# Srilanka

• Srilankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksha will resign on July 13, the parliamentary speaker said on Saturday night.
• On Saturday, ptotestors stormed the presidential secretariat and official and private homes of Gotabaya Rajapaksha and prime minister Ranil wickramasinghe, in a show of striking public fury over the country’s worsening economic crisis.
• Prime minister Ranil wickramasinghe is also likely to resign to pave the way for an all party government.

# FATF

• As Pakistan enters the final stages of its efforts to be taken off the Financial action task force (FATF) grey list this year, all eyes are on action against jaish -e-mohammad founder Massod Azhar and his brother.
• Both are most wanted by India for their role in many terror attacks, including the IC 814 aeroplane hijack in 1999 and the parliament attack in 2001.
• Senior FATF team is expected to visit Islamabad and other cities for an “on site visit” from August 28 to September 2, to verify whether Pakistan has carried out all the actions on its 34 point task list handed after it was put on the grey list in 2018.

# Red pandas

• The Singalila national park, the highest protected area in West Bengal, will soon get new Denizens.
• A Zoo in the picturesque Darjeeling hills has started an ambitious programme to augment the wild red panda production.
• In the first rewilding programme of red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) in India, the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan zoological park will release 20 of these furry endangered mammals in about five years to the forests.

# Glaciers

• The decadal pace at which glaciers are receding in the Drass region, a key battle ground in Ladakh during the 1999 kargil war, points to a grave threat to Himalayan glaciers.
• The study published by the journal environmental science and pollution research is based on satellite images of 77 glaciers observed over two decades from 2020 to 2020, in the Drass sector of Himalayan region.