"Australian men's team head coach Andrew McDonald has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be delayed in traveling to Sri Lanka for the start of the T20I series," Cricket Australia stated on Wednesday.
With long lines for fuel, cooking gas, essentials in short supply and long hours of power cuts, the public has been suffering for months.
Recent media reports have inaccurately stated that the World Bank is planning support for Sri Lanka in the form of a bridge loan or new loan commitments, among other incorrect assertions, the Bank said in a statement.
The economic crisis has also triggered a political crisis in Sri Lanka and a demand for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The crisis has already forced prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the elder brother of the president, to resign on May 9.
The constitutional reform was a major plank of the agreement between Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe when he took over the job of the prime minister on May 12.
Humanitarian aid and essential items worth Rs 2 billion were recently provided by India to Sri Lanka, as the country reels under severe economic crisis.
Embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had declared a state of emergency with effect from May 6 mid-night, the second time in just over a month amidst growing countrywide anti-government protests over the economic crisis.
India on Saturday provided another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to Sri Lanka under the credit line facility to the island nation which is grappling with its worst economic crisis.
Sri Lankan Central bank governor P Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Thursday that the country had fallen into a “pre-emptive default” on its debts after the expiry of a 30-day grace period for missed interest payments on two of its sovereign bonds.
Sri Lanka is currently facing an acute shortage of foreign exchange that led to an increase in prices and a shortage of vehicular fuel, cooking gas, food, and thermal fuel for electricity production.
Rahul Gandhi shared a picture comparing graphs of both countries. These graphs showed a similar pattern of increase in unemployment, communal riots, and petrol prices from the years 2017 to 2021.
With the motion, Opposition sought to demonstrate how nationwide calls for President Rajapaksa’s resignation is reflected in the country’s legislature, said report.
The post of Deputy Speaker of Parliament was left vacant after Ranjith Siyamabalapitiya stepped down from the post.
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from Britain in 1948. "I propose that the loss making Sri Lankan Airlines be privatised,” Wickremesinghe said in his first address to the nation.
The former interior minister of Pakistan, Sheikh Rasheed, while addressing a press conference in Faisalabad on Sunday, said the incumbent coalition government had become directionless and was unable to handle the situation.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have pushed debt levels for many countries to alarming levels.
Wickremesinghe, who has served as the country’s prime minister for four times, was in October 2018 fired from the post of prime minister by then-President Maithripala Sirisena. However, he was reinstalled as the prime minister by Sirisena after two months.
This comes a day after Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Wednesday that he will appoint a new prime minister within this week.
The 73-year-old United National Party (UNP) leader held talks with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday and is expected to meet him again on Thursday.
The Fort Magistrate’s Court barred them from traveling overseas due to the investigations taking place on the attacks on the GotaGoGama and MynaGoGama peaceful protest sites on Monday, News 1st website reported.
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