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Sri Lanka's Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa to hold crucial meeting with 41 MPs
Updated : 4 years, 1 month 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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Sri Lanka can overcome economic crisis provided Central Bank allowed to ru
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 10 (ANI): Exuding confidence in overcoming the unprecedented economic crisis, the newly appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Nandalal Weerasinghe said that one of the ways to overcome the current crisis situation is to allow the Central Bank to f
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People in Sri Lanka express gratitude to India for helping in need of hour
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 9 (ANI): As India continues to provide much-needed fuel in Colombo, people in Sri Lanka continue to express gratitude to its neighbouring country for helping in need of the hour.
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Top Sri Lankan delegation to meet IMF officials in Washington
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 9 (ANI): Amid Sri Lanka's severe economic crisis, a high-level delegation, including the country's Central Bank Governor and other senior officials, will attend an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington DC today.
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Sri Lanka: UN experts condemn crackdown on protests
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 9 (ANI): UN human rights experts have urged the Sri Lankan Government to guarantee the fundamental rights of peaceful assembly and of expression during peaceful protests, amid the country's severe economic crisis.
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Sri Lanka: Colombo's Galle Face Green urban park closed today amid schedul
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 9 (ANI): Authorities on Saturday closed Galle Face Green Urban Park in Sri Lanka's Colombo, the venue where locals had planned to hold a massive protest.
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Sri Lanka faces worst currency depreciation, negative social media adverse
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 9 (ANI): Negative social media has adversely impacted the tourism sector of Sri Lanka, which is battling its worst economic crisis, according to the Managing Director of Lanka IOC, a subsidiary of the Indian Oil Corporation.
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Sri Lanka's public sector employees, LGBT community join protest against R
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 8 (ANI): Public sector employees and the LGBT community in Sri Lanka joined protest against the Sri Lankan government as the country faces a severe economic crisis.
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Indian envoy Gopal Baglay denies reports of deployment of troops in Sri La
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 8 (ANI): Gopal Baglay, India's High Commissioner of Sri Lanka on Friday has categorically denied reports of deployment of the Indian Army in an economic crisis-ridden island nation and said that it was a rumour floating around since April 1.
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Sri Lanka to exhaust USD 500 million Indian fuel credit line by April end
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 8 (ANI): The USD 500 million credit line provided by India for fuel will be exhausted after the delivery of another 120,000 tons of diesel and 35,000 tons of petrol to Sri Lanka in the remaining period of this month.
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Amid ongoing protests multiple countries issue travel warnings for Sri Lan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 8 (ANI): As massive protests erupted across Sri Lanka after the economic crisis, multiple countries have issued travel warnings for the island nation.
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Sri Lanka appoints new central bank governor
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 7 (ANI): Amid the worst economic crisis since its independence, Sri Lanka appointed Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe as the new Governor of the country's Central Bank.
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