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Sri Lanka’s fatality rate from the Covid 19 pandemic is equal to the global rate which is around 9 deaths per million ...
Sri Lanka has Coronavirus isolated several areas in Kalmunai in the East of the island, while death from Covid-19 reache...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, in order to s...
Sri Lanka’s College of Community Physicians (CCPSL) has made a definitive statement as to whether the remains of peopl...
Sri Lanka's Health Promotion Bureau has issued a public warning of a Coronavirus breakout after the April festive season...
Sri Lanka may limit the number of repatriates being brought back to the country and tighten quarantine amid a surge in C...
Charities World Vision and Citi Foundation said they had given 1,100 Covid-19 ant-body testing kits to Sri Lanka's Sri J...
Sri Lanka has recorded it’s the twelfth death from Coronavirus with a foreign returnee from India passing away the sta...
The Opposition is criticizing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s policy statement made to Parliament yesterday saying it h...
Sri Lanka is seeing a post-election mini-spike in Covid cases as the government resumes flights repatriating citizens pa...
Sri Lanka resumed flights to bring back migrant workers from Kuwait today, but returnees say many Sri Lankans remain stu...
The government has granted conditional permission for schools throughout the country to re-open even if they have more t...
Sri Lanka is ramping up random testing for Covid 19 with 37,000 random PCR tests planned in August countrywide, official...
The threat of Covid-19 still haunts us even though Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in the world, keeping it at bay...
Sri Lanka’s Health Services is reporting that 43 new COVID 19 cases were detected in the week from last Saturday, Augu...
Sri Lanka has identified only one new COVID-19 patient as at 6 am this morning, National Operations Centre for Preventio...
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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 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
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The government has appointed a new Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, as well as several other ministries t...
Sri Lanka has identified a total of 9 new COVID-19 patients as at 6 am this morning August 12, the National Operations C...
Sri Lanka is in talks with Myanmar Airways International (MAI), a private carrier based in Myanmar to establish direct a...
The result of the election has shown that the people have heeded President Rajapaksa’s call and strengthened his hand ...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is saying that by holding an election successfully during the Covid pandemic Sri Lankan...
Five new COVID-19 patients were reported in Sri Lanka as at 6 am today, the government said.
Election Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said that roughly about 70% of the eligible voters have cast their votes at the...
Despite Corona fears, nearly a third of Sri Lankans had voted in the Parliamentary General elections by 11:00 am today.
Sri Lanka’s National Elections Commission Chairman, Mahinda Deshapriya stepped forward to cast his vote today at the L...
The final result of tomorrow’s Parliamentary General should be known by midnight on Thursday, August 6, the Chairman o...
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