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    Sri Lanka’s New Outsider President In With a Chance

    Despite riding a wave of anti-corruption and anti-establishment sentiment, Dissanayake’s promise to renegotiate some austerity measures entails great economic risk and is unlikely to...
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    Finance and Economy

    India Extends Generous Support to Maldives with $400 Million Currency Swap Facility

    Modi also highlighted recent developmental projects, including the virtual inauguration of Hanimaadhoo International Airport and the handover of 700 social housing units, which collectively...
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    Agri-business

    Sri Lanka’s New President Revives Subsidy Schemes for Farmers and Fishermen

    Dissanayake also announced a fuel subsidy for the fishing community, applicable to both multi-day and one-day vessels, ensuring that support extends to vital sectors...
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    Energy

    Sri Lanka’s New President to Expedite Foreign-Aided Energy Projects

    Anura Kumara Dissanayake announces a new committee aimed at accelerating approvals for international funding in the energy sector. In a bid to enhance energy infrastructure...
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    Child Rights

    Summit of the Future: Time to Rethink ‘Outdated and Ineffective’ International Financial Architecture

    Only 44 delegations were present when the IMF was founded, compared to the current IMF membership of 190 nations. Yet developed countries continue to...
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    Civil society

    At UN ‘Summit of the Future’, Civil Society Demand Radical Changes to International Financial Architecture

    Currency devaluations have raised the cost of servicing external debt, in many instances, while governments have been forced by conditionalities imposed by international institutions...
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    Agri-business

    Cabinet Approves Continuation of Schemes of Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan

    The extension of implementation of market intervention scheme with changes will provide remunerative prices to farmers growing perishable horticulture crops. The extension of price...
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    Education for all

    Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan to Empower India’s Tribal Communities

    PMJUGA focuses on providing tribal families with access to pucca housing, ensuring they have safe and secure living conditions. This will replace their current...
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    Animals and wildlife

    Sri Lanka’s Elephant Corridor Plan ‘Unscientific’

    Nearly 5,000 elephants and 1,600 people have been killed in the last 15 years in clashes between elephants and humans in Sri Lanka, home to one of the largest remaining populations of Asian elephants, according to official figures.
    Climate change

    New Projections Show Extreme Glacier Loss Already at 2°C

    Staying close to 1.5°C on the other hand preserves at least some glacier ice in all regions, even Scandinavia, with 20-30 per cent remaining in the four most sensitive regions; and 40-45 per cent in the Himalayas and Caucuses; stressing the growing urgency of the 1.5°C temperature goal and rapid decarbonization to achieve it.
    Agri-business

    Government Extends Interest Relief for Farmers, Reinforces KCC and MISS as Pillars of Agricultural Credit

    Through the KCC framework, farmers benefit from revolving credit facilities for up to five years. This flexible structure allows them to draw and repay funds as per their seasonal requirements without having to reapply for loans each season.

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    Animals and wildlife

    Sri Lanka’s Elephant Corridor Plan ‘Unscientific’

    Nearly 5,000 elephants and 1,600 people have been killed in the last 15 years in clashes between elephants and humans in Sri Lanka, home to one of the largest remaining populations of Asian elephants, according to official figures.
    Climate change

    New Projections Show Extreme Glacier Loss Already at 2°C

    Staying close to 1.5°C on the other hand preserves at least some glacier ice in all regions, even Scandinavia, with 20-30 per cent remaining in the four most sensitive regions; and 40-45 per cent in the Himalayas and Caucuses; stressing the growing urgency of the 1.5°C temperature goal and rapid decarbonization to achieve it.
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