Food and foreign exchange crisis in Sri Lanka: Bangladesh sends more money on an emergency basis

Dhaka, September 1: Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency in the face of an acute food crisis. The country has not been able to import the required food due to the depletion of foreign currency in the local private banks. In this situation, Bangladesh has extended a helping hand to the neighboring country on an emergency basis. On Tuesday (August 31), Bangladesh Bank released another USD 10 crore for Sri Lanka, amounting to about Tk 852 crore in domestic currency.