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Sri Lanka ex-president Wickremesinghe hospitalised after arrest

Wickremesinghe shifted to intensive care unit; condition stable

Published 24 Aug, 2025 01:42pm

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Sri Lanka trying to reduce overall debt by $17b, president says

Caught in its worst financial crisis since independence from Britain in 1948

Published 26 Apr, 2023 12:35pm

World

Sri Lanka to start next round of talks with creditors in April

The IMF has released the first tranche of about $330 million

Published 22 Mar, 2023 01:26pm

World

Sri Lanka to slash military by a third to cut costs

Aim of the move is to create a 'technically and tactically sound and well-balanced' defence force by 2030, says minister

Published 13 Jan, 2023 03:24pm

World

Bankrupt Sri Lanka to hold first polls since crisis

Island nation defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in April, which followed months of acute shortages

Published 04 Jan, 2023 05:53pm

Business & Economy

Sri Lanka ‘strikes staff-level deal’ with IMF on loan

Debt laden island nation seeks up to $3b from global lender

Published 31 Aug, 2022 11:23am

World

Sri Lanka president seeks unity government to save economy

Sri Lanka defaulted on its $51 billion foreign debt

Published 31 Jul, 2022 01:25pm

World

Wickremesinghe, a wily political survivor, elected Sri Lanka’s president

Politics is more than chess, Ranil Wickremesinghe secured 134 votes out of 225 members house

Published 20 Jul, 2022 01:14pm

World

Incumbent to face low-key lawmaker in tight Lankan presidential race

225-seat parliament votes on Wednesday to choose new president

Updated 19 Jul, 2022 07:31pm

World

Sri Lanka’s ousted president says he ‘took all possible steps’ to prevent crisis

Rajapaksa says financial crisis rooted in years of economic mismanagement that pre-dated his presidency

Published 16 Jul, 2022 04:58pm

World

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resignation accepted, PM Wickremesinghe sworn in as acting president

Parliament will meet on Wednesday to elect an MP to succeed Rajapaksa for the rest of his term

Published 15 Jul, 2022 01:37pm

World

Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives amid protests, Rajapaksa dominance ends

Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane, says air force

Published 13 Jul, 2022 09:50am

World

Awe and anger in Sri Lanka’s ransacked presidential palace

Rajapaksa plans to resign on Wednesday, says the parliament speaker

Updated 10 Jul, 2022 02:41pm

World

Sri Lanka PM offers resignation after protesters storm president’s house

Thousands broke through police barricades to storm the president's official residence in one of the largest anti-government marches this year

Published 09 Jul, 2022 09:44pm

World

Sri Lanka gives public workers extra day off to grow food

Government is in talks for a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund

Published 14 Jun, 2022 03:23pm

Business & Economy

Open to buying Russian oil, Sri Lankan PM tells AP

Russia had also offered wheat to Sri Lanka, said Wickremesingh

Published 12 Jun, 2022 03:17pm