Sri Lanka Crisis

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Five months of Sri Lankan crisis: From state of emergency to $2.9 billion bailout deal

The island nation of 22 million people has suffered months of blackouts as well as acute food, fuel and medicine shortages

Sri Lanka faces global backlash over use of anti-terror laws to arrest protesters

Three student activists arrested last week during the first anti-government rally after the end of a state of emergency were being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), authorities said

Gotabaya Rajapaksa applies for Green Card to settle in US: Report

Rajapaksa, who fled the country last month amidst massive anti-government protests calling for his resignation, is awaiting to obtain a US Green Card to return to America and settle there, according to a report .

Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to seek refuge in Thailand: Report

Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on 13 July and then to Singapore, where he announced his resignation after months of protests over the country's economic meltdown

Sri Lanka crisis: Economic woes to last another year, says President Wickremesinghe

Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. The export industry is badly hit by the fuel scarcity caused by the forex crisis.

Sri Lanka arrests 43-year-old protest leader Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin, the secretary of the Sri Lanka Teachers' Union, becomes the senior most activist to be arrested in a crackdown against protesters forced Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee last month

Sri Lanka crisis: Man held for sitting on President's chair during anti-government protests

A video circulating on social media platforms showed the man emulating Presidential credentials while sitting on the President's chair as anarchy mounted in Sri Lanka amid an unprecedented financial crisis

Sri Lanka: Supreme Court extends overseas travel ban on ex-PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, brother till 4 August

Mahinda & Basil's brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former Sri Lankan President, arrived in Singapore on 14 July on a "private visit" from the Maldives after he fled his country to escape a popular uprising against his government's economic mismanagement

Sri Lanka's main Tamil minority party extends support to Wickremesinghe's call for all-party government

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has called upon all the major parties of the countries to come together to form a national unity government to mitigate the ongoing crisis