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Sri Lankan central bank governor resigns amid a worsening economic crisis

The central bank governor resigned in the wake of exacerbating economic crisis that has sparked massive protests across the island nation.

Sri Lanka is teetering on the edge of a financial collapse: Understanding the island nation’s worst economic crisis in its history

Experts believe that the ongoing crisis is the result of policy errors made by the Rajapaksa regime between 2005 and 2015.

Dr S Jaishankar offers India’s help after hospitals in Sri Lanka suspend surgeries due to a shortage of medicines

India's Minister for External Affairs dialed Indian High Commission in Colombo to extend all help to the hospital after learning about surgeries getting postponed due to lack of medicines.

Sri Lanka postpones school exams as the country ran out of paper and has no foreign exchange to import

Sri Lanka postpones school exams in western province as they don't have papers to print the question papers

Financially doomed Pakistan to grant permanent residence to wealthy international investors including Chinese and US-based Sikh nationals

Pakistani government aims to attract large investments from affluent Afghans who are already investing in Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia.

China: Power outages impact production, Evergrande fall out, coal crisis may trigger major economic trouble

Nomura’s Chief China Economist Ting Lu cut his forecast for Chinese GDP growth this year as factories shut down to comply with carbon emissions reduction targets.

Pakistan’s cash woes: UAE asks Imran Khan to return USD 1 billion by March 12 deadline

UAE had deposited USD 1 billion in Pakstan's central bank. It has set March 12 as the deadline to retun the amount as the deposit has reached its maturity.

Cash-strapped Pakistan ‘not interested’ in buying Coronavirus vaccines, happy with donated vaccines and supposed herd immunity

The Imran Khan-led-government will also receive 16 million Made-in-India Coronavirus vaccines through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) programme.

Beirut blast aftermath: Amid widespread protests against corruption, Lebanon government resigns

Lebanon PM Hassan Diab resigns over Beirut blast, blames corruption. 20 cabinet ministers have already resigned.

Intellectual dishonesty sorted with a little help from Shekhar Gupta: Professor Varshney endorses clause 7.1 by ‘intellectuals’, leaves door open for uturn after Shekhar...

The juvenile “7-point action plan” propounded by Yogendra Yadav contains a controversial 7.1 clause that terms all private property, which included bonds, gold, property etc ‘must be treated as a national resource’ to fight the pandemic

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