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Sri Lanka: Perinatal Society appeals for help to 'save newborn babies' as
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 11 (ANI): Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka has made a desperate appeal to the Sri Lankans living in and outside the island nation to save newborn babies in hospitals that are running out of essential consumables amid the country's deepening economic crisis.
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Pakistan's water supplies under severe strain amid slow snow melting
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 11 (ANI): Pakistan's National water supplies have dipped substantially low and are facing severe strain as, despite an early onset of summer in mid-March and April getting hotter than usual, the snow melting process in mountainous and hilly areas has not picked up
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Sri Lankan leaders use Chinese money for personal benefit, say locals arou
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Hambantota [Sri Lanka], April 10 (ANI): Amid one of the worst economic crises in Sri Lanka, locals around the country's Hambantota port blame the government for the situation the island nation is facing at present while saying that the leaders use the money they receive from China for the
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Protestors burn effigies of Sri Lanka President, PM at anti-govt protests
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Milan [Italy], April 10 (ANI): Some 1000 Sri Lankan nationals staged an anti-government protest at Central Railway Station in Milan, Italy.
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Sri Lanka: President Rajapaksa meets ex-President Srisena, discusses econo
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 10 (ANI): President Gottabaya Rajapaksa and former President Maithripala Srisena-led Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) held a crucial meeting on Sunday evening to discuss the political and economic crisis affecting the country.
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Sri Lanka's political alliance moves bill to remove powers of executive pr
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 10 (ANI): Sri Lanka's parliamentary group of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) on Sunday said that they have come up with a private member's bill to scrap the 20th amendment and remove the powers of the executive presidency.
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High interest rate by State Bank of Pakistan to wreck country's economy
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 10 (ANI): After the State Bank of Pakistan "surprisingly" increased the interest rate by 250 basis points, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh said, this will put a halt to the economic and commercial activ
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UNICEF distributes cash to Afghan families to ease humanitarian crisis
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said that they have distributed cash assistance to over 6,000 families in the central Daikundi province of the country to respond to the
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UK PM Boris Johnson, Ukrainian President walk through streets of Ukraine's
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], April 10 (ANI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson walked alongside the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the street of Kyiv during Johnson's surprise visit to the war-hit nation.
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Sri Lanka's Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa to hold crucial meeting with 41 MPs
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 10 (ANI): In a bid to find a solution to the current economic, political and social crisis in the country, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be holding a crucial meeting with 41 MPs who recently quit the ruling dispensation.
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Russian Air Force hit 86 Ukrainian military facilities
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian combat air force has destroyed 86 Ukrainian military facilities since the evening of April 9, Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.
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Amid economic crisis in Sri Lanka, ration, vegetables from India reach Col
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 10 (ANI): As vegetables and daily ration items sent by New Delhi reached Colombo, India again stepped forward to help Sri Lanka amid the worst economic crisis in the island nation.
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