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On the occasion of its 75th Independence Day, India will hand over the maritime surveillance aircraft Dornier 228 to Sri Lanka on a gratis basis for two years.

Thailand has received a request from the current Sri Lankan government to allow former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to enter the Kingdom, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanee Sangrat said on Wednesday.

Thailand has donated medicines, medical supplies, food and financial support worth 5 million baht to Sri Lanka, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka’s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is likely to face charges of graft and war crimes, and encounter a new wave of protests should he return to the crisis-hit country.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former Sri Lankan President who secretly fled the country on July 13 amid violent protests in the wake of the island nation’s ongoing economic crisis, is set to return, a Minister said on Tuesday.

With no fuel and no money to buy food, there aren't many places to go for hungry Sri Lankans - except for a local soup kitchen.

Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the National Consumer Price Index, increased to 58.9% in June 2022 from 45.3% in May 2022, the Central Bank announced yesterday.

BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Friday to Ranil Wickremesinghe on his election as president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

"Lucky" is how most Sri Lankans describe their new president Ranil Wickremesinghe, for his extraordinary record of popping up as a state leader when citizens, analysts and his fellow politicians least expect it.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) intends to complete talks with Sri Lanka “as quickly as possible,” Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday, hours before the Parliament voted Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the President.

Sri Lankan MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president. He defeated Dullus Alahapperuma, with 134 votes to 82 in the parliamentary vote.