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Sri Lanka’s Public Security Minister Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara will submit to parliament a proposal to provide m...
SJB Parliamentarian asks for protection after he says President Rajapaksa said he could be “killed like a dog.”
Lawyer Hijaz Hisbullah had spoken with the Easter Sunday attackers on three occasions by phone, Minister of Public Secur...
Police are ruling out any extremism or terrorism associated with the minor attack on a Buddha statue in Hingula, Mawanel...
An eye witness piece by Economy Next reporters who share what they saw in July 9 Sri Lankan revolution.
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The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to draft a Bill called the National Intelligence Act to protect the dut...
Actor-politico Ranjan Ramanayake has been arrested by Police for alleged contempt of court, Police Spokesman Superintend...
The Mosque in Kattankudy where National Towheed Jamaat (NTJ) leader Zaharan Cassim breathed fire to his followers is to ...
Police did not leak the CD containing the famously controversial conversations that Actor-politico Ranjan Ramanayake had...
A Police posse from the Nugegoda Police raided the official quarters of United National Party Member of Parliament this...
Sri Lanka and Switzerland began the slow-dance back to normalising relations strained by the controversy surrounding the...
Bishop Asiri Perera, head of the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka is appealing for calm after videos of a Buddhist Monk att...
Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne is now the second senior ex-Cabinet Minister from the United National Front government...
Supreme Court Justice Prasanna Jayawardena PC passed away this morning in a private hospital in Colombo.
Former Minister and Parliamentarian Patali Champaka Ranawaka was re-remanded until Monday by the Colombo Additional Magi...
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| 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 |
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| 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 | % | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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The mural depicts a fearsome dragon-like creature emerging from the US flag moving to devour Sri Lanka.
The government of Switzerland is expressing concern at the arrest of their Embassy staffer by police and called for due ...
Garnier Banister Francis, the Sri Lankan staffer working at the Swiss Embassy in Colombo who alleged that she had been a...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he is the victim in the case of the Swiss Embassy staffer who says she was abducted an...
Colombo Magistrate Lanka Jayarathne has asked the Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of the victim of the Swiss Embassy ...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is condemning “statements made with reference to concluded cases, pending liti...
Sri Lanka’s Secretary to the Ministry of Defense Maj. General (Rtd) Kamal Guneratne is accusing the Swiss authorities ...
Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Galagodatthe Gnanasara Thero wants a whole slew of prisoners, ranging from LTTE c...
General Secretary of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Tilvin Silva said that the current government is heading towards mi...
The Opposition is accusing the administration of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of failing to fulfil its main campaign ple...
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