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CaFFE yesterday (03) requested all presidential candidates to reveal their stance on holding provisional council electio...
The hullabaloo over sanitary pads has served a salutary purpose. It has exposed our collective confusion over what is �...
The biggest of the parties in the Tamil National Alliance, the Ilangai Tamil Arasu Katchi is supporting the candidacy of...
The SLFP distanced itself from former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's decision to support presidential ho...
A cabinet paper proposing confirmation of appointments made to various ministers' and the president's personal staff was...
The race appears to be closer this week with the principle candidates sprinting to the finish. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is sai...
The Policy statement of The National People’s Party (NPP) will be launched next week.
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party will support the candidacy of Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential election as President M...
The presidential candidate of National People’s Party (NPP), former Army Commander General Mahesh Senanayake expects A...
The UNP claimed today that presidential candidate M. L. A. M. Hisbullah is tacitly backing SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajap...
The largest-ever number of candidates for next month’s Presidential election means an outsize poll that will need some...
The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said that it had received a total of 103 complaints with regard to elec...
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) states that it is the responsibility of the public officers, not the politic...
A total of 7,500 election monitors will be dispatched to all 25 districts to observe the upcoming presidential election,...
"SLFP “is in the mood to extinct itself. It is facing a crisis and this leadership cannot find a way out.”
A record 35 candidates will contest the upcoming presidential polls scheduled to be held on 16 November to elect the sev...
| Latest | Last | |
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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 |
| Latest | Last | |
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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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Forty-one aspirants have made deposits to contest the election for a post that has lost the sweeping executive power the...
The Elections Commission is urging government workers currently engaged in trade union actions to urgently engage in dis...
Professor Chandragupta Thenuwara who was among two petitioners who challenged Gotabaya Rajapaksa's citizenship status is...
A three-judge bench of the Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed a short while ago the writ petition challenging preside...
Former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa made a cash deposit at the Elections Commission a short while ago as an independent pres...
The upcoming presidential election has already turned out to be the most crowded ever in terms of candidates, and is exp...
The SLPP is confident that the Court of Appeal will rule in its favour in the ongoing case against Gotabya Rajpaksa's pu...
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court this afternoon requesting a writ order suspending the gazette notification on ...
The SLFP is not interested in talking to any other major party beside the SLPP in forming an alliance for the coming ele...
The SLPP expressed its hope for a decision in favour of the party’s presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa whose ci...
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