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Dambulla: Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur contributed with both bat and ball to steer the Indian women’s cricket team to a series sealing five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second T20 here on Saturday. Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana’s (39 off 34 balls) experience complemented by the exuberance of both Shefali Verma (17 off 10 balls) and Sabbhineni […]

Hyderabad: The expose of the Narendra Modi government’s ‘power-play’ in the Sri Lanka-Adani green energy plant deal doesn’t seem to have had any impact on the Centre as is evident from its continued efforts to favour certain corporate giants. The latest exercise in this direction has been in the contentious coal imports, with the BJP […]

Colombo: P Nandalal Weerasinghe, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, said that the island nation could have avoided the ongoing economic crisis if it had approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) earlier. Speaking to the BBC, the Governor said on Thursday night: “If we had taken the decision to go to the IMF earlier, […]

Hyderabad: For second consecutive day, the hashtag “#ModiMustResign” kept trending nation-wide with more than 1.2 lakh tweets for more than 18 hours. Apart from the TRS and other Opposition parties launching an attack on the Modi government, the netizens of India as well as Sri Lanka joined the tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kickstarted […]

Hyderabad: The meticulously constructed ‘pure as white’ image that Prime Minister Narendra Modi donned for the past eight years seems all set to crumble with several skeletons smacking of favouritism towards the Ambani and Adani Groups tumbling out of the cupboard now. What is striking is that Modi’s foreign jaunts, touted by the ruling BJP […]

Colombo: Nearly 10 per cent of Sri Lanka’s 22 million population were already staring at food security issues before the pandemic, which turned even direr when authorities shut down the economy and imposed a blanket ban on the use of chemical fertilisers, according to data released by the country’s central statistical agency on Monday. At […]

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Colombo: A 45-year-old Indian businessman has been arrested from a Sri Lankan international airport for attempting to smuggle foreign currency worth over Rs 40 million out of the country. The man, who has not been identified, was arrested on Sunday by the security officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Daily Mirror Lanka reported on […]

Colombo: India has assured Sri Lanka of fertiliser supplies to help the debt-ridden country avert severe food shortages caused by crop losses and exacerbated by the worst economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office said on Thursday. President Rajapaksa, while speaking with a group of irrigation officials on the next harvesting season’s requirements, said Prime Minister […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka is calling on farmers to grow more rice as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years, media reports said. The country’s Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera made the appeal as he said the country’s “food situation is becoming worse”, the BBC reported. It comes as severe shortages of essentials, […]

Colombo: India on Tuesday said it has delivered one more consignment of 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to Sri Lanka to help ease the acute fuel shortage in the debt-ridden island nation which is grappling with its worst economic crisis. India extended an additional USD 500 million credit line to Sri Lanka last month to […]

By Amitava Mukherjee There are quite a few reasons why Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister of the country. First, Ranil Wickremesinghe is known to be close to the Rajapaksa family and it is more than likely that he will try to save both Gotabaya and Mahinda […]

Colombo: India on Saturday provided another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to Sri Lanka under the credit line facility to the island nation which is grappling with its worst economic crisis. Last month, India extended an additional USD 500 million credit line to help Sri Lanka import fuel as the country has been struggling to […]

Colombo: Tourism industry in Sri Lanka is severely affected as the country is gripped by a severe economic crisis. Hotels are empty, and beaches are deserted in Colombo. Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence with food and fuel shortages, soaring prices and power cuts affecting a large number of the citizens, […]

This article is in continuation to the previous articles that deal with various topics categorised as biological sciences. These series of articles will help you understand topics under ‘Biodiversity’. As discussed in the previous article, the threats to biodiversity include four major causes (the evil quartet) for accelerated rates of species extinction in the world: […]

Colombo: Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister, days after his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned following violent protests over the worst economic crisis in the debt-ridden island nation. The 73-year-old United National Party (UNP) leader was appointed as the prime minister by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after they held […]

The dangerous meltdown in Sri Lanka, in the wake of public anger and violence spiralling out of control, can have security implications for India. The situation needs to be handled with sensitivity. As a close neighbour with historical ties, India has demonstrated its support and extended a helping hand in the hour of crisis. However, […]

Hyderabad: Under the influence of SCS Asani, rain and thundershowers are likely to occur at one or two places in some districts during the next 4-5 days, informed Hyderabad Meteorological Centre Director Naga Ratna on Monday. During the next two days, Telangana is likely to have a thunderstorm with lightning, she added. Earlier on Monday, […]

Colombo: Amid a nation-wide stir demanding his removal, Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday quit from his post, media reports said. The development came in the wake of island-wide curfew being slapped after clashes between pro and anti-government supporters in Colombo and elsewhere, the Daily Mirror reported. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who himself is […]

Colombo: Amid the ongoing economic crisis, Sri Lanka’s leading liquefied petroleum gas supplier Litro Gas Lanka Limited on Monday said that they are unable to supply gas to domestic consumers until new stocks arrive. Litro Gas chairman Vijitha Herath said only industrial gas stocks are available at the moment and the company asked people not to […]