Sri Lanka Presidential Elections: Fresh protests erupted outside Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the new President of Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Protesters gathered outside the Secretariat and sloganeering continued after the Sri Lanka presidential election results...
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 President Ranil Wickremesinghe,...
Amid the ongoing economical crisis and political instability, Sri Lankan Parliament will directly elect a President on Wednesday in a three-way contest. According to reports, Opposition Leader, Sajith Premadasa withdrew from the contest and proposed the name of Dullas Alahapperuma, former...
Leaders of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the ruling party in the country have been warned on social media against voting for Ranil Wickremesinghe the acting President of Sri Lanka in the election to be held on Wednesday, July 20, reported...
New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday declared a state of emergency in the country with immediate effect as the island nation is set to witness the Presidential election on July 20 election after the post fell vacant...
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four leaders who have joined the race to become the country’s next President as the lawmakers met on...
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 Lanka by Chief...
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 country last Tuesday....
Chennai: The political crisis that gripped Sri Lanka more than a month ago has reached its climax with the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the beleaguered president of the island nation. Rajapaksa fled the country on Tuesday night after thousands of protesters stormed...
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 reporters, as quoted...
