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Sri Lanka to keep 'middle-income' status but seek concessional loans

October 11, 2022 4:39 pm

Sri Lanka has struggled with an acute dollar shortage to pay for imports of food, fuel and medicine, a plunge in the rupee and runaway inflation.

Sri Lanka's economic woes to last another year; need to look at new sectors for recovery: Prez Wickremesinghe

August 06, 2022 6:55 pm

Speaking at a two-day conference titled “Let's reset Sri Lanka” held on Friday, Wickremesinghe said that reforms in the country also would need higher taxation.

Rights groups urge Sri Lanka not to use force on protesters

July 24, 2022 1:01 pm

A day after President Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn, hundreds of armed troops raided a protest camp outside the president's office in the early hours of Friday, attacking demonstrators with batons.

Daily Briefing: Rupee falls below 80 against dollar; why a UP sanitation worker was sacked over photos of Modi, Yog

September 03, 2022 11:08 am

In today’s edition: What Rs 80 to a dollar means; why a UP sanitation worker was sacked over photos of Modi, Yogi; Pythagorean geometry in Vedic-era texts; and more.

Majority of Sri Lanka's ruling SLPP party in favour of Alahapperuma as President, Premadasa as PM

July 19, 2022 10:08 pm

Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and two others were proposed by lawmakers for the presidential election to pick the successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa after he resigned.

Wickremesinghe, Premadasa among four leaders to contest presidential election in Sri Lanka

July 16, 2022 3:10 pm

Marxist JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Dullas Alahapperuma, a breakaway SLPP candidate, are the other two leaders who have so far announced their candidacy

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Sri Lankan Police arrest three persons for setting fire to PM Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence

July 10, 2022 12:30 pm

More arrests are on the anvil, as the police have widened their scope of investigations, police spokesman SSP Nihal Talduwa said.

Sri Lanka opposition hopes to install new government amid turmoil

July 10, 2022 12:02 pm

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of Parliament said Rajapaksa would step down Wednesday.

Calm in Sri Lanka as president, prime minister to quit over economic collapse

July 10, 2022 10:24 am

Thousands had descended on the seaside city demanding Rajapaksa resign after months of mismanaging the crisis, a dramatic escalation of largely peaceful anti-government protests on the island that sits near key shipping lanes.

Lanka didn't arrest citizens who joined IS as joining foreign terror outfit not against law: PM

April 26, 2019 12:28 pm

Sri Lankan police have released photos of six suspects, including three women, wanted for their involvement in the attacks and sought information regarding them from the public.