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A demonstrator holding the Sri Lankan national flag is silhouetted during the protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, near the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 15, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo
Sri Lanka Crisis

Sri Lanka appoints nine new cabinet members

Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as prime minister this month to form a new cabinet after the president's elder brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned from the job

Protestors stand on a water cannon vehicle as they shout slogans during a protest organised by students near the President's House, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 19, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
Global Economy

'We are going to die': Sri Lanka warns of food shortages

Photo: Collected
South Asia

Indian police charge 30 anti-Vedanta protesters over deadly 2018 demonstration

Sri Lanka's pro government supporters vandalise the camps of anti government protestors outside the president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 9, 2022. Government supporters on Monday attacked protesters who have been camped outside the office of Sri Lanka's prime minster, as trade unions began a "Week of Protests" demanding the government change and its president to step down over the country's worst economic crisis in memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Sri Lanka Crisis

Sri Lanka defaults on debt for first time in its 70-year history

People are given packets of biscuits from a free distributor, while waiting in line to buy kerosene near a Ceylon Petroleum Corporation fuel station, amid the country's economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 7, 2022. Reuters.
Sri Lanka Crisis

G7 backs debt relief efforts for Sri Lanka - draft communique

A view of Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh region July 27, 2019. Picture taken July 27, 2019. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/File Photo
South Asia

India reacts to China’s new bridge across Pangong Lake, says it is ‘occupied area’

FILE PHOTO: A girl sits in front of a bakery in the crowd with Afghan women waiting to receive bread in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
South Asia

Taliban say female Afghan TV presenters must cover face on air

A man counts Pakistani banknotes along a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan, November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
Global Economy

Pakistani rupee storms past 200-mark against US dollar in interbank

People wait in a queue to buy kerosene at a fuel station, amid the country's economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 18, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Sri Lanka Crisis

Sri Lanka fuel shortage set to ease; police clash with protesters

FILE PHOTO: Pigs are seen at a backyard farm on the outskirts of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Hallie Gu
South Asia

Nepal reports first African swine fever outbreak, OIE says

Labourers work next to electricity pylons in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
South Asia

India's power grid creaks under hybrid work model, heatwave

Nandalal Weerasinghe, newly appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, speaks during a news conference, amid the country's economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8 April, 2022. Photo: Reuters
Sri Lanka Crisis

Sri Lanka central bank governor says sees more stability, to stay in post

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South Asia

'India is capable of…' : PM Modi on India’s role in Russia-Ukraine war