Sri Lanka’s positive future- By Dr Harold Gunatillake transcript: Sri Lanka is appreciative of India’s help Sri Lanka, IMF reach preliminary agreement on emergency loan: reports IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to support Sri Lanka’s economic policies with a 48- month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of about US$2.9 billion. Lankan envoy says India anchors regional security. WFP says three in 10 Sri Lankans are food insecure ADB approves a $200 million loan to mitigate Sri Lanka’s food crisis Sri Lanka invites Saudi Arabia to set up an oil refinery India’s great support: In Wellawaya in Uva Province, a self-effacing Sinhalese farmer harvested his paddy crop raised during the Yala cultivation season (May to August). He said he has received an average yield this time thanks to “the supply of chemical fertilisers from India.” In the preceding Maha season (September to ...

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