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The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of Sri Lanka's three armed services. Established as the Royal Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Army of approximately 255,000 regular and reserve personnel including 90,000 National Guardsmen and is responsible for overseeing land-based military and ...
The Sri Lankan Rupee ( Sinhala: රුපියල්, Tamil: ரூபாய்; symbol: රු (plural) in English, රු in Sinhala, ௹ in Tamil; ISO code: LKR) is the currency of Sri Lanka. It is subdivided into 100 cents ( Sinhala: සත, Tamil: சதம் ), but cents are rarely seen in circulation due to its low value. It is issued ...
On January 4, 2021, total market capitalisation crossed three trillion rupees mark for the first time. [2] Hayleys announced a stock split on January 21 of 2021 and it resulted in increasing market capitalization by over 100 billion rupees. All share price index surpassed 8000 points for the first as a result. [3]
John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is one of the largest conglomerate companies in Sri Lanka.From managing hotels and resorts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to providing port, marine fuel and logistics services to IT solutions, manufacturing of food and beverages to running a chain of supermarkets, tea broking to stock broking, life insurance and banking to real estate, the Group of companies has ...
The banknotes of the Sri Lanka rupee are part of the physical form of Sri Lanka 's currency. The issuance of the rupee banknotes began in 1895. The Government of Ceylon introduced its first paper money in the form of the 5 rupee banknote in 1895. These were followed by 10 rupee notes in 1894, 1000 rupee notes in 1899, 50 rupee notes in 1914, 1 ...
Maximum retail price. The MRP of this bottle of water in Sri Lanka is 90 Rupees. Maximum retail price ( MRP) is a manufacturer-calculated price that is the highest price that can be charged for a product sold in India, Indonesia, where it is known as Harga Eceran Tertinggi ( HET ), and Bangladesh. [1] The MRP is also imposed by the government ...
The mixed economy of Sri Lanka was worth $84 billion by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 [ 32] and $296.959 billion by purchasing power parity (PPP). [ 33] The country had experienced an annual growth of 6.4 percent from 2003 to 2012, well above its regional peers.
Department of Wildlife Conservation. Pigeon Island National Park is one of the three marine national parks of Sri Lanka. The national park is situated 1 km off the coast of Nilaveli, a coastal town in Eastern Province, encompassing a total area of 471.429 hectares. The island's name derives from the rock pigeon which has colonized it.