A passenger pays Lasanda Deepthi, 43, an auto-rickshaw driver for local ride hailing app PickMe, after they got dropped off at their destination in Gonapola town, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 25, 2022. A woman auto-rickshaw driver is a rare sight on the island of 22 million people off the southern coast of India. But it's a job Deepthi has done for seven years to support her family of five, by using local ride-hailing app PickMe. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





Soldiers stand guard behind barriers as protesters gather during the 50th day of anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country's crippling economic crisis, in Colombo on May 28, 2022. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Protestors run for cover as police fire tear gas shells near the president's official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Police fired tear gas and water canon on protesters who marched toward the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's barricaded residence demanding his resignation. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Police officers detain a protester during a clash near the president's official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Anti-government protesters run for cover as police fire tear gas shells during a protest near the president's official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A woman moves a gas tank as she stands in line to buy another tank near a distributor, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 1, 2022. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





Auto rickshaw driver Lakmal Ruwan waits outside a fuel station expecting to refill petrol in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 2, 2022. Barely three weeks have passed since Ranil Wickremesinghe assumed duties as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka which has engulfed in an unprecedented economic and political crisis. Analysts say Wickremesinghe has managed to boost confidence of the people and ensure transparency in the policy process aimed at resolving the crisis, but at the ground level, people are still languishing in long queues to buy fuel and cooking gas while prices of essentials are soaring. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A three-month-old Bengali tiger cub is seen during the first time public sighting at the Dehiwala Zoological Garden, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 2, 2022. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





People wait to buy kerosene at a gas station amid a fuel shortage in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 07 June 2022. Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis in decades due to the lack of foreign exchange, resulting in severe shortages in food, fuel, medicine, and imported goods. Protests have been rocking the country for weeks, calling for the resignation of the president over the alleged failure to address the worsening current economic crisis. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





Sri Lanka's Charith Asalanka dives back successfully to avoid a run-out during the first Twenty20 cricket match between Australia and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A man runs from tear gas fired by police to disperse anti-government protesters near police headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 9, 2022. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





A Buddhist nun falls next to a barricade after inhaling tear gas during a protest outside police headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 9, 2022. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Demonstrators protest amidst tear gas used by the police to disperse them during a protest outside the Sri Lanka's police headquarters, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 9, 2022. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)





People wait in a long queues to buy fuel for their vehicles at a filling station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister says he may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as he hunts desperately for more fuel to keep the country running. In an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said if the island nation can get the oil from other sources, it will. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Sri Lankan Buddhist devotees offer flowers and incense sticks during a religious observance on the Poson full moon day at the Kelaniya Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 14 June 2022. Poson full moon day commemorates the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century BC. Buddhism is the official religion of the South Asian island nation and the majority of the island's population traditionally engages in religious observances on full moon day. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)





A man watches from a work site as students march demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign over the economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 20, 2022. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Autorickshaws are parked in a queue along a street to tank up petrol from a Ceylon petroleum corporation fuel station in Colombo on June 20, 2022. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Activists from Samagi Vanitha Balawegaya, a part of the main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya try to overturn a police barricade during a protest outside Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo on June 22, 2022. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Hirunika Premachandra, a politician and a leader of Samagi Vanitha Balawegaya, a part of the main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya, hugs a female police member during a protest near Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 22, 2022. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)