Higher prices and shortages of farming inputs including fertilizers are likely to persist in the region, negatively impacting the agricultural sector in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This will probably result in weaker harvests and exert further upward pressures on food prices in the near term, the report said.
Sri Lanka is going through one of the worst crises of its history. Food has become scarce, prices have shot through the roof, and long power cuts have turned the lives of ordinary Sri Lankans upside down.
Days after quitting the Congress party. Jakhar, who is a non-Sikh face of Punjab, was upset with Rahul Gandhi, resigned from the Congress on Saturday during a Facebook Live after he was stripped from all posts.