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One dead, 10 others injured as cops fire protesters in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is seeking three to four billion dollars from the IMF to overcome its balance-of-payments crisis and boost depleted reserves.
Lankan crisis: Ruling party MP dies in clash with anti-govt protesters
9 May 2022 12:24 PMMP Amarakeerthi Athukorala opened fire and critically wounded two people blocking his car in Nittambuwa, and was later found dead after trying to take...
Prez Gotabaya mum on resignation, to consider curbing his powers
12 May 2022 8:46 AMMeanwhile, the President is reported to have contacted Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka to offer premiership, the...
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Lanka's new PM who will address growing crisis
12 May 2022 3:20 PMHe is known as a man who could manage the economy with far-sighted policies, and is perceived as the Sri Lankan politician who could command...
Timeline of Sri Lanka crisis
12 May 2022 6:26 PMSri Lanka emerged from devastating civil war in 2009 only to be rocked by bombings in 2019 and then have its economy walloped by Covid.
Lankans run out of food, fuel, medicines
13 May 2022 8:48 PMThe economy got battered by the Covid pandemic which wrecked the tourism industry — a key revenue generator for the country — and hit other major...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka lifts curfew as new PM seeks to form cabinet
14 May 2022 11:11 AMSri Lanka crisis: Ranil Wickremesinghe, a five-time prime minister, was appointed to another term late on Thursday.
SL President seeks Int’l assistance to address economic crisis
27 May 2022 3:56 AMSri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence with food and fuel shortages, soaring prices, and power cuts.