Sri Lanka govt panel says international financial assistance needed
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – A Sri Lanka government-appointed committee on Monday said the crisis-hit country’s central bank and finance ministry must form a team …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – A Sri Lanka government-appointed committee on Monday said the crisis-hit country’s central bank and finance ministry must form a team …
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa signed a $1 billion credit line with India on Thursday to help ease crippling shortages of essential …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s finance minister held talks with a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official on Monday, two sources said, as …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – A senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official will be visiting Sri Lanka on Monday and Tuesday to brief President Gotabaya …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s central bank on Monday set an exchange rate limit of 230 rupees to the dollar, effectively allowing a …
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Swati Bhat COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s central bank sharply raised interest rates on Friday to staunch growing inflationary pressures and urged …
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO – Indika Prasanna Kumara ventures out every afternoon to try to find 200 litres of diesel for the Broadway Kids apparel …
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 …