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Sri Lankan SC extends travel ban on Mahinda Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa
Updated : 9 hours, 49 min ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 11 (ANI): Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the travel ban imposed on the country's former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa until September 5.
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Bangladesh's foreign reserves are good, won't see repeat of Lankan crisis:
Updated : 23 hours, 31 min ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Amid raging protests against skyrocketing fuel prices, the Bangladesh government has asserted that Dhaka won't see a similar fate to the Sri Lankan crisis because the country has a substantial amount of foreign reserves.
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India gets an opening to regain influence in South Asia amid Sri Lanka cri
Updated : 1 day, 16 hours ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 9 (ANI): Sri Lanka's economic crisis has resulted in a serious political and socio-economic impact on its residents. But for India, analysts regard this situation as an opportunity to regain lost ground in the island nation.
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UN chief extends support to Sri Lanka amid crisis
Updated : 4 days, 19 hours ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 6 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has extended support to the Sri Lankan government and the people to meet their immediate and long-term needs.
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Jaishankar meets Australian counterpart Penny Wong ahead of ASEAN meeting
Updated : 6 days, 23 hours ago IST
Phnom Penh [Combodia], August 4 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Australian counterpart Penny Wong in Cambodia ahead of the ASEAN ministerial meeting on Thursday.
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India among "our closest partners" Blinken tells Jaishankar ahead of ASEAN
Updated : 6 days, 23 hours ago IST
Phnom Penh [Combodia], August 4 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Cambodia ahead of the ASEAN ministerial meeting on Thursday, said that New Delhi is among Washington's "closest partners".
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"Always good to meet", Jaishankar tells Blinken ahead of ASEAN meeting in
Updated : 1 week ago IST
Phnom Penh [Combodia], August 4 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cambodia ahead of the ASEAN ministerial meeting on Thursday.
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Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe thanks PM Modi for India's support to
Updated : 1 week ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 3 (ANI): Newly elected Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday thanked India which he said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has provided the crisis-hit island nation "a breath of life" in tough times.
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Sri Lanka looks forward to enhancing ties with Russia
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 1 (ANI): In order to enhance ties with Russia, the newly appointed Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry met with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Sri Lanka Yury Materiy on Sunday.
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On protest threat, Sri Lanka's President Wickremesinghe says he has no hom
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 1 (ANI): Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday said that there is no point in demanding that he "goes home" as he has no home to go to while referring to the threats received from the protestors.
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Petrol reserves in Sri Lanka insufficient to meet needs of people
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 31 (ANI): The World Food Programme said that the remaining petrol reserves in Sri Lanka are likely to be insufficient to meet the needs of people.
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Makeshift brothels crop up in Sri Lanka as economic hardship pushes women
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 30 (ANI): In Sri Lanka, which is battling a crushing economic crisis, is now facing another predicament with its women, most of them who have lost their jobs in the textile sector, now forced to become sex workers to earn a livelihood.
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