Pakistan has landed itself in fiscal maelstrom due to its profligate rentier mindset. The country's economy is on ventilator and is literally gasping for external bail-outs. The talks with IMF…
By Lt Gen K J Singh (Retd)Tuticorin (TN), Jul 23 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday dispatched another round of essential items to the economic crisis-hit Sri Lanka, with DMK MP Kanimozhi flagging off the…
United Nations, Jul 22 (PTI) The top UN official in Sri Lanka has called on all stakeholders in the country to engage in broad and inclusive consultations to resolve the…
United Nations, Jul 21 (PTI) Sri Lanka’s economic collapse needs immediate global attention, not just from humanitarian agencies, but also from international financial institutions and other countries who must come…
Colombo, May 19 (PTI) Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday accepted a generous offer from Maldivian Speaker Mohamed Nasheed to assist the debt-ridden island nation's bid to secure…
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) - Three and a half years after accusing Saudi Arabia's leadership of murder and running a sham trial over the killing of…
By PTI and Chanakya ForumWashington, Apr 24 (PTI) The International Monetary Fund has assured support to debt-ridden Sri Lanka in its efforts to mitigate the current economic crisis and termed the initial discussions with…
Rameswaram (TN), Apr 22 (PTI) Eighteen more Sri Lankan nationals who fled the crisis-hit island republic arrived in India on Friday, with the hapless families who landed at Dhanushkodi in…
Colombo, Apr 19 (PTI) Sri Lanka's embattled Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday proposed to restore the 19th amendment to the Constitution to curb presidential powers and empower Parliament as…
Colombo, Apr 12 (PTI) A shipment of 11,000 MT of rice from India arrived here on Tuesday to help the economic crisis hit Sri Lankans celebrate the traditional national new…
Colombo, Apr 12 (PTI) Faced with critically low forex reserves, Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced that the crisis-stricken country will default on its external debt pending a bailout package from…
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - When former justice minister Ali Sabry visited Sri Lanka's president last Monday, it was for talks amid an economic crisis that…