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Sri Lanka closed schools on Monday as heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides in many parts of the island nation, leaving at least 10 people dead and six others missing, officials said. The ...
In the past four years, the share of people living below the poverty line in Sri Lanka has risen to 25.9 per cent. The World Bank forecasts the economy to grow by just 2.2 per cent in 2024.
The Fort railway station bombing was a suicide bombing of a commuter train while it was stopped at the Fort railway station, the main station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 3, 2008. The bombing killed 12 civilians [ 2 ] and injured more than 100. [ 3 ]
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...
[321] [322] Senior diplomats who had returned to Sri Lanka to support the Rajapaksa election campaign left the country on the same day. [323] Two of aides of Sarath Fonseka, Major General Mahesh Senanayake and Brigadier Duminda Keppetiwalana, who had fled Sri Lanka after the 2010 presidential election, returned to Sri Lanka on 10 January 2015 ...
By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Colombo port has seen a big jump in container volumes in recent weeks as vessels steering clear of tensions in the southern Red Sea have found ...
Eastern Sri Lanka massacres: 16 October 1995: Villages in Eastern Sri Lanka: 120: LTTE [264] Padaviya massacre 21 October 1995: Padaviya, Anuradhapura: 19: LTTE [264] Boatta massacre Botalla, Polonnaruwa: 36: LTTE [264] Central Bank bombing: 31 January 1996: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo: 91: LTTE [105] Kumarapuram massacre / Trincomalee ...
The Sri Lankan economic crisis [8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities. [10]