Sri Lanka restricts 367 ‘luxuries’ as forex crisis worsens
(AFP/Reuters)-Sri Lanka on Wednesday tightened restrictions on a wide range of imports from whisky to kitchen appliances as a foreignContinue Reading
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Sri Lanka former PM says no national govt amid rumours but calls for parties to unite in the face of crisis
Colombo, March 9 (Jamila Husain/DailyMirror) – Rumours have been rife that UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is in talks with PrimeContinue Reading
Hundreds of bakeries shut in Sri Lanka after cooking gas runs out
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Nearly 1,000 bakeries have closed in Sri Lanka due to a severe shortage of cooking gas, anContinue Reading
Sri Lanka cardinal seeks UN probe into Easter massacre
(AFP)- The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday urged the United Nations to investigate the 2019 Easter SundayContinue Reading
Watch: Shane Warne’s body moved from the hospital to undergo an autopsy
Shane Warne suffered chest pains before he travelled to Thailand for a holiday, where the cricket great died from aContinue Reading
Sri Lanka ends widely condemned Muslim burial policy
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka on Thursday ended a heavily criticized policy that required Muslim Covid-19 victims to be buried atContinue Reading
Fertiliser ban decimates Sri Lankan crops as government popularity ebbs
AGBOPURA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – W.M. Seneviratne sat watching a mechanised harvester slice through the jade green fields around himContinue Reading
IMF urges Sri Lanka to raise taxes, devalue currency
(AFP)-The International Monetary Fund warned crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Thursday that its foreign debt was “unsustainable”, and called for devaluationContinue Reading
Sri Lanka sacks energy minister a day after publicly criticizing the government’s monetary policy as economic crisis deepens
Sri Lanka’s president sacked his energy minister on Thursday as fuel shortages left the near-bankrupt island facing its worst blackoutsContinue Reading
Sri Lanka runs out of fuel as dollar crisis worsens; President says no more power cuts after March 5
(AFP/Reuters)-Sri Lanka’s public transport was crippled Wednesday as buses ran out of diesel, officials said as the country’s foreign exchangeContinue Reading
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