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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 k...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 k...

Sri Lanka ordered a countrywide recall of cooking gas cylinders on Wednesday after hundreds of unexplained explosions and fires in recent weeks which have injured several people, including about 60 such explosions last Thursday.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka ordered a countrywide recall of cooking gas cylinders on Wednesday after hundreds of unexplained explosions and fires in...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan authorities will start to crack down on informal remittance inflows as the country seeks to bolste...

SRI LANKA-CENBANK/REMITTANCE (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Sri Lanka cenbak gov says to review possible illegal money channels as remittance drops

Sri Lanka suffered a power outage across large parts of the island on Friday, local media reported, as state power workers scrambled to get a key transmission line operational.

The Sri Lankan government on Friday suspended distribution of all gas cylinders following an alarming rise in unexplained cooking gas explosions and fires that have injured many people across the island nation in recent weeks.

A plan by Sri Lanka's central bank to encourage migrant workers to remit funds using formal channels is unlikely to fix the country's precarious financial position, experts said on Thursday.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's parliament convened a special committee on Wednesday to investigate dozens of unexplained cooking gas explosions and fires in kitchens around the country.