{"id":11285,"date":"2021-09-26T07:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T07:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11285"},"modified":"2021-09-26T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T07:10:36","slug":"ranil-suspects-lockdown-will-not-be-lifted-on-1st-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/ranil-suspects-lockdown-will-not-be-lifted-on-1st-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil suspects lockdown will not be lifted on 1st October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe suspects the current lockdown will not be lifted on 1st October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UNP media unit quoted Wickremesinghe as saying that there are reports of a delay in purchasing diesel supplies for the domestic market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, he fears the lockdown will be extended further till mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UNP leader had expressed these views during a panel discussion organised by the International Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka (ICC Sri Lanka).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to the issue of debt management in Sri Lanka, Wickremesinghe had said that the most pressing concern is addressing the dwindling foreign exchange reserves in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that the regional foreign exchange reserves are projected to increase over the course of the year while Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign exchange reserves are on a downward trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe suspects the current lockdown will not be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11287,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}