka suicide bomber Zaharan Hashim, who had also given funds, has been arrested in Singapore along wi...
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Dr Siyabdeen Shafi the Kurunegala doctor once accused of rendering hundreds of women infertile has been released on bail...
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa got another reprieve from facing his misappropriation trial when the Supreme Court ordered that the t...
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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a three-member committee headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Til...
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A director of Sri Lanka’s controversial Perpetual Treasuries petitioned the Court of Appeal Wednesday asking that...
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Colombo, Sri Lanka | AFP | Wednesday - Sri Lanka's Easter attacks that killed 258 people were carried out by local Islam...
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Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera is calling for a full investigation into the alleged import of scrap and used produ...
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Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has prevented a United Nations Special Rapporteur examining the rights of freedom of association...
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Seemingly ecstatic about a Sajith Premadasa candidacy in the upcoming presidential election, Opposition MP Pavithra Wann...
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| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 202.0000 | 202.0000 |
| UK Pound | 271.5789 | 271.5789 |
| Euro | 224.2978 | 226.8561 |
| Aus Dollar | 141.6485 | 143.0261 |
| Yen | 1.7429 | 1.7640 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 2.6749 | 2.6890 |
| Korea Won | 0.1670 | 0.1680 |
| Oman Rial | 522.5672 | 524.6685 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.6238 | 53.8480 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.7749 | 54.9952 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 4,400.91 | -1.73% |
| CSE All Share | 12,885.70 | -1.38% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 2,191,558,044.10 | 7,595,436,655 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 8.18 | 7.91 |
| 6-m bill | 8.36 | 8.18 |
| 12-m bill | 8.51 | 8.37 |
| 5-yr bond | 11.26 | 10.93 |
| 8-yr bond | 11.81 | 10.93 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 5.93 | 5.99 |
| Gilt Repo | 5.14 | 5.14 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Gotabaya Rajapaksa is back in the country and his close supporters are confident that come August 11 he will be anointed...
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Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Patali Champika Ranawaka said that the issue of Dr Shafi can be solved wit...
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Sri Lanka's Minister for Local Government Vajira Abeywardene tabled a motion in parliament to add 446 hectares of land r...
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General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Dayasiri Jayasekara said that an alliance should be formed first...
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UNP Parliamentarian S.M Marikkar says he believes that if there are members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) capabl...
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Minister of Internal and Home Affairs Wajira Abeywardhana said that if the Mattala airport and Hambantota harbour were b...
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President Maithripala Sirisena lambasted Cardinal Malcom Ranjith over his call for the government to step down for alleg...
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Rebuffing critics, President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (22 July) said the Government has fulfilled all its obligati...
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The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the country’s Premier State Media organisation lurched towards another crisis to...
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Some Opposition members who fervently backed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the 2015 presidential election will s...
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