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India's consignment of rice, milk powder other medical supplies to reach S
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 20 (ANI): As part of humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka, a consignment carrying rice, milk powder and medicines worth more than LKR 2 billion from India is scheduled to reach Colombo on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka: Nine new cabinet ministers take oath amid political, economic t
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 20 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday administered oath to nine new cabinet ministers as political instability and economic crisis continue to affect the island nation.
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Sri Lanka PM appoints former Maldives President Nasheed to coordinate reli
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 20 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed former Maldives President and Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Nasheed on Thursday to coordinate the relief efforts for the island nation.
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Sri Lanka: Protestors gather outside President Secretary's office over acu
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): With their country in the grips of a devastating economic crisis, frustrated protesters accumulated outside Sri Lanka's President Secretary's office on Thursday amidst large scale security deployment in place.
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Sri Lanka PM assures parliament of sufficient fuel stocks till mid-June
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri lanka], May 19 (ANI): Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday assured the country's lawmakers that the island nation has been able to secure sufficient stocks of diesel and petrol which will last till mid-June.
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Sri Lankan govt medical officers warn of trade union action over pay cuts,
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): Health services may be disrupted after fuel and gas shortages in Sri Lanka, said the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) of the country if the salaries of health workers are cut during this severe crisis.
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High Commission asks Indians living in Sri Lanka to register
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): India on Thursday asked all its citizens living in crisis-hit Sri Lanka to register themselves at the High Commission.
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Sri Lanka: CID interrogates four MPs over attack on protesters in Temple T
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): Sri Lanka's team of Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers on Wednesday questioned four MPs, including former Ministers Rohitha Abeygunawardena and CB Ratnayake, over the violence near Temple Trees and Galle Face Green in Colombo, a local media r
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Sri Lanka: PM Wickremesinghe seeks support of SJB's two MPs for non-partis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): Sri Lanka newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday in a letter to the opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) parliamentarians Manusha Nanayakkara and Harin Fernando sought their support in the formation of non-partisan government.
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Sri Lanka PM says, USD 160 million received from World Bank but cannot be
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Sri Lanka [Colombo], May 18 (ANI): Grappling with severe food and fuel shortages, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe in the Parliament on Wednesday said that the island country has received USD 160 million from the World Bank, however, the money would not be
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Sri Lanka crisis: Several including jobless participate in protest to get
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 18 (ANI): As the economic crisis in Sri Lanka is worsening day by day, several people including those jobless are participating in the protest against the government to get two-times meal for the day.
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Sri Lanka: Outrage after China distributes dry rations to foreign service
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 18 (ANI): Amid a shortage of essentials in Sri Lanka due to a severe economic crisis, food rations distributed by China have sparked outrage among the Foreign Service Officers' Association (FSOA) of the country.
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