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IMF provisionally agrees on USD 2.9 billion loan for crisis-hit Sri Lanka
World | Sep 01, 2022, 12:59 PM ISTIMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to support Sri Lanka’s economic policies with a 48-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of about 2.9 billion US dollars.
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IMF meets Sri Lankan President to begin talks for bailout package
World | Aug 24, 2022, 09:08 PM ISTSri Lanka economic crisis: In its latest assessment, the World Bank has said that Sri Lanka has been ranked 5th with the highest food price inflation in the world.
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Sri Lanka bans import of 300 items of consumer goods to stabilise economy
World | Aug 24, 2022, 04:14 PM ISTIn a special notification issued by the Sri Lankan finance ministry, the ban was imposed on a total of 300 items including chocolates, perfumes, makeup, and shampoo among several other products.
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Asia Cup 2022: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and tales of flaring temper | READ
Cricket | Aug 24, 2022, 09:48 AM ISTAsia Cup 2022: Not just India and Pakistan, but Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have also built something of rivalry amongst themselves. With two defeats in two Asia Cups (2016 & 2018), Sri Lanka will now seek to redeem itself against the mighty Bangladesh.
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Chinese satellite-tracking ship, docked at Sri Lanka's Hambantota port, leaves island nation
World | Aug 22, 2022, 05:48 PM ISTChinese ship leaves Sri Lanka: The Chinese ship arrived in the southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on August 16 at 8:20 am local time. It was docked there for replenishment. The ship left the port at 4 pm local time, harbour master Nirmal Silva told reporters.
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Asia Cup 2022: Big blow for Sri Lanka, Dushmantha Chameera ruled out of tournament
Cricket | Aug 22, 2022, 06:06 PM ISTThe 30-year-old Chameera has been replaced by Nuwan Thushara
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IMF delegation to visit Colombo next week to finalise staff-level agreement
World | Aug 20, 2022, 12:46 PM ISTIMF delegation will visit Colombo next week for discussions on finalising a staff-level agreement with the government in the “near term,” indicating that a bailout package would require "adequate assurances" from creditors that debt sustainability will be restored.
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Sri Lanka news: Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa applies for US green card, says report
World | Aug 19, 2022, 01:52 PM ISTSri Lanka news: After consulting his lawyers two days back, Rajapaksa had decided to return back to Sri Lanka later this month, Daily Mirror reported citing sources.
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Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa set for return to Sri Lanka next week, says report
World | Aug 18, 2022, 09:44 AM ISTSri Lanka news: Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia, Udayanga Weeratunga, who is also related to Gotabaya, hinted that Rajapaksa will return to the country on August 24, the Daily Mirror said on Wednesday (August 17).
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Sri Lanka Cricket seeks Rs 43.4 crore from former World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga
Cricket | Aug 16, 2022, 10:48 PM ISTHe made his Test debut at the age of 18 in Sri Lanka's inaugural Test match and is his country's first cricketer to score a fifty in Test.
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China not allowed to use Hambantota Port for military purposes: Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe
World | Aug 16, 2022, 08:46 PM ISTSri Lanka can be said to have fallen into a debt trap, sinking deeply into debt before effectively handing over the port’s control to China
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China's envoy plays down controversy over Chinese research ship docking in Sri Lanka
World | Aug 16, 2022, 02:38 PM ISTIndia has traditionally taken a stern view of Chinese military vessels in the Indian Ocean and has protested such visits with Sri Lanka in the past.
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Chinese research ship Yuan Wang 5 arrives in Sri Lanka amid India's security concerns
World | Aug 16, 2022, 09:41 AM ISTChinese ship in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka ministry said last weekend that the ship was given permission to dock in Hambantota until August 22.
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President Wickremesinghe thanks India for gifting Dornier aircraft to Sri Lankan Navy
World | Aug 15, 2022, 08:07 PM ISTThe Indian UN representative then V Krishna Menon had helped Wickremesinghe’s father who was then working on behalf of the Sri Lankan government to obtain UN membership.
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Sri Lanka allows Chinese ship, that India expressed 'concerns' over, to dock at island
World | Aug 13, 2022, 11:36 PM ISTSri Lanka announced that it has given permission for the vessel to be docked at the port on August 16.
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Ousted Sri Lankan prez Rajapaksa staying at Bangkok hotel, told not to come out for security reasons
World | Aug 12, 2022, 06:29 PM ISTRajapaksa arrived in Thailand with three other people on a chartered flight from Singapore at Wing 6 of the military airport adjacent to Don Mueang International Airport around 8 pm local time on Thursday.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ex-Lankan President who fled, leaves Singapore after social visit pass expires
World | Aug 11, 2022, 05:06 PM ISTSingapore earlier said it has allowed Rajapaksa to enter the city-state on a "private visit" from the Maldives and there was no request for asylum from him, after he fled the country in the face of public revolt against his government's mishandling of the economy.
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China seeks urgent meeting with Sri Lanka over 'India's concerns'
World | Aug 07, 2022, 11:42 PM ISTSri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe reportedly held a closed-door meeting with China's Ambassador Qi Zhenhong after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking.
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Sri Lanka's hard economic times would last another year: President Wickremesinghe
World | Aug 06, 2022, 02:45 PM ISTSri Lanka Crisis: Ranil Wickremesinghe said that over 6 million of the 21 million population of the country are malnourished. More and more are unemployed.
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Sri Lanka anti-govt protesters say would defy order to vacate main protest site and adjacent areas
World | Aug 04, 2022, 03:57 PM ISTProtestors claimed that the area was designated as an agitation site by the previous government of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, so there was no need to quit the protest site.