As Sri Lanka’s economy continues to crater the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has issued a warning on Sri Lanka detailing how “the economic situation is deteriorating”.

A window was stolen from a historic site in Nallur, Jaffna which dates back to the 13th century. 

US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris on Wednesday to discuss "bilateral cooperation, PTA reform and the UNHRC" despite the island's rejection of UN resolution 46/1. 

A cooking gas explosion in Selvapuram, Mullaitivu has caused a state of panic as locals are already struggling with the gas shortages and soaring prices amidst the economic crisis. 

An elderly man died in a hit-and-run after a Sri Lankan military motorbike collided into his motorbike yesterday in Bharathipuram, Vavuniya. 

The 64 year old man from Vinayagapuram, Vavuniya, died on the spot due to a head injury while the military vehicle fled the scene. 

^{Mannar farmers queuing for fuel} 

After a host of fierce opposition from within the government, Sri Lanka has reportedly begun talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it continues to suffer from its worst financial crisis in years.

Sri Lanka’s state minister, and close Rajapaksa ally, Lohan Ratwatte has been gifted another profile as state minister of Warehouse Facilities, Container Yards, Port Supply Facilities and Boats and Shipping Industry Development.

As one of the worst financial crises seen in Sri Lanka continues to looms over the island, they are now also facing the closing down of hundreds of bakeries across the nation due to the scarceness of cooking gas.

Deputy head of the European Union in Sri Lanka Thorsten Bargfrede launched a “dispute intake box” with the Sri Lanka ministry of justice amidst widespread protests across Sri Lanka by Tamil families of the disappeared demanding to know the fate of their loved ones. 

Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa spoke over the phone with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar earlier today and they agreed to a visit by the former to New Delhi in the latter half of March. 

As reports of a Russian airstrike on a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine begin to surface, we take a look at what international law states on the targeting of hospitals and on when they have been hit in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa met with a senior Russian official in Colombo this week, as his cash-stricken government looked to Moscow for a US$ 300 million Credit Line even as international sanctions continued to grow.

Rajapaksa met with a Russian trade delegation headed by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Alexey Gruzdev, who handed him a list of “proposals for Sri Lanka”. The two countries, both accused of war crimes, have been seeking to grow ties between them.

The meeting comes as Sri Lanka’s envoy in Moscow Janitha Liyanage confirmed that her government has sought a US$ 300 million Credit Line from Russia to purchase crude oil, gas and coal.

A new publication from Amnesty International highlights the “deteriorating human rights situation” in which state authorities have harassed, intimidated, and violated the civil liberties of families of the disappeared, who have been failed by Sri Lankan mechanisms on promises of delivering justice.