COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s consumer price inflation rose to 1% in October year-on-year from 0.8% in September, the statistics department said on Tuesday. The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), …
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(Reuters) – Global ratings agency S&P Global on Monday slashed its rating on Sri Lankan bonds to ‘D’, representing default, following missed interest and principal payments. The South Asian nation, …
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(Reuters) – Foreign mutual funds which have exposure to Sri Lankan equities have posted steep losses in their net asset values this year, prompting their fund managers to look for …
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Sri Lankan Parliament Elects Allegedly Corrupt Former Prime Minister As President Micaela Burrow on July 20, 2022 Sri Lanka’s parliament elected former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a figure seen by …
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(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s new president will have to deal with daunting political challenges and his reforms should include tax rises to stabilize a devastated economy, the central bank governor …
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Sri Lankan President Officially Resigns, Ousted PM Takes His Place Micaela Burrow on July 15, 2022 Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe stepped in as acting president Friday after the former …
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister To Resign After Protests Over Collapsed Economy Micaela Burrow on July 9, 2022 Sri Lanka’s prime minister has agreed to step down after mass protests over …
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By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – On Monday morning, hundreds of supporters gathered at the prime minister’s official residence in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital of Colombo where they …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO – Missing both legs and an arm, former special forces soldier Thushara Kumara is an unlikely critic of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a wartime defence …
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WASHINGTON – A former ambassador for Sri Lanka pleaded guilty today to diverting and attempting to embezzle $332,027 from the government of Sri Lanka …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal AGBOPURA, Sri Lanka – W.M. Seneviratne sat watching a mechanised harvester slice through the jade green fields around him in eastern Sri Lanka’s Agbopura …