The crisis-ridden Government is to allow international oil companies to operate fuel import and distribution in Sri Lanka ending the oligopoly of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and Lanka Indian Oil Company, a senior energy ministry official said.
Sri Lanka is now facing unprecedented fuel and food crisis paralysing the whole country and the people will have to starve as a result of the break down in the supply chain with in the next few weeks, traders and food commodity transporters claimed
A high-level delegation representing the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of State will visit Sri Lanka from June 26- 29, the U.S.Embassy in Colombo announced .
As Sri Lanka grapples with a massive economic crisis , India yesterday (June 24) delivered a humanitarian consignment containing 15,000 metric tons of essential items including rice, milk powder and pharmaceuticals to Sri Lanka.