Bharatha Mallawarachi, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - A woman bargains as she buys vegetables at a market place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, June 10, 2022. The International Monetary Fund said Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka to provide $ 2.9 billion over four years to help salvage the country from its worst economic crisis in recent memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

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IMF to provide Sri Lanka $2.9B

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated PressSeptember 1, 2022

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement to provide Sri Lanka with $2.9 billion over four years to help it recover from its worst economic crisis.The arrangement will help restore…

People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. Sri Lanka is in a political vacuum for a second day Monday with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by protesters, angry over the country's economic woes. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Hundreds squat at Sri Lanka’s presidential palace

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated PressJuly 11, 2022

Anti-government protesters help a fellow protester who was beaten up by government supporters during clashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday.

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Sri Lanka’s PM resigns after weeks of protests

by Krishan Francis Associated Press, Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krutika Pathi Associated PressMay 9, 2022

A Sri Lankan soldier stands guard at the damaged St. Anthony's Church or Shrine in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, April 26, 2019. Priests have allowed journalists inside St. Anthony's Church in Sri Lanka for the first time since it was targeted in a series of Islamic State-claimed suicide bombings that killed over 250 people. Broken glass littered the sanctuary's damaged pews and blood stained the floor. Shoes left by panicked worshippers remained in the darkened church, and broken bottles...

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Sunday Mass canceled a week after bombings

by Emily Schmall Associated Press, Jon Gambrell Associated Press, and Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated PressApril 26, 2019

A priest conducts funeral service for a victim of Easter Sunday's bomb blast at St. Sebastian Church, in Negombo, Sri Lanka Thursday, April 25, 2019. The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka warned Thursday that places of worship could be targeted for militant attacks over the coming weekend, as police searched for more suspects in the Islamic State-claimed Easter suicide bombings that killed over 350 people. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Death toll lowered to 253, Sri Lanka braces for more attacks

by Emily Schmall Associated Press, and Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated PressApril 26, 2019

Relatives place flowers after the burial Monday of three victims of the same family, who died in a bomb blast Easter Sunday at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka military gets special powers after deadly bombings

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 22, 2019

Relatives of a blast victim grieve outside a morgue in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than hundred were killed and hundreds more hospitalized with injuries from eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside of Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday, officials said, the worst violence to hit the South Asian country since its civil war ended a decade ago. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Explosions kill at least 207 in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 21, 2019

Bloodstains are seen on the wall and on a Jesus Christ statue at St. Sebastian's Church after blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday.

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Bombings in Sri Lanka kill more than 200

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 21, 2019