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By Srijit Das An old video of a group of people vandalising a Hindu temple has been revived with a false claim that the incident happened in a temple in Sri Lanka. The same video was earlier viral as an incident of West Bengal. BOOM had then found that the video shows an old incident, which happened on August 4, 2021, when a mob vandalised a Hindu temple in Pakistan's Rahim Yar Khan district. In the video, an angry mob break the entrance door, enter the temple and start vandalising the interiors. Some people can be seen breaking glasses, pelting stones inside the temple while others record the...
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By Mohammed Kudrati In a fillip to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) efforts towards the gradual internationalisation of the Indian rupee, a Sri Lankan bank has opened special rupee "vostro" accounts in India to facilitate trade in the Indian rupee. These accounts build on the framework spelt out by the RBI for facilitating international trade in the Indian rupee that it laid out in July. The Bank of Ceylon, a Sri Lankan bank, has opened a vostro account with the State Bank of India through the former's branch in Chennai. Reports in Sri Lankan media suggests that this may be the first of many ...
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By Srijanee Chakraborty An eight year old video of Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad's religious remark towards Sri Lankan cricketer Tiilakaratne Dilshan which had stirred a controversy, has surfaced with misleading claims on social media. In the 14 seconds long viral clip, Shehzad and Dilshan can be seen walking back to the dressing room as the former is heard advising Dilshan to convert into Islam for its religious benefits. Shehzad tells Dilshan, "If you (are a) non-Muslim and you turn Muslim no matter whatever you do in life, (you go) straight to heaven." Followed by an inaudible reply by ...
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By The Conversation Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The win couldn't come at a better time for Sri Lanka, a country once more engaged in political and economic instability, as it suffers through one of the world's worst economic crises, with soaring inflation, food and fuel shortages, and low supplies of foreign reserves. And of course, the government was overthrown in July, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled following mass protests. Karunatilaka said in his acceptance speech: My hope for Seven M...
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By Mohammed Kudrati The World Bank on Thursday cut India's economic growth forecast by a percentage point, to 6.5% from 7.5%, according to its Regional Economic Updates. It joins a legion of institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve Bank of India to cut India's growth forecasts as the world teeters on the brink of a recession in advanced economies. Last week, the Reserve Bank of India cut India's growth forecasts by 0.2 percentage points from 7.2% to 7%. Also Read: RBI Hikes Repo Rate By 50 Bps To 5.9% As Rupee Weakens, Inflation Persists In India, a financial year (...
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By Srijanee Chakraborty An image of the Sri Lankan flag being displayed on the Burj Khalifa, the popular skyscraper of Dubai, is being circulated widely on social media claiming that the flag was displayed on the Dubai landmark after Sri Lanka's cricket team won the Asia Cup 2022 on September 11, 2022. Sri Lanka beat Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2022 finale on September 11 at the Sharjah stadium. The image is being shared with the caption, "Burj Khalifa, Dubai #AsiaCup2022; Congratulations, Sri Lanka." Click here to view the post. Click here and here to see more posts like this. BOOM found that th...
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By Mohammed Kudrati The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday reached a $2.9 billion deal with Sri Lankan officials aimed at bolstering the island country's battered economy. Sri Lanka's economy has been hit by a slew of woes including a paucity foreign exchange, high inflation, ballooning public debt, a worthless currency and a shortage of essentials. The deal includes Sri Lanka requesting access to around 2.2 billion in special drawing rights (SDR), which is equivalent to $2.9 billion. The SDR is not a currency, but rather the unit of account of the IMF, which is, in turn, linked to a...
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By Adrija Bose Katunayake, SRI LANKA- Every morning, Sandhya Malkanti has to walk past a bunch of leering men— shopkeepers, street vendors and tuktuk drivers— who make snide remarks and lewd gestures at her. By the time she gets to work, she has already been harassed multiple times. At work, it doesn't get better. The 33-year-old has been working as a garment factory worker in Sri Lanka for the last seven years. Just like her co-workers, Sandhya finds it difficult even to take a bathroom break as not meeting her targets would mean less money in her pocket. At a time when Sri Lanka is going thr...
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By Sourit Sanyal On the morning of August 16, the Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship 'Yuan Wang 5' docked at the Hambantota port on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The arrival of the high-tech vessel was quick to raise concern in New Delhi as Colombo allowed the ship to dock at the Hambantota port. As the ship is scheduled to stay docked at the port till August 22, here's a look at why India is worried about its presence there. What is the Yuan Wang 5? China has said that the ship, Yuan Wang 5, is used for scientific research. But a 2021 report by the US Defense Department ...
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By Adrija Bose Sri Lanka: Twenty-year-old Sanduni breaks down while talking to the doctor at the gynaecology ward of Base Hospital, Dambulla, situated in the Central province of the crisis-ridden country. Six weeks into her pregnancy, Sanduni had a miscarriage after she was unable to find insulin - the required medication to treat her diabetes. "She had trouble at home," the doctor told BOOM without explaining further. However, she said that the pregnant women who have visited the hospital in the last few months are all showing signs of anemia. "They are not getting enough nutrition because th...
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