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Police imposed a brief curfew after clashing with protesters who tried to storm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house.

Sri Lanka has sought an additional credit line of $1.5 billion from India to import essentials, the island nation's central bank governor said on Monday, amid its worst economic crisis in decades.

The threat of a bullet in the leg or having his fingernails ripped off was the ordeal faced by one man

India should help Sri Lanka during the crisis and also resolve some of the bilateral issues 

Sri Lanka ordered troops to petrol stations Tuesday as sporadic protests erupted among the thousands of motorists queueing up daily for scarce fuel. The South Asian island nation is grappling with its worst economic meltdown since independence in 1948, with rolling electricity blackouts and essential goods such as food and…

Sri Lanka’s president says his government is in discussions with the International Monetary Fund, other agencies and countries on deferring loan repayments

In Sri Lanka, 13 years after the end of the civil war with the Tamil Tigers that lasted a quarter of a century, reconciliation appears elusive. Elected in 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, seen by the Sinhalese majority as a hero and accused by the Tamil minority ​​of war crimes during…

The country is in the midst of one of the worst financial crises in decades, exacerbated by a tourism collapse in the wake of Covid