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Sri Lanka stock market halts trading as share prices plummet
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 25 (ANI): Sri Lanka stock market on Monday halted trading again after the index of liquid stocks plummeted, with the All Share Price Index falling 9.6 per cent and the Standard & Poor's Sri Lanka 20 (S&P SL20) plunging 12.64 per cent, according to a media r
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Sri Lanka: 21st Amendment proposal to be presented in new cabinet meeting
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 25 (ANI): Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will present on Monday proposals submitted by political parties to Parliament to draft the 21st Amendment of the Constitution at the first meeting of the new cabinet, local media reported.
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Sri Lanka: Opposition Party SJB claims of having over 113 signatories for
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 25 (ANI): Sri Lanka's opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP (Member of Parliament) Rajitha Senaratne on Sunday claimed that his party had secured over 113 signatures for the no-confidence motion against the government.
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Sri Lankans to face severe power cuts due to lack of sufficient fuel, wate
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 25 (ANI): The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the largest electricity company in Sri Lanka, on Sunday announced that there will be a 4 hour and 30-minute power cut for three days due to the lack of sufficient fuel and water to generate electricity.
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Sri Lanka crisis: Situation tense near Prime Minster Rajapaksa's residence
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 25 (ANI): As the anti-government protest continues in Sri Lanka over the worsening economic crisis, the tense situation has been reported near the residence of the country's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, according to local media.
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Sri Lanka: University students federation protest march reaches Galle Face
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 24 (ANI): The Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) protest march reached Galle Face in the capital city of Colombo on Sunday evening.
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Sri Lanka to appoint advisors on debt restructuring in next 20 days
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 24 (ANI/Xinhua): Sri Lanka will appoint advisors to help with its debt restructuring in the next 20 days, Finance Minister Ali Sabry has said.
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Sri Lanka: Rebel lawmakers ask Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign honourably or f
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 24 (ANI): The group of ruling party lawmakers who rebelled and became an independent group earlier this month, said that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa should resign from his post, or else will have to face a no-confidence motion.
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Former PM Wickremesinghe predicts food crisis in Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 24 (ANI): United National Party (UNP) leader and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has predicted food shortage in Sri Lanka as the Indian credit facility given for fuel will end by the first week of May and demanded the Rajapaksa government's resignation.
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If interim govt formed, should be under my leadership: Sri Lankan PM
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 23 (ANI): Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa asserted that if an interim government is formed in the country then it should be under his leadership.
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Sri Lanka: CID arrests suspect involved in Rambukkana incident
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 23 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department (CID) arrested a man as the suspect who set fire to the container carrying fuel during the protest in Rambukkana on April 19, local media reported.
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China gets flak for pushing Sri Lankan economy into 'debt-trap'
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 22 (ANI): As Sri Lanka faces one of the worst economic crises, China has been widely criticized for pushing the Sri Lankan economy into its 'debt trap' and for predatory behaviour such as leasing out the port of Hambantota for 99 years.
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