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A UK travel advisory has warned of food shortages, power cuts and long queues for basic necessities
‘’We were expecting a cancellation since the day we got this date." - Shanakiyan Rasamanickam
Sri Lanka has been struggling to import fuel due to severe shortage of US dollars
All commodity prices in Sri Lanka are on the rise due to the rupee depreciation.
The public should not wait till the price revision in July as promised by Minister Kanchana
"We hope to reduce it by 8-10 percent and will be applied from tomorrow."
President Maithripala Sirisena says that if a Bill to abolish the death penalty is presented in the parliament, he would...
A father and his 11-year-old daughter were after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a Colombo Fort-bound trai...
The railway trade unions will be forced to carry out another train strike if the jobs of the current informal workers of...
A Bangladeshi national accused of financial fraud to the tune of Rs. 2 million was taken into police custody in Narammal...
The Supreme Court has fixed July 25 and 26 to hear 12 Fundamental Rights petitions filed by several hundred citizens agg...
The Navy seized an unidentified fishing vessel in the Southern seas yesterday (11 July) with 60 kilograms of narcotics o...
The Detention Order under which the Kurunegala doctor accused of making thousands of women infertile has been lifted his...
A mixed generation plan that uses both thermal and renewable energy will be implemented to meet the growing electricity ...
Wanting to bring relief to drought-affected Dry Zone farmers President Maithripala Sirisena is calling for accelerating...
During the first quarter of 2019, the total number of employed persons in Sri Lanka is estimated at about 8.2 million. O...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 7.70 | 7.69 |
| Gilt Repo | 7.74 | 7.72 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
All United National Front Members of Parliament are rushing to the House after the party leadership said they should be ...
Counter-terrorism Coordinator of the European Union (EU) Gilles de Kerchove will be in Sri Lanka and the Maldives betwee...
US President Donald Trump has said that the United States will work with Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the terrorist att...
The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday attack is expected to order the Taj Samudra Hotel in ...
Issuing a joint statement on last week’s acquittal of all 13 defendants of the so called Trinco Five case citing a lac...
A ‘Green Society Act’ will be presented in Parliament to facilitate a bipartisan approach to protecting the environm...
Attorney General Dappula De Livera has directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to name Army Intelligence of...
Shahul Hameed Hizbullah, a close associate of Easter attack mastermind Zahran Hasheem, who was arrested on 15 June was h...
Police together with the Navy on Monday (8 July) nabbed three suspects who were illegally transporting iron from the Ham...
President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed a "professional advisory board" on national security to be chaired by Parli...
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