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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Two rounds of flooding in Sri Lanka since January have destroyed at least 35 percent of the staple rice crop, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday, raising the risk of food price inflation. Heavy monsoonal looding since mid-January has killed at least 54 people, and in the latest round this week, displaced [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Heavy rain triggered flooding in Sri Lanka that killed at least 11 people and is threatening up to 90 percent of the staple rice crop, heightening concern about supply shocks and inflation, officials said on Sunday. Heavy monsoon rain caused flooding across the Eastern, Northern and North Central provinces for the second [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Several hundred Sri Lankan journalists, opposition politicians and supporters marched peacefully in the capital on Tuesday to demand justice for attacks, killings, and disappearances of media workers, and criticised the government for failing to find the perpetrators. Since the start of the final phase of a 25-year civil war in 2006, at [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Hundreds of Sri Lankan flood victims stormed a government office in one of the hardest-hit areas on Monday to demand that aid be distributed, police said. Heavy monsoon rains caused flooding across the island nation last week, killing at least 40 people, leaving 51,400 people in temporary shelters and threatening Sri Lanka’s [...]
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COLOMBO, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The death toll from flooding across a third of Sri Lanka rose to 23 people on Thursday, and another 100,000 people were forced from their homes as heavy monsoon rains lashed the island and threatened food supplies. The Agricultural Ministry said at least 21 percent of Sri Lanka’s staple rice [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Heavy monsoon rains on Wednesday kept Sri Lanka’s president from visiting areas inundated by flooding that has killed 18 people, forced 196,000 from their homes across a third of the nation, and threatened food supply. Nearly a fifth of Sri Lanka’s rice paddies are either destroyed or under standing water that could [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s government on Monday denied reports the cabinet had decided to eliminate the Tamil version of the national anthem, a step that would have echoed past linguistic slights that fuelled a three-decade civil war. President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government defeated the Tamil Tiger separatists in May 2009, ending a war that had [...]
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COLOMBO, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka plans to double the Colombo Stock Exchange’s .CSE market capitalisation from the present $19.8 billion over the next two years by listing companies partly owned by the state, the central bank governor said on Friday. Speaking at a Reuters forum in the capital Colombo, Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal [...]
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COLOMBO, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s relationship with India is not at risk over expanding ties with China or other nations, India’s foreign minister said on Friday. Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna is on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa, sign trade and financing deals and open two [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s relationship with India is not at risk over expanding ties with China or other nations, India’s foreign minister said on Friday. Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna is on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa, sign trade and financing deals and open two new consulates. [...]
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COLOMBO, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday presented the island nation’s first full post-war budget with an aim to reduce its fiscal deficit to a 19-year low of 6.8 percent. [ID:nCMB000071] [ID:nSGE6AL0N7] Following are some key changes proposed in it: GOVERNMENT FINANCE * Government targets 2011 fiscal deficit of 6.8 [...]
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s government nurses on Wednesday launched the latest in a series of trade union actions targeting President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s administration, which has threatened termination for those who took part in the job action. Rajapaksa has dominated the opposition by winning a landslide January re-election and a two-thirds parliamentary majority, riding on [...]
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