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Political instability, economic chaos trigger crisis in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 31 (ANI): A crisis is brewing in Pakistan amid political instability and economic chaos.
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Poverty compels few Sri Lankan women towards prostitution
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 31 (ANI): As Sri Lanka is gripped under a reeling economic crisis, numerous women in the country have changed their professions and turned to prostitution for daily meals.
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Petrol reserves in Sri Lanka insufficient to meet needs of people
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 31 (ANI): The World Food Programme said that the remaining petrol reserves in Sri Lanka are likely to be insufficient to meet the needs of people.
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Poor man's 'Trump' Imran Khan leading Pakistan into a sinkhole: Report
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 31 (ANI): Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is a poor man's 'Trump' as he is creating his own version of new truth about the political system, calling all his opponents thugs, declaring he was the only option to save the state, just like the former US President Donald Tr
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Wickremesinghe urges parties to find ways to repay loans as unrest delayed
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 31 (ANI): Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said that the unrest had delayed a possible deal with the International Monetary Fund to help pull the bankrupt nation out of its economic crisis and urged political parties must work together on find
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India's future lies in strengthening liberal democracy and institutions: R
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], July 30 (ANI): The notion that democracy holds back economic development is wrong and India's future lies in strengthening its liberal democracy and institutions, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said.
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India does not have problems like Pakistan and Sri Lanka, says former RBI
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], July 30 (ANI): India has sufficient foreign exchange (forex) reserves, external debts are low and the country is not having the economic problems like Sri Lanka and Pakistan, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said.
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Sri Lanka way? Moody's, Fitch and S&P downgrade Pakistan's rating
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): Citing the country's weakening economic position, Moody's, then Fitch, and now S&P Global - three major global rating agencies have downgraded Pakistan's long-term rating from stable to negative, according to media reports.
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Makeshift brothels crop up in Sri Lanka as economic hardship pushes women
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 30 (ANI): In Sri Lanka, which is battling a crushing economic crisis, is now facing another predicament with its women, most of them who have lost their jobs in the textile sector, now forced to become sex workers to earn a livelihood.
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Pakistan power authority NEPRA to raise electricity tariffs again
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 30 (ANI): Pakistan's National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has issued a decision to increase the basic electricity tariff once again after it raised the basic electricity tariff by Rs 7.9 per unit last week.
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Pakistani rupee may slump further to PKR 275 per dollar: Report
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 29 (ANI): Pakistan is already staring down an economic nightmare and amid this more troubling news keeps coming as IGI Securities Ltd, one of the leading securities firms in Pakistan, said that the Pakistani rupee may slump further to 275 per dollar, media reports
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Japan hands over medical supplies consignment to Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 29 (ANI): The Japanese government came forward to help Sri Lanka and handed over the first consignment of a total donation of USD 1.5 million of essential medicines through UNICEF to meet the urgent needs of the population.
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