by admin | Mar 29, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Sri Lanka’s government on Wednesday announced significant cuts in fuel prices, providing welcome relief for many after a year of shortages and skyrocketing prices amid the country’s worst economic crisis.Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekara told...
by admin | Mar 16, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s crisis-hit economy shrank a record 7.8 percent last year as long blackouts and critical fuel shortages put a chokehold on local commerce, official data showed Thursday. An unprecedented economic crisis sparked huge protests in...
by admin | Feb 11, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By PTI COLOMBO: President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday he was committed to devolution of power within a unitary state as a solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic issue and underlined the need for Tamil diaspora’s engagement for the development of...
by admin | Jan 31, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By PTI COLOMBO: Former Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday apologised to the country’s minority Catholic community for the devastating 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 270 people, including 11 Indians, saying that the carnage...
by admin | Jan 11, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP COLOMBO: Canada has issued a travel ban on former Sri Lankan presidents — and brothers — Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for human rights abuses committed during the island nation’s civil war. Mahinda Rajapaksa was in office when a...