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UN mission warns of worsening food crisis in Sri Lanka
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Since June, the HNP has been responding to the Government's request for UN-backed multi-sector support for Sri Lanka's debt and food and medicine shortages. "Governments and donor agencies have helped the humanitarian community reach over 1 million of the country's most vulnerable people wit
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UK-based NGO holds discussions on what lessons South Asian nations can dra
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
UK-based NGO holds a discussion on lessons for South Asian nations from Sri Lankan dire political and economic problems.
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Australian team donates Sri Lanka tour prize money for supporting children
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Led by Pat Cummins, a United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Australia ambassador, the team will donate $45,000 to the organisation's Sri Lanka appeal.
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Bangladesh's foreign reserves are good, won't see repeat of Lankan crisis:
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Amid raging protests against skyrocketing fuel prices, the Bangladesh government has asserted that Dhaka won't see a similar fate to the Sri Lankan crisis because the country has a substantial amount of foreign reserves.
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Sri Lankan President expresses concerns over diplomats' statements against
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 23 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe raised unofficial concerns over the statements made by some diplomats about the military operation carried out by the security forces to clear the Presidential Secretariat area where the protestors were gathered.
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Sri Lanka: LoP Premadasa meets Wickremesinghe, urges to reinforce parliame
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 21 (ANI): Sri Lanka's main Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa on Thursday met the country's newly elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe and urged him to reinforce the Parliament committee system "to achieve national consensus rather than dishing out ministerial por
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Centre to hold all-party meeting over Sri Lankan crisis today
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): The Centre has convened an all-party meeting on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka.
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Government calls on suo motto all-party meeting over Sri Lankan crisis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The Narendra Modi government has called for an all-party meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss the crucial issue of the Sri Lanka crisis.
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A look at China's role in Sri Lankan Crisis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 15 (ANI): While Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis since independence with food and fuel shortages, China has turned a blind eye to the crisis and shifted the blame to the borrower, a media report said.
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China's investment in Sri Lanka is part of Lankan crisis: Arvind Panagariy
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): Former Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog Arvind Panagariya on Thursday said that China's investment in Sri Lanka is a part of the Sri Lankan crisis, but it's not the sole or the principal cause of the problem.
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Adhir Chowdhury calls for all-party meet on Sri Lankan crisis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 13 (ANI): With Sri Lanka reeling from its worst economic crisis, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday asked the Centre to convene an all-party meeting over the issue.
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Former Sri Lankan Prez Rajapaksa to leave for Singapore from Maldives
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 13 (ANI): Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who landed in the Maldivian capital Male on a Sri Lankan Air Force plane, will be leaving for Singapore on Wednesday.
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