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A woman bargains as she buys vegetables at a market place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, June 10, 2022. The International Monetary Fund said Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka to provide $ 2.9 billion over four years to help salvage the country from its worst economic crisis in recent memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

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IMF set to provide $2.9 billion to help crisis-hit Sri Lanka
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press
Thu,09/01/22-12:35AM , 90 Reads
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement to provide Sri Lanka with $2.9 billion over four years to help it recover from its worst economic crisis.
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People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. Sri Lanka is in a political vacuum for a second day Monday with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by protesters, angry over the country's economic woes. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Taking selfies, Sri Lankans converge on presidential palace
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press
Mon,07/11/22-12:24PM , 99 Reads
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of Sri Lankans jostled Monday to use the vast array of exercise machines in the private gym of the presidential palace, lifting weights and running on treadmills inside a facility that was, until now, the exclusive domain of the country's beleaguered president.
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A student monk representing Inter University Students Federation shouts slogans during an anti government protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Sri Lankans have been protesting for more than a month demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, holding him responsible for the country's worst economic crisis in recent memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lanka closes schools, limits work amid fuel shortage
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press
Thu,05/19/22-11:45PM , 115 Reads
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage that is expected to last days amid the nation's worst economic crisis in decades.
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