Sri Lanka's central bank cut the policy rate by 25 basis points in a surprise move on Thursday, aiming to foster stronger economic growth after a lingering financial crisis and buffer any fallout from ...

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A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday (May 28), causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the risk of a ...

COLOMBO/LONDON (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s central bank said on Tuesday it had become “challenging and impossible” to repay external debt, as it tries to use its dwindling foreign exchange ...

The relevant energy technology mix for Sri Lanka at present is indigenous large hydro & mini-hydro systems, biomass, solar farms and solar PV on roof tops, wind and imported fossil fuels. Sri Lanka is ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka has restructured nearly $931 million in lines of credit and buyers' credit facility agreements with the Indian government, the island nation's finance ministry said on ...

In November 2017, the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering and terrorist financing listed Sri Lanka as non-compliant but reported subsequently that Sri Lanka had made good progress in ...

Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana scored a sublime 11th ODI century, while pacer Amanjot Kaur and spinner Sneh Rana shared seven wickets among them as India defeated Sri Lanka by 97 runs to clinch the ...

At least 21 people have been killed and many others injured when a bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka careened off a cliff, according to authorities. The crash took ...

A Central Bank statement said Sri Lanka’s third Mutual Evaluation on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework coordinated by the Asia Pacific Group on ...

Money & Macro Posted: May 23, 2025 | Last updated: May 23, 2025 Sri Lanka was once a thriving economy, known for textiles, tourism, and one of the largest tire industries in the world.

Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga wrote an incisive article titled “Central Bank printing new money”. Not many in Sri Lanka will know that its banknote printer is a private global company named DeLaRue, which ...