<span style="color: #222222;">In Sri Lanka, island-wide curfew will be imposed from 8 pm today, May 16 till 5 am on May 17, 2022, the President's Media Division said. Earlier, the authorities announced that it lifted a nationwide curfew fully to mark Buddhist festival of Vesak.<br />''<br />''The government had declared a two-day holiday and announced it was lifting the curfew for the day without saying when or whether it would be reimposed. The curfew was imposed on 9th of May after once-peaceful protests turned violent, killing at least nine people and injuring hundreds others.<br />''<br />''According to media reports, long queues stretched outside the few fuel stations that were still open today as motorists waited for rationed petrol. Heavily armed troops are patrolling the streets with a state of emergency still in effect. Protesters across the Buddhist-majority nation have for weeks demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over worst-ever economic crisis.</span>