Tag: Gotabaya Rajapaksa

New Delhi: Amid the economic and political turmoil in Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the new president of the island nation on Wednesday. Sri Lankan Parliament directly elected the new president in a three-way contest between acting...

Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Tuesday nominated three MPs to contest Presedential elections slated to be held on Wednesday. Three candidates vying to become Sri Lanka’s next president are: Dullas Alahapperuma of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s (SLPP), acting...

New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as interim president on Friday, after Parliament speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena accepted the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Wickremesinghe, 73, was sworn in as acting president of Sri...

New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and ex-finance minister Basil Rajapaksa have been barred from leaving the crisis-hit country until July 28th, said news agency DailyMirror as reported by ANI. Basil Rajapaksa tried to leave the...

New Delhi: Sri Lankan Parliamentary Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywarden on Friday confirmed that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned from his put up and it has additionally been accepted. “Gotabaya has legally resigned” with impact from Thursday, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana advised...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned as Sri Lankan President on Thursday after touchdown in Singapore from Maldives after he fled the island nation amid large protests towards his authorities’s mishandling of the financial system. “The Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament...

Saudi Airline flight SV 788 carrying Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday landed in Singapore from the Maldives after he fled the nation amid large protests towards his authorities’s mishandling of the economic system, PTI reported....

New Delhi: The curfew imposed within the Western province of Sri Lanka was lifted Thursday after it was imposed because of the violence that ensued within the capital metropolis of Columbo. The event additionally comes as President Gotabaya...

After escaping to Maldives as a consequence of an rebellion triggered by financial collapse, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is now ready to journey to Singapore, reported information company ANI.  Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who’s now an performing...

Chennai: On a day when recent civilian protests erupted in Sri Lanka after phrase bought out that embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled to Maldives, the administration was clearly at a loss to manage the chaos on the...