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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Dinuka Liyanawatte COLOMBO (Reuters) - Shops opened in Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo amid tight security on Saturday - the...

By Rajendra Jadhav and Uditha Jayasinghe MUMBAI/COLOMBO, April 2 (Reuters) – Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tonnes of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Dinuka Liyanawatte

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a nationwide public emergency late on Friday following violent protests over the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

COLOMBO -Police imposed an overnight curfew in several parts of Sri Lankas main city of Colombo early on Friday after protests over the governments handling of the countrys worst economic crisis...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a nationwide state of emergency late on Friday, in the face ...

Sri Lanka is turning off its street lights to save electricity, a minister said on Thursday, as its worst economic crisis in decades brought more power cuts and gloom to its main stock market,...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's power minister said on Thursday that power cuts could continue into May, as many parts of the crisis-hit country currently faced up to 13 hours without electricity due to a shortage of foreign currency to import fuel.

India, China and Bangladesh have stepped in to help Sri Lanka weather a foreign exchange shortage that has forced it to devalue its currency amid soaring inflation, and to seek International... | March 29, 2022

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has sought an additional credit line of $1 billion from India to import essentials amid its worst economic crisis in decades, two sources…