The Managing Director of the IMF warned we need to “think of the unthinkable,” as we live in “a more shock-prone world” impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the recent earthquakes affecting Turkey and...
WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Officials from China, India, Saudi Arabia and Group of Seven nations will participate in a first virtual meeting of a new sovereign debt roundtable on Friday, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday, confirming...
A section of Sri Lankan Tamil political parties has proposed that as part of measures to make devolution under the 13 th. Amendment (13A) of the constitution meaningful the powers vested with the Provincial Governor be pruned, and more...
On the sidelines of Sri Lanka’s 74 th. Independence Day celebrations in Colombo in the first week of February, Pakistan’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, sought a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen....
The Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo came to a standstill on Wednesday as organizations of workers and professionals were on strike to express opposition to the new personal income tax announced by the government.
While the agitators said that...
Mr Erdogan said that the death toll in Turkey has risen to 3,549 people.
More than 1,600 people are reported to have died in Syria.
In a televised address, Mr Erdogan said the state of emergency is to ensure that rescue...
Colombo, February 7
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who died in Dubai last week, had to make many difficult choices in his career. But the hardest of them all was when he had only minutes to decide whether his plane...
Marking the latest escalation in the already worsening diplomatic ties between Washington and Beijing, the United States early on Sunday shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon that had been floating over American airspace for several days. The move triggered...
Colombo, February 3:
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Thursday ordered the authorities to officially change the name of an important area of Colombo called “Slave Island” to “Kompagngna Veediya.”
Slave Island is already called Kompanna Veediya or Kompani...
The funding comes under a new programme which aims to help vulnerable middle-income countries and island states.
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The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board has approved a support programme for Bangladesh worth $4.7bn...
India’s support to Sri Lanka during its economic crisis, which External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar underlined during his visit to Colombo last week has opened a new chapter in ties between the neighbours, says Sri Lankan High Commissioner...
Challenger Nasheed’s defeat was attributed to the deletion of 40% of the Maldivian Democratic Party’s members from the voters’ list
Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih has won the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party’s primary ahead of the October 2023 Maldivian Presidential election....
