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Sri Lanka crisis Highlights| Protesters vacate all govt sites except Prez Secretariat
Sri Lanka crisis Highlights: The island nation has tuned into a fortress with armoured vehicles deployed on the streets of Colombo.
Sri Lanka crisis Highlights: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sent his resignation to the parliamentary speaker on Thursday, in what would seem as some relief from the ongoing protests in the country against his government's economic mismanagement, which caused a severe shortage of food, fuel and other essentials. Rajapaksa's resignation came moments after he arrived in Singapore, with the country's foreign ministry saying, “He has neither sought asylum nor was he granted asylum.”...Read More
Anti-government protests in Sri Lanka have been going on for months. Apart from Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the protesters have also demanded Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's resignation. After fleeing from Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa had appointed Wickremesinghe as the acting president.
Sri Lankan govt lifts curfew
Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday lifted the curfew, which was imposed in the Western province after the eruption of violence in the capital here, even as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has fled to the Maldives, was yet to submit his resignation letter, PTI reported.
Sri Lankan speaker says yet to receive Rajapaksa's resignation letter: Report
Sri Lankan speaker's office says yet to receive resignation letter from president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ANI reported.
What explains Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis?
What exactly went wrong in Sri Lanka? The economic crisis which had hit the island nation turned political with the protesters gunning for Rajapaksa family's ouster from power. Read more
Sri Lanka crisis: How the mighty Rajapaksa family lost power, grace
Known as The Terminator to family and foes alike for his ruthless crushing of Tamil rebels to end a decades-long civil war, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s rule is drawing to a close with him a fugitive and his island’s economy in ruins. Read more
Gotabaya Rajapaksa still in Maldives, awaits private jet to depart for Singapore: Report
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has fled to the Maldives, could not board a scheduled Singapore Airlines flight from Male to Singapore due to security concerns and is now waiting to travel on a private aircraft, PTI reported.
Zelensky blames Russia for Sri Lanka crisis: ‘No one knows now how it'll end'
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday held Russia's “special military operation” in his country accountable for the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. Accusing Russia of exacerbating a global food crisis and fueling inflation, he said, “One of the major tactics Russia has used in their invasion of Ukraine is the creation of an economic shock." Read more
Peaceful transfer of power within Sri Lanka is essential, says US
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung has urged for the peaceful transfer of power within the country's constitutional framework and said that the US condemns all violence and calls for the rule of law to be upheld in the crisis-hit island nation, ANI reported.
