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Sri Lanka Economic Crisis LIVE Updates: President Gotabaya in a nearby country and will come back to resign on July 13, says Speaker
Sri Lanka Crisis live: Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena tells local media that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the island and is currently in a nearby country. Leaders of the protest movement in Sri Lanka who have forced the president and prime minister out of their official residences said they will occupy the buildings until the two quit office. Stay with TOI for more updatesRead Less
He will return to Sri Lanka on July 13 to resign: Abeywardena
Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena tells local media that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the island and is currently in a nearby country.
Restaurant owners in Colombo use wood to cook food as the country faces gas shortage
Sri Lanka | Restaurant owners in Colombo use wood to cook food as the country faces gas shortage "We don't have ga… https://t.co/VNIbO4Fewa
— ANI (@ANI) 1657539917000In Pics: Swimming pool, gym, luxurious furniture: A peek inside 'ransacked' Sri Lankan Presidential palace
President Rajapaksa has no mandate to govern Sri Lanka anymore: Church of Ceylon
Sri Lanka's central bank governor signalled on Monday he would stay in the job but warned that prolonged political instability in the country may delay progress on negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package.
United Arab Emirates carrier flydubai has suspended operations to Colombo in Sri Lanka until further notice, a company spokesperson told Reuters by email on Monday.
India is supportive of SL, watching developments closely: Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister of India S. Jaishankar said that India is watching the developments unfolding in Sri Lanka.He was speaking to reporters here after his arrival. Jaishankar said that the Government of India has been supporting the Sri Lankan government in its crisis period and is presently closely monitoring the developments. To a question, he said that at present there is no refugee crisis from that country.The Island nation, reeling under economic crisis, has witnessed violent protests and people storming into the President's Palace.
President Rajapaksa on Saturday announced that he will resign. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe also said that he will step down after a new government is formed.
Sri Lankan Cabinet ministers to resign after all-party government formation: PMO
Sri Lanka's entire Cabinet of ministers on Monday agreed to resign once an agreement is reached on the formation of an all-party interim government, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office said after the president and premier offered to resign as unprecedented protests broke out and thousands of enraged demonstrators stormed the leaders' homes over their mishandling of the country's worst economic crisis.
His exact whereabouts were not known Monday morning, but Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Rajapaksa had officially informed him of his intention to resign.
The 73-year-old leader escaped through a back door under escort from naval personnel and was taken away by boat, heading to the northeast of the island, official sources told AFP.
Rajapaksa took up residence at the two-century-old building after he was driven out of his private home on March 31 when protesters tried to storm it.
Official sources said a suitcase full of documents had also been left behind at the stately mansion.
"The cash was taken over by the police and will be produced in court today," a police spokesman said.
Fleeing Rajapaksa's cash handed to Sri Lankan police
Millions of rupees in cash left behind by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa when he fled his official residence in the capital will be handed over to court on Monday, police said.Protesters discovered 17.85 million rupees (about $50,000) in crisp new banknotes but turned it over to police following Saturday's storming of the Presidential palace.
Sri Lanka cabinet ministers to resign once agreement to form all-party government reached: Prime minister's media division
President Rajapaksa on Saturday announced that he will resign. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe also said that he will step down after a new government is formed.
India refutes speculative media reports on sending troops to Sri Lanka: Indian mission
The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka has categorically dismissed for the second time in as many months the speculative media reports about New Delhi sending its troops to Colombo, where thousands of angry protesters stormed embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence and set Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's house on fire amidst the ongoing economic crisis.
Protesters remained in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence, his seaside office and the prime minister’s home, saying they would stay until the resignations are official. The president's whereabouts were unknown, but a statement from his office said he ordered the immediate distribution of a cooking gas consignment to the public, suggesting that he was still at work.
