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Sri Lanka issues tenders choosing India over China for power projects near JaffnaThe Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) recently called for tenders to execute the hybrid power projects in three northern islands of Sri Lanka ...- Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Sri Lankan presidentWickremesinghe won 134 votes in the 225 member parliament in a vote count on Wednesday, after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the c...
- Ranil Wickremesinghe: From PM to President in Sri Lanka's troubled timesThe 73-year-old a lawyer-turned politician, who is believed to be close to India and its leaders, was appointed as the 26th prime minister ...
- Ranil Wickremesinghe, new Sri Lankan presidentSri Lankan lawmakers voted acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president on Wednesday, hoping he would pull the country out of...
- Ranil Wickremesinghe elected as Sri Lanka's new PresidentSri Lankan lawmakers finished voting in parliament on Wednesday to choose the next president from among three contenders, hoping the new le...
- Voting begins to elect Sri Lanka's new president in three-cornered contestActing President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Dullas Alahapperuma, a dissident ruling party MP backed by the main opposition, and leftist Janatha ...
- For the first time in 44 years, Sri Lanka's Parliament to directly elect President in three-way contest on WednesdayThe complaint by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena came hours before Parliament was poised to accept the nominations for the post of preside...
- Sri Lankan opposition leader Sajith Premadasa drops out of presidential race as protests planned"For the greater good of my country that I love and the people I cherish, I hereby withdraw my candidacy for the position of president," Pr...
- Three-way fight for Sri Lanka presidency: parliamentThe parliament announced that acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe will face former education minister Dullas Alahapperuma -- who has the ...
- Sri Lanka's political turmoil sows worries for recoveryBankruptcy has forced the island nation's government to a near standstill. Its once-beloved and now reviled former President Gotabaya Rajap...
- Wickremesinghe, Premadasa among four leaders to contest presidential election in Sri LankaSri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, main Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa are among the four leaders who have joined the r...
- Sri Lankan Parliament to meet to announce president's vacancyFor the first time since 1978, Sri Lanka will elect the crisis-hit country's next president through a secret vote by the MPs and not throug...
- Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as Sri Lanka's acting president after Gotabaya Rajapaksa resignsRajapaksa, who fled to the Maldives on Wednesday and then landed in Singapore on Thursday, has formally resigned, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abey...
- Three frontrunners in race to become Sri Lanka's next presidentSri Lanka's parliamentary speaker will convene the legislative body after receiving Rajapaksa's official resignation and its 225 members wi...
- Sri Lanka's political vacuum continues amid economic crisisProtesters remained in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence, his seaside office and the prime minister’s official home, which they took...
- Loyalists turn on Sri Lanka PM as protest pressure growsMedia minister Nalaka Godahewa announced his support for the thousands outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office who are demanding he a...
- Sri Lanka ready to probe UN human rights chief Navi Pillay's claimsSri Lanka said it was ready to probe allegations by UN human rights chief Navi Pillay that people she met during her mission were threatene...
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