Sri Lankan crisis News

Dinesh Gunawardena is a veteran politician and a close ally of the Rajapaksa family He was appointed as Sri Lanka's prime minister by President Ranil Wickremesinghe This is the first appointment made by President Wickremesinghe on his first day in office

Armed security personnel dismantled tents of protestors amid a late-night clampdown outside the premises of the Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat in Colombo The armed soldiers were deployed in a bid to control the protestors who have been protesting against the new Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe A large number of protestors, who confronted armed security personnel, alleged that security personnel raided the anti-govt protest camp in the capital on early Friday

Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the top three candidates for the Presidential election As many as 225 members of the House are eligible to vote and participate in the secret ballot to elect the new President The other two candidates are SLPP parliamentarian Dullas Alahaperuma and National People`s Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and two others were proposed by lawmakers as the three candidates for the July 20 presidential election Wickremesinghe will face off against Dullas Alahapperuma, a staunch Sinhala Buddhist nationalist and a key member of the breakaway group of the ruling SLPP ANd the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna's Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose name was officially announced in Sri Lankan Parliament

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards, left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives on Wednesday.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards, left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives.

Wickremesinghe said that his country's debt-laden economy has "collapsed" after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity Sri Lanka cannot even purchase imported oil Sri Lanka has been facing the worst economic crisis since independence in 1948

Sri Lankan police have arrested at least 1,500 people so far in connection with the violent clashes On May 9, Sri Lanka faced the country's worst economic crisis that led to acute shortages of staple food, fuel and power 1,500 people have been arrested in connection with the violence, online portal news first

The move was taken with the improvement of the law and order situation in the island nation The state of emergency gave the police and the security forces sweeping power to arbitrarily arrest and detain people An inflation rate spiralling towards 40 per cent, shortages of food, fuel and medicines and power blackouts have plagued Sri Lanka

The crisis in Lanka is caused in part by a lack of foreign currency, which has meant that the country cannot afford to pay for imports of staple foods and fuel This has led to acute shortages and very high prices, triggering unprecedented anti-government protests Earlier, there have been reports that the 76-year-old Mahinda Rajapaksa has fled to India, which the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka, had also refuted

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Sabry on Monday (April 4) after dissolving his cabinet and dropping his brother, Basil Rajapaksa, who previously served as finance minister.

Prices have shot up, which means that many people have very limited supplied No government has tried to stop corruption or try to get repayment, and the assets of those in power and their cronies have skyrocketed ' I proposed when I ran for President that declarations of assets should be in public domain, but those who are making money won't allow this," says Wijesinha

The Police said that 664 individuals were arrested in the Western Province between 10.00 pm last night and 6.00 am today. Sri Lanka announced a 36-hour curfew from Saturday to Monday ahead of the planned protest for Sunday.

Sri Lanka announced a 36-hour curfew from Saturday to Monday ahead of the planned protest for Sunday Some two dozen social media platforms were affected including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram.

India has extended a part of the US 500 million oil line of credit (LoC) to Sri Lanka. India has supplied around 200,000 MT of fuel to the island nation over the last 50 days. Sri Lanka announced a 36-hour curfew from Saturday to Monday ahead of the planned protest for Sunday Some two dozen social media platforms were affected including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram.

Under the emergency regulations, the president can authorize detentions, take possession of any property, and search any premises On Thursday hundreds of protesters clashed with police and military outside President Rajapaksa's residence in Colombo's suburbs The protesters blame Rajapaksa for long power outages and shortages of essential goods

The Lankan government does not have enough foreign exchange for fuel imports, leading to severe economic crisis The island of 22 million people is experiencing rolling blackouts for up to 12-13 hours a day The government is turning off street lights to save electricity