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Sri Lankan PM calls on Oppn leader Premadasa to join hands, form non-parti
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 15 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister and United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe invited opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and his party to form a non-partisan government that goes beyond traditional parliamentary politics.
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Sri Lanka: Nation's economic meltdown uncovers Chinese 'debt-trap' policy
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): China offered debt-stricken Sri Lanka more loans to overcome its economic distress amid rising protests in the country.
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Solutions to economic crisis must be found in accordance with people's wis
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): Sri Lanka's leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa in a letter to newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that solutions to the economic and political crisis must be found in accordance with the wishes of people.
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Sri Lanka: Protestors demand arrest of Mahinda Rajapaksa in fresh protests
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): The anti-government protestors in Sri Lanka established a new protest site at the temple trees near the residence of the Prime Minister of the country to rally against the alleged political deal made between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and newly appointed
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Acute shortage of LPG cylinders aggravating protests in Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing economic catastrophe in Sri Lanka, the inaccessibility to LPG cylinders for over a month has resulted in locals' protest outside Slave Island PS in Colombo on Saturday.
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Sri Lanka: Cooking gas shortage deepens, army called to control angry crow
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): Colombo police called army personnel to disburse the crowd over the demand for cooking gas at a Slave Island Police Station on Saturday.
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India to supply 65,000 MT of urea to Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): Amid Sri Lanka's devastating economic crisis, India in another initiative to extend support will be supplying 65,000 metric tons of urea to the island nation.
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Lawyer moves court for arrest of ex-Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa for attack
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): A lawyer has moved a Sri Lankan court seeking direction to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately arrest seven persons, including former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa while alleging conspiracy to commit criminal intimidation and abett
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Experts caution countries from China's debt-trap diplomacy
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 13 (ANI): With the Sri Lankan economy overburdened with Chinese loans, as per the experts, other countries in the region also need to call upon their own governments to draw the necessary lessons from the Island nation.
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Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan tests negative for COVID-19, may pl
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 13 (ANI): Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has tested negative for COVID-19 and is likely to play the first Test against Sri Lanka at Chattogram which begins on May 15.
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UK advises against travel to Sri Lanka amid political instability
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], May 13 (ANI): The UK has advised its citizens against traveling to Sri Lanka amid the ongoing political and economic instability.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe exudes confidence of IMF helping Sri Lanka during eco
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 13 (ANI): Assuring the countrymen of uplifting the country's economy, newly-appointed Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday exuded confidence of International Monetary Fund (IMF) helping the Island nation during its worst economic crisis.
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