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Amid economic crisis Sri Lanka to increase fuel prices
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 26 (ANI): Amid the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) gas on Sunday decided to increase the fuel prices with effect from 2 am.
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Sri Lanka to limit fuel for private vehicles amid looming crisis
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 25 (ANI): Sri Lanka has decided to limit fuel for private vehicles as the fuel shortage continues to worsen in the Island nation.
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Former Sri Lankan cricketer serves tea, buns to people waiting at fuel sta
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Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 20 (ANI): Amid the unprecedented fuel crisis in the country, former Lankan cricketer Roshan Mahanama was spotted serving tea and buns to people waiting in lines outside the stores to buy fuel and cooking gas.
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Jaishankar to brief MEA Consultative Committee on Sri Lanka crisis
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will brief the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on External Affairs on June 18 over the ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka.
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'Nearly half Sri Lankan kids need aid': UNICEF appeals for USD 25 million
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 11 (ANI): The debilitating crisis in Sri Lanka has left nearly half of the children in the country in need of some form of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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22 per cent of Sri Lankans need food aid: UN official
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 10 (ANI): A total of 22 per cent of the Sri Lankan population or 4.9 million people live in need of food assistance at the moment, a high-level UN official said on Friday.
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Sri Lanka PM holds discussions with FAO, UNDP representatives
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 3 (ANI): Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe held discussions on Friday with the Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Vimlendra Sharan, and United Nations Development Program Deputy Country Representative, Malin Herwig, regardin
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India, Japan join hands to help Sri Lanka during economic crisis
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 31 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida have joined hands to address the crisis in Sri Lanka.
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Primary goal of educational reforms should be to create good citizens: Sri
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 28 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that the primary goal of educational reforms should be to create good citizens, who would be able to contribute to the economy of the island country.
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Sri Lanka to restructure public transport to minimize impact of fuel crisi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 27 (ANI): In an effort to minimize the impact of the ongoing fuel crisis on the common man, Transport and Highways Minister Bandula Gunawardena said that public transport will be restructured soon.
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Sri Lanka PM discusses new budget, economic plans with stakeholders
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 24 (ANI): Amid the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe discussed new budgets and future economic plans during a meeting with the representatives from the Chambers of Commerce, the Treasury and Economic Advisers at his office on Monday.
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India deliver over 2 billion humanitarian assistance consignment to Sri La
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 22 (ANI): As Sri Lanka grapples with a massive economic crisis, India handed over a large amount of humanitarian assistance consignment worth over Rs 2 billion to the island country which reached Colombo on Sunday.
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