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There will be more tourists to visit Ramayana sites in the future than Buddhist places in the country.
Commemorative coin available for sale from March 2023
Russia, UK, India and Germany remain the top three source markets since 2022.
International Green Week draws over 400,000 visitors
An independent debt management law is a priority reform under an IMF deal
Sri Lanka is expecting the budget deficit in 2020 to reach 9.0 percent of gross domestic product and tax revenues are re...
Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa is calling on all political parties to shed their differences and come togethe...
Advocata Institute, a Colombo-based think tank will host a live forum on how to improve Sri Lanka's debt sustainability.
Sri Lanka has said a downgrade of the sovereign rating by two notches to 'Caa1' by Moody's is unwarranted.
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Sri Lanka's sovereign rating two notches to Caa1, from B2, citing weak budgets ...
India expects Sri Lanka to go ahead with agreed deals on ports and energy request for Prime Minister Narendra Modi had s...
Sri Lanka is planning incentives of up to 3.5 percent for incremental exports over the next two quarters, which could br...
Sri Lanka’s businesses are hit and specialist vehicles such as ambulances are under threat, as the country runs out of...
Sri Lanka has stressed the need for South Asian countries to collaborate to revive the economies of the region which is ...
An ongoing import ban on motorcycles has affected a large number of middle-class Sri Lankans, Opposition Leader Sajith P...
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| US Dollar | 305.1018 | 305.3339 |
| UK Pound | 386.9523 | 387.2371 |
| Euro | 330.8712 | 332.1141 |
| Aus Dollar | 201.0018 | 201.4980 |
| Yen | 2.0266 | 2.0278 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Rupee | 3.6453 | 3.5932 |
| Korea Won | 0.2342 | 0.2292 |
| Oman Rial | 780.3569 | 769.4973 |
| Saudi Riyal | 80.1114 | 78.9849 |
| UAE Dirham | 81.7952 | 80.6569 |
| pts | % | |
|---|---|---|
| S&P SL20 | 2,573.80 | 1.00% |
| CSE All Share | 9,073.41 | 0.65% |
| Turnover Rs million | 1,591,766,524.95 | 1,029,335,694.32 |
| Latest | Last | |
|---|---|---|
| 3-m bill | 21.72 | 21.79 |
| 6-m bill | 19.55 | 20.31 |
| 12-m bill | 17.72 | 19.28 |
| 5-yr bond | 21.00 | 22.53 |
| 8-yr bond | 19.42 | 20.55 |
| today | yesterday | |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight Money | 13.93 | 14.00 |
| Gilt Repo | 13.50 | 14.00 |
| I-m SLIBOR | - | - |
Sri Lanka's finance ministry said 9.6 billion rupees of bills certifying payment arrears had been issued to contractors,...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered the immediate termination of a Japan-funded light rail transit (LRT) project th...
Sri Lanka is one of the safest countries in the world to live in during the Coronavirus pandemic, Korea's ambassador of ...
Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers had approved swaps of up to two years to cover foreign exchange risks of investors in r...
Sri Lanka's national inflation rose to 6.1 percent to 6.2 percent in August 2020 from a year earlier with consumer price...
Cinnamon traders in Sri Lanka can now export the spice in bark form to Brazil using a phytosanitary certificate issued b...
Sri Lanka's foreign remittances hit a high of 702.1 million US dollars in July 2020, rising 24.9 percent from a year ear...
Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has formulated most of its monetary policies with the well-being of banks and finance compani...
Sri Lanka ranks 83 out of 162 countries and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Rep...
Sri Lanka's vehicles registrations fell 45 percent to 17,493 in September 2020 from a year earlier with motorbikes falli...
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