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Sri Lankan minister meets with officials of global lending bodies at IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings 2023 in Morocco
“The fighting and violence must be brought to an end immediately," he said.
There are reportedly some 8,000 Sri Lankans working in Israel.
Malaysian Foreign Minister will meet Sri Lanka, President, PM, his counterpart
Israel has banned UN Secretary General from entering the country
A group of 105 countries condemned Israel's move to impose travel ban on UN Sec Gen
The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof G.L. Peiris is saying that the governmen...
The international community does not seem to trust all the stories, facts and narratives coming out of the government ab...
A Sri Lankan man accused of murdering his 21-year old wife in 2012 in Montreal, Canada, has had his murder trial dismiss...
Australia and the World Food Programme (WFP) have donated Rs74mn to fund take-home rations for children covered by the n...
Sri Lanka may be seeing the possibility of a new cluster of COVID 19 infected persons emerging after 56 inmates and staf...
A Nationalist organisation is saying that if President Gotabaya Rajapaksa signs the controversial Millennium Challenge C...
Basil Rajapaksa is asking Sri Lankans to give the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) a two-thirds majority in the new Pa...
The Cabinet has decided to revoke all the agreements signed with foreign contractors relating to the construction of the...
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is saying that that it is not easy to rip apart the Millennium Challenge Compact agreeme...
The COVID 19 induced crisis in migrant labour should prompt a re-think in how Sri Lanka should train and manage its over...
| 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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US Secretary of State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have discussed th...
Samagi Jana Balavegaya National List candidate Eran Wickramaratne is saying that if any part of the MCC grant money was ...
The United National Party is demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa tell the nation what his stance is on the Mille...
The United States State Department has quickly contradicted key findings announced by the Presidential Committee which e...
A senior official in the Presidential Secretariat, Admiral Jayanath Colombage (Rtd.) says the date to reopen the Katunay...
The former government signed two agreements connected to the Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) and was granted USD10 mi...
Pohottuwa politico Mahindananda Aluthgamage is firing off controversial statements in rapid succession these days to hel...
A Bombayite is a guest of the Sri Lankan government, not in the sense of an incarcerated person or an invited personage....
Sri Lanka is amending its University Act to permit more foreign universities to set up shop on the island, President Got...
Sri Lanka is denying reports that it will sign a controversial grant agreement with the United States Millennium Challen...
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