Tag: Ranil Wickremesinghe
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Ex-Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe decides to step down as UNP party leader
The UNP leader mentioned seniors Ravi Karunanayake, Vajira Abeywardene, Daya Gamage and Kariyawasam as possible successors.
August 11, 2020 -
SL Prez appoints commission to probe political victimization
The Commission will be chaired retired Supreme Court Judge Upali Abeyratne.
January 11, 2020 -
Two to Tango
The message was more than obvious to the outgoing Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, lost the presidential poll.
November 25, 2019 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as new Sri Lanka Prime Minister
Mahinda Rajapaksa became the country's youngest-ever parliamentarian in 1970 at the age of 24.
November 21, 2019 -
Mahinda Rajapaksa to be sworn in as Sri Lanka PM
Rajapaksa, the main opposition leader, will be appointed as prime minister after incumbent Wickremesinghe steps down formally on Thursday.
November 21, 2019 -
Ex-Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa seeks PM Wickremesinghe’s resignation
Rajapaksa also said that the public's decision at the ballot box needed to be respected.
November 19, 2019 -
Sri Lanka expecting 100,000 tourists in July: PM
India, Britain and China are the leading markets for Sri Lanka's tourism.
July 15, 2019 -
60 detained over Sri Lanka Easter Sunday terror attacks
The Easter Sunday bombings which also injured over 500 people was the bloodiest attack in the island after the civil war ended in 2009.
July 11, 2019 -
Sri Lanka extends state emergency by another month after Easter Sunday attacks
Over 100 people including 10 women are in custody in connection with April's Easter Sunday suicide attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels in Colombo.
June 22, 2019 -
Sri Lankan presidential polls to be held between November 15 and December 7
Sirisena backed by the then main Opposition United National Party (UNP) became the common Opposition candidate against his former boss Rajapaksa.
June 2, 2019 -
Got no reports that terrorists involved in Easter bombings had travelled to India: Lankan president
"Had I known it, I would not have left the country," he said.
June 1, 2019 -
Sri Lanka, Israel, other nations congratulate PM Modi as NDA set to form govt
Nations like Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal congratulated PM Modi on his landmark victory in the Lok Sabha election 2019.
May 23, 2019 -
SL President frees 762 prisoners on Buddha Purnima
All those freed were in jail for minor offences and did not include convicts jailed for rape, child abuse, heroin use and drug trafficking.
May 18, 2019 -
Sri Lanka serial blasts: Anti-Muslim riots kill one despite curfew
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the curfew was declared to prevent unidentified groups destabilising the country by orchestrating communal violence.
May 14, 2019 -
Sri Lankan churches shut a week after bombings
There, Buddhist monks joined Catholic priests for prayers in a show of solidarity with the Christian community.
April 28, 2019 -
Lanka didn’t arrest citizens who joined IS as joining foreign terror outfit not against law: PM
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Easter terror attacks on three Catholic churches and three luxury hotels that claimed 253 lives but the government has blamed a local Islamist extremist group National Tawheed Jamath (NTJ) for the bombings.
April 26, 2019 -
India alerted Sri Lanka thrice on suicide blasts, intel inputs ignored due to feud within govt: Reports
Meanwhile, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday claimed that intelligence report warning of attacks was not shared with him adding that he expects to change heads of defence forces within 24 hours.
April 24, 2019