Sri Lanka's Central Bank said on Tuesday that the next Monetary Policy Review: No. 02 of 2024 will be announced on Tuesday, March 26 at 7.30 a.m where it would decide on either increasing, decreasing or maintaining interest rates at current levels. This would be after a meeting of the Monetary Policy Board on Monday, March 25.
Earlier the banking regulator said the review won’t be issued monthly, as the case has been in the past, but once in two months.
The Monetary Policy Board held a meeting on February 7 where no policy interest rate decision.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
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Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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