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Aspen Medical was given more than $1 billion in government PPE contracts despite no experience in large-scale procurement

Private healthcare company Aspen Medical was given more than $1 billion in government PPE contracts, despite having no experience in large-scale procurement, a Four Corners investigation reveals.

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Thousands of Sri Lankans rally over government handling of crisis

Thousands of supporters of Sri Lankan opposition parties rallied on Sunday in the commercial capital Colombo as a weeks-long political and economic crisis showed no sign of abating.

Reuters

Annamalai wants Tamil Nadu to hand over Sri Lankan aid package to Centre

BJP leader urges the State government not to insist on delivering the aid directly to the neighbouring country

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Vladimir Putin calls them 'scum' and 'traitors'. Here's what life is like for Russia's new exiles

Vladimir Putin says the mass exodus of his people is a "self-detoxification" of Russia. But, as well as being a haven for those he calls "scum", Sri Lanka could be a convenient location for his alleged allies to stash their assets.

ABC News

Reporters Without Orders Ep 217: Sri Lanka crisis, Jahangirpuri violence

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Akanksha Kumar and Dainik Bhaskar special correspondent Poonam Kaushal.

Newslaundry

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka hikes medicine prices

Colombo (AFP) - Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced a 40 percent price hike for dozens of commonly used medicines on Saturday as the island nation labours through its worst economic crisis in decades.

AFP

A step that would trigger language phonocide

Imposing Hindi would be catastrophic; instead, India would be better off having a multi-linguistic accommodative policy

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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka says IMF bailout three months away

Colombo (AFP) - An International Monetary Fund bailout package for crisis-hit Sri Lanka could take up to three months to arrive, the country's central bank chief said on Friday, as anti-government protests over the economic crisis continue to escalate.

AFP

Despite challenges, Sri Lanka adapts to continue welcoming tourists

When the lights go out at the Ministry Of Crab in Colombo, candles flicker on. Undeterred by the pow

The Hindu

‘First in four decades’: Why Sri Lanka general strike matters

Analysts say Thursday’s nationwide strike was the first since a similar call given by the island’s trade unions in 1980.

Al Jazeera

OPS offers to contribute ₹50 lakh to aid Lanka; three others offer one-month salary

Marimuthu, Mohamed Shanavas and Nainar Nagenthran offer to contribute their one-month salaries for the cause to help people of Sri Lanka

The Hindu

TN Assembly adopts resolution urging Centre for sending assistance to Sri Lanka

The Tamil Nadu government has decided to send 40,000 tonne of rice valued at ₹80 crore, 137 medicines valued at ₹28 crore and 500 tonne of milk powder meant for children valued at ₹15 crore for the people of Sri Lanka

The Hindu

Lawmaker: Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PM

A prominent lawmaker says Sri Lanka’s president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country’s economic crisis

The Independent UK

Australia names full-strength squads for Sri Lanka tour

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Marcus Harris dropped from Australia Test squad for Sri Lanka

Sydney (AFP) - Australia dropped Ashes opener Marcus Harris on Friday from an otherwise settled squad for the two-Test tour of Sri Lanka in June and July.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan has a ‘strategy’ to boost shrinking forex reserves: FM

With barely enough reserves to cover two months of imports, finance minister says it will not be the next Sri Lanka.

AFP

Strike cripples Sri Lanka as president faces new pressure

Colombo (AFP) - Millions of workers staged a crippling strike in Sri Lanka on Thursday, adding to pressure on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his ruling family to quit over the country's worst-ever economic crisis.

Reuters

Sri Lanka teachers, bank workers join mass walkout over economic crisis

Many schools in Colombo were shut and several train stations deserted on Thursday as teachers and train drivers joined mass walkouts demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government quit over Sri Lanka's worst financial crisis in decades.

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The Independent UK

Workers strike to pressure Sri Lankan president to step down

Businesses are closed, teachers absent and public transportation interrupted as Sri Lankans heeded a call for a general strike

AFP

Countrywide strike cripples crisis-hit Sri Lanka

Colombo (AFP) - A general strike crippled Sri Lanka on Thursday, as demands grew for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family members to resign over the country's worst-ever economic crisis.

Reuters

Analysis-Complex web of creditors, politics threatens Sri Lanka restructuring

Social unrest, political uncertainty and a complex web of creditors could scupper Sri Lanka's push for a swift overhaul of its $12 billion overseas debt, analysts warn, saying the South Asian nation is fast running out of road.

The Independent UK

A political reckoning in Sri Lanka as debt crisis grows

Thousands of Sri Lankans have protested outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in recent weeks, demanding that he and his brother, Mahinda, who is prime minister, quit for leading the island into its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948

Bangkok Post

Colombo needs debt mechanism mini-miracle

When the economy is going well, the poor benefit more than others. But when things are going badly, it is the poor who are hurt the most. This is especially true in the case of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit poor countries -- and the poorest people within them…

AFP

Senior police officer arrested over Sri Lanka protest death

Colombo (AFP) - A top Sri Lankan police officer was arrested Wednesday after ordering his subordinates to fire on anti-government protesters, in clashes that left one man dead and nearly 30 others wounded.

Reuters

Sri Lankan veterans protest against president who led them during war

Missing both legs and an arm, former special forces soldier Thushara Kumara is an unlikely critic of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a wartime defence chief who became Sri Lanka's president in 2019.

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