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WEB2 days ago · Sri Lanka rupee closes weaker at 303.75/85, bond yields up. Sri Lanka’s rupee closed weaker at 303.75/85 to the US dollar on Wednesday, from 302.25/80 on Friday, dealers said. 1 min read.
Sri Lanka’s CEB used Rs93bn profit to settle dues: Minister
WEBWednesday August 21, 2024 11:13 am. ECONOMYNEXT – A net profit of 93 billion rupees made by Sri Lanka’s state power utility the Ceylon Electricity Board was used to settle outstanding debt, the Minister of Power and Energy said. “The net profit of Rs 93 Billion by June 2024 has been utilized to pay the outstanding amounts to Renewable ...
Sri Lanka personal income tax relief to cost 0.08-pct of GDP
WEBSunday August 18, 2024 1:32 pm. ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s planned relief to personal income tax payers could cost 0.08 percent of gross domestic product in lost revenues and would be compensated by additional tax measures, Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana has said. President Ranil Wickremesinghe said last week that Sri Lanka and the ...
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WEBSep 19, 2002 · Sri Lanka state worker wage cost to rise 0.2-pct to 3.8-pct of GDP in 2025. The salary hike would be made within the recurrent primary expenditure (before interest), of 12.7 percent of GDP. September 12, 2024 2 min read.
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Sampath Bank: the tech pioneer transforming the banking industry
WEBWednesday February 10, 2021 4:20 pm. Nanda Fernando, Managing Director at Sampath Bank, one of Sri Lanka’s largest private banks that pioneered the use of banking technology in the country, discusses how the bank is harnessing digital tech to transform the country’s banking and payments landscape. Tell us about some of the bank’s latest ...
How MAS Holdings became one of Asia’s most innovative …
WEBFeb 9, 2021 · MAS Holdings is the first company in Sri Lanka to receive Clarivate’s most influential innovator award in South and South East Asia, but also the first ever apparel manufacturer in the world to receive it. For its most recent awards Clarivate used data for 235 organizations tracking them from 2014 to 2018 and it was narrowed down to 28 ...
Sri Lanka opposition: govt, immigration officials violating SC order …
WEBThursday August 22, 2024 3:12 pm. ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Public Security Ministry and officials in charge of immigration are violating the country’s Supreme Court order on a visa deal involving IVS-GBS and VFS Global, key opposition legislators said. Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on August 2 suspended the contract given to private ...
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WEBSep 6, 2024 · Sri Lanka state worker wage cost to rise 0.2-pct to 3.8-pct of GDP in 2025. The salary hike would be made within the recurrent primary expenditure (before interest), of 12.7 percent of GDP. September 12, 2024 2 min read.
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WEB4 days ago · Sri Lanka rupee closes weaker at 301.50/302.00, bond yields up further. Bond yields were up. Iconic Trust (Private) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Browns Investments Plc, said it is making a mandatory offer to buy the remaining 373,991,364 ordinary voting shares of Sierra Cables Plc at 8.00 rupees a share.