Economic
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has appointed Dr Hans Wijayasuriya as the Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy. President Dissanayake has espoused and reiterated a bold vision and personal commitment to elevate Sri Lanka’s digital economy to a level on par with the most advanced nations in the region, envisaging acceleration of economic growth, national competitiveness and delivery of tangible benefits to all citizens.
The recent courtesy visit by The Colombo Plan to the Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation Ministry Secretary K.D.S. Ruwanchandra and the management of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) represents a significant step in strengthening collaboration and updating attendees on recent developments and initiatives under the Maritime Advisory Program (MAP).
The Colombo stock market yesterday ended a week of volatile sentiments leading to a mixed closure.
The benchmark ASPI ended with a mere 0.2% gain whilst the active S&P SL20 was down by 0.5%. Turnover averaged Rs. 1.75 billion.
Sri Lanka has reached a significant milestone, surpassing 1.6 million tourist arrivals for the year, with over 117,000 visitors registered in the first 27 days of October.
වාහන ආනයනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් යම් ක්‍රමවේදයකට යටත්ව ඉඩ ලබා දීමට රජය පියවර ගෙන ඇති බව කැබිනට් ප්‍රකාශක අමාත්‍ය විජිත හේරත් පවසයි.
රජය විසින් භාණ්ඩ වර්ග 5ක් සඳහා අලුතින් විශේෂ වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩ බදු පනවා ඇති බවට සිදුකරන අසත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රචාරණයන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයෙන් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ.
කොළඹ පාරිභෝගික මිල දර්ශකයෙහි (කො.පා.මි.ද., 2021=100) වාර්ෂික ලක්ෂ්‍යමය වෙනස මගින් මනිනු ලබන මතුපිට උද්ධමනය, 2024 අගෝස්තු මාසයේ දී වාර්තා වූ 0.5% හි සිට 2024 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ දී -0.5% ක් දක්වා පහළ ගොස් ඇති බව ජනලේඛන හා සංඛ්‍යාලේඛන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව පවසයි.
Sri Lankan High Commissioner in London Rohitha Bogollagama met with Fortnum & Mason (F&M) CEO Tom Athron, and F&M Tea and coffee buyer Ottilie Cunningham, who recently visited Sri Lanka to source high quality Ceylon Tea.
- September tea production registers 7-year high of 24.13 m kilos, up by 27.67% YoY
- Production increases at all elevation levels compared to September 2023
- Jan. – Sept. crop improves by 1.41% to 196.21 m kilos
Sri Lanka’s tea crop has seen an improvement in volumes, despite the adverse weather conditions and other constraints.
- Says OMOs is routine central banking function aimed at managing adequate liquidity in banking system for purpose of stabilising short-term interest rates and ensuring price stability, hence should not be grossly misinterpreted as “money printing”
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) this week said the media has misinterpreted the auctions and monetary operations conducted by the CBSL as a part of its regular Open Market Operations (OMOs).
දේශීය ආදායම් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව 2025 ජනවාරි 1 වැනිදා සිට බලපැවැත්වෙන පරිදි බලපත්‍ර අලුත් කිරීම් සඳහා බදු නිෂ්කාශන සහතික ඉල්ලා සිටින අතර, නිශ්චිත අවශ්‍යතා සපුරාලන ලෙස මත්පැන් බලපත්‍ර හිමියන්ට දැනුම් දී ඇත.
Pensioners receiving their pensions through post offices and sub offices will be able to access their funds from 18th.
- Transfers of Dr. T. Senthilverl’s strategic blocks 14% of Harischandra Mills and 10.7% of Swadeshi Industrial Works figure in key trading
The Colombo stock market yesterday saw its turnover reach an 8-month high as investor sentiment remained positive.
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce announces that its flagship event, the Sri Lanka Economic Summit, originally scheduled for November 2024, has been rescheduled to January 28 and 29,2025, in light of the forthcoming General Election.
ජනාධිපති ලේකම් ආචාර්ය නන්දික සනත් කුමානායක මහතා සහ පෝට් සිටි කලම්බෝ සමාගමේ (port city colombo private limited ) කළමණාකාර අධ්‍යක්ෂ ෂියොන්ග් හොංෆෙන්ග් (xiong Hongfeng) මහතා අතර හමුවක් ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේදී අද (28) පස්වරුවේ පැවැත්විණි.
Sri Lanka welcomes over 63,000 tourists in the first 15 days of October, pushing the cumulative total for 2024 to over 1.54 million visitors.
Unilever Sri Lanka, in partnership with Vega Innovations, and the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID), is scaling up the use of refillable stations.
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