Radi

Leaves from the lush green tea estates covering the hills of central Sri Lanka end up in cups across the world.

There is nothing new about nations collapsing under the weight of their debts. But Sri Lanka’s awful predicament highlights three new aspects of our world.

Sri Lanka’s main opposition leader, Sajith Premadasa, has withdrawn from the presidential race and thrown his support behind a rival candidate, presenting a significant challenge to prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s bid for the executive role.

There are few who have been stalwarts of Sri Lankan politics in the last half-century quite like the man often referred to as “the fox”.

Tea factory owners fear total closure owing to the worsening fuel crisis and other shocks putting much needed foreign exchange earnings at risk amidst lowering of tea production after 23 years.