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Australia names full-strength squads for Sri Lanka tour

Melbourne

The Hindu

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

Reuters

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Reuters

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

The Independent UK

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…

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Sri Lankan court orders arrest of police officers over death of protester in shootout

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan cour on Wednesday ordered the arrest of police officers involved in the death of a protester after the police opened fire at unarmed anti-government protestors demonstrating against the fuel price hike in southwestern region of Rambukkana.

The Times of India

Sri Lanka exhumes bodies to identify wife of Easter attack suicide bomber

COLOMBO: The exhumation of bodies of those killed in a suicide bomb explosion in a house when Sri Lankan police raided it a week after the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks commenced in the eastern town of Ampara to carry out a DNA test to identify the wife of a…

The Times of India

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.

Reuters

Sri Lanka says World Bank agrees to provide $600M in financial aid

The World Bank has agreed to provide Sri Lanka with $600 million in financial assistance to help meet payment requirements for essential imports, the Sri Lankan president's media division said in a statement on Tuesday.

Reuters

Ukrainians have a right to defend themselves, says Norwegian Foreign Minister

Democracies are being threatened all over the world, says Anniken Huitfeldt

The Hindu

Sri Lanka discusses loan from China to cover earlier debts

Sri Lanka’s government says China does not want to restructure its loans to the island nation but is discussing making an additional loan to help with repayment of existing debts

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka begins talks with China on refinancing debt

Sri Lanka has begun discussions with China about refinancing its debt, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday, as Colombo struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades.

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IMF urges Sri Lanka to tighten monetary policy, raise tax to address debt woes

Sri Lanka must tighten monetary policy, raise tax and adopt flexible exchange rates to address its debt crisis, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

How bad do things have to get in Britain before we start to see solidarity emerge?

Despite a widespread sense of anger against the government, narratives of division still prevail, stymying public unity, says the journalist Moya Lothian-McLean

The Times of India

In a first, six Andhra Pradesh students cross Palk Strait as team

MADURAI: Six young athletes from Andhra Pradesh, including two girls, swam the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka on Friday in nine hours and 27 minutes. This is the first time a team has crossed Palk Strait as previously it was individuals who did it.They covered 18 nautical miles…

The Hindu

State awaits Centre’s word on asylum seekers from Sri Lanka

18 persons arrived recently in Dhanushkodi on Friday, taking the total to 60

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World Bank readies Sri Lanka aid package, IMF calls loan talks 'fruitful'

The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it held "fruitful technical discussions" with Sri Lanka on its loan request, while the World Bank said it was preparing an emergency aid package for the crisis-stricken country.

The Hindu

India extends additional $500 million credit line to Sri Lanka for purchasing fuel

Sri Lanka needs at least $4 billion to tide over its mounting economic woes.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu: 18 more Sri Lankan refugees arrive in Dhanushkodi

RAMANATHAPURAM: Eighteen more Sri Lankan refugees including women and children reached Dhanushkodi in Ramanathapuram district on Friday fleeing their economic crisis-hit country.

The Hindu

Fishing for workable solutions in the Palk Bay

A pragmatic approach is the first of options available to resolve the festering India-Sri Lanka fisheries issue

ABC News

China's bid for influence in Asia does not stop with Solomon Islands. This is how Beijing gained a foothold in Sri Lanka

While Australian and US officials express shock and disappointment over Beijing's deal with Solomon Islands, China has been making diplomatic and economic inroads across the region for years.

The Hindu

India sends one more consignment of 40,000 MT of diesel to Sri Lanka

A total of close to 400,000 MT of various types of fuel have been delivered with Indian assistance in two months

Al Jazeera

‘A curse’: Three years since Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka

Protesters in Colombo demand justice on the third anniversary of devastating attacks in several churches and hotels.

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