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Defending the project, State Minister Wijesekara told EconomyNext June 17 said it was the result of years of study.
"We are doing a complete study (adyanayak) about the incident."
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"The Act will be updated to keep up with technological advances and increasing public insensitivity"
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ECONOMYNEXT - Heavy monsoon rains have begun to drench Sri Lanka, ending a near year-long drought that deprived over a m...
Sri Lanka's military is expected to help prepare a short term sanitary landfill in Muturagawela under the guidance of ex...
Sri Lanka said on Wednesday that it was overturning a ban on adopting baby elephants, drawing sharp criticism from the a...
Sri Lanka's Fairway group which won a waste management concession said it will process 500 tonnes of garbage a day into ...
Sri Lanka's military carried out a recovery operation on Monday as they looked for seven people still missing after the ...
ECONOMYNEXT - The Sri Lankan government is to pay compensation to victims of a disaster in the capital Colombo where the...
Japan has offered to send technical experts to evaluate the situation after the collapse of the Kolonnawa garbage dump k...
ECONOMYNEXT - A rescue and recovery operation is underway in Sri Lanka after a mountain of garbage caused an earth slip ...
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| US Dollar | 331.7485 | 330.8514 |
| UK Pound | 443.7468 | 438.3450 |
| Euro | 372.5204 | 371.0168 |
| Yen | 2.0969 | 2.0916 |
| Aus Dollar | 233.0533 | 231.1659 |
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| Indian Rupee | 3.4948 | 3.4202 |
| Korean Won | 0.2499 | 0.2479 |
| Oman Rial | 861.6397 | 859.3320 |
| Saudi Riyal | 88.4403 | 88.0955 |
| UAE Dirham | 90.3209 | 90.0766 |
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| S&P SL20 | 5,656.91 | -0.43% |
| CSE All Share | 19,927.30 | -0.28% |
| Turnover Rs | 1457.79 million | 1193.67 million |
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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 |
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The rescue by hundreds of troops was fast turning into a recovery operation as hope faded for a dozen people listed miss...
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A 12-year-old boy and two girls aged 14 and 15 were among six people who died when a mountain of garbage near Sri Lanka'...
A mountain of garbage near Sri Lanka's capital Colombo caught fire and collapsed on dozens of shanties on Friday as the ...
India has handed over eight bowers to Sri Lanka and 100 metric tonnes of rice in drought relief.
Global methane emissions from agriculture and other sources have surged in recent years, threatening efforts to slow cli...
ECONOMYNEXT – A project by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to monitor water quality in ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence conglomerate has embedded disaster risk mitigation initiatives in ...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka should make an effort to retain water from floods whose incidence is increasing, like in ...
Australian and US scientists have launched a hi-tech autonomous underwater vehicle that will gather undersea data during...
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