The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

India’s Adani’s group, its proximity to prime minister Narendra Modi, and its influence over the Sri Lanka government has been at the centre of a political controversy unfolding in Sri Lanka over the last five days.

Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and encourage them to grow food, the government said on Tuesday, as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades.

TUI holiday cancellations were extended but Government advice has now changed

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The company said: "We will continue to monitor the situation and update customers"

The war in Ukraine has generated an economic tidal wave that is crashing over countries near and far. Among the more far-flung is Sri Lanka, half a world away from the battlefield, where surging food and fuel prices have supercharged a downward spiral that was already under way.

It says people in the neighbouring country are panicked by the worsening economic crisis and shortage of supplies

A video featuring Kalaiyarasi Sadasivam, a cricket star from Sri Lanka’s former war zone.

The committee includes former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, DMK MP Tiruchi Siva and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.