Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria and Argentina are among emerging economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America that have seen long queues at some filling stations in the past weeks because of fuel shortages
"I can't go as a failed president," Rajapaksa said Monday in a wide-ranging interview at his official residence in Colombo, his first with a foreign media organization
Sri Lankans are struggling to access the bare necessities like food, fuel, medicine, cooking gas and even toilet paper and matches.
Sri Lanka's Cabinet is set to discuss today the 21st Amendment to the Constitution to empower Parliament over the executive president
The road to Hambantota may be paved with Chinese money, but its value is up for debate - now more than ever
A Sri Lankan minister has also apologised to all the passengers and crew after the island nation's aviation authority prevented a flight of the Russian flag carrier to depart the Colombo airport
India delivered consignments of essential medicines to a hospital in Sri Lanka to bridge the shortage of medical supplies amidst ongoing economic crisis, according to the Indian High Commission here.
The flight, scheduled to depart from Colombo's Bandaranaike International Airport to Moscow on June 2 with 191 passengers and 13 crew members, was not allowed to depart due to an enjoining order
For the past five days, Kerala has been reporting over 1,000 coronavirus cases each day and a total of 48 Covid-related deaths
Indian High Commissioner to Colombo, Gopal Baglay on Friday handed a total of 3.3 tons of essential medical supplies to the 1990 Suwaseriya Ambulance Service
Amid Sri Lanka's unprecedented economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered the release of Rs 1.8 billion from Covid-19 healthcare fund for the import of essential medicines
India - creditor and neighbour to Sri Lanka - wants the IMF to treat China on par with other creditors.
Sri Lanka's PM Ranil Wickremesinghe explained that the government was targeting $5 billion for repayments and $1 billion to bolster the country's reserves
Sri Lanka's foreign exchange reserves stood at $1.81 billion in April
Wickremesinghe said the government was targeting $ 5 billion this year for repayments, plus a further $ 1 billion to bolster the country's reserves.
The World Bank has agreed to provide the necessary financial assistance to debt-ridden Sri Lanka to obtain urea fertiliser for the upcoming Maha season in the country, according to a media report.
The 369 items on the list can now be shipped in without an Import Control License, the Finance Ministry said in a statement Wednesday
Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe's plan to introduce the 21st Amendment to the Constitution has met with resistance within the ruling SLPP coalition, party sources said
India 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
Food inflation surged 57.4%, while prices of non-food items jumped 30.6%, the data showed