COLOMBO, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index, has dropped to 0.5 percent in August from 2.4 percent in July, Sri Lanka's Department of Census and Statistics said on Friday.
The department said the inflation in the food category dropped to 0.8 percent in August from 1.5 percent in July, whereas the non-food category inflation decreased
