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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is probing the instances where there were postings on social media showing p...
The government chose to use an emergency tender process to import the Rapid Antigen test kits to Sri Lanka to cover the ...
Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella is urging the government not to blame the public for the second wave of Covid 19...
Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) is yet to decide whether the Lanka Premier League (LPL) T20 Cricket tournament will be pla...
Opposition MP Amarasuriya says the government has no proper procedure to repatriate Lankan workers who have lost jobs an...
Sri Lanka’s government is turning to exorcism in a desperate bid to tackle the spread of Covid-19 after sorcery, spiri...
The Samagi Jana Balavegaya is challenging the government’s statement that the country can save Rs 100 billion if the s...
Sri Lanka is looking to repatriate citizens currently overseas by prioritizing them in an objective way, and this week a...
The Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has filed a Right to Information request to the Director-General of Health S...
The government has removed the head of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital (KTH) because he has allegedly failed to prepare...
More than a million Sri Lankans are likely to become unemployed or underemployed as the COVID 19 crisis ravages the econ...
The total number of COVID 19 positive cases in Sri Lanka rose to 795 today with 23 new cases reported according to the M...
Officials are saying that the last four patients who they first believed contracted COVID 19 have tested negative for th...
Health authorities are unsure as to how the last four patients who contracted COVID 19 got the infection, a senior healt...
The Sri Lanka Navy is debunking stories that it is to temporarily withdraw from COVID-19 prevention duties as well as ro...
Former MP Wijith Wijayamuni Zoysa is questioning whether the government is trying to cover-up the COVID-19 death count b...
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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 |
| 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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Beauty Parlours, Barber Saloons and similar institutions may re-open once they get certification from the Health Authori...
The number of COVID 19 patients since the outbreak rose to 760 this evening as nine new patients were diagnosed today th...
Two new clusters of COVID 19 positive patients have emerged in the Colombo district and another cluster from Kandy today...
The number of COVID 19 patients rose by 33 yesterday as the eighth death from the disease was recorded, the Health Minis...
The Sri Lanka government has confirmed that an eighth person has died from the COVID 19 disease today May 4. An announc...
The two men who died at the Mullaitivu quarantine centre last week did not succumb to COVID-19, a military spokesman sai...
The Tamil National Alliance has stated that although it has attended the meeting called by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapa...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is saying that the opposition is wanting the old Parliament reconvened so that they can...
The United National Party is also not attending the meeting of all former members of the recently dissolved parliament c...
The total number of COVID 19 positive patients in Sri Lanka since the outbreak in March this year has risen to 705 by mi...
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