Economic

Claim recommendations of the professionals at the Central Bank were consistently ignored
Insist on procedures for appointing heads of independent public institutions should be ‘depoliticised’
Call on enacting the proposed ‘Central Bank Act’ (Draft)
Condemn despicable attacks by mobs, incited and directed by certain politicians on peaceful protests
Opine violation may adversely affect international cooperation

CB revisits pandemic era playbook to preserve capital and liquidity of sector
CB brought in similar styled restrictions for second time since March 2020
Also asks banks to refrain from buying back their own shares, increasing management allowances and payments to director boards
Foreign banks been barred from repatriating profits, which are not already declared for financial years 2021 and 2022

Waning demand for economically and socially instable SL a key reason
Curtailment by airlines also to minimise future losses with over $ 100 m of old dues pending repatriation for six months due to forex crisis
Board of Airlines Representatives seeking meetings with CBSL and Treasury to resolve impasse

Joint Chambers together with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka yesterday called upon the President to take immediate steps to appoint a competent person as the interim Prime Minister and a small Cabinet of Ministers to be appointed in consultation with the Prime Minister acceptable to all leading political parties represented in Parliament.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ මේවනවිට පවතින ලියාපදිංචි නොකළ වාහන ප්‍රතිඅපනයනය කිරීම මගින් මෙරටට විදේශ විනිමය කඩිනමින් උපයාගත හැකි බව ආර්ථික විශ්ලේෂකයින් පවසනවා.

මෙරට බලපත්‍රලාභී වානිජ බැංකු කිහිපයකම දෛනික විනිමය අනුපාතික සටහන්වලට අනුව එක්සත් ජනපද ඩොලරයක විකුණුම් මිල රු. 375 ක් ලෙසින් අද (05) දිනයේ වාර්තා කර ඇත.

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce yesterday demanded immediate action from the Government to protect the fundamental rights of citizens.

රන් අවුන්සයක මිල ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 1,850 ක්

The Government is reviewing the present allocation under the $ 1 billion Indian Credit Line for different sub categories based on the current needs prioritising essential food items, medicines, fuel and LP gas.

The Colombo Stock Exchange has declared today as a market holiday due to settlement difficulties.

මහ බැංකුවේ නව අධිපතිවරයා කළ වැඩක්

The Colombo stock market closed on an indecisive note following the long weekend, amidst lacklustre investor activity and turnover yesterday.

In yet another historic industry first initiative, Airtel Lanka announced unlimited free local voice calls to any operator and social media to its range of Freedom Plans.

Advocata’s Bath Curry Indicator (BCI), which tracks the monthly changes in the retail price of food, recorded an increase of 14% from March to April. This is a year on year increase of 49% for this basket of food.

වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව රුපියල් කෝටි තුන් ලක්ෂයක මුදල් මුද්‍රණය කර තිබෙන බවත් එවැනි අධික මුදලක් මුද්‍රණය කරන විට සිදුවන දේ ගැන සාමාන්‍ය පෙළ සිසුවෙකු වුවත් දන්නා බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී රංජිත් සියඹලාපිටිය මහතා පවසයි.

Finance Minister Ali Sabry has issued a new Gazette effective 20 May banning use of Open Account for imports except by the overall export sector including indirect exporters.

SL Tourism Chief confirms the global marketing blitz is finally done after painstaking 1.5 years, but will be rolled out at appropriate time
Says Cabinet approval will be sought for Creative, Digital and Campaign Management agencies for which payment is mainly in rupees
8 Destination Representative Companies and 8 Public Relational Companies will be appointed subject to Cabinet approval

වාණිජ බැංකු රැසක ඩොලරයේ මිල මෙන්න