COLOMBO, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee hit a record low on Thursday due to dollar demand from banks and importers, but the rupee rebounded after exporters sold the greenback later in the session, dealers said. The spot rupee which traded at a …
Rokshini, a 30-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil refugee residing in the Thoppukollai camp in Pudukottai district with her two children, finds it difficult to describe her feeling. Her nearly year-long struggle came to fruition on Tuesday morning, when she rec…
Bangladesh cricket authorities today sought an explanation from their Sri Lankan curator Gamini de Silva for preparing a slow wicket in Dhaka, where the hosts lost the tri-nation final against Sri Lanka. The islanders defeated much-fancied Bangladesh b…
Standards such as well-managed parking, clean drinking water, affordable housing, proper street lighting, green environment, robust information technology connectivity and many are important for cities to function well, according to research from Sri L…
COLOMBO, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Tuesday as demand for dollars from banks and importers surpassed selling of the greenback, dealers said. The spot rupee ended at 154.00/10 per dollar, compared with Monday’s close of 153.75/85. The rupee gained 0.2 percent …
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A more honest title for this story might be five reasons that I, Katharine Pope (née Jacobs) would like Sri Lankan food to become really, really trendy. (I enjoy eating curry for breakfast, you see.) But I’ve always thought that trend pieces are kind of self-fulfilling, and in this instance, I think the ends justify the …
Sri Lanka will hold a long-delayed local government election on Feb. 10. President Maithripala Sirisena in an election rally over the weekend said he was ready to form a new government with his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), breaking away from the cur…
Despite the warning, Sri Lankan Tamil filmmaker Jude Ratnam undertakes the perilous journey of travelling back in time in his documentary Demons in Paradise. At the beginning of the 94-minute film, Ratnam recalls the time in 1983 when he fled to Colomb…
In a shocking case of child sexual abuse, a Karnataka man has been arrested for luring a Sri Lankan minor to India on the promise of a modelling career, and sexually assaulting her and looting Rs 2 lakh from her and her mother. The man – Satish – the s…