Asia Sri Lanka Over 150 people hospitalized in the Colombo National Hospital following the violence that broke out in the city
Asia Sri Lanka The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a unanimous resolution to send essential items and medicines to Sri Lanka on a humanitarian basis after the Colombo protests complaining of lack of essential medicines
Asia Sri Lanka The country needs $3 to 4 billion this year to pull itself out of an unprecedented economic crisis and plans to start talks with the International Monetary Fund for help, Finance Minister Ali Sabry said
Asia Sri Lanka With inflation at over 17%, food, medicine and fuel shortages, blackouts lasting up to 13 hours and school exams postponed indefinitely because of a lack of paper, the exasperated people took to the streets once again
Asia Sri Lanka A committee appointed by Sri Lanka's government said the crisis-hit country's central bank and finance ministry must form a team to seek urgent international financial assistance as the economy is faltering under a foreign currency shortage
Asia Sri Lanka The country is facing its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, on the brink of insolvency as its available foreign exchange reserves have plummeted below $1 billion
Asia Sri Lanka Construction of the 37 km section of the Central Expressway from Kadawatha to Mirigama is currently underway with about 25 % of the work nearly done; the project is expected to be completed within the next two years
Asia Sri Lanka For a global tourism promotion programme aimed at attracting more visitors, the Finance Minister has agreed to provide US$56 million in the second quarter of this year; this year, over 150.000 tourists arrived
Asia Sri Lanka The Finance Ministry confirmed there is a small shortage of four essential goods - milk powder, LP gas, wheat flour and cement - and assured that at the moment sufficient stocks of all other items are on hand
Asia Sri Lanka Efforts continue by authorities and local people to clean the sea from billions of plastic pellets leaked from a ship sunk last May; reaching up to 2 mt deep, they are taken as food by birds and fish, doing enormous damage to the environment and tourism
Asia Sri Lanka Three new seismic centers will be donated by China to the country, bringing to 7 the total number of seismic centers
Asia Sri Lanka The Ministry of Environment has hired 136 new environmental officers who will be assigned to the district secretariats to assist in the work carried out by the Ministry, the Central Environment Authority and the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau
Asia Sri Lanka The Saudi Development Fund completed the development of the Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi road project in the country for which it had sanctioned a $60 million loan, as well as a $28 million loan for the Wayamba University Township development project