Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena expressed his gratitude to India for providing all kinds of financial assistance to it when last
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Mumbai, Apr 14: The island nation of Sri Lanka is in the midst of one of the worst economic crises it’s ever seen. It has just defaulted on its foreign debts for the first time since its independence, and the country’s 22 million people are facing crippling 12-hour power cuts, and an extreme scarcity of food, fuel and other essential items such as medicines. Inflation is at an all-time high of 17.5%, with prices of food items such as a kilogram […]