The PM is seeking $4bn from the IMF, China and Japan to pay for food and fuel even as he slashes budget to ‘bare bones’.

The PM is seeking $4bn from the IMF, China and Japan to pay for food and fuel even as he slashes budget to ‘bare bones’.
Wickremesinghe will present an interim budget within six weeks that will slash government expenditure ‘to the bone’.
Price increase comes as Sri Lanka hires heavyweight financial, legal advisers Lazard and Clifford Chance: Reuters.
Study says heatwaves in the region should be ‘rare’ but current level of global warming made them 30 times more likely.
As essential medicines disappear from shelves, doctors forced to postpone life-saving procedures amid economic crisis.
Prime minister warns of a food crisis after chemical fertilisers ban by previous government drastically cut crop yields.
Protesters want a new Sri Lanka, not just a reshuffling of the stale old cards.
Central bank says it has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments amid protest by students.
The island nation fell into default for the first time in its history as the gov’t struggled to halt an economic crisis.
It was the first-ever public event on the island where mostly majority ethnic Sinhalese memorialised the minority group.
Power and energy minister ‘respectfully’ advises against forming queues, saying there are no sufficient petrol stocks.
Once self-sufficient nation reels from fall-out of ill-conceived shift to organic agriculture, economic crisis.
Ruling party defeats move to urgently debate the motion censuring President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the economic crisis.
Parliament meets for the first time since last week’s violence that saw Mahinda Rajapaksa resign as prime minister.