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This was Lankan High Commissioner’s first interaction with a top Indian official after the recent controversy over Colombo allowing a Chinese Space and Satellite Tracking ship Yuan Wang 5 to dock at

Faced with the severe financial crisis which led to the shortages of essentials like food, fuel, medicine, as well as long hours of power cuts, Sri Lanka defaulted its debts in April…reports

Sri Lanka has been facing an unprecedented economic crisis since independence in 1948, leading to an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas and fuel across the island nation…reports

The world’s leading two humanitarian organisations stated that two consecutive seasons of poor harvests led to a nearly 50 per cent drop in production, coupled with reduced imports of food grains..reports SUSITHA