Sri Lanka slips into default, central bank head agrees to stay on | Business and Economy News
The island nation fell into default for the first time in its history as the gov’t struggled to halt an
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Sri Lankans honour Tamil victims of civil war after 13 years | Tamils News
Sri Lankan protesters have lit flames and offered prayers remembering thousands – including ethnic Tamil civilians – killed in the
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Sri Lanka minister asks people not to queue for fuel for two days | News
Colombo, Sri Lanka – M Jiffry, 35, a resident of Borella in Sri Lanka’s main city of Colombo, has been
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Sri Lanka faces ‘man-made’ food crisis as farmers stop planting | Food News
Walsapugala, Sri Lanka – Mahinda Samarawickrema, 49, will not be planting paddy this season. After a government ban on chemical
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No-confidence motion against Sri Lanka leader fails in parliament | Politics News
Ruling party defeats move to urgently debate the motion censuring President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the nation’s worst economic crisis. A
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Sri Lanka parliament reconvenes as PM warns of critical shortages | Politics News
Parliament meets for the first time since last week’s violence that saw Mahinda Rajapaksa resign as the prime minister. Sri
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Sri Lanka mulls privatizing national airline amid crisis | Business and Economy News
Sri Lanka’s new prime minister proposed privatizing the country’s loss-making national airline as the country tries to claw out of
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Sri Lanka down to its last day of petrol, warns new PM | Business and Economy News
Sri Lanka’s newly appointed prime minister has said that the cash-strapped island nation has run out of petrol stock, as
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The ‘new’ PM will not be a panacea to Sri Lanka’s problems | Opinions
This week saw the most serious unrest in Sri Lanka since the aftermath of the Easter Bombing in 2019. A
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Sri Lanka protests to continue as new PM struggles to form gov’t | Protests News
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s appointment fails to appease protesters demanding the president’s resignation over the economic crisis. The appointment of a new
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