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Sri Lanka: Riot cops deployed at protest site, leave after protesters obje
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri lanka], May 2 (ANI): A tense situation erupted in Sri Lanka's Galle Face protest site after the riot police were deployed on the ground, resulting in protesters engaging in a verbal battle and eventually asking the riot police to leave the site.
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Sri Lankan President calls for political consensus to deal with economic c
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 1 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reiterated his call for a political consensus to deal with the challenges faced by the country, local media reported.
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Rameswaram fisherman agrees to deliver goods to Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai [Tamil Nadu],[India] May 1 (ANI): Amid the prevalent economic crisis in Sri Lanka, a fisherman from Rameswaram agreed to deliver essential commodities to the island nation.
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Sri Lanka: Opposition to bring no-confidence motion against Mahinda Rajapa
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 1 (ANI): Amid the ongoing economic crisis and the large scale public anger against the ruling government, Sri Lanka's leader of Opposition and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa on Saturday said that the no-confidence motion will be brought again
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Sri Lanka can use its potential, come back to stability: Israel envoy
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): Calling the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka "unfortunate", Israel's envoy to India, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Naor Gilon on Saturday said that the country can use its potential in tourism and agriculture to come back to stability.
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Sri Lanka to relax regulations over foreign earnings conversion control
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 30 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Central Bank has announced that they will remove the regulations that made the exporters convert their foreign currency earnings into rupees in the coming future.
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Drugs price hikes in Sri Lanka by 40 to 60 percent
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 30 (ANI): Adding more burden to the staggering economy of the island nation, the Health Minister of the country Channa Jayasumana issued a special gazette order on Thursday stating a dramatic price hike in the pharmaceutical drugs, yet again shooting up the prices
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Sri Lankan crisis 'man-made problem, warning signs ignored'
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 26 (ANI): The ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka, which is the worst in the country's history, is a man-made problem while warning signs visible for a year were ignored, said Professor Mick Moore, a highly acclaimed political economist and professorial fellow at the Insti
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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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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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