The Sri Lanka authorities has requested Singapore authorities to permit former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to remain within the nation for one more 14 days, native media reported on Saturday citing sources.Rajapaksa, who’s at the moment staying in Singapore, was anticipated to depart the nation on August 11 when his visa expired.Nevertheless, Rajapaksa will stay in Singapore for some extra time on the authorities’s request, reported Each day Mirror.The previous president was issued a 14-day go to go when he arrived on the Changi Airport in Singapore from the Maldives on July 14, and he was allowed to remain there for 2 weeks.Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena introduced the official resignation of Rajapaksa on July 15.73-year-old Gotabaya Rajapaksa had gone into hiding after crowds of protesters stormed his residence on July 9.Ranil Wickremesinghe was then sworn in as President of Sri Lanka on July 21 in Parliament earlier than Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.Earlier, Wickremesinghe was appointed because the interim president of Sri Lanka after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled overseas after his palace was stormed by offended protesters amid the unprecedented financial disaster.Notably, the nation is dealing with a extreme scarcity of gasoline and different important provides and is within the throes of its worst-ever financial disaster with hovering inflation. The oil provide scarcity has pressured colleges and authorities workplaces to shut till additional discover.Lowered home agricultural manufacturing, a scarcity of international alternate reserves, and native forex depreciation have fuelled the shortages.The financial disaster will push many households into starvation and poverty – some for the primary time – including to the half 1,000,000 individuals who the World Financial institution estimates have fallen under the poverty line due to the pandemic.