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Market sees over 600 million rupees of net foreign inflow
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
Arrivals down 20 percent in August compared to July.
- Tourist Trends (Category: Business)
- Travel Trend (Category: Business)
- Tourist arrivals up in August (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist arrivals up by 29% in August (Category: Breaking News)
Electricity subsidies, surcharges, and rooftop solar units: by Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) altered the CEB’s proposed prices and price structure, then amended its own proposal, and announced higher electricity prices, to be effective from 10 August 2022. Neither the CEB nor the PUCSL presented, to customers, the actual […]
- Correct method of pricing electricity and need to reduce costs (Category: Breaking News)
- The correct method of costing electricity (Category: Breaking News)
- Now is payback time (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce new electricity tariff scheme for low-income households (Category: Breaking News)
Imports fall as financial account inflows dry up
- Sri Lanka investment goods, non-foods import fall overtakes oil cost in April 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Country's Reserves almost double - Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka imports fall in May as credit slows with rate hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Exports up 7.0 percent (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in New Delhi, Milinda Moragoda, has declared that the preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under which Sri Lanka could receive $2.9 billion to tackle the ongoing economic crisis, is a “first step” in the long haul of economic recovery, but would provide the country and investors “confidence” to […]
- SL must restructure debt and ease import restrictions by year end says Morgoda (Category: Breaking News)
- Milinda: Sri Lanka should stabilise economy, relax import restrictions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala translation of Quran presented to Bharain Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Moragoda and ICCR Prez review Indo-Lanka cultural relations (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka’s First Firm Steps At Economic Reforms appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka: Strategizing Economic Recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- BRI Dynamics & Politics Of Cabinet Reshuffle (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Surviving The 75th Year Of Independence (Category: Breaking News)
- Charting A New Beginning? (Category: Breaking News)
The Government of Sri Lanka and UNDP in Sri Lanka announced the launch of the Sri Lanka SDG Investor Map (the Map), a market intelligence tool that seeks to direct private capital where Sri Lanka’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) priorities, Government policy and market opportunity intersect, as the country seeks to rebuild its economy sustainably, […]
- Driving sustainable investment: The crucial role of sustainable finance and private capital for ... (Category: Breaking News)
- UNDP says Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Global Compact Network Sri Lanka rallies corporates to ‘Forward Faster’ on SDGs (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka missed FDIs over delayed project planning by state entities – BOI (Category: Breaking News)
President Wickremesinghe through interim budget expects 2.5 million tourists in 2023.
- Spending Plan (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to issue development bonds to cover the costs of the first quarter of 2010 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka can earn more targeting experiences, sustainability (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s president to cut spending in interim budget (Category: Breaking News)
By CHANDRA FERNANDO Educational Consultant, USA The last few months of this year have been a time of great anxiety and much hardship for the people of Sri Lanka. No matter on which side of the political divide one stands, common problems converge into a cloud of nervousness, unease and uncertainty. Sri Lankans have not […]
- Women and children the most affected by Lanka’s economic crisis – ESCAP (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan women to protest today over the sexual abuse against women and children (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt may consider hangwomen if execution starts: State Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Kalkudah to Arugam Bay and some canny decision making by JRJ (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has started presenting the Interim Budget Speech 2022 at 01:03 PM today (August 30).The post Sri Lanka’s Interim Budget Speech 2022 appeared first on ONLANKA News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka News.
- Sri Lanka’s Budget Speech 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Budget Speech 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Contributory pension scheme for those joining state sector after 2016 – Prime Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Rs.500M for healthcare improvement (Category: Breaking News)
"This is a positive step and I am positive that the winter tourism season will perform well."
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- Over 400 respond (Category: Breaking News)
- IPO To Raise Rs. 400 mn (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
Gunasekara said, under the current circumstances, the production cost per egg is 49 rupees which is above retail price.
- Eat eggs, eggs and more eggs as prices fall to lowest in decades (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should focus on locally sourcing animal products: poultry association (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s bakers call for price controls on wheat flour after hurting egg farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Govt. makes a killing from egg imports’ (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank said it was holding its policy rates at 15.50 percent, while data showed market interest rates are close to twice the rate and private credit and imports falling. Monetary Policy Review: No. 06 – August 2022The Central Bank of Sri Lanka maintains policy interest rates at their current levelsThe Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka...
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka maintains policy interest rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka policy rate unchanged as market rates rise, money printing warnings (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expects inflation to slow, rates unchanged (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank expects economy to contract in second half of 2022 as well (Category: Breaking News)
Under the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau’s Visiting Journalists & Blogger Programs, a group of high-profile Indian media personnel was invited to Sri Lanka from July 3 to July 11, to re-discover Indo-Sri Lanka historical relationships. Eight media personnel representing several key states & cities of India, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad […]
- Celebration of 75 years of India’s Independence in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- “Similarities of two cultures”, Ladies’ College students participate in Indo Lankan Ethnic Progr... (Category: Breaking News)
- Distinctive styles of Indian Designers (Category: Breaking News)
- An unprecedented journey like never before at Cinnamon Grand Colombo : Mrs. India Inc Season 4 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean (Category: Breaking News)
- The Easter Attacks & A Game Of Thrones: The Master Mind, A Cover Up Investigation & AI (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4’s Easter Sunday: The IMF Descends Amid An Over The Horizon Operation Staring ‘Sonic-So... (Category: Breaking News)
- A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War (Category: Breaking News)
Electricity prices were last hiked in 2013 however were slashed almost by 25% in 2014
- Sri Lanka free trade zone manufacturers alarmed by electricity tariff hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Electricity tariffs to go up by 75 percent (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka utility regulator approves 75 percent electricity tariff hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka power tariff hike: ministry offers olive branch to protesting monks (Category: Breaking News)
"Around 40 percent of the supply comes from the SME sector while around 60 percent comes from large scale suppliers."
- Sri Lanka should focus on locally sourcing animal products: poultry association (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s new price controls on eggs could lead to shortages: poultry association (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s bakers, candy makers urge govt. to impose price controls; allow imports (Category: Breaking News)
- Egg prices expected to drop, imports unnecessary from next year – Minister (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
Delusion appears to be a national affliction in Sri Lanka. When confronted with stark realities, the state consistently refuses to take proactive measures to avert dire consequences. It refers to national liabilities, like the national airline, as national assets. Despite regular doses of life-saving intravenous injections in the form of hard cash by the Treasury, […]
- SriLankan Airlines participates at the Ottawa Travel and Vacation Show (Category: Breaking News)
- Dialog, SriLankan offer star points, FlySmiLes conversion (Category: Breaking News)
- Union: UL will be stripped of profitable units to ensure no takers for national carrier (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines cut losses drastically in FY 2010 (Category: Breaking News)
This will be the first time electricity rates are increased in nine years.
- CEB To Be Made An Economically Stable Institution (Category: Breaking News)
- Electricity for all IDP villages in North-East (Category: Breaking News)
- Electricity for all IDP villages in North-East (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB seeks 82% increase in electricity tariffs (Category: Breaking News)
By Hiran H.Senewiratne The government is planning to restructure the national carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines, and privatization is one proposed option due to the current financial crisis, Sri Lankan Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Richard Nuttall said. “We are now looking at the privatization option as well because the government wants to restructure Sri Lankan […]
- JATA President and Executive Committee on a familiarization tour (Category: Breaking News)
- Six Lankan victims of trafficking repatriated from Myanmar (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines to renew commercial operations to China (Category: Breaking News)
- New Airplanes for Sri Lankan Airlines (Category: Breaking News)
After the collapse of the Sri Lankan economy, attention has turned to the state of affairs in other South Asian countries such as Pakistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh. All three countries have either curtailed imports or are planning to do so, to salvage their fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves and avoid a Lanka-like forex crisis. While the […]
- Bangladesh secures loans of $4.7 billion from IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh seeks $4.5 billion IMF loan as deficit widens (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF agrees $4.5 billion Bangladesh support programme (Category: Breaking News)
- Emerging Donor (Category: Business)
[…]The post A Lament Of The Tragedy Of Our Times appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lasantha’s 66th Birthday: Who Was Lasantha? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ahimsa Files UN Complaint On 12th Anniversary Of Lasantha Wickrematunge’s Murder (Category: Breaking News)
- Ahimsa Files UN Complaint On 12th Anniversary Of Lasantha Wickrematunge’s Murder (Category: Breaking News)
- Ahimsa Files UN Complaint On 12th Anniversary Of Lasantha Wickrematunge’s Murder (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is considering a restructure of local and sovereign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, as the island nation battles its worst financial crisis in its independent history.The post Sri Lanka considering restructure of local and sovereign debt appeared first on ONLANKA News :. Sri Lanka Breaking News Updates - Latest News in Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka President says China’s assurances to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt received and forward... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to begin talks to restructure debt of $30 Billion (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Government hoping to restructure $17 billion foreign debts along with local debts (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could wrap up debt restructure talks by Sept, president says (Category: Breaking News)
Difficulties procuring insurance, as well as logistical and security concerns, were some of the issues raised by sponsors and broadcasters that led to the Asia Cup being shifted from Sri Lanka to the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka Cricket has revealed. “They felt that the situation in Sri Lanka was not conducive to garner the […]
- SJB calls for sacking of SLC management (Category: Breaking News)
- Asia Cup likely to be shifted from Sri Lanka to UAE (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket expresses interest in hosting Asia Cup 2023 - Report (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB MP alleges misuse of funds at SLC (Category: Breaking News)
by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca. The forex crisis had forced the government to jettison its initial set of economic managers of the Central bank who looked for home-grown solutions and opposed dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President re-instated a set of managers whose ideas were more orthodox and aligned with the neo-liberal bankers […]
- IMF chief pleased SL reached staff-level deal for $2.9 billion (Category: Breaking News)
- Harsha hints at Chinese hurdle in debt relief talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China, says Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
By Anupama Rajput Sri Lankan Lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremsinghe as the new President on July 20. The six-time Prime Minister was able to garner 134 votes in the 225-member parliament, despite public anger with the ruling elite in the hope that his long experience in government could help pull the country out […]
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- Over 400 respond (Category: Breaking News)
- IPO To Raise Rs. 400 mn (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
Developments in Sri Lanka underline the risk of destabilising social and labour unrest throughout Asia-Pacific because of rising living costs impacting the region, S&P Global Market Intelligence said. Countries with similarly weak economic fundamentals and/ or poor economic policies have reduced resilience to external shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, high oil...
- Sri Lanka records slight drop in inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- WFP says 6.26 million people in Sri Lanka are food insecure (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s July consumer inflation more than halves to 4.6% (Category: Breaking News)
- China confirms two-year debt moratorium offered to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
After helping Sri Lanka with an unprecedented assistance of around $4 billion since January as the country plunged into a deep economic crisis, India is now planning to invest heavily in newer sectors through both private and public firms there, Gopal Baglay, high commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, told ThePrint in an interview.The post Long-term investments in Sri Lanka are India’s plan to...
- Long-term investments in Sri Lanka are India s plan to fix economic crisis- Envoy (Category: Breaking News)
- Long-term investments in Sri Lanka are India’s plan to fix economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian envoy to EU tipped for Sri Lanka as Gopal Baglay goes to Canberra (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will be secured if India is secured - Gopal Baglay (Category: Breaking News)
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