Tag: Ranil Wickremesinghe
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UN chief expresses concern over Sri Lankan President’s decision to dissolve Parliament
He renewed his call on the Sri Lankan government to ensure peace and safety for all the countrymen and uphold its commitments to human rights, justice and reconciliation.
November 11, 2018 -
Sri Lankan President dissolves parliament, orders snap election on Jan 5
Sirisena sparked the two-week-old drama last month by sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister and naming Mahinda Rajapakse as his replacement.
November 10, 2018 -
Sirisena likely to convene Sri Lankan Parliament on November 7: Speaker
A political crisis erupted in Sri Lanka last Friday when Sirisena, dissolved Cabinet and sacked Wickremesinghe and appointed former President Rajapaksa as the new Prime Minister.
November 2, 2018 -
Sri Lankan sacked PM ‘confident’ of Parliament support
The President removed Wickremesinghe, sacked the Cabinet and suspended Parliament last week and appointed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new Prime Minister.
November 1, 2018 -
Sri Lankan President lifts suspension, parliament to convene on Nov 5
Wickramasinghe, who has refused to accept his dismissal, argues that he cannot legally be removed until he loses the support of parliament.
November 1, 2018 -
US calls on Sri Lanka President to immediately reconvene parliament
Sirisena on Friday sacked Wickremesinghe and appointed former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister, triggering political chaos in the island nation.
October 29, 2018 -
1 dead, two injured as shots fired by Arjuna Ranatunga’s bodyguards amid political crisis
Sri Lanka is facing a political crisis after President Sirisena sacked prime minister Wickremesinghe on Friday, and appointed former strongman Rajapaksa as the new prime minister.
October 28, 2018 -
India closely monitoring political developments in Sri Lanka, says EAM
"India is closely following the recent political developments in Sri Lanka," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Raveeh Kumar said in response to queries from the media.
October 28, 2018 -
SL President suspends Parl, replaces Wickremesinghe with Rajapaksa
Sirisena on Friday night sacked Wickremesinghe and appointed former President Rajapaksa to the post. He made the surprising move after his United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) withdrew from the national coalition government.
October 27, 2018 -
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena prorogues Parliament
The political crisis began after Sirisena sacked Wickremesinghe and appointed Rajapaksa as the new Prime Minister on Friday night.
October 27, 2018 -
Sri Lanka in deep crisis as sacked PM insists to stay, Mahinda Rajapakse sworn in
The president’s United People’s Freedom Alliance party had earlier Friday quit the coalition that had governed with Wickremesinghe’s party.
October 27, 2018 -
Coalition tremors
Caught between former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the one hand and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on the other, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena has reached a point of no return. The coalition of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United Nation Party, which pitchforked Sirisena into the President’s chair, is in tatters. The President …
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October 27, 2018 -
PM Modi, Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe discuss India-assisted development projects
The two sides reviewed the status of the India-assisted housing projects in Jaffna.
October 20, 2018 -
Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe meets Rahul, Sonia, Manmohan
A day after his arrival in New Delhi Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met Congress President Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday in New Delhi.
October 19, 2018 -
Sri Lanka India’s special, trusted partner: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described Sri Lanka as India's special and trusted friend in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region while assuring New Delhi's continued development aid cooperation with the island nation.
July 21, 2018 -
India’s Lankan dilemma
India has always accorded priority to Sri Lanka in its foreign policy discourse owing to a combination of geo-strategic, political and socio-cultural factors. However, relations have often been determined by factors internal to these countries; India has been compelled to scale down its ‘active involvement’ in Lankan affairs, tempered by the political developments within Sri …
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May 20, 2018 -
PM defeats President
The Bible says, “A house divided against itself will not stand.” With President Maithripala Sirisena of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, President of Sri Lanka, voting for the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of the United National Party along with a group of 15 SLFP Cabinet ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers representing …
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April 9, 2018