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Weather 17 hours ago Showers in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western provinces and in Galle, Matara, Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 15 June 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Several spells of showers will occur in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western... • News 20 hours ago President off to France next week for talks with Paris Club members By Rathindra Kuruwita President Ranil Wickremesinghe would meet the members of the Paris Club next week, Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena told reporters on Tuesday. Gunawardena said the President would be... • News 20 hours ago Norwegian govt. pledges continued support to UNDP’s flagship SDG16 Portfolio for 2023-2026 The government of Norway extended its support to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka’s flagship portfolio on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)16: Peace, Justice... • Business 20 hours ago Dialog’s Govi Mithuru Nidhanaya 2021/22 rewards subscribers in island-wide competition The revolutionary agricultural advisory service Govi Mithuru by Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, launched the Govi Mithuru Nidhanaya Competition for the 6th edition to...

Sri Lanka News Latest news on Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the southeastern coast of India, which is currently undergoing an economic crisis. The country is home to over 20 million people, making it the 64th most populous country in the world. The official languages of Sri Lanka are Sinhala and Tamil, with English also being widely spoken. The capital city of Sri Lanka is Colombo, and the country's currency is the Sri Lankan rupee. Sri Lanka has a long history, dating back to over 2,000 years ago. The island was ruled by a number of different kingdoms and empires over the centuries, including the Portuguese, Dutch, and British. Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in 1948, and has since been a republic. The economy of Sri Lanka is based largely on agriculture, with rice, tea, and coconuts being the main crops. Tourism is also an important industry, with the country's beaches and historical sites attracting visitors from all over the world. This feed updates continuously 24/7 so check back regularly. Relevance is automatically assessed, so occasionally headlines not about Sri Lanka news might appear - if so please contact us regarding any persistent issues.

Thousands of protesters were refusing to budge from the official residences of The prime minister's office confirmed Monday that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would resign on Wednesday — which would meet one key demand of the protesters. Massive demonstrations ramped up over the weekend in the South Asian island nation of 22 million people, which sits just off India's southeast coast. Sri Lanka has been mired in an economic crisis for months, and feeling their plight was being not only unresolved, but unrecognized by their leaders, thousands of angry protesters swarmed the president's official residence in Colombo on Saturday. People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 11, 2022. Eranga Jayawardena/AP Protesters also set fire to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence on Saturday. He has refused to step down until a new government is formed. Despite assurances from the head of the country's parliament that the president would step down, the protesters have refused to leave his seafront mansion, though the president himself has not been seen for days. Anti government protesters swim in a swimming pool at the Sri lankan president's official residence after storming it in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 9, 2022. STR/AP Videos posted online and aired by news outlets have shown protesters running through the lavish residence, some taking a dip in the garden pool while others lounge o...

Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. He is the president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He teaches applied geopolitics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and his most recent book is Many middle-income and developing countries are now suffering from a combination of internal political dysfunction and external economic shocks generated mainly by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Sri Lanka provides a powerful example and a warning for countries in other regions that will face similar predicaments. Sri Lanka is not a poor country. When adjusted for purchasing power, How did we get here? A quarter century of civil war, which ended in 2009, has created a legacy of violence at the heart of Sri Lanka’s politics. In 2019, a terrorist attack by an ISIS-inspired Islamist group on minority Christians made international headlines. On Easter Sunday, a series of Gota, as the president is widely known, then named his older brother, Mahinda, a former president, as prime minister. A landslide election victory in 2020 gave the Rajapaksas a two-thirds parliamentary majority, which then allowed them to rewrite Sri Lanka’s constitution to give the president extraordinary new powers. Then hubris kicked in. Family and friends were given important posts in government. A series of economic mistakes, including po...

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