Sri Lanka receives more humanitarian supplies from Tamil NaduSri Lanka needs about USD 5 billion in the next six months to cover basic necessities for its 22 million people, who have been struggling w...
26 Jul, 2022, 02.15 PM IST
Sri Lankan Army to cultivate barren land to ramp up food productionThe economic crisis has led to an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas, fuel and toilet paper, with Sri Lanka...
17 Jun, 2022, 09.44 PM IST
IMF plans in-person Sri Lanka mission in coming weeks for policy talksThe nation-island is in talks with the IMF for a loan package to help navigate its worst economic crisis in seven decades. Sri Lanka's Prim...
10 Jun, 2022, 12.12 AM IST
India supplies another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to crisis-hit Sri LankaOn Friday, the mission here said that an Indian ship laden with urgent relief supplies like rice, medicines and milk powder for the people ...
21 May, 2022, 04.48 PM IST
Lanka crisis: India, Japan to provide relief supplies as threat of severe food shortage loomsAn Indian ship laden with urgent relief supplies like rice, medicines and milk powder for the people of crisis-hit Sri Lanka is scheduled t...
21 May, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Economic crisis: Talks between Sri Lanka, IMF to conclude on May 24Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence with food and fuel shortages, soaring prices, and power cuts affecting a l...
21 May, 2022, 12.45 PM IST
Food prices surge to 'unbearable levels' in Sri LankaThe consumers in the island nation said that rice prices have risen to unbearable levels. The minimum price of a kilo of rice in the genera...
10 Apr, 2022, 09.14 AM IST
India starts supplying rice to Sri Lanka in first major food aidThe Indian Ocean island nation of 22 million people is struggling to pay for essential imports after a 70% drop in foreign exchange reserve...
02 Apr, 2022, 02.10 PM IST
Sri Lanka takes emergency measures to avoid food crisisThe ban on the import of agrochemicals in April 2021 allegedly accentuated the crisis. During the ban, the use of substandard organic ferti...
11 Feb, 2022, 08.15 AM IST
- India agrees to supply rice to crisis ridden Sri Lanka
India has agreed to supply one lakh tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka on the back of a ban imposed by it on exports of non-basmati rice to curb r...
03 Apr, 2008, 02.15 PM IST
- Lankan importers to ask India to reduce rice export price
Sri Lanka, which has suffered damage to its paddy crop, is seeking 1,00,000 tonnes rice from India where stringent restrictions have been i...
30 Mar, 2008, 04.53 PM IST
- Lankan importers to ask India to reduce rice export price
Sri Lanka, which has suffered damage to its paddy crop, is seeking 1,00,000 tonnes rice from India where stringent restrictions have been i...
30 Mar, 2008, 04.35 PM IST
- Pakistan to export cement, rice to Sri Lanka
Pakistan will supply cement and rice to Sri Lanka, even as the two countries have pledged to avail of the vast untapped potential for bilat...
04 Mar, 2008, 03.46 PM IST
- Pakistan to export cement, rice to Sri Lanka
Pakistan will supply cement and rice to Sri Lanka, even as the two countries have pledged to avail of the vast untapped potential for bilat...
04 Mar, 2008, 03.43 PM IST
- Sri Lanka to import 75,000 tons rice from India
Sri Lanka has contracted to import 75,000 metric tons of non-basmati rice from India to meet its immediate requirement.
16 Nov, 2007, 02.30 PM IST
- Sri Lanka to import 75,000 tons rice from India
Sri Lanka has contracted to import 75,000 metric tons of non-basmati rice from India to meet its immediate requirement.
16 Nov, 2007, 01.00 PM IST
- India agrees to export rice to Lanka
Acceding to the request of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, India has agreed to export 6,000 metric tons of rice to the island natio...
02 Nov, 2007, 12.15 PM IST