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Sri Lanka: Opposition party vows not to give national assets to redeem loa
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 3 (ANI): Sri Lanka's main Opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya vowed in the Parliament on Friday that it would not let the government sell their national assets to redeem its loan obligations to China.
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Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa returns home: official
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 3 (ANI): Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home in the early hours of Saturday after fleeing the country in July, according to a senior security official.
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Indian envoy hands over Maitri Buddha statue to Sri Lankan President Wickr
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 2 (ANI): Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay on Friday handed over a statue of Maitri Buddha brought from India to Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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Ex-Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa to return to Sri Lanka on Saturday: Report
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 1 (ANI): Almost two months after fleeing to Thailand, former president of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return back to the island nation on Saturday, a media report said.
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Sri Lankan President presents Interim Budget, says talks with IMF in final
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 30 (ANI): To provide relief to the Island nation amid the unprecedented economic crisis, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday presented the Interim Budget and said that the talks with International Monetary Fund is in final stage.
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Sri Lanka's economic situation continues to deteriorate, inflation rate sp
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 30 (ANI): The economic situation has continued to deteriorate in Sri Lanka, with the headline inflation rate spiking to another record high in July, World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
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Japan provides food assistance worth USD 1.5 million to Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 30 (ANI): Sri Lanka, on Monday, received the first tranche of food assistance valued at USD 1.5 million from the government of Japan, which was provided through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
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Sri Lankan officials lobby for Chinese company to get elevated highway pro
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 30 (ANI): Despite an official freeze on costly mega projects, Sri Lankan Highway Ministry officials are pressurising the country's Road Development Authority (RDA) to finalise a USD 550 million elevated highway, to a Chinese company local media reported.
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China pushes Sri Lanka to continue with organic fertilizer project despite
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 29 (ANI): After the Sri Lankan government rejected an order of organic fertilizer from a Chinese company on the issue of the presence of harmful bacteria, Beijing is pressuring Colombo to continue with its organic fertilizer project.
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China ducks Lanka's debt restructuring requests, makes sneaky UNHRC exit
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 28 (ANI): While Sri Lanka awaits a response from China over Colombo's request for debt restructuring amid the economic turmoil, Beijing has downplayed these critical requests and instead put ahead the agenda of human rights in the island nation. This comes ahead of
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India lashes out at Chinese Ambassador's views on India-Sri Lanka relation
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 27 (ANI): In a hard-hitting response to the remarks of Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said on Saturday that his views were a violation of basic diplomatic etiquette and maybe a personal trait or reflecting a l
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China dodges request on debt relief, says the ball is in Sri Lanka's court
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 27 (ANI): China, Colombo's largest bilateral lender dodged the request for debt relief and said that the ball is in Sri Lanka's court.
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