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Ex-Sri Lankan Chief Justice reproaches Colombo Govt for its 'total failure
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 19 (ANI): Former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Sarath Nanda Silva, while speaking on the ongoing economic crisis in the Island nation, held the Colombo government responsible for the crisis and said that it had totally failed to address the problems faced by the citiz
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Pakistan: Army scurries for damage control after Imran Khan's 'foreign con
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's ouster, his US foreign conspiracy rhetoric which contradicts with Army's standing, and the country's troubled polity have all placed the military in an uneasy spot which is now trying to do damage control and recover
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China stares at national crisis with spike in COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], April 19 (ANI): China on Monday reported 3,297 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday, while lockdowns in cities are triggering cascading effects with Beijing staring at a national crisis.
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Pakistan's public debt stands at Rs 42.7 trillion
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 18 (ANI): Pakistan's total public debt till December 2021 stood at Rs 42,745 billion, including Rs26,745 billion domestic debt and Rs15,950 billion external liabilities, according to a report released by the finance ministry.
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Sri Lanka: Opposition party SJB to protest against govt next week
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Sri Lanka Opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has decided to launch an anti-government protest march from Kandy to the capital city, Colombo on April 26, local media reported.
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Sri Lankan President admits making mistakes as economic crisis persists
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Admitted that his government made mistakes on some policy fronts, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday said he is ready to correct those mistakes and move forward.
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Sri Lanka may overcome economic crisis if Govt, public come on same page:
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, on Monday said that the economic crisis can only be solved when both the government and the public accept the uniform solution.
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Sri Lankan court extends travel ban on former central bank chief
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): A Sri Lankan court on Monday extended a travel ban imposed on former central bank chief Ajith Nivard Cabraal.
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Sri Lankan PM to propose constitutional amendment
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is set to propose to the cabinet to amend the constitution, media reports said on Monday.
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Sri Lanka: Protesters seek resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ami
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka, a string of protests marked the island nation as the citizens demanded the immediate resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his inability to curb the crisis.
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Geo-political analyst pins blame for Lankan crisis on China's opaque debt-
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 18 (ANI): Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a geo-political analyst from Sri Lanka, said that China's loan model to Sri Lanka is ambiguous while no one knows the interest rate charged by Beijing for the money lent to the island nation.
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Pakistan delegation to meet IMF to sort out economic crisis
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 18 (ANI): Due to the rising political tension in Pakistan, and also the raging economic crisis, a high-profile Pakistani delegation is likely to make fresh contacts with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in a meeting at Brent Wood Institutio
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